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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD The Suez Canal and the Sovereignty of the Sultan. Dr. Livingstone Reports His Safety and Treatment to Bombay. Failures in the Liverpool Corn Trade. The Spanish Government in Collision With Rome. EGYPT. The Suez Canal Neutralization—A Turco Egyptian Difficulty. si Lonpon, Nov. 23, 1869, ‘The Sultan of Turgey protesta against the act of the Viceroy of Egypt, in proclaiming the neutrality of the Suez Canal, as a trespass on his sovereignty. A despatch from Suez reports that the Exyptian steamer Laty has been aground two days off that Port, The Empress of France and the Canal Eleot—At the Mediterranean—The Emperor ot Austria, PARIS, Nov. 23, 1869, The Journal Oficiel of this city has recelved the following despatch from Port Said:— The imperial yacht Aigle, with the Empress on board, and the entire fleet left Suez yesterday and reached the Mediterranean to-day. The success of the inauguration 1s complete. The Emperor of Austria will leave Catro Thurs- day on his return to Europe. AFRICA. Doctor Livingstone’s Safety Certain—A Late Letter from the Explorer. Lonpoy, Nov. 23, 1869. Tt is now absolutely certain that the great African traveller, Rey. David Livingstone, 1s safe. The Duke of Argyle yesterday received a telegram from the Governor of Bombay containing the infor- Mation that de (the Governor) had just received a letter from Mr. Livingstone himself, dated Ujij1, May 13, 1869. Mr. Livingstone was in good health and was every- ‘where weil treated. ENGLAND. Commercial Failures—The Awerican Grain Trade—Marine Disaster. Lonpon, Nov. 23, 1869. There have been many failures in the grain trade at Liverpool. Several of the firms had extensive Awerican connections. The ship Spendthrift, from Shanghae, with a cargo of tea, has been totally wrecked off Dungeness, only Olty miles from port. Leasing a Telegraph Cable. LONDON, Nov. 23, 1869, The Anglo-American Telegraph Company have leased one of their two Atlantic cables to a German company with whom negotiations to this end have jong been pending. The term of the lease ts tive reara. SPAIN. Tho Bishop of Havana at Madrid. MADRID, Nov. 28, 1869, The Bishop of Havana, who was recently arrestéd at Cadiz, was brought to this city to-day under guard. He will have an examination immediately. Cuban Sympathizers—Government Collision with the Church—The Throne Question. MapniD, Nov, 23, 1869, In compliance with a resolution adopted by the Cortes cailing for information, the government has een obliged to submit tor examination documents which implicate Spanish republicans in a conspiracy with the msurgents of Cuba. The government has determined to adopt rigorous measures @gainst certain bishops who left the coun- try for Rome without passports or permission. The journals here contradict the report which had gained some credit outside of Spain, thatin many Political circles the Duke of Aosta was preferred to the Duke of Genoa for the throne. FRANCE, Parla Tranquil—Etlection Results. PARIS, Nov. 23, 1869. The city is entirely tranquil. Ministers Bourbean and Leroub have been re-elected deputies. Napoleon To Remain in the City—Papal Infal- ibility. Panis, Nov. 23, 1899, The Emperor Napoleon has decided to remain in Paris for the present. The Bishop of Orleans reprimands M. Veuillot, the editor of an ultramontane organ here, for the publi- cation of articles in favor of the infallibility ot the Pope. English Advice for Parlinmentary Pressure, LONDON, Nov, 23, 1869, The London Times in an articie on tne political situation in France says:— ‘The hopes which were lately raised of the forma- tion of a ministry under Olivier have vanished, The Emperor has resolved to retain his Present advisers in office, at least until the Meeting of the Ohambers, when new men may be required to initiate the new relations between the government and the Legislature. Whether their appointment will precede or follow the opening of the Chambers, or whether they will result from the imperial preference or a parliament- ary vote, is of little consequence. The Legislature, Af true to itself, will always have the last word on the subject.’ It 1s for the Legisiature to enlighten the @overeiyi, te bring its wishes to bear on him, and f tmpose hem, U necessary, upon hin. The Hierarchical Assemblage. Roms, Nov. 23, 1869. About 150 bishops have already arrived here. Many vf them are from America. THE PACIFIC COAST. Arrival of a Japanese Prince at San Fran- ciscomHeavy Gale on the California Const— Gold Discoveries in Alaska=Delegate to Congress from Alaska. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23, 1869. A Japanese prince and suite arrived by the China steamer yesterday. He Is sent as a spectal commis- sioner by the Emperor to inquire into the condition of the Japanese laborers on the sugar plantations in the Sandwich Islands. The General Superintendent gof the Central Pa- cific Ratiroad has gone to Ogden to take possession Of the road between Ogden City and Promontory for the Centra: company and to arrange the neces- sary junction, Aheavy gale from the north has prevailed here @nd numerous wrecks are reported. Bark Mary J. Smith is a total wreck, in Barclay Sound. Bark Buena Vista is red ashore near this port. ‘The Governor of Britisn Columbia has been applied to for a gunboat to go to Barclay Sound to look after the wreck of the bark W. A. Banka, wrecked In the Straits of Tuca November 6, ‘Che vessel was & total loss, but the crew were saved. ‘anno A tae Urine that gold has been oo ered 01 ars in i@ streams runn! ito Coor’s Inlet. or eral Ihrie has been elected Delegate to Con- - from _ A jour weak. 08 $4 37% & $5 60. Wheat dull. Sales at $1 50, tho highest quot po quotations, oat NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEK 74, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, MINNESOTA. Tce Gorge on the Upper Mississippi. Br. Louris, Nov, 23, 1869. * Adespatch from the north says there is an ice gorge at Hastings, Minn., and Lake Pepin is frozen over. The Northern Line Packet Comp‘ are send- ing their boats into winter quarters are fast as they arrive here. MISSOURI. Another