The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1868, Page 6

6 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Velumo XXxUl. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE, Bowery.—Artne DARK; aceues Ts LiF IN LONDON—NIOODEMUS NOBLES, corner of Eighth avenue and or, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 33d street.—La BELLE Hei FRENCH THEAT! nue.—GENEVIEVE DE OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homprr DuMPrY, with New FRaTURES. Matinee at 1). BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—Mus. F. W. Lan- DEB a8 MABIR ANTOINETTE, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Ith street — Tar Lancasurne Lass, KIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mus. D, P. BOwRRS 48 QUEEN ELIZanrra. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Mania Stuant. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— CIGARETTE, THE LiTTLE LEOPARD OF FRANOR. street and Sixth ave- RABANT. BRYANTS' OPERA sirect.—ETHIOPIAN ML KELLY & LEON’S MIN‘ ELS, 720 Broadway.—ETmL0- PIAN MINSTHELSY, BURLESQUE.-Onraxn AUX ENSERS, OUSE, Tammany Building, 14th x, 40. N FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—Eru10- Sm ENTEREAUNMENTS, SiNGING, DANCING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 21 Bowery.—Comta Yooa.isa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 2/4, MATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Tar GneaT Ont- Ce AKO AxD VatDRVILLW COMPANY. Matinee. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thictleth street and Brosiway—Afvernoon and evening Performance. APOLLO HALL, Prey ighth street and Broadway.— gates Tirs0R AND ALP BUANETT. NW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuEesTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, Matinee at 2g. GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, cornar Broadway and #4th @.--EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNABTIC PERFORMANORS. IRVING TALL, Irving place.—Nac Evor's New Hr BEENIOON. ALHAMBRA, 616 Broadway.—Mustcat MOMENTS Wit MERELY Momus. ALLEMANIA HALL, No. 18 East Sixteenth at.-LEC- EARGH AND M LBVS OPERA HOvSE, Prooklyn.—RooLry's EMLY—FEMENINE WiOWAM, & . OPERA it ENSTRELS~BORLESQU Willtaraaburg,— ONAUTS, &C. HOOLE HooLen's MPLite CITY SKATING RINK, Third avenue,—GAMas NEW & ATMLELIO CLs, AgL GALLERY, S45 Broadway.—EXxatuttion oF On, PAINTINGS. BLW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broudway.— SOIENCE AND Aw New York, Wednesday, November 11, ¥ ie hn NAWS. on Me son und The Lond meat of the q Untted st Wers is t Since ist Alaivama pendiag 4 Times gives the basis of ns between Great Britain cdowe peaceful treaties with Chile and Peru, VYhe American ship James I’. Patten was wrecked yesterday ai the mouth of the Wese London—Cousois, 94%); five-tweniles, 7414; Minois | | dificulty. Erie shares, 274. Paris Bourse— Centrair, 96) Rentes, . Frankfort—Pive-twenttes, 79. Liver. | pool--Coiton, middling uplands, 11d. Havre—Cot- ton, low middling, Lif. Antwerp—Petroleum, stan- dard wht) u | Cuba. 7 Our special despatch by the Guf cable dated yes- tertay says Count Balmaseda has been authorized to pardon all persons connected with the insurree- tions in the Island except the Icaders. The insur- gents are in possession of Remate, Mata and other | towns in the jurisdiction of Puerto Principe, and a great deal of fighting bas occurred in the neighbor- hood. A rebel commission in Havana claim to have lenty of money and war material in New York. ‘hey also clatm belligerent rights for the insurrec- tionary forces. The war steamer Contoocook sailed Yor Havana from Fortress Monroe yesterday. Congress. Both houses met yesterday and adjourned, the Benate until December 7 and the Mouse without day. ‘There were oniy five Senators and eicht Representa fives present, and notling was done beyond praying by the chaplains over the result of the election, the reading of the journals and the adjournment reso- Tutions, ‘The President Elect. Generel Grant was waited upon by varions re- publican associations yesterday, headed by the Mayor of Washington, who formally tendered him a public demonstration of welcome. The General de- clined any public display, but expressed himself as glad to see any of his friends at his office or house, During the day he remained on duty at his head- quarters receiving the visits of many of hiaacquaint- anoes. ‘The reporters of the press were admitted and he bad a few moments of social intercourse with them, In which he declined to speak on po- litical matiers, Miscellaneous. Considerable excitement was occasioned at Ma- @00's depot, Tipton county, Tenn., on Monday by the arrival of 1,000 arined negroes from layette county, who came with General Smiib, a defeated candidate for Congress, Who purposed takiug dcpositions with Which to contest the clection. A despatch was seut to General Granger, Who sent fifty men of the Twenty-Ofili tnfantry to the place, Governor Brownlow’s message to the Tennessee Legislature recommends a slight but careful exten- wion of the suifrage to those rebels who have ween the error of their ways. Governor and the Adjutant Gene- rai of Pior adiMeulty in Tallahassee yester- day, in we © Jatter presen'ed a pistol at the head of i ner, He was, however, prevented injury and was bound over to keep feud between the State oilcers still The continues. 