The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1856, Page 8

Our Caltfornia Correspondence, ‘ San Francisco, Oct. 18, 1856. | Character of the Gold Hunters—The Original Ele ments of California Sooiety—The Way Justice was Administersd in the Courts—Offcial Cor- ruplion— The Bank Crash” —Origin of the Vi- gilance Commitee, and a Defence of its Course— The Revolution F fected Thereby—The Great Na- | tural Resources of California~ Its Climate, Pro- duetions, Musica! Wealth, Moral Character, Agricultural Population and Future Destiny— The Postage System and Interesting Statisstic Relating Taereto, §e., $e. , Se. You thivk, no doubt, that you know something of | California, because you have read its history and letters, both private and printed, ancient and mo- dern, and have talked with many of those who have sojoarned with us for a time, &e., cc. Bat your in- dustry will have proved of but limited avail without & personal observation on passing events, and the ° peculiar organization of a community formed as this has been. Other States of our Union have grown up, it is true, with almost fabulous rapidity, but still it was under the genial influence of agricul- | ture] aod commercial pursuits; this population bave been formed, both morally and so- | cially, out of some of the best materials | of their sister States, and their progress was the | result of that honest labor which instils the best habits into an entire community. If some of the | new settlers sequired sudden wealth, it was from the | develope ments of the riches and peouliar advantages | of those ‘anés which they had themsetves aided | im bringing into cultivation, and the natural increase | of value consequent upon a rap’ i'y increasing popu- lation. The foundation of the social system mach as the ordinary fraiity of mus woold admit, | were the love of virtue, the love of cou and | that innate respect for the law, in which, im fact, is | contained the whole spirit and effective power ot a | government created by and existing under the action of the people. But here in California, lured by the temptation of what our great poet styles “the power of all-cor- | rupting gold,” the sudden disclosure of its unheard of abundaace brought together a confused mass of men of all na ions and languages, of all classes | and degrees, of sll temperaments and dispositions, | and of a! grades of fixed character, among whom, as an inevitao'e conse ueuce, were to be found a ten- fold proportion of famy—men who in then bad long excladed trom the ordinary 30 assembled to form a come. m the ugiu a‘ion of the term ?—a | society bound by \ tles of a common interest | and 4 common safety, (or mutual aid and protec: | tion? Nosueh thing! They were, even including the best of them, a mass of adventurers in the eager parsait of one only object—the acquisition of gold. They scarce paused to inquire into the nature or character of the country; its hidden stores ot vegetable riches in almost fabulous amount and variety; the gorgeous beauties of its climate, temperate and invigorating, and j bearing health and strength in every breeze from the great Pacific; its noble harbors and vast mate- rial tor the creation of an extended commercial em- portum. These, as the promineut elements of future empire, were unthougnt of in the ardent chase of tue paraaount object—gold! But few took time for reflection on the proper organization of society. Laws were enacted, but their administration was committed to unscrupulous or incapable agents, through whove iguorance or venalty were sowa the first seeds of those scenes of violence and disorder of which it is my design to speak. It is, in truth, chiefly to the taxity with which the laws were enforced in its early days that California owes a) its subsequent disasters. Im the tribunals and in the officers of the courts were to be traced the impatience of men on the one great pursuit ; judges, clerks, sheriffs ead juries, if not themselves in it, were so closely tinked by companion- aud ioterest with those who came within their power or rule, that justice slept, while the criminal or the laudjobber triumphed. Citizens who mytt bave upleld the supremacy of the law “shitkea’ their duty as jurors in their never ceasing tof the ore, and that ty epniny sd upon the bier, or the bully, or J ways ional jary- man, » again, for the ever re. \d, bartered their “voices in the jory room. Men were in authority rial, .egislatire, executive and mu- , some of whom were of known disreputable and unk »own antecedents. Many of those chief conserva tors of good order,when honorably prac- tice their nonoralic vrofession—the lawyers—clatch- ed the extenced to their ready palm, and “split Seer oc tne court and Jory by their harangues, " th the Judge over the bully or the thief, or enveloped in mystery and chi- camery the “land meri.’ of the country. Eee These racteristics of formed society (/) of our State and city. Iw was @ rudely formea «ob nation of hetero- — ee ben eng ae | ft corrupting. | not deba:ing, action of a tudinoas assembly, which, swith aw ions the great desiderarum of mankind, as “increase of appetite bad grown by what it , 1856, occurred here what is known & Co., —_ , for which eT unpunished, it is ont bandreds of suffering deposttuce-albett unused beeen false | peo- s 4 tortuous way by which the convert the money of the masses: to their own uses—have uot, in despair, taken the law into suet emery — ob Gewpatiod < aa through whose villainy were their | hard-earned little stores. That the E eg nity’? That snch spectacle should have others, in whatever of life for the | of dishonest gains, was but nataral, and the effect, you may suppose, was not limited. Tt was in this state of