The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1869, Page 8

— ey B NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY A JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telographic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hera. Letters and packages should be sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. ———— Volume XXXIV... .ceseeecees aoperly AMUSERIENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner ‘Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo Vervict--Tuk ViLLagE Bag WALLACK'S THEATRS. Tax ScHOOL Fos Soaw: w—WaAITING FOR THB roadway and Ih street — THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—TuR HaNLow Bornes, £0. QRAND OPERA HOUSE, corasr of Bighth avenue and ‘Mid street.—-CHARLES O'MALLEY. + (WAVERLEY THEATRE, Vamiery ENTERTAINMENT, jo. 720 Broadway.—A GRAND Matinee ut 2. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 25dat., botween Sth and 6th avs— Many Warnrn. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux STREETS OF New York. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— BOIRNOE AND Ant. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 — _Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANOR, ——————— QUADRUPLE SHEBRT. > New York, Wednesday, November 3, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. Increasing Circulation of tho Herald, We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at as carly an hour ‘as possible. Our immense and constantly increasing editions @ompel us, notwithstanding our presses are eapable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to o'clock P. M. THES Nuwa. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November 2. By special despatch from Paris we have it intl- ‘Mated, as a popular impression accepted in the city, that Napoleon will propose a plan of disarmament im his speech opening tho session of the French Legisiature, and that the idea 13 likely to become @eneral. It is said, indeed, that Lord Clarendon conveyed the assurance of England’s approval of such @ course to his Majesty, and that it will be agreeable to Russia, The tendency of Napoleon's policy in the movement is said to be objectively for the embarrassment of Prussia. Paris remained tranquil. The new Minister from Prussta to the Court of France reached Paris, The Bpanish Cabinet was partislly reconstructed. A Popular demonstration was attempted at the Mont- marte Cemeiery, Paris, but 1t appears to have failed. Germany was still disturbed by shocks of earth. | quake. A London journal notes the rapid increase in importations of wheat from the United States. By mail we have our special correspondence tn very interesting detail of our cable telegrams from Europe to tho 23d of October. Egypt. ‘The Empress of France is determined to navigate the Suez Canal. The imperial yacht, tt appears, raws too much water for the route at some parts, but her Majesty has ordered that new soundings be made, and if it is found that the Afgle cannot navi- gate it a yacht of lighter draught shall be substituted. Asia. By special correspondence from Delhi, Calcutta ‘and Rangoon we are enabled to publish to-day a valuable exhibit of the condition of afuirs in British India to the moment of the latest mail dates received fm Europe. The sad mortality and ravages pro- Guced by the second famine are reported, and the Progress of Russian advance toward Western Ching sketched. Miscellaneous, A fal: report as far as possible of the result of the elections im this State will be found in another oolumn. The elections in Maryland, Alabama, Illinois and Xassachusetts passed off with more than the usual Quietness yesterday. The vote was light in each @tate. In Maryland and Alabama the democracy are probably successful, and the citizens’ ticket ts reported aheadin Chicago. In Massachusetts, not- Withstanding the rum. excitement, the republicans gained their usual victory. ‘The use of the Bible and the singing of hymns in ‘tKe public schools of Cincinnati has been prohibited ‘oy the Board of Education, but an injunction against the Board was granted yesterday forbidding such Pronibition. ~~ Phe editor of the Reporter at Corienne, Utah Ter- ritory, was yesterday beaten noarly to death because Of his opposition to the “peculiar institution” of Mormonism. General Jonn E. Wool, of Troy, 1s seriously il, and fears are entertained for his recovery. He is eighty years of age. ‘The President of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, is in St, Louls endeavoring to effect con- nections with Missour! roads, in order to induce shipments of Western produce to European ports by way of the Grand Trunk Railway to Portiand, Me. About o1 clock yesterday morning # train on the Albany and Boston Ratiroad was run off the track at Chatham Four Corners, N. Y., by the dis- Placement of s switch, which had been turned by aoime mealiciou: reon, This is second attempt go destroy trains