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oe ‘WASHINGTON. Davestigations of the Congressional a Committee. Aaeinmnnccigy Mngolar Developments in the Workings of the New York Custom House, clas POLITICAL BLOOD MONEY. The Collector Making Forty Thousand a Year Ont of the Office. &. &e. &e. Wasnmaton, Nov. 21, 1866. ‘The R uchment Committec—Investigation @t the Workings of the New York Custom \ ae Development: __ The Committee on Retrenchment, di their session te, New York, thoroughly investigated the affairs of the ‘Now York Oustom House. Some very singular things ‘Were brought to light during the investigation. It appears ‘that al) the clerks connected with the Custom House ‘were taxed at the rate of four dollars per month for political purposes. Those who refused to pay thisamount ‘were immediately discharged. The Collector has been making a very bandeome sum in connection with the ‘Bonded warehouse system, It was proven that the Collector is making now out of bis office the nand- some sum of $40,000 per year. The committoe ‘wae in session here to-day investating the @otton frauds, Quite a pumber of witnesses have been subpeenaed in connection with the above frauds upon the government. The report that the twenty clerks dis- eharged from the Pension office was made at the tnstiga- ‘tion of the committee ia totally untrue. They were dis- barged on account of the decrease of business in that department. * Whe White House Visitors. ‘The White House was to-day graced with the neual mumbér of visitora Secretary Seward and Senator, PMeomith bad interviews with the President this morn- apg. Congressmen Taylor and Spalding called during the day. The New York Naval Ofiice. General Blocum is mentioned here as the probable suc- @eesor of Genera) Dix in the position of Naval Officer at ew York. - The Internal Revenue Commissioner Muddle. Colone) Ypooner stil! clings to the hope of filing the position of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, notwith- standing it ie currently romored that he has withdrawn eee a In case of removal Colonel Spooner States Mi for cg heh of General her . ve uD! 0 ky the Ponitien of (i yp Marshal for district of Ohlo, Financial Matters. Tho receipts from Interna] Revenue to-day wero 0748,104. From the firet of the year to October 3}, in- elusive, the inodme bas amounted to $125,251,093. Dur. tng the present month the sum of the receipts to date Is 910,896,648, - The of the business transactions of the Phil- for the month of October +bows the fol Collection of Direct Tax in North Onrolina. ‘The Ona) accounts of the commission appointed to col- Jeot the United States direct tax in the State of North have been submitted to the Treasury, and show pations of the commissioners have been sccepted, to effect December 1, by which timo it ts expected moet if nota)! of the commissions for collecting Me Gireot tax will be closed. ¢ Freedmen’s Burcan, contract is made with a private physician the cath of allegiance must accompany the da- sent to this office, unless the physician em- rly been iv service of the Bureau been filed Jn the office of the chief arising under the contract rhould be each month, certified by the com- post or sub-district under whose were rendored, and then trapa- eon-in-Chief of the distriot for his te 3g pe, caer of the district order of the istant Commissioner, it, deducting the internal revenue ately on the annulment of a contract the Nef will direct the Acting Assistant Surceon to the chief medical officer a return the proper receipts and tnvoices, If plation to annul ap existing contract the middie of the ating month the Surgeon-in i Be bt E y mi puet ui will not ee account for tho current eas the a7 immediately ing termmatiop of the contract—unt!l the ro- certificate of non-' ie furnished to Fs y Fentaniom Redivivos, Ponianism appears to be reviving in this city. Con @éerable sums of money have been raised and for- ‘warded to New York. Meoctings are being held io pubite those who pretend to know the nature and extent of the present movernents, these indications would seem fo portend early and vigorous action in some direction. Porrenal. Major Genera! Jobu G. Foster, Arsistant Commissioner @f tho Freedmen's Bureau in Florida, te expected to ar- five in the city within a day or two. He bas been sum. weoned hither by the Commissioner of Freedmen'y Affaife on business connected with tbe Bureau. General C. 4. Heckman, formerly Colonel of the Ninth Mew Jersey Volonicers, ia at the Metropolitan, He will Rave an interview with the President in a day or two in reference to appointments. Hon. R. P. Spalding, of Obio, bad a lengthy interview ‘with the President this afternoon. Reconsideration of an Appointment. ‘The appol niment of Mr. Harrington, as Collector of the ‘Third district of Indiana, tt 's said, in to be reconsidered. Another applicent ts bere orging bie claim to that post. Won, and the matter ‘s now under consideration by the President and the Scoretary of ibe Treasury. Baccessfnl Move of a Lieutenant and Twe ty-five Men Against a Party of Marnud Indians. General Orders, No. 20, issued by Major Genersi Ceobe, commanding the Lepartment of the Piatte, moences to the offloers of the department thet ‘L\ Yenant George A. Armes, Second United States cavalry, ‘Deimg vent with twenty men of his regiment, from Fort Sedgwick, October 23, in purenit of n war party of Biot indiave, which Had driven off the previous day several hundred head of stock, found and followed ‘their trail, under the difficulties of crossing two vido rivers (forks of the Platte) aud of darkness, ulnety-cight siler, from five o'clock A.M. to oleven o'clock P.M Aben be eurprived the party, Inetanuly attacked, killed end wounded voarty all of their enperior sumbers, cap. tured twonty-two Indian horses, Darned their camp and Drought off safely most of the stolen pork.” Geren! Cooks comp!iments Lieutenant Armen og tho success of thie movement sod orgs other officers of the depart. fens Who mny be deepatehed upon similar miasions to to Innitate bie eoergy and ability Peneen Pisposition of Ute Indinne, Beperiniendent Martin, wader date of 20th ultimo, Bdvives the Comm esiover of Indian