The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1865, Page 4

a NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Saa, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Met tan Hotel. —ErmioriaN SINGING, Dancing, &c.— ‘inst Boaxp oy BRoxuns. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—sixc- ure, Daxcinc, Buaxsques, &C.—Manierra Zanrarrra on UOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooktyn.—Er ernv.sY—Baliavs, BURLESQUES AND PANroMim tas Tigut Rorx—Macic Piotr. BROADWAY ATHENAUM, Broadway.—Nicora Mx writ's GRaaw Scxxic ILLUSIONS. aN Mux- NRW YoRK a yeeros, 18 Broadway. Open from 10.4. M. till STRREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Corner of Grand and Crosby streets. COOPER INSTITU" Astor Pla sion ov anon BY Mie foun H Pr New York, Thursday, November 16, 1865, THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘fhe steamship Persia, which arrived bere yesterday, Drought two days later news from Europe. An important decree of the Queen of Spain had been published forbidding the extension of negro slavery in the Spanish colonies, and establishing a system of gradual emancipation, To effectually carry out these measures the spanish squadron in American waters would be increased. 1i is stated that Mr, Charles Francis Adame, our Minis- in London, intends to resign his position early in the ing. ‘the completion of the British ministerial arrange- ments was still deferred. Cholera had declined in Paris to an average of about * ove bundred eases a day. ‘There was a ramor that a Bremen ship, bound for New York with a large number of emigrants, had been lost in the English Channel; but the statement was not be lieved. Intetligence of the Jamaica insurrection had reached England, and the outbreak was generally attributed to the intrigues of emissaries from the negro republic of Haytt. In the London money market on the 4th inst, United Btates five-twenties were quoted ut 633¢ a 6434. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘the Sooretary of the Navy, our Washington despatohes state, intends to sond abroad a considerable number of tr surplus naval vessels, with orders to cruise between the principal commercial ports of their respective stations, Among other visitors who were yesterday received by General Grant at the Metropolitan Hotel waz a delega- tion of about fifty gentlemen from the Pacific States, Iu talking with them about the Pacific Railroad, the Gen- eral said he expected to sce it completed within five years, A mecting of prominent citizens was held last night at which arrangements were perfected for a bril- liant reception to be given to General and Mrs. Graat. it is to take place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on next Monday evening, and, though about two thousand invitations will be issued, the afair is intended to be very select. The rooms will be hand- somely decorated, and during the evening there will be masic, fireworks and refreshments, After the conclu- sioa of the presentation ceremonies there will be a sup- per. The Governor's Island Band serenaded the General al about twelve o'clock last night at the Metropolitan Hoiecl. Repeated calls were made by the crowd for a speech, but without success, The General appeared at tne window of *his room and bowed his acknowledg- meni, We, Uhauncey M. Depew, present Secretary of State of New York, has been appointed by President Jobnson Minister to Japan. Al the opening of the United States District Court in Richmond, Va., ou Monday last, the singular anomaly transpired of atvourt without a bar. It appears that no one of the Richmond lawyers save Mr. Martin F. Con- way eoald be admitted to practice by Judge Under- wood, owing tothe necessity of their previously taking the so-called “iron-clad oath.” Judge Underwood con. seated to hear argument of counsel upon the conatitu- Gonality and validity of the oath on yesterday. The un- constitutionality of the oath was to be maintained by Mr. Harmon Gilmer, State Senator elect from the Rich- district, while the validity of the test was to be mevatained by Mr. La District Attorney, and Judge Conway. Orders from the Canadian Adjutant General for the despatch of troops to the frontier bave been received at both Toronto and Hamilton, and it is understood that nine companies will be immediately sent to different poiuts, One of the Toronto papers heads ite notice of ‘ims order with the stirring appeal, “Volunteers, to Arms!’ and there appears to be quite a military fever. ‘Yhe Montreal bankers have armed their employes, and 1# whole province seems to be moving for the reception or the wsisiance of the terrible Fenians. She siege Of Matamoros, Mexico, by the repnblicant continued at the date of our latest advices, and it was beiioved that they would goon capture it. It had already heon deserted by the women and children, who had taken refuge on the American side of the Rio Grande. ‘The republicans still held the river below the town, and on the Sth inst. they captured an imperial steamer, Which they intended to transform imto a gunboat. It is «wid that an imperial vessel had fired on the American troops, becanss, as supposed, they cheered the move- menis of the republicans acroes the river. The order of General McDowell, commanding the De puriment of California, forbidding the transportation of arina across our frontier into Mexico, published in the Hrnate of the 1th inst, has cansed much dissatisfac tion among the friends of the Mexican republic in our Varific States, and las led to correspondence between the General and Mr, Godoy, President Juarez’s Consul in san Franciseo, The Cousul preys for a withdrawal of the order, maintaining that it muat work entirely in favor of the imporialists, se they hold all the Pacific seaports, and as shipments of arms by sea are not forbidden. Genoral McDowell, in hie reply, states that the ship- ments by semas well as by laud are intended by bis order to be probibited, and that instructions to this effect bi beon given by him to the tan Francisco Collector. He piso regrets that his official duties require bim to pursue ® course which is thought by the Consul to be inimical to the republican cause in Mexico, which he says has bis warmest sympathies, and he adds that it is with pain he reptics that he cannot withdraw the order alluded to. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that the steamship Montaga arrived there on the 3d of October, in twenty. sic days from this port. She sailed from New York on the éth of September for San Francisco, via Rio Janeiro ‘and Valparaiso, The Japanese steam corvette Fusivyama, | from this port, bad also arrived at Rio Janolro in twenty eight days, making two hundred and twenty-tive miles wader ail alone, All were well on board of her, and atter conling she would sail for Japan, touching a! the Capo of Good Hope and Hong Kong Up to Inet evening the body of Collector King bad not be-n recovered. There is no doubt entertained boing on the bottom of the North river, as on the morn. ing of Mr. King’s disappearance, and « short time before he waa soen to jump from the Hoboken ferryboat, a man Corresponding with his description purchased 4 twenty five pound bag of shot in a store in West street, and car fied dt away suspended to a string aronnd his neck and concealed under his coat. Dredging for the remains haa been commonced, ant it ly expected that Wey will soon be found. No appointment hax yet been made to fil the Vacancy caused by Mr. King’s death; but A@siatant Col- fector Clivch is at present performing the duties of Collector. The new system of telegr: b fire alarm went inio During the afternoon the ait of ail the stations, tran mitting tost signals and edjusting details, All worked woll, Roll calls were promptly answered. A fire alarm for Kast Broadway wax signalled and apparatne was ou | the ground in four minutes afterwards, The Soperin tendoat of Police has issued an important order to We foros regarding the new order of (hings in the Fire De paciment, ‘The steamships Persia, from Liverpool, and ov aria from Hamburg, which arrived io our harbor yesterday, wee vie dotaiaed at Quarantine, There was ao sk. H. Chandler, United States | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865. —EE ness on beard of either voasol; but, a8 many of the pas- | mado by Messrs. Goo, Batchelor, Boucher, Cantieux, sengers had passed through Paris and other infected places, it was deomed proper to have their baggage fumi- ated on arrival here, No additional cholera cases aumong, the Atalanta’s passengers are reported. A fatal aceident occurred yesterday morning to the eight A. M. express through train from this city for Washington, which, when at Newark, and while running ‘at good rate of speed, was thrown off the track, caused by a switch being out of place, One passenger, named Gordon, was killed outright, while another was so seri- ously injured that he i# not expected to recover, und severai others were wounded, one or two severely. Ma- jor General Logan, our recently appointed Minister to the republic of Mexico, was on the train, and painful rumors that he had been killed were set afloat; but hap- pily these proved incorrect, he being only very slightly injured. The fatal affair is charged to culpable negli- gence on tho part of the ewitch tender, who was appa- rently thoughtlessly sweeping up around him. A coro- ner's inquest over the body of the deceased, Mr. Gordon, was commenced yesterday afternoon, and the evidence of Mrs, Gordon and the engineer, as well as of one of the Passengers on the train, was taken. The investigation will be continued at one o'clock this afternoon. An express train on the Chicago and Rock Island Rail- Toad, containing a large number of passengers, was pre- cipitated down an embankment by a misplaced switch, on Tuesday night, two miles east of Morris, Illinois, Some of the cars were turned upside down and noarly demolished; Dnt, singularly enough, it ‘is said that ho Person was killed, though gix were seriously and others slightly injured. ‘ " The brig Nellie Barrett, Captain Somers, from this Port on the 28th ult., with government stores, for Key ‘West and the Dry Tortugas, sprang a leak on the 6th inst., and sunk on the following day. Her captain and crew were discovered and taken off just before she went down by the French bark Courrier de Mayaguez, and subsequently arrived at Fortress Monroe. Two men on a raft were recently discovered of Capo Hatteras, N.C. They said they were all that survived out of their party of fourteen who escaped from the steamship Republic, sunk on the Georgia coast on the 25th ul, their companions having either been washed off or having jumped off in the delirium produced by their sufferings, It will be ree membered that four boats and # raft put off from the Re- public. Three of the boats have been heard from, all those on board of them having finally been rescued; but 4 more terrible fate, it seems, was reserved for those on the raft, ‘The fourth boat remains unaccounted for. _ The naval supply steamer Memphis, from a cruise among the various vessels of the Atlantic and Gulf squadrons, during which she touched at difterent ports, leaving New Orleans on the lst and Key West on the Sth inst., arrived hero last evening. She brought a number of persons, officers, passengers and crews of the Ameri- can ship Caroline Nesmith, bark Waltham, schooner Hanover and British bark Queen Mab, wrecked on tho Florida coast during thé October gale. Merely on that portion of the coast lying between Carysfort Reef and Key West there were wrecked and totally lost five ships, live barks, three brigs and four schooners. Additional accounts are given of the terrible severity of the gale ou land as well as at sea at Key West and other places. The Memphis alse brought North from Key West, where he Was surrendered by the United States Marshal for delivery to the national authorities here, George Davis, formerly rebel Attorney General, The steamer Greyhound, from Boston to Charlotte- town, Prince Edward Island, struck on Bird Rock ledges on last Monday night and senk. All the persons on board were saved, At the meeting of the Board of Education last evening & communication from the Mayor nominating school inspectors to fill the vacancies that will occur on the 4th of January was received and referred. The nominations were:—For the First district, Jeremiah Fitzpatric! Second district, John H. Williams; Third district, N: thaniel Jarvis; Fifth district, Robert Cameron; Sixth district, W. C. Livingston, The parties nominated, if ‘contirmed, will hold office for three years, A remon- strance against the bylaw recently adopted by the Board relative to recording instances of the infliction of curpo- ral punishment in the schoots was received and referred to the Committee on Bylaws, ‘The Mayor's nomination of Henry Hilton as School Commissioner was confirmed. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Shipman presiding, Henry Munroe, Seth C. Haley, Wm. Clarke aud Charles Thomas, charged with passing cou terfeits of the national currency, withdrew @ previous plea of not guilty and pleaded guilly. They were re- manded for sentence. Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, yesterday issued @ mandamus to compel the corporation to issue stook amounting to seveuty-fve thousand dollars to erect a market in the Kighteeuth ward, pursuant to a law of the Legislature, The case of the contested election of wardens of the French Protestant Rpiscopal church du St. Esprit was concluded yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Smith, and reeuited in « verdict being given to the effect thai the contestants known as the Lanchantin licket were entitled to the positions in question. An action wae brought yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Peckbam, by William H. McCann against Richard France and William © France upon three promissory notes, dated in July, 1860. The de- fence set up that the notes had been given in pursuance of n lottery, and improperly obtained from one of the firm. ‘The Court held that the evidence did not show this, ond the jury returned a verdict for the full amount of the principul and interest, The Strong divorce case, which has undergone so many vicissitudes, and so many phases, civil and criminal, was to have come on for trial yesterday in the Superior Court, before Judge Garvin. The counsel were all ready, and numbers of witnessess were in attendance, expecting to be calied on to testify. But owing to the non-concln- sion of the Napoleon oil case, which it was hoped would have been Gnished before one o'clock, the matter did not commence. After waiting for dome time in vain, the parties interested in the suit left the court, with ¢ m derstanding that the case would positively be opened to. day, or at furthest to-morrow. In the Court of Common Pleas a verdict of Gfty dollars was yesterday giveu by the jury in the case of Arnold verwis Van Reneeelaer, in which the plainti sued for one thousand dollars, a® alleged damage to premises rented by him to the defendant, through the carelessness of the latter. In the Gourt of Goners! Sessions yesterday William Buckley, who was charged with stealing Ubirty-two dol- lars from Win. A. Allen, pleaded gailty to larceny from the person. John Williams, charged with stealing o firkin of butter from Daniel Quinlan, pleaded guilty. Ferdinand Boehm pleaded guilty to an assault witha dangeroas weapon upon Ernest Peterson, on the 16th of August. These prisoners were remanded for sentence, Francis Lawrence wae tried on a charge of stealing piece of cloth worth thirty-(vur dollars from Henriette Abrab..'# store, in Hudson street, on the 18th of October. The accused proved by two witnesses that he was at another place when the larceny was committed, and the jury acquitted him. James Hughes, indicted for com- mifting @ Celenious asvau!t upon Augustine Sampson, of Catharine street, om the 19th of October, was also ac- quitted, the testimony being very conflicting. Catharine Ragan, » domestic in the employ of Stephen J. White, who was charged with stealing two hundred dollars’ worth of clothing, was also acquitted, the evidence for the prosecution only amounting to suspicion. In the case of Morris Lersner, the defendant having been brought up on « charge of forgery, City Judge Rus- wel yesterday directed am order of dismissal to be en- tered At «convention of the McKeom democracy, held last night at the Sinclair House, Mayor Godfrey C. Gunther was nominated for re-election and Richard O'Gorman as candidate for Corporation Counsel. A meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration was held yoaterday. The regular report, which was read, announces that one hundred and sixty-eight thourand three hundred and thirty-six emigrants have arrived at this port since the Ist of January last, being nearly three thousand less than up to the «ame time last year, The proceedings attendant on the commencement of the second session of the School of Mining attached to Columbia College took place in the lecture room of the institution yesterday. There was x good attendance of students and visitors, and addresses on the advantages, history and needs of the school and the mineral wealth of this continent were delivered by Dr. Barnard, Profee- sor Rgleston and Mr. Samuel B. Ruegies The school hae «0 far been very successful, avd is well supplied with the materials and apparatus necessary for the pro. seoution of the partioning studies to whieh itis devoted; but « fund af five thonsand dollars i much needed to | inake some desirable additions, A largely attended ineeting of Franco Canadians was held last evening at the St. Charles Hotel, im this city, | Albany, Troy, Bimira, Oswego nnd New Jersey being rouresouted Wy deleeates. Biowuont address wore Le Boouf aud others, and the assemblage did mot disperse until a late hour of the night, é ‘The Carpenters’ Union No. 4 held a large and stirring meeting last evening in the hall corner of Eighth avenue and Kightecnth street, to rally for action inthe eight hour movement, Addresses were made, songs sung, mow members received, aud much enthusiasm mani- fosted. George Stardt, a German, and Francis Marmon, an Italian, wore yesterday committed to the Tombs on charge of having been for some time engaged in obtaining from different express offices in the city trunks and various kinds of property belonging to