The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1869, Page 4

ahd NEW YO BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. RK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIV. NTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THRATRE, Wdst., boiwoea Sih and 6th ave. Gor MasxwRia, 7 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway.—UNDER THR GAs- Liar, ii FIFTH. AYENUS THEATRS, Twenty-fourth ot.—Tas Duxe's Morro. paste one: ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth streot.—HrekMANN, THD Gear PRESTIDIGITATEOR NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tus Duams oF Livre Ew. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor ner Thirtioth AS atiuee daily, Periurmauce every evening. BOWERY TMEATRE, Rowen ov Tru—Bakev ALIVE—THE i WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway aud 1th street.— Bangorrns—Texine It ON- THE TAMMANY, Fourieenta strectyeTux BuuLEsQue or Bap Dickey, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenus aod 8d street. -LINGARD'S BUBLESQUB COMBINATION. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSB, 1 Bowery.—Comtc VoCALisn, NEGRO MINSTRELS, 0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 8M Broadway.—Comio Vooat- sx, NR@ko Acts, £0. ie BRYAN?'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14h SL. —BGYANT'S MINGIRELS. BAN [BANctaco MINSTRELS, PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO WAVERLEY THRATR PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO NEW YoRK Ci » Fourteenth sirent,—EQUssrntan AND GyMNasStio PanrORMANCDS, 4c, Matinee at 2h. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! Brooklya.—Hoon#y's MINeTRELS—Tas PETE tT, &o. . APOLLO HALL, corner CABDIFF GIANT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 013 Broadway. GOIBNOT AND Ant LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6i8}s Brondwhy.—FEWALES ONLY LX ATTEND. =a eens New York, Thursday, December 30, 1869. 10, THT ARMORER ND. 685 Broa tway.--EtKI0- 0, —“H AB. 20 Broadway. —Buxto- 1. , t aud Broadway.—Tur CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advortisements, S—Advertisements. @—Editorials ; Leading Article oa Mr, Sumner Box- log the Compass—Bontwell at the “Hub!— News from Washington. 6—Telographic News from All Parts of the World— The Ocean Yacnt Race—The Murdered Watch man in. Brooklyn—Central Police Omce Notes—The Board of Public Health—Repubii- can Reorganization—The Defaulting Cashier— The Ground Work of Fatth—Was it a Mar- der?—New York Liberal Club—Busiuess Notices, G-Through the Tombs—Corresponience from Cuba—The Foreign Mail Service—Municipal AMuirs—The Delinquent Police—The Post Ofiice Jobbing Committee—The Lewis Kid- napping Case—The September Gold Muddie— Inposing Ceremony—Naval Intelligence, %—The Byron Scandal—The Bond Forgery Case— Financiai and Commercial Reports—The Coai Trade—Shocking Matrict¢e—Fratracide—Tho Olio Legisiature—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- vertisements, §—News from Europe—Suicide of a Prisoner—Ean- cational—Hudson River Navigation— New York City and Police Tnteliigence—The Courts—Ship- ping News—Adverlisements. Sgoretary Bovrwexs. made a speech in Boston yesterday, which, not being upon finance, may “have been quite sound, but is of no importance whatever, Toe CHoINKSE MissiON.—A oii raising this mission to a first class one will be reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs at an early day. Our relations with China aro becoming a question on which national poli- tics may turn ina few years, considering the steady immigration of Chinese on our Pacific coast, and the bill ought to be passed, Taz Posr Orrice Jospers.—The House Oommiitee to Retard the Building of the new Post Office arrived in this city yesterday, and, vory consistently, held their first meeting with closed doors. It was too much to expect that the work which has been progressing so finely could be allowed to go on much longer without some Congressional jobbing. ~* pit sv De en Tm ArtorsgyY GENERALsHIP.—It fa stated from Washington that Mr. Hoar, in a private letter, expresses his intention to resign his position after the recess, in order to relieve the President from the embarrassment of having a person in his Cabinet who is ob- noxious to Congress. The President does not feel inclined to urge his resignation, but will undoubtedly accept it. Tak Nexr Prstio Denr Statement, it appears, will not make so favorable an exhibit as the preceding ones, Since General Grant's inauguration the monthly statements have shown an average decrease in the debt of about seven millions of dollars, but we must be content this month with a decrease of about three millions of dollars, The cause of the dif- ference is the light return from customs and internal revenue. Tae Szprewprr Gory Muppre is not entirely clarified yet. Gould, Smith & Martin, Albert Speyers, the Gold Board and a number ef other actors in the startling drama of “Money,” as it was played on the day af the gold panic in Wall sireet, have again been liti- gating before Judge Barnard. The result, as is usual in these Wall street cases, is that some party is tied up by an fajunction, New Year's Day at rue Wuire Movsy,.