The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1869, Page 6

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We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hound in their advertisements at as early an hour as possible. Our immense and constantly i ing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to pnt 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. Pisa Wrews. Enropes Cable telegrams are dated October 16, Mesars. Jules Fayre, Bancei and Gambetta, le: 3 of th neh “veds,’? arrived in London, r ofa modification of the French Cabinet wer is rent, ‘The merchants’ clerks of Paris were on a par- tial “strike.” The session of the Spanish Cortes was suspended. Valencia held out against the Spanish troops. Fighting was maintained tn the provinces ofspain. Members of Cortes who took part im the revolution are to be prosecuied, New leaders are proclaiming a Spanish republic near Malaga, Eng- lish repdrts state that the telegraphs and railroads lave been destroyed for a great dfstance around Madrid, The irish political aumesty question agi- tated England considerably. Sorusatom, A great Israelite councl! has been held in Berlin, having for tts object the maturing of a pian of relief for the distressed brethren in Western Russia, Emigration to the United States was generally advocated. @he brethren in America are appenied to, an’ the HERALD thanked for its advocacy of @ general toiesation in matters of religion. A Despatches trom Fernando Po state that a vole Mituared on the matnland of the west coast, ls In active eruption. Paraguay. Later despatches confirm the report that Lopez is at San Eetanisiaus, but farther state that he is try- ing to reach Bolivian territory, Miscellaneous. 4 eession of the Cabinet was beld yesterday, only for the transaction of routing business, the Prest- dent's ab e having deferred the vegular meeting of Frid The further trial of the privateer Cuba in Wil- Mington as beon postponed wntil Monday, General Thomas has forwarded a report of his observations in Alaska to the War Department, Ne #tates in substance Uiat our new possessions are not worth much to anybody but the oMcers who are paid a salary by the government to live there. Tue soil cannot be cultivated nor stock raised to advan- tage. The condition of Admiral Farragut is greatly Improved, and his physicians now have strong hopes that lie will fully recover his health, Tho massacre of the government surveying party, under Nelsom Buck, near Fort McPherson, by Indians, is reporfed. ‘Ihe party consisted of twelve mien, all of whom are said to have been killed, ‘The Yonusyivania Court of Common Pleas yester- devided the contested election case In Philadel- A Which was Instututed a year ago, by throwing except Mayor Fox. jhe Commercial Convention at Loulsville has Hnviy adjourned, Mr, Filmore in his closing ac (cess sald that he would most probably never oy lo appear ina public nvention, ‘The Mayor of Wilmington was recently arrested, Mued and tmprisones Ly a judge of a spectal court fa that city for contempt. Le was veleased, bow- ever, by the habeas corpus. The members of the Virginia Legislature are re- turning to Richmond, and among the seuatorial Probabiitites now is Mentioned General Muifora, A (rostle Work connected wiih te new Ohio river bridge at Louisville was demolished by a locomo- Wve yesterday and six mon were precipitated ninety. ull the democratic incumbents of city offices five feet to the water below. Four of them wore Killed aud the other two were shghtly injured, The City. ws The committce of the Nineteenth ward Citizen? Association, which is moving for more accommoda: tion in the means of uptown travel, called on Com- modore Vanderbilt yesterday, aud urged him to butld the street railroad along Madison avenue for which he and the Harlem Ratlroad Company have the franchise. He said he was anxious to do it, but referred them to his son William. The jury mm the trial of Robert Berry for the mur- der of James Vonegan, in Brooktyn, disagreed yes- terday, and were discharged. With but few exceptions the markets yester- day were very qutet, Values, however, were generally steady, Coffee was moderately sought afterat steady prices, while cotton was in fair request and firm at 26%c. for middling uplands. On ‘Change flour was in moderate demand and firm. Wheat, was quiet, Dut firmly held. Corn and oats were in fair request and firm, Pork was quiet, but held with firmness, Beef Was steady, while lard was dull and heavy. Naval stores Were generally quiet, but steady. Petroleum Waa quiet, but closed strong at former prices. Freights, though quiet, were