The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK ‘HERALD. JAMES GORDON BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN BROADWAY THEATRE — Broadway Broome near street.—Tas WOXDER—ANTONY AND CiBOPATRA. NEW YORK THEATRE, Kroaiway, opposite New York Hotel.—Gnererta Gaunt, OR JeALOUsT, GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadwoy.— Prem Hane, GERMAN STAD? THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Gowery.— Tosscaxn Witbeamura, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth stroet.—Pass® 4xD Seavenini's First Monming Concent, —Paorkssoe Hants DODWORTS'S HALL, 806 Broad: Munacues. YSTERY. wo. Preroge au ~ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Rroulway, opnosite ihe Metropatiton [—ix tusin Krasorian Bxrercain- ants, SixgiNd, DaNcINa AnD Runieguss—TWo MrMeans OF THE LEGISLATURE FROM MassaouusiTs. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 Wort Fwonty-fourth street.—Bynwvo weit's MiNsTRIELS, — SM tOPtAN aed Borcesquas, 40. 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England will, it is rumored, cond twenty of her militia regiments into Ireland. ‘Tho Prussian army system is likely to be recommended for adoption in France, If the faws of 1848 are restored to Hungory she will consider the proposition made by the Emperor of Aus- tria, It is said that the English commission charged with the revision ef the neutrality laws will soon be ap- pointed, The steamship Germania, at this port yezterday even- ing, brought our European files dated to the morning of November 14. The meteorio display was witnessed to great advantage to London on the morning of the 14th instant, about one o'clock, The stars, with the ravans of England, came out in @ flashing contradiction to Professor Loomis anda brillant corroboration of the Hegaro's cable dispatch from Greenwich, as will be seen by our newspaper re- ports, The London evening journals of the 14th instant have not come to hand by the Germania—as she leit South- ampton about noon that day—and in these papers are likely contained full accounts of tho celestial phe- nomenon. By special telograph placed on board the Germania at Southampton we have a very interesting account of the gorgeous reception accorded to King Victor Emanuel by the people of Venice, furnished by our correspondent in the ltherated city. The London Times correspondent in St. Petersburg describes at length the ceromonial and scene at the marriage of the Czarewiteh of Russia to the Princess Dagmar, MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Mexico contains further in- ‘voreating partioulars regarding matters in the capital and ‘no reports of the imperialists concerning the recent battle at Oaxaca, Desultery skirmishing is going on all around the line without any decisive advantage accruing to either party, The new Tehuantepec Transit Company have agents in Chihuahua trying to obtain the grant now in possession of the company headed by Marshall 0. Rob. orts, of this olty; but it is believed that both companics are the same, merely changing colors to suit the political changes that are expected to follow the abdication of Maximition, General Sherman and Colonel Lewis D. Campbol!, American Minister to Mexico, arrived at Havana on the 18th instant, amd were recoived with marked attention vy the authorities, Thoy will probably remain there wok, The steamship Kingfisher, plying between Baltimore and Charleston, which left the formor port on the 10th inwtaut, foundered in a gale southeast of Cape Hatteras and four oolered men were lost. The United States frigate Susquehanna rescued the survivors. A large number of persons who had assembled at the Cooper Institute yesterday for the purpose of hearing Rev. Charles B. Smyth's second lecture on “The Naked Truth’? were disappointed, the trustecs of the building having refused the uso of the hall for secular discourses to be delivered on the Sabbath, A sermon was preached last evening by U. C. Brewen, ‘a tho Christian church, Twenty-cighth street, on the Popo's allocation, In which he argued that the gradual decline of the power of the Roman Catholfe Church is the fulfliment of prophecy contained in the book of Revelation, The Rev. Dr, Quinn, pastor of St. Poter’s Roman Catholic church in Barclay street, detvored an address to bis congregation yosterday on the subject of the Roman loan, He reviewed the causes which produced tho Pontifical debt, which he attributed to the injustice of Napoleon Bowaparte and the attacks of Victor Smanuel; and in noticing the offer of the taland of Malta by the English government as a place of refuge to ‘ho Pope if he should leave Romo, h» remarked on tho inconsistency of England, which had for three hundred years beon the Popo’s enemy, offering him the protec sion of Ita flag. Henry Ward Beecher doliverod a sermon a: Piymouth church, im Brooklyn, yestorday, om the education of the freedmen. The Rov. G. ©, Esray delivered @ sermon at St. Joun's Mothod st Episcopal church yesterday, on the "Sine of Our Neighbors,’ in which he denowaced capital puniwh- mont for crime, Rev. Dr. Chapin proached morning and evening yer- torday at the Cooper Institute to @ crowded conyre- gation James H. MoGill, living in Carrot! street, Brooklyn, while Iavoring