The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telographic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tuned. Volume XXXIV.... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERHOON AND EVENING. THE TAMMANY. Fourteenth street.—Tam BURLESQUE ov Bap Dickgy, Matince at 2 roar of Eighth avenue and Gas Sane Sores OHEMIAN UIRL. Matinee. 28d street.—ENGLISH OPER. beween Sth and 6th avs OOTH'S THEATRE, 28 nt y IV. Matinee at 2. First Par or Kixg HEN OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—UNnDER THE GAs- Lieut. Matinee at 2 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Wivgs 48 Tuxy Wenz, Maips 45 Tuzy ABE. Matiove at 2 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broao TIVE—AN OnJECT OF INTE —Tas Littis Dero. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM A er Thirtieth st.—Matineo ¢ AGERIE, Droadway, cor- Performance every evaning. 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SOMERVILLE ART GAL streei,—EXHinITION ov TH NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— GOIRNCE AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANOR * Fifth avenue and 1th MUsEs. New York, Saturday, December 11, 1869. 2HO NAWS. Europe, The Ant!-Papal Congress in Naples yesterday had @ very large representation of Italian delegates. Garibaldi, Victor Hugo aud other leading radicals gent letters of excuse for non-attendance. Mr. Burlingame has received intelligence that the Chinese American treaty has been ratified by the Pekin government and the attested copy despatched by special messenger to Washington. Mr. Peabody’s remains were placed on board “the British war ship Monarch. Lord Clarendon will, tt is said, soon reopen negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama claims. Spaniards in Madrid say President Grant intends to selze Cuba. Portugal finds diMculty mm obtaining a person to tgke the mission to Paris. The French Yellow Book has been submitted to the Legislative Body, It 13 pretty much a re-echo of Napoleon’s speech. The relations of France and the United States are, as usual, ami- cable, Napoleon declares the Ecumenical Council in Rome “beyond the pale of the political Powers,” and he, consequentiy, would not “‘intervene in its deliberations.”” Egypt. A telegram from London states that an English steamer has been obliged to discharge half her cargo in order to get through the Suez Canal, notwith- Standing the fact that she was built “expressly”? for the trade, Cuba. ' Tt is stated that numerous letters demanding money for the insurgents have been received by citi- zens of Havana from General Goicouria. They have been handed over to the Spanish authorities. In- cendiary proclamations, dated in New York, have been circulated through the city. Cespedes has issued a proclamation calling on all patriots to de- stroy their sugar and tobacco crops. Mexico. Ex-Secretary Seward aud party arrived in Mexico oity on the 15th, and were cordially received by President Juarez and his Cabinet. Banquets were given in his honor by Minister Neison and President Juarez, and the happiest sentiments were expressed in speeches by Juarez, Romero, Nelsou and seward. The ex-Secretary was to leave Mexico city on the 10th Inst. Arebeliion has broken out in the Sierra Puebla, Negrete’s revelion is still progressing. Shocks of earthquake have lately been felt throughout the country. A hurricane destroyed 200 houses in Fres- nillo, Three seamen were killed on an English steamer at Vera Cruz by tue snapping of the auchor chain. Congress, The Senate held no session yesterday, baving ad- }. journed till Monday, In the House bills wero introduced to establish a Uniform system of naturalization; to abolish certain fees required of pensioners, and to provide for the sale of coin in the Treasury. Mr. Hamilton presented & petition signed by 72,000 citizens of the State of New York asking Congress to accord belligerent rights to Cuba and to acknowledge her mmdepen- dence, The Census bill was considered in Com- mitiee of tho Whole, and several amendments made to the origival bill, and at four o'clock the House adjourned. Miscellaneous, Amember of Congress, who, while in Europe last summer, investigated the subject of the French telegraphic cable, says the French government has the right to scrutinize all despatches sent by that Jine, even the telegrams from and to our govern. ment. The House Judiclary Committee yesterday in- structed General Butler to report to the Hoase a bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office act. Itvis be- lieved the bill will pass te liouse with little oppo- sition. ‘The office of the Treasnrer of Tama county, Iowa, ‘was entered by robbers, Thursday evening, and $8,000 stolen, Vhe deputy sheril, who wae in the ofice at tho time, was overpowered by the ruMans aud fatally wounded, On Thursday night the captain and three sallors of the schooner E. D. Ketchum, at St. obn, N. B., Made A tire in astove in the hold of the vessel and went tosleep, In the morning they were all found dead in their