The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1868, Page 6

6 a cap LU CBR f st NEW YORK HERALD | Sxmizemer BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrrr Dumrrr, wir NEW FEATURES, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect,—Irattan OvERa—FRA DIAVOLO. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Faigy CimcLE— Aw Hous IN SEVILLE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street,— Tur Lancasutng Lass. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadw: vON BY NiGHT. AFTER DaRk, OR Lon- BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Nep Soau.et—Law- yYke's CLERKS. PIKE’S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘23d street.—BAREB BLEUE. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— KabaLE UND LIEBE. FRENCH THEAT! nu0,—GENEVIEVE DE Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- RABANT, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Srooklya.— Mxs. D, P. BOWERS 48 FLOKINDA AND PAULO. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRE! 3c. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRI 720 Broadway.—ETm10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—ORPHRE AUX ENYKRS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Brondway.—ETHI0- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, Ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi Vocatisn, NEGO MINeTT: USE 21 Bowery.--Comio ac. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Ta® GREAT Oni- GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE ComPany, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQutsTRian AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 3fth st, EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANOKS, COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor place.—CommovoRe NUrT AND MINNIE WARREN, TOM THUME AND WIR. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clln- ton ate.—S1GNow BLitz, MAGIOIAN AND VENTELLOQUISY. MOOLEY'S OPERA HOSE, Brooklya.—Hooury's MINSTRELS—THE LANKYSHIRE Lass, 40. HOOLEY’S (E. D.) OPERA MOUSE, Williameburg.— HooLer’s MINSTRELS—IXION, &C. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOENOR AND ART. TRIPLE ‘The cable reports are dated November 22. On Sunday last the remains of Rossini were con- veyed, after the requiem mass at the Madeleine, to the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise for interment. The official Red book, just published in Pesth, ad- vocates the maintenance of friendly relations with Pruasia and all the German States; it also warmly urges the settlement of the Schleswig dispute. Paraguay. We publish this morning a continuation of the correspondence (in abstract) between Minister Washburn and the Paraguayan government. Benitez, the Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Af- faira, charges Washburn with corresponding with Oaxias and forwarding important: information to him under the seal of the Portuguese Consul, and supports his charges by the afdavits of Dr. Carreras and Minister Bergés. Another more serious charge te that he carried drawings of the Paraguayan camp to Caxias and received from Benigno Lopez, one of the alleged conspirators, $16,000, and afterwards $140,000 in currency and @ promise of $500,000 in consideration of this act, and also in consideration of his binding hi If to recognize officially the new government of Paraguay in the event of the success “of the allies, Mexico. We have telegraphic advices from Vera Cruz by way of Havana. Tue resignation of General Mejia as Minister of War is considered certain. He is tobe tried for misappropriation of public money. Gem eral Cauto has been refused a trial by a military court and he will be taken to Durango for trial by the local courts. ‘The Brownsville Ranchero states that Escobedo had been routed by Vargas at the Hacienda de Alamitos. His troops deserted him in the fight and he himself barely escaped to Monterey, where he re- signed. The whole State of Tamaulipas, it is be- Mdeved, willsoon be in the hands of Vargas. St. Domingo. Mail advices to October 22 state that in view of the rapid spread of the revolution Baez has restored the Vice Presidency and will name General Hungria for the position, in order that he himself may sail for Europe, ostensibly to negotiate a loan but really to get into a place of safety, while he leaves the govern- ment tn the hands of Hungria. Miscellaneous, General Grant is busy at his headquarters in Washington. He will make no lengthy oficial re- port, but merely introduce the reports of bis sub- ordinates by a short communication. , There has been considerable telegraphing of late between the State Department at Washington and Minister Johnson in England, and yesterday a budget of despatches by the steamer were received by Mr. Seward. A rumor gained circulation that they contained @ copy of the convention proposed for the xettiement of the Alabama claims, but this was authoritatively denied. They contained only a detatled report of Minister Johnson's progress in the negotiations, General 0. 