The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herawp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Letters and packages should ba properly sealed. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Titk STRRETS OF New York. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broaiway.—-A Quand VARIBTY EXIT RTAINMENT. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth atreot.—Ix:oN -Tor; 08, ‘THE RENDEZ VOUS. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2dat., bo:weoa Sth and Sth ava— Lrag, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, Graham, the principal witness, was presont. A jury was not fully empaneliod, however, and the case was adjourned until this moratng. ‘The Inquest on the Cherry street cluded yesterday, the jury finding Mrs. Acong were killed by Acong, who also killed himself, Mr. Frederick Kapp, Emigration Commissioner, was before Judge Hogan yesterday ona charge of forg: ug. as alleged, the name of Mrs. Augus! n to acertificate for bounty. Mra, Bowman nce, and the further hearing Was adjour in ipreme Court yesterday Judge MceCunn James Dougherty and Hagh Murray, the ants of Brooks, the Philadelphia United ¢ detective, to the authorities of Penn- tine steamship Quy of Brooklyn, will leave pier No, 45 North river at morrow morning for Queenstown ‘The Evropean mails will close at » at seven o’olock A. M, 9th inst. al ime steamship Helvetia, Captain Thomson, wi! sail from pier No. 47 North river at eight o'clock !o-morrow (Saturday) morning for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to taud passen- gers, & The steamship Jowa, Captatn Hedderwick, of the Anchor line, will leave pter 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow, 9th tnst., for Giasgow, touching at WIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty: fourth street WELFTH NIGHT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, RAlLRoap TO RULN. WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Urosdwa: ‘Thirtieth st.—Matiuee daily. Performance every & WALLACK’S TABATRS, Broadway and Uh atreete— PRooEESS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lapy G Tunovan CoventRY—DoN C.ivaz De BaZa Broagway.—FORs09A; ox, Taw orner a's Ripe ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—FaeNon OPERA— Rowrer ve Diavir. enue and GRAND OPERA NOU $d street. —Taz Teures ornar ot Bight GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. #5 and 47 Bowery— Rowenr vk Drawer. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, — Formosa; 02, THE RAILROAD TO RUIN. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Coutc VYooattem, NEGRO MiNS’RRLSY, &C. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Brosdway,—Comto Vooar- Ubu, NEGRO ACTS, 40. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th @L—Bavanis’ MiNGTRELS—NFGRO Bock NTaIOLFIss, GO. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broatway PIAN MIMSTE?LSY, NEGRO ko, M10 AMERICAN INSTITUTE D EXHIBITION, Empire Pkating Kink, Sd ay, and od st Open cay and eveding. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Fan Mone 80, Ac. NEW YORK MS: BorkNCE AND Ant M OF ANATOMY, 813 Broalway.-- New York, Friduy, October 8, 1509. New YORE MUSE IM 0 ANATOMY, 690 RMALES ONLY Os Arte KOR, Cable telegrams are cated Octover 7. Spain ts still convulsed by civil wu ston of the new constitution guaraute Uberty was suspended by tne Cortes. tradic! reports prevailed in Madrid as to the embarkation vf troops for Cuba. The candidature of the Duke of Genoa sor the throne of Spain is abandoned. A Paris organ of the French “reds” and radicals advises the members of the Legislative Body to assem>le for parliamentary duty on the day named for the coavocatton of the session Without the imperial cali, and enter a protest declaring that Napoleon had violated the constitu- tion. The Danish Pariiament met in session, tie King, in his speecn, appealing to Prussia, indirectly, for an adjustment of the differences existing between the countries. Political agitation continues in Ire- 4424e svock ct pullion ia the Banks of England and France decreased during the week. Tuexico. Telegraphic advices from Mexico city to m- ber 30 state that Romero remains in the The reyoiution in Potosi is gaining favor, government has seat a suMicient force to que! Cuba. The American man-of-war Powhatan isin Havana arbor. No intelligence from tue front has been received recently; The journals are principally engaged in discussing the position of the United Btates, and are especially vehement in denouncing the authorities for allowing the Hornet to sail. i Miscelianeous. Governor Walker's message was received an’ read im the Virginia Legislcture yesterds, urges strongly the adoption of the fifteentu amendment sone of the requisites to reconstruction, and the the election of suitable men, who will afiord a sure | guarantee of the intentions of the State ia future, as Senators. The protest of the radical members in the Senate was read and laid on the table. In the Brooks assassina‘ion case in Pulladelphia Nell McLaughiin was identified yesterday as tue man who drove the murderers away iu the c: nd was committed. The