The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1872, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. alist sears JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news lotters and telographic Cespatches must be addressed New Youre Herat. Letters and packages should be properly coaled, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. No. 283 Volume XXXVI, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strect.—PYGMaLion AND GALATKA, BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty -tt -third street, corner Sixth fvenue.—ARKAU-NA-POGUR, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cacutostro; or, Tax Scanter Deston—My Sanam Grbps, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth fav.—Roi Canorte. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- feenth and Fourteenth ‘streets.—AGNES. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ¥scarep rnom Sixc Sing, Asternoon and Evening. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, S14 Broadway,—Varurr ENteRTAINweNT. Matinee at 2%. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diamonns. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Iranian Orxna—Favusr. MRS. 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PENNSYLVANIA UN DOUBTEDLY REPUBLICAN BY 10,000 TO 15,000 MAJORITY; OH10 CLAIMED FOR THE ADMINISTRATION; INDIANA DOUBTFUL; SCENES AT THE POLLS—Tuirp Pace. “THE REPUBLICAN VICTORIES YESTERDAY! THEIR EFFECT AND THEIR MORAL: EDITORIAL LEADER—S1xTH PaqGe. FIDES PONICA! HARTRANFT ON CURTIN AND THE RESULT—THE NEWS IN THIS CITY AND AT WASHINGTON—TuiRp Pace. ENIGHTS TEMPLARS—REGISTRATION—PER- SONAL—AMUSEMENTS—SEVENTH PAGE. YITTER B NDENCE BE- EN A AND JUDG SOMINATIONS— ERS IN CUBA— 3EVENTH Pace. “BULLS” AND “BEARS'’ AND THE NA- TIONAL TREASURE! MONEY RELAXES; A NEW POOL IN PACIFIC MAIL—FirtTu PaGE. FIVE FINE RACES AT JEROME PARKi THE FAVORITES ALL SUCCESSFUL—A CLOSE AND EXCITING GAME OF BASE BALL— FourtH Page. DOGS’ DELIGHT! THE GREAT HEAVY-WEIGHT FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN NEW JERSEY—THE JERSEY RIOT INQUIRY— Fourtn Page. MEETING OF THE INEBRIATE CURERS—COURT PROCEEDINGS—GREEN AND THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS—SHIPPING—Tentu PAGE. pert] Presmentiat EnEctions in PennsyLvanta.— The majorities over all candidates in the Presidential elections in Pennsylvania in the Jast four elections were as follows :— 1856—Buchanan. 298 1864—Lincoln. 20,075 1360—Lincoln.. 59,708 1868—Grant. 28,898 Mr. Buchanan received 230,772 votes to 148,272 for Fremont and 82,202 for Fillmore. In 1860 Mr. Lincoln received 268,030 votes to 178,871 for Breckinridge, 16,765 for Douglas and 12,776 for Bell. The popular vote at the four elections was as follows: — 461,196 1864 476,852 1868 These figures show that in 1856 the State was pretty evenly divided, especially when we remember that in October the democratic majority was only 2,775, and they show besides that since the republican party became a power Pennsylvania has been steadily republican on a full vote. Not the least singular revelation of these tables is the remarkable increase in the popular vote both in 1864 and 1868. From the returns which we print this morning it seems plain that in the Presidential election this year there will be no diminution in the popular vote or the standard republican majority. Tax Civic Tumut or THE Maprm Snop- KEEPERS in opposition to a municipal corporate authority was renewed and persevered in to such a riotous extent yesterday that the ser- vice of a battalion of the National Guard was required for the purpose of clearing the streets after the police had been routed by the popu- lace. King Amadeus has a very unpleasant position as a sovereign. Inp1ana is yet in dombt, At least so say the telegraphic despa’ She gave 961 ma- jority for Baker, against Hendricks, for Governor, in 1868 The question now to be decided by the “latest returns” is (whether Hendricks has been improved in the ‘eyes of the people by joining the Greeley movement. Who knows? Tae Prusstan Provinces or ALsAck AND Lorrarne are being rapidly incorporated with the territorial domain of the German Empire. The very spelling of their names has German- ized into the Berlin vernacular by executive order. The people continue to flee away not- withstanding, and of those who remain a very large number have declared their option to re- gain the l'sench citizenship NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, The Republican Victories Yesterday— Their Effect and Their Moral. The elections yesterday have rosulted in a sweeping republican victory; a victory that settles the Presidential contest and proves beyond doubt that the attempt to hand over the federal government to a new party composed of democrats and dissatisfied republicans has proved a complete failure. Despite the draw- back of a questionable State ticket, and the avowed opposition of many of the supporters of President Grant; in the teeth of the most desperate efforts of the liberals, and of a can- vass of the State as thorough as political ox- perience, tact and energy could make it, Pennsylvania has elected Hartranft Governor by a@ majority probably exceeding twenty thousand. In contradiction of the con- fident predictions of Mr. Greeley