bunks, it 1s supposed from suffocation. Messner, who was to have been hunged at Ro- chester yosterday, was respited just as he was about being led to the scatold. A stay of proceedings has been granted. : The City, AGerman mass meeting was held last evening at Steinway Hall for the purpose of influencing Gov- ernor Geary to pardon Dr. Schoeppe, Dr. Doremas made the most important speech, showing, by prac tical experiments, how the Baltimore chemist upon whose testimony Dr. Schoeppe was convicted might have been mistaken, The argument for the release of the Spanish gun- Doate Was heard before Judge Blatchford yesterday, District Attorney Pierrepont stag what the gov- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER ll, 1869, ernment had reason to believe that no war existed between Spain and Peru, and therefore the cause for action fails, The judge thereupon made an order Teleasing the gunboats, Rey, Henry Ward Beecher made a somewhat lengthy vindicatory explanation of his particrpa‘ton in the Richardson-McFarland marriage and the funeral ceremony which succeeded. The explana- tion was drawn out by members of his congregation at the weekly lecture last evening, and will be found in another column, In the drawback cases yesterday Mulligan was held in $10,000 bafl to awalt the action of the Grand Jury. Blatchford has‘walved an examination, and waits his indictment, Awrit of error has been granted in the case of Owen Hand, ana his execution Is indefinitely post- poned. The coroner's Jury in the case of Colonel King, who killed himself at the New York Hotel on Thurs day, found that he had committed suicide while temporarily insane. ‘The stock market’ yesterday was dull but strong. Gold was trregular, declining to 12274 and closing Gnally at 123%. : Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, and ex-Mayor Flagg, of Troy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, General Tyler, of New York, and Colonel C. 8. Bushnell, of Conuecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. P. Diaz de Rivera, of the Spanish Legation; George W. Brega, of Wasbington, and Judge J. J. Monell, of Petersburg, are at the Albemarie Hotel. Colonel J. J. Sproul, of Cntcago, and Judge R. J. McCormick are at the Coleman House. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. E. I. Rollins, of New Hampshire; Edwin Aanms, of Sag Harbor, and Samuel Ford, of Washington, are at the Astor House. Our Railronds and Telegraphs and the Gove ernment=The Next Great Question. General Butler, we think, has made a safe prediction in reference to the railroads and telegraphs of the United States, We refer to his remarks on the subject in the debate in the House of Representatives the other day on the Census bill—to wit, that “he wanted to know the siatistics of railroad transportation, of the express business and of the telegraph business, because he looked forward to the time within the next ten years when the country would have to grapple with those great interests and take control of them.” Upon this point we have not the shadow of a doubt. The country will ‘‘have to grapple with those great interests and take control of them.” Southern reconstruction and the negro question in all its phases are substantially set- tled. The woman’s rights agitation, from present appearances, will be limited to our fanatical moral and social reformers of the New England school for many years to come, The great money question, in all its divisions of debt, bonds, banks, taxation, currency, &e., is the great question of the day, upon which, however, we apprehend the line of discussion and Congressional action till next winter has been marked out in the President’s Message. We are also of the opinion that under the practical policy laid down by the President there will be no violent perturba- tions in our financial system or business affairs under Grant's administration; but that, with his careful and judicious guidance, the govern- ment and the country will work their way steadily and without any serious disturbance through the wilderness of Arabia and around the southern end of the Dead Sea to the Pro- mised Land of a restoration of specie payments and the removal of ou heavy burden of taxes and debt.” The Israelites had all their fighting to do after their escape from the slavery of Egypt; we had to do our. fighting in making our escape, and in the passage of the Red Sea of our great rebellion; and even now the ad- vanced guard of the congregation have entered the new inheritance of ‘‘equal rights,” rich in cotton, corn, petroleum, coal, iron, gold and silver, and ‘‘flowing with milk and honey.” With this inspiring and glorious prospect on the money question, and having substantially settled the reconstruction question and the negro question, and regarding the woman's rights question as only a convenient tub to the whale of New England fanaticism for the present, what will be the next great question awakening a general political agitation? Some say it will be the ‘‘ irrepressible conflict” which is