The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1869, Page 6

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By special cable telegram from London we learn that the will of the late Mr. Peabody has not been Yet admitted to probate. whe main, and latest, bequests of the philanthropist are enumerated not- ‘withstanding. Messrs. Overend & Gurney, with others, members of the late London banking house, are on trial on charges connected with the failure of the house be- fore the Lord Chief Justice of England. The Anglo- Chinese treaty, drafted after the Burlingame instru- Ment, has been ratified in Pekin. The Emperor of Austria opened the session of the Legislature with ® throne speech, which is at once peaceful, hopeful and conciliatory both towards the people and foreign Powers. The report of the Frencn Min- Aster of Finance ls satisfactory. Madrid was rejolc- Ang over the news Of the release of the Spanian gun- boats in New York. Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc ‘eulogize the memory of the late Mr. Peabody. Por- ‘tagal is seriously agitated by a military revolution- Bry movement. Mr. Peabody's remains were placed vn board the British war ship Monarch on Saturday, ® very impressive international ceremonial veing “observed on the occasion. Our special correspondence by mail from Europe embraces important detalia of our cable telegrams bo the 2d of December. By way of Europe we have a special letter from our correspondent at Port Said, in animated descrip- tion of the various style of dress costume—royal, tlerical, lay ahd native—which were to be seen on the banks of the Suez Canal and in the cities of Sgypt at aud atter the inauguration. Cuba. 4 Haytien steamer, the Mary Anne, was captured on the 4th inst, off the mouth of the Bicarra river. She is supposed to have landed arms for the insur- wents and ts held for an tuvestigation. Fighting continues at Mogota. The choleva at Santiago ts . Bald to be decreasing. Hay. Despatches from St, Marcs dated November 27 tate (hat extensive preparations are belng maae for a combined land and naval attack upon Port au Prince by the insurgents, in which five war steamers are to joi. Mr. Basset, the American Minister (col- cred), ig at St. Marcs, on the British war steamer Cherub, Port au Prince is said to be in & wretched: couaition, with gold at 4,000. Paraguay. Dates from Rio Janeiro are to the 224 ult. The allied army has captured Paguaty, Curuguatty and ‘other strongholds, the Paraguayans losing nearly 400 men and @ large amount of war material. The allies at the latest accounts were marching on Igua- termy, Lopes's last stronghold, Congress. In the Senate yesterday a bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee for the reconstruction of Georgia. The bill provides for the convening of the old Legislature, including ali the members declared elected by General Meade’s proclamation, except such as are disqualified by the fourteenth amend- ment—the Legisiature to be considered as provisional only until after further action by Congress. Bilis ‘were introduced providing for funding the puplic debt and for annuiling contracts for labor made with emigrants in foreign countries, Senator Drake called up his pill restricting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which he sustained in a long argu- ment. Senators Edmunds and Sauisbury replied to the arguments of Mr, Drake, after which the Senate went into executive session and adjourned, In the House a large number of bilis were intro- duced, including an amendment to the National Cur- rency act; to abolish the franking privilege; to pen- sion surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, and for the readmission of Virginia. A concurrent resolu- tion for both houses to adjourn from Wednesday, December 22 to Wedn y, January 6 was passed, A resolution was introduced by Mr. Butler that the five per cent tax on income from bonds be deducted from the Interest on all bonds paid by the United States to the owners thereof. Mr. Fox called up his resolution of inquiry into the cause of the gold panic im September, which was amended and passed. Mr. Ward presented a monster petition, signed by 72,000 persons, for recog: nition of the independence of Cuba The Census Dill was taken up and considered in committee of tue whole, and at four o’clock the House adjourned, Mincelinneous. The President yesterday withdrew the nomination of Judge Yeaman for the Kentucky Circuit Judge- abip. Chief Justice Chase yesterday delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court im the case of the Veazie Bank va. Jeremiah Fenna, Collector of Inter- nal Revenue, to recover the tax of ten per ceot upon its circulation imposed by the act of daly, 1866. The Veazie Bank, chartered by the Maine Legislature, held the act to be Unconstitutional because it was in the nature of a Girect tax, and interfered with rights vested in the bank by its charter. The Court amrmed the consti- tutionality of the law, grounding its opinion on the article tn the constitution enabling government to lay and oollect taxes and provide for the defence and general wellare of the United States, ‘The tax was nota direct tax, but was inthe same class aa taxes on insurance companies, which has already been de. cided not to be direct taxes. The decision sustains ‘the conatitutionality of the law creating a national NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. 