two otie complicity, who were out on bail, w gud sent back to jail. An agent of the Rothschilds ise. ‘Wasnington to offer a loan of any government a Sefiors Lemu taries Fish and Boutwell yesterday, of @ speedy release of the Hornet. her officers can-prove that she cleared regularly from a British port. The steamers Kansas and Nipsic, n: ton Navy Yard, are ordered to be fi tor sea. It appears that Alderman Glackmeyer, of London, Canada, at whose house Prince Arthur stayed for two days, has sent in @ bill of $2,500 to the Agricul tural Association of that town fur boarding and lodg- ing the Prince. At the Trans-Continental Railway Convention in Oswogo a long communication was read from Com- glsaioner Wiison, of the General Land Office, set- ting forth the advantages ot a Northern Pacific rail- ‘way over the Central and Southern routes, A letter ‘Was also received from General Sherman recom- mMonding the completion of the Central Pacttic road ‘with a double track, with branches spreading out on both sides, as being best adapted to the necessities of government as well a3 the wants of commerce, A tournament was held at Woodland, Battumore county, on Weanesd: i) which Generals Beaure- gard aud Joe Johnston were present. Vioe President Coliax is expected at Omaha on Baturday. From 300 to 600 Mormons sre to go to Europe soon obtain more proselytes. Afire in Rome, N. Y., yesterday, partially dam- fSged the Seymour House and the new opera house ‘and completely destroyed several other buildings, Anflicting a 1088 of $80,000. In the United States Cirouit Court, at Cincinnati, yesterday, on motion to quask an indictment in a Case where the indictment had been stolen from the files, the Court hela that under such circumstances ®@ copy Of the lost or stolen indictment could be sub- sututed and the accused be arraigned and tried on puch copy. The City, ‘The Republican State Committee met in the Lin- oln Cinb Rooms last evening and nominated Wil Mam B. Taylor for State Engineer and Sarveyor in Place of J. ©. Robinson, declined, No other nomt- mations were made, but it is probable that Horace Gresley will be nominated for Comptrolier, ‘The Nineveenth Ward committee of citizens, agl- tating for better railroad and stage transit from Harlem down town, prosented their petition to Mayor Hall yesterday, and, during the course of a Jong interview, received his promise to submit the gnatter to the Common Council, t to the y ab Wi d out at once Londonderry, The Merchants’ Une steamship Mississippi, Cap- tain Henry, will sai! from pier 12 North river at three P. M. to morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans direct, The stock market yesterday was duli and wregu- lar. Gold rose to 132, closing finally at 131 oF Prominent Arrivats in tho City, Count F. de Carle! and Leon Chabert, of Paris, and Colonel W. P, Warren, of Troy, are at the ettman House, Rear Admiral Breese, of the United Staves Navy; Judge Evaus, of Boston, and General Spencer, of Alabama, are at the Everett House. Countess de Faverney, of Paris, and ©. C, Chatiee, of Springrleld, are at the Albemarle Horel. James R. Napier, of Glasgow, Scotland, ts at the Clarendon Hut Lieutenant Colonel Joan ¥ Senator J. B.C Indiana, and ©. Nicholas Hotel. Judge A. De B. Hughes, of New Orleana; Colonel W. Mason, of Vaunton; George EB. Alger, of England, of Dunbar, Scotiand, are at the 4 of Watertown; nedale, of North Carolina; ex- , of Colorado; P. Moorkonse, of Collier, of Virginia, are at the St. , of Southbridge, and J, Murray rehead, of Pou vania, are at the Glenham Hotel. Abram Wakeman, of New York, and W. H. Rob- ertson, of Katonah, are at tho Coleman House, Judge Billings, of New Orleans, and Judge Jones, of Washington, are at the Astor House, Judge I. L. Latin, of Saugerties; Judge W. 8. Dun- lap, of V. siphia; Judge A, Cary, of Grand Rap- H . J. Putoaia, of Worcester, and Colonel J, Burnham, of San Fiaucisco, are at the Meiropoh- tan Hote}. Jacob t ley, of 8 New Orlea pson, of Mississippi; Captain McCau- ner China, and Thomas Allen Clark, of atthe New York Hotel. of Washington; W. A. Mattison, of nd Jos. Parker, of New Haveu, are ient Departures, in, for Bingluamton; Albert Keep, H. Devercau, J. H. Wade, H. B. e, 5 Amasa Stone and W. G. C. Ous, for Cleveland, Ohio; £. R. Helmbold, for Phila- de phia; Dr. Conover, for Long Branch; Robert N. McLean, for Boston; Mr. Ford, of the British Lega- tion, tor Niagara; H. R. Hurlburd, for Albany; Dr. J, Norcross, tor St. Pau!; H. Vallette, for Cincianatl, and E. A. Buck, for Buffalo, Governor Hofsan will return to Albany this morning. Gold Gambling the Yankee The Late “Corner” and Meral Thoreof, The smoke and dust and the noise and con- fusion of the lata gold ‘‘corner” of the bull 4) Wi i} een at a Si chumaecentabarscehs tanethe Aattled game and the calculation of its managers. We know that a bull ring was formed to make a “corner” on gold. The parties concerned had seen for weeks and months ia the fluctuations of the gold market that if they could get control of the twenty millions within the immediate reach of the street, they had only to secure the non-intervention of the