The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1869, Page 6

EES SE: ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addvessed New York Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters ond packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXIV ANUS! WALLACK’S TAZATR: PROGRESS. TS THIS EVENING. Broadway ant Ith atreeh— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Mazrrra—Tu® SoL- pree’s RETURN. GRAND OP@RA HOUS $d street.—Tik TEMPEST. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bronaway.—Tux Srarets OF New Yous. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—A GRAND Vamiery ENrERrAtNMENT. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Ixion—ToT; on, HE RENDEZVOUS. nN BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dat., between Sth and 6th avs.— rau. coragr ot Eighth avenue and FIFTH AVENUE THEATR! fourth streot,—TWELFTH NiGw’ NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Forwo3a; on, THE BatwRoad To RUIN, WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Thirticth st.—Matinee daily. Performane: Fifth avenue and Twenty- orner Broadway, very evening. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrooklya,— ‘Tnz RAULRoAd TO RUIN. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. to buy rum. Sixty-cight cargoes of wheat, valued at $3,317,500, Were shipped from San Francisco to the United Kingdom during the quarter ending September 30, The City. During the year 1868 the total! number of foreign imnrigrants arriving at this port was 213,096, In the nine months of the present year the number is 208,586, During the past four years the revenue derived from the rentage of docks and slips in this city amounted to $ 740. Of this sum $410,261 was collected during the present year, Last year the Common Council leased to the pro- prietor of a foatmg bath the privilege of mooring nis establishment near Castle Garden, This bath lies in the way of the sea wall of the Battery exten- sion, and the owner refuses to remove it, thereby putting an effectual stop to the completion of the Battery unprovement, Tho new warehouse of the Erie Railroad Trana- portation Company now tn course of construction at pier 83 North river covers three docks, and is 600 feet in length by twenty-six feet in width. Prominent Arrivals In the City. Admiral F. Elms, Commander R. W. Breese and Paymaster J, D. Murray, of the United States Navy; Morgan, of Aurora; Dr. H. R. Buck, of Calcutta; J. W. Douglas, of Baltimore; J. Lemp, of Musca- tine, and J. L, Talcott, of Buffalo, are at the Astor House. Colonel G. M. MeMullan, of Chicago; Colonel W. L. Wiltsted, of Washington; Colovel S. W. Fuller, of Boston; Judge H. ©, Lillie, of Virginia; George McDermott, of the United States Army; Judge W. Marcey, of San Francisco, and Captain J. W. Wright, of Geneva, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Lieutenant Governor A. ©. Beach, of Albany; General J. F, Farnsworth, of Illinois; Albert Keep, of Chicago; J. H. Wade, H. B, Payne and George B. Ely, of Cleveland, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Colonel W. Well, of California; Mons. Le Duce, of France, and Professor L. R. Letevre, of Batavia, are BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—FANomoN, TUR Oxtoxer. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comio Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &C. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Conto Vooar- Isu, NEGRO Acts, £¢. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa !way.--ETaro- Plan MINSTRELSY, NeGRo ko. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. Bo, &c. Far Morr NEW YORK M'1S“UM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIENOE AND ART OF ANATOMY, 630 NDANOS. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Monday, October 4, 1869. ee HD NSW Ss. Europe, By special telegrams through the French Attantic Gable we have news reports from Madrid, Vienna and Dresden, dated on the evenings of the 2d and id inst., respectively. The counter-revolutionary movement against the existing government 1s in active progress in some parts of Spain. Fighting continues iu tae prov- inces. The insurgents cut the telegraphs and stop the mails, but are generally defeated by tne troops. Madrid remained quiet, but serious events were an- ticipated. General Sickles has not withdrawn his Cuba note. Cuba is to be treated with more le- niency. An Austrian oficial journal says that Napoleon, in his speech opening the session of the French Legis- lature, on the 29th of November, will recommend a general, simuitaneous European disarmament. The manufacturing town of Frauenstein, near Dresden, Saxony, was entirple dooteoyed hv tira Our special correspondence from Europe, pub- Ushed to-day, supplies valuable and interesting va- ried details of our cable telegrams to the 21st of Sep- temper. cuba. Our Havana correspondence says a war with the United States is vastly popular in tirat city, the