The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1871, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. _ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AN business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed NEw York Heravp. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOIN AND EVENING, 28 THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- we AM intra BacoHus. Matinee at WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street ROsevaLe. WooD'’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st,—Perform- ‘ances afternoon #na evening—CLAIRV OYANCE BOOTHS THEATRE, 25a st, between 5th and 6th avs. -~ Tux Victims—SOLON SHINGLE, Matinee at 134. STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.—TRAGEDY or HAMLET. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —Seancuin@ Tue Durrns. Matinee at 2. paene NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streeis.—OUR AMERICAN CousIN. Matinee at 2. ‘GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. and 23d ft.— Pauis; OB, THE Days OF THE COMMUNE. Matinee at 2, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—Orrra Bourrs—Le vont pgs Sovrens, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Tur New Drama oF Div . Matinee at Ly. © onympic THEATRE, Broaqway.—Ti Batter PAN. TOMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth ‘wus MEssiag. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- BDue,—Nrono ECOENTRICITIES, VOCALISMB, £0. Matinee, BROUELYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague street— Maske AND Facrs. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—Benta, ‘tux Mipaxt, Matinee. tomy Zs MRS. Ff. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THBATRE.— Brnious Faminy, £0, Matinee—Ouns, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad- ‘Way.—NEGuo AOTS—BUBLESQUE, BALLET, 40, Matinee Twenty-fourth street. atreet.—ORATORIO OF NEW YUKK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘Thanksgiving Day—Tho Presiden! Procla- mation and the “Day We Celebrate.” ‘With thé ¢ircling seasons the good time draws near Of thanks for ali the biessings of the year. Its garnered fruits benold on every han ‘Truly ‘ts “Hall! Columbia, happy land. Our industry rewardea—East and West, And North and South, on every hand confess'd, With ample stores—we are supremely biest. We are in peace, thank God, with all the nations, And we enjoy at home the same relations, Save here and there some fighting Indian bucks, And, “way down South,” the horrible Ku Klux. If some of us have suffered there should be From ail the rest an active sympathy, And resignation to the will of Heaven, And gratitude for all its mercies given. Therefore, good people of the United States, Whue Peace and Plenty reign within your gates, Ido prociatm, and you will please remember, That on the thirtieth day of this November, Your thanks, with hearts uplifted to the sky, You numbly offer up to the Most High. And then, be the day dry, or wet, or murky, You all sit down to your Thanksgiving turkey. President Grant's Proclamation, Second Edition, The day has come, and, with a sharp touch of Jack Frost, It comes in the good old Pu- ritan style, including a whiff of snow upon the hills from Cape Cod to San Francisco and from the New to the ‘Old Dominion.” And it will or ought to be, a happy day throughout the country, And we like the enlargement of the institution to a national holiday. It comes down to us from Moses and the children of Israel in the Wilderness, It was brought over to America by the Pilgrim Fathers—those hard-headed old biblical expounders of the law, whose highest embodiments of piety and pluck were “Old Noll” and ‘‘Praise-God- Barebones.” In the proclamation of Wasb- ington, in 1789, of a day of national thanks- giving for the happy establishment of the constitution of the United States, we have the inauguration of this institution as a national affair with the inauguration of our national GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Neqxo EccENTaI- OiTtEs, BURLESQUES, &C. Matince ata . THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro VocaL- ‘tHe, NxeRo ACTB, &0. Matinee at 2}. \SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL FALL, 585 Broadway. Yur San FRaNcisoo MINSTRELS, Matinec al 2. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 934 st., between nd 7th ava—Brran7's MINSTRELS, Matinee at2, ~ ny ' TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 961 Row, renzo Koosnreicrrixs, BunLEsQueEs, 40. Matin NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. Sox \eus Rona, Acronats, 20. Matince at 235. eos DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL M - EABIVS ANA USEUM, 745 Broadway SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 82 Fifth avenue.