The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap, : Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, -No. 313 Volume X) AMUSEMENTS TH! BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st., Mary WaAanun. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broagway.—Tue Dima OF Poon Humantry, EVENING. een Sth and 6th avs.— Domestic FIF?H AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and 2th st.— MucH Avo AxouT Noruisa. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Lirtie NELL AND THR MARCHIONESS. WoopD's MUSEUM AND M ner Thirtieth st,—Matinee pROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Nor Guiiry—Busy 01, GERIE, Broadway, cor- rlormance every evening, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaiway and 18th street. — Hoan. 5 FRENCH THEATRE. Mth st. and 6th ay.—Lonpon; on, LigiTs AND SHADOWS OF THE GrEAT Cry. Fourteenth HANLON THE TAMMANY, BLOTAEKS, £0. GRAND OPERA HOUS\, corner of Ei ‘33d wrrect.—CHARLES ALLEY. street,—TuE via avenue and BRLEY THEATR ENTER at ol Bowery.—Comto 4 Como Vooat 018, &. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOU at.—DRYAW1S' MINSTREL nilding, 14th 1ULTiES, &O. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRI PIAN MinsTRELBY, NeoRo A NEW YORK CIRCU: AND GYMNASTIO PE! £85 Broa tway.—Eruto- Fourteenth stroet,—EQursTRtANn ANCKB, &O, COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor place.—Joun B, Govan's LECTURE ON TEMPRBANCE. WAY HALL, Fourwenth street—Lrovonr s¥ Karr FrELp. HOOLEY's Firth avenue and Ith IBITION OF T NAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corne: Let, CNMMITION OF PAINTING AN U and LPT LADIES’ NEW YOR! Broadway. SEUM OF ANATOMY, 616! In ATTENDANOZ. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Tuesdny, November 9, 1869. ~ Me ee TO ADVERTISERS. Increasing Circulation of the Herald, We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in thelr advertisements at as carly an hour as possible. Our immense and coustantly increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than, usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o'clock P. M. TIO NEWS. Eurepe. Cable telegrams sre dated November §. Queen Victoria directs that George Peabody's re- mains be honored by public funeral services in Westminster Abbey and afterward deposited in the royal vault, pending the removal to America. Aman, who had been prowling about Compéigne, France, was arrested on Sunday. He was armed, and avowed his intention to shoot Napoleon. The Foreign Minister of F ce is zeriously ill. Paris remained exceedingly anxious as to the condition of health of the King of Italy. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, counterman the order tor the publication of her abdication in favor of her son, Madrid re- mains agitated. Austria has subdued the Dalmatian insurrection. Napoleon is to “take measures’? against revolution im Italy, should King Victor Emanuel die. Our special correspondence from Turkey and Europe proper, in detail of our cable teiegrams, 1s Gated to the 20th of October and embraces matter of great interest and utility. Tarkey. The Suitan appears dispose to acceds to the for- eign diplomacy seeking to obtain the free naviga- tion of.the Danube. Rueria. The gon of the Emir of Boxtiara has arrived in St. Petersburg. He enjoyed a cordial reception from the Emperor Alexander, Mexice. A most appalling inundation has occurred in the vicinity of Merida, Yacatan, tuvolving great loa of life and property. The town of Mulpunchae was entirely destroyed and the cemetery demoilshed, leaving many corpses end skeletons floating in the waters. The roads iu the country have been ren- dered impassable by the deposit of the débris of the food. Cuba. The cholera still prevalis in the interior towns. ‘The yellow fever has appeared at Puerto Principe. Captain Harris, late commander of the steamer Lillian, which had Gotcouria’s expedition on board, arrived in Now York yesterday trom Nassau, where the vedse! was seized. z The ¢Mcers of the privateer Mornet were bronght to Brooklyn yesterday in charge of Marshal Foot, of North Carolina, and turned over to Marstat Dalton, -who held them in $1,000 cach to answer before the United States Circuit Court. Miscellancons. Senatof Morton bas had interviews with the Prest- dent and Secretary Boutwell coucerning more cur- rency for the West andSouth.~ He says both sections need larger supply vo carry on their business re- quirements, and at is probable the Secretary will make @ recommendation to that evect in his report to Congress. The bonds purchased by Secretary Boutwell have been counted and the result shows that up to November 1, $17,844,500 had been purchased on. ac- Cont of the sinking fand and $46,000,000 as special Purchases, subject'to the future action of Congress. ‘The gale on the Lakes has not yet abated, and has already been productive of several severe disasters, The bark Naomi went ashore on Lake Michigan, and the captain, his wife and one seaman were drowned, and the schooner Titan was wrecked near Peatwater, on the samé lake, with a loss of eigat lives. The Secretary of the Avondale fond has at last mado a statement. He hay received $81,239 60, of Which $10,723 80 has been paid to the widows and orphans, $57,850 