The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. ‘ a eeeeres JANKS GORDUS BAASETE EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR CORNER UF FULTON ANP NASSAU STS. eeisinaiealll cuneate AMUSEMENTS THIS 4¥TERNOON 4 Y THEATRE, Brocdway, sear Broome BR yp Matinee at Lig 0” ook -Seureesen NEW YORK THRATRE, Broadway, Hotel. —Gaurritn Gaunt, Om Jnacovey. o'Ctock. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth Bin artuus Tas Seats Hambe—a Lapa’ Coen ‘Malloes st Ono o'Clook —Buizanarn. GERMAN STADT THEATRE. Nos 45 ana «7 ~~ mm Daun von Panis Os DER SCHUSTERTENGE, Om, WILLING. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. Sid Broadway.— xn Jesu ND Seu ZOmeLuna. whe DODWORTH'S wit Peevors mis LU, 806 Brosdway.—Proressos Haute mactes. Matines at Two o'Clook. N FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. Broadway. opposit et otropoliian, Movel—is ad ronas, ierearaie. ments, Sunaina, Daxcixe asp Buaseseu’ romime, FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUBE, Nos. 2 a04 4 West Fwoaty-fourih atreet.—~! art's MINSTRELS, =I PMOPtAN Murvmasise. Barcaps. BURLESUCES, @C. A Pair fo 14 Moox. Matinoe at 236 o'Clook. 3. 720 Mroadwa in Songs, Dancese Boeew. > ene Wout, KELLY & LEOW'S MINSTR alle the New York Hotel —T eateries, ke. —Excuasion A TONY PASTOR'S OPERA 10} 201 Bowery.—Coute iM—Necko MINSTRELST. us ony &c.—Unore Sam's Verexaxs. Matinee at 235 o'Clock, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPR, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway~In a Vantety or Licae ‘np Lavanasie Enrextaixwxsts, Conrs pe Prnaue Curnxs in Wasuinctox. Matinee at 24 o'Clock. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Srexo tue Proves—Inea: ND AMERICA HOOLEY'S OPERA HC 's oklyn —Ermorias Mix aragisy, Battaps, BURLESQU! ip PaNtomines, IRVING HALL, Irving Benarit or tak Masonic ace.—Graxp CONCERT YOR THE ALL AND ASYLUM I'uND, STRINWAY HALL, Fourteonth street.—Concenr ov tux be rr tod Society or New York. Public Rehearsal at NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Browdway.— Lecroxes wit tus Oxy-HypnoceN Microscore | twice ey ery: a Rigat Ag or Prosst. Open from 8 110 P. DERBY GALLERY, 635 Broadway.—| Gaxat Pictuge “Hxuoxs or tae Rerv: New York, Saturday, November 17, 1866. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Our report from Europe by the cable ix dated to Fri ay evening, November 16. The British Cabinct meets In frequent session. A London journal denies that England is about to ap- point a cominission to settle the Alabama claims. United States Consul Morse bas published a letter in which he states that the claims of the United States on all con- federate property are fully recoguized in the agresment with Trenholm & Co. “Short time" and wages strikes prevail fa the manu- facturing districts of Eng'and. Prussia is organizing a powerful navy. Austria and Prussia have, it is said, conciuded com. mrcial arrangements ia a friendly spirit. ‘The King of Saxony announces his intention to vb- serve his “obligations’’ to Prussia. Cousols closed in London at 9014 for money yesterday. United States five-twentios were at 70. Tho Liverpool cotton market closed heavy yesterday at « decline oxpericnced steadily during the woek. Mid- dling uplands was at fourteen pence at the latest, Bread- stuffy were firm. THE CITY. ‘The storm which prevailed on Thursday night and yesterday morning proved very damaging in {ts elfeets. The wharves and piers were seriously injured. One undred feet of the wharf at the foot of Clarkson street gave way andfellin. The rear of a building in process of erection in Brooklyn was blown dowa and crushed through a dwelling house, but no body was injured, ‘Tho storm also prevailed to a considerable extent along the Hudson. ‘The Legislative Commitiee on the wharves and piers of New York city andBrooklyn was again in session yea- teorday. William Alien Butler made a report in behalf of the Pilot Commissioners, and Mr. Bergh apd other gentlemen presented their views to the commuttee. James R. Whiting, of this city, has been appointed a commissioner by the Governor to investigate the charges against Charles G. Cornell, Street Commissioner, and John Sedgwick has been appointed a like commissioner to investigate the charges preferred against Matthew T. Brennan, City Comptroller. A malignant form of typhus fever is prevailing in some of the up town public insututions, particularly in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and in the female ward of the Catholic Reformatory, foot of Eighty-sixth streot, East river, Shortly before eleven o'clock last Thursday night a fire occurred in the brick edifice 112 and 114 Myrtie venue, Brooklyn, known as Granada Hall, entailing a loss of $4,500. The lower part of the building waa occu- Pied as stores, and the upper part as a meeting room for ‘masonic, odd fellows and (emperance societica. William A. Marsh, a boy sixteen years of age, on ‘Thursday forged the namo of James A. Dorman to a check for $20,000 on the Sixth National Bank and_pre- Gented i, The clerk would have paid it as he believed the signaturo to be genuine, but Mr. Dorman did not have that amount in bank, and becoming suspicious ho detective. The boy when arrosted confessed gery and was committed fur trial, ball being refused. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, Judge Sutherland decided that the discretion of tho Board of Exciso in granting tavern licendes was absolute and final, and that the court would not Interfere to compel them €o produce evidence to show upon what grounds they had refused a liconse toa person of alleged improper character. The trial of Jerry O'Briev, which was commenced on Tuesday in tho General Sessions, was concluded last evening. The jury retired at balf-past two o'clock, and returned at six o'clock with a verdict of guilty of mur- dor im the first degree. The prisoner was remanded for sentence. Tho trial of Braine, the alleged pirate of the Chesapeake, went over for the term yesterday, in the courts of Brooklyn, on account of the inaccessibility of witnesses, By the arrival of the brig Wator Lily, Captain Wiggins, from Rio Grande del Sud, Brazil, we wavo Ole of papers to the 21st of September, but they contaio uo news of interest. The Inman line steamship Edinburg, Cuptain Hal- crow, will sail to-day at noom for Queenstown and Liver- poo! from pier 45 North river. The mails will clove at tho Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The new steamship Columbia, Captain Ferrier, of the Auchor line, will sail from pier No. 3 North river to-day, at twelve o'clock, with passengers for Glasgow and Liv- Srpool. This is the first voyage of the Columbia. The steamship Borussia, Captain Schwensen, will sail from Hoboken at twelve M, to-day for Cowes and Ham- burg. The mails will close at the Post Office at balf-past fen o'clock. Tv steamship Ariadne, Captain Sawyer, velong- fing to C. H. Mallory & Co.'s line, will positively eail this sfiernoon from pier 20 East river, for Galveston, Texas. Tho stoamahip General Grant, Captain BE. W. Holmes, Of the Cromwell line, will leave pir No, 9 North river Bia afternoon, at three o'clock, for New Orleans dir-ct. The superior steamsutp San Jacinto, Captain Loveland, @! (be Empire side-wneo! line, will sail from pier No. 13 North river this afternoon, at three o'clock, for Savan- enn ‘The popular side wheel steamship Quaker City, Capta: Won Hl, West, of the Leary line, ph pigs hin rory @: thrar o'clock, from pier No. 14 East river for Chartes- tou, connecting wih the steamer Dictator, for the Florida Ports. The Andalusia will follow on Tuesday next, 20th tos MISCELLANEOUS, Our Vora Ceaz (Mexico) correspondences is dated envher L Maximilian is om his way back to the rod that Marshal Bazcine sent him enptad to leave Mexico without per. Maximitian) would be placed to arrest, and © onferd tie commander of the Anstrian let Maximilian embark on his cr papomdenee is dnid Yelover ‘Their sontance will mot at present be commuted, but simply suspended —kceping them as houtages for the 00d betavior of their friends. The Grand Jury of the court at Toronto in which the Fenian trials have boen going om was yesterday discharged. The Court of the Queea's Bench meets on Monday, when the Fonian trials will be Comtinued. An express train was thrown of the railroad track at Guelph yesterday. A passenger named Weeks was killed, and soveral others were in- Jured. Our correspondence from Salt Lake City 1s dated No- vember 1, The inqueston the body of Dr. Robinson war ati progressing, Governor Durkee had returned from an extended (our through the north. The people of Richmond, according 10 ovr correspond out, are very apathetic on the subject of politics at pres- ent. AGovernor w Ww be clected soon, Dut mo candi. dato has been panied for the position. N ‘The report in full of the Commitios of the Georga Legislature on the constitutional amendment is published in our columns this morning. A yacht race come off yesterday between the Una and Fidget, at Poughkeepsie, the distance being nine miles down the Hudson and return. The race was won by the Fidgett, in two hours and forty-two minutes, being four minutes ond threo-quarters ahead of the Una. The Pacification of the Country—The Result of the Recent Elections, The gencral result of the recent elections is one of those decisive political triumphs which mark a new departure and a new epoch in our political history. We have bad three of these great contests upon great conflicting ideas in reference to the general policy of the govern- meut since the time of Washington ;. and the settlements effected in the first and in the second were merely the preparation of the ground for the third and most comprehensive and decisive of any contest in our political annals. The first of these three great political struggles was that of 1800, between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—between the old federal and the old republican party—the one representing those conservative ideas in- herited from England, and the other the radical popular sovereignty ideas of the first French republic. It was in a modified torm a conflict between the English monarchists and the French Jacobina, and, fresh from their long war of independence