—Car- TRIPLE SUEET. (New York, Thursday, November 30, 1871. — CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace, t 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, S—The Grand Bali to the Grand Duke Alexis at tue Academy of Music. : 4—City Compiexities : The Legal Movements Against Mayor Hall and His Contemplated Arrest; Mr. Tweed and His Property; Judge Bedford Determined to Bring the Guilty to Justice—The Reform Movement in Brooklyn— Meeting of the Board of Mealth—An Ingentous Forger—Lecture by the Rev. Thomas Guard on “The Tendencies of the Age and the Bibie’—The Political, Outlook—The Deaf Mutes—The Big Fight To-Day: What the Stay- atHomes Think of Mace and Cobarn— Woman’s Rights” Wrong—Shocking Ratlroad Accident—The Governor of Mississippi oe G—Thanksgiv: The Origin and Celebration of Uc Fes @ Day Bright with Happy Mem- ones; Grand Rejoicings Among the Poor, the Uniortunate and the Crimimals; ‘Yo-Day’s Programme—Proceedings in the Courts— Another Sewing Machine Dodge—Adier’s ‘Trivnlations—A Strauge Coincideace—The Battle Over the Bibte: xcllement in Long Island City—More Reckless Driving—A Sneak ‘thief Arrested—Another Robbery at ‘Titlany’s—Horse Notes—Further Consolida- uon in Jersey—A Contessed Thief—Fruit from the Mediterranean, G—EKditorials: Leading Article, “Thanksgiving Day—The Presideut’s Proclamation and the ‘Day We Celebrate’ "—Amusement Announce- ments, Y—Euiropean Cable Telegrams—News from Wash- jngton—Winter’s — Wartiings--Misvelianeous Telegrams—Personal I ntelligence—Business Notices. S—Kciectic Murderers: Some of the Secrets of a Philadeiphian Nest of Legalized Quackery— The Diamond Murder—The Condition of Persia—The Internationais: Meeting of the Central Committee and Officers of the Inter- nauonal Workingmen’s Associalion— Scot- land's Saint—The Quaker City—Roberts, the National Board of Trade— scellaneous Items and Personal Gossip. O—The Shooting of Alderman Stewart, of Brooklyn: Ife ts Stil ia a Critical Condition—The Failing | Building Casualty—runas for tne Fire Sut. | ferers—Financial ana Commercial Reports— | Domestic Markets—Furopean Markeia—City | Government—Marriages and Deaths, | 4O—A Sorrowiul Story: A French Lady of Refine. | mentand E Desi @ Life of Sha Connolly Cage’ Shipping Intellig: 91—Aaverusements. AQ Advertisements, ne Chillicothe Tragedy—- ce— Advertisements, Toe Taree Great ‘Graxps” oF THE | Hour—The Grand Duke, Judge Bedford's | Grand Jury and ibe Grand Central Railway | depot. Tne Crxcixnatt Common Cousot. are | taking measures to secure the meeting of the National Conventions that city. ‘First catch your hare,” &c. in Tae InreenationaLs or Nuw You, or, as | some persons term them, propagandists of socialism, held a meeting last night to con- sider what should be done in reference to the fate of General Rossel in Paris, As might be anticipated, M. Thiers was accused of intriga- | ing to restore Napoleon to power and blast | the existence of republicanism. Tug Watt Srreer Broxers, who made a holiday of the election in order to concen- trate their energies on the slaughter of the tiger, ring and all, will to-day devote those same energies to the demolition of turkey, and give over for the nonce all interest in ‘“‘the | market,” which closed yesterday for a full ob- | Bervance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Prior Bismarck’s health does not im- Prove. Le is still invalided, and was, conse- quently, unable to attend the opening of the Prussian Diet. The Premier of Germany al- | most anticipates time, so that it may be said ‘be lives longer in a year than ordinary men. His system of brainwork has been of a most exhaustive nature during the past half dozen Years, and the great statesman is thus really | old at Gfty-eight. Prussian So.piens Morperep IN Fraxcx.—Prussian soldiers serving in the hostaged districts of France are assassi- nated—many of them, it is sxid—by the French. So it is charged in Berlin. The perpetrators of the murders escape with im- punity. The Prussian press demands that the War Office antho ‘ies adopt the most ener- getic measures in order to stop such outrages, The call will be endorsed universally, We are astonished it was left to the press to make it, or that it was necessary to be made at all, considering the exact degree of care with | time; and we government. But Washington's example was not followed np, and from the beginning of the slayery agitation dowt to our Southera re- bellion Thanksgiving Day was tabooed south of the Susquchanna as ‘“‘a hypocritical Yankee invention;” and so wide was the dis- agreement between the two sections concerno- ing it that the peril of combining the South with the North ina Yankee thanksgiving was carefully avoided by our Presidents, But the Christmas and New Year's social pastimes of the English Cavaliers, established in Virginia by her first setilers and thence throughout the South, wero a thousand times better for purposes of honest piety or social enjoyments than your old cold Puritan Thanks- giving. Now, however, Thanksgiving Day, with ‘all the modern improvements,” warmed, softened and refined as a day of social re- unions, is as well adapted to the fighting