The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1869, Page 6

6 EW YORK HERALD BRCADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, N JAMES All busioess or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Aeeeeeesecereeeesee No. 292 Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTHS CHEATRE, 2dat., beiween ot and sia ari Many Watare OLYMriC THEATRE, New Yous. Matiuee at 2 Bro -Tun STRERTS OF THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street. —Ixton Tor; OW, Tax Rr vous, &e, 2 THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty. FIPEH AVENUE , As You Like Ir. fourth stree NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—-Tue CELEBRATED Puay or EAST LYNNE. i WOOD'S MUSEUM. CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner ‘Thirtieth s.— Matinee daily, Performance every evening, Broadway and With etree. — BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Moxte Oxisto—Rep Gnour ax Wiiie WARRIOR. GRAND OC ERA HOU ot Kighth avenue and He wiveet.—CUATLES O'9 WAVERLEY THEATR Vamiery EAthkvAtN 7220 Broadway.—A GRaNp tr. 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Increasing Circula of the Herald, We are again constrained to ask advertisers to band in their advertisements at as eariy an hour as possible. Our immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are eapable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usnal, and to facilitate the work we are forced to stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o’clock P.M. THE NEWS. Europe. Cabie telegrams are dated October 19 (evening). The Spanish government considers the republican insurrection ended. An attempted military con- epiracy was promptly suppressed by the Spanish authorities. The strike of the Faris merchants’ clerks is ended, The switchmen of the railroads entering Paris were organizing a strike. Marshal Bazaine is appointed commander of the Imperial Guard of France. French legisiators who attended the ultra radical meeting in Paris were assauited roughly oy the crowd. A Madrid paper says that the Cubans ere to ald insurrection in Spat in the hope of being declared independent by the republic. By special telegram, of later date, through the French Atiantic cable, we learn that fighting was renewed at Valencia, Spain, the insurgents having broken the terms of the capitulation arrangement and fired on the troops as they entered the city. By steamship at this port we have our special cor- reapondence, with interesting mail cetats of our ‘cable telegrams to the 9th of October, Cuba. Intercepted documents publshed in Havana go to show that the msurreciions in Spain were tastigated by the Cuban insurgents. The privateer Cuba, at Wilmington, wha iibelled yes- terday by the United States courts and surrendered to the gunboat Frolic. Captain Higgins was held as @ prisoner of war and the crew were put ashore. Miscellaneous, ‘The Tennessee Legisiature is balloting for a Sen- ator. Andy Jonson leads the ballot in both houses, but so far has notiing like @ majority of all the votes. Etheridge follows next. ‘The Virgmia Legislature yesterday elected Lieu- tenant Governor Lewis and Judge Johnston United States Senators, by a strict conservative majority. ‘The President, it is stated, expressed himself fully Satisfied with the selections made, ‘The Canadians are greatly exercised over a rumor that the Fenians nave equipped a gunboat and de- spatched ler to prey upon the towns on the upper lakes. The gunboat Prince Alfred was yesterday equipped for active service and started out ona cruise in search of the mythical Fenian. A militia battery of artillery has left Toronto for service on the Prince Alfred. Hayes’ majority for Governor in Obio is 8,078, The republicans have secured a majority of one in the Senate and three In the House. ‘The annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee 1s to take place at Louisville, Ky., November 17 and 18. Prince Arthur left the city of Ottawa, Canada, yesterday morning for @ hunting excursion on the Lower Ottawa river. ‘The railroad stock and registered securities stolen recently from Poughkeepsie have been returned through the mails. The Philadelphia Library Company have agreed to Accept the late Dr, Rush’s bequest unconditionally. It will be remembered one of his conditions was the probibition of all newspapers from the library a8 “unthinking chrometers.'” It 1s proposed by the State Department to change our Consuls in Enrope from place to place every year in order to prevent their entermg into business at thelr posts. General Hiram Walbridge has been addressing the Cinctonatt Exchange on the resuits of the Louisville Commercial Convention. Charles William Elliott was formaily inaugurated yesterday as President of Harvard Coliege. we gave a levee in the evening. Admiral Farragut is resting comfortably, Chicago has just organized 4 Stock Exchange. A petrified giant has been diseovered in Syra- cuse and turns