The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telezraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘ FRENCH THEATRE. 1th at. M. and fth ay.—LONDON; OB, LiGuts AND SHADOWS OF THX GREAT Civ y. THE TAMMANY, oF Bab Divixy, GRAND OPERA TOU: street, —LGLisu OP Fourteenth sureet.—Tur BurLEsque corner ot Eighth nyenus and Tus HUGUENOTS. BOOTH'S THEATRE een Sth and Ath ave Fixst Parr oF KiNG HENR’ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Unnrs tuk Gas- Lig. FIFTH AVE: Jnisn Heiress. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Tus TIVE—AN OLJECT OF INTRE M AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- nee daily. Periormance every evening. 8 THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Tur Lretur Drrze- “GOD'S M ner ‘thirtieth at BOWERY TIEATRE, Bowery.—Ricuarp I1l.—F. 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Europe. ms are dated December 9. eremonial of the Con ‘The pasts mifal tion will ence to the n duced much exettement in Paris. The Coufeder Jem Davis) bonds improved co ably in price in London in view of the a settlement of tie Alabama claims. government will take possession of the brit graph lines the frst day of the new year, 7! body funerai is delayed chiefly in consequence of an accident to the British sip Incon- stant. The relations existing between Russia and Prussia are of a very cordial character. M. Rochefort caused another excited scene French Legislative Body by the utterauce of re- marks in personal disrespect of Napoleon, Many of ‘the cities of France were illuminated in honor of the Papal Council. In Marseilles, however, the lilumt- nations gave rise to a rather violent counter demon- stration. The Spanish government wiil take strong measures against the effect Of any auli-national ac- tion of the Council in Rome. By steamship at this port we have a mall report in detail of our cable telegrams to the.27th of November. Egypt. The Viceroy of Egypt has yielded to the conditions contained in the recent ultimatum of the Sultan and accepted ineu. in the Cuba. ‘The Spaniards in Havana are satisfled with Presl- dent Graut’s Message, while the Cubans are sadly disappointed. A provision train, under a convoy of Spanish troops, from Manzanillo to Las Tunas, was attacked by imsurgents and harassed ail tue dis- tance. South America. Our Panama letter is dated November 25, A dim- culty has arisen between Colombia and Brazil in regard to the boundary line of New Granada. Our Lima, Peru, letter is dated November 14, The commanders of the United States steamers Kearserge and Nyack, while those vessels were lying at Callao on ‘the night of the 3d inst., called their crew to quarters and commenced a lively gun practice to show their siate of discipline. The firtag alarmed the whole town of Cailao, the troops were put under arms and the President In Lima was telegraphed to, as it was thought at first that a mutiny had occurred in the Peruvian fleet. When the truth was dis- covered the Prefect of Callao received an apology from the commanders for not notifying him, but the President demanded an explanation from the American Charg’ d’Ataires, and used very sharp terms in regard to the matter, The Chargé made whatexplanation he could and sent the report of the facts to Wastiington, ‘The next day another alarm of asimilar nature occurred at Lima, and a serious Conspiracy Was discovered and brokep up. Central America. The revolution 1n Nicaragua has ended by of peace, by which itis agreed that the rev are to be pardoned, Gutierez shali be « Governor of Leon and Congress shall dec the revolutionary debt shall be paid. The brought about partiy by Mr. Riotte, United states Minister in who was also appointed a commissione sec to the carrying out of its pro- | visions. Sandwich Islands. Honolulu dates to November 20 have been received, Jmiral Turaer and several other American the King oitic th. ors were received cordially by The Chinese immigration 4 tion 18 a Mag considerable magnitude, The Whaling fect hud nearly all arrived. Congress, In the Senote yesterday the Vice President pre- Sented @ Communication from the South Carolina Legislature asking Congres# to recognize the inde- pendence of Cuba. A bill was introduced fixing the Salary Of tue Cluel Justice of the Supreme Court at $12,000 and that of Associate Justices ac $10,000 each per ououm. The Judiciary Commutice reported a bill relating to the appellate jurtsdiciion of the Supreme Court, denyimg the authority of the court to question Uke decisions of the political department of ie governime i binding legal tribuuuls on pout cal questions ‘it de clares that no Civil State governments exist in Vir- ginia, Mississippi or Texas, and directs the Prost dent to proceed with the disposal of ali military prisoners held in said States, without regera to any civil