The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1869, Page 6

6 dod See aces NEW YORK HERALD BROAD WAY AND AN N STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All buriness or tews etter and telographie despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly Sealed. Rejected communications will not turned. — be re- Walenie ER Weiss phecassstessss ees. No. 316 ee = Some AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—Lirvie NEL! AND THE MaALonionzos. WALLACK’S THEATR Hom. FRENCH Tir on, Ligure anv . 14th st. and Cth ay.—Loxpon; WS OF THR GEEAT Crry, THE TAMMANY, Fourteeat Buorneys, £0. GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner of Fighth avenue and sireet, CHARLES O'MALLEY. ‘WAVERLEY THE. ARIETY ENTERTAINM street.—Tur HANLON No, 120 Broadway.—A Granp * BOOTH’S THEATRE, 2st., between Sth ana sth a Mary WannrE. OLYMPIC THEATR' DRima or Poon duMay ACADEMY OF ™ ‘fternoon—Puiiuan Broaaway.—Tue Dounsrie ¥. 1dth tre Sours AVOLO. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TuR CzaLina. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Bee Vooartsx, Nucko Nixsrzn THEATRE COMI Feu, NEGRO Avrs, BRYANTS' © W—barais IAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! i MInsTEELSY, NEGRO AC B, 6M Broadway.—Couto Vocat- j, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtee: > GyuNasiio PRur Ona h stroat, -EQUSGTRIAN ipoouns OPERA H Hoouey's UNBTRELS—HIGH JAO BROOKLYN ATH and Cline ton sis.—PRorgsson a BOMERVILLT ART CALL Beep —Exmiwizi0n or The id 14th \WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, (13 Broadway. oumnoz aNv Anz. We are egain constrai Band in their adverti es possible. Our immense and constantly ons compel us, notwill: ng © are apable of printing sev our, to put our forms to press m sual, and to facilitate the work we Stop the classifications of advertisements at nine. ‘O'clock P. M. bY earlier than forced to wows. Europe. We learn by special cable telegram that Queen Victoria udd invited the late Georg to- visit her at Windsor and have a Just immediately fatal attac Dave been den terminat ner. A British man-of-war will co remains to Aim Ledra in Paris, The question of the w ahead dogma of the Tmmacu ate Conception doubted in and oa heavily during { Chureh difficulties still prevail in EB . By steamship at tals port we have interesting mail details of our cable telegrams (0 (he olet of October. South Amorica. Oar Ri further having Bont. L troopa bu . Estauislaus, + tthe ammunition. itu plenty of West Indices. Letters to the 27th uit. fro: yti state that the Piquets were deserting Salnave’s cause. Cape Maytl is blockaded by the rebel gunboats, and Salnave’s Steamer, the Petion, cannot get out. The Engilsh commodore has not seit a steamer to assist Salnave bb escaping. The steamer Telegrafo, which has been preying On American commerce in the Gulf of Mexico, was recently purchased by @ merchant inffurk’s Island; ‘put the British Governor of Antigua has announced sho will nevertheless be treated as a pirate by the British government. Miscellaneous. The totai receipts from revenue during the last Quarter were $109,642,079, of this $52,503,021 were from customs, $47,926,352 from internal revenue, $2,803,946 from tax on the circulation, &c., of na- tional banks and $127,343 from repayment of interest by the Pacific Rattway companies. Mr. J. Watson Webb, late Minister to Brazil, testi- lod yesteraay before the committee investigating fhe Paraguayan imbrogiio. He was very severe on Admiral Godon, whom he denouoced as usurping Giplomatic duties tn Brazil. His testimony will ve gontinued to-day. ( Tho counterfeit revenue stamps for sixty pound jackages of tobacco are sald by revenue officials to the best counterfeits ever executed. There were ‘only about 1,000 sheets of them issued, and 500 of ‘these, as well as the plates and dies, have been cap- fured, Robert J. Walker died in Washington yesterday Morning from general debility, resulting from un- fue application to business, The funeral will take place on Saturday, The funeral of the Jate Major General John BE. Wool ‘till take place at Troy to-morrow morning, at eleven B'ciock, Ono of the Indians convicted of murder at Omaha, “Who escaped from prison, has been recaptured; the Other is still at large, Little Wolf and Horse Driver, two of the condemned murderers, attempted to commit suicide on Wednesday mglt, Both aro Mangerously injured, Three Sioux Indians were recently found sus pended from trees in the vicinity of Fort MePherson, their bodies