The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1866, Page 6

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JOB PRINTING @f every description, also Stereotyp- fing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the owest rates, ——————— =—== ———=—=—=—== — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘ BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, uear Broome street.—Taz Mercuant oF VENICE. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York ‘Hotel.—Gaurrira Gaunt, on Jeacousy. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth streot, near Sixth Qrvenue.—Zampa, THE BRIDE Or MARBLE. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Homogistiscux Stupmex—Die Zw. eRrsAcen. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— im MASCHINENUAUER; ODER, ARBEIT Macut Das Lupin use. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proresson Hartz witt Pxxrors 1s Minacuxs.—Tae Mystery. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—In tuzin Ermiorian Entertain Stvaing, DaNoin@ aNd Bun.esques—MuTeonic Riowsns ox Fauuina Stans. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — nes with tie Oxy-AypRoGEN Murcroscore ae oy Heap axo Higut Agu or Prost. Open from A.M till 10 P.M. a TRIPLE SHEET. tra = THS NEWS. ee EUROPE. Wo received no cable news report last night, the New- foundland telegraph lines being ‘‘down."’ By the steamships Ville de Paris at this port and Af- rica at Halifax, yesterday, we have interesting mail de- tails of the advices to the 11th of November. Our special correspondence from Smyrna, with a mowspaper extract, published to-day, afford evidence of the rapid extension of American ideas in Asia Minor, and the solid footing which an enterprising band of our countrymen have obtained, by actual settlement, in Palestine. The British Cabinet ministers attended the banquet given by the new Lord Mayor of London. Earl Derby made a speech in which he expressed friendly senti- ‘ments towards the United States. The Premier claimed that by the completion of the Atlantic telegraph Eng- land perpetuates her title as “‘mistreas of the seas.”” General Castelneau, it is said, informs Napoleon that Maximilian will vot abandon bis position in Mexico. Tho French Emperor promises to ‘protect’? the Pope, ‘Doth in his spiritdal character and as a temporal sov- ereign. During an interview with Mr. Gladstone, ex-Chan- eotior of the English Exchequer, Pius the Ninth hinted at Ireland asa place of refuge should he be compelled to leave Rome, THE CITY. In the Board of Education last evening a communica- tion was received from the Mayor nominating inspectors for the seven school districts of the city in the place of those whose terms of office expire on the 3ist of Decem- ber. The other business that camo up was not of any special interest to the public. The Common Council Committee appointed to con- sider the application of the government for land near the Battory, on which to construct a pier, mot yesterday, ‘Dut because a quoram was not present the meeting was Adjourned for a week. Tho second annual parade of the Metropolitan Fire > Department came off yesterday, and proved a decided success. The companies were reviewed at the Metro- politan Holel by the Commissioners, members of the Governor's sta, members of the State Legislature and a large number of citizens, The procession passed through several of the principal streets and was everywhere well received. The Shipowner®’ Association, in an address to tho Sen- ate Committee on Wharves and Piors of this city and Brooklyn, which have been in session for the last few days, recommended the creation of a commission autho- rized to extinguish the titles of present owners of wharves and piers and to devise plans for» permanent rebuilding. Tho Centres and delegates of the Fenian Brotherhood in this vicinity held a meoting at the Apollo Rooms, in Prinoe strost, on Sunday night, and addressed a final ‘appeal for ald in the revolution which is about to be in- augurated in Ireland§fto all citizens of the Metropoliian district and New Jersey. - A lecturo on ‘British Misrule in Ireland’ was deliv- @red last evening, in the large hall of the Cooper Insti- tute, bythe Rev Father Vaughan, recently of county Olare, roland. The Congressionial Retrenchment Committee, while Investigating the aifairs of the New York Custom House, Giscovered that the clerks were taxed four dollars a month for political purposes, and, If they refused to pay, ‘wore discharged. A vory handsome sum bas been made by the Collector in the matter of bonded warehouses, and (( 1s stated that be now makes $40,000 a year out of fis office. ' Tho Legislative Committes had under consideration esterday at the Stroot Commissioner's office, the vari- 048 plans for the relief of Broadway by means of elova- God and underground railways, The Wost Side Association held a meeting at Everett Gall last evening, for the purpose of considering the @ubject of rapid transportation of passengers in the city. Resolutions were adopted opposing the