The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1869, Page 6

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THRATRE, Brook FoRaosa; ¢ Ruan, 1B RAUL fh street—GRand Parrt WWAY HALL, Fourte 1 PASTOR'S OPERA Minot y Building, 1th NYRLOLTIES, 20, 5 Broaiway.—Eruto- iRAND EXHIBITION, Empire and 63d st. Open day and evening, 8S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Fan Morr NEW YORK M M OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadw: BOMRNOE AND A ADIES' NEW YOR M OF ANATOMY, €20 Broadway.—FRMALUS O TENDANOK, TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Thursda: October 7, 1869. tun waws. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 6. The news despatches come by the french Atlantic cable. No press advices have been received by the case Of the Texas murderers, who are now being tried by a mititary commiaston. Mosby, tho guerilla, has challenged Colonel Boyd, Sheri@ of Fauquier county, Va. and formerly a United Staves army officer, on Account of an attack the latter recently made on him. Berry Freeman, whose printing oMce tn Lafayerte, Mo., was destroyed by a party of State militia in December, 1868, has commenced sult agatnat ex-tiov+ ernor Fietchor and Bacon Montgomery, commander of the militia, claiming damages to thé amouat of $59,009, On Monday morning, while the workmen Were engaged in excavating a tunnel tu Nicolet Island, opposite Minneapoils, in the Mis- sissippt river, they pierced @ sunken cavern in the island below the level of the ttver, The water at once rushed into the cavern with great violence, In spite of all efforts to check tt, and the river, tt is i make for itselt @ new channel. A por- pin island has caved tn from (he pas- cof the waters beneath, The City. At tie Women’s Suifrage meeting lac) evening & resolution, proposed by Mrs, Norton, that we Women vote at their own polis at the coming State election and submit their ballots to the regularly constituted Board of Canvassers, was very generally Opposed by the prominent righters present and defeated. A coroner's tnvestigation was held yesterday in the case of Patrick Rooney, who was shot and killed in anafray on Tuesday, by a colored man named Rovert Fry, A verdict was rendered that the shoot- lng was justifiable and done in self-defence, Fry, however, was held to awatt the action of the Grand Jury. The post-mortem examination on the bodies of Acong and his wife and Charlies Archoe, at No. 67 Cherry street, was made yesterday, but the Coro- ner’s inquest was adjourned bechuse no Interpreter could be found for the chief witness, who is a China- man. In the Superior Court yesterday Catherine Gherkin recovered $5,800 in a suit against Joho Mlatt, on charge of seduction under promise of marriage, The stock market yesterday was irregalar, open- ing buoyant, but closing weak afler a large de- cline, Gold rose to 151, closing at 1304. Prominent Arrivals ta the * Governor H. A, Haight, of California; General quate, of Utica; Judge J. P, Redfield, of neral M. T. Trumphorue, of Kingston, Nicholas Hotet. ane, of New York; L. H. Cobb, of BR. H. Bell, of Toledo; PF, Butts, of Provi- Il, Hand, of Albany, and R. H, Paterson, of uited States Army, are at the Metropolitan dene the Ho f 2 + T. Barber, of Richmon4, Va.; Captain nelalr, of the United States Army, and Colonel W. M, Sidens, of Sacramento, are at tao St, Charies Hotel, General Adam Badeau, of London; General 8. B. Cook, of Northampton, and ©, Baliour Kinnear, of Clina, are at the Brevoort House. Captain H. W, Leroy, of the United Statea Navy, aud W. Amery, of the British Legation, are at the New York Hotel. Captain Charies Hugena, of San Francisco, and Lieutenant @. D. Jennings, of the United State Army, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Governor Burnside, of Rhode Isiand; Judge Foster, Boagiish cable in this city since Monday evening. Frenchitelegrams from Spain assert that the insur- rectionary movement is declining, but the reports from the field are contradictory. The Spanish republicans have not published their account of the proceedings. Prince Charies of Romania ts at the Tuileries, The shipbuilding yards of Bordeaux were destroyed by fire. The radical legislators of France are in active movement against the postponement ‘of the day of opening of the session by the Emperor, and appear likely to assemble in Paris at the time first nawed, even without an imperial notification. Ireland is ‘a agitation for an amnesty for political offenders. A prominent Irish revolutionary leader died in one of the London hospitals. By steamship at this port we bave a mail report in interesting detail of our cable telegrams to the 2th | of September. It appears that the worst has yet to be known of | the state of the life insurance companies of London. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette asi a that these are six large ofces which are “atierly | rotten and tottering to their fail.” ‘The Marquis of Hartington claims that the agita- tion for land tenure reform in Ireland has produced excellent cifects already, and instances that the Duke of Devonshire, who owns extensive estates in that country, is about to advance £100,000 forthwith for the construction of the railway between Fermoy aad Lismore. South America, Our Lima (Peru) correspondence is dated Septem- | ber 14. Great excitement existed over Professor Faib’s prophecy of @ coming earthquake. The ‘wealthy people were deserting the cities and invit- ing fields are offered for robbery. The American- Peruvian Claims Commissioners have met and com- menced business. Jn Panama the revolutionary movement has been effectually quelied by the prompt arrest of the leaders, Minister Hurlburt had arrived and had a consultation with President Correoso relative to the Isthmus Canal. Itis believed that he haa full @uthority to reopen negotiations at Bogota on that gudject, * 3 Despatches from Mexico city to September 2 thata revolution had broken out in Potosi, Colonel Macias bad been deteated in an atiack on the Inaurgents. The Governors of Coahuila and } Nuevo Leon had prevented government troops§from entering their States in pursuit of the revolutionists. thexico. An amnesty bill has been introduced im Congress. | Great preparations are making to welcome ex-Secre- | tary Seward. | of the situation. | Prim command of the army and made Serrano of Bosto: 3, D. Goodwin, of Engtand, and Ben F. St of Boston, ure at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. T, Steadman, of Cincinnati; Charies W. Howard, of San Francisco; Captain J.T. Tilford, of the Unit Army, aud Major Alexander Shaw, of Baltimore, are at the Hoffman House. Count Faverney, Chargé @'Amaives for france; s3ey, of Vrance, and Comprroiler H. of Washington, are at Prominent Departures, ©. Clingman, for Washington; Dr. Ganettt for New Brunswick, N. 8.; E. L. Davenport, for Boston, and Cornelius Banta and wie, for Omaha. The Spanish Revolutiontts The general attenti Latest Phase. still commands jon, All the world has been watching the revolution in that country, To many it has been the parent of hope; to as many it has been the parent of fear. For a situation in Spain | year and more we have watched, and to-day we are bound to confess that the revolution has been somewhat of a fizzle. After a year we find that nothing has been done beyond what has been done many times and oft with much promise and no froit, Spain has got rid of Isabella, but what else has tho revolution accomplished ? Has it contented the population? las it improved the finances? Has it quickened trade? Has it inspired hope? To one and all of these questions we have but one answer—‘‘No,” The revolution bas done nothing for Spain. If to some minds this answer is not satisfactory then we say, “The revolution has been more a curse than a blessing.” Let us look at facts. It is more than a year since we learned that Isabella had fled from Spain and that the liberal party were masters An unholy alliance gave ebief of the State, The two have done wonderfully well, but they have absolutely failed to convince the world that the Spanish people were with the men who drove their Queen into exile. What faction have they Hayti. Mr. Hollister, late American Minister to Hayt, | has been ap ated Minister of liayti to tue United States tn place of Laroche for aa attack on Aux ( Salnave is concentrating 8. | Miscellaneous. | ed to let the case The administration has detern Of the Hornet take 18 course b floner at Wilmington. President Graut saysitis now & question of iaw and not of feeling. It was reported in Wasuingvon yesterduy that the | English and Frenc: goveruments had notified Secre- tary Fish that their war vessels were directed to overhaul and sink the Tlornet and hang the crew; burt it is believed that the report is untrne, 1 a ore- in consequence of a despatch received by th tary that her detention was ordered, The extraordinary note recently published as the actual one sent by Minister Sickles to the Spanish government, and which was very inappropriate in | terms, has been pronounced by the President to be bogus. He says that full infor mation of all tue proceedings relative to tne negotia- tions in Spain will be given to the public at the next meeting of Congress. The Virginia Legislature completed its organiza- tion yesterday by the election of Steplantah Turner, conservative, to be Speaker of the House by a majoruy of 41, out of 133 votes. Turner is unable to take the test oath, but is not disqualified by the Fourteenth amendment, and has a petition betore Congress for the removal of his disabilities. I’ro- tests against the assempling of the Legislatare as illegal were presentea by the radicals and laid on tue tabie as efforts to obstruct reconstruction. Attorney General Hoar, in reply to the inquiry of Goverai Sherman, afms the right of the Secretary ite dipiomati of War to suspend the transaction of business with atiorneys and claim agents guilty of fraud in the Prosecution of claims before the War Department, As a measure for tne protection of the public inter- eats committed to his charge it is fully competent for the Secretary of War to refuse to recognize agents or attorneys who are known to have defrauded pensioners or claimants, or in whose integrity a Teasonaiia degree of coufidence cannot be pia The coroner's jury in the matrer