things, when doels, mar- | dors, brawis, swindiing—in its ordinery seuse es | well aa through the Leanne Sages oy as ness, gembiies. every vice iy , that General Richardson, the United ates : | i i Pt f rz | * J é i i é es = Ee. Ef i ty u z 2 i iH 4 s3 Bag Fi id il i i es j = i id | i iiss tts i ei § Ht . i : 5 : i : f ah sii i ul - was hase apon a self sacrificing o t ves, and distinguished by z i a | crime im an elective expedient not yet to make public. The peeple, ina | once more an abode of peace and security for its im- | tee, for of course there were such? They were chief- of. The lawyers, w | from | no longer tremble devotion to the public good, with s determination Sp gy i were from before them, the courts, oF the juries, would ever % ‘The Committee, within four days, ed over 2,500 men of the best and bravest of the city, all well armed and all sworn to aid each other as @ band of brothers eradicatic in the ion of the evile with which} societ, wa ane remote Orel degen ng the Sheriff who could make no ; resistance they took Cora also, who was waiting in fancied security for his second trial, and conveyed them to the rooms which they had fitted vp for their seca- rity, and after the lapse of another four days hanged them from their windows, im presence of an im- mense body of spectators. 4 But the labers and duty of the Committee did not stop here. They felt that the time had come for the pariscetion of the city from its worst evils. They w that it contained some of the greatest villains in existence, whose means of co! g influence would enable them to escape the 8 of the law, and some of them were the worst of professional bullies and those skilled in the the will of the people by frauds on ballot box—a goverment scarcely second to murder itself. Many of these they arrested and sent out of the country, on evidence, however, of the most convincing character of their heinous conduct. The numbers of the Committee daily augmeated— another atrocious murder occurred in a hotel in broad daylight, and within five days the perpretator was hanged in the open street, together with an- other who had committed a murder more than a year previously, and had eseaped through some techni- cality of law. The Committee continued its action of purging the city of the wretches who had ren- dered it a standing reprouch in a! civilized coun- tries, until about five weeks since, when, to the great chagrin of its enemies, who had urged that its objects were political, and that ic would be costinued until November for the purpose of controlling the elec- lions, it adjourned, merely so far preserving its or- nization that in cases of great cnangensy it can re-assembled with but little preparation. The whole proceedings of the Committee were, technically speaking, itiegal. The law was them, but the law bad been perverted or set at de fiance by some of its chief ministers, who them- selves had been “ballot swindled” into office. The community stoed in terror of the wretches who pa- raded the streets in all the pride of that power which, they boasted, they could, ibrough con: trol over the elections, perpetuate, and thus control the action of the law! The pistoi and the knife were the argument and the resort in every case of simple dispute, and no man’s life was secure pres ot the revenge of the bully and the coward. Anc why? Because corruption into the bails of justice. { do not mean to impugn the direct action of the judges, but you know how much depends in a criminal case on the subordinate offi- cers of the courts. Sheriffs, clerks and jurors united with the arts of corrupt counsel, this whole machinery was in full organization in our devoted city. What was to be done? Tamely submit to the ion of ten chothed with suthority through fraud, and linked with others stained with ge and Lee pared, nay, eager, at any moment, perpetral borror rf the community for hire, or to revenge some fancied wrong’ To this they felt they could not submit. They were surrounded by families and Kindred, and had acquired by their industry those | means which are the object of every man’s henor- able ambition, and they felt that the time had come for bold, prompt and effective action. Hence this Pisco B yg It was technically illegal: granted. Se is it at any tme to take lie, but ver- dicts of “justifiable homicide” prove that such is often the only resort for self So was it here—the entire community felt that they were in the setnal power of men who could outrage all law and escape through the control they exercised over the officers of the courts. The Sherif was for a long time the keeper of one of the lowest gamb- ling hells, and through bim the purity of juries was ever doubted. They felt all this, and they organized for their own self-preservation. ye pnd sent, every necessary power was to jom- mittee of Vigilance wi ‘ich in a brief space numbered more tosn five thousand men, to whose acts in the emerzency of the times the people submitted with that confidense which is the offspring of peril, and | which, in diferent parts of the world, has so fre- | quently created a temporary despotism for the geue- Tal security. The chief acts of the Committee are widely known and peed no repetition. They were calm, vg rate and deliberate. Their course was marked by no scenes of violence, or cruelty, or arbitrary ca- rice. With the dignity of a fixed determination, hey marked the men whom it was felt were dan- geroui the and recurity of society and sent them out of the country, inflicting ca nish. ment only on thore who had taken life r cir. cumstances of peculiar atroci From those whom toey banished, the amount of information obtained of the frauds of elections was y appalling, implicating men whose