The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Al] business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke ot Eighth avenue and 2 , GRAND OPERA HOU ® COMBINATION. 28d street. —LINGARD'S . between Sth and 6th avs— BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 “4 ‘Tax Menuy WIVES OF OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—UND=R THE Gas- LIGHT FIFTH AVENUE THEATER Cis DE BAZAN--& POOR Twenty-fourth st.--DON z. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Litru® DETEo- TIVE--AN OBJECT OF INTERBST. D'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- net Panicteat Maticee daly, Performance every evenlug. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1869,-TRIPLE SHEET. died at No, 204 Sixth avenue, on Friday night, worth | King David, is, we may say, with the top- $50,000, dressing of General Grant inning already Heavy robberies ot valuable sliks, ribbons and | 1 ih ako tike rte apes other costly fabrics have recently been made during their transit across the Atlantic, but so far the Keen- We are next called to consider what is signi- est detectives have failed to discover the perpetra- | fied by the binding of ‘‘that old serpent, the tors of the piracy, Detective Irving has sajled for | Devil,” with a chain, and his confinement in Europe to investigate the matter. the bottomless pit, under lock and key, for a John Carroll, an alleged repeater, was discharged by Judge McCunn yesterday on a writ of habeas cor- thousand years, This is generally accepted pus, The Judge sald tt was a practice among police | asthe millennium, after which the Devil is to be captains to arrest large numbers of men on the | let loose again for a brief space, as if to give charge of repeating, merely to prevent them votlng | nim a little fresh air. But this, we think, is Mie san seamen were lost overboard from the | 80t the true interpretation. The binding of steamer Valley City on Thursday while coming | the Devil with a chain, and the putting him un- through the Narrows, They were trying, with two | der lock and key, signifies the new heaven and others, to haul in the starboard lifeboat, when it | the new earth elsewhere referred to by the fell and they with It. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday, with moa. | Prophet. It means the putting down into’ the erate activity, and closed steady. The bank state- | bottomless pit of the old system of things in ment 13 a favorable one. Gold was firm through the | governments, religious and political, and the day and closed at 12344 a 123%. full fruition of the new dispensation, And are Business in almost all departments of trade in com- mercial circles yesterday was dull as usual on Satur- days, and values were generally heavy and lower. Coiee was dull but held for full prices. Cotton was comparatively quiet Dut steady at 25/¢c. for mid- diing upland. On ’Change flour was dull and prices werenominally unchanged, Wheat was dull OWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—TaR Dug, IN THD uler Nicopemus—Dick, THY NEWSBOY. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Math atreet.—ITaLIAN OPERA— PIPELE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ExNestine—TRYING IT ON. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Le Sovsp—La Prom et Le Beau Temps. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Pae BURLESQUE or Bap Dicky. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya,— Tux RoMaNcE ov A Pook YOUNG Man. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Coxro VooALIsM, NEGKO MINSTRELSY, &C. THEATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—Comtc Vooat- 18M, NEGRO ACTS, &C. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Hib at.—BRYANIS' MINSTEALS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broaiway.—B1a10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, N@RO AoTs, & WAVERLEY THEATRE, Broadway.—ETH10- PLAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO A . NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street,-EQuastRia® AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, &C, * a HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HOoLEy’s MINSTRELS—A SQUIRE FOR 4 Day, &0. * COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor place.—OLIVS LOGan’s Lecture, “Our Gigis." NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 648 Broadway.— SOIRNOE AND ABT. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Broadway.—FRMALEs ONLY is ATTENDANOS. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, December 12, 1869, THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated December 11. English advices report the failure of ‘several bankers” in St. Petersburg and allege that the facts have been concealed in Russia. The naviga- tion of the Baltic 1s closed for the winter. The ex- Queen of Spain denies that she removed tite crown jewels. The English Parliament will, it ig said, meet in February, The Spanish Cortes rejected the political exiles indemnity bill and voted the restoratién of the Constitutional guarantees, Portugal ia agitated »; the apprehension of a revolution. The London journals still commenton President Grant’s Mes- and heavy, except for choice, which was hold firmly. lower, Pork was in very light demand and heavy, not the nations all now moving in this direc- tion, and the churches, too, with some aberra- tions? The new age is upon us. From the grand Ecumenical Council, at Rome, down to the present religious agitation among the Mor- mons, yea, even to the Buddhists of China and Corn was dull aud heavy, white oats were dull ana | the Hindoo followers of Juggernaut, is it not apparent that all the churches and creeds though no lower. Beef was quiet, while lard was | of the globe have an idea that the new'sge of slow of saleand weak. Whiskey was more active, bat at lower prices, closing strong, however. Freights miracles is upon us, through the miraculous were a trifle more active and rates in some cases | Powers of the newspaper press, the steam were higher, Naval stores were dull and weak. Petroleum was duil and lower, . crude, in bulk, clos- ing at 18c. and refined at 31 Xc. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Mahone, of Virginia, and General W. T. Clark, of Texas, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Viscount @’Abzac, and A, Schemvanderhof, of engine and the electric telegraph? Do not all the leading political Powers of the earth see it? From the British islands and France east- ward to the Golden Horn and thence to China, is there not a glorious revolution going on more wonderful than anything else in the records of Philadelphia, and Otto Kab, of Baden Baden, are at | mankind, and here, ? a not such changes tal the New York Hotel. Colonel E. F. Gordon Stewart, of Glasgow, Scot- land, is at the St. Charies Hotel. Colonel M. O. Wilcox, of Knoxville, Tenn., is at the Everett House, B. Danzas, of the Russian Legation, and, H. A. Risley, of Washington, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Marquis de Chambrun, of Washington; Professor M. M. Tooker, of Dixon, Iil.; Senator Fenton, of New York; Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, and Judge Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. : : Coionel G. W. U. Moore, of the United States Army, is at the Coleman Honse, General 0. L. Shephard, of New Mico, is’at the Astor House. * o y A Confederation of All Nations and Races= The New Age and the Good Time Coming. The matter for our first lesson this morning | where in the Old World. We know that an em- phatic word from the city of Washington can do the same thing for the New World. sure, too, that the good time is coming when standing armies and warlike navies fortresses will be only known as the debris of the Dark Ages. tothe grand congregation of the readers of the Sunday HeRratp is embraced in two ex- tracts from the Holy Scriptures. The first is = from the Book of Pealms (Old Testament), and will be found in Psalm Ixxii., and in the six- teenth and seventeenth verses, as follows :— 16, There suail be a handful of corn tn the earth yt the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shalt Douriay like grass of the earth. 17. Hits name shell endure forever; his name shall be continued a8 long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Lim; all nations shall call bim blessed. And the second is from the twentieth chap- ter of the Book of Revelations (New Testa- ment), and embraces the first, tuird verses, which read :— second und 1. And [saw an ange! come down from heaven, hay- ing the key of the bottomiess pit and a great clain in his band. 2. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old ser- pent, Which is the devil and Satau, and bound him sage. The Ecumenical Council adjourned for | chousand years, Epiphany. The French governmeut ts decided . And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shat against the tdea of Papal tnfalibilrty, him up, and set a seal upon btm, that he should de- By steamship at this port we have more details from cable telegrams from Europe to the 0th of November. The Suez Canal. The Britisn Admiralty reports ofictally that the Suez Canal is subject to sand drifts for a distance ef thirty-five miles and that thick fogs bewilder the | & great man. days he was somewhat given to filibustering | progress to China, while at the same time it and free love; but in his maturer years he ex- Pllots. Cuba, A sharp skirmish 1 reported near Trinidad but the result is not stated. Another reiforcement of , 2,000 troops has arrived from Spain. ! ‘ Congress. . ‘The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House, Mr, Ingersoll’s bill to tssue $44,000,000 | PSalms and great as a prophet. ‘More in legal tender notes for the purchase and can- seliation of gold interest bearing bonds was called WY and @ motion to lay it on the tabie ves rejected by & vote of 65 to 88. Tie bill was then referred to the Committee o: Banking and Currency by @ vote of 48 6’, Four out of six members of the committee had previously voted to lay the bill on the table. The Committee on Reconstruction presented a number of dccuments relative to the admfasion of Virginia, Whict were ordered to be printed. A number ef un- important bills and resolutions were referred or adopied, and we House went into Committee of the Whok on the Census bill, The seventeenth section Was disposed of, the committee rose and the House adjourned. Miscellaneous. The Reconstruction Committee yesterday had the quedion of the adinission