The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1869, Page 4

th a Des 4 SOG A PTE PLY OS I TTR N&EW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1869, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PRIPRIETOR. EVENING. street.—Taz THE TAMMANY, Brornens, £0. Fourteeath Hanz.on GRAND OPERA HOU. Bid street. ENGLISH OTE. corner ot Bighth avenue and Li. TROVATORE. BOOTH'S THEATRE, wid 4... oe wees Sth ana 6th ava Tux Domav rio DRaMa oF Many WaRyrk. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—Poou Mumaniey— A BULL IN 4 CHINA Suor, FIPTH AVENUE THBATHE, Fifth avenue and tb st.— CastR. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosoway,—Lirri.g NELL AND TUB MARONIONESS. WOOD'R MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Rroadwag, cd ner Lbirtioth st.—Matinee Performance every evening. WALLAOK’S THEATRS. Home. Broaiway and With atreet.— FRENCH THEATRE. 14th st. and 6th nv.—Lonpon; x, treet,—ITALIAN OPERA— ARMONIO REBEARSAL, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ly, Potiv70. Afternoon =P uit. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — Tax MARiNeR's ComPrass. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comto Vooais, NEGKO MINBTRELSY, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooar- ism, NRGRO ACTS, £0. BRYANTS' OPERA Hi » Tammany Building, Mth at. —Bevanis’ MINSTRE SAN FRANCISCO M PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO Ac STEINWAY HALL, Fourteen:h street—Gaxp Vooau AND INGTRUMEN IAL CONCERT. §85 Bros lway.-Etuto- ao, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atrest. EQursrruan AND GYMNABTIC PERFORMANOES, 4G. Matinee at 24. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! MINGTRELS—THE THANKSOLVL » _ Brooklyn. —Hooury's TuRKky, £0, SOMERVILLE ART GALL! sireot.—ExMisttion o¥ THEN RY, Fitth avenue and Mtb ise MUSE DORE ART UNION, 587 PAINTINGS. NEW YORK M7 SOLENOK AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSE Broadway.—-FRMALES ONLY LN ATLENDANOE. Broadway.—Ex#imimion OF UM OF ANATOMY, @13 Broadway.— New York, Friduy, November 19, 1869, THE NEWS. Eurape. Cable telegrams are dated November 18, The Spanish republican political prisoners will not be transporied to Cuba. Senor Orense has left Madrid for Paris, Napoleon gave a reception at Compiégne on Wednesday, during which the Em- peror paid marked attention to the United States Minister to France. M. Emile Ollivier Is likeiy to be appointed in tue French Cabinet. The Czar of Kussla will meet the Emperor of France in personal interview during the winter. Egypt. It ls officially anuounced from Paria that the Empress of France arrived at Port Said on the 16th instant, She was visited on board the Imperial yacht by the Viceroy, the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Prince aud Princess of | Holland, and all the naval commanders in port. Her Majesty landed aud assisted at the Cathole and Musaulman regions rervices observed at the ovewlng of the Suez Canal. On ihe 17th instant the the French imperial yacht, with the Empress on ward, passed through the first portion or the Canal attended by forty war vessels, and anchored at Isinalia, ‘The splendul scene at Ismailia, with tie lime made m nayigating the Suez Canal, with other aiatter of macs import, are reported in our cable | the imposing | Caliphs, theatres and places of amusement, Etsewhere the day was also mingty celebrated. James Lee, who shot Wiliam Keane in Grand street on Monday night, bas been released on $10,000 bail, Mr. Beekinan, of No. gi Kast Twenty-seventh street, golng his security, ‘The steamsbip City of London, Captain Tibbits, of the Inman tine, wil! sail from ‘pier 45 Norih river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mata for Great britain and tho Continent will close as the Post OMe at twelve M. on Saturday. The National lino ateamship Helvetia, Captain Thomson, also aails from 47 North river at two P, M. on Saturday, 201h inst, tor Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to lana passengers, The steamship Iowa, Captain Hedderwick, belong- Ing to (he Anchor line, will leave pier 0 North river at twelve M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Londonderry and Glasgow. ‘The Meronants' line atoamehip Crescent City, Cap ta‘n Hildreth, will be despatched tor New Orieans @irect on Saturday, 20th inst., at throe o’clook, from pier No, 12 North river, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator Wilhama, of Oregon; Dr, G, B. Reynolds ana Captain John 8 Coggshail, of Newport, R. 1; General M, L. Forbes, of Baltimore; Colonel W. P. Rabbit, of Cincinnatt, Ohio; M. L. Winn, of San Francisco; General K H. Dane, of Boatou, and H. H. Ponda, of Faratoga, are at the Meiropolitan Hotel, General B J. Toten, of Long Island; George Mason, of St. Pauts, Minn., and J, M. Bishop, of New Rochelle, are at the Bt, Charles Hotel, Dr, Stillwell, of Sag Haroor; Wiliam A, McClure Of Philadeipnia, and G. P, Sweeney, of Cork, Ireiand, are at the St. Denia Hotel, J. Welsh, of London, ond Eky Eiimain, of Man- chester, England, are at the Everett House, Jobn 8, Barnes, of Engiana, and A. F. Sheldon, of West Sumeid, Conn., are at the Clarendon Hotel. General C, W, Duriing, of New York; W. T. Berry, of Nashville; Dr. Wells, of Boston; albert Coges- well, of Wii\mington, Del., and George P, Barnum, of Cincinnati, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. A. J. Antelo and Franz A. schepps, of Philadelphia, ana J. M. Cleveland, of Poughkeepsie, are at tue Albermarie Hotel. Judge