The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1869, Page 4

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British troops have been sent to Loudon- derry in anticipation of a serious riot to-day. Eng- land 1s not likely to attempt to hold Canada by force if the Canadians desire separation. Some severe marine casualties are reported. Napoleon had been slightly ili, The British Minister is Paris paid a marked compliment to General Banks. Cabinet re- Organization was still spoken of in Paris. The health of the Pope remains good. The French gov- ernment has not expressed a special adverse opinion On the Papal infallibility question. The ex-Queen of Spain denies the charge that she carried away the crown jewels, The Spanish Cortes is charged to provide for the selection of a monarch, Our special correspondeuce from Rome supplies Matter of much interest relative to the pontifical and hierarchical preparations for the opening of the Council of the Vatican. The scene in St. Peter's, with Pio Nono officiating, as well as the rule’ and Teguiations adopted for the Council procession and ceremonial, are deserived and reported in graphic Japguage and wiih much elegance und jorce. Egypt. It is denied “on authority” that the Suez Canal is to be closed for the purpose of further works of excavation. Africa. The American yacht Meteor is at Tunis, Cuba, The man-of-war Isabel has sailed for New York. Two murderers of volunteers have been executed, Congress. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner calied up the Dill relative to telegraphic communications with foreign countries, which provides that such compa- nies shall be governed by regulations established by the United States. Bills were introduced to abolish the franking priviege and to furnish stamps for the payment of government correspondence, and to provide for the reduction of officers of the army. The bill to perfect the reconstruction of Georgia Was taken up and discussed and amended, an even- ing session being held. Much opposition is manifested in the Senate to the nomination of Attorney General Hoar as As- ®ociate Justice of the Supreme Court, When his tame came up for consideration in the executive Bession yesterday it was promptly laid aside. Miscellaneous. ‘rhe House Committes on Territories yesterday de- termined not to recommend a territorial govern- ment for Alaska, the present military rule peing fully suMcient for the requirements Of that region. ‘The French embassy to the United States Is vacant, Mons. Bertheony, the late Minister, having been transferred to China. It is rumored that M. Four- nier, the French representative at Stockholm, will succeea M. Bertheony. Governor McDougal has raised a force of armed men and an engagement 1s hourly expeeted between him and the insurgents in Winnipeg Termtory. Riells has 300 men assembled. The New Dominion government does not intend to purchase the repel- lous Northwest Territory until its authority there 4s asserted by force of arms. The Hudson Bay Com- pany is to quell the insurrection or not be paid. Norman Holley, a son of the Collector of the Cus- toms of tne port ot Buffalo, and James Riley, an express messenger of the New York Central Raiti- Toad, were arrested in Buffalo on Thursday night, by order of General N. M. Cartis, Commissioner of Cus- toms in charge of the Niagara frontier, charged with being engaged extensively in smuggling. The ram Triumph, jate Atlanta, had not gone to to sea from Delaware Bay up to last evening. The United States Consul at London telegraphed to Mayor Putnam, of Portland, Me., that the feet, with Mr. Peabody’s remains, will come to Portiand, but had not yet salled. General George H. Thomas has offered to buy back his portrait which the republican Legislature of ‘Tennessee has painted and to return the gold medat they presented him. The present Legislature re- fused to sell the portrait. The Jersey cual mine near Scranton took fire on ‘Thursday and three miners inside narrowly escaped, Gfter ten hours’ confinement. Another who went In Bearch of them perished. The second avenue of escape was impassable, being filled with smoke. On the 6th inst. a deputy collector of mternal revenue in South Carolina scized two illicit stills and Femoved them to his own house in Columbia, The Dext morning a crowd of thirty men, armed with muskets, attacked the collector's house and recov- ered thie stills, shooting a daughter of the collector's, through the shoulder during tne mélée. The Goy- ernor of South Carolina asks for a military force to enforce the revenue laws in that State. The City. * The Spanish flotilla will probably sail to-day. Some excitement was occasioned yesterday by a call for an indignation meeting at the foot of Thir- teenth strect, and a large crowd assembied about the gunboats, but no demonstrations were made. The Grand Jury of the General Sessions yesterday brought in an indictment for murder in the first de- gree against Daniel