The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OF FULTON AND NAS8AU 87S. OFFICE N. W. COR! Volume XXX AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, noir Broome street —Lours. ATRE. Brosaway opposite New Yore MEW xO phn Gauxt, 8 JBALovsY. ATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteonth street near Sixth avonud.—ADSIENNE Lacovvaims. QBRMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. sit Brondway.og Dan Srisisn 8STEINWAY'’S CONCERT ROOMS, Fourteenth street} ; First Porvtan Concest. WORTH'S HALL. 806 Broadi poo ms Minos ROTESOR Tyas | Say PRANCISCO MINGTRELS. 545 Broadway, opsodive tan Hotel—Ix rau Eyasor fad} P oon arouse, Daxoine ann i exons Sepa | soumne. apie | FIFTH AVENUB OPERA HOUSE, Nod. 2 ant 6 na eaty-fourth street.—Boowortu’s MinstRas. imsresisy. Baiaps, Bumussqoms, £0. A T! loom. LLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 730 Broadway, oppo- aie ho Now York Hotel cin rasis Gonas, Daxdns. BOUEN- eaorims, 4c.—Excursion AnouND tax Wor. NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro VourmrcNecno Mixstantsr Batter Divshrissnaune, &c.—Unore Sam's Varerans. LY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUP! at mSchanies Hall, 472 Brosdway—ix 4 Variety oF ne xp Lavcrasts Exrertainments, Corrs DB Bauust, £0, fawats Uranxs In Wasnixarox. MRB. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookylo.— Sea or Ice. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ertntorian Mute srauisy, Bariaps, BORLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES. SEAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, WilMamaburg.—Ermoruyx Munstaetsy, Battaps, Comic PaNtominng, &c. BROOKLYN ATHENAEUM.—Mr. De Cornova’s Hu- morous Lucrores. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Lectures wita tae Oxy-Hyprogen Mroroscors twice dat) sa a Ricut Aru or Provst. Open from 8 SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Granp Sacaep Concert at Sreinway Hatt, Fourteeuth street, New York, Sunday, November 11, 1866. Ret meet THE NAW s. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable wo have a news rerert datec yesterday evening, November 10. Lord Derby, the Premier of England, alludes to the relations existing with the United States in friendly ant conciliatory terms, expressing the hope that the settl- ment of pending queations will be approached in tke same spirit. The Princess Dagmar, of Denmark, was married in &. Petersburg to the heir apparent to the throne of Russa yesterday, Forty-two persons belonging to a secret political society have been arrested in Paris, Our special correspondence from Austria and Italy, Gated at Olmutz, Troppau, Prague and Venico, narrates matter of much interest, detailing the tour of the Em- Peror of Austria and the reawakening of the people of Venice to national life. @ Francis Joseph, of Austria, had a ‘mildly’ enthusi- astic reception in Prague a few hours provions to the making of an attempt to take his life by shooting. The demonstration was not congenial, however, The letter of our correspondent closes just previous to his Majesty entering the theatre, at the door of which the assassin took his stand, Consols closed at 893¢ for money in London yesterday. ‘The prices of American securities have not been received. Middling uplands was at 14944. in the Liverpool cotton market. MISCELLANEOUS. The President yesterday submitted some portions of his annua} message to the Cabinet, Our relations with Mexico cocupy & Very PrvuTinent postivn tm sav GICESAZO, @nd there Is reason to believe that In case neither Maxi- milian nor the French troops have left on the arrival of General Sherman, vigorous measures to expedite their departure will fe recommended to Congress. Letters written im the interest of the imperialists have been received in Washington discrediting the story of Maximilian's abdication, but they are not believed. General Sherman, accompanied by Colonel Audenreld, bis aide, Minister Campbell and Secretary of Legation Plumb, embarked yesterday afternoon on the steamship Susquehanna for Vera Cruz. Our special fasbions correspondence, dated on the 26th of October, opens with some exceedingly use- ful hints on the important matters of shopping, the choice of materials for winter dresses, and the quantities required for the different styles of Fobes which are to be worn. The distrees which exists among the workmen of Lyons causes an imperial pat- Tonage to be given to elaborate descriptions of silk, in order that they may be relieved to some extent by its Manufacture, This should not be overlooked in the pur- chase of the article, as it will cause the dealers to use efforts to get off goods which will prove unfashionable, although of fine quality. Winter mantles, matinée dresses, bonnets, trimmings, with the other requisites, are reported in order, The argument in the Baltimore Polico Commissioners’ habeas corpus case was concluded yesterday afternoon. Judge Bartol will annourice his decision on Tuesday. It is now believed that the election judges appointed by the now commissionors will, in case tho decision deposes the Intter, claim to have been tilegally appointed Judges, and thus nullify the election. The Executive Committee of the German sociotics beld a meeting on Friday evening, at their rooms on the Bowery. Mr, John J. Freedman made a speech on the Excise law and {ts relation to the recent elections, in which he sald that the strength of Fenton with his party lay in the fact that ho had signed the Excise law. An application was made before Judge Brady, of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday for an