The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1869, Page 6

BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusinegs or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarv. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOU: jorner of Eighth avenue and 28d street.—TuE Temp BOWERY THEATRE, Fowery.—Tar Srvewx Dwarrs; On, HAKLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. BROADWAY THEAT! Roves DiaMonp—Miso Broadway.—Inisa TiaEn— ‘OUB ANNIE. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st., between Sth and 6th ave.— OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur BuRinsque EXx- TRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty Tulcvas. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRI fth avenue and Twenty- fourth sireet.—La PERICHOLE. . WALLACK'S THEATER: Souoon., OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Humery Dowrry, with New Pratones. Broadway acd I3th street. — GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 3 Nos. 45 and 4¥ Bowery.— ALTE JUNGGRSELLEN. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Er.ize Hout's BURLESQUE CoMPANY—LUoRETIA Bonsta, M.D. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND TH RE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.— Rings, &¢. Tak Worse Ma- MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Mansie Heart. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broudway. —Comic SKETCOES AND LIVING STATUES—PLU10. RELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermt 0+ 'MREB STRINGS TO ONE Bow. SAN FRANCISCO PIAN ENTERTAINM’ NTS: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO SY. 201 Bowery.—Com1o Vooa.isa, NEGRO MINS’ C. NEW YORK CIRCO: AND GyYMNASTIO EN4 bh street.—EQUESTRIAN Fr. Matinee at 234. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOi Brooklyn.—Hoo.er's MINGTERLS—LEAP For Lirk, & NEW YORK TERALD, MON NDAY, APRIL 26, 1869.—TRIPLE of three of the victims of tne tate ratlroad accident, Mary Ann Bilt and Mary Kelly were arrested on a charge of picking pockets. A young girl, Mary McLanghlin, nineteen years of age, living at 161 Water street, Brooklyn, at- tempted to commit suicide yesterday by jumping into the dock at the foot of Jay street. A bystander sprang into the water after her, and succeeded in bringing the rash girl to terra Arma, Thomas Brues, of Brooklyn, on Saturday stabbed bis wife im several places with a butcher knife, in- ficting serious wounds. Before he succeeded in his murderous design an officer interfered and saved the woman’s life. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Jobn T. Hoffman, of New York, is at the Clarendon Fotel. Governor John Evans, of Denver, Colorado; W. P. Schell, of Philadelphia; J. B. Koss, of Macon, Ga.; D, A. Jenkins and R. Y. McAden, of North Carolina, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. F, W. Kellogg, of Mobile, Ala.; H. T. Bogg, of St. Louis, and N. J. Ashley, of Rochester, are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Coionel C, L. Schlatter, of Brunswick, Ga., is at the St. Denis Hotel. General H. A. Barnes, of Syracuse; George 0. Jones, Daniel Williams, and W. L. Sessions, of Al- bany, and M. P. Bemus, of Maysville, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Ramsay, of the United States Army, and -A. Van Vechton, of Albany, are at the Hoffman House. W. M. Graham, of Alvany; E. M. Madden, of Mid- dletown, and Franklin Gibbs, of Boston, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. C. A. Washburn, for Caiifornia; J. Medill, for Chi- cago; S, Will, for Cleveland; BH. M. Rice, for Minne- sota, and Speaker Blaine, for Washington, England and Cuba. Our cable telegrams yesterday indicate a change of action on the part of England which may produce very strange complications in the Cuban question. LBelligerent rights are to be conceded to the insurgents and such assist- ance rendered to them as was given to our own rebellion. In the meantime itis not im- probable that complications may arise which will produce open war between England and Spain. From Nassau, via Havana, the tele- graph states that ‘military preparations are being made in view of possible complications with Spain,” There is no doubt but this policy is in strict accordance with that which the British gov- ernment has always followed in the internal troubles which from time to time have agitated the different nations of the world. MEXICAN EXHIBITION PARLOR, No, 765 Broaaway.— CURISTIAN MARTYR AN Te ae. