The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1869, Page 6

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Our immense and constantly increasin, litious compe! us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to Stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o'clock P. M. THE NEW Ss. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October | The Journal Oficiel of Paris noti xistence of the radicai (‘reds’’) agitation by ar ing that il meetings “calculated to disturb pubtic ordex’’ will be suppressed. Lord Derby was insevsible @uring several hours. It is said that the report of the finding of the murdered body of the Kinck, of Pantin, near Alsace, l'rance, was f ‘The war reports from Spam are very contradiciory. Fight- ing, attended with considerable losses of men, con- tinued near Valencia. General l’rita reviewed the troops ia garrison in Madrid, Tue exodus of Span- {ards to Morocco continued. A leading English yournal saya it has no faith tn Spanish repudlicaa- ism, and recommends a sort of compound govern- 0 ment under Pim. Prince Charles of Roumania Weat to Brussels frow Paris. Exypt. The Su Itan of Turkey will, it is said, preside at the Anaugtration ceremonial of the Suez Canal, Africa. late advices from Bombay state that Dr. Living- plone had been heard from. He was in good health nd on his way to we coast, having reached Ujije. Five road was open and safe, Livingstone writes that he had discovered the sources of the Nile. Austrainsia. The United Staves war steamer Kearsa Sydney, N.S. W., on the 9th of ptember, Feejces seek a United states protectorate. Miscelianeons. ‘The President, General Sherman, Postmaster General Cresswell, Secretary Cox and Mr. Capron leave Washington to-day to attend the fatr in Fredi- rick, Ma. They will also visit the battle grounds of South Mountain and Antietam and return on Fri- day. General William M. Belknap, of owa, has been appointed Secretary of War, aud if he accepts will arrive in Washington m a few days to relieve Gen- eral Sherman, The gunboat Frojic arrived at Wilmington on Monday, and the commander notified Com- modore Higgins, of the Hornet, not to leave port until his case had been decided. He eaid he liad instructions from the President to prevent his departure. The case of the Hor- met came up before Commissioner Rutherford on Monday, and Commodore Higgins made am Gavit that the ship was purchased by the Cuban Fepublic outside the jurisdiction of the United Btutes, after she had cleared from a Sritlsn port, Whe counrel jor the government asked for a delay Bnti! Saturday, which was granted. General Canby, it 18 said, intends to modify his Order postponing the appointment of railroad proxies and directors in Virgina, which was very obnoxious to Governor Waiker and the conservatives. It is further said that a comsiitee of conservatives ‘waited upon General Sherman and requested him to | Girect General Canby to change the order, and Gen- eral Sherman agreed to do #0, A fusion of the Walker republicans and the Weile fadicals in the Virginia Legisiature is contemplatea in order to secure the election of Senators agalust the conservatives, Lieutenant Governor Lewis and Franklin Stearns are the cuoice of the proposed coalition. The charter election in Newark resulted in the success of the republican candidate for Mayor by little over 200 majority, while the new Common Councti bas a democratic majority of one. ‘The health of Admiral Parragnt is still improving. With a prospect of his veing able to go out in afew aays. 7 A negro who outraged a young \ady at Port Wash- Ington, abovt sixteen miles from Washington city, was seized by a gang of men dressed only in thetr shirts ana drawers, and having masks on their faces, end banged to an oak tree on Tuesday. The noose fn the rope slipped and the negro’s feet bareiy tonched the ground, whereupon one of the maskers Jamped on his shoulders and the rest yusied the body to and fro, On withdrawing the whole party Gred a volley into the body, The cave of the colored men who sue the pro. DPrietyrs of tue National theatre, in Washington, tor | Arwerioan soil NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ejecting them from the white people's place, will be argued on Monday before Judge Olin. ‘The signal tower of the Mino Hii Rattroad, near Schuylkill Haven, Pa., was aestroyed by fre Tues- day night. The watchman, Owen Feeney, aad bis Wife and two children, were burned to death in the tower. A sister-in-law of Feeney’s saved her life by leaping from a window. Yesterday morning the fail {n Charlotte, Monroe county, N. ¥., was destroyea by fire, Two sailors confined in the prison were burned to death. Near Harpersville, N. Y., yesterday morning, a locomotive and two cars on the Susquehannah Ratl- road were thrown from the track, Injurtug several passengers, This is the third accident on the Sus- quehannah road within a few weeks. Tho Clty. engineer of tha Board of Health reported terday upon the project for using salt of Croton for extinguishing fires and streeta, The plan he believes to be ite practicable, cis Drake, the colored man who killed Wil- Pitzpatrick at Crow Hill, tn Kings county, last vas found guilty yesterday of manslaughter in the Unird degree, and recommended to the mercy of the