The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STO, Volume XXXI. FTERNOON AND EVENING. AMUSEMENTS WAY THEATRE, eA asso. Matinee at Fiomexce. YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York noel Garren Gaunt, OR JxaLousy. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. enue.—! FRanos ps Recomrense—| tse — vayaveuss. Metinge at One o'Clock—Mant Sroant. N STAD THEA’ Diu briauuaxs UD Saux Way HALL, Taouie So0OxD SYuraowe ALL, | Irvin, .—-Ma, Epwanp MOLLsK- muna ‘Pure Giaseiat Marita at two O'Clock. Broads near Broome Typ o'Clock—Tuu Antist OF Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— 'FLEGBEIND. nth street. —THRZODORE Haare =P Rot DODwWo!l os prvedwer ‘ wit Paaroam mip Minacuxs.—Tus tines at ‘fwo o'Cleck. - FRARORROO MINGTRELS. ions, opposite i—In TaxIR SNTERTALN = S — Buniesques=METB0RI0 ara, Datcrne AND Suewsns Om Fattine Stans. 4 West” FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nor. 2 Land t r. BaLeape, a0. 4 Tir 70 THD ‘Moon, Matinee at 234 o'Clock. KELL 13 MINSTRELS, 720 Rrosdwor, . aite the RRR eR ey ye ssbb. ‘tmictins, 40.—Excursion Anounp tum WORLD, A some Lucacy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSB, 901 Bowery.—Como i INSTRELST Divantissmmans, Jes ilans oF tax Hupsom. ‘Matinee at Sig O'Clock. 3 ITE'S COM! iN TROU! at CHARLEY. rae La rg ure Mechanica’ Hall, “ ‘AnD LAUGHABLE ENTERTAINMENTS, CORPS DE Famate CLergs IN WasHInGTON. Matinee at 234 o'Clock. BROOKLYN{ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Zamra, THE Barr or MARBLE. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Rocausote—Pappy tam Pirer, ss NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Lacrones wrrm vue Oxy-Hypaogex Micnoscors twice bis 3 Hzap awp Rigut Anu or Prosst. Open from § 4. M, tl OP. M. New York, Saturday, November 24, 1866. THE NWaWws. EUROPE. : By the Atlantic cable we have a mows report dated to November 23. An English writer in Paris says that the relations be- tween Great Britain and the United States will soon be critical. C) A Paris journal says Maximilian may leave Mexico at any moment. Austria expects to place a very heavy loan on the English market, Admiral Tegethoff, of the Austrian navy, who dofeated the Italian fleet at Lissa, has left Vicuna, en route to New York. ‘William Darzan, the great Irish public works contrac- tor, suspended payment, with liabilities of £1,000,000. ties of Fenian arms hewe been seized on « + ttoqmer at Cork. A schooner is under seizure at the "ama part, on suspicion of carrying other Fenian muni- tions, Out European files by the Africa reached this city from’ telegraphed from Halifax, and publighed in the HsraLo on Thupsday. ‘Tnteresting details are given to-day. Gonsdle were at 90%, for money, im London at noon yesterday. United States five-twenties were at 705. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was improved, with an advancing tendenoy, at moon yesterday. Midding up- lands was at 143d. Breadstuffs were advancing and firmer at noon. TSE CITY. No new cases of cholera have occurred on board the ship Mercary, in the lower bay, siuce her arrival, The patients suffering with the disease have been removed to the hospital ship Falcon, and. the Mercury has been pletely fumigated. Convocation of rectors of the Episcopal churches of Long Island was resumod in Brooklyn yesterday. Resolutions were offered relative to the increasing de- mand for the labors of ‘the clergy on Long Island, and, after other basiness was transacted, the Convention finally adjourned, The Radical Republican City Convention assembled Tast night at the republican headquarters, 600 Broadw ay, Mr. Charles 8. Spencer in the chair, and, after a few bal- lots had been taken, finally decided upon nominating ‘Mr, Richard Kelly as candidate for the office of City ‘Two soizures of distilleries were made yesterday for alleged violation of the reveaue law, in addition to those already reported. In one instance the officer making the seizure was driven off by a crowd of men who ‘threatened him with personal injury if he did not leave the promises. The examination into the case of the dis- tillers was continued before Commissioner Newton. No mew evidence was adduced. The cases of Mr. Wilson ‘and Mr. Cochue were also taken up; Wilson for giving and Mr. Cochue for taking a bribe. Mr. Wilson with. drow his former affidavit and said that he did not read its contents and*did not wish to charge Mr. Cochue with having taken a bribe. General Dix yesterday took leave of the attachés of of the Naval Office, He will leave for France to-day. The trial of Captain Speight, of the Metropolitan police, against whom a suit is brought by Mr. James Thompson, @republican politician, for false imprisonment, was con- Gluded yesterday, anda seated verdiot will be brought im by the jury on Monday, The trial of Fugene Fergus, for the murder of Patrick McGuann in Aagust last, was