The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1869, Page 6

ee NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY a . ANN STREET, arrenndnnnaty, JAMES GORDON ,.?ENNETT, PROPRIETO AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —TaR Drvit's PRaK. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Witp Oars. a THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—TAR BURLESQUE oF Bap Diokry, GRAND OPERA HoUS street. —LINGARD'S jorner of Eighth avenue and ® COMBINATION. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ween Sth and 6th avs.— Tox Meany Wives or Windsor. FRENCH THEATRE. 14th st. and 6th av.—RUSSIAN Orrga—ASCOLDOVA MOGILA OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —UNDRE THE GAS- “GH. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—HeeMANN, THE Guar ParsriptartatEUs. (FTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Tus Dvxe's Morro. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Lirtie Ew'iy. Comepy oF WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, eor- | servative. ‘per Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— A& MiIpsuMMERS Nigut’s Dekam. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comic Voua.ism, NEGRO MINSTEELSY, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couic Vocat- 18M, NEGRO AvTS, &c. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth @.—BRYANIS' MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, $35 Broa tway.—Etufo- PLAN MINSTRELSY, NuGRO ACTS. 4c. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—ETuro- PIAN MINOIRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, &C. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.-EQuESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMANCES, 0° HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouny's MiNsTExLS—A Turr TO THE Moon, Ac. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway. —Tir Caupiry Giant, NEW YORK MITSKUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIENCE AND Axr. LADIES' NEW YORK MUSE Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN AT TRIPLE § es New York, sundays OF ANATOMY, NDANCE. SHEET. #18)5 Deceuber 19, 1s8¢9. THB NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated December 18. Napoleon's health 1s completely restored. Lon- Gonderry city, Ireland, remained intensely excited, but in the presence of the military no outbreak had Occurred in the early hours of the evening. The ‘Alabama claims question is still canvassed by the London press. M. Rochefort has a new radica! jour- mal in Paris. M. de Lesseps has been officially congratulated on te success of the Suez Canal by England and France. The Darien ship canal under- taking is commented on by the London journals. ‘The session of the Ecumenical Council will be re Bumed on the 6th of January. The French bishops }n the Council oppose the Papal policy, tue Spanish prelates sustaining it. The embied hierarchy have, so far, made very littie progress. France ex- pela the Spanish refugees who were engaged in the late revolutionary movement, The international postal treaty between France and the United States and its approaching termination engages the serious attention of the French merchants and traders. One of the ex-Ministers of Spain was stabbed in Madrid by an ex-Treasury officer. By steamship at this port we have mail detatis of Dur cable telegrams to the 7th of December. The comments of the British press on President Grant's Message and the Burlingame Chinese mission will command attention, A Vienna letter, published in Paris, says:—‘In Madrid General Prim ia secretly maintaining the deadivck, with the sole object of getting himself proclaimed Dictator or President of the repub- lic, and subsequently King of Spain or of the Spaniards; tae title matters little to him, Mme. Prim, a Mexican lady, as wealthy as she is ambi- tions, is already playing the part of Queen in her brilliant drawing rooms.” Marshal Serrano, replying to the address of Mr, Layard, the new British Minister to Spain, said: “Tins country, entertaining ardent wishes for the happiness of the sovereign of Engiand and for the increasing prosperity of the great British people, only desires to emulate them in the practice of liberty ‘and in the path of progress, The good intelligence @nd trne friendship which have for so many years existed between England and Spain cannot but Ancrease at present that both enjoy the benefits of institutions equally free, and I hope with conf- dence that the high qualities of character and intelligence with which you are endowed will con- tribute to draw cach day closer the friendly iter- course.” Cuba. More troops have arrived in Havana from Spatn. The General commanding at Puerto Principe is about to commeace a campaign against the rebeis. Mexic@ The regular mail steamer from Vera Croz, with Gates to the 10th inst., arrived in Havava yester- day. The honors to Secretary Seward continue, On the 3d inst, Sefior Romero entertained the vene- rable statesman. Mr. Seward’s visit and Seflor Ro- mero’s speech are severely criticised