The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1866, Page 4

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Tho captain, with two men of the crew of the bark Lubra, have been murdered by pirates on the coast of China. The date is not reported. An American Company has obtained a telegraph ex- tension concession from the Emperor of China. United States five-twenties closed at 69 in London on Saturday. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Charles B. Smyth delivered another lesson to the clergy yesterday at the Cooper Institute. He had been to see the model artist exhibitions on Broad- and gave, among other instructive matters, a short account of his visitthere, He promises to give a more detailed narrative of the disgraceful scenes next Sunday. At Plymouth church Mr. Beecher discoursed on the Do- velopment of Manhood. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the John Street Methodist Episcopal church was celebrated, the Rev. Henry Bohem, the oldest Methodist Preacher in America taking part in the interesting ex- ercises. The Rev. Dr. Cheever, Dr. Buddington, R. A. Holland of Kentucky, Bishop Neely of Maine, and other eminent divines, addressed their respective congregations at the various places of worship. ‘The judges of the Baltimore election have not yet made their returns, Five days are allowed in which to make thom, and tho time expires to-day. A ponalty of $600 and imprisonment, is attached to a failure to make them. The defeated radical Congressional candidatos in Maryland all threaten to contest the election. It is gon- ‘erally believed that Governor Swann will soon call an extra session of the Logisiature. The Central Pacific Railroad of California has been completed to Cisco, a distance of ninety.four miles from Socramento, At that point the grade reaches an eleva- tion of sixty-one hundred feet above tide water at Sacra- mento, The rails will probably be laid to Salt Lake City in 1870. Astronomers announce that there will probably be a meteoric showor between the hours of one to-morrow morning and daylight, or at the same hours on Wed- nesday morning. Our Troy correspondence gives an account of the dia- covery recently, at Cohoes, of the jawbone of a masto- don. The remains of a complete skeleton were also dis. covered, and it is expected they will be pronounced upon soon by Louls Agassiz, tho learned naturalist of the Harvard University. A history of the present national debt of Great Britain, which is larger than that of any other country, vith an account of the sinking fund system of that Ccuntry, is pablished in another columa of this morn- Anj’s Henan, 4 subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the Yoownt inundations in France bas been opened by Baron Boibau, the French Consul General, at his office in this city. Entily Campbell, an Englishwoman recently arrived from he old country in an emigrant ship, threw herself foto the North river on Saturday, with her newly-born baby if her arms, in the hope of committing suicide, She and her husband were living in Thompson, aid, but hersonfinement had eaten up hig Wille *%i co tnd he vas out of employment, gp» ‘ane ae Fash deodto rid him of the burdar. of her and her ghild’s Sudsteten@, but she was bo 04 up in tho water by her by some boatmen. Setforson BY, Police Court yesterday, she wy pa pane sg Eth Johnson, and refused to ‘tell her story, but, by the kindness of tho ofcers, she was Provailed upou Qually, and told the above pitiful narra. tive. Hor buspand was ther sent for. Dold an investigation yesterday over a of ‘yam ae ® druggist, who 2 Biahth avenue, A vw been doing business at NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1866. was rondered that the deceased came to his death by taking an overdose of laudanum. He had beon addicted recently to the use of intoxicating liquors, and, it is be- lieved, swallowed the poison while in a At of despondency consequent on intoxication. The body of Francis McAleer was discovered yester- day in the North river at the foot of Twenty-sixth street. Suspicions of foul play are entertained, a8 deceased had recently had a quarrel with another party and threats against him had been made by the latter. An inquest will be held to-day. It is stated in Washington that Chile and the liberal government in Mexico will immediately form close alliance, the terms of which will not probably be made known for some time. The Important Mission of Minister Campbell and General Sherman te Mexico. The United States war steamer Susque- hanna left this port on Saturday afternoon lest for Vera Crag, detailed to the special duty ot bearing to Mexico our Minister to that