4 train on the Harlem ad on Monday might bear Bronxville by some miscreant, tive and express and baggage cars y from the track, and the engin clerk in the baggage car were badly passeugers were unburi. The City. Admira! Farragut left the Nagship Fray Yesterday worning, and took up his quarters at his Fesidence in East Thirty-sixth street. Salutes in honor of his arrival were fired at the Navy Yara, ‘Dut no public demonstration was made beyond visits from his intimate friends, The Franklin will no 8 pennant, but will return to the Me- apd the Admiral limself will await orders from the Secretary of the Navy. The Metropolitan Health Board are very earnest Just now in their endeavors to compel owners and lensees of tenement houses to keop them ip clean, habitable condition, the closets, vaults and yards properly drained, to put in transom windows to ventilate dark bedrooms and to erect ventilators on roofs. No less than 495 complaints for violations of these legal regulations, made by the Board of Health, were yesterday brought up before Judge Thaddeus H. Lane, in the Sixth District Civil Court, Gorner of Kighieenth street and Fourth avenun. of @ locomo firemen and @ ujared, but the p qiedy aced upon x | thrown | Which 2 were Ciscontinned, 22 were settled by the defendants paying various sums in shape of & Penalty, 162 were continued to the 12th, 105 to the 18th and 60 to the 20th of this month, and in 64 cases judgment was entered against the defendants. ‘There were 836 deaths in New York last week and 185 in Brooklyn—the lightest death rate since the organization of the present sanitary system. An application was made before Judge Blatchford yesterday by Augustin Daly, a playwright of this city, for an injunction restraining Jarrett & Palmer from producing the play of “After Dark” at Niblo’s | Garden, on the ground that the scenes and inei- dents, especially the railroad scene, are stolen from Dia own play, “Under the Gaslight.” Subpoenas were served and the parties were required to ap- pear on Saturday, ‘The Broadway theatre case was further examined before Justice Shandley yesterday. Considerable evi- dence for the deputy sheriffs being taken, the case was then adjourned till Friday. ‘The Messmore bourbon whiskey case. came up before Judge Blatchford yesterday and was ordered to stand over for the present. 1m the case against Watson, Crary and Henry Pike counseltmade a mo- tion for their discharge, on the ground of a former acquittal, a juror having been withdrawn in the first trial, Judge Blatchford reserved his deci- sion. Alfred E. Whitehead, a young man of twenty-two, was sentenced by Judge Troy in Brooklyn yester- day to three years in the Penitentiary for bigamy. Two of his wives and two of his fances were in Court, and all but one of them testified. He married his first wife the day after their frst meeting, which Occurred on a street in Buffalo, she being introduced to him by a lady friend. The stock market was weak yesterday, and closed in a state of demoralization, Government seourities were weak. Gold closed at 144 a 13414. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sandford E. Church, of Albion, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Ernest Van Bruyssel, Beigian Consul; John J. Gray, of Cambridge; General H. L. Robinson, of the United States Army, and Judge Robert Cochrane, of White Piains, are at the Metropolitaa Hotel. Captain Le Roy, of the United States frigate Frank- lin, 1s at the New York Hotel. Reynald Bright, of England, and Surgeon Richard L. Dean, of the United States Navy, are at the Claren- don Hotel. Colonel Hildt, of West Point; Colonel Thos. Ward, of the United States artillery: B, Mariategui, of Peru; Jndg n, of New York: A. Hays Trowbridge, of Connect t; Captain Kane, of the United States Navy, and W. 1. McKenzie, of Montreal, are at the Hoifman Honse. | Col. W. 8. Schatrer, of New Orleans; Lieutenants Commanders Clark, Terry and Wright, of the United States Navy; Aivert Crosby, of Chicago, and Ceo. B. MeCariy, of Washington, are ai the Fifth Aventte Hotel. Dr. Ogilby, of Providence, is at the Coleman House. Disturbences of the Moncy Market=The Cause and Remody. The chief topic in all business circles for some days past has been the stringency in the money market, and imany respectable mev- chants and tradesmen as well as stock gamblers have felt keenly thig stringency. ‘The only parties that have profited by this state of tilings ave the note-shaving bankers and indi- vidual capitalists, It is harvest time to them, and they have been the authors chiefly of the vesent disturbance in the money market. 