gratuitous giving of railroad franchises to individuals or companies, Mr. Wandorburgh submitted a proposition tor the construc- ‘tion of a railway from the battery to Harlem river under- neath Broadway, An up town distillery was yesterday takon possession of by tho Internal revenue officers of the government, nd a large quantity of spirite seized on a charge of a violation of the Internal Revenue act. Procesdings for the confiscation of the whiskey have been commenced, i is eaid that several other dwtillories Lave gone into ‘the custody of the collectors till the operations of the Pproprictors in the burning fluid dodge have been Inves- tigated. The examination of the distillers arrested re- cently in Brooklyn was continued before Commis sioner Newton vosteniav Fredepiok Cochug, ag \agugoier of . York for Savannah, is ashore off Fort Pulaski. WEw YORK HERALD, internal revenue, will be examined this morning oa the charge of recel: bribe, and John M. Wilson, & dis- tiller of Brooklyn, will be tried for ofering @ bribe to an inspector of the revenue, Mr. Wilson bad made an affidavit charging Cochue with recelving money from dim. In the United States Circult Court yesterday, Judge Nelsom the question of the legality’of further Arrest of dealers In lottery tickets until the question of law in the cases at jasue aro decided, bre pss at considerable length. The important opinion was given by Judge hingtoh no further arrests should be made till the Supreme Court had passed upon the point raised—whether the law contemplated on the part of lottery dealers a payntent of & license or the imposition of a tax for the business. The question came up on the arraingment of two parties, who were discharged on their own recognizance, A full report of the matter will be found among our law intelligence, In the United States Circuit Court, Judge Nelson de- nied a motion for an injunction to prohibit dentists from using in their business Goodyear’s Dental Vulcanite pre- paration. A cause in this matter is fixed for trial in the next term of the court, . Before Justice Dowling yesterday afternoon, at the Tombs Police Court, the witnesses against Frank Hellen and W. R. Bahcock, were exainined, tending to prove an alleged.complicity in the Lord bond robbery. Mr. Gun- ning S. Bedford, Jr., Assistant District At! » &p- peared for the people, Mr. John E. Burrill for Jay Cooke & Co., and Messrs. 0. L. Stuart, Algernon 8. Sullivanand ox-Judge Stuart for the prisoners. Bail was refused and they were remanded, the case being postponed until next Friday afternoon. ‘The case of Rev. George T. Williams, the Episcopal clergyman, who was recently arrested on a charge of picking a Iady’s pocket in a Fifth avenue stage, was again before Justice Dodge yesterday. The complainapt, Mrs. Moore, was not present, and, aftor a brief examina- tion of witnesses, the case was adjourned until Thursday, December 6. James Dougherty was yestorday committed by Coroner Naumann on the chargé of being implicated in the mur- der of Walter Westcott, in First avenue, on tho 3d inst. The evidence against him was given by two othor mon, who were also arrested on the same charges and volun- toered to turn Stato’s evidence. The further recession of gold restricted mercantile transactions within rather narrow limits yesterday, and though the markets were generally quiet, prices were, to great extont, nominal. The chief interest centred on ‘Change, where the markets were more than usually irregular. Cotton was quiet. Coffee was unchanged, and sugar was a shade casior. On 'Change flour opened firmer, but closed dull at previous prices. Wheat was ashade firmer. Corn was firm at the opening, but dull and heavy at the close, Oats were Ic. lowor. Pork was higher. Beof and lard wero steady at unchanged prices. Froights steady, and whiskey dull and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. News from Moxico city to the 10th inst, bas been re- coived. Maximilian was still at Orizaba, but was ex- pected daily in the capital. The Austrian frigate Dandolo was still in the harbor of Vora Cruz ready to carry the Emperor to Europe. . Our letter from Havana, Cuba, is dated November 12. Valuable mercantile statistics regarding the products, exportations, importations, shipping and other commer- cial matters are contained in it, all of which is of interest to the business community. Ten suspicious looking charactors were arrested in Toronto yesterday. There are only thirty-two Feaians in the jail now who havo not been tried. An-appoal for a new trial for Lynch and (he others condemned will be made to-day, A party of American hunters have been killing deer for the New York market in large numbers back of Ottawa, and tho newspapers are urging that means be adopted to put a stop to it. The ship Lampedo, on her trip from Savannah to New York, was compelled to put into Fortress Monroe on Monday, with thirtoon feet of water in her hold and badly disabled. The steamship San Jacinto, from New General Barrera and other officers of the Mexican