The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1869. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. FIFTIT AVENUE THEATRE, Twssty- “fourth st.—WivEs as fury Were, Marve as T NIDLO'S GARDEN, Brosoway.—Tux Lirtie DErko- TIVE—AN Ons FOr OF INTEREST. UM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, eor- Matinee daly. Performance every evening. WoOop's M ner Lhirtieth BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Paut CLirrorp— Evecy Ivom A SatLon, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broatway and 18th street.— ‘Tur Wonver. FRENCH THEATRE, Ith st. and 6th av.—LONDON; 08, Lights AND SHADOWS OF THE GREAT City. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Wiliam TELL, Mati th street.—I7ALIAN UPERA- th 1—LA SONNAMBULA, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect—Tar BURLESQUE oF BAD Dickey. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and ‘Sd street.—Enouish Orzxa—Tuk Hueuryors, berwoen th ang Sth ave.— BOOTHS THEATRE, 234. Finer Paut oF Kine HEN OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—UNDER THE GaAs- Light, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— MatrRy PATHELIN—LEs JURONS DE CADILLAC, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S P. r THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tus Senrzxt ON THE HRABTH. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comto * Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Couto Vocar- 18x, NkGRo AcTS, &C. BRYANTS’ OPERA move, Tammany Building, 1th St.—BRYAN1S" MINSTRELB, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, PIAN MISSTRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, 585 Broa lway.—Eruto- &o, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Broadway.—Erti10- PIAM MINSTRELSY, NEGRO AoTs, &0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—-EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, &0. HOOLEY’S OPERA _HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ry's MINsTRELS—Nosopy's DAUGHTER, do. third strest and Third avenue.— EMPIRE RINK, Siz! (ORK STATE POULTRY SOCIETY, EXHIBITION OF NEW SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and ith sirest.—iXUIBITION OF THE NINE MUSES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIRNOE AND ART. ee per. YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 61835 Fexacgs ONLY IN ATTEXDANOS, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, pays December 5, 1869. HB NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated December 4. By spectal cable telegram from Berlin we learn that the King and Queen of Prussia entertained Mr. Burlingame and the members of the Chinese Em- bassy"at a royal banquet in Berlin. Mrs. Burlin- game, with eighty other invite! guests, participated. Prince Metternich reached Vienna from Paris to receive special instructions relative to the difficulties existing between the Austrian empire and North German Confederation, M. Gulzot advises the French legisiative body to support the “Parllamen- tary empire.” The guarantees of the constitution have beeo restored in Spain. Cuba. The Spanish Bank in Havana nas agreed to issue 6,000,000 im currency as an additional loan to the government, Captain General De Kodaa’ family has Jomed him. Miscellaneous. Members of Congress are rapidly flocking to Wash- ington, although there is nothing lixe a quorum yet. The Western members are already agitating the propositiou to remove the capital. Senator Brown- low has arrived and is in much better heaith than he was last winter. Prominent Virginians say that President Grant in his message recommends the re-admission of Vir- gina. The despatcnes from Texas do not as yet fully determine the vesult of the recent ejection. Davis, it seems, has carried a number of counties and tie Cities of Houston and Richmond. The Cuban delegation had an interview with Presi- dent Grant yesterday, and strongly urged the recog- nition of their struggling repuolic. The President said the laws that he obeyed in the matter were plain, but that Congress would probably do some- thing in reference to Cuba soon after assembling. ‘The triai of the Susquebanna Ratiroad suit be- tween Ramsay and Fisk was continued at Koches- ver yesteruay aud adjourned until Monday. it was shown in evidence that at the time of the election of directors the directors’ room was 60 packed by New Yord roughs as to prevent a meeting of the regular stockholders, The idea of an international fair in Washington does not seem to meet with much favor among the members of Congress, and it is probable tnat there will be no appropriation made tor it. Judge Wylie, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, has delivered the decision of the court in the case of Joseph H. Bradley, Sr., a lawyer, whosued Judze Fisher, of the Criminal Court, for disbarring him from practice on account of an alleged contempt in challenging the