of Virginia again before tt. Aletter from ex-Governor Wells was read, to the effect that in his opinion the State ought to be admitted, and that no good could result from the furter use of test oaths or political disquaiifica- ons. Indian Bureau has issued orders that Indian acting shali not visit Washington any more on businéss, but that such business shall Le trausacted by their agents, The Halifax Chrontcte says President Grant's sage breaks down al! hope of reciprocity and renders ganexanan more probable, It is rumored that Sir Francis Hincks proposes vo impose a duty on Ameri- can grain aud coal aud to make @ general reduction Of the free list. Strong petitions are being offered up in ail parts of the country for the release of Dr. Schoeppe, who ia condemned at Carlisle, Pa., for the alleged murder Of Miss Steinecke, It is thonght probable that Messrs. Yeaman, Pearre and McKennan—three of the newly ap- potted Circuit Judges—will be rejected by the Senate. Associate Judge Grier has not yet resigned his seat on the Supreme bench, but 1s studying over it, His hea!th ts good enough, bat he wishes to retire on full pay under the present law of Congress, and is afraid the Jaw will be repealed soon. An international question is betng brought into notice by one Emil Buwer, an American, who was arrested for dept in Copenhegen, and now proposes to demand reparation through Congress. Detrees, the late Congressional Printer, it is sald is bringing a strong combination against Clapp, tus s ssor, in order to have another change wade, by Which Defrees can recover lis old position, A Cnicago jury, in the cage of Mary Walton vs. Wilbur F. Story, editor of the Chicago Times, for libel, gave a verdict to the plaintiff for $3,660, A new trial was granted without argument. Returns from sixty-one counties in Texas give Davis 9,077 majority, Twenty out of sixty-one counties voted the Hamilton ticket. lion. J. 8. Golladay has retired from the contest for the Keniacky Senatorship in favor of Winter Smith, who with McCreary aud Governor Stevenson are Now tu the field. it 18 said that Stevenson is inelligl- ble on account of his southern sympathies, The City. Alarge crowd was attr to the Delamater prophets. of corn in the earth upon the top of the moun- tains,” and that ‘‘the fruit thereof shall shake ceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfiiied, and after that he must be loosed @ little season, Now let us first consider the sublime pro- phecy of David, “‘the sweet singer,” and as sol- zlory of the kingdom of Israel. He was a It may be said that in his younger nibited much of the sterling character of Gen- »ral Jackson. He was great as a king, great We think it He says, “There shall be a handful like Lebanon.” What does he mean by this bold figure? What is to be expected from a mgre handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains? Corn does not usually flourish in such cold places. It must be remembered, too, that the corn spoken of in the Scriptures is not Indian corn, but that the term is eqniv- alent to our word grain, or, to be more precise, “small grain,” such as wheat, barley and oats, as distinguished from corn, which with us means maize or Indian corn. David, there- fore, means wheat in his “handful of corn,” and Judea was always and is to this day a great wheat country. Indian corn is of Amer- ican origin, and its native name maize, or mahis, comes from the island of Hayti. But how is a handful of wheat in the earth on the top of the mountains to grow till its fruit shall suake like Lebanon? And what is meant by shaking Itke Lebanon? The handful of corn, or rather wheat, referred to by David s certain great moral and religious princi- the first planting of which in the world, a8 to Bay, shall be apparently as foolish and unprofitable as a handful of wheat in the barren, frozen soil on the top of some lofty mountain, And when he says the frnit thereof | shall shake like Lebanon he means that it shall flourish to the magnitude of the forests of the famous cedars of Lebanon, and that, like | those ancient woods, this wonderful growth from a mere handful of wheat shall shake and roar as when disturbed by a mighty wind. And as the forests of the Lebanon cedars were the special wonder of the nations round about in the days of King David so he means to say that the growth and expansion of the fruit from the small beginning indicated shall be- come the wonder and the glory of the whole earth, ‘‘And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth” ie but another form of the same figure. The application immediately follows. ‘His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.” This means one faith, one confede- ration, one brotherhood of all nations and all colors of men, and all flourishing, all in harmony, all prosperous and all happy. This glorious idea, like a golden thread, runs through the Old and the | Jron Works yesterday by the report that some of the Spanish ganboats were about to leave, The yes. sels are not yet quite ready, bus work ts prc ng with great rapidity, and eighteen of the vesyei will proceed to Cuba mn a short time It was discovered yesterday bounty bonds to the amount of $100,000 have been altered by some expert forgers and negotiated, Edward