gov- ernment are in Norfolk, having been on board the Vixen when she was compelied to seek refuge in that port from the recent storm. Robert Ould, the former robel Commisaisner of Ex- change; Jeff Davis’ niece and three Methodist preachers visited Jeff Davis on Tuesday. A family has been discovered in Chicago in a starving condition, and the wife and mother claims to be a sistor of John Morrissey, Congressman elect from New York, to whom she says sho has applied for aia. Rufus W. Cowden, a young married man, living in Providence, R. 1., attempted on Tuesday to cut the throat of his wife, from whom he had been separated, but was driven off by her grandfather after inflicting sixteen severe wounds on her porson. He escaped until yesterday morning, when he came near his father’s house and cut his own throat so severely tuat the wounds will probably be fatal. ‘The Boston firm which was reported in the Hera yesterday as having absconded, leaving heavy liabilities behind, is now said to be the house of Barstow, Edson & Co., doing business on Federal street. The heaviest creditors are the Lynn and Milford shoemakers, The East Boston Ferry Company has been indicted for manslaughter, in the Boston Superior Court, on account of the killing of a man named Burns, who it is alleged in the indictment was thrown from his wagon by the improper adjustment of the ferry bridge and was run over and killed, Wo were yestorday informed that a landslide lad oc- curred on the-line of the Allentown Railroad, and that trains were passing at considerable risk. Tho preci? locality was not stated. Six passenger cars on the Eastward bound Express train of the New York Central Railaoad were thrown from the track yesterday morning by a broken rail near Lyons. Twelve or fifteen passengers wore lojured, bat none of them seriously. The Canal Commissioners at Albany announce that the canals will be cksed on the 12th proximo, except the Champlain Canal, which wiil be closed on the 5th. Five brothers, named Titus, got into an altercation with a man named Elgin, in Missouri City, Kansas, on Sunday last, when Elgin killed two of the brothors and escaped to a house, where he was overtaken by the sur. vivors and killed while finning. A band of regulators in Marion county, Kentucky, has beew organized and threo mon have been hung. Others in the county jail would probably be soon served in the same summary manner. An attempt was made on Friday night to take three prisoners from the Lebanon jail and them, byt it proyed unsuccessful, he Equal Rights Convention reassombled at Albany yesverdi Mr. Parker Pillsbury offered a resolution protesting against the adopting of the constitutional amendment by the State Legistature. In the evening seasion a resolution waa adopted to present this protest to the State Legisiature, and also a declaration of right to be represented by women as well as men in the Con- vention to revise the constitution. Mrs. Cady Stanton, Charles L. Remond, Parker Pillsbury and Lucg Stone then hurled their respective oracular thunderbolfa, and the convention adjourned sine dis, ° Harp to Swattow.—In another column will be found a commanication addressed to us by ex-Governor Perry, of South Carolina, in whi he vehemently denounces the constitutional amendment. We are not surprised at this, We must expect from the South all sorts of argu- ments to prove that it will not do. But it will do, and must do. Where is the patient that does not make wry faces at the medicine offered him? He may kick against it, but it is not the leas necessary to force it on him. The South just now is one of the sickest of the politically sick, and the worst feature in its case is that it docs not know what is good for it. Its friends and well wishers fee! that there is but one remedy adapted to its ailments, and that is the constitutional amendment. If it will not accept it willingly, the inevitable re- sult will be that this Congress,\or the Congress that succeeds it, will, acting on the sentiments of the people as indicated in the late elections, take possession of the country, appoint mili- tary governors and solve tho difficulty acoord- ing to ite own views. We leave it to the Southern people to say whether they will be Gainers by forcing matters to such extremes, It is « wise maxim which says, “whea you can’t bave things your own way make the ways of those you have to deal with e@ smooth and Bigngaa) 08 Romalble!” ‘The i f Ae question in of our henhotietatedapamn te ie atrug- gle that the stanch little free State of is making against the Brazilian empire and its allies. This struggle, in its ultimate analysis, is for the South American continent just what our war was for North America. It is a strng- gle to determine the point of prevalence between systems—whether aristocratic and monarchical institutions—the imported tra- ditions of the Old World—shall predominate, or whether democratic and republican institu- tions in States formed on our own model shall shape the destinies of that continent. In the recent important victory