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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Voinme XXXIV. AM’ Tae WiFARD OF TTR THEATRE. Pau. fie MALD WLC THE Wave AND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Kighth avenue and treet, —PATRIF, FRENCH THEATRE gue. —ENGLisit OPERA re Puuran's DAvGnT WAVERLEY THEATRE, No, 720 Broadway.-A QUAND VAMLErY EXTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC. THEATRE, Brosaway.-TUk DRAMA OF UNoLe Tows Casey. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Bdat., be Rie Van WINKLE. weou Sth and 6th avs. — USEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street ang ‘Afternoon and evening Verformancs, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—THR QOREN OF Heaurs—ue Oip WOMAN THAT LIVED IN A SHOR. E THRATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty DREAMS. FIRTH AV! fourth sire NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brow Ratieoay To RUIN. ,-FoRMosa; on, TUR THEATRE CONIQUE, SH Uroadway.—Joontsse, THE dJuaaren. "3 P. y THEATRE, Brookiya.— Prom MRS. F. B. CON Hour-—-A Bueacn or ‘auminy Building, Mth BRYANTS’ OPERA EL Necro KecenTRicrrigs, &e. at. —BRYA N18" MINSTREL CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 89th a4. OPULAB GARDEN Cc ay,, between 53th and TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO 201 Bowery.—Cowro Vooatisa, NEGRO NINSTRELSY, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway.-E1H10- PIAN MNSTRELSY, NEGRO AoTS, &o AOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, _Brooklyn.—-Hoourr’s MINSTRELD—THAT TROULLESOME Boy, £0. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—L. FP. Hanmi #on's Gn anD CONCERT. NEW YORK M"SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Bftadway.— BOIRNOE AND ART v NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. sessory rights of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Companies in the territories west of the Rocky Mountams, Wells, Fargo & Co, have recovered the treasure recently stolen from their express wagons on the Montana stage road by road agents. The City. ‘To-day 18 the centenmal apniversary of the birth of Alexunder Von Humboldt, and in honor of the occasion & statue of the great cosmographer wil! be erected in the Park, near the scholars’ gate, with nnposing ceremomes and a grand procession, Mc, A T, Stewart yesterday recetved his title deeds to the Hempstead Plains property and had them recorded witn the County Clerk at Jamaica. Mr. Harvey did not enter any objections, either per- sonally or by counsel. ‘The stables of Jonn McMann, of trotting celebrity, were burned at Hunter's Point yesterday. The loss 18 $00,000. Bllen Rebecca Utt was arrested yesterday charged with stabbing Thomas Barrett severely in the abdo- men with a knife, It appears Thomas and Willian Harrett, brothers, were drinking and carousing at Wiiliam’s house on their return from their father's funeral, on Sunday, and a quarrel ensued, during which the accused woman, who has been living with William as his wife, stabbed Thomas 30 8¢- verely that his life is endangered. In the Friediander inquest yesterday Mrs. Ortho- tefer, who took the whip from Friedlander and struck him over the legs with it during an affray in Thira street, on the 6th inst., was discharged, there being evidence to show thas his death was caused by some man unknown, who struck him ever the head with a milk can cover, In tae Hess murder inquest tt was shown that, some man unknown had attempted to rob deceased, and on his making an outcry had struck him with @ heavy stone, tracturing his skull, ‘The stock market yesterday was heavy in tho fore- noon, but became active and atrong after the second call, Gold rose to 135%, cloding finally at 135% a 1354. ‘The market for beef cattle yesterday was tolerably active and prices were generally steady; the offer- ings were fair. Prime and extra steers were sold at 1514¢. @ 160, fair to good at Lic, @ 1c, and toferior to ordinary at 10c, @13%c., the buik of the sales from disease aud age from pain, Could any- thing more be asked in the matter of climate ? Secondly, the Alaskan rivers are broad, shallow and rapid, and the seas deep and tranquil, And such marine treasures! The whale therein abounds, and the sea otter, the fur seal, hair seal and the walrus; and those waters swarm with salmon, cod and other deli- cions fishes. From what he has seen he is almost a convert to the theory that the water produces more for the sustenance of animal life than the land. And the cloud-capped towers, domes, castles and minarets, and snow-covered cones and ridges of those moun- tains are wonderful to behold; and those glori- ous forests of pines, cedars, cypresses, firs and larches are a sight to see. Even the cotton- wood tree (the balm of Gilead) there grows to such a size that from a single trunk a canoe is often made capable of bearing a phalanx of sixty warriors. Think of that. And no beam, or spar, or mast, or plank is ever required in any land which the fragrant cedars of Alaska cannot furnish. And the native grasses up there are first rate for cattle and horses, Such is the island and coast section of Alaska; and from all that is known of the great inland Yukon valley it is much the same. In the third place, the land animals of this new purchase are worth something. They include the elk and the deer in profusion—the bear, the black, the grizzly, the cinnamon and other varieties; mountain sheep, enormous fellows, with rich fleeces; the wolf and the fox, in several varieties; the beaver, the otter, the mink, the raccoon, the