The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, nal Revenue Collector in that city. Twenty-one persons belonging to Rockport, Mass., were probably lost during the gale on the 8th inst. Seven bodies have been recovered and brought home and have received Christian burial, All the parties were engaged ip the fishing business. In the Susquehanna Ratiroad case at Albany yes- terday Robert L. sanks and James McQuade were appointed joint receivers by general consent, and further proceedings were adjourned until October 1. The City. John S. Nicholls, of No. 3 Livingston place, com- mitted suicide in bis room yesterday morning by shooting himself with a pistol, Pecuniary dim- culties were the cause. His wife and daughter had left the room but a few moments when he com- mitted the decd. The Wallabout improvement for the extension of AMUSERICHTS THIS EVENING. FIFTH AVENUF THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth atreot.—Durans. FRENCH THREAT: nue,—ENGLIBH 0} Fourteenth strest aud Sixth ave- LA SONNAMBULA Broadway. FORMOSA; NIBLO'S GARDEN, RAtLnoan To RUIN. on, Tus Tur SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. a " : Washington avenue, by which a more direct com- BOWERE THEATRE, bowery.—Taw JRWES8—THE | munication between Brooklyn and Williamsburg is attained, nearly a inte betag cut off, has been com- pleted. A woman was sentenced inthe Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday to one year’s imprisonment in the Penttentiary for keeping a house of prostitution. The Court, in passing sentence, remarked that it a aa ai acest was determined to prevent the existence of auch 4 ovcning Performanss. nuisances in that city. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Roskell, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one o'clock to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. S., to land and receive mails and passengers. The mails for Nova Scotia, &¢., will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M., ‘The Hamburg American packet company’s steam- ship Atlemanunia, Captain Bardoa, will sall from Hoboken at two P, M, to-day for Hamburg, touching at Plymouth, Eug., and Cherbourg. The mails for “urope will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was irregular but in the main strong, becoming active toward the close of business, Gold advanced to 137%, closing a 1974. s <r — Beef cattle were in fair supply yesterday, and with PSAN ERANCISOO MINSTIGLS, §35 Broadway--Eito- | onty q moderate demand the market was heavy, a —- especially for common stock, which composed the, QBRYANTS! OPERA HOUSE, Tanmany Building 14> | bulk of the offerings. Prime and extra steers were quoted at 1510. a 16c.; fair to good, 144. a 15c., and Inferior to ordinary, 10c, a 13%c. Milch cows were dull and nominal at $90 @ $125 for prime and extra, $75 a $85 for fair to good and $45 a $70 for Infertor to common. Veal calves were moderately active at 12c. a 1Sc. for prime and extra, 10c. a 11 14¢, for com- mon to good and 8c. @ 9}sc, for inferior. Sheep were steady at 4c. a 7c. for common to prime, while lambs were selling moderately at 7c. a 9c., the latter price for choice. Swine were quiet, but steady, at 934c. @ 103¢¢., with arrivals of 7,033 head, Prominent Arrivals in the City. A. W: Randall, ex-Postmaster General, of Wash- ington; J. J. Barnard, of Chicago; E. D. Webster and John Shater of New York, and Major Donovan, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House. li. G. Fant, of Washington; G. F. Whitney, of Syracuse; M. OCortright, of Pennsylvania; George Francis ‘Train, of Newport; J. G. Winter, of Ala- bama, and J. M. Cavanaugh, of Montana, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Jewett, of Ohio; J. D. Whitford, of North Carolina, and John J. Grisham, of Georgia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Robert Pomeroy, of Pittafleid, and Captain Wat- son, of steamer Palmyra, are at the Hoffman GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corasr ot Bighth avenue and 2°¢ street. —PATRIE, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Broadway.—A Gr AND Vaniery ENTERTAINMEN OLYMPIC THEATR Uncur Tom's CALI WOOD'S MUSEUM a! Broadway.—Afternoon onaway.—TUR DRAMA OF THK TAMMANY, Fourteonth streot.—Tan QUEEN oF KARTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ith strect.—HRRMANN, THK PRESMUDIETLATRUR. between Osh and dth ave,— BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2341 brag, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— UNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS—FAMILY Jans. BROOKLYN WINKLE. ‘TRAL PARK GARDEN, 7ih av., botwoon Sh and TOPULAR GARDEN CONORET. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Rir VAN ¥ PASTOR'S OPERA HO JS&, 201 Bowery.—Conto 4M, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, Sc. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Hoouey's MINSTRELS—THE COAL HEAVER's RevanGr, &0, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — OIRNOZ AND ART LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Brondway.—FEMALES ONLY (N ATTENDANOK, if TRIP New York, Tuesday, Soptember 21, 1869. THE NEWS. Europe. By special cable telegram from London we are in- formed that England and France have agreed that the status quo of governmental and executive tribu- tary relations betweea ‘Turkey and Egypt must be maintained, ‘The Cuban question has been canvassed still more earnestly and extensively. The conclusion was against foreign intervention, but in favor of Spain doing justice to the Cubans herself, and thus dis- arming” American influence im the island. A Bouse. London journal prefaces a gloomy outline 4 : of the condition which will oventuate, it | Major Geosxe Taylor, of Arkansas; John Robert- says, in France after the £mperor’s death | 8% of London, and George F. Winston, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor G. 8, Hanford, of Chicago; Dr. A. Q. Hayeland, of Hudson, and Colonel T. S. Burton, of Philadelphia, are at the St, Charles Hotel, Samuel J. Carrington, of Richmond, Va,; A. L. Hartridge, of Savannah, Ga,, and W. Ward McAltis- ter, of Newport, are at the New York Hotel, in consequence of the flery debates and jeal- oua rivalries which exist between the respective factions of the Kmpress and Prince Napoleon. An English newspaper writer calis the Humboldt cele- bration im Berlm a shabby affair, Prussia, it ts said, will annex the Grand Duchy of Baden, The radical democracy are in active political movement ta Great Britain. A letter from Paris of September 6 in the London Star says:—“The Beecher Stowe-byron episode has succeeded the now effaced splash of ink on Car- peaux’s Bacchante in occupying the pens of redac- tewrs, and threatens to excite as voluminous a controversy on this side of the Channel as tt has on yours,” Prominent Departures, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence sailed yesterday for California, The Cuban Question—France, England and Spain, What means this meeting of the waters? Prim, with the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been hanging about the Tuile- ries for weeks. He has had the honor of interviews with the Emperor. Meanwhile Lord Clarendon, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has appeared upon the scene. A late cable despatch has it that both Prim and Clarendon have had 8p.giidience, at different periods, of the Tiperor. It is at the same time annouted that Baron Beust, the Austro-Huygarian Chancellor, is hourly ex- pected,iiy Paris. What does it all mean? It Japan. ‘The Mikado is still at Jeddo. A conspiracy had been discovered at Kiota to set up another Mikado. Preparations are making to give the Duke of Kdin- burg @ grand reception. Parnguny. Advices by the cable dated at Asuncion, August 15, atate that Lopez had been defeated and compelied to flee, Ascurra and Piribebin being captured and a continuance of the struggic being no longer possible. "Toe war 1s considered at an end and great rejoicings are had in all the cities of Brazil and the Argentine Confederation. Minister Blow has arrived at Kio Janeiro. Africn. ‘Legnnot be that they have met to consult about By way of England we have detalls of th the Ecumenical Council, for that is already all of Mlle, Tinne, in the Ouadi Berar, Northern | arranged. It is not impossible that Prim’s Africa. Two parties, one congigiing of Arabs and the other of Tonazerie=wiio disputed the right of escorting Mg“rinne, settled the difference by acceding together, but shortly afterwards came ‘to blows 1b & wrangle for the honor of carrying her palanquin, Mile. Tinne, rushing forward to separate the combatants, had her hand cut off by a Tonareg and was shot in the breast by an Arab. ‘The servants, with the exception of one young negress, were allowed to escape. The spot where the outrage occurred is sald to be ia Turkish jurts- diction. visit had something to do with the question of the Spanish throne. This, however, would not be his main object ; it certainly could not be the object of Lord Clarendon, and with the disposal of the Spanish throne Baron Beust is not likely to have anything to say. We have no choice, but conclude that the state of Cuba, taken in connection with the altitude of the government of the United States, has brought these diplomats together. What Spain should do in the circumstances is a question which Spain canuot very well decide for herself. {fn the difficulty the Spanish government sends Prim to consult Napoleon, ‘The presumption is that Lord Clarendon has been quietly invited over and that the matter has been discussed among them, now in one point of view and then in another; intervention one day and non-inter- ference the next, as we hear this morn- ing. We do not much wonder that Cuba should now command the attention of both England and France. It is believed in Europe that the Cuban trouble would