riddied with bullets, On one of the Tndians was found a letter signed “Your sister, Oarrle Warner,” dated “Morris, N, J. May 8, 1569,’" Pupposed to have been written to a member of Burk’s surveying party, which ts believed to nave Deen massacred by the say: The new Chicago Stock & Opened on Wednesday night, TM grading Boundary street in Washington yeoster- Pay the laborers, by direction of tue streot Commis. Bloners of that city, partially covered the track of fhe Baltimore and Ohio Ratiroad, which crosses tho -reet and is below the grade. The president of tho hed begm ugsiled by tho Mayor that ne { ange was formally j Must raise the track to the new grade, but no an- swer was returned, Logal proceedings are to be instituted. The Joint Committees on Reunton of the Presbyte- iu session at Pittsburg, have f reunion, propesing that both est hall in the city, and that ated to complete the detatls. fellows from Boston, named John lorgan and George Madt- ead in Montreal on the charge dm the New York Central Ratl- y. $15,000 in greenbacks were ession; the others had $2,000 road expr round in Clay’s po: hb. Clay ts only ni whe boller ht Hende hing the butiding and killing one man and injurmg fifteen others, Commander Queen, of the Tuscarora, sends to the The Ohio Railroad Commissioner intends to bring & new sult st the Atlantic and Great Western Ratiroad e ten days for $20,000 until the annual report of the yissentin, = e City. The United States steamer Albany sailed for St Domingo from this port on Wednesday afternoon. sed carries three commissioners who go to take ion of Samana Bay as an American he Albany was loaded with heavy ordnance for coast fortitications, and will take on board nearly a regiment of infaatry aud a company of artillery at the Dry Tortugas. ‘The Board of Canyassers in Brooklyn yesterday declared Cunningham, tle democratic candidate for Sherig, elected over Watters, the republican candt- date, who, ing to the public impression for some hh ‘eceived about 1,200 majority, Cun- ningham’s majority is claimed oy the Board to 2 299, he Coroner’ burning of t fire on the 29) jury yesterday in the case of the ip family by the Liberty street itimo rendered a verdict of death and censured a p aan who had tue Hiremen that there were persons A sirange case came up in the Supreme Court rday by Juégo Barnard. Andrew Garr med to have married Phobe Pearsall twenty rs ago, tl marriage to be publicly proclaimed and the parties to live together as man and wife only in case Phebe acquired certain property. Garr now asks that the marriage be adjudged valid and that Phoebe be given to his care. Phoobo denied aay such marriage and claimed that the suit was brought to extort money, The Judge held that no court but a spiritnal one had any jurisdiction in suiehta a matte: d that the action was one unknown He therefore dismissed the case, nrendered a decision in tho Durand acating the order of arrest sued out ad against her husband. As his wile nulataim personal action against him for perzonal injury although she can the criminal courts, The marriage only in living together and publicly the relation, no ceremouy having cannol be set aside by the consent bee een perfor of bow nin Brooklyn drank half a pint 7 to still her craving for aced delirium tremens and finally tic Company's steamship Surmont, will leave pier 50 row about twelve M, for Brest n mail Wiil close at the Post 3th inst. Sati arday, 250 ha town to land pas: The Anchor tine steamship Cambria, Captain Craig, Will sail rom pier 20 North river at 12M, to- for Londonderry and Glasgow. ’ line steainship Meade, Captain Samp-on, will leave pier No. 12 North river, at three P. M. on Saturday, 13th Inst., for New Or- leans direc! The siock the main clined to 12 yesterday was feverish but, in on light transactions. Gold de- Eagenieo in the Easi~A 1 and Social Revolution ch the Empress Dugénie i ag in the East is only beginning to assume ninds of men its true and proper sig- pificance. Looking ahead, as is our wont, and pursuing our usual course, we have kept our correspondent on her track, and the readers of the Hzaup have been enabled to follow in the train of the E to Venice, from Venice to Constantine ae from Constan- Our correspondence, which 3 range and ich, in point a y, is unequalled in existing journalism, has been singulai rich in the matter of this tour of the Empresas. Now that the Empress has reached Egypt, a land inseparably associated with the family of which, though an adopted, she is certain to be remembered