The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD Ceaeiote MSS aanens? “of Gini Graut The great opportunity of General Grant to save his administration from public disfavor, to perpetuate his own popularity and to secure lasting fame as a statesman is in treating the Cuban question in accordance with popular sentiment, a broud American policy and the interests of the country. This is really the most important question of the day. It involves vast commercial interests, the sympa- thies of the American people, the cause of republican liberty in America, the natural growth und progress of this republic and the position we wre to occupy hereafter with regard to ac questions pertaining to this Con- tinent. If the government should resolve to ignore Cuba and either to permit the Cubans to be crushed or the island devastated it will abandon the cherished principles upon which our own independence was claimed and BROADWAY AND ANN, STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HeEnatp. Velnme XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS THIS EVENING GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 3d streel.—LINGARD'S BURLESQUE COMBINATION, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 at., GUT MANN EuING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.--UNDER TUK (As- Liawr, Matinee at 2. VIFTH AVENUE are Duke's Morro, Twenty-fourth at. —Tar ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Muh street—HERRMANN, THE Gerar PaRwripiGiTaTECR secured, it will become the friend and LNIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosqway.—Tux Dama or | ally of European despotiam on Ameri- (rTLe Ew'Ly. o P5 a ey ge can soil, it will do violence to the WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- . ner Thirticth #t,—Matinee daily. mace avery evening, | feelings, sentiments and love of freedom of the American people; it will renounce the Monroe doctrine, it will degrade the country in the eyes of the world, and will, for the first time in our history, inaugurate a policy inimi- cal to republican institutions and in the inte- rests of monarchical and European govern- ments, If, on the other hand, the government should determine to seize the opportunity afforded by the insurrection in Cuba to pro- mote the canse of republican freedom on American soil, to extend our influence, power and commerce in this hemisphere, and to sever the bouds that hold a part of the American people and territory under European rule, that would be a fresh starting point for a grand and comprehensive policy in accordance with our growth and destiny, It would show Europe that we comprehend our high position as one of the foremost nations of the earth and the law of our existence, and must in the end inspire the respect of the whole world, Hence we said the Cuban question is the most important one of the day. More than that, it is the only one that presses for imme- diate solution, Reconstruction of the South, upon which Congress and the public mind have been occupied, is about finished; the various questions pertaining to the national finances reqnire time for consideration and have not become urgent, because neither the revenue nor country will suffer from the neces- sary delay; the Alabama claime will not, and, perhaps, cannot, be brought to a decision for some time to come, and they are used only as BOWERY THEATRE, RBowery.—Gio, OF TERE—BAKED ALIVE--THe LnianD. THE ARMORRE WALLAC! K's THEATRE, Broadway and Vth siroet. ~ CevrEaL Paw THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street. Tae BURLESQUE ov Bap lioKey, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S P- ae THEATRE, Brookira, Tae Decukss of Norns Evves. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA (MOUSE, 201 Bowery. Vocatism, NEaZo MUNe’ . Matinee at 2 como THEATRE COMIQU wdway.—Comto Vooat- tea, NEGRO Acts, &e. i tinee at 2g. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Bullding, Mth M.—BRYANT'S MING’ SAN FRANCISCO MINSIRELS, $85 Broa tway,—Etuto- FLAN MINHTRELGY, NEGRO Acts, &0,—"Hasn.” WAVERLEY THEATRE, TIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGKO V3 Broadway. —ET110- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sirect.—EQuestRtan AND GYMNANTLO PERFORMANOKS, AC, Matinee ab 254, HOOLEY'S_ OPERA _HOUS Miverueis—Tas PerRiFiED APOLLO HALL, corner 28th atreet and Broadway.—Tat Cagpiey Giant, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 eons BONO AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ARATOMT, any Biseeay: —FRMALES ONLY (N ATIENDANOR, Brooklyn, —HoouRy's x tT, do. TRI PLE ~ ¢03 TENTS oe To-DAY'S 9 HERALD, Page I—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—'Me Foreign Mail Service—The Era of Default- ers—The Great Bore—East River Improve- Wt 3, ments—Naval Intelligence—The Drawback ® political mhophy. by Mr. Sumner and Mr, Fraud he Mott Street Tragedy—An Old Ser- | Secretary Fish; all other questions of domestic vant Gone—Earthquakes—A Game of All Fours—The Hartiord Fire Insurance Compa- mes—Who Killed Stonewall Jackson ?