The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1869, Page 6

' NEW YORK HERALD STREET, BROAPWAY AND N 8 GORDON GENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic must be addressed JAME despatche: New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly aunications will not be re- FIFTH 4 : 2h st Siz Wovr NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broasway.—L1i4 Lt Awd TUF MAROHION bo8. WOOD'S ML iv ‘Thirtieth et. r w roR Tur WALLACK’S THEATRE. Brostwas ant (hy street. — STILL WAch2s Run Dev. THE TAMMANY, Fourteonta astree:.—Tum HANLON Broraris «0. GRAND 0 7URA HOUSE, Fiso.0 avenue and $2d street. —-CLakLts O'MALL WA ¥ THEATRE, No. 120 Hrovlway.—A GRanp Vani NTERTAUNMENT. BOOTH'S VHBALRE, Wdat., between ot and 6th ave Mary WAsss OLYM?I) THEATRE, Broauway.—Tur Sreecrs oF Rw Ye CONWAY'S PARK TITEATSS, Brooklya.— TUF MILLER AND Hii NPN, Fourteen trest.--Mn. DE Cor TON W1 Bowery.—Comro Vooatin’ ACAD t—Granp Vauiery ENTERTA mite Vooare w—bRyA 18D dete NEW YO ayp Gra OPERA HOUSé, 1G TIMES IN B: MALES ONLY L rPL indayy 7. a H Si October 2 Increasing Circulation o: We are a » Florald. aA constrained to a rtisers to ir advertisements at as early an hour editions are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than Usual, and io facilitate the work we forced to stop the classifications of adver: ents at nine o'clock P.M. THA WaAWs. Europe. Gable telegrams are dated October 3). Napoieon is, it is said, agaim indisp: The Czar of Russia will visit the Nice, Frauce, duriug the winter, time at cach place. The Au the insurgenc Dalmatians hay Consequence of a heavy fal! of Tefuses to confirm the nominatio tin health, and some a iu iion in the priest as Lishop on account of iis Catholic Convention held lately in & Yhe Lon- don Times advocates an ind treat- ment of rish land questior The members of the Spanish antcus Bailotted for a candidate for the thror 1 during U ay Without result, and were to renew the discussion and vottmg m the evening. The Minister of Finance of Spain estimates that the government income will exceed the expenditures by a sum amounting to £100,000 5 ext fiscal year. The per capiti Fepealed and salarles reduced ir By st ip at this port we have interesting at our cable tei¢ ‘om Zurope to Der, Cube. The insurgents recentiy tore.up the railroad track Ddetween \ dlaclara and Cientuego: 1 captured a freight train. Communication he two Cities 18 cuto. The United Si ner Pow batan, with Admiral Poor on boar Hayana. South Amer Dates from Rio Janeiro to October that the ‘a hau allies were agatu moving a Estanisiaus. The seasons of the 1 bers have been prorogued. Miscellaneous. The Court ot Wilmington discharged all the om- cers Of the Cuban privateer yeete @ yt seven, Who Were livid in $500 each to appear re the Unttec es District Court on } » Captain Higgins’ name is not among the » One of the counsel for the government di yesterday. The suit on libelling the stcamer will next be tried. Genera! Pelknap will enter on his dy Secre- fary of War on Monday, when the oficera of the army wil! pay thely reapects to him at the War De- partinent. The entire business of the department as laid ber him erday by General Sherman, in a lengthy intervie Minister J.ow yesterday hed an interview with President Giant on Chinese n 3 wressed More liberal Views than have n usually adopted by prominent men on the Pa coast, The British bark Strathsey sunk on the 25th of Beptember near McCioud’s Island, in the Pacific. The captain and crew took to the longboat, and after even days and nights at sea, enduring great hard- Ships from exposure ana hunger, were picked up nd carried to San Franciaco. Comptroller Brodhead, of the Treasury, has de- eided in effect that the gov ment cannot repay money ont of which the righ Imant bas been @efrauded by a claim agent or atiorney. The wreck of the steamer Ston UL is still barn. ing. No additional particulars relative to the misa- {ing have been received. It was reported that Mr. Casey, arclative of the President, was lost, but the feport is untrue, as he was not aboard of the Stone- Wall at the time. Justice McKinney, a magistrate of Newark, N. J., ‘Was fined fifty dollars, by Judge Depue, in that city, yesterday, for extortion in charging three dollars fora warrant when he was only entitied to twenty- Bve cents, A sleeping oar on the Oswego and Susquehanna Railroad was thrown from tne track yesterday morn- WS, and several persons were seriously injured. Sesf Davis has gone to his home in Mississippi. ‘The stock market yesterday was dull and heavy for the general list and Irregular for the Vanderbilt Shares, Gold advanced to 12)4, closing finally at 12054 There was a fair degree of activity a commercial Circles yesterday, and values were generally higher, Coffee was moderately active and firm. Cotton was \ teat sought at par, and advanced so, per pound, losing at 2640, for middling upland, On ‘Chango was quiet but