under aberration of mind yesterday, stabbed his wife and then cut bis own throat. Hie own wounds have not proved fatal, although Mra, Motiil's fr eaid to be dangerous. The Rov. T. De Witt Talmadge, of Philadelphia, Dreached yesterday in that city upon the immoralities of sho stage, referring expecially to the immodest spectacle now being performed at one of the theatres im this city and which \s being oxhibited also in Philadelphia. J. T. Jones was electod United States Senator from Arkangas by the Logisiatare of that State on Saturday. A dill lo define the qualifications of jurors baa passed the Tonnosace Legisisture, by whieh no person, not a voter, Gan serve, Rape ts declared by the bill to be pontshable with death, A large warohouse was burned yesterday in Lee, Mo., the lone tnvolved amounting to $100,000 Two cirees wore suffocated, and their bodies consumed by the fames, and another man was injured by jumping from tho third story window. {t ts wow conceded that no special eeeion of the Maryland Legislatore will be called until aftor tho regu. jar saraton, which commences on the 10th of January A block in Mobile, containing from thirty to forty butldings, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss ts catiranted at $100,000, ‘Tho Boaton Arm which eloped recently, leaving heavy Habititios behind, are supposed to be on their way to Buropa About $15,000 or $20,000 worth of their gods has Seon trened Wo St «bans, VI, and selzed Our “Critical Relations with Ea, siand—The | fighting, In &.word, if « warlike crisis really ‘These preparations will be useless against Alabama Claime and the Mesi° Im- | ozists it is “critical” for England and France browiic. alone. We shall be satisfied with peace, the The English government eeoms dispom ‘4 to | payment of the Alabama claims and the with- feel its way cautiously in regard to athe | drawal of the French from Mexico; but we are United States. For some time past the tone*#! | ready for war, the downfall of the British em- the press of Great Britain and of the leadiny ) pire and the ultimate ruin of Napoleon, The British statesmen has been remarkably at sht of dethroned monarchs, carrying thelr dial; but now the wind bas shifted and there | «row.ns in their carpet bags, is not unfumillar appesis to be @ disposition to sail upon the | in Europe just at present, and it only requires opposite tack, Simultaneously we learn from | 9 w.\r with the United States to add Victoria the London Post that “the relations between | and N.\poleon to the number of royal vagrants, England and the United States will soon be sade critiesl;” from Earl Derby that “a spirit of | The President and Congress—A Conciliatory mutual forbearance and kind conciliation” is i ree Anticipated. needed to smooth away the difficulties con- Our despatch.*8 from Washington say there cerning the Alabama claims; from Canada | are reasons for beVieving that the President’s that “the possibility of trouble with the United forthcoming messag.. to Congress will be “per- States renders increased vigilance necessary | vaded by a spizit conc\iatory to the republi- on the part of the Canadian authoritiea;” from | can party,” and that it \vill show a desire “to Washington that the attention of our govern- | secure concert of action be’ n the executive ment hag been called to the ominous concen- and legislative branches of the government.” tration of British troops upon our Canadian | This isa gratifying announcem.nt, and'we hope frontier; from France that the engagements in | it may prove to be true. We hope, too, that regard to the withdrawal of the French troops} the dominant party in Congres may be fron Mexico this month will not be observed, | governed by the samo coneiliatary spirit. and from the organ of Secretary Seward that Nothing else is wanted to bring pesee, an the United States wil! not asenme the Mexican eurly restoration of the South, and to Iay the debt to France. These reports and rumors, | foundation of solid and lasting prosperity coming all together, cortainly make out 2 case throughout the whole republic. worthy of serious consideration. When a cloud The President in taking this course does so, appears in @ clear sky and tho barometer | it is reported, out of reapeet to the voice of the begins to fall, a careful captain commences his | people as expressed in the late elections, preparations tor a storm; and it behooves us to | Should this be the case he will be acting both glance critically over the machinery, hull and | in harmony with our popular institutions rigging.of the Ship of State, and seo what the | and with the political creed ho has avowed prospects are of safety or disaster. through all his previous public career. The In the first place, no matter how “critical” | »ox populi has been to Andrew Johnson the our relations may become with England, there | supreme law throngh bis thirty years of is no chance for the Emperor Napoleon to re- public life. new his schemes in regard to Mexico. General Dix will make this clear to the Emperor at his We know of no prominent public man who has more emphatically declared this to be the law for all statesmen first interview. If the worst comes and we are | to follow, and heretofore he has obeyed it. We obliged to go into