The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1869, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = poet ——— | sersesNoe S14 —== Volume XXXI ARUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOG = AND EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bros Drama ov Poor tlumaniry, } THe Domustic Mating Out 2 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and 2th at.— Muou Avo Avout Novatna. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Lrrrce NELL AND TUE MARCUIONESS. woop’s M UM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- mer Thirtiot! Matinee daily, Performauce every evening. oo THEATRE, Bowery.—Nor Guicty—BusY B. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and ish street. — Home. FRENCH THEATRE. Mth st. and 6th av.—LONDON; Om, Liguts AND SHADOWS OF THR GREAT CiTY. Sele THE TAMMANY, Buornwns, 40. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, 33d street.—CHAaELEs O'MA! WAVERLEY THE: Variety ENTRRTAL BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d! Mary WARNER. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Idth street.—ITALIAN OPERA— IL TROVATORE. MRS. F, B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Tur CZARINA. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio VooaigM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &0. Matinee at 234. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Couro Vooar- tax, NEGRO AcTS, 40. Matinee at 2s. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th at.—BRYANTS’ MINSTBEILS—N&ZGRO ECORNTRICITIEG, &0. Fourteenth street.—Tae HANLON jorner of Eighth avenue and RY. 20 Broaiway.—A Gnanp tines at 2. berween Sth ana 6th avs.— SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broaiway.—Erato- PlaN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO AoTs, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—FQuestatan AND GyMNASTIO PenroRMaNces, &0, Matinee at 25g. STEINWAY HALL, Fow AND INSTRUMENTAL CONC! th strest—GRanp Vooar HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouey's MINSTRELS—Hieu JACK, THR HEELER, 40. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and Mth street.—EXHIBITION OF THR NINE MUSES. NEW YORE M7SSUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOrRNoL AND Aur LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6183 Broadway.—FEMALEs ONLY LN ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. New Tak: Wednesday, November = 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. Yncrensing Circulation of the Herald. We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at as early an hour as poszible. Our immense and constantly 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. THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November 9, at mid- night. King Victor Emanuel was improved in healtn and Pronounced ‘out of danger” by his physicians, Paris remained trauquil. General Prim states that Admiral Topete resigned his-position in the Spanish Cabinent on account of the throne candidature of the Duke of Genoa, but continued to support the Ministry. At the Lord Mayor's inaugural banquet fm London Mr. Gladstone delivered a lengthy @peech in behalf of the British Cabinet, sketching out his intended plans of reform geuerally, put welling more particulariy on the case of Ireland, ‘the causes which have tended to her present state Welsh, tn Brooklyn, and remanded to awalt the action of the Grand Jury. The County Canvassers met yesterday and can- vassed the votes in the Seventh, Thirteenth and lower wards. Protests were received from John Foley and Jacob Cohen against counting votes for Henry Smitn for Supervisor, on the ground that he ts ineligible, as he held the office of Police Commissioner at the time of his nomination. ll proteats were held over until the last day of the canvass. Iv ig reported that the oMce of Assistant United States Treasurer in thia city has been offered to Senator Folger, of Albany, and accepted by that gentleman. The Board of Health held a special meeting yes- terday, of which the reporters and the public gene- raily were kept in ignorance. It was thought to be for the purpose of consideying the applications of the fat renderers for permission to carry on bust- ness, A large number of such applications were received and referred to the Santtary Committee, The unveiling of tne Vanderbilt bronze will take place to-day at the Hudson River Rallroad depot. Tlenry Couway, a young man, was arrested late on Monday night for an attempt to shoot Mrs. Mary Foot, of No, 66 Sixth avenue, because she had re- jected his proposals of marriage. Mrs. Foot, who Was unhurt, stated on the examination yesterday that she was divorced and fhat Conway had assisted her husband in obtaining evidence against her. Conway claimed that the shooting was accidental, but he was committed. A divorce suit came up before Judge Barnard yes- terday in which Beatica Bissell, a young lady of Brooklyn, who married John Bissell at his solivita- tion with no ceremony beyond an interchange of rings, but who lived with him as his wife, and was Publicly acknowledged as such, brings suit for a divorce from him on the ground that he has now declared that he was never wedded to her and nas married another woman. She also claims mainte- nance for herself and child, The caso 1s still on. The stock market yesterday was heavy and de- clined. Gout was feverish between 126% and 1273, closing finally at 12734. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman Robert C. Schenck, of Ohie; General Thomas G. Pitcher, of West Point; Dr. George B. Farnum, of New Haven, and T, K. Lothrop, of Bos- ton, are at the Brevoort House. General George 8. Fisher, of Augusta, Ga.; F. W, Killum, of New York; Major Dykeman, of Chicago, ana F. Herd, of Cleveland, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Fred Brunor, of Charleston, 8. C.; Major J. Case, of Saratoga, and F. W. Kinsman, of Augusta, Me., are at the St. Charles Hotel. Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, and Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg, and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hackett, are at the Astor House. Of demoralization, social and political, ana the means of redressing it according to his ideas. Miscellaneous. Disagreements are said to have already sprung up between Secretary Belknap and General Sherman. ‘The former repudiates General Sherman’s annual report and iutends to make one himself. Our Salt Lake City correspondent gives an account of the schism now pending in the Mormon Church. It was caused originally by a proposition to open up ‘the mining regions and favor the immigration of capitalists, at which Brigham took umbrage. He Fecentiy claimed to have a revelation directing him to draw $25,000,000 now deposited in the Bank of England and remove to the Sanawich Islands with it, put the people did not respond cordially, and ne Bas given up the idea, Tho railroad connecting Salt Lake City with the Pacific Ratiroad will be com- Pleted about New Year's. ‘The Erte Railroad managers at the meeting iaCleve- land yesterday failed to arrange matters with Mr. McHenry, who will to-day commence legal proceed- inga to obtain possession of the Atiantic and Great Western road, the Erie Company having falled to comply with the terms of the lease. Ex-Minister Browne 18 enlightening the San Fran- Clscans on his experiences in China. In a lecture On Monday night he contrasted the recent welcome warded himeelf in Pekin as representauve of the United States government with the splendid recep- tions of the Burlingame mission In this country and Europe, and asserted that the Chinese court was never more exclusive than at present. The first train of cars from the East arrived at Oakiand, opposte San Francisco, on Monday, and ‘was received by the citizens with general rejoicings. - ‘The business on the Pacific railroads continues to increase. The receipts of the Central Pactile road for October amounted to $622,000, coin. The emi- Grant trains are weil filled and the number of pas- wengers westward is double that of those travelling @astward, ‘The funcral of the late Commodore Stewart will take piace in Philadelphia this afternoon at three O’olock, The remaiva will be interred in Ronaldson Cemetery, tu the nurtnern part of the city. Aman named Shepherd was burned to death in the destruction of his boarding house by fire in Oswego, N. Y., yesterday morning. Ata fire in Camden, N.J., on Monday night, an aged lady named Ejliott was thrown from a second story window, receiving fatal injuries, George H. Sanford, democrat, is elected Senator in the Nineteenth (New York) district, the official can- ass of Oneida giving nim twenty-six majority. The Peabody Institute at Danvers, Mass., will be ®losed until the remains of Mr. Peabody arrive from England. It is expected the remains will be brought Over by the steamer Scotia early in December, The New Hampshire State Constabulary election yesterday occasioned Iivtle interest, and the measure was defeated by a large majority. The vote was Very light, probably not over 15,000 having been cast. A party of burglars broke open the National Bank At Portland, Conn., on Monday night, but they se- cured only a few posiage stauips and two revolvers. A man named Swarcy, accused of having com- mitted five murders, was taken from the Richmond, Ky,, jail on Sunday night by a mob and hung in the court house yard, The City. ‘The freight tari for express companies on the Erie Railroad between New York and Paterson 1s to be increased to-day by one dollar # ton. It is understood that Mr. James Fisk, Jr,, intends to take the express business on that route under his own Management, and that the increased tari, is intended to drive the other compantes off, There are many rumors rife of fresh expeaitions Atting out in this city for Cuba. The Junta has been reorganized, with Miguel Aldama as Prosident, Gregorio Dominguez, the Ecuador Consul, who is charged with receiving stolen bonds to the amount Of $1,000, was evamined yesterday before Justice Ex-Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, W. H. Seward, Jr., and Major J. N, Knapp, of Auburn; J. V, Beam, of New Jersey; H. C. Lord, of Cincinnati; Mayor George Innes, of Poughkeepsie; Ira Harris, of Albany; C. B, Judson, of Syracuse, and Thomas Dickson, of Scranton, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General F. G. Wilson, of New York: Dr. Gibson, of Baltimore; Benjamin