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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-10
FESTIVITIES ABOARD THE SCH0OLsHIP.
Practical Philanthropy.


According to invitation from the Commissioners
of Charities ana Correction quite number OF cti-
zens visited the schooship Mercury, lying on the
Battery, yesterday, both In the morning and after-
lernoon. At the latter period OF the day about half
past three O'Clock, Mr.. Nicholson, the omni-
present Commissioner OF the Board ana the
great phianthropist OF the institution, went over
in tue company Of various members OF the
City Council and OF the press to witness the per-
Torrance OF the boys on the schO0lship. The ex-
hibition was Of ON eminently satisfactory nature.
The drill the manning OF the yards, the piping to
quarters, ana variety Of other naval maneuvres,
were admirably performed. BY way OF preface Il
might be said that the boys who form the company
OF this vessel are the truant element New York,
and no one among them belongs TO the class denomi-
mated thieves
Some OF the boys have pedigree which includes
some OF the best names IN the old Knckerbocker
history Of New York, put the majority, It is need
less TO say are o. Ce,iG ex.acsGn the following
which the enterprise IS being conducted. the mess
OF 10 boys eat IN week the following average
ouantty:-3 lbs 10 OF. cofee 81 lbs. IL OF. beans;
Il lbs IL or. pork 1l6 lbs. beef IA lbs OF. sugar.
3 gallons molasses, Ito loaves OF bread and
from Dackwell's Island, where It Is raised by the
labor of the convics aud includes the aristocrat,c
luxury lux 81 and the duties Of the boysUsps@
Stetson, commanding; first of1cer, W.. II. Sum-
mers second OFFICER, +. Gregory; third ofncer, 3.
a. t,drldge; boatsWlin, J. Brown; sailing master.
G. Lockwood; scnoolmaster, j. b. Hayes; chaplains.
Rev Father Duranq net ana Rev. MIR. Wiiietts The
bows are promoted as they deserve It, and the names
OF those VINO fiji positions Oh board are as folows:--
Boatswans, Stuyvesant and Baker; ooxswans,
Walton Cropsey ana Lee; qnartermasters, Mayor,
Blackmure smith ana Msace; captain var Of .ne
hold Borches. Tho boys went through very inter-
estlng performance, manning and raging yards,
directed in their efforts by the stentorlan voice OF
frst onicer summers II Is one or the glorious fea-
lures In Rev York's magnt cent philanthropy that,
while ali the world OF Wall street Is worshipping the
rod OF maynmon, few good men are ever ready to
engage the OBSCURE but mertorlous work OF res
cunu from the Sums OF the metropolis the gutter
chdren, who would else be handed over to perdi-
ton. -. -,
yle boys are well attended to, get plenty OF good
Grub ana are destined by their training TO assume
positions in either the naval or mercantile marine:
A dinner on board the ship celebrated tue lnlla-
ton OF the enterprise Mr. Brennan occupteu sre
chair and tho other Commissioners present were
Messrs James Bowen, Isaac Boil ana Sames re u.
Nicholson. Speeches were made by Messrs Bren-
nan, Nicholson Glen, Captain Gadsden, hl"el, ,,
McGiunis Krwan, Alderman rlnca.a n,o a" Ia
Roberts Cole, aud the festivities 'efm'n"eeo IN
quite Joyous manner
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Complication, in European AEairs-Thc
Prospect.

Prospect
Our news from Europe Is of peculiarly
interesting character. The interest, however.
results rather from the expectant attitude Of
men and things than from actual facts. All
is uncertainty, and men are everywhere
eagerly looking forward. Napoleon is not in
the best of health; and upon his single life,
more than upon that of any other man, does
the continued peace of Europe depend. Victor
Emanuel is sick, and, although now pro-
nounced by his physicians out of danger, his
temporary illness has given birth to specula-
tions which may yet produce strange results.