steady. Wheat was in active NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1869,-TRIPLE SHEET. otive, but at 26. @ Se. lower prices, whule oats were freely dealt inand higher. Pork was 500. a 76, per barie, lower and only in moderate demand at the reduction, Beef and lard were quiet but steady. Naval stores were generally Gull and heavy, Petro- | leum Was in active spec’ crude closing at 19c, and refined at 34c, Whiskey was steady, while freights were rather more active and a trife drmer. The City. jative demand and higher, | The foreign consuls in this city accompanied the Emigration ¢ ssioners yoaterday on a visit to Joslyn Was arraigned before Justice the Tomba, yesterday, on a charge of “toy Fisk and Gould, He waived an 1 aod gave ball in $5,000 to answer at neral Sessions, 1ore arrests for ilk tay mn the Tenth case the prisoners w rogister ing were sateonth wards, orstoent Arrivals in die aryland; W. H. Rarch 3; 1. S. Morrow Holt, of & 1; G. ny, of Ohio, and W 4, are at the Metropoiita 4, Benton and Captam H. K. Bruce, of ates Army, are at the St. Oharies | A. Robinson, of Califor- Hotel, Baroa Alvensiebea, and General Bolles, of Wash- ington, L. M Wool of the United States Navy, and John Lynn, are the Albemarke Hovel. 1and Ira Baird, of Philadelphia; 8. 1, of Albany; C. R. Griggs, of Mlinols, | %, of Kentucky, are at the st. | fodesie De ishop of Vancou- ver’s isla tsweeny’s Ho | Preporn 4 for the Geaud Council-The | Prospect. ni-defeection of Father Hyaciithe and | ion occasioned by te same have not | orld indifferent to the approaching | isions demonstration at the Vatican, Tho out on their pilgrimage to the | hops have 0 and from all points | they are now converging towards tho Holy Ti is caleulated thet not fewer than one | md bishops will take their places in the | Council Hall at St. Peter's, and the crowd | roulises to be reasonably representative and | In spite of th of Protestants and other noa-Catho- | lies there will be no lack of variety. There | will be prince bishops and pauper bishops, | bishops 1 and bishops in serge, | bishops with fine equipages aud bishops with | none, bishops who can pay their own bills and | bishops who will live at the expense of the | Pope. The liveriod lackey and the gorgeous | carriage will attest the vharacter of the one; the Roman hackman aud the dirty cab will attest the character of the other. Preparations at St. Peter's are going on apace. The grand green embroidered carpet to be supplied by the King of Prussia is hourly expected from Berlin. The artists of Rome are busy executing portraits of tho Popes and other church dignitaries whose us motley as possible, scarlet names are prominently associated with previous conucils of the kind. There are, it appears, to be galleries on the tl ight and left of the Pontifical throne specially reserved for the shorthand reporters } and official theologians, les these there are to be two. other galleries, one for ambas- sadors and persons of distinguished rank, the other for sovereigns or members of royal families who may at thetime be in Rome and seek admission to the show. With the excep- tion of such favored persons no outsiders will be admitied, Nor is it to be supposed that the shorthand reporters will in any sense be representatives of the press. The shorthand reporters will report only to the Council itself. | It has 7 »d us to see that the Council in this | particular is so far behind the age. It ought | to have been less fearful of the fine free air | of public sentiment and more wiling to face the light of day. It is gratifying to us to know that if any exceptional liberty be taken with the rigid rules which have been laid down, that liberty will be exercised in favor of tho New York Herarp, All things considered, it is now certain that Rome will, on the 8th of December, present a spectacle and enjoy a holiday which have had no parallels in many centuries. How long the Council will sit is a matter of some doubt. It may be years or months or weeks; it may come to a sudden and abrupt termination. In any case the first day will be the greatest. When the great pageant of the opening day is over the sensa- tion will be ended, and the many thousands who journeyed thousands of miles to sce the show will gradually disperse and seek their own homes. But what is the prospect? What will the 4 pi We cannot say that anything has te to warrant us to hope that it ccomplish anything very great. If the latest rumor be well founded the Council will only be a dumb show. It will meet to ratify what has already been agreed upon. In such a case it will, indeed, be the tamest of all tame affairs. Tor reasons at once numerous and weighty we cannot believe that the rumor to which we have alluded has any foundation in fact. Jt is not possible that the Pope and bis | advisers have made up their minds to insult the many devout adherents of the Catholic Church, who are looking