a war with Great Britain, we can easily sprre twenty-five thousand soldiers to setile the Mexican imbroglio. Indeed Sheri- dan already has troops enough upon the Rio think and hope he will obey the will of the people still. ‘The question that has been at issue between the President and Congress, that of the restora- Grande to deal with that matter, and Sherman, | tion of the South, is entirely one of policy, one who is a host in himself, is by this time on the } on which he had as much right to form an fiold of action. The United States have treated opinion and to act as the members of Congress Napoleon most generously. Taking an unfair | until the will of the people was expressed. It advantage of the internal troubles ofa friendly | is trae popular majoritics may be wrong some- Power, he atiempted to violate the Monroe times; and to prevent any evil consequences doctrine and establish a foreign empire upon | from that to the fandamental construction of the our borders. Had we turned upon him the | government or the infringement of the guaran- moment our rebellion was suppressed and | teed constitutional rights, the President is in- driven the French from Mexico by such thun- | vested with conservative powers. He may even derbolts as Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Sheri- | veto the acts of Congress from a sense of duty dan, he would bave had no right to complain. | to the country. But in tho present case of the Maximilion’s monarchy was a part of the | conflict of opinion between him and the repre- rebellion and fell with it. Jeff Davis | sentatives of the people further resistance and the Austrian adventurer were in the same | would be unwise and improper. He might boat and were wrecked in company. Had we | have had somo reason for adhering to his pressed the point the surrender of General policy up to the time of the recent elections, Lee would have been followed by that of Mar-| because the present Congress was elected shat Bazaine. Instead of proceeding to this | under different circumstances, because the extremity, our government acted most mag- majority were elected even as his professed nanimouély. Our armies, flushed with victory | supporters, and because they adopted a dif- and ready for another campaign, were quietly | ferent policy after their election; but there can disbanded. The friendship of France during | be no excuse for such a conrse now. The issue our Revolutionary struggle was remembered | was clearly defined and squarely put to tho as an offset to her enmity during the Southern | people, and they have said they want a plan rebellion. Our moral power alone was brought | of restoration differing from that proposed by to bear upon Napoleon, and he was permitted | the President. to retire gracefully from his untenable posi- The question at issue, we repeat, is not one tion. Now that Maximilian’s empire is in | of constitutional right, over which the Presi- Tuins, it is too late for the French Emperor to | dent is the special guardian; for the war has break all his promises and undertake to recon- | barred such a claim from or in behalf of the struct his exploded projects. Ifhe fails to ap- | rebel States; but it is simply one of policy, and preciate generosity, we will convince him by | on that the popular voice must be the supreme the logic of the bayonet. His troops must | law. The overwhelming majority of members leave Mexico voluntarily or remain prisoncrs | returned to Congress in favor of @ different of war. We are ready for all eventualities, | plan of restoration than that proposed by the even including ® war with England. The | President ought to cause him to yield promptly Spencer rifle is as able a diplomatist as the | and unhesitatingly to the will of the people. Prussian needle gun. Russia and the United | That is the whole matter in a nutshell, and we States may serve France as Prussia and Italy | are pleased to learn that Mr. Johnson is likely have served Austria. It is the fixed resolve of | to view it in that light. the American people that the French and Maxi- milian must retire from Mexico and the repub- lic be re-established. We want this done If the President shall propose a modifled pro- gramme of restoration in lieu ef that embraced in the constitutional amendment, we trust it will peaceably, if possible, but forcibly, if neces- | be one that Congress can adopt immediately tary. Napoleon may take his choice. and that will fully restore the South before the In regard to England, but one course remains | expiration of the next session in March, We for the United States government, and that is to insist upon the immediate settlement of the Alabama claims, without the delay of a com- mission or the reduction of a single dollar, The talk of Earl Derby abont “mutual” for- bearance and conciliation is all nonsense. have urged, as the best thing to be done under the circumstances, universal amnesty and uni- versal suffrage; but whatever plan be recom- mended or adopted, let it be such as will bring about immediate restoration. The welfare of the country, our national in- Hitherto we have been too forbearing and too } terests, peace and harmony, all demand this. conciliatory, while England has been aggres- sive and practically hostile. The