The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD|™ ™ “ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly ‘sealed. lS AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FUTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fx00- TAMMANY, Fo — ae Tae jurteonth street.—GRanp VARIETY FRENCH oF Lrons. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coritr of Eighth avenue and td TWRLVE TEMPTATIONS. wi MUSEUM AND MENAQERIR, Broxdway, oor- er at.—Matines dail formance every evening. THs Deama oF Mos- BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Twentr Years Deav— Living Prorungs—Juus0 Jun. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23: Scuoor or ReroRM—ANo! 1 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street,— MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— GoLpEm Buubie. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 -Broadway.—domn 18M, NEGRO kom kor Matinee at 29. oben TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Comio VOOALIom, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, AO. Matinee at 354. 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Dat \dveriisements, ne le Prize Ping ult of the Mill Between Mace and Allen Near New Orleans; Allen Badly Torashed in Ten Hea’ Rounds in Forty-four Minutes; the Victor ost Without a ee es Features of Senator Wilson’s Ai bil; Virtual Defeat of the Funiing Bul; Ben Butler’s Taxation Scheme— ida Disaster: Arrival of the Survivors of the Murdered Crew—The Fat Men's Fun. 4@—The McFarland Triai: Summing ve of Counsel the Defence; Recorder Hackett's Charge to the Jury; Verdict of the Jury, “Not Guilty”— Burned at Sea: the American Ship Sunbeam Des!royed on the Pactiic; Six Lives Lost. S—Europe—The Amer:can Prelates in the Ecu- menical Council and their Attitude Towards the Paper the Archbishop of St. Louis on the Infallibiiity Dogma; English Opinion of ul the “O.esarism” of Napo- leon—The School Trustee Bribery Oase—A Prison Pandemonium—The Darien Ship Ca- nal: Later from the Exptoring Expedition on ‘the Isthmus—News from Central and South America—The Balmoral Brokers and Woman's Rights—A Hard Ouse. G—Editorisls: Leading Article on the End of the McFarland Trial and the Moral of It—Personal Intelligence—Meeting of the Mercantile Library Association—Brilliant Presentation—American Microscopic Society—Amusement Announce- ments. _ q=Telczraphic News from All Parts of the World: The Paris Barricades, Movements of vT and Geneval eee ia the City; Mus- tor of the People in the Suburbs of Paris and Fatal Charge of the Military; Tye Ape proaches to Bellville, near Paris, Im- assable this Morning; Civic and National turns of the French Plebiscitum Vote; An English Remedy for the Condition and Misfor- tunes of Greece—Obiiuary—New York City News—Almost a Catastiophe—Doctors’ og Alleged Malpractice and Murder—A Wall Street Bond Robber Capturei—The Quarantine Commission—Suiciie in Brook- lyn—In‘ereting Naiional Bank Question— ‘isk and Gould’s Four Thousand Dollar Suit— Probabie Murder ta Pat.ersou, N. J.—Emeute in the New Jeisey Statz Prigon—Business No- joes. S—Nat onal Woman's Suffrage Association: Cele- bration of the Anniversiry; Dame Stanton’s Opmnion of the McFur.and Verdict— ils Signed by the Governor— Financial and Commercial Reports—Alexander & Co.’s New Steamer— Pe. vab @ Murcer—Marriages aud Deaths—Ad- veriisements. P—Advertisements. O—City Politics: Tammany Aldermanic and Assistant A dermanic Conventious—Tie New Regime: The Park Commissioners and the AntkSlavery Folks—ihe Anniversaries—Ship- ping Intelligence—Advertiseinents, V1—Ad)\ eriisemenss, 42—Adveriisements. Down is Tag Depras—Free love stock, Bompay, Inpia, is agitated by ‘indigna- tion” meetings. The American sysiem is making its way in Asia. ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT.—Of course Miss Dinah will have a vote with Massa Sambo fn the South if female suflrage becomes the law of the land. Lor’ bress you, why not? Let Us Hoprz, the McFarland case being disposed of and the championship of the pugi- listic ring for America being settled, that the affairs of the United States will speedily re- turn to their regular channels. A Goop Exxmit—That of the forty-second anniversary of the American Seamen's Friend Society, and likewise that of the sixteenth an- niversary of the Five Points House of In- dustry. Such institutions as these do a vast amount of good, and are deserving of liberal encouragement, A Preasant Omen.—The weather nearly all day yesterday was cloudy, rainy and dis- agreeable, but just as the verdict of acquittal in the McFarland case was donounced outside the court house the sun suddenly burst through its dense vapor veil and smiled efful- gently. Of course this will be regarded as a benign endorsement of the righteousness of the verdict. Toe Propicat’s Rutury.