him- self, made after a tour through tho State, Ohio has apparently remained faithful to the republican cause, although los- ing considerable of her accustomed majority. Even Indiana, with the great strength of Sona- tor Hendricks’ name to help the liberal side, has refused to repudiate the party of Abraham Lincoln—the party that carried the nation successfully through the war of the rebellion— and has probably ranged itself again under tho republican banner by a small majority. Thus the Central States, so far as thoy have spoken, and the Western States, add their voices to the New England States in repudi- ating the demand of the liberals for a chango in the national administration, and the great Cincinnati Convention that seemed at one time to promise so much, has proved powerful only in rousing the republicans to extraor- dinary exertions and giving them a scriousand perhaps a wholesome fright. We might readily find good reasons for this result. The absence of any well-defined issue involving a principle of government; the shock which a combina- tion between such incongruous elements as Greeley and the democracy could not fail to give to all conscientious minds ; the suspicion that a desire to obtain the spoils of office was the motive power of the Cincinnati .move- ment ; the imagined impracticability of Mr. Greeley's views of government; all or any of theso may account for the unwillingness of the people to accept tho proposed substitute for republicanism and to place the singular coali- tion in power. But itis enough for us that the campaign is virtually over, and that tho people for reasons of their own have declared in advance as distinctly as they can that they would rather trust President Grant with another four years of authority than try the experiment of four years of President Greeley, with a mixed party of old democrats and new liberals at his back. The republican organs will no doubt enlarge upon the enormity of the attempt to persuade the people to a different decision, and will indulge with keen relish in the ridicule of all who have been so rash as to leave the comfortable fireside of a well-provided party to follow the Cincinnati jack-o’-lantern into the morass of defeat and disappointment. A fresh flood of abuse will no doubt be turned upon the liberal traitors, and their fate will be held up as a terrible warning to all who may in future be tempted to wander from the true faith. But we prefer to leave to our partisan contemporaries the monopoly of all such com- mentary on yesterday's Waterloo, and to con- tent ourselves with quietly accepting tho result as the verdict of an intelligent people. While we admit the failure of the attempted political revolution, we are not disposed to question the honesty of many of those who have drawn their swords on the side of the revolutionists, or to doubt the sincere belief of Mr. Greeley and his followers that the best interests of the country demanded a different decision. There 1s, indeed, a lesson in these elections and in the closeness of the struggle all over the Union which should not be lost sight of, and which cannot safely be disregarded by the winning party. The strength of the opposi- tion shows that there are mistakes to be cor- rected, errors to be atoned for and evils to be remedied in the policy of the dominant party; that the country, if not just now prepared for a violent change, is nevertheless not too well satisfied with the present posi- tion of affairs. This fact appears all the more forcibly when we look back upon the history of the last six months and recall the events of that period. The candidates of the Cincinnati Convention were thrown upon the country without any organization—without more than a fragment of a party at their backs. Many people believe to-day that had a different nomination been made the result would have been more favorable. We do not share this opinion, regarding Mr. Greeley as the best representative of the oppo- sition to President Grant's administration that could have been chosen. At least his candi- dacy at first created an excitement which was mistaken for enthusiasm, and it was antici- pated by the over sanguine that the Cincin- nati ticket was destined to sweep the country. Then came the Baltimore Con- vention and the endorsement of the liberal nominees; but it soon appeared that the democrats were not to be a unit in the campaign, and that a large num- ber would refuse to swallow the principles of a lifetime and Mr. Greeley at the same moment. Yet still the movement somehow went on, and the most vigorous efforts of the administra- tion party were needed to hold it in check. The republicans unquestionably possessed an enormous advantage in the campaign through the control of the federal patronage and of almost any necessary amount of funds. But, despite all this, every election, from North Carolina down to the States that voted yes- terday, has had to be fiercely contested, and there is no doubt that any remission of exer- tion on the republican side would have been disastrous, There can be but one interpre- tation of this—the people are dissatisfied with the republican policy and are desirous that their sentiments should be understood. The hour of victory has before now