The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. OK'S THRATRE, Broadway and Ith street. — ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Mth strect.—ITALIAN OPRBA— WILLIAM TELL . ENCH THEATRE. Mth st and 6th av.—LONDON; THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street—Tar HANLON BROTHERS, £0. ERA HOUS?! BMIA rot Eighth avenue and GRAND ¢ td siree! ween Sth and 6th ave ROOTH'S THE Frnst Pant © ; ‘ OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broaaway.—Dinivs DULtON— A BULL IN A.CMLNA Sui FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—A New Way TO Par OLp Denrs. ener NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Tur Mrn7tany Drama or Fink Fiy. os ¥, cor woop’s MC evening. r hirtieth st,—Matinee daily BOWERY THEATKE, Bowery.—Faustus—Tas Laisi gon. ERE RS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Baer Lynne. aes NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comic NEGRO MINSTRRLBY, &C. RE @OMIQUE, 514 Broadway.--CoMte Vocaw ) ACTS, &C. 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In Madrid there were reports of a formidable reactionary conspiracy at the Philippine Islands, 1s discovery and suppression, The radical or Fe- Mian poliiical agitation increases in Ireland. Den- mark postpones the ratification of the St. Thomas Island sale. The Spanish repuolican secessionist Deputies returned to their seats in Cortes. The condition of the reiations existing between Turkey and Egypt was anxiously canvassed, particularly in Paris. By steamship at this port we have important mail detaiis of the news by cabie telegrams from Europe to tne 19th of November. Egypt. M. ae Lesseps, in his capacity of Chief Engineer of the Suez Canal, denies reports unfavorable to the great work which were being circuiated in certain quarters, calling attention to the fact that fifty veasels went through the new transit safely within ten days. By mail from Burope we have very interesting de- tails of the opening Jets and initial trafic of the Suez Canal. By the Atlantic cable we Jearn that two steam- ships of the Messageries Imperial Company of France have passed safely through the Suez Canal, and that the success of the route is complete, Cuba. The Havana Diario claims that the report that a Bpanish feet was ordered to New York harbor was started by Cuban conspirators merely to produce irritation. Starvation prevails to an alarming ex- tent in the interior. Miscellaneous, A delegation of the republican members of the Virginia Legislature, who recently bolted the Repub- lican Convention ta Richmond, visiied the President yesterday and had an interview with him upon the eubject of the admission of the State. “The President expressed bimseif favorabie to the admission of the Biave if the officers could comply with the recon- @truction laws, but satd that he would leave the mat- ter entirely with Congress. in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia yesterday the Secretary of the Interior withdrew his motion in opposition to issuing a patent for MeGar- rahao’s claim to lands in California. The patent will therefore be issued. A petition is bemg signed by a large number of citizens in Philadelphia, praying that belligerent rights be accorced Cuba, The Grapt Powder Mills, near San Francisco, ex- ploded on Friday night, killing Dr. Cusemans, the superintendent, and another man, and injuring eight umen. The vuiiding was blown to pieces. Nit ne was the principal ingredient of the powd Another collision oceurred on. Friday on the Weat- ern Pacific Katiroad at Blits’ station, Cat In the trial of the Atlantic and Great Western Rati. road at Akron, Ohio, yesterday, the resignation of Jay Gould as receiver, to take effect January 1, 1870, on condition that the lease of the road to the Erie Company remain in force until the road is sold under the foreciosing of the mortgage, was reccived, and Judge Coynton appointed Judge Hitchcock re- ceiver under $200,000 bonds, Governor McDougall reports to the New Dominion government that, mm bis opinion, the rebeiion in Winnipeg territory will die out as soon as explana- tions can be made to the iusurrectionary baif- breeds. A planter named Johnson, of Jolinson county, Ark., had a fight with three of his negro laborers NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY,” NOVEMBER 28, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Circuit Court, yesterday, on a Charge of passing & counterfeit fifty dollar bill. It was evident that other parties were implicated and the Commissioner was about to accept Whitten’s offer to turn State’s evidence when # Jersey damsel appeared and charged the prisoner with seduction. The Com- missioner thereupon agreed to accept Whitten’s own recognizance to appear and answer, instead of sending him to State Prison for ten years, provided be would marry the girl The proposition was accepted and the wedding took place in the court room. A little girl, twelve years of age, was before Com- missioner Shields yesterday charged with passing counterfeit currency. As it was evident that she had been imposed upon by some older villian she was discharged. ‘The body of Michael! Gallie, whose death gave rise to the great blackmatiing case now before the courts, was exhumed and brought to the Morgue yesterday, Mrs. Galler, his widow, tho 1s charged with his murder, having offered to detray the expenses