The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1869, Page 6

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Cable telegrams are dated October 26, at six o’ciock in the eventhg. Parts remained perfectly tranquti at the latest hour, Precautions have been taken to guard against “disorder.” Napoleon drove through the principal streets, in the afternoon, In an open carriage. Mar- shal Serrano threatens to resign the Spanish Re- genoy. The Church property question disturbs the Cabinet in Madrid. The Fuglish government made gome lucrative oMcial appointmen Embassy leit Copenhagen for the Ne Minister of Finance of Prussia has resi By steamship at this port we have a European mail report m detaii of our cabie telegrams to.the | 10th of October. Paraguay. Our jase Minister to Paraguay, General McMahon, confirms the report that the allies fired upon hiv party while approaching their lines under a fag of truce, and also that they suppressed bis despatches to tts government, except such as they saw ft-to forward. He thinks Lopez is in @ stronger position now than evé@r before, and that the report py the Brazilians that the war was ended was only an ex- cuse for retiring their army. He defends the charac- ter of Lopez from the imputation of cruelty and oppression, and says the devotion of his people to him is unexampied. Lopez intends to invite emi- @ration from the United States by offers of liberal land grants, hoping tn this manner to aid materially an the restoration of his country’s prosperity. Mr. Worthington, lately our Minister to the Argentine Republic, corroborates General McMahon's state ment. Miscellaneous. The public debt statement for this month, it is estimated, will show a reduction of $8,000,000, The President and his family yesterday visited Philadelphia to attend the wedding of Bishop Stmp- son's daughter. They will remain until Saturday, the guests of Mr. Borie, ‘The Cuban steamer Lillian, It seems, according to the British Legation in Washington, will next prob- ably be condemned by the authorities at Nassau and held as a pirate. Inthe Yerger case yesterday counsel for defeng- ant asked permission to postpone further action until certain arrangements can be effected with the Aviorney General. The reported ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment by the Nebraska Legislature last March is just DoW said (o be incorrect. The Legislature, it appears, adjourned in February last, without taking any action on the subject, The New Dominion Parliament 13 convoked for the 15th of February next. The local Pariiament of Quebec will meet on the 18th of November. Quite a severe snow storm prevailed in Westerr New York and Upper Canada yesterday. At Toronto four tnebes of snow fell, and at Port Elgin the ground was covered to the depth of nearly two feet, A prize fight occurred in Marin county, California, on Monday, between Riley and Cannon, two San Francisco bruisers. Ninety-three rounds were fought, when, it becoming too dark to finish the fight, the battle was declared drawn. General Belknap has left lowa to assume his da- ties as Secretary of War. Admiral Farragut ts almost we Skating 1s going on im Central lowa. The City. Generai Butterfield’s letter of resignation has been received by the Secretary of the Treasury and will probably be accepted as soon as a successor can be appotnted. Shortly after its receipt Secretary Bout- weil walted upon the President and also visited the Stule Department and Attorney General's oMce. General Barlow's resignation a8 Marsbal of the New York district has been sccepted and Samuel A. Harion has been appointed to succeed him. The Grand Jury room was crowded yesterday with promineut and wealthy bankers and brokers of Wali treet, Waiting to testily before the Grand Jury reia- tive vo the goid panic The operators on ti Franklin telegraph line in this city and elsewn ack simultaneously yester- day for higher wa ey having heretofore re- celved Very snail salaries conpared with (hose pald the operators on other tines. The Erie strike ended yosterda: agreelag iB writing to pay thet bereatter on the 15th of each month, Joun Lillias, ao Irishman and a depositor in the Citizens’ Savings Bank, on Broome street and Bowery, complained wo the paying teller yesterday that he had lost bis book. The circumiocution required vo get anopher disgusted John so much shat he dred his revolver at the paying teller, and in ‘he managers ands regularly j it would, the confaston that ansned jumped over the counter and seized $200 in greendacks. He was secured, however, and committed. OmMcer Macdonald, of the Sixth precinct, was shot and dangerously wounded tn & concert saloon, No, 203 