out to be a huge atatue, which ts sup- posed to have been carved by early inhabitants and thrown in a slough. A fire 0 Providence. KR. L, last evening destroyea NEW YORK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. the old Washington [otol, The brilliant light of the flames caused @ pante in the theatre, but It was quieted down before any one was injured, The City. The Nineteenth Wara Citizens’ Committee, tn ac cordance with Commodore Vanderbilt's suggestion, visited his son William yesterday and obtained from him a promise to call his executive committee together and have the tracks put down on Madison avenue. Reports have been made by Supervisor Dutcher showing that the New York and Flushing and two other ratlroads under the same management, the Brooklyn city railroad companies and the Coney Island Kailroad have all made false revenue returns. A German, unknown, committed suicide at the Twenty-second street dock, East river, on Sunday, after first giving a small boy five cents to inform the police that he intended todrown himself, His motive 13 a mystery. The Cunard steamer Russia, Captain Lott, will sail to-day for Liverpool, via Queenstown. Tho mails by her will close at the Post Uftice at tweive M. The stock Market yesterday was in the main strong and aciive, the Vanderbilt stocks being again the feature. Gold was quiet at 150 a 1304. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General H. Porter, of Paris, and W. H. Stewart, ot Cuba, are at the Now York Hotel. Captain ©. P, Paterson, of the United States Navy; Stephen Comstock, of Norwalk, Ct., and A. J. Whit- ing, of California, are at the Everett House. Colonel Groesbeck and G. Hf, Hill, of Cincinnati; F. H. Laing, of New Orleans; Francis U. Thorpe, of England; General Steinfeld, bf Kansas; Paymaster Cunningham, of the United States Navy, and Juage Catteif, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E.M. Baker, of the United States Army; W. 5. Eaton, of Washington, and J. Valentine, of San Francisco, are as the Metropolitan Hotel. Capjain J. H. McKay, and W. W. Meser, of the United States Navy; Mf. Playle, of Havana, and Cap- tain T, P, Cary, of Massachusetts, are at the Hofman House. Lieutenant Governor Alien C. Beach, of Water- town; General A, S. Lee, of Louisiana; Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, and C. A. Washburn, of Cali- fornia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Striker, of Rome; 0. B. Madison, of Utica; W. P. Laywood, of California; P. H. Goodyear, of New Hayen, and J. B. Allen, of Philadelphia, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Judge Bustecd and Judge Trimble left yesterday for Alabama, The Democracy and the Next Presidency Chict Justice Chase the Coming Man. The old Bourbon leaders and managers of the Northern democracy have been again upset in the late elections. Pendleton in Ohio and Packer in Pennsylvania, the chosen repre- sentatives of the constitution of Buchanan and the democracy of Jeff Davis, even on a short vote, have goue to the wall. Their followers are puzzled. They had expected, from the prevailing indifference among the republicans, the election of Packer and Pendleton. The results show that the popular verdict on the issues involved in the election of General Grant remains and will remain unchanged ; and that ‘the constitution as it was” and the democratic party as it was when resting upon negro slavery are as dead as Julius Cisar, From the collapse of the Charleston Conyen- tion of 1860 down to this day the copperhead faction of the North have fought to the last ditch, step by step, the march of a resistless revolution. In the outset they were so strongly intrenched in the paramount con- stitutional rights of slavery that even Presi- dent Lincoln, an anti-slavery man, permitted General McClellan, in fighting the rebel- lion, to send the runaway slaves found within his lines back to their rebel masters, Under this system the war was a wretched failure. Campaigns were lost and great armies were swallowed up, until at last we thought it miraculous that the rebels were repulsed from the back door of Washington. At this juncture, 1862, through the sagacious John Van Buren, we prevailed upon Horatio Seymour, as the democratic candidate for Governor of this State, to take the field for ‘‘a more vigorous prosecution of the war.” Upon, this platform he was elected, and in a popular reaction against the military failures of Lin- coln’s administration all the Central States went the same way as New York. Here, then, was the line of success plainly marked out to the Northern democracy. It was to take the lead in the war for the Union and carry it through. In the same year, how- ever (1862), and just after the battle of Antietam, Liacoln gave notice that, unless the rebels should surrender meantime, he would, on next New Year's Day, proclaim the eman- cipation of the slaves in the rebel States. The day came and with it the