The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1869, Page 6

pipe a 6 NEW YORK HERALD ¥Y AND ANN STREET, BROL JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, deeeerenseweees No, 323 —_ = Volume ESNOON AND EVENING. AMUSEMENTS THIS A WALLAGK’S TUL Hoss. | Hasion | nue and BOOTH'S PUHATRE t OLYMPIC 7 . yor Hany | A itunt oad : FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Pitt avon 12th se | Broagway.—Li AND THE ath AnAN OPEKAM v.—Tak Lose SuntuNe— | BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF M —Tue Toseror: | Lrave ii | RS, F S PARK PUBATRE, Rrovilya.— Tuk Mage “. NEW YOR THRATRE ey, NEARO ALI BRYANTS Bt BRYASTS SAN FRANCIS: ) MINSTE YIAN Mi Rn NEW YORK AND GYM HOOLI RY'S MISSTRELG- T Kry ' | | DORE ALT UNION, 587 Broadway; Baa 1ON OF PAINTINGS. NEW 4 N OF ANATOMY, 613 Broalway.— LADIES’ NEW YORK MUS ns Brondway,—Fut Anes TRIPLE SHEET. ONLY LN A New Yor! Wedaesday, November 17, 1869, Europ Cable telegrams are datea Noverr The Ey joleon received | the new peigne. J friendly feeling of Prussia, the Emperor re; that lie wi 1 for “a good un Prussia ani the German Confeder between Prussia and France. The war Monorch will leave Portsn ins of the late ¢ om Prassia vo orge 1 she wil most pr yg joined by United States war ve 1 Freneh war ship ral feet. of Orleans, Ir: pe Moment in wh actatled 2 vot the Pope. Qneen Tau! is sald, fin abdicated the throne of Spain. French journuls regard the situation in spain as un- ola settlement. It 1s a ‘al prisoners of Spa tuba or be sof B 5 a po eCattaro {1 oster “faciltt the Ansported to the elim 18 expected In 3 vusivia . Pope Pius | * W Protestants to nesty. has pul the Nit make explau is “outside” the Comncll in Rome, Napoleon ts 11 Paris, to retain during the elections, our special cor- sting and im- portant detail of our cable tel 8 to the 6th of November. By cable telecram from we learn ¢ the fea} } preliminary to te 1g of (he Suc Canal commenced at Port Said yesterday, and of the v ant character which 1s 30 fully 1 Reformatory for | covk, 0} lo; O. Stagg, of San Francisco; Newbold, of Philadelphia, and d. A. Livingston, of Pennsyivania, are at the Metropol Hotel. Colonel », Calvin, of Nashy x ; Rev. Dr, | from | NEW YORK aoe s HERAL minent gentlomen in this city, for the ce'ebratton of { Maditecranoan will be a greater attraction than the centenary of Beethoven. . Judge Dowilng yosterday, in the C988 OF & stage- driver on Broadway cbarzo4 Jin refusing to give whe right >a passenger, suspended judg- ment ov he driver to tell all the other drivers that If they come before hin for anything of the kind he will send them to the Penitentiary for 1x months. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Wil- Mam Campbeil, a boy, was sent to the Cathoile presenting himself to be a detect tye and obtatoing from George Gaylor $700 by to jnform his employers that Ne (Gaylor) opriating postage stamps, was aclive as quiet at 127s a 127K. been # The stock ha and Prominent Asrivaly in the Olty. | ‘ey, of Boston, and A, L, Alcade, of l’orto >, ar ie Brevoort House, 5. D. Corbindale, of Ronaout, and W. Provid 8.8 M, Hunt, of Ch 4 v. M. Wiggins, ¢ tal Meade, of the United States Army; Wiliam Inman, of the) United states tharies A. Washburn, of Caufornia; Colonel arrard Jobn 1. Dawson, of mnsyivauti; eral i, S. Farnsworth, of the United States Ariuy, eat the St. Nicholas H at de Thury, of ris, and Andrew Low, British Consul at Savannah, are at the New York fiotel, A. H. Almy, of Nowwieh; A. M. Benticy, . tameadeil and G, of New Loudon, are at the Glenhan Attoruey General Judge Stanvery, of Ohio; Allen, of Mou- . H. Hunter, jlan Cousul to Philadelphia; T. ttorney General S, I. at the Hoffman House, aud W, House i. Ludiow, of Istip, orrison, of astoria; Lam- asyl- K, of Arizona; Le, wiey, of F son, of Sh vania, are at the Astor il ~—Tho New E: ora Question and the Balance of Power, Yesterday the Emperor Napoleon at Com- ce to Baron Wertber, the appointed Ambassador from Prussia, The interview, according to the telegraphic report which we print this morning, was agreeable. The Prussian government bad no higher wish than to be on good terms with France, nor had the government of France nny higher desire than to be on the best of terms with Prussia, Baron Werther of course spoke for Prussia, and Napoleon of course spoke for France. The language, which was plain and direct on both sides, revealed a good understanding. This, perhaps, is the best answer