The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ee Volume XXXV ae AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ric THEATR mee OLYM = Brosaway.—Naw Version oF vie AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Frou NIBLO'S GARDEN, Tue MEN IN THE GAP, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirteth at-—Matinee daily. Performaiion every venting. Broadway.—INNisFALLEN; Of) ACADEMY20F MUSIC, BY THE ARION SOCIET: street. Den Faetboxuerz, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Tuuxy Fast Wo- MEN—BATILE OF BRANDYWINE. Matinee at 2. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tur BuLEsqus ov Tax BrvEN eee THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street,— FRENCH I. ATRE, I4th at., aud 6th av.—GENFVIEVE DE Brasayr, do. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st., between 6th and 6th ave, — Epwin Boor aS HAMLET. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Noo. 45 and 47 Bowery — Organs Burro ~BARne Bev. GRAND OPERA “MOUSE, corer corner of Fighth avenne and 28d st,—Tux TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Matinee at 3 MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK Surearee, Brookiya.—~ UncLe TOM’s Canin. Matinee at2 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSI as Mro Mexniiins. - MMA WALLER TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Com io Vooauiem, NEGRO MINSTREL! 0. Matinee at 2, tig ed COMIQUE, 514 Brosdway.—Comio Vocal tam, Neako Acts, &c, Matinee at 2. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th SL BRYANT'S MINSTRRLM, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, $85 Bron’ os EB tMo PLAN MINSTRELBY, NEGRO AoTs, £0.—"Ha KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, -Ermto- PYAN MINSTRELBEY, NEGRO Acts, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. -EQumerrian AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, £0. ras HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Cov. ~ HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn, -Hoouey's MINerRELS—TuE MAN avou? Town, £0. Matinge. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— Tae New Hintunsoon. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 stroudway.— SCIENCE AND Aut. SHE E T. xy, February, pais 1870. TRI PLE moments OF basrivtntie HERALD. Pace. 1—advertisements, Q—Advertisements, ‘3—Washington: Diplomatic Correspondence in Re- gard to Cuba; Honse Scheme for Inflating che Currency; the Sale of Cadetships: Resolution to Expel Representative Whittemore, of Sonth Carolina; Fitz John Porter's Case Kefore the Senate; Discussion on General Butler's Bill for Removing Disabilities. 4—Europe: The Vienna Press and the Hrranp's Spectai Correspondence ; the Rochefort Riots, ‘Their \)lusions and Defeat —The New Dominion: Prince Arthur’s Opinion of Americans: An- nexation Politics—Noisy Methodism—Heavy Postal Robbery—New York City News—Per- sonal Intellgence—The Orange Hatter’s Strike—Free Schools for Everybody—Brookiyn vtty News—Subuarban Intelligence—Naval In- telligence. G—Proceedings in the New York City and Srook- lyn Courts—The Aseassination Hoax—Justice to All—Jack Reynolds’ Last Ditch: His Trial for the Murder of William Townsend; Insanity the Only Defence—A Sensation Exploded—Poison In the Air: Dr. Harrle’s Report to the Board of Health—Burgiaries on the Kast Side. G—E4ditorials: Leading Article Currency Expan- sion in Congress and War of the Supreme Court on the Legal Tenders—Amusement Announcements, ‘Y—Editorials—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the Worid: Radical Revolutionary Agitation im the French Army and Parliament; British Cabinet Economy and Naval Reduction; A ~ German Expelled from the Papal Council; Another Steamer Burned on the Mississippi— The Monarch at Annapolis—Our Battered He- roes: The Proposed State Soldiers’ Home— Amusements—Army Intelligence—Firea Last Night—Bridge Burnead—Business Notices. S—Municipal Affairs: The Common Council in Active Operation—George Washington—Gold is Cash: Secretary Boutwell’s Financial ‘Wife—Real Estate Matters—The Ice Crop of the Hudson—Narrow Escape—Financial and Commercial Reports. @—The Seventh in Arms: A Battle by Gaslight in the Seventh Regiment Armory—The Police Board—The Yankees Not So Bad After All— Marriages and Deaths—Advertiseiments. 10—Washington (Continued from Third Page)}— United States Supreme Court Decisions— Haytl: The Pickels Still in Arms Against the New Government—Obituary—European Markets —Shipping Intelligence — Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. From Grave To Gay.