The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY bck ANN SvREUT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPER IBTOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. DAILY Four vy day tn the year, cents subgeription price BIR. ye core ev ary evening. VIL, THE street. — Hanon treo — Tue enue and th ave EAN 0 rae Hour. AL 2K 2 Doursete ACADEM nee at IX Lisva, 124th atm BIKE Ut. ENPLL AND THE Broo klya,— TON Couto Vooat- aL—BRYANIs' MinuraDa— SAN Pian Mis6 NEW YO) ASD GYM? ton st SOME, street. I GL? Broalway.— LADIE Broadway. M OF rer eal 61835 TRIPL Bs Si Nevenuer 13, SET. 1869. We wie vain constrained to ask a hand in their advert isements at as early an hou compel capable how, to put our forms ¢ usual, and to fu o'clock £ war ship will convey remaios to Awerica, The Duchess of the tdea of her so. becoming King of ‘i baidt ts ill, M. Ledru Rollin refuses to r Paris, but will sur the Legislature. ‘The Bishop of 0 tion to im menical € ment in N By mail w Murope in amp’ telegr Loudon, is Inten- ‘ to tne decisions of the Ecu Ne abolition of capital punish. y is agitated, 1 correspondence from te Getall of our cabie Telegrams from London, of yestertay’s date, state that a great bed of reck Bees ta the Suez Canal wilt be “blasted ont imine work of Gredgiug. convoy at the France js determined to run th ‘The English underwriters “mostly vessels bound through the canal." decline to tnanre Caba, Captain © on Sune Skirmisie: Ye Rodas 18 expe yur of inspection, 1 flavana ‘um rous Miseclianceas, The steamer Albany, whicu recently, it ts stated, was not possession of mana bay, Out stu to relieve ‘one of the vessels in the Gulf squadron. The Dicta. tor, Swatara and Naniui ket have also sailed to rein- force the fleet in West Indian waters, and tue Miantovouoh and Severn will soon follow, Nego- tiations tor the purchase of Samana bay are tn pro- gress, but notuing like taxing posseaston of it can be done until tie Senate acis in the matier, ‘The Cudan Junta are indignant at Captain Higgins, of the Hornet, and athough they are ficting out another vessel tt is not probable that he will be placed in command of it. It 13 sai that a schooner laden With coal was sent out from a port in Forida to supply the Horpet and was searching two daya for thai yrssel at the time she ran into Wilmington. The Hornet was carrying specie to pay the oficers and seamen In Cuba at iho time of ber capture, and she is said to have cost the Junta $209,000, The new legal tender votes, as well as the new fractional currency, are said to be very defective as to workinazship, design and quality of paper, The contract for them was made under Secretary Mc- Culloch’s regine, and the printing and designing fre the work of the bank note companies, The Trea- sury Officials are not responsible for anything con- nected with them except the sealing. Boil the bank note companies have notified the Treasury Depart. ment that they cannot furnish any fractional cur- renoy to-day. There wero rumors of @ financtal panic in Boston Yesterday, but they were without foundation, The reunton of the Old and New Schools of the Presbyterian Churct was fally consummated at the meeting of the Assembites In Pitsburg yesterday, Great satisfaction at Us reault fs manifested by the sailed from this port Preehyterians everywhere, aud the Church has re. | | soived as a thank offering to raise $6,000,000 for mis. | VO! ng of the United | glonary purposes. Tho first oe. Assembly will be held in Philadelphia on the thud ‘Tonrsday of May, 1870. ‘The California press 18 discussing the @ convention for aliering (ic cousticut Bites onestion of frel, the lead ©, cmstod im tie army recontiv and was pent to ort Scott, Nevada, from which jost be, Walk three others, Ceseried, taking with (hea the bow aoluiais ta camp. Kcuors Wheaton i organizing & company of | relurm tv them, a of that | NEW ‘YORK HERALD, “SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, scouts in Arizona for the purpose of hunting Apache Indians. At Prescott, Arizona, flour {3 thirty-six dollars per barrel, gold; butter two dollars per pound, and egys sixtcen cents cach, Several Cheyenne chiefs are endeavoring to stir up their tribes to another war against the whites in the spring. The Arapahoe Indians, who are living peaceably on thelr reservation near Fort Sil, oppose the schemes of the Cheyenne warriors. ‘A barn tn Palmyra, Me., contaiing a large quan- tity of hay, sixteen head of cattle; two horses and twenty ep, was, with ail its contents, destroyed vy fire Thursday night, Geo W. Chapman, of Saratoga, has been appointed Canal Commissioner by Governor Hoft- man, to fll the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Oliver Bascom, jouer Pilot was wrecked off Star Island, on schusetls coast on Tuesday, owlug to a by which the captain was deceived lato ihe lighthouse was along way cif when it ans thinking was very The Cit ‘d, Deputy Collector of the Bonded ch of the Custom House, has beeu dutysby Collector Grinueli, pending on into the drawback frauds, Mr, mspended an exe Broome empore. A