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LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 020 Broadway.—Fseuates ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. TRI e: LE SHEE New York, eerie October 23, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. Tucreasing 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 increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facili stop the classifications of advertisements a: ame o'clock P. M. tate the work we are forced to ©R BNAWS. Europe. us are dated October 22, ontpensier 18 likely to obtain the throne of Spain. Spain was generally traaqutl, Sefior Orente, a Spanish republican legislator, was arrested, The clergy of the Irish Protestant Church were m synod in Dublin. The French radical “reds’’ movement, although not very pointed tn its object, appears likely to become dangerous to Napoleonism. French legislative Deputies will, it is said, move to repeal the law confiscating the property of the Orleans Princes. The insurrection against Austria, in Dal- matia, was suppressed by the military. An English vory newspaper blames the United States govern- ment for its action towards the steamship Hornet. By steamship at this port we have @ mall report in interesting detail of our cable telegrams from Europe to the 12th of October. Ewypt. The Empress of France reached Alexandria Thare ay night trom Constantinople. Japan. Tho Mikado Is still at Jeddo, The drunken native who assaulted Sir Henry Park isto be arrested. A ratiroad cud a mint are soon to be established, and the foreign system of education is beiug adopted. Cuba. Mail advices from Nassan state that the steamer Lillian, which salied with aa expeditionary force from Florida for Cuba, had been captured by the British gunboat Lapwing and taken into Nassau, where she was released by tue authorities, auder the ruling of the Attorney General thas she could not legally be heid. Miscellaneous, The Tennessee Legislature yesterday elected Henry Cooper to be United States Senator in place of Fowler, whose term expires in Marci, 1871. Ex President Jonson was defeated, Cooper receiving 65 youes, and Johnson ol. It is believed in Wash- ington that Cooper will be manipulated during his term by Johnson, as the two are Intimate friends. It is now stated that Judge Johnston, Senator @lect from Virginia, and Mr. Gibson, one of the Representatives elect, are stili disqualified ander the fourteenth amendment. Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in New Engiand yesterday morning, boston, Worcester and several other towns in other portions of the Eastern States being shaken to such an extent that the people were greatly frightened, although not burt. The trial of the Cuban privateer was resumed yes- terday and again adjourned, no knportant testimony being yet elicited, The crew of the vessel remain at their quarters in Wilmington. The ex-ofictais of the revenue in Richmond, charged with counterfeiting tobacco stamps, were arraigned yesterday and held in $19,000 each to appear. She District Attorney urged a high ball, on the ground that their accomplices were wealthy men, who would get them out if they bad to pay $20,000 to do it. The internal revenue agents In Washington and Jackson counties, Fla, have been threatened so Seriously by an armed mob, which, it ts said, is led by & weaithy and influential citizen, that the Super visor has called for troops to protect the tax col- lectors, Parties 1n Arkansas have for some time managed to defraud the revenue by having tobacco manufac- tured by Indians just outsiae the State border in Indian Territory. The Indians being exempt from taxation no revenue has heretofore been collected for this tobacco, and it is supposed that new legisia- ton wili be required in the matter, Thomas Ewing, Sr., was taken suddenly tllin the Supreme Court Chamber at Washington yesterday, while somewhat excitedly arguing a cage in which be had been counsel for twenty-five years. He fainted aud was removed, the court adjourning on Account of the untoward accident. His condition is now improved. The Western members of Congress, it is stated are @oneraily favorable to the removal of the Capitol out NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, West. A test vote is expected to take place on &| have the glory of our greatest soldier; but Proposition for an appropriation to erect new build- | Oa will have the reputation of a great ings for the State and War Departments, Mr. Low, our new Minister to China, 1s expected statesman. Grant, we doubt not, will have in Washington soon, After recelving his instruc. the record of a good administration; but tions he will go to his post by way of Europe and | Chase will have the record of a great leader Egypt, in order ¢o consult Minister Burlingame on | ang long experience in our public affairs, and the way. It is understooa that his orders are to i ater lobe 168 ibl sitions enforce the Burlingame treaty strictly. DSTORE YEE: y responsible po' ‘The Brooks trial was resumed tn Philadetphta yes- | than Grant. If we point to the splendid vc- terday, and Mr, Brooks partially identified both the | tories of Grant over the rebellion, it may be prisoners. Judge Ludlow said an important witness | gaid they