The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1866, Page 6

8 WEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON BENNETT, EKDI1OR AND PROPRIETOR OVFWX H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the year, Fo@Rocents per copy. Annual subscription price, Gia. §O NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We dovot return rejected communications, 0B PRINTING of every description, aleo Stereotyp- fing and Angrowng, neatly and promptly executed at the owes rales ‘No. 339 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwa¥, near Broome ptreet.—AwwapaLn, NKW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opjosiie New Work oiel Gduurnitn GAUNT, OR JKALOUSY. THRATRE FRANOATS, Pouriesnth sive! near Sixth Broaue.- OAVGUEBK OF THE ReuiMess. OKEMAN SEADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 ani 47 Bowery.-- Deen fosrace GaeveDur Vanusigvesvoun Ommierta. a THRATRE, No. 514 Broadway. Sen oowehs, Dawboe as Hirsi anp Boxdeux. AYKINWAM HALL, Fourieen:h s:xeet.—Fovern Wanxns Br On Fou eett aNd Peasi's MORNISG Concars, commencing ai Three o'Clock. 585 Brosdwav, opnoatts Exmorian ENriRratn- Bonuxsqurs-bie ro Ric BAN FRANCISCO @he Metropolitan Hove ea. SineiwnG, Dan OW KES OX FALIING FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 Weet cae siveot.--BeDwortit’s MINSTRELS. ET MOPrAN ie D avrintsr. BAtLads, BuKLEsquas, &C. A TRIP 10 THE &LRON'S TRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo- we York Hotels tant Soxns, Dances, Foc en e,-o MATEO mmpnisk Party—Tux BLACK \ WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPR, at Mall, 472 Broadway—in a Vaniery ov Liaw Hasie BKNGBRTAINMENTS, Coxrs pe BALLET, du OMIQUE. HOOLEY SOPTRA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraoptas Mane prextsx, BArs.an9, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIME. SUAVERS OPERA HOUSE, Williameburg.—Enmorrax | Dore ssy, Basnans, Come PANrominns, £6. i YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.-« Res wret Tue Oxx-HypaoGEN Micaoscors | uwies way Axo Riou Akt oy Prowst. Open from 6 ior Me NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Twenty-third gpiroat and ‘ourth avenue, —Axtisy Fuxp Socurry's AmvaL MTOM, STUDIO BUILDING, 51 West Tenth strect.—-Examition or Faxon any Frama Picrones. = EUROPE. By iho Atlantic cable we have @ newreport dated Ysiorday evening, Decembor 4. (it'zans of Cork, Ireland, demand of the government Gh: att Hoya’? people be enrolled, all suspicious per- fons arcested and the British army force increased. wd Derby's newspaper organ announces that the British Cabinet is @ unit io its policy, and that the com ‘spission charged.to revise the neutrality lawa has been uty appointed, ‘Yhe French troops have commenced their march from Rome. The arrest of John H. Surratt in Egypt i¢ confirmed. Switzerland is officially advised to prepare for 2 Buropean war, The United States Minister in Paris haa received the J.ncoln Memoriat testimonial presented by the people @ Srance to Mrs. Lineoin. ‘weden is likely to adopt improved plans for naval g@ni Darbor defence, Consols are reported as having closed in London at @x, a 884, for money, yesterday. United States tive- twenties Of 1862 and 1865 wero at 70%. Another des- Prlch quotes “five-twenties at 7044." President Jobn- wou's Measago bad no appreciable effect on ‘Changs. Moasra, Troost & Co., Manchester cotton brokers, Gare winced as failed, with very heavy labilities. tne Liverpool cotton market closed steady, with rsa- Glipg aptands at fourteen pence. CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumnor give notice that ho would latroduce resolutions to-day declaring the faris- Giction of Congross over the snbject of reconstruction, the jliegality of existing governments in the Southern ®Ptates, and other matters, A motion was made to up the dill pagsed by the House on Monday restricting tho pardoning power of the President, but om « eail for Vie yeas and nays the motion was defeated. \ the House a resolution wae adopted referring the } bounty equalization bill to the Military Committee for ‘amovdment, and the Increased compensation oll tor ‘momuvers to the Judiciary Comittee for repeal. Bath ‘Dilts were pamsed during the loving hours of last 4aanen . A rsubuion insisting on the adoption of the comatiu- / tigoat amendment by the southern states before | considering tue propriety of giving them Congressional Toy sentation was adoped by a voteo! LIGte at A ferortion was adopted by a vote of 107 to 37 te insiriet he Committee Oa Territories to iaquire into the expe @oney of reporting a bill to provide territerial cevera meats for “Che onee existiag Slates,’ meaning those wreertly in rebellion, A resolution wag adopted reap. | Po niing the Reconstruction Commiisee of Jast sexeion, | THE CITY. ‘ehard & Connolly was elected Comptrotier of the @ily « iho charver election yesterday. ‘The vote was ‘Very iight in comparison with that of the late election "be ronvsing of one of the men who was supposed to fhave perished in the Walker night Were recovered from the ruins yesterday. Search is boing made for th ers A fire wan discovered In Qeewioan Sees No, 52, and, while two pol ‘extipirn ishing ft, an explosion