The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXIV... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz StkERTS OF RW YORK. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth aveaue aod Twenty- fourth street.—TWELrTH NIGHT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Forwosa; o8, TOR RAILROAD TO RUIN. ¥ WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner ‘Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. ae * WALLAOCK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h otreet.— Caste. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ROOKWOOD—PIEATR OF ‘THE IsLEs. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘38d street.—Tuk TEMPES’ FRENCH THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th av.—Comepy SEASON-—SaM. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dat., between Sth and 6th ays.— Lead. 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Cabie veiegrams are dated Octoner 11, By special telegram from Madrid we learn that ‘Gesperate fighting is maintamed in some of the pro- Vinces between the governmeut troops and the Tepublican forces. The regular troops are for the most part victorious, A republican legislator, hav- ing been threatened with assassination, fled to Por- tugal. The general news reports from Spain come, for the Most part, through French sources, General Pier- rad escaped from prison at Farragona, The govern- ment troops defeated a republican band in Cata- Jonia. The republicans atterwards retreated to French territory, where they were at once arrested. Government advices written at a late hour yester- ay assert that many hundreds of insurgents had surrendered at different points, The French miners’ strike continued. The mili- tary again Hred on the people, wounding a number of persons assembled for the purpose of sympa- thizing with the miners. English politics were very dull, An Trish political demonstration in Dublin verged very closely, 1n paper resolutions, on revo- lotionism against England. By steamship at this point we have a comprehen- sive aud very interesting mai! report in detail of our cable telegrams to the 1st of October. ‘The steamship Russia, from Qneenstown on the 3d of October, arrived at this port last night. Miscetlaneous. The funeral of ex-President Pierce took place at Concord, N. H., yesterday, the ceremonies being of a simple character im accordance with the request of the deceased, In this city the fags on the public buildings and on the shipping were at half-inast, and the public oMces in Washington were closed. The President will attend the Frederick county, Maryland, Agriculvural Fair on next Thursday. Senator Wilson recently urged the President to suspend the political slaughter of conservative office-hoiders m Texas and Mississippi; but Butler and General Clark, hearing of his efforts in that direction, immediately urged the President to con- Unue the operations as the best thing for the party, Jt is believed that, backed by General Reynolds’ let- ter, Butler and Clark have beaten Wilson. A suit has been commenced against the city of Washington to recover municipal harbor fees exacted from certain sea-going vessels in 1366, General Canby has issued an order postponing all appointments of proxies or directors to represent the State of Virginia in any raliroad company until after the acceptance of the new constitution by Con- gress. The effect of this will be, it is thought, to continue the present Wells directory of the Norfolk and Bristol raiiroads (consolidated) in office, Elections take place to-day in Pennsylvania, Ohio and lowa. Millard Fillmore had a reception at Louisville yea terday and made an address to the citizens, Horace Greeley and Professor Perry discussed Protection and free trade in Boston yesterday. ‘The democrats carried the municipal election in Savannah, Ga., yesterday, the negroes generally voting with them. In the United States Supreme Court yesterday the case of Yerger, who murdered Colonel Crane in Jackson, Miss., and was tried by a military com- mission, and whose counsel now applies for a habeas corpus to take him out of the hands of the military, was directed to be heard on Friday, the argument to touch only upon the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in the matter. The case or the Texan murders, which 1s similar, was postponed to await the decision in Yerger’s case. ‘The New Dominion 18 just now experiencing ita periodical alarm. The volunteers have all been ordered out and put under arms, the order being so sudden and peremptory that many of them were dragged from their beds, The cause of the alarm is said by one account to be an apprehension of another Fenian raid, and by another, reported com- Plication im reference to the Hornet affair. Ascow upset im the St. Maurice river, Canada, near Quebec, on Sunday and fifteen men were drowned. Inthe Criminal Court at Washington yesterday Judge Fisher delivered an opinion in the case of Schurewan, who was convicted recently of stealing upsigned bank notes from the Treasury Department. A motion for arrest of judgment was made on the plea that the indictment was defective, and the Judge felt constrained to grant