In Spain the government firm OF Serrano,
Prim and Topete has broken up; and the
promise is more abundant than ever that Prim
is to be left master of the situation. Whether
he is to act the par. of Warwick, the king
maker, to fill the rifle of a Caesar, Cromwell
or Napoleon, or to rise to the noble position
of George Washington, it must be left to the
future to tell. Baron Beust, the Austro-
Hungarian Chancellor, is busy and vexed as
ever with his nationalities questions; and,
although he has been successful in suppress
ing the Dalmatian instruction, the heteroge-
neous populations under his care promise to
give him much trouble before his work is
done. Count Bismarck, from his rural retreat
in Pomerania, watches the general situation,
and, in spite of much resistance, sees his long
cherished ideal of German unity gradually,
slowly, but certainly, bodying itself forth into
a living, substantial reality. Russia, still
busy with internal reforms, with the
| construction of railroads, with Asiatic
conquests, with the breaking up of Old
World notions, keeps her eye steadily fixed on
Constantnople, never losing an opportunity to
make the most Of race and religion for the
purpose Of demoralizing Turkey in Europe
and of re-establishing, on a broader basis than
ever, the empire of the East. The Sultan,
surrounded by influences which are foreign TO
the principles on which his empire rests, and
encroached upon on oil sides by the new civil
cation, knows not what to do. Among the
dynasties there is fear between the govern
ments there ia jealousy, and deep down in the
heart of European society there is dissatisfac-
ton with things as they are, and there Is
eagerness for change.
As we have already limited, much depends
on the life Of Napoleon. His death would to
dead certainty be the signal for general
rising all over Europe. Prussia would with
out delay annex the South German States
Austria would be slow to consent to this; bu,
as Austria is now more in the way Of Russia
than ia Prussia, it is safe to take it for granted
that the weight Of Russia would be thrown Ii
the scale in favor Of Prussia. France and
Austria would be likely to 90 together; but i
is not difficult to see that the forces Of tb'
North would win in the not unequal contest
Such a struggle would give Russia her Ions
looked for opportunity. Turkev In Europ
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MUM for four per cent stock? Would any
man In the ordinary transactions of life make
such sacridce2 And what would 1t be but .
species Of reputation if the government were
to compel the holders Of six per cent bonds to
take without premium four per cent ones in
their placer The lower the bonds are In the
market-that is, If they be not forced down
by any action of the government-the more
can be saved in Transforming the debt to posi-
tive gold bonds at lower rate Of interest. 1t
would be folly, then, to force up the market
price Of our securities before re-adjusting the
debt.
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the NEW YORK HERALD IN VIRGINIA.
from the Norfolk {va.l Journal, Nov. 81
~,uvapAprR ENERGY.

NEWBPAFEH EF'"'S"''
We have never known greater energy cAnp'ted
by a newspaper than by the NEW ioRh HERALD
on the occasion OF tns dcath Vi MI. reaoouy.
~ AGA last Thursday night In London before
,,vave oclock, and by three on Friday morning hts
obituary was in press and by i've 1t was delivered to-
Tho readers OF the HERALD. Many are the faults taat
he various political parties have found with the
NEW YORK HERALD and u Mas never since It's estn6-
oT Nav York. Nevertheless the unusual ability Of
ia writers has bid defiance 10 all tho Attacks that
nnye been made upon H. aud Its startU IN energy has
onabed II to distance Gil competitors In the way OF
news. The other papers OF Gotham may abuse tho
HERALD as much as they please; bu' so long ability
the NEW YORK HERALD contlnu,J 10 flourish In ever
increasing prosperity.
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Increasing Circulation Of the Herald.
We are again constrained to ask advertisers to
hand in their advertisements at as early an hour
aspossible.
Our immense and constantly increasing editions
compel us, notwithstanding our presses are
capable of printing seventy thousand copies an
hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than
stop the classifcations of advertisements at nine
O'Clock P. NJ
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Mr.. GLADsToNE's SPEECH. Premier Glad
stone acknowledges, in an excellent address
delivered at the municipal inaugural banquet
in Guildhall Hall, London, yesterday of which
we publish very complete synopsis by cable
telegram, that Ireland is even now chief diff
fculty to England, and that, too, after having
hundred years, and with almost "unbounded
power" On the subject Of the foreign policy
Mr.. Gladstone renounces, on the part Of his
country, the role Of a 'smeddlesome interfer-
ence"-an excellent definition of the past
and assumes tone Of general philanthropy
and good win, with preservation Of the
"peace and concord" now existing between
Britain and the United States.
