The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1869, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROAPWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. will not Rejectsd communica: be re- turned. FIFTH Str Wor NIBLO'y MARouIOS WOOD'S MU Thirtieth et. BO VEmpic POR Tur WALLACK'S STILL WA THE TA» BRorakis « GRAND 0 $d atree ku street. — THBATR 3 RUN Deev, JANY, Fourtoenta atree.—Tuk HANLON ¢ Bion avenue and WAVE. ¥ THEATR VARIETY ENTPRTAUINME. A G2anp BOOTH'S ¢ Many Wa sth and 6th ave THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tux Steers oF ONWAY'S PARK ITE AT f TUR MILLER AND Hi NP 8, Brooklya.— . Fourti n. De Cor VuIFRIN TONY 2, WL Bowery.—Comto Vooan.i pabant .—GRAND VARIETY NTERTA adway.-Comte Vooat BRYANTS’ OP Daya is BAN FRANCT PIAN Miv NEW You AND Gra ESTRIAN HOOL' MINSTE: OPERA HOUS -it1o0 TIMERS IN . -Hooney's NEW YORK tUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 915 Brow iway.— BOIENOF AsO Ant LADIVS' NEW YORK M Broadway. —* "Hatta ONLY 1 IM, 61BLy TRIPLE New York, ok , Rp momeyp SHEET, Sunday, October 3i, TO ADVERTISERS. Increasing Cireulati We are hand in Again constrained to ir advertisements at as carly an hour As possi Our ins constantly ing editions compe! us, notwithst 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 are forced to stop the classifications of adver o'clock I. M ments at nine Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 3). Napoicon is, it is said, again indispos: The Czar of Russia will visit the Isle « pe, duriug the winter, place. The Au the insurgent Dalmatians h Consequence of a heavy fal! of snow. refuses to confirm the nominatio; priest as Lishop on account of i's Catholte Convention held late! don Zimes advocates an ind ment of The membde 8 bailotted for a candidate for the tlrone during te day without result, and were to renew the discussion and voting m the eventug. The Minister of Finance of Spain estimates that the government income will excecd the expenditures by asum amounting to £100,000 steritng during the able treat- next fiscal year. The per capita tax is to be repealed Salaries reduced in ain, By st p at this port we have interesting Mail derails of our cable telegrams irom Kurope to the eth of Octoner, Cube. The insurgents recently tore,uy railroad track between Vilaclara and Cienfuegos, and captured a freight train. Communication he two Cities 18 cutom The United Si ner Pow- atan, wit Admiral Poor on bos Havana. 1, tas arrived at Dates from Rio Janeiro to October te that the noving a! t 2 at San Y ns of the Lrazilian Clam- bers have been prorogued. Miscellaneous. The Court ot Wilmington discharg all the om- ers of tho.Cuban privateer ye e who were heid in $500 each to United Stuies District Court on a of the Higgins’ name is not among the Counsel for the government died yesterday. The suit on libelling the steamer will next be $ried. Genera! Pelinap will enter on his dties as Secre- tary of the army will pay thelr respects to him at the War De- The entire business of the department hiin yesterday by General Sherman, Minister Low yesterday had an inter President Grant on Chinese n More Itberal views than have by prominent men on the Pa coast. The British bark Strathsey sunk on the 25th of September near McCioud's Island, in the Pacific, The captain and crew took to the longboat, and after Beven days and nights at sea, arin great hard. Ships from exposure and hunger, were picked up &nd carried to Sau Francisco. Comptrotler Brodhead, of the Treasury, has de- @ided in effect that the government cannot repay money ont of which the rightful claimant bas been @efrauded by a claim agent or atiorney. ‘The wreck of the steamer Sto: Hl is still burn. tng. No additional particulars r ve to the miss- {ng have been received. It was reported that Mr. Casey, arciative of the President, was lost, but the feport is untrue, as he was not aboard of the Stune- wail at the time. Justice McKinney, a magistrate of Newark, N. J., ‘Was fined fity dotiars, by Judge Depue, in that city, Yesterday, for extortion in charging three dollars fora warrant when he was only entitied to twenty- Bvo cents, A sleeping car on the Oswego and Susquehanna Ratiroad was thrown from the track yesterday morn- WS, and several persons were seriously injured. Seff Davis has gone to his home in Mississippi. The stock market yesterday was dull and heavy for the general list and trrogniar for the Vanderbilt shares. Gold advanced to 120%, closing finally at 12954 There was a fair degree of activity 1a commercial Circles yesterday, and values were generally nigher, Coffee was moaerately active and firm. Cotton was finn songht at par, and advanced so. per pound, losing at 2640, for middling upland, On ‘Change ‘Was quiet but steady, Wheat was in active must be addressed New York NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER ‘31, 1869,—TRIPLE SHEET. speculative demand and tc. a 2c, higher, Corn was active, but at 2c. a 3c, lower prices, whule oats were Meely dealt inand higher. Pork was 50c. a 75c. per bare. 