General Quattlebaum of South Carolina as to the psalm-singing Aminadab Sleek of old witch burning Salem. But we apprehend that the dead issues or dead ashes of the war are still too full of burning coals in the South to jus- tify the hope that our brethren in that section will this day be very thankful for all their mercies, or very cordial in the endorsement of General Grant's proclamation. Their late system of African slavery, with their social castes and institutions and their political ideas and power resting upon slavery—institu- tions and dogmas of two hundred years of cultivation—have been too suddenly torn out by the roots for the deep wounds made quickly to heal. The living generation, at least, must pass away before the white race of South Carolina can heartily join with Massa- chusetts in a thanksgiving on the new order of things. Years must yet elapse before even the Southern blacks can be acclimated to this Yankee innovation. And yet, as now established, it is a most excellent national in- stitution for reconciling and harmonizing all sections, races and creeds of the American people; and your turkey ts a genuine Ameri- can bird, We hear, in the next place, that the Saints and Gentiles at Great Salt Lake will be very enthustastic in this Thanksgiving. Their High Priest, President and Prophet, leaving behind him twenty-nine wives and seventy-six children, is on his travels, and the minions of the law are after him for ‘lewd and lascivi- ous conduct,” and even upon charges of murder; and so his return to his beloved disciples is almost as uncertain as the return of Bailey, Garvey or Ingersoll. Then, again, with the snow six feet deep upon a level and from twenty to forty feet deep in their moun- tain defiles, the Saints of Utah and the Gen- tiles will, doubtless, this day be as short of visitors as they are of turkeys. And go it may be said of all those new mining States and Territories from the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains to the plains of California, But still at Salt Lake they are in for a good “reckon” that our Western miners, adventurers and trappers, in many a | cosey shanty and uproarious saloon, with their wild game and wilder modes of thanksgiving, | will make a jolly day of it in their variations from the old Salem ritual. Meantime, we are glad to learn that General Grant's Quaker Peace Commissioners may be relied upon to provide their Indians with a good thanksgiy- ing dinner, barring the whiskey. The unfortunate people of Chicago aud of those Western forests and prairie setilemeats laid waste by fire will, we venture the opinion, ofall our people most devoutly thank a mer- ciful Providence this day for the blessings they enjoy in the generous outpourings of relief upon them from an area extending from the Sacramento River to the Hudson, from | the Hudson across the ocean to the Thames, from the Thames to the Rhine and the Elbe, and from these to the Danube. It is in these widely extended manifestations of fraternal charity, resulting from these disastrous fires, that the whole civilized world might properly join in this day of thanksgiving, as marking the latest and the brightest development of the onward and upward progress of the age we live in—the age of the newspaper press, the steam engine and the telegrapb, and the age of our imperial Thankgiving turkey, And yet the people of New York, city and State, will this day enjoy their Thanksgiving turkeys with a eatisfaction unparalleled since that memorable April day when, with the news of the fall of Richmond, our ‘‘bulls,” ‘“‘bears,” “‘spread-eagles," ‘Jame ducks” and money changers—a mighty throng—joined in singing “Old Hundred” in Wall street. Have we not occasion to be devoutly thankful, and to eat and give a double allowance of roast lurkey, which military affairs are wanazed in Prussia, with all the (rimmings, this blessed day? Is not that late terrible, despotic and ravenous Tammany Ring broken up—that awful Ring, with its cave of the “forty thieves,” lined with sacks of gold and bales of greenbacks and boxes of diamonds—that imperial Ring, which could buy Legislatures when it failed to elect them, which distributed its charities by thousands of dollars, including turkeys by the cartload, while stealing the public money by millions? Have we not occasion to be thankful that the Ring thieves have been expeMed from their cave; that the door of the cave is locked against them, and that Mr. Green has the key? Arewe not justified in an extra turkey, with something extra to wash it down, with the prospect of the good time coming under a new city charter, which will enable us to live at a reduction of ten per cent on the costs of the Tammany régime, with its diamond weddings and Americus Clubs? Ob, there is nothing to compare with the delicious unction of this New York Thanksgiving, un- less it is the swelling satisfaction of King Vic- tor Emmanuel over his Italian Parliament, at last established in