order to ex- amine Rufus L. Lord to perpetuate his testimony. The motion was made in the caso of Barron vs. Vormilyea, the plaintiff being @ party who sustained a loss of half @ million in seourities deposited in Lord’s safo at the time of the celebrated robbery. The motion was granted. The oase of Stoddard vs. Stoddard, which is an action for divorce by # husband from his wife on the ground of adultery, was up im the Superior Court chambers yester- day morning. A motion was made by the wife's counsel for alimony and was argued at length. The examination of witnesses in reference to the pur- chase by Mr. Hellen of coupons from bonds stolen from Mr. Rufus L. Lord, was resumed yesterday before Judge Dowling. The defence was closed and a decision made that the evidence would not warrant tho court in sonding the case to the Grand Jury, The defendant was accord lngly dismissed. Tho examination of witnesses in the case of the Rev. George T. Williaths, an Episcopalian minister, who is charged with picking a lady’s pocket ina Fifth avenue age afow weeks since, was continued before Justice Dodge yesterday. The cano after one witness was ex- amined was postponed until the 21st inst. William Hayden, a native of Louisville, Ky., and one of the Fenian prisoners on trial in Toronto, was yostor- day found guilty and sentenced to be hung on the 13th Of December, Information has beon received that the herring fisheries Of Labrador aro a complete failure, and the coast inbabi- ante are consequently rendeged destitute, Two women were murdored by negroes near Brand- ville, & ©, on Thursday inst, The murderers have been arrested, é General J.C. Davis has prohibited any military dis. play in Loulaville over the body of Roger Hanson, formerly a rebel general, on the occasion of ite inter- tment. The annual session of the Synod of the Presbyterian Churoh of Virginia is now being held in Norfolk, Va, A short but Interesting and comprehensive history of the Cat olfe Church in Amorica is published this morn: ing !nagother column. Tho steamship Manhattan, Captain Deakon, wilt sail for Havana, Sisal and Vera Crux at noon to. Morrow, from pier No, 8 North river. The mails for tho above ports will close at the Post Office at clovon o'clock. ‘The stook market was unsettled yesterday, bat closed Heady. Gold was heavy and sold down to 144. Thé dowoward turn in the gold premium emerted a Aepressing influence in trade circles on Saturday, and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1866. ‘The Gulf of California Our Prospective Fos | election, But the canvass ie now over and ecestons om the Pacific. Mr. Hoffman is defeated, and he may very well By the treaty now In preparation which is hesitate at sending in for reappointment to the to settle the complicated Mexican question, Lower California and the Guif of Califor | Stet Department the namo of an offloor who nis, in addition to other northem Mexican +e ——_ Fayre iene ay States, are to be oped to tho United Bintes Governor Fenton has delayed action on those government in consideration of the pro- hb for the of placing his late op- tection extended to the republic of Mexico, ponent in this po ly perplexing predica- as part of the arrangement entered into by ment, At all events the people will watch for the Emperor Napoleon and President Jobn- Mayor Hoffman's nomination of a Street Com- son. In accepting Lower California and the Gulf wo gain « most valuable possession, equal | ™Msioner with some curios. _ only to California itself, It is questionable| Tax Evawmo Stam Disasrer.—The investi- whether, in many respects, tho Gulf and the | gation of the Treasury Department into the Peninsula may not prove quite as advantageous | causes of the late disaster to the steamer to our interests as the territory acquired by the | Evening Star has just been completed and Mexican war. Herotofore Lower Ca\ has | reported upon by Captain Mew, who {s in- been in a measure # terra incognita. Now that | trusted with the administration of the steam- it is about to become a part of the United | boat laws. Woe published in yesterdsy’s States territory, its physical, geographical and | Hxratp the substance of his report furnished political advantages become of some moment. | us by special telegram from Washington. The ‘The possession of the peninsula of Lower Call- | testimony upon which the report is- based fornia will give us an additional territory on | appears to have been mainly obtained from the Pacific seven hundred and fifty miles long, | the builders of the vessel and an ex-employé of extending from the mouth of the Colorado river | the company, all of whom stated that the southward to Cape St. Lucas, and from thirty | steamer was seaworthy at the time of her to ono hundred and twenty miles wide. Tho | leaving New York, notwithstanding that a few entire area may be measured at nearly two | months previous she had struck on a reef off hundred thousand square miles. Under the | tho coast of Florida, where she remained for misrule of the Mexican government Lower | fifty hours. After this accident, which occurred California has, of necessity, been comparatively | in May last, she was permitted to make another unproductive; but it is capable of vast improve- | yoyago without being repaired. In July last meni when subjected to the enterprise of our | she was overhauled, and it was found that her people, which can make every acre yield ten- | keel was considerably damaged by her collision fold its former results, both in mineral and | with the reef, and that she had not foundered agricultural wealth. The principal products | during the voyage