The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth stroet.—Ixiox—Tor; oR, qu RENpEzvous. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth streect.—Frenoa OrERA— JUIVE. gen Sth and 6th ays.— BOOTH’S THEATRE, 281 st. EAU. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweaty- fourth street, LON DON ASSURANCE, FRENCH THEATRE, Mth at, ant 6th av.-~ENGLisi OPrEeca—MARTILA Broaaway.—Foauooa; oz, Tus NIBLO'S GARDEN, Ratusoav ro Ruin. WOOD'S ML ‘Thirtieth s.—M. corner Dg. Broadway, every ove: WALUACK'S THEATRE, Broatway ani 1th street. — ROGRESS. BOWERY THEATRE, AVAN-LEAN, THE Buw's Davoren, 7 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraye of Biguth aveous and BEA siveet.—PArwIn, i NEW YORK STADT THE , 45 ant 47 Bowery.—Don DUAN, DRAMA OF roadway.—Tis OLYMPIC THEATRE inee at 3. UNcR Tom's Case Dik Woman IN TONY? Vooars TOR'S OPRRA I G20 MINSTRE BRYANTS’ OPERA #95) | principal tribes. Zefum swore vengeance against all whites, and, summoning his people, took to the warpath, and has already committed @ number of depredations, The City. Miss Kate Bateman, Miss Lucille Western and several other popular actresses were at the Tombs yesterday to complain against a lad of sixteen, who has, on one or two occasions, obtained portions of their wardrobe by representing to their servahts that he had been sent for them. Most of the dresses were recovered and the boy was committed. Jacob Cohen, of No, 13 Baxter street, was arrested yasterday and held in $1,000 bail on a charge made by a Mrs. Lewis, against whom Cohen bad made a charge of stealing, that he had bafled her out during a previous imprisoument, and had tried to compel her to steal for liis benefit in order to repay him for bailing her, On her refusing to steal for him he had surrendered her to the courts, Coen gave bail to answer, The situation tn Wall street is still one of confa- sion and aggravation, The Goid Exchange resolved to transfer the clearances of Friday to the Bank of New York, but, that institution declising, the mem- bers went avout the work themselves and extem- Porized a clearing house in the Goid Room. Mean- time the dead lock at the Gold Bank continues over the clearances of Thursday. Gold was nominally 129 to 133, The stock m et again broke down, New York Central falling to 151, The money market was atringent, but anticipations were indulged in that the Secretary of the Treasury will to-day purchase four millions ot bonds aud give the street the benefit of the currency, ‘The steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, will sat about noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. ‘The mails will close at the Post office at 10 A, M. ‘The Anchor line steamship Caledonia, Captain Ovenstone, will leave pier 20 North river, at 12M, vw via Londonderry, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Major Rufus King, Jr., and A, C. Houston, of the United States Army, and Frank G, Rufin, of Vir- to-day for PIAN Miso AMERIC Fi HiBITION OF THE NINE MU OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Wir WAN W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Ls ONLY IN AT’ = TRIPLE SHEE Now York, Wednesday, September 29, 1869. —, THH NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated September 23, Father Hyactnthe will ve defended before the ouncil in Rome by four French bishops. The ounter-revoluuionary disturbances in Barcelona Dave been quelied. Reinforcements for the Spanish Brovy in Cuba sailed from Uadiz. The King of Por- fugal wili not become a candidate for the Whrone of Spain. Charles Dickens speaks of materialistic progress and the future of the (peoples. Cardinal Kodriguez, patriarch of Lis- ‘bon, is dead. The Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin vises the Irish people to respect existing pier agitating for Tenant Rights. King Vic- r Emanuel, accompanied by the diplomatic body, ‘Will go to Venice to receive Eugenie on her way to the East. The London Times appears to regard the enfcebied ondition of Napoleon’s health as a misfortune to France and particularly unfortunate for the pros- pects of his dynasiy im succession to the throne, Disasters at sea during the late gales are still reported in marine circles in England. The Newmarket, Epgland, October races were commenced. The Sandwich Islands. Advices from Honolulu to the 15th inst. have been received. Trade in all the islands was improving, and agricultural prospects most flattering. Several wevere eariliquake shocks were feit in Hawaliin ugust, and fears were entertained of stili more ere shocks in September, The snip Callao, with e lies from China, bas arrived at Honolulu, gia reports a serious mutiny on board soon after Yeaving port. An attempt to take the vessel was made, but was frustrated by killing the ieader and Wounding a number of the mutincers, MisceHaneous. A Cabinct meeting was held yesterday, but Secre- Caries Cox and Boutwell and Attorucy General Hoar were the oniy members pr it. The State and Post Office departments were represented by the chief assistants, Secretary Boutwell has