street dre on Monday Active treet, at the prem- on were cngeged in oa, by whien they ‘Toe flames were On an investigation t was fomd Kp teers burned about the hands and ty | oon oxtingutshed, | et Ofty miliiom peroussion cape were stored on the Door, which, luckily, the fre did mot roeeh | | | ! o Dovelinand 7, &, Tilton, who hare beretotore de. charred with complioty in the Brooklyn distillery Travis, and who had been released ou bal, Tested yesterday om charges of evading + Jaws by fraudulently a¢ing an ‘aeportor'+ plates were agnin released 0 $16,000 bail each. in the United States Commissioner's office, yevierday, bo! we Commissioner Betts, Samuel Crosaing was hold Jor (eal on @ charge of having Hlogally dbiained nine Blooty comt posiage stamps (rom the American Bank Wore Company, 19 whose offer he het been employed. siool Graveur, who bad been accused belore Commis | Ponce Osborne of having manmfartured fori, Conn, without rendering a tetuen to the © ‘aternal Revonne, was discharged from cnstody, bav- She given bail at Hartford to take his trie! there in Feb. wanry. » (he suoamabip Avdalusia, Captain Burstey, helonging | Oo Avthur Loury's line, will sail at thre P.M. to-day, rom pier 14 Kast river, for Charleston, &, ¢ The soamship Marivoss, Captain Quick, of the Sta Pine, will leave pier 46 North river, at ihree I. M. to-day, * rears revenue They for Now Orleans | the Irish insurgents. The wieamship Columbin, whieh was to hava sailed | Bo. morrow for Havana, bas been held over for ono trip, pad het passengers and freight will be forwarded by the Mane screw stoamehip Miasleetppi, Captain Sumoer, which felt anit on Saturday voxt, at throw P. M., from Plor 46 pNotrh river. The stock market war «trong yesteriay, and prices ad. Wranced. Gold closed at 1407; 1 Duinaga and depression were tho prevailing features commeroial circles yesterday, nnd with more sellers buyors, prices for many articles of both forsign 4 domestic produce experioncod a further decline, in goods there wns goarcely any movement, and prices generally nc Groceries were in wnyer's 4 bat umonanged = Naval stores were snore oahive. Wu ValUOR Were raRDaIir ‘outing Hour was about 62. » 10c. tower. Wheat dull and nom. inal. Corn 20. 2 $e. lower. Oats inaotive and drooping. Freights moderately active. Whiskey quiet at previous ‘prices ” MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Phe Penian prisoners at Sweeteburg will probably be arraigned to-day, and their trial will commence to-mor- row, One of them was caught while apparently attempt- ing to fire the jail. No disturbance is anticipated. At Butalo drills and parades wore going op among the Brotherhood yestertay. A meeting was held at St ‘Albans, when three hundred meg were sworn in to the Brotherbood, and armed and equipped for # special ppr- pose, It is prewumed that the special purpose @ a raid | on Sweatsburg. ‘The Virginia Legislature organized yesterday, and the Governor’s message was received, He favors the adop- tian of the constitutional amendment, and says that the Sonthern Statesare still under the ban of the government, and inere i9n0 dishonor in accepting the terms proposed, ‘The persons disqualified have no right to complain, and those who are not disqualified cannot get better terms. He speaks in Bighly complimentary torms of the radical Orme. petition of Louisiana men asking Congress to establish provisional governments over the Southern States has been signed by two thousand persons, among whom is Governor Wells, A committee will leave New Orleans to-day to present it to Congress. Gov, Fletcher, of Missourl, is organizing a force in that State which, he says, ia for the purpose of arresting or driving out all the guerillas and bushwhackers who have been marauding in the different counties. He has declared, murtiad Inw in two counties and marcised in 10,000 troops. ‘The Massachugetts Committee of Pardons bas de- cited adversely to the petition for pardon of John Moran, who was convicted of the musder of Mary Kearney, in Roxburg, on che 19th of March, and he will be hung on the 25th of Jaumary. It is intimated ig Washington that Secretary Seward will soon retire trom the State Department, and that Reverdy Jouason will sueceed him. A-span of the bridge over the Muskingum river, at Zanesville, Ohio, gave way yesterday morning, as tho train bound iastward, on the Ohio Central Railroad, was crossing it, and four cars, one of which was a passengor cur, and the engine were precipitated sixty feet to the rocky bottom. Ona man te known to have been killed, and ten persons are reported wounded, some of them perhaps fatally. About ffieen pounds of nitro-glycerine exploded: in Rochestor yesPoeday, kiting one men and injuring two others. The bolldiags were shaken in the city, on both sides of the river, The yacht Vesin struck on the West Bank, near Staten Island, yesierday, bat was extricated from ber threaten- ing situation by the crew without being seriously in- red. pie steamship Scotland, which was beached near Bandy Sook fia » collision with the Kate Dyer recently, sunk yesterday, while « fresh southeast wind was pre- vailing. The brg Wilhelm, ashore on the Romer, was rolling heavily, at was not sustaining