of the boiler ex- | Plosion at the Indiana State fair have rendered a verdict charging the engineer, Joun Gill, who ts ong the killed, With carelessness and gross mis management in running the engine. biftern bun dred dollars have been subscribed ta Indianapolis for the rolief of the sufferers. In the Supreme Court yesterday leave was asked fo Sie motion fora writ of habeas corpus tn ine sre the Commis | | | The fr conciliated ? Not one, The Carlists are as much opposed to the present government as they were to that of Isabella. The republican party, headed by such men as Pierrad and Caatellar, know and confess that they have Montpensier gave his gold freely ; but Montpensier to-day is more convinced than y other man that the revolution was a sell. ls of Isabella are more convinced | than ever that she ought to go back and show | herselfin Madrid, Don Carlos still watches and | hopes. Lf anything were wanted to convince the been sold. an * | world that the present rulers of Spain are not | equal to the task they bave undertaken Cuba | supplies that want. A COwsar, a Cromwell or | a Napoleon would have settled the Cuban ques- tion in two months, But the Spanish revolu- | tion has brought to the surface no great man, | The return of the exiled Queen to power is, at the present moment, just as likely as any | other known possibility. We cannot saya | stronger thing against the men now in power, | We cannot more effectually pronounce the revolution a failure, But when we say that | to-day Spanish finances are in a more deplora- | ble condition than they bave been since Spain | was the richest empire on the face of the globe, that the Spanish people, out of Madrid, are still asking the question what the revolu- | tion meant; that all the factions are gathering | strength; that the Church is stronger than the | government; that every day brings us fresh | intelligence of the disaffection of the people; | that throughout the leagth and breadth of the | kingdom to-morrow suggest4 some unknown } and that military law is supplanting | everywhere the rights of, the citizen—it is | plain enough that the neighboring nations have given Spain her opportunity, have waited long and been kind, and that the Spanish people have been found wanting. What ts the explanation of all this? Why, when Great Britain is growing into a bigher liberty and the people becoming more | aod more sovereign; when (ermany is rapidiy becoming # unit and giving the pure German race for the first time in history a cosmopolitan character; whon France is again shaking herself and proving to all mankind that what tbe French people will they can accomplish; when all Burope is full of life and the people are up everywhere, why is it that Spain is so helpless, and that hor Inet effort, originally 60 encouraging, ‘has proved s0 aborilve? Some people find a full and satis- factory answer in all these questions in the fact that the Spaniards belong to the great Latin family, and that the Latin races aro played out; others find a full and satisfactory explanation in the fact that Spain Is a priest- ridden country and priestridden by tho worst forms of Catholicism; others again who approach the truth more nearly say that the Spanish revolution of 1868-9 has failed, as failed the revolutions of 1813, 1820 and 1836, because the Spanish race distinctively has had its day, has abused all its privileges, has fost all vital power and is doomed, Ia all these explana- tions there is some truth—more truth than many are willing to admit, But the real difficulty still remaing behind, Tho Latin races are not to be summarily condemned so long as we can polnt to France and Italy. Priestly influence does not explain the situation so long as we can polnt to Scotland, to Ireland, to South Germany, to Switzerland. The true explanation of Spain's fatlure liea elsowhore. It now begins to ba understood that the Spanish revolution of last year, and of which we have not yot seen the end, was the work of the army and the navy, particularly of the army. It was not the work of the people. The men who now command the situation, bub who make little of It, found thomselves masters of the armed force of the country, Unity of purpose was all that was required to overturn the governinent of Isabella, Tho situation of Spain is, in fact, very much tho situation of the Roman empire after the days of Augustus. Like that of Rome, the goveramont of Spain is and has long been military, As was the case in old Rome, the man or the party who commands the army in Spain commands the situation, The people have all along been The history of Spain since 1812 proves what we have said. The last phase of the Spanish revolution, and the one thing which gives us hope, is that the peoplo begin to distrust the army, All those recent troubles show that that popular sympa- thy which hitherto has given the army power is being withdrawn from tho army, In other words, the people have begun to look at the situation from their own point of view. The first result of this growing feeling will be the demoralization of tho forces, It will not be wonderful if in a few days we hear of the defection of regiments and even of brigades. Such defection will be the salvation of Spain. It wilt bring the people into the strife, It may boget anarchy; but, just as cosmos grew out of chaos, order and good government {n Spain may grow oul of a wild war of all the factions, This, at least, we will say, a littio more anar- chy may do Spain good willing to yield to the army, Tak Devenrion or tue Horner.