The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW. YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ———— << Volume XXXI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway, near Broome 1 ‘Tae Main with tax Mitxine Pau. Street.—Riowagp 1T.—' r Matinee at 136 o'Clock—Anrist oF FLonence—RicuRuxy 4 NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Flotel —Gaurriru Gavst, On JxaLovsx. “ Mattuee at One & THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth Sionse.—Teowp ar Catan —Chouce Poeis—Lies PRewinas. jatinee at One o'Clock—Daccurer ov Tur Reguamnt. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Gesuxupsr Foster. ERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. is Mituvas Onqai's ScuLarnoce, epee me Rewer DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Bi wins. Two o IRVING BALL, Irving manD MATINER, Comme Ix. Frevemicn MOLLENEAI way. —Paorusson [ara sereen 8 Mimacuns.—Tue Mystexy. Matinee at James M. Weati's Finst it Two o'Clock. Evening— Annvat Concert. STKINWAY iL, Fourteonth | street—Poauic, Rx. wmansal. OF 1 Vata tngose Society or Naw Yoru, commencing ai Three oc! 585 Broadway, opposite BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. ae Metropolitan Hotel—Iy rama Ermorian Exrewtain- murts, Sixoma, Dawoure 4yp_Besissaras=Two Mrupars or tux Leauudrome yaox MUBETTS. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West ty-fourth street.—-Bupwoari's MINSTRELS.—Erdiorra ingrexisy. Batuaps. Buriesques, &. A TRIF To THE Moon. Matinee at 236 o’Clock. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadwia Bite the Now York Hotel.—Iv raxre Sonay, Dances, Booux. wmuorias, &0.—BeLiSaRiO—TaMING 4 BUTTERFLY—Suan- ersnian Revivat. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coxra en Negro Minstretsy Bautrr Divartissi a ‘uz Faiaies or tHe Hopson. Matinee at 245 o’Clock. '9 COMBINATION TROUPE, at TRRTA’ erent ge WasMINGTON. “Matinee af 2}4 O'Clock. MRS. P. B. CONWAY'S Pane THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Pear o' Dar. HOOLEY'SOPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Eraroriax Mtn. an Battans, Burirsqves anp Pantomrmes. On! jus NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Leororrs wita tae Oxr-Hyprocen Microscope | ti @aily. Heap anp Riout Arm or Pronst. Open 4. Mi, tu) 10P. Me — New York, Saturday, December {, 1806. THE NOW S. EUROPE. By apecial telegram received yesterday afternoon from Parts, dated November 29, we learn that Secretary Sew- @rd’s late lengthy cable despatch to the United States Minister in Paris, related, in the main, to the march of ‘he French troops from Mexico, and the expression of the hope that Napoleon would carry out hjs intention in that respect. The official statements and hopes were ‘conveyed in a dignified and conciliatory tone. The Newfoundland telegraph lines being reported “down” last evening, we are without a news report of , Yesterday's date, and consequently have no intelligence from Ireland. Our special correspondent in Dublin, writing ov the Ath of November, furnishes « very interesting and Salmiy written account of the Fenian position at that Gate, as well as of the sentiment of the peopjo towards ft, Tho wants and miseries of tho inhabitants under Britist rule are set forth as constituting the exciting Qauso of a revolutionary outbreak, which the writer @eomed to anticipate, THE CITY. ‘The Board of Health met yesterday, A resolution or- dering ‘he Superintendent to investigate the cause of the fire on the ferry boat Idaho was passed. The time for the issue of permits to keep swine in the built up por- tions of New York and Brooklyn, which was to have ex- Pired to-day, was extended to the let of February. A large firo occurred last night, destroying the large ©i! warehouse occupied by the North River Oil Waro- housing Company, situated on tho North river, at the foot of Twenty-first and Tweuty-second streets, and a quantity of lumber belonging to McClave Brothors. Betwoon sit thousand and seven thousand barrols of @rude peiroloum were consumed. The entire loss ox- Ooe'!s $80,000, Partially insured. ‘The examination of witnesses in the cases of Frank Boiiea and W. R. Babcock for an alleged complicity in the Lord Bond robbery, was completed yesterday, before Justice Dowling, at the Court of Special Sessions, Strong @Morts were made by A. 8, Sullivan, Clarence Seward, ex.Governor Lowe, ex-Judge Stuart and 0. [. Stewart to Secure the release of defendants, but District Attorney G.S Bedford argaed strenuously against such release. Helien was finally admitted to bal! in $20,000, and Bab- cock was remanded for trinl, he case of Joseph A. Sprague et al. ve. George el, which was @ motion for a warrant of commit- ment agains: defendant for alleged obtaining of Ioan of Money in a fraudulent manner, Judge Monell has given a docision in the pegative. The particulars of the case wero published over a week ago. In the case of the alleged Hoboken Bank Frands, Judge Daly. of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday denied the motian of the defendant's counsel for the discharge of his client (George W, Chadwick) from arrest. The case has been postponed several times to accommodate defendant, and yesterday, on the calling of the calendar, Bo onswer coming from the defondant’s counsel, Mr. Charieg Weble moved for a defaalt, which was granted. An interesting case came before Judge Sutirerland in the supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, in which