written a letier to the Ship- owners’ Association of New York, promising to co-operate heartily with th in promoting our commerce. John Covode and Scnator Wilson visited the Presi- dent yesterday and urged him, in view of the doubt- fulness of Geary’s election, to visit Pennsylvania again. A fair is to be held at Allentown, which they ‘urged him to attend. Me replied that he had already been absent a great deal, but he would try to go. Mr. Covode then visited Secretary Cox, and obtained spromise from him that the clerks in his depart- ould go home and vote without being docked. r Wilson contempiaces Introducing a bill at Xt session of Congress to stop the operations id gambiers in Way street. He designs to e it penal to sell or purchase gold uniess the amount of coin sold is acually delivered. ir. John Rose, the Canadian Minister of Finance, banquetted at Monies? recently, and said in his h that the rviniag of the New Dominion had her for gay destiny that may await her, but at Ble must beware, lest in seeking independence jhe gras} at a shadow and lose the substance, Arthur left Niagara Falls on Monday night Bick and arrived in Simcoe yesterday. He 1s still accompanied by the Governor General, Frederick F. Low, of California, has been appoint- @d Minister to China, in place of J. Noss Browne, removed. The report that Secretary Fish had officially noti- fied the Peruvian Minister at Washington that he was interesting himself too much in Cuban alfairs is un- true, The Minister is authorizea by the action of ‘bis own government to extend official courtesies to the Cuban agents, and Secretary Fish cannot inter- fere except by addressing the Peruvian govern- ment. The liabilites of Clark Holt, of Rockville, Conv., who is alleged to have absconded recently, will amount to $250,000, the Josses in many instances falling on people of moderate i! Mark Dedman, an illicit distilles county, Ga., was shot and kiiled recently by Deputy Col- lector W. B. Whitmore, who was trying to esfect his arrest. General Terry, at the request of the collector, furnished military protection for Whitidove after the Killing until bis trial, he being admitted to bail. A litte school girl was playing on the railroad track near Newark yesterday, when she saw a train ing. She hurried to get of the track, but stuck het foot carelessly under the rai) in her haste * end could not extricate it, She was thus veld on the track until the train reached and crashed hier, ‘The revenue officers, assisted by the United States cavairy, are very vigilant in Virginia. Thirteen Miicit stills have recently been seized and destroyed, Bud twelve men urrested, The revenue from the istillation of apple brandy alone in Virginia, it is Delleved, wili reach $300,000, at fifty cents tax per Gallon, this year, against $45,000 last year, when the tax was two dollars, ‘The new national military asylum at Milwankeo, ‘Wia., was dedicated yesterday. On account of te a of General Rawilos, who was-one of the board of managers, the more imposing ceremonies wero omitted. The dedicatory address was delivered by General Butier, and short speeches were made vy Governors Fairchild and Smyth and Senator Var. Penter. The building presents a fine appearance, and when completed wili have a frontage of 240 feet and will comfortably accommodate 500 inmates. ginia, are at the Astor House, Sir P. Keith Murray, of Scotland; Sir Francis Hincks, of London, and General Parke, of Washing- ton, are at the Brevoort House. Borlo Danzas, of the Russian Legation, and James O. Sheldon, of Geneva, are at the Clarendon Hotel, General A. R. Lawton, of Georgia; James R. Caird, of Scotiand, and Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Del- aware, are at the New York Hotel. General R, Avery, of Washington, is at the St, Julien Hotel. Senator B. Rice, of Arkansas; Bishop Cummings, of Louisville, Ky., and Major W. C, Beardsley, of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel Stewart and Major Taylor, of the United States Army; Professor Williams, of Massachusetts, and Rev. Dr. Briggs, of St. Louis, are at the St. Chalres Hotel. Count Visconti and Captain Bolep, of Paris; Gene- ral Laflin, of South Carolina; Lieutenant Comman- der Beardsley, of the United States Navy; Colonel R. McMichael, of Saratoga; Judge A. Boar, Colonel E. P. Larkin and Colonel Charles Lindley, of San Francisco, and George Ashbury, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Commodore Case, of the United States Navy, and Homer Ramsdell, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Coleman House, General Brayman and Captain Baldwin, of the United States Army; Richard Busteed, of Alabama; W. W. Trimbie, of Mobile, and General Birge, of Connecticut, are at the Hoffman House. Colonel S. L. James, of New Urieans, and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, are atthe Filth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departures, Colonel S. Randall and Major B. Merrill, for Bos- ton; Colonel J. C. Savery, for Illinois; Dr. M. Graves, for Philadelphia, and S. F. Wilson, for New