in history as a most illustrious member, and while we wait for the opening of the Suez Canal it is not, we think, mal apropos to consider the tow generally, having regard particularly to its political and social beariags. Noone who has taken tho trouble to look ‘at it from a political stand- point can refase to admit that diplomatically this tour of the Empress is one of the grand- est movements of the age. It is the chief aim of Louis Napoleon now, as indeed it has long been, to lay broad and deep the foundations of the fourth French dynasty, Pepin was at one time regarded as a parrenu ; 80 was the first Bourbon. It is Louis Napoleon's life purpose to wipe this reproach from his house. It was convenient for the first Bonaparte to rebuke his flatterers when, with more inge~ | nuity than truthfulness, they made out a con- nection between his family and that of Julius Cesar, ‘No, gentlemen,” he said, ‘I am the Rudolph of Hapsburg of my house.” It was convenient; but it was also painful to make such an admission, Napoleon, the third of that name, now feels that if deeds make men and ennoble families the house of Bonaparte has a right to take its place with the first houses in Burope. He knows that in the minds of men and on the page of history bril- liant efforts and aesociation with great events make up for the lack of “long descent.” He had a great name and great deeds to fall back upon as the heir of his uncle. The namo which he inherited he has made not less bright but more bright by his own individual efforts ; and now, witl a wise regard to the future of his house, and particularly to the prospects of his son, he has contrived to associate the name of the Einpress Kugénie with a series of events which, for their own sake, not to speak ofthe rich fruit which they promise history, will not willingly let die, Politically, we have said, this tour will prove great success, It will add to the glory of the Bonaparte name, This is much, Bat it will do more: it will magnify France in the eyes of Burope and the world, The Emperor could not havo chosen a more skilful ambassndot to indicate his Eastern policy, Her purchase from the Sultan ofa piece of ground in tho neighborhood of Jerusalom revealed her interest: in the holy places—an interest worthy of a Christian Woman anda good Catholic, But this is ils least important aspect. It was a skilful diplo- matic stroke—a stroke of policy worthy of a woman's wit; for it has proclaimed to the world—and in a style which makes offence imposstble—that France ander the Bonapartes is the friend of the Sultan, and that so long as a Boni aparte sways the destinies of France no ar will water his horses in the Hellespont or be sole master of the holy places. The attention paid to the Empress in Con. ple shows that the Sultan was fully appreciative of the importance of the situa- tion, One other matter of a political cha- racter deserves to be mentioned here, Tho reception in Venice was not so warm as it might have been, The Venetians were not forgetful of the hopes and dissappoint- menis of 1 It will not be wonderful if events not distant give evidence that the Emperor Napoleon's attachment to the Italians generally is less warm than it once was. Socially, so far as the East is concerned, this tour of the Empress, if it has not pro- duced, has revealed, a revolution, It is long since Lady Mary Wortley Montagu gave us her account of life in Constantinople; it is long since Sir Waller Scott, in one of his most interesting novels, gave us an imaginary pic- ture of a tournament in the desert, and up until this time we have not been permitted to think that harem life had changed in any important particular, Our correspondents let- ters have shown that the force of Western civ- ilization has begun to tell, and to tell power- fully, on the social and domestic life of the East. In the estimation of the simple-minded Mohammedans nothing like this visit has hap- pened since the Queen of Sheba came to Jeru- salem to behold the wisdom and glory of Solo- mon. But they do not see, they do not con- sider the results that are to flow from it, A Western Empress, a Christian Empress, has actually dined with the Sultan and his Ministers, Not only so. She has been specially honored by the harem. From the Sultan’s mother and from the queen of the harem, the Sultan's favorite wile, she has received most costly presents. Time was when the eye of the Nazarene might not gaze on the unveiled face of Hastern beauly, and when the touch of the Nazarene