Field, of Aloion; W. J. Florence, of California, and ex-Governor J. G. Good- win, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Von Scheliha, of the Royal. Prussian army, 18 at the Clarendon Hotel. R. Catlin, of the United States Army; Mlle, ©. Patti, Max Strakosch and,lenry Squires, and Rev. W. Bennett, of New Hampshire, are at the Everett House, John Phillips, of New Brunswick; M. Bigelow, of Newark, N. J., and G, W. Coiby, of New York, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. C. jose, Of Portland, and Thomas Elmes, of Bir- Mingham, Conn., are at the Grand Hotel. Captain C. McKibvon, of the United States Army; G. Higginson, of Boston; Max Meyer, of Frankforg on-the-Main; Julms Morins, United States Consul to Coblentz; E. H. Trowbridge, of New Haven; General George T. Stedman, of Ohio, and H. P, Tuttle, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. General Z. B. Tower, of the United States Army; ©. OC. Chatiee, of Springfleld; H. Johnson, of #alti- more; G. L. Pratt, of Boston; J. D. Bald, of Phila- deiphia, and R. H. J. Goddard, of Provideace, are at ihe Alvermarie Hotel. Prominent Departures. General Frisbee, for Washington; Judge Halter, for Chicago; Colonel McC auley, for Philadelphia; G, L. Cameron, for South Carolina; Rev. Dr. Godwin, Right Rey. Bishop Bacon and B. Priest and family salied yesterday in the steamer Cimbria for Europe. Complications in European Affairs—The Prospect. Our news from Europe is of a peculiarly interesting character. The interest, however, results rather from the expectant attitude of men and things than from actual facts. All is uncertainty, and men are everywhere eagerly looking forward. Napoleon is not in the best of health; and upon his single life, more than upon that of any other man, does the continued peace of Europe depend. Victor Emanuel is sick, and, although now pro- nounced by his physicians out of danger, his temporary illness has given birth to specula- tions which may yet produce strange results. In Spain the government firm of Serrano, Prim and Topete has broken up; and the promise is more abundant than ever that Prim is to be left master of the situation, Whether he is to act the part of Warwick, tho king- maker, to fill the réle of a Cmsar, a Cromwell or a Napoleon, or to rise to the noble position of a George Washington, it must be left to the future to tell. Bgron Benst, the Austro- Hungarian Chancellor, is busy and vexed as ever with his nationalities questions; and, although he has been successful in suppress- ing the Dalmatian insurrection, the heteroge- neous populations under his care promise to give him much trouble before his work is done. Count Bismarck, from his rural retreat in Pomerania, watches the general situation, and, in spite of much resistance, sees his long- cherished ideal of German unity gradually, slowly, but certainly, bodying itself forth into a living, substantial reality, Russia, still busy with internal reforms, with the construction of railroads, with Asiatic conquests, with the breaking up of Old World notions, keeps her eye steadily fixed on Constantinople, never losing an opportunity to make the most of race and religion for the and of re-establishing, on a broader basis than ever, the empire of the East. The Sultan, surrounded by influences which are foreign to the principles on which his empire rests, and encroavhed upon on all sides by the new civili- zation, knows not what to do, Among the dynasties there is fear between the govern- | ments there is jealousy, and deep down in the heart of European society there is dissatisfac- tion with things as they are, and there is eagerness for change. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, would burst forth in a blaze of insurrection. Egypt would shake off her fetters and pro- olsim herself free. Roumania would follow her example. Bulgaria, Servia and the other Slavio States would rally around Roumania. Greece would become aggressive, and the Greek provinces of Turkey would flock to the standard of King George. Meanwhile it would not be wonderful if the Czar enthroned himself in Constantinople. It would be as little wonderful if Austria as an empire ceased to be, and if the kingdom of Hungary found it hard to maintain & separate and independent existence, Tak- ing it for granted, however, that the Emperor's life should not be cut short, the probabilities are scarcely less serious. Tho'disease in the body politic exists, It may burst forth even in spite of his great power and his wondrous skill. The internal condition of France, the strong anti-Napoleonic sentiment which is known to exist, the distracted condition of Spain and Italy make the situation of the Latin races themselves exceedingly peculiar. Mazzini watches eagerly and believes that his opportunity will come; but Mazaini cannot make good his opportunity without a general rising in Italy, and scarcely without a Euro- pean war. 4 In the future not yet near we sco a happier, & more prosperous, a nobler Europe, We see the nations grown larger but fewer. We see the dynasties disappearing and aristocracy hiding its face as ashamed. We see the peoples bound together by community of son- timent and community of interest. We seo the fruit of