of the exhumation, Coroner Schirmer held an mquest on the body yesterday. The stomach and other internal organs were removed and given to Dr. Doremus to analyze, Tor the purpose of deter- mining whether Galler was poisoned or not. Albert Richardson's condition is not improved much, but no alarming symptoms have appeared and the physicians sti) believe he will recover. Information has been received that the murderer of Charles Rogers ts in town, and the detectives are busy day and night in hunting jor him. ‘The trial of Martin Allen, c! d with stealing $100 from @ countryman by means of the panel game, was concluded yesterday, and Judge Bedford sentenced him to five years im the State Prison, ‘The stock market yesterday was dull ana gene- rally steady until after the bank statement, when it became strong. Gold fell to 1233, closing finally at 12334 @ 124. The markets, with but few exceptions, were very quiet yesterday, business being restricted to some extent by the inclement weather. Coffee was moderately active at steady prices, while cotton was very active and lic. higher, closing at 25%c. for middling upland, On ’Change flour was passably active aud firm; wheat was qmet and irregular, wio- ter being heavy and spring Orm; corn was in fair de- mand at steady prices. Oats were fairly active at full prices. Pork was dull and heavy, while lard was firm. Beef was dull but unchanged, Freights were more active, but rates favored the shipper. Petro- leum was guiet and decidedly lower, crude closing at 19'sc, and refined at 324gc. Whiskey was dulland unsettled, closing at $1 06 a $1 07. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Hoffman is at the Clarendon Hotel. Senator Justin L. Morril, of Vermont; Captain R, B. Lowry, of the United States Navy; K. M. Rogers, of the United States Army, and Thomas C. Durant, of New York, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant F. H. 8. Mahon, of West Potnt; Frede- rick B, Cumberland, of Toronto, and A. A. Hovert, of Chicago, are at the Hofman House, General Ira Spaulding, of Costa Rica; Alfred Ely, of Rochester, and Lieutenant Charles H. Wright, of the Unived States Navy, are at the Coleman House. 0. T. Hollisted, of Salt Lake, and Captain J. F, Ferguson, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. D. A. Kane, of the United States Army, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Captain J. Macauley, of steamship Aleppo, and Colonel Samuel M. Johnson, of Washington, are at the New York Hotel. Charles A, Page, Unitea States Consul to Zurich, Switzerland; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Captain Samuel Hutchinson, Jr., of ship Sovora, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. General Frieze and Colonel Reynolds, for Provi- dence; Erastus Conring, Jr., for Albany; General Stringfellow for Washington; G. H. Clymer and S. M. Vail, for Troy; Major I. N. Knapp, for Aaburn; H. A. Tilden, for New Lebanon; Marquis de Lazier and Leon Chabert sailed yesterday, on board the steam- ship Lafayette, for Eur ope. The Ecumenical Council—The Prospect. During the course of this year we have had a great deal of excitement resulting purely from the material triumphs of the time. It is safe, perhaps, to say that the world, so far as material progress is concerned, has made more substantial success in the last thirty or forty years than it did for many long centuries before. The printing press did much to quicken the thoughts and habits of men; but it was not until the steam engine had been invented and perfected and the needed impulse was given to the forces which owed their existence’ to the printing press that the new era was fairly inaugurated. Since then, but particu- larly during the last thirty or forty years, the passing weeks and days have been brimful of action. The newspapers felt and yielded to the popular necessities. The railroad and the steamboat rushed in to lend a helping hand. But much was still wanted until the telegraph gave to modern society the lightning’s help and the lightning’s speed. With the printing press, the daily newspaper, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, we have been making big strides and winning great triumphs. Strange as it may seem to some the rapid rush which the world is making towards a higher and nobler goal than it has yet known is the real parent of the Ecumenical Council. The Churches have long been feeling that out- side of them the forces were much stronger than they were within, In gpite of the Churches the world was marching on, and, much as the marching on was condemned or dreaded, they felt that whereas they could not resist it, it was worth while to try to control and, if possible, benefit by it. The Ecumeni- cal Council, so-called, is one specimen of the fruit of this feeling. It is not the only fruit; but, for the present, it is the most prominent and the most important. Of all the Churches the Catholic Church is the most con- cerned about the religious government of the nations and about religious, or, which is the same thing, Christian unity. From the point of view of the Catholic Church an Ecumenical Council was at once natural and proper. It tast week. Knives alone were used by all partica aod Johnson killed ais three opponents, receiving twenty wounds bimself, none of which will prove fatal. The City, The Spanish war vessels that were exp co