The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1869, Page 6

———_. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND A? STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. 338 Volume: XXXIV. a = AMUSEMENTS THIS AF OLYMPIC THEATRE. A Bout IN A Cina Sor. } AND EVENING. —Darivs Durrox— +2 ee at FIFTH AVENUE THE Twenty-fourth st.—DapDy Gaay—-Cukoksarr. M. % > NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broasway.—Tas MItirary Drama ov Fine FLY. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSECM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor ner Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. wrmanee every evening. wery.—LApy or Tam Lake— ran BaNnrr, £0, BOWERY THEATR: Dopatxe vor a Wir WALLAOR'S THEATRG, Broaiway and Ith street.— Henty Dusan FRENCH THEATRE. 1th 0x, Ligits AND SHADOWS 0 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mih st WittaM TELL. Matines at lus 1. -TPALTAN OPERA NAMBOLA. THE TAMMANY. Fow Boow"ns, $0. Matinee GRAND OPERA It0U: ‘33d sreet.—-ENGuisu Ur ‘THE HaNLow * Elghth avenue and A DIAvOLO. Matinee, TRE, 2 BOOTHS THE. Fins? Pas? or Sib ang 6th ava A kK tinge ay 2, MRS. ¥, B, CONWAY'S PARK TILEATRE, Brooklyn.— O.iver Pwise. 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Becember 4, ‘ean WoWS. ber 3, that Mr, nese on the 2d inst. irlingame, wi! assy, Were re The Ki embers of the Chl- ne Court of Prussia with the dig- Cabinet, were ed the embassy, warm friendship ed towads the The reception was brilliant and making special r Which North G United States, happy. ‘fhe oMcers of the Ecnmen in received @ Papa! Allo they took oath of oftice. The London Times augurs that the Council will prove a failure and bring discord tothe Catholic Charch. The Lancashire (England) cotton mills are on “full time.’ General Ignatietl i appoisted Foreign Minister of Russia, Portugal 28 about to lay a. buarine cable to the Ameri- can coast, touching at the Azores. The United States and French governments have, itis Suid, arranged the dificulty growing out of the land- ang of the French cable on American soil, Cariist cousparicies are again rifein Spain. Paris remains guiet. M. Rochefort dem that the National Guard do daty around the Legislative Assembly hall for the protection of members, his motion being received with great surprise, but some considerable how of favor. Tue Peabody funera! ship Monarch is ready for sea, but may not quit Eugland fora few days. Her cabins are draped in mourning. Cuba. The latest news from Cuba announces the landing Of an expedition at Nipe Bay, bringing arms and am- Munition for the Cubans. The Cuban privateer ‘Teaser brought the supplies to the coast, and they have been forwarded successfully to the interior. Aight took place on the 20th ultimo at a place called Magete, in which the Cubans were successful, On the 24th the garrison at San José was attacked by a party of insurgents. They, however, withdrew wien remforcements to aid the garrison came up, Nuch excitement prevails in regard to the matter. Miscellaneous, Treasurer Spinner’s annual report, in substance, Will be found elsewhere in our columas this morn- ing. The Treasurer gives a checring account of our Onancea, and says if things wo on as at present the whole national devt will be paid off in thirteen years, During the eight years and more in which Treasurer Spinner has had charge of the Treasury forty-four billions of dollars have passed through his hands aud the hands of the employés of the Treasury, and not acent has been lost by the mismanagement or ult of himself or his employés. National Board of Trade assembled In Rich- Va., on Thu . The proposition to re- sh a Department of Com- A discussion of considerable ‘est ensted on the resolution favoring @ national orfolk Va., to San Diego (Ual.), durmg ‘as claimed that the Erie Canai carried ight than all the Northern railroacs com- ‘The resolution was finally laid on the table. quest © perpetually recurrlug troubles! Important despatches from the English Cabinet, in regard to the Red river disturbggges, are ex- pected by the Canadian governmelt to-day. A Gepulation to arrange a satisiactory settlement with the ingurgeuts will leave Ottawa ior Fort Garry on Tuesday. A nuiaber of Mormons trom Salt Lake, who repu- Ginte polygamy, bave settled in Jackson county, Mo., near Independence. They formerly resided there, und have recovered thelr old property, and propose to erect a new tempie. Elsewhere this Morning we publish the manitesto of the Mormon dissenters, Which was thes cause of the pending @clusm in the Church. The Clty. Florence Scannell, 8 candidate for Alderman from the Figuicenth ward, 1 company with about twenty friends, got into an altercation at the saloon of Thomas Donohoe, an adherent of Nesbitt, the rival & late for Alderman, early yesterday afternoon, Bud a severe