The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD Broapw ay AND —* SYRELT. JAMES GORDON \N BENNETT, YROPRIETOR. S5.JOMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. TAMMANY, Fourweath streot.—Lxion—Tor; on, wun Respers BOOTH'S THEA Lean Mat, between Sih aad deh avs Vip AVONON TAPATRE, Fuh aroaus and Twenty fourth street — 4 © mn MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—-FORMOJA: 02, Tum RatLBoaD Te Ke OM CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner woors ™ ; Toirtiott vee daily. Performance every creaing. fms" WALLACK'S THE ara, Brosiway and ihn sirect— An Unegoat Naru BOWERY TH) ATRE, Bowery.—Rooxwoon—Praata or wun Igire. GRAND OPEN MOVSS, coraer ot Bighin avenue and Hd eucel.-Tas Tex FRENCH THGATAE, Mth et and Gh av.~Comepy SEASON —S BTRINWAY I teenth street.—PATTr Con- onur. MRS. F. B. CONW PARK THBATRE, Brookiza,— Foamysa | 06 AD TO Ruin, TONY rasrar RA MOUSE, BL Bowsry.—Comco Vooatian, Nruso MINSTEELSY, AC. ©, OM Broadway.—Couto Vooar THEATRE CONT aay, NEGRO Avi ws BRYANTS HOUSE, Tammany , Uteh at —Burant S—NEVRO KCORNTSL BAN FRANC!309 MINSTRELS, pe Broa way --Erito r £0. Pian Mise ¥, Neano Aote, NBW YOu ‘ourteenth ateeet. . EQuroratan AND GYMNSW MANORS, dc. AMERL Skating GRAND BXHIBIa! 1 83d st. Open day and o Empire ra A HOUSE, BOOLEY'S Brooklyn.—Fan Mo Bo—BoaT iba UM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broaiway.— YORE MUsROM or. ANATOMY, @0 Les ON LADIES' Broadwi vOM3 are dated Octobor o. egram through the Pr: neval Fleury reached St. France to Russia, a: tne Czar a message from Napoleon, a account of the conditton of hts health and the state of French politics, an {mperial invitation requesting him to visit tie Russian capital daring the national exhibition next y: Spain rem. alsed by the civil war. Maarid was tranquil, Yat the leading citizens were arming against adres tod attack of the repudlicans. A ral. road train throwa off the track by the insur- gents and sox idiers killed. The London Times coutrasté the present condition of Frances with that Which existed under the first empire, rring in Savor of the ent. Father Hyacinti oat for the United . ‘Che report of the death of Baron Haussmann 13 contradicted. A very serious rot Occurred amonz the French miners, The military Were called out and shot ten of the workmen, By steamsiuip at thus port we have very interesting mall details of our cable telegrams to the 23th of Septemoer. Cable t By epeci: Jearn that Ge! Ambassador Cuba, Another detachment of troops left Havana yester- @ay forthe front. Yesterday was the first anniver- gary of the revolution, and La Voz de Cuda very pertinently publishes on the occasion the English Proclamation according belligerent rights to the Confederates. Miscellaneous. Agreat storm prevailed tn Maine on the evenlog of Monday last, and in the town of Eastport alone Property was de-troyed to the amount of $590,009, in Buipping, fsht es, wharves, &c, Numerous ves- sels were wrecked along the coast, and ia two Instances wita loss of life. An unknown bark was lost at New River, with seventeen persons on board, Sud the schooner Rio at St. Andrews, with all on board; how many Is not known. The towns of od Perry were heavily damaged. occurred in Swift river, a tribu- oggin, by which @ mil) dam was Swept away, the riparian farms were overfiowed, the houses destroyed and the owners impoverished. Secretary Poutwell delivered his speech in ald of the republicans at Philadelphia yesterday. Ex-Senator Dooilttle is in Washington In tho later- est of the agents of St. Thomas, who want to sell that island to this country, He bad an toterview yesterday with General Grant, who was more favora- bly impressed with St. Domingo than St. Thomas as @ DoW acqnisition. General Badeau, of the misston to England, a?- fivod in Wasiington yesterday and had an inter- view with the Prosident and Secretary of State, He 4s believed to | Drought important despatches from Ministe ‘The will of Rawlins bas beon admitted to probate in » Orphans’ Court at Washington. Progident taud Secretary Robeson qualified as &xecutors. Tho deceased Secretary leaves a house ington and his lands in Ch yoming T ory, to bis wife and homestead in Guilford, lil, to bts t. es lave again broken oat in Idaho, and lot in We and Golden ¢ children, and i and, at the request of the agents there, the Secreiary of the Interior hus asked that additional troops be feat to thei, The free distribution of whiskey among the ins by white traders, and subse- quent cheat at trade, originally caused all the trouble. fimilar troubles are reported in Dacotah, The steamship Jallian 1s said to have sailed from Cedar Keys without being molested with her freight and pasaen sors for the revolutionists. Tho privateer at Wilmington Onished removing her coal yesteriay. There was only enough to run her about eight hours, A party of burglars broke open a safe In the office of the Dutchess County Mutual Insurance Company @nd stole $65,000 in bonds and securitics on Friday mignt. One of the supposed burglars was arrested yesterday evening at the Hudson River depot in this city, but