other persons, which disappeared very mysteriously, and for which the express companies wore subsequently held responsible by the real owners. After thoir arrest it is said the prisoners made a full con- fession and disclosed their plan of operations, one of their modes of procuring the articles in question being the forging of orders. It is aupposed that they have thus secured several thousand dollars’ worth of other people’s property, considerable of which has been recovered since their arreat. During s quarrel early yesterday morning in a drinking Place on the corner of Oliver and Water streets, between Patrick Conway and James Penny, the former, as alleged, shot the latter in the left thigh with a pistol, inflicting a severe wound. Conway was arrested and locked up. The pickpockets find the platforms of the street cars ‘@ favorable field for the pursuit of their profession, and cases of their operations thereon are of daily occurrence. Two ‘additional. commitments om this complaint were made yesterday, James Riley and Jolin Watker were locked wp on charge of picking watches from. the pockets of passengers on the Fourth and Seventh ave- Bue Cars respectively. Duff Green, whose name was formerly so familiar to the American public as an editor, died in Mobile, Ala., on Saturday last, Hon. Cassius M. Clay, our Minister in St, Petersburg, has gont to tho State Department in Washington a com- munication giving many facts in reference to the cattle plague now prevailing in Europe, and giving warning to the people of this country regarding the importation of cattle, =~ ‘The stock market was steady yesterday morning and strong at the close. Government securities were without material improvement. Gold was firm, and closed at 14734. ‘The commercial situation was about the same yester- day as on the day before. Foreign goods were quiet but firm, while domestic produce was irregular, Cotton was ateady. Groceries were dull. Petroleam was active and firm. On 'Change flour was steady. Wheat was firm. Corn was a shade higher. Pork was irregular and lower. Beof was steady. Lard was weaker. Whiskey was un- settled and entirely nominal. President Johnson and the New Con- gress—Signs of an “Irreprossible Con- flict.” The elections being over, the politicians on all sides are beginning to show their hands. For example, we have in their issues of yester- day some very broad hints from both the Tri- bune and the Times of this city touching the insuperable difficulties in the way of the recog- nition by Congress of Southern reconstruction under President Johnson’s programme. One of these journals represents the radicals and the other the so-called conservative wing of the republican party; but in this case, although they start out upon different roads, they are evidently aiming at the same object and to arrive at the same destination. The organ of the radicals, indignant and disgusted, takes a very spiteful view of the results of President Johnson’s Southern resto- ratives. They are all quack medicines, accord- ing to Professor Greeley’s analysis. President Jobnson has been too liberal with his sugar plums. He is pardoning rebels by regiments, but he has punished no one for treason. In his kindneas “to gratify the South he has been willing to postpone justice to the negro;” and what has he gained? In Louisiann “we find the negro downtrodden; men are imprisoned for speaking their opinions about negro suf- frage; the worst features of the slave laws are revived,” and “ military popinjays like Fuller- ton are rapidly rushing their State back to the terror and gloom of the ante-rebellion period.” In Mississippi “we find not only a refagal to allow negroes the rights of jurors, but even the tights of witnesses.” In South Carolina “the rebels almost put Wade Hampton into the gu- bernatorial chair,” and only “adopted the con- atitntional amendment by compulsion.” in North Carolina Worth is elected Governor “ be- cause Holden wae the choice of the Presi- dent’’ “What one State,” asks the Tribune, after this summing up, “what Southern State las accepted all the President’s propositions? Not one; and for this reason only, that the rebels will not concede one jot or tittle towards reconstructing a Union that does not eternize slavery and strengthen the power of the slavebolders.” The conclusions are reached at length that “the first fruits of reconstruction promise a most deplorable har- vest, and the sooner we gather the tares, plow the ground again and sow new seed the better.” Now, if we may accept this as an authorized foreshadowing of the radical programme, it menna that it is their purpose to reject all the work in the way of Southern reconstruction accomplished under President Johnson’s in- struction», and to begin with a new schedule in some general law of Congress. Of course this programme involves the rejection of all the members elect from the late insurgent States, although they may have fulfilled all the President’s conditions of restoration. In » word, Greeley is out for “an irrepressible con- flict” between Congress and the President. Let ua now turn to the Times, the anointed organ of the Seward-Weed ,wing of the New York republican church. In a leading article ou the qualifications of “Southern readmission into Congress,” the slippery Raymond, as usual, rides both horses, He holds not only that the late rebellious States must depend for their restoration upon Congress, but thet all they may have done in the way of reconstruction will amount to nothing until they shall have been readmitted into Congress ; that Congress is under no obligation to ratify what the Presi- dent has done in the way of reconstruction. But instead of a conflict between the executive and legislative departments, Master Raymond says we shall: bave a compromise—thal “Con- gress will defer greatly to the superior informa- tion of the President respecting the actual con- dition and disposition of the South,” while “the President will defer greatly to Congress an the exponent of the sentiments of the great loyal Nortb, through which alone the country hes been saved.” But, at all events, the Sonthern States concerned