— Contrary to previous reports, President Grait announces that lie will receive on New Year's Day. Three hours will be dovoted to the social @uty—from eleven till two—during which time he will receive tho foreign Ministers, Cabinet Members, Senators, Representatives, Judges of the Supreme Court, military and naval officers, soldiers of the War of 1812 and the oldest inhabitants. A Coriovs Cask of Coneiiotixa Eyt- DENOR.—A night watchman ot a warehouse in Brooklyn, named Hayos, was shot at his post on Taesday night aud died yesterday. Ip his dying statement he said that a junk dealer named Porry, whom he well knew, and with whom he spoke, warning him off the premises, 8 few moments before the shooting, was his marderer, The man Perry appeared at the Sofferson Market Police Court yesterday and gave himself up, saying that he was innocent of the murder, had been drunk for a number of days, and had been a warm friend of the murdered.man, THe was held for an examina- tion, The caso presente a chance for our shrewdest criminal lawyors to decide the question as to which story Is trae—whetler it | is an instance of mistaken identity gr a bold | subs of w criminal for bis safety, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1869, By. Gamncr Boxing the Compass. The learned Senator from Massachusetts begins to find himself in a quandary on tho Cuban question, and is shifting from one point to another to make it appear that he is consistent in his inconsistencies. A short time ago he placed his opposition to the Cuban cause and the recognition of the Cubans by’ the United States on the ground that slavery had not been abolished by the insurrectionary government, or that there was no evidence to that effect, This appeared to be the only or principal cause for hia opposition, for he inti- mated that if he were satisfied that the Cubans had abolished slavery he might give them encouragement or support. This seemed to be the sine quad non, and it was quite con- sistent with Mr. Sumner’s life-long hostility to slavery and special regard for the negro. Weil, overwhelming evidence came, and that in oficial form—in the constitution of the Cuban government—that slavery was abolished and would only exist where Mr, Sumner’s Spanish friends heid the power to maintain it. True, the Senator pretended to disbelieve this for some time, though everybody else aoknow- ledged the fact, Driven from this untenable ground, the Senator next pretends that there is no evidence of war, worthy ef being go called, in Cuba. Tn refutation of this assumption General Prim acknowledged publicly in Spain that the Spanish government had been compelled to send forty thousand troops to Cuba, and that the shipment of more has been constantly going on, This looks something like war, though Mr. Sumner pretends not to see the fact. Indeed, Spain has been straining all her efforts for some time to put down the insurrec- tion. But if there were no war, or an in- significant one merely, why build thirty gun- boais in the United States, and why send out large armies and fleets to operate inand around Cuba? The assumption that there is no war, or only an insignificent one, is ridiculous in the face of such facts, and it is surprising how a manin Mr. Sumover’s position could in- sult the common sense of the American people by the statements he hag made, ‘Then, the news we are receiving from time to time, though mostly through Spanish sources, shows that a serious war, covering a Jarge part of the island, 1s going on, and that, though the Cuban patriots wisely follow that exhaustive policy of guerilla warfare which is best for them, and which nearly ell people fighting for their independence have followed, they are a match for their enemies whenever they meet them in the field, and that they have been gaia- ing ground and strength all through the fifteen months’ contest. The mere assertion of Mr. Sumner or of any one else that the insurrec- tion is growing weaker proves nothing, is without foundation and contrary to the facts. Indeed, all the evidence goes to show that the insurrection, as was said, grows strouger from month to month, Now the Senator changes his ground again. Not daring to declare boldly tgat ho is the friend of the Spaniards, or that he is opposed toa people heroically struggling to free them-, selves from the most atrocious despotism on earth—for such an avowal, though true, would shock the American people—he now says he does not want Cuba to become a part of the United States or the Cubans to be annexed. He prefers that the island and people should belong to Spain, no matter bow cruel the despotism over them or how they mgy suffer, And this is the pretended great apostle of liberty; this is the man who has heretofore pretended to sympathize with all people struggling for freedom; this is the ancient champion of negro emancipation, He has no bowels of compassion for the eight hundred thousand white people of Cuba who have been ground to the dust by Spanish tyranny, and he seems no longer to have any hostility to negro slavery as long as tt ia main- tained by Spain. He does not want the Cubans annexed because they speak a foreign language, and, as he says, because the mass of them know little about our customs or institu- tions, Does Mr. Sumner not know that nearly all the leading Cuban patriota—the men to whom the people look up for guidance—the men who must control the destiny of Cuba should it become free—were educated in the United States and understand our institutions