The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEEv. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM ‘Thirticth et.— Matinee dail 1ES, Broadway, corner mance every evening. WALLAOK'S TARAT Broaiway and 15th street— Aw Unequat Maro, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Eagur Exk-EVEUREN Wiison. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraer ot Eighth aveaue and Std street.—Toe Teurser. FRENCH THEATRE, Ith at. and 6th av.—Comepy SEABON—SA BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2dst., between Sth and sh avs.— Lrau. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk Starers oF New York. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—Hrnayany, THe PRESTIDIGITATEUR. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth stre Tux RENDEZVOUS, dc. 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In a recent caso In the United States District Court of Baltimore, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court, ic was shown that three leading national banks of Baltimore have beea lending as high as eiglity per cent of their capital for specula- tive purposes, Admiral Farragut is ati!l reported dangerously wl, having suffered a severe relapse, Our Washington correspondent recently had con- versations with Mosby and Colonel boyd, between whom a duel was recently pending. Boyd, who was a brave Pennsylvania Colonel during tie war, was willing to fight Mosby at dsticuifs, but objected to six-barrelied revolvers at ten paces, each party to advance after the first flre and continue until the six shots each were fired, especially as, if he had escaped with life, his ofice of Sheruf would have been taken from him for duciling, Mosby, it seems, Sent the cbullenge, and also designated the weapons, which is contrary to the code of honor. Waiter Williams, the Poughkeepsie burglar, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisoament in Sing Sing. Assistant Secretary Richardson is stil in the Treasury Department, bat intends pressing his resig- nation. A writ was served yesterday on Secretary Bout- well to show cause wiy he bas withheld the twenty per cent aduitional wages from the machinists 1n the engraving bureau of the Treasury Department, who have entered suit for it, A mass meeting is to be held in Cincinnati on Sat- urday of persons opposed to reading the Bible in the public schoois, Tne meeting is to be addressed by two politi 8 and a reverend, The Fre: bishops of Quebec who attend the Ecamenicai Council are to have their expenses de- frayed by Louis Napoicon. An Ausirian baron, who was carrying the hod tn exile at Galesburg, Il, received a full pardon and a rich estate receutly just as he was about mounting the ladder with his load, He wae 80 overjoyed that he gave $509 to the Post Oiice messenger who car- ried him th ter, The City. Agsistant District Attorney Phelps, of this city, has been 1 by Attorney Goncral Hoar to go to Wilmington take charge of the case against Tho Late itlections-Tho Fiftconth Amend- ment—Pendleton. The late elections have beea very close in Pennsylvania and Ollo, One way or the other the result in Pennsylvania signifies nothing, because in that State, beyond their local issues, there was really nothing at stako. In Ohio the contest was of somo national importance in two aspects—first, in regard to tho fifieenth amendment, and, secondly, in reference to Pendleton, as the democratic champion of Ohio and the West for the Presi- dential succession, With the vote of Ohio there would be a fair prospect of securing the required ratifica- tion by three-fourths of the States of tho fifteenth amendment during the coming wiater. With a democratic majority in either branch of the new Legislature the vote of Ohio will be lost, and considering that California is last, and that the new democratico-conser- vative Legislature of Tennessee is regarded as worse than doubtful, there is the probability of a hitch in said amendment which may carry it over into the clections of next fall, Tho whole number of States inthe Union is thirty- seven—three-fourths of thirty-six is exactly twenty-seven; but the thirty-seventh State will make twenty-eight required for the ratifi- cation pending. Now, how stands the case? The States which have ratified the amendment are twenty, to wit:—Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illi- nois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Caroliaa, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin, The States which have rejected the amendment are:—Delaware, Georgia, Ohio—three. The States which have not yet acted on the question are :— Alabama, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Mary- land, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, O.egon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texes and Vermont—fourteen, Of these the