18 was not called upon to pass upon that portion making such currency a legal tender to individual transactions, The Senate Jndiciary Committee have agreed upon @ dill reorganizing the Georgia Legistature making it provisional until her representatives are admitted to Congress. Geueral Butler is buying up a large quantity of War munitions and bas opened a bargain with the Secretary of War for more. It is supposed that he wants them for Cuba, Superintendent Macartee, of the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department, has posted up a notice forbidding whistling, smoking, profane language and lounging among the female clerks in his depart- ment. Aaditional returns of the Texas election stil! leave the result ag tothe chotce for Governor doubful. The rest of the radical ticket is elected. Five men were recently found murdered near the store of one of them in San Joaquin county, Call- fornia, Two other bodies were found in the same neigborhood a few nights before. The City. Fifteen of the Spanish gunboats have hauled out into the stream preparatory to departing for Cuba, and eighteen are expected to leave on Thursday, under the convoy of the Spanish war steamer Pizarro, A number of men were engaged yesterday to go ont on the gunboats as engineers, ' In the Supreme Court, Genefal Term, yesterday, an opinion in the case of Real, the murderer, was rendered, sustaining the verdict rendered on his trial of murder in the first degree, and deciding that the sentence of death must be carried out. Judge Barnard, who presided at Real's trial, and Judge Clerke, held to this opinion, while Judge Cardozo dissented, The extent of the recent State bond forgeries is now said to be about $500,000, The firm of W. E. Grey & Co., No. 44 Broad street, are believed to have been the principal agents tn the scheme for putting them on the market. The members of that firm have disappeared. Tho triat of oficera Hartigan and Renson, of the ‘Twenty-second precinct, for an alleged highway robbery, was commenced before Commissioner Bos- worth yeaterday. A lad, six years of age, named John Doody, died yesterday from the effecta of a blow from a snow- ball filled with ice, received while playing on Sun- day. bi The stock market yesterday was heavy, weak and declined, owing to the discovery of the State bond frauds. Gold was weak and closed finally as 122% ‘The market for beef cattle yesterday was moder- ately active and prices were generally steady; the offerings were moderate and mostly common quality. Prime and extra steers were sold at 16c. a 17c; fair to good, 1434c. @ 15%¢c, and superior to orditiary, 100. a lic, while the bulk of the sales were at 13sec. @ 154. and the average price about ldc. Milch cows were dull and moninal Qt our last quotations, Veal calves were quiet, but unchanged in value. Prime and extra were quoted at 113¢c, @ 12450. and inferior to good at 10c, a 11 4c. For sheep the market was passably active at former prices, prime and extra selling at 6%, @ 7¢¢., com- mon to goed at Sc. a6}c, Bnd inferior at 4c. a 43gc. ‘The market for swine was quiet at 10%c, a lic, for common to prime, with arrivals of 6,140 head. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General E. Marshall and J. Hale, of the United States Army; Captain B, Clark, of Cmveland, and G. A. Belcher, of Havana, are the Metropolitan Hotel, Colonel E. H. Taylor, Kentucky, and R. Rivas, of Cuba, are the Hoffman House, Charles A. Adams, G. Blocklinger and P, Garst, of the United States Army, and Dr. Bristol, of Nassau, are the Albermarle Hotel. W. McPherson, of St. Louis; J. L. Carlyle, of Western Virginia; Judge Mosley, of Buffalo; General Lediie, of Chicago, and E, Corning, Jr., of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel 8. B, Holbard, of the United States Army; George McKenzie, of Scotland; D. N. Barney, of Irvington; W. Ogden Holtman, of New York, and @. W. James, of Suvauuah, Ga., are at the Everett House. Carlos T. 3olino, Vrancis Marrero, and Felipe Perez, of Cubs; Captain Moodie, of the steamsnip Cuba, and Gererai W. F. Bartlett, of Pittsfeld, are at the New York Hotel, Cotonel Joha M. Wilson, of the United States Army; Major J. S. Dye, of Washington; Professor U. H. Castle, of Syracuse, and alexander Miller, of Mil- waukee, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General James 8. Whitney, of Boston; C, H. Sher- rill, of Washington; Captain Samuel Brooks, of the steamship City of Brooklyn, and General J. C. Fre- mont, of Tarrytown, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commoéore