fight occu: in which pistols, knives Qnd bludgeons were trcely used. Florence Scannell ‘Was slot at the frst fire and perhaps mortally in- Jured. George Johnson was fatally wounded, Dono- hoe waa seriously, though not fatally, hurt, and Beyeral orhers received siighter wounds, Seven policemen, after considerable trouble, put an end to the aliercation and arrested Join Scannell and Donohoe, who were both commitied to prison by Alderman Ward, Genera! Pieasonton, Uatted States Internal Reve Due Collector, with a large posse of deputies, and escorted by several hundred United made a sudden descent upon tae Brooklyn yesterday for the pu! 0 of seizing light Gistilleries, The large military force was rendered mecessary by the rotous character of the locality and the occurrence of bloodshed on previous similar ocea- Bions. Several thousand dollars’ worth of property Wasselged and although great excitement prevailed, pecompanied with threats of Violence, no serious ‘Dasuaitios occurred. 40 explosion took place on board the North Ger- 6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. | man brig Der Pidiss, laden with naphtha, ac anchor off Quarantine yesterday, resulting in the destruc- tion of tie vessel and cargo by fire. The captain and mate were severely and the’ cabin boy slightly burned, but, fortunately, no lives were lost. ; Mr, Alexander McDonald, President of the Miners’ Association of Great Britain, who 1s on a tour in this country observing the labor element, addressed vhe Workingmen’s Union last night. Jn regard to Chindmen on the Pacific slope, he said that their further importation should be stopped, as it was the importation of a siave element worse in some respects than the old negro system that brought about our war. . The cage of Branagan, the policeman, charged with baying been a thief, was heard before Commis- sioner Bosworth yesterday. The police records show that although he bad been arrested five times he bad been disenargea on the trial of each case, ie claimed that he had committed no crime and did not understand that he had committed perjury tn swearing to his character for honesty when ho became a policeman. The case was referred to tne Police Board for judgment. The Pacific Mat! Company’s steamship Arizona, Captain Maury, will leave pier 42 North river at 12 M. to-day for Aspinwall, connecting with the Golden City at Panama for San Francisco. ‘The steamer Oity of Mexico, Captain Deaken, will leave pier 17 East river at 12 M, to-day for flavana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The stock market yesterday was strong and active. Gold was steady and strong, closing finally at 122%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman Poland, of Vermont; General Eli 8. Parker, Indian Agent; Admiral Goldsporough, of the United States Navy, and General ‘I. M. Mason, of Eugiand, are at the Astor House. Colonel J. J. Sproull, of Chicago, and Judge Tay- lor, of Danbury, are at the Coleman House. Captain T. Ward, of the United States Army; Gen- oral J. B, Dennis, of South Carolina; Frank King, of Virginia, and D. Rosenberg, of Russia, are at the Hoffman House. Professor Sanderson, of Buffalo; Captain J. Wil- son, Of Quebec, aud Colonel George R. ingersoll. of Iilinots, are at the St, Charles Hotel. General W. H. Reynolds, of Providence, and Colonel S. 8. Elsworth, of Pean Yan, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel W. Whaley, of South Carolina, and ex- Senator Wiliam Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland, are at the New York Hotel. Preminent Departures. General James McQuade ana Dr, J. H. Delevan, r Albany; Judge Rush R. Sloane, for Sandusky; uu. A. Hathorn, for Saratoga; Colonel J.D. rary, for Connecti¢ut; Colonel Henry Lippitt, for Rhode island; Colonel Hamilton, fur New Orleans; Colonel Hudson, for Troy; Colonel H. S. Carpenter and Colonel Irvin, for Philadelphia, and Mrs, Homer and Gaughter, of Boston, sailed on board the steamer Brussels for Harope. Old) Troubles Up Again=Schleswig- Holstein, Ireland, Turkey and the Pope. What a funny old world is Europe! What attractions it has as a grand old curiosity shop! What interest it commands by its many and If peoples are not warriag with their governments or Your nations warring with each other, war is always an immediate possibility. Rumor is always loud regarding some dangerous complications or some impending conflict, in the past so it is to-day, and go it is likely to be in the future, until thrones, dynasties, petty nationalities, with all their paltry distinctions, have finally disappeared and a confederated Europe fully accepts the teaching and imitates the example of the United States, As it has been Among the items of our latest news by At- lantic cablo and by mail we find the old story repeated in various forms, The Schleswig- Holstein question