at the same place and in the same manner, Ten thousand dollars reward is offered for the detection of the offender. It te stated that a coin of the year 1091 bas been @iscovered in the trench where the Unondaga giant ‘was discovered. dinner was given by General Harney yesterday to the President, Goneral Sherman and a number of other distinguished oMoials in Wasuington. ‘The Canada Pacific railroad ts to be 2,600 miles Jong, and the capital required £20,000,000 sterling. Major Shepperd, Collector of Internal Revenue at Okalons, Mise, was sbot and killed on Saturday NEW YORK HERALD, | ! night ‘by his son. ‘The oltizens captured the mur} ‘The Telegraph and the Goverament. derer and turned bim over to the authorities. The City. Two children died yesterday in this city from injuries received while playing with fire, A negro woman named Clarina Stevenson, resid- ing at No. 78 Grand atreet, became so overcome with Teiigious fervor at a mission meeting on Monday night that she diea, . ‘The stock market yesterday was feverish, but became strong after the boards, and in final street business was active at a sharp advance in the promt- nent speculative shares. Gold declined to 127), closing Anally at 12734 @ 12754. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Viscount Thiery, of France; Captain Mirehouse, of the steamship City of Paris; J. M. Sapeyre, of New Orleans: Dr. J. Campbell Shorb, of San Francisco, and Alfred Fassett, of Philadelphia, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel E. N. Robinson and George F. Porter, of San Francisco; George F. Towle, James Connery and Colonel W. F. Smith, of the United States Army; Dr. E. Myers, of Otncinnatu; Judge J. Brown, of New York; J.B, Raymond and William Gregory, of Al- bany; James Sear, of England, and Captain John N. Bonnell, of the United States Army, are at the Metro- Politan Hotel, E. D. Boitand J, M. Forbes, of Boston, and A. T Drummond, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House, Governor Jewell, of Connecticut; Dr. Fowler, of Washington; General Upton, of the United States Army; Dr. Kirkwood, of Nassau; and General Kirby Smith, of Pennsylvania, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Surgeon H. 0. Nelson, of the United States Navy; General W. B. Franklin, of Hartford; George F. Smith, of Pennsylvania, and Stanton Whitney, of Calcutta, are at the Hofman House, E. H, La Grange, of Paris; A. Pollok, of Washing- ton, and A. A, Kirkland, of Baltimore, are at tue Westminster Hotel. Gencral G. W. Cass, of Pittsburg; Colonel J. B. Turner and G, L. Dunlop, of Chicago, and J. F. Joy, of Detroit, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Bishop Young, of Florida; H. Brownson, of Omaha, and R. J. L, Mathews, United States Consul to Na- ples, Italy, are at the Coleman House, Captain 8. A. Dey, of the United States Navy; stop the classifications of advertisements at nine Captain D. ©. Baxter, of Massachusetts, and J. A. Garland, of Boston, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. General Frisbee, for California; Dr. 8, W. Francis, for Newport; ©. Roaney May, for New Orleans; Dr. Knight, for Boston; Mr. Delfosse and Colonel A. Bullock, for Washington; Dr. 8, Robinson, for Troy; Colonel A. Bliss, for Philadelphia, aud E, B, Ward, for Detroit. Yesterday’s Elections=New York City and State and the Other States Concerned. The returns of our Stato election, as far as received, indicate the succoss of the demo- cratic State ticket; but the republicans have a working majority in the Legislature. The democrats lose heavily in the city, but the republicans, beyond Spuyten Duyvil, lose heavily throughout the State. The election has gone by default on a short vote, after the fashion of the late October elections, In this city the vote, as compared with that of last year, shows a democratic loss of over twenty-five thousand, and a deficiency in the aggregate vote of nearly forty thousand. For instance, the city vote of last year was:— For Hoffman.. For Griswoia, Total... Total city State... Defotonoy....0sccccccsseccccccsocsccccece Democratic city vote for Secretary of State. Republican vote...... neon eeeenacereaesens . Demotratic majority... Hoffman's majority..... Democratic loss this year. ove 26,070 The democratic loss, in the next place, is over four thousand on their last year's majority in Kings, so that on crossing Spuyten Duyvil they have nothing left of Hoffman's majority in the State. It appears, however, that while they relaxed their efforts in this metropolitan dis- trict and ite surroundings, where they had no fears of losing anything, they increased their efforts in the rural districts, with the fixed purpose of gaining the Legislature, thus changing their plan of operations. The most remarkable feature in tho city vote this year is in the splendid run of Horace Greeley. He stands ahead of Sigel over eighteen hundred votes, whereas it was gen- erally