it, alchough the limi- tation act will bar the trial of Schureman on a new ‘mtictment. He was compelled, however, to give bal. The prisoners accused of the murderous attack on the revenve officer Brooks, in Philadelphia, were brought into court in that city yesterday for trial, Dut an application for habeas corpus in order to bave their bail reduced was made as soon as they arrived in court. The writ was refused, the bail was pot reduced and the prisoners were remanded, Phitadetphia 14 not occur; but, ander the fear of it, one hundred and fifty canal boats were towed round to the Delaware for fear they might butt against the Market street bridge. The City. Judge Ingraham, in his charge to the jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, yesterday, directed them to take steps especially to prosecute usurers, lottery dealers, corrupt public oMcers, dealers in obscene literature or obscene adverusers of patent medicines, and conspirators to raise wages or in- crease charges among public carriers. ‘The Registration Boards will sit to-day and in some of the districts to-morrow. A list of the registering nlaces for voters in this city and Brooklyn will be found elsewhere tn our columns to-day, Tue steamer Bristol, from Fall river for New York, ran aground in Coddington Cove during the biow on Sunday night, but probably came off at high tide. Her passengers were forwarded to New York last night on the Providence. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Hammonia, Captain Meter, will leave Hoboken at two P, M, to-day for Hamburg, touching at Ply- mouth, England, and Cherbourg. The European mails will close at the Post Omice at twelve M. The steamship Charleston, Captain Berry, will leave pier No. 5 North river, at three P. M, to-day, for Charleston. ‘The stock market yesterday was dull and steady until after the boards, when it became heavy and deciined, Gold was feverish, rising to 130%, falling to 130'4 and finally closing at 1305. For beef cattle yesterday the market was only moderately active and prices were generally heavy. The offerings were fair and mostiy common in quality, Prime and extra steers were sold at 15%. @ 16c., fair to good at L4c. a 15yc. and inferior to ordi- nary at 9c. a@ 13\%c., the bulk of the sales being at 18c. a 15% Milch cows were dull at former quo- tations, viz.:—Primé and extra, $90 a $126 each. Fair to good, $75 a $85, and in- ferior to common, $4 a $65. Veal calves were moderately active at the following quota- uons:—Prime and extra, 12c. a 18c.; fair to good, 1c. a 11 zc, and inferlor to common 8c. a 10c. Sheep were moderately sought after at steady prices. Prime and extra were quoted at 64;c, @ 7c. com- moa to good at Sc. a 6c. and inferior at 4c. a 40. Lambs were selling at 7c. a 9c. for common to prime. Swine were dull and lower, owing to the heavy arri- vals, Which were 9,547 head. Prices ranged from 10¢. to 10%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Coionel Bent, of Middletown; Colonel Carrol E. Smith, of New Hampshire; Rey. M. McEvoy and Rey. R. Brown, of Pittsburg, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge P. W. Cratn, of Maryland, is at the New York Hotel. Chancellor Farnsworth, of Michigan, and Duncan Cuy¢er, of New York, are at the Everett House. Governor Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut; C. A. Miller, Secretary of State of Alabama; Lieutenant Colonel Reid, and Dr. Jackson, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House, Colonel J. H. Bowen and E, B. Phillips, of Chicago, and H. R. Selden, of Rochester, are at the St Nicholas Hotel. W. ©. Montgomery, of California; M. Long, of Georgia, and E. F. Pratt, of Milwaukee, are at the Grand Hotel, Bishop F. M. Whipple, of Virginia, and Count von Ebact, of Prussia, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel T, W. Yardley, of Cincinnati; Judge J. 0. Brown, of Troy, and Rev. R. M. Kirby, of Albion, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. M. Thompson, of Springfield, and Bishop Wilbur, ot New Orleans, are at the Hoffman House. Prominent Departures. Lieutenant Governor A. ©. Beach, for Watertown; T. J. Levering, for Niagara Falls; Judge Weed, for Washington; Lieutenant Waite, for Washington; Colone! J, Lees, for Vallfornia; Samuel Harding, for San Francisco; Judge M. Hunt and Judge Daniels, for Albany. The Cuban Question and the Administra- tion. The Cuban question has become a very im- portant one, and perhaps the most important of any that occupies the public mind or that the administration has to deal with. It is so in every point of view—national, international or political. It cannot be ignored, trified with, or the settlement of it long deferred. We see in the seizure and detention of the Hornet both the judicial and international phase of the question prominently brought forward ; in the action of the administration, through our Minister at Madrid, offering mediation with a view to the independence of Cuba, the desire and purpose of the government; and in the expressions of our public men and drift of popular sentiment the political aspect of the question. Everything is tending to an early decision one way or the other, and