Court, He was remanded for sentence, ‘The tial of oMcer Hennessey, of the Vorty-third precinct, Was commenced yesterday in the Court of oyer and Terminer, Hennessey {3 charged with having committed assault and battery upon the late Mr. James Haggerty, who died in the cellsof the Butler street statton house in April last, The charge is basea upon testimony showing that the accused tapped deceased—whojwas in his custody for intoxt- cation the evening previous to his death—lighty on the head. ‘The case will be concluded to-day. ‘The stock market yesterday was buoyant tn trans- actions after the boards, Gold was quiet at 130'y & 130%. Prominent Arrivals in the City, General F, Winslow, of St. Lonia; H. E. Sar- gent, of Chicago; Colonel Charies H, Dean, of Peoria, and Rey. Albert Barnes, of Putladelphia, are at tue St, Nicholas Hotel, General G. W. Monell, of New York, and E, F. Stillwell, of Rochester, are at the Coleman House, Charies Fargo, of Chicago, and Bishop Martin, of Louisiana, are at the Astor House. H, B. Mather, of Moston; B, A. Farnham, of Phila- deiphia, and G, S. Minot, of Boston, are at the Grand Hotel. Colonel J. F. Casey, of New Orleans; J. 0. Yates, of Louisville, Ky.; Colonel Egbert Turner, of Albany; Colonel W. 8S. Brown, of Hrie, Pa.; H. W. Gleny, of England; General of Rhode Island; day, of Italy; R. H. FP m, of Albany, and on Harris, of Albany, are at tho Fiith Avenue Hamilt Hotel. Judge Conyngham, of Wilkesbarre, and Fdaward Smith, of England, are at the Albemarle Hotel, Captain Laturop, of Albany; Charlea Hidden, of Providence; H. T. De Silva, of Philadelphia, and A, Gage, of Charlestown, are at the Hoffman House. General C. H. Frye, of the Unitea States Army; Colonel Berret, of Washington, and W. W, Coch- | | pendence, rane, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. J. H. Wheelright, of Boston, and J. N. Hazard, of Rhode Island, are at the Brevoort House. Chevalier Bertolino, of Naples, Italy, and Signor Deosare, of Paris, are at the Westmoreland Hotel, A. M. Clapp, of Washlugton, ts at the Gleaham Hotel. Cuba~What Is the Position of the Admin- istration? The ca ly and cunningly worded letter, dated from Washington, which was sent by the Associated Press to all the newspapers, and published yesterday, on the present attitude of the administration with regard to Cuba, natu- rally leads to the inquiry whether Mr. Secre- Vish is backing down or not, This letter has something of the red-tape style of the State Department, and exhibits a weakness which we can readily believe the Secretary might evince; but from its general character and tone we are inclined to think it was inspired by the Spanish Minister at Washington or by tat | some underliag of the State Department under his influence. We are the more disposed to take this view when we consider that Mr. Fish himself not long ago talked in a very different strain upon the Cuban question, when we call to mind the fact that the President has on several occasions spoken warmly and hopefully for the Cubans, and when we recur to the declaration of General Sickles to the govern- ment at Madrid, that the United States would have to recognize, at no distaut day, the Cubans as belligerents. In short, we are not willing to believe the administration would back down tothe extent indicated by the spirit and tone of this Washington letter. The argument used to cover up the timidity, ignorance and short-sightedness of the Secre- tary of State on this Cuban question is as fal- Incious as itis weak, After stating that ‘‘the United States government had been asked to follow the example of Mexico and Peru and other South Amorican republics, and thus officially enconrage the Cubans in their strug- gle against Spalo,” the writer goes onto say that “‘the reasons for not acquiescing in such appeals are based on the law of nations, the conditions of the island not justifying, in the opinion of the administration, the recognition of the Cuban flag.” What is the law of nations on this subject? There is no fixed or deter- mined law. Nations are governed {n each case according to the circumstances that sur- round it, and generally from political consider- ations and self-interest, The only general recognized law is that before conceding bel- ligerent rights to a people they must show their ability to sustain a war, with a reason- able prospect of ultimate success, Apply this rule to the case of Cuba and what must be the conclusion? The Cubans have maintained their war for independence over a year. From the smallest beginning and with very limited means they have been gaining ground all the time. They have improvised and created resources for war and are stronger to-day than ever. The whole population, white and black— for since slavery has been declared abolished by the Cespedes government the negroes are with the Cubans—are heart and goul for inde- with the exception of a limited number of Spaniards and Spanish officials, Never, perhaps, was there more unanimity in ® country struggling to be free. Then, as to the prospect of ultimate success, scarcely any one in this country has any doubt. Mr, Fish himself has said that Cuba ia destined to be There is nothing, in fact, in the law of ations, so-called, to hinder the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents, But, as