The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1866, Page 6

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For a long timo past the circulation of @he Axaatp in the metropolis and the surrounding cities Phas oxceeded that of all the other papers put together. "Boing the vehicle of communication with the public upon ail subjects relating to their social, political and com- ‘Morcial interests, no one can wel! go to business in the @orning without roading the Henaun, from which ho Can ascertain the state of the markets, what is to be sold. ‘and where he can buy what he requires, &c. Our @dveriisora, therefore, will see the advantage to us and fo themselves of sending in thoir advertisements at an @arly hour, so that we can insert them in such place and {in such regular form as will rendor them most blo for the public benefit and secure the greatest good for the wivertisers. EUROPE. fry the Atiantic cable we have a report of the London jand Liverpool! markets dated yesterday evening, Ucto- Dor 17. The London money market was quist. Consols for Money were at 89%. United States five-twenties were Oi The Liverpool cotton market waa firm, with middling u; 4a Panda IMA core CITY. There were no cases or deaths from cholera in this city fvported yesterday, and but one at quarantino. Aapecial meoting of the Board of Supervisors took ‘place yesterday, at which several bills wore ordered to oe paid, among them one of $15,900 41 for iron used in ‘the construction of the new court huuse, In the Board of Education last evening the Finance Committee presented their estimate of the expenses of Bho school system for 1867, which is 2,522,000. The ‘@xponse of the school system for the current year will mount, aa estimated, to $2,454,327 54 The report was @tomed ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday. Five hundred dollars was given asa donation to the Sisters of Charity for services rendered to the cholera patients. he number of emigrants landed at the port last week (ras 5,901, making 194,992 from the Ist of January last ip to the present time, against 149,257 arrived im the Wortesponding period of last year, The commutation Malance now is $33,913. A large republican ratification mass meeting was held Bast evoning at the Brooklyn Acadomy of Music, Tt was ded over by Joshua M. Vancott. Addresses were Wolivered by General J. D. Cox, Governor of Ohio; Mr. B. Chittenden and Gonorai J. M. Ashley, a member Congress from Ohio, vigorously assailing the public end private character of President Jobuson, and earnest- Wy urging on the people the importance of the adoption yor the constitutional amendmont as a eocurity for the A series of resolutions expressive of those prin- wipes and ratifying the republican nomineos of this [Btate was unanimously adopted. * Me S& Cox, of Ohio, addressed a targe mooting tast atthe National Union Wigwam, in Brooklyn, toviewed the position of Henry Ward Beecher in to his recent letters and speeches. ‘The total umber of voters registered in the city 0 74.694. NEW YOKK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 16, 1666.—TRIPLE SHEET. _The fanoral of the late John Van Buren will take place Grace Church at ten o’ctook this morning. - At @ meeting of the Board of Fire Commiss‘oners held yesterday, awards of contracts for coal were made, and the annual parade of the departmont fixed to take place November 21, The loss by the fires in Washington and West strects on Tuesday night amounts to $272,000, Cornelius Vanderbilt has bought St. John’s park for the Hudson River Railroad Company for $1,000,000 cash, A freight depot is to be erected on the site, Judge Daniels has dolivered an elaborate opinion in the case of the European Petroleum Company. The case isan important one, as it involves questions of the indi vidual liabilily of stockholders for debts contracted by a. corporation, Michael Brophy was required to give bail in $300, to answer a charge of larcopy im stealing a lot of clothing from William D, Ingersoll, Tho examination of the ten Broadway gamblers, charged by George E. Stephenson with robbing him, has been postponed until next Wednesday. Ferdinand Heinze, a lad, was yesterday detected in opening the letters of his employer, and was committed for trial. Manuel Cortez was committed to the Tombs yester- “day under a charge of having obtained a lot of goods from Max Cohen under false pretences. George W. Reid was committed to prison yesterday charged with stealing a gold chain. Patrick Kelloy and George Gray were held for exami- | mation charged with stealing a dozen brooms and a coat, James Burns and John Collins pleaded guilty yesterday to having stolen a hawser from the steamer Mary