Judge. The suit fails, and Judge Fisher is held justifeble in bis course. In the National Board of Trade at Richmond, yesterday, a highly interesting discussion was held on the subject of specie payments, and it was finally referred to a committee. A chicago despatch snys:—“No serious trouble with the Mormons 18 apprehended, aad no troops have been in the direction of Utah.” ‘The citizens of Brighton, Mass., have authorized their Selectmen to license the proposed trotting park, The Erie Vanal 1s frozen over and 9 number of boata are blocked up. Charles Brown, who recently escaped from the Cheyenue Indiana, says there are @ number of white boys and girls heid captive by them, among others Lenrietia Fioyd, a daughter of William H. Floyd, of Boston. The City. ‘The steamer City of Brussels was dotained yester- Gay, waiting for what are supposed to be important state despatches to our representatives in Europe. ‘The counting of the coin In the Sub-Treasury waa cConctuded yesterday, and tho total agrees exactly With the Treasury books, Tie mystery concerning Elizabeth Wood, who was found dead at No, 100 Alien street, with a wound in her side and arm and a knife lying by her, has been solved by a Coroner's investigation. She committea futcide on account of despondency at her continued Alineas, and it is beueved she was dying when she Anflcted the wounds, ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and active, ‘dat was unfavorably atfected toward the close by the vank statement. Gold rose to 123);, closing fnally et 122%. The aggregate amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was unusually light, almost all of the markets being extremely aull, Coffee Was dull, but unchanged. Cotton was tn fair request, but prices were 36. lower, owing to the fair offerings. On ’Change flour was dull and hoavy for Western, but steady and fim for extra State, Wheat, thongh quiet, was held with firmness, Corn and oats were moderately active and steady, Pork was dull and nominal on the spot and quiet and about 50c, per bbl. lower for future aelivery, Beef was steady, while lard was dull and heavy. Naval stores were dull and prices were generally lower. Freignts were depressed, while petroleum was firm, closing at 18}¢c. a 19¢, for crude and 3214. for refined, For whiskey the market was more active and higher, closing at $1 05s @ $1 06. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Dr, H, 8, Muir, of her Britannic Majesty’s medical staif, and Dr. Tapper, of Halifax, and General J. Baxter, of the United States Army, are at the Hoit- man House. Dr. William M. King, of the United States Navy, and Joho A, King, of Great Neck, L. 1, are at the Albemarle Hotel. A, Pinto Libe, of Oporto, Portugal; W. Grevo, of Greenock, Scot.and, and R. T. 0. Shepley, of Liver- pool, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mrs. Scott-Stddons 13 at the Clarendon Hotel. L. D’Estabrook, of Galveston, and Richard As- hurat, of Philadelphia, are at the New York Hotel, Colonel J. &. Dye, of Pennsylvania; Captain J. 8. Watkyns, of Quedec, and Major P. H. Sasher, of the United States Army, are at the St, Charies Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachussets; L. M. Morrill, of Maine, and ff. M, Johnson, of Fort Wallace, are at the Astor House. Brigham Young, Jr., of Salt Lake City; General Robinson, of Binghamton; Lieutenant 0. A. Bab- cock, of the United States Navy; Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut; 0, C. Conger, of Michi- gan, and John Lore, of Indiana, are at the St. Nicho- las Hotel. Prominent Deportures. Bx-Cangressman 1. M. Pomeroy, for Auburn; Sen- ator M. H. Carpenter, for Washington; Lieutenant Ackerley, for Milwaukee; Professor Thorpe, for St. Louls; Judge Marvin, for Albany; Admiral Golds- borough, for the Paciiic Coast; Senator L. P. Poland and Senator McCormick, for Washington. “A New Heaven and a New Earth.” 1, And I saw a new heaven and 4 new earth; for the mrst heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the ‘as no more sea. 2. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. So says St. John, the divine, in his wonder- ful book of Revelations, To what does he refer? There were no steam engines, steam- boats, steamships or railroads in his day; no electric telegraphs, no newspapers, and of many others of our modern discoveries and inventions he was as ignorant as Nebuchad- nezzar. To what, then, does the prophet refer in our text? The subject naturally divides itself into four heads :—First, the new heaven and the new earth. Secondly, the first heaven and the first earth. Thirdly, the disappearance of the sea, And, fourthly, the holy city, the New Jerusalem. The prophet saw the new heaven and the new earth. How? In a vision. What was it? In our opinion it was the new heaven and the earth which will be the fruition of all the glories of the new age upon which we have entered, we of