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NEW Y011K HERALD
?ROADWAY AND ANN '* 1
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
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AH business nr new* letter and tele^phto
Jeapatriivs must be addre<awl New Yohk
fl FRAUD.
Bejet.ted commaaicationa will not be re
turned.
(altera and pack.t'??H should be properly
sealed.
XXXIII ..No. 3*15
AMUSEMENTS this evening.
riKli'S Oi'FRA HOUSE, corner ot Et,;Vh nvcnnr and
JSu (treat.--KAiuK ano*?Lnt?.<;atta ani- FbitaouS'-s
FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth atreet and Slitb ave
aun. -UEREV1EVE !>? Br.AHt.NI.
t)LYM 1'IC THEATRE, Broadway?UrMi'TV JJcMrrr.
w:tu Ntw Fiat ultra.
AC A OEM V OF Ml'SlC, Fourtf.-enUi atTest. -Ttif (HEAT
OUIOIAAU UKCABU AN1> VAtliEVil.tr Cotll'AW V.
HERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nou. <15 and 17 Bowery?
1)11 JONOKUAO VOJt outbAMI.
BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.?ISEtASO Ab It
IFAU- UtiSMXTUT l COl'U'l UIV.
WALLACE'S THEATRE, Mi -aitway ?n 1 lfi-.b ?tre?t?
Tu.- LAAOAKUtaa Lash.
NIBLO'S HARDEN. Broadway.?Arrtn Dark. or Los*
PON by Nn.m.r
BO FRY Tli EATItB. Bowery.?RXb 6?:aBF?O'Mxal
rat Uur.AT.
vRS. F. H. CON WAV'S FARK THEATRE, Brooklyn?
Tlir LanoaS?u.ii? Lass.
BRYANTS' OPERA H-L BE, Tammany Buildior,, 141b
ftitmi I. 1 iilOl'IAN .VliSbTltlil.SY, All.
KBLLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS. 7JC Broadway Era.O*
pian Mi ?-?; - ? v. BiRl.tSttUK. TaMK Oato.
R\N FRAN! 1800 MHVSTREL8, 685 Hi >a iwny.?KTBIO
BA.1 K.NTilUl AINU E.N TH, Sl.NOIMO, Hanci.no, Ac.
TONY PASTOR'S OPERA 110 IKE 2l)l Bowery.-Couio
VO'-AlJUtU. MEUBO LlNaTBALBY. Ad.
THEATRE t'OMIQ K, 514 Broadwaf.?T:ie tlREAT Old
?tl"AI 1.1 lUAIN' AND VAtKKVlLtlt COMPANY.
?WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth (treat end
Broadway AfMtrm.ou and i-.veuii|? Performance.
Ill "*V YORK t IKiUS, Fourteenth dree ?Equestrian
A a? t'Y.V -ATTIC EN) J.IlTAlMMKN'f.
MOOLEY'S OI'HRA HOUSH. MrooUyo.?Hoot.*?'*
? ioBiA.ti.8?Tub<*i:ako Duchess, *><..
rlOOLEY'S (K. D.) Ol'EUA HOI SK. Wliiiaiu?!<ura.
fUrv.i f'n Mien-KLr?Oul IIuhij, .vo.
JATIONAI. ACADEMY* OF DESIGN, comer !3<l it. and
41b nv. Esui itru '? Or PICTURE*, Ac.
JlUW YORK MU SEUM OF ANATOMY, 611 Broadway?
R0IKM1I AM) A '.I.
New York, Monday, Notemlier 30, I**US.
5?KJB IV SI WIS.
lis rope.
The deai>aichen ere dated November 2?.
?riii,?h hliipowm r.r are ?lietn..tlM ic.U w iinrlieA'a
btuKi treaty, on account of certain provision* con
tained In it.
rue ma only of Hie liberals in Ln;;>'id It-is been
*t11' further redact J. 1'iie riot* in Home or the cl-o
Hon districts are attributed to the influence of the
Orange organization*.
The health of Limit Napoleon is re parte l to he on
U t wane.
The eelehratd Frroc'a advocate B* rryer died u*t
Re.' .rtlnv.
'Hie editors of the H : dfi, TrPwne, VAvenir,
Temp* and Journal ><e Jnrin, have be. n lined
and imprisoned for eucourorltig the llaudin sub
?criptiona.
Prince Charles of itonmitnla spent! encourag
in:*!y of the foreign relation* of the Danubian Prin
etpalitiea.
An Austrian, fleet has BUirisd on oo expedition
arotind t.ha world.
Fears are entertained that the monarchists and re*
pubiican-to: ^pain ro.tv plunge Mic nation into uiood*
sbotl. A ttr'at rcpubtlcan nemim> : >1 o;: tome mauii
in eta.lrti! I ?t weclc.
Parasnity,
By th" Atlantic ruble tve learn that a column of
12.000 silled tro-ns had licen sent wron* the Crsn
Chaco to usok < ne I ara;; ay an position at Y'lLcti..
Mexico.
vdvlci a uy ? ay *?f h*o Francisco state that T/Outda,
the iinle: oudent chief or Jalisco, had ptili'.iabcd a
ruani vtio t ? t'ic? ciTcct that He did not intend to war
a rutiiet the general governin-nt, though lie had
means and.c ent to carry on a war to a succe*<tfal
and. Governor Ah mis, ol bluerrero, has been ac
cuse i bcfor< Hi u ral government of appro
priating the receipt* at the Custom House Id Ara
oi.Uy to he own u i
(.'aba.
Mall advice.- muU d.i f of November ?1, Mote that
Mi* Insurgent- nad m?i) sum - i s of late,
.capturing -.*.0111 h> mlnrioo rifle* and fiuo,(!'>o
tn money, n Puerto Prim ipe, and com*
pie'oi* lonting < okuel ijulrm, driving htm
?n hot; haste Into H.muaga du Cuba with a >ohs of
more than had hla foroe. u wiv. attit pi that t uorto
Pru'iipe !,a i iai ? it. tint the go*er tut nt erga i d- ny
U. im antliiii-ltler ire plnehtd fcr funds, anil their
mite OB tlio w althy jneich iiits to support lli -in urn
anlu drd.
