The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR x Volume XXXILI........0..s0eee0e seeeesNoe 331 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—! — an HOO® in SEVILLE, Matines. wa vieaid .CK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1h street. — NOASHIBE Lass. wi Tus NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Arras Dagx, on Lon- DON BY NIGHT. Matinee rosin copated BOWERY THEATR! ye an ne EB, Bowery.—NED SOARLET—STBING PIKE'S OPERA HOUS! ‘8d street.—BARus Sue FRENCH THEA’ Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIEVE DE BEABANT. ot th avenue and jatwp Duousss. OLYMPIC wita New ACADEMY OF Orzna—BoBErr THEATRE, Broadway.—Hourrr Domrrr, FEATURES. Matinee at 13. MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN Ly Diane. GERMAN SaTwaBina MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— KATHARINE AND PrrEvoulo, Matinee—Fout Paar, STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Howaxp. i re BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—SumarDEN's Com- ‘EDT oF Tum Rivas. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Buildi: Mth street.—E1uioriaN MINSTBELSY, £0. Matinee iw KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETm10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—ORPuEE AUX ENFERES. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, §85 Broadway.—ETHI0- Pram ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANGING, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &o. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Tar Great Ont- GINAL Lingagp AND VAUDEVILLE Comrany. Matinee, 201 Bowery.—Comio Matinee at 255. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuastRiaN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 236. GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 4th st.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMANCES. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—F. L. RitTER’s GRanv Concert. MAGIC TEMPLE, 616 Broadway.—PaorEsson RODERT NICKLE, THE MAGICIAN, Matinee at 25. COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor place.—Commonone Nutr AND MINNIE WARREN, TOM THUME AND WIFE. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton sts.—SIGNOR Guitz, MAGICIAN AND VENTRILOQUIST. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouryr's . MINSTRRLS8—THE LANKYSUTRE LASS, 40. Matince at 2. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLRY'S MINSTRELS—IXION, &0. Matinee at 2'y. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 234 st. and 4th av.—EXHIUITION OF PICTURES, &0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— | SOMENOE AND Ant. New York, Thursday, November 26, 1868. Wie cable reports are dated November 25. The latest accounts of the English elections say that the hberal majority in the next Parliament will be about 117. Mr. Gladstone’s defeat in Southwest Lancashire was owing, it is said, to the local dislike of the Irish people. : Ramor is busy in London tn relation to the compo- sition of the new Cabinet. The Earl of Kimberley, it t# thought, will have a Secretary’s portfolio. ‘The Croatian Deputies were yesterday admitted to seats in the Hungarian Diet. The Chinese Embassy is expected in Paris about the end of December. Paraguny. An unofiicial letter from Rear Admiral Davis, dated Rio Janeiro, October 26, has been received in Washington. The British and French Admirals had both called upon Rear Admiral Davis and informed him that reports from the commanders of their ves- sels seut to Paraguay positively denied the extrava- gant stories charging Lopez with various crimes against humanity, among them the assassination of certain foreign consuls. The French Consul returned on the French steamer and reported that he was not at any time under any apprehension for his safety. Caba. Manzanillo was attacked by the insurgents recently, but according to the Havana despatches, they were repulsed with heavy loss, Leraundi had pardoned several prominent revolutionists. A fight occurred near Santa Cruz, in which the insurgents were routed, with the loss of some valuable correspondence. The Alabama Claims. Our Washington correspondent states that the con- vention agreed upon by Minister Johnson and Lord Stanley for the settlement of the Alabama clatms is undoubtediy in the hands of the President. It pro- vides for the appomtment of three Commissioners — two by Great Britain and one by the United States— who shail sit as the Commission in Wastington, and their decision on all the claims shall be rendered within twelve months from their assembling. From their decision there shall be no appeal by either party. Miscellaneous. ‘This ts our day of national thanksgiving. The President and the Governors of the States generally have concurred in 80 naming it, and throughout the and it will be celebrated and honored as such, In this city and Brooklyn, in addition to the private entertainments and the usual worship in the churches, there will be matinées and evening per- formances at most of the theatres, minstrel halls and circuses, balis, hops and excursions innumer- ‘able, and bountiful dinners for the poor at the charitable institutions. Chief Justice Chase, in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va., yesterday dispensed with the administering of the test oath to the Grand Jurors, as he was of the opinion that the ends of justice would be hindered by directing it to be ad- ministered, except in special and important cases where the matters affirmed in it may be proper cause for challenge. In his charge to the Grand Jury the Chief Justice, in reference