The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Mas. F. W. Lax, pam AS MARI® ANTOINETTE, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tue Lancasutse Lass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Artse DaRK}oR LON- DON BY NIGHT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Artee Danx—Your Live's in DaNGen, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 8a street. —BaRLe BLEUE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and’ Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIEVE DE Brauant, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humetr DomertY, wiru New FRaTuRes, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—GRRMAN OPrRa—FIDELIO. MRS. F, B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Evizacerg, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. BRYANTS' OPERA HO\’SE, Tammany Building, 4th street.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELBY, £0. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETHmi0- PIAN MINGTHELSY, BURLESQUE.—OnPHEB AUX ENTERS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 586 Broadway.—EBTuio- PIAN ENTERIAINMENT, SINGING, DANOING, AC. RA HO'SR 201 Bowery.—Comio STRELBY, &c. TONY PASTOR'S Vooa.iss, Neco } THEATRE COMIQ’ E, 514 Broadway.—Ta® Geeat Ont- GINAL Lincagy AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Wood's MUSE Broadway.—Aternooy ATRE, Thirtieth street and evening Performance. APOLLO HALL, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.— JAMES TAYLOR AND ALP BURNETT. NEW YORK CrRct 5 rteenth street.—BQuESsTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC ENTE! AINMENT. GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 34th Bt. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNABTIOC PERFORMANORS. ALHAMBRA, No, 616 Broadway.—Pgorsssog ROBERT Nicki, THE MAGICIAN, . BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO.--FAREWRLL CoN- CERT OF Miss FLORENCE RIOR, S OPERA HO! s—LOVE UN ALL Ci E, Brooklya,—Hoouny's NERS, &0. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) ¢ A HOUSE, Willtamsburg.— HOOLey's MiNsTRELa—PEMININE WiGWaM, £0, ‘SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— New York, Tuesday, November 17, 1868. Europe. ‘The cable reports are dated November 16, The Parliamentaty elections commenced yesterday in aout 200 boroughs and nine counties in England, Scotland and Ireland, aud the returns show a liberal gain of six members. Slight disturbances had occurred in Manchester, but otherwise all appeara quiet. The corporation of Brighton has invited Minister Johnson und Mr. Peabody to partake of their hospi- tality. The London journals publish the nomination of the Bishop of London to the vacant see of Canter- bury. The French government has forbidden any sym- Pathy to be shown to the victims of the coup delat throughout the provinces, The ofice and materia! of the Temps, of Paris, were seized by the police, and prosecutions are com- menced against other journals, The journal La France, of Paris, commenting on Lord Staniey’s speech, states that he should advise Prussia to be moderate, aud not France, Baron James Rothschild died in Paris on the 15th inst. Demonstrations have taken place in Madrid in favor of 4 monarchy, and republicanism is adyo- cated in Seville and Cadiz. The meeting of the delegations in Pesth com- menced yesterday. London—Consols, 9414; five-twenties, 73%; Illinois Centrals, 95%; Erle shares, 205g; Atlantic and Great ‘Western, 39. Liverpooi—Cotton, middling uplands, 104d. Antwerp—Petroleum, standard white, 53f. Asia. ‘The King of Slam is dead. “Cuba, Telegraphic advices from Havana state that the insurgents had hoisted their dag—a piece of bunting triangular in shape, with a sun in the centre, with Tadiating stripes of different colors. The Diario suggests that this indicates the movement to be for independence. Our Puerto Principe letter, dated October 30, says that, dbspite faise reporta from Havana, the re- Yolution has overspread the whole Eastern De- partuieut, and the Central Department ts almost ready to join in it The leaders are men of high social position, great wealth and talent, and have commenced the revolutionary move- ment by freeing their own slaves and marching to ‘the front with them. The Spanish troops can barcly hold the ground they occupy. An attack on Puerto Principe was daily expected, and many families were leaving for Nassau, They would go to the United, States but are not allowed to by the govern- ment. Miscellaneous. General Grant recently expressed to an army friend his utter contempt of the statesmen who are urging their own merits as officeholders on him. He said that he would make up his Cabinet after he received @ certificate of election, and then to one would know whom he had decided upon until their names got into print. “It's no use planning @ cam- paign you have a war,” said he, A‘ reporter of the HBRALD has recently had a conyersation with Ben Butier, who has expecta- tions of the radical leadef of the next Uon- gress, 1 residential ejection, sald the Gen- eral, turown