beet prevailing among the popuiace that the Spanish fron-clads could sink the whole American navy and Gestroy the cities along the Atlantic coast, while the rest of the fleet would sweep American commerce from the seas, The municipal authorities of Havana have notified the Captain General that in case of a foreiga war they wil! tender the mother country their Strongest support. The volunteers continue to con- troi the affairs of the island, and the Captain Gen- Shs powerless to prevent them. A general feeling oft insecurity and alarm prevails and no foreigner or apative feels saic. Letters trom Cuba received in Washington give a most piteous account of the treatment of Americans “by the Cubans, whose liberty they were fighting to achieve. Every promise made them in the United States has veen broken. They are locked upon with jealousy by the Cubans, and daily more or less fall by the hand of the assassin. In every engage- ‘ment they are placed in the front, and the wounded ‘fare left apon the ground to be murdered by the Spaniards. 8 : Paraguay. Latest advices from Paraguayan sources announce the loss of the Brazilians in tbe late battles at 8,000 men. Lopez has retreated to the Grand Corduleras, where he had previously prepared a retreat, The aliles are about to quit the country, leaving only a few troops to protect the provisional government at Ascuncion, Miscetinneous. Cornelius Wendell publishes a card ina Kansas Paper affirming his belief in the genuinencss of a letter presented to him by a candidate for the Leav- - @nworth, Kansas, Post Office, purporting to be writ- ton by Senator Pomeroy, in which ihe Senator ex- presses his willingness to sustain President Johnson, even against impeachment, if the President would make certain appointments. The gunboats being built in New York for the Spanish government, it is velieved i Washington, ‘will not be allowed to depart under any pretence. The ordnance and ammunition shipped by the Buterpe to Havana for these gunboats are not likely to be of much practical benefit to the owners for some time to come. The owners of the steamer Huterpe, hearing a rumor that a Cuban privateer was in waiting to cap- ture their vessel on her trip to Havana, senta letter to Secretary Fish asking if protection would be afforded her. The Secretary answered that upon “a mere rumor” no convoy could be furnished, but will @urely punish any outrage perpetrated upon the American flag. Prince Arthur arrived at Toronto Canada, on Saturday afternoon and was most enthsiastically received by the populace. The crowd which met hum at the railway station was estimated at fully ‘80,000 people. Bellanger, on trial in Montreal for the murder of his wife's paramour, wae acquitted on Saturday, the Judge expreasing his approval of the verdict, Bel- Ianger’s counsel made a strong appeal for his client, Citing the Sickles and Chaloner cases. The Border Agricultural Fair of Virginia and North Carolina 1s to be held at Danville, Va., com- mencing on the 13th inst. The Virginia State Fair, ft Richmond, will commence on the 2d of Novem- ber. The Noyih Carolina State Fair, to be held at Raleigh, will commence October 19. Numerous cougty agricultural faire will be held during the y ~Spresent month tn Virginia and North Carolina, A Violent earthquake shock was felt at Fort -Fill- ore, Utah, on Friday evening iast. Tho State Blouse rocked and trembied for five seconds and consternation prevatied throughout the city. ‘Zhe shock, which was the most s:vere which has felt in the Territory since its scttiement, lasted minutes. tf in Hughes was found dead in the streets of Philadeiphia yosterday morning, stavbed to the Beart. © Mary McCarty, of Boston, sought to avenge nerscif pon her seducor, Patrick O'Neil, by throwing vitriol fm his face. O'Neil lost the sight of both eyes and Mary was shockingly burned by the vitriol, which @patiered in her own face. Branning, the Boston wife murderer, confesses Ghat he beat his wife to death because sho would not at the St. Charles Hotel. Judge Fieid, of New York; Judge A. J. Parker and ex-Congressman J. V. L. Prauyn, of Albany, aro at the Brevoort House, A. M. Clapp, of Washington; Charles Ruxston, of New York; R. Rivas, of Cuba, and T. H. ilton, of Chicago, are at the Glenham Hotel. E. Hulburd, of Porttand, and L. L. Crounse, of Washington, are at the Hofman House, Wall Street Affairs and the Financial Condition of the Country—A Comparison. To judge from the state of things in Wall stree:—irom the price and rise and fall of gold and stocks—particularly within the last fort- night, people might suppose the country and national finances are in a very uncertain, fluc- tuating and precarious condition, A superficial observer, unacquainted with the causé of such disturbances and changes, and not knowing the domestic and foreign relations of the country, would conclude that we had been plunged into some terrible war or financial crisis; that the crops had