J. ‘Vaughan. They sold it to James Ryan, a juukman, who was held to answer the charge of receiving stolen goods. John Brady was accidentally shot and killed by Alexander Cassidy, near Coney Island, yesterday. The stock market was strong yesterday morning but afterwards unsettled. Gold closed at 148. Business was fair yesterday in most commodities, and with the price of gold more settled a better feeling gen- erally prevailed. Cotton was dull and lower. Coffee was steady. On ’Change flour was more active, and 5c. a 100, higher. Wheat advanced 1c. a 2c., while corn was 2c, a 8c, higher, and active, Oats were fully lc. higher. Pork was firmer, while beef was steady. Lard was dull and heavy. Freights were quiet and nominal. Whiskey was ateady. MISCELLANEOUS. The Colored Convention at Albany yesterday adopted esolutions claiming thatthe elective franchise should be restored to, not bestowed, on thom, aud denouncing the $250 clause as unjust. The resolutions also look for- ward to the consolidation of the colored citizens of the State as a distinct party or branch of the republican or- ganization, A bolier ina turning shop in St. Louis, exploded yes- terday, destroying the shop and two other buildings, and burying a large number of persons in the ruins, Four- teon dead bodies have been taken from the ruins, Twelve wounded were also taken out, and more are sup- posed to be still buried under the débris. The wounded and dead were badly burned, The second engineer of the ill-fated Evening Star, who arrived in this city by the steamship Quaker City, from Charleston, is crippled by the privation he underwent, The two women who escaped with him romain in Charleston in a deplorable condition. They were five days in an open boat without food or water, and without ashred of clothing to protect them from the storm. It is now said to bea fact that the Evening Star was in an unscaworthy condition when she lett this port. Several more bodies have been taken frcm the ruins of the burned buildings in Quebec. Others are missing and it is feared are killed. The rumored resignation of Secretary Stanton is a canard. ‘The receipts from internal revenue sources since July 1 have been largely in excess of the estimates for this and the receipts of last year. From five to cight persons are dying per day in New Orleans from yellow fever, which ts on the increase. The claim of tho United States against the bark Sally Magee, condemned as a prize, has been denied by Judge Betts, ‘The bark Priacella, of Yarmouth, Maine, was picked up at sea, on the 11th instant, disabled. An express train on the Erie railroad was yesterday precipitated down an embankment of forty feet near Union, Pa., and ten of the passengers and othera seriously injured. Isaac Horne was killed and Andrew Blodgett fatally injured py an accident to a train on the Boston and Portiand railroad, at Haverhill, Mass. Alheavy run was made on the Commercial Bank of Toronto on the 16th, but all demands were satisfied. The names of D. Pretto and wife, of New Orleans, were omitted from yesterday's list of cabin passengers loet on the steamer Evening Star, The testimony in the Dudiey will case lately in pro- gress at Albany developes some interesting features of high life. Diets, the colored agent of the deceased Mrs. Dudley, was for twelve yoars her waiter and servant, but since his promotion to be her commercial agent has had entire control of her disbursements, speculations, charities and fands generally. It 13 alleged that he pen- sioned his black relatives upon Mrs. Dudley and vio- lently drove away scme of her near and dear relatives, not allowing them to entor her house. James Stephens made a spoech at St. Louis yesterday, in which he declared that the battle for Irish independ- ence would commence on Irish soil before New Year. Further particulars of tho raid of filibusters on Mata- moroa have beon received, General Brown refuses to deliver up the surrendered gunboat Chinaco, The New Jersey abattoir at Communipaw was formally opened yesterday in presence of a select assemblage, chiefly from New York. ‘The Grand Jury at Toronto have found truce bills against Colonel Lynch and Mossrs, McMahon and Lums- den, of the Fenians. It is reported that Governor General Monck, of Canada, is to be recalled. War anp Minrrary Rariroaps.