been made the hour of magnanimity and justice by General Grant, and it will be well for himself and for the country if he will avail himself of his present triumphs—for they are his—to concede to the people those changes and reforms which they most earnestly desire, The popular sentiment in the North demands a reversal of the policy of oppression and revenge by which the republican Congress has endeavored to retain eontrol of the votes of the Southern States. Prosident Grant must not mistake the verdict of the people. Although given in his favor it is in despite of the offensive acts of his politi- cal advisers. The American nation hag not yet forgotten the great services he rendered to the Union cause in the war. The people look upon him still as the hero who carried the Union arms to victory and struck down into the dust the monster of rebellion. But they will demand of him in his next Presidential term equal freedom and self-government for the Southern and Northern States of the Re- publie; they will insist that the white men of the South shall be restored to the same rights ‘enjoyed by the white men of the North. The federal administration must’ no longer hold one section of the country by the throat under the pretence of securing the political rights of the negro race, Whites and blacks must be taught by their own will and for their own good to © live together in peace, and must learn that their interests ay citizens of a State are identical. Thus alone can real’ peace be se- cured and substantial safety be enjoyed by men of all color alike. The President also owes it to the people to change tho foreign policy of his administration, and by the substitution of some such citizen as Charles Francis Adams for Mr. Tish ‘in his Cabinet, to give a guarantee to the country that we shall have no more Alabama reproachos, that our action towards Cuba shall bo marked by something else than a de- grading subserviency to Spanish be- hests, and that in Mexico and _ else- where we shall assume the character of a powerful nation. There are other reforms which President Grant will now have it in his power to bestow upon the people who aro about to honor him again with their con- fidence, and it will be unlike the conqueror of General Leo if ho proves false to their ex- pectations and their hopes. Wo believe that the country will be well satisfied that the last scene of this stirring political drama is now approaching and that the performance is, in fact, virtually over. It has already been too long upon the stage, and the people are growing weary of the play and the actors, They havo had their entries and their exits, their fierce quarrels and stage combats, more showy than dangerous; their dis- plays of tragedy, comedy and broad farce; their speeches, songs and dances. Tho scenery has been shifted backwards and forwards, this way and that, now representing the town and now the country, now the palace and now the hovel, now in bright sunshine and again in the gloom of night. Tho footlights have been turned up or turned down, as the effect to be secured might demand ; the orches- tra has been fiddling, drumming and blowing without cessation, and the audience has been by turns pleased, angry, amused and wearied. Their ears are now tired of the rantings of the performers and tho noise of the music, and they will be glad when the bell rings and the drop curtain finally falls. It isa happy thing for the country that when that event takes place there will be no repetition of the per- formance for four years to come. The Presidential Contest—Mr. O’Conor’s Letter to Mr. Lyons and Opinion of Greeley. We publish in another part of the paper the brief correspondence between Mr. Lyons, the President of the Straight-Out Democratic Convention at Louisville, and Mr. Charles O'’Conor on the subject of Mr. O’Conor's nomination for the Presidency and on the character and fitness of Mr. Greeloy for that office. The correspondence is private, at least on the part of Mr. O’Conor; but Mr. Lyons deems it too good to be lost to the public, and, in spite of the injunction of Mr. O’Conor to the contrary, has givon it for publication. The direct object, apparently, of Mr. Lyons in writing to Mr. O'’Conor was to ascer- tain beyond doubt whether Mr. O’Conor would express his consent to accept the Presi- dency in the event of being elected to that office, and also to inquire as to the truth of certain reported expressions of Mr. O'Conor as to the “transcendent ability’? of Mr. Gree- ley. The letter of Mr. Lyons appears to have been written for the purpose of drawing out Mr. O’Conor in the strongest language against Mr. Greeley, and he has succeeded. Mr. O'Conor first reiterates what he had said before—that in no case would he accept the candidature for the Presidency—and would not express his consent to serve even if elected. He had the sagacity to sce, no doubt, that such a contingency was impossible, and, there- fore, he could safely say he would not consent to serve. But tho sum and substance of the whole matter was to show, in the forcible and bitter language which the eloquent New York lawyer could use, the reasons for the old Bourbon democrats’ hostility to Mr. Greeley. Henry A. Wise or any other great orator on that side could not have delivered a more scathing philippic against the candidate of the demo- cratic and liberal ropublican coalition. Mr. O'Conor asserts that Mr. Greeley did more than any other man to fill the bloody chasm between the two sections of the country with fratricidal slaughter and in involving the coun- try in its present enormous debt and demoral- ization. He has an inexpressible aversion to supporting such a man for the high office of President. This correspondence will not be without effect among the old straight-laced democrats, and will be one of the curious fea- tures of the Presidential campaign of 1872. Curntous Caanors IN THE CURRENT or TRADE tx Evrorg.