65 has been invested partially In United States and railroad bonds or deposited at five per cent futerest, and $12,665 05 ain in his hands to be invested soon 19 ravlroad bonds, ‘Tho Evangeliqal diyines of Boston ac preparing to receive Father Hyacinthe on his arrival in that | city. A letter was read from him at a meeting yes- torday accepting the honor they propose to pay him, but stating that ho 13 @ Cathoile still, avd will remain one to the end. “His purpose in coming to America was to escape excitement, and he intended... to return to Europe soon, ‘The Gros Ventre Indians in Montana are being N NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1869—TRIPLE SHERT. scourged with the smallpox, and over 590 of them have died of the disease. Many others are blowing out their brains to avoid (he scourge. John Henry Salmon, of Charlottesville, Va., has been arrested charged with tue murder of his mother and brother, While his brother in his dying mo- ments lay moaning with pain from his wounds, brandy was erdere, to be given lim, but the accused placed himself at the dying man’s door and forcibly prevented anybody from carrying the benevolent order into effect. Senator Cameron proposes to attend the Georgia State fair at Macon on the 13th, The Varteties theatre, in Helena, Montana, and several dwellings opposite, were destroyed by fire on Sunday. The McCoole-Allon fight ts still uncertain, on account of a stubborn disagreement among the prin- cipal backers a3 to who shall hold the stakes. Mc- Coole and Allen are both anxious to fight, but these other interested parties seem likely to break off the match. Rev. William Schmtat, am ex-Lutheran mintster in Cleveland, 0., who quit his religious duties and opened @ lager beer saloon, attempted to shoot Councilman Lied last night and then swallowed a dose of strychnine. Tne Lake House, at Burlingtoo, Vt., and Noyes’ block, were burned down yesterday. Ono man was fataily and nine others seriously injured by the fall- ing of a wall. The City. The alleged drawback frauds tn the New York Custom House are merely old cases, dating as far back as 1806. Collector Grinnell is tn Washington, and it 18 said that efforts to secure his removal, which have been made recently, have, 80 far, proven frurtless, The removal of obstacles at fell Gate {3 progress- ing rapidly, Nineteen feet of water has free course now over Way’s Reef, at a point where the ship- has heretofore experienced most danger, ne strike of the brakemen of freight trains on the Erie Railroad ts assuming threatening dimen- sions, The men say the managers have been trying by Indirect means to reduce thelr wages. Yester- day numerous bands of roughs, armed, were sent to Port Jervis ostensibly to protect the working brake- men from assaults by the strikers. Ihe steamship Cumbria, Captain Haack, of the Hamburg American line, will sail from Hoboken at two P. M, to-day for Plymouth, England, Cherbourg and Hamburg. The European mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was very dull but steady. Gold advanced to and finally closed at 127. For beef cattle yesterday the market was only moderately active, and, the offerings boing com- paratively liberal, prices were heavy and in some cases lower. Prime and extra steers were sold at lic. a 15%c.; fair to good, 13%c. a 143¢¢., and infe- rior to ordinary, 9c, a 134zc., the bulk of the sales boing at 124yc. a16c., and the average price being about 134;c. Milet cows were dull and nominal at former quotations, Veal calves were selling mode- at 124%c. a 134c. for prime and extra, a i2c. for common to good and 10c. a lle, for interior. Grass calves were quoted at 4c, a 5340, Sheep were moderately sought after, at 6c. a 7c. for extra, 53gc. a Cc. for prime, 43gc. a 5c. for com- mon to good and 3c. a 4c. for inferior, Lambs were selling at 5c. a 8¢., According to quality. Swine were steady at 9c. a 103,¢, for common to prime, with arrivals of 4,476 head, chiefly for slaugi- terers. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel R. P. Noah, of Washington; 8S. Davis, of Galveston, Texas; W. M. Tyler and George W. Davis, of the United States Army; Judge 3. F. Westbrook, of Kingston; General A. Pritcbard, of the United States Army; Colonel G. A. Murray, of Florida; Judge B, Lewis, of Watertown; Judge J. Henderson, of Maryland; Colonel W. W. Wheaton, of Detroit; Judge J, FP, Allen, of Troy, and Rev. E. P. Wad- hams, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator Benjamin Rice, of Arkansas; Congress- man W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, and Captain Samuel Brooks, of steamer City of Brooklyn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. D. Rutz, of Washington, and R. E. Hope, of Lon- don, England, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel G.R, Duncan and Captain L. Kelley, of the United States Army; Henry D. Cox, of Boston, and D. E, Masterman, of Vermont, are at the West- moreland Hotel George. W. Aduius, ve weousnpevu, auu wey. P. Bly McCallister, of Kingston, are at the St, Dennis Hotel. Captain Rovertson, of Toronto, and Captain A. Anderson, of Buffalo, aro at the St. Charles Motel. General Sackett, of the United States Army; Judge Nelson, of Poughkeepsie; Generai Estee, of Wash- ington; Colonel