T. L. Jewett, of Ohio, and Senator A. Ram- sey, of Minnesota, are at the 8t. Nicholas Hotel, Tho Suez Canal—France Has the Glory— England Will Reap the Profis, The magnificent Oriental fetes in honor of the opening of the Suez Canal are now in full blast, and the fanciful wonders of the Arabian Nights are eclipsed by the imposing spectacls of kingly grandeur which enliven the desert isthmus from day to day. The event is worthy ceremonies and the imperial dignity of the celebration, Considered merely as a triumph of the engineering art, the work of M. de Lesseps must take rank with the proudést structures of antiquity, which are the wonders of the present age. Its mechanical grandeur is the least remarkable feature in the great enterprise. In the light of history it deserves to be carefully studied. When Han- nibal led bis army over tho Alps he taught the world how tho fate of an empire might depend upon the possession of an obscure mountain road. There is, perbaps, no spot or strip of Jand on the globe which has been the theatre of scenes more significant in history than that desert Isthmus which unites the Mediterranean and the Red seas, It seems to be the natural key to the occupation of both the Eastern and European centres of trade, and hence to the centres of political supremacy, As such it early caught the eye of the Ptolomies and of Alexander, the Cwsars end the Saracen the great conquerors of the World; and it atten- tively considered and examined with Eastern waa selegrams. Ansiralasin. Our files from Australasia suppiy the latest mail details of the progress of the British war against the Maoris of New rith a full report of the JiMenities and dangers encountered by her Majesty's troops in the A very interesting news re- port from Vi é other portions of the colonies 4: the 4 o iso given. Paraguay. Advices to the 71h uit. state that Lopez has trans | ferred his headquarters and seat of government to San Joaquin. 1t it reported that he has executed his mother, brother and several other persons on suspicion of conspiring against bim. The allies a view to a canal by the far-sering Napoleon the First. The worthlessness of the engineer sent out by him to survey the isthmus scheme promising more lasiing glory taan “the sun of Austerlitz,” What escaped the ambitioa of the mighty Corsican, however, has been achieved under the auspices of (he present French Emperor, But the latter, quick as he is to link his name and dynasty with the triumph of the great canal, may after all reap but little more than glory—ostensibly a great word wlth the Frenchman, but in reality a ani dave made no farther move and probably will aot | for some thine. Cuba. hi a delegation of Insurs | gents ig in Venezuela cing recodiniwn Of that government and the pi jege of raising reernits tn that country. The civil Governor of Santiago tas offered clemency to insurgents who surrender imme- diately. A number of plantations near Trinidad, Oleninegos and elsewhere bave beeen burned recently by tue msurgents, ‘The Englisa Consul at Trinidad is charged with an aggravated act of bar- ratry. | Miscellaneous. It is atated in Jiavana t It is stated in Ottawa that no official account of the troubles in Winnipeg Territory bas been received com Governor McDougal, nor lias any military force deen asked for to escort him to his capital, The Moptven! Nev's says that McDougal is very obnoxtoua | Great Britain. very inconsideraile part of his aspirations. The commercial advantages of the work of M, de Lesseps will affect no power a6 much as If the English, as if satisfied with their railway, have stood aloof from the toil and risk of this canal, no nation will make of it now that it is an established more rise suecess. In an address to the stockholders of the improvement, at Paris, a few months ago, the great engineer tickled his French audience by telling them that if “they held the largest number of shares the English would pay the | largest share of the dividends.” 1t requires, | however, but little sagacity to see that if the | company’s dividends ure drawn from English ty the Indians on account ol their belief that he was ental in deiraw out of their iauas, ling them uw sud suggests to the government that he onght to ve recatled at once, Another severe gale was experienced on the lakes yesterday and the mght previous. {tts sata by old 1ke “salts” to be the roughest might they over saw. Numerous wrecks are reported on Lakes Erie and ontario. rhe Census Committee of Mal meett yesterday, chosen comirman, the House held an al Garfeld has lace of Slr, Stokes, who. taken no part in the Jabors of the comuritree, He was originally appointed thairman, and will probably reclaim hia postrion, when, {tis thought, Garfield will contest the claim, Vincent Collier has arrived in San Francisco from Sitka and Britten Columbia, bringing with him a petition from prominent citizens of British Colambia for annexation, @ duplicate of which is to be for. warded to the (Queen. The feeling among the peo- ple for annexation 1# greatly increased owing to Earl Granville'’s suggestion that they jom the Cana- dian confederation, which, they say, would only increase their burdens, without giving them any more protection. Advices trom Sitka represent the troops in good aeaith, the natives Joyal and the Indians friendiy. Three men of the United States steamer Lincoin were loat recently in Behring Straits, A vessel from Sik. for San Francisco ran ivto an unknowniisiend in the North Pacite Ocean some tine