the Pluutit, William A. Johnston, neeks to obtain possession of Lis intereats in a number of Novada silver mines, which be had entrusted to the care of another party for disposal in this city, One of the defendanis, It is alleged, came to Now York, and orgauizing a corporation under the of the Consolidated Silver Mining Company of Reese River, ko , disposed of the entire amount of prop- erty which bad been entrusted to him, without making compensation to the plaintiff, who now, by process of law, endeavors to secure his claims, In the Supreme Court Chambora, before Judge Suathor- land, motion waa made yesterlay by parties doing busi- the “Petroleam district,’ Maiden lane, for the co of an injunction restraining persons occu- nee ¢ same building with them from keeping ben- gine, naptha or kerosene oll, Ig any quantity whatever, on (be premives. Ap affidavit of n chemist was read, in winch |; was asserted that (he articie termed “red koro geno’ x morely ordinary Kerosene oil colored, to induce persons about purchasing to believe that it has onder. goo & process depriving it of Its explosive properties There 249 votes registered in phe city youer day, This, [dition to (he number registered at tho late goveral jon, makes a total so far of 126,411 voters in this ¢ A catch at billiards was played at Irving Mall last @ight bei ween Goldthwaite, of Boston, and McDevitt, for aside, in which Goldthwaite came out winner, steamship City of Washington, Captain Roskell, ‘of the Inman line, will aall at noon to-day from pier No. 4, North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool, Mails will clowe at the Post Office at half-past ton o'clock The steamabip Toutonia, Captain Haack, will sail at twelve M. today, from Hoboken, for Hamburg, touch - fing at Cowes, The matix will clore at (he Vost Office at hai past ‘on ‘Tho Anchor Jine steamshiy Hiberuia, Captain Manro, will ea!) at moon to-day for Glasgow, calling at London. dorry to land passengers, A« The steamship Ville de Paris, Captain Surmont fail at twolve M. to-day for Brest and Havre, ‘Tho steamsh'p Haterpe, Captain Eldridge, belonging to ©. H. Mallory { Co.'s Texms line, will leave pier 20 Bast river this afteru0e, for Galveston direct. The fine star ‘ip George Washington, ¢ Gager, of Crore s line, will sail for New Orleans from pier No, @ North river, at throe P.M. to day Tue Pmptre line steamsh'p San Jaciuto, Captain Love. i tit wail from pier 13 North nver «: three P.M 1 for Savannah. »pular sidewheol steamship Quaker City, Ceptain Wa H. Went, of Leary’s line, will #all from pier 14 . r, at three P.M. to-day, for Charleston, coy th the steamor Dictator, for the Florida porls & market was firm, aad prices advanced yos- eis 1 was Grm algo, and closed at 141);. » waa more like “blae Monday"’ than Friday wilt «l crrolea, and between the changes in gold vacncy Of the weather busaose wis or NEW YORK ciroumaoribed. The cable news of the past two days has ‘not been of a very reassuring tenor, and oxcrted a rather depressing influence eocicutériy on the cotton market, Imported merchandise was gouerally quiet, and there were buat fow exooptions to the rule. The various chaages are set forth in detail in our commercial column elsewhere. Om 'Obange flour was uusettied, and 160, a 250. a 30c. lower, Whoat was 3c. a50, lower, Cora was dull andheavy, Pork ruled tower. Lard nominally a shade easier, Hogs lower, and butter and cheese nomi- nal and very dull. *MISCELLANE U8. Our Chihuabus, Mexico, correspondence is dated No- vember 6. The policy of Juarez rogarding those Mext- cans who have served in the imperial armies, and who may fall into bis bande after the final embarkation of tbe French, is slightly hinted at in @ communication of the Secretary of War of the Moxican republic to General Pavon at Tuxpan. The Secrotaty disapproves in strong language of wholesale pardons to such persons. Cerwin documents are published officially by the Juarez govern- ment, which throw a flood of light upon Ortega’s opera- ona, The latter has granted the privilego of coining Mexican money in San Francisco tos citizonof New nine fourths of the States de facto and de jure con- atituting the government of the United States, has been made part and parce) of the consti- tution. We presume that one of the first acts of the two houses of the approaching session will be & declaration to this effect. It is fully author- ized by the overwhelming popular verdict of the States holding the government. With such @ declaration, too, resting upon » judgment concerning the status of the late rebel States which has been rendered by the Supreme nothing, notwithstanting Mr. Seward’s offlois!.] constitution of the United States, or the Pres!- proclamation of their validity. They are null 0 P on and’ vold, because if those States wore not legally restored they had no right to be in- cluded in the ratification; and, if Jegally re- stored, the President had no right to coerce them to a ratification. But this does not affect the amendment, which by the approval of three- down ralle in every anocoupica thoroughfare, | Aont’s policy, or the proposed impeachment, Y election is over the police have or tbe new News Association, or the bare ¢ become sensible that the property hole.