marten, the ermine, the squirrel—gray, black, brown and fiying. It is from these fur-bearing animals that the Hudson Bay Company have become so rich that po combination of capital has yet been found competent to buy them out. beng at 15c. a154¢, and the average price being about 14%0, For mitch cows the market Next, with regard to the Alaskan ice crop. was dull, but unchanged. Prime and extra It has been a failure in the coast ponds this were quoted at $90 a $125 each, fair to good at $758 LADIKS' NEW YORK MUS! OF ANATOMY, 620 Brondway,--PEMALES ONLY iN ATTENDANCE. New York, Tuesday, September 14, 1869. IN BROOKLYN. THE HERALD Notice to Carriers nud Newsdealers. BRoowLyn SMEN future receive their papers at the Branco Orrice crue New Yoru Henatp, No. 145 Fultou street, Canrrers 4nd } will in Brooklya. all Hirranp will be ADVERTISEMENTS Srescriptions and Jetters for the received as above. and New York MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Daity HeRaLp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter. country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the HeRALD at the same price it is Survished tn the city. THE NEWS. Europe. Our Capie telegrams are dated September 13. From Paris we have a report. which is exten- sively circulated in the city, to the effect that Napoleon intends to abdicate in favor of his son, the Empress and Prince Napoleon constituting a regency. Tne Emperor's health remains delicate. Eugenie will, it is asserted, resume her tour to the East. General Prim reached Paris from Vichy. At Vichy the General had a conference with the Spanish Ministers to England and France relative to the American policy towards Cuba, at which the course of the Cabinet in Washington 1s denounced as “un- grateful and oMcious.” Detachments of Spanisn troops had sailed for Cuba, The Spanish Cabinet contempiates the abolition of slavery in Porto Rico and @ genera) plaa of colonial reform. English writers express the opinion that the system of per- sonal government is at an end in Fraace. By steamship at this port we have mail details of our cable telegrams to the Ist of September. A Liverpool journal of the 31st ultimo reports that Mr. Jefferson Davis, accompanied by his friend Dr. Charles Mackay, had returned to Edinburg from the morth and left again for London. He is much im- proved in health by his sojourn in Scotland, in the course of which he visited much of the finest scenery. Hayti. General Victorin has surrendered Gonaives to the revolutionists and has been permitted to return to Port au Prince with his troops. The town has been again opened to trade. In Port au Prince Victorin had some trouble with the authorities and a fight ‘was imminent, but the trouble was finally compro- mized, Salnave was in the interior. Miscellaneous. fhe President and his family left this city yester- day foratour through the Alleghany regions of Pennsylvania, Last night they rested at Altoona. Admiral Hoff’s report on the execution of Ameri- cans at Santiago de Cuba has been received in Wash- ington, and shows that it was simply a massacre, the administration of Justice being impossibie, The old war vessels now being reflited in the various navy yards are not intended for any im- portant or pressing duty. It has been found neces- sary to take them out of ordinary to save them from injary. Prince Arthur and suite travelled the entire dis- tance between Frederickton, Nova Scotia and River du Loup (255 miles), in carriages, in less than thirty- five hours running time. The only persons unat- tached to bis suite permitted to accompany him were three representatives of the New York press, ‘Tne Prince Jeaves River du Loup to-day for Quebec, where he expects to arrive to-morrow. Returns from the Maine election yesterday indicate tho triumph of Chamberlain, republican, by about 6,000 mejority, to 31,000 majority last year. Hich- born, the temperance candidate, will probably re- Ceive 6,000 vores in ali, ‘The Miners’ Union, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., have pub- lished a card denying the reports that the Avondale shaft waa seton fire by miners, They say that the report is set afloat by the Delaware and Lackawana Company to screen their own criminaliiy tn the mat- ter. ‘Tne New York State Fair commences at Elmira to-day. The display of stock is expected to be more exteusive than at any previous exhivition of the society. The toral number of entries is over 2,000, A consolidation of the Western Union and Atlantic ‘and Pecitic States Telegraph Companies of Califor Dis has been effected. ‘The gang of incendiaries who have recently cansed guch great destruction of snow sheds, fuel and water tanks and stations on the line of the Central Pacific ‘Ratirowd has been broken up and ge veral of the lead. ers arrested, ‘The trial of James H. A. Shureman, charged with tue robbery of printed and stamped pank note paper from the Treasury, was commenced in Judge Fish- er’s court in Washington yesterday. A postpone- ment till Monday was granted, however, before any evidence was taken, on an afMdayit of the accused that H. M, Turner, an important witness, who can prove that the papers were taken by another party, ‘was absent in Georgia. Supervisor Fulton, of the Wilmington (Del.) dis- trict is in Washington, urging no compromise in the eedings against some large whiskey dealers and distillers in his district, against whom he claims to have clear proof, He received instructions to press the matter in the cour's. Acclaim against the United States of $660,000 in Cid has been awarded by the Claims Commissioners Qader