The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ane STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIU = 2 AM ISEMSNTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, BroodWay.-Humpry DuMpry, wir New Frarunrs. Matinee ut 1g. THEATRE, Broadway BROADWAY 4 Matinee at Ly. QUEEN oF SCOTS. Many Srvart, NIBLO'S FRENCH COMIC OPERA— Basse BL te BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery As Ir Was—S?RING OF PEA NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Last NIGHTS OF Fout PLA, Matinee at $. RDEN, Broad JENNY LIND—IRELAND BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tawi sireel.—EiiNOPIAN MINSTRELBY, &C., KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ErHio- VIAN MINSTSELSY, BURLESQUE, &C.--Bannr® BLO. ny Building, Mth JUCBETIA BOUGIA. | CO MINSTRELS, 535 Rroadwas ENB, SINGING, DANCING, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOW'S Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTBELSY, & SAN FRA! Pian ENies 201 Bowery. —COMIO Matinee at 2)y. THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadwa: GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE Tar Great Ont PANY. Matinee, 2, Thirtioth street and WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEAT! erformance., * Broadway.—Afternoon and evening DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway. —Tuk CELEBRATED Sienor Birrz, Matinee at 2 PIKE’S MUSIC HALL, 28d street, corner of Eighth avenue —MvEVox’S HIGERNICON, Matinee at %, CENTRAL PARK GARD) eoth avenue.—THEO, Tuomas’ POPULAR GARDEN ConoRy. si GREAT WESTERN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 43d street.—EQUESTRIAN AND UYMNASIIO ENTRATALNMENT, THE SIAMESE TWL Houston street. MRS. F. B. CONWA A Fas or LigarNing At No. 616 Broadway, near TUBATRE, Brooklyn.— NEW YORK MU SCIENCE AND OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— New York, Saturday, Septomber 18, 1868. | i} EUROPE. rt by the Atlantic z, September 1 The nows rep cable is datea Napoleon visited Queen Isabella of Spain at St. Sebastian from Biarritz. ‘Th lian government sentence’ a Roman cardinal to fine for seeking to take pc ssion of a see without authority of the civil government. Forty-six persous were killed by an explosion cf gunpowder in Metz, France. Sir John Young is appointed Governor Geneial of Canada, Russia is to reinforce her troops in Central Asia. Consols unchanged. Five-twenties, 7244 in Lon- don and 751 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse quiet, Cotton closed with middling uplauds at 104d. ny NEW YORK HERALD, tenement house No 434 East Thirteenth street, yester- day morning, in a fit of delirium tremens, stabbed her afd subsequently stabbed and two men occu- pying an adjoining apartment who came to her rescue. Happily none of the wounds are likely to prove fatal, He was afrosted and committed to prison by Judgd Shaidiey to await the resuit of the injniigi. . “rhe steamship Cortes, Captain Nelson, of the Cromwell line, will sail from pier No, 9 North river at three P, M, to-day for New Orleans, The steamship Euterpe, Captain Gates, will leave pier 20 Kast river at three P, M. to-day for Galves- ton, Texas. "The sidewheel steamship San Jacinto, Captain At- kins, will sail at three P, M, to-day from pier No, 8 North river for Savannah, Ga, . ‘The steamship Champion, Captain Lockwood, will leave pier No. 5 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, ‘The stock market was strong and excited yester- day. Government securities were firm, Gold closed at Ldd4y a 144 The Coming October Elections—Pennsylvania . Will Settle the Question. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa will hold their State elections this year on the 13th of October, embracing their delegations to the next, or Forty-first, Congress. The results of the September elections in Vermont and Maine have sufficiently indicated the drift of the popular tide to justify the republicans in their expectations of a decisive victory in November under the banner of Grant and Colfax; but the democratic organs and leaders still hold out the hope to their party that these coming October elections will show that in the Central States and in the great West the political reac- tion therein of 1867 is still progressing. They do not appear to expect much from Ohio; but they are making a desperate fight of it in Indiana, and are preparing to contest every inch of ground from Philadelphia to Pitts- burg and in every corner of Pennsylvania. Vrom the recent local elections in the distant ritories of Colorado and New Mexico we think it is apparent that the same general causes which have swelled the usual repub- lican majorities in Vermont and Maine are operating over the whole country. In other words, we think it apparent that the demo- crats, in making their battle of 1868 sub- stantially their battle of 1864, will suffer under Seymour the defeat of McClellan. The Pennsylvania October election will settle the question. How will Pennsylvania go? The republicans expect to carry the State by from twenty to twenty-five thousand majority. The democrats hope to carry it, and that is all. They build their expectations on the October elections of 1856, 1862 and 1867. But in the election of 1856 the opposition elements were divided into two factions or par- Hrealstuds dat. Provisions nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. We have letters from } \llan, Mexico, dated Au- gust 25. Lorzada had sent a contemptuous reply to the demand of the general goverument to annul his Jate edicts, and was himself preparing for war, al- though it is believed the government dare not attack him, Dolonel L. B. Grigsby, of Kentuck: pointed Deputy Collector of the port of New York, and will have charge of the coasting trade between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Speaker Colfax has arrived in Washington, Only about