—A Fatal Mistake—Another Sixth Ward Horror—Base Ball at New Orleans. 4—Europe: News from Paris, Austria, Rome and Spain—Africa: Letter from Dr. Livingstone. S—The Courts—City News and Police Intelligence— A Policeman d la Bonner—The Bond Forgery Case—A Drama of the Stage—Carnival of Crime—The State Prisons—The Hudson River or foreign policy are either not pressing or can be solved without difficulty. The only live, urgent and important question at present is that of Cuba, The initial American pottoy 4 in the case of Guba, for auch we may call it, reaches far beyond that island or the present time. It is the key of our destiny over the whole of the Antilles, Mexico and Central America, and, in Ratlroad Robberies—The Case of Dr. Schoeppe~ | a measure, over South America also. It The Real Murder Case, will fix in the public mind of both this G—Exditorials: Leading Article on Cuba, the Great a of EB hat i Opportunity of General Grant—Amusement ee Lager te Pea ie “Lie Announcements, be the future course or policy of the ‘Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World— | American republic in this hemisphere, Washington—Personal —_Intelligence—Musical and Theatrical Notez—The Delancey Street Stabbing Affray—Daring Burglaries in Pine Street—The Stock Exchange Controversy— Literature—Business Notices. S&=—News from Australasia, Asia, Turkey and Cuba— The Reconstruction of Georgia—The Turf in Egypt—The Peabody Funeral in England—Real Estate Matters—Curious Will Case~Experl- ment with Sunflowers. 8—Ocean Telegrapha—General Wool’s Estate—Fi- nancial and Commercial Reports—Changes in the Canadian Tariff—The Whaling Fieet—Dis- tillation from Peacnes and Appics—Marriages and Deaths, 10—The New Jersey Tammany Society—Suburban Intelligence—The Jersey Mountain Mystery— The Port Jervis Bank Kobbery—Brookiyn City Intelligence — Brooklyn Municipal Govyern- ment—Kings County Poiities —Murder in brooklyn —iwo Great Contests —Shipping News—Advervsements. Al—Squaticr Sovereigniy—The Penusyivanta Coal Trade—The Phosphorescence of the Sea— Charcoal for Horses’ Wind—Utan—A Snake in 4 Bal! Room—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. and especially as concerns European domina- tion, influence or rule here. There never has been a more determined or heroic struggle for republican freedom, and against the most atrocious European despotism in America, than that which the Cubans are making; no, not in any of the South American States; and there never was better ground or as good a reason for this country to recognize the independence of an American people. The course of the government, therefore, in the case of Cuba will be regarded as the policy that is to be pursued hereafter on all American ques- tions in which European nations are concerned or choose to interfere. St will teach the popu- lation and States of the American Continent and its islands either to lean upon this great republic and to look to it for support and guidance, or it will disgust and drive them to seek closer relations, commercial and political, with Europe. Not the brave Cubans only, but all the people of the two continents of America are watching with intense interest the course of our government with regard to Cuba, Shall we abdicate the bigh position we have all through our history taken? Shail we, in the day of our might and strength, when no nation has the power or dares to thwart our policy or destiny, abandon the cause of republican freedom in America ? To do go will be to dishonor the fathers of the republic and our statesmen of former times, and will bring everlasting disgrace upon the country. General Grant in his heart sympathizes with these views, we have no doubt, for they are American, republican, national and liberal, and throughout his whole public career he has shown the most elevated patriotism and broad American views. But in the case of Cuba he has been trammelled, there is reason to fear, by the weakness and narrow-minded policy of the Secretary of State, and perhaps, also, by the senseless prejudices of other members of his Cabinet. Possibly Mr. Sumner, in the excess of lis vanity about his Alabama claims speech and from his desire to make political capital out of that, may bave had some influ- ence over inembers of the Cabinet, and, indi- rectly, over the President. It is lamentable to think that a great question of public policy Tae Pyevmatic Bore.