The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1869, Page 6

MRA Vt = NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. plume XXXIV. .cwceeee AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTER FRENCH THEATRE. Minh 08, Lists AND SUADOWS OF THE » and @th ay,—Losnon; | Ax CiTY, Matinee. | Te ee NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, privateer Hornet, putting into Wilmington, N. C., shows that the coal aboard his yeasel was unfit for use, and completely vindicates Captain Higgins, In the extradition case of Francis Fares, the alleged Swiss forger, Judge Blatchford has decided that the papers on which the proceedings were brought were insufficient, and accordingly dis- charged Farez. ‘The jury in the case of Robert Berry, on trial tn Brooklyn, for the murdcr of James Doanegan, last evening rewurned a verdict against the prisoner of guilty of manslaughter in the third degree, Thankagiving Day will be generally observed in the city to-day. Business will be generally sus- | pended; the Sub-Treasury will be closed entirely THR TAMMANY Buorners, ko, Matin Fourteenth street,—Tar eat 1. in | oraer ot Eighth avenue and | tinee at 2-OROWN DIAMONDS. Han.on i Broadway.—A GRAND nee at 2, OLYMPIC THEAT A BULL ty a Cis VIPTH AVENUE ? £. enue and 2M Bt Caser. Matinee at 2 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broacw MAROHIONESS. Lreeir NEct AND THE WOOD's MUSEUM AND her Tbirtioth st,—Matinee laily. 1 . Hroadway, cor- w every evening. BOWERY THEA MAN—Dee FREBCHU ¥ Murprnep Rep Gomx. Matinee | arce. | WALLACK'S TUBATRS. Broadway and Ash strect.— BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—Irantan Orpzea— Nowa. RK THEATRE, Brooklya,— Matinee at 2. | MRS, ¥. Tug Maxt NEW YORK Noo. 45 aud 47 Bowery— | Ovnwa BuFFA TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS VouALisM, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, GC, 201 Rowery.—Comio Matinee at 2, THRATRE COMIQUE, 5141 1 14M, NE Acis, &. Matinee way.—CoMto VOoAL+ BRYANTS’ OPERA HC A. —BRYANIS' MINSTREL USE, Tammany Butlding, Mth Matinee at 2. SAN FR 5 Broa tway.--ETHtO- PIAN MIDS 2, ISCO MI 18Y, 3 NEW YORK CIRCU AND Gyaxasiie PERI , Fourteenth street, ANCES, 40. Matin HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, MiNsvicy LS —THE THANKSGIVIN( FATRIAN at By. Brooklyn. —H« TURKEY, ec. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, co ton sfs. PROP, AND MApaMe Wit of Att Ne ART GALLERY, J108 OF THE NINE I aire DORE ART UNION, 887 Broadway.—Exumurni0n oF Yatntl NEW YORK MUSSUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SUIGNOK AND Ant LADIES’ Broadway. TRIPLE W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, wi8ly ALS ONLY LN ATTENDANCE, ‘ Lp SHEET. New York, Thursday, November 18, 186% pase = 4 THE NEW. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November 17. King Victor Emanuel will, tt is said, abdicate the throne of Italy at an early day. lis Majesty the King completed, according to French reports, a morganatic marriage since his recovery to health in Florence. Napoleon was making Mullitary preparations to guard against pollti- M, Ledria candidature, for Cuba since | tical exiles from t by the repub. @,i disorder during tie French elections. Rollin retires from his legislative Four thousand Spanish troops saile Sunday. The deportavion of pc Spain to Cuba was protested ag: | leans in Maurid, The Bishop of Havana was held } prisoner at Cadiz, Prussia is to reform the News. | paper Preas law. The London 7imes comments on the Caited States debt and bonds, | The Surewsbury, England, races were in progress, | Our special correspondence by mati trom Europe, | | ated io November 6, 1s of a highly tutereating char- acter, Eeypt. ‘The London Tints asserts that the opening of the Suez Canal will not affect the current of trade inju- | riously to British interests. The monument to be erected at Suez is to do honor to the English trav- | eller Waghorn, not Wayhein, as reported nitherto | from Europe. The religious ceremonies of the open- | Ing ol the Suez Canal were celebrated yesterday by | the reverend almoner of the Empress of France in | the presence of a distinguished congregation. | Mexico. Advices have been received from Mexico city up | tothe oth. The ministerial crisis 1s past. Seward | Jeft Guanayuata on the 9th. He was thrown out of | luis carriage on the road, but escaped unhurt. Con- greasional deputies are opposed to emigration. Mauuci Cuesta has been assassinated in Allamera. Miseelane! Minister Washburne nas telegraphed the Navy De- | partment that the French government has ordered & man.of-war to accompany the English and Ameri- can war vessels led to bring to this country the remains of George Peabody, | ‘The Society of the Army of the Tennessee met at | Loutsville, Ky., yesterday afternoon. Among the | } a distinguished oMcers present were Generals Dodge, Sheridan, Wettzel, Wilson, Meredith aad others, In the United States Supreme Court Catef Justice Chase yesterday announced an order placing at the | fvot of the calendar of the next term of the court all | cases hereafter continued at this term, unlesa other- | wise specially ordered. Causes thas disposed of will | probably be delayed two years, The Indian Peace Commissioners met In Wazhing- | ton yescerday, and submitted a report