the Aragon treaty, WM oxtinction of tue pow A : season; but in the glaciers (if that ice will do) there is a liberal supply. In minerals, too, Alaska is well supplied. Its copper mines are an old story, and it has whole ranges of mountains of iron, the very dust of which adheres to the magnet. It has beds of coal on the Kootsnoo; and in other places placer and gold quartz mining is carried on. With such resources in the land and the water, with a climate singularly salubrious, and with scenery surpassing in sublimity that of the Alps, the Apennines, the Alleghanies or the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Seward expects a glo- rious future for Alaska in its settlement and development. The summer season in those high latitudes is too short for much in the way of farming and gardening ; but for fishermen, hunters, lumbermen, miners and dealers in ice Alaska is the Promised Land. We have given the substance of Mr. Seward’s report to the citizens of Sitka of the results of his observations as to the ma- terial resources of Alaska. His political re- fiections thereon are full of enthusiasm. From all that he says we are inclined to think that Alaska is a good bargain. Mr. Seward, how- ever, in his detour hardly touched the main continental body of Alaska. Therefore, we hope that among the recommendations of Gen- eral Grant’s regular December message to Con- gress he will recommend a liberal appropria- tion for a scientific exploring expedition next summer of this prodigious terra incognita by land and water. Mr. Seward’s glances along the coast will increase the public desire to know all about the vast interior of Alaska. $85 and infertor te common at $45 a $70. Veal calves were in fair demand and steady, at 11c. a 12c. tor prime and extra, 10c. @ 11¢. for common to good and 8c, a @%¢, for inferior. Grass calves were quoted at 4c. @ 8c., according to quality. Sneep were quiet, but quite steady, at 7c, a7 4c. for extra, 6),¢. & 6¢C, for prime, 5c, &6c. for common to good and 4c, a 44¢c. for inferior. Lamba were quoted at Tc. a 9c. Swine were quiet at 9\c. a 10\c., with arrivals of 5,689 bead, chiefly for the combination. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Shipman, of Hartford, is at the Hoifman House. General E. Ward, of New York, 13 at tuo Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Coionel E. C, Belle, of Montreal, and Dr. H. Cha- pin, of Mobile, are at the New York Hotel. Commander W. H. Lewis, of steamer Hartford; Seaton Donono, of Washington; Colonel C. H. Whit- lev, Chief of Secret Service, Wasnington, and Major D. Summers, of New Orieans, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Governor Patton, of Alabama; @x-Governor W. Dennison and B, EF, Smith, of Ohio; T. A. Young, of Salt Lake City, and Andrea Comigie, of Pennsy!- vania, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel T. 8. Cobb, of Kalamazoo; Colonel George Hooper, of Boston; Judge S. T. Hinsdale, of North Carolina; Colonel W. W. ‘Benjamin, of Sing Sing; Judge Marshall Brown, of Washington; Judge Paw- ling, of Quincey, 11; Colonel E. M. Stebbins, of Troy; Coionel Samuei Waiker, of Schenectady, and General B.S. Roberts, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commodore McDougal, of the United Siates steamer Powhatan; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsy!- yania; Coionel Lount, of Washington; J. H. Risely, of South Carolina, and R. W. Mulligan, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House. Vv The Glorions Land of Alaska—The Venera- ble Seward Has Seen It and Rejoices. Let sceptics doubt no longer. Alaska is a great and glorious country, incalculable in its riches and cheap as dirt for the trifle of money paid for it. Our venerable statesman, W. H. Seward, who bought it at a venture, has seen it and he is more than satisfied—he is de- lighted. As the Queen of Sheba, attracted by the reports of the grandeur and glory of King Solomon, found on visiting him in his royal city of Jerusalem that not one-half the story of his surpassing splendors had been told, even so the Sage of Auburn is entranced with the splendors of Alaska. In the Portland Oregon- ian we find a full report of a speech delivered by Mr. Seward, on the 12th day of August last, at Sitka, the chief seaport and only city of Alaska (population say five hundred), and from this can of rich arctic milk we propose to skim off the delicious cream in this article, First, in answer to the inquiry, ‘You have looked on Alaska, what do you think of it?” he says :— Unhappily, [ have seen too little of Alaska to an- Celebrating Humboldt. “If, then,” says Socrates, in the Republic of Plato, ‘‘persons of first rate philosophical attainments, either in the countless ages that are past have been, or in some foreign clime, far beyond the limits of our horizon, at the present moment are, or hereafter shall be, con- strained by some fate to undertake the charge of a State, I am prepared to argue to the death in defence of this assertion—that then and there the realization of the ideal of perfect government was, is or will be.possible.” This thought of the first great thinker that wrote on government may be aptly remembered to-day, when we see a great division of our population coming out to honor, as if he had been a king or a general, a man great only in the world of intellect. It is a good sign for the age that it is disposed thus to do large and public honor to a man like Humboldt, whose life was de- voted to the increase of knowledge, for it im- awer the cinestion, satiatactoriiy, The entire coast | plies that men