—From the “‘soft Ger- man accent” of Fechter to ‘“‘the sweet Irish brogue” of Barney. Axorner SreamBoat Disaster is reported on the Mississippi, above Memphis. The Emmo, No. 3, struck a snag and careencd during a gale of wind, and the stove in the cabin upset, setting the boat on fire and totally destroying her. Ten or twelve lives were lost, Tae Paridise OF Painters—New York.. After the successtul sale of the seventeen hun- dred pictures of the Thompson collection who can doubt it? What a field for a fine metro- politan gallery, free to all comers! Have we no public spirited cicizens equal to action upon this hint? .We should lix¢ to know. A Branisa Mistaxe.—Greawalth, killed in Cuba for being in company with Persons who had the intolerable impudence to wen" Ameri- oan cravats, was, it appears, not an Ants."iccn. As he was not a citizen of the United Statea itis possible and probable that the govern- ment which is responsible for his murder may be called to some account. Tatuse Taxes.—In the falling out of the democracy their practices are likely to come to light somewhat. Thus we are permitted to see, in a little fact published in the interest of Senator Blood, that he spent forty thousand dollars on bis election ‘‘out of his own pocket.” This, therefore, was in addition to the regular election expenses. Does this mean that he had repeaters? Invrava Drvorogs.—The Supreme Court of the United States, through Mr. Justice Swayne, yesterday rendered a decision declaring Indi- ana divorces legal throughout the country. It further asserts that a married woman may acquire a domicile away from her husband whenever it.is necessary to the protection of her rights by litigation. NEW YUKK HERALD, LL LL TO Currency Expansion in Congress sed War ef the Supreme Court om the Legal ‘Tenders. Just when the Supreme Court of the United States decides that debts contracted before the Legal Tender act of 1862 was passed must be paid in specie, and thus dealing s blow at our greenback money, Congress seems intent on increasing the national bank currency. There have been several resolutions submitted to Congress to this end, and for various amounts of currency to be issued. Theso resolutions have taken the usual course of reference to committees, without any action or report up to this time. It appears that the members of the House have become impatient. They want more national bank notes, and want them immediately. Yousterday Mr. Lougbridge, of Iowa, brought up his resolution, offered on the 14th of this month, to increase the national currency fifty millions, and instructing the Committee on Banking and Curreney to report to the House at as early a day as practicable a bill for that purpose. On a motion to second the previous question, and thus to bring the resolution directly before the House, the vote stood 108 to 73, The resolution was then adopted—yeas’ 110, nays 73. It is evident from this’ vote that the national bank interest is overwhelmingly powerful in the House, and that the Western members especially are favorable to an expansion of the currency. Many of the Southern representatives and democrats voted also for the resolution. All the talk about contraction in order to bring about specie payments amounts to nothing. In fact it is sheer buncombe, and is only used for the purpose of getting the legal tender greenbacka out of the way so that the national bank corporations may have the whole of the national circulation and the enor- mous profits thereon. This proposition of the Honse to increase the currency fifty millions, like that which was pushed through the Senate a few weeks ago providing for an increase of forty-five millions of national bank circulation, is a part of this general plan. We should like to know how many members of Congress are interested directly or indirectly in the national bank associations. A knowledge of that might give a clue to the action of the Congress on this question. If the national bank mono- polisis can get the greenbacks out of the way, as they appear determined to do, and have the whole circulation of the country in their hands, their annual profits on this will amount to thirty or thirty-five millions of dollars in gold. This enormous sum will come out of the pockets of the people, and could all be saved rif we had a uniform legal tender currency only. No government in the world is stupid enough to make a gift of the profits on a national cir- culation to private corporations butours, The talk about specie payments is a shallow pre- text. How and when is that likely to be reached if we are to have another circulation than the irredeemable notes of the national banks? These institutions would never want it, for they can make much more out of their paper money system. It has been said of Mr. Chase that he was the father of the greenbacks ; but he now con- fesses that he never liked his offspring, and he is doing all he can to repudiate it. He is proud, however, of that other offspring, the national bank system. He is an ambitious