The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD ey, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. e Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- Volame XXXIII.......... seeeeeeseceses Noe 319 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATR! Buc.—GENEVIEVE DB Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- ABANT. Matinee at OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —Bumrrr DuMPrY, wit NEW FEATURES, Matinee at 1g. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Matineo—MABIE ANTOINETTE, Evening—Hippen Hanp. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway end 18th street.— ‘Tos Lascasures Lass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Mus. D. P. BowEns a8 Evizaperi. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-La Tous DE NEsLE— BISHMAN'S HoMB—Mose Matlace at 2 OPERA HOU3E, corner of Eighth avenue and ELLE HELENE. Matinee at 1, PIKE'S ‘3d street.—La B: MRS. P. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Fancuon, THe LITTLE CRIOKET. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street.—ETULOPIAN MinSTRELSY, £0. Matinee at, 2). KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—OBPHES AUX ENFERS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 885 Broatway.—ETH10- PIAN ENTERYALNMENTS, SINGING, DANOLNG, dc. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 901 Bowery.—Couio Vooa.ism. NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 2)4. THEATRE COMIQUE. $14 Broadway.—Tar Gnrat OnI- @1NaL LInGagD AND VAUDEVILLE Company. Matinee. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and jroadway.—Afternoon and eveniug Performauce. APOLLO HALL, ‘Twouty-eighth street and Broadway.— Jauxrs TAYLOR AND ALF BURNETT. Matineo at 25. = teenth street.—EQuest RIAN AINMEN'T, Matinee at 2). NEW YORK CIRCUS, AND GyMNAsTIO ENTE! GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 34th st.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PREFORMANOKS. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Anion Vocal. Conornr. IRVING HALT, Erving: place.—Mao Evor's Naw Hi- BEENICON. Matinee at ALHAMBRA, 616 Rroadwi Muxay Mouvs, Matinee at —MUSIOAL MOMENTS WITH HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSR, Brooklyn.—Hoorny’s MINeTRELS—FeMENINE WIGWAM, 40. i HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamaburg.— Hoousr's MINSTRRLS—BUBLESQUES—A:RONAUTS, &0. ART GALLERY, 845 Broadway = PAINTINGS—BSMERALDA. Pioneer oF OF NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SorENOE AND AUT. " New York, Saturday, November 14, 1568. Tua NEWS. Europe. The cable reports are dated November 13. An important conspiracy has been discovered in Paris against the French government and extraor dinary measures will be taken. : M. Havin, of the Paris Stécle, died yesterday. Lord Stanley commenced his canvass at King's (Lynn yesterday, and mentioned in his speech thar the bel'eved the peace of Europe will not be dis- turbed. The arrangements for the settlement of the Alabama claims only await ratification from ‘Washington. ‘The London Times writes an able article respect- dng Secretary Seward and his management of the ‘ifferences between England and the United States. » The Chinese Embassy will be received by the Queen st Windsor on the 20th inst. The nomination of Bishops for Canterbury and York is contradicted. ' Meetings have been held in Madrid and the unant- ‘ous declarations were in favor of & monarchy. General Topete propoacs the Duke of Montpenster. + A Protestant church will be built in Madrid and civil marriages are becoming frequent througtiout the country. \ General Dulce has extensive powers granted him 4n his expedition to Cuba, The Captain General of the Phillipine Islands ts removed. ‘The Papal Nuncio continues his relations with the @overnment at Madrid. A dreadful railway accident has occurred in Bo- emia, by which twenty-three persons were killed and sixty-one injured. . London—Consols, 94%; five-twenties, 74%; Erie shares, 23%; Ilunois Centrals, 96. Paris Bourse— ‘Rentes, 70f. 7c. Frankfort—Five-twenties, 79. Liver- ‘pool~Cotton, middjing uplands, 10%4. Havre— Cotton, trés ordinaire, 134f, Antwerp—Petroléum, standard white, Sif. Japan. Severe shocks of earthquake have been felt at Hiogo. : Mexico. Mall advices to the 6th instant state that the Areaties between Seward and Romero will not be daid before Congress at present. The accusation against Komero is in relation to Treasury matters. He has entered a suit against his acouser for slander. The concession to the Vera Cruz Railroad has been agreed to and 9 bill in favor of the American Railroad end Telegraph Company has passed a second read- mre Cuba. According to government accounts a band of twelve revolutionists were arrested at San Christo- Dal. They were purposing to create a revolution in the Vuelta Abaja region. g merchant of Yara, charged with receiving arms and ammupition for ‘the rebels, had been arrested. Count Balmaseda, at Manzanillo, had issued @ proclamation giving the revolutionists eight days in which to lay down their ‘arms. A private letter from # prominent insurgent 4n Cuba states that the revoluntary junta in Havaua has swora “to destroy the property of every indi- vidual who shall, over his signature, offer his fife or wea‘th or protection in favor of the govern- ment cause. Ip no other case shall property be attacked.” Recruiting for the Cuban expedition has ceased in this city, Colonel Gibbons having already enrolled 6,600 men, which is 1,600 more than he wants. He alleges that the whole command 1s to devolve npon & wealthy Hahaiese, who is famous as a military leader