Bushnell, of Conneeticut; W. Herade, of Valparaiso, and W. M. McPherson, of St. Louis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departures. Dr. Weatherspoon, for South Carolina; Irish, for Toronto anu Major 8. F. Colonel Dr. Cornell, for New Baltunore, ¢, for Boston. The Approaching Revolution ts Our City and State Affairs. The republican journals are beginning to howl over the revolutionary consequences foro- shadowed in our recent State election, They see that, with the democrats at last in posses- sion of the Legislature and the Governor, “the legislation of twenty years is to be abro- gated;” that ‘policies which have matured in canal administration, prison control, excise regulations, police supervision, city govern- ment, election conduct” are to be ropealed, as “the result of the indifference of the repub- licans in the interior of the State;” that the temperance men who confided in democratic promises in the late election ‘will find them- selves the victims of a deep laid conspiracy ;” that “the day of free rum is dawning ;” that “Sabbath desecration and unrestrained licenso are fixed facts in the immediate future,” and that ‘New York, Albany and Buffalo will now be given over to a police deriving their power hy the direct franchise of the people, and subjected always to the dictation of the mob.” Pandora's box, it thus appears, has been opened by the late election, and all its evils are to fall upon this doomed city, We are told, too, that there is no hope from democratic disaffections in the Legislature; that Tam- party, the nucleus of power, spoils and plun- der; that Tammany will share the plunder sufficiently to secure her supremacy; that “she will only disappoint those she can safely A republican organ of the rural dis- | tricts, however, says that it does not care a fig for these city commissions; that if our citizens can stand the robberies that will be perpetrated upon them by innumerable democratic rings the people of the rest of the State can afford to let them do it; that these city commissions are of no possible benefit to the republican party, and that the lazy drones thus provided with cosey offices will now have to walk out, and that what they get hereafter will have to be earned by more faithful service. But still the consequonces above foreshad- owed of a complete democratic occupation of | the State, legislative, executive and judicial departments are tearful to contomplate, Nor does it matter whether the unterrified have gained this absolute possession through repub- lican treacheries, division or indifference in the rural districts. Grant that the popular vote of this decisive election falls short by one hundred and fifty thousand or two hundred thousand of tho full vote of last year, the fact is still the same, The democrats have gained defy.” | can be no doubt that their reconstruction of our State and city affairs will be almost ae radical many rules the roast; that Tammany is the | complete possession of the State, and there | on the other tack as the reconstruction of Vir- ginia or South Carolina, Wo believe that the people of the State have | pormitted the election to go by default, in order that a chango might follow in “the powers that be;” we believe that the people had be- come sick and tired of republican experiments and radical corruptions at Albany, and were ready to risk anything for a change; we be- lieve that the democrats owe their success en- tirely to tho local questions involved, and that accordingly they have full authority from the people to turn our State and city institutions upside down, Inside out, right and left. We believe, too, that this thing will bo done. But what will follow? In the work of reconstruction Tammany Hall, in acting wisely and with an eye to law and order, may not only secure to the democracy a firm possession of the State for ten or twenty years to come, or till demoralized by corruptions, as all parties are under a long reign, but the Old Wigwam may become master of the situation in shaping the democratic programmo and in naming the party ticket for the Presidential snecession. Thus Sweeny may yet play the role of War- wick the kingmaker, and from what we have soen of his enginecring abilities he is likely to prove equal to the mighty task, He has a splendid opportunity not only to lift up the New York democracy from the level of the Tirst ward to the lofty outlook from the dome of the State capital; not only to reconstruct our city and State affairs on a strong popular basis, but to iniliate on the new order of things the reconstruction of the democratio party throughout the United States, and to place it on the high road to the White House. On the other hand, there are the tempta- tions to all the democratic rings to avail them- selves of the rare opportunity to reap a golden harvest in spoils and plunder. They have a margin in this city alone for five hundred mil- lions of dollars, in job3 and spoils, and the lobby men interested and their clamor at Albany for a full swing will be unparalleled. Tlere, then, lies tho danger to Tammany and the New York democracy. They may do great things for themselves, the city and the State; but they may also be swamped in the spoils before July as