The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1866, Page 6

fie ‘ . ‘AMUSEMENTS. THIS EyeNGhe, wa BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, agar Boome NBW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, h ito New York Hotel. —Cun onion. = THALIA, TH. sus lar Waunstanio— PL THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— ATERWELT, STSINWAY HALL, wmpr's rhabe-§ Sierowsisneeee La 535 Brovdway, opnosits ae etrppalaan Gin iy sess gators ‘Repenratee ING, axp Bun.ssques—Tux New ONCE, FIFTH AvENUR OPERA MOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West _-Bopwoutu’s Minsreeus.—EBraiorian Bee Bomrseve,, AC. EWE May aw ; \No. 614 Broadway. (DEN. GERMAN STA! PHMUS LN - DER wtreet.—Mn, KEN~ NGS OF SOOTLAND. & URON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo. York Hotel,—in ruxit $0vGs, Dancas. Rocen. Burcxsoves, &c—Mareracwr—Argican Porks— Bratus. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2 Bowery.—Coxre Necro Minstastsy, Byautar Divenrissexent, Nort, rux Newsnor. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—[w a Vant or Licur any Lavorance Enrertauvmens, Corrs ps Batter, 46 Tur Miscarevous Nicaea. OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermioriax Min Bugvesquss xv Pantomuns. PRESBYTERIAN SRTSCH. bred of Grand and Crosby GREAT Fag ix Aip or the Haut axp Asrium Funp. ST. STEPHEN'S PRUE OS, laren ty. eighth street, be- tween Lg, and Thir Ues.—GRAND Fain, FEsti- Val AND PROMENADE CONCERT, NEW YORK es! OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— gem, witt tae Oxx-Hypnocen Mickoscore | twice oly ant rine: agp Rigut Arm ov Proast. Open from 3 New Nethe Friday, D. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. The public are hereby nutified “that the eilver badges heretofore used by the regular roporters of the New ‘Yorg Heraty have been recalled, and will no longer be used as a moans. of identifying the attachés of this eitice, mhenyner 14, 1806. THS NEw s. EUROPE. By special telegrams through the Atlantic cable from France and England we have important intelligence, dated yosterday. December 13. Our goneral news report embraces financial, commercial and marine advices of the same day. General Casiemeau telegraphs to Napoleon, over the signature of Marshal Baza.ne, Mexican news, dated on the 84 of Decomber. Maximilian had not then in- formed tho Fronch representatives of his decision as to hig fature intentions, Napoleon is advised to permit no unnecessary delay in having his army evacuation traus- Ports on the coast in March. “ Marsha! Bazaine adds to the telegram that United States Minister Campbell and Genera! Sherman had lett ‘the harbor of Vora Cruz, and that both gentlemen were “conciliatory”? in tone. A series of fearfully fatal coltiety explosions occurred n England on the 12th and 13th inst. Our special correspondent announces by the cable that three hendred and thirty persons had lost thoir lives in tho Gaks pit, Barnsley, Yorkshire, where two explosions took place, A great number of mea and oys were killed by another explosion in the Stafford mines, Staffordshire, Tho Feaian movement appears to be progressing. Turkey is likely to break off relations with Greece. The Empress Eugenie is to visit the Pope. Italy i# said to have concluded a highly important: troaty, but the other contracting Power is mot named. Perhaps it is with the Pope. A North German conference is to assemble in Berlin. Queen isabella, of Spain, has set out from Madrid for Tusbon. By the arrival of the steamship Cuba at this port yes- terday wo received our special correspoudence and £u- ropean nowspaper files dated tv the 1st of December. ‘The ultramontane journals of the continent and'liberal press of Germany agree in accepting the fact of the coilapes of the Mexican empire as most damaging to Napoleon's prostigo, The Unita Ca’olica says that the Yaris newspapers, instead of prociaiming the fall of the Papacy, should assure the Emperor how ‘‘already lost.’ ‘The writer enumerates a series of his imperial “retreats,” undertaken ‘through fear,” since 1859, and says he has forwarded a copy of the paper to his Majesty aud the oMoers of State in Puris, so that they may read it at the “proper moment,” James Stephens is said to have arriv’d in Paris, after astay of aday or two in London. His visit to the Wid World aggravates the Fenian excitement in Ireland and Knglana vastly. Conaols closed in London at 88}¢ for money yesterday, Dnited States five-twentie: were at TL. United States bonds were ‘‘ratuer weak’? in Frankfor! apd Amsterdam, ‘The Liverpool cotton market closod quict and sicady, with middliag uplands at fourteen and one-fourth pence. CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday a bill providing that official notices of the adoption of the constitutional