Rome. Finally, while New York may rejoice ex- ceedingly in the downfall of the Tammany Ring, may not the whole country be thankful for the glorious prospect before us of still an- other new departure by the democracy, on the Presidential platform of Horace Greeley and free trade? Well, we live in an age of miracles, and so we drop the subject, wishing to our vast constituency of readers, each and all, a plentiful supply of roast turkey for the family circle and some for the destitute neigh- bor or stranger at the gate, that he, too, may join in the general thanksgiving. Valmnscda’s Barbarity—Tho Most Atrocions Crime of the Age. Nothing has occurred in modern times and among what are called civilized people so atrocious as the shooting of the eight young students at Havana for having violated, or, as the telegraphic despatch says, for having de- molished the grave of Gonzalo Castafion. Let the volunteers of Cuba call this act of the students acrime if they will, and claim that it had a political significance, which few will be disposed to admit; yet no one will pretend to say that the offence was a capital one or called for such an extreme penalty. The execution of these young men was simply murder—marder most cruel and revolting. There was nothing but savage vengeance in the bloody deed. There was no regard for law, jug- tice or the opinion of the civilized world, Such an act committed by a savage or semi-civilized people would be execrated from one end of Christendom to the other, and the perpetrators would, in all probability, be severely punished by one or more of the Chris- tian nations. Sach brutal inhumanity is not tolerated wherever and by whomsoever com- mitted, except in Cuba and by the bloodthirsty volunteers, These wretches and the infamous revolutionary government under their control which has possession of Cuba now are per- mitted to do what savages would not without punishment. The government of Spain—yes, the so-called liberal government of King Ama- deus—is equally guilly in permitting these atrocities. This bloody outrage is, too, but one of many like it that are being per- petrated continually in Cuba under the revolutionary government of the volun- teers. Neither these volunteers, under the butcher Valmaseda, “nor the gov- ernment of Spain, care about the tame and formal protests of the United States. They laugh at them, make some sort of lame ex- planation or apology, and then go on to repeat similar atrocities. What is the mysterious in- fluence at Washington that makes our govern- ment so blind to the horrible state of things in Cuba and so tender towards the cruel and treacherous government of Spain? The very tone of the correspondence from Washington to the press on this subject of the brutal murder of the students shows that there is either a bale- ful influence at work or that the administra- tion is disgracefully timid. Such a crime against humanity and the civilization of the age, right on our border and among an American population, ought to arouse the in- dignation of the people and government of this republic. The Spanish government in Madrid received the news of the executions yesterday. The capital was profoundly moved by the intelligence. A Cabinet Council was convened immediately and the Ministers engaged inthe preparation of despatches for Havana. The Mene steamship, which was to have sailed from Cadiz for the Antilles, was detained for twenty-four hours. by executive order. Amadeus is called to treat a matter of the most sad interest. Tue Price or Waves’ ILLNESs.—The phy- sicians in attendance on the Prince of Wales issued a bulletin at six o'clock yesterday even- inz, which stated that His Royal Highness “passed a quiet day.” This news was partic- ularly satisfactory at the moment, owing to the fact that the mind of the people was not assured agreeably by the morning report of the doctors as to the progress and phases of the fever during the night, from Tuesday even- ing to daybreak. The first statement said there was no change in the condition of the patient, but that the fever was not so severe, and the Prince had gained strength by sleep. The words no change left the public uneasy, until they were re- lieved by the publication of the later and more decisive words from Sandringham, The Prince may tide over the crisis of the disease to-day. A cable telegram dated in London at midnight informs us that there was ‘no change to note in the condition of the Prince” at the early moment of this morning. This is not exactly encouraging. He holds his own; but the disease bas been active and is still malignant in its attack. Tne Pore Supmits, Bur Sti, Prorests.