Affairs that be has Jaed returved from diatribusing government goods to the Capote and Wamanebe ies. He found the Indians pesceable and well dispored. and greatly gratified with ‘their presents. They expresed their intention to Roop the agreement mado with the Soperin- tendent & month before, and Felian, the Copate chiet, the killing of whose brother caneed tbe previous diffeatty, now expressed bimeelf aa fully atic. fet «The Baperintendent also mentions tho fact that Heneatena, the Use chief, whose movement caused south spprehension lately, had purrendered to the United “taten authorities and returned to the egency in the Nortbeart, Agent Henderson bed been sent to that peips (0 take charge of the Indians until the proper agent obs) arrive The Upten Pacine ‘The line of route of ibe Union @vision, having been Sw to ibe mops Mau allroad, astern frow the Repablican thd Ranma rive me Another prize fight will shortly take place between White, the victor of the fight on Tuesday jast, and Bol- ster, a well known pugilist. Trenaury Notes in rgentine Republic. The United States Consul at Buenos Ayres has sent to our government a copy of the Inw of the Argentine Re- public authorizing the national executive to emit treas- ury bills to the amount of $4,000,000, with interest, at three-fourths percent a month. For the payment and amortisation of the interest an additional impost of five per cent is put on all imports, excepting such articies as are comprised in article three of the present Custom House law, and two per cent on all exporta, The treasu- ry bills are to be received in payment at all custom houses in the republic, A Last Appe Money for the Irish Repu! ’ At a meeting of the Centres and delegates of the Fenian Brotherhood, of New York and vicinity, Held at the Apotlo Rooms, Prince street, on Sunday evening, the 18th November, instant, the following resolution and ac- companying appeal were unanimBuaty adopted. They bave been approved at the Central office of the Fenian Bhotherhood dnd will apply wilh equal force to every circle of the Fenian Brotherhood in America, The inter- change of opinions at these meetings has ensured har- mony of action, eliciting many important suggestions pertinent to the present crisis yp Irish revolutionary affairs :— Rosolved, That the Centre of each etrcle of the fH. New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and vicinity, be instructed to seus » Commitive of their ablest and prominant members, «localities in which Its circles may be situated, and soloit from every Irishman, and the lovers of Uberty of «ll nationalities, arms, munitions and money tn: aid of the revolution about to be inaugurated in Ireland, ‘and that the names of those subscribing for the purposes referred to, and those who, being Irishmen, may refuse to contribite, be written on a ‘of record "to be kept for that purpose in the Central offica, No. 19 Chatnam street, for future reference, aud that the views of this meet inay be viared before the world by an appeal to be py Hshed berew!th, THR APPRAL, To tam Mxs ov Inisn Birr AND ALI PUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS EVERY WHERE :— Countrymen, friends and brothers—Every item of in- formation reaching us from Ireland proves !t to be certain beyond all question that our countrymen at home are ined on war-—war to the knife, and that this very year. The final struggle of our people with the foreigner will be soon inaugurated; the oppressed will meet the op- preseor foot to foot to battle for the vory existence of our race and of onr nafionality, The issue is patent. Fither we must in this our final struggle and take our place among the nations of the earth or be dofeated—to be scattered | apeseaery az & people despised, pointed at only with the Onger of corn and ready to do battle for every country bet our own. To the Irishman in America such an eventuality cannot fail to snggest the profoundest aa nn Sempacasions io which his kindred bave been subject for cepturies —tl sacrifices of @ Ne offered as a holocaist ty tho Mak of tala he many Par axe entailed by foreign dominatiou— Lovers or Re- e A washed Fo in the apes of Fs nn OF ive a rpotnal ouree: iF PS saat The wrongs er ae part ust be righted by the manhood of the present. pation which will not make sacrifices is unworthy of That te a blessing which cannot be too bighly by any people; it Is one of the holiest gifts whi can bestow on man. And what greater an be required of a people to gain that blessing than that of lifo and overything they most dear? Our coun trymen being resolved to fight against an old, an imto)- erant enemy to wipe out the stigma of slavery. they risk life, property, ell, om the struggie, It wil! be to the credit or dixgrace of their kindred in America if thie struggle be a glorions or disaxirous one—if Ire. land be a land crowned by the laurels of a victorions army or reduced to the condition of an immense wilder. néssand charne! house. Should revolntion itt Ireland end in defeat, ebould the land be saturated with the blood of freodom's martyrs shed In vain, let those In America who could, ‘bat would not, aid in the freedom of their native land bear tue humiliation and shame. That the lakewarm and skeptical may nd longer have an excuse for not giving (hat assistance to their compatriots at home which te ox pected from them, we deem itour dutv to jade our viows before the world. ‘Advocates of universal liberty, but especially of liberty In Ireland, we have re. solved to do all jn oar power to sustain thore of our kin- dred who keep garrison at home. That tho stragcle, now #0 imminent, may be short and effective, we appenl to all oug kindred in America, men aud women, and to the lovers of freedom overywhere, to give wi oar brothérs Tequire, That no one claiming to have Irieh blood in his vetne mar have any longer an excuse’ for Not contributing in proportion to-bis means, a committee of geptiemen, properly accredited, will call upon al! from pee ald isexpected. That a pemeacet record of all who will do their doty to Treiand at to im portant a crisis as this Ina§ be kept for fulxro porpores, as Well ns those who by their non-action wih it to bo jod ag their opinion that our race at last is con- quered, the committees tnstrocted to co!teot armas, war material and money for the ase of the Irish repubiican army, will hand in their lists weekly, at the central oMoe, 19 Chatham street, in this city. In the name of Dberty, justice and hymanity we appeal to all, on bebalf of a suffering, but noble-m!nded people, to sateertbe yiberaily and at ovce Lecture by the Rev. Father Vanghan on the jand Vivid . Father Jeremiah Vanghan, late of county Clare, Ireland, dolivered a lecture lest eveming, in the yarge hall of the Cooper Institute, on “Britieh Mirrule in Ireland."’ The hat), although not crowded, was preity well filled. Ateight o'clock Father Vaughan was intro duced to the meeting and received with tremendous domonatrations of appia A® soon 8 order had been restored, and after bowing bis thanks to the people, the reverend lecturer soi that !( afforded bim great delight to meet so large an auidience of bia countrymen, Tt con vinced him that they stil! regarded their native land with earnest and decp seated devorion The very fact that they wergable to estemble together in wich respectable Bumbere Wrowise nssored him that Serr of Rng: land in driving them out had veen | England had hoped that, exiled to thie country, they would soon become absorbed in the elemen' und them—that they would cere (0 be Irish--and, matter of couree, cease to be en objeet of terror novanes. Ho saw with pleasure, however, that im this country they ad presarved their nationslity and thas thay were Milt Irish to the heart's core, that they were n powerful element in their adopted — land, were sill = & sjast courte of fear to robber. Baron, The time m C= and he hoped would soon come, When, as they eae out witha ton. geance, they would go vengeance, (Up- roarious: p> Bes and cheers for @tephens) Tt hed Shonps caked bie painto behold a fine race, such ae that they belonged to, burned and branded fike the first morderer, Cain, and driven forth to wander hke raga bonds over the barth. If the soil of Ireland were bar- ren and the otfmate unnatural, then indeed he might reconcile himself to the exodus snd banishment of such & ; but taking into soeount the fertitity of the ieinod, the physical endurance and Industrie! energy of the inhabitants, (heir banishment their native land must bea source of dep and Fogret to every Iriahman, (Great apflavse.) The Iriah people would have been prosperous at bome if jont and government had permitted them to wo © fair field for the development of thelr energies Ja thit country im every branch of civil and «commercial life Irishmen — ex celled all other races of people. There was no more fertile land under (he sun than Ireland. If it were com- With any equal portion of this country it would he fownd that ft far eacelied it Im fertility, And yet, although bete the people obtamed with ene a6 ample subsiaten +, the people of Ireland were steeped Jp the deopers poverty and clad in rags. The reason of the difference war plain. [reland war ao 0 and hole rule of Ragtand in Ireland, of the robber-murderer Saxon to The evils with whieh the Irish people bad been cursed by the Engliah rule were ax numerous at the evils contained ja Pandora's be » world notice Oret the misrale of Haghieh tops There was wothing that stamped tts grandeary poopte like the laws that governed ‘the laws were mild ond Soe and meretful, then the people redecteu fait)fully ihete beneficent character Tf, on the other band, the lawe were oruel and onjow thelr malignant influence aleo imprinted {tself in the Hife of the peuple ‘The ancient laws of Ireland, before the Saxon planted hia foot ppon Per fol, Were eminent Theg eoforced the practice of heep)- n of music, postey end literature, ‘ous regard for the seourity of prop fo snel a degree was ted and elevated by ews thet when St appeared before tts @ them she goupel of ecognined =the truth Meacbiny ineredibiy sbert epace ute ths We winnd wae converted. Bat since em bes wearped domimen over Ireland, thet upbappy conntry had been ed with the vient code of Inwe thi raced » baman goveroment. There i would ever gone witty tt “""RBW YORK BERALD, aie things thas they of og g thousand marke— sum in the: tet ee sea es , it, Es ff nt hour th a People and imposed ih misrule ag iniquitous end cruel as ever grated the annals of ‘The reverend lecturer here oxpiained the law of ejectment, which he stated bad swept endred and twenty-six thousand families, o*rn- prising two millions of people out of Ireland. from the to tho present time, ‘That was a fair illustra. tion of the monstrous, revoltimg and diabolical character of Knglish rule tn Ireland. Usder such circumstances it was the duty of every Irishman to combine and revolt against such Infamous legislation, It was wonderful to remark the slight cffect centuries of wickedty unjust and eruel government had produced on the Irish i character. He believed that pone but the Celtic race gould have withsiood such withering influences for to long a period, It was only owing to the tenacity of the Celtic nature that they possessed at the presenttime ® greater amount of public and private virtue than any other people. Let them take, for instance, the Irish womap—in single Ufe az pure ag the driven snow; in married life, like Cwsar’s wife, above suspicion. Let them take, again, the trish character for generosity. It was considered a crime in Ireland for a man to dine with his doors closed. Then, again, let them take the fact that the Irishmen in this country in 1862 transmit- ted to Jn the old country’ the enormous sum of £300,000. What volumes that fact spoke for their sense of filiai —daty. And =n the recent atrugete between the North and the Sonth the Irishmen had nobly vind cated the stremgth of their de- votion to their adopted land. He hoped, before God, that they would soon give as unmistakable proof in their own country of their love of liberty. (Immense ap- plauee.) Father Vaughn then gave a sketch of tho famines which have 89 frequently desolated Ireland, and referred particularly to that of ‘47 and '48, of which he was himself an eye-witness. He said that the frequent recurrence of these famines was an irrefutable