Treasury Department in order, by a grand charge, to run up gold to two hundred in a single after- noon, and to sell out with a general profit of many millions before any inland speculators or European bankers could be brought to the rescue. This programmo fora grand ‘‘pool” was too tempting to be rosisted, and the parties con- cerned proceeded to aciion—frst, in buying up gold sufficient to control the street, aud forty millions or more were thus secured by or before that disastrous Friday; secondly, it was essential to the success of the conspiracy {0 secure the non-interven- tion of the government in the development of the plot, This was a delicate and difficult task; but where millions of money are con- cerned mountains may be removed. If a promise or an understanding conld be secured President and the Secretary of the Treasury success would be inevitable. Here, then, we have the explanation of the remark- able devotions paid to Mr. Boutwell by certain financiers and lobby men on the occasion of his visit here a few weoks ago, and of the won- derful attentions of Fisk, Jr., and others to General Grant in his late summer excursions in these parts. And whatever Corbin, the President's brother-in-law, may have to say in his own defence, his professional antecedents and his otherwise mysterious relations of confidence with Fisk, Jr., and others of the bull clique, render it morally certain that Corbin was relied upon to manage the Presi- dent. Mr. Corbin’s experience at Washington as a lobby jobber and a newspaper man had taught him how to work upon the administration by individuals and through the public press. We find, too, that whatever the means employed, Secretary Boutwell, on his Inst appearance in Wail street, publicly declared as his policy the policy of non-intervention with the paltry games of the gold gamblers. It was not the business of the Treasury Department totake a hand with these gold gamblers on either side, This point, then, had been gained, Next, it now appears that the news- paper articles set afloat about-the same time, defining the financial policy of General Grant to be not to buy up with gold the national cur- rency at a time when it was so munch needed by the Western farmers to move their crops, but rather to help them in getting their grain to market, were articles emanating from Cor- bin and others of the gold ring. This was manufacturing public opinion to support the administration in the policy of holding aloof from the grand game of the ring of a sudden rush in Wall street to run gold up to two hun- dred and then divide the spoils. Most impor- tant of all, from all the facts thus far disclosed, Reddy the Blacksmith was again arraigned in Peoorder Hackett’s court yesterday. and Lawrence it appears that Gould, Fisk & Co. mainly relied upon the confidential family relations of Corbin with the Prosidont to carry out their programme, and that the parties thus using Corbin were satisfied that through bim all would be right at Washington. The disastrous collapse of the “pool” on that awful Friday, with the announce- ment of an order from Washington to sell four millions of gold, disclosed the sangy foundation upon which this conspiracy had been building. Their splendid castles in Spain vanished as at the touch of a magician’s wand; and now that the conspirators are quarreiling among themselves it is curious to observe the grand moral idea which governed them, Fisk, Jr., has evidently about the same understanding of the moral law as Barnum, the showman, It rests on the Ply- mouth corner stone of Yankee shrewdness or ‘cnteness. Once upon a time, they say, the famous John Randolph remarked :—‘‘Mr. Speaker, I have heard enough of Yankee shrewdness, and I understand it, sir. What in Massachusetts {3 called Yankee shrewdness we in Virginia call Yankee swindling, and the worst of it is, sir, your Yankee glories in it.” And it is just so. Barnum, for instance, parades his examples of Yankee shrewdness with all the airs of a hero. South of Connee- ticut there are very few men who would even like to be told of such Yankeo tricks as those of Baraum, if guilty of them; but Barnum parades them as a feather in his cap or as a soldier on state occasions parades his medals and crosses of honor. His ideas of morality appear to be of that peculiar type of Randolph's Yankee. He seems no more to understand the shame involved than the Feejee Islander comprehends the shame of roasting and eating mis: e3. It is the Feejee’s nature and his moral law to roast’ and eat missionaries, So from the moral nature and training of Barnum it is simply as impossible with him to under- stand Randolph's Virginia moral code as it would be for the Feejee mermaid or the woolly horse to understand the value of roast beef. Mr. Fisk, Jr., in his line, appears to belong to the genuine Yankee blonde school of Bar- num; and Corbin, we judge, if you scrape beneath his skin, will turn out a Cossack or a Puritan of the same godly stripe. Whena man isa candidate for Alderman in New York heis ‘‘on the make.” So were Fisk, Corbin and allconcerned in this late gold pool. It was make or break with