V. Saray, @ miser, seventy-two years ola, New York State | New Testament, and the doctrine of uni- | versal human equality involved is em- bodied in the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- | mente of the constitution of the United States, | and is the very corner stone of General Grant's | policy. Thus, after the lapse of nearly thirty | centuries the ‘handful of corn” referred to by to the good of mankind, is “‘the handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains’ which will “‘shake like Lebanon,” and the electric telegraph, ina network of wires all over the globe, is the chain that will bind “that old serpent, which is the Devil,” for at least a thousand years. Burlingame has had assurances from Pekin that the treaty between the United States and China has been ratified by the Chinese govern- ment. is, of course, the most important for us. ratification of the American treaty will pro- dier, king and statesman, the founder of the | bably prove only a preliminary to the accept- ance of the treaties with the European govern- ments. secures us great commercial advantages. instance, it gives us several privileges upon the lands and waters of the Celestial Empire. as a teacher ‘of religion in his devotional | Citizens of the United States shall enjoy per- fect religious freedom and the right to establish ean be shown from the extract we have given | schools dt those places where foreigners are that he was one of the greatest of the | permitted to reside. residence such as is granted to the most fi govéFomenis as @ place before our very eyes miracles to contemplate, more wonderful than the passage of the Red Sea or the full of the towers of Jericho? ' And what does all this foreshadow? Nothing less than a fusion of all the nations and races of the earth—Indians, Chinese, negroes and all—in a common brotherhood and under one mighty confederation, not of the old spurious French order, but of genuine law and order, “liberty, equality and fraternity.” The press, the railroad, the steamship and the telegraph will do it. We see even now that upon any difficulty, upofl a pint by telegraph, a confer- ence of the great Eiiropémg Powers, or a hint back again by the wire, can enforce ponte afte We are and In a word, modern science, in its appliances The American-Chinese Treaty. It is quite satisfactory to know that Mr. This feature in the Burlingame mission The Our treaty throws open the doors of For Freedom of travel and favored nation is henceforth the privilege of American citizens, while the right to claim allegiance from Chinese subjects in America is waived. With regard to introducing railroads and telegraphs into China by his Majesty, the United States will be permitted to designate and authorize suitable engineers to be employed, who shall be paid for their services and pro- tected in their lives and property by the Chinese government. These are the leading points in the treaty by which this country as well as Chins will be greatly benefited. Freedom of religion, protection of residence and travel, a fair participation in the construction of in- ternal improvements and an assured share in the commerce of the empire are our especial gains by the ratification of this trey. Tar Suez Cana INaAvavration—Our Sre- CIAL AccoUNT OF THE CEREMONIAL AND His- TORY OF THE Enrerprise.—By the European mail at this port yesterday we received our special correspondence from Ismailia, dated on the 18th of November, describing the cere- monial which was observed on the occasion of the formal inauguration of the Suez Canal. It was & gorgeous spectacle, a solemn and grand occasion—one which i pictured by the writer with a degree of accuracy and fidelity and in such spirit and words as will command the public attention and fix it still more pointedly on the vast undertaking, its consequences and their more immediate results. In the outset our correspondent gives a complete historical account of the Suez Canal projects of the olden time, from the moment of the earliest mention of the first in the history of Egypt on through the succeeding ages to the period of the final triumph of the latest modern one under Ferdi- nand de Lesseps. The event has not yet had 4 more worthy commemoration or one more in accordance with the ideas and tone of the present day than that which we now accord to it in the pages of the Henatp. Tne Frenou Cante.—As betweon this country and France it is clear that we are under a disadvantage in our diplomacy. For instance, if the French government through its Minister here has any negotiation or discus- sion on foot with our government the Minister . can have constant advice from his government through the cable. But if the negotiation should be through our Minister in Paris and the government there, every despatch that may go from Washington to our Minister will be read by the French government before the Minister gets it. It will know the cards in his hands as well as he knows them himself, Cipher despatches cannot be donpnded upoa for secrecy. | since then, The Council at Rome and tho Council at Naples. Ours is a funny age. In religion, in morals, in politics, who knows where he is, or who knows what to do or believe? Everything is uncertain. Doubt is omnipresent. Faith