amendment by the State sual! be sent to the Secrotary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, jnetead of the Secretary of State, and the President of the te and Speaker of the House aba! publish the same with their certiicates that such amendment if a part of the constitution. The Dis- Mrict Franchise bill was thea taken wp and discussed, the pending question Doing upon Mr. Dixon's aniendment to insert as a qualitication that no one who bas not hereto- fore voled suali be allowed to vote unless he can read and write his oume, Mesers, Cowan, Foster, Fre- tughuysen, Hendricks, Lane and Sumuer mado short speeches on the question, and on the yeas and nays being called theamendment was rejected. Another amendment, punishing thoee who offered a bribe at an election and those who accepted @ bribe, waa thon offered and adopted. The bil! was then passed by yous $2, nays 15, Toe bili as passed is given im full im our columns this morning. . Ie the House Mr. =tevens introduced @ bill to ro-aBtab- Usb civil government in North Carolina, to enable it © resume its former relation: as one of the constituent States of the Amerivan Union. He stated that he did so at the requés of several gentiomon trom North Caro Nina, it was referred to the Commi ice on Territories. A concurrent resolution tha: Congress adjourn on the 20th, Lo meet again on the od Jauuary next, was adopted. The Deficiency bill was ‘hen taken up ns in Committers of the Whole, In the discussion on the ‘varions appropriations, Mr. Seoficid took the oppor- ‘tunity of saying that some of the mousy might hove been intended to pay the expenses of the Presidential tour. Mr. Stevens thought not, although be under. stood there were some unpaid bills in that coanccvon Sovorat amendments were agreed to, and the bill war pewod. The rest of the session was devoted to speech: mating, Mr. Ward, of New York, having the floor, In the coarse of his remarks ho savi that the rebel leaders, instead of demanding seats in Congress, should be sag ing hemp. THE CITY. The Board of Aldermon met yesterday. A communi- cation was received from the Mayor withdrawing the mame of Joba M. Haley as Street Commissioner, om ac- ‘Sovomt of his declining the appoiutment, aud pom/nating Wn. MoMurray. ‘The Board of Counciimen aly met, amd concurred ‘With the Aidormen in granting a portion of the Battery to the genoral goverument for mont to the report of the spec office «te was carried, making the price $1,000,000 instead 0. $500,000, A tenoment house in East Titty first street was burned Hast might, and the inmates bad a varrow encape with their fives Six of them wore «0, orely injured, five by being burned and the sixth by jumping from a window, ‘The jogs is estimated at $13,000. Another meeting of the Hxocutive Committee of the Mational Board of Fire Underwriters was held yesterday os NO. 186 Broadway, Mr. D. A. Heald presiding, and F. B Baivart anving as Agoretars. Action was (akon with $i sates ts tes eat = og tye. age ind th Supreme Court, Circuit, pect Pent th fa bg born, of Stirling, HL, to recover the sum of $26,406, stolen by barglars from a safe made and sold by them, proof. Case still op. The recent seizure of a large number of distilleries bas had the effect of closing tnearly every establighment in thiscity. The names of several of the establishments now In possession of the government officers are pub- lished in thi ‘a Heap, and measures are being eon- certed to put was continued yesterday before United States Commis- sioners Newton and Jones, and much additional testi- mony was elicited, The stock market was firm yesterday on the whole, Gold closed at 137% a %, ‘There was not much change in the commercial situa- tiom yesterday as compared with the day previous, though the steady ruling of the gold premium was re- lected in the general merchandise markets, and there were fewer and fess violent fluctuations in commercial values. Sugar was more active and steady. Coffee was dull. Cotton leas active and firm, and dry goods quiet. On ’Change flour advanced 10c. a 15c. per barrel, while wheat, though quiet, ruled more steady. Corn was un- changed. Outs were steady and firm ‘The pork market ruled firmer, with an increased demand. Beef was steady, and lard was more active and higher, Freights were steady and firm. Whiskey dull and nominal. Potroloum was more active and firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Buenos Ayres despatches are dated October 30, and our letter from Rio Janeiro is dated November 8. The French Euvoy, Count de Beaumont, had had an in- terview with the leaders of both of the hostile armies ia Paraguay, A severe storm visited Buenos Ayres on the ‘28th and 29th of October, Considerable property was destroyed and twenty-three sailors were drowned. The allies on the Piate