1 ch the flow of currency from or to ! centres for the purpose of control- he market and putting the screws to the ding community. Jn the present instance they have taken advantage of a flow of cur- | Fenty to the West and South for removing the crops to fori combinations in order to make | money searee. Ty locking up a few millions | of currency under these circumstances they have been able to seriously disturb trade and change values to the amount of hundreds of millions. Yes; a few individuals under our monetary system can make money scarce, raise the interest of it to a ruinous rate and plunge the whole commercial community into The specie payment theorists urge that this state of things would be remedied by resump- tion, and, strange to say, they advocate a con- traction of the currency in order to force specie payments and to bring aremedy. They’ go upon the principle of the homoopathist doctors tbat like cures like. To cure a strin- gency in the money market which arises from a want of currency they urge contraction or a still more restricted currency. If a few spec- ulators in New York can tie up the currency while there is comparatively a liberal amount in circulation throughout the country, what could they do if there wore one or two hun- dred millions less? Under our present sys- tem foreigners cannot sensibly disturb the money market, because they could not draw the currency abroad. Weare free from that danger. But our own speculating capitalists and bankers can create a disturbance and a stringency to some extent, as we have seen. In specie-paying times the vast commercial interests of this great and rich country are nt the mercy of foreigners, The Bank of England could at any time put on the screws and drain twenty, thirty or fifty millions of specie from the United States, and thereby paralyze our irade at home and throw our merchants into bankruptcy, Probably a single foreign house, that of Rothschilds, could do the sume if it should feel so disposed. Ought | | ' | this great and wealthy country to be subject to | such a state of things? Is it not monstrous that the manipulation of a few millions of currency now by speculators at home or the drain of a few millions of gold by foreigners in specic-paying times should disturb trade and values amount- ing to thousands of millions in this mighty em- pire? Sucb a state of things is unnatural, a monstrous anomaly, and ought not to exist, What, then, is the remedy’ [ow eball this country, which is new, original and differ- ently situated in many respects to the countries | Gaancial dogmas and evils? Shall we not leave the beaten track of the past, which has involved Europe in pauperism and stupendous standing debts, aud create a monctary syste: adapted to our own cireumstances and inatitu- | tons? This is the great problem of the day for the statesmen of America to solve. Upon its solution will depend in a great measure the fature progress of the country and whether our enormous national debt shall be a perpetual | wurden or not. The first thing necessary fs to ' have « sufficient currency, for that is the life- | hicod of trade. To determine what the amount j ehould. be we must not go to England or any other country for an example. With our vast | avea of territory, widespread industry, variety of interests, large population .and intense | activity we require « clreulating medium far | greater than that of any other nation. Nor | ean we take the currency, inclading all the bank notes and specie before the war, as & Hasis mnlation now. The capitaliza- tion of the enormous amount of wealth in the | national debt; the greatly tneronsed demands | of the Treasury upon the people; the wondor- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER U1, 1868.—T | of the Old World, emancipate itself from their | General Grant and tho Washington News- mongers. The arrival of General Grant at headquar- ters bas been a Godsend to the Washington | newsmongers. They are after bim with the | earnestness and excitement of a village of | California gold miners in the rush for a new placer reported to be yielding a thousand dol- lars a day to every digger; and they have found out some wonderful things concerning the reticent General. They tell us that one fine morning before breakfast he had several bushels of office-begging letters put in the fire ; that Senator Morgan has called on him, and that Speaker Colfax, Vice President elect, has dined with the General; that he has not said anything to anyhody of a positive character yet about his Cabinet, but thatthe Blair family ful progress of the country and the increase of population require a much larger circulat- ing medium. This want will increase, too, from year to year. How, then, are we to dee | termine what the amount of currency should be now or hereafter? Let the laws of trade decide that. They will be infallible. We should have a