is nowhere. All the world is troubled with the question. Itis a universal perplexity. We have for some time past been doing our best to keep the world hanging on to the tails of belief ; but even texts, Scripture texts and sermons, inthe new and the old style, have not pre- vented the world from judging and concluding for itself. The latest manifestation against our common sense doctrines has come from Reme,and Naples. Which is sense and which is not senso it will be difficult for many of our readers toanswer. Itis our desire to help them. It is true that two councils have been convened in Italy. One of these has met in Rome; the other has met in Naples. Which is the true council? The question will be differently answered by different persons. One council sits in Rome; another council sits in Naples. One represents a section of Christendom; the other represents a section of modern radical- ism. The Pope, the successor of St. Peter and the vicar of Christ, presides over the former; an unknown man, Ricciardi by name, presides over the latter. In character and aim the council at Rome is religious; that at Naples is anti-religious. The Neapolitan affair is evidently countgrblast to that of Rome. In the history of the Christian Church rival popes and rival councils have more than once claimed the attention of mankind. We have had popes at Rome and popes at Avignon. We have had coungiJs at Perpignan and coun- cils at Aguileia, We have had three popes at atime. Gregory XIL, Benedict XIII. and John XXIIL illustrated more than four hundred years ago the idea of Christian unity and Papal infallibility; and the Council of Con- stance, which made an end of the three and put Martin the Fourth in their place, settled the question of superiority as between popes and councils. Old questions and questions long settled do come up again; but it is more than certain that the present Council of the Vatican, whatever it may do, will not give us much light, Napoleon in his ‘‘Yellow Book” has Bt 2 this Raina ical Qouncil by saying that it ‘is beyond the pale of the political Powers,” Of the Council of Naples we have even less hope than we have of that of Rome. Papal councils have created Inquisitions and burned good men. But councils like that of Naples have nothing higher to boast of. The princi- ples which now find expression in that coun- cil carry us back to the French revolution, to all its horrors and allits fancies, not forgetting the Goddess of Reason, Oar friends of Naples must excuse us if we say we prefer the Pope, with all his medisxval nonsense, to the Goddess of Reason. A Proper Field for Reform. What a blessing would have been the inter- ference of Mr. Bergh’s beneficent nature had he only a few days ago looked after the laun- dry and sleeping rooms of the poor female domestics of the St. Nicholas Hotel. The fire in Mercer street disclosed the fact, which other- wise might never have been known outside the hotel management, that over a hundred female employs habitually slept over the gas house of the establishment, liable at any moment of the night to be blown up or burned up. What a lucky thing it was for these poor creatures— huddled away in an explosive tenement house, we might say—that this conflagration occurred during daytime! As it is they lost all their little worldly possessions, which is bad enough ; but had the fire broken out after ten o’clock at night a hecatomb of human souls would have been offered up over that accursed gas house. Surely there is a good field for reform in our great hotels as well as in the tenement houses, If the Board of Health does not give a little attention to them we suggest to Mr. Bergh to take the matter in hand, remembering that although hotel domestics are human animals, they come’ within his jurisdiction and tho promptings of his good-natured heart, if no one else will take care of thém. The idea of the sleeping apartments of a hundred women being located over or in the immediate vicinity of a gas house where oil was stored is shock- ing to think of in this age of enlightenment. A cautious cattle dealer would not put his sheep to fold in such a place. TH Mormon Missionaries In New York must be a queer set, according to’ the descrip- tion of them presented in another column. Brigham Young, Jr., second son of the Mormon prophet, and William H. Hooper, Mormon delegate to Congress, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, and Robert E. Burton, Major General of the Mormon militia, is at one of the smaller hotels'in town. Each of these high dignitaries will find a pen-and-ink portrait of himself, with asketch of bis antecedents, in to-day’s HuRaLp. The gossip about the third better-half of Brig- ham junior is interesting. The sick and rich Mormon delegate, who ‘‘gives the best cham- pagne suppers of any member in Washington,” is not a practical polygamist. The bloody record of “‘Bobby” Burton seems to justify our reporter's opinion that the Elder, being here to teach the Gentiles the way of life, is unde- niably ‘‘well qualified to do it, in one sense of the word at least.” Ifthe object of the Mor- mon prophet in sending forth such apostles as these is really to influence public opinion among the Gentiles in favor of the admission of Utah as the State of Deseret, so that his own despotic power may be established and Church and State may be united in at least one of the United States, wo can only say that Brigham needs a new revelation to guide him in the choice of his missionaries. Rarw Boitpine.