Victim of the St. Louls Disaster= Novel Scene in a Presbyterian Church—A Thief Excommunicated. St. Louis, Nov. 23, 1869. The body of Peter Wedenhouse was taken from the Fifth street ruins late last hight. Two or three more bodies are believed to be in the ruins, A young man named Barnett was publicly excom- Mmunicated from the Walnut street Presbyterian church last Sunday for extracting money from the weekly collections. He confessed to having pur- loined about $1,000 since last February. Quartermaster General Meigs, of Washington, who has been suffering trom erysipelas for some days past, 1s improving. MICHIGAN. Railroad Convention at East Saginaw. DerKolT, Nov. 23, 1869, A convention in the interest of the Northern Pa- cific and Michigan Short Line Railroad met at East Saginaw to-day. About sixty delegates were present from Detroit, Port Huron, the valley cities, Jackson, Lansing, Toledo, Chicago, Oregon and elsewhere. Letters were read from Senator Howard, Governor Baldwin, Jay Cooke, Mayor Page, of Oswego; John A. Poor and John Neal, of Portland, Me.; T. W. Ferry, Edgar Conklin and others. Mr. Driggs read an able re- port showing the resources of Northern Michigan and the extent jof the trafic between Lake Superior and Saginaw. During the year 1863 the mineral product of the Lake Superior district amounted to $8,900,000; the lumber trafic of the State to about $28, . The total product of Northern Michigan for "1868, from mines, quarries, forests, fisheries and salines amounted in value to about $400,000, The Committee on Permanent Organization re- ported John Moore, of Saginaw, as president and nine vice presidents and three secretaries. A short address was made by the chairman. At the evening session speeches were made by Witham A. Howard, of Grand Rapids; H. H. Emmons, of Detroit, and others, when the Conven- tion adjourned until t o-morrow. ILLINOIS. Illness of General Sheridan—Liquor Dealers’ Convention. Cuicaao, Nov, 23, 1869. Lieutenant General Sheridan 1s still quite 111 at his residence, betng confined to his bed. His allment 1s in the shape of a fever resulting from cold, which he took while at Louisville, His physician thinke he will soon get better. A convention of liquor dealers of the United States commences in this city to-morrow. KENTUCKY Horrible Accident in Louisville—Two Men Scalded in a Vat. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 23, 1869. This morning, while some workmen at Thomas & Co.’s pork house were engaged emptying slush from a lara tank into a vat of botling water, a man named Edward Welch missed his footing and fell into the vat, Dennis Quinlan, while trying to rescue Welch, wae Chasen ae vies es Airport Both men horribly seaided. Quinlan died this ning and Welch cannot survive ane VIRGINIA, Early Completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad—The National Board of Trade. RICHMOND, Nov. 23, 1869, Arrangements were closed yesterday in New York with several prominent capitalistsjby which the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will be completed at once. Among the capitalists are W. H. Aspinwall, nies Low, ©. P. Huntington, Fisk & Hatch, and others, The city authorities are making extensive arrange- ments for entertaining the National Board of Trade, which meets here on the Ist of December. Steamers for the excursionists, public dinners, bails and other entertainments are on the programme. The State Republican Convention meets in this clty to-morrow. MARYLAND. Falr in Aid of the Baltimore Inebriate Asylum—SpeecH of Vice-President Colfax. BALTIMORE, Nov. 23, 1869. A fair vo aid in the establishment of an inebriate asylum in this city, under the auspices of the ladies of Baltimore, opened here to-night at the Maryland Institute. The three Commanderies of Knights Templars of this city were present in full regalia, also an immense crowd. Among the distinguished persons present wes Vice-President Colfax, who waa introduced to the vast concourse by Mayor Banks tn a few pertinent remarks. On coming for- ward, the Vice President, after brief, prefatory re- marks, said:— A work of benevolence and of humanity towards our brethren like this should enlist every heart that is touched with feeling for human infirmity. There isa question that comes down to ail of us through the centuries from the very birthplace of mankind, full of momentous interest to every one upon the footatool of God. 1t is that question which Cain asked of the Almighty, not a3 a ques- tion, but_as a defence jt arraignment for his crime. It was, “Am my brother's keeper?!’ In every civilized land throughout the globe, in every civilized nation and State » and community. the answer comes back to that question, “You are your brother’s keeper.” It is @ responsibility that no one of you can deny or evade. Every statute that you find in your statute book for the punishment of crime and fraud is the answer to the question, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?” Every jail and prison that cast their gloomy shadows over the land; every sheriff and police oficer is the answer that the community makes to this question, as old as mankind itself. And besides this, and better than this, every reformatory and ameliatory institution that blesses this land of ours ts the answer we give to the question that comes to us almost from the Gardena of Eden itseif, The institution of which we are so justly proud, where the mind is restored to those whose reason has been dethroned, in the asylum for the insane, in those institutions wwere the blind are aimost made to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, in every institution for the relief of the poor and dis- tressed we have the answer of society to the ques- tion “Am I iny brother's Keeper?’ And this noble work which you have inaugurated here to-night for those who have been the deluded ana self-destroy- ing victims of the temptation, even of the most ifted in our land, brings the answer of the enevolent in the St te of Maryland that they are their brother's keeper. (Applause.) God speed you, God bless you in this noble work. in ‘this great world of ours, spring- ing as we do from the hand of a common Creator; believing a3 we do in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, every one whom you meet on your pathway is your brother. He may be poor, he may be penniless, he may be humble, criminal or fallen, but they are brethren of the dust, pilgrims on the same journey, travellers to tho same tomb. If God has blessed you with strength of will that you have been enabled to fortity yourselves, 1t 18 for you to lift him up from that depth to which he has fallen and put him upon his feet, and to redeem him, if possible, from a iiving death, worse even than tne death of the tomb. After alluding to the brilliant intellects that have fallen. victims to intemperance Mr. Colfax con- tinued:—It ts the miser, it is the stingy, the penu- rious and the tight-fisted who aro free from this evil. It 13 the large-hearted, the social man who cannot resist the temptation of a social Boag the geniai man, the generous man, whom this tempter finds its victim. It assails all classes alike. You can find it couching at the hearthstones of the poor and it casts its gloomy shadow over the marble mantels of the rich; the most brilliant worshipping at that shrine ent temptation which they cau- not resist, and which urges them on toa drunkard’s death and to @ drunkard’s grave, I tell you, my friends, there ts only one way in which you can re- sist the temptation. There is only one talisman, and that 1a, “Touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean thing.” In the earlier years of my manhood, when 1 saw & young friend who had been travellin, the samo pathway with myself, when I st by hia bedside and saw his soul leave his body, calling upon God to damn his soul in his delirium, 1 for one resolved that I would tyrn my back upon it henceforth and forever. (Applause.) It ts the true pathway in private life, in public life, in social life and in individual life, During tte evening a very fine chair was pre- sented to Mrs. Colfax, which was received in her be- haif by Mr. Samuel Shoemaker witn appropriate remarks. A LUNATIC AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE. About half-past twelve o'clock this morning an elegantly dressed woman came to tne Central OMce for lodgings. She gave her name as the wife of @ respectable eltizen, who was tele- dat fifteen minutes after one this morning he took her away in @ carriage. Iti said the woman Is insane WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Meeting of the Obie State Woman Suffrage Association—Addresses by Lucy Stone and Mrs. Blackwell. CLEVELAND, Nov. 23, 1869. Two meetings of the Ohio State Woman Suffrage Association were held to-day to appoint delegates to the convention called for to-morrow. Mrs. Dr. Cut- ler, of Cleveland, presided. At the morning meet- ing only three of the nineteen Congres- gional districts were represented, The Execu- tive Committee reported that there were ten local organizations in existence in the State. Short speeches were made by Lucy Stone, Jonn Sage, Judge Bradwell, of Chicago; Mary A. Livermore and Henry Blackwel!, who stated that in New York State the organization strongest in number and influence was the Brooklyn Equal Rights Association. Judge Bradwell desired to keep the Association free from any political bias, and Mrs. Livermore thought the occasion grander and more solemn than our forefathers. knew when they threw the tea oyerboard in Boston Harbor. Much enthusiasm was manifested and general harmony prevailed. NEW YORK. Heavy Verdict Against the Central Railroad. Urica, Nov. 23, 1869. In the case of Norman T. Smith vs, the New York Central Ratiroad Company, tried before the Supreme Court, Judge Mullin presiding, the jury this morn- ing brought in @ verdict for the plaintiff of $18,000 damages, Smith was injured over @ year ago by the collision of @ special train bearing Tarrence Priest and others, with a working train, near Whites- town. Smith was pilot engineer on the special train at the time. DARING ROBBLEY AT THE BANK OF COMMERCE. An Englishman Sees the Elephant and Loses $4,200. A tew days days ago an Englishman named L. 8. Hinx or Hincks, from London or its neighborhood, arrived in this “blasted counterie’ on a tour of pleasure and profit. On Monday he was short of funds, and having bills of exchange in his possession that would fill his purse, he strayed into the Bank of Commerce, presented his documents and received from the paying teller $4,200 in current funds, “Is this right?” he asked of the teller. “I guess so; count it if you Lave any doubts,” was the response, “Ho, I suppose it is all right, but I likes to count it Johnny Bull commenced the count, after adjust- ing his eye-glass, and while engaged in the work, a voice exclaimed:— “Ia that your stamp ?’ (pointing to the floor). The eyeglasses were readjusted and Mr. Hinx leisurely turned in tite direction of the point indicated. On completing his survey and tinding nothing on the floor he turned his attention to the $4,200 pile to find it gone, as well as lis friends who had addressed him. The Englishman looked at the teller, the teller looked at the Wnglishman. Hinx finally uttered a sound between a wilatie and an exclamation of dis- appointment, and concluded by remarking:— “Well, damme, that’s well done. Here i’ve come to this blarstea country to go into business. I’ve been around London, ham hup to hall the tricks of the thieves, but ham beaten. What shall I dot’? He was advised to go the Central police office. Hinx hurried there; saw Kelso; detailed the partic- ulars of his loss, and wanted $4,00; Kelso did not happen to have that sum about him, but ordered an entry of the robbery to be made on the books, and it was done by detective Avery. “Don’t put that in the papers,” ordered the Eng- lishman. “I would not have it known in Hingland, where | am well known to the nobility and tie pub- lic, for a hundred pounds sterling.” % Mr. Hinx was assured that the papers would not get out, but they bave, from other sources than police headquarters, Whose mystery 1s thrown around every case by order of ‘our superior oillcer.’