have been dead long ago but for the openly expressed sympathy of the American people with the insurgents. This belief has grown into an alarm since the presentation of the note of the government of the United States by Minister Sickles. Napoleon bears us a grudge because of our treatment of him in the Mexican question. Great Britain is indignant woknown. Ashe was a democrat, the men are sup- | at our presumption and jealous of our growing posed to be Loyal Leaguers, power and our annexation tactics, It will not ‘Three negroes were burned to death m the Dismal | y¢ gi! surprise us if, as the result Swamp recently, A great fire is raging there and of these deliberations, France and Eng- these negroes were employed in getting out timber, i but while taking a nap in their hut were watied m | land should agree to do what they can to Miscellancous, ‘The President was stillat Washington, Pa., yester- day, but will leave for Washington, D. C., via Wheel- ing, to-day. A proposition is said to bo progressing among some Western Congressmen to pass a bill at the next session authorizing a connection of the James and Kanawha rivers, by means of 400 miles of canal, with the Mississippi, thus opening a new water roate from the far West to the seaboard. Norfolk is the city that is to become one of the great ports of the union by this enterprise. An express train on the Pennsylvanta and New York Rawroad ran into a freight train standing on the track at Athens, Pa., owing to a dense fog, which prevented the engineer from seeing the danger signal, at half-past seven yesterday morning. Two persons were killed, one of them, Nelson W. Ackley, a republican candidate for the Pennsylvania Legisiature, and a number of other persons were injured. Prince Arthur inspected Quebec on Saturday and Sunday, attending Governor elleau’s reception and banquet at the Stadacona Ulnb. He left yesterday for Montreal, where he visited his tuture quarters, and departed again for London, Ontario. Mr. David Green, of Jones county,gN. C., Was shot and killed near his house recently by a party of men by the fire. thwart our policy and thus seek to hold Cuba A large fire occurre’t in Main street, Richmond, | jn bondage, It is not so long since a similar Va., the heart of the busiiess community, last alliance was entered into for the same purpose. evening, and after considerable trouble it was got under subjection at a late hour, The los# cannot yet be estimated. It occurred near the disastrous fire of a few Weeks ago, and considerable alarm pre- vatls, as it 16 believed to be the work of incendiaries. Perry Fuller has been admitted to bail in New Orieans in $20,000 to answer in November next for alleged complicity In the $3,000,000 “ring” swindle on the government, Yesterday morning two blocks of buildings in the sown of Medina, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, Loss over $57,000, A family consisting of eight persons, the youngest an infant twelve weeks old, were found in the road near Baltimore yesterday morning, almost perishing from hunger. They left Leavenworth, Kan., in Feoruary last for Philadelphia, performing the entire journey on foot and subsisting by charity on the way. Ruth Hemphill, aged one hundred years and | ing out, The policy recommended clearly three months, the first female born in the town Of | that if Spain can suppress the insurrection sie j. in that place o1 day. jr " ren} ring val gactmenty sestuae’ Genera J. B. | Will have the moral assistance of the Weslern Bicedman in New Orleangy for alleged failure to | Powers as against any annexation policy o” If the telegraphic report which we printed yes- terday to the effect that Napoleon had sent instructions to his Minister at Washington commanding him to inform our government that it was “the ‘desire of France that Cuba should be retained by Spain”—if this report have any foundation in fact, all doubt as to the attitude of the three Powers is at end, France is opposed to our policy; so is England; so probably is Austria, Spain has, in all likeli- hood, been plainly told that all moral help was vain unless she could make an end of the insurrection on the island. Hence ation, Spain is to stamp out the rebel- lion if she can. Cubans are to be murdered wholesale. The island is to be desolated. If its fair flelds should be con- verted into a shambles no matter; the island will atill belong to Spain, and the re-establish- ment of authority will deprive the United States government of a pretext for annexation. Ta such circumstances what will our gov- ernment do? What should it do? Its course is clear. It has no choice if it would act the part of brave men and prove true to the cause of humanity. It is a funda- mental principle of our constitution that no governnient should be forced upon an unwilling people. Our history from its commencement has been an expanded illustration of this prin- ciple. Our sympathies have ever been on