more steady. Whiskey Was without decided change, The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant, Gold was duil at 120 a 13034, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge H. Castleman, of Georgia; Major A. L. Chew, of Geneva; Dr. Evans, of Washington; Right Rev. Dr. J. Kemmsey, of Dubuque, lowa; Dr, FE. Hillyard, of Easton; Colonel A, McGormick, of Porto Rico; Judge L. E. Thompson, of Connecticut, and Judge W. L. Lewis, of Salt Lake City, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor Williams, of Cambridge, ts at the St. Charles Hotel, Judge BE. P. Norton, of New York; J. Phillipa, of Chicago; George 8. Hale, and H. N. Palmer, of Bos- ton, are at the St, Denis Hotel. Captain V. Bonincakofaky, of the Russtan Army; W. 8. Church and Attorney General Hammond, of Albany; Lieutenant Commander Abbott, of the United States Army, and Mr, Barreda, the Peruvian Minister, are at the Hoffman House. Richard Busieed and N. W. Trimble, of Alabama; J. 0, Collins, of Georgia; Wm. Chitwood, of Syra- couse, and Edward Kemp, of Red Bank, are at the Everett House. Wm. Wilkinson and E, B. Cornell, of New York, and John C. Reid, of Stockton, aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotei, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont; EF. E, Dunbar, of Staten Island, and ©, B, Dorr, of Voiedo, are at the Coleman House, Chambers, of Boston; J. A. Webb, of Wis- J. H. Smith, of Chtcago, and D. J. Monell, of Johnstown, are at Astor House, Prominent Departures. General N. Eilidge, for Washington; E. B, Fh. lips, A. Keep, for Chicago; C, F, Hatch, for Cleve- land; Bishop Rappe, Bishop Westerholt, for Europe; Amasa Stone, Jr, for Cleveland; Colonel James Barclay, for Utica; Dr. Coolidge, for Boston; J. EB. Seykes and lh. H. Attwater, for Philadelphia; Gen- eral Tibbeits, for Troy. In the sieamship Lafayette, for Havre via Brest, Count Foucher de Cariel, Mr. L. E. Chittenden, for- merly Rogistor of the Treasury under Chase; sons of General Benjamin F, Butler; Mr. Quincey, son of Mr. Josiah Quincey, of Boston; Archbishop Purcell, of Ohio, and about thirty bishops from all parts of the United States, The Counctl, the Pope and Father Hyacinthe. In connection with the approaching Council we have at last got hold of a fact. If not a fact, it is as near fact as such things generally are. The Civilia Cattolica is ad- mittedly the organ of his Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth. The Cévitta is conducted by and in the interest of the Jesuits, But as the Jesuits now manage the Pope what the Civilta says is authoritative, It is so accepted all over Europe and in every part of the world where facts are appreciated, In Germany, where the Council has provoked extensive discussion, the Céeit/a has on all hands been regarded as the organ of the governing party at Rome, The worst fears entertained respecting the probable doings of the Council have been en- couraged by the Civilta. In‘its protracted con- troversy with the Allgemeine Zeitung it apoke with an authority which was unmistakable. It now justifies Father Hyacinthe in the bold and Luther-like course he has taken, by informing us that the Couucil has been “sum- moned not to deliberate on and decide ques- tions by the vote of the majority, but to ratify decisions already resolved upon by the sove- reign and infallible Pontiff.” This is plain speaking. Itis the very thing we wanted. The letter of Dr. Cumming, of London, brought out some important facis. It was stated in the Pope's reply that ‘Protestants and othor non-Catholics” were not admissible to the Coun- cil until they first repented and humbly sued for admission to Mother Church. It was also stated that matiers which had been settled could not be reopened for discussion, Regard- ing Protestants and other non-Catholics this was intelligible enough; but it still left us the liberty to indulge the hope that when the Catholic bishops themselves met in council opinion would be freely expressed and the vote would be honestly taken—in other words, that the Holy Father would preside and the majority would rule, This latest voice from Rome, this last utterance of the Oivilta, dis- pels even this pleasant illusion, The Council is lo be 8 dumb show, nothing more. Let us grasp Ris wondrous thought of the Civitta. Lotus see If we Ungeretand it. It has been a favorite doctrine of the Church in all ages, and, indood, of all sections of the Chureh, that the Church in council, or synod, or general assembly, or convocation, was under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and that its judgment was infallible, This is intel- ligible. Not