Bodisco, of the steamship Petersburg; J. W. Thompson, of Washington; L. G. Risely, of Dunkirk; W. G, Fargo, of Buffalo; Captain G. B, Raymond and A. W. Markley, of New Jersey, and Judge Biack, of Mexico, are at the Astor House. Holding Back on the Cuban Question What Does It Mean? Every one asks with some surprise what the apparently pro-Spanish policy of the adminis- tration and she seemiggly studied reticence of Congress on the Cuban question mean. Even those members of Congress who are most pronounced and advanced in favor of Cuban independence or annexation are holding back. Monster petitions to Congress, with seventy thousand signatures, for the recognition of Cuban belligerency or independence are laid aside for the present, and that upon the motion of members who we been the warm friends of Cuba, ‘onths ago the President did not hesitate to express opinions highly favorably to the Cubans. The Secretary of State was scarcely Jess sympathetic and hope- ful for Cuba than his chief, All this is on record. ®ur Minister at Madrid was instructed to tell the Spanish government, nearly nine months ago, that public opinion in the United States was so strongly in favor of the Cubans that the administration and Congress would be compelled at no distant day to recognize them. At the end of the session of Congress last spring the House of Representatives passed a resolution unanimously expressing sympathy with the Cubans in their struggle for freedom and authorizing the President to recognize them. It ls known, too, that our government made an effort, about the san.e time, to nego- tiate with Spain for the independence of Cuba. Nor should it be forgotten that the seizure and detention of the Spanish gunboats for a time had no real relation to Peru. No one had any idea that these gunboats would or could be used against Peru. The government knew this, and, therefore, using the Peruvian Minister or the pretended guasi war with Peru in the matter was mere pretext. There is no doubt that the object at the time was to serve the Cubans in an indirect way, Everything tended to show that the government and people of the United States were steadily advancing to a point when this country would interpose in some way or other in favor of Cuban ihdependence. Everybody expected it, the press anticipated it and the poor Cukans were inapifed with hope by it. That was the state of the question up to two weeks ago, and a great deal was expected from the President and Congress, or from Congress, at least, as soon as the session commenced, General Grant said even to one of the Cuban Jonta, in an interview ten days since, that Congress would take prompt action on the subject of Cuba. Now let us look at the other side of the picture, Let as gee how far the hopes that were inspired have been realized, how far currency, although the Court expressly asserted tha; | the administration have acted in accordance with its professions or popular sentiment, and how far Congress has come up to the expecta- tions of the public, First of all the Presi- dent's Measage fell heavy upon tho hearts of the Cubans and hopes of the American people, After saying something about the people of the United States sympathizing with all who are struggling for liberty and self- government, and the efforts the government had made to negotiate for the independence of Cuba, the President states that the contest on the part of the Cubans “‘has at no time assumed the conditions which amount to & war in the sense of international law, or which would show the existence ofa de facto politival organization of the insurgents suffi- cient to justify a recognition of belligerency.” Then followed immediately after this declara- tion the order to release. the Spanish gun- boats, thereby giving unnecessarily the. most effective ald to the Spaniards while at the same time utterly ignoring the Cubans, Since the publication of the President's Message the sympathies and ardor of Congress for the Cubans seem to have been surprisingly chilled. To all appearances it fell like a wet blanket upon the glowing sentiment of liberty and gene- rosity that ad flred the breasts of Congress- men beforo that event. Monster petitions for the Cubans are tabled without notice; resolu- tions favorable to Cuba or to bring up the Cuban question in any form have been objected to and laid over, and in every way there seems to have been a disposition to put off the subject or to hold back from it for a time. This is a curious state of things. It cannot be explained by any facts known to the public or by any process of reasoning upon the caprices or vagaries of human nature. The Cubans have not forfeited their claim to the sympathy of the American people and govern- ment. On the contrary, they have displayed those heroic qualities and that ability in the conduct of their war for independence that ought to inspire admiration in the heart of every American, How can the President say it is not a war in