The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, , PROPRIETOR, ‘Allbasiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hzrap. © {Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. i Volume XXXII. No. 324 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ArTer Dank, on Lon- DON BY NiGuT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Arrer Dark—Your Live's in DANGER, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘28d street, -BaRBE BLEUE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIEVE DE BXAbAN OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Domerr, ‘wit NEW FEATURES. ; ACADEMY OF MU Ovrna—DER Faeiscu' Fourteenth street.—GERMAN BROADWAY THE. DER AS MARY Siva WALL. ‘Tus Lane. MRS. F. B. CONWAY Lavy Avorey's Sreurr. SAN FRANCISCO RELS, 585 Broadway.—Eruto- PIAN ENTEREAINMEN'TS, SE dy DANCING, de. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H(i VooaLis, NEGRO MINBTREL! 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOMENOE AND ART. New York, Thursday, November 19, 1S6S. THD NEWS. Europe. ‘The cahie reports are dated November 18. ‘The Parliamentary elections are progressing in favor of the liberal party, and the latest return shows, liberafs 238, conservatives 125. If Mr. Glad- stone is elected for Southwest Lancashire Mr. J. Stuart Mill will be sure to be elected for Greenwich. ‘The London Times and the Morning Herald make widely different comments on the elections, Very contradictory reports have come to hand re- specting the tranquility of Spain. Winter has set in in Russia and the Neva 1s frozen over. Indin. Despatches received in London mention the ter- milnation of the war in Northern India. Paraguay. Our Rio Janeiro letter of October 8 contains news from Paraguay to the 26th of September. The Para- guayans Were concentrated at Villeta and the allies were three leagues distant marching on Asuncion. Pereira, the Portuguese Consul had been shot by Lopez. Brazil. The war loans have been so badly managed that a commercial crisis is anticipated. Cub By special despatch dated on the 15th tnsi., from Havana, we learn that Manzanillo was besieged by the insurgents, who hold all the country from Puerto Principe to Santiago de Cuba, except two or three towns. They nurnber 10,000 men, and skirmishes are frequent, The Spanish troops are fortifying Puerto Principe, and have met with snch reverses in the interior that they dare not saily out from their works. The New York brig Jenny Clark, with arms and ammunition, had been seized at Nuevitas by the authorities, and a load of arms for the government troops, also from the United States, had been cap- tured by the insurgents. Communication with the coast is cut off, and (he insurgents were withio four tiles of Santiago. The report forwarded to the press of this city, to the effect that Captain General Lereundi did not re- fuse to allow the american Consul’s telegram de- manding naval reinforcements in Cuban waters to protect American interests, 1s contradicted. A citizen of the United States was sent by the Consul to Washington by the steamer Alabama as special bearer of despatches, in consequence of sald refasal, and be asseris that the refusal was peremptory. The report that Lersundi gave in his adhesion to the Provisional fo t of Spain ts also de Died. Another in connection with the Cuban revolt is to the etvet that # certain wealthy Cuban planter, pow in Gis city, has entered ifto ar rangements with a icading to advocate the ann ment that slave be abolished only by degr vite planter reported to have given hia consent to ald the fi busters ‘and rebels pecauierlly on the cond He 13 reported to be very jave owner, and largely tatere avery organ here awith the agree- ions and a ed in the coolle Arknonna Reports from Arkansas sta! taken place at Centre Pout be # company of Ku Kinx feated, niue benug kille captured, Ope m W The steamer Provid. o}, collided with fn anknowh schooner in the Sound on ‘Tuesday night. No traces of the schooner coyid be found Alter the collision, and it 1s Seared whe sunk with all on board. The rival Governors of Florida are thew war with unabated vig oviained a bran new State Governor Gleason have appol new Atiorney Roagiand & Co. produce commission merchants, . have tailed. The Chorlest has ceased to exist. We publish this mv veral of the reports of the governmental depart among them the re- port of the Postunasier Gencral and the Land Office Commissioner. We also publish the reporis of the Inspector Gen- eral of the Army on J Point Academy, and the reports of Generais Thomas and Stoneman oh affairs in the Departunent of the Camie sNatrict of Virginia. Ths Cole-Hiscock case was finally commenced at A‘Yyany yesterday, although aoot eoued after the jury was full byt aud the e 10) ly allowed and | juryman who was found to have ex