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, April 26, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements should be sent in before eight o'clock, P. M. cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Garsecs and "Newadealers. Brooxuyn Carniens aNp NewsMeN will in future receive their papers at the Branca OFFice or THE New York Henacp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscriprions and all letters for the New Yor Werarv will be received as above. » to insure proper classifi- Enrope. The cable telegrams are dated Apri! 25. A resolution condemning the conduct of the patriarch of the Antilles was introduced into the Cortes on Saturday, bnt was subsequently with- drawn. Olozaga assured the members of the Cortes that France would respect the future government of Spain, no matter what form was adopted. a large demonstration in favor of a republic took piace in Madrid on Saturday. It is said that a dispute be- tween Serrano and Prim has occurred Cuba, The Spanish frigate Gerona sailed from Havana very unexpectedly yesterday morning. Her desti- nation is unknown, bot it is beleved that she has been sent out to mtercept a filibustering expedition. Miscellaneous. The Abbott-Sprague quarrel has assumed no* Dew phase since Saturday. Abboti’s friends have attempted to effect an adjustment of the difficulty, but Sprague contends that Abbott's intemperate language in the Senatewas a threat, and to attempt an explanation now would be am act of cowardice. Unless the matter is adjusted this morning, Abbott will demand satisfac- tion, but Sprague, being opposed to duelling, will Not accept the challenge. An encounter is likely to ensue, and as neither Senator is tainted with cow- ardice, the most serious consequences are feared. Daniel D. Page, the first mayor of St. Louis, Mo., and one of the founders of that city, died in Wash- ington, D. C., on Saturday, aged seventy-nine years. The Board of Registration of Washington city have Tefused the application of several women to be ragis- tered as voters at the ensuing municipal election. The registration of voters in several wards in Wastington city shows a large preponderance of Diacky. No distinction on account of color 1s] made on the records. ‘The report of a speeial ageut appointed to mvest- gate internal revenue frauds in California exposes a large number of cases of violation of the law, par- ticularly as to Whiskey and smuggling goods from foreign countries. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Germany, has issued a proclamation releasing all of hia former subjects who emigrated to the United States and ‘who owed him military service prior to November, 1866, from the penalties incurred by their neglect to render such service before their departure from their native country. The Presiaent has recognized Obaries M. Hagan as Consul of the Turkish Empire in Philadelphia. This is the first time the Sultan has been represented in the Quaker City. On the Ist instant the schooner Ella M. Pennell, of Machias, Me., while in British waters, off the Great Bahama Bank, was fired at and brought to by a Spanish war vessel, and her papers and cargo ex- amined, Finding the Penoell had nothing contra ‘band aboara the Spaniards permitted her to proceed upon her voyage without further molestation. The trial of Josephine Brown, at Hudson, for the Murder of the child Angie Stewart, in December, ‘1867, was concluded on Saturday, the jury returning 4 ‘verdict of “not guilty.” Mra, Brown says her husband, before his execution, gave her a written confession ‘Of the crime, exculpating her, but fixing the guilt upon another party, ‘This confession, which was written in Freuch, is now being translated and will be published, About 200 feet of the top of the dam across the fiver at Troy has been carried away, It is feared the disaster will seriously affect the navigation of the Champlain canal, The water in the river at that point is twenty-one feet above low water mark, being the highest stage it las reached in many aod The City. Bishop Southgate administered the rite of confir- mation to twenty-two candidates last night at the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Fourth avenue and Righty-sixth street, At the Washington street Methodist church, Brooklyn, yesterday, during the funeral services England and her trade has always gained ground at the expense of other countries, Large or small commercial competitors cause no variation in policy. ‘Break them into fragments, they can be handled easier,” ap- pears to be the rule of foreign action. In pursuit of this, discord has been purposely fomented among foreign Powers. Civil wars have resulted, and the contending parties, weakened and reduced, have leaned for sup- port upon the very nation which stirred the flame of war. In the history of our own Con- tinent we find abundant evidence of this policy. There is scarcely a Spanish American State but bears witness to it. There is no bolder marked example than ourselves. While England professed to take the lead in the elevation of the human