currency that would expand or ! contract itself according to the wants of trade in every section of the republic. To do this | the currency should be made convertible at | the will of the holder into interest-bearing government securities, and these securities again to be convertible at will into currency. The national debt should be made uniform in one consolidated stock, bearing interest at 4 cent a day, or three dollars and sixty-five cents ayear. It would be’ thus easily convertible ‘and the interest readily calculated. Whenever there might be a redundant money market and the interest of money below that of govern- ments, people would convert their currency into stocks, and whenever thera might be a | stringent money market and people wanted cur- rency they would reconvert their stocks into legal tenders, Thus there could never be long either a redundancy or stringency. The wants of trade would regulate the volame of currency. <A portion of the national debt, or even allof it, could be utilized in this way without inconvenience. In fact, the debt might be made useful instead of being a bur- den. All this could be done easily enough through the Treasury, Sub-Treasuries or Trea- sury agencies, and the currency would be uni- versally and equally distributed according to the wants of trade. At all events let us have & monetary system independent of other coun- tries and adapted to our own peculiar circum- stances and institutions. Reverdy Jobnson and the Alabams Claims. On Monday evening the Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet at Guildhall, Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Mr. Disraeli both made speeches. Than these speeches nothing more absurd has occurred in modern times. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Disraeli raise the bughear of a possible war between Great Britain end the United States, and mutually rejoice that this | terrible prospect is no louger to be thought of. War, according to the one, is now ‘impossi- ble,” and “pretext for war,” according to the other, there is none. We have no quarrel with the British government or with Mr. John- son, in so far as they have sought to put down the bugbear which they themselves sot up; but wo have certainly a quarrel with Mr. Johnson for ignoring the general and loudly expressed feelings of his countrymen. [t will not do for Mr. Johnson or any other Minister to be allowed to despise the feelings of the American people. We cannot afford if. We must not allow it, With the help of the London Times newspaper we learn that the Vnited Siantes have withdrawn the question of the right of | England to recognize the Southern eonfede- racy. This, no doubt, simplifies the question; hut the simplification of the question is ob- tained by giving up the vital point in the whole affair. A mixed commission, consisting af two members from each nation, is to be appointed to adjudicate on ail outstanding questions since 1853, ‘The international question in the matter of the Alabama is to be referred to Prussia. if the decision is in favor of America the mixed commission is to investigate the clairas and determine the damages. The San Juan boundary affair is to be referred to the Presi- dent of Switzerland for arbitration. All out- standing questions evidently approach a solu- tion. Does the foreshadowed solution satisi'y the American people? Will they—will Con- gress sanction it? This last is a question which Minister Johnson seems to have aver- looked. A later despatch throws doubt on the correctness of the statement made by the London Times. have no notion of being counted out; that the General last summer, when he was nominated, expressed some objections to the Chicago plat- form, but that they made it all right with him ; that he intends to take his own course; that the officeseekera are beginning to hover around, but keep at a respectful distance; that Seward likes the State Department so well he would like to stay; that on Sunday the Presideut called over at General Grant’s house and re- mained there for about an hour, and finally, that David Dudley Field has come to town to consult with Seward, Evarts and other conser- vative republican democrats on the important question of taking charge of Grant and shaping the policy of his administration. The Washington newspapors of the order of the sunflower or funky are of course tura- ing their faces from the setting to the rising sun, while the indomitable Andy Johnson, they say, intends, oa retarning to Tennessee, to take a new start from Greenville by run- ning as the democratic candidate for Governor. He may go now where he likes, so far as the Johnyon officeholders, radical office- seekers and the spoils democracy are con- gerned. These last named have ‘made a pretty good thing of Johngon’s policy and Johnson's offices, and they may possibly caleulate upon another Johnson in General Grant. They will have all the interval to the 4th of March next in which