proof of British misrule; and so long asthe English despotism remained dominant in Ireland famines would occur every eight or ten yeare, In 1862 there had been great distross in Connanght and that section of the country. Sir Robert Peel, then Lord Lientenant of Ireland, made a Journey to examine into the condition of im = In- stear! of telling the trath e had seen it, openly denied in the British Parliament that there was any suffering among the people, and mocked at their safer. ings. (Hisses) If that man had insulted the people of any other country tp that manner they would have stabbed him to the heart. When Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat she did not rid mankind of a greater monster than be. (Applause) He (the speaker) de- cared before God, angels and men that such a state of things as now exists in Ireland is revolting to human natare and a blasphemy against God. very Wortby impulse of the human heart, every ipstinct planted by God in the mind of man, impelled him to direct all his energies to remove #0 fe. boned a con- dition of affairs atonce. (Applause.) remove the cause of it and to rise up like men and crash out the infamous rule that had brought such calamities upon mankind. (Tremendous cheering.) The reverend lecturer closed with on expression of his firm belief the Irish people, if united, were in a position to secu their independence and freedom. The meeting waa then adjourned, and the audience at once dispersed, after giving (hree cheers and a tiger for Father Vaughan and three cheers for James Stephens. CANADA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Arrest of Ten Suspicious Characters tn To- be Made To-day for a New Meal Each Day-A Special Comminsion to Try the Remainder of the Prisoners— Lari Seizure of Liquors for Non-Paym Duty, &e, ( Tonoxto, Nov. 21, 1866, Ten auspicious looking characters were arrested to-day wnder the Habeas Corpus act. They conld give no sata. factory wccount of thomselves, and wero placed in the old county Jail by the Sheri, The United States xovermment has instructed Hon. D. ‘Thurston, American Consol, to appeal for a new trial for tho prisonere condemned, and it i the intention of Mr. McKenzie to make the appeal for a new trial before the Queen's bench at two o’elock 1o-morrow afternoon. tone neon Copadian Rifles is expected 0 pans | is city to-morrow from Kit wa row'e for Fort Erie. Uhey wil! be armed "wih the Soidor-Rofeld rifle, The Custom House officers at Buffalo have selzed during the weok a Jarge quantity of sherry wine and other liquors, shipped by way of Fort Erie, for pon payment of the duties. A firm in New York offered $10,000, while another in Buffalo offers $7,000 to corm- promise the matior, The Congut at Fort Brie ceu- sured for allowing goods to be shipped to the United Btates without invoices signed by him ‘the Sheriff hay been requested by the American Consal to weppiy the condemned prisoners with one sub- pantial Ane ench day, the expense to be defrayed by the Consul The whole number of Britikh requiara on doty in Canada up to November 1 is fourteen thousand. The findings of the Court Martiat in tho case of Major Dennis has not yet been made pablic, although the court adjourned threo weeks since. It {i ‘expected, however that he will be casbiered for cowardice while in front of the enemy at Riigeway. ‘The gunboat Heron returned from Niagara to day, apd roports all quiet. Sbe immediately goes imto wintor quarters in this city. Bar gous and crew are to be rent to do duty om the frontier, A eommission, ander which the remainder of the Fenian tag egy tried, bas been received by the authorities bere, and it is expected that the chert will forthwith receive precept to summon the necessary jury. There aro thirty-nine Fenians altogether remaining in Jail, seven of whom have been sentenced, leaving thirty two yet awaiting trial, which will take placo immediately on the close of the preropt term, commencing probvabiy op the dd proximo. The Yankee Deersiayers at Work, Ortawa, Nov, 21, 1866 Deer in large numbers are being killed back In (he forest by American Lupters, and sont to tho New York market, Tbe papers are urging that meaus be adopica to stop such work. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mr. Metice Not to Go to Eugland or France - ‘The Tomb ef Champlain Found Diecharge ofthe Beatam — came, 0. B, Bev. £0, 1968 The Executive Cousei is in somion bere, atthe St. Lewis Hotel. Of courre thore is not « fi ‘ounell, Mac donald, Cartier, MeDoagail ond ethers being sbeeut, ‘The chief remawming advisers of bis Excellency are N. FP. Betlean, Meme. Campbell, MeGeo and Biatr. ithas tramepiced thas Ms. Motes in not to go to Rng- land as a delegate or (a Prance as a commissioner of Cavada to the Exhibition. It ts very bkely that Cartier ie at the bottom of thia, for it looks tri Certainly Freneh Canadian influence with the Rxecative bax brought it about. THR TOMB OF CHAMPLAIN. This deeply iuteresting object has been found. Aw rome inen were excavating @ drain at (he foot of Moan- tein street, where it joing Champlain street, they came toa oor sheet of copper, wiih the immortal name of the foander of Quebec upon it. Underneath were found the remains of @ man, which were sent to the besdle of the parish charch for remierment. Is is sup. posed thee ‘Champlain street takes itt name from the inet of the body of the Freuch discoverer having been buried there. Mr, MeGee, in Montreal, Las published a revond letter over the signature of “M. PP.’ (Member Provincial Parliament), in whioh he endeavors to explain some fagite of the Gret letter and to make up for some omin wont The public aro a little curious to see how the honor. able member for Montreal Weat (to use Parliamentary language), will bear the countermand a to im gots home. The lost opportunity for a grand towr de will be very annoying to him, of coures, Mr. Tom Ferguson, member for Siincot county, ia tha third officer charged with cowardice before the Fenians. Acourt martie) bas tried bim apd the fludings ere harhed up. Why? arks a6 opposition paper. ase For quron is ® supporter of the government, end i} wiil conceal anything dixcreditabie to him GARR OOM FOR THR HARTI A! ‘Three companies «about two hundred and thuty men) of the One Houdredih regiment lef Montren) thin moruing for Ottawa Two companies aro already there, so that there will be in sil five com, ‘on (a bel bee talion, three bandred and Ofty meu) in Ottawa as the garrisun of bbe capital The news of the release by the government of forty. fone Fenians from prion at Toronto has caused at once surprise aod disattsfaction. Of course it t# the influenee of the Usted States government bes done thie That government now virvaally controle Canads, for the Canadian Ministry had ita eyes opened by the spall column of Fepians to the fact how easily the provinces could be taken by « United tates force whtle such fol. lows a% those now jp commana of (he militia bold their places CONVENTION OF TWE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION aT RALTIOORE. Barrons, Nov 21, 1968. ‘The Convention of the Young Men's Christian Aaso. ciation of the State of Maryland and Digtrict of Colom~ bin, wag beld bere today. It wan catiod by the Young Men's Association of thie city, purvoant to the feoom. OUR WHARVES, PIERS AND SLIPS. ——— Important Recommendation of the Ship- ere’ Association to the Senatorial Com- mittee, The following action has been taken by the Ship- owners’ Association of New York before the Committee of the Senate: — The undersigned merchauts, on behalf of the Ship- owners’ Association of New York, desire to express to your honorable committee their satisfaction at the de- termination of the Senate of this State to inform itself, throogh your investigations, distinctly and fully as to the condition and management of the wharves, piers and slips of this city, in thoir relations to the commercial in- tavests of the port. Intelligent and earnest representatives of reform have already submitted for your consideration the long statis- ties of grievances, which, in part at least, your own per- sonal observations have been sufficient to verify. It is, therefore, unnecessary for us to enter upon the details of this sabject further than to remark that they present themselves mainly vinder three general aspect®—the character of the piers and wharves themselves, as re- garde their adaptation to the wants of commerce; the dition of the same and the provisions for their ap- priation to the uses of the commerce of the port. Ip every particular it must be confessed that New York falls behind, not only the great commercial centres of Karope, but even the lesser maritime cities of America. The natural advantages of her magnificent harbor and her geographical position alone sustain her in the race for supremacy’. ‘The wooden wharves and piers of New York are in their best estate frail structures, built in conformity with the ideas of a past age and the requirements of a prim!- live commnerce. Above water exposed to the constant influences of decay and to the perikof conflagration, and balow to the destructive agencies of swift tides and win- ter's ie@; unequal to the weight of large cargoes and the woar and tear of coaseless traffic, and insecurely an. chored to the river's bed, at one time they, break down with valuable merchandise and disappear beneath the waves, and at another succumb to the pressure of car- rents and drifting ice, and are bodily ewept from their foundations In their ordinary condition, as set ferth in the reports of the Citizens’ Association and elsewhere, their utter inadequacy is not only disgraceful, but imposes a waste- fo! tax upon every dollar alike of our vast export and import, and your honorable committee will not fail to remark that, by confession of all interests, there is at present no power with either State or local officials effi cently deQved or sufficiently exercised to better this unfortanate state of things. Tn full harmony with the primitive and unscientific character of the wharves and piers, butin pitiful con'rast with the comprehensive reguiations of foreign Dock Boards, are the arrangements for their snpervision and control, and berthing of vessels under a system produc tive of endioxs vexation and loss to the merchant, and totally inadequate to a wise and impartial distribution of te facilities of the port in the interest of commerce at rg Unfortunately the porploniiies of the queation do not end here. Profiting by the universal clamor for relief, private interests, not always nnassociated with pre- sumptive public advantages, continually address the Legislatore of the State for cial enactments direct! affecting the state of our harbor, In the conflict whic! thos ensues the paramount interests of commerce, and the ngbts of the people of the State, as yet unimpaired, are constantly exposed to sacrifice. The exigencies of the case demand the prormp! inter vention of the Legislature. The supreme control of the subject must be resumed by the State, to be vested anew in stronger hands, In the jndgment of the Shipowner’s Association, the present and future welfare of the commerce of New York would be best promoted by the creation of a commission of pier# and docks, suthorized to extinguish the title of the Present owners of wharves and piers, to devise plans for permanent rebuilding, with fall powers of contro! and supervision, and empowered further under raitable lim- Nations. to issue bonds for the new constructions, prin. Cipal and interest of the rame to be provided for by an adequate tariff of wharfage, Eventually this tarif ehoold be graduated tomeet the bare expenses of majntaining the systero. Whether a remedy eo comprehensive and far reaching in {te effects could be at once adopied in its entirety ray perhaps be questioned, but the underwigned are strongly persuaded that it offers the only solution of the mowen: interest involved, consistent with the fnture commercial dignity of the city and the rights of the people of the State, Under any circumstances, however, @ State: commis- sion with powers adequate to the full control and eaper- vision of tho existing wharves and plore if a pocersity not safely to be Ignored—a commission selected from the commercial class and representing ite various interosty, in which shoula be concentrated the catered powers