serions damage from tho heary seas, : The steamer Vanderbilt arrived at San Francisco on Monday, from the Sandwich Islands on the 22d ult. She brongit Mimster McCook, who has returned on account of bis wife's ili hoalth. The meteoric shower om a re- duced scale was observed at Honolulu op the Lith of November, lafluenss i@ prevailing in the Sandwich Islands as an epidemic. The sicamer Baltimore, from Portland for Halitut, ‘Sprung a leak on Friday, off Cape Sable, and was by euched, Richard Lewis wus found guilty in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Poughkeepsie, yesterday, of the mur- } der of Dr. Richmond, several months ago, and sentenced to he hung on thy 25ta of January. Coldhe! Rulkiey, of the Russian American telegra} expedition, bee artived at Victoria, Vancouver's Isiand. Six business stores were destroyed by fire in Mobile Yesterday, involving a lows of $300,000. The Great Revolutionary Demoustration in Londov--Dangers of the British Empire. The meeting held on Monday Jast in London ; ia a startling fact—startling not merely because | of its numbers and fis semi-military organiza- | tion, but because ef incidents which identify it | with the frish revolutionary movement. We are told that asaong the flags Horne promi- nonily in the procession was that of the “Stars and Stripes,” and that among the airs played | by almost every band was “The Wearing of | the Green,” an air which had heen suppressed by government authority in the theatres and other places of amusement. Those who have been in England will comprehend the graveg significance of these facte. ‘They constitute a forma! declaration of war agninst the ruling | classes and impart to Mr. Bright’s reform | agitation the immediate character of a revolu tionary movement. When the leader of the English radicals , went to Dablin it was supposed that there was | an sn tegonism between his plans and those of Stephens. The one, it was contended, sought } merely a redress of existing grievances, the | ether revolution, It now turns out (at least we are entitled to assume so from what transpired at the London meeting) thot the leaders of the two organizations are acting in close concert with each other. ise why did not Mr. Bright endeavor to put a siop to this faunting of republican emblems and singing of treasonable songs in the immediate vicinage of the Queen’s palace? One thing is certuia: if be is got using the Fenians to com- pass his objocis the Fenians are using him. Betore many weeks will have elapsed he will either bave to abandon the course he hus been pursuing or declare himself In fevor of forcible measures. He is already so compromised thai he is left but one or other of these alternatives, Which will he adopt? The answer will be papplied by Stepheus’ success or failure. Ti will be sald that we are laying too great a siress on the incidents of the London meet- iug. No Englishman will think so. They are too serious to be thus treated. That men in England shoud be found bold enough to atiempt such things, and that tuey should escape punishment, shows that the work of revolution is pretty well advanced and that the government is paralyzed by its terrors. Were the evidences of an insurrectionary spirit there confined to such demonstrations there might even still be room for doubt. Bul we heve positive proof that pre- parations have been making throughout the English provinces for an outbreak of some sort. Witness the seizures that have bees made of stores of jucendiary compounds of a vew and most destructive character, the power of which is not even to be neviralized by long immersion in water. Thess are not Fenian, bat English contrivances, with which it is in- tended to aid the Stephens movement by setting fire to the leading English cities. The diemay and confusion caused hy there pro- ceedings will, it is calonlated, so weaken the government that it will be unable to cope with On their succew will jopend the throwing off of the mask by the agiish reformers and the proclamation of the downfall of the Queen's authority. We speak of these projects as we hear of them, leaving our readers to judge of the probability of their realization. {nfereutially we must conclade that the British government has itself serious misgivings on the subject. Else why tolerate these alarming demonstrations under the very nose of royalty, or countermand the orders for the despatoh of the English militin regiments to Ueland, where every soldier ‘b=! ++ cag com: swond is uregptly reouired? world’s history when all tem and reparation for the crimes of which {ts go’ it has ‘been guilty towards Ireland, In prolanged ita existence. The obstinacy and selfistiness of its rulers have, however, ren- dered hopeless such a chance of salvation. ties ‘The fate of the small te into which it will be split up offers curious subject for speculation. The only form of government which can possibly hold them to- gether is, we believe, that undet which our own country has become so: great and pros- perons. “Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Secretary Welles has awakened and given us a live report of his department—a docu- ment full of practical anggestions and satistac- tory