failed, or that uni- versal bankruptcy had come upon us. Yet no nation in the world was ever so prosperous, no national treasury was ever more replete with money, no country ever had such abundant and varied resources, and all this while we have peace both at home and abroad, with no signs of disturbance to our happy condition. Yes, the Secretary of the Treasury has nearly all the time in his hands surplus funds to the amount of a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty millions of dol- lars, reckoned in currency. Ho has now and has had for a long time almost as much gold in the Treasury vaults as tne Bank of England holds as the basis of the currency circulation and financial operations of Great Britain. He holds this hundred mil- lions or so of gold, besides a large amount of currency, at the same time he is paying off from six to ten millions of the debt a month, The revenue comes in so much faster than the expenditures that he is embarrassed to know what to do with the plethora of public money. At the rate the debt is being paid off an esti- mate is made that it will be reduced at least a hundred millions during the first year of General Grant’s administration. If he were to use all the surplus money in the Treasury for that purpose it could be reduced more than two hundred millions in that time. Looking at our national finances, there is no reason, then, for a monetary or gold crisis, nor for the present premium on gold. And what of the condition of the country? The cotton crop of this year will be worth three hundred millions, or nearly so, This is a production, too, from only one section of the country—a pro- duction by a people who have raised, in addition, almost all the necessaries of life for their own consumption. Then we have a large amount of breadstuffs, more than the country needs for its own use and for expor- tation, Gold and silver still come in abun- dance from the mines of California and the other States and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains, But we might go on and enume- rate other productions, as our tobacco and sugar crops and other resources, all showing the superfluity of wealth and prosperous con- dition of the country. Does not a financial crisis, then, seem an anomaly or absurdity under such circumstances? There is not the least reason for it, and had the Secretary of the Treasury understood the duties and power of his position there would have been no such trouble and excitement as we have lately wit- nessed at this financial centre. It was impossible, however, for the evil of the gold excitement to last long or spread far. The condition of the country and national Treasury, as was said, would prevent that, Those who have suffered chiefly are the fow gold and stock camblers of Wall street, who brought the trouble upon themselves, A few of those have become a sacrifice to their own gambling operations, and it is possible more may meet the same fate when the balances are struck and accounts settled. But the smoke of the excitement is clearing away, and the events of tho last ten or twelve days will soon be thought of no more by the mass of the community. The tradesmen and merchants who have not stepped aside from their legitimate business to speculate in gold or stocks—and we suppose few have—areunscathed. The great commer- cial interests of the country remain steady. The momentary whirlwind that swept along might have startled those engaged in thom for an instant, but has caused no serious and lasting disturbance. Still it must be admitted that if the situation of the country had been different—if the crops had failed and we were suffering a season of general adversity instead of enjoying universal prosperity—such an event might have proved very disastrous beyond the limits of Wall street or New York. The government, with this lesson before it, should at once take into consideration the question as to how the public and commercial a few give him money out of her own earnings with which | community can be protected in future from possible injury through the rings and cliques of gold and stock operators, The first and most necessary step is to place a statesman at the head of the Treasury Department—a man who understands the great questions of finance and who will use his power for the good of the public generally. This step the President can take; for it is an administrative one, Mr, Boutwell has not the comprehension and ability for such a position, There are statesmen in the country capable of filling it, and the responsibility of appointing one rests with General Grant. Then Congress should adopt measures to prevent, as far as possible, gold gambling, and should place the currency on such a basis as will make it both steady and available at all times to the business community, The currency is the lifeblood of trade and commerce, and it should be healthily and equally diffused in sufficient quantity over every section