repub- lic, Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, accompanied by General Sherman, who goes as a military observer of events and to give the benefit of his advice and aid if necessary. Mr. Campbell is charged with the most important diplomatic mission emanating from our government since the sailing of our Commissioners who negotiated the peace of Ghent with Great Britain, December 3, 1814. The objects of this expedition comprehend the absolute abandon- ment of the imperial enterprise of Louis Napo- leon, root and branch, the recognition by France of the republican government of Juarez, & treaty of peace between the two govern- ments and a treaty between each of them and the United States. This is to be accomplished, we presume, by Minister Campbell, assisted by the presence of General Sherman, in behalf of the United States, with General Castelneau nd Marshal Bazaine in behalf of France, and President Juarez and his Secretary of State, we suppose, as the representatives of the Mexican republic. s The whole credit of this grand undertaking belongs to President Johnson and the Emperor Napoleon, and may be fairly divided between them. As we are informed, Mr. Johnson more than a year ago became satisfied that this Mexi- can imbroglio, if left to the red tape diplomatic correspondence then going on between Mr. Seward and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, would “drag its slow length along” to the end of the exist- ing administration without any other results than additional complications, and that, ac- cordingly, some shorter road to a settlement was demanded. Satisfied upon this point, as we have been further advised, President John- son resolved to take the matter into his own hands, and did so in a familiar letter to Na- poleon, frankly setting forth the inflexible ob- jections of the people of the United States to a European government over Mexico in any shape, and that the removal of his imperial establishment and the reinstatement of the Mexi- can republic in the Mexican capital were in- dispensable to the maintenance of peaceable relations between France and the United States. From the receipt of that familiar letter Na- poleon began fully to realize the necessity of his retirement from Mexico, and so began to consider the ways and means of a graceful compliance. His object appears to have been a withdrawal so gradual: as to make no per- ceptible impression in France or Europe to his tage, and he doubtless hoped that his failure would be completely masked hag to France resulting from his com- di and calculations connected with the Iste war of Prussia and Italy against Austria end her German confederates. The results of that war, however, have been so tremendous in enlarging the boundaries and the powers of Prussia and the prestige of Bismarck at the ex- pense of Napoleon, that the Mexican flasco in the general account may be treated as a worth- less bagatelle. Hence we find Napoleon ‘adopting the wise resolution of getting out of this Mexican fiasco as fast as possible. Our Minister at Paris, Mr. Bigelow, to this end is invited to meet the Emperor and his new Prime Minister, M. Mous- tier, at Biarritz, where the arrangements are made which have so far been developed, in the special mission of General Castelneau to Mexico, in the hasty retirement of Maxi- milian, and in the departure of Mr. Campbell and General Sherman, charged with the instructions of our government, for Mexico. It is probable that but for the melancholy consequences of this dis- astrous imperial Mexican adventure to the amiable and accomplished Empress Carlotta Maximilian would have remained in “the halls of the Montezumas” to meet General Castel- neau, for the purpose of formally turning over to him, as the representative of Napoleon, the government received at his hands. We may excuse the ungracious retreat of Maximilian, in view of his great affliction and the disap- pointments and losses of his house, charge- able to France and Napoleon; but, for our present purpose, whatever the immediate causes, it is sufficient that the Mexican Franco- Austrian empire is removed with the Emperor, and that the coast is clear for a settlement with France and the Mexican republic, The settlement contemplated, as we learn, embraces the full re-establishment of the Mexican republic and a treaty of peace and friendship with it on the part of France, in- cluding the payment of the indemnities or claims which were the cause of the original armed coalition of France, England and Spain. The United States will stand security for these in- demnities and will furnish the republic of Mexico the funds to meet them, in considera- tion of the