of Paraguay at Curu- paity, as well as in tho whole conduct of the war by that Power, we see the best augury for the result, for the absolute triumph of the real American system of free States and the downfall and destruction of the last Ameri- can monarchy—the last stronghold of Eu- ropean principles on this side the Atlantic. As has been the oase in many wars before, the real primary cause of the war, the sub- ject that has brought the two systems of gov- ernment in contact and put them on a trial of their merits, has searcely been named in the list of reasons. ‘This was simply the desire on the part of Brazil to control the vast river system—the Paraguay, Parana and Plate— that drains the southern part of her ter- ritery. Only ‘three little republics stood in the way. But for Paraguay, Uruguay and a strip of the Argentine Confedera- tion, the southern boundaries of Brazil would be natural, the symmetry of her terri- tory perfect and her way to the ocean by that great system absolutely free. Uruguay was distracted by a rebellion, and Brazil found a reason to interfere. Her reason was nearly tho same as that given by France for intervention in Mexico. She must protect the interest of Brazilian subjects; and at the same time that she announced her intention to interfere and put a stop to the rebellion that was breaking down the little republic she was fostering the rebellion by material assistance. Brazil succeeded in inducing the Argentine republic to join her in the pretended attempt to restore order in Uruguay. The republic was perhaps the dupe of Brazilian diplomacy, and ils cupidity may have been excited by the promise of some special favors in the naviga- tion of the Paraguay river. One Power saw the true state of the case and divined the real purpose of Brazilian interference in the affairs of her neighbor. This was Paraguay. Her government saw that the fight was on the ques- tion of the existence of the republics, and that Uruguay, once destroyed, Paraguay’s turn would come next. That government, therefore, immediately informed Brasil that it sould con- sider the invasion of Uruguay by Brastlian troops a cause of war. Treating this bold re- public ‘with contempt, Brazil carried out her original design and occupied Uruguay. Para- guay at once declared war. This was in the summer of 1864. The war has, therefore, lasted over two years, and now, a Paraguay stands on her defence, the present results of the two years’ attempt to beat her down are instruc- tive to the world as to the power of resistance inherent in free States. The war on the part of Brazil was in keep- ing with the whole rush for the propagation and extension of monarchy in America, which began when it was so mistakenly supposed that the great republic of the United States had fallen to pieces. France rushed to Mexico, Spain rushed first to Dominica, then to Chile, and Brazil rushed at her apparantly feeble neighbor, all finding the occasioa in the immu- nity that our danger gave. But all built on a false basis. The great republic was not ruined; and now France is drawing out and Spain is doing her best to follow the example. Brazil also must relinquish her designs. With her, however, the case is different. She has not the happiness of the other Powers in being able to retire to Europe. She is the next door neigh- bor of the republics, and must stand and face the consequences of her attempt against their existence. This may involve the destruction of the empire. Tho alliance against Paraguay is proved to be contemptibly powerless. It must break up. This failure will be the for- feiture of the moral influence of Brazil on the continent, and the next step will be a close league of all the Sowh American republics, under the lead of Paraguay, and a general war against the empire on the score of com- mon safety, One empire cannot stand in the presence of two continents filled with repub- lies, and the time is not far distant when the Emperor of Brazil may condole with his Mexi- can Majesty at Miramar. A New Merropourtan Governwent.—One of the most important duties of the next Legislature, upon its assemblage in January, is to provide a good government for this eity, It ig hardly negegeary to gay that the ofp cated, corrupt and inefficient machinery under which we now live is worse than no govern- ment at all. It is, in tact, divided up into half a dozen irresponsible departments, the only unity in the system being the fidelity of each department to practices of fraud and public stealing. The Legislature, therefore, should give us a stable government in place of the rickety concern now existing; and the only way to do this is to appoint a Metropolitan Commission, comprising a consolidated gov- ernment for New York, Brooklyn, Williams- burg, Astoria and Richmond county. The interests of all these localities are identical; in fact they comprise virtually but one popula- tion, New York being the centre of a vast metropolitan district. Some years ago there were several munjpipalities contained with- in the