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 speculative demand and higher, | crude closing at 19¢. and refined at sic, Whiskey was steady, while freights were rather more active @ud a trie drier. The City. ‘The foreign consula in this city accompanied the Emig Jon Commissioners yoaterday on a visit to sian. Ward's | Joslya was arraigned before Justice e Tombs, yesterday, on a charge of ierred oy Fisk and Gould, u and gave ball in $5,000 to answer at eral Sessions, S for illegal registering were tay m che Tenth a : ith wards, ase the prisoners were oid to oath ‘ veut Arrivals in the City. W. H. Barclay, of Butlato; of Obio, wid, dre at the Metropotttan Hotel, 4, Benton and Captain H. K. Bruce, of ates Army, are at the St, Charies Colone the Hotel. Baroa Alvensiebea, and General Bolles, of Wash- ington, art ve of the United States p, are the Albe! and Ira Baird, of Philadelphia; 8, Albany; C. R. Griggs, of Ilinois, of Kentucky, are at the St. in Cumming, nsle Demers, Bishop of Vancou- ion oveasioned by the same have not orkid in ent to the approaching snstvation at the Vatican. Tho t out on their p izious dem bishops have Mecea of Christendo: they are now converging towards the Holy City. It is calculated thet not fewer than one 1 bishops will take their places in the il Hull at St. Peter's, and the crowd iises to be reasonably representative and x In spile of the nee of Protestants and other non-Catho- s there will be no lack of variety. There will be priv as possible, and bishops in serge, yea and bishops with a», bishops who can pay their own bills and bishops who will live at the expense of the Pope. The od 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 the Popes and other church dignitaries whose names prominently associated with previous conucils of the kiad. There are, it appears, to be galleries on the the right and left of the Pontifical throne specially reserved for the shorthand reporters } and official theologians, Besides these there are to be two- otier 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 admitted. Nor is it to be supposed that the shorthand reporters will in any sense bo representatives of the press. The shorthand reporte: ! report only to the Council itself. It has pained 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 the 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 jo ed thousands of miles to sce tho show will gradually disperse and seek their own homes, But what is the prospect? What will the: Council do? We cannot say that anything has od of late to warrant us to hope that it will nplish anything very great. If the latest rumor be well founded the Council will only be a dumb show. It will meet to ratify what lias 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 w which we have alluded has any foundation in | ible that the Pope and his | fuct. It is not pos advisers have made up their minds to inault the many devout adherents of the Catholic Church, who are looking forward to the ap- proaching Council in the confident belief that it willsolve for them many of their doubts and remove out of the way many of their stumbling blocks. There must be some form of discus- sion. Conclusions must be arrived at. If Archbishop Manning is of any authority wo are not left in doubt upon one point. Speak- ing of the Council and its effects he says:— | Nabus will become the rule of thought pect to the eighty-four errors which it condemns, and the eighty-four traths which condemned by those errors will become the 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; but when such language as that we have quoted 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 Roman Catholic Church, It is now no longer doubtful that the question of Papal infallibility will be considered and in some way authoritatively settled. In whom 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 fe waived an | mage to the | , and from all points | e bishops and pauper bishops, | | ment of poor suffering Cuba. | 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 Calistus, the Arianism of Liberius, the Eutychianism of Vigilius, the Monothelitism of Honorius, the persecuting edicts of Innocent IlL., the condemnation of Galileo by Urban VIII, the jests of Benedict XIV., as well as the extravagant doctrines of Pius 1X. We must be told what this infallibility means. It is not enough to tell us that infallibility attaches to Pagal utterances only when made officially or ex cathedrd. We must be | told what such official utterance is. Is itin a council or out of a council? in tho chair of St. Peter? through a letter, decree or bull? these utterances relate morely to matters of | | faith, or do they include matters of fact as well? Once this matter is fairly setiled all will be plaia enongh. Wh: about immaculate concepti tions, Galileo systems, seier generally, we will have no choice but accept | as gospel. We must submit, evea if, like | ileo, we siould say ‘and still it moves.” t the Popo says | , bodily assump- and history Do | Repenters—Reguery at the Polls. In the city reports of matters relating to the registration of voters some facts appear that ere worthy of observation, An unnaturalized | person attempted to make a fraudulent regis- tration, was arrested, taken before Justico Shandley, committed, and in half an hour bailed out in the sum of threo