thom, and that was all. Nor do we suppose that they are inthe least disturbed by their disclosures against each other, except in the cash account of profit andloss, Clearly General Grant, in his simple, straightforward honeaty, has proved a puzzle beyond their comprehension. They were on the wrong tack in gauging him by their own measure, They have learned that, but still they are groping about in the dark, for they can’t understand it. Wall street case-hardens Randolph's Yankee and gives him the hide of a rhinoceros. Bence he is only vulnerable under the shoulder where he carries his wallet. In this view, however, the late collapse will stand as a more effective lesson to Wall street than all the laws of honesty embraced in the code of Yankee shrewdness or Yankee swin- dling. Kine Witttam’s Spezon.—On Wednesday King William opened the Prussian Diet with a speech from the throne, With one exception the address was encouraging. The Eastern tonne une te ee pu ve Boueer 1UUULg, Peace had been preserved and the relations of Prussia with foreiga Powers were satisfactory. It is noticeable that the King speaks in the name of and for Germany. Austria cannot like this; neither can France, But Austria and France cannot alter the fact, and it would seem as if they had made up their minds to submit to the inevitable with as good grace as ‘possible. In one important particular the King’s speech is not soencouraging. A deficit in the finances renders an augmentation of the taxes necessary. So long as Prussia finds it necessary to maintain a large standing army taxation will weigh heavily upon the people. When will the peoples of Europe see that large standing armies are a principal source of their misory ? Cusa Att Ricur.—Before the Madrid oligarchy declared itself so imperionsly in regard to holding Cuba it ought to have heen sure of its ability to hold Spain, which apparently is slipping through its fingers, With the Spaniards and the Cubans striking at the same time we are clearly sure of freedom in Cuba; for if they keep the soldiers in Europe to keep down the Spanish people the island will be all right; if they send the soldiers to Cuba there will be a real republic in Spain, and one in Cuba must be a consequence of that. Makino A Point tN Parts,—Certain of the French deputies are organizing a row. They intend to repair to the place of proper assem- bly for the Legislature on what they regard as the legal date, and thus put before the country the question of the imperial power to declare when the Legislature shall meet, The organ of the ‘‘Reds” in Paris advises this course, and speaks even of a renunciation of allegiance to Napoleon under certain contingencies, There may be trouble with these fellows; for left alone they will make a tremendous noise, and interfered with they will make a greater noise still, Just such a spark might start that inflammable city; for a similar one started it under Lonis Philip) Turkey aNp Eayrt.—A cable despatch from Constantinople informs us that the great Powers have withdrawn from interfe- rence in the affairs of Egypt, and that the Sultan and the Viceroy are to be left to settle their difficulties as best they can. If this be true we may expect trouble. But we doubt the report. It is not conceivable that this Egyptian difficulty will be allowed to disturb the peace of Europe. As It SHovtp Be.—The Hornet being in the hands of a court her case is to be treated entirely ag a question of law. No fair friend of Cuba can desire that we should treat her otherwise. The story that English or French ships are to treat her as a pirate is moonshine ; for if the United States detains her they will have no chance, and if the United States lets her go that will be the endorsement of our courts to her character as a national vessel, Wattine For THE DocuMENTs,—Mrs, Stowe wrote to defend the character of Lady Byron, aud now writes to defend her own, She had better hurry uy her vavers. The Laud Question in Irelavd—A Good Sign. The Marquis of Hartington, Postmaster General of England, has introduced the sub- ject of land tenure reform for Ireland, the essentially vital question of the day at the other side of the Atlantic, to the people of Great Britain in an extra-parliamentary speech, but which, coming from 80 experi- euced and prominent a member of the Glad- stone Ministry, must be regarded in the light of a semi-oflicial utterance, or the public shaping or roughing out of what will consti- tute the strongest plank in the Cabinet plat- form for the next seasion of Parliament. The Marquis treated the matter on broad and liberal grounds, but in reality added no new points in support of the necessity of the movement to those which have been already set forth, with such accuracy of statement and telling effect, in the letters of our special cor- respondent in Ireland, and which have been already submitted to the American public in our columns, He asserted the right of the Trish farmer and agricultural laborer to obtain a living from and on the soil of their birth in words which foreshadowed justice to all, without violence to the rights of any. Indeed, it may be