The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON. BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Haravv. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENINU. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—IRELanp As It Was—Conngoricut CouRrsuir, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tue LANoasuine Lass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ArTra DARK, ox LON pon BY Nios, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rep Scanr—LONELY MAN OF THR OCFAN, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Mns Soort-StD- pons ag Lapy TEAZLE, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Fighth avenue and $34 sircel.—BAULE BLRUR—LisonEN AND FRITZOHEN, PRENCH THEATRE, Fourveeuta street and Sixth ave- Bue —GENEVIEVE DE BEasani. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hourry Dospry. wreea NEw PRATURES. MAS. FB. CONITAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tae LAnOAsiUER LASS. SE, Tammany Building, Mth ELSY, £0, NTS’ OPERA HOU Oriad MANSTR! 81 S, 720 Broadway. —ETmio- RLESQUE.-—TAME CATS. CO. MINSTRELS, 585 Broadw: ALNMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, -ETu10- ASTOR'S OPEBA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comro Vooa.iaa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, $14 Broadway.—Tux Gaear Ont GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDRVILLE Comvany, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and pvening Performance. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuesTRIaNn AND G TRRTAINMENT. PIKES MUSIC HALL, corner th av. and 23d st.—Mx. OSANYAN'S LEOTURE—“SOOLAL LOPE IN THE Eas,” HOOLEY'S OPER4 HOUSE, Brooklya.—Hoouer’s MINSTRELS—THk GeAND DocuRss, £0. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLEY'S MINA@TRELA—OU! HUSH, &0 NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOrRNOE AND Aut. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, December 3, 1868. THE NSB Europe. fhe cable reports are dated December 2. The British Ministry resigned yesterday. Prime Minister Disraeli published an address announcing and defending the resignation. Mr. Sullivan, who was suspected of Fenian sym- pathies and whose name was struck from the com- mission of the peace, was yesterday elected Mayor of Cork, Ireland. Cuba, Government advices, dated yesterday, state that Manzanillo is closely besieged by the insurgents and that the aqueduct which supplies Santiago de Cuba with water has been destroyed by them. Dissen- Bions are reported to have broken out between Perez ‘and Cespedes, the revolutionary leaders. Business 4s perfectly staguant m Havana. Merchants refuse to make advances to planters on their crops. The Indians. Genera! Sheridan's official account of the fight at the Cheyenne village on Friday last ts already pnb- lished, it appears that Black Kettle’s band is the same that committed the first depredations on the Saline and Solomon rivers. During the progress of the fight a white woman and boy were brutally murdered by the Indian women. Two white children were recaptured. Our Josa was two officers and nineteen enlisted men killed and three oMcers and eleven enlisted men ‘wounded. The march of Castar's command was made in a driving snow storm. General Harney reports that the Sioux and other tribes on the Upper Missouri express themselves #nxlous to go On the reservations allotted them. Miscellaneous. In @ conversation recentiy Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, told the Washington correspondent of the Heratp that firmness in the adminis. tration of the laws will restore tranquillity, and that firmness is what the country obtains in General Grant. The night before the vote ‘Was taken on impeachinent, be said, General Grant visited Ben Wade to urge on him the restoration of General Sheridan¢o his command in Louisiana as soon as he (Wade) became President. Butler, he said, came near being the present President. Line coln wanted him to run on the ticket in 1864 for Vice President, but General Butier then thought the Vice Presidency au exceptionable place. The Electoral Colleges cast their votes for Presi- dent and Vice President at their respective State capitals yesterday. In some of the Southern States the scene was impressive from the fact that it is the firat occasion of the assembling in any of them of an electoral college since Buchanan's term, and also that colored electors in several instances cast their votes. Certain New York merchants are trying their best to have Secretary McCulloch nullify the new revenue regulations relative to the execution of bonds to se- cure the payment of duties. One merchant of this city threatens to be one of 100 to use influence and money to secure McCulloch's removal unless the regulations are renealed within ten days. ‘The trial of Thomas Burns, alias “Brickley,” and George Whittington, charged with the murder of Charles M. Jefferds, commenced at White Plains yesterday. e murder took place in Sing Sing Penitentiac May, all the actora in the affair