wan calling himself Join Crawford was ar- rested In this cliy on Thursday wight by the Sheri? of Chatauqua county, who declared him to be Luke Eagan, the burglar, who robved a store tm that connty some time ago and for whom a reward of $1,000 was offered. Superintendent Kenvedy ordered the herit to hurry away with him tor fear of a habeas corpus, which the Sherif did, and now severai de- tectives allege that the prisoner was not Luke Eagaa at all, The skoletons of two children were found in the flue of the tenement house No, 162 Wast Twenty- eighth street yesterday, No one itving in the hor seemed to know anything about them except to have remarked sometime ago a very disagreeable stencu which they wera unable to locate. The matter is another mystery, ‘The sidewn! will leave plei w Or mship De Soto, Captala Morton, North river at three P. M, to-dij ship George Washington, Captain r, Wilt sail from pier No, 9 North river at three ¥, M, to-day (or New Orleans for eston, river at three I’, via Key West, will leave pier 20 E st M, to-day. Ala me) Captala Lineburner, closing finally Promincat alsin the City, jovernor Willlam Br of Mino! Busieed, of Alabama; H. Sib'ey, of Ro Keep and £. B, Phillipa, of Chicago, 4 jaa Hotel, eral J, fones, of Morristown; Professor A. 7. Diedsoe, of Baltimore, and Pr. J. D. Logan, of Phila- deiphta, are at the New York Hotel, 1, Pullman, of Chicago; Homer eld, and Dr. D. BE. Craig, of Ph are at tne Brevoort iouse, eral A, I. Meger, of the United Stites Army, and body, of Warrenburg, are at the Glenham e at the St midur, del ptua, Hotel. » Mattoon; ot Oawhgos Colonel L. Scott, of Erie; Bemus, of Right Rey. Ark.; Right R Tonn., are at Sweeny’s Hotel. Major C Weathertree, of Saratoga; George man, of Cincinnatl, and Professor J, Case, of the St, Charles Hotel. A. M, While, of Chicago; J. 8. Worden, of the United States Army, and Dr. O, M. Shelewt, of Wash- ingtonyare at ihe Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. Jonn. J. Kane, Caiholic pastor of Harper's Ferry, Va,, {8 in Brooklyn, and 1s stoy parochial residence of the parish of & Chicago, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Little Rock, vy. Dr. Feehan, Uishop of Nashvtlie, has been appointed Deputy Collector pro | log ais national circulation, the control of all the money in the country, the enormous profits of forty or fifty millions a year on their cur- rency, and the vast power all this would give them over the government, politics and mate- rial interests of the republic, That is what this givantie and dangerous monopoly is aim- ing at. It will have, undoubtedly, a powerful influence in Congress, for two-thirds of the members, probably, are interested directly or indirvet'y in the national banking institutions, There is the greatest necessity, therefore, that public opinion should be aroused to the threat- ened evil, The people should demand that the legal tender currency be not reduced and © elveulation and power of the national not increased. Indeed, the national ht to be withdrawn and din its place. The West and swellas the East and North, might banks as they chose—that if and loans, and for com- asovanRaees which is the ‘only usiness of banking, all using at » Ume the currency of the government and people for cirentation, The government would then get the benefit of a national circu- lation the profits of which are enormous ; the vople would have a uniform currency, per- ly sofo and steady, and a monstrous and sepeprons monopoly would be shorn of its ° seta is to bo disturbed or the only rational viow to he only view in accord- ‘al doctrine and the pub- ate Ms in Ilustration of Freach De- a ey and Sonapartism, By mail from Europe we have already had, and published, reports of the inception and inaturing of the political movement of the Freach radicals or “reds” towards their intended demonstration in Paris on the 26th of October, with accounts of the preparations which were made by the Bonaparte Executive for the maintenance of order and preservation of the elective dynasty against the democratic aspiration for an extension of orm to a point which may involved a too sudden change. We in this connection the summoning of the ‘als to Compidtgne; the assignment of a nd of ten thousand troops to each i of them; the concentration of nd soldiers in the fortresses out- side the city; the placing of ten pieces of can- non in the Palace of Industry, and the arrival of the Emperor in the city during the after- noon of the same day so as to take personal command of the entire force if necessary. aders are aware of the manner in which ation terminated, the silert, moral force of the people remaining unevolved for the present and the material solid power of the government unused. To-day we have a special letter from Paris in detail of an interview which has just taken place between s HeERatp correspondent and M. Raspail, the distinguishod French legisla- tor and talented, far-seeing democrat, during w the latter furuished a viva voce illustra- tion of the actual situation in France; what the people