flies and bees aro swamped in an open barrel of molasses, In any event, we expect that the doings of our new Logislature will be more important and momentous than those of any Legislature of this State for a hundred years bebind us, The Eatin Racos in Trouble. Victor Emanuel is ill and supposed to be dying. Spain is in the agony of a revolution of which no one sees the end, Napoleon is not ina sound state; but whether he should live a little while or a long while, there are in the French empire undisguised troubles which fill the most hopeful and the most confident with fear and trembling. Of the four Latin kingdoms Portugal alone enjoys domestic tran- quillity ; but Portugal, though wise enough to wait and watch while the elements are brew- ing, is not strong enough to resist the storm when the storm fairly sets in. Napoleon is now much more than the nominal master of the Latin races. In spite of his failing health and his domestic opposition it is still a neces- sity, and more a necessity now than over, for Spain, Portugal and Italy to consult his wishes. Should Victor Emannel be cut off wa have little doubt but that his son. Prince Humbert, will quietly succeed to the throne of united Italy. But after his succession much will depend upon how he conciliates the Italian factions and how he submits to Napoleon. Spain still looks out for a king; but the mon- archists of that country feel themselves ham- pered in their every movement by the restric- tions of Napoleon, and the fettered action of the monarchists is the opportunity of the re- publicans, In the event of Napoleon, at this crisis in the affairs of the Latin races, being cut off, it might not be impossible for the re- publicans to make themselves once again mas- ters of France; and the republicans masters of France, Italy and Spain, as was the case in the first French revolution, would cease to be monarchical. The contingencies aud proba- bilities are so numerous that it is dificult to forecast a future which is pregnant with peril. What a day or an hour may bring forth we know not; but no one can deny thata crisis is at hand which may bring about the unity of the La- tin races and establish a grand Latin empire, Ralivoad Express Robborios—Is tery Solved? * A heavy robbery of express matter, con- taining a considerable amount of money, occurred not long ago on one of the New York Central trains near the station at Fonda, Since then there has been a profound mystery as to the perpetrators or the mode by which the valuables were abstracted. It turns out now that the vigilance of the deteciives has traced the robbery to a number of rail- road employ’s, all of whom have been arrested. The principal culprit appears to bo a baggage man, who was once before arrested in this city and discharged upon a writ issued by one of our judges. Robberies of express matter on different railroads throughout the country have beon frequent for a few years past, The safes of the express companies have been broken open and the money extracted, Employes of the companics have been gagged, beaten senseless and otherwise maltreated in the cars while the ruffians car- ried out their purpose, People wondered how it happened that lawless bands of marauders could enter the cars, and, after securing their booty, depart without detection. A few sagacious people probably suspected that the guilt devolved upon the railroad employés themselves, or was, at loast, perpetrated by their connivancs, We remember how surely retributive jusiice followed the mail robbers at Seymour, Ind., where lynch law took tho place of the bench and the jury box. But it has not yet been revealed how much the employ’s of the railroad had to do with the crime for which the desperadocs in this case suffered on the limbs of the trees by the roadside by the hands of an indignant populace, The discovery of the guilty parties in the late Central Railroad robbery may throw much light upon this whole daring businees. If the case is well worked out by the detectives the mystery of many of these railroad express robberies may be solved. It is certain that no one has more opportunity of robbing the express trains than the railroad men, if they choose to use it, They know where the booty lies and how best to get at it, the Myse Another Atlantle Cable. The more electric cables across the Atlantic the better. The quicker and more reliable tho communication between Europe and America the greater will be the advance in the civiliza- tion of both hemispheres. Therefore we are glad to seo that the Belgian government gives its adhesion to the scheme of laying a new At- lantic cable from Belgium to some point, yet to be selected, upon the American coast, from Maine to Georgia, We need a telegraph line having a terminus upon our own soil. We need it in order that we may be to some extent independent of foreign countries in the receipt of important news. The increase of telegraphic communication with Europe Will increase the business, just as greater facilities in the postal service and the railroads have multiplied tho transport of letters and the proportion of travel. The French. cable has not interfered to any sensible degree with the business of the British lines from Ireland. All the new lines will make