to the investi- gation’ of revenue frauds, enjoined them to spare nobody, least of all those iu Liga and responsible positions. Colone! Keeler, of General Rousseau’s staif, has presented jus report of affairs in the Fifth Military District to Genera! Grant. The republicans, it would appear, stayed away from the polls on the election day by the advice of their leaders, who thought tha riots would ensue if they attempted to vote, ‘fhe Russian Legation in Washington deny the re- | ports that $2,000,000 of the Alaska purchase money | was expended in securing the good will of Senators | and Congressmen for the passage of the appropria- t tion bill. Six millions of the purchase money has | already been paid. ‘The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Hill, who | was murdered in Philadelphia on Sunday night, have returned & verdict charging the commission of the | deed on George 8. Twitchell, the son-in-law, and Ca- milla Twitchell’, the daughter of deceased. The corouer's jury at the inquest on the death of Mr. Pollard, of Richmond, who was shot, it Was sup- posed, by Mr. Grant on Monday, rendered a verdict yesterday that “the deceased came to his death at the hands of some person unknown.’”” Ali the Fenian Circles and various independent Trish revolutionary organizations im the United States are invited to send delegates to the Fenian Congress, now in session at Philadelphia, and to take part in its de iberations. The Japanese Consul to the Hawaiian Islands arr Sap Francisco by the steamer China. Re 1s the first native sent to a foreign Country by Japan “ose the coving ia of a sewer in the streets of Cleve- land, Ohio, on Tuesday morning, (wo persons were killed and nine wounded. The City. ‘The first division of the National Guard paraded NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1868. corner of Hudson and opened they were Campbell, his barkeeper and his cook, the latter s women. Campbell and Larkin engaged one another, Dut Campbell made rapid and continued use of Bighth ward sport, was killed in | become the brightest social festival of our at the national capital, from -the White House tothe 86 an carly hour yesterday moming | cottage of the humblest citizen, is destined to to break in the door, and on its being | cover the whole land, from Florida to Alaska, assaulted by the proprietor, Hugh | and from the Mexican adobe towns of Arizona to the frontiers of Maine. We, the people of the United States, have long dirk knife during the fight, and at the entrance | abundant causes for a day of thanksgiving in Of the police Larkin fell dead. All the parties were | our bountiful crops and general prosperity, and arrested. In the Erie litigation yesterday Judge Sutherland decided that Judge Barnard’s stay of proceedings in our general exemption from pestilence, famine and destructive fires and inundations ; did not prevent the settlement of the oraer made on | but we have also occasion for a day of Monday night appointing Henry E. Davies receiver | fasting, humiliation and prayer. During the ofthe company. The order, however, was modified, | jato rebellion Jeff Davis now and then in- and @ modified stay of proceedings was substituted for the one issued by Judge Barnard. Mr. Davies obtained admission to the Erie Ratlway building troduced a day of thankegiving, as, for in- stance, after the firat Bull Run and after the ex- yesterday, through a mistake of the porter, and took | pulsion of McClellan from the front of Rich- possession. In the police trials yesterday the Commissioners heard evidence in the case of oMcers McComb and mond; but after Grant took hold poor Jeff had nothing but days of fasting, humiliation and Defords, of the Second precinet, who are charged by | Prayer. Things all went wrong with him, as Mr. England, of the Sun, with unjustly arresting him | they have been going with us under Andy when he was assaulted by two drunken men late at | Johnson in the mattor of whiskey frauds, to- night some time ago, The evidence against the | baooo frauds and all sorts of frauds upon the officers was very clear. Joseph Lynch, who was tried in the Brodklyn Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday for the mur- public Treasury. We say, too, inasmuch as Mr. Johnson has failed in all his endeavors to der of Francis Kerrigan on the 4th of July last, was | put a stop to this widely spread spirit of frauds found guilty of murder in the second degree and | and corruptions, that after we have digested our sentenced to fifteen years’ hard labor in the State Prison. Fritz Housted, who pleaded guilty to the killing of Christian Dryer in May last, was also sen- tenced for the same term. ment of Benjamin B. Rosenberg in connection with naturalization frauds was concluded yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, before Judges Nel- son and Blatchford. The dectaion is reserved. The court adjourned till Friday next. The North German Lioyd’s steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The European mails will close at the Poat Office at ten morning. ‘The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pler No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana, The steamship Virgo, Captain Bulkley, of Leary's line, will sail from pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charieston, S. C. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong, and to- wards the close buayant. Gold rose to 13534. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Ex-Governor William Dennison and J. H. Wade, Ohio, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. H. B. Noble, of Washingtor, and Colonel! F. M. politan Hotel. Senator Charles Sumner, of Boston, is at the Bre- voort House. General Roddy, of the United States Army; Cap- tain G. Taylor, of New York, and Commander W. P, McCann, of the United States Navy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Thanksgiving Day. This is Thanksgiving Day. The Lord be praised. It is an institution of the ancient children of Israel, adopted by the Gentiles an handed down to this people through the old Roundheads—such as the African slave trade, the burning of Quakers and the drown- ing of witches—have fallen into decay; but their annual thanksgiving, whether for the run of mackerel or an extra corn crop, has never failed. Moreover, it has grown with the expansion of the universal Yankee nation, until this year and on this day thanksgiving will be celebrated not only through all the Northern States, {‘excepting Indians not taxed,” but in each of the Southern States of Kentucky, North Carolina and Alabama, under the appointment of the Governors and in deference, no doubt, to President Johnson's national recommendation; for Johnson is a believer in prayer and praise, though he does not parade his piety on all occasions. The officially declared purpose of the day is thanksgiving to Almighty God for His gracious dispensations to us as a people; but the real business of the festival, according to the orthodox Massachusetts ritual, is of a carnal nature—roast turkey and cranberry sauce, pumpkin pies, doughnuts and _ hard cider, to say nothing of whiskey. How many turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, &c., will be consumed this day between Portland and San Francisco can be reckoned up only by Barnum's “‘lightaing cal- culator” or by Barlow's ready reckoner of the Maine election. We recoil from the task; but we must appeal to Mr. Bergh if this uni- versal work of slaughter in the barn yard, as a feature of this festival of prayer and praise, does not involve something of a barbarian cruelty to animals? In times long gone by sacrifices of sheep and oxen were made to the Lord. We look back upon those religious rites as the usages of an age of barbarism; but have we not the very same things thinly disguised in a thanksgiving dinner? Are we, after all, much hetter than those chosen people of the Lord, the fighting chil- dren of Jacob, or the heathen Greeks of two or three thousand yeara ago? Tt is a remarkable fact that until of late years this thanksgiving festival was confined almost entirely to New England and a few other Northern States leavened with Cotton Mather Puritanism. The Southern States, of England and by the cavaliers or royalists, as Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia, or by Roman Catholics, as Maryland and Louisiana, escaped the engrafting of yeserday, in honor of Evacuation Day, and were reviewed by Governor Fenton. EE Puritan institutions. Hence in the South, | until, within the present generation, thoy had no thanksgiving day, but, accord- ing to the good old times in England, snder “the merry king,” Charles the Second, they bad, negroes and all, from Christmas to The argament of the motion to quash the indict- | prayer. extermination of a tribe of Indians, a good atten! | thanksgiving dinners he ought to issue, as a last resort, an earnest proclamation appointing a national day of fasting, humiliation and It might result in a good lift to Gen- eral Grant in view of the twelve labors of Her- cules before him. Who knows! The Era of Frauds. 1t was the general impression that the late civil war was the most astonishing feature in o'clock this | the history of this country—astonishing in its incidents, the breadth and compass of its aims, the extent of the area over which its battle fields extended, and the results, which may be measured by the success of the central govern- ment over organized rebellion. It is not sur- prising that Europe was amazed at the sight of two armies consisting of four millions of men operating in the field for four years—one of | army fighting to preserve the unity of the nation, the other army fighting to destroy it; and all this at the cost of thousands of millions Cooley, of the United States Army, are at the Metro- | of dollars, besides leaving a national debt as a legacy of the war amounting to hundreds of thousands of millions more. The strength of both North and South was brought out in these four terrible years of conflict—the North to conquer and strangulate rebellion, the South, with equal determination, to resist a power which it could not subdue. Such events, we say, astonished all Europe; but we have pre- pared a greater astonishment for the Old d World now in the gigantic frauds and corrup- tions which have followed the war, as buzzards Pilgrim Fathers of New England. Some of and other foul birds pursue the track of the the peculiar institutions of those hard-headed hattle. These frauds, which are eating into the very vitals of the government and poisoning all the atmosphere of society, are almost too numerous to keep pace with, for they crowd upon public tion almost by the hour. There are, however, most conspicuous among them the whiskey frauds, the emigrant frauds, railroad frauds and the conflicts between the courts upon questions arising ont of these public scandals, Upon sp gigantic a scale have we gono into these corruptions that one might almost regard the country as a mere child during the war for national existence, but a very Titan in the struggle for spoils which has sprung from the war and which to-day besets us everywhere. Official and non-official