this blessed nine- teenth century. It is the new heaven which the development and expansion of the liberal, catholic and beneficent ideas of the age will open to the hope and the faith of man-_ kind. We do not expect it from the Puritan” schools of New ngland, nor from the High Church, Low Church or Dissgnterg of Qld England; nor are we very sanguine that it will come even from the Ecumenical Council ; bat it is coming. Yea, brethren, its coming may be seen without the aid of the telescope, or even of a pair of specs. And the grand and potential agencies that are bringing it with the rush and the roar of the tidal wave of an earthquake are the locomotive, the steamship, the lightning telegraph and the newspaper. Father Hyacinthe has given us some glorious glimpses of the new heaven that is thus approaching, when one faith, one Charch and one destiny shall fuse into a ani- yersal brotherhood all the nations and tribes of the earth, “without distinction of race or color.” Secondly, the new heaven and the new earth will come together as the first heaven and the first earth pass away. We shall have then the new earth in the fulness of time, when the Suez and Darien canals, and con- tinental railroads and land and ocean cables, steamships and newspapers, shall have blended into one mighty and homogeneous confederation all the nations, races and tribes of the globe, And then there will be no more wars, for the ‘world’s congress will settle all provincial disputes, and the affairs of every corner of the globe will be reported at head- quarters every morning. There will be no more standing armies or fleets of war ships eating out the substance of the people; no feudal aristocracies, no more destructive famines, because the telegraph and the steam engine and the newspaper will serve to equalize, from season to season, the products and the comforts of the various sections of both hemispheres. This, we think, is the new earth foreshadowed by the prophet, with the new heaven which he saw. Thirdly, he says, ‘‘And there was no moro sea.” By this Oriental figure he means that such will be the union of the whole family of mankind, in the full development of the con- necting agencies of steam and electricity, that there will be ‘no more sea” to divide the nations, As the sea between Europe and America is abolished by the Atlantic cables, so there will be, in the fulfilment of the Scripture, “no more sea” to divide any one corner of the earth from any other. It will be bridged by steamships and underlaid by cables in every direction, Fourthly and lastly, we are called to consider the new city, the New Jerusalem, which St. John says he saw coming down from God out of heaven, This sublime vision, we think, may be explained as meaning that the new Jerusalem will be as new in its moral aspects as if descended directly from heaven. What city will it be? We do not think it will be the old Jerusalem, for thatis played out; nor Con- stantinople, nor Rome, nor Paris, nor London, nor Great Sali Lake City, the new Jerusalem of the Latter Day Saints; but we think it will be New York. And why? Because, after the opening of the interoceanic highway of the Darien Canal, New York will become the great commercial, political, intellectual and religious centre of the globe. We grant that a mighty purification will be needed to make New York the holy city, the New Jerusalem foreshadowed by St. John; but in the good time coming we shall have something better to reign over us than tho rings of Tammany Hall, and sometbing better for our instruction than the moral teachings of Beecher. Such, we submit to our mighty congrega- tion of readers, is our understanding of tho glorious text we havo been considering. Let him who can give us a better interpretation. Amen. The ‘Richardson-MoFariand Tragedy—The Vicious “Inme”? of New England. This now celebrated case is so far removed Into the past that we can afford to calmly look at it in all its relations and all its bearings. One of the three persons mainly concerned in the affair has passed away from us. His doom is sealed, A higher than any human tribunal has decided whether or not he was a “‘true and pure man,” or whether he was a heartless, self-conceited and deliberate seducer. Another languishes in a felon’s cell, awaiting the judg- ment of his countrymen and fellow citizens. Tho third party—in some respects the most guilty of the three—enjo; a honeymoon which is not much more desirable than the cell or the coffin, We have no desire to fling filth on the memory of the man who is now unable to speak for himself. We have as little desire to add to the misery of another man, whose hands are stained with blood, and whose life must henceforward be a burden to himself. Mrs. McFarland, who has brought one husband to ‘an untimely death, and who has brought another husband within view of the scaffold, has, perhaps, sorrow enough to