The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1870, Page 6

v Ld NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUEMBER 10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Our Parties and Public Men—The Political Horizon. Taking the result of the late elections, the political bearing of the President's Message and the position of parties at the comm ence- ment of the present session of Congress as a standpoint for looking at the prospect around us, we may form some idea of the future. The political situation was never more tame, flat and devoid of excitement in this country. Never was there such a lack of streng public men, of leading and powerful minds, either to arouse popular fervor on questions already up or to create new stirring issues. It is the same with one party as with the other. The demo- crata and republicans alike are without strong leaders or popular issues, As President Grant is the head and repre- sentative of the dominant republican party and must be the candidate of that party in 1872, bis Message may be regarded asa sort of platform on which the republicans will stand. True, some new issues may be raised between the present time and 1872, either through the course of coming events or by the party in Congress. But we see none at pre- sent. Well, what are the republicans going to make the contest upon? The Message of the President to Congress isa highly respectable State document, remarkably conservative and peaceful, but tame and negative. The negro is used up as a political hobby. The war issues have been exhausted. Both the odium and the expected benefita of reconstructing the South have been used nearly as far as they could be by both parties. Reconstruction is virtually finished, and little more can be made out of it. The negroes as well as the white people of the South will henceforth range themselves with political parties on questions affecting their material interests. As to finaneial questions, neither party has a comprehensive, well defined policy. The rapid payment of the debt, which Mr. Boutwell endeavors to make so much of, through the burdensome taxes wrung from the people, cannot make much political capital for either the Secretary of the Treasury personally or the administration. And as to revenue measures, the republi- cans are divided according to the interests of the sections of country they represent. It is the same, in a measure, with the democrats, though they are more united thax the republi- cans on such measures, On questions of foreigu policy or our rela- tions with foreign countries neither the admin- istration party nor the opposition has any policy to awaken the popular mind. The Alabama claims, the fishery question and the navigation of the St. Lawrence, which the President has discussed pretty fully in his Message, might bring up a popular issue; but we rather think General Grant will not force one, and that the British government is so intent on maintaining peace with this country that these matters will JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, — All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8h av. and 23d st.— Le Bui@anns. Matinee, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —Tar PANTOMIME OF War WiLue WINKI¥. Matinoe at 2, WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ‘ances overy afteruoon and evening, GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Brondway.—Vaurery Ew ree- sainaEnt, £0. Matinee at 239. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-tonrth at,—LON- DON ASSUKANOZ, Matinee at 1}g—FERN ANDE. 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NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SoxNxs IN TUE RING, ACROBATS, dc, Matines at 254. LYRIC HALL, Sixth avenue —Mes. JanLEr’s Wax Wonks, DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broad way.— SOLENOE AND ART. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCIRNCE AND AD New York, Saturday, December 10, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, st Renner Anres 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The War in France—Napoleon at Wilhelm- shthe—Oorrespondence Relating to tie Re- necessities of the time, Now, then, with regard to the opposition or democratic party, what great measures or great men do we find in that? Looking over the whole field we see the withering blight of the dead past—no fresh issues or new life— nothing to arouse public sentiment. There has appeared to be lately, and particularly in the late-elections, some returning life to this ence vigorous and powerful party, but its comparative successes arise from a negative and not a positive cause. The dissatisfaction with the republican party and its growing unpopularity helped the democrats, and not any positive popularity of their own, They have not presented any policy or issue to stir the popular aeart, and seem to have none to offer. Nor have they any towering leaders to arouse the enthusiasm of the people or to organize and consolidate the party. Governor Hoff- man, who will be, probably, the Presidential candidate of Tammany, and who is already nominated in different parts of the country, is a safe, prudent, conservative and very respect- able man. For negative virtues, if we may call them so, no man could be more unex- ceptionable. But what is there in the