—A few days since we had news of the novel and extraordinary commercial occur- rence of animportation of Belgian coal to Newcastle, England. To-day we are told from London that a Birmingham firm has concluded a contract with the Prussian government to furnish one hundred and fifty thousand rifles, ofan improved pattern, to the famous arms manufacture mart of Britain. Such are a few of the remarkable first consequences which are just resulting from the more close com- munion of the peoples of the world by elec- tricity. Tae Repvptican Canvrvate for Secretary of State of Ohio, in 1868, the year of the last Presidential election, beat his democratic com- petitor by a majority of 17,383. The vote in the State yesterday has apparently not come up to that figure; yet the State, as the Grant men say, is “all right." What do the liberals think of this? Did that tidal wave actually reach the Buckeyo State? & Last Word of Warning to Tam- many. The interest which the Hxgaup feela in the honest and efficient administration of the city government has induced us from time to time within the past four or five months to direct attention to the importance of the approach- ing municipal election, to point out the qualifi- cations needed in a candidate for the Mayor- alty and to suggest the names of such citizens for that and other local positions as in our judgment would be acceptable to the people, Two of the ablest of our city contemporaries have endorsed many of the views we have put forth and have seconded many of the suggestions we have made in re- gard to the future Chief Magistrate of the metropolis. A third spirited and influontial morning journal has united with us in urging the importance of the local ques- tions, and, although vigorously and. perseveringly pressing the claims of ita favorite candidate, Alexander T. Stewart, in preference to those of the gontloman we have last named for the office, has done so in a fair and courteous manner, and has relied upon legitimate and ingenious argument to strengthen its case. All have agreed with us on one point, the desirableness of a thor- oughly good nomination by the leading politi- cal organization in the city. We have sought to secure the selection of acceptable candidates by Tammany because we have been disposed to believe that the party had been purified in the fire of last year's revolution, and was prepared to prove the honesty of its professions by taking the lead in the reform movement this year. When the liberal cause seemed bright and there ap- peared to be a prospect of a return of some- thing like the old strength to the New York democracy, we tendered a number of excellent names to Tammany from which available se- lections might have been made for the head of a powerful ticket. The last sug- gestion we mado was one which could not fail to command the approval of all sincere reformers, although we never expected or de- sired that tho nomination should be made or accepted unless the reform organizations would be willing to give it their prompt formal en- dorsement. The action of the Tammany caucuses » few days since disappointed the general expectation, and implied that the organ- ization was still under the secret influence of the men who ruled it so unwisely a year ago. It soemod as if tho lesson of last November had been forgotten, and that the old defiance of popular sentiment that destroyed the old leaders was about to be re-enacted. To-day, however, the situation is greatly changed. The overwhelming disaster in Pennsylvania has shaken the strength of the Tammany and liberal combination and given confidence to its opponents, The regular democracy now finds itself, as it were, in the midst of an enemy's country, with its ranks broken by de- foat. One of the most powerful and sagacious domocratic leaders in the city is in open revolt against it, and is bent upon making a personal fight against its candidates to the bitter end. Besides his great popularity among the masses of the people he Is an acknowledged position ag a reformer, both .on account of his expo- sure of the acts of the old Ring and by reason of the steadfastness with which he did bat- tle, almost single-handed, against the corrupt Erie Railway management in the notorious Legislature of last Winter, In addition to this dangerous foo Tammany has to contend against a victorious republican party and against dissensions and treachery in its own ranks. This is no exaggerated picture, and there is now but ono chance for the regular democracy to hold its own in the city of New York. It may yet succeed by prompt and