were compeiled to suspend hostilities owing to a want of reinforcements and the severe floods that are prevailing. It is stated that the Paraguayans at- tacked the Brazilian camp on the 14th of October, and the fight lasted five hours, The reported invasion of the Argentine republic by @ Bolivian army, .is belioved in Rio Janciro to be a canard. Tamandaré, the Brazilian admiral, and Baron Porto’ Alegre, the Brazilian com- mander, do not agree very well ‘with Mitre aud Poly- doro, who command the Argentines and Orientals, and the parties act entirely imdependently of each other, Mr, Washburne, the American Minister to Paraguay, loft Buenos Ayres on the 24th of October for Assuncion. News from the west coast of Moxico, via San Fran- cisco, 18 to the effect that Acapulco would be evacuated inafewdaya, The French commander had assessed a large portion of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's property, with a view to forcing a loan; but the United ‘States steamer Suwanee having arrived he abandoned the idea. One of the contostants in the Atlantic yacht race was seen on Wednesday afternoon by the steamship Cuba at a distance of two hundred and sixty miles from Sandy Hook, bearing due east, with all sails set. Her flag could not be distinguished. Six of the Fonian prisoners were indicted at Sweets- burg yesterday as citizens of foreign States, and on eryelgnunes peated a8 GAT Their trial will be commenced on the 18th. The North Carolina Legistature yesterday rejected the constitutional amendment in both Houses. Governor Fletcher hae stationed thirty-four companies of cavalry aud infantry in Jackson and Lafayette coun- ties, Mo., and proclaims that they will be withdrawn whenever the people will enforce the laws and protect Jaw abiding citizens, The Georgia Legislature yesterday passed the stay law over the Governor's velo, A resolution to appoint com- missioners to visit Washington and see on what terms Congress would allow « complete restoration of the South was tabled by a heavy vote. A letter from Arizona says that hard fighting bad taken place between the soldiers and the Indians at Fort Mobave, in which the soldiers were compelled to use artillery. ‘The corner stone of Brownson Hall, the now edifice of the Episcopal Academy of the State of Connecticut, at Cheshire, was laid yesterday with religious and Masonic services, A coal oil lamp exploded at Mount Clare station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yesterday. One man was imstantly killed and another shockingly burned. Caleb Lyon, formerly Governor of Idaho, was robbed of $47,000 on Wednesday, in the train from New York, while on his way to Washington, The following United States vessels-of-war wore at Rio on tho-8th of November last:—Brooklyn, Juniata, Mono- cacy and Onward. On the samo date (ft) the following wore at Lisbon, Portugal:—Colorado, Ticonderoga, Mian- jomoh and Frolic. ‘he steamer Adelaide, of the same line of ateamers as the Thomas Kelso, which exploded her steam drum some time ago, ran on the wreck of the rebel monitor Merrimac, in Hampton Roads, yesterday, aud was se- riously damaged. All the passengers ‘were taken off by another steamer, The steamer Susquchanna was expected at the mouth of the Mississippi last night with General Sherman and Minister Campbell on board, bound for New Orleans. The Danish brig Danneveka was chased and robbed by Chinese pirates, m the South Pacific, in the latter part of September. Two British vocsels were wrecked in August in the same neighborhood. Brown, the man who was arrested for alleged comp!i- city in illicit distiliation in Jersey City, several days ago, was admitted as State's evidence, and has since been appointed Deputy United States Marshal. ©, W. Nixon, one of the injured on the Thomas Kelao, died from the effects on Wednesday at Noriolk. This makes six deaths in all. The rest of the wounded are recovering, Five dray toads of whiskey wore seized in Phitadel- phia yesterday, the brands being considered counter- feit. Afire at Waukegan, Michigan, on Wednesday night destroyed Dickenson Hall and the store adjoining. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Captain Hiram Hoganin ascended to the roof of the buraing building and falling through the skylight was was burned to death. RECORDER Hacker on THE INsROURITY OF THE ‘New Orrra Hovst.