concluded yosterday in the Court of Uyer and Terminer, Brooklyn, The jury ren- dered a verdict of manslaughter in tho third degree. Sentence on the prisoner will be pronounce@ this mor- ning. An action for injury to millinery goods placed on one of the French steamers running between Havre and Now York, was commenced in the Superior Court yester- day by Josephine Laube, She claims her goods were damaged by water owing to the carelessness of the de- fondants, and asks $1,500 damages, The defendant sets Up a8 @ defence an alleged attompt to evade payment of In thé General Sessions yesterday, Judge Bussel son- tenced Jeremiah O'Brien, convicted of the murder of Kate Smith, to be executed on the 18th of January, 1867. ‘The Inman tine steamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, will sail from pier 45, North river, for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown, at noon to-day. Tho mails will Close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The steamship Saxonia, Captain Meior, will sail at twelve ML, to-day, from her pier at Hoboken, for South. ampton and Hamburg. The mails for the Continent ‘will close at tho Post Office at half-past ton o'clock. The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, will leave pior No. 9, North river, at three P. M. to-day, for Now Orleans direct, in H. B. Cromwell & Co.'s line, The steamship Montgomery, Captain Faircloth, for Now Orleans, will eail from pier 13, North river, at three PM, to-day. The steamship Havana, Captain Whitman, will sail from pice 46, North river, at threo P. M. to-day, for New Orleans The steamship San Salvador, Captain Atkins, of the Empire line, will sail punctually at three P. M. to-day from pier 13 North river, for Savannah. The fine steamehip Saragoasa, Captain Crowell, of Laary’s line, will sail from pier 14 Bast river, foot of Wall wtroot, at threo P.M. to-day, for Charleston, con- Recting with the steamer Dictator for the Florida ports. ‘The Granada will follow on Wodnosday mags, 28th inet. The stock market, after opening in a pagic yosterday, lowed firm, at an advance, Gold closed 6 139, the mar- Bot baving turned for a rise, apparently. With gold vibrating betwoon 193 and 140 por cent, the aapect of commercial affairs was certainly not changed for the better, The merchandise markets yor terday were unsettiod, and in many casee prices declined under a strong prossure to sell, While transactions were ircamscribed by the extreme stringency of the money market, ihe merchants findiog no Little diMoutty ith eurteney, oven mt the high ra Cotton was 60 oxoception to the general ru! und showed some tm Provement in response to the reported advance in Liver. pool, but grocerior, dey goods, warn! stores petroleum Quit (roles were very a * arnmelvea ireent lower, Wheat easier ©. Barley lower. heavy and declining. whiskey mominal. MISCELLANEOUS. It is stated in official circles im Washington tuat Louis Napoleon has notified the government that he cannot possibly withdraw his troops from Mexico wali! spring. Under the arrangement previously made one detach- ment should have withdrawn in November, but so far there appears to have beea no preparation made for an embarkation. A special Cabinet meeting was held on Thuraday, General Grant being present by invitation, when it is believed this master was fully discussed. Thore are many reasons to believe that the forth- coming message of the President is pervaded by con- ciliatory counsels, and manifestations of a desire om the part of the President to secure harmony betwoen tho Executive and judicial branches of the government: ‘The message is rapidly approaching completion, and will probably be placed im the hands of the printers next week. Despatches from England to the Governor General of Canada hint at the possibility of trouble with the United ‘States, and recommend increaged vigilance om the part of the Canadian authorities. : Mr. McKenzie, the counsel for the Fenian prisoners at Toronto, applied for a rule in the Court of Common Pleas in that city yesterday to show cause why the verdict in the cage of Slevin, who was condemned to death, should not be set aside and a new trist granted. The objections Were argued in detail, and judgment will be delivered te- Gay. It is rumored that the war bad been com- menced in Ireland, and that the Fenians had seized the steamer China Géneral Mitchell is to act @8 administrator of the government for Canada during the absence of Lord Monck. The Executive Counoil will meet in Montreal week after next. The prisoners con- fined at Bedford are to be removed to Sweetabury for trial. James Mack was executed at Montrea! yesterday for the murder, in July last, of Corporal Alfred Smith. Both parties belonged to the Royal Artillery, and the murder was a most cold-blooded and deliberate affair, Mack was game to the last, and died almost without a contortion. A