that can be given to the sensa- tional telegram of the 15th, which informed us of the proposed alliance of the three Powers— Russia, Austria and France, The absurdity of tue telegram was apparent on iis face, The Europeun situation at the present moment doos not admit of any such arrange- ment, That Prince Gortschakoi¥ may have made to General Fleury, the French Minister atSt. Petersburg, some proposal, we do not doubt: but that any sach proposal as that to which we have referred was made we must wait for proof to be convinced. Sneha pro- posal, not to speak of alliance, would be an insult to Great Britain, threatening to Prussia and to Turkey and humiliating to almost all ihe other Powers. . We cannot deny that Prussia has her purposes, that France has her trouble and that Austria has on hand more than she knows well how to accomplish. But how, by such an alliance, the general situation could be improved is a question which we know not how to answer. The irnth is, the Enropean question of the hour is one wholly different from that which the proposed alliance raises or implies. ion of the hour relates to the Bast, and points particu- larly to the Suez Canal, We cannot forget that the Empress Euginie has just parted Sultan, that she has been honored by no Weelern prince or 1 pitgne gave audie The real que: cess ever cated in ous special written correspondence from Haris pubiiene ye Cuba. | The Havana vol ra drew lots on Moniay to deckte w the relet of a | grarrisan Liars at Vuelta second battalton ¥ » honor. eilaneous. | The ac 108 lent Bace of a prop tion m tion be on abiic to the Untied States is ent, und it js p of St. Horning with rial govern oped within the United State lines, 1 h Territory, aad will apply to the Canadian ment for troops 10 6 rebels lion, ‘ihe Untied st will be niled: to for ner ratssion fo b troops through Weir Corruories to | Fort Garry. | Durlng the performances on Me | nuigit at the Galety theawe, Milwaukee, a ” lamp | plodea, ng fire to the builuy v0 Of | audience were burned tc hand sfteen or tw | were badly injur A nuwixr of perso | their lives by jumping from tho secoud stor, dows. Father MeMahon’s account of his trestinent wht imprisoned at Kingston, Canada, is denisd by the | au hor the Canauian and exeltes mach mdignation .swong ington to- in the Interior. The report that ) les will probably recalled from hit sition near the Spanish govern. | ment 18 witbout foundation, Aman named Sealy, sixty-nine years of ago, liv tng in South Boston, beat his wife's braing out on Monday night with an axe. His son,a young man of twenty-one, discovered him as he was giving the last blows to the wornan’s already Lifeless body, He was arrested and committed tor trial yesterday. The City Assistant Treasurer Folger entered upon his dutios At the Sub-Treasary yesterday. Tie work of count ing the funds ja the vaults is golns on, The Brookiyo canvassers hayo noariy concluded thelr canvass of the lale eloction, aad ie is now | probable that Walter, the repudlican can lide tor | Sheriff, will receive the certificate, oud make outa report to be einbodied anvael report of the secretary of the ‘The election retarns Inthe Province of Newfou 4 : land indicate Wie success Of the anti-confederauon | of new confederacies, of new candidat | ide, commerce, of politics, of a thse ae na Legislature yesterday ratified tie | gompte* change, in fact, of tho balance of tloonth umeddinent by @ auanimous yote in the “6 Medit | r, Tho Mediterranean } uf Senate and 67 yeas to 16 nays in the House. | power. Th Pat ites sing Bib Ia the Tenuesece Legisiature tho Houso has refused | canal, aided of (OTS by tho exinting railroad to ratily the tificenth amendment. and by multiplying telegraphic lines, is about The indian Peace Commission is to meet in Wash- | go acquire more than ic ancient importance, | | i ! nister 81 | of the Crown Priace of Prussia, of other | name, , offers, Great Britain will of course benofit by the he guest of Tt is cor- me for Russia to make to % proposal. Not, however, to sich us look at the ul of the Empress Hageénie to the hare raised by this Suez Ca Suez Canal, so long belfeved to be im- row on all hands admitted to be The saccets may not yet be com- a ccess is promised, the presence of the Emperor of Austria, | European magnates, but par arly of tho the The Suez Canal, | and Prenet: ent not only a great fact and wonder of pi the times, it ‘lation of a wondrous | change which has passed