—It was curious to notice that at the Tammany Convention last evening, which nominated Moses Taylor, Royal Phelps, Oswald Ottendorfer and Law- rence R, Jerome as its candidates at large for Aldermen, the principal motions were made by the late young democracy leaders, to wit:— Senator Creamer, Senator Norton and Senator Genet. Those young democratic breeches seem to be well patched up. A Vegy Bap Hit.—A Mississippi paper, edited by A. Horn—perbaps he never refuses one, or may be thisis “‘Horn’s last’—remarks apon the inquiry ‘“4f-anybody ever knew a Southerner to'bé a Representative or Senator In Congress from Massachusetts ?” as follows :— “We have no recollection, certainly, that there ever was one, but we seem to have some faint recollection that a Southern gentleman did once ‘bent a Massachusoits man.” Yes, and that was the very wors: “beat” for the South a Goysherner ever undertook. THEATRE, Mdth st. and 6th ay.—Tux Lapr . NEW YUKK HERALD WEDNESDAY, MAY ll, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, Moral ef ft. a The trial of Daniel McFarland for the mur- der of Albert D, Richardson is ended and the verdict rendered. The verdict was “Not guilty,” as will be seen by the report published to-day, as an anxious public learned last even- ing, and 9s was generally expected. For twenty-four days this extraordinary trial dragged along wearlly to the court and jury, and st one time exhausted the energies of the Judge, though the public was never tired, and though the interest and excitement increased from day to day, MoFarland was.an obscure man, comparatively, till this case made him notorious, It was not the man that the people were so much interested in, but the principles, the morality and social questions involved in the case. The whole community was the jury and the twelve men who delivered the verdict were but the exponents of public sentiment. In truth, the dangerous doctrines or theories of a certain class of people, which tend to undermine the social fabric and the sacred ties of marriage, were on trial more than the man who took Richardson's life. This fact may not be satisfactory to many lawyers, who‘look at such a case in a strictly legal point of view, who have no feeling or senti- ment, and who sacrifice everything to tho letter of the law; but in this case, as in all similar cases, the voice of tho people Is the voice of God and of abstract justice, It is unnécessary to go minutely into the details of the case. They are well and gene- rally known, No trial of late years has ex- cited more attention, and there are few people who have not read the evidence and pleading suficiently to undefstand the merits and nature of the case. It may be proper, how- "ever, to recall briefly a few of the leading facts. McFarland, as is known, killed, by shooting, Albert D. Richardson at the Tribune office on the 25th of last November. The motive for this act was that Richardson had by seductive means separated McFarland’s wife from him, and had been the cause of Mrs. Richardson obtaining afierwards a pre- tended divorce in Indiana from her husband, with a view of marrying her himself. The evidence developed on the trial shows that from the first of the illicit love of Richardson for Mrs, McFarland, and all through, there was a design to sepa- rate this woman from her husband, Indeed, it is not going too far to say that this design de- veloped into a tacit plot, if not a well matured one, between Richardson and certain female and male friends, who, for the most part, were connected with him in the Zridbune office. McFarland loved his wife fondly, and his love, pride and jealousy naturally inflamed his mind against the man who had broken up his mar- ried relations and destroyed his home, family find peace of mind. It was a great moral crime, no doubt, on the pari of Richardson principally, as well as on the part of those who aided him in it, but it was one for which McFarland had no redress, and he took the law in his own hands. The theory of the defence in the trial’ was that McFarland was insane, and, at the ‘time of killing Richardson, not accountable for his conduct. Some little evidence was brought forward to show that there had been insanity in the McFarland family, but this did not amount to much, The main point-which the defence rested the case on was that McFar- land, being a very sensitive man and fond hus- band, was exasperated to insanity or frenzy by Richardson seducing his wife and children from him. The able counsel for McFarland made the most of this ples, and no doubt ob- tained a verdict of acquittal upon it. A plea of justifiable homicide could not have been successful in this case, for whatever the moral features of it are tho law does not permit the taking of life except in self-defence. It must be said, however, that there is some danger to the supremacy of the law and to the safety of society if the plea of insanity will procure acquittal where there may bo evidence of premeditation or preparation to take life, if only the last moment of frenzy when the act is committed is to be considered. This is a point that courts, lawyers, juries