Orleans. The Confusion in the Money Market—The Secretary of the Treasury. The wildness of Wall street which was in- augurated on Friday last has not yet abated. The confusion in the gold market remains unsettled. The stormy elements are at work, because the Gold Exchange and the Clearing Honse are impotent to still the storm, and the Secretary of the Treasury came into the field too late. Everybody knows by this time the origin of the Wall street difficulty. A band of gamblers, in broadcloth and fine linen, conspired to lock up gold on Friday, and thus make a panic in the gold market, and they sneceeded in their scheme fora time. Broker failed upon broker, and banks closed, and the Clearing House refused to transact business, and confusion dire and terrible lasted for three days. A disruption of this kind affects all trade and business, It destroys relative values, and in fact makes the progress of com- merce impossible, When specie currency is disturbed in this violent and sudden way by a combination of gold gamblers our whole com- mercial system becomes embarrassed, so that the evil is not confined to Wall street and the Gold Room. If it were there would perhaps be little cause for regret, but the entire system of our currency is disarrange, and thus the evil becomes universal, There ore two kinds of currency essential to the transaclion of business—paper currency, which is needed for home purposes, and gold curreacy, which is indispensable for our foreign traffic. The latter is the standard which regu- lates not only the value of paper, but it steadies all kinds of values as well. By the price of gold we measure the price of every article in consumption: dry goods, grain, pro- visions, imported luxuries, every necessary of the household which enters into the life of the community, When gold is steady everything will be steady. To regulate the value of gold, then, and to prevent gamblers from running it into a “corner” so as to inflate its price and disorganize trade in all its channels, is clearly the duty of the Treasury Department of the government. Now who is responsible for the panic of Friday and the almost unparalleled confusion in money affairs which continues to the present hour? Who can doubt that the responsibility rests with Mr. Boutwell? He had the right by reason of his office, and had the power at his command, and it was expli- citly his duty to stave off the trouble a week before it occurred, That he did not do so can only be accounted for by assuming that he is ignorant of his duties or wilfully negligent of them, orcorrupt in performing them, In any case it is evident that he is not fit for his posi- tion, and should be removed from the Secre- taryship of the Treasury, The statement made in his behalf that he had determined not to interfere with the operations of Wall street is absurd, What is the Treasury Department worth if it cannot avert such public calamities as demoralize our whole commercial system ; if it cannot protect the public from the occurrence of panics ruinous to the interests of inter- nal trade and foreign commerce? This is whet the Bank of England does every day. Mr, Boutwell can, apparently, offer no justification for his dilatoriness in put- ting gold into the market time enough to Arrest the scheming of the Wall street conspi- rators. To assume that he did not know what was coming and to anticipate the horrible confusion now existing would be to charge him with the grossest ignorance of the duties 4 drunken white man in Arizona severely injared @ friendly Inttan numed Zerum, chivi of one of the he pretends to perform. There is some discussion as to tha proba- * bility of indicting for a criminal offence the leading gold gamblers engaged in the late conspiracy; but it is very doubtful whether they come within the provisions of the exist- ing law as “criminals.” Their moral crime, of course, admits of no. extenuation; but it is only, after all, an exhibit of what Wall street calls virtue. Some years before the panic of 1837 occurred (in 1826, we think) the venerable Jacob Barker was tried on an indictment for an offence somewhat similar to the presont Wall street affair, and was convicted by the jury; but the Court of Errors, upon the case being appealed, set aside the judgment of the court below, and thus settled the law in that matter. How much we have added to our legislation upon this question since, so as to make gold gambling a criminal offence, we do not know. lt would seem, however, that Congress must take the matter in hand and enact a law that can bring parties conspiring ‘to injure trade and commerce” in this particular Wall street fashion within the jurisdiction of the courts as criminal offenders and punish them accord- ingly. For the time, however, we must hold the Secretary of the Treasury mainly respon- sible for the present demoralization of the money market. And we do not know how much further it might have gone but for the peremptory order of President Grant to the Secretary to break the “‘coraer” on Friday last. General Cameron on the