over the Moslem | Exst. It not the only revela- | tion of kind which We have had; but view tiewarly in rela lin allits relations, and par- mn to Kagénie’s visit to the Moslem Courts of Constantinople and of Cairo, i ndrons and the most sugges- » are compelled now to think of new 3 the and to bee ia con- cerned, the great seain rentity’ a8 well as fn ne, 80 far ag SOmmerce The northeast of Af Speke and Grant, of Burto“t and pné ; the fertile valleys of Hindostac’ the resources of Persia and of Arabia are all | tobe developed and mae available by the | multiplying means of transit which Egypt now a, u.rough the change, for she cannot have India too near | London, F @ will bonefit | for the Snez Canal is to a large intent own, and she bos growing interests in the Bastern seas, Tu , Greece, Lialy, Spain, Portagal will all en laden with goldep fleece will touch and nocos- j ment the law bas provided therefor, ever to Northera Powers. But tho prize ts so great that those who have it will keep it. If individual strength isnot enough the nations will comb'ne, and Great Briiain, Fravee, Spain, Portugal, Greeee, Turkey, with all the strength of Hindostan, Persia and of Arabia at their back, will form a confederacy which will monopolize the blessings of the Mediterranean, which will give Austria and Prussia their proper places and which will make it a neces- sity for Russia to remain north of the Can- casus and the Himalayas and accomplish her destiny in the development of the Northern races, OF all the men now living who watch the progress of events and seek to cateb fortune by the forelock there are few, if any, more sharp than the Emperor Napoleon, He sees the importance which the Bast is likely soon to acquire. He sees that Constantinople may and at no distant day become a great ce of power, if not absolutely all that Con- stantine, its founder, sought to make ft. He sees (hat Neypt may once more become the seat of empire. Above all, he sees that the Snoz Canal marks the commencement of a new era, and having a regard to the welfare of France, to the future of his dynasty, and par- tionlurly to the fortunes of his son, he has skil- fully made use of the occasion, His Empress, who has alroady made herself the favorite of the East, will be not only the queen of beauty, but the principal person present on tho occasion of the opening of the canal. The prominence which she will thus acquire will make her a powerin Murope. In the event of the Emperor's death occurring before the majority of the Princo Imperial, she being left Empress Regent, the dynasties will feel thom- selves bound to stand by her and to support her against the too probableintrigues of Prince Napoleon, Itis impossible to refuse to admit the » of the changes now taking n the East, and it is dificult not to French is not turning those changes, through the Empress, to the advantage of his family, and particularly of bis dynasty. Tho swif and the strong do not always win; but ia this case, and so far as tho Empress has been his iy e, the Emperor has a fair right to look forward to victory. representa Tie Drawback Frauds. The legal investigation into the extensive frauds alleged to have been perpetrated by certain Custom House officials, under the draw- back system, is being so far zealously prose- cuted. The District Attorney, Mr, Pierrepont, conducts the case on the part of the United States, and this fact in itself, predicating on Mr. Pierrepont’s zeal and his success hereto- fore in bringing defaulters against the govern- ment to grief, augurs well for a thorough and complete sifting and exposure of these ex- tensive and most nefurions frauds. Such a result, if there be guilt in the matier—and of that there can be uo doubt—is particularly desirable for two good and sufficient reasons— first, the unravelling of a system of fraud so intricate and complicated heretofore that the government can count its losses during the past few years it has been in operation by hundreds of thousands ; and second, that the parties implicated, all of them holding high positions in the customs here and in the Trea- sury Department at Washington, and their accomplices and abettors in the frauds of no less slanding in the communily, may all be brought to speedy and condign punishment. It is gratifying to know that the prosecution is endeavoring to bring all the facts of the case to light, that the rascalities of the paid officials are being unearthed, and the whole modus