Mcl’ariand, for the alleged Shooting of Aibert U. Richardson. The prisoner will be arraigned to plead to it next week. ‘The Grand Jury, who have been engaged for the past month in investigating the election frauds in NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1869. Brooklyn, are to come inte court to-day with @ batch of indictments. Alfred Canicker, of Charleston, 3, C., was robbed in a panel houso in Bleecker street on Thursday night of $1,500, Two women and & man were arrested, but the money has not been recovered. Mias Isabella Haskins, of No. 154 East Thirty-fourth street, was brougat into the Tombs Police Court yesterday, having been argested at one o'clock at at night by a policeman who had no magisterial warrant. Several witnesses testified that she was implicated with W. E. Gray, the alleged bond forger. She was removed to Healquarters and tho examination will be continued to-day. The Surrogate yesterday denied the application of & brother of Albert D. Richardson to administer on the estate of the deceased journalist, The Surro- gate decided that the widow or children are en- titled to administer, Lawrence Backley, a teacher in an Fighteenth ward pubite school, was committed to prison by Justice Ledwith yesterday for brutally whipping a scholar, ‘the sidewheel steamsiip Rapidan, Captain White- hurst, will leave pler 36 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The stock market yesterday was weak and de- clined, Gold. subsequent to the government sale, fell to 12034, closing dually at 12095 a 12034. Prominent Arrivals the City. Governor John T. Hoffman and Major General J. Mosher, of Albany, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge’R. D. Rice, of Augusta, Me.; Governor J. G. Smith and Thomas s. Canfleld, of Vermont, and General Ewing, of Washington, are at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. ‘“ Judge Robertson and General D. A, Bulland, of Troy; General James A. Hall, of Maine, and Colonel W. Ludlow, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House. Ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio; Congressman W. H, Barnum, of Connecticut, and General C. F. Bis- sell are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Governor E. Salomon, of Wisconsin; General W. E. Foster, of Pennsylvania; D. Chadwick, Member of Parliament, of London, England, and O, D. Ashley, of New York, are at the Everett House, Colonel J. C. Hart, of the United States Army. and General S. C, Williams, of Nassau, N. P,, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain H. G, A, Alien, of the British Army, ts at the New York Hotel. Surgeon DeGraw, of the United States Army, is at the Hoffman House. Repudiation Repudiated by the Democratic Leaders in Congress—Grant Victorious, General Grant, as the head of the govern- ment, has just achieved a victory hardly second in importance to the rebel surrender at Appomattox Court House. This victory has been gained in the formal capitulation of the democratic party to the financial policy of the administration. It came upon the House of Representatives on Thursday last as a pleasant surprise, and as a pleasant surprise it has gone forth to the country. Mr. Mungen, of Ohio, one of those old line Bourbon democrats of the ultra copperhead school, brought the democratic members of the House to the direct question in the reading from the manuscript of a deliberately prepared argument in favor of the repudiation of the natfonal debt. He took this stand upon his own responsibility and in his own behalf; but itis probable that had he apprehended the repudiation of his pronunciamento which fol- lowed from the leaders of his party, one after another, to the number of half a dozen, he would have indefinitely postponed the ventila- tion of his obnoxious heresies, Having his eyes opened as a representative of the enlightened financial centre of New York, Mr. Brooks opened fire upon the unpro- gressive gentleman from the backwoods of Obio. Mr. Brooks was equal to the emer- gency. He flatly and emphatically repudiated repudiation. He said that the democrats of New York ‘‘never have been, never can be, never will be repudiators ;” that in behalf of the democratic members from that State he repu- diated all that the gentleman trom Ohio had urged in support of repudiation; that we expect to pay every cent of the debt, according to the contract, and that it will be as easily paid as the war debt of 1812. Mr. Kerr, of Indi- ana, disclaimed this false notion of repudiation of the debt in the name of the whole demo- cratic party of the country. , General Slocum, of New York, a true soldier, said that ‘‘no party tie, no hope of political advancement, will ever induce me to favor any measure tend- ing towards repudiation, directly or indi- rectly,” and in behalf of the democracy he represented he repudiated all repudiations. Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, could see repu- diation in no other light than the light of dis- honesty. Messrs. Potter and Cox, of New York, wished it to be understood that as democrats they could not endorse or permit to pass unanswered the intolerable views of the gentleman from Ohio. Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, said this scemed to be a day of general confession, and trained his batteries and let fly a broadside at certain republican repudiators in his own State and in Congress— the greenback philosophers, After these refreshing declarations of the faith from these admitted leaders and expound- ers of the gospel of the democratic party we are not surprised at the success of the resolution of Mr. Garfield (republican), of Ohio, ‘‘ihat the proposition, direct or indirect, to repudiate any portion of the debt of the United States is unworthy the honor and good name of the nation, and that the House, without distinction of party, hereby sets its seal of condemnation on any and all such propositions.” Mr. Jones (democrat), of Kentucky, had some misgivings about paying in gold that part of the debt not specified to be paid in gold, And so he voted against the resolution; but he stood alone—for the vote was announced, after a full call of the roll, yeas 123, nay 1, We say that this is a great and glorious vic- tory of General Grant’s financial policy, as the administrative head of the government. It is his work, and to him belongs the honor, in cutting down expenditures, in saving the reve- nues, and increasing the receipts of the Treasury, in unearthing frauds, in suppressing abuses, in heading off and smashing up the gold gambling bull rings of Wall street, in applying the surplus Treasury funds on hand to the reduction of the national debt; and in the financial facta, figures and policy laid down in his annual message, General Grant has shown that at the rate at which the debt is being paid it can be absolutely wiped out during the present generation, interest and principal, to the last farthing, and with a lightening of our general burden of taxes as we go on, All this, too, within the first nine months of his administration, and amidst the noise and confusion of house cleaning, paint- ing and scrubbing and putting in a new lot of servants, &c. ‘If such things come in the green tree, what shall we have in the dry?” What? we may well ask, when since last Marob, we may say, we have had a revolution in the democratic party on this great question of the national debt. Or, suppose we go back to the last annual message of President Andy Johnson to Congress, in which he recom- mended the setting apart the interest of the national debt as a fund for the payment of the principal, in instalments, of the coupons. Why did Johnson make that proposition? Because he knew that the democratic party toa very great extent, and the republican party to some extent, were leaning toward repudiation. Mr. Johnson, moreover, had been so completely occupied in fighting for the constitution, “the constitution of our fathers”—God bless us! a3 if that constitution had not gone down with its corner stone of negro slavery—that he had no time, and but little inclination, we fear, to look after the immediate interests of the Trea- sury. What were the consequences? Plun- derings of the Treasury, deficiences, defalca- tions and frands of all sorts on whiskey, tobacco, dry goods, groceries, jobs, contracts, assessments, collections, reports and returns ofall descriptions and on every side, From the robberies and the losses of the government thus resulting from leagues of outside rogues and rings of inside confederates, it was made man- ifest that our heavy load of taxes would be barely sufficient to meet current expenses and that the debt could never be paid. Under this idea it came to be generally believed that the leaders of the democratic party were quietly cultivating the ultimatum of repudiation, and with the hope that by the year 1872 the Treas- ury, the currency and the public opinion of the country would become sufficiently demoral- ized for the proclamation of the sponge as the only remedy for our mountain of dobt and its attending taxes, oppressions, spoliations and widespread corruptions. This was the chaos to which General Grant was invited last March. His first task was the cleaning of the Augean stables, and he has proved a veritable Hercules in the work. He has done wonders as a practical financier. He has shown that the debt canbe paid, will be paid, and is being paid off at a rate which no man dreamed of twelye months ago; and he has secured the capitulation of the democratic party on this great question. This is a great ‘thing, and will immensely facilitate the work of paying off the debt. Mungen has thus re- moved an ugly shadow which stood like a grinning skeleton before the national credit.” This great advance, too, having been made in the name of the democratic party, we are pre- pared for other forward movements in its be- half in view of the defunct party dogmas of 1860, and the