race,” the leaders of the democracy having invended ft to go just as it did, Grant winning the Presidency and Hoffman winning New York, The newspaper defection in New York and Washington was part of the scheme, the close- ness of the race in Pennsylvania and Indiana de- termining che leaders to demoralize the party by the Proposed change of front, The new administration will be radical upon the reconstruction points but conservative upon financial matters. As to the Alabama claims, he thinks the people are willing to ‘wait until the precedent can be used during some Englisa war to square accounts by @ like chance on British commerce, ‘The steamer Matanzes, from Savannah to New York, caught fire off fatteras on Sunday night by the bursting of a tube of Ler voller. THe vessel waa destroyed, but the crew took to the boats, and, after drifting for seven hours, were picked up and carned into Fortress Movroe. Despatches from Fort Hays, Kansas, state that Gencrai Sheridan had gone to the Canadian river to fesume command Of the troops in the fleld. The In- Gians have been forced southward and have about 7,000 warriors on (ie war ath, ‘The annual report of (\.e Comptroiler of the Car. reney is fo the hands of the printer. Tweive new national banks have been organized, twelve have Deen closed and four have failed since the last an. anual report. Attorney General Evarts has delivered an opinion on the redistiliation of spirits, in which he states that there is no frustration or evasion of the revenue acts in the redistillation of low wines to the produc- tion of proof spirits before leaving the distillery, The Grand Duke aud the Prince of Wartemberg ‘visited and inspected ihe Treasury Department yes terday. ’ ‘There are numerous applicants for revenue super- visor of the district of Massachusetts, and one of them, who is backed by General Butler, is said to be democrat, “ne repeal coutroveray in Nova Srotia, brought about by the defection of Mr, Hows, continues with vigor. Mr. Armand and Judge Marsha! haye written letters in reply to his last, Judge Marshal intimating that Mr. Howe counts too much on the steadtast de- votlon of the people. Was taken to Philadelphia to answer a charge of ille- gal voting in that city in October last, failed to ap- Pear yesterday when his case was called and his bail was consequently forfeited. John Crane, of Cambridge, Mass., was convicted of omitting, with intent to defraud his creditors, cer- tain property in his bankruptcy schedule, and was sentenced yesterday to two years at hard labor in the Fitchburg Jail. ‘The North Carolina Legislature assembled yester- day, but there was no quorum present in the Senate and both houses adjourned. The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday the resignation of Mayor Hoffman, to take effect on the 30th instant, was received. Inthe Board of Councilmen the re- signation was unanimously accepted and eulogistic resolutions were adopted, The inquest on the body of James Barron, who was crushed to death by the ferryboat Weehawken at the Barclay street pleron Sunday, was held yes- terday. The testimony as to the guard chains being up or down was very contradictory. The jury ren- dered a verdict of death by accident. Genef™! McClellan is to superintend the construc- tion of Stevens’ battery at a salary of $10,000 a year, Judge Nelson yesterday, in the case of Palmer against McDonough, decided that the latter might perform the English play of ‘After Dark” at the Bowery theatre for one night only, but that the case would be called peremptorily this morning. The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridg- man, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to- day for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Hall- fax, N. S., to land and receive mails and passengers. ‘The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company’s steam- ship Westphalia, Captain Trautmann, will leave Ho- boken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails will close at the Post Oflice at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was very excited and irregular. Gold rose to 137 and closed at 13674. For beef cattle the market was passably active, and prices were steady at 1534c. a 16e. for prime and extra quality, 13%c. a 14%c. for fair to good do. and 10c.@ 12}¢c. for inferior to ordinary do. The arrivals comprised 2,834 head. Milch cows were in moderately active demand and steady at former prices. Veal calves were quite freely sought af:er and higher, extra quality selling at 13340. @ 14c., prime at 12}¢c. a 13c., common to good at 10c. a 12c. and inferior at 9c. a 93¢c, Sheep were in large sup- ply, but the market was active and higher, prime and extra selling at 6c. a 67c., common to good at 6c. a 53gc, and inferior at 44c.a4%c. Lambs were in fair request and firm, at 63¢c. a 7c. Swine Frere active, but lower, closing at 87gc. a9%<c. for fair to prime and 8%c. a 8%c. for common. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Kilpatrick, General W. H. Barnes and Colonel Charles H. Harkness, of Philadelphia; E. L. Davenport, of Boston, and General Thomas Hill- house, of Albany, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel George S. Galloway, of the United States Army, and Captain F. C. Green, of the English Navy, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General W. B. Franklin, of Hartford; General Hag- ner, of the United States Army; Rev. Philip Brooks and Thomas T. Taskell, of Philadelphia, are at the Hoffman House. General John Meredith Reed, of Albany; Chester W. Chapin, of Massachusetts, and ©. Koegler, of Calcutta, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Macbeth, of Scotland, and L. Sitgreaves, of Washington, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel Theodore T. Wilmerding, of Arkansas; Major Mulford, of Memphis, and Colonel James Foster, Jr., of New York, are at the St. Julien Hotel. The Outgoing Administration—Mr. Johnson a Failure. Alleyes are turned from the setting to the rising sun, from the outgoing to the incoming administration, from Mr. Johnson to General Grant, from favors lost, refused or enjoyed, to favors expected, and generally from the disap- pointments of the past to the hopes of the future. Very few politicians or philosophers now care to inquire what Mr. Johnson has done, what he has failed to do, what he may do, what he is doing or intends to do, or whe- ther, on his retirement from the White House, he goes to Tennessee or to Texas. To the public at large itis enough that his adminis- tration has been a failure, and that they are awaiting the incoming of General Grant with a very general expectation of something better. To the aspiring politician, however, Mr. Johnson's administration, even as a failure, is full of instructive matter. First of all, it re- minds us of Tyler and Fillmore, each of whom, like Johnson, was elected as Vice President and as a make-weight on the ticket, each of whom became President from the untimely death of his superior, and each of whom as President turned out a failure. It was the great misfortune, we apprehend, of all three of these men that they were not satisfied in being President by accident, but desired another term each in his own name and in his own right. Thus it was that Tyler quarrelled with Henry Clay and the whig party, and endeavored to set up a party of his own on the basis of the distribution of the spoils. The movement was carried to the point of an independent Tyler convention, but it collapsed with the nomination of Polk as the democratic candidate and was merged in the democratic party. Fillmore, as the substitute for General Taylor, played a more cautious game; but failing to secure the whig nomination of 1852 he took the field in 1856 as the candidate of the American or Know Nothing party, the lineal successor of the whig party South, against the republican party, the lineal suc- cessor of the whig party North, and so elected Buchanan. Tyler and Fillmore each signally failed in their main object, but they had some satisfaction in the success of their next pur- pose, which was the defeat of the party they had deserted; and the same may be suid of Van Buren, in reference to a second term, as the lineal successor of Jackson. Johnson has, then, been more unfortunate than Van Buren, or Tyler or Fillmore, His in- dependent Johnson party movement of 1866 and his efforts to secure the democratic nomi- nation of 1868 were love's labor lost, and quite as fruitless were his efforts at the elev- enth hour of the day to turn the scale bya pronunciamiento in favor of Seymour. Worst of all, however, for Johnson, in his policy to make the Presidential office subservient to his election as President in his own right, by a third party or by the democratic party, his administration from beginning to end may be pronounced a failure, and a failure compared with which that of Tyler was @ great enjoy- ment and that of Fillmore a great success. The first step of Mr. Johnson after he was sworn in as President of the United States was the blunder to which his whole budget of sub- sequent blunders and failures may be charged. We refer to his primary blunder of undertaking the reconstruction of the subjugated rebel States without the assistance of Congress. As Michael Fitzgeraid, a New York politician, who | | December. The rebellion (April 15) had just beon suppressed, the conquered rebel States were all in chaos, and to Congress properly belonged the work of reconstruction, Why, then, did not Mr. Johnson call the two houses together in an extra session? Because he had resolved upon a reconstruction plan of his own, from which he expected such an amount dent for another term, whether supported or recess of eight months before him, and within that time he expected to complete his work, and that, accepted or rejected, in making its acceptance his ullimatum to Congress the suc- cession would be within his grasp, This theory of the inspiration of Mr. Johnson’s Southern policy makes it clear and consistent from firat to last, foolish and pig- headed as it appears upon any other theory. But so