looming up between capital and labor—that the trades unions of the country are drifting to a general alliance as a political party, and that, having the votes, they have only to combine in order to achieve a greater political revolution in behalf of the rights of labor than was ever dreamed of by the most radical of modern re- formers. But as the formation of such a party is necessarily a work of time, its consideration may be dismissed for the present, in view of the more rapidly approaching and nearer issues before us, Conspicuous among these is the issue at hand between the railway and telegraph corporations on the one side, and the people on the other side. The Camden and Amboy Railroad monopoly tells an instructive story for New Jersey; the Baltimore and Ohio monopoly tells a similar story for Maryland and the national capital, under which even the Congress of the United States for a generation or two has been pay- ing a provincial tribute to the Cwsar of o railway corporation, The State of Illinois, under a special railway grant of the public lands from Congress, has been put under the government of the “Illinois Central,” which can say to the Legislature, “Thus far shalt thou go and no farther,” and be obeyed. Here in New York a@ patient though sorely per- plexed people are anxiously awaiting the upshot of the ‘Erie war,” but with some expectations that it will end in the complete occupatior of the State by Cornelius Vander- bilt or his successor in office, And so we have, or aro promised, in every State a rail- way monopoly which may establish its own rules and regulations by buying up or tying up courts, Legislatures and political parties, Soin the Western Union Telegraph Com pany we have the nucleus upon which may be established, and which will be unless arrested by Congress, & monopoly which over the news- paper press of both parties may wield the balance of power in our political elections, and over the money market, while enriching itself and extending its power in extortionate tribute from the press, the government and the people. We have repeatedly shown the admirable workings of the “graph in Europe under government control, in the responsible and reliable system, and in the cheap rates for the transmission of despatches thus estab- lished, We have shown that the telegraph properly belongs to the sphere of the Post Offica Department, and that as an independent congern, while it results In offensive exactions upon the press and the general business intet- ests of the country, it is, in reducing the revenuos of the General Post Office, steadily contributing to swell the expenses of the Treasury and the taxes upon the people. Under the constitution Congress has ‘“‘tho power to establish post offices and post roads,” the power to regulate commerce among the States, to lay and collect taxes, and to make all laws necessary to carry these powers into execution, which amply embrace the power to take possession of the whole telegraph system of the United States as properly belonging to the Post Office Department, and the power to regulate all the railroad lines of the country. (he necessity for the exercise of these powers is already sufficiently apparent for action. We see that under an overshadowing telegraph corporation there can be no such thing in this country as freedom of the press. Inthematter of news itcan only be free to the extent to which it may be able here and there to act in deflance of such telegraph corporation. We have seen that a control of the telegraph is necessary to the government not only in war, but, touching the operations of Wall street, necessary intimes of peace. Give a telegraph monopoly the chance, and upon the symptoms of a financial panic it may swamp the Treasury. We seo that our State courts and State Legis- latures can be bought up or twisted to suit the purposes of dominant railway corporations, and that the only remedy lies in Congress. Hence we entirely agree with General Butler, hat the time is near when the country will have to grapple with these telegraph and railway monopolies, and the sooner the better it will be for the country and the Treasury. Election Repeaters—What is the Remedy? The extent to which “repeating” was carried on In the late charter election is bearing its fruit in a quarter hitherto considered inacces- sible to influences of this sort. Not only was repeating resorted to, but the ‘‘stuffing” and ‘counting out” processes were largely indulged in, to the serious detriment, not of republican adversaries, but of erst democratic friends and colaborers in the old game. This, in fact, makes what would bo under other cir- cumstances a trifling matter and of little con- sideration one of great consequence. It was a game of democratic bluff; and the idea of being bluffed and sold, when each party thought they had the game in their own hands, was too bad. There was evidently a screw loose somewhere. Wither the one side had miscalculated its opponent’s resources, or had not given it credit for being prepared