The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1869, Page 6

: mn NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —=— —- Velume XXXIV. <= = AMUSE NIBLO'S GAT ov Fing Fr. woop's M ner ‘thirtieth BOWERY T! Dratu PLas WALLACK" Home—A Re 4th street.—GRanp YOCALAND FRENCH Mth st. and fh av,—Lonxpon; ox, Licrt F THR GREAT City. THE TAMN Baorarns, a0. GRAND OPERA ROUS avenue and 23d sireet.—THe BouRMr BOOTH'S 7 ang Sia ave Broauway.—@4e Lost Witr— FIFTH AVEN EVikyvevy's Fx avenue and 2ith ste PARK THEATS MRS, P. B. CONWAY Apres Dans. CADENY OF MUSIC.~Iratian OPEBA— MOUNLX. TONY PAS 1su, NEGRO Acts, &C. BRYANTS’ OPERA BOUSE, Tammany Bulli SL —bRYANIS" MINSTRELS. SANFRAY PLAN Minor NEW YORK CIRCUS AnD GYMNASTIO PERF STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—Tne LivroutNeox FAMILY. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! MINSTRELS—NEGno Eocenrs E, Brook) orrtes—HU MASONIC TEMPLE, Grand street, Brook! ALLEGUANIA SONERY: street. —EX! 1 ART GALLERY, Fitth avenue aad Mth 10N OF THK NINE MUSES. DORE ART UNION, 587 Broadway. PAINTINGS. NEW Y MSSUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broalway.— BOIENOE AND ART W YORK MUSE°M OF ANATOMY, 6i83y () tx ATEENDANOZ. SUIBITION OF T. TRIPLE New York, Thursday, November 25, i869 Burope. Cable telegrams are dated November 2% By special teleyram througa the F @able we learn that the Spanish the Cortes the draft of a new cous Rico, The instrument is comprehensive g p cal reform and religions equality, but declares that “slaves have no rights’ and that the ¢ ton of slavery Will be treated separately heres 5 Twenty-four hundred troops sailed trom Spain for Cuba in three weeks, The Duke of Genoa remained the favorite for the Spanish throne. ihe Spanish Cortes passed a vote of thanks to Ferdinand de Lesseps. General Dulce, lately Captaim General of Cuba, is dead. Oficial papers relative to the Cuban question will be submitted to the Cor Mesars. James Pim & Co., of Dub! The British war ship Monarch, w boedy’aremains on board, will not | uptil the 24 of December. Our special correspondence from © tmportant aud very interesting ela table telegrams to the 13th of November. Esypt. The Empress of France arrived at Alexandria yesterday from Port Said. Cuba. Alot has recently been disco “rebellion the negroes in the Vv: ringleaders were ar Atlantic proposed to bansrupts vea- nd George e presents ation of our vered to incite to The commander of the British West In ron has sent a vessel to Port au Pri the release of an English schooner Sainave’s gu the schoon being considered illegal, Hayti. General Chevalier, for ‘of War, and & ‘ais Brue doned Salnave and joined th surgent forces, under Gel visional President, are m: Haytien, in which port are Salnave’s stea ; the latter are unable to drive off the iusurg vessels. St. Thomns. The steamer Telegrafo, belonging to Cabral, ti leader of the re forces in St. lately seized by the uthorit leased. At Tortola, a privateer, nationality u toned, has been seized. 3, hi n re. tmen- Miscellaneous, At the special term of tie Supr » held at Delhi, Delaware county, an orde 3 granted by the Court on Tuesday suspending Jould, James Fisk, Jr, Frederick A. Lane, Abrat |, M. Simons, George C. Hall, Henry 4 and Charles G. Sisson as directors of the Erie Railway Company. A reterce will be immediately appointed in this city to take evidence In to the conduct Of the affairs of the company. Letters recived in Washington f Engiand ine- dicate a growing disposition oa t artof tus Eng. lush government to settle tue Alaba’ inims ques tion in a manner gatisfactory to the United States, On Sunday last, while a party of masked mon ‘were attempting to disarm the r son the pian- tation of W flliam Jones, near Tiptonyilice, Tenn., one of the maskers was killed and two ¢ wounded. Jones and six of his negroes were ar. rested the following day and Jones taken to a: phis. A mob resci five of the neg from the the woods custody of the Sherig, took them in house at ort Garry, belonging to the i Comp and are dealig to thomsel rations of the company’s supplics. A p » has been formed for the purpe Governor Mc: itis said irit of the reb The annual report of the Segretary of the 3 which is fis’ hail the length of Foport of Se shows that notwithstanding the largo sums re expended in fitting out and fnishing vesse:s the de- Partment ha n the last year at a leas expense ‘than it w: he year previou Governor Geary, of Po nia, has Figned the death warrants of Adam Titus aod br. Paul Behoeppe, the latter convicted of poisoning Miss Steinecke. Both men will be hung oa Wednesday, December 22, Fifty-four mues of the Denver Pac Railroad has been coinp’ the rate of aw The Governor of South ¢ the Stace