results, which we print in another column. Returning rapidly from war to peace we look naturally for a large reduction in our naval establishment, but at thesamoe time wo must not lose sight of the fact that the war has made ua per force @ great naval power, and that to maintain that posiifon in peace involves our national dignity. We have progressed with gigantic strides in the creation of a navy, and, even dispensing with the contingent which war rendered ; necessary, a splendid uavy remains, The Secretary’s report assures us that all those vessels which were either captured or putchased and used in service during the rebellion have been within the past year sold and returved to the merchant ser- vice, the department retaining a sufficient number of ships of all kinds for the purposes of the nation, The total force at present con- sists of two hundred and seventy-eight vessels, armed with two thonsand three hundred and fifty-one guna. Of these one hundred and fif- teen vessols, carrying one thousand and twenty- nine guns, are In commission, distributed chiefly among seven squadrons, The number of men in the service is thirteen thousand six hundred. . The pension fund smounts to $11,750,000, having been increased $2,750,000 during the year. The expenditures of the de- partment for the year were $43,324,526, and the estimates for the coming year amount to 68,186, The destination and strength of the several | Squadrons are matiers of much interest. Tho Yuropean squadron, commanded by Admiral) Goldsborough, consists of ten ships, carrying one hundred and thirteen gona, and cruises along ihe west coast of Europe and Africa as far south as St, Pant de Loando, taking in the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas, an@ visiting {from time ro time, with one or more vessela, such ports a4 those of Tripoli, Rgypt, Syria and Turkey, réminding those semi-barbarous nations that the great repnblic keeps ber asisrry flag ofloat upon all the waters of the globe, the emblem and the safeguard of pro- gress and freedom. The Asiatic squadron patrols the east coast of Africa and Asia, Tt consisis of eight ships, carrying seventy-eight guns, and is commanded by Rear Admiral Bell, Within its jurisdiction come the newly oponed ports of China and Japav, into which our ad- vanced civilization is gradually creeping. The North Atlantic squadron, under the care of Rear Admiral Palmer, has charge of the West India Islunds, where American interests are closely involved. {t contains filleen ships, with one hundred and thirty-five guas. The South Atlantic squadron sweeps the eastern coast of South Ainerica aud round. the Cape to the ensi- evngcoasi of Africa, meeting the patrol of the Enropean squadron at St. Panl de Loando, ‘This is commanded fy Admiral Godon, and consisis of eight vessels and seventy-five gans, Jo the Nori Pacifica Rear Admiral Thatcher has ten vessels, carrying bue hundred and twenty-two guns, but for ihe past year their movements were confined to Fisiling the Sand- wich Islands and varions porte in Central America and Acapulco, ruaping up occasion- ally to Paget's Sound to fook affer our in- lorests in that quarter, convdying Queen Emma to Honoluln end making tion of the Pacific Ocean. he coast Vine from iq other of its dependencles, m&ght have veys of that por- } Panama to Cape Horo und reaching as far in | the Aniarctic direction as he British colony of Australia, fs known as ithe South Pacific squadron, composed of sewn vessels, curry- ing seventy-one guns, recefily placed under ten vessels, with seventy-far guns. All the equadrous together, it mut be admitted, put & very effectual “girdle =“ about ihe earth” and represent the Amelcan oation most respectably on the sea. = | The Secrotary of the Nay vefers with just pride to the efficiency of ar Monitors as sea going vessels, as illustrated by the voyage of the Monadnock round CapdHorn to San Fran- cisco and that of the Miuntnamoh to Burope. Among many recommend¢ions in his report the most imporiant are | provision for cov- ered docks in the shipyard; the pure! timber, which has been obcly exh the necessities of the war dry doc! novy yards; the repnir of pe yards at Norfolk and Pensacola, seriously ¢maged during the rebelifou, and the securinjof » proper place for the safe keeping of pine bei is now lying st League Island, near Phisdetphia. The condition of our pr defences claims due attention. That they a} wholly inadequate for our protection in case if a foreign war we have repeatedly enforced upon public atten- tion, and ii is to be rein Fe: Congress will take the matter into earndt cousideration. [t appears that ibe Board apointed to look into it last summer arrived atho satisfactory con- clusion, and qe thos stan) for the time being almost wholly defencelesiae far as our prin- cipal ports are concerned) We approve of Becretay Welles’ recommen dation that oar i fd and school ship system should be ¢tended so a4 to em- brace the edacation of sdors for the merchant marine, as well as the Avy. We need good seamen in every branch jf the service. The fishing fleet off the Ne{ England coast has hitherto provided most oj our seamen, and the publio sulrit of ‘our yrs conteibuted } command of