by some of the Mexican journals. Pronunclamentos are prevalent. Kevolutions are cropping out in many of the States. An armed in- Burrection exists in Michoacan, The Protestant church at Puebla was attacked by & mob during service, and but for the interference of the police uch tojury might have been done, Misceltaneous, Governor McDougall 1s at Pembina, on United States soli, and is said to be enlisting Sioux Indians to quell the rebellion in Winnipeg Territory. He has employed as his agent for the purpose an out- law and cutthroat who is said to have robbed the United States mails, at the head of a band of Indians, on the route to Montana. A proclamation of the Governor had been captured and great excitement exists. Bloodshed is considered imminent. The rebels are 400 sirong. A portion of them are said to be marching towards Pembina. Ata public meeting in Buffalo last night indigna- tion was expressed at Governor McDougall being allowed to congregate his Briésh troops on Amert- can soll, tho Reconstruction Committee yesterday the subject of the admission of Virginia was poat- poned until after the holidays. A radical delega- tion was heard tn favor of the application of the test oata to the members of the Legislature, cnd the postponement is believed by many to favor the radi- cal idea, The Georgia Reconstruction bill 18 to ‘be Considered on Monday. A strange and disastrous accident occurred at a Coal mine in Stockton, Pa., early yesterday morn- ing. A portion of the mine caved in and four houses Fell throngh a distance of sixty feet, two families of fniners, comprising ten persona in all, being carried through with them, each one of them, without Aoubt, perishing. Two other families, occupying two bf the houses, were roused vy the barking of a dog, pnd finding that thelr houses were sinking managed Lo save themselves, It 1s now rumored that Judge Pierrepont is to anc- feed Mr. Hoar as Attorney General, This will give two Cabinet members to New York State, ‘The report of Supervisor Presbrey, of Virginia, on the revenue collections in that State, shows a sur- Prising improvement over the old state of things, The total collections from tobacco ti!s year show @n excess over the last of $2,449,229, the increase being nearly 600 per cent. Tho total whiskey evenue Wat Zeer, under ths tO doler vey, wos $286,088, and for nine nfonths of this year, under the fifty cents, at was $469,412, A delegation of Florida State oMcials and repre- sentatives visited President Grant yesterday and te- quested that troops be sent to that Staie to aid in execu the Jawa and preventing the numerous assassinations that are taking place. The President Said he would see the Sccretary of War on the subject. The Tennessea Constitutional Convention election took place'yesterday, The result is probably con- ‘There seemed to be no interest taken in thé Pore Py (he radicals, Munroe, who was charged with the murder of a yroman and her child at St, John, N. B., tast sum- me." Was found guilty yesterday and recommended to mytey. AMrs, Mullen, who ts 9 yoting bride of only naif a honeyniy 4, left her husband at Sing Sing recent- ly, and @ sat for divorce 1s now pending ur the Court of Session? in that village. Mullen, her hus- band, being reported to have said that he would carry her off by forcé@ When she left the court, her friends armed themselves to defend her, and gave her a pistol, which she still carrf8s, No tragedy has ensued yet, but young blood is up on both sides. Faward Healy, who murdered his wife in South Boston last November, pleaded gul!ty of murder in the second degree yesterday and was sentenced to the State Prison for life. He is seventy years old. The City. The Brooklyn Grand Jury, yesterday, presented bills of Indictment agatnst sixty persons for alleged frauds in the recent elections, The police are after the accused persons, among whom are numbered justices of the peace, constables, paid fre depart- ment and Water Board employés and canvassers. Many of them have been arrested, while othera bave fed. “the stock market yesterday was heavy and de- clined. Gold sold as low as 1204, closing finally at 1205 8 120%. Almost all of the markets were characterized by extreme quietude yesterday, business being checked toa considerable extent by the inclemency of the weather. Prices were generally heavy. Cotton was dull and ‘yc, lower, while coffee was moder- ately dealt in at former prices. On 'Change four was very quiet and heavy, while Wheat, corn and oats were dull, but without change in value. Provisions were duil, and prices were generally heavy, Whiskey was dult and ic. a 2c. lower. Freights were unusually quiet, and rates continued heavy. In naval stores the busi- ness was light; prices favored buyers. Petroleum was quiet, closing at Slc. a S1\\c. for refined and 10%c. a 17c, for crude. Prominent Arrivals in t@ City. Geueral J, E. Mulford, ot Virginia, ana Captain W. Hudson, of California, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Vogdes, of thd United States Army, and T. W. Corning, of Albany, are