to go in for repeaters to the extent of securing a victory. The fact is that political stratezy was never more deftly or successfully practised than as between the rival candidates of the same organization. Shoeing a troop of horse with felt, after King Lear’s idea, was a blun- dering strategy compared with that pursued in some of the wards on Tuesday last by the rival democratic opponents, In one district, the most interesting of all the fields of conflict, the repeaters held in reserve for one candidate were by a ruse brought up to the polls and recorded their votes for their employer's opponent, Here was the biter bitten with a vengeance, and bitter feud is the consequence. In the up-town districts the confidence game was very successfully practised. In one of the districts a defeated candidate asks that his op- ponent will be magnanimous enough to inform him of the number of votes cast for him that were counted in the interest of his opponent, pledging himself to take no action in the mat- ter. In another (the new district) the defeated candidate for Police Justice protests against the action of the inspectors and canvassers, confident that not only has he suffered a de- feat through fraud, but that his supporters, the majority of the voters of the district, have been grossly cheated of their right of suffrage. And so it is throughout all the districts and wards of the city. Now, what is the remedy for this most outrageous state of affairs? In what way can the purity of the ballot box be re- stored and the electors of the city assured that their votes are honestly counted and ap- propriately recorded for the candidates of their choice? Only through legislation, not con- fined merely to measures passed at Albany, but to legislation in Congress—a broad and comprehensive scheme of legislation, embrac- ing the national points in the question and the local ones with regard to the political ma- chinery in the city and State. This system of fraudulent voting is increasing in our midst. The result, as seen in the late election, is pregnant with warning to the dom- inant party itself and to its partisans, and the remedy, to be effectual, must strike at the very root of the evil. Legislation is the first thing necessary, and the citizens, if they value the franchise—the right and prerogative of free- men—will see to it that when their representa- tives meet at Albany this question will be taken up and effectually disposed of, Toe BurimGaame Cuwese Treaty,—This instrument has been ratified by the imperial government in Pekin and despatched in its attested form by a special messenger to Wash- ington. This important iatelligencé reaches us by a special cable telegram, whieh we pub- lish to-day. In view of the interest which will attach to the news we republish from tho Heranp file a copy of the text of the treaty as it was signed by Mr. Bur- lingame and the Chinese Ministers and for- warded to us from Washington. The document seta forth the mutual advantages which will accrue to the two nations—the most ancient and youngest on the glgbe—from its fruition and fulfilment, and thus gives much promise of a happy international future, Toe Rerease ov se Spanish Gounsoats.— From the unconditional release of the Spanish gunboats yesterday, it appears that the original ground for the libel is abandoned, in view of the cessation of the war betweea Spain and Reru, and it may also be inferred that the administration is not yet prepared to endorse Judge Pierrepont’s discovery, in connection with the alleged object of these gunboats to relieve other Spanish vessels blockading Cuba, that in our neutrality laws “fa people” has the same legai status as a “nation.” If, however, it had been endorsed by tho administration that discovery might have been the starting point of such new lino of Amorican diplo- macy a6 would ultimately lead to radical changes of international relations throughout | the world. An Error or Worse? In a recent letter to the London Post Mr. Ashbury, an English yachtman, publishes the following as an extract from the New York Heratp of July 29, 1869:— It 1s tmpoasible to hide the fact that England has no yacht that could possibly compete with any hope of success inst the Duuntless across the Atian- uc, and notwithstanding all the bounce that 1s being said and written about the Cambria, it is manifest to every seaman that in an ocean race sie would bo no match whatever against the American yacht, Excuses may be made, but they will be merely ex- cuses, In the same letter ho publishes the follow- ing as an extract from the Hexaup of the 81st of the same month :— é The challenge of the Dauntless to race the cham- ion English yacht, the Cambria, from Cowes to New York, on the 1st September next, will offer a lair opportunity for judging whether the pluck of the English yachtmen 13 up to the occasion, or whether they are willing to be left belind in & manly sport in which they have hitherto claimed to be leaders. If their courage should fail them now their Inland matches, channel