ago, In latitude 59 degrees 26 mintites, longilade 146 Jegroes 6 minntes east, The island is not set down in the Lap chart No, 2 of the Coast Survey. The family of @ Mr, Perghtols, consisting of him- self and wife wna a boy named Gardner, were mur- lered in Hnntingdon, Pa, on Wednesday night, while at supper, by two desperadees, who then Plupdered the house and set it on fire, They were capinced al Aly Perghtols' movey was found in their possession. The authorities at Uicawa deoy the report that Fotallatory measures are under consideration against the United States on account of the non-renewal of “he Reciprocity treaty, ‘The Society of the Army of (he Tennessee, in sex withougt in the city, bas @ion at Louisville, elected General Sherman presi- | feui yesterday AOd Adjourned unt October next, when they Will meet in Cincinnati. The City, Thanksgiving Day was celebrated with the nenal aidor in this city yesterday. Services were eid in she various churches, dinnere were given to the poor by the namerous charitable associations and malinées were given to crowded audiences at the na oon after, and part of Mr. | } pockets it will only be because the canal has | enriched them, Already we hear of the first | vessels built expressly for the canal trade as the property of English merchants, That | France can ever compel anything like a mono- poly or even a tenth part of the transportation | of British Indiq cr tsa fidian Ocean by Suez | ts simply preposterous, The proportion of | freight for the East now carried in Freneh bot- toms scarcely amounts to a hundredth part of | that taken by the English, The route from | Liverpool by the Cape of Good Hope, while long, is free from some drawbacks that can never cease to affect the prosperity of the Suez route, The navigation of the Red Sea has | always been attended with peculiar dangers ; and owing to the surface current setting into | the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, as all ship- | masters know, the exit from the Mediterranean is often impossible for weeks together to sail- The tariff of the canal, to keep | it in good repair, must always be heavy. Now | it is $2,400 in gold for an ordinary Indiaman, | It is not strange, therefore, that one of the | most intelligent French jonrnals—the Paris Monde—commenting in a late issue on the prospective reaulis of the Mont Uenis tunnel | and the canal, saya:— The Indian supplementary mall no longer passes through Marseiiios; It crossés Mont Cenia and takes the direct road by Uirindial, which, according to an approximate calculation, causes a ing oF thirty- two fours, The wunneiiing of Mont Cenis, which is, however, qaite a French undertaking, will atill further shorten this jine, and will tau ‘divert the ordinary mail, then the passenger traitic, and, per- haps, even a great part o: the goods trafile, to the ports of (ue Adriatic, Henceforcn the route to the | Bast will ng longer be via Marseiiles; It will run along tue extreme points of the Iialian peninania, By the cutting of Mont Ceois and the Isthmus of | Snez it is, thereiore, clear that France has ben | working Jor Engiand much more than for horselt, She pas given herself the trouble to fartitate the road tothe Bast for her and to maxe straight the parhs for the feetof her rival, Leyland wil be but | litle grateral to her for it, and France will love com- mercial and political mfuence, Napoleon may make some happy alliances | throngh his interest in tho great aquednot; \ but with Gibraltar in her hands, securing ber | entrance to the Mediterranean, England has ! nothing to fear from the opening of thé canal, } } ing veasels, It brings the trade of her two hundred mil- Hons of tributary people in India, her trade of the great Indian Archipe’ago and of Australia, and of her established centres of supply in China, five thousand miles nearer to London by sbip than the Cape of Good Hope. Last, but not least, this Suez Canal brings all these late discoveries around the eqnatorial sources of the Nile of Speke, Grant, Baker, Burton, Livingstone within a convenient distance for English colonization, And in view of the fact that these discoveries have developed a fertile region larger than all our’ Southern States together, adapted to cotton, coffee, rice, sugar and tobacco, England will surely, throuzh t iis canal, turn these discoveries into new centres of trade. If France, therefore, has the glory of this Suez Canal England will get the lion's share of the profits; and the canal by common consent will remaia open to all nations, beoause 4 struggle for its absolute possession might expand Into conflict which would change the dynasty and the destiny of every nation in Burope. Cespedes at Work in Cuba. The threat of the revolutionary government of Cuba to harass the Spanish enemy by burn- ing down the cane fields, and thus cutting off the supplies and the revenue, seems to havo been already putin force, We learn that some plantations near Cienfuegos have been recently burned, It fs but a few days ago that we were informed that the sugar plantations were set on fire, and curiously enongh, on this occa- sion, by two Chinamen, who were probably employed by the revolutionists for this pur- pose, If Cespedes has resolved to carry out this kind of warfare he will do more damage to the enemy than could a dozen brigades in the field, The destruction of supplies in an ene- my's country—-and such we may regard Cuba now with respect to Spanish power in that island —has a more deadly effect than innumer- able