said that the Postmaster General merely took ground on an axiom and only elaborated a principle laid down in Ireland thirty yeara ago by a distinguished and much lamented Scotchman, the late Thomas Drum- mond, when discharging the duties of Under Secretary of State in that portion of the king- dom, in the simple words, ‘‘Property has its duties as well as its rights.” At that period an evicted Irish tenant, obeying the prompt- ings of what bas been termed the ‘‘wild justice of revenge,” shot a landlord. The magistrates of the county, class peers of the deceased, assembled and demanded of the government a proclamation of martial law for the entire district in which the crime was per- petrated, its enforcement to be entrusted to their own hands. Mr. Drummond wrote the official reply of refusal, assuring the gentlemen that they should be completely protected by the law in its ordinary course of action, informing them also of the truth—unknown, forgotten or unheeded by them previously— that “Property has its duties as well as its rights.” Mr. Drummoad was called to his reward by death soon afterwards. His words were im- perishable and remain, They are producing their effect to-day, as evidenced by the fact, embraced in our European news report yestor- day, that his Grace the Duke of Devonshire pledges himself to advance the sum of one hundred thousand pounds sterling for the purpose of constructing a railway to connect the Irish towns of Fermoy and Lismore, situated respectively in the counties of Cork and Waterford, but not very far apart, and for the most part on his own estate. This is a really excellent sign, a good beginning. The noble family of Cavendish, of Devonshire, which comes down from Sir William Cavendish, the most accomplished gentleman usher in the household of Cardinal Wolsey, built its greatness on its share of the confiscated abbey jands of fngland, its repre- sentative in the year 1720 obtaining also a baronial title from a forfeited domain in Ireland. The members of the family have been popular La Chet wvunter ainan, and, ag the Marquis of Hartington is one of them, the Irish people may, we think, accept his present expression, as well as the solid gift of the Duke of Devon- shire for industrial purposes, as unmistakable pledges that the British government and Par- liament will adjust the land question difficulties at an early day and effectually, The support of the Devonshire family in such direction, owning, as it does, an immense estate in Ireland, is all powerful. Its members are deeply interested in the issue, and prudent withal, The family motto is ‘‘Cavendo tutus” (‘be cautions and safe”), words of wisdom and just in place. Southern Agricultural Fairs, Among the most encouraging signs of the times are the unusual interest which is taken in the great annual fairs of Virginia and North Carolina, to be held within four consecutive weeks, and the cordial invitation extended by their managers to Northorn skill and industry to exhibit the latest improvoments in agricul- tural methods and implements and in stock raising. The sectional prejudices which pre- vailed before the war are manifestly giving way before a disposition to profit by modern applications of science instead of sneering at them as “Yankee inventions.” The destruc- tive spirit fomented by the war is yielding to an intelligent zeal for the restoration and the increase of that material prosperity which for- merly made the South one of the richest sources of our national wealth. The third annual Border Agricultural Fair of Virginia and North Carolina will take place at Dan- ville, Va., on the 13th, 14th and 15th of October ; the fair of the North Carolina State Agricultural Society at Raleigh, on the 19th, 20th, 2ist and 22d of October; that of the Lynchburg Agricultural and Mechanical Soci- ety at Lynchburg, Va., on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of October, and that of the Vir- ginia State Agricultural Soolety at Richmond, on the 24, 3d, 4th and 5th of November. County fairs will also be held during the same period at Staunton, Lexington, Wythesville and Leesburg, in Virginia, The unquestion- able advantages of agricultural fairs will doubtless be illustrated at all of these meet- ings, which may well take the place of the old Southern commercial conventions, where com- merce was but the pretext for worse than idle discussions about slavery and other political subjects. Our Richmond correspondent is right in saying that the approaching Southern agricultural fairs will give a new and powerful impetus to practical reconstruction. Quire UnaccountaBLe.—Patrick McGovern called at the school of Elizabeth McCailen to see a young lady whose board he paid, and in the course of the interview somebody knocked out eight of Elizabeth's teeth. Patrick had to pay two thousand dollars for new ones, He regards the price as outrageous, Swinpiina claim agents will have small chance to rob soldiers while Sherman is Secre- tary of War, for under the opinion of Hoar that he may suspend all transactions with any person suspected of fraudulent practices law- | ze of known honesty will have all pre- ference. 