proceediag. Bills were introduced to establisn @ uniforin time of holding Presidential elections and 10 encourage the production of cotton in the United | States, and ihe Senate adjourned till Monday, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. peal of the duty on nites and coal. Bilis were tn- troduced to perfect the reconstruction of Georgia; to repeal duties on tea, coffee, molasses, rice. sugar, Sait, lumber, hides and pig iron; to divide the North- ern judicial districts of New York, into two districts; to authorize an additional issue of legal tencer notes to the amount Of $44,000,000; to extend the time for fling claims for additional bounty; for the punisnment of election frauds and to impose a tax on fictitious sales of gold. Mr, Fox, of New York, called for a commit- tee to investigate the cause of the September goid panf-and to inquire whether the President or Secre- tary of the Treasury were concerned in the transac- dion. After consideration of the Census bill in Com- mittee of the Whole the House adjourned. Miscellaneous, ‘The House Committee on Foretgn Affairs is strongly opposed to taking any action at present in regard to Cuba. The Senate Commitvee on Foreign Relations 18 divided on the subject, Sumner, Harlan, Patterson and Casserly being unfavorably disposed towards: the revolutionists, while Cameron, Morton and Schurz are exerung thomselves to dring the matter before the Senate at an early day. ‘The subject of the admission of Virginia was heard before the Reconstruction Committee yesterday. Mr, Porter, Congressman‘elect from the ‘{hird dis- trict, opposed the immediate admission of his State on the grounds of disloyalty of the people. He was Answered by Governor Walker and Mr, Bland, a colored member of the Legislature, who showed that Virginia was loyal to the core and would carry out the laws of Congress to the very letter and spirit of their intent, Unexpected atMculties present themselves in the way of another reconstruction of Georgia. Ir the Sugyestions of the Presiient’s message in regard to that, State be carried out it will be necessary to set aside the acts of the Legislature which intervened since the formal admission of the State by Congress, We publish this morning a letter trom Edward W. Tullidge, one of ie apusties of Mormon reform and a leader of the sclusm in the Mormon Church, on the causes of the pending trouble among the Salt Lake saints. He says that the people have been reduced to @ temporal bondage by the power of Brigham Young and the spirituahty of Mormonism bas died out of the Church, Tue reformers propose to revive these spiritual doctrines, ‘They war against Brigham Young's policy, but not against bimself, ln the Women’s Suifrage Convention, in Newark, N. J., speeghes were made yesterday by Lucy Stone Bid@Bwell, Mrs. Mary Davis, Lucretia Mott, Olympia Brown, and other strong-minded females and a few weak-minded males, all advo- cating the right of women to vote, Resolutions were adopted that woman's right to vote in New Jersey has never been legally cancelled, and that a Woman Suilrage Association be formed in every Congressional district of the State to promote this object and secure the clecion of members of Con- gress and the Legislature who will advocate potiticai equality to women. Uflcers were elected and the Convention adjourned sine die, The dificulties in Winnipeg Territory, according to despatches from Governor McDougall and Gover- nor McTavish, are lessening. Donald G. Smith has been instructed to proceed to the Territory to arrest Governor Mc'favisa or succeed him in case of death. Governor McDouga!l will enter the Territory, an- nounce the inteutions of the goverament, call together the Executive Council and hear the com- plaints of the msurgents at Fort Garry as soon as he receives the Queen’s proclamauon, At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bal- more and Obto Ratiroad Company, on Wednesday, Joln W. Garrect was unanimously re-elected Presi- dent, ‘The case of the Supervisors of Westchester county agamst the surcties of Willetts, the defaulting County Treasurer, for the amount of his deficit, was concinded at Whi yesterday, and the jary rendered a verdict inst the sureties to tne full amondt of the bond, $150,000, An attempt was made on Wednesday to rob the bank at Gallatin, Mo, Mr. Shetts, the banker, was killed, and anothcr man, name unknown, 18 satd to have been kilicd, One of the robbers waa eevercly wounded, it 18 beiieved that the robbers succeeded in obtaining $40,000, The suffertags of the crew of the ship Orton, wrecked at San Diogo, Cal., were intense. The men were all down wita the scurvy for forty-five days aud their supply of provisions were short, When within thirty-five miles of San Francisco they were sivuck by & gale and driven soath again, ‘the City. The Spanish