was said, nations make a law for themselves or construe the law governing such cases to suit their own policy, Humanity, the cause of liberty, progress, the weakening or strengthening of nations in certain circum- stances, and other considerations, are brought to bear upon the question of recognition, It has been the policy of this republic from its foundation to give aid and comfort as far as possible to every people struggling for freedom. Especially has it endeavored to promote the cause of ropublican liberty in all the countries of America, and to exclude, as far as practi- cable, European and monarchical domination on We have never failed to seize an opportunity to carry out this policy. From the time the Monroe doctrine was proclaimed the nations of the world have recognized— however reluctantly sometimes—this to be the American policy, To surround this great repndlican country with republics and to uphold their institutions involves a great prin- ciple of national existence and progress, They are, as Mr, Seward aptly designated them, ‘‘our buttresses,” All nations act upon the same priuciple to strengthen themselves, To show this we might notice the conduct of Prussia in absorbing the States of Germany, of France in annexing Nice and Savoy, of Italy in extend- ing her dominion, of England in her annexa- tions in India and other parts of the world, of the course. of Russia, and, in fact, of the policy of all governments where their own interests, progress or aggrandizement are con- cerned. In every point of view—for the sake of humanity, for the cause of republican liberty in America, tor the sake of progress, for our own interests—Cuba appeals to us for recogni- tion and support. Spain has no claim upon us beyond that demanded by strict international obligations, and these do not bind us to refuse the Cubans recognition. If the Washington letter referred to expresses the views and policy of the administration they are in oppo- sition to public sentiment and unworthy of this great republic. However, Congreas will soon meet, and, if we mistake not, the voice of the people will be heard then and the Cubans be recognized. City Politics—The Tammany Slate, The course of politics, like the course of true love, never runs smooth, The Tammany Regency never knew more of the truth of the application of the words of the poct with regard to the course of true love than it now does with regard to its own course through the rugged ways of politics on the eve of an election. St is only, however, when the time arrives for opening the polls at an election that the Tammany current begins to bo fretted and disturbed by obstructions in its way and to give the managers of the craft some trouble in navigating it. After the election difficulty is passed over allis smooth sailing for a considerable distance ahead, The November and December elections are now standing in the way of Tammany’s usual quiet progress in running the political machine called our city government. The opposing elements are more inside than outside its own orgenization, and .to a certain extent the danger is the greater, just as the Mississippi craft is more likely to be struck and sunk by an unseen snag in the river bed than by any out- side influences of storm or tempest. The Sena- torial contest in the pending campaign gives the most uneasiness to the powers that be, for tho reason that not only the post sought for by the respective candidates is the most important for the time being to the Tammany interest, but also because the parties seeking the nomi- nation are individually powerful and capable of turning their arms effectively against the great chief of the Wigwam should his nominations not give entire satisfaction, The chief offices to be voted for by the people in November, besides the vacancies on the State ticket, are the vacancies in the judiciary, compris- ing the Supreme, Superior, Common Pleas, Marine, Surrogate’s and Recorder's Courts. The candidates for these are many, and the interests by which their availability is to be jndged complicated and intricate. For the Senatorial and Assembly vacancies, particu- larly, there are more than the usual amount of claimants in the Tammany interest, while for other offices at the disposal of Tammany in December next there is already a big fight going on. The republican and outside democratic organizations have not yet completed their list of candidates. In a few days, however, all the slates will be made out, when the great struggle will open, The interests involved cannot give to our election in November any- thing like the importance that attached to the elections held on Tussday last in Pennsyl- vania and Ohio, and yet, with the results of those elections before the people, some signi- ficance may fairly be deduced from it. Until the various parties have put themselves in position for the contest—each presenting a bold front on the basis of their respective lists of candidates for the suffrages of the people—little further than conjecture can be indulged in as to the result. Indict Them. Judge Ingraham having deemed it his duty, in view of the exceedingly questionable char- acter of the recent gold ‘‘cornering” opera- tions, to call the attention of the Grand Jury toa