to speak of divine guidance at all, it is difficult to conceive of any higher wisdom than that which is arrived at bya large body of men, acting with a full know- ledge and just appreciation of their represen- tative responsibility. This is a general truth, The only trouble in the matter is that when men are gathered together in large numbers and in a representative capacity we seldom find that responsibility is felt by them to be #0 important as personal and factional interest, The infallibility of ecclesiastical councils is more 4 name than a reality, ‘For as much as they be composed of men, they may err and sometimes have erred in things pertaining unto God.” Still, as two heads may be wiser than one, it can scarcely be called an offensive fiction to say that general or ecumenical councils are infallible, Nobody believed it, but no one cared to dispute it, If it was not absolutely true it was not absolutely false, But there is a limit to human credulity. The burden of belief may become too heavy. When we are told that the bishops are not to deliberate, not to decide by the vote of the majority, but to ratify what has already beon resolved upon by the sovereign and infallible Pontiff, even those of us who were good Catholics enough to swallow the dogma of the Immaculate Conception begin to feel as if this new thing were a little too big for the afore- ity, of course, will be no objection. Tho more absurd the better. If the Catholic bishops journey from all the enda of the earth for no higher or more noble purpose than in the name of religion to appear as dumb dogs in a holy show, why should the people object? If the shepherds are satisfied, why should the flock complain? The Immaculate Conception will be removed from the region of the doubt- ful; and the Bodily Assumption and many other sweet delusions will take their place permanently in the creed of Rome, ity it is that Pio Nono is so far advanced in life, He has invested the Papal chair with ao many of the attributes of divinity that regret is natural that he cannot occupy it forever, Seriously, can we wonder that a man like Father Hyacinthe, a man of a warm and enthusiastic temperament, a priest delighting in his sacred work, an orator proud to point the way to heaven and to plead in passionate language with frail and erring mortals, a lover of truth and common & believer in what he does he says—can we wonder that he should felt his intellectual avd moral naiure insulted by the programme of the Council? If the good Father comes to this country, as it is said he intends to do, it is our intention to give him hearty encouragoment and support. We hope he will have the pluck and spirit to speak out and give an account of the faith that is in him. We are building a magnificent cathedral in this city, one which’ will stand comparison with some of the finest in Europe. We need such eloquence as that which the Father commands. If we cannot have him fora preacher merely, why can not we have him for our Pope? If they will not do things right in Rome, let us have a Rome and a Pope of our own. We heave a cathedral all but ready which will serve for our St. Peter's. We have money enough to provide for the legitimate wants of a Pontiff. Let us give the Ecumenical Council, Rome and the Old World generally a lesson. Tho visit of Father Hyacinthe will offer a good opportu- nity, It will not do for us to be tied to tail of Europe forever. eonse, and what have the Tar Suez Canat—A Lrrrie Hrros,—What isthe exact meaning of the telegram which announces that the Suez Canal must bo deep- ened before it can be a practicable channel for commerce? We cannot fora moment believe that, with all the calculation and engineering science that have been given to this labor, there is at last an insufficient depth of water, Doubtless there is a confusion in the despatch, and the breakage of the dam referred to has temporarily filled a part of the channel, Prm to tuk Cosans.