against England, the Amer- ican people of that day naturally sympathized with the republicanism of the French revolution which was drawn from our own; and so Jeffer- son and his radical ideas of State rights and State sovereignty prevailed. From this triumph those ideas were made, more or leas, the established interpretation of the federal constitution for a period of sixty years, down to the Dred Scott decision under Buchanan’s administration. But still the radical State rights and popular notions of Jefferson as a candidate were discarded by Jefferson and his republican successors in power. Hence the uninterrupted reign of the old republican party for a term of twenty-four years. The election of 1824 was a scrub race, which signified nothing but the confusion incident to a reconstruction of parties, the old federal and republican parties having disappeared. In 1828'tho late great democratic party, against John Quincy Adams and his enormous national expenditures of thirteen millions a year, came into power under the banner of General Jackson, the battle of New Orleans and “re- trenchment and reform.” Still smarting from the wounds of the war of 1812 against England, the majority of the American people rallied around Jackson and elected him as the hero of New Orleans. This example of » military chieftain was successfully followed by the whigs with General Harrison and with General Taylor. These, however, were all sporadic cases of military chieftains. It was in Jackson’s second election, in 1832, upon his war with the old United States Bank, that the second of our decisive national con- testa was fought, resulting im the overthrow of the Bank, the shaping of our financial system down to the late war, and in the solid organt- zation of the late democratic party, Yet after Jackson the party was terribly defeated in 1840, escaped by the skin of its teeth in 1844, was thrown out again in 1848, had a narrow escape again in 1856, and was cut to pieces and scattered to the winds in 1860, leaving only its Northern rump to be demolished in 1866, After Jackson the party turned its face to strange gods and set up the worship of Baal, in the form of the “almighty ni pe on a cotton bale. This wor ip, from to worse, was carried at last to such extremes that the Northern States (like the children of Israel in many sim‘lar cases) rose in their wrath against his outrageous pretensions, and finally, in 1860, secured the choice of a ruler pledged to confine this presumptaous Baal or Moloch and his fire-esters within certain pre- scribed boundaries. A This was the first election of Abraham Lincoln ; but it decided nothing except that slavery should go no further. There was a Sonthern revolt against this decree of the American people. The North rallied in arms to put down this revolt, and the second elec- tion of Lincoln was a decree from the Northern people that slavery, too, should be put down as the cause and the life of the rebellion. All this is accomplished, when our third decisive political contest, touching the future policy of the government, comes on, be- tween the President’s Southern policy and the constitutional amendment of Congress. Theso recent elections have so decisively settled this controversy that even Wade Hampton must see that the amendment, sooner or later, is the “manifest destiny” of the South, and that the republican party in Congress has the keys of the Presidential enccession and the future in ite hands. Here, then, we stand. The victorious and all-powerful league of Union States in the war, represented by the dominant party in Con- pres say to the States rescued from a rebel- ous conspiracy, here is our ultimatum of res- toration. Accept it and come in, or reject tt and stay ont till ready for @ reconsideration. The alternative is with you to choose. Upon your choice you will be admitted into or ¢x- claded from the coming Preefdential election. The thige is Oxed beyond remedy jn Conergss to the end of President Johnson's term. 60 overwhelming, too, is this grand Northern ver- dict upon the plan of Congress, that in adher- ing to it,and by pursuing in other matters a wise and sagacious course, this new republican party, like the old one of Jefferson, may hold the reins of power without a bresk for twenty years to come, ‘The American Yacht Hace Across the At- taatio. ‘The public interest in the approaching yacht race from New York to the Isie of Wight ap- pears to be steadily increasing. The newspa- pers discuss it every dey and the people talk and argue about it at-all their places of resort. Two questions in regard to the race now at- tract the most general attention. The first is whether the owners will go with their yachts, and the second is whether any other yachts be- sides the Fleetwing, Vesta and Henrietta are to be permitted to enter. The arguments upon both sides of these questions are certainly very strong. It is very truly said, on the one hand, that the race was arranged between three private gentlemen, who consequently have the right to settle all the details; but it is just.as truly ae serted, on the other hand, that euch an ooena race is