at the Colemau House. ; Captain Bountakofsky and Captain Belderling, of the Russian Army; Major F. A. Mahon and Lieuten- ant Garretson, of West Point, and Washington Lee, of Wilkesbarre, are atthe Hoffman House. Ex-Governor Low, Minister to China; Congress- man Oakes Ames, of Massachusests; Colonel B. Buf- Tum, of New York, and ex-Congressman Wm. Wiu- dom, of Minnesota, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel R. Fitzgerald, of Pennsylvania; B. B, Jen- ning, of London, England, ana J. Harrigan, of Cali- fornia, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General James Craig, of Maryland, and Colonel P. T. Abell, of Kansas, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Hodge, of the United States Army, and Captain O. Eldridge, of San Francisco, are at the Astor House. J. B. Hyde, of Rowe, Italy, is at the Everett House, Prominent Departares. Governor J, T. Hoffman, jor Albany; Colonel Tar- loff, for Hartford; General Frieze, for Providence; ©, F. Sherman, for Ohio, and Galusha A. Grow, for Washington. Nogh and His Three Sons, and the Com- prehensive Blessing Upon Jupheth, The subject of our opening discourse this morning will be found in the ninth chapter of the buok of Genesis (the most interesting book in the Holy Bible, because it is the foundation of all the rest) and from the elghteenth to the twenty-ninth verse, inclusive :— 18, And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 1% These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspreaa, 20. And Noah a eae to be a husbandman, and he planted a Venta 21, And he rank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within nis tent. 22, And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and ea it upon both their shoulders, and went back- and covered the nakedoess of their father; Gnd their faces were backward, and they saw not ‘thelr fathor’s nakedness, 24, And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew Ag bee Bhai ot son had done uate him. said, cursed be Canaan; a servant of serra shall he be unto Iris brethren. 26. And he said, Blegsed be the Lord Goa of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant, 27. Goa Keeg enlarge Japheth, and he shali dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan sbail oe fis ser- vant 28. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred all the Lp) of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. Now, let us first consider Noah. It was because he was a good man that he and bis family were ang from the flood. But they were also sayed to repeople the earth, He was the frontest shipbuilder of hia time, for the ark, though a heavy three storied concern, built to drift before the winds and waves, was the most wonderful ship ever seen, and carried the most extensive caravan of animals ever collected together. It will next be remarked that Noah, though he lived to the good old age of nine hundered and fifty years, was not a believer in the Maine liquor law, but a rega- lar old line democrat, that he indulged in the wine of bis vineyard, at least on one occa- sion, till he was ‘blind drunk,” and that to this unfortunate debanch may be traced all the degradations and oppressions which have fallen upon the African race since the disper- sion of the world’s fair from the tower of Babel, and all our thirty years’ agitation of slavery, and all the disasters of our late Southern rebellion, beginning with the dispersion of the democratic party. Secondly, the sons of Noah, Ham was evidently a wild youngster, of perhaps two or three hundred years old, and thought the Men of science and loarned travellors tell Mt the earth has been and is occupied by nifnerdus indopogdent indigenous races of men, and hat there dye several such races even among the negroes ef Africa; but we prefer to stick to the ark and the three rages of the sons of Noah, Holding, thon, to the old theory of the wiotho: dist Ghuitch South, that the nae Is the react of the curse upon Ham, through his son Canaan, whereby his descendants were turned” into niggers, we are forcibly drawn to another conclusion—that the curse has run out, that the wrath of Noah haa been amply satisfied, and that the children of Canaan are henceforth to be admitted again to a general footing of equality with all their brethren from the family of the ark. So much for Ham. In the third place, it will be observed that Shem was given a blessing, with the pro- mise that Canaan should be his servant; and in the negro slaves of the Turks for many generations, and of the Egyptians from time immemorial, we have the fulfilment of this promise. But the crowning blessing comes upon Japheth—‘“‘God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.” Now, in a continental division of the earth to the descendants of the three sons of Noah, though they are intermixed more or leds in each continent—we will adopt the orthodox division of Asia for Shem, Africa for Ham and Europe for Japheth, ‘He shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his ser- vant.” This means that Japheth shall occupy