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The New York herald., 1869-10-19
Ihe TRIUMPH 0f sIfhM

The Atlantic Crossed In Two Hundred and
Eight HOurs-The Quickest Passage on
Record.
The steamship Perere Captain Duchesne, Of the
Havre line, arrived from Europe yesterday, having
made the quickest passage across the Atlantic on
record She left Havre the 9th inst. at four p. H.
and passed Sandy Hook yesterday morning at eight
O'Clock, making the entire distance or over 1900
miles In eight DAYS and sixteen hours Her officers
report that she would have been in five hours earlier
had 1t not been for the strong head wind encoun-
tered on the last two DAYS OF the passage. The
Pereire has made number OF very quick passages
In November last she made remarkable voyage
and her last trip preceding this was also very quick
one.
The following Is the log OF the Pcreire on this voy
aue.--
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puted. With these advantages his case is not
80 desperate after all.


Church and Stafe-The Roman Council.
The probability that the coming Ecumenical
Council may declare the Pope true autocrat
of souls-a ruler whose command of any
description it would be eternal peril to dis
obey-has attracted some attention from Ger
man governments. These governments are on
their guard against danger to their sovereignty
and eager to prevent the very inception of dis
turbance. Hence one of them, inquiring of
the theologians in its limits what would be the
effect upon the relations of Church and State if
the Council should declare the infallibility of
the Pope as dogma of the faith, has received
for answer that In such case allegiance to the
government when In collision with the Pope
might not be regarded as a plain duty by
believers. Now, there are several govern
ments in Europe that are strong enough not to
permit their authority to be questioned, even
in the interest of the Pope, and some others
that cannot afford to have this point agtated.
It is pretty clear, therefore, that il this is made
dogma its practical effect will be to rule the
very Church itself out of all those countries.
The governments of Prussia, Austria, Italy
and Spain will not In this age admit their sub
lection to the Pontif
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MEDICAL COLLEGE Of the UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
Address Of Professor Draper.


There was large gathering Of persons interested
in the opening OF the Medical College edlace OF the
University OF New YORK last evening, at the new
structure recently erected at the foot OF Twenty.
sixth street and East river The building-plain
but substantial In its constructOn-is commodious
and includes quarters for all kinds OF medical dis-
quisilion and experiment. The building cost nearly
$780, O00 Tho lecture room Is well furnished and
ventilated and Of good acoustic properties There
are accommodations for upwards Of 400 students
Professor J. W. Draper, President.
A. Post, professor OF surgery.
G. A. Budd professor OF obstetrics.
J. {. Draper, professor Of chemistry.
Dr. Darling, professor OF anatomy.
Henry Draper professor oil physiology.
DR.. thomson, professor OF materia nedica.
Alter an Introductory prayer, by Chancellor Ferris
Professor John W. Draper NJ. D., LII. d., delivered
the address Of the evening" on Education" He SAID
that there was great disparity between wnas
and what Ought 'a ,, 10 be n medieS. aa IN
taught by lectures was fallaci0us Tnis system
begun In the first medical college in Europe. ae
Saerno, Italy, and was introduced by the sara.
ccns being adapted TO their times. Now u was OUT
OF place in Its extensive use and should DC adopted
on TO give his theory OF how children should be edu
Gated holding that carly tuition was Injurious
TO the healthy DEVELOPMENT o. ,hs = s,m. a,,n vnen
only six years Old and, TO add 10 tue aDsuroty, Wus
expected TO learn irom gfan'ner r,anco6 waso6
Greek, that also in Latin book, LANGUAGE which
as vet did not altogether know. Peopie Mlk nowa-
days of such and such studies being discipline 70
ths mnd. In those happier DAYS tnat result
The Tss shoriconngs and sins OF sAe day were nos
expiatcd on the spot but an account Was kept our.
ina the week and a balance struck on saturday
marn,np. struck u was IN double sense, not only
Inv tne figures OF delinquency added up, but also
nv the aid OF cane rattan which adjusted the
vgyhcle account. believe that this postpone
mani OF punishment was considered to be OF
excellent use, as femlliarizing the youthful mind
with tne doctrine OF future rewards and punish-
monts IL, however, only haf performed that Office.
Eor myself | saw little OF the rewards and OF them
enioycd stu less but OF the punlshments OBJ
tafncd singuiariy critical and comprehensive know
ledge. The schoomaster OF those days thought ~ to
he his business 10 drive the nali of know'ciH9
through hls pupils head aud cnch IL with repeated
blows or his rattan st the other end. That done tho
yJuth was supposed 10 DO ready for the career ot
life; but with such srsning down his back IL 1t
not q wonder that ho could 20 AT ait2, The benc-
diction was then gwen by tne Chaucelor, and ina
audience adjourned highly pleased
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he who builds upon this foundation is, we
think, building upon the sand.