aud obligations of the existing Boards. Such # body could at least safely defend the intereei# of the State against private avgression, and develop to ite fullest effective- bese the existing sy*tem., Perhaps po class in the community has experienced longer oF more directly the roanifeld buntens now eought he owed than Ube body of gener! ship owners. approach your honorable Committee at this time, however, tn the advo acy of po private projects or views, bat with the sole onject of necuring for themeelver and for all whose interests may now or hereafter unite to swell the vast commerce of this port, the wise develop. ment aud the upimpared and Impartial enjoyment of all its commercial farilities GEORGE M. ¢ JAMES HL. FROTEL JAMBS A. VAN BRUNT. AMBROSE SNOW JOHN # WILLTAMS, EDWARD HINCKEN JOHN G. DALY. WILLIAM © STORGES Thomas 8. Savpronn, Secretary New Yous, Nov. 17, 166 WEST SIDE ASSOCIATION. Different Pre ARMAN, Chairman. A | } Committee How to Relieve Broadway jects Bronched. A very largely attended meeting of the Weet Side Association wae Loid last evening at Everett Hail, corner of Thirty-fourth etree and Bros The meeting wan ented vy the F © more eRpecially to eoutive. Comm consider tal ving reference to the wabject of the rapid transportation of pareeogers in New York, The wealth and intelligence of o large portion of the city wore represented After the reading and ratibeation of the mioutes of (he last m ug Mr Whitbeck presented the following resolutions, approved by the Executive Comru.ties, wh cb were enanimously adopted — Resolved. The Are Opposed to the gre talio: othe elty of New York ty, should be t retremel he a io the pobile therefor, either + oF by payments to the sity of ‘ue percentage of Une incomny ‘Olber equivalent for the value of Ne gre tended wo de provel Roacived, That copies of hese verolutions be sent 10 ibe Governorand ‘ue legie ature Several gentiemen spoke in (avor of linprovemente in the in ode of transporting parcehger: and merchanc through the city, ali meeting on the common dea of an underground railway along the tine of Broadway. The merits aod demerits of other projects were thoren, canvessd, and suggestions of plans thrown out WORGH Submitted the following proposition pon which the pubite can with propriety de aathorivation snd construction of an under He plated that parsons responsible ond lie are prepared to execute the work ! vrdanee therewith, and ib tach reeyon fable period of ime as may be required — be roote to be from the Battery, the southern thence onder Broadway, posting by (he south fof the Central Park, theece on the west ede of the Park between the latter aml the river, eo w accommodate the weet fide, to & sonnettion with the Hodeon Itiver Railread at the opper part of the island ae bw mand the ground ro entitled i Abranc! route from Union square northward, under the Fourth avenue, to a point Ay and on. hid care canbe ron with y eouy: Wodvan 1 ver Railroad and on the Fourth ave by the new oo yond these companies, under each Tegniation or intervention Of public authority a may be necessary | Seond -That om -tracting the subway or sabe from Bowling Green to the Seventh avenue, the « shall be taken out en! the material for construction i No interferew and under the regeietions of roton Ajuedact I tonent rods nevih of Bowling Green (a yird— That fre the “eventh ave cod and unobetrocied romAway of not iern than th tin width (Broadway m forty foes wide) « work daring the contr aye in time and for mot bese ty teen beri eaoh day Then any oF Fouts shall not be obetructad by thy Pintoon boure of the Jay Prorr -That ty the mt tant wetions, Inclading all (he Western Cotton) higher, mies 6 000 baler. low ate , rroripte 4,400 balne Fager dutl z far at 10r 8 Mise Molamen—Enterior as be Sh a Oe Bawk weriing at bbe, The rat | otchanged | of the Virginia Agricultural foriaty THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1866<-TRIPLE SHEET. objection: layor, or if desired, a State officer, rector of the company After Mr, Vanderburgh had submitted hie weveral persons occ: pied the floor and ting 5g for an elevated railroad and an underground as well a8 the surface tmek, a8 the fruits of bis genius; another bad cars to sell, warranted to run well, and cheap for cash. These’ advertisers Ubreatened to monopolize the rest of the evening, when the impatience of the audience manifesting iteelf tn leaving by crowds of protests, caused them to doeist, and the remaining time was spent in the legitimate dis- cussion of the specialty of the meeting and offering aug: gestions tending to advance the enterprise aud creat unanimity as to what to ot and Where to Con- struct. It was eetimated by one, aber thal $20 000,000 would eomplete the work. said that two track# f a would be required to do the ons 0! en still another predicted that at time in the futoreta band of elevated railway wonld be bailt over the piers and wharves around the margin of the mty. The ques tion of ways and means is still open, NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENCE. Pevilous Voyage of the ip Lampodo trom Savannah to This Port—Expectations wud Preparations t king, With Water Den yet vr Heroism of Crew Changes the Enuineer’s Department Hospitalities to Mexican Officers on the Steamer Vixen, &e. Fortress Mosrow, Nov 20, 1866, Tho ship Lampedo, bullt thirteen years ayo at St Johns, and running between Liverpool and New York until engaged in trade between Charleston end ovan- nab, which culminated in her foundering three me since, as will be remembered, on Warsaw beach, and through assistance rendered by the revenge cutter Nan semond, being sold for salvage, and boaght by her prow: ent owner, started on the 16th inst. from Sevannat for New York. Repairs and alterations lavishly expended on her before setting sail on her present voyage proved not to bave put her in the gondition #le should have been to resist the untoward weather andrough seas «he has bad to encounter, She puban bere at three the o'clock this morning leaking’ Badly, and this deviation from ber totended course subse. quent results have shown to have been an act of very judicious forethought, for from ten feot water tn the