Hornet, aa the District Attorney at that place, not being overrun with Lusiness, had gone into the iniertor and probably has never weard of the case. Coliector Grinnei has up to the present tame disre- garded the instructions from the Commissioner of Custonis that he should discontinue the collection of State or mualcipal harbor fees; but yesterday Mr. tly obtained a decision de- dues illegal, from a Georgetown (D. 0.) aud is about making a test case in the United States Supreme Court, served protests on Mr. Grina! requirtag him to cease the collection of these dues aud notifyiag bim of itis intention to sue for the sums collected in this manner for the last six years. An inquest was held yesterday retative to the als- asirous fall of a building in Williamsburg. Tue evi- dence was to the effect that Woodrad, che superin- tendent of construction, wa3 in liquor frequeatly during work upon the building, Incrensing Circulation of the Terald. We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at as early an hour as possible. Our immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our cap@le 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. THB NSWS. presses are Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 14. By special telegram from Madrid we Jearn that the government had 12,000 troops and forty guns in position before Valencta. Toe insurgents asked to capitulate, but were refused. Republican oficials were dismissed, generally tt may be d, from places under the government, Government reports say that the Insurgent force is reduced to small bands, which endeavor to avoid the reguiar troops, Fighting continued, with varying 033, pretty much all over Spain. Tue repubtican legislators remain absent from the sittings of Cortes. The Deputies from Porio Rico took thetr seats in the Cortes. General Prim paid a special complimentto the defenders of Porto Rico and the Spanish tn- terests in the Antilles. A Deputy claimed @ greater amount of liberty tor Cuba. The Spanish Minister, American-Cuba note presen peral Sic Madrid, asserting that the “national dignity” of Spain prevented her acce nce of fore! mediation in a “domestic affair,” but thanking the United States Cabinet for its good intentions. The Minister, in special conference with General Sickles, urged the release of the Spanish gunvoats seized in America. Three radical reform meetings were held in Paris on Wednesday evening, but no disturl e8 OC- curred. Karl Derby’s healtn was mu ter, and improving. The French meeting of the Deputies of the Left called by M, Jules Simon was a failure. French Ministers joined Napoleon for council at Compeigne. A Paris journal nplains loudly of the ignorance in which the French people are kept on the sudject of the foreign policy of Napoleon. Tw The Empress of France reached Constantinople yesterday, enjoying a most brilliant reception from We Sultan and 9 grand popular ovation. Afvien. Additionatjadvices from Zauzibar report Dr. Living- stone in good health, A second caravan was looked for at that place, with still later inforination of his Progress tound from Ni. Central Asia, o under date of October 11, we are told that tie Emtr of Bokhara hai petitioned for Russian aid in his operations against Shere All Khan, and that he had dispatched his eldest gon to Bt, Petersburg bearing tribute to the Czar. Poraguay. Despatches from Buenos Ayres to September 9 state that Lopez has turned up again, this time at San Estanisiaus, with 2,000 mon and twenty cannon. Inextco, Advices by way of San Francisco state that a revo- Jution is imminent tn Sinaloa, and many desertions reported from the troops in Mazauun, where great proparations were making by the government to suppress the threatened troubie, Lozada, the independent chief, of Jalisco, and General Macido Vowa are actively assisting the revolutionists, Mazat- lan being the capital of Sinaloa, and the largest port on the Pacific coast of Mexico, this tevolution May prove to be of more importance than revolu- lions in Mexico generaily. Miscellancoas. The Presider ccorapanied by General Sherman end others, left Washington yesterday for the Frea- erick Fair, where they were warmiy welcomed. ‘Me President made quite a lengthy speech in re- sponse to the address of welcome, and pleasanuly said that he had intended to yisit Frederick several years ago, but was unabic todo so, The party leave to-day for Antictum, and return to W ashington to- night. Seoretary Fish is accused by the Cuvans of de- luding them by false promises of recognition, pro- vided—first, they secured a capital for their mov- ernment; second, @ consiitution; and third, a seaport, They have filled the first provisos and attempted to make the Hornet obtain the last for ‘them, but Mr, Fish siezes her for violating the neu. trality laws, In the question of the Virginia Senatorshtp, thé