and the pub- lic should not lose sight of. In the trial of Sickles for killing Key, in that, of Cole for killing Hiscock and in this of McFarland popu- lar sentiment or feeling proved stronger than the technicalities of law. In fact, it is very difficult and almost impossible to convict a man of murder in this country under the cir- cumstances of cases like these. There is in the United States, happily, a great regard for the marriage tie. Even where it is not so well guarded by the laws, as in Indiana and other States, it is defended by public opinion, The moral and religious sen-. timent of the community generally guards the sacred marriage relation, even where the laws are loose upon the subject, and in spite of the demoralizing theories of our modern freelovers, In the case of McFarland, this, as was said before, was exhibited in a remarkable manner. But besides the general sympathy, which was felt probably by the jury for the injured hus- band, there was a peculiar feeling of revulsion against the free lovers and their dangerous sentiments. Every right-minded person saw that the whole of this terrible tragedy resulted from the loose and demoralizing views of that class of weak sentimentalists and pretended philosophers, male and female, of which the Tribune establishment is the centre. Rich- ardson was a shining light of that class and that establishment. The evidence on the trial shows that it was the set of people belonging to that concern that inveigled Mrs. McFarland from her fond- husband and family on the ground, forsooth, that McFarland was not her affinity and that Richardson was. The silly and impulsive woman fell a prey to the seductive and immoral notions of that set. The impudence with which these free lovers defied the moral sense of the community in the indecent and mock marriage of Mra, McFar- land to Richardson in his last moments at the Astor House showed their true character. This shooking scene, at which the so-called reverend gentlemen, Beecher and Frothing- ham, were present and officiated, was a ‘fitting termination of the whole matter, and did more to disgust the public mind and to acquit McFarland than anything else, ‘The disgusting doctrine, that men and women are to seek their “‘affinities” and to follow their inclinations in spite of the marriage vow or obligations and duties of marriage, which [ted to this teucodr, tonds tq gubvert the manity, where men and women are common ‘to each other according to their desires or “affinities,” carry this beastly doctrine out to its logical results. The men and women who bave Sgured prominently in the Richardson- MoFarland case. entertain similar notions, though they do not avow them ag openly or carry them quite so far in practice. But if we mistake not these free lovers have received such a blow through the develop- ments of the McFarland trial that they will not Taine their heads again very soon. The T'ri- dune establishment and set will take, proba- bly, some new start or ism after this, Fear- ful as the Richardson-McFarland tragedy has been, it may produce some good in checking the free love tendencies of the times. The conclusion of McFarland's trial was marked by 8 scene that showed the moral sense and feel- ing of the public. There was a breathless sus- pense during the two hours the jury was out, and the most intense anxiety when it was called upon for the verdict. Instantly that verdict, ‘‘Not guilty,” was pronounced both men and women rushed to embrace McFarland, and the applause that followed was vociferous and prolonged. Such was the end of the McFarland trial,, Such was the verdict of the public against the free lovers. The Situation in Paris This Morning—Bar- ricades and Charges of Troops. Our cable telegrams, special and from other sources, from Paris, dated to an early hour this morning, go to show that the French capital remains seriously agitated. The cause is not clearly explained, but it appears certain that there is popular commotion and excitement existing, and at many points, It is called insurrection indeed. Speaking properly it is not. Barricades have been erected fn one or two of the streets, Barri- cades have been thrown up at Belleville, one of suburbs. Troops have charged these obstructions. One afmy officer has been wounded by a fire from the people. Several of the people have been killed by the troops. The streets are impassa- ble at some points. Such movements are alarming, even dangerous. The Emperor, however, has France—France, as a whole— pledged to him and his dynasty. He is e man of energy and courage. Paris will, it is likely, be quieted, and at an early hour, Telegrams dated in Paris at three o'clock this morning report that all the barricades had been carried by the troops. The disturbed districts were held by the military, and Paris was tranquil at all points. The Great Prize Fight. The great prize fight between Mace and Allen was decided yesterday with scientific rapidity.. There are mainly