implied pollution which could be wiped out only by death, The peculiar institution of the East still lives; but Mohammedanism is becoming more flexible, and what with imperial visits, and Suez canals, and reilroads and telegraphs, promise is abundant that it will and, indeed, must become more flexible still. - If it be true that reforms begin at the base of the social pyramid, it is also true that example, whether for good or evil, is most powerful at its sum- mit. The example which has just been set in high places cannot fail to have a telling effect on the social life of the Mohammedan East, One other feature of this tour deserves to be mentioned. Thanks to “the telegraph, the Emperor knows the whereabouts of his spouse not only from day to day, but from hour to hour, end the entire reading world, thanks to the newspaper, shares his interest. How different is the world of to-day from the world of the Crusaders! How different is the world of to-day from the world of fifty years ago! Steam power was a wonderful discovery. Wonderful, too, was the application of that power. But the telograph leaves all other discoveries and applications of seience far behind, We march on to something still higher. Thought is still impatient of delay. Swift as are the means of communication, they are yet too slow and not sufficiently efficient. Science is still young, hopeful, eager-eyed. Whither does it lead us? We know but in part; we can but dimly see the futare; but we do know that it leads onward and upward. One hundred years hence, when some future Eugénie makes a grander Eastern tour, how slow and how stupid will seem the world of to-day! Bridging the Occeau. By the use of steam on the ocean and as the motive power of our huge printing presses, and aliberal subservience of the deep sea tele- graphs, we are rapidly and still more surely annihilating space, and bringing the peoples of the world into a closer and more perfect daily intercommunion, The Atlantic cable announces the fact this morning that the French transat- lantic mail steamship Periere, which left Sandy Hook on Saturday, the 20th of October, at twenty-five minutes past three o’clock in the afternoon, arrived at Brest, France, on Mon- day, the 8th of November, at eight o'clock in the morning, having run across the Atlantic in eight days, sixteen hours and thirty-five minutes apparent time, or eight days, eleven hours and thirty-five minutes actual time, and landed mail details of cable telegrams and written commercial advices to her day of sailing, The general reader will be able to estimate the rapidity of this passage more accurately when we state that, owing to the further dis- tance of Brest, it is equivalent to a run of seven days, twenty-one bours and thirty-five minutes from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, Ireland—a feat which, we believe, has not been yet accomplished. Science and energy, aided by a liberal cash outlay and directed with judgment, constitute the actual bene- ficial propagandism of the age—that which will eventually secure a world-wide peace by the redemption and disenthralment of ihe human mind, Erxoron Puiupe oan Honest AND Frar- ess Democratio JupGe AND Disrricr Ar- —The conduct’of Judge Joseph F, Barnard and District Attorney Morris, of | Kings county, both democrats, in reference to certain alleged atrocious democratic election frauds in Brooklyn, is deserving of all praise. Judge Barnard urged upon the Grand Jury the necessity of a searching investigation into these frauds, and Mr. Morris has earnestly entered upon the work, Ie appeals to the people to assist, and especially to “all honest democrais to help wipe out the burning dis- grace” that a few dishonest schomers have brought upon the party, The declared special outrage is a thimble rig counting out of Mr, Walter, the Brooklyn republican candidate for Sheriff, though reported elected by a large majority, Lotus lave this case sifted to the bottom, Tho Erle and Atlantic aud Great Western | Dificulty. It is often intimated to greedy children that there is a want of proper relation between the view they take of a feast and the capacity of their digestive organs, Greedy Erie is now in a condition to receive such a bint. It pro- posed to devour the Atlantic and Great Western, and finds itself ridiculously unequal to the meal. Indeed, if we examine critically the recent attempts of our great railroad glutton we shall find that efforts similarly futile are frequent in the story. Was there not an awful threat to