—“I'll be blowed” was once u vulgar cockneyism, but it promises to be the polite way of asking to be sent home in the coming style of travel. fhe Russta AND TURKE “sick man” of Turkey and the strong man of Russia are both here as purchasers of our famous Berdan and Springfield rifles. Each wants a quarter of a tuillion, just to be prepared for emergencies, Large Cupan News.—The campaign was opened in the Central Department on the 25th inst. General Puello on that day started from Nuevitas with three thousand men, and with these he asserts he will make short work of the revolutionista in the Central Department. We have so often heard of these inflated Spanish prognostications that we prefer to hear of results rather than believe such nnsatisfac- tory promises. Tue Wisnirea REVOLUTION. —Despatches from St. Paul deny the sensation story that battalions of filibusters are to be passed over the railroads within two hundred miles of the British border to help the Winnipeg warriors. It appears no railroad reaches nearer than four hundred miles of the border, and the despatch significantly adds that the thermometer is from ten to thirty degrees below zero. Suchapros- | which the American people have at pect as that looks entirely too blue And frosty | heart, and which concerns, so intimately for your modern feather bed filibusters, the interests of our country and the | progress of republican freedom, should be ob- | structed by a few men to gratify their vanity | or prejudice, or for some doubtful political object. Will not the President emancipate himself from these influences? Will he not see the current of public sentiment, and either dismiss his weak and prejudiced advisers or act independently of tham ? Let him follow the good advice of bis wise friend, the la- } wiented General Rawlins, the impulses of | whose noble soul were right in accordance | | Tur Latest Bank Deratoartox,—The defaication in the Merchants’ Exchange N. tional Bank, in which the cashier, £ J. Oakley, is alleged to have appropriated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—funds of the bank—to his own use, or to aid ‘iis brother in certain tobacco speculations, coming so soon on the heels of several similar transac- tions in Wall street and elsewhere, and impli- cating old gray-haired and hitherto trusted and honored men, starts the inquiry, whither is the morality of the age tending, and has the prevailing extravagance of the period | swamped the principles of high-toned and honest business character? It is curious how roguery increases with the progress of modern civilization, Tye Gory or Jersey—Cock fighting. When will they rise ower there to the dignity of bear balting ? with the sentiments of the American people, and who hada proper view of the duty and destiny of bis country, and let him ignore the miserable subterfuges of Sumner, Fish, Hoar and others on this Cuban question, and he will become as popular in the Presidency as he was iu the war. We have the best reasons for believing that Mr. Hoar failed to be confirmed in the Senate as Judge of the Supreme Court more on account of his narrow-minded and NeW YORK HHKALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. actin aah course relative to Cuba than for anything else. This ought to be a warning to the President, for no man, however exalted in position, can safely act in defiance of public opinion in this country. Gene- ral Grant has now the opportunity of doing a glorious thing in securing the inde- pendence and annexation of Cuba, the most valuable possession in the world, and of establishing a broad American policy that will make him the most popular man as well as one of the most famous statesmen in history. Cuba is the great question of his administra- tion, Will he understand that? If he follows the dictates of his heart and common sense he will do right and reap the glory. If he sub- mits to the shortsighted gynd weak men around him he will assuredly lose bia popularity, and the American people may forget his war ser- vices in the failure of his administration, Tux Forgien Postar Serviog LMBroGiio.