—We publish elsewhere an interesting résum¢ of the report which Brigadier General McCallum, director and general manager of United States mili- tary raitroads during the war, has just pre- sented to the War Department. General McCallum insists that by the progress of events the art of managing military railroads has become as much a distinct profession as the art of war itself. Our own rebellion and the experience of recent wars in Europe abun- dantly establish this assumption. In the Italian campaign Napoleon landed whole train loads of soldiers on the very battle field of Magenta. In the German war just concluded railways had almost as much to do with the result as the needle-gun. It was the giving out of its internai system of railway supplics that helped to bring about the collapse of the rebel confederacy, and the success of the Union armies was aided not a little by the system of rail- way transportation and construction which General McCallum inaugurated, Military rail- roads in the wars of the future will form as essential a weapon of offence and defence as iron-clad monitors and rifled guns. The French Emperor is already grappling with the sub- ject. Watt Street on Horsepack.—We under stand that in the course of the next week there is to be a grand meeting of the amateur horse- men of Wall street, bulls and bears, and a grand hurdle race at Jerome Park, in which each horseman, riding his own horse, will con- tend for the sweepstakes, There will probably be in consequence some broken bones among the brokers, and some lame ducks and spread cagles, from a fall or two, among the fancica; but the sport will be none the less to the bril- liant company expected on the occasion. The arrangements are designed for an elegant and beautiful affair. Sporting gentlemen of the faro bank fraternity will be excluded from the inner circle, although they may be permitted to hang round in the trees with the boys. Faro bank financiers may run for Congress, but they cannot be allowed to fraternise with the Board of Brokers, or the financiers of Wall street. even in a hurdle race. ‘The Emperor ef the Frouch—His Declining Influence. Napoleon is now no longer the man he was. There are many things which indicate that the good genius which hag hitherto stood so faith- fully by him is gradually leaving him to his own resources, Fortune, whatever the cause, is less propitious than formerly. For the last eighteen years he has occupied a more con- spicuous place in the eye of the world than any man living in the same period. The part which he has had to play in the drama of his time—a part in some sense self-selected, but in some sense also forced upon him—has been great and hazardous, but his worst enemies cannot refuse ;to admit that he has played it with singular ability and success, His admin- istration of the affairs of France, notwith- standing many adverse influences, has raised that nation tua height of prosperity and great- ness rivalling if not surpassing the dazzle and magnificence of the first empire. No great movement has taken place in Europe since 1848 with which he hasnot been direotly or indirectly connected, and in no single instance, till within a recent period, hashe spoken without effect or exerted his influence in vain. Since the days of Oliver Cromwell no ruler has so firmly grasped the reins of power or infused such vigor into every department of government. Nor has the Emperor found scope for the exer- cise of his faculties in one direction only. He has appeared but once at the head of his army on the field of battle; but his success on that occasion in the estimation of many warranted the belief that in other circumstances it might be possible for him to rival even the brilliant military reputation of his uncle. Nor has he failed to obtain distinction in the world of let- ters. Not to speak of his earlier works, of which competent critics speak in terms of com- mendation, his “Life of Julius Cesar,” so far as it has gone, must be regarded, with all its faults, as a marvel of industry and talent. How such a man, in such circumstances, could find time and convenience to prosecute such a task it is difficult to conceive. Success, in fact, since 1848 has been inseparable from his name. There is a tide, however, in the affairs of men ; and to all human appearance that criti- cal period has arrived in the history of Napo- leon ILL Whether his good genius has grown weary and impatient because of continuous and excessive effort we know not ; but it is abund- antly manifest, whatever the cause, that a change has come. The Emperor is not what he was. Failure follows failure in rapid suc- cession, and evidence accumulates upon evi- dence to show that his calculations are at fault. He has not yet given up his favorite game, but his movements on the political chess board are no longer made by the same unerring hand. It was no doubt a sufficiently tempting thought to become the founder in the New World of a great Latin empire. It would give form to his favorite doctrine of Cesarism. It would have the effect besides