Lepisiatu ment of the nt Governor took Strong grounds State aid to railroads, and calls evicntion to t cessity of adaitional laws tor the protection of laborers. The Clty. United States District Attorney Pierrepont fled seizure were issued, Marshal Harlow took pos session of the boats at four o'clock m the afternoon, and the case is set aown a hearing on tne 14th day of December next, At pre- Bent the libel is based upon the ground that these ‘vessels are to be employed by Spain in carrying on hosullities ggainst the republic of Peru; the claim tiat they aro to be used against “thé colony or people’ of Cuba has been deferred, an amended libel, contatning this charge, has been prepared, but is withbe: > ajyalt positive instructions on the point from ¥ ington, which are expected to reach here to-day. examination Into the drawback ed yesterday atternoon before Coamissioner Osborn. Counsel for a further examination, and wit- frauds was co United § nce were produced in the case of Gy as vo nis handwriting, es O; nent Introd! Judge Tne case weil was opened aad the gov- and closed the testimony on its Piewepout stated that new cases of 3 had been discovered yesterday g the amount of tho frauds to jollars, and implicating other y who had not hitterto been sus- part, Willlam Madden art Allen, law was ia existence then, It appears, there- | The Propeted Masoum of Art—American fore, that our government is going to abandon the contracted and illiberal view which has boon taken of American neutrality of late years, and will give an interprotation to the law more in consonance with its action in former times—with the sentiment of the people and repu)lican liberty in this hemisphere, said lately by 9 distinguished Euro- péah writer, after be had ravelled in this country and when contemplating the power and glorious future of it, that the time was near when the United States would change the old public laws of nations and would create new ones for the world, in accordance with free institutions and popular rights, Goneral Grant seems to comprehend the true policy and destiny of the country, and is disposed to act accordingly in the case of Cuba, though the short-sighted and timid old fogies and hair- splitting lawyers in his Cabinet are a heavy drag upon him, The neutrality laws are not adapted to this great republic nor to the circumstances surrounding it, and ought to be repealed or Art and “Foreign Trash.” The public will heartily endorse the action of the crowded meeting which was held on Tuesday evening at the theatre of the Union League Club on behalf of the establishment ofa metropolitan art museum in the Park. This mecting was presided over by Mr. Bryant, who alluded to the wonderful growth of New York and contrasted its lack of great art museums with the aburfflance of such insti- tutions in European cities not half so rich and populous, Professor Comfort, of Princeton, made an address, in which he showed how much this country needs artisis and what superior artistic talent it can already boast of possessing. He also referred to the museums of the Old World, commenting on the fact that most of them had been originally built for other than museum purposes, and urging the importance of adopting all modern improve- meats in constructing here a museum which should externally be a great work of art, although not necessarily of American archi- modified, But while they exist they should not he strained in the interests of despotism, monarchical goyerament on American soil, or nteiiced to the ison for the avs and six months. yesterday was irregular and in avy. Gold declined to 129%. nt Arrivals ia vhe Ciry. we A, Mathews, of Baltimore; Dr. D. ngton; Colonel G. W. Davis and of the United States army; . Lucken, R. M. Orton, aud D, Jolonel H. Martyn aud D, C. L, and General G. W. Cole, of Syra- an Hotel. and S, Witt, of Cleveland; W. #. aman T. M, Pomeroy and Major J.N, Knapp, of urn; Dr. Albert Barnes, of Phila- deiphia; B. RK. Yoiwom, of Attica; Kush R, Sloane, of ets, of Par Ohio; John er, Norwich; A. ©. Barstow, of Provi B. Judson, of Syracuse, and P, Jenegst, of Albany, are at the cholas iiotel. General J ridge, of $ Wuliam M. Morgan, of Saratoga; Julian Hath- nal; J. Caldwell, of Boston, and Vhyte, of Baitimore, are at the New Y Captain Cook, of steamship Java; Dr. J. R. Tryon, of the United Siates Cazenovia, are at the W. Bissell, of the United States vy; 3. L. James and S. B, Lackard, of New Orleaas, and J. E. Esta brook, of Worcester, are at the Glenham Hotel, br. BE. Wi of Baltimore; E. Corning, Jr, of Albany; C. ‘ker, ol England, and J uage Curry, CO. are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E. W. Rol , of Boston; Captaia C. A, Babcock, of the United States