a national effair, involving our national reputation, and that it ought to.he so con- ducted in every way as to reflect credit upon the country. Both sides thus being in the right, it would seem that the whole matter ought to be turned over to that honorable member of Congress who “paired off with him- self” for further elucidation; but we think that, upon a candid consideration of the whole subject, all differences of opinion may be har monized. In regard to the first question, a contempo- rary takes the ground that the yacht owners ought certainly to sail in their own boats, “In sight of society, and, indeed, of the law,” it argues, “an American yacht is something more than a contrivance for amusing its owner or enabling him to win money. The conoes- sions which discriminate a yacht from a trading schooner require of the owner that he should bear in mind the credit of the flag which he is permitted to carry and the interests of the nation which grants him a certain and valuable claim upon the hospitality and the respect of other nations. As the conditions of the pro- jected ocean race between three yachts of the New York squadron are now known and un- derstood, it must be admitted that the intended contest bears a much closer resemblance to the raindrop wagers of the fribbles of the time of George IL and to the bets of the butchers of Yorkshire than is quite becoming.” In this view our contemporary proceeds to term the ocean race “a morely personal and sordid com- petition,” “a merely vulgar contest for a pecu- niary prize,” and “a scramble for sixty thousand dollars.” All this oriticism strikes us ag too severe. The gentlemen who origi- nated the race certainly deserve gentler treat- ment than this. To say that their object is merely to win money is qaite absurd. We must remember that they could have bet upon & raindrop, or the prowess of a butcher, or the chances of a game, had that sort of speculation been their only motive. They arranged an ocean yacht race because of thelr pride in American yachting, and the money, which is only an incidental feature, is to be used to defray their expenses or staked against the best English yachts by the winner of this race. Under these circumstances, therefore, wo adhere to our former opinion, that whether or not the owners shall go with their boats is a matter for them to decide. December is a stormy month, pleas of business and family duty are often imperative, and people who do not intend to eail in yacht races ought not to attempt to decide whether other people shall cross the ocean in mid-winter. Upon the second point we are able to agree with our contemporary better. There really appears to be no reaion why any yacht now belonging to the New York Yacht Club should not be allowed to sail in the race, except the very obvious reason that only three yachts were included in the original agreement. The owners of the Vesta, Fleetwing and Henrietta met and arranged the race, and no other yacht was taken in because no other yacht owner proposed to join in the contest. But now, after all the preliminaries are completed, it is stated that the owners of other yachts, and particularly of L’Hirondelle, are anxious to be fepresented in this great American contest. The difficulty is that, in order to admit these gentlemen, a new arrangement would have to be made and the whole sub- ject reopened. Just as some gentlemen desire more than three yachts to sail, so other gentlemen might suggest. different month for the start, and others still might wish to in- crease or decrease the amount of the wager. Here would be ample room for egr of de- bate, and the race night Ye Tete ely post- poned. The public has been too recently dis- appointed Jn the expected meteoric shower to have much patience with such procrastination, and it is as well to sail the race promptly with the yachts already entered. This is the argu- ment of many leading yachtsmen, and it has ite weight; but we think that it is overborne by the national phase which the contest has as sumed and by the fact that every yachtsman ought to wish to see the best boats entered, so that the best yacht may win. If L’Hirondelle bas beaten the other three yachts, so much the better for our national reputation, since the winner of this race is to the British squadron, and should be able to beat the fastest venssel afloat. Our contemporary is correct in stating that an occan race like this should not be compared to « maich between three mackerel schooners, and that the New York Yacht Club is interested, as the representative of the yachtsmen of this continent, in having the affair creditably conducted. We hope, therefore, that, in spite of the numerous techni- cal objections, the liste may be reopened and L’Hirondelle and any other of our fast yachts admitted, if their owners desire. Goverxon Fenton ow rue Riowt Taack—We understand that the private sceretary of Gov- ernor Fenton arrived in the olty yesterday with a despatch to Judgo Whiting, appointing him ® commissioner to investigate the man- agement of the Street Department, under the authority vested In the Governor at the last seasion