were due first of all to the sinews for the prosecution was missing, and he would u request the state and United States authorities to | Of War supplied from the Treasury by the xis aamst in the search for him. dom of Chase. The Parliament of Great ‘The private social scandal in Washington at present | Britain gave Wellington the credit of the orer- is in relation to young attaché of a foreign legation | throw of the first Napoleon, but Napoeon who bas failen deeply in love with an Octoroon, A with whom he has visited the theatre and prome- himself said he: was overthrows by the mney naded the streets undetected hitherto owing to her | D484, or, in other words, by the Bank of Eng- white complexion. She was discovered in the | land. theatre, however, by the three colored men who And yet again, if it is said of Grant that to were recently ejected from the dreas circle on account | pin, belongs the honor of establishing universal of their color, and the young attache in shame fled to Naw Sisk, negro suffrage, it can be said of Chase that he A party of nine miners arrived at Fort Benton | Was among the most active advocates of the recently from a point in the British possessions 425 | negro’s rights when Grant was learning the miles distant, having been compelled to leave by | art of horsemanship at West Point. If it shall apprehensions of the Blackfees Indians and the refusal of the British to sell them food. be urged that to Grant devolved the task of Among the removals by Mayor Fox, of Philadet- | Siuishing the work of Southern reconstruction, phia, for political reasons, is High Constable Clark, | it may be urged, too, that had not Chase been who has been on the police force of that city for | faithful to the great cause he might in the Supreme Court have thrown all this business into endless confusion, Thus it will be seen that with Chase against Grant the democracy will have a candidate who, upon his personal merits, qualifications, experience, character and public services, will be able to stand in the at the St. Nicholas Hotel. candidate for the succession. ment of the affairs of the nation so far has satisfied his party that he is the rigMt man in the right place, and that, carefully and wisely considering the great questions of the day be- fore acting upon them, he may be relied upon for a successful and popular administration. The platform of his inaugural on negro saf- frage, our foreign relations and the national debt has become the republican creed, and his liberal policy on Southern reconstruction fifteen years. The Rodman House in Rock Island, Il., has been destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000, The California judictal election has résulted to favor generally of the Democratic candidates. The City and Vicinity. ‘The strike of the machinists on the Erie Railroad on discharg S ing wae hall in Fhe City yesterday, when 1+ was petitor, and competent to challenge a com- partially agreed to again quit work, ag they bave | Parison. done all along the line, There will, however, be no contest upon The Inman steamship City of Antwerp, Captain | the personal merits and services of the two ES ay decade Latics Pea ae candidates if they are Grant and Chase. European mails will close at the Post Ofice at | They will each be perfectly satisfactory, twelve M. and both will be regarded as perfectly safe The National line steamship France, Captain Gro- touching the national faith, the national gan, will leave pier 47 North river at seven o'clock honor and an honest and capable admin- istration. Old things will be done away with, and all things will become new. Conse- quently, with Chase as their candidate, the democracy, placed in full rapport with the new dispensation as established in the constitu- tion, will only have to fight the blanders of Congress on the great questions of the day, and here they may have advantages which, with the recovery on the new tack of the this morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamship Columbia, Captain Dumbreck, of Southern balance of power, may give them the victory. Who can tell? the Anchor ime, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow, calling at London- derry to land passengers. The steamship Teutonta, Captain Bahrends, will sail from Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Hamburg, calling at Plymouth (England) and Cherbourg. The mails for the German States will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Merrimack, Captain Weir, will leave pier 45 North river at three P. M. to-day for St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro. The Merchants’ line steamsblp Crescent City, Cap- tain Hildreth, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans direct. The stock market yesterday was heavy, lower and dnil. Gold was active, rising to 1314 and cleding finally at 1314. Prominent Arrivale in the Chy- J. W. Barnes, of Washington; J, Simpson, of the United States Army, and Peter Pas, of Chicago, are Earthquake Shocks in New England. The mysterious convulsions of tho earth which have during the past year spread de- struction and fear over various parts of this Continont, beginning in Feru and extending to California, have spread further east. Else- where we publish the