The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

T}IE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1168.

TIM SOUTH.

The Tribune thus commences an article under its
old heading " The New Rebellion :"—" Russia has
been styled a despotism, tempered by assassination.
Is America a Democracy, diversified by murder?

Read the long catalogue of political assassinations
committed by the Democratic party within a
month." In North Carolina it gives the murder
of the bridegroom, the bride being severely
wounded, when the couple were in the act of be-
ing married on the 27th of September, and thus
continues :—" In South Carolina, in the sea-coast

districts, where the negroes are three or four times
as numerous as the blacks, all is peaceful and
orderly." Of course under such peculiar circum-
stances, things could scarcely fail to be pleasant.
We presume the Tribune meant whites; but as it

was about to allude to the devil in the well-known

lines in which he is describel as turning monk
when sick, it transcribed the colour of his Satanic

Majesty. It is terrible to read its " month of
assassinations." The Tribune always :speaks of
the murderers as SEYMOUR ram, which we think
unfair; for HoItATIO SEYMOUR had no more
to do with the Southern mode of showing ex dte-
raent and annoyance than had ULYSSES GRANT.
The account of the affair in St. Bernard's parish, of
which hitherto we have had very meagre details, is
thus given :—" About the 24th and 25th the Sey-
mour Knights of the Parish of St. Barnard, adjoin-
ing New Orleans, kill several negrom. In the melee
a baker and his son kill a coloured member of the

new metropolitan police. The blacks retaliate by

killing the murderers and burning their bakery.

The rebel statement that women and children were

killed in the affair proves to be untrue. Forthwith
the Democratic Seymour Clubs of New Orleans are
in a blaze. They parade the streets night and day,
demand and obtain the expulsion of 200 coloured.
members from the police force, and render it impas-
sible fur black men to appear in the streets. Mean-
while, the control of the police is tendered to
TOMMY ADAMS,' who was its chief when New Or-
leans was under the Confederacy, and the rebel
element was rampant and jubilant. The Commit-
tee of the Louisiana Legislature appointed to in-.

vestigate recent violence in that State report 201
persons killed, 51 wounded, and 113 assailed."
As a leading London daily paper has very pointedly
contradicted the intelligence given by a contem-

porary about the condition of Texas, we extract the
following shocking statement, the county being
Nlarion, and the week between the 31 and 10th
October :—" In the same county 27 murthrs of
Republicans were published in rebel papers in one
week. During the same week Judge HART, a Re-
publican of au adjoining county, and WILLIAM S.
KIRKMAN, Bureau Agent for North-Eastern Texas,
were killed. No Union men or supporters of GRANT
were safe from SEYMOUR'S friends in that region.
In Upshur County, Texas, a Seymour paper pub-
lishes a glowing account of the following triumph
of the Constitution.' Ou October 1, 11 Seymour-
ites, in white gowns and comic hats, and masked,
took an elderly black c mple out of their bed,
tied the old man, a preacher, by the ankles, and
bound the rope to their horse's saddle, dragged
him feet foremost in a quick gallop a quarter
of a mile to a bridge, lowered him head down-
ward into the water till nearly drowned, and
then drew him back in the same manner, and
stripped and lashed his dying body till they
had skinned him from his neck to his waist."
After enumerating several cases the Tribune adds,
as contradiction to the assertion so often made by
the correspondents of the London journals, who
maintain that these outrages are invented for cam-
paign purposes :--" These instances of murder
which we find on a casual examination of our files
for the past month are but a tithe of those which
have been committed. Nine-tenths of such crimes
are never reported. We mention these as a sample,
not as a catalogue. In the Northern States a like
spirit has been manifest on a more restrained scale.
At Pittsburgh, Pa., on Oct. 7, a Republican torch-
light procession was attacked, fifty shots were ex-
changed, and, among others, the Mayor was
wounded. Eleven persons were shot by roughs in
Philadelphia, of whom we exported some 5,000 from
New York. Ex-Governor BEALL, of Wisconsin
(Republican), was shot to death by Mr. PINNEY,
Democratic Editor of the Post. Finally, in New
York City, CHRISTOPHER PULLMAN, an active Re-
publican and Councilman, was nearly clubbed to
death on the 30th ult., for his services in prevent-
ing persons who were fraudulently naturalized from
registering and voting." Which shows how the ex-
ample spreads. Degrading to the South as are these
stories they must be told—told in the face of
Europe, alike to the friend and foe of America. It
is vain for people to work on any other basis than
the truth, and A man who undertakes to be a jour-
nalist sins against society as well as against himself
by perverting or withholding it. No check will be
more severe than the execration of Christendom, and
if Southerners fall to the state of Red Indians, as
Red Indians will they be regarded. Europe will make
great allowances for the irritation produced on a
very proud and excitable people by a condition of
things so novel and opposed to their prejudices, and
it is this very pride which may strongly aid in re-
straining their headlong course to barbarism. The
gallantry of the Confederates in battle won for
them the respect of the civilized world. The mag-
nanimity with which they appeared at first to sub-
mit to their crushing defeat surprised and gratified
their admirers. But the course of the last few
months has been such as is mlllly described by the
Tribune's term The New Rebellion"—it is murder
in its lowest, most cowardly, and most brutal shape
—murder which it is vain to attempt to excuse—
murder which has sown in the South crops of future
trouble and suffering, which degrades society till it
falls at the feet of the drunkard and the bully—
when tha scum whose lives are worthless, and are
in this rightly estimated by themselves, will rule by
a ready pistol and an unscrupulous conscience—
when those who are useful citizens will vanish as day
in the tropics, and a night of dense darkness will
settle over the land. These will be the results, un-
less GRANT steps in with a strong and unsparing
hand, and sternly insists on carrying out the Divine
Law that " whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed." But, can GRANT do
this, powerful as he will be, unless really and
effectually aided by what is good in the society of
the South'? If murderers are screened by their
neighbours, if juries throw out bills, if judges
refuse to pass sentence, but one chance will remain
for the South, and that is, the excitement on the
election having passed, the shooting and murdering
mania may have passed with it. It may have been
an outburst of pent-up fury, which will go with the
occasion, and we fervently hope that so it may prove.
Yet, allowing this, the memory of these months
will not quickly fade ; the degradation of these
months will be indelibly engraven on the Southern
character ; and the history of these months will be
told as the fit sequel to the War for Slavery.—
, Anglo-American 7imes.