race, and especially denounced before the world every nation that was stained with slavery, she, true to her principles, urged and assisted the slaveholding power to break up institutions which were nearest in keeping with her own. This she carried to a point little short of real warfare, and thus struck at us‘in a manner which was more cowardly than hon- orable. The object of recognizing Cuban belligerent rights is pregnant with meaning. Doing so, England would at once enlist great sympathy for herself on the part of the insurgents, and, their independence achieved, they would naturally turn for advice to the country which aided them in the hour of their greatest need. We can well understand what that advice would be. Certainly it would not be annexa- tion to the United States. Cuba is too mag- nificent a commercial prize for England to let it slip from her hands, if it can possibly be held commercially when it cuts aloof from Spain. The valuable and increasing trade which already produces thirty-three million dollars of revenue for the Spanish crown is no mean prize for diplomatic or even warlike effort. The magnificent geographical position of Cuba, unsurpassed by any other equal extent of territory on this Continent, is also a tempting bait for those who are interested in pressing forward a commercial supremacy won in the manner we have indicated. In our hands Cuba would double our naval strength, neutralize the value of Nassau, and serve us a6 an outlying fortification for the protection, not only of ourselves, but of all the republics on this Continent. The English people under- stand this as well as we do, and it is, perhaps, statesmanship on their part to prevent our obtaining possession of the “Ever Faithful Isle.” The sluggish movements of our government have given England an opportunity to make this threatened diplomatic stroke of recognition of belligerent rights, and if she be quick in her movements she will completely outgeneral the authorities at Washington. Our Washington dignitaries sacrifice all national considerations to political ones, and narrow ideas, based upon a still narrower foreign policy, threaten to keep us in a secondary and shameful condition for many years. But in the lead which England proposes to take with reference to Cuba there is another point involved, and that is our pending Ala- bama and other claims. The recognition of the Cubans would be a direct confirmation of the principles which were enunciated in the recognition of the ‘Southern Confederacy.” This would be another argument which Eng- Jand would then have against making due repa- ration to the United States. In the meantime the Spanish government appears determined that no cause shall be given to us for interfering in the Cuban trouble. Apologies are made as fast as can be wished for every petty difficulty that occurs, The passengers taken from the Lizzie Majors are surrendered and the proper amcuds made, There is but one way for the United States to proceed in the present condition of Cuban affairs, and that is the adoption of the bold policy and principles we have heretofore Jaid down. Cuba should be seized on the ground that it is a constant threat against us and the whole Continent so long as the island remains in the hands of any foreign Power. If Eng- land be allowed to outgeneral us here it will be infinitely to sur shame and disadvantage. Even Mexico is on the eve of RE the revolutionary government. It is absurd that we should follow in the track of England, and much more debasing that a timid policy should place us in the rear of Mexico, What is Sprague Driving At? What is the final meaning of Senator Sprague's recent and somewhat remarkable demonstration? He speaks of a ‘‘plan” that he has in preparation and a “programme” thathe has to complete ; and from this it may be safe to infor that he is not up fora mere parlia- mentary shindy, but that there is a meaning and a purpose in what he has recently done that is beyond the common ken, and that when known will relieve him from the charge of mere wanton disregard of the proprieties, He has not vouchsafed any clue to his purpose, unless we accept the notion gathered from the general tone of his speeches, that he aims at casting upon the tide of the national thought some ideas that may serve as the nucleus of a party more or less agrarian in spirit. Indeed, this is the consistent point all through what he has said—denunciation of the grasping rich and sympathy with the oppressed poor. The grasping rich are identical with Thad Stevens’ bloated bondholders. As Thad saw, and aa Sprague sees, there is something in this likely to take hold upon popular prejudices and to become a power, and the effect in that direc- tion has already been shown in the serenade to Sprague