forty members of the two houses have arrived ties, the republican party under Fremont and the American party under Fillmore, while State pride strengthened the democrats under Bu- chanan. Yet, cold and distrustful as was the fusion of the Fremont and Fillmore factions in October, it came within some two thousand votes of holding the State. The real strength has been ap- | of the leading republican idea, ‘‘no further extensions of slavery,” was fully developed only with the dissolution and dispersion of the disturbing American or Know Nothing party. Growing up like Jonah’s gourd in the course so far, but they are dropping in continually, and | of a night, and fading like it under the heat of tuere will probably be a quorum on Monday. Dr. Goold, of Dublin, arrived in thts city on Thurs- day last from the Arctic regions, and gives some in- teresting particulars of Hall's Arctic research expe- dition. Captain Hall has ascertained definitely the cireumstances of the death of the last two survivors of Sir John Franklin’s party. Captain Crozier and a steward of one of the vessels died in 1864, near Southampton Island. Captain Crozier's watch and other relics are in Mr. Hall's possession and he was to startin Fe@uary or March last with an armed party of natives and Europeans to secure some records left by Franklin's men in King Willlam’s Land. A fire occurred on Navy street, between Fulton and DeKalb avenues, Brookiyn, about two o'clock yesterday morning, by which nineteen buildings and a large sawmill were destroyed, involving a loss of $130,000. No lives were lost, although officer Cart, in saving a sleeping infant, had his hat burned from his head and his hair singed. The steamship Northern Li Captain Seabury, sailed from New York on the 4 ult. for Bremen, via Cowes, and as no despatch has as yet been re- ceived in this city announcing her arrival out much anxiety éxists among those having friends on board as to her safety. Yesterday was the twenty- seventh day since her departure, and as other steam- ers have been longer out heretofore and haye ulti- mately arrived in safety there are hopes that we may yet hear of the arrival of the Northern Light at her destined port. The Union feeling seemsto be gaining ground in Nova Scotia, It is rumored that several prominent repealers are willing to accept the union with Can- ada on trial for a few years, and the recent visit of the Dominion Ministry was more successful than gen- erally supposed. A delegation on behalf of the New Dominion government will soon proceed to Engiand to make a final settlement regarding the transfer of the Northwest Territory to Canada, and it is ex- pected that the question will be settled and submitted to Parliament at its next meeting. ‘The Provincial Synod of the New Dominion, in ses- sion in Montreal, has dealt a hard blow at ritualism. Yesterday the Synod adopted a resolution forbidding the elevation of the elements, the use of incense, the mixing of water with wine, the use of the wafer bread, of lighta on the communion table and the wearing of vestments while saying prayers. The steamship Idaho and her cargo of sugar, from the Sandwich Islands, was seized at San Francisco on Thursday for violation of the revenue laws. The steamship Great Repuiic, from Hong Kong, is two days over due at San Francisco. The Oregon Legislature met at Salem on Tuesday. ‘The democrats have @ majority of four in the Serate and eleven in the House, Notice was given that a bill would be introduced to repeal the resolution adopting the fourteenth amendment to the Consti- tution, A terrible conflagration is raging in the foresis of Oregon and California, The fire is estimated to have already spread over an area of two hundred square miles on both sides of the Columbia river, Oregon. It s feared that the towns of St. Helens and Astoria will be destroyed, A tract of five miles of woods near San Rafael, Marin county, Cal., is on fire, the smoke from which completely enveloped the harbor oud city of San Francisco. A committee of the colored members of the Geor- gia Legisiature, who were ousted from their seats on the grounds of ineligibility, are on the way to Wash- ington to present their case to Congress. A disastrous fire broke out on Thursday night ina hardware store in Elmira, which destroyed the upper stories of the bullding and stock to the value of $150,000, A A negro was discovered on Tuirtieth street a night or two ago burning three kittens to death ina fire he had built for the purpose. He was committed by Justice Dodge yesterday. Ree and Martine, the alleged note forgers, were held for trial yesterday by Justice Dowling, being | committed to jail in default of $5,000 bail. The Internal Revenue case was called up before the morning sun, that Know Nothing faction, if it did nothing else asa third party, prevented in 1856 that popular judgment of the North which in 1860 decreed that there should be “no further extensions of slavery.” From that point, which marked the disrup- tion and dissolution of the old pro-slavery democratic party, we date a new political epoch. The Northern elections behind the year 1860 of the old pro-slavery period will hardly, therefore, apply to the present order of things. Certainly the Pennsylvania Octo- ber election of 1856, with Buchanan and three parties in the field, is out of the question. But in the midst of the war, in 1862, the de- mocracy carried the State by three thousand majority. There is not much comfort, how- ever, in that when we remember that the democratic war cry of that year, Seymour and all, was ‘‘a more vigorous prosecution of the war,” and that upon this issue, on a short vote, the elections of 1862 in Pennsylvania and New York went by default. There remains the Pennsylvania October election of 1867, in which the democrats were successful by some nine hundred majority, after having been beaten the year before by seventeen thousand majority. Let us look into this. Here are the figures of the general result of the October elections of 1866 and 1867 in Pennsylvania: — 1868—Repnblican vote for Governor. Democratic vote » 807,274 290,096 + 597,370 Total vote cast Republican majorit, 17,178 1867—Republican vote, Supreme Judge 266,824 Democratic Vote... .sseeeeeseee 267,746 Total vote cast... «+ 534,570 Democratic majority sees . 