The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1869, Page 8

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVETING. FRENCH THEATRE, Mth at, aud 6th av, SEAGON—SAN. BOOTI('S THEATRE, Sddat., borwoen Sth and 6th avs.— Many War enna OLYMYI THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tan Srerers oF New Youk. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Ixton—Tor; on, Tur Rexprzvous, &. FIFTH AVENUE THE, fourth sircet.—As You Lik: way. TH ifth ayenus and Twenty: NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bi CBLEURATED Puay ov EAST LYNNE. WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Broad’ corner ‘Thirticth wt.—Matinee daily, Periormanve every eveuing. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broatway and ich street Proauriss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery GyOmME AND Waite Wanrion. —Monrs Cnristo—REp GRAND OPERA HOUSE ot Eighth avenue and ‘25d street.—CuanLes O'MAL WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—A Gnanp Vanirry ENTERTAINMEN QPRMAN STADT THEATRE, La Beri HELENA. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Huéerry Dumpty ~Hiocory Diccory Doox. Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— HAMLET. a ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth streot.—HinmMann, PRESTIDIGITATEUR. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comro Vooatism, NEGRO MINSIRELSY, & THE THEATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- 1sM, NRGRO Avis, &c. a BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth @t.—BRYANIS' MINSTRELS—NrGKO OLTIES, &C. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broatway.--ETHLo- PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGHO ACTS, 40. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASII0 PEBFORMANORS, Av. AND EXHIBITION, Empire ‘Open day and evening. AMERICAN INSTITUT! ‘Skating Rink, Sd av. and 63d HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, MuverRe.s—Unpdex tHe Laur NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broalway.— SOIENOK AND Aat. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF Broadway.—FEMALES ONLY IN ATTENDA: ae TRIPLE Brooklyn.—Hooury's 16K. oe New York, Tuesday, October 19, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. Tocrensing Circulation of the Herald. We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at as early an hour as possible. Our immense and constantly compel capable of printing seventy thousand copies an increasing editions us, notwithstanding our presses are hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o'clock P. M. THE NEWS. Enrope. evo telegrams are ated October 18. Earl Derby was sinking graduaily and bis death is looked for atany moment. Prince Gortschakoil was im Paris. The King of Belgium was invited to meet Napoleon at Compéiigne. ‘fhe druggists io Madrid report extraordinarily heavy sales of turpentine and other imiammabie materials, and a city revolt, accompanied with incendiar- ism, was dreaded. ‘The joss of life among the troops at Valencia was trifling, and the capture of the town hud a tranquillizing edect @ll over Spain, A London journal thinks that Prim Das ihe chance of becoming the most powerful @tatesman of Spain, Two sessions of the French Cabinet were held at Compéigne. M. Drouynde L'Huys takes the foreign portfolio of france tempor- arily. The French radicals and “reds” issued a Manifesto against the imperial delay iv convoking the legislative session, in which they set (emselves forth as the only friends of the people. By steamships we have interesting mail details of our cable telegrams to the 9th of Ociober. The French transatiantic steamship Pereire reached this port yesterday afternoon, having rus trom Brest in eight days aud sixteen hours, anexico. A telegram from the city of Mexico, dated the 11th inst., via Havana the 18tn, states that Secretary Seward arrived at Manzanilla on the 7th, and that preparations were being made in the capital to receive him as a guest of the nation, an honor never before conferred upon a foreigner by tae Mexican governmecat, Miscellaneous, Tho Virginia Legisiature reassembled yesterday. A resolution congratulating the country upon the fadical victories in Pennsylvania and Unio was offered in both houses, bul was laid on the table in the Senate and the House adjourned without taking any action upon it. Young Rovert Douglas, the private secretary of President Grant, is election: ing actively ror General Wilaams for United States Senator. y | Righty-sixth street was adopted. The trial of the Hornet at Wilmington has been | postponed until Thursday, Itis reporied now that the government oficials are confident that sie will be condemned and dismanticd, Captain having assumed command on the high seas will probably be released, while the paymaster will be held, Tue Frolic has been joined by the revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch. President Grant, in conversation with our Wash- ington correspondent yesterday, denied naving held any correspondence with M. Friguet relative coa loan from the Rothschilds, and did not rememner to have ever held any conversation with that gentle- man on the subject. The new postage stamps have been designed by the Bureau of Engraving, and are sald to be a great improvement on the old ones aud on those now in ase. President Grant’s head ts to be on them, The Supreme Court has not yet delivered an | opinion In the Yerger ease. SmaMpox is reported auiong (he Indians on the Upper Missouri and on