got up by certain workmen, if that was a genuine movement, It is nothing against this to say that Sprague is a millionnaire himself. Were not the Gracchi born aristocrats, with all their democratic fury, and was it not a Count Mirabeau that did more than all others to marshal the French Revolution? It is always some mem- ber of the assailed class that leads and directs the assault, But what then? If Sprague sketches an agrarian programme, what can be the purpose of that? We do not exactly see how that can make Chief Justice Chase Presi- dent of the United States, and we are sure the Chief Justice has too much sagacity to fancy that such a wave will carry so far, even if he desired to ride it. He may remember the fate of Ben Wade's grand ‘jump forward” in the agrarian style if he needs a warning. It is only certain that Sprague means something, since a man who has held a placé in the Senate for eight years in complete silence would hardly make all this row of a sudden without some altogether unusual impulse. It has been hinted that the eight years of silence is the real secret, and that Sprague is now so industrious to get a good, noisy record, and make up for lost time. Although the public " may be in the dark as to what Sprague is at it begins to look as if several of his fellow Senators understood it very well by the gene- ral consent with which they rise against him. PARLIAMENTARY PRroGRess IN Sparn.—The members of the Spanish Cortes appear to be still “‘swinging” in the whirl of a confused circle. A member proposed on Saturday to condemn the conduct of the Patriarch of the Antilles by resolution; but we are not told for what cause the reverend gentleman is blamed. Marshal Serrano gave assurance that France would respect whatever form of government may be adopted. Liberal in Napoleon; but any form of fixed rule is better than none. A REMARKABLE CommerciaL Faot—That foreigners have regular lines of steamers from all the prominent ports on the Atlantic coast— from Portland to Galveston—while the Ameri- cans have scarcely a single line that commands commercial patronage. What is the cause of this? We answer, that while Congress has been gabbing about spoils and thieving job- bers have the full run of the national Treasury, foreign capitalists are quietly usurping our immense carrying trade and laying our whole maritime interests out in the cold. Prevers By TELEGRarH—The Western Union Telegraph Company. Nor at Att CompLimeNtary.—The White Cloud (Kansas) Chief addresses itself to a cer- tain Senator from that State in the following caustic manner:—‘‘Did you ever know Senator “eee*** to come to time when he was required to put his loud professions on record, except when there was a gobble involved in which he was interested? You never did and younever will. He is a great big wind bubble that should have been pricked long ago.” ‘‘Gob- ble” is good. There are, unfortunately, too many gobblers in Congress, although a ma- jority belong to a species of birds that are more naturally inclined to hiss than to gobble. Gor tue MaNnce—Sprague’s puppies and mastiffs. A Haxpsome Recoenition oF GENERAL Stckies.—The retirement of General Sickles from service in the army in consequence of his wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg with the full rank of major general, his name being ‘‘placed upon the list of retired officers of that class in which the disability results from long and faithful service or some injury inci- dent thereto.” As a question of money, clear savings or of honorable distinction this recog- nition of General Sickles is better than the mission to Spain; and yet, as Minister to that country, this handsome endorsement by the President will be the best introduction that he could have to the Spanish government. How- ever, with these special army orders, No. 87, in his pocket, in any event touching this mis- sion, General Sickles, we are sure, will be con- tent, No Hearts.—An Eastern paper states that Severa office-holders have died lately of heart complaint. The complaint has generally been that office-holders have no hearts, especially when opportunity offers for plundering the public treasury, PostviveLy THe Last.