man, and the national banks are a mighty power in the country. His policy or object is the same now that he is Chief Justice as when he was Secretary of the Treasury. The deci- sion he delivered in the Supreme Court on the 7th of this month on the Legal Tender act was a political one. It agrees with the policy and action of the administration and Congress. Labored and careful as his argument was to show that the Legal Tender act did not affect contracts made before its passage, it was weak. Had the bias of his mind inclined to sustaining the greenback currency he would have made a much stronger argument on that side. Mr. Chase did not stop even in giving that decision to consider the consequences. The effect upon debtors must be very disastrous, particularly if there is to be an inflation of the irredeemable paper money of the national banks, There is no way within our reach of calculating the amount of money in- volved in mortgages and other debts, but in mortgages especially, prior to the passage of the first Legal Tender act in 1862. Taking the whole of the United States which comes under the operation of this decision the amount must be stupendous. Morigage debts generally remain a long time unsettled, and it would not be unreasonable to suppose that half, or nearly half, of all such debts were con- tracted before the Legal Tender act of 1862 was passed, When we consider the vast number of mortgages standing over from that time in every part of the country the amount of money owed on them swells up probably to thousands of millions. What numbers of individuals, besides corporations and compa- nies of every description are affected by this decision. How few would be able to pay in gold if creditors should demand payment now. On all such debts twenty per cent, or nearly that, has been added by the decision of the Supreme Gourt—that is, reckoning the differ- ence between legal tenders and ihe market price of gold. It must be seen at once that if the mortgages were fore- closed now people could not find gold to pay them. They could not pay twenty per cent on the currency amount. The conse- quence must be widespread bankruptcy, The rich, such as the Astors and other millionnaires who hold a large number of mortgages, would increase their property greatly, and people of , mall means who are struggling to hold what ma 7 have would lose all. The decision of the Sy/Preme Court begins to alarm debtors vho reflect upon the consequences of ‘3 a movement in Congress already the effect. Mr. McCrary, of Towa, has intrody, eed a bill in the House of Representatives to ».T0vide for a stay of exe- cution in certain cases, This is intended to afford some relict against ¥."° operation of the legal tender decision. It pr.?P0ses to stay execution on all judgments on deb.'¢ contracted before the passage of the first Legal Tender act from one to four years; but it p.ovides that if the plaintiffs in such casos will receive their money in currency there shall be nogtay, and that whenever specie payments are resumed all stays under the bill shall termi- nate, {f the decision of the Supreme Court on the 7th of February is to stand some such measure and ally, it, There . to counteract TUESDAY, FEBRUARY . 22, 1870. as this proposed by Mr. McCrary, or @ more comprehensive one, will be necessary to pro- tect a large number of debtors, particularly mortgagors. We say if it is to stand, because the decision was given when the Supreme Court lacked two judges to make @ full bench, and because three out of ‘the seven who were sitting’ at the time did not agree with the opinion delivered by the Chief Justice, Should the matter be brought up again in some other form, though involving the ‘same principle, when the bench is full, the two new judges may take a different view from that of Mr. Chase and the majority who delivered the opinion on the 7th of February, As this is uncertain, however, it is to be hoped that relief may be afforded by Congress. A gold dollar now is worth much more than before the war. This state of things has been brought about by the government itself, and whatever the strictly legal interpretation of the Legal Tender act nay be it would be inequitable and unfair to place the mags of poor debtors, mortgagors and others at the mercy or their rich creditors. Cannot our legislators in Congress do some- thing for the people at large as well as for the national bank monopolists and the rich? The Wospitalities of the City to Hon. William H. Seward. The Board of Aldermen and that of Assist- ant Aldermen yesterday, in view of the facts that ‘the Hon. William H. Seward will shortly return to this city, after a protracted absence from his native State,” and that ‘it is proper that a deserving tribute should be paid to his eminent ability and