story of earthquake shocks experienced throughout New England at an early hour yesterday morning. Happily, so far as we can ascertain, the phenomenon was unaccompanied by those terrible scenes which have marked its visitations of other parts of the globe. In some places, however, the oscillation of the earth was violent, and although the shocks did not last beyond half a minute at any one point they were severe enough to frighten the pious Puritans almost out of their wits. Buildings shook to their foundations, doors and windows rattled, bells rang mysteriously and furniture danced about the apartments with as much liveliness and activity as if it had been set in motion by a first class spiritual medium, as doubtless it was, though not of the order of Yankee Spiritualists. With no premonitory warning of the pheno- menon, its sudden appearance naturally created no little consternation. And aside from all purely scientific speculations as to cause and effect, theories for which are most abundant and most unsatisfactory, is it not a sub- ject for special remark and for grave consideration, that the elements which plunge our good Old Mother earth into such occasional fits of ague should have se- lected, at this particular time, New Eng- land for the scene of their convulsive manifestations? Need we feel surprise that, conscious of their innumerable sins, the people of Massachusetts quaked worse than the earthquake lest it should hurl them into the great hereafter, with their manifold crimes unexpiated, utterly destroying Boston, the Bunker Hill Monument and Faneuil Hall? We solemnly adjure New England to put on sack- cloth and ashes, for who knows but that the earthquake of yesterday was sent to shake the descendants of the Puritans into a proper ap- preciation of their enormities, and to warn them of impending annihilation? And, being aware of the weakness of our Eastern friends, we beg them not to flatter themselves with the idea that in allowing their soil to quake nature designed to favor them especially. Major Campbell, of the Uréted States Army; Major Beach, of Troy, and Dr. Brandreth, of Sing Sing, are at the Hoffman Hoxse. Samuel Hamilton, of Maryland, and W. M. Ran- dolph, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. William Hammersiey, of Hartford; E. Hayes Trow- bridge, Jr., of New Haven, and Oswald Younghus- band, of London, are at the Brevoort House. Major W. H. Lewis, of the United States Army; Major General Bragg, of New Orleans, and Colonel H. U. Whittey, chief of secret service, are at the St, Charles Hotel. The Champions for 1872—General Grant and Chief Justice Chase, General Grant, by the leaders, managers and masses of the republican party, as by unanimous consent, has been proclaimed their His manage- will doubtless be endorsed by Congress, in view of the ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment. The reconstruction of the ex-rebel States, therefore, may be considered as settled and negro suffrage as established throughout the Union. In the interval to 1872 the Cuban question will be settled, and, perhaps, the Mexican question, The Alabama claims, we apprehend, will remain unsettled, and whether the money question, including debt, taxes, internal and external, bonds, banks, cur- rency, &c., will be put into a shape satisfactory to the country it is very doubtful. The work belongs to Congress, and Congress, upon the money question in all its details, is as full of divisions of opinion and confusion of ideas as were the builders of Babel. But whatever may be the deficiencies or blunders of Congress, we have every reason to believe that within his sphere General Grant will still maintain his present command- ing position as the leader and champion of the republican party for another term. What man, then, as the champion of the recon- structed democracy—for they will have to be reconstructed—will be most available against Grant in 1872? He cannot be found in the regular batch before the Tammany Convention in 1868. To take up, under the new order of things, either Seymour, Pendleton, Hendricks, Packer, Parker, or any other man identified with the old copperhead régime, will be only to repeat again the disastrous battles of 1860, ‘64, ‘66 and '68, The democracy will need a candidate whose record through the war identifies him with the great revolution established, and a man from the front rank of the defenders of the Union cause, The only available man for the party, in this view, is Chief Justice Chase, Since the late and suggestive defeats of Packer in Pennsylva- nia and Pendleton in Ohio some sensible Western democrats hitherto devoted to Pen- dleton recognize the necessity ofa change of front under the banner of Chase. Why not? {It may be said that the antece- dents of Mr, Chase are obnoxious to old line democrats and in conflict with the ‘‘time- honored principles” of the party. But this is all rubbish in the presence of the fixed facts that the distinguishing dogmas, principles and ideas of the democratic party as it was are all demolished, defunct, dead and done for, and that another general battle on these dead issues will be the dispersion and dissolution of the army, rank and file. The champion for the domocracy, then, is Chase in opposition to Grant. Thus the two parties will be placed at once on something like equal ground as to the merits of their candidates. Grant will Pri Gors In ror A Monarony.