Milk river. Alexander H. Stephens as been confined to his | house since February by sickness, and has no hope of ever getting about agai. The new two-dollar bills will be issued by the Treasury Department to-day. The ones aud tens will be out in @ week or two. The relics of St. Zeno were removed from Bonse- @ours church, in Montreal, on Monday tw the Bishop's Palace, with great ceremonies, over 35,000 People joining in the procession. Fort Benton, an old government post, situated In Montana, on the Missoun, near the head of naviga- tion, has been reoceupied by reguiar troops. Gibbons, the new Disirict Attorney of Philadel- phia, took possession of nis office yesterday, A writ of certiorart, carrying tus case to the Supreme Court, was issued by Judge Sharswood, it is said, before the recent decision was given. On Sunday the car shops of the Lake Shore Ratl- road st Buffalo were destroyed by tre, together ‘with alarge number of passeuger and other cars, car materials, &c, Loss over $900,000; fully 1a sured. Montreal was Visited with slight falls of snow yesterday, the first of the season. ‘The proprietor of a cotton factory near Stockholm, Sweuen, has purchased a large wact of laud tn | Southeast Missouri, where he intends establishing colonies of bis countrymen and to bulid factories, 4%, Wwch wil give employment to 1,300 families, Higgins | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. A portion of the colonists are already on their voyage to this country, Admiral Farragut’s hoatth is improving raptdly, The City. The Democratic Unton County Convention met Last evening and nominated judiciary and county oiticers, The Republican County Convention also met and made their county nominations. The list of nomi- nees will be found in another column, In the Board of Aldermen yesterday the question of up town travel was introduced, and a resolution permitting the Fifth avenue line of stages to run to The lower Board concurred in the resolution. Owen Hand was tried in the Brooklyn Court of Oyor @nd Termimer yesterday for the killing of James McVonnell at the Citizens’ Gashouse, ia August last, and found guilty of murder in the first degree, He was remanded for sentence. His wile and two children and Mrs. O'Donnell and her infant were seated among the spectators during the trial. Father Hyactuthe arrived at this port yesterday by the steamship Pereire, The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Lock- head, will leave pier 45 North river at ove P. M. to-day, for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N.S, to land and recelve mails and passen- gers. ‘The Ramburg-American Packet Company's steam- ship Silesia, Captain Trautmann, will leave Hobo- ken at two P.M. to-day for Hamburg, calling at Plymouth (England) and Cherbourg. The matis will close at the Post Oftice at twelve M. The stock market yesterday opened with great buoyancy, In sympathy with continued activity in the Vanderbilt shares. Harlem was the feature, owing to the expectation that the company will lay a horse railroad track tn Madison avenue to accom- modate the residents of Yorkville Who are 80 actively agitating for better travelling facliities, Gold was sveady at 130 a 13024, Witii only moderate receipts and a passably active demand the market for beef cattle yesterday was quite steady. Prime and extra steers were sold at 154gc. a 163gc.; fair to good, 144%c. a 150, and inferior to ordinary, 9c. a l4¢c., the major part of the sales being at 1%c. a 1b\C, and the average price being about ide, Milch cows—Good were more in demand and firmer, while common were dull and heavy. Prime and extra were quoted $95 a $125 each, fair to good $80a $90 and inferior to common $50 a $75, Veal calves were moderately active at 12c. a 13c. for prime and extra, 1040. a 11}¢c. for common to good, and 90. a loc. for inferior, Sheep were moderately sought after at steady prices. Prime anda extra were quoted 63;¢. a 744c., common to good 5c, a 6c, and inferior 4c, a4}gc. Lambs were selling at 7c. a 840, a 10¢, for common toextra, For swine the market was quict but steady at 9isc, @ 103¢c. for common to prime, with arrivals of 6,335 head, chiefly for slaughterers. Prominent Arrivals in the City. N. D, Clapp, of Chicago; E, Stanley, of California; Captain Butum, of Providence; Hamilton Harris, of Albany, and E. G. Beckwith, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Caleb Rice, of Massachusetts; Charles Schalers, of Philadelphia; Captain E. B, Raymond, of New Jer- sey, and B, Napier, of Albany, are at the Astor House, Antoine de Cunha, of Lisbon; Havier Laficha, of Chicago, and E, J. Brisbon, of Belfast, are at the £ ‘oort House, General L, M. Frost, of Staten Island, and Potter Paimer, of New Orleans, are stopping at the New York Hotel. General Robert B. Parker, of New York; Frank Bisel, of the United States Army; Captain Clark, of ‘toronto, and Dr. Sunderland, of Philadelphia, are at the Glenham Hotel, Major J. H. Hudson, of Richmond, Va, and Alfred Cutlip, of Sharon, Pa, are at the St. Nicholas Evans, of New Rochelle; Henry Burden, Jr., and J, W. Burden, of Troy, N. Y., are at the Albe- marle Hotel. Colonei H. M. Black, of West Point; R. U. Hall, of Baltimore, and Dr. Billings, of Georgia, are at the Hoffman House. Lloyd W, Williams, of Baltimore; J. F. Reynolds, of Virginia, and Rufus H. King, of Albany, are at the Coleman House, Prominent Departures. Attorney General Hammond left for Albany. Tac Presidential Succcession—The Power and the Opportanity of Tammany Hall, The