proclamation, and straightway Seymour and all the Northern democratic Bourbons bolted back again into opposition to the war, as a war against the con- stitution in the matter of slavery. From that day to this the Northern democracy, under their copperhead leaders on the nigger ques- tion, have been thrashed and pushed from one position to another, until in these late elections they have been driven from their last ditch, hostility to negro suffrage, as embodied in the fifleenth amendment. The revolution is sub- stantially accomplished—the negro is hence- forth to be a citizen on the basis of equal rights, civil and political, and the constitution of 1787, and all the political parties and dogmas founded upon it are as much among the things of the past as are the old French nobility and their grand estates of 1789. So it is that Pendleton, Packer, Seymour, Hendricks, Vallandigham, and all that set of fossilized Bourbons must be laid upon the shelf, with the Dred Scott decision and the dogmas of Calhoun. So it is that, without leaders, without living principles, without any fixed policy or ideas of cohesion, the Northern democracy now stand. But not- withstanding the disastrous policy of their stupid leaders since 1842, they are still a powerful party, and under proper direction they may in a short time become again the dominant party of the Union. They have lost the substance in grasping at the shadow, like the dog in the fable; but surely they have had enough of this. Here in New York they have still something of their Jacksonian elasticity, and are hopeful and buoyant under the wing of Tammany, and they have faith in Hoffman, We fear, however, that the bow- string of the two-thirds rule will be fatal to Hoffman on the first twist; and what then? Pendleton or Packer or Hendricks, or some such fossil? No. Against General Grant in 1872 this would be worse than Seymour and Blair. Chief Justice Chase is the man, and the only man, for the democracy in the next battle. His name as the democratic candidate will at once extinguish all those obnoxious copper- head ideas so repulsive to the great Union party of the war, The lines which have thus divided the two parties since the war will be wiped out. The democracy will become a new party on new men, new ideas and new issues. In the nomination of Chase it will advance from the graveyard of dead politicians and parties in the rear to the front line of the marching column of events, The name and the record of Chase, too, on the nigger, on reconstruction, on our foreign relations and on the money question, will be enough as the platform of this new democratic party. His name will attract thousands of Union men in the North who would shrink from anything tainted with copperhead antecedents or repu- diation, and it will rally to the democratic standard thousands of republican niggers in the South. No man will be afraid of any attempt to put the government on the back track, or the nigger or the public credit, under the rallying cry of Chase. All such fears, which have hung as dead weights upon the democracy so long, will be removed, and with Chase as their standard bearer they will be strong as a giant refreshed with new wine. Accordingly, a3 Tammany Hall is the only nucleus left the Northern democracy possessed of political power, money and brains, we call upon the Tammany sachems to declare, at least, that a new order of things is upon us, and that the Wigwam is wide enough to receive, and will welcome with all the honors, the Chief Justice and all men of his opinions and faith as worthy members of the new democratic dispen- sation which is soon to come. This will do for a beginning; for with the baptism of the Chief Justice as a big Indian all the rest will be plain sailing. What says Governor Hoffman? of Gold Ring. The latest disclosures of the exploded gold ring give us nothing new that is tue and nothing true that is new. We have some feeble attempts from Gould and Fisk to mix up General Butterfield, General Grant and Mrs. Grant, with Mrs, Corbin, in the pool, but they amount to nothing but such evi- dence, assumptions, presumptions and con- structions as Wall street kites are made of. All the essential facts connected with the late gold pool we published in the Hzratp some time ago, and these later revelations, involv- ing General Butterfield in a certain check and Mrs, Grant in certain letters hinted at, are only attempts to raise a cloud of dust to divert public attention. The simple tguth, after care- fully considering all the testimony on the sub- ject, we believe to be this—that Fisk and Gould were taken in and done for by Corbin; that, as General Grant’s brother-in-law they believed in the representations of Corbin that he could manage the administration, and that, being for twenty years or more a professional lobby jobber, Corbin was not the man to stick at trifles. We are led to these conclusions from the evidence obtained and from the lobby antecedents of Corbin, including a report against him as lobby jobber by a committee of Congress. What cared he about involving the President in the conspiracy if there was a big pile of money in it which could be reached by the usual lobby devices, enlarged to meet the case? There is some comfort, however, in the impression that General Grant will give to this precious brother-in-law a wide berth hereafter, inasmuch as even a brotherly visit to his house may be used in working up another plot with a ring of Wall street gam- blera. The Latest Disclosures the Exploded Mors War Nn Virainta.