Navy; Surgeon J, Cooper McKee, of the United States Army; W. M. Green, of Chile; John A. n, of Iowa, and G, A, Cleveland, are at the Hoffman House. N. D. Will s aud Henry H. Sherfeldt, of Chicago, Sheiton, of Derby, are at the Grana Hoiel. Moriarty, of Prominent Departures. Stanwood, for Albany; Iphia; Colonel $s Batley, for Colonel John Butler, for Washington; 0. J. 8, for Montreal; C. Morton, for Maszachusetis; Tr Philadeiphia; J. A.Skiltod, Consul of Mex for W: Ingion; BE. urd Pott Younghneband and 8 galled yesterday on the steamer Meyer a and the United States. ion of the government in seizing and "as in technical legal language it is irty Spanish gunboats is of much ortance, both as regards Cuba and rpretation of international law, than is ge y supposed, Our readers know that the Span’ government had built, or, to use more precise language, had contracted for the building of, thirty gunboats in the United Slates. Fiiteen were constructed at Mystic, ten at Brooklyn and five at Greenpoint. When those that were first finished and ready for sea were about io sail the government forbid them and placed a guard over them to pre- e from American waters, This e ostensibly upon the representation of 1 Minister that peace had not beea the new in all vent tl was dor the Peru established between his country and Spain, and that e gunboats might operate directly or t Peru. This was, a3 a matter as of diplo- ent reason at indirectly of form matic ec pondence, a But the Spanish government, being sto get the gunboats out to make war g shipped their ils readiness to ese war vessels should st Peru. The government at aver, still held the gunboats Now, when all are com- a formal demand has been made by heir release. Upon this the Presi- pont, the United States tiorney for New York, and gave him instracti to seize anew the whole fleet, to “libel” it, in the phraseology of the law, and to submit the case tothe United States District t, sitting a3 a court of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, It will be seen, then, that the disposal and fature movements of these gunboats await the decision of the United States Court, The feature in this action of the government which deserves special notice is the new issue sufi owe ce. aised, while the old one with regard to Peru is The new ground of refusal to let the gunboats go and to libel them is that the neutrality laws prohibit the fiiting ont of any vessel to cruise or commit hostili- ties against any ‘“‘colony, district or people” with whom the Uniled States are at peace. Of late years no such application or interpreta- of the neutrality laws has been made. 1as only been applied to protect the tizens or property of any ‘‘foreiga h whom the United States 1a or warlike expe- waters, In vernment did ot abandoned, tion The 2 oF at peace from war vess ons fitted out in American it is true, the ¢ ction of the neutrality laws to or people” at war as well as to the ts, citizens or property of forcign princes and States. An example of this was seen in the case of the Venozuelan privateer Josefa Segunda, in 1820, Venezuela was then a colony of Spain, fighting for its independence, as Caba is now, and had not been recognized by the United States as a belligerent power; | yet when the privateer, Josefa Segunda brought into an American port a Spanish mer- chant vessel as a prize of war the United States Supreme Court decided against the application of Spain for the su der of this captured merchantman, on the ground that bis “libel of information” against the Spanish gun- boat yoatorday ia the District Court, aud writs of _ war actually existed between tho colony of Venezuela and Spain. The prize was declared lawful property of the insurrestionary colony, though there had been no recog- nition of tho belligerency of the insur- It should be gents by the United States. remembered, too, that the present neutrality against a people like the Cabans straggling heroically to be free, The government is right in the course it has taken with regard to the Spanish gunboats; for they were intended to crush the Cubans and to keep that people under a frightful despotism, The American people will heartily approve of the noble, bold and timely action of the Prosident. But it does not go far enough. The belligerent rights of the Cubans should be officially proclaimed at once, and tho government should resolve that Cuba shall be free. Would the recognition of Cuban indepen- dence lead to war wilh Spain? That is a ques- tion which may trouble some people. A war with Spain would be like child’s play to the United States. Spain could not touch this country, and as to her boasted navy, we could utterly destroy itin a few weeks, Cuba and Porto Rico would