to and from Havana, which heretofore developed are gold, wine, pearls, | intervened between the occurrence of the acci- hides and tropical fruits of all kinds. In the | dent and the repair of damages, may probably vicinity of La Paz there is a gold mine of im- | be set down to the credit of some providential mhense wealth, as yet but poorly worked. The | interference. temperature is varied, but not unfavorable to However, the report of Captain Mew sgricultural and other labor. In the extreme | entirely whitowashes the company, declares south and in the northern districts bordering | the steamer to have been quite sea- on California the climate is most agreeable. | worthy when she sailed on her last In the central portion or district of Loreto | disastrous voyage, and charges the loss tropical heats sometimes prevail. of over two hundred lives upon the bad man- The population, which is composed of mixed | agement of tho unfortunate captain, who, as he breed Indians, negroes and whites, amounted | perished with his vessel, can make no defence. in 1850 to about twelve thousand, and has | It is admitted in the report that although the probably increased to fifteen or eighteen thou: | law was complied with in the number of boats suud at the present time, There are two prin- | on board the Evening Star, yet sho did not cipal cities, Loreto, the capital, and La Paz. carry half enough to save her passengers and On the Pacific coast there are numerous bays | crew, from which we infer that the law is in- which might be converted into good harbors; | famously defective and should be overhauled for instance, the bay of Sebastian, San Marina, | by Congress and improved. The report also Magdalena and Bailenas. suggests to us that if the loss of the ship was But porhaps the Gulf may be regarded as | attributable to the deficiency of the captain more valuable even than the Peninsula, as with | we ought to have a better educated class of the possession of the States of Sinaloa and | men in command of ocean going steamers. It Sonora it would give us some splendid seaports | is said, and no doubt with truth, that the Even- on the west coast of the mainland, affording im- ing Star succumbed to the fury of one of those mediate communication between the Pacific | circular storms which prevail in those regions. and our territories, especially the golden valley | The prevalence of these storms is well known. of the Colorado. The port of Guaymas is the | They are not so mich accidental as they are principal one and is reported to excel that of | the results of known netural laws. No sailor San Francisco. We need not expatiate upon | should be intrusted with the Command of a the value of the Colorado region. It is perhaps | vessel carrying three hundred people navi- the richest in mineral productions in the world. | gating these waters who is not familiar with It is, in fact, a vein of gold and silver, besides | the laws which govern the winds and is in- possessing the finest pasture land on the Paeific competent to work his ship out of one of these slopes. It is comparatively isolated from our | inevitable cyclones or keep her out of it; and great centres now and altogether unapproach- | here again appears the necessity for more able from the Pacific; but when we can com. | stringent legislation to regulate the capacity of mand Lower California, with its three coast | sea ca) ns. There‘ore, accepting the report lines, and the Gulf, with its fine harbors and | of the ‘¥ ury Department as the most in- seaports which we can connect with Texas by telligent verdict in this case that could be ar- railroad through this fruitful Colorado region, | rived atfrom the testimony available, we find who can put ® limit to the wealth to be drawn | in it abundant evidence that there {s an im- from this whole district of country? perative necessity fora thorough reformation Under Mexican rule Lower California, with | in the laws regulating our ocean navigation. all its advantages, fs little botior than a waste, of no value to Mexico—a dead member of | T#® Coxsrrroriova, Awenpwext Resecrep the body and a barrier between us and a | ®Y T#® Pournicuns por Favonen ny tax Proris large extent of the Pacific const. As a | °F #8 Sovra—The Georgia Legislature in part of the United States the waste will soon | *ession at Milledgeville on the 9th instant de- be made to bloom as a garden, and every re- clined to ratify the constitutional amendment, Source it contains wil be amply developed. | *"4 passed resolutions explanatory of its The Gulf of California abounds in pearls and | *Ction, declaring among other things that the corals, but the fisheries for these articles are last Congress was illegal and that the amend- neglected and yield but a small moicty of ment was not proposed by two-thirds of the their actual productiveness, Fish of all kinds, | Constitutional Congress, as required by law. including some of the rarest and most delicate | 74 resolutions are tainted with one or species, are obtained in these waters, We can | ‘¥ chimerical theories of the old secessionists, readily ii ine. how American enterprise and do not bear close scrutiny or argument. would convert all these resources into valua-| The Legislature of Georgia does not in its ble equivalents, action fully represent the people of the State Such is a portion of the advantages which tho snd of the Sonth, aad It should not be mis- treaty for the disentanglement of the Mexican taken as an expression of the feelings or skein, suggested by President Johnson and | °Pitions of the people. The votes against the about to be confirmed as