The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1869, Page 8

eds NEW YORK HERALD wee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Ail business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV .No, 288 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and ish stree.— AsTR, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—lany Gontva’s Rip Tuwoveu CoventRY—Jaok AND His S1bep, So. GRAND OPERA HO! ‘Vd street.—Tuk Tex FRENCH THEATRE, 1 SEAWON—SAM. Matinee at corner eighth avonus and Matinee . and 6th av,—CoMmuT BOOTHS THRATRI Matinee at 3—Lean. ven Sth and 6th ava,— WARDEN, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk Singete oF NEw Yors. Matinee at 2. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—Urenmann, THe ParesriigiraTeur, Matinee at 2 THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strest.—Ix10N—Tor; on, are. Tux RENpEZVOUS, AC. Matinee FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, F fourth street.—T weir N NIBLO'S GARDEN, | Broatway. 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LADIES’ NEW YORK M Broadway.—l'eMALEs ONLY OF ANATOMY, 620 ATTENDANCE, SPIRITUAL PHENO: ‘TIONS, at 61 Bieocker street. A.—PHYSICAL MANIFESTA- TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, October 16, 1869. _— = TO ADVERTISERS. Incrensing Circulation of the Herald. ae" We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at as carly an hour as possible. Our immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, 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 classitications of advertisements at oine o'clock P. M. notwithstanding our presses are Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 15. By special telegram we learn that an induenttal deputation from Valencta, headed by the Arch- bishop, waited on the Spanjsh govercment officer tn command before the city, seeking the concesston of favorable terms to the insurgents in and around the place. The reply was that an unconditional surren- der must be first made. It was reported that Napoleon would order an army corps of observation to the Spanish frontier. Genera! Prim, im a speech tn the Cortes, again invited the Cubans to return to their allegiance, promising them “liberties and reforms.” The Cortes approved the arrest of General Picrrad, The suppression of republican newspapers was continued in Madrid, Tne Portuguese army 1s Ukely to be reduced. The oficial journal of Rome says that the bishops in council will not have the privilege of discussion, but merely of ratification of previous acts and decrees of the Pope. The Eng- lish Cabinet inclines towards an amnesty for political offences in Ireland, if it is asked in a proper spirit. The commercial interests of England believe in the power of the Spanish government to suppress the insurrection. Napoleon's health t3 still improving. Austria is progressing in the work of national con- solidation. A destructive fre was raging in Glas- gow. Tne German mal! steamship Hansa, from South. ampton, October 6, arrived at this port eariy this morning, bring!ng our European files dated to her day of sailing, but the points of the news bave been fully auticipated by our cable telegrama, Egypt. Telegrams from Alexandria report that one of tho dams on the Suez Canal bad given way. The damage was alight. It is feared that the canal must be Geepened vefore it can be made of practical use. Miscellaneous, The President and his party returned to Wasbing- ton last evening, after visiting Antietam and South Mountain. The trial in the matter of the privateer Hornet will be resumed at Wiimington to-day, An attempt ‘Was made by hor ofMicers yesterday to arreat a deserter who !s retained as a witness by the govern. ment, but the gunboat Frolic wterfered aud pre. vented It. There remains no doubt that M. Frignet, for the firm of Rothschilds, has been conducting nego- tations with the government for a loan by the great banking frm of all the money he government may need at four percent. A pri- vate letter from M. Friguet intimates that he has been carrying on the negotiation with President Grant in person, and he believes that the projeot wili be carried out. The government jand eurveys aiong portions of Glia river, in Arizona, recentiy disclosed ruins of @laborate structures bearing evidence of an oblite- rated race that apparently possessed considerable knowledge of arts and manufactures, anc the \ande themselves seem to have been under cuit:vation for centuries, Patrick Moriey, a watchman in the interna! rev- enue service detatied to watch a distillery in Phila- deiphia, was attacked and fearfully beaten by three » men on Thureday afternoon and left for dead. The assailants escaped, and the condition of Morley is considered very precarious, A clerk in the office of the Phiiade!phia Prothono- tary was arrested arbitrarily on Thursday night by @ policeman of the Mayor's office in that city, The Koys of his office were then taken from him, and he was locked up while the oMce was ransacked, The Policeman was arrested yesterday, and held in $6,000 ball. _. At the State Convention of the iberal ropublicans Of Arkansas, heid at Little Rock, on Thursday, @ Platform was adopted endorsing universa) eudrage nd aniversa) amnesty. Governor Hotfmaa bas appointed Thursday, No. vember 18, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, in accordance with the President's proclainalon, A alight improvement in the g6alth of Admiral Farragut is announced; byt &tS condition 1s still con- sidered dangerous, Fiye Altempts were made by tncendtaries on Thursday morning to burn buildings in the village of Rome, N.Y. Only one building, a barn, was destroyed, the fire in the other cages being discov- ered before much damage had been done. The Legislature of Vermont met yesterday and organized, All the ofMicers i both branches aro republican, In Oakdale, Muss., Edward Stockwell, while cut- ting a stick with a small pocket-knile, accidentally severed the femoral artery, causing bis death in a few minutes, The City. Sarah McGuire, while intoxtcated, jumped off Laight street pleron Thursday with her child in her arms and both were drowned. Her husband, who lives at 66 Latght street, had been searching for them, but having given up the search was on his way to is work tn Brooklyn when, attracted by a crowd, he discovered the remains both of his wife and child lyingon the pier. An inquest was held anda verdict rendered accordingly. In the trial of Robert {Berry, for the murder of James Donnegan, tn a riot in Brooklyn last diay, Judge Gilbert yesterday chargea the jury that the Ilibernian Society, to which deceased belonged, ts an illegal body, aud the members are lable to arrest for continuing tn tt. The steamship City of Mexico, Captain Deaken, Will saul from pier 17 East river to-day (Saturday), at twelve M., for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The stock market yesterday opened buoyant, but declined m sympathy with a further break in Pacific Mall. Gold was qulet at 130 a 130!¢. Prominent Departare. Coionel George BE, Church, of New York, satis to. day i the steamer Alaska en route for Bollvia and the head waters of the Amazon river. The “Late ElectionsThe Northern Demoe eracy, the South and tho Succession. The late elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio ought to be sufficient to convince the demo- cratic party that the reign of slavery and the constitution of Buchanan are among the things of the past—that the financial policy of Gen- eral Grant's inaugural touching tho national debt will siand, and that the fifteenth amend- mont, interdicting the United States and every State from any restrictions on suffrage on account of race or color, will become in the interval to the elections of next autumn part of the supreme law of the land. These things, at all events, in the elections of last year and this year, are established or inevitable, and they cali upon the democracy for a new depar- ture, The decisive battle of the democrats on their old Bourbon principles of State sovereignty and negro distinctions was fought in 1868 on the declaration in the Tammany national plat- form, that ali ‘‘the reconstruction acts of Con- gress are unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void,” which involved the proposition to carry us back to ‘‘the constitution as it was” before the war, Southern State rights and all, Upon this issue in Grant's election the recon- struction acts of Congress were endorsed by the people, including negro suffrage in the States directly concerned. What would have been the result had Chase been nominated instead of Seymour, and on a platform recognizing the reconstruction acts of Congress, or what might havo been done had not Seymour been planed down by the Tammany resolution of Wade Hampton and the revolutionary letter of General Blair, it would be a waste of time now to consider, We have to deal with things asthey are, After the election of General Grant, with its endorsement of the republican party, another advance was made by the out- going Congress on negro suffrage in the fifteenth amendment, proposing to make this suffrage uniform throughout the United States under the authority of Congress, and in the General's inaugural be cordially supported the proposition. What bas followed? Beginning with Vir- ginia, the old Southern State rights demo- crats and conservative republicans have formed a new Southera pariy under the wing of the administration. The new anti-radical Legislature of Virginia thus elected has rati- fled the fifteenth amendment, and in Missis- sippi and Texas, with the success of either party, the same course will be pursued. They have given up the fight with Congress in the South, the supporters of Seymour in that sec- tion being satisfied that his defeat settled the question, and that it would be worse than use- less any longer to follow the Bourbons of the North. Were, then, we stand, The fifteenth amendment is on the verze of a full ratifica- tion; the Southern democracy have entered into anew political league on things as they are, while the Northern democracy have been again defeated on their old issues, and in elec- tions, too, in which indifference so far pre- vailed on the republican side that it was expected these elections would go by default. Nothing {8 changed North from the results of last year except the situation of the Northern wing of the late democratic forces, which now stands alone, with much lost and nothing gained, Reconstruction is here demanded; but where is it to begin? Party discipline will carry the democracy, no doubt, with their colors aloft, through our coming November election, But what then? Assuming that negro suffrage and Southern reconstruction will soon be practically settled, the dividing lines between the two great parties hencefor- ward will be drawn upon the measures of Genefai Grant’s administration and of Con- gress, The measures and