pressed an opin- fon. The first and only witness examined yesterday was Judge Allen, who detatled the circumstances of the shooting, Rear Admiral William Radford has been ordered to take command of the European squadron, The Franklin will return with him and be his flagship. Spencer M. Clarke's resignation as chief of the Printing Bureau is positively reported to have been accepted, and George B, MéCarter will probably be appointed. Spencer Kirby has been rejected as Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the Eastern district of New York, js ? Another fnancial suspension has taken place in St. John, N. B., this time of 8. J, Scovil, banker and agent of the defunct St. Stephens Bank. ‘The Women's Rights Convention met in Boston yesterday. Lord Monck has received a letter from the Queen, throngh the Duke of Buckingham, complimenting him on his administration in Canada, Sir John Young sailed from England to supersede Lord Monck on Saturday. Professor Goldwin Smith commenced his course of lectures at Cornell University, Ithaca, last night. The City. ‘The present Erie Ratlroad litigation is becoming as complicated as any former one proved to be. Charles McIntosh has Mled a hill of complaint with Judge Barnard, upon which the Judge has ap- pointea Jay Gould trustee of the company, with the power of receiver, and also granted an order of injunction restraining all parties from prose- cuting suits already commenced and from commenc- ing new suits, James Fisk, Jr., has made a counter amdavit, in which he declares that Daniel Drew informed him of the intended suit on the part of Belmont and asked for the loan of 30,000 shares in consideration of the information he had givene On tuis being refused he stated he would injure Fisk and his associates all he could. ‘Yue Democratic Union Convention last night nomi- nated John Kelly for Mayor and Abraham KR. Law- rence for Corpdration Counsel. ‘The packet ship Isaac Webb was run ashore at Sandy Hook on Tuesday night in a severe storm. She was fiity-six days on the trip between Liverpool and this port, and experienced a succession of heavy gales, during onegof which Captain Stowell, her commander, received internal injuries which re- suited in his death. There were four hundred steecr- age passengers on board tne ship, but no.other lives were lost. General Grant visited the Fashion grounds on Tuesday, 8aw Dexter make a mile in 2:2114 and then drove home behind him, He was kept indoors by the weather yesterday. dames Ashbury, the owner of the yacht Cambria, , Which defeated the Sappho in England last summer, has sent a note to the New York Yacht Club challeng- ing all America to a’yacht race for the Queen’s Cup, won by the yacht America in 1851. The Congressional Committee in this city exam- ined Judge Fullerton on the revenue frauds yester- day. Tne Judge denied that he had taken money from_an ex-collector for any but legittmate purposes, it being only counsel’s fees, which were pald over to another man, The Fulton ferry disaster was further investigated yesterday. One of the witnesses, Henry J. Topping, 4 Sandy Hook pilot, testified that under the circum- stances it was his opinion, as an expert, that the pilot of the Hamilton was correct in entering the slip as he did; that the tide might have swung the stern of the boat up stream or the bowmight have been so over- loaded as to prevent the vessel answering the rudder promptly. There might have been eddy enough or @ tidal bore, which sometimes comes up in a moment and subsides as promptly, to cause the vessel tosheer out of her course. The investigation was further postponed until to-day. ‘The National Christian Convention held its second day’s session yesterday. Many interesting topics were discussed and several singular and unexpected admissions were made on the subject of churches for the rich and mission chapels for the poor. Rey. Henry Ward Beecher is expected to speak this morn- Ing at ten o'clock. Several Police oMeers were before the Commis- sioners yesterday on charges of bratality, but after hearing testimony the cases were all adjouract. The arguments in the “After Dark” controversy between Daly and Palmer were heard in part yester- day before Judge Blatchford, and then postponed until next week. Crimmens, who ts charged with complicity in the Royal Insurance bond robbery, was remanded to the Binghawton authorities yesterday by Judge Bar- nard. * . ‘The National line extra steamship Louisiana, Cap- tain Forbes, will leave pier 47 North river at nine o'clock this morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The North German Lloyd's steamship Weser, Cap- tain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 8 North river for Charleston, 8. C. ‘The steamer General Barnes, Captain Morton, will leave pier 36 North river at three P.M. to-day for Savannah. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge ¥.L. Latin, of Saugerties; Rear Adm Dahigren, and Genera’ George KE. Spencer, ot t United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor A. li, Holley, of Connecticut, and Comptroller W. F, Allen, of Albany, are at ihe St, Nicholas Hotel. Dr. W. George Stevenson, of Cambridge; Right Rev. Dr. Sweeny, PD. C. Forney, of Washington, and KE. M. Madden, of Connecticut, are at the Astor House, Major Thomas K. Gibbs, of the United States Army, and Frank Pearson, of the United States frigate Franklin, are at the Hoffman House. Captain Ward, of the British Legation, and Colonel H. M. Black, of West Point, are at tie Clarendon Hotel. Congressman Sam Hooper, of Massachusetts, is at the Brevoort House. Captain Judkins, of the steamship Scotia, {s at the New York Hotel. | Europe and the Titan That Threatens Her Consolidation. For ten years past everything in Europe has shown a disposition for more intense concen- tration. Little States have yielded to the in- | exorable laws created by modern elements of ‘civilization and have joined interests with pow- | erfal neighbors lying in territorial contact with them. Italy has made herself compact. Aus- tria, by solving the Hungarian problem and by ) numerous modern reforms, has doubled her strength. Northern Germany has found it im- possible to keep pace with the ag same time force progress to jump a frontier barrier at every fifty miles. Old and tried theories of government, old ant cherished boundary lines, old languages and religions are in these days forced slate de like chaff before the young nineteenth century. Old | tesmen, who fail to recognize tha! modern improvements now dictate laws and that theo- j retical codes must die when they come in com petition with them, must step aside, There have been two European countries which have, so fur as possible, set aside old theories and have stripped themselves for the | race—France and the North German Confed- eration, The others have been more or less progress but have received their impalse from the two we mention. France has, in i to forward her plans, caused ty, and has indirectly overturaed Spanish government, avd while entertain- | ing a dethroned Queen at Paris dictates the disposal of her crown at Madrid, Germany pvolutionized Austria, whose prond, tongh n reqnired needle guns io prick it into modern action. . While, however, Germany “8 been engaged ag down frontier lines, eradicating ia beea petty, national and district jealousies, France, magnificent In an old untouched boundary line, | The Tammany politicians appear to have already compact, her brain and energy pressed | S°t Into an unnecessary muddle on the ques- to their utmost action by the best government | tion of the succession to the Mayoralty. A they ever had, has made wonderful use of | few weeks ago the political waters were un- time—has seen and adopted on the moment ruffled and flowing on as smoothly and placidly every modern poyer which gives national | ® if no unfriendly breeze had ever caused a Greatness, Her governmont, profiting by ovr ripple on their surface. Everything was lovely war, has first made France a vast work- | *2d the public goose hung high and ready for shop knit together by an available and | Plucking. Murphy, Church, Cassidy and the well regulated railway and telegraph smaller aspirants for Governor had stepped system. She has seen how we moved gracefully out of the contest in favor of the troops and how we brought into use a fourth | Tammany candidate and helped to carry the military arm—our locomotive cavalry. er able soldiers saw the miserable failure of McClellan in his application of Enropean tac- tics in a modern field, and’ afterwards com- pared with them the war system of Grant—the launching of troops by the fourth military arm, first against rebeldom on one side of the Con- tinent, and then, within four days’ time and at a distance of one-twelfth the circumference of the earth, carrying some fortification by storm with the same men. France f to-day a splendidly organized military unit. There is not a single progres- sive element at her disposal that is not shaped to the problem of military strength, We may say that she is to-day the embodiment of in- telligent centralization. This process has been a long one, aimed at by Napoleon, who has had the foresight to see the tendency of the age and the brains to forego transient advan- tages for the one great plan of the future. He has bent the entire power of his empire to the creation of military force—not the military force which was called military in the past century, but the giant sinews of 1868. All human efforts, whether of individuals or nations, have their periods of culmination; and in the present condition of the Wrench warlike effort