being convicts serving out their terms, The case ‘Was opened by District Attorney Bates tn a speech of some length, after which cousiderabie evidence for the prosecution was taken, ‘The trial of the Taylor will case was concluded at White Pains on Toesday, evidence being given to show that Mr. Taylor had spoken of Mrs. Catherine ‘Taylor as bis wife and recognized her as such. The case for thy was all entered and after the cloning arguments of counsel the jury rendered a verdict for Mrs, Catherine Taylor. A stay of pro- ceedings was gra for thirty days to allow the case to be taken to the Supreme Court. The triai of Deacon Andrews for ‘the murder or Cornelius Holmes, at Kingston, Mass., last May, was commenced at Plymonth yesterday, ‘ General Grant arrived in Boston yesterday morn- ing, completely Nanking the large ¢ axpectants who waited for him depot, Large nambers of citty a the St. James durlug the day, Tho National Board of Trade met at Cincinnati yesterday. Frederick Frailey wus re-elected prea) silent, A report from the Executive Committee was received and read, greetings were sent to the Nir. mingham (England) Board of Trade aud av adjourn ment took place until thia morning. The execution of Wella, Wilson and Rounds, who Mmardered the captain and mate of the schooner Brave tn Chesapeake Pay last March, will take place on the 8th of January ii Princese Anne county, Md. The Commissioner of Agriculture, in his annual report, speaks encouragingiy of the revival of ‘Southern agricultural interests. ‘The Alavams House of Representauves hag passed a bill repealing all laws agaist the intermarriage of whites and blacks. Judge Barker, of the Supreme Court, Buffalo, has decided that @ man’s wife cannot ve lis partner in business. wa of eager the Newport line Wied upon him “ The City. Superintendent of Police John A. Kenne: was | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1868—TRI day on the warrant of Ooroner Flynn, who charges hum with having taken possession of certain pro- perty of the late Mrs, Mary A. Gatewood, the suicide, before the body had been viewed by the coroner’s jury. Mr, Kennedy submitted gracefully and the coroner paroled him until this morning, wien an eXamination will be held. The Board of Education held a meeting yesterday and heard the report of the committee in reference to @ coufiict of authority between the Board and the local Board of the Twenty-first ward, A resolution Was adopted adhering to the former decision of the Board and directing the Committee on Teachers to take charge of the male department of Grammar School No, 49 in case the trustees continue in their refusal to administer its affairs. Nothing remains now of Fort Lafayette but a ruined mass of brick and mortar. There 1s no fire on the premises, Soldiers are stilton guard, Seve- rat unexploded shells remain among the ruins and may go off at any moment. The loss to the govern- ment will be about $250,000. Fire Marshal Keady took evidence yesterday as to the origin of the fire, Joseph Roll and Frederick Baden, who are charged with arson in setting fire to the tenement house and liquor store on Ninth avenue and Fiftieth street on the 26th of November, confeased their guilt yester- day in the station house and were committed by the Justice at (he Yorkville Police Court. Roll, tt seems, agreed for $200 to set fire to the house, the money to be paid when Baden got his tnaurance. Alter Starting the fire he joined Baden at a ball, and a family were with diMculty saved from destruction through his incendiarisi. The Erie litigation ia still further complicated. The Belmont parties appeared before Judge Cardozo yesterday in obedience to an order requiring them to show cause why Judge Sutherland’s order con- ficting with a former one of Judge Cardozo’s should not be set aside. After argument Judge Oardozo re- served his decision. The same parties, with their Positions reversed, then appeared before Judge Sutherland, where the Erie party were required to show cause why Judge Cardozo’s order should not be set aside. The hearing was postponed. In the United States Court yesterday, before Judges Nelson and Shipman, the only basiness transacted was the hearing of argument of counsel on a dis- puted right to erect a draw bridge over the Connec- ticut river at a place called Lyme, near Stafford. A mass of conflicting afidavita were read and put in evidence, some in favor of the project, others giving reasons in opposition, In the United States District Court a quantity of distilled spirits were condemned by ‘default, no claimant appearing. The North German Lloyds’ steamship Union, Cap- tain Von Santen, will leave Hoboken at two P, M. to- day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will sail from pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock P. M, to-day for Havana. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three o’clock P. M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. The stock market yesterday was steady in the méin, but excited towards the close over asudden large advance in New York Central. Gold closed at 135. fe Prominent Arrivals in the City. General J. V. Farnsworth, of Hlinois; H. M. Drane and Robert H. Cowan, of Wilmington, N. 0,, and Judge N. H. Sprague, of Columbus, Ohio, are at the ‘St. Nicholas Hotel. General C. B. Stewart, of New York; Major Collier, of the United States Army, and Judge W. F. Allen, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel G. W. Plumley, General Robert B. Potter and W. G. Moorhead, of Pennsylvania, and General D. W. C. Clark, of Vermont, are at the Hoffman House, Judge Clifford, of Portland, Me.; General George Thorn and General Henry J. Hunt, of the United States Army; J. K. Teh, of Omaha, and E. Cornell, of Ithica, are at the Astor House, Colonel W. Gibson Jones and Major W. B. Lynn, of the United States Army, and Professor Stoddard, of St. Louis, are at the St. Charlea Hotel. Major General W. B. Franklin, of Hartford; Judge Jones and Heister Clymer, of Pennsylvania, are at the Brevoort House. Paymaster James Roy, Jr., of the United States Navy; Theo. F. Randolph, Governor elect of New Jersey, and Odgen E. Edwards, of Manila, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Our Public Men and the Press. To-day we give some more of the conver sations of our correspondents with public men. During some time past we have made persistent effort to put the people in direct relation with the leading political minds of the country by presenting in a familiar and easy style the opinions, convictions and theories of the more prominent public men on various topics of common interest. Our labors in this field have been satisfactorily successful, and we like the plan. We are convinced there is no other way in which people come to understand public men so well. There are several reasons why this should be so. The other most usual way in which the opinigns of popular leaders are laid before the country is in their speeches ; recognized way since the time when a mem- ber informed the House of Representatives that expressions of disapproval of his views had no effect on him, as he was not addressing himself to the gentlemen there present, but “to Buncombe county, ‘North Carolina.” That gentleman enriched our language with a word, and that word points to the reason why peo- ple are so little given to reading speeches. They have lost faith in them as the consci- entions or honest utterances of men’s thoughts. People want to know what a man thinks, not what he would like Buncombe county to sup- pose he thinks. Speeches are also difficult to the masses by their style. They are heavy, as a rule, tedious and dull, and it is such a labor to read them that the people will rather take opinions at second hand in any other shape. Personal intercourse ia certainly the only way in which we can come to a true under- standing of any man, and as every one cannot have this in fact the next best thing is to have it by proxy. In this way and through the favor of print our readers have virtually been present at conversations beld with some of the best thinkers of the country. They have heard Senators Sherman, Morton, Came- ron and Sumner, and Mr, Butler, Mr. Bingham and other members—-caught, perhaps, by our correspondents at an unprepared moment, taken in the ease and unreserve of home—de- liver their views freely in that transparent col- loquial! style in which the people convey their own ideas; and it is to the honor of our public men that their ideas are such as will stand the test of this style. There is much statesman- ship and much oratory that is mere rhetoric. Strip it of its tropes and what is left is ridicu- lous impertinence and puerility, But the men whose conversational utterances have been lately given in the Herat, stripped of tropes and all the garnish and splendor of oratorical nonsense, appear still as men of ready and keen perception, acute to observe events and apply rules, original, vigorous thinkers; just the men that our «ystem should naturally produce. At the same time that every man’s thoughts have not force enough to live throngh this atyle, itis the most agreeable known to literature. That most charming piece of antiquity, the “History of Herodotus,” was brought toge- ther just as our recent reports were. Heredo- what was told him. ‘Plato’s Philosophy” would have died ages ago if it had been given in any less pleasant form than his dialogues. When Polemarchus says, ‘Socrates, if Iam not deceived you are taking your departure for the city,” simple as the phrase is, we all want to know what Socrates has to say to it, and so are led on step by step till we find our- selves fairly embarked in the ‘‘Republic.” Cicero is infinitely less enjoyable in his great efforts of oratory than in that memorable series of conversations in which we hear such rich discussion of the character of the orator. It has, perhaps, been noted that in these re- flections Of the views of public men they all agree about reconstruction and disagree to a greater or less extent, about the finances. Thisis