three others who were with him escaped. He was taken to the station house, but almost tmme- @iately a writ of habeas corpus was served on tho sergeant to produce the prisoner to-morrow before Judge McCann. A family of Swedes named Coulson were discov- @red in a bouse tn Jersey City yesterday slowly dying of starvation. A little girl of three was already Gead and another girl was so emaciated by nunger that her recovory is considered hopeless. The fatuer and mother of the family are botn disabled by sick- mess. They wero relieved by the Alms Commis. sioner, Ariot in Prescott, Arizona, on the 20th of last ‘Month, resuited in the killing of three soldiers, Jef Davis has arrived in Baltimore, Admiral Farragut 1s dangerously il at Chicago. Chinese testimony against whites has been de- @lared admissible under the fourteenth amendment by 8 San Francisco Judge. Afire involving $80,000 losa occurred tn Sacra- mento on Thursday night. Prince Arthur arrived in Montreal on Friday from Kingston, receiving an enthusiastic welcome all @long the route. He will visit the United States in May. A fire in Rochester Jast evening partially de- #troyed the laboratory and workshop of Professor Bonry Ward, with his mineralogical, zoological and other valuabie scientife collections. Tho loss ia Setimated at $60,000. The City. The negro man Fry, who shot and killed Peter Rooney recentiy in self-defence and was acquitted by the ooroner’s jury, has ieft the city in order to fee out of danger from Rooney's Mmond3; aud Thomas NEW, YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1869.— -TRIPLE | NEW, YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1869-TRIPLE SHBBT murdering him have been made, It was falacly re- ported that he gave the piatol to Fry. The Jockey Ciub opened the fall meeting at Jerome Park yesterday with four prize races. Henry Booth, General Duke, Glenelg and Remorseless were the winners, ‘The steck market yesterday was dull and steady Until after the boards, when tt declined, Gold was quiet, and closed faally at 13924. The aggregate amount of business transacted in commercial circies yesterday was diminutive, thoagn some of the markets exhtbited a fair degree Of activity. Coffee was quiet but steady. Cotton was toleradly active, but at %c. lower prices, clos- img at 27c. for middling upland, On 'Chauge four was dull and heavy. Wheat was in limited demand and 2c. @ 3c. lower, while corn aud oata were dull and lower. Pork was slow of sale and hcavy, while other kinds of provisions were quiet, but quite steady in value, Naval stores rematned quics but firm. Petroleum—Crude was firm at 170., while refined closed strong at about 3240. Froights were quiet and geuerally heavy, while whiskey was m<ierately dealt tn at frm prices. Promineut Arrivals in tho City. Major J. ©. Gregory, of Scotiand; Major J, fHam- berger, of Chicago, and Colonel J. F. Pillsvury, of Saratoga, aro at tho St, Charies Hotel. General Robert Avery, of Washington, and Captain D. P, MoCorkte, of Richmond, Va, are at tne St. Julion Hotel, Judge BE. Lander and J. D. Hoover, of Washington, are at the New York Hotel, Dr, Stewart Morse, of Philadelphia, and Thomas J. Gaddes, of Baltimore, are at the SM Denis Hotel. Park Godwia aud family, of New York, are at the Westmoreiand Hotel. Captain J. 0, Post, of the United States Army, and G. B. Gilman, of San Francisco, are at the Everett House, Captain Perceval, of Montreal, and J. Boykett, of London, are at the Clarendon Hotel. J. W. Turner, of the United States Army; Dr. Kir- Win, Of Quebec; Ben Field, of Albion; Colonel ©. 8. Bushnell, of New Haven, and Judge E. B. Martin- dale, of Indianapotts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. B. Campbell. of Charleatown, and J. B. Wilmer, of New Orleans, are at the Hoifman House, Erastus Corning, of Albany, and E. Corneil, of Ithaca, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Alex, MoKeuzio, of Stamford, and J, Denham, of India, are at the Grand Hotel. General Fitz-Henry Warren, of the Untted States Army; Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire; @, B. W. Buck, of Chemung, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departares. General Burnside, for Providence; Sutgeon Gene- ral Barnes, for Pittsfield; General Birge, for Geor- gia; 8 D. Coldwell, for Buffaio; Major Alexander Shaw, for Baltimore; Colonel W. F. Shafter, for Washington; Colonel McComb, for Delaware; S D. McMullan, for Philadelphia; R. H. Pruyn, for Albany, sand E. D. Phillips, for Chicago; General Hiram Wal bridge, for ilmois; General B. P. Buticr, for Wash- tngton. The Sucz Caual—Revolution rente of Trade. The Suez Canal, look at it from what point we may, is one of the great events of the age. It has been in some quarters too much bepraised and in other quarters too much decried; but, spite of praise or blame, the great fact remains that a new thing has been done—a thing which men, and great men, too, have been thinking of and deeming not impos- sible for more than a thousand years, but which has not by any man or combination of men been reduced or promoted to the region of