—It is stated that the last—positively the last—surviving soldier of the Revolution is just deceased. The event deserves more than a mere passing paragraph, Why don't some patriotic philosopher, maseu- line or feminine, get up a lecture on “The Last Man of the Revolution ?” Ir Senator Abbott is determined to fight Sprague, why don't both go to Rhode Island and fire at each other across the State, as was‘once proposed by a belligerent politician ? Tt would be likely to result more disastrously than if they were t@ shoot et one another at twelve paces. Progress of Religion—The Exercises and Church Sermons Yesterday. We present to the readers of the Heratp this morning a complete account of the pro- gress of religion among us during the past week; our stenographers, as if blessed with the gift of tongues, portraying the various exercises, observances and sermons which took place in Washington, the churches of Connecti- cut, New York, Brooklyn and on the line of the Hudson and in other suburban temples with a rapidity and fluency which would go far to excite the envy of the disciples and apostles of old and may even to-day console their spirits in their place of blissful reward. From Washington we receive the encourag- ing statement that ‘‘all the churches were well filled,” the several congregations being edified by sermons, high masses and other adjuncts to devotion. The forty hours ‘‘adoration of the Blessed Sacrament,” instituted over three hundred years ago, was commenced by the Catholics, The colored Baptists dedicated a new church, praying in it three times. The Metropolitan Methodist church was thronged, President Grant, accompanied by his daughter, being in his pew, near to which sat Chief Justice Chase and several Senators, the clergy- man giving an impressive discourse from the ninth chapter according to St. Luke. As if in illustration of the universality of the Christian law and its happy effect in binding the peoples in peace and amity, Senator Fenton, of New York, worshipped in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, side by side with the colored Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana ; the distinguished gen- tlemen holding an extemporized levee in front of the reading desk after the Rev. Mr. Beecher had concluded an eloquent ser- mon, taking as his text, perhaps very appro- priately, the words ‘Thy will be done.” In the Cannon street Baptist church, New York, Rey. Mr. Adams held forth on the subject of “a close or restricted communion,” disagreeing in toto with the soul saving process of the Free Will Baptists on the subjects of baptism, faith and repentance. Rev. Dr. Flagg gave some excellent advice to his congregation, pre- vious to his departure for Europe, in the Church of the Resurrection. The Presbyterians were fortified in spirit by illustrations taken from the accounts of the perseverance of the con- testants in the Grecian games, and warnings against the consequences of gambling. Bishop Snow encouraged his hearers by setting forth the “Sign of the Son of Man” as denoting the near approach of a second advent of the Saviour; which, it must be acknowledged, is almost required, particu- larly in New York, for purposes both of present security and future comfort. Many children of Zion church were confirmed in the faith. Of the ultimate salvation of the souls of our Highlands’ population we have great hope, from the assurance that the twenty churches located in the town of Newburg were thronged with earnest worshippers, petitioning for grace in as many different forms of Christian prayer. A farious wind storm prevailed, loading the air with dust and rendering locomotion by pedestrians difficult; but, remembering per- haps the Divine rebuke conveyed in the words “Ye of little faith,” the ladies braved the breeze, as did their sisters in Poughkeepsie, with a fixity of purpose and devotion worthy almost of that shown by the early martyrs, the chief difference being found in the fact that the communicants of the Newburg churches were dressed in much better style than the martyrs, and consequently appeared to relish the storm. A Methodist clergyman during his first sermon, in Trinity church, preached from the text, ‘The time is short,” illustrating the brief span of human life by contrast with the infinity of eternity. “Blessed is he who regardeth the poor” was made the basis of a cash collection from the Presbyterians, In the Ninth Congregational church, Bridgeport, Conn., pastor Richards afforded vast comfort to the poorer members of his congregation by using the words of St. Matthew in exhortation to observe how ‘‘the fowls of the air” are fed by the heavenly Father. There were two “farewell” sermons and two exchanges of pulpits. (The Methodists were shown how the soul of every man “longs” for Christ. In the Episcopal and Catholic churches the ceremonies were accord- ing to strict ritual rule, while the Spiritualists held forth on ‘‘Woman’s suffrage the only hope of the temperance cause.” As a sorrowful finale of the day's devotion we have an affect- ing account of the exercises which took place in Brooklyn over the remains of the victims of the recent calamitous accident on the Long Island Railroad. Tiere are said to be over two hundred thou- sand thrashing machines in the United States, One of them was in a convention of editors recently held in