°rs and naked ‘ruth, or anything else capable of fixing | residents have somo fights, end are ving the whole attention of the great American peo- | td prevemt the tearing up of the roads, On, ‘Plan of those formed last year could be more ple. We msationed this yacht race several | Peas} stree¢ the matter came to a crisis on | goterally organized we have no doubt that times, and it is alroady a great success; aud | Thursday last, by the arrest of parties engaged | during the severest portion of the winter the this was because we opposed it—of course. | in laying a track. price could be forced down to four or at most Apropos to the yacht race another illustration All this serves to prove the necessity of some | five dollars per ton. The next monopoly to of our power cannot bave escaped the notice of | comprehensive plat of public improvement, | strike at is that of the gas companics, I is the public. We published yesterday a letter | under the contro! of a commission, as already | monstrous thet with coal at such a low price on the race which reveals the existence im our | suggested by the Henatp. Let ushavea Board | we should still be paying as nmuch for our gay midst of a first class humorist—not of the vul- | of Public Works, with full power to do away | as at any period during the war. This isa gar, common place comic lesture sort, but one | with the first and principal evil of a crowded | matter to be dealt with at the approaching full and bubbling over with ripe, umiabozed, | city, with only a single outlet, by opening the | meeting of the Legislature. Either the produe- dainty fun—a humorist who might have taken | Fourth, With and Seventh avenues to the Bat- | tion of the article should be thrown open to his equal place in tho circle that discussed’ the [ tery, thus making four Broadways in lieu of | competition or the city corporation authorized quiddities of the gentle Elia. We are respon- | one, Then let every city railroad charter | to manufacswre and supply ft. sible for him too. No matter how we got the | granted te private speculators be repealed, eo a eae Warne 1s 78e Broapway Brier ar For#on York, but Juarez being requested by the aame iadividual letter—“ mysterious influence,” ete., comes tn-| and a good syatem of railroads be adopted for Say elmeENIN of Osiens, was promptly re- The atatement that General Sodgwick had been ordered under arrest for bis visit in person to Matamoros is denied in our New Orleans despatch, and his reported occupation of Matamoros with his troops is again pro- nounced a canard. The nows from the seat of war in Paraguay is dated Rio Janciro, October 20. In addition tothe change of commanders in the Brazilian army, which was reported in the Henao a few days ago, a now commander has been appointed to the fleot in place of Admiral Viscount Timandare, A levy of 25,000 mon in Brazil is do- manded, but the recruits are coming in but slowly, The loss of the allies at Fort Curupaity is now reported to be 7,000 mon, besides throo iron-clads boing senously dam- aged. The allied army, it was rumored, would fal! back on Corrientes, The National Exhibition at Rio Jangiro opened on the 19th of October, The exhibition is intended to display the products of that favored country. The Emperor and Empress, and the Prince and Princess, accompanied by « large suite, attended the oponing. Further heavy duties havo been imposed on the dis- fillation of ram in Jamaica by tho Legislature of that island. But little margin for profit now remains with the business ander the new tax. There will be in the future no direct communication between Kingston and the United States.excopt by transient sailing vessels. A scrow steamer, called tho Bolivar, reached Laguayra, Venozuela, on the 13th of October last, having been fitted outia England for use in the Venezuclan navy. It was manned with Englishmen, who insisted on being retained as {ts crew, and on finding that the Venezuelan government would not retain them thoy put to sea with the Bolivar and have not since been heard from. ‘The two Commissionors appolated by the Legislature of Mississippi to intercede with the President for the pardon of Jef Davis, arrived at Fortress Monroe yester- day. They could give the prisoner vory little encourage- ment aa to the success of thoir mission, but what the result of it bas been is for the present unknown. Cle- ment C,"Clay has left for his homo in Alabama, Rivos Pollard, of the Richmond Fxaminer, visited Fortress Monroe on Thursday to seo the rebel chioftain, but was refused admission in accordance with orders which interdict the admission of representatives of Southern ews papers. ‘The expected Fenian raid from Vermont was a cause of groat excitemant in Canada yesterday. Information was received by the governmont that large bodies of Irisumon had left Cincinnati and Chicago under Colonel Starr, and a despatch wns received from Erie calling for aid on account of an expoctod demonstration from But- falo. All the military force in Montreal has received orders to be in readiness to move ata moment's notice, The decision of the Judges on the application for a mew trial will be given to-day. ‘Two merchants at Titusville, Pa, who have charge of the Parker Oil Refinery, wore recently arrested on sus- picion ot having committed heavy frauds on the govorn- mont by evading the Internal Revenue laws. ‘The brig Althea, from New York, with a full cargo of provisions and other effects, has been wrecked at Long Bay, Jamaica. The crow wore saved. A break occurred fu the Chomung Canal and also in the Erie Canal on Thursday n'ght. A collision occurred yesterday on the Charleston and Memphis Railroad, by which seven persons were killed