races and little pleasure trips within lialling distance of the shore will seem like child’s play beside the achtevements of Ameri- can yachts. ‘The fact 1s the “swells” of the royal yacht clubs of Great Britain must make up their minds to extend their pleasure excursions to the Amorican coast unless they are content to be styled dry water yachtmen for the rest of their days. As Mr. Asubury has been the boidest of British yachtmen on paper, public expectation potnts to him us the fitting pioneer in these new and more ex- vended contests invited by American daring. Let us hope that the zeal and confidence he expressed a tu months ago will not have abated next Septem. We are only induced to notice these para- graphs from, the feeling that justice to ourselves demands the declaration that it is a false charge to attribute these paragraphs to us. Whether they are frauds, through and through, sheer fabrications with a motive, we cannot say, but they were not extracted from the HERALD, and nota sentence that resembles them, or that could by any ingenuity be twisted into such shapes, appears in the papers of the dates given, In neither of the dates alleged does the Heraxp discuss the topics they touch—they are spurious paragraphs. We cannot divine what motive Mr. Ashbury could have for putting in our mouth words that would be in such bad taste, and that might so justly be offensive to English yachtmen, France—Napoleon and the Radicals, French politics still command a large amount of attention, although it cannot be said that the situation is at all well defined. For the first time in the history of the second empire freedom of speech is enjoyed in the Chambers. We cannut say that freedom of speech has been absolutely abused as yet, but it is not to be denied that liberty bas been carried to the verge of license. It was the opinion of some that the derisive cheers which the allusion to Rochefort called forth on the occasion of the opening of the Chambers was proof sufficient that Rochefori’s game was played out. On that day Rochefort was conspicuous by his absence. So far as he himself was concerned his absence was a wise and well considered stroke of policy. Since the opening day the lampooner has been a faithful member and his seat has seldom been empty. Nor has he been a dumb dog. True, he has made no great effori—and it is perhaps also true that great effort is not in him—yet he has on several occasions opened his month, and if he has not done anything nobler he has snarled, and snarled to some purpose. If he goes on as he has begun it may be necessary for the Emperor in some way or other to shut him up. It was a daring thing to say what he said on Thurs- day, that the Emperor gave the signal for the members to laugh at him. A little more of this and France must decide against M. Roche- fort or against the Emperor. It will not be wonderful if another general election be soon found necessary; and there are many who will not feel surprised if the man of the Lan- terne finds himself out in the cold. It is still uncertain who is to be the Emperor’s Prime Minister. For atime it seemed as if M. Olivier should be the maa. It does not appear, how- eyer, that this most moderate of the oppo- sitionists has been at all successful in his attempts to organize a ministry, M. For- cade, the Minister of the Interior, is the most prominent man of the hour on the Emperor's side. It will not be wonderful if he should rise to a higher position. Meanwhile the situation is one of suspense and uncertainty, Coal—Fair Prospects for the Consumers. Tho statistics of the product and salo of coal which we published yesterday bring cheerful news to the consumers of that article, which, we may add, means the whole community, at a time, too, when we are entering upon a winter, which, coming so early upon us as it does, promises to be very severe, This time last year things were comparatively fresh and green. Tho Hudson was not frozen, as itis now, above Poughkeepsie, and skating rinks were only beginning to be thought about, yet coal was looming up in price, with a prospect of fourteen or fifteen dollars a ton ahead of us, This year winter strikes us in the beginning of December, with three dreary months still before us, ere the buds and blossoms come. But, fortunately for the poor as well as for those whose circumstances compel them to practice economy, the coal dealers appear to have over- reached themselves, The rise in coal last October stimulated the dealers to put in a large stock, expecting a still greater rise, In Boston and Philadelphia, as well as in this city, there came a glut in the coal yards. But this very avaricious move on the part of the traders—like many others where avarice over- steps itself—only resulted in bringing down the price. The supply just now exceeds the demand, and that regulates the question of cheaper coal. Happily for the public, extor- tion now becomes impossible, because compe- tition steps in to arrest it, The statistics show that coal from the Penn- sylvania