from these signs of the times there can be no doubt as to what that decision must be. The administration has been exceedingly cautious and pradent, and has even placed itself in opposition to public sentiment, in the desire to uphold the honor of the republic in its international relations and to command the respect of the world for its moderation. It has subjected itself to the charge of timidity through this excessive prudence. There would have been a more decided expression of popu- lar sentiment, and a greater pressure upon the administration for prompt action in favor of the Cubans, if the people had not relied upon the declared sympathy of the President and of the Secretary of State and other members of the Cabinet. Having confidence in this they have waited patiently, believing that the gov- ernment would not disappoint their hopes and would recognize the Cubans without unneces- sary delay. They have not believed even that Mr. Sumner’s bugbear of the Alabama claims would hinder the administration from taking decided and prompt action in favor of the Cubans. But, as the old proverb goes, ‘hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” The delay of the government begins to creato a restless anxiety and doubt of its courage and ability. A year has passed since the Cubans struck the first blow for independence. They have been gaining strength all the time, and that to such ® degree as to call forth all the power of Spain to wage war against them. They are entitled to recognition as belligerents, at least, according to the law of nations and upon the principle of humanity, had we no other object in view. But when we consider the broad American policy which we have always pro- claimed with regard to the freedom of people on this side of the Atlantic from European domination, and of the sympathy of this republic with all who are struggling for repub- lican liberty, there is another and powerful motive for the prompt recognition of the Cubans. How far the case of the Hornet, the action of the Spanish government, or the difficulties surrounding the Spanish gunboats at our ship- yards may bring the administration to a speedy decision we cannot yet determine. The Hornet seems to have been turned over to the judicial authorities, but the decision in that case pro- bably will be in accordance with the wish and policy of the government. In such questions having an international bearing the law is generally made elastic to suit the views and purposes of the government, for there are The apprehended freshet in the Schuvikill, at in almost all cases fresh circumstances that can be turned or interpreted to that end. If the administration be disposed to favor the Cubans by letting the Hornet go there are pro- cedents for that. The Cuban flag is recog- nized by several of the republics of America, and so far has a legitimate existense. The United States can act upon that fact, just as Spain and Portugal acted in the caso of the Confederate privateers which went into and recruited in their ports when the Confederates had not been recognized by them as_ bellige- rents, The Hornet did not clear from nor become an armed vessel in our ports, and it is unnecessary to inquire into her previous his- tory. It matters not where she was built or who she belonged to before. She cleared from a foreign port, took her armament and supplies on board at sea, and was at the time a Cuban vessel—the vessel of a bel- ligerent Power that had been recognized by several independent nations, But whether the Hornet be condemned or allowed to go, the government may hereafter, and that soon, recognize the Cubans, Judicial or gov- ernmental action in her case need not influence the conduct of the administration in its future policy towards Cuba. Whatever timidity the Secretary of State may exhibit on the Cuban question from a ridiculous fear of damaging our case in the Alabama claims, Congress is not likely to be afraid of that bugbear. Judging from our Washington despatches, which give the views of the Congressmen who arrive at the capital, and from the expressions of the leading public men of all parties, there seems to be no doubt that decided measures will be taken, a3 soon as Congress assembles, in favor of Cuba. Members will see, if Mr. Fish cannot, that there is no parallel between the case of Eng- land recognizing the rebels as belligerents at the very commencement of the war, and the recognition of the Cubans by the United States after a year of successful warfare. They will understand, if he does not, that this mighty republic has a comprehensive American policy to carry out regarding all the countries contiguous to ours, and they are not likely to lose the opportunity afforded by the struggle in Cuba to extend republican institutions in this hemisphere. The Alabama claims will not frighten them, for we can settle these at some future day when most convenient tous. They will not sacrifice the principle of American liberty and republicanism or neglect to seize a present and greater good for that which is of less importance and which can be safely postponed. No, they will say, if we may judge from the views of Congressmen and the strong current of public sentiment, Cuba first and the Alabama claims afterwards. We know what the opinion of the President is, and there is no doubt he will cordially co-operate with Congress in this matter. Still the ques- tion arises, ought not the administration to anticipate the action of Congress? Should it not endeavor to stop the bloody work in Cuba by such an energetic policy as would soon close up the war? There need be no fear of war with Spain, The Spanish government has not the means nor will it have the temerity to engage in such a futile and hopeless conflict. Prompt and bold action is demanded now of the administration on this Cuban question. Tus Day's Exgorions.