names it has been deemed | body, now speak of the Committee only with the eratituée due to men who have rendered our city habitants. | But you ask who were the enemies of the Commit- | ly thoee who were linked with the practised election swindlers, whose reign had been thas wey d = | for the low many thou- — u me. Sasanenee RY the Old World laboring clpuses but drag through an exiatence; and yet, not seldom, without either health or ‘comfort? Here the mere laboring man soon becomes a farmer, and | the latter, in bis turn, rises to wealth and station. | Who shall set bounds to the imagination of even | the most calm and temperate jud it, as to the | future of this extraordinary 2? More thaa two centuries since our pilgrim fathers landed on an | inhospitable coast and barren soil,and had to contend | agaiust the deadly enmity of the savage. Yet | Anglo-Saxon enterprise and endurance and moral | courage conquered all obstacles, and created the nu- cleus of that atter empjre whose sublime exam, has excited the wonder and admiration of the w: Here the same indomitable race find themselves in a | lund unrivalled in its fecundity and unsurpassed for ite healthful air, with scarcely a natural obstacle to contend with, and with all the lights of modern science to aid them. What, then, is ita future des- | tny? The fabled stories of the gorgeous Bast on | whose sunny lands, a0 famed in history as well as poetry, the ination has at all times ran riot in conjecture and delight, will sink into mere common- place before the future destiuies of this new empire | of self government. You will accuse me, in | my sober years and my sober habits, of attempting { that which | abominate—the style “‘highfalutin.’’ | Not 90. 1 look, as it were, into futurity, and feel that what I presume to predict will be realized. | What have you to contend against in the United States? The variations of heat and cold—the storms | and viciasitudes of the weather—the uneven charac: | ter 0( the soil—the necessity of slave labor in par- tiovlar districte——the multitude and intensity of the diseases of the human body. Here we have an al- | most perpetual spring-—thunder or lightning I have | never witnersed—a general fertility of soil, universal | bealth, free labor, and last, if not least, an inex- | haustible store of the great medium of commerce— | gold. its abundance may be bestestimated by the fact that the average annual produce for seven years ia equal to sixty miuions of dollars, whilat the whole average aunuat product of both gold and silver since 1492 throughout Ame- rica, Africa and Europe, and including the Oural mountains of Russia, was only twenty-five mil- lions, according to the official report of the Treasut Department of 1552. Exaggeration! What mad- | man in 1620 would not have felt tha! he himself h: encountered a madman had he beard from his lips @ predictéon of the present national grandear and | moral influence of our Union? None of the present | generation, or the next, or even the next after it, may realise my predictions, but the time must surely come when the madman of the present day | will be admitted to have possessed some of the gift of foresight mingled all his madness. | Amid all these waking dreams of a future great- | ness, let us become a little more practical, and dis. | course upon the means of populating this favored | land. ‘hey are unhappily circumscribed by the delay an expenses to the masses of | laboring people in reaching our shores. | An emigrant can reach New from Europe in 20 days, at an expense of $25. To reach here, he needs five times as mach. Now, to | “the million” swch @ sum is beyond their wildest | dreams of possession, and not one in a thonsand can | do more than pine over their inability to form Ls vid | of the peeple of California, until thad long ho; for desideiatum is accomplished, the great Pacific Rail road. And the failure of that ay ge at the last session | of Congress throws us back for another two years; | for it is scarcely probable that an undertaking in volving such stupendous interests and 80 many grave _ constitutional doubts, wili be acted on at the ensuing session, which continues only three months prior to | the installation c* a pew President, and for whom | there is a poesibtiry they may he = to cast | their votes, whicn will absord every o! cousider- | tion. | al What, then, are the routes by which the commu- micetion between the two great divisiona of the Union is to be maintained, saying nothing of that across the Plains, which is an y practicable for the | daring and hardy emigrant, and almost entirely un- suited to families? Besides, there fs that all absorb- ing object of uppartance and interest, the convey- ance of the mails, which imperiously demands in- creased facilities, besides official aid and due i“ tection aguinst a renewal of the horrars of the Pa- noma Gey wo of April lest. e | _ Some of your daily papers enlarge upon a0- tivity with which the for a communication with this connt uantepec route is being forwarded. if cA rightly informed, this route requues the of one construction miles of rail or other roads after leaving the Coatzacnalcos river to the Pacific ocean, and we knew by experience the — natural obstacles to worka of that character in Mexico, especially the »niluences of a tropical climvte, and the necessity of transporting from a distance many of the chief elements of construction to the scene of operations. It issaid. also, and I believe on good auth»rity, that law,” was simply the don of their pointed ambition and the loss of the emolaments in criminal cases, which, at the courts, were wonderfully re duced through the wholesome terrors of the Com- mitiee. The men in office, who