—That is a queer telegram from London which informs us that an English ship had to discharge half her cargo to get through the Suez Canal, though built ex- pressly for that trade. Now, when was she built? We know John Bull's humor very well. He waits for facts. He did not, therefore, put up before the canal was finished the frame of any ship to go through that canal. He was not the fellow to build a ship on the possibility that such a moonshiny, mythical affair as this canal ever would be made by French and Egyptians. No. He wajted for the caral to ‘e done, and has built ship ‘“oxpressly” It is safe to say he newer built anything in se short @ time before, Swindling Counterfeiters Exposed. We publish elsewhere an ‘exposure of one of the most audacious attempts at swindling of which counterfeiters have lately been guilty. Circulars somewhat similar to that which the author of the letter making this exposure received, and which he has done well to “‘blow upon,” notwithstanding the swindlers implore those to whom it is addressed not to betray them, have, indeed, been widely circulated throughout the country; but no writers of such circulars have heretofore reached such a height of impudence as to cite a pretended extract from the Heraxp in order to give a favorable idea of “‘tho quality of their stock,” claiming, moreover, ‘the reputation in New York of being men of good standing,” and therefore aboveall suspicion of dealing in coun- terfeitmoney. But, masterpiece of fraud as this circular seems to be at first glance, a careful perusal of it would suffice to prevent its tempt- ing anybody except rogues or fools. Unfortu- nately, howaver, there are so many representa- tives of both these classes scattered about in our populous community that it is worth while to hinder their being made instruments of mischief by wily counterfeiters, Counter- feiters have learned so skilfully to wrest to evil purposes some of the noblest appliances of modern science that it is at once.a necessity and a duty to expose them for the public good. Not only ‘the man at the desk” at the den in Nassau street, but his skulking principals and the public also will to-day “know what’s up,” to borrow a slang expression in the villanous circular of the swindlers. No Punishment for Crime. Wendell Phillips recently said, with some philosophic insight Into the national character, that the idea of rigid, strict, uncompromising justice was intolerable to the American people. Ts it because of this trait that it is next to impossible to punish anybody for anything? Is this the reason that the people do not rise up in indignation against that looseness of administration that refuses nine times in ten to mete the penalty of the law—conniving at escape in one form or another of every con- denihied gman? Buta little while ago we pub- lished a calendar pf executions that were to take place. We have seeh, however, a great many changes of programme. One murderer who was to have been hanged on Friday last escaped from jail. The kindly blindness of a keeper or two does to defeat the law when other means fail. _ Out af Rochester a mur- derer, who was also to have been hanged on Friday last, and here in Brooklyn one who was to have been hanged on Friday next, have both escaped for the time by the assistance of that useful process the writ of error. As there never was a trial in which points enongh could not be found to justify the iseuing of this writ, so there never were cases in which it was issued with, less propriety; and we may look upon it here as a mere contrivance to gain the time necessary to cheat the gallows at last. Another case of hanging that was to happen this month was that of Dr. Schoeppe, in Penn- sylvania. Here, also, the writ of error has come to the rescue; but an intelligent review of the case indicates that the trial was distin- guished by such peculiar stupidity in its con- duct that the writ may here prevent judicial murder, We see in our own cases, however, where trials have been such as to leave not a possibility of doubt of guilt, that whether the penalty be hanging or State Prison it can never be enforced; and we see as a result that the criminal classes feel and fully appreciate the impunity extended for extravagant indulgence of their propensities to indiscriminate deviltry. Beecher’s Foresight and UWindsight. In the very plain conference between Mr. Beecher and his congregation we are glad to see that the Plymouth parson, though with some ‘thems and haws,” yet clearly acknow- ledged that he had not acted with good judg- ment in his participation in the Richardson marriage. In answering the question whether he would do it again, he says, with the Dutch- man, “If my foresight was as good as my hindsight I should do a great many things better than Ido.” In plain English, he would have done better had he at first understood the Richardson-McFarland case as clearly as he understands it now. This is satisfactory. But itis singular that in this very conference Mr. Beecher should