and many wounded. Over @ thouzand names have been signed to tho petition gotten up in New Orleans praying Congress to appoint Provisional Govornors for all the Southern States, Govornor wee has concluded to give tho pe- tition his concurrence. The Texas cotton crop ts estimated at two hundred thousand bales. The President and Chiet Justice Chase on Negro Suffrage. “Chief Justice Chase coincides with the Presi- dent,” as we are informed from Washington, “in the recommendations he is about to make to Congress” on Southern restoration, em- bracing a general amnesty to persons involved in the late rebellion, as an equivalent for negro suffrage. It further appears that “strong influences have been brought to bear on the President to induce him to modify his views” in relation to this suffrage amnesty plan, but that “he bas positively declined to accede to such influences.” The whirligig of politics brings together strange bedfellows, as in the case of Captain Botts and Captain Tyler sleeping together under the sime blanket; but not even the most visionary politician of 1865 dreamed that Chief Justice Chase, on the question of negro suf- frage, would “coincide” with President Johnson in 1866. We accept the President’s new de- parture as an approach to a reconciliation with Congress, and perhaps the Chief Justice may be aiming at this object. [t must not be forgotten, however, that though thrown in tho background by President Lincoln’s superior claims and popularity in 1864, Chief Justice Chase {3 still supposed to be looking to the Presidential succession, and that in this view, in 1865, with the collapse of the rebellion, he was first in the field os a missionary in the South, in favor of universal suffrage, negroes and all. We must not forget that General Grant stands on the amendment platform, and that the Chief Justice may be aiming to set up another, As to Southern restoration, it is a matter of no material importance whether the Chief Jus- tice coincides with the President or oppoves his plan, inasmuch as the plan of Congress hus been approved by the responsible States and people ot the Union, thus making it the duty of Congress to co-operate with said States and people to engraft this plan upon the constitu- tion as the supreme law of the land. The plan of a general amnesty in exchange for universal or impartial suffrage does not reach tho case, and unless put into the federal constitution will amount to nothing; and so with every other plah. Virginia or South Carolina, for example, may agree to anything and everything you propose as terms of restoration to-day; but unless this agreement be fixed in the supreme law of the land she may reject everything the day after her réstoration to Congress. Thero {4 no security for the future short of a reconsiruction of the constitution Itself, and this is the secret of the astonishing unanimity and force with which the loyal States have endorsed the plo of Congress. It is ae plain, too, as any conclasion from the Tyleg of logic, law, mathe sommmoy stb, ail ike Statoa watt ops Cong . have no right to a voice in Gongross ater strod, they bave no right to a voice In revising the constitution Their ratifcations of the amendments abolishing slavery amouat to Court since the war, we can have this consti- tutional amendment ratified and this contro- versy thus substantially settled before the final adjournment of this Congress on the 4th of March next. Thus settled, if the excluded States do not choose voluntarily to accept the amendment in the reorganization of their local governments, they will become subject to Con- gress as unorganized territories, and thus sub- ject. to a reconstruction even in the matter of their boundaries, From the Southern journals, from the lettera of our Southern correspondents and from all other dourees of information from the outside States, it is apparent that their ruling classes have settled down into the dogged resolution to do nothing to help themselves to a read- mission into Congress. They bave fallen into the serious mistake that if they do nothing Congress can do nothing with them. But let South Carolina understand that by this policy of “masterly inactivity” she may be merged | by Congress as part of a vast unorganized ter- ritory into the new territory of North Carolina, and she will be apt to realize the dangers of doing nothing to regain her character and to retain her boundaries as a State. Dangers, we say; for the power and the authority are with Congress, and the will may next appear—if no other remedy is offered—the will to reconstruct the States concerned as part of a vast unor- ganized territory recovered by arms from a hostile g>vernment and occupied by an in- tractable poople. The controversy is drifting in this direction, and whatever may be the individual opinions of tho President or the Chief Justice, the all important facts still stand out in bold rellef— that the Thirty-ninth Congress, which passed the pending amendment by a two-fhirds vote in each house, and the Fortieth Congress, just elected, are substantially the same, and that between them the power of Congress over the excluded States is fixed to the end of President Jobnson’s term of office. Tho Mysterious Influence of the Herald— Yachts, Wumorists, Theatres, Wars, Me- teors, &c. The influence of the Hrratpy apon everything and.everybody is so deep a mystery that at- tempts to explain it are, of course, absurd. Us very influence, in fact, renders