trade for themselves. Now that we have secured a fair telegraphic intercourse across the Atlantic, the next thing to be done is to get a submarine cable under the Pacific, to put us in immediate communi- cation with Asia and the great empires of China and Japan, This can be done to a great extent without going out of our own territory, by using the chain of the Aleutian Islands for the overland portion of the line, and taking our submarine points of connection there. A Pacific cable is there quite practicable. We need not urge its advantages, but can only hope that it will not be long before such an enterprise will be undertaken, Napoleon and Rochefort. M. Honri Rochefort, editor of a Paris’ journal named Lanterne—an excellent speci- men of the lweus @ non lucendo in trans- atlantic journalism—has completely failed in his endeavors to rank as a French political martyr. Napoleon has extinguished him, in his own peculiar style and ina manner just suited to the case of Rochefort. The pen-and- ink parodist of revolution, who has been for some time past in exile in Belgium, set out from Brussels the other day for France. On reaching the frontier he was arrested by tho police, This was a perfect “Godsend” to Rochefort, who immediately commenced to sting, in anticipation, like a Quartier Latin flea, when, behold, the Emperor comes out on him with 9 coup d'état in the shape of 4 telegram directing his releaso ahd accom- panied by a “‘safe conduct” paper, endorsed by the imperial sign manual, under which ho journeyed to Paris, where he has been nomi- nated for the Legislature and serenaded by his friends without any interference on the part of the police. People have been accustomed to read and speak a good deal of the Malakoff and Magenta and Solferino, the assault on the tower of tho Russian stronghold demonstrating that no impediment is too high or difficult for the military genius of France when inspired by a Bonaparte, while the attack—for it is an attack when applied to such a man—on Roche- fort proves that no event can be so trifling or insignificant as to escape the careful atten- tion of Napoleon the Third in the pursuance of his vast and peculiar system of rule. During the legal arrangements for tho ‘State trials” and prosecution of the late great Irish agita- tor and his associates in Dubllu, some years since, a very fuesy ‘‘conspirator” (Mr. Tom Steele) bored the law officers of the Crown vastly and almost daily with questions rela- tive to his case. The Attorney General (Mr. Cusack Smith), becoming impatient, one day said to him:—'‘‘Mr. Steele, I cannot reply to your questions, and if you ask another one I will omit your name from the indictment and you won't be tried at all, either as conspirator or rebel.” This threat silenced Tom, just as Napoleon now silences Henri. Sach mode of action results from the universal communism of great mindsin contempt for professional politicians. “The Colored Troops Fought Well.” In the great battlo between Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja, which raged thirty-six hours and ended the native war at Bonny, on the wost coast of Africa, the slaughter on both sides was immense, Ja Ja’s troops were totally defeated, and Oko Jumbo captured seventy guns of different calibre, The guns, ranging from 86-pounders to 68-pounders, were fired at the extraordinarily short range of one hun- dred and sixty yards, with heavy charges of grape and canister, and the havoc was fearful. Ja Ja had about five hundred men killed out- right, and three or four times as many put horsde combat. Even the fiercest of Haytion battles are Quaker meetings in comparison with the battle between Ja Ja and Oko Jumbo. The names of these African warriors seem aa strange and odd to us as those of Alexander the Great and the Duke of Wellington wonld seem to them. Oko Jumbo's name reminds us of s famous despatch which was conspicuously placarded in a New England village with a number of startling telegrams flashed over tho wires after a great and bloody battle during our late war inthe South. A well known epi- cure had gone to New York to seek for an indispensable ingredient in gumbo, that delect- able soup. Although the wires were held by the government he contrived to smuggle through this important message:—‘‘ Gumbo all right, Ihave Okra.” ‘Okra’s taken. Iur- rah for Okra! But where is it?” exclaimod the villagers. Me. Low at Taz Wroxo Exy.—Mr. Low, onr recently appointed Minister to China, wants some new legislation regarding the coolies. If it is for the regulation of tho coolies on this side Mr. Low need not much concern himself about it, as his duty lies io China, If it is for the government of any one in China our policy is to leave the gov- ernment of that country to those immediately charged with it. Porton Surcrons.