provision of law making it a criminal offence AI Lo ee eT eS for two or fiore persons to conspire together to Commit any act injurious to public morals or to trade or commerce, it now remains to be seen whether the District Attorney will con- sider it worth while to discharge his duty in the premises, Not being sufficiently acquainted with the facts connected with the transactions in question to — any decided opinion thereon, Judge Ingraham suggested that “where (transactions of this character take place, causing so much derangement of busi- hess and inflicting such injuries on the trade and commerce of the country, it may well be the duty of the Grand Inquest of the county, as it is undoubtedly within their province, to ingnire whether such occurrences have been bronght about by any unlawful combina- tion, and if so, to present the guilty parties for trial.” The suggestion is a good one, and public interest demands that it should be acted upon, and that promptly. That two or more persons did conspire together to “bull” gold, and in so doing committed acts decidedly inju- rious to trade and commerce, is a foregone conclusion. That Mr. James Fisk, Jr., was one of the conspirators, Jay Gould another and Abel R. Corbin a third no one seems dis- posed to deny, since the first named party has made a “clean breast of it,” the second has made no denial, and Mr. Corbin has in a mea- sure convicted himself. There is some mys- | tery, however, as to other parties to the con- spiracy—a mystery which must be dispelled, and to this end we invoke the aid of the Dis- trict Attorney and the concentrated wisdom of the Grand Jury. Too Bav.—The city paper which published Corbina article urges the indictment of “the gold gamblers.” We have heard who it is that cries out most lustily, When eager rans (he market crowd, And “GUatol the Muiel |” cesoqada aioud, a a tere eee ee sare ep ee eg ar a er ar OCTOBER 14, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. - ‘Tho Fighting iu Spain. Tho stubborn struggle that the revolted Spanish people have made 9~d are still making in several of the provinces indicates that the roal revolution—the real movement of the people to cast away a tyrannical domination— has at last broken out. No doubt the fact that this movement was just beneath the surface was of groat assistance to the oligarchs of the army andthe navy whon they drove out the Bourbon dynasty, No doubt, also, a great part of the power of those men before the country was derived from the supposition that they were ready to identify themselves with the will and purpose of the people in their aspiration to befree. But the nation has finally discovered that Prim, Serrano and the rest only desired to change places with the persons that surrounded the Bourbon throne, and now it addresses itself to the labor of driving them out, just as their predecessors in the abuse of power were driven ont, It begins well, for we cannot trust the stories of the suppression of revolt that we getevery day. These stories come by way of Madrid or Paris in every case, andin both cities the statement of news is distorted to the disadvantage of the strug- gling people. Indeed, the very fact that the world has been permitted to hear at all of the uprising indicates that it {s well nigh beyond the power of the government to control it. An important point in regard to it lies iu the consideration of what the conduot of the army will be. In the case of a French revolution we might glmost calculate the date at which the soldiers Would fraternize with the people, for it has always been the case inevery French uprising, that so soon as its proportions indi- cated that it was an expression of the general impulse of the nation the soldiers would not fight against it. But then in France the army ia so directly derived from tho trae body of the people and in sympathy with the popular mind that it could not well be otherwise, In Spain, on the contrary, the army is an institution quite apart and not inspired by or in sympathy with the general thought and feeling of the mass. This fact. would much retard and may altogether prevent the influence upon the soldiers of the acta of the people; yet we can- not believe but sooner or later the army will feel what it is that it is fighting against, and will refuse obedience to the orders of its ambitious leaders. The moment it does so the republic is secure. Tue WorkINGMEN’s MovemENt.—Our read- ors will have noticed, from our report of the proceedings of the workingmen’s meeting at the Cooper Institute the other evening, that the labor leagues are drifting towards an inde- pendent political organization, That they will take this shape as a national party within a short time we have no doubt; that if properly organized and managed such a party will be able to control the balance of power in State and national affairs ia morally certain; that the banking, railway, telegraph, mercantile and manafacturing monopolies of the day, and the gold gamblers and stock jobbers, &c., aro operating to fuse the laboring classes into political movement on their own account is apparent; but there is also the danger to these workingmen’s unions that io their first attempts to form a political party they will, between the powerful republican and democratic par- ties, be ground to powder as between the upper and the nether millstone. NationaL Banks are forbidden by Yaw to loan to one person or company more than one- tenth the amount of their capital stock, which is supposed to prevent their indulging in specu- lative jobbery; but if they make such loans this defiance of the law does not invalidate the loan, but forfeits the privileges of the bank. It is the lender and not the borrower that must suffer, for the lender is the party the law has a hold upon. Such is the decision on the point, just rendered in the United States Circuit Court. His Fiest Oprorrenrry.