operands of the system 80 long prac- tised with impunity exposed. It will very much enhance the public gratifica- tion if they find that the absconding defauiters shall also be brought to justice and that every effort is being made for their arrest. There must be in this case no mere feint of a rigorous prosecution to deceive the people, followed by a gradual letting down and a final abandoument of all proceedings, as too often happened under the lato administration, when the most notorions violators of the Custom House, Post Office and Internal Revenue laws went unwhipped of justice. We have entered ona new era, when offences commitied by officials under the government sball be visited with the punishment due thereto, no matter how high or low the status of such officials may be. General Grant will permit no con- donements of crime and will discountenance ali half measures, either in the prosecution of offences or in the infliction of whatever punish- We hope to see all the facts connectec th these drawback frauds fully and completely brought to light, the frauds saddled upon tho tight laws satisfactorily vindicated meat of the parties and by the pun Never Espino, sur Srinn Bacisiso— The @ Railway suita. The latest is t of the company to recover from Commodore Vanderbilt five millions in checks and bonds against the company, which the company allege he objained through a frandulent com - bination and conspiracy with officers of the company in the matter of # gale to bim of fifty thousand shares of Erie stock. ask that Vanderbilt be restrained from selling these bonds; that he be required to deliver them up for cancellation or pay their value. The case, before Judge Barnard, on Monday | last, was adjourned over to Monday next, oa a motion in behalf of Vanderbilt fora jury trial, And so these litigations, we apprehend, will go on, to tho detriment of the stockhold- ers, the road and the public, until Congress | shall find it neceasary for the public protec- tion to pass some general law “regulating commerce between the States on all the rail- roads of the Union, the Union before long will bo in the condition of the little protectorate of Camden and Amboy. Tar Pur a AM of Re rresentatives of jected the’ NDMENT,—-The House asce yesterday re- fifieenth amendment, which would | raise a douby Of & complete ratification this winter but for the intelligedee that the Ala- bama Leyistature, by a “ety decisive vote, has just adopted the amendment, With a tittle eu. couragoment, therefore, to tho Sepublican States that have not yet ratified it, the amet part of the supreme law of the land. A word Preumiaary sieps were takon yosierdiy by pro- sarily gid (hiie coasts, Aa outlet to the | or iwo from Goueral Grant will fix it, International Racos-More Challeuges from Me. Asbury. In another column we giva a Istter of Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the English yacht Cam- bria, challenging Mr, James Gordoa Bennett, Jr., to a series ot yacht races, and with it the answer of Mr, Bennett. The challenges are as folloy Kacy No. 4—A race in the frst week of March, is7o, from Ryde round the Isle of Writ, Royal ‘Thames Vecnt Club measurement and ime allow- anee; no resuiction as to number of hands, can- vas he feuds; to start from our anchors all can- yag do RA , 2—A race trom Ryde round Cherbours Br v q@nd hack, Royal Thames Yacht Cluy mieasiremont and time allowance; no restiietion as ber of bands, canvas or Jriends; to start olg WEN goresatl and maiasall set. ~ALout tie 7th to the 16th of Marek a race from Cowes to New York; a iiying start, Lc sto tonnaga, tine ailowaiuces or resiric- of any desert. cas Nos. 4 AND 5—! * the usual of aad in ae t, ume ‘wo races in New York ie of the New York © with Choir mode of noes O¢ Other usual con- ditions. Mr, Ashbury’s challenges promiso to be- come famous in the annals of aquatic sport. Litherto, oo far as they are known on this side the Atlantic, they have been conspicuous by their barrenness in results, Whether this has been due to the apathy or timfdily of yacht- men generally or to some unfortunate pecu- liarity in the challenges themselves the per- sons most interested are best fitted to decide; but when a man issues a regular gamut of aquatic defiance and never finally comes to the trying of even a single point among all those he proposes to soitle, it must seem to the gene- ral public either that his points are trivial or that the universal voice of the