— The four leading European steamship com- panies having contracts for the conveyance of British and German mails have entered into a combination, and refuse to carry the mails after January 1 at the reduced rates forming the basis of the recent postal treaty between Great Britain and the United States. Post- master General Creswell arrived in this city last night to give personal attention to the matter, and says he has no fear of any per- manent or even tersporatry {nconvenience. Meantime it may be asked, when will Ameri- can capital turn its attention to the resuscita- tion of our decayed shipping interest, so that we may no longer be at the mercy of foreign- ers or compelled to submit to their arrogance? Sranton's ; Wipow. —We are glad to perceive that the suggestion regarding a provision for the widow and children of Edwin M. Stanton, which we threw outa few days ago, has been accepted in an active spirit. The German Re- publican Central Committee of this city have adopted an appeal to Congress to provide for the family of the late ex-Secretary of War and Agsociate Justice of the Supreme Court. It is well known, we believe, that Stanton died poor—a fact which in itself might establish his fidelity to the trust reposed in him at a time when colossal fortunes were being made by others out of the machinery of the War De- partment. The rarity of Stanton’s honesty, as exemplified in his poverty, therefore, entitles his memory to great respect, and is a strong argument in favor of the proposition that Con- gress should do something gracefully and gratefully for his bereaved family. THE Poutoy or tae Repurucans tn Con- Gress.—We think it has been broadly fore- shadowed financially in the President's Mes- sage. Itis evidently to finish up Southern reconstruction, to see to it that the fifteenth amendment is adopted and proclaimed, and to avoid any entanglements on the money ques- tion, That subject, so far ax any general overhauling is concerned, is to be left for the next session. The party in power, divided in sentiment on this subject, have no idea of splitting upon this rock before the elections of next fall for the next Congress, Party con- siderations come first; public considerations may be postponed where they threaten the interests of the party. Such is tho law éf our political parties as it was, is and will be to the end. The people must be content to pay their taxes and bide their time. Arrairs tN Uran.—We publish elsewhere a very entertaining letter from Salt Lake City, in which the writer reviews the condition of affairs in that polygamous Territory from a Gentile point of view. Our correspondent dis- courses good humoredly about the expectations of Ogden, which he thinks never will bo realized; furnishes us with the latest informa- tion regarding the construction of the railroad to Salt Lake City and the development of the mineral resources of Utah, and winds up with asomewhat sarcastic recommendation of ap- propriate articles for the proposed museum and menagerie in course of establishment by a gon of Brigham Young. The lelter will be found decidedly inter ting. Tuk Tomns anv ) irs Inmarys.—-We publish elsewhere an article on the Tombs and its batch of leading criminals, There is nothing of savage criticism or caricature ia the account of the unhappy wretches lying under charge of murder, and if for no other quality is at least to be commended for that. Real, it will be observed, is in a prostrate condition, and the negro, George Brown, is confined on curionsly isolated and one-sided evidence. LAWLESSNESS Ramrant. —Brooklyn needs a strong and watchful police force. Another man last evening met his death at the hands of one of the numerous gangs of brutal and law- loss characters that infest her streets, The victim was a watchman and was shot down while gnarding the property of his employers, Matters would gppear to be near that stage when they mend. AN Exox.uent EwrEerrise. —There is at length some hope that the work of reforming our city front is near initiation, In another column will be found the details of a project to build a new canal basin in the Kast river below Wall street for the accommodation of flour and grain boats and barges from Buffalo. This has been long urgently needed, but now that itis in the hands of General Egbert L. Viele there is every reason to hope the enter- prise will be well snd Bpeedily carried forward. Sesavor Su MRI SUL THe “Saur, —Mr. Sumner haa as yet seon no good reason why he should change his views on the Cuban question, So he says, He don't want Suba, St. Domingo, St. Thomas’ nor any of the West India islands; but he does like Canada. He thinks such an acquisition would be a rich one for the United States, No doubt be would he willing to exchange the Alabama claims for the New Dominion ; but so far as Cuba is concerned he still “‘gticks” to his fh first opinions. Tue New Mark Et.