of the republic. This being dono the necessities of trade will cause it to flow regularly to and from different points. At present this is not the case, because advan- tages have been giren to large capitalists over other people and to the centres of capital over other sections of the country. It would be better still if the currency were to be made uniform and legal tenders were substituted for national bank notes, But whatever Congress may do in this matter measures should be taken to keep the currency steady, and to prevent, as far as possible, the locking of it up and gold gambling by combinations of speculators, State Politics—Tho Campaign of 1872. In a month from to-day New York State will hold its election for State officers. The result will, to a considerable extent, be accepted as a criterion to judge of the relative strength of the republican and democratic parties when they come to vote on the more important issues involved in the succeeding Presidential election. The result, however, whatever it may be, cannot be viewed in the same light with regard to the campaign of 1872 as the results which will follow the elec- tions in Pennsylvania and Ohio. These States are to vote their gubernatorial tickets, which, next to a Presidential election, always call forth the highest voting strength of all parties. Therefore, as a State goes in voting for its own executive it may fairly be concluded it will go, if no serious administrative fiasco occurs in the meantime, when voting on the Presidential ticket. This admitted fact gives to the Pennsylvania and Ohio elections an importance that our own election seems to lack. But there is behind the ordinary interest attaching to our November campaign an interest and importance arising from the use the politicians design to make of it which does not appear at the first glance. The republican party of the State has lost the cohesive power which made it so strong and irresistible during the war. Apart from the influence the leaders of th party ex- ercised to their own profit in the federal ad- ministration, they controlled all the patronage of the State government during the double Ler WUVELMUL £ UUW YULUpIOU omy CALUEMTY chair at Albany. With the defeat of Griswold and the election of Governor Hoffman the power of the republican party has been grad- ually slipping out of its hands, till now its leaders, or such of them as are left, are placed in a position in which they are compelled to act on the defensive instead of the offensive. The Morgan and Fenton Senatorial fight com- pletely disrupted the party. From the moment these political gladiators entered the arena with their stamps and greenbacks the weak- ness and corruption of the party were made publicly manifest, and the demoralizing effect of the bargaining and buckstering for votes thea openly carried on in the legislative chamber is felt ia almost every republican district in the State. Fenton has temporarily abandoned the field of politics, and between his late fol- lowers and the Morgan ‘‘soreheads” there is now a deadly fend being waged. This is the condition of the republican party throughout the State at the present moment. The Tammany Regency, under the leader- ship of Peter Bismarck Sweeny, resolved to take advantage of these dissensions in the re- publican camp, is making sure work to secure a majority in both branches of the Legislature in November next. It has its emissaries in every Senatorial and Assembly district spying out the land and reporting the condition of local politics and the position of parties. From these reports, favorable to the ambitious views of the democratic leaders, a political programme is prepared for the coming Presi- dential contest. With the Chief Executive personally and politically attached to the Tam- many dynasty, indebted to it for past favors and present eminence, and trusting to it for still further honors, and with a Legislature pledged to carry out all its behests and support all its measures, the Tammany Regency may not so far miscalculate its power if it aims to reinaugurate the policy and to tread in the foot- steps of the old Albany Regency, which placed the man of its choice in the Presidential chair in 1836, What the Albany Regency did in its day circumstances, directed by such men as Peter Bismarck Sweeny and his counsellors, can no doubt dd in the present. At all events, the Regency is directing all its efforts and shaping every political movement in city and State with a single eye to its action in the campaign of 1872, and to the nomination of their man, Governor Hoffman, on the Presi- dential ticket, Naw Asprct oF The Cupan STRUGGLE. Spain perhaps has not even yet opened her eyes on the true proportions of the Cuban straggle. Cuba is now likely to appear on the ocean asa naval power. Her standing as an independent government has been recognized by two other governments, and that the ships she equips and puts on the ocean cannot