significant that, politically, the country is to’have rest; and we can agree with Simon Cameron that this alone would secure all good results, and would even pay the national debt—if it were left to do it. Unfortunately, the singular differences that our public men are found to hold in regard to the finances in- dicate that it probably will not be so left, It should be observed, however, that the crudest views on money affairs are held in quarters where they can do least harm, and that men holding such important positions as the chair- man of the Senate Committee on Finance bring to the national service the ample thought and practical wisdom of the best statesmanship, Genera! Grant Searching for a Cabinet. ‘The cabinet-making cliques of the republican party are busily at work all over the country framing a Cabinet for General Grant. [¢ is amusing to witness the activity and excite- ment the discussion of the subject occasions in the republican papers. The Chicago organ, supposed to be speaking ep cathedrd, sets up one man one day and another man the next. The last trotted out was the Hon. Ben Wade for Postmaster General. But no matter who may be at the top of the heap as the Western man for the Cabinet at anytime, the inevit- able Washburne always turns up. As for Ben Wade being made Postmaster General, the idea is preposterous. He is a good man enough; but Horace Greeley is already on the slate for that place. Other Western cliques put in claims for General Schenck, Senator Sherman, General Rawlins, Repre- sentative Wilson and a score of others for any and that has been the” position that may. be open; therefore there will be no difficulty in General Grant selecting his entire Cabinet from the West if he be so minded. Then, again, there are a Stanton clique, with headquarters in Washington; Suniner and Wilson cliques, with headquarters in Boston ; the New York quadruple cliques, answering alike for the North, South, East and West, and ready to take the entire job of cabinet making for the new administration at aheavy discount. Of course there are, besides the above, the Pennsylvania high tariff clique, the Down East shipping clique, the bond holders’ clique, the Pacific Railroad or California clique, the army and navy clique—which is a strong one— the annexation or filibustering clique, and we do not know how many more, all ready to push before General Grant a representative man for a place in his Cabinet. Meanwhile, like Diogenes with his lantern in search of an honest man, General Grant goes quietly on a tour of inspection in search of Cabinet material. He writes no letters asking the views of this or that personage upon poli- tical measures, but es @ personal recon- issance for himself. ¥é5 Washington, reaches Philadelphia, and after meeting Macal- ester, of the fine old revolutionary Scot stock, takes a social bite of haggis with his Scotch friends of the St. Andrew's Society and finally drives with his friend, General Rucker, to the latter’s private residence in West Philadelphia. He arrives in New York and goes to the private residence of Mr. John C. Hamilton, a descendant of the fine old Hamilton family of the Revo- ution, especially famous for its original notions about finance. He reaches Boston, and makes Mr. Charles Francis Adams, another descendant of one of the fine old families of the Revolution, his confidential communicant. He gives a public reception at the St. James; but the drawing room doors of the learned, the opulent, the aristocratic of the Hub fly open as if by magic to welcome the hero. Old Harvard gravely nods its welcome, Bunker Hill Monument cheerily bows a greet- ing and the Cradle of Liberty rocks with a new joy at his approach. Here he will ascer- tain all that New England expects, and a little more, at the hands of his administration. He may have a talk with Sumner; but according to the Chicago oracle the interview will be more “‘polite than friendly.” Returning—if the original programme be carried out—Gen- eral Grant will call upon General Burnside, in Providence, and hold a friendly chat with his old comrade, in common with other Rhode Islanders of distinction; for Rhode Island, small as itis, has always been famed for its men of talent, wealth and influence. Thus by personal inspection and conversa- tion, by a practical reconnoissance of the whole field, will General Grant ascertain who are the best men for the positions of Cabinet ad- visers, whose ideas (upon finance particu- larly) agree with his own and who may be willing to carry out his own decided views and licy. In this tour we pray that General rant may be more successful than poor old Diogenes was when searching for an honest man, and find, what the country has sadly needed for many years, an honest Cabinet. Tue Orrorrunrries Yor AMERICAN EnrER PRisk IN Asta.