cession to our government of the Northern mineral States or departments of Co- habuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Lower Cali- fornia, with the great Gulf of California and | all vgol-, all its commercial advantages. But the light, grand feature of this settlement will be “3 practical vindication of the Monroe d rigs ‘ European non-intervention in the Be affairs of the independent States OF “tris conti- nent, and from this settlement %,, may expect this doctrine to become 5 established Taw in this hemisphere, . ~ The administy”on of Prosident Johnson, rte ial this great achievement and with th Zaccess of this great American doc- trite, will secure ® lasting renown in his- tory, and there are still some other matters In our foreign relations in the adjustment of which we anticipate from Mr. Johnson the most satis- factory and substantial results to the exaltation of the United States among the leading nations of the earth. We have no doubt of the com- plete and crowning success of this mission of Mr. Campbell, including the establishment of the Mexican republic op a solid basis and J Downfall of the Southern Oligurohy. One fact which the late elections in the North must make plainly manifest to the people in the South is the determination of the country that the old politicians who have It is foolish for the people of the South to say “we must stand by our old leaders;” for it is a false sense of honor which induces a man to uphold another who has betrayed him into committing wrong. The treason of the Southern slaveholding aris- tocracy against the country was not greater than the inhumanity which they had for years systematically practised upon the laboring class of the South. The controlling interests in slave labor and landed property at the South had been for many years before the war in the’ hands of less than ninety thousand of the three hundred thousand persons who owned slaves; and these ninety thousand have been the rulers not only of the South, but up to 1860 they dic- tated at Washington to the country at large. They wielded a great influence for evil over the people of the Sonth, and retained that power by the most infamous of means. They persistently kept the “poor whites” in ignorance, discouraged free schools and established only those of the most expensive character, leaving the whites to grow up in ignorance,.well know- ing that as long as they were ignorant they could be ruled. They imbued the two races which form the laboring clags of the South, the “poor whites” and negroes, with the idea that their interests were antagonistic, and by artful means created between them a prejudice which to this day, and must for many years to come, Politically divide the laboring class of the South, when it ought to be united in purpose as it is in interest. Through the ignorance of both these classes and the prejudice existing between them, the slaveholders were enabled to rule them with a rod of iron, and the slavery in which the negro existed was not more abso- lute than that endured by the “poor whites.” ‘This ignorance and prejudice was the strength of the rebellion; for had the people of the South understood the demagogues who ruled them, and the purposes to which they aspired, there would never have been any rebellion. These same leaders now seek to restore their loat power and to revive by the reconstruc- tion of the old democratic party the machinery by which they ruled the country before the war. But Congress has prepared a means for forever dispossesing these leaders, and the North has firmly and positively decided, in the late elections, that Congress is to be sustained and the amendment be made a law. The pro- vision is a wise one, framed in the true interests of the whole people, for the benefit of the labor- ing classes of the South, both white and black, and the former should step forward to assfst in the work of shelving their old leaders and nul- lifying their schemes by the adoption of the constitutional amendment. Our Water Durzvozs awp Communications.