forward to the ap- proaching Council in the confident belief that it will solve for them many of their doubts and remove out of the way many of their stumbling blocks, There mast be some form of discus- sion. Conclusions must be arrived at. If Archbishop Manning is of any authority wo | faith, liavana, | the | prac| i { cnough to fall into the hands of the Spaniards, | reflection, speculative demand and tc. a 2c, higher. Gorn was | end of time will be, ‘absolutely incapable of error on every subject, in every utterance and at every moment of their lives.” To say 60 would commit the Church to the Noetianism of Pope Calisius, the Arianism of Liberius, the Eutychianism of Vigilius, the Monothelitism of Honorius, the persecuting edicts of Innocent IlI., the condemnation of Galileo by Urban VIL, the jests of Benedict XIV., as well as the extravagant doctrines of Pius IX. We must be told what this infallibility means. It is not enough to tell us that infallibility attaches to Papal utterances only when made officially or er cathedrd. We must be told what such oficial utterance is, Isitin a council or out of a council? in the chair of St. Repentore—Roguory at the Polls. In the city reports of matters relating to tho registration of voters some facts appear that ere worthy of observation, An unnaturalized person attempied to make a fraudulent regis- tration, was arresied, taken before Justice Shandley, committed, and in half an hour bailed out in the sum of threo hundred dollars. His bailaman was “Mr. Thomas Sheils, of Market street and East Broadway.” Another person, arrested for a similar offence, was taken before the same Justice and bailed in the sum of two hundred doliars, still by the same Mr. Thomas Sheils, of Market street and East Broadway. Now, there appears nothing in common between these two offenders who thus Peter? through a letter, deeree or bull? Do | equally receive the kindly offices of Mr. Sheils, these utterances relate merely to matters of or do they include matiers of fact as well? Oace this matter is fairly setiled all will be plaia enough, about immaculate conceptions, bodily assump- tions, Galileo systems, science and history generally, we will have no choice but accept as gospel. We must submit, evea if, like Galileo, we siould say ‘and still it moves.” Surely the world will thea have rei'gious rest | and peace. Our Cuban Correspondence. In yesterday's Heratp we presented our readers with an intelligent and interesting icture of the condition of affairs in Cuba, ied by our special correspondents at Manzenillo and other points, Not confining ourselves to the accounts of our spe- cial agents, we have also gleaned largely from statements of the Havana journals. From both accounts the readers will be enabled to form a correct idea of the progress of the revo- lation and the means employed by Spain for its suppression. While there is a lull in mili- | tary operations, it will be seen that there is no | relaxation in the persecutions adopted by the petty Spanish officials against any person who is even suspected of entertaining sympathetic feelings with the struggling Cubans, A war | of extermination is advocated, and the idea Cruelties are ised against all who are unfortunate meets with many supporters, and by this means the Captain Goneral, urged on by the well known desires of the volunteera, | hopes io crush out the spirit of liberty which for ' over a year has found a resting place in every trae Cuban heart, The extract which we pub- lished, purporting to have been taken from a | communication written by a deserter late from | the Cuban army, is not without interest, and } although the lette r is colored to suit the tastes of these in power, it still contains food for The patriot army, according to the deserter, in many respects is poorly supplied with means to carry on the war; the soldiers | 1n several of the camps are described as being destitute of arms, poorly clad, ill-fed and devoid of many of the actual necessaries of life. This, no doubt, is an exaggerated pic- ture; but even supposing the insurgents are in as bad a plight as they are represented to be, it does not necessarily prove the ultimate failure of their cause. Let the reader call to mind the sufferings, privations and struggles of the American army in its fight for independenco | against the well equipped soldiers of Great Britain, The very fact of the Cubans sticking to the fight under the disadvantages they at present labor is an evidence that they have their hearts in the work, The darkest hour is the one before dawn, and possibly the gloomy clouds which now obscure the prospects of Cuban independence may be but the precursors of the dawn that will break on the disenthral- ment of poor suffering Cuba. he Roosevelt Hospital. The corner stone of this institution, which is destined to be one of the grandest in the city, both in its construction and its objects, was laid on