—In another columa we give the views of Mr, Cesare Moreno, a dis- tinguished Italian traveller in Asia, on the opportunities for American trade and influence on the Asiatic Continent, He speaks from the book, or, father, from knowledge acquired by fifteen years’ travels and residence in India, Sumatra, China and other countries of Asia. He has had an extraordinary experience and greater advantages for understanding the sen- timents of the native people than perhaps any traveller of modern times, The conc! sion he comes to is that there is an immense field for American enterprise in that part of the world, and that the time has come when this country should turn its attention to the commercial wealth of Asia and adopt measures to rival, if not to supplant, the British there. His suggestions are well worthy the considera- Turkey and the United States, Our Constantinople correspondence, pub- lished to-day, gives an interesting account of the sentiments entertained by the Turkish gov- ernment and people for the United States and their anxiety about the policy this country may pursue toward the Ottoman empire. The Turkish government appreciates the greatness and power of the American republic, and, see- ing né probable cause for any serious difficulty between the two countries, is desirous of main- taining the most friendly relations and of dis- abusing the public mind here of any erroneous impressions with regard to Turkey. We cer- tainly had evidence of the good feeling of the Ottoman government in the courtesy extended to Admiral Farragut and to the American navy and government represented by him. Indeed, there is no reason to complain of its conduct to American citizens at any time. Nor is this country less friendly to Turkey. We compre- hend the difficulties of its government in emerging from the dark ages of despotisin to the light of modern civilization. We kuow, however, that its destiny is to march with the age. Thatis inevitable. The darkness and exclusiveness of the past are fast breaking up under the liberalizing tendencies of the age— under the irresistible power of the press, telegraph, steam and railroads. We see, too, with pleasure, that the Sultan and the liberal statesmen around him recognize the necessity of liberal reforms and progress in conformity with the spirit of the times. Wo have no reason to be unfriendly to Turkey, and weare not. We commend her for the progress of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus or by calling upon her allies to fight for her. With regard to the canards of the European press about a possible alliance between Ruasia and the United States to regulate the affairs of Europe or of Turkey, that is all bosh. There ‘is not the slightest foundation for auy- such suspicion. We have no more sym- pathy -with Russian despotism or sm- bitious aggression than with despotism in Turkey or in any other country. We are friendly with Russia, it is true, as with other Powers which are friendly with us, and be- cause there is no cause of international diffi- culty. We sympathized with the Poles and Hungarians when they were struggling for freedom, as we do with our fellow Christians of Crete, and as we shalt with all people under similar circumstances. But this does not make us unfriendly to Turkey or favorable to the ambitious aggression of any other Power toward her. We shall form no European alliances to regulate the international affairs of Europe. We have a more important and powerful réle to perform in the success and example of popular government and in the diffusion of liberal ideas through the world. We can accomplish much more in this way than by forming European alliances for politi- cal objects. In proportion to the liberal pro- gress of the Ottoman empire and its liberal treatment of its Christian subjects shall we esteem the government. But in no case shall we join Russia or any other Power to in- terfere with Turkey or any other country of the Old World. New Caba=Old Spain. We yesterday published an interesting ac- count of the numerous defeats of the govern- ment troops in their efforts to overthrow the patriot forces. There cannot be less than twenty thousand Cubans under arms to-day bent upon the independence of their country. Among them are found the educated and wealthy classes, who have so long suffered from the outrageous extortions of Spain, and who are now determined to force the Gem of the Antilles into a new and more appropriate orbit. If we look at the period of the overturnings which culminated in the placing of Joseph Bonaparte upon the throne of Spain we find the same vacillations, the same uncertainty, the same narrow policy with reference to the then existing Spanish colonial possessions as we now see in the policy with reference to Cuba. Then they advocated the idea that the colonies had no right, human or divine, to dream of a better government than the mother country chose to deal out to them. Now the Spanish liberals forget that Cuba is better pre- pared for self-government than Spain ‘herself, and consequently dictate overbearing laws for her domination. Then there existed, as now there exists, but one true method of colonial government, and that is to urge rather than retard all liberal movements which aim