0, Howgrd has issued his order pro- viding for the discontinuance of the Freedmen’s Bureau after January 1, with the exception of the educational department and the collection of money due soldiers, The military oMcers will be relieved and the civilians will be discharged, with the ex- ception of from #ix to ten officers and clerks in each State, who will be retained to conduct the residue of business, Our Washington correspondent exposes some of the modes adopted by the whiskey ring to fight its prosecutors, Where cajoling and bribery fail threats and intimidations are tried, and, if all fail, the pian of having a confederate give bogus information to the prosecutor and then recant on the witness stand, alleging that he had been bribed by the prosecutors to make his first statement. ‘The revenue cutter Wayanda has returned to San Francisco from @ cruise to the Aleutian Isles and the coasts of Behring’s Sea. Much useful information has been imparted to the authorities by means of this cruise, and it is believed that stringent measures will be taken, in consequence, to prevent illicit tramc and the killing of forbidden fur animals, ‘The State canvassers at Albany have counted the vote of the State at the Presidential election. The democratic majority 1s 9,963, out of @ total vote in the State of 849,761. The trial of General Cole was continued yester- «lay. An offer of the defence to prove that Hiscock had upon his person @ photograph of Mrs. Cole was objected to by the prosecution om the ground that ermal ee NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Business, however, is still gene- ‘The City. The Tammany Charter Convention met last even- ing and nominated A. Oakey Hall for Mayor and Richard O'Gorman for Corporation Counsel. Mayor Hoffman was serenaded by the Convention and made a speech. The Mozart Convention also nominated A. Oakey Hall, but substituted George Shea for Corporation Counsel. The Constitutional Union party nominated General Andrew W. Green, one of the Park Commis- sloners, for Mayor and Kichard O'Gorman for Corpo- ration Counsel, The Republican Convention nominated Colonel Fred A. Conkling for Mayor and Charies P, Shaw for Corporation Counsel. ‘The proposal to nominate Shaw called for some round sbuse of him by Mr, Charles §. Spencer and Mr. Nathan Kingsley. The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Conrt in this city have found true bills of indictment against William Fullerton, D. C. Birdsall and several other gentlemen on charges of conspiracy in connec- tion with the alleged whiskey frauds, Warrants for their arrest have already been issued, The Erie Railroad litigation was brought up in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Sutherland, on the return of an order to show cause why Judge Barnard’s injunction should not be set aside, After some lengthy arguments and sharp legal manwuvring the order appointing Jay Gould trustee was vacated and a new receiver of the company’s profits was appointed, Judge Barnard, in his charge to the Grand Jury, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, desired them to investigate the charges made against himself in con- nection with the election frauds, so that he may have a “chance to resign” or else the law may have a chance to stop such libels in the future. In the United States District Court yesterday, Judge Blatchford presiding, United States District Attorney Courtney stated to the court that he had received instructions from Atcorney General Evarts to pro- ceed at the earliest moment to trial with the case of the United States against the Bourbon Company (Messmore and others), the Blaisdell and Eckel and other whiskey cases, After some discussion Judge Blatchford set down the 7th of December next for bringing on the first case ready. ‘The case of the Untted States against Garner C. Baker for alleged defalcation as paying teller of the Tradesmen’s National Bank was proceeded with yes- terday morning. After the examination of the presi- dent and cashier of the bank the further hearing of the case was adjourned till Wednesday. A young mau named Marsh presented a check to Messrs. Hetssner, No. 38 Wall street, yesterday, in payment for $15,000 in government bonds, which the firm accepted, Dut on offering it at the Bank of the Commonwealth it was refused, It was drawn inthe name of Marsh & Temple, a firm of which Marsh had been a member, but which had recently dissolved copartnership, and the bank refused to pay the check in Messrs. Heissner’s possession on the ground that Marsh & Temple had no money to their credit In the bank. Another fire occurred in Brooktyn yesterday, this time, it is believed, being of an incendiary orig.n. Three houses, Nos. 7, 9 and 11 Hicks street, were de- stroyed, the loss being estimated at $24,000. ‘The investigation into the Broadway theatre out- rage was continued yesterday. On Friday Justice Shandiey will probably render his decision, The Workingwomen's Protective Union, Miss Susan B. Anthony presiding, met at their hall, No. 68 East Broadway, last evening. ‘he reports of some of the committees investigating women’s wages were received. Mrs. Lozier, M.gD., reported that all channels for information were closed in the embroidery establishments, the forewomen being afraid of the employers. #f! The Hamburg Ameri et Company’s steam- ship Hammonia, Captain E. Meyer, wili leave Hobo- ken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Ham- burg. The European mails will close atthe Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Leo, Captain Dearborn, will sail from pier No, 16 East river at three P, M. to-day for Savannah. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant. Gold Quctuated between 134 and 134. With modesate offerings and a tolerably active de- mand the market for beef cattle yesterday ruled quite steady. Primo and extra cattie were sold at 15%. a 16}c., fair to good at 1434. @ 1544. and m- ferior to ordinary at 10¢. @ 4c. For milch cows the demand was fair at former prices—viz., extra, $100 & $120; prime, $90 a $95; fair to good, $75 a $85; common, $65 a $70; inferior, $45 a $60. Veal calves were in fair request and prices were firm, at 13%gc. a lc. for extra quality, 12:¢c. a 12c. for prime, lic. a 12. for common and good, and 930, @ 10c. for infe- rior. Sheep were quite steady, with a moderate de- mand, extra selling at 630. a 6;c., good to prime at 53¢c. @ 6c., common to fair at 43;c. a 6c. and infe- rior at 4c. a4'<c. Lambs were selling at 6};c. a 744. For swine the market was passably active at the fol- lowing quotations:—Prime, 834; fair to good, 850. @ 8c. and common, 77%c. & 8c. Prominent Arrivals in the City. W. F.ggeward, Jr., of Auburn, and Judge G. F. Comst of Syracuse, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge J. H. Lethridge, of Washington, and*Theo. Cozzens, of West Point, are at the Meiropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. M. Livingstone, of the United States Army, and Surgeon T. E. Miller, of the British Navy, are at tho St. Charles Hotel. Judge Sullivan, of New Orie: Dr. J. A. Tonnor, of Texas; General A. McD. McCook, of the Unitea States Army, and General A. 8. Page, of Nevada, are at the Fifth Avenve Hotel. Major McKay, of Boston; Major J. Van Ness, of the United States Army, and Charles Feist Belmont, of Franxfort-on-the-Main, are at the Hoffman House. The Reassembling of Congrese—What Will President Johnson Have to Say? The two honses of Congress will reas- semble in the National Capitol on the first Monday in December. It will be the last session of the Forticth Congress, and its constitutional term will cease at noon on the 4th of March next, when the Forty-first Congress will immediately take its place, ander a recent law, in order to be ready for the exi- gencies of the incoming administration. We suppose that on that occasion the two houses will await the inauguration of Grant and Col- fax as President and Vice President, and that then, after a formal organization, a joint com- mittee will be sent to President Grant to re- port progress and to inform him that the two houses are ready to receive any communica- tion he may have to make. Thereupon, in ad- dition to the usual inaugural address, we may look for a message to Congress foreshadowing the general policy of President Grant. Meantime, however, we may expect from President Jobnson on the reassembling of Congress a pretty extensive and com- prehensive message. We presume, too, that it will not be so much devoted to the legislative measures deemed neces- sary for the public interest as to the vindi- cation of ‘my policy.” Last December Mr. Johnson was particularly jubilant over the sig- nificant results of the Northern State elec- tions of 1867, and we shall be a little curious, therefore, to see his explanation of the October and November elections of 1868. We suspect, however, that he will either ‘he Court had exciuded all evidence proving the fact of aduitery, An argument ensued and the Court ad- journed, An eXamination into the premises occupied by Mrs, Hill, the eiderly lady who was murdered in Philadelphia on Sunday nignt, disclosed the fact that there hed been a severe struggle, George S. Michell, her gon-in-law, and his wife were arrested on sus- picton of being connected with the murder, as no one else lived in the house, There was some dif™- culty between Michell and his mother-in-law about certain property, she being ® very weaithy woman, The financial fasco in St. John, N. B., is abating, oud Lopes are helu that the St. Stephens Bank may ignore this subject entirely or touch it very gingerly. His eleventh hour electioneering pronunciamiento in favor of Seymour places him so broadly in oppositionto Grant's election that we can hardly expect the outgoing to re- joice over the happy auspices which surround the incoming administration. In short, we anticipate from Mr. Johnson nothing very won- erful, thoagh something better than the old story of his constitutional views of recon- struction, and something more than the dangers and disasters attendant upon wide departures from the landmarks of the constitution