we find its near approach to the bound set for it preparatory to being hurled upon its neighbors, : The .object is unquestionably territorial ex- tension. Nor can France avoid it. The whole of Europe—the whole world, in truth—is open- ing its political eyes to the fact pressed upon it by progress, that boundary lines are a curse to mankind and in the future mean retrogradism. Nations which are foremost in the recognition of this will lead in the movement, or, lagging behind, will lose both name and territory in the race, Northern Germany led the van in Europe, and France, taken a little by surprise by a movement which she herself intended to initiate, has only rested to gather herself in better poise before taking her warlike leap. The blow must come, and when the moment arrives we shall sec our own method of warmaking closely imitated. Italy, Spain and Portugal will be but of small moment before the four arms of modern military power. The old Napoleonic idea was that France | should dictate to Europe, and at that tin Napoleon only lacked the railway and tole- graph to doit. From ‘Paris to Moscow to-day is but a day’s march to what it was in 1Si2. From Paris to any city of Italy, the Peninsula or of the countries on the French frontier armies may swing like an ancient battering ram, ever well poised at home, yet ever strik- ing powerful blows. It is doubtful if this Titan will launch his thaunderbolts upon Ger- many. There he would perhaps find resist- ance equal to his powers for assanlt. It is only in case of German interference with French plans that we may see a war of giants, and then only will the full military power of the French empire be called into play. France gave Germany her chance for consolidation of | broken German nationalities. Germany mast’ now give France her turn for national agzran- dizement in making a unit of the Latin countries. In the coming struggle we take no account of England. She is ‘played out” as anelement of power in European complica- tions, and has ceased to command respect where she once dictated. A year hence we may see a new and progressive map of Europe, snd may find upon it bet three names—Rus- H cia, Germany, France. in Coba=The Insurgents Gain Ground. Our latest despatches to-day from Havana, dated on the 12th, state that the government troops—eleven thousand strong—were besieged in Manzanillo by a large force of insurgents who | were only three miles distant. The Spaniards, meantime, were throwing up barricades in the | streets for protection. Accounts from Santiago report that a large force of insurgents were within four miles of that place on the 6th. Great panic appears to have prevailed, for it | is said that a hundred families cleared out for | Jamaica. The confusion is reported to be im- mense all along the coast, and a significant cry for aid from the United States was prevailing everywhere. Some of the wealthiest families ; in the island have linked their fortunes with the cause of the insurgents. All the towns ‘The Revolatis | are in the hands of the insurgenis. So disas- trous has beon the result of collisions in the interior to the Spanish troops, that they are afraid to venture out of the towns. Upon the whole the reports would show that the insur- gent organization is complete and its move- menis are being conducted with equal vigor nd at the | j} and moderation, The rumors of brigandage soners and passengers on the trains captured by the insurgents are treated with all the kind- ness and courtesy consistent with a state of It will be observed that althe despatches is dated in Havana on the 12th it did not reach us until the night of the 18th—a hone of our 4 from Puerto Principe to Santiago except three | | and pillage are denied, and it is said that pri- | State for him and his associates on the ticket. In the county nominations new men were put forward for office, old incumbents were set aside, combinations were made to satisfy the disaffected ‘and everybody took a whiff from the pipe of peace. It was the boast of the braves that never was St. Tammany more powerful at any former period of her history, and it is certain that the red men of the Wig- wam had never displayed a greater amount of self-sacrificing patriotism in any former cam- paign, An aspirant for office had¥only to be told that the common good of the party de- manded his withdrawal, and he yielded his ,desires as readily as the women of Carthage gave up their rich jewels and their beautiful hair for the cause of their country or as the ladies of the confede- racy contributed their family plate to replenish Jef Davis’ treasury. The devotion of the big Indians and the little Indians to the Order of St. Tammany called to mind the early days of the war when the sons of the North rushed to the field in defence of the nation’s flag. Brotherly