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Proposed Darien Ship Canal. By our last mail advices from Central America we are happy to learn that some steps are being taken in reference to the Darien ship canal. General Hurlburt, the United States Minister to the republic of Colombia, has seen President Correoso on the subject, and finds him greatly in favor of the sch Moreover, the merchants of the Isthmus are now in favor of the idea, and are determined to have it at any coat. For some fifteen years we have endeavored continually to call the attention of those most interested to the importance of constructing a ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien, At various periods we have published in the columns of the Hzraxp all the information that could be gleaned upon the subject, Even Alexander von Humboldt foresaw the impor- tance of such an undertaking and predicted its consummation, Now that the ship canal mania is raging in Europe and the East, surely we should not allow our American interests to pass into oblivion. At present the necessity of such a means of communication between the two great oceans is self-evident. In order to effect the transmission from the Atlantic to the Pacific, or rather between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, vessels must necessarily go round either Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope, or land their cargoes and passen- gers at the Isthmus of Panama, to be trans- ported across by rail. Breaking cargo is at all times an expensive and depreciating operation, and the passage around the Cape is frequently preferred. Duly considering these points, there can be no doubt that the canal, however costly, would not only prove a boon, but also a profitable investment, for the capital sunk, The Suez Canal is a great work and will result in immense benefits to the universe generally; but a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien would be equally beneficial, and to the commerce of the United States infinitely more so. The benefits accruing from the railroad across the Continent have already become apparent, but still more facility is called for, and the subject of a ship canal through the isthmus must not be allowed to slumber. Commerce, the vital strength of this country, demands it, Who is Corbin? Corbin, the sleek, quiet Methodist, has attained wid notoriety through the gold cor- nering operation and his alleged connection with Fisk and Gould in that business. Now people are asking, who is Corbin? They hear he is the brother-in-law of General Grant— that is, he married the General’s sister a short time ago—and this seems to be the capital upon which he operated. But, they ask, where did this man come from and what are his antecedents? In some respects he is the same type of man as Fisk—the New England Puritan type—the type of which the notorious Barnum is a representative. Whether he boasts of his trickery as amartness, as Yankee ‘euteness, like his fellow New Englanders, Barnum and Fisk, we cannot say; but it is evident he works in the same way. Though not known generally to the public, or in Wall street before, he was known in Washington. He is an old lobby operator, and it is believed he made his money or laid the foundation of his fortune through lobbying. He was taken to Washinglun from St. Lonia by Colonel Benton, if we mistake not, and through Benton's influence was appointed clerk to the Commit. tee on Claims. This position gave him the necessary information and the opportunity for exercising his peculiar talent and for making money as lobby agent. While in this business in Washington he was able to purchase that fine house in Corcoran’s row, where John C. Breckinridge and Senator Douglas were his neighbors, From that period he has flourished like a green bay tree. But not content with the ample fortune he had made in Washington, he moved to New York and changed his busi- ness in lobbying to gold cornering operations, making his relationship with General Grant the capital for this new business, Of course General Grant is in no way responsible for the use of his name by his brother-in-law. Mr. Corbin, like Fisk or the showman Barnum, has gone, probably, the length of his rope in such questionable operations, Like them, he has reached the point of Yankee greatness or glory, which, according*to New England ethics, is smartness, and there is nothing left for him to do but to seek absolution in the bosom of the Methodist Church. Who 1s tHe Greatest Man?