policy of the party in power on the money question, in all ita details of debt, bonds, banks, currency, inter- nal taxes and tariffs, ad on our foreign rela- tions, including the Cuban question, the Mexi- can question and the Alabama claims, wil! give shape and direction to the contest for the next Presidency. Tweive months hence, from present appearances, the new Southern party will hold every Southern State, {n gain- ing tho bulk of the negro vote; and twelve months hence, free everywhere from Congres- sional supervision as Tennessee or Kentucky, this new party will drift into oppcsition to the powers that be, and in view of something tike a restoration of the old Southern balance of power. Here, then, {s tho turning point of the Northern democracy for the succession, We think, too, they will be called to it before the next October elections, They have no policy now, or nothing but dead issues and a loose general policy of opposition to the administra- tion, They must reorganize upon the living {ssues of the day and recognize the nigger, and use him, as they are doing in the South, In taking this step the Northern democracy by the year 1872 will be avon the hich road to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, the repossession of the government, for, with proper encouragement, the Southern negro will give them that balance of power which was loat by his master in the rebellion. ee Goneral_ Grant gy the Geld Ring. Pig Mr, Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger, through a friendly letter to General Grant, suggesting the propriety of a brief denial over his own signature of all foreknowledge of the late Wall street ‘“‘corner” on gold, has drawn from the General the following reply :— Waguinaton, D, ©., Oct. 13, 1869. Ropert Bosngi, .— a : Dean Sin—Your favor of the 1th Instant id received. T have never thought of contradicting statements or insinuations made against me by irresponsible parties as those are alluded to 1p your letter; but as You have written to me on the subject in so kina aspirit I willsay thatI had no more to do with the late gold excitement in New York city than router or any other innocent party, except that I ordered the sale of gold to break the ring engaged, as I thought, in a most disreputable trans- action. If the speculators had been successful you would never have heard of any one connected with the administration as being connected with the transaction. Yours trul . 8. GRANT, P-S.—I have written this in great baste, and with- out exercising judgment as to the propriety of writing it, but I submit it FO FOUR TTARANE. aa. This is perfectly satisfactory and conclusive. It was not needed, however, for the vindica- tion of General Grant. His order to sell those four millions of gold on that fatal Friday to the ring was in itself a complete refutation of all the insinuations of his foreknowledge of or complicity in the pool. Such, however, was the use made of Wall street rumors and inven- tions in the late political contests in Penn- sylvania and Ohio that very few men in the position of General Grant could have refrained from an indignant outbreak on the spot. We dare say that the General was appealed to by many friends to put an extinguisher upon these aforesaid calumnies, but that he had resolved to let his action in the matter stand as his answer, until vanquished by the winning ways of Bonner. We approve the judgment of Bonner, that the General's letter is too good to be kept asecret. Its publication will not hurt the Zedger, and inthe writer’s opinion that the late gold pool was ‘‘a most disrepu- table transaction,” which called upon him to knock it in the head, all honest men will concur, City Polittes=The Tammany Judicial Senatorial Slates. The great political suspense on two of the Tammany slates—those of the judiciary and the Senate—is at last over. Anxious candidates will draw along breath of relief on seeing their names slated, or, with what resolution they may call to their aid, norve themselves to bear their disappointments, and perhaps pre- pare for the final arbitrament of a contest through the ballot box. Tammany’s policy of masterly inactivity, like every other thing de- pendent upon outside influences, had its limit. The Fabian policy, while it may be good for a time, will never win battles, The masked battery must at the proper moment be brought into play or it will be carried by the enemy and put to deadly use in the wrong quarter. At the right time, according to its own and calculations, Tammany has showed its hand, and leaves it optional with its opponents to play or throw up the sponge. The ticket so far is a very strong one, and will no doubt commend itself to a large majority of the voters of the city. That majority will carry it through the ordeal of the coming November election. The judiciary ticket particularly, with one exception—the absence of Judge Clerke’s name for renomina- tion to the Supreme Court—is all that the most fastidious or captious could desire under the circumstances, Of course we do not include the unsuccessful candidates, who must feel somewhat sore upon the occasion, The vacancy in the Supreme Court will, however, be worthily filled by Judge Brady, at pre- sent of the Common Pleas. In the Superior Court Judges McCunn and Friedman are renominated, and for the third vacancy there are three candidates in the field—this being the only judicial vacancy for. which a nomination has not been made. Judge