the sense of international law which would justify the recognition of bel- ligerency in the face of facts to the contrary that all the world muat know? General Prim acknowledged lately that forty thousand troops and fourteen war vessels had been sent from Spain to suppress the insurrection, and yet itis known that the insurgenta are stronger to-day and occupy a larger extent of territory than ever they did since the commencement of the war. From the very beginning, which from the want of means was on @ very small scale at first,- the Cubans have been increasing their power, the strength of their organization and the territory held, until they are able to defy successfully all the power of Spain. The very necessity of these thirty gunboats which this country has fur- nished the Spaniards,. and the enormous rein- forcements sent out from Spain, afford a sufficient answer to the President’s assumption that a war in the sense of international law does notexist. The war is on such a stale, and the Cubans have such an orgarized government, both civil and military, that any nation would be justified in according bellige- rent rights, It could be done fairly within the meaning and general interpretation of inter- national law, But the American republic and government should rise above this considera- tion evenin the case of Cuba. We should have a broad and comprehensive American policy of our own with regard to all the countries, colonies or territory in this hemisphere. We should never fail to aid the cause of republican freedom on American soil whenever an opportunity occurs. If the government should not do this at the present time in the case of Cuba it will show a lamentable want of foresight and statesman- ship, will not fulfil its mission and will act in opposition to both the interests of the country and public sentiment. But we are not willing to believe the administration is aiming to assist the Spaniards and to crush the Cubans, notwith- standing the language of the President’s Mes- sage and the release of the Spanish gunboats. We are disposed to believe there may be some overtures from Spain—some professed dispo- sition on the part of that Power to open nego- tiations for the sale or cessionofCuba, and that our government is desirous to conciliate the Spaniards and to save their pride from being wounded, 6o that the object may be accom- plished under the form of friendship. The extraordinary attentions to General Sickles, our Minister at Madrid, lately, give color to ‘this. opinion, We cannot believe that the government, and least of all that General Grant, would take the back track in the Cuban question for fear of war with Spain. Such a bugbear would not disturb the most nervous" old fogy if he had any sense. But if the seeming pro- Spanish and anti-Cuban policy of the adminis- tration arises from any new moveinent on the part of Spain to negotiate for the sale or inde- pendence of Cuba it may be well to warn the government against any possible Spanish treachery, so that it may not aid the Spaniards in their atrocious system of war on Cuba for the sake of a remote contingency. If our government be too yielding and tender in its friendship for Spain on such a prospect it may be cheated and be laughed ,at by the whole world for its simplicity and folly. The only way to treat Spain and this Cuban question is in the boldest manner and on the principle of & broad American policy, independent of what the rest of the world may think or say. Taz Gowp Paxto—A Coxarrsstonan InvEsTIOATION.~-The subject of the Septem- ber gold pante is to meet investigation at Con- gressional hands. Representative Fox, whose district includes Wall street, has made himself conspicuous for his efforts to have @ select committee of investigation appolnted, but his resolution’ Bearing direct animus toward General Grant he was very properly overslanghed by the majority, It is rather late in the day to make the President responsible for the vagaries of his brothers-in- law. The matter was amended by another résolution, emanating from Mr. Schenck, directing the Committee on Banking and Cur- rency to make the investigation, and clothing them with the necessary powers. We donbt if anything new will be devoloped or if any result will be attained which will punish the conspirators or prevent @ recurrence of simi- lar conspiracies. The Virginia Radical Delegation. The delegation of radicals from Virginia who are now pressing upon Congress and the President “loads of documents,” to show that the State should not be admitted into the Union, had much better have stayed where thoy belong. It is this class of fellows who have been retarding reconstruction all along. Hav- ing done all the mischiefthey could at hone— it indeed it is proper to call the “Mother of Presidents” the home of the carpet-bagger— they come to Washington to put a brake on the wheels of reconstruction progress. The President has already, in his Message, recom- mended the admission of Virginia