time has now arrived for strict and impartial justice. During the rebellion we fought against Iritich privaieers, British seamen, British arms, am- munition and provisions, and British advice and sympathy, and we conquered in spite of these. To ithe victors belong the spoils. British neutrality was a farce, and any display of British braggadocio will be a failure, so far a8 we are concerned. Between the United Let us have, then, conciliation, both on the part of the President and Congress, and speedy restoration. Tue Caxamtans Arsina—Our warlike and chivalrous Canadian neighbors, bent on defence or conquest, we as yet know not which, are busily engaged in experimenting with those terrible engines of war and death, unholy shot aud shell, and in distributing death-dealing breech-loading arms of immense calibre and States and Great Britain all the advantages of | range to their invincible and valorous volun- & war are in favor of the former Power. We have everything to gain and England has every- thing to lose. The war wonld be a maritime teers. Nine-inch shell, made of the best char- acter of Firth steel, have been actually thrown the full distance of half a mile at an iron-plated one, and the English seaports are at the mercy | target eight inches thick, with @ backing of of our iron-clads. “The Fenians and reformers only need the countenance of our government to succeed in Ireland and to start a formidable revolution in the heart of England. A war with the United States would be most unpopu- teak of eighteen inches more, the astounding result being that the iron was penetrated and the teak backing fired and entirely consumed. Nothing like it was ever heard of betore—at least in Canada; and Dablgren, Parrott and all lar in Great Britain; a war with England would | the rest of the big gun makers sink into utter be most popular in the United States. We insignificance before this newly developed have but comparatively Mttle shipping left to | Canadian manufacturer. | suffer, thanks to the British privateers, while Formerly, when the Chinese went to war with we could reimburse ourselves for the | “outside barbarians” they were accustomed entire expenses of the contest by seizing British | to beat upon gongs and like instruments in property, on the land or oa the soa, wherever | order to frighten the opposing armies by the we can find it. In = week twenty thousand | noise and confusion produced thereby; but of United States veterans, assisted by the Fenian | Inte they bave abandoned this process in volunteers, could eapture Canada. To storm | consequence of having learned that the anclent fortifications of Quebec would be | American hotel keepers use same ehild’s play to the men who took Vicksburg, | gong process to summon hungry hordes Yorktown, Petersburg, Fredericksburg and the | to their hospitable boards; and fearful heights abové the clouds on Lookout Moun- | that in case of a war with this country an tain, We may need « foreign war to end the | Amorican army might mistake their defiance restoration muddle and weld tho North and } os en invitation and charge with the same en- South together In an indissolubte Union. The | thusiaem and spirit which they display at meal Mexican campaign, in which the soldiers of | hours have discontinued the use of the decep- Maesachusetts and South Carolina fought sbou!- | tive weapon. Do our Canadian friends expect dor to shoulder, dissipated the ill feeling that | to frighten us in like manner with big gunsand remained after the nallifiation squabble, and «| perforated iron plattng? Why, bless their confict with England would now clear the sir | hearts! we are just as familiar with the roar of the mists and vapors arising from the prejn- | of cannon and rattle of muskotry as with that dices, passtons and disappointments of the | of the gong—we have heard nothing else for secession conspirecy. We bave great and | ihe past five years—and we are iiclined to ponular generale, superior to Wellington, out | think the Canadians will sigoally @nd igno- of employment and anxious for work, while | mintously fail in the difficult réle of the Chinese England is in her military dotage, with an | warrior. Can this big gun movementibe meant army of discontented Fenians, commanded by | for the Fenians? Impossible; for it chn hardly aristocratic numekulls who have purchased | be expected that « true Irishman will be their promotion by bard cash Instead of hard | frighteaed bro notice of an (movendine row. them out of house and home and country and never give them an opportunity to fire s shot. Our Canadiam neighbors had better give up their Chinese tricks, trast to our good will and generosity and neutrality laws, get thoroughly disgusted with paying English taxes and humbly beg to be allowed to annex themselves to “the land of the free,” &., &c. Beu Butler on the Rampage—The Thrent- ened Impeachment. Ben Butler, member elect of the next Con- gress, delivered himself in Brooklyn on last Saturday evening of his bill of indictment against Andrew Johnson and laid down his programme for the impeachment of the Presi- dent. He was listened to by 8 large audience, who received his buncombe oratory with good- bumored indulgenee, often laughing, oceasion- ally besiowing upow