—There is moro com- plaint of incapacity or inattention to duty on the part of police eurgeons, Only one remedy seems to be in the hands of the police authori- ties. They can dismiss the surgeon ond aupply his place with another, against whom there will be the same complaint in a fow months, Tho pay of the office Js insufficiont for a competent surgeon, and none such js likely to devote his whole time to the reese Let tho Cominiseion anthoriae the surgeon to charge the clty » propor foo for each onse an, they will see the difference. | Movements for the Charter Election, After the important political contest that has just passed it might be fairly presumed that the leaders of parties who have had to bear the brunt of directing the hand to hand encounters of the actual combatants, and to supply them with the sinews of war, were by. this time pretty well exhausted. There ts in the present charter campaign really but ono party in the fleld. To the non-politician this would look like a ‘‘walk over the course” for the candidates, whoever they may be, A great mistake would this conclusion lead to, from the simple fact that the coming struggle is not between opposing parties, but between candidates of the same organization, and hence the difficulty of the political situation. The leaders are, therefore, in just as serious a snarl with their subordinate forces as if the result of the contest was of the greatest impor- tance, because tho understrappers are fighting tooth and nail for the respective offices after which they yearn, in connection with certain compromises and complications already entered into in connection with the late fight. The Tammany chiefs, foresecing this difl- culty, passed a bill last year through one branch of the Legislature to combine both elections (November and December) in one, and thus to save the expense and the terrible political horror of a second contest. The bill, however, failed, and all the trouble that is now pressing upon the party is the consequence. There {s not an aldermantc or assistant alder- manic district in the city that has not six for one and a half dozon and more candidates for the other. It was intended by tho amalgama- tion bill to get these follows all Into line and to dispose of them at once, and thus to pre- serve the peace and harmony of the party. But now accounts have to be settled that oven the leaders could hardly have been prepared for. There is not a politician in the city, big or little, unprovided for, who is not a candi- date for ono or other of the offices to bo filled next month, all presenting somewhat equal claims and credentials for the consideration of the leaders. In fact, it would require another election in January, and one perhaps monthly through a new year, to supply offices for the demand that is made on the ring for its pa- tronage in this respect. A little patience, however, would be a splendid thing just now. The disappointed might consider themselves in the position of the learned but abstracted professor who, ringing at his own door for admission and not being recognized was told the professor (him- self) was not in, replied no matter, he would call another time, and walked away. So with the present numerous candidates of the party; there will bo so many places to be filled that if they can abstract their minds enough from one disappointment they can call again and have another chance, There is a big thing in the aldermanic and assistant aldermanic positions to make thom desirable. Tho yearly stipend for the amount of work done is considerable, but that taken with tho well known emoluments swells the value of the office to such an extent that it is no wonder that half of tho politicians of the city who are candidates are after these par- ticular offices. Tammany is in a fix, how- ever, and the fight promises to give a con- siderable amount of political trouble between this and the day of election. The Coroner and Hie Jury. Only a few days ago a deliberate murder was committed in a rumshop at the corner of Battery place and Washington street. The shot that killed was fired with desperate pur- pose to do all the harm it might, and that not in a scuffle, but in the moment subsequent to one, when the men were parted, and when the murderer had to look round for his victim and follow him {nto the barroom, near which the scuffle had taken place, Tho Coroner came with his jury ia due time and inquired into the case, eliciting by the testimony just such a history of the orime as we have givon. It was no doubt a murder, and murder in the first degree. The Coroner saw that, of course ; for bad as is our choice of public officers we have not yot begun to choose idiots, The Coroner saw that itwas a caso of murder. So did his jury. So did the counsel for the defence and the officer representing tho people, Aud seeing all this the Coroner and his jury brought in a verdict that the murderer killed his man in self-defence. ‘‘Self-defence” is a fino little phrase, Tho man who was killed was running away at tho time, The bullet penetrated the back of his head. He had seen enough of the scuffle outside to know that there was in it some special malice toward him, and had gone into the barroom to get away. Finding himself followed he tried to dodge out at the different doors. He had no arms, nor had the murderer received o blow from him, Yet this is what the primary tribunal of our criminal law pronounces a case of killing in solf- defence, With justice thus conniving at mur- der, with ‘‘justice” thus becoming an acces- sory, after the fact, in assisting the murderer's escape, we need not dilate upon the safety of life in our city; but wo may properly submit the case as a fit one for the attention of Governor Hoffman, who assures us that wo shall have an honest government now that the democratic party is ia power. What will he be pleased to do with this Coroner? AvNotunr OnsnoTion FROM Francr.