—We expect to- morrow to publish returns from this day's elec- tions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska to indicate their general results. Outside of the States directly concerned there is very little interest felt in these elections, excepting Pennsylvania and Ohio, in each of which on the nigger question and the money question the democrats profess a lively hope of a joyful resurrection, At this stage of dead low water, after the settlement of the Presi- dency and the Congress attached, there is no telling what the result in Ohio or Pennsylvania may be, but there is a chance in each for the democracy on a short vote, an event in which always the republican balance of power is apt to stay at home. Rememper, Voters, that the books of regis- tration are opened to-day ; that “‘the price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” and that the same may be said of negro suffrage, lager beer and women’s rights, which include the fifteenth and the sixteenth amendments. Sr. Tuomas Swakina Himserr AGAIN.— Another round of heavy earthquakes under St. Thomas, shattering the walls of the hotels and other structures, has been frightening ‘‘the isle from its propriety.” It is unfortunate, too, for St. Thomas that these earthquakes should come again just when certain parties at Washington are insisting that Uncle Sam has bought that movable property. Mossy For Cupa.—Mosby, of Virginia, is a tremendously warlike genius. He has an ap- petite for fighting and plunder and cracker stealing that nothing can appease, as the bush- whacking part of the history of the war will abundantly show; and now, when in the piping times of peace he should be enjoying his laurels sub tegmine fagi, he is desperatety running around trying to get himself hanged by shooting a sheriff. We recommend him to go to Cuba, That is just now the arena for superfluous pugnacity, Toe Loursvi.te CoMMEROIAL CONVENTION, which meets to-day, has for its object the best means for developing the commercial and manufacturing interests of the country, regard- less of the interests of any particular section— an object which, on its consideration, we sus- pect will be apt to make the Convention a debating society on protection versus free trade. But still the Convention will be a good thing for the Louisville hotels and boarding houses, and that will be something gained, Toe Cuerokes Country—Squatrers’ Squannies.—General Hazen’s account of the settlers in the Cherokee country represents them as a little worse than the Indians in their hostile demonstrations toward railroad survey- ing parties. The country cannot afford to have the progress of great undertakings re- tarded by the ill will of a pack of soreheaded squatters, and these fellows must reflect that it will be easier to clean them out than to do the same for an equal number of Indians. San Francisco Comine to THR Froxt— That is, in contraband whiskey, the seizures lately made there footing up the handsome figure of a million dollars. Philadelphia must look to her laurels, or her whiskey ring returns will be eclipsed by San Francisco. A million of dollars is a promising beginning. Tammany and the Croton Beard—A Just | Father Hyacinthe to the Bishop of Or Decision. The case of the Board of Aldermen and tho Croton Aqueduct Board, which has been 60 long before the courts and latterly awaited the decision of the Court of Appeals, has been decided. The decision of the appellant court vests the presidency of the Croton Aqueduct Board in Mr. Thomas Stephens, who has now held it fora number of years, having two associates, the Board consisting of three Commissioners, Mr. Stephens being president. Mayor Hoffman during his term of office denied the constitutionality of Mr. Stephens’ and that of his associates’ continu- ance in office after a certain date, and the Mayor and the Board of Aldermon, who under the charter have the right of appointment, nominated as president of a now Board J. J. Bradley, ex-State Senator. Mr. Stephens contested the right of the Mayor and the Aldermen to remove him, and when Bradley came to take charge an injunction was moved for and obtained enjoining him from taking possession of the office and its business till the legality of the appointment and the action of Mayor Hoffman and the Board of Aldermen was submitted.to the courts. The case was taken to the Supreme Court, where Judgo Ingraham decided in favor of Bradley's appoint- ment and against Mr. Stephens. It was then, on appeal, brought