character, history or reputation of the Gov- ernor to arouse popular sentiment? Outside of New York who knows anything about him? His public career has beea confined to this State, and though he has made a good Gov- ernor, the people of other States or sections know little concerning him. Pendleton, of Ohio, is a brilliant man, but out of the ques- tion. His antecedents and political and financial theories make him objectionable to a large number of the people. Hendricks, of Indiana, has hada good deal of experience in Congress and has proved a solid and safe public servant, but there is nothing in him to awaken the enthusiasm of the people. end of the list of democratic leaders, With sterility in policy and mediocrity in its leading men what can the democratic party do? General Grant, then, is the foremost man, and the republicans have the best chance with him of holding power. democrats should gain the next Presidential election it will be through the mistakes and unpopularity of the republicans, and not from any positive merits of their own. country really wants are live issues and strong public men. So on to the But if by chance the What the The Military Situation in France. It were easy to reconcile the repert of King William of the enormous losses sus- tained by the French near Orleans with the statement from Tours that the Army of the Loire has again started on an advance move- ment, if we accept the reports emanating from French sources respecting the strength of that army. Certainly any force comprising three hundred thousand men may lose forty thousand and yet continue on the offensive if its morale remains unimpaired. Onr war despatches cognition of the French Republic—The Eastern | be smoothed over or remain in a quiescent | thig morning are somewhat puzzling, uestion, Re 4=The Papacy: Grand Demonstration py the Cath. | State. The President’s mind seems full of the although they by no means contra- tics in Buffalo; A Protest Against the ‘Usur- pation of Italy; Lecture of Archbishop Spalding—England’s Alarm: The Eastern War Excitement in Great Britain—New York City News —Sutcide of an Immigrant. %—Proceedings of Congress—Literature—Fire in Broek!ya—Naval Intelligence—National Board of ‘Trade—Meeting of the National Tobacco Associutioa—General Notes—Improvements in Washin b Market—Americans Abroad—The ven-Thirty Bonds Forgery: Important Arrest of an Alleged Counterfeiter of the Seven- t'wenties—Political Intelligence—The Visit of Senator Cameron to Georgia—A Hidden Trea- St. Domingo annexation scheme, for it is dwelt on at great length in the Mesgage; but there is not enough in that to make any political capital, Indeed, the suspicion is generally entertained that there is a job in the scheme, and that the President, though not a party to it, is misled by those having his confidence. The annexation idea is always a popular one with the American people, but in the case of St. Domingo they say cut bono? or, what is to come out of {t? The island is naturally very sure. 6—Editoriais : Leading Article, “Our Parties and Public Men—The Political Horizon’ —Amuse- Ment Ant ment ‘Y—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page—Personal | yj, ; intelligence-—Telographic News item All Parts | 7c, 8 most tropical countries are; but if of the World ws from Washingtou—The | there be not the population, or you cannot get Coal Miners’ Strike—Amusements—Business F the population there to develop this natural richness, where is the value? The St. Do- mingo question cannot be made a popular one. It is different with Cuba. That island has not only as much natural wealth as St. Domingo, or more, but has all the developed wealth of a prosperous country—most valuable and large productions, a large population, extensive commerce, railroads, telegraphs, great cities, splendid ports, and all the elements of a pro- gressive and civilized country, besides being almost within gunshot of the United States. Then there is the popular sympathy of the American people with thetr neighbors strug- gling to shake off the yoke of European des- potism and to establish republican institutions, This would be a popular question for the Pre- sident and his party; but he chooses to ignora Cuba and the Cubans. Neither one party nor the other has any striking policy on the questions referred to, and both are drifting along lazily on the slug- gish stream of used-up political questions. Sometimes the want of stirring issues is com- pensated for in a measure by the towering position and influence of great party states- men or leaders. A sortof hero worsbip may sometimes serve party purposes. Look at the influence General Jackson and Henry Clay had over the people. Such men can inspire en- thusiasm in the masses. But at present the country has no such leaders. We are without great men as well as great measures. The most prominent figure among the group of our leading public men is General Grant. His glorious war record gave him that position and made him President. Though he makes a respectable and safe President, he does not show as much ability in politics and states- manship as in the command of armies. He fails to initiate a policy that would touch the popular heart. Yet he stands like a Goliath above the other prominent men and Presidential aspirants of the republican party. There are