be taken in a few days, and all the trouble ended about these colonies for- ever. Spain could not do as much damage to American shipping as her colonies would be worth to us, nor would the cost of the war amount to more than that. But the recogni- tion of Cuban belligerency or independence is not a cause of war, and unless the Spanish government should be perfectly crazy it would not make it so. Spain is not in a condition tecture, and the intorior arrangement of which should be made specially to subserve the object of its erection, and nothing else. His declaration that “he knew of only one place in this vicinity which was suitable for a museum, and that place was the Park,” was warmly and justly applauded. It should be a museum worthy of our city, and should represent the history of art in all ages and nations; ‘for art,” he said, ‘4s cosmopolitan, belonging to no country in particular, and a great artist is a great man and a citizen of the world.” He believed it possible to organize such a museum, and knew that every great work in the world could be reproduced so accurately—statues, in plaster of Paris; pictures, by skilful Ame- rican painters specially commissioned to copy them in European galleries; drawings and en- gravings, in photographs, and medallions and coins, in casts—as to form a collection that would offer a school for art students and ren- der inestimable service in educating and cul- tivating the public taste, Addresses were made by Mr. Hunt, the arcuitect; Mr. Steb- bins, Mr. Cole, of the Kensington Museum in London; Rev. Dr. Thompson and Rey. Dr. Bellows in bohalf of the projected museum of art. Resolutions were adopted as an expres- sion of the favorable opinion of the meeting, anda committee of fifty gentlemen, represent- ing the various organizations and individuals and has no way of raising the means to go to war with the United States. She could get no assistance from the Powers of Europe and little sympathy. We have no idea that she would enter upon such a Quixotic and hopeless conflict. Still, if she should, that ought not to deter this country from favoring the Cubans, from promoting the cause of republican liberty in this hemisphere, from extending our politi- eal and commercial interests, and from taking advantave of the present crisis in Cuba to carry out that broad American policy which is our inheritance. We hope the President has made up his mind to actin accordance with such a comprehensive and patriotic view of the Cuban question, and in that case he -will be sustained by both the people and Congress, No Cnixssz WAsrep IN TENNESSEE.— Yesterday in the Tennessee Legisiature, on a bill incorporating the Mississippi Valley Importation Company, an amendment for- bidding the {mporiation of Chinese into Ten- nessee was adopted—yeas fifty-three, nays fifteen, Now, as the majority for the amend- ment comes from the conservative or demo- cratic party, we infer that this party in Ten- nessee is satisfied with the nogro for laboring purposes, and is afraid of the risks of mixing him up with the Chinese. We had supposed that the Southern democracy were generally in fayor of introducing the Chinaman, for the purpose of rooting out the African by cheaper labor and by a race nearer the white man, This vote, however, in the Tennessee Legislature indicates a different sentiment, or the begin- ning of a Southern reaction against the China- man and in favor of the African, which is after all, perhaps, a good sign in behalf of harmony between the Southern white and black races, A Misraxen Aor oF GewnErosity—The acceptanco by Collector Grinnell of the resig- nation of his alleged defaulting deputy, Blatchford, From all the facts that have eppeared in this case of Blatchford, he, after the discovery of his faithlessnegs in office and his flight, should have been ignominiously dis- missed and proclaimed as a fugitive from justice. Our amiable Collector, in accepting his resignation, doubtless thought it might prove to bo for the best; but in this he has evidently made amistake. Charity is a good thing, but charity in such cases as this of Blatchford is charity thrown away. Tar Women At CLeveLaNp.—The women’s rights women have gathered in grand council at Cleveland. The elements of late havo been very stormy. Hurricanes and floods, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have in both hem- ispheres disturbed the equilibrium of our goodly planet. Tremblings of the earth have been felt even in Massachusetts. At the same time we see that material and moral forces are combining, East and West, to revolutionize the old order of things, men’s rights and women’s rights included. So we cannot tell what is coming; but still we think it likely that this Cleveland assemblage of the ladies will be the old story of the mountain and the mous b. AQ su.