and the re- cognition of her members on the floor of Congress. There is no doubt that Congress itselt is inclined to accept General Grant’s sug- gestions, and bring the old State into the Union, relieved of her disabilities, acknowledg- ing that she has conformed to all the require- ments of the law in the matter. What does this little radical cabal, then, want in Wasb- ington? Itissaid that there is a load of proofs about fraud and intimidation in the late election, If so, these are questions which can be settled in Virginia, If there were any “‘repeaters” operating there, the local courts, we suppose, can dispose of them with- out @ delegation coming to Washington to grumble about it. It is better to let Virginia come back without further quibbling or petty opposition, now that she stands on the threshold. How little this delegation could reasonably hope to effect with the President or the Reconstruction Committee, to whom their doleful plaints were to be made, is plain from the bill introduced in the House yester- day by Mr. Butler, Chairman of the Recon- struction Committee—which will doubtless be promptly passed—declaring “that the State of Virginia is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States.” The Sunday Discourses ef the Herald. Like Father Hyacinthe, in his broad, world-embracing catholic views of the enduring and expansive principles of Chris- tianity, it is our purpose in our Sunday edito- rial religious lessons to our readers to culti- vate the grand idea of the tendency of the material and moral forces of the age to a fusion of all creeds, all colors and all nations under one general system. Here we have scope and verge enough to embrace all the prophets, all the apostles and all the religion founders and leaders, and churches, and orders, past and present, in the four quarters of the globe. How dit- ferent this from the small abstractions, and quibbles of doctrine, and chop-logic, and twaddle on the peculiar kinks and crotchets of this sect, that sect and the other of religious professors. The long and bloody reign of universal ignorance and superstition, of civil wars and wars between nations is drawing to a close with the extension of the amalga- mating moral forces of modern enlightenment, with its scientific inventions and appliances, The new era may be dated from the sup- pression of African slavery, with the downfall of our late rebellion; for in this great revolu- tion the whole world has been awakened to he invincible and progressive moral forces of the steam engine, the electric telegraph and the independent press, . ‘Tue Spanisu Guynoats.—We give to-day a report of the actual condition of the Spanish armada—eighteen of the gunboats being almost ready to depart for Havana, under convoy of the Spanish war steamer Pizarro, which lately brought over officers and men for them, and a second flotilla being likely to be completed ina fortnight, and to be officered and manned from a second Spanish war steamer which is expected to arrive. We give also a list of the officers and of the American engineers engaged for the first expedition. In connection with this report it is noteworthy that Senator Car- penter has lifted his voice in the Senate in favor of the cause of Cuban independence, having introduced yesterday a resolution— which he gave notice that he would call up on Wednesday for debate and action—to prevent the sailing of the Spanish gunboats from New York so long as the rebellion continued in Cuba, Tog Breaxinc Up or tax Councu. at Napies.—The anti-Papal Council, or the meet- ing of the Freethinkers, which was convened in Naples on the 9th inst., if the cable despatches are correct, seems to have proved a failure. The details of the cause of its col- lapse are not given, but an inference can be drawn from the list of names reported to be connected with the movement, which have at various periods appeared in the columns of the Heratp, The sentiments entertained by the extreme opposition party have doubtless been so strong that their utterance caused a rupture even among themselves. Italy has advanced considerably on the path of enlightenment since the liberation of Naples from the Bonr- bon rule, especially in respect to religion, and although freedom of thought is advocated, public opinion is too well biased to tolerate | any excess, Sraw—Prm's Rumorep Cover p'Erat.