fixed facts of the new order of things under Grant’s administration. Well said, brave old Galileo, The world does move. The Church Militant, Our latest news from Rome relates toa mili- tary review. The Pontifical Zouaves were exhibited, and they displayed their skill in the presence of sixty thousand spectators, includ- ing five hundred bishops. This is the latest and most showy view the world has had of the Church. St. Peter, we know, was a good. swordsman, William Tell was not a better marksman, Tell, by his arrow, took away the apple without killing his boy. Peter, by his sword, struck off an ear without killing the high priest’s unfortunate servant. On that occasion, however, Peter was rebuked. “Put away thy sword into his place; for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword,” was the stern and emphatic language of the Master. Peter's successors have always been fond of the sword. Pio Nono, it is manifest, does not despise it. But the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, and, according to some good people, infallible. Which is right? Christ or the Vicar? Or rather which is infallible? If they that use the sword are to perish by the sword, where is the wisdom of this military review, and what is to be the fate of the Pope and his friends? It is a funny thing, this military review in Roine, when looked at in the light of history. It is funnier still when looked at in the light of Scripture. Wat Srrret—Tue Gorn Excrrement.— Much curiosity ‘was manifested yesterday morning by the ‘‘bulls” and ‘‘bears” to learn what action Secretary Boutwell would take in the matter of selling gold as proposed in his programme of sales. The amount offered was a million, but the bids were for a total of less than half that amount. As he had pre- viously refused bids below 122 the Gold Room was feverishly anxious as to his decision in the present instance, the best bid to-day being 121.52. He accepted, however, and sold all that was proposed for, to the great consternation of the “bulls.” Afterwards the price declined, amid great excitement, to 1204, which is the lowest figure since September, 1862. The “‘bulls” were, of course, greatly indignant. Tuk Sranisn Gunsoats.—The Spanish gun- boats are ready to leave. All the excitement occasioned by torpedo rumors, an assembled crowd, an extra force of policemen and a call for an indignation meeting of Cubans and Cuban sympathizers yesterday afternoon, sub- sided before nightfall. The call for a meeting was either a hoax or a failure, It is even sur- mised that most of the stories afloat yesterday may have been started by Mr. Delamater him- self, with a view to secure extraordinary pro- tection for the vessels which he has built. The Pizarro will convoy the gunboats to their des- tination—doubWess Cuba—assisted probably by the Isabella, another war steamer, which left Havana yesterday to meet them on their voyage. Tuk ALABAMA CLaArMs,—The Alabama claims seem to be more than ever disturbing the English mind. An article in yesterday's London Times intimates that if Mr. Motley wero to propose the reopening of negotiations at Washington the proposal would be accepted. This is an indication of a growing anxiety on the part of the British government to have the question settled. — Prrrectiy Ripicvtovs—The proposition for an appropriation from Congress for 4 World’s Foir at Washington, because the proposition to have such n fair in Washington is perfectly absurd. If the sittings of Con- gress fill all the hotels and boarding houses of the city the extra visitors at a World’s Fair would have to eat and sleep in tents and shanties, or in Baltimore, The citizens, therefore, concerned in the project of a World’s Fair at Washington would do well to change it to a cotton factory or something else that will pay. Boutwoll on Our Shipping Intorests. |The Koumenical Qouncil and Our Fifth Secretary Boutwell has been stirred up to a serious consideration of the “lost arts” in the matter of American shipbuilding. For some years that branch of enterprise has vanished. We neither build, nor indeed even mend, many ships in our shipyards any more, except to fit out a Spanish fleet against Cuban indepen- dence, and Spain pays for that. Mr. Boutwell has had the experience of a delegation of New York shipbuilders within a few days. We do not think, however, that he was much enlight- ened. by the twaddle of these gentlemen, who, like members of many similar delegations, look for impracticable things. The Secretary has consented to send a special report to Congress on the necessity of protection to American shipping interests, and upon this assurance it appears that the delegation express themselves satisfied that they have accomplished a good deal for the shipping interests of the country. We hopeso, And we rely upon Mr. Boutwell and Mr. Robeson to realize the expectation. The shipping and shipbuilding interests of this great maritime country, with its thousands of miles of sea