Bowery, a little after midnight yesterday, by the proprietor. According to Macdona d's state- mont, he had drunk several glasses of lager beer, and then threatened to arreat the proprietor for selling It, ‘ne latter shot him. In the Kings County Court of Sessions, Brooklyn, yesterday, Catnarine Turner was sentenced to two years tn the Penitentiary for abducting a little gtrt, and award Creamer, who preferred @ malictous urge agalust his employer, was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing for perjury. A number of illicit aistileries and a large quantity of whiskey were seized by the revenue officers in Brooklyn, yesterday. Fire Marshal Keady is investigating the cause of the late carbolic acid disaster in Brookiyn. It ap- pears that the employés of the estabitshment fired up with oil for the Orst time only about two hours previous to the expiosion, Mr. Voorhies, who was killed, being anxious to try an improvement on bis original tauk invention, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel C. F. Fargo, of San Francisco; Judge G, P. Langer, of liinois; Rey. J. Chambers, of Phila- ua; Genera J. A. Garfield, of Ohio; Colonel G. “omeroy, of Providence, R. I.; John Young, of Canada; Thomas T. Gamble and G, M. Totten, of the United States Navy, and Judge 8, B, Rowley, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Charles F. Adams, Jr., of Quincey, Masa.; Gaptain Ball, of th» Fifty-third, and Captain Pouys, of the Sixcy-ninth regiments, British Army, are at the Brevoort House, Captain Judkins, of steamer Scotia, and 0. Sharp- ler, of Quebec, are at the New York Hotel, Judge Balcom, of Binghamton; Governor Samuel Merrill, of lowa; Congressman Oakes Ames, of Mas- sachusetts, and General McLaughlin, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House, Professor French, of West Point; 8. G. Fant, of Washington, and S. Woodward, of Vermont, are at the Fifth Avenne Hotei, Goneral W. T. Collins, of Washington; A. K. McClure, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel Joseph F, hilade!phia, are at the Hc ffman House, .G. Gibbs, of Fiorida, is at the Coleman Major A. R. Calhoun, of Philadelphia, and Judge E, Parander, of Michigan, are at the Everett House, Count C, Lowenhaupt, of Washington; P, Le Poer, of the French Legation, and Hon. Captain Ward, of the British Legation, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Governor Cox, of Washington; Judge H. B. Seiden, of Rochester; Noah Woods and J. K. Jewett, of Ban- gor; General s, F. Carey, of Cinctnnati, and EB, C, Delevan, of Albany, are at the St. Nicholas tlotet. Prominent Departures. Colonel 8. Canfield, Martin Brimmer and Rev. P. Brooks, for Boston; General A. G. Wood, for Pitts- barg; Colonel S, Jacoby, for St. Louis, and Major T. Bates, for Syracuse. France—The Crisis Over—Napoleon Master of the Situation. The 26th of October has come and gone, and happily, we think, fer all parties it has not been necessary to repeat the acts of the famous 2d of December. Paris has not since the commencement of the Emperor's reign been so much under the influence of fear as it has been for some days past. It was originally intended by the liberals, or “‘irreconcilables” ag they are now called, to make a grand demonstration on the 26th, by way of protesting against the postponement of the opening of the Chambers. Such journals as the Aeveit and the Rappel urged the Left to do in Paris on October 26, 1869, what the Tiers Htat did in Versailles in 1789, promising that if they marched across the city the forty which might leave the Place de la Bastile would be one hundred thousand when they reached the Place de la Concorde. As the 26th of October approached the forty ‘‘irreconcilables” grad- ually dwindled down to thirteen, the other twenty-seven having wisely concluded that all things considered, be better to wait patieutly until the 29th of November, when they could constitutionally take the gov- to tusk. The thirteen, however, made up their minds to make a show on the 26th, and to brave all consequences. Napoleon was well warned, and, of course, was well armed. Paris was surrounded by and filled with soldiers; the populace was duly advised of the danger of manifesting too much curiosity; instructions were given to Marshal Bazaino that there should be no “‘mis- taken humanity ;” and so, notwithstanding all the fuss and fury of the “irreconcilable” thir- teen, law and order reigned in Paris_yesterday as usual, As will be seen by our cable despatches this morning, the cily of Paris was throughout the entire day perfectly tranquil. There was no demonstration, no disturbance. The bold thir- teen did not make their appearance. The forty