jus- tify usin leaving her alone. We would wil- lingly say no more of the three principal parties in this sad affair; but we owe a duty to the public which mercy to individuals will not warrant usin disregarding. We have no desire to review the circumstances for the purpose of affixing a proper share of blame to each of the three. We are willing to let the past be the past, so far as that is possible; but looking at the whole affair from a high moral standpoint, it may be necessary to reflect on the dead and to wound the feelings of those who are already suffering enough. Looking at this sad business as we look at it, itis the fruit of a certain class of prin- ciples which, rightly or wrongly, seem to us to be of New England origin. It is a strange truth, but a truth, nevertheless, that, like the late atrocious article of Mrs. Beecher Stowe onthe memory of Lord Byron, this tragedy must be regarded as the fruition of New Eng- land teaching. Look at the facts of the case. Richardson was a New England man, and to New England his ashes have been removed to mingle with those of his ancestors. Mrs. McFarland is a New England woman, and a disciple of the school of Free Love, which is a New England “ism.” Look at the parties who have been mixed up in this case—the Beechers, the Frothinghams, the Grevleys, the Sinclairs, the Calhouns and the others—they are all of them New Englanders. Let any intelligent man or woman examine the case, remembering the words of Scripture, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife,” and then listen to the words of Mr. Frothingham, a Unitarisn. clergyman, and of Henry Ward Beecher, a divine who claims to bo a representative of the Pilgrims, and then let it be answored whethg it ig matigr of wonder that such a crime should hava happened in the midst of us. Richardson, as Beecher and his friends knew, avowed his determination to possess himself of this woman, cohabited with her while yot she was the wife of another, and married her on the strength of a certificate which has already been proved to be worth- less in this State; yet Mr. Beecher accepted the responsibility of this unholy marriage, and dared to dpeak of the ‘doceased as “a true and pure man.” But the whole thing is of a piece, and it is New Eng- land all through. The women’s rights women justified Richardson and his paramour; Henry Ward Beecher is the President of the Women’s Rights Association; what could the shepherd do but follow his flock? If the ‘‘trne and pure men” of Plymouth church be such as the un- happy man whom the pastor of that church has just eulogized as true and pure, the Plymousy £ flock must Me lambs indeed, All that we have gala yf Mr. Beecher mizht bo said with equal trath of niaiy of jis friends. Some of the disciples of Fourierism, Whoi2 names are connected with Brook Farm, have forgotten their early love. If the conversion is genuine we have no ground of complaint; but the consistency of others of that school has been amply illustrated in the case of this latest and most flagrant transgression of the laws of God and man. In all this behold the latest rebound from ancient Puritan theology. It is not possible to close our eyes to the fact that some of this misery has resulted from other and more special causes. Our boarding house system is one of those special causes, and the easy manner in which divorces are yet procurable is another. In this country we are rapidly losing all idea of home. In the boarding house in the great city in winter, in the crowded hotel in the oountry in summer, it is o simple impossibility that those feelings which were wont to give sanctity to hearth and home and to allthe domestic relations should grow, blossom and bring forth fruit. The boarding house and.the hotel give the opportunity and present the temptation, and year by year the ties which bind husband to wife and wife to husband, parents to children and children to parents, grow weaker and weaker. Where the domestic virtues are not cultivated society soon becomes rotten; and it must be admitted that New York and other of our American cities bid fair to rival if not to surpass Babylon, and Nineveh, apd Rome. Our easy divorce system acts as the handmaid of the demon of the boarding house. The boarding house dis- covers elective affinities and incompatibilities. An Indiana divorce comes conveniently to the rescue. It may not be easy to induce our people to cultivate the home feelings and to seek away from the poisonous crowd tho sweets of quiet domést{6 life; but there is no good reason why an Indiana divorce should remain a blot on our civilization. But for Free Lovism, but for oyr boarding houses and our Indiana divorces, Richardson might have been living and the MoFarlands happy in their own home, Look at this whole affair from what point of view we may, it is pregnant with instruction and warning. It illustrates the effect of bad principles, and it shows that where law is violated, whether in morals or in physics, punishment must follow, A New Scuoor or Mormons.