and their leaders have suffered; what they require and demand; their actual power for its ultimate attainment, as well as the many causes—asocial, political and religious—which are gradually under- mining it, in bis opinion, under the present Rasy noted city con one of f oighty th Prominent Departnre: E. i. Sawyer, for East}Hampton; F. K. Lothrop, for Boston; E. Margueze, for Boston; C. 0, Chaifor, for Springfeld; Dr. J. C. McKee, for Fort Wads- worth; G. A. Shaw, for Boston, and George D. Sted- man, for Cincinnati. The Currency Question aud Congress In view of the movemeuts in the West and South, and the probable pressure that will be mad» upon Congress to increase the currency in the soctions of the country the question what can be done ia the matier, and what, probably, wiil be the action of Conzress? Thea, again, is this an under- hond movement of the national banks to increase the voluine of their vulation and power, and with a view to push out of exist- ence ultir ney? No doubt there ly arises, cine has far more than its due proportioa, ¢ atively as many as it ought and the South has compa: to ha ively very few, ime of tho ‘tone man” government. M. Raspail, as is already known to most people, from his character, or may be collected from The Cowing Charter Election. The political caldron is atillin a high state of ebullition. No sooner has one portion of the ingredients and elements which go to make up the “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” of a politi- cal campaign been worked off than fresh spirits spring up that require all the potent arts and spells of the ring to provide for with the fat offices which, by a pleasant delusion, are sup- posed to be ‘‘within the gift of the people,” but with the actual disposition of which they have as much to do as the inhabitants of Tim- buctoo, The result of the State and county elections has given Tammany complete control of all the offices falling within the election to be held on the first Tuesday in December next, and as the chief slatemaker ‘‘wills” so shall the result in the coming election be. In the absence of any party contest for the offices to be filled, and as the Tammany nominees will have a quiet walk over the course, Peter Bismarck Sweeney can afford, in the elation of unexpected success and in the magnanimity natural to the leader of a triumphant party, to be just to the people in the selection of his nom- inees, The people do not expect and will not ask much in the selection of the representa- tives of Tammany in that co-ordinate branch of the city government yclept the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. Use has made us so familiar with the organization of these bodies and the manner of voting for them, and this familiarity has bred such con- tempt, that very little thought is given to the coming charter election, which is to give us two fresh boards, especially as more than three-fourths of the present worthies are suro to be renominated and engineered back into their old places, The coming election, notwithstanding that it is thus encumbered with a deadweight, has other interests depending on the result that enhance it in the estimation of the citizens, The whole magisterial fore of the city is to be re-elected—nine civil justices and nine police magistrates. In a city stocked with lawyers as is New York, the great majority of whom are young, given to politics, and therefore ambitious for place, there can be no lack of the right calibre of men for the Tam- many Regency to select from to place on the magisterial bench—no need to look to the train bands of the party for candidates—to the the present moment seeking the office belong, and who can only be inspired thereto not by any possible consciousness of their fitness for the office, but as they deem themselves fitting instruments to do the behests of the party who may put them in power, and which they count upon as all-sufficient recommendation. Tammany has wisely concluded to renomi- nate several of the present incumbents on the Civil and Police Justice benches, and has thereby given an assurance of its desire to leave the right men in the right places. In the vacancies to be filled let it do likewise, and assurance becomes ‘‘doubly sure.” Besides the class of candidates referred to—members of the train band of politicians—there are a host of worthy and professionally qualified and experienced aspirants for these offices, and Mr. Sweeny can have no trouble in adding to the list of worthies to be retained on the magiste- rial bench by selecting from these candidates successors to those present incumbents whose places which know them to-day will know them no more forever after the close of the present year. The nominations will be decided on in a day or two, and we trust that they may be such as will give the fullest satisfaction to his present remarks if not, is sincere in his convictions and fearless in their vindication. He stands out in pleasing contrast to such personages as MM. Rochefort, Ledra Rollin and Louis Blanc. Of his plan of radical