Cairo, Ill., in the person of a bellicose delegate. Caninet Rumors. Rumors « are afloat from Washington that Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, is getting tired of the foreshadowed complica- tions in our foreign affairs and will shortly leave; that Mr. Borie, the amiable old Phila- delphia merchant, who is at the head of the Navy Department, is getting befogged with the discipline of Admiral Porter and may be expected soon to retire, and that so, before many weeks shall have gone by, we shall have a reconstruction of the Cabinet. Very good, and as soon and as extensive and as often as you like, Mr. President. The people expect you to stick to your promise of a Cabinet reconstruction once a week, if necessary, until you have a first rate Cabinet and a unit, Tne Turrp Parry Movement started by prohibitive liquor law men is making progress in the West, even without possessing the usual spiritual element of politics—rum ! A Trifle to Be Remembered. That in the fall of 1863, while the Union armies were suffering severe reverses, and tho very existence of our nation was imperiled, the Spanish government despatched a fleet of war vessels, the largest it ever sent abroad, to reconquer the island of St. Domingo, It was at this time that the French Emperor inter- fered in Mexican affairs and planted the unfor- tunate Maximilian upon a throne erected on the ruins of the republic of Mexico, As the Union armies began to meet with successes and the fall of Richmond announced the death-knoll of the rebellion, Napoleon foresaw our speedy recuperation, and in due time wisely recalled SHEET. his troops and left poor Maximilian to his fate. ‘That fate has become historical. Explanations have been made by the French Emperor in relation to his part in these transactions in the hour of our national weakness; but we have yet to learn that Spain has expressed regret, or offered any explanation, or attempted any apology for her effort to re-establish monarchi- cal institutions on American soil in defiance of the well known American policy—at a moment, too, when we were almost powerless to resent an insult to ournational honor. Now is the time for retaliation, and our government will prove itself both foolish and feeble if it do not remember this little scrap of Spanish history while settling scores with the present govern- ment of Spain for its outrages upon the Amer- ican flag, in connection with the revolutionary movement in Cuba, The Spanish Cortes aud the Bourbons. The Spanish Cortes on Friday came to a resolution to exclude Queen Isabella and her heirs forever from the Spanish throne. Our readers will remember that the popular cry in the first days of the revolution was ‘Down with the Bourbons.” If the world believed that Spain was honest and sincere in any one thing it believed that she was honest and sin- cere in her hatred of the Bourbons and in her determination to be rid of them finally. In this, however, the world was at fault. It was the gold of Montpensier that set the revolution afloat. Montpensier is a Bourbon, and as the pledges given to him by the revolutionary leaders must be redeemed, and can only be redeemed by making him king, we must take it for granted that this last vote of the Cortes is intended to pave the way to Montpensier’s elevation to the throne. The Spanish people, however, do not care much for this man. It is by no means certain that if he were king to- morrow he could retain his position for many months. Poor Spain has not yet seen the end of her revolutionary troubles. A Tempest IN A Tin Cur—The Anthony- Sprague-Burnside hubbub in Rhode Island. ANOTHER AMERICAN STEAMSHIP FatLurE.— The recent attempt to establish a line of American steamers between Philadelphia and Liverpool has met with the fate of its pre- decessors and miserably failed. Steamships bearing the American flag are as much strangers upon salt water as if piratical Alabamas swarmed in every sea. Largst FROM Prussta.—On Friday a very interesting deputation waited on the King of Prussia. It was the desire of the parties who composed the deputation to obtain the King’s consent to the establishment of a volunteer organization which should charge itself with the care of the wounded in case of war. The King, we are told, received the deputation cordially, recognized the undertaking as humane, thought that there was little imme- diate chance of their labors being needed, but added that, if war did break out, it was his hope that merited success would attend their efforts. This little piece of news is not unsuggestive. When private citizens wait on their rulers to make such proposals it is reasonable to conclude that the public mind is filled with thoughts of war. For ourselves we wish no stronger proof that war at an early day between