— The government has been so busy with unskil- ful projects of political reconstruction that it has left unheeded one great lesson of our late warlike experience, and we are fast being lulled into a false sense of security. The de- fonceless condition of New York during the war made apparent to all. The forts at the entrance to our harbor would be no obsta- cle to an enemy with a fraction of the enter- prise and daring of Farragut, and in the event ofa war with any of the great naval Powers of Europe, the bombardment and perhaps ocou- pation of New York city would be one of the most feasible of projects, The best English or French iron-clads could run by Forts Hamil- ton, Lafayette and Richmond without any difficulty and either lay the city under contri- bution or force us to a terrible and doubtful naval battle in our harbor. The government shoul@ be looking to the improvement and ex- tension of our harbor i and at once. And not only these, but other matters not less important to our commercial and national interests are being neglected. There is no safer const naturally on the face of the globe than our Atlantic coast, and none go little im- proved artificially, It is a common complaint that the various light ships on our coast are frequently miles out of place and remap - for months at a time. There are ¢ of them that it has become tio a aie to keep them in place. The (1) ole coast should be supplied with ($4 “host of lights and staal ~P best of lights an ie _“ghted up at night, as is Broadwa7, > ‘is only a few years sinco that “4 Were compelled to carry head and collisions have been far less fre- ‘quent. The coast needs improvement in this respect, and the commercial interests of this city should force the attention of the authori- ties to the subject. ; Military as well as commercial interests demand the widening and deepening of Hell Gate and the other entrances by the Souad to this city; and we cannot too frequently or emphatically urge the importance of this improvement on the government. Our North- ern frontier is painfully deficient in interior lines of water communication, If a war should result with England from the positive demands which ought to, and we suppose eventually will be, made for the payment of our Alabama claims, we should have to over- ron all Canada and New Brunswick with immense armies before we could establish water communications between the ocean and and the Iakes—an important advantage to be the additiog of countless millions to our | secured in caso of war. The English bold all @ad commercial resources with our | the existing means for transfertjag a vessel ow adquisitions from Maxico. ‘rom the Atlantic to Lake Onterio ; and their Niagara canal, the Welland, only passes vessels | the General to go to Baltimore. More than that, of four hundred tons burden. Government | we think his preseace and action there had should take hold of and finish the Niagara ebip | a ood effect. Nor was the eending of General canal and connect Lake Ontario with Lake | Grant there in a political difficulty without Erie and the rest. Not only should that line | precedent. We remember that General Scott be built but the projected Lake Champlain | was sent to South Carolina in the time of the canal should be completed, and direct commu- | nullification trouble, and that this had a very nication between the ocean and the lakes estab- | happy effect. But these are exceptional cir- lished at once. Our interior communications | cumstances, The tenor of our remarks was to in this respect are sadly deficient, and if Grant were to-day called to plan a campaign against Canada he would find himself almost entirely deprived of the co-operation of Farragut. “In time of peace prepare for war,” is a bit of advice which will hold good even in this age of diplomacy. ‘Tho Next United States Sonaier—The Issuo Between Greeley and Harris. Mr. Horace Greeley has a very strong claim upon the republican party. It dates back to the Pittsburg Convention of 1856, where he dis- charged the duties usually assigned to an ex- perienced matron, and appeared upon the platform with his innocent countenance beam- ing with delight at the birth of the new organi- zation, and his red belcher pocket handker- chief wet with tears shed over the dissolution ofthe old whig party. From that time to the pre- sent Mr. Greeley has been a faithful and untir- ing worker in the republican ranks, and has largely contributed to placing republi- canism in its present triumphant position. Mr. Lincoln owed his first nomination at Chicago to Mr. Greeley, and it will not be controverted “that “Honest Old Abe” was the power that en- abled the republicans to establish themselves on a solid basis after their first brilliant suc- cess. Mr. Greeley is a candidate for the position of United States Senator, and the republican Legislature is strong enough to bestow that office upon whom the members please. There is no good reason why they should not now discharge the debt they owe to Mr. Greeley. Thousands of men whose services are not to be compared with his have received honors and more substantial rewards from the party. There is no question as to his fidelity or capa- city, and the fact that he has heretofore been very badly treated by the firm of Seward and Weed, who have for years availed