Wim ironical applause, and always in a vein which showed that the efforts of a stupid copperhend organ to dignify the occasion by a riot were even more contempti- ble in their estimation than the bJusterings of this modern Bombastes Furioso. We con- gratulate the citizens of Brooklyn upon this evidence of their good sense and good teraper, and we hope they will be as attentive to their next lecturer, the negro Douglass, as they were on Saturday evening to the swaggering, melo- dramatic hero of the Dutch Gap ennal, Now that Butler has been safely delivered of this impeachment speech without the inter- ruption of so much as a rotten apple, we trust it will set at rest the fears of the old fogy or- gans at Washington and elsewhere, and of ail the elderly ladies throughout the Union who have been preaching the dawger of a collision between the President and Con- gress, The principal charge made by the New Orleans metal broker against Andrew Johason, is “drunkenness in office,” and this, if true, is an offence which the present Uniied States Senate would scarcely be dis- posed to press to the point of conviction. The truth is that the Jacobins of Congress, if really disposed to attempt the impeachment of the President, would not be able to secure fifty votes in the House of Representives in favor of the exercise of that power. The verdict of the recent elections has been too emphatic an endorsement of the mode of settlement pro- posed by Congress to render it likely that the representatives of the people will allow either copperhead or Jacobia plotters to bring new issues before the country and to involve us in fresh complications. When it becomes cer- tain that the proposed constitutional amend- ment cennot be adopted by the requisite num ber of States it will be the duty of Congress to enforce the settlement of the country by some more determined and definite policy, rather than to fritter away its strength in a squabble with the Exeoutive for the federal patronage. But if it were possible for the Jacobins to carry their point in the House of Representatives, and to pass resolutions of im- peachment, their pretence that the President would have “no further official fanctions” after the action of the House is in direct conflict with the constitution, which says that - the President “shall be removed from office on im- peachment for and conviction of treason, &c.,” avd it would be difficult for a lawyer with more brains than Butler possesses to prove that the President can be deprived of “all official functions” until he ia “removed from office.” It is very likely that Ben Batlor and his fellow Jacobins would’ be glad to drive Con- gress into some course of action calculated to disturb the peace of the country. Out of the national turmoil they fave already contrived to gather a golden harvest, as some men manege to plunder during « conflagration. But the people have had enough of revolution- ary agitators, and Congress will show its ap- preciation of the popular verdict rendered in the recent elections by frowning down all attempts to change the issue before the people. The settled purpose of the North is that the peace won by our armies shalt not again be disturbed, either by the radical Jacobins of Congress or by the combined forces of seces- sion and copperheadism. They have offered to the South the constitutional amendment as 3 basis of restoration and final settlement. When that is rejected, they will expect their representatives at Washington to take the matter into their own hands and to crash out the unarmed rebellion against the Union by action as decisive and as prompt as that by which Grant and Sheridan swept away the armed power of the Confederacy. ‘Tne Porr’s: Protectors.—His Holiness the Pope of Rome isin a very bad way. He has deluded himeelf with antiquated notions so long that be is totally out of place in this pro- gressive century. Instead of securing the re- spect of the world by relinquishing all preten- sions to temporal power and relying upon bis spiritual sovereignty alone, he persisis in playing the prince, although his estates are tlipping throngh his fingers and he is obliged to send all over the earth to beg or borrow money. In spite of his prayers, which have availed nothing, and his denunciations, which have been laughed at, Italy has grown to be o great nation, and must soon absorb Rome. Austria, upon whom the Pope relied for pro- tection, has been badly beaten and turned out of Venetia, France, whose army has been supporting the Pope for some time, now cats loose from him and sends him adrift. In this state of affairs along comes Glad- stone, representing Protestant England, and condoles with his Holiness, bus can offer him no solid comfort. To Gladstone the Pope declares that, if the worst comes to the worst, he will settle in Ireland. This proves that his Holiness does not read the papers, for Ireland would be no place for a papal court under the role of the Established Church of England ; and if the Fenians were to succeed they would fo0n mako the Green Isle too warm for his Holiness, who has been impolitic enough to abuse the Fenian organization in a big bull. The Queen of Spain has volunteered to take care of the Pope ; but this amounts to nothi since the queen