Colfax, Sumner, Boutwell, Butler and others who aspire to be leaders and states- men, and who have their eyes fixed on the White House; but is there one of them that merits this distinction? Colfax is simply a local, smooth politician, whose strength ‘ies in a fluent tongue. There is nothing great about him. Sumner is a man of one idea and a theorist—a mere rhetorician, and has neither the grasp of mind for a statesman nor the qualities for the chief and leader of a party. Boutwell is a respectable country lawyer and local politician, who became a finance minister by accident, who has had nothing te do but to haul in the enormous revenue imposed by Congress upon the people, and who has shown no remarkable ability either in the Treasury or in the House of Representatives. Butler has more talent and vigor than any of them, but he is reckless, unserupulous in political affairs, and would be unreliable, if not dangerous, at the helm of state, So we might go on to analyze the character and pretensions of other so-called leaders of the renublican party, and Notices, S—Wife Murder: Conviction and Sentence of George Nelson tor the Murder of his Wife; ‘The Cooney-0’Day Murder Vase—Transit Tax on Passeagers—The Hornet at Sea : The Rakisn Steamer Safely on her Way—Bound for Nas- sau and a Market with Sunmple Stores—The Liveral Ciub—The Courts: A Custom House Case—Smallpex : Unabated Spread of the Foul Contagion—Miscellaneous Foreign Items—Bul- liards. ew York State Inebriate Asylum. 9@—Solar Eclip: © Approaching Total Eclipse of the Sun—Financial and Commercial Re- ports—A Boy Carried Over Genessee Falls— Woman’s Rights—Journalistic Notes—Mar- riages and Deaths. $0—Gasoline Explosion: Another Patent Oil Explo- sion, and ihe Last Slaughter by Means of Safety Gas—Woman’s Rights—Tannhauser— Femmes d’Industrie—Libre Cuba: Arrest of the Minister of the Provisional Goverment of Cuba—Yachting—Revenue Robbery—The Lec- ture Season—Police ‘Breaks’’—Rallery on Sunday—Shipping = Intelligence—Advertise- ments. @i—The Army: Annual Report of Secretary Bel- knap—Death of a Prussian Spy: Execution of Nicholas Schull by the French Soldiers—The New Indian Policy—The New Lighthouse at Portsmouth, N. H.—Advertisements, @2—Advertisemen ‘Tue Senate has made no delay in confirm- Ing Delano as Secretary of the Interior, Prusstan Economy aANp TRapE SpEcuLa- wron,—Our speeial correspondent in Berlin in- forms us by letter that an enterprising book publisher ef that city has just (November 22 Issued a work entitled ‘“‘A Guide Book for the ‘Victorious Troops in Paris.” A shrewd and profitable idea, The work will most likely go off like ‘‘hot cakes.” PENNSYLVANIA will have her little represen- tation in the Cabinet. Simon Cameron has determined upon that. He wants Forney to be Postmaster General, and if Creswell will give up that office, well and good; otherwise, with a sigh for something better, he will con- ‘tent himself with Douglas as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, without prejudice to his claims for some higher office. A Nore Asour A Ratroap AcomEnr.— ‘The Cincinnati Chronicle thinks the tenor of Signor Brignoli’s present life runs largely towards damage suits against railroads. He jhas just reeovered over seven thousand dol- Jars for injuries received in an aceident near Logansport, Ind. But he has not yet got the money—only the judgment. Some of these Western railroads make very fast runs, but the scale of their payments for injuries is rather more moderato than crescendo. ‘i “ue GoveRNMENT has suddenly become very vigilant in regard to Cuban violations of the neutrality laws, What occasions this freak of virtue at this moment is unknown, unless it may be the sailing of the steamer Hornet on Thursday for Nassau and a market. At any rate, in addition to the arrest of General Jor- dan some days ago, we have now to chronicle the arrest of Sefior Ruez, the Minister of the provisional government of free Cuba. If Cuba should ever become a free and independent little mation she is net likely to entertain any very cordial sentiments towards our glorious and freedom-loving republic. dict each other. the report published yesterday that seventy- seven pieces of artillery, prisoners aud four gunboats were taken by the Prussians near Orleans. that this success, great as it is, was not achieved without heavy loss to the victors. The Duke of Mecklenburg telegraphs that the Mecklenburgers alone lost thirty-twe hundred of their number, and as they could not have comprised more than a comparatively small part of the German army we may safely con- clude that the victory was dearly bought. hesitate to place credence in them. targis, which is situated northeast of Orleans, should be evacuated by the Germans, when it forms so important a part of their communi- cating line with Paris, we are at a loss to con- jecture. Assuredly, while they remain in Or- leans they will hardly uncover the road that leads directly to Fontainebleau. be imagined that the evacuation o¥ Montargis would enable the French to get between Prince Frederick Charles and the investing army be- fore Paris; held King William confirms ten thousand It is evident As regards the despatches from Tours, we Why Mon- It must not for it would not. It would, however, leave the road open to Fon- taineblean and Champigny; hence we are