Presidential cession=Grant Is the Man. General Cameron, the other day, at Harris- burg, made a telling speech on the political situation. He contended that General Grant has justified in his administration the confi- dence of his supporters; that we have peace allover the country; that the government is well managed and everybody is prosperous; that there never was in the world a people 80 prosperous as are now the people of the United States; that there ig some grumbling down South, but that even there the condi- tion of things has wonderfully improved under General Grant; that we have great cause for rejoicing; that General Grant has turned his attention to the finances, and that in his hands our great mouhtain of debt will vanish into almost nothing; that we have every reason to hope that within his first four years the debt will be cutdown to less than two thousand millions; and, says General Came- ron, “‘if he should be elected again, as I have no doubt he will be, when he leaves his office we shall not have more than ten or twelve hundred millions of debt;” and “if he suc- ceeds in doing this he will leave a reputation behind him hardly eclipsed by that of Wash- ington.” Now forthe application. General Cameron further contended that all this glory is and will be due to the republican party; that to carry out this grand programme the republican party must be maintained in power, and that whether it is or is not to be maintained in power will depend very much on the approaching Penn- sylvania election. In fact, as it appears from the close logic of Cameron, the re-election of General Grant as President of the United States in 1872 turns upon the re-election this fallof General Geary as Governor of Pennsylvania. His re-election, we are told, is due to him as an act of justice, and is necessary to the country for the safety of the repub- lican party. ‘If we should lose Penn- sylvania we shall lose General Grant at the next election,” and so on. Now, we entirely concur with General Cam- eron that under the present condition of our political affairs, and from all the signs of the times, General Grant is the man for the Presi- dential succession, and there isno man who can supplant him. He has the game in his hands; he has been doing very well so far and has not been weakened, but strengthened, in the public confidence since he took the reins from Andy Johnson. The great body of the people rely upon his strong practical common sense to carry the country through its troubles, and his name to the republican party is a tower ofstrength. But it does not follow that to secure his re-election in 1872 it is necessary to re-elect Governor Gear in 1869. Nor is it positively ‘ascertained that he will be re- elected. He may be defeated, but what will that signify? It will signify that Packer is more acceptable than Geary to Pennsylvania as a candidate for Governor, and such a result may be used to the prejudice of General Grant; but all this will signify nothing in the national campaign of 1872. Ina Presidential view none of the State elections of 1869 going by default, one way or the other, will amount to anything. Hence on this point we disagree with General Came- ron; for we do not think tho re-election of General Geary In 1869 necessary to secure the re-election of General Grant in 1872, We think, too, that every tub ought to stand on its own bottom, and that Geary ought to stand or fall upon his own merits, But if the demo- crats have chosen to make this little election a test of the strength of Grant's administration Geary has no reason to complain, and Came- ron may be excused in putting the Governor on the strong shoulders of the President. Still the result of the Pennsylvania election of 1869, one way or the other, will not amount to much in the Presidential election three years hence. Within the interval the whole political world in both hemispheres may be turned upside down ; but short of some such sweeping recon- struction of politics and parties General Grant will be the man for the next Presidency. Suce Tuk Herarp Avonpate Retier Foxp.— We hold Mayor Hall's receipts for eight thou- sand three hundred and twenty-one dollars, being the aggregate of spontancous contribu- tions sent to this office for the benefit of the sufferers by the Avondale coal mine disaster, NaroLzon AND tHE DyNastigs.