mame of General Williams, a Walker repuyitean, ‘who is @ friend of the Presilent and Generai Sher. A ad 4# lovmilng up rather conspicuously, aud young 4 ‘ee Iu the case of oficer Join Hennessy, who is charged in the Brooklyn Court of Oyer and Terminer with complicity in the Killing of James Haggerty, the jury disagreed yesterday and were discharged, The bronze statue soldier of the Seventh regi- ment, designed for the Park, is in Philadelphia ready for shipment. The steamship City of Washington, Captain Jones, of the Innian line, will leave pler 45 North river, at one P. M. to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Luropean mails will close at the Post office at twelve M. on the 16th lust. The National line steamship England, Captalo Thompson, will sail at one P.M, to-morrow (satur- day), from pier 47 Nortn river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The Anchor line steamship Britanaia, Captain Campbeil, will leave pier No, 20 North river at twelve o'clock M. to-morrow, 16th inst., for Glasgow, call- ing at Londonderry to land passeagers. The steamship Lafayette, Captain Roussan, will sail at one o'clock P. M. to-morrow, from pier No. 60 North river, for Brest and Havre, The mail for France will close at the Post Office at half-past eleven o'clock A. M. on the 16th inst. The Merchants’ line steamship General Meade, tain Sampson, Will leave pler No, 12 North river v, M. to-morrow, Saturday, for New C at three 0 Orleaus direct. The sidewheel steamship De Soto, Captain Morton, will sail with freight and passengers for New Orleans direct to-morrow (Saturday), at three o'clock P. M, from pier No. 86 North river, foot of North Moore street. Prominent Arrivals ia the City. Generai J. E. Mulford, of Richmond; M. Fargo, of Rome, N. Y.; H. J. Beers, of Connecticut; J. G. Whipple, of Wisconsin; J. E. Easton, of the United States Army; J. Wiley, of New Orleans; 0, L. San- born, of Alabayua, and J. H. Beebe, of Massachu- setts, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. D. Mendenhall, of Richmond, and Major D. W. Mack, of Syracuse, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dunean Walker, of Washington; Horace Hawes, of San Fran are at the », and H. O. Stratton, of Boston, ‘ork Hotel. ton, P: Cincinnati, and J. P. O'Su ave at the Brevoort House, Rev. icholson, of Boston, and B. Simpson, , Mo., are at the Grand Hotel. A. B, Cornell, of Ithaca; L. Toro, of Porto Rico, and King, of Minnesota, are at the Futh 3 Samuel Davies, of ivan, of St Domingo, Reverdy A. Balcom, and Henry B, Louis, aud vellows, Jr, of Staten the Glenbam Hotel, Right Rey. Bishop de St. Pallais, of Vincennes, Ind., is at Sweeney's Hotel. General Howell, of New York; F. D. Blake, of New Jersey, and J. Morison, of Havana, a® at the Everett House, James N, Sandford, of Boston, and ss. W. Miller, of Binghamton, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Dishop Rappe and Bishop Westerholt, of Cleve- land; General H. N, Eldridge ana Colonel James HI. Bowen, of Chicago; ex-Governor A. Cummins, of Georgia; Hl. M. Deane, of North Caroiina; Judge H. M, Auer, of Misasouri, and ©, F. Hatch, of Cleveiand, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel, General Cake, of Pennsylvanta; Congressman James BuMlinton, of Massachusetts; ex-Senator E, D. Morgan, of New York, and Henry Keep, of But. falo, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Dzra Corneil, for [thica; John M. McCullough, for Pittsburg; R. 8. Hale, for Elizabethtown; J. Darcey Mall, for Philadelphia; Colonel Brown and Captain Denuls, for Providence, and R. H. Ives, for Florida. James, of St. Island, are at Aspy Jouxson Berwren Two Firss.—He is between the intractable rebels and the implacable radicals, Ho has offended mor- tally both these factions, and it ts reported that they have combined in the Tennessee Legislature to defeat him for the Senate, and that they may possibly defeat him. We hope not. Johnson would be a valuable acquisition to the Senate. He would make the fur fly from the backs of the radical leaders and impeachers as he made it fly from the flanks of the Southern fire-eaters in 1860-61. He would wake up the Conscript Fathers and keop them dancing. Wo should have a lively time and a regular shaking up of the dry bones of the Senate with Andy Johnson on the floor, and so we hope he will be elected. Me is the man of all men for Senator from Tennessee, Jcsv So.