—Mr. Fillmore’s acting as president of the Louisville Conven- tion is the first occasion of his appearance before the public this long while, and he seized it to make an explanation of hia relation to the Fugitive Slave law. He declares that he knew the signing of that law would be his political death warrant, but he signed it because it was made according to the consti- tution, and his view of duty left no option, We hope this matter has not been troubling the old gentleman's conscience all these years, Two-thirds of the people who read what he said will learn there for the first time who signed that law, and will not regard it as of the least importance even then. Buneby in Orrick.—The Solicitor o the Treasury “‘has not prepared his opinion” on harbor fees, but has made it public in its unpre. pared condition, 80 that the public may judge what an astonishing thing it will be when it comes fully forth, He doubts whether the Secretary of the Treasury can prevent col- lectors acting as State agents; but as nobody asks for such prevention, the doubt fs not important, He does not believe that collectors can withhold papers on which all federal dues are paid, and as that is the very point that shipmasters wish to establish he need go no further, but just instruct collectors to that effect. Tue Lonpon Times on THe GoLp Rumpus.— In arguing that the government sale of gold which broke the bull game was a blunder the London 7imes is not without ground to stand upon; but it assumes that the fury, hadit risen higher, would only have injnred the gamblers or driven ‘dupes from the Exchange.” But that is not true, No one can assign a limit to the possible consequences of the game. Stocks wonld have gone altogether, and the confidence of the trading community would have been uni- versally shaken; and of such a sequence the end is great disaster. We cannot afford to punish sharpers at such cost to society, Warrine For the Wacox,—In Virginia the Supreme Court, the judges of which have been appointed by military authority, will hear no cases now that the people have adopted the constitution; for should Congress ratify the action the State will be in the Union, and decisions by military appointees might be sub- sequently reviowed at more or less expense, Tue MAtp oF Saracossa and “all her mate relations” are fighting the soldiers of the Madrid oligarchy just as formorly they fought the soldiers of France. ‘Tho New English Laud Agitation—Britieh Madicaliom {m Constant Progress. The democracy of England proper have commenced an agitation on the land question, as it presents in that country, which bids fair to overtop, both in its points of demand and compactness and application of the moral force power as a means of its accomplishment, that which is progrossing so rapidly towards a healthy and equitable issue by peaceable adjust- ment on the same subject ‘in Ireland, The English agitation is radical in the extreme, and, consequently, revolutionary as regards the existing baronial interests and ancient mano- rial settlements, Its leaders appear to ignore the laws of entail in landed property com- .pletely, and ask and require the soil of the country for the use of the commonalty at large, involving, of course, a redistribution of the ownership of its acreage, small holdings and the accordance of the right of titles in fee to the people. This movement, as reported in our mail despatches from Europe yesterday, has been inaugurated in Birmingham, a centre from which the toiling and closely packed and seething, sweating democracy of Britain peer daily through the smoke and coal dust of huge factories at palaces on one hand and poor- houses and prisons on the other; beholding at the same time a to them dark and apparently impassable gulf between. A hall has been opened in Birminghanf for the use of the new organization, the platform of which was proclaimed in very few words by a prominent English publig agitator thus:—‘There were two land questions, he said—the English and the Irish. The Irish was to be considered first, because the people there had starved till they refused to starve any longer with becoming meekness, while the British people were only beginning to starve. The people alone had a right to the land, and must be put in posses- sion of it.” These words are more than significant—they are dangerous, We publish them, however, as setting forth, in an unmistakable form of Indication, the current of popular feeling in Great Britain, leaving for inference, as our readers may incline, the consequences which would ensue in that country from its assuming the shape of a constitutional tide in its ex- pression and effect. At