decisive action, in making itself master of the situation, at least in the municipal election. Its organization is good, and it has only to prove beyond a doubt that the reformers who are prominent in its ranks—Schell, Tilden, Belmont, Kelly and their associates—are in truth the leaders; it has only to show by the unquestionable excel- lence of its candidates that it is in reality in favor of honest government, and it can receive the co-operation of all true reformers and carry the city by a large majority. It can fill up its judiciary ticket to-day with Wheeler H. Peckham for Supreme Court Judge, Judge Bedford for City Judge and Abraham R. Lawrence for District Attorney, and thus give assurance of its sincerity as 9 reformed and purified party. It may place on Friday at the head of its ticket a candidate for Mayor acceptable to the reform organizations, If it does this it may command success inthe city. If it blindly refuses to follow good advice it will be beaten worse than it was defeated last year under its old leaders, and will never again be heard of as a political power. We call upon Messrs, Tilden, Schell, Belmont and Kelly to prove their power to accomplish this result, or else to ad- mit that Tammany is given overto corruption, and to save themselves from the taint that must attach to all its members by boldly sever- ing their connection with the society. Sparx.—A special despatch from Madrid, pub- lished in a Paris paper yesterday, announces the intelligence that on the evening of the 7tha fresh and most dastardly attack was made on the life of the young King Amadeus. The King was walking in the Plaza del Oriente when, by some persons concealed behind statues, stones were flung at him, and the cry was raised “Viva la Republica!’ The King was not hurt, The desperadoes fled, and, in spite of a vigorous pursuit which was made by a number of policemen, they succeeded in making their escape. It is not unnatural that the event should have created considerable ex- citement. Itis painful to find it necessary to chronicle such dastardly attempts in Madrid. It is all the more painful that such attempts are made in the name and professedly in the interest of what is called the Republic. If the Republic is ever to be built q) in Europe, it must be built up by other than desperadoés or would-be assassins. Amadeus, who has, in most difficult circumstances, done so well, is fairly entitled to reap benefit from such das- tardly opposition efforts. Tue State or Pennsyivanta in 1868 gave Hartranft, when he ran for Auditor General, a majority of 9,677. It has this year given him a far larger majority, judging from pres- ent indications. Can anybody, not a poli- tician, tell what thero is in the increased majority to ‘‘voint a moral?” Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, om the Presidential Question. The venerable Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, is one of the most remarkable men in this country. He was a prominent Southern whig leader in Congress some forty years ago. On the slavery question he wielded the strongest Southern lance in the House of Representa- tives against that trenchant champion of ‘‘in- alionable righta,"’ ex-President John Quincy Adams. He was the author of the famous whig motto of 1840, “The Union of the Whigs for the Sake of the Union,”’ with which, in that. memorable campaign of ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,’’ they swept the country like a whirlwind. It was Henry A, Wise who, on the stump in his Virginia campaign of 1855, for Governor, gave the deathblow to Know Nothingism, and it was Governor Wise who pursued to the death “Old John Brown” and his confederates of that momentous abolition raid upon Harper's Ferry which finally brought the slavery agitation to a settlement by fire and sword. In 1856 it was Governor Wise who threatened a Southern raid upon Washington and the capture of the govern- ment archives in tho event of tho election of Fremont as Prosident, and in 1861 it was Henry A. Wise who did more, perhaps; than any other man to push Virginia into secession and the Southern rebellion. Figuring as a General in the war, he came out of it dis- tinguished moro for his defeats than his suc- cesses, but: wholly unreconstructed and com- plotely adrift. This is tho venerable and crotchety Henry A. Wise whose opinions on this Presidential contest we published yesterday. He belongs to the implacable old-line Southern Bourbon democracy. He prefers Grant to Greeley, but will support neither, He thinks the people who sold out to Greeley sold out for a mess of pottage which they will never get; that the Virginia conservatives have done more for the radicals than the radicals have done for them: selves, And he don’t like these new amend- ments to the constitution. And he intends to raise up & new party to overthrow thom—a bold undertaking for threescore years and ten. He thinks Greeley’s signature to the bail bond of Jeff Davis was an electioneering device; and the ex-Governor has a crow to pick with Jubal Early for declaring for Greeley and with Mosby for stumping the State for Grant. He did not like the idea of his comrades in arms joining Greeley, ‘‘who was the prime cause of the wai by seitding John Brown down to