—‘Liberiies and re- forms” are to be granted to the Cubans when they lay down their arms. So we hear from Madrid, But all history tells us that a people are more likely to gvt liberties and reforms when they do not lay down their arms. Let Prim disarm the people by the giftof the liberties they are fighting for, There is no other way. Tue Wuiskny Rina Cuanoina Its Tao- 7T103,—Some time ago the great activity of the whiskey ring was dovoted to bribing revenue officers, But now it either finds more difi- culty or the officers demand more money, and the ring discovors that it is cheap to hire half a dozen bravos and kill the officers at once. Moreover, dead officers never can tes- tify in the courts; but perhaps, on the whole, justice can deal better with the whiskey ring on this ground than on the other, Coot ror Octonrr—The recommendation of a New York democratic organ to Mr. Pen- dleton, of Ohio, to withdraw from the Presi- dential field ia favor of Horatio Seymour, inasmuch as Pendleton, having failed to carry his own State, will not do for New York and the East. We thiuk, however, that Seymour has also been tried and found wanting, and that as Hoffman has run far ahead of him in his own State Horatio must be laid upon the shelf with Pendleton, and that the deal will be made from a new democratic pack in 1872, Tak Hemrsteap PLains Exverprise.—Mr. A, T. Stewart has contracted for five hundred miles of streets and roadways on bis Hemp- stead Plains purchase, and purposes erecting thereon next summer, for the beginning of a town of workingmen’s homes, five hundred dwellings, one hundred of which are to cost thousand dollars each. What o magnifi- cent monument for gonérailons to wont? wail this grand work be to the chief of our merchant princes! May he live to see his undertaking fully completed, and the forthcoming town » city of fifty thousand happy and prosperous people! Parker Prisnury ANoNe tHe Sovrn Carortwa NiaGurs has had an awful waking up. He had supposed, no doubt, that they were “poor, but respectable ;” but he has found them little better than the barbarians of Dahomey—lazy, filthy, whiskey-drinking, ignorant almost beyond belief and horribly demoralized in every way. Pillsbury, how- ever, has set a good example to all his fellow negro worshippers of the Wendell Phillips coterie In going down South to sce for himself how far the ballot has elevated ‘‘the national freedmen,” for even Sumner would learn something to his adyantage in a Southera excursion in search of knowledge. fan Giory vrrsus Moxey,—Governor Geary, they say, has become very unpopular in his own camp in the Keystone State, while Packer, worth twenty millions of money, was proclaimed among the democracy as ‘‘Pensyl- vania’s favorite son;” but for all this Geary has won and Packer has lost the election. The moral is that the military services and the glory of Geary were too much for Packer's money, or that Packer, as his case demanded, did not shell ont, We facline to the opinion that in the late contest he acted wisely in fol- lowing the good old Ponnsylvania maxim that “a fool and his money are goon parted,” aS ae Ea BRR eR Sec “se nae Re oh ca fan SS cla Se eae ne eer ce eee ee ee ca en eee eee eee eee ne Guavtie tenn ae 3 i. a NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1869—TRIPLE SHERT. mentioned process. We feel something in our throat—wo éan't get itdown, Really, this new dogma of infallibility is hard to swallow. It has again and again been said that it was o main object of the Council to make all future councils unnecessary by transferring {nfalli- bility from tho Church as a whole to the Church's individual head. If tho latest utter- ance of the Civiléa be correct this great work is done already—the Pope ts infallible now, We may be fully prepared for any number of dogmas, Their absurd- Tho Roported Offer of the Rothschilds, Judging from the Washington despatch which we published yesterday there appears to be some movement on the part of the Rothachilds with » view of making a loan to the United States. If the extract of the letter incorporated in that despatch was written by Mr. Friguet, the agent of the Rothschilds, as etated, these great European capitalists seem to be in earnest. Accordi:g to this Mr. Friguot has communicated direct with the President, and that at the President's request, on the subject. This indicates that General Grant is paying particular attention to our national finances, and that we may expect something important bearing upon them in his measage to Congress next December. It is said the Secretary of the Treasury is somewhat annoyed because ho was not consulted in the matter, Wo do not see why he should be, for if anything should come out of such a proposition the business would be transferred, of course, to him, How- ever, we have more confidence in the strong, practical common sense of the Presi- dent thaa ia Mr. Boutwell’s financial theories, and shall be pleased to learn that the report of the consultations with Mr. Friguet is true. The Rothschilds understand, no doubt, the im- mense resources of this country, the stability of the government and the perfect security of an investment in our debt, for they see that while other nations are unable to meet their obligations or can scarcely make both ends