922 Here, it will be remarked, looking simply at the republican majority in one year and the democratic majority in the other, is a decided political reaction; but we see that it signifies little or nothing when we turn to the aggregate vote :— Total vote of 1866....... Total vote of 1867....... 597,270 70 De ficiency .... 6+ ++ 62,800 Of this deficiency the figures further show in round numbers that forty thousand was re- publican and twenty-two thousand democratic, leaving a republican balance or majority on this reserved vote of eighteen thousand ; and all this vote in this October election will be brought out. It will thus appear that unless there is a change in the opinions of some twenty thousand Pennsylvania republicans of 1866 in favor of Seymour and against Grant there is no hope for the democracy in Penn- sylvania, From the shape which the folly of the democratic managers and leaders, stumpers and newspapers, North and South, has given to this canvass, we look for a result in Penn- sylvania in October which will settle the ques- tion of the November election very decisively in favor of General Grant. Mr. MoCutzocn Nox-Committat.—The democrats at Washington, who are in the habit of making a great fuss at Presidential elec- tions, though they have no power or votes, tried to bring out Mr. McCulloch on the present Commissioner Guttman’ yesterday morning and was again postponed until Tuesday. The Fioating Pen litigation, which involves the right to a patent for a recording instrument in ocean telegraphy, was called up before Judge Barrett, in the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, on a motion to diasolve an injunction against its sale by the de- fendants, The Court reserved its decision. Michae| Conlon, who resided with his wife in the issue between Seymour and Grant. They in- vited him to a public meeting at Carusi’s sa- loon, but the Secretary could not attend. He sent them letter, however, but not a word about the rival candidates or parties. He does not know anything about democrats or republicans, Seymour or Grant, He is de- cidedly non-zoramittal, News from Cuptain Yall; the Arctic Explorer. We print ip another column some notes fur- nished by Dr. Goold, who saw Captain Hall at Repulse Bay in August, 1867, Captain Hall had been successful in discovering some ther traces of the expedition of Sir John Franklin, He had learned that Captain Cro- zier and another—thought to be a steward— | had died go late as 1864, in Southampt Island, the head of Hudson Bay, to w they had made their way in the hope of mn meeting some whaler. Te had obtained what will no doubt be accepted as 4 tangible evidence of tho truth of this— Captain Crozier's watch, He had also learned that he would in all probability secure further knowledge of the fate of the expedi- tion—perhaps find some records in King Wil- liam’s Land, The people there are unfriendly to strangers, and the Captain had made ar- rangements with friendly Esquimaux to ac- company him on an expedition—forcible if necessary—into the dominions of those tribes— a fact indicating that he had great hopes of obtaining there some valuable trace of the long sought objects of the world’s solicitude. Captain Hall had with him when thus seen five European attendants. It will be remembered that he left New London in 1864, intending to voyage to the arctic regions, and leaving the ship to search in the Esquimaux country trom the shores of Hudson Bay toward the polar circle for traces of Franklin’s company. The very decided success he had had in 1867 tes- tifies to the truth of his idea that the history of the lost expedition was to be learned in the country and from the people among whom Franklin’s men had lived in the winters and summers when, their ships broken up, they had struggled toward warmer latitudes. The Meeting of Congress—What Is to Be Done? The republican leaders have made a great mistake in calling for the attendance of a quo- rum of the two houses of Congress on Mon- day next. They willcommit a yet miore dam- aging blunder if they pay any heed to the un- easy radicals who are pressing for a resump- tion of general legislative business for the pur- pose of interfering with the action of the Geor- gia Legislature and further tinkering up the unfortunate Reconstruction laws. The people are well aware that all legislation that may be attempted at this time will be designed to aid the dominant party in the approaching Presi- dential election, and they fail to discover any necessity for extraordinary measures to in- sure the election of General Grant to the Pre- sidency. They are weary of the violence, passion and excitement of these repeated ses- sions, and are heartily sick of the whole ques- tion of reconstruction, which has kept the country in a state of turmoil ever since the close of the war. The radical leaders fail to comprehend the popular sentiment if they do not know that their policy of military rule and negro supremacy at the South is offensive to the people of the loyal States. The great strength of General Grant lies, first, in his well known conservatism; and next, in the stupid blunders of the democracy, and not in any hearty endorsement of the policy of Con- gress; hence the less that is seen or heard of the Washington agitators in the campaign the better. Senator Sherman in his speech at Cooper Institute on Thursday night announced that he was on his way to the national capital to watch Andrew