well? Does he not, know that the Cubans stand second to none in intelligence of all the Spanish-American populations of North and South America? Mr, Sumner was not so par- ticular about making American citizens of igaor- ant people when he put the ballot in the “hands of the negroes of the Sonth and made legislators of those who hardly knew their right hands from their left. But away with such subterfuges, for they are nothing else, Mr, Sumner, it seems, is opposed to all progress of the United States southward—to the acquisition of any territory in that direction. What a pity Guba could not be moved bodily and hitched on to Masenchu- setts! That would make all the difference in the Senator's sympathies and views about | liberty. Yet he talks about the destiny of this couniry in ultimately absorbing the West Indies, though it fs certain he intends to put a drag upon that destiny as far as he has the power. What a mass of inconsistencies a man rung into when hia objects are in conflict with his professions or theories! Who doos not know that this great country, the Romo of the New World, can absorb, educate and make good citizens of any or all the surrounding populations without detriment to our institu- tions or character? The Cubans would be a valuable, though a small portion of our population, The Americans would soon mako their beautiful and productive island blossom a8 @ rose and become a mine of wealth. Even now. its productions and commerce are im- mensely valuable, We should have the sugar monopoly of the world, as we now have that of cotton, It would give a vast impetus to the revival of our mercantile marine and shipping interests, and it would give to the United States the strongest naval and military position over the Antilles, as a protection to our South- ern and Gulf coast and as dominating all the countries bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Yet this is the magnifi- cent, rich and valuable islaad Mr, Sumner pretends to turn up his nose at, Let us hope tho administration and Congress will have more wisdom and will take a more states- monlike view of the matter than the shortsighted and prejudiced Massachusetts Senator, Tho French Ministry. Tho news advices from the Old World which we publish to-day are of considerable interest and in many respects important. The reports reach us by cable telegrams conveying areflex of the situation as it presented last evening. Napoleon’s change of Ministry in Paris appears, from the first named source, pretty much in the Nght of an executive shufMe, undertaken and carried out in a very adroit manner, with the view of disoom- fiting his political opponents by demonstrating their inability, orgs least their want of prepara- tion, to undertake the duties and ojficial bur- dena which ensue from Cabinet responsibility. Two of the most prominent members of the legislative party of the Left Centre refused to serve in the new ministry. The Premier expectant, M, Ollivier, then fell back on the right centre, but, as is alleged, was equally unsuccessful in his search of fit and Proper personages for this very high trust association, two gentlemen of lend =oin §=that «wing declining the proffered portfolios, In this dilemma the Emperor, who may have beconte timid of ruling alone—g rather extreme probability— “sent for" his old executive, MM. Magne, Lebouef and Rignault, who will retain their positions of the Departments of Finance, War and Marine. M. Rouher is named President of the Senate, There may remain some little diluted and sugared “pap” for the radicals; but, with the above named portfdlios in friendly hands his Majesty is likely to “be Vicar of Bray,” or, as our democratio friends ia New York torm it, at the ‘‘top of the heap,” a little longer. AvyotuEr Ex Barrie.—Erie has fought another batile and again come off victorious, The agents of the company last night entered the office of the Atlantic and Great Western* Railroad Company, at No, 40 Broadway, seized the books of that corporation and, after a little skirmish with Mr. Kennedy and his peter carried thefr poigt by the aid of Judge | arnard, and ut this montent arg doubtless jubilant over a hard-earned victory. The bone of contention was the receivership of the Atlantic snd Great Western Company. Toe OcraN Maw Servioz.—The dificulty between the Post Office Department and the steamers that have hitherto carried letters can searcely prove any impediment to commerce if the views taken by Mr. Creswell are cer- rect. The Postmaster General says that let- ters receive no more care on shipboard than first class freight. First class freight is paid for at ten dollars a ton, and the letters, even atthe reduced rates, pay the steamers over two thousand dollars per ton, Why not send the letters by any steamer as first class freight? Is not all the excess beyond the price ol” freight subsidy? Our postal department prof- fers‘an ample prive for this mail service, even at the reduced rates; but it Is only natural that the steamship companies object to the reduction of rates. We hope, however, if the government is to pay inthe future an enormous price for letters in the way of subsidy, that subsidy may be paid to an American line of steamers, e Tar Orv m Serr Tne Coe Weare letter from Cuba intorms us of fresh arrivals of troops from Spain. Since October over seventeen thousand fighting men have landed on Cuban soil, and they are not done coming yet. Many of the recent importations have come to Cuba to stay—carpot-baggers, in fact, under the more euphonious title of Spanish volunteers. Notwithstandipg these accessions the Cubans are slowly gaining ground. Valma- seda atill cries for help in the Eastern Depart- ment, and the hurried wanner in which the Captain General is forwarding troops to that locality evidently shows that the commandMg general in tho Last is having a hard road to travel. Tae Srook Excnancr 1s Covetr—A Cagcx Uron THe Brokkrs.