— From Paris we learn that General Prim has grown tired of the ‘uasettled state of things in Spain, and that he seriously meditates a coup dat, with the view of placing the young Duke of Genoa on the throne and proclaiming him- self Dictator during the King’s minority. Another despatch has it that Prim has denied any intention of a coup d'état, but that he declares it to be his belief that an immense majority of the Spanish people are in favor of the Duke; that the Duke's mother favors her son's candidature, and (hat the probability is the Duke will soon be proclaimed King of Spain. The two despatches are not altogether contradictory. Prim has the army at his back, and he knows it. It will not surprise us to learn that the cowp d'itat has been accom- plished—-that the Duke of Genoa has been proclaimed King and Prim Dictator. But we shall not then be coavinced that Spain has found her haven of rest, ‘“Docror” Sum#, THe Coronse's May,—In assaulting Mr. Baldwin, the reporter, because displeased with a paragraph that had appeared in the Herarp, the man Shine merely gave another indication that the same raffianly instincts that prompted the Scannel affair pre- vailin all the departments of our muyicipal government. British Affaire—The Old Sore Open Again. Our cable despatches from Great Sritain are of the most alarming description. Cabinet meetings are being held in London, The state of Ireland is the special cause of these meetings, It is said that as the result ¢ these Cabinet, deliberations certain sectbns of Ireland—viz., the county of Tippersy, in Munster, and some portions of Ulster—are to be proclaimed in a state of insurrection It is added that five thousand additional trops are to be sent to Ireland without delay, this rais- ing the actual force in Ireland to thirty- thousand men, It is further said tht when Parliament reassembles on the 10th of Jan- uary a bill will be introduced empoweing the government to suspend the act of habeas corpus at will, thus dispensing with tle neces- sity of waiting for the action of the legisla- ture, «Some of this intelligence seems to us ques- tionable. It shoots ahead g little to wildly. At the same time no one can refuseto admit that Ireland is in a troubled and, so ar as the Britiah government is concerned, wasatisfac- tory condition. One man, who is anotorious Fenian, has been elected to the imprial Par- liament, and other Fenians now in prison are popular candidates, Whatever the explana- tion, the fact is undeniable that %r. Glad- stone's Church measure has not saisfed the Irish people, and that his promised settlement of the land tenure system does iot soothe them. Mr. Gladstone evidently itended to build up @ great reputation as te healer of Ireland’s sores; but in proportim as suc- cess seems to have been merited hilure has been marked, For centuries Irland has complained of two living practica) wrongs— an alien Church establishment and an obnoxious system of land tenure, “he former of these grievances Mr. Gladitone has removed; the latter he promises toremove in the first session of Parliament. Jehold the result! Ireland {s more anti-Emlish than ever, Whatia the reason? Is it that Ireland is absolutely irreconcilable? Or is it that Irishmen have go long been used t be angry with the Englishmen that they have begun to look forward with a holy horror to he loss of their identity? We have heard of ar Irish wo- man who got tired of her husband because Pat ves too good-natured and would not help to get up arow. Isthisthe case now as between Ire- land and England ? The situation is certainly peculiar and somewhat of s puzzle. We await further developments with some degree of interest. War News From Pariauay.—The war news from Paraguay is to-day highly favorable to the prospects of the alied forces, as it usually is when it comes by way of Lisbon. This is not the first time tiat the fall of one after another of the strongtolds of the Para- guayans has been confidently announced, But how often the announcement has been contra- dicted a day or two afterwards by news from dif- ferent and more reliable soutces! If the allies are now said to be marching én ‘‘the last outpost of President Lopez” we must not too hastily infer that they will surely reach it. Whatever may be the final result of the war’ the brave and stubborn resistance of the Paraguayans will be historical. Tae Winter Lunacy Casz.—This compli- cated case came up again before the Supreme Court yesterday, and Judge Barnard appointed a new trustee in place of the one to whom Joba Livingston is alleged to have ‘managed, by fraud, trick and device,” to have a trust deed made in 1863, but whom he is said to have been persecuting with lawsuits for a long while in order to get him removed. That Mr, Livingston is what Dr, Johnson would call “a good hater” may be inferred from the venomous abuse which he has industriously collected and furiously poured upon Judge Barnard. But he seems to have overshot his mark in puiting violent expressions of his own coinage in the mouth of another person. The latter denies having made the allegations against the Judge which Livingston himself had made and then attributed to him. Judge Barnard said, with characteristic fearlessness, that ‘the did not consider he could be injured by any such allegations.” The prolonged proceedings in this case exhibit a strange state of things, when either of two litigant parties venture to make, with or without foundation, serious charges of fraud and corruption against Judges of the Supreme Court. Montaty PsNsions—Wuy Nor?