Rear Admirl Dahigren, The } | Gull squadron, which Copmodore Wieslow | works are being urged forward with all poasi- commands, has supervisiog aa its mame sng- | ble rapidity, aud there is every reason to | | gests, of the Gulf of Mexito, and consists of | anticipate that the tines will be completed and niet A & good deal to cultivate good goats, The expenses of the Navy Department for the last fiscal year are shown to be alittle ever forty-three millions, the resources were one hundred and forty-two millions in round num- bers, leaving a balance of ever ninety-eight millions, which renders it unnecessary for several of the bureaus to ask for any appro- priation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, as the appropriations made during the ‘War are not exhausted. Upon the whole the report of the Secretary of the Navy represents his department to be in a most satisfactory condition. Report of the Secretary of the Interior. We publish to-day the report of the Secre- tary of the Interior, which embraces a number of suggestions and recommendations of great interest and value in connection with the gen- eral business of the department, As regards the public lands, we find it stated that of 6,423,984,18 acres offered for sale during the fiseul year ending June 30, 1866, 4,629,312.87 have been disposed of. The cash receipts from sales and other sonrces were $824,645, In the number of homestead entries there has been ap increase of more than sixty per cent over that of iast year—a gratifying evidence of the soundness of the change of policy which con- fers upow tho settler specia) privileges. A speedy adjustment of claims to land situ- ated in New Mexico and Arizona, and the per- manent establishment of the boundaries be- tween New Mexico and Colorado and Nevada and Caliornia, are recommended. These are matters which should not be longer left unset tled for the sake $f the vast mining interests which are more or less affected by them. In this connection it is also urged that Congress should make prompt provision for the disposal of the lands on the Pacitic slope which belong to the government, as well as for the develop- ment of the treasures which they contain. As the exploration and working of these mines by individual enterprise have largely aontributed to the national wealth, the Secretary very pro- petly assumes that our Jegislation should be to some extent controlled by the existing tights:and interests which he says “are the legitimate results of our policy of inaction.” The estimate for pensions for the next fiscal year is $33,000,000. Many interesting facts are given under this head. As we stated the other day, Samnel Downing, of Saratoga county, New York, is the only surviving soldier of the Revolution. Of the widows of revolu- tionary soldiers the names ot 961 still appear on the pension rolls. Of pensioners disabled in the wars prior to ibe rebellion there are only 3,000. ‘be widows and minor children who receive a pension by reason of the death and services of those who served in such ware number 1,227. ‘The aggregaie number of new army Rgnsioners of all classes added to the rolls during the last tiscal year was 49,721, and the total of army pensioners of all classes standing on the list at its clos annual aggregate of $114 invalld pensioners there were on the rolla at the eame pertod 1,052, and of widows and de- pendent relatives 1,181, requiring for their annual payment $261,552. Making oll due allowance for the increase in the rate of pen- sions, it seems to us, from a comparison of the total paid the pensioners of both services with the estimates for the current yoar, that consid- erable retrenchment might he effected in this branch of the publio ser On the subject of Indian affairs we are glad to find if sisted that collisions between the whites and the Indians during the past year have bevn of less frequent occurrence than wos generally believed. Allowing this to be the case, we still believe that there is room tor Indian tribes. That they have been grossly « of most of the trouble we have expe- this is 9 national question, which the govern- ment, through its proper department, sheuld take care of, as the Secsetary of the Navy sug- | WEw YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1666.-TRIPLE SHEET. It is ‘ ‘Tapidly:in the case of tas Brian cae es in that of Austria, the precess of disintegration is setting in. Itwould seem as if we had arrived at a period of the artificial gov- ernmental systems by which antagonistic races and nationalities have beem kept together aro doomed to dissolutton. The British empire has been pre-aminently of this character, Built up by robbery and violenee, it has run the full term of its fraudulently acquired great- ness, A thorough reform of its political-sys- ita statement of an excess of the e: over the revenues of the Post Office Depart- ment during the year emding June 30, 1866, The fevenues were $14,386,986, and the expendi. tures $15,352,079—showing an excess of the latter of $965,093, This deficiency, in anticl- pation of which a especial appropriation was made by act of Congress, approved July 28, 1866, is largely due to expenses incurred in restoring the mail routes in