of counteracting the growing influence of the great Anglo-Saxon family. In giving shape to this thought, however, h eover- looked two most important and vital truths: first, that institutions are rarely successfully superinduced upon a people, and secondly, that the influences which had made the Anglo- Saxon family what it is, and the elements of character which those influences had gradually formed, were wholly wanting to the Latin races. Of the folly of his Mexican enterprise the Em- peror is himself already fully convinced. It was natural enough, too, for a Bonaparte to “detest” the treaties of 1815, and to declare as he did, in that famous speech which heralded the German war, that the time had come for the fresh rectification of frontiers and the re- arrangement of European territory. It is diff- cult to believe that the announcement was made for any other purpose than to flatter French pride and to encourage French ambi- tion. The result of the German contest has been sufficiently humiliating. The treaties of 1815 have been flung to the winds of heaven, but without the aid of France. Frontiers have been rectified, but Napoleon has not been con- sulted. The map of Europe has been recast, but France remains what it was. And who would have believed six months ago that the all-powerful Emperor of the French would have patiently endured a rebuff at the hands of the Prussian government? Nor can it be said that matters have been mended by this recent manifesto. It is » dull mind that cannot penetrate the cloud of sophistry with which it is veiled and perceive that it has no other object than to gloss over a defeat which cannot be concealed and soothe the irritated feelings of a people whose ambition cannot be gratified. And what shall we say of his present wretched Mexican muddle and of his miserable attitude towards Rome? Clearly the old decisive will is wanting. Hesitation and uncertainty are everywhere. Whether it is that the state of the Emperor’s health is rendering him more acces- sible to the influence of weaker minds we know not, but certain it is that his good genius is less faithful than of old and that the tide of his for- tunes has turned. Tue Heratp anv THE Ciercy.—We publish in another column this morning a very read- able correspondence between Mr. William H. Lee and the Rev. Charles B. Smyth, The let- ters explain themselves and show very plainly the difference between a bigoted fool and a clergyman of common sense, This Lee is as utterly used ap by our reverend champion as the rebel Lee was by General Grant. He is one of those men who abuse the Heratp with- out ever reading it, and his remains ought to be sent to some public museum and placed on exhibition. The man who does not read the Heratp is a greater curiosity than an Egyp- tian mummy. The Historical Society ought to get hold of him. We cannot send him to Bar- num’s, for that institution is obsolete; but this Rip Van Winkle, thirty years behind the age, should certainly be put where people can get a look at bim—admission ten cents. From his bad grammar we should judge him to be a reader of some radical paper and a disciple of Parson Brownlow. As for the Rev. Mr. Smyth, he has a splen- did field before bim. Let him secure a large church and continue his sermons upon the vices of the clergy, and he will soon collect a congregation larger than Beecher’s and save many souls that are now falling from grace. He has commenced like Luther and like Knox, and there seems to be no reason why he should not attain to the same pre-eminence in the Church and the world. For thirty years we have been preaching from our secalar pulpit the very reforms that he now advocates. Our Teward has haan the pbuse of uch fellows as this Lee, whé have identified us with the crimes | run up the taxation of the city to eighteen or we have exposed end who have élandered this journal without reading it, taking up at second hand the envious remarks of our un- successful contemporaries. But, like St. Paul, we have fought a good fight, and we shall never relinquish it, The clergy might have helped us more than they have done; but we regretto say that some of our most vicious subjects have been found in that profession. Let the Rev. Mr. Smyth reform them and we will do our best to render the rest of the world respectable, moral, pious and happy. ‘The Pope’s Panacea for the South—The Polf- ticians Set Aside. We publish to-day two letters of con- siderable interest, not only to the Catholic portion of our community but to the coun- try at large, inasmuch as they embrace the solution of a problem, which is just now one of great social and political embarrass- ment to us. They contain the recommenda- tions