limits which now compose the city of London; but they have all been merged into one municipal system, whichis found to work admirably. With the extraor- dinary facilities for communication with all the suburbs of New York by means of railroads and ferries, this city is really as eompact—{o- cluding the faubourgs named on Long Island and Staten Island—as the British metropolis. There is no reason, then, why it should not be placed under one grand metropolitan government. If the Legislature will enact such alawand appoint a commission of the right kind to carry it into dperation we will have reached the point 80 long desired—an effictent and honest system of metropolitan government. A department of public works should be embraced in the plan, and this would cover all the deficiencies in the present mode of constructing unsafe The manage- meni of clix railroads, faction and gag comate HURSDAY, NOVEMBBR 22 1696,2TRIPLY SERB, nue into the public treasury for the support of the government, which is distributed emong the private companies and corporations now reaping enormous profits out ef those franchises which properly belong to the over-burdened taxpayers. There fs no measure of reform #0 absolutely needed as this, and we earnestly commend it to the attention of the members of the Legis- lature, : The Charter Election—The Ring at Ite Old ; Tricks. The overthrow of the Tammany and Fer- nando Wood candidate in the county election by a majority of twenty thousand, and the defeat of the Baron von Hoffman and his famous mustache by a majority of fifteen thousand in the State, might very.well have been supposed to have disposed of the “ring” and to have puta final stop to their intrigues and enterprises. But recent events show that the men who have so long fattened upon the city and enjoyed the good things of life at the expense of the taxpayers are not going to yield the control of twenty million dollars @ year, with all its jobs and commissions, its pickings and stealings, without a hard struggle. The approaching charter election begins to develop some exceedingly ingentous thimble- rigging tricks on the part of the “ring” opera- tors. Firat, we had Comptréller Brennan’s letter to a few wealthy citizens, who signed what they supposed was a “character” for him upon leaving his place, as a mistress will some- times do for a maid when she wants to get rid of her. In this letter Brennan pitched into certain persons and made a parade of pretended honesty ‘and a show of retiring trom the contest for the Comptroller- ship. It was thought to be a very cunningly devised coup d'etat, designed to divert public attention from Brennan until a late hour of the canvass, and is generally supposed to have been concocted and written by Peter Bogus Sweeney or Peter Blatherskite Sweeney or Peter Buncombe Sweeney, or probably by Bogus, Blatherskite and Buncombe Sweeney, all in one. Next we had the resignation of Street Commissioner Cornell, by which Judge Whiting was temporarily nonplussed, and the nomination by the head of the “ring” of Mr. Isaac Bell as his successor. he Aldermen hung up Mr. Bell, and the result is that Tweed, who is included in the charges of corruption made against Cornell, and who has always fur- nished the politi@al brains to ran the office for the benefit of the “ring,” remains in as Stroet Commissioner and has the patronage and fends of the department under his thumb until after the charter election. From all this it is evident that Hoffman, Peter Balderdash Sweeney, Tweed & Co., have resolved to run Brennan again for Comptroller as the Tammany “ring” candidate, and to hold on to the Street Commissioner’s office until after election, in order to use it for his success. At present there is no prominent candidate in the field. The two Connollys, Mike and Dick, are bustling about on their own account, but they do not amount to anything, and will have to wait a few years longer before they get the key of the city strong-box into their hands, The real object of all the Sweeneys is to aecure the re-election of Brennan, and le is their only candidate. We want our taxpayers and respect- able citizens to thoroughly understand that all Peter Blubbering Sweeney’s tears and protes- tations pre make-believe, and that his true design is to put Brennan on the track at a late day, when his merits cannot be fully discussed. Brennan, it is well known, is in no respect fit for the office. He has neither sense, education nor financial ability. Neither his training in the grogshops of ths Five. Points nor his experience on the police, as constable or justice, fit him for the chief financial office in the city. His complicity with the “ring” renders him above all an undesirable person for the position. Since he has been Comp- troller it is a notorious fact that the city office- holders who are in the “ring” have all grown to be wealthy men, and that persona who have had salaries of five or six thousand dollars a year have accumulated property and lived in a style that fifty thousand dollars a year would not cover. And yet Peter Brazen Sweeney pretends that Brennan is not friendly to the “ring.” Let our respectable citizens and in- dependent voters remember that the true game of Tammany is to spring Brennan upon them as a candidate for Comptroller, and let them make up their minds to vote against him and not to be cajoled and wheedled over by Peter Buttonhole Sween Tae Mysrertous Invivexce of THe Heratp.