—In his charge to the Grand Jury on Wednesday the Recorder called their attention to the haste and recklessness with which buildings are being ran up throughout the city, and referred to the construction of the new Opera Hotise in Fourteenth street as being ® proper subject for inquiry on their part. When it was first proposed to use the remuants of the old walls we objected to them as being unsafe, and urged the entire recon- straction of the building. The Recorder, probaly on the suggestion of some of our leading architects, has taken hold of the sab- ject, and he very properly recommends that a thorough examination shall be made of the walls. He thinks that after the intense heat to which they have been subjected they may not be strong enough to sustain the enormous pressure which they will be called upon to bear, and that a fearful catastrophe may result from it. This ts more than probable, and we are not sure that even the inquiry proposed will satisfactorily decide the matter. The- Grand Jury will probably only make a cursory examination of the building, and its opinions, unless they are fortified by those of architects in whom the public can put confidence, will be of very little value. The difficulty presents another illustration of the necessity which exists for the creation by the Legislature of a Board of Worke, Had such a body been in existence the stockholders of the Academy of Music would not have dared to risk the safety of the public in the desire to economize a lew thouzgad doar. and which the plaintiff alleges was warranted as bargiar- stop to the operations of dishopest dis- tillers, The examination of the alleged whiskey frauds hit ‘ a ba his next move will on the slavery 1 bewate of intrigues of Cgl- the nomi- nation and election of Van ‘Baren in 1836, pledged to watk “in the footstepeof his illus- trious predecessor.” But in 140, in advance of Van Buren’s nomination for another trial, the Southern Calhoun wing of the demooratic party, notwithatanding the pressure of the monéy question from the financial crash of 1837, brought, “the Little Magician” to the pledge, if put to the test, of vetoing any bill which Congress might pass involving the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. ‘This was the entering wedge of the Calhoun faction on the slavery issue; but it effected nothing in 1840 in consequence of the over- whelming financial reaction in that campaign, which, with the force of e tornado, swept the democracy out of power. But they soon rallied again, from the efforts of Mr. Clay in Congress to establish another national bank and from. the crippling of the whig party by President Tyler’s vetoes and his expulsion from the church. Then, a8 the campaign of 1844 drew near, the Southern Calhoun pro-slavery managers resolved upon the test of the annexation. of the slaveholding’ republic of Texas, war or no war with Mexico, and Van Buren, still the favorite democratic candidate, was, some months in advance of the Ballimore Convention, put to this test in a letter from North Carolina. His answer was in accordance with Jack- son’s warning against Calhoun. Assured of a majority in the approaching conven- tion, Van Buren. deliberately replied to this aforesaid letter that the suggested unconditional annexation of Texas would be a hazardous step; that he could not approve it; that from a eareful consideration of the subject he was satisfied that the proper course in this matter was first to await a definite treaty of peace be- tween Mexico and Texas; for that otherwise the annexation proposéd would involve the annexation of a war. The same letter thus answered by Van Buren was sent to Henry Clay, the anticipated whig candidate, and a similar answer was the result in that quarter, We may safely gay, then, that had that contest of 1844, omitting the Texas annexation ques- tion, been between Clay and Van Buren, the impotent Northern anti-slavery faction of that day would have remained, s0 for many years to come, while at the same time the Southern Calhoun pro-slavery faction would have been baffled again. But this was not to be. The Southern pro- slavery democracy, finding in the Baltimore Convention a majority for Van Buren, hit upon the bold dovice of demanding a two-thirds vote to secure a nomination. The resolution was adopted, Van Buren was thus ousted, and Polk, of Tennessee (ass peace offering to Jackson), and as the champion of the unconditional annexation of Texas, peace or war, was nomi- nated. Thus the national democratic party fell into the hands of the late Southern pro-slavery oligarchy. And what folloyed? The war with Mexico, the acquisition of a new empire, the defection of Van Buren, with his free soil movement in 1848, which defeated General Casa; the compromise measures (1850) of Henry Clay on slavery, which elected poor Pierce in 1852; the repeal, in 1854, of the old Missouri Compromise under poor Pierce, at the demand of Jeff Davis, Mason, Slidell and their clique; the Kansas border war, the narrow escape of Buchanan in 1856, the Dred Scott decision, “Old John Brown,” the irrepressible conflict with Douglas at Charleston in 1860, the break up of the democratic party, the first election of Lincoln, Southern secession, the Southern con- federacy, Fort