under Don Carlos and Maximilian, and who 80 far has furnished all the funds necessary. The ‘intention is to annex Cuba to the Union. A pabiic meoting 1s to be held in relation to the matter in Cooper Institute soon. Porto Rice, Our letter, dated San Juan, October 23, says that from 800 to 1,000 prisoners are beld in Arecivo, some Of them being the most prominent men in the island. Those taken in arms are to be tried by military courts, and will probably be shot. The tsland, ac- cording Lo the governinent, is now tranquil. St. Domingo. From St. Domingo we Jearn that Oganio is at Las Matas. A Jesuit had been sent to that province, at Ogando's request, to preach in favor of Baez's ad- Ministration. Ogando is steadily advancing in the Southwest towards Azua. From Porto Plata we have news of a rising in the Northwest against Baez. ‘This is probably the result of the plans of the gene- Tala that were lately at Turks Island. Miscellaneous, The charges against District Attorney Courtney have boen disposed of for the present by the Presi- dent, who has determined not to suspend him, although he authorizes Judge Fullerton to continue his investigation, Mr. Evarts and Mr. McCulioch, at the Cab net meeting, it is understood, were opposed to any suspension of Courtney. The question of the legality of the Alabama Legis- dature is to be tested in the courts on the ground NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1868. The Cuban Insurrection—The ilibustere— | tion that the attempt (o befog the issue that the law required an election fora now Legisia- ture on the 3d inst. Tho State is conceded republl- can by 2,600 majority. In the Tennessee Senate yesterday the resolution to unseat Senter, the President of the Senate, was indefimitely postponed. He 1s charged with ineligi- bility by reason of disloyalty, gnd succeeds Governor Brownlow when the latter becomes United States Senator. ‘The Episcopal Synod of the New Dominion of Canads has been in session in Montreal some time for the purpose of electing a bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of Canada; but a diMculty has sprung up between the Synod and the House of Bishops. The latter on Thursday night adjourned all further pro- ceedings until May next, and the Synod propose, in retailfation, to repudiate the ‘authority of the Bishops and to elect Dr. Balch, an American, to the position, A ritualistic rector in Memphis has renounced the Episcopal Church and gone over to the Roman Catholies, The Sherman House in Syracuse was burned yes- terday, the loss amounting to $130,000, ‘The Cole trial 1s still waiting on the formation of a jury. Nine jurymen have been obtained so far. Mrs, Victor, of Cleveland, Ohio, has had her sen- tence of death, on the 20th inat., commuted to im- prisonment for tife. A woman and four children were burned to death in @ hovel at McKensle, Tenn., yesterday. The City. The Union League Committee on Election Frauds have issued @ preliminary report stating the objects of the movement to be to secure the rejection of the electoral vote of New York by Congress, and to contest in the courts the election of Hoffman on the ground of frauds, and to have Congress revise and alter the laws rélative to naturalization, ‘The testimony of Sheriff O’Brien yas taken tn the Broaaway theatre case vesterday. He identified all the accused parties as deputy sheriffs, elther special orgeneml, under him. The case was again postponed until Monday week. The Anchor line steamship Hibernia, Captain Munro, will sail at twelve M. to-day from pier 20 North river for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, 4c. The General Transatlantic Company’: steamship St. Laurent, Captain Bocande, will leave pier 50 North river at two P. M. to-day for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at twelve M ‘The stqsmship Bienville, Captain Baker, will leave pier 36 North river at three P. Mf. to-day for Havana. The steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, of the Black Star line, will Iéave pier 13 North river at three P. Mf. to-day for Savannah, Ga, Tho sbanier San’ Jacinto, Capiain Atkins, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannal, ‘The Express line steamship Virginia, Captain Drew, sails from pier 15 East river at four P. M. to- day for Washington and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandda, Va. The stork market was weak and unsettled yeater- day and very feverish at the close. Government se- curities were heavy. Gold closed with a strong up- ward tendency at 133% a 134, Promirient Arrivals in the City. General Grant, General F. F. Dent, General Ba- deau and Major George H. Nelson, of the United States Army; Colonel W. P. Harrison, of Sas Fran- cisco, and Colonel 8. G. Tuttle, of Norfolk, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman 8. Hooper and Dr. Hooper, of Mas- sachusetts, and Pan! R, Shipman, of L6uisville, Ky., are at the Brevoort House, General J. B. Stutts and General W. G. Lewis, of North Carolina, and Major J. Cassell, ot Pittsburg, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Trumbui!, of Illinois; Dr. Moorhead, of Pennsylvania, and Surgeon C; of the United States Navy, are at the St. Chari jotel. Major Martin, of Waterbury, Conn.; Dr. Nicholson, of Delaware, and J. R. Andrews, of Toronto, are at the St. Jultan Hotel. Judge W. D. Shipman, of Hartford; Colonel H. Lippitt, of Providence; Frank Pearson, of the United States frigate Franklin; Frank Blatr, of Savannah, and General Charles S. Pearson, of Boston, are at the Hoffman House. New Phase of the Spanish Revolution. Our late cable despatches, as well as our special