as understood and defined by Mr. Johnson since the first Monday in December, 1865. We have the right to ask for something more, We should like to have, for instance, some exposition in the forthcoming message of the financial policy pursued by his Secretary of the Treasury, for which the President him- self is responsible. Mr. McCulloch has not given -us a very good administration of the Treasury Department. On the contrary, it has been the administration rather of a small stockjobber than of a great statesman or financier. It is widely suspected that he has been influenced more by the stock and gold gamblers of Wall street than the general in- terests of the country. That great body of men which Abraham Lincoln defined as ‘“‘our plain, honest, thinking people” find it espe- cially difficult to understand how it is that under an efficient and honest Secretary such things as frauds upon the Treasury to the extent of a hundred millions a year could possibly be perpetrated, and upon the single item of contraband whiskey. Upon this matter, too, the responsibility falls back upon the President, What can he say in explanation of the continuance of these whiskey frauds from month to month and from year to year, or of tho smothering of all the investigations attempted ? He may plead the Tenure of Office law; but even under this obnoxious law he has still had the power of suspending dishonest and’ suspected officials, great and small. Why has he not availed himself of this power, and made a score or two of wholesome examples of the officers under whose general supervision and of those in whose especial districts or departments these enormous whiskey frauds have been perpe- trated ? We ask for light upon this dark and mysterious business, and the President ought to be able by the reassembling of Congress to throw a flood of light upon it. In truth, too, he must do something towards clearing w these whiskey mysteries, or he may himsel in the public judgment, fall short of an im- perative duty. On the subject of Southern reconstruction we anticipate a rigmarole of chop logic of little or no consequence in a practical view ; but still a point will be gained if we have in the President's message a recognition of the constitutional amendment, article fourteen, proclaimed by the Secretary of State part and parcel of the constitution “to all intents and purposes.” The Southern democratic leaders are holding back upon this amendment. A word from Mr. Johnson will set them right, and will at once put them in the way of carrying, with the negro balance of power, every Southern State against the radi- cals in their next elections for Congress, Had the democracy in their Tammany Convention of last July recognized this amendment in the simple nomination of Chase they might have carried the country on the excessive taxations and corruptions of the party in power. The Secretary of State generally works up that branch of the President’s message re- lating to our foreign affairs, and so we shall probably have nothing very clear or definite in the forthcoming message touching Mr. Reverdy Johnson's negotiations on the Alabama claims, nor in reference to Cubs, Mexico, the Para- guay imbroglio, or anything else. “Neverthe- less we expect from Mr. Johnson a better message this time than any he has yet given us, inasmuch as it will be the last of his regu- lar course. He may, like General Jackson, follow the example of Washington’in giving us on retiring from office the benefit of a fare- well address; but if he intends, on returning to Tennessee, to take a fresh start in running for Governor, a farewell address may, perhaps, be indefinitely poatponed. More Developments in the Whiskey Rings. A new point has been reached in the whis- key ring frauds that seems to have the right ring in it. Heretofore the public have been treated to charges and counter charges, crimi- nations and recriminations, that left them in complete uncertainty as to who are the delin- quents and as to what extent these whiskey frauds existed. The whole matter has been taken out of the hands of amateur inquisitors, male and female, who had their own personal objects to serve and who were totally uninflu- enced by an honest desire to bring the guilty to justice. The Grand Jury empanelled in the United States Circuit Court, and which has been in session all this month, have had such serious charges presented to them in con- nection with these whiskey frauds, and these charges have been #o far supported by the weight of testimony, er porte though it may be, that that body have found true bills against certain parties whom, up to this time, the pub- lic had not suspecied of a shadow of crimi- nality. At last there isa chance that light will be shed on these dark transactions. The parties who are now assailed would not, we dare say. if they could, shrink from the public servtiny that is now in- evitable. The Grand Jury have presented bills of indictment against William Fallerton, Alfred A. Belknap, D. C. Birdsall, Jacob Depuy, E. J. Windust and others, and for the arrest of these men warrants have been duly issued. This brings us very near to the begin- ning of the end of these long talked of but hitherto well concealed charges of whiskey ring frauds, and the only regret is that proper judicial proceedings were not taken to bring the whole of them to light long since. The public will await with interest the impending developments which this one step in the right direction, we think, must lead to in a short time, Tur Mayoravty.