to ren. dezvous in this harbor, i 13 NOW Yared, witli not come at ail. They were to have gone upon the dock @& the Grooklyn Navy Yard for repairs, “jut one of them is too large = for the dock and the feet will prov?'yiy go to Philadelphia. Mr. Delamater, was not wholly unreasonable to conclude that an Ecumenical or a General Council of the Ohurch—euch a Council, though not without some fame in histor’, waing the mst ying 2f the kind in three hundred years—tmight be of some service not only to religion generally, but particularly to the Catholic Church and to the ancient power and pretensions of Rome. All the world now knows the fact that such a Council is to be held on the 8th day of tue bU"der of the Spanish gunboats now under SOK".re in this port, yesterday filed a claim tg them 7 his own property, and makes answer to the libel that it is not true, The Svanisi government, so far, has not interfered in whe case. ‘The Central Underground Railway is said to be in @ fair way of becoming aa established fact. A corps of engineers have jus, finished a complete and searching survey of the proposed route, and although their report has not yet been made public, it is understood to be so favora- ble that ground will be broken in February next. When commericed the work will be pushed forward day and night, and be let out to a number of contrac tora, who will have only @ half mile each to con- etruct. -Judge Barnard granted an order yesterday vaca ing (he mandamus granted by Judge Cierke in reia- | tion to the canvass of votes for Supervisor, and | directing the Board to proceed with their canvass forthwith, Fred Whitten, a Jersey milkman, was arraigned pefore Commissioner Shields, at the United States December, under the dome of St. Peter’s and under the patronage of one who lays claim to the proud title of Vicar of Christ. Now that we have got over the excitement not only of asecond Atlantic cable and of a Pacific Railroad, but also of a Suez Canal, the Ecumenical Council becomes really and pre-eminently the question of the hour. The attention of all thinking men, inside as well | a8 outside the Catholic Church, is turned to it, What does it mean todo? What can it do? What will it not be able todo? How much good or bow much harm may it accomplish? These re the (iestions which every one everywhere hears. Itisonall hands admitted that the Council might do much, at once for the good of religion, for the good of Christianity and for the good of the Catholic Church. It is eqnally, on all hands, admitted that the promise is not good. The composition of the Council itself, to begin with, is against it. Its first intention (if its first intention was honest) has proved a failure. The Greek churches, with their mijions; the Protestant churches, with their millions, will all be unrepresented. They were invited, but they have all refused to have anything to do withit. By all such it will be regarded as @ pretentious and holy show; and by such its decisions, whatever they may be, will be heartily despised. Its aims and objects, so far as these have been made known, have commanded no respect either inside or outside the Church. On the contrary, they have by universal Christendom, with the exception only of a class—a limited and contemptible class inside the Church, who are either without the reasoning faculty or whose reason is the slave of belief—been heartily and emphatically condemned. The dogmatic confirmation of the Syllabus, which insults human reason by condemning all modern progress; of the bodily assumption of the Virgin, which is very beautiful, but very ridiculous, and of the personal | infallibility of the Pope, which is an open and: unqualified absurdity, is or was the avowed object of the Council, We gay is or was because it is now almost if not absolutely certain that the programme has been changed. The public pulse has been felt, and the beating has been so strong, so emphatic, so adverse that it has been found necessary to throw over- board at least one, if not more, of the offen- ders in the original programme. To the outside, non-Catholic, rationalistic, unchurched world it was reasonable to con- clude the Pope, his curia and advisers gene- rally, would not listen. The programme, how- ever, not finding favor, but rather being con- demned inside the Church and by laymen of all ranks and olasses, by preachers, by priests, by professors of theology and by bishops, the Pope and his friends must now see that to per- severe is in the last degree dangerous. We have all along known, thanks tothe Alige- meine Zeitung and our own correspondent, that there was in Germany a powerful liberal party inside the Church, totally opposed to the plan and purpose of the Coun- cil, We did not know, however, until the publication of ‘Von Janus”—a work of immense ability and laborious learning, and evidently the product of many hands and many brains—that the plan of the Council was so much out of favor on the part of progressive Catholics. This work, which has fallen upon the Church like a thunderbolt, shows that the countrymen of Luther are not to be despised. In France, the Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Orleans, both of them leaders, although on different sides, in the Gallican Church, have pronounced against infallibility; and in the name of France Father Hyacinthe stands up before the world protesting