coast, upon which the waves of two grand oceans beat day and night, with ite hundreds of fine harbors open to the com- merce of the whole world, and its numerous shipyards, with capacity to exceed any coun- try in the manufacture of vessels and ma- chinery—these interests have been shamefully permitted to fallinto decay. It is time that the mischief done by Congress in some of its past legislation upon this subject, under the plea of ‘‘the necessities of war,” should be remedied ly Congress now. The suggestions of Secretaries Boutwell and Robeson, we hope, will point out the way. Tho Treasury Frauds. In this age of public frauds, which seem to permeate every vein and artery of the govern- ment service, as well as in the walks of social life, almost every day brings forth some new story of crime. No sooner has one phase of the drawback thefts in the Custom House ceased to be a nine days’ wonder than we hear of an ingenious fraud in sampling sugar, by which the government has been fleeced to an amount which it is not possible to define in the present state of the case, but thatit is very large is sufficiently established by the fact that sugars which should have paid three cents and five cents per pound duty were appraised as liable only to one or two cents. It can be easily seen that a large business done in this way would make a considerable deficit in the ‘Treasury Department in the matter of sugar. Following quick upon this discovery comes the charge against an officer of the Sub- Treasury of embezzlement to the amount of twenty-two thonsand dollars or thereabouts, It is alleged that the Superintendent of the New York Assay Office, the official referred to, has been playing fast and loose between the government and its creditors, to his own advantage. As he has been arrested and will have to answer the accusation it becomes a case of legal investigation with which we are not disposed to interfere until the facts are properly before the public. But the whole condition of things in the departments of the federal government looks very bad. The administration has a heavy responsibility upon its shoulders if it means to carry the weight of all these frands. The way to get rid of them is to bring the offenders to justice. Tar Empress Evcenie anv Faturr Hya- omNTHE.—A cable despatch from Paris has it that the Empress Eugénie has instructed her chamberlain to await the arrival of Father Hyacinthe at Havre and dissuade him from preaching in Paris. What does it mean? Who isin danger? Father Hyacinthe, the Pope or Napoleon? Rumors AND Faots.—The press news tele- grams find it necessary to contradict two of their latest sensational rumors. The repofted declaration of Napoleon IIT. that the promulga- tion of the dogma of Papal infallibility would re- lease France from the political otfligations of the Concordat is now pronounced ‘‘a fabrication.” The announcement that the Suez Canal was to be closed to commerce for further excavations is “authoritatively denied.” In this day of progressive acience, with its manifold applica- tions, would it not be well for the collectors of telegraphic news to pay some attention to the science of truth? Is it worth while to send dubious or false rumors in one message only to contradict them in the next? Why not send facts instend of rumors ? We publish to-day two special telegrams of our own—one relating to the troubled condi- tion of Ireland and another to the complete ratification and approval of the Burlingame mission by the Chinese government—neither of which is at all likely to be contradicted. Tne Rianr WAy.—The Police Commission- ers who were charged with the investigation of the case of policemen Hannigan and Rem- son, brought before them on complaint of high- way robbery, did well in dismissing these par- ties from the police force, That, we presume, was the extent of the Commissioners’ juris- diction, The case now being before the courts, the judicial aathorities have to deal with the accused parties, and we have a right to expect that they will have full justice ex- tended to them, with the privilege of proving their innocence if they can, or accepting the judgment of tho Court if they are guilty. At all events the course of the Police Commis- sioners is commendable, No suspicion shoult be allowed to rest’ upon members of the force. Seain—Tue Tarong Question.