correspondence, show that the revolu- tion in Spain is passing under new conditions and revealing new and somewhat startling features. For some time the movement has seemed at least to lack energy. It has ap- peared to halt. It might not be difficult for the chiefs of the revolution to give satisfactory reasons for the apparently dilatory policy they have pursued since success placed power com- pletely in their hands. It is undeniable, how- ever, that the conviction is general beyond as well as within the boundaries of Spain that something like reluctance has been manifosted by the provisional government to give up the power they have acquired. The elections un- questionably have been too long delayed. It might have been more to the advantage of the provisional government and more conducive to the success of their plans had the Cortes been already in session. ‘It is safe at leastto say that the delay has not been advantageous in any true sense. The spirit of enthusiasm which for some days made Spain a unit, as perhaps she never had been in all her previous history, is rapidly dying out. Already patriot- ism is giving place to selfishness and the fac- tions are making themselves seen and felt. Our correspondent at Madrid has shown very clearly that unless some unforeseen circum- stance transpire Spain has great trouble before her. The men now in power, desirous to play the part of the Pretorian Guard among the Romans under the empire, go in for monarchy. A monarch, whatever might be his title, king or emperor, would virtually be their tool. As they had made so would they seck to control him. This is one faction. The democrats, who comprise a large section of the population and not a few of the prominent men in Spain, are undisguisedly in favor of a republic. This is another faction. Monarchism or republi- canism, which is to be the torm of govern- ment for reconstructed Spain—that among Spaniards themselveq is becoming more and more the question of the hour. Meanwhile the Church, which can have no sympathy with republicanism, and which has none, and which has every reason to dislike the men now in power, has resolved to cast in its lot with the republicans, This is another faction. The Carlists, fanned {nto a little newness of life by the possibilities of the situation, and powerful, if occasion offered, in some portions of the country, have followed the example of the Church. Considering that the Carlists are to certainty under the direction and control of the Church, and that their interests are the same, itis not necessary to speak of them as another and separate faction. The factions are thus reduced to three— the, members and friends of the provisional government, or, as we choose to name them, the Pretorian Guard—a faction which wields the entire strength of the army; the demo- crats, whose ranks comprise the daring and dangerous spirits of the country, and who are particularly strong in all the large cities; and the Church party, which, from its superior organization, wields almost absolute authority over the population of the rural districts, We have thus on the one side and in favor of monarchy the provisional gov- ernment, which is backed for the present by the entire strength of the army. We have on the other side and in favor of a republic the entire democratic party, assisted by the Church and the Carlists, On the supposition that both parties and the whole rank and file of both parties were equally in earnest it could not for a moment be doubted which should come off victorious, Sych sup- position, however, is not permissible. We know that the Church party is not in earnest. We know that the Carlists equally with the Church party have joined the republican ranks with a lie in their right hand. 1; is the object of both these allies of the demo¢racy to create confusion, and thus, by an apparent de- votion to the cause of the péople, to advance the cause of absolutism. The Catholic Church is skilful in the use of means beyond aty other body of men in existence, They are not, however, always successful. They sometimes miscaloulate. They sometimes fail. I would not at all surprise us if by lending theiz power- ful help to the republican cause they created a power which they could not control—~a power which would hardly be grateful and which might prove neither submissive nor folerant. The situation thus becomes lively; interests begin to conflict; flerce pafsions threaten to break loose, and much hard fighting may have to-be gone through before it can be known what is to be the character of the Spaia of the future, A telegram received late last night and printed in this morning's Heratp, to the effect that the political clubs in Madrid had unanimously agreed to accept a monarchical form of government, Jeaves the situation pre- cisely as it was; for the simple reason that Madrid is not Spain, as Paris is France, One Measure for tho Bondholders aad tho People. The bondholders and their organs never cease reiterating the plea that the government should pay the full face of the bonds in gold, whether the obligation to do so is expressed or not and whether the framers of the laws con- templated payment to be made in gold or cur- rency. It is urged that the government would be dishonest and disgrace the country if it should not pay specie in full. The foreign ‘press, and particularly the British, makes the same argument, because there is a large‘ amount of our bonds held abroad. By foring specie payments or by the government devlar- ing that all its bonds shall be paid in gold the property of the bondholders would appredate in value something like