of their pro- ceedings to the Secretary of the Interior. The | Commissioners have performed thetr duties to the entire satisfaction of the President and the Secre- taries of the Interior and War, and It is believed tney | have inaugurated a plan by which the Indians wil) be protected against te frauds practiced by unprinci- pled traders and others, and their happiness ana civilization promoted to a degree unattainable under the former manner of treating the Wandering tribes of the piatus, Tue paymaster at the Navy Yard at Mare Island, California, is reported to be a defaulter to the govern: Ment to the amount of $140,000. He drew a requisition for $130,000 in addition, but this was stopped and the money saved, It is believed that the paymaster | referred to fell into the hands of San Francisco sharpers, who induced hin to use the government funds for speculating purposes. In Washington city licenses are refused to keepers | Of hotola, saloons and restaurants who are opposed to receiving negroes as guests in their establish. ments on the same footing as whites. i Governor Holden, of Novth Carolina, in his mes- sage to the Legislature presents @ most unfavorable | account of the State finances, The total bonded debt ls $29,816,045, to which must be added bonda not issued $4,280,000, making @ total debt of $34,005,045. bonds has not been paid, The Governor opposes Tepudiation and favors @ liberal common school Fyatem. Nine employés of the Boscon aud Albany Ratiroad the missing property found in their possession. ‘The amount of produce slipped from St. Louts to points on the Mississippi south of Cairois twice as | large ae before the war, and the value of manufac- Lived articles t# ten times as great, heral Hazen, commander of the district of Tower Arkansas, says the Indiang 1m his district have become discontented, and he fears they will (suse much troabie in the spring. Ju the Alabama State Senare Mr. Pennington (re- | publican) yesterday introduced a resolution reqnest- jug Congress to remove the disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, The City. Daniel N. Tompkins has peen appointed to sue. | feed Samuel T. Blatchford as Deputy Coilecior of Customs in this city, The investigation entered into yesterday rogard- | | | | have been arrested in Boston for stealing from the | freight cars of she company, and @ large amount of | 424 no one will dare to think or say that the | equalled before, and the Post OMce and Custom Bouse after ten o'clock. No business whatever will be transacted at avy of the municipal ofMicesaad all the courts Lave adjourned over, Judge Folger, the newly appointed Sub-Treasurer of the United States, yeaterday entered on the duties of bis oie, eral Batterfeld on making Tormal transfer of the office made a brief speech to the clerks and other attaches on introducing to them his successor, to Which the latter rejoined likewise in a brief speech, The commisston appointed to count the funds haye not fully conspleted their labors, but expect to do so by the close of the present week. The stock market yesterday was irregular, but generally dull, Gold closed at 127. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Richard Potter, of England; C. J. Bridges, of Mon- treal, and Oswald Younghusvand, of England, are at the Brevoort House, Dr. D. W. Bliss and J, W. Parsona, of Washington; R. D. Nelson, of New Hampshire; Rigne toa. J. 3. Young, of Montreal; Hl. ©. Kelsey, of New Jersey, and V, Perrin, of Marseilles, are at the Metropoliian Hotel. Professor Chandler, of Butfalo, and Captain J. Anderson, of Toronto, are at the St, Charles Hotel, David Chadwick, M. P., of England; VW. Rutz, of Washington, and Spinuer @, McCorkle, are at ihe Clarendon Hoiel. General Darling, of New York; W. R. Langfelish, of Boston; Willan Newton, of Connecticut, and W, Whittemore, of Staten Island, are at the Everett ifouse. nel L. Kipp aud George W. McCullum, of New 3. Varay, of San Francisco, and G, Crowell, ngland, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. fy-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio; Colonel Samuel C, Wilson, of Indian; George 8. May and Viiliam Chapman, of France, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures, Governor Hoffman eft yesterday for Albauy; Grow, for Pennsylvania; Thomas A, Scott, for Penn- syivanta; Peed, Billings, for Virginia; W. H. Graham, for Baltimore; General Hooncy, for Albany; G. W. Childs, for Philadelphia; Colonel F. B, Loomis, for New London; Ira Harris and J. Morians, for Albany, aud ex-Mayor L. Blackatone, for Norwich, The Great Event of the Day=The Open ing of the Sucz Canal. The Suez Canal, of which for some years past we have heard so much and which month by month and week by week has been com- manding an ever increasing interest, is now the greatest fact as well as the greatest sensa- tion of the hour, The opening ceremonies have commenced, Port Said, a new Eastern name, has been specially honored. It is the European end of the canal, It has hada falr share of praise, but no one dares to say it did not deserve it, Port Said is to the Viceroy of lgypt what Alexandria, centuries ago, was to Alexander, and, later, to Cesar and Anthony. The Viceroy has a great purpose to accomplish ; and the facts of the hour urage the belief that the vassal of