did not become one hundred thousand. The cannon, thongh pointed, were not used. In the afternoon, to show how little ground there was for alarm, the Emperor drove out in an open carriage and passed through some of the principal streets of the city. It is but just to add here that the day came and went very much as we expected. No one who knows the Emperor Napoleon could for a imagine that he would give his ernment than they have in the Emperor Napoleon, the shadow of a chance to triumph over him. In spite of French “reds” and European democrats and American detractors, there is no ruler of the present day in whom the great public have more faith | but ft cannot bo said that he has been suc- Gessful in establishing a form of government which could work well without him. Tho French government maehine is not yet like that of Great Britain and that of the United States, self-acting, It needs the hand of skill to dirget and control it, and it is dificult to } 8ce where that hand could be found if the Emperor were no more, It may seem a bold saying, but it is trnth—the future of the Bona- parte dynasty is as uncertain to-day as it was twenty years ago. Napoleon gone, we see the factions again in conflict, and a republic or # restoration seems even more certain than the reign of Napoleon the Fourth. Tho death of the Emperor will be the signal for an uprising in Europe which his life and his success only postpone, With him will pass away a vigorous upholder of law and order ; and if the flercer spirits of demooracy shall rejoice in his death as they would at the fall of a tyrant the dynasties will have good reason to lament the loss of their greatest pillar of strength. It is well, we think, that peace on this occasion has been preserved ; it is well that the Emperor remains master of the situation; but i¢ is well also to bear in mind that the struggle is only postponed. The spirit of liberty is unconquerabdle. The Yerger Decision. In the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Yerger case we have as yet, save by very faint implication, no hint of the view that may be taken of the military trial of civilians in time of peace, because thus far the only point brought up is whether or no the court has jurisdiction in this case, But in the absence of light on the main point as to military trials wo have much apropos to the question of jurisdiction, touching the degree in which the recent legislation of Congress has affected the ancient powers of the court, and especially a judicial presumption in favor of the habeas corpus, which must assure the people that the courts will never favor any limiting of the application of that writ. Yerger, charged with murder, was in the bands of the United States military authorities in Mississippi, and was held for trial, but was brought before the United States Circuit Court on the writ of habeas corpus and an examination had into the legality of his detention. That court had before it the question of the right to trial by jury, &c., and decided that the man was legally held by the military power. From that deci- sion the accused appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the question before the court was whether it could hear his appeal—whether his case was or was not one of those taken out of the power of the court by recent legislation in regard to ‘‘appel- late jurisdiction.” The court decides that it is not one of those cases; and this is the more remarkable because in so doing it expressly and admittedly takes a view exactly contrary to that hitherto taken in the McCardlo case. The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is vaguely defined in the constitution, and more distinctly in the law of 1789. But by a law passed in 1867 that jurisdiction was extended to all cases of ‘‘restraint of liberty in violation of the constitution.” The last law in regard to appellate jurisdiction was passed in 1868, and was simply a repeal of the act of 1867, It left untouched, therefore, the ancient power of the court to hear appeals from below on habeas corpus, and thus does not reach the present case, It takes away only the recent extension of power—not the former power. It is the view of the court that the act of 1868 was aimed especially at the McCardle case. Certainly it is clear that if every person “restrained of his liberty” by the military could at once come before the Supreme Court the government of unreconstructed States would be extra troublesome, and it is probable, therefore, that Congress had in view the prevention of such difficulty by the repeal. But it is also obvious that in this Yerger case the same end is reached, though by a rather more roundabout