two kinds of prize fights, There is the brutal mill, in which two evenly-matched fellows, with no other qualif- cations than weight and endurance, pound each other for hours, till the semblance of humanity is lost, and finally win or lose by some accident of the horrible game. This is the sort of prize fight with which our public is most familiar, and it is this species of fight that has disgusted the public with the sport, But the other sort is widely different. In this the fight is less a contest of power and endur- ance than of true boxing scierice. The com- bat turns on such points as quickness of eye and the lightning-like rapidity of delivery and defence—turns, indeed, on points that’ ‘so clearly involve intellectual operations as to raise the combat from its brutal character. The fight between Mace and Allen was of this sort, and the superiority of Mace was so positive and so great that Allen was of no account as an antagonist. Although weight ‘and age were both against Mace, yet he won with the utmost ease and with every- thing to spare. His easy victory will, perhaps, open the eyes of our domes- tic prize fighters to the humiliating fact that they are at best mere brutal blunder- ers; for previous to this fight Allen was looked upon among them as a star of the first mag- nitude; and yet how easily this star is pushed from its place! Is it too much to hope that when our cultivators of this sport discover how far they lag in the rear of real science they will abandon it in despair and turn their atten- tion to dog fighting, or thimble-rigging or some moderately objectionable occupation of that sort? They ought to do this. They evidently cannot fight when tried by good standards, and they ought to do something that they can do well, We conceive this to bo a patriotic duty on their part. Ena@Lanp, GREECE AND THE East.—Cable telegrams from London and Vienna inform us that Great Britain is about to investigate the circumstances attending the late murders of her subjects by a special commission. This is right, proper and honorably national. John Bull is also, as we aro told from Austria, about to constitute himself the grand police officer of the East, and in that capacity “clear Greece of brigands,” providing that King George makes a ‘‘temporary” abdication. This is se- rious. There are no instances of temporary abdications nowadays, A king out of sight is a king out of mind. The Eastern question is looming up darkly. England once in Athens would be a great power on a grand pivot, with a fulcrum and leverage almost irresistible on either side, TarzE REMARKABLE Events or a Day—~ The prize fight of Mace and Allen, the acquit- tal of McFarland, and the nomination, by the Tammany democracy, of Moses Taylor, Royal Phelps, Oswald Ottendorfer and Lawrence R. Jerome as candidates at large for the Board of Aldermen. Tuk RaINy SEASON oF May is fairly upon us, and the woodland districts on Long Island and up the Hudson which have been suffering heavily from drought and fire will be thank- ful for the blessed rain. Throughout the coun- try the rains of May, with a destructive hail storm, hurricane or freshet here and there, may still be said to be worth their weight in gold, looking to the yearly subsistence and agricultural exports of our forty millions of people, Now Vermont has recorded her opposition to aspiring womanhood. She voted yesterday for a constitutional convention, and clected ond almost unanimously opposed to awarding political privileges to the fair sex. No place but England seems to take the woman ques- | tion mugh to hearts the MoFarland Trial asd the [foundations of soolety. The Onolda coni-| Tb Governer and the Arcade Job—What Will He De With Ist The Broadway Arcade job with the Governor seems to be hanging, like Mahomet’s coffin, heh ia and earth, * “What will he do is becoming » very interesting ques- tion, The Standard says that ‘‘the suggestion of the Hzratp that Governor Hoffman can win immortality by vetoing the Arcade Railway is Very well go far as it goos;” but that ‘this people will not look kindly upon any Governor inderposing against cheap transit through the island ;” that ‘“‘the prayer of the three hundred millions of dollars that there shall be no inva- sion of Broadway would have some omphasis if those who represent this vast capital would only make a small contribution and build a road on Fourth or Highth avenue ;” that if the Governor does veto this bill he ought to ‘‘exact from the rich men thus served a promise to build a road that will not be objectionable,” and that “‘unless we enable the workingman to go from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil in twenty minutes we might as well consider New York at « standstill.” This, then, is the argument in favor of this “Arcade job—cheap and speedy transit from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil, But when—assuming that the Governor has signed this bill, and that Broadway is turned over into the