he who builds upon this foundation is, we
think, building upon the sand
The reassembling of Congress will De none
the less an important event to both political
parties. twill practically mark the beginning
OF new chapter in our political affairs.
Southern reconstruction will be completed, and
negro suffrage in the fifteenth amendment will
be settled We shall have in the Presidents
message definite expression of his views and
policy, internal and external, and es-
pecially on the money question. On
Cuba and the Alabama claims we do not
expect much in the message, but nevertheless
these questions will have to be met. All the
republican candidate for 1872. All the leaders
of the party appear To have yielded to this idea.
The succession, then, depends upon Grants
administration and upon the issues yet to come
out of it. Meantime the republican party has
central point of cohesion in the administra-
tion, while the democracy, East, West and
South. are all adrift The only substantial
nucleus they have around which to rally is the
Empire State, and as in this State Tammany
Hall wields the balance Of power, it becomes
the right and the duty of Tammany to shake
Off the old rags OF the age before the flood and
to put on the new garments Of the age we live
in, and so to prepare the way, under new
Southern balance of power, for the march of
the democratic party to a new reign and new
dynasty. Disorganized, demoralized, and with
out any broad and general policy or purpose,
as the democracy now stand, on national issues,
all the pipe-laying of this clique or that clique,
for this man or that man, signifies nothing In
reorganizing the party for 1872 Tammany Hall
the controlling voice held by the old Albany
Regency under the rising star of Martin Van
Buren,
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Circulation Of thc Herald.

Increasing Circulation OF the Herald.
hand in their advertisements at as early an hour
as possible.
Our immense and constantly Increasing editions
capable of printing seventy thousand copies an
hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than
usual and to facilitate the work we are forced to
stop the classifcations Of advertisements at nine
o'clock p NJ
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CONVENIENT IN iNDIANA.-In Indiana they
are illustrating the primitive condition of so
ciety before the tedious methods of the lawyers
had come into any mans thoughts. There
was a dispute in which two men named SPRING
stoor were killed. One of them was q mem
ber Of the vigilance committee and Just out of
State Prison. Excited by the shedding of
blood, perhaps, the committee came together,
but apparently did not know exactly what
to DO, as the assailants of the Springstoors
were out OF the way. II remembered, how
ever, that man had previously been warned
to leave and was not yet gone, 80 1t adjourned
to the neighborhood Of bis house and opened a
fire of musketry. In little while he left.
Another man, obnoxious to the committee, was
subsequently found dead in the woods, and two
more are notified TO leave.
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The Cry OF WAsHINGToN.-There is now
quite large population of the people who are
settled around the national capital as purvey-
ors t9 the physical wapts Of Congresssmen,
and 10! they desire to have State govern
ment. The District of Columbia is what it is
politically because it was necessary that Con-
gress shoalda have place Of meeting not SUBJ
ject to any State law, and It il,st continue 50
while for people that do not like it there is the
choice Of al the States for change of resi-
dence
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THE TROUBLE IN SpAIN.-The Spanish
Regency is acting with much vigor against the
movement Of the people, and this is in It's
favor as government and would satisfy the
world of its strength If it was not clear that it
is fighting for life. It possesses an army
and has the will to use it. so it may put down
the people. All depends upon the army, and
apparently its obedience to its officers is not
limited by any patriotic scruple in regard to
fighting against Spaniards.
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Joseph Ritucr.