the Sultau knows his pur- pose and kuows as well how to accomplish it, In modern times nothing of the same kind has occurred before this date. It is reallya new thing. The London Exhibition and the many things of the kind. that fol- lowed, both in the Old World and tho New, were all important; every one of them | was more or less a success; but the exhibi- tions of London, of Paris and of New York were trifling and insignifleant as compared with this latest affair—the Suez Canal. We have for long years despised the East. We have deemed it beyond the pale of civilization. We have pronounced Mohammedanism incom- patible with the liberty of this enlightened age, Our grand Western efforts, in the shape of expositions, of Pacific railroads and other affeirs of the kind have encouraged the belief that the East was necessarily dead. It has heen the province of the New York Heratp to teach the West that on this particular affair it was altogether too slow anda great deal tooignorant. In the month of August last we gave a full and detailed account of | | this grand Eastern canal, We traced its his- tory from the Pharaohs to Anthony and Cesar, from Anthony and Cesar to the first Napoleon, and from Napoleon down to the presenttime, In our columns a complete his- tory of the Suez Canal may be found, We do not boast when we say that such a history can be found in no other newspaper, either in the Old World or the New. The Sultan, with a wise discretion, decided toremain at home. His presence in Egypt would have marred the ceremonie: The Viceroy had a fair right to be first on the occasion, No one has been watchful of this affair will refuse to admit that the presence of the Sultan would have beena mis- take, nor can any one deny that the opening has who |} ceremonial has been managed in such a man- ner as to command the respect of all thinking men. elet was required, and éclat has been | commanded by the Port Suid ceremonial, Prus- sia, Ausiria, Italy, and particularly France, have been represented, and the promise is held out that at Ismailia the ceremonial at Port Said, grand aa it it seems to have been, will be left a thousand All the nations mean to go through the canal, and Suez, which is the grand terminus, will present a spectacle which world has not witnessed The ian Nights have long been famous, and vedly so; but the Arabian Nights, through the Viceroy and the Empress Eugénie, will be left far in the shade, TPactis more potent than miles behind. hetore, Ar des ‘The interest on $12,600,000 of these | “ction in these late ages, and all the force of fact has t this latest Eastern show, On the route be- tween Port Said and Suez the history of more than forty centuries will be forcibly recalled, sensations of the moment have ever been Of all the Arabian Nights these last will be recognized as the grandest, the noblest, the most poetic, and at the same time the most practical, Even Haroun Al Raschid would be more than transported. Aside, however, from all ceremony and from | gll show, this opening of the Suez Canal com- mands attention as the great event of our time, It implies a revolution of trade and commerce, It implies a resurrection of the past, and the best of the past, It implies a fatnre, the glory and the conclusion of which we can imagine but not fully comprehend. Egypt is once more to become the seat of fom Wr cause of Captain Hlegins, of ihe Cuban | empire, With the helo of Egypt the Mediter- Q'Baldwia stands corrected. n promised and go far given to | ranean is to become the great sea of commerce. The shores of that sea are to be gilded with gold. The northeast of Africa, the rich plains of Hindostan, the ancient learning of Arabia and Persia are all to be utilized and forced in a western direction, Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and particularly Great Britain and Ireland, are to be enriched by this new movement, which is at once political, commercial and religious. It is a beautiful thought and fall of encour- agement that the greatest change of our time should be inaugurated by a Curistian and a woman, Christianity controls the times. Christianity, wittingly or unwittingly, governs the nations, Christianity, by universal con- sent, isshaping the future, Inside of Chris- tianity woman always has been a power, and never more so than now, It is therefore most meet that the lady of the hour, the Empress of France, the wife of the eldest son of the Church, should on this grand occasion—an occasion which covers all the past and all the future—bo the foremost personage. The presence of the Empress Eugénie ui the opening of the Suez Canal is typical in the true sense, It honors the past, It sympathizes with the present. It expresses hope for the future, The opening of the canal is now a sensation, Thinking men look at it in the light of the future. The future is bright, but who fully comprehends it? It is another step towards belting the world with lines of traffic. When the Suez Canalis opened the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope will no longer be necessary. The work thus begun will not be reckoned complete until it be unnecessary to round Cape Horn. Even these demands will be imperious, The rallroad and the telegraph must girdle the earth, At New York, at London, at Paris, it must bo possible