way. Although a man cannot get his case before the Supreme Court on the mere restraint of liberty, he can get before the lower court on habeas corpus, and thence before the Supreme Court on appeal. If Congress, therefore, still fears that the military reconstruction is not safe before this court, and wishes to prevent the resort to it in such cases, it must frame another repeal ; and to this it is invited by the ample recognition the court gives of the validity of legislation on this point. But aa the only remaining States will perhaps be in when Congress comes together the necessity may no longer exist. The Enst River Bridge. It is satisfactory to know that the first prac- tical step has been taken towards the erection of the long mooted East river bridge to Brook- lyn. Notwithstanding the interested opposi- tion of that selfish monopoly, the Union Ferry Company, the bridge project has at last fairly taken shape. A contract has been entered into for the construction of the iron caisson upon which the foundation of the tower on the Brooklyn shore is to be laid. The cost of the | caisson is to be two hundred thousand dollars, | and its weight three thousand tons. The loca- tion fixed upon for the Brooklyn terminus of the bridge is the upper slip of the Fulton | ferry, near the foot of Front street. This will connect the most business portion of Brook- | lyn—Fulton street, Fulton avenue, Myrtle avenue, Atlantic street, as well as all the ave- nues lying east and north from the City Hall, as far as Bedford and East New York—with people, while it cannot fail to enhance his great reputation ali the world over. The world has not seep so skilful a ruler in many gene- rations, He has not the brilliancy of his great uncle; but if his reign has shed less lustre upon French arms it has occasioned less misery to the French people. If history can- not speak of him as the Julius Cesar of France it will not refuse to grant him the place and honors of Angustus, Although, however, Napoleon has once again come off victorious, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that the current of events and grow- ing public sentiment are rather against than with him, His personal influence is great; His fall would, politically and financially, convnlse not France alone, not Europe | only, but the world. Yet the threatened demonstration of yesterday had not the slightest effect on ‘Change. The announce- | ment of the Emperor's death would create a | panic in every financial centre in the world. A threatened outbreak disturbs no one. So long ae Louis Napoleon lives, his clear intellect and his strong will remaining, he will continue to be the trusted ruler of France. A violent revolution so long as he holds the reins is simply impossible. It is impossible to refuse | to admit—and most men will make the admis- sion heartily—that the peaceful victory | of yesterday will greatly increase the | Emperor's popularity with the French Catharine #treet and Chatham square, in this | city. | It is estimated that the caisson, with a timber foundation of yellow Georgla pine laid | upon it, will weigh eleven thousand tons, and will sink in the bed of the river to a depth of | fifty-five feet below high water mark, The | timber sub-structure was the design of the late | Mr. Roebling, and is calculated to bear a mass of masonry three hundred feet high with | perfect safety. The caisson will be ready for submerging within two months, if the contract be fulfilled, and we are promised that the work of tearing up the old docks and slips and dredging the river for the oxcava- | tions shall be commenced at once, A bridge communication between tho metropolis and its largest growing suburb, which boasts of a population of four hundred thousand people, has become an indispensable necessity; and we hope that, as the enterprise is now fairly under way, there will be no balking or jobbing to obstruct ita completion, Vv NEW, YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER, 27, 1869.