parties are alike mingled in the vortex of crime. The men to whom the public should look for protection are the very men who aro either so deeply steeped in the slough of cor- ruption or so imbecile that they dare not face the risk of confronting the ‘“‘rings” before a judicial tribunal. Where attempts to corrupt public officers fail threats are employed to keep them silent or fraudulent witnesses are hired to defame them or indictments are pro- cured to brand them for the time as criminals, in order to render powerless their efforts to bring the real criminals to justice. Take the case of Judge Fullerton, who has been indicted at the instance of the United States District Attorney, an officer of the government repre- senting the Bresident himself. Mr. Fullerton states his own case in his published card in these words: — ‘The parties implicated in what are kuown as the whiskey frauds, under the leadership of 3. G. Coart- ney, the United States District Attoracy, have suc ceeded, after an effort of over two weeks’ duration, im procuring an indictment against me for an alleged conspiracy to defraud a revenue oiicer. I do. not know upon What gyidence this hag been ob- tained, but I do know that, whatever it Is, it is wholly fatse. tata. Sas; * * * Ae ‘This body of men who have instigated thia pro- ceeding have done so tn self-defence. I am em- ployed by the President of the United States, and am ac’ under his authority in exposing the monstrous frauds which have been committed on the revenue ofthe country. The only hope of escape of the parties involved is to crush me. ‘This they have attempted by @ vile conspiracy. This is but one specimen of the manceuvres of the whiskey ring, the influence of which covers the whole country and ramifies itself by telegraphic communication through every part of the Continent where the interests of fraud settled originally by adherents of the Church } and corruption, either in the whiskey business or railroad business, are flourishing. Briareus, of mythological fame, gifted with his hundred hands, could not grasp everything more effec- tually than these conspirators seige all the vilest goans to carry gut thelr purpose through the instrumentality of the telegraph, Whether they reside in the East or in the West they ap- pear to be a unit in iniquity. It is to be hoped that Congress when it as- sembles will take hold of this matter and in New Year, a regular ‘jollification, including a | some way provide a remedy. General Grant large consumption of gunpowder; but Christ- mas was the great day. In New York the original Dutch, with their schnapps, onions and red herrings, brought over good old Santa Claus and his Christmas’ presente for the children, and those dear, delightful family receptions of New Year's day, in which the ladies reign supreme. The Puritan institution of thanksgiving has expanded mainly because it is the occasion of happy family reunions—a thing not intended by the Pilgrim Fathers, we guess, inasmuch as they were opposed to beat-baiting, not becanse of the pain it gave the bear, but be- cause of the pleasure it gave the spectator. They contemplated no Arab feast of Bairam in this thing, nor yet the green corn dance of the Cherokee Indians, nor even the Jewish festival of the Passover, bat a day of prayer on a diet of cold pork and beans. The South- ern institution of Christmas still survives and will survive, because it is free from all Puri- tanic sourneas and cold formalities, and our will undoubtedly undertake it when he enters upon his duties as President ; but what a seri- ous task he has before him! The labor of Hercules in the Augean stable was a pastime compared with what Grant will have perform. He has to meet the accumulated abuses of eight years and wipe them out— no easy task after the enjoyment by the most corrupt political dynasty the country has ever seen of eight years of plunder and fraud. He must inherit the difficulties of the past, as Louis: XVI. did the corruptions and scandals, the weakness and profligacy of his three pre- decessors, Louis X11, XIV. and XV.—bur- dens which the unfortunate husband of Marie Antoinette had not the moral strength to carry and under which he perished. Grant, how- ever, is not a Louis Capet. He is a soldier and not a courtier; @ man of firm mind aod rigid discipline, and not a trifler with popular passion nor a slave to political corruption, But he has nevertheless a severe task before him if he means, as we have no doubt he New York institution of New Year's, having | does, to strike at the root of all these abomiga- t | circumstances accept any change, even des- 0 ble corruptions, which have fastened like a canker upon the body politic, and cut them off with » determination that knows no meroy. The Alabama Claime—Our Washington Cor- reepondence. It will be seen by our special telegram from Washington, publish ed in another column, that our correspondent has got at the plan of settlement of the Alabama claims, notwith- standing the reticence of the Secretary of State. All claims on the part of companies or private individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the government of England are to be referred to three commissioners. Two of these are to be named by her Britannic Majesty and one by the President of the United States. In case of death, absence or inability of any one of the commissioners the contracting parties are to name another. They are to meet in Washington and act there at the earlicat possible period. In case the com- missioners cannot agree upon any of the claims they are to select as arbitrator one