the lately insurgent States. It is thus doubly suggestive, attesting the successful vigor with which the govern- ment has prosecuted this enterprise, and pain- fully reminding us of the disastrous influence of the late war in rendering it difficult and expensive. In the best days of the republic the postal service throughout many parts of the South cost more trouble and money than could well have been afforded, had it not been for its counterbalancing revenues in the busy and populous North. War infinitely aggra- vated the case. Railways torn up, bridges de- stroyed, stage roads neglected during four long years ; here washed away by rains, there worn uway by cannon wheels and wagon trains, or overgrown by grass or even shrubs, the very bridlepaths impenetrable some places, twisted iron rails, mail cars smashed, horses scarce, ebony mailboys grown up into freedmen and still more scarce; the poverty of contractors and postmasters (even when their consciences were elastic endugh to let them “take the oath,” which was not often), the general poverty of the inhabitants, | the suspension of business and social inter- coramunication—all these were among the serious obstacles in the way of restoring the old mail routes of the South. Much, bowever,. has already been accom- plished. Al) the mail routes in the insurgent States were duly advertised io be let to con- tract, part from the Ist of January, and the residne trom the Ist of July, 1866, “but on a» large number of them no proposals were re- ceived under the advertisement, and on many others the bids were extravagantly high, In the latter case offers of the highest admissible rates were submitied by the department to the lowest bidders, and in some instances negotia- fons were opened through special agents, postmasters and leading citizens” By all these means combined, and ai a beavy expense, more than half of the whole number (2, prising routes. As the exisifng contracts in all the insurgent States will expire on the 30th of June, 18! posals for four years’ service from that date are, now being issued, and the Postmaster Goneral expresses a hope that all routes of real utility in the whole section will -he let under them. The thorough reorganization of the Southern postal service. affecting as this must the welfare of the entire country, merits the special attention of Congress in the vast | work of “ reconstrnction da novo" which it haa underiaken, Result of the City Election. The charter election yesterday resulted in- the success of Richard B. Connolly, the most competent of the thre full-blooded Jrish can- didates for Compiroller. ‘he vote was light, being only ® little over seventy thousand, @ falling off of some forty-two thousand from the voie at the general eleciion last month. winniag Connolly receives two thousand plu- rallty over Kelly and about eight thousand over the other Connolly. ‘Che “ring” made an effort to defeat the Cammany nominee, but had not sufficient strength left to do more than sford another display of their disposition to cheat. The fist of successful Aldermen and Councilmen shows that the advice ofthe Hexaun to select the worst candidates in the field improvement in our mode of dealing with the | was not altogethor lost upon the electors, Very little interest was felt in the contest, and imposed upon and plundered by dishonesi | the untayorable weather 20 donbt kept many agents, and that these frauds have been the | citizens from the polls. ‘The majority of the abseutees were, however, deterred trom voling ad from them, there is abundant evidence. } by the conviction that as the Legislature will Whether fegislation can effectually protect | speedily remodel and refocu the whole city them remains w be saen, in that direction cannot be anid to have been exhausted. In connection with the Patent Offica some important seggestions are made which the in- | terest of the public as well as of inventors demands that Congress shonld take into con- sideration, The number of patents (8,716) issued daring the past year shows the impor- | tance of snrrounding the vast interests involved in them with all the protection yoxsible. On the subject of tha progres4 of our rall- rowd connections with the Pacific the state- meuts of the teport are moat satisfactory. The in working order before the expiration of the period fixed by Congress. On the importance of this fhet it is unnecessary to enlurge. That it will contribute immensely to the develop- ment of the resources af our Pacific States and ‘Territories, and thereby help to relieve us from the incubus of debt accumulated by the war, 1s an anticipation that may raasonably be in- dalged in. After some remarks in reference to the Capi- tol extension, the Washington aquedact and the expenses of the United States courts, the report concludes with » recommendation in favor of & general increase in the salaries of the subordi- nate officers of the department, which the Seeretury, thinks would be a measure of | economy, inasmuch as it would secure greater efficiency in the service. Covanexs AND THe PaestoeN’s Pacnonace.