against the old women and the petticoats of the Vatican. In England, tao, where lack of numbers in the Catholic Church is made up by strength of faith and intensity of feeling, alienation has been provoked, and where or how it will end it is truly difficult to say. All things considered we have no choice, but say that while the Ecumenical Council will be a grand archeological show it will not do much to heal ‘‘Christendom’s divisions” or to benefit mankind. The Erie Railway War. The developments already made in the vari- ous suits and counter suits, injunctions and counter injunctions, complaints, explanations, statistics and statements in the Erie Railway difficulties and complications are positively astounding, confounding, inexplicable and incredible. The conflict hag become a medley and a muddle, evidently beyond the powers of courts and lawyers to settle. We are amazed at the enormous amounts of money alleged by one set of men as having been seized and squandered by another set. Two things, however, have been made perfectly clear in this business. First, that under our railway fegulations, as they stand, railway stocks may be watered millions upon millions till the stock is down to ten cents on the dollar; secondly, that neither in State Legislatures nor State courts is there any hope of a remedy. These things being made apparent to the naked eye the question recurs, where for the remedy are we to look? The only relief to the honest stockholders in railroads and to the community lies in Congress and in the consti- tutional power conferred upon Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations and between the several States. This power, in connection with the power to establish post offices and post roads and the power of taxa- tion, gives to Congress full authority to estab- lish a general system of regulations for all the telegraphs and railroads of the country; and such general regulations cannot much longer be evaded. We hope that the President will have a word or two to say upon this subject in his forthcoming annual message. In any event it is to be hoped that it will not be over- looked by Congress. Ax Intsn Rocuerort anv Irish Rapivat- 1sM.—Ireland is in the midst of a very serious radical revolutionary electoral agitation. Mr. O'Donovan Rossa, 8 political convict, has been returned to the imperial Parliament as the representative of the extensive and very influ- ential county of Tipperary, and others Ms the “same stripe” are ifkel oyna, similar rie ae a! a ce sruat Matioer. Should they be refused in St. Stephen's. they _may return to College Green. There are cighteeh Yeglments of British troops serving on the island, with rein- forcements arriving. It is Rochefort and Napoleon and the army in Paris repeated on the ‘‘ould sod.” Can the Queen's representa- tives pilot through the crisis as securely as the Bonaparte? This remains to be seen, A Suoar Pium.—In the trial of the first of the Coutourie sugar fraud cases in New Orleans the other day # verdict of a million of dollars was rendered for the United States, A sugar plum in the unearthing of revenue frauds (for they have the sugar), and there are more to come. Tne Roores Murver case again seems likely to revive the interest which its mysteri- ous circumstances occasioned. [t is rumored that the suspected assassin, who escaped at the time, has lately returned from a sea voyage, and that the detectives are on his trail, Thus far, however, their efforts to overhaul hine have been as unsuccessful as they were last winter. . prit, ‘“‘any palliating circumstances in your Resume of Our Foreign Correspondence ‘The Exhibit of One Week. The European mail report published in our columns this morning embraces very interest- ing details of our news telegrams by the Atlantic cables to the 19th of November. The new and subtle and universal agency of electricity is, consequently, only about eight days and a half ahead of its powerful pre- cursor, steam, in the, service of the great newspaper press of New York. Glancing back at the result of our enterprise in furnishing special written reports of the cable news during the week, we may olaim that the exibit of this morning supplies a pleasing close to the work of the seven days just past. We present Europe, Asia and Africa; the progress of the radical revolutionary agitation in France and Ireland, the preparations for the Peabody funeral reception on board the British war ship Monarch, the royal and legislative situation in Italy, and the rejoicings, work and marine movements which wetd observed on the banks of the Suez Canal and on the new transit route from either terminus of its entry and discharge. From France a-special writer has spoken of the composer Offenbach and described the great maestro in his home, while others have pictured the state of political parties in Paris and painted Napoleon’s attitude towards the dif- ferent organizations. From London we hada continuation of our special historical review of the eighteen general councils of the Church of Rome which have preceded the coming “Council of the Vatican,” with very ample notes as to the mode of conduct and probable result and consequences of the forthcoming hierarchical assemblage. Madrid told of Prim and Topete, politics and military rule, royalty and republicanism. Germany spoke of earth- quakes, Prussian finance, emigration and