the side of suffering and oppressed peoples, no matter in what part of the world they may have been. We have ever been foremost in succoring the distressed, although we have ever been duly respectful to the principles of international law. Cuba has claims upon us. She is one of our nearest neighbors. We respeot her people and we love her land. Our duty, we have said, is plain. The Cubans must not be trampled down because they love liberty. Our firat sin was that we loved liberty, but our first victory was that we justified our offence. Cuba is now in our position. Weare bound to help her. The Cubans wish one of two thinge—inde- pendence or annexation. Our government, by its own experience and by the claims of jus- tice, must help the Cubans to the one or the other. With General Grant as President we must not allow any European Power to dictate tous a course of foreign policy. Surely we ean, if need be, fight our way. The best English papers say we can. Let us, then, be true to ourselves. Cuba must not be crushed. “If she cannot win her independence we are “per of persons to be carried by each car, let willing to say she ought to have it. If she cannot have her independence we ought to be willing to say we will do all things to secure annexation, .One or the other, General Grant; think of it, Weare a great people. Europe says so. Let us prove it. Where Is Mr. Bergh ? A question has often arisen in our minds whether there is any limit to the number of passengers to be carried by a two-horse rail- road car. To judge by circumstances it seems indefinite, and however full a car may happen to be there is always, judging from the conduc- tor's assertion, “Plenty of room!” All trav- ellers by street cars are more or less accus- tomed to the inconveniences of overcrowding, and are therefore prepared to meet them. But how are the poor horses situated? Can their power be stretched in proportion to the num- ber of passengers seeking transport, filling the cars to suffocation and clinging to the front and back platforms like bees around a hive? Leaving. the matter of personal risk to those getting off the cars out of the question, which fact, however, is proved daily by the number of accidents, we think Mr. Bergh might justly inter- fere on behalf of his four-footed protégés. In his efforts to benefit the condition of animals of bur- den generally he has proved himself a public benefactor, and as such the public has learned to appreciate him. Far from depreciating his endeavors, it is but our duty to call his atten- tion to glaring facts when they occur. The mere circumstance of piling above a hundred passengers on the largest excursion car, which has been witnessed in Brooklyn, calls for atten- tion. If.there’ are statutes limiting the num- them be enforced, and then not only shall we have fewer accidents to human beings, but also alleviate the labors of the dumb creation, doomed, in many cases, to a life of toil and suffering. In touching the dangers accruing to passengers, we can once more call atten- tion to the dangerous practice of getting off the front platform when the cars are in motion. Important FROM SourH AMERIcA.—Our cable despatch from Lisbon, by way of Lon- don, brings news from South America, dated at Rio Janeiro on the 15th of August, which, if true, is of the highest importance. It states that the war between Paraguay and the allied confederates had terminated in the defeat of President Lopez, who had fled from the scene of his disaster. Asuncion and Piribebin had been captured, and the Paraguayans were, it is said, unable to continue the struggle longer. The pro- visional government had been installed at Asuncion, The Brazilians and their friends regarded the struggle as finally terminated, and the cities of Rio Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres were illuminated in conse- quence. These glowing accounts are all from Brazilian sonrces, and must, consequently, be taken cum yrano salis. United States Minister Blow has reached Rio Janeiro. He is just in the nick oftime, and it is to be hoped will push forward te grand work of securing a free navigatior of the great rivers of the country, No Momty in Watt Srreer.—One Par- tridge, iteems, had a fifty dollar bill, and he went dowt to Wall street to get it changed. But Vanlerbilt had just then employed his whole fotune to lock up all the money. It was locied so tight that there was not enough money » change Partridge’s bill. Therefore Partridfe, being gamey, now proposes to hang Vanderbilt ‘‘on the same tree.” We would advise him to go in partnership with Vanlersilt instesd, unless he has spent his fiftydoilars, Oa1.—Sidney coal, we are assured by a corpspondent, can be delivered ‘in this city nov in quantities of one hundred tons at seven dojars per ton. Let the people reflect tht one dollar and seventy cents of this price ispaid for duty, Thus the price of the same cal, if it were relieved of the duty imposed to ‘jrotect” Pennsyivania, would be five dollars a thirty cents. Can we protect Pennsyl- nia at this expense to our own people? | Dayarrovs Piace.