such attempts augatory. Thinking upon this influence even confuses the intellect of our copperhead cen- sors, and they run into vagaries, contradictions and blunders that might bave been conceived by Bully Bottom, who only had a jackass’ head upon his shoulders, while he thought all the time he was playing the king of hearts. The inconsistencies of our critics show how easily a head even of copper may be turned by pondering too long over the pro- blem of the Hrenaro’s influence, There is dan- ger inthe attempt, and that very danger is only another evidence of our wonderfal power. Bohemian investigators had better give it up. They must, indeed, foliow the true scientific method, and treat this wonderful influence as a fact, relinquishing all vain theories and discns- sions as to why it is a fact. Theories in expla- nation of the origin of wonders always lead away from the proper contemplation and study of the wonder itself. In treating a fact we stand on terra firma. And of course.the myste- rious influence of the Heratp is a fact. Is it not constantly recognized by the declarations of our detractors? Were notall the events that have occurred for many years past due to the Heratp? Can we not clearly prove this by the combined utterances of our friends and our enemies ? Undoubtedly we can. There was the case of the meteors. What can be more clear than that the meteoric shower in England was got- ten up in a hurry to sustain the Herarn against Cy Down Bnst astronomer? It has long been evident to the meanest capacity—that of our copperhead contemporary—that it is because of our denunciation that countiess thousands constantly pay money to see the most indecent play ever put before the city public. I) is also well known that it is because of our neglect that the once bost theatre on Broadway has dwindled to a barely paying condition. We have awakened the dormant sensibilities of the clergy, too, and induced parsons to lean @ little—as mnch as was possible—toward the side of public decency in their sermons. We have well nigh procured the blowing of the rocks out of Hell Gate, and of course the rocks originally came there only through our oon- nivauce. Our agitations of progress and re- form have been heard so far that they have not only shaken England to the centre; they have gone deeper still, and in regions not nameable to ears polite, it is proposed to substitute for old fashioned brimstone some new and. more terrible torture drawn from the great discover- ies ot modern chemistry, It was some article advertised in the Henaro; and this change is necessary, a8 the present terrible wickedness of the world—onr influence again—shows that brimstone has lost its terrors. The war of secession, the defeat of the Chicago nominee, the result of the late elections, the origin and the ruin of the Mexican empire, the Prussian war, the Fenian rising—these arc some trifies that show our influettte, We are responsible for them all, Indeed we have a moral con- sciousnesa that we are in some degree reponsi- ble for that great nuisance to Bohemians who have dined out—tho law of gravilation; though exactly how we are responsible for itis our secret. Anothor indioation of the strange, seeret, but inovijable power of tho Hgraxp fs seen In the reat ocdan yacht race. We said that it oaght to take place in a certain way, or that it ought not to—-no matter which--and behold the great yacht race, one way or the other way, bocomes a national fact, and is accepted and digoussed and amended and Axed an ng if it were the there—the humor justifies the means—this lim- worist is the first specimen of the genuine ar- ticle that has been introduced to the public this score of years, and only an institution of our wonderful power could have brought him out, Let the public be grateful for the mys- terious influence of the Hunary., Spurieus News ef a Peddling News Associa- ton. A former agent of the New York Associated Press, dismissed its service for general in- efficiency, combining with one or two Weatern papers, has been endeavoring to establish a concern for collecting mews as cheaply as possible and peddling it out at the highest prices to be had, but willing to take anything offered. Not content with stealing cable telegrams’ from the Herarp, in which he showed taste in selection, if not enterprise in the whole eity, under controt of the commis- sion,.and ram st the lowest possible charge to the travelling public. The people will then be able to reach by cars every portion of the city through good road avenues, and business men will net be swbjected, as now, to vexa- tious: blockades and delays inthe most valu- able hours of the dey. In addition to these advantages to the umases the taxpuyers will then'receive the benefit of the cit} which.at present go to enrich politic: and. shrewd lobby speculators. ‘his iv a re- form: worthy the attention of wn enlightened Legislature, and the people will look tortheir representatives at Albany for prompt relief, Tae Pynactms or Miscovennmewr.—We-see that a permanent increase of the British ormy has been decided upon. This is the logical consequence of the refusi! to satisfy the jrst Srrexrt ?—The last Legislature authorized the construction of am iron bridge fer foot passer gers across Broadway at Fulton street. It was’ designed as an experiment to test the advan- tage of such # means of crossing that crowded thoroughfare. An appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars was inserted in the’ tax levy to carry out the project, and we anderstand that the contract for the work has been made. But where is the bridge?’ The snowy’ season is coming on. The streets are now in'w filthy condition, and there seems to be but: little prospect of any improvement in that dirsetion. If the bridge is to be built, let us haverit at once, There ean be no necessity for nearly « year’s dblay. Necessiry vow an Awmetican ATLANNE Casre.—The meagre and unsatisfactory intel- ligence im-relatiow to the Irish war ot indd- pendence that ig permitted to ranch us over the collection, he has gone to manufacturing | grievances of Ireland, as well as ihe equatly | Aatjantic cable affords an early illustration of them out of whole cloth. Yesterday the singie New York paper which receives his telegrams announced in a long despatch that Thanks- giving had been celebrated In London by the American residents there; that patriotic speeches were made and toasis drunk; but what was said, by whom spoken or at what place in London the banquet was held, is care- fully omitted, as the person forging the despatch could not “guess” more than gen- eralities. It is very probable that Thanks- just demand of the masses ia Bngland, for an extension of the franchise. le or ruin?” are the alternatives of the British aristocracy: There is no middle term which can satisfy their inordinate pride and seliisiness. Sooner than concede to the Irish people the abolition the significance of Lord Derby’s recent boast- and of the necessity of having a telegraphic’ communication with the European continent: that shall not be whelty uader English control, - with its termini within British tersiocy, Two: or more bills were before Congress at its last of the Church establishment and secure to | gegsion to promote the construction of cable - them. the: laws which are necessary to protect them against the grinding exactivus of ab- sentee landlords, they prefer commencing against them a war of extermination, in which lines fromthe Americam coast acrows the At- lantic, but they failed to receive> favorable action. All suehechemes, if found % be prac- - ticable, should receive liberal encouragement giving was celobrated in London by American | ® revival of the barbarities practised in the | trom Congress. There in little doubt of the citizens, as of yore; but it requires no cable from the sea nor ghost from the grave to tell us that much. The same enterprising agent, sitting in his fourth story, back, with stylus in hand, “guesses,” too, that “Carlotta is worse ;” that “Maximilian will be home early in Decem- ber,” and various other hike matters as easily conjectured here as in London and written out much cheaper than by the cable. On the 26th ultimo the seme enterprising agent furnished the startling information that Maximilian had abdicated, and himself and bis two Weatera adheronts, Messrs. Halstead and White, went about qioting the telegram as aninstance of the superior energy of the new association. ‘The telegram bore the fact of its manufacture on its face; for it waa dated at New Orleans on November 24, and stated that Maxim!lian had left Vera Cruz oa the 22d of the same month. Now, it is utterly impossible to transmit intelligence by any means in existence from Vera Cruz to New Orleans in forty-eight hours, and the despatch was necessarily bogus as regards dates, That it was bogus as regards the faot stated is now apparent; Cruz to November 25, Maximilian had not only not left Vera Cruz on November 22, but had never been there, and up to the 25th— three days lnter—was residing at Orizaba, It is with news like this that the Western editors who give in their adherence to the spurious association will have to content them- selves until they—not the agent—can establish for him—not at his expense, but their own—a system like that of the New York Associated Press for obtaining foreign news. They will doubtless hesitate and think again when they come carefully to calculate the cost of mafn- taining, as the Heraup does, correspondents In London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid, Con- stantinople, Shanghae, Melbourne, Valparaiso, Panama, Lima, San Francisco, Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Havana, St. Thomas, St. Do- mingo, Aspinwall, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Mata- moros, Chihuahua and El Paso, besides still more expensive travelling correspondents with every important enterprise, like that of the Collins Telegraph line, the Sherman- Campbell mission, the European squadron, the allied armies ‘of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Confederation, the flee{g of Pert and Chile, ocoan yacht races and dozens of other matiers important to the public, There are news yachts to be built and manned off Halifax, in Ponnma Gulf, at Rio Janeiro, in San Francisco bay, in the Mersey and off Queenstown, and daily messengers are to be run from London to Queensiown, and from Paris to London. These’ expenses have never been felt by the Western pavers, as we main- tained these at our own es) n+ and without any intention of sharing it with others, though subsequently giving It to the association free of cost. These arrangements reqnire not merely a heavy outlay of money, but o large amount of a peculiar talent not at all limos to be obtained. A more perfect system can- not be devised. It enables us to keep not only constantly ahead of all spurious associations and papers, but of the most enterprising jour- nals of this or any country, and makes the Herato the “best newspaper in the world.” Our Cry RatLroaps—Toe Peart Srresr Es- capade.