St. Louis despatch says that Governor Fletcher, Gratz Brown, Henry T. Blow and other prominent rad- icals, have inaugurated a movement in that city looking to the rejection of the Constitutional Amendment by the Missouri State Loegisiajure, a9 wall as the adoption of amendments to the State Constitation, abrogating rebel disfranchisement and substituting negro suffrage, ‘The Arkansas Legislature have passed resolutions memorializing Congress in favor of its readmission. The resolution to reject the constitutional amendment has been again referred to the Committee on Federal Relg- tions. ‘The Conservative Army and Navy Union, at a meeting in Washington, on Thufsday night, adopted resolutions recommending the rejection of the constitutional amendment and the extension of suffrage to the negro. A meteor was observed in Nashville last Tussday, which moved rapidly towards the southwest, and ex- Ploded with a noise like a cannon. News from Nassau, N. P., has been recetved to No- vember 19. Details of the effects of the late hurricane are given. Provisions were very high. From Kingston, Jamaica, on the 14th inst., we learn that the coolie trade has revived. The Legislative As- sembly was inaugurated on the 6th ult. Complaints were rifo about high duties and obnoxious laws. Our dates from British Honduras are dated at Belize, October 27. The health of the colony was good, although the weather was rainy and windy. The suger (cane crop is said to be the best ever raised in the coun- try. The Legislative Assembly has béen called together ‘by the Governor. : ‘The Republican Party and the Senth—The . Pewer aed the Daty ef Congress. ‘The republicans have more than a two-thirds vote in each house of the existing Congress, and by the late elections they have secured the same power in the next Congress, if limited to the States now represented. Going before the country upon a platform of Southern re- storation, requiring certain conditions prece- dent of the excluded States as the price of their readmission into Congress, this dominant party and its policy have been endorsed in all ine State elections which have since occurred from Maine to Oregon. Thus, with an empha- sis which admits of no pettifogging or miscon- struction, the power and the. propriety of exacting securities for the future as the price of the restoration of the lately insargent States have been reaffirmed by the Union States of the Corn closed quite firm. Oats Pork tower, Beef lower Lard Butter and cheese inactive, and war. + The Congress thus endorsed in a substantial re-election upon the test of the pending con- stitutional amendment, may say to the ex- cluded States this is our ultimatum, accept it and resume your places in the government, or reject it and stay out. But after all a leading idea of the people of the North is the speediest possible restoration of the outside States on a solid compact of reunion. The true interpre- tation of the recent elections is this—that the victorious Union party of the war not only approves the course of its representatives in Congress in demanding of the defeated party of the rebellion securities for the future, but authorizes Congress to enforce its conditions by tach measures of legisla- tion, ugder the war power, as may he deemed necessary to the end proposed. Thus Congress, in a general law, may set aside all the work of reconstraction done by Mr. John- sonas President, and may provide, first, for the appointment of a military Governor over each of the excluded States, and, next, for the election of Legislatures and regular Gover- nors therein, under such restrictions or exten- sions of the rights of suffrage as the two houses may think @t to impose. Some such course as this has now, we con- tend, become the duty of Congress, in view of “the general welfare” and the “blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” inas- mauch a@ it is manifest that the excluded States, ag now organized, will not, if left to them- selves, ratify the pending amendment for years to come, and because it is evident, too, that those §' ) 88 BOW organized, instead of giving strength to the government, are weak- ening it and bringing it into reproach and subjecting it to the dangers of new civil com- motions, South and North. In a contracted party view of the subjeci the policy of leaving the outside States to their course of “masterly inactivity” may appear the winning game in view of their exclusion for the approaching Presidential election. But the republicans will be playing a safer game than this ine bolder hand of statesmanship. Wisdom, jus- tice, policy and humanity itself call for » Prompt settlement of this Southern difficulty by Congress, and the responsible party in this matter will be made stronger and not weaker {n enforcing a settlement with those securities far the future, indicated by the potential voice of the North. Call