Sumter, the rebellion, the extinc- tion thereby of slavery and the slaveholding oligarchy. Such is the chapter of accidents resulting from the sale of the Northern democracy to the Southern pro-slavery Calboun .eoa- lition at the Baltimore Convention of The Northern democracy, thua shorn of Southern balance of power, after sixteen years of blind devotion to the Moloch of Southern slavery, were left very much in the condition of a community of African slaves suddenly emancipated and turned loose upon the world. ‘They still hankered after the fieshpots of Egypt. Thus they hardly dared ‘to raise # hand to help themselves in 1861; and though they rallied, and, under the popular cry of “a more vigor- ous prosecution of the war,” cerried the Northern Central States in 1862, they recoiled at once from these successes, a8 if ashamed of their treachery to their Southern masters, and proceeded to bow down again before them in humble abasement. The relapse of Horatio Seymour will tell the whole story of the return of the Northern democracy to their heathenish worship of their broken Southern idols. A group of Hindoos, prosirated before a broken Juggernaut, is not a more debasing picture. So it has come to pass that the Northern democratic party, in each succeeding chain of elections from 1862 to 1866, have been more and more ignominiously chastised, until at last they lie cowering and quailing in the dust. Their conceit, at least to some extent, has been whipped out of them. We hear it in their strange outcries for negro suffrage in Mlinois, see it in their fusion with the negroes of Boston atthe ballot boxes, and in their sad plight of demoralization everywhere, onty excepting the Hon. Jack Rogers in Congress. The question recurs, then, how is this blundering and unfor- tunate party to be lifted on its pins again? We think the only chance left to save it from dissolutionMies with Mr. Anguste Belmont. He is invesied with the power of ealling together again the Chicago Convention of 1864. Tet him call it together, and swear it anew upon the Ten Commandments and thé New Tosta- ment of the constitutional amendment, and the democracy, like the repenting ebildren of Israel, may get out of the wilderness. Other- wise they must remain in pawn at ten per cent # month, until the South, reconstructed by Con- gress, sball come to their rellef. Omyraus Fanna—We a are overwhelmed with communications complaining that the omnibus proprietors maintain the high fares which they chargod while hay and oats were at war prices, although the cost of both is not half what it was at the period when they raised them. The omnibus proprietors, it is stated, are wrklag larce vrofits out of the giffgrenge. A mn oo 8 man | er paid ee on | sin ie evil openly ¢ senses. ‘The: Revelation, in the New York’ Ceatrat | Rallroad—The New Regime. late Dean Richmond and the contro! of the New York Central Railroad terminated on Wednesday in the entire overthrow of the old direction and the election of nearly an entire new board. Only three names identified with the former management of the road appear upon the list of directors—Messrs, Corning, Chedell and Whitney. The retention of the two latter was meoessary in consequence of their knowledge of the business of the old board, The election of Erastus Corning was a mere personal gratification, and it is said he will at once retire. He would scarcely be sat- isfied to sit as a minority director in a board over which be ruled supreme for so many years, ‘There is @ groat deal of silly speculation going on as to the means by which this result was accomplished and the effect it is to have upon future interests, Some people see in the election of Mr. Keep, a republican, for Presi- dent, the destruction of a “great democratic machine.” This is all balderdash. If the road has been a democratic machine it has had very unskilful engineers; for the democratic party has been run off the track and amashed up so often that it is now ®& total wreck. The fact is that the late Dean ‘Richmond used his power in the road to control results in legislation after election rather than to secure party tri- umphs; and ‘the demoralizing effect of his management was that it made legislative cor- ruption an open and avowed business. Other parties believe that the new direction is made only with a view to overthrow the autocrat of the Hudson and Harlem, and to leave him in a very helpless condition, Others, again, think that because the old express companies have a large ‘representation in the direction the sole object of the new-board will be to keep rival express lines off the Central Road. These are all very narrow views to take of the great railroad revolution consummated on Wednes- day last. For some time prior to Dean Richmond’s death a fight was being made against