is unable to take care of her- self and may soon see ber kingdom united to Portugal undet another grown. Last, but not for to their breach-loaders and steel guns we can oppose Spencer muskets that shoot cight times with one loading, and Dahlgren rifled ever-so-many pounders that snuff hairs at a feague distance. We can send against them a Gilmore who will batter down their forts at five miles @istances or a Sheridan who will ride them down at a break-neck gallop and never heed their guns; or a Sherman who will flank Teast, the King of thing for his Holiness t@ do is to pack up his robes and relics, take passaye to America and him the marble palace which Mr. A. T. Stewart ington Heights the Pope can be move comfort- able than he ever was before in his life and as independent as a woodsawyer, if he pleases, protection he requires, the Internal Revenue Department, showing that the system is carried on most extensively tion now in progress will result in fixing the responsibility of these gross frauds upon the right parties. From the testimony so far elicited it would appear that the blame lies with the subordinate officers of the Revenue Department, created under a recent modification of the law allotting inspectors to the different distilleries, who are paid by the proprictors, How faithfully these officials perform their duty may be gathered from the fact that in one distillery seized on Friday in the Second dis- trict, through the efficiency of Collector Toby, the concern was found in full work, with the government locks on the vats all open, and no inspector on the premises, although his Official branding seal was lying there at the convenient disposal of the distiller. As far as the responsibility of the assesser of this dis- trict, Mr. Williams, is concerned, his evidence would go to show that he carefully received and preserved the sworn reports of the inspect- “ors every month, which fulfilled his portion of the duty of the department. The looseness would thus appear to be in the inspector’s branch, and it is probable that the resent dis- closures will serve to correct this, The detection of these frauds proves: the ne- cessity of changing the whole method of col- lecting the internal revenue. As at present conducted it seems that the facilities for defal- cation are equal to the temptations, which, it is well known, are so great under the existing multitudinous taxations that only a compara- tively small part of the internal revenue can be collected, especially the tax upon the dis- tillation of spirits. Congress will soon have:an’ opportunity of remodelling the Internal Reve- nue laws, reducing taxation, equalizing if not abolishing the income tax, and removing by some less oppressive legislation temptation to defraud the government. Waar 1s Mr. MeCor1oca’s Favanciat, Porscyt— Every day or two we get something from the Washington correspondents of the press about what Mr. McCulloch is going to recommend and: what he is not going torecommend in his re- port to Congress. These rumors are some- times contradictory. The Secretary, we have no doubt, gives out a little light, reserving a good deal under a bushel; but the national bank monopolists and money speculators around him give out a great deal more to the correspondents, and often that which is no light atall, for their own purposes. Some of the re- ports are so evidently inspired by parties in the national bank and bondholder’s interest that we are at a loss to know whether the Sec- retary of the Treasury had anything to do with them or not. Now we hope Mr. McCalloch will either positively declare that nobody knows anything about what he is going to do, or give the metropolitan press, which every one sees, direct information on the subject. Though we have not a high opinion of Mr. McCulloch’s financial ability, we are not willing to believe ho is so stupid and reckless and so wedded to the interests of the national bank monopolist and bondbolding speculators as to talk about forcing specie payments and contracting the non-interest bearing legal tender currency of the government. A more ruinous policy could not be conceived. It would bankrupt the mass of the communily, would destroy our prosperity and paralyze our industry and benefit no one but the bondholders, the national banks and the very rich. The material interests of the country are too important to be trifed with by such rumors as we refer to, which can only be of advantage to the speculators, and therefore we hope the Secretary will not countenance them. We want stability in our financial system and a steady, healthful progress toward specie pay- menta through the operation of the natural laws of trade and growth of the country. We do not want to see false hopes inapired or dan- gorous experiments tried. YACHTING, The Ocean Sweepstakes. A mesting of the New York Yacht Club wil! be held on Wednesday evening of the present week, at Del monico’s, corner of Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue— not having occurred on the 2ist tnstant, as stated ina previons jssue—for the purpose of taking action in re- gard to the ocean race to come off next mouth. Thi great enterprise has given rise to extended comment, and an impression has gone abroad through the