—Mr. Fill- more thinks that Old Blatr is the greatest man that ever lived; but General Hiram Walbridge thinks the greatest man of the age is Brigham Young. Are there any more? Dr. Livingstone Heard From. A missionary has arrived at London from Zanzibar with the welcome news that a letter had been received from Dr. Livingstone, dated February, 1869. The great explorer was then alive and well, although short of provisions, on Lake Tangauyika. This lake, which is sit- uated about five degrees below the equator and to the left of the Mountains of the Moon, is the most prominently distinct feature of that vast terra incognita which the discoverer of Lake Ngami has so bravely and perseveringly undertaken to explore. The objects of the distinguished explorer, of whose safety the whole civilized world will be delighted to hear, , are to introduce to the family of nations the innumerable tribes of negroes who, in commu- nities hitherto unknown, producing and con-| suming, and more or less civilized, occupy this strange region; to determine accurately its geographical peculiarities and to open to com-' merce resources of incalculable value. If Dr, Livingstone shall be spared to complete his important explorations his account of them will surpass in interest even his own previous narratives, as well as those of Speke, Baker, Grant and other laborers in the same field of discovery. Thanks to the indefatigability of such travellers, Africa will at length emerge from the mystery which now envelops ite very name, leaves its size and its population unsolved problems, and its configuration a matter of guesswork. By that time, perhaps, the millennium may begin, the crowning of which, according to the late Dr. Channing, will be the perfect development of human nature, by the addition of its fully unfolded emotional elements to its fully unfolded intellectual ele- ments, as illustrated in the history of other than the African races. The fulness of time will have heen attained when man shall havo ded the most interesting and at present the known division of the globe to all thé other conquests of civilization, and Ethiopia shall have stretched out ber hands to God. Mospy has sent word to the Sheriff of Fau- quier county, Va., that he does not like the way that gentleman ties knots. If Mosby does not want a knot under his ear he had better keep on the other side of the river when a sheriff comes along. Rem Aov Tericir.—Judge Benedict, ia charging the Grand Jury for inquiry into the offences against the revenue laws, said well :— “I do not allude entirely to the citizens, but I allude also to the officials,” TOE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND STAs TISTICAL SOC/ETY. Reception of Captain Hall, Explorer. Quite a large concourse of ladies and gentiomen assembled at the rooms of the Geographical and Sta Ustical Society, at the Cooper Institute, on the inyt- vitation of the President, Judge Daly, last night, for the purpose of receiving Captain 0. F. Hall, the Arotic explorer, lately returned from the regions of snow and ice, and listening to his account of the discovery of the traces of the Franklin expedi- tion, The hour namod for the reception was eight o'clock, and at that hour the rooms were quite crowded by distinguished citizens, Judge Daly stated, after conversation with other mem- bers of the society, that the attendance was larger than had been anticipated, and that tn consequence it was resoived to hold the reception fn the lecture room of the mechanical and scientiNo department, to which Mr. Peter Cooper would direct the visitors. The lecture hall was quite Milled very soon after, and when Captain Hall, Judge Daly and other members of the society took seats on the platform there was loud applause. Judge DaLy introduced Capiain H all to the audl- ence ima characteristic specch. He alluded to the fact that in the winter of 1860 a modest young gen- tleman applied to him for permission to speak before the meeting of the society, which was called to take appropriate action on the death of Dr, Kane, and that permission was granted him. He made a great impression on the memyers of the society in hia address, in which he stated that he could not sleep ia his bed while such nobie men as Sir John Franklin end his companions were imprisoned between walls oc ice In the Arctic regions, and his gallant proposal to go to their rescue met with hearty approval, espectally from Mr, Henry Grinnell who afterwards furnished the money for the expedition. Judge Daiy traced the history of Captain Hall's expeditions, and paid a high tribute to the large-hearted benevolence and the persevering courage of the intrepid explorer they were called together to honor, His remarks were listened to with much interest aud greatly applauded, On rising to address the mecting Captain Ha. waa groeted with warm applause. He confessed his ina- bility to properly express his thanks for the nigh honor paid him by the Geographical and Statistical Society and forthe kindness of the audience, He had been so long absent from his country that he had scarcely yet recovered his self-possession. Everything almost had been changed in Ris absence, and he was amazed to find the great progress that had been made. The gallant Captain then proceeded, with tne aid of a map, to tell the story of hus perilous adventures in the Arctic Sea, which he did at great lengih and in @ graphic manner. As his thrilling story has been already Iaid before the readers of the HznaLp @ report of his speech 13 not necessary. Une of the Captain's Esquimaux friends, a young man named “Joe,” was On the platform and seemed to partict- pate in the honors paid his chief, though nia pleas- ure was somewhat marred by @ severe co.d from