^ U.o II I- Difi p.ipe*s jrwlnrrtae published a 00m.
Municatiou troiii Iks n present.iliv s of the pro
visional government derlartfcir thaA the insurfnta
are flKhi.ug not lot rtlun% out Independence ef
r?p;i'n. ? . ? *
. ' P?rt? Itli o.
vat adv u-e- dr?, 'd November 9. say that although
Ui ? aimed 'isurrect'oa nan been quelled there Is a
t at deal o: exeiu 'neot and ntib. i-rona :emonaira
lion* a^am*. the t Ihorltk-e. A mutiny among ttie
troop* Ks t j- ' nt w was i-'ieiMii ?p by granting
tin uei uvt. .. i ii.o tuutinn-i . Hie trial* uf the
pit'O ii" it' " r-. ? 11 in! i-onmer -d.
Mist rtl*i>i-?ii..
>? n?< l tiro a * i. t iettef to >. pr ?nlncBt 1st net
(to ?' (pun . IH ... . eft- i .... I;, r.frith.'e to
hut 01 dor Ma u. rTi u.'.njr Jrv . a ciase from hi*
Mt'np. i' -en) t'?.;t He lotn 'i do hot au.' nn
Uh- ii<'. a .. Wiw i .'.it ariii'i: "fle nun at a
r mi j.?l i* i ? ii he ? i* 1 c.i <ii*i (1 by a reprimand fro:n
*,1 J .ill fm J/l .-'Ill tin, <V;M..i'i acts l'l ti.t Jc- ?
a t ill' < iitnja,
f$t'' ral Niieridir.% wi.h hi* *ta * aid two battailous
at .a , i u , r .v iai ? ju ;i ..?)v, Indian'inr
r ' ry. ' i-' d < ? * . s la atari in. mliatel/ on
*i hare attrrtnc Indi *, which wo;.; < probably la-t
nil winter, hu>ow v..? ailing, lAArJjoua the in
IIjiis w*m depr* Ja log considerably and had cap
tured m mall ha/.
c publish Una in nV's a ? opy of the porta! con
ftuu.on belwei i ii?- < udethut r*-t t;re.a liritmo.
tun i niteO Mi o ..in : VuhoufcO has arrived at
Kan Franco ?, at r un unamrMiihii eearcii (or ? re
potted > x hi otrun raruilonca laiaod*.
"nrther pari' -< in *h D.stet unniy murder
toavftBOitoui t iba ilic irtiirdennl woniao sua Ur*.
jermniaii ttmt'i, ?nd tiuM the mardirer ?u he
gnsbaud. \ d.r .Hr of the dntased Timgm/.nA
Ui': bod,r on . attiro.iy. Y?e murderer has (rooo
Westward, taking WHU him thre" eld' lien ot the
d'tea-ad hy x fi rir.or it h nl, tor Wboap fatatrr.-a
Awpri'itenao i' re entartalneit. A rcwutd of ft,i?oo
haib enot.<" dim Uia vrreau
Arum r"rl. Mlu i y.jra ot age, while left in
f'nWtjnof fln re ii.lhlran uf the McOulloeh fuunly, nt ar
punting, N. Y.. a- ttc lueadajr, in a 01 of nigo at
tb" >odiMr' t child fm i/elnp In if .1, thr*w It ui?on
Ctoi'-i". ? son' in 1 i it unc < is* almoal life
lw?, and thru fO'Siw t's haiuta mi I lie hut stove,
w ,i, i ua mother reicm <i ?? n< c i j.,t it
dj'if. Ton ? Irl v %' ar.r ited a ad the aoruner'i J ry
is nvi tig .by tlte ' a
/ ^ v , '.imp i .'ptodc 1 at Ike h' ;-r.. i p. y,
|,.w ? i -tii f t" a'. i*? Piitorfag, hiirumg togoj i
Mia. . is id aer ttfd ? UP'ii* a, vtf n '?v? ?u *b n
ill. ycira tuij tuo other a baby or nina mouth* of
niro.
The ront^st^rt eity olection In Charlton, ft. O.,
j lias lieeo up iared null and void by the Oily Council,
null tlm n publican caudidatos elect uro thus t'irown
I over. Tae piwint city Kovui uiuont will continue Ui
lx'Wer.
Hi'! Penan Congress In Philadelphia baa a'l
learned, alter electing Qcnoral O'Neill Preu
dentof the Brotherhood.
Hie Bremen bark Oanale Cans arrived at Ohar.ea
ton, S. c., yesterday, with *00 German mm Krauts
The City.
O'Baldwin, the Irish giuut, was let out 011 ball by
Justice Howling yesterday. alter promising to act
into no more brawls.
Prominent Arrlruli In the City.
General iluiard and General O. M. i'oo, ot the
Unit ml Slants Army, are at tlio Hoffman House.
Alexander von ftievold, of Japan; W. K. Cnandlcr
ana E. II. Keynolds, ot Now Hampshire, and Captain
Dixon, oC tlie British Army, are at the Filth Avenue
Hotel.
General O'Connor and Captain Cairns, of the Brit
ish Army, West indies, are at the Clarendon Hotel.
| Colonel J. S. Curtis, of New York, anil E. Gardner,
or Orange, N. J., arc at the St. Jnllen Hotel.
Colonel emu Logan and Major E. Taylor, of the
Polled States Army, and VV. 8. ftuydam, of the I ulteil
Statics Navy, are ut the St. Charles ilotol.