disinclined to credit the report in the absence of any intimation that the Germans are executing strategic movements and design- edly uncovered the place, In like manner tho statement that De Paladines’ army is again advancing cannot be implicitly relied upon, We think it true, however, as the despatches state, that the army has been divided into three corps. Such a division, if it be really great in numbers, will result advantageously, as it will enable the French to move upon Paris in three parallel columns, and conse- quently increase their chances of success. From Paris we have intelligence of the reception by Trochu of Von Moltke’s informa- tion of the defeat of De Paladines, coupled with the offer of a safe conduct to a committee of French officers to verify the report. Trochu declined the offer, asserting defiantly that if even the statement were true France would continue the contest. Of course, the reports from Paris concerning the military situation are all favorable for the French. Nor is it quite possible for us to deny their truth. Whatever exaggerations may be contained in all the French despatches it ia wortby of note that neither from Orleans nor from Versailles have we received any news which would indicate that the Army of the Loire has been too badly beaten for imme- diate offensive operations or that Ducrot’s forces do not hold the line surrounding the peninsula formed by the Marne, the possession of which was the cause of the battle of the 2d. Bven the otherwise full account of this battle, which we publish this morning, fails to satisfy us on this point. Champigny, we are told, is held partly by the French and partly by the Germans. This is a very vague statement. It seems to leave the French still on the left bank of the Marne, but there is nothing certain upon which to base a conclusion. In fact, it is certain that antil we get clearer accounts of the mili- tary situation than we have yet received it will be impossible to arrive at any definite sonclusion. Tury Have Baby Farmers in Concord, New Hampshire, and ove of them has been in fifteen hundred dollars bail to we should find none equal to the political Special Advices from Wilhelmshohe—Napo- leon’s Hopes and Remembrances. By anample telegram dated at Wilhelmshthe onthe Sth inst., and forwarded through the Atlantic cable, we have a very important special report from the castle prison of Bona- parte. The intelligence which it conveys ap- pears in our columns. It is quite interesting and rather important. The exiled dynast re- mains in that condition which the First Napo- leon termed, according to an English account, the “‘gloom of his glory.” He experienees the sad realities of the present, seeks consolation in his recollections of the past and is hopeful of the fature. Visitors of note come and go with daily increasing frequency to and from the castle. It is alleged, indeed, that the chances of Napoleon's restoration to supreme power in France are steadily improving. In the meantime his Majesty is about to come out with a pamphlet, We must say that, in our opinion, this pamphleteer war system is unworthy of the great occasion, out of place in an age of mitrailleuses, needle-guns and Chas- sepots, Under cover of an official authorship Napoleon has a new book, however. Our special correspondent telegraphs some extracts from the work. The sentences speak of the past entirely—of 1856 and 1866. They are interesting, but tend to no result which is likely to be useful to the royal cause. Indeed, if they show any one point very distinctly it is that Bonaparte was for years before his fall out- generalled in diplomacy by Prussia, particularly by Bismarck, and that too without being aware of the fact. England aided in this direction by a sort of side wind, or secret counterblast, the tortuous whirls of which were not, as is evident on his own showing, understood by the French Emperor. The issue of works such as the one just now referred to by Napoleon goes to prove that his mind, like that of his great uncle, as it was described by |. the English poet, is ‘‘extreme in all things”— “one moment of the mightiest; and again on little objects with like firmness fixed.” Vv Congress Yesterday. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Casserly, of California, effered » resolution of inquiry as to when and where federal troops have been used to preserve the peace at State elections and for other purposes designated in the new Congres- sional election law. This is the epening gun of a whole battery that is likely to be turned against the law, which is so obnoxious to the democraey, but which certainly cut down the business of repeating to a very unprofitable standard in this city last month, The de- mocracy do themselves great injury by oppos- ing it. It certainly secures o fair and just election, and no one can eppose it who is willing that fair and just elections should be held. Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, has taken up the idea of General Logan, and has presented in the Senate the proposition for the abrogation of the offices of admiral and vice admiral. As the nomination of Porter to be admiral has just been presented in the Senate, and was reported upon favorably yes- terday, the matter assumes more importance than it does in the House. Mr. Drake again stirred up the old question of rank and pay in the navy, and succeeded very admirably in muddling the question of precedence between the line and staff even more than it has here- tofore been muddled. His bill was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and remains yet to be acted upon. Several other matters of no importance .were brought up, and the Senate, after an executive session, adjourned until Monday. The House was not in session. Queen Isabella Protests Against the House of Savoy. From Geneva Queen Isabella protests against the Duke of Aosta. Poor Isabella! It isnouse. The Pope, who is in similar trouble, protests. But the Pope is also under the necessity of yielding to the House of Savoy. The House of Savoy, like the House of Hohen- zollern, is now in the zenith of its success, The one family is being borne in triumph to the imperial throne of Germany—a throne empty since 1806, but which as soon as occu- pied will recall the tradition of the holy Roman empire. The Hohenzollern on the throne of Charlés V., Barbarossa, Otho the Great and Charlemagne, will not be a pleasant subject for the centemplation of the descen- dant of Rudolph of Hapsburg. Scarcely less pleasant to the House of Austria can be the spectacle presented by the House of Savoy. Victor Emmanuel King of United Italy, his daughter Queen of Portugal, his son King elect of Spain, his daughter wife of an ambi- tious Bonaparte, to what family are the Latin races to look fer unity, if not to the House of Savoy? Accentury since Prussia was small and Sardinia was insignificant ; but to-day Prus- sia is Germany and Sardinia has changed her name for Italy, and gives the hope of unity to the Latin races. The Bourbons are in the background, and Isabella is a despised Bour- bon, The fates are strong, but they are not strong on the side of the exiled Queen. Isabella, like her betters, must bow to the inevitable. St. Demingo—Senator Sumner Preparing for Battle. Mr. Sumner has issued a formal declaration of war against the President on the St. Do- mingo annexation question. General Grant in bis annual Message has made this annexa- tion scheme a leading measure of his adminis- tration, and in support of it he has furnished an argument which we considered overwhelm- ingly conclusive. Mr. Sumner, however, hav- ing an account to settle with the President in reference to the recall of Minister Motley from England, meets the Message with a resolution which is brimfal of mischief. He calls for all the correspondence and papers relating to this project of annexation, all instructions to our diplomatic agents, and all protocols on the subject, and for all Dominican debts and liabilities, all the provisions of the Dominican constitution on the subject of selling the national domain, all treaties tying up Domin- ica, all communications on this annexation scheme from Hayti, all instructions to our naval squadrons on the subject, and all reports from our naval commanders con- cerned; and also for any information tending to show what European Power, if any, pro- poses to acquire jurisdiction of any part of the island, and, ifso, what part; and also the positien of President Baez, the negotiator of the treaty of annexation, and how far he has been maintained in power by United States vessels-of-war, and soon to the end of his numerous requisitions. Here Mr. Sumner’s line of attack upon this Dominican scheme is pretty plainly indicated. He intends to do his best to show that the pro- posed annexation is what they would call in our police courts ‘a put-up job” between President Grant and President Baez, of Dominica; that Baez, against the will of the Dominican people, has been kept in power by the United States Navy; that the republic of Dominica is overwhelmed in debts; that she is mixed up with heavy schemes with and obligations to Hayti in this annexation busi- neas; that no European Power has any notion of securing jurisdiction over the island or any part of it, and that upon the part of the Presi- dent and all concerned the whole scheme is little else than a monstrous scheme of specu- lation in real estate at the expense of the United States Treasury. We have no doubt that this exposition against the President is what Mr. Sumner is driving at; but will it serve his purpose? We think not. The President, we are sure, will gladly furnish all the information desired that he possesses or can obtain, and, with all this and all else that Mr. Sumner can secure, these facts will stand out in bold relief, to wit:— That the proposed foothold upon the island of St. Domingo, simply as a naval station, will be teus worth a hundred times over all that we shall have to pay for it; that in securing it from the actual existing govern- ment of Dominica we shall secure a title which will nowhere be disputed; that the an- nexation of the Dominican republic two-thirds will speedily be followed by the other third, Hayti, thus securing us the whole of that magnificent island of St. Domingo, of twenty- seven thousand square miles; and that in view of the seaports, the military position and amazing fertility of the island in its tropical products, including sugar and coffee, all these objections of Mr. Sumner to General Grant's scheme of annexation are paltry, pitiful and contemptible. Let Mr. Sumner have his infor- mation and let us see what he