of the Legislature, Judge Whiting has accepted the responsibility of the commission intrusted to him, and will commence the inves- tigation on Monday next, at ten o'clock pre- cisely. Woe advise Cornell and Tweed and the rest of the “ring” tall—who know what « busives+like end uncompromigias gan Jude Matthew T. Brennen withdraws. his name from the canvass as @ candidate for the office of City Comptrolier, and his angry manifesto, which we publish to-day, shows that the de- moralization of the “ring” is complote, and that its members have eset to work quarreling among themielves and calling each other bad names. This is all attributable to the result of the recent coumty election and the triumph of Mites O'Reilly over the combined forces of ‘Tammany and Mog:rt, by which tho bargain between Fernando Wood and the “ring” was upset and the arrangement for the re-election of Brennan knock »d to pieces, The retiring Comptroller “slashes about’’ and abuses everybody for uot acknowledging bis services end giving bim another chance at the offic. The partisan press bas overhauled him, he says, beoause he would not give sine- cures to the subordinates. The Citizens’ Asso- ciation has beon induced to criticise his official als by the “young lawyers” who ran that con- cern, and, according to the Comptroller, greatly to their own emolument, Contractors and gas companies and the Croton Board have all been using him very badly, and, richest joke of all, the “ring” regards him as its bitterest enemy. The idea of Comptroller Brennan having been an opponent of the “ring” will amuse the public; but his denunciation of his old chums shows how broken and demoralized is the cor- rupt clique that has so long misgoverned the city. The Comptroller takes credit for blocking the wheels of the Croton Department and put- ting a stop to necessary public improvements, According to his statement that Board bas been for some time giving out contracts against the interests of the city. As Mr. Brennan has paid every warrant issued to the contractors, with- out opposition, he haa been, by his own show- ing, a party to the transactions. But the people are well satisfied that the Croton Depart- ment is one of the few honestly admin- istered departmenta in the city govern- ment, and they know that the Comptroller's opposition to theo Board has been induced by political considerations alone. He takes credit for having reducod the Tax levy below the estimate of the Common Council, and complains that the Legislature haa always increased it beyond his recommendations, He does not state, however, that atter he has made the reduction and sent the levy to Albany the heads of the several bureaus under him and all the leading spirits of the “ring” have been commissioned up to Albany to lobby for its Increase, He takes a practical, sensible view ef the whole matter, however, when he says that the great Albany “ring,” which is certain this winter to sweep away all the mis- managed departments of the city government and place them under commission, deprives the contest for the Comptrollership of all “attractions” to him, and an election, if such a result were possible, of all “gratification.” So Matthew T. Brennan makes b‘s exit in very bad humor, and the Tammany rump must bunt up some other candidate, or, as is most probable, seek to hide its weakness by en- dorsing an honest and independent mau. ‘fun Tenvaytersc Rovrs.—In another column will be found o letter from Mr. L. E Hargous con radicting the statement made by one ot our correspondents, that a recent decree issued by President Juarez had annulled the rights acquired by the Louisiana and Tehuantepec Company under the decrees of the Mexican government of September, 1857, and March, 1859. The ground on which the concession in favor of a new company was stated to have been made was that the old company had for- feited its rights by not proceeding with the rallroad. Mr. Hargous shows that there could have been no such forfeiture, inasmuch as, under another decree of October, 1860, issued by Juarez himself, the old company were allowed & period of seven years from April, 1862, for the construction of the road, and that it is thercin expressly declared that the time dur- ing which the works might be prevented, by civil war or other controlling causes, should not be included in this term of seven The invasion of the country by the French and the continuance ever since of hostilities, of course funished, under this latter clause, suf- ficient legal justification for the company’s not proceeding with the work. Under no pretext of this kind, therefore, could their rights be voided. That they were even regarded as valid by the Emperor Maximilian we have evidence in the decree issued by him ratifying them. The explanation given of the motive of this strange proceeding on the part of the Juarez government is anything but creditable to those concerned in it It appears that a short time since s person named Lauentrie, a clerk under Mr. Seward, in the State Department, went to Mexico and got from President Juarez, for the new company, a fresh grant of the route. The consideration for this act of bad faith was a cash payment of $100,000, the $50,000 ob- tained from General Butler and his associates for the Lower California concession being, it seems, exhausted, and the liberals dreadfully in want of funds. Thus the parties in this Mexican business appear to be trying to cheat ach other all round. Napoleon eet the ex- ample in the Jecker job and bis tricking of Maximilian, and now Juarez is imitating him by going beck on bis own acts and violating privileges that be had himself conceded. Whatever interests individuals in the Btate Department may have in such proceedings, it is hardly possible that our government will permit the rights of its citizens to be thus shamefully trified with. Tue Aytics ov Tax Dewocratic Press.