must firet dis- charge al) their duties of reorganization be- j fore they can expect from Congress the restoration of their State rights ns loyal members of the Union; so that Raymond, though in » roundabout way, after the fashion point with Greeley, Greeley means “ justice to the negro,” “nran- hood suffrage ” and all that, and flatly says so. | Raymond says that “the South cannot too dis- inctly understand that it cannot gain the full | fenits of peace antil it has legally accepted alt the lewitimaie resulis of the war, and atiested of Mr. Seward, comes in, after all. at the same | it by appropriate legislative action;” which, we guess, covers the Greoley plat , although Raymond leaves a loophole of escape. He does not yet see how the fight will go, and 0, for the present, while expounding the rights and powers of Congress, he believes in the discretion of President Johnson. The signs of the times indicate a collision between the Executive and Congres. on this issue of negro suffrage in the South as a pre- paratory step to reconstruction, Tho issue was evaded in most of the late elections, but we predict that ig will be raised in the coming Congress. If so raised it will not be settled during this approaching session, but it will pass into the State tions of next fall for the next Congress. us brought fairly and dis- tinctly before the people we shall have next fall the developments of the victorious party for the next Presidency under the wing of the administration. ° Important Diplomatic Movement—The Republic of Mexice Endorsed by the United States, The appointment ot General Jobn A. Logan, of Illinois, .as United States Minister to the re- public of Moxico:is one :of the most important diplomatic movements that.we have ever. been called upon to chroniole. . Although this. gov- erment has not yet interfered in the Mexican imbroglio, and has not yet given any material aid to the Mexican republicans, who are so gallantly struggling against foreign invaders, still the most explicit declarations of the unan- imous sentiment of our people upon the sub- ject have been placed upon record from time to time. Add to the openly expressed opinions of our great generals and our best statesmen, and to the reiterated warnings of the independ- ent press, the resolution of Congress against the recognition of any other than a republican form of government in Mexico, and the em- phatic assertion of President Johnson that he knew of no suzh person as the Mexican Em- peror, and we have a perfect chain of evidence in regard to the views held by the United States concerning Mexican affairs. Neither Napoleon nor Maximilian can possibly mis- take the meaning of these repeated popular and official manifestations, and the appoint- ment of General Logan as our Minister to Mexico is still more unequivocal. There are several circumstances which make the selection of General Logan peculiarly ap- propriate and peculiarly ominous. In the first place he is one of our bravest generals, and all our generals are known to be in favor of assisting Juarez, by force if necessary, in re- suming the authority which has been usurped by Maximilian. In the second place General Logan is a personal friend of President John- son, and as such is ‘presumed to fully under- stand and represent his views. In the next place General Logan’s own opinions about Maximilian have already been very plainly announced in his public speeches, and especially in that Cooper {nstitwe speech which attracted such marked attention through- out the country; and therefore his uppointment is in some sort an endorsement of all that he has said. Besides all this, General Logan, being a soldier, is admirably adapted to share the warlike fortunes of the Mexican Président, and it is probably the intention of the govern- ment that he shall proceed at once to the head- quarters of Juarez, wherever they may be, and remain with them, wherever they may be sub- sequently located, until the war in Mexico is ended by the re-establishment of the republic. The very fact that» man of General Logan’s temper, training, sentiments and experience bas been chosen as our Minister proves that he is not expected to sit down quietly in the glare and glitter of Maximilian’s capital, sharing the luxuries of those whose usurped authority he cannot recognize, and that he is to be called upon to take part in the rougher but more honest fare of the Mexican President, who is compelled to change his capital as the necessi- ties of the war dictate, but who has never for a moment relinquished the legitimate authority vested in him by the Mexican people. We do not suppose that the appoiniment of General Logan will be followed by any overt demonstration against the empire that France has set up upon thie continent. Our govern- ment does not recognize Maximilian in thig matter, but deals directly with Napoleon; and there is no other Power upon the face of the earth with which the United States would be leas willing to engage in war than with France. ‘The two countries are bound to each other by the w inost cordial ties. We vanuot forget, and have no desire to forget, the assistance rendered us by the French in our struggle for independ- ence, and our gratitude for that assistance has since been strengthened by many years of amicable interconrse and by a thousand acts of mutus! friendship. For the Em- peror Napoleon personally the American people have the highest respect and esteem. His talents, bis enlightened policy, his excellent reforms, his remarkable system of internal improvements, and his diplomatic victories over those Powers of Europe which were once his bitter enemies and are now his faithful allies, have been regarded here with an admiration equally unbounded and undis- guised. But in the Mexican imbroglio we be- lieve that he has made ® mistake, and we are giving bim time and opportunity to extricate himself from thie difficulty. Being right can afford to be patient; and upon no occasion have we exhibited the least inimical feeling to- wards France. We hold, however, that the es- tablishment of @ foreign empire upon this continent, no matter with what intentions, was not a friendly act towards this government, end was beyond the legitimate province of Na- poleon’s policy. For this reason we array ourselves againat it; and since France, Bng- land, Austria and other European Powers have recognized Maximilian and his empire, we seize upon this occasion to emphatically renew our recognition of Juarez and the Mexican re- public. What is to come next the future must determine; but we hope that Napoleon will boldly and frankly solve the whole question by abandoning his Mexican project and making his interests identical! with those of this coun- try for the next generation. Resumprion Witnovr Revorston.