of the sovereigns of Europe. The decision thus made is to be final. Every claim is to’ be presented within six months of the meeting of the commission, un- less in unavoidable cases; then. the time is to be extended three months longer. This is the substance of the plan, but it may be modified by our government. The appointment of two of the commissioners by Great Britain and only one by our government seems to be rather one sided, and this may be changed. At all events, the British government by this pro- posed convention admits its lability for the claims. The Erie Hailroad Complications, Every step taken by the judges of the differ- ent courts in the Erie Railroad affair seems to make it more complicated. In addition to the action of both the State and federal courts previously Judge Sutherland, of the Supreme Court, yesterday settled the terms of _ the order appointing Henry E. Davies receiver of the railroad, property, books, leases, &c., with power to take immediate possession thereof. At the same time Judge Barnard's stay of proceedings was vacated and a modified stay granted by Judge Sutherland for the purpose of allowing the road to be operated pending the suits. There appears to be a conflict between the State and federal courts in the case, as Judge Blatchford had appointed Mr. Gould receiver on Tuesday, and therefore before the order of Judge Sutherland appointing Davies receiver was perfected yesterday, so that Judge Sutherland, of the State court, ignored entirely the whole proceeding of the United States céfirt. Thus there are two Feceivers in existence ; but there is this differ- ence: that Gould was appointed receiver of a special fund with reference to buying up Erie stock, while Davies was made receiver of the whole property of the company. A curious feature in the case is that Davies got posses- sion of the offices of the company yesterday immediately after the action of Judge Sutherland in a very adroit manner, and while Gould held them and was in consultation with his counsel. James Fisk, Jr., who was present at the time of the capture, was near having a personal difficulty with Davies. An account of this interesting episode is given in another part of the paper. So far, then, the Belmont party is triumphant, and that notwith- standing the action of the United States Dis- trict Court in favor of the opposite party. Looking at this Erie imbroglio, the magni- tude of the interests involved, the unscrupu- lousness of many of the actors in it and the conflicting action of the highest courts of the country, we should not be surprised to see by and by injunctions issued against the United States governmentitself. The enormous wealth of our railroad companies and other gigantic monopolies and the grasping cupidity of the enable managers them to set at e- fiance the ordinary course of justice which prevails in other cases. The ablest lawyers are delighted to get employ- ment and large fees by complicating such a case as this of the Erie Railroad and making confusion worse confounded, while the judges get into the greatest muddle by paying more attention to the quibbles and little technicali- ties of law than to the broad principles of jus- tice or right. The whole of this Erie Railroad business from beginning to end is a disgrace to the country and our judicial system. It is becoming a serious question whether our republican government can stand the strain of these gigantic swindles and conflicts. The country is becoming so rich and every- thing—yes, even rascality—is on such a large scale that there is reason to doubt the con- tinued existence of the simple and beautiful form of republican government handed down to us from the founders. Look at these Erie frauds, in which the wealthiest and prom- inent men of the community are concerned, at the want of harmony between the courts of the country and difficulty of obtaining justice, at hundreds of millions of whiskey and other frauds upon the revenue, and the impossibility for even the President of the United States to reach or stop them, and at the numerous other gigantic frauds both upon the government ahd private Hesiale’. The very fountains | of justice have become corrnpt. It has | been said that ‘il fares the land when wealth accumulates,” and ,we appear to be realizing that. Pure republican govern- ment cannot exist long where corruption and rascality are so rampant and general. Money becomes the only god and the love of liberty dies amid the saturnalia of such corruption as | now afflicts the republic, People under such potism, in despair. Unless something be done | to check these frightful evils of the time and | to return to our former happy condition we shall find ourselves fast hastening to the same end of despotic government in which former The Bloody Pollard-tirant Affair at Rich- mond, The shooting of Pollard by young Grant on Tuesday last at Richmond was doubtless in accordance with the universal unwritten law by which, throughout the South,-every man feels compelled to avenge such insinuations against a lady relative as were contained in the article published in the Southern Opinion, with or without the knowledge of the late editor of that newspaper. No one was more article in question was directly provocative of the deadly assault which followed its publica- tion. It should not have been published. Every journalist ought to have blood as well as ink in his veins. Qne should never write what, as. gentleman, he cannot properly say about the private life of individuals of either sex. Whoever may have written the offensive article in the Southern