is revived. Ireland, in spite of the conciliatory policy of Gladstone, is again ina state of revolution. The Eastern question, in spite of the Suez Canal, or rather because of the Suez Canal, promises trouble. The Pope, who has been giving Europe and the world generally annoyance for the last ten centu- ries or more, has again commanded an amount of attention which makes one doubt whether he is living in the nineteenth century or in the days of Hildebrand. We have thus four great questions, all of them important, but none of them new, once more commanding attention and threatening revolution, if not war. What is the Schleswig-Holztein trouble? Who knows? It was once said that Lord Palm- erston and somebody else knew what it meant. But the somebody else died long ago, and Lord Palmerston is no more. Who, then, dare talk about Schleswig-Hoilsiein? Wo will not talk about it. We have only to say that after the battle of Sadowa, and when matters were being arranged between the late contesting parties Prussia promised to Austria, mainly because Napoleon requested it, that the in- habitants of Schleswig-Holstein should be asked to decide by vote whether they should be citizens of Denmark or citizens of Prussia, The treaty of Prague contains this stipulation, But Prussia still occupies Schleswig-Holstein, and tho stipulation of the treaty of Prague has never been fulfilled. Denmark, year after year, has been insisting that the question should be submitted tu the vote. Austria and France have both backed up Denmark, but the promised plebiscite has not yet been reduced to a practical experiment. It is our opinion now, as we have already frequently avowed, that just as this Schleswig-Holateia business led to the late war between Prussia and Austria, so it would ere now, had Napo- leon been a younger man, have led to a war in which France, Austria, Prussia, Den- mark and probably Russia would have figured. Napoleon’s years and increasing infirmities constitute the principal reason why Prussia has not fulfilled her obligation and why war has not resulted. At the present moment, however, it is not too much to say that out of this question a war may yet grow— ® war big enough to convulse and revolu- tionize Europe, If the question should become serious the presumption now is that Von Beust will do his best to humble Prussia in the same cause in which she suffered. It is clear that in such a conflict Austria could count on France, and thus prove to the world the mutability not only of human friendships but of government alliances, Then there is the Irish question. Ireland is now an old story, and since the days of Shan O'Neil up until the whiskey seizures of yes- terday it has been a world trouble, Irishmen, where are they not? It is Britain's pride that she has numerons and powerful colonies, But in every British colony Ireland is largely represented, and wherever, in any British colony or anywhere else Irishmen are found, they have big sorrow and make oa big trouble. Macaulay once said that whenever the North Pole should be found a son of Tar- tanland should be seen astride of it. It would not be a bolder hyperbole to say that when the moon ig first reached by some earthly voyager the vos will find an Irish colony in somo of ils dried-up valleys or barren mountain UU aE EET (nae ena Gladstone as it was under Mr, Disraeli, and that, notwithstanding Mr, Gladstone's great doings and great promises, the Jow has still a chance to tale the wind out of the sails of his great rival, It is reglly fanny and somewhat instructive to find that the more Mr. Gladstone bows aud yields to Ireland, the moro imperl- ous and exacting the Irish people become. Turkey, too, is in great trouble. The Suez Canal has begotten great promise, but it has bogotten no fruit as yet but trouble, and the trouble fs really alarming, Ifthe Sultan will not bo pacified he most fight. If he fights Europe will be compelled to take sides, A general Buropean war on the Eastern question is a little absurd, bul itis notanimprobability, And what shall we say of the Pope and his Council? It will be one of tho grandest shows but one of the grandest auachronisms of the age. Nobody expecls much; therefore if much does not come from it nobody will be disappointed. But much may come fromit, It may give a now impulse to thought, and this impulse, by its consequences, may by all the future be regarded as the parent of revolution, We wait to know. Meanwhile we shall expect European, troubles (o recur periodically until kings an@ Kaivers have goue the way of all Parposc. Wo understand that the President's mes- sage, which will be submitted to Congress on Monday or Tuesday next, will be a model of business-like brevity. For many years past the President's annual report to the two houses of the workings of the government, with his