—The Spanish troops, which were reporle as having overcome the insurgents near Valencia, are now “‘iatreuched and wait- ing for reinforcements,” \ States, Mississippi and Texas are required to ratify as a condition of reconstraction—two ; and Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Isiand and Vermont are certain—ive more, which will make in all twenty-seven sure. We want one more, and we havo these States from which to get it, viz.:—Alabama, Cali- fornia, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon and Tea- nessee. Now, as for California, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey, Oregon and Tennessee, they may be counted out, so that our chances are reduced to Ohio, Alabama and Georgia. With a republican Loegis- latare in Ohio the thing ia fixed without further dificulty; but in default of Ohio a little judicious diplomacy on the part of the administration may secure the one vote wanting on said amendment from Georgia or Alabama, Those States have no interest now in any further opposition to this amend- ment, inasmuch as they have negro suffrage established within their borders, It is their policy in fixing it upon the North to bring the Northera democracy into rapport with the new anti-radical party of the South, We von- clude, therefore, that the fifteenth amendment is safe, and that it depends entirely upon Gen- eral Grant whether the ratification shall be completed without unnecessary delay or suall be carried over to the elections of next year. So much, then, for the fifteenth amendment. We see that a republican Legislature in Ohio fixes it at once, but that even a hitch in Ohio does not endanger it, because it can be still easily fixed by the administration. Now for Pendleton. The Ohio democrats, chafing under what they called the cheating of Seymour and the New York managers in the Tammany Convention of 1868, have been making a vigorous effort to put Pendle- ton in the foreground for 1872, Had they elected him Governor over the popular republican candidate, Hayes, it would have been a fine feather in Pendleton’s cap. The democracy of the whole West would bo rallied around him as their champion against New York and her candidate, and they wonld doubtless prove too strong for Tammany Tall and her favorite. But tho defeat of Pendle- ton leaves New York, wiih her man Hoffman, master of the field, and our coming November election will establish the democratic supre- macy of the Empire State through the docisive democratic vote of our imperial city. Thus the election in Ohio leaves the national demo- cracy in the hands of Tammany Hall, for Tam- many controls the decisive vote of this city. Hoffman, then, and not Pendleton, has tho inside track for the next National Democratic Convention, and this, we presume, finishes Pendleton, He failed signally in 1964, for ho was a deadweight upon MeOlollan; ho has been a failure ever since, and he ought now to be laid up in lavender, for he is avery nico man. Having thus disposed of the only two national issues really involved in these late elections, we dismiss them. General Grant's administration in them was only an incident; but its popular strength will be practically put to the test in the elections of next fall fora new Congress. The Sultan nnd the Pope. The Suez Canal and the Ecumenical Council have given prominence to two great rival systems of religious belief, The Ecumenical Council represents a large section of Christen- dom, or, at least, claims to represent it; the Suez Canal, strange as it may seem, ia repre- sentative, in a very important sense, of the religion of Mohammed, With the two great proapective events two names are identified— that of the Pope and that of the Sultan. The Sultan is, to all intents and purposes, the suc- cessor and representative of Mohammed; the Pope is, if anybody is, the real successor of St, Peter. The Pope is about to preside over a grand ecclesiastical synod and to inaugurate & new or revive anold era; the Sultan is about to preside at a grand ceremony which is rep- resentative of Islamism and, what 1s better, of the progress of the ago, It is a strange thing to say, but it is true, that the Sultan, not the Pope—the chief of Islamism, not the chief of Christianily—is in harmony with the pre. gressive movements of the age, Christianity was before Islamisin, but first things are not necessarily the best. Tue Sultan goes ahead; the Pope would do well to follow hia. The Pope gocs back; the Sultan goes forward. The Sultan gives proof that he lives in tho present and looks to the future; the Pope gives proof that if he lives in the present ho much more in harmeny with tho world of Charlemagne than with the world of Napoleon TI, and Bismarck and Boust and Gladstone and Peter B. Sweeny, Tho Sultan, by pre- siding at the opening of the Suez Canal, lends ahelping hand to the working of a religion which will serve for all timo; the Pope, by presiding at the Ecumenical Council, gives fair promise that he will be successful in manufac- turing a religion which will suit the old maids of Europe and America and the world generally, Tho Sickles Note on tho Cuban Ques tion—Is It Withdrawn or Not? So much has been said and so many contra- dictory statements made about General Sickles’ note to the Spanisi government on the