to work up their claims, and then they will be apt to find that Grant has turned over 9 new leaf and is going to give us a new policy, and is gotng to begin housekeeping with a new set of servants, from the Cabinet to the kitchen. We have seen that the Gene- ral, like a man of business, lost no time after the election in getting back to Washington. He has posted back tg settle up the affairs of bis present office of General of the Army and to make ap his final report for December, and at the same time to inform bimself in reference to his Cabinet and diplomatic appointments and the other responsible duties before him, We predict, too, that bis inauguration will be the beginning of the end, not only of Southern Ku Klux Klana and Northern copperheadism, but likewise of New England radicalism. Me. | Tho Departure of General Resecrans. General Rosecrans, our new Minister to Mexico, sailed yesterday in the steamer Gra-' nada for the scene of his diplomatic labors. Perhups he wisely delayed the day of his de- parture until the election was over. He knows now, in all probability, what the policy of the | next administration will be with regard to Mexico, as Grant is to be at the head of it, and no doubt General Rosecrans understands full well the views of the President elect upon that subject. We do not know what budget of instructions he may have received from Mr, Johnson's administration; but, judging from Mr. Seward’s very uncertain views on the ques- tion of Mexico and our othor foreign interests, we apprehead that General Rosecrans carries with him a pocketful of glittering goneral!- ties, which may mean very little as regards the settlement of the fnture of Mexico. All things considered, the war in that country is going on pretty well—-as well, in fact, as can be expected, seeing that war is a chronic dis- ease there. Chief against chief and faction against faction is the order of the hour. Aflicted with a hybrid race and distracted with the notion of State rights which was one of the chief causes of our civil strife, the Mexican people must be rescued from them- selves before the country can become peaceful or prosperous. All this General Rosecrans understands, and, looking to the policy of the coming administration of General Grant, he will doubtless at once place himself in such a position with the Mexican governuent as will pave the way for the fulfilment of the mani- fest destiny of Mexico, It is not unlikely that this destiny may be accomplished during Grant's administeation of affairs, and it might be well to look into the rather anomalous and distarbed condition of Caba at the eame time, with a view to a like solution of the dificul- ties of both countries—tho distracted land of the Montezumas and the ‘‘once faithful” isle. Tue Demorarwation mm War Srreer.— The signa of demoralization in Wall street sra rapidly spreading, and although money was easy at the legabrate in currency yester- day prices declined heavily and the stock mar- ket closed ina state of semi-panic. The fallura of one of tho Milwaukee bauks and the ran upon others in that city have excited widespread distrust, as it is well known that these and similar institutions elsewhere in the West are large holders of the highly inflated speculative stocks dealt in on the Stook Ex- change here, The chief anxiety of holders The Crisis in Purageny. According to the’ latest advices by cable from Lisbon the allied army and fleet had ar- rived before Asuncion, and news was hourly expected at Rio Janeiro of the surrender of President Loper’s capital, Coupled with this announcement comes the news that a detach- ment of the United States squadron had gone up the Paraguay river under command of Rear Admiral Davis, Tt was to be expected that if Paraguay were left alone she would have almost insurmount- able difficulties in filling the ranks of her army, raising money and the other sinews of war. Her resources in these respecte are in- caleulably smaller than those of her enemies, Her sister republics have lent her but fittle as- sistance, and now we find that the American government is about to be entangled in the trouble against her. This is to be regretted. Bat if Marshal Lopez has given jast cause to Minister Washburne for the complaints which the latter har made, there it nothing strange in Rear Admiral Davis’ steaming up the Para- gnay to obtain redress for injuries done to | members of the American Legation. From Minister Washburne’s note to Marsha! Lope it } seems that suspicions were entertained of him | and Minieter Webh by the Paraguayan Preai- | dent, and that the treatment shown to the Le- gation was due to such snspicions. This ia a j most regrettable feature of the whole affair, | and it behooves our goverument to inquire | into the matter and have the conduct of all | parties rigorously investigated, | Tae Vacant Briaapmasniv, vere is @ brigadier generalship vacant in the United | of stocks is not to be able to contiaue