hold, ag she passed the capes, there is now, not. witbetanding the same vigorous aad aminterin (ting ap- pliance of the pumps, thirteen feetof water In her For Captain Black and bis crew the past four days’ expe. riences have been most trying abd dangerous, although endured with that uncomplainiog ead heroic fortitude that #0 often exalt the life and acts Of the common sn\lor to a vublime height for exercising @he idealized |mayin ings of poetry and fetion, Hardlyad she epread her tails when the wind rose to a burrichne, At length the continuous fi of the heavy seas, dashing upon her, opring a leak, The atiip’s pumps were put ‘the water continged aan As oho in her bold Kept Ull the oh ten fect, To ki more required «oy man of the crow. There wax “ Sep-mncaiy wp wanes Gety, he t for all bot pump, rite mod for v1 ng te ship. 7 see bor suddenly f waves would i . ble, and have surprived what for qui han probable contingency, A long boat, 4 ‘was let out astern by along line, to be osed in @ me emergency. Nearing Cape Hap) nh ly thie ‘sinergeney id, Rot the half runken #bip brought the vesee! to anchor hereas stated, During the but, the schooner being #hort who at that time did not think hie sbipim any danger, did not avail bimself of the proffered aid. A of rn have been engaged at the er arrival bere. but their ut ly about succeeded in keeping her from Arrangements are being Made to procare team to work upon bor ‘THE ERGINEER DEPARTXENT Changes that overw » engolf and con pumpe gn to rarely obh other departments of the army te with the Engineer's Department, It ands 9 tower of strength and usefulnem cout efforts in various quarters to orippie ite ma resources and widely felt power have fallen abc and will while euch @ thing a military ‘ommon baw the aace y. department so teadsaat are furthermore few harges. Only one hae which j# the recept sum curred here for ® year to duyy at, Wont Point, as instruct Military Academy, of Majot Stickney, and orderis place bere Captain Phillipe Both are sccomp officers and gent Colone) Brewerton, command apt of the depa Intoly been brevetted brigadier gener: Promotions are apy gaaraptes of epecial worthiness, which in their mult pllcity unhappily they are pot, thie promotion should have come long a@ HOMPITALITING TO MEXICAN OFF Genern! Barrer and the other ctfeers of the army of Vr dent 20f Merico, trav New York oa kad running steamer V xen, whic 4 ax heretofore reporied, dancing Juiely in the old caine tute belng quite charpagne are being Fhowered wpou th The ¥ object of Bo emal) cunority Her repairs a mpleted, and ehe williprobabiy resume ber jour- brazoe, Texas, to-morrow MOETERRD COT Colonel Jamee Corry, the long and popular comminary here, is reported a» Laving to-day been mustered out of the service, He entered on his commissary duties here at the ovtset of the war with the rank of captain A more zealous, impartial, juet and th: rc honent official hak never been ammocinted with this braneb of the army service Hie retirement » deeply regretied vince will be filed by Brevet Major Thomas McFira: Fitin United Bates artulery, © aval ecmpoten: and courtesar officer, Annwal Seaston of the Methodiet Eplecopat Cherch Seath. Fortams Mommen, Nov 21. 1806 The enna) conference of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh Beath opened ite sermion this morning tn folk. Bishop Pearce prowides over the deliberations of the body, whore labor will extend throughout thin weeks Feverai changes in the politics of the Church are ox pected to come up for discussion. one of wtih, recor menaed by the General Conference, contemplates alter. ing the name to Methodist Epucopal Church, 4 the word ' South," whieh war 8 tunetion ip 1844, when (he separation from the 1 Nortty rn brethren toon place Robert Ould, formerly rebel Commisioner of change, sccompaniel by a niece of Jef | thin morning on @ Yieit W the prisoner and nino three Methodiet ministers from Menme Interviews with Mr Davie, Jodge Oaid re Richmond th. « afternoon WEWS FROM KEW ORLEANS 20) Kmlaration Scheme Pre for the Mout ern: The State New Once ane 2), 1866 Andrew MeCullam, & wegar piaater of 1 ana, who wont to Brasil, with a view to emigration, has revorned, and pronoancer against it asm able nad lean favor» able to the Boutherner than Lin own country The groat Vatr progress foely, (hoggh \aventor: of machinery end implements have tne ting Up and bringing forward th immense coneoaree bere from Tera, and the tatenor of Loabeane. FARMERS CONVENTION I RICHMOND Racer, Rov, 21, 1 A Convention of Virginia farmore aenetatied vr in Voginin Hall. Me. Witloughhy Newton, Vrow eiivered drew, flee which ef-Goverpor mit) ent tperchen, el! predicting = twright faturs fer ¥ Alter the appointment of reversal comin tien ty ferent on eobjecta Cecaseed im the Pretutont « aidrome the Contention atjourned antl! to nlyht The Farmers’ Convention to-nipht reo, Focuneres, Rov 21, ise pewnd eantwerd, ie! Pe yA healt past Wires oelork (hie more four milee rat Lypme eaoed by 0 woke rei, © threw off ws oS I, - + evervarned come of them — Twelve oF Biiewn were inore oF lame injured, Wot none seriously dsctor Deine ne the mort inyoret | | | perwms | public Naete ae “ we ‘ | : repetied What e. Weaeurw MEXICO. Maximilian Not Gone Back to the Capital. HE REMAINS NEAR VERA CRUZ. The Vessel Ready to Take Him Home. Expected in the City of Mexico on the 10tn. ae. ae ae OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDEN:€. Havana, Nov. 17, 1866. ‘The French steamer France, from Vera Cruz on the afternoon of the 13th inst, arrived at this port yestor. doy, with dates from the city of Mexico to the 10th inet, Among the passengers I notiee M. de Maurer, bearer of despatches from Maximilian; al#o e¢x-Genera! Magruder, a Mr. Maury, Mr. Tacker, and others of the ex coufed eracy, who, no longer finding any tadacoment to may in the no-cal.od empire, have determined to seek an asytum in sunny Cuba The France also brought about 200 ch troopa and a few officers going home. Maximilian had not yet returned to the Mexican cap! tal, where General Castelncan had hold several intervicws with the principal ministers, The officers of the France have asmured me that when they