supposed that Sigel would have led his ticket by a handsome figure. In the interior, however, where we had supposed Greeley would be very strong, he seems to be comparatively weak—a mystery which per- haps may be solved by his compromising policy on lager beer and his bail for Jeff Davis and some other things of that sort. To sum up the general results in the State, they will signify practically little or nothing without a change in the Legislature, which, according to our lates returns, appears to be more strongly republican on joint ballot than the last. Our returns from Massachusotts show no material change in the general result com- pared with that of last November, while in New Jersey and Wisconsin the comparative gains seem to be onthe republican side. In Illinois the election was limited to a constitu- tutional and gounty ig Otiventton, and the results are “therefore of but little conse- quence one way or the other. Minnesota has doubtless gone republican, as usual, and Maryland democratic by a reduced majority. From the elections of Vermont and Maine in September to these of November compara- tive apathy and indifference among the people have prevailed and a short vote bas been in every case the result. There have been in these elections no national candidates in the field and no national issues directly involved, except in Ohio, where the question of the rati- fication of the fifteenth amendment brought out ® very respectable popular vote, resulting in the success of the amendment, We see, too, that, looking over the whole field from September to November, the administration of President Grant substantially holds the ground gained for the republicans by General Grant asthe chosen leader and expounder of the party. We expect, too, that in the develop- ment of his policy he will become by next fall the universally proclaimed republican candidate for the succession, and the elections of 1870 for a new Congress will turn upon the merits of his administration, Thus, by the force of circumstances, the dead issues upon which the Northern democracy havo been after a fashion holding together will bo cast aside, and the leaders and man- agers of the party will be compelled to take a now departure, In this view of the revolution accomplished, and tho new epoch about to open in our politi- cal history, we call again upon the Sachems of Tammany Hall to look about them and shape their programme to the new order of things, including the nigger and the South, and for the campaign, not of 1860, but of 1872, The centralization of power in the hands of individuals of vast wealth or of wealthy cor- porations is the tendency of the age, and may, unless carefully watched and checked, prove more injurious to the interests and liberties of the people than a political despotism. In no case are there greater evils to be apprehended than from the telegraph monopoly. Railroad corporations or combinations may tax the public enormously for travel or transportation of freight to pay dividends on inflated stock— on stock watered three or four times over, and raising it several hundred per cent over the original cost of the roads—but this is not as great an evil as imposing a heavy tax upon the business communications, social intercourse, news and intelligence of the whole communily, Yet this is so under the existing telegraph monopoly. The tariff of charges is based upon a stock three or four hundred per cent in nominal value over the capital actually expended. One great company has absorbed nearly all the other telegraph companies, and by this skilful combination has been enabled to charge what- ever it wishes. Tho power of this ono is so great that hardly any other can exist. Com- petition is out of the question. The people have no remedy, for they must use the tele- graph, and are compelled to pay whatever the | monopoly demands. Neither State nor fed- eral laws can reach the monopolists, and the public has no protection. If this business were like the ordinary busi- ness in trade or commerce, where people can have their choice in dealing, where they can make their own bargains or transfer their cus- tom from one place to another to suit them- selves and their pockets, government interfe- rence would be out of the question. Or if the business of telegraphing wore merely local or limited in its operations the argument against government supervision or control might have some reason in it; but it is as extensive ag the republic, intersects every State and Territory and involves the interests of every citizen. It is as broadly national and general in use as the Post Office, In fact, the time is near when it must be used as widely and as much as the mails are, and when it will, to a very great ex- tent, supersede the postal service. How absurd, then, to suppose this mighty agent of every- day life, intelligence and civilization can remain in the hands of an irresponsible private