love prevailed in the old Wigwam. The hatchet was buried, the bows unstrung, the war paint washed off, and’ the big warrior of the once unfriendly tribes, who had for years given so much trouble to the braves of St. Tammany, stretched his huge limbs in peace under the same blanket with the chief of the sachems and dreamed pleasantly of comfortable quarters and fat fees. The world, necustomed to stormy sessions and wordy strife among the red men on the approach of a campaign, looked on in wonder at the peace and harmony of this political Indian summer. Some predicted that the millennium must be at hand, while others suggested that, the spoils being large enough to allow everybody a share, those self-sacrificing patriots who had so generously cleared the track did not calculate to go without a reward. The Mayoralty question appears to have changed this calm into something of a storm, and St. Tammany is again in as great commo- tion as was St. Thomas a year ago. One after another candidate appears upon the scene and disappears as suddenly as though a veri- table earthquake had swallowed him up. One moment we are told that there will be no vacancy in the Mayoralty until after the ap- proaching charter election, and that Alder- man Tom Coman will fill the office until the charter election of 1869, in accordance with the requirements of the law and of the honor- able Aldermanic Board. The next moment Hoffman’s resignation appears, and it becomes certain that his successor is to be chosen at the present time. New we learn that John J. Bradley is named for Mayor; then that Jobn Kerr is the man; again, that John Kelly will be nominated, and yet again, that George W. McLean has been fixed upon as the candi- date, The latter selection gives general satis- faction, and the people have just made up heir minds that the efficient Street Commis- sioner will make an excellent chief magistrate, when (presto!) the scene is changed and A. Oakey Hall, the able District Attorney, springs to the surface as suddenly as the famous Humpty Dumpty springs up from the trap on the boards of the Olympic. But still some doubt femains. and we are left in ignorance whether the accomplished lawyer, dramatist and orator is the Simon Pure candidate or not. Some affirm that he is the genuine Mayor; others assert that iis name is a blind and that McLean is to be the man, after all, The former are probably correct, Oakey Hall’s nomination would give general satisfaction to citizens of all parties, republi- cans as well as democrats; and Greeley, who desires to ignore politics in the charter elec- tion, would, no doubt, support it with his usual vigor. George McLean is young, good look- ing and makes a valuable Street Commissioner, which office the people would be loath to see him vacate, Besides, as he wears a hand- some mustache and has other undeniable qualifications for Governor, he is a good can- didate to hold in reserve. There is slight hitch in the arrangement, it is said, in conse- quence of the desire of the eloquent Irish patriot, Richard O'Gorman, to be renominated in the interest of theJ*euian Brotherhood as Corporation Counsel; but as he has already displayed a princely and comprehensive liberality in the discharge of the duties of that office he will no doubt emulate the self- sacrificing spirit that has distinguished so many of his Tammany associates and retire from the field with the easy grace f0 which he is distinguished, and the snug profits he has already realized. Let us have a settlement of this Mayoralty muddle, then, and let A. Oakey Hall be the candidate. It will be a refreshing novelty to have for Mayor of New York a strictly upright, honorable, capable man, and at the same time ope who writes a drama or a farce with equal | success, acts a part as well as most profes- | sionals on the stage, conducts the most diflicalt } i | | nd copperheads In honor of | pow-wow of the New York bar. fuet which might suggest iis detention by the | goverument authorities, ' | Geyer. tANT AS A Pracemaker.~—If | brea couple of radicals at Del- monico’s and dining at the Astor He with an omnnium gutheruni of republican conservatives, | peace men, Johnson men, war democrats, peace democrs Johnson's chief defender on the impeachment | is not the way of r H ll parties, | | we should like to know » t us have | peace.” A Sprerrvuan. Manivestation—The toast of Judge Edmonds at the Evarts diner of the lawgers in honor of Stanbery, luie Attouney General at Washington. Stanbery Mr. Johnson's expounder of the Reconstruction faws, must not be forgotten, as Tae First Dectorp Hit—Thot of the New York lawyers in behalf of their candidate for Attoracy Genoral under President Grant, law cases on the calendar, sings a good song, composes poetry by the yard, makes an effec- tive slump speech, responds