—The wise | financiers of one of our contemporaries come | ont violently in favor of the immediate re- | sumption of specie payments. We hope they will carry the matter through now that they have taken hold of it, They ought to fix next Monday as the day tor resumption. They pro- | pose to secure resumption by fanding two hun- | dred millions of greenbacks—a very small pro- portion of the whole amonnt to secure such @ | gplendid result, This is like abolishing slavory by the resolution of a convention in Boston, The resolution did not abolisb'it, nor would all the resolutions of all the conventions that Boston ever got together have abolished tt. But it has been abolished, not by resolution, but by four years of terrible war and the sacrifice of the lives of a million white men and half a million of negroes. We must wait for the operation of the laws of trade to restore specie payments, just as we waited for the laws of national life to abolish slavery; and ways to secure resumption, in defiance or inde- pendence of those laws, are only ways to seoure revulsion. The expansion caused by great wars cannot be redueed by financial tinker- ing. It is not different in our case from what it has been in others, In England, after the great wars against the French repub- lic and empire, the financiers proposed to cause resumption within a year; but it took them fifteen years, and was then only secured after great revulsions. The proposal of our contemporary is laughable for the ignorance of the subject it indicates; but the’ measure sug- gested involves consequences that would: be far from Isughable. The propesed:resamption would inevitably cause great: financial revnl- ston and ruin. And who would auffér most by thet ruin? The government. ‘The revenue would be destroyed entirely, taxes would re- main unpaid everywhere, and the consequences of this would be such as to fead to repudiation and the extremity of financial disaster. Repu- diation and kindred evils would be the conse- quence of what our contemporary advises. [n a great, rich and growing country like this we may safely leave the matter of specie payment alone. Business will grow up to the currency, and so restore specie payment sooner than the financial tinkers can restore it by any attempt to out the currency down to the present dimen- sions of business. Financial tinkering always blunders and is always dangerous; but the laws of trade and finance are silent, certain and always safe. If we depart from what they teach us—if we interfere with their operation— we accomplish wilfully our own ruin. Orenatic Cenrres.—London, Paris, St. Pe- tersburg and Chicago are now the great operatic centres of the world. It is a matter of regret to all who take « pride in New York city that Chicago, a city of yesterday, should surpass us in opera, and that we should be compelled to take the sweepings of third rate companies from Europe. City Intelligence. Commssionens ov EMiGRation.—This body held a meet- ing yesterday afternoon, President Verplanck in the chair. Mr. Casserly, General Agent, stated that the emigrant Coughlin, who was drowned in the Harlem river, had been brought to the landing by his friends, It was too late that day to send him to Ward's Island by the regu- lar route; 80 that the Commissioners were not responsible for the accident. A steamboat is daily provided to trans port the gick and indigent to the island, The regular re- port was then read, as follows:— Number of emigrants arrived to Nov, 8, 1865 Number of emigrants arrived since to Nov. 1 No, of inmates in institu: tion, Ward's Irland, ... Balance in bank, January 1. 1866. 1862. oa ry 19 recoipts to Nov, 8.. $457,957 Received since to Nov. 18, for commu- tation of passengers, KE... cece. BIR 472,278 Polat... ee eee $519,829 Disbursements as par previous accouni to Nov. 8, 450,302 Balance in bank. ........... - $00,437 ‘Tre Lark Cessuex or cae Exar ation Commmmorens ay a Coroyer’s Juny,—The Eimigration Commissioners held « meeting yesterday m reference to the ceusure pasred on them py the Coroner'x jory in the jate ac- cident which occurred on of the city railroad cars. ‘The clerk who ixsugd the Lickel found on the emigrant who was killed, read a statement setting forth that he gave it toa man who called and intormed him the de ceased was {il of typhus fever at his house, and that if he could get a ticket to admit him to Ward's Island be would send him there in a carriage. Thewe, he stated, were the circumstances, The Commissioners send ali sick emigrants to Ward's Istana on board steamboats, Tur Desceverion or St. Groncn's at is etated that plans are already on foot f Araction of St, George's chureb, destroyed hy ire on Tuesday afternoon. ‘The utmost aympathy ix entertained for Dr. Tyny and his congregation in the loss of their beautiful church edifice, Ata meeting of the members of the Tabernacle Baptist chureh. held in Second ave- ©, betwoen Touth and Eleventh streets, on Tuesday vening, a resolution, offered by John M. Bruce, dr., tondering the nse of their church to Or, Tyng’s congre: gation for afternoon or evening service, wae unin) monsly concurred in, ‘The vestry eld’ an infortual meeting vestorday und will convene again to-night to consider what ix best to be done onder the eirenm- stances, Irving Hall ond the Broadway Atheneum have both been mentioned ws the probable Larue location of the congregation antil pernenent quariers can be se ge The chow of St. George's chutch will meet on Tiflay in the Chifel on Sixteouth sirest, Herre ror rae Revroreo asp Crrreney Poor ov tHe CHy.