the telegraph, the railroad and the printing press. We see Europe, in fact, modelled after our own glorious republic—a state of things which will not give a chance to any tyrant, But between that time and now purpose of demoralizing Turkey in Europe | As we have already hinted, much depends on the life of Napoleon, His death would to a dead certainty be the signal for a general rising all over Europe. Prussia would with- out delay annex the South German States. Austria would be slow to consent to this; but as Austria is now more in the way of Russia than is Prussia, it is safe to take it for granted that the weight of Russia wonld be thrown In the scale in favor of Prussia. France and Austria would be likely to go together; but it ig not difficult to see that the forces of the North would win in the not unequal contest, Such a struggle would give Russia her long looked for opportunity. Turkev in Europe much difficulty will have to be encountered and overcome; much suffering will have to be endured and much patience exercised, The better time, however, will come; the peoples of Europe will arrive at that better state which has long been ours. Meanwhile the horizon is not bright; clouds and darkness are everywhere ; nor can we say we are unprepared for the most alarming intelligence, _ Tho Mormons—The Prophet Has o Signif- cant Revelation, According to our latest advices from Great Salt Lake, there is an intestine commotion among the ‘‘Latter Day Saints” which promises an early solution of the Mormon difficulty, Brigham Young is a skilful manager and mas- ter ; but the task of keeping off the Gentiles is becoming too much for him. His Mormon co- operative stores, and all his old time Chinese schemes for repelling the ‘‘outside barbarians,” while they fail to repel the Gentiles are creat- ing mutinies and disaffections among the Saints. He vainly thought that by contriving to divert the Pacific Railroad around the north end instead of the south end of Great Salt Lake, where lies his city of Zion, he had succeeded in escaping a contact with the great streams of emigrants, miners and travellers passing over the road. He vainly imagined that by building himself a branch road to the main line he could contrive to get a good harvest of profits and still manage to keep out the Gentiles. But they will not be kept out. They are crowding around him, and their influence is demoralizing his followers, for they are beginning to think for themselves, In this emergency, it appears, the Prophet has had a timely and a very significant revela- tion. As the head of his community, it is said, he has the snug deposit of twenty-five millions of dollars in the Bank of England (a large exaggeration of his funds, no doubt), and that he has hada special revelation that the time draws nigh for the employment of this deposit in the removal of his harem and his headquarters to the Sandwich Islands. It ap- pears, however, that the first rumors of this extraordinary revelation were received with such expressions of incredulity and derision by the Saints that the supernataral order is not for the present to be enforced. The revelation itself may be a Gentile joke, We incline to the opinion, however, that the sagacious Brigham comprehends the fact that with an- other year or two of the Pacific Railroad he will have to give up his saintly institution of polygamy or clear out from Utah, In this view the opportunity, we think, has come for decisive action on the part of Con- gress, not for a violent expulsion of the Mor- mons, but for the abolition of polygamy in Utah under a new Territorial government. Special provisions for taking the census of 1870 in Mormondom will develop the extent of this evil of polygamy, and meantime a law providing that after a certain date any man found in the Territory possessed bodily of more than one wife, temporal or spiritual, shall ba subjected to the pains and penalties of bigamy (which is Brighamy) or of adul- tery, as the case may be, and we shall pro- bably have a settlement which will embrace the removal of the polygamists without further trouble to some group of islands in the Pacific, and the retention of the one-wife Mormons in the Territory under the original one-wife dispensation of Joe Smith. At any rate, Congress must take this Mormon question in hand at the coming session with tho view to settle it peaceably, or there is great danger that it may be settled by the border Gentiles and by fire and sword, Travian Disrorpances.—By cable despatch from Paris we are informed that fears are entertained of a Mazzinian outbreak in Italy, especially if the King should succumb to his present attack of illness. The recent exposds that have been made in respect to some mem- bers of the government, and the unsatisfactory state of matters generally in that country, are of themselves sufficient reasons to breed dis- content. Mazzini has numerous partisans throughout the Peninsula, but we doubt whether his extreme views are entertained by the generality of the Italian nation, The nortbern population of Italy is predisposed towards a republic, but its views are moderate and they do not participate in any ideas of red republicanism, on which the Orsini tragedy was based. Tur Bra Simp on Doty Acars.