be treated as pirates is acknowledged by the gov- erment of the United States. Virtually this recognizes her belligerent right. Only a few ships on the ocean will teach Spain that the unpleasant features of war are not all on one side. With such cruisers as the Hornet afloat the communications of tho Spanish govern- ment can only be kept open by men-of-war, witich will add greatly to the difficulties of the contest. Under the impulse thus gives to the struggle we also find an immense increags in the filibustering tendency. Spain will have her hands ful. Appeal to America, The statesmen and political party loaders of Great Britain are engaged in taking measures for an immediate and intelligent legislative consideration of the last and greatest griev- ance of Ireland, the fountainhead of the others and the main cause of the pauperism, crime and exile of her people, the land question; or the actual state of the relations existing botween the owners of real estate in entail in the island and the tenants who till the soil and are tributary to them as rentpayers, Lord Clarendon, since his return to London after his interviews with Napoleon at St. Cloud, has announced, publicly and immediately, that the Irish land question will form the most ab- solutely necessary plank in the future platform of the British government, sketching at the same moment and in very few words the essen- tial points which he deems necessary for its constitutional elaboration and settlement. Cardinal Cullen endorses the position of the British Minister, giving, as it were, the flat of the Church to the commencement of the agita- tion for Irish tenants’ right, besides enforcing moderation in its conduct and aim in the words “not interfering with tho legitimate rights of any class.” Itis a grand and se- rious work, but inevitable as to its commencement for England. It is needless here, and at this day, to enter into a con- sideration of the many local complications which surround and embarrass this subject, The Irish emigrants in America understand them, not as political economists in theory, but as men who have experienced their operation in some shape or other personally and to their grief. The American people are very well informed as to their consequences, for it may be said that the Irish farmers and labor- ers who have been evicted from their little holdings and cabins and sought and found shelter and employment on our shores during many years past have been uni- versal and simply eloquent propagandists of the home situation. They have told of it from Maine to San Francisco, so that the citizens of the American republic constitute, as it were, at this moment, a grand international jury to which Ireland appeals on the question of the necessity of its adjustment. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Clarendon understand this well, and, consequently, although physically wearied by his parliamentary and cabinet exertions on the Trish Church bill, the British Premier is pre- paring to grapple with and master the difficul- ties of an Irish land bill in a constitutional manner, and to do justice to all without vio- lence to existing interests. Although we use the word difficulties it is scarcely in place. Thereis, or should ba, little or no difficulty about it. The Irish tenant requires an equitable and simple plan of leasing land, a security of tenure during the period of the lease, with a fair compensation at its termination for all solid inprovements made on the soil, with his money or the labor of his own hands or those of his children when in posses- sion. This is all. He will then become an in- dustrious producer and consumer instead of an ill-clad, ragged and frequently hungry rent pay- Aug mavuuuey ays ‘sao coast line of Ireland will not be fringed with steamers conveying off the produce of the soil to Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Birming- ham to be sold at such prices as knots of English speculators may dictate. Irish land- lords will find it their interest to return to their homes, and the money received in Ireland from England will not be immediately forwarded to feed aristocratic absentees resident in Lon- don, in Paris, or still more distant foreign lands. Political agitation would cease as an Irish profession, secret organizations be dis- solved and ‘‘agrarian murder”’—a classifi- cation of felony peculiar to Ireland and which expresses the present land system in words of woe—unknown. The politician's cry of ‘Erin go Bragh” would be forgotten or discarded, and the sensible motto advised by Sidney Smith ot ‘Erin go bread and cheese, Erin go pantaloons with- out holes in them,” adopted by the Irish in its stead. A work looking to such accomplishment is a work worthy of Mr. Gladstone and Lord Clarendon, and Mr. Gladstone is just the man to ‘crown the edifice” in Ireland. Impressed with these convictions we have anticipated Lord Clarendon, and to a great extent