—TRIPLB, SHEB?, The Resiguation of Marshal Barlow—The Case of General Butterfield. We have the nows from Washington that General Barlow, as United States Marshal for this district, has resigned, and that a Mr. Harlow has been appointed in his place. Barlow, Harlow—this is a new surprise. Harlow was Barlow's first deputy, was for- merly a clerk of the Assembly at Albany, before that an officer of volunteers in tho army. He is a man of fino accomplishments, personally popular, and is a protégé of Sen- ator Fenton. ‘This explains sufficiently the appointment of Harlow; but it does not explain the resignation of Barlow. We have no doubt, however, that he was crowded out by the Twoenty-second street republican radi- cals, and on the ground of the distribution of his fayors tod freely among the Hicksite Quakers of the Twenty-third streot cliquo of the Woed-Morgan tribe. Touching General Butterfield’s resignation, we learn that there was a conferonce between the President and Secretary Boutwell yeater- day. As, however, General and Mrs, Grant left Washington in the noon train to attend the wedding in Philadelphia of a daughter of Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church, we infor that instructions wore left with the Seo- retary in regard to General Butterfield embracing his resignation, What these instruotions were we shall doubtless learn to-day. Some of our city contemporaries, meunwhile, have been drawn into a oontracted and one- sided view of the case of General Butterfield. One of them, for instance, insists that Butter- field should be dismissed after he has resigned ; another contends that as a civil officer he has no right to ask for a military court on the charge against him; and another, with much legal pettifogging, undertakes to show that a military court will be a whitewashing concern according to order, and therefore ought not to be granted. We prefer to take the case upon the facts presented and to deal with it according to law and the groat principle of justice that ®@ party accused cannot be condemned till proved to be guilty. What are the facts? General Buttorfield, as Assistant Treasurer of the United States, is accused by certain parties of complicity in the late gold pool, and the charges and specifica- tions, time, place and circumstances aro given. General Butterfield puts in a general, specific and absolute denial, and, as an officer of the army, asks of the President and Secretary of the Treasury a court martial as the shortest method for a thorough and impartial investi- gation. The answer from Washington comes in the shape of the law officer of the Treasury, who on the spot, as it appears, undertakes aniavestigation. Surrounded by his accusers, the accused, in order to meet them fairly and fully, and in order to relieve the govern- ment meantime of the embarrassments resulting from the charges against him, resigns his office, These charges—none the less by this proceeding—affect his character a3 an officer of the army, and in this capacity he still desires to be tried. And it is simply impertinence and ingolence to assume that a court of high army officers in the proposed investigation will be controlled by other considerations than the evidence and the law. Oa the other hand, the grand jury having this matter in charge are actively at work, and so we have every reason to expect a full disclosure of the mysteries of the gold pool, including the extent and weight of the evidence against General Butterfield. Mean- time, we cannot believe that ho is the simpleton which as their confederate these gold conspira- tors would have us believe him to be in con- nection with their late ‘‘disreputable transac- tions.” of VA “Old Ben} Wade” on the Cuban Question. “Bluff Old Ben Wade,” as the late President of the Senate and Senator from Ohio is kindly and familiarly called, has made his appearance in Washington and speaks out boldly his views and the views of the people on the Cuban question. There is no red tape, disguises or nonsenge about ‘‘Old Ben,” and no man knows better what he talks about. Nor do we know of any public man who more thoroughly under- stands and represents the popular sentiment of the great West on such a question as this relative to Cuba. Whatever difference there may be between him and others in the West on party politics, he fully represents that great section of the country and all parties there on international questions and on questions relat- ing to the progress, grandeur and future of the republic. And what does he say with regard to Cuba? ‘‘Out West,” he gays, ‘‘we are all in favor of recognizing Cuba, and that without waiting to know whether Old Spain likes it or not.” It is time, he thinks, that the adsninistration took some decided action with regard to Cuba, While he does not find fault with the President or Secretary Vish for enforcing the neutrality laws, he considers that the Cubans have a just claim to recognition, and that our government is unwise, impolitic and wrong in not recognizing them. He has no idea of waiting for Spain to acknowledge the inde- pendence of the Cubans, and argues that Spain has never recognized the independence of the South American republics, and it is not proba- ble that she will act differently in the case of Cuba. Mr. Wade and several other Senators now in Washington express the opinion that Congress