much has he been absorbed in this great game of ‘my policy” of reconstruction against Congress that he has not paid suf- ficient attention to anything else. Otherwise the Mexican question would have been settled according to the policy suggested by Grant and Sheridan, the Alabama claims would have been settled according to the policy suggested by Andrew Jackson, and the internal revenue frauds of all sorts, especially the whiskey frauds, would have been thoroughly over- hauled by a general suspension of officials charged with or suspected of dishonest asso- ciations, and by a complete sifting of their cases before the courts preparatory to a sub- mission of the facts to the Senate. To sum up the administration of Mr. John- son it amounts to this: His mind was set in the beginning upon the experiment of securing the next Presidency through his scheme of Southern reconstruction, and he has been so deeply absorbed in this business and so indif- ferent to anything else that our interests abroad have been permitted to run to seed, while plundering whiskey rings have been depleting the Treasury at the rate, not of a few paltry hundreds of thousands of dollars, but to the tune of a hundred millions a year. So it is well that but a short remnant is left of the turbulent, costly and unprofitable administra- tion of Johnson. Napoleon III. and the French Press. It isan ominous fact that our telegraphic news from Paris now consists chiefly of a sum- mary of prosecutions against the press. Our despatches of last night inform us that orders have been issued to the Prefects of Depart- ments to suppress all public manifestations in regard to the bloody event of December 2, 1852. We learn also that the office and ma- terial of the Temps have been seized by the police of Paris and the issue of that journal suspended. A general persecution of the inde- pendent press appears to have been set on foot by the French government. M. Jules Vallés has just been condemned to imprisonment for two months and a fine of two thousand francs, on account of an article inserted inthe Courrier de UIntérieur under the title of ‘An Unpublished Chapter of the History of the 2d December.” The Sitcle and other journals, which have not hesitated to pronounce this ‘a rigorous sen- tence” and to express their “lively sympathy” with M, Vallés and the Courrier del Intérieur, are constantly exposed to similar severities on the part of the imperial government, Accord- ing to one of the Paris telegrams which we published yesterday several journalists figure among the persons who have been prosecuted by the government, convicted, heavily fined and additionally punished by the suspension oftheir civil rights, because they promoted the subscription for a monument over the grave of M. Baudin, one of the victims of the coup d'état of the 24 December. The deci- sions of the court in these cases have excited so much popular indignation that the police and military authorities of Paris are now taking extraordinary precautions against the disturbance of order, A Paris telegram of the 13th instant announced that at a Council of Ministers held at the Tuileries proof was adduced of the existence of a conspiracy for the overthrow of the existing order of affairs in France, and a resolution was adopted pro- viding for the most rigoréus measures for its repression. The same telegram added, ‘The public journals will be exempted from inter- ference if they refrain from inciting the people against the government.” A subsequent tele- gram indicates that the Gaulois newspaper, at least, has paid but little heed to this warning, and a prosecution has been instituted against it for infraction of the Press law. It is manifest that Napoleon III. is not only jealously watching the French press, but that he is becoming alarmed at the symptoms of popular discontent revealed by it. Our pre- dictions that such would be the case are veri- fied. Anxiety and trouble at the Tuileries could not fail to result from the revolution at Madrid. The Gaulois newspaper, it will be remembered, first published the famous letter of General Prim, and the full budget of news from Spain which it has since regularly given has made it virtually the organ of the Spanish provisional government. The Afoniteur, the organ of the French imperial government, has deemed it necessary almost daily to complain of this record of Spanish events by the Gaulvis, This record, apparently, is the head and front of its offending. Publishing it is held to be “‘inciting the people qgainst the govern- ment.” If this can occasion so much trouble at the Tuileries what can be expected to follow from the direct attacks which the press may be provoked to make upon the government ? In place of apprehended war with Prussia it is clear that the real source of the danger which now threatens and alarms the Emperor of the French is the revolution in Spain. Tho pre- sent agitation in the Paris press and among the French people reverberates the Spanish revolution. Moreover, it is premonitory of another French revolution. In