hundred dollars, His bailsman 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 strect and Last Broadway. Now, there appears nothing in common between these two offenders who thus equally receive the kindly oftices of Mr. Sheils, except that their attempts were mado in the same registration district and that they went before the same Justice. Wo 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 he required to do the | Surely the world will thea have rei gious rest | and peace, In yesterday's Heranp we presented our readers with an intelligent and interesting icture of the condition of affairs in Cuba, hed by our special correspondents at , liavana, Manzanillo and other points. Not | confining ourselves to the accounts of our spe- | cial agents, we have also gleaned largely from | the statements of the Havana journals. From both accounts the readers will be enabled to } form a correct idea of the progress of the revo- | lution 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 | Our Cuban Correspondence. | | | 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 ‘ meets with many supporters, Cruelties are | practised against all who are unfortunate | enongh to fall into the hands of the Spaniards, | . 1 | and by this means the Captain General, urged } | on by the well known desires of tho volunteers, | | hopes to crush out the spirit of liberty which for | over a year has found a resting place in every | true 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 letter is colored to suit the tastes , of those in power, it still contains food for { reflection. The patriot army, according to the deserter, in many respects is poorly supplied with means to carry on the war; the soldiers | in 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 independence | against the well equipped soldiers of Groat Britain, The very fact of the Cubans sticking to the fight under the disadvantages they at larger duty of becoming 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 bun- dred dollars 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 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 reflect 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 position he holds, and cannot oppress with the weight of justice the would-be | voter whose suffrage may be some time useful 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 he 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 splendid tributes to be offered to the Empress of the French by her host, the Sultan. Well may our 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 indepeadonee may be but the precursors of the dawn that will broak on the disenthral- ‘The 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 solemn ccremony on the i site at Fifty-ninth street. The means from which the hospital is to be built and sustained | was bequeathed in @ broad spirit of charily by the late James H, Roosevelt, to whom and to whose fumily the city of New York is indebted fora good deal more than this evidence of 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 cities 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 dwindled | ; intoa mere emporium to furnish subjects for | the dissecting table of the Bellevae College, close by. The hospital of the Sisters of | Charity and of St. Luke’s Episcopal church | and the Jew’s Hospital are all admirable insti- | tutions and do a vast amount of good, but none of them cover the ground of a general public | 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 Theatres, ; 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 Olymple, “Flick Flock” at | the Museum, “Formosa” at the Bowery, “Rob- | inson Crusoe” at the Tammany, horses, clowns and acrobats at the Cirens, varieties at the | of music, the success of German opera at the French theatre in Fourteenth street, there has been no luck 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 delighted audiences, Tom Taylor’s play is 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. It would be superfluons to repeat the eulogies which the acting of Miss Bateman | has elicited from the press, in this country as | well agin England. Well sustained by an ex- Waverley and at Tony Pastors, and in the way | correspondent say that ‘the glory of the blonde Empress is outdoing that of brine 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 York as in Paris, and the Oriental styles which are promised there will probably be adopted here long, As for masculine costumes, we can only notice the fact that our New York dandies, like the members of the Paris Jockey Club, beiray a decided proclivity towards London styles, British enterprise has lately mado more rapid progress in this republic than at any previons time since the Declaration of Independence. It has, indeed, long been the 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 moaths’ tour, took no less than seventy thousand dollars 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 tothe Hudson River Railroad depot in St. John’s Park, The imposing ceremonial 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 men—the State, municipal and federal officials; the press, the bench, the bar, commissioners of