thirty per cent. . These highly virtuous individuals may well clanor for the full face of their bonds in specie, as tleir property would be increased so much in value. It is the virtue and honesty of Shylock over again. They will not listen to any alute- ment or compromise, however much the ccun- try may suffer or the burdens of the people be augmented, Let us examine the exacting claims of the bondholders. First, then, it is well known that not more than sixty per cont in specie, on an average, was ever paid for the bonds, A large portion was obtained for less. More than half the capital invested in them has already been returned in interest. Then nearly all the bondholders have had their other property vastly augmented in value through the appre- ciation of gold and the effects of the war. There is scarcely a real estate owner, for example, whose property has not doubled since the war commenced. In many cases it has been appreciated more than that. In fact, the Northern capitalists and property holders have become much richer from the war, while the mass of the people have become poorer and more heavily burdened. Had they suffered as the property holders of the South havetheir de- mands would be less unreasonable; but they have been made rich and ought to be satia- fied, without wishing to increase their bond- holding wealth thirty per cent at the expense of the overburdened industrious classes. As to the fine flourishes about national honor and integrity, such as Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the British press and the bondholders’ organs here indulge in, they are all bosh. No great modern nation, except the United States, has ever paid its debt in specie. Hardly any have paid it at all. Even England, with all her pretence of honesty, reduced the interest on her debt from five and six per cent to three and three anda half. She never can hope to pay the principal, and whenever the British government has any surplus funds to apply to the liquidation of the national debt it does not feel bound to pay a hundred for stocks nomi- nally issued at a hundred, The National Debt Commissioners buy at the lowest rate they can and give only from eighty to ninety for consols, according to the market. Is that dishonest? Why, then, should the heavily burdened peo- ple of this country be required to pay the full face of the bonds in gold? Why should there be depreciated national bank notes for the people and specie for the bondholders? Justice and common sense call for the same currency— one measure—for both. But this agitation of the bondholders and their powerful allies (the national banks) for gold payments keeps the national currency de- preciated. It makes it appear, in effect, that the legal tenders, though based on the credit of the government, are not worth what they represent to be worth. If all this clamor were to coase and legal tenders were accepted at their real worth we should soon have no more trouble about specie payments; for the circul&ting notes of this rich government and country are as good intrinsically as specie. All that is wanted is a uniform currency and an estab- lished monetary system that cannot be con- trolled by a few speculators or a combination of bankers, The fluctu: sus in the money market in this city for + last week or two show the necessity of » ite remedy. Many of the merchants and business men were brought to the verze of bankruptcy by the selfish and grasping operations of a few indi- viduals. With » steady and sufficient currency beyond the control of such combinations, busi- ness would be steady and the country would go on in its natural career of prosperity. TaRgATENED RevoLvTION IN Franog.—A cable despatch which we print this morning informs us that at a council of ministers held at the Tuileries proof was adduced of the ex- istence of a conspiracy having for its object the overthrow of the present government. Is this a wave of revolution from Spain? Is it not rather a dodge of the Emperor to justify the tightening of the screw upon the Paris press? The Two Iron-Clads at New Orleans. While the revolutionary factions in Spain are discussing the question of reconstruction there is danger that the “brightest jewel of the Spanish crown,” the ‘“‘ever faithful island of Cuba,” will slip through their fingers and repeat the Texas game of an independent re- public and annexation to the United States. There is a revolutionary movement in full blast in the island, of which we have had some cloudy details from Havana, but nothing definite as to the strength of the revolutionists, nor of the government forces of the Captain General ad intcrim. In the late intelligence from Madrid, however, that the provisional government, under the advice of the general of the army, had voted to send a force of nine thousand regular troops and several ships of war to Cuba, we have something like an admission that the insurrection is a formi- dable one, Atthe same time certain hints have been thrown out from Madrid against the ces- sion ofthe island to the United States, from which we infer that the provisional government is satisfied of an active coalition between the Cuban insurgents and the much dreaded American filibusters. From other sources we gather these facta—thay the filibusters are stively goncerned on the island in pushing on e insurrection; that the war cry of the in- surgents is ‘Independence and annexation to the United States!” that the filibusters have their recruiting stations at several points in the United States, from New York south- ward, but that their real headquarters are at New Orleans, where they have several