before the General Term of the Supreme Court, when Judge Ingraham’s decision was reversed, Both parties finally brought the whole question before the highest tribunal in the State—the Court of Appeals— where it has been hanging fire for some con- siderable time, political influences having been enlisted on one side to delay judgment, on the other to press to a final decision. Thus the matter stood, while the business of the department under the presidency of Mr. Stephens was still most efficiently carried on, though in the face of most adverse circum- stances, the salaries of the employés for over a year being unpaid in the regular form. The decision of the court has brought great relief to those parties, and it is a subject of con- gratulation not only to Mr. Stephens and the employ’s under him, but to the citizens at large, whose interests have never for a moment been neglected during the long period tho right to the office was in liligation, that the appel- lant court has so wisely decided in the premises. The question of commissions and boards is to some extent a new one to the citizens of New York; but an impartial review and judg- ment of their acta since they came into exist- ence must secure a most favorable verdict from all right-thinking men, The right to the largest share of self-government on the part of American citizéns none will dispute ; but when our citizens’ chances of this were becoming more and more in danger from the overpower- ing influences of a political party in our midst, it was a fortunate ‘turn of the political wheel that gave us such independent commissions as the Central Park Commissioners’ Board, the Croton ‘Aqueduct Board, the Metropolitan Police Board and the Paid Fire Department. These boards are as yet independent of and untrammelled by political cliques and political leaders, and it behooves the citizens of New York to draw as wide a line of demarcation between these various commissions and the manipulators of political machines as it is possible for them to maintain. The decision of the Court of Appeals in the Croton Aquo- duct Board controversy is encouraging, and ought to be accepted in the great light which it presents to the people—one which may and ought to guide them rightly in the coming election—that the liberties of a people are best secured through the purity of the bench, to which so many of the most vital questions of their rights and liberties must from time to time be submitted, Grecley’s Acceptance. The republican New York State ticket, as at last made up, is headed by Generat Franz Sigel for Secretary of State, and next in order by Horace Greeley for Comptroller. With the self-sacrificing spirit of Curtius leaping into the gulf Greeley accepts, He is not hopeful of the election, but he will. do what he can for the cause. The State Committee brought him forward to strengthen the ticket; but his letter is rather calculated to depress than to encour- age them. He does not move, like Grant, upon the enemy's works, but hesitates and pleads his necessity for more troops, like McClellan. But for all this, if he will only pluck up a little courage we think his name will be an advantage to the republican ticket, Unquestionably the name of Sigel will strengthen it among the Germans, and if neither Pennsylvania nor Ohio goes for the democracy to-day by default the disheartened New York republicans may save their distance in November. Apparently the late squabbling Fenton and Morgan cliques, and the ‘'wenty- second street regulars and Twenty-third street outsiders of this city, have become reconciled on the basis of an experimental armistice ; but they do not yet pull together very harmo- niously. In short, unless Pennsylvania and Ohio are held unbroken by the republicans to-day the party will hardly hold their own in New York, notwithstanding the generous ad- vance to the front of Sigel and Greeley. Harry to Hear It.—The public will be delighted to learn that the parents of Rooney, recently killed in a fracas, disclaim any pur- pose to attempt the life of the man who killed him. We were not aware that any person had charged them with such a purpose. It has been said, however, that Fry’s life was not safe from the ruffianly confederates of the man he slew. They make no disclaimer, Tnat Parapk Grouxp.—In the original plan for the Park, if our remembrance is not greatly at fault, a space was set apart for a parade ground, What has become of it? Now that the propriety of giving our splendid First Division a fine ground for field days is discussed and that the Commissioners object, it is worthy of inquiry if such a ground was not @ part of the plan. Ose YxRar.