the whole earth. Among his immediate descendants the isles of the Gentiles were divided, which gave thent the dominion of the sea, Thus Japheth has come into possession of the Continent of America, which gives him the balance of power. According to the Book of Mormon the aborigines of America are descended from the lost tribes of Israel, which wore of the family of Shem, and they came over by way of China and Alaska. Noah, then, in promising that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem, no doubt among other things referred to his extirpation of the American Indians and his occupation of this Continent. Tosum up. Among the first recorded of the acts of Noah after the flood is a “big drunk,” which teaches us that while a wine drinker by the bottle has lived to be nine hundred and fifty years old intemperance is as full of evils as Pandora’s box. We next find that in his unfortunate negro descendants Canaan has been amply punished for the folly of his father, and that under General Grant his curse has been removed. Lastly, we see that Japheth is master of the situation and that old Grandfather Noah comes out all right. le Why Has Secretary Fish Refused Infor- mation to Congress About Cuba? It must strike every one as very extraor- dinary that the Secretary of State has refused to give Congress the information about Cuba which that body called for. The President has been made to say, and Mr. Fish has said, that there is nothing of any consequence going on in Cuba—that there is no war—and yet when the representatives of the people ask for information it appears there is something 80 grave, so delicate, so important about this Cuban question that the government cannot let Congresg and the public know what is going on. Evidently Mr. Fish is at his wits’ end and is floundering about in a sea of uncer- .tainty between his desire to help the Span- jards and his dread of public opinion. Is it not time for the President to dismiss this incapable*and timid man from the high and responsible position he holds? We do not live under a monarchical despotism or per- sonal government, and this assumption of power and holding back important information is in opposition to our republican institutions and principles. Is Mr. Fish waiting for some garbled statements of his own agents to help him out of the dilemma he has placed himself in with regard to Cuba? Let us know all about it, Mr. Secretary. The people of this country want the information and have a right to claim it. The Red Hiver Rebellion. There are likely to be some bloody oe in the Red River ierritory if we can ofedit the report that Governor McDougall has called in to his aid a number of Sioux and Swamp Indians to fight against the insurgents. This is the policy repeated against which, in the days of our Revolution, Lord Chatham so magniloquently protested in the British Parlia- ment. If these savages are let loose in the Winnipeg territory there is no knowing where the reign of terror may stop. It is said that the Hudson Bay Company are willing to deal with the insurrection and propose to put it down without assistance from outside. On the other hand, it is stated that Rielle, the insurgent leader, has called in his half-breed reserves, and that his call was enthusiastically responded to at once, It wild thus, probably, not take much time to settle the. question, though we may be prepared to hear of some terrible scenes before the warfare is ended. The rumors that the Fenians have anything to do with this Red River rebellion are, of course, absurd. The leaders here, who it would seem are legion, may hdve no objection to make a little capital and perchance a litile notoriety out of it; but no one belleves that exploded Fenianism has any connection with boozy condition in which he found “‘the old man” in his tent a jolly good joke. Ham's conduct was go doubt very offensive, while that of his two brothers was the perfection of reverential modesty and respect, Little did the thoughtless Ham, as the father of Canaan, dream of the fearful and far-reaching conse- quences of his fully. ‘Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.” This curse of Noah has been generally accepted among Christian nations, mixed up with African slavery, as applying to the negro race—that the curse brought upon the de- Scendants of Canaan the black skin, the pungent odor, the woolly hair, the flat nose and thick lips, the ebo shin and jaybird heel of the negro, We know that in ‘‘the good old times” of negro slavery in this country, when a negro had ‘‘no rights which a white man was bound to respect,” system was maintained as a ‘‘divine institu- tion,” and as dating from this very curse of Noah. Upon such insignificant events have depended the deatiaies of racep and nations, it. It appears to be a focal quarrel, but its tendency can hardly be mistaken. It is only a pulsation of the Britlsh-American heart towards annexation. It may be only moving the extremities, but the movement is signifi- cant nevertheless, Tuk Brookiry Exgorion Fravps.