accompanying recommendations and arguments, has taken up about a page of the HeERatp, and"sometimes more than a page. Always a heavy, lumbering, cumbersome and tiresome “Pub. Doc.,” it became with the swelling chop-logic of Andy Johnson on the blessed constitution a dismal and intolerable bore. Now we are glad to hear that Gen- eral Grant, in this matter, as in many other matters, has resolved to introduce a great and welcome reform—that instead of a half dozen columns of tedious verbiage and party claptrap and rubbish, he will give us a con- densation down, perhaps, to less than three Heratp columns of our usual type, if not less than two. This will be a great saving of time, patience and money to the government, the public press and the people at large. We hope, in the next place, that the Presi- dent’s good example will be followed by the things human. For all these troubles, ranging from Wales to Dgypt, from Marseilles to St. Potorsburg, there is but one oure—the peoples must begin to learn to govern themselves. Europe must become a grand federal republic, Tauis is her future and her salvation. Tho Elections in Mississippi and’ Texas Ii will be the funniest of the many issues of modern politics if, after all, Mississippi shall prove, as seems now nearly certain, to have gone strongly radical, Only fancy the chagrin of Dent! He quarrelled with the White Honse and all ils chances in his certainty of success on the conservative ticket, and where is he? Tie tried to stand before Mississippi, in virtue of his relationship with Grant, .as a quasi administration man, and the administration was all against him, He tried to commend himself to the conservatives as one martyred by the more radical end of the administration, and the conservatives repudiate him as ® carpet-bagger and give their snf- frages to the radical, who is, withal, aman of thelr own State. The real balance wheel of political machinery is at Iast tho popular verdict, and a very healthy sign of its action is that so often and so clearly this popu- lar verdict bears more direct relation to the personal character of the candidate than to so- called party principles and arguments, We can explain on no other view the dissimilarity of the results in Mississippi and Texas. In Texas, as the dispatches tell us, the colored vote is large, in some counties in a great ma- jority, but the appearances are that the radi- cal candidate is beaten, Largzsr News From Cuna.—We publish elsewhere a special dispatch from Havana, via Key West, which informs us that the Cubans have made a Successful landing of arms and ammunition in the Bay of Nipe. Tho war material had been conveyed to the coast by the Cuban privatecr Teaser, and is now doing good service in the hands of the patriots in the interior. Wo arealso informed of two brilliant encounters at Magete and San José, between the Cubans and the Spaniards, in which the former displayed great courage and daring during both fights. It is plain to be seen that if the Cubans had the arms and the ammunition they so much desire they would make the campaign against the enemy what it should be—short, sharp and decisive, Tue Mormon Scuism.—We published some time ago a full account of the Mormon schism which led to the excommunication of Godbe and Harrison, the editors of the Utah Maga- zine, and we reproduce to-day their manifesto, which appeared in that magazine on the 27th of November, Avowing their belief in tho divinity of the Mormon system in its origin, they announce that the object of their new movement is not to destroy the system, but to preserve it and to work it out with even more than the gran- deur of Joo Smith’s original programme, Renewing their protest against Brigham Young's small and insignificant working out of that programme, and particularly against his efforts ‘‘to build up a despotic, priestly rule in the Church,” they give an outline of the changes in discipline and doctrine, which they claim to have had revealed and recom- mended to them by inspiration from angelic beings. Not a few of these changes are radi- eal, and much curiosity will be awakened to learn their full views on the toleration of dif- ferent religious creeds and other points, espe- olally on the practice of “plural marriage.” They declare that ‘the Church will hence- forth be known as the Church of Zion.” Boty nvr Feesin—The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s defence of the late Mr. Richardson as a model of all the virtues. The moral phi- losophy of the shepherd of Plymouth church flock is seasoned too highly with the sweetmeats of the new schools of moral reform to be wholesome, We fear that tho free and easy expounder of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount has too many irons in the fire, and that with these relating to women’s rights his fingers will be badly burned before he is done with them, He Brats Tuem Avt.