thousand men mustered in, armod and equip- ped and ready for embarkation. In this gonnection we publish to-day two contracts entered into some twelve months ago between the Peruvian government agent and Alexander Swift & Co., of Cincinnati, whereby Swift & Co. agree to furnish Peru with two iron-clad war steamers—the Oneota and Catawba, lately belonging to the United States government—for the sum of two mil- lions of dollars, and to equip them with all needful supplies for active service for the sum of three hundred and forty-six thousand dol- lars. We cannot tell what the ships cost Swift & Co., but they were, doubtless, bought very cheap at one of the sales of Old Mr. Welles. The object of the Peruvian gov- ernment in the purchfse of these two iron- clads was to use them in her late war with Spain in a bold diversion against the island of Cuba. It may be supposed, too, that a part of the understanding between the contracting parties was the supply of the necessary fili- busters to man and fight the ships, with a sur- plus force for operations on shore. The war between Spain and Peru has died out, byt these two iron-clads, the Oncota and Catawba, are, as we understand, lying at New Orleans. The impression exists, too, that by an arrangement between the parties concerned wo shall probably next hear of these two iron- clads as having sailed for the liberation of Cuba from the Spanish yoke, or, peradven- ture, our first positive information of their des- tination may be in the news of the destruction by them or dispersion of the Spanish fleet be- fore Havana, and of a requisition for a sur- render of the city to the successor of Lopez. But, on the other hand, our Secretary of State, although the king of land speculators, is a deadly enemy of any bat royal or imperial filibusters. Otherwise he would not have tem- porizedso long with Louis Napoleon in Mex- ico, nor would the Ferian invasion of Canada have ended in their first fight with the red coats, If the Cuban filibusters, then, in any considerable force, manage to get off from New York or New Orleans, with or without an iron-clad war steamer or two, it will not be with the consent of Mr. Seward or the Presi- dent, whatever may be the wishes of Andy Johnson. We shall not be surprised, however, from the present complexion of things, if the annex- ation of Cuba, la Texas, is added to the glories of Johnson’s administration, as the annexation of Texas was t.e crowning glory of the bleased administration of John Tyler. The Revenuo Frands—What Is to Be Donet The organs of the whiskey ring are making a terrible outcry in view of the recent disclo- sures at Washington and the threatened inves- tigation into the revenue frauds in New York. Their plan of operation is to bring counter- charges of corruption against those who appear as witnesses and those who undertake the prosecution of the inquiry. These counter- charges, however, even if true, do not help the case of the parties the whiskey organs are anxious to defend. If A and B have been en- gaged in robbing the government and B turns State’s evidence against A the latter does not establish his own innocence by proving B’s guilt, Whiskey frauds are generally committed by disreputable men, and hence, if we are to wait until the witnesses in such cases are all ministers of the Gospel, respectable merchants and pious church members, we shall never have any prosecutions for such offences at all, and those who have been robbing the govern- ment of a hundred million dollars a year for the past three or four years will escape scot- free. And this is probably just the result the whiskey organs desire to accomplish, There is a very plain and simple method of arriving at the truth in all these matters and of settling the question of the guilt or innocence of the parties charged with official corruption. Prosecutions by the government are conducted by the United States District Attorneys, and the United States Marshals have important duties to perform in such cases, There would be an evident inconsistency in allowing those officers to conduct a prosecution directed against themselves and in which they figure as the alleged criminals. As grave charges have been made publicly against » United States District Attorney and a United States Marshal, there can be no good reason why those particu- lar officers should not be suspended by the President and their places temporarily filled by competent persons until a full and fair trial has been had and their guilt or innocence established. If they should be acquitted they would be restored to office with unblemished characters, and if convicted we do not sup- pose that even the whiskey ring organs would advocate their retention in the public service. At the same time, the prosecutors and witnesses would be also on trial, and it would then be seen whether their own skirts were | clean, This is so simple and just a proposi- by counter-charges, couster-indictments and newspaper assaults upon the persons engaged In the inquiry looks suspitiously like an effort of the whiskey ring to pretent any investiga- tion at all. It will be sem from our Wash- ton news this morning, tha the President has refused for the present suspend District Attorney Courtney, but thit the case cannot by any means be consideret settled. International Military Commission for Miti- gating the Horror of War. The cable telegraph has mnounced that the International Military Comnission, called by the Emperor Alexander to (raw up a conven- tion for mitigating the horrirs of war, began its sessions at St. Petersbug on Wednesday, November 11. We heartiy wish that