defeats ia battle. Humanitarians may condemn this kind of warfare as inhuman. But the history of our owa civil war shows that had ft not been for the orders issued to Sheridan, and so vigorously carried out by him in the Shenandoah Valley, where he ruth- lessly swept ail before him, and the desolation which Sherman left behind him from Atlanta to the sea, the struggle would have continued much longer, It was this kind of warfare which appalled the South and made further resistance Impossible and further shedding of blood criminally unnecessary. It is a terrible and crnel expedient, no doubt, and can be made more cruel according to the disposition of the commanding general; but it is sanc- tioned by the laws of war, and people fi :hting for their liberty, as the Cubans are, must be amply justified in resorting to {t, AN Inpropre Daowion.—In a suit for damages against the Western Union Telegraph Company, jnst tried in Georgia, it was decided that a telegraph company is not responsible for errors and delays when its lines are under the supervision of the military authorities, It the lines in Georgia are in the bands of the military to such an extent as to relieve the company of responsibility that is a fact hitherto not generally known. This decision was not a very sound one in the general principles touched upon, as it tends to establish the rule that telegraph companies are not reaponsible tor their own errors. Such a decision can only rest on @ very narrow view of commer- alone diverted the Emperor's mind from a } cial policy. Tur War w Nuw Zraranp.—Our news report by mail from the antipodes, published this morning, furnishes full and official details of the British military operations undertaken against the Maoris of New Zealand in their attitude as contumacious rebels and treaty breakers. A combined movement made by her Majesty’s commanders and troops was attended with much difficulty and dasger, but carried to a présent conclusion with charac- jeristic tenacity, “pluck” and endurance, The result has not been very profitable, however, as only thirty Maoris are known to have died from wounds during the campaign. It is to be hoped that Macaulay's man, as a youthful patriot volunteer, was not of the number, for should he live to visit London, as anticipated by the great historian, he will find a magnificent new bridge at Westminster, on which he can have a solid footing during his sketching. In what condition he may view St, Paul's is another and moro difficult question, owing to the terrible Church squabbles which are just pow carried on in that neighborhood. Victor EMANveL—Rerorts oF aN Appi- ation. —A curious report reaches us conoern= ing Victor Emanuel. During his iilness it is said he contracted a morganatic marriage ; and now ramor bas it that he proposes to abdi- cate. Weare willlog to believe that the ab- fact, This marriage-—if there roally hag bsen a marriage—may make it a necessity. Besides it will not he convenient for the King to renew his personal struggle with the Church, Italy may not be willing to make peace with the Pope. All things taken into account, it may be personally and publicly a good thing for the King to do—to follow his father's example, and the example of so many of his predeces- sors, and retire in favor of bis son. Prince Humbert is a capable lad and gives fair promise to be a good king. GexeraL MoQvape.—In another column will be found « pleasant little epistle on militia law, fines, regiments, straining, legisiation and politeness from the Inspector General of the State, an accomplished gentleman, who is pious on Sundays and ‘don’t care a damn” on other days, He writes for onr especial information on a mililary topic; but as it seems to us that the military publie will be more interested in the explanation than we are, and as we are unselfish in the matter of dainties, we spread in our columns the letter in which the General spreads himself, Rank bs tie Navy.—Secretary Robeson has appointed a Board of Officers to examine into the relations of the naval line and staff in the matier of rank. It is high time that the right and wrong of a dispnte that has already caused flagrant injustice, and that threatens to demoralize at leas} one branch of the service, were put on such clear grounds that Congress dication rumor may have some foundation in | Tho Freedmen’s Bureau—Gencral Wownrd’s Report. The report of General O, O. Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, presents an encouraging review of its opera- tions and influence during the past year and of the improved condition ef Southern freed- men, Its statistics are remarkably interesting. One year ago there wero on duty in the Bureau one hundred and forty-one commissioned officers, four hundred and twelve civilian agents and three hundred and forty-eight clerks, Now there are but fifte n officers, seventy-one agents ani seventy-two clerks. The clothing and rations then issued to the destitute cost on an average $93,700 per moth, Now no such supplies are issued except to the sick in hospital. Instead of twenty-one hospitals, forty dispensaries, eighty-five surgeons and five thousand four hundred patients, there are now but two hospitals, no dispensaries, five surgeons and five hundred and forty-one patients. Trans- portation and stores were then furnished at a cost of $24,840 per month; now no transpor- tatlon orders are given, So long as the educational and boun'y divisions of the Bureau continue it will not be practicable to make further reduction