—Sixty persons, among whom are officials in several of the civil departments ant two justices of the peace, have been indicted by the Grand Jury on the charge of being implicated in the disgraceful Brooklyn election frauds. What a sad picture of the abuses to which the Ameri- can ballot box is liable would this be, if it were not set off and relieved by the vigorous and praiseworthy efforts of Judge Gilbert and District Attorney Morris, seconded heartily by all honest citizens, to detect and bring to punishment the guilty parties, whatever the political affinities of the latter may be, The faithless officials who have been indicted will deserve, if their guilt be proved, a more severe punishment than confinement in the State Prison, which is the penalty of their offence, - ‘ Another Mining Horror. Yosterday morning we had to record a min- iature Avondale disaster in the burning of an |” engine house at tho end of a tunnel in the Jersey coal mine, operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. All, however, except one victim, escaped on this occasion, To-day we publish the shock- 3g detatla of gil! another mining horror in Bg Seat Fehnoylvania, coal mine at at Stockton, near Hazelton, caved in early on Saturday, filling ve shaft and tunnel with huge masses of rock, cartying down forty feet two double houses, whicd the stoves set on fire, and choking the entrance to the mine, in which there were at the time several men, who are supposed to have been instantly killed. The inmates of one of the double houses, warned by the barking of a dog, fortunately eacaped, although one person fell into the mine and narrowly missed perishing. The inmates of the other double house, ten in number—seven adults and three children—were buried hopelessly in the ruins. No bodies have yet been dis- covered. This terrible accident suggests afresh the urgent necessity of additional precautions against the oft-recurring accidents in mines, Most of the miners im the vast coal districts of Pennsylvania are Eng- lish by birth or by descent, and al- though experienced and industrious work- men rarely improve upon the methods and pre- cautions which have been imported from the minihg districts of England. Nearly all the improvements which have been introduced are due to the inventive talent of the compara- tively few Americans who engage in the min- ing business, There is certainly room for greater exercise of inventive talent to gnard against accidents like that of yesterday morn- ing, as well as those occasioned by noxious and explosive gases. The British government extends jurisdiction over mines only in view of the dreadful explosions and other accidents which so frequently happen in them. The French government has a thoroughly organized department of mines. At least, something liko the famous School of Mines at Paris, where means of preventing mining accidents should be pecially devised and taught might be estab- lished in the United States, which, exclusive of Alaska, boasts of an available coal area eight times as large aa that of all the rest of the globe. AsorHeR WARNING TO THR SovTHERN- ER3.—We see by the proceedings in Congress that reconstructed Georgia is to be put through reconstruction again. The stupid rebels in the Georgia Legislature, thinking they were safely in the Union and could cut up their pranks with impunity, undertook to exclude some of the members of their body who were properly elected, on account of color, This was in direct defiance of Congress and the principles upon which the State was restored. Of course Congress would not submit to this, and as a consequence the Senate has passed a bill to reconstruct the State to some extent over again. The House, no doubt, will promptly concur in the action of the Senate. These rebels should have remembered the old saying, ‘“‘not to cry before they were out of the woods.” While we may regret the neces- sity and dangerous precedent of this recon- structing reconstruction, we can have no aym- pathy with these stupid Georgians This case ought to be a significant warsing to the Southerners. A Goon Suor Fro Geverat THom\s.— It seems that the present Legislature of ‘en- nessee, being rather coppery, does not lik» to see in the State House the portrait of the »ol- dier who sent the rebs to the right about from Nashville, General George H. Thomas. Some member, therefore, has proposed to sell it, and Thomas has therefore offered to refund the money paid for painting it. Not so fast, Gen- eral. If that picture is to be sold there are a great many persons who will give more than was paid for painting it, General Thomas also says that he will restore to the present Legislature of Tennessee the gold medal voted him by a former Legislature of that State, ‘‘as soon ashe can get it.” Has the State con- tented itself with the vole In the hero's honor ? Is that only a gold medal on paper? Commurrer or Punic Sarery.