the atrocities inseparable from yar might be abol- ished, but a consummationgo devoutly to be desired would involve the abolition of war itself. And until the natu of man shall be radicically changed—until, in fine, all that prophets and poets have sungof the millennium shall be realized we can hjrdly hope for the abolition of war. The wa spirit appears to be a disease inherent in hunan natuge. It is @ mania to which nations themost highly civil- ized are liable. The greatGerman philoso- pher, Kant, probably did né¢ err in saying :— “In that stage of culture afwhich the human race at present stands yar is an indis- pensable means for tb promotion of further culture; and mt till the pro- gress of culture is completed (God knows when!) would a prpetual’ peace be salutary for us, and not til then would it be possible.” Meanwhile moérn science applied to the perfecting of deadly weapons and engines renders a war moe destructive but more brief than it would Inve been in former times, In the bloodiest bdtle of tho fifteenth century not a thousand ma were killed. But wars, ifless bloody, used t¢be longer and more ruinous than they are now Charles Sumner, in one of the speeches by which he first made himielf publicly known, exclaimed, ‘‘No more bittle pictures!” But he afterwards saw the United States pass through a war that might supply a Horace Vernet with innumerable subjects for battle pictures, and, we must odd, he was himself foremost among those attively engaged in precipitating and prosecuting that war. We fear that the cry of Emperor Alexander, ‘‘No more war atrocities!” wil! prove as futile, and will be as flatly contradicled by events as was the cry of Charles Summer, ‘‘No more battle pictures!” However, itwill do no harm for the crowned heads of Europe and their repre- sentatives to deliberateupon the horrors of war. If successful in mitigating these they will win and deserve perpetual blessings from the people. Bank AND Bonp Roxsertes.—Crime in the form of bank robberies, bond robberies and robberies generally in public places of business is rampant. Almost every day news of such is published in the Heratp, Yesterday there were accounts of no less, than six different bank and bond robbories and bold attempts at robbery. Those ‘professional gentlemen who are detected are generally Eaglishmon, from which fact it is evident there has been lately an unusual immigration of that interesting class. They do business with a boldness and on a scale unknown heretofore ia this country. It behooves the police to be actively at work and the people to keep a sharp eye on their movable property, And we advise the judges of our criminal courts when any of these professional criminals come before them to punish the scoundrels to the utmost extent of the law. A Amusina Sorngs 1x Watt Sreeer.—There has been a good deal of excitement created in Wall street by the report that Commodore Vanderbilt had unloaded his Central Rail- road stock and got clean out of the concern. The excitement was not decreased by the rumors that he had purchased a number of steamers in Boston. In short, there are all kinds of rumors afloat with regard to the doings of the Commodore—Central Railroad stock, Pacific Mail stock, and so forth—which have turned things upside down in Wall street and rendered the whole state of affairs there most amusing to all those who are not likely to get bit. To those who may suffer from the excite- ment the laugh is, of course, on the other side of the mouth. METEORS, Brilliant Shower of Aerolites Last Night. About midnight the heavens, which were perfectly clear, were traversed by small meteors which seemed like to fireworks. The directions were from all parts of the heavens. About one o’clock this morning the display became more bril- liant, owing to the appearance of numerous rae and intensely bright aicreore which exploded tike rockets, carrying @ thin cloud of what seemed smoke in the heavens. One of these large meteors, at twenty minutes past one A. M., passed frown northeast half way across the heavens, and when descending made a streak of intensely bright light, so brigit that the letters on a newspaper could be distinctly scen. Another such shot from the east at thirty-five m nutes past two A. M. and lit up the whole sky with the flash on exploding. The ma- jority of there meteors came from the northeast, but some were noticeabe ing from aimost every point of the compass. about six per munute up to turee o'clock A. M. It will be recollected that this is the anniversary of the Gispiay in November, 1867. Professor Thatcher, the weatherwise, the astrono- Mer and savant, says the presont aspect of the planets has @ tendency to excite the cupidity of per. sons of roguish propensities. Keep your hands on your pocketbooks, gentlemen. ‘The Cuban expeditionary force, it is gumored, wiil be paraded in Tompkins square to-night by moonlight. The exhibition will be the most unique of its kind that has ever yet been presented. The remnant of Billy Wilson's Zouaves will appear in complete undress uniforms, and various distin. guished representatives of the fighting wards of the city are expected to be on the ground early. Henry Bergh, the philanthropist and able presi- dent of theS. F. P. 0. O. T. A-, and Justice Dodge were in close conversation for upwards of an hour at the corner of Dey strect and Broadway yesterday. What is on the tapis? Is "there a cock fightin hand? Is there an arrangement to raid on Kit Burns’ rat pit? Or did the conversation between these distinguished gentlemen have any connection with the contem- plated filibustering expedition to Caba? Brooklyn