mines can be delivered at Elizabeth- port—our entrepit—at an average price of three dollars and a quarter per ton of 2,240 pounds, whether delivered by railroad or canal, The freight from that point to this city, we need not say, is comparatively trifling, yet the dealers even now, with a vast stock on hand, demand ten dollars and over per ton for coal of only two thousand pounds. Let no one imagine that he ever gets more than two thou- sand, and if he gets that much he is lucky, In the face of these facts, then, coal must be greatly reduced in price between this and spring. The dealers will, of course, endeavor to keep it up by every possible dovice and excuse, The best way to defeat them is for families not to put in any more coal than Is necessary for immediate wants, Remember that the market is fall and that stocks of coal must be sold between this time and next + April or the coal dealers will suffor terribly, Congress and the Sapreme Conrt, The fear that the Supreme Court, in pro- nouncing as to tho rights of citizens of the United States, may judge that some citizens have more rights than it is agreeable to Con- ‘gress to acknowledge, and that thereby the reconstruction laws may be declared void in certain points, has hitherto driven Congress into some very queer attitudes, but into none more ridiculous than the one it assumes in the bill to restrict the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, just reported from the Senate Judiciary Committeo, The object of this bill is to cover such cases as the Yergor case. Chief Justice Chase, it will be remembered, recently decided that the Su- preme Court must hear the appeal of Yerger, who had been tried by a military court in an unreconstructed State, and who claimed that such a trial was in contravention of his right, under the constitution, to a trial by jury. He had been brought before the United States District Court on habeas corpus. That court had judged the military trial valid. Hence his appeal to the Supreme bench. It is obvious that such a trial would compel the Court to determine that great vital point between the constitution, which would give this mana trial by jury, and a law of Congress which gives him o trial only by military commission. Congress knows that such a point cannot be safely ventured before a non-political body— before a body that judges according to the law rather than according to certain loose doc- trines of necessity. It, therefore, now de- clares that all such cases are political, and utters {ts declaration to tho judicial power not to venture on the ground of politics. ff Congress had contented itself with the passage of alaw distinctly defining these cases and declaring that such appeals should not be heard by the Supreme Court it would have done only what is unquestionably in its power; but in this warning in regard to politics it will be seen that it ventures a great deal more. In this section, for instance, it appears to be altogether out of its depth :— Be it enacted, &c., That under the constitution the judivial power of the United States does not em- brace political power or give vo the judicial tribunal any authority to question the decision of we po- litical depariments of the government on poiitical questions; and itis hereby declared that all courts of the United States in the administration of justice shall be bound by the decision of the political ae- partments of the government on political questions, The constitution says ‘‘the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution and the laws of the United States.” Now, whenever a citizen is deprived of his rights by any person assum- ing to act under a law of Congress then a “cage” has arisen that properly and necessa- rily brings that law of Congress under the review of the courts, It is the peculiar dis- covery oferepublican politicians that certain laws of Congress may be called political, in contradistinction from other laws, and that in virtue of that name they are exempt from judi- cial examination, While we may admit as an abstraction that Congress is the depository of political power, we may safely defy any one to show how that power has any existence save in its application—that is, except as it is applied to persons; and when it is applied to persons in such a manner as to oppress them and to infringe their rights then surely we have a case that calls for such remedy as the courts can give, the metaphysical hairsplitters of the Judiciary Committee to the contrary notwithstanding. Prussia and Russia. By cable despatch we aro informed that the Czar of all the Russias has conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of St. George upon the King of Prussia, ‘‘as a proof of the cordial relations existing between the two countries.” This is a proof of the unmistakable policy that must be followed by these two great Powers in order to confront any political combinations that may transpire in Southern or Western Europe, especially in reference to France. Reports have been circulated respecting