mo- nopoly! How ridiculous to talk of its being under the control ofa few individuals! The pub- lic interests demand that the government shall take possession of and control the telegraph. It is folly to talk of the vested interests of a few men and stock speculators when the wel- fare of the whole community and cheap com- munication throughout every section of the country are in question, Besides, the gov- ernment will be under the necessity of connecting the telegraph system with the postal service soon, or the latter will become a heavy burden upon the Trea- sury. With the progress of telegraphing the Post Office in less than ten years will not pay half the expense of supporting it if the telegraph be not under the management of government. As to the argument of the present telegraph monopolists that the rate of charges could not be materially reduced under government control, that is all bosh, They make the business pay well on a stock watered three or four hundred per cent. We are satisfied the rate of charges need not be over a third of what it is now under proper government management. What a vast saving this would be to the public! Congress should at once adopt the necessary measures, either by purchasing the existing lings at a fair valu- ation, based upon their cost, or establish anew and general system of its own. This is one of the most important and necessary measures of the time and should be taken up without delay. France=The Emperor’s Policy. It will be seen from a cable despatch which we print this morning that a rumor of some weeks’ standing, and which has already ap- peared in the Heratp, has been revived. The Emperor Napoleon is bent on a general Euro- pean disarmament. It ia expected that on the occasion of the opening of the Chambers on the 29th inst. he will make the subject a promi- nent feature of his address, It is said that when Lord Clarendon was last at the Tuileries the matter was discussed, and that his lord- ship was able to say that the British govern- ment would heartily endorse such a policy, General Fleury, it is also said, has gone to St, Petersburg to express the Emperor's views and to induce the Czar to back them up. It is supposed that Prussia alone of the great Powers will be unwilling to disarm to any great extent. It is not our opinion that if disarmament {s at all heartily gone into by the other great Powers Prussia will stand in the Way. If by this means Napoleon expects to embarrass Prussia it is our opinion he will count without his host. Disarmament, how- ever, has become a necessity, and, if carried out, it will be a blessing to Europe. To our mind the news is mainly valuable for the evidence it furnishes that the Emperor, yield- ing to increasing infirmities, has given up the réle of war. How Many Kinps of PaveMent?—New York is a pavior's museum, and presents a complete series of specimens of what may be done to streets under the pretext of making them fit for travel. We have a respectable variety of pavements in stone; we have ex- amples of nearly everybody's patent in wood and sume startling abominations in tar, The tar composition pavement on Fifth avenue is entitled to the distinction of being the worst we have. Herein we see the inevitable character- istic of our metropolis, Other cities have the asphaltum pavement and find it durable and excellent in all ways;.but when we come to put {t down in New York there is jobbery and a swindle, and our asphaltum becomes some- thing very like pine tar. The new pavement {in Broadway is now the best we have, Tas City Sewers.—Can the city afford to leave its sewerage in the condition shown in the communication of the city engineers, pub- lished by us on Monday? Aside from the defects of drainage resulting from the improper construction of these conduits originally, it appears that the matters they carry down from the city are deposited, not in the tideway, but in the still water between the slips, and that this deposit must ultimately greatly injure the port, Oem we afford to risk such injure? NESDAY, Ni The country has reason to be gratified with the official exhibit of the national finances as given in the November statement of the Trea- sury Department. A steady diminution of the debt continues. Every month shows a decrease, and for the last month that amounts to over seven millions of dollars, according to the way io which the Secretary airays his figures. We say according to thi way in which he arrays his figures, because he excludes the Pacific Railroad bonds or debt as a part of the public debt, which Mr. McCulloch always included. Still the debt has been actually diminished, including the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad and the interest accrued thereon. We cannot see why Mr. Boutwell does not include these as a part of the public debt, Thera is little doubt that the government will have to pay the Pacific Rail- road bonds in the