—Such is the meaning of the latest telegram. Spain now knows what to make of the quondam re- publican leader. Prim was o “‘ red," atd a dangerons ‘‘red,” until he got power. So Europe, so America regarded him. Prim is no exception to the general rule. Give a nan power and he is no longer an enemy to orler, especially if he has money. If the Spanishre- publicans cannot put down Prim, Prim must remain master of the situation—the Warwtk, the king maker. Would it be wonderful if Prim placed himself on the Spanish throne ? Bop, pur DaNogrovs.—Philadelphia ha a democratic Mayor. Such a thing is at all times a luxury; but there are some cities fiat cannot afford such luxuries, and Philadeljhia ia, we believe, one of these. Her Myor strikes out right and left, and is just howpn- gaged in removing all the policemen that hve been appointed by republican Mayors, his jo- decessors. We gently remind the Plia- delphians that having gone through all tat we have found it expensive, and recommnd that the case of this Mayor be brought bere the three Judges who removed all the otjer democrats from the city government, Tar Doxe or Epiveura IN CaIna AD Jarax.—Itis said that the Emperor of Chha has refused to receive the Duke. Why, ye know not. Japan has been wiset. Courtay is always politic. The Mikado has seen aid entertained the Prince, and it is well remember that the Duke of Edinburg is th first European Prince who has looked up the unveiled face of the sacred chief of Japat We have, on the whole, more hope of Jap than we have of China. China is yet stupi Japan ia wido awake. OCTOBER 23, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Gold Ring Scandal—Latest Develop- ments. We have not yet seen the end of the gold ring scandal and frauds, Not only is the fire kept up on them by the party and opéra bouffe press from partisan and malicious motives, but it seems the Grand Jury of New York is investigating the subject with a view of bring- ing, if possible, the conspirators to justice. It may be difficult to make the law reach those who were in the gold ring conspiracy ; for they are cunning fellows, with plenty of ineans to fee the lawyers, and they may be able to say, as Daniel O'Connell once said, that there was no act of the legislature that a coach and six could not be driven through. But whatever may be the result we hope the Grand Jury will probe the matter to the bottom, as far as its power goes, for in that way we shall get at many facts, and be able, probably, to place the moral responsibility of this nefarious transac- tion on the guilty parties. The greatest efforts have been made all through by the party and opéra bouffe press inimical to the President to drag him into this gold job. After it has been made clear to every unprejudiced mind that he had no knowledge of the conspiracy, or part in it, directly or indirectly," and even after his enemies have been forced to admit that, he is assailed by innuendoes, and matters are raked up entirely unconnected with the transaction for the purpose of damaging him in the esti- mation of the public, For example, great stress is laid on the fact that he is the brother-in-law of Corbin, the arch schemer of the gold ring. A great deal is said, too, about General Grant having received certain presents from some rich individual citizens as an acknowledg- ment of his services to the country. Is the President to be held responsible for the acts of 4 man who by chance married his sister? The idea is absurd. We know honorable people who have near blood relations that are rascals. Yes, we know fathers of the most undoubted honor and highest respectability who have gons that are scoundrels. The fact of relationship with a bad man, and certainly of relationship by the mere accident of marriage, cannot involve any one in guilt. Then, as to General Grant receiving the pre- sent of a house, or anything else, from wealthy fellow citizens, in acknowledgment of his services to the country, what objection is there to that? He wasa poor man, and had not a dollar to pay on the purchase of a home for his family before he became President. He had been too honest to use his high posi- tion and great power to make money at the time he was almost dictator, and when many of the leading public men were making fortunes, Men are not rewarded in this country in a pe- cuniary way by the government for great ser- vices to the public, as they are in other coun- tries. Why, then, should not General Grant, whose services were the most exalted and beyond all value, accept a spontaneous gift from a grateful people? It is both mean and ridiculous to question his conduct or his motive in accepting a house, or anything else, from his fellow citizens. The more we get at the facts about the gold ring the more apparent it is that the game all through was a confidence one, and just as much suv as that which is practised at the notorious mock auctions. Corbin operated upon the strength of his relationship with the President, though the President knew nothing of what this man was doing. Corbin is a cunning and sly old lobby operator at