yachting world is against the fairness of his terms. Ia the former challenges from this gentleman, of which our readers have heard a great deal, he proposed to contest the possession of the cup won by the America, and also in an ocean race the relative merits of the English and oan models for yachts. Neither polatis trivial, But the cup ia held on certain conditions, and when these are complied with its holders have no option—they must make arace. The failure to race, therefore, conld not be their fault, No race was made for the cup simply because Mr. Ashbury did not see fli to comply with the plain necessary condilions. Ia the proposed ocean trial Mr. Ashbury coupled his challenge with conditions that made a race impossible, and insisted on those conditions, so that he resolutely pre- venied the race he seemed to desire. His present chailenges have the same impraciical character, He knows by positive declarations frequently printed that the owner of the Dauntless will not make any but an ocean race in any case where the build and model of the vessels are such as to give the contest an inter- national charactor; that he will not expose such a contest to the accidents of eddies, cur- rents and pilotage, but will only wage it on the sea, where the chances are far more likely to be even and where it is possible to get a fair result of sailing power, endurance and of seaworthiness in every aspect. Although this The company | Otherwise every State in | has been distinctly stated to him, Mr. Ashbury stiil issues his cartel with a proposal for a race sandwiched between two or three little impos- sibilities. Why? Is it bocause he knows that it will not be accepted? Mr. Ashbury may not be quite satisfied with the position he was left in by his failure to make any race with all his former challenges, and he may desire now to improve that posi- tion. He at first issued several challenges, so separate in theiy character and intention that different parties were at liberty to take him up on ditterent poiats, The owner of the Dount- less accepted one of these, and Mr. Ashbury avoided this acceptance on the point of relative size, though he now says:—‘I am willing to set aside all techuical questions of mode of measurement as regards the principal race and accept as the Amorican chainpion your vessel the Dauntless in lieu of one of tho Cambria’s size, a8 required by me in my formal challenge to ali America in '68." He thus relinquishes the point on which he formerly refused to race; but he issues his series of challenges in a new relation, so that who takes one must take all, or refusing cer- iain oves must seem. to refuse the rest. To such a challenge Mr. Beanett has given the most proper reply in simply reiteratiag his esd to make the only race he ever pro- posed to enter. read Our Special Cerves: Vitor Bago at Home tn The special correspondence from Brussels which is published in our pages this morning will command a very universal attention not | alone in the wide territory of the United States, but in the several transatlantic dependencies of the diferent Powers of Europe. The writer | paints Victor Hugo in the Belgian capital, in | the midst of his family, enjoying the affection- ale attentions of his sons and their children, | the Hinstrions poet and novelist being just | engaged in preparing for a return trom the cily to his ocean-bound home. The great | writer accorded an immediate interview to | our representative, testifying at once by his condescension, at such a moment, his full | appreciation of the power of a free and inde- | pendent newspaper press, as well as present- (ing a most graceful acknowledgment of its | value ag an every-day instructor of the peoples ee from Helginn Brussels, | and a watehfal guardian of their liberties. It iy not necessary that we should here enumorate the different pointe of the communication which reporia the occasion, as it will be read atientively in its entirety by our great cosmo- polilan audience early and iwmediately, The simple yet elegant temporary residence of the | poet will, with (he plain and unaffected yet ; faithfal and warm-hearted manner in which be was served, bo remembered from our news- paper account of to-day by scholars and stu- | dents and the masses of the American people | and their children long after more lengihy and | elaborate effusions in post-olid memoriam, with the efforts of the sel/-constiluted critics of hia writings, have been forgotten, In