Brady does not resign his position in the Common Pleas at present, but will leave it at the commencement of the new year within the patronage of the Gover- nor, For the other vavancy in the Common Pleas, to be left by Judge Barrett, Justice Frederick W. Loew is on the Tammany slate, Judge Gross retains his seat in the Marino Court, as do also, in their respective places, Recorder Hackett and District Attorney Garvin. On the Senatorial slate four of the old in- cumbents, the present Senators, are re- nominated—for the Fourth, Senator Tweed; for the Fifth, Norton; Sixth, Creamer; Seventh, Bradley. In the Eighth, Genet makes room for Mr. Terence Farley, if the Senator does not successfully dispute at the polls the right of the nomination and the suc- cession. A reference to our article under the head of City Politics will be found of interest to our readers, more particularly with regard to the judiciary nominations. TROUBLE IN THE Far East.—The Ameer of Bokhara has quarrelled with Sheer Ali, of Cabool. The Ameer and Sheer Ali are the only princes whose territories lie between John Bull and the Russian Bear. The Ameer has called upon the Bear to help him, If Sheer Ali calls upon the Bull, we may have a sensation such as the world has not had tn many long years, and which may knock the Ecumenical Council and the Suez Canal com- pletely out of time, We welcome all such sensations, They are good for the newspapers and they help to keep the world wagging on. Fravp.—Now the democratic journals have caught a note from the radicals; and, just as the organs of the party that has all the virtue cry out ‘‘fraud” at every democratic victory, the democrats cry out ‘'fraud” whenever the radicals win, With the journals of both sides crying “fraud” whenever they are benten people will presently get & notion that there must, in fact, be + great deal of cheating at the polis, Megs anv Women Wantgp,—The Southern Commercial Convention has evidently deter- mined to look at the world with its eyes open, One of the first discoveries {t has made fs that in seventy yeare the free States gained In pop- ulation over the slave States seven millions, How the South, now having freedom, can best catch ap {s what the Convention regards as the problem of the day, The news which we published in yesterday's Hewat from our correspondents in Cuba pre- Sents anything but a flattering condition of affairs, From one correspondent we learn that the first instalment of troops from the Penin- sula had arrived, but the discipline of the men does not lead to the belief that successful results may be anticipated from their opera- tions; from a second we are informed that tho Cuban people anticipate a war of ex termina- tion, and consequently live in continual dread of the Spaniards; and from a third we perceive that cfueltles are still practised, and that tho inhabitants of the large cities and towns are fleeing to the mountains for safety. M is evident, therefore, from these reports that the condition of the island is not improving, and loyalty to Spanish rule is becoming daily more and more remote. We hear nothing more of Jordan's alleged treachery. He atill occupies the same high position in the revolu- tionary forces that he has filled for so long a time with so much ability. The little game of attempting to throw dishonor on his loyalty by Spanish sympathizers has played itself out. That the revolutionists are able to hold the advantages they have already acquired with- out aid from outside is something which those who look forward to Cuban independence have a right to feel proud of, Troubles at home may compel the Spaniards to abandon the idea of sending more troops to this side of the Atlan- tic, Spain's present difficulty at home is, or should prove, Cuba’s opportunity, and that Cespedes and his friends will take advantage of it there is no reason to fear. Spain—The Republican Movement. Our news from Spain is pregnant with inte- rest. The republicans in the south, in the east, and, indeed, all over the country have made another effort. It is difficult to believe that this last movement was not well concerted, that it was not meant to be simultaneous and to succeed. In Malaga, the most important city in the south of Spain, and in Valencia, one of the two great cities on the east coast, the republican outburst has been vigorous and well sustained. If anything were wanted to convince us that the movement was intended to be serious, and that the government so regarded it, we should find the needed evidence in the fact that Madrid is virtually in a state of siege. Twelve thousand men and forty pieces of artillery before the city mean some- thing. True we have been told that the insur- gents had offered to come to terms and that the government would hear of nothing but absolute surrender. This only proves that at Madrid the government has power enough to suppress the rebellion. It does not convince us that Spain is satisfied with the administra- tion of Prim, Serrano and the rest. Valencia, according to latest accounts, was stillin the hands of the insurgents, although they were not unwilling to surrender on reasonable terms, The more prominent republicans have all found it necessary to flee from the country. Castellar is said to be in Portugal and Pierrad is in France. The gravity of the situation is illustrated by the fact that the republican members have deliberately absented themselves from the meetings of the Cortes, They may be in the