Cuban question and it having been with- drawn, that, in order to put the public right on the matter, we can state on good authority what was done and the present condition of the case. First, the United States govern- ment tendered, through General Sickles, its good offices to aid in bringing the Cuban war to a clase on a basis satisfactory to Spain and Cuba, Second, the Spanish government was indisposed to accept foreign mediation in a domestic question, Third, the offer of good offices was, thorefore, withdrawn. Fourth, no communications that have passed between tho two gover sments have been withdrawn. Hero there appears to be a sort of diplomatic puzzle or fiction, But the explanation makes it clear. When ou@ Minister found that the friendly offer of mediation was not accepted he simply sent a note to the Madrid government, saying, in effect, ‘‘Very well; then I withdraw the offer.” But the written communications that passed are not withdrawn, and remain in the archives. So when Rivero, the President of the Cortes, declared in open council that the note had been withdrawn, and that there re- mained no cause of newspaper hostility to General Sickles and his government, he said the truth in a diplomatic way and to cover a diplomatic fiction. So is Sickles right as to the simple fact that the note was not actually withdrawn. People may take which view they please. It may be said that there is no differ- ence in the meaning; but there is. If the note had been actually withdrawn that would have implied offence, either in the offer of mediation or in the rejection of it, As it is, no offence was given or taken on either side, Amicable relations still exist, and there is no bar to the United States government renewing its offer, or another one, should our Minister see a disposition in the Spanish government to accept ils mediation. This is the state of the case as it now stands. We hope the Spanish people and Regency will have the good senso to view this Cuban question in its true light, and to give the United States another opportunity to propose such a settlement of it as will be satisfactory to all parties. Brewster versus Browster=Justice Jones and the Hernld, We have always considered it perfectly right and safe to mind one’s own business; but a justice of this city has informed us officially thateven in the matter of advertising we are subject to the ipse dixit of the courts, the lawyers and the affidavit of any person who chooses to make one, right or wrong. Certain persons by the name of Brewster come to the Heratp to advertise vehicles, popularly known as wagons; and upon the payment of the usual rates we insert the advertisements as we do any others that are brought, never deeming it necessary to inquire into the construction of the wagons, the patent for them, or how many Brewsters there are in the world. But it appears that this plain and simple busincss of advertising is subject to tho will of the digni- taries of our courts, We have received an injunction, in portentous legal phraseology, to prevent us from advertising the wagons of one of the Brewsters, One Brewster has a wagon for sale, and another Brewster has another wagon for sale, and the injunction arises out of this fact. It is Brewster versus Brewster, and what the Hrrarp has to do with the matter would puzzle any one to learn except Justice Jones. We never understood till now that it is necessary to know whether the style of a wagon is new or not—to know all about its wheels, body, top or seat—beforo adver- tising it. Ilowever, we will obey the injunc- tion and exclude the Brewsters from our columns. We will attend the court on the 18th of this month, when the case comes up, to see how it terminates, and to ascertain whether Judge Jones will permit us to proceed with our legitimate business. In the mean- time, not being able to see the right of the Judge to interfere in our business, we protest against this interference, Legal injunctions are often ridiculous enough, and this is very funny. Indeed, tho wagon case of Brewster versus Brewster appears to be a fanny affair all round. Tne GoversMeNt in power in Madrid has resolved to dismiss every man who belongs to the Spanish republican party from office, re- publican councillors, officers of every class and the armed republican volunteers, It is the old American political rule—‘‘To the victors belong the spoils.” The republicans don’t vote the Prim-Serrano ticket. Gatraytry Rewarpen.