—If a person has ever been in a theatre or any other large building waen an alarm of fire has been raised and has witnessed the in- sane efforts of the crowd to escape through the narrow doors and passages, appirently constructed as traps for human lives, they may form some idea of the present condition of rail- road travel in New York. There are no outlets for the million and a halt of people, or thorea- bouts, who form the popniation, resident and floating, of the city and fits saburbs, save through narrow and crowded streets, with the single exception of Broadway. The great de- mand of the day is for railroads. They are a necessity of the long stretch of land that forms Manhattan Island. Our citizons cannot live without them, and they are recognized every- where 46 American institutions, “ chemin de fer Americain,” as they are called in France, These roads are of necessity run through auger atreets as we have mentioned, and yet % om very Insufficient moans of transportatle’y to the inhabitants aad viattors of tho gle Raitroad compaiios are consequently Govring to tay Indian campaign are threatened. They do this without counting the cost. They are entering upon just such a war as we have been engaged in against the South, with an nccumulated debt heavier than that with which we put down the rebellion. How can they expect to be able to stagger on under the weight of the additional burdens. which the increased military expondi- tures they are about to incur in Ireland will place upon their shoulders? Do they imagin» that these expenditures will bo limited to [rish soil? on our forbearance. Let them but attempt to put in force their “atamping out” process, and nothing can save them froma war with this Whe dent Schultz in the chair, ultimate success of rival lines, but the experi- ence gained by the transmission of news from Ireland should convince us of the neceasity of. securing such-lines.as speedily as possible. MEETING OF FHE BOARD OF HEALTH. Werryvont Fire—The Typhus and: ‘Typhoid Fevers.in Our Midst—The Romeval of Swine from the City. ‘The Board of Health met yesterday afternoon, Prost The resolutions of three pro- vious (private) moetings were read and approved. Dr. If they do they are countiag too much | Rodonstein, by resolution, was consured for neglecting to report the cages of typhoid fever in the Desf and Dumb.Asylum, the Board dectaring that the Iaw-sbould. be enforced in his case that other physicians might be deterred from neglecting their duty to the pablo. Mr. country. So intense and widespread will be | schultz advised that a general hospital should be locales the indignation caused by it that no adminis- tration will venture to resist the feeling which will prompt an immediate invasion of Canada. Such are the dangers which confront the men who now have charge of the destinies of the British empire. Should they be reckless enough to listen to the sanguinary promptiags of their torrors they will discover that they have given the last blow to the domination for we have news direct from Vera | Which has been built up on such an amonat of | his investigation to the Board was passed. injustice and suffering. Crrvicat Postrion ov Sraty-—-Movements or Queen IsaBett.a.—We have news simultaneous- ly by the cable that peace will sooa be de- clared between Spain, Chile and Peru, and that Queen Isabella is about to visit the royal family at Lisbon this week. Domestic comp:i- cations have been gathering around her M jesty’s government—urged on aod secretly fomonted, no doubt, by the agents of Napo- leon—which compel « speedy conclusion to the foreigw war in Soath America, thus enabling Isabella to complete those “preparations to resist an insurrection at home” of which we have recently heard so much. [It was stated some time ago that the Queen contemplated leaving Madrid in alarm at the growing evi- dences of popular disquietide; but whether her visit to Lisbon bas any connection with these fears we do not know. It may be that there is a general family difficulty to be settled between the royal houses of Spain and Por- tugal, with a view to counteract! (he schemes of Napoleon with reference to a wuion of the two erowns and the construction of a grand Therien kingdom under the house of Braganas. This idea is strengthened hy the fret that. the Duchoss of Monipensier, Queen Tkabetta’s sister | and wife of Louis Philippe’s son, ls just gone | on a visit (o Madrid. The condition of Spnin is, upon the whole, extremely criti but whatever the nature of Napoleon's ma ations may be, one ibing is | certain, Tocland’s favorite scheme of on “ally on the Th “in euch convenient propingnity | to Gibral': ; kely to be upset. She cannot | have a fir y arrangement on the fberian | Peninen'» just now, for her bands ere init of | difficulties at bome. The Fenian insurrection at ber door io rel with it formidable allics in the heart of all the chief cities of Great Britain, waiting for the first allemp! al “stamp. | ing out,” of any other vnnecessary act of with forcign entanglements. [sabe Ferdinand and Napoleon will, therefo to settle their effairs without ber interierence, | including the “ally on the Tagus.” pen Ree ~ Pant. ow Prices —Co, y heavy reduc- tion that bas taken place in the p may be taken as an iodication of the « sponding decline which