fact, it would not be surprising if this agitation should prove to be the first mutterings of a general revolution throughont Europe. Such a popular move- ment may be developed within a year. Tue Enotisn Erections YesterpaY—No violence attended the elections in Great Britain yesterday, notwithstanding that popular excite- ment ran high. Returns from forty-one con- stituencies give tho liberal party a gain of six members, but this is of course but a feeble in- dication of the general result, Disraeli has the law then existed the two houses which had | been elected from Buckinghamshire, as have adjourned on the 4th of March, 1865, would | also been ten other prominent tory candidates, not, without a svecial call, meet again till | including four members of the present govern- of political capital as would make him Presi- | opposed by Congress. He had a Congressional | | ment bestdes the Premier. A trifling riot at | Manchester was the only thing in the shape of a disturbance which occurred, and that was promptly quelled by the police. | President Grane Kitchen Cabinet—A Row | About the Lurder. A very curious controversy is going on between the republican city journals of the radical and conservative stripes upon the | subject of the rations, perquisites and pickings ; of General Grant's kitchen cabinet. It is made to take the shape of a discussion on the propriety of raising the Pregident’s salary from twenty-five thousand dollars a year to one hundred thousand dollars, but is in fact a question of a well filled or @ meagre larder at the White House; of fine soups, rich French gravies, made dishes, game, imported wines and other delicacies for the hungry Bohemians and adventurers who aspire to become mem- bers of the kitchen cabinet under the next administration, or of mutton stew, bread and cheese, lager and hurd whiskey, such as form their ordinary fare. The radical organ takes the economical side, and is averse to any increase in the expenditures of the White House or any improvement of the larder until after a resumption of specie payments, which, under our present financial management, is equivalent to a very-indefinite postponement of the subject. The conservative organ, on the other hand, demands a liberal appropriation for the new administration, and complains that without it the ‘representative individuals” who smell around the Presidential kitchen, and whom Grant asa private gentleman would never invite to his table, will be kept upon short rations, and will be unable to get as good a dinner at the White House as thousands of our well to do citizens eat every day of their lives. It pleads the cause of the kitchen cabi- net with as much earnestness as if Seward were already engaged to remain as chief cook and master of the scullery, and as if the whiskey ring were destined to continue to hold posses- sion of the government departments and to block up the passages and crowd the domestic offices of the White House for another four years, The uneasy politicians—who, as they can make nothing at all out of Grant, are looking anxiously around endeavoring to ascertain the direction of the wind from flying straws—are disposed to attach political significance to this controversy. The conservatives are to get the loaves and fishes, they say, or what would they care about the whiteness of the loaf or the quality of the fish? The radicals are to be ruled out, or they would not be so indifferent as to the supply of the larder. We are not dis- posed to accept this view of the matter as the correct one. The conservative republican organ in this city has not stood very well with its party of late. Its attempt to lead over a large portion of the republican organization to copperheadism and Andrew Johnson through the medium of the arm-in-arm convention in the city of Brotherly Love proved a bad failure, and hence was an unpardonable offence in the eyes of the party. Its championship of the notorious whiskey rings is not likely to help its fortunes with General Grant, and as it has great faith in the almighty dollar it probably labors under the belief that its advocacy of the increase of the Presidential salary to one hun- dred thousand dollars a year will, like charity, cover @ multitude of sins. The radical organ- ist, on the other hand, is known to subsist upon bran bread, cold water, strawberries (in season) and great moral ideas, and hence can see no good reason why others, who have bet- ter appetites and stronger digestions, should crowd thé White House kitchen and eat sump- tuous dinners at the expense of the public. He suggests, with a great deal of force, too, that to leave the regular Cabinet officers to “‘vegetate on eight thousand dollars a year” and to serve out to their hungry fol- lowers ‘‘a monthly dole of diplomatic bread and cheese,” while the kitchen Cabinet was revelling in luxuries, would create a heart- burning that might seriously interfere with the digestive organs. The advocates of retrench- ment find anally as usual in the copperhead democracy, who, being shut out of the larder, and