not only to feel the world’s pulse, but to know the world’s thoughts, Towards this point we strive, and this point we must reach. aeelsior / The Winnipeg Insurrection, In the Lake Winnipeg basin of the late Hudson's Bay territories, transferred to the New Domiuion, a successful rebellion for the present has resulted in clearing out the new Governor and his suite, sent from Canada to govern those people. This Lake Winnipeg basin lies a hundred miles or more north of the head sources of the Mississippi river, and extends from the forty-ninth to the fifty-fifth degree of north latitude, and westward by the great river Saskatchewan to the Rocky Moun- tains, Interlocking with the head lakes of the Mississippi, and which find their common outlet southward, is another system of small lakes, which find their common outlet northward in the Red river of the North, a navigable stream, which empties into Lake Winnipeg, the outlet of which is discharged into Hudson's Bay. Where the United States boundary, the line of forty-nine, crosses this Red river is Pembina, a flourishing fur trading settlement of Minnesota. Across the border, in the Red river valley, is the settlement of French Canadians who have revolted against the New Dominion, These people, from their business inter- course with the Minnesota people, have imbibed a good many ‘‘Yankee notions,” and hence they demand a territorial government, with a local legislature, a homestead act, pre- emption laws for settlers, a school fund, and such like American institutions, What will be the upshot of this rebellion we cannot tell ; but it is evident that, east and west, the New Dominion fails to give satisfaction, The simple truth is that our northern neighbors are looking to the ultimatum of annexation to the United States, from Newfoundland, across the Continent, to Vancouver's Island, and the wisest course for the British government would be to begin to prepare itself for this inevitable settlement, This Winnipeg Insurrection is only an outbreak which indicates more or Tess the prevailing popular sentiment of all her Majesty's North American provinces, and this sentiment will only become stronger under any repressive measures that may be adopted, Thanksgiving Day. More generally throughout the Union, States | and Territories, North and South, than ever heretofore, Thanksgiving Day will this year be observed by the American people, This | day, the 18th of November, has been adopted all over the country in deference to the recom- mendation of the President; but if instead of this Thursday he had recommended the last Thursday in November it would have given more general satisfaction, And we will explain the reason to General Grant for his | information in reference to 1870. Down to the killing frosts of autumn the turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks and other fowls of the farmers subsist mainly upon what they can | pick up in thé barn yards, highroads, fields and gardens, From about the middle of Octo- | ber to the last week of November these fowls are fattened from the refuse of the barn ‘and corn crib in the cleaning up of the wheat, rye, corn, buckwheat and other crops for market. And this refuse serves to fatten the fowls and they are not nicely fattened till about the last in November. So it happens that week consumers lose by it, We would, therefore, impress these important facts upon the mind of the President in reference to next Thanks- giving. Let it be on the last Thursday in November, which with the farmers is just the thing exactly. As it is, this year we are suite that through- | out the Union it will be a day of general thanks- giving and general enjoyment, too; and to all our readers, without distinction of race, creed, color or condition, we wish a good Thankagiv- ing dinner and @ pleasant reunion with family or friends, Let the rich remember the desti- tute poor, that they, too, may share in the festi- val, and, flest and last, God be praised for all his mercies to us miserable sinners, Bav ror we “Inist Giant.”—In going upon the “‘saered soil” of the Roundheads of the old Bay State for a prize fight the “Irish Giant,” O'Baldwin, made a mistake, For that blunder he has just been gent up in Bos- ton for eighteen months in the House of Cor- rection and at hard labor, Those bigoted Puritans are a queer people, but sometimes theydo a good thing. They will not accept the matily art of fisticuffs aa one of the fine arts, nor pugilists as publio benefactors. and NOVEMBER 18,1869—TRIPLE SHEE Burope—By Our Special Correspondonte— Religion, Science, Politics and Plensure fu the Old World, v The special correspondence, by mail, from Europe which we publish in our columns to- day supplies an ample, varied, accurate and highly interesting detail of the main points of tho news transmitted to us by cable telegrams to the Gth of November, besides elaborating in addition many important features ia the more direct issue and with reference to the future bearing of the most remarkable events then transpiring inthe Old World. It is scarcely suficient to say that the written exhibit is worthy of the earnest attention of all classes of the community. We are fully justified in asserting that it will command it. Statesmen will read it so a3 to become ‘‘posted” inde- pendently