can do with it against these great facts and against the Presi- dent and the general public sentiment of the country. Manifesto from the Cable Companies. The presidents of the three ocean cable companies have issued a manifesto, which we print in another column, announcing an ad- vance of rates on and after Monday next, in consequence of the immense pressure of busi- ness resulting from the breakage of the two damaged wires. The rates are declared to'be, for the time being, for a message not exceed- ing ten words, fifteen dollars, in gold, and one dollar and a half for each additional word. The press despatches will be transmitted at half this price. The companies explain that there isan accumulation of business now at both ends of the line whieh cannot be got through in less than two days. The present advance in price is, ef course, only temporary. As soon as the broken cables are put in work- ing order the old rates will be resumed. But it is alleged that there is serious difficulty’ in the way of restoring the cables at this season. Nothing has been accomplished so far, and it may take some time before they are picked up and repaired. The break,-it appears, is only a short distance from the coast of Newfound- land, and great difficulty is experienced by the steamers in operating on the fractured lines when the wind blows from any quarter except directly off shore. Indeed, it is stated that they cannot work at all except when the wind is in this direction. This fact would naturally delay the work very much and leave it a good deal to the chances of the elements. We suppose, under these circumstances, that people will have to submit to the advance. It may seem rapacious to put the prices of trans- atlantic despatches up so high; but, as far as the HeRatp is concerned, we have no objec- tion to pay our share of the increased expense. We are determined that the public shall have the news in our columns, whatever it costs, while a slender thread of communication re- mains between America and Europe. Tur Parat DemonstEation IN BUFFALO.— An immense procession of Catholics, German and Irish, took place in Buffalo yesterday to testify their approval of the Pope's protest against the occupation of Rome by Italians. Twenty-five thousand men were in line, and a large body of French Catholics were te have made an addition to tho number, but came to the conclusion before the procession moved that they would not march with Germans. Bishop Ryan and other eminent priests deliv- ered impressive speeches to the multitude oa the occasion. Tok GovrRNorsHi? or ALABAMA.—Mr. Smith, the radical Governor of Alabama, who has been holding on to his office against the clearly expressed election of Mr. Lyndsay to succeed him, has finally consented to resist the will of the people no longer, and has given up the office without any further recourse to litiga- Svocess or THE New INDIAN PoLtoy.— Western papers are expressing their convic- tions that the new Indian policy inaugurated by General Grant is no longer a doubt- ful experiment; that the honest manner | tion or any appeal whatever to arms, This in which the Quaker agency system | Smith, strong radical as he is, recently ‘went is carried out is confirmed by the | pack” on his colored friends, and denied ever docility of warlike tribes and the saving of a million dollars to the national treasury. This is a very good report for friend Broadbrin. Let him keep onin the same line, summer and winter. granting them any favors or ever countenanc- ing them at all, This was while the litigation was pending, and was evidently intended as a peace offering to his democratic opponents. After such a record the verdict in regard to Tue Smat.rox is alarming the good people his overthrow must be “served him cane. ofthe Eastern District of Brooklyn, and is said to be spreading rapidly in the direction of the Heights. Luckily Dr. Cochran and a full AncupisHor SPALDING delivered a very able lecture in Philadelphia last evening on the “Temporal Power of the Pope.” He took the answer, Luckily English records furnish a very good and fresh precedent for dealing with these veoole. same ground that he took in his first sermon to his flock at Baltimore after his retura from Ecumenical Council- and energetic Board of Health are grappling with the contagion and are fully alive to the exigencies of the case Councll of the Eastern Oburchos—Light frem the Orient. A cable telegram from London states that the Patriarch Gregorius has summoned @ synod of the Greek Charch to assemble in Constantinople. The Eastern Churches will, it is said, be = by the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cypras, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest and St. Peters- burg. The Patriarch Gregorius is one of the most learned, liberal, and at the same time devotedly religious hierarchs of the day; as has been already specially shown in the pages of the Hggarp. The Church move- ment which is about to be undertaken with his sanction will, if carried out to complete. ness, constitute one of the most important events in the history of Christianity. The very names of the Sees indicated recall the memory of the footprints of the Great High Priest and of the Apostles. These remem- brances will serve to restore religion to its primitive simplicity and charity and