mect we have a large surplus revenue coming in all the time. Tey could make a loan at four per cent for a long time on consolidated stock and easily dispose of it in Europe at a handsome profit, Still it is a question whether it would not be better to place any new govern- ment stock at home, for then the country would not be drained of the specie to pay interest abroad. However, It will be the duty of the government to make the best terms it can, whether at home or abroad, so as to reduce the interest to the lowest point possi- ble, and thus save the most to the Treasury and the peoplo. The Only Hope for Spain. The latest news reports from Spain by the Atlantic cables, detailing the progress of the civil war in that country, are calculated to inspire the most gloomy forebodings with respect to its future, social and political, and even for the duty of solf-government by its own sons, Accounts of battles, barricades, martial law, military executions, incondiarism and municipal anarchy meet the eye at every line of the despatches, while wo have at tho same time the indication that should Napoleon, as itis said he soon will, advance a French army corps of observation to the frontier, he may be indaced, at the request of some promi- nent native partisan politicians, to attempt a plan of cure which would be, if possible, worse than tho original disoase—by a positive Wrench invasion. Ia our mail correspondence from Madrid, dated some twelve days back, we can seo, however, a ‘ray of hope for the Spaniards—a little, yet bright, spot in the focus of national existence—a trivial, yet clear, spring source fer national recuperation, It presents itself in the shape of the intelligence of the practice of an honest everyday industry by juvenile Spaniards, and that, too, under circumstances of the greatest personal difficulties and danger. Tie Spanish newsboys keep steadily at work and cry out their papers— which have “lots of battles” and “first rate extras”"—regularly, taking no heed of either the army men, the politicians or Bonaparte, During the progress of the bat- tles in the sireets of Barcelona, when the gov- ernment alarm guns were sounding, and even at the moment of the last bayonet charges of the troops on the insurgent positions, the news- boys went roundthe city erying out ‘Mani- festo of General Pierrad to the Spanish peo- ple,” “News from Cuba,” “General Prim’s speech,” with other sentences of an equally exciting character, The “boys” succeeded. They attracted allthe stray cash which was “ying around” to their owa pockets, while the great army men, always waiting fora ‘big haul,” or for something good to “turn up,” had not the Madrid equivalent of a ten ceat Amer- ican “stamp” in their pouches. ‘Young Spain” will “come out all right.” The newsboys will, it is to be fervently hoped, grow up to be men, and should Spain exist till they mature then will come the hour and means of her regenera- tion, Our exporiences in New York leave no room for doubt on the subject. Some of our most acute and practical legislators—munici- pal and State—commenced thair life career as newsboys; the universal sales demand of the “great extras” of the Heratp from the very earliest days of the existenco of our paper furnishing them profitable material for the at- tainment of a really solid wealth, and, what is much bettor, the acquisition of steady, solid business habils, It will be so, we sincerely trust, in Spain, Industry cannot perish so long as the printers and the newsboys stick to their work; for whofe Industry lived a nation ¢gannot die, The Spanish nawsboys are the “eomfng men” of Spain. Soldiers will form “rear rank,” take “open order” and “dismiss,” and the newsboys ‘‘advance front.” The Fashious, We must refer all lady readers to tho lotler of our Paria correspondent for descriptions of the Paris fashions, which have lately been dis- played at the scene of the monstrous Pantia massacre ag well a3 on the Boulevards (includ- ing Mme. Ratazzi’s eccontric ‘‘green silk dress, worked all over with yellow parrots,”) at the wedding of the Duchess of Hamilton’s dangh- ter, and at hunting parties, The same striking variety of styles and especially of colors pre- vailing in Paris prevails also in New York, The ladies have decided already upon thelr favorite novelties for autumn and wiuter wear. On the basis of black—which predominates in the Medicis velvet bonnet, tho deep mourning bonnets of English crape, the most of the gros grain suits exhibited at the recent openings, and many of the alpacas and glossy Thibet cloth suits—are embroidered bright and vivid colors of rainbow variely