will certainly take action soon on this Cuban question, This practical and astute old Senator not only expresses tho sentiment of the West, but of the mass of the American people everywhere as well. Yet we see the extraordinary anomaly, under our republican system of government, of the administration acting in direct opposition to public sentiment, In England, though the . government is monarchical, the Miniatry is compelled to pur- sue @ policy, even to the alternative of war, in accordance with public opinion. Here, with oll our boasted popular government, the administration, or rather one individual at the head of the State Department, ventures to defy the voice and will of the people. We do not blame the President 60 much, and feol assured that his sympathies are with the strug- gling Cubans; for the Secretary of Stato is the responsible Minister in such a case; but the time has come when he ought eithor to insist upon this timid old fogy acting in accordance with public opinion or to remove him. The présent attitude of the government is unworthy of and humiliating to this great republic, However, there is good ronson to hope Congress will soon bring this Coban matter to # head, ‘ud foros the administration to deolsive action. nee Senator Sprague ie the Nowspaper Business, Nearly a yoar ago it was rumored that Sen- ator Sprague was negotiating for the purchase of the dying old National Intelligencer at Washington, but in his behalf there was at that time a positive denial of the soft impeach- ment. The poor old papor having died, how- ever, and some vain attempts having been made to galvanize it into active lifo again, it is now positively given out that Senator Sprague has bouzht the remains, and that under a pow- erful battery of greenbacks, fractional cur- rency, nickel and copper he will probably revive the old concern into an active and ener- getio political machine, as the pioneer organ of Chiot Justice Chase for the Prosidential succession. Vory good. If Senator Sprague has the mind, as he has the means, for sinking in the experiment one or two hundred thou- sand dollars, let him go ahead. While the money lasts it will be a good thing for the writers, printers, paper makers, &0., con- cerned, and it may also help the Chicf Justice. Who knows? Wo dare say, however, that Sonator Sprague has discovered that nothing short of a news- paper in his own possession will enable him to lay before tho country in all its details his magnificent plan for the sottlement of the national debt, the restoration of specie pay- ments and an equal distribution of mongy to everybody, and that accordingly he has bought up the remains and the good will of the old Intelligencer, In this view of the enter- prise, we say again, very good. Let the patriotic Senator start his paper and give us his plan. Uptown Travel—Prospects Brightening. The uptown travel reformers are evidently making headway, and if they only persevere thoy will ultimately succeed in obtaining some decent mode of transportation to and from their homes, Their last move was to follow the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt's ‘Wil- liam,” and approach the Street Commissioner with reference to the removal of certain obstructions on Madison avenue. It appears that these obstructions exist at both ends of the avenue. Tho interview with the Street Commissioner resulted in the very prompt order of the Deputy Commissioner, Supervisor Tweed, to have the encumbrances removed without delay. He directed the Superin- tendont of Encumbrances to meet the committee yesterday morning at the corner of lorty- second street and Madison avenue, to give them fifteen minutes to explain what they and Mr. Vanderbilt wanted to have done, and then to go forth and do it within forty-eight hours. This is business. It is evident that Mr. Tweed, at all events, is not disposed to inter- fere with the demands of the upper section of the city in the matter of speedy and comfort- abletravel, He gave his ordors in Napoleonic style, and itis to be hoped that they will be carried out in the same fashion. So far the association of which Mr. Foley ia the head has gained its point, at least to the extent of promises, Vanderbilt is pledged to lay the railroad on Madison avenue as soon as the encumbrances are removed; and Tweed, who is a man of his word, has dirooted their imme- diate removal. This is very well as far as it goes. The election time is near and politicians are apt to be complacent just now, so that we think the uptown residents are very likely to carry their point. It is too late in the day to dilate upon the necessity of increasing the facilities of travel between the