New York democratic journals accept with a remarkable degroe of resignation the defeat of Pendleton in Ohio. They rather like it, in fact. As the rebels accepted the capture of Wilmington, the ‘‘unterrified” of New York accept this Western misfortune, as “a blessing in disguise.” It disposes of Hoffman's only dangerous rival. It gives the inside track for the succession to New York and to the new and imperial Regency of Tam- many Hall, The influence of New York, too, in the councils of the party is far greater now than at any time heretofore, because she is the only Northern State of any consequence recovered by the democracy since the war and now retained. In this view of the game for the succession | the advantages of the situation, on the first | glance, are so manifestly in the bands of Tam- many that some of the lesser Indians of the Wigwam are said to be arranging their plans for 1872 upon the basis of Hoffman's nomination for the White House, We know, however, that since the nomination and elec- tion of Martin Van Buren as the anointed successor of “Old Hickory” it has been, as «a rule, the greatest misfortune to our Presidential aspirants of either party to be too soon in the field, In the cases of Van Buren in ida, and of all (he ‘old fogies” and ‘“hold-overs,” as they were styled in 1852, including on the one side Cass, Buchanan and Marey, and on the r Webster and Fillmore, and in the case of Seward in 1860, and in the grand collapse at Charleston in the same year, we have learned how far our Presidential candidates depefid upon the chapter of accidents and eleventh hour cliques and combinations. Even in the Tammany Hall Convention of 1868 from | the very beginning the only thing that was generally regarded as certain was the defeat of ; Pendleton, and because, coming into the Con- cliques were from the first combined against him. ‘This, then, is the danger {to Hoffman. We find, moreover, that with this last failure of Pendleton to regain Ohio the bewildered West- ern democracy are turning again to Chase, and that the Southern democracy in the mat- ter of negro suffrage, on their new platform, are so far in advance of the party in the North that they stand in the attitude of a new and independent organization, The policy of Tammany, then, is rather to keep Hoffman in the background than to push him forward, and to seek mean- time the high distinction of the leader of the Northern democracy out of the Dismal Swamp of the dead issues of the past and into a fusion with all the anti-radical elements of the South. Nothing of this sort can be expected until after our November State elec- tion, or rather till after the reassembling of Congress and some proceedings indicating the drift of the party in power. Expectations are still entertained in certain quarters of a rup- ture between Congress aad General Graat, but vention the strongest candidate, all the otber | | several different parties, and thus made his he who builds upon this foundation is, we think, building upon the sand. The reassembling of Congress will oe none the leas an important event to both political parties, It will practically mark the begianing of a new chapter in our political affairs. Southern reconstraction will be comploted, and negro sufirage in the fifteenth amendment will be settled. Weshall have in the President's message a definite expression of his views and policy, internal and external, and es- pecially on the money question, On Cuba and the Alabama claims we do not expect much in the message, but nevertheless these questions will have to be met. All the signs of the times point to General Grant as the republican candidate for 1872, All the leaders of the party appear to have yielded to this idea. Tho succession, then, depends upon Grant's administration and upon the issues yet to come out of it, Meantime the republican party has acentral point of cohesion in the administra- tion, while the democracy, East, West and South, are all adrift, The only substantial nucleus they have around which to rally is the Empire State, and as in this State Tammany Hall wields the balance of power, it becomes the right and the duty of Tammany to shake off the old rags of the age before the flood and to put on the new garments of the age we live in, and so to prepare the way, under a new Southern balance of power, for the march of the democratic party to a new reign and a new dynasty. Disorganized, demoralized, and with- out any broad and general policy or purpose, as the democracy now stand, on national issues, all the pipe-laying of this clique or that clique, for this man or that man, signifies nothing, In reorganizing the party for 1872 Tammany Hall is in the position to lead the way and to gain the controlling voice held by the old Albany Regency under the rising star of Martin Van Buren. Spanish Barbarities In Cuba. The letter of the poor Cuban prisoners who were massacred by the Spanish soldiers at Jiguani to the foreign consuls, which we pub. lished yesterday, shows how these unhappy people dreaded the fate that befell them, This appeal to the Consuls of England, France, Prussia and the United States would not have availed under any circumstances, probably, but could not if even the consuls had been disposed to interfere, for the signers of it were dead men before any action could have been taken, Such is the brutality of the Spanish soldiers and Spanish volunteers that these unfortunate Cuban prisoners apprehended vio- lence or death from those who should have guarded and