The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1867, Page 5

EUROPE. National Consolidation and Legislation of German Fatherland. THE AMERICAN CHURCH IN PRUSSIA, Turkish Manifesto to the Cretans. | The English Reform League on a | Radical Revolutionary Issue. wee aS 4 | Imperial | ur special mall telegrams, special written corre- | "pendence and European files furnish the following ad ditional details of our cable despatches to the 26th of October. @UR SPECIAL COKRESPONDENCE. PRUSSIA, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. American Church Mutte: to Members of the Ru Return of the King—Mrs. Bancroft’s Recep- Gtio Brruw, Oct, 24, 1967. | Rev. Dr. Bellows preached to, thanks to the fine | weather, quite @ numerous audience in the so-called American chapel ou Sunday. His text was from the 25th verse of the 71h chapter of Judges—‘‘And they slew Oreb wpon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the wine press of Zeeb.”” Those who have heard the really elo- quent sermon—which, by the way, so interested a Ger- man gentleman prosent that it was solicited by him for pabdlication—will not be surprised that as the Doctor described the probable life and character of Zreb, his | Wine monopoly and the means he doubtless employed | to preserve bis influence and increase his gains, come ene whispered to his neighbor, lend enough for the } whole congregation to hear, Cotton,” At the close of tbe services it was anpounced that Rev. Mr. Briggs, of New York, will supply the puipit next Sabbath, At.a meeting lately held to make arrangements for Teligious services during the winter the following gen- temen were elected as a church committee:—Mr. Theo, & Fay, of New York; Consul Krojsmann, Rev. Chas. Briggs, of New York; Professor Bennett, of Lima, New York ; Dr. Simon, agent of the British Bible Society, and Rev. Mr. Archer, pastor of the German Methodist Episco- pal church. Mr. Kreismann was promptly chosen secre- tary and treasurer, the ‘‘children of light’’ thus showing their wisdom in securing a basis to draw on when collec- tions fail, It was also determined that the name of the Minister expected to preach on the next Sabbath should De announced at the close of each service—a by no ‘means commendabdie decision, ag there is little likeli- hood of the appointments being changed after having been once made known. Clergymen are generally allowed such short vacations that they seldom spend two Sundays in Berlin, and thus the only hope of their friends bearing them here rests othe chance of finding them during the week. If it is urged that a week is necessary to prepare a sermon it ia forgotten that the only persons who prepare new sermons to preach abroad fare balf- fledged theologians, who may as well keep their crude lucubrations for the deloctation of rura! flocks in America. . The committee last year was often requested to hand fm the name of the preacher to the Fremdenblatt (Stranger’s Journal), a paper taken at all the botels and which publiehes religious notices gratis every Saturday, but for some reason this was never done. While Governor Wright was willing and able to act as a lay bishop, be- Bides discharging the duties as United States minister and envoy, church matters went very well; was not only always present himself, but invited all his friends gad especially transient visitors to worship with their countrymen on the Sabbatb, He was always on the lookout, too, for preachers of distinction, and as, from his Leoni he saw most of them, an eminent mruister rarely passed through town without giving at least ono sample of the contents of his sermons potttolion Long after the Governor had become too ill to leave bis apart- vo much attention to the affairs of the ehburch and ; bat the waterest of others wore away witn she novelty, and it surprised few to hear early in the summer that there ‘would be no English services fM the church till Septem- ber, a recess which was afierward extended a month. ot an American knew anything of the intention to chose the English services till the pastor of the German Methodist Episcopal church appeared one morning and asked that a notice to that effect be read. Hitherto a room in a building designed for the par. ®onage bas been used as a chapel. The new edifice, erected mostly by contributions from Americans here ‘and at bome, will be opened shortly, but under auspiocs which promise but # small band of disciptes, In tho { first piace it is situated almost out of humanity's reach in Junkerstrasse, a strect which long enjoyed a very ‘enenviable reputation, and which cannot be reached by twenty minutes’ ordinary walking from any respectavie hotel. In the second piace, though nominally and really conducted without 'd to seetarianism, it is supposed to be under the contro! of the Methodists, a sect against which the great majority of American travellers appear ry strong prejudice. A printed notice hung tels cordially invites all to a “union service Methodist Episcopal chapel.’ Travel- shat the fact that the house of assem- Dling belongs to that denomination makes them suppose that the whole must have a Methodist tinge, and that yy have thus been led to attend the English eburch, thoug! members of other persuasions Resident Americans nerally prefer ing the kindness of friends who own pews in city churches, ‘whero they are not only sure of hearing able sermons, Dut also charm'ng music—as, for example, at the Catho- Gral, where one can, beside listening to the court poser Superintendent Hoffmann, hear the celebrated lendeissohn's choir and join in the grand chorus of the gation, allof which contrast quite decidedly with ing expositions of beardiess licentiates con- fused attempts at singing the songs of Zin in a strange land. There is ever a sufficient numberof church going Americans in Berlin to make a very respectable congre- gation, and as the rector of the Engiish church is content ‘with nothing less than monotonously intoming the full amount of formutaries allowed by the ritual and supple- menting the whole with —— indigestible collection of nomiletic phrases, they would prefer to join in qserv: however, { sectarian in of their own, To induce them to do this, will be necessary to withdraw it from all to avoid all appearance of the i supposed to guide it and to make jerr Jacoby, of Bremen, the bishop of the German Methodist Episcopal charch, bag been wont on his visits to Borlin to appear in the American meeting, and rising Just defore the benediction and ‘surveying ihe songreye: tion witha air, bis head covered with « vel- ‘vet cap, to remind the brethren in broken English the expenses of the cherch are heavy, intimating though his hearers have not hitherto done their share, he trusts they will be more liberal in the future. het Rnd on going out sees plainly that the cellection oon 6 mu: + Bire of a white neekclothed person, probably meant @eerton, but who was never known to show any onea seat, but either amuses the small boys by his pen bs ‘when asicop in the corner ef meditates pg a caon much, on inquiry at the meeting, that al! contributions \, been thrown imto one com: fund, a fact which elicited gome disapproval, It seems that tor all their liberality @ho Americans have only a nominal claim on the church, and that they eccupy it by courtesy and not Dy right. This was all very well in Governor Wrig! day, but if by chance some bishop hike ee “koew not Joseph,” the case might be very different. The formal commencement of the Berlin Uaiversity | qwasmade on the 15th instant, when the new Recior Magoiticur, Dr. Beseler, of the law faca was in- ‘vested in the robea of his office. Few of the courses will begin, however, before next week. The deans of the faculties are Professor Semisch, in theology; Profes- sor Gnetst, in law; Professor Virchaw, in