misre- presentations of @ portion of the newapaper press that It ta simply a race for a wager of $90,000, whereas it is a ewoepstakea, and will undoubtedly be fully endorsed by the New York Club at ite session on Wolnenday evening. EVACUATION DAY. The sighty-third anniversary of the Evacuntion of New York by the British forces, which occurred yester. day, will be celebrated in an appropriate manner to-day. ‘There will be a full parade of the First division of the New York State Militia; @ dinner for tho votersns of 1812; a salute of thirty-five guns for the Governor, and & sorenade to the same officer at the Fifth Avenus Hotel in the evening. There wil! also be Oreworks ond music to enliven this latter occasion. OBITUARY. Sie William Parker, Admiral of the Royal Navy of Englund. Sir William Parker, senior offcor of the navy ef Great Britain, died on November 12, at London. He entered the wavy in 1793, as captain's eervant; served under Nelson, exciting bis admiration ant securing his friend. ship by bie apirked conduct In chasing a French frigate \ato Toulon, and was in the nr w: fo, Howns fipat and principal ald-de-camp to the Quoes according to our telegram, now offers the Pope his protec- ‘This offer from a Protestant king, repre- senting’ the land of Luther and the home of heresies, 1% adding insult to injury. The Pope will probably reply, in choice Latin, that he cannot accept suc’ protection as the wolf gives to the lamb, On te whole, then, the best accept our hospitalities at Wasitagton Heights until arrangements can be made to purchase for is now building on the Fifth avenue. At Wash- while with the aid of Captain Wilson and his efficient police we can give his Holiness all the Tor Ivrennxat Revence Fravos.—While the courts are occupied with cases of alleged frauds on the government through the medium of illictt distillation of spirits in Brooklyn, new cases of the same character are being detected every day by the Inspectors of and boldly to the great detriment of the Treasury and the large profit of the distillers— the profits of one conceru amounting, it is said, to $24,000 a day. We hope that the investiga- Blt aa. ried Scheme for the Pr? ion of Claims Aguiust the Goverament. Acombination scheme fv the prosecution of claima against the goveroment, entero into by claim agente and certain clerks in the dopartmei® having charge of the settlement of claims for ofttcers’ bO¢K pay, bas pax. tially transpired here. It 4s charged tha. kuese clerics, who have acceas to the muster rolls of the pw selves from the rolls tho names of officers appearing’ i as entitled, under a recent law, to present claims for Ste rears of pay, and cause sich mustered out officers to be notified of the facts, at the aume time suggesting the. name of a claim agent best qualified to prosecute the ciaim for them, thus throwing i@to the bands of the claim agents a large amount of business, It kk supposed that clerks thus interested share the profits, The Proposed Mass Welcome to Congress. A meeting of the Executive and General Committees having ‘0 charge the arrangements for the mass wel- come to Congress, met last night, and after receiving reports from the varions sub-committees, the meeting resolved that Captain A. J. Bennett and Major William 8, Morse, of the Financial Committee, immediately vist® Ratt!more, Philadelphia and New York; Colonel H, @ Pearce, of the United States Army, to act as temporary Chairman of the committee, with power to act in the collection of funds in the district, It was ordered thas the Committee on Orator and Speakers be instructed to invite ex-Vice President Hamlin to deliver the addreas of woicome in the event that Goneral Logan sbatl aectine, The Consulate General for Italy. Colonel T. Bigelow Lawrence, Consul General for Italy, will remain bere for a fow days to receive inatrue- tions and to settle the account of the cousulate offices under bis charge. In the kingdom of Italy there are nineteen consulates, not including Rome, and here, ap in other parts of the world, the necessity for improve- ment 1b the posttion of Consuls is strikingly apparont. ‘The salary received by United States Consuls is entirely Inadequato to maintain the dignity and respect that the prominent place oecuped by this country among the rations” of the earth requires, A silary of $1,500 to $2,000 per annum—the amount paid United States consuls—is not sufficient to enable them to sup- port the same social position, that consuls fron Euro- pean governments can with a mmch greater salary. The law of 1856 fixed the appropriation for the couswiate sere vico at $450,000. Provious to'1863, whon what is kaowm as the “Triplicate Invoice law” went into operation, foes alone supported the consulareystem, It is estimated ‘hat it is fow not only self-supporting, but returns to the: fovernment a sum of about onshundred and fifty thou tand dollars annually, Depurtmeat Clerks Moving for Increased Sale aries. # general meeting of the department clerks was hel® yesterday evening, for the purpose of making arrange iments to petition Congress for an increase of salary. Muster Out of Colored Troops. The One Hundred and Seventh United States colored troops were-mustered out on Wednesday, and left thelr camp on the south side of the