of the “red tape” routine system on matters relating to foreign diplomacy ; clergymen with reference to the Ecumenical Council; political and social economists will sindy in it still more deeply the different systems of rule applied to France and Ger- many, besides learning of their effects on the respective populations of both countries, as shown in their everyday mode of life and enjoyments; transatlautic Spaniards and Cubans will hear of the Cabinet crises in Madrid and, in their mind’s éye, see a bull fight—the one at which the maimed matador, Tato, bid farewell to the arena in the midst of a scene of national, affectionate, enthusiastic regret which the last of the Bourbons may have envied in her exile, and the like of which even her dethronement failed to provoke. The Most Rev. Catholic Archbishop Man- ning, of Westminster, England, speaks to our special correspondent in London on the subject of the Ecumenical Council, the Syllabus and the probable results of the coming hierarchi- cal assemblage in the Eternal City in simple, plain words and language, which contrast very pleasingly with the verbose rhetoric of the London press on the same subject and the wretched attempts which are being made by some of the writers to reawaken in Great Britain that spirit of religious intolerance which was really evaporated long since in tho wordy “fury of Laud and the factious fanaticism of the Praise-God Barebones,” Very many Catholic prelates journeying to Rome had reached Lon- don enroute, the writer having had an interview with a bishop—a Frenchman—from the Sand- wich Islands, who travelled from San Fran- cisco to New York by tho Pacific Railroad, being the first iron way which he had ever seen, so that by the time he reaches Rome his mind will be in quite a natural condition to enable him to form a pretty correct opinion on the all- important subject of the actual relations which exist between scieace and revelation, and thus stand forth asa modern Joseph inter- preting the dreams of the savans to Father Secchi, the astronomer, besides, perhaps, jWicating a few of the tracings of the modern “handwriting on the wall” to the Sover- eign Pontiff and the members of the Sacred College. Our writer in Constantinople tells of Eugé- nie’s present farewell to Turkey, besides noting the arrival of.the Prussian and Italian princes and the Emperor of Austria, and announcing the fact that the young King of Greece was expected to visit the Sultan, Paris presents imperialism, a struggling elec- toral franchise, industrial wages ‘‘strilkes,” and the community vivacious and light-hearted as ever; Spain had Its chronic Cabinet crisis, Prim, Cuban reports and the bull fight, while Berlin attended to the financial economies, political party allegiances and German con- solidation, permitting the veteran King Wil- liam plenty of time for the manly and royal Teutonic amusement of a boar hunt, And thus does our enterprise progress and show forth, bringing every day a far off world more completely and intimately within the circle of the metropolitan world of New York through the pages of the H#rar The Annexation of St. Domingo. The letter which we published yesterday from our Washington correspondent indicates that the St. Domingo question, both in the hands of the United States government and in the adminis- tration of Baez, at the head of affairs in tho Dominican republic, is in a fair way towards o speedy and practical solution, The project of annexation has long been entertained by the two contending parties in that republic, and the small faction of Cabral revolutionsists who oppose it would doubtless favor it, as they favored it when in power afew years ago, if they were now in power, The people gene- rally are reported to be well disposed to the siep. President Baez was assured during last summer that the inhabitants of Porto Plata, Santiago, Levega and Cotuy are agreed on Thanksgiving on the 18th comes too soon for | real fat turkeys and chickens, and farmers and | this point. Baez, of course, could not with propriety initiate this annexation scheme any more than he could consent to the leasing of the Bay of Samana or to the plan of a pro- | tectorate to be exercised by the United States government, unless that government, as well as his own people, were unquestionably willing and ready to accomplish it. Without entering into the details of the preliminary negotiations which have from time to time been informally conducted between the two independent gov- ernments since 1865, when the annexation was on the eve of completion, wemay express the opinion that it is now highly probable the project of annexing to the United States both the yellow republic of Dominica and the black republic of Hayti, which now divide the entire island between them, will come np early at the next session of the Ynited States Congress, and that mea- sures looking towards its realization will be promptly adopted and acted upo: tion of slavery in the United States and the establishment of civil and political equality have removed certain objections which used to stand in the way of annexation, and there will be no difficulty on this score in governing | Dominica and Hayti as territories until they | shall have ripened into States, It will not be | long before American capital, which