protected them. Their language is extremely touching and prophetic. They say:—“‘We do not fear the sentence of the authorities ; we do not fear to stand before any tribnnal; we do not fear the rancorous hatred of our enemies, nor the slanders so freely circulated against us for the crime of daring to be liberals; but we have a dreadful appre- hension as to what will be our fate and that of our families.” And then, as if foreseeing their fate, they add:—‘‘And this apprehension is converted into a horrible fear when we call to mind our imprisonment, with the circumstances of which you are Koquatntef= that deed, which, had its full intent been car- ried out, would have deprived several inno- cent men of their lives, men whose removal was wrapped in mystery like our own—and this fear is converted into a terrible reality when we reflect that in a lonely region, in the midst of a civil war, we, accused of political offences which have never been proved, may cen) 3 meet our death from an altack, an encounter, a simple skirmish, a mere suspicion from those having us in charge.” How surely and dread- fully did these poor victims of Spanish op- pression realize the fate they apprehended! They were murdered in ‘a lonely region" by the brutal guards who escorted them and should have protected them. We kuow of nothing more horrible in the history of civil wars. It could not have occurred in this enlightened and civilized age with any other people than the Spaniards. It is sufficlent to canse our government and the other govern- menis of the civilized world to declare the war in Cuba a barbarous one, and to insist, in the name of humanity, that it must cease, If there were a spark of courage in the Secretary of State, or if the administration represented the American people on this Cuban question, such a protest would be sent to Madrid as would startle the Spanish government. Spain, in the atrocious conduct of the war in Cuba, has placed herself beyond the pale of civiliza- tion and international comity, and should be proclaimed the enemy of humanity. Tak Trovste IN Spats.—The Spanish Regency is acting with much vigor against the movement of the people, and this is in its favor ase government and would satisfy the world of its strength if it was not clear that it is fighting for life. {t possesses an army and has the will to use it, so it may put down the people. All depends upon the army, and apparently its obedience to its officers is not limited by any patriotic scruple in regard to fighting against Spaniards, No SwinpLers IN THE ArMy.—Two officers have just been dismissed the army for dis- honest acts. One would not pay his tailor or his landlord, and the other was quite a financier with his pay rolls, He sold his claim for pay, and sold the game claim to money go @ great deal farther than the army authorities think it ought. When shall we have in the civil service the same morality aa that which dismisses these men from the army for such offences ? GOVERNMENT IN LyDIANA.—In Indiana they are illustrating the primitive condition of ao- ciety before the tedious methods of the lawyers had come into any man’s thoughts, There was a dispute in which two men named Spring- stoor were killed. Ono of them was a mem- ber of the vigilance committee and just out of State Prison. Excited by the shedding of blood, perhaps, the committee came together, but apparently did not know exactly what to do, as the assailants of the Springstoors were out of the way. [i remembered, how- ever, that a man had previously been warned to Jeave and was not yet gone, so it adjourned to the neighborhood of his house and opened a fire of musketry. In a liitle while he left. Another man, obnoxious to the committee, was subsequently found dead in the woods, and two more are notified to leave, City Politico Mutiny Against the Tamma Ticket. The Hugacp having in its Saturday's issue published exclusively the forthcoming Tam- many Judiciary and Senatorial slates, has awakened the whole host of politicians into an active contest. The ring got a double surprise on Saturday morning last. Number one, at seeing their slate exposed in the Heraxp, the means and agency thereof being as far beyond Tammany comprehension as the reason for the presence of the rings round the planet Saturn, Surprise number two—which will give the leaders more immediate cause for action—the rapidity with which the slate became known, and the suddenness with which they were at once assailed by disappointed candidates and their friends. A few inde- pendent chiefs rallied their several tribes and prepared to go forth upon the warpath, pano- plied, as becomes braves anxious for the scalps of their foes and resolved to show no mercy, With regard to the Judiciary slate it may be said that there was but one candidate unaffected by the action of Tammany. Judge Clerke had been long aware that he would not receive the renomination, His numerous friends also feared it, and though he was anxious to retire @ strong move- ment on the part of the bar induced him to remain in the field as a candidate. The result is that the Democratic Union party wil! present the name of Judge Clerke for re-elec- tion to his present seat in the Supreme Court, ‘The reason assigned by the Tammany Regency for not renominating Judge Clerke is ably combated by him. In answer to the objection that if re-elected and the amendments to the new constitution were adopted he would reach the ‘‘ineligible age of seventy years before his term of office would expire,” he