This gentleman, whose death was announced a.
having taken place at Carlisle Pa on Saturday last,
was born In Pennsylvania during the year 177s ana
had consequently reached the great ago OF ninety
years. He first entered into political life In 1885.
when he was nominated for Governor OF the state
by the anti Masonic element and succeeded in being
elected owing TO the democratic vote being divided
between Wolf and Muhienberg. During hl5 admin
lstration lin 1889 the notorious "buck5hot wal" In
Pennsylvania took place, which resulted In Cover
nor Ritner calling out the State troops and IN the
recognition OF the democratic Legislature This was
ut the close OF his term. He was candidate for re-
election, but was defeated by David r. Porter. In
1910 Mr.. Rtncr was chosen Presidential electOr Dy
the wings OF Pennsylvania. casting his vote Tor iar
rlson. After that time he lived In comparative
nlSGurltY ln his ueaLh.
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Ne SwTNDLERs IN THE ARMY.-Two officers
have just been dismissed the army for dis
honest acts. One would not pay his tailor
or his landlord, and the other was quite a
ilnancer with his pay rolls. He sold his
claim for pay, and sold the same claim to
several different parties, and thus made his
authorities think it ought. When shall we
have in the civil service the same morality as
that which dismisses these men from the army
for such offences?
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THE SULTAN or ZANZIBAR felicitates M. de
Lesseps on the completion of the Suez Canal in
the gorgeously hfalutin style of the Arabic
tongue but he evidently has not heard that
they have to deepen the canal before it can
much rebound to the good of mankind and
the prosperity Of cities"
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Spanish Barbnrities In Cuba.

The letter Of the poor Cuban prisoners who
were massacred by the Spanish soldiers at
Jiguani to the foreign consuls, which we pub
| lished yesterday, shows how these unhappy
people dreaded the fate that befell them. This
! appeal to the Consuls of England, France,
Prussia and the United States would not have
availed under any circumstances, probably,
but could not If even the consuls had been
disposed to interfere, for the signers of it were
dead men before any action could have been
taken. Such is the brutality of the Spanish
soldiers and Spanish volunteers that these
unfortunate Cuban prisoners apprehended vio-
lence or death from those who should have
guarded and protected them. Their language
is extremely touching and prophetic. They
say 1--WE do not fear the sentence Of the
authorities; we do not fear to stand before any
tribunal; we do not fear the rancorous hatred
of our enemies, nor the ISLANDERS so freely
circulated against us for the crime of daring
to be liberals; but we have dreadful appre-
hension as to what will be our fate and that of
our families" And then, as if foreseeing their
fate, they add :-"And this apprehension Is
converted into a horrible fear when we
call to mind our Imprisonment, with the
circumstances Of which you are Acquainted
that deed, which, had its full intent been car
ried out, would have deprived several inno-
cent men Of their lives, men whose removal
was wrapped in mystery like our own--and
this fear Is converted into a terrible reality
when we reflect that in lonely region, in the
midst of a civil war, we, accused of political
offences which have never been proved, may
meet our death from an attack, an encounter,
simple skirmish, mere suspicion from those
having us in charge" How surely and dread
fully did these poor victims of Spanish op-
preston realize the fate they apprehended!
They were murdered in "a lonely region by
the brutal guards who escorted them and
should have protected them. We know of
nothing more horrible in the history Of civil
wars. 1t could not have occurred in this
enlightened and civilized age with any other
people than the Spaniards II is sufficient to
cause our government and the other govern
menis of the civilized world to declare the
war in Cuba barbarous one, and to insist, in
the name of humanity, that it must cease If
there were spark of courage in the Secretary
Of State, or If the administration repre- sented
the American people on this Cuban question,
such protest would be sent to Madrid as
would startle the Spanish government. Spain,
in the atrocious conduct Of the war in Cuba,
has placed herself beyond the pale of civiliza-
ton and international comity and shou1d no
proclaimed the enemy Of humanity.
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NIAsea lIncdAnaid.