acceptable by Na- amendment were those of men who would be poleon and tho republican government of | ti#qualified from holding office by Its Mexico, will confer upon this country. It is | option, and it was not natural to ex- to the interost of all parties concerned—the | P°ct them to vote In its favor. These United States, Mexico and France, that these | ™* ,leaders and the partisan press of negotiations should be speedily consummated. | #¢ South have endeavored, and with — some success, to forestall and form public opinion on the subject by denanciations of the amendment; but our private advices from the South have all along indleated that a respeci- able party is forming and gradually Increasing which favors in sentimont the adoption of the measure, and we believe that by the time the Legislatures of the country have passed upon the question and settled it the people of the South will not be persistently and bitterly ad- verse to the measure proposed. The promi- nent men of the South capnot advocate its adoption on account of the disqualifying clause of the amendment. Many who would avail themselves of the benefits to be derived from its adoption do not advocate it out of regard to their friends, who woald be unfavor- ably affecetd. Others, who look upon its adoption as of vital importance to the South, sbrink from belng leaders in a cause which appears at present 60 unpopular; but the national advantages to be derived will eventu- ally outweigh the personal disadvantages re- sulting from the adoption of the amendment in the minds of the masses for whose benofit it was proposed, and the “bone and sinew,” the laboring classes, will soon come to look upon the measure with favor. | tho votame of business was light. Prices for nearly alt 1 kinds of merchandise favored the buyer, though for geome articles previous prices were obtained, On ‘Change there was almost a general decline, flour being 10c. @ 20c. lower, and wheat 20. a 30. lower, Oorn was unchanged, Gats were steady. Pork wes dull and lower, Beef was quict, but steady. Lard was dull, lower and hoavy. Freights were exceedingly quiet, Whiskey w as dull and nominal. The Resources and Credit of the Gevern. ment. We cannot look at the extraordinary resources of the country and government and then at the low state of our credit abroad without surprise, and without feeling that there must be, something radically wrong in the adz mm. of our finanoial affairs or profound as to our condition and cans. Lot us look at the facts. United ateaisix percent stocks, bearing interest in gold, are. in London twenty below Britiek’ thipd iper cente—that is, ours are sold "ee: y, While the others are sold at: eigh If the credit of the United States be ai as that of England, if the Interest 4né?prthcipal of our debt will as certainly be paid’ as that of the British, if our resources and oar means of paying be as great as those of Great Britain, our five-twenties should be worth just double English consols. Instead of being twenty below they should be eighty-nine above; instead of being quoted at sixty-nine they ought to be at one hundred and seventy- eight. That is the real measure of relative vajue, apart from local preference for one or thp other and independent of such modifica- tion as the trade exchanges between the two countries would make, if the credit and re- sources of one country be as good as those of theother. This is so plain that a child may understand it. Financiers cannot even mystity it by their affected profundities and Stock Ex- change jargon. The question, then, is simply as to the com- parative credit, resources and means of pay- ing the debts of the two countries, as well as the chance of their debts being pald. Hardly ang one believes that the national debt of England will ever be paid. England has pro- bably reached the limit, or nearly so, of her productive power. As compared with this country she is positively on the decline. Mr. Gladstone, with the far-seeing mind of a statesman, understands this, for in a speech made a short time since he boldly expressed the prospective and com- parative condition of his country. He could see the time coming, and he said so, when the mines of England would give out, when the enterprise of that country would be over- shadowed by the superior resources and enter- prise of this, and he called for measures to put the British debt in a way of liquidation before these things should come upon them. The debt of England has already reduced tho mass of the people to the lowest condition. Taxation is carried to the extreme point of endurance. Though the interast of the debt may continue to be paid, there & little pros- pect, notwithstanding Mr. Gladstore’s warning, of the principal being liquidatel. But the time may come when the government may not be able to pay even the interest, Now let us compare our own condi- tion and future with the situation and future of England. At present we havea superabun- dant revenue—a revenue of over six hundred millions a year—without any oné feeling seri- ously the burdens of taxation. The country is Prosperous beyond all precedents, and that not artificially, but substantially. The United States, with a population of nearly forty million, is a hive of industry, We have had a surplus revenue in the last year sufficient to pay off nearly two hundred million of the debt. If we should deem it prudent to keep the present fisoal laws in operation we could pay off the entire debt in ten years, and nobody, as we have sald, would suffer seriously. That is our actual condition. But looking to the future what do we sec? We have the