—Governor Flanders, of Washington Territory, has put his foot down and vetoed a hundred bills passed by the Territorial Legislature, Against this where is the veto record of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Governor Hoffman and all the rest? Nowhere, But Washington Territory looks out upon the boundless Pacific, is washed by the roaring Columbia river and surrounded by lofty volcanoes, and so the Governor out there looms up and spreads himself on a cor- responding scale, Anorner Suppen Deara,—The case of Mrs. Cruger, who died by the inhalation of chloroform, seems to have been very flippantly disposed of by the Coroner, This woman was found dead in her room, She had lived un- happily with her husband; thoy had been separated, and apparently had patched up their differences but a short timo since; the husband bought the chloroform, “‘left it for his wife” and went out, and returning soon, as he says, found her dead. All of which, as it ow Be this as it may, it is undeniable that Irelagd is os Use comtentad under Mr, appears to us, requires a closer examination (han the Coronor gaye Seeretaries of the several departments in their accompanying annual reports; that these reports will bo reduced as far as possible to facts, figures, recommendations and reasons, briefly and distinctly given, and that all un- necessary routine correspondence from Tom, Dick and Harry will be left out. Under this process of retrenchment a million of money may be saved to the Treasury in the printing of the message and accompanying reports over the old party system (commenced under Gene- ral Jackson) .of spreading out these official papers into a good fat jobfor the party printers of the two houses, We have got rid of those party printers in a government printing office ; now let this old party job system be abolighed altogether. We have had since the time of Jackson too much rubbish in these govern- ment reports. Now let this rubbish be cut out. Groat Army [{ilovomentson Whiskey. There has been a good deal of trouble from time to time in suppressing illicit distilleries in Brooklyn and in the vicinity of Harlem. The civil power of the revenue officers, assisted in some cases, as they were, by the police author- ities, has failed to overcome the riotous spirit of the mobs who occasionally banded together to baffle the intentions of the revenue officials, There have been some serious rows and broken heads arising from this attempt to protect the distilleries, especially in some parts of Brook- lyn. The government, finding that its officers could not fulfil their duties in these turbulent neighborhoods, resolved to protect them by employing a military force. Accordingly a sortie was made yesterday by the revenue officers, supported by a couple of companies of United States infantry, upon a number of illicit distilleries in Brooklyn, amounting, it is said, to about forty, all of which were seized. From this they proceeded to Yorkville, and captured a few more in that vicinity. Gov- ernment no doubt found it imperative to take- these measures in order to put @ stop to illicit distillation and collect the dues of the revenue department. It appears to have been promptly and efficiently done in this case, The speculations as to the object of assem- bling a few hundred troops in the city are thus at an end. The idea that they were des- tined for the frontier to oppose an imaginary “Fenian” movement to Canada of course was all fudge. Equally absurd was the notion that they were intended to be used in any way relative to the Cuban question. The grand army movement was on whiskey, and it turns out to be a very successful one, Mr. Craia AND THE WesTERN UNION TELE- Grapn Company.—Mr. Craig, for many years the general agent of the Associated Press, and a gentleman whose attention has been much given to the subject of telegraphing, has com- pleted an invention calculated to facilitate for the public the use of that great means of com- munication, the telegraph. His apparatus, he believes, will immensely reduce the expense of telegraphing, and that it will at once save time and money are the features in its favor that he prosents. He encounters at the outset the hostility and opposition of the Western Union Company. This is almost a matter of course, for it is notorious that that company does not favor any idea calculated to make telegraphing cheaper than it is, We are glad to note that the opposition of the company to Mr, Craig’s invention promises to call out from this gentleman a statement of his knowledge of the transactions of that corporation, espe- clally of what it has done to discourage the proper development of that great agent of civilization, of which it has the monopoly here, In such collisions as tbis, that bring out the truth, the public interest is sure to gain, and we are therefore always disposed to encourage them. AxotnEr TREASURY Mistake.