them disablod States, as defined by President Johnson, or States geduved to the condition of territories, as defined by Senator Sumner, the faot is the same, that they aro States whose places and fumotions as members of the Union were vacated in their rebellion. Ir ts alad a fixed fact that ten of thom have not | heen reinstated, and that the terms, the time and the mode of thoir restoration rest with } Congress, aa in the case of a territory ora | provinge wWredled from» forelgn puwor. If we look simply to the lauds and waters which xeogeaphioally form the State of South Caro- » fw “natrage, ee bag wevee Bova cut of NEW YORK HERALD, SATU the Union, but, politically, as a State, she was four years out, fighting all that time to place her soit in the possession of a hostile experi- mental government, which she had assisted in setting up. Her surrender with her oon- federates to the United States after a four years’ war involves the power on the part of Congress to. reconstruct her from the beginning, just as the right to pull down involves the right to rebuild on a new foundation, These facts, we say, have been made clear by the late elections, and Congress may now begin with a new broom and sweep away all the constitutional quibbling and pettifogging and executive proceedings and limitations by which this business of Southern reconstruction has been befogged and confused and delayed. We shall expect, therefore, with the reas- eembling of Congress the exercise of its war powers as far as necessary in some general actor acts of legislation covering all the ex- cluded States and bringing them to the simple solution of submission to the laws. Ausra sND Huncary.—The Hungarian Diet met on Wednesday, aad the Atlantic telograph informs us that the imperial resoript declares that “if the Diet will remove the difficulties to the way of unity.a Hungarian ministry will be appointed, and the sutonomy of Hungary | swill be re-established.” This isa rather eon- tradictory declaration, inasmuch as the auto- nomy promised would be itself a grand nega- tion of the unity demanded. Hungary self- governing, administratively independent of the central power, there could be no real political unity of the Austrian empire ; for hewever much may be argued as to tho ¢ pluribus unum in government, we have found the plan sufficiently difficult on this side of the Atlantic; and if it does not work perfeotly in communities of the same race, civilization, language and history—if in such communities it is made the means of inducing such a war as we have just fought out—certainly no one can dream that its application is practicable as to communities so widely dissimilar in all respects ag those that make up the Austrian empire. This difficulty, takén with the whole course of Austrian rulers toward Hungary, touches the inherent weakness of the Austrian empire and seems to point to new disasters as the inevitable sequel of those that have so recently fallen upon the haughtiest of the Euro- pean Powers. The present is Hungary’s oppor- tunity. Her grace, her good will, her loyal adherence is the prime necessity of the ruler whom so many facts of her history should teach her to regard as her tyrannical master It is easy enough to see why the Emperor should just now make apparently liberal offers for the unity of his dominions, and it is difficult to see why Hungary should not demand and get everything, politically speaking, that can consing to bes German Power, the German @fth of her population cannot reafain more Influential then all the rest, as it has been in the past. She must, as recommended by the Emperor Napoleon, endeavor to develop her- selfin the East, and in the very question of such a development Hungary rises into vast importance. Recent rumors of the disposition of Russia and Prussia cannot belittle that im- portance, and the present leaders of the Hun- gerian people will be recreant to their nation- ality if they do not now bring the Hapsburg to ® full settlement for his three eonturies of tyranny and misrale. Tam Canapuan ANNEXATION Movguayt.—From the decided expression of opinion in favor of the annexation of Canada to the United States at the great meeting in Kingston on Wednes- day night, it is evident that the movement has plenty of vitality in it. There are many agencies at work to intensify the anxiety for annexation among the Canadians. First, there isthe fear of another Fenian invasion; next, hostility to the confederation scheme of the government party, and again, a very serious distrust in the imperial government as a pro- tector in time of trouble. These sentiments operate very strongly with many of the com- mercial classes and also with a large majority of the French Canadians, who, though noi willing to have the land overrun by an in- vading force, see the advantage of connection with the United States to their future pros- perity and security, under stable govern- ment like ours. Weare not surprised, then, to see this desire for annexation growing apace; and while itis matter of little mo- ment to us whether Canada comes into the Union or not, we cannot fail to observe the importance of it to the Canadians, and are quite willing that they should reap all the ad- vantages of such a move if they choose. Dmrr Srasers axp Ssont Daesses.