Washington, and he knew there was a tower of strength in being able to say he was General Grant's brother-in- law. On this he gave, no doubt, some sly looks and winks to Fisk and Gould, and, per- haps, to others. He might even have gone further, as has been said, and have made posi- tive assertions as to his influence. Fisk and Gould, who acknowledge they are speculators, were eager to seize hold of Corbin as a part- ner in their scheme, believing, no doubt, that he was the very man for the business. Wall street speculators often catch at smaller look- ing straws to make money or to save them- selves. Corbin looked sly and portentous, from the brother-in-law point of view, and Fisk and Gould winked with satisfaction at the prospect before them. This is the secret and foundation of the gold cornering operation. Tt was, as has been said, a confidence,game all through. Now these speculators are trying hard to bring in the Treasurer, General But- terfield, and Secretary Boutwell. They have apparently wormed round the easy good nature of the former and woven meshes about him, but there has not yet appeared any direct evi- dence to inculpate him. Nor has there appeared ‘sufficient proof that the Secretary withheld at first the sale of gold to favor the bulls, or that he sold afterwards to favor the bears. As regards the selling ofjgold we know that he was ordered to do so by the President for the purpose of smashing the gold con- spiracy. One thing we do know, and that is, the President is above suspicion in the matter. As to the rest, we hope there will be a search- ing examination into the whole affair, ao that the guilty may be exposed and those that are innocent exculpated. Dr. Boynton on the Giant. Dr. Boynton, a geologist, gives the first report that sounds like the opinion of a man in any way anexpert on the giant in gypsum recently unearthed near Syracuse. As the subject has no relation whatever to geology, perhaps a geologist is as fit a person as any other to give a fair opinion, The Doctor observes that the giant is cut from that loose sulphate of lime that when ground is called plaster of Paris, and notes that this material abounds in the neighborhood. Thence ho infers that the statue was cut in that district, No doubt this is an argument that the subject of discusston was not brought to the place from far ; but is it an argument that it was cut? Who could cut a statue from material so little tenacious that its own weight might tumble it to pieces? And is it not obvious that an object petrified in that neighborhood would partake of the character of the mineral abound- ing there, from the very fact that all the per- colation and all the running water would be charged with that material? Is there in Syra- cuse any moulder of plaster casts for over- grown statuary? One of those gentlemen of Italian origin might give @ better opinion of this giant than a geologist. Let the people who own the giant keep up the excitement and increase the price of admission, The Last of Andy Johnson. After a gallant fight in the Tennessee Legis- ture, Andy Johnson, as a candidate for the United States Senate, has been defeated by Henry Cooper, brother of Edmund Cooper, who was Mr. Johnson’s private secretary in the White House. The decisive ballot stood— Henry Cooper 55, Andrew Johnson 51. Cooper, a member of the State Senate, is said to be an able and rising politician of the con- servative school. We are disappointed in the result. We had hoped and expected the elec- tion of Andy Johnson, and we desired it be- cause he was the very man wanted in the Senate at Washington to stir up the impeach- ment radicals, to expose their delinquencies and corruptions and to keep the fire up and the pot boiling. But Andy has failed, and we have to lament his defeat. We lament it because, at his time of life, we fear it is the last of Johnson. He fell between two flres—between the remorse- less radicals and the implacable ex-rebels who combined against him, On both sides the record of Johnson was used to defeat him. The radicals produced the record of his war with Congress and his impeachment; the ex- rebels flaunted his Tennessee record as Mili- tary Governor, his speeches to the negroes promising to be their Moses, and telling the rebels that they must take back seats; and his Washington record as a radical, including his reward of one hundred thousand dollars for the cap- ture of Jeff Davis and the hanging of Mrs. Surratt. Among the chivalry of the Tennessee Legislature this was the unpardonable offence, the hanging of Mrs. Surratt. No account was taken of the terrible excitement and conster- nation in Washington at the time, and the tre- mendous pressure upon Johnson against the conspirators in the Lincoln murder, and espe~ cially against Mrs. Surratt. This is a strange ending of the poKtical life of Johnson, considering his numberless par- dons to rebels, beginning with his twenty thousand dollar schedule and ending in his final amnesty, which swept the whole board— Mason, Slidell, Jake Thompson, Jeff Davis and all, But all this did not suffice to atone for the hanging of Mrs. Surratt. Yet Andy made a good fight, and would have won it but for the fourteen remorseless radicals dead set against him and dead set