and splendor, The chemist will trace this corruseation of brilliant hues toa petroleum origin, inasmuch as the discovery of coal oil has both cheapened pig- ments and fntensified their ects, But tho artist can only account for the extraordinary shapes of some of the new drossos by assum- ing that the belles who woar them have been smitten with a fancy for reversing the equili- brium of Punch, We cannot believe that even Hogarth could have discovered the lino of beauty in these grotesque forms. On the streets, in the concert rooms ond theatres, and at the races in Jerome Park, the ladies have lately shown a tendency towards ® modest simplicity in dress, But at weddings and dinner parties, at the opening balls of the season, and, we must not forget to add, in all the fashionable churches, fashion has spread its peacock feathers in the most dazzling man- ner, The church interiors look like so mony tulip gardens ablaze with variegated hues. The fair penitents, as they kneel in full dress, really deserve great credit for being able to take away their eyes from beholding vanity. The King of Prussin’s Carpet—A Royal Advertisement. ‘That the King of Prussia should uave a carpet, and a firat rate good carpet, too, is not at all wonderful, considering the great antiquity of bis family, the many excellent and economical housowives whose names adorn the current pages of his ancestral history, and the heavy treasury income and taxes of the North German Confederation; but that his Majesty should, at this late period of his very brilliant career, go into the carpet business himself on German account, and anticipate all his competitors, Eaglish, Belgian and French— Kidderminstera, Wiltons, Brussela, Turkeys, three-plys and ingralns—in edvertising his trade, is really more than we expected, and goes to prove, in manner both profitable and pleasing, the wonderful versatility of mind which his Majesty still enjoys, and hia ability of immediately comprehending the actual situation, whether it occur on a Sadowa field in war or behind the loom in time of peace, After such premises wo may mention that his Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth has been for some years ppst in sad need of a new carpet for the great hall of the Vatican, and, findiag himself just now in funds—particu- larly since the arrival of Archbishop McClos- key and other American prelates, with thelr huge specie snuff boxes and richly ornamented treasure chests and cathedral ‘“‘savings banks”—ventured to order one in Berlin, In doing so the Pope was, as any good old lady would say if she were likely to obtain a new carpet cheaply, just “in luck” and at the “nick of time.” King William, who had been reading a special report of the proceedings of the great Catholio Council which was lately hela at Fulda, in Germany, determined on agrand coup, both for the consolidation of Vateriand and the extension of the North Ger- man carpet trade, by presenting the carpet in all its required extent to his Holiness himself. Our special correspondence from Rome, pub- lished yesterday, told about this very inter- esting and really important matter in tho fol- lowing words:—‘“‘King William, having been recently informed that his Holiness had ordered a magnificent carpet at Berlin for the floor of the council hall in Rome, requested to bo allowed to sustain the oxpense of it, The Pope replied in terms of gratitude for the King's generosity, in memorial of which he hoped that the Mohenzollern arms would be worked beside those of the Maatai-Ferretti in the centre of the carpet,'as they will, the King being graatly plonsed, it is said, with the idea.” “Tha idea” don’t bogin to express it, Yt is more than an idea; f) is a really grand elabora- tion and combination of religious and com- mercial principles. The Pepe will accept, of course, and the Prassian carpet will be duly “laid” on the floor of the Vatican, When the members of the great Council assemble just imagine the surprise of the bishops—that of the Archbishop of Westminster, where they have first rate carpets, and that of the “Vicar Apostolic of the region of the North Pole,” who never had or it may be never saw a carpet—at beholding a splendid new one in a place whera they expected to find nothing very comfortable, if we except the ever present consolation of religion, Thoy will all ask about it, The master of the Papal household will tell them all about it, too, re- marking for their information, by grateful order of Pio Nono, how it was presented by the leading Protestant monarch of the Contl- nent, and was made in Berlin, adding—as would avy good-natured Irishman