toward a wiser government for the governed and & higher civilization. But Spain never recognized this principle, and must her- self go through at least fifty years of revolution before she will. It is patent to an observer on this republican side of the water that Cuba cannot lie dormant to the touch of the age while Spain goes through the process of liberal incubation. Spain has had a stroke of fortune in ridding herself of a cor- rupt quéen, whose mind and laws were entirely swayed by the most retrograde clergy of this century, and whose sworn faith was in opposi- tion to every liberal reform and everything that made ignorance instead of intelligence the standard of a nation’s greatness, Spain halts to-day in the selection of a government; but she only halts upon the eve of a terrible strag- gle between the young nineteenth century principles on one side supporting republican- ism and the retrograde ideas of the past massed in the hands of the clergy ian support of monarchy and the fancied prerogatives of the Church, Spain awakens to new life, but with the worst contact and the worst corrup- tion of Kurope. Not #0 with Cuba, She has the highest civilizing element of the age apur- ring her to a worthy ambition, She has bad this contact for nearly a hundred years, and the impulse has often thrilled her. There are more solid ideas of self-government existing in Cuba to-day than in the whole corrupt Spanish peninsula, Whenever a Spaniard has travelled he has visited the Pope, and has returned in- wardly resolved to swim against the tide of civilization which threatens to swamp all reli- giona which become banking corporations or meddle with temporal government, Not 40 with the Cuban. He has almost in- variably neglected the Old World and arrested by Deputy Sheri Barker ant ivan vewter- | bus travelled, saw evervbody and wrofy dowa | tion of the Ameciona government aad people, | cushed iato the goutce of civilizing action of she is making, and only urge upon her a broad and liberal policy both to her own people and with all foreign nations. That will do more to preserve the integrity of the empire and to check the ambition of Russia than the closing PLE SHEET. ane il cata ttlst the New; he has compared the laws of old Spain with those of the great republic; he has been educated in American ideas; ho has time and again cursed the bonds which bind him to the inaane past; he has watched railroad and telegraph and steam communica- tion, and wished for all these things so long that finally the wishes have turned into @ con- stitutional republican code of action—a code of war if Spain will, Can Spain resist this new constitution written in the heart of every Cuban who loves the island where he was born? We doubt it. She has no force suf- ficiently great for the purpose. She has no Dulce of Alva who can hepe to take the field and drive the principles of the nineteenth cen- tury to the wall. Resignation of the British Ministry. By special cable despatch from London, dated yesterday (December 2), we have the im- portant information that the British Premier, Disraeli, has announced to her Majesty the resignation of the ministry of which he has been the distinguished head. This action is as- cribed to the successes of the liberals over the conservatives in the recent elections for mem- bers of the House of Commons. This prompt response to the will of the British people, as pop- ularly expressed, will be regarded with satisfac- tion by both friends and foes of the late Premier. There was, in fact, no other alternative, and it would be a happy thing for our own country if every Cabinet minister should feel obliged to tender his resignation to the President when- ever the popular will has been expressed in opposition to the measures of an existing ad- ministration. The policy of the new British ministry will no doubt sgon be developed. In the meantime we await the course of events in Great Britain with profound interest ; for they may be pregnant with significant conse- quences not only to the futare of the whole British empire, but to the progress of liberal- ism among European nations generally. The New York City Press. One of our Bohemian journals makes a false and garbled exhibit of taxes assessed upon the total sales and subscriptions of the New York city newspapers (not including advertisements) for the months of July, August and September, 1868, and with a ridiculous flourish of penny trumpets puts itself at the head of the list. The sales and subscriptions of the daily HeRatp are more than double those of any other daily journal in the city, and our adver- tising returns are in excess of those of all our contemporaries put together. It is a necessity of a large metropolis that there should be one leading newspaper recognized as the organ of the business and commerce in the city—such asthe Zimes in London and the Hgraup in New York. Partisan journals are all very well in their way ; but an independent business and commercial organ is indispensable to an active trading community. The