Potomac to-dav, en rove for Louisville, Ky., where they will recetve their pay. NEWS FROM HAVANA. Lons of the Steamship Kingfisher-The Pass ers end Crew All Saved, Except Four Colored Men—Arrival of General Shermas and Minister Campbell! at Havana, &e. Baurigons, Nov. 25, 1866. The meamer Liberty, from New Orlesns via Harnsa, on the 20th inst., brings here Captain Harris, the officers” and crew and throo passencers of the steamelip King> fisher, of Messra, Mordecai & Co.'s Baltimore and Charleston line, which left here on the 20ty inet. and foundered in o severe gale sixty miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, Tho officers, crew and passengors, three in number, took to email boats, and, after being exposed fur sore hours to the meroy of the storm, were finally rescued by the United States frigato Susquehanna, which was conveying Generel Sherman and Minister Campboll to Mexico. All were Tescued except four colored men. On Sunday, the 18th inst., the Suaquchanna arrive® at Havana, where General Sherman and Minister Camp- bell were received with marked attention by the author ities, It wag uadorstood they would remain in Haraum one week. THE MARYLAND: LEGISLATURE. SPECIAL TELEGRAM THE NEW YORK HERALD. Barrons, Nov, 25, 1968: A committee of the members of the Legislature waite® on Governor Swann last night. The conference was pri- vate, but it seems now conceded that no special sessions will occur until after the next regular session, whielr commences on January 10. and lasta only eighty daya, = Siseewsoe of eentiment exists as co the wiedom oF is action. THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. Nasavizux, Nov. 24, 1868. A btl to define the qualifications of jurors has passe@ both branches of the legislature, taking effect from an@ after its passage. The bill provides that in ol! trials, cavil or crimtnal, in any courts of Tennessee, it shall be good ground of challenge for cause a4 to competency of any iss that such person Is notaquaiified ¢oter this State, The bill also provides that persons guilty Tape, as now defined by Tennessee statutes, shall suffes death by banging, but the jury may commute the pua- istiment to imprisonment for not less than ten years, op enatore and Representatives wil, publish a call for a State can Uni Convention, to mest at Nashvilio on the 22d of Febrn next, to nominate a candidate for Governor, to represen’ tue Union mea of Tennesses, A BROOKLYN SENSATION. Melancholy Occarrence-A Mon Stabs Hie Wite and Mis Own Throat. A very melancholy affair, which came very near prow. img fatal to the life of two persons, took place in Soutly Brooklya tast Saturday afternoon, The circumstances, a4 near as can he ascertained, may be «tated io brief ap follows:—Mr. James H. McGill, residing at No, 82 Carrols streot, near Colambia, has for some time past been, itm suppoved, laboring under a temporary aberration of mind, throngh which, however, until Saturday morning, was exhibited by bim. On the afternoom his manner te alleged to have been v wild, when, without provocation, it is stat he seized a ka.fe and inflicted three siabds on his wife, Mrs, MoGill, before she could escape from him. The ume fortunate lady ran out im the street, though wounded, from rome of the neighbors , found that Medill, in hie ror across hig own throat, in the attempt to take bis life, inflicting a severe though not dangerous wound, Surgical aid was immediately proe cured, and the wounds of both partion wore property dressed. MeGilt was conveyed to the City Horpital for further treatment, His wife's injuries are considered dengerous, Mr. McGill ts a gentleman who heretofore hae been bighly respected fa the commoanity, and thig unfortunate act on hia part is rezretied by bis numerous circle of acquaintances ta Brookiyn, NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. COAST. San Francisca, Now. 24, 1866, ‘The stowmer Golden City has arrived here with pase rengers from New York and dates to November 1. brings news from Acapuico of the landing of the wholg armament of the schooner Wester at Boca de Tronngm Cages of the tmporial vessel sent to capture The ship Templar, for Boston, clenred yesterday with 10,388 sacks of wheat, and the sip Maggio V. Hugg, tow New York, with 15,540 eacka of wheat. $1,700, Yellow Minit stocks are active. Savage Jacket Crowm Point $875, Gould & Curry om Tmpertal $128, Chollar Potosi $200, Ophir $185. Lr venders 721. : FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE. Kansas Crtv, Mo., Now. 28, 1806. n ‘The large four story warehouse and grocéry son sion hours of Chick & Co, and Beott, Cattor & Go. tm! Leo, was tinrned at four o'clock this morning, The loam, cat two-thirds of which im Co eee Pe, tern Of Ohiok &'C8., Guinn! ran Quest mn wo exonpe the Ae es third ney ‘reaow and wee ard ineek The are was the work of am incendiary. MOBILE. Momus, Nov. 2%, 1306. ‘Two squares betwoon Lawrence snd Warren rtrecte, containing from thirty to forty batidings, were borneg’ this moraing. The probable, lors a $100,000, which tm partially covered by lnsurance. Fike Mawruis, Nov. 24, 1866, A special despatch to the Avalanche from Little Rook, Arkacans, says that the Arkanane fortsimurro has elected J. T. doom of Phillinn Ovure Caled Staves Sevag te