— On Tuesday an address was presented to the Holy Father. The address necessitating a reply gave the Pope an opportunity to touch upon the situation. The Popo stands firm on the rock. Why should he not? The rock can- not be removed, Why should he? The good old man, bewildered somewhat by this age of telegraphs and railroads and nationalities and races, is perplexed; but his faith in the ulti- mate triumph of the Church is unwavering. The Church in the end, he says, must tri- umpbh; and he protests against all ideas of compromise with the rulers of Italy, It is well, we think, that while the Pope protests hoe submits. The Prince’s Ball at The Academy. The upp»r-tendom of New York society has not had so delicious an occasion of expanding its beautiful butterfly wings as it had at the Academy last night since the Prince of Wales tripped the light fantastie in its honor. Princes are very rare and precious in this country, and among even our first society a prince is a prize, though he may have no throne or reigning family to set off his bright prospective. The Princes Albert and Arthur of Great Britain were highly valued as society blossoms on their visits here, although the dazzling mag- nificence of their reigning house was inefface- ably stained by the sooty trade marks of an on-marching republicanism, which had long ago commenced stripping all there was of tinsel and grandeur from these make-believe princes. But when a true Prince of Russia, ason of the despotic Czar—one of the real genuine monarchs before whom subjects pros- trate themselves—when such a Prince as this comes among our society people what enter- tainment too gorgeous can we get up for him? He is none of your republican princes, hedged in and hampered by constitutions or councils, He is a genuine prince of the fairy tale kind, beautiful as Amabel, brave as Richard, gen- erous as the good King Arthur, and with that unlimited power and perfectly irresponsible rule of action which only princes in fairy tales or princes in Russia possess. He is a prince not only in family, in rank, im the greatness of his suite and in his decorations as any royal born scion might be, but he is also a prince in stature, a kingly young fel- low among his fellow men—a combination and a form, indeed, which have been exceedingly rare in our experience of princes. With this unusual combination of good qualities blended in the prince it is not to be wondered at that our society people have stretched every point to make the grand ball to the Grand Duke such an affair as Cinde- rella’s ball could not have equalled; and let us pardon the ladies, too, if they have enter- tained a vague, fleeting notion that they might lose just such a magical slipper thers, and bave just such a matca-makiog adventure as the little ash girl had in the famous fairy story. The magnificence of the ball is more fully described in our columns elsewhere than we need to describe it here, It was a grand display of jewelry and diamonds, 4 stately movement of handsome necks and shoulders, a charming jumble of handsome faces, bright eyes and pearly teeth. Rich silks and satins rustled in the promenade, while gorgeous diplomatic costumes and army and navy uni- forms moved in grand state alongside. Trains that had cost modistes tears of agony to com- plete in time were recklessly flung by their fair owners during the dance under the rend- ing heels of uniformed cavaliers. Diamonds that had never sparkled in company before— that might, indeed, have been dug out of Golconda especially for this occasion—were torn ruthlessly from their places among the costly laces in the whirl of the waltz. Among those untitled citizens who have no claim to gold lace or bullion the tailor’s art in the per- fection of full dress had been driven to its ut- most, while gold, silver, medals, stars, deco- rations and swords were as thick as leaves in Vallambrosa. The young Prince moved about, observed and admired, not by fair eyes alone, but by manly ones, too. He opened the ball with Mrs. Governor Hoffman—a piece of good taste, and, possibly, of winning diplomacy for which this sensible young Russian deserves ad- ditional commendation, In the midst of all the gayety which encounters him, as a duti- ful son he has not forgotten the injunctions of his father, the Czar, relative to the mission which the Hrratp recently made public, and while pleasing himself personally in the choice of so faira partner he made a neat diplo- matic point by recognizing in his choice the supremacy of the State, which we hold greater than Czar or Kaiser, Especially is this true in view of the fact that no city government was there officially represented—that the great magnates of the municipality who toasted Albert of Wales and Tommy of Japan in years gone by were conspicuously ab- sent—another happy result of the late crushing war upon Tammany, and that Governor Hoffman and his lady were alone present to represent the executive branch of our State government. With the early hours of morning the dancing ended, the Prince departed, and every lovely belle who had been preparing months before for the occasion retired, hopeful even after the bril- liant scene had disappeared like a dream that her own little glass slipper might even yet be in the possession of the Prince, and that the crier would soon come, calling for her to try it on, News From CuIna AND JapaN.