Friday with solomn ceremony on the site at Fifty-ninth street. The means from which the hospital is to be built and sustained was bequeathed in a broad spirit of charity by the late James If, Roosevelt, to whom and to whose family the city of New York is indebted fora good deal more than this evidence o! generosity, When the Roosevelt Hospital is completed we may hope to see at last an institution of this character worthy of the city and equal to similar ones in other great e3 all) over” the world, The accommodation in our public hos- pitals at present is very indifferent, In fact, we have no public hospital at all, in the full sense of the term, for Bellevue has dwi into a mere emporium to furnish sub 8 for close by. Charity and of St, Luke's Episcopal church tutions and do a vast amount of good, but none free hospital such as this great city should possess. We look for that in the institution to be provided by the charity and liberality of James H. Roosevelt. The Theaires. Notwithstanding the complaints that busi- ness is dull, and the political excitements on the eve of the election, the New York theatres have done well during the past week. What with “Mary Warner” at Booth’s, sterling old English comedies at Wallack’s and at Daly's, “Charles O'Malley” at the Grand Opera House, “Oliver Twist” at Niblo’s, “The Streets of New York” at the Olympic, ‘Flick Flock” at are not left in doubt upon one point. Speak- | the Museum, “Formosa” at the Bowery, ‘Rob- i ing of the Council and its effects he says :— “The Syllabus will become the rule of thought with respect to the eighty-four errors which it condemns, and the eighty-four truths which were condemned by those errors will become tho rule and law of the intellectual belief of man.” It is very doubtful whether the truths condemned by the errors will ever become the rule and law of the intellectual belief of man; inson Crusoe” at the Tammany, horses, clowns of music, the success of German opera at the French theatre in Fourteenth street, there has been no lack of attractions. Chief among these must be counted the admirable persona- tion of Mary Warner by Miss Bateman, | Booth’s theatre has been nightly crowded with but when such language as that we have quoted | delighted andionces, ‘Tom Taylor's play is is used by a dignitary like Archbishop Man- ning it is not doubtful that an attempt will be made to make such the rale and law of the | It the is now no question Roman Catholic Church, longer doubtful that well constructed and full of dramatic incidents, Without an obtrusive moral, its influence is pure and elevating, and it is finely put upon the stage. Ss Papal infallibility will be considered and | has elicited from the press, in this country as in some way authoritatively settled. does infallibility reside? with what limits? and on what subjects? The Church and the world are anxious to have those questions answered. It will not do to say that every In whom | well ag in England. Well sustained by an ex- What the Pope says | the dissecting table of the Bellevue College, | The hospital of the Sisters of | Sles. | more rapid progress in this republic than at and the Jew’s Hospital are all admirable insti- | and acrobats at the Circus, varieties at the | Waverley and at Tony Pastors, and in the way | except that their attempts were made in the same registration district and that they went before the same Justice. We should merely like to know if this may not furnish a hint toward elucidating the plan of operations, Is Mr. Sheils assigned to the duty of bailing all the men who are caught in that particular dis- trict? Or has his assignment reference to another point, and is ho required to do the larger duty of bocoming responsible for all who are brought before Justice Shandley? And how does Justice Shandley reconcile with a fair view of duty the fact that he makes things thes easy for these rogues? Is not two hun- dred dotlars a bail that the criminal is certain to “jump” if ever called for trial on an offence that involves the State Prison? We are cer- tain that Justice Shandley does not know that { i} { | these cases will not be called for trial; for if he knew that they would never be called he would put the bail at five thousand dollars, since it might as well be that as any other; and when we roflect that the offence charged is one that strikes at the very founda- tion stone of our political fabric we are inclined to the notion that that sum would be nearer the true point. Let Mr. Sheils pay roundly for the luxury of helping his friends to disfran- chise honest voters. But Justice Shandley, we suppose, cannot find it in his heart to be hard upon a people who have elected him to the distinguished posiiion he holds, and cannot oppress with the weight of justice the would-be voter whose suffrage may be some time usoful in putting him on even a higher bench. We shall have judges with less sensibility, per- haps, if, adopting