of the force. The only hos- pitals now kept up are those at Richmond and Washington, The special relief fund was drawn upon doring the year to the extent of $252,547 for clothing and food. Tho great mass of freed people are now self-supporting, and many have gone into business on thelr own account. The hostility to schools and teachers has in a great measure ceased. Official reports give 2,118 schools, 2,455 teachers and 114,522 pupils within the jarisdiction of the Bureau. It is a striking and significant fact that the freedmen themselves raised and expended last year for school purposes alone not less than $200,000, General Howard shows that the entire cost of the Bureau since ita organization has been but $15,029,816, He recommends that the bounty and educational divisions be continued, and that the work they are now doiag be trans- ferred to other departments if the Bureau is closed, and concludes by aiseriiig that the law of self-preservation will justity Congress in establishing a gendral system of free schools throaghout the South, if the States themselves do not furnish them at an early day, 80 that the children may receive such teaching as wi!l fit them to discharge intelli- gently the duties of free American citizens, Jt is assuredly gratifying to learn from the report of General Howard that the Freedmen’s Burean bas been instrumental in ameliorating to so high a degree, within 80 short a period since the close of the war, the condition of the colored people in the South. Wode Hampton on the ireedmen, There is a Stale Fair now in progress at Mavon, Ga., and it appears to be attended with considerable success. The agricultural and labor interests ot the State are largely represented there, and they are not merely confined to Georgia, but extend over all the Southern. States. Many of these fairs have been hold of late, and the effect has been gen- erally good, predicting a largely improved condition of the whole South and showing the advance made in material progress since the disastrous times of tie’ cisil war. General Hampton, who has frequently exhibited. his wise appreciation of the existing condition of things, and has given many sensible ideas concerning the new relations between the North and the South, expressed himself with some force on the question of treating the freedmen for the mutual benefit of that class and of the South- ern States also. He urged the necessity of cultivating a patriarchal and friendly feeling with the colored freedmen nnd the improve- ment of their moral and intellectual status, This is what the South requires. The South- ern people know that the freedmen are there among them; that they are there by law estab- Ustied, either as an incubus to be carried on the shoulders of Southern industry or an ele- ment to be employed for its benefit, Wade Hampton evidently sees the matter in this light, and he advises his people well upon this subject, The South is gradually reliev- ing itself from the effects of the Inte war, and perhaps there are no means which it can employ better calculated to assist the issue than the judicious use of thé negro element, as suggested by Wade Hampton. Witr it Be ar Tusir?—General Fleury, French Minister at the Russian Conrt, tele- graphs to Paris from St, Petersburg that the Caar Alexander “‘agres.” to meet the Emperor Napoleon during the winter. If General Fleury uses he word “agrees,” as telegraphed hy the Atlantic cable, it indicates that his Majesty had at some period anterior refused a proposition to this effect. Will the sovereigns meet at Tilsit, the King of Prussia furnishing the raft? It may be, Tne Arvest or Gexerat Butter.—Gene- ral Butler still enjoys the distinction of being hated at the South with an especial acrimony. The latest of many assaults provoked by the uncompromising spirit in which he performed hfs duties as a national soldier comes in the shape of a suit that draws ita inspiration from the friends of General Twiggs, a man whose treason to his country was all the worse from the fact that he had won fame in her service, Such a suit from sucha source is entitled to no respect from public sentiment, and to as little as possible from the courts, and in that sense the suitors are likely to have justice, War Cratms.—-One or the other of two things must be done: we must give up all ides of paying claims for property in the South | destroyed by the war, or we must repudiate | the national debt, This ta so plain that Con- i gress lias already come ont pretty clearly against the principle of a series of claims the payment of which would bankrupt any govern- ment in the world. But now the bill for some cotton burned during the war is handed in as the claim ofa foreigner, who asseris the same right to sue our government that our citizens have to suo his, It is only necessary for it to become known that these claima can bho recovered in that guise for every one of them might forever dispose of the trouble by proper legislation; and the action taken by the Secre- tary, ag it seems to tend to that end, is just what was necessary. to assume it, and we shall suddenly discover that every dollar's worth of property destroyed was owned by the citizens of foreign govern- ments. A Heavy Blew. The hurricane of Wednesday morning, which seems to have swept over a large por- tion of the country, east and north of us, was something terrible in its consequences. But the most remarkable result of its fury was the accident on the Harlem Railroad at Boston Four Corners, which