his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin also, in placing the Irish land tenure subject before the world in our pages in the shape of a series of special letters from Ire- land, one of which was published last Monday, and another, exhaustive, interesting and affecting in its details, appears this morn- ing. Writing from Wexford, the scene at once of Oliver Cromwell's wanton slaughter of the people, as well as of tho flerco battles of the Irish rebellion of 1798, the extremes of bratal oppression and an attempt at redress by brute force, the writer supplies facts to show that the land question is the one essential, vital question of Ireland. He also proves that Ireland looks to America for approval and a moral support in her efforts for its peaceable solution. This support she hopes to obtain mainly through the great organs of the free press of New York. Her desire was expressed, forcibly and well, in the words made use of by a prominent Irish clergyman to our special writer when he said :—‘‘The influence, the irresistible influence and power of America are being daily felt throughout Europe, and in no part more than in Ireland, Write that we want land reform. War we do not wan' bloodshed we dep!6é; ‘but it is hard to bear the conduct of the wretches who gloat over the misfortunes of our poor people. Goodby. God be with you and bless you.” Such is Ire- land’s necessity, such her course, such her words and channel of appeal to America. Lord Clarendon appreciates the crisis, Sreet.—It would seem that the consular power is very great, if the Consul at Sheffield has not transcended it, That gentleman, moved by our manufacturers here, has refused to act on the invoices of those exporting steel from Sheffield to this country, and so has stopped the trade, There must have been a way to make the dutios safe short of that extremity, Smrs For Sate.—Responsible parties with discretion should take notice that Uncle Samuel is not building any now vessels for the navy. On the contrary, he already has more vessels than he wants, and will sell some for cash. They are of o kind that would be vory useful in landing expeditions on the Cuban coast, or even in waging a naval contest. The Irish Land Question—Ireland’s Moral | The Cpening of the French Chambers= General Disarmament. A cable despatch which we print in theHERALD of to-day informs us that on the occasion of the opening of the French Chambers, which fs now fixed for the 8th of November, the Emperor Napolcon hopes to issue a manifesto announcing an agreement arrived at by the various Powers for a general simultaneous disarmament. This is the first piece of realy sensible news we have had from Europe for a longtime. We hope it may turn out to be wellfounded. Largo standing armies have long been the curso of Europe, and the weight of the curse has been greatly increased during the reign of Napoleon. We are willing to believe the news to be true; for Napoleon can no longer have any desire for war, France has ceased to growl at Prussia, and the work of consolidation in Germany is little likely henceforward to be disturbed by any French opposition, This movement of the Emperor shows that he still delights in sur- prises, while it can scarcely fail to have the effect of greatly increasing his popularity. His reforms are all the more certain to win success in the Corps Législatif and to be popular among the French people that his power and lead are still recognized in the courts and cabi- nets of Europe. The ententé cordiale which evidently exists between Napoleon and the governments of Europe is a hopeful sign for the future of his dynasty. We congratulate the peoples of Europe on this promised bless- ing. Raln, Rain, Beautiful Rain. At last rain has been welcomed alike by private citizons and by the street commis- sioners. At half-past eleven o'clock on Satur- day night it began to fall gently, but steadily, and all night and almost all yesterday it persisted {n accomplishing {ts benevolent mission, It may not yet have filled the streams that supply the clty with Croton water—that inestimable blessing—but it has swollen them sufficiently to prevent further apprehensions of a drought like that which recently afflicted Philadelphia. The hearts of all housekeepers were yesterday rejoiced by the absence of dust. Particularly on Fifth avenue, where the new pavement has lately been playing the mischief, blinding eyes, offending nostrils and invading houses with a worse than any Egyptian plague, the advent of rain evoked a devout thanksgiving. Broad- way and even still dirtier streets have been more speedily and more effectually cleansed by ‘‘the clerk of the weather” than they could have been by the most conscientious contractor for a similar job. None will grudge what the street commissioners may have saved by this providential dispensation.’ Let us hope, how- ever, that they may not be tempted to wait for a repetition of it before sending sprinkling machines on their regular rounds. The injury which dust has done to health and furniture and clothing in New York during the past week is incalculable. A well governed city, even if it were built in the Desert of Sahara, could not have suffered what New York, at the head of a splendid bay and between two rivers, has lately had to endure from dust. fon entrusted” spa Bat, mnortant naturally caused the attention, especially of the European Powers, to be directed towards the far East. Treaties, both commercial and diplomatic, have been concluded with the Flowery Realm. Austria, too, has now entered upon the field, and even the patricians of Venice are not backward. The prestige of ancient Venice, whose merchants formerly traded with the remotest parts of the globe, may yet be regained. Ships are now being constructed in Venice for the purpose of reopening a direct trade with China, The ruins of the stately dwellings of the represen- tatives of the Doges, so frequently mentioned by travellers in these distant lands, may yet be brought into bold relief. Dr. CuMMING AND THE Popg.—Our readers have now been put in possession of the very kindly letter which good Pio Nono has addressed to Dr. Cumming, of London. The Doctor cannot be heard in the Council. This, we think, is a pity; for the Scotch divine, who is not at all unaccustomed to address ears polite, might have told the H@y Father and the assembled bishops soma wholesome truths without giving any very great offence. In one respect the Doctor has the advantage of his Holiness. The Holy Father is not at all suc- cessful in reconciling his refusal to admit the Doctor with the invitation which he confesses he addressed ‘‘to all Protestants and other non-Catholics.” It must be somewhat consol- ing to the Doctor to know that if he chooses to return to Mother Church the successor of St. Peter will run to meet him and embrace him with a father’s charity. We fear thore is not much hope for the Doctor. ANOTHER CotorED Dirricutty.—Washing- ton would not be itself if it failed to have on hand a fuss in regard to the inevitable darky, His appearance in public places is the source of the present as it has been of many past dis- putes. Some colored persons went to the theatre. They were so slightly colored—their hue was so near to the standard exacted for the white race—that ticket seller and door- keeper alike passed them by, and they reached the proud eminence of seats in the best part of the house. Here somebody nosed them out, This expression is, we believe, a literal state- ment of the fact. It does not appear that theiy objectionable character addrease itself to any particular eye, but to the general nose, So they were turned out, and now there isa grand question in regard to civil rights, Declara- tion of Independence, no distinction of color, nineteenth amendment, &c. But it is evident that for Washington and in regard to color “distinctions are odorous.” It is all a matter of the olfactory nerve, and we recommend the Washington darkies that are as white as any- body to invest largely in perfume and go it again, Ex-Preetpent Pierce is reported very ill. Excepting General Grant this gentleman is the only person now alive who satin the Presi- dential chair by the will of the people, Al- though we have other ex-Presidents, they came to the place by succession and not by popular choice, Mr. Plerce’s long retirement from public life has softened political asperi- ties, and we believe there can be no person in the country who will not hear with sorrow of the danger in which he lies. Church Services and Sormons. Our special reports of the services and ser- mons which were observed and delivered in the different churches in New York, Brooklyn and at other points in the more immediate vicinity of the metropolis yesterday appear in our columns to-day, The exercises were vastly refreshing and consoling to erring humanity, while the episcopal utterances were vigorous in reproof of sin and bold and firm in denunciation of Satan and demonstrative of his means and agencies of operation. Pre- sented to the people in the pages of the Heratp the Christian exposs must prove of exceeding great value in furtherance of the work of the cure of souls. Some of the most prominent and persuasive pulpit orators took up the telling text of the gold crisis, illustrat- ing the scriptural allegory of the ‘broad way” which leads to, God knows what sort of ruin, by reference to the recent ‘‘run” and crash in Wall street, and the ‘‘narrow” path which conducts to repose and bliss, both here and hereafter, by tender allusions to the harassing tremors and doubts, and per- plexity and final joy, which afflicted and soothed’ alternately the minds of those who stood momentarily in the ‘‘corner,” and yet escaped the consequences, It was a grand theme, one endorsed by the Great High Priest himself, at the very outset of His mission, when He broke up that powerful money interest or