re- plies: —‘‘If such were to be the rule no judge over fifty-six years of age would thereafter be chosen, because he could not serve out 4 term of fourteen years, and many of the ablest and best judges now in office would have to leave the bench.” While no fault is found with the Tammany nominee, who is a worthy and an upright judge and an able lawyer, the rejection of Judge Clerke by Tammany gives the opponents of the ring a powerful weapon to wield against it. The Senatorial slate has also its opponents within the Tammany ranks. The most promi- nent candidate for the nomination in the Eighth Senatorial district was for a time ex-Senator Henry W. Genet, but the shuffle and cut of the political cards has resulied in Alderman Terence Farley turning up the trump and win- ning card, Mr. Genet immediately retires to his stronghold in the Twelfth ward and issues a declaration of war, and scatters his pro- nunciamientos broadcast throughout the dis- trict, announcing that he will beard the Tam- mapy lion in his den and fight him for the district on the ides of November next. However the spirit of disaffection or mutiny may be entertained, it will have but a brief existence within the Tammany ranks proper. The ring is master of the situation and pos- sesses the sinews of war, and will apply them without stint. Tammany has but one motto at progent emblazoned upon its standard, a most suggestive one—‘*1872"—and under it she is prepared to contend for the Presidential suc- cession. The disaffections or desertions of a few disappointed subordinates can have but little effect ong way or the other, either in shaping the action of Tammany or of affecting its policy in the coming campaign, whatever that policy may be. The Sitaagion in France. The political situation in France, as between the immobile and apparently unyielding system of Bonaparte’s imperialism and the newly awakened spirit of the radical democracy, looks serious. The oppositionist members of the Legislative Body assembled in extra par- Mamentary meeting in Paris yesterday and drafted and signed a manifesto in which they declare they will not attend in the Chamber on the 26th instant, as by so doing they might provoke a conflict with the Executive and thus impede the tide of healthy ‘‘revolution” which they assert is rapidly maturing to an overflow in France. They must not afford a ‘pretext for disorder,” but await the result of the meeting and go forward and ask why the day of assemblage was postponed, and steadily ‘urge the demands of the democracy of the entire country,” as a first means of redressing this “new wrong.” The democrats are well sup- ported outside, and French manifestoes are dangerous, Napoleon is aware of this. He is also ‘‘seeing” his friends; for we learn by cable telegram that Prince Gortschakoff has arrived in Paris from St. Petersburg, that M. Drouyn de L’huys has taken charge of the portfolio of foreign affairs and that the King of Belgium has been invited to join the Court at Comptigne, Bonaparte is far-seeing and prudent ; the French reformers ardent and advancing, St. Petersburg and Brussels may perhaps furnish a happy court of arbitra- tion intermediary between the opposing forces, The Paraguayan War—Latest News About Lopez. Various and contradictory are the accounts received here regarding the movements and position of Lopez. From Lisbon one day we learn that the fighting President of the Para- guayan republic, when last heard of, was making tracks for Bolivian territory. From the wording of the despatch we are left to infer that he is badly used up, and that his recent reverses have completely prostrated him, Fol- lowing this information, next day the news, via Paris, tells us that ‘Lopez has established new lines of defence at San Estanislaus, where he has @ considerable force of men and plenty of artillery.” Between these conflicting state- ments, however, it is not difficult to arrive at the situation of affairs. That Lopez has been driven from his capital and routed in several engagements is an acknowledged fact; that his ranks have been decimated by successive dis- asters is no less true; but that his course is ran is not quite so clear, Defeat has never yet broken his spirit or destroyed his energy, It is not going to do so now, Neither is his position 80 hopeless as has been more than once stated, If the report proves true that the allies have discontinued the pursuit, Lopez can bide his own time before ho assumes the offen- sive. He has the nucleus of au army around him, he is not altogether deficient in arms or ammunition, and that he possesses the undi- vided conidengo of the Paraguayaus is yadis- $$$ rr enti puted. With these advantages his case is not 80 desperate after all. Charch and State—The Roman Council. The probability that the coming Ecumenical Council may declare the Pope a true autocrat of souls—a ruler whose command of any description it would be eternal peril to dis- obey—has attracted some attention from Ger- man governments. These governments are on their guard against danger to their sovereignty and eager to prevent the very inception of dis- turbance. Hence one of them, inquiring of the theologians in its limits what would be the effect upon the relations of Church and State if the Council should declare the infallibility of the Pope as a dogma of the faith, has received for answer that in such case allegiance to the government when in collision with the Pope might not be regarded a3 a plain duty by believers. Now, there are several