cure— or idée, as Napoleon the Great termed it—oach reador of the Hxraxp will form an independent opivion, the special communication furnishing ample food for serious reflection in the minds of the really enfranchised millions dwelling on eof the A‘lanti jon of this letter in New York y affords fresh attestation of the hourly power and influence of the indopend- ent American press in foreign countries, the ogite oe oh took place between our repre- tive and M. Raspail oa the subject of the i aud goveromontal systems of France rerely, a8 may be said, a continuation which others of our correspondents have lately had on the subject of the affairs of The distrivuli banks went tiouate, en the national rt , Was not propor- because rn and Northern | capitalisis and po! zu | in Congr the larges become far greater since, through the progress of the West and through the restoration and | dev elopme mt of the South, Thore is, then, a for the readjustinent of banka and ughout the country, How sall the number of banks | the national bank currency expanded p Oc shall the nam- ber of the: ons bo reduced in the East and North and the same number be given tothe West and South? There is no necessity, however, for increas- ing the total amount of national bank ox rency. An equitable dis ribution of this | should be made, so far as the nox 28 sion or circulation of it by the banks if necessary, the whole number of banking | instiiutions may be increased, provided a por- tion of currency be taken from existing banks for the new ones that may be organized, But this, if we mistake not, is not what the agi- tators for more currency and tho national | bank monopolists are aiming at. It is an adroit scheme, probably, to increase the total of the national bank circulation, with the view of superseding ultimately the greenback or | legal tender currency. Of course this object } will not be avowed by many for fear of alurm- | ing the public at the grasping tendency and | enormous power of the national banks, But and over share, But the disproportion has | ic this to be do be increased if the banks should succeed in enlarging the | of their circ: raise the ery of a redun on soon ant currency, ia or total with- after Germany and Italy with Count Bismarck in | Berlin and General Count Meaabrea in Fio- Thus s do we progress. rence, Counterfeitingj]Seleuce Applied to Raguery, The officials of the Internal Revenue Depart- ment state that the counterfeit tobacco stamps are the best stamps issued, Three thousand of these works of art have already been set afloat without detection, and no doubt the gov- eroment haa been defrauded just to this extent. It is curious that while we are boasting of all the good which the wonderful advance towards perfection in science and art has done for the good of mankind in our day the rogues should employ the same agencies for the most vicious purposes, The balance between evil and good in this world is very fine and evonly held. Science, like a two-edged sword, appears to cut both ways. It has raised to the highest standard our railroads and telegraphs, and has perfected our astronomical knowledge so that it has brought the appearance of comets, earth- quakes and eclipses within the limit of arith- metical calculation, So many years, so many days, so many hours, so many seconds, wecan set down with unerring accuracy as the time when the sun or moon shall be overshadowed | or when comets chall run their fiery course through the heavens. Science, too, applied to art, has made us masters of photography, with its thousand delicate applications of chemistry. But this same science has taught criminals in all ages to manufactare the subtlest poisons, to be used for deadly purposes, and so it has to-day supplied the counterfeiter with the power to success and to become All this, of course, does not militate against . They would rally | yment theo- 1d malo a combined | the rks out of tof roturn- | that the national expoct to Phey suaply wapl the No its or anks want specie pay ) the highest state of perfection, science and art nor farnish any reason why we should not persevere in bringing both to | Lt only shows that the highest agencies can sometimes be 1 for evil sos. Jt shows also the ily of some vigorous legislative action on the part of Coi better means of repressing the skilful opera~ tions of ihe counterfeiiers, emp’ actise his nefarious business with | a scourge upon society, | 88 to provide some | the citizens, who have a deep interest in an impartial and unpartisan administration of ju s- tica in our civil and criminal courts. Cardinal Cullen on Secret Societies—Demo- cracy in Ireland. His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin bas issued a pastoral letter on the sub- ject of secret societies and the existing preva- lence of affiliated associations with members known to each other by signs or passwords in Ireland. The prelate is adverse to such asso- ciations and exhorts members of all bodies “similar to the Fenian organization” to abandon them, Towards the conclusion he adverts to the “evils sustained by Spain and Italy through the action of secret societies, and says the members of such organizations will incur the penalty of excommunication and cannot parti- cipate in the jubilee which has just been pub- lished.” Cardinal Cullen is the accepted personifica- tion of British Catholic prelatism as opposod fo the progress of democracy in the United Kingdom, He is talented, able, persistent and ultramontane to the core, His present expression conveys the hereditary hierarchical anathema which the Catholic bishops of Ire- land have launched ineffectually year after year against the “White Boys,” the ‘Hearts of Oak,” the ‘Terry Alts,” the ‘Peep o’ Day Boys,” the ‘Molly Maguires” and the other Trish agrarian combinations which have pre- ceded and heralded tho one extensive politico- military land reform body which he treats so cautiously in the words, ‘‘societies similar to the Fenian organization”’—a sentence which seems to imply that his pastoral has no particular reference to its members or asso- ciates, Inthis his Eminence has been, as it seems, as usual, prudent, for thosa Irish “Reds,” whoever they may be, appear to be the only Irishmen in Ireland who ‘are inclined to walk independently away from the leading strings of Mother Church. They apparently care very little abont a jubilee, unless, indeed, it be in the shape of a ‘‘jubiloo” to be observed with bread and cheese, plain and honest leases of land, fair rents, compensation for improve- ments, a clean shirt and ‘‘pantaloons without holes in them,” according to the idea of Sydney Smith, Cardinal Cullen is not a whit more fortunate in his reference to the present condi- tion of Italy and Spain; for in what other countries in the world—with the exception, perhaps, of Ireland—have the Catholic clergy | had such complete control of the mind and purpose of the people for centuries, or where have they allied themselves more deter- | minedly with monarchism against citizen | freedom and popular rights? We have chron- | icled the history, and know the result, path of moderate reform in Spain and Italy The crozier swept away the “humble pe tions” of the struggling democracy, while gregated mitres and rows of lawn hid the rags | and miseries aud wants of the peoplos from the | eyos of the rulers, Such exglusign and wrong con- class to which a portion of those who aro at | Stern, uobendivg churchmen have stood in the | were borne patiently for many a century, but the “spirit of liberty” never had rest until both Tlalians and Spaniards, having recourse to that ultina ratio of oppressed humanity—the sword—seized it with vigor and swept away the barriers of ecclesiasm. The civilized world has applauded the manhood of both Italy and Spain, and it is not therefore likely to censure the more moderate, respectful, yet firm advance of the Irish towards self-govern- ment at the bidding of Cardinal Cullen. Tom Moore may have been pootically prophetic when he anticipated that ‘the shamrock of Erin” would yet be “entwined with the olive of Spain” in a “garland” of European liberty. The Empress of Fennce Takes Leave of the Sultan, By special correspondence from Turkey, published to-day, wo have a complete report of the coucluding fetes observed in honor of the visit of the Empress of France to the Sultan and people of that country, as well asan affecting account of the parting scene which took place between the imperial per- sonages at the moment when his Majesty bade her farewell on board the royal French yacht as it was commencing to steam away from the Bosphorus. As the Sultan retirel “ihe eyes of the Empress were,” says the writer, “filled with tears.” This emotion was quite natural and beautiful, the tears precious beyond price, to Europe and to Asia—to the civilization of fho world. In such eyes and under’ such peculiar circumstances they effaced the remem- brances of eight crusades and obliterated the sword marks of the Count of Toulouse, Godfrey de Bouillon, Brian Bois de Guilbert, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Edward Plantagenet, and the Sultans Saladin and Boudocdar and the rest, The exclamation of the modern peoples with respect to the great event will be just the same, but in a still more Christian accepta- tion, as was the cry in the days of Peter the Hermit or in the Papal Council at Clermont, in the words, “God wills it!” “God wills it!” The Philharmonic Society. No more signal proof of the growing taste in New York for music can bo afforded than by tho fact that within two years, under the presideacy of Dr, Doremus, so much life and vigor hag been infused into the Philharmonic Society as to have made its rehearsals and concerts at the Academy equally fashionable and popular. The eagerness with which the boxes were secured last Saturday has been wrongly attributed to the “‘speculators,” while in reality every possible precaution was taken to prevent their monopolizing the opportu- nities offered to all. The plan for disposing of the boxes was adopted after mature delibera- tion, and the complaints which have been