dreaded the disclo- sure of the means by which they had obtained | power. The gambler's, the “flash” gentry, and all | that large (in city) fraternity of men who live | by their wits their—villanies. These were the enemies of the Committee, mom, pechene, a small | body of citizens, who honestly di with them | on ths only reasonable grounds of objection to its | organization, the danger of cet oe = irres| Ne rohany man or men for an, Sone Thstever. it the chowe that risk as the least of the two a ma—that of the depraved and unserupulous, or of the known repu- table and honorable jeading men in the society. What now have been ths sontiet pl | good order reign supreme. ‘a occupation | as gove—the habitual assassin hides his bowie kuife and his revolver from the petty thief and braw less freq race the front seats at the daily “receptions” of the der. Our elections are close at hand, with the certainty of resulting in the legitimate exposition of the popular will. In short evidences of re- geveration greet us at every torn. Men walk abroad with that confident security which innate rectitade of character. Wives | of their husbands, f their doors the bleeding v' of burial “chivalry, and “ little ones” sink to in the sweet of a parental the opening dawn. Crime is no longer an occurrence, and people can again base their on the security of that 0 to the law, which is in truth the ce H i fetie-s siidres 2 z # . iy rel. no good natura! harbor exists on this side, and that the creation of an artificial one will involve a | vast outlay of capital. I cannot, for my par’, per- | ceive any pi t of this route being brought ber into practical OF the arrangements said to be in for the renewal of the Nicaragua route, you will be | stantly repeated relative to eve York | € | taxed with a rate that would Thave taken advantage of | wy vie tumed “Committee,” and trust | things in relation to the latter bave hitherto been, believing, as I do, that the whole ers is , but in that for coal it is immense. Yovage hath ways, atten slings sterag pr om voy: ways, pe ie eames incur om ia 5 5 enomous nama, Acapulco and Oregon. A more contrast between the of the Livi and Pacific lines may be drawn from ges once a fortnight from Panama to Oregon, stop- ping at or sending mails at their own expense to nine other ports. Thus they make a voyage of 4,000 miles and back, with intermediate service, for a mail compensation of $15,000, wnilst the Liverpool line makes one direct e of 3,000 miles for $33,000, Comment on this wou! Yet with all these adverse contingencies, the most frivolous and eften unfounded complaints are con- connected with their shij In whatever the company been involved, a pete against them, which hensible unless on the vapid and a ground of o te monopolies—to rich companies, although such com are in fact constituted a simple combination of smal) capitalists, and that in no other way can many of the most useful public enterprises be taken up. in fact, the whoie business unde! 2 by the pre- sent company, but for the adventitious discovery of the gold, would have been an utter failare. company was formed in 1848, and the contract made for the conveyance of the mails from O1egon to New York, embracing the ivtermediate ports al- 1eady vamed, before the dis :overy ot gold in Culifor- nia; «ud from what you know o! its present condi- tion you may wel! suppose that the resalt otherwise to the stockholders would have been disastrous, if not utterly ruinous. As the question of the renewal of the present contract with the mail company will come before Congress at the approaching session, I have consid- ered that these details would be of interest to you, in the face of the senseless clamor that is eteraally raised wher contracis of magnitade are brought up, or ip the event of rich companies being involved uy disputes with the peopie. The constantly increasing extent of the agricul- tural riches of this region, and their prospective in- fluence on the destiny of the Union, demand the most liberal and extended policy on the part of the government—s policy commensurate at least with the ecale of protection afforded to those Atlantic | Companies which pertorm at best a pocantinry Boren Nay more, the expense of the mail service shouid be unrestricted by the comparative cost of trausmission to this distant part of the Union of tnose mails which combine within themselves probably a oe a amount of matter of interest and vf social feeling than any other route in the whoe Union. Such is now the tacility of travelling in the Eastern States that with a trifling sacrifice of time and money, friends and kindred may readily obtain intercourse with esch other in emergencies or for their gratifi- cation, whilst a voyage to California involves both @ loss of time aud money which only a chosen few areable to bear. And yet, while your letter ee e is only three cents ours is ten cents. » er in & business or social light, is oppressive. The principle of ail modern postage laws is, that the system should be taken as a whole, and that the profitable should be made to compensate for the un- rofitable routes. Thus you have hundreds of in- land routes in the extremes of the Southern and ‘Western States which do not poy the tithe of their actual expenses, the loss of ich is made up by the routes through the more populous districts. Yet the Californians are made to pay treble the rates of those for whose convenience ten or twenty times the | usual postage is expended. In its social bearing, if I may use the expression, it is outrageously oppressive. Foo. the very reason J have assigned, the Haaiy a the East of social resargy pe Bag ot eye oll fo disctiminating postsge, re ite that Prerrant the reduction