Opinion—and it is said that Mr, Pollard did not write it—it is natural enough that Mr. Grant should have held him responsible for it. But Mr. Grant chose, to say the least, an extraordinary mode of revenge. Apparently he demanded neither explanation nor apology. According to our telegraphic despatches, instead of facing his antagonist in the atreet he locked himself in room in the building opposite the office of the Southern Opinion and from an upper window shot and killed Mr. Pollard. This fatal occurrence, whatever its details may have been, shows that the traditional habit of taking the law into one’s own hands, which was frevalent during the old slave- holding days in the South, has survived all the changes wrought by our great civil war. It is not improbable that than one generation must yet pass away before the spirit which originated and fostered this habit shall become utterly extinct. The Emigration Businese—Necessity of Re- form. While the attention of our citizens has been directed to the frauds upon the government through the medium of the whiskey rings and their accomplices in the Revenue Department, and while their attention has been occupied with the operations of Wall street rings, rail- road rings, judicial rings, election frauds and the like, that industrious and enterprising family circle at the capital known as the lobby has been busily and quietly at work perfecting legislation highly profitable to its members if not calculated to benefit the public. Among other measures they have contrived to push through Congress several acts ‘for the en- couragement of emigration,” which means simply to facilitate the swindling of foreigners who desire to make the United States their home under the convenient shelter of the law. Our Washington correspondent yesterday ex- plained the objects and the operations of the emigrant companies organized under these laws and of the manner in which they syste- matically rob emigrants of their labor, their time and their money. The facts show either a gross recklessness and ignorance in legisla- tion on the part of Congress or a corrupt col- lusion with those interested in the questionable business. The whole matter of emigration requires a thorough overhauling. Our State Commis- sioners of Emigration conduct their business in avery curious manner, and Castle Garden, if reports are true, is not the safest place to which an emigrant can be consigned, The new State administration cannot do better than make a searching investigation into all the affairs of that Board—its financial condition and operations, the treatment of emigrants, the character of the persons employed about Castle Garden and all other details connected with the commission. There is no department in the city into which light can be admitted to greater advantage to the public interests. The great reform in this direction, however, should come from Congress. The whole busi- ness of the care and protection of emigrants should be placed in the hands of the United States, and all the laws authorizing emigration aid companies should be repealed. At present there is reason to believe that the most rascally frauds are perpetrated on emigrants, under official authority, and as the victims are strangers to our customs and lawa, and often to our language, the crime is the more repre- hensible. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Thanksgiving is all well enough, and roast turkey onthe table still better; but how is it with those who have nothing to give thanks for nor turkeys either? It is for them, indeed, a day of fasting and ; prayer and sad humiliation, What will the poor billposters do? Two-thirds of the fence on the Chambers street side of the new Court House has been taken down. The stoop 1s ex- posed and looks like the building which figured on the drop curtain of the Winter Garden theatre, Thus perisheth ye Academy of Design. Why don’t some home for the friendiess or some- body else take charge of that female who squats on the sidewalk on Broadway, near Broome street, with two miserable looking children and the most squeaky of ail squeaky hand organs? Why don’t the Police Commissioners send a few men to Castle Garden who know the difference be- tween human beings and brutes? There are two or three of the $1,200 chaps stationed on the inside of the building who seem to think that candidates for naturalization are things upon which they may fully show “man’s inhumanity to Man.” Cannot the capta’n in charge of the squad use some Judgment orcommon sense in the selection of his pets for “soft berths?" ‘The effect of the recent verdict in the Fulton ferry" disaster casualty was shown last evening in the way in which the steamboat Columbia, which reached New York at balf-past five, entered the slip, coming in with such headway on that when she struck the bridge she rebounded for 4 ajstance of at least four feet. It must bé remembered that there are no guards, either on the boat or the bridge, to prevent neeas% PeOpte being tn very dangerous vicinity to point of concnssion, while the violence of the shock was suifctent to have thrown them into the water if they had been thus placed, THE COLE-H'SCOCK MURDER TAIAL. ALBANY, Nov. 25, 1268, The Court met at ten o'cleck, and the testimony in the trial of General Cole was continued. ‘The Judge refused to hear any further testimony upon the abstract question of the causes ana | characteristics of insanity. Nothwithstanding the ruling of thé Court a ques- tion was asked the witness by the prosecution, ‘which opened the subject of insanity, and on his re- direct examination