the army. Rome was made glad by. the receipt of a huge nugget of silver ore from California, just as Constantinople was delighted by royal visits from Austria and Italy. A variety of other foreign matter was presented also to our readers. It arrived from the Spanish Antilles, the South Pacific, Central America, Canada, Alaska and the northwest- ern region of British Columbia, These advices were of a rather melancholy charac- ter, telling, as they did, of civil war, social demoralization, Indian ravages and death ; but affording at the same time a faithful warning to the rising generation of American statesmen as to the difficulties of the task which awaits them when the moment arrives at which they will be forced to throw the protecting fold of the flag of the Union over these ancient States and commence to educate their peoples as to the true duties of freemen, directed and con- trolled by the great civilizing agencies of the hour—steam, electricity and the printing press. Close of the @ourt of Sessions—Judge Bedford. The General Term of the Court of Ses- sions, which is now concluded, leaves many satisfactory recollections in connection with the transaction of its business. For this we are in a great measure indebted to the firm- ness, energy and good judgment of the City Judge, Gunning S. Bedford, Jr. The office of City Judge is one to which, perhaps more than any other, the public have to look for pro- tection ‘against crime. Judge Bedford's administration of justice in dealing with the perpetrators of crimes against society has been more than satisfactory. If he has been severe, he has been just also. The severity is, of course, deprecated by the rascally part of the community; but the law and order people do not object to ita bit. Tho very latest act of the City Judge is a commendable instance in point. At eleven o'clock yesterday evening he sentenced to the State Prison for five years the notorious panel thief Mart Allen, a conspicuous member of a politico-criminal family which has long defied with extraordinary success repeated attempts to bring them to justice. Not all the pressure of the occult influence of certain ward politicians gould save Mart from his just doom. “J do not see,” said Judge Bedford to the cul- case, and therefore deem it simply my official duty to mete the severest penalty.” A just sentence. The Policy Business, Recent proceedings taken in United States Courts against lottery policy dealers in this city may open the eyes of the public to an odd circumstance in the history of vice. This is the fact, that of our two governments the one that has the power to tax the policy dealers as traders can always find them, while the one that has power to suppress the trade as immoral and to punish the traders as offenders sedms to be quite unconscious of their existence. We ought to rejoice that one of our governments is able to find such seed-beds of popular degradation and misery as the poli¢y shops are, since it is possible that the romedy of taxation may be some restraint upon the evil, Uncle Sam’s taxgatherer cannot make his hand too heavy in this particular place. The law is clear that every person who sells policy slips shall have a license from the United > States revere euthoeiten, and sind pay 8 Se. upon his sales, and it is now @ quesuou if court whether the persons thus described number four or four hundred. There are, say the policy men, but four of these dealers. ese are the persons who keep the central offices here. The four hundred ‘‘policy shops” scattered in different parte of the city, it is alleged, are the dependencies of these four. ‘It is not likely that the courts will permit the four hundred dealers to escape the tax on 60 flimsy a plea, and the benefit of taxing indi- vidually every dealer may not be inconsider- able in its prohibitory effect. Not less than ten million dollars are spent every year in this city alone in the purchase of the little slips that promise a delusive chance to win. This vast sum is mostly drawn from the meagre earnings of the poor. Men or women earning from three to ten dollars a week invest one dollar in golden hopes. They | yearn to better their condition—to have more money and less labor—and they enter a shop in which “if they are Incky” sixty dollars may | be bought with one dollar, They spend their | money and they lose, But something assures them they will win next time, and away goes another dollar, if they have it. Thus they are drawn on from day to day. and thus they are | | kept poor. Whoever rails at them for this rails at human nature, The aggregate of the small sums thus spent reaches in the year, a8 we have gaid, ten millions of dollars. What is our educational fund to this? The money we spend in the education of children isa very small sum by comparison with the policy plun- der, and the good the schools do in the dis- semination of knowledge bears about the same proportion to the evil the policy shops do in the absolute demoralization of all within the sphere of their influence. Perhaps the worst feature of all is that this mischievous trade is sort of monopoly. It has so definite, so recognized and so bold an existence in our midst that it adopts its regular system for crushing out competition. We see, moreover, that it comes into court and argues against the United States authorities for its rights. Who would