dialogue form our correspondent talked poet, on thy subjects of (rade and manufac. | ture, carpets, laces and cloths. Politics even | werg discussed, M, I’. Hugo reflecting the gen- | timents of his father to 9 vory considerah extent, In this eapacily he sought for intor- | mation concerning the Fisnaup, ity vast efron. lation, management und so forth, which was freely necorded and the interaational intor- fit by it, for drzosies not in quest of tut | ment, before New Year's Day, may become a communion thus made more perfect, as in the instanced of our recent aceredi(ed special laterviow3 With Count Bismarck ia Bertin, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. General Count Menabrea in Florouce, the cau- tious representatives of the radical revolu- tionary land reform political party in Teeland and England, and still later, as we learn by the European mail yesterday, with the Catho- lie Archbishop Manning, of Westminster, England, on the subject of the Ecumenical Gouncil in Rome, the “Syllabus,” the pros- pects of the Church and the temporal power of the Pope. Such is the mission of a great newspaper, Thugs does the Hurarp discharge its duties, Certaia Glad Fegies of the Cabinet on tho Unban Question, A Washington correspondent has favored us with a report of the remarks said to have been made by one of General "Grant's Cabinet on the Cuban qnestion, and adds, by way of conclusion, that he had the best reason to know that the views expressed are held by at least two other members of the Cabinet. The first idea said to have come from this sapient Cabinet Minister is that the acquisition of Cuba by the United States would destroy our revenue derived from that island, which he states to be fifty or sixty millions a year. Tho ignorance displayed in this statement of reve- nue derived from the trade of Cuba is on a par with the whole argument, and shows plainly that this Cabinet Minister did not know what he was talking about, To derive a revenue of fifty or sixty millions a year implies a trade of several hundred millions, imports and exports, and would make the revenue from Cuban im- ports nearly equal to that from those of all other countries. Does any one—even the most stupid person—suppose the revenue on imports from Cuba is nearly equal to that on the imports from England, France, Germany, China and all other countries together? In fact, the revenue from imports from Cuba amounts to a few millions only, and but a small proportion of the total receipis from customs, while the trade with that island is valuable, and, particularly, as affording a market for our produce. But, upon this ridicu- lous argument of not wishing to possess territory in order that |we may tax the products we might just as well say that we should be better off if the cotton States were a foreign country, for then we should tax cotton; or if Massachusetts did not belong to the republic, as we could then tax ber manufactures, However, this argument against the acquisition of territory is so absurd wilh M. Frangois Victor Hugo, son of the | | cove that it is hardly worth notice. Scarcely less ridiculous and narrow-minded. is the idea advanced that we have territory enough and that we should not bring other races or families of mankind under our repub- lican government. The same notion has been reiterated by the old fogies in this country through all its history. They were hostile to the acquisition of Lonisiana, of Florida, of Texas, of California and of Russian America on the same ground, and if their advice had been followed the United States would have been a little, cramped up republic, and a third rate Power in the world, instead of being the magnificent, rich and powerful country it is now. ‘The law of our existence is progress and expansion, and if we do not follow that we shall not fulfil our destiny and must decline relatively to the surprising progress of the age and other nations. if annexed Cuba would be immensely valuable to our commerce, and as a market for our agricultural and manufacturing products, to say nothing of its value in a mari- time, naval or geographical point of view, or of its importance politically in harmonizing the couatries of America to our republican system. Nor are the people of Cuba of that hybrid stock which we see in some other countries in this hemisphere. There are few or no In dians in Cuba, and the people are for the most part a pure race, The nezroes are as intelligent as