At the regular monthly meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce, on the 25th instant, General Walbridge
offered a series of resolutions in favour of Congress
nationalizing our railway system, just as the tele-
graph has been nationalized. They were referred,
without discussion, to a committee of five. A. A.
Low, chairman of the executive committee, submitted a
resolution in favour of investigating the charges against
Street Commissioner M'Lean, preferred by the Citizens'
Association. Adopted. E. S. Lathrop, Esq., was re-
elected chairman of the Arbitration Committee.

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One of the most fashionable weddings was that
of Mr. Cornelius V. Cross, grandson of Commodore Van-
derbilt, which came off at Christ Church, Fifth Avenue,
on the sth inst. Tho bride was Miss Emma M. Eldred.
Officiating clergyman, Rev. Dr. Ewer.
The great irregularities that have hitherto existed
in the Danubian Principalities with regard to the delivery
of letters will, it is expected, henceforth cease, a new pos-
tal treaty between Austria and Roumania having been
drawn up, which the Austrian Minister of Commerce will
shortly lay before the Reichsrath for their approval.
It is said that the King of Sweden has refused
to sign any more death-warrants. We can sympathise
with his personal feelings on the subj.- et; but it is revers-
ing the order of things. Stop murder first—the abolition
of capital punishment follows.
DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, arc the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports,
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co.,
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O---[Ad
I vertiseraent]

MODERATION IN EXTENDED SUFFRAGE

( From the Anglo-American Times.)
The elections in England have excited great inte-
rest in America, and the result will be received
there with a satisfaction only second to that felt
here

The extension of the franchise has been

regarded by many liberal-minded men as an expe-
riment, attended with more or less danger ; and by
some Tories it has been held to bc a " shooting of

Niagara." The result shows that by grounding
the national institutions on a broader base the edi-

fice gains instead of loses as a substantial building,
the new men being found to be as averse from
speculative change, as the old electors they re-in-
force. The most notic3able fact in the elections is

the clearly pronounced decision of the people that
no men of ex.trein3 views can command their cnfi.-

dence. This has been displayed in a degree almost
laughable; which has lel to as mac,i surprise as
disappointment. First we have the total defeat—
the utter disc imßture of the very individuals who
clam to have effected the enfranchisement of those

who rejected them ! There was the Reform leader,
Mr. BEAUS, defeated at the Tower Hamlets ;
Colonel DICKSON at Hackney ; Mr. CREMER at
Warwick ; HARTWELL at Stoke ; BRADLAUGII
at Northampton. Mr. ERNEST JONES WAS with-
drawn at Manchester. Mr. ROEBUCK, whose

speech about America contributed to his defeat,
was, though of another class, also rejected. JOHN
STUART MILL, who, however conscientious, had been
carried to extremes against Governor EYRE, which,
with his strong opinions on woman suffrage, have
now cost him his seat. The electors show little in-
clination to take up new and untried men; nearly
all of them being contemptuously rejected. Even
the candidates of the working-men, of whom there
ought to be a sprinkling in Parliament,met with little
support. The main result has been to give Mr.
GLADSTONE a large majority, but composed of much
the same material as heretofore, and the decision is
taken to represent the national wish that changes
which the experience of other nations, together
with careful debate and consideration, have shown
to be advisable, should be sparingly made. Now
this is what every well-wisher of progress and of
England desires to see ; and in America the debates
and the resolutions of Parliament will have an in-
creased weight, from the belief that they speak
much more generally than before, the voice of the
nation. Whatever assimilates, tends to inte-
rest and draw together the kindred na-
tions. The education, and the whole habit of