—The subscriptions opened throughout the Island of Cuba for the purpose of offering a public tribute to the bravery of Count Valmaseda and his troops have culminated in the following important presents being made:— One complete fleld outfit for his Excellency the Count. Three thousand cigars and twelve demijolins of gin for the officers of his column. - Fifteen thousand bundles of cigarettes, bear- ing the Count’s portrait, and twelve quarter casks of aguardiente for the men. With such inducements where is the Spaniard who would not serve the causo of Spain in Cuba ? Pepesietans are decided to hava some rights in the streets, as an injured ono has just recovered fifteen hundred dollars for three ribs broken by a wagon as he was attempting to cross a thoroughfare, When the drivers understand that every rib is worth five hun- dred dojlars, aud a humerus or femur from eight hundred to a thousand, while the skull of even the plainest-looking person cannot be seriously damaged for less than two thousand dollars, they may take ordinary care for the docs not know it, and that ho ip jadividually | lives of others, A “Corner” tn Wheat Market. Out in Chicago the speculators operate in wheat just as the speculators in New York manipulate railway stocks. This year the crops were a few weeks behindhand. During the period of delay gold, under the auspices of the ring, whose doings have become so famous, took its flight upward among the “‘sixties.” The wheat gamblers saw fortunes looming up in the expanded values of their cereals, The little grain that had arrived in market was cagorly bought, The farmers held on to that which they had not sold, and indulged in fond anticipations of reaping a pecuniary harvest fully commengurate with tho agricultural one. In the midst of these plans the gold bubble burst and the price ran down to 130, The Chicago speculators are dumbfounded. They cannot bring themselves to comprehend the altered situation of affairs. The Eastern buy- ers, who, from their dealings with Europe, always regard values from the standpoint of gold, will not give old timo prices. The spec- ulalors at the West cannot sell without heavy losses, The farmers, too, are averse to letting their crops go at the allered schedule of prices, and are holding on for something to turn up which shall give them their former valuation, Meantime, the money which would go West to move the crops is lying in bank in New York. The rate of interest has fallen to about half the legal figure. One large firm on Wall street had four hundred thousand on deposit last night, for which they could not find employment, Money, which was worth a thousand per cent on stocks in the late panic, is likely to become a drug if the farmers and speculators do not let the wheat come. The deadlock cannot last long, however. Tho side which has not the money must yield to the side which has. The abundance of funds ia the city is a favorable circumstance. It stimu- lates business and new enterprises. The delay in the arrival of the crops isa guarantee that {hey will finally come all the cheaper. A fall in breadstuffs is an encouraging fact at the threshold of winter, Public Meetings in Parls—A Warning. If we are to believe the news transmitted by cable, it would seem that, notwithstanding all the concessions and modifications made by tho Emperor Napoleon, the French nation is siill far from being satisfied. Public meetings are announced to take place and a disturbance of the peace is threatened. The Journal Oficiel immediately announces that the gov- erament will enforce the law authorizing the suppression of all public meetings of a char- acter calculated to disturb public order. If this is the right version of the imperial resolu- tion it would appear rather arbitrary afier so much has been said about an extension of liberties. However, the Patrie endeavors to smooth the matter over by stating that the government simply desires to give warning that it will act with energy should the public meetings degenerate into provoca- tions of insurrection. There is some slight difference between these two ver- sions, and the Puirie awards great elasticity to official wording. The discussion of public interests ought to be carried on in public and by the public, but all governments are fully justified in suppressing them when their ten- dency leads towards a rupture of the pcace, either in an insurrectionary sense or other- wise. At this period of the year we have public political meetings all over the country, and continually, and judging from the rare occurrence of any direct rupture of the peace, it would be advisable for a few of the French agitators to make a trip across the Atlantic and study the subject. When our elections ere going on ‘full blast” as at present they might learn how a people can meet, and meet in greater numbers than they ever will in Paris, without being bent upon fighting in order to carry their different opinions. The Pantin Massacre. The letter of our Paris correspondent, which we published the other day, gave a summary of the latest news relating to the Pantin mas- sacro of the 20th of September. This atro- cious murder of an entire family—a mother in a delicate condition, and five children—seems loss