—Theo Cubans against the strength of Spain have held their ground for a year, and have been recognized by Mexico and Peru, but still they are denied even bel- ligerent rights by the United States. Where- fore? Because, perhaps, Mr. Fish Is awaiting authority from Enogland and France. Can such things be? a nan Ai? leans. . Father Hyacinthe has been invited to re- turn to the pastoral fold of Rome and again refuses to submit to the discipline of the Pope. From a correspondence which we publish to- day it will be seen that Monsignor Dupan- loup, Bishop of Orleans, one of the most elo- quent and able divines of the Gallican Church, addressed a letter, couched in words of affec- tionate admonition and mild reproof, to the ex-chaplain of Notre Dame advising him to hasten to the Holy City and prostrate himself at the foot of the Pontiff, beseeching a forgive- ness which he would be certain to obtain if 80 sought. The Péro replies to the Bishop in words of respect and good feeling, declining to pursue the course which he advises, and reaffirming his position in the remarkable words:—‘‘What you qualify as a great fault committed I call a great duty accomplished,” By this simple yet telling expression Father Hyacinthe obliterates in a moment the remembrances of the violences of the era of Luther, Huss and Calvin, and leads onward as the priestly pioneer of a universal toleration in matters of conscience under the canons of a really free church. The present report leads us to believe the news, which is not, indeed, contradicted, that Father Hya- cinthe has embarked for the United States; for it is to be easily seen that this country, under our republican institutions, presents the very field for his present elevated mission. Presuming that he will arrive safe among us, we beg to advise the Ptre ona few matters of mundane import, as follows:—Let him firmly avoid any acceptance of ‘‘the hospitali ties of the city” at the bands of the Common Council of New York; let him politely decline “tho use of the Governor's Room in the City Hall for the reception of his friends,” and, above all, let him steadfastly refuse to say what ‘‘ticket he will support” at the November election. By due attention to these matters Pere Hyacinthe will inaugurate a brilliant ecclesiastical career in America and cause Pio Nino to regret that he himself had not come over—without Antonelli—long since, in accord- ance with our repeated invitation, and thus have anticipated him. Ben Butler—A Rod in Pickle for the Ways and Means. By the conversation of Ben Butler with one of our reporters the other day we see that the fight for the championship of the House is likely to prove the liveliest intellectual mill of the Congressional season. Butler is the true leader of his party in the House, so far as intel- lectual force, political perception, training, sagacity, wit and boldness go—and there is a prejudice that such things go all the way in making a leader. Thad Stevens was the leader till he died, and Thad’s mantle wouldn't begin to cover Ben Butler, But at the same time the tradition is that the chairman of the Committee of Waysand Mcans is the recognized leader, and that chairmanis Schenck, Now Schenck is the antipode of Butler. He is as dull and heavy in thought as Butler is clear and subtle. He is as slow and phlegmatic as his rival is mer- curial and electric. Schenck is even below the average of iatelligent humanity in the pos- session of idgas, and it is the most farcical notion in the world that such a man should lead such a House. Butler sees this ridicu- lous side of the point with an impatience that gives him great relish for the forthcoming chance to give the chairman and his whole committee a roasting. Homromg.—It is not very pleasant to con- template the policemen in the streets as hunters and the citizens as their game, that they are always ready to bring down with a pistol shot in the excitement of the chase; but we do not see that the last shooting police- man and his victim can be regarded in any other light. Burke, the policeman, had taken charge of John Dougherty for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Dougherty, however, was not so drunk but he could run away. Burke ran after him and opened a fusillade to enliven the chase, finally bringing his man down by a mortal wound. Now, should the man die the policeman will stand in very un- comfortable relation to the courts of justice. He had no justification whatever for the use of firearms. His life was not threatened and his fugitive prisoner was not guilty of any heinous offence. If a noisy drunkard is willing to run away and give over his disturb- ance of the public peace what better can the public interests require ? Monry For Parvon.—Another of Andy Johnson's pardons has come into court, and once more the public attention is called to the corruption that sometimes organizes itself about a government despite the pure inten- tions of its head, and makes merchandise of the most sucred prerogatives. Ten thousand dollars was fixed as the price a man was to pay for pardon. He got his pardon, but did not pay the money, and the man has had the impudence to sue for it. Courts are not yet so shameless as to admit such cases to fair ground, and the money was not recovered. CENTRAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. As a large portion of the residents of Westchester county, and also numeroua citizens living in the lower section of Connecticut, who dally transact business in the city, must feel a deep interest in the early construction of the Central Underground Raul- road, it may be stated that during the past six months important steps have been taken towards its