—The Ladies’ Union Relief Association have in con- templation an excellent modification of the present system of paying pensions to widows of soldiers. These pensions are now paid on the Ist of March and the Ist of September, The result is that not only does great incon- venience arise in the Pension Office on pay days as well as to the recipients themselves, but many poor widows and sick soldiers are greatly distressed by the long interval between the payments. It is proposed that the law shall be so amended as te make the payments monthly, and to substitute for the existing cumbrous system that of sending money orders to those entitled to pensions. It is claimed that this plan will abolish the pension agencies, which are a fruitful source of fraud and extor- tion, from which the poor suffer severely at times. For this reason alone, apart from the economy to the government in disbursing pensions, the movement on the part of these charitable ladies commends itself to our judg- ment. Let the pensions be paid monthly instead of half-yearly by all means, Tae Forgeries is New York Srate Bounty Bonps.—We present elsewhere the additional facts which have transpired since the report of the late forgeries in New York State bounty bonds was published in the Herat of Sunday, These disclosures indicate that when the full extent of the forgeries shall be made known the losses of the bankers and brokers who were swindled into lending money on the altered bonds will be found to exceed half a million dollars, New Postack Stamps,—Another attempt is to be made to give us decent postage stampa, We suppose it will fail as so many have bith- erto, Our postal authorities try too much, If they will only take the Italian or French stamp and put Washington's head in the place of Napoleon's or Victor Emanuel’s they cannot fail; but they will try some impfovements and spoil all, \ ere NEURONS RSE The Onso of John Resi. Yesterday in the General Term of the Supreme Court Judge Clerke, the presiding Justice, rendered the judgment of the court om the writ of error obtained by the counsel of John Real, affirming the verdict of guilty pro- nounced by the jury in the Court of Oyer and Terminer and refusing a new trial. Real was convicted in February last ~ of murder in the first degree for having killed police officer Smedick in the summer of 1868, It was urged by the defendant's coun- sel that the court which tried him had no jurisdiction, as he was tried in February, 1869, and the case having been transferred from the General Sessions in August, 1868, the February term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer was not the next term after the transfer was made, at which the defendant ought to have been tried under the law, and therefore bis trial was without law and coram non judice. A number of the rulings of Judge Barnard during the triil and his charge ta the jury were alse objected to as erroneous and invalidating the verdict, On all the points and objections -raised the court decided. against the defendant, the grounds of the decision being elaborately stated in the opinion of Judge Clerke. Judge Barnard con- curred in the result, Judge Cardozo filed hia views, dissenting from the judgment of the Court and expressing his convictioy that a new trial should have been granted. Important Dgoision BY Cnigr Juszics Crasz.—The opinion delivered yesterday in the United States Supreme Court, by the Chief Justice, sustains the authority of Congress to tax the circulation of the State banks, affirm- ing the powers of government to create o na- tional currency and the constitutionallty o acta for the emission of Treasury notes. A dissenting opinion was presented by Mr. Jus- tice Nelson and concurred in by Mr,. Justice Davies, contending that the tax upon'thecircu- lation ef the State banks is an unjustifiable at- tempt to crush them out of existence. Mirrrary Honors To George Pranopy.— It is all right for the United States govern- ment to turn out its marines to escort Mr. Peabody's remains to the depot on their arrival here. That is the only expression of honor in its power. But to turn out our city militia to do military honor to this distinguished citizen in a trip to Massachusetts would be absurdly inappropriate. It would be much better to parade all our benevolent societies and all our schools to fittingly honor a man of great benevolence and a friend of education. THE MYERS SHOOTING CASE, Further Testimony—What Caused Death— Adjournment. ‘The second hearing in this inuch complicated case was had yesterday, before Justice Snedeker, in Ja- maica, Long Island. 