govern- ments in Europe that are strong enongh not to permit their authority to be questioned, even in the interest of the Pope, and some others that cannot afford to have this point agitated. It is pretty clear, therefore, that if this is made @ dogma its practical effect will be to rule the very Church itself out of all those countries, The governments of Prussia, Austria, Italy and Spain will not In this age admit their sub- jection to the Pontiff. The United States Supreme Court, Recent references to probable appointments to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States evince that among public men such appointment is coming more and more to be looked upon as the price to be paid for poll- tical services rather than as a recognition of great knowledge of the law, combined with personal probity. The nation at large should grieve to see a seat on the Supreme bench numbered among the things that are bargained for in political circles. If there is a Holy of Holies in our national temple it is that court; if there is one place that we ought all to com- bine in keeping perfectly pure and above the contamination of improper motive it is the tri- bunal having the decision of points that may involve the peace, the happiness, the liberties of a whole people. It is absolutely certain that a President cannot doa greater harm to the country than to appoint a man a Justice of the Supreme Court for party reasons, to assent to and continue the idea that has enabled men to count off the possible judgments of that bench by the politics of the men who sit upon it. We trust that this great evil, which began with General Jackson, may not stain the administration of General Grant. Taz Boarp or Hearn has at last decided that the establishment of the Rendering Com- pany at the foot of Thirty-eighth street ‘‘smells bad.” Some of its members visited the premises the other day, and so intolerable wero the odors that they could not stay long enough to properly examine the rendering apparatus; but the Board has so little regard for the health of those compelled to live in that neipupartae that it has Rot even yet com- * led the company to stop operations. Will 6 Board resign ? Tue City or Wasiincton.—There ia now quite a large population of the people who are settled around the national capital as purvey- ors tg the physiggl wagts of Congressmen, and lo! they desire to have a State govern- ment. The District of Columbia is what it is politically because it was necessary that Con- gress should have a] lace of meeting not sub- ject to any State law, and it iat continue 80; while for people that do not like it there is the choise of a the States for a change of resi- dence, Tue SuctaNn or Zanziwar felicitates M, de Lesseps on the completion of the Suez Canal in the gorgeously hifalutin style of the Arabic tongue; but he evidently has not heard that they have to deepen the canal before it can much ‘‘redound to the good of mankind and the prosperity of cities.” TAL AVONDALE REL!EF FU The Contributi this City Received at the Mayor’s Odice Pald Over to the Execative Committee of the Fund. Mayon’s Orrice, New York, Oct. 18, 1369, To THR Eprror oF THK HRtal The enclosed duplicates of a draft and receipt will tell that the money contributed to date by the people of New York city for vhe reiief of the dependents of the victims of the disaster in one of the mines of Avondale, and placed in trust in the nands of the citizens’ and municipal committee, of which Mayor Hall and Alderman Don Alonzo Cushman are respectively chairman and treasurer, has been paid over to the Central Commutiee of Wilkesbarre, Pa, Colonel Hendrick B, Wright, of the latter organiza- tion, in compliance with the request of the Mayor, visited this office tuis morning aud received the draft in person. 1 take pleasure In saying, tn just acknowledgment, that of the amount subscribed $8,832 were received through the New York HERALD, JOSEPH H, TOOKER, First Marshal. New York, Oct. 18, 1369. The National Broadway Bank—Pay to the order of Hendrick B, Wright, of Wilkosbarre, Pa., chairman ¥ Executive Comittee, and Henderson Gaylord, of 1 noah Pa., treasurer of the Avondale Relief Fund, $23,62 5 being the entire amount deposited in the bank to the credtt of Don Alonzo Cushman, treasurer for Avondale sufferers, to be applied to the benefit of the sufferers by the not ake mine disaster, DON AVR %0 OUSHMAN, ‘Treddtirer fF AVogdale Suterors, : New Yor, Get. £1, iso, Tecdived fram Don Alonzo Cushman, treasurer of the Avondale suiferers in the city of New York, ns check oa the National Broadway Bank, this date, payable to the order of Hendrick B. Wright, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., chairman of the Executive Com- Mifige, And Mendéfaon Gaylord, of Plymouth, Pa, treasurer of the Avondale Relief Fand, for the suin Of $24,626 61, belug the entire amount received by him for said object to this date. HENDHICK B. WRIGHT, Chairman Executive Commitiee Avondale Relief. THE TRIUMPH OF STEAM. The Atlantic Crossed in Two Handed and Kight Hours—The Quickest Passage on Record, The steamship Pereire, Captain Duchesne, of the Havre line, arrived from Europe yesterday, having made the quickest passage across the Atlantic on record. She left Havre on the dtu inst. at four P. M, and passed Sandy Hook yesterday morning at eight o’clock, making the entire distance of over 3,000 miles in eight davs and sixteen hours. Her officers report that she would have been tn five hours earlier had it not been for the strong