—A London paper usually well informed volunteers an explanation of Lord Clarendon’s visit to Paris. The sickness of Napoleon had become a European sorrow. His death would be a loss, so far as the dynasties wore concerned. The telegraph had been skilfully used and Austria, Prussia, Russia and England had all agreed to back up the Bonaparte dynasty and, without checking German unity, to prevent revolution in France and to preserve peace in Europe, We have no reason to doubt the truth of this report. If true it is a high com- pliment to Napoleon. It is a confession that he has been a protector of the dynasties. How gveat the change since 1851-2, and even later, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. Father Hyacinthe and the Pope. Poor Father Hyacinthe! He is under the ban of the Church. A late telegram informs us that his case is to be made the subject of canonical investigation. His excommunica- tion, it is added, is probable. A telegram from Paris, which we print to-day, informs us that the good father, who loves reason more than faith, liberty of opinion more than eccle- siastical unity, is not to be left alone, He is to be defended in the Council by such men as the Bishops of Avignon, Rheims, Chalons and Bayeux. If such men have promised to defend him we cannot say poor Hyacinthe any more. He is not likely to be left more to himself than was Luther at Augsburg and at Worms; and itis safe to conclude that his friends at the Vatican will be more numerous than were the friends of Luther at the Council of Trent. We do not imagine, however, that Hya- cinthe is to prove himself another Luther. It is doubtful whether, with all his excellencies, he has in him the stuff out of which great reformers are made. Wyacinthe is only a Frenchman. Lu- ther was a German, The difference means something. We do not expect more from the good father than a sort of neutral tint reform. It will not be very decided. Still he may go far enough, considering the backing he has got, to cut off the Gallican Church fron Rome. We dare not say that France cares very much for the connection, or places very much value in what some people call the one Church, The truth is the French people are not very churchy, What they worship is personal lib- erty. Grant them that and everything else may go where it pleases. If Napoleon were a younger man he might have proved a good and powerful friend to Father Hyacinthe. As it is he may bo useful. But the Empress! In her lies the difficulty, She is sure to hold on by the Pope's coat tails, If Father Hyacinthe is at all well hacked up the Council will be a tremendous failure, and all our former predic- tions vill be fulfilled, Popery came in with State patronage, which gave it a local habita- tion, if not a name, under Charlomagne. It will go out when State patronage ceases and when there is no longer a Charlemagne to sup- port it. Nor willany Eugénie, holding on by any coat tails or by the skirts of any garments, by whatever name named, save it, The Approaching State Elections. The State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska take place on the 12th October next—less than two weeks from to-day. West Virginia holds her election on the 23d proximo, These are the most impor- tant elections that occur during the month of October. The elections in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, most of the Western States, together with Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida take place in the early part of November, South Carolina, Mississippi and Texas closing up the list for the fall campaizn. Itis impossible to predict with any degree of certainty how these States will go in these elections. There are so many local issues mixed up with a puerly State election canvass that democrats may be chosen where there has been a republican majority, and vice versa, Besides, the notorious bargains and sales, the “truck and dicker” among politicians, forbid the forming of any reliable data upon which to base a calculation as to which party will carry any particular State—with the exception, perhaps, of the candidate for Governor. And even these surmises may be found at fanlt when the question comes to be settled. For example, the democrats in Ohio, despairing of carrying their candidate for Governor, may sell votes for him in exchange for votes for members of the Legislature, with the hope of securing a majority in that body. County officers may also be bargained off in the same way. In Pennsylvania the push made against Geary may havea similar effect, In short, the forth- coming State elections may be set down as likely to turn out helter skelter—some demo- crats turning up where least expected, and perhaps being as ‘much disappointed as any- body else, But while the people in these local cam- paigns apparently manifest indifference as to results, or exhibit their partiality and personal preference for certain nominees, there is a pro- found sentiment lying at the base of their political principles which only a Presidential campaign can fairly bring out. That senti- ment is their belief that the late war was a great national fact—that it settled momentous principles and established imperishable social and political truths—and the people will no more repudiate that sentiment than they will repudiate the national debt, Upon that great national fact the people have founded their political faith and belief. From it they will never swerve, but upon it they will rear a fabric of civil liberty capable of embracing all nations and extending the blessings of free gov- ernment, including universal suffrage, to all who may come or who may now be here— coolies, negroes and all the rest of mankind alike, The people recognize in President Grant the embodiment of this great national