—By tele- graph from San Francisco we have a news report from China and Japan, dated at Hong Kong on the 20th of October and Yokobama on the 3d of November, The intelligence is not of an important character. The Japanese and foreigners in Japan commented with some surprise on the withdrawal of the United States expedition to Corea, It is evident that much hope was entertained by the foreign population in both the Asiatic empires that their interests were about to be benefited by a vigorous display of the American banners, sustained by a vigorous eastera policy directed from Wash- ington, It was reported that the Coreans had attacked the Japanese settlement on the island of Tausinia. The Japanese Ambassa- dors to China returned home dissatisfied. The members of the aristocracy of Japan were disposed to be exceedingly troublesome tothe government, even in their humiliation of rank and class privileges. Rice was un- usually plentiful. The railroad and telegraph works were still in progress, but not by any means completed, in Japan. Tue ALaBaMa State Journal (republican) adopts a novel method to get the ear or eye of General Grant. It publishes a three column editorial addressed ‘‘to the President,” and advising bim of the condition of the Union republican party of Alabama. The writer concludes by stating, “We shall await pa- tiently for the President to give us advice.” If the President has the patience to peruse the homily it will be about as much as could be reasonably expected of him, To yive advice thereupon is asking rather too much, NUVEMBEK 3U, I87L—TRIPLE SHEET. . . Phe Famine avd Aaarohy in Porsia, |The City Complications—Comptrolicr Cone To the terrible calamity which has fallen on the inhabitants of Persia must be added the misfortunes of revolution. Discontent pre- vails generally throughout the country, the Shah personally is unpopular and his govern- ment reviled, He is incompetent as a ruler and unequal to the heavy responsibility which rests upon him, A short time since be left bis palace in the capital to go on o hunting ex- cursion, utterly oblivious to the fact that his people were suffering and that bis presence was needed at the seat of government, The desire for personal indulgence, however, was more potent than the appeals of suffering humanity, and he departed on an expedition of pleasure, leaving the management of State affairs to an unpopular regent and the people at the mercy of a mutinons army. The people were maddened almost to despair, and revolu- tionary displays ensued, so much so that on his return he, in fear of personal violence, repaired to a summer palace, instead of taking up his residence in the capital, The people gathered in thousands round the palace in the capital, uttering seditious cries and making rebellious demonstrations, These may be but the precursors of other outbreaks, which will result more disastrously in the near future. Winter is approaching and the grain supplies are almost exhausted. Bad as have been the scenes recently witnessed, when in and about the city and country of Meschid, for example, over eighty thousand persons perished from famine and disease, worse will in all probability ensue during the winter months. The cholera, also, as if to add to the calamity of the Persians, prevails throughout the land, and in almost every instance with fatal results, Southern Papers on tho Presidential Situ- ation. Our Southern democratic and conservative contemporaries appear to be generally in favor of fusion on the subject of the next Presi- dency. The Richmond Whig is quite positive in i's declarations, It says:— — 1 there ever was a time when all minor consider. ations, all questions of mere policy, should be dropped or postponed, in order 10 tie ioFmation Of & great patriotic combination to elect an able, hon- est, law-abiding President; toexpel the thieves Who are plundering the people aud rovbing the Treasury; to put an end to the war; to give peace and tran- quillity to the country; to restore habeas corpus; Lo allay sectional jealousy and strife, and to restore tue government to the constitut.onal track, that time is how. We cannot conceive that men who have such great and beneficent objects in view can per- mut differences in regard to the tarul or ta any other question Of mere policy to separate them. Let all such questions be sunk out of sight while we are fightiug the great battle of the coustituuon against usurpation, of honesty agalnst corraption, of liberty against despotism. To deieat Grant and radicalism 18 the great aim, and in order to secure that well may we waive ail other questions, The Mobile Register is not hotly pressing for a straight out democrat as the standard bearer, as it was some time since. It now says:— There 1s little doubt of the earnestness of the wish ol the Schurz, Gratz Brown and Greeiey repuvitcans to defeat Granv’s nomination first, and next his elecuon. 