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THE Bro SHIP ON DUTY AGAIN.--The Great
Eastern is getting ready in England to take
out and lay cable between Bombay, India,
and Alden, on the Red Sea. Pronounced q
failure at FIRST that big ship is proving herself
the greatest success on the sea Of the nine
teenth century. Success still follows her.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-10
Tho Mormons-The Prophet Has signiG-
cant Revelation.

cant Revelation.
According to our latest advices from Great
Salt Lake, there is an intestine commotion
among the "Latter Day Saints" which promises
an early solution of the Mormon difficulty.
Brigham Young is skilful manager and mas
becoming too much for him. His Mormon CO.
operative stores, and all his old time Chinese
schemes for repelling the ''outside barbarians, "
while they fail to repel the Gentiles are Great
ing mutinies and disaffections among the
Saints. He vainly thought that by contriving
to divert the Pacific Railroad around the north
end instead of the south end of Great Salt Lake,
where lies his city of Zion, he had succeeded
in escaping contact with the great streams of
emigrants, miners and travellers passing over
the road. He vainly imagined that by building
himself branch road to the main line he could
contrive to get good harvest of profits and
still manage to keep out the Gentiles But
they will not be kept out. They are crowding
around him, and their influence is demoralzing
his followers, for they are beginning to think
for themselves.
In this emergency, il appears, the Prophet
has had q timely and very significant revela-
ton. AS the head of his community, it is
said, he has the snug deposit of twenty-five
millions of dollars in the Bank of England "a
large exaggeration Of his funds, no doubt,
and that he has had special revelation that
the time draws nigh for the employment Of this
deposit in the removal of his harem and his
headquarters to the Sandwich Islands. 1t ap-
pears, however, that the first rImors of this
such expressions of incredulity and derision
by the Saints that the supernatural order is not
for the present to be enforced. The revelation
itself may be Gentle joke We incline to
the opinion, however, that the sagacious
Brigham comprehends the fact that with an
other year or two of the Pacific Railroad he
will have to give up his sanity institution of
polygamy or clear out from Utah.
In this view the opportunity, we think, has
come tor decisive action on the part of Con-
gress, not for violent expulsion of the Nor
mons, but for the abolition of poygamy in
Utah under a new Territorial government
Special provisions for taking the census of
1870 in Mormondom will develop the extent
of this evil Of polygamy, and meantime law
providing that after a certain date any man
found in the Territory possessed bodily of
more than one wife, temporal or spiritual,
shall be subjected to the pains and penalties
Of bgamy (Which is Brighamy) or of adul-
terry, as the case may be, and we shall pro-
baby have settlement which win embrace
the removal OF the polygamists without
further trouble to come group of islands in
the Pacific, and the retention of the one-wife
Mormons in the Territory under the original
one-wife dispensation of Joe Smith. AT any
rate, Congress must take this Mormon question
in hand at the coming session with the view to
settle it peaceably, or there is great danger
that 1t may be settled by the border GentileS
and by fire and sword.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-10

WAIxINa AND WAToHINa-Queen Isabella,
for the opportunity to proclaim through her
adherents in Madrid the Prince Of Asturias
as her candidate for the Spanish throne. And
she may yet raise breeze in tina Cortss.
Who can tell2
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THE SIGNS OF THE TINES. destructive
storms and floods are still reported east, west,
north and south, and in both hemisphercs,
with occasional earthquakes and fierce vol
canic eruptions, and especially in Mexico and
Central America. What do These signs por-
tend? A general shaking up Of tho nations,
perhaps, morally and politically. Surely, in
this city, at Albany and elsewhere, we are
on the verge Of great events. But when the
sky falls we shall catch the larks.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-10

THE GOLD BAROMETER. IT Is singular
reflects the events of the political world. As
soon as it was known that Victor Emanuel
was in danger of dying and that the partisans
of Mazzini were ready to precpitate revolu-
ton, the barometric metal rose from 1861 to
I27a-a difference OF over one per cent This
amount is, in fact, a wager in the present
doubt as to the result OF the contingency.