—In another column we present the shotted salute with which Colonel Boyd, Sheriff of Fauquier county, Virginia, receives the onset of Mosby, an ex-hero of the confederacy, some- what famous for his fondness for ‘‘portable property,” and for a tendency to reach his object by devious and darksome ways. Only the other day Mosby seemed to have used up Boyd asa real carpet-bagger ; now Boyd has clearly crushed Mosby as a soreheaded pest of peaceable society. Altogether it is an inter- esting reopening of hostilities. Boyd was clearly right in refusing to enter the duello with Mosby ; for, as he says, that would have thrust him from his official position, which is the object of the impudent foe. Will he tell us, then, why, as the principal officer of the peace in his county, he’did not initiate pro- ceedings against Mosby for emitting a chal- lenge? Ife could thrust his enemy to the wall by that means, to the general benefit of society. Progress or ReooNsTRUCTION IN VirGI- nta,—The Walker liberal republicans and conservatives of the Virginia Legislature have elected two good Union men—Lieutenant, Governor Lewis, of Rockingham, and Judge J. W. Johnston, of Abingdon—for the United States Senate. They are men of a high cali- bre and will not be reduced to more ciphers in the Senate, Old Virginia is evidently alive to her dignity and character, and is doing well in her work of reconstruction and restoration. Just THe News ror Spain.—Cable tele- grams from Madrid, all dated yesterday, report that the Spanish government regards the insur- rection as ended, and also that when the Spanish troops entered Valencia after a formal capitulation they were received with a heavy fire of musketry and the fighting was resumed. The Spaniards are always obliging ; so every- body can make choice of the news just as suits. Det. Times ix Watt Staget.—Calms fol- low as well as precede storms. The quict in Wall street is the sequel of the great agitation prevailing there a few weeks since. Glancling at the Gold Room it is difficuit to fancy that the present almost deserted apartment was ever the scene of such wild excitement as prevailed on that memorable Friday. The stock market is dull and slowly recuperative after the great shock of the same eventful period. Were it not for the animation given the Vanderbilt stocks by the agitation for a horse railroad in Madison avenue, as an extension of the Harlem road; by the ap- proaching vote on the question of consolida- tion, and by the proposed ceremonies attend- ing the unveiling of the statue at St. John’s Park, there would be little interest manifested in stocks. However, it is consolatory to know that when affairs are dull in Wall stree 80 many more people are devoting their time, attention and money to legitimate business aud enterprise. Father Hyacinthe in Amorica. The newspapers are very much occupied with Father Hyacinthe. Since his arrival at New York on Monday he has been inter- viewed, probed and bored to the limit of human endurance. He is the latest and great- est sensation, His first experience in the United States might give him a atrange impres- sion of the American people, bordering on the ridiculous, were he not a man of comprehen- sive views and a philosopher. We have no doubt he understands both the character of newspaper enterprise in this country and that twaddle and rampant Bohemianism which is the excrescence of it. No doubt he will appre- ciate the real heartfelt welcome he receives from a generous republican people, and will be able to make a distinction between this and the annoyance he may be subject to from bores and those endeavoring to glorify them- selves by interviews or by hanging to his skirts, Though this is his first visit to America, and though he may not understand some of the peculiarities of the American people, he is a good judge of human nature; and human nature, in its general characteris- tics, is the same all over the civilized world. So far he has shown great tact in his conversa- tions with those who have approached him. While he will not be drawn into controversies, he is frank in the expression of his views on the attitude he holds with regard to the Catho- lic Church and the ultramontane party in that Church. One of the first questions that naturally arises is, what is the object of this distin- guished priest and orator in visiting