—In the Wedekind blackmail- ing case, now before Justice Hogan, it strikes us as rather odd that go little seems to be made of the charge of murder that is at the bottom of all. The firstappeal to the authorities appears to have been made by the alleged blackinailer, who handed over to one of the coroners a thousand dollar bill, with the allegation that it had been givon him to keep quiet in regard to what he believed to be a murder, There- upon we should have expected to hear of an investigation whether a murder had really been committed, and if any one was kept in custody we should have thought it would be the person charged with the crime. Instead of that, this person retorts on the informer with a charge of extortion of money, and the case is investigated on that charge rather than on the more important one, Is not this an unusual course ? Suppose the German doctor did try to extort the thousand dollars—was directly or Indirectly interested in the object, was appointed to carry out the enterprise by such means a8 they may deem expedient, It is to be hoped that ere long the efforis of this committee, seconded by the liberality of our citizens, may result in founding in the Park a museum of art—‘‘a repository of the productions of artists of every class, which shall be in some measure worthy of this groat metro- polis and of the wide empire of which New York is the commercial centre.” In this connection we may add that such a museum will afford, in addition to its other benefits, opportunities for young artists to make themselves known by the exhibition of their works, About thirty young artists met the other evening and organ- ized a society called ‘The Now York Artists’ Union, for mutual improvement and the sup- pression of the trash annually sold in this city as works of art.” Anything like an attempt to revive the crusade of a few short-sighted and envious mediocrities and inferioriiies, aca- demicul or otherwise, to prohibit the importa- tion of such excellent works of foreign art ag the most respectable of our art deaiers supply in accordance with the elevated standard of public taste, will prove as ineffectual as it is foolishly opposed to sound principles of political economy. The best way to ‘“‘suppress foreign trash” will be for our young artists to thoroughly prepare themselves to represent as landscapists the incomparable beauty and sublimity of our natural scenery, or, as figure painters, those multitudinous varieties of American life which hitherto Lave been almost completely undisco- vered by so many who having eyes see not. If American art be diligently improved to its highest capability it will meet with and deserve enthusiastic encouragement, and ‘foreign trash” will no longer find a market on this side of the Atlantic. Tue Dramatic Fund Concert. It may be almost superfluous to repeat the appeal we made yesterday to our readers in behalf of the praiseworthy objects of the Dra- matic Fund concert, which is to take place this evening at the Academy of Music; but wo cannot refrain from again urging the peculiar claims of the Dramatic Fund upon a community which, according to John Oxen- ford, is pre-eminently ‘‘a theatre-going com- munity,” and which should, therefore, be specially mindful of the wants of the sick and distressed members of a profession that contri- butes so liberally to its enjoyments. ‘Should we allow those to bo miserable who have so often made us and thousands happy? Should we shut our hearts against those who have touched them so truly—who have helped to lighten the weight of existence and have made us feel our kindred with a world of sorrow and of tears? Their art has the most sacred right to the protection of humanity, for it touches it most nearly.” Surely, then, it becomes us ‘to see the players well bestowed.” An honorable Judge in this clty took occasion the other day to eulogize from the bench the profes- sors of the dramatio art, and expreased the uni- versal sympathy with which they are regarded, and to which they are richly entitled, alike in their brilliant but brief moments of triumph and in their misfortunes, Mrs. Moulton, the beautiful and gifted lady whose singing will form the most futeresting feature of this even- ing’s concert, has never volunteered her graceful services for a nobler charitable pur- pose in Paris than the purpose to which the proceeds of the Dramatic Fund concert are to be devoted. As Talfourd eloquently said of a similar appeal, ‘Tho call will, we hope, be answered practically by all who revero the genius and love the profession and partake the humanity of Shakspoare.” Perx Hyacintae aNp THe Ecummnioan Covncit.