—A semi-annnal meeting of the Now York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled was peld « the 14th inst, at the rooms 4% Bible Hoase, when 9 re. port was read by Dr. Knight, resident surgeon, in which tated that seven hundred and ninety-nine pa wi reoeived treatment, and most of them axpen- sive surgical bandages, daring Uhe past ax months — Deing an increase of lifty-seven por cent over the pre- vions six ths, and nineiy-four per cent pro ratte over that of the first year. The institution has been in ope- ration two years sad tix months. The witole number of he prevent time is two thousand five two; thuse ander tweuly one years 1; Isboring under wk,’ paralysis of the legs and various other de- formities. Thore over iwenty-one were mostly suffering from rupture, enlarged veins, ulcerated legs, rheumatic comiractions aud casualties of the war Dumber treated (wo Lhoasand one hundred apd ninety seven have been relieved, sad many of them enabled to resume labor. The location of the general iostitution is at 97 Second avenue; branch office, 168 West Thirty eighth street, Officers—President. John (, Green; Vice Presidents, James Lenox, ®. B. Minturn, John David Wolfe, Stuart Brown and A. R. Wetmore; Treasurer, Jonathan Siurges, Corresponding Sec RM. Hart ley, Recording Secretary, Joseph lower timber, Whe Kight Hour M MBRTING OF THE CARPENTERS’ UNION ov THE POLICY. A public meating was held last evening at Wor! fon's Hall, corner of Kighteenth street and Righth nae, under the auspices of the Carpenters’ Union No. 4, for the purpore of opening their doors to the other work ingmen who are interested in the objects simed at—the abridgment of the hours of daily labor to @ight hours. ‘Of there “unious’’ there sre four im the city and & large wamber in the “tate, all working ander @ general State ization. The local upionr im this city hold business meetings very weok. Ax the time is approach ing, however, when eight. hour doctrines are to be prac ticalized by # general movement in the premi: public meetings are being held to the end that the full strength of the boyy | ‘classer may be concentrated in their ranks. No. 4 Union vontains some seven hundred mem bers, The meeting last evening was well attended. Mr. Exuorr, the President, opened the meeting by stating euceinctly the objects of the move: and of this apecial gathering, tranting that those present would at tend to and act 1 the appeais to be nade by the effec: tive speakers on Mr. Mrrowen, of the sbipjoiners’ organization, noxt ad dressed the meeting. He said that, as men, they should rise up and claim the God-given rights of men. Would they continue to dradge on from dawn to dark and never havea moment to spend in the bosom of their families— not one moment to take nutriment for the mind or soul? There were two methods suggested by which the object might be gained—Iegisiative action and that of moral wuaaion towards combination and promptaction oo their own part. The former was not to be thought of. Tt was bard (oget men tothe Legistature upon whom they could depend. Again, if the Logislatnre could abridge, they might extend the hours, and this could not be vested in them, tacitly or otherwise. Mr. Bateman said they should not fear that labor wae too plen' Their employers would tell ther there was rplus and thus terrify them into snbmission. But should not be frowned down thus, Labor was bound to be iu demand. The Sonthern States were now erying loudly for aid in that respect. Let them not pend too mach upon legislative statutes, Written Was precarious as an instrument of relief, They should manufacture « common law in public opinion, and, organ- izing at once, act upon ft Spirited addreases ware also made by Mosere Buzbee, Reid, the most determined spirit and enthusiagm was manifest ed throughout, ‘The books were opened and dozens re corded their adherence to the movement, The proceed: joge continved (it abode ctoveu @'etook, ment. DISUUSBLON | OF the whole | The Purchase of a Twenty-tve Poand Bag of Shot. It is’ Fastened to His Neck Previous to Jumping Into the Water. The Remains of Mr. King Not Yet Recovered. &. ke. bo. No tidings of the tate Vollector have reached his friends, who have gathered daily at the Astor Houss im the earnest hope of receiving some intelligence as to bia safety. Unfortunately, the incidents which havo bees gleaned this day place the fact of Mr. King’s death be- yond the possibility of doubt. At an early hour yesterday morning Mr. Moreau, of the firm of Moreau & Varker, grocers and commission merchants, doing businers at No. 160 West atreet, having Pperuged.the account of the circumstances attendant on : Me. ‘King’s death published in the Henanp, cailed apo | Secrotary Terwilliger and Nava! Officer Odell, at the Cus- water, Hardee and others, Songs wore sung, and | prices range | j in tom House, and made the following statement :— Shortly before mine o'clock: on Monday morning an elderly gentleman, whose personal description was pre- cisely similar to that of Mr, King, stopped in front of the store, which is located a few doors above Barclay street. Mr. Moreau passed beside him and retired to the office in the rear. Im the frout part of the store were his partner, Mr. Parker, Mr. Gemmell and a por- ter attached to the establishment. After a few minutes” hesitation the stranger entered the place, and inquired of Me, Parker whether he bad any lead forsale, The answer was in the negative; but Mr. Parker remarked that they had drop-shot, and pointed to a pile of bags which were placed on the floor near the entrance ready for delivery. ‘The atranger picked up one of the twenty- five pound bags dnd inquired its price. Mr. Parker said that the lot to which he alluded bad already been dis- posed of, but motioned the man to the rear of the store, where ho exhibited {several bags containing shot of different calibre. As the stranger appeared to be indifferent as to the size, be was given » by the contents of which were drop-shot No. b, weighmg twenty-five pounds. Having pard for tis purchase, the nan threw open his overcoat