hag already turned its eye towards the incalculable, undeveloped resources of this beautiful and fertile island, and American enterprise, which has taken time by the forelock and established Dominican banking, railway and steamship com- panies—in fact, actually laying the egg out of which annexation seems about to be hatched— and, in due time, emigration from the United States, from Europe and, perhaps, from China, will redeem the island of St, Domingo from } rarolutionary chacs ead yea wultinlled mary | thosina, or aprwhere clas for that masior kets to its increased. productions. Moreover, not the least important consideration involved in the annexation of St, Domingo ts the fact that Cuba is within but a tew hours’ sail of the waters in which @ really formidable American fleot is now being gathered, Whatever may be the upshot of tho Cuban insurrectionary movement, this fact is eminently noteworthy and significant, How long will it be before all the West India islands shall form the encircling belt of the Gulf of Mexico as an inland lake of the United States? This is merely a ques- tion of time, The Health Omcer of the Port, We alluded yesterday to the fact that Dr. Carnochan was an applicant for the position of Health Officer of the Port, and we renew our endorsement of this able and skilful profes- sional gentleman as the fitting person for that place, There is a change necessary in this branch of the State government, and we are sure that no one knows that better than Gov- ernor Hoffman, He may have been embar- rassed heretofore in the selection of a candi- dato to supply the place of the present incum- bent, and the fact that the confirmation of his appointee would have been difficult to accom- plish in the last State Sonate, with a radical majority against him, no doubt deterred him from doing that which the whole commercial community so earnestly desired. Now, how- ever, no such obstacles stand in the way. In the person of Dr. Carnochan there is a Health Officer who would be welcomed by all classes of society. Tn the coming Senate there is a large democratic majorlty, and therefore the appointments of the Governor will receive due consideration, Dr. Carnochan is, thereforo, for many reasons the very man for the place. The oftice of Health Officer is one which should never be occupied by a politician, Neither should it be a mere money making machine, The Health Officer has a dual life and duty, The interests of tho public health and the interests of commerce are both under his control. In taking care of the one he must not neglect the other, because the business of our merchants and shipowners are as largely under his control as the health ofthe port, It is not necessary here to state the endless vexations, delays and extortions to which the merchants’ business is subjected by the present quarantine system. The mer- chants know well what they are and they feel them keenly, but unfortunately they have no remedy, There is no class in the community more willing to see quarantine regulations rigidly carried out, even to their own inconven- ience, than the merchants. In fact, it is their interest that the spread of disease in the city should be provided against, for an infected city is a very poor place in which business can flourish, They would naturally be the last people in the world to complain of any mea- sures which may be adopted to prevent the in- troduction of contagious diseases into the centre of the community, It wiil therefore be most acceptable to the merchant clags, as in- deed to every portion of our metropolitan population, to see an eminent medical man of the highest repute, who is no politician, appointed to the place of Health Officer of the Port. Our Special Correspondence from Asia, By European mail we have the special correspondence from British India, dated at Bombay to the 19th of October, which appears elsewhere in our columns to-day. The com- munications are in continued chain of the narrative which we have already published from India in illustration of the present condi- tion of the vast Anglo-Asiatic empire, its system, or systems, of rule, native and foreign; its territorial resources and local progress or the reverse, its internal distractions, jealousies and wars, and the extreme difficulty of their reconciliation or adjustment by British officials or the executive in or commissioned from London. Just previous to writing our correspondent was at the Court of the Maharajah of Baroda, He had been accorded a special interview with the Hastern potentate, the result of which is now presented to the readers of the Herat. The letters are animated, piquant, instructive and entertaining, picturing as they do, for tho use of the American public, the Court, the Dewan, the personal appearance, style of living, revenue and military resources of his princely host, and that, too, with the complete permission of this important and hitherto imperiously exclusive gentleman, to whom the writer had been latroduced as the accredited representative of the Hrnaty, duly commis- sioned for such duty. Towards the close of the correspondence we have the important intelligence of the entrance of the Russians into Eastern Turkistan, after abattle ia which the soldiers of the Czar de- feated the troops of the Kushbegl, with other