now enjoys the luxury of a Fire Marshal. ‘The appointment was made a few days since. Mr. Patrick Keady, a member of Assembly from Kings county to the last Legislature and a painter by trade, has received the appointment. What great service has the member for Brooklyn rendered the Police Commissioners that he, a democrat, should receive the plum? Isheafiroman?t But tt matters not. If the City of Churches was cheated out of a Police Commissioner by the last Legislature sho has a Fire Marshal now, and that should sudico, Ab! such aro POL Itoh LECTURES LAST NIGHT. ‘The Brain and Comparative Nervous System, In presence of an aud‘ence numerically larger thas any which have attended his preceding lectures in the present course “On Human and Comparative Anatomy and Physiology,” Dr. Lemercier last even- ing, at the Cooper Institute, illustrated with clastis models his topic for the occasion, viz.:—The Brain, and the Nervous System a3 Conuected Therewith.* ‘The learned gentleman commenced by presenting for inspection a gigantic human ear, aud having fully explained its external office proceeded to dis- ‘sgt and expatiate upou the inner parts. Takings skull he showed the temporal bones, then the corru- paar the huis and valicys and seeming rocks of ¢ interior formation. Next he showed how sound was produced, the uses of the tympanum, of the ham- mer, of the audiiory nerve, of the Ku-tucian canal and finally how the waves of sound were regulut and harmonized and conveyed by the great nerve to the sensorium—the office of the pa thought yl syst ug! was and hye be Le other messages: yr authority its will thus fully executed. At toms seneihorene length the learned gentieman dwelt on the conforma- tion and organization of the ear, declaring it to bo the most beautiful and least understood of the com plex mechanical contrivances of the Creator for the use and pleasure of man. He remarked that, how- ever acuie of hearing some of the animals in the lower orders of creation were, yet no one of them could boast of so perfect a structure in this respect men, as Having illustrated and demonstrated many thinzs connecied with the ear, the speaker next turned to the iuman brain, remarking that its interior was bus ®& mass of nerves, while its exterior, uf a grayish, substance, was the active partof it. On removing the exterior part it was fuund that the interior, oF white matier, was but- a mass the ultimaces of that body just passing down the spinal column (the marrow of wuich was @ continuation of the brain), and then in an intinitude of threads branch. ing and radiating through the entire organism— Berveés of sensation aud nerves of motion—uniti no part of its surface was without a fibre, ali but micro= scopic in degrees of fineness, and which momentarily communicated to the mind tiat Which occurred exe ternal to it, When these interesting facts were made plain to his audience the doctor next wok up aud illustrates phys.ology’ of the senses other than those of ii s—Sight, taste, smeii aud toucn, ‘The brain of man, in cunclusion, was compared with those of the lesser creauons, and it was demon- strated that although the whule’s and the elephant’ were seemingly larger, and With extraneous mater were heavier, yet when the real brain of the ele phant, for example, was compared with that of & full grown man, it Was not really so heavy m the proportion of size of body. In the course of the lecture the Doctor was repeat- edly applauded, The Industrial Schools of New York—Address by Kev. OC. L. Brace. Alarge number of ladies acting a3 teachers of the Industriai schools in this cily wero present in room No. 24, Cooper Insticute, yesterday afternoou to hear an address from Rev. C. L. Brace, Seoretary of the Children’s Aid Soclety, on the subject of “in- dustrial Schools and the Duties of Teachers.” Tue speaker said the poorest class of children in the in- dustrial schools are placed beyond the reach of their strongest temptation, aud are provided with every- thing calculated to wean their fancies from the haunts of v.ce aud wreichedness, wherein their pany minds received iheir eardest impressions, ut there Was one tiing of Which tuey stvod sadiy in need, and that was sympathy; the sympathy that encourages tue trusting and struggling spirit to overcome the evil m its nature; the sympathy that shows ligeif iriendly to those in Whose sad hearts the conviction seems to rest ilat all the wortd forsaxea and despises them. ‘hese poor little girs in the industrial scuoola—many of them Irom the very loweet slums in the clty—gcow up with the feeling that there is no one on earth who cares for them; no one who will stoop to take them by the hand and help them in the effort to rise above their accustomed poverty and vice. And yet you must all be weil aware that when thy Kindiy and benevolent hand is put forth for the rescue of these little chil- dren of misery the fruits are great and abundant ut return, After a few years’ teaching and training these Little Loe become tidy, neat, orderly and in- dustrious. You who have worked so long among the slums of the city must Know what miserable sgenes surround these children; what brutality, what debas- lug exhibitions of drunkenness indecency, vice and wretcheduess, and yet you must admit vory few of them grow up to lead lives of shame, . It iso very yratifying tact that though the popula- tion of this city has Deen increasing since 1859 at the rate of five per cent each year, and though a large iniux of poor foreigners has been continually gong on, the crime among the femaie element of the cou munity has been ing. In the ecigat years since the Pownce oh