immediate commencement. Within that time the several engineers employed. by the company have been actively engaged tn conducting their ex. amination’ and surveys, which are at present 80 nearly completed as to warrant abolief that they will be submitted by the close of the present month, or early in that next ensuing. Their esti- mates regarding the cost of this gigantic under. taking will also accompany the forthcoming report. No engineering diMculty wh atever is apprehended, the only question to be decided being the ‘‘veat plan” for accomplishing the work. Recent tnvestt- gavion and expericnce on the underground railroads of London have demonstrated the fact that o double tunnel possesses important advantages, bearing more particularly on thorough and economi. cal ventilation, and to this is added @ saving in'the he ight of the two amaticr curvatures over one iarge arch, Under these circumstances it appears to have been pretty well decided upon to adopt the double tunnel, wherever a depressed or open cut cannot be advantageously worked, It 1s understood that several European capitalists have offered to invest largely in the undertaking, their Wine being at vrosent under consideration. hatever decisions may be arrived at, the president of the company, Wiliam 1. Ogden, has given as. surance that the proposed road will be built, and that the work of construction will commence as soon as the plang under cogsideration can be ma- tured in detail, and the contracts for the varions kinds of material required and work to be performed & be awarded to responsible yartica on satisfactory ‘as YACHTING. Race Between the Comet and the Julia for @500—The Former Capsizes und the Latter Declared the Winner. The race between the Comet and the Julia, which took place yesterday at Greenville, was robbed of the interest which doubtless would have heen attached to it, the Comet having capsized about twenty minutes after the start. The reputa- tion of these little yachts and the fact that their respective merits were known to be almost equal caused the event to be looked forward to with plea- sure, and quite a number of spectators asseinbied at Greenville to witness it, Betting, by the way, was very lively, and at noon comparatively large sums were staked upon the result. Both contest- ants have already figured prominently in racing circles, and a well contested race was justly anticipated, aa the ciements were favor- able in every respect. The course was from @ stakeboat off the Idle Hour to a stakeboat sta- tioned about 100 yards off Gibbett Islana, to be rounded three times, the whole making a distance of about twenty miles and the consideration $500. ‘The fine breeze from the southwest increased some- what as the boats pro] to start, Ai hail-past two o'clock the competitors appeared as under; Faont. Lengin. Owner. Julia... 18, -John Van Horn. Comet 18.3. Samuel Ketchuns, Owing to the difference in the length of the bouts @ start of thirty-five minutes was aliowed the Comet, which darted off at zn. 40m. 658., the Julta folowuny in good style. For a time 18 seemed as if the Comet had widened the gap, but that was owing to the fact that the Julia hugged the shore while the Comet dashed out in the swell. It now commenced to blow very fresh and the contestants sailed beauti- It was diMcult fo ascer- yacht gained anything, ung fully before the wind. tain which, if either, but it was evidently a close and ex affair. In fibing, however, the Comet went and the excitement which had hitherto char: ized the race ceased, being substituied by feel of disappointment, Happily no lives were lost, for several boats immediately put olf to the rescue, and the Comet having been put to rights sailed to hier quarters. The Julia continued on her course, a having completed the race was deciared the winner. Yachting Notes, A race will take place to-morrow between the Comet and the Mary Jane, at Greenville, ten miies to windward and back, for $500. The Sophia, of the Harlem Yacht Club, tras been Matched to sail against the Addie Taylor, of tie Neptune Yacht Club, the owner of the !atter giving $1,000 to $700. Tho race will take place at (ireen- ville next Monday. THE EPISCOPAL BOARD OF Business Meeting Yesterday—The State of the Finnances—Large Meeting Last Night. The Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church, which opened its annual session at the Calvary church, in Fourth avenue, on Sunday eveaing, con- vened at the chapel of the Holy Saviour, in Twenty- fifth street, yesterday, at hall-past eleven o’ciock, for the transaction of business, The foliowing mem- bers answered to their names:—Right Rey. Bishops George Upfold, John Payne, C. F. Robertson, W. Hl. Odenheimer, G. F. Bedell, J. U. Talbot and a num- ber of other eminent divines, Rev. Dr. Blatchford was unanimously elected secretary of the meeting, and the Right Rev. Bishop Green, of Mississippi, permanent chairman. Rev. Dr. TwinG, of Lansingburg, N. Y., Secretary ofthe Domestic Committee, presented the annuad report showing the work done during the past year in the Home Mission. He said that there are at this date 40,000 children enrolled in this organization. The general field