A telegram from Saco, Me-, announces the sudden
death IN that town. on yesterday OF Moses Macdon-
ad ex-member Of Congress, in the fifty fifth year OF
his age. He was born In Limerick, York county,
Me-, the 9Th OF April, 1915, received good edu
cation, studied law and was admitted to the bar In
1897 from which time to 1s45 he practised his pro-
fesslCn with marked success. He early entered upon
his political career being elected to the Maine Leg-
iature by the democrats III lS4l and 1s42 In lS4b he
cessive years ls47 184s and 1S49 was elected Trea-
surer OF the State. He had now become well known
throughout Maine and was especially popular In the
First Congressional district comprised OF the county
Of York and q part Of Oxford county, In the first
named OF which he resided. In 1860 the democracy
nominated him their candidate for Congress. Th0
vote small, the canvass having been sptrttes5,
but Mr.. Macdonald was elected by q plurality OF 49O
votes. On the expiration OF his term he
was renomnated and was reelected by over $500
majority over the combined votes received by Mr..
Appleton, the whg candidate, and the late Senator
Fessenden. who ran on the iree-soiler ticket. This
was IN 1852, when General Pierce was elected Prest.
dent OF the United States, carrying four OF the Blk
New England States. HIS career as Represents
tive In Congress acceptable though nOC parttcu.
larry noteworthy. BY 1864 the democratic party
was In hopeless minority IN Maine, and the newly
organized republicans In full sway. Mr.. Macdonald
was enough to decline arenOminattOn, and thus
avoided the defeat which the democrats met with at
the election OF that year, He returned to professional
e from which he was again called In 1857 by Presi
dent Buchanan who appointed him Collector for the
District Of Portland and falmouth. This position ha
filled creditaby uutil his republican successor was
appointed by President Lincoln. From that time to
his death he lived IN retirement.
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The United states Supreme Court.

Recent references to probable appointments
to the bench Of the Supreme Court of the
United States evince that among public men
such appointment Is coming more and more to
be looked upon as the price to be paid for poll
ticai services rather than as recognition of
great knowledge of the law, combined with
personal probity. The nation at large should
grieve to see seat on the Supreme bench
numbered among the things that are bargained
for in political orioles. If there is Holy Of
Holes in our national temple 1t is that court;
if there is one place that we ought all to COM
blne in keeping perfectly pure and above the
contamination of improper motive II ia the tri-
bunal having the decision of points that may
involve the peace, the happiness, the liberties
of whole people. 1t is absolutely certain
that President cannot do greater harm to
the country than to appoint man Justice Of
the Supreme Court for party reasons, to assent
to and continue the idea that has enabled men
to count off the possible judgments of that
bench by the politics of the men who sit upon
it. We trust that this great evil, which began
with General Jackson, may not stain the
administration of General Grant.
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TIE BOARD OF HEALTH has at last decided
that the establishment Of the Rendering Com
pany at the foot of Thirty eighth street "smells
bad" Some of its members visited the
premises the other day, and so iptolerable
were the odors that they could not stay long
enough to properly examine the rendering
apparatus; but the Board has SO little regard
for the health of those compelled to live in that
neighb9rhood that i has not even yet com
PEELED the company to stop operations. Will
the Board resign?
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James r. Cooper.