the complicity of Russia and Prussia in the recent insurrection in Dalmatia, but in turn have been promptly and Officially contradicted. The sentiments known to exist between Russia and Turkey on the one side, and the jealousy that but recently gave rise to some difference between the Cabinets of Prussia and Austria on the other, were well calculated to foster the supposition that indirect means might have been employed by which to annoy their respec- tive adversaries. Such would naturally resuft by fomenting the insurrection in Dalmatia, and therefore to a certain extent warranted the supposition. In reference to graver matters, however, the two great nations of Russia and Prussia know that they must go together in order to combat alliances that may be closed by any of the other great Powers of Europe ; and although political matters may wear ao peaceful outward aspect for the moment there is no telling how soon the clouds of war may gather on the horizon. Tne Funniest Tuna i Finanor.—It is one of tho most incomprehensible things that John Bull should fancy that there is any value in Confederate bonds, and should still hold them in such esteem that they can ‘improve in price” in any given circumstances, But still, as there apparently are people in London who will buy such things, we will give them the latest quotations. Two and a half millions in these bonds were sold here the other day for thirty-five dollars, They were bought as curiosities, Enoxisn Vessers Untucxy.—English ves- sels are strangely unlucky in their first attempts to profit by the opening of the Suez Canal. The steamer Brazilian, from London, although built expressly for Suez Canal traffic, was found to draw too much water, and was obliged to discharge half its cargo, when it attempted a day or two ago to get through the canal. The English must, however, have known the requisite measurement before build- ing the steamer, Crowner’s Quest Law—Anotuer Casz.— The queerest case was that of Jackson, who hunted a man like @ rabbit and shot him in the back of the head. The Coroner said it was self-defence. Then a drunken roffian shgt his drunken associate dead in a rumshop, and the Coroner set him free. Now we have a case at the New York Hotel, in which the Coroner's inquest is conducted on the princi- ples of tho Inquisition, with complete secrecy, and without a coroner. Does not this depart- ment of the administration of justice need attention ? ee Te a erie ee France, Australia and the Suez Canal. There seems to be no good reason why the opening of the Suez Canal, with all its pare- mount success, should not bring the valuable trade of Australasia into direct connection with France. In olden times, when the products of the far East reached the Mediterranean over- land by caravans across the desert, when the Red Sea was the great water connection between India and Southern Europe, the cities on the Mediterranean were tho recipients of tho “wealth of Indus.” But when navigation had taught tho British nation to circumnavigate the Cape the,trade of the East drifted in that direction and England almost monopolized the whole of it. The opening of the Suez Canal, however, has brought about achange, The old cities on the Mediterranean have a new life open to them. The fame of Tyre, Sidon and Carthage, and the more modern cities of Magna Grecia, which were the glory of that day—a fame that Genoa the Superb, and Venice of the Doges once shared—may be restored to the still more modern ports of Southern France through the medium of tho Suez Canal. Some such thoughts are evidently agitating the French mind just now, when suggestions are made to coalesce with the colonial government of Australia in the establishment ot sueh a route as would bring the products of Australia—principally wool—to a market in Marseilles, It is urged that Australian wool and Indian shawls, spices and other products of the East which are con- sumed in France go direct to London, and that French products for the Australian market have to go to the British colony by the same chan- nel, The proposition just made is to opena direct communication between Australia and the southern ports of France by means of the Suez Canal, It may be that the cost of transshipment of wool by this route would overbalance the loss of time in sending it by the ocean route round the Cape; but, after all, thatis an experi- mont worth trying. There is no doubt that the products of India could be received in the French markets upon more advantageous terms by the Suez Canal than via the Cape and London, and might be thus restored to the Mediterranean its ancient prestige as the maritime highway from the East to Central and Southern Europe. Tne Anti-Papat Conaress AT NAPLES num- bers two hundred delegates from Italy and twenty from other countries. Garibaldi, Victor Hugo and other leading radicals are not present, but have sent letters of excuse and sympathy, Thus at Rome and at Naples the antagonistic forces of opinion are drawn up in battle array, and stand as it wero face to face, ready and eager for the impending conflict, Tur ALABAMA Craims.