—It must be admitted, in view of that story of missing cnr- rency in one of the bureaus of the Treasury Department, that Uncle Sam has a very unhand- some way of getting even in his small losses, By what sort of justice and by what authority is it that the government robs one hundred girls of seven dollars each because some unknown per- son has robbed the government of seven hundred dollars? If the girls are honest, do not retain their money, If they are probably dishonest, diemias them; but by no means let the cRar- acter of the government be eoiled by such an outrageous and contemptible pieco of official tyranny. We have not heard of a meaner story in a great while than this direct robbery of the women, It surpasses in pitiful charac- ter the ‘acts of those people who rob poor sewing girls in this city, for these never jus- tify their iniquity by making wholesale impu- tation on the honesty of those they wrong out of their money, Rioarvson’s Brain Weianep Firry-Four AND A Hate Ounces.—This is a large brain, According to one of the reporters this sizo excited the astonishment of the doctors; but it need not very greatly astonish any one else. Brains commonly rango up to fifty-three ounces in weight, and every brain that rises above that may justly be called large; buta brain cannot be called astonishingly large till we begin to count its ounces in tho sixties, Ot brain, for lostanoe, weighed sixty- Sous ounces, o View. The oaptured Spanish letters which were published in part in the Heratp yesterday ought to convince the most obtuse-minded advocates of the despotic government of Spain over Cuba that the Spaniards have little hope of subjugating the Cubans. The mendacious reports and arguments we have been receiving all along through Havana and the newspapers under Spanish influence of the successes of the Spaniards and tho prospect of suppressing the insurrection are all exploded by the testimony of the Spaniards themselves, There is no doubt about the authenticity of the letters referred to, and, of course, they were written without the least idea that they would fall into the hands of the Cubans and be published in the United States, Well, these Spaniards conclude that the pacification of the “Gem of the Antilles,” by the powor of their government, “is about as difficult to accomplish as the squaring of the circle or perpetual motion;” that they ‘‘are making no headway, notwithstanding all the crowing of the (Spanish) nowspapers;” that they ‘‘are worse off every day;” that nearly “the whole country is in possession of the rebels;”-that ‘‘one (Spaniard) cannot go half a league out of town without surely losing his skin;” that “all the creoles who are insurrectos in the towns have become volunteers, so that we (the Spanish soldiers) have our enemies armed among ourselves, which seems very Quixotic on tho part of our government ;” that ‘this island (Cuba) is a tomb for Spaniards ;” and so on all through these significant and confidential communications of Spanish officers and soldiers to their friends, But the horrors of the war and brutalily of the Spaniards to the Cubans are depicted in still more forcible language. One Spaniard has frankness and heart enough to declare that ‘“‘such acts are committed that but little is wanted to make us ashamed of saying that we are Spaniards.” Will not the administration at Washington and Congress take notice of these facts? Is it not time that this country should put a stop to the atrocious war Spain is carrying on against the Cubans? Will not our government understand now that the Cuban war for independence is a grand movement—a national movement—and that Spain can have no hope of suppressing it, even with the utter desolation of the island? There are facts enough to show this if the govern- ment would only pay attention to them, rather than to the mendacious statements of Spanish ofticials and the Spanish press. A Demooratio faction Fiant.—The bloody and fatal fight among ward politicians at a liquor saloon on Second avenue yesterday after- noon is elsewhere fully detailed, with its indiscriminate use of pistols, clubs, dirks and other weapons, It is, after all, but a striking illustration of the fact that when any political party grows so big as to begin to split up into factions, each furiously and blindly bent on such a division of the spoils as shall satisfy itself, violent and even murderous quarrels are apt to ensue. In politics and in morals, as in the order of nature, the restoration of an equi- librium of forces is often preceded by extraor- dinary convulsions, Yesterday's faction fight should warn the democratic party in this city that its power has become so colossal as to make it liable to fall to pieces by its own weight. Tuk Jews is Russta—A Denran Wuicn Mzans a Conression.