in New York, after knocking down a “mean fellow” or an Anglo-Canadinn—and ‘there is more where that was.” This will be the grand carpet advertisement of the day. The Catholic bishops are building churches so rapidly—particularly in the United Siates— that they require very large amounts of new carpet every month, How much, nobody can even guoss, will it take to furnish the new cathedral in New York, and how much more for the hundreds of new churches which are preceding and will follow il? Heve are grand maris for carpets, with cash payments, Kiag William say the chance, and went “in for it,” while Napoleon let the opportunity slip from the hands of France by his ‘‘persouat liberty” and other abstractions, The King of Prussia’s carpets aro even now duly advertised, and Berlin mannfactura will be required from Sierra Leone to the antipodes and San Sal- vador, Thay will be known fo Christendom “favorably” after the adjournment of the Roman Council, a fact of which Mr. A. T. Stewart and all other heavy dealers in the article will, we are certain, take due note, ‘The Prussian plan of advertising will not, we hope, interfere with the Hxratp plan, the only one which really exceeds it in point of universality, Oh, no! plenty of room and lots of trade. Feranor on Tar Sranisa Frontier,—The report that Napoleon will send an army of ob- servation to the Spanish frontier is not with- out some foundation, The thing has either bec ordered or its propriety has beon dis- cussed in the French Ministry. In it we seo how much Napdicon fears the development of republicanism in Spain and how much power the people’s movement has, despite official telegrams, Tugy Can’r Sze Ir,—The Workingmen’s Union received somewhat cavalier!y the soft approaches of Smith Ely the other evening in behalf of a political fusion with the Democratio Vaion managers. Mr. Young, President of the Workingmen's Union, put some hard questions to the smooth and gentle Ely, with which he wont away ae with a flea ia hisear. The workingmen are evidently striking for bigher game than Mr, Bly, " SE RS RR Ea a a eR pee an The Ruins on the Gila River. Some of the gentlemen who carry tape in the service of Uncle Sam, and who are engaged in locating on the face of this Con- tinent those painfully straight township lines that make the maps 60 very uninteresting, have just stumbled on somo of the ruins of the half-buried Mexico of the past, and they seem to fancy they have made great discoveries. They have found a region “abounding in ruing o elaborate and sometimes magnificent struc- tures, together with relics of obliterated races, possessing knowledge of the arts and manu- factures;” a region, moreover, hearing evi- dence of having been formerly under a high State of cultivation for centuries.” These geatlemen are so far from having made any notable discovery that the ruins they describe ~ have been for some years sot down in docu- ments having so little of antiquity in them as the Land Office maps. It is known that of the different divisions of the ancient Mexican people that which inhabited the country on’ the Gila river was one peculiarly advanced in the arts of life, and possessed in a superior dogree of what ara called in this age the moral virtues, It gave another evidence, if one were needed, that the men who live in the best country will be the best men of any given family—another instance to assist the establishment, by induction, of the’ law in human history that man rises or falla according to the climatic conditions in which he lives and the soil from which he derives nutri-’ ment. All the views taken of the peopling of Mexico admit, we beliove, the theory of migra- tions. Indeed, migrations appear so constantly in ancient Mexican tradition that antiquariog cannot help themselves, There is also a gene- ral acceptance of the thought that the move~ ment was from north to south. It has been argued, but not generally accepted, that a race from Asia, having its seat anywhere on the upper Pacific slope, and growing or moving toward the east, came into the Mississippi valley, and perhaps made the structures that are found in Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky, but that, ooming in contact with the warlike race of red men, they were driven to the west. Assum- ing the fact of such a movement, and that it was always along great water courses, it may bo traced by the ruias of edifices that were built in the centuries of struggle. They, abound in New Mexico, and there are good llustrations of many on the Rio Grande, in the account of the military reconnoissance into the Navajo country made by the United