America just at this time? Another is, what relations will he hold with the Church in America and the Church with him? His visit here has been spoken of as a mission; not, however, as having been commissioned by any ecclesiastical authority to come to,this country, but as having a self-conatituted and religious mission. But, judging from what be has said and from the whole tenor of his conduct, there is no reason to believe he comes oft any special mission. Liberal as his views are, and much as he may desire to see the Catholic Church reformed and placed more in rapport with the spirit of the age, he has given no evidence that hesis a propagandist or that he is prepared to assume an independent public career outside of the Church. Whatever he may come to or be driven to by the nécessities of his position hereafter, he still adheres to the Catholic faith and disciphine, as he understands them. Father Hyacinthe has come to America because he has been suspended from his func- tions by the superior of his order, and for the present has leisure to travel; he comes, too, no doubt, to allow the storm he has raised in Europe to take its course while he calmly watches at a distance the effect. But as a man of large and liberal views he comes to study this great country and its institutions, or, to use his own words, as expressed to our reporter, ‘‘he came to America to learn;” for, as he sajd, ‘‘there is more to be learned in the United States than in all the countries of Europe.” He intends to stay here two months, at least, and to spend a good deal of the time in travelling. It is likely he may have another object in view, which prudence might prevent him from expressing, and that is to study the dispo- sition of Catholics and the Catholic priest- hood in America on the question of religious reform he has raised. Admiring the liberai institutions of this country, religious tolerance here and the perfect freedom of expression, he may have thought the Catholics of the United States would endorse his conduct and views, aud that he would find sympathy here even among those of his own Church. If so he may be mistaken; for while the Catholics of America are liberal in political matters, and love their free republican institutions, they are as much devoted to the Church and its discipline as any people in the world, the Irish or Spaniards not excepted. Should he be condemned by the Pope or the Church in France it is not likely he would be permitted to enter a pulpit in any Catholic church in this country. We question if he would be allowed to do so now, under the present ban of his Order, if he should desire it. Where, then, is Father Hyacinthe to go? What is he to do? In our opinion the breach between him and the Church is irreparable. He is not the man to go back from the ground he has taken, and from all appearances the Church ig not likely to yield the reforms he demands, nor even to mect him half way. Is the world, then, to lose the brilliant eloquence of this famous preacher and the benefit of one of the brightest intellects of modern times? He is, we suppose, too thorough and earnest a Catholic to join any of the Pro- testant sects. They will make the greatest efforts to get hold of him, no doubt, and we expect to see many attempts to lionize him and to catch him by the Protestants, particu- larly by the New England Puritan ‘tree- thinkers and latitudinarians ; but we think they will fail. We doubt if he could be induced to go into one of their pulpits. Where, then, will Father Hyacinthe go? And what will be his future career? Will he or can he divide the Catholic Church? That is doubtful, at least to any considerable extent. Still it would be unfortunate if his great intellect and splendid eloquence should be lost to the world. It would be a great misfortune if the broad and liberal views he has proclaimed should be crushed. He may possibly strike out in a new career and be the founder of a new church, for itis difficult for a man with his mental power and ambition to sink down into obscu- rity. Time alone can show what will be the end of this man, whose name is in the mouths of all Christendom. The action of the Ecu- menical Council will probably determine his future career. A Mountain or «4 Moreniti.—An evening contemporary is vainly endeavoring to make of the molehill of the diplomatic note of General Sickles to the Spanish government a mountain of s blunder. We fear, however, that the great offence of Goneral Sickles was his appointment to Spain when this mission was expected by somebody else; and we fear, too, that he will not be recalled upon that diplo- matic note, though it may be represented as overtopping the Pyrenees and awakening the curiosity of Napoleon. Jupar Brpyorp Arrer vue Horst, Trreves.