him by parties with whom he had come in conflict, It commenced with Erastus Corning and all those who had been swept away from the road when Corning went out of the board. Last year these forces received an important addition from the old express companies, who joined the opposition bécause’ Richmond threw his inflaence on the side of a new express enter- prise. At the election for directors in 1866 Dean Richmond secured Vaaderbilt’s interest, over the heads ef his opponents, and won a victory. ‘This made close relations between Vanderbilt and Richmond, which some say were not altogether to the in- terest. of the Central Road; and henco the fight was this year made against both the Richmond and Vanderbilt régimes, In the meantime the Wall street operators have for the past twelve months been accumulating stock and securing foreign proxies, in order to consummate what they have long desired—the transfor of the management of the Central Rail- road to New York. The new direction was formed by a union of the Wall street interest with the old express companies, These two combined found them- selves powerful enough to completely upset the old dynasty, weakened by the loss of their chief, and took full advantage of their strength. They have made a direction which, so far as business energy and capacity are concerned, is a strong one. Messrs. Keep and Fargo are both self-made men and possess unquestioned business qualifications. Although Mr. Fargo isa member of the democratic mongrel State Cen- tral Committee it 18 not likely the road will be used asa political machine. The new board will not undertake, with the Legislature prob- ably not over friendly to their management, to drive any rival express enterprises off their line of road. The new régime may properly be called anti-Vandorbil. Ail the Vanderbilt men in the old @irection were thrown over- hoard. Azarinh Boody, the representative of the Athens Road, was elected a director. A proposition to put three Central directors on the Hudson River Board, and three Hudson River directors on the Central Board, was sum- marily rejected. A bonns of one hundred thousand dollars, ented by the retiring Central Board to Vanderbilt, as an “equalization” of the freight business between the two roads, was reconsidered by the new board. All these facta indicate an anti-Vanderbilt feeling; but the interests of the Central and Hudson River roads are identical in the winter, and there can at present be no permanent asain between them. ‘The real dangers to the public under the new direction of the New York Central lie in a different direction. The Wall strect interest is predominant in the board, and might be used to occasion ruinous fluctuations in the stock. The rise and fall of Southern Michigan is well remembered, and while the position of the Central is such as to render speculations more difficult with its stock than with almost any other on the market, it is certain that » fall in prices and a sudden rise and a “cor- ner” would make big fortunes for the lucky speculators who might be inside the ring. There has already been much complaint throughout the State that shippers of freicht are denied the proper facilities on the Central, in‘ order to force them to do their business through the express companies. Now that the express companies are represented in the Cen- tral Railroad direction by two of their presi- dents and two of their directors, the public will watch with more jealousy than ever tho manner in which the freight business of that road is conducted, The Legislature will no doubt keep « sharp look out for these dangers abead and speedily set to work to remedy them by legisla- tion, f they e#hould make their appear- ance. They will be the more disposed to do this, since the new régime has oyeribrown the principle which has prevailed ever since the consolidation, of locating @ majority of the directors on the line of the road.. At first all the directors were residents along the road; but after a few years one representative was conceded to Boston and two to New York. Ja the present board seven out of the thirteen directors are from this city. Under these cir- oupstances. it will be well for the Lewislatyre, acc The great straggle for the ‘old shoes of the “earcestly bent upon business, After recognitions salutations one of the first inquiries made was as whether the Fleetwing, Vesta or Hénrietta had ween. In response to this some of the passenger swered in the affirmative. Inquiries of the same nature were made by oth other passengers on board the steamship, and a repiy similar import was elicited. When she was moored the-wharf and access be obtained to Captain &: the single additionat Of intelligence in refer to the great ocean yacht race was obtained. The tain’s words are given.exactly, He sud