? The Hon. L. 8. Hinx 1s still mie for his $4,200; but so far has been unsuccessful. He will probably draw on the nobility for sufficient funda to liquidate his hotel bill and return to England a ‘‘wiser if not @ better man.” AKOTHER DARING BURGLARY, A Store Cracked—A Safe Outraged and $300 * Stolen. ‘The knights of the screws and bits have opened a brilliant fall season, judging from the number of robberies reported during the past fifteen days ag wholly or partially successful. In most cases, how- ever, they have given the banks and stores a Wide berth and practised the less dangerous ventures of hoteland house robbery by means of false keys. The last case that has come to the knowledge of the police was reported at the Central Office yesterday afternoon. It appears that for some time Messrs. E. & K, Mead & Co., wholesale grocers, Nos. 13 and 16 Coentes slip, have been 1n the habit of leaving con- siderable sums of money in their supposed barglar proof safe, in the rear of the buiiding. By some means this came to the knowledge of certain thieves, who coveted their surplus cash. On Mouday night they effected an entrance, by means of falae keys, to the store No. 37 Water street, which gave them an easy pathway to the rear of Meads’ premises. Their jimmies were quite etfec- tual in opening the door of the latter preinises, but the hardest work was before them. Thecash of the firm was in an iron safe in the office, to which they applied powcer and attempted to blow it open. This tailed, and the sledges and jimmies were used with better success, as the safe yielded to their artistic touch, The reward for all this labor was but $300 in currency and some papers of no value to them, which they carried away with them. After their night’s work the thieves refastened the doors or the stores and took their departure. ‘The loss was not discovered unul the store was opened on Tuesday morning, when the broken safe told the tale. It 18 fortunate for the firm that the thieves did not select @ night when @ much larger sum was in the cash box. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1869. Lieutenant Commander A. R. Yates has been detached from the Boston Navy Yard and ordered to Portsmouth, N. H., for duty under Kear Admiral Thatcher; Master George W. Cister to duty in the Pacific feet, Ensign H. C. Stinson to ordnance duty at Portsmouth Navy Yard; Eosigon Kk. M. Thomson to report to Lieutenant Commander Matthews for torpedo duty; Assistant Paymaster L. G. Baggs to duty as recorder of the board of which Commodore M. Smith is president, and having betore it the sub- ject of naval rank; Ensign Frederick Senger has een detachea fromthe Nipsic and ordered to the ‘Terror; Lieutenants ©. F, Train and ©, H. Davis have been promoted to lieutenant commanders, datung from June 30, 1869, Affairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, The force of workmen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is being reduced in proportion as the repairs on the vessels are completed. The Ogantic went out of commission yesterday. The Severn will sail on Thursday to reinforce the squadron in the West Indies, and the Swatara will leave for the same des- tation inaday or two, though the latter vessel will ultimately be stattoned in the Mediterranean. It is not generally known that there are three cannons at the Brookiyn Navy Yard almost as large as the famous Russian gun at Pera. They weigh respect- ively 98,000 pounds, and an ordinary sized man couid conveniently crawl into their bores. They were built about the end of the war for the Kala- mazoo, Which still lies uncompleted at the Yard. SERIOUSLY INJURED. Jane Lowery, aged thirty-seven years, last night fell down stairs at No. 113 Mott street, while ‘half- seas over,” and received severe cuts, which were dressed by a Central Office ofictal appointed for that purpose. The case was not of sufficient importance to summon the district surgeon, EUROPEAN MARKETS. LONDON MONEY MARKET.—LONDON, Nov. 23—4:30 P. M.—Consols closed at 95% for both money and the ount. United States fve-twenty bonda, 1862, 834, ; 65, old, 825; 1867, 84; ven-forties, 78%. Erie Railway shares, Atlan. 205 Ilunois Central, 9955; d Great Western, 4 are 23.—The Bourse closed steady. . 650. FRANKFORT BOURSE.—FRANKFORT, Nov. 23.— ‘United States five-twenty bonds opened active, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, Nov, 23—4:30 P. M.—The cotton market closed steady. Middling uplands, 11%4.; middling Orleans, 11%d. "The sales of the day have been 8,000 bales, of which 1,500 were taken for export and specul HAVRE COTTON MARKET.—HAVRE, Nov ing.—Cotton closed declining. ‘Tres ordinaire on the spot, 136f.; low middlings, to arrive, 1311, STATE OF ‘IRADE.—MAN TER, Nov. 23.—The market for yarns and fabrics at Manchester 1s quiet, LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKRT.—LIVERPOOL, Nov, 23—4:30 P, M.—No, 2 red Western wheat, 8s. sd. per cental; red winter, 8%. 7d. @ 88. Sd. Flour, zis. 9d. per bbI. for Western canal. The receipts of wheat tr three days have been 25,000 quarters, of Which 10,000 were Armerican LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, Nov. bt petroleum, 18. 4d. per gallon. Turpen- ne, 278, 3d, per ows. LONDON MARKET. LONDON, Nov. 23.—Sugar, 208, 8a. per cwt. for No. 12 Dutch standard, afloat. Cal- Cutta linseed, dos. 6d, Turpentine, 288. 0d. per owt. PRTROLEUM MARKET.—BREMEN, NOV. 23—Petros leum closed fat at 6 thalers 65 groata. ANTWERP, Nov. 23—Evening.—Petroloum closed quiet. standard white, 001. 25%. RIS, Nov. WASHINGTON. The Relations Between Our Navy and Our Diplomats. THE PRESENT LAWS SUFFICIENT. Discriminating Duties Removed from Imports in French Vessels, WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. 