head wind encoun- tered on the last two days of the passage. The Pereire has made a number of very quick passages, In November last she made a remarkable voyage, and her last trip preceding this Was also a very quick one. ‘rhe following 14 the log of the Pereire on this voy- age:— Dates. Oceowe Wind, 14 04 2% |South, light. at 28 |Rowthwont, strong. au K, Northeast, be Dd Buutheast, af & rd Yartubiey Noe ae, oak, Very BE |B RAL wees OBITUARY. mannan Joseph Ritner. ‘This gentioman, whose death was ann as having taken place at Carliaie, Pa., on Saturday last, was born in Pennsylvanta during the year 1779 and had consequently reached tho great age of ninety years. He first entered into political tife in 1835, when he was nominated for Governor of the State by the anti-Masonic element, and succeeded in being elected, owing to the democratic vote being divide belween Wolf and Muhlenberg. During hls admin- istration (in 1838) the notorious “buckshot war" in Pennsylvania took place, which resulted in Gover- nor Ritner calling out the State troops and in the recognition of the democratic Legisiature. This was at the close of his term. He was a candidate for re- election, but was defeated by David R. Porter, In 1840 Mr. Ritner was chosen a Presidential elector by the whigs of Pennsylvania, casting hia vote tor Har- rison, After that tume he lived tn comparative obscurity to his death. Moses Macdonald. A telegram from Saco, Me., announces the sudden death in that town, on yesterday, of Moses Macdon- ald, ex-member of Congress, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. He was born in Limerick, York county, Me., on the 8th of April, 1815, received a good edu- cation, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, from which thine to 1845 he practised his pro fossion with marked success. He early entered upon his political career, being elected to the Maine Legia- lature by the democrats in 1841 and 1842, In 1845 he Was Speaker of the Assombly and for three sucoea- cessive years (1847, 1848 and 1849) was elected ‘Trea- surer of the State. He had now become well known throughout Maine, and was especially popular in the First Congressional district, comprised of the county of York and a part of Oxford county, to the first named of which he resided, In 1850 the demooracy nominated him their candidate for Congress. The vote was small, the canvass having been spiritiess, but Mr, Macdonald was elected by @ plurality of 490 votes. On the expiration of his term he was renominated and was re-elected by over 2,500 majority over the combined votes received by Mr. Appleton, the whig candidate, and the late Senator Fessenden, who ran on the free-soller ticket. This was in 1852, when General Pierce was elected Preal- dent of the United States, carrying four of the six New England States, Hig career as a Representa- tive in Congress was acceptable, though nos particu- larly noteworthy. By 1854 the demecratic party was in a hopeless minority in Maine, and the new! organized republicans In full sway. Mr, Macdonai ‘Was Wise enough to decline a renomination, and thus avoided the defeat which the democrats met wita at the election of that year. He returacd to profesional life, from which he was again called in 1867 by Prest- dent Buchanan, who appointed him Collector for the District of Portland and Faimouth. ‘This position he filled creditably until his republican suceessor waa appointed by Presiaent Lincoln, Frou that time to his death he lived in retirement, James F. Cooper. The Atlanta papers of the 16th inst. bring us the intelligence of the death of this gentieman on the day previous, He was the only son of Cooper the eminent tragedian, and at an early age was sent to West Foint Military Academy, where he graduated seventeenth in his class on the 1st of July, 1834. He was commissioned second lieutenant of the Third infantry and served until August 26, 1887, when he resigned, to engage in civil pursuits, He was for some time assistant engineer of the Western and Atlantic Rallroad, belonging to the State of Georgia. Ln 1843 President Tyler appointed nim superintend- ent of the United States Branch Mint at Dahlonega, & position he held for six years, when he became chic engineer of the Mobile aud Girard Railroad, Ala- bama (1850-1), and tater of the Memphis and uharleston Ratlroad (1861-4). Durt this later year Governor Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, ap- pointed him superintendent of the Western aud At- lautic Railroad, He filled the office with credit for two years, when he resigned to accept the po ition Of Chilef engineer of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad, Upoa tue outbreak of the war Mr. Cooper embraced the cause of the South and became lieutenant colonel of a Georgta volunteer regiment. ile was a native of New York, but the best part of his life was speut at the South. The deceased bore a high reputation in Georgia, where he was looked upon as a most estimable, high minded gentieman, He leaves a wife and several children to mourn hts death. ARCTIC EXPLORATIDKS. Lecture by Captain C. F. Hall. Captam C. F, Hall Jast night delivered a lecture on “Arctic Exploratious”? at Steinway Hall, under the auspices of the American Geographical and Statistl- cal Society. The hall was well filled, both on the fdot and in the galleries, by a very fashionabie audience, a large proportion of which was com, prlaed St ladtes, 1m me absence of Juage Daiy, thd President of the society, the chair was occupied by Dr. Hayes, who