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The Battery Place Murder and the Coroner
The discussion Of the recent murder In Bat
terry place and the plea that the Coroner Is
free from blame in the premises will naturally
invite some review of the functions of that OH
Ger, and may properly bring before the public
the question of the responsibility Of q jury. Is
there no limit to the power Of the men
summoned to an inquest upon dead bodyp
Have they ample authority to close all inquiry
into given crime and still stand unsuspected2
Or is there point at which their evident dis
position to favor criminal justly awakens the
thought that they are in collision with him,
and exposes them in turn to the attention Of
the criminal authorities2 The Coroner is q
judicial officer. He and his jury are entrusted
with the duty of inquiring, super Uisum COR
p0ris into cases of violent death, and the
division Of function ia the same as with other
courts-that is, the jury judges the facts and
the Coroner Is to instruct them as to the appli-
cation of the law. No doubt, as our inquests
are conducted, much of this is supposition;
for we seldom have Coroner capable
OF instructing a jury in anything more
than mixing liquors or stufing ballot boxes.
But supposition or not, society must hold such
functionaries to the duties they assume In taking
office, and visit their delinquencies upon them.
In the inquest before us clear case of delibe-
rate murder was made out by straightforward
testimony, nor was there made apparent the
shadow OF mitigating circumstance. Yet
the Coroner's jury does not find verdict of
murder. On the contrary, 1t finds verdict
that would admit the murderer to bail, and thus
secure his escape. And when his counsel asks
that he be admitted to bail what does the Coro-
ner saya Simply that he will consider the sub
ject and give his decision on Monday. He
takes the occasion, however, to defend the
jury from charge of corruption, and answers
for the verdict as an honest one. What infer
ence are we forced upon when such verdict
is given in such case? There is no other
possible than that the jury was contaminated
by the presence of one or more persons
resolved to free the murderer at all hazards,
and that the remainder were browbeaten into
assent to their views. What, then, was the
duty of the Coroner9 Certainly not to
champion such jury, and quite as
little to accept their view in admit
ting the possibility that the man might
in few days be set OF liberty. His duty,
rather, was to recognize that criminal act
had been committed in the very finding Of that
verdict on such state of facts, and thereupon
to order the jury itself into custody. The
names of the jurymen are as follows John J.
Byrnes, No. 81 West Thirteenth street; George
J. Macomb, No. 3OS East Sixtieth street;
Francis Reynolds, No. 156 Mott street, James
Hilbich, No. q Bowery; Henry L. Fraser,
No. 800 East Fify-eighth street.
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STILL HARpN6 ON rHR SAME STRING
Greeley. He still keeps growing and grum-
bling over tho election frauds of this city; but
still the question recurs What will he do with
them?
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would burst forth In blaze Of instruction.
Egypt would shake OF her letters and pro-
claim herself free. Roumania would follow
her example. Bulgaria, Servia and the other
Slavic States would rally around Roumania
Greece would become aggressive, and the
Greek provinces Of Turkey would flock to the
standard OF King George. Meanwhile 1t
would not be wonderful IL the Gear
enthroned himself In Constantinople. 1t
| would be as little wonderful if Austria
as an empire ceased to be, and If the
kingdom Of Hungary found 1t hard to maintain
separate and independent existence. TAX
ing 1t for granted, however, that the Emperor's
life should not be cut short, the probabilities
are scarcely less serious. Tho disease in the
body polite exists. It may burst forth even
| in spite of his great power and his wondrous
! skill. The internal condition Of France, the
strong nti-Napoleonic sentiment which is
known to exist, the distracted condition of
Spain and Italy make the situation of the
Latin races themselves exceedingly peculiar.
Mazzini watches eagerly and believes that his
opportunity will come; but Mazzini cannot
make good his opportunity without general
rising in Italy, and scarcely without Euro
pean war.