1869, Relations Between the Diplomatic and Naval Corps. Admiral Porter and Mr. Hunter, Second Assistant Secretary of State, appeared before the Foreign Committee at their meeting to-day. It will be re- membered that Mr. Webb furnished the committee with @ mass of testimony, all of which, sifted down, amounted to nothing more than that he thought some legislation was neceasary in order to amend the relations existing between Unived States naval officers and diplomatic representatives of the gov- ernment in foreign ports on points of prerogative and etiquette. The object of the committee to-day was to find out what legislation, if any, was necessary. It was found that nelther Ad- miral Porter nor Mr. Hunter considered our laws a8 defective as Mr. Webb, it would seem, wished to have the committee believe. The best laws would have little eifect with supercilious ministers, and though the committee may see fit to urge @ more distinct exposition of the law to pre- vent embarrassment it is not likely that the general features will be changed. Mr. Orth and his col- leagues, Messrs, Wilkinson and Swann, are busily engaged upon their report, It will be some days belore it will be entirely finished. Proclamation by the President—Discriminat- ing Duties on French Commerce. Whereas, by proclamation of the President of the United States of the 12th day of June last, the levy- ing of discriminating duties on merchandise im- Ported into the Unived States in French vessels from the countrica of its origin was discontinued; and whereas satisfactory information has since been received by me that the levying of such duttes on all merchandise imported into France in vessels of the United States, whether from the countries of 1ts origin or from other countries, has been discon- tinued; Now, therefore, I, U. 8. Grant, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by an act of Congress of the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and by an act in addition thereto of the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, do hereby declare and prociaim that on and alter this date, so long as merchandise imported Into Hrance im vessels of the United States, whether trom the countries of its ori- gin or from other countries, shall be admitted into the ports of France on the terms aforesaid, the dis- criminating duties heretofore levied upon merchan- dise imported into the United States in French ves- sels, elther from the countries of its origin or from any other country, shall be and are discontinued and abolished, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed, Done at the city of Washington, this twen- tleth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-fourth. U, 8. GRANT, By the President— HAMILTON Fisu, Secretary of State. Cornell Jewetts Transatlautic Scheme. The question of establishing a cable telegrapn between New York and the Hague, recently sub- mitted to the government, has already received con- sideration, and at the proper time due acknowledg- ment will be made to the Netherlanas government for the friendly motives which prompted the conces- sion toan American citizen. lKectprocity, especially as to termini, 1s doubtiess the principle which will govern future official proceedings, and it is said the President will at an early day call the particular attention of Congress to the subject. The govern- ment favors an American company based on sustain- ing American rights. Large Increase of Revenue Collected on To- bacco in North Carolina. Supervisor Perry, of North Carolinia, under date of November 20, gives the following statement of the amount of revenue collected on tobacco in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth districts of that State ror the six months ending October 31, 1869, as compared with the same months of the preceding year, viz.:— Fourth district, 1863, $18,274; 1869, $143,870; differ- ence, $125,595. Fifth district, 1568, $65,249; 1869, $214,779; difference, $157,235. This difference in- cludes a gain of $2,241 in favor of May and June, 1868, Sixth district, 1863, $18,603; 1869, $69,789; dif- ference, $66,185, This statement shows an average increase during the six months ending October 31, 1869, Of about 500 per cent; the increase in the Fourth district being wearly 500 per cent, in the Sixth district nearly 600 per cent, and in the Fifth between 3800 and 400 per cent, the whole amount collected during that period in 1868 being $102,126 97, ana the amount collected this year, during the same period, $443,438 87. There was much more tobacco manufactured in these districts during that period in 1868 than in 1869, on account of the seizure in May last of a large number of factories. ‘the revenue from ail sources other than the manufacture of tobacco in North and South Carolina, during the period mentioned, in 1869, is largely in excess of that collected during the corresponding months in 1863, Revenue Seizures. The following seizures have been reported at the Internal Revenue OMlce:—One still, in the Seventh district of Virginia; the stock of liquors of Samuel Jones, in the Fourth district of New Jersey; 27,400 cigars in the First district of Indiana. Collector Weitzel, of Cincinnati, seized at the railroad twenty- eight cases smoking tobacco for evading the pay- ment of the tax. Tho Lillian Adventurers. The Navy Department to-day tustructed Admiral Poor to despatch a vessel to Nassau for the purpose of bringing to Key West the men from the steamer Lillian, provided they pledge themselves not again to invoive themselves in a violation of the neutrality laws. Telegraph Postmester Appointed. The President has appoited James 1. 8S, Marsh postmaster at Knoxville, Iil., im place of Curtis MoGowan, whose arrest for robbing the post office Was reported some days ago. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Liability of Opinions of Inferior Courts to Reylew—Jurisdiction of United States Courts—Rights of Assignees in Real Estate Conveyances—Legality of Acts of the Late Confederate Government. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1869, No opinions were delivered yesterday. No. 254. The Steamer Baltimore, the New York and Washington Steamship Company, Appeliants, vs. The Owners of the Schooner J. W, Woolston.— Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.