—It is said that the Minister of the Czar at Washington has posi- tively denied that any barbarous cruelties have of late been inflicted upon the Jews ia Russia. But what else could he do? His only alterna- tive, out of respect to the Emperor, was to put in a general denial of the facts presented by the deputation of our Hebrew fellow citizens who waited the other day upon the President to ask his friendly mediation on the subject. We are sure, however, that the friendly hint which has gone out from the Prosident to the Czar upon this matter will put an end to these aforesaid barbarities, Here, then, we shall have another striking illustration of the power of the telegraph and the public press at this day in modifying the rigors even of the abso- lute despotism of Russia; for the Czar, as welt as the Sultan, has been brought within short range of the public opinion of Christen- dom. Toe Western Gran TrApe—AN Issvr or CANADIAN ANNEXATION.—Large and increas- ing shipments of Northwestern wheat and flour now go down the Mississippi to New Or- leans for shipment direct to England. Tho producers of these articles have discovered that, what with elevator charges at Chicago and other overland half-way houses, and rail- way freighis and canal charges, the cosls of getting a barrel of flour from Iowa or Wiscon- sin overland to New York are so far in excess of the costs of transportation down the Missis- sippi to New Orleans that a handsome sum of money is saved by this line to the seaboard. What then? Against the Southern water line of the Mississippi the only compotition for this Northwestern grain trade that will pay in the East willbe the water line of the St. Law- rence down to the sea. Hence, by the law of “manifest destiny,” the annexation of the New Dominion down to the sea is more and more becoming a necessity to the great grain-grow- ing region of the Northwest. Woman's Rianrs Women on Marniace.— At the Reform Club on Thursday evening a woman’g rights woman enlightened the audi- ence with just such a view of the marriage rela- tion as has brought about the recent domestic tragedy in this cily which now occupies the public mind, The speaker avowed her predi- lections for “(ree love” in ita entirety on the ground that all love is ‘froe,” and, while patronizing the marriage relation as some- thing that might be endured so long as it was pleasant and agreeable, justified the violation of all its obligations uader just such cireum- stances as have led to the late Richardson case, We fear that this kind of moral and social ‘‘reform” is the very thing which leads | to the disruption of all the moral and social | ties which keep society together, and we sre sorry to see tho woman's rights women, who have many good arguments to advance, lend- ing themselves to its support. Nowe So Poor to Do Him Reverenor.— Only fancy the change of times when John GC, Breckinridge presents his card at the White House and the card is not even sent in, Verily it is « generation that knows not Jogoph, The President’s Message—Short and to the | Affairs in Cuba from a Spanish Point of Dress Fashions for and from EgyptOur Correspondence from Alexandrip. We have specially chronicled the great work of the Suez Canal in our pages from the first moment of its modern inception by M. de Les- seps to the hour of its successful comple- tion and utilization, by the passage through its waters of the imperial yacht.of France with the Empress Eugénie on board, attended by a fleet of war vessels, We have also reported the pulsation of the first initial throb of commercial life in the new arterial connection between Europe and Asia, by advising our readers of the navigation of the canal by @ trading ship from Glasgow, Scot- land, freighted with a cargo destined for India, If the “slight startle’ which was pro- duced by seeing an apple fall to the ground gnabled the philosophic mind of Newton to enlighten mankind with the knowledge of the grand fact that ‘the world goes round in a- most natural whirl called gravitation,” we may with very great truth assert that the Herarp has already convinced a World of the present existence of the means and agency for the accomplishment of a vast industrial revolution, which will change the current of the trade of the universe and re- vivify and enlighten and educate the millions of inhabitants of a hoary Jand. To-day we present the effects of the Suez Canal in a new shape—the migration from Paris of a congregation of fashionables on their way to Alexandria, Egypt, and their arrival in that city. They left behind them the time-revered centre-spring of dress style to seek pleasure and obtain new ideas as to costume and ‘‘cut” and the gonoral ‘‘make up” among the Arabs, in a country where, as was generally