possession of this Arcade com- bination—when shall we have this cheap and speedy transit? Let us sce. It has been pleaded in behalf of this Arcade undertaking that it will occupy not over @ month to complete the work over the space between any two blocks. Considering the work to be done—the excavation of the street to the house walls on each side, to the depth of twenty- two feet—the removal of vaults and the sink- ing of gas pipes and water pipes undor this excavation—the side walls to be built, the flooring for the railway and the rails to be laid, the iron columns to be set up for the Arcade, and the rodfing for the upper roadway to be laid—the average of one month's time for all this labor from cross strect to cross street is short enough. At this rate, let us see how we shall get on, From the Battery to Union square there are, we will say, throwing out some of the shortest ones, thirty-six blocks, This, upon the company’s estimate, will give us thirty- six months or three’ years for the comple- tion of this Arcade from the Battery to Union square. At this rate ten years would be required to carry the work over Hazlem river. But three yoars to Union square is enough for our present. purpose, which is to show that this scheme, while destroying our principal business street, will not give the relief of cheap and speedy transit desired by the city. Indeed, from the loose ard liberal con- struction of this Arcade in regard to the rights and privileges given to the company, we ap- prehend that the real design is a Broadway and Fourth avenue surface railway for steam trains from end to end of the island while the- company are building the Arcade. But what- ever the design may be, Governor Hoffman has certainly had time enough to reach a decision concerning this bill. As a simple matter of justice to the property holders, banks, insu- rance offices, churches, shopkeepers, hotels, &c., directly concerned, he should put an end to this suspense concerning this Arcade job. The general impression seems to be that the Governor cannot possibly approve such a job of deception and wholesale spoliation and rob- bery. We cannot think that he will; but why this delay in announcing his judgment? It involves doubts, apprehensions and losses to our citizens directly affected, which ought to be ended at once. We therefore call again upon the Governor to proclaim at once his disapproval of this bill. In the short space of six months two or three elevated railway lines may be built, whereby the trip may be made from the Battery to Westchester in half an hour, This is our proper mode of relief. We cannot regard this Broadway Arcade scheme as anything else than a monstrous humbug and a gigantic swindle, A Significant Dinner at the White Honse, General Grant gave a dinner yesterday which, inits way, exhibits a knowledge of diplo- macy that is highly creditable to so younga student of that intricate branch of political economy. He counted among his guests, be- sides the leading lights of the administration party and the prominent foreign ministers, Mr. Thomas Ewing, Jr., a war democrat who at present opposes the administration's policy ; Mr. Frank P. Blair, the old gentleman of the family, who, believing, as he does, in tho infallibility of Frank, Jr., is certainly no intimate friend of the, adminis- tration; Mra. Blair, his wife, and Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the banker, who has a decided rebel record, and who, so far as heard from, is not a supporter of the present party {n power. These unusual elements were sand- wiched between a glittering array of army and naval officers of undoubted administration bias, the Vice-President, Secretary of State and the Prassian and English Ministers and their wives. The President shows, if we may judge from this dinner—and dinners are among the most important elements in diplomacy—that he is disposed to negotiate a national peace, and to use his beat efforts to harmonize the little differences that partisan excesses may have oc- casioned. With every bit of good cheer that his honest opponents may eat at his board a profounder respect for his qualities as a man ig apt to enter their souls, and with every diplomatic master-stroke like ‘the present ‘a profounder regard for his political skill is apt to be engendered. We must remember that dinners, wisely administered, secured to Eng- land the mock Afabama claims treaty that Reverdy Johnson negetated, and that, later, 4 little luncheon almost@rove a worthy pastor from his pulpit, and we must not treat this palatable peace-offering of the President as anything less siguificant than a happy over- ture for a peaceful blending of discordant ele- ments, Tue Parapise For Roucns—Louisiana, Important From Romg.