matter of import. Weare glad to be enabled to supply special first notes of these facts for the purpose of future reference by the people to our columns when the moment arrives for the decisive elash of arms between the Musco- vite and the Anglo-Saxon on the vast battle fields of Hindostan, the premonitory warnings of which caused Mr, Disraeli to exclaim lately in Parliament that England is now more an Asiatic than a Enropean Power. Ivvortant tw Trog—The reported dis- covery by Professor Bell and his surveying party of the New Dominion that Lake Nipigon, thirty miles to the northwest of Lake Superlor, and heretofore supposed to belong to that numerous body of northwestern lakes, of five, ten, twenty or thirty miles in length, is really larger than Lake Ontario or Erie. If this is true then with a few short canal cuts steamboat communication can be secured from Lake Superior, by way of Lake Nipigon and Lake Winnipeg, and thence by the Saskatche- wan river, almost to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, We think it probable, however, that Professor Bell may have mistaken the general flooding of the fat country connecting the whole batch of lakes around Lake Nipigon for one great and enduring lake; but, what- ever the truth may be, it will now soon be made known. Nor tae Taine ror Licurive Treatrns Wii—Kerosene oil, They have tried the experiment at Milwaukee, and the theatre is gone, and it wen® up flames and down in ruins 0 rapidly that several lives were de- stroyed with it. Of allour illuminating agents keroseno fy the Inet that should be used in a Tue Oxonpaca Wonper.—In another cole umr will be found an accurate account of the archwological nugget recently brought to light in Onondaga county and which promises to be a rare puzzle for the savans. Everything @u- thentic ag well as every fair inference in regard to this discovery is likely to be of interest im the history of the antiquities of our State, already so numerous, By the account we give it seems to be clearly shown, first, that the figure is not a petrifaction, as its exhibitors would have the public bolieve, but a carved statue; next, that the sculpturing is of a high order of merit, though not in accordance with the ideals and modes that modern art has drawn from Grecian models; and, third, that it may be a relic of a very great antiquity, pointing to @ quite unknown past in the history of this Continent, Exorrr Corsin,—In the published list of the President's family connections that will take their Thanksgiving dinner with him in the White House to-day we do not see the name of Corbin. He has probably been excused on account of his engagements with Fisk and Gould. OBITUARY. Mrs. Hannah Brennan, On Monday afternoon this estimable lady, the mother of Timothy, Owen W. and Matthew T, Bren- nan, after @ life of almost unexampled charity and Kindness, died at her residence in this city at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Mrs, Brennan was a native of the town of Little. kenny, Ireland, but came to this country in 1790, at the age of four years, Since that time she lived entirely in this city, and velow Canal street. Her husband served with distinction in the war of 1812, was honorably discharged in 1814 and died in this city in 1826. Mrs, Brennan was the mother of six chil@ren—four sons and two daugh- ters—most of whom were born in Clif street, where Harper’s building now stands. Those of her sons now living have risea to distinction in public life; one as Schvol Commissioner, a posiuon which he has held for many years; the second as a Commissioner of Public Charities, and the tuird as Police Justice, Comptroiler of the county and now Police Commissioner, Bub while her sons were winning renown in public lite she was quietly but surely gaitng for herself and her family im private jile a most enviable name, lier door was ever open to the poor and needy; and, living In the Sixth ward, it may be surmised that there were never wanting any number of applicants: for her caarity. She lived loved and respected by. all who Knew her, and died lamented by a host of Jriends and ninnbers of dependents on her charity, Surgeon Newton H. Adams, United States ¥ Navy. ‘This naval oficer died on yesterday from typhoid pneumonia, in the Uurty-fourth year of his age. Ho was a native and resident of this State, from which he entered the United States naval service during the month of November, 1861. He served with credit during the rebellion, and tn April ot last year was commisstoned full surgeon, ranking with lieaten- ant commanders. His last craise at sea was on board the war steamer Mohongo. Surgeon Adams Was an able, faithiul and energetic oficer, who had earned the position he occupied by means of his ser- vices to the country. In nis death the navy loses ~ one of iis most eiicient officers, and his rela ives and friends a warm learted, generous gentleman, “THE CUSTOM HOUSE, The Shipment of Goods to California—New Custom House Regulations, Secretary Boutwell wrote to Collector Grinnell on the 8th mst, that he was satisfled that the present method of sealing and cording packages for shipment of goods by the Isthmus, between tne ports of New York and San Francisco, was not only untrustworthy, but iurnished a ready means for Mrirert the public revenues, The