that “y: ‘at balf-past four o’elo:k, at a diatance of 1 ndret bad sixty miles East from Sandy Hook, « y ‘was seom bearing due east All her smail sails could| discerned and she dipped her fing, but at ad great that eee meray be Giekingelahed, others were gecn,"? CSNADIAN AFFAIRS. ‘SPECIAL TELEGRAM. TO THE HERALS. The Yacht Race Excitoment—More ef ratt’s Capture—The Medec Mines, &c. Swerranons, Dec, 13, 1 The Atlantic yaeht race causes great com: among the sports of Canada. Considerable monoy Montreal is staked on the result. A Cabinet counct! is to be hela to-morrow at Ot! when it is expected acting Governor General Michell inform the Ministers of bis plans in relation to the fence of the provinces, St, Marie, thefdiscoverer. of Surratt, isa native of Prairie, a small village, nine miles from Montreat, ‘was formerly employed as clerk in the Post office and the Education offic> im Montreal. H» afterwards listed in the American army. Official correspondence the Hxratp states that Mr. Potter, in Septem! 1865, advised his government that Surratt bad then ju left Three Rivers. for Europe, having been living wif a Catholic priest who had concealed him, and that October Mr. Adame bad fnformation that the mi had arrived in Liverpool. It. seems that he was arrested at that time because there was a doubt of tl identity of the man pointed out with Surratt. St. Mari in writing toa friend in Montreal, states that after had given es Surratt being in Italy a phot graph was sent to e, and a confidential person Tected 'o compare it with the enpposed orizinal At Medoc yesterday a party of gentlemen wh ining the country found some very fine spec goldon the farm adjoining Bichardeon’s, owned by American named Irwin. The question of woman’s right to manhood suffrage has been tossed about on the billows of agitation for a long time. Vagrant re- formers and enthusiastic women—the, latter very sincere, no doubt, in their desire for 2s- cendency—have been, discussing the subject all over the country for many years past, until it has at last turned up in the United States Senate, where, after two days’ debate, the claims of the ladies to exercise the privilege of voting have been Inid on the shelf by the decisive vote of thirty-seven to nine. Among those voting in the majority we find several Senators who are noted for their extreme views, and who rarely back down upon any extravagant theory proposed for popular adoption. From these facts we assume tbat the question of woman suffrage is settled, for many years to come at least, by this action of the higher house of Congress. We therefore recommend the itinerant re- formers, the ambitious few of the female sex and sympathizing members of Congress to give their attention ‘to more practical subjects in fature, of which there are many claiming the earnest consideration of the national legisla- ture and of all who desire to promote the wel- fare of the country. The verdict of the Senate evidently proclaims that woman’s rights, in the opinion of Congress, are enjoyed to the full extent that all sensible women aspire to. A Curap Prece or Strats Patroxace.—We beg to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the official State canvass, from the Secretary of State, at Albany, together with a polite note requesting that we will please publish the same in the Heratp, and send our bill for the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, receipted, to the Comptroller, with an affidavit of publication. In reply we beg to inform the Secretary of State that the advertisement he sends us will cost, in the cheapest part of the Heratp, just seven Tee hundred and fifty dollars, the bill for which o~ ts oe __ Pitapapetc becagy will be receipted to the Comptroller or any- Xeuwtad plc msgak A. 4 ‘day. of the sail so body else who may pay that amount over | At noon on Monday the thermomoter stood at thirty-ai our counter before the publication. And we | degrees, on Tuesday the mercury fell to thirty, beg further to inform the folks in the good old | Wednosday its spigits rallied.and the fluid rose to thirty Dutch settlement of Albany that the white trerpccerey acora Sare pe. asehbeai -— paper, on which the canvass would be printed, | syence the ponds in this city and Brooklyn were for one daily edition of the Hrraup would cost at the mill just four hundred dollars, Murrain Among the Cattle. Mowtneat, Dec. 13, 1863, a has broken out among the cattie of parish e. . THE WEATHER. over, although on some of tho lakes the proprietor deomed it advisable to postpone the opening of season, This was the case @t Major Oatman's Fit avenue skating rink, where none but a few privtieg subscribers wore permitted to skim over the ice a! pleasuros of skatiny Toe Pricams’ Prooress.