—The other day a member of the House proposed the institution of a committes with this ominous revolutionary title. He intended, however, a committee more worthy of the name than the famous Paris committee. He intended a com- mittee that should take cognizance of the startling recklessness of human life seen in our mine disasters, our railroad accidents, steam- boat catastrophies, &c., and recommend to Congress proper legislation in the premises. It was a good thought, and now that we have another mine disaster in Pennsylyania it may hasten action on the proposition. Fisk anp ine Jerszy Peopie.—The Pater- son people want to know if they have any rights, or if the Erie Railway Company can charge on their freight packages whatever sum may snit the little games of the managers, 80 they are suing the campany in a large num- ber of cases to recover excessive freight and a penalty. It will be remembered that when the Erie management made war on the express companies these excessive freight charges were the great measure. This is what the laws are made for, and the people must try them ta the utmost in defending their rights, MAKING A Coxstrtution.—‘ Those who had the upper hand in Georgia never would adopt the fifteenth amendment unless under compul- sion.” These are the words of Mr. Morton, spoken in the Senate on Friday last. This, then, is confessedly the way wo amend our constitution and induce the States torelinquish certain of their rights—‘‘under compulsion.” But compulsion invalidates all consent, ethi- cally and morally, Js consent thus obtained any better in the law? ., Cavent Wita 4% Nakep Hoox.—Attempts to corrupt revenue Officers are becoming dan- gerous, In fact, itis the fashion just now to be honest in the revenue department, as a year ago it was alarmingly the fashion to be the other way, The lawyer just arrested in New Jersey for attempting to have his client set at liberty by stating the case to the revenue offi- cer, instead of atating it to the judge, has found the change to hig cost. If a few more lawyers are cought in that (rap whiskey thay bo dearer, but thé people will be rioper and ater able to ohy the bicker ocieos, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. | te American Bishops ta ae Bases Council. From several indications it seems probeble that the American bishops in the Roman Council will present on one remarkable point a peculiar contrast to the bishops of the Old World. This point is the relative liberality with which they will view the grand progres- sive features of the age in their relations to ecclesiastical dogma, Perliaps the American bishops will be the least liberal fa the Council and the most detormined in their adheston to all that puts the Church in opposition to the spirit of the times in which we live, If, for instance, the infallibility of the Pope be put before the Council—if it be proposed to con- centrate the Church in one man by making that idea a dogma—it is scarcely possible that an American bishop will raise his voice against it, while we know that the bishops of France will contest it to the utmost, and the bishops of Germany will not have it on any terms. This, then, will be a strange spectacle for the world at Jarge—the bishops from the land that is foremost in all that material progress which is thought to be leading the nations away accepting the utmost the Church can re- quire, and leaving their brethren of the less progressive countries to assert the neces- sity for greater freedgm of thought. What can account for this anomaly? Ameri- can bishops know that it is possible to keep Church and State absolutely separate. They know, for they have seen, that the prosperity, the progress, the glory of a nation are not qualified by what is taught in the Church, and have strikingly little relation to wpat the people believe. What do the American people believe? They believe in God. If one endeavors to go further in the definition of what they believe he has to speak of denomi- nations, not of the people as a whole, It is because the American bishops know that doctrine is one thing and national spirit quite another, that they will accept for the guidance of their lives any rule that the head of the Church putse forth, since they appreciate fully the great necossity of harmony in the Church and are aware that they would not commend themselves to the good will of their flocks by going to Rome to dispuie with the Pope. There is another reason that is possi- ble, but which we hope in a spirit of charity does not greatly influence the Holy Father. America ought to have several cardinals, con- sidering its importance in the world and the Church, and the candidates for ecclesiastical honors may desire to show how humbly they can accept whatever Rome is Pleased to give. The Lottery Policy War—A New Sen- sation. We devote a considerable margin of our space this morning to the details of the terrific conflict between the party of the Hon. Ben Wood & Company on the one hand, and the party of the Hon. John Morrissey & Company on the other, for the monopoly of the lottery policy business of this city and its enormous profits. It is, indeed, “a very pretty quarrel as it stands,” and we have no disposition