—The decision of Judge Barnard in the case of Compton against the Stock Exchange will put a check upon the unbridled license of the stock brokers. There has been too much ‘‘margin” in law on the Stock Exchange, and brokers have been carry- ing things with a high hand, forgetting that when they got a man’s property into their hands to dispose of they were mere ogents like other people and accountuble, not only to the ifidividual doing business with thom, but tothe law of the State. The assumption of the Stock Exchange to adjudicate upon this particular case has been very properly rebuked by the Judge; for, as he says, this body of private individuals does not constitute a court of judicature and cannot deprive any one of his rights before the law. . A Winter Rueorsnine iN ran Hupsos— One of the most curious freaks of the present weather is‘the unusual reopening of naviga- tion on the Hudson. Two weeks ago there was an ice blockade all the way north of Poughkeepsie, The usuai travel was stopped, Ferryboats were laid up for the winter and numerous canal boats and small craft were firmly bound, without any prospect of escape until next April or May. Now all this is changed. The blockade is broken. Ferryboats ore running again and some of the regular lines of steamboats have actually resumed their trips on short routes. This is the moat extraordinary freak the Hudson has played since the days of its discoverer, Tur O1p Story—A man of regular and, temperate habits, twenty-five years connected with the bank and having the unbounded con- fidence of the directors; but he was fond of a little speculation and of making a splurge at Long Branch, and the result is a defalcation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bis accounts, Tuk Inrropvorony Carter or Mus, Stows's New Book on THe Byrox Soaxpay, which we present io another column, is proba- bly the most Interesting chapter {n the book. To elaborate the horrible mess that she gave before is simply disgusting; but io her intro- ductory chapter she reiterates her faith in the trath of the story and promises to prove her assertions, She sayy that she did not read in full the abusive articles about her, but had friends to cull and prepare them for her. The storm exceeded her expeetationa and surprised her the more comiog from her countrymen, with whom, she says, above all others, the eause of woman wag safe aud sacred, i ——“—sS————s—sSSis ‘The Swill Dilik Nutsnnce-A Remedy. The revival of the complaint about the poisonous quality of the milk furnished to the public, which Mr, Bergh has very properly adverted to, suggests at once the question, is there no better remedy than a more strict enforcement of existing laws? The cause of } this putrid and abominable fluid being supplied to families is said to be the housing of cows In close, unventilated stables, where they are on distillery slops and other foul matter. It is not dificult to discover that tho reason for this Is the want of pasture land in the vicinity of the city, upon which the. cattle can be fed on wholesome material. The city has spread over all the adjacent land to such an extent that there is hardly an acre of green ground left for pasturage. It is absurd to suppose that Orange county or Queens county can supply a tenth part of the milk used in this city and Brooklyn, It is a pleasant fiction about the pastoral regions upon the milk- men’s wagons, thatlegand of ‘Orange County Milk” and ‘Queens County Milk.” According to Bergh, the lacteal fluid which does not come from the street pumps and hydrants comes from the filthy stables of diseased cows—s much more delusive and offensive source, The remedy, then, for this state of things would appear to be plain. There are thou- sands of acres of swamp lands on Long Island, and even within our reach on Staten Island, which can be reclaimed and con- verted into splendid pasture lands, We have an evidence already that it has been done with great success in Jersey, and why not be done here? To obtain pure milk we must have well fed cows. The animals must live on grass and hay, not on the residue of fusel oil and decayed grain. We are sur- prised that capitalists do not go to work and reclaim the now worthless tidal marshes that lie all about the city and turn them into rich pasture lands, Tho soil is just fitted for that purpose if for no other, Tho figcat grass in tnd World can be raised upon ft, With half a militon acres added to the cultivated lands in our immediate vicinity there would bo no longer any necessity nor any excuse for merchandise in swill milk. Tae CuBan Sugar Quzstion.