unbounded wealth of @ continent. Thousands of years could not exhaust it. In minerals, in coal, iron and all the more useful metals, we have an illimitable resource, while we have a Greater amount of the precious metals than any quarter of the globe. Besides these sources of wealth we have those of agri- culture, with every variety of productions that all the climates and soils of the earth can yield, and many that cannot be produced else- where. In all probability our wealth will be more than doubled, in ten years, and our popu- lation in twenty. What are we not capable of? What ts our national debt tous? As to political difficulties affecting us or our growth in the future, which Europeans seem to dwell on, thatis alla bugbear. Our present troubles are only on the surface; they will gll pass away, and whatever modifications may take place in our institutions or in the practical ope- ration of the government, the nation will exist and inorease in vitality and power. We have no motive for repudiating our debt, and we are too honorable and proud to do so. We have an abundance of means both to pay the interest and to liquidate the debt, and we shall certainly do both. Why, then, we ask again, is our credit so low in the markets of the world, compared with that of England arid the other Powers of Europe which hardly know how to make both ends meet? We call upon the Secretary of the Treasury to answer. We want to know how long the money traders here and in Europe are to be permitted to ignore these irresistible facts and to.hold us in such a humiliating position. Toe Street Comuisstoxer’s Orrice—-Mr. Corxett’s Sccorssor.—The term of office of the present Siveet Commissioner will expire in December, und it will become the duty of the Mayor to nominate to the Board of Alder- men a successor to Mr. Cornell. During the recent campaign the friends of Mr. Hoffman not only denied that be bad any affiliation with the Tweed and Cornell “ring,” but claimed that he had protected the taxpayers trom many of their schemes of plunder. The Mayor will now have an opportunity of proving his in- dependence of the “ring,” and the people will be able to judge of the sincerity of his profes- sions by the character of his nominee for this important office. There are varions rumors afloat in reference to this matter. It fs said that the Mayor is so- liciting Messrs. Cornell and Tweed to resign their offices prior to the expiration of their term. This step is urged on the ground that It will weaken the Oght certain to bo made against the “ring” candidates in the charter election, But if Mr. Hoffman is in reality inde- pendent of the “ring” he will not hesitate to send in the name of some citizen for the office of Street Commissioner who is known to be a friend of city reform, whether Mr. Cornell een should consent or refuse to resign. Indeed, | Ovrtiaws m Kentvcny.—It is reported by the vory request for a resignation would seem | telegraph that @ train of cars was robbed to imply a bargain between the Mayor and | under very remarkable circumstances near the present Street Commissioner. © | Franklin, Kentucky, on the 8th inst, The rob- In 1861 the Legislature passed an act ex- | bery was committed by @ band of men with tending the Street Commissioner’s term’ of | blackened faces and otherwise in disguise. office to four years, and providing that he | Lying in wait for the train, they threw it off should only be removed in the same manner as | the track, doubtless by means of obstruction, Provided by law in the case of the removal of | and even threw a portion of it down @ steep Sheriff. This deprived the Board of Alder- | embankment, Then, under cover of the dark- men of their power to displace Mr. Cornell, | ness, they plundered the passengers more or and the coup d'etat of tho Board during the | less thoroughly, and rode away doubtless wil canvass which brought Mr. Hoffman so sud- | all tho triumphant air commonly supposed denly back to the city did not contemplate the | be charactoristic of dashing highwaymen. This removal of Mr. Cornell, but the nomination and | is a kind of crime that does not ordinarily occur confirmation of his successor. The promptness | in well organized civil society. It belongs to with which the Mayor then came to the Street | the class of outrages committed im the doubt- Commissioner's rescue certalaly did not imply | ful times that follow war whem pesice Is not w oslo to wot rid of thet officer pending the | quite ostablished, and there is # more than Evrorgay anp American Journatiam.—The Paris journal Z’Evénement contains an elabo- rate puff upon its own enterprise in working up @ circulation of some forty-eight thousand copies within twelve months, The font will not appear @ very femarkable one whon it is added that it was accomplished by the gift system, and that upwards of thirty thousand dollars were spent in premiums to subscribers. In logiti- mate journalistic euterprise, which depends altogether on the attraction of its news, tho French and English journals are far behind the newspapers of this country, We publish In a single number as much varied intelligence, from all parts of the world, as would supply the leading London and Paris papers with a woek’s quota, Their news, like their edito- rials, is spun out to cover space, and the conse- quence {s that they cannot pus their ciroula- tion beyond @ certain point, and cannot long keep itstendy at that, A circulation like that of the Hgnatp has never yet been, and proba- bly never will be, attained by any European daily, The reason is that newspapers abroad are merely the ropreses' of clase interests, While here they ere the of the people, woual proportion of men abroad who have 6 desperate disregard of comsequences and no respect for any dort of authority. Is this oo- currence in Kentucky to be accepted as any indication of the state of society there? If it is it must be acknowledged that the most urgent necessity exists for that community to re- establish society and organize its police. The Community would do well to concentrate its thoughts in that direction for a time, even if it had to neglect the busy orators who are always talking of national politics. ——_—_—— Tas Quagn or Sram axp Tam Pors.