~Gee the proceedings in the Court of Seqsions, Mr. Seward tn Moxice. No other foreignor has ever received from the Mexican government such an ovation as that with which Mr, Seward, our venerable ex-Secretary of State, is welcomed to the halls of the Montezumas. President Juarez, in whose name he was formally welcomed when he landed on the 7th instant at Manzanilla amidst roaring salutes from the forts, is mani- festly not ungrateful, It was the policy of Secretary Seward which inspired the instruc- tions forwarded in October, 1866, by General Sheridan to General Sedgwick, and which determined the destiny of Juarez as well as that of Emperor Maximilian and other com- petitors for power in Mexico—instructions which, said General Sheridan, ‘‘will be enforced against the adherents of the imperial buccaneers representing the so-called imperial government of Mexico, and also against Ortega, Santa Anna and other factions, .President Juarez is the acknowledged head of the liberal government in Mexico.” This amounted to a virtual recognition of the position which Juarez still maintains, Mr. Seward will doubtless have accorded to him all possible facilities for studying the present political, religious, social and material condition of Mexico, and for discovering its future prospects. If he had not already exhausted all the resources of rhetoric in his voluminous eulogistic descriptions of the glories of Alaska, with its miraculous climate, its vast supplies of furs and seal skins, and its spontaneous growth of ice creams, sherbets, Roman punches and other similar “vegetables,” Mr. Seward might be expected to favor the world with equally voluminous and eulogistic descriptions of Mexico. In this case, at least, he would not be compelled to draw on his imagination for hia facts, and General Thomas could not contradict any statement, however apparently extravagant, which he might make. Mexico is one of the finest and richest countries on which the sun ever shone, Mr. Seward might endlessly prolong the report which he could give, even if he were to restrict himself to the porphyritic mountains which wall in the plain of Tenochtitlan, whereon stands the capital of Mexico. It would be pleasant to learn from him the remote connections between this vol- canic circle formed by Popocatepetl, Iztacci- huatl, Toluca and their uniting chain of smaller volcanoes, and the other volcanic wonders in the West Indies and elsewhere in which he has taken a special interest. Nor could he be suspected of being indifferent to the progress of the various railways which are yet to replace some of the good old roads laid out in various directions by the most distin- guished of the Mexican viceroys, the Count de Rivella-Gigedo. Railway enterprises, emigra- tion schemes and many other Mexican jobs would offer a more practical interest than the study of Mexican picture writing, or of Mexi- can history from the times of the Toltecs and their successors, the Chichimecs, the Aztecs, the Tezcucans, the Tepanecs and the Aziecs under the Montezumas, to the days of Spanish viceroys, and the revolutionary priests Hidalgo and Morelos, and the native Mexi- can Emperor Iturbide, and the often broken succession of republicdn _ presi- dents, and the Franco-Austrian Emperor Maximilian and President Jaurez. The mineral wealth of Mexico and the fauna and flora of the three regions into which the country is naturally divided—tierras calientes, tierras templadas and tierras frias—would supply abundant topics for a book on Mexico, should Mr, Seward be tempted to write one. Perhaps he had better reserve Alaska asa subject for a descriptive poem until he can disprove the testimony of General Thomas that there is more poetry than truth in the imaginative ex- Secretary’s speeches on that theme. If his prophecies had not sometimes turned out to be by no means infallible we should like to have him predict how soon Mexico will probably become one of the United States of America. Napoleon and ghe French Radicals, Radicalism is always dangerous, if not necessarily bad. It may be good, however, in its intentions, althoogh it sometimes fails, This, at least, we can say with confidence— French radicalism, wild enough in itself con- sidered, has never had much power in France since the commencement of the reign of Napo- leon the Third. All our news from France for some months past, and from Europe regarding France, has led us to believe that Napoleon, in spite of reforms, was in great trouble, and that it might be difficult for him to resist the combined force of the opposition party. It was a popular opinion, not in France only, but all over Europe and America, that the Emperor had taken the edge off his reforms and robbed them of all their force by putting off the opening of the Chambers. It was pub- licly announced that the oppositionists in the Corps Législatif, filled with indignation because of the delay and the distrust which the delay implied, had resolved to appear in a body on the 26th inst. in their proper premises and to make a public protest against the Em- peror’s delay and distrust. Everybody felt that this was a