fact. That the Suez Canal is, in November or Decem- ber or January, or. at any early date, to fulfil allite high promise no one can yet say is certain; but as little can any one deny that such a canalis now possible. Our latest news seems to imply that the cloud which has for some time beea gathering on the Eastern hori- zon is breaking up, and that, after all, the opening of the Suez Canal is likely to take place under the fairest and happiest of auspicea. Our latest telegrams have it that the Sultan, encouraged first of all by the presence of the Viceroy in Constantinople, may consent to ap- pear on the soil of Egypt, and that he may actually preside over a grander acene than Sultan Saladin ever dreamed of. If the Vice- roy goes to Constantinople the Sultan will go to Egypt. We give this question a first place, for it is undeniable that if the difi- culty between the Sultan and the Viceroy had not been amicably got over the Sultan could not have gone to Egypt, and the absence of the Sultan would have made it impossible for the crowned heads of Europe or their representatives to be present at the formal opeaing of the canal. Etiquette still means something in high places in Europe. It is agreeable, however, to learn that the Viceroy means to visit Constantinople; that the Sultan is disposed to return the visit and take his proper place in the grand ceremonial; that Francis Joseph means to encourage the Sultan by his presence, and that the Empress Eugénie fully intends to be Queen on the grand occasion. All this is well, It is wise and encouraging. If the Emperor Francis Joseph goes to the opening of the canal; if the Empress Eugénie goes and takes her place, we may eafely take it for granted that the crowned heads of Europe and the best blood of both Europe and America will be well represented. Napoleon cannot go; but the Empresa will well supply his place. King William, of Prussia, cannot go; but the Crown Prince will be a satis- factory substitute. In a few days, if our latest news proves to be correct, not a single government of Europe but will seek ita place in this great touvnament on the soil of Egypt—a tournament which shall be held leas in the name of religion than of civilization, which will bave a grand and undying purpose, and the names connected with which will have a more enduring celebrity than those of Saladin, of Richard the Lion-Hearted, of Philip Augustus, of Berengaria, or of Edith Plan- tagenet. The lates! of the Crusades promises to be the best. Apart altogether from the opening of the canal and the world-wide interest which will ju the Cure be taken in the same, the Suez Canal, now a prospective fact, commands the attention of all nations and of all thinking men, on the ground that it is to iaau- gurate a complete revolution of the currents of trade. Since Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, and ‘particularly since the Dutch ia 1600 established a colony there, the trade which was wont to seek the East by way of the Mediterranean, through Egypt and by way of Baalbec and Palmyra, has changed its course, and the ouce flourieh- ing cities of the Mediterranean coasts have sunk into decay. Venice, Genoa and the other cities which are so much identified with the glory of Italy in medieval times have one and all languished and decayed. Alexandria, too, once the haughty rival of Rome in litera- Lynch, a white 1 man who gave evidenco at the Inquest tn Fry’s favor, complains that throata of recovered some of her ancient importance. In a sentence, the Cape trade ruined the Medi- terranean trade, Some few years ago the overland route to India at once revived Egypt and tho trade of the Mediterranean. Tho overland route, however, still left a difficulty India and the far East could be reached by the Capa in ships directly. India and the far East could only be reached vii Egypt, by the cumbrous process of unship- ping, of using a railroad, and of shipping again. We but state the trath when we say that, except for very special purposes, the route to the East vid the Cape of Good Hope remained, in spite of the Egyptlan railroad, the great higaway of commerce. A canal through Egypt, connecting the wators of the Mediterranean with the waters of tho Red Sea, and wide and deep enough to admit ships of largest tonnage, continued to be the great want and requirement of trade. M. Lessepa !had the hardibood to attempt to meet this requirement, and he now has the satisfaction that his work is about to be crowned with success, So soon as the Suez Canal is fairly opened to trade, and so soon as It is found equal to the high requirements of modern commerce, the route to India and the far East is lessened by thousands of miles; and while the Cape of Good Hope is loft to sink into its original barbarism the cities of the Mediterranean coast will recover more than their ancient importance, and wili reveal more than their former splendor. Venice, Trieste, Genoa, Marseilles will all become firet class ports; and new cities created by railroad and telegraph will spring up in Greece, in France, in Spaia, in Portugal, not to speak of the