the new constiiution, we by and by deprive ourselves of an elective judiciary. Another reported fact indicates that the Supervisors have a power in the regis- tering of which we did not know before. One of these gentlemen, it seems, used his authority to silence the officer who refused to register a man by one name whom he per- sonally knew by another. Failing in his official intimidation of the officer he changed his tactics and kicked the said officer in the mouth on his way to supper because he had “too much gab.” The desire of one of the + functionaries who supervise all our county expenditures to secure a registration that ho knew to be false is not so praiseworthy as his wish to insure an economy of ‘‘gab.” The Fashions. The letter of our Paris fashions correspond- ent is devoted to-day chiefly to the splondid tributes to be offered to tho Empress of the French by her host, the Sultan, Well may our | cellent company, she has made Mary War- heroines of the Blonde and Black Crook drarma ever were, one of tho two hundred and twenty Popes has been, and that all their successors to tho ' away. ner more popular than the most meretricious | which correspondent say that ‘‘the glory of the blonde Empress is outdoing that of brune Cleopatra.” It is not surprising that orthodox old Mussel- mans of the fanatical sort are secretly shocked and enraged at such tributes to a woman and a Christian, albeit the wife of the ruler of such an empire as France, A dinner service of massive wrought silver, lined with gold, and worth nine hundred thousand francs; tissues of priceless value, laces, incrustations of pre- cious stones, ivory, wood and gold, with a long catalogue of other costly gifts, are duly enu- merated. And we are informed that Paris is already beginning to be inundated with Ori- ental fashions, such as the Nile water toilet, and, we may add, Jerusalem waterproofs. The eau de Nile robe is minutely described, and so are the dresses worn at the late Chantilly races ¢ | and at the Italian opera, We are glad to have our own impression authoritatively confirmed that some of the prettiest bounets of the season are “not tha pretiiest.” In fact, they are posi- tively ugly. Nevertheless, they are as “‘fash- ionable” in New Yorkas in Paris, and the Oriental styles which are promised there will probably be adopted here long. As for masculine costumes, we can only led | notice the fact that our New York dandies, like the members of the Paris Jockey Club, beiray a decided proclivity towards London British enterprise has lately mado any previous time since the Declaration of Independence. It has, indeed, long been the of them cover the ground of a general public | pride of Bostonians to dress as much es pos- sible like Young England. But New Yorkers and Philadelphians and Chicagoans now seem inclined to follow in their wake, if we may judge from the durable and comfortable walk- ing suits, overcoats and rags of English stuff and make which are now to be seen. As an instance of this tendency in favor of Anglican tastes it is noteworthy that the representative of Messrs, Smalpage & Son, an ancient and celebrated house in Bond street, at London, which has branches in the Rue de la Paix, at Paris, and on the Fifth avenue, in New York, during his late American two months’ tour, took no less than seventy thousand dollara worth of orders, Shall our indigenous tailors demand a fresh Declaration of Independence? The Vanderbilt We publish to-day an advertisement setting forth the programme for the ceremony of unveiling the Vanderbilt bronze group at the entrance to the Hudson River Railroad depot in St. John’s Park, The imposing ccremonial is fixed for the 10th of the coming month, and, judging from the arrangements, it promises to bea very grand affair, All the leading classes of the metropolis will be present, through their representative mea—the State, municipal and federal officials; the Bronze. It wonld be superfluons to repeat | press, the bench, the bar, commissioners of of | the eulogies which the acting of Miss Bateman public institutions, bankers, shipbuilders, éngine makers, steamboat proprietors and the agents of foreign steamship lines, will all com- bine to give éclat to the unveiling of a work 8 admitted to be one of the finest specimens of art in bronzo created in modern Happily, the day of that very | times, It is befitting that due honor should illegitimate drama seems to have passed | bo paid to a conception which, more than any monugent of art oxtant, representa tho material progress of our time. We siill adhere, however, to our opinion that the Park, and not the Hudson River Railroad depot, is the proper place for this magnificent creation, nor do we doubt that it will obtain 4 local habitation there some day. Woman’s Rights—The Great Hartford Con. vention—Beecher. The women’s rights women have had a great convention at Hartford, and the pre- sence