toa toast with remarkable eloqnence and taste, mixes 4 lobster salad as well as Delmonico’s head cook, smokes the best cigar in New York, respecta old age, admires youth, as poets and | orators invariably do, and whose sentiments regarding the ladies may be gathered from his eloquent responze to the toast at the recent General Graet’s Election in’ Mexive. We have the pleasant news from Mexico that the executive and legislative branches of Raesell” for Chelsen. Among the victorious | is Lord Stanley, for Kin, Lyan. The rejecs | tion *of John Stuart Mill, Anthony Tre and John Arthur Roebuck may vob the coming | Parliament of inuch of its philosophy, its im- | shall rule Bagland, vernment ate jubilant over the election | of General Grant as President of the United | i Bat why they are jAbilant no reason We think it probable, however, that ican Prosident and Congress i aneg they have loarucd to {do ates democratic party with ali sorts , and ig party, is give the Jant United § of filibustering schemes and invasi our republican party, like the old w as the parly opposed to Giiustering, dad that | tion of coulideace and NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1868.--TRIPLE SHEET. RE RO TR I RP eg consequently there will be no filibustering en- terprizes of “los Yankees” upon the “sacred soil of Mexico” under President Grant. Upon this idea the government of Juarez may with some reason be jubilant; but it must establish law and order throughout the republic, trade and the security of American citizens in their lives and property, or there is no telling what may happen during the next four years. We hear something meantime of certain late treaties with the United States having been submitted by Juarez to his Congress, and doubtless these treaties embrace the protection of our citizens, and, peradventnre, the inte- rest of various companies concerned in certain land-speculating, mining, railway, telegraph, express and manufacturing enterprises. But ngus verrons. The Erie Railway War Kevived New Shape. ‘Within a few days the Erie Railway war has been revived with greater fury than ever. Strangely enough it has assumed a pew and peculiar shape. The positions of some of the chief combatants in the latest battle between our financial giants have been entirely Changed. One of them, a thick head and shoulders above the rest, finds himself in direct opposition to his ancient allies of last winter. Another, (a victim) standing on the shoulders of certain foreign houses who suffered from,the rise in Erie engineered on Saturday and Monday, has appealed to the aid of the law to protect those whom he represents against the inevitable depre- ciation of the common stock of a com- pany a majority of whose directors are charged with having illegally increased it from seventeen million dollars to sixty-one millions, and with devoting the funds of the corporation to the purchase of ‘opera houses and other kinds of property. A receiver of the company has been asked for and an injunction has been granted and served upon it. But it is rumored that, with a view to checkmate this movement, which had been anticipated by the antagonistic parties, the latter had already secretly applied for and obtained the appoint- ment of a receiver from their own ranks. It is also rumored that to putas much money as possible beyond the clutches of the law in case an injunction should be issued seven millions of gold have been transferred across the Hudson to Jersey City, beyond the jurisdiction of the New York courts. The rival speculators in Erie are thus again litigants. The proceedings in court will doubt- less reveal more distinctly than we can now perceive them, amid the din and confusion and smoke with which Wall streot is still filled, the colossal proportions of the Erie specula- tions. These speculations have altogether transcended the ordinary limits of the sharp practice which is, familiar enough in Wall street. It is not too much to say that an honest eye could with difficulty distinguish the acts charged upon certain directors of the Erie Railway Company from positive acts of swin- dling and fraud. The vilest gift enterprises have betrayed no uglier, features than those which some of these speculators seem to wear. It is not unlikely that the present Erie Railway war may prove far worse than that of last year. When an over-issue of millions of stock can be effected, and purchases by the million and loans by the million can be made, without the knowledge or consent of ofher stockholders than those within the ‘“‘ring,” what is to guar- antee against a fatal depreciation of the stock? “Friend George,” once. said a straightforward Quaker to George Hudson, the ex-railway king, ‘‘what has thee done with the money paid for certain estates bought with the dividends of thy