public institutions, bankers, shipbuilders, éngine makers, steamboat proprietors and the agents of foreign steamship lines, will all com- Bronze. cellent company, she las made Mary War- ner more popular than the most meretricious heroines of the Blonde and Black Crook drama ever were, Happily, the day of that very one of tho two hundred and twenty Popes has been, and that all their successors to tho illegitimate drama seems to have passed away. bine to give éclat to the unvojling of a work which is admitted to be one of the finest specimens of art in bronze created In modern times, It is befitting that due honor should bo paid to a conception which, more than any monument of art oxtant, representa tho material progress of our time. We aiill 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 a local habitation there some day. Womaws RightsThe 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 bebalf of the God-given rights of crinoline, have given a new 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 withont the men), were spurkling, 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 & negro on top asleep; but Davis said it wouldn’t do; the niggor might wake up. With the same cry of freedom you havo 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 houso was packed, for all that, to its utmost capacity with the cream of Hart- ford society. It was a 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 in a poem, commencing So We'll have @ new flag, my brothers; Our sitipes—we have felt them all; Our stars, in the dusk of Battie, Did mournfaily 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 Heratp, and the reader will have seen that it was as full of meatasanegg. Tho orator held that the time has come for woman suffrage (we may gay the time and tho man); that woman has the same right to go abead that man has; that sex ia no more a disabilily 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 tho 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 bo 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 keop the cradle rocking — Clear the way t Thoy re 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. THe 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 « 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 rights 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 againat God was conquered so must this hell-inspired con- piracy 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 question is this, having among the men givon 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 atill. We must restrict tho suffrage or enlarge it so 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 Tre Hornet.—We wonderod 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 Jupar—Rucorver Hackert.— Among the nominations on the Judiclary 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 @ magistrate, indeed, as the exigences of the times demand, Ho has added dignity as well 8 activity to the bench. Not only has he beon infloxibly honest in his legal proceedings, but lo has Invariably followed up orlminals with a promptnoss that was not usual 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 ayail themselves of the golden opportunity to re-olect him, No Tamprrine 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 alll- ance between the two Powers. She would be very happy, however, if she could by “‘pro- testing” early and often 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 the Cr'mean war restrained her, and would be glad of any rea- son to come out. 4 Tary Don’t Know Wuar Rieuts Taxr Have.—There is no end to the perplexities of the poor Parisian people,» They cannot have a free theatre any more than a free press, There is a censor who must first approve every play. Well, thoy accept the censor. They take him asa granted thing in their scheme, and expect to have the plays he passes, when lo! up comes a fellow beyond the censor. The censor permitsa 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 censora are there in point of fact? How many men hold the pleasure of the Purisian public in eubjection to thelr 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 Fifvh 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 iifty cents to twenty-five cents, The “Nine Muses’ of Fagnani continue to attract throngs of spectators at the Somerville Art Galiery. An elegant little voluine 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, summers, Homer Martin, Shaughnessy, Kothermel and other American paint ers, together with busis by Launt ‘thompson and Kuntze, The works by forelgn artists which were Promised will soon arrive, ” Mr. Kurtz, who has done s0 much to add photo- graply to the ‘fue arts,’ so called, and whose superb “Rembrandt effects’? have mado him famous both at home uud abroad, has deservedly won the highest medais for distinction in his department ab the Americaa Institute. THE SEWARD TESTIMONIALS. The Wenrlth of the Golden State in Mintature The Pioncers? Mementocs 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 Pacile slope, ia now on exhibition at Browne & Spaulding’s, Broadway. They consist of elaborate and costly testimonials from the ploneer residents of