bo eee vagranc} roportion 1° an dengone ® very iperoeptible dinnoadon; and ip the last of female cruninais brougat before the courts for various degrees of thievery in 1859 it will be seen the number is greater than What is recorded for Berd 1867, elght years after, and with a vast the meantime of the numbers of the popuiation. Some of the girls who have been educated ut the in- dustrial schoow have reached to the of much comfort and some have suc in securing positions in fespectable society. He knew one girl who, by industry and tl exercise of her iuteiligence, succeeded in the atteation of @ wea.thy merchant who h r, and she now keeps her carriage, in which sno often drives down to the school to see her former playground aud talk a while to her old preceptora, He found few things more touching in these chi.dren of poverty than their eagerness to learn. Those who are brouzht up with uli tue conveniences neces sary provided for thcir education cannot readily ape preciate the ardent thirst tor knowledge exhivited by tous class of learners. In the Park school tuere are many children who eome from factories in tha fog vpgoas some of them take their books along to their work places and strive to learn all they can in the intervais of labor. The main odject in these schools should be to exercise @ moral infu- enco; but ihe first great diuicalt, at the right place the line of distinction be- tween the syirit of wilful paupersm snd that element of unavoidable poverty which strag- gies to better its condition. ‘fo help the poor ju- diciously every teacher should be @ missionary among them until she learns who are those that are unworthy of it. Want of thoroughness is a serious fault of the class. The Of the term is easily found in observing the work our servants perforin im our houses. ‘hen the mistress is away they slight their task and do the housework in a careless, dawdling, slipshod way. Let your scholars be ae teach them to be exact, earnest and pnnc- tual in all they do. it would add much to the com- fort and ap ace of your scholars if you kept clean pinafo. cs to put over their dirty clothes while at school. ‘the girls snould be taught to mend their own, dresses and do for tiewselves many little jobs with the needie which may arise from time to ine, But one of the greatest blessings you can confer u them Isto teach them habits of industry. It may, as it has often done before, save many @ girl from the of suame and sorrow, tle did not oeileve grammar the best study for young children; but writing and , as they grow oider, are of very great importance. In tw rel us instrac- ton, it 1s 1eft open to the discretion of tne teachers, but no sectarian teaching ts allowed. it suould be always borne in mind that the work of teaching mast not be of a dilatory character, for these cbil- dren are aiways leaving to go out im the world to work for themselves or their parents, and ail the seeds of moraity and knowledge should be dropped into the soll of their youthful minds while they are yet under your care. A training school for servants is very badly needed, where young Women can have a chance vo learn the pro- rf manner of housekeeping and gain @ pt ‘nowledge of all its different duties, Hundreds of young women could be here usefully educated to make many a poor man’s home happy. Mr. Parker Pillsbury made a iew remarks com- poms et the plan and atm of the industrial schouls, r Wuich the meeting separated. “Life in Washington.” Last evening Mr. Wm. H. Townley delivered an in- terosting lecture at Lyceum Hall, Bloomingdaie, the subject being “Life in Washington,” which, from his close observance of men and things during his stay in that city, he was enabled to treat humorously and well. There was a large attendance, including many ladies, who evidently listened with pleasure to the exceilently drawn sketch of the young lec- turer. Dr. Manson presided, and after some brief re- marks introduced Mr. Townley, who at once pro- ceeded with his lecture. Having referred to the rapid growth of Washington within the past quarter of a century aud described the architectural beauty of the more prominent buildings in the city, the leo- turer then presented the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives and their component parta as they ap- peared to him when in fall session. Among the many well-pointed remarks was his allusion to the ee a le habit of speakers dron! their oration: from huge ear Manuscript, to the attitudes their indi it and iusensible hearers, and, above all, to the fact that, notwithstanding! hours may have, Li te ay a useless, haran nestion ev tase decided’ by a party vote. ‘The duties of the various officers of the government were full, explained, while a somew! paeemenoly plovare a the regiments of clerks was disclosed, priagt- pal features of the White House were referred to, and men, manners and customs dilated upon in a truin- ful and straightforward style. It occurred to tue lecturer that, as the great political centre, Washing- ton was mnuch more preferable than many other cities, inasmuch as wealth was not the on'y badge of; introduction, for men in Washington were ap ated for what they were and not for what they tmd, No object of jaterest was passed uanoticed; and having brought hia lecture to a close, Mr. Townley was tendered @ cordial vote of thanks, ‘The Bidomingdale Lycen n, established for literal and scientific purposes, has during the past wn only year of its existence been very successful, Mr. C. H. Kitehell, Seeretary of the asavciatiow, an. nounced that several interesitag aubecws would ehortiy be brougat forwaru for diacusajon,