of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and his Napoleonic ideas, advanced in behalf of the God-given rights of crinoline, have given a now and a mighty impulse to this revolutionary cause. His speech was the crowning glory of the Convention; but even the women’s speeches at this gathering, as if under the new inspiration of a man after their own hearts (and they can do nothing without the men), were sparkling, graphic, pungent and pretty good. For instance, Mra. Livermore, in opening the proceedings, remarked that “prior to the war Jeff Davis was consulted in reference to a change of the State seal. It was proposed to make it a bale of cotton with a negro on top asleep; but Davis said it wouldn’t do; the niggor might wake up, With the same cry of freedom you have wakened up the women, and for all time.” Upon this startling text the eloquent lady made a ringing speech, arguing woman's claims to the ballot like a lawyer; but the evening session on Friday, with Beecher as the orator, was a sort of women’s rights jubilee. Regular theatre rates were charged for ad- mission, but the honso was packed, for all that, to its utmost capacity with the cream of Hart- ford society. It was @ new sensation among the Connecticut Puritans. As a proper pre- liminary to the introduction of the lion of the evening, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sounded the trumpet ina poem, commencing So we'll have a new flag, my brothers; Our sivipes—we have felt them all; Our stars, in the dysk of battle, Did mourntfaily pale and fail, Then rose Brother Beecher on the rostrum, and his speech crackled, blazed and whirled along like a fire on the prairies, consuming or driving out everything before it, and filling the heavens with smoke. We gave it in Satur- day’s Herawp, and the reader will have seen that it was as full of meat asanegg. The orator held that the time has come for woman suffrage (we may say the time and the man); that woman has the same right to go ahead that man has; that sex is no more a disability than color; that her rights are as clear as Uncle Tom’s ; that prejudice must back out; that the old barbaric law of brute force must give way; that woman, thank God, has other rights besides tho rights and duties of matrimony ; that nearly one-fourth of the women are single, for various reasons, and so, having no husbands, they must have fair play in provid- ing for themselves ; that the ballot is the thing ; that with the ballot in the hands of the women they will get fheir rights, and that our political elections will be purified, and the now savage elements at the polls will be humanized; that the men are sadly in need of suffrage to the women; that the women need it for their own protection; that they must and will have it; that it is too lato to talk of the restriction of the suffrage; that the spirit of the age is for its expansion to both sexes as to all races, all creeds and all colors, so that the suffrage shall indeed be universal. All the objections of moral philosophers, politicians, old bachelors and doctors of divinity to woman suffrage were cut up by the roots, and Brother Beecher left his audience as fully convinced of woman's rights in this matter as they were before of the divine rights of Sambo, The proceedings of the second day were garnished with some of the peculiar campaign melodies of the Hutchings minstrels, including the consoling chorus Fear not; we'll darn the stocking, And koop the cradle rocking— Clear the way ! They were followed by that irrepressible veteran agitator of slavery, Lloyd Garrison, in an appeal for woman’s rights in the bold ag- gressive spirit of his old time demands for the negro’s rights; bat after Beocher there is but little to be gleaned. Ile covers the ground, and he has given the cue which will be fol- lowed up at the approaching grand National Convention (25th November next) of these women’s rights women at Cleveland, Ohio. Touching this convention a volunteer (hombre) correspondent at Chicago gives us a solemn warning. He says that ‘‘such firebrands should be trampled out at any hazard,” for that ‘the finger of history points at imperial Rome as an awful warning ;” that ‘her day of ruin commenced when women were allowed rights equal in some respects to those of men;” that this womon's riguis movement may be called ‘‘the women’s rebellion—female and male traitors to God and man in council ;” and that ‘‘as the rebellion of the devil against God was conquered so must this hell-inspired con- spiracy be crushed out.” We think, however, that this poor man is needlessly frightened from the condition of things around him among the women of Chicago, where women’s rights have run wild. The great questivn is this, having among the men given the ballot to niggers, can we deny it to the women, the white or the black women of the land? No; we must go forward or backward. We can’t stand still, We must restrict tho suffrage or enlarge it 60 as to take in the women, and upon this problem a fierce and universal agita- tion of twenty years is perhaps before us, and perbaps another civil war, great or small. Who knows ? Tre Case or rae Horxet.