make a statement that puts the marriage in a worse light, morally, than any it has been seen in hitherto. He says that when he came to the Astor House to perform the ceremony he ‘‘found a corridor full of friends and a weeping group around the bed; and the surgeons told him that Mr. Richardson was under the influence of opiates, and that after their effect was over he would gradually sink and die.” This is the firat distinct decla- ration we have heard of the state of Mr. Richardson at the time. He was under the influence of opiates. He was so much under the influence of opiates that when their effect was gone his life would flicker out. All the manifestations of vitality that could then be called his life were artificial, and the result of the opium stimulus. His mind was far from its normal state. Was that a condition in which a man could properly will so peculiar an act as that marriage? Was Mr. Richardson really a responsible party? If not, then the whole affair was a farce to gloss one side. Mr. Beecher once before, as he tells us, per- formed « questionable marriage, because, when he told the girl that the man was a rascal, she said, ‘Well, I guess I know what I want.” He deems that the only prime requisite is that each party should know what he or she wants. Did Mr. Richardson's state meet that requirement ? Tur Tenure oF Orrick Law.—The House Judiciary Committee have done well in instructing General Butler to report favorably the bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law. The House will do better when it repeals it. We hope that the Senate will not hanker about this bill when it reaches them, It is very well to argue that many Senators are personally committed to the Tenure of Office law because they made strong arguments in its favor inthe days of Andy Johnson. We have a President now who saved the party by taking up its standard. at a critical time, and the republican Senators ought to trust hira, He desires tha this law should be repealed, and 80 exprossed. it in his message. The opposing Senators ¢vould put their personalities im their pocket, put their vanity under their feet and Gratify the wishes of the Prosidont. The Board of Health and the Washington Market Nuisance. It is said that the ‘mills of the gods grind slow but sure.” The said mills have been long at work in tho effort to clear off that disgusting nuisance that so stinks in men’s nostrils—the Washington Market. And now we have the blessed hope presented to us that at last the nuisance is doomed, and that it will not much longer be permitted to infest the air with ita poisonous breath, and that the-whole recking and ulcerous sore will be eradicated. At the session of the Board of Health on Wednesday last the legal adviser of that body ‘presented true bills” in eleven cases; reporting that they came within the jurisdic- tion of the Board; that they were public nuisances within the meaning of the act, and that consequently the Board had power to remove them. This settles the whole ques- tion, It would be utterly useless to proceed in the matter of the eleven ‘‘stalls” condemned by counsel as positive and downright nuisances. The whole market is a public nuisance that ought to have been wiped out of existence long ago, There are other markets in the city that the Board of Health will do well to look after—places dignified by the name of metro- politan markets, that would disgrace a commu- nity of Black Feets or Cheyennes, which the Board, when it shall have made up ita mind to act, will do well to include in its work of extirpation. The Board's ‘‘mills” have been hitherto slow to work in these matters. Let them, like the other mills to which we baye referre: be “sure,” now that the opportunity is givei them. Let them make a beginning by utterly removing the Washington Market nuisance, and the citizens will accept this as an instal- ment of much needed reforms, and as an earnest of their appreciation and part fulfil- ment of their most important duties, Goop Us For Fat Men.—We commend to the Fat Men’s Association the story of Captain Scott, who, when a tug had punched a hole in a ferrybdat, thrust his vast propor- tions into the hole ang thus stopped the leak till the boat reached the land, ‘‘The dust that kept the world in awe” could have done no better. Imperial Cesar might even not have done so well, for he was not fat. Here, then, is the chance for adipose heroism. Let all the fat men go on the ferryboats and wait their chances. Tuk Fisnerm«n.—That is a sad summary of the fishermen’s season given in a paragraph of our Boston despatch in reference to the Gloucester men, Sixteen vessels wrecked, fifty-six fishermen lost and twenty-eight chil- dren made fatherless. 