or instructions of the Holy Synod at Rome to the prelates and other ecclesias- tical dignitaries now assembled in plenary council in Baltimore. In the views pre- sented in. these documents we recognize the vigilant watchfulness and attention to its own interests that have always char- acterized the government of the Catholic Church. Never in its history, perhaps, has there been presented plainer evidence of its ambitious aspirations and wide grasp of means than is therein contained. Ata period when its very existence as a temporal power is at stake, when from day to day the Holy Father does not know but that he may be an outcast and a wanderer, we cannot but admire the clearness of perception and sagacity which can detect ina flaw in our political condition a field of wide spiritual usefulness in the future, and a means of extending over countless mil- lions the dominion of the Church of which he is the head. Without dwelling on that portion of the instructions which has relation to the internal organization of the Church in this country, and which js in itself highly suggestive, we shall come at once to the paragraph which has more particularly attracted our attention. It is that which relates to the education and spiritual care of the emancipated slaves in the South. In the bitter and apparently irreconcilable differences which prevail as to the means of ameliorating the condition, social, political and religious, of that unfortunate race, the hopes held out by the recommendations of the Holy Synod are the only ones that seem to cast a gleam of sunshine on their wretched future. In trying to elevate them without a probationary ordeal to a political equality with the white man, their radical friends doom them to annihilation. It is equally certain that if they are left as they are, without any hold upon their former masters and without educa- tion, training or habits of practical industry, they must die out from sheer destitution, In default of such a plan, then, as the joint efforts of the two parties might have furnished, it is to the influence of religion alone that we must look for the improvement of their condition. There is no sect or denomination, with the exception of the Catholic Church, which has the energy, the perseverance, and we may add the faith, to engage in such a work. Undaunted by obsta- cles, insensible to personal privations and suf- fering and animated mainly by one object, the propagation of their faith, its ministers will soon obtain euch sway over the blacks that it will be easy to bring them into habits of obedience and order and make them as docile and profitable as servants as they have ever been as slaves. In time they may even be educated up to the point ot an intelligent use of the franchise. How much better it would be to arrive at these results by the quiet and be- nign influences of religion than by forcing them, to incur the risk of rendering the con- dition of the objects of our sympathy worse than it has ever previously been. We know that these views will be unpala- table to some. They hold the very name of Rome in such detestation that they wil! throw up their hands in horror at their mere sugges- tion. We cannot help that. What we fore- shadow will assuredly come to pass unless they abandon their fanatical notions and join the friends of the South in some practical plan for the amelioration of the social and religious condition of its black population. It is among the oppressed and neglected that the Catholic Charch usually finds its most fruitful fields of propagandism. If, therefore, the New England fanatics and nigger-worshippers do not wish to find their protégés brought body and soul under the influence of “the scarlet lady,” they will abandon their impracticable theories and secure them such advantages as are consistent with common sense and their mental and physi- cal status. Wn tae State Exporse New Yorx Crry Corruption ?—The New York city government, which has given so much trouble to the State and to the Legislature for eight or ten years past, by the singular revolution of parties comes to be mixed up this fall with the elec- tien forGovernor. When the Democratic State Convention allowed the Tammany rump, aided by Mr. John Morrissey, whose claims should never be ignored, to nominate as their candi- date for Governor a Tammany politician and leader of the Corporation “ring,” they forced the people of the State to decide by their votes whether they would endorse the corruptions that have long made New York city so noto- rious. The question is not whether the people of the State will interfere at all with the city government, That has been decided by the action of Legislature