Johnson. This of itself is a very small piece of business ; yet it will be better for Congress to sit still, with all eyes fixed on the President, than to attempt any agitating partisan legislation in the very midst of a hotly contested election. If the politicians could be made to under- stand that this campaign is run by the people, and not by a few superannuated or selfish leaders, they would save themselves much un- necessary trouble and spare the country .a great deal of annoyance. But on both sides the same error prevails, The democratic ma- chine managers supposed that they were strong enough to take the nominations into their own hands and to defy the popular will. They now begin to see how fatal a mistake they made. Some republican leaders imagine they discover achance of one or two Southern States voting with the democracy, and straightway they set on foot an agitation for more legislation to avert the contemplated evil. Others persuade themselves that they have nosed out a design on the part of Andrew Johnson to help Sey- mour with the federal patronage as soon as he gets rid of Congress, and they are restless and uneasy until they can reach Washington and watch the President. This is all puerile and nonsensical. The election of November next will be decided by the voice of the great North, and the Lincoln States, that made the republican party and held it up during the war, will vote with greater enthusiasm than ever for Grant, who fought the war out to a successful termination. A few Southern elec- toral votes and a handful of paltry offices will sink into utter insignificance in such a grand and magnificent victory as the hero of the Appomattox apple tree will achieve at the polls; and the radicals who suppose that any Congressional tinkering is needed on one side, or who stand in mortal terror of President Johnson on the other side, are simply political noodles, who fail to appreciate ‘the situation or to understand the true sentiments of the people. The next best thing Congress can do to not meeting at all is to adjourn immediately and go home. Mysterious Mission To St, Pererssure.— Mr. Moran, Secretary to the American Lega- tion in London, has, it appears, gone on a special mission to St. Petersburg. So two of yesterday's telegrams inform us. What is his mission? Does it relate to China, Alaska or the passage of the Dardanelles? It is not for nothing that all Europe has been put in a state of anxiety about an American message. Minister Johnson ought to be able to give us some information on the subject. Too Mvcn or It,—Is there not just a little too much of what the London Zimes saya and the London Times thinks upon all questions, whether unimportant or vital, in the press de- spatches sent here by cable? There are a great many papers in England besides the Times, and some of them represent the masses of the British people a good deal better. It is hardly worth while paying the cable tariff for daily puffs of the Londoa Time, We have had too muoh of it, Rethsehild on Disraeli. Baron Rothschild, one of the members of | the British Parliament for the city of London, seeks re-election at the bands of the constitu- eney of that city to the House of Commons to be chosen under the new Reform bill. He has, with his colleagues, Messrs, Crawford, Law- rence and Goschen, signed a joint address to the voters, setting forth their claims to repre- sent the capital of Great Britain in contrast to those of the Disraeli conservative candidates, In this paper Baron Rothschild, the best known of the four, comes out in recommenda- tion of a hearty vote against the gevern- ment, seeking to prevent the Cabinet from ob- taining even one member, under the triangular minority clause return introduced into the franchise measure of last session. ‘The Baron says :—‘‘You have been selected, with a few other large constituencies, for the purpose of testing the operation of a novel po- litical expedient. The: electors, who have hitherto enjoyed the privilege of returning four candidates of their choice, are now to be de- prived of one of their votes in order to secure the so-called representation of a minority. But before this minority can claim to return a mem- ber it must comprise an adequate proportion of the constituency, If it falls short of such a proportion can it be said that Parliament in- tended or that the country would approve the surrender by the majority of any portion of the representation? It appears that large as was the liberal majority at the election of 1865 the accession to its ranks which it has since acquired is such that the minority, as we are advised, will not reach the number which would entitle the conservative party to expect to return one member to Parliament, even under the new system of limited voting. With your assured numerical superiority the liberal party in the city can still return four members.” With a Rothschild pronouncing on his politi- cal chances and a number of the Church clergy adverse to his ‘religious sentiments” it appears asif Premier Disraeli will have to struggle hard to secure a retention of power after the general election in the United Kingdom. He possesses, however, great courage and en- joys many resources, which may enable him to overturn the calculations even of a Rothschild. A Good but Severe Example. The universal demand of the public that some great example should be made of. parties carrying deadly weapons and using them in- discriminately in public places has been very efficiently complied with by Judge Troy in a case tried in Brooklyn on Thursday. The facts showed that a man named Hamilton had. on the 3d of July last, discharged a pistol at he head—but fortunately only hit the hat—of a conductor on a city railroad car. The facts being proven, the Judge sentenced the prisoner to the full penalty prescribed by the law for carrying deadly weapons—namely, five