—Nelther will the Archbishop of Paris accept vory qui- etly the Roman law, He holds that the infal- libility of the Pope oannot be determined without discussion; but as when disoussion is once begun there is nover any knowing how far it may go, itis thought wiser in Romo not to lot it begin; 80 the Archbishop of Paria will find himself in the same minority with Ptre Hyaclinthe, Fisk's Ponsttca, Ecoxomy,—Fisk has gone up the Erie road to solve the difficult problems of wages and strikes, Te takes with hima following of buffers, bummers, shoulder bit- ters, eye gougers and other experts of the sort, We await the result of this little pleco of pri- vate war with commendable patience, and wonder whether the end of wll these vagaries will bo a plejsant one for a man’s friends to contemplate, Mr. Srennins, of “the great West,” who does not want to bo.taught by Yankeo profes- sors, says that froe trade in England “has re- ducod one In twenty of the population of that country to pauperism, and that if we “atrike maton down our’ tariff” the same rosults will follow here. Mr. Stebbins is the first philosopher who has observed that the difference in the density of population has no corresponding difference in the operation of law. LECTURES LAST NIG. The Sanitary Influence of Sunlight. br. John H. Griscom delivered a lecture last night, in Rev. Dr. Crosby’s church, corner of Twenty- second street and Fourth avenue, on the above sub- ject, before an extremely small though intellectual audience. This was the second lecture of the course, and was delivered under the auspices of the Youug People’s Christian Association of the church. He commenced by alluding tg the absolute necessity of sunlight in dwellings. He said the principal topic ho would touch on in the present lecture would be the offect of light on animal life and vitality. Having then explained the effect of the different colorings or rays or light the lecturer proceeded with @ practical illustration of the body known as carbonic acid gas and its effects on animals and veg- etables; also showing its destructive effects by reinba- lation, That showed thatthe gas oxhaied from our lungs was insuflicient for the retention of our lives and health. One of the most interea' facta in this connection was the reciprocal growth of the animal and vegetabie kingdom. The animal receivéd and appropriated ita carbon dtrectly from the food taken into the stomach, It was then ejected from the body through the lungs in the shape of carbonic acid gas, and paved. into the vogetable kingdom. This great atmospheric ocean w! K above us fifty miles was bui the vehicle by whi animal and vegetable life were conveyed to each other, It is only in the sunlight that this decompo- sition of carbonic acid gas and the appropriation of carbon by plants is absorbed. Whence came these coal beds from every quarter of the globo? They are indubltably the result of vegetable growth. Bat What were the animals oy which tuls vegetable life was sustained? Turn to the Book of Genesis and we should see God besinniiie with ~=whales and beasts,) &c,, finishing with the greation of man, in order to supply food for carbonte acid gas. That animals born and destined to live in darkness had a peculiar conformation was & Well known fact. Kor instance, the fish born in the Mamioth Cave of Kentucy had no eyes. The human bod, wa noyer the same in any two suc- cessive years. It Was continual y, eliminating old ‘aud gaining new forces and priaciples. There were coutinually going on in the body the process of disorganization and decay. The very act of death was @ chemical process. ‘the lecturer then went on in a technical manner to give illustrations of the various effects of carbonic acid gas on the human system, and closed his remarks by advocating the iree use of sunlight for sanitary purposes, Lectnve by Dr. H. Ranney on Digestion. Last cventag at eight o'clock the first of a series of lectures to take place tlis winter wasgiven by Dr. H. Ranney at the Mission Hall, Twenty-fifih street and Eighth avenue. Before the lecture the “Glee Club” sung the “sons of Temperance Rally Song.” At the conclusion W. Mackenzie introduced Dr, Ranney, who commenced by saying that he had been invited by the Sons of Temperance, who have given the nail tho evenings of their usual meetings for lectures to be giveh for the benefit of tho people of the vicinity. Hoe then stated his sub- ject was novel, aa 1¢ i3 locked up in medical colleges, and amotg medical men. ‘Taking digestion for his subject he dwelt oF he utility of ite knowl giv. ing seyeral beautiful illustrations and throwing away the pied! L technical toroys to pel e sub- Ject understood to all, He went {nto uate details of the phyaiolonial structure dnd at levgth arrived at the drunkard’s doom, which was very suitable to the occasion, as the Sons of Temperance were main! instrumental in getting up the lecture. ‘Tow: the end he stated the length of time tt sok cigerpns kinds of food to digest, roast pork taking the 161 ic and pigs fect and