swallow up all the operatic and theatrical enterprise of the town and a lamentable exhibition of incapacity? Was not the experiment made of gorging half the Pacific Railroad and thrusting the rest into a pedler’s pack for future use? Was it not endeavored to emulate King Midas, who had the ears of an ass, in making a meal on gold? And was not the result a disastrously over- loaded stomach? No career is more thickly bestrewn with failures; and we may safely concede that this attempt on the Great Western will be a failure too; for although much may be done by men resolutely ready to spend on lawyers in avoiding the payment of debt nearly as much money as would suflice to pay, yet such ‘avtics must fail hefore those equally ready to spend in the assertion of a clear right. Mr. McHenry has in his favor the prestige of a man who has achieved great success always by the legitl- mate application of the means to the end and often against the greatest apparent disadvan- tage. Such a man cannot be ousted of his right by the shallow brawlers in finance, x Disgraceful -and Cowardly. The conduct of certain young male medical students of Philadelphia the other day at the Pennsylvania Hospital, in expressing their hostility to the presence of fhe female students admitted to the lectures was most disgraceful, Those young fellows have been sadly neglected in the first require- ments of & medical education—the require- ments of good breeding, They behaved more like professional ruffians than professional gentlomen on the occasion in question. They exhibited in their deportment the baser instincts of a contemptible jealousy, shallow ignorance and unmanly cowardice, instead of the politeness and refinement of true manhood in their calling. But it cannot be that to them attaches the whole responsibility for their scandalous behavior. The professors and teachers of these disorderly youngsters have been remiss in their duties, or these insults to the young women enlisted in the profession would never have occurred, They should have been checked on the spot. We have too much of this barbaric rowdyism of tho last century tolerated in our colleges generally of the present day. It should be done away with, and young men in their first lessons as students should be taught that the youthful sports of savages are not adapted to ciVilized society, Paddy and His Pipe. It is proposed asa measure of hostility to England that every Irishman in Ireland shall at once stop smoking, This is a happy thought, Here is at last something that every true son of the old sod, however humble, can do for his country and one blow that he can level at the oppressor. He has only to break his pipe. An Irishman has never been backward in breaking heads and lances and all sorts of such trumpery in other people’s causes, and shall he now hesitate to break his pipe for Ireland? Perish the thought. No doubt the sum of the taxes paid on the sale of tobacco in the Green Islo is very great, and if Irishmen will resolutely resolve to keep that sum out of the British exchequer it will be a piece of moral heroism even greater than that of the fathers of the American republic when they resolved to deprive themselves of taxed tea, For the cases are not the same, since our fathers lived in plenty, and in the absence of tea could comfort themselves with plenty of good rum, while Pat's pipe is his main luxury, Because it is his sheet anchor of dissipation that the Irishman {s now asked to forego we expect to see this rebellion end in a good deal of smoke all around, But we advise that they try another rebellion on Father Mathew's programme, Srrikine AT THE SuppLies.—The destruc- tion of the whole sugar cane crop by the Cubans may prove a terrible blow to Spain, What Cuba stands for in the Spanish mon- archy isa mine, She isa source of immense wealth, and the revenue drawn from tho island has long been the only vital spot in Spanish finance, Spain has now in the first year of the rebellion a deficit, and if in another year Cuba stands in the returns opposite 4 vast army expenditure, with no equivalent revenue from the crops, the revolution in Spain may fail through actual financial collapse. No revolu- tion can defy finance save one that has its origin and impulse directly from the people, as the French revolution had, This In Spain is not of that character, Cespedes, therefore, in the destruction of the cane crops, in making Cuba o desert, hag it in his power to strike at Spain a more terrible blow than the Spaniards deem possible. AvorurR CASE FOR CoroNER FLynN.