medicine, and Professor Kirebbot, in philosophy. During the year the institution lost four of its professors by death. Dr. Boockh and Dr. Gerhard, professors ia ordinary, and Dr. Borg and Dr. ‘hel, professors extraordinary ; 1,329, of whom 351 were foreigners, were immatri- \yeulated. \L The semi-centemniat anniversary of German Berechonsehelh Weeee ea tae Dy Rene mt Eieo- mech inst Thureday, customary speeches, roceesions and beer carowse, Moat ot the jubi- inte were rather old for such amusements, the ts generation teking too little interest in the affatr nd, Scarcely one of the speakers mado anythi Uke a political harangue, though the subject of « unica: Germany was more than once noticed. Fritz Reuter urged striving for the good and honorable in ali things, and warned hia young frionds againat mixing in pollticn ye speak from experience of the inconveniences of 0 doing. The ‘Srostemation famued at the Inte Bure-Ret und Danktrg (day of penitence, prayer and thanksgiving) in Cassel was at first supproseed by the police, because perintendent Kimmel had sate fo it je thoy id received many blessings to be ti'ank(ul for God had ited the people for their sine by infictiog Upom thom bores! calamity which could befall A nation. the loss i NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1867.—TRIPLK SHEET. Of ite independence, and bed deprived them of the princely house under whose reigo they had enjoyed ‘such prosperity and had attained such a. history. Jt is unnecessary to add that the same sentiments were ‘Bot expressed in church. are entertained of something quite like a famine im the province of Prussia, Measures have been taken by the goverament and various associations to supply the people with cheap food; the State railways are to transport provisions at greatly reduced rates, Six mem- bers of the committee of the laboring men’s union in Konigsberg met together by appointment one evening to for procuring, at a low rate, a quantity of he risen to-a great price in that mar- et. surprise at the appearauce of @ pe commission, who warned (hem that as their meet- ing had pot been announced to the police it was an up- lawful assembly and must be broken up. Several vil- Jages in the district of Ratibor, in Upper Siiesia, sre Surrounded by military detacbments to carry out 1 Tegulations for suppressing the rinderpest, which has appeared there, 1t is supposed to. bave been introduced by some cattle brought by adrover from Austria and sold :p Cranowitz. nsidered from & business point of the terma on which Prussia offe the Gaye of grace of the piay houses in its nowty acquired watering places allow very good returns on the capital invested. A twelve per cent dividend bas been declared by the Wiesbaden directors for the winter season. The dividend for the summer season was eixty per cent. ‘An arrangement similar to that lately opposed by the Waldeck House of Deputies to make that principality virtually a part of Prussia is likely to be entered into by Anbalt-Dessau, The tarn of the Thiiringian States will come next, ‘The Schleswig negotiations make haste slowly, Von Quad, the Danish Plenipotentiary, has weak eyes and capnot work evenings, while Herr Bucher, the commissioner, has too much ¢! ‘with the matter daytimes, explanation of the slow progress which Ci dens characterizes 83 goers. Protessor Madvig, the venerable rector of the university at Co- penbagen, said, on presenting the students’ t com- with a banner embroidered by the ladies, “You felt the bleeding wounds of the country; you have thought thatthe struggle might break out anew, aud then every one would needs do his duty. If a new struggie should break out for the fatherland you would not fight under thie banner, but in the ranks of th common soldiers, Then would the higher consciousne: s awakenod by your education strengthen tn you not mere contempt of death, but a true manly epirit.”” Official journals are Be ace expressing them- ough to. define Prussia’ French intervention when that occars. ff Strong popuiar hope that the action of the F; re eroment will alienate the Italians from them; for, though Victor Emanuel is not regarded as much of an aily, it would be much more convenient to have his friendsinp than his il) will, A fine assortment’ of Prussian orders has been di tributed at ths palace of the Russian Minister to this court, Every one about the establishment, from Baron D'Oubril downwards, who could expect anything of the kind was so thoughtfully remembered, that it seems as if one of the gentlomen now collecting the names for a new city aba for 1868 had ieft list ab the bureau of tho ‘Genera! Orders Commission Inspired utterances now indicate very plainly that the once professed anxiety for the entrance of the South German ~tates into the Bund ts not to be taken too liter- ally. The Norddeutsehe Aligemeine Zeitung keeps con- tinualiy fot | attention tothe fact that no coercion has been or will be used to bring about the consumma- tion. About thirty members will be added to the Her- renbaus, or Upper Chamber of Deputies, for the new Provinces, King William returned to town yesterday, Aa Count Bismarck was too unwell to go to court His Majesty visited him in pérson. Report says that the meeting between the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria at Bos was most cordial—as if it were possibio that either of these emi- nent gentlemen would be so peevish as to give vent to childish spleen while taking coffee at a railway station. Professor Bopp, the distinguished Sanscrit scholar, died yesterday. Mr, Kasson, of lowa, was in town on Sunday and Monday. The postal convention between Prussia and the United States having been signed he de- pase for Dresden on Tuesday morning. Ali of the uth German States have assented to it also. . Ata tea party given by Mrs, Bancroft last evening to Dr. Bellows there were present, among others, Mr. and Mra. Jay and daughters, of New York; Mr. and Miss Parrott, of Ohio; Consul Kreismana, of Chicago; Dt. Maclean, of Ni York; Dr. Abel, of Borin, and Mr, Olcott, of Philadelphia ' GERMANY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. A United Fatherinnd—Settlement of the North Schleswig Question—Lawyers in Hanover— The Ex-Elector of Hesse—Proceedin; the Reichstag—Military Budget=Volantcers ta the Army=The Usury Bille H Harkort the Salt Tax—Elections for the Prussian Diet—Persecutions of the Press—Wise Laws in Prussian. Barus, Oct. 12, 1967. At this autumnal seazon the’ trip of King William and the Queen to Baden-Baden seems somewhat mysterious, and none of the official papers give an explanation of it. The Provincial Correspondence, ministerial organ, speaking of the King's late interview with the South German sovereigns, says that, without having any rofer- ence to politics, the conferences were extremely cordial, and lively sympathies evinced by the populati well forthe advancement of everything relating to o future united Germany. This statement, though coming from an official source, must be taken cum grano salis; indeed, it does not agree with the South German preas, for the Stuttgart Beobachter says the Bavarian Chamber ‘will most assuredly reject the Zol!verein treaty and cew duties on salt and tobacco, and it is cortam that the Wirtemburg fepresentatives wil! stoutly oppose thi crease of their army, which, in order to mect the Prussian standard, would need nine additional battalions, ten squadrons and six batteries. Moreover, the Foreign Minister of Wirtemburg is recommending the adoption of the treaty of February 5, 1867, for a joint military organization of Wirtemburg, Bavaria, Baden and Hesse, While King William was examining, quite re- cently, in the German National Museum in Wirtemburg, the breech-loading arms of former times, and thinking how much better he now