faith. They bring light from the East, with consola- tion. The Synod of Constantinople is likely to meet at a most critical period of the affairs of the Old World. The Church may be enabled to fulfil its heavenly commission—to carry peace where men seek to seize the sword of war. In this respect it will contrast hopefully with the Ecumenical Council in Rome—a meeting which was coincident, to say the least, with war, bloodshed, dethrone- ment, exile and death. The Coal Monopoly. ‘The fact of the annual reduction of miners’ wages by the great coal corporations of the country and the consequent strikes of the operators of the mines, whereby an excuse is made for raising the price of coal, requires the: suggestion to Congress of a way for preventing @ recurrence of such events in the future, An alteration in the present Tariff bill which will take the duty off foreign coal would have the desired effect—at least it would place the con- sumers of coal in a more safe condition than they are at present, as English, Irish, Nova Scotia and other coal could be brought into this market and sold at such prices as would keep the great monopolists of the Pennsylvania coal regions in check, and their extortions in prices would be consequently less fre- quent, Miners’ strikes and consequent suffer- ings will occur every winter until Congress takes the matter in hand ond abolishes the duty on foreign coal. But we have little faith that this desired object ean be brought about in the face of the great wealth and influ- ence that the coal monopolists can bring to bear at the seat of government against so dis- astrous a blight to their schemes. We hope, however, for a change. Thirty thousand miners are now out of employment in Pennsylvania, and the amount of coal on hand by the various coal corpora- tions is inadequate for the supply of the coming winter. What will be the result? An idiot could almost guess. Prices will go up, and by the Ist of February we would not be sur- prised to see it selling at fifteen dellars for a short ton. We can imagine the suffering that will then take place among the poor all over the country, with coal advanced in price dur- ing the freezing months of January, February and March, The only hope, then, is, that Con- gress, by taking off the duty at once, will upset the calculations of the coal monopolists and give the consumers coal at a fair price. The Murder Trials. One murder trial was concluded yesterday before Judge Bedford, in the Court of General Sessions, and another is still pending, both of which reeall horrible murders which, although committed less than eight months ago, have almost entirely escaped the public memory. Both were attended with the most thrilling adjuncts. George Nelson murdered his wife in June last, while drunk, and the little daughter of the murderer and his victim first discovered the murder when she came inte her parents’ room the next morning and found her father sleeping carelessly om the lounge and her mother lying stiff and celd in death on the bed. This unfortunate little witness convicted her father yesterday, and he was sent to State Prison for four years for manslaughter. The other case is an older one. It is that of Cooney for the murder of O’Day one bright Sabbath dawn in April last, when O'Day, a big bully, had been out all night on a lark and had been seeking for some one to kill up to the moment that he met the prisoner. Sport, he called it, and in seeking this sport he let his lifeblood out on the sanded floor of a bar- room. t A Nover Srrvarion—To see an American born citizen becoming a naturalized subject of Great Britain for the purpose of carrying en the iron ship building business. Why don't Congress allow the transfer of the American flag to foreign built ships at once, and have no more nonsense aboutsit? The very fact of the United States becoming again a great com- mercial Power would “give an impetus to American industry in our shipyards that would in time and under proper enouragement and legislation overcome foreign competition, and leave the field, or rather the ocean, very nearly all to ourselves. Tue Hayriens either fear Yankee absorb. tion, or are jealous of the good fortune in store for their Dominican neighbors when the latter take their place under the American flag. The Haytien Minister at Washington has prepared a protest against the acquisition of St. Do- mingo by the United States; but the grounds of the protest have not yet been made pubiic. This movement, however, can have no effect with the Senate. In ‘‘expanding the area of freedom” our government does not feel called upon to consult the wishes of parties not immediately interested in the transaction. A New IpkA From Wyomne.—We have already learned a great deal from the new Territory of Wyoming. it was Wyoming which taught us that woman suffrage could be carried into effect very respectably, and that the women voters conld he trusted to defeat the women candidates. Now it gives us a lesson in the jary system. A number of petit jurors recentiy, while locked in their room, at Rawlins, undertook to vary their deliberations on the dry ease under trial by the more fasci- nating diversion of “seven up.” Whether they intended to arrive ata verdict by this means, thus degrading territorial law to the level of “‘einfu! games,” or whether they pro<