know who their true ine of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, ts t 10,000 miles, While the coast line of Alaska alone,'tu- | Denefactors are, and it also indicates cluding the islands, 1s 26,000 miles. Tue portion of | the active influence upon the govern- the Territory which lies east of the peninsula, tn- cluding-islands, is 120 miles wide; the western por- tion, including the Aleutian Islands, expands to a breadth of 2,200 miles. The entire land area, includ- ing island, is $77,390 statute square miies, We should think @ foreigner very presumptuous who should presume to five the world an opinion of the whole ol the United States of America after he had merely looked in from his steamer at Plymouth and Boston harbor, or had run up the ladson river to the High lands, or had ascended the Delaware to Trenton, or the James river to Richmond, or the Sergi no farther than Memphis. My observation of ska thas far has hardly been more comprehensive. Then, after describing his explorations among the seaboard ir'ands and up to Mount Fairweather, he proceeds to give his impres- sions of the country. - First, he tells of the climate. Of course, in regions so vast the climate must be variable ; but he thinks that ‘he must be a fastidious person who complains of climates in which, while the eagle delights to soar, the humming bird does not disdain to flutter.” He says, too, that ‘‘not only have these skies been suffi- ciently bright and serene to give me a perfect view, under the sixtieth parallel, of the total eclipse of the sun and of the evening star at the time of the sun’s obscuration, but I have also enjoyed more clear than there have been cloudy days in the early mornings and late evenings peculiar to the season.” And if they have fewer unclouded sunrisings and settings in Alaska than in more southern latitudes, they have more frequent and more magnifi- cent displays of the rainbow and the aurora. “And of’ all the moonlights in the world com- mend me to those which light up the archipel- ago of the North Pacific Ocean.” ‘The ther- mometer tells the whole case when it reports that the summer is cooler and the winter is warmer in Alaska than in New York and Washington.” The country, too, must be healthy, for Mr. Seward says that he has mingled freely with its mixed population, the Tonguss, the Stickeens, the Cakes, the Hydahs, the Sitkas, the Kootsnoos and the Chilcats, and with the traders, sol- diers, seamen—English, Russian, Swedish and American—and he has found them all in robust and exuberant health. Manhood, up there, is sotive gud energetic; Infancy seems gxempt ment of the world of the men who alone will touch it with unselfish intelligence. If the world will accept as its heroes, its saints, and the special objects of its general admiration, thinkers, writers and philosophers, we can afford to be careless as to who sits in the Board of Aldermen or who is sent to Albany to sell privileges to the railroad companies ; for while these can only draw statutes and “enact” them, the philosophers will frame and form the public mind, and with that truly hon- est bad laws can do small harm. Such men as Humboldt are, far more than any round dozen of poets a piece, the ‘unacknowledged legislators,” and they are only wunac- knowledged because formal recognition would be a snperfluity, We should be grateful, therefore, to our German fellow citizens for the good example they set in celebrating a man of this character; and we are glad to perceive in their choice the natural expression of the elevated views they take of life—the viows that make them good citizens, good men and good merchants, Butonery, raex Catcmyy.—The allegation that the Avondale mine shaft was maliciously set fire to is made in the interest of the mine owners and as « cover for their own indefen- sible carelessness, They know that the fire originated with the fine, and that the mine ought not to have been as it was a day; they know also that it was hardly less than murder to put men in sucha mine, and therefore they want to have it belioved that the fire origi- nated in some way quite beyond their control. Hence the charge of incendiarism, not yet sup- ported by a tithe of evidence, “Uneasy Ligs tuk Heap,” &o.—Victor Emanuel is a man who has due regard to the comfort of this life, and is a good father in hie desire that bis son's head should be situ- ated more satisfactorily than his own. He which may be in dispute, least of gil @ Spanish | POW Ms, wants no crowns for the boy the ownership of The Senatus Gonsultum—France and Na- poleon. In our issue of yesterday we printed a synopsis of the Senatus Consultum as agreed upon by the Senate. The original draft of what we may call the French Reform bill has had wonderful success, It has been examined by a committee of the Senate-and since by the Senate itself, During the process it has not undergone any very serious change. As pro- mulgated by the Emperor and signed and countersigned by MM. Rouher and Duvergier, it is wonderfully like its original self. or two points it 18 perhaps slightly improved ; but no thoughtful student of the times can re- fuse to admit that such constitution would carry insult to any people not yet emancipated from the long garments and other entangle- ments of babyhood. make no better terms with the Emperor the French people ought, we suppose, to be satisfied. Milk for babes, strong meat for men—such is an old and wholesome regimen. If the milk satisfies France the outside world has no cause of complaint, In one If the French people can We cannot forget, however, that the Corps