upper and lower sections of the city. It has long been felt by the entire com- munity, The selfishness and avarice of the Third Avenue Railroad Company have stood in the way of any improvement in this regard ; but now that the people of the upper wards have taken up the matter vigorously, with the results stated, we may expect to see a reforma- tion of some sort. There is a great deal more yet to be done besides running a railroad on Madison avenue, or extending the Fifth avenue stage route as high as Kighty-sixth street. These are but the entering wedges in that general permanent improvement which is required to bring the two ends of the island into conve- nient proximity. At present it is more easy for downtown people to reach the towns of New Jersey or Long Island than the upper part of their own city, and hence many of them make their homes in these localities, How injurious this is to property on tho upper part of Manhattan Island the property owners know very well. The underground railroad, which is now in course of survey, will be a great relief, but it will take some time to complete it, In the meantime every facility should be afforded to increase the much needed accommodations for communication between the two points of the island. More Murders. The Pantin massacre of an entire family has failed to make a sensation here at all compara- ble to that which it has made in Paris. Even the proprictors of sensational illustrated papers have declined to reproduce the “portraits of the perpetrators and victims” of that bloody crime. Is it because murders are, in the opin- ion of foreign students of American society, so common here as to command but brief and casual notice? Whatever must be the anawer to this question it cannot be denied that if no single one of our recent murders has combined all the elements of atrocity involved in tho Pantin massacre, at least the usual number has not diminished. To cite but a few inetances of what foreigners are apt to regard as the normal state of things in consequence of the proverbial disregard of the value of buman life in this country, a policeman was shot early yesterday morning in @ brothel in a Bowery basement, being at the time off daty, but, according to his own ante-mortem state- ment, guilty of improper conduct; a Chinaman murdered a few days ago his wife and a young man of whom he was joalons; a Cuban killed last week his mistress in Crosby street; ia Chieago, during the same week, a school- teacher, “‘represenied to be a person about nineteen years of age and of a very violent and ungovernable temper,” pounded a little boy almost to death, throwing him into a brain fever from which there is said to be no hope of recovery; at Nashville a husband kills his wifo, and at Rondout a husband, infu- riated by bad whiskey and by jealousy, com- mits the same crime. Wo published yester- day a full and minute account of this atrocloug murder; “'~ It is but just to say that in these and other instances of murder fn this country the motive has not been, ag in the Pantin murder, mercenary in its nature. One case, indeed, is the result of “ungovernable temper;” but the other cases have originated either in joalousy, or simply in bad whiskey, the worst of all stimulants to crime. Can no effectual means be devised for putting a stop to the alarmingly increasing adulteration of liquors ? We are convinced that nine-tenths of the murders which disgrace American civilization are due chiefly to the terribly poisonous and maddening effects of fabricated liquors. Can our moralists and legislators contrive no better remedy for this stupendous ovil than a “Maine liquor law.” which encourages hypo- crisy and breeds a general disregard of all legal restraint ? Fernando Wood on General Grant. In the speech at the democratic meeting ta Jackson square the other evening the Hon. Fernando Wood is reported as saying, among other things bearing upon General Grant, that “the administration has disgraced us in the eyes of the world;” that ‘‘it has been guilty of perfidy and corruption unparalleled in history ;” that ‘we have the humiliating spectacle of @ President forced to deny in the public prints the charge of conspiracy with dishonest men to destroy the finanoial credit of the country,” and that “‘we find his trusted agents using their positions to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the people.” Now, such stuff as this, even on the stump, from Fernando Wood at this time of day is somewhat remarkable. What is he after? We had thought that he had passed beyond all this balderdash of tke stump to higher ground as a public man—that he had cast off the loose jacket of the demagogue and