chances of the north of Africa, which may very seriously imperil the old monopoly of Great Britain. It is a fact that the Suez Canal will remove Great Britain and the United States of America from the far East, and that it will give France, Italy, Austria and Spain a great advantage. What is the lesson to us? We have our Pacific Railroad. In this respect we are far ahead of Europe. This, however, only gives us a certain qualified advantage in reference to the trade of Japan and China. So far as ships are concerned it leaves us as we were. We shall be compelled to use the Suez Canal. In this particular we share a difficulty with Great Britain. Is it too much to ask that the two great commercial nations of modera times—anations sprung of a common stock, having common interests and speaking a common language—should unite for a common purpose and cut a grand canal across the Isthmus of Darien? Such a canal would be a boon to both nations and a benefit to man- kind. Up Towa Travel. The delegation of the leading residents of the Twelfth and Nineteenth wards, who have taken up the question of “up town travel,” and who had an interview with Mayor Hall on Thursday last, seem determined to take the bull by the horns in the most approved man- ner, After stating the grievance under which they suffer—a most insufficient means of rapid local transit between their homes and their places of business in the city—and after recounting the delays, inconveniences and dangers themselves, families and neighbors are subject to, by the only means of travel between Yorkville and the lower or business part of the city, in travelling by the line of cara open to them—the Third avenue line— they come to the political aspect of the case, which apparently presents to them a means of redress, They say ‘the time has now arrived when something must be done,” and they pledge themselves (the signers of a peti- tion to his Honor the Mayor) ‘not vote for any mayor, alderman, assistant alder- man, senator or assemblyman who will not aid us in obts aining the relief we ask.” The resolution is racy and to the point, and Tammany will have to do the right thing in the matter with its contractor and franchise holders or certainly meet the just indignation of the citizens of the district—one of tho most populous in the city. The grievance, too, of which they complain is most patent, and cries loudly for redress, not only on their part, who are so greatly aggrieved, but oa that of all casual travellers on the line. The Yorkville district is move isolated from the business parts of the city than is Newark, Paterson, or even distant Elizabeth, in the State of New Jersey. One of the suggestions made by the petitioners is the extension of the stage lines by the Madison avenue route, the franchise of which has been held by a stage company for years, but no stages run on it beyond a certain point. The petitioners recommend, also, the introduction of dummy engines and such other feasible modes ot facilitating the conveyance of the residents of the district to and from their places of business in the city as the exigency of their case calls for and their sirong ‘claims as taxpayers to the tune of thirty millions a year demand. Mayor Hall informed the delegation that he would present their petition to the Common Council—a piece of very cold comfort to the Yorkvilleites, a3 it is from the nezlect of that very body in the premises that all their causes of complaint arise. The remedy, however, ig in their own hands, Let the residents of the district carry out their threat of not voting for any future mayor, alderman or assistant alderman or other office-holder who will not pledge himself to carry out in good faith the object of the petitioners—the establishment of not only a “more sufficient meana of rapid local transit’ between the outlying district of Yorkville and the centre of trade and business | in the city, but a perfect and complete com- munication equal to all needs and all demands, This is what the residents of the district re- quire, and the best, if not the only, way of se- curing it is to carry out thoir threat of not voting for any office-holder hailing from their district that is not heart and soul and by self interest—which ia still better—pledged to secur- ing for them the mach needed boon of suffi- cient railroad communication with the city, Sura Evovett.