tripe the least time. At the ol nee of the lecture soveral songs were sung and the meeting then adjourned. LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Exhibition of Hydrogenium—Science of Bitne minovs Coals—Recout Discoveries in Cliome fatry. ‘Tho usual weekly meeting of the Lyceum of Natue Tal History was held last evening at the Mott Memorial Library, Madison avenue, Dr. Newbury presiding. The usual routine business having been diaposed of, Dr. A, H. Gollatin read a paper on Graham's researches on bydrogenium. He said that after trying @ great variety of methods Graham finally adapted palladium as the most suitabie for the occlusion of hydrogen. That metal expanded five por cent in cubic volume when hydro- gen was condensed in 1t. He explained the expert- ment of Graham and desoribea the rent appear- ance of Ober wires after the hydrogen had escaped from it. The figures closely resembied the lunar volcanoes and craters as seed through a powerlul telescope. The wire exhibited every a} pearance of internal explosion. It was rent into threads, as shown by & magnifying power of 600, Paliadium foil was varalsned on one side and sus- pended in slightly actdulatea water, the two pieces being attached to a battery composed of two cells of Bunsen’s cup, The current of electricity Sania the water and the hydrogen at once combined with the paliadium foil. As the metal was covered on one side with varnish there was only one surface ex- posed, 80 that the meial expanded unequally and curied up like a horse shoe. By reversing the poles of the battery oxygen in nascent state went to the hydrogen side, and, displacing 1t, the foil unwound. After a paper on ‘Lhe Aciion of Sunlight on the Salta of Uranum,” by Dr. C. H. Bolton, Dr. H. Warts read a voluminous paper on minerals contato! carbon. He sald that, in the first place, the classifi- catton of carbon minerals was ta such a state of confusion and in such au indefinite shaye taat in & few years, when the rational classification would be discovered, people wonld look back upon age sent terms with the same kind of amusement as they did in reference to the jargon of the alchomista, There could only be a rational nomenclature as @ consequenco of a rational classification. First of all there muat be a provisional classification, using the crude terms Which were now in use. Dr, Wurte presented a crude classification of an immonse number of carbon minerals as a basis for best geri | Which, however, Was postponed till the nox! meeting. THE VANDERBILT BRONZE. This marvel of moulding and sculpture has attracted so much attention as to have achieved already a world-wide reputation. To-morrow the ceremony of unveiling the work will take place, and judging from tho extent aud character of the arrangements it may safely be presumed thas nothing of the kind has before becn seen tn this city, ‘The following programme bas been adopted by the committee:— were SOGRAMME OF CEREMONIES. THB UNVEILING OF THR VANDERBILT BRONZE, AT THE DEPOT OF THE HUDSON 3 RIVER RAILROAD, ON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, AT 1 O'CLOCK P. M. Opening Prayer by Bishop Janos. Address vy Mayor A. Oakey Hiall. i Ode by Wliliam Ross Wallace, d Benediction by Kev. G. Quennell, D, D. Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment Band will be in attendance. seanenanceneneetennt ee teeeeesene tee ete te ee nee te PERE HYACINTHE AND THE BOSTON DIVINES. Boston, Nov. 8, 1869. About two hundred members of the Evangelical’ denominations of this city met in the Mission church to-day, with reference to the reception to be sccorded, to Father Hyacinthe on his arrival in this city, The Rev. Dr. Kirk, from the committee appointed to cone fer with the distinguished Carmelite, made bis re- port, which was read. He stated that tho commit. tee had sent the Rev. George Prontiss to New York to meet Father Hyacinthe. Dr. Prentiss had. mot the reverend gentleman and had presented an ad- Gress to him, recounting his great gervices ig the cause of civil ond religious liberty, in having made demands on foreign governments for propor conces- sions to all religions, oulogizing his devotion to God and to the great principle of liberty of conscience, and closing with an invitation vo visit Boston, To. this address Father Hyacwthe returned tho follow. ing:— “] am yery sensible of tho high tonor paid me m, the greoting from the ciergy Whom you represent. I am touched by your expressions of Christian sympa thy and affection. Tam @ Catholic, ard hope to re. main one Lhave not proken with the Charct, but ita abuses, I recognize true Christians aa Protest- ant bodies, for I believe that the true Church, em- bracing all who bold Christ as their head, is far wider than any earthy organization, My purpese | in coming to Amerioa 1% to escape from excitement, and torest@ littio, Ishailsoon return ¥p [aie a bat I hope again to visit thik countzy. I shail vis Boston tn November tf possible, and then should be glad to 899 those whom 4 bag a ood and toexpiaia more fully wal: tuion. ‘Tae future is dark and un- certain; but ovey my conscience to the ond. pael in my Nanie With Christian saiuiations those "athe committee on. tue subject was couttaued, and, subjec dou to th 5 A Bishop Rasvburn way!