dangerous step. All the world has been waiting for it with some anxiety. Many tHought that the Emperor might be tempted to make another coup d'état, and that he might, by another unmistakable success, rally around him the entire population of France. The 26th of October was the day fixed upon by the oppositionists for the grand demonstration. It now appears that the oppo- sitionists have taken fright. They have had a preliminary meeting, and in the manifesto which they have drawn up they say that such a demonstration as was originally contem- plated might imperil the liberties for which they prayed and waited with hope. It is better, they think, to await the opening of the Chambers, and if matters are not then entirely to their satisfaction to demand trom the govern- ment an explanation of its conduct. This, we think, is wise and noble on the part of the deputies; but it just as unmistakably proves that Napoleon is master of the situation; as proof of which we need only refer to our cable report from Paris to-day, which assures us that some of the French legislators who at- tended an ultra radical, or “Reds,” demon- stration, on Monday evening, were insulted and roughly handled by a Paris crowd on coming out; a fact which goes to prove still further that political wonders will never cease. Wo now know why Gambetta, Bancel and Jules Favre went to London the other day. They were better outof the way. A fruitful demon- stration would have paid; an unfruilful demonstration would have ruined them for- ever Professor Agassiz and’ Genesis. Y We are informed that the first. words of Professor Agassiz in his opening lecture of the Harvard course were:—‘“‘I do not wish any one to come to my lectures who believes the Book of Genesis, as given in the Bible."’ Although the position of ‘scientific men with regard to the Scriptures has long been regarded as committing them to the substance of this, we have not had any declaration of so plain a purpose to make an issue against the writings that are still classed as the Word of God. We have not had this declaration because scientific men were too wise to make it; because they did not want to put science at the disadvantage of arraying a religious war against it; because they perceived that pro- perly science had little to do with what writ- ings beyond her immediate circle might be dis- proved by accumulating knowledge of nature’s laws, and cared not to go aside to wage a war in which even victory could be of no advan- tage. Butitis characteristic of the bragga- docio, boldness and vanity of the New England philosophers to thus precipitate unnecessary conflict and parade their contempt of that which has the respect, to say the least, of the religious world. the Book of Tuk Swepes IN Missourt.—An extensive cotton manufacturer near Stockholm, in Swe- den, has just purchased twelve thousand acres of land in Southeast Missouri, where he pro- poses to colonize some fifteen hundred familiog of Swedish immigrants, aid to try, on & grand scale, the experiment of at once raising and manufacturing cotton, The great manufac- turers of New England are already turning their eyes towards the South and its peculiar advantages under the new conditions of labor for precisely such an experiment. It successful—and it can hardly fail—it will in- augurate a revolution the consequences of which are at present incalculable. THE GOLD BOARD. Reorganization of the Board—Inatailation of the New Oflicers=The Press and the Board, At the opening of the Gold Room yesteraay morn- ing John K. Underhill, the newly elected President, was declared the successor to Mr. Townsend Cox. ‘The result of the election was announced as fol- 100 “4 The new President not being present, Mr. Hoyv, the Vice President, made a brief speech, in which he said he was extremely sorry to | say chat the present moment was a dark one in the history of the Gold Exchange. The recent great financial panic and revulsion had prostrated business and created great diMcuities, which had not yet been overcome. Legal complica- tions still restricted business, but he believed there were now brighter prospects, and contracts would again be sustained, Two things, however, were uecessary and strictly essential—first, we neea and must have some means of clearing contracts; second, we must have our rights restored and legal complications removed, Mr. Hoyt thought the pres# had not at all times treated the Board with a friend- ly spirit, many times falsely representiny ts con- nected with the action of its members. He thought, however, that there was now no es ge so great a cause for despondency, and hoped there were brighter days for the Exchange in the future. r. AKERS, the Secretary, followed in a few briet remarks, acknowledging the present unforiunate de- pression in the Gold Room, and assert! that the recent financial convulsion in the gold market which caused the trouble did not pe, Bebra with and wag not traceable to