H. L. Coilln, of the United fttatcs Marine Const;
John E. Ktsley, of Washington, and E. A. Barnard,
of Maine, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
General J. A. Morris, of Indiana; H. 0. Lord, of
Cincinnati; Wui. Prescott Hmltli, of Baltimore, and
Cyrus Hentley, of Chicago, are at the St Nicholas
Hotel.
The Charter Election?A SplenJid Oppor
tunity for Municipal tlrform,
The charter election takes place in this
city to-morrow, when the people will go
through the i'onu of choosing A. Oakey Hall
their Mayor for the unexpired term, and of
bestowing upon the patriotic Richard O'Gor
mun the honors and emoluments ol the Cor
poration Counsel's office for another three
years. After much consideration and discus
sion the outside democratic organizations have
united with Tammany upon those two candi
dates, who will therefore walk over thegourso.
The republicans have made ft nomination for
Mayor, but, as their own organs etatw, it is
merely with the object of keeping their forces
within the limits of their own party lines, and
without way serious idea of contesting the
election with the democracy. An attempt was
uu?d? to get. up a combination of republicanism
and all outside Tactions against Tammany, but
the heart of the people was not in such u
movement, and it fell dead. This was partly
owing to the difficulty of finding a doeiralde in
dependent candidate upon whom to unite, but
mainly to the satisfactory character of the
Tammany nominations. District Attorney
Hull is entitled to the raspect and support of
the people of New York, irrespective of party,
and wilt make an efficient brilliant and popu
lar Mayor.
Under these circumstances t.he best tiling
the republican nominee can do for the interests
of the city and of his party is to withdraw from
the coolest and recommend his friends to vote
for Oafcey Hail and to make his election
unanimous. For the p^st eight or ten years
we have been without an efficient munici
pal government in Now York. There
has been a division of power and re
sponsibility entirely inconsistent with the
idea of a strong aud vigorous government.
Some departments have been placed under the
control of Stale commissions made by law in
dependent of the municipal authorities, while
others have remained in the hands of officers
elected by thfl people of the city, and hence
| there has been no direct responsibility in any
quarter. The natural results of this disjointed
and inharmonious system have been increased
expenditures and taxution, without any ade
quate public advantages. If extravagance and
corruption hare prevailed it tms been impossi
ble to bold any individual officer answerable
for the evils, and all the efforts of partisan
journals have failed to persuade tlio people
that the responsibility for our twenty-lour
million dollars aun.TuI taxation rests upon the
shoulders of a Chief Magistrate whose powers
have been crippled by State laws, and who is
deprived of all control over some of the most
important departments of the municipal gov
eminent.
The city of New York is now an otnplro
wit bin herself. She has over a million of in
Lahltaute, besides half a million in her suburb*
who are the same as her own population. The
greater portion of the nation's wealth Is |
gathered in her lap, and she is rapidly boeoni
inf the uentrc of the world In oomroeree
and In news, is Abe is already the threat
cotniiiereial centre and settling house of
the Ainern an Ooptiiient. She needs a strong,
harmonious and responsible government, and
now is the time to secure it. Some of the
legislate commissions in the oily are poo l
euough and ht?ve been an advantage to ibe
people; but with them and over them all we
should have one recognized municipal head,
holding power directly from the people .wtd
resporij'lde directly to the people for the faith
ful and honest discharge of his trust. IVe
have frequently discussed the detail* of such a
system, and it was u.tpeeled that the Constitu
tiouul Oonrenkinn which met a year and a
hah u?f> Would hare given us in the revised
organic law some snch well considered plan of
reform In our tnuuietpsl government. Tbeso
hope were di-appointed, sod the people of
New York hsve sines shown in unmistakable
majorities their condemnation of the *mi*-il
aud muddled legislation forced ttfoa tho city
by ivpxbtioan legislatures for partisan pur
ikmah. 1 ?et the republican party now take a
new departure commencing with the with
drawal of their candidate for Mayor and
ending with the revision of all laws relating to
the city of New York and the passage of an
amended charter which shall secure to the
metropolis a vigorous, efficient, centralized and
responsible municipal government. Oakcy
Hull i* Independent as a politician, and pos
s.-sse- flratMM of purpose, strength of will
and integrity ul ohiracUir. He would use
pow?r with diserwtipts and would be jost the
man to Inaugurate the now system. At tho
sumo tl:ue, the republican party by such a
policy would so creed la elfoctually breaking
down the enormous democratic majorities In
this rity whi. h are. built up uj on the peoplo's
jealousy t?f their mtioiclpal rights. The re
publican -aKlidalv for Mayor should Imme
diately execute this great teiip d\Utf hy pub
licly withdrawing from a hopelesi contest, nnd
?dfislng all his party to unite on Onkey Hall
for Mayor on tho ha?is of a restoration of the
rights of the electors of the city and the
thoroug) reform of oar preaont inefficient and
irresponsible municipal government.
Tlio Krio ItrJironU thr Courts?A Wity
Out #f the Woou-v
The poople care vory liitlo about the Erie
Railroad litigation, so far aa it ia a more
scramble between stockjobbers, brokers, fipeoa
latora and Wall street operators generally for
mastery iu tho control of a siock that has for
years been just as sacredly dcrotod to gam
bling purposes as a roulette board or faro
table, in any of our fashionable uptown banks.
Whether tho bull with the longest horns or the
bear with the sharpest claws may gain tho
victory is a matter of no consequence, except
to the bulls and bears themselves and the job
bing newspapers that fight for pay on one side
or the other. But wlieu the judiciary gets
mixed up in the muddle, when judges and
courts begin to play at cross purposes and
come in conflict with each other, granting
mandamuses and counter-mandamuses, in
junctions and counter-injunctions, orders and
counter-orders, and evincing, moreover, some
personal feeling in the proceedings, it becomes
quite mother affair. The mere suspicion of
a tainted judiciary is a public evil, and some
of our daily journals have not hesitated to
reflect in strong terms upon tho ai lion
of certain judges In this Erie liiiga
fcion. They argue, justly or unjustly, that a
judge's salary is only seven or eight thousand
dollars a year, while tho receiverobip of the
Erie Railroad is worth at leaHt two hundred
thousand dollars a y6ar; and these journalists,
having always an eye to tho mnin chance
themselves, seem to conclude that a judge
who is anxious to bestow so valuable an
appointment upon a friend must expect a re
ward lor his generosity here or hereafter.