gunboat case was further postponed yesterday until tus morning at the request of Dis- trict Attorney Pterrepont, who was in court and said that important documents on the subject would arrive during the day from Wasnington. The General Transatlantic Company’s steamship Pereire, Captain Ducnesne, will leave pier 50 North river at eleven o’clock to-morrow morning, for Brest and Havre. The French mail will close at the Post UMice at nine o'clock, A. M. on thejlith inst, The Inman line steamship City of Pans, Captain Mirehouse, will sail from pler 45 North river at twelve M. to-morrow for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at ten o’clock A, M. on the 11th inst. The steamship Deumark, Captaln Forbes, of the National line, wil! leave pier 47 North river at ten A. M, on Saturday for Liverpool, calling at Queens- -town to land passengers, ‘The Anchor ine steamship Europa. Caprain McDonald, will sail at twelve M. to-morrow from pier 20 North river for Glasgow, touchtag at Lon- donderry to land passengers, &c. The steamship Genera] Meade, Maptain Sampson, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier 12 North river, at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orleans direct. The stock market yesterday was dull and irregu- laf, but generaily strong. Gold was weak, and declined at the close to 1234. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Prince Seematsue of Sadawows, Mahrneohkah ‘Tahkayro, Feran-yahman Tahro, Hahehegootsa Songee, and Captain C, H. M. Bosman, of Japan, and W. E, Price, M. P., of England, are at the Brevoort House. General W. S. Clark and General G, L. D. Webster, of Worcester, Mass.; Dr. A. Westcott, of Syracuse; Rev. Dr, Fitler, of Philadelphia; Frank Wiison, of Scotland; G. Teal, of Engiand; Captain Bilueriing- tonz, of St. Petersburg; General B. A. Rob/nson ana Colonel J, W. Kidwell, of California; General Joe Kerr, of Philadelphia; B, F. Libby, of New Jersey; General J, Arnold, of the United States Army; Dr. J. H. Sterling, of Connecticut, and Colonel John A. Rice, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain J, R. Yates, of the United States Navy; Colonel J. J. Yost, of Johnstown; Dr. J. S. Chap- man, of Chicago, and M, H. Hodson, of England, are at the St. Charles Hote!. w. G.I 3, Jr, of Boston; W. H. Ashurst, of Philadeiphia: James A. Parker, of Mississippl, and Alfred Pearson, of England, are at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant Commander G, W, Woog, of the United States Navy; on, of New York; Dr. Gould, of California, and ¢ Clemens, of the United States Army, are at the st. Denis Hotel, Ex-Mayor A tansdeli and G. New London; ‘ Washington, at the Ex-Senator ©, 1. M, Dart, of Montreal; ii, R. Burr, of Erie, | Charles Trumbull | Grier and D. I. ( Wheeler, United Sta at the Astor flouse. R. 8. Frenen, of Wilmington, N. C.; G. W. Gore, of Philadelphia; W. F. Haghes, of Chicago; J. P. Bagley, ot Detroit, and Congressman Jotun Lyach, of Portland, Me., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures, Governor Geary for Pennsylvania; John N, McCul- longh for Pittsticid and Lieutenant ©. A, Babeock for Washington W. Bentley, of . Peavody, of son, Of New York: W. A. Backus, of California; M, A. Williams, of St. Louis; yden, of Arizona; George M, , of Goshen,’ ana J, R. asul to Kingston, Ca., are Tur Unton League on Buxoriox Fratps,— The Union League calla upon Congress for a uniform naturalization law and the correction of naturalization frauds by the United States courts, But anybody can call upon Congres If the League is in earnest it will try to do In the House petitions were presented for the re, | eomething more. Matters in Congrese—{mportant Bille in Prospect, The session of Congress opens with very business-like purpose. It would apyear to be fully appreciated in the Senate and the House that while the general growth of the country and the great elasticity of our institutions promise to carry us not only through the troubles left over by the war, but onward to a wealth and prosperity that were never dreamed of before the war, there are still many points in which our progress may be facilitated and furthered by timely legislation. Perhaps there may be room for several opinions on this point, and it may especially be doubted whether it is not wiser to leave alone the improvement that we see and feel in our political troubles, «3 well as the immediate promise of our finances. These are the two points thatare to have the honors of the session, from appearance. Sev- eral financial propositions have already been made and reconstruction is to come on the carpet without delay. Mr. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, presents in the House a bill to fund the debt and make bank- ing free, He proposes to fund the debt in a new loan bearing three and two-thirds per cent interest, retiring first that part of the debt that bears coin interest, and last the legal tender notes, making it compulsory upon the national banks to convert the basis of their circulation at once or go into liquidation. But the more immediately important proposition of his bill is that for the repeal of the clause in the banking law which limits their circulation to three hundred million dollars, He proposes to make banking once more free, only requiring banks to organize under the national law, and to deposit bonds as a security for their issues, This appears to be the latest shape assumed by the agitation tor more currency. Hitherto different parts of the country and different interests clamored that they were cramped in their operations by the scarcity of money, and the demand was only that the Secretary should expand in the limit of his discretion. Now it is proposed to mak€ this matter once more absolutely free, so that business sball regulate itself, and one section shall not be sacrificed and another assisted in the interest of a financial policy. In theory this is very attractive, for the simple name of free banking seems to put the matter quite in consonance with all our American ideas. It also seems quite satisfactory that the circulation is to be, as now, assured by national obligations; bat the loss of the bills to a holder is not the greatest danger the people have to apprehend from banks, We see here a proposition that may put the coun- try, even toa greater degree than it now is, in the hands of banks, and we are not without our fancy that these will after all prove to be the very banks that control us now, subject to a limitation of their power. The limitation of the national bait circulation has always beea held to be one of the wisest points in the banking law, afd the legal tender currency our best currency, and we do,not see that we shall get an equivalent in giving up that currency and taking away that restriction. In fact, itseems to us that this is the very proposition that the banks would themselves make to enlarge and consolidate their power, for, having the field already, they, of course, would apprehend nothing from the name of ‘free banking.” An important bill on reconstruction is fore- shadqwed in the words of General Butler to some Virginia gentlemen, ‘‘Congress will compel Georgia go keep her plighted faith.” Georgia, it will be remembered, adopted a con- stitution as “republican in form” as the most extreme radical could desire, giving the colored man all political rights, &c., and on so doing was readmitted to the Union. Once in the Union, and feeling her dignity as a sov- ereign State—over the local affairs of which, under ‘‘the constitution as it was,” Congress could have no control—Georgia quietly kicked the colored man down from his high pedestal and declared that he should not sit in the Legis- lature. In all this, as we hav e said, she acted under the constitution as it was, forgetting in the new constitution the ever teeming words as to ‘‘appropriate legislation.” These words give Congress 2s absolute a power over this matter in Georgia as it could have in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and no doubt the power will be asserted in all its force. These are the words of the fourteenth amendment :—‘‘No State shall make or cnforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. * * * Con- gress shall have power to enforce by appro- priate legislation the provisions of this arti- cle,” By the adoption of an amendment with these words the States have in effect vacated their sovereignty as to all the subjects that can be brought under that amendment, since for all such subjects Congress is the su- preme law-making power. What is to be done in the case of Georgian may give to the States at large some light as to the practical possible operation of the amend- ment, In addition to these important topics we notice two propositions already up for com- plete amnesty; an inquiry from stanch old Cameron as to Cuba, and a hint from the Census Committeo that the legitimate suc- cessor of the slavery agitation is to be an agitation as to railroads, Among the most important matters which were brought to the attention of the Senate yesterday must be enn- merated a communication from the Governor | of South Carolina, enclosing resolutions of the Legislature of that State relative to the recog- nilion of Cuba as an independent government ; amemorialin favor of according belligerent righis to Cuba; the necessity of the publica- tion of a new map of the Uniled States illustrative of the land resources of the country, to be made in connection with the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; a resolution by Mr. Sumner aiming at such legislation as shall secure for medical practitioners in