—The detention at Wilmington, N. C., of the Cuban cruiser, the Hornet, by ordors from Washing- ton, is a wet blanket to the friends of the Cuban cause of independence. The object is said to be to inquire into the character of the ship; but it is feared that Mr. Fish is so apprehensive of making a case against us on those Alabama claima that he will pro- long indefinitely his investigation of this Cuban adventurer. We would again, however, remind the Secretary of State that Peru and Mexico have recognized the Cuban republic, and that their action is, in the comity of nations, entitled to some respect; and we would remind the President of his carte blanche from the House of Representatives at the last session in reference to Cuba. Have we not been helping Spain long enough ? Tag Earrnguake Panio in Sovura Ayrr- toa.—The communications in another column from our special correspondents on the Isthmus and in South America will be found interest- ing. From Lima we learn that the predictions of the German savant Falb are causing the greatest alarm among all classes of people living in the large cities contiguous to the sen- coast. To some extent have the prophecies ot the German professor been verified, as on the 20th, 2ist and 24th of the last month se- vere shocks of earthquake were experienced, aad at Iquique and Arica the sea receded with great velocity, and afterwards returned, caus- ing mach damage to small craft near the coast in that locality, All along the seashore shocks more or less severe have been experienced, and the consternation oaused by them is most intense. The people live in constant terror, fearful of realizing the coming of a still more terrible calamity than that which caused such dreadful suffering during the fall of last year, Burier oo Virgista,—Ben Butler is more terrible to the Virginians aa a poli- ticlan than he was as a soldier, though we must remember that they are a different sort of men that rum the machine in that old State now to what were there when Butler tried the military réle, Here is a party in the Virginia Legislature who has actually changed its candidate for Speaker on the sudden reool- lection that the candidate in hand had once challenged the honorable gentleman from Massachusetts, and therefore must be obnox- jous to him. Oh, chivalry, where are your binshes? In Virginia a man is thrust aside The Late Destractive Ssorm—A Tint to the Chamber of Commerce. ‘The late destructive storm, so far as we can learn from our tolegraphio doepatches, extendod, ooastwise, from Virginia to the British prowinces, but did not reach across the Alleghany Mountains, From the reports of tho floods and freshets from Washington up into Maine It is difffoult to tell at what point along this extonsivo line was tho heaviest rain- fall. It bas boen reported in Massachusetis at six inches, and, judglag from the inundations of the low grounds in Albany, Troy, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, there was doubtless as muoh at those points as at Springfield or Boston. A rainfall of six inches {s nearly ono-sixth of the average rain- fall for a whole yearin tho United States cast of the Mississippi river. Tho late storm, it will thus be perosived, was a regular African equatorial dowapouring—one of those tropical oponings of the windows of heaven whioh, in the gorilla regions traversed by Da Chaillu, foot up a yearly rainfall of somo two hun- dred and seventy-six inches, The faland losses from this remarkable raia- fall, im. crops, lumber, fenoos, buildings, bridges, mills, &0., washed away or damaged, and in the damages to railroads and canals, will inthe aggregate amount to millions of money, but still the rain, to the vast region involved, will not only pay for all these losses, but will be equal to a cloar profit of many millions more, in the washing of dirty streets, in the clearing out of filthy accumulations and stag- nating pools, in the goaking of the thirsty flolda, and in tho replenishing of dried-up wells, reservoirs, springs and streams, If we had any such system of tolegraphing tho weathor as they have in England the advantages to our commercial, manufacturing and agricultural luterests would soon become apparont, in the general knowledge which would thus be gained of the approach and direction of heavy storms, We have tried to get up some such system of telegraphic warnings and signals, but the heavy expense has always arrested the enterpriso in the beginning. We think, however, if our Chamber of Commerce would move in the matter, and in behalf of a meteorological telegraph system in connection with the Const Survey or Lighthouse Bureau of the Treasury Department, the project might be carried into praotical operation. The great advantages to the shipping interests which have followed the