—The stalls of the new market on East Sixteenth atreet do not go off so readily as they should. The marketmen do not study the signs of the times, This establishment will become the headquarters of # vast country trade, and will not be surpassed in that respect until a new market is built at an equally populous point on the North river, and that will not be soon, despite the horrible state of Washington Market and its neighbor- hood, especially io such weather as we have now, A | International Cable Convention—Tho Presi- dent’s Propositions. We cannot commend too highly the propo- sitions of President Grant with regard to sub- marine international cables, which ho has caused tobe transmitted through the Secretary of State to our Ministers and diplomatic agents abroad. The President's views are embodied in a public document which appeared in our columns yesterday. They are clearly put and are entirely in accordance with the opinions which we have repeatedly expressed. The neutrality of the submarine cables isa vital point in the comity of nations, whether they be at peace or war, for the condition of war does not properly destroy the comity. 1b exists, only in a different shape, and is subject to rules befitting the circumstances; but the rules of war are as stringent and as binding as those which prevail in times of peace, and are so observed by all civilized nations. The object of the present diplomatic order is, there- fore, to establish perfect freedom for sub- marine telegraphic communication between those countries where the termini of sub- marine cables are located. The President desires that a convention of the representa- tives of all maritime nations should be called in order that a full understanding should be arrived at with regard to the following points :— First, that suitable provision shall be made for the protection of cable lines from wanton destruction in time of war, agd he suggests that such interference with the submarine cables shall be regarded as an act of piracy and punished as such, He protests against the as- sumption of one nation to control the connec- tion with the shores of another nation, except by the joint concession of the two govern- ments, The wisdom of this is apparent. Ex- perience shows that an Atlantic cable with a terminus on the soil of one government on both sides of the ocean may become a dangerous instrument in the hands of the government which controls it, So also would it be dan- gerous to grant the right to France or any other European government to land a cable upon theshores of the United States without accompanying that right with certain provi- sions securing absolutely the protection of our own interests, All this General Grant evidently compre- hends, and a good deal more on the same subject; for we notice that he has not over- looked the important question of government scrutiny over telegraphic despatches exercised by the Power at either end of the cable, It is manifest that the right to employ such scrutiny would not only imperil confidence be- tween nations in time of peace, but would inevitably obstruct and set at naught all calculations and operations in time of war. Without this restriction the cable wires would become mere detectives in the employment of what wo recently have been made familiar with in so many odious shapes, called “The necessities of war.” It is contemplated to embrace in this proposed convention the whole family of civilized maritime nations, including France, England, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, North Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Holland, Turkey and Greece, and all the sea-bound countries of the South American Continent. This is what President Grant proposes to accomplish in order to put telegraphic com- munication on a free gnd honest basis between nation and nation—a basis that cannot be abused in the haleyon days of peace, nor dis- turbed in the troublous times of war. We hope that the suggestion will be adopted by the foreign governments to whom Secretary Fish has addressed the circular, and that a convention duly assembled will establish the freedom of all our submarine cables, present and to come, by a solumn compact entered into according to the President's wise and timely plan. Tie F S anv dik Rep River Row. In the Winnipeg rebellion there is a fine chance for a great deal of blather and a homeopathic proportion of fighting; conse- quently the Fenians propose to take a hand in, ‘This is a fine notion on the part of the great strategists who command the invisible forces of the Irish republic. Let them make commoa cause with a people already at war with some part of the British empire. Thus they will secure a base of operations, No law can prevent them going up the Red river, and, once there, the half-breeds will not endeavor to restrain their martial ardor on the score of nentrality, and they can blaze away at the New Dominion to their hearts’ content. They need take no notice of what is said by the leader of the half-breeds—that his people do not want to “be made Irishmen of;” for of course it i# superfluous to say that an [rish- man could never be made of less than a whole breed of any sort. This fellow’s name is Riel, which is evidently half-breed for Rielly, so the Fenians may be sure they will find country- men up there; at least they will find plenty of room to establish the Irish republic. Cnanawe Turtr PLaces.