—We wondered at the time of the appearance of the Hornet at Wilmington by what strange blunder or knavery she came there, The notion that the men who are acting here for the republic of Cuba ordered her in in the hope to get a judicial recognition of her nationality was not in favor of their sagacity; and the whole explanation of the mystery turns on the fact that the ship had not the right sort of captain, A Goop Junar—Recorper Hackert.— Among the nominations on the Judiciary ticket, to be voted for on Tuesday next, is the name of John K, Hackett for Recorder, a position which he now fills. During Mr, Hackeit’s term of office he has proved himself a just, abloand industrious judge, just such a mnagistrate, indeed, as the exigences of the times demand. Ho has added dignity as well 48 activity to the bench. Not only has he been inflexibly honest in his legal yroceedings, but ko has Invariably followed up criminals with a promptness that was not uspal on the bench; and for this fact alone the community is largely his debtor. , It is satisfactory to find the name of such a man on the ticket, and we hope that the people will avail themselves of the golden opportuiity to re-elect him, No TAMPERING oN THE DaNuBE.—Russia, it is reported, protests against the appearance of Austrian soldiers on Turkish soil. She will have no suspicious transactions there—no relations that have any semblance of alli- ance between the two Powers, She would be very happy, however, if she could by ‘“pro- testing” early and ofien magnify this pre- sence of Austrian troops into a fact sufficient to justify her in puttinga few soldiers on the Danube also, She is very restive in the limits to which the result of tho Crimean war restrained her, and wouid be glad of any rea- son to come out, 4 Tury Don’r Know Waar Riguts Toxr Have.—There is no end to the perploxities of the poor Parisian people. - They cannot have @ free thoatre any more than a freo press, Thero ia a censor who must first approve every play. Well, they accept the censor. They take him asa granted thing in their scheme, and expect to havo the plays he passes, when lo! up comes a fellow beyond the censor. The ceasor permits a play, and the chief of police forbids it, If the chief of police is a censor, too, and in authority beyond the censor proper, who is beyond the chief of police? How many censors are there in point of fact? How many men hold the pleasure of the Purisian public in eubjection to thoit caprice ? FINE ARTS. Third Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. More than twelve thousand visitors have been to view the great Doré paintings since the opentag of the exhibition at the Somerville Art Gallery on Fifuh avenue, By general request the proprietor has decided to postpone the closing till November 4, and during the last four days to reduce the admis- sion from ilfty cents to twenty-five cents, The ‘Nine Musea’’ of Fagnani continue to attract throngs of spectators at the Somerville Art Galiery. An elegant little volume containing photographic copies of these pictures has been published. Poillard’s International Art Galleries, on Broad- way, which were opened on Thursday evening, con- tain a number of recent pictures by De Haas, James T. Hart, Innes, Rosenberg, Irving, Augers, Le Clear, Van Etten, Martinez, sommers, Homer Martin, Shaughueasy, Kothermel and other American paint- ers, together with busis by Launt ‘Thompson and Kuntze. The works by foreign artists which were promised will soon arrive. “ Mr. Kurtz, who has done so much to add photo- graphy to the ‘fn arts,” so called, and whose superb “Rembrandt effects" have made him famous both at home und abroad, has deservedly woa the highest medals for distinction in his departinent at the American Institute. THE SEWARD TESTIMONIALS, The Wealth of the Gelden State in Mintatures The Piencers? Mementooes in this City. A very unique collection of presents received by William H, Seward, ex-Secretary of State, while on his recent pilgrimage to tho Paciilc slope, is now on exibition at Browne & Spaulding’s, Broadway. They consist of elaborate and costly testimonials from the ploneer residents of California, and have been de- luvered to Mr, Seward as the ‘earliest and warmest iriend of California.” Tne popularity of the vener- able diplomat during his tour and the deep interest he mauifested in the prosperity of the great Weat aud Northwest, called for some reward in the eyes of his ardent admirers, and these beautiful works, executed from ores and deposits found in trans-con- tinental miues, were produced and formaliy de- livered, ‘The most expensive, and doubtiess the one which +13 most to the ex-Secretary’s taste, is an clogans cigar case, wrought with pure native eighteen Karat gold, elaborately carved, weighing avout 600 pennyweights. The case 18 5% inches long by 33g Inches wide, and has a thickness aud capacity (iat wil aliow the introduction of six of the largest Partagas or Carzadores. About the middie of the . upper half, and just above the clasp, is a large soli- taire diamond, Weiguing about ive karats and valued at $1,600, Tue upper face 18 cut in figures of extras ordinary beauty, 1n each of the corners a beast, embossed in gold, one # Polar bear resting on an iceberg, and the other @ Wwairus surrounded by a Trozen sea of Arctic coldness. The two lower cor- ners have the words ‘Alaska’? and “California.’