—The Great Fastern is getting ready in England to take out and lay cable between Bombay, India, and Aden, on the Red Sea, Pronounced a NOVEMBER 10, 1869—THIPLE SHERT. The Philadelphia Infidel Convention. The salient points to be noted in the con- vention of atheists, infidels and ‘‘secularists,” who met last Sunday at Philadelphia are, first, that the delegates numbered, all told, but seventeen; secondly, that one of them—a special representative of societies in Ilinois, Wisconsin and Missouri—frankly admitted that there is not 80 much interest in the cause out West as there might be; thirdly, that the President of the Convention declared that “the clerical power is on the increase,” and, alluding to the lavish expenditures for the erection of new churches, thinks “‘it fs about timo that we liberals should try to get some of this material support for our own cause.” So it is a question @'argent—a money question, after all—with anti-religionists, as well as with religionists of every denomination; and the unpleasant impression that infidelity is spread- ing among the American people ts disproved by the slender attendance at this Infidel Con- vention and by its manifest lack of money for the propagation of the abominable doctrines of Voltaire and Tom Paine. The fact is that these doctrines, which, it would seem, have lost almost all their influence over intelligent minds, were no less superficial than pernicious. Rationalism, which the adherents of the stricter forms of ancient orthodoxy abhor as the latest form of infidelity, is at least free from that taint of vulgarity universally associated with the drunken blasphemies of Tom Paine, The more “genteel” professors of modern infidelity turn up their noses at Tom Paine, notwith- standing all his acknowledged services to the whigs of the American revolution in particu- lar and to the cause of human liberty in general. They avow themselves disciples of such profound philosophers as Kant, Hegel, Comte or Spencer, and some of the weaker- minded among them have lately formed a “Carlyle and Emerson Association,” which evinces rather a blind admiration of ‘the savage philosopher of Chelsea and the mild and mystical sage of Concord” than a clear understanding of the peculiar views of either one or the other. Spiritualism, moreover, with the millions of converts claimed for it by Judge Edmonds, has largely diminished the number of old-fashioned materialists who honestly enough rejoiced, with sometimes a martyr-like spirit, in proclaiming themselves disciples of Tom Paine and Abner Kneeland. Secularism is still an exotic and is cultivated here, for the most part only, by a few English immigrants of the working class. Meanwhile almost every religious denomi- nation, from the Roman Catholics to the latest Christian sect, is boasting, not without reason, of fresh accessions. The essential principlés of Christianity, as announced in the Sermon on the Mount, are more heartily and more extensively recognized than ever. Dark and uncertain as the future is, according to Father Hyacinthe, he is nevertheless justiflable in his determination to ‘‘obey conscience to the end,” and in his belief ‘‘that the trae Church, embracing all who hold Christ as their head, is far wider than any earthly organization.” Whatever outward characteristics this true Church, the ‘Church of the Future,” may possess, no infidel conventions can destroy it, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the rock on which it is founded. British Notions of American Credit, The London press seems particularly anxious about American credit abroad, and in a sort of patronizing manner gives us a great deal of gratuitous advice with regard to it. John Bull is nothing if not egotistical and patroniz- ing in his manner. Englishmen, and English journalists in particular, think that all the financial knowledge of the world is concen- trated in their little,island. Speculating on the debt of the United States and the rumored project of the Treasury Department to raise a loan for the purpose of reorganizing the debt at a lower rate of interest, the London Times reads us a lecture on national credit and honor. It wants gold payments for our five-twenty bonds, and makes a labored argu- ment to show that this would be to our advan- tage. The secret of this pretended anxicty about American credit lies in the fact that a large amount of the five-twenties are held in England, and that the certainty of the United States paying them in gold would send their value up on the market from eighty-two or eighty-three to a hundred, or_over that. ‘A bargain is a bargain,” this leading London journal exclaims. That is a self-evident propo- sition, and the bargain we haye made ought to be carried out—the bond ought to be paid, even if, like Shylock’s, the demand be usurious, Yet in paying it to the last cent according to the bond we should be doing what England or any other great nation of Europe has not done with its public debt. But the question arises here, what was the bargain made and how are we bound to pay the five-twenties? Many of the members of Congress who passed the law creating that debt, and notably among them the late Thad- deus Stevens and