capital, and it is not impossible that they may be arreated; but the fact will still remain—the party calling itself republican is not in sympa- thy with the government. That party is strong, and, when we add to it the defeated but still hopeful Carlists and the not despairing Isabellinos, we can form some idea of the actual condition of Spain. The government, it is true, still has the army on which to lean; but with the Carlists, the Isabellinos and the republicans all influencing it at various points, and with more or less force, the army cannot much longer be safely relied upon for support. The one thing which is wanted to make the Spanish revolution hopeful is a revolution in the army. If the army could only break loose and ally itself with the people we should cease to have any difficulty in believing in the future of one of the grandest countries of Europe. Surely there is a future for Spain. She cannot lie in the dust forever, But when will the daylight be seen, if the army is to remain a blind, unthinking machine, which does its work with equal effect whether Isabella reigns or Prim rales? If the Spanish army would only think all would be well. Meanvehile, we are prepared for any news—ready for any surp rise. Tho Projected Salt Water System. Within the program me presented by the per- sons who propose the use of salt water instead of Croton for extinguishing fires and cleaning the streets there is possible a great city improve- ment and some great benefits to the people at large. Certainly we cannot too carefully guard against such a calamity as the actual want of water in this great city, Are we safe against such a possibility? Suppose at once an exceptional season of drought and unusual demands upon the water, and we should not only be put to the necessity of forbidding tho use of water for ordinary purposes, but we might be compelled to limit its use for even domestic purposes. We must bear in mind that the supply of our water does not increase year by year, and that the demand for it does steadily and very greatly increase, With a opulation such as we shall have on this island fi ten years we shall be compelled to get our water from other sources than the Croton and its tributaries, unless in the meantime we shall have done what we may to enable us to keep the Croton especially for use in the house. The plan of underlying the city with great conduits, and then of drawing the water by vacuum, to a reservoir at some central point has no apparent difficulty, and the estimated expense is a trifle by comparison with the bene- fits promised, If the idea be extended from this to furnishing power by which the water can be driven with force through hose at any part of the city, we shall have not only an economy in the saving of fre engines, but the advantage that the engine will always be at the corner with steam up, With water so abundant that the strects may be flooded every summer's morning they cannot accumulate the filth from which we suffer at certain seasons, The abundant wetting of the streets In our hot season with salt water will prevent that stifling heat of the air that makes our city an oven in the August day; for the salt thus vaporized in to any of these is that with the water thus brought up from the river we may have vast public salt water baths all through the city. The Gold Exchange Trouble. The real money changers have had their eyes opened to tho necessity of cutting loose from the gamblers; hence the diffioulty of get- ting in motion again the wheels of the gold dealing machinery, Qn the one side we see tug Substantial men—the mon who deal in coin as a merchandise—who really buy and sell the article, They want a safe and practicable plan of accommodating the differences between themselves and other houses without tbeir being put to tho labor of handling the material a dozen times over. But it is in this effort of the real trader to avoid handling the metal that the gambler has his origin. Any transaction that ia done on paper he is equal to. So long as the dealers only exchange a piece of paper, marked with the indebtedness of one or another, he is their peer, But the moment that a transaction in gold must be accompanied with the material fact of a delivery of the article he is done for. Now the theory of the Ciearing House is that it is to calculate the dif- ferences of aseries of sales so that the smallest possible amount of coin may have to be handled, Its abuse is that it facilitates the transactions en paper; and because it is so subject to this abuse, because it does not seem possible to have it separated from this abuse, the real traders desire to be rid of it. But on the other side are the speculative gentlemen. They hare no gold—though their checks, if not followed up too far and too fast, may be “good” for any amount they choose to buy. They come down ,town at ten A. M. and find gold at 130. They have a little fancy that something is to happen in half an hour that will make it worth 135. They buy at 130, and if the gold rises to 125 they get the difference between thirty and thirty-five on cach dollar of the amount; andif it falls to twenty-nine they pay the difference. Their transaction is the one or the five cents difference on each dollar, for they never held the amount mamed in the sale, whether it were for ten thousand or ten mil- lion dollars. For these gentlemen a gold clearing house is vital air. They cannot have a vigorous existence without it, and