had put on the garments of a venerable states- man. But ‘habit is second nature,” and such being the case with Mr. Wood the best thing that he can do, if he desires some reputation for wisdom, is to avoid these political ward meetings and turn his attention to the philoso- phy of women’s rights, or to the recent archzo- logical discoveries in Jerusalem, or to the mission of Father Hyacinthe, or to the Chinese coolie question, or to some other subject apart from the democratic slang-whanging of ward politics on the stump, That business should be leit to younger men, No More Cakes and Ale. The Massachusetts parsons are virtuous. Therefore there shall be no more cake and ale, neither shall ginger be hot in the mouth, The genuine spirit of Puritanism has not recently come forth so plainly anywhere as it now comes in the declaration of the parsons against Thanksgiving Day. It has become a day of festivity, enjoyment and delight to the people; therefore away with it, say these sons of witch burners. The Puritans, says Macau- lay, abolished bear-baiting, not because of the cruelty to the bear, but because of the pleasure the people had in the sport. Puri- tanism, pure and simple, is outraged at nothing so much as at pleasure, recreation and relaxing entertainment of any sort ; hence the horror of these canting rascals that the sombre day of ‘‘observation” and “religious impression” of thoir forefathers has become in this generation a day for the cultivation of the Svnial domestic pleasures. To them there is no “rdigious impression” in any man’s happl- ness. We doubt if the Governor of Massa- chusetx will heed the petition of these zealots; xnd it matters but little, one way or the other,,s this holiday has now become a national ont and the Governor's proclama- tion is a supettuity in any State. The people will, therefore, .ave the holiday, and will care little whether th parsons like the way they keep it. Tak WORKINGMy's Movements.—The workingmen’s sociotie, of this city, in their independent movements » political affairs, are evidently crystallizing ® gn independent party. They do not appea to gover a very wide margin in reference to ur gpproaching elections, but it is already apyrent that if they stick to their text they will.stonish the old party machine politicians on bo, sides in our November races. In short, thtg work- ingmen’s unions in the new political moye. ment initiated have only to move togther, rank and file, in order to gain in the qrg¢ general charge the political balance of po\gr in the city, the State and in the United State, They have the strength, and they have only t learn how to use it. Tue Carnorio Aorp Expioston.—In the reports of the disaster that occurred in Brook- lyn on Monday the public hear of another destructive agent brought to light by modern chemistry. We suspect, however, that this is not so much a new agent of danger as a confu- sionin names. The men were using carbolio acid to prepare blocks for pavement, and so, doubtless, were not using a very pure article. Carbolic acid is made from coal tar. When the basic parts are taken from the tar about, one-third of the remaining liquid is carbolio acid; but in a not very careful preparation some other substances would go as acid, or in the acid, and one of these might be naphtha, Thus it is probable that the body that has; exploded under the name of carbolic acid is the same ono that explodes in tenement houses under the name of kerosene, PERE HYACINTHE, Pere Hyacinthe has not as yet quite recovereu (rom i he vised: his indiaposition. Yesterday, how Dr. Chapin, the interview between the: being quite lengthy and of a private charact Chapin 1 conversant with the French Tho mecting was cordia! in the extreme, im fact more #0 than any other Father Hyacinthe has had. After this visit the Pere proceeded to the residence of Mr. Farrell, with whom he remained for somo time, He then pre to the hotel, whero he retired imme diately to bis room, refusing to see any visitors with the evoxcepign ot A Duchesne, of the steamer Pei hing finite ig as yet known ag to bis depariare ror Bost ton. THE WESTERN ce wesiean TOBACCO CRP. Crops in Indiana, Ulinoie and Kontacky Badly Injured by the Frost. EVANSVILLB, Oct, 26, 1869. Advices recetved to-day by the tobacco warehouse men from Indiana, Ulinols and Northern Kentucky state that the tobacco housed and not cured or pro- tected by fires has reese Hi Un joey by freezing. It 18 impossible to ‘hat amount of di hae been sustained, pat it it mi be wget LOUISVILLE, Oct, 26, 1860. Advices from Owen, Bracken and other that the rocent froas hes Sroving sommes ured crops Other cops jc have been ovrteopoudinggy affectet. reat.