believe, then, that it has no rights—that it is a trade abgolutely forbidden by stringent provisions of our State law? Republican City and State Legislation. In another place in the Hgratp will be found a review of republican legislation since the accession of the party to power in this State in 1656. The retrospect, -so far as the first invasion upon municipal government is concerned, goes a little farther back than republican ascendancy, from the fact that the. whigs of a few years previous existence paved the way for much of the misgovernment for which the republicans are to-day so justly condemned. The article in question will be found specially interesting in so immediately following upon ‘Peter Bismarck Sweeny's political horoscope,” published in the Hzratp of Fridaylast. In one article our readers have presented to them a brief review of all the re- publican enactments affecting the municipal government and the chartered rights of the citi- zens during the past ten or twelve years. In the other they have an exposition of the policy to be pursued by the dominant (democratic) party, on the authority of the able leader and chief of the Tammany Regency. The latter article embraces questions of policy beyond what can be properly considered as belonging to State legislation, but at the same time it is exhaustive on this particular subject, and therein lies its value and importance as a poli- tical state document. But whether as a pro- gramme of the policy to be pursued by the Regency in the coming session of the State Legislature on questions strictly local, or of the course to be followed in bringing the democracy of the Empire State into line for the Presidential contest in 1872, Mr. Sweeny’s pro- nunciamento is certainly one of the most re- markable party revelations of the day, and will command corresponding attention and study, Peter B. SwEENY AGAIN ON THE Fir- TEENTH AMENDMENT.—We publish this morn- ing a trenchant exposition from Mr. Sweeny of his objections to the fifteenth amendment, He does not object particularly to the universal negro suffrage provided for; but in the pro- vision, that ‘‘Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation” he sees the subversion of the constitution in regard to the right of the States respectively to control the machinery of their elections. He thinks that under this fifteenth amend- ment, if adopted, the radicals in Congress will, by ‘appropriate legislation,” provide the inspectors, clerks, &c., of the elections in every State. This is a startling view of the subject, and fully justifies the hostility of Tam- many Hall to the amendment in view of this terrible radical innovation in the management of our elections. Read the letter of Mr. Sweeny. A Bap Ism—Free Loveism. Disguise it as you may, itis bad, very bad. Itis an out- cropping of Fourierism and from the affinities of Spiritualism. Disregarding the established metes and bounds of society, it is apt to culmi- nate in gunpowder. Prudent men will avoid it and all its affiliations. There is no safety outside the established order of society, as there is none in disregarding the laws of the land, Tae Greatest Prosect oF THR AGE—The Darien Ship Canal, directly connecting, in the middle, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and cutting off fourteen thousand miles, more or less, in cutting off the Continent of South America. THE SPANISH GUXBOATS. Yesterday Mr. E. W. Stoughton, as proctor in admiralty, filed the claim of Mr, (, H. Dela- mater to the thirty Spanish gunboats lately seized by the United States Marshal, and also nis answer to the Ifbel, in the office of the Clerk f the United States Jnstrict Court, and at the same time served Judge Pierrepont, the District Attorney, with a copy of it, The claim and the anewer are both in the same document and consist only of the printed blank form usual im such cases of seizures in aami- ralty proceedings. Mr. Delamater, through his proctor, claims the boats as hig own property, and avers that the allegations of the libel are not true, The papers for the proposed motion to have the boats released, the writ quashed and the libel dismissed will probably be served to-morrow, and the case may come up for argument about the mia- die of the present week. Up to the present nelther the Spanish government nor any of ita oficial repre- sentatives in this country have made an official ap- pearance in the case, and though they may privately ald and assist Mr. Delamater in opposing the seizure, they have not, sofar as these proceedings in court are concerned, interfered at all in the case, Everything was quict at the docks foot of West Thirteenth street, and nothing Qf interest occurred to A)taF Woe 8 OF SO een THE i THE ROGERS MURDERER AT HOME AGAIN. Reported Deveigpments by the Police=The Detectives St Work. ‘The mystery surrounding the murder of Mr, Charles Rogers in December last was a two months’ wonder, and the police were unanle, after numerous arrests, to ix the decd upon any one of them. It ir claimed by Mr. Kennedy, Superintendent of Police, that he has known all along the really guilty party, who a once made his escape on learning from the newspapers that the detectives—who nsually make the hunting down of @ murderer secondary to jobs that pay better—were on his trail. For many months the public have heard nothing regarding the tragedy, and it