—Some of the illus- trious carpet-baggers appointed by General Canby as sherilfs of different counties in Vir- ginia are taking now other and less honorable positions in the State, They have proved detault- ers, and two have been transferred already from sheriffs’ offices to close quarters in the State Prison, From having the charge of criminals they are to have the attention of the authorities, Colonel Boyd, the Sheriff who was obnoxious to the bushwhacker Mosby, is aot of the number, A Giimpse Beniny tar Scanns,—The pro- ceedings before a police magistrate, now pend- ing between a favorite actor, at present per- forming at one of our theatres, and bis ‘ami- able” spouse, a report of which will be found in another column, seems more like one of the creations of fancy which are portrayed by dramatic fiction, than a sketch of hard and melancholy fact. Troly “trath,” indeed, ‘is stranger than f fiction.” Rainroan “Ronnenses. —The continued rob- berles on the Hudson River Raiiroad show how shortsighted after all are the ordinary provisions made for the safety of goods on trains. Goods were put in freight cars, locked and bolted and barred, and otherwise made safe all around the sides, but the thieves lay down on top with implements handy, and when the train was under full speed, so that no amount of noise would attract attention, they smashed their way through the tops of the cars and helped themselves, The companies will have to try again. Oar Nows Budget from Abroad—Eloctricity and Our Special Pens and Pencillings. By cable telegrams, special written corre- spondence and newspaper reports from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia, we are enubled to submit to our readers the ample, most interesting and very important budget of foreign news which appears in our columns this morning. It embraces reports of the political, governmental and religious situa- tions as they presented in Paris, London, Vienna and Rome yesterday evening, and states the position of affairs existing at the Antipodes, in Constantinople, and Egypt, and India at the latest mail dates, The compila- tion is exceedingly instructive, exhibiting, aa it does, humanity in its struggles towards ® general equalization without respect to geographical divisions or artificial or govern- mental boundary lines, besides illustrating to a very considerable extent the impediments of rule and of creed and caste which impede the consummation. Austria proclaims that peace has been restored, or “conquered,” in Dalmatia, while far away on the shores of New Zealand we find England sentencing several revolutionary Maori chieftains to death by hanging, and that their “‘hodies shall be beheaded and quar- tered” for tho crime of loving their country “too well” if not wisely, and daring to assert that they were as well able tojndge of the wants and requirements of their brethren as are wili- tary officers of Queen Victoria fresh from the barracks of Great Britain. Our special writers detail the progress of democracy in France and its advance to a complete constitutional assertion, the cable confirming their inferences by announcing that Bonaparte has written to M. Ollivier to the effect that “personal govern- ment is at an end in France and the first chapter of the Jiberal empire,” opened by the missive which be sends, The Count de Chambord seeks to draw closa to Rome and the Pope—as we are told by mail—yet the ocean telegraph asserts that his Holi- ness attempts to concentrate a religious imperialism in the chair of Saint Peter by muintaning that the assembled prelates of the Catholic Church have “no voice in the regulations of the Council".—a decretal assemblage, which is ‘constituted, as we have been hitherto told, only by their universal presence in the Holy City, The remains of the late Mr. Peabody were embarked on board the war ship Monarch for conveyance to America just as the Lord Chief Justice of England | had honorably discharged the mem- bers of the late banking house of Overend & Gurney from the dock after a trial on charges of fraud arising from ‘‘cornera” which took place during the latest great financial crisis in England. We have horse racing in Cairo, while Livingstone again speaks of the head- waters and river confluences of the Nile, The pouring of English soldiers into Ireland is noticed almost side by side with the text of the speech delivered by the Emperor of Aus- tria to the Legislature, in which his Apostolic Majesty appears to abate bis pretensions to military rule over the cosmopolitan populations which are subject to his sway. The gradual, yet certaln, progress of the work of girdling the earth by the