—The Atlantio telegraph informs us that the Queen of Spain bas made an offer to the Pope of & residence at Granada, and that Spanish vessels-of-war are placed at his disposal in case of emergency. This is giving a definite hape to that support of the descendant of St. Peter that was vaguely promised from the game souree some days ago. It would doubt- less be idle to argue the wisdom of this measure on the part of Spain or to urge that that country has had too much of the Pope already. It is true, however, that Spain was once the foremost of European countries in national vitality and that within her limits began, in Western Europe, that appearance of the people in the government that has since made memorable epochs in the history of other countries. The first popular representative Assembly of Western Europe was Spanish. Spain had the start of France and England in the great race of national development, and it is at least a remarkable coincidence that while she is now far behind them, and even behind all other European countries in that race, she is also the one Cbgistian country that has never sympathized in any degree with the spirit of the reformation—has never awakened to the discovery that blind adherence to the Church is inconsistent with modern civili- As to the Pope, the Spanish offer opens the door only half way to escape from hig di culties. If he accepts “a residénce at Granada he of course gives up the whole question of temporal power for which he has hitherto so stoutly held out. He recently declared that he was “ready to die in defence of the right,” and as the right referred to is in the matter of temporal sovereignty, hg can only die in de- fence of it at Rome. His going to Spain, as it must settle the question against him, would also, after such brave words, look like a flight. But he has also sald that “if necessary he would seek the exercise of his ministry in another land ;” and such a declaration would seem to indicate that he had already determined to re- linquish that perilous part of his greatness that lies in a material diadem. Ifthe question of temporal power is once determined, the rest will be easy;for the amiable, pure minded and sincere old man will find a congenial refuge in the ancient Moorish stronghold, where, sur- rounded by a devout and faithful people and far removed from the political storms of this working-day world, out of the very reach of new’, he may dream that ho has gotten away into the fifteenth century and is the head of a quiet, credulous and Catholic world. may die in peace, perhaps the last of the Popes THE OCEAN YACHT RACE TO COWES. TO THE EDSIOR OF THE HERALD, A gentleman, signing himself ‘“Yachteman,"’ in the Hrratp of November 10, appears to be very much wor- ried because some of the owners of the three contest- ants in the grand race to England have decided not to accompany their boats, He asks, “What reason can they give for not going?’ In reply, I beg to inform him that mogt excellent reasons can be given in certain instances why the owners cannot go. First, their time is required of them at home, and they cannot afford to sacrifice their interests here for the more sake of a race across the ocean, and thus suffer their business to incur an irremediable detriment, Second, claims of a domes. tic nature, which are demanded of every man of family are made upon them, anf which it would be almost {m- possible to surrender. Can better reasons be adduced in their behalf? Itisa Well known fact—though probably having escaped the observation of the ““Yachtsman’’ of the inquiring turn of mind—that the owners of the Henrietta and Vosta ac- companied their yachts on the great race that was sailed ina gale of wind and an angry sea last October. They certainly evinced their pluck on that occasion, and as ter as one Is concerned the undersigned observed no signs of “cowardice” upon his smiling countenance, “Yachtaman’’ asks, “Won’t they subject themselves to a suspicion of cowardice if they don’t go?’ Let me ask, bas the gentleman had much ex. newspaper correspondence ? Ny it myself; ‘I think not,”’ or most assuredly he would be moro caroful in his choice of language. might be tuken to it, and reg) “Yachtaman’’ in regard to of the yacht owners, If I were, it strikes me forcibly I world solicit an explanation. Now, sir, certain owners of these able to go themselves, choose to send their boats over in charge of intimate friends, who are willing to accept the responsibility; and what “Yachtsman"’ to tful inquiry made of Mr. gerious objection has this arrangement, which suits the gentiemen concerned remarkably well? The gentlemen who go have no fears of “encountering ex} For the sake of the excitement of alone, they are willing to take the trip, and their inter. ents donot keep them at home, as they are men of leisure. And really, I cannot see that any very re- markable pluck is to be evinced im going on these littie They are sound and seaworthy—will be well manned aged. What is thereto be afraid of? “Yachtman”’ think we will be a year or two in crossing, and that starvation will be our lot, and sharks and sea- guile fatten on our cold bodies ? Nonsense; these yachts are as safo as shipe, and there nger in eailing nantical miles on the broad Atiantic than statute miles on the placid waters of our And they will probably make the passage in someth ing lees than a month. ‘We are, gonerally speaking, a commercial peop! gentlemen cannot always atiord to yield their business interests to take a pleasure trip across the ocean mefely ‘to please the whims of John Smith or Jim Brown. They have something else to do besides racing for a aweep. stakes, or sailing for ‘fame!’ But! think, sir, that [ understand what ‘Yachtsman" was aiming at when he that although I heartily ik ho has a mistake Jakes and rivers! wrote his article, and must sa endorse some of his ideas, I th im making uee of certain phraseology, when he commit- His object is to su; that the race be deferred till May, and his reasons are most excellent why this should be But as the match is now made, it cannot, I am giad wo ray, be by crook,” and (D. V.) ti ted them to paper. THE BALTIMORE POLICE COMMISSIONERS, Close of Araument Before Judge Bartol—A Decision to Be Rendered on Tuesday, &c, Batmonn, Nov. 10, 1866. The case of the Commissioners, after elaborate argu- ment, was closed today. Judge Bartol will render a written decision on Tuesday, at noon. The Judges of Election who were appointed by the old Commisstoners are required, under heavy penaltics, to make returns thereof within five days after election, and Balti certain members of the Legis- for its speedy convocation, PROBABLE WURDER IN RENSSELAER counTy. ‘Trot, Nov. 10, 1866, 4 young man named Bateman bas suddenly disap. peared from Hoag's Corners, in the town of Nassau, in this county, and is supposed to have been murdered by & rival in a love affair, For some lime past Bateman ra arediay evening last Bateman and while on his ret {9 believed to have been has the rect; of tnreatening bie lifer “On Th i i THE FASHIONS. OUR PARIS FASHIONS CORRESPONDFNCE. Advice About Shopping—Dolightful but sletemt—A Moral Invocation and the W. fa a Sterce—The Materials fer Dreases Quaatity—Impertant Nows About Make Up—Wiater Maantles and Bonnets, se, Panis, Oct. 26, 1806, On concluding my last letter I proposed giving feaders a little advice on shopping; and I presume they will follow it, because Iwas not asked for it. edvice Is asked for and freely given I have ever that ts te totally disregarded, 2 Since Fashion took me up, and sovereign like, —— that Ino longer belonged to myself or to anything her own cause, I have formed various shrewd opinieag of female inconsistency. As regarda counsel giving counsel taking, I have observed that when @ Graws up to my door at tho: full speed of her grays jumps out of her carriage with that ominous look portends a weight at heart, I always feel assured I skal bave some advice to give, and am seldom wrong, foe no sooner bas the friend taken my sanctum by stormy than she begins, “Oh, 1am in such trouble about matinée; what am Ito put ont Do help me; do wige.’" f Whenever a case of this kind presents itself I respon@ sympathetically, and, I believe, my advice is founded og as much common sense as the lords of the creatiod admit of our having; but what ensues? The frien@ Listens with apparent conviction and resolves on wearlag ‘@ marabout fenchon, trimmed with green velvet form and tulle; a mauve colored silk and poplin casaque, of namented with chenille and white bugles, cords tassels, Sho is radiant, delighted; she shakes my very cordially, says something about eternal gratitude, and exits while describing some now mauve boots with ‘ermine tops and a rosette on the instep. By the wag ahe lightly springs Into her seat before her carriage rollg off, it is evident hor determination is firm; but, en houg or two later she comes out at the matinée in a new bome net, a black velvet robe and a Chantilly lace circular. Now this, morally speaking, 1s somewhat discouraging. In the case of the above friend, however, her excellent taste substituted one rich toilet for another, only there ro bosom friends who have no tasto at all, and who, neglecting advice, though asked for, act on their owm Prine les, which are often violet peplums on rose ‘oloréd robes, or greon skirts over that particular blue which {s euggestive of culpable animosity towards the, Treen, 4 After the above I may conclude that advico spoms tancously administered is sure to be listened to in the game sp: hat which prevails among a Reg Hier | hile attending a sermon of which they were not ask i choose the subject. The toxt I propose to your readers is:—Tet necessity guide you to a store; may my advice accompany y while you aro there, and may the Fatos help you out of ttt at ag Necessity, I said. Let us consider necessity. Every woman has wants of shopping, from the chignon dowm to gilt heels; but all wants are not absolutely salutary, The garment which comes nearest to the skin uo not be a ricamier, which siguifies a lawn, Valoncionneg and insertion lace cobweb. A petticoat noed not be on@ cloud of muslin frilling and edging. But the things that & woman must have are a morning or negiigs gown, @ plain, useful walking costume, @ visiting robe, a wintee mantle, a sprinkling ‘of bonnets, a head dross or two, @ dinner toi dress muffs, fans, parasols and other accessories coming undet no better denomination than that of light artillery. I see bachelors smile, for they do read all tive fashion, letters they can get hold of, and they are invariably chuckling over