fact, and if he be renominated in 1872, as the signs upon the political hovizon already portend he is likely to be, he will sweep the whole country like a whirlwind, Meanwhile, let the democrats pick up such crumbs of comfort as they can in the interval between the approaching State and the next Presidential election. Tak CaNapIAN Question. —Judging by the sentiments lately uttered in Canada and in tho mother country it appears that some radical change is fast approaching. The North Amer- ican colony is both a burden and a source of annoyance to Great Britain, The Canadians themselves do not care about paying fresh taxes for the purpose of maintaining an increased armed force in the colony, and infer that if the home government think such steps necessary for the protection of the colonies it must also stand the expense, This is explaining matters pretty freely, If they think they can better themselves why do the Canadians not vote a constitution? Prince Arthur bas now been with them for some time, and they bave had an opportunity to study his character. If the dynasty suits them why not put the question plainly to him and obtain a direct answer? Surely such an arrangement would amply satisfy the Bri- tish goverament and at the same time prove whother the people of Canada are really ablo toimprove thelr own condition or not. The existing state of affairs can only tend to impair the vital interests of the colony, and unless speedily settled, either one way or the other, may cause incalculable damage to its pros- pects, The Senson of Earthquakes aud Volcanoes— Financial, Political and Other Warnings. We live in days of portentous warnings to man, both in his humanity and pocket, warnings visible in the heavens, warnings coming from the bowels of the earth, and warnings realized to a sad actuality in Wall street, that terrestrial mean or unquiet New York limbo which stands between both, We chronicled the late grand meteoric display in our columns despite the calculations of Professor Loomis, and enlightened the American Continent on the subject of the last eclipse of the sun with equal promptitude and energy, showing how the New England savant was mistaken in the first instance and how the chickens and roosters in Washington and South Carolina were equally deceived as to the hour in the latter and went to sleep and chanticleered the dawn of morn at the most unseasonable moments, and all within the current of a day which had barely attained its post meridian. The gold crash came along very suddenly and there were ruffled feathers and ungainly limps observable in the ‘‘street” before people commenced to reflect seriously on the inklings of financial advice which appeared in our paper almost daily for some time previously. Now we have subterranean upheavings, volcanoes in eruption and earthquakes and tremors of the globe. Mount Etna is ablaze, the island of St. Thomas—shaky at the best, although about to come into the Union—has experienced auother earthquake, and Mount Colima in Mexico, has made a flery endeavor either to exceed the eruptions of the politiciane of that portion of the Continent or to atiract their attention, if possible, to something at once sublime and awful, The realities are not doemed sufficient, however, for in the very midst of the commotion comes along a pro- fessor who assures us that he does not know the moment when tho entire line of country which tringes the South Pacific will be unhinged, and the interior tablelands and moun- tains and mines of the different republics re- cede, dear knows where, and thus, we presume, become so inextricably mixed up in territory that it will take many generations of future presidents and generals, with reams and reams of pronunciamientos, to unravel them. Western Mexico is alarmed and agitated, and its inhabitants waiting, as usual, for ‘some- thing to turn up.” It is well, during such an exciting crisis, for people to keep their eyes fixed pretty steadily on Mount Etna and Wall street. They are, after all, the great centres of action equally for the subtle imponderables and tho solid sub- stantials—electricity, inter-terrestrial flame, sulphur, lava, ashes, bills of exchange and notes of hand, and gold. They will serve to guide men, both for here and hereafter, if their signs and murmurings are only received and read and Interpreted in a proper spirit. Mount Etna told of the advent of the Austro-Italian war, and Vesuvius in its’ upheavings excited the revolutionary leader¥ even when in com- plete sway in Naples. Colima heralded Maxi- millan. The basalt foundations of St. Thomas impugned the American-Danish treaty of pur- chase immediately, an earthquake lifting our flag, with a couple of our noblest war vessels right out of the ocean, and landing our gallant tars high and dry on its unstable soil. Lord Clarendon, Napoleon, Pope Pius IX., Dr. Cumming, Father Hyacinthe, in truth all men of such like minds, read these warnings in the same light which wedo. They foresee great changes. They are, however, alarmed; we are not, Hence the visit