to hold | Staies army through the retirement of | them, but to find # market to sei] ovt om, and | General Hooker, and General Stoneman, | as prices are very far above the range of real values we warn the banks to contract their loans on thig class of collaterals. We are en- tering upon a period of revuleions like that which England passed through before the re+ now in command of the Virginia military \ district, is named for the place. Is could nos | be giventoaman move worthy of It, This | gallant soldier is too modest 5 man to present | hie claims as they would deserve ; but there is ) swaption of specie payments, and alk hands bad now, itis hoped, a way of looking at things | beiter take in sail before it is toa late. | about headquarters that accepts a man’s ce eRe achievements as the bost things in his favor, Ton Marquis or Hast —A& cable de and if merit be measnred in that way Stone- | spatch informs us of the death of the Marquis | man will probaly come out first af all iho | of Hastings. The career of this young noble- | possible candidwies. No man did better or } man is a sad commentary on the social life of | more effective or intelligent ervice through | our timas, Born to fortune and the inheritor | the war, or made less noie about it, or got | of an ancient and honored asme, there was no | | less for it. in the way of oficial recognition | point of ainbition to which be might not reayon- | than George Stoneman. Grant and Schofield | ably have aspired. Mis obituary we print in ‘now this and will probably take dare of}; another column. Wo commend it to the atten- | ‘their gallant comrade; and this is one of the | tion of ell our, readers, Tt roads a nolomn | | advantages of having power over the army in | lesson to all, but especially to young mon who | | the hands of those who know the arny ant | on their catsanea into life are circutmstanced | the men fn it rather than ia the hands of, #5 he wea. Ho ought to have had a better | bureaucrate. | fate. Lut perhaps he did not deserve it. blocked mp. RIPLE SHERT, The Whiskey Rings and the Oxbinet, A funny fellow of the name of Fitch, who got himself into jail in consequence of certain false charges against the United States District Attorney (Courtney) of this city, bas left upon record in court some curious statements con- cerning the great central whiskey ring or rings at Washington. Fitch says that he was in- duced to make these aforesaid false charges | against Courtney partly by Biackley and partly by Mrs, Ann S, Stephens, the authoress, upon the plea that to get at Rollins it was necessary first to get Courtney out of the way, and that the object of Mra, Stepheng in getting Rollins out was to get General Burbridge, of Ken- tucky, in as Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue, Now, we suspect that Fitch—although in these confessions he has thrown a pretty strong light upon the central whiskey lobby rings at Washington—has hardly told one-tenth part of the story. What he did disclose was given to soften the wrath of Courtney and to get out of the stone jug by showing that the Fitch aforesaid had been used as a catspaw by other parties to rake thelr chestnuts ont of the fire. Having been partly proved, at all events, we think it may be safely assumed that there is a powerful whiskey lobby ring—yea, two of these rings—at Washington, and that oneach side there have been and are some lady fingers in the pie. We dare say, too, that while the anti-Rollins ring has the ear of the President at any time, up stairs and down stairs and in Cabinet council, the Rollins ring holds the balance of power in the Cabinet, in the Treasury, in the lobby and in New York, and can at a momont’s notice bring more active capital to bear upon the question than the other — side. We are, furthermore, ineljned to believe that President Johnson's, greatest difficulty in getting at the stupendous frauds upon. the revenue (one hundred milllons a year) in this single article of contraband whis- key has been and now lies in the affilia- tions of contraband operators with govern- ment favorites and officials extending to the Cabinet. Indeed, from the extraordinary doings of Thurlow Weed, Wooley and all that set of lobby jobbors pending the impeach- ment trial, it would appear that there was at least one whiskey ring intent upon saving the President in order to save their whiskey. It has been broadly intimated to ug that at Teast one Washingtoa newspaper, which has nothing to commend it but the airs and graces of the President's would-be confidential organ, makes, by hook or by crook, a neat thing out of the whiskey rings through these pre- tences of influence in the regular Cabinet up stairs and in the kitchen Cabinet dows stalrs. This brings us, then, thirdly, to the main point—that the whiskey rings, officials, hangers-on about the White House and out- siders operating in contraband whiskey have such a grip upon the Cabinet that the President, so