France and Prussia is a certainty. A CoyNECTIOUT PAPER wants to know why Senator Sprague is like a Connecticut river shad, and replies by expressing its belief that he is in-seine! Important iF TrvE—The report that Gene- ral Grant purposes shortly to visit the island of Cuba and that a steam yacht at the Wash- ington Navy Yard is awaiting his orders. This rumor as it stands is absurd; butif we change the point of destination to Dominica and the Bay of Samana there may be something in it ; for these people have proposed annexation and there is nothing in the way. ANoMALOUS—To find an Abbott who isa fighting man. But our Abbott seems not only inclined to preach, but to practice by forcing daylight through Sprague’ ‘8 Plucky litle body. Preserving Life Amid Stenmboat Perils, The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate, comment- ing upon a report we gave of the insufficiency of the arrangements made for preserving life on board our steamboats in times of peril, says the officers of Mississippi steamers are much more exact in their compliance with the law, and have without doubt availed themselves of most of the articles invented to aid passengers in time of disaster, But, it adds, many of these articles, such as cork jackets and tin life preservers, are in many instances worth- less, and seldom are any of the deck boats available in time of sudden calamity. The field for invention of means to enable the helpless and inexperienced to preserve their lives in time of confusion and general dismay is a wide one, and it is strange that the inventive genius of the country has not supplied the want. No doubt some of the life-preserving inventions are good; but the great difMiculty is in the want of system and order in giving them out during scenes of confusion above mentioned. On every passenger steamboat there should be a regularly drilled gang of men, under proper officers, whose special duty should be to act with promptness and coolness in moments of danger, to superintend the distribution of life preservers, the lowering and provisioning of lifeboats, and to take such other measures as may be calculated to prevent the sacrifice of human lives. This system, wo believe, is adopted on some of the ocean lines, and it could be adopted by steamers on our inland waters to advantage. Scnoor Rerorm my Avsreta,—School re- form is the order of the day in Austria and South Germany generally. Everywhere the extreme church party opposes reform. It was only yesterday we chronicled a spirited scene in the Bavarian Chamber, when Prime Min- ister Hohenlohe, irritated by some attacks of the ultramontane party, lannched out boldly against the Pope, A cable despatch from Vienna informs us that a similar scene has just been witnessed in the Reichsrath. The debate on the Primary School bill had been exciting in the extreme, the Polish and Tyro- lese deputies, devoted and unreasoning church men, all keen, even bitter, in their opposition. At the close of the debate these deputies left in high dudgeon; but the vote was taken and the bill became law. Thus, in spite of the Church, reform oes on, —$——$—$—$——$ a The Long fsinnd Railread Horror. We published yesterday additional details ot the recent Long Island Railroad horror, together with a description of the unpic- turesque, bleak and marshy spot where, with a certain dramatic fitness, its shocking scenes were displayed. The details are ghastly enough. The keenest sympathy of the public has been excited in behalf of the mutilated surviving victims and the families of the mur- dered victims of this dreadful disaster. But the public, whose sympathy cannot afford relief to the victims of the disaster, is most practically concerned in its causes, as clearly revealed by the inquest. According to Mr. O'Donnell, editor of the Jamaica Standard, and foreman of the inquest, the jury has closely examined over a mile of the track of the Long Island Railroad on both sides of the place where the accident occurred. Spikes were pulled out by hand by the jurymen, so rotten were some of the ties and stretchers. It was discovered that where the broken rail, which is about twenty feet long, joined the one next to it, the “‘cradle” has an old fracture in it, ‘‘A corner of the rail is missing, and that fracture is an old one, Thus every car wheel that has passed over the spot for some weeks past must have banged violently against the fractured corner of the rail. The thumping against the old frac- ture in the rail caused the rail to give some way further on: The wheel of the truck on the day of the accident, striking the corner fracture, broke off the rail at the crack just beyond. Then it struck against that fracture and snapped off the rail once more.” Various other statements concurring with