—The French and English tocieties for the abolition of slavery have boen reminding the Regent of Spain, Serrano, that “alavery ouly exists in the civilized world as @ Spanish institution,” and that it would be a good thing to abolish it in Cuba, It will be seen from thia that those Fronch and English societios ate beginning to understand the ture, in politics, in religion, for some centuries Cubeu question, and we hope they will keep up | unknown and uncared for. bas but recently | the fire, Tho President's Taanksgiving Proclamation, President Graut’s proclamation, recommend- ing Thursday, the 18th of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving, sume up the reasons for this acknowledgment of the bless- ings of Divine Providence with Napoleonic brevity and force. He says the year which is drawing to a close has been free from pesti- lence; that health has prevailed through- out the land; that abundant crops reward the labors of the husbandman; that commerce and manufactures have successfully prosecuted their peaceful paths; that the mines and forests have yielded liborally, and that the nation has increased in wealth and strength. Upon each one of these specifications a valuable book might be compiled from the comparative statistics of the general health, prosperity, wealth and strength of thenation. In all those easentials to the happiness and progress of a great people we stand to-day without a parallel in the history of any nation of ancient or modern times, But, again, the President reminds us that peace has prevailed, and that its blossings have advanced the interests of the people in every part of the Union; that harmony and fraternal intercourse are obliterating the marks of the past conflict and estrangement ; that burdens have been lightened and means increased, and that civil and religious liberty is secured to every inhabitant of the land, whose soil is trod bynone but freemen. Those speci- fications touch upon the conduct of tho general government, and upon each of them we have enlarged from time to time in defining the good results developing from the quiet and unpre- tending administration of General Grant. We see that, without resorting to coercive measures, he is bringing order and prosperity out of chaos and poverty in the South, and is bringing the late rebellious States into a bappy accord as restored or returning members of the Union. At the same time tho gains to the national treasury in the reduction of its expenditures and the increase of its receipts are much batter for the first seven months of President Grant than his moat sanguine admirers anticipated. Oa the Cuban question we are still somewhat involved in doubts and conjectures, but we still entertain the opinion that the fog in good time will be cleared away in a docisive and satisfactory settlement. The political branch of General Grant's thanksgiving ‘proclamation, therefore, is but a modest presentation of the advantages which his administration so far has conferred upon the country; and we know from his late coup @état in Wall street that he is wide awake in behalf of the general interests of the people. Our democratic politicians will doubtless dis- cover a design in this proclamation to influence the State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska on Tuesday next ; but even ia this light the brief exhibit of Grant’s administration presented is the only thing upon which the republican party can rely for success, andeven this may come too late to save them from the bad effects of gen- eral apathy and local splits and dissensions, including the spoils and plunder and whiskey and lager beer. Bad News for Pulpit Orators Generally Father Hyaclathe at Sea for America. Father Hyacinthe, tha ex-chaplaia of Notre Dame, Pats, embarked yesterday for the United States at one of the European ports. The Atlantic cable informs us to this effect, at all events, so that, if there is no mistake in the matter, we shall have the Pére among us about this day week. This, his latest step in the path of progress, proves in the most unmistakable manner that Father Hyacinthe is, in more ways than one, the coming man of the age. Instead of going to Rome and having his magnificent voice drowned in the uncongenial, musty Vatican, and frittering away his intellect in attempting to master the subtleties of the Syllabus, the Péro hies off to submit his case to the free and candid mind of America, and staté his position to the unshackled conscience of the nation by means of the pena of the Herap stenographers, instead of entrusting it to the forty or fifty reporters selected from the ranks of the ecclesi- astical classes of the College of the Propa- ganda by Antonelli. Father Hyacinthe's arrival in New York will constitute a very remarkable event, a peculiar era in the history of the Church in this coun- try. It is said he will remain here for a few months only. We venture to say that he will be immediately baptized to positive regenora- tion by national acclaim, and thon elected as the head of our broad Church, for which so many of our most eloquent divines have been casting about for such a lengthy period. In the meantime our present pulpit orators, as well as all great sinners, must look well to their chaplets and church standing. The Pere Hyacinthe drew tears from the gentle eyes of the devoted Empress of France frequently by his eloquence. He is likely, therefore, to prove a very Moses when knocking at tho hearts of some of the church members in New York and its surroundings for an outflow of the water of grace. He will ‘fetch it,” without doubt, if it is to be had. Tho Suez Canal Charges=—Progress with Economy, Yesterday morning our city contemporaries made a vigorous, for them, effort in the mat- ter of news enterprise by publishing in their columns a copy of the schedule