end, and it now has to pay regularly the interest on them, notwithstanding the enormous grants of land to the company and the vast earnings of the road. The amount of interest paid and that accrued is upwards of six millions of dollars, while the drawback on that for transportation of mails and other services is less than two millions, Of course the company has paid np money, and, we sup- pose, never will pay any. Though a great and necessary work, it is a stupendous job, and the people will have to pay both principal and interest, while the managers and stockholders become wealthy from the proceeds, The Pacific Railroad bonds should be included in our national indebtedness. There is within a fraction of ninety millions of gold in the Treasury, exclusive of gold cer- tificates. There is sufficient to buy up and cancel over a hundred millions of five-twenties, which if so applied would save six millions in gold a year in interest to the Treasury, Why, then, keep this vast sum locked up and unpro- ductive? The hoarding it does not f{scllitate spools payments, Selling it gradually might bring down the premium on gold considerably. Although the Secretary continues to sell eight millions a month in the market, the accumula- tion in the Treasury goes on. If Mr. Bout- well’s vaults were empty to-day he would have a surplus at the end of the month, for the revenue receipts in gold come in steadily and faster than the demand for paying coin interest onthe debt, It must continue to be so from, the very nature of our trade and the increas- ing demand all the time for foreign importa- tions as population, wealth and commerce increase. There is no necessity for hoarding gold in the Treasury. The Secretary only needs a few millions on hand at any time as acheck upon the gold speculators, All the rest—nearly the whole of the ninety millions now on hand—is dead capital and a loss to the country of six millions of golda year. If the reserve of the precious metal in the Trea- sury could have the effect of facilitating specie payments, or of being the representative of our currency, as the reserve in the Bank of England is, there would be reason in holding it tor that purpose; but it has no such effect. The con- sequence is the interest on this vast amount of dead capital is lost to the country, Will Mr. Boutwell consider this, and adapt his financial policy to the laws of political economy and common sense? The Dalmatian Trouble. It appears that the military operations com- menced by Austria in Dalmatia have been suspended in consequence of a heavy snow fall. This little affair which has broken out on the eastern shores of the Adriatic, what- ever may be its final result, revives some almost forgotten memories. Dalmatia, in ancient times, was at once much larger and much more important than it is now con- sidered. Dalmatia proper includes not only the Austrian portion on the coast, but more inland provinces of Turkey called the Herze- govina. The whole of this ancient domain fell into the hands of the Romans in the time of Augustus, after a struggle of near 9 hun- dred years, The Emperor Diocletian was wont to reside there at his palace at Spalato. It was lost to the Romans about the year 620. For some time a portion of the country was under the protection of Venice, In the six- teenth century it fell into the hands of the Turks, who ruled it for some one hundred years, In 1797, by the treaty of Campo Formio, Austria came into possession of that portion which she now holds, and which bears the ancient name. From 1805 to 1818 this portion was under the sway of Napoleon. Marshal Soult, it will be remembered, was cteated by Napoleon Duke of Dalmatia. The fact that risings have taken place in Turkish as well as Austrian territory is explained by the fact that the inhabitants of Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Servia all belong to the same Slavic race and speak the same dialect. Their sympathies are rather with Russia than with Austria or Turkey; but they are enthu- siastic lovers of liberty and independence. It appears that the present trouble has arisen out of an attempt on the part of the Austrian government to enforce the provisions of the new military law. In virtue of some privi- leges granted them while under the rule of the Venetian republic the inhabitants claim exemption from military service, Tho spirit of insurrection is contagious, and Turkish and Austrian subjects have got strangely mixed up. With this statement of the case we can easily understand the nature of the alliance which has just been entered into by Austria and Turkey; nor is the rumored jealousy of Russia any longer a myatery. Toe Paracvay Wasnpurn.—It seems to be getting plainer every day that Mr. Wash- burn’s house as Minister of the United States at Paraguay was not only a centre of dissatis- faction, but the headquarters of sentiment hostile to Lopez, if not of conspiracy for his removal. The testimony given by Com- mander Kirkland on this point quite justifies the conduot of Lopez toward Washburn, Poor Littte Boston.