of cur rates even to less than yours, instead of the ating ponagen re oppresive; besides, in my Opt natin, ages are s in my opi- Bion.’ 2 reduction i the Oaiforuia letter postens would increase instead of diminial the revenue. ‘The great weight of the mails is made up of | franked matter of which the quantity is immense, es the ‘ — documents” at the grocers’ counters will testify. Tne deys of rec! and profuse expense in California are Kory and a postage of ten cents has been an o! with a ape majority of the people. It 1s, 1 am aware, an evil difficult of correction, but this transmission of public documents is among the rankest species of Buncombe with which the country is afllicted. J fear I bave fatigued you with my prolixity, but o leisure day to embody the country and te of more clear than the; seated origin were most im- much petter able to judge than myself. I presame “ter much will depend upon the result of the grave ac: | been Cueations of Vanderbilt against Garriens, which, | poe negge ghnwen ig he be carly aay, 5 88 you may well suppose, have excited a profound | “26 Mille Bo “ ” sensation in this city, strengthened public con- | Rers taht rope feats, M’ile bert in “ Katey” and fidence in tbe mall company. It is cousidered | *¥® in“ Pongo: doubtful whether that route is re-establishea | . Bowsny TaeaTee——A equatete drama, entitled The arrengement between the mail | the “ Dice ot Death,” is to , With new company and the General Post Office expires, I believe, with- | in less than two years; and it ia a matter of general | interest to the le gf the Atlantic States and thore of the Pacific, 1 its renewal should be placed upon a footing of liberality and national | pride, commensurate with thoee which bave been | made to contribute to the sapport of the steam mails of the Atlantic Ocean. You are not perl eware that the postage received on the Pail steamers ance made for the mails than that of any of the At lantic companies, although the former run their tips at an expense (especiaily on this si nearly double those of the former. Yet it is literal- ly the fact, and I will furnish you a few details from the last evnval report of the Postmaster General, to corroborate my position: — Tp 1856 the Collins line received $958 000 for 26 trips, at €58 (% each, the postages amor to $871,826, or 43 cent P*Toe Bremen line reoelred $200 000 postages, $76,037, | or 98 per cent. ‘The Havre line receive $150,000; postages, $72,790, or 48 per cent. respectively eight and ved. The Hevaca and Vera Cruz cont #12 mes ag MUCH we the portages rece | The Caiifornia les on the two oceans were the total rum of $688,000, and the postages were $516,477, oF 4036 per cent. ! Now, this latter line is indispensable perse to the great interests and convenience not alone of the | people of California, but of the whole Union, whose have incressed almost beyond belief since the discovery of the suriferous trea- suresof the State. One fact to confism this: In 1848 the whole of the United States was ‘rade and commerce i i ; ii Hf Pd : By lee scenery and other paraphernalia, to morrow —_ ficientl, v8 a larger proportion of the allow- | pouneing 1¢ commence an enga, ther with bis pupil, Miss Elsworthy, of whom repert speaks comm “Cloud and Sunshine.” coved tomorrow ware,” is the closing piece. I te ges Wom $226 on of ae is $250. watt hia | ect and once @ this side it embraces toe delivery of the matls, oftea over: Matter at Acapulco Tom | i sauna | As this piece bas been a long time in preparation, andi ge to the entire ircagth of the company, it will most likel; prove very successful. “ Ned York by Gas Light” is the afterpiece. Buwron’s Taratux--The highly popular and successful r of this fine roent finds | the drama of “ e, or the Reign of Terror,” remunerative to warrant him in an- tor repetition to-morrow evening, when it is to be followed by the farce entitled To Pa- rents and Guardians.” Watvack’s Totatre.—Mr. James Anderson, the English tragedian, who bas for years beea regarded ih marked favor by New York play-guers, is to nt to-orrow evening, toge- bly. They appear in a new play, Lavra Keens’s Tearee.—An original three act entitled, “Young New York, evening. It is from the 5 Wilkins, the author of the spirited little sketch en- titied “My Wife's Mirror,” which anderwent a ran at Mise K.'s theatre last “Ladies, Cnamurns Sraeet Toeatne.—The thrilling F3 AcaDEmy or Mvstc—The ever-popular of “T) Trovatore” js announced for te-morrow evening. Fagg ae A zncena, f Brignoli that of Mi Barxem’s Awentca® Mvervm.—Mr. C. W. Clarke, thef avorite actor'and industrious director of the dram- atic entertatnments at this estanlishment,is to take his benefit to-morrow. General Tom Thamb will be on hand during the day time. The popular play of “Camille,” finely cast, is to be perio both afternoon and evening. Broapway Vanieties.—The overwhelming bestowed oe our little juvenile friends in | the play of “ Black Eyed Susan,” every night list week, has induced the m: nt to announce the $y RA further notice. “ A Troan a Lover” is the afterpiece for to-morrow. Gronos Cunrery any Woon's Minerre.s issue « bill filled A sf of comicalities for to-morrow evening. For an tender a dramatic version of the caldoresgh ond we nae , or Here bie story entitled “The Oli Ci Goes and There She Goes.”” Bvceiey’s Serexapens will to«norrow prodace fim ke ag othe programme moe i ia bri fl Girl” of fan and melody, and with and George in the cast will doubtless prove a No. | card. The bur- lesque will be preceded by a choice selection of songs, &c. Dowertt's Exnrerrion of dogs, monkeys, &c., has | | proved sufficiently snccessty) to induce ™: to remain it longer at Chinese Hall. animals afford a vast fond of