—The democratic newspapers are cutting up strange antics jast now. One of them, a slily sheet out West—the Chicago Times—which never had much of « record, except for rampant “copper headism,” is now going in for negro suffrage, having just discovered that there has been a revolution of opinion upon that subject. But ® great many other of the democratic papers do Mei Seem ty kaow thyt there haa bean any rer, having gained a great majority for the party, and claims to be the representative of the me- teopolis—the Five Points, Wheatley’s model artists, Corlear’s Hook, and all. We are afraid the democratic party is gotting demoralized. Wo see further evidence of this in the fact that the “ring” is beginning to sbuse itself, Comptrotier Brenuan, one of the principal stockholders in the covapany, is out in « letter denouncing It. What's the matter? The Mextean Mission. It has hitherto been rumored that Meximi- an was on his way back from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, having determined not to abandon the country so precipitately as he had at first intended. We give elsewhere an ac- count from one of our correspondents which renders this rumor highly probable, and attri- butes the change in Maximilian’s intentions to the remonstrances of Marshal Bazaine, who seems to desire that the empire founded by bi; master, tf fall it must, should fall gracefully and die with dignity. Mexican matters are of sufficient interest generally, but the press at large seoms scarcely to know what it showd say about the mission +o Mexico and to be almost afraid to touch it, Forney has observed that the Hunatv is the only journal which says anything about it; and that is natural enough, since the Heratp is the only paper that is well informed on topics of national importance. Perhaps, however, if Forney had a good big share in Ben Butler's Southern California job he would know a great deal about it. Different men have their eyes opened in different ways, and that is Forney’s way. Much discussion is ex- clted by the appointment of Mr. Campbell to the difficult position of plenipotentiary in this case, and it is freely declared in some quarters that he is in nowise equal to a satisfactory discharge of his duties, We can judge better of that when we know the result of his mission. In the mean- time it is comfortable to reflect that he is well sandwiched with General Sherman on the one band, whose achievements affix a national value to bis name, and with Mr. Plumb, the secretary of the commission, on the other—a gentleman known to be peculiarly tamillar with Mexico and her people and history. ‘The commission, while it will treat with Juarez and the imperialists at once, will deter- mine nothing, but will report all proposals to Washington for the consideration of the Presi- dent. Every suggestion made will therofore be deliberately weighed at the national capital, and perhaps in Cabinet council. This is wise; for os this mission is certainly one of the very first importance, both with respect to our relations with our neighbors on this continent and in regard to our relations with European Powers, it is proper that the nation should not be hastily or precipitately committed to any definite line of policy. Srecu.ations on THe Decuom or Gorv.— Tho market value of gold has heen declining lately, and yesterday it went below 143,, A month ago it was 154. There has been in the interim a great deal of fluctuation—up one day and down another—but the general tendency has been to a decline. The incidental fluctua- tions have been caused mainly by the gold gamblors, but the general result springs from general causes. Businoes men and the people at large begin to see that there is no good cause fora high premium on gold; that the resources of the country and government and the large stock of specie, both in the vauits of the Treasury and in the hands of the com- munity, afford o sufficient guarantee of our ability to return to specie payments as soon as it may be safe and practicable to do ao. But ® certain class of speculators are en- deavoring to create apprehensions of financial and commercial difficulties, te favor their operations, from the tact that gold has deciined so much within a short time. Now, there ly not the least cause for apprehension, provided the Secretary of the Treasury should not tam- per with the currency and attempt