ignorantly, if not maliciously, made on this head are altogether unfounded. There are but ninety-seven boxes in the house, and afew proscenium boxes still remain unsold, while about two thousand seats are always open to the public. The success of the last winter eniertainments was so decided that there was no necessity to distribute hundreds of complimentary tickets, according to the practice of former years, and it was ‘‘a paying audience” which filled the Academy yesterday afternoon at the opening of the twenty-eighth season. The programme consisted of ‘‘Sym- phony, Eb.,” Mozart; Aria, Voi che Suapete, from Mozart; Nozze di Figaro, with orches- tral accompaniment; ‘Midsummer Night's Dream,” Mendelssohn ; Lied, Hrikoenig, Schu- bert, with piano accompaniment, and overture, “Oberon,” Weber. Madame Charles Moulton very kindly consented to postpone her return to Paris in order to assist on this occasion, The fine quality of her sympathetic voice was shown to advantage in the aria from the Nozze di Figaro, although she ventured to embellish. it with florituri’, which classical music does not require. In the Zrlkoenig she interpreted admirably both Goethe's poetry and Schubert's music, and Mr. Mills played the piano accompaniment in his usual exqui- site style. Unquestionably the six concerts and eighteen public rehearsals to be presented this season with such a complete and powerful orchestra, comprising one hundred mem- bers, will afford to professional and amateur musicians a privilege unobtainable in any other city in this country or in Europe. New York may well be proud of her Philharmonic Society. Death of Amos Kendall, We have to record the death at Washington yesterday morning of Amos Kendall, in the eightieth year of his age—a contemporary of Jackson, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Buchanan, Benton, Walker and all that school of the political leaders and orators of thirty and forty years ago, nearly all of whom have passed away. In another part of this paper we give a sketch of the public career of Mr. Kendall, As a devoted admirer of General Jackson and his administration Mr, Kendall first came prominently before the country, and his whole political life may be summed up in his admira- tion of and devotion to ‘Old Hickory.” For the last twenty odd years he was lost to the polilicians in his business engagements in the electric telegraph, as the representative of the interests of Professor Morse, the inventor. Like Walker, Kendall's political record belongs to an age that is gone, and, like Walker, but even more successfully, his later years, devoted to practical business affairs, have been crowned with success. Pierce, Stewart, Wool, Pea- body, Walker and Kendall—thus the old land- marks are disappearing; but such is the order of nature, and to all of us it is only a question of a few years more or less, The Last Railroad Disaster~No Mystery, The Iatest accident in our vicinity was on the Harlem Railroad on Thursday, just at the junction of that road with the New Haven, The nsnal result has to be recorded. The loco- motive tumbled over into a ditch, and the fire- man was killed under the ponderous weight of iron, Cars were more or less smashed up, and the engineer was severely, possibly fatally, crushed, There is generally some obscurity as to where the blame lies when disasters of this kind oceur, Coroners’ juries are often puzzled to find out who is the responsible party, and especially puzzled to discover how far the | railroad company can ho decently exonerated, This tery he * is anexception, There is no mys- re. The switchman left the switch open, | and, of course, according to the order of events, the locomotive, tender, baggage cars and smok- ing car went over that convenient embankment which seems, by a rale of fate, always to ba on hand when railroad cars are thrown off the track, The switchman is, therefore, directly responsible for this calamity; but who is responsible for keeping such a switchman in the employ of a railroad upon which thou- sands of lives are daily put in jeopardy? We should think the company and the super- intendent ought to share the responsibility, and we suggest this point to tho jury of inquest, The Ecamenical Council View. Why should not Pio Nono have had an eye to business in deciding to hold »n Ecumenical Council at Rome? A temporal as well as a spiritual sovereign, why should he not thus secure for a city which is at onco the enp!tal of the States of the Church and of Christen- dom the recognized advantages which other Eurdpean sovereigns have gladly secured for their respective capitals by such ‘world exhibi- tions” ag those of London and Paris? Napoleon the Third has in fact spared no pains to make the capital of the French empire the seat of a permanent “world exhibition,” which attracts an unbroken succession of visitors from all parts of the earth. Each visitor contributes to the wealth indispensable for maintaining and increasing the splendors of the great French metropolis, Rome also, with its classical and artistic as well as