distinguished ser- vices to our common country,” resolved to tender him the hospitalities of the city, and to appoint a committee to make arrangements for a public reception at the Academy of Music, and the committee was accordingly appointed. This is as it should be; but who could have dreamed of such a proceeding on the part of the democratic councils of this city thirty years ago, twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even five years ago? But time and the ever changing currents of events have established the trath of the old saying that ‘wonders will never cease.” Mr. Seward has filled his place in history as a partisan, as an aspiring politician and as an active statesman high in the national councils. He no longer stands in the way of any party or any clique, or any aspiring politician. He has taken off his harness and withdrawn from the arena, His enemies accordingly lay down their arms in his presence, and all parties and all men unite with our City Councils in recognizing ‘his eminent ability and distinguished services to our common country.” This, we say, in refer- ence to the venerable statesman and his long and useful pyblic career, is as it should be, and under this general award feom his fellow citizens we say, in conclusion, may his days yet be long in the land. Tae ReMovat or Disapiaties.—Mr. Bat- ler’s bill for the removal of disabilities by piecemeal was discussed in the House yester- day, but another bill naming about two thou- sand persons was substituted in its place and passed. A pleasant discussion ensued. Nearly everybody seemed to feel complacent over this piecemeal pardon. Butler talked with unusual suavity in the direction of Cox, and Cox, Covode and McKenzie rose to the height of good fellowship and quoted Scripture, ag they understood it, against each other. It was a hearty gathering in honor of the return of two thousand prodigals, and the fatted calf (Mr. Porter, of Virginia, who was bitterly against pardoning his constituents) was killed metaphorically. One or two other calves bleated dismally over the prospect, but the requisite two-thirds of the members, finding they could not get a general amnesty, wisely took what they could get. Wasnineton’s Brrrapay.—It is to be hoped that this good old anniversary is not entirely forgotten. Except that Trinity chimes will ting, the public buildings be partially closed, the shipping fly their bunting, the theatres give matin¢es and one or two regiments parade, there is to be no celebration to remind us that there ever was such a hero as Washington. There are to be no fireworks, no grand dis- plays, as of old. Possibly, as he fought against a European Power, celebrating his birthday may be offensive to Spain. The entertainment of the evening here deserving of special notice is the amateur concert at the hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Christian Union, the | profits of the concert to be devoted to that excellent charity, the ‘Young Women’s Home.” Tae TriaL oF REYNoLps was commenced yesterday, his counsel having fully recovered. The two little daughters of his victim testified against him and told the tale of the murder as we have previously reported it. It has been said thatalmost any plaintive distress will turn @ jury against the evidence. In this caso, where the evidence, the mournful story of two little children and the natural sympathies of humanity all go against the prisoner, can there be found a defence that will save him? Poli- tics itself could hardly do it, and Reynolds has not politics to aid him. Oxgz or TuemM Cavant.—The arrest, by Captain Jourdan, of Miller, the butcher cart desperado, who attempted a policeman’s life some time since, is a gratifying fact. Our ar- rangements for the tracing of criminals are so bad as to have established among us the rule thatif a scoundrel is not caught red-handed and in the very act of crime—if he once gets away from the scene of any outrage—he is not caught at all, and any exception to this rule is pleasant to note. AN ArtHeNIAN ORACLE.—Tho Athens (Tenn.) Post, a smart and observing little paper, in reproducing an editorial from our columns, says :—‘‘The New York Herarp is the leading newspaper of the world.” The London papers had to acknowledge that when they copied our reports of the campaign in Abyssinia, Our Tennessee contemporary is, therefore, to be commended for its discern- ment. A GRAND Ray was held at Cooper Insti- tite last night for the purpose of devising mea,‘ures to erect a Soldier’s Home for dis- abled New York soldiers in this State, General Sherman wits the principal speaker. Resolu- tions were advpted asking the Legislature to impose a tax for the vurpose of raising the necessary funds, ! The New Democracy. That thieves have no good opinion of the law is an