the witness testified to several cases of melancholia with homicidal intent, and alsoto cases of melancholia occarring suddenly and as snddenly recovering. The witness described cases occurring under his own observation at Utica. Threg cases of women brought to the asylum under the the influence of melancholia were referred to. One dashed her tn- fant’s brains out, another drowned her infant ,and & third dashed her infant with violence upoo the ground. Another cut her own arm off. Aman suffering under the same form of insanity voluntarily requested that he ‘ht he confined in the Asylum, on the ground that he had an irresistible desire to kill his own grandchildren. He was 30 confined until his recovery from the disease, The witness expressed the opinion that a change of oharacter was the leading ‘eature by which to deter- mine the question of insanity, and intimated belief that this change in the prisoners was t! effect of melancholia. Further tes! pent was heard, and the Court, after some conversation with the connsel, decided to ailow each aide six hours each in summing up, to be apportioned among the counsel fully aware of the binding force of that unwritten law than Mr. Rives Pollard. The “tne textimony will oconpy several days yet. e mm ‘The court adjourned aut Friday at half-past ten o'clock A. Me CUBA. ‘The steamship Morro Castle, Captain Adams, from Havana November 21, arrived at this port last night, Purser Albert will please accept our thanks for the Prompt delivery of our files and despatches. —~~ Loyalty and Loyal Addresses—Puerte Prin- cipe—No One to Travel Without a Lantora. Havana, Nov. 21, 1868. According to the Oftctat Gazette of the. 15th inat. the superior government of the nation has tete- graphed to the Captain General that it is highly sat- wsfled with his worthy-and patriotic conduct—that his Excellency 1s relieved solety in accordance with his most earnest desire, as manifested by him. It adds:—“Continue at your post, feeling sure of the confidence of the government, and make tt under- stood to the impatient spirits that the disturbance of Public order, besides being severely disapproved, will render difficult the fulfilment of the promises which the government has made in the name of the nation.” It is now considered that the reten- tion of Lersundi here is highly probable, for the reason that the health of Dulce will not per- mit of his accepting the position. He has long suf- fered from a cancer in the breast, which will termi- nate his career at no distant date, and it is stated that a telegram has already been received here atat- ing that he will not come. The city remains quiet, the interest of the com- munity being entirely centred in the insurrection im the interior, in reference to which each class speaks and prophesies in accordance with its wish. ‘Through government sources we learn that Count Vaimaseda had arrived at Manzanillo, and after issuing his proclamations—copies of which have already appeared in the HsRALD—com- menced preparations for active operations, Im answer to that part of his proclamation giv- ing the insurgents eight days in which to lay down their arms the revolutioniss state that Céspedes wrote to Valmaseda informing nim that he might consider the time expired from the moment the proclamation was received and giving 4 preparations to de- ely junction with Lofio. News from the latter officer mn received here, ner ee ae the ctf papers on the 17th, his i- quarters at Tunas, in the ji iction of that name. He had had several encounters with the insurgents, in which they were invariably worsted, and many flags, arms, horses, &c., taken from them, The convoy of provisions had arrived at Tunas; the greater part had to be brought from Maniti, a port onthe north side. Its conveyance was effected under continuous and heavy rains, over marshy ground, Us forests and unde! le ‘The distance between the two points is but thirty- three miles, but four days were occupied in the pas sage; the soldiers were in the water up to their waist and frequently ambuscaded by the enemy. Lofio had sent several of the fi captured Havana. As the account states, “they are netcher the colors nor the glorious escutcheon of Castilleo.”” Some of them ave triangular, with a sun and Cg of various colors, ‘Th inst.,” inciting the inhabitants to obedience to the lawaiand reliance on the good intentions of the gov- ernment. He also issued the usual order to the troops, in whicli he informs thom that their miasion is purely defensive. A letter from Santiago, the 12th, states that Muiioz was about marching a strong column of various arms the act im combination with Vatnaseda in i ener Ganiieernss CaM cts, Ee The Diario of Santiago, in the issue of the oe says:—The return of the brave column of Col bnelahaet which went out to fight the insurgents of amo and Contromaestre, was announced by the ringing of the church bells and the playing of a military band. ‘The volunteers went oul to meet them, and a splendid dinner with the usual accom- paniments followed. Two or three companies had remained outside to garrison some point in the coun- try, From Puerto Principe, the 10th, we learn that the volunteers, numbering 450 men, & company of blacks and some other people occupy the convent Merced entrenched and with two pieces of moun- tain artillery. In this edifice are the head- quarters and nearly all the government offices and archives, ‘The infantry barracks are aiso entrenched and have two pieces of artillery. ‘he artillery barracks have two pieces and an infantry force, Inthe cavalry barracks are about 100 men. ‘The