innocent amusement to the juvenile portion of the community and at very little expense. Nov, 22. — Thor. B. Coddington and other vt the Wath. | | Dorurance Oompony —Jndement affirmed i Memcl P. Towns ve the Kmpare Stone Dressing Com. | Order to be settled. Wm. Barter er Thor, Carnia, e Sheriff —Sndgment | for plairti for dulerence tm value of $1.0 and interest, | yt BOARD OF ALDERMEN. ‘The President being absent, Alderman Hx2xick moved that Alderman Briggs take the chair. Carried. EVACUATION DAY. A resolution Yeceived from the Board of Council men appropriating $21,000 for the expenses of Evacuation Day was brought up. alderman TuckER moved to strike out the sum of $1,000 —he thought it too much. Laid on the table. An invitation from Genoral Sandford to the Mayor and Common Council to witness @ military parade on the 26th inst. was accepted. THE UMION FERRY COMPANY. The order of the evening (the Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn) not being ready, some unimportant routine business was dispesed of, and the Board adjourued to the first Monday in Devember. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. This Board met last evening, Mr. Piuckney presiding. Aresolution proposing to appropriate $1,000 to cele- brate Evacuation Day, (45th November,) was adopted, by ‘& yote of 37 to 4; also, the ordinance in reference to the erection of a new reservoir. The report of Committee on Fire Department, in favor of remunerating various fire companies for the introduc- tion of gas and Croton water into their houses, passed to a third reading; also, the report of the Committee on Streets, in favor of flagging Mercer sireet, between oy and Houston strects, and that of the Committee on Department in favor of purchasing 30,000 feet of leather hose. ‘The Board then went tanto Commiitee of the Whole, And c opsidered a uum ber ot unimportant measures. Af ter rising, the Board adjourned to meet the first Monga in December. Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. At the St Nicholas Hotel Hou 8 A Douglas and lady, Illi nois; Hon J J Criteoden and lady, Kentueky; tion C Cabell, Florida; ex-President Vyler sud lady, Washington, General Shields’ Mionrsota; Hon T 8 Clingman, NU. ‘At the Smithsonian House—Hou R Jackson, Miss; Mr WM Redfield, Obio; Alex Wilson, 08 A; G M Sharp, Kentucky; James Valenune, We % G W Jouer—I5 in the steerage. F om Savannah, in the steamship Florida—Mrs Terny, A Roth. WR Boyd Mrs Smith, McLeod King, Geo M Griffen, Gen Geo Washingion Hurdeastle—Is in the siecrage. From Callao. in the «hip Osborn, at Hampton Roads—Mr Jos 8 Spinney, Mra J SSpinney, Kugene H Pullen. DEPARTURES. For Liverpool. in the steamship Baitic—Mesers Ralph Reed- er, Philips, Fuller. J Francisco Nevarro, Mr and Mra Bernaby and infant. Vesna Haywood, James H West, & Hillyer, > W Spooner, Young, D'Brubl, Ste: 5 © Hall, © Hf Clark, Mr and Mrs shtow Bokee, § Hammond, Mr and Mre NW Merril. AB Bigelow, Cyrus’ Clark, Lyman A Ji cobut, Thos T Crofton. Mr Deming. Mrs Probyn, D W daxall, 15 W Haxal), Miss Haxall, Mr and Mrs James P&alin, two chi!” dren axd servaui; Misa Doremus, Mr and Mra W Wilde, Jr. Mesara Force, Bryan, Geo Dickey, Mr Weet, Mr and Mrs J B Campan, two children and servant, Mr Hughes, Wilson, Mr avd Mra Howard and infant. Mr Montant, J C Vertu Henry Bull, Philip and Victor, France; Mr B Weyde, Di es 1, Geo MeCauley, Mr and Mrs Oantazaren, Rev M M a, Williams, Rodoiph Smith, WW Lemar, Mr Rawards, PE Ar- nold aud Jady, J W Arnold, John Close, WJ Hays, Henry Pineco, WI Miss Bow 81 Port of New York, November 22, 1866, OLEARED. Steamship Texas, Forbes, San Juan—Chas Mi: 7 organ & Sons. Augusta, Lyon, savarnah—s L Mi yy James Adger, Turner, CharlesionSSpofiord & in. Steamship Ssmestown, Parrish, Norfolk, &c—Ludiam & mi Ship Thornton, Collins, Liverpool—Williams & @uion. Bhip Echo, Loring, Gissgow—W Lancaster Ship Wm sturges. Cook, Parama—Dole & Co. ‘Ship 8t Charles, Conway, New Urieans—Sianton & Thomp- ‘sop. hip € C Dow, Houdiette,"Boston—J W Elwell & Co. Bark Penguin, Wheeler, Buenos Ayres—A A Low. Bark Avoca, Westcott, Bristol, E—-G Logan. Bark Itaska Nor:is St Thomas—Russell & Vining. Brig Leviathan, Flitner, 6 Burrows. brig Naratiske, Conkling. Oporto- G B Burrows. ibnig Lark, Penaiston, Paimouth Brig Flzira, Stevens Cardenas—Mora & Nephew. Brig Loch Lomond, French, Cumberland Har bor—R P Buck inaw. Jackson. Jacksonville—Peck Church & Co, Ravans. Steamship Steamship t Angustine—-G A Ferris. itebell, Katon, Jacksonville—Janvrin & Revans. Schr © Johnson, Robbing, Conwayboro’, 8O—J T Johnson 30 Sehr Adele, Hobart, Wilmingion—D © Murray. Rehr Bergen, Magee, aiexandria—Merrill & Abbott. Bebr Strar ger, [nbble, Klizabethport—J BF iwardas. behr J C Hosmer, diomer, St Georgea—R P Buck & Co. Farker, Bosion—W lett, Boston—S W Lewis & Co. Sehr Plymouta Rock, Lacy, Boston—Dayion & Sprague. ch, Provadence— Master. Skep ‘ Providence—L Kenny, Bloop Neowwne, RB: Norwich—J B Edwaras Steamer Westernport, Post, Portiand—H B Cromwell VED ARK! Steamship Florida, Woodhull, Sa mdae iM, Sewannah. Mhours with and passengers, toS TL Mitehill” 2h inst, 9:15 AM WO miles NE of Frying Pan Shoals, exchanged signals with sche W H Hazard. ‘S; same day, at 8:45 PM, Hatteras \ight bear. ing N by FB, exchanged signa’s with steamship Kooxville, hence for Savannah. be henee for Kavanpah:; 21 rc Chipman trom Montevideo % Ship Criterion (of Boston), Harding, Trapant. Sicily, & %, assed Gibraltar Oct 12, with salt, to F Nickerson & heston. Sid in comy ‘with ship Joba N Cushing, for Bos ton. E Pork of Barcin'a, spoke le brig a bari lew York Fva, from Patras tor NYork, Oct 14. Ist 8560, loa 8 spok bark Olari Pike, had emp ‘Wm Nelson 4 Fon. ting bark with white jp Havre Molean Havre, Oct 18, with mdse and passen gers, to Mortimer Liviu gton, denen asp tated GX Dearborn, Ant jushing, re to W F schmidt & Oo. ue Sunderland, Oct 5, cleared the Pentiond ‘thrifts Oct 8, with edal, to order: veel to master. Experienced « sucerasion of heavy westerly gales, Oct 17, lat 16.52, lon 24 02, encour tered a hufrieane from SW, which split satin, &e; the Vessel lay to for 4 hours, the sea making a con wpnal breach over ber, dainaging the sea slores. Nov 12 lat 43.9% lon &% 99, spoke bark Joxeph Curmer. 