—A despatch from Jackson county, Mo., states that a colony of Mormons have come there from Salt Lake City, and settled down near Indepen- dence, These people are returning immigrants from Utah, who have turned their backs upon | Brigham Young's dospotic abominations. They were originally inhabitants of this very region, and are endeavoring to recover some of their old property to build a new place of worship. As this new school of Mormons repudiate polygamy, and with that doctrine expunged from their rules of faith, the Mor- mons.outside the great Salt Lake domain are not an objectionable class of people, the new colony may be very useful and acceptable in Missouri. It may prove also but the beginning of an exodus springing from the present dis- affection in Utah. City Politica—Summing Up of the Charter Election. In another place will be found a geroral reviow of the field and of the candidates for office in tho election to be held on Tuesday next. Considerable importance attaches to the result, not so much from the relative qualifications of the contestants from a political standpoint of view—for the fact is there is no political contest involved—but from the con- sideration of the vast interests that must bo confided to the men who are to be elected to form the councilmanic body of the city. With the great and unexpected change from republican to democratic ascendancy in the Legislature there will naturally follow o thorough and complete change in our munici- pal government. The majority if not all of the State boards and commissions—police, excise and all their congeners—will undergo revision or certain modifications, and if these boards should not be entirely abolished still the form and manner of electing the chiefs thereof certainly will. This will attach a great deal of importance and responsibility on the members of our Board of Aldermen, such as they have not enjoyed in a long time, and hence the ardor and eagerness with which the office has been sought after during the campaign just closing. There is alao a very warm contest belng waged over the vacancies in the civil and police justice- ships, and as the term of office is for six years, the salary attractive and the perquisites more so, it is not surprising that there were go many qualified candidates in the field. Tammany has had this charter election in its own hands, and it will certainly be its fault if it fails to present candidates acceptable to the people, if not personally and politically, at least in the groat essentials of integrity and ability. The close of the polls on Tuesday next will decide the contest and give to the citizens a new Councilmanic Board, a full roster of civil and police justices, and a new school trustee in each of the wards of the city. It is to be hoped the result of the election will be, in all these respects, beneficial to the citizens and the city at large, an ee The Contest in the Ninth Judicial District. William L, Wiley has been nominated by the people of the Ninth Judicial district (embracing the Park, Washington Heights and the elegant villas of that lovely region) as their candidate for Police Magistrate. Upon the same ticket is the name of Michael Hallaran, candidate for Civil Justice in the game district. He is well qualified for the position, Both these gentlemen must be elected. Captain Wiley is wel! known as the efficient officer who did « rvice during his term of office in exterminating from the lower part of the city & swarm of thieves and pickpockets, He will be of similar service in regard to the Park and Washington Heights’ district when officially empowered to protect the locality from the disturbing and riotous and thieving elements that may congregate within its limits, Tammany Hall does not meddle in this mat- ter. The demotyats who go for Mr. Wiley may do so with the assurance that the Tam- flatly Regency takes its hands off in the can- vass in his district. It is a free fight. The Police Commissioners will be sure to see that honest and responsible canvassers até selected for tire dist?ict, and that a just count is made of the ballots polled, Thig is all the people of the distrlet ask, and this they demand. Mr. BURLINGAME AND THE CourRT oF Prussta.