far, has been able to do nothing agaiast them, Dinckloy, who caine on here with such a fouttsh of trumpats to investigute, lay bare and root out the sispacted contra- band operations of the Rollins ring, turned outa dead failure, and some of lis witnesses, in addition to Kitch, were speedily brought to grief. Fuilerton, the new investigator egainst Rollins and all his tribe, is said to be a horse of another color, or rather a cool, sagacious and skilful old ferret; and he has already caused a terrible rattling among the dry bones of the whiskey officials in these parts. Still, there are rea- sous to apprehend that Fullerton before long will discover that the only way to effect a tho- rough rectification of these whiskey frauds is to begin with the Cabinet, and that upon this proposition he will fail with Mr. Johnson. Though we still hope for better things it is possible, in short, that all these whiskey frauds and whiskey investigations will end in smoke and remain unsettled till the 4th of March next, and be handed over then as one of the legacies of Mr. Johnson to President Grant, and that upon his selections for the new Cabinet the snuffing out or continued prosperity of the whiskey rings will materially depend, We guess, for instance, that with such a champion of Bourbon as Old Ben Wadeinthe Treasury the equal rights and liberty in all Bourbon companies, East and West, will rejoice exceedingly. Nor can we tell how the new President is to know whether this man, that man or the other in his Cabinet will be for the enforcement of the whiskey tax or a ftiend of the underground distiller and his confederates of the confidential transportation line and untaxed warehouse. A hundred millions per annum on whiskey have been lost to the Treasury and pocketed by the whiskoy rings under the high temptation tax of two dollars a gallon. Under the new tax of fifty cents the temptation‘and the profits to the underground distiller are less; but still the saving of fifty cents a gallon in avoiding the tax is equal, at least, to a hundred per cent profit on the raw material. Perhaps the only way for the now administration to secure the revenue rightly belonging to the government on whiskey will be to bind every member of the Cabinet and ‘every subordinate of the Treasury to 4 new test oath against all these whiekey rings and all their afiliations of every shape and form, or something of that sort. The High-lwew Bridge. The Boards of Aldormen and Councilmen having both agreed to a resolution directing the Straet Commissioner to remove forthwith the bridge across Broadway at Fallon street, it is to Ub hoped that it will be immediately displaced. Its evanishment from that point willbe @ cange of great gratification to the pubtic in general, who are being constantly jammed and jostled on tho sidewalks at the corner of Fulton street, and no doubt it will hea matter of spectal gratification to Knox, whose glosey hats it bas thrown into ehiaro- oweuro, and whose doorways it has so long However, although the bridge has proved more of nuisance than a conve- nience in. jis present location, it Is likely to be both ortamontal and useful in the Park, to which it is about to bo transferted, As a | piece of architecture it is handsome enough to adorn any portion of the Park where it may be required: andas @ good substantial work it will no doubt do excellent eerviee there for many years to come, We do not want it on Broadway, and sboll be glad to see it spanning some of the ravines or transverse roads ia our magnificent Park as soon as possible, The lecture season has fairly commenced in New York. With the close of the Presidential campaign the mouths of political stump speak- ers are closed, at least for a time. Speeches are no longer the order of the day, and lectures take their place. Lectures, indeed, are gene- rally less popular in New York than in Bostoa, The majority of New Yorkers prefer to seok their winter evening entertainments either in the ballroom, in the concert hall, at the theatre or at the opera, But while amusement seems to be the main object with most of our citizens, and the most ample and various provision is made to supply this demand, there are large classes of people who delight in that combination of instruction with amusement afforded by ‘the lecture." How amply and variously their wants also will be supplied is manifest from the advertisements and reports of lectures daily published in the Heranp. An indica- tion of the predominant taste of that portion of the public who frequent the lecture may be found in the fact that out of three leo- tures which were fully reported in our columns yesterday two were scientific and one humorous. We allude to Mr. De Condorde amusing picture of ‘The Spratts at Saratoga,” to “The Creation, According to- Chemistry, Geology and Astronomy, as Compared with the Mosaic Record,” by Profossor Doremus, and to Dr. Lemereier's ‘Pre- sentation and Description of the