members of the Board. A resolution was next read, and unanimously adopted, complimentary to the retirmg President, ‘Townsend Cox, which reads as follows:— Resolved, That we hereby tender to Mr. Townsend Cox, the retiring Président of this Board, our sincere thanks for the services rendered by him to the Exchange, and that we cheer- fully bent testimony to his high character aw a gentleman, as well as his faithfulness and impartiality in administering the laws of the Board. Mr. Cox briefly responded, thanking the members for their kind spirit, which was gratefully received. Those members who voted for his re-election he loved, and those who voted st It he thanked. He had understood some of the members did not cherish towards him very amiable feelings because he allowed the recetver of the Gold Exchange Bank to make his remarkable, and by some considered abusive, speech of last week; and he had only to gay that he had never before crossed the river ‘Jor- dan,” and had no iaea how high it could be dammed W Mere the regular business of the Board was re- sumed. THE CHARGE AGAINST MR, KAPP. Dismissal of the CasemA Civil Suit Threate ened, Yesterday morning, at the Tomba, Police Court, Judge Hogan delivered judgment in the case of Mr. Frederick Kapp, agent, Wall street, who had been charged with perjury. Judge flogan said that he had read the evidence, and he was of opinion that it was not suMicient to substantiate the charge; neither could he ascertain from the evidence that Mr. Kapp had anything to do with the matter. The Judge sald that he had received from the com- plainant’s counsel the following letter and he would read it:— 61 BROADWAY, New York, Oct, 19, 1969. Hon, Epwarp Hogan, Judge of the First ‘District’ Police Court, New York city !— Dew Six—Aftor didgent inquiry I have begme satisfied that the certiicate payable to Augusta Bowmann and assigned to Frederick Kapp was witnessed by her son, and was genuine, ‘The charge of forgery must, therefore, be with- drawn, as none was committed. omplafnant has erred through not understanding English. Tam cally assured, how- ever, that the complamant has not been pald her money. Thore aro two other witnesses upon that point. tis. ont duty, therefore, to say to you that I withdraw, so far as ‘am concerned, any compiaint against Frederick Kapp for forgery, and I think he is iuily exonerated theretrom ; but T shail bring a civil suit agaloat him for the complainant for the recovery of the money, aud then, of course, If he has paid he will be fully able to prove it by bis books. In haste, very obediently, H. ¥. SHEARMAN. The case was then dismissed, and Mr. Kapp left the court witp his frienas. OUT OF THE WORLD. A Five Cent Message from the Vergo of the * Great Unknown. A somewhat remarkable case has been brought to the attention of Coroner Rollins. On Sunday alter- noon last @ middle-aged man, apparently of German birth, respectably attired and of good address, ac- costed a boy near the foot of Twenty-second street, East river, and offered him five cents if he would hasten to the police station y and intorm he officer in command that he (the man) intended to commit suicide by jumping overboard at the foot of the street. The boy did as desired, and immediately aiterwards an oilicer was despatched to make search for the self-proclaimed suicide, but nothing could be seen or heard of him. Believing, however, that the stranger had cut short his earthiy r by securing @ position at the bot- tom of the river, the dock was dragged with a suc- cessful resuit, the body of the suicide being found aud fished up, The remains were conve; the Morgue, where an inquest was held by Coroner Rollins, when the above facts were developed. As yet no one has appeared to claim the remains of the deliberate suicide tor interment. The name and residence of the deceased and the motive which prompted the self-murder yet remain a mystery. £ SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT NEWTON CORNER, MASS. A Man Dashed to Pieces by Falling from a Charch Stecple. Boston, Oct. 19, 1869. A moat shocking accident occurred at Newton Corner yesterday afternoon, causing the deatn ot a young ian named George Gove, ana causing utmost excitement and horror through the whole village. Gove and another man were at work paint- ing the exterior of the steeple on the Eliot churon, both men standing ona platform supported bya rope at either end. From some cause the rope si taining the end of the platform on which Gove w: standing suddenly alipped of and the unfortunate man was precipi to the earth below, a distance of eighty-five feet. His companion onthe platform ‘was near enough to the other rope, which did not break, to seize it and sustain himsélf until satel; reacued, The body of Gove was shockti mangled, and was removed to the residence of Mr. Evans, ono of big employers. The deceased was singie man, but leaves a widowe1 mother in Maine, who was dependent uvoa him for support.