without a prospect of even smelling the savory dishes of the Presidential feasts, com- mence acombination with radicalism against Grant, beginning with the domestic economy of the White House kitchen. The whole batch of these philosophers will find themselves as much disappointed in their hopes to take charge of General Grant's plates, dishes and soup kettles as the politicians have been in their efforts to obtain control of his person. Since he told the Washington toadies that they might celebrate as much as they pleased, but that they must not bother him, and directed the destruction of all office seekers’ letters unopened, the politicians have been in- aspired with a wholesome dread of approaching him. Washburne, it is true, made an attempt to talk with him upon the subject of the Cabi- net before he turned his back upon Washington and the heads of departments, but was met with the reply—“‘I am not elected President yet and shall not be till the elec- toral vote is counted;” but with this exception the politicians seem to have given him up in despair. While he was in this city he was free from molestation; and Greeley, Charley Spencer, Hiram Walbridge, John Cochrane, Waldo Hutchins, Raymond and a bevy of the narrow-minded blockheads of the Loyal League stood kicking their heels inthe halls of the Metropolitan, or consoled themselves with drinks at the bar, while the President elect chatted on social matters with A. T. Stewart, or dashed away for a trot on the road behind one of Bonner’s magnificent teams, When General Grant left for West Point, and walked up to the ticket office at the depot with his slouched hat on his head and his attractive wife on bis arm, and purchased his tickets, not @ politician was in sight. There was no parade, no speechifying, no committees, no special car, but everything was done in a plain, simple, republican manner, refreshing in these days of toadyism and false pretence. The fact is the politicians are cowed before Grant and dread a snubbing if they approach him. The expectant kitchen cabinet will find themselves in a similar predicament; and, whether the President's salsry may be twenty- five thousand or one hundred thousand dollars a year, they may make up their minds that the door of the larder will be slammed in their faces and that they will have to fill their stomachs elsewhere than at the White House for the next four veara. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1868.~TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Paraguay War—Marehal Washburo in the Field. We have had to chroniclo defeat of a dozen and one generals in ther attacks upon Paraguay since the struggle opened for the domination of the Plata valley, Yesterday it came Marshal Washburn’s tum. It appears that this brave marshal wishe( to overthrow the Paraguay government by an internal movement, and gignally failed in the attempt. It is strange that Mr. Sewaid’s diplomatic clerks cannot mind their own\business. We remember that for the first rar of the war Minister Washburn made hiuself extremely obnoxious to both Brazilians md Argentines by conveying intelligence to Hresident Lopez of the allied movements and their military strength. So partisan were fis efforts that representations were frequenty made to our State Department by the thenjArgentine Min- ister to the United States, Dpn Domingo F. Sarmiento, who offered to MriSeward nume- rous proofs of the unwarrantalle interference of Mr, Washburn in the was Qur govern- ment paid no attention to thé evidence pre- sented. Our Minister at that time was so hand- in-glove with Lopez that he most belonged to the government of Pataguay instead of the United States. "Ti strange how matters have changed since Marshal Washburn’s visit home. Noy he describes Lopez as a terrible despot, rho every three months massacres and imprgons more men than his little despotism hos, while he op- poses a very bold front & the allies and always soundly thrashes tlem with inferior numbers whenever they attact him. We can- not understand how it is thit Mr. Washburn could not find as much comf¢t, as many nice little dinner parties with Lopiz and as agree- able entertainment this last y@r of the war as in the first two years. | It is unfortunate that wehave never been able to obtain the a accounts of their internal troubles and pf their battles against the allies. We havelittle doubt they would put an entirely newface upon every phase of the Paraguay quesion. The arrest of Bliss and Masterman jnst is they were em- barking for Buenos Ayres must have been made for good State reasons. | Our Ministers to South America have, in most cases, sadly misrepreented us. The Paraguayan mission was created and has been maintained without reason. There is nothing there for a minister to do—at least no one but a member of the ubiqvitous Washburn family could find enoug) in Paraguay to keep his pen or jis brains from getting rusty in any Stale work unless by entering into the poltics of Spanish America and getting up a little pronuncia- miento on his own account; The whole