— Some of our contemporaries are very much exercised about the extraordinary influence of the Hxravp, and think that, like Providence, we Move ina mysterious way our wonders to per- form. According to thelr accotint the HeRitp manages and regulates everything in a most peculiar manner. Sometimes we oppose a candidate in order to elect him. Sometimes we favor a measure in order to dofeat it. We fill the pockets of the “ring” of associated managers by showing up their immorality, and we enrich the independent managers by ap- planing thet. We stop the moteoric shower ere by announcing it, and get up a meteoric shower in England so that we may nonplus Professor Loomis and beat all the other papers by our special cable despatch. Well, we ac- kflowledge that all this is vet} Gurionly Bad #8 do not blame our contemporaries for not un- derstanding all our movements; but they have the consolation of knowing that if they wait long enough they will see the results of the Heratn’s operations, and that “whatever is, is right,” or ought to be. Warnsxsocts oF Youxa Kerouvs—A report was put into circulation some time since, to the effect that young Ketchum had been secretly released from Sing Sing Prison and sent to Europe, where he was to remain until near the close of the term of his imprisonment, then to return, and be on hand to receive his formal discharge. This story is set at rest by a letter to an Albany paper, which states that young Ketchum cheerfully acquiesced in his sentence, went, to prison unresistingly, has remained there submissively ever since, discharging his duties with intelligence, industry and accuracy, and winning confidence by his exemplary con- duct. His friends will be gratified at this in- telligence and will no doubt make prepare- dons to run him for Congress on his reloase— @ position { qualified so ovn a he kan woeked est bis m to tbe out “an impostor on t Amortean Gea. hs. Neale 8 » but Nye of Lawreiee in making faithful well, cried cae -shgirwn Some have lived in these days, when photdgrap flourishes. ps even he would have have winced yader the light which Mr. Shanks uses in photographing the more prominent generals in the revent American war. During that war “very few generals appeared great to the war correspondents,” apd Mr. Shanks, who has been described by a contenrporary as “the best writer among the Heratn’s sixty-three war correspondents,” has written a book entitled “Personal RecoMeotions of Distin- guished Generals,” in which he reduces some of his subjects to truly lilipdtian proportions. His bump of veneration not being inordinately developed, he could not see an Alexander in every officer, and not all of his sitters and their admirers will be apt to applaud the can- dor and impartiality which he manifests. It may be that in wishing to avoid the fulsome flatteries pn the one band, and the indiscrim- inate abuse on the other, to which certain idols or certain scapegoats of the public have beeome accustomed, the author of “Per- senal Recollections” may fail to have his motives. appreciated by all. He may have erred sometimes in his impressions, but he has certainly given such as he had. And it is refreshing, if only by way of variety, to moet with a writer who aims to give honestly his actual impressions, even if he is tempted occasionally to use rather stronger language than may suit an over-fastidious taste. Thé advance sheets of Mr. Shanks’ handsomely printed and illustrated volume have been sent to us by the publishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, and Hive enabled us to verify the author’s statement in bis preface:—“I write with the firm belief that historical truth should be only less sacred than reltgious truth.” Without fear or favor he exhibits to the reader @ group of generals, just as he saw them him- self, “not on parade, but in undress uniform.” He aims to illustrate not only their great mili- tary qualities, but more particularly their mental peculiarities and characteristics. His pages will be found to contain many facts about some of the great battles which official reports have left untold, with such recollec- tions of our generals as history proper will not perhaps condescend to record, and to em- brace singular facta about great campaigns and strange stories about great men. “The portraits are freely drawn. They are made from actual studies, if not special sittings; and while taking care to give every beauty, I have omitted,’ saya the author, “none of the de- formitiea or blemishes of my subjects, though F bave told in full detail their virtues, and have touched on their faults and vices lightly. I