—John Kelly, who, it appears, is in exceedingly delicate health, got a serious relapse on being requested e swallow the Mayoralty nomination, His gorge rose at it,” so he sent it back to the committee with many thanks. This, we presume, settles the matter of the Mayoralty definitely, and leaves the course open to Oakey Hall, the genial companion, the witty maker of verses and concocter of funny dramas, the “guide, counsellor and friend” of intellectual young New York. The nomination of Mr. Green, the Park Commissioner, in place of Mr. Kelly, and the nomination of Colonel F. A. Conkling by the republicans, which is only to preserve their organization, is not likely to effect any chango; so that the question of who is to be our next Mayor may be con- sidered as settled, Oakey Hall being the man. Wall Street and the Parsons. Wo have great respect for the clergy. They are a hard working, useful class of men, Cir- cumstances, however, necessarily limit the range of their observation, and an imperfect induction of facts makes a conclusion always doubtful, sometimes dangerous. We do not much wonder that the clergy have been blind to a twofold class of evils which bid fair to prove the ruin of this country. We refer to political iniquity on the one hand and financial iniquity on the other. Both evils have money for their reward—that is to say, those who commit the evils make them pay. Clergymen naturally like to see their pews well filled, like to see them filled with those who dress well and live in style—in other words, like to iden- tify a well filled church with a good revenue, which meansa good stipend. How Mr. Peter- kin—who occupies the most costly pew in the church, contributes most to the pecuniary sup- port of its different agencies and in the shape of sons or daughters or dresses makes the finest show, not to speak of his princely man- sion—makes his money is no business of the clergyman. It is unpleasant, however, for the popular clergyman to begin to know that the men to whom he has been looking up and the elegant families who make up his Sunday audi- ence, and on whom he leans for support, are sustained By a species of swindling which is a disgrace not only to the house of God, but to human nature. Clergymen have long been blind—willingly or unwillingly we choose not to say. This, however, we must say, that while they have been silent the outside world has been greatly wondering and learning to despise them for their silence. In the circum- stances it is not much to be wondered at that when the clergy begin to awake from their dream, or, rather, begin to speak out the truth that isin them, it should be felt to be a new sensation. Our political and financial centres have long been exposed by the independent press. We have been pained by the silence of the pulpit. Knowing, however, that the press is the only truthful and daring preacher of the day, we have not been impatient. We knew that the time must come when the pulpit could no longer be silent, but must speak out.’ The time hascome. Our columns yesterday taught the world that the pulpit was at last loud with the social sins of the day. Mr. Beecher deserves praise for showing an example, Mr. Beecher has had the good sense to keep up the fire. Mr. Beecher, however, is no longer alone. Wall street, the whiskey rings and political corruption are now more powerful and telling texts than any to be found anywhere in sacred Scripture. The audacity of these operators has enabled them to brave public opinion. Wealth has helped them to blind the public and defy the law. Now that the sin is out and the pulpit and the press are equally awake it remains to be seen what will be the result, The News from Mexico. The Mexican press are already canvassing the policy that will be chosen by President Grant towards Mexico, and they are speculat- ing on the course that Minister Rosecrans will pursue in his relations with the government of President Juarez. Tho wish of both will be for peace, law, order and protection for indus- trious people, foreign as well as native, We have this morning the news by way of New Orleans that Braulio Vargas, and his fol- lowers had defeated and routed General Esco- bedo, who threw up his command, announcing his inability to put down the revolt in Tamau- lipas against Governor Garza. The report seems strange. Had any engagement taken place at the Hacienda de Alamitos we should have had the news by way. of Tampico and Vera Cruz, from which ports we have mail dates to November 7, whereas the account of this defeat is dated Brownsville, November 