—This Was a case of collision on the Poto- mac river, in December, 1863, which resulted in the sinking of the schooner Woolston and the loss of the vessel and cargo (of coal), The schooner was ona voyage from Philadelphia to Washington and the steamer was proceeding down the Potomac on a voyage from Georgetown to New York. The night was dark and it was dificult for the steamer to tell how far the schooner was away by her lights. It appears from the evidence that the steamer discovered the schooner’s lights, and changed her course, bat not in time to avoid the collision, although sho slowed when the danger became immi- nent, She was going about ejgnt knots an hour. The deience was that the schooner occasioned the collision by tacking direotty across the river and across the channel. The decree below was for the libellanta, and the respon dents’ appeal insisting that the weight of evi- dence is in their favor, and that the testimony of two colored men on board the schooner, who knew nothing about navigation, was allowed to prevall, as against the Intelligent evidence of the officers aud a jortion of the crew of the steamer, who agreed per- fectly as to the main facts; and further, that tnas- much as the libeliants tailed to examine the master of the schooner, who waa at the wheel, and who was the only person competent to speak with any certainty as to the navigation of the schooner at the time of the col- lision, and the only witnesses examined were inex- perienced persons, their evidence 1 not entitled to any Wolaht where it conflicts with the evidence on the part of the steamer upon the question of the movements of the respective vessels immediately before the collision, It 18 also averved that the total Joss claimed by tite libellants, altho denied by the respondents, was not proven; and shat it was not shown that any effort was made to raise either the vessel or cargo. The evidence contained in the record is examined at length. Tne appellees main- tain that where the inferior courts concur in opuuion in collision cat and there is testimony sup- porting their decision, it will not be reversed here on doubts raised. N. Wilson and J. Hubley Ashton for Appellants; George H. Williams and W. Y. Fen- dali lor appellees. No. 256, James Bri vs. R,S. Hunt and Caro- Une Rianes.--Error to the Circuit Court for the West- ern district of Pennsylvania.—On the loth of July, 1863, Breedin & Co, eitizens of Pennsylvania, made 4 lease of certain land in that State for a term end- ing July 1, 1864, to one Khines and another, also citizens of Pennsylvania and partners in business, for certain rent, payable 1n lumber, Before the expiration of the lease Breedin & Co. assigned their interest in it to the plaintiff in error, @ citizen of Kentucky, having sold him the lana covered by tt. Rhines died, and letters of administration oa his estale were granted to the defendants. In August, 1566, Bradiey brought suit in his own name as aasignee, In the court below, against the adminis- trators of Khines, one of the partners aud doint lessees, taking no notice of Car- man, tie surviving parcner under the con- tract The declaration set forth all the facts, and the lease under which the suit was brought, and the defendants pleaded the general issue, On the trial the lease was offered in eyi- dence, and the defendants objected, because Car- man, the surviviag partner, alone could be sued, according to the iastrument, and because from the declaration it appeared that the legal plaintiff was a citizen of Pennsyivania, and the court was, there- fore, without jurisdiction, The court sustained the objection On both grounds and rejected the evidence, ‘The case is here for review, tne plait in error maintaining that the rights and liabilities of the parties are to be ascertained and determined by the jaw of Pennsylvania; and that by the existing laws of that State, as construed by her courts, the com- mon Jaw distinctions between instruments joint and those gor and several, in this class of cases, are obiiterated, and that the terms of the legisiation, though limited to undertakings that were joint and several, are applicable to contracts that are joint und not several. On the point of jarisdiction it 1s submitted that under the judiclary act it 19 only In cases Of assignment of promissory notes or other choses in action thas the assignees are prohibited from suing in the United States courts, aniess their assignors were also qualified by citizenship to sue 1n those courts. But neither in point of fact nor law 18 this lease & chose in action, A lease, and the term created by it, so far as the tenants are con- cerned, constitute @ chattel real, and so far as the landiord is concerned they are but @ part of his original estate tn the premises leased, During the continuance of the lease the leasea premises were conveyed to Bradley, the assignee of the lease, in fee, with all its benefits, Wituout any formal assigoment; and from the tume of that conveyance Khines and Carman became the tenants of Bradley in 4s full and annie a@ manner as they had before been the tenants of Breedin & Co., and Bradley was from that time invested with all the rights of Breedin & Co., as well in the lease as of every other part of the estate conveyed, But tn any Case It is submitted toe objection to the jurisdiction should have been taken by plea in abatement, or by motion to dismiss, The want of proper citizenship cannot be raised at the trial upon tle merits, The defendants here mainvain the correctness of the rul- ings below. B. F. & A.G. Lucos for plaintiffs in error; J, A. Wills for defendants, No. 263. James Hickman, Plainti?’ in Error, vs, Edward ©. Betts et al.—Appeal trom the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.—Hick- man brought his action against the defeudants, who were officers of court and grand jurors, under the Confederate States government, and who nad in- dicted tum for treason against that authority, to re- cover damages {or maliciously and without proba- bie cause causing him to ve arrested, imprisoned, &c. The verdict below was for the defendants, under tue charge of the Court, and Hickman ap- peals, claiming that as the parties acted without authority they are responsible for ail damagesdo him resulting from their acts; and that itts no jus- titicauon to urge the power of the Confederate States in the premises, The defendants submit that in such acase any autuority emanating from the Con- Jederate government, which in the event of the success of the rebeilion would have protected the defendants will now protect them to the same extent as if tue rebellion had nov tauled and the national authority hud not veen re- stored. All of the parties were citizens and resi- dents of the insurrectionary State of Alabama, und all the acts complained of were done during we revel occupancy ol the State and by non-comoatants. Mr. Johnson for plaintiff in error; Messrs. Waker and Jordan for defendants, No. 264. Meader vs, Norton.