—And now it is proposed to cut up the Onondaga giant, to sce what Is inhim. There is argu- ment for it, too, If he was a man and a brother we ought to know how he came by his death before he is buried ia sonia museum of human wonders, If he is. dead body he is a case for the coroners, and, more than that, there isa fee in him, Until it is known that he is not a dead body it must be assumed that he is, and the coroner must act accordingly, It is only a trifling difficulty that he is beyond our county lines, Let there be an inquest, therefore, and let us know if the man who slew the giant did it in self-defence, Is vue Astati0 CHOLERA oN Its Marou Aqain?—It is reported that the cholera is raging with severity at the city of Kiev, in Russia, This city is on the Dnieper, one of the rivers of the Black Sea, up which In 1831-2 the Asiatic pestilence marched towards the Baltic, thence to the British islands, and thence across the Atlantic to Quebec and New York. Perhaps the dreaded monster of Hin- dostan may bo again progressing through Russia on a similar raid, If vigilontly watched, however, his march may be checked, present to the readers morning & synopsis of which transpired and notes of the financial and commercial transactions which were com- pleted in the Old World yesterday, as well as written details of the most exciting and Inte- resting occurrences which have taken place in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America at the latest postal dates, The exhibit, coupled with our American intelligence, constitutes « completo newspaper photograph, a variedly multiplied kaleidoscope of the grand polute of future history, Our pages record the graceful manner in which Queen Victoria exprossed her womanly, kind-hearted interest towards the late George Peabody in his invalid moments, and how #he honors his remains, and again relate the details of the fierce war battles and sloughter which have just taken place between the contending hosts of the native allies of Her Majesty on the coast of Africa, From the South Pacific, Brazil, the Spanish Antilles and British West India islands come detailed accounts of the progress of civil wars, market and mining reports and naval and army news, while from the Austrian capi- tal we have new and official despatches relative to the origin and Intent of the Dalmatian insurrection against the authority of the empire, England’s arrangements for the better government of hor vast Indian empire are given from Calcutta and Bombay, while her difficulties in adjusting the purely local question of land tenure in Ireland, at her very door, are told by the Irish and fully acknowledged by the British press, Dr. Livingstone speaks of his discoveries at the source of the Nile at the same moment when our reports inform us of the sudden event of a snow storm in Scot- land, which {inconvenienced even royalty, besides bringing suffering to the cabins of the peasantry. To Catholic devotees we tell of Rome, and to the great German Pan- slavism in our midst speak the last news from Berlin, All classes of our cosmopolitan com- munity—Cubans, Mexicans, West Indians, Britons, Celts, Teutons, Normans, Saxons and Africans—will find matter of instruction and interest in our news columns, just equally as our advertising pages represent their more immediate wants and wishes, So does tho world advance, and so does the HeraLp “mark time.” An frish Colony in Algoriu=Impoztant Moves ment of the French Government. By our late files of Cork newspapers we aro informed that on the 27th ult, the first batch of Irish emigrants to the French colony of Algeria were to leave Queenstown by one of the Cunard extra steamers, chartered for the purpose by the French government; that the emigrants get a free passage; that on the dyy before the sailing of the ship one huadred, male and female, were booked; that the steamer's destination is the port of Bona, some fifty miles from the place of settlement, and that a Catholic priest accompanied the expedition, This is a remarkable and somewhat im- portant movement, If followed up, as it appears to-day it will be, by France, it may result in teaching England a new lesson in colonization and how to diminish with profit to themselves and the State ihe redundant unemployed and starving classes of the popula- tion of her own cities, But why should Napo- leon go to Ireland for his emigrants? Because in the population of France there are very few families so far reduced that they can ‘be per- suaded, even under freo transportation, to try their fortunes in Algeria, though it is naturally a fine country. And here {s the best evidence of the good government of France under Louis Napoleon, compared with that of Ireland under England, and 0, from these Irish ship- ments to Algeria, the British government may read another profitable lesson, Dears or Mr, Rosrrr J, Warker.