and attompted to place the sack in his right inner breast pock Mr. Gemmell assisted him, and finally the bag was concealed withth the coat and the garment closely buitoned. ‘The stranger then teft the store, and proceeded down West atrect, remaining absent about ten minutes, He thom returned, entered the place once more, threw open his ‘overcoat and produced the bag of shot. He remarked that the weight was too great for him to carry in such @ manner, He accordingly requested the porter to hand him a string and assist him in suspeuding the bag of shot about his neck. This was done, with the aid of the porter, and the sack, about twelve inches in length by six in width, was made secure at either extremity and bung about the stranger's neck in such « manner that it lay horizontally on his bosom. ‘The visitor thon handed the porter a fifty cent note in payment for the trou- bie he had taken, the porter, however, declining to accopt the money. The unknown then again buttoned his ovor- coat over his breast in such a manner that the bag was fully concealed and quitted the store. A few minutes later Le doubtless took the car and alighted at the Chris- topher street ferry in time to board the nine o'clock boat. ‘The events which transpired subsequent to his departure from this city are but too well known; and Mr, Gem- mell’s remark, uttered a few seconds after the stranger had left the premises for the second, time, to the, effect that ‘the man bad all the facilities for, committing sui- cide if he desired to go 80,” was to be Justiied by the melancholy occurrence which closed tho str augers carger. ‘There can be but little donbt as to the Kdentity of the man who called on Mesars. Moreau & Parker, The calm- ‘now and reticeuce of the stranger, however, would appa- renidy indicate that he was not laboring under a severe attack of mental aberration; but all experience shows such to be the manner of insane people bent on a deter- mined purpose. The body of the deceased will apeedtty be recovered by the parties who, in connection with the Harbor Police, are dredging the river, as the corpse must have sunken to the bottom and there been anchored, ar it were, by the weight of the shot. Assistant Collector Clinch is at present performing the duties but lately discharged by the lamented Collector. ‘The room formerly occupied by Mr. King is at present: closed, and those who were brought in daily contact with the man who has thus suddenly departed this life are sad when they remember the cheerful kindness of their late associate. The telegram from Washington direoting the Assistant Collector to take charge of Custom House matters for the present render it possible that the Collec. torship will not be filed for some weeks to come. Mx. ¢. P. CLINCH 10 ACT AS COLLKCTOR OF THE vort. Wasutneron, Nov. 15, 186% Already numerons persons have been suggested for the New York Collectorship, but the President will not immediately make an appointment for that office. In the meantime Mr, ©. P. Clinch, Assistant Collector and Special Depaty, under the law of 1799, will act as Col- Joctor of the port of New You Me. &. L. Davenpowr’s Brsxer.—We perceive thee Mr. & [. Davenport announces bis benefit for Saturday at Wallack’s theatre. We cannot lot the occasion pees without saying a few words in refer- eves (o thie gentleman. Although Mr. Davenport's ou- Kugements as actor and wanager bave prevented him appearing a often as we could wish in the metropolis, he is not the less appreciated by our public, They recog- nive (o bim an artist of the best school, who possesses at once refinement of taste and extraordinary versatility. ‘There fe no actor at present on the stage whose Hamlet ore in keeping with the creation of the immortal dramatist; nor is there one whore Sir Giles Overreach or Matthew Eilwore can be pronounced superior to his. elodrama Mr. Davenport is equally excellent, a doven characters that we coald name in that line being identified with bis reputation, We trust that his benefit on Saturday will be seized upon to prove to him not only the high estimation in which he is held as an artist, but the general sense of satisfaction which prevails at ‘he announcement that he is about to take up bis perma- nent residence among usas the manager of the new | Pourteenth street theatre, We believe that the advent of a man of his sterling common sense and hatred of humbug will have a most beneficial influence on theatri- cal interests in the metropolis. His establishment wilt form « point duppui for the profession, which ie now be- ing reduced to a condition of degrading serfdom by the Managers’ Association. ‘Tra New Nartovan Crocs Company. —A splendid oques- trian combination ander the above title opens on Monday next at the Varieties theatre, in the Bowery, lately ocen- pied by the Montpellier opera troupe. Some of the best ciders in the profession, male and female, have bebn en- gaged, and every effort will be tred to make the estab- Nahment a first claga one. Personal Intelligence. Atuong the passengors for Europe by the Java yester- day were Major General John M. Schofield, Brigadier General @. W. Schoteld and Rrigadior General W. M. Wherry, on n year's leave, of Cotton Ch ‘Curcinnai, Nov. 15, 1866. A despatch to the Cincinnatt Gasetle, dated Springfield, IL, yesterday, says that Judges Davis and Treet have filed a decision in the case of The United States versue One Thonsand Bales of Cotton, claiined by parties in New Orleans, Cincinnati and Havre, dismissing all the claima on the ground of the incapacity of the claimants to make purchases in maurtectionary districts, News from Tennessee, Nasnvinie, Nov. 15, 1866. The Legislature to-day passed a bill authorizing the Governor to issue new bonds for the railroads of the @tate to the extent of the State endorsement ; also for the finding of the State debt as it maturen, together with tho Interest in part due oF to become dno on the Lat of January, 1866, by the issue of new bonds. Cotton—Salew light to-day; a fow baler bronght 400. ; from a8¢. to 400, Receipts, 661 bales; shup+ monts, 276 bales ‘Tho river ia about thirty (hres juches doop, anda @ ata