océurred to the train that left Chatham at nine o'clook, The cars were lifted from the track, says the report, by the force of the wind, and burled down an embankment seventy-five feet. This is 8 new cause for a railroad disaster; but is it the true one? The company know best whether it was the storm or something else not uncommon on railroads which threw off the train. The spot where the accident ocour- red is certainly very much exposed to the effects of heavy storms, and it seems that sud- den gusts of wind rushing through a mountain gorge in tempestuous seasons“ just at this place have often before produced serious accidents to the line, This fact being known the question occurs, can no means be taken to Protect the road at this point from the repeti- tion of these disasters? Is there no way of sheltering the trains from the fury of the storm? Surely the company might devise some plan whereby railroad accidents, arising from such extraordinary causes as these, might be avoided. Tue Cross on tHe Surz CanaL.—The bless- ing on the Suez Canal and the sermon by Pere Baner, the Almoner of the Empress Eugénie, with the concession of religious liberty in Egypt and Turkey, mark an advance of the Cross over the dominions of the Crescent des- tined to be more potential In its consequences than all the crusades and all the bloody wars against the believers in Mohammed, from first - to last. Thus, through the material agents of modern science, the peaceful triumphs of the Cross will not be stayed till they have covered the earth. Steam, the electric wire and trade have become the world-subduing missionaries and teachers of Christianity. Napo.ron and THE Frenom Raptoars.— Napoleon is killing his enemies, the French “reds,” not with grapeshot, but with kindness. By refusing to adopt severe measures against them he has so demoralized the opposition that Ledra Rollin finds it convenient to withdraw his candidature for the Corps Législatif. This, however, is not all, Henri Rochefort has been challenged by the editor of the Pays. A bullet or a rapier may make an end.of Roche- fort. His death would be no great loss to France and would be a gain to the Emperor. The elections.to take place in Paris on Sunday next are not likely to be attended by any political earthquake. Hiaowws anp tHE Hoxrnet.—The Cuban Junta, not satisfied with what it already knows of the story ofits lost cruiser, is pushing inves- gation, It finds in all places a general agree- ment on the statement that the coal was not good and that the ship went into Wilmington to get better, and this story hag the aspect of one agreed upon for the purpose. When men are tired of an enterprise it is not difficult to find reasons satisfactory to themsclves for relin. quishing it. Suine A Vierance Comitren.—Two men in Kentucky who were hanged by a vigilance committee, but upon whom the work was not done very effectually, have come to life and are suing a dozen members of the committee for sixty thousand dollars damages. This is avery unusual case. ‘Vigilance committee” is now ® common name for a sort of organiza- tion that commits murder and does other vio- lence in the name of law and order; but of course the murder and violence must be the same before the law, whatever names they are done in, so that if the half-hanged litigants get a verdict in their favor there will bea clear case for the criminal courts against the vigilants. Tue Lave STorm—The Fine THANKSGIVING Day.—Onr despatches on the subject show that the late storm swept over the whole region east of the Mississippi river from Georgia to the New Dominion, The natural reaction has been equally extensive in a strong aor'wester and a clear, bracing, wholesome day for the national Thankegiving, concerning the celebration of which we publish a copious budget of reports this morning. Dis STEAS 08 On Wednesday morning the schooner Margaret Kennedy, of Stratford, was sunk off Milford harbor in agale, She was heavily loaded with coal consigned to Willlam Stoddard, of Milford, The vessel at- tempted to enter Milford harbor, but the gale was 40 wevere that she was obliged to anchor off Uharies Island, The cavlatu, Frank A, Rich, of Stratford, wun his wife and child and two men, succeeded in getting upon the island in sutety. ‘The vessel and cargo were insured, The schooner Aboott Lawrence, Caprain Ober, of Brookiyn, Me., irom Calais, Me, with @ cargo of lumber for the Lewis Seecher Co., while endeavoring to enter tue harbor, about tour o'clock yesterday morning, struck the west shore and was obliged to run ashore near Lanier Rock, where tho water constantly made a clean breach over her, The crew found great aiMculty om remaining aboard. She filled with water and will bave to dis. charge her cargo by toe use of lighters betore ane can be got of QGaptain Ober also reports that abont three o’closk in the morning ne saw a vessel which he supposed to be a schooner, off Branford, tip over, aut It is supposed she went down and ail tne cre? Were Jost. During the morning the schooner R. L. Crook, Captain Young, of Catakill, N. Y., drag) anchor in the harbor apd went ashore. Joaded with stone, and will have to discharge her cargo before she can getot. The schooners James MeGee and David also dragged their ancuora, ‘The storm i# the most severe One experienced In the har- bor for many years, = A HEARTLESS CASE, The police of the Twenty-first ward give the par- ticulars of @ case of heartiess abandonment that ia likely soon to command the attention of the courta. Js