—For some ‘time past the streets of this city have been extraordinarily dirty. During the reign of poor Boole, who has recently been suffering from numbness of the brain, Broadway was kept clean, even if all the other streets were filthy ; but now Broadway is a sea of slippery mud, and pedestrians go across it at the risk of their necks, as well as of their apparel. Worse than all, the sidewalks are almost as bad as the carriage way, and elicit a goneral grumble, The street cleaning contractors are not doing: their duty, and should not receive their pay. It will not satisfy the people to get rid of the jobbers of the “ring” if they are only to be humbugged by another set of men who promise largely but sweep end hoe very little. It is one of the most beneficent dispensations vf Providence, however, that the fashion of short skirts should come into vogue just when our streets are dirtiest, Not long ago the ladies used to be the best street cleaners, drag- ging the dirt after thom with their trailing robes. This was a very good thing for the contractors and the dry goods merchants; but a very bed thing for the pockets of hus- bands and fathers, who stared with horror to see hundred dollar dresses employed ns brooms. The drossmakere of Paris have cheaged ell that, Nothing caa be more com- fortable, more becoming and more convenient than the tatest style of small drinolines and short dresses. Ladies oan now walk without draggling their skirts and ride dn cars and omnibuses without taking up three times the amount of space for which they pay. Some women with large ankles have complained of tho 1s fashion upon the ground that the ladies’ feet are consplouously displayed; but wo havo yet io learn that it ts any more in- dolicate fora Indy to show her feet than for a gentioman te chow bis, ond gentlomen have been di-p') vin cual oxtromition these Kguseme . . ccoe hee aePG OF COMATK, . the gecupation yf Canada by gar armies, Decline of Gold and Prices. Gold has fallen within the last five or six weeks from 150 to 187%, the point it touched on Thursday. Its natural course is downward, as we have maintained all along, because a high premium is only artificial and bears no proportion to either the metals in the country or our resources. it this extraor- dinary decline within so short a time must nos lead us to suppose that it will continue to go down at that rate. There will be fluctuations up and down from-various causes, and espe- cially through the gambling of the specie and money traders, but nothing can prevent a gen- eral and healthy downward tendency, if the currency doctors and’“on to specie payment” theorists be prevented fom bringing on a revo- lution and driving gold from the country. In the natural course of things we shall reach a specie basis as soon as it will be safe to do so. But the most gratifying thing to the people at large at present is the decline in the prices of commodities which has followed the fall in gold, ‘The price of everything was much too high—much higher than it ought to have been in proportion to the difference between gold 4nd currency. Nearly all kinds of goods and commodities have borne a market value equal to that when gold was at two hundred and higher. Prices have not fallen in proportion to the fall of specie. Manufacturers, mer- chants and speculators have been able to keep up prices and profit largely by this state of things. Now, however, a change has hap- pily commenced, a change that may break some of this class, but at which the people will have reason to rejoice. we are only in the beginning of the proper it ment of prices. With a steady currency, steady decline of gold and steady markets, we ought before long to get our dry goods, pro- visions and all other articles of consumption and trade fally thirty to forty per cent less than we have been paying for them. It is to be hoped that the forestalling speculators may be broken up too in this movement. Why should we pay, for example, twelve to fifteen dollans a barrel for flour, when the West can afford to supply and would supply it to us for half that amount? The Erie Canal, the great artery which supplies us with the produce of the West, is broken and navigation stopped, we believe, at a certain time every year, and prices put up enormously in consequence. We under- stand this has occurred every year for the last ten years just as the bulk of Western produce should come to market. This looks very sus- Picious. There is something wrong evidently behind these regular and periodical accidents. We mention only this case of the Erie Canal, as showing how the forestallers and specula- tors operate to the injury of the community, but we might refer to the schemes of railroad companies and directors and to other monopo- lising corporations and individuals for the same purpose, It is to “be hoped that the- change of prices we have referred to may open the eyes of the people to these evils and break up the monopolists, Joun H. Sorrartr—Cvnrovs News, w Trce.