those of onr Southern States and many of them have become rich, They can be as easily managed. Besides, the negro ele- ment there, which is inferior in numbers to the whites, will become subservient to tle superior race, aa in our own country, If Cuba should become a part of the United States our enterprising people would rush there to develop ils wonderful resources and would soon take the control of affairs, The contracted views reported to have been ex- pressed by a Cabinet officer do not accord with the spirit of the age, the interests of our country or American progress, Navo.zos is expected in Paris, to remain during the elections. As a good citizen he will, no doubt, vote “early,” but it is to be hoped not “often.” His Majesty is “sound” for the Bonaparte “straight ticket.” | Posie Ovtstox, when applied in a strong | pressure in bebaif of popular rights and fair play, is still a power in the land. Tt has, for instance, resulted in an overhauling of the fraudulent tampering with the votes of the people of Kings county for Sheriff, which promises a recognition of the people's choice, This is a great victory for law and order, which revives the idea that honest elections may still be hoped for, and that perjuvios and forgeries may be siopped. To make this Brookiya example effective, however, District Attorney Morris should relax no efforts to bring the offending ballot stuffers and forgers to tho penalties of the Viorok Ema has granted a royal amnesty to political offenders and the Italian rioters convicted of opposition to the collection of one of the Sinto taxes. The “milfary eruption” —whatever it is—and the confessor | have, it appears, worked excellently well and “like a charm,” just aa we anticipated. Brormn Berensr’s Larest Evicr on Woman Surrrace.—At a meeting of the strong-minded in Brooklya the other evening Brother Beecher gave itas his opinion that American polities neod purifying; that if they | be not purified we shal! all go to the dogs; but that woman sutlrave will bring about the needed reformation, Here is aman of faith who believes Uiat the presence of tha women at the polls will evangelize tho roughs, Tigers, however, are not famed by dimity, ribbons and bouquets, but by whips, iron bars, red hot pokers and strong Asp Sits, Tary Comm.—"xtensive defal- cations are now reported among certain navy paymasters, This seems to be the age of dis- rion of frauds, peculations aud defilea- Who noxt? A fow ata time will do, fiona, ‘The Sucn Caunl Oyening. By special correspondence, publishod in our columns to-day, we have the first and a mos’ pleasing prospective of the grand ceremonial and eves which will be observed and enjoyed on the oceasion of the formal opening and fn- auguration of the Suez Ship Canal. The com- munication may in truih be termed the Losseps programme forwarded to us in advance by one of our spectal writers, dating in Paris, acon panied by his own remarks in elaboration 27% interealing explanation of its gonténis, Tho coromonts Will commence, a8 will be seen, this day, the 17th, and terminate on fhe 20th instant, the Empress of France, accompanied ‘by the Vicovoy of Egypt, taking the leading imperial part, atended by ® grand representation of the naval and king.’ power of Hurope and the Hast, a9 well ag of the vast marltime and com- wercial Interests which are so deeply inter- ested in and will be so largely benetticd by the completion of the new route, It will bo & very pleasant ag well as a solemn occasion. There will be crocodile hunting, picnics, fire- works, illuminations and a ball, with visits, subsequently, tothe Pyramids and thence to the Delta of the Nile, Crowns and sceptres witt do homage to the industrial individuality of the age, and on the day of the canal opening the dies iv@ of humanity will be obliterated in the leti triwnphantes hyma chorus of the nations, Tie Health Oftcer of the Port—Dr. neckan the Right Man. Tho public will learn with pleasure that Dr. Carnochan has consented to accept the im- portant position of Health Officer of the Port of New York, and they would be glad to receive with still greater satisfaction the an- nouncement that Governor Hoffman had ap- pointed him to that post. The office of Health Oificer is one of vital importance to the city and, indeed, to the whole country, and no one knows its operations better than Dr. Carno- chan, It is an office that should not be con- trolled by political prejudices or predilections. Political