—Boston has people who want Mr, Boutwell to sell some gold among them, Mr. Boutwell promises that when Boston grows up and has an importing trade of her own, and thus pays into the United States Treasury more gold for duties than the United States has to spend on the spot, then the United States will sell gold there, In the meantime little Boston can have no sales, and we advise that she oonsole her- self with another musical jamboree. by @ popular and widespread agitation, the tendency of which is primarily poll- tical, but having in reality a vast plan of social reform or constitutional revolu- tionary change in view. Munster has just mado an imposing demonstration in Limerick, while Ulster displays her strength in a ‘moral force” form in Cavan, the hereditary focus of nal sentiment and feudal op- pression since days of the disarma- ment of the Irish \golunteers, the rebel- lion of 1798, and thi the act of the legislative unid Britain, The men of Limerick, their history of the British ‘‘treaty,” violated in such a sudden and fatal manner by Gen- eral Ginkle, demand the release of Irish pri- soners convicted of participating in an armed rebellion against the crown, The men of the Northwest, being much more economic in their habits and less impulsive ia their mode of action, ask a fairly adjusted parliamentary measure for the settlement and future defini- tion of the relations existing between landlord and tenant, securing a fixity of tenure to the latter during the term of his agreement, with the certainty of compensation on the termina- tion of his lease, according to valuation, for any solid improvements which he may have made on the farm during his occupancy. Both these subjects have thus been pre- sented directly to the Premier of England for his consideration. Mr, Gladstone's letter of reply, which reached us by mail and appeared in our columns yesterday, treats each officially on behalf of the Cabinet. He draws a strict line of demarcation be- tween the rights of Ireland and the duty of the Executive in the enforcement of the laws, in the words, “It is known to the govern, ment that the Fenian conszizacy is Mot extinct either In the United Kingdom or in America. To rise to incite insurrection against the gov- ernment of this country and its public order is ever to be regarded as 9 great crime; to pro- mote it would be a crime not less great. Our enlightened Sovereign and Parliament have just granted to Ireland one great measure of conciliation and justice, We cannot doubt that legislation conceived in the same spirit upon every Irish question of vital importance will continue, and that the gradual but sure result will be to bind in harmony all classes of the Irish people.” This expression presents the true mission ofa constitutional statesman, and we have no doubt that Mr. Gladstone, supported by the solid good sense of tho peo- ple of England and Scotland, will persevere in his elaboration and advocacy of measures of practical reform until Ireland shall stand side by side—ag her sons have in the darkest mo- ment’s of Britain's power on the battle field— with the inhabitants of the other portions of the empire at home, “regenerated” and ‘‘dis- enthralled,” as citizens, industrious tenants and freemen, It is their right. They will have it if they observe the law. with Great eCOll eeu Tae SirvaTion IN SpaiIN—PRIM AND SzerRrano.—Darker and darker clouds gather over Spain. The probability is that the young Duke of Genoa will be elected king. This, however, will settle nothing. Its immediate effect will be to dethrone Serrano and leave Prim dictator of the kingdom. The boy king will not for years to come be able to rule‘ The government will be conducted by the man who has control of the army, and that man is Prim. The Duke of Genoa will be more help- less as the ruler of Spain than was the youth- ful Isabella ; and as there is no Espartero in the field the presumption is that Prim will prove a worse Narvaez and a more unsparing O'Donnell, The Duke of Genoa may become king, Prim may become dictator, but it is cer- tain that Spain has a hard road to travel before she reaches the goal which her patriots and Ifer best friends dimly see in the distance. Unless we groatly mistake the Duke of Genoa will prove a complete failure. Wat Srreet.—The speculation in New York Central having received a temporary check by the adoption of the consolidation resolutions, the operators turned their atten- tion to gold, in which the “bears” promise as lively 8 campaign as the ‘‘bulls” produced last September. Somo of the ‘‘bulls” were very badly frightened and thought they saw specie payments coming before New Year's, As the day advanced the market became more qolot and the price gllied. What's IN A NaMg?