1018 plain that they canuot do it by them. selves—cannot do it at all—without the cordial co- operation of the democracy. ‘tere isa tine field here tor diplomacy in the construction of a treaty of aluance, offensive and defensive, between tue two. Where the des're is so strong on one side, and tue interest equaily strong on the other, and the pubiic weal so deeply involved, a satisfactory coalition is & possible if not a probable achieve- ment, The Knoxville Whig (more or less under the inspiration of Senator Brownlow) gives publicity to the following :— ‘The elements of opposition to Grant, in the repub- lican rauks, continue vo grow more active dally. The near be gino of Congress—irom which time the pot will begia to boil in earnest—quickens public anxiety throughout the country, and gives mo S every outgiviag irom Wasuington on the subject The fight against Grant seems up-hill work. But there is no disguising the wishes of the Southern papers in the premises. Tor SpeaKgERsniIp oF tHe AssEMBLY.—This subject is being widely discussed by our inte- rior exchanges. The Buffalo Hzpress favors Mr. Alberger, of thatcity. The Mobawk Val- ley Register would have Henry Smith, of Albany, or Thomas G. Alvord, of Onondaga, The Montgomery Republican also favors Henry Smith, The Troy Times says “no man about whom there is the slightest suspi- clon in respect to his legislative integrity and his constant fidelity to his party in the trying times of the last two sessions of the Legisla- ture ought to be Speaker.” This may hit hard some aspirants already spoken of. The Malone Palladium says the Speaker should represent no clique or faction, but is favorable to the election of Henry Smith. We are in- clined to think that our country contempora- ries need not trouble themselves much about the Speakership. That matter is very likely to be settled in caucus, under compromises calculated to heal, as far as possible, the dis- sensions among the republicans in the State, Tne Mayor or Devit's Buiurr, Ark., has invited Duke Alexis to enjoy the freedom of that frontier city. Alexis is probably not de- sirous of going in that direction just at pre- sent—at least not until the preseut round of festivities in his honor is over. When Soart We Tourer Meet Acain ?— The Boston Advertiser states that W. B. Washburn, Governor elect, Horace Greeley and George B. Loring were ai the State House in that city on the 28th instant. SomETHING oF A ContTRovERsy is going on in certain newspapers as to who was the first to nominate Tom Scott for the Presidency. It appears to have been first made in one of Scott's railroad workshops at Altoona, Pa, It was, therefore, evidently made in the house of his friends, and the support of the Cin- cinnati Hnguirer was really not intended as a joke, Tue PRovivENcE Journal of yesterday con- tains a voluminous report of the Committee of Investigation appointed by the Senate on mo- tion of Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, to inquire into certain charges preferred against him and others by the Judge Advocate Gen- eral of the United States Army in 18665 rela- tive to alleged intercourse with the enemy during the war of the rebellion. The investi- gation is to be resumed. Tue New Government Buwpines anv Im- PROVEMENTS.—The supervising architect to the government has just inade a lengthy and exhaustive report upon the numerous public buildings now in course of construction in various parts of the United States, From the manner in which he writes on these matters it is evident he has made the most minute cal- culations, and practically studied the ques- tions of cost of material and labor, Hence the subject matter published in another column will prove more than ordinarily inter- esting, nolly in Ludlow Street Jail. Rumor was busy and excitement was at fever heat yesterday on the subject of our city complications, but when tho few facts bad been extracted from the liberal supply of fic= tion by our vigilant and active reporters it. was found that no material change had taken place in any of the main features, except that ex-Comptroller Connolly, after vigorous efforts had been made to secure the necessary amount of bail, and had all proved futile, was transe ferred to the common County Jail and there’ incarcerated. The injunction obtained from Judge Brady to prohibit Tweed from disposing of his property until after the decision of the pending suit brought by the Attorney General of the State through Charles O’Conor was generally discussed and approved; but as Tweed is known to have been turning all his real estate, railroad shares and other seourj- ties into cash for several weeks past, the chances are that the movement on the part of the people comes too late, The Committee of Seventy appear to have got into a muddle, and are endeavoring to break up their sub-committee on legislation and to take the drafting of a charter into their own hands. In the meantime the work before the Grand Jury goes steadily on, Judze Bedford having extended the term of the General Sesstens to the 18th December, The other startling ru- mors of arrests and resignations with which the air was filled yesterday afternoon wore simply the productions of imaginative minds and had no foundation in fact. Tue MinisteriaL Crisis IN BRusseia.