Organic Structure of the Human Body.” The skele~ tons and clastic models by which Dr. Lemer- cier illustrated his lecture, and the brilliant chemical experiments of Dr. Doremus added greatly to the interest with whioh their respective audicnces listened to these learned lecturers. The subject of Dr. Lemercier’s second lecture, which will be delivered om Thursday evening, in the great hall of the Cooper Institute, is to be “The Senses ;” the third, ‘Ihe Brain,” on Friday; the fourth, “The Anatomy of the Gorilla,” on Monday; the fifth, “‘The Anatomical and Physiological Study of the Horse,” on Tuesday, and the sixth, “Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology,” on Wednesday next. Many other scientific lectures may be expected during the season from eminent savans, and itis probable that the name of Agassiz himself will crown the list. Among the lectures announced for this even- ing is one at the Cooper Institute, by Rey. W. UJ. Anderdon, on ‘“The Young Man of Our Day.” To-night, also, Mme. Olympe Audouard (the Countess de la Morlitre), the brilliant French authoress, will begin, at the theatre of the Union League Club, her series of con- férences, with an account of ‘Victor Hugo and His Literary Careor.” We learn with pleasure that Mme. Audouard has added to her pro- gramme a lecture on ‘‘The Mormons,” whom she has recently visited. There prom| ree to_be no lack of lady leo~ turers during this season. Miss Anna Dickin- son leads off the procession of our American feminine (or unfeminine) orators, and her recent bold advocacy of miscegenation theories has increased the curiosity of a certain public to hear what she will say next. She has aceus- tomed her auditors to such highly spiced elo- quence that it is puzzling to guess with what strong ingredient ske will now find it necessary to season it. The Mercantile Library Association, the Young Men's Christian Association and seve- ral other flourishing societies have made special arrangements for popular lectures on @ great variety of topics. Ralph Waldo Emer- son, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, Whipple, Gough, De Cordova, Mark Twain and a multitude of familiar names figure in the long catalogue ofgecturers who are going to com- pete this winter even with opira bougfe and with the other manifold theatrical attractions and distractions of New York. ‘Lecometive Boiler Explosions. Every few days we have to chronicle some account of accidents by the explosion of loce- motive boilers on our railroads. These ex- plosions are not confined to locomotives at- tached tofreight trains, butin several cases pas- senger trains have been wrecked by this means, and a melancholy sacrifice of life has been the consequence. We are hardly prepared to say that these accidents occur through the care- lessness of engineers or those having charge of the locomotives temporarily, or that they are owing to the ase of old, rusty and wornout locomotives, such as may have become rotten and worthless from extra service during the war, although such a contingoncy is far from improbable; but this point is certain, that competent persons should be appointed by the government to inspect every locomotive boiler in specified districts—the same practice as is now observed in the case of steamboat boilers—and that these inspectors should be made to do their duty faithfully under heavy penalties, This will be an interesting subject for Congress to take up immediately on its aa- sembling, and by adopting promptly some stringent law insure more security to life and property on railroads than is now the caso from the particular danger we describe. Wno ror MAyor?—Some of our contem- poraries recommend the republican minority in this city to make no party nomination for Mayor, but to endorse any good democrat who is known to be honest’ and capable, and elect him. Well, Peter B. Sweeny is just the ean- didate they want. He has shown his honesty by voluntarily giving up the enormous fees before attached to the office of Chamberlain, thus saving the taxpayers of the city some two hundred thousand dollars a year. As to his capacity, he is familiar with the working of every department of the city government, and would know exactly’ where to economize and how to reduce our heavy local taxation. He has braing, integrity and resolution. Will the republicans support such @ man ? Riots iN TenNessee,—At the date of our latest despatches from Memphis great excite ment prevailed in Tipton county, Tenn. One thousand armed negroes had arrived at Magon’s depot, in that county, for the purpose of back- ing up General Smith, the defeated candidate for Congress. Troops were asked from General Granger. From tho fact that the General had sent forward only fifty men wa | conclude that the disturbance had not fright- ened him. Saisacemad WAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Uniled States flagship Contoocook sailed fram. Porvegas Me yesterday for Havana, —