old story, and the representatives at Albany of the disorderly and dangerous classes of this city therefore only act on their own in- stincts and in the interests of their constita- ents in proposing to abolish courts of any sort, It is not strange that the delicate Manhattan Club democracy should be with them, since the greedy for power are generally not scrupulous asto means. It is, of course, still less strange that they should be sustained, encouraged and hounded on by the copperhead sheet in this city that is the recognized organ of the thieves, bullies and repeaters. But it is of some inte- rest to the people not to have crime made so free as it will be in the abolition of every restraint upon the class that now declaim so loudly, in the name of virtue, through their mouthpiece, the copperhead organ. It may be fun to the bruisera, but it is something else to the people, to have the precedent plainly made that no court can' stand in this commu- nity whose judge is not in the hands of the eutthroats. Could there be a more startling proposition made than that for the abolition of the Surrogate’s Court in this county? People would naturally inquire, what is to become of the very important business that is done in that court—business so vital to society, touching so intimately the nicest relations of property? Could it be credited but for the fact that legis- lntors would tamper with such interests merely to displace a judge to whose election they did not consent—merely to reorganize the court and put in another man in deflance of the re- sult of a regular canvass? Never mind the voice of the people, never mind social safety, never mind anything but the voice of a group of men who have been sent to the Legislature because things are topsy-turvy here, and who, if things were otherwise, would have been sent tothe State Prison or hanged for heinous crimes a dozen years ago. And this isthe kind of democracy that is preached up in the name of reform and purity—in the name of acrnsade against “the ring.” When the copperhead organ gave us its samples of de- mocracy during the war, when ft rejoiced over every national defeat and decried every nation- al success, we thought that was pretty bad democracy ; but there was something of angelic purity in that by comparison with the demo- cracy itfavorsnow. The democracy that would have given the country into the hands of the Jeff Davis party was not so bad as that which would destroy civil society and give the people and their property into the keeping of jail birds and desperadoes. Fitz Joho Porter. The appeal of Fitz John Porter to the Presi- dent of the United States for a re-examination of the proceedings of the court martial in his case was yesterday brought up inthe Senate by Mr. Chandler, who offered a resolution re- questing the President to communicate to the Senate any recent correspondence in his possession on the subject, Mr. Chandler spoke at considerable length denunciatory of General Porter, and was followed by Mr. Wilson, who urged the propriety of granting the asked-for re-examination, after which the matter was disposed of by Mr. Chandler withdrawing his resolution. This question in its present shape seems to be very easy of solution. General Porter commanded a corps at the second battle of Bull Run, and was charged by General Pope with wilful disobedience,of orders and neglect to attack the enemy, resulting in disaster to the Union army, upon which charges he was sentenced by cgurt martial to dismissal from the army and disquatified forever to hold any office of trust or profit ufer the government of the United States. In his appeal he represents that he is in posscasion of important evidence, not before attainable, which will vindicate him entirely from the ac- cusations upon which he was sentenced, and files with the petition interesting letterfrom genesal officers who were engaged on both sides in the battle referred to in corroboration of his statements. The application is also ac- companied by recommendations by Senators Wilson, Sherman, Harris and Foster, General N. P. Banks, Governor Curtin and others for the appointment of a commission to review the case and ascertain whether or aot injustice has been done. Almost innumerable instances are on record of the re-examination of court martial pro- ceedings since the war, many of which resulted in the vindication of the officers under sen- tence and their restoration to command; and, in view of the high rank held by General Porter at the time of his trial, his faithful and distinguished services down to the date of Qis alleged offence, the positive charac- ter of lis statements in his appeal and the recommendations for a review of his case, it seems to be eminently fit and proper that his application should be granted. Now