The United .States courts have now been
dragged into the unclean pool without much
apparent prospect of coming to ainore harmo
nious decision than has been reached iu the
State courts. There is, however, one practical
way of settliug tho whole difficulty* The
fundamental question seems to be, who bad
better Isold possession of the funds of the Erie
Railroad and thus actually control the manage
ment ol' the affairs of the corporation in the
interests of the stockholders and of the public?
The company is chartered under the laws of
the fcitate of New York. It has received a
largo amount of money from the treasury of
tho State, besides other important grants and
privileges. The people of New York have,
therefore, rights in the road which cauuot be
ignored, and the Attorney General of the State
Is the proper officer to protect those rights and
to see that the interests of the Commonwealth
do not suffer from the mismanagement of the
Officers of the company or the intrigues, plots
utid speculations of stockjobbers. Let the
Attorney General cut the Gordiau knot of this
disgraceful litigation by stepping in and taking
possession of the road in the us me of the
people of the State of New York, and let hini
tnnke such arrangements for the management
of Ihe affairs of the company as will effectu
ally dispose of the squabbles and scrambles of
all the t^all street cliques on one side and the
other.
DrsR.VKu'a Modesty.?Mr. Disraeli, it ap
pears, bus declined u title and a peerage
offered him by the Crown, but ha* consented to
transfer the honor to his wife* who is here
after to be known as Viscountess of lleacon
flelds. Sir Robert Peel, it is known, always
refitted a higher title than that of baronet,
preferring to send his family uauie down to
posterity allied with his deeds as a .statesman
and a premier. Lord John Russet] coquetted
a I wg time wifb the earldom before be ac
cepted it and gave up his leadership of thb
liberal party i?i the Home of Commons to take
his seat aruoug the Peers. Mr. Disraeli's
modesty stands by him now, but should his
popularity be seriously diminished and power
remain long out of his hands he may yet ha
tempted to acknowledge her Majesty's kind
ness and slip quietly into the Upper ilotisu
with some lino old Oriental title revived for
the occasion.
Jim New Postal Akbam.kments with
Great Britain.?Wo publish in full the text
of the recent convention between the United
States and Great Britain on the subject of In
ternational postage. There has for some years
been more or less difference of opinion between
the postal depsrtin ti?i of the t\r o governments
in regard'to the construction to be put upon
the stipulations of the several treaties on the
subject. These seeio to he d -lined by the
provisions of the present convention. An
Important point, however, which principally
concerns the citizens of the United States,
scorns to have been overlooked. We moau
tbo transmission of mail mutter between the
.wo countries in American s!eauier*. That
point, perhaps, is left for future negotiations,'
when we have regularly established lilies of
ocean steamships of our own to British port*.
.
I.m aso Order in Ajiean*a.h.?The Slate
oi Arkausas appears to be in a Imd way from
the over-zeal of Its natural protectors, the
militia, li the hand of marauders which en
tered the town of Centre i'oiut recently was
re?ll> i? force of militia, us represented, then
thai district of Arkansas may Well cry out to
be saved from its friends, liut it is far more
likely that these fellows who sacked the town,
arrested its inhabitant* and shot three of it*
loading cRiscni were nothing but a gang of
Liigai.ls roving through the country, it is
evident ths* law and order are out of joint ftj
Ark;- isu?, and something muat bo done to
hont the ilifflcnHy or the State w'll fc!'
ebon*.
llfNsmi rr V'wqcrsiiKn. - The 1>?'U Sett
N>'' oi??, Hunnk-utta rabid revolutionary radi
cal organ at Richmond, V ,i? tin* given up the
ghost ' in consequence of the unexampled
proscription igiini it. A* the special organ
ol the rovol ilioiiary radical blacks, the great
nd of Hnnnieutt was in starting hucIi a
daily before Lis backers had learned to read.
Mori over, llunnh utt's failure signifies thit the
day in thn Sooth, not only of the Ku Klux
Klao. but of the "t irpct-baggers* snd "scala
wags," is drawing to n close, "i.' t u* have
peace.'"
A KOft/on I'assaor--Down or up Broad
way In carriage or omnibus. A good snow
storm will give Us a regular blo< kadc, and to
?neb a blockade we must uow look for some
cfl/.ctive measures of relief. A foot of snow Is
our last hope.
A Yankee BntootATioE?An American
vessel with arms on board for the Walla
thiaug, pasting up the Danube.
Too i rc?t rrutvc^iioim lu Parb.
A certain lecturer onco attributed to the
family of mankind two distinctly separate na
tures?human nature and French nature, and
announced the latter as the topic of his lec
tor.!. Were ho now to repeat it lie might find
fresh illustrations in the account which we
published yesterday of the recent extraor
dinary press prosecutions in Paris. In the
trial of the Jiaudin case, which came to u close
on the 15th Inst., the charge against the defen
dants, their adroit replies to the inquisitorial
interrogatory of the President of the court, the
caustic eloqueuco of their counsel and the
strange verdicts rendered compose a legal and
historical curiosity of the greatest interest.
The defendants were charged with having
'?practiced manoeuvres within the realm with
1 the object of holding up the government to
hatred and contempt." The kind of iaterro
' gatory to which, according to the peculiar
custom of French courts, they were sub
jected may be inferred from one or two exam
ples. Thus Mr. Quentin, editor of the lth. nl,
was closely questioned as to his motives and
those of his sou in wearing a red cachcniz, or
oouifortor, at the commemoration of the funeral
of Baudin, who was killed at the barricades
when Louis Napoleon made his coup d hut.