has ceased to bea subject of comment. Within a few days, it is said the p olice have jearned that the murderer bas re- turned from sea and is now in the city, and they have again set to work to unravel the mystery and se- cure the assassin, The detectives say nothing about it, but details are out everyenight in search of a ¢ tain party whose name is oniy Known to themse Friday Matty | Avery aud Tieman, of the Cen- tral Office, and Sergeant Lowery, of the Twentieth precinet, who worked so indelfatigably last winter, scoured portions of the Sixteenth, Twenticth and Twenty-second wards in search of their game, with no success. The Central Office men circuiated in the gajoons of Eighth and Ninth avenues and hung around the borders of political assembiles, but at ® 3% Sitios, | late hour abandoned the work for the night and re- turned home without the man wanted, ‘They are, as usually, reticent, and give no clue as to their movements, although the search was renowed last grening, with no better success. The prospecis are that this last effort will prove as abortive as poy ous ones, and the Superintendent will hat Opportunity of closing his tenure of office by & ter atroke of Vidocanian poltoy. OBITUARY. James L. Kiernan. Early yesterday afternoon General Kiernan diea suddenly at his residence, in this city, from conges- tion of the lungs, He was born in this oily some time during 1837, received a good education and graduated as a physician at the University of New York. At the outbreak of the rebellion he was engaged in the practice of his profession and in edit ing the Medical Press, at the same time holding the position of Surgeon to the Sixty-ninth regiment of National Guards of this State. He enverea into active service as surgeon on the staff of General Fremont, holding the rank of major. During the Red Riage campaign in Missourt he accompanied General Curtis’ force, aud was ap pommted surgeon of the Sixth Missouri cavairy for gallant behaviour on the battledeld of Red Ridge. Subsequently his command was ordered w reinforce General Grant, and at the battle of Port Gibson, Miss. fought May 6, 1863, again distinguished himseif, and being disabled by @ severe wound, fell into the hands of the enemy. He, howevever, alterwards succeeded in making his escape to Bayou Fiecrre, and from Unence proceeded to Grand Gull. His wound inca pacitating him irom active service, Dr. Kieruan re Signed bis commission, at the same time tut an address was sent on to President Lincola, ne by uenteen general olficers, four Governors of states a mamber of coloueis, majors, £0, recommending hiw for promouon ww a uign multary position, He returned to New York, and durt the riots in this city aiaed the military authorti order..and tranquility. inthe month ot August following he was comuussioncd a brigadier ‘of volunteers, ‘for services reudered leld,”” and ordered to report to Adjutant General ‘Toomas, at Vicksburg, He served with disuoctiom unt the close of the » When he was bonorab! musterea out of service. Un the luth of July, 4 President Johnson appointed General Kiernau Uait ‘Staves Consul at Chin Kiang, Cina. ‘ue duties of his office were performed in 4 very satisiacuory manner util he returned to New York aiter tue inauguration of Presiaent Grant. General Kiernan was @ mewber of the republican party, for the success of which he worked har though with very little reward. He veceived sevel wounds during the war, one ol wilch was caused by a@ bullet passing through bis lung, iwateriaily aifecting bis constitution aud doubiless acveeratio; bis death, Jt was thought that this fact w recommend him to tae government, but, excepting _ the appointment relerted to, bis claus to pretec- ment were not properly recozaized, As @ lecturer the deceasea inade quite a repute tion. He was also a writer of ability, He was wide kuown and much esteemed in wis cuy. Alnor juite @ young man the high order of talent exul- uted by him, and which won for him the rank of generai—bestowed upon but one otuer voluntcer surgeon during the rebeilion—gave prowise of a brul- lane career, Which death has abruptly closed. Barrow Benrimo. ‘The death of this well-known merchant took place Friday last at his residence in tus city. He was born in London, but emigrated to the United States with his parents some twenty-eight years ago. In 1849 Mr. Benrimo engaged in the tobacco business in New York, in connection with his brother. The firm soon rose into prominence and is now one of the leading tobacco houses In the city. As the head of it the deceased gentleman was widely known for his integrity and general uprightness of character, and possessed a large circle of triends and acquaine ances, He amassed a considerable property, out of which he was enabled to periorm many charitable actions in behaif of his coreligionists aud others, Ata meeting of the tobacco merchants of tls city, held yesterday, resolutions extuliing the public an private virtues of Mr, Benrimo, and expressing Tegret at his death were passed. It was also resolved to attend the funeral in a body and vo close the stores of the merchants present duriug the hours of the obsequies. THE ERIE RAILWAY LITIGATION, ‘Tne following is the text of Judge Balcom's ‘cor. rection” or “modification” of the order of injunction recently granted by him in the Ramsay-Erie suit, the effect of which was announced in the HERALD’s vle- graphic report from Binghamton yesterday:— Supreme Court, County of Delaware.