the District of Columbia equal rights and opportunities, without distinction .of color, and a report from the Committee on the Judiciary of the bill re- lating to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. The Honse of Repre- sentatives was mainly occupied with a discus. sion as to the most economical mode of taking the census, Evidently we are to have a ses- sion of very great interost to the people, and if, as rumored, it is to be short. it mmst, por- force, be very praction, The Council of the Vatican Opened. Progress of the Women’s Rights Womea— The Council of the Vatican, so long looked forward to, is now one of the great facts of tho hour. It hasbeen opened. There has been some show. There were immense crowds in the streets, The bells rang. St. Angelo and Mount Aventine thundered. The Holy Father in fine health headed the procession. Ex- ternally all went merry asa marriage bell. But where were the princes who did honor to the Council of Nice, the Council of Con- stance and the Council of Trent? They were all conspicuous by their absence, There was no one to represent Constantine or Sigismund or Charles V. The absence of official repre- sentatives of the governments of Europe more than anything else reveals the weakness of Popery, The Popedom must to-day feel humbled. It now knows that it has no longer any hold on the kingdoms of this world. The Council of Trent was a crucial Council. So also is this of the Vatican, The Council of Trent had to sorrow over the loss of the half of Europe, The Council of the Vatican has had to sorrow over the loss of all civil govern- ments. Church and State is doomed as an old system, The Council of the Vatican is as purely ecclesiastical as our Episcopal convoca~ tions, our Lutheran synods, our Methodist conventions, our Presbyterian assemblies. It is a big thing, but it is no more than a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical assembly, Now that the gathering has taken place it is not out of place to ask, What will this Council do? We cannot well answer. This, however, we can say, that so far as any one knows, either inside or outside the Catholic Church, it is in- tended to impose upon mankind by giving the sanction of Heaven to the Syllabus, the As- sumption of the Virgin and the Infallibility of the Pope. On the face of this programme absurdity is written, Greater absurdity is not conceivable, If the Pope and his friends can- not see this, the Pope, his friends and the Catholic Church which they represent must suffer. Light, however, has often come ont of darkness. Dark, therefore, as this dark- ness is, it does not forbid us to hope for light. No Returns—How Do These Things Happen? The Charter election has passed off. Candi- +dates have gone through the ordeal of a can- vass. A set of them have been declared duly elected. Others who wera in the field have been “counted out,” es they allege, But with the close of the polls on Tuesday last there has not been the usual finale to the interest and excitement of the contest. How is this? It arises from the fact that most shameless and outrageous frauds were committed at the polling places—that the Charter election of 1869 was in reality a saturnalia for partisan zeal and barefaced fraud, committed within and without the ballot box. Repeaters not only did their work effectually in suppressing and overruling the wishes and predilections of the citizens as they desired to express them through the ballot box in favor of the candidates of their choice, but inspectors and canvassers lent their aid or cogntenance to the cheat and to the outrage by “stuffing” and ‘‘counting out.” The evils of our election system ery for im- mediate redress. They were never so appa- rent asin the late election. In this-connection the Commissionera of Police come in for a large share of the blame and opprobrium attaching to the manner of voting and the final result of Tuesday,s election. The Clerk of the Common Council reports that in no less than sixty-two election districts the canvassers appointed by the Police Commissioners had failed, up to yesterday, in sending in their returns of the vote cast in their respective districts, This fact alone makes a burlesque of the election, and no candidate can be legally de- clared elected under such circumstances. No wonder, then, that the greatest excitement prevails in political circles, and that the result of the election is canvassed and speculated upon from one end of the city to the other. If this state of things is not remedied at once any election in this city is merely a delusion, a mockery and a snare. Election Our Central and South Amerienn Corres- pondence. To-day we present our readers with a budget of correspondence from the Central and South American republics. Taken on the whole the news received is good. From Nicaragua