—The sugar planters of Cuba have been getting their anger aroused by the supposition that an additional duty of two cents per potind will be charged by the Collector of the Port of this city on certain kinds of sugar imported here, The Spaniards don't like this, and by way of retalia- tion they propose to urge upon the Captain General the policy of not allowing any more American machinery to enter the island. Good. Suppose, then, his Excellency should commence by rejecting the thirty new gunboats built in New York, A TaMMaNy Movement in Jersty.—Some of the Jersey politicians, seeing the powor of the Tammany organization and how it holds this city and what magnificent dividends it makes in tho way of spoils, want to get up a similar machine over the river. They forget that they have not the main fact, however, in not having the richest city of the Continent to operate in, Or: —' the State Prison Assoglation praventen gose case for Legislative work this comiog session. The disgraceful facts disclosed by these gen- tlemen should have been acted upon by the last Legislatare, and probably would have been had the State Prison Committee of the House been an efficient one, Governor Hoffman sent a special message to the Assembly upon the condition of the State prisons, recommending the building of a new prison on the reformatory plan, but no matured action was had upon it, The great grievance {a our State Prison system appears to be want of room for the proper accommodation and the enforcement of discl- pline among the convicts, From these causes arose the frequent émeutes at Auburn, Sing Sing and Clinton, sometimes resniting fatally to keepers and convicts. The Governor will no doubt recommend some remedy in bis forth- coming message, and it is to be hoped that the Legislature will give immediate attention to the subject. AN Urn. Jos.—Greeley urges, in the appointment of the new General Republican Committee for this city, that no man be chosen “who does the hidding of the Tammany ring.” We are afraid that this rule cannot be enforced, because, while the Tammany ring has the money wherewith to buy hungry republicans at their own price, they will be bought and the party will be sold, Tae Brisror Tavatre Disasrer.—A panic lost Monday night in the theatre at Bristol, Hogland, caused the death of eighteen per- sons and serions, perhaps fatal, injury to many more. This sad ocourrence shonid lead imme- diately to redoubled precautions against the possibility of eimflar disasters in the theatres of New York. We are glad to be assured that the utmost paing are taken at Wallack’s, at Niblo’s, at Booth’s and at the Grand Opera against the danger of accjdental fre, But at all the theatres in town such precantions should be made, and especially the facilities for safe egres in case of o panic should be multiplied. It ought to be remembered, morever, that fright is even more perilous thau fire, and that when either a false or a real alarm is given the most prudent thing for an audience fs to keep their self-possession and, usually, their seats, Travetters’ Bagosor.—It hag just been decided in a baggage case that steamship com- panies are Mable for the lose of passengers’ baggage. The passenger had taken his valise into the stateroom and it was stolen from thence, The company argued that he had not placed the baggage in the place made ready for it and that he had taken charge of it himself, and so relieved them of tha responsibility. The court held that a passenger could not take charge of his baggage in such a way as to relieve the company while it was on the ship. Tne Biacrst Man in the Senate wants to gohome, This Is Mr, Pratt, of Indiana. He is uneasy at Washington—which is a prime evidence that he is in his right mind—and he says that he is useless to his constituency in the Senate because he is too old to begin a life of political scheming. How bucolic they are in Indiana to elect a man to the Senate with a constitutional aversion to political echeming. BOUTWELL AT THE “HUB.” A Very Ordinary Lecture to a Very Lntelli- gent Andience—Financial Matters but L'ghtly Touched Upon—A Great eal About Slavery and Ter- ritorial Expansion. J Boson, Dec. 29, 1869. Train and Boutwolt have been the rival lecturers 4n Boston this week, The first seeks the Presidency and the latter is content with tho Treasury ; but both seem to think that the virth and perpetuation pt their favorite powers is invested in the suifrages of the Bostonians, aud hence it 1s, perhaps, that they both put their best foot forward here, Train apoke two nights, The first eventag he had nearly a hundred listeners and the second night thore Were about 500 present, Boutwell, the Secre- tary of the Treasury, followed in succes. sion after Train, and he had aw audience of some 1,500, comprising more representatives of wealth than were ever before assembied in Music Hall, All the merchants of tho ‘Hub’ were there in the front seats, and every drop and dripping from the mouth of the Treasury Secretury they took im, expecting the preliminary as a sort of Delmonico soup to the sudstantiais which were to lollow. The meate, however, wore not forthcoming; for when ail got warmed up by the soups, only partially savory, the roat bill of fare seemed to nave been skipped, And the entertainment was most unceremoniously ended. As before described the Boston mercantile community sat in front seats, each and ali eager and expentant forsuch cha and wheat as the chief ma- chinery of the Treasury mul might griud out. ‘The lecturer stated at the outset tuat he