—Clearly not the power to give a man a large, generous spirit of humanity, During the burning of the steamer Stonewall on the Mississippl she was passed by another steamer that might have saved many lives, but only went on its way; and the name of the captain of this other steamer was Washington. Look To Your Baszment Doors.—A good dinner is a most enjoyable thing, but when it costs seven thousand dollars in dia- monds it hardly pays. Yet thig was the price which a family in West Twenty-ninth street paid for their dinner on Sunday, and all because they left their basement door open, While the family banquet was in progress a watchful thief entered the house and stripped the bedrooms of all the jewelry he could lay hands on ‘and then departed by the window. This should be a warning to families not to leave their basement doors open after dark. This kind of robbery is less risky and much oasier than “flat burglary.” We may bo sure that sneak thieves always find out the parties who have diamonds about the house, and who are careless enough to leave their doors unbolted. Wat an Usruty Horses Mient Have Dong.—The Emperor of the French had a narrow escape from death a short time ago while walking in the streets of Compitgne, An unruly horse carrying a cabriolet furiously behind him ran so close to the Emperor that he had barely time to jump aside in order to save his life, What a trouble that unruly, unmanageable horse, with the bit in his teeth, might have brought about all over Europe! How he could havo disturbed dynasties, and changed diplomatic plans, and altered maps of boundaries, and turned France itself upside down, But he didn’t, for the Emperor, Gespito his “twinges of rheumatism,” was nimble enough to get out of his way. The Fates were not ready to olip the thread of life justthen, © execution of it bas as entitled en in the to much respect. He was fight forthe United Stati now he comes up again in] orship, and continue the fight, His fri ’ - shape ta see Legislature have pre in Tennes- declaring Mr. Cooper's electio a gs oseop tion eo a provision of the constitutio Pais cence, “no Senator or Representativ4 time for which he was el any office or place of trust, which is vested in the Ex rag te eral Assembly.” As the < ve or the Gen- ice of United States Senator {s conferred by t! E onerel bly, therefore a State Senatgr cannot be elected ta {t. This fs like a good “deal of Andy’s consti- tutional law. It is bogh. The State has the power to say that Ats local representatives shall not go to Congress, and this requires a representative so chosen to resign his formes place, and this is what the law means, If means more it is'void, because it transcends the power of State law to deprive a man ot any one of his rights asa citizen of tho United States, ImpsRiAL ADVENTURE AND .PLUOK.—The Empress of France is determined to navigate the Suez Canal in her own vessel, independ- ently and as the first free modern traveller by the new route. An official survey declares that the French imperial yacht Aigle draws too much water for the shallow portion of the canal, and the commander of the vessel assures her Majesty that he cannot conse- quently take the yacht through, The Empress intimates that the soundings report is not déouFate by Ordering that now soumaingd shalt be taken immediately, and orders that, should fhe gecond corroborate the first, » Foseel of a lighter draft of water shall be had for her ggrvice, ap ahe ip “determined to Paes through.” This is just the way to get through, Determination is everything nowadays, as is known to the Emperor Napoleon and M. de Lesseps. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 1869, Report of the War Department. The report of the War Department will go to the printer within the next few days. It 1s understood that General Sherman, who during the past year was more intimately assoclated with the deparw ment than any one else, has prepared the generat report, and also for the time he was acting as Secre tary of War. General Belknap will close up the rev port before being submitted to the President. Goneral Sherman has about finished his own report as General-in-Chief of the army, showing the condl- tion of that arm of the service and what has been accomplished by it during the past year, Visit of Iowans to the New Secretary of War. A large number of citizens are congregated to- night at the residence of Colonel Dayton, whore General Belknap 18 temporarily located, when Asso- clate Justice Miller, of lowa, delivered the following address:— GENERAL BeLkNAP—Your fellow citizens of the State of Iowa, now in this city, have assembled bere this evening for the purpose of expressing their gratification at your appointment and acceptance Of the office of Sccretary of War and give you @ cor- dial welcome to Washington. To us, air, who have been familiar with your history, the action of the President in coiling 700 to this more en: sphere of public usefulness