—Continued. The following cases were argued to-day:— United States Express Company, Plainiif in Error, vs, Kountze Brothers. Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska,—This action was com- menced by the ndant im error to recover from the Express Company, a3 a common currier, the value of certain gold dust forwarded by them irom Omaha to Palladeiptia, Oliver Bronson, Plaintiff? m Error, vs. Stephen ston, in Error to te New York Court of Ap- —Tuis 1s another coin contract case, A MUSEUM OF ART. A Museum of Art to Be Erected in This City— Meeting Last Evening to Further the En- terprise—Speeches by Wiiliam Cuilen Bry- ant, Professor Comfort, Dr. Bellows and Others. Some time ago a memorial from American citi- zens in Europe, suggesung the 1mportance of early measures for the establishment of & metropolitan art museuw, was received by the Art Com- mittee of the Union League Club, and ta answer to a call made by the committee, asking for the co-operation and attendance of “competent representatives of all existing organiza- tions connected with art in this city,” a meeting was heid last evening at the theatre of the club, in Twenty-sixtu street, which was crowded on the occasion. The meeting was duly organized by the election of Mr. William Cullea Bryant as chairman. In his address to the audience Mr. Bryant called attention to the wonderful, ‘almost unnatu- ral’ growth of this city and its increasing wants, and compared it with cities of the Old World, which, although not half so rich, had museums of art of world-wide renown. He deplored the absence of a great mstitution which would do so much to cuiti- vate the taste of the people, and closed by intro- ducing Protessor Comfort, of Princeton College, New Jersey. Professor Comfort, after an elaborate dissertation on the subject of the origin of the American people, the superior intelligence of the masses as compared with other nations, said that “young country” was hot a correct expre ssion When used in reference io the Untied States as far as bemg di oped from @ barbarous to @ civilized condition was concerned. There was no piace in the world where artists were more needed than in this country, and no country where there was to be found greater artistic talent, Alter rete: length to the great museums of Europe, su Soutu Kensington ana that of Berlin, he sai laying out pians for a museum the constructors sould avail themselves of the latest improvements, ‘The buildings used as museuins in Europe had not been built for the purpose of museums, and so did not answer as well a8 they might. A museam should be bruit in some place where the dust of the city could not enter 10, not be located in a great thorougware, Where other buildings could cause a reflection of light injurious to a good view of the pictures, but where it could be expanded indetl- nitely as the requirements of the tature would de- mand. He knew of only one place in this vicmity which was suitable {for a mu- seum, and that place was the Park. (Applause.) As to its style it should be a great work of art, not necessurlly of American archt- tecture. Its interior arrangement should be made especially to subserve the object for which it wouid be erected, aud nothing else. [t should be a museum worthy of our city, and should represent the aistory of art in all ages and nations; for ait was cosmopolitan, belonging to no country in particular, and @ great artists was a great man and a citizen of tho world. But was Wt possible to organize suchamuseum? He believed it was. As to lis contents, he Knew it Was possipie to reproduce every great Work in the world, so that the copies would be as perfect as the origimals them- selves. Jn casts of plaster of Paris the great works of all ages could be procured, and every one knew that plaster of Paris wi better than marble, because, in the first place, for a perlect’ copy ts texture was superior to that of marble, It had none of the bright reflection, or the semi-transiucency of marie, ‘Though notso lasting it was cheaper than marbie, which Was a great point in the matter of taking copies. Architecture could not be. 80 easily repro- duced. The full size, for instance, of the great temples of antiquity could not be had, but they could be reproduced in miniature in cork, and copies in plaster could be had of all the ornamenta- tions and casts of the bases. of pillars, &c. It would be diMcult certainly 0 reproduce pictures. There were many poor copies of great paintings in Eurepe now in this country, and many persons believed on that account that correct copies could not be made, This wasan error, If tne best artists in the country were commissioned to go to Europe and there hes the very best works of aré there could be obtained @ collection very nearly as good as the originals. In the matter of the mmor arts, medallions, coing and such things (where 1t Was imp € Lo get the originals), copies of thom, could be cast and they would serve the saine ML ten as the originals. kngravings could be copied and drawings photographed, ‘The building would, cas a great deai and should be located im proximity ‘to an academy Of fine arts, so that students cowd go directly from the lecture roota and examine the subject of the lecture in the museum. Addresses were then made by Richard M. Hunt, Drs. Thompson and Bellows, Russell Svarges, Jr., and Mr. Stebbins, of the Park Commission, wha assured the audience the Comuilaston would do alt that lay tn its power to furthor the museum enter prise, after which, oa motion, the following reaglu- tions were adopted:— Resolved, That in the qvialon of this mooting It is ogredi. | 7 ent and highly desirable that efficient and judicious meaeares should at once be tuitiated with reference to the establish- ment in this city of &musuerm of art,on @ scale worthy of this metropolis and of ® great nation. ved, That a courmittee of citizens, properly - {fig the various Grganizations and indivi Liateadlfoctly or fn- directly interested In the o ject, should at once be appointed, ‘sud that to them the whoie subject should be referred, with power to fill vacancies in the committee, and to add to thelr humbers; to appoint sub-com™ittees, to prepare a constitu- tion and bylaws, to apply for .