of Home Missions remains tho same asa year ago, Regarding the Asiatic element among us Christianity has seemed to have but little influence. Their salvation may come by emigration or by native missionaries, It is suggested that the Board takes some steps toward vhe education of Chinese among us. In view of the intense dewo- cracy of the times there 1s dauger of infdelism. Civilization contains too little of the pure elements of Christianity. There is too much of levity concern- ing that subject. No work of any amount has been acoomplished among the freedmen of the south. There i3 a great work among tavse people who are relapsing into barbarism. Work among the Indians has been confined to one station in Wisconsin. THR NUMNER OF MISSIONARIES. Two hundred and ejoven clergymen are enrolled as mis. ionarios; 17> are now 1n the field, 178 have been employed all the year. MISSIONS. FINANOIAL STATEMENT. $192,850 Total receipts... ENTS—SEPTEMBER 30, 1869. Paid on account of general expens Paid on account from specials rece Paid the balance advanced by the treax Cash in bank. : Paid for geaeral purposes. . CURR 107,598 Amount of outstanuing checks to September 3u, 1,988 Due for salaries of missionaries to Uctober 1, 1869. 16,104 Total expenses for the year Recetpts for general purposes to Deficit in receipts for gener current expenses for the ye Amount of deficiency October 1, 1859. There were received from the seve! missionary jurisdictions durmg the year $127,710, against $109,251 1n 1807 and $117,617 in i863, He closed by urging that in order to liquidate the indebtedness and carry forward the work that should be greatiy extended, $175,000 should be raised during the ensuing year. The report of the Foreiga Committee was then read by Samuel D. Denison. He gave a financial statement, spoke of the legacies as amounting to $10,925; referred to appointments and resignations, and dweit upon the state of foreign missions to China, Africa, Greeve, &c. He stated the mission force to bé@ 37; baptisms, 66; confirmations, 47; scholars, contributions, $3,638. Upon the couclusion of the preceding report ther» was read the report of the Commission of Home Missions among colored people, and of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary meeting was held at the chapel in the evening aud was addressed by Bishop: Bedell and otuers. OBITUARY. Joseph Fatman, This genticmen, prominent among cur Jewisr fellow citizens, died tn this city last week and waa. buried on Sunday evening last, Ar, Fatman was a native of Germany, where he was born about the year 1813. He emigrated to this country about. thirty years ago, and began life in the humbie calls Ing of a pediar in Lancaster, Pa. By his energy and imdustry he was enabled, two years later, to open a. factory in Philadeipnia, which he continued in ope- ration some six years, at which time he moved. toy New York and began business a3 a retail dealer im ciyars, About the year 1861 his transactions were exclusively wholesale, his firm having become one of the largest in the tobacco trade in this city. with extensive branches in New Orieanw Galveston, Bremen and Liverpool. While engaged w , amassing the large fortune he possessed Mr. Fatmas 4 found time to perform works of charity. Ho wasoa @ of the most active oficers of the Mount Sinai Hosp |. tal, and was for along time President of the Hebne w Benevolent Society and the Orphan Asylum, ! (fo these institutions he made large donations, amouw it- Ing in one instance to $10,000, and Was unremitd a; tn relieving the wants of his coreligtoniats, as W el! ag of the poor in general. To the Jows of theo@ un- wy in parucular, and to all lovera of humas vty, whether Christian or Jew, the intelligence ok ar, Favinan’s death will be heard with regrot. Dr. S. Luckoy- A telegram from Rochester, tn this State, @reports the death of Dr. . Luckey, at his residence in that city, yesterday morning, Ho was one of tha’ Regents of the University and was noted for his, abd ity aad capacity. This Board convened yesterday, pursed ant to ad- joarnment, with the President, Aldermas (oman, in the chair, A very large amount of ordiv ary routine business wae transacted In regard to tly) paving and grading of streets in the upper end of f, a. A communication was received from the Mayor sub. mitting the application (or pormisstay. to establish a new atage line, which was presente! to him at the meeting with the Nineteenth Ward Citizens’ Asao- ciation on Thursday last. The Mayor called the attention of the Board to the ‘points made by the association referred to, and stated that in bis opinion all the power to tnoreage facilities for travel in the city had beea usurped by the magnates at Albany. The comimunicaion, together with tae application for the new stage line, was reterred to the Committee on Streets, President COMAN presouted a series of resolutions eulogizing the late ex-President Pierce, and pro- viding that the Chamber af tue Board be draped io mourning and remato 69 draped for thirty days, also wear tne and that the mombers Of the Board usual badge of mourning during the same time. ‘The resolutions were adopted, (he Board abortiy ‘after adjourucd,