other foremost men of the country, assert that it was not intended that the principal should be paid in gold unless the government chose to so pay it, And the fact that it was not so expressed on the face of the bonds, while on another class of securities gold payment of the principal was promised, shows the intention of Congress to pay the five-twenties in currency if the government chose to do 60. This, we think, is conclusive. At least the question was left an open one, and there is no reason why the law should be strained to favor the bondholders, who got the bonds for little more than half their par value in currency, and who have been well paid already. If the bonds go up to par in gold in the ordinary course of things, all very well; but there is no reason why the government should unnecessarily increase the weight of the debt and the burden of the taxpayers for the special benefit of the bondholders. It is said the credit of the United States would be raised and a loan for consolidating the debt at lower interest could be made on better terms if the five-twenties were officially declared payable in gold, This is a fallacy. If Congress were to make such a declaration the bonds would go up immediately ten or more per cent on this aide the Atlantic, and higher still, proba- bly, in Europe, Then what would be the effect in making a loan to reorganize the debt failure at first that big ship is proving herself the greatest success on the sea of the nine teenth century. Success atill follows her, at lower interest? Would the holders of six per cent bonds, which might bo at par or over in the market, surrender them without a pre- mium for a four per cont stock? Would any man in the transactions of life make such 6 sacrifice? And what would it be but a species of repudiation if the government were to compel the holders of six per cent bonds to take without premium four per cent ones in their place? The lower the bonds are in the market—that is, if they be not forced down by any action of the government—the more can be saved in transforming the debt to posi- tive gold bonds at a lower rate of interest. It would be folly, then, to force up the market price of our securities before re-adjusting the debt, The Vanderbilt Bronze. To-day the grand ceremonial of unveiling the Vanderbilt bronze takes place at the Hudson River Railroad depot, in St. John’s Park. It will be a great event in the history of the metropolis, not perhaps because of its great merit as a work of art, which will be imperishable, so much as that it represents the story of commercial progress as written in many chapters and in various phases, but all worked out by the industry whica crowned a life of labor with unbounded success in the person of one man. There is a speaking lesson in this dull, yet living bronze, which every young man in the community may read with profit. We shall not undertake to inter- pret the lesson, for if the creation of vast wealth out of nothing be the sum of human ambition, surely this group is an attestation of the highest success that man may crave in this world. Doubtless the ceremonial of to-day will be very superb and impressive. The intellect, the learning and the wealth of the city will be there to worship and do homage, not alone to a splendid work of art, the like of which no effort of the artist in our days can probably excel, but in an especial manner to do honor to that productive industry embodied in the design and the life it illus- trates. Tae Firreentrn AMENDMENT.—The demo- cratic control of this State has stirred up in Washington again the discussion of the point whether a State having once ratified a consti- tutional amendment can withdraw its assent. It is still an open question whether a State can do this in the interval between the pro- posal of the amendment and the reception of votes enough to secure it. No one argues that when an amendment has once properly become part of the constitution the action of a State can destroy its validity. Now, what makes an amendment complete? Simply the giving in its favor of a certain number of votes, The moment the last necessary vote. .is cast all possible recall is at end. Tho words are that an amendment ‘‘shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.” Hav- ing received the last necessary vote the mea- sure is now, therefore, beyond recall, and to suppose the contrary would be to suppose that any State by its own action simply could change the constitution. Fisk anp His Degpory Suerirrs,—The public already know that a pretty rough crowd had been sent out to New Jersey by Mr. J. Fisk, Jr., to settle matters on the Erie Railroad, during the strike of the brakemen, in such a fashion as the army of the Fisk ban- ditti, armed with revolvers, might find most convenient. Everybody knows’ how these fel- lows are likely to bring matters to a conclusion: when they are well paid for their services, It is alleged on the part of Fisk that no hostile acts are contemplated; that the armed gang have gone only to preserve the peace and the property of the railroad, and in evidence of the truth of this purpose it is claimed that forty deputy sheriffs have been sent with the Fisk cohorts to insure the legality of the operation and the preservation of the peace. Does not this fact in itself suggest that, as affairs have been turning out with Sheriff's deputies of lato—two of them being already subject to charges of murder—one of them (Real) con- demned by the court, the other (Jackson) con- demned by public opinion—they are just the worst class of men to assist in keeping the peace, but, on the contrary, that their pre- sence in this Erie Railroad army of hirelings means just the other thing ? Curartnea Away Het Garz.