total force on which the governmant can count in the city is not under 1,300 men of all arms. The insurgents were encamped a few leagues from Puerto Principe. They occupy a radius of 300 miles, As many families as could do 80 had embarked for Nassau and other ports, The Oficial Gazette of Havana publishes a loyal address to the Captain General, by about 500 of the citizens, proprietors, planters and merchants of Puerto Principe, who profess themselves ro. foundly aMicted the troubles in the various jurisdictions, an offering their co-operation to re-establish order, end to remain a part of the invincible Spanish nation and to share@n all the rights, privileges and duties of the peninsular rovinces. e General in his reply, after Ro gh ing his satisfaction at their offers, stated that they will be considered by the supreme government as another title to the man, siready nowledged the island of Cuba to those rights and privil which shall secure her political welfare le further assures them that the last sacrifice will be made by the government to re-establish order. The Lieutenant Governor of Cienfu under date of the 3d inst., reminds the people of the neces- sity of observing existing laws, which are to the ef- fect that “no grcups or meetings are permitted in the streets after vespers. After eleven o'clock P. M. in winter and twelve in summer none but persons of distinction or in authority shall pass through the streets without a lantern, under penalty of arrest anda fine of eight dollars. Colored Pie are not permitted in the streets after ten P, M. as long as present circumstances exist.” a The merchant steamer Palayo left here for the north coast on the 18th, re four pieces of ar- tillery destined for Baracoa ‘and three officers and Sipmes soldiers of the battalion of engineers for juevi 2 Seflor Lara y Cérdenas,¢Finance Intendente, and Sefior Colonenanes, formerly Chief Judge of the aor Court, left for Spain in the packet of e ‘The steamer Villaciara, from Santiago and toter- mediate ports, arrived at Batahano, on the south side, on the morning of the 18th. She brings 00 news of importance from the seat of ti ae The Diario of the 20th learns through what it styles creditable sources that Don Francisco Pp. Agutlera, one of the principal chiefs of the insurrection, re- cently wrote a letter to a merchant of Manzanillo in- viting him to adhere to the movement of the inaur- gents. He intimated that he and the other leader, were not in accord, that they differed materially in their ideas and plans. Aguilera was known to have been in Santiago de Cuba or vicinity recently, The es mentioned states that the object in publish- ing the f {3 to contradict the rumor that the insurrectionary leader has gone to the United States. The same journal in ita issue of the 19th says that notice of the arrival of General Kalmaseda at Puerto Principe is momentarily expected. His disembarka- tion at Feriientes hal already been noticed. The abundant rains and the rising in the rivers made the march very stow and painful. No ehange had taken ic the tranquillity of the crtyand none was expected. In this connection I think {. well to eaution the readers of the HERALD inst confounding the ju- rigdiction of Puerto Principe with the cppitat acity of the same name. The former is for the most part iu the hands of the insurgents, while the latter re- mains in the hands of the government. The arrival of Balmaseda, so confident is regarded by the revoluti sympathizers here as by no means certain, as his force is smail and the insurgents numerous and active. ‘The papers of Santiago de Cuba, of tie 12th, pub- lish the prociamation of Balmaseda, dated at = zanillo the 10th, aiready published in the HERALD, The Puerto Principe Fanal of the lath contains what purports to bea circular address, ws moe by many respectable citizens of that place, entreating the insurgents to lay down their arms, News from various localities in the western part of the island represent matters as quiet and the inhabl- tants in full accord with the government. In this city arrests continue to be made, among them two employés of the liberal paper El Pais, Senor Sellen and Sefior Vaides Aguirre. The editor | in chief, having been several times kindly inquired after by the police. remains away from his oitice, and rumor has it that he has lett for New Orleans. Kvidently liberty of the press is not yet established in the island of Cuba. ‘ 1d Cisueros and Sefior Palomeno, of Puerto Principe, recently arrested and brought here on sus- picion of Caged With the Ma ed were marched through the streets handct in company with negroes and other criminals of the lowest grade. The followmg named gentlemen were also arrest od:— Sefor Morejoro, Station Master at Candelaria. on suspicion—a box of arms was found in his possession; ‘Segundino Bermedez, a lawyer of Havana, and Dr. Fernando Valdez Agu member of the Koval Academy of Sciences and fessor in the University of conmtderabl lety Is felt here 1 rence Yonstderable anxiety ere in refes to the condition of the Bank Espafiol. It jas some twelve millions of circulation im juba, the greater part in Havana, a much larger amount than is needed. The present uncertain condition of affairs with this iarge supply ris rapidly withdrawing the gold from cir- culation and establishing a gold market among us. ‘The shares can now be bad at fifteen per cent pre. mium, which is at least five per cent lower t Ey sl ever saa eee during the worst crisis a8 undergone. This corporation recently appro- priated $46,000 for the maintenance of 1a orn \eors for three months,