—Our special cor- respondence from Rome, with the enclosure which we have had translated and publish to- day, supplies matter of much importance rela- tive to the relations of the American prelates to the papacy. It enables us to furnish the pro- test of the Archbishop of St. Louis against the dogma of infallibility, Enough said when we say this ‘The Plebiscite and the Large Cities of France. The voting on the plebiscite in the large clties was, 60 far as we know the facts, against the Emperor. Pris cast 111,363 votes in favor of the plediscite, and 156,376 against it; Nantes, yeas 82,916, nays 12,883; Marseilles, yeas 18,412, nays $4,829; Bordeaux, yeas 10,127, nays 18,469; Toulouse, yeas 912, nays 12,534. In one sense this looks bad. But when we take into account the fact that the cities are the centres to which the dis- affected of all classes flock, the majorities in the cities above named do not amount to much, It is, in our judgment, good evidence that the voters enjoyed perfect liberty. In view of the grand result, and while we wait for further details, the majority of negative votes in the cities cannot be taken as any good proof that the intelligence of France is agaloat the empire; Time was when Paris was France, because Paris was followed by the other cities, But France exists now under new conditions. The railroad and the telegraph have made the peasant a power. Let any one compare the past votes on plebiscites with the votes on this last, and he will see how completely France is changed. The peasants now do vote, In former times it was next to impossible for one-third of them to reach the polling booth. The Senatus Consul- tum of the year X, when submitted to the peo- ple, called forth over three millions of yeas and only slightly over nine thousand nays. That of the year XIII was responded to by some three millions of yeas and only two hun- dred nays. In 1815 the whole French vote was under two millions, In 1852 the whole vote was some eight millions, thus showing how the nation had leaped forward in the interval, The peasantry had already come into the foreground. Seven millions against two millions—whatever may be said of the cities—is a sound, solid vote, which justifies the empire. If France is allowed to vote with- out restraint or compulsion it is nobody's business whether France votes for the empire, or for s republic or for the Bourbons. That which concerns us. a3 @ free people is not for whom France has voted, but whether France actually enjoys the priceless boon of freedom of election. With the facts now before us we have no good reason to say she has not. @na the contrary, we have every reason to say she has, + . Congress Yesterday. The tariff question came up in the Senate yesterday in a shape that ought to warn mem- bers of the House to rub up their treaty stipu- lations before they go on with the new bill. Mr. Williams reported a bill to refund certain duties on hemp to the Russian government because the duty of forty dollars per ton im- posed was in violation of a certain treaty with that Power. It would be a sore accumulation of evils if, in addition to the general uselessness of the Tariff bill now under consid- eration in the House, we should find it liable to get us into difficulties with our best friends, The Army bill of Senator Wilson was taken up and read, It provides for the reduction of the army to 25,000 men. The Legislative Appropriation bill was discussed far into the evening session. An appropriation to build a new State Department caused a general debate relative to the removal of the Capital. In the House the Northern Pacific Railroad bill was taken up, and Mr. Wheeler, who is engineering the movement, attempted to press it to a vote without permitting any amend- ments to be offered by the opponents of the messure. The plucky minority would not sub- mit to this, and. passed the entire day in fili- bustering to prevent the passage of the bill. It is probable this method will continue un- loss the friends of the bill consent to the de- mands of the minority until next Monday, when, under the rules, an amendment can be made without universal consent. The Isthmus of Darien Exploring Expedition. Our correspondence from the Darien ex- ploring expedition published this morn- ing is interesting. Careful and ac- curate surveys having demonstrated the impracticabilily of the Caledonia Bay and Sagsardi routes for the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, the expedition had gone to San Blas, from which harbor our correspondent wrote. Contrary to what has been said and written, this route, from San Blas on the Caribbean Sea to the river Bayamo on the Gulf of Panama, Pacific side, has never been accurately explored, previous exploring parties having gone out unprovided with the means of overcoming the natural obstacles which present themselves and of oyerawing hostile Indigns, Py - sent expedition, under Commander Selfridge, being amply provided with everything neces- sary to insure success, we expect a thorough exploration of the route, which, we are glad to learn, gives promise of greater practicability than the two already examined, Already the explorers have offected much good. Thoy