east coast of South America has heen sadly afflicted by Mr. Seward of late years At Brazil espe- cially we are represented byone of our ablest financiers, who, if reports are true, has not given up his old idea of ¢stablishing a very extensive national bank on a specie basis, receiving large subscriptions for the purpose even from the Brazilian government, probably say fifty-two thousand six hundred and sev- enty-five dollars thirty-seven and a half cents, more or less. The latest telegraphic news from the seat of war informs us of a very severe allied defeat at Villeta, to which place the Paraguayan forces were withdrawn after they evacuated Humait4. As we have often heretofore stated, the allies will have little chance of holding more than the shores of the rivers surrounding the country. When they advance from the cover of their iron-clads Lopez is master of the situation. Perhaps the late battle at Villeta will be a practical lesson to the allies that they cannot conquer the country, and may induce them to agree to an honorable peace. A Monarchical Demonstration in Madrid. As events develop themselves in Spain her fature appears to be set more evenly in the balance between republicanism and monarchy. While in many of the country districts and some of the provincial towns the people pro- claim in favor of a republican government, the intelligence and ambition centred in the eet tend towards monarchy. Thus we see that on Saturday last an immense assemblage of peo- ple, numbering fifty thousand, gathered in Madrid and pronounced in favor of a monar- chical form of government amid the most intense enthusiasm. Among the prominent men present were Prim, Serrano, Topete and Martos, all of whom delivered addresses in unison with the sentiment of ,the meeting. This was a most significant gathering, con- sidering its attendant circumstances. The revolution, therefore, although it has made great strides in a quiet and comparatively bloodless path, is evidently very far from being complete, nor can the wisest prophet foretell to what point it may ultimately tend. Tho Excitement in Wall Street. There was another excited day in Wall street yesterday over a “‘bull” movement in Erie on the part of those who were recently ‘‘bears” in this stock. The price fluctuated violently between 48} and 61, and the losses among the shorts were so excessive that two failures took place, while others are suspected. A sudden scarcity of gold was produced by locking it up, and great excitement also prevailed in the market for the precious metal, the price rising to 137. This locking up is supposed to have been effected by the parties who recently made money stringent by withdrawing currency from circulation, and who at the same time that they changed their tactics from ‘‘bears” to “pulls” in Erie transferred the locking up strategy from greenbacksto gold. The scarci- ty was so great that the “‘shorts” were com- pelled to pay as high as one per cent per diem in borrowing to make good their contracts. The market closed with a very unsettled feel- ing both as regards Erie and gold. Tae Feiton Ferry Disaster.—The suffer- ers by the Brooklyn ferry disaster were me- chanics, laborers, work girls and boys who depend upon their daily toil for aliving. Some were seriously injured, others slightly, but probably thirty of them will be disabled from working for longer or shorier periods. There are instances, no doubt, in which the employ- ers of those who were injured will not see them suffer from their loss of time, but many will be left penniless until in a condition to rosume work, Florence. the actor. bas there- fore set an example which invites Station in the following communication :— OLyuric THeATRE, Bostox, Nov. 16, 18 “imate Bennett, +, Editor New Yore FAK StR—Shou'd a fund be raised for of the suiferers by the recent terripie PP nrg in eg fewer be 00d ep ow Apo add to :t, on my ace ‘he sum jollara, & wf please dad enclosed. Very respect pe nae WILLLAM 'LORENCB, Heary Ward Beecher and the - Whiskey Ring. Henry Ward Beecher isa prince in Israel. He is a great, agifted, a noble, an honest man. Asan ecolesiastic he has peculiarities. An ecclesiastic, in fact, in the true sense, he is not. Ho is a great teacher, a great moralist, a great censor, @ great tribune of the people, rather than a great divine. The divine, however, is less a necessity than in days gone by; the teacher, the moralist, the censor, the ¢ribunus plebis here and now is more 9 necessity than ever. In times like these, when iniquity walks abroad with unblushing brow, when official corruption sits in the highest places in the land, we need the loud rebuke, the tongue of fire, the prophet’s holy wrath, rather than polished, pleasing but pointless periodsor dull, dreary and dry dogmatics, Mr. Beecher has done good ser- vice to his country on more than one occasion before. We are glad to find that his eye is still undimmed and his natural strength unabated, although we cannot help adding that he has been too long silent regarding iniquities of the existence of which he