—It has been decided in the Vatican that Pere Hyacinthe shall not be admitted to state his case and expose his ideas before the Ecumenical Council. If he presents himself he will be ‘ordered back to the Pontifical it the act of conscious innocence for the woman to give him money for such a purpose ? frontiers, and if he insists the geadarmes will escort him beyond the lines, that the Sultan has grown more angry with the Viceroy. The Viceroy in his own name has made certain efforts to have the canal proclaimed neutral. A commission of a kind somewhat doultful has sat on this matter. As a result we had but prospective tolls and dues given in detail, A good deal has by the Viceroy been taken for granted. He has ® good right to presume, but, perhaps, ho has presumed too much, This, at least, is certain—the Sultan {s angry. It is true the Sultan is not what he once was, His wrath, we must admit, is not muclt dreaded. But the Sultan is still recog- nized as a great European Prince; and so long as he is so recognized his ire is to be appeased rather than provoked. If this were the first intimation of the kind we should have made less of it. But it is neither the first nor the second. The Sultan, as all the world now knows, is really angry; nay, he is insulted. He has, however, behaved. well, It would have been inconvenient on the eve of the opening or during the open- ing of the Suez Canal to create for Europe a casus belli, The inconvenience was intensi- fled by the action of France and Austria, With the Empress and Emperor as his pro- mised guests—as his actual guests, as the guests of his vassal—how could he forget the gallantry, the hereditary hospitality and gal- lantry of the East, and provoke war? He could not. But the canal is now open. The ceremo- nies are ended. Tie Empress of France, the Emperor of Austria and the other lesser potentates and princes have had their little pleasure. The canal is now so far a fact. The Viceroy’s chances are over. The canal is now before the world and so far open to the world, and its worth must be measured by its own merits. What these merits are time must tell. So faras promise goes the merits are great. The real trouble in the case is that the Viceroy during these months and weeks has been greater than his master. The additional trouble, aggravated if not created by the former, is that the Sultan may now take some decided action, If he does, the action must be directed against the Viceroy. It cannot mean more—it may mean less— than an armed occupation of Egypt, coupled with the deposition of the Viceroy and the appointment of his successor. In such a case how will Europe act? Who can tell? Will the great Powers of Europe go in for the Sultan and the integrity of his dominions, or will they go in for the indepen- dence of the Viceroy? The alternative thus presented is the real difficulty of the hour, Austria, France, Great Britain and even Prus- sia prefer to maintain the status quo. Russia would like, above all things, in spite of the inaction of the present Ozar, to see a rupture betwoen the Viceroy and the Sultan, and if one half that is told be true she is doing her best to foment a quarrel. The Suez Canal, rich in promise, rich in actual worth, gives us reason to believe that it will by commerce or by war reconstruct Europe. This is another and not the least important of the questions which have been raised and which must be settled by the necessities of modern progress. Canadian Reciprocity Rightly Explained. We are informed from Montreal that the general feeling among the people on that side the border who are in favor of annex- ation or independence, respecting the move- ment for a new reciprocity treaty, is that it is the last resource of the colonial party to maintain British ascendancy in the New Dominion; that it is admitted that the old reciprocity treaty for eleven years was the thing which prevented independence or annexation, and that the intense dissatisfac- tion prevailing among the Canadians arises from the failure so far to secure a renewal of that treaty. This is the true explanation of the subject. If the Canadians can have all the advantages of our citizens in the way of trade without any of our taxes, they will be satisfied for a long time to come, perhaps, to remain under the British government; but let us hold them to the alternative that if they wish the business privileges of our citizens they must come in and share with us some of the costs, and we shall soon bring them to the doctrine of ‘manifest destiny.” In any event, it is not the policy of our gov- ernment to uphold the New Dominion by con- cessions to the Canadians at the expense of our own people, and so there should be no more Canadian reciprocity treaties. A Hint For tne Womsy.