that the jealousies and animosities of the war have nearly if not quite all subsided, a com- mission of perfectly disinterested officers would undoubtedly be able to thoroughly investigate every circumstance involved in the case, and their verdict would finally’ settle all doubts on this much disputed question. If such a com- mission wero {o confirm the sentence of the court martial it would gerye fo augment the ignominy of the alleged offencé at bea conspicuous warning for the future; wi ile, i the innocence of the accused were to be estab- lished, it would not only make reparation for a grievous wrong, but gratify the whole people, who never knowingly acquiesce in the perpe- tration of injustice. General Porter asserts that he is able to prove that his conduct during the second Buli-Run campaign was entirely in accordance with his duty as a soldier, and there seems no good reason why his request for an opportunity to prove his innocence, urged as it is by distinguished statesmen, should be denied when there are so many pro- cedents for the reinvestigation. A Promising ExperiMENt—That of Sat- urday last on the Greenwich street elevated railway, resulting in the running of a car from Cortlandt street up to Thirtieth street in fifteen minutes. The general impression, too, seems to be that this experimental road can be made a great success. A Goop TneatricaL Siax.—The best theatre in the city pays best. Our one grand dramatic temple that is the true home of the legitimate returns an income for the last month of fifty-four thousand dollars, while no other + theatre rises beyond the thirties, f other day, in commendable prosecy}i —TKIPLE SHEET, The Sale of Cadetsbipe=Report of the} The Remasz Catholic Church and Its Lay Committee. 47: The House committee charged with investi- gating the sale of cadetships have made a re- port, implicating Mr. B, F. Whittemore, a car- pet-bagger from South Carolina, and present- ing a resolution expelling him from his seat. The report was read yesterday and shows pretty conclusively that Whittemore gave the appointment to a certain person and received therefor five hundred dollars, the appoint- ment, as he himself claimed in his defence, being outside of his district and the money being in effect merely compensation to the poor of his district for not having sons com- petent to accept the appointment. The House has decided to take no hasty action on the resolution, but to give Mr. Whittemore a hearing. It is nonsense for Congressmen to pick up five hundred dollar jobs in this way, when ten and twenty thousand dollar jobs are so numerous, Even carpet-baggers ought to know enough to steer clear of such a paltry venture, The risk is too much for the money, and the simplicity of a Congressman must be unparalleled to draw. him into the commission of a fraud that is so palpable and easy of de- tection as selling cadetships for so much cash. It is true that these cadetships, even when not sold in this way, are given away in a manner fully as reprehensible. They are often the re- turns made by lucky Congressional candidates to their influential constituents, or the presents given to some rich friend for value received in another way, and, with one or two exceptions they are sold in effect even if not in the way suggested by the investigation. The result is that the cadetships of the Naval or Military Academy are almost exclusively for the service of the children of rich men or influential politicians, and the children of the poor or even mediocre population are de- barred rigidly from the benefits of them, Herein is suggested a remedy for these alleged abuses, and also an improvement in the future personnel of our navy and army. Let the appointments be made only from among the scholars of our public schools—not our col- leges aud universities, but the schools attended by the children of the middle and lower classes of our people. Make cadetships prizes for the scholars most meritorious—not in point of learning alone, but in physical ability, adminis- trative excellence and general accomplish- ments, Thus we shall have not only a superigr class of army and navy officers in the future, but we shall secure at once a commendable rivalry among the pupils of our public schools which will tend to increase the learning of all, even though only one or two may ultimately secure the prize, Make this mode of distribut- ing the cadetships a law, and there will be no petty jobbing even among lobbymen for the sale of them. The method has been tried by Congressmen individually on several occasions, and if made general cannot fail to be an im- mense improvement on the present system. Youna FraNoz aNp THE Empire,—From our cable news it will be seen that the young French conscripts have manifested some in- subordination. This