years in the State Prison. It may be claimed that this is a severe punishment, considering that no blood was shed, and considering, too, that it was shown by evidence that the accused had anticipated the glorious Fourth by getting in- toxicated on the 3d, and that, moreover, he was a man of good reputation, who had never done any one any harm before nor manifested any violence of conduct. He occupied the re- sponsible position of gunner in the Navy Yard, and had many to testify to his general char- acter and his partially irresponsible condition when the offence was committed. All these facts may and probably will serve to procure a mitigation of the punishment ; but that Judge Troy was right in using all the powers reposed in him to deter the use of deadly weapons, and that he deserves commendation therefor every one who has observed the frequency with which the pistol and knife are used in the community nowadays will admit. It was not the damage done to the conductor's hat, nor even the chances that somebody might have been hurt, that form the graveness of the of- fence. It was the system of carrying deadly weapons upon the person and using them reck- lessly, which the court regarded as the main feature in the case, and very properly pro- nounced judgment accordingly. We need a few more such Judges and such enforce- ments of the law to puta stop toa practice which is crowding our criminal records with daily and nightly stories of bloodshed. A Grave Mistake. There was a meeting at Cooper Institute on Thursday evening, and a very successful one too, with bonfires, blue lights, torches, capes and banners. Speeches were made, and beyond question very eloquent ones, by major gene- rals, senators and private citizens. A great deal of enthusiasm prevailed and everybody went home tired no doubt, sober, we hope, and well satisfied with themselves and all the world, of course. All this was well enough; but the meeting should have been denominated what it really was—a republican campaign rally—and not have assumed to itself the name of a celebration of the anniversary of the bat- tle of Antietam. Many battles were fought during the war of the rebellion, and in them all democrats and republicans stood shoulder to shoulder in the ranks or lay side by side in death upon the field of strife, Antietam espe- cially was fought and won under a demo- cratic general, and no regiments distinguished themselves more nobly than did those newly recruited in the democratic city of New York. These are historical facts, and at the celebra- tion of the victories in which all parties shared alike we should especially eschew partisan speeches and political denunciation. As a great political demonstration the Cooper Insti- tute meeting was a grand success; as a cele- bration of a national victory won on the field of battle it reflected no credit on those who ap- peared as the orators of the evening. More Disturnance iN TuRKEY.—The Grecks of Chios have had a small in- surrection. Chios is a little island in the Agean Sea, longitudinal in shape, with a sur- face of some four hundred square miles, and containing a population of about thirty or thirty-five thousand. Chios, as every reader of poetry knows, is famous for its wine and one of the many localities which claim to have been the birthplace of Homer. The Chions, who suffered terribly in 1822, hate their Turkish masters, It was not unnatural, although not wise, for the inhabitants of that island to celebrate the birth of the son and heir of the Danish King of Greecé, It was certainly not becoming for an American Official to take part in any such celebration. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1868. In such circumstances Admiral Farragut, who is now receiving favors at the hands of the Turkish government, had no right to inter- fore, and we are not sorry that he was politely snubbed. It is not the object of the American people, when they send their admi- rals forth on pleasure excursions, to make it the principal duty of those admirals to foment insurrection wherever they find themselves. BOOK NOTICES. . ¥ ~ee., Avour WomaN, Love AND Marertade. By ¥. ders, author of “Salad for the Solitary,” &c. York; G, W, Carleton & Co. 1568, ‘This is an enjoyable little book of four chapters. ‘That number is just large enough and the chapters are just long enough respectively for their topics— Celibacy, the Ruling Passion, Wedded Life and Modern Iupediment$ to Marriage, Making no spe- cial pretence to say the last word for the world at large on any of these subjects, the author goes through, over, under and around them with graceful discupalr enim and in good company, fitting in very happily the phrases of dead and pee wits, poets and phfiosdphers, not failing to make very satisfactory Points of his own as occaston offers. ‘THE PHILOSOPHERS OF TOUFOUVILLE. By Radical Freeiance. New York: G, W. Carleton, 1808. ‘This is written to sattrize all the sorts of fools that the author does not like—apparently the strong- minded women and the social transcendentalists generally, The object is commendable, but as the book is 80 dull that it will never be read through the fools will pronably: not stand any the worse for it in the eyes of the world. Berro, THE Conscrirt, By T. A. Trollope. delphia: T. B, Peterson & Bro. 1363. ‘This is one of the excellent Italian stories of the “other” Trollope, the brother of the Trollope whore novels of English life are familiar to our public. ‘This author's stories are studies of the life of the italian pene of the present time, and in no other pages f% that comparatively unknown mass of hu- manity pictured with such fidelity, PLAN THOUGHTS ON THE ART OF LIVING; DEsiGNnEeD voR YOUNG MEN AND Womem. By Washington Gladden. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1568. ‘This is a little volume of morality that is not dull. lt is refreshing to find that a man may have point, pith and good sense even when his essays tend from their purpose to become sermons. We commend these plain thoughts for the unusual character of putting good things modestly. SmokED Giass. By Orpheus C. G. W. Carleton, 1568, ‘This is the author’s usual instalment of the fun he has been able to squeeze from current events to date, including whatever of laughable he has found in impeachment and reconstruction. The laughter will be more or less according as the readers to be tickled with straws are many or few. ‘THE CROWN oF Jesus. A Complete Catholic Manual of Devotion, Docurine and Instruction, New York: Edward Dunigau & Brother, “Be thou faithful unto death and I wlil give thee the crown of life” is the sacred quotation which heralds this little volume on its title page. Endorsed as the book is by the late Cardinal Wiseman and the leading hierarchy of Ireland—the seat of Catholic de- votion and acorn of the oak of faith—it cannot but be acceptable and safe reading for Catholics every- where. There appears to be few points in the doc trine or devotional exercises of the Church that are not embraced within the 738 pages, neatly printed, gold edged and clothed in handsome binding, which go to make up the book. ‘Yo the faiihful it will un- doubtedly prove a favorite and usefal companion, Phila- Kerr. New York: AMUSEMENTS. BroapwaY THEATRE—MR&s. LANDER 4S ‘MARY Sfuart.”—A good, old fashioned “bumper” house greeted Mrs. F. W. Lander last evening, on the oc- casion of her benefit, at the Broadway theatre. She appeared in the title rd/e of Schiller’s ‘“Mary Stuart,” as adapted by Mrs. Kemble, and, as if to remunerate her patrons and admirers for their very generous tribute, was seldom if ever in better voice. Her de- lineation of the part Was a very natural piece of act- ing and commanded the unwavering, nay, wrapt attention of the large audience throughout the per- formance. During oration, soliloquy or apostrophe she kept her hearers spellbound in a silence wherein a pin might be heard to drop. The scene with Eliza- beth was unexcelled, and in the last act she moved many of the audience to tears. Heft powers as actress were all the more noteworthy for the fact that Schiller's ¥erman phiegm has deprived his “Mary Stuart” of much of the intense passion that should be mani- fested by the unhappy queen. The house was an appreciative one and twice called the beneficiary before the curtain. She was admirably supported in all the 7dles save that of Elizabeth, for waich Miss Kate Newton 13 not suited. No disparagement of this charming actress is intended by the remark, but she is outof place in the part, Mr. J. Carden made an excellent representative of the enthusiast, Morti- mer, and, with Mr. J. H. Taylor as Leicester, render- ed the dialogue in the third actone of the features of the evening. Mr. J. H. Jack was a painstaking enactor of the character of Burleigh, and Mr. W. Hield a very proper Sir Amias Paulet, The company now atthe Broadway isa very good one. Lacking, as it did, any pretension or promises beforeiand on the part of the management, the scenery surprised many of the old havitués of the theatre tor its uew- ness and general excellence. Great WESTERN Cincus.—The Great Western cir- cus, under canvas, opened last night at the corner of Broadway and Forty-third street, to a very good audience. The artists are all first class, and embrace the names of Mme. Louise Tournaire, La Petite Marie Louise Brown, Mile. Angelique fretta, G. Caron aud pupils, the Brothers Watson, Delavante Brothers and the Morgan family. John Foster, the people's clown, miinic and jester, is a host in himseif. His witticisms are original and on popular subjects and the follies of the day. The audience evinced their appreciation of the entire performance by frequent and hearty applause. THE LABOR MOVEMENT. | A Labor Congress to Assemble in This City. The third annual session of the National Labor Congress is to be held at Germania Halli in this city on Monday next. Circulars have been sent to the various labor organizations throughout tne country urging them to send representatives to this conven- tion. Every international or national organization is entitled to three representatives and a vice presi- dent at large. State organizations are entitied to two, and trade unions and other similar organiza- tions one, Ex representatives on presenting cer- tificates of good standing from their organizations shall be entitied to a voice without a vote in the Na- tional Labor Convention. The coming convention is looked forward to with much interest. ‘The Workingmen’s Union. A reguiar meeting of the Workingmen’s Union was held last evening at the Eariy Closing Hall, 267 Bowery, President William J. Jessup in the chair. Delegates from the organizations of the following trades were present:—Coopers, Practical House Painters, Union House Painters, Carpenters and Joiners, Ship Joiners, Plasterers, Bricklayers, La- borers, House Smiths, Typographical Union No, ‘tailors, Bakers, Horseshoers and Varnisners an Polishers. Three new delegates from laborers’ or- ganizations presented their credentials and were admitted, The committee appointed to investigate the report that laborers in the Central Park were working ten hours reported that as far as they had been able (to learn there was no foundation’ for the report. It was known, however, that the men employed in the neighborhood of the City Hall park were working ten hours, and that they were afraid to demand tha’ eight hours should constitute a day’s work. It was suggested that a delegation from the Workingmen’s Union would be able to talk freely to the Supervisors on this head, and a delegation was accordingly ap- pointed. The balance of the evening was occupied with discussion as to the reception of the delegates from other States who are expected to attend