we learn that the war which has continued there for some years has been brought to a close, In Venezuela law and order have also been re- stored, From South America we hear of the arrest of Morales by the Peruvian authorities on the charge of violating the neutrality of Peru, Morales had given out his intention of marching into Bolivian territory and there stir- ring up @ revolution, The prompt action of the Prefect of the Peruvian province of Puno in arresting the chief conspirator put a damper on the insurrectionary desires of those who sympathized with Morales. Our letter from Lima refera to an unpleasant occurrence which took place in that city during the early part of last month, in which the officers of the United States mea-of-war then in port and the Peru- vian anthorities play the principal parts. Much feeling is expressed in relation to the matter, and the partienlars of the affair have been forwarded to the Navy Department at Washington, The political campaign in Chile for the elections to take place early next year is quite active. There is an absence of politi- cal disturbances noticeable in all quarters—a fact worthy of record. N AND Tig Vicenoy,—In connee- tion with the news by ocean telegram announce: ing that the Viceroy has yielded to the ulti matum of the Snitan and accepted all the con- ditions which it imposes, we reproduce the arguments on which the Viceroy based his previous resistance and also the text of the Sultan’s ultimatum, It wil be seen that for the present, at least, the submission of the Viceroy to vassalage must be complete, REMOVING Disamiurries, —Congress practi- cally offers a premium for the adoption of the fifteenth amendment by proposing that upon its final adoption all disabilities shall cease, ‘This would be a good proposition if it were not opén to the suspicion of an intention to influence the adoption of the amendment, That is a false basis for legislation, Senator Ferry’s proposition for the complete abolition of all test oaths is much betier. It is only | necessary to make it a little broader. Horrible Revelations. Conventicles and meétings of the women's rights women are increasing East and West, and they are widening the sphere of their dis- cussions from women’s rights in the matter of suffrage to “‘everything in heaven above, in the earth below and in the waters under the earth.” But at the Woman's National Suffrage Asso- ciation meeting in this city on Wednesday evening last the McIarland-Richardson tragedy, with all its shocking details and teachings, was the engrossing subject of the evening's debates and resolutions. Mrs. Norton led off in a resolution against the manufacturing of public opinion in behalf of an assassin, declaring that ‘bad Sickles and Cole both suffered the just punishment of their crimes this (Richardson) murder would never have been committed.” Upon this hint @ woman's rights man of the freq love order, named Poole, took up the subject. He con- tended that the divorce laws of New York were not free and easy enough ; that the death- bed marriage of Richardson and Mrs, McFar- land upon that Indiana divorce was a glorious thing, though in defiance of the laws of New York; that women are loaded down with laws, and he objected to ali laws affecting women because they are women, and so on. Next game Mrs. Blake, who, having a husband of her own, did not admire? these lax divorce laws of the Western States. In France during the Relgn of Terror, when ‘the divorce laws were relaxed, a woman could not go to a public assemblage without seeing six or eight different husbands, and Mrs, Blake didn’t want anything of that kind. Mrs. Norton, for her part, thought that a state of things which allowed a woman six or eight hushands was much better than the order of society under which a poor woman was obliged to live with a husband she detested. This, surely, was ‘‘speaking right outin moeting.” Mrs. Summerby, horrified, no doubt, at Mrs. Norton’s ideas of women’s rights, suggested that the real question before the society was woman’s right to the ballot. Acertain Dr. Hoeber here put in his oar, contending that women’s rights in matrimony were dependent upon their possession of the right of suffrage. In the deplorable fact that none of the newspapers had come forth to the defence of Mrs. McFarland you could see how women are treated. In fact, ‘he pronounced our present system of marriage as nothing but prostitution. Mrs. Norton backed up this free love doctor, and contended that the question of suffrage and the question of the divorce laws were mother and child. This simply means that the ultimatum of these woman suffraze associations is free love and easy divorces. This, then, as the upshot of woman suf- frage, is the entertainment to which the Ameri- can people are invited—free love and free and easy divorces—comprehending the abolition of the fam@y, and the substitution of the Fourierite phalanx or the juvenile asylum for the children of the community, What a horrible mess of darkness, diabolism and chaos, to be sure! In the face of such impudent and startling revelations from these free love men in petticoats and these old women in breeches, and in view of their atrocious designs upon society, McFar- land will be apt to be considered the avenger of an outraged community, rather than an offender against its laws. Indeed, with a few more of these outspoken free love women’s rights meetings on the Richardson assassina- tion it will be infpossible to obtain a jury on the case. Tue Lecture oF Pere Hyacintar.