against Etheridge. There is some comfort in the defeat of Ethe- ridge, for he has the reputation of nothing better than a bag of wind; but we regret the defeat of Johnson. We think it is the last of him as an active politician, and that he will probably retire upon his laurels to the shades of Greenville, make a new suit of clothes for himself and then write a book. He could get twenty thousand dollars for a book on the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the pipe layers and dead ducks, the kitchen cabinet, the lobby and the mysteries and miseries of his administration. The Women in Convention at Providence. If we may accept the view taken by Mrs. Stanton the women have already become a political quantity; for that lady said at the convention at Providence, on Thursday, that “the republican party is working to control the woman’s suffrage movement.” Now if this is true the women are already on the high road to success, Let them remember the glo- rious history of the Irish vote, the Southern vote, and, in fact, “solid votes” everywhere, and from such remembrance take heart for fresh effort. In the case of the frish vote of our city, which was sure to determine the bal- ance of popular will, it was only a difference between the parties which could give most for it. Democracy gave all the city offices, and always had the vote. So with the Southern vote. Democracy gave what the South demanded, and thus acquired a power it did not ‘know how to use. If now, therefore, a great party is endeavoring to secure the women, and to be sure of their voices, the other party will not be far behind it, and between these earnest bidders the women may make their own bargain, and get not only votes, but offices, too, As there are more women than men, of course, from the woman's vote the politicians can frame a most effective balance of power, and as it is a certain gua- rantee of illimitable prosperity for any party to secure the sweet voices of the ladies, we will, of course, presently have a party that will give votes in order to get them. We are not sure as to the final effect, but we do not believe that our civilization will suffer any loss by having introduced into public life that ele- ment of unselfish devotion which is woman's chief characteristic and the nation’s greatest want. Tuy DisappkaRANog or Witnesses.—Upon attempting to try the men accused ‘in the case of the recent murdtr of a revenue officer at Philadelphia it was found that all the witnesses against them had disappeared. This is now the efficient means of defeating justice, and is resorted to by criminals of every grade in all our cities. If witnesses are not killed they are paid to go away, and the price of impunity in committing any offence is represented by the amount for which a witness can be induced to leave. Some legislation on this subject is necessary. Although the House of Detention system is open to much objection, it is ulti- mately true that society is more concerned in the punishment of crime than in the conve- nience of individuals, and we must enforce that system if no better can be found. ANOTHER ‘Guear TRIBULATION. —Webb, re- cently from Brazil, England, France, and those parts, proposes to vindicate himself in the papers. This is a serious business for the public patience. Webb, it seems, is accused of something by somebody in regard to a ship. It happened when he was Minister. His first answering shot is in three columns. How many shots are there to be, and how many ship grievances happened in his time? Cannot we contract to have the whole thing at once, or will he be vindicating himself at odd times for twenty years to come? We propose that the government send him away again as minister to'prevent the calamity of his vindi- cating reminiscences, Get rid of him at once. Tak Gory Gamerers Not Inpiotev.— The Grand Jury came into court yosterday morning with the usual batch of indictments for minor offences, but, contrary to general ex- pectations, they presented no indictment against Fisk, Gould, Corbin, or any other of the gold combination of speculators. Western River Improvements. A river improvement convention has just been held at Portage City, Wis., at which the subject was discussed of opening a canal com- munication between the Mississippi and the lakes by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, which, it is estimated, can be done at a cost of four millions. The object is to enable tho Mississippi steamboats to carry the heavy pro-. ducts of the Northwest directly to the lakes and theretransship them. The project appears to be practicable, and although if carried out it may injure the Erie Canal business somewhat, it is not objectionable for one reason, because by turning the trade of the Northwest into the great channel of the St. Lawrence it will give anew impetus to the annexation of Canada. When the river St. Lawrence comes to be the outlet of our Western productions the territory through which it runs must very soon become a portion of our domain. The project also seems quite practicable; but then the convention made a mistake when it looked to the general government for aid. The government is already too heavily burdened with debt, and this is not a time to ask for any assistance