to spoil it. As for the conflict between Judge Cardozo and Judge Barnard, it is but a repetition of the game of shuttlecock which was fully developed in the Erie Railway litigations, The mischief here lies in the organization of our State courts, and the powers which they of con- current jurisdiction possess of revers- ing each other’s decisions, appointments and injunctions, We apprehend, however, that if the Hon. Ben Wood carries out bis threat of ® personal attack upon the Supreme Court Judge who turned the lottery policy tables against him, he will be ‘‘out of the frying pan into the fire.” In any event enough is dis- closed of this lottery policy business to suggest to our approaching democratic Legislature the necessity of some legislation which will put an end to these scandalous litigations for the spoils of these policy gambling shops. New British Colonial Policy. There is evidently no disposition on the part of the British government to throw obstacles in the way of such portion of her colonies as may be disposed to sever the connection with the mother country, and either by anmexation or individugl independence seek a better future for themselves. The London Daily News, for example, speaking on Canadian mat- ters, gives an indication of this feeling when it says that the settled colonial policy of England is a marriage of affection, if such is pogsible, and, in case of that failing, a marriage of con- venience may be acceptable, but never any longer can there be a conneotion between the mother country and the colonies maintained by force. From this we may conjecture that the marriage relation can be severed by divorce, both parties—like Barkis—being willing. Thetendency of Canada to accept the proposition of divorce and adopt annexa- tion to the United States has been for some time past very apparent. The idea of confed- eration has never been very palaiab! le, thoagtt many of the British provinces have swallowed it, The Dominion government has not found that favor which was expected, and there are to-day thousands of Canadians who chafe under their compulsory submission to it. As the world advances colonial dependencies. become gradually distasteful, and they will soon become altogether impossible. After all, they are burdens upon the mother countries and of little advantage to the colonies them- selves—a fact which the people are beginning to understand, in fact as all the people, except those who hold office or expect to hold some government position, fully understand even now. Of what value to France are her colonies in Guiana and in the islands scattered hero and there over the oceans? Canada and Australia and the Bermudas cost more to England than they return, except in finding places for politicians and the sons, nephews and cousins of some nearly wornout aristo- cratic families; and this isa poor remunera- tion for what it costa the people of Great Britain to pay the expenses of keeping these colonies loyal. The new colonial policy of England is therefore a sensible one, and forms a striking contrast to the old policy which would tax the people at home in order to maintain a foreign dependency. By natural affinity Canada is about to come to us. Noth- ing can avert this isauc, Australia will necessarily become an independent nation, with the Southern constellation on its flag, and accepting go dictation from Kpglend. The age of colonial systems ig passing away. The ress of the United States since they : "A from the orysalis condition of a colonial do; atfeaton cy, ahd the advance in science, which has put tha whole world, as it were, upon an Saar Bete through the medium of tele- graphs, vallanaae ot the newspaper press, have settled that question , saaly: Gracia sane wer ag Who Stole the Crows pcvwenee The cable says that Madrid is’ ted vpon the question as to who stole the ¢ dis- monds of the Spanish kingdom. It éppears that they have vanished. The rv are no longer where they used to shine. Some in- cline to the opinion that Queen Isabélla carried them off; others think that the more ancient Queen Christina purloined them. Her ex-Majesty, Isabella, positively denies that sho had anything to do with the ‘deep damnation of their taking off.” If Spain is to havea king— whether it be the Duke of Genoa or somebody else—the crown diamonds will be wanted to grace the coronation. If they are stowed away in some pawnbroker’s shop in Paris it would be very easy to get a counterfeit pre- sentment of the original jewels executed in fine paste, which would answer all the purpose. Such things have been done a hundred times, and they have been recorded, as we remem- ber, in romance and even in opera. «Who knows how often the crown diamonds of England, for instance, have been given as “collateral security” for the needs of dissolute princes, and who can tell whether the genuine articles ever found their way back tothe Tower of London? Spain can, therefore, console herself with the reflection that if she obtains from the numerous aspirants to the throne a mock king, with a real dictator