ecclesiastical associations, offers a per- manent ‘world exhibition.” And tho Eou- menical Council will multiply indefinitely the number of the faithful, of tho heretical and of the heathen who freely avail themselves of the hospitalities which the Eternal City extends to allthe children of men. Tt will be the occasion of a vast gathering, not only of ecclesiastica of every degree, but of lay visitors from every country under heaven, The aggregate sum which will then be brought to Rome will far exceed any collection of ‘Peter's pence” which has hitherto been made. The Papal coffers will be filled to overflowing by the gifts con- tained in the huge specie snuff boxes, richly ornamented treasure chests and cathedral “savings banks" carried to the Toly Father by Archbishop McCloskey and other prelates of North and South Ameri- ea, of Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceanica and the islands of the Pacific. Each of these pastors will doubtless be accompanied in his pilgrim- age to the Holy City by not a few of his flock, all bearing a heavy golden fleece. Curiosity will, moreover, attract thither many Protestants, whose well filled purses will not be disdained by decayed nobles, who let fur- nished lodgings in their splendid ancestral palaces, and with sham reluctance sell at the highest possible figure, as works of “‘old mas- ters,” the inexhaustible rubbish of their galle- ries and garrets; or by polyglottal cicerones, extortionate porters, and dealers in the wool- lens, silks, velvets, hats, gloves, stockings, leather, glue, glass bottles, liquora, pomado, artificlal flowers, photographs, copies of pic- tures and statues, mosaics, and all sorts of articles of bijouterie and virtu—or, as Mra, Malaprop might say, “bigotry and virtue”— which chiefly constitute the various but not extensive manufactures of Rome. That other nations are not indifferent to the fine opportu- nity afforded by the Ecumenical Council for displaying and recommending to the world their own manufactures is shown by the enter- prise which we have already noted on the part of the Protestant King of Prussia in presenting to the Pope a splendid new carpot for the Vatican, By this first rate advertise- ment of the products of the Prussian loom the royal ‘‘drummer" has got the start of all com- petitors, English, Belgian and French, and all the Kidderminsters, Wiltons, Brussels, Tur- keys, three-plies and ingrains which may now be forwarded to Pio Nono can win only second, third and fourth medals and honorable mentions, not the first grand prize. The Pope has himself advertised a special exhibition of works of ecclesiastical art. And we are not surprised that in his wisdom tha Holy Father accepts the position which the Herarp, with all due reverence, indicated some time ago as being peculiarly his own— the position of custodian of the immenso museum which Rome itself is for all mankind. We need not enumerate its well known attrac- tions; but take it all in all, with its gates, obe- lisks, triumphal arches, columns, tombs, baths andcatacombs; the ruins of its ancient temples and theatres; its piazzas and fountains; the Tarpeian Rock, the Via Appia, the Via Sacra and the Corso; the Coliseum, the Forum and the Capitol; its palaces, galleries, librartes and bridges; tho Vatican; its one hundred and eighty-six convents; its three hundred and sixty-four churches, and St, Peter's “ooming high over all,” there is not another such a museum of antiquity and art in the world, and no Barnum can ever aspire to rival the Pope as a showman, Aside from other considerations, the grand exhibition which will be given at Rome on the occasion of the Ecumenical Council is interesting from a bust ness point of view. It will pay. Spais—Tuz Garrore, Pra now talks big, He has coolly informed the Cortes that Caimo and Suner had been tried for and convicted of treason, and that they had been condemned to suffer the death penalty. Bravo for Prim, but bad for his principles, If Prim had had his deserts from Isabella's standpoint his carotid artery would have been slit long ere this pre- sent. If the two deputies perish it will be bad for Prim, and it will not be good for Spain. Prim, however, is now master, and we wait to seo how the latest and most successful of filibusters comports himself. in a Bnsiness Te Pork aNp THE Counott,—The Pope has beou reading, as we know he does, the New York Herarp, So, too, have his advisers, the Ultramontanists, They have taken fright one and all, The Holy Father is not to be pro- claimed infallible, if there is serious objection. The dogma is not to be forced on the Council, The Josuits, so says the telegram, will have the dogma proclaimed if they can, Our liberak friends of the Catholic Church must take the hint and keep up tho fire, Le the Pope and bis friends will only take our advice they may yot make the Council a success. _ APPOWTMENT OF A CANAL COMMISS! Governor Homan has appointed Goorga W. Chap. man, of Saratoga, Canal Commismoner tm the place of Oliver Bascom, decoased, to hold oMlco till January 1, sth,