after Legislature. The question is whether the voters of the rural dis~ tricts, after all their representatives at Albany have done to protect the taxpayers of the city and the interests of the State by efforts to reform the municipal government of the metropolis, will give their direct endorse- ment to the “ring” from which all the corruption emanates, The issue cannot be evaded. The Governor of the State has nothing to do with the admission of Senators or Representatives at Washington; but he has everything to do with approving, bills for the reform of the New York city government, passed mt Albany, and with inv os tigating charges egainst corrupt city officdals and displacing them when found guilty. ‘The Tammany rump has had the impudenc and effrontery to appeal to the people of tae State to approve othe acts of the Corporat’.on “ring” in New York for the past ten years, They have done this in the face of the Tact that by thels mJecovernment and disboaeaty thev have gations, ‘twenty millions, They ask the voters of the rural districws to put # Governor in Albany who will veto every act passed by the Legis- lature that has for its object the reform of the city government, and who will pocket ‘all such charges as those made against Street Commissioner Cornell, and which alone should be sufficient to sink any cause. These are the plain facts, and every elector in the rural dis- triets who votes for the Corporation “ring” can- didate, Mr. Hoffman, will vote to give renewed life to the corrupt officials who are now on their last legs and to prevent any reform in the government of this city. Joun Vax Buren.—The death of Mr. Van Buren will not only be felt very much in the domestic and social circles, but in political circles as well, His genial and humorous character not only rendered him delightful in society, but gave him great power as a politi- cal leader. It was in this really, combined with his fine powers of eloquence, that his strength lay. The democratic party of this city and State lost one of their chief and last pillars by his death. This event, following so soon after the decease. of Dean Richmond, leaves that party, already much shattered be- fore, without its main support. Mr. Van Buren’s speeches, which were always brought into requisition in a stirring canvass, were not less effective in sustaining the democratic party than the political management of Mr. Rich- mond. The loss of one of these prominent men was a severe blow, but the loss of both is irreparable. Tammany democracy was in’ its death struggle through its corruptions and the political revolution of the times before the loss of ‘these leaders; now its dissolution will be rapidly accelerated. Mr, Van Buren worked hard to preserve the ascendancy of the party in this State last year, when he run on the ticket with General Slocum, and believed, no doubt, that the General would be elected Secretary of State and he Attorney General. He stumped the State in his usual effective style, but popular sentiment was against the party he represented and he was defeated. Even then he did not give up, but continued to be a leading sup- porter af every movement to preserve his party. Latterly, however, it is evident he be- gan to despair. He could see that only the rump of the once powerful Tammany organi- zation remained, and that the party was crumbling to the dust, like all other wornout institutions. The language he expressed just before he died, to the effect that he would give the democrats only a few more speeches as his final support, shows what he thought of their condition. Some say this was uttered when he was delirious, and others while in his senses; however that may be, it shows the idea which was fixed in his mind. He has been taken away from the political arena just in time not to witness a more thorough disruption of the great party to which he belonged than has occurred to any party in this country for a long period. The death of the party and its great leaders at the same time is a remarkable coincidence. Tas Arapama Ciams—Mr. Sewarp ts Horz- FuL.