business ofthe HERALD was never more extensive than at the present time, an@ our advertising columns—always acertain business barometer—indicate unmis- takably the activity of our commerce and the prosperity of our citizens. In this view alone the progress of a public journal ifof interest to the people; otherwise they care as little whether the Hrratp makes three hundred thousand dollars a year or three thousand dol- lars as they do about any other enterprise in which they have no share, and itis an im- pertinence to parade such statements before them. There has been as great a revolution in the advertising business in New York within a few years as there has been in the general management of the independent press. Our citizens are now accustomed to refer to our ad- vertising columns to supply their wants, just the same as a few years ago they used to make application to agents and middlemen. The compact and systematic arrangement of our advertisements makes a reference to any branch of trade, commerce or business of any description an easy matter, and the HeraLp thus becomes a sort of directory and guide to business men gs well as a valuable and inte- resting newspaper, The large revenue derived from an extensive advertising patronage war- rants a corresponding liberality of expenditure in the collection of news, and hence the great superiority of the Heratp and the London Times, a8 newspapers, over all their contem- poraries, Business men who advertise on a liberal scale thus receive a double return for their investments—first, in the direct advan- tage of increased trade, and ‘secondly, in the: value and satisfaction of an enterprising and well conducted newspaper. This is the whole secret of the prosperity and superiority of the independent press. Another Murder. Murders are of such frequent occurrence now that we can hardly follow them up. They form the most prominent items in the news of the day. The latest attempt at murder arose out of the election on Tuesday afternoon, when aman who challenged @ vote at the polls in the Twenty-first ward, on Second avenue, was set upon by a mob, hunted through the streets It appears by the testimony of a member of the police that Sheriff O’Brien was met by him at the head of a crowd of men hastening from the scene of the attempted murder, and that the man Noble, who is charged with the offence, was leading another crowd. Whatever may be the result of this transaction— whether the wounded man lives or dies— the fact remains that most of the bloody coUisions which disgrace our criminal record are the immediate consequence There was of carrying deadly weapons. no excitement in the election scenes of Tuesday to provoke the shedding of blood. Everything went off peaceably except in this one instance. It seems evident, therefore, that there was a design on the part of the ruffians who went armed to the poles to uso their weapons to the serious detriment of somebody, no matter whom, and the unfor- tunate man, who was slaughtered may have been, after all, but an accidental victim, simply because the assailants chose to pick a quarrel with him. "No one can tell which one of the community may suffer from this indiscriminate use of firearms, Every man who walks the streets by day or by night is liable at any time to be made a target of by some of the armed gangs who roam the streets, setting the police at deflance and scoffing at everything in the shape of law. ‘There must bo some romody for, this state of anc nn tn and dangerously (the surgeons say fatally) | shot by one of the rowdies who led the tumult, | have heretofore deemed safely invested. Jus- things. Iftho oxisting laws cannot reach the source of the evil let the next Legislature enact that the carrying of deadly weapons con~ cealed upon the person shall be an offence punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison and let our police authorities and police jua- tices see that the law is carried out without fear or favor, without compromise or extenua~ tion, and then there will be some chance of putting a stop to the homicides which make se prominent a part of our daily history. The Indian War—Sheridan’s Plan. We have been trifling with the Indians, and hence, according to the policy so long pursued in dealing with the savages, the government has always been at a disadvantage. General Sheridan comprefiends the situation. He knows how to bring these barbarians to the only term which can ever prove effectual—that is, the complete crushing out of all the hostile bands who infest the section of country where white settlements are established. With this intention he has taken the lead of the army ix the field, with the assistance of such able generals as Sully, who knows the Indian char- acter and all the modes of Indian warfare thoroughly, and General Custer, who has proved by his late gallant fight near the Wachita river, as reported in our columna yeaterday, that he is not going to lose any of the laurels which he won in the late civil war. It is to be regretted