—It seems now pretty certain that Prim is master of the situation in Spain, He no longer conceals his purpose. It his intention to place the Duke of Genoa on the throne, and probably athe New Year will see the fact accomplished, The army has suppressed two insurrections, and the army is devoted to Prim. If Prim and the army proclaim the Duke King—the Duke accepting the position—wo have no doubt that order for a time will be maintained, But Spain is stronger than Prim. The ques- tion therefore is,” who will win? If chaos exists anywhere on this earth, chaos now exists in, Spain. Prim wishes to make the Duke of Genoa King. The Carlists are pow- erful in Spain, and they will not have this thing. The Isabellinos are also powerful, and they will not have it. What is to come? The New Year will help to explain. We look I tw Spain, not to her nowinal loaders, Avenue Cathodral. There are reasons for apprehending that the grand Catholic Council at Rome will bea long one. It may continue its short sessions of debates in Latin from day to day, week to week and month to month, for a year, or for two, five, ten or fwenty years. The last Ecu- menical Council—that of Trent—dragged through the long period of eighteen years, and this was three hundred years ago. The mass of work which has since accumulated for the present Council, we may therefore assume, imposes a task which can hardly be discharged thoroughly inside of ten years, making all allowance for modern improvements, even in Church debates. But if the Ecumenical Council is to last ten years, what is to become of our Fifth Avenue Cathedral? The Catholics of this diocese, liberal as they are, have many calls upon them for money, which must be met in providing for the numerous churches and charities on their hands. Add to these expenses the cost of supporting the Archbishop and his attendants at Rome, and it will be understood why the work upon the Fifth Avenue Cathedral may possibly have to wait for the adjournment of the great Council. The Cathedral of Cologne was commenced in the year 1248, and after the tapse of six hundred and twenty-one years it is not yet finished, though wo believe they are work- ing at it now and expect to finish it within the next ten years, Wars, and councils, and Lu- ther’s upheaval, and what not, have from time to time arrested the work on the building; but we don’t expect anything of that sort here. Four or five years with us isa long time to wait even for a cathedral, and ten years is too much. But after the heavy losses affecting our Fifth Avenue Cathedral in consequence of the good Catholic money diverted to the Fenian Trish republic of O'Mahony and James Stephens, we are afraid that the Ecumenical Council will be apt to stop the work again. We must remember, however, that the Council, in the matter of money, is a great thing for Rome and the Holy Father, equal to an in- creased circulation in the Holy City of perhaps not less than $20,000 cash per day, or say $7,000,000 a year, which is a powerful argu- ment for an indefinite prolongation of the Council. The Holy Father, like a man of sense, is in no hurry about it. But in the mean- time can anything be done for our beautiful Fifth Avenue Cathedral? That is the ques- tion, ; Repvpiation.—The ebullition of Congres- sional honesty—the horror at the very name of repudiation—that distinguished the pro- ceedings in the House on Thursday presents a remarkable contrast with the temper that pre- vailed among party men rather more than a year ago, Then all the “‘leaders,” democrat and republican, only disputed among them- selves on the points of repudiation, and each side indicated a certain readiness for a measure to relieve the country of the burden of its debt on any specious plea. It is the temper of the country that has brought about this change. Congressmen supposed in the former case, on the strength of some loose Western sentiment, that they were expressing the popular thought. Tn that way they brought out the real opinions of the people, and these they uttered on Thursday. Proposk> AMENDMENTS TO THE OCEAN TeLxoraru Bitt.—The Ocean Telegraph bill was taken up and read in the Senate yesterday on motion of Mr. Sumner, who said that since the bill was reported in February last the landing of a French cable on our shores ren- dered necessary such a modification of its pro- visions as should make them applicable to existing as well as to future cables, and thus prevent the privileges conferred by the act from being enjoyed by any persons or company whose line terminates in any foreign country which doos not confer similar privileges upon companies incorporated by authority of the United States or any State of the Union. By all means let telegraphic or magnetic cables be multiplied between the United States and for- eign countries; but at the same time let the claims of our own citizens to the advantages of reciprocity be recognized, and especially let the United States government insist upon having equal privileges with any foreign gov- ernment in regard to the use and control of these cables. INSURRRCTIONARY MovEMENTS IN Russta,— The epidemic of revolution which has of late been so prevalent throughout Western Europe now threatens to invade the Russian empire. From the fact that the outbreak has been plot- ted to transpire on February 17, which is the anniversary of the emancipation of the serfs, it would appear that the discontent is general, Emancipation was naturally followed by greater freedom of thought and action, and the masses are concerting how to lessen the yoke of despotism under which they have so long toiled. These warnings may, perhaps, cause the Czar to study still more intimately the wants of his people and thereby avoid a struggle. Like the Emperor of the French he might yet appease the discontent, and by meeting the desires of the people he would avoid a contest that menaces to involve the land in scenes of bloodshed and strife. The power of the revolution caused by progress and enlightenment is overwhelming, and although armed opposition may allay its course for a brief period eventually it will surpass all obstacles, Os ‘tHE Hovsz Tor.