— Little people as well as big people get into trouble, It is not otherwise with little States and big States. We have had of late Cabinet crises in London, in Vienna, in Madrid, Now we have one in Brussels, It is gratifying to know that the Cabinet crisis in Brussels is by little likely to lead to a European, war org universal conflagration, Still this little trouble in Brussels ghows that the Belgian people are lively and wide awake as to their interests and their power. Tho healthful effect of this popular vigilance is shown in the fact that the Ministry tendered its resig- nation to the King of the Belgians yesterday and that His Majesty accepted. His Majesty draws closer to the liberals. The citizens of Ghent have undertaken to deliver a hint to the Crown in the shape of an indirect nomi- nation of Jules Bura, the reformer, for a lead- ing position in the national Council. The European democracy becomes more animated daily, PHILADELPHIA 18 BEOOMING QuITE SENSA- TIONAL,—Yesterday the case of ex-City Treas- urer Marcer was betore the Court of Common Pleas, aud Judge Paxson, true to the cause of reform, rendered a judgment against the pecu- lating official for the full amount of the defal- cations discovered by the Auditors, This judgment covers the trifling amount of four hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, which, it appears, Marcer has not promised to pay. Late in the evening, and while the aforesaid suit was being discussed by the citizens, a report was circulated that a culvert on Tenth street had sunk; and again, scarcely was this piece of information swallowed when another report came to hand that a large hole ten feet in diameter, and apparently without a bottom, was discovered in the same neighborhood. Iu the latter place it was stated that the rushing of water or something like it could be dis- tinctly heard, but how far it was off or what liquid it was could not be discovered. Verily, strange things happen nowadays, but it would be scarcely consistent to believe that the city of saints was built over some important oil springs, or that, like the report recently of Scranton, it was about to seek other quarters. Tue Repusrican Nationat CONVENTION. The editor of the Baltimore American, whe is a member of the Republican National Com- mittee, issues a proclamation on his owa account, through the columns of his paper, that he will introduce in that committee at its meeting in Washington in January next a resolution recommending republicans in all the States to refrain from sending federal office-holders as delegates to the R2pub- lican National Convention, This is evi- dently a movement intended to head the great national and general reform agitation of the day, and make it take shape for the benefit of the republicans in the next Presidential campaign, But the spectacle of a national po- litical convention of either of the great partics being held without the attendance of federal office-bolders would hardly be considered a count in a reform indictment, drawn by even so virtuous a body as our own Committee of Seventy, Tr 1s Usvan IN Massacnuse1ts on Thankse giving Day to pardon the most meritorious convicts in the State Prison. Singalarly enough, this practice has been the means this year of creating a row veiween the Warden of the prison and the Governor, who, of course, possesses the pardoning power. The Warden recommended some prisoner for the exercise of executive clemency which the Governor did not see fit to grant. Hence the Warden threatens to resign, and the usual Thanksgiv- ing festivities in the State Prison of Massachu- setts this year are, unfortunately, likely to be a little marred, Nort Carouina Senarorsurp.—The Rich mond Anguirer has seen a letter {rom ex-Gov- ernor Z. B. Vance, United States Senator elect from North Carolina, in which he states that it is simply his intention to hold the position of Senator until he can get a vote on his pe- tition for relief from his disabilities, and if that vote is against him he will promptly re- sign. General J. C. Abbott, from New Hamp- shire, is working strenuously to retain bis seat against the positive wish of a majority of the people of the State of his adoption, Ax Hongst “Caw.”—The Charleston News states’ that ex-Senator Cain declines to bea candidate for the Legislature of South Carolina, upon the ground that he will not aid the Ring in any plans for plundering the people of the State. This is highly honorable onthe part of Mr. Cain, Would there were many other Cains of this kind in the political arena, The sinister mark on the forehead of the “original Gain” might not them he 60 tem rible,