revolting now that it has been pretty well established—by the discovery of the corpses of two additional victims, the father and the oldest son—that the latter were not guilty of it, as was at first suspected. Despite the declaration of the assassin Tropman, the crime has thus been stripped of the unnatural ho: which it wore, [ft is, however, shocking enough in iis details and impressive enough in its effect on the public mind to lift it altogether out of ths range of ordinary murders, It is still enveloped in mystery, and we are not sur- prised that it has proved more than a nine days’ wonder, The sonsation which it has pro« duced has extended from Paris all over Franco and Europe. All other topics of the day—the Spanish revolution, the opening of the Suez Canal, the pronunciameato of Father Hya- cinthe, and the meeting of the Ecumenical Council, have paled before it in in- terest. A crowd of no less than fifty thousand persons, representing every class in French society, ‘‘assisied” at the ploughing up of the field in which the bodies of the murdered family had been found, in search of further revelations. Ali Franco has been thrilled by accounts of the scene at the Morgue in Paris, where Tropman was con- fronted with his victims, In fact, tho dramatio features of the whole terrible affair account for iis peculiar fascination with a people so susceptible as (ho French are to whit is thea- trical, whether on or off the aiage. French journalism has played a new part in the history of this extraordinary case, For the first time it has ‘energized a function” hitherto fully developed only by the American press, and has minutely and fully reported all the developments of the case, without wailing for the usual slow proceasos of oficial justice. Some French journalists profess to complain of this fact, as they complained, not long ago, of permitting and facilitating the labors’ of army corresponden!s, They say that journal- ism thus ceases to be “a priesthood” and becomes ‘‘a speculation.” But the public evidently doos not apree with their old fogy notions of “vhe mission of the press,” and while the Jigar and the Gaulois have tripled and quadrupled their circulation by giving full reports of the Pantin massacre, the Petit Jour- nal and the Petite Presse have daily sold dany ag five hundred gopios, by aiding in the . same way what promises to inaugura! lution in Pavia jouroatism. The crime of Tropman, accoming to his own alleged confessions, is partly due to the influ- ence on his mind of what may be called the criminal element in modern literature. Rodin, the Jesuit, who figures conspicuously in Eugene Sue's romance of ‘The Wandering Jew,” appears to have been his ideal hero, and tho sensational police reports of the news- papers are alleged to have educated him to become an assassin, But the argument which some have sought to make on this basis is fallacious, and ought not to be urged against the liberty of the press, How- ever much the vivid pictures of crime in which modern literature abounds should be depre- cated, they are, after all, but the reflex of the barbarism which actually exist and may at any moment burst forth in the most civilized communities, Pernicious as the influence of such pictures may sometimes be it does not lessen the responsibility of the individual criminal, nor does it justify the morbid aym- pathy which false philanthropists too often seek to awaken in his favor. revo- Fall Meeting of the Americua Jockey Ciub. The third day of the full meeting at Jeromo Park opened auspiciously, with weather so bright and exhilarating as to justify the olaim of autumn to be considered the most delightful season of the year in America, But for some reason, or for some complication of reasons, the attendance was but slim, The avenues leading to the Park and the splendid roads that ran through it failed to offer any spectacle to ba compared with that displayed on all the approaches to the race courses in England and in France on great field days, The hills which rise picturesquely above the course at Jeroma Park were by no means crowded with tha vehicles, so various, elegant, light and strong, which are deservedly the boast of American workmanship, The opportu- nities afforded this year to enliven tha scene by driving within the field were used only by a single small carriage and by tha incomparable four-in-hand team of Mr, Fellowes. We saw but one other four-in-hand at the Park. Excepting in the immediate vicinity of the judges’ stand and the pool sell- er's stand there was no crowd, The club stand was but moderately full, and most of the benches in the public stands were empty. Perhaps the consequences of the recent Wall street panic may account for these facts, Tho ladies can hardly be expected to throng a resort of this kind while their lords are elso- where intent on business. If