—Here is the avoirdupois movement, which appears to be exclusively, distinctly and imperii- nently a masculine affair, Where cre the women? Will they leave this field to the fat men? We do not refer to the fat men at the foot of Thirty-eighth street, North river, who are such a trouble to the Board of Health and to the nostrils of their neighborhood, but to those obese and astonishing magnates who have recently come forward and invited the world to admire them because of their great- ness in the scales. Why should women’s rights be neglected here? Why should men have all the honor and applause that is due to undue fat? Are there no fat women? We call the attention of the women’s rights agita- tors to the fact that these fat fellows, who dare not wear kid gloves for fear of apoplexy, treat the thinner sex with a sort of contempt in pro- posing to make a discount in weight in favor of the women to be admitted to their ball, We more that the society resolve that woman is as fatas man, Let these bloated scale damagers be properly rebuked, A Day's Transactions 1x Roaurry.—-In a day's issue of the city press there is a perfect kaleidoscope of villany, Aman stands count- ing some thousands of dollars in a bank, his attention is turned for an instant and his money is adroitly slipped away. Walfa dozen Germans are seen linked together in a queer conspiracy to forge » will, and a professional man, of the same nationality, is up on acharge relative to murder, Some sporting men indulge in the quiet pastime of smashing hoads with Indian clubs; and bail is taken for o man from the rural districts who came to the city to get committed a nameless crime. Oecrtaluly our sensation plays are superflaous whe one can seo all their incidents in any issue of tho daily pross, Rallroad compantes are too often enabled to esoape the penalty of doing serious damago to those who travel on their roads, Passengers who get killed or horribly maimed have no chance at all, because coroners’ juries are always on the side of the railroad companies, or, if they do happen to render a verdict against the company, the friends of the dead or the wounded are only too glad to accept a compromise, sometimes of a very paltry amount. But it appears that employds of the railroads are not so easily satisfied. In some cases they appeal, not to the company, but to ajury of their countrymen, aad with good effect. This occurred in the case of Norman T. Smith, who was ‘“‘pilot engineer” of a special train on the New York Central Rail- road, and who brought an action for damages against the company in the Supreme Court at Utica for injuries sustained by a collision on that road more thana year ago, The jury thought that the damage done to the wounded man entitled him to a remuneration of eighteen thousand dollars, so they awarded him that amount, If injured passengers would adopt a similar mode of action in case of accident rail- road companies might be taught a lesson which would be valuable to the public. Taz Rep River InsurcEnrs Movine.— Our latest despatches last night from the Winnipeg region state that the insurrection- ists have seized the stores of the Hudson's Bay Company and distributed the material as rations among the men, The insurrec- tionists are said to be sustained by a French priest who is enlisted in their ranks. Reports further state that the editor of the North West newspaper had been restrained from publish- ing bis newspaper because he refused to print a proclamation of the insurgents, and that the compositors of the office were forced to print it under threats of violence. So the Winnipeg insurrection is evidently alive. RepvctioN IN THE Prick oF CoaL.—At the public sale of coal yesterday there was a decided reduction in the prices. From Oocto- ber 27 to November 24 an average decline .of a dollar a tonis recorded. This will be good news for people who have not put in their win- ter stock of fuel—and a good many have refrained from doing so because they did not choose to submit to the exactions of the coal ring. To the poor the news will be especially satisfactory with the cold spell of December and January still before them. Currring Srans From THE Sourn.—We |. now hear from the Internal Revenue Depart- ment that the return from the tax on tobacco made in North Carolina will be increased in the present year by about five hundred per cent over 1868. Some time ago we had simi- lar information in regard to Virginia. Some of this increase is due to the more effective and honest collection of the tax under the present administration; but a greater part is due to.the fact that the South is recovering, with peace, its great productive vitality. Treasury Misraxgs.