-- The numerous decapitations of radical offic holders by the President during the late recess of Congress bave resulted alrealy in bringing | oo! a number ot bills in both houses regulat- ing appointments to offige, the tenure of office snd removals from office, the abject of all be- ing to demolish the Hxecutive guillotine in the hands of “Andy Jobnson.” great fold for reform, in the por'tiention of onr Presidential eleetions, parties, cliques and greedy politicians, by a comprehensive recon. struetion of ow' prevent corrapt system of dis pensing the apoils of the astional governmen|. We want no tinkering measures, levelled only al Presideo! Johnsou, The system which be, has inherited, and which has been the heavier curse of the country slice the first election of Jackson. going on from bad to worse tl oul- minating in the late rehattios. aepde pruning frqq tov to bottom. Cectainly ite power | | | Here, we sey, is a | government it mattered very little who might be elected. In this view of the case the suc- cesstnl candidates will have but % barren tri- f ampb. The Common Council will be shorn of the power they have so long and so glaringly abnsed, and the Comptroller will be left with only clerical duties vo perform. The govern- ment of the ciiy will he placed in the hands of a responsible commission an@ « fiaal end will Mayor down, The result of yesterday's elec- tion ix, therefore, of very little consequence, except as furnishing another evidence of the taysierions influeoce of che Hpraco. Mexwo--Tax Doweuury wre Fraxet-- Aceording to one of oue Washington corre. spoodents it appesrs that the French Min- ister, Marqais de Montholon, is disposed to take exception io the statement in the Prosi- dent's Message that the French government in, 50) of Sonthern mail routes ave in operation, com- nearly nine-ienths of the railroad 7, new advertisements inviting jiro- | | | le made of the notorious “ring,” from the | had given no intimation in advance to the | Department of State of their change of plan in the removal of the Freneb troops from Mexico, because, as it said, the Marquis gave repeated “intimations” to the Secretary of State which seemed to be satisfactory. The President, it is thought, however, was offended that the French Minister of Foreign Affairs did not write # formal despatch on the subject, whieh he ought to have done,in order to put the tacts in oficia! black and white We gness that the difficulty smounty t something more, however, than @ mere diple- matic formality. Aa the time drow near for the withdrswel by Napoleon in November last of bis promised first instalment of tbe French troops in Mexico, he doubtless was made to understand that with the retirement of even thia first instalment atl that would he left of lits imperial Mexican esiablishment, Kmperor, troops, retainers aud followers, bag and baggage, would have to clear oul or risk | | | nr en iment tay ait og sone Mail Reutes. Not the least striking point in this report is of the President, On Monday, in this way, he Played the part of the circus clown with re- markable unction, First, while ihe House was watting for the President’s private secrétary sith the Message, Mr. Stevens, sending tp a newspaper to the Clerk’s desk, moved thatthe Message be now read. onicuily commmunieated to ‘the House sad ihe “had oe Jodt mention tba that oC a bales sade eee Printed Message might ‘The Sprakee suggested that the not be a genuine copy. Mr, SunveMs expizines shat it was printed in the Prost dent's official paper, ¢ ‘The paper in question (a very obscure ‘ome cern) bad simply been guilty of a breach of confidence. A copperhead journal of this city tried the same trick of enterprise, and though it nade nothing by the operation, it boasts of the achlevement as a neat thing, @la Robert Macaire. But we are dealing with Mr. Ste- vens. He next suggested that the House had botter adjourn, “as i¢ would take too long a tine to get the Message.” ‘The Sexaxyn remarked that Mr. Washburne bad re- peted that the President intended to communicate the etsage immediately, Mr. otevkNs then moved thatthe House do now ad- Mrthe House would not adjourn. Next, in the midst of some business proceed- ings, Mr. Stevens moved to adjourn. “Ho had no idea of waiting for the Message after it was sent all over the country.” Pending the roll call the Message was announced at the bar, when the motion to adjourn was withdrawn, and the Message was laid before the Housa Mr. Stevens then moved'to postpone the reads ing till to-morrow. . The motion was rejeoted. Next, after the Message had been about two thirds finished in the reading, Mr. Stevens ine rupted the Clerk, and said that as their iends-—the republican clubs, freedmen, &o., of Washington——were. expecting them outside, on the eastern portico, he moved that the further reading be postponed till to-morrow, ‘The motion—yeas 64, nays 65—failed ; ‘bat & a change of one vote over to Stevens would have marked one of the most scandalons pro- cvedings in the records of the American Con- gress, But the special point in these proceed+ ings is this—that the Speaker failed in his duty ju not putting « stop to. these motions-of Mey Stevens on the parliamentary ground that they were in violation of the rales of the fa being disrespectfal to the President and in the matter of his most