Législatif, the popular branch of the French Legislature, which will assemble a few weeks hence, will have something to say on these reforms. approved by the Senatorial body is no proof that it satisfies France, from the very nature of its composition, is and cannot but be the tool of the ruler for the time being. So long as its members are appointed, directly or indirectly, by the Emperor or chief of the State it cannot be otherwise. feeling on the subject of the Emperor's reforms is therefore a something of the nature and character of which to know we must wait. That the new constitution has been The French Senate, French Itis unfortunate for the Emperor and his dynasty, but it is fortunate for France and the French people, that this reform movement should have occurred at a time when the life of the man who for the years the French social and political pyramid trembles in the balance. can now, if they choose, terms. will have pity upon the Emperor and spare bim, or whether, now that the Emperor can no longer by native force maintain his position, the social and political fabricand the Emperor must go wholesale. The situation is critical. The Emperor may prove himself a second Augustus Cesar, but he may not. that Louis Napoleon has been a blessing to France, present would be to his family, to France, to Europe and to the world a grievous calamity. But there are many in France and Europe who think differently, and itis their affair rather than ours. We wish well to the Emperor and well to the empire, but we wish well also for liberty. To us the cause of popular progress is dearer than that of dynasties. world move on even if thrones and dynasties should perish. rumors of intended abdication, for the simple reason that abdication could do no good. last twenty has stood on the summit of The French people make their own It remains to be seen whether France We believe It is our conviction that his death at Let the We have little faith in the Sabbsth Rowdyism. Although the churches are well filled every Sabbath with pious congregations and pastors are exuberant in their denunciations of vice and in pointing out the paths to virtue, it does not appear that the holiness of the Sabbath is any protection against the worst forms of crime. seem to single out that day for such pastimes as rowdyism, brutality and murder may sug- gest, instance, show no less than eight cases of a very grave character. bing case in Mott street, a probable homicide in Pearl street, a robbery at the New York Hotel, a felonious assault and stabbing in Eldridge street, another stabbing case in West Broadway, a highway robbery on Seventh avenue, a savage assault, accompanied with robbery, upon a woman in Catharine street, the killing of @ child in a drunken affray be- tween father and mother in Mulberry street, ands fight in which the knife was probably fatally used in Christopher street. very sad Sabbath record, indeed. Either the pulpit must be more practical in its efforts to reform human nature, or the police authorities must be more active in subduing the savage passions which the pulpit cannot reach or con- trol, or else the Sabbath will become a day of blood and crime rather than of peace, rest and holiness. Indeed, a portion of the community The police records of last Sunday, for To begin with, a stab- This is a Tae Marne Exrxotioy.—Our despatches this morning, as of course was expected, show a republican triumph for Maine. was not one to bring out the full vote of the The issue State. In fact not much more than one half of the registered vote in the Presidential cam- paign was polled. Chamberlain is re-elected Governor of the State by a strong majority. General Smith polled a larger vote than his party has been honored with in previous years, in proportion to the number polled. The temperance candidate, Hichburn, was far be- hind in the race, sbowing that after all the Maine temperance law is in the main not the thing for the people of the Pine Tree State. Governor HorrMan AND THE FIrTRENTH AMENDMENT.—As to the New York ratifica- tion of the fifteenth amendment, it appears that Governor Hoffman has had no idea of at- tempting a nullification by withholding its transmission to the Secretary of State at Washington, On the other hand, to put an end to all quibbling, he has quietly forwarded the papers to the State Department. The Governor has got beyond the gaming of the small politicians, and his motto is ‘Excel- sior.” Sicxtes has intimated to Spain, as per in- struction, that the American people cannot be kept quiet much longer in regard to Cuba; that there is a limit to what our government may do in neglecting the wishes of the people, and that recognition must come soon if there is no change. Therefore we hear that Spain is going to send out forthwith from six to twenty-four thousand soldiers. But who has seen these soldiers ? Tue SmaMBies.