needs no coment. tering our State at an age hardly amounting to mdu- hood, asthe member of the legal profession, your guccess a8 a skillful, carefyl and sound lawyer, soon pointed pe out as eminently fit to serve the public in the Legisiature, and your services in that capacity in the State of lowa was but the commence- ment of @ useful and brilliant public career, which has brought you into the position of confidential adviser of the Chief Magistrate of the nation, mae! the eariiest. to offer his services im the field of danger in the war of the rebellion you served to the ond, and have left on the minds of those who best know tho value of those services a conviction of the propriety of employing you in a higher sphere of usefulness, and on the public mind a just admiration for the cour- and energy yon displayed in the field. If, air, these remarks in behalfof my friends here assemb! may be supposed to be colored by partiality a pee regard, I must admit the supposition as @ is in & firm friendship and close social of nearly twenty years’ standing, but claim that the testimony ia none the less reliable because the witness knows well the matter of which he speaks, Mr. Secretary, we wel- come you to Washington and to the nigh duties of Aur new position With no misgivings that the onor of the place or the government of the coun- try will suffer in your hands, (Applause.) General Belknap replied as follows:— It is with unfeigned gratitude, my fellow citizens of lowa, that I receive this compliment from you to-night, for | take it a8 a compliment that the sons of our noble State, resi here, gathered from all points within her borders, should make this call on one who esteems your friendship and regards it as lus highest honor. Your heartg must beat with pride, tpdeed, when you think of your home beyond the Mississippi, a ‘State whose popalation has increased from one hundred and ninety-five thou- sand in a A Ly a og apy io ob wore rairies, ag they st ma way to es ue riety enougti in soll to an with het productions the granaries of & world; whose school system, extending to ever hamict, offers to all the benificent biesst of 8 education; whose pecntey incre from year ear in that knowledge which is power, have, ne feeble commencement of a few colt t) pioneers, increased to the exten} and measure Of strong commonwealth, illustrating in its gro’ the progressive character of the American people. A State, too, my friends, whose record in war is bright as the brightest; whose eighty th troops, inspired by no feeling of resentinent tow: thé people of the Soutn, but actuated urely by love of their Nace Rory of its union, fought on every field from Belmont to the end nose BS ig ere ineman and Milis a: er Redield and eo and Worthington and hosts of wate soldiers to the which, honoring 1t ving ite 46,000 majority for whe who led our armicé to victory, 0) hall, during the fed, be eligible te relation t captain le the door of su to every American (appiause)— ang but ree short weoks ago re-endorsed te great ea e pat of jorities Targe nod decided. fonored’ asl have beon by the President with a ition conferred w) me with. out solicitation, it will be my eaegror, with the enforcement of rigid economy, 80 conduct ite 1 Of th Paving on tut patriotism which hab ever guided the American people, with the great examples of @ Stanton and a wins before me. If the reguit should indicate that i= kind congratulations have Mee misplaced I shall be fully satisfied, (Ap- me company were then severally introduced to General Belknap, and ali seemed to be much grath fled with tho proceedings. General Harney’s Dinner to the Prosident. General Harney gave a dinner at Wormley’s this evening, at which the President, General Sherman, tue Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, Surgeon General Barnes, Generals Dyer, Shirras, Maroy, Shrtver, Dent, Ramsay, Judge Advocate General Holt, and Colonels Parker, Lee and Sprague ‘were present. United States Suprome Court—Case of the Grapeshot. The Suprome Court of the United States had before it to-day the case of the bark Grapeshot, George Law, claimant, vs, Walterstein Masset, et @l., appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Loa- istana, This case involves the question of the power of the Prosident to establish provisional courts Im case of subjugation of territory in civil wars. It ts insisted that the Provisional Court of Louisiana, established by President Lincoln, October, 1862, was without constitutional authority to make 6 valid decree, and thas after & decree is made by tnas court, {t being invalid, Congresa cannot by ened ment give it validity. BRUTAL ASSAULT. Corneltus Shady, sixty years of age, reatding nt 87 Park street, wae brutally beatefi and kicked by Ohms- topher O'Gayer, & bartender at 47 Park street, Walle sf the latter last night. The injured removed to his home rt} atwonted” r. J pte 7 the Tombs, this worp’ng,