system adopted in England will serve as conclusive arguments with our Chamber of Commerce in half of a similar system on tho part of our government. In this, asin many other things, looking to England, France and Germany, we are still far behind the age, while we ought to lead in the grand march of improvements and appli- cations of the discoveries of science. Some of the Latest Murders. Society can never be organized in a way to prevent such crimes as that committed by the Chinaman on Tuesday, for it had its origin in the weakness of human nature, and was in no sense a result of social errors orvices, Men will love, and loving, will be jealous, and in the fury of that passion will commit the wildest conceivable crimes, let society do what it may. But the killing of the ruffian Rooney has quite another aspect. This event is altogether char- acteristic of our city—a direct outgrowth of our social state. Two or three young fellows loafing about a barroom were skylarking with a negro, and one of them took in ill part the negro’s superior aptitude at the game. He did at once what the rowdy of this latitude always does in the same clroumstances—drew a knife and made an assault that meant mur- der. But the negro knocked him down, and was safe for the time. Then was made a delib- erate resolution to kill the negro, and the row- dies, with a reinforcement of similar characters, laid in wait for him. Had they no perception of the possible consequences of such a crime? Yes, they were thoroughly educated as to the possible consequences. They might have to leave town for three or four months. Or at the worst they might have the inconvenience of standing a trial. If in the course of that trial they should by any mischance be proved guilty, why then they would have a new trial, as Johany Real had. For it is to be noted that these fellows belong to a ‘‘gang”—one of those potent quantities that are of all possible consequence when the suffrages of a free and enlightened people are taken. Fortunately the negro in this case was of the best mettle all the way through. He purchased his life by killing the leading rowdy, and the conse- quence will be that he will be driven from this town, for if he stays he will inevitably be killed by the confederates of the dead man, Such is life in the metropolis. The New City Post Ofice. This building, which is being constructed uoder the especial direction of the federal government and its officials, is getting along progressively, There seems to be an earnest intention to complete the Post Office as soon as possible, and not to allow it to drag out an embryo existenoe like its marble prototype, the Court House, at the other end of the Park. With this view men are kept to work both night and day, five hundred men in ell, and itis said that more work is accomplished by the night gang than by the day workmen, in comparison to the number engaged. Up to Friday last over eighteen thousand cubic yards have been excavated; over sixteen thousand cubic feet of concrete and nearly from public honor because he sent a challenge, and that challenge moreover to Butler, whom all true hearted sons of the South made it a point of morals to hate, This is the only thing that could have been done in Virginia to sur- pass the proposition to send Greeley to the Senate, Greeley himself was evidently ashamed of Virginia for that, and now surely her oup is fall, for even Butler must look upon her with coatempt, A Travetizr boas been heard from who complains of the usage he received from the customs authorities at this port, He bribed somebody to secure for his luggage immunity from examination, but hia luggage was exam- ined all the same. In other words, he com- plains that having done what he could to cheat the authorities he did not succeed. This is pretty good news to hear of the Custom House, for the people there evidently did their duty. What sharper got the travollar’s monog matters bus Uitte. seventeen thousand feet of masonry have been completed. In order to bank up the sides of the excavations and protect it from caving under pressure or from the influence of the weather there had to be built over one thou- sand linear fect of sheathing and shoring, leaving nearly nine hundred feet more to be putup. It is calculated by the builders and contractors that the area walls and the pillars for the support of the main walls will all be raised to the prescribed height by the 10th of next month, After this is accomplished we may be expecting soon to see the walls of the Post Office peeping up above the invidious fence that now shuts out our vision and towering above the show- men whose picture books ornament ite face, It is @ credit to Mr. Hulbord to know that he protected the excavation 60 admirably as to obviate even the least damage from the late terriflo rain storms. We have reason to hope, from past progress, that the Post Office will not bang fire, We NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. trust to the active supervision of the Post- master, Goneral P. H. Jones, and the imme- dinte direction of Superintendent Hulburd, for the speedy completion of this much needed structure. We have no