Vir- ginia to commence it;’’ and if he could have got hold of Greeley, Phillips and Garrison about the time he had Brown he would have hanged them all as high as Haman. Finally this old-line Bourbon declares that the colored people had acted nobly, and he honored them, and, as their friend, he advised them all to vote for Grant, These are the views of General Wise on the Presidential question, and if the reader can make neither head nor tail of them the diffi- culty is precisely the difficulty in which Gen- eral Wise has been left by the war. It is the most remarkable case of hostility to Greeley and neutrality in regard to Grant of all the Bourbon catalogue. This venerable Virginia politician, in short, has outlived his day and generation. There has been # deluge, but he cannot understand it. He is living in a new world, but he cannot realize it. The South has been turned inside out and upside down, but he is bewildered with the idea that it is not according to the Constitution. And so, among the ruins of his Southern Confederacy, like Marius among the ruins of Carthage, sits this venerable ex-Governor of Virginia, the picture of despair. It is a sorrowful spectacle ; but it is only one among the many wrecks of the “ost cause.”’ Governing our Financial Condition. To be let alone is the highest as it is the first instinct of mankind. Even in our early childhood we rebel as it were with a sort of natural propensity against even the mild authority of our parents; hence has grown up and been put into practical shape that form of government which we here enjoy, where in- dividual will finds, or is supposed to find, its proper measure of control. In a constituency or community of this character possessed with these ideas probably no more obnoxious feature could be introduced than a governing authority which should seek to regulate or control currents of activity that men in busi- ness are in the daily habit of using as their judgment dictates, Here is the explanation of Mr. Boutwell’s unpopularity. His friends and admirers justly claim for him an honest administration 9f hig office, 4 conscientious purpose in his much-criticised policy and a fair degree of ability to suggest or dictate such policy ; but because of the personality which pervades it, the direct influence so frequently and uncertainly exercised, it has failed as com- pletely as failure is possible to receive the endorsement of the American people. Thus in his action of Monday, while the Secretary's often-repeated pledges that he would not be the tool of any clique or party in his manage- ment of the Treasury Department, and that he would seek only the advantage of the mercan- tile community, sustain the assertion thatsuch only wes his object, the circumstances of this unusual, and we might say sensational, inter- ference on the very eve of important elections, give color to the charges lately made that he has been during the present canvass using his office for political purposes. That this opinion has been largely entertained—we know that it has been freely canvassed—is evidenced in the statement that one prominent republican and a leading member of the National Republican Committee telegraphed to Washington yester- day that Mr. Boutwell’s proposed action was a mistake and would lose the State of Pennsyl- vania to the administration by 25,000 majority. It is further stated that a ropublican Repre- sentative in Congress from Philadelphia stated substantially the same thing. This shows the appreciation in which Mr. Boutwell’s policy is held by his own party, and further the growing understanding among public men of sounder principles of finance, Mr. Boutwell’s action has, as is already seen, failed of any relief to the money market, the rates even advancing in face of this antici- pated outflow of currency. It is possible that before the week is out, with the complete dis- ursement of the coin sold, the banks may = themselves enabled to extend their accom- modation. This is the extent of the ‘relief to the business community”’ which may be looked for. In the meantime the national’ Binks make a fair percentage off their now deposits. The ugly feature of thia whole business is In no other country in tho world are busl- ness men go interfered with by government as in the United States, the great aim of foreign statesmen and financiers being to benefit legiti- mate trade. The movement and marketing of the crops at this season and the progress of business require | smooth working of the finances, but between Secretary Boutwell and Wall street speculators all legitimate opera- tions are interfered with and great damage done to the country. President Grant should step in and stop the Secretary of the Treasary, in his wild financial schemes, which benefit only speculators, especially those who receive early information of intended Treasury move- ments, The Elections and the Next Congress. The returns for members of Congress from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana are exceed- ingly meagre, the whole interest being cen- tred in the general results, on account of their bearing on the Presidential election. At the same time the composition of the next House of Representatives cannot be overlooked. It would have been desirable