—Portage City, Wiscon- jin, is rather a bad place for people who are the jan orderly and honest life, not that the jails increased number of ships and the multiplied / are of much account or the authorities parti- forces which the Spanish government is send cularly vigilant, but if a man kills another in l \avte waiting to hear argument on the distinc- puperior to the common prejudices in favor of broad daylight the people hang him, without ions between murder and other sorts of homi- cide, Company’s Keport. We see, from the annual report of the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, which has just been issued, that the business of tele- graphing in the United States continues to be rapidly developed and extended. This com- pany alone has lines to the extent of over fifty- two thousand miles and a hundred and four thousand miles of wire. Six thousand miles were constructed during the past year. This, of course, is independent of the lines of other companies. Mr. Orton considers that the extension of lines and the progress of the telegraph business will more than keep pace with the increase of population or development of the country. He estimates that if this rate of extension should continue for ten years the company would possess a hundred and sixty- four thousand miles of wire. But the policy of this gigantic company is to absorb all other telegraph lines and rival companies and to be without competition, and considering its vast wealth and power there is no doubt of ita ability to accomplish that. Mr. Orton makes an ingenious argument against the proposi- tion to place the telegraph under the control of government; but the very fact of the magnitude and rapidly increasing extent of the telegraph system shows the necessity of government control. The tele- graph {s becoming as universal a necessity to the public as the Post Office, and will soon supersede, to a great extent, the mail service. In fact, the time is not far off when the gov- ernment will not be able to run the Post Office Department without great loss in con- sequence of the extended use of the tele- graph. It will not be proper for the whole of the communications of the people, with the exception of what might be left to the Post Office, to be under the management of any corporation. With a postal telegraph system under the control of government the charges for telegraphing can be greatly reduced, and this mode of communication can be brought to the use of every individual. Congress should as soon as possible pass a law to take possession of the telegraph system. A fair price should be offered to the existing tele- graph companies for their lines. If they choose to accept the offer, all very well, but if not, the government can and should construct new lines throughout the whole country. The postal telegraph has been proved a success in other countries and would be successful here. This is one of the great questions of the time, and Congress will be derelict in duty to the public if it does not take it up Immediately, Byronie Criticism im the Pxtpit. A reverend doctor, in -his sermon at the Trinity Baptist church on Sunday evening, undertook to criticise Byron’s famous and almost inexplicable poem ‘‘Darkness,” which such authorities as Walter Scott and Jeffrey declared to be incomprehensible, except regarded as a group of material images repre- senting the disruption of the whole solar sys- tem and the retracting of the earth towards the original condition of chaos. But Dr. Holme found something more in the poem. He discovered that Byron’s thoughts had reference to spiritual darkness—to the chaos which follows the loss of grace—not to mate- rial destruction; and to support his theory he quoted largely frou the poem itself. The Sermu.: was, consequently, we are told, .“‘lis- tened to with great attention by the congre- gation ;” not, perhaps, because the congrega- tion cared a straw for the preacher's views on the subject or his very crude criticism of the poem, but because the Byron "scandal just now makes any- thing touching on the noble poet an attractive theme for pulpit oratory. The “Black Crook” scandal some time ago did “yeoman’s service” in this regard. It was transplanted from Niblo’s to the ehurch with accomplished grace. Itis a pity that when sensational entertainments are being gradually withdrawn from the stage, under the pressure of a more wholesome public opinion, they should still be retained in the pulpit, even in the form of an innocent and not very brilliant criticism, A Grand Congressional Match ‘Tapis. The public will be delighted to learn that General Butler is to call the attention of Con- gress to the extravagances of the Committee of Ways and Means, which, with Mr. Schenck at its head, has been having a happy