have avoided alike extreme extravagance in praixe or censure. Still there is enough shadow to the pictures to give tho necessary, if not agreeable, contrast to the lights.” Sherman is depicted in this volume as the strategist, the genius of the war, full of life, energy and originality, but ill-tempered, egotistical, and “as great a despot at heart as was Frederick the Great.” Thomas, the tena- cious, is a tactician, without originality or strategic ability—of cold blood, and, ap- parently, cold heart, but ‘‘pure as Bayard;”— of colossal mind, like Kleber, and slow In exe- cution, like McDonaid—in a word, the reverse ofSherman. Grant—whose genius the Heratp was the firat to appreciate and proclaim—is the writer’s hero, and he is delineated as the perfect general—the full combination of the strategist, Sherman, and the tactician, Thomas, Sherman is “as mercurial as a Frenchman and as demonstrative as an Italian; Thomas as phlegmatic as a Dutchman and as tena- cious as an Englishman; while Grant, in every characteristic, in doggedness, por. tinacity, positiveness and taciturnity, is thoroughly American, and nothing else.” Sheridan is called “an inspiration, not @ general,” without strategy and of rather er- ratic tactics, but a quick, dashing, stubborn fighter. A neatly drawn parallel between him and Sherman makes the latter’s peculiar energy “that of the brain, inspired;” Sheridan’s “that of the blood, inflamed.” Hooker .is pro- nounced to be of the same school of “fighting generals,” and one so addicted to forcing quar- rels to direct issues that when there is no enemy to fight he attacks his friends. Rousseau is made “a natural leader of men—bold and rugged of nature, and loyal, true and affection- ate to the backbone.” Buell is at once one of the greatest generals and the greatest failures of the war—“a perfect soldier in manner, bearing, coolness, courage and energy.” Mc- Cook is represented as “an overgrown school boy,” whom Sherman jocosely called “the juvenile McCook.” Crittenden, who has lately been taken from private | ah Be colonel of one of the ggw regular reg ments, 1s de- scribed as “a lawyer, with little legal and no military ability,” and Gilbert as “a martinet, without an idea of discipline or system—the worst kind of a martinet.” Rosecrans is made on public ; knowing nothing of war but its tricks, more fit to be a chief of spies than a general; nervous to incoherency and incapacity.” Gordon Gran- ger, in command of a corps, is made to appear only as acaptain of a battery. “Old steady” Steedman stands forth equally brave, bold, positive, firm, unflinching, practical and impu- dent, and is the real “character” of the book. gan is the representative General of the stern army. Negley appears as tho best read and most thoroughly well informed among the officers of the 7Olunteer army. T. J. Wood, captions and energetic, <ets all the credit for the good work of Crittendé2’s corps, and is said “to have furnished Crittenus® with alj the military brains and formed for him a! military character he ever had.” O. O. How- ard is, in Mr. Shanks’ opinion, “a soldier on principle, a reformer and an enthusiast, but not an exalté.” “Black Jack Logan,’ who is said to resemble in person the “Jack of Spades” (Sheridan is called the “Jack of Clubs ”), is made out “the same daring, en- thusiastic and valorous fighter that Sheridan is, full of dash and vim and go, and of a naturally warm, enthusiastic and daring temperament;” and a similar portrait is presented of the ad- venturous Geary, of Rennsylvanis. Occasional allusions to General Halleck throughout the work do not indicate any wish to flatter him; on the contrary, they suggest « suspicion that the writer has clearly understood the “great incompetent,” whose only boast was that “no responsibility for failures could be pyt on aed a lammet for tak” Ta dott fs an el : We must not\omit to mention that the spirit with which the \guthor alludes to officers and men in the Con! army is free from the superfluous oy still indulged in by somé chroniclers of the war. Of course bis entimates of the forces \opposed to the Uniog armies are consonant ‘ehhh his loyal point of view. He is by no means disposed to exag- gerate the prowess of the Southern troops; perhaps he inclines to the other extreme. But he recognizes the pluck and enduranoe of the admirably mobilized “Army of Northern Vir- gina.” He sees nothing but “weakness” ip General Lee’s anwillingness “to raise his against his relatives and friends” and in refraining from forcibly putting an end to what he saw in 1865 was. hopeless “even if he had been compelled to put Jeff Davis in irons to. do so.” But he renders justice to Stonewall Jackson, and particularly to the Fabian policy of Johnston, whom he calls a “really great soldier” and is tempted to hail as “the noblest Roman of them all.” To one or, two instances Mr. Shanks boldly anticipates the reversal by posterity of the popular verdict of the day upon certain federal officers, and he makes a strong argument in each case. On