the National Labor Congress, which is to meet on Mon- day next at the Germania Hall. Workingwomen’s Association. ‘The women of the Workingwomen's Home, No. 45 Elizabeth street, have formed a Workingwomen’s Association No. 2, with nearly one hundred members, appointing Mra. N. K, Putnam as delegate to the National Labor Union Congress, Which ts to assemble in this city on Monday next. ‘The following permanent officers were elected:— President, Dr. Harriet Cliste; Vice Presidents, Miss 8. A. Davis, Miss C, F, Field, Miss H. Brewster: Sec- retary, Miss S. U. Goodrich; Lessey. FATAL ACCIDENT OW THE HARLEM RAILROAD. A Young Woman Killed=Coroner’s Inquest. As the quarter to five Albany express train of the Harlem Railroad on Thursday was nearing the Tre- mont station it ran over a young woman named Jane McLaughlin, about twenty-eight years of age. At an inquest held by Coroner Robinson, at the sta- tion house yesterd: morning, the testimony of several small boys, who were playing near the lace, showed that the woman was walking up the track. ‘The engineer whistied down brakes and gave timely warning, which was unheeded by the woman, who seemed paralyzed with fear. Her neck was ‘Treasurer, Jennie THE ARCTIC RESEARCH. TOUT | Halls Expedition in Quest of Sir John Franke liuImportant Discoveries—The Last Survie vors Traced, aud Captuin Crozier’s Death Determined—Vfluable Records Reported to be in Existence. itis now nearly a quarter of a century since the lamented Sir John Franklin and his crews embarked on the ships Erebus and Terror on their historic and ilifated expedition to the Arctic region, in quest of a northwest passage to Asia; and the years of almost breathless anxiety that followed his departure while @Waiiing information of the result of his expicrations have been succeeded by a still more anxious yeara- ing to learn the fate of himself and his followers, whem the world had ceased to hope for tidings of the pro- gress of his enterprise, and looked earnestly for news of the personal well being of the adventurous party. Several expeditions were fitted out to search for the lost navigators, but none of them were able to find any positive evidence of the safety or exisvence of any of Franklin’s command, and obtained only vague rumors from the Esquimaux that parties of Cauca- sians had been among them. When these had failed the attention of Henry Grinnell, of New York, be- came involved in the subject, and an expedition was fitted out by him, and Captain Hall was entrusted with the arduous undertaking of endeavoring to clear up the mystery which had become at once painfully sad and romantic. To his energetic investigation of the fate of the Franklin explorers and to the liberality of one of New York's citizens the world is indebted for such information as has furnished positive evidence of the result of Sir John’s hazardous attempt. Various reporté have from time to time appeared in the HERALD Reaarad the latest data received from Mr. Hall touching his discoveries, which have confirmed the conciusion that no survivor 8 left to tell the tale of their prlvedlans, failure and deaths, On Thursday last Dr. Goold, of Dublin, a gentle- man widely known and ‘who has been guring the past two years in the Polar regions, arrived in this city and furnished the latest detailed information of Captain Hall and the object of his search, Dr. Goold arrived at New London, Conn., a few days since, board a whaling ship, from Cumberland Inlet, ‘tha states that in August, 1867, he spent some considera- ble time with Mr. Hall, who was then at Repulse Bay. Mr. Hall has traced the tate direct of two of the last survivors of John Franklin’s party. and has obtained valuable information regarding the relics and some records reported by the natives to have been left by the lost expedition in King William’s Land, Cap- tain Hall learned from some of the Esquimaux, in 1566, that about two years prior to that time Captain crozier and one of the Franklin crew had died in the vicinity of Southampton Island while endeavor- ing to make their way to that place, in the belief that they would be there able to meet a whaler to convey thei back to England, or, in fact, anywhere, to escape from their Arctic prison, Captain Hall is confident of the identity of Captain Crozier with one of the men so described to have per- ished, as the natiyes not only gave Captain Crozier's name, but were in possession of certain articles that pelonged to him and to his companion, Mr, Halt obtained from these Esquimaux Captain Crozier's watch, a gold chronometer, made by Arnold & Dent, of London, mall articles of silver and trinkets belo! eir outfit. These relics Mr. dial now holc n seen and handled by Dr. Goold. C: 3 companion, who died with him, ts believed to have been a steward of either the Erebus or Terror, a3 the natives say he was u server of food, but could not recollect his name. atives also state chat they have among thein, Southampton Island, a picee of goid lace and & piece of goid bullion which belonged to Captain Cro- zier and is believed to have formed part of one of his epaulettes, They also stated thata number of others had started with Captain Crozier froma place very far north to reach Southampton Inlet, but had per- ished one by one on the way. They had been passed from one band of Enewits to the other, and when Captain Crozier had passed through two tribes the natives say ali further traces were lost, but Captain Hall himself traced the remainder there. Captain Hall also says:—“The opinion most entertained is that the nutives killed them. They say theinselves there was no difficulty in Captain Crozier getting through, because he was accounted among natives & dirst rate hunter for that country, and could at alt times keep himself in food.” ‘The records which Captain Hall hopes to be able to secure are in Kip; Wiilliam’s hand, and considerable