introduced the lecturer, Captain Hall commenced by rewinding his hearers that but three weeks had elaps since his return to native country after five years of Voyage and travel in the Arctic regions. He should commence by informmg them of the motives which led him to make his expedition in 1868-59, While Lady Franklin’s last expedition, under thé Pai gti was pecescutiy ry gre for Sir Jol iy the speal ni A nen a merical apelin iS Tegel Wid the Knelish one. In the fall Of 1869 thi agin spoiled by ie feat or Moruintace, with the in! ut lgénée of uy 1e In pal ene Visto: tag ay skeie- tons Were found, but notwithstahd Ai wag believed that ali the party had perished. But tin lecturer determined to make a search, believing that some might yet survive. Karly im 1800 he started on his expedition, but was detained in what he christened Cyrus W. Field Bay, and had to wait two years be.ore he could return home to refit, Durtng this delay he feil in with traces of Froe bisher’s party and discovered many relics. The lec. turer then described his voyage on his second expes dition—his arrival in Rose Welcome, Karly in 1865 he started for Kepulse Bay, and after experiencing great hardship from liunger, and the loss of hia dogs from epidemic, he arrived there in 1866, In the fall of 1867 he started for King William’s Land, and on his way learned trom Esquimaux with whoi he fell in much iotelligence as to the fate of the Franklin party. Captain Hail’s account of this journey was intensely interesting, giving a wonderful insight into the manners and customs of these comparatively liutie Known Northern crives. He also ve some very starting accounts of the traditions and stories of the natives asto the Franklin party, including a recital of more than one conversation with men and women Who bad seen white men who must have beronged to tuat Lil-fated expedition. ‘The Captain also traced on a buge map, which hung atthe rear of the piatform, the course of his own Saree and also the wanderings of the Franklin party as he had learned them by conversation, ree search or relic, At the close of the lecture his interpreters, Joe and Hannah, were exhibited in their native Esquimaux costume, the Woman carrying a young child, accord. ing to her custom, ina bag placed upon her back, Many relics of Sir Jobn Franklin’s party were also exhibited. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Address of Professor Draper. ‘There was a large gathering of persons interested in the opening of the Medical College editice of the University of New York last evening, at the new structure recently erected at the foot of Twenty- sixth street and East river. The bullding—plain but substantial in its construction—is commodious, and includes quarters for all kinds of medical dis- quisition and eaperiment. Tho butiding cost nearlw $100,000. ‘Tho lecture room is well furnished and of good acoustic propertics. There 400 students, ventilated ap are accommodations for Paget! and some 300 Will begin with the term commencing Ww-day, following : tit — Professor a W. Dra reaiden' A, Poat, ptofessor of surgery. (. A. Budd, professor of obatetrica, J, ©, Draper, professor of chemistry, Dr. Darling, professof of anatomy. Ilenry Draper, professor of physiology. Dr, Thomson, professor of materia medica, Alter an introductory prayer by Chanceilor Ferrig Profeszor John W. Draper, M. D., LL. D., delivered the address of the evening, on “Education.” He said that there was a great ba oh! between what 8 is and what ought to nh medical in- struction. ‘The idea that ih 3 could be taught by lectures was fallacious ‘This system begun in’ the first medical college in Europe, Salerno, Italy, and was introduced by the Sara- cens, being adapted to their times, Now it was out of place in its extensive use, and should be adopted only when clearly practicable, The 8] went on to give his theory of how clildren should be edu- cated, holding that a too carly tuition was injurious to the healthy development of the brain, Of his own experience lie sald: —I was sent fo study Latin when only six years old, and, to add to te absurdity, wos expected wo flearn it from @ mmer written in the Latin tongne, At eight I commenced Greek, that also ina Latin book, a language watcn as yot I did not aitogether know. Peopie talk nowa- days of such and such studies being a discipline to the mind, In those bw days that resulé was reached through & discipline of tne body, The shortcomings and sins of the day were not expiated on the #pot, but an account was kept dure ing the week and a balance struck on Saturday morning. Struck i was in a double sense, not only by the mgures of delinquency added up, bul also by the aid of @ cane rattan, Which adjusted the whole account, | believe that this pons ment of punishment was considered ve of oxcetiont nse, a& familiarizing the youthful mind with the doctrine of future rewards and punish monts, It, however, only haif porformed that office. For myself L #aw little of the rewards and of then enjoyed still less, but of the punishments | ob- eoteba asingtiarly critical and comprehensive kaows ledge. The schoolmaster of those days thought it to be tis business to drive the nai of knowledge through his pupil's head and clinch it with repeated blows of his rattan at the othor end. That done the youth was Aupposed to be ready for the careor of life; but with such @ stiffening down his back, is it not @ wonder that he could go at all?” ‘The bene- ven by the Chancellor, and (ha diction was then Nigh i sudionce adjou