— The news by the Atlantic cable, which we pub- lished yesterday, that “J. H. Surratt, an alleged accomplice in the murder of President Lin- colin, was discovered serving in the Papal Zouaves, in the name of John Watson,” that “he was arrested upon a demand of General King (our Minister at Rome), but afterwards ran the guard, leaped over a precipice and escaped into Italian territory,” and that “the Italian authorities are on the alert and endeav- oring to capture him,” is very curious news, if true, This Surratt is a son of the Mrs. Surratt who was hanged at Washington, July, 1866, with Payne, Harold and Atzerott, as conspirators with Wilkes Booth in President Lincoln’s mur- der, Young Surratt, according to the evidence, was the righthand man of Booth in running his errands to the other conspirators in Canada and the rebel authorities in Richmond. It was believed at the time of the executions in Wash- ington that Surratt had made his escape to Canada; it was subsequently rumored that he had found an asylam in a monastery over there; and the fact that he and his family were Cath- olics as well as secession sympathizers gave some color of plausibility to the story. If the facts now reported from Europe concern- ing his discovery, arrest and escape reall, apply to the fugitive John H. Surratt, then the reader will natarally sek how did he get to Rome? how did he get into the corps of the Papal Zouavest how was he discovered? and did he really escape over the Tarpeian rock, which was the death of so many criminals in the days of ancient Rome? We can only say that it is probable he le his escape to Europe under an alias, and entiated as John Watson in the Papal Zouazes, as a refuge where he would be least liable to detec- tion, and that he was probably, under all his disguises as @ Papal Zouave, recognized by some American traveller, who knew his face too well to be deceived. Finally, it is proba- ble they have got hold of the wrong man again, as they did in Memphis a year or so ago. We may have further details on the subject within a few days. If the news communicated is true as to the man, then, indeed, may it be said that “the way of the transgressor is hard.” Ovr Retatiovs wira Evataxp.—The cable conveys tous the important information that in the opinion of the Paris correspondent of the London Post “the relations between Eng- cal.” The tone of the English pross and ( friendly expressions of Lord Stanley do not seem to justify the prediction of this corres- pondent, and it appears likely that England will soon have enough work on her hands, be- tween Fenian revolutionists and home reform- ers, without seeking any complication with the United States, Our government is not now under the necessity of temporizing with any foreign Power, and will insist upon s prompt and final settlement with England on all mat- ters growing out of the rebellion. Hed the position ofthe British government been friend. ly during our struggle for national existence we might aot have been disposed to press hor too closely (2 tho ‘hour of her adversity, But we owe her no gratitude and sbe can claim from us no lenioncy, The Alabama and all other claims must be satisfied at once and without reserve, or our government must take Prompt mongures to enforce a settlement. We have « material guaranteo olose at hand, and the first indication of # disposition on the part of tho British Oabinet to evade or refuse to aausty out just claims should be the signal for ‘The ‘ RDAY, NOVEMBEK 24, 1866. of the Common Council would be poworloss if the Comptroller could not be prevailed upon to wink at their jobs. No corrupt contract could be made if he should set his face resolutely against it. No department could fill its pay rolls with bogus names and deal opt thousands of dollars to sinecure office- holders without bis connivance. The Logis- lature will,no doubt, cut down the Comp. troller’s power and leave him with only the duties of a clerk to perform, so that it may not be very material who is elected. But when all the nominations have been made the respectable portion of the citizens will be able ‘to decide who is the best maa for whom te cast their votes. Paros of ram Crrr Couwcn. ap ras Nuw Post Orrios Stra.