is said that on jast Saturday evening a gentieran, evidently of means, calied at the hoarding honse of Mra. William Miller, corner of ‘Thirty-second street. and ‘Third ” avenue, accompanied by Julia Ham: itou, whom he introduced as his sister, it 18 alleged that he expressed a desire torent room for the girl, Mra, Miller took Miss Lamuton up stairs,and while sne was examining the premises she was taken Jn labor And soon after Was delivered of achild. Wheu asked if he was prepared to pay for the girl's care,it ts aileved he positively refused, aud took M18 Cowart. xequent. investigations mate by the ¢ Poury heen employed as & domestic in tne family of the party who accompa- nied her, and whose name has not trasptred, The Conmistoners of Charities and Correction have consented to care for the unfortnnate girl 80 s00a as she 18M B condition 10 b Will take action to compel ¢1 her mistor- tone (6 support the little stranger who has come into the World under such unfavorahie anapices, THE DRAWBACK FRAUDS. New Youk, Nov, 17, 1859 To TH Evtvon of tue Une "Ym . Justice to myself requires me to stato that Twas not in any way implicated in the matter in which my name 4 mentioned in your columns of to-tay. ‘The District Attorney, Mr. awards Pierrepont, ad- vised the Comtuiamtoner not to commit me and I was discharged from arrest, the District Attorney at the same tine ing that ip his belief I was innocent And entirely free from criminality, and he should need me aga witness, J. We LALOK, Nava Omcer, WASHINGTON. WASuINOTON, Nov. 18, 1869, ‘The Census Comwlttee—Probuble Dissensiog as to the Chairmanship. Messrs, Garfield, Wilkinson and Haideman, of the Census Cammtttee, held an informal session to-day, in which they further considered the business be fore them, Several additional mem ers of the coum mittee have announced their intention to be hert within a few daya. Mr. Stokes, the reguiar chairmaa, Of the committee, is said to bein tne ctty, but hat taken no part as yet in the lanors of his colleagues, Owing to non-attendance of Mr. Stokes upon the 66% sions of the committee General Garfield was elected chairman, Stokes will probabiy claim his position by virtue of appointment, which may l6ad to @ controversy between himself and Garfeld. The jatter gentleman has given considerabie attention ta the census, and has even Jad out the framework of @ bill relating to the subject, which he proposes to Place betore the committee for tdcir adoption. The measure will be managed by Mr. Garfleid in the House of Representaiives uf Stokes does not step is and depose bim and steal all nis thunder, ‘The Proposed New Orean Cable to Holland William Cornell Jewett has just arrived here front Europe. He has obtained from the King of thé Netherlands a concession to land and use on Hollané #oll an ocean cable from New York. Mr, Jowo® intends laying the subject before the President, THE REUNION OF WEST.BN VETERANS Closing Meeting of the Reciety of The Army of the Tennessee in Louisville—General Sherman Chosen President—The Cuvalrys mon in Session. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 18, 1869, The Society of the Army of the Tennesse me again at twenty minutes past efeven o'clock thig morning. Generals Sherman and Sheridan appeared upon the stage and were greeted with cheors The ball was well filed with members and spectators, Reports were made by the corresponding and recording secte.aries and treasurer. The con» mititee appointed at the last reunion to select @ se fore badge to be adopted by the society, made @ report, wluch was read. ‘the commitee on the nommation of offivers ree Ported @ list, as followa:— General W. T. Sherman, President; General G, BM. Dodge, First Vice President; Goneral U. C. Walcot Second Vice President; General J, M. Loomis, T! Vice President; General’ @. M. Rusx, Fourth: Vico Presaient; Colonel W. 1. Coleuian, Fifth Vice Presl- dent; General W. J. Sandrum, Sixtn Vice Pregie dent; Colonel M. vayton, Keco.ding Se0- General A. Hickeniooper, Correapond- ing Secretary. The momieens were elecied by acclamation,” General W, i. Force was chosen treasurer. The committer on the time and piace of holding the next :uee.ung reported in favor of Vine cinnati as the piace and Octover asthe time, The committee on the McPberson monument made ®& report, in which it Was recouimendet that a com iuit.ee be appointed to me norialize Congress for an’ appropriation of a sudic.eat namber of caunon cape tured by \icPhersou’s commaud to cast mis sialuds. Adjourned. The Society of the Cavalry of the Went, LOUISVILLE, Nov. 18, 1860, The Society of the Cavalry of tae West met at the» Galt House to-day, General Wilson presiding. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, An Informal report of the Committee on Permanent Organization was read, and the time of the com- mittee further extended. The Committee on the Badge reported that no definite action had been taken. Some remarks were made by:the President calling attention to the ob- jects of the aasoctanion. Major Hosea imcoroduced @. project: for writing @ history of the oavairy oper utions of the West, : ‘The name Of the society was changed to that of the: Soc.ety of the Cavalry of the West. Major L. M. Hosea. of Cinc’nnad, was designated the hisior an, and the members were requested to furnish him with ali the material withia their reach for Mis use in compiling a history ol the society. ‘The President was autnorized to appoint a com- mittee on soliciting membership and collectiag te dues. The