the whole his book is a remark- ably fine exception to the general worthless ness of works ocasioned by our late war. It le a relief to come unexpectedly upon it im the Dismal Swamp of contemporaneous history. City Improvements. We publish to-day an interesting description of the most important new buildings now in course of erection in New York and its vicia- ity, giving a bird’s eye view of city improve- ments generally, including business buildings, elégant dwellings for our millionaires, cosy residences for our less wealthy classes, teng- ment houses for our laboring population, churches for our saints, taveras for our sinners, magnificent storehouses, public buildings, faq- tories, workshops and suburban villas. Accotd- ing to the graphio description and compre! sive views of our reporter, we are soon to ha a metropolis that will vie with London im woalth and population and excel Paris in beauty and splendor. The enterprise of our citizens is very wisely directed towards these improvemonts, and every year adds to the architectural beauty of the city. We have already individual ak ings, such as the new Heratp: structure, will compare favorably with those of any clty in the world. But the great blemish upon our general comeliness is. the deplorable want of uniformity everywhore apparent, not only ia localities where new and old buildings are mixed together, but In blocks which have been entirely built up anew. It is not uncommos to see half a dozen new buildings in the same block, each differing from its fellows in style of architecture as well as in height; and thus, although all may be handsome erections of themselves, the general effect of the imprové- ment fs. materially marred, if not totally de- stroyed. Take, for instance, the Hzratp etrac- ture, the most unique, tasteful and elaborate in the city. We understand that the parties who have purchased the adjoining ground have decided to put up a building, handsome in itself, but not in conformity with its magnifi- cent neighbor. While nothing can destroy the beauty of the Herato building, which is unlike anything on this continent, yet the effect of the improvement, so far as the appearance of the city is concerned, will be greatly lessened by this break in the style of architecture. If the whole block to the corner of Fulton street were built up after the Haratp model, it would not have its equal in the world, It is to be regretted that some plan cannot be devised by which uniformity in buildings in the main thoroughfares of the city could be secured. In Paris, where the government exercises the power to make public impr@e- ments and to dictate the style of architecture to be followed by builders, the advantage of such a rule is evident. It would be well for the Legislature to create s commission, with power to make all the necessary and sweeping improvements demanded by the rapid growth of the Metropolis, such as the continuation of the Fifth and Seventh avenues to the Battery and the widening of Pearl street, so as to open another broad thoroughfare through the length of the city from the Fourth avenue and the Bowery. These improvements would pay for themselves by the increased value of the property along their lines and would sweep away all objections as to the building of rail- roads, which have now become an American institution and a public necessity. Such @ commission might do much towards securing uniformity in the atyle of building, even if the power could not be given it to enforce architectural regularity. When those who in- vest their money in new buildings can be made to understand that they greatly enhance the value of their own property by following @ uniform style and thus adding to the general beauty of the locality, they will soon be willing to adopt any rules laid down by such « commis- sion as we propose. Tas Dewonauization or Tas Democracr.— Pitiable indeed is of the Northern mt AR great democratic party. They are domorslised, disorganized, broken down, broken up, all at sixes and sevens, and all adrift. Out in the West, where down to the late elections they looked upon the negro, like Judge Tancy, as an outside barbarian, having “no rights which a white man is bound to respect,” they now hail him as “a and a brother,” and are Le clamorous for universal suffrage for be-Jumbs, Sambo aud all. This cry is echoed from the d1d pro-slavex,y, negro-hating, spolls-loving, copperhead organ or Boston, and re-echoed by the ring-streaked and striped oracle of the Albany Regency. At these avful aberrations of their Nor’western and Nor’east- ern brethren the irrepressible and implacable pro-lavery fire-eating Kentucky democracy set up a long how! of wrath and agony, and it reverberates from Richmond to Texas and all the way down the Mississippi from Cairo. Thus it is made m&nifest to the Gentiles that the ten lost tribes of the democratic Isracl can- not be recalled together with the Shibbolet) of universal suffrage, including Sambo. The ten tribes hich revolted to bold Sambo in the len ene a aw ater