The same editor w as also asked why he made
a speech at Baudin's grave, and what were the
words he uttered? His reply was:?"The
prosecution has no substance; it is founded
on nothing. You prosecute me for making h
speech, and you want me to tell what tin
speech was." The cross-examination of the
defendants was followed by a speech by the
Avocat Imperial, who developed at enormous
length his theme that they were guilty of "a
regularly organized pluu to attack the very
principle of the government under the pre
tenco ot doing honor to Baudin's memory."
Mr. Cr.mienx, ia defending Mr. Quentin,
demonstrated the absurdity of the prosecution
of his client for a speech of which the
l*rocureur Imperial could not produce cither
the text or tne substance. He said "the gov
ernment had brougat the 2d of December into
court and he would exercise a counsel's privi
lege to speak about it." Among the strongest
points of the philippic into which he then
launched was his declaration that "it was
nothing to the purpose to say that December
2 had been 'absolved.' So had the 18th
Brumalre. How many millions of suffrages
had proclaimed llrst the consulate for life and
afterwards the empire ? But crime could not
be absolved by a catch vote, and certainly not
the greatest of all crimes, that ot laying a
soldier's violent hand upou the national repre
sentation. Sixteen years later (here Mr.
Crt'mieux said with marked emphasis, M bog
you to observe the date'), the representatives
or the people drove out the author of the 18th
Brumaire." In conclusion Mr. Oreinieux
said"Let the Second Empire erect as many
statues as it likes to its favorites, and let pos
terity respect them as it might see fit, but let
the vanquished of 1851 be at liberty to pay
simple funeral honor to the dead. France was
a great and glorious nation vvhioh must be
taken as it was, with aft Tts good qualities and
defects. France, like Neptune, would some
times stride across the world in three days,
and then, frightened at her own progress, she
would como back again and Buffer herself to
bo guided instead of guiding. But it should
be remembered that three diys might repair
all losses; the future was with progress." Mr.
Kmauucl Arago and Mr. Gambetta were no
less severe than Mr. Cremieux In their invec
tives against the government. All the counsel
availed themselves to the utmost of the capi
tal opportunity the government had foolishly
enough afforded them of arraigning December
2 before the bar of public opinion, and of
hurling at it terrific indictments, which will bo
copied by the press throughout the world and
stereotyped for the perusal of posterity.
It is difficult to resist the convictiou that in
these press prosecutions in Paris Napoleon
111. has committed mistakes simitar to those of
Charles X. an l of Louis Philippe. It remains
to be seen whether such mistakes will prove
as fatal to the Bonnpartes as they proved to
the Bourbons and to the Orleans. We know,
however, that history repeats itself in ail
nations and often est in France.
Tjfc U.NITKD STATES CoUUi'c AND TMH
Soi rtitsitN Tk-t Ovru.?The action of Chief
Jurtice Chaso in declining to enforce the test
outh on jurors in the United States Court at
Richmond uiaj bo regarded as the beginning
01 a liberal rtgiinv in tho South, which will no
doubt flnd a fuller development when Grant's
administration comes into power. The exam
ple ot the Chief Justice, we are glad to set*,
was followed on Saturday by .Indue Durrill, in
Louisiana, who'ordered the oath to he admin
istered to jurors as it was before the war, thus
setting aside the "Iron-clad" piece of petty
persecution which radical vlndictiveness had
imposed upon the Southern people. This oath
wis never necessary for the ends of justice,
but, on the contrary, greatly impeded its pro
gress. It is well that it ia now practically
abrogated.
Roast IIkef and I'iajm Proms*. Diplo
macy.? John Hull > oritiuues bis roust l?eef ind
plum pudding diplomacy with the amicable
Revcrdy Johnson, and with the greatest suc
cess. It is evident that the tin tie of his mis
sion in reference tit the Alabama claims will he
"Failed from a surfeit of Knglish mast beef
and plum pudding." Vn Kngli*b Christmas will
be apt to finish him.
fiowRWUAT SlONtnrA.H?Tin* effect of the
Cuban insurrection on the banks nt Havana
and the departure of eight hundred gov'>ro
inent volunteers for the front. This mustor
ing of vohinteers means that the regular gov
ernment trbops are wholly inadequate for tint
work b-fore them, an*I that the result is a
formidable one,
"Am. Qtikt on tup. Potovau."?The office
seekers, and even the newsmougera, seetn to
have dropped General Grant as a hopeless
case. He is succeeding admirably in his idea
of having peace. The Member.* of Congress
sr*S beginning to drop In. hut still tnere is
pence.
TitotfB1.it Urkwimi in Spain.?The popular
movements for n republic are increasing in
?Spain, while the Provisional Junta st Madrid
is llnenslng for u monarchy.
Ct.KAtt as Mud?The opinion of Attorney
Ucaqral Kvarta on tho Light Uour law.
The TLt nircM 'i'li! t F.veuiac*
The list of our tbeatricti MBuwmetiU for
thia evening is Ui?t of last week, with these
exceptions :?First, Mrs. Soott-fchddons, who,
with her personal attractions ami her rare ae
compliaiuuents as an artist, has made the great
est hit of the season in Boston, appears for the
find time in New York in her charming role
of Rosaliud, in Shakspeare's sparkling comedy
"As You Like It;" secondly, Baunnau'a
two opera bouffe companies aro to join their
forces at l'ike's to-night, and they are, in addi
tion to "IJarbe Bleue," to giro us the new
rigmarole ot "Li esc hen aud Fritz ch en;" xnd,
thirdly, the Catacombs "for one night only" t
will be enlivened with Lingard's budget of
comicalities. Grau is s Uistied with Genevieve
and her fuuuy adventures ; Wood has no occa
sion to step the wheo) of "Ixion," which turns
him in somo forty-six thousand dollars a
month; "Humpty Dumpty," footing up thiny
odd thousand, wilt hardly retire till after the
inauguration of our next Mayor; "The Lan
cashire Lass" stiii tills the anditorlum of
Wallack's with her udmircrs; "London by
Night" is a sensation which leaver? onlystand
room for our cousins from the country by the
seven o'clock train, and Barney and Mrs.