—Slowly enough, but yet surely, the rocks which ob- struct the passage at Hell Gate are melting away under the influence of gunpowder and nitro-glycerine, Professor Maillefert has opened a channel nin®teen feet deep on the dangerous rocks knows a3 Way's Reef. Although this is not much to accomplish, considering the length of time occupied since this work began, still when we consider that the Professor has had a very bad quality of nitro-glycerine to operate with—much of which would not explode by the concussion of powder, and still lies, we believe, uselessly at the bottom—perhaps we ought to be satisfied. Holl Gate will probably be cleared one of these days, and some of the present generation may live to see it. Toe Gow Baxromurer.—It is singular with what sensitiveness the gold market reflects the events of the political world. As soon as it was knowa that Victor Emanuel was in danger of dying and that the partisans of Mazzini were ready to precipitate a revolu- tion, the baromotric metal rose from 126} to 127}—a difference of over one per cent. This amount is, in fact, a wager in the present doubt as to the result of the contingency. Tue Sians or tue Times.—Destructive storms and floods are still reported east, west, north and south, and in both hemispheres, with occasional earthquakes and fierce yol- canic eruptions, and especially in Mexico and Central America, What do these sigas por- tend? A genoral shaking up of the nations, perhaps, morally and politically. Surely, in this city, at Albany and elsewhere, we are on the verge of great events. But when the sky falls we shall catch tho larks. Wateixa axp Warcrutna—Queen Isabella, for the opportunity to proclaim through her adherents in Madrid the Prince of Asturias as her candidate for the Spanish throne, And she may yet raise a breeze in the Cortes. Who can tell? Sri, Harrnio on tae Sams Srrive— Greeley. He still keeps growling and grum- bling over tho election frauds of this city ; but still the question recurs, What will he do with them ? ‘The Battery Place Murder and the Coroners The discussion of the recent murder in Bat- tery place and the plea that the Coroner is free from blame in the premises will naturally invite some review of the functions of that offi- cer, and may properly bring before the public the question of the responsibility of a jury. Is there no limit to the power of the men summoned to an inquest upon a dead body? Have they ample authority to close ull inquiry intoa given crime and still stand unsuspected? Or is there a point at which their evident dis- position to favor a crimina) justly awakens the thought that they are in collusion with him, and exposes them in turn to the attention of the criminal authorities? The Coroner is a judicial officer. He and his jury are entrusted with the duty of inquiring, super viswm cor- poris, into cases of violent death, and the division of function is the same as with other courts—that is, the jury judges the facts and the Coroner is to instruct them as to the appli- cation of the law. No doubt, as our inquests are conducted, much of this is supposition; for we seldom have a Coroner capable of instructing a jury in anything more than mixing liquors or stuffing ballot boxes. But supposition or not, society must hold such functionaries to the duties they assume in taking office, and visit their delinquencies upon them, In the inquest before us a clear case of delibe- rate murder was made out by straightforward testimony, nor was there made apparent the shadow of a mitigating circumstance, Yet the Coroner's jury does not. find a verdict of murder, On the contrary, it finds a verdict that would admit the murderer to bail, and thus secure his escape, And when his counsel asks that he be admitted to bail what does the Coro- ner say? “Simply that he will consider the sub- ject and give his decision on Monday. He takes the occasion, however, to defend the jury from a charge of corruption, and answers for the verdict as an honest one, What infer- ence are we forced upon when such a verdict is given in such acase? There is no other possible than that the jury was contaminated by the presence of one or more persons resolved to free the murderer at all hazards, and that the remainder were browbeaten into assent to their views. What, then, was the duty of the Coroner? Certainly not to champion such a jury, and quite as little to accept their view in admit- ting the possibility that the man might ina few days be set at liberty. His duty, rather, was to recognize that a criminal act had been committed in the very finding of that verdict on such a state of facts, and thereupon to order the jury itself into custody. The names of the jurymen are as follows :—John J. Byrnes, No. 37 West Thirteenth street; George J. Macomb, No. 308 East Sixtieth street; Francis Reynolds, No. 156 Mott street ; James” McCabe, No. 3 Vandewater street; Theodore Hilbich, No, 27 Bowery; Henry L. Fraser, No, 309 East Fifty-eighth street. Mr. Guapstonr’s Srexou.