fashion and wealth havo thus lost, at least temporarily, their interest in the Jerome Park races, the interest of the middling classes of society has not yet been enlisted in them. But notwith- atanding the comparatively meagre attendance and in spite of the heavy track there were four spirited and closely contested races, In two of these the favorites lost, but in two also they won, It is not yet too late to avoid the puzzling uncertainty which bewilders the spéctatora and to adopt our suggestions as to more rigid distinctions in the colors of the riders, and aa to the advantage of having a mounted herald announce the name of each horse at the start and of the winners at the ead of the race. Why may not this latter office be allotted to the pool seller? As on Saturday last the attendance was large, so we hope it will be on Saturday next, when there are to be five interesting races—a hurdle race, one mile and three-quarters; a sweepstakes, for two years old, one mile and one-eighth ; the annual sweepstakes, for three years old; a race for all ages, two mile heats, and, finally, a fifth race, one mile and three- quarters, If the weather prove fair the fourth day will probably be the most brilliant success of the fall meeting. Two Mrttion Doxtars is the estimated first cost of the real estate and machinery for the proposed galt water system for cleaning the sireets and putting out fires, The expense would, therefore, probably be about five mil- lions; but if the system would give what is promised for it it would be cheap at any price, Trex Conszourive Decisions in the same case seem to make the law pretty clear that if the owner of a horse with tho glanders permits him to range so as to infect other horses the owner of the diseased horse is liable for the damage that may ensue. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Visit of tho President to the Fredevick County (Md.) Agricultural Fair—Enthugiastic Recep- tion at Wouecaty and Frederick City—Great Concourse of People PresentProposed Visit to Autictam Battie Field. FREDERICK, Oct. 14, 1809. President Grant, accompanied by General Shor- man, Postmaster General Creawoll, Secretary Robe- son, Secretary Cox, and General F. fT. Dent, Lets Wastington this morning ia a special car—Secretary Robeson on his way to Annapolis, and the others to the Frederick County Agricultural Fair. At Relay Junction the party was = joined by Umied States Marshal Goldsborough, Collector Thomas and Postmaster Black, the last named of Frederick, At Monocacy Junction the party was met by Mr, Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, who presented the reception commit- tee to the President, Dr. Fairfax Schley delivered a speech of welcome, In which he said that no Presi- dent had visited that locality since the days of Jack- fon, and alluded to the scene around them as deeply interesting from the lact of the battle of Monocacy. ‘rhe Preawlent mad@ no speech, but shook bands with £ chiey and bowed his thanks, The party arrived at Fi ck at half-past eleven o'clock, Whore they we elved by @ large crowd. W. P. Maulaby warmiy, welcomed him in & ad expressed thanks of the multitude for his piescace on tls occasion. The President replicd: “L have great pleasure in visitlag for the first tine tho city of Froderick, of which I have heard 80 mach during the perlod of the lafe rebellion, and whici, too, stood ap maofully for the maintenance of a whold Union. 1 expected to visit this cliy some yeais ago, but found myself unable to do 80; bu how that Lhave found so many friends, and have peon #o gratided With What J have seen of your fair aud enjoyed of your Ye ae IL hope at some visit you agai saree. CheorD for the President of the United States were heartily given, wien the Presilout repaired to the committee room and received tho muitiiude, Suaking baids ad they severally passed erore Nim. ‘ . The President and party dined on the fair grounds, after Which Liey were oscoried to the judges’ stand to witness the trot of horses matehed to sulkeys, which aport continued for several hours, ‘The cou- tesus were ting throughout, the beat time being 2:34. Bebw: the beats a number of ladies were presented to the President, ud the crowd in the immediate locality greeted him with cheers, it i# estimated that from 12,000 to 16,000 per- sons, Including Many ladies, were present durin the afternoon on the grounds The Committee o} Arrangements and tho citizens pald every atteation to the couforé and enjoyment of their guests aud profusely exteuded their hospitalities, ‘Tie Prest- dont Ao party were provided with quarters at pri- vate residences, and during the oveuing received company. Ww morning, ab uine o'clock, tha arty will leave erick for the Antietam battio- he , &Aistance Of seventecn miles, and there take (ue Gays sox Wasulogton, rejurming ty-Wortow Diglhy as ale