doubt that they will pash it ahead with conscientious energy, und thereby sot an oxample to our city officials, to whom the new Court House was entrusted, of efficiency and honesty in the performance of a great public work. The plans for the Post Office are not yet fully completed; but the drawings will receive their finishing touches upon the return of the architect, Mr. Mullet, from San Francisco, which will be very soon now. They will probably receive some improvement from his etudy of the new Custom Tlouse in that city, The report of progress, it will be seen, is very encouraging 60 far, and the new Post Office promises soon to rear its handsome fronts, west to the Astor House and south towards Broad- way and the Heratp office, thus completing a Group of fine architectural atructures in that vicinity, Returuing Chinamen, The steamer China, which left jan Fran- cisco on Monday, the 4th inst., carried away— besides an American Minister to Japan and several Consuls to Japan and China from the United States, Great Britain and Belgium, and a large batch of missionaries to China—no less than eight hundred and five returning Chinamen and three hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars in treasure, most of it des- tined for Hong Kong. Thus the relations of San Francisco with the extreme Orient are steadily increasing, It has been said that the majority of these returning Chinamen have gained money in America, but that many of them, perhaps almost all, go back to their native country in consequence of the hostility manifested towards them by the Californian population, The cruel treatment and unjust legislation to which Chinese immigrants to California have been subjected seom to en- lightened minds at once selfish, silly and short-sighted; although popular instincts are rarely altogether unjustifiable, and the prejudice against Chinese immigration may be partly accounted for by the fact that, notwithstanding its demonstrable material advantages in the future development of the wealth of the Pacific slope and of the semi-tropical Southern States, not only the vices of the Chinaman, but his apparent inca - pacity for moral improvement, his stereotyped habits as a sort of moral fossil and the mani- fest inforiority of his political to his industrial capabilities, make it still an open question whether it should be encouraged or dis- couraged. Meanwhile, it has actually begun and is rapidly increasing at an almost incredi- ble rate. And each of these returning China- mea will be a living epistle to a widening circle of acquaintances at home, who will be eager to seek in America the marvellously high wages and the plentiful food of which he will teH such surprising tales. Every letter enclosing a five pound note and sent home by the Irish or Scotch or English or German immigrant to the United States has been instrumental in swelling the tide of immigra- tion to this country. So each China- man who goes home himself, what- ever his immediate motives for returning may be, will prove to be more efficient than all hia fellow passengera, the missionaries, in multi- plying the number of his compatriots who aro to be brought within the influences of Ameri- can civilization. No people are more attached to their native soil than the Chinese, anda large part of the transportation business between San Francisco and Hong Kong con- sists in sending to the latter port the corpses of Chinamen. Whether the Chinamen go back alive with money in their pockets or are car- ried back dead in their coffins, their patient industry while here deposits a permanent addition to our national wealth. In this con- nection we are glad to say that in New York, at least, efforts have been seriously made to supply with suitable instruction the few China- men whom we eee selling candy and cigars at our street corners. On Monday evening the Chinese school, founded by Mr. and Mrs. Rails- back, at the Five Points House of Industry, celebrated its annual festival. Chinese dishes and music on Chinese instruments, as well as speeches in both Chinese and English, were features of the occasion. The intelligence and rapid progress of these Chinese pupils, who devote their evenings to study, are applauded by their teacher, When they also go back to China they may become teachers in their turn, THe SENATORIAL ELkoTION IN TENNESSEE— Anpy Jonnson AnkAp.—By the news we receive from Tennessee from day to day it is evident that ex-President Andrew Johnson is ahead of all competitors for the United States Senate. Good, and amen, we say. No more useful man could be sent to the Senate, Con- gress is corrupt to the core. Andy is both honest and vigilant, and, with all his crotchets and failings, he will prove a very watchdog to the Treasury, He is fearless and experienced in Congressional tactics, too, and will rake scheming politicians and Treasury plunderers fore and aft. Besides, he has his personal enmities to gratify on the impeachers and leading radicals, and he is not the man to for- get these, which will make things very lively in Congress and be a good thing for the news- papers. Tennessee could not do better than to send the ex-President