Collector was directed to abolish the system and yee forthe discharge of such oficers in New fg as haye been heretoiore employed in that ser. vice. Vor the further security of the government the Coliector was requested to enter mto nego. tations with the managers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Panama Railroad Company, for the purpose of ascertatning wheth- er they will furnisn at each side of the Isthmus warehouses in whicle goods can be placed accord. ing to the necessities Of the trade, so that they cannot be tampered with while in sach warehouse, it will algo be necessary to provide ag far as prac. ucable for transporting the goods across the isthmus in cars locked and under the surveillance of agents of the department, In accordance With the above instructions Collec tor Grinnell yesterday issued the followlug potice:— COLLECTOR'S UFFIUE, Nov. 17, 1869. To MERCHANTS, SHIPPERS AND ALL OTHERS CON- ORRNED:— Notice 1s hereby given that under recent in- structions from the Treasury Department the sys- tem of cording aud seaiing packages of merchan- dise shipped from tuts to Paciiic ports, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, will be abolisied on and ss the 20th instant (sailing day of the steamer ask), After that date, shippers of merchandise to San Francisco by that route, will be required to farnish to this office detalled invoices of all goods smpped, together with such descriptive marks ag will readily designate the packages containing such goods, the same tu be furnished on or beiore the day on which the goods leave this port. These invoices and the system of marking packages should be the same as are now used and employed in the shipment of goods from other countries to this, ‘These requirements do nov Ane Ag shipped tn bond. M, H. GRINNELL, Collector, FESTIVAL AT THE WATER STREET MssiDy. The annual festival of the above school was held on Tuesday afternoon and evening at thelr rooms, over the New York Port Society’s Mission, corner of Water and Dover streets. In thg afternoon a dinner was furnished for over ninety children, gathered into this school from the miserable habitations of the Fourth ward, The little ones feasted themselves until a unant- mous vote, by the uplifting of ninety litte hands, testified that they were abundantly satisfled—tha best dinner, probably, most of thom ever had, and the best they will have again unui the revoiving of another tweivemonth, in Wie evening tie spacious mission room was filed with a sn and interested audience of the parents and friends of the children, where an entere lainment of an fntellectual character was furnisned, consisting of singing and dialogues by the children, and short addresses by several gentlemen present, among them the Rey. E. ). Murphy, of the Mariners’ church, The exerelses closed with tne doxology and benediction, after wiich all the children recetyed a package of candies, raising, &¢.,which they took to their homes, There could be but one-feeling by all present as tothe great value of such efforts in reaching the masses of neglected children in these worst parts of our clty, The ‘rapid progress which these children have made during the past year in culture and manners oniy shows the power of a kind Christian intuence and the ease with which they can be lifted up from ignorance and shame to respectability. Better behaved and more interesting children could scarcely be collected together anywhere, ‘This schoo! is under the direction of yee E. Richardson, whose indefatigable energy and work for a man nearly elghty years of age ts certainly ae- serving Of all praise. The day school 1s presided over by ue Lydia Davis, whose (qualifications for such work it would be dificult to surpass, A sub- stantial dinner 18 furnished each child every aay. 'The Sabbath School, under the direction of Mr, W. P. Groom, ie steadily growing in numbers and inter- est, A number of earnest Christian friends have been attracted to this work and are rendering the most efficient aid. Altogether this Is oae of the most efficient and best conducted schools in the city, 18 is connected with no organization, but supported and carried forward from: year to year under tue sol¢ influence of its founder and head, BALL OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT DRUM COAPS. The fifth annual sotrce of the Eighth regiment drum corps took place last evening at the armory, corner of Grand and Centre streets. The attend- ance was unusually large, and the festivities were characterized by much humor and eothusiasin, The dresses of the ladies were brilhant, and in some in- stancea exceedingly rich and elegant. The olden reputation of the regiment Es yA and splendor waa well upheld; and Dram Major Mckeever was certainly not unworthy of mention 1g connection with the altar. SALE OF HORSES, Messrs. Barkef & Hamlin opened the sale of Jacop Eckerson’s stable of thoroughbreds yesterday at the cornor of Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, Thero were about two hundred sporting gentiemen present, but thoy were ly disappointed, inasmuch as the majority of the aniinals purposed to be sold were detained at Jorome Park by the inclemency of the day. The following, however, were -_ Captain Smith, bay horse, bought by ae, bought by hit. J, ree, bought by Mr. An