time all sum- mer at the public expense, Butler is caustic, keen, logical, incisive and effective in his exhibitions of the shortcomings of others, and as the people generally have been some- what scandalized by these very doings that Butler proposes to examine he has a popular subject, The public will also be happy to hear that Mr. Schenck, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, in- tends at the opening of the session to present to Congress some facts in regard to General Butler that it is thought will be dam- aging to Butler’s splendid reputation for mo- rality and fair dealing. On both sides there is every reason for the public to be happy. Hit him, Butler! Give itto him, Schenck! Letno one hold them. The beauty of it all is that Schenk oa officio is leader of his party in the House, and Butler seems to be more fit for the place, as the legitimate successor of Old Thad Stevens in boldness and talent. Itisa fight, therefore, for the championship of the party. The party will stand before the country, may be, in some new lights ere the fight is over. AN ADMIRABLE MONUMENT FoR THE PARK— “The Vanderbilt bronze.” It is too beautiful and grand for the Hudson River Railroad depot, and the only proper place for it is over an arch at some one of the entrances or over the approach to some conspicuous bridge in our great Park. We don’t know what Commodore Vanderbilt thinks about it, but we dare say that he would make the bronze a present to the city on application of the Park Com- missioners. Orr ror Syracusk.—There was a pretty general movement yesterday among the big Indians and little Indians of Tammany, dele- gates and outsiders, managers and camp fol- lowers for Syracuse, where the grand Stato powwow of the democratic party takes place morrow. The general idea among them is said tobe that the ‘‘unterrified,” hit or miss, sink or swim, intend to have another campaign agalnat the aiggor, but that it will be varied a tt ili tin tt tcc Account for over $600,000 in his charge while Inter- | the part of the United States. This is the situ- | Progress of Tolcgraphing—The Westoru Union | this year by lugging in the Mongolian, Very Our Special Correspondeuco—Forelga and Home. We presented to our readers yesterday & most ample and varied budget of special. cor- respondence, conveyed to us by telegraph, steamships and the Post Office mails, photo- graphing before them in our pages the leading events which ocourred during the day previous, with many of those which took place at an early hour the same morning on the American Continent and in the Old World, as well as elaborating in a most useful and instructive form for their information the main features of our telegrams, previously to hand, conveying the points of the latest news from Europe, Asia and Australasia. Our telegraph letters told equally what was doing on the Pacific coast and Wisconsin, in Penn- sylvania and Missouri, in Virginia and Rhode Island, in Spain, in England, in France, in Hong Kong, in Pekin and Yokohama. Our special writers supplied the details of former despatches from France, Germany, Ireland and the antipodes at Melbourne to the 3d of the present month, their busy pens, aided by ocean steamers, not permitting even electricity and the girdling wire to get very far ahead of thom in the supplying of news to New York. The exhibit was most complete and of a very interesting character. It enabled us to tell of Napoleon, Prim, the Duke of Genoa, Lord Clarendon, Eugénie, the Prince Imperial of France, the German Catholic Council in Fulda, the land reform agitation in Ireland, the death of Bishop Phillpotts, of Exeter, and the progress of the Cuban question; of royal visits and audi+ ences and journeyings and interviews, besides affording glimpses here and there of the hopes and aspirations and executive plans and come binations of the principal personages referred to. Bishop Phillpotts was called away at the age of ninety-one years, after having written hundreds of tracts in opposition to freedom of conscience and material progress, and. lived just sufficiently long to see that matter, even when ennobled in its humanity, can- not set itself up against the march of mind with any chance of success; Eugénie re- turned from Corsica to Paris to «assure, it may be, the ‘man of destiny” that the world moved rapidly and is leaving Bonapartism behind, while the Spaniards pro- claimed liberty of worship in Cuba just at the moment, but not before, when the Cubans them- selves had endorsed the principle by the use of that weapon which was consecrated to freedom by the Jewish maiden when she liberated her- self from the brutalities of the tyrant Hole- fernes—the sword. The march of civilisation is onward,‘and thus do we chronicle its advance, keeping the newspaper in line with its quick step forward. well. We aro waiting to see how they will come out at Syracuse. Good News from Spain. The news that the Spanish