—We learn from Washington that the Sec- retary of State entertains the impression, from the late speech of Lord Stanley on the subject, that the Alabama damages will be acknow- ledged by Great Britain in the spirit suggested in said speech, and that a mutual understand- ing will be arrived at, meeting all future ques- tions of the kind, through an international convention to be held either in London, Wash- ington or New York. This is gratifying in- telligence as far as it goes; but still it leads us to the conclusion that Mr. Seward is entirely disposed to await the good pleasure of Eng- land and to be thankful for any small favors she may think fit to bestow in the way of the recognition of these Alabama claims or the settlement of the disputed points of belligerent rights, insurrectionary rights and neutral obli- This will not do. Nor is it enough that in its prompt enforcement of our neutrality. obligations against the Fenians the adminis- tration has won the applause and s@palzation of the British government. The door which was peremptorily closed in Mr. Seward’s face by Lord Clarendon, in closing the discussion with our Minister, Mr. Adams, on the subject, must be opened again, and a plain, dignified, cool and decisive demand for the indemnities in question will reopen the door and bring out the cash. It is not the opinidi Lord Stanley or any other lord that we want, but@ square demand for an honest settlement of the damages resulting to our commerce on the high seas from such Anglo-rebel piratical cruisers as the Alabama and Shenandoah. If Mr. Seward is-afraid to take this step some other man who will not be afraid ought to be appointed in his place. Indeed, we know from experience that in the worst aspects of our affairs, foreign or domestic, Mr. Seward can only see them through a rose-colored medium, so that the country has learned to place very little reliance on his opinions, promises or prophecies. He is an old politician who has run his course, and he ought to retire, especially if he can do nothing better than con- tinue to dance attendance upon the fiddlers of England and France. Unseaworrny Vessers anp Ocr Danoxzaous Harpons.--The last report which we pub- lished of the disasters at sea during the late gales incidentally mentions the founder- ing of two unknown steamers, Very few of the actual shipwrecks during the late storms bave been reported or will ever be heard from at all. Along the Southern coast the destruction to the numerous coast- ing craft has been incaleulable; not one in ten of the wrecked vessels has been re. ported, and the loss to the various insurance compenies will be very heavy. Only a frac- tion of the vessels canght at sea by the late gales were fit to be at sea at all—dardiy strong enoagh to navigate the North river. Yet mev- chante and owners send these hulks to sea \oaded to the water's edge, and insurance carm- fpanies are found to take risks upon them. ‘We have advocated the enactment of a law soaking the criminal conduct of owners ie sailing such vessels a penal offence; but merchant, and pas- sengers secm to forget after a time che dangers of which they are warned. It is 4 the power of the insurance companies to e*sforce a strictor system of inspection and toy provide against the sailing of such unseavvorthy vessels, and they should be urged in their own interest and that of humanity to refuse insurance except upon the stanchest of gossels, after close, actual inspection. By, thie notion they would direatty By effect sbipbuilding in thie country and gradu: ally bring about the necded reforms fa thid respect. The same insurauce ye eel interest» might also very effectively take action in ro- gard to the improvement of our harbor by ad- vocating the widening and deepening of the Hell Gate entrance. It is generally conceded by seamen that the part of our coast from Montauk Point to Barnegat is about the most dangerous when high winds are prevailing, and more vessels have been driven ashore im the “pocket” thus formed by the shore:on either side of the entrance to New York harber thaa. on any other point of the Atlantic const. The improvement of Hell Gate by the blowing up of the rocks which obstruct that channel and make it dangerous would obviate thisdifficulty. Vessels trom Boston and the East generally would find a shorter and safer route throug Long Island Sound; and even the European steamers would be induced to enter the harbor by the safer route. Tho removal of the Hell , Gate obstructions would be a grand improve: ment to New York harbor. THE QUEBEC FIRE. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Several More Bodies Recovered from the Rufins—Subscriptions for the Sufferers, &c. Toronto, Oct. 17, 1866. The ‘conflagration of Sunday at Quebec seems to be tha only subject talked of throughout the province. Beve- ral more bodies have been found beneath the ruins, aud ) / several persons are still missing, who, it is feared, have been kilied by the falling of rafters while attempting to Femove their property. At @ meeting at the City Hall last evening, in Quobec, @ Very stormy discussion ensned in regard to the politi- cal and religious faith of the sufferers; but through the influence of several influential gentlemen present quiet- ness was restored, and subscription lists were handed