—Who owns the roof of aman’s premises? This is a question now before one of our courts. In ao house with an extension not so high as the main building the tenant of the upper story, whose windows were on a level with the roof of the extension, was in possession of that roof, when suddenly one day the occupant of the extension came through the roof making skylights, &c. Does the occupant of the extension own his own roof? Can the tenant of the third story be driven from the roof in front of her windows? It is a fine little fightin the Colonie Hrangaise, A Treaty ov Prace.—It is reported that a treaty of peace has been signed, sealed. and delivered between General Cameron and Col- onel Forney. It is well, though a matter of not much public importance. Itis the heal- ing of some old inside party foud, we suppose, like that between Weed and Greeley, and Weed and Greeley ought to go and do like- wise, ‘‘Let us have peace.” Butler on Greeloy. Greeley, with his customary and obtrusive faith in his own fancies, lately made a rush at Ben Butler with evident resolve to hold him up to more or less opprobrium as the head and front of what Greeley calls the policy of ven- geance in the republican party. Butler was nothing loath to be brought out, and his reply is a rasping one for the statesman of all the “isms.” It takes the form of an impeachment of Greeley for the evils that have been brought about by a party following too much his false lead. Butler believes that there ought to have been somo good old-fashioned hanging of traitors just after the war, and argues cogently that all the greater evils that have beset reconstruc- tion are due to the ill-judged lenity then shown. Had the master rebels been hanged, says Butler, then ‘‘at this day all matters in the rebel States which now disturb public peace would have been settled, and quiet, com- mercial prosperity, agricultural industry, emi- gration of labor and capital and a revivifica- tion of every beneficent enterprise would have filled the Southern country, and every insur- gent State would have long ere this been read- mitted into the Union, the scars and wounds upon society caused by the war would havo healed over and been forgotten, and the country been more united in sentiment than ever befure, and long since renewed that career of prosperity and glory to which it is destined.” Perhaps it is a great deal to expect all that from the use of . therope. For this grand defeat of justice, so’ momentous in its consequences, Butler holds Greeley in the greatest degree responsible as the man who, by bailing Jeff Davis, set up a false maudlin notion of humanity in the place of justice. This is the first point in Butler's bill. The next is the present condition of the State of Georgia. Here, as Butler points out, Greeley doctrines have prevailed, and here reconstruc- tion is in such a condition that it must be all done over again. Itis the same in Tennessee, and will be the same in every Southern State if the doctrines of the philosopher shall be acted upon rather than the doctrines and views of those he is disposed to vilify becauso they do not agree with him. All this is of interest to the public mainly as showing how inevitably all of Greeley’s politi- cal associates, sooner or later, find out what a humbug he is. Butler now adds his testimony to that which was given by Mr. Seward when the great firm of Seward, Weed & Greeley was broken up, But there is this further considera- tion for the public: If it is now so plain that Greeley’s influence in the republican party has been so disastrous to the country on these points, are there not some other points in which he has done equal or greater harm, and which touch the very origin of the clamor io which that party rose? THE STIR IN WALL STREET YESTERDAY. The Bears Dancing Over the Downfall of Gold. The Gold Room was an unusually lively place yea. terday for several hours of the afteruoon. The announcement that the ‘Treasury gold had been sold below 122 created a tremendous furor, and all the strength of the grim and grizly bears was brought together to run the figure down to a point from which it was sure to rebound to the standard re- cently fixed by Secretary Boutwell. Around the innocent, plashing fountain 1n the centre of the Gold Room pale and eager men waved thetr hands with frantic energy and shouted like incurable maniacs. ‘The place had something the