—A very satisfactory interview was that of Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese Embassy day before yesterday with King William of Prussia, his Queen and Cabinet Ministers, in the royal Palace at Berlin. Mr. Burlingame and his Asiatic friends were received with regal state, Yesterday they were entertained at a royal banquet; King William, his Queen and eighty guests of rank and distinction paying respect to the American-Chinese envoy and his co-laborers. The most friendly sen- timents towards the purposes of the Chinese Embassy were expressed by Count Bismarck, who was spokesman of the King, but the United States came in for a very large portion of his remarks. For this country, he said, together with its government and people, the North German Confederation, and Prussia more especially, entertained the warmest friendship. Bismarck pledged the hearty co- operation of the Prussian government with the intent and policy of the Chinese Embassy. Burlingame is evidently going ahead, in spite of the petty obstacles in the shape of slanders and false reports which have of late been cir- culated by the English enemies of his mission. Ayxious For His Goop Rrcorp.—Trea- surer Spinner wants to get out of office before he does any harm. This is a new idea in office. He tenders his resignation because he is frightened by the fact that four billions of dollars have passed through his department without a defalcation, He knows such for- tune cannot hold forever, and he wants to got out of the way before it changes. Unfortu- nately for his wishes, he is the sort of man the country wants to keep in place. Branacan Derrngs His Posrrion.—Brana- gan, & policeman, has been asked to explain how his having been several times arrested for theft is consistent with that high character for honesty which every policeman should bear. Branagan explains that he has been a martyr to circumstances in a peculiar degree. His having been arrested for theft was not his fault. He is only conscious that he never gave occasion for such arrest, and he points to the fact that be was never fonnd guilty. When he made oath that he was an honest man he did it in view of five verdicts in his favor on five trials for larceny. If honesty five times tried is not enough for the Commis- sionera what do they want? Report of the United States Treasurer—The | The Darien Canil—Freparations for 4 Debt. Treasurer Spinner in his annual report, which we published yesterday, speaks very encour- agingly of the condition of his strong and ple- thoric money box, and well he may, Besides the vast sum of surplus cash still unappropri- ated and lying In the Treasury, which, accord- ing to Mr. Boutwell’s statement for the last month, amounted to about one hundred and forty millions, reckoned in currency, the Trea- surer holds in trust for the Secretary over seventy-five millions of dollars in United States six per cent stocks, on account of the sinking fund and the fund of purchased securities which is held subject to the order of Congress. Over four millions and a half in coin per annum is saved on the interest of these pur- chased securities. Thus, as the principal of the debt is being rapidly paid off the annual burden is considerably diminished. Mr. Spin- ner says that if this rate of purchase of thé debt be maintained and the accruing interest be semi-annually invested in bonds the whole debt would be paid off in less than thirteen years. Truly this is a flattering state of the finances and a hopeful prospect for the country. It ought to show Congress the folly of doing anything to arrest this progress toward liquida- tion. It ought to prevent that tinkering with the finances which nearly every Congressman is ambitious to try his hand at. Time and the surprising growth of the country are the best legislators on this subject, The Report of the Comptroller of tho Currency. The vital importance of the condition of our national currency is so universally felt and understood that we scarcely need call atten- tion to the very interesting report of the Comptroller which we publish in full to-day. This report shows that of the total number of national banks organized up to October, 1869, one thousand six hundred and twenty are in active operation. It exhibits the total amount of notes of all denominations outstanding on the 30th of September, including fragments of notes outstanding, lost or destroyed, portions of which have been redeemed, as being two hundred and ninety-nine million seven hun- dred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars; and the total amount of United States bonds held by the Treasurer of the United States to secure the redemption of the circulating notes of national banks, at the same date, as three hundred and forty-two millions four hundred and seventy-five Yhousand one hundred dol- lars. It submits to Congress the serious ques- tion as to whether provision should not be made for the payment of stolen notes when found in the hands of innocent holders, It considers the provisions of the statute relative to the liquidation of the national banks, the method of, collecting United States taxes, and the special examination of the condition of the banks by agents, whose compensation, it sug- gests, &l should be iporeaged, It Offors & variety of other suggestions in reference to the salaries of clerks; to the advisability of establishing a central redeeming agency; to the interest on