which he suffered, After a vote of thanks to Captain Hail had been passed the entire company, whica numbered con- alderably over 200 persons, were invited to the rooms of the society, where coffee was provided tu abundance. A large number of Arctic mementos and relics of the [ll-fated expedition of sir John Franklin, lavely presented by Captain Mall to the society, being examined, the mectag terminated, the Arctle NAVAL INTELLIGEWCE, WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 1869, Commodore A. M. Pennock has been ordered to duty as member of the Examining Board in this city; Lieutenant Edwin H. Miller has been ordered ‘vo the receiving ship New Hampshire; Surgeon T. P. Wolverton has been ordered to duty at the Naval Laboratory at New York; First Acsistant Engineer N.C. Towne has been ordered to the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard; Lieutenant Commander Roderick 8. McCook is detached from the receiving stip New Hampshire and ordered to the Aibany; Lieutenant Commander J. Crittenden Watson is detached from the Alpany and placed on waiting orders; Passed Assistant Paymaster W. J. teary is detached from duty at Panawa and ordered home to settle ac counts; Oblef Engineer A. Henderson has beca ordered to Boston on special duty. The monitor Dictator, from Now York, where she has been fitted out, arrived in Hampton Roads and was towed up to Gosport Navy Yard yesterday. She will be placed in the dry dock for the purpose of having her boilers and bottom thoroughly inspected and overhauled, and after such additional repairs ag she may need wiil sail for Cuban waters for active FORTRESS MONROR, Oct, 5, 1969, The flagship Lancaster dropped down from the Compass buoys this allernoon, and now lies at an- chor off the fort. Major General Wm. FP. Barry and staff pald an oficial visit to Admiral Lanman this afternoon and were received with the usual salute, bes Lancaster will sail for Annapolis in the mora- ug. THE QUESTION OF RANK IN THE WAVY. Action of tho Kings County Medical Asso ciation. The subjoined circular has just beea caused to be promuigated among the diferent medical societies of the Stats, in reference to the status of the surgi: cal profession in the United States Navy:— The injustice, of which tae medical oflcers of the navy have jong complained, and the etforts made to secure to them the rank in the service, to whieh, aa members of the profession, they are entitied, have recently occupied a large share of pubic attention. From the importance of Brooklyn aa @ naval sta- tion, and from intimate relations with naval oMcers, the members oF the Kings County Medical Society have had the opportunity of thoroughly investigating and understanding the question at issue, They bave therefore decided that it is their duty to take the initiative in an effort to secure tue name of every hysician in the State to a pelition to Congross in half of our brethren in the navy. Two copies of the petition are forwarded to you, with the request that you will, with the heartiness which their cause bespeaks, endeavor to secure the name of every member of your county society to both copies; one of them to be used by yourseif or your friends ia he matter to cue attention of the membera vicinity; the duplicate to be forwarded to us that we may have @ record of the entire work accom- plished, and that the voice of your county may be heard, together with that of every county of the State, at the approaciiing session of Congresa, Yours respectful R. @ STILBS, = Rp President ) PUBLIC EDUCATION. Distribution of Certificates in Grammar School No. 19. At the femalegdepartment of Grammar School No. 19, on Fourteenth street, near First avenue, yester+ day afternoon, there was quite au interesting and entertaining exbibition on the occasion of the pre- sentation of diplomas to the graduates. Mr. Beary L, Slote, chatrman of the local board of trastees of the Seventeenth ward, presided, and conducted the exercises which consisted of reading, singing and deciamation by the pupils. The ohornses hy the school, “A Wish for the Monntain,’? “‘Boatman’s Song,” ‘Despair Not," and “Dritt My Bark” were aamirably given. The valedictory address by Miss Belle Hiya was @ finished — of composition and was delivered with much feeling. Diplomas were then presented to the raduates: Bernard, Annie Boyie, Sarah Coils Belle Piya i h, Alice Luts, Susie Hoverts, le Lyne Annie § antl Stage je Stuyvesant, aiter which short and appropriate addresses were made by Mr. Sloe and other gentlemen who were present. “All passed off happily and sausfactorily and will not readily be forgotten by the young ladies wo took part in the exercises. = BASE BALL NOTES. ‘The Atlantics and Athletics did not piay yoster. ate Marylands scored 21 to the Rokfords 16, In six innings, yesterday. at Baltimore, oe antics and Orientals play to-day a the ne. one Atlantics and Eckfords to-morrow at the Union = wane 2 mpires meet on Monday night at “The ihe. Achletion of Brookirn, (tHiree short) played eleven inn! @ Pow! + ‘tied at 24, ‘Phi { seed ore “Haymakers’’ defeated the Buckakins at Glo. lo yesserday, Of Coupe, Score 39 w 20.