themselves of his services in the political field and withheld from him all the fruits of victory, should re- commend him to the especial favor of those who now control the republican party in this State. We have sometimes been pompelled to scold Mr. Greeley, but we have always done so kindly, and have felt as we can imagine a strong parent must feel when impelled to chas- tise an unruly child. He has his faults, and we have no desire to conceal them. He has played the truant from common sense, and run after Fourierism, the negro, Bloomerism and bran bread much the same as a schoolboy will occa- sionally play “hookee” from school, and de- light in making mud pies or dancing break- downs in the gutters. He has suffered himself to be led into some very lengthy and silly personal controversies with “T. W.;” but no person who has had patience to read their correspondence can doubt which has been the sharper and which the victim in the game of politics they have-played together. “T. W.” has always been found behind the table handling the thim- bles, while “H. G.” has been endeavoring to discover the whereabouts of the “little joker.” Since Mr. Greeley has cut loose from the polit- ical blacklegs who for a long time cajoled and cheated him he has evinced a disposition to tone himself down to the character of a sensi- ble, practical man, and to give up the vagaries which have hitherto impaired the usefulness of his natural sound sense and ability. The choice of United States Senator seems to lie between Mr. Greeley and Senator Ira Har- ris. Mr. Greeley has declared emphatically in favor of the constitutional amendment as the basis upon which loyal representatives. from the now unrepresented States are to be allowed to take their seats in Congress. He has very properly denounced the Jacobin programme of hanging Jeff Davis and General Lee and de- posing the President. In the United States Senate he would exercise a very important infinence, and would bold a powerful check upon Sumner and Chandler and the other Senatorial allies of Ben Butler and Thad Stevens. His republicanism cannot be questioned, and he would have a splendid opportunity to keep the party on the right track, and to prevent it from running off at any of the misplaced switehes of Jacobinism or copperheadism. Senator Harris, who is a candidate for re-election, has no claim upon the republican party that can equal that of Mr. Greeley. He has avowed himself during the recent canvass a supporter of the Jacobin faction, and has declared in favor of Ben Butler’s programme, including the impeach- ment of the President and all the other revolu- 1 tionary schemes designed to disturb the forte of the country and to enable the BY Bethel hero to subject the citizgns S Pow ¥ t the discipline of Cook cok oe has beld the ofys C4 Waited States Senator for one term, “a3 sb~‘ald be willing to give way Braceinle to Mr. Greeley, who has done so Tagor, in the past and may do so much in the future for the republican party. The friends of Mr. Greeley should set to work in earnest; for under the new law of Congress the election of United States Senator takes place on the second Tuesday after the organization of the Legislature. They have every prospect of success with the newly elected House; for their candidate stands squarely upon the platform on which Governor Fenton, despite his weakness and imbecility, was elected; while Ira Harris has wandered off and gone astray after the crazy Jacobins. They have also the inside traék in the Senate; for Messrs. Folger, Andrews, Humphreys, Lent, Ezra Cornell and all the leading Senators are honest supporters of the con- stitutional amendment as a finality, end are opposed to the revolutionary schemes of the radical Jacobins. On this issue the Logis- lature should not hesitate to eleet Horace Greeley im preference to Ira Harris. Our Ary Orricers i Poxrricat Arrains.— One or two of the country newspapers have objected to our remarks upon General Grant going to Baltimore at the time of the political troubles there a few days ago. They misun- derstood the tenor and motive of our comments. ‘We did not intend to cast agy reflection upon General Grant. He wes acting under instruc- tions, or, at least, bythe request of « superior authority. We were satisfied, too, that tho Presl- dont acted fravi the best mott¥os In reanesting the effect that ina general way and only under extraordinary circumstances should the officers of the army be employed or interfere in political | matters. Our comments were intended as pre- cautionary against adopting an impolitio if not & dangerous practice, rather than condemnatory in this particular case. That is all we