of the rules and regulations for the navigation of the Suez Canal, issued by M. Ferdinand de Lesseps in Paris on the 17th of August, and in which he set forth the rates of charges which are to be levied on vessels using the new transit route between Europe and Asia. It is quite evident that it will require the ultimate completion of many such works as the Sues Canal, witha vast extension of the present network of land telegraphs and submarine cables, to keep these papers at allin the line of the present march of journalistic advance; for we may mention that M. de Lesseps’ paper reached us by mail from Europe last month and was pub- lished in the Haratn in extenso on the 18th of September. Others of the city newspapers rake it up now and present it to the public as a froah and entirely new document. As the great work of the Suez Canal will soon be opened for the purposes of trade and travel, we submit to our readers, in another place to-day, in a plain and intelligible form for American use, the substance of the eley- enth clause of tho Lesseps tariff of navigation, exhibiting the actual gold cost which will Bo incurred in taking vessels through the canal from Port Said to Suez, or vice versa. At the first moment of reading the tables the impression may obtain tliat the charges are rather high and that the use of the canal will be costly. It must be taken into account, however, that the work of opening the route has been attended with an enormous outlay of money, not to speak in the loast of the huge preliminary and contingent expenditures which accompanied its prefatory atrange- mentand the progress of making it, nor to refer to the many and vast advantages which will accrue to the sommerce of the world and the spread of civilization by its use. M. de Lessops has proved himself capable and persevering both in his project and exertion, and we are pretty certain that he has been care- ful, equitable and just and economical in his cal- culations as to the canal navigation charges. As a general rule a vessel of one thousand tons burdon will take sixty days to run round or “double” the Cape of Good Hope, at an aotual cost of at least one hundred dollars in gold each day, not to mention the loss of time and consoquent additional loss of money; s0 that it ensues that her owners will save, ever at the rates of Suez Canal charges which we publish, nearly one thousand dollars in gold by using the new and short route. It is progress and economy combined. Powell’s Colorado Exploration—The Amori can Abyasinia, Professor Powell, of Minois, in his recent exploration of that hitherto mysterious river, the Colorado of the West, has rendered a great service to the cause of science, the government and the country. “The Colorado riv sr (known as Green river to its junction with Grand) rises in the main chain of the Rocky Moun- tains, on the west side, its sources interlocking with those of the Platte and the Missouri, which flow out on the eastern side. From its head to its outlet the Colorado passes in its sinuous course through ten degrees of latitude to the Gulf of California, A river rising in Southern New York and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico would be about the length of this wild and wonderful Western stream. Between the backbone of the Rocky Mountains and the Wasatch chain, which divides it from the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada, this river drains a great tableland like Abyssinia, several hundred miles in width, elevated from four to five thousand feet above the sea, and profusely ornamented with mountains from five thousand to ten thousand feet higher. Through the whole course of the river passed by Professor Powell, some nine hun- dred miles, its channel is a narrow caiion, or chasm, cut down into the tableland some two or three thousand feet, the chasm, with pre- cipitous walls on both sides, deepening in the descent of the torrent to its outlet in the lower plains of Arizona, where it becomes navigable to the Gulf for small steamers, All the tribu- taries of this strange river, and their branches on both sides, have cut for themselves, in the abrasions of thousands of years, similar chasnts to that of the main stream, so that the whole country thus drained is cut up into a labyriath of abysses, impassable, except in occasional slopes or depressions, to the traveller or the trapper. From our special correspondence of tho famous Napler Qxpedition, the lofty plateau of Abyssinia, with its system of deep gorges and torrents, is the counter- part in Africa of this most wonderful region of the American Continent. While the tablelands of Abyssinia, however, are com- paratively fruitful, this Colorado country is represented as utterly sterile and worthless, excepting a few patches here and there on the borders of the streams. Nor does it appoar that in the deep excava- tions of the Colorado Professor Powell has discovered any valuable mineral deposits. He reports no strata of iron ore, coal, lead, copper, gold or silver—nothing but successive layers of limestones and sandstones of different coiors, with