for measures like this. Such is the opinion already expressed by President Grant. Moreover, if there be any good in the pro- posed enterprise it will accrue to the States which haveesuggested it, and surely they have abundant means at their command to carry it through. Atleast four States of the North- west will be directly benefited by the success of the plan—Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Min- nesota—to say nothing of the States on the banks of the Mississippi further south. ‘God helps those who help themselves” is a good old Greek proverb, Let the young and vigorous Northwest take this matter in their own hands, and there is no reason to believe that they will not succeed. The government has done enough for public enterprise in pushing the Pacifie Railroad through to our far western boun- daries, Railroad Conventions. There appears to be a remarkable stir among the railroad men just now. It is not the stock- holders nor the directors who are engaged in the present movement, but the employés of the roads. In Baltimore a convention of locomo- tive engineers is in session; a railroad con- ductors’ convention is sitting in Columbus, Ohio, and in Philadelphia a meeting of rail- road clerks for the purpose of forming a mutual insurance association. At this meeting it waa decided to hold a convention in Chicago next April. Representatives from nearly all the prin- cipal railroads in the United States were present at these several meetings, showing that a unity of purpose exists among the different branches of employed labor, engineers, con- ductors and clerks. The railroad interest throughout the country has become a very potent one. There is no element in our pro- gress which exercises more power in regu- lating the amount gf comfort and convenience which the people expect to enjoy; for every one travels in our day, and the safety of the traveller is in the hands of the railroad compa- nies. Hence the management of the railroads becomes a vital question. That gross careless- ness and indifference to human life are in many cases the rule there are numerous agonizing examples to prove. We do not observe that this question has occupied much attention in the meetings refdrred to, except among the en- gineers, who recommended the excellent rule that total abstinence from intoxicating drinks should be observed by their order, recogniz- ing thereby that some of the disastrous acci- dents on railroads occur from the spirituous condition of the engineer. Referring to the Mast Hope calamity on the Erie road, they decreed that the accident occurred because the engineer had been run- ning two successive nights without sleep, and was unable to resist the tendency to sleep to which he succumbed. Who is responsible for this except the managers of the road who enforce such excessive labor from their employés? It is the old story in railroad management, of economy versus human life. If this be true—and no doubt these engineers know what they are talking about—it would seem that it is not the unfortunate engineer who is in fault, but the directors or the super- intendent who imposed this severe duty upon him. The time has evidently come when Congress must take this great growing rail- road power under its direction. It is author- ized to do so by the right vested in it to regu- late commerce not only with foreign States, but between the States of the Union. Tho telegraph system and the railroads must eventually come under the control of the government if the people are to derive the benefits accruing from them—danger to life and limb on the one hand and fraudulent imposi- tion on the other. A Reoonomsation.—It is rumored that Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria, and Victor Emanuel, the King of Italy, are likely, on an early day, to have an interview. This means that Solferino and Magenta are about to be forgiven, if not forgotten. It is a fact that the Crown Prince of Prussia has arrived in Vienna and that he has been warmly re- ceived by Francis Joseph. This is proof posi- tive that Sadowa is forgiven, if not forgotten. All this is well. It proves that the monarchs of Europe begin to understand the nineteenth century, We cannot have wars on dead issues, Let the dead past bury ita dead. It is best to live in and with the living present. Burner aNd the Newsrarers.—General Butler never neglects the great main point. of “Keeping himself before the people,” and as he always comes out to some purpose and gratifies popular taste by some exhibition of intellectual brilliancy, whether it be in only telling a little story of his personal history or in couching @ superfluous lance in the Byron controversy, he is always heard from with pleasure. His last point for the public is made in a little note in which he deprecates the amount of attention that the reporters give him, He says that if he noticed all the stories they tell he could have no time for “any reputable employment.” Weare sorry tc hear this, for we cannot remember anything ever said in the papers about the General upon which he has not bestowed some notice of just this sort, and, therefore, we are afraid that the time he devotes to ‘reputable employ- ment” is less than is proper for a — of his accomplishments,