appearance it wore in war times, except that there was less risk of losing and les# chance of making @ fortune, and conse- quently there was little of the high strung gambling fever that oftentimes before marked the reckless encounters of bulls and bears. When gold touched 1204, the young men who do al) the shouting seemed as ifa few extra drops of excitement would send them crazy or “bust” them. Happily it went no lower, and, save some accidents of @ bronchial nature, the aforesaid young men came of physicatiy unimpaired after the contict. At the Sub-Treasury there Was @ larger crowd than usual in the forenoon, waiting impatiently for the an- nouncement of the bids and waiting afterwards stilimore impatienty for the declaration of the awards which Secretary Boutwell, in the fulness of his wisdom, deemed himself prudent in making. The smailness of the amount of gold disposed o1 ex- cited much surprise, and the course of the Secretary in accepting anything under 122 was curiously criti- cised. Between the Sub-Treasury and Wall street there was # ceaseless running hither aod thither of brokers and brokers’ clerks, and though nothing of any importance came of It yet everybody seemed to feel as if a crisis Was impending. ‘he descendants of the famous operators who made an exchange ot tne ‘Temple were very conspicuous on the street and in the Goll Room. ‘There was one striking charac+ teristic specimen at the latter place, whose nose seemed to scent with Keenest satisfaction the ap- proach of apanic. The organ whicn so manifestiy displayed the ineticts of his soul appeared to do ail the buying and selling and snuifed up portentous storms in the air with the keenest relian. The descent of gold produced no mercantile failures and none are deemed likely to occur immediately therefrom. THE BATTLE FIELDS OF SCIENCE. Lecture at the Cooper Institute Lost Evening by Andrew D. White, President of Cornell University. ‘The hall of Cooper Institute was last evening filled with quite a large and respectable audience, who assembled to listen vo the lecture of Mr. White on the above subject. The gentieman began by alluding to the strugglo science had always haa from its very birth, the bat- Ues its followers had forever to wage against in- numerable foes, and the sufferings its devotees were ever compelied to undergo even up to a few years, past, for ther principles. He traced with a great deal of research the history of scientific effort trom its first stages Gown to the present time, and occa- sionally tmterspersed his lecture with allusions to the ridiculous theories held in high esteem cen- turies ago concerning the various “inysteries’’ which: science has since unravelied. The question as to the roundnoss of the earth, ne said, was for many years a question that gave rise to rmawch discussion and a great deal ot suffering to those who dared to advo- cate that the earth on whicl we live was really a globe in form. Another great question, which was, as @ matter of course, as acrimoniously hooted by the “conservatives” of the earlier centuries of the world as that of the roundness of the eartn, was that ol the earth and the planets being, bodies which re- volved round the sun, in contradiction to the then eperal belief that the sun revolved round them, He then referred to Gallleo’s pereecurions, and said, in speaking of him, that men of science in all ages and at all tines, when their investigations and dis- coveries realized something new, something that had been formerly considered as fixed as the carta itself, had to enter into combat with men whose strongest argaments were their superstitions and thetr narrow-minded views of everything, a most werlul weapons of the oppo- nents of aotence hed always been in fing- ing the epithets “infidel” and “atheist” at Whatever man dared to disabuse the humaa mind of old theories, provea baseless fabrica, ‘ihere never had been a man of science yet who had not been attacked with these weapons, but they always seemed to react on those who used them, and never injured those against whom they were wielded. Galileo had a strong opponent in Bernard—‘‘the best of theologians, but the poorest of scientific men’ ‘and all scientific men as well ag Galileo had to tend with being met at every step by theologin who interpreted the Scriptures literally to shake the discoveries of science. It was @ mistaken idea, the apeaker believed, that there was a natural antagon- jam between religion and scicnce. Instead of doing religion harm science made it a prouder study, as It were; lor scienco gave man @ better idea of tho wonderful works or God than he could otherwise obtain, The lecturer then at great length rejerred to Roger Bacon and the rise and progress of chemin try and natural phuosophy, and contended that any age which crushed out the light of sctence was doing ‘self not only vast injury, but was extending the injury to ages to come, ‘ihe spoaker at (he olow af the lecture Was Wartuiy appiauded,