to carry out his ridiculous theory of forcing specie pay- ments. Gold is simply and only an article of merchandise, the same as corn or cotton. Cur- rency is the money of the country, and ax long as that remains undisturbed nobody will suffer but the unsuccessful gold speculators. There may be failures from overtrading or having epgrimous ‘ of goods on hand for which there Js nota market, These occur at all times, in specie- paying times as well as when paper is he cur- rency; but this has nothing to do with the general question. While there is « sufficiency of moné} fol our domestic use—of money which cannot be drawn away from us to Europe, that is, of pur national currency—o general revulsion is imponaitle. Nor fs there any ground for the alarm which the gee jobbers endeavor to create on account of the decline in gold. We are not going to rush to specie payments all at once, and thus reduce the means of the community. It took England ten years to return to specie payments under similar circumstances to our own, after the pro- longed and exhausting wars with the firat Na- poleon. Gold will necessarily continue to go down, though subject to feverish fluctuations, but not atthe rate of ten per cent a month. We shall gradually approximate a specie standard by the natural growth of the country and trade; and in the course of a few years we may reach that point. In the meantime there need not be any alarm about gold falling, and there is no necessity of forcing it down faster than the natural laws of trade and our growth will carry it. NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. Tranquillity In the Department of the Gulf Mere Cotton Swindles te be Developed, &c§ New Ontnans, Nov, 16, 1866. The Department Commander officially reporta to Wash- ington that this department is ins gratifying state of tranquillity, all persons being disposed to obey the and treat the freedmen well, with the exception of some slight irregularities in Texas. It Is assorted that some startiing developments will soon be made as to cotton swindles upon the govern. ment that will tmplicate parties heretofore unsuspected, Mr. G. Gordon ‘cE w. wen asa dei from Miasiset to Phil ia Convent of Southern Leven is out in @ card, wherein ho says he was not a delegate, Is no jclan, nor did be know until a fow days since that he was appointed a delegate the Convention, nor the person appointing to , him. His political opinions, he adds, sre of uo impor. tance, as he never expecta to hold of seek oifce, — SUSPENSION OF TROY WOOL MERCHANTS ‘Trov, Nov. 16, 1906. ‘The firm of J.-&@ D, Consalua, large woot of this city, suspended to-day. Their liabilities arg Peavy. This ts @ result of the late Conoos failure, ig is alg wu! parry othex bouses derma Wik B= * F land, bearing upon the constitutional amendment ques- tion, ta which that State ts to figure as a mediator betweee the North and the South. The Baltimore delegation to the Logisiature have had private meetings and passed rese- lutions requesting the Governor to call an extra session of the Legislature to take action on this question. Leagthy Cablect Coyacil. The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended by alt the members with the exception of the Attorney General, who is on # visit to New York. The meeting insted Tho Condemned Fontans tn Canada—Lotter from tho Brith Minister at Washington. The following tétéer-from the British Minister was re- colved to day by the Secretary of State:— Wasnixatox, Nov. 16, 1866. seeder’ tat” casera ioe g Goats panded on 3. Lyact and ai, MeMaboa, to PR vie, doar tay coon by the of the United States, and tho various tions of law, policy and humanity which mi be expected to arise in the course of the trials of the individuals concerned in the raid committed on Canada last spring. Immediately on the receipt of that note f transmitted a copy of it to her Majesty’s government, and I await their instructions before entering at lon; aps the several and weighty subjects contained in it. The course puraued,by the Canadian government in bring- tng these cases before the regular tribunals of justive, thus securing to Se panes the full protection the law affords to the acoused ; and the readinoas shown by them to communicate all such documents to the Consul of the United as may throw light on the justice of the sentences, and the rogularity of the proceedings, will, £ trust, satisfy the government of tho United States, that while vindicating the majesty of the jaw the authorities do not conduct the prosecutions in any vindictive or harsh spirit, Lam, moreover, authorized to state that the whole quesiion of the disposal of such of, the prisoners ‘a8 may be convicted, bas been referred for decision to her Majesty's ee a who will certainiy be ani- mated by tho desire 60 to deal with it as to secure peace and harmony between the populations living tn such im- mediate proximity, and soparated by a long frontier se casily traversed. Thave the honor to be, with the bighost considera- tions, sit, your most obedient and humble servant, FREDERICK W. BRUCE. Hon, Wousam H Sawarp, &o. Recognition of a Chilean Consul. The