have to say to our country contemporaries on this sub- ject. THE METEORIC SHOWER. Leek Out for the Display Te-Night and To-Morrow Night. The good people of Gotham who are not much accus- tomed “to seo stars’ in any of the generally received ways will do well to keep a sharp look out to-night and to-morrow night for the brilliant meteoric display which astronomers announce as probable on one of the above mentioned nights. The appearance of the meteoric shower is expected between the hours of midnight and dawn, and the radiating point or source of the display is generally indicated as in the constellation Leo Major. At about half-past eleven o'clock P. M. that constellation will be between ten and fifteen degrees above the eastern horizon. It may be distinguished by the posi- tion of its stars, which resemble the shape of a scythe. ‘The most brilliant of these stars is Regulus—in the end/of tho saythe-handie—and it is in its immediate neighbor- hood that the radiation is announced as likely to appear. Meteors of great brilliancy and duration have often been chronicled, and their appearance is usual almost every year between the latter part of August and middie of November; but it has been noted that about every thirty-third year of a century an unusually grand ais- play of this kind of celestial pyrotechny takes place, The last of this kind was visible on this continent on the morning of November 13, 1833, and was especially ais- tinguished by the immense numbers of moving meteors to be seen at once, and for the remarkable size and splen- dor of many of them. Among tho myriads of blazing meteors visible on that occasion one was seen at several places on this continent. It was recognized by several observers by its extraordinary size and brilliancy, as well as by the length of time its train remained ‘visible, which was about ten minutes. The luminous train seemed to follow the moteor in a serpentine course, and finally disappeared in a vast nebulous crowd many tivaes larger than the moon and which continued to move onward with a velocity greater than the clouds. The great shower of meteors in 1799 was visible in Europe on the morning of November 12, and on November 13, 1832, a similar display was witnessed on the same continent. Although we have had no account of any having been noticed in Europe in November, 1865, «till we of the New World lay claim to a display for our benefit this year. It has, also, been observed that the date of the great moteoric shower advances one day every period, so that it may not take place until the night of November 13-14. In previous occurrences of this kind the maxi- mum was observed between the hours of three o’clock A. M. and dawn. During that time the constellation Leo Major advances woll above the horizon and the darkness is great enough to give effect to the display. It has been noticed that great meteoric showers have, usually preceded great events in the bistory of the world. So, incase this display occur, the quid nuncs will be busy in divining the great event foreshadowed. Is it @ great empire to be destroyed, a great emperor to fall, a great war to break out, or what Is it? TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. The recurrence of the great meteorological phenomena of 1799 and of 1833 is expected between the 12th and 14th inst. These displays were so grand and appalling as to lead all who behoid them to suppose that the end of the world had come. The spectacle is more likely to occur (or at least to be teat) between the hours of twelve M. and four A. M., when the great majority of peoplo will be in bed and asleep. Would it not be well, therefore, to have it arranged and understood that upon the commencement of the phenomenon all the fire bells be loudly rung throughout the city, so as to rouse all and afford them an opportunity of becrsougr = God's mighty and wonderful works, ‘AR GAZER. THE GREAT OCEAN YACHT RACE CONTROVERSY. TO THE EDITOR OF THR HARALD. Tho gentleman signing himself *‘Landsman,"’ in answering my letter of the 10th, defends as warmly my supposition that ‘cowardice’ might be attributed to the yacht owners for not going on th#’ocean race, as if it were really an accusation and they were guilty of it. My letter was founded upon the general opinion that they were going; for heretofore every yacht race made ia the annals of the New York Yacht Club bas been personally participated in by the yacht owners. Why this one of all others (for what yachtsman or even American will not consider it @ national affair?) should be an exception naturally suggests an inquiry as to the cause. The reasons given are certainly vory sensible; but one can hardly expecta “landsman'’ to appreciate the points of a yacht race, or the position of a yachtsman. If ‘business and domestic interests’ prevent the yacht owners from why do they, possess: ties, going, such make such @ race when they are unable ry sustain its character? For Landsmen’s boats should keep near shore, And only sailors venture more. If the criticisms of “Jim Brown’? or “ John Smith ” wore alone to be considered in the affair it would pro- bably bea matter of indifference to the contesting par- ties; but Mr. ‘Landsman '’ should remember that it will be subjected to the jealous and su; ilious criticiam of @ foreign public, which will be the last to consi the lame and impotent of “business claimd”’ and “domostic ties.’’ seca A YACHTSMAN. WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. Bax Larers’ Protective Usion, Mormsamia.—The Operative brieklayers of the town of Morrisania held a meeting at Patrick J. Bergen’s house, on Fordham ‘avenue, betwoen First and Second streets, in the town of Morrisania, on last Thursday even! appointed 3QaA. Gctfex chairman and Robert ua ry ¥ tens wan bel <tr the 8 Bricklayers’ Protecti {idk to thove ta 'Now York AsA0LT AND ATTEN: Wranwar Rossray im Wasr Fanue,—On Satu:, iy night, at about eight o'clock, Mr. Charles H. Dotdt, of New York, whose offige is in Wéat ‘Thirtie'¢Hreet, near Broadway, while on his way from the, ¢filage of West Farms to Tremont, and when within 4 A:Siance of the latter place, was set upon by three “ulang who vet faatene down and beat him badly. ent ehed his took Ths’ that honey he hed, Mr, Boldt gate, an sierm, which caused the fellows to leave, 6 WEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. an joy, 10, 1306, ‘The steamer binisaida astra aaliéa to-day, with $866, 000 in treasure, of which $602,000 is for New York. She also carried one hundred tons of wheat and twenty tons of flour. Among her passenger? are Wm. M. Stewart, United States Senator from Nevada, and G. H. Mumford, of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. Consul Goday claims thirteen cannon, recently brought from French fortifications at Mazatlan, ao the propert of the Mexican republic, and wilt treat thelr sale as v The clearance of steamer Continental, which sailed on Thursday for San Bias, Manzavilla and Aca- pulco, was obtai from the Mexican imperial Consul, ‘Wheat sold to-day at $210 por 100 Ibs., Hawaiian iy. it $id 90; 180; Bripire Milk Silas Limpert, "$810; * pagal tenders, TO. J ‘ Sam Francisco, Nov, 11, 1866. ‘The steamer Pacifiic, from Columbia river, brings $205,000 in treasure. The bark Bernier, from Honolulu, brings fourteen hundred kegs and three hundrod bags sugar, nine hun- dred barrels molasses. Lahina, from Foo Chow, brings four thousand boxes The following whalers arrived from the Northern Ocean :—Steamer Milo, with 1,000 barrels oi| and 15,000 pounds bone; bark John Howland, with $90 barrels oil and Ly i ed brig Manilla, with 180 barrels ofl and 12,000 pounds bono. ws The Western Union Telegraph Oompany's bark Oy . ward, from Petropaulovski, y iny in ballas ¢ WARYLLAD HORSE FAIR. Bautiwons, Nov. 11, 1566, The Maryland qorse Fair is announced to take plac hore this we.”, commencing on Tuesday. The farous horses Dégter and Patohon are to be present, arg there Will be, rials Of spead each day for vreminr ss ranging Crome ene vy $4,008 ‘ CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tuw Ivrsrocrep Raikoap,—Yosterday a squad @ workmen wore engaged in tearing up and relaying a tion of the pavement of Broadway on either side of rails recently laid down by the Dry Dock, East Broad. way and Battery Railroad Company, extending from Any to Fulton street, and which they were lately restrained from using by virtue of an order of injunction issued by the and published Hea oft St as. in che undertaking afte = feelings of renrorse for hat rendered the this section of the great fare 80 ansighuy, determined to make somo reparation for the wrong in aie he ar eatin on the, lation pola’ trot io very Wineak pe MH nid i i é | f i i HH er if i A BE! 3 is gE H m : t i | if ii it ii Peat i i been successful. The only announcement made te the was the columns of the Huratp om that day, when over $2,000 was subscribed for them. A Sooierr or Saovnanmsts.—The society calling selves Seculariste, which is a numerous and active body of people in England, and whose creed is that our duties are best fulfilled and happiness secured by attending te the industrial and social duties of this life, have come rg a | of a series fT Sixth avenue. Pr. Kinget ae Be ladies and gentlemen addressed the meeting, Gant ey (ets. Romney ane reat Se eee seer perity and happiness which had resulted from their re- Pudiating all politicians and attending strictly to thelr own business, and that poverty, insanity and divorce were unknown among them. Anotuge Rartaoap AoccipEnt.