could hardly be ignorant. Better, however, late than never. Mr. Beecher has spoken out, and itis impossible to refuse to admit that he has spoken out foreibly and to the point. The whiskey rings have assumed such gigan- tic proportions and have become so sweeping in the range of their corrupting influence that it is no longer possible for Mr. Beecher or any man who loves his country and seeks its welfare to be silent regarding them. For four years they have been defrauding the revenue at the rate of not less than one hundred mil- lions a year. Such gigantic and barefaced swindling was, perhaps, never known in any country before. Itis not wonderful that indi- viduals have been made rich, that beggars have been put on horseback, and that whole- sale theft has become so fashionable and respectable that honest callings have ceased to have any attractions for a growing class of our population. What makes the matter worse is the fact that it seems impossible to bring the offenders to justice. Money is stronger than law, and the whiskey rings have plenty of money. Much as we have reason to blame the rings, the authorities are even more guilty than they. It is simply impossible that such gigantic frauds could have been perpetrated without their cognizance. Even supposing them to have been ignorant why is it that they refuse to look facts in the face? Why is it that the whole batch of United States officials stand in the way of the law and lend their powerful help to shield the guilty? Is it possible to explain such conduct on any other -principle than this, that they were sharing the spoils? Either they are guilty or they are miserably incompetent. What business estab- lishment in the land would have tolerated for a moment such gross mismanagement? Not one. Yet in spite of facts, in spite of evidence which would have ruined any responsible man- ager in any private business concern in any city in the Union, these men continue to hold their offices, and the revenue is defrauded as before. We cannot close this article without remarking that in this matter President John- son has manifested a degree of incapacity and imbecility which surpasses all his former efforts in that direction. Never has he appeared so contemptible as now. Moral courage in the man there seems to be none. Let Mr. Beecher, therefore, go on as he has begun. He has commenced the fight some- what late in the day, but the battle is not con- cluded and the enemy is strong. His help and the help of all such is needed to destroy the most gigantic evil which ever threatened the welfare of this country. If our republican institutions are not to become the laughing stock of the world every honest citizen must come to the rescue. An Indian Winter Campaign. General Sheridan, it appears, has concluded to undertake # vigorous campaign this coming winter against the hostile Indians on the Plains, and has taken command in person of the troops south of the Arkansas river. If any man can accomplish anything from such an enterprise it is Sheridan. He has all the nerve, the endurance, and, we may add, the experience of frontier warfare which fit him for this service. Of oourse he is fully aware that he must expose the troops to much suffering, for they will have to face the bleak storms of the desert. They may hope for no shelter except such as they convey with them in the shape of tents, and no provisions but such as the soldier can carry at his saddle or the slow travelling mule trains can take along in the rear of the advancing cavalry. Our heavy cavalry horses, too, with their weighty accoutrements, are no match for the fleet and almost unencumbered ponies of the Indian ad- versary. These are the apparent disadvan- tages of a winter campaign on the Plains. Among the advantages of selecting such a time for a final movement, which may possibly wind up the present hostilities, are the facts: First, that the Indians cannot find forage for their horses on the frozen prairies as readily as they do in summer, and are therefore no bet- ter off in this respect than our mounted troops, who must carry their forage with them; next, that the Indians have laid up their winter sup plies of dried buffalo meat in their villages, and if they are cut off from these depots of provisions by our troops they must be starved into submis- sion. General Sheridan ayows his intention to pursue them to their villages, even if he has to penetrate into Texas and lose his ho rses by the way. If he succeeds in separating the warriors in the field from the families in the lodges he will certainly have succeeded in subduing the hostile bands; for they have no resources for subsistence if they are kept em- ployed in defending themselves against our soldiers at a period of the year when there is neither grass to be obtained for their ponies nor game for their own sustenance. Thore is nothing which the Indian fears so much asa war in the winter season, and for the rensone above stated. In summer he is hanghty, offensive and defiant, At the annroach of winter Le is gomplacent gad ques ry | a