they will not have it voted out of being, and as it comes to voting, these speculative gentlemen, who aro much more numerous than the others, will have their way, or in the words of Thursday's dis- cussion ‘the parties without property will force rules and regulations upon the partics who have property.” What will be the ultimate effect? The dealers will eventually have o system of their own and will leave the finan- ciers of fictitious transactions to themselves, and the people at large will know how to dis- tinguish between the two. The Xmpress Eugenie in Stamboul. Henceforth among the great political events of the age history will chronicle, doubtless as one of the most remarkable, the visit of the Empress of the French to Constantinople, the capital of the East, the seat of an infidel government. It is an event which has an importance that cannot fail to become evident, Not only does this striking occurrence refer to the political changes that have succeeded in the Old World, but still more to the progress of religious sentiment. It is, to a certain extent, the destruction of the barrier that since the commencement of the world’s history so dis- tinctly divided the followers of different creeds. The Sultan has done much towards this step himself by breaking through the rules pre- scribed by the ancient doctrine of his creed and visiting the capital of France during the late International Exhibition, It proves that henceforward diplomatic intercourse is and must be untrammelled by religious differences— in fact, the supremacy of State interests above the variance of creed, The Empress has undertaken a great step, which has never been equalled in history since the visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Fully aware of the importance of the mighty undertaking that will, in all probability, cause a complete revo- lution in the political, commercial and social relations between the East and the West, she wishes that the opening of the Sucz Canal shall be greeted by herself in person, as the representative of one of the great Powers of Christian Europe. So important does this event appear to her far-sceing mind that, not- withstanding the direct support lent to the great scheme by her husband, the Emperor, she deems it a duty that he should also be duly represented at its consummation. Prevented by his delicate state of health from taking a personal part in the ceremonies, he could not have chosen a more suitable representative of the French nation than his own wife. The Sultan, as we are informed by cable despatch, has received her Majesty with the most im- posing and magnificent ceremony. The event to him is of the highest moment. It is an evi- dence of the good will of a mighty Power, made directly apparent to himself and all Europe. It is an indirect warning to the Czar of all the Russias that Russian influence must no more attempt {ts despotic rule on Ottoman soil. And still more, it is a proof that every effort will be made to bring about an amica- ble settlement of the diMiculties existing be- tween the Sublime Porte and the Viceroy of Egypt. In all these weighty matters the hand of the great European diplomatist is visi- ble; it proves his great forethought and ready action, It proves still more especially his de- sire (o preserve the peace of Europe, which depends scarcely less upon a harmonious un- derstanding among all parties in the East than upon the observance of law and order in the heart of France, Tn Iron-Crap Oatn.—Some needed light is thrown upon the appointments made by General Oanby, in Virginia, through the inquiries of a Heratp correspondent into the Mosby-Boyd quarrel, and also upon the great abuse to which the “‘iron-clad” oath leads. This oath can be taken by any Northern man; so the plan is for Northern men to take the oath, sign the papers and sel) out, The oath taker gets a fixed sum, and the man who fills the office must make his fees pay him, and do the duties, Thus the persons who stand on Canby’s records as occupying certain offices are not the persons in office, and the object of the oath is defeated. This was one of the the air will not be Hable to the objections | fearful abuses of administration in France that urged against the casting of solid galt on the brought about the revolution. Tho Tammany Goneral Committce Meeting A Touch of the Good Old Times. At a meeting of the Tammany braves and the chief men of the tribes of ‘‘Primaries” following the same warpath, held on Thursday night in the Wigwam in Fourteenth street, a part of the old democratic spirit was exhibited that was Pleasant te iehold. Two well-known warriors of the democratic r hada alight difference and however the acco totted Fry In favor i one or the other is not the question. The fact is still the same—that the rencontre which followed gives us a retrospect of the good old times ere the Wigwam was transferred from the spiritual influences of the Pewter Mug to the aristocratic region of Fourteenth street, and the prospect that, haviag got ovor the in- fluences of the change, the hard-fisted aro coming back to first principles, “ The warriors referred to are O'Brien, Sheriff, and Mr. Lawrence Clancy, who, anxious for the good standing of their saintly order—the Order of St. Tammany—decided upon having a slight interchange of civilitiee— just as Mace and Cousin Leopold might have— to show that the democratic art of bruising was not in utter decadence, but can be revived in all