California, and have been de- lavered to Mr. Soward as the “earliest and warmest triend of California.” Tae popuiarity of the vener- able diplomat during his tour and the deep interest he mauilested in the prosperity of the great Weat and Northwest, called for some reward in the eyes of hi3 ardent admirers, and these beautiful works, executed from ores and deposits found in trans-con- tinental mines, were produced and formaliy de- livered, ‘The most expensive, and doubtiess the one which 13. most to the ex-Secretary’s taste, is an elegans cigar case, wrought with pure native eighteen karat gold, elaborately carved, weightng about 600 pennyweights, The case 18 5% inches long by 34 inches wide, and has a thickness and capacity 4uat Wul aliow the Introduction of six of tue 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 extra. ordinary beauty. in each of the corners # beast, embossed in gold, one a Polar bear restiag on an iceberg, Bud the other @ Wairus surrounded by & Trozen sea of Arctic coldness. The two lower cor: fers have the words ‘Alaska’ and “Cailfornia.’* In the centre is a largo medallion, and the margin is tiled im With intricate scroll work, Toe 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 wWwaree houses and the customs building, with tue American flag at its peak, the frozen craggy mountams towerlng betimd all in the dig- tance. The perspective of this delicate specimen of eugraving 18 hovicoably correct, and every ele- ment of the scene iy clear and perfectly distinet “Seward,” raised in enamel, rests on the apex ol the highest mountain, Ou the reverse side cor- ner 18 occupied by ‘Art’? and ihe other by “Indus. try.” The large medallion below represents the natives in the act of killlug deer. The clasp is formed by the American shicid in colored enamels, with tae name of the makers, J, W. Tuckor & Co., of San Francisco. Tie interior 1s a beautifully fluished piain surface, with golden arms to embrace the cigars, and bearing ihe monogram “W, ii, 8,” with 1869 on the opposive arma. A snuifbox of eizhicen carat gold, Mr, Seward’s personal staif in 1540, wii, Governor ot this pinto, 13 also On exibiuen. The luLowlag 1s the Laserlpiion;— QO ee OLE LOOT LEAT IDUE ROLE LE LEL OLE ITLOTENELE BODES. af PRESENTED TO HIS BXCKLUENCY, WILLIAM H. SEWA COMMANDER-IN-CHIV OF THE MILITIA OF THE SiaTé OF NEW yor, In testimony of respect by the members o1 the general sail, * ( * ” ee reneeeneeres: NEW YORK, MARCH 4, 1840, QO LOLOL PLELTADEBELETELESOLE CETL DEDEDE BEDE LO DEY One of thd most novel and elaborate of the gifts ia @ cune, three feet two inches in length, of about one mech in diameter, cut from the rare and closely grained mancineta wood, with a head composed of the different specimens of quartz, indigenous to Cali. fornia, tnlatd in eigit triangular figures. The top ts fiitied io two sections, the lower one having varied Tich specimens of the purest quarta known to the Pacific slope, and being circular in shape. Tne up- per section, octagonal siaped, contams quantities of tne pulverized ore, alternating with panels of carved gold, upon which are sculp- tured vartous scenes in the Arctic nA, the principal ones being from antinated life. The cap, Which swings open on hinges, is wroughtin a like manner, and beneath It, lying under the pro- tection of a glass, are samples of the native atlver, gold, copper, iron, lead, tin and zinc, The revel side of the cap has the following inscription: maaan CMC or eererere ch eee ee. 3 3 Tait CATIFORNIA PIONEMRS TO. WM, 11, SEWARD, QOOOe Het OOLee-tere tt TELE APIO EOLELE DD ED DOO A pair of moss-agate sleeve buttons, of an eliiptt- cal pattern, with rare stones, exhibit the varied color and outline of the setting, 18 also of the collec+ tion, Besides those there is @ cylindrical tube con- taining pieces of tne various white metais, embrac.. jag syecimens of zinc, California tin concentrations and golder. ‘These splendid gifts will be on exhibi~ tion at Bro: « bogs for some time, and wall doubtless eventually become the proporty of same historical society or other public body. WOMAN'S PARLIAM:NT. A convention of about fifty ladies of New York was held yosterday afternoon, at Packard’s rooms, for the purpose of perfecting the new organization called the Woman's Council of New York. The pro- ceedings were conducted with closed doors, and dl of addresses by Mrs. Charles 3. Pte grentdont ‘of ‘the preliminary meeting, and Dr. Anna Densmore, chairman of the Hxeeuvive Committee, end the registration of the names of. such as chose to join the society. The new coagituuon was read for tho uformation of memyore, and a number of new names were added te the roll, candidates paying ouo dollar initiation tee. ‘the Toadera in tho movement siate that this meotung ia preliminary to the formation of a conver tion, With representative women from all parts, ‘The 1 plitige object of the orguuiaation ta the tion of women among themseives for the development of thelr own economseal, educattonat and moral interests. lv aisciali¢’g ail connection ‘with the woman's rights par Bid tho agsemblasa jorday Was a3 dissimilar tror tho angular damos hatied by Mise Authouy in Winter. Y As auInWEr la diflerens