43days from Dub- bo for St.John, NB. The 1 took a pllotom the Zist inst 70 nilles BE by E of the Highlands. Ship Creole, Pierer, New Orleans, Oct 28, with mae, to Wm T Frost, Had heavy weather “hip Fenny Forester, Davis, New Orleans, 2) days, with ave. » 9 Robson & Fosdick ier Rubeke (lam), Powsen, Hamburg Oot 2, with id 345 passengers, to F Karek. Had 2 births and 4 k Delegnte, Baxter, Galveston, 26 dave, with cotton, Ao, to Nelson, Clements & Co. Experievesd heav¥ Ps jor, Wilmington, NO, 12days, with naval es, 10.) 8 Lawrence. Uirig Veloeity (Br), Mann, Black River, Ja, Oot 27, with log wood and pimento, to Leaveraft & Oo iri Bi gigs, Demarara, 2 days, with sugar and molasees, io master: Vrig Inéustry, Robinson, Picton, with coal, to MeAuliff, W celock & Almon Brig Union (Br), ——, Londonterry, with plaater, a +4) Sprague, Savannah, 10 days, with cotton jc, Pt y ile dames Wellace, Brown, Millbridge, 6 days, with tum ber 0 CS BS Peter sein, Ort 1 a ir Josephine. Smith, Rio Jane! with coffee to Johnson * Lowden. ‘Oct 10, lat 71 24 9."lon 89 45, spoke bark (unaerstood name) Red Rover, 22d, lat 3 59 © lon 4 50, we is company with ship Rater (of Balimore), tom iio Jw: ane Qchr Anne Hinks (of Provincetown), Rosa, Porto Onbello, fuatio, kxpe r 2d inet, with coffee and to Winbiurn & Weakes. rienced beavy weather, aolit pails, Ae Sehr Julia (ir), Maycot, 8 George, NB, 14 Aaya, with inm- ber, to. ry. Sebr J, Peacock, MeCrendy, Savannah, 6 days, with cotton, Ae. to J R Gilmore. ebr Jonas Smith, Spates, Savannah, 16 days, with cotton, Ac. to McCready. Mon & Co. kehr Mer he Taplons ¥ W ashi, Ne Bel re aylor, Young, ton, NO, Somer, Philadelphia. Sehr Thos Hix, Hall, Rockland. Bent Globe. Paine, tebr W Gillan. Crowell, Boson. Sehr Lady Stolk, ———, Boston. fein Fipranklin. Avery, Wareham. meemer hoe Swann. Wes, Haltmore, 70 hours. Sieamer Mars, . Seamer Westchester, Clark. Prov Fleamer Decatur, Geer, Norwich sane day, seed Pee Rin taneiee. For the inst nine days the 0 1 iad hems SW ealen ad aim jaa been 9 dave with’ Intes of Cape Henry, and 2aaye manding of and on phot. = € bing Baltle, Liverpool; Texas, San Juan, Nic: Augue a'Garanvah dau Agee, ‘Jamestown, Norioik: thip Andrew Foster, Liverpool: barks Ziton, Bermida; Oos- tack, Boston (in tow of steamtng RB Forbes). ‘Wind at sunrise, SE with fog; meridian, WNW, sunset, do, = Hall, do; Ocean Star, Symonds. NOrieans; barks Furder, Smyrna: Commodore. Williams, Malaga. Werarrenio Mention, Hatch, Liverpool; bark Washiagion Allston, Brown, Manilla via St Helana. SALEM, Nov 22—~Arr bark Wm Schroeder, Upton, Buenos Ayres Sept 90. Spoke going into Buenon Ayres, bark May NYork. Qe ip Ophelia, Parking, from Cadiz for Boston, went aahore this morping in # fog, near Seituate Light. She can be got off without ¢amage Miacelianevas ant Disasters. Fee Telegrap) ie Marine Report, above ‘The Co'lina stesmeh'p Baltic, Capt Comstock, aniled vester. | Any at noon for Livepool, with about one hnndred passengers Suit Skow Squat, Lloyd, from New York for Ban Fran signee, has vrooured ‘Will be sent to assist ber without K for onnais, Nov 20. lat 41 Shi ai 1 Rost New } Will follow fiero, put into Montevideo Sopt 4 ‘a dreams, with gue of sal, saw Cita Nesmn, foes Soe tort — oP ry » Ne by sleamer Niagara, tare Fonsadhore at overs Rane ba Swned, O76 tovs tepister, rafing ‘134, valued at Spent gon ‘and insured at the Kastw , Suir Mastivy, Johnaon, which arrived at Callao 4 ftom pan Fraacaco Aug’ On ihe ie a7 On. tae ‘was struck’ hich ont Beans cerca a ‘at Callao Sth ult, her pasenge Nerina’ bose rearaed te Crippled condition. Sr Bark Diamante, Maris‘any, 60 days from for Spotoleck morning of 10th tas. "She wes. seen in tank position at daylight by the oflieere of the US Aarvaying ohr Hancrot ‘Who Prooeeded to her immediately and_o! coreioee and the commanding oldcer of the Gancrott nb Tespel to Cherieston to give information of the aitoaioa io"her consignee. he remaining on board 10 render ‘ny assistance in his power. She lies in about 6 water at low tide: and her drangttn bot Its fet, bus i is auppoaed thould We weaiver outinue todersie, ‘Mr Avellke her cou moderate, Mr the services: Ee comers Sey enter, Baxk Texwwssee (of Brunswick, Me), went ashore wea Egg Harbor, on Thuradny morning, at’ 0'clock- Bric Brow Bra “ woken eal DRURY, op Ealites: from Liverpool, had heavy Scur Mary Euizangern (reported of New York), J during a recent gale at St K! yaaa bane 2 PBS Ses Macher, dragged ashere, Scur Sami McDor Veazie, of schr Hathorne. at pone Pole, renoets at oe < 19h, el eee eae Né py fe nobr Dowell, Bartholomew, from St John, NB, with weod, condition; took of the crew and Brought the to Holmes? ScHR ALvAnapo, at He ’ Hole, New York on the 19th lant off Block. Tatars eye oe coe amidships by an unknown echr; rait. ix ar ston { ths’ olnect veunsl nck aovertained, Toa aeiienanbes ee vet ined: he ete Saco for repairs. bn ‘The Stonington and Fall River boats dia not yesterday ‘morni ing, being detained vy ihe ne oe Lavxouxp—About 5 o'clock wath STURT Ana anak geen alereae Menez Polat a eplendid bark, oalled the Jane Dasgett ao gister. is owned’ by Messrs Dunhan & Dimon, and will Fun im their line of Glasgow packets, under the command of