had come without preparation to fulfil an engagement in- cautiously made long ago, and proceeded in a General way to review the causes and the results of the late war, with particular regard to the future of tho country. He said that if the years of our national life were divided ito periods of ten yeara, the decade now closing would undoubtedly prove the most important, The seventy years previous to 1860 had been a constant struggle betweet two hostile Powers of civilization in the nation. He had reason to velleve that haa thero been per. sons of eminence to defend glayery before the adoption of 146 “federal constitution, the system would have been destroyed. Every. body believed that it would die out, that it had been local tn its character and destitute of power. ‘The framers of the constitution recornizing t gave political power in the government, Tire intro- duction of cotton as the staple of the # soon gave it @ new importance. Siavery was not denounced but tolerated at that periog. Subse- quently it was attacked and defende4, when it pie- gented @ new aspect. It was inevitable that ina free country an ilvestigation of the sysicm by tho ople would end in its desiruction. in the contest for the Ereatesy OBe8 Section, in its way, succeoded— the South by its wealth, coutred 'a » i fided by the constitution in gatuing con't: ol the moverh- ment; the North, by tts mdustry aud enterprise in developing {ts vast commercial, mercantile and in- dustrial resources, ‘Shug when the war came the orth was rich in material, avd had the South been competled to rely on its own resources the contest would not have iasted more than two and~a half years. When tha representatives of the South relinquished thelr seats in Congress they gbandoped the power they had gained. ‘The result was the destruction of slavery, the adoption of the thirteenth coustitutional amendment and the subsequent ratuficauion of the fourteenth to secure the advantages gained by the thirteenth. ‘Tue ratin- cation of the fifteenth amendment wail secure to all the equal right to elect and be elected to ofice; nob social equality merely, but the egpeiey Which abol- ishes the distinction between the citizen and the serl, Cee thes | bhe great truth that ail meu are created equal.” Mr, Boutwell said there was a mis- understanding i the public mind as to the simpli cation of the words “rignt to be elecied tv public employment." it was Lnte that by law a citizen ‘Was not excluded. The right existed tu the people Lo elect him who was best able to perform tie dutics, There were men who threw themselves upon the poopie for their suffrages by popularity, openly or indirectly sought, !n contradisiinciion to’ those who were sought for by the people to meet emergencies, ay eal gained, as in the firat instance, Was & disgrace to tts possessor. In the latter category the lecturer ciassed she late Mr, Stanton, who, he claimed, did aa much to secure the Union victory as did any Soldier who fought at Ger tysburg, and whose character should be heid up tor the imitation of the coming mea. ‘The great events ofthe decade have furnished to the people, Nort and South, White aud black, equality of op: Pras "y = Saath’ had Waa ananad tr a sjimtone instruction the advantage of which could adequately estimated. Tue public sentiment of the North, aided by the iuniticence of the late George Peabody, was opening schools which, by their @ section Great, pubiic education of the ‘musges, will prove in after years the sastaint: prop of the republic, It matters not the rich do withdraw their children 1 will not pr-judice the system. The labor question lad veen agitated re- cently to @ great extent in ite North. something had beeu done for it by opening up ike South, ric! tu its agricultural, miuing aud river resources, al- ready revealed, or their use made possivic by the events of the war. It was impossibie that there should be equality of condition, though sometiung had been accompilshed toward it, the revolution Of 1775 broke the chain that bound us to ingland, but it left a subject class, ‘The last revolution ele vated all. THE FINANCES AND TEREITORIAL RXPANSION. It was truo, the Secretary remarker, tuat the events of the past ten yoars nad left their diMcuities in the loss of commerce, .the creauon of a vast public national debt and & system of taxation that was deemed burdensome. Placing whatoyer estimate you pleage upon these di ficulties, even the largest. aunounr, there 18 sti!l upon the ledger a large balance to thé credit of the nation, MH the country remained at peace (and there was no tudication to the contrary) the public debt would be soon considerably reduced, and its final liquidation would not be very remow. It had been asserted, Mr. Boutwell said, that the americans a4 a nation Were grosping—anxious for extension of territory. This assertion he desired emphaticaily Coatradiet; tor witain the past twentf- five years (he government haa Tepentediy rejected Proflered territory. He tusianved Mexico, which Was once tn possession of the United stu.es troops, but the government accepted only a iew outiyiny States and ‘paid for them liberally. ‘the Sandwic! Islands, he had reason to know, bad been tendered |} yeara ago; aud other islands have from time to time been offered and rejected. Wo take no- thing by oppression. Otuer nations take by force of arms, ours