—The Board of time for trifling has passed. Let our govern- ment now show a atern resolve to settle up matters with our English frionds in earnest. The Foniane in Ireland. From the declarations and movements of one might judge that Ro one, we suppose, exeept the designer of the plan, knows—that is, if there be at all, which many doubt. At the various meetings, balls, fairs and so forth the leading features of Fenian- country now, it is repeatedly an outbreak in Ireland is posi- tively to‘come off. It appears that a portion of the advanced guard from this side ts already gone, not to Ireland direct, but toa port on the Cofitinent, there te be ready for action. party ise little mysterious; but assuniing him to be ip earnest, it is likely that he did. That a Fenian or somp other revolutionary agency is at werk in Ireland there can be no doubt, for our cable despatches of the latest date report the seizure of “a large quantity of arms designed for the use of the Fenians” on board.s steamer at Cork, and on the following day the seizure at the same of a schooner “on suspicion of having Fenian arms on board.” For such action the British authori- ties must have good cause, so the question presents itself, where do the arms come from? From America or France, or—ominous even in the supposition—are they supplied by parties in England proper? It ia alleged by the Fenians in the United States that the Brother- hood has extensive ramifications in England and Scotland, and recent developments made in that direction in England go to show that there is a color of much truth “in the asser- tion.” . Capital is becoming alarmed in Ireland. By the Atlantic cable we are also informed that William Dargan, the Irish “railway king” and public works contractor, has just suspended payment, with Habilities amounting to a million of pounds sterling. Mr, Dargan having com- menced life in an humble sphere, his career to apparently immense wealth, as well as his vast business undertakings, were of late years continually pointed to by the English govern- ment officials and British sympathizers as af- fording solid evidence of what “Irishmen may accomplish in. thelr own land,” what “the Trish can do if freed from political agitators,” the “solid resources of the country under English rule,” and as otherwise quite a number of Cabinet assertions, infer- ences and specialties of a like nature. Queen Victoria, during her tour in Ireland some years since, honored Mr. Dargan by making a special visit to his home, near the place of his birth, in a rural county, and thus sealed by personal royal approval the agsumed general verdict that Irish exertion usefully applied bears its good fruit in Ireland as plentifully as else- where. ; Mr. Dargan is, however,’ merely a cautious, shrewd speculator, a strictly economical cap- italist and a very ferseceing and sensitive financier. His suspension at the present mo- ment, therefore, when Ireland is threatened with a Fenian revolution, is, to say the least, a very remarkable event; for as all his mmder- takings were linked more or less intimately with government works and government stocks, it may be safely averred that if the English system of rule in Ireland rested on as secure a basis as heretofore, and If the interests of the country were being “rapidly developed,” Mr. Dargan would now be just as prosperous as in former years. Employing a vast number of the laboring classes in almost every part of the island, Mr. Dargan enjoys excellent opportuni- ties for ascertaining the exact drift of the cur- rent of popular feeling as well as the public intent, so that it is not at all unsafe to say that the sudden winding up of his affairs by “sus- pension” indicates, from his counting room, that there are symptoms of a movement towards squaring at an early day the political and social balances existing between Ireland and Great Britain. Recent written advices from Ireland repre- sent the country as being in a state of apparent politieal stagnation, disturbed only for a few days by John Bright’s Dublin speeches, which were the commencement of an agitation not relished by the masses of the people—the mechanics, laborers and peasantry, who are all Fenians—but acceptable to the middle class and the Catholic clergy, who are opposed to them. The anxiety everywhere displayed hy the British authorities about the political sentiments of the army, and the constant removal from the country of regiments in which the least taint of disloyalty is suspected, would show that the government is not satisfied that the stagnation is real. Fenianism in Ire- land is not—perhaps because it dare not be— the blatant thing which some of its leaders would make itin America. On the contrary it the site, one imnegatively demanded by the business community, afd ts willing to paye good price for the ground, but is not willing to pay enormous sums in commissions to the “ring.” Delay may be dangerous, and the golden egg and goose, too, may be lost by pro- orastination and avarice, The necessary