—This distinguished man died yesterday morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. Elsewhere in these columns we give a sketch of his pub- lic career. Among the mogt prominent events in his life are the part which to played in the Democratic National Convention of 1844 in shelving Martin Van Buren under the two- thirds rule and in securing the nomination of Polk, and his free trade or revenue tariff policy as Polk’s Secretary of the Treasury, estab- lished in the tariff of 1846. In his later years he was actively devoted to great enterprises in law or in speculation, such as the New Alma- den quicksilver mine litigation, Pacific railroads and the Alaska purchase, As a public man he belonged to the age before the flood, but in that age he figured in Congress and in the Cabi- net very conspicuously, His specialty was finance, and in this department, publicly and privately, his labors were crowned with remarkable success, He leaves a good inheri- tance to his children. Emraration Srystrrs.—Some of the petti- foggers who aro eager to make a noise before the small courts seem to be making a specialty just now of emigrant cases and giving peculiar attention to the Commissfonors of Emigration, The last case is one of virulent abuse of the Commission because it has commenced suit against some fellow for seducing a poor emi- grant gil, This Commission has done great good in affording just this and similar protec- tion for many years to otherwise friendless emigrants, aud is above the reach of the shysters, It is, mérecyer, one of our Com- missions that, in the overhauling expected this winter, should be remembered as ono peculiarly entitled to the respect of the demo- cratic party. A Goon Ipga From San Franotsoo,.—The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce makes a demand that the Chinese mission be raised to one of the first class—a thing that has been proposed before, but that now takes a definite form in the demand of the people more imme- diately and directly concerned in our relations with China, Our commerce grows on the Pacific as it seems to decay on the Atlantic. China promises to be of more account In our commercial future than half the countries of Europe at whose capitals wo havo missions of the first class, and it is high time that wo should recognize the changes in our forelgn elations that have hecome fixed facts. ee Grant. We have it reporied from Constantinople that the Empress Euginie, in a passing cone versation with the United States Minister there, Mr. Morria, said, “I have a great desire to visit tho Uulted States, and should rejolee to Mind a pretext for going there.” A pretext! We can give the Empress something better than a pretext, ia making {t an obliga- tion on her part to come. Let General Grant, for Instance, in bis own name and in the name of Mrs. Grant and all the ladies of the Union, and all the people thereof, authorize Mr. } doubtless she will avail herself of the oppor- tunity for the trip. A similar invitation to Queen Victoria might result fa bringing both these exalted and excellent women over, and in the same ebip, provided that, meantime, heads and privces, with our modern facilities of raitroads, steamships and telegraphs, are beglas ning to extend their travels in all quarters of tho globe ; and the most charming cosmopolitan and popular of all these royal travellers is the Empress Engénle, We are sure that her wish to visit the United States may be gratified by some arrangement emanating from General Grant, and we are quite as sure that a visit from her, as the representative of Napoleon, won'd bind still closer the friendly relations now existing between the two countries, Spanish Officials Exceedingly Civil. We have heard a great deal of the marked civilities, attentions, fine dinners and other courtesies and hospitalities of the Spanish Minister at Washlagton to members of General Grant's Cabinet, and especially to Secretary Boutwell, Attorney General Hoar and Mr. Fish, not forgetting the extraordinary civilities to Senator Sumner; but the attention paid to General Sickles by the President of the Cortes at Madrid