12, The Alamitos hacienda is not on the main road from Tampico to Victoria, whither General Escobedo was going to take command of the troops concen- trated there under government orders. The hacienda is about forty miles northwest of Tampico, on a small country road between the main road and the sea. The announcement that General Escobedo escaped with his staff to Monterey, nearly four hundred miles north- west from Tampico and two hundred and eighty miles northwest from Victoria, whither he was bound and where the bulk of his troops was stationed, looks improbable. How- ever, we need not be surprised at any news from the distracted republic. Mr. Seward on Cuban Filibustering. Mr. Seward has assured the Spanish Minister at Washington that he need not be uneasy about rumored filibustering expeditions to Cuba, that no vessels will be allowed to leave any of our seaports for such pur- poses and that he himself lends no credit to the rumors now afloat on the subject, Thus the Secretary of State still sustains his habitual réle of an optimist. Throughout our late terrible and prolonged civil war he tran- quilly smoked his cigar and constantly adhered to his first prediction that the war would last no longer than sixty days from date. As @ pro- phet Mr. Seward is recognized by the world at his actual value. In the Mexican imbroglio he chanced to blunder into # prediction which was realized in the expulsion of the French troops and the overthrow of Maximilian’s empire. He may prove equally fortunate in his guess aa to the ultimate results of Cuban filibuster- ing; but this will be not so much by reason of the foresight and efficiency of the United States government as from the fact that the whole business of the projected Cuban expedition is a gross fraud and humbug from beginning to end. Imvortant Discovertgs mv ALaska.—By the arrival of the ‘‘prospecting” United States steamer Wayanda at San Francisco we have the intelligence of some important discoveries of bays, harbors and numerous coal mines among the coast islands of Alaska, between Sitka and Bebring’s Strait. The Wayanda, we are farther informed, will soon return to Alaska to resume her explorations. But we want something more than this, We want well equipped, competent scientific expedi- tion fitted out for the purpose of exploring the unknown interior of Alaska, and in season to strike into the heart of the country with the breaking up of the great river Youcan; for we want to know what is in the inside of that {mmonse and unknown Territory which has been paid for in California gold. Our Relations with Paraguay. It may be said that the United States, through her citizens, was the first nation to call the attention of the world to the enor- mous advantages offered to commerce by the navigation of the Paraguay and Paran4 rivers, and the tapping by steam communication of the vast resources of the little State now so bravely battling for its national existence at the head waters of these streams. We were the first to pyt steamers on these magnificent water courses, and the first to put Paraguay in quick communication with the world, thereby starting her upon the pathway of progress. Our expedition sent against her a few years since to make @ reclamation of a million of dollars, however just the claim, only brought the country into more prominent notice from the fact that the Paraguayan statesmen de- feated our commissioners in their object. This claim still remains unsettled and recognized as valid by both the Bu- chanan and Lincoln administrations. On the heels of this comes the Washburn difficulty ; and, strange to say, the same Minister in Para- guay (Bergés) who glossed over, or rather gilded over, our Paraguayan commissioners of former years is the one who, hand in glove with Mr. Washburn, plunged into a revolu- tionary movement to overthrow Lopez. We see, too, in the evidence elicited by the Paraguayan government from the conspirators that our re- spected and able minister of finance to Brazil, the Hon, James Watson Webb, is also implicated inthe conspiracy. It is therefore very natural that Mr. Webb should defend a member of the firm as he defends Mr. Washburn. This de- fence will be of great value to our late Minister to Paraguay, who has ere this, according to evidence, accumulated sufficient financial and military knowledge—first of the Paraguayans in the early part of the war, and now of Brazil— to-start with Mr. Webb a respectable business, say—‘‘Small governments overthrown at mode- rate prices, old vessels sold on commission. Apply to Washburn and Webb, army and navy bankers, Asuncion and Rio Janeiro.” While we on the one side are ready to sup- port our just claims for indemnification pend- ing against Paraguay, we are quite as willing on the other hand to recognize any injustice done against that people by our own govern- ment or by any other. In this Washburn affair it is our duty to make 9 most thorough investigation; to request of Paraguay a full copy of the evidence of Mr. Washburn’s com- plicity with the contemplated