have performed an jmmonse amount of work in surveying the Cordilleras from Caledonia Bay to Sassardi. On their return to the United States the government will doubtless publish the results of their labors and place before the public the first accurate maps of the isthmus. We shall await intelligence of the oxpedition from San Blas to the Bayamo river with aaxious interest. Tue Moca For Breuisers—New Orleans, Tug National Women’s SurrragE Conven- tion was in session at Apollo Hall yesterday. There was o bright array of speakers—Miss Anthony, Mrs, Stanton, Theodore Tilton, Miss Phebe Cozzens and other ladies of lesser note, The verdict for McFarland called for a burat of indignation from Mrs. Stanton. Tag Apermanio “ Kine Pixs"—The Tam- many nominations for Aldermen at large— Moses Taylor, Royal Phelps, Oswald Oiten- dorfer and Lawrence R. Jerome. The eleven others are to be selected by a well assorted committee of twenty-two, or one from each ward, with the gallant Senator Creamor at thé head, This committee, no doubt, will see that our populous Milesian element has a fair repre- sentation on the balance of the Aldermanic or upon the Assistant Aldermanic ticket. Tae Spanish Porrriotans in Madrid don’t approve of the French plebiscitum. Certainly not. A plain “Yes” and “No,” if honestly uttered and faithfully adhered to, would spoil tholr ayatem of king-making. Soura Amezioan News.—The steamer which arrived.in this olty yesterday from Aspinwall brought ua the Intest mail advices from our correspondents in the South Ameri- can republics bordering on the Pacific coast. The elections in Chile have passed over quietly and orderly. None of the revolutionary exbi- bitions which formerly aceompanied'them were even thought of. All went off peacefully, and the republic can now continue on the prosperous course which was inaugurated some time since. The difficulty with the Indians near the frontier, however, presents an ugly appearance just bow; but with this exception the future pros- peots of Chile look cheering. The rumors of & war'Detween Peru and Bolivia are gradually subsiding. This is gratifying. Of late these republics have been advancing on a sure and Prosperous road, anda breach of the friendly relations between them and a resort, to arma to settle differences would prove most lament- able, It looks now as if the differences may © be healed and that peace will still continue, and that, with the increasing prosperity of the people, the resources of both countries may be more rapidly developed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Promiuent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Count Lu Corti (newly appointed), Itallan Mtuister to Washington; Irvan Gomez, of Spain, and A. A. Hayes, Jr., of China, are at the Brevoort House. : Judge G.:Cornwail, of Ot City; Colonel W. 0. Pope, of Boston; Dr. E. J. Colltus and Dr. &. C, Simmons, of Philadelphia; Colonel 0. 8. Lovell, of Ohio; Colonet A. J. Zabriskl, of Washingtoa, and Colonel Amos D, Smith, of Rhode Isiaud, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Judkins, of steamer Scotia; KB. Villers, of Peru; Dr. J. O'F. Dulaney, of St. Louis, and Francs Fellows, of Hariford, Conu., are at tie New York Hotel. J. H. Rainsay, of Albany; J, M. Shelley, of Keokuk; Dr. Chaties Bullock, of Ruode Island; Dr. James Suddards and Lieutouant Isaac J. Yates, survivors of the United States steamer Oneida, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General 0, M. Prevost, of Philadelphia; General @. I, Stanwood und Colonel R, Gleason, of Vermont; George F. Wilson, of Rhode Island; Colonel W. P. Walker, of Maine, and Bradley Barlow, of Vermont, are at the Astor House. Count Colodlano, of the Italian Legation; J. Lip pincoit, of Philadelphia, and ©. H. Appleton, ot Boston, are at the Albemarle Hotel, General Donaldson, of the Untied States Army; . Captain Dixon, Rey. Dr. McLeod and Kev. Dr. Bd- monds, of London, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Wiliam M, Ely, of Binghamton; Dr. Whetley, of Paterson; Dr, Farnam, of New Haven, and Dr. @. T. Comstock, of St. Louis, are at the Grand Hotel. 8. Mendelsohn, of New Orleans, and Russell Hal- lett, of Boston, are at the Coleman House. Colonel N.M. Pratt, of Connecticut, and Charles Daweon, of Washington, are at the Irving House. Thomas Sinclair, of Belfast, and F. W. Munro, of Scotiand, are at the-Clarendon Hotel. Golonel G. L. Jourdan, o& New York, and J. Pem- broke Fetridge, of Paria, are at the Everett House. Lieutenant Commander E, E. Pebles, of the United: States Navy; Colonel T. W. Higginson, and Mra, Mary A. Livermore, of Boston, arc at the St, Denia Hotel. 7 Orlando Humphrey, of Sing Sing, and L. Dy Drake, of Boston, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor Wilson, of Engiand; Dr. W. Sayres, of London, England, and Captain J. R. Anderson, of Liverpool, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. Edward L. Bariingame, oldest son of the late An son Burlingame, ts at the Westminster Hotel. Preminent Departures. General Burnsife, Colonel 8. 