4 HENRY J. RAYMOND. Biographical Sketch by Augustus Maverick. The New York Genealogical and Biographical So- ciety hela a regular meeting last evening at the Mott Memoria! Hall, No. 64 Madison avenue, the president occupying the chair. Aiter a little routing business haa been transacted Mr. Augustus Maverick was called upon to read a biographical sketcn of the late Henry J. Raymond. In commencing his re- marks Mr. Maverick dwelt fora short time in gen- eralities having mainly to do with the subject of journalism, and then stated that it had come within his province recently to make a careful study of the life, public services and private qualities of the lai@ Mr. Raymond. That gentleman possessed in the highest degree the qualities which made a thoroughly competent and honest editor. The record of the Raymond family had almost entirely mouldered into impalpable dust, and could only be traced back to some eighty or one hundred years past. So far as could be ascertained the Raymond family was of French origin. Henry J. Raymond’s father, Jarvis Raymond, was one of the earliest pioneers in West~ ern New York, and: settled in the wilds of what now is Livingston county before the Erie Canal was constructed. In January, 1820, Mr. Raymond’s father settled with his wifeon an elghty acre plot at Lima. Both husband and wile were consistent Christians, and the former held the oifice of justice of the peace for the town in which be resided. Mr. Raymond, Sr., was @ plain, unlettered man, but bis honesty of purpose was such that he gained the con- fidence of his fellow citizens, and even now the name of Jarvis Rfymond was ever mentioned with respect and esteem. Henry J. Raymond was his parents’ first born child. As an infant he did not differ much from others, but even then was gifted with great natural quickness and unusual nervous energy. At three years of age he could read his lea- sons finently, and at five years old he made bis first atiempt at public speaking, for wien at that age he recited two pieces at a school ex- hibition. The essayist then followed the subject of his sketch through nis early aays, referring to bis entering, tn 182), a classtcal school, in 1832 his ad- mission to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, in which latter place he passed two or taree years in hard and diligent study. Leaving this place of learning the youth cast anxiously about to find employment. In 1836 he became a clerk in @ country store at a salary of seventy-five doilars a year. He did not remain in this position tong, aud when he left the store he and trade parted forever. He next became a teacher in a district school, but atter three months returned again to Lima, and shortly after was sent by nis father to the University of Vermont, the means for his college course being raised by his father ona mortgage of $1,000 upon lis farm. Io 1840, having passed May coliege with distinguished honor, he returned to Lima and commenced lis political hfe by espousil the whig cause duriug the Harrison campaign. erarrison was elected, and one of the consequences of his election was the establishment of the Tribune, and, in some sense, f these two events had not occurred Henry J. Ray- tmond’s life might have taken a diferent course, Mr. Maverick (en went on to relate the story of Mr. Kaymond’s arrival in this city im December, 1840, his tuterview with Mr. Greeley, his subsequent attachment to the 7r/bune, Dis removal to the Cou. rier and Enquirer, and the establishment of the New York 7imes. He also ‘traced his political life, and claimed that any errors Mr. Raymond made po- litically were errors of the head rather than tho heart. His loyalty could never be questioned and he was always thoroughly manly, honest and cou- rageous. In mauy respects Mr. Raymond had been very much misjudged. As & man he was lovable and kind to all Who came under bis infiuence, His dealings were ever straightforward, and he had a wonderiui power of estunating the qualities of those under him, At the close of the sketch a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the essayist, ARE TRE FEMANS MOVING? Mysterious Secrecy=What's In the Wind? For months the Fenlan headquarters in West Fourth streot, near Broadway, has presented a busy appearance. Workmen have been actively employea im the manipulation of Enfleld and Springfield rifles into needie guns, and large quantities of mystertous boxes and bales of army supplies have been arriving and stored, About nine o’clock yesterday the work of empty- ing the storehouses commenced. During the en- tire day trucks were employed under the supervision of General O'Neil in carting away tna contents, closely packed in boxes. A great many cases of what are believed to be repeating carbines were also shipped. ‘(he most simgular transaction of all was that all the trucks on securing thetr | freight took different directions, probably to meet ab gome common centre This may be the inception of another expedition to assist the Canadians iu throw. ing off the Britiah yoke, or it may bea little diver. sion 50, put them to the expense of another “Fenian scare! ‘ainiaaciecnlgenaaiaeiets THE WOMEN'S PARLIAMENT. The usual weckly meetings of the “Women’s Par- iament’ was held yesterday at the Packard Com- mercial College, Mra. Peirce, of Boston, president of the Organizing Committee, in the chair. After read- ing the minutes of tho last meeting, a lady rose an moved that, as tne meeting waa to be t one ofthe character of @ social gathering to - cuss plans of future action, no report shor nished 1o the daily papers further than to thar @ publio meeting Would be held atthe he Spike Men's Christian Association on Inesday evening next, when it is sree to place more fuily before the public the plans or aims of the orgaulzation than las yet been don