possesses to defend one great fatherland, Prince Hohenlohe, the Bavarian Premier, was developing in the Chamber at Munich his future Policy, deprecating a union with the North German Bund based on so defective a constitution, This half- liberal ministry of Hobenlohe, which favors the labor- ing class, tmproves the educational system by freeing it from the Church and tries to lessen the numberiess holidays, may any day be swept aside by the ultra- montane party, affiliated with Austria and beating Prus- sia worse than——-. Where, ti may then be asked, are the omens whion argue so favorably for the united fatherland ? Tnstead of the great corner-stone of a German nation, joint culture and civilization, joint lawsand interesis, the tios which held it together have dwindied down at pre- @entto Zollverein and military convention, and even these give way to the instinctive foeling that the ti: for union of allGermany, including part of Austria, with eight million Germans, bas not yet come, ana ex- plain the popular expression tn the South, “We would love to be Germans, but Prussians never |" From Leipsic repeated broils between the Saron and Prussian garrison are reported; fights have taken piace in the streets—just at present overcrowded on account of the fair—drawn sabres were used without discrimination and inoffensive citizens seriously wounded, ‘The appointment of the Prassian privy councillor, Herr Bucher, as commissioner in the North Schleswig pro- ceedings, indicates at least a desire on the part of Prus- sia for a settlement of this knotty question. The Danish government, sot ime ago, aamed the Minister Pleni- potentiary Herr Von Quaade for that purpose. [vis pretty certain that @ part of the province will be re. turned to Deamark with the condition that the inhabi- Tnstitations created by Prussia in these dis- tricts up to the day of their rendition to Denmark must remain intact and can only be changed by joint agree. ment of both ernments, Inhabitants of enh ex Mon ino! have the right to pen jeswig courts, and the decision of the tmust be valid in De: Prussian consuls have hess be appealed to by nmark shall not bave a greater force than two thousand soldiers in the begene to question; if pepe reerppertatle pen oe | ‘protect property or personal security of the fwhabitante against being overnend ay — Danish bors, Prussia shall be entitied upon the demand of judgment by « Prus- not exo- 4 upon a single requisition, @ Prussian force may occupy and a Prussian commissary administrate the couatry, This is €5 outline of the clauses of guaranty upon which the tre we likely to be based; though some alicraions made, Prussia is determined to hold on very army LJ the right of protecting the German element in @ istrict, ‘The Prassian constitution having got into force in all the annexed provinces om the Jet inst., the swearing in of the government offiters is wow to be proceeded with, ‘The criminal statute introduced into Hanover ey on September 1 gives great dissatisfaction to the legai fra- poms apd that province, providing, a8 18 does in ail erimin casos, gratuitous Counsel for the accused, Hanoverian statute allowed the counsel fees; whilst the officially appointed defence is ouly ‘The difilerence ts oxpianed by the monopoly enjoyed in Old provinces of Prussia by counsellors, who are a pointes the minister of justia im @ iim: ited are cousidered sem!-govern- ment have very = large = ins comes; whilst in Hanover the profession has been free, without any eounection with of benef ts from tie thos jastifying complaints. being L- upon to sacrifice labor and talent @! any return, Anothor of the dethroned princes, the Ries, of Hesse, with his retinue and courtly paraphernalia, bas jet Henao, near Frankfort, aud vetaken himsetite big sympathy is ac- of a petty tyrant conce!tedness were . passed on she meanness of the eycophants spaniels nt In 8 standard work, Brock haus’ German © ” this ex-elector's government since 183] is criticized, with aue regard to thewensorial authorities, in rather mild terms, ''Frederick William 1. married in August, 1831,’ as Brockhaus says, ‘the di- vorced wife of a Prussi lieutenant by the name of Lehmann, and made her a Countess of Schaumburg." over the motto, ‘Sie transit gloria What a refreshing contrast is afforded by a recent act of the Grand Duke of Baden, who, in order to give the ‘ke, heir apparent to the duchy, the advantag: of a public school education, has !nvited the children of a Gozen families to attend a class under e: vent veach- era, at the castle, Nearly all the trustees appointed by bim © manage the new institution are plain citizer tbe Gand Dike bimself is president of tne board. bear ings of the Reichstag centring upon the Bund budget do not create much interest, for tho reason already stated, that nine-tenths of the latter consist in the expense for the military establishment aud havo previously been agreed to for the next four y The second reading of the whole budget bill took pli day, only three members von of the session may be ex me s a fow details in order to show how the of 67,500,000 thalers—300,000 men multiplied by 226 ‘thalers—is yearly expended. Under the of cur- nditures are the war department, 326,030 thalers; military bureau, 290,065 thalers; clergy, 102,375 thalers; judicial administration, 122,472 thalers; pay of superior officers, 661,198 thalers; local commanders and adjutants of tho King of staff, 267.400 thalers; ad- jutant officers, 83,798 thale mngint 415.912 th: 4 pay and provisioning of the troops, 22,526,113 thalers; clothing of the army, 4,745,969 thalers; administration. of .garrisons, 7,239,967 thalers; hospitals, 1,440,000 thalers; provisioning the reserve, 431,050 thalers; cavalry horses, 1,185,548 thalers; military schools, 487,905 thalera; board and education of children, 61,269 thalers; surgery schools, &c., 70,753 thalers, artillery, arma and powder manufacture, 1,951,744 thalers; for- tresses, 505,533 thalers; invalide, 5,980,918 thalers; the erection of barracks, buildings, &c., is classitied with extraordinary expenses, While the army awaliows up nine-tenths of al! the income of the Bund. Similar state of things is to be observed in all military governments ef Europe—we may look for a moment at the little republic of Switser- Jand, an oasis in the great desert, where the first posi- @ budget is the depariment of public instruc. second that of public works and tmprove, ments and oniy the third is taken up by tne military establishment. ton of Zurich twenty-Lhree is devoted to educational pur- eighteen per cent to public works and thirteen and two-thirds per cont only to the army, On Monday last, when this huge military éfat frst came up in the Reichstag, motions were mace by the liberals aiming at a reduction of go gigantic an institu- tion, one asking the Bund Chancellor to open negotia- tions with the European Powers for a general disarming ; another to let part of the men, in time of peace, go on a &c.; but when, in the opeming of the diacus- sion, the Saxon member, Herr Gitz, remarkea that, having no right to make alterations, the best way wou! be to vote the military état en bloc, he was interrupted by the President, Herr Simson, who said, ‘‘We are oot here to vote the military éat, the paragraphs of which will be read only.’ Respecting the bill on military duty yet to be laid be- fore the Reichstag, I may be permitted to complete iis cursory review in order to show how systematically tho old law of 1814 ts pushed aside by government and what means are resorted to for the expansion of she army. Thatlaw admitted young men of a collegiate eduvation, who passed through a close examination and would pay their own board, uniform, &c., to enter the army as volonteers, one year’s service being counted them for three. Unlike regulars, who enter with their nineteenth or twentieth year, voluntoors would enter tp their twenty-fourth year, #0 as not to Interfere with their studies; up to their twenty-eeyenth year they be- long to the reserve, afterthat to the Landwehr, By the Proposed uew law volunteers are retained in the reserve unti their thirty-first year, in the Landwehr until the thirty-eigbth. The independent position of a scholar of Jaw, medicine, theology, &c., which was heretofore con- dered to commence with his twenty ash year, thus postponed to his thirty-first year. does thi Bew law expressly concede to them the former privileg: of entering at twenty -four—they may be called upon in their nineteenth or twentieth year, and their most valu- able time for study may thus be interrupted. The lib. erale in the Reichstag, with the old gentleman Herr Waldeck at the head, are likely to make a it resiat- ance to such burdensome paragraphs, and very ively debates may be expected, According to the latest official accounts, the tote! of the North German Buad army consists of, bemdes the Guards, twelve army corps, each two forming ae army divia on, ander a chisf commander. These twe corps contain ome bundred and eighteen reg: imfaniry, eighteen battalions of riflemen, se Ly 81K regiments of cavalry, thirteen reginrents of Held artil- lery, one division of fortress artiliery, thirteen battalions of pioneers and thirteen battalions of ti @ train. A motion having been made in the officers in tho army who are uot of t! @ of advancement than heretofore, mentioned that out of ei hundred and fifty-five officers of the Prussian Guards only seventy-eight are of untitied birth, and of this number thirty-ame belong to the artillery, an arm requiring too mach study of mathematics, &c., (9 b@ much enjoyed by jocratic youth, ‘The saveh hundred and seventy pure looded include one duke (Elimar, of Oldenburg), one sovereign prince (William, of Wied), eleven princes, eighty-one counts and eighty-nine baroneta, The Aus- trian Archdukes, Albert, Leopold and Louis, who, after the last campaign, resigned their tions as chiefs of Prussian regiments bearing their respective names, have, curiously enough, the same dignities again, and the newly published army list puts the ex- reigns of Hanover, Hease and Nassau in their old 08 at the head of Prussian regiments named after Pl them. Return e Reichstag I have to speak of Herr Lasker's ‘‘usury’? bill, purporting to abrogate the inter- ference of the law with interest on loans, leaving the rate to future to the option of the contracting parties, with the sole condition that in cases w! more than six per it annual interest has been stipulated the debtor shall have the right to pay back such loan at any time without previous notice, At present no more thao five per cont. on mortgages and six per cent on other toans {s legal, and in order to avoid the crime co? usury ‘a vast deat of manceavring is resorted to. The same re- form bill was passed several years ago in the Prussian Lowor Chamber, but was defeated by the Upper House, the aristocratic land owners therein not willing to free mortgages from the restriction, Even now, when credit on real estate has been almost ruined, the conservatives oppose the bill of Herr Lasker, whilst the social demo. crats, represented in the Reich: by a few members only, demand the preservation of the six per cent re- striction In ail loans or debts of not over one bundret thalers, But the vote on the last reading op [bursday snowed quite a majority for the new bill, to further which Count Bismarck promised his efforts in the Bund Council, though, as be added, he bad tried to do 30 once before in the Prussian Legisiature, and, epite of the in- fluential ngeiion occupied by him (as Premier), without success. 0 Fortechritt member, Herr Harkort, ex- plains to bis constituents the recent defeat in the salt duty bill. He sa} The majority of the Reichstag was in favor of igh duty ot twp thalers per bun- dredweight; we of the ieft would onlv agree to it anti! the expiration of the Zollverein treaty, leav- ing open a future reduction, The was tho rate of duty, not the monopoly, for the latter is still beld by government, owing to the vast doposits of neral salts belonging to it. Is is altogether against economy to fasten a hi uty on @ necessary of cot French salt factorice orders of the Rhine a hundred of kitchen salt for nine groschens : any ad xiy groschens duty to that price. This is doubly unjust, as the duty bears mostiy il on thi the iaboring class. The poor- working man consumes in -his plain food more salt an the millionaire, These were our reasons for demand- nce of a future reduction, but the member Herr aga essed openly the views of the majority by saying. ‘We want @ staple duty to sup the army and make it independent of the votes of Parliament!’ My constituents may draw their own conclusions from such admission,”’ The elections tor the Prussian Dist are fixed by the Minister of the Interior for tue 30th inst., when, accord~ ing to the old system of class havin electors will be chosen who, on the 7th of next month, are to vote for wor Chamber. The govern- of the feudal lords of the aunexed provinces a seat ia the Uppor Chamber, and, this act of conciliation formed, to lay before both houses @ new jaw regulating the composition of the former, it b Tepeatediy proved stubbora by frus- trating reforms advocated by both the government and the Lower Chamber, Persecutions of the liberal press have by no means cee W gens Stor sin ep ne ee that the be a imprisonmen jeavy fines ui inst editors and publishers atiract hardly att Confiscation of opposition joursels, under the of “exciting hate and contemps,” day. Among books prohibited | the Great, recently published at Gottingen, Horr Onno Klopp, must have forgoteen that “only new born babes desire the eincere milk of the word.” ‘The necessity of abolishing old fogy princi In Ger. many—viz., the matitation of master mechanics, for- bidding journeymen workers to execute jobs independ. ently—is lilustrated by ® recent case of shoemaker in thie city, who, forty-four years old, with a wife and woveral children, but without the means to pay ad- mission feo into the guild, was sentenced by the police judge to pay a fine of ten thalers for having furnished ‘boots to customers who declared their entire satisfaction with his work, Assiduous labor to yaa his fam! punigbed by law! What an enormous bbi: to be swept out of the Augean stable Prussia and Germany! How well some of ¢! lone spent for rhoulder straps could be em) ed to teach her [mtd ‘the real meaning of social rights and personal iberty. "Anotber obsotete law of clerical origin was applied Inst week by a fanatical parson, who, in (he act of uniting a cot in marriage, stepped forth from behind the altar and tore the myrtle wreath from the bead of the young woman, who fell prostrate with shame and sion, while the witnesses stood petrified, giving tim® to the amiable servant of the Gospel to make his exit into the vestry, Instead of leaving it to a clergyman’s discre- tion whether ho will officiate in @ case where the vir. ginity of the bride is questionable, an custom per. mits him to collect testimony and, if he sees fit, to vin- dicate, in tho manner fee ‘the purity of the all- mereifa! and forgiving Charc Honor to the ‘Grand Duke of Mecklinburg-Sohwerin for having ordered the license of the gambling tables at jatering piace on the Baitic, to be vacaced, Dot bo far © wi on ff when thote at Homburg, Baden ublic indignation, At the horse races last week an Rogtietmas int &e,, will have to give way to trodaced a novelty to the Berlin gentry, a Derby book, which he managed to fill Offers of wagers. The press comes ont against the pow species of guasbiing. which wovld auzelt have atracted