thought of the American, teaches him to defer
perhaps almost slavishly to the expression of the
people's will. His former objection to the English
Parliament was that it only represented a section ;
but though still restricted, most thoughtful Ameri-
cans allow that in the present state of education in
Great Britain the franchise has been extended far
enough. In both countries the Liberal party have
triumphed, and they are beginning to feel that it is
advisable in a certain measure to work together.
The extension of Liberal principles will probably
lead to a common sympathy, for the step is not
vast when a man recognizes as brethren all his
fellow-men of a nation, to cross the frontier, and re-
cognize also as brethren, those, on the other side.
Narrowness is the result of ignorance ; and when
the masses of a nation are said to inaugurate a
policy of monopolies, protection, and selfishness,
they simply act on their lights, or rather their dark-
ness, not perceiving the evil. Knowledge comes,
however, with time; and although we may take ge-
nerations to arrive at the period when a restricted
suffrage will appear as false in principle as now does
the Divine Right of Kings ; yet, if mankind is pro-
gressing instead of retrograding, we must reach it
at last. The former is indeed as much the result of
necessity as was thelatter, though when the necessity
has vanished, leaving the the plain naked principle,
its folly comes out as glaringly as is now the Divine
Right so that man finis it difficult to realize that his
forefathers could have believed in it. There are
thousands who live among people tolerably edu-
cated, who hear of but do not really comprehend
the ignorance, credulity, and folly of their fellow-
men. When the educational goat is reached which
would justify universal suffrage, (if ever) there will
be a greater community of feeling among mankind,
with the desire to abolish those restrictions created
by man, but not by nature. Perhaps this will receive
its greatest impetus from an alliance not between the
Governments, but between the people of the United
States and the United Kingdom—an alliance more
implied than expressed, having for its object the
preservation and furtherance of liberty, not to each
other only, but to all. Nor by undue interference,
but by the force of example, of argument, and the
legitimate' influence which great wealth and pre-
ponderating power give. Americans profess to set
up Liberty as an idol, yet they neglect the most
ready means of serving their divinity. That means
is in a close alliance between the English-speaking
people, which will be felt and understood through-
out the world with a weight which would surprise
even themselves. Instead of this, they allow their
policy and their sympathies to be misdirected by a
class of immigrants, who in reality have no sym-
pathythe broad, honest meaning
it as Licence for them-
ofthow wit ohrd, Liberty
them-
selves and Despotism for all others. The elections
in America signified much the same sentiment as
construing
i n
those in England—moderation; the violent Radicals
and the violent Copperheads were either defeated or
had to struggle for bare life for their seats. BLAIR
was said to have wrecked the party because he pro-
fessed an extreme policy; and GRANT to have most
won support because men believed in his ,nodera-
tion even more than in his Republican principles.
Moderation, then, is the avowed purpose of both
the nationalities, and in this they show the progress
of liberty. There was a time when those who
danced frantically on the top of a tub, gesticulated
violently, perspired profusely, while appealing to
the goddess of Liberty, were declared to be her
true sons, and the more true the greater their vio-
lence ; but the first thing that Liberty has done has
been to expose the fanatical fools and designing de-
magogues. In neither country will this now go
down, and better proofs could not be given than the
late elections in both. A community of feeling,
while in reality the interests are identical, cannot
fail to have a powerful effect in cementing the
union ; and if people have learned to estimate at
their true value the persons who thrust themselves
most prominently .on their notice, they will soon
estimate correctly their general interests. Not
so long ago clan met clan in the Highlands of
Scotland with a hatred that aimed at extermination.
Then the Highlands harried and hated the Low-
lands; then Scotchmen met Southerners, as they
called Englishmen, with an animosity greater than
that felt between the Northern and Southern States.
Now the clans form but a part of Scotland, and
Scotland but a part of Britain bound in close and
lasting union. Can any man say that it would be
better for the CAMPI3ELLS still to be :cutting the
throats of the GORDONS, for the RODERICK DAUB to
be levying black mail and lifting the cattle of the
Lowland laird ?—for Scotland to be carrying fire
and sword over the border at the first symptom of
a dispute between England and France? Yet as
this is on a small scale (brought home to the
doors of the Britishers), so is the union of all the
English-speaking people on a large scale—the
world benefiting to a much greater extent, for if
less seen, it is because the benefit is more dif-
fused. Here we have not only the principle, but the
example; indeed it is one by which both nations
should endeavour to profit ; requiring only pre-
judices, as idle as they are untruthful, to be
dropped, and the kindred nations to know and ap-
preciate the good points in each other, while in a
Christian spirit they bear with the bad.