Mr. O’Don- nell’s account point to lack of repair in the condition of the road. The question is inevi- table, who is responsible for this fatal lack of repair? Itis the duty of the superintend- ent to report to the president and directors of every railway company the condition of the road. It is the duty of the president and directors to provide means for keeping the road in thoroughly safe condition. If thd superintendent can prove that he has done his duty in the premises the president and direc- tors incur the responsibility of having neg- lected theirs. It is manifest that in the pre- sent case there has been culpable neglect some- where. Wherever it may have been, it merits swift and severe punishment. A searching investigation should be instituted at once. Capital punishment is not too severe for tha authors of such terrible railroad murders aa American newspapers are often obliged ta chronicle. Let these authors be discovered, exposed and hung. If superintendent, presi- dent and directors are proved to be alike guilty, hang them all, We only want to know which of them to hang first. A Western paper uses an an old quotation is this way :—‘‘Sprague’s baby is christened, and his name is Anthony.” Houmsua.—An Ohio democratic paper pro- poses that its party make a new departure next fall and come out as the “‘anti-imperial” party. ‘‘Anti-fiddlestick! Is there no one among the democracy who possesses a modi- cum of brains ? The British Monetary System—Power of tho Bank of Engiand. A portion of the English press, commenting upon the operations of the Bank of England and the late advance of the rate of discount, makes very appropriate remarks on the power of that bank and the artificial monetary system of England in connection with it. The amount of gold in the issue department of the bank is not only the controlling influence in the mone- tary affairs of England, but, in a measure, of the whole world. The amount of gold stored there is the measure of the currency, and, to a considerable extent, the measure of business and property. One writer says correctly that “the miserable matter of an export of three hundred thousand pounds sterling or so of gold to New York, coming coincidently with ® greater demand for money for temporary purposes, has made a general disturbance of values and shaken the confidence of the com- mercial community.” Even the exportation of such a small! amount of gold as that named was sufficient to make the bank put on the screws and raise the rate of discount or inte- rest one percent, For the purpose of prevent- ing the outward flow of a few millions the bank raises the rate of interest much higher. It will be remembered that in 1866 the rate was as high as ten per cent. Thus, at the very time when the business community need ac- commodation or assistance most, the difficulty of obtaining money is greatest, through the action of the bank. The consequence is that bankruptcy and ruin follow, trade and manu- factures are suspended and millions of the working classes are thrown out of employment to starve or to seek relief in the poorhouses, while the value of property is changed to the amount of haondreds of millions, and all this because a few millions of gold more or less has been exported or is likely to be exported. Such is the monetary system of England—a system which tends continually to make the fow very rich richer still and the poor poorer. Though sanctioned by practice and main- tained by the moneyed oligarchy for their own profit and because a better monetary system has not been accepted in England, the present one is purely artificial and has no foundation in the laws of nature or economy. In fact it is an incongruity. It is said to rest on a apecie basis or metallic currency. But this isa fiction; for more than nine-tenths of the business of England is done with paper, either in the form of bank notes or in some other form, and in time of war or extraordi- nary pressure the metallic basis gives way and the government authorizes a suspension of specie payments. Yet it is this monetary system, or, rather, a wofse one, without the advantages of a controlling monetary institu- tion like the Bank of England, that our finan- cial quacks would fasten upon this country. By a contracted currency and forcing specie payments they would place the business and property value of the country at the mercy of the Bank of England, a few foreign capitalists, or our own gold gamblers, The drain of a few millions of gold to Europe then would create general disturbance in trade, paralyze commerce and industry, and change the value of property to an amount of hundreds of mil- lions. With a sufficient and steady legal tender circulation this could not take place, Gold would continue to be an article of com-