this distance it ap- pears as if the obliteration of the law entail in real estate in England would within a very short time sweep away the titled aris- tocracy, and after the lapse of the period of less than a couple of generations of men bring the then existing representa- tives of its titles to o social and class level with the educated workingmen, who would in the meantime be steadily ad- vancing upward, and thus meet them in their descent and save them from any violent fall by a national, friendly, good-humored amalgama- tion, not only in everyday interest, but by family alliances, With its aristocratic class- props taken away the throne of England will or would become too heavy for the country, and evidently must descend a step or two also, Its adornments and ornamentation would have to be suited to the requirements and necessi- ties of the day. It must be trimmed and deco- rated in more homely fashion, so as to make it lighter and more easily borne on the broad shoulders of the masses who will thus—for they do and will like it—bear it for a time— only for a time though. Radical financial economy must accompany a secure national radical progress, and that system of State tax economy which was so rudely proclaimed in Britain by Watt Tyler, but which has been so successfully practised by the late Joseph Hume, Richard Cobden, Henry Brougham, Mr. Gladstone and Lord Clarendon, will evidently and eventually force the people to seek about for cheaper governmont, no maiter who may be at its head—a working Guelph, it may be as a salaried executive or adopted intermediary, neutral and honest, between the claims of tho home artisan and the hereditary interesis— interests political and of family. While noting the legislative tactics of the French “Reds,” it is useful to remark and chronicle the system and objects of the more moderate radicals of England. An Ally for Father Hyaciathe. At a moment when revolution is so general it is not to be wondered at that the Church of Rome should feel the effects of the prevailing influence. Perhaps to this may be attributed the object of the coming Council, which will bring together the servants of the Church from all parts of the globe, and will doubtless lead to some modification in unison with the progress of thetimes. The action of Pre Iya- cinthe has not failed to meet support, and from the causes of protest mentioned in the letter of Brother des Pilliers, published in the sate nf = Heratp of yesterday, it really would appear that some tangible reasons of difference do exist. The era of slavery, both direct and indirect, has long since passed, and our pre- sent existence calls for a revision of all mat- ters tending in that direction, Not even the acts and doings of the Holy City can be exempted from this exigency. The Pope him- self must feel and see that the enlightenment of the present day calls for some serious modi- fication, Pere Hyacinthe has chosen a wise course of action in coming, as we are informed he intends, to this country, where all creeds enjoy perfect freedom, Here he will find a wide field in which to srgue his reasons of dissension, and, unencumbered by any moral or physical pressure, can freely discuss the points at issue, To deprive man of his very action of thonght is of itself an intolerablo state of slavery and bondage, from which Pitre Hyacinthe and all of his followers who join in his sentiments are fully justified in endeavor- ing to free themselves, The challenge has now, however, been given, and it is to be hoped, should the cause be good, that such steps may result in beneficial modifications affecting the world at large. No man, cer- tainly, can effectively preach faith to the maases when he himself has none, In Cran —When a puzgilist in the pu- gilistic ring gets the head of his adversary under his arm he has him in chancery, and the Gold Exchange cases before the Supreme Court are in this uncomfortable position. When they will come out, according to Judge Cardozo, can only be determined hereafter by the condition of the calendar. For the present he cannot give them procedence over the prior right of other cases, In short, the Wall stroot + gold equabblea are in ohagoory. we Geeat Coukag Bvtentteeries anf Reaction. Xt .3 now certain that the Suez Canal will be formally opened for purposes of trade some time before this year is ended. Tho ceremo- nial promises to be on agrand scale, The monarchs of Europe will be there in person or by proxy. It is now authoritatively stated that the Emperor of Austria will start for the East on the 24th of October, that he will meet the Empress Eugénie at Constantinople, and that Francis Joseph, Eugénie and the Sultan will proceed by way of Jaffa and Jerusalem to Suez, where they will take part in the grand ceremonial, It is added that the French, Austrian and Turkish fleets will accompany tho sovereigns, which means that they will convey them to Jafluand await their retura from Jerusalem, and convey them again, in ail likelihood, to Port Said. We may take it for granted that the royal party will be largely increased in numbers before it reaches Jeru- salem or Suez. The governments of Europe will now all of them be anxious to be repre- sented, Learned men from all lands will be there, as well as politicians and