insubordination is sug- gestive. It seems to indicate a growing and, what is worse, a deep rooted opposition to the empire, and even to the house of Bonaparte. There are some people who will not hear of possible defeat to the empire. Napoleon is strong. Napoleon has the army at his back. Napoleon can do everything. Those people forget that the France of to-day is not the France of 1789, of 1830, or even of 1848. They forget that Paris is not France, in the ancient sense, Let us suppose that the army was really indifferent or callous, or worse. Let us suppose that the feeling of the country was cold. Let us farther suppose that a conspiracy was organized which included the telegraph operators. With the late strike of the West~ ern Union operators fresh in our memory, although it was less a success than probably it ought to have been, who can say that it is impossible for France to rise against Napoleon. Impossible is not the right word. If France is tired of Napoleon France, depend upon it, can throw him off. Tae New Preaoner.—In the Herarp of yesterday we gave to our readers what we be- lieve was never given tothe public before by any one newspaper in one day. We gave the best portions of no fewer than twenty-four sermons, with innumerable items of miscel- laneous religiéus intelligence. The Hzraxp is the greatest preacher of this or, of any pre- vious age. What is better, the Heracb is fio narrow sectary. We see good in all sections of Christianity, and, indeed, in all creeds; and whatever truth there is we reflect it. The sermons preached on Sunday in this and the neighboring cities are thus being repeated on Monday to audiences multiplied a thousand fold. It will not be our fault if the people are not made at once more liberal and more righteous. Switt MILK Justicg.—The stable on the corner of First and North Fifth streets, Brook- lyn, E. D., is a horrible place—a pesthole of the worst description, and the notion that milk for the breakfast table should come from such a place is sickening. Mr. Bergh had the managers or owners of the place arrested the of the law, and ap, «ated against them before Todi tain Justice Bulkley * = Suthority from the | District Attorney of Brooklyn Fhe Iustice refused to recognize the authority—>that ia, he ! preferred not to enforce the law. Wher enforcement of the law is a matter of choice with persons on the bench there can be a great | many reasons for it becoming a dead letter. Tor Murper Free List.—It would be bad enough in any community for one to be able to count up a list of twenty murders committed within a few months; but certainly it is not possible in any other community but this to count up a list of twenty murdets and homi- cides in which there had not been a single pun- ishment. But we gave such a list yesterday, and it is a bill of indictment against our whole judicial system. DieLomatio CoRRESPONDENOE RELATIVE TO Cupa.—Secretary Fish has sent in to Congress some further correspondence with Minister Sickles relative to Cuba. It partially covers the Sickles’ note controversy, and is part of the correspondence that Mr. Fish declined to give to Congress some time ago. It seems he was waiting for Mr. Sicklea’ consent, which is sub- mitted with the vrasant hatch Defenders. The Catholic Church of Rome, when re- garded as an eccesiastical corporation, pre- sents a very ancient history, brilliant at certain points and dark and gloomy at others, but con- tinuous in narrative withal. Aa a corporation it has had many enemies, internal and exter- nal—wolves in sheep's clothing and foolish persons who did not ru aad to hold their tongue. The very worst of thi latter class are those who have, and now attempt to assume, particu- larly on this side of the Atlantic, the character of lay advocates or newspaper knights-errant of the Pontificate and the tiara, We regret that we are at length compelled to record our venerable friend, the Abbé McMaster, of New York, in this category. We consequently pro- ceed to-day to enroll the Abbé’s name. on the pages of the Heratp Index Hxpurgatorius, and for the following reasons:—The Abbé finds fault with the special correspondence from Rome in which we have reported the pro- gress of the Ecumenical Council from the first day of meeting of the august assemblage to the hour of the very latest mail date from the Eternal City, and in conclusion writes as fol- lows :— ‘The HERALD, which is “always ahead.” pubi in 1t8 last Sunday's issue, a letter, the steamer Java, that reached here last Saturday moc, and ae bated Soe on the 28th we The eter me, ‘7 26—one than, by 1s dated Roi sanut later any possibilty, a'letter : Zoula have come from Rome by that steamer. In this the Abbé is behind the age. Steam— not to speak of electricity—is too much for him, That ‘‘one