press is in a com- plete ferment of excitement and indignation against the American Minister, General Sickles, under the idea that he was sent over solely because he is a strong partisan of the annexa- tion of Cuba. General Sickles says, however, that he has done nothing to touch the pride of the Spanish nation except to hint in a kindly way that his government is willing to inter- pose its friendly offices for the settlement of Spain’s difficulty with Cuba. Very good. This brings up the main question; and we like this Spanish ferment because it will set them to thinking on the main question; for when they begin to think on it it will not be long before they will think that their only policy is to make the most they can of their costly white elephant in getting him off their hands. I¢ titis present ferment of the Spanish press should cool down without any approach to action on Cuba we hope that Genoral Sickles will give them another hint, and a hint that will be broad enough to bring them to negotia- tions. Don Cesar de Bazan in his rage is a model Spanish cavalier; but even he, when pinched for money, is ready for a bargain. Politics and Speculation. Wall atreet has a béte noire. Some shrewd fellows down there, who know more of finance than they do of politics, have made a combi- nation, and bought not only all the gold in the city, but all that the street would sell them. All the gold in the city is a trifle to such specu- lators. As the banks hold only fourteen mii- lions, and the amount scattered about in safes and desks is not over a million, it required no very formidable clique to ‘‘corner” all there was to behad. It will be remembered that Erie was cornered last winter when its stock was about fifty millions. Gold nowadays is only a speculative vehicle, like rallway stock. The fun of the situation is that a number of first class radicals went ‘‘short” of gold when it was down at 132, and they are in very hot water. When Secretary Bout- well passed through here the other day they “interviewed” him; but that not sufficing they banqueted him, all to the end of persuading him that ‘‘the interests of the country” required him to sell the Treasury-gold and so get them out of their scrape. Even the radical organ came at him with a double-leaded editorial. It happens, however, that the administration is trying to carry water on both shoulders. That troublesome Pendleton is making speeches out in Ohfo, showing the farmers why the price of breadstuffs has gone down and call- ing for more greenbacks. To sell gold would only furthor decrease the price of wheat and corn, and so, perhaps, change the result there next month. Hence the Secretary is unable to give heed to the piteous entreaties of the political speculators, around whose necks the gold cliqne are slowly but surely tightening the cord. How will it all end? The Savans at the Hague. At the recent meeting of the Statistical Congress in the Hague, the capital of Holland, some suggestions were made towards the reduction of standing armies, and thereby reducing the ruinous expenditures at present incurred by various European Powers. Mr. . Ruggles, of New York, in support of the sug- gestion, referred ina lengthy speech to the late civil war in this country, comparing the existing armaments. There is no doubt that many Powers in Europe especially are obliged to keep up strong armies because their mutual policy is continually tending to create differences which may at any moment necessitate their being thrown into the field for their protection. Here, however, we have proved that when the nation requires men to protect {ts policy sufficient are found at once to enlist in its cause. When their ser- vices are,no more required the soldiers are disbanded and become absorbed by the popu- lation. The resources of this Continent are so immense that every person willing to work can find remunerative employment, and if would be taking a wise step if some of the nations in Europe were to modify their policy, thereby rendering the maintenance of such large armies unnecessary. The example set by the United States in its policy subsequent to the late war might be followed advan- tageously by many foreign potentates. The many thousand men who are now maintained throughout Europe might fiud here a field where their intelligence and manual co-opera- tion would result in far greater benefit to them- selves than idling away the best years of their lives as miserably paid mercenaries. Let the strength of nations be expressed by their peo- ple, not by the numbers of men that they can afford to keep continually under arms. More Sabbath Rowdyism. A shocking affair ocourred in Jersey City on Sunday, which bears out our former views that neither the moral influence of the pulpit nor the legal authority of the police was effeotive in enforcing the commandment which orders that we shall ‘remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” The