—Several cases of death are under investigation by the Coroners. In one @ man was found dying in the street from injuries, in another a woman; and no clue to the crime in either case. Such is the wilder- pesg of the cite. ——$—$——$—— The State of Aguirs im Paraguay. It is only occasionally that we get news direct from Paraguay. That which we receive frequently comes, for the most part, by the way of Brazil or through the hands of Brazil- It is manufactured or garbled in the interest of Brazil, and misrepre- Lopez, the President of Paraguay, according to the re- ports of his enemies, has been on the eve of ians and their allies, sents the real state of things. subjugation and expulsion » hundred times; but he holds his ground yet, and is likely to There have been similar misrepre- sentations of his conduct and character and of Still we get occa- sionally, as was said, some facts, and the recall of Mr. McMahon, late American Minister to Paraguay, has thrown more light upon the hold it, the object of the war. nature and prospects of the war. Our cor- respondence from Paris, announcing the arrival at that city of Mr, McMahon, says ‘it is now positively known that the position of Marshal Lopez in the Cordilleras is very strong, and that the Paraguayan chief has still sufficient elements to sustain the defence of the republic. The Paraguayans are more than ever decided to defend the independence and liberty of the republic against the invasion of the Brazilian monarchy. The outrageous treatment of General McMahon by the Brazilians on his passage through the lines of the army calls for the prompt attention of our government. It ap- pears that the Brazilian cavalry charged upon him and his escort, notwithstanding they had a flag of truce, and that Count d’Eu, the Gene- ral-in-Chief, was informed of his coming. Then the news previously received that the United States Legation at Asun- cion had been searched by Brazilian troops is confirmed. In view of these outrages and of the state of things generally in that part of the world our government ought not to remain passive and should be properly represented by a capable minister in Para- guay. Important questions are involved in the struggle between Paraguay and the allies which deeply interest the United States. In the correspondence referred to it is properly said that the republican principle and republi- can government in South America are threat- ened by the growing preponderance of the Brazilian monarchy ; that the free navigation of the tributaries of the river Plate is threat- ened by the countries allied with Brazil, and that it is of great importance that the republic of Paraguay should maintain its existence so that the navigation of the great rivers of that part of South America be free and that the ambition and centralizing power of Brazil be kept in check. Our government should ponder over these facts and should be properly repre- sented in Paraguay. We do not want another such minister as Washburne there, nor such as J. Ross Browne was in China, but a thorough American and republican at heart. THe PuttapEpoia Democracy, in imita- tion of their New York brethren, have got into a muddle over their local tickets, and with a fair prospect of a lively time and a aplit before they settle it. Taree Men of distinction in our national affairs were lying unburied at the same hour; but what different ages seem brought together in the several histories of Fessenden, Rawlins and John Bell! CITY POLITICS. Democratic General Committee=The History and Genius of the Democratic Party~Ad- dress by Mr. Henry Morrison. The regular monthly meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Committee was held last evening, Mr. Joel A. Fithian presiding. There was a large at- tendance. The call of the roll was, on motion, unanimously dispensed with, and, after the reading of the minutes, resolutions were read by Mr. Sulii- van tn favor of nomiuating Mr. Hennessy as member of Assembly from the Fourteenth district, com- prising the upper portion of the Seventeenth ward, ‘The resolutions were adopted. The chairman then delivered a brief adaress, in the course of which he said that several apostates had endeavored to create a feud in the regu tar dem ocratic organization. He had made diligent inquiry and found that there was no @isaffection existing at all, Even ifthere should be the young democrats of this city should stand the more ormly. Mr. Henry Morrison was then introduced and came forward amid loud tokens of approbation. He said he was present in response to the invitation of the committee. He was there in performance of a duty to deliver an address, and if tne committee felt aught of the peer by him experienced in the honor of the effort he would be fully paid. After al- luding in complimentary terms to the name of Ho- ratio Seymour the speaker went on to state that the genius of the democratic party was as eternal as the country and that both must expire simultaneously without hope of resurrection by the light of the past. In the silent watches of the night the watchman’s response was thar the waters were there in their waste and in their volume rolling in; and In this immensity of expanse and inundation the good old ark of democracy--her timbers strained but sound—was floating yet, and by the light of other days, which had no¢ taded, the morning dawned. It broke, and with it came the dove upon the deck, bearing in her beak their omen and their pride; she came with evidence that the Empire State had given her foothold and wei- come, for on each leaf and evergreen, in letters of light ana life again to the democratic arty was inscribed, “Excelsior.” (Applause.) he early dawn which broke upon the cradie of the country shed a light almost simultaneously apon the cradie of democracy. He contended that the repub> licans of 1788 were the democracy of 1868; that the republicans of 1863 were the federalists of 1788, History waa again repeating itself, and the republi- cans of the present Gay were known by the same name as the democrats of the past, actually taking the livery of heaven to serve tne devil in. (Laughter.) The great question of the day yet remained undetermined—whether the general gov- ernment was the master of the States or the people of the States were the masters of the