its pristine Pewter Mug vigor at a mo- ment’s notice. Whatever the misunderstanding or the provocation given in the premises that led to the flooring of one of the combatants, it is a pity that the muscle and science of our worthy Sheriff were not held in reserve for some pugnacious republican, like that radical Charley Spencer, for instance, so that he Might prove his doctrines orthodox By democratic blows aud knocks. From the long interregnum of order that has prevailed since the Ark of Tammany was lodged in the new wigwam in Fourteenth street it might have been supposed that the political “strikists” had hung up their “bruised arms for monuments,” and that the grim-visaged gentlemen of the political arena had ‘‘smoothed their wrinkled fronts.” The spirit of the old wigwam still lives, however, and the affair night before last looks like a revival of the brisk political bouts of former campaigns and an inauguration of lively times in the coming November and December elections, Napoleon and the French Canadian Bishops. Our telegrams from Ottawa, the capital of t the New Dominion, report that the Emperor Napoleon has ordered that the expenses which will be incurred by the French Bishop of Quebec, and it isto be presumed by othera of the French Canadian prelates, in going to and returning from Rome to attend the Ecumenical Council and after its close shall be defrayed from the imperial exchequer in Paris, By this act Napoleon does graceful homage both to the indestructibjlity of the French race and the indivisibility of French sentiment, besides performing o useful and well-timed act of Catholic voluntaryism. The French Cana- dians are, after all, Frenchmen still, and the memory and traditions of La Belle France cheer and console their frugal hearths and rudely constructed homesteads amid the bleak rigors and many difficulties and privations inci- dent to a North American winter just as effec- tually as if the three thousand miles of ocean which intervene between them and the land oftheir fathers were obliterated. Thrifty and industrious in their humble every-day pursuits, the French Canadians are poor in the goods of the world, so that there is little doubt that the contribution of his Majesty—coming as it does from the imperial private exchequer or ‘privy purse” and not from the tax budget of the empire—will be a vastly agreeable as well as very timely relief to their spiritual guides, The French Canadians have never beon fused with tho British people or Anglo-Saxon interest in North America, They read back to the period of the settlement of Jacques Cartier and the war triumphs of Montcalm, but still endeavor to ignore, in memory at least, the action and victory of General Wolfe, which brought them only British taxation, a complex, ill-defined system of jurisprudence and law, a State Church for a time, religious dissensions, Irish Orangeism and Prince Arthur. They remain, notwithstanding, use- ful subjects of the British Crown when left undisturbed in their home pursuits. That their bishops should attend the Council in Rome is quite natural and proper, for the reason that it is Catholic. With Canada divided and distracted by religious feud, as it just now is, the ques- tion of their transportation to the Holy City may have come vp as an embarrassing one to the Governor General, Sir John Young. Tio King of Prussia, with other rulers who dis- sent from Rome in belief, have stepped for- ward in aid of the poorer of the Catholic bishops serving in their respective domains, so as to enable them to go to Rome, and it may be that certain French Canadian le gislators have asked the Governor General to contribute in a like direction and for the same purpose on this side of the water. Here may have arisen the dif- ficulty, To be intolerant or exclusive or even parsimonious towards others for any reason of a difference of creed is not in order just at present; but how could the colonial represen- tative of the Head of an opposing Church—a sort of female Pope—step forward with cash levied from men of every shade of belief in Canada to aid in the propagandism of a system of religion condemned by Henry the Eighth, Elizabeth, George the First and “every person in power at home,” you know, down tothe freethinking era of Gladstone and Clarendon, It would not do, and here is the point, in the spirit of the entente cordiale, where Napo- leon’s Catholic act has effect as such. By the timely appliance of a little cash he cute away a fine excuse for the flaunting of the Orange- Canadian banner in the face of a friendly gov- ernment, as well as for any counter display or advance of the “rale ould Irish Sun-Burst” of Brian Boroimhe from the borders of the United States, In fact, his Majesty serves the Canadian bishops, Sir John Young, President Grant, the Irish Orangeman and Irish-Ameri- can Catholics all at the one moment, besides proving, almost conclusively, that the “empire le peace.” Napoleon, as everybody knows, Is very economic in his inferences and calculates con- sequences and effecta very strictly, True charity, on the contrary, never reasons, and we are, consequently, almost ashamed to ask how after this would the French Canadian bishops be likely to throw their interest in the event of the election of a new Pope? Would they head their “slate” with the name of Cardinal Bona- parte and instruct their representative, or exponent in the conclave, to ‘go for him?” Perhaps so, Tho French are a grateful peovle,