—The almost dally occur. rence of accidents on the various lines of railroads throughout the city, occasioned by the recklessness of ngets and carelessness of drivers, seems to we no effect, and passengers are as recke less and ratiroad employés as careless as if ne accidents had ever occurred. Last abous eight.o’clock, John McDonald, residi: Forty-sixth street, attempt to jum| platform of car No. 47, of the Third Avenue Rail while it was going up Third avenue, near Twenty-sevent street. He fell under the forward wheel of the car an@ had his leg so badly crushed that it is feared ampute- tion will be found necessary. He was conveyed to vue hospital and properly cared for. Domestio =Inveuicrry.—Owen Harvey and his wife Catharine, residing at No. 217 Elizabeth street, have both been addicted to a rather free use of ‘‘the ardent’? Last night both had indulged taeir appetites so muck that Owen, to work off the influence of the spirits, com. menced beating his wife, and before he desisted Cathae rine was go severely bruiscd that her life was despaired of. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital by the Four- teenth precinct police. Owen was arrested and beld te await the result of his wife’s injuries, An Ivrant Fouxp Drap.—At about a quarter of am hour before one o'clock yesterday morning a boy named James Smith discovered the dead body of a fomale im fant in a vacant lot in the rear of 607 West Forty-fourth street. The police were informed, and the body od taken to the Twenty-second precinet station house. Coroner was notified and will hold an inquest. Reuter vor Tae ScrreRinc Pxor.e or FRavos. —Barom Boilloau, the Consul General of France, has opened as his office, No. 2 Bowling Green, a subscription for the relief of the thousands of destitute people whom the late. terrible inundations in France, along the Garonne, the Loire and the Rhone, have left ina state of starvation. Whole villages have been swopt away, and crops ang vinevards destroyed in hundreds of localities. The case ig one which appeals to the charity of all, and eape- cially to those having commercial relations with France, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A Mother Casts Herself and Her Child intothe North River—Her Dress Buoys Her Up and She is Rescued by the Orew of a Vessel~ The Trials and Miseries of an Emigrant Family, &c. “Ellen Johnson, insane,’ was the entry on the docket of the Jefforaon Market Police Court yesterday morning, which was intended fora young woman who stood bee fore the bar, holding in her arms a very young child, There was something which attracted the spectator's at tention more than her manifest weariness; something which interested aside from that sick babe lying om ite mother's breast, its great blue eyes filled with a mourme ful light. The figure of the woman was of medium heigh#, well knit and rounded. Her face was English, her fea- tures regular and almost beautiful, and a wealth of goldes hair (ell {rom beneath a coarse straw hatover her necks and shoulders. Her light gray eyes were sad and trou- ied and her countenance bore an expression wretched, miserable, haggard. Some trouble was affecting her too deeply to allow her to take note of passing objects, the crowded, curious throng, the policemen on either side of ber, or the gaze of the magistrate fixed upca her. She gave no thought to these and, gave that she would now and then fix her eyes upon her babe and bug the poor, weak thing to her breast with all a mother’s some terrible ty i Hi H : it 5; i 3 aby i i ff i civ i E ire if is 4 4 Hf bf LH d Z i reil be i : ist ERlbes ? i = Ee i 5 5 H i g ee B36 i 3 z E z i =i ie s E & 5 E ii 2 i rs did come to bis wifa wt the station house. THE BALTIMORE DIFFICULTY. Governoy: Swann Urged to Call an Extra Sees sion of the Legislature—Delay of the Judges, rns, &e. of EVection in Mahlis Boe, ‘Nov. 11, 18a | wore made to Go’ , propriety of calling am ony which ho wilt carefulle ¢ a Now York on Wodnew ay or of election, 7 make a ry” <oF some Per arn of t ty of refi cho five days Sw7.nn inst might as to the ¥ asion of tho Lagisiature, ‘nidor his retura from Thursday. Ramors provail that the Jo unexplained reason, hesitate fo. Me Totes od at the recent ol 5 ae ‘of $500 and imprisonment, Taw expire to-morrow. cal Canta! oy for Congrome owart, dofoatod by jan ative againat 4 in close communion farely with & prominoot POM viv. Tie god Washington th “ are from, ‘cory well informed quarters -. that ee roiaeat wi bo urged President