—The Academy of Music was never more densely thronged than it was last evening on the occa- sion of Pere Hyacinthe’s first, and perhaps only, public appearance in America as an orator. Never have the walls of the Academy resounded to loftier or more im- passioned eloquence. Péte Hyacinthe spoke from the heart to the heart, This was the secret of the prodigious power with which he swayed at will the emotions of the vast audience before him. If many but imperfectly understood the language in which he spoke, none could be insensible to the magnetism exercised by his beaming counte- nance, by the music of his voice (veiled as it was by the effects of a slight cold) and by his superb action. A single phrase in his lec- ture—le ceur, c'est Thomme—an infinite im- provement on Buffon's famous phrase—le style, c'est Uhomme—would suffice to make it memorable. We present elsewhere a report of Pere Hyacinthe’s lecture, which must have yielded a liberal addition to the funds of the French Benevolent Society. Two Views.—From Paris and from London wereceive simultaneously two views on Ameri- can finance, set forth by great organs of opinion in those cities, Apropos to our Trea- sury report, the Paris Sitcle says: —‘‘An Ameri- can promise is equivalent to its fulfilment.” Apropos to the same report, the London 7'imes growls out a remembrance of State repudia- tion, and mumbles a fear that we shall never pay. The financial man of the Times will never forgive us for ovr success in putting down the rebellion. AN Expensive Economy.—On the New Jersey Railroad a conductor put a passenger off the train for the want of twenty-five cents to pay his fare; and now the company pays to the man’s widow—killed by that expulsion— five thousand dollars. No doubt the conduc- tor's severity was forced by the regulations of | the company. ‘There is probably some rule by which insuch cases the passenger's fare, if he were allowed to remain in the cars, would be deducted from the conductor's pay. The com- pany now finds how much that sort of severe economy costs. Srare Riants seem likely | to come up in Kentucky once more, and in a shape in which it will be hard to get them out of the way without going near to the decision that there are no States. It is a question of taxation. The power to lay taxes is the first necessity of the existence of government; that is its most vital function, and one in which it must be absolutely free. This goneral principle is no doubt the basis of the decision just given in Louisville, that it is unconstitutional for Con- gress to declare that States shall not tax cer- tain kinds of property, such as United States bonds, Judge Cardozo and “Marv Ulex. The worst and most notorious evil the cit sens of New York suffer from at this preseat moment is the unblushing effrontery with witch a certain class of our judges not only inter- fere with but actually subvert the course of justice and set aside the sentences of the court for the punishment of crime. The Real case isareal case in point, but not the one we would here particularly refer to. Mart Allen, notorious panel thief, charged besides, as all his family have been, with divers crimes against society at large, was lately tried be- fore Judge Bedford in the Court of General Sessions, and convicted of the mean and con- temptible crime of “‘panel” theft and sentenced. to fiveyears in the State Prison, Was Mart Allen conveyed to his place of punishment? No. A facile and accommodating judge, in the person of Albert Cardozo, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, has reversed, or at all events rendered nugatory, the just sentence of Judge Bedford and granted a.writ of error in the case. The error is all on the part of Judge Cardozo, as it is in all similar cases where judges who for political reasons interpose the law to screen the violators and contemners of the law. A brother of this same Allen—Wesley—was a short time since sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for detection in his particular line of business— pocket picking—and has escaped. He was seen plying the game of repeating in an