Barney Williams are popular as over. The
circuses and the minstrels never fail; but lbr
tha present Mrs. Scott-Sid Ions and company,
"solitary and alone," maintain the cause of
the legitimate drama. A3 for the Italian opera
here, if Offenbach has not killed1 it he has
driven it for a time from the field, and Maretzok
bits brooding over its fallen glories like Marios
over the ruins of Carthage.
Views of a United Slates Senulor*
We give to-day the result, of n conversation
held between a Herald correspondent and
aeuator Morton, of Indiana. Senator Morton
represents, probably as well as any other
member of the Senate, the views of the sub
stantial republicans of the West upon national
questions. Iii regard to financial matters ho
may, perhaps, not bo so essentially the oracle
of the West as his colleague from the same
scot ion, Senator Sherman, of Ohio, who, as
chairman ot the Senate Committee on Finance,
is supposed to he better posted on those sub
jects. But Senator Morton utters the senti
ments of a practical man, while Senator Sher
man is apt to 'indulge in theories. Tha In
diana Seuator's ideas about the resumption of
specie payments at a given pbrlod are, how
over, open to those objections which we have
all along entertained ami uttered la that re
spect. Specie payments will be resumed when
the natural iucreaso in the trude, credit
and ptmspuriiy of the nation waridnts re
sumption, and any attempt to force specie
payments before that period will end in failure
and disaster. The suggestion that resumption
shall take place bylaw in the year 1871 savors
of the tuct aud trick of the eld politician, for
In that year the people will bo considering the
matter of a new Presidential term, and the
ilnaucial issue, if not settled before, will tbea
be a vital one, which circumstances
then existing wiU have a _ momep*
tons influence upon. Wo wish Seoaioi
Morton had been more particular and explicit
in expressing his views in regard to the Ala
bama claims; As a member of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations be ought to
be well informed on that Interesting point.
But, as a whole, the exposition of,his views,
as given by our correspondent, are valuuble to
the coinmnnity as foreshadowing the policy of
the majority in the approaching and filial ses
sion of the Fortieth Congress.
4.EYLUIL itOTES.
An exchange say a Mrs. Coifux la thirty-two. Mr.
Colfax La over thirty, too.
brunt hail juat oi^hl majority over Seymour
Oaleniu
A woman was recently arrested in Chicago for
carrying a concealed weapon. It was her t ongue.
A Nasuville paper saj - H is difficult to Coll wlict itin
erant ts a "pig or a pu t," lie uaa been found
ra'her pujnirtriuns lath? South.
\ Boston paper thinks that a receiver was up
pointed in the matter of the Krle railroad upon the
principle that the receiver la as hud us the thief.
Tho Si ir Siitum?a violent and unscrupulous
ra ileal sheet. In Utehtnond?is dead; Canue,' I'nex
autpled proscription "?not Hubwcrfptlou.
\ ho-ton philosopher *ujs the whiskey ring i? the
?T .ihtcni of ttcrnlty," ht-caitjo there in .to end to it,
nor to it- swindling.
Jell OaviM has "jincd" the (hmrrh, and Koi?crt Fl.
I.<" has a Bible class of t<vi tn cm tier.-. Who says the
rei>eiiioii accomplished not hurt?
V Clnriettiou paper avers that t.ie government oi
the t riit"<t -tatis in to be consolidated ai.d nnpeeiui
in form. It' it could bo made imperial In reform it
would be a blessed thing.
There are 1,140 convict* iu tun llb-iob? Htate l'wil
tenil'try. Ii Is re.uarkabie thai uoi a single revenue
officer is stated to be uuioug the nuuibcr. We ran ilo
belter than that in V w York.
The circus companies travelling in the Hon Lb n??v
irei a good share of irnniltoiis advertising by gcuiitf
up mock rowa and lights and liuviur them reported
in the papers. ?
? Jem-rat ..oe Johnston was In AthuiUi, da., on Hie
wS'li tm-l. X radical oiltnrw|r he -'had the pleasure
of again slinking hands with tJtis noble old ltouiau."
He baa Im>? n i ailed au irishman.
A "National Bureau of Education" will lie among
the stheni.a of tho next Cofigrcaa. Wed p-iint
taught ihe young America ui -a how to shoot and
the weapons In inauy cases r> colled with sad effect.
Mtddlcboro'. Mass., has been visited by an earth*
quake. No great aliakes. The desire of a dial In
tro tsbed politician that Ma- sarJiuaeti* aud Mouth
Carolina *l?uld be ?wallowed up by i-arfhnuawe^ is
not yet in ? fair w ay to >>o realiseit.
It Is state I that President Johnson In "going bark "
on hm political earner. Ho c -ui't, tor the tow n of
?treenvine, Tenn., in which he was an Alderman,
and iu which office he commenced that career, ha
go tut radical republican.
A New otb-ans^iiperlias discovered that the Cuban
flMbu-vrlng movement, allegr l to exist in J--w or
leant Is a myth. This is not the flrsi tine- I'nonit In
vasiou pcojiK'ta In New Or.eana have pro ? I myth
tenoui
A Waihmjrton patter druw-s a coi'ipbri"1'! betweeti
the minders of Pollard and l.ar.ir , *iing ton* the
"geuHctiiaiil/rowdy," Iho other 'ifutal rough.'*
If lh' "Congressional rowdy" .1 own thrown in
the picture would have borne ?i>'otc.