is more remarkable than all. Presi- dent Rivero left his chair in the Cortes and made a special visit to the American Minister, who was sitting in the diplomatic gallery, Tho secret of ail this, apart from the natural polite- ness of Spanish gentlemen, is that the Cuban question begins to assume great importance, The activity of the Spanish agents here and the desperately labored efforls of the press under Spanish influence show that a crisis is apprehended, The impression is strong, and there is reason for it, that the United States will soon take decisive action with regard to Cuba, Will the Spanish government under these clrcumstances lend a more willing ear to the friendly offer of the United States for the independence of Cuba? Or does it expect to huthbug our Minister and government by an unusual display of courtesy ? it is a curious fact in connection with these special attentions that the Massachusetts members of the Cabinet, the Massachusetts Senator and Massachusetts mon generally are singled out for the smiles and entertainments of the Spanish representative here, Generel Butler, however, is not to be caught in that way, and, we think, will turn the tables on the other Massachusetis men when the Cuban question comes before Con- gress, It is evident, as was said, that 9 crisis is approaching in Cuban affuirs, and we may expect to see some interesting developments, As Impvtation.—Some time ago a brick was thrown in the Bowery and broke a jewel- ler’s window, It was surmised at the time that the brick was aimed at the window of a dry goods dealer next the jeweller’s, as that dealer persisted in keeping his shop open ia defiance of the early closing movement, Not to lose a chance for want of trying the jewel- ler has just sent his bill to the Early Closing Association, and said association has indig- nantly “torn it to smitches” to express its opinion of the jeweller, Doas.—It has just been decided In court that a man who keeps a savage dog, even in an enclosure of his own premises and for pro- tection against thieves, keeps him at his peril, and must pay damages where harm is done, It is his negligence if another than a bw glar is torn by his private wild beast. Such a decision is likely to have a good effect, as there is just now a disposition to cultivate gigantic and savage dogs, THE ARON SOGETY, After listening to the Arion concert at Steinway Hall last evening it 1s not too much to say that by one bold and successful grasp the Arion Vocal Society have placed themselves along the Philhar- monic ‘a8 the latter's most honorabie rival. Space forbids to enter into any detatia of the several per- formances, and, in fact, where all were excel- lent, it would bo invidious to distinguish, The programme was gbove reproach, and its character betokened a high Apprectation classical musio and of the the fen of, ME. Willan Cantus, the ‘ins, the ‘bartonc, see nor, erie, ‘and the Arion cl with 1t6 tm- mense volam tbe ‘adem 5] did it well, and but few equalied, but none dry With ties ay n Society took a new di the dha My enter with zest and Se Ta Caer ens att one enoeees tal branc! HBF i 4 8 ozere elt 52 5g fi aes - rH the Arion introduced to pane for the rat trond, Wee sho exhibit great po strong, yel eens a whil ph f ressiveness warbies pe faewes on nemesis honor under their aus} an ormances the public. The orchestral perf ductor, thay Mae cat blenee juctor, ot ampled success his labors have for the society over which musical duper, yaar INTELLIGENGE. WAsutneTon, Nov. 11, 1809, The following changes in stations and duties of Ofiicers of the Medical Department of the army have been made:— ‘Assistant Surgeons W. 8. Trematn, relieved from duty m tho Department of the Sema Oca and it La the Peay oO. 8 orderea to the Departmen mo ae 0. 8 H F ie : i i i i z Horton, report to the General; 8. W, aud oraered i to re itary xcafony = aus ered n tene Departinent of R. Seelam tary Distr y lieving Tl Be Drowsy ork, wine from Fol Port Nugara @ Department NAVAL INTELLIGEHZE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 1809, Lieutenant Commander Francis M. Bruce is or- dered to the command of the Nataské., Lieutenant Edwin White 13 ordered to Washington for promo- tion; Master William H. Webb, ordered to the naval station at Mound City; Ensign wheodore T. Wood, ordered to the Benicia; jansigh Jorome B, et ore dered to the Swatara; Passed Assi Charles H. White, ordered to oy aul Boston Navy Yard. ‘Tho ordora of P aya Bradford to Mare Island, fornia, vokea, ve gen fee