Stock Exchange the members of which conducted their operations at the very doors of the Temple. Professional financiers have eschewed the clergy to a very great oxtent ever since; but it is to be hoped that, even although hundreds of them may havo been absent from our churches yesterday, they will all find comfort in reading our religious columns to-day. The great work which is still, and will remain, we fear, before the ministry was also referred to, and many of the minor—in com- parison with gold—causes which “lend corrup- tion lighter wings to fly” pointed out, The watchmen are on the ‘“‘tower” and alert, as proved by the excellent text handled by the Rev. Dr. Cuyler. Tho Vanderbilt Monument Should Stand iv the Park. Wo must repeat our expression of public opinion in favor of removing to tho Park the colossal bronze statue and allegorical bas relief in honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which will soon be unveiled on the Hudson River Railroad freight depot. We have already taken occasion to say that so costly and splendid a monument should not be condemned to concealment and obscurity in a railroad freight depot in a part of the city where but few of the people ever goand where strangers never find their way. The only fitting place for it is within the pre- cincts of our noble Park, where everybody goes and where everybody will see it. A magnificent arch, like the Arch of Triumph at Paris, might be erected at some conspicuous spot in the Park, and serve as a pedestal for the great bronze statue of a hero of peaceful victories no leas glorious than military victo- vine, modern civilization, The Vanderbilt monu- ment is a tribute to a famous exponent of the untiring industry, tlfe boundless enterprise and the incalculable wealth of the New World. It should hold in the Park a permanent posi- tion as not only a well-merited memorial of a single individual, but as an encouragement to millions who shall find in this New World the amplest fleld for ambition and energy. Prince Arthur a Big Brave—The Succession te the English Throne and the Monroe Doctrine. Prince Arthur of England arrived at Mo- hawk, Canada West, a few days since, during the progress of his tour in the New Dominion. He was received by the people genorally with demonstrations of loyalty and attachment to the crown similar to those with which he has been greeted at other points of the territory, the people turning out in great numbers and even “surrounding” a church, without waiting for Sunday, in the hope of catching a glimpse of the juvenile Messiah of transatlantic British royalty, In this instance, however, the Prince did not, as before, enjoy an exclusiveness in the matter of imperial attraction, for in marched six majestic sons of nature, in the shape of a delegation of Mohawk Indians, seek- ing an interview with the foreign dynast. They camo fully painted, and with feathers, toma- hawks and scalping knives. In peace, or in war? In peaceful attitude; to honorand exalt. In truth, within afew hours Prince Arthur was made chief of the Six Nations, with ‘all the ceremonies” peculiar to the grand occasion, of which, we regret to say, we have as yet no account. Perfectly unembarrassed, assuming his new position in the most graceful—of course, it was not natural—manner, and as if to prove his entire fitness fora due discharge of the duties of his commanding position, the Chief-Prince of the Mohawks set out imme- diately with his fellow braves and future sub- jects to visit an Indian school, where he must have been delighted to observe how effectually the sharp point of the feathered arrow is being blunted by the working out of the excel- lent principles laid down in Mrs. Trimmer’s “Book on Education.” The men of the Six Nations are wise and pru= dent in their generation, proving by their tact and promptitude of action in G4 instance that IES BPR at, toed 72 a daily converse with nature in her sublime grandeur and vastness sharpens the human perception and almost assimilates the mind of man in its directness more and still more in harniony with the unalterable unities of the first principle. The Mohawk chiefs despise “red tape,” just from what little they know of it from Ottawa, and, avoiding all the dan- gerous throne complications which are de- moralizing the Spaniards in Madrid, choose their man at once. And where could they have obtained a better one? = ‘‘Travelling further, they would, almost to a certainty, fare worse.” Prince Arthur is a soldier. He graduated in his profession and commenced his military career in Ireland—a nation of soldiers and heroes, He is named after Wol- lington, a duke of “iron,” niggardly as any Indian in the matter of compliments and jokes, and the conqueror of the next greatest soldier of the age before himself, He is, besides, a great-grandson of George the Third, the royal patron and friend of the North American Indians, of all and aneording to the highost stenderd of ~