—Premier Glad- stone acknowledges, in an excellent addresa delivered at the municipal inaugural banquet in Guildhall Hall, London, yesterday, of which we publish a very complete synopsis by cable telegram, that Ireland is even now a chief dif- ficulty to England, and that, too, after having been governed by Great Britain during seven huafired years, and with almost ‘unbounded power.” On the subject of the foreign policy Mr. Gladstone renounces, on the part of his country, the 7éle of a ‘‘meddlesome interfer- ence”—an excellent definition of the past— and assumes a tone of general philanthropy and good will, with a preservation of the “peace and concord” now existing between Britain and the United States. FESTIVITIES ABOARD THE SCHOOLSHIP. Practical Philanthropy. According to invitation from the Commissioners of Charities and Correction quite a number of citi- zens visited the schoolship Mercury, jying off the Battery, yesterday, both in the morning and afver- vernoon. At the latter period of the day, avout half past three o'clock, Mr. Nicholson, the omni- present Commissioner of the Board and the great philanthropist of the institution, went over in tuo company of various members of the City Council and of the press to witness the per- formance of the boyson the schoolship. The ex- hibition was of an eminently satisfactory nature. ‘The drill, the manning of the yards, the piping to quarters, and @ variety of other naval manwuvres, were admirably performed, by way of preface it Might be said that the boys who form the company of this vessel are the truant element of New York, and no one among them belongs to the class denomt- nated thieves. Some of the boys have a pedigree which includes. some of the best names in the old Knickerbocker ry of New York, put the majority, it ts need- bistod say, are of Collie extraction, Te following items Will be interesting, a8 Showing the manuer in which the enterprise is being conducted, The mess of 110 boys eat in ® week the following average quantity:—3 lbs. 10 02, coffee, 21 lbs. 12 0%, beans; 21 lbs. 12 oz pork, 1161bs. beef, 14 lbs, 8 oz. sugar, 3 gallons molasses, 110 loaves of bread an vegetabies ad libitum, The latter supply comes from Blackwell's Island, where i¢ 18 rai: by the labor of the Convicts and includes the aristocratic luxury of caulifiowers. The tollowing embraces the list of oMcers and the duties of the boys:—Vaptain Stetson, commanding; first oMcer, W. A. Sum- mers; second officer, F. y. Gregory; third ofiicer, 5. A. bldridge; boatswain, J, Brown; sailing master, @ Lockwoo: schoolinasier, J. B. Hayes; chaplains, Kev. Father Duranqaet and Rev. Mr. Willetts. The boys are promoted as they deserve 11, and the nat of those Who fili positions on board are as follows: — Boatswains, Stuyvesant and Baker; ooxswains, Walton, Cropsey and Lee; quartermasters, Nayior, Blackmure, Smith and Wallace; captain of the hoid, Borches. Tho boys went througt o very inter- esung performance, manning and rigging yard: directed in their efforts by the stentorian yotce of first omcer Summers, It 18 one of the glorious fea- tures in New York's Magni’ cent philanthropy tuat, whiie all the world of Wail street is worshipping the god of Mammon, a few good mea are over ready to engage in the opscure but meritorious work of res- outas from the slums of the metropolis the gutter children, Who would else be handed over to perdi- tion. ‘io boys are well attended to, get plenty of good «@fub,” ana are destined by their training to assume positions in either the naval or mercantile marine. ‘A dinner on board the ship celebrated the tnicia~ tion of the enterprise, Mr. Brennan ocoupted the chair, and the otier Commissioners present were Measrs. James Bowen, Isaao Bell aud Jamos B. Nicholson. Speeches were made by ming on Bren- nan, helaagg: se) Cag Pen oe ereah Usprein :diunis, Kirwan, Alder ‘ney, Cap! Moberta, "cole, and the festivities terminated tn quite @ joyous manner. THE NEW YORK HERALD IN VIRGINIA. [From the Norfolk (Vas) Journal, Nov. 8.) NEWSPAPER ENERGY, we have never known greater energy exhibited by a newspaper than by the New York Hunany on the occasion of the death of Mr. Peabordy, He died last Thursday might ta London before twelve o'clock, and by three on Friday morning his obituary was in press and by five it was delivered ta the readers of the HERALD. Many are the fauite tant the various political parties have found with the New York HERALD, Bnd tt has Dever, 8inge ta estab- lishment, received any quarter ‘rom the oter papers of New York, Noyerthcicss, the unusuw. ability of ita writers has bid deflance to all tha ‘attacks that bave been made upon it, aud tts ssartiiy.g energy has onabled tt to distance ait competitors ‘in the way of news. The other papers of Gotham may apuse the FIERALD a8 much as they please; bu’ go long as abilil and Coty A command the SUPPOCF of the public, will the New YORK HARALD CONLNY, to fourish In ever increasing prosperity.