important duty in sonneo tlon with Congress. - A Bridge Over the Muskingum River, at 4 Ohie, Gi wi Four Care the Bottom. One weentet, Zaxzaynis, Olio, Deo. 4, 1866, The tron bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Ratiros& Contrel Ohio Division, across the river at this place was the scene of » frightful raiiroad accident about aime o'clock this morning, whereby ten persons were more ‘The | ox tess injured and one killed. ‘The wost bound passen- ger train bad but a few minntos before passed safely over the bridge. Two engines followed the train evep to the west side of the river, and stopped om the west end af the bridge. The Flios Gaswett, engine, was standing on the west pier with her tender on the first span, the yard engine Antelope with ous car at tached waa standing about one-third the distance om the game span between the first and second plerm, awaiting the nine o'clock eastern bound pale senger train, the bridge having a double track. The engine of the passenger train going east stopped at the wood station about ene hundred yards west of the! took on wood and water and then passed ou to the bridge, having @ train of four purenger cars, one bag- gage and one express, The lasi three passenger-cars of the train were crowded with paseengers. ‘The front 09@ When the train bad passed the middie of the | of the structure it instantiy gave way, preci} 3 raging, tender, bacgaxe and express car into b the front and of the first passenger car, the had but about a dozen tn tl, and was ip use as @ cur. fonder and one car and the tender of the Gusset (the engine itself remmniy on the pier) in one ibable mass of rivtny betow. juwing is « Mat of tue passe "Hill, Pleasant Vailev. Ohiv, skull attwoP, M. James Haviiand, Gaines’ Siighdy, need and unkle. Levi Claypeol, seriously, left ankle: na hopes brokem.. Mr. Jerey, slightly bruised Enaployes injut Mellott, express mesenger, srw, baelt pn Wing, conductor, neck. severeiy. Vou 1, ed braised about the neck ve noma si re fligge, frexoan, log brnised severely. George Thomp- fon, Greman, bruised above the bead, slightly, Robert Wilton, colored porter. leys beursed, not seriously. ‘The Cool self-pomse son of the engineer of the senger train, slr. Patrick H, smith, worthy A. until his engine was in 19r he sounded the wi for down br aud, (us order beng obeyed, (uo momentuw of the tram and doubtless prevented the o ber cars, lied with passengets, from gomg into the inde» otk injared:—- pease. From the time felt the bridge giving The break will he repaired by trestling within three ‘The immediate cause of the socident was the im ed Weight on the brie It was constructed on ple of Boleman’s pa and should have: ¢ pated lt ae morning. the tain was loaded wit! pasaengeen: pte Powological Pair at Zanesvilie, mderfil (nut but ope loss of Tite bas Lo ve recorded. THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE, daya, Accident to the Yacht Vesta. She Goes Ashore on the West Bank, but Kacupes Uninjured Yesterday the yacht Veuta, one of tha three contest ants in the great Adianbc vacht race, met with «a adven- tur which of owe fae threatened ber with serie injury, if not ab-olate demruction, Early in the mora, | lng #he started down the bay on « short trip, for de | the threatened dangers of belug cnt to pieces | or “gebbled up” by the swarming liberals, Hones. we believe, thid new plau of keeping \ all his troops io the couvtry till ready w be moved en masse in the spring. But why not move them en maser now and make at o ry clean piece of work of it Because Nepolean wants first Lo secure # hing frum the Mexi- can silver mines and cusiom house and churel: treasures, perhaps, aod somethThg from the repnblic, with the United Statex,as security, in the way of compensation for Al! his troubles and expenses as the deliverer of Mexico. He aay even be weditetiog some oew Anglo- purpose of texting her chances in the furtheomimng event and keeping her crew thoroughly up to their work. Soarcoly, however, bad she fairly got sub into the berbor waco she sirnck the sand bir, lying about three quarters of a mile Geom he Staten Island shore, and known as the West Barly the wind at the time blowing very heavily from the southeam and the tide being st about low water The Veua ef ove beisted colors of distros and began firme vignal guns, and ina short tie succeeded in attracting tho attention of the steaumtug Andrew Fieisher, ‘The, tug immediately haxtened to ber agsixtande end ran 6% a tine to ber for the purpese of bauling « hawier Om Dowrd, with whivh to pall ber of the Dagk The of the Vesta, how con den again Wad dutted vefore high fd os an water, and, ine theo! roturned withont assistance 1 tee city, WRECK OF THE PROPELLER BALTIMORE. “Pormnann Mo, Don 4, 1848 The «aamer Raltimore, heace Thursday laet for Fale fax, with assorted morcbandive, Kprung aleak on Peday night off Cape Sable, wer Daacted and broke up. & large portion of the cargo War saved, hat ia probably fm a damaged condition. The Baliumore was a propeller of 1,100 barrels capsclty, Owned by Atien & Latnorg of New York, and chartered by (he Grand Trunk Ralhray ae. 0 requinr packet 10 Halifax Tus freight wee ovns® io Nove sovils end conarghiy usucgd }