to the United States Senate, Tie Case ov Carrary Hatrt,—Captain Hall stated in his recent “report” of Arctic adven- tures that he had killed a man employed by him for mutiny ; and now we learn that some friends of the man are endeavoring to cause the arrest of the Captain for murder. Appa- rently, then, the Captain will be called upon to justify his act. We suppose the allegation of mutiny can hardly justify a homicide in such cases; for the parties were not on ship- board, nor does it appear that the man stood in the same relation to the explorer as a sailor stands to the captain of his ship. So far as law sympathizes with the sentiment of the age its judgment would corininly be with Captain Hall on his own showing; for men have come to regard geographical discovery asa thing to be favored in all ways, and these expeditions would be much discouraged if their heads were prevented from preserving that rigorous discipline upon which often the safoty of all the persons must depond, The Lace Expedition for Cubs. In this morning's Herarp will be found @ graphic and interesting description of the late Cuban expedition, which so successfully eluded the vigilance of the United States authorities here and put to sea with a cargo of mon, arms and ammunition, intended to aid the Cubans. The article is furnished by the Hrratp corres- pondent who accompanied the expedition to {ts destination at Fernandina, Florida. Up to his départure all went well, the men were in excellent spirits, and the general fecling among them was a strong desire to meet the foe, Discipline and good order were observable throughout, and there is no reason to doubt that those who compose the expedition will give a good account of themselves should they succeed in effecting a landing on the Cuban coast. Many of the officers are capable and experienced men, and have seen active service, The names of some of the higher officers men- tioned In connection with the expedition will bd at onco recognized, and no fear, either for their courage or ability, need be entertained. Up to this time, however, the news of the euc~ cessful landing of the mea and ammunition oa the Cuban ground has not been rocelved, though it is anxiously wished for. BOARD OF EDUCATION, ‘This Board met tn stated session last evening, with the President, Mr. R. R. Lawrouce, in the chair, A very large amount of routine business was disposed of, after which a communication from Mr. James W. Gerard was received and read. This communica- tion was in reference to a resolution adopted by the Board at the last meeting in reference to tho real- dence of pupila attending the public schools, Mr. Gerard, in his communication, cites the instance of two young ladies who, among others, were dismissed from School No, 59, in Twenticth street, because thelr parents did not reside in this city. It appears that their parents were residents Of another State and that they were living at the house of a gentlemen In this city. Mr, Gerard stated that ne did not beheve the Board intended by the resolution afopted at the last mesting to include such cases as those referred to, and that he, aa inspector of the Fittn asstrict, had directed tha principal to reinstate one of the young ladies, and that the other had been reinstated by order of tie commissioners. Mr. Gerard further claimed, tn his communication, that the public school luw gave the privilege of being educated tn the schools to any child residing in the city, irrespective of the resi- dence of iis parents, and quoted legal authority in support of hus opinion, missioner SANDS Offered for adoption a reso- lution providing that the resolution adopted at the just meeting be rescinded, and that the legal deci- sion by Mr. Gerard befaccepted by the Board ta deciding the residency of pupils, Commissioner BELL moved to amend by referring the resolution adopted at the last mecting, together with the pamphlet prepared by Mr. Gerard and the resolution of Mr. Sands, to the legal adviser of the Board for his opinion and advice, ‘This mouon was unanimously adopted. A communication was received [rom a gentleman connected with a private German school up towa, ju relation to the troduction of German in the pub- lic schools, ‘The gentleman advises, in lis commu- nication, the appointment of an assistant superin- tendent, at a salary of $3,600 per annum, to bayo charge of teaching the Gerim4n, and the appointment of some forty or fiity additioual teachers in the schools, who should devote their time to the German, He does not say that it would be advisable to appoint hitoseif as the assistant superintendent, but he does say that $15,000 or $20,000 per annum, in addition to what 1s now paid, Wouid meet the expense for touche ing the language as the Germans desire, Commissioner BRut, from the Finance Committee, reported a resolution directing the Comptrolior to place the sum of $400,000 with the Comptroller to the creait of the Board. The resoluion waa adopted, as were also resolutions approprtatin $5,000 for heating apparatus to School No. 26 au $4,100 for heating apparatus to School No. 27, The nomination of Mr. James S. Hennessey ai Inspector of the }tith