Pt sei , 10th inst, by Capt Wm McGilvery, a fine bark of 400 pogo te gh Bee a to be pe J bark, of 600 tons, ealled the Investivator, to be commuuded by Capt P Peutleton. Also 18th, by Mr Henry Mathews,» fine bark of 400 tons (nol yet named), to be commanded by Capt werewitx. Whalemen. Sid from New Bedford 20th inst, bark Massachusetts, Pacttic Bid from Nantucket 2th inst, brig Homer, Fisher, Atlantic ean, ‘Pansing Woods’ Fole 2ist inet, skip Richard Mitoheit, Hucks- d, of and from Kdgartown for Indian Ocean, iat Bt Helena 3d vit lingket Taber, NBs nd ebinyet of (asp) by ihe Tropie Bind of and for New Bedford, und. was yund to Tristan"Ground. Spoken, &e. Steamsbip Marion, in senrch of the missing steamship Ly- ip Jomer Cheson, Bream, fro Liverpool Sept 3 foe P James Cheston. Bryan verpo Aw. trala, Oct 4, lat 6 8, ton 38 . Bbip Geo Hallett. Merritt, from Cardiff for Jamaica, Oct 27, Jat 49 41, Jon 9 11 W. hip ®Jacubs, Henderson, from Liverpool for NOrteans, of Torkar Oct Ebi’ Pelicen Siste Morse, from Liverpool for NOrtoana, Oct 2, 26 milee NE of Turkar Ship Hellesport, Kenuard, from Havre for N¥ork, Nov 4, Mhalp Cordelia: Mishop, from Liverpool for New Ortean: jetia, Hu oy iver] for New Ss, ae ante i a “ rcp F, for St T! » New bngland, Rage, ewport, ®, for St Thomas, Oct 15, vat 85 15, lon 23. ° A ship swering W, showing DG & WB Bacon's privaie ignal, was passed Sept 18, lat 56} 3 ¢ 8, lon 65 61 W.. Peuze. Hon, Oct 2—In portsbip John Cummings, Kemp, for Liverpool, iw. Havana, Nov i¢—In port bark E A Kinsman, Penfield, for few days. Haurax, Noy 14—Arr brig Bion Bradbury, Miller, Livor- . haan cat Or iat aaciedie' Ciahdis, Lang, Boe: arr ton, and ‘AM, for Liverpool.” iverp: Porto Canzito, Nov 2—In port brigs Maria, for NYork 2 days; Ida Raynes, for do, unc. ‘aaaouta, NS, ‘Nov 1—arr brig R B Menturn, NYork. Ports. BOSTON, Nov 2l—Arr steamship N 1 Yin, AUIS 20th, 2 AM: ship Bl Rig oor Laverboat Hadley, Kert, Baluimore; Neapolitan (new). re Poy ly a3 Fapsie frie, Rogers, and Si A pes, phis score mma V, Seah. Cape Hayties: eel Ly oy baa. A cola: W H Atwood, Ballimore, WR Newcomb. Ba- er, NYors. Sid, wind W, very light, a _ calm. shiy Reporter (in ow of steamer Enoch Train. tar Niorb); berks Helon Marta, Amy: brig Chesapeake Kate Hove went down and acchored in the ; bark Golden a N W Fann, Bites, from Nock Cid 3d bark Ocilia, avery, Anna tise Com Stewart. 1) inguin. dala Bitver Cloud. Julls & Martha Mary Aon, (oa Somers, | Williamson, Vaa- 7 Jr, Mary Miller Lewis Mullod. Hawkes, Hyena Sharon, P Hetlver Obve Avery. Khen Sat PA hetts, B RUharpe, Decorah Rogie, De Ploy, Pecaeyincaia, ora . DG Pio; Sohn Wesley. 8 F Rolloay and cea Foam. nod 2let—Arr brig Iris (hr), Bogort, from St Soha. NB, for N York; schre arctic (\\r). *adman. Cumberland. NS. ‘tor de; Hiawatha Fhoppy. Machias for do_ Sid brigs Katahdin, Ride ont, Talnieh sobre Seven Sisters. T' Zervish. Arae, CP Lewis, TO Thorson One, GD fing, Sule Mees, Tona, Florence, Mary Peavy, 'liswatha Remaining ot 8 AM, w' Fannie Miiebell, Alvarado, Arctic, N PM— Arr drig Avondsie, , Cod, Nov 21, 7 AM—| Ay ie OE ey Julia Martha, and Oregon. Wind SW, moderate weather, (2 M, pacaing in, brig Mary Cobb: sehr Ann, Flower, NEW ORLRANS, Nov 15, AM-Arr steamship Louisiana, Talbot, Tndianola via Galveston: shins Riversmith, Moody; ft Patrick, Kinney, and Sea Flower, Woodbury, Liverpool; Sarah Pi 5 wi Primera de nN " » Havana, bi ships J & Persons, Pierce ee Chene, from Liv te. Mtevens, from Phiiadelpbia,; by Hoek tand Ol Bremen ship Hi: NEW BEDFORD, Now rr sechra John Randolph. Nick- erton. Albany: Laura Jane, Young, N York: Isis. (hase, Warebem for do. Sid schra Splendid. Retuhert, Coli Spring; Fipirg Yih Crossman, aed Norma Maban, do KW HAVEN, Nov ia 2l— rr brig Haro, Sheffield. Turks Telond, schre Rilen Loulan, shoupers, York; Seaport, Scull aod Amy W Leeds. Phiindelphia, Sid bark henry Trow bridge, anger, Barbados; bri Pamahs Porto Rico; sohre 4 Hi seymour, N Yor’; Daniel 4 , Sraadywine, Wom Jommen, Phi eiphin: J MW a. Atvany: oa a Pagene, Arey EBON INCETOWN, bo ladeiphia. ROCKLAND, Nov 4—Si shio Charles & Jane. Oliver, Bangor: 150s, sehrs Lucy White, Ingraham, N York, 18th, Met bourne, Heo! aad Ouativia, Jameson do RICHMOND, Nov 2—arr sohr Alabama, Olotby, Pedro eve. SAVANNAH, Nov 18—Arr steamship Alabama, Schenck, NYork: ships Rlebard Cobden, Hiack; Coloulet, : Seok land. Means; Mount Blane Oxnaue: \ ietorm. Dongity. and : barks Jane Tudor, Hahes, 1 an *ilen Maria, Lennox. Liverpoo! Conway : Perthshire (Br), Robertson Clyde: Pelegrino (Span), Gari, iC bare Indiane. Te on, Bosom: whee Inckson Wilmington; Fork: zo Davis. Philips, Boston. = pe SALEM, ‘D0—Arr sehr Charles A i Stubbe, Mh, sebr Governor, Chwe, N Ye THOMA! 180M brig: ‘& Raw Mein- tyre, faltila, River. Ga Sid mk. brig T Nolen, tts re etm . Sra Oorvo stress NYerk), Reckiond. ert! anne Aono IRPANY 8 UARBOR, Nov Sid achr Chronometer, orl Prereon, 'AUNTON Nov 18—Arr echre Whistler Presbrey, aod Samoel Hall, Padelford, N York; Salmon Washburn, Thrasher, Al i )BORO, Nov. 15—Sid ship Wm F Storer, Conery, % THE TURF. |NION COURSE, L. L—TROTTING.—ON MONDAY, Sor, 24, at half past two o'clock, « for $1190, file and repent under eaddie. I.Woodratre b. §. Pet; . Pea: ‘sb. ¢. True John. a SHAW & WHITE, Proprietors. RESTAURANTS, R SUBSCRIBER HAS JUST OPENRD A NEW 8a. oon, No. €96 Broadway. Keene's Varietics, where at may be bier fi y Hirnest K rnonne TL. ORTON. Now arr i Jobn Wells, Wade Calcutta; PORTING —THE GRRA’ { 8 to the cig fog. will _poattively ena otibe jou. w ve : 3éin"ffom the, Hotes on Honaland, and’ Wan. Whelan. pty fee or tl horaenn chase” ‘Those food of meort hod boner mt TOO CATH FOR CLARSEVICATION. | Lt ON SATU Ld the F 4 etraal (i be Lveradly rewarded,