In the future not yet near we see happier,
q more prosperous, nobler Europe. We see
the nations grown larger but fewer. We see
the dynasties disappearing and aristocracy
hiding its face as ashamed. We see the
peoples bound together by community Of SEN
timent and community of interest. We SEQ
the fruit Of the telegraph, the railroad and the
printing press. We see Europe, in fact,
modelled after our own glorious republic-a
state of things which will not give chance to
any tyrant. But between that time and now
much difficulty will have to be encountered
and overcome; much suffering will have to be
endured and much patience exercised. The
better time however, will come; the peoples
of Europe will arrive at that better state
which has long been ours. Meanwhile the
horizon is not bright; clouds and darkness are
everywhere; nor can we say we are unprepared
for the most alarming intelligence.
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CLEARING AWAY HE'LL GATE.-Slowly
enough, but yet surely, the rocks which OBJ
struct the passage at He'll Gate are melting
away under the influence Of gunpowder and
nitro-glycerine. Professor Maillefert has opened
q channel nineteen feet deep on the dangerous
rocks knows as Ways Reef. Although this is
not much to accomplish, considering the length
of time occupied since this work began, still
when we consider that the Professor has had
very bad quality of nitro-g lycerine to operate
with--much Of which would not explode by the
conclusion of powder, and still lies, we believe,
uselessly at the bottom-perhaps we ought to
be satisfied. Hell Gate will probably BIO cleared
one Of these days, and some of the present
generation may live to see IL.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS MTsRxoS AND EVENING.

OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadw.' THE DOMESTIC
DRAMA Poos HUMANITY. MatinIeat z.
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FISK AND HIS DEPUTY SHERIFrs. The
public already know that pretty rough
crowd had been sent out to New Jersey by Mr..
J. Fisk, Jr., to settle matters on the Erie
Railroad, during the strike Of the brakemen,
in such fashion as the army of the Fisk BAN
ditti, armed with revolvers, might find most
convenient. Everybody knows how these fell
lows are likely to bring matters to conclusion
when they are well paid for their services. 1t
is alleged on the part of Fisk that no hostile
acts are contemplated; that the armed gang
have gone only to preserve the peace and the
property Of the railroad, and in evidence Of the
truth Of this purpose 1t is claimed that forty
deputy sheriffs have been sent with the Fisk
cohorts to insure the legality Of the operation
and tho preservation of the peace. Does not
this fact in itself suggest that "a affairs have
been turning out with Sheriff's deputies Of
lato--two of them being already subject to
charges of mnrder--one Of them ReaD con-
demned by the court, the other (Jackson) con-
demned by public opinion-they are just the
worst class of men to assist in keeping the
peace, but, on the contrary, that their pre-
sence In this Erie Railroad army Of hrelings
means just the other thing
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THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.-The demo-
cratic control of this State has stirred up in
Washington again the discussion of the point
whether State having once ratified consti-
tutional amendment can withdraw its assent
It is still an open question whether State
can do this in the interval between the pro-
posal of the amendment and the reception of
votes enough to secure it. No one argues
that when an amendment has once properly
become part Of the constitution the action of
State can destroy its validity. Now, what
makes an amendment complete? Simply the
giving in its favor of certain number of
votes. The moment the last necessary vote
is cast all possible recall is at end. The
words are that an amendment ''shall be valid
to all intents and purposes as part of this
constitution when ratified by the Legislatures
of three -fourths Of the several States" Hav-
ing received tho last necessary vote the mea-
sure is now, therefore, beyond recall, and to
suppose the contrary would be to suppose that
any State by its own action simply could
change the constitution.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and 2tth ST.
Muou Apo ABOUT NOTHING
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WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, broadway, cor
1hroh st-Iatnee daily Performances evening
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BowERY THEATRE. Bowery.-Nor GuILrY-BusY
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FRENCH THEATRE. l4th st. and 9Th av.-LosDoS;
Or, LIours AND SHADOWS OF GREAT Cry.
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The Lynchbnrg News dies hard over
the fact that the Virginia Delegation
had to appear before "such man as
Butler" Chairman Of the Reconstruc-
ton Cammittee) before and as a precc-
dent to the admission of that State
and intimates wish that rather than
such humiliation the State should stay
out.
We are utterly astonished at our CO.
tcmporary's ignorance of political his
tory Of that state under and by which it
is made imperatively and mGyoidably
necessary for to enter by way Of the
Dutch Gap Canal"
The NcrS ought to know, that if it
should "climb up some other way it
would be thief and robbcr."