annual dues were fixed, pro tempore, at one dollar, ‘the fouow: ing officers were chosen for the ensuing: year:—President, General James A. Wilson, wit seven vice presidents: Kecording Secretary, 6. Y. Shaplau; Corresponding Secretary and Historian, L. M. noses, Tieasurer, M. R. Wallace, ‘The society adjourned subject to the cali of th — the time and place to be seiccted by tu pelf. FUNERAL OF MRS. HAHNAH BRENNAN. One of the moat solemn and tinpressive funerak ceremonies which bave taken piace in this clty for some time past was that of Mrs. Hannah Brennaa— mother of Timothy, Owen W. and Matthew 1. Bren- nan—which took place: yesterday at St. Andrew's charch and. St. Patrick's Cathedral. The deceased Indy had during her lifetime, extending over @ period of nearly elghty-fonr years, endeared herself to all who cam: in conmct with her, and rich and poor alike lamented her detias. Her sons, both ia public and private life, have, as is well known, numderless friends, and, under ihe Cire cumstances, it was but natural to be ergy tbat tha jaat corporal work of mercy and mark of honor and esteem which cout be paid would find ready hands aad willing hearta in their performauce, ‘The body of the deceased lay. since hor demise on Monday last, at her inte residence, No. 94 White atreet, and, from the moment tae news ef her death was announced until the time of, she iuneral the house was literally besieged by the friends and acquaintances of tag family eager to look upon the benevolent Teatures and tender their sympathies to the sorrowing family. m the room where the easket containing the re mains Was placed there was a bewtldertng profasion Of exquisite dowers. There were Roman and Maltese crosses. harps, lyres, anchors, crowns, bas- kets and iminense bouquets Oi tuneroses, camelias, tea-roses, Immporteiles and oiher rare and costly specimeps of Piora’s Kingdom, These were sent as tokons of affection by friends of the deceased and were certainly most beauerful tributes, Shortly atter tea o'clock yesterday morning the, body was removed irom the house to St, Andrew's chureb, corner of Duane street and City Hall place, and here a solemn mass of requiem Was sung, With the Rev. M. Curran. actmg a8 celebrant. At conclusion of the mass the rematna lay in state im the centre aisle of the church during an hour or tw and crowds of the poor people of the Fourth an Sixth wards—many of whom had often veen par- takers of Mrs, Brennan’s charity and jiberahty— waked past the catafaique and gazed with tearfat eyes on the venerable features of the deat. The body was then tak non the shoulders of lour gen- emen, and, a procession having been formed, was borne up Centre street to Canal, to Broadwa , to Prince street, to Mott street, to St. Patrick’ Cathedral, where the casket was laid on @ bier in the main aisie of the churcn. The funeral cortége was most imposing, The members of the city and county governtuent, members o: the State Legisiatuce and of Congress trom this vicinity, judges, members of the bar, leading private citiz ana others were in the line wh ch was fully severt. blocks in lengtn. At elther side of the coitin waiked the following gentiemen bs oe veurers:—A, Oakey Hall, Wiliam M. Tweed, Peter 8, tae Henr Smelds, James B. Nichoixon, isaac Bell, James Sweeny aid Thomas Moloney. At tiie Cathearal the Very Kev, Father Starrs, y G,, delivered an eloquent and fliting eulogy on “bY densed, at the conciusion of which the remains were placed in the famudy vault mm the basement of tie church. THE GRAND STREET HOM.GOE. Release of the Prisoner on Bail. James Lee, the man who killed William Keane to the porter Louse No, 40% Grand street last Monday morning, by shooting him through the brain with & revolver, Was yosterday brought from the Tombs to the City Hall, lor the purpose of being released on bail, in the abseuce of Coroner Keenan, who heid the inquest, Coroner Roluns released Lee on $10,000 bat, which Was lurnished by Mr, vaniel Beekman, living at No. 284 Kast Twenty-seventh street. The Directory shows that Mr, Beekman 18 8 grocer and does business at No, 643 Second avenue aud No, lo Stanton sirect. It wag undersiood that the Pistrio’ Atlorney sanctioned the prisoner’ #eirise 00 aiving the requisite security for his future appeaiince When called upon. THE PAINE DIVOTLE CASE. Son wrewrmemimy ceeeenen REN OME Heres roe mine preme Court, on @ motion by the defendant, Mra, Paine, for alimony pendente lite; and the plaintim, Tra A. Paine, states that the reporters have done him injustice tm the reports of the cage. His attorney states that the application of Mra, Paine for alimony and a counsel fee o1 $150 was }ouuded on her own oath alone that she wis innocent ana des. titute, Mr, Paine’s alidavit proved that his parents, fourteen yours ago when ne wast boyy eighteen yoara of age, compelled him to marry Marne, ‘then twenty-tiwo years Olt; that just hefore tho Gaye mony a Written agidement was exeouted by Mrm fame that she woud never require hime to live with her, or have anythiag to do | #ith her, ana re wotia never call upon him for of molest hun in Why q_ttner; thar he has never f0r ® moment lived Witil UOT, Mme NAS Never had anything to do with her since the inarriagey she lives at No. 14 Walker street, Providence, Keeps & hotorions hose; that she is in aftluent cumstances, owns or leases two houses, keeps @ Cat riage and norses, and goes by the name of Et | Caoke, and lives with one George Cooke, a aporung man, and is Known in Providence as Cooke's wor pian, a. SE