as his regent, she can afford to crown him with mock dia- monds. It is hardly worth while, then, to bother about the theft of the original regalia, Postal Telegraphy. The bill now before’ Congress relative to for- eign cables gives our government an opportu- nity to do the right thing. It is desirable that that right thing be done at once. We have now three Atlantic cables touching our shores and the shores of Europe. We cannot tell how soon the three will become thirty. The demand is such that it is impossible for any one to say when we shall have too many cables or too many means of communication across the Atlantic. The Pacific will soon become as exacting as the Atlantic. We are the cen- tral people and our’s is the central continent. All foreign governments claim prior rights on their soil. The bill now before Congress asks no more than that on our soil we shall have? priority of right. The bill, of course, will pass. Common sense cannot be despised. We take advantage of the circumstance to urge onthe government once more the pro- priety of following the example of Europe, and so to make the entire telegraphic system of the country their own. Ultimately this must come. It cannot come too soon. The sooner the better. It will be an immense advantage to the people and it will amply repay the government. Great Britain, after long years of watching, has taken this course. The example of Great Britain ought not to be lost upon us. Great Britain is now encircling the globe with electric wires. The three electric wires across the Atlantic are virtually hers. Two lines, one through Russia, another through Turkey, connect or promise to connect her with India, Another line about to be con- structed will connect London with Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay and the rest of India. Ina few months one or all of these lines will touch Australia and New Zealand. Are we keeping up to the work? Why should we leave the Pacific to be bridged by others? Why should all our Atlantic cables be foreign property? We have great opportunities, but we cannot afford to lose them. Cart Scnurz on Personat Rients.—In the Senate ‘“‘Mr. Schurz introduced a bill to prevent persons who have been officers in the Treasury Department from aiding in the pros- ecution of cases against the United States.” This must be the German idea of personal rights. If a man has once been an officer in the Treasury Department, exactly what authority does that give the government over him for the rest of his life? Between Drake and Schurz Missouri is well provided with great constitutional lawyers in the United States Senate. With these two legal lights the State makes quite a different appearance to that she made in the days of Old Bullion. SRA NERRE SES A Nice Question ror THE Covrts.—Mr. Richardson's brother having applied to the Surrogate for letters of administration on the estate of the deceased journalist, the applica- tion has been refused, the court reserving the grant in favor of the widow. Hereupon, if the brother is so minded, there may arise a very pretty argument as to whether or no there is any widow in the case—for if that Indiana divorce is not valid in the State of New York there was certainly no legal mar- riage with Richardson. It is easy on some other grounds also to dispute the legality of that snte-mortem contract. HERMANN, THe GREAT PAESTIDIGITATEUR. AGAIN. The people of New York will be giad to learn that Herrmann, the great prince of conjurors, is to reappear at the Academy of Music to-morrow night. It will be remembered that he was competied to suddenly close his performances at the Academy @ short time ago in consequence of a severe attack of iliness, and that he then announced the end of his professional career in the United States. But, hav- ing recovered, he has been induced to give a limited number of performances in New York before his final departure. The Academy, which has been suf- fering from a paralysis of poor opera, will now be filled again and look cheerful under the extraordi- nary magical influence and inimitable tricks of Herr- mann, This is the last chance—that ts, during the few performances he will give—in which our citizens will have the opportunity of secing the greatest magician in the world. THE BANKERS’ CLERKS’ MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION, ‘The firat annual report of this praiseworthy asso- ciation shows it to be in & fourisbing condition, al- though 14 organization does not date farther back than February of the present year, It now numbers 907 members, and has a balance of $17,702 In hand, after paying over to the families of deceased mem- bers $6,075 and incurring an expense of $429 for stationery and osher necessaries, So far the banks have donated $8,450 to a permanent fund, while the donations of private individuals amount to $6,015. It ig to be hoped that all the banks will unite in ald- tog the association, whose object im @ benevolent one, and whose success cannot fail of removing from bauk clerks tue touptation Of Wrong dole.