company?” George Hudson was dumb before the conscientious and vigilant Quaker. What reply can our Erie Railway thieves make to similar questions? What shall prevent our community from being startled within the next year or two at hearing that this or that Wall streetthief, after quietly pocketing the millions realized by unrighteous private speculations, has “‘Swartwouted” to Europe? It is time the public should demand that a final stop be put to high-handed proceedings, disgraceful even to Wall street and injurious to our national credit. Wall street is supposed to be the heart of our financial system, and if the heart be incurably corrupt its pot- sonous influences will permeate everywhere. Iis baleful efiect will be felt in the paralyzed trade of the East and in the crippled produce of the West. Such dangerous and reckless speculation as has recently prevailed in this metropolis, if left unchecked, will spread its influence over all classes and all interests, and producers as well as merchants and speculators will be involved in a common ruin. Itscems now as if only an earthquake, swal- lowing up Wall street and its tributaries, would prove an effectual remedy for these intol- erable evils. We are not yet in possession of full details of the results of the elections in England. It is now, however, no longer doubtful that the success of the liberals will be complete, In the new fflouse of Commons they will have a sweeping majority and they will be united as one man, The 7ines of yesterday, as will be seen by our despatches, claims a liberal ma- | jority of 120. The Herap says that the result of the elections on Tuesday pirayes that | the gains of the conservative party more than | counterbalance their losses, and that the gov- | ernment is less in «a minority than before. Awong the defeated candidates is “Ball Run | aginative powers and i highly spiced clo- | quence; but Parliement can survive the loss. When Parliament mects there will be no longer any doubt as to which of the two great parties Me. Disraeli has appealed The country has responded, | of the r&ponse is not, to y, and not | to the country. and the meaning be doubted. t. Gladstone's poli Mr. Disracti's, is tho approved policy of tho | country. It will now be seen what Mr. li will do, All the world knows that he | is ious of place and power. If he re- nigns and thus bows to the will of the people as expressed at the polla, it will be well. In ich a ease he will retire with a certain int of honor. If he doos not resign the liberals have no choieo bup to raise the ques 9 the voto, ‘That | the vote will bo agaiast him and that ho will then resign there can scarcely be a doubt. it is a certainty that Mr. Gladstone will be called upon by her Majesty to take ‘the seals of office and to forma Ministry. A recess will be the immediate result, It may take Mr. Gladstone @ few ‘days to get his Cabinet properly arranged. Parliament may meet, but it can do noreal work before the Christmas holidays. It will thus be necessary for us to wait till after the New Year—probably till late im January or early in February—before we cam hear of the new Parliament being fairly ab work. It will bea lively springtime in the House of Commons, Destructive Floods and Whiriwinds and Alarming Earthquakes in Mexico. We have the intelligence, by way of San Francisco, that destructive storms of wind and rain had swept over Northwestern Mexico, doing immense damage and causing great suf- fering and loss of life; that the city of Alamos, in the State of Sonora, with a popu- lation of seven thousand, had been destroyed by floods and whirlwinds; that Loreto and some smaller towns in the peninsula of Lowor California were entirely demolished; that whole herds of catile had been swept away and groves of oranges and other crops totally ruined, and that the Yaqui and Mayo rivers ia Sonora were swollen to a height of forty fee-— rivers which, during ‘their long dry summer, in their course to the California Gulf, are ab- sorbed in the intervening desert sands, In other parts of Mexico, meantime, the inhabi- tants of towns and villages had been frightened from their houses by earthquakes, thus show- ing the elements under the earth as well as the* elements above it to bo commotion, In both hemispheres, but especially upon this Continent and among the adjacent islands, these visitations of tornadoes, floods and earthquakes, with their tidal waves and fissures emitting gas, fire, smoke, steam and boiling water, are becoming alarmingly frequent. Last autumn they had them all in high revelry at St. Thomas and the neighboring isiands, ahd such terrific hurricanes of rattling hail along the southern frontier of Texas as were never known there before back to the first occupa- tion of the country by the Spaniards. This year the line of operations