the attention of the poe if the turf im tbie country would de « jess pairicianicasure, THE WA IN CANDIA. SPECIAL MAIL TEGRAM TO THE HERALD. of thé:rand Vizier of Turkey reenlOnicial Defence of the Sultan’s Goverannt. onstamnnoris, Oct, 18, 1867, The proclamation adessed to the Cretens by the Grand Vizier, Aali Pas, recently despatched by the Porte to Candia a8 Comissioner Extraordinary, bas just appeared bere It 9 Castass—You know, experience how great, with regard to you, are the gerosity and the maguanimity of his Imperial Majesty,ar august sovereign, the source of justice and clemency I will not depict to you the peat emotion expemced by his Majesty’s paternal rt at the effusion of tod caused by the criminal at- tempts of a few ambitit men who, abusing the credu- lity of several among ycand their weakness in resist- tog evil counsels and thais, have transformed them into instruments of dirbance, You have seen for yourselves, since the ain of the events we deplore, the efforts of his Imperitiajesty to remove deploravie consequences. You hw how vivid has been his desire to guaraio against all prejudicial attack the jsiand ofCrete and its inhabitants, who occupy 80 large @ pe in tho imperial good will. These good intentions ha been paralyzed by men who ave cast @ covetous eyapon the island and by those who, Delleving: their fallious promises or trembling at their threats, have made their business to falsify the sense of the modera'e fengs the imperial government bad derived from sentimis of humanity. By reject- {ng in arms the benevolt intentions entertained with Tegard to by the comment, they have im: upon uty of effegg tbe chastisement of the guilty in order to |i @ sound thinking portion of the pop a from the pressure exercised upon them by The execution of this task devolved upon the regu: army. The moderation, a f obscurity thrown over them by matolence aod calumny, Tho very persons who have bq styled the victims of bar- barous proceedings bi the army justice, Cretans, you know by e2rience that his Majesty pro- tocts the honest and chasty those hardened in crime, Those who incite you to rolt, far from baving in view your happiness and the prperity of your country, have only one object which th pursue im despite of tho evils that weigh upon yo. That object ws to gratify their own selfish ambition.you have witnessed the sor- rows and privations of ery kind to which those uo- fortunate families are ensed who, ylelding to the deceptive suggestions of fow intriguers, have ex- changed their country for } unknown land, The time has arrived when you mustye you reflections, up to serious The inexnausio magnanimity of our n has uar intended to confine itself mnesty win has been again confirmed sirdar-Ekrer Hig Majesty has deigned- of personaliy, with God's help, planting the foundatis of a new administrative Organization, This organigon is the fruit of consci- entious and profound stud tt is conceived with the of responding to youlegitimate aspirations and curing your future hpiness and that of your ission with whi he bas to your island aying the Most High to Tam about tsonsecrate to the service ga, of your catry and of you all, Cretans, 1 am convived thane great majority among you will appreciate the oppiunity the clemency our sovereign again rs you, a that those among you who bave persevered in erromti! gow will at last open their eyes to the truth and re-ver into the path of duty. I remind those who, contrary; my expectation, should persist in rejecting the benea of his Majesty t tan, our legitimate sovercigmhat they will opportunity of leaving the and within the period fixed for the proclamat.on of tisirdar-Kkrom. Further, thanks to new exertion of ti imperial clemency, the families which have quitted gir country and desire to returo will be authorized to. go upon condition of giving ® promise to keep hencorth within the limits of obedience and fidelity. Cretans, in order to inaugure without delay the ap- plication of the administrativdnstitutions destined to put an end, at the earlics: moent, to the misfortunes of your island, and thanks t whom the future will serve a8 ® reparation for the ps, | write you to pro- ceed, in the course of the ensuz fourteen days, to the election of representatives to vom you shaii delegate your full powers. These rejyseniatives, elected in every district of the island, frommong the Magsuimans and Christians enjoying your cjfideuce, will then have to meet me, ' 1 most especially recommendyon to throw aside, in these elections, aii idea of polite or personal predilec- tion, acd to let your choice faizpon citizens devoted to their country, renowced for ®ir honor, moderation and ddelity to bis impera! Maj IRELAID. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCENF THE HERALD. Rigorous Scarch of all Trinsatiantic Steam- ships=Police aud Detecties on Board the ene vone, Oct 26, 1967. The search of inward and qtward Transatlantic steamers for Fenians has bee§ raewed by the police, anda noted Fenian tender islevitentiy expected from America, Upon the arrival of the stemer Scotia off the harbor of Queenstown at anearly hor yesterday morning, & thorough search wae made on by the detectives, ‘al constabulary,’’ rpoee. t adetention of above tee hours to the Scotia lowed to proceed on jer voyage to Li vag rch wan fruitiess. Njarrest was made: but I understand that one or two ofthe detective force went iu her to Liverpool; but whowhey expected to fad we are unabie to say. A somewhat iar secre) purened upon the ya of she National Compaf’s steamer Erin, later in the day. The detective force at Queettown and Cork bas been greatly augmented within tb it week, for the pure jose of search:ng the oatwardand homeward steamers rom and to:New York, and jicing men on board the steamers whie on their vo! from Queenstown to Liverpool to keep survoiliancever the passengers, RADE. OF THE HERALD, the Ch mas Set. Cotton Crisis=City ageants and Come ass: by s large number of ® wre? out in the tender f Coming Contraction fo thements=Tho Cloud o Obstructions by Line mercial Losses. Loxpow, Oct, 26, 1867. We are drawing very nearp the 9th of November, the period of the Lord Mayas show, after which time business contracts itself imto js narrowest proportions anti! Christmas, when not ply tradesme! bills, bat the more important accountsp! the year are generally all baianced up, and transact of any magnitude ere all ante-dated to the New Yop, which is generally asso- ciated with new hopes and gw enterprises, and itis to be desired that those of 148 will be more fortunate than some of those that hav/ been counted upon during the past two years, which been full of bitter disap- pointment to many. Tnere is one dark cloudphat hangs over things in connection with the trade off textile fabrics—the cotton branch—about which peoplj are very unsettled and uneasy. Although a slight ion bas taken piace, and cotton neem in mewhat, the apauimous opinion is that it must be lowr; aud this belief prevents @ spirited operation in the faple that might otherwise take piace, despite all ators and those ia- C tu ean do to thi year certuin people, and lly manofacturers, are to buy for their curpot wants and for the trade sell at the time they are jvanted, which, altogether, makes up a tolerabic demag, causing & certain amount of business to be done; bu@ne general tone is far from healthy. prec of the Lord Ma show, an influential body of merchants, bankers, etd, signed # memorial to th Court of Aldermen solicitin] that much of she pageant portion of the procession be omitted, so the “show”? might be shoru of fuch of its attractiveness to the crowd of Lo ape id fleck to the city on that day and stop all traffic, caudng business to be suspended daring the principal hougof the day. Some of Aldermen did not much relgh