princes. Io circumstances of almost unparalleled pomp and splendor science will break down one of tho great barriers of nature—will remove one of the groat obstructions to the world’s unity— and Egypt will again take her place in the family of nations. On the 8th of December will be opened, under the presidency of the chief bishop of Christendom, the grandest ecclesiastloal synod which the world has seen in three hun- dred years. Rome, the Mecca of the Christian world, will be crowded with ecclesiastical dig- nitarics from all the ends of the earth, and St. Peter’s—the most magnificent temple, per- haps, ever dedicated to any religion—will present a spectacle which will go far to realize the loftiest conceptions of its great architect and builder, Michael Angelo. In show, ia general attractiveness, the scene on the banka of the Tiber will excel that presented on the banks of the Nile. Such are the two great coming events. In spite of our Pacific Railroad and our Atlantia cables, and even our great exhibitions, we have had nothing in the sensational line in many generations at all approaching either of those prospective demonstrations, Great fa attractiveness as both promise to be, how dif- ferent is the one from the other! How differ- ent their character and purpose! How differ- ent the lessons they teach! How different their probable effects on the world! The one is the flowering and fruit of science; the other is the flowering and fruit of religion. The Suez Canal is the latest product of the emancipated human intellect. The Ecumeni- cal Council is the latest manifestation of that spirit whose object it has ever been to hold the mind of man in bondage. The former represents progress and inspires hope; the latter represents reaction and inspires fear. There {s nothing in the nature of thiags which necessitates this antagonism between the two great prospective events of our time, There is no good reason why we should not rejoice in both. It is the blind, unreasoning spirit, the perverse folly of the authorities of the Catholic Church, that make the difference. The Suez Canal, if successfully completed, will be a blessing to mankind. The Ecument- cal Council properly conducted might also be a blessing to mankind, The promoters of the Suez Canal saw a hindrance to progress, and by efforts and sacrifices praiseworthy and per- severing they sought to remove it. The pro- moters of the Ecumenical Council lament the progress of the age, and seek to check it by multiplied barriers, Thus it is that while the canal cannot fail to be a blessing, the Counoil is almost certain to be a curse, How much wiser would it have been for the Catholie authorities to exert themselves to adapt the Church to the now condition of things! Had the Council been convened tu reconclle religion with science, to harmonize faith and reason, to bury dead dogmas, to recur or to construct a simpler theology, and otherwise to rise to the high requirements of the times, the name of Pius IX. would have gone down with honor to the latost ages, Asitis, we have to confeas it thatin the year of our Lord 1869 human progress finds more sympathy in the religion of Mohammed than in so-called Catholic Chris- finnity. If the Pope and his counsellors are not proof against all teaching they may find a useful losson in the fact that while no govern- ment will be represented in the Council, roy- alty as well as talent and learning will do homage to progress on the banks of the Nile. If the world is growing materialistic is {t not largely the fault of the Church ? Nor Quitz Up ro Axpy Jounsox—Millard Fillmore as a defender of our glorious constl- tution, In one respect, however, Johnson and Fillmore are alike in their glorification. Neither of them tells us which constitution he advocatea—“‘the constitution as it was,” or the ‘constitution as it is.” We can only guess from Fillmore’s reference to the Fugitive Slave law that he means the “constitution as it was.” It is a pity that these old politicians of the age before the flood will still keep talking. Divipgp Irarsans.,—The want of unity among Italians is apparent in the most trivial things as in the greatest, {n Cincinnatt they proposed to celebrate the day of the die covery of Amorica, and could not agree on the day ; so the respective parties celebrated dif- ferent days. Governor Stxre2’s Message to the new Legislature of Tennessee (anti-radical) is very good. He proposes that the existing disabili- ties upon disfranchised rebels be removed; he urgos the ratification of the fifteenth amond- ment; he sustains earnestly the now public school system of the State; he recommends the sale of delinquent railways to lighten the Stato debt; he vigorously opposes repudi- ation, and he appeals to the Legislature to do something to encourage immigration into the’ State to develop its vast resources of wenlth and prosperity. Here we bave first rate | platform—the foundation of a strong, cohosive ' and progressive party. But will the odd mix~ | ture of the majority of this new Tennesses | Legislature be able to comprehend its adyan- tages? We cannot tell; but we have our mig- givings that conservatism in this case will take the back track. Exuorion Tetoxs.—They wore trying a fow of them on Pendleton in Wall stroot yusterday.