that the republican majority in the next Congress should have been diminished, but the chances now are that it will be increased. Of the three great States which voted yesterday Ohio is the only one which was redistricted, and, as this work was done by the republicans to suit themselves, it is fair to assume that in view of the strength of the party in that State, as it was developed by the general result, they have at least held their own. In the First and Second districts, which include the city of Cincinnati, the republican candidates are. beaten, the popu- larity of Governor Hayes even not sufficing to carry him through against the disaffection, which was known to pervade that city. In the Dayton district Gunckel, republican, is _ probs, ably elected over Judge Winans, the liberal and democratic candidate, and the republicans have likely gained one or two other districts which were regarded as doubtful. Ohio ob- tained no increase in representation under the recent Apportionment act, but Pennsylvania and Indiana gained three and two members respectively. These were provided for by nomi- nations at large, which re-elects Scofield and gives the republicans the benefit of the increased representation from Pennsylvania, Two or three of the close districts now represented by democrats are also, probably, republican. Ins diana ought to elect the democratic nominees for the State at large, and the indications are that Mr. Kerr will not be lost to the opposi- tion in the next Congress. He is a singularly earnest and honest man, and is needed in the House. Voorhees and Niblack could be better spared, and it is probable that the latter, at least, has been beaten. But the whole matter is in doubt, owing to the general delay in counting the vote for members of Congress. If the prognostications of the hour prove cor- rect and the republicans have carried Penn- sylvania and Ohio by anything like the antici- pated majorities, with Indiana almost even one way or the other, New York becomes a doubtful State and the next House may feel the absence of Mr. Cox. This would be a loas to an opposition not too strong in brains and experience and a loss to the country, which always profits from able opposition leaders. A good omen for Cox is the fact that H. J. Jewett, the democratic candidate in his old Ohio district, is elected by over five thousand majority over Colonel James Taylor, better known at Columbus as the ‘‘Duke of Ferrara." The only thing to be regretted in the results for Congress, aside from the desirability of a strong opposition, is the re-election of so many jobbers of both parties. The vitupera- tion of the canvass has diverted the minds of voters from the records of their Congressmen, and where so much was alleged against every candidate little or nothing was believed. Yes- terday’s work will have no purifying effect upon the Forty-fourth Congress, and it is to be feared that the lobby will be emboldened to further debase and degrade the last session of the present House. The Winter in ‘Washing- ton will be a lively one for thé wait of @ re- buke to unfaithful public servants, and we cannot expect purity in legislation till the people refuse to re-elect their recreant Oon- gressmen. Frevca Ansty Rerorm—A New Covnctn ov War.—A Supreme Council of War has, it seems, been appointed in France, The members of this Council are Marshals MacMahon and Canrobert, General Ladmirault, the Duc d’Au- male, Admiral de la Ronciére le Noury and M. Ozenne. It is to be the business of the Coun- cil to reorganize the army and to administer its affairs; but the government reserves the right to take charge of the direction of all mili- tary movements. It is difficult to know what this change means. Itis a strangely mixed Council. It represents the Empire strongly. It represents in @ qualified way the Govern- ment of National Defence. It represents also the House of Orleans. We cannot say tha Council as at present composed, if we know all the names, pleases us. We miss namea, which the new War Council ought to include. Above all others the name of General Chanzy ought not to have been conspicuous by its absence. The Council of War might be use- ful in the event of the resignation or sudden death of the Executive ; but, so far as we cam see, it contributes nothing towards the con- solidation of the Republic. YAOHTING NOTES, ‘The schooner yacht Vesta, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. R. Baker, / arrived at St. John’s last Wednesday. The schooner yacht Cambria is fitting out ay Cowes for a cruise in the Mediterranean, ‘The Sappho came off Mr. John White's graving dock on the 25th of September. The only injury the yacht sustained was that to her false keel. From the manner in which the repairs have beer carried out her keel will stand a greater strain than before without hurt. A number of well-known English yacht builders are turning their attention to ceatre-board yachts. A number are now being built, varying in size fror five to thirty tons, The centre-hoard in these yacht: will not appear above the cabin floor. Yacht Columbia, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Wallack, from New York, anni tho HERALD telograph. ‘station at Whitestone yesterday afternoon, bain lor Bostom,