by force .of idoas, If by such force othera desire to join us we will constdér tueir pro) Ws, ‘There shonld pe nothing m our public debt to prevent such an extension by peaceiul means. We should so reduce it during peace that {n the event of another war our credit Would hold good, Taxation is an evil that ahontd be reduced as gulckly. as possibie. Bat tnere are greater ey 18 Gs tt meant the rettuction of a deds—with Eu- ieee nations the Lag. bys Of siauding armios. ‘o alluding to the destruction of American com- Merce by the war Mr. Boucweil said that nope doubted what the remodlal course should be, though uo platforta could be devised to accomplish its re+ storation—the union of government aud people. [n ciosing he said that there was @ fniure Amer: jea that cotld ve better compreneuded now than tn 166% fAnglana’y American colouies are yet to accept the American idea which has spanned tho Continent, pringing the Pavific under commercial control, which as couqnered the worst and set up the beter, ‘Tho disbandment of ner armies, when the war ended, was an bs tengo proof of her sta- blity as Was thelr assombling when tt frat hogun; and the world will sooa learn that a govcrmment by the people for the people is far preferabie than a government of the poopie against thetr wishes, Mr. Boutwell was Ocoastouaily applauded, though conalderavlé disappointinent was apparent at nis avoidance of the special imancial toptes gow gener. ally duwcussed, BROUMLYN INTELLIGENCE, Danine Higtway RonseRy.~—A few evenings gince a gentigman who resides in Schermernorn street, near Boud, was assuulted by a coupte of ‘footpads" while proceeding howe through the former named street, between Court aud Clinton. He was knocked down by the raMians, Who rifed hia pocketa of their contents, Consisting Of a gold watch and fifty dollars t money, and made good their escape. Curigras Faerivar or Sr, Jotn’s Scoot. The Chrigtmas festival of tho St. Jonn's Metpouist Episcopal Sabvata school was held on Tucaday evening, tn the church, on Bedford avenue, The spectacle prreensed upon entering the butiding— wnich is oe comme Lelia, w this denon. nation in the r¥—Was Wall calculated to ry the aense Of beauty. Su in front of organ was the mon of the school, Dding ‘Was Tange sta ‘of the saute. taser, a Ww a same niateria! wile on ther side of th fe gallery were scriptural ions of the Seviour,in “tiretconstruction of Gneistmas trees of huge. proportions ; ristinas trees ied for children ‘and teobters, oovupled the piat- ‘orm, The nt OF tie sekoot Jato the church, with beautiful silk banners of various hues, tid an at the same time playing @ grand march, ‘was quite 1m) ‘Lhe pre mye consisted of 108 choruses, the music having been “Notes of Joy,’ a new Sunaay school book prepared by the wife of the superiatendont, Mr. Joseph F. Knapp, who, in the oourse of the even- ing, wae with aibumea, Cog Dhoto- raphe “of the scholars. It Is hopod that next year Kiceeta of admission will be provided, 40 as to t juvonile “#calawags"’ crowalt jt ationdants of the church, who ytribate by apm and pecuniary aid wy we ts 100s WASHINGTON. Georgia Once More Out of the Union. Order Placing Georgia Under Mili- tary Rule. Senators Urging a Chango in Prosident Grant’s Cabinet, - —_— Wasttnaroy, Deo, 29, 1869. Georgin’s Hamiliation Completed—Order Pinos ing the §tnte Under Military Rate. ‘The following is the oMcial order assigning Gene- ral Terry to the command of the Military District of Georgia, to which attention was frat called in the Hexacp of the 24th :;— GRNEKAL ORDERS—NO, 83, HRADQUARTRRS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICH, ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec, 24, 1800, Brevet Major Gencral A. H. Terry, m addition to hia duties as Department Commander of the South, is, by order of the Prosident of the United States, ap- pointed to exercise the duties of Commanding Geae- ral of the District of Georgia, as detined by the act of Congress approved Deceiuber 22, 1849. By command of General SHERMAN, B.D. TowNnseND, Adjutant General, Tt will ne “seen by the above that Georgia 14 ra- mitted to military rule, a8 predicted in these de spatches of Friday last, The President construod the Georgia bill to mean this, and did not see bow it conid be executed without it, Thts order will con: tinue in force until Georgia is admitted ta topra- sentation tn both houses of Congress. Fublic Debt Statemor%,° ‘The pubile debt statement will »,ot be published tilt next Monday. The presep® indications are there Will Dot be adagrease of over $3,000,009, thetreceipts from Gustéms and internal revenue having veen comparatively light, Those from the latter tu-aay were only $320,500, Seuators Urging the Attorney Generals Ree movol—<foars Lutended Resigantion. Senators who rematn here through the recess are urging upon the President the removal of Attorney General Hoar from the Cabinet. The President a not disposed to coerce Hoar to resign, but if the iatter tenders Lis resignation it is understood jt will be accepied, It 13 said a private letter has heen re. ceived here from Judge Hoar, who Is now absent froin the city, stating that no will resign soon after the recess. Ho will do this, notin compliance with the wish of the Senate, but to keep the President svom being embarrassed by having in his Cabinet a person obnoxtous to & majority of