the proposition, and sug- gested that those who could not spare one day’s busi- pees out of the whule year bad beter go and trade else- where. | It tthe custom for the Lord Mayor to ride in the ancient State coach to Westminster, and certain- ly the crowd of ragged ruffians follow ia the wake of the procession, fighting, pushing and larking among themaseives, 6nd at times inflicting ir horse play upon others who may be unlucky enough to get in their way, is a most pecaliar Ls pv head . nove! one, to those who never before ssw scam of a great city bubbling up in the light of day in streets gen- erally sacred to public order and earnest business men, who wan minute to spare to throw their eyes ht or left. “on the whole, however. it is considered a relics of ancient elty usage well worth Lag «Rnd it furnishes & holiday and a gratuitous sight to milies of many thourands of ciorks and the poorer order of persons en- gaged in the city, who cannot get amusement quite to thelr Own taste #0 easily as merchants and bankers and who iadly avail themselves of the opportanity; and the thousands of spociators arranged in the windows along Be je constitute by fara fuer and more inatructive ow who has seeo tho Lord Mayor's show ‘hu: times” wit! again be a spectator in this present year of arace, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The British Expedition to Abyani with King Theodore=City Sce bay=The United States Stenmer Iroquot: Boxnar, Indis, Sept, 18, 1867. The United States steamship Iroquois, Commander E. , Bailed from thie port to-day, bound to Ceylon Qnd Singapore, Her visit to this piace lasted about two woeks, Sho ts attached to tho Asiatic squadron, THO Adyssiniag expedition of tao English govern the show itself, Doubtless the old woman reds of ment is the principal subject of interest, both ia the Papers and in business circles. Steamers, ships and various kinds of veesels are bemg chartered by the gov- ernment, repaired and fitted for the service required, The ebops in the navy yard are crowded with work, and the ring of hammers on board the iron steamsbips in the barbor is not stopped by the small hours of night or the sacrodnoss of Sunday, The story that have bere is, that the despotic King of Abyssinia, with his own hand, wrote a letter to Queen Victoria, saying that she had many ships and ruled @ large country; ber husband bad died and she would want another; in short Making an offer, The Queen declined the offer of this Diack, woolly-headed tyrant of the interior of Africa, under whose rale the essence of despotisin pervades the land to the very core, and two messengers were sent with an angwer. After the letter tad been read and interpreted he said that tho Queen had oot written it herself, took great offence and imprisoned the a gers, All the party that wore to accompany them back Were also captured. Two or three parties that woro seat to inquire for them were taken and imprisoned, until the number was between thirty and forty, Overtures and negotiation in various ways have been made to ob- tain the release of these captives without a bat aroument or reason is useless, and this barbarian King is only the more inclined to be revenged, cut olf the beads of these prisoners and fight the Queen, unless sho accepts, Arumor has been received during the past few days that the prisoners have been released, but tt is not generally believed. ‘The idea is that the oxpedition will ‘avede, capture and tako Abyssinia, whether the prisoners aro released or not, The government has expended a large amount already, and twelvo or fifteen native Sepoy regiments are to go from Bombs i. ‘The first partof this expedition, sappera and miners, with some cavalry, sailed from this port op Monday, the 16th, in four steamers, and several others are soon to follow, Some of these prisoners have been in captivity over two years, and, if not released, will nave their heads cut off as 8 commencement of the war. It is recorded of this tyraut, that he caused the heads of 640 of his own people to be cut off on one occasion. ‘Abyssinia is ahard country to reach, and hundreds of milos of desert aro to be traversed whore oniy camels can live, In one of their requisitions aro 5,000 camels. Everything has to be carried with th pedition into this country. Anotber steamer sails jorrow morn- ing with troops and suppiie: Although items of news are scarce, and thero is but little to disturt usual monotony here, there is much to interest a stranger in Bombay with its 250,000 inhabt- tants, 1 isiand ia ten miles long and three wide, with the best harbor on the coast. The caves, chiseled from the solid rocks on the neighboring islands of Ele. phantie, Saisette and Kerresy, are objecta of antiquity which resemble many of the Egyptian works in stone, and amply repay a visit. Statuary, standing in niches around walls cut in the solid rock, represent many figures of their gods which the natives to-day worship. ‘These chiseled excavations from the solid rock are really grand temples, in which are supporting columns and pillars, winj side chambers and unfinished caverns. Some of the figures are tine anatomical show @n advauced state of arts not excelled in Egypt. They are the labors of by-gons ages, a0 one kaows when or who. Time has crumbled much of the rock, aad the desecrating band has broken most of the figures. The streets of taf city present a strange, novel and curious scene; no sidewaiks; and women with strange costumes; some nearly neked, with loads of ‘various things upon their heads and shoulders, cabs, gigs, patanquins, ox carts, and occasionally long: horned, lazy-moving droves of buffaloes mingle in the stream, and move in different directions through the macadamized streets, Tho builato cows give nearly ail the milk used in the city, aud are allowed to run loose and feed on the groeus and open parks, The inhabitants of the city are vory much mixed, and different languages are spoken, Hindoos, Moors and Parsees are the most numerous, The Hindoo raco comprises nearly half the population, and a large portion of them are degraded by their castes, religion and super- stition, so that a horse is far above them; six can bo hired to do common tabor for the price of keeping one horse, This makes a stravge change in the transfer of goods about the city, which appears remarkable to an° American; bales, boxes, lumber, iron, &c., are carried by the natives about the streets on long poles, with the article suspended between, It is common to see a bar- rel or a box hanging from a pole, witb a native at each end carrying it through tite streets on their shouildera, Large articles are carried on three or four poles and six or eight nati To see a pile of lumber largo enough to load a one horse cart or wagon carried by ten or twelve natives is common; but a cariman with horse and dray is not to be seen in the city. Small cat- tle and rough, high ox carts are used for transporting goods over long distanees. The low class are cuffed, slapped, kicked and knocked around more iike brutes than as if they possessed the foelings of a human being, Schools, missions, raising cotton and building railroads have so inuch improved this class that their wages aro now equal to twelve or fifteen cents, without board, Eight years ago it was five, and out of that they had to py their board. ‘heir women are the hewers of wood and drawers of waiers, and their lot is wretched indeed, The English government bas stopped the burning of the wife with the dead body of her husband; but it is yot practised in some" parts of the interior. The holiday costumo of most of the women scen in she streets is singular; a loose flowing robe of gaudy colors, tighly wrapped be- tween the limbs and negligently ie hiding their bosoms; bare Almost all woar banglets of white metal