1t will be rememoered that on the 24th of September John Myers, Jr., of Astoria, received a gunshot wound in the leg, fronf the effects of which he died on the 27th of November. Pre vious to his demise Chambers, the man charged with shooting him, was twice arrested and placed under bonds in the sum of $4,000. Coroner Seibes, of Newtown, heid several inquests on the body, even while the man was living; but a lawyer who bad been engaged to detend Mr. Chamovers explained the law to the Coroner, anu his ‘quests’ were discon- tinued. ‘The first witness called yesterday morning was Dr. Myer. He deposed aud daid:~J reside in As- toria; Ihave been a physician since March last; I raduated at Bellevue Hospital Medica: College; I fnew the deceased; J attended him on the 24th of September; J found Myers bieeding from what ap- peared to be a guoshot wound in the right knee; I Cannot state the ume he was shot; from the appear ance of tue wound it must have been recent; | at- tended hum from the 24th of Septembér to the gith of November; he died at seven o'clock on the morn- ing of the 27th day of November; the cause of his death was a gunshot wound; lam somewhat fa- millar with gunshot wounds; 1 examined the wound quite frequently; I could not tell whether the wound was caused by a musket or rifle ball; £ did not take the ball from the leg while living, after his death i extracted tne ball; Dr. taylor, Dr, Den~ gler and Dr, Krackiwisher were associated with me; Dr. Taylor was several times in attendance with m ‘ag in attendance two or three times a day; Id hat I thougkt proper to save the boys lute; Lact jomewhat uuder the advice of my ase sociates. Cross-examined——I was in Bellevue Hospital fortwo years; J attended for two courses throughout; my duties were simply those of a student; 1 commenced practising in May; my previous business was that of & pharmacuetist; 4 was examined before Coro- ner Selbes; Dr. Krackiwisher was called three or four days after the shooting; he suggested amputation; I thought the wounded man to be in too critical a condition for amputation; when examined before Coroner setbes I suid he was not in immediate danger; I also sald that Dr. Taylor told me thas smputation was uecessary; the man was at one time tmproving; when I signed the paper on the 29th of September the man’s life was Mm danger; | atterwarda changed my opiuion; sull later I signed s paper setting forth that the man was in danger; the cause of death was the consequences: of @ gunshot wound; the immediate cause of ms death was the absorption of puss into bis aystem; % 8r., prevented ine amputating the jeg: Mee Myers thid me that he did. not believe chat ME Guampers ttvended to shoot his boy. Re-direct.—Mr. Myers, Sr., wasin & very excited condition during the tliness of his son; when he made the remark concerning Mr. Dera he was in what we consider @ sane state of mind; John Myers, Jr,, Was some days better snd some days worse; | was present when the man died; the doo- tor made @ voluntary statement to the effect that he had kept constant watch for the proper time to am- putate the wounded limb; but was in each instance revented from so doing by Mr. Myers, Sr., and Mr. ers, Jr. Counsel for the prosecution asked for an adjourn- ment to Monday next, which the court very reluct- antly granted, The impression now. prevails that the man’s death was caused from abuse and not from the effects of the wound. PERSONAL MOVEMENTS. Lopes, of Paraguay, was educated in France. Bonner’s horses are aela to be worth $200,000—a fortune in itself, Victor Emanuel drives ina biue chariot drawn. by two chestnut horses, Admiral Dabigren owns coal lands to Ohio, and ts out there looking after them. Gladstone has been elected an honorary member of the Constantinople Academy of sciences, Only about 1,000 fighting men of the Apache In- Gians are left. General Ord gays tne race is fust ay- ing out. A young Woman of Paterson, N. J., has gone out. to India to Marry # young missionary wlom sho has mever seen. Dominique Lanata, an old merchant of New Or- Jeans, died last Week, leaving a fortune of @ mililom and @ quarter. In Providence, R. I., &@ gentleman gave a lady a bird cage, and whe breach of promiued ulm, getting @ verdict of $10,000, Rochester, N. Y., has a peculiar sort of Mayor, who recently vetoed @ billor Councils for keeping the street lamps lighted ail uigut. Brigham Young recently lectured the sisterhood on table matters, advising them to avold a multipli- city of disbes, avd rely on ‘Joh ke." _—_——————~ KILLED AT PLAY. A Watal Snowballing Adatr—A Little Boy the Victim. Coroner Schirmer was yesterday notified thas Jon Doody, @ lad six years of age, lad died at the Festdence of his parents, No. 3822 East Fifty-sixth Gtreet, from the effects, doubtless, of unintentions) violence indicted upon him. Deceased snd some other boys of nearly his own ago, on Sunday after- noon were piayiully a to throwing snowballs ateach other. While thus amusivg themselves @ snowball, fall of ice or some harder substance, struck John on the side of the Load, knocking tim tnsen- gibie to the paverment. [He waa taken up and con- veyed into the house, when physiclane wore called and efforts made to restore hun ta consctousn but without avail, He grew worse gradually an expired at two o'clook in the morning. No one geomod to know who threw the bard substance ‘which caused death, An inquest Will bo held on tha body to-day.