District, to fll the unexpire term of Mr. Robert Ennever, was confirmed. ‘The Board aud spectators, or some of them, listened: with remarkable patience to the reading of some twenty-five or thirty pages of foolscap, closely writ- ten, being a report from Mr? Sands as the special Committee of Five, appointed to examine the system of public education, with the purpose of ascertain- ing what reduciton of expenses could he made wiuh- out interfering with the eiticiency of the schools, The communication was referred, and the meating shortly after adjourned, THE NATIONAL GUAgD, The Review of the First Division Yesterday, ‘The review of the First division took place yester- day and proved to be one of the finest turnouts which the militia has made in some tte, Tha reviewing stand, all bedecked with fags, was erected at the corner of Fourteenth street and Fittle avenue, and about a quarter to three o’clock the Governor, surrounded by his staff, all in full unt- form, arrived and took up is position. ‘The weather. was all that could have been desired, even by the most fastidious gray horse man, and, although the avenue had not been sprinkled, there was very littie wind during the parade, and the dust was cousequentiy not much of an annoyance. Promptly at ten min- utes to three o’clock the First brigade was set in motion from its position in Twenty-third street, and without any delay whatever each of the three ie fell in, when their turn came, from ther various positions, a8 follows:—The Second brigade at Twenty-second street, the ‘Third at Twenty-lirst street and the Fourth at Twentieth street, the cavalcy joing the nmin body from Thirty-fifth strect as the last regiment of iniantry took up its line of march. The review, a9 & Whole, was a very good one; but many of the officers made serious mistakes, to specify which would take too much time and space. ‘There were not over ten officers in the whole division who saluted at the proper time or in the proper manner, The regiments which particularly distinguished themselves in the march were the Seven'h, Seventy- first, Fifth, Tweifth and Tweniy-second. The first mentioned was almost faultiess, and white the Seventy-first, Twenty-second, Twelfth and Fifty generaily marched splendldiy, several of the compa- bles were Wanting sadiy in the matter of distance. As for the colonel of tie Seventh, he could, however, do a great deal beiter than he did, if he would only tone down 4 little of that ramrodishness which char- acterizes his manner of Lian | in the saddle, General Varian, it may be said, Was the only generat oficer, Shaier excepted, who saluted properly and at the right tne, ‘The First artillery wade & good show, and the Seventy-ninth also did well, The division a8 a Whole did remarkably well, and the great crowd whieh assembled Cian | the route of march to view the parade Was certainly & compliment to tts popu. jority. Banquet to Governor Hoffman and Stafl, A banquet was given at the Gienham House, Fifth, avenue, last evening, to Governor Hoffman and stafl, by General Shaler and staff. About thirty invited guests were present, among whom were Generais Ward, McQuade, Irwin McDowell and & number of the leading ofiicers of the National Guard. Governor Homan mado # felicitous speech, in which he paid a high compliment to the discipline and efficiency of the National Guard, end com mended the course adopted by General Shaler having a lunited number of regiments with fuil ranwe and (norougliy disciplined, ravher than @ large nam ber of regiments with tess than half their til num~- ver of men. In case of war, the Governor remarked, he felt assured that the National Guard would be found worthy of the confidence and pride felt in them by the péople of this great city, aud could display not only a courage, but a training in arms worthy of troops of the regular army. These remarks were received with lond cheers. General Shaler, on behalf of the National Guard, repiied to the remarks of Governor Hoffman in terms highly complimentary to that gontioman's ad~ ministration ot the Mayoralty office of New York ‘and of the important duties of Governor of this coe Stale, Speeches were also mare by Colonel Vakioy, General Berger, Colonel Stoaehouse, General Movo- Weil and otters, WAVAL INTELLIGENGS, Che United States steamer Lancaster, Nyimng tha flag of Kear Admiral Lanman, arrived in Hampton Roads on the Sti fast, from Norfolk, Sho was to sail ina day or two for Annapolis, where she will receive her full complement of men and proceed tay the Sonth Auantic Squadron, of which she ta tia fagship. Commander George . Emmons hag been ordegod to duty m charge of the Hydrographic oMes at Wastingion, Commodore J. I. Goldsboron gh 1a ordered to hold hiwseif in readiness to take com. mand of the Mare island Navy Yard on tao tst of January next. Captain Kobert f. Wyman ‘4 ordered to duty ta the Hydrographic fice. Kear Admiral Thomas T, Craven wiil, when relieved ‘sy Comoe dore Goldsnorough of We command of the Mara Istand Navy Yard, be wgued Ww ty San Comr ayo miral at ANCIICO. Simpson Is detached from duty in ¢ of the Hy- ‘aphic ofice, Wasiingto'4, ol ordered to duty in the Buresy of Ordnsuce,