It is calculated that there are now about 62,000
Chinamen settled in California, nearly all being natives of
the province of Canton.
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be taken to avert the ill consequences of the late trying
season. Nothing beyond these Pills and their accompany-
ing "instructions " is necessary for every invalid to root
out; the latent seeds of disease, and to secure future good
health. Depraved and poor blood will thus be purified
and enriched, all congestions of the circulation of the lungs,
liver, kidneys, brain, or elsewhere will be dispersed, the
system will be relieved from oppression, and tho whole
annual machine will be renovated.

MONEY AND BUSINESS.

(From the Springfield Republican, Nov. 7.)

The crisis in the New York Money Market, which has
been inevitable for several days, came yesterday, and con-
fusion, consternation, and almost panic was the result.
The stringency has been growing steadily more and more
rigid and oppressive, until it was next to impossible to
negotiate loans on any terms. On Wednesday 7 per cent.
in gold with a commission was paid, and the clique, which
had twenty millions in greenbacks locked up in half a
dozen city banks, seemed masters of the situation. O❑
Thursday, however, the result of the election had become
known and felt, and also the fact that the desired change
in gold and stock markets was impossible. The down-
ward turn began on Wednesday, and on Thursday morn-
ing the increasi❑g pressure to sell amounted nearly to a
panic. Governments went down fully 4 per cent. from
Tuesday's quotations, and the decline was the
sharpest and most decisive ever known. Stock of
all ki❑ds dropped as though the bottom had fallen
out. And even the gold market was weak a❑d
unsettled quite unsatisfactory to those who had
bought largely on the strength of Seymour's pros-
pects for election. The banks were unable to do much to
alleviate the situation, having all their abilities taxed to
take care of themselves, and carry their expanded load
safely over the chasm. The holders of stocks of all kinds
who were compelled to sell were obliged to do so at a
loss, and in a steadily and rapidly falling market. Many
of the "Wall-street operators were severely bitten, and the
bull clique received an experience which on any other
men would not be utterly wasted, but Wall-street will
prove better than its record anoaler tight market and
panic do not ensue as soon as circumstances prove favour-
able.

The stringency which has so rigorously ruled the mar-
ket for the past few weeks having beon in great measure
artificial and unnecessary, nobody will regret to see its
reign terminated and its strength shattered. After this, for
a time at least, we may hope for a healthier and more logi-
mate state of things. The money market will doubtless be
firm, and shortly supplied with loanable funds, but it will
give a stronger and better tone to business, and the indus-
try and general prosperity will receive direct and impor-
tant benefit. Fortunately, the country at large leas not
been greatly invcived in the latest schemes of the Wall-
street adventurers, nor greatly troubled by their extremi-
ties, it will, in future, have less to do with politics and re-
construction, and more with finance and trade, now the
national and practical questions. The present storm once
over, and New York as the financial centre of the country
once more restored to a healthy and normal condition, we
expect greater and steady increase iu our business and
productive industry, and a free and general exchange of
money between the different sections of the country. The
Wall-street panic will have its advantages and the expo-

rience can be more easily undergone DOW- than at any
later time. With this general awakening and clearing up
in Wall-street will also come the revival of business in
the flour, wheat, and grain markets of the West, and the
speculators, who have been loading themselves with
heavy stocks, will be compelled to surrender to the
necessities of the situation, and will reverse the course
of the exchange of money between the West and
the East, turning it back again from the Atlantic
to the lakes. The grain market may strengthen and ad-
vance slightly in its prices under this coursa of events,
but there will be the advantage gained of a st dale and re-
liable market, of business on a sound and definite basis,
and of a probability that causes and effects will follow
each other in legitimate and not reverse order. tinder the
controlling stringency of the money market stocks have
been held in abeyance, and little has been done, except
wait for the denouement, which came, as stated, yester-
day. Everything went down, the western railway stocks
more decidedly and helplessly than any others, and the
lowly Mariposa mining shares seemed to bo the strongest
of the list. Doubtless the recovery will commence at
an early day, for most of the western railways have
real and not nominal values, and strength in themselves
to recover from any temporary depression. For the
Erie, which, with its operators, has beau at the bot-
tom of all the trouble in the money market, thorn is
nothing to predict a-sd nothing to mourn. Its victims out-
number its friends, and should Vanderbilt get control of
the road—though he is not now accused of designs upon
it—he would doubtless rescue it from the dishonour and
speculation which have always followed it. Gold con-
tinues with little change, and will probably decline rather

than otherwise from this point onward. Grant's election
will hold it to this general law, whatever the daily and
temporary fluctuations. The shipments abroad have
fallen off to a more nominal amount, and the transactions
have lately been quite limited.