—Joseph H, Ramsay vs. The Erte Railway Company ant Others.—Ordered, that the order granted in this action by me on the 24th day of November instans be and thesame is hereby corrected and modified 80 as to read as follows:—Let all proceedings on the t of plaintiff in this action, inciuding all proceed. gs before Philo T. Ruggles, Esq., as referee, be stayed until the defendants can make @ motion in the proper county to have the tujunction and orders: ‘anted by Justice Murray set aside and vacated. Said stay not to exceed twenty days. But this order shall not prevent the service upon any of the defend- ants of the summons and complaint, injunction and orders granted by Justice Murray in the action prior to the 24th instant. RANSOM BALCOM, Justice of the Supreme Court. BiNawaMton, Nov, 26, 1369. There are no new developments in the situation. The offices in the Grand Opera House are guaraed, and no persons are permivted to pass the outer guards and enter the palatial rooms of Fisk and Gould. To all inquirers the reply is made that the latter ts ill at his residence, and that Fisk is in Boston, although it ts generally believed that he iw pine building. It is generally believed that they ‘eep out of the way to prevent the service of papers, The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Case—Conditional Resignation of Jay Geuld—Judge Hitchcock, of Ohio, Ap-= pointed Receiver. AKRON, Nov, 27, 1869. All the morning was spent in conference and con- sultation in open court. In the afternoon Judge Backus read we resignation of Jay Gould of the receivership of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail- way, to take effect January 1, 1570, on the condition that the lease of the Atlantic and Great Western Ratlway and its branches to the Erie Ratlway, according to the contract of December 7, 1868, be in force until the sale of the Atlantic and Great 'Weat- ern Railway under the forclosure of the mortgages, as prayed for, is perfected, and the Erie Railway ant Operate this road until its lease shall legally ir. McFarland, for Mr. Doherty, stated that his resignation also takes effect on New Year's. The Atlantic and Great Western Kaitway party, through Judge Collins, presented the name of Jud Reuben Hitchcock, of Painesville, Ohto, for ceiver. Ji Boynton appointed Judge under $200,000 This ends. bonds, . she trouble until the next court. The answer in the petition fomioreciosure and sale are to be filed January 10, and the case wiil be ready tor @ hearing January 24, COLLISION ON THE SOUND, A collision occurred on Wednesday, about noon, between the schooner Lillias, Captain Griffin, and a brig, off Stratford, by which the schooner was badly damaged and was obliged to put into Bridgeport for repaira, arriving about four o'clock in the afternoon, Tne Lillias was loaded with coal, and was bound for Salem, Mase. The brig was also bound east, and both were beating, tne wind being ahead. At the tme the collision took place the schgoner was on the starboard tack and the brig on the port tack, and should have kept clear of the schooner, The brig struck the schooner on the starboard bow, carrying away her fying jibboom, martingale aa gli the head gear. Her forward bulwarks were stove in, rendering it unsafe to attempt to sail further in that direction against the wind, and she put back to Bridgeport. The Lillias is a new vessel, having been launched last spring, and the collision entails an expense of several hundred dotiars for re be- sides the logs sustained by the delay, The brig con- tinned to face the wind and gail on, and her name ‘was not learned. —— — = ’ , et or ual ¢ rei gene i Brevet Weigadier General R. E. Clary has been ordered to Washifigton for consultation with Hon. ‘T. Lyle Dickey, Assistant Attotns,’ General of the tnited Staves, s ~ “WAVAL INTELURENGE, Lieutenant Wallace Graham has becn ordered to the New York Navy Yard on the lst of January. Surgeon EK. k. Dodge has been orderea to the re ceiving ship New Hampshire. ‘The United States tugboat Maria, that had so long watched the Spanish gunboats at the foot of Thir- teenth street, New York, left the Navy Yard last nighs with # drait of 160 men for Portsmouth, N. H., where they are to be transferred to tne steam frigate Benicia, which has received sailing orders for China, and will start immediately. ‘The place of the Maria 1s Mled now at the foot of Thirteenth street by the tugboat Kalbfetach. ANOTHER ALLEGED THIEF ON THE POLICE. At the meeting of the soard of Police Commission- ers yosterday it transpired that Edward Branagan, appointed on the force on the 13th instant and as- signed to the Seventh precinct, sustains an unenvia- bie reputation. Inquiries made in the Thirteenth h precincts by police officials show he fits boon rreated five times, three times for larceny and twice for Siig fone nat Ne three times comm! ce Shandiey, whose name appears on the petition for his as well as does that of Aldermen Coman, As the man, 1p hie Sugcatol wore that he had never been arrested, ion pr os w Cig ti te tor perjury, un ie tenders resignation to Guise Gleck Hawley before half-past eleven o'clock. to-orrow, aa theredy relieves the Board of the pleasant auty Of disinissing bim, He is an bi of Mr. Commissiouer Smith, who Was not aware bis real character.