favoritism should not enter into auy portion of its management. And yet we know that under the present régime it has become exclusively a political office, that the placo was filled two years ago by a republican fovernor, and that all the iafluence and patronage of the Health Office have since that time been used tor party purposes, The honest duty required of the Health Officer has for some time past been made subservient to the interests of party. Now, what is that duty? [tis to protect the population of this city from the incursions of disease from abroad, to see that our quarantine system is managed in such a manner as that the publio health may be secured as far as lies within the power of the Health Officer having control of the Quarantine, Certainly the duties of this official are not confined to the collection of ex- orbilant dues from captains of vessels or to levying heavy taxes upon the earnings of all the subordinate officers of the department, from the assistant doctors and deputies to the boatmen, This kind of business does not legally form any part of the duties of the Health Officer of the Port, and yet itis complained that greedy Health Oficers have amassed cousiderable wealth from these sources, Therefore it becomes a matter of congratula- tion that such a manas Dr. Carnochau should consent to accept the position of Health Oficor. Standing, as he does, at the head of his pro- fession; recognized as the most accomplished and skilful surgeon in the United States; a master, indeed, of his art, an honor to hia profession, and one whose name is familiar throughont the lengih and breadth of the land, we consider ita piece of good fortune that a medical geatioman like him, enjoying a princely ingome from his professional practice, should accept this position, That in doing go he makes a groat sacrifice is unquestionable, Pecunia rily he will probably snffer not a litle by accepting the office; but then the public will happily be the gainers, and in that light we are disposed to view Dr. Caraochan’s candi-+ dacy for this office as a great public benefit, Thove is still another reason for commending the action of Dr. Carnochan, and that is that he has set an example to other gentlemen to make some personal sacrifice for the public goad, by accepting pablic offices, and thus rescuing those positions from the control of the rowdy cloment which sits now in too many high places and controls, by its baneful influence, nearly every portion of our focal body politic. We hope that Govertor Hoffman will lose no time in appointing Dr. Carnochan to the posi- tion of Health Officer of the Port, Me has the logal power to do so, and we have no reason to donbt that, with his keen sense of what is beat for the good government of this city and his desire to do all that is most conducive to its interests, he has the will also to make an appointment that will be universally popular, In fet, the appointment of Dr. Carnochan may be regarded as the best thing which has hape pened in this community for many a day. It may be the entering wedge in the political chasin into which many other citizens of merit and intelligence may be indaced to follow, Oare Stenm Boiler Explosions. * Our columns are continually contatning narratives of fresh horrors, caused by negli- gence in reference to steam boilers, involving loss of life and serious maiming. This matter is the more serious because it not only jeopardizes the lives of those immediately ) attendant upon the engine or boiler, but also those of unsuspecting persons at some distance, Not many months back we chronicled the explosion of a steam fire engine in this city, which exploded while fa operation at a fra in the Bowery, killing and wounding all who happened to be in the vicinity, This case ia | worthy of notice, because the engines of tho Fire Department are supposed to be more under the Immediate notice of the competent authoritios, Now that steam power is brought into sueh general use, especially in densely populated cities and districts, the inspection should be conducted with the utmost care. From the frequency of these disasters it-would woom that certificates aro granted too loosely by those who aro appointed to conduct tho scrutiny. We are already surrounded by suilicient dangerous cloments in the shape of railroad disasters, fires, chemical explosions, &o., without being exposed to that of tha oxplosion of steam boilers, which can be sm easily coutrolled,