electric telegraph, and thus interlacing the hearts of the peoples by an intimate and, let us hope, triendly communion, is noticed in our pages from various sources and different points of apposition, 80 that we may confidently rejoice that, having been forced to speak of public misery, crime, diplomacy, and may be tyranny, politics, law, revolts and executions, we can, on the very same day, chronicle the successful spread of the mission of the scientific evangek ism which is destined to redress them by the disenthralinent of mind and the reform and refinement both of Soar and churches, A Livr Donkey Kickine a Deap Lion— A copperhead journal venting its wrath on the dead Stanton, Tyex or A Mexioan Revo.vrion.—-In our latest news from ever unquiet Mexico there is one paragraph that is an epitome of Mexican history. It details in a dozen lines the begin- ning, the middle and the end of a Mexican revolution, exactly similar in character to all the revolutions that devastate that country. Francisco Flango “pronounced” in San Luis, The people favored him till he tried to press them into his service, He then became un- popular, was attacked by the government troops, defeated and escaped, and his horses and arms were captured. That was the end of Flango. In the beginning he had, perhaps, some grievance against the government that in any other country would have evaporated in a savage communication to the editor of the nearest newspaper. Tue Pore aNd THe Tiroseess Bour- bons. —The King of Naples, crownless, throne- less, kingdomless, lives royally in Rome, looks after his children and enjoys the personal friendship of the Pope. A daughter has been born tohim, The Pope has consented to baptize the little princess. It isa good thing, so far as the Pope's friendship goes, to be a Bourbon or to belong to the ancien régime, Rome is now the asylum of the dethroned monarchs. How many there are who can toll? But they are allin Rome. It is manifest that the Pope is a fast friend; but it is not less manifest that he is a slow scholar, In him Thomas and Peter are strangely intermingled. Napoleon for twenty years has preserved the Pope in house and home; but Napoleon cannot get from the Pope even the first favor. Napoleon waits for the Pope to come to Paris and crown him, The Prince Imperial was baptized hy the hands of a subordinate. This Pontifical ‘Bourbon and water” business is suggestive, and it will not be wonderful if it yet produces strange fruit, Tir Kertit A AND THE Pot= One, a Bohe- mian opéra bouffe journal, calling another opira bouge journal “a two cent dip,” “a blockhead,” a “blackguard,” and other pet names of that sort. The irate Bohemian pro- tests too much. Tue SQuatrEers on THe ‘Rooks, —It will be seen by perusal of an article on “Squatter Sovereignty,” published elsewhere, that there is in this metropolis one of the most inviting and vast flelds for missionary enterprise ever opened to the vision of any apostle of Carey orthe Abbé Huc, The facts therein stated were gleaned by one of our reporters, and only represented in their true and unembellished aspect, a Mr. Seward’s Grand Excarsion. Since the venerable sage of Auburn departed from his quiet retreat in the interior of this State and started on his solf-imposed tour through the Continent his progress has been distinguished by the brilliancy and warmth of the receptions which have everywhere been awarded him, His warm welcome to the city of San Francisco was as genial as tho breath of a summer's day on the Pacific slope and as rich as the products of its generous soil. It sent a thrill of pleasure through the venerable statesman’s heart as the last echo of departing farewells fell upon his ears as he passed through the Golden Gate and the prow of the vessel which bore him away was turned to Alaska, the latest territorial acquisition of the United States, And with this new Terri- tory the name of Seward is indissolubly con- nected, The greetings which awaited bim in the frozen North were none the leas enthusi- astic than those which welcomed him to the Golden State of California, It is scarcely to be wondered at, therefore, that in the excess of his joy and the exuberance of his feelings Mr. Seward might have been led to exclaim, in his admiration of Alaska, that it is a land ‘where at the same time the great American eagle delights to soar the humming bird does not disdain to flutter.” His stay in the northern regions was such as he may well feel proud of, and the recollections of his visit will never pass from his memory. After leaving the cold but not to him inhos- pitable North Mr. Seward bent his course to the republic of Mexico. On the 7th of Octo- ber last he entered the port of Manzanilla, and here again were the warm welcomes