8. Smoot and Colonel G. W. Cochrane, for Washington; General J. Stam wood, for Alabama; Judge Comstock, for Rochester; Mr. Fishback, for St. Louis; George Very, for Woos. ter; General Ripley, for Rutland; 0. H, Sherrill, for Washington; L. Mcl. Tiffany, for Baltimore; Dr. King, for Newport; E, ©. Laraoed and Turner Sax geant, for Bosion. MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. ‘The annual meeting of this association took place last evening at Clinton Hall, in the reading room ol the insitiution, the President, Mr. M. ©. D. Borden, in the chair. Theirat thing in order was the report of & comsuittee appointed at the last annual meeting ta devise a new constitution. The object of this is tode away with the annual elections fur officers, which have becoine quite notorious and objectionable. It is proposed.to obviate this by making the clectiofs every three years. _ The abstract of the aunual report for the year end. ing April 50, 1870, was then read. It appears that the reccipts during the year have been $49,463, and the expenditures 340,301: of which for books, $10,100; for periodicals, $1,794, and for salarles, $13,235. In regard to books, the number of volumes in the brary 15.415,821, against 104,613 the previous year, making an increase of 11,393: of waich were dona- tions, 185; in foreign languages, 931; fiction, 7,614, and staudard Iterature, 3,004. Tne membership of the association ts 10,028, Against 10,352 (h- year previous, making an inciease during the year of 548. In regard to the circulation, the number of books delivered at residences was 11,184; delivered at the branch office, 76 Cedar str: ee § at Astor 5 “ihe pe) making a@ es vered; of which were Kngl fiction 169,646, It is algo worthy of note that four branch Mbraries have been established dur! Yonkers, N. Y.; one at Elizabeth, N. J.; one ford and another at Norwalk, very successiul, In fact, the growth of the meetin has been 60 rapid during the past year that the sholg room i8 almost completely ali and something must be done to enlarge. In addition to the $10,109 expended above for books the trustees of the Clinton Hall Association Ha aaa $7,000 for books, making @ total of 1G, BRILLIANT PRESENTATION. : Pant B. Du Chafllu Receives the Medal of the Imperial Geographical Society of Paris. The hall of the Geographical and Statistical So- cloty was filled to overflowing last evening to listen toa paper on “Equatorial Africa,” by the Rey. Dr. Bustinell, of the African Mission, and to witness the presentation of a gold medal to Mr, P. B, Da Chaitlu, which was recently forwarded for the purpose by the Imperial Geographical Society of Paris, The medal was presented by the secretary of the New York society, and bore the following tnsorips tton:—Soeiété de Géographie Fondé a Paris en 1824—A Paul Du Chaillu pour les voyages, au pays des Achangos, 1868-1864."? Mr, Du Chaliin, on receiving the medal, said thas he felt there were other travellers more worthy than he, put accepted it as au earnest that the Imperial Soclety appreciated labors of travellers the worid over. He had been doubted, but remained silent. Truth would vindicate itself, He had proved By a astronomical calculations that he had peneirat farther into Equatorial Africa than his doubters ever dreamed of. He wag repaid, however, for all his trials by the kind faces of friends about him. ‘T. Batley Myers delivered a touching eulogium on the character of the jate Genorat Golcourta in pre- senting to the society an engraving taken from the Palace of the Escurial during the Peninsular war. Mr. Du Chatilu a'so patd @ tribute to the character of Dr. Bushnell ana his estimabie lady, referring to tieir residence in Africa, and claimed ‘that the na- tives of the West Coast were superior to the slaves of the South. THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPIC S0CI:TY. A semi-monthly meeting of the American Micro- scopic Soctety was held last evening at 64 Madison avenue, Dr, John H. Hinton in the chair, there being @namerous attendance of membors, Dr. Vander ‘Weyd presented two microscopes, of wiich he gave interesting descriptions. The first was an instro- ment by moving the stage of which all the points of an object could be passed in review under the lens; the second was & microspectroscope of a new construction. Professor Edwards introduced te subject of the existence of microscopic germs int So pe ag put forth by Protessor Tyndall ina recent leviure, Dr, Vander Woyd and other gentiemen entered into a discussion on this subject, ‘which eilcited a remark, among others, that a modt- cal man visiting patients affected with infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever, should always do 80 when in good health, and never with an empty stomach or lu @ condition of physical exhaustion, ra, Sprague, of Foriham, and P. DeMormon, of puyten Duy vil, Were clocted Oorrespondine meas. 2