about their an! which havo a tinkling sound as they walk. They wear glittering bracelets of glass or brass, and rings on ther toes, usuaily white; some have many earring? ‘and nose jewels, which faintly add to the tinkfing of the anklets a8 they move. The dross of the men shows the different castes, and a description of one would give very little idea of the many others. if one touches grease or & polluted thing, be loses his caste and none of hia family will eat or associate with him, This is tho most degrading thing in India, and tho great difficuity im schools. ‘The Parsees are of lichter complexion, and descendants of Persians, who emigrated to this city hundreds of ago. By industry, economy and ability they have now become the chief merchants of the city. Some are very wealthy, and their horses, splendid equipage and two gaily dressed tootmen, moving slowly among tho nearly naked natives carrying boxes, barrels and heavy loads, is a strange contrast. Their religions allows every one an equal chance to rise in weaith, but they neither burn their dead like the Hindoos, or bury them like the Wohammedans, They have an enclosure where they lay them on an iron grating over i of water. The moment the breath leaves the body, they break the limbs on the body j 8 thigh and arm bones aud fold t afterward the body is removed to the eoclosure and Iai upon the grating in a nude sate, are kept trained vultui Shzzards large crows, which soon eat the flesh pick the bones I they drop through into the pool; the sea is let in and washes the bones away occasionally ; if the rignteye is first plucked out it do- cides that he goes to the good piace, but if tue left, he ts bad, I have seen this 4 with a glass, at some disiance, and a model; none but Parsees are admitted, not their women, aud the practice of a deception to gain trance would be likely to costa person bis life, if di vered. @ ihe city of Bombay has some fine drives and a curious display in the “turnouts” —many cabs with poor horses; hacks of every style, bat mostiy of an antiquated ap- pearance. Occasionally the fine horees and splendid car- riage of some rich Parsee or English nabob a cart, without springs, before which are trotting a simall pair of cattle or oxen, and followed by some crazy old gig, whose driver is using great exertions to make his bony mag beat the oxen on & re trot, is the scone that can ‘De witnessed after three ’. on the grand road. The main streets of the city are not wide, and fow of tl houses are more than two or three stories. They aro disfigured by verandas and juttings of wood, painted red apd biue, These nearly cover somo of the uatrow strocts above the first story, and a person sep across the strect two or threo stories high and visit his neigh- ‘Many of these narrow streets are receptacies for slops, dirt, mud and filth, with # most suffocating stench. ‘The goveroment buildings at the fort, bank and ware- houses, are four and five «tories bigh, stone frouts, aod most of them wouid be an ornament to any city. The harbor has al amount of shipping from all ‘of the world, and American enterprieo is shown by Getess number of vessela waving the Stars and pes. Cargoes of ice from Bosion cross the equator twice, and come thirteen thousand miles cheaper thaa can be obtained from the ice and saow covered moun- tains of the interior. There are no wharves, and oar; harged by lighters, During a month past there has been an increase in the number of v sels, with an unusual activity in shipping business. The dry dock at the Navy Yard, and that of the Oriental and Peninsula Steamship Company, are crowded by the busy work: aad many vessels are waiting their tura, Numerical th, manders of the Pope’s Army. The Commander-in-Chicf of the Papal army is General Kanzler, who is aleo the Holy Father's Minister of Arms, Under hie ordera are Coant de Corten and Marquis Zappi. ‘The former commands the First division and the latter the Second division. The following corps compose tho army:— ° 1 Aregiment of infantry of the line, composed of three battalions, each consisting ht This regiment is composed entire! under the command of Colonel Azzanesi. 2. A battalion of chasseurs, likewise natives, consist- ing of ten strong companies, Commanded Lieutenant if nouRves, Lote mos. hed fourteen com- pao! hundred and eixty men, com- manded by Colonel Al @ Abatialion of foreign carabiniers, containing ton companies, commanded by Lieutenant Colones! 6. A legion o than tro thot Med, Who, in case of need, might De employed in thot lod by Colone: Evangelist, comm o distinguished Bimeelf in the action of Grotta San Stefano, uuder the immortal Pimodan, 7. Three fleld batteries, with rifled itzore of tho best dercri; These mand of M. le Comte Cacint, tieuten those well mounted batteries must bo four howitzors for mountain service, sich willy haps, be replaced by emalier cannon, which have ri cently artived ia Rome and aro invented, (tis mid. jncrease the tmeans of defence aud aitack ab \he posal of the Pogyiienl troops, 5\ a orps of native engineers, commanded ty Lieu- tenant Colone! Lana %. A corps for the ambulance service and a battalion Of veterans, Who, in an emergeocy, CAD act as garrison. There is also a staff office in Rome, to which ai! the officers, native and forexgn, delony. ‘The armament is ot info of the bast troops of Europe. shortly ai soldiers will be prev ded wih breech loaders, BRITISH REFORM. New Issues ef the League and Divisi ftie [From tho London Post, Oot. 25.) We bad feared (hat we bad seen the last of the Reform ue, DUE bers 6 6 again—more amusing than ever. Determined to quarrel with somebody, if only for the sake of keeping it band in end ‘self in pablic yew, it has now crowned '6 work by q arrelling with its pre- sident, Mr. Beales, himsel/, au’ the treatment he has bsence, be |: ob-erved—throws some ims to respect y advances, It appears that Mr. Beales had written a \ettor to his faith fut Leaguers, explaining to them Lue situation of the Fe- jon, and the view of it, The firet part depr Diroductton of practices “ infringing on the landmarks of the jaw aud ‘be conatity ed—in bis tion,” under the ‘pretext’? of a “reman panic,’ was ugbacious enough to be received pretty well; but, un- Rapnly, Mr, Beales went on to say (hat, in Dis opinion, the Irish ought to adopt the pricciple of the League, “pamely, to proceed to remove ua‘ivual grievances by the firm and resolute but al expression of public opinion tn a lawful and coustituional manner, and that if they had taken this course they would be doing some good, instead of “exciting by their sanzul- nary and bighly irritating, thouga abortive, proceedings @ spirit of animosity and hostility caculated only to r tard the political and social advance of their country. it seems that the League doos mot want ha te pri a@iopted, or that it docm not consider that principe to be, as stated by Mr, Reates, ‘a peaceiul expression of publica opinio: a @ lawful and constitutional manner;’? for uo soouer was (he phrase read than a chorus of howls s-ose 4. Mr Lucraft objected to it be- cause “he felt that tho Irish people wore fully jueti- fled in using physical foe to redress ‘their wrongs,’” Mr, Cooper “cordialiy endorsed’? whet Mr. Lucraft folt. Mr. Odger re-equorsed Sir, Cooper's endorsement, volunteering veside (ie opinion that Ire land would “never make an inp until she knocked some of way of the Hyde Park ra jon apon her rulers n, whether in the or otherwise be did pot know;”” and Mr, Brisk capped them by oxpressing him- felf in tho form of thia sentiment, “Let Fenianism go on and prosper,’ all which was received with cheors and without a dissentiont voice. We do vot, of courve, attach any importance to the treasonabie maunderings of such poor creatures as these, of ‘maine that ley will do the Fenians eithor good or harm, but they are usefal aa showing the Reform Leaguers ‘n their true light, and are altogether a delicious commentary upon every one of their former utterances. They have long and loudly deciared that they are peacef| ordor loving subjects of the Queen, intent only up ug their opinions in & peaceable and oiterly vo they have again and again protested against the joj stice of supposing for av instant (hat such patriots as (vey coald have any- thing in common with “roughs” revolutionists, or any other disturbers of public quiet it is true that nobody believed the protest or the arciaration, but now ail possi« ble doubt ag to its worth is cleared away by (he Leaguers themselves announcing openiv, sod with a refresh- ing candor which, under a less tolerant government, would consign them to their natural posts on the tread~ ey indignantly repudiate the preference pro- by their president for the method of lawful and constitutional demand for redress of grievances over the method of “koocking down rulers.’’ This jatter pro- ceeding they appear to regard not oply as the best but the easiest that can be pursued, and it never seems to have occurred to them that ruler’ a: well as ruled can play at knocking down, until it was suggested by the chair man, who probably considered him eif officially bound to do something for Mr. Beales’ view, that a revolution ast to have ‘a reasonabe prospect of suc in fact, was the oniy concession mado ole discussion to that respect for the laws hitherto so loudly proclaimed xpect that Mr. Disra will be shot in Pail on benaif of the com- pound househotders of the country. ar that Lord Der- by’s mansion will be Gred by the heroic Brisk to avenge the discontented voters of a three-cornered constit ency; for we do not doubt that the guers, hows much they may talk, know better than to tmperil th skins in the cause of their country. Stil, that is what their language amounts 10, and it 1s pleasing to be able to thank them for ing been so explicit, All this bump- tiousness, howe’ reminds us (hat these obscure incen- diaries would never have emerged from their tnsignifi- cance, even so far ag the stage of articulate specch, bad it not been for the too memorable an deplorable vacillation and weakness which wi layed in dealing with them at fought the police, broken down the Hyde P railings (for they make no scruple of adopting giory of that feat now), bullied poor ‘ir. Walpole, bearded the government, and’ triumphed over the law, they naturally think themselves very fine fellows indee: it may possibly not be without some trouble actual essay of their knocking-down pinciples th be brought to understand how very email t! have, at any rate, by their latest manifes! elves off from ail chance of sympathy from out- 8, and We would only bope that, if ever such an essay does come, Messrs, Odaor and Brisk, with the rent ‘Of its advocates, will be honored by being placed in the front of the battle. Mr, les seems to have been treated very ungratefully after ail be bas done for the ie has the reputation of baviog more thaa to prevail than the’ rejection of the letter now in question shows that be must bad some difficulty in doing so. If he is wise he will hence- forth leave the Leaguers to thomseives and the police. THE PAYMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. New Yorn, Nov. 7, 1967. To rar Eprror oF mis Heratp:— Few propositions tending more to the welfare of our country have been advanced during the Jast few years, than that concerning the payment of the debt which I observed in your issue of to-day. There sre many ways in which we may regard ft, both financially and politi- cally, and in each of these way! will find that it te both beneficial and patriotic. Few politicians, whether republican or democratic, will deny the fact that if our country were unburdened with debt it would be better able to advance on the great road of improvement, to wealth, glory and honor. It is piain to all that this debt must some time be paid. While we are burdened by taxation, invention is stifled and tho gates are closed to American advancement. This fact is evident from the reports by the different departments of our government made of late, What then dothe mes demand? Must wo stand still for twenty years, while the European news in our journals from dav to day announce tho the progress of every nation, as il as petty State, from the Battie ‘to the Mediterranean, Still it must be thus, if the present system of abolishing or paying the debt is retained. It cannot be objected to this on the ground of repudiation. On the contrary, itis the offspring of @ sound knowledge of what should be our true policy and devoted patriotism, We honor and revere the names of those men who, when our country stood in need, gave ber millions of doliars, that she might be able to relieve herself from her troubles. He who pres overnment does the same, Those who icism of radicai rulers may, by th during the which the iy pre josed by t ment of the debt leads only to national bankruptcy, now @ chance toaid as their conscience wi!! dictate the great work of reconstruction, It t9 a plan well worthy tbe tion of atatesmen, as well as the people. If when our arm: tied down we make bat one great effort, we ebail find our limbs free to move as they moved in days gon! on the road to national pros- perity and glory, pg the wouder of European nation, and presenting to the pen of the historian a page more glorious than any which the records of former times present, It requires, I say, fice, and tne Aw people Lave often they are able to mai ROBBERY OF AN EXPRESS COMPANY, Another Safe Carried Of and Blown Open. From the Momp! lov. 4. Thursday morning, ern Express Company in waa discovered that ™ iron sal eens belsen, missit Tt was in ite proper. p! bight fore. The signe was at once givem, and a thorough search of the town and suburbs made for tho missing safe. As it weighed about two hundred pounds, it was not deomed ble that the robbers had carried it far, and the result of the investigation verified the conclusions Ta it the woods, a short distance from the town, the safe was found. Phe door had been blo es wader, the vaults forced, and between $4, and 000 in reenbacks abstracted formed their work scienti(ically, leaving nothing debind id serve to tasien suspicion upon any known It is customary to bave night watchmen ip all of the Bouthern Express Compan; man employed at Jackson was in axieep at the time, egress of the robbers ate weighed two hundred pounds, w a ward of haifa mile, three or four engaged in the robbery. The or near the spot where tho sal as duce the f that any vebicle bad wey 16 to the woods, re ConrLict wird 4 Monpener,—Some time ulin ‘an old lady named Elizabeth McDonald wa cooliy and deliberately murdered ip her own house, in Washington township, Jewerson county, eagamtanyre tnt robbed of $1,000 in gold and some other money valuables, The crime was committed by two desperate villains, ope of whom was arrested soon after, tried, joted and bw Before be was hang he said that D Gravee was his partner in guilt, officers of jaw have ever since been on bis a pan Ped at Ceaar Springs, cal been ured to com- der, which he see 10 order to iron him, it atthe oM@cer. er thereupon di iver, The two remained a moment , when Graves turned and ran for the officer fired several samen Det did not hil finally overtaken, when a lace, The man fought with could command, and until he was completely © with blood and #0 pertectly bruised and cut to pee, vy the officer that h Pesala ‘no longer make & Love! Pod mistence. ally, when taken aad troned, bo vee the oficer oot him, or give him & pistol 1 en Mmght end life, kaowlng, he did, that i ‘ was gos end en (i would bo ta a few months hence 00 8 soadold ia Peamsy iva.