most other articles of domestic consumption will soon ex The influences that affect the one musi equally affect the other, although the monopolists may for a short time suceced in dglaying their operation. Within the lash Week forty thou- sind tons of coul have beer, gold at avetion ia our market at prices “anging trom $475 to $5.50 the long tor, The rotailora are dis posing ot it at 9%, which is still too high, con sidering tha “they sell at shor! measure, At next mon¥i’s gale it is expected that the auction ‘prices will rale still lower ; and to seoure thie desirable result we would advise CONS? Hors to bay only what they want for resent use, Thoy should not listen to the ese ipations of another rive with whieh the retailers will seek to alarm them, ay th's ia simply impossible. Thoro had been over pro- | dvetion ot the miaes this your to che extort of ! wore ‘hea lwo milio . weared ‘we the Battery for the reception of those suffgring from tended, and where their frienfs might be able-to visit them occasionally. Although it was not definitely set- ted aa to what course the Board should pursue im the matter, the Com: expressed them- welves favorable to a Battery hospital; Dr. Parker, however, expressing himself as entirely opposed to any friends visiting those ill of either of the fevers, as they ‘were moat infectious, and the infection would be carrig@ from the hospital to the homes and families of : friends on their return from their visite, ay ey Kecrioe faano and Neh eeecean ¢ the fre on the it s treuatcngae ere wb Sas was also ex ime for permits to keop swine in the built up portions of New MS Fp piri Talore tons date Fh tended re that pormits ex) ox! riod, Today (iat of December) was to have been the last ‘day of grace’’ for the swine ownora, and but for this resalation they would have had to romove their pig- geriva by twolve o'clock last night. CITY POLITICS. first meotiog Of the session previous to the charter eleo- tion yesterday, and, as the Ggures given below will show, were oot overrun with business. The wards or portions of wards in which there are Mae pont fede! wu vory slight addition to the number already tered — . No. Registered. TY 6 a se a a if 3 1,40 25, 162 Total ceeeeees 18641 The People's ned Taxdayers’ Meeting To- Night. ‘To night the taxpayers, the independent voters and all who favg¢ jhe glection of Mr, Richard B. Connolly to [ the of of Cliy Comptrotier will be out in Lieir atrongth. The meeting t 10 take piace at the Cooper Tnatin eat auch mon as James ® Brady, John Reliy and JK Hall will be prevent o# speakers, There wiil vey (ull atteadance of the bariness classes and of the fri of city reform, who recognize tn Richard B, Connolly the only candidate properly qualified to discharge tho duties ‘and incapable of being used omote tbe pt schemes and wnes of the “rmg.’ of the Comptro ters ott an tastrumeont | repatr (he shal tered THe GREAT OCEAN YACHT RACE TO CHP EDITOR OF THR WeRALO, io dhe columns of o9e of your copperhead © :olempe raries—opposed to the war forthe Union act conse. quently hostile to anything really national—a person sgox himself “Amphibious,” has published « vly verbal oriticiam of ons of *Jaadsman’s" com- ns to the Hemacn, [have no doubt that this person is the famous or infamous navigator of “the elbows of the Mincio, formed by the sympathies of ‘to whom you bave freqently called attention. The style of “Amphibions’’ is identical with that of the Mineo navigator, and I cannot conceive it posible that so individaals should write #0 very much alike, snd ‘ake the same absurb and contamptibie views of the yacht race in question A porsom whe could devote bimeetf, seven or cight years ago, to the cancoction of malignant attacks upon a youth of seventeen for sailing his first match in hia own yacht, * natorally found among the opponents of the young men whe bave boldiy originaged the exciting race to come of this month, That accounts for the editorials of your copperhead contemporary, and, onless 1 am greatly mistaken in my theory, tt alaq accounts for the Jottere of “Amphibiggf,”* In regard to “‘Ligndeman’ f have only tomay that the gentleman who writes over that signature has Lew J pluck to his Iivtle finger than can be found In the whol Ho epeoks of yd ° corps Of ¥ sur comtemporery. knows, yod he imtends to Cross the Atla (he yagate entered for the rang, 5 courage, at his fondness for Veraen Shopkeoper or snoddy faancier” are, therefore, en thely oul of plnce. fhe Miacto aavigator, who, if report : thot, exhibits no extranntinary | fondnew tut water, has taken hold of the wrong tan tn thle con. trovetay, The letters of * Landsman " in defence of ¢ yacht ovnera were dictated by friendahip as well ae by: convictions of right; the letters aud articies F- srashbucktor of tie Bine0 have. yee Stee tae meanest of mot\ver—personal, ao itnoni Charge advise and will stand by it ond substantiate I ‘Landsman is going 15 ou of the yachts; b thinks that the owners ought to be allowsd ta home quietly if business or other Alte coche - here. Toe Minow marine Is not #6 B, Pa at yachts, and wonld be frightened BAe De nits it he ware; bat he rehementy insists Vo fd “where must fond there be « stronger o-fP855 Man ‘thie batwoen cue courage and paltry Dra gSdogo” el the mariner of the Mincio volunteer ¢ FB) \. one of the van with the by id § f are end © he pd pe Eng £0, #7" vor eating & atre ro shoe et oon ) mambors aecept OF is Landerman '? end to apewer Lim. VACKITOM AN.