granite towards the outlet of the grand cafion, There is a fine picture of this Colorado cafion on view in the American Institute Fair, by Carvalho, an artist attached to Fremont’s exploring expedition of 1845. The different colored strata of the sandstones in this picture will afford some idea of the astonishing scenery of these Colorado gorges. Fremont, however, did not waste his time in exploring this river. His mission was the exploration of the then equally mysterious and unknown regions westward to the Pacific. So with the subsequent government expeditions sent out to find a way for a Pacific Railroad. They rather avoided than sought the imprac- ticable route across the deep cafions of the Colorado river region. The inhabited and mining districts of the Territory of Colorado lie fur eastward of the river, among the ridges, parks and valleys of the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and on the eastern side a system of moutitains, streams, lakes, valleys and parks, which constitute the Switzerland of America. Tho course of the Colorado river is through the Territories of Utah and Arizona to the point where it strikes the eastern boundary of Nevada. For manufacturing purposes hereafter the Colo- rado and its tributary torrents may be turned to a good account; but for years to come they will perhaps continue to be only the attractions of adventurous tourists and scientific explorers, like the grand cafion of the Niagara from the Falls down to its outlet from the Lake Erie ter- race into the plain below. Vior Prestpant Cotrax on Mormon Porro- amy.—Vice President Colfax has been giving the Mormons at Great Salt Lake City a little wholesome advico on polygamy. But why all this talk and no action? In 1954, if we are not mistaken, in tho very organization of tho republican party, its mission was declared to be the extinction of ‘those twin relics of bar- barism, slavery and polygamy.” Slavery has been abolished at the point of the bayonet and by law; but Mormon polygamy atill remains and is atill enlarging its borders. No doubt it could be removed, and without bloodshed, by proper legislation or by treaty with Brig- ham Young; wheroas, if our leaders in Con- gress continuo to do nothing but talk upon the subject, there will some day be precipitated a “bloody collision between the Gentiles and the Saints that will be a scandal to the govern- ment for generations to come, That imperium in imperio of the Latter Day Saints, as it is, cannot much longer exist without a collision with the Gentiles, who ara crowding around them, and increasing in numbors every day. Bah soc’ be: 8 eA 08 st ana 2s a ef al (20 2k eri 28 Bali A Ba sk Bie «a SRR a ale ee ser ein PMN oP A Re ETN State of Morale in Italy. In the recent special correspondence from Italy published in the Heraxp forcible altu- sion is made to the existing moral state of that country. General immorality is prevalent throughout, without exception, and, unfortu- nately, the example is mostly sot by the upper classes, and is too readily followed by the members of the lower classes. This state of things alludes alike to the doings of the gov- ernment, both at home and abroad, and also to the social lifeof many of the most proml- nent officials. Much ado has frequently been made respecting the immorality of the former Spanish court, but in Italy it may now be rather considered bon ton to give full sway to the worst passions to which the human race is akin. countess by a discarded admirer caused the exposure of some facts tending to prove these assertions, Since the year 1848 Italy has been passing through a phase of revolutionary periods that have operated on its political standard, its roligion and society generally. Even as late as 1860 marked defforence was paid pub- licly in the atreots to all servants of the Church, and in many cases it extended to kissing their robes as they passed. The whirlwind of revo- lationary idoas, howover, greatly changed the position; religious holidays have been much reduced in number, priests are allowed to pasa unnoticed—in fact, in many cases they are almost held up to ridicule. The workings of the “rings” in this country have become notorious, but this system is well understood in Italy in all branches of the administration. This, however, cannot be wondered at, when the low salaries paid to government officials are taken intoconsideration. The late tobacco case, involving as it did both deputies and officials, exposed some of these nefarious workings, and although the Camorra has vir- tually beon dissolved in Naples, its influence has but too effectually spread throughout tho country. Tho Picdmontese style King Victor Emanuel the ‘father of the people,” but this is owing chiefly to his free and easy habite and the fact of his mixing personally with them and entirely divesting himself of hia official rank, Gifted with one of the most glorious climates in the world, and fertile beyond the general degree, the present dilapidated state of the revenue in Italy is due solely to mis- management, The epidemic that rages among those who should serve as examples of social and political morality finds but too many con- verts in other grades, and hence intrigue, robbery and murder revel in high carnival. Napotgon ano CuBa.