general government—-as undevermined as if no life had been lost or no dollar had been spent in the great national struggle which bad inated, Aside from minor questions the democratic party rose in its majesty above all other issues, claiming the confidence of the people by its very fears as the needle trembled into place. (Applause.) whe sacred history of the democratic party was the property of mankiad by experience jong anterior to the necessity of its ex- istence in the United States, The accursed hia- tory of its aptagonist—centralization—was the chronicle of the headsman, the faggot and the rope, the lost liberties of peoples, the wreck of States and the death of commerce. (Applause.) ‘The light, the spirit, the genius of democratic prin- ciples rose above its tustory, a8 when @ patriot or martyr was taken out to dic. The axe gieamed in the air to crimson the sod with the life étream that followed as the spirit ascended, Mr. Morrison then proceeded to give @ most minute and interesting his- tory of the democratic party, showing principall; the fatal effects of centralization. He traced witl considerable accuracy and clearness the formation of the several political organizations. He referred at some length to the modifications of the term of this Unton by the new compact known as the pre- went constitution, The declaration of independence of the colonies into states was founded. fe a acts of the vioiation of the crown of the rights of the people caused by centralization of power which crushed thove rights. After a very lengthened reference to the general and State governments the 5} er al Va in eloquen’ terms to the history of the demo- crat which, he said, was invoked for its 1 party, genius. The insidious course of centralization was like the Ilitie stream that glided down the face of the mighty rocks; gathering strength, it lived @ rivu- let; flowing and joining some wandering current, it became a torrent, leaping to the plain, when, mighty in its sudden increase, the cataract tore oe the Lot d Cd Lg a 8 so teeee wire work of ages. ate. | satraps and hordes’ of government offictals in the name of their government, at the vitals of the people collecting revenues and taxes according to the maxi- mum standard of their own interpretation, and ir returns in the minimum letter of their warrene—pe ges DACKod 1X te Most Warrante—political gral oleaginous places purposely to absor® all they can, peer gre Brain dispen with. (Appiause.) Say not Mat republics were ungrateful. ‘They nad & ruler who, after MeClelian’s right hand was crippled by jealous jaterierence, was Ulustrious; whose high altitude In the zenith of the aspirations of statesmen duzzied them with incomprenensivuity when they regarded bis qualifications, bidding democrats take advantage of the interregnum which success of party had accomplished to ask a nation to return to the allegia of the first principles of weir existence, when its debt of gratitude had been overpaid at the expense Of reason and jusiioe in the admiring but intemperate enbrace of the re- nowned soidier as the ensign of the so-called re- publican party. Kussia nad her Poland, Austria her Hungary, England her ireland and America her South. Democracy said unbind them. Let them up and let themin. Unbound, they rose disinthralled and free, and resumed thetr rank among the sove- reign States of a restored and rpetuated Unton, and by the uving life and light of the history of the democ..ctic party, with eyes upturned to heaven, redeemed, regenerated and restored by democracy and the inspiration of its genius, they claimed taeir birthright and their atuributes of immortality. The address was listened to with great atten. tion, and a vote of thanks having been passed to Mr, Morrison the proceedings terminated. Banner Kaising in the Thirteenth Ward. The Edward J, Sbapdley Association last night raised a very handsome banner at the corner of Clinton and Delancey streets, bearing the name of the association, an exceilent likeness of Judge Shandiey and the names of the oMcers of the club, After the ratsing avery enthusiastic meeting was held, presided over by FP. J. McLoughlin, the presi- dent of the association, John N. Andrews acting as secretary, The meeting was @ very large and enthusiastic one, and @ series of resolutions en- dorsing Mr, Edward J. Shandiey for the nomina- tion for Police Justice were passed. Short and spirited speeches were ee made by Mesars. Charles A, J. Goldey, E. J. Si ry, I. D. Kiernan, Pp. J. McAlear, W. ©, Gover, J. P. freshman and P, J. Delaney. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed, and about half-past ten o'clock the meeting adjourned with three hearty cheers for Justice Shandley, Nineteenth Ward Cohen Democratic Asso ciation. At the regular meeting of the Jacob Cohen Demo- cratic Association of the Nineteenth ward, held at their headquarters, Brevoort Hall, last evening, upon the occasion of ratsing a banner for Jacob Cohea ag Supervisor of the city and county of New York, is Was unanimously resolved that “we, the democ- racy of the Nineteentn ward, encouraged by the de- mocracy of the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Kleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, ‘Twenty-first and Twenty-second wards, bear the banner of Jacob Cohen, and proclaim aim the democratic candidate, as the people's choice, for Supervisor at the coming election next November.’ Mr. J. Herzberg, in the chair, announced Mr. P. O’Rielly, of the Thirteenth ward, as the first speaker. Captain Samuel CU. Sloan, of the Fifteenth ward, followed, in which he favored an adjournment to the Twenty-second ward, where the McClellan Legion were holding a meet- Ing, in which they proposed to change their name to the “Jacob Cohen Democratic Association of tI Twenty-second Ward.” The meeting then ad- journed, having previously appointed a committee to wait upon the association of the Twenty-second ward. THE SUPERVISORSHIP. Fourth Ward German Democratic Club. There was a meeting last evening of the above or- ganization at Kimmel’s saloon, in Pearl street. The meeting was called to order by Mr. George Horn, the president, who spoke at some length in reference to the object of the meeting. He concluded by mov- ing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, ledging the support of the club to Walter lioche for Supervisor as the most suitable candidate, the oor man’s friend, and a8 one who has reflected onor on the city and on lis constituents. Democracy HKaise a Banner to Walter Roche. The Fourth Ward Tammany Democracy had @ “banner raising’ last night in honor of Mr. Walter Roche, @ candidate for Supervisor. After the ban- her, which bears @ likeness of Mr. Roche, haa been raised to the breeze a meeting was organized at Kennedy's Hotel, in Oliver street, with Mr. William Kennedy in the chair. Speeches were made anu re- solutions adopted, all looking to the renomination and re-election of Mr. Roche to the oMce of Super- visor, The Young Men’s Democratic Club or the Tenth Ward had a similar ceremony last evening, consist- ing of the raising of banners, speeches and resolu- tions, all in favor of Mr. Walter Roche. POL‘TICAL NOTES. Southern papers are not astonished that the an- nual “skinned nigger” which the Northern radicals get up about election time has duly made his ap- pearance and used for electioneering effect, seve- Tal important State elections being close at hand. The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist states that the negroes as a general thing in Georgla have aban- doned the madness of political strife and gone to work with commendable industry ana cheerfulness. This excellent change on their part has met with @ Cordial response. ‘The same paper adds:—*Had it not been for the drought employers and employed would have had a most comfortable provision laid aside for Christmas, and even as times go there will be many @ planter whose purse will be well filled this winter, and thousands of Georgia negroes who will be able next season to buy mules, land, buggies and what- ever cash can bring.” Isham G. Harris is apoken of as a candidate for United States Senator from Tennessee. Why pot talk of the ghost of the late John Bell? ‘There is a rupture among the Philadelphia democ- racy. It was aot so much occasioned by th reity of water aa by the plenteousness of whiskey. Radical State Convention meet in Richmond 24th November. The New Orleans Picayune says that city is much exercised over the rumor that there was to be called an extra session of the Legislature. The exercises of that Legislature have not been particuiarly popu- lar with the old Orleanois, Dr. Ayer, of pectoral fame, has a clear field in Boutwell’s district, as the republican nominee for Congress. Mr. Seward says the coast line of Alaska and tts islands is 26,000 miles in extent, while that of the rest of the United States 1s but 10,000, The area of the former is 577,000 square miles. Quite a nice little farm. 8. Gross Fry declines the democratic nomination for City Treasurer of Philadelphia, intimating that he has other fish to fry. He writes a letter advising other democratic candidates to follow suit, which later the Philadelphia Post pronounces a revolution in democratic politics. The Chicago Tribune declares that “woman 1s, un- doubtedly, the coming man of the present day.” By the great powers of clignons and panters! “can such things be’’—coming ? THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS. The Great Litigation for the Titlo to the Hempstead Piains Property—A. Victory for the Modern Alexander—Mr. Stewart Has the Deeds in His Pocket. On Thursday last, before Judge Joseph F, Barnard, at Poughkeepsie, application was made by Judge Hilton, counsel for Alexander T. Stewart, for a writ of mandamus against the Supervisor and Town Clerk of Hempstead, L. I., commanding them to exe- cute and deliver to Mr. Stewart a conveyance of the Hempstead Plains, The subject was fully argued, and Judge Arm- strong was heard on behalf of the town aathorities, stating all the facts of the case and the various claims made by Mr. Harvey adverse to the consum- mation of the conveyance to Mr. Stewart, but add~ ing, however, that the Town Supervisor and Clerk were desirous of carrying out the wishes of the town electors, if the court should devermine it wae their legal daty to do s0, Judge Barnard declared unhesitatingly shat tt was their duty to do 80, and forthwith issned his, man- damns commanding them to that effect, They accordingly prepared the deed of the Plains, which oomprise, exclusive of roads, 7,170 acres, and on yesterday (Monday) morning tendered it to Mr. Stewart. He at once accepted it and gave his check for the whole consideration of $294,350, ‘The stamps on the conveyance covered nearly the whole paper and cost $3,944. The deed was recorded yesterday with the County Clerk at Jamaica, and thus Mr, Stewart has become the actaal owner of the Hempstead Plains, notwithstanding all efforts to the contrary, 11 seems from this that the threatoned Jegal diMcuities have not amounted to much, but have been overcome by Mr. Stewart without the delay vhat nsyally attends such things, J¢ Paan,