dif_iculty is_antici- pated in the effort to reach them. According wo native information the last six survivors built a cairn or rude vault of stones on the rocks, and Ge- positea within it some documents and such articles as they had no further use for, or would have been an encumbrance on their journey. For some time past King William and his tribe have beeh hostile towards the native followers of King Albert, who inhabit the region about Kepulse vy, where Mr, Hall was quartered, and would allow no incursions into their country. The place where this caira is described to be situated is about four hundred and fifty miles northward from Repulse Bay, and in order to reach it Captain Hall has formed an ailiance with Albers and his peopie, and, together with his own escort of Europeans, was preparing an expedition of about ninety persons to march in quest of the records. It was Mr. Hall’s intention to start in February or March of this year, and he had already accumulated supplies of provisions and other necessaries for the purpose. His force will consist of tive Caucasians besides himself, and the re- mainder would be composed of Alfred's men, Ofthe whites eo two were Irishmen, one German, one Englishman and one Swede, all of whom were recruited by him from the crew of the Pioneer, which was wrecked in the summer of 1867 at King’s Cape. These men are all armed with re- volvers and shot Jee and it was mainly through reliance on the Europeans and their weapons that the Albert men were induced to participate in the incursion. Alone they would be unable to cope with King William's forces, who number about two hundred, and couid | Se assembled in a month. Captain’ Hall woul offer no molestation to King William’s people, but, if opposed, would give them battle if necessary, as he was determined to obtain the records of the lost explorers if ible. He would be accompanied also by “Joe” and “Han- nah,” the two Esquimaux or Enewits who, it will be remembered, were a few years ago educated in this country ‘and exhibited ‘in this city, ‘Joe and “Hannah” are man and wife, and now form part of Captain Hall’s retinue, or household, atfording him valuable assistance through their knowledge of the English language in communicating with the various — tril of natives, with whose dta- lects and pecaliarities they are familiar. The en- tire distance, it was expected, would have to be traversed on sledges drawn by dogs, of which useful motive power Mr. Hall has an abundant stock. It was Mr.Hail’s determination, if successful in finding the cairn and no unforeseen circumstances or obsta- cles intervened, to press still further forward and if ible reach the open Polar Sea and —- re- Strait. If impeded he urn by way of Gomiys 4 expected to return from his expedition to King Wil- ltain’s Land about September of 1868 and take his quarters for the winter at Repulse le ear he wintered in this Seog and atthe time ir. Goold saw him was in 66 oon 28 minutes north latitude and tongitude $1 degres 5 minutees west, Dr. Goold also mentions that a singular case of brutality was enacted at Cumberland Inlet last winter, where he was quartered. It seems that the crew of the whaling schooner Era, commanded by Captain Tisen, were guilty of what he deemed mu- tinous conduct, and retired to the hold of the vessel, refusing to come out when ordered. The captain im- mediately set himself to work devising means to tn- duce thei to evacuate their retreat, and smoked the hold with sulphur and charcoal. The men were shortly afterwards taken out insensible, and, in fact, so prostrated that it was at one tme feared they would not recover. The mate, Griswold, died shortly afterwards, but whether from the effects of this treatment is not known. It is a most unfortunate redection that some ineans are not devised to secure order and justice among the oficers and men of the whaling fleets, each toward the other, as such results as U must tend serl- ously to impair the interests of the whaling trade by rendering it more difficult than at mt even to obtain crews for this service. But when such severe measures are resorted to as are attributed to Captain Tisen it certainly seems to demand investi- gation into the circumstances, ‘A fact which Dr. Goold reports and which may prove of interest to scientific men ts to be found in the ob- servation that last winter, although unusually severe here, was the mildest ever known in the Arctic regions, the temperature at no time talliag lower than forty degrees below zero, ATTEMPT AT MURDER, One of the tenement houses in the Seventeenth ward very narrowly escaped yesterday becoming the scene of a frightful tragedy. Michael Vonton, who, with iis wife, occupied apartments at No. 434 Kast Thirteenth street, in a fit of ann Ag insanity, brought on py too free indulgence in liquor, stabbed his wife while asleep, aud two men who, aroused by herscreains of murder, had come to her assistance. Fortunately, the stab he gave his wife waa very slight. The two men, Wil- liam Regan and son, were not so fortu- nate. The elder Regan received several cuts, but none of them deep or dangerous. A stab on the left side of the neck, under the ear, which the younger Ri received, ts regarded as gs serious, though not believed to be mortal. But for the timely arrival of the police there is no doubt but that Conlam would have nm successful in his murderous as- Sault. He was at once taken to the station house and hs wife and the two Regans were conveyed ta Bellevue Horpital. Conlon was yesterday afternoon brought before Judge Shandiey, of the Kasex Market Police Court, and comunitt ‘bo await the result of his victims’ in ims to have no recot- lection of the CONTRADICTION OF A REPORTED FAILURE. Evizaneta, N. J., Sept. 18, 1868, To THE Eprvor Oy tas HeRALD:— ‘The announcey,ent of the failure of our house te- day in a Now York evening ve ae falae.