every- where showered on him repeated. He was saluted by the forts on the shores, the waving of flags from the masts of vessels and the staffs on the housetops; the vivas of the people who lined the shores greeted him, and when he touchéd Mexican soil ho was met by the Gov- ernor of Colima and his staff, who in the name of President Juarez and the Mexican people welcomed the illustrious American to Mexico. His departure from tho city, his: arrival at Guadalajara and his entry into the national capital on the 15th of November was one grand triumphal march. Everywhere was he received with marks of respect. By all classes was he honored, Indeed, it seems to have been reserved for Mexico to impart the crowning glories to his progress, The Mexi- can people evidently had not forgotten Mr. Seward’s course during the dark days of the republic—when foreign legions paraded her free cities and when the mansion of her repnb- lican presidents was changed into an imperial palace and occupied by a foreign prince. The brilliant reception given Mr. Seward in Mexico contradicts the oft-repeated assertion that republics are ungrateful. On the 27th ult, a grand ball was given in his honor in, the National Palace by President Juarez. It wah attended by the most notable of the national capital, and wealth and beauty joined in tho throng. Mr. Seward must have felt happy that night. He was in his element when so surrounded. In the course of his remarks in reply to the toast given by Seflor Lerdo de Tejada he said:—“‘His sole ambition in visit- ing Mexico was to inspire the American people with a thorough understanding of the destinies of this Continent. Although originally colo- nized by European monarchies, yet, sooner or later, it must be made entirely independent of foreign control and of every form of despotic government.” In those utterances Mr, Seward touched the chord note of the sentiments of the American people. On the 18th instant he bade adien to President Juarez and departed from the capital, intend- ing to staya few days at Puebla and Jalapa, and then proceeding to Vera Cruz, from which place he was to embark for Havana. Regarding Mr, Seward’s excursion, it has proved a grand ovation thronghout. He has been dined and wined to his heart's content. Ample opportunity has been given him for speechmaking, and he never missed a chance. Among the miners of California has he made merry; the fur-covered inhabitants of Alaska have welcomed him, and to their greetings has he responded with his usual grace; when in Mexico he received the homage of a people and was still the recipient of favors and honors, he bore them all with becoming modesty, though he enjoyed them to his fullest bent, We hope before he returns home he will take a look at Samana; it will recall old Dominican associations, and President Baez, no doubt, will give him a hospitable welcome, Let him also call at St. Thomas; but he should beware of earthquakes. By all means let him pay a visit to Cuba, make the acquaintance of Captain General Do Rodas, and if he does not feel like assuring the valiant Spaniard that all the real estate this side of the Atlantic must, sooner or luter, “be made entirely independent of foreign control and of every form of despotic government,” be can say something more palatable, if not as true, for Seward has an excellent tonguo as well as facile pen, and isan adept in the use of both, Tary Wii Make tHe Fur Fry—The democrats at Albany, with the first full swing they have had for twenty odd years, ‘Turn about is fair play.” Make room, ye rubicund inside radicals of our city commissions, for the outside hungry ones of the democracy. The wise old birds of the wigwam are for caution; but the outsiders are for action, and action may be expected. A Resstan Batt.—The report made to the Board of Health in regard to a bathing establishment in Broadway tells a disgusting story that ought to excite the attention of all bathers in public places, At the establishment in question they practice, it seems, a great economy in water, and take it from the main only twice a week. Water once used for hath is not thrown away, but is ran into a tank and used again if the supply of fresh water for the half week runs short. Water, it appears, is thus repeatedly used by successive bathers until it becomes intolerably offensive to the neighborhood, What must it be to the bathers, and how is the patronage of such a place kept up? Doubtless the simple publica- tion of these facts will glut up that place, But is this thing done at all public bathing places, and if so is not the punishment of somebody necessary for the public salety ? There is no extreme of filthiness that mer- cenary people will spxre the public; but is there no restraint in the law ?