that we lost two or three efticient officers—Captain Hamilton, Lieuten- ant Colonel Barnitz and Major Elliott—in this fight ; but itis satisfactory to know that a whole encampment of the Indians was destroyed, their chief killed and upwards of a hundred warriors sent to their final account. It is evident that General Sheridan is going to avail himself of the advantages of the winter sea- son to inaugurate a vigorous campaign againat! the savages, and so thin them out by the de- struction of their lodges and families and by so harassing the warriors that when the spring time comes they will be 0 decimated and wearied out that they can make no fight- This is the true plan of dealing with the Indians, and General Sheridan sees that suclr @ course must be pursued if we are ever to have peace in the Indian Territory. Eurepe Drifting Towards Republicanism. The nations of Europe are in that peculiar condition in which it is extremely difficult te say what is to be the character of their imme- diate future. They are under conditions whictz are entirely new, and they are as yet but im< perfectly alive to the fact. ‘The railroad, the telegraph, the printing press and the numerous other forces which in these last days are giv- ing birth to thought and impulse to action have, unconsciously to the nationalities, bees making them discontented with things as they are and compelling them to look and long for the uncertainties of the future. Spain fur- nishes us with a striking illustration at once of the condition of the nations and the rapidly transforming power of modern forces. Untill recently she was notoriously living under conditions which had not only not improved, but which had grown worse since the palmy days of the Great Charles. Her condition was deemed not merely bad, but desperate. Re- generation seemed impossible. The railreed,’ the telegraph, the printing press, alias the newspaper, have found their way into France, and behold the result! Spain by one grand bound has leaped from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century,! and like Mercury, who sprung complete from the brain of Jupiter, she reveals her maturity by calling at once for a republic. A republio in Spain will revolutionize France, and througts France Europe ; for the conditions are new alll over and the impulses are the same. It is now no longer a question which Power shall be most obstructive, but which shall be most re- ceptive. The new religion in the shape of steam, electricity and their congeners is everywhere being worshipped, and wherever it is worshipped, and in proportion to the depth of the devotion, there and so is the vital force. Europe is rapidly learning fron us,’ The nations see what the railroad, the telegraph and the printing press have done for the United States, and they are beginning to yield to the influence of a good example. The day must soon come when the nationalities of Europe, realizing a common interest, wilt merge their individualities, and through the aid of the new forces will make the Continent a unit, Such a consummation will be a benefié to Europe and the world. Let it speed on. Farewell then to dynasties. Our Railway Steckjobbing Swindlers—The a Duty of Congress. Tho evil of great monopolies under bad laws has never been more fully demonstrated than in the gigantic swindling operations car- ried on by the managers of the Erie Railroad. By the over-issues of stock it has been showm that there is not a single railway company in the United States but is liable at any moment to be manipulated in the same way by ite managers and its stockholders defrauded of the greater part of their money which they tice appears to have no hold upon the leaders in these great frauds. The petty courts and the jndges so disagree about the matter that distant foreign observer might be led to believe that law in the United States is 2 mere farce. The effect of all this in Europe among the capitalist? who have invested large sums in railway construc- tion in the United States and in the purchase of our railway securities must be most disas~ trous; for there is no certainty that any road is exempt from the same swindling process. Our telegraphic system is no better, A single company has absorbed all the lines, and now, to the immense detriment of commerce and general information, dictates to the coun- try. Twelve millions of dollars would build all the lines they possess, and yet they have made in reality a great corporation, represent- ing over forty-one millions of dollars. On this latter sum the prosperity of the nation is forced to pay ® large interest, instead of on the smaller amount. It is evident that there is but one way of dealing with these evils which have grown np in our midst, and that is for Congress to take the matter in band and legislate somo wisa form of government for our whole railway and telegraph system. It would be, perhapa, better that tho Supreme Court should be charged to see that all the immense interosta involved in these public improveynents be pro~