imagined just lately, a large num- ber of the inhabitants had ‘nothing to wear,” and exceeded even Miss McFlimsey herself in the approach to the puris natwralibus, Onur readers will see from our special letter from Alexandria to-day that the latter as- sumption is an error, and that even if it were true in some individnal cases previously the unfortunates will certainly “put something on them” now, after the complete success of such a splendid mission of dress reform and élégantes from Europe. The steamship Said, of the fleet of the Messageries Imp¢riales Com- pany, took the party from France to Alexan- dria, running along the classic shores of Italy and even landing them, during some few hours, at Messina for refreshment. It was a distin- guished and pleasant party. The sister-in-law of M. Charles de Lesseps made one of the number, There was an eloquent and pleasant Abbé, the Prefect of Venice, a staff officer from the court of Sweden, friends of Count Bismarck, musicians, artists, savans and a bride on her honeymoon tour to the land of the Pharoahs. Our special writer details the incidents of the trip, its momentary désagré- mens and happy termination after the several members of the swift floating world steamer had become thoroughly akin by a pleasant reunion. Their reception by ‘the Khedive was of a princely character. His people and their children received the new dispensation with wonder mixed with joy. Pompey’s Pillar and the Thebaic Stone were examined and Cleopatra’s Needles visited. The visitors descended to the Catacombs and subsequently made the halls of the palaces of the Viceroy joyous with laughter and song. In the evening there was a banquet, after which the carriages of the Viceroy set the distinguished company down at the Italian opera, where the ‘‘Africaine” was performed. After perusing this special leiter our readers, will naturally inquire, What next? The writer states that outside of Alexandria tho pelican still stands in solitary musing on one leg. Steam and electricity, with the bustling traffic of the Suez Canal, will soon cause him to place his other foot on the earth, unless he is determined to remain a stranger and behind the age. After this Mr. John Bull will cease to go ‘round the Cape” to Asia, and acknow- ledge the triumph of Lesseps and France. With the pelican on his two feet and John “flat-footed” in his approval of its economies the Suez Canal will be universally acknow- ledged as the great moral force revolutionary agent of the,world, and the peoples of Hin- dostan will join in the universal chant of ‘‘Oh, be joyful.” It isso written and will be. © Goverxor HorrMay, in refusing to com- mute the sentence of the murderer Hand, makes some apt remarks to the effect that while capital punishment is part of the law men clearly proved guilty of murder must be hanged, This will be interesting to Real. The Governor's hivt to jurymen we hope will not be lost, These worthies, while under ‘the responsibility of an oath, find a man guilty and then appeal to have him relieved of the penalty, ‘Undor their oaths as jurors they pronounced the prisoner guilty of an offence punishable by death, and the Judge and Dis- trict Attorney concur in saying that the verdict was right. Their responsibility ended with the verdict and mine began. It is not my province to consider the wisdom of the law which fixes the death penalty, It is my duty to see that itis enforced, and sympathy for the unfortunate family of the prisoner mu not inflaence my judgment.” At this rate our reputation for hanging murderers will soon be as good ag that of Now Jersey, and we shall have fewer murderers to hang. Tux Toss Up ror Orriog.—In the nature of things there must be disappointed candidates after every election, but we never remember to have heard of so many as have come to light this fall. Every office is contested, and it is a peculiarity of the times that a great many can- djdates seem able to prove, by competent wit- nesses, that more votes were cast for them than the canvassers give them, The latest case is that of Goodrich, candidate for Assembly in Brooklyn, who was defeated by a majority of twelve. ‘The canvassers gave him in one dis- trict only one hundred and fifly votes. He offers to produce in court two hundred men who voted for him in that same district, This would give him his position by a majority of thirty-eight, Now, if the man really can show that many men of known residence in the dix trict who will make oath that they voted for him it would seom pretty clear that the cans vassers must have taken the responsibility of changing the result of iho election, Shall we have all these cases properly investigated, before the Legisiature that is to give us an honest government, or are there so many of them that honesty here might imperil the democratic supremacy %