States troops under Colonel Washington, The country on the Gila river might weil be- come the permanent seat of such a race, as the sea would stop further westward progress and the mountains behind: would be an efficient barrier against the barbarous, buffalo-eating enemy, It might be even the true valley of Anshuac, from which were subsequently to go out the builders of the city of Mexico; for it is never said in the traditions that the builders of that city were driven from their country by anenemy. They went out from “the land of the heron” as a colony, and became an over- teeming population. May it not have been the monument-strewn and well-worked region that Uncle Sam's surveyors are rubbing their eyea at in this nineteeuth century ? The Jerome Park Races. Notwithstanding all drawbacks on account of the heavy rainfall of this equinoctial season and of the financial convulsions of Wall street, the fall meeting of the American Jockey Club has been rendered memorable by some of the most spirited and closely contested races which have illustrated the history of the turf in the United States, When—at no remote period, we hope—an underground railway and an elevated railway shall have been completed, facilitating the indispensably requisite communications be- tween the lower and the upper parts of our thickly populated island, the crowds of enthusiastic lovers of a noble sport which, under proper influences, must contribute largely to the improvement of the fine breeds of horses that we may already boast of, will offer an agreeable contrast to the present meagre attendance at the races in Jerome Park. Experience will correct the mistakes which have been made by the exclusive few who fail to recognize the fact that the popular element is the most powerful in all the instt- tutions which appeal for encouragement and support to the suffrages of the public in a country where “all men are born free and equal.” DEPARTURE OF STEAMSHIPS YESTERDAY. The following steamers left this pore yesterday for the ports named:— Britannia, of the Anchor Ine, for Glasgow, via Londonderry, having on board 20 cabin passengers and about 100 to the siverage. Mer cargo consisted mainly of wheat, flour, tallow and provisions, City of Washington, of the Inman line, for Liver. pool, via Queenstown, With 66 passengers, As cargo she had, beflaes babi baie bacon, &c., $32,600 in silver bars and 2,000 sovereigns, Hogland, of the National lne, for Liverpool, via Queenstown, had 19 cabin ghd 140 steorage passen- gers; and as cargo 51,000 bushels of grain, 2,350 bales of cotton and 150 tons of provistona, Lafayette, of the French line, for Havre, via Brest 147 cabin passengers, with $78,100 in specie, 1, bales of cotton and a cargo of merchandise, City of Mexico, for Havana, with 46 passengers and an assoried cargo of merchandise, SATWIEE STRAARS, For New Orleans, Gciieral Meade, with 41 cabin and 2 ateerage passengers, and @ cargo of general morchandise. me: je Holo, 20 pagsengers and o cargo of merchan- 0. George Washington, 12 cabin and 21 ateerage pas- songore and a cargo of merchandise, For Galveston, Texas, Wilinington, with 27 cabin and 7 steerage passengers and @ cargo of general merchandise, . Por Alexandria, Va,, Joun Cidson, no passengers, @ cargo of merchandise. For Charieston, 8, C., Manhattan, with 62 pam songers and a full cargo of ierchandise, Yor herb ut ea 60 passengers and a very large ca: For Padanevia Kepinvail, Alaska, with about 600 paszengere aud @ full cargo Of merchandise, ——$—$—$—$—————— en KILLED ON BOARD A STEAMER, A day or two age Frederick Van Basson, a carman in the employ of a White Street firm, by mistake do Iivered two cases of godus On board the steamship Montgomery, lymg at pier 13 North river. Subse quently, hearfag of his error, Van Basson returned to e steamer for tte goods, and willie between decks slipped ‘and fell into the lower hold, thus receiving@ fracture of the spine and other injuries. He was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where death subse. quently ensued, and Coroner Schirmer was notified to hoid an inquest, Deceased was twenty eight ears of age and a native of Germany, Jevoawd jas left & Widow living at 222 East Fourth street, FINE ON A STATEN S3LAND STEAMER, Ag the Staten Island ferryvoat Thomas Hunt wae on her Heual trip to this city yesterday at twelve o'clock a fire broke out on board and great conster- nation prevailed among the passengers, who had a narrow escape. The fire wae] at Ob, before It had made much headway, by tie offi of tac boat, acting under the direction of the assistant enginevr, Who was exceedingly agtive-