¥ charter and to adopt such measures as tI expodie'at for the accomplishment Of the above named object. Resolved, That the appointment of sty gentlemen, as heretnafter named, to serve on such committee would be, im Our opinion, satisfactory to the whole ommunity; and we hereby respectfully request the gentlemen namod to take the objects of this meeting into their own bavds, and to carry them to au ss{ul completion by all such mewas as they may ‘The following are the names of the committee aj ointed:—Williaan H. Aspinwall, W. L. Andrews, 4 M. Barlow, William ‘, Blodgett, Walter Brown, Charles Butler, Richard Butler, Legrand B. Cannon, Joseph H, Choate, F. E. Chureh, James B, Colgate, George F. Comfort, George William Curtis, General John A. Dix, C. E. Detmold, William E. Dodge, Jr. Benjamin Field, = S Gifford, Robert Gordon, Andrew H. Green, George Griswold, Jotun’ H. Hail, Robert Hoe, Jt Wm. J. Hoppin, D. Huntington, Richard M. Aunt, John Taylor Jotinson, Robert Lenox Kenuedy, John Lafarge, A. A. Low, James Lenox, Hy. G. Mar- uand, Fred. Law Olmsted, R. M. Olyphant, Howard ‘otter, W. C. Prime, Prof. O. N, Rood, Marshall 0, Koverts, Henry G. Stebbins, Alex. T, stewart, Robert L. Stuart, B. Jackson Stewart, Anson P, Stokes, Jonathan P. Sturges, Russell Sturges, Jr., Ruther- Tord Stuyvesant, Lucius Tuckerman, General F. Le Vinton, Calvert Vaux, George M. Vanderlip, Semuet Gray Ward. AMUSEMENTS. Bowery TAEATRE.—Manager Freleigh again pre- Sented a series of noveltica to the patrons of his she- atre last night in the production of the celebrated French drama of “Fan-Fan, the Tulip; or, A Soldier's Fortune,” adapted for the Bowery theatre by Mr. N. B. Clarke. This piece was followed by the well- known drama of ‘The Dog of the Vid Toll House,” and the evening’s entertamment concluded with t comic pantommmic ballet of ‘Love in a ‘tub,’ Mr.’ Robert butler playing the part of Bebo-Bobo. house, notwithstanding the unpleasant state of the weather, was well filled witn a most appreciative audience, and many of the favorites of the theatre, among whom may be mentioned the names of Mra. Jones, Mr. Whalley and Mr. Marden, were warmly welcomed on their appearance on tie boards. ey Musical and Theatrical Notes. The Waverley theatre, “owing to the exigencies of the times,” has again closed its doors against an in- appreciative public. Tits house, we fear, is endea- voring to emulate the example of ita next door neighbor—‘‘the reconstructed church,” otherwise known asthe New York theatre—in the game of “open and shat.’ This is the third or fourth time that its doors have been closed this season under diferent managers, and the time elapsing between each successive open- ing and closing 1s to all intents and purposes rowing “smaller by degrees ana beautifully less.’ However, itis some consolation to know that the darkest night 1s invariabiy followed by the cheering light of day, and so it may yet prove in the case of this theatre, it 18 quite possible yet for the house to be opened on such a basis as will insure {ts success, and that point once gained the piace can easily be kept open from year’s end to year’s end. The next “opening” is announced for Monday evening next, when it. will be launched upon its new career 4s a minstrel hall, under the euphonious title of “Allen, Pettngil, Dele- hanty & Hengier’s Minstrels.” if the success of this troupe oe but one half as great as its name is long, 1t will indeed be prodigious. But “what's in @ name?” ‘The grand concert in aid of the American Dramatic Fund, which is creating so lively a tumult in the veins of the fashionable and musical world, tak place at the Acadenly of Music to-morrow evenin, The charity, which is @ most deserving one, and which has contributed 80 largely to the support of many of a profession which is remarkable equally for the large provision of delight it affords the pub+ lic and for the little provision of comfort it lays up for itself, should be sutticient to enilst a muntficent sympathy aud support. And doubtiess it will be pleasant for many to feel that they are perform- ing an act of genuine goodness while at the same time enjoying a rare and unusual attraction. Mrs. Moulton, who has recently by her wondrous charm of voice and execution created 80 great a sensation in musical circies here and who tn Paris was the idol of the worid of song and society and en- joyed th eintimate friendstip of the Empress, has con- sented with most gentle generosity to appear for the benefit of this fund previous to her revwurn to France, whither she steams on Saturday. She will be aa sisted by @ full orchestra and a number of distin- guished amateurs, including Miss Marie Putnam. ‘fhe occasion and the attraction combined must mmand such a gathering as the Academy hag rarely seen, A THIEF COME TO GRIEF. Five Hundred Dollare? Worth of Property . Recovered, Last evening officer McKeever, of the Fourteenth precinct, while on post injBieecker street observed @ man acting in a suspicious mauner about the “fence” of a celebrated receiver of stolen goods in Bleecker street. The oiicer kept his eyes open and arrested a man giving the name of George Jackson, who was tn the act of disposing of sixty pieces of blue veivet trimming and ten pieces of Diack ani purple ribbons, thegwhole of the value of about $500. The prisoner was locked up in the Spring street station house, and will be ar- raigned at the Tombs to-day before Justice Hogan, should an owner Jor the property, which is believed to be the results of a burglarly in some portion gf. the city, be found in the meantime, MAILS FOR EUROPE. The Cunard mail steamship Russia will leave tate. port on Wednesday for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office ateight o'ciock A. M. 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