—The Syaataets in Cuba are gravely thinking of the dire conse- quences that would follow tho death of Napoleon, in reference to tho world generally and to Cuba especially. General Prim has had several interviews with Napoleon on the subject of Cuba, but his Imporial Majesty does not seem to care much about interfering. Tho manner in which he burned his fingera in Mexico has doubtless proved a salutary lesson, and such a game will not be tried again in a hurry, THE STORM IN MAINE. Terrifig Hurricane at Eastport—A Portion of the Towa Blown Away~Marine Disasters on the Consi—iwenty-seven Veascls Ashore. in Rumney’s Bay=The Loss of Life Unkoowa--$500,909 Damage to Property. Eastport Me., Oct. 6, Via BANaoR, Oct. 9, 1869, } ‘This town was visited by a fearful hurricane on Monday night. Vessels, wharves, stores and fish houses were smashed to atoms. Great quantittes of fish and oil were destroyed. The steamer New York narrowly escaped loss with allon board. She was driven ashoro and lost both anchors and her rudder. Many of the merchants here have lost all their prop- erty. The heaviest losers are J. &S. Grittia, $10,000; E. W. French, $6,099, and J. 8. Pearce. J. & S. Grifin lost their vossels, fish and store houses. Mr. Pearce lost his store and all the stock. E. W. French had vessels wrecked aud stores and wharvea washed away. Most of the fishing vessels are in pieces. Twenty- seven vessels are ashore. in Rumney’s Bay. The schooners Romp and Percy were badly damagea. ‘The schooner Rio was lost in St, Andrew's Bay, with all onboard. A bark at New River was lost with all on board, seventeen in number. Grand Meaan is swept, with all the weirs and smokehouses. The towns of Lubec, Pembroxe and Perry loso heavily, Houses and barns were blown down, This tornado ta worse for Eastport than the great fire. The vessels ashore are the Sarah, Convoy, Em- press, Ward, Boston, Burns, Bob, Starlight, Belle, M. J, Laughton, Speedwell, Debonaire, Margie, Willie, Mowe and others, The Convoy, Speedwell, Commodore and some others are complete wrecks, ‘The revenue cutter Mosswood was disabled at the beginning of the storm, and could render no assist- ance. Ali the smokehouses are down, and the smoked herring and oii are lost. The loss cannot be less than $500,000. A large part of the town is @ perfect wreck. Great Freshee ta Swift River=Lerge Dam Swept Away—Farms Ruined and Houses Demoliahed—Impoverishment of the Farme- ers Along the River. LEWISTON, Oct. 9, 1869, Tho Rvening Journal has a report of a great freshet in Swift river, in Oxford county, showing a rise of thirty-six feet in twelve rs in that stream, which 13 @ tribatary of the Androscogam. The Improvements of the Lewiston Steam Mul Company, for lumbering operations, were destroyed and their large dam swept away. Scores of intervale farms were covered several fect deep with sand; numer- ous houses and barns were demolished. ‘.e people barely escaped with their lives and with the chi- dren in their arms to the mountains, The farmers living on the river are tapoverished aod homeless, SHOCKING CASE OE 3 OE BESTITUTION, A Family of Swedes “Starving in Jersey City Death of One of the Children. Yesterday forenoon it was made known to. Coroner Warren that a child, named Emma Oarlson, aged three years, had died at No. 407 South Eiguth street, under most painful circumstances, On visiting the house he found therein a family of five persons who came from Sweden a few months ago. The dead cluld waa stretched on a littie straw and, Clove by, hor lithe alster lay weeping. The father was scarcely 0 1) abie to rise from bia position-on the door, his face peared a living skeleton, was haggard and he aj The Mother and the other child Were preparing a4 6 meal a lew slices of spotted meat and pieces of bread. Not one of em could speak a word of English; they merely signified thot ‘condition by potnting to theie mouths and groaning in @ manner that was heartrandiug. No blame what ever can attach to the unfortunate Individuais; the children were too young to beg, the father’ was auricken down with disease, and only & teow days revious Mra. Carison was delivered of ason. Tho Roroner inecantiy summoned a doctor to attend, who. rocured for them the necessaries of life for the day,. ‘and then proceeded to obtain of the Committee on Aime erie relief for the aMicted family. Not- nding the attention paidto them yesterday tho rus 48 DOL expected to outlive her mlery, Hunger tea emaciated ber to such ao extent that her recovery was considered hopeiess inst evening, Meanwhite an inverpretor is being sougut who may determing woither the parties wish to go, It is to what the proper authorities will use every o alleviate the snYeringa of thta tl tated be hi meas janwly. Serre FFENSON DAViS IN (N BALTIMORE, ~~ Bauermons, Oot, 9, 1860. Jefferson Davia arrived here this afternoog by tha steamsulp Ballimore, from Southampton, But lately the desperate murder of a ©