legie- lation to seoure the appropriation of another half a million dollars for this scheme will re- quire perhaps a year of time, In that year the new Post Office might be built and the government in possession. If delayed by the unwise action, or want of action, of the Com ° mon Counoil, it will doubtless never be built, or the governmont will deal with more senalble private owners for lees a sites. Tho Departure ef General Dix for France— His Leave < Naval e- On yesterday took leave of the attachse of the Naval Office, previous to his departure for France to-day. Mr. Franklin, special Deputy Naval Officer, aa- dressed the General in a few appropriate remarks, ia which he expressed, on behalf of himself amd associates, deep regret at their having to part. Mr. Franklin alluded - to the past services of the General in complimentary terms, and expressed his confidence that in the new Ad of bis tabors he would uphold the honerand dignieg of tho republic in a manger heltting a citizen of che United states, The speaker then egncidtied’ by beading tas-would be veudaasfed to the Genoral, and that be would in good time cetera tothe country to receive the plaudits of bis countrymen. Gegorel Dix tesponidd Yo the addirems by stating that he.received with great sensibility the kind expreasiong with which he bad been greeted on the eovasien of thelt spprosching seperation. He would not part without bearing testimony to the fidelity, efficiency and alacrity with which al! connectederith the office had discbarge@ their dutjes during his short comneotion with them. The General then concluded by returning his thanks for the kind wishes which had been tendered to him, aad gard hia assurance that they were fully reciprocated on bie part. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Major General Daniel £. Sickles, commanding the Dee Partment of the South, arrived in town yesterday ead te stopping at the Brevoort House. s The Spanish Minister, Mr. Tassara, is at the Clarendon aaa M. Thayer, of Nebraska, is at the St. Niek- Genera! James U. 8. A,,and Professor Aug- ation are at the Everett 5 a D. Sperry, of Connecticut, is at the Hofimas jouse, Rear Admire! Dahigren, U. 9. N., and Dewitt C. Lat- Nejoun, of Oswego, are at the Astor House. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. Appelar Tho American Offcors in the Mextoan Libe- ral Army, d&o. gas Nov. 28, 1808. ‘Three thousand mineral specimens have been cet- the Wortd's Fair in Paris bas been nearly abandoned. The following message, signed by Governor Low, the State Comptroller, the Auditor, Attorney General Mo Culloagh aad Adjutant General Eveans, was trausmitted delphia, but now located in Richmond, arrived from seems to be as reticent as it is widespread, and | they breakfated and had an interview in the fortress. therefore no one can tell what purpose under- ie fo was tnrned tat tc the Fee hand lies the superficial quietude noticeable in the | stditieas made to 1 be Bg te) country, Popular outbreaks are not always | to the rooms Praga for nop B® tbe heralded by preliminary commotion. They ae yay OR BN are more often instantaneous where they are released. Relations and friende most dangerous, Tam Caantan Etectiox—Tas Crrr Cour. TROLLER.—The republicans met in city conven- presente for forwarded by his tion last night and nominated Richard Kelly, densa +a who now holds the position of Police Justice, | Arrival of Colored Troops from « agreng as their candidate for Comptroller. One of} 1, Sea cainaateas tia wid ats the Connollys is already in the Geld as the | sow oceans on the 17th ins for Now Tork, erred Democeti Cooper with the Thirty regimen —— of the wes yma tg grees tied sen sire roe 00 board, Who ary te be appearances, the other will be in the field ———— o (RURDER 18 STONINGTON, CONN. to-night as the nominee of the Tammany rump. Brennan is out of the race. His owners, finding that he had no chance of winning, have wisely concluded to “draw” him. His letter, chy. The which we publish, states in positive peter pp er gar tne ym od icine, pro terme his rofussl to run, and 50 he | vious to the murder, Dewey received a severe blow over " the when he took « and shot Redman doe, cam very well be permitted to console | S54 then deliversd hii (0 thé authorities «Rum was himself with the belief that he could have been | the cause of the murder y elected if he had remained in the field. The THE PRIZE RING. office of Comptroller is one of the moat im- portant in the city government. Its power is almost unlimited and reaches into every department. It is the key to the whole polloy of Whe giz novecnmem., Shy exudes “dude” Saw Collier, the champion of the light weights, arrived im (hia city youterday from Baltimore, to make a maish with John MoGiads (o Ogbt for 61,000 » af. Collen coveret MoGiado's forfeit, amd article wilt be fmrenMiately drew fh and the day aphelated fos (hq oven