,rThr'>wyonr dfrt high. V -.r." was the command
of a "ttlwuniractor on n s ? : eewor J"b. That
would i>c uunecc sary a . > ? c ?-> the ?bnaii politiciana
who are throwing dirt ut sly.i official* forth" pur
pose ot "bringing ihem owe."
Tlic "Eye and j'.rk- i*rtnary" might to be the
title of a new ciecni,.'! ary institution to be Char
tered by the ucxt m-ietnro of this Mtute. A
PatcitoRoe tueiolKt nay. ii iWcvvr, propose to
change Uip name t i "Mind Vour Kjo and Krle.
It I* staled that connress will bo asked to puss a
prohibitory liquor law for tho District of Columbia
at its r.e xt - su n. That's tlw way the proMbltlon
and abolition of si aver v began. Aro tho la ucsii* go
ing to try now to deprive tba pcop.o of their grog t
ill- Moriuiui organ In Halt T ake City la exultant
because civiiUutlon has pciielrated the laud of ti s
Maintx in the eiiupf ol murders, robberies, tint",
hanging . burnings, vigilance rorouiKiee*. Ar? at
bear creek.
ijulfi a cunt sf prevails in Tn<t*#rtri Vh for tn#
tttu riy iin'i"' s ? ir- o'.iccoi n?>?s. n/cr toeairvtbe
e.ecioral v > e of the Mate i; Wosliinffon. ? t Is
wltoio iilenfOfu' si i-iii is abriiri .ind < tp> u?iv# and
sllou' l if n?.si'!sn d. ic'i.cici (srivii might t< "M-h on
this put pi w-Ubrt jisjM.uktua tuo ouu tario lofic.
"ff'iT-n* ? '? .*? vy ??< 'j "V'.""*
L. - :/ eUw?W?-~JLfie.ua OT ?e sJ'.fc-J,*
WaSUIXOTOH, Nov, 20, ISW.
Tiic Next Henntor from IMisaoiiri? IJcntler
knu'i Ch.i.irtJ Auotbar Aiijiiriuit let Cubiau
Honor**
A gentleman has just arrived from Missouri, where
be has been ensured for the post two mouths in tits
turmoil of poiiti s, states that the content in tuat
?stute for United Sim tea .sensor to succeed Mr. Hen
derson la very spirited. Th? most pre mluent candi
dates in the field are General Carl .schura, (Senator
Henderson and it. F. Loan, Representative from that
Htate. Loan and Henderaon. nu iliinka, divide the
chances pretty evenly between them, though sena
tor Henderson seerus to have a good deal of up-hill
work, nia action in the impeachment trial having
offended the radicals and hla viewa in favor of negro
sum-aire having disgusted tho democrats. Tlio
lricnds of General Schurz are working like beavers,
but his opponents charge upon him with tho re
proach that lie Is a carpet-bagger and has not lived
lung ontu^h in the Slate to have become properly
Identified with it. Henry T. Ulow, he states, bus
aspirations for filling a Cabinet podtlon, and a mul
titude of friends have taken charge of the task or
getting him into General Grant's good graces.
Senator .Morion and the Fiuaueial Itaestfon*.
Senator Morton authorizes the statement that
the account published in the Tunes la^t wool, of a
-conversation between turn and Sccretar McUuiloch
was not correctly reported. Tho Senator said
notiiiug about Intro lacing a bill to provide lor pay
ing iho-iwouiies in greenbacks. The talk was
chiefly anout resuming specie payments, which the
Senator said was the first dutv ol the government.
In talking about the payment of the bonds the
Senator said the government had a right under the
law to use the existing greenbacks in paying the
five-twenties; nut that the question would become
unimportant when the government returned to
specie payments, and would become Important only
by the continuance of a depre haled currency and n?
steps being taken to improve It. Tit Secretary said
he did not know that legislation could ha da-a specie
payment, unless it would be to incrcaso the tariff
and such as would promote Industry aud develop
the- resources of the conutry and thus improve the
credit of the government.
Survey of the Northern Boundary of New
Mexico.
Colonel Samuel S. Smoat has received a letter
from Captain K. W. Darling's surveying and astro
nomical parly informing tdinof the completion of tin*
survey or the thirty-seventh parallel, so far
as it constitutes the northern boundary of New
Mexico, this being a very importaut survey for
the settlers near tho lino of the two Territories.
A large amount of money has been expended in
mining in that region, and those engaged In it
have been anxious to know whether their mine*
were iu New Mexico or Colorado, lhls linw run*
through a mountainous region, crossing the east
ern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Many hard
ships were encouutercd in prosecuting the survey.
Tho contract was made wit h the Commissioner of
the General Laud office last spring, the appropria
tions having been made In Congress lor the survey
of the boundary. The Western cud of tuts survey
establishes the nonhwest corner of New Mexico, the
southwest corner of Colorado, the southeast corner
ol Utah and the northeast corner of Arizona. The
rich mines known as the Maxwell Mines are directly
south of this survey.
rilK ISUfiUATIOSiS is swiTzzitLiiD.
Oltlctal Report of the Rerent Terrible Di?n*>
ter? liameiitte Destruction of i'rcperry?
Thousands of Families Rendered House
less?Appeal to tlie Charitable.
Waauinuton, Nov z?, 1608.
The following official account of Ute national ca
lamity In Switzerland bus just been received at the
Department of State:?
Lkcjation ok the United Scatre, i
HfiKNE Oct* XU loJfl, 1
Sue?Switzerland has recently been subjected to
what may justly be termed a national calamity.
Alter au exceptionally dry ami agreeable season the
country lias beeu visited by it heretofore une
qualled rain fall, and much of tlie cantons of Urt
solid, Tes.-tlu, the Valals, Claris and St. Coll and Urt
have, in consequence thereof, been literally demv
lated by Inuudatious. 'Hie mountain rivulets aud
cascades, suddenly swelled to torrents, swept vil
lages, buinlets, cattle, roads, bridges, duces, earth and
sioiie as debris upon the tteids below, which areiuuH
rendered forever hopeless was.es.