suburban event referred to was a smashing of heads and stabbing with knives, and other brutal practices, reported in our columns yesterday, as having occurred in a saloon on Pavonia avenue, with probably fatal results. These bloody affrays appear to be more frequent on Sunday than on any other day, from which fact it is not uncharitable to infer that there is a screw loose somewhere in our pulpit ma- chinery. The divines who preach the Gospel evidently do not direct their attention suffi- ciently to ‘‘the Greeks at our doors,” or we should have a higher order of morality to boast of. Indeed, we fear that, with the salvation of souls and the circulation of tracts in China and the Feejee Islands, many of our clergy forget the memorable words of John Randolph, above quoted, when the question of assisting the Greeks was presented to him. “We have the Greek at our doors,” he said, and the expression is as true to-day as ever. While fashion sits within the precincts of the sanctuary every Sunday—when the preacher is not on vacation—and receives mild rebukes and gentle homilies from the pulpit with becoming decorum, ignorance and vice and crime run riot all over the city and its envi- rons, even to the ultimatum of murder. There is clearly a reform needed, and it will be acceptable, whether it comes from the moral suasion of the church or from the brute force of the ever ready policeman’s bludgeon. If we are not to go from bad to worse Sab- bath after Sabbath, reform must come from some quarter. The secular press at least does its part of the duty in exposing and con- demning Sunday rowdyism. Worsk THAN THE FERMENT IN SPAIN—The ferment in the Spanish organ of this city over Cubs. This terrible organ threatens nothing less than the blockade of New York har- bor and Delaware Bay by Spanish iron-clads, and the destruction of everything afloat bearing the American flag. This, too, by Spain in de- fence of Cuba. Don Quixote in his tilt against the windmills was not a fleabite to this fero- cious fellow of the Spanish organ in New York. The worst of it all is he threatens a revival of the Southern confederacy. This fellow will bear watching. A Parasite Hrr—The remark of a Mr. Maffet at a late meettng of the Trades’ Unions at Memphis, Tenn., that these agitating and per- ambulating women's rights orators ‘‘represent men in petticoats and women in pantaloons who are fortunate enough to be able to live without heavier labor than is required to attend to the affairs of other people,” and who get “terribly excited when prevented from performing their arduous work.” Srate Prison Ixspector.—There is said to be considerable wire-pulling about the selection of acandidate for State Prison Inspeetor on the democratic State ticket at Syracuse to-mor= row. Among the aspirants is a well known gunpowder manufacturer of Ulster county. This man on a_ pinch may do, for the State prison system of this State requires: 9 little blowing up and some of the officials a good deal. How Muon.—Napoleon ‘‘desires that Spain should retain Cuba.” How much does he de- sire it? When the crowd pitied the carman whose horse had fallen in the river old Girard said, ‘I pity him ten dollars. How much you pity him?” Does Napoleon desire it at the price of another Mexican expedition? NOTES ABOUT TOWN., It isthe general desire that the Board of Health will not compromise with the fat boiling aud other concerns of the same noxious class, but compel them to remove their establishments from the city, or at least from ite populous parts, Now is the time for those most deeply interested in abating these nuisances to lend their aid to the Commissioners, It ts @ rare thing for the city of New York to find oMciais from Boston coming hither to examine street pavements or anything else conmected with street improvements, [he “Itub’? has always boasted of the almost immaculate clean!iness of its thoroughfares, as compared with other cities, and why a special committee should be sent here for information on the subject passeth compre- hension. But this isa fine season of the year for munictpul janketings, and this may be at the bottoms of the present visitation from the City of Notions. A class has recently been organized tn one of our publig night schools for the purpose of teaching the Reavy ror Wors.—With the return of the President to Washington, say on Wednesday evening, we expect a full Cabinet council on Thursday morning on the general situation of public affairs, and especially in reference to the threatened European complications (which really signify nothing but an attempted scare) on the Cuban question, Axorare Ovnor.—Ross Browne has been condemned as a minister recreant to the policy he was sent to subserve. This time the con- domnation comes in the shape of “approval” ‘want long felt, and there ts reason ta hope that the from the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. periment will orgvg BuoCEssf ul,