deposits and call loans; to interest, taxes and profit; advantages of a sound currency; to free banking, its abuses and the improvements which it needs, and, finally, to the urgent question whether, through the agency of the national banks, a self-adjusting system of cur- rency—the only one adapted to the exigengics of trade and to the wants of the country—can be reached before the return to specie pay- ments. Mr. Hurlburd, the Comptroller, con- cludes his report by saying:—‘‘Looking for- ward to the day when uniform values shall again prevail, it may be that, by wise legisla- tion now, a banking system can be estab- lished, truly national in its character and scope, which will furnish a sound currency of uniform value in every State of the Union.” Surely this this ig a gopsummation . devoutly to be wished, whi whatever means be decided upon by Congress as the wisest and the most effectual for attaining it. _Jmmlaration. The immigration ftatistics show that within the quarter including July, August and Sep- tember over a hundred thousand {mm.grants arrived at the different ports with a view to permanent settlement in this country. This isa valuable increase to our population, not only because of the actual money which these people bring with them—and that is consider- able—but it is valuable for the now industries which it will develop and the additional force it will impart to the work daily going on upon our vast Western fields, If this immigration were to settle down in the large Atlantic cities the advantage of so large an accession of strangers might be dubious; but fortunately there are now in existence organized societies, both here and in the Western States, to direct them to places where their labor and whatever small capital they possess can be employed to the best profit for themselves and the country. Immigrants, therefore, soon find their way to those inviting regions on both sides of the Mississippi, where their labor becomes imme- diately productive and remunerative. There is a’good deal more to be done yet in providing information and means for these people to find thelr way to the West, The Germans—who, during the past quarter exceeded any other nationality—are pretty well cared for in this respect by societies located in Hamburg, Ant- werp and other cities, But the Irish immi- grant element is not a0 well provided for. Here there is large room for improvement, Sprvver ON FRANKING.—Mr. Spinner touches a point in the law against the use of fac simile franks that pute that law ina sufficiently ridiculous light. He must write his name on every letter on official business to save a three cent stamp ; yet a fac simile of his signature i9 deemed sufficiently good on a greenback fora thousand dollars. Certainly the departments onght to have franking stamps, Roouerort has made a sensation in the Corps Législatif, but one quite in the Lanterne style, He must have had something very dreadful to say about the empire when he fancied it would provoke another coup d'état. Perhaps others might not have had tho same opinion of his saying, and we think it just possible the Emperor might not have sent in the Zeuaves to ahut the mouth of the orator. to the indispensable” We have the information from Washington that Admiral Davis, who has the general superintendence of the expedition which is to make a survey and reconnoissance of the route of the proposed Darien ship canal, has drawn up a list of rules and regulations, sub- ject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, for the guidance of the surveying party ; and that, as it is important that the surveys should be made during the dry seagon, the expedition will probably sail about the first of January. We are further assured that Admi- ral Davis {s devoting such attention to all necessary details that it is believed a failuro to discover the most eligible route Will be impossible. This is all very good; but when we are further told that it will require at least ten months to perform the service we are some- what disappointed. From the explorations already made from time to time during the last.three hundred and fifty or sixty years, by Spanish, English, French and American exploring parties, the several availablo routes, from Chagres down to the Atrato, are generally known, and as the distance between the two oceans, excepting the Atrato, is by none of these routes over a hundred miles, and is by the most available, so far aa discovered, ‘but little over thirty miles, we should think that ten weeks, instead of ten months, with a proper division of the forces which Admiral Davis may command, would be ample time for a thorough exploration of the isthmus. We earnestly submit this view of the subject to the attention of Admiral Davis and the Secretary of the Navy, for time is money in this enterprise, more than in any other commercial short cut to the Indies ever projected