revolutionary movement, as also any information possessed of the reported assistance afforded by our Bra- zilian Minister, Mr. Webb. If large sums of money have been paid to Mr. Washburn, as charged in the evidence, it should be known, and for the honor of our people among the nations of the world a severe example should be made. This trouble never could have occurred had Mr. Seward shown the good sense to withdraw Mr. Washburn when the allies, nearly two years ago, sent ample proofs to our State Department of the abuse to which our Paraguayan Minister then placed his official seal. As to Bliss and Masterman, now prison- ers in Paraguay, we believe them to be very justly so, according to the evidence, not only given by the Paraguayan govern- ment, but by Mr. Washburn himself. Fur- thermore, we may say that throughout the very lengthy correspondence between the Paraguayan Minister (Benitez) and Mr. Wash- burn the latter appears to place himself as a culprit on the witness stand, arguing like a schoolboy before his master, showing, as Benitez most sarcastically tells him, a ‘‘pro- found knowledge of international law.” Bliss and Masterman were in no sense members of the legation in Paraguay. Upon the principle by which Mr. Washburn considered them as such he might have sheltered the whole popu- lation in his ‘‘diplomatic hotel,” asthe Minister of Lopez ironically called it. The truth is, we have been most sadly and disgracefully misrepresented in South America by our diplomatic corps. It has been a very rare thing for any one of them to be respected among the people to whom he may have been accredited—still rarer since Mr. Seward has made South America a house of refuge for diplomatic off-scourings. There are but few South American States where an American gentleman would think of paying his compli- ments to our Ministers as he passed through’ thecapitals where they reside. At Paraguay there never was any necessity fora minister, and much to our shame the first one we send there disgraces us. It is due not only to Paraguay, but to our honorable relations with every State and the honor of the diplomatic corps, that Mr. Washburn have a fair trial, and, if proven guilty of the charges enumerated by the Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he be disgraced and declared unworthy of holding any office in the gift of the United States. The Chinese Embassy at Windsor Castle. The reception accorded by the Queen on Friday last to Mr. Burlingame and the other members of the Chinese Embassy at Windsor Castle was of « character to fully convince us that the great objects of the mission are in a fair way of being accomplished. Nothing could be more cordial than the reception. Nothing could be in better taste than the senti- ments expressed on both sides, In his address to her Majesty Mr. Burlingamo did not suf- ficiently get over the stump habits acquired by most of our American public men. To the general success of the presentation, however, this was but a trifling drawback—if, indeed, it was a drawback at all; for it must have been refreshing to her Majesty to be addressed in true American style. After the unreasoning outbursts of the English press it is gratifying to come into contact with the good sense of the Queen and the broad, statesmanlike views of Lord Stanley. The Queen was pleased to greet Mr. Burlingame and the mission, and it was her belief that the mission was a step in the right direction. Lord Stanley snubbed the press by declaring its opposition to be the result of ignorance; his own views in regard to China were identical with those of Mr. Burlingame, in whom he recognized not merely the responsible chief of the Chinese Embassy, but a true type of the representative American, Of course it is not possible that much can be done in the way of business until the new Parliament meets, It is little likely that Lord Stanley will commit himself or the govern- ment to any definite line of policy, Ho knows a a a ee a eee that the business part of this mission is cer- tain to fall into other hands, The practical results of this friendly commencement, how- ever, cannot fail to have a good and whole- some effect. The example of England will be followed by France and by the rest of the gov- ernments of Europe. The treaties in their final shape may not be exactly what Mr. Burlingame now wishes them to be. It may even be found impossible to maintain uniformity in the different treaties with the different gov- ernments, But the hopeful commencement Sugurs well for success, The success of Mr, Burlingame will place China on a new footing with all the great nations, will inaugurate a new policy for the whole East, will mightily enlarge the family of nations, and will redound not only to the praise but to the pecuniary advantage of the American people. Nothing will tend so much to fill the Eastern imagina- tion with a sense of our greatness, It will sink into insignificance all the vaunted con- quests of the Powers of Europe, Our triumph will be identified with peace, progress and good