of the British Pre- mier to Paris, Napoleon’s retirement to an in- valid couch, Eugénie’s strange desire to visit the Turks, the in¢ependent spirit ot Egypt, Pere Hyacinthe’s retreat from Notre Dame, the Ecumenical Council, and Dr. Cumming’s wish to attend it, Nature, in her great hidden depths, is in active motion, and using her occult power with extraordinary effect. Man feels the influence, but, being himself—ac- cording to Byron at least—‘‘a phenomenon,” and ‘‘wonderful beyond all wondrous measure,” he cannot comprehend it. Hence the puzzle. A Big City tn New Jersey. Next Tuesday the vote will be taken on the question of consolidating the cities and towns of Hudson county. Despite the opposition of Hobokenites, who, not unreasonably, are proud of their exceptional solvency, tho proposed act “to consolidate and make into one city, to be called Jersey City, the cities of Jersey City, Hudson City, Hoboken, Bergen, the town of Union, and the townships of North Bergen, West Hoboken, Greenville, Bayonne and Wee- hawken, and part of the townsbip of Kear- ney,” meets with general favor on the part of patriotic and far-sighted Jerseymen. They foresee that union will be strength and wealth and glory. Hudson county can afford expan- sion for a century to a big city four or five times as large as the New York of to-day. Throughout the State immense improvements in its system of agriculture and successful efforts to drain and reclaim its extensive marshes, and to develop its resources of iron and zine and marls, and to increase its manu- “factures, have richly entitled it to the front rank, which it might claim as one of the thir- teen original States of the Union. New Jersey can no longer be sneered at as a ‘foreign coun- try,” or asa mere bridge of passage between New York and Philadelphia, The marvellous transformation of a single tract of ten thou- sand acres in the rear of Jersey City—a tract which not long ago was covered with eight to twelve inches of water, and yielded nothing except pestilential air, salt grass and mosqui- toes, but which within a single year has been reclaimed by iron dykes, and is now so firm and dry that cavalry may be deployed on it; that six hundred acres of it are devoted to vogetables and that on the rest of it three hundred and sixty head of cattle, driven from the far West, find repose and food, fitting them, at enhanced, values for the New York market, and that numerous factories are soon to be erected upon portions of it—this mar- vellous transformation shows what the same means may accomplish in New Jersey, all along shore, as far as Bergen Point. Jersey City is the nucleus of a mighty and splendid city. It has long cherished the | ambition of becoming a port of entry—am ambition which the Western States will be disposed to encourage through their Repre- sentatives in Congress, even if its attainment should ultimately result in the disappointment of their own desire for the transfer of the capital of the United States from Washington to some Western city. It is certainly safe to predict that New York, Brooklyn and the consolidated cities of New Jersey will, by and by, virtually form the metropolis of the American Union, and such a metro- polis as no European nation can boast of in point of population, wealth, magnificence and power. [f the seat of government is to be changed and the marble structures in Wash- ington are to be removed it is far more likely that the latter will be re-erected on the reclaimed marshes of New Jersey than in St. Louis. Atallevonts, the Jerseymen are mani- festly bent on building up a big city. Lorp CrarENpoN has returned to Yon- don from Paris, He outlines a new landlord and tenant rights bill for Ireland, and assurea England of the peaceful aspect of Europe. Good news for all hands and another proof of the progress of democracy and freedom of thought. Tor Tarr Acrration ALL Fuper.—Tho agitation about the tariff by the radical protec- tionists on the one hand, and by the Western democrats onthe other, is all fudgo. Ample protection is afforded by tho present tariff and the necessities of the government, while it is folly to talk of a very low tarift when we have to raise such a large revenue and such a large amount of specie to pay the interest on the national debt. But little or no change should or can be made at present, and our public men should turn their attention to somo- thing more urgent and practical. To talk about the tariff now is mere political claptrap dnd a waste of time. New Pavers in Bosron.