of these celestial and subterranean phenomena appears to be (with the recurrence of the meteors) along the Pacific side 6f the Continent, and may be traced to the late disastréus convulsions of the dry land and the sea along the western coast of South America. Violent storms follow in the track of earthquakes, and such storms doubt- less result from the derangement of the atmos- pheric equilibrium by the disturbing gases and electrical forces arising from these sub- terranean outbreaks. It is so remarkable, at alt events, that this year, as last year, we have an eruption of Vesuvius simultaneously with these shakinga of the earth in the West Indian latitudes and near the time of the earth’s collision with that strange nebulous formation in the heavens which gives us those wonderful meteoric showers—it is so remarkable, we say, that all these things should come together that wa cannot resist the conclusion that these meteors, earthquakes and volcanoes have much to do with the unparalleled hurricanes and inunda- tions all over the world of these latter days. A Great Oversicut.—It is said that Gene- ral Grant did not consent to go to the New York lawyers’ dinner until assured that neither McCulloch, Welles nor Randall, of the Cabinet, would be there. It is supposed that as they had testified against him in the matter of the Grant-Johnson-Stanton imbroglio Grant did not want to see them. But that should not have shut out Mr. Seward. He testified no- thing to the prejudice of Grant in that Stanton matter, for, like the fox in the fable, he had a bad cold, and could not remember what Grant had said or what Johnson had said, or any- body else. Why, then, was the Secretary of State left out at this dinner? We don’t know. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. When the skies are clouded and rain falls the streets are in a pitlable condition. It would seem as if the experiments made in various parts of the city with new pavements resulted only in the accumula- tion of puddles and smal! ponda, The Broadway bridge still rears its defiant arct opposite Knox's. Are the daly authorized con- tractors afraid to commence the oncrous tasie of re- moving it to its peaceful home in the Park? What portion of the police drill is necessary to a6 a gendarme for the position of conductor—of iadies across Broadway? The Coroners are Incky chaps—much better off than many others more deserving. When they want handsowe furniture for their oMces they apply to the county costly furniture manufactory—the Board of Supervisors, When they want a new office they | apply to the City Fathers, The farniture factors and the Conseript Fathers both readily grant the re quests of the “Crowners.” Now, do the Coroners belong to the citv or to the county * ‘The ofice of the Clerk of the Common Pleas in the City Hall is a very smati place, but as the business there is properly attended to it always looks neat. ‘The Board of Counctimen kindly devote larger apart- ments to the Common Pleas’ Cierk, and the Board of Aldermen devote the same apartments to the use of the Coroners, The Coroners are county oMicers; but, as they are particular frends of some Aldermen, the city ls chliged to give them oMees. Phings are mixed ip this regard, ALONG THE HUDSON. Another Murder in Ulster County—Vossele Ashore near West Pol : POUGHKEEPSIE, Nov. 18, 1868. The latest information received from Kingatom | states that the nate of the woman found by the roadside with two butlets in hor head 4 Mary Rroad- head, who formerly resided at “The Drowned Land,” tree mijea from Hileavilie. Th ‘vu men spoken of as having driven into Middleport village for break- fast, Sunday morning, lave been arrested on suepl- clon of being the muri: and 1 ‘Their names are Morse tug an examination spire to-morrow. in Ulster county of the Delaware They are hi Han: y, th Jast night, at aad Hudson Can armed Sehryver and Kavanagh, stine ed by rai. go! oto an altercation which jed to blows, w hruyver drew @ knife and plunged it into Kavanagh's stomach, The wounded man's entrails protruded from the wound kwards to the ground. lie pd 0 a near by, where bon; but 1 am ine ityver was arrested where he Hetween two and three o'clock this morning the steamboat Anna, having two barges ti tow, ran upon Consook Island, two tiles below Weat Point. One of the barges ties betWeen the iahind and the ently afloat, ‘The other lies pare tially on the Alongside of her lies the sieam- boat, also part on the rocks, a lodge of rocks be- tween them, The captain of ths Anna, with the asaistance of another steamer, ts endeavoring to get hia vessels out of the perplexing position and will Undoubledly sacce6d Gt tugh water, One barge ts floated with bay and the other with produce and caives. ‘The boala are HOt Wiuek Wared, nor Waa auy O90 Ware. in dreadful o.