will, and the result will be the development af the resources of the Asiatic nations imm to the advantage of the United States, whiok is to be the great central nation of modera times. Erie Railroad War—The Deepens. The proceedings in the Erie Railroad war, befqre Judge Sutherland, yesterday (Supreme Court, Chambers), as given in our reporter's re- ports elsewhere in these columns, will be found exceedingly interesting. The contest is be- tween the Belmont party and Gould, Fisk and Company, and yesterday, after nine hours of laborious pleadings from the lawyers on both sides, Judge Sutherland set aside the order of Judge Barnard appointing Gould receiver of the Erie Railroad property, and appointed Henry FE. Davies, late Judge of the Court of Appeals, in hig place, and also vacated the order of Judge Barnard authorizing Gould to withdraw from the market two hundred thousand shares of Erie stock. But this does not settle the controversy. It revives the old battle between the judges, and for its settlement will most pro- bably require tho special intervention of the’ New York and New Jersey Legislatures once more, and may possibly require the interposi- tion of Congress. As it stands it is a quarrel which almost eclipses in its disclosures the revelations of the wrangling whiskey rings, and in both cases we hope for a sifting of these iniquities to the very bottom. Tho Combat Tne NortHERN Nations or Evrorg Draw- sg Croser To Eacn Orner:—It will be seem by a cable telegram from Pesth, published ia another part of this paper, that the Northera nations of Europe are drawing closer toward each other. In the preface to the official Red Book of Hungary, which has just appeared, the maintenance of friendship with Prussia and with all the Northern and Southern States of Germany is urged, as well as a speedy set~ .tlement of the Schleswig difficulty. We have frequently remarked that the tendency of the age is toward closer relations between the people and States of Northern Europe on one hand and between the Southern people and States of the Latin race on the other, and that at ne distant day a mighty conflict would come for the supremacy in Europe. This news from Hungary is one of the signs of the times point- ing to such an end. Jupez Barnarp’s Ciarce To THE GRAN@ JuryY—A CHALLENGE To His AcovsERs.—Tha charge of Judge Barnard yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer to the Grand Jury is somewhat out of the usual routine od courts and juries. He calls the attention of the Grand Jury to the alleged election frauds and corruption of the judiciary and ‘‘as to the action of certain newspapers in New York im perpetrating daily and hourly libels.” Judge Barnard hopes that the grand jurors, in reference to these newspaper charges against himself, will look into them, so that,’ ifsubstantiated in any degree, he may have “a chance to resign,” and so that if no proof be forthooming it may be seen ‘‘whether the rigor and the terror of the law will not stop this thing in future.” This is an outspoken challenge from the Judge to his accusers te prove their accusations or to abide by the con- sequences. Let our contemporaries referred ta, therefore, walk up and face the music or retire from the field. Let us have justice, and “lef us have peace.” NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Mrs. Grundy is going about town telling all tao boys and girls that there'll be no skating this winter, just because somebody says the Board of Health ts opposed to “cold cuts” outside the markets., “What does Mra. ’Arris say "” There is plan on foot in city oMcial circles to make an annular display to-morrow in honor of the evacuation of the city by the British. Couldn't they betake themselves on the occasion to the rural re- gions? The anniversary would be all the better celebrated in time to come. It would have the true Ting about it. Can anybody who is posted tell somebody else who is not why the young ladies who go to church Sun- days, bedecked in silks, can listen patiently to the minister calling them all “worms of earth?” Does the minister mean silk worms? What can be the magnet which keeps young men lounging in front of the churches when the congre- gations are leaving? Could not some decent Chris- tian police officers, if such there be, be detailed te assist these young snobs to ‘move on?’ We have already called the attention of the police to this mat ter several times. ARREST OF AN OLO SHOPLIFTER, For several weeks past many of the prominent dey goods and jewelry establishments on Broadway and Sixth avenue have lost by the shrewd operations of shoplifters some of the rarest of the articles displayed by them for sale, and although they were confident because of certain circumstances, that women per- loined them, yet the attempt to catch them in the ‘act had proven abortive until last evening. At this rofusion by one of the female attachés. Ai hot examination of the pieces she a cfapitgilt cH sbaeirai 23 H zt ; a3 HT s' H ity - i #7i2¢ Ease slsiispallesi = 2 iy t 2. £ i $ 3 28 35 iz 3223 E z 5