? In the centre is @ largo medallion, and the margin ig filed an With imiricate scroll work. The centre piece contains about six square inches, and repre- sents a fine view of the city of Sitka, showing the bay, the piers and wharves, the houses and the custoins building, American flag at its peak, the frozen cr mountains towerlug betind all in the dise tance. The perspective of this delicate spectmen of eugraving is uot! bly correct, aud every el¢- Ment of the scone iy clear and perfectly distinc! “Seward,” raised in enamel, rests on the apex ol the highost nowutaim, Ou the reverse slde one col her is occupied by ‘Art’? and ihe other by ‘Indus try.” The large medallion below represents tt natives in the act of killlug deer. The clasp is formed by the American shield in colored enamels, With tie name of the makers, J. W. Tucker & Co., of San Francisco. The interior 1s a beautifully flaished Diain surface, with golden arms to embrace the cigars, and bearing ihe monogram “W, il. 8," with 1869 on the opposive arms. A snwifbox of eighteen carat gold Mr, Seward’s personal stait in 1s: Governor of this Siete, 18 also ou luLowing ts the Liseription:— NO OELOLE LOOT LEELELOLOLOTELELEED ITED ITIELEDODEDE: PRESKNTED TO HIS BXCKLLENCY, WILLIAM H. SEWARD, COMMANDER-1 Siave OF NEW Yorn, In testimouy of respect by the members ot the goneral staif, presenied by ie le wae wien. ‘The 3 Ta¥ OF THE MILITIA OF THE g 3 ae ; NRW YORK, MARCH 4, 1840, Qe mene enee OL ee tEB TBE PE TELE TELE LEW GE TE EDPHE DEEL DODEY One of thé most novel and elaborate of the gifts la @ cune, three feet two inches in length, of about one Inch in diameter, cut from the rare and closely grained mancineta wood, with a head composed of the different specimens of quartz indigenous to Call- fornia, inlaid in eigit triangular figures. The top Is fitied ta two sections, the lower one having varied rich specimens of the purest quartz known to tbe Pacific slope, and being circular in shape, Tae up- per section, octagonal siaped, contains quantities of ne puiverized ore, alternatin with panel of carved gold, upon whic! aro sculp: tured various scenos in the Arctic DA, the principal ones being from antinated life. The cap, Which swings open on hinges, is Wroughtin » like manner, ana beneath It, lying under pro- tection of a glass, are samples of the native silver, gold, copper, iron, lead, tia and zinc, ‘The reverse side of the cap has the following inscription: TODO LOLI LEAL LEST LELE IDLE DOLE DEEL LELO RG CODE REDE ; THE CALIFORNIA PIONEERS To WM. H. SEWARD, MMOLE RELL ERLEDEPOED ESTE REDPDELELOLEDOLO LOOP OD A pair of moss-agate sleeve buttons, of an eliipti- cal pattern, with rare stones, exhibitl the vi color and outline of the setting, 18 also of the collec+ tion, Besides these there is a cylindrical tube con- taining pieces of tno various white metais, embrac- fag specimens of zinc, California tin concentrations and solder. ‘Chose splendid gifts will be on exhibt- tion at Browne & Spalding’s for some time, and will doubtless eventually become the proporty of saae historical society or other public body. "WOMAN'S PARLIAM:AT. A convention of avout fifty ladies ot New York was held yesterday afternoon, at PackaTd’s rooms, for the purpose of perfecting the new organization called the Woman's Council of New Yorr. The pro- ceedings were conducted be cloaed doors, and usted of addresses by Mrs. Charles 3. Pie: president of ‘the preliminary meeting, and 4 Anne Pensinore, chairman of the Nxaguiive Gommittes, -nd the registration of the numes of such ‘as chose to join the society. ‘The new coa#ituuion was read for tho information of momyore, aud a number of new names were added to the roll, candidates paying ous dollar thisation fee. Tho Toadora in tho movement siate that tole meotung 48 preittainary to the formation of a conver tion, Wilh representative women from ail paris, ‘Tho posed object of the orguuisation is the ion Of women among themselves for tho development of thelr own econom J6al, educational and moral interests. Lt atsciatigng wh connoctior ‘with the woman's rights as We Brid tho assemblago erred y wae as dissin ay tho angular dana halied by Bisa Antho ite halled Dy Biss ANTOUY ag auinurer ly ditiorens