up- town district on Tuesday last. This is another illustration of the course of conduct pursued by our judges, of which we have had an example in the case of Real. So the work goes on, and every condonation of crime for political or other causes but lends fresh incen- tives to its commission. The Dalmatian Trouble. It does not appear that Austria has been completely successful in putting down the insurrection in Dalmatia, as formerly reported. Dalmatia is peculiarly situated as an Integral portion of.the Austrian empire. It really has no connection with Austria proper. When it was handed over to Austria by the allies in 1814 it was for the purpose of giving that Power command of the Adriatic. But Aus- tria has lost Venice, and thus lost her prestige in that sea, This present trouble shows that the spirit which robbed Austria of Venice is now vigorously active on the opposite shore, To rob Austria of Dalmatia would be but one other move towards driving her from the Adriatic, and thus shutting her out from tho sea on all sides. Austria will not readily con- sent to this. The peculiar formation of the country makes it next to impossible for her to transport troops by land. Hence her rumored request to the great Powers to be allowed to cross Turkish territory so as to hem in and root out the instirgents. Turkey, as we know, is not unwilling to grant this favor, for insur- rection on her borders is dangerous; but Russia, who is watchful and jealous, will not permit it. The curious thing in the affair is that Austria charges Prussia with fomenting and keeping alive the rebellion, When we re- member, however, that Prince Charles, of Roumania, is a nephew of King William, and that the disruption of Turkey and Austria is the one thing required to make Prince Charles, we have no cause to wonder. North Carovina Speoran Tax Srate Bonps.—The carpet-baggers appear to have got possession of these securities; for wo hear of them in every out-of-the-way nook and corner. A large quantity, it is said, has been gambled away by one of tho railway presidents of the unfortunate State of North Carolina, These bonds were issued in aid of existing roads and to build new ones; but, instead of being delivered as was required by the exigencies of the work, were handed by the bushel basket to officers of the companies, who seem to be having a good time with them. They have sold them down to twenty-seven, and where they will stop remains to be seen. Had not the State better ‘“‘stop” before it is too late? Where is the committee of investiga- tion which was coming North to inquire about them? Dertty Perrormep Actions must extort applause sometimes without regard to their moral character; and this being the case it must be admitted that the diamond theft just committed at Albany was a neat piece of handi- craft, The rogues seem to have had every point of their play rehearsed. The dropping the ring behind the counter, the stooping of the shopman to get it, the flight of the thief with the tray of jewelry, and the prevention of successful pursuit by fastening the door on the outside with an apparatus previously fitted to the premises—all imply study, forethought and acertain genius, Let the merchant console himself with the thought that he was not the victim of burglars, Tug Soutnern Pacirtio Raitroap.—Gen- eral Fremont is at Washington, and it is re- ported that his business is to secure the right of way over the public domain for his South- ern Pacific Railroad, as provided for in a bill which passed the House at the last session, but which still awaits the action of the Senate. As he asks only the right of way we presume there will be no difficulty ‘in getting through the bill. It is reported that the General, dur- ing his late sojourn in Paris, was very success~ ful in providing the ways and means for the prosecution of the work, SENATOR Wir11as, of Oregon, proposes to settle by legislation the dificult point in regard to the retraction by a State,of its ratification of a constitutional amendment. He moves to declare that when a State has once given its assent to a constitutional amendment any other action of the same State on that point shall be void. This can accomplish nothing. -Congress has not the necessary power in constitutional law to declare away the sovereign authority of a State. A Stan 1x “Favor or Oca —The resolution in the Senate of General Cameron, which was adopted, calling upon the President for such information as he may have in his possession in reference to tle war in Cuba and the politi- cal condition of the island. Something, per- haps, may come out of this before the winter is over. Ayorner Lirr ror Lona Istanp—The working of the iron mines at Quogue. The next discovery np there will probably be a coal mine, and then the island will be apt ta claim the dignitics of a Stato