—The London Times suggests the names of two eminent New York lawyers, whom it invites to state the facts and the law in relation to the Alabama claims. Its sudden, if tardy, desire for information is commendable. But it only needs to consult the files of the New York Heratp in order to learn both the facts and the law. It can thea say to the British government, the facts are that during the late war sixty odd Americana vessels were destroyed by English pirates. The law is, you must pay. Two Goop Tuornas FoR PHILADELPHIA— Five cents fare for the city horse cars, and the arrest and punishment of parties carrying con- cealed weapons. We wonder if any such things are in the programme of our new Demo- cratic Legislature, Tue VicERoy AND THE SuiTaN.—The Vice roy has complied with the Sultan’s ultimatum, All its conditions have been yielded to. This is well; but it only means that the Viceroy will go on as he has been doing. Apparently the Sultan has humbled his vassal; really the vassal remains master of the situation. Egypt will go ahead as before, and the Sultan will not again rashly raise a difficulty. RESPITE IN THE SHADOW OF TIE GALLOWS. Respite of Joseph Messner While Preparing for Execution. Rocnesrer, Dec. 10, 1869, Frans Joseph Messner who was to have been bung In this city to-day for the murder of his wife ‘was granted a stay of proceedings this morning by Judge Grover, of the Court of Appeals, on the ground of irregularity in the proceedings of his tial. Three gentlemen left this city late yesterday and arrived at Judge Grover's residence in Angelica about one o'clock this morning. After obtaining the order they started back and had the good fortune to catch the various trains which they had to take to reach the ciy beiore the executiou, During their journey they were compelled to make e ghreen miles each way in a road wagon and arrived af the jJatl just as Messner had dressed himseif and preparations were being made to lead him to the galiows. ‘The poor fellow had passed a restless nignt and looked fearfully careworn when he recetved com- munion at the hands of the priest. On hearing of the respite, by which his case will be carried to the Court of Appeals on the fray Taesday in January, he sank into is seat and endeavored to thank bis benefactors, but fora few moments he was unable to utter a word. He finally recovered him- self, and taking one of the lawyers’ by the hand, ex. claimed:—“i am a stranger in this land, ana I thought I had not a single friend in the world, but I have found friends in you, geutiemen, 1 trusted ia God and He has not abandoned ine.’’ Mercy Again Interposes in Behalf of Owen Hand. The execution of Owen Hand for the murder of James O'Donnell at the Brooklyn gashouse, in South Brooklyn, was to have taken place in the yard of the Raymond street jail, Brooklyn, on the 17th inst; but now it has been postponed for an in- definite period. Yesterday morning ex-Judge Moore, the counsel for the condemned man, appeared before Judge Gilbert at the Supreme Court special term, and moved fora stay of proceedings, A writ of error was granted by the Court and tne case will come up for argument at the general teri of the Supreme Court next rebruary. Important testimony, it 18 sald, has been eiictted in his benalf. Hand, although looking for a stay of proceedings, was overjoyed when informed that the Court ba issued tue order in his behalf. OBSEQUIES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN SQUIER. The funeral of the late Captain Charies W. Squier, who died a few days ago from injuries received on the Erie Railroad, took place yesterday at Dr. Corey’ Baptist church, Lexington avenue and Thirty-seventh street, The services were conducted by the Kev, William H, Boole, formerly chaplain of the regiment. to Which deceased was attached, He made a brief oration over the remains, in which he spoke of the deceased in the heat terms, The coma enclosing the remains was of rosewood, ornamented Witi sliver bearers; on We top, a silver plate, with the name ard (he date of his death. jt was wraped inan American flag, and on ether side stood tie pail bearers, hig old companions io arms, who looked with teariul eyes upon all that was earthly of their loved companion. The body was borne to the hearae, and the vortege was formed—the hearse fo.lowed by Coionel Ballard, beartug the od regimental batiie flag; then came the pall bearers, four on each side, consisting of General Granam, Colonel Burs, Major iardy, Colonel Potver, General Tremain, General Bornes, Captain Moran, and Colonel Coyne. The family foliowed in care riages, also a great number of friends betoncing to the ihird Army Corps and the Army of the Potomac, Many persous were present a’ the church, among them J. Fisk, Jr., In whose employ the deceased Jost his lite, Tie procession accompanied the remains to the New Maven {allway Station, where @ special Car was in walling to take them to Woods lawn Cometery for burial,