Congress. Judge Pierrepont, of New York, and Benjamin H. Brew- ster, of Pennsylvania, are prominently mentioned ag tloar’s successor. Tho Chinege Mission, — Tt 13 understood that the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will, at an early day, report a bill raising the mission to China to one of the frst claas, This is in accordance with the recommendation of the President’s Message, and it has the approvat ofa majority & the committee and, it is believed, of the Seuate and House. The new Minister to China, Governor Low, leit with the understanding that tls action should be taken, New Year’s Reception at the White House. Announcement ls made by authority that at eleven o’ciock A. M., New Year's day (Saturday), the iat of January, 1870, the President will receive the mem- bers of his Cabinet and foreign Ministers; at nalf- past eleven A. M. the Judges of the Supreme Oourt, United States Senators and Representatives in Con- gress. The Judges of the Supreme Court of the Dis triet of Columbia will be received at twelve o’clock, and the officers of the army and navy and marine corps will be recetved at quarter past twelve o'clock The associated soldiers of the war of 1812 and the mombers of the Oldest Inhabitants’ Association of the District of Columbia will be received, The re- wian of citizens will corameuce a¢ haif-past weive, at whtole ‘ine tle gates of the enclosure will be thrown opon. The reception will terminate at two o'clock P, M. Ladies will be received. Car- yiages will approach the Executive Mansion by tue eastern gate and leave by the western gate. The President’s Visitors During Holtdeys, The President. a2 @ rule, during these holdays dose not generally receive Visitors. A few only of his more intimate friends occasionally call. The Rumored Resignation of Senator Pratt Denied. The statement that Senator Pratt, of Indiana, has xesigned hia position in the United States Senate ts denied by authority from that gentlemen. Io ‘hag not resigned, vor does he intend to resign, that ofice. The Brokerw and Bankers’ Tax. A committee of five members of the Philadelphia Board of Brokers watted upon Commissioner Delano to-day to Complain that the Internal revenue officiala arein the nabit of taxing all brokers as bankers, whetuer they keep deposits on hand or not. Thoy ar- gued that many brokers do-nothing but a commission business and are not bankers within the true meaning of ine frm. The Commusaloner replied that a former Tuling on this subject was still in force, and that he would instruct his subordinates to adhere to it. Tuis ruling was that pariles merely engaged in the purchase and sale of stocks, gold and commercial paper on commission are brokers and are subject to tax as such, while those engaged as brokers and who, in addition, Keep deposits of money aad stocks on hand are bankers, and must pay a tax aa bankers and as brokers. Arms Parchased by the Turkish Government. it appears that the quantity of arma purchased by the Turkish government 13 100,000 larger than stated iu my dispatch last night, or 359,000 in all, of the Springfela musket pattern. 250,000 have been deliv+ ered and paid for already. Exodus of Congressmen. | ‘There are now about Mity Senators and sixty Representatives in Washington, Taking Things Easy at the Departments. Very little besides routine business is transacted at the Departments. Three of the heads are absent from tho city, and the offices are ctosed at noon. Washington Darkeys Running a Newspaper. A newspaper is to be published here under the auspices of the National Executive Committoe of col ored men, to represent the political and industrial interesia# of that race, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in New York City, Judge Baker, of Missourl; A. B. McCreery, of San Francisco, and J, B. Feuno, of Boston, are ut the Brovoort House. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island; Ex-Senator Henry s. Lane, of Indiana; Ex-Governor Salomon, of Wisconsin; Colonel N. Cutler, of Maine, and Pietro Ferreuthe, of Paris, aro at the Everett House, General Flagg, of Rhode Island; Dr. GC. H. F, Peters, of Hamilton College; Congressman G, M. Adams, of Kentucky; Congressman J, F. Farns- worth, of Ilimois; Congressman T, W. Ferry, of Michigan; Assistant Attorney Goneral T. I. Talbot; Senator 8. OC. Pomeroy, of Kansas; Congressman Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, and J, Karge, of the United States are at the Astor House, General A. P. Hovey, of Lima, Peru; Mannel Suera and Vicento Pazos, of Peru; A. H. McClure, of Philadeiphia; Ira Harris, of Albany, and Colonel T. R. Wallace, of the United States Army, are at the Bt. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel A. B, Garileld, of Onto, is at the St. Eimo Hotel. General 0,.M. Poo, of the United States Army, ana Colonel D. # Marah, of Texas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel M. Reone, of Georgia; Colonel WwW. W. cul lett, of Llitnois, Captain Robert 8, McDonald, of the Krisish Army, aro at the St. Charles Hotel, Congressman Join A, Logan, of illinois; J. R. Patverson, of Washington; Benjamin field, of Al bion; W. H. HH, Benyaurd, of the United States Navy, and T. M, Jagnemot, of Yokonama, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. A. Van Vechten, of Albany, and Colonel Dowey, ef Lows coupty, are at the Homman House,