left, the Austrian ship-of-war at Vera Craz was mak- ing every preparation to be ready at a moment's notice. a lower from Vera Crug, reoeived by @ is ty, it appears that the in bee of General Lamadrid, had ve of the 9th aay that ‘the follow. jon would clear up, the cartein would ‘great event’ was to take piace.” I story has reference to the ex to tho capital op the 10th ar 1th instant Junderstand from parties here, that the Dandolo i expected in this have to go inte th vck 10 be overbaaled before the can proceed on her voyage to Europe, In consequence of the reports made public that Ma milian’s Intention was to leave the country, & petiion was drawn up With about a thousand ros (names he tated), begging Lim sot to abandon the government oi t; this my: eturn of Maximilian #8 rumor that Masi- milian bad beea in Cordova the 6th, aud that be intended to return to Orieabs ina few days, He wae ox- pected in Mexico on the '0uy or 12th innt. A K he capital, t wae till doubtiy! whether Maxiuiilian would Qaally secede he wishes of the conservative party, who are raid to insist apon the maint ropire, with Maxi tmilian at the head, or whether he dofnitel, made op bis mind to abdicate. The government organ says that be was detertnined ‘not to abandon Mextoo.”” ‘The Patria has published ai late rumors about bis alleged abdication, and in ox quence thereof the Krafeve makes the following re- marks "The abdication of & wavereign olected and I nialled by the people, can only be a voluntary own—the more painfib the news and « the diMoultios the bead of & State may experiouee, more that ought to be . Acrown cap easily fall to the ground by any violent catastrophe, bat in that case it ia substituted bye halo of glory, No empt of wing bas ever been coa- re of the nature alluded to are abwurd.'’ if these niguificant romarke the Hela fete advines tho sovereign to abdicate, being im favor of w voluntary abdication. M. Pirron, head of the civil Cabinet of Maxim/tian, arrived from Orizaba op the of the 7th tow, Advices from Tampico stat: at that there was no security for the inbabitants, nor of cow: mand among the liberals, who, besides the loans I in August, xncled others w the amount 100,000 in =optember and October. It |» denied that at the action at Miabnatlan the bat- talion of Chasaeu rv daverted with the enemy; bol, bein recruits and getting worsted, they disbanded, their them. ‘Their colonel (Femtard) acannon and received bis death wound, hurrabing for Mexico and the empire. Also that only seven hundred Avrtro- Mexican troops fell at the a of ia and one piece of artillery lost, The lor was Carboner oply partial, and the greater part of the forces, after the action, fell back to Hoajhapam OUR VERA CUZ CORRESPORDENCE Vens Cena, Nov. 6, 1806. The wapposition is that J there by the French. The Austrian ear. «in the barbor realy to carry him to Every preparation has beea made to receive him and be off; but some little arrangements that the neh wish him to make fret have detained him, Now ir aye be in About to return to the elty of Mext Mr. Peter Campbell Scarlett, her Britannic Majesty's Minsater at the city of kexteo, lx also at Ortzate. He te an ie etl at Orizata, Lorope expected to reavh this city em rowle for Kngiand per French steammhipy Sone via New Orieans She ls to Jeave bere on the 12th inet. for New Orleans. The French he: mode etrenuous efforts to get entire control of the Comtom House bere, but the Mexican Vol lector nol arknowledging their writ of @jectment, they have thos far failed. The French traneport steamer Vers Oram sailed from here yesterday, with some three handred and afty Freweh n The French steam transport Wh . vie Martinique arrived here yesterday with some one bun- Gred and forty troops, nearly all Bolgiane Ramor saye thin ship will go to Tampico with troops oon Larae Shipments of Geode te the Hie utom, Now 21, then. Tar! es interested In the eLipment of goods te the Wo Grw the libgral army are now sending large quan ttle of sapples, including arms and manitions of war, and are prowptly paid for them an delivery. ‘The Setzure of a Mextonn Brig at Cape %. ne by the Vrenet. Sas Vnancaeco, Mov 21, tees | inter secownt reepecting (be wezare of the Menton brig Deseo says Dy Arto acted onder onder from tiene ra) Hermon Corona, atlended by Conmul Goday, of thie ony These orders @ rected D Artote to proceed to the Parite Occup a6 seine any vensel belonging & Frapee or Meas can trailors, together with all goods Wag 0 ememien 7 public, and to am salient force loearry oot his instructions As Corona receives power from Jeare, the stories of illegal conduct io making the sermure tall to the proud. AFFAIRS IN BOSTON. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD. Perry Compenay Indicted for Mansinughter, &e. teeres, Now 1, eee The ewindling operation, a» secvet wae telegraphed the Hamato inet og)! see mate pee to «1d hemesives Brae. eet day, The members of the tre tow, Rdson & Co, and have leet Going busines for on ee ol rest At the begineing of ther work be y they wocoended by some ape in receiving the = Indorepment a ae. Meramile Agency, 104 they have o& tained f i bute and monn ke © before be entered the comme § vou the mane of o Mereantile Agewey (ree Aay tae been Maieted for home A. Dearne wee driving © pon the ferry drop iaet Jone, of on anequet a the baproper eAjuriment <e \hrown from hip team, fam over end hiited vt tment wan trowght vo trial im the > “ vert way, A & Reumey ond FP Hest 6 (od Cttnent, aad Meret to have iM eeed the tupreme Gourt, ey co | a cawe semt ap, i of fi went w custaioel the ‘on will tome tare to Onert to be riet by romore of fahares, tut Ro heme are weelionet (aleree @ore in thee leather trade, and ccourred oot the iy Vert ling ben tetome a very pypular smosemenl rir cat rehente wile the leat few monibs sod s mreting held ot ie Parke L of forming © yeh! o ih OYebing pominased (nie Mor reag Dr. KB, Brent the Gomo- AeCUPTS sn LuveNTG COTTON AT OOOTWERN PORTS, —— omen, Mow. ZB, 1008 fenton Ot i the ports cae } 4 1 er on your wna OO, rales ha.) tien dering (he tame eurwing “—— 4 Teoh, cirrwing a tecrouse "eit Cae (we = eed yin aes | The ores omy Sheds heen, shiek ‘te Crest