around by the members of the Relief Committee, when $18,000 was immediately collected. The melancholy loss of life aud suffering of those poor houseless creatures throws a dark gloom over the whole country, The ruins are visited by thousands, while here and there can be seen men, women and children groping their way through the rubbish of their former homes, and im other directions can be seen working parties in the melancholy duty of hunting } for the bodies of their missing friends, Several women, it ts rumored, have died from exposure; ey unless im- mediate relief is furnished, it is feared ' hundreds of wo- men and children will follow. The committee are doit everything in their “a3 to provide food, clothing ai shelter for the needy. The ladies of Quebec are organ- izing sanitary societies to prepare clothing and attend te the sick in the hospital, while others contgibute ie their private stores provisions for the su! TS. charitable gentieman is supporting fifteen Giatiles at at his own expense, and another sent this morning et; vq cart loads .ot cooked Ree visions. .The draymen of city have placed their horses and carts at the disposal of the relief committee, for the purpoze 6f hauling provi- ee ] ee furniture saved from the ruins to a lace of sat Sheds are sj up among tl ruins as fast as ?iumber can be haul laeed A man named Defoid, ive Sense received on junday. house was opened last night at the ues, and over ten thou: people Pag ee , Saulaen wimooug is to be made to the people of England and up the city, and a committee has a Beard of Health do not take Ee erers. The following is the So Degg os aa ceived :—The General, ; the $200; ‘the archbisvop of “Guseay Seminary Seca Thom & Co. $400; FIRES IN WASHINGTON ANO WEST STREETS. Destruction of Cotton—The Aggregate Loss 8272,000—Insurance, &c. the following parties, viz.:—E. D. Morgan, 349 bales; er, Wallace & Co., 64 bales; An- thony & Hull, 564 bales; Leveridge & Co., 249 bales; N. Beever & Co., 22 bales; A. C, Smith, 40 bales; Williame & Guion, 7 bales; Gladnich, 3 bales; and 360 bales to other parties, names not remembered. The cotton is ineuradce. and fifth floors of Nos. and 308 West street were occupied Jobn Curtin ae a sail loft; damage about insured for $4,000 in the Manhattan, tna =a . and Peoples’ insu: companion. = @ Ferris, who es ~~ J floor of No. 307 18 @ ET sustall as part stock was taken out ‘eo msured for 94,000 in the Merchant’s Insurance Company. Ne. LS was ocoupied by E. Shedden as a feed store; damage about $2,000. caused by the wall of rg my tailing and crushing in the roof; insured alee 638 the Harmony Insurance Company. The owned by W. S. Watkins; insured = 31,008 the Greenwich Emsurance © is. on on as a aged about that amount. cecupied ag “poase about $1,000; insured for Cowell lodet and rer reand Traders and Pacific Insurance nies, The buil¢ing is damaged about $500, It im owned Kingsland & Sutton, and is tasured im the Commercial famities were not insured, The No, 310 was also crushed in, Ban build to the extent of $1,500 or $2,000, fuily insured. here ey 1 Ay ~ ntored AK. tenn, sag of No. owne: © Ini ‘ Valued at about $1,000. cadreyah; > ‘4 insurance. ‘recy ase monly aoahon OBITUARY. Mr. C,1L. Daron, inventor “of the fog trumpet, died at New ‘London on the 13tb instant, aged forty-cigbt years. He was the son of Nathan Datoll, the maker of Tpabow's “Arithimetic. Tar pony ptm ge Bed — lyn, son of —— no an itor the same Srontiyn om Suosdap, from effects of fall oma rall- roadcar while in motion, He was ane ee pathy andfriendsbip for such political exiles as the queras, Garibald: and others. Mr. Grantes Cook died at the renidenge of General Cheddeil, in Anburn, New York, on the ith instant, of opoplaxy, in the sixty-*ixth year of his age. jwnes, a prominent citizen end journalist a, is dead. TWE PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS’ ORPHAN HOMESTEAD, Preapenoma, Oxt. 17, 1866. The Soldiers’ Orphan Homastoad located at this place w almost ready for oceupascy, aud wilt be formally in- aogurated on Tuesday, Norember 13. ‘On that occasion Bishop Simpson, President of the association, Henry Ward Reecher, Speaker Colfax an others are oxpected to deliver addresses. THE YELIDW FEVER IN WEW ORLEANS. New Onneans, Oot, 17, 1868, ‘The deaths from yellow fever average five to cight por day, which 1s & gradoal Increase, cnternamiasinaicetittneneat THE BALTIMORE POLICE DIFFICULTY. Bavtrwomn, Ont. 17, 1866. ‘The committee appointed by tho Consesvative Conven- tion of last night to collect evidence Against the Poltes Commissioners met this afernoon, preparatory 0 PCy goniing tho matter fagmelly ta.Goyernor wane aged 70 years, died this morning “a