The Atlanta papers Of the 10Th inst bring us the
Intelligence OF the death OF this gentleman on the
day previous. lie was the only son OF Cooper the
eminent tragedan, and at an early age was sent to
West Point Military Academy, where he graduated
seventeenth IN his class on the 1st OF July 1884 He
was commissioned second lieutenant OF the Third
infantry and served until August 26, 1887, when he
resigned, to engage in civil pursuits. He was for
some time assistant engineer Of the western and
Atlantic Railroad belonging to the state Of Georgia.
In 1s43 President Tyler appointed MIN superintend-
ent Of the United States Branch Mint at Dahlonega,
position he held for six years, when he became chief
engineer Of the Mobile ana Grard Railroad, Ala
banla us5O-lJ ana later OF the Memphis and
charleston Railroad Qs6l-a During TINS latter
year Governor Herschcl v. johnson, OF Georgia. ap-
pointed him superintendent OF the Western and At
lantc Railroad. He filed the Office with credit for
two years, when he resigned 10 accept the po iton
OF chief engineer OF tue Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Texas Railroad. Upoa the outbreak OF the war MIR.
Cooper embraced the cause OF tho south ana became
lieutenant colonel Of Georgia volunteer regiment:
lie was native OF New York, but the best part OF
his life was speat ut the South. The deceased bore
high reputation in Georgia. where he was looked
upon as most estimabe. high minded gentleman.
He leaves wife and several children 70 mourn hls
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Tho Paraguaymn War-Latest News About


Various and contradictory are the accounts
received here regarding the movements and
position of Lopez. From Lisbon one day we
learn that the lighting President Of the Para
guayan republic, when last heard of, was
making tracks for Bolivian territory. From
the wording Of the despatch we are left to infer
that he is badly used up, and that his recent
revcrses have completely Frustrated him, Fol-
lowing this information, next day the news.
via Paris, tells us that "Lopez has established
new lines Of defence at San Estanislaus, where
he has considerable force of men and plenty of
artillery" Between these conflicting state
ments, however, IL Is not difficult to arrive at
the situation Of affairs. That Lopez has been
driven from his capital and routed in several
engagements is an acknowledged fact that his
ranks have been decimated by successive dis
asters is no less true but that his course is run
is not quite so clear. Defeat has never yet
broken his spirit or destroyed his energy. II
Is not going to do so now. Neither is his
position 30 hopeless as has been more than
once stated II the report proves true that the
allies have discontinued the pursuit, Lopez can
bide his own time before he assumes the often
sive. He has the nucleus Of an army around
him. he is not altogether deficient in arms or
ammunition, and that he possesses the undi-
vided confidence Of the Paragaayaus 10 uudis-
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The Situation In France.

The political situation In France, as between
Of Bonaparte's Imperialism and the newly
awakened spirit Of the radical democracy,
looks serious. The oppositionist members Of
the Legislative Body assembled in extra par
liamentary meeting in Paris yesterday and
drafted and signed manifesto In which they
declare they will not attend in the Chamber on
the 2Gth instant, as by SO doing they might
provoke conflict with the Executive and
thus impede the tide Of healthy revolution"
which they assert is rapidly maturing to an
overflow in France. They must not afford
''pretext for disorder" but await the
result Of the meeting and go forward
and ask why the day of assemblage
was postponed and steadily ''urge the
demands Of the democracy of the entire
country" as first means Of redressing this
''new wrong" The democrats are well sup
ported outside, and French manifestoes are
dangerous. Napoleon is aware of this. He
is also 'seeing' his friends; for we learn by
cable telegram that Prince Gortschakoff has
Drouyn de Lhuys has taken charge of the
portfolio of foreign affairs and that the King
of Belgium has been invited to join the Court
at Compeigne. Bonaparte is far-seeing and
prudent; the French reformers ardent and
advancing. st. Petersburg and Brussels may
perhaps furnish happy court of arbitra-
ton Intermediary between the opposing forces
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
pRoPRIEToR.
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NiBLo's GARDEN, Broaawey.--Tns cRLrnRArrD
PLAY or EAST LYNNE
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Thirtich stMatinee daily Performance every evening
wALLACK's THEATRE. Broadway AMI 18th street.
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GNoME AND WHITE WARRIOR.
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HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn -HooLEY's
MINsTEELs-UNDER THE LAMP LIGH1.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. sls Broalway.--
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WOODS MUSEUM CURIOsITIEs Broadway, corner
Thirticth s-Matnee daily. Performance evening
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NfBL0's GARDEN, Broaaway.--THg CELraRATED
PLAY EAST LYNNE
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and twenty
fourth s,rcet.-As You LIKE IT.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.-rnE STREETS
NEW YORK.
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Attorney General Hammond left for Albany