The appeal 01 the authorities of the cauton of To*,
sin to their more fortunate tcllow countrymon ottt
ctall.v sets forth the effects ol the storm, and this do
scrlption may be taken ns applicable in a greater or
lees extent to the other cantons named.
In the uight of the .'Tth and oxth ot September our
ciintou was struck by a (rightful catastrophe. A
vo.utue ot water precipitated itself as a deluge iun?
the vallejs of Memo, of the Levant.ue, the Ittvieva.
the Veroasco and the fttaggia. This scourge r ad
acconipu'iicd by the destruction of buildings and by
tuv fall of trees, by earth and rock slides iu such m
manner as It all the elements had combined to rival
each other iu the work of devastation. Ail the beau
tuul country that externa lioui Uiornles find ultyone
to Btaaea, unrecognizable to-day, is nothing but a
mass ot debris. Kiwds, bridges and di..cs arc
destroyed; houses, mills aud ? tables have been
swept away; the rich fores.s, the lertile helds and
vineyards, out yesterday Nourishing, have disais
pear, d; cattle h.ne perumed ny thousauaa, aud u..?t
which adds to the consternation is the loss or uiorc
than itfly persons some surprised In their steep and
others tue victims of their tiev turn while attempting
to rescue and assist the drowning; fathers and
mothers of Ihtallies have been crusned under the
tailing houses aud liteir bodies swept off by the run a
lug waters.
The ms,i ter surpasses all that imuglnatlon can
picture. Thousands ol families usve beeu .-truck by
the ca amity, and too many of tlicm have been re
ilu'-cd to i no last extremity, without root, wiltioul.
clothed, without bread and several deprived of their
lathers. ibe.losaes, which lor the moment caunot
;?o dated, wdl rise 10 millions.
The authorities, the societies and the citizens of
this canton, reserved by Heaven ror s ?cruel an ex
peiieuoe. areoccupy iug tbc;nselves in providing for
the immediate wuata of the vic.luis; but all our
foroee win not provide for tli.s immense burden. To
jou we u'l in ss the appeal. which, Iu this supremo
necrssitr. Is a;i utterance of the heart rather than
,Ue thoughts. We ask of your brothers with eond
hence not to abandon us to tuaae blows of destiny,
aud that they share with ue ice cress of adversity.
All Movies of succours will be accepted by us with
tbauKiaibieari*. ami the cauton autiiorlttes xviumae
care thai the most sutferiog -ha I l?e the brat to re
ceive the bencdM or your charities.
j i) the Aw iss people ? ? so blessed by hod the
desolate of tor valley of the Tessui address their
appoaia ami their prayers.
Lrruvso, Oct. l, lsds.
( Suby lueiu lnformati >n prove* mat thi- sad plo
i tain is not overwrought. The governmeata, both
I iCMurai and .mul, as also the peop.e, ure for
pioutpfly and generally responding to the appeals
of which th.'s ut out one. The President of the con
federation. at the Instance or the Federal Counclt.
at once tepaired to the acoue oi the disa-ter. The
rmlltarv engineers were immediately des|>*tctaed to
Superintend and direct tlie restoration aud lebuild
Ing of the highways bridges and dikc-t, In order*
to I'-stere communications, altogether suspended.
CKUcti committee* litvr l*ea organized tii the re
tu iihinK cantons for the purpose of visiting each
hoii-e lor .tsslstauce, an?l every possible means ut
put In requisition , to relieve the suite rent
ted lepsir the otherwise heavy public damages.
The disaster, however, has bicu no extended, ???
the number of people left ot the threshold of wtn
ter without shelter, etoihes and bread, ha* Dnmi too
I trgc to be more than *antll.v atid partially repaired
and relieved by tue local cotitrloutlons. however
nin imt'aiu're'tlu.i appeals Will be made to the
rtwi?* t-r Other mideMa abroad. Should such be
ad.irc^ sl to ino n-oUeut Hwi.-s of the Muted .states,
l u?g it, state tlma briefly butnrilcialiy that no human.
loraMght eoeid tiAve evaded this blow and that Miu
oi v of ui? tr. as appeals with equal force to the benevo
leut of our couu rymeh of whatever ort.ui or nut.,m
nitty thay may 00.
with a mat respect, your obedient rcrvnnt,
(JEOKtlK HAMKl.ViTOft.
lion. William M. nswa>?d, secretary of state, tvaab
lugtoo. It C.
TLICSWH.3 mm ITU*
P; f. Kellj. a well Mown broker of Philadelphia,
?laid Iu (bat city yesterday after a aiiofl limess. lis
had been a prominent man in the stuck market for
the las' eighteen years.
A portion of I ha carriage inn tin factory of B. C.
tvhaw, In Indianapolis, was destroyed by are on Sat
urday night. Loss about?to,odd.
The Third Presbyterian cuurcti in Pittsburg wan
dedicated yasterdAy. The cdlflo coat abet* (ZOO,on*
au-i is tt.c floesf In tin* city.
I hum as Cluytsn, of r.reat Parrtngteu, Mn-s., was
instantly killed on hatunlay by the accidental dls
. haiVe ot bis g in, tue charge parsing through, til*
hca i.
A deiflgat ton of iho Philadelphia Board oi Trade
leave on M. ndny f.w Cincinnati, to attend (he Aral
btisiaess n opting of the National of rrade
bald slant its org.tBt/trlofl, s entupn tied by rnprs
sentativs* of tnc HWadvlplMfi Ooiaubonrtal r*
i h.?of" -Mf* dv.ggattoas l.d>u? IguiimoiQ aud wu
muig'on, Dal.