since the first Atlantic voyago of Columbus, or since the creation of the world, for that matter. This canal, however, will only be the practical fulfilment of the grand idea of Columbus, though on a scale and under con- ditions of which, in their magnitude, he could have had no conception. Nor do we think that with the Suez Canal in full operation as a splendid success the work of excavation on the Darien Canal should be delayed for ten months to come. The Scannel Case. Except to the inquirer in such abstractions as poetic justice it will matter very little who shot the pseudo Alderman Scannel. It does not appear that Donohue did it; and all the circumstances seem to favor the thought that the bullet was sped from the pistol of the victim’s brother and adherent. The practical fact is that he was hit ina mélée of his own making. He was going through the ward at the time in a spirit of characteristic defiance of law and order. He had ‘‘cleaned out” the meeting of a board of registry, had assaulted on the streeta man guilty of the offence of being personally disagreeable to him; and was otherwise going forward in the full con- sciousness that he was superior to any and every restraint that tho fear of punishment from the authorities ordinarily imposes. Was he not a person of “influence?” Why should 48 dréad ahy legal bénseqnonce? if any newly appointed policeman should in mis- taken zeal artest him, what Justice would look him up? And ff he had killed the man he assaulted on the streets is it not perfectly cer- tain that a coroner’s jury of the kind that sat in the Jackson case would find it self-defence ? Or fn déroner’s fury should be foreed to do more, could not there be moved in his favor the same machinery whose silent operation now makes Real perfectly certain that he will never stand with his head ina halter? He was, therefore, absolutely safe in his trespass on other men’s rights, so far as the authorities go; and such being the case when he was cut down by a bullet, it is not to be expected that the publio will grieve much at the shot or care whence itcame, Have the people any fair reason to wonder at these bloody encounters ? Is not the conduct that had this issue that to which we award the highest premium? Is not the city given over to the possession of just such aldermanic bullies? and are they not encouraged in habitually taking the law into their own hands by constant impunity? Do they ever meet with any other punishment’ than that of the accidental kind that has thus J gvertaken a cengitate for the fortune that acepmpanies official station? ANOTHER “Attaxto Terzorarn CaBie.— The governnieut of Portugal invites tenders for the manufacture and-laying of a submarine cable from that coun‘ty to the United States, making the Azores Isla%qs 90 intermediate point. We have repeatedly suggested such a line. Itcan be laid with perhaye less diffi- culty than attended the completio# .of the northern cables, and a point that will bean advantage gained by us, and consequently not to be overlooked, is that one of the proposed, termini will be on our own shores, The more Atlantic cables we have the better, and this ono is especially favorable on this account. Tae Wuiskey War that began so suddenly and ended so soon, just under the wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is another assurance of the absolute determination of the authorities to enforce the revenue laws. Like all Grant's wars, it was a great success, and we cannot commend too highly the good temper of the military. Twenty lives might have been taken with ample justification, yet not a single Coro- nor’s inquest will have its verdict to pronounce against the expedition. WAYAL INTELLIGENCE, “Wasminarow, Deo, 4, 1868, The apprehensions existing in some quarters con- corning the safety of the 1ron-clad Dictator will be quieted by the announcement that despatobes nave been received at the Navy Department, dated Savan- nah, Ga., December 8, regia t thy bem oe, “ech the morning her way meee ey Went She haa 1H detained wi witnia the bar by low water for about ten d it, The Dic- tator is convoyed by two tugs, anythin serions had a Eyal information Would aimont a onge have b been Wwe pei ed oe ont at the ead iy Departaent. . from ihe aimee tof the Fe Onsibe 0 on January 1 and ordered to he ged the Saranac. Commander Rassell, detact from equipment duty at Mare Island ‘Navy. ara. on sftp asd ty 1, and ordered to command the fi the sate gan anc ordered 8 Te oj to rom ort to ey of the Burean of Medicine and Su jal duty. Surgeon ‘ibeodore Baba 4 &e im the Laboratory at New Y eotne: jchigan. Surgeon Obarles kee ‘tached from the Boston Novy Yard and o the Naval Laboratory at New York. Ci H, Spotts ordered to equipment duty at tal ander Henry A, Adams ordordd Philadetpaia connected with the shipme i for the seuténant Commander Perkins ordered v9 ordnance duty at the | Navy Yard,