seif-congratulation on single blessednesay but I have advice in store for them, too, of which more shall be said in due time. The above mentioned articles are indispensable. Thoy annot be conjured up; they must be got—that r 1 et, a coricert dress, several ball ought and paid for. The frst shop to go to ts # Lin draper'’a, Aflé Of young men stand right and left, swear that fast year's goods havo just come out. Bec ware! Me ees 2s RAM Walk up to a counter with @ fixed purpose, with nothing but a morning négligé on your head, ask for metres of silver gray poplin, wool and silk, and whi alpaca enough to have it lined through with, also t aie a poplin, to be cut i bias trimmin, ig covering buttons. When you have decided on havi it made @ laprincesse, with a long rounded train and watteau pelerine for the shoulders, that will be off yous mind and you can proceed to select stuff for a waking costume. Let it be violet granité chiné or tufted oloth neigeuse, Have two skirts and a paletot sack made of The over skirt can be vandyked, gored and piped with violet taffeta; ten metres will suffice, ] The visiting robe will lead you to the silk stores, hére your life is jn ; steer carefully up toa seri looking gentleman ; there can be no dificulty about land. ing near one, for It la know fact that silk meroers @t present all look! very serious They offer you plain silks {in the most tem; shades—sunsets, ogre ony pénitence and nille embroidered fawns, corelien blues, di blushing pings and stripes enough {¢ own when they say that ‘‘nothing but there be worn, These are all fasnionable truly, only when a an ee perem of freehand gen junds? The Louis XV. ety’ {e all broché, and the nsw starving workmen at Lyoag will find employment. It 1 said that brochés have bes come an imperial question, and that the Emperor oo encouraging them by visiting the principal es. Therefore tot this bint be a guide in the choice of your tollette de ville. Prefera robe in broderie Pompadour to a striped taffeta or corded silk. Select a rich greem ground over which run trails of shaded Have om Rd cee won a ae two ue square ani other a high pep! i pe satin sleeves buttoned up to the elbow ih olives. ey olives on the casaque—fourteen metres enol 5 The winter mantle can either be made of cloth ow velvet. Igaveafull description in —_ of mane trimmings. But wo have now the epri of bonnets and your course lies clear before you. You have not! to fear so much in a bonnet shop as your o inclinations for this *‘duck of » dalle, that dear little round Stella,’’ and all the other perfidious sweet litde loves, If ~~ have followed my adv: you have@ violet walking drees and a Pompadour visiting drees, The matinée or concert toilet can be made of gray velvet stripes on pearl ground, the whole prod arch chinchilla effect, You necessarily want three bonnets to match thees totlets, for 1 4 ine no one would buy a bonnet as ong would needles and pins, because they might be want Shades of dresses should be consultod before a lady her heart on this or that love. Bonnets are more important than people imagine. @he only possible reasonable bonnet which ono can purchi wi it any fear of being sorry for it after ta = " because we are all to be coming out ime credibly. @ male part of the creation never will believed in those high incroyable shirt coli fly-a Coat fronts and brass buttons; still they have ado ted the style and we are to follow their example. An “incroya- ble” bonnet is as essential in @ wardrobe as @ pair of — one can’t do without it. It is au interm onet to be worn when full dress is not and when “‘no dress’’ is out of the question. It eusueg that the incroyable ia tho firat to be bought, and if there are none to be had !n New York I am sorry to say this ie tho firet instance 1 shall have come across of that cit being more than a fortnight behind Paris in the gi move towards progress. ‘That we are all nearing that way is cortain, for minuets are being played in of polkas, sod the incroyable waistcoat with but two buttons at the waist is already = and even admired A ae tees hich 1s the © Pompadour must have an Andalous, which Spanish mantilia and catelan in one, with « fall damasis. Tose on the bosom amidst jet lace drapery, and the same over the left tem; Should these not have New York I shall not be astonished, as they are not to shown in shops till the higher powers have worn and they only can be got sight of by dint of clevi manwu . The concert robe, which is #0 cali soft, sober gray for hen shall not waiting leas favored than her sisters. The turban diadime is her, but this new idea shall be described in my next, There is no likelihood of it coming out exceptin #tealth, and besides, tt is such very full dress that) bey Ang worn before the new brochés, | dresses, accessories, and the new cap, with the bachelors, shall be attonded to in my next, An Old Fogy On Fashions, 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. For the past month the millinery trade has stood i statu quo, Constant changes in fashions admitted inex- perienced parties to design and make for themacives @ Tough and plainly made “top plece’’—ridiculous in the extreme—which they style a bonnet. It isno Fresh fashion, but on the contrary, is an American idea, The true Parisian atyle ts large bonnets with square crowns, Jet or naments and willow pinmes have become #0 com mon that the éie have discarded them. In Paris they have been - away with altogether, and flowers are considered ih neater and far prettier, Who can com~ for iy Sg handsome than ‘nature's tums are iE OFFERED FOR A MURDERER. ber, Mo., Nov. 10, 1868, 000 reward for