—Within a week or two several new papers have been started in Boston. News, science, prohibition and the pecuilar interests of the “Hub” are embraced in the crop. This is a good thing for the paper makers, provided they get the cash for the white paper they sell. The fact is, there is hardly a really good paper issued in Boston. Several are large enough, are well. printed enough, and wear an air of quasi gentility. But they lack the element of sound journalism ; they are deficient in liberal and sagacious man- agement, and their editorial columns evince neither ability, tact, ingenuity nor comprehen- siveness, independent of the peculiar isms of New England. If every paper in Boston should cease publication to-day the world out- side would be none the worse off, if any the wiser, THE ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS OF CAPTAIN HALL, New Lonpon, Conn., Sept. 28, 1869, Neliher of the sailors recently arrived here from Hudson's Bay and who are spoken of as Captain Hall’s men was with that gentleman when he made Dis trip to Prince Willsam’s Land, and that appeara to be the only trip of his Arctic perambulations that has any fresh interest for tne public. Hall’s plan in his five years’ sojourn has been to winter among the Indians at Repulse Bay, in Melville Peninsula, and to make excursions during the summer to the various places accessible from that point at which there was any probability he might get trace of Frankiin's expedi- tion. One of the sailors here, named Lawler, wont with him on one of these excursions in the summer of 1868. This excursion was first to Coglit Island, and was extended thence to Hecla and tury straits. Lawler was at Repulse Bay on a whaler trom New Bedford, in August, 1367, when Captain Hal! came on board and induced him and others to join his Arctic search. He passed the winter with Hall at that place, living as Hall ah among the Indians, and the intention thon was to visit Prince Wuliam’s Land in the next summer; but some stories heard among the Indians during the winter led to a change of purpose and the visit instead to Coglit Island in March, 1863, This was @ journey of 300 miles across Melviile Penin- sula, and was made with two teams of dogs, there being in the party only Hall and Lawler of white men, with two Indian guides and their wives, The ride across the pathless, snow-covered hills, on which the Indians guide their course, as pilots do, by keeping a definite relation to some known points, occupted fliteen days and proved quite fruitioss. At Coglit, however, they were induced to go further, and on the shore of Hecla and fury straits did find some indications of there having been an encamp- ment of some persons provided with tents. Only the bare indications of the print of the encampment remained, however, and the vague report among the Indians that white men had been seen there but a few years before. Returnipg from this trip the party reached Repuise Bay at the end of June, Hall went to Prince William’s Lana in the next year, 1869, and then was not accompanied by any white man. AN OPEN POLAR SEA. BROOKLYN, Sept. 28, 1369, To THE Eprror oF THS HwRat Will you allow me to correct a slight error which occurs in your article on “Arctic Bxploration” in this morning's paper ? It was not Dr. Hayes who “amrmed that he had seen from the elevation of a mountain an open polar sea’? when with Dr, Kane in 1853-55. In June, 1854, Morton, who was in charge of a sur- veying party, passed to the northward of the Hum. boldt glacier and reached the northern extrem Ity of Greenland, in latitude 80 40, where, from an eleva- tion of 400 feet, he looked out upon an open sea extending from the foot of the cliff! upon which he waa standing to an unknown distance, north, east and west, In the summer of the same year Dr, Hayes, witha dog team and one companton, crossed Smith Sound to Grinnell Land and worked north on that shore to about latitude 80 20, Again, in 1860-61, Dr. Hayes not only passed through we middle ice but wintered to the north. ward of it in jatitude 78 18, and in the summer of 1861 again crossed Smith’s Sound, with a sled party, penetrating north to latitude 81 45. Th oint was reached May 18, 1861, further pies pong barred by frail ice and open water, and there 1g no donbt in the minds-of men familiar with Arctic research that he was then on the border of the open water discovered by Morton in 1854, though Drs Hayes’ position was about one hundred miles north. west of Morton’s, and the furthest land north ever reached ig Send explorer. Of Dr. Hayes’ last voyage little can bo sald at present, only that it was not undertaken either with the prospect or expectation of penetrating very far north, but only preliminary to an expedition he intends leading towards the “open Polar Sea” next year, ARCTIC, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, Second Lentenant G. T. Speer has been dee tailed to execute the duties of Indian agents Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William H. Jounston (pay- master) has been assigned wo the Department of Dakotah, First Jientenant W. W. Parry has been relieved from duty 8 indian agent and placed on walling orders, WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, — Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry skelding {¢ ordered to the Gettysburg. Lieutenant G, M. Hunter has becn detached from the Pensavola and placed on wailing orders, ‘he Board of Examiners at admitted as cadets John Fi rth, of Llinviss William A. Northcote, of Wea Inia, ahd Chariva be loore, of filinols, There were RO admissions y. Naval Academy