President- has recognized Enrique Sarriotlet as Consul for Chile, at San Francisco, California, y appointed by the President Postmaster at Chicago, in place of Samuel Hoard, removed; also Henry (. Smith, Postmaster at Poughkoepate, N. Y., to supply a vacancy, Jobn W. Dickson, late Surveyor of Customs at East River, Virginia, haa been appointed Collector of Customs: at Yorktown, Virgina. ¢ J. M. Corbett bas been appointed Surveyer of Customs at Nashville, Tennessee. The Second Auditorship of the Treasury. General N. L. Jeffreys, of Maryland, late Assistant Provost Marshal Genera! in the War Department, le named for the position of Second Auditor of tho Trea- sury, in the place of E. B. French, the present in cumbent. rohshpe Sgr eigshd has been brought to bear in m1 direction, but the pressure agalust It is likely to prevail, Z THE STORM ON THURSDAY NIGHT. a in Brooklyn, &c. ‘The etorm and gale which prevatied on last Thursday night and yesterday morning was felt very severely ia thia city and vicinity. The wind effected great destruc. tion with store awnings, window abutters, swinging signs and, Ip fact, overy thing of a minor char- actor with which it came in contact, Vessels im the stream dragged their anchors, ferry boats were reiarced in thelr trips, small trees were uprooted, chimneys toppled over, skylights were carried a effecting considerable aggregates damage, DAMAGZ TO THR WHARVES AND PIRRB, damage to the wharvee and pliers of this city by jorm on Thursday uight was very sorious. The wharf adjoining pier No. 60, foot of Morton North river, face war, the piles and supports bel rotten and unable to withstand the violence of the wi Near the foot of Clarkson street the wharf, fora dis- tance of about one hundred feot, fell in, precipitating @ large quantity ‘of umber into the water, jog r footw | ‘ekg herp ir yy: ges oe ~abed where the doating chapel was moored, the wu gave wa) the entire front failing in. "All tho wharves oa the North river, with perhape a few ox: or less injured. Soueesh of the mire were tly dam- aged, by their rotten aupports falli and by the abut. ments being started. As the; ver, in a pre- wi carious cont pret aad to tho ‘horm, the fucreased dam- al. age was not wm: half-past t o'clock yest day more ng, when the At wo oO" ing, gale was at its height, the Some ce ferry boat Newark fran with great force {nto the élip, and the engine coming to the dead point could not be reversed till the bridge ee violently and po bed displaced. a beams 5) 0 way with crash, and the Progeny ieved from ho bold ON THK EAST RIVER. ited condition of the seats br y yond apparent wap away; ‘ond this no mustaued. “About wo o'clock yosterday moraing, while the storm was still at ite height, tho lying at pier No. tore out the to which it was fagt aad dri the collisten, hoWever, tery alight, bompkta in the quarter of the Southampton. The sides of both poe yh also badl: bs cand ts estimated that the by * : j panes pee 3 Bh Between cloven and twelve o'clock ow Thu! night the rear wall of a building going up corner of and Nassau stresta, to be as a ball down, It was ed by Theoboid Millor, In fall struck the dw house of Mr. Miller, and brok bole eight feot in diameter through the room bis children, but none of them being in at the time, Some outhouses Bolongiog to Mr ¥ were ‘slightly injured’ br ng ir. Fis! also ty 1) Miltec's then was'§3,008; Mr. Fish's, e . ich weopt the southern porti of * a RN med havoc liatrict. Tt ie 4 shade aaburbs were uy} ed, while the io the main streets of the suffored considerably. it houses io course of construction were More or less while one in Wythe ar Ross street, was Tt was ‘The Storm on the Hudeon. Povoucaarmn, Nov. 16, 1606 A severe storm prevailed bere during Thursday night, (ue wind blowing @ burricane and the rain coming down im torrente for several hours. The same state of affairs existed north and south at ell polots on the Hudson. Thie morning the water in the Hudson rose to a height un- known before for several years, inundating all the pers and dot geen pkg hy floating away piles of lumber, ebingles Collingwood’s lumber ‘Travel the docks om shore had to be per. lormed in boats, row boats being used to con vey ngers the Exchange House to the a M All the Albany boats down were dolayod | hours. ‘were bao delayed by the track north being covered water, This Slate the sky Is comparatively clear and (be wind biows very fresh the south weet The Storm in Orange County Hooatas Faria, Orange County, Nov. 16, 1866 Wile the farious storm was prevailing 1a the latter part of last night the nppor and lower mil! dems belong- tng to James Connolly, in this place, with a large amouat ——— THE CHARGES AGAINST NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS Ausant, Nov. 16, 18906, Under authority of chapter 620 of the laws of 1999 tho Governor has appointed Mr. Jes, R Whiting, of Now York city, s Commissioner to take testimony and oxamine the witnesses in the matter of the charges pre Citizens’ Assoctation against Charles ferred, Oi ror Commuasioner of New York einen ‘gtte"Sommtnrone io Mauhew Mrtaage- Erouaievler of New Kock oh,