day later” shows he is not “up to time.” Our special correspondence from Rome was not mailed at Liverpool on “the 28th ultimo,” but at Queenstown, Ire- land, on the following day, the 29th ultimo, late in the evening. The Abbé ignores Ire- land, It is exactly in Ireland, however, that he will find his ‘‘one day,” as the English mails from the Continent of Europe which convey our special letters are made up in Dublin and despatched to Cork by special train, and placed on board the Liverpool steamer at sea, off Queenstown, by & special mail steam tender engaged by the English Postmaster General. Abbé McMas- ter and the peoples do not, thus, walk hand in hand. The most distinguished pre- lates of the Catholic Church in America have felt the disadvantage of lay newspaper orgaus long since. They don’t want lay knights- errant any longer. We beg to assure the Abbé McMaster that this important fact will be solemnly declared by the present Council. If its approach is unpleasant to him it is no good reason why he should fall foul of our special writers and the English Post Office. The Abbé McMaster states that the Council bishops are sworn to secrecy. If so it is very strange that one of their number has already com- plained within the Council that ita proceed- ings are ‘made known” outside, and that this very day we have news of the expulsion of an Austrian Abbé from both the Council and the Papal territory for the crime of writing reports from the Vatican for the German newspapers. The Abbé enjoys the right of the wtrum horum. The truth is that the Abbé McMaster, who is a fine looking, jolly fellow, with lots of muscle, wanta to stand still and fossilize into something like the Onondaga Giant. He gave symptoms of this morbid desire at the commencement of the war for the Union and the freedom of the slaves on this Continent. We hoped he had been cured at that time, but find it is not so. The HeRaLD must now try to regenerate him by means of steam, electricity and the paz vobiscum of the Council. Should the Abbé prove genial and tractable under the modern influences we may ultimately pro- nounce a HERALD do veniam, and take his name from the Index Hepurgatorius. In the meantime the Abbé McMaster is under care of the Committees on Discipline and Orders, Our South American Correspondence. By the steamships Rakaia and North Ame- rica, which arrived in port within the last few days, we were enabled to furnish the readers of the HeRAxp with the latest information of what is going on in South America. The letters of our correspondents from points in the nationg south of the equator contained the most im- portant news, given impartially and written without that bias which invariably detracts from communications and which tend rather to mislead than inform the general reader. According to the letter of our Rio Janeiro correspondent the Heratn’s influence is felt throughout the South’ American Continent. Tis news is anxiously read, and the light which it sheds on many questions lays bare subjects which were previously hidden from public gaze. In pursuance of this plan the Heratp but carries out its mission of inde- pendent and intelligent journalism—that of giving the progress of the world’s events as they occur and as they exist, while reserv- ing the right to express itself freely on them when thus brought under notice. From the letters referred to we hear of the return to this country of a num- ber of Americans who emigrated to Brazil shortly after the close of the late war. They have had enough of labor in search of fortune in the great Brazilian empire, and | have wisely resolved to return to a more i fruitful field for operations. Changes, we are told, have been made in the Brazilian Ministry, ang uviried men, in some in- stances, Se dalled tg take ike gh ree sg vacant portfolios, The eesley drain z the Brazilian Treasury of late years is f makin, itself evident. Money is wanted, but from the rebuff which the Brazilian agent received in trying to negotiate a loan in England recently we think Dom Pedro will find it rather difficult to raise funds. The news from Paraguay is of the usual char- acter—unsatis‘actory. The Brazilian army still keeps up a show of attempting to use up Lopez, but the wily chief cleverly eludes his enemy. The usual wordy announcement from the army on the field is received in Rio. The Argentine army has retired from the chase after Lopez; so the Brazilians now have the field all to themselves. 5 Au Indignant “southern Celt.” The Southern Oelt, published in Charles- ton, S. C., is indignant at Mr. August Bel- mont, of this city, because he, as the “Grand Sachem (?) of democracy, in whose ranks are. nine-tenths of the Irish votes of New York, stands up before them and extends tho kid glove of his aristocratia band. in the