—Our old financial acquaintance and correspondent, ‘Jonathan Oldbuck,” makes his appearance again in our columns, and is ventilating pretty thoroughly the policy of the Treasury Department and the blunders it commits. It would be well if the Secretary and Congress were to pay atten~ . tioa to Jonathan Oldbuck’s communications; for they can obtain much valuable information from them, and might thus avoid those Trea- sury mistakes which he exposes, TLE NOW YORK LIDERAL CLUB. The Mineral Resources of Tiis Country—Lece ture by Dr. Adolph Ott. The New York Liberal Clup held their sixth rega- lar meeting last evening, at their rooms, No. 23 Third avenue, Mr. Henry Wehle in the chair. After the secretary, Mr. Gardiner, had read some interest- ing letters on mining and minerals Dr, Ott pro- ceeded with his lecture, He said the extent of our mineral resources was totally unknown, and tf known, would almost transcend ordinary belief. ‘The immense advantages which the Union possesses in its vast variety of ciimate, richness of soil and yast territorial area cannot compare with the ma- jestic results of its’ mining industry when the trea- sures now lying dormant are developed by intellt- gence and labor, Mining at the moment not being conducted on economic or scientific principles, the waste is fully equal to the yield. Ata moderate calculation there has been from these causes a totally unnecessary loss up to the present time of $300,090,000, A per- manent and rational system of mining would opsn new fields of industry and be a certain source of subsistence to alarge population, He pointed out the countiess uses to which iron 1s applied, from the stern tron-clad to the delicate spring aad wheel- work of Watches, and also where the fron deposits were situated. ‘The largest formation lies in the val- ley between the Aileghanies and Blue Ridge, stretch- ing from Northern Alapama, through Geoi » Vir~ ginta, Tennessee, New Jersey and New York. It consists of hematites and magnetic and specular ores, More than three-fourths of American {ron 1s manufactured from this source. Compaiing the consumption of iron in different countries the lec turer gave the following curious tabulated return:— Great Britain per individual unit of the population consumes 100 pounds; the United Staves, 90; Bel- ium, 70; nee, 66; the German Zolvereim, 50; weden and Norway, 26; Switzerland, 22; Austria, 20; Italy, 16; Ruszia, 11; Spain and Portugal, 10, and the East Indies, 1 pound, Goal, the lecturer not inaptly termes the philoso- pher’s stone, turning everytaing it touched into goid. The great Awerlcaa coal fields consist of the anthracite region, the Alleghany coal basin, the Michigan or northern coa! fed, and the central and Western coal formations—the area of ail these aa one-fiiteenth of the entire extent of tho States ani representing eight times the Known available coal grea of the rest of the globe. Mr. ©. B, Dahigrea mentioned some SnepANy, fn- teresting and {mportant facts as vo mining opera- tions in Nevada, Among others that at White Pines, for the quarter ending September 3 this year, the milia turned off 10,820 tons of sliver ore, yielding 695,102 ounces, and averaging ifty-eigit dollars and fifty-ning cents per ton of ore, ARMY INTELLIGENDE, Captain ©. H. Carlton has been relieved from duty as professor of military selence and tactics at. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and ordered to re- port to the Commanding General of the Departement Of the Platte. First Lieutenant 9, J. 8. Hassler bas bean relieved from duty as Indian Agent aud ordered to duty ia the Deparcinent of the Matte. HAVAL INTELLIGENEE. The United States steamers Onward and Nyack wore at Cailao, Peru, on October 22 All on board were well, Lieatenat Commander Bastman vad assumed the command of the Nyack, Commander Babcock having beon ordered home. Several more Northern station were expected, and Se eo raruer had signified his intention to be as Callao in his flagslip, the Pensacola, beiore the end of the year. jor the examination of candidates for the eae pecan lieutenant in the United States Marine corps Will convene atthe Naval Academ: ‘at Annapolis, Md., on the ist of December, The fol~ lowlng parties have reocived pormiasion to present themselves to the board for examination:—James W. De Camp,'son of Captain De Camp, wu States Navy; I. B. Dulavey, of Baltimore; D. Wains wright, of Andover, Mass.; William M. Gibson, of Brookiyn, N 0. 0. Berryman, of Sohne D. ©. and SW, Quackenbash, son of Commande! Qgatkonbush, United Statos Navy. romander George M. Rossom has per dotacks from the naval stution at Leagae Island on the 1: pA December and ordered to sue Command of the ‘errr,