—Minister Camp- bell and General Sherman, it appears from our latest accounts of them, had arrived at the mouth of the Rio Grande from Vera Cruz, and intended to begin their search for Juarez and the Mexican republic: at Matamoros. We would advise them to be quick, or Miramon, a bold and daring imperialist, may strike the headquarters of Juarez first and carry him off into captivity. What, then, would be left for Mr. Seward to swear by? If we lose Juarez, as the matter stands, we lose our case, and Napoleon will get his claims out of a republic of his own making. That’s the danger now. ‘the it the aight, may definitely yielded up to the roity y) On ds im the direct vicinity of the rink proparations made for the opening day, but no skaters were servabie, McMillan's Fifth avenne park was in posses! sion of an army of ho, with saw, ob two o'clock. Ample arrangoments will made for the reception of the guests, to whose enjoy 1B, large and of music, yi ment the engagement of r and casting a glan Savery or Ferry Passenorrs.—An inspec- tor of steamboats writes to inform us that the inspectors have no authority over ferryboats, except so far as relates to their hulls and ma- pred nie Gace eee peril. chinery, and that there is no power to compel | Wit! to the rather limited accommodations for the ferrybosts to carry life-preservers, &c. | complaint has been made. . ‘The skaters dwelling in Har- Well, if there is not, there ought to be, and an | 1; Frmd cans" accnmmodale anni pe yp eg immediate amendment ought to be made to the | quenters, as are bus two rooms— act of Congress of June 8, 1864, to that effect, TS Gene ag og 4 ai Bg hw be occupied solely by getfilemen——the fair sex Will some of our Congressmen move in the perforce romain oxpeee to the cold while securing thetr matier at once? Ox Drr.—It is rumored, and apparently on ‘are compelled good authority, that Hon. Ben Wood, State desire slim the ily hen tbe, establishment ofa reception room and refreshment stand couid be effected at little Senator, in trial of skill with Congressman elect Hon. John Morrissey, at the scientific ex The attention of the Park Commissioners now called to these it ik to be hoped that prompt action will avoid any tisfaction en the part skating game of faro, on Wednesday night last, realized the handsome winnings of $140,000. The con- test took place at the headquarters of Congreas- Of the up-town ‘community. 6 BROOKLYN man Morrissey, on Twenty-fourth street, the tnichgten boots b have been active in preparing for, tho inauguration ot tho season. The lakes in tne City of ‘THE NEW YgAK SENATORSHIP. ‘ALAANT, Dec. 18, 1860. Churches will be well attended, and the skatt Pereae te the winter sports. ‘The contest for the New York Senatorship has been narrowed down to Representative Conkling, Seustor q under the manrgement of Mr. William IL rete | has beeen opened and good skating and enjore- Harris anid Sudgo Noah L. Davis, of Oricans gounty. Mr. Conkling has the influence of the entire central and blemosic are events of daily and nightly occurrence, northern counties of the State. Mr. Davis has a The season at the Saphal ine Pond will shortly com! vi opened to-morrow. a private view of the ‘previously alforded the public om portion ‘of the western counties, and is the candidate of Ben, Field. Mr. Harris bas the chairman of the State Central iester's Pond will also be Committoc, "the Baptist Church, the Albany Firening Jounal, the Albany interest and “three oF four counties on the river. Those who bave been carefully canvase- ing the State consider that there is no doubt that Cont. Jing will get the repablicad caucus nomination. 4 upper lak Jritnia the boundaries of the Park, were also coated with for the season in Brooklyn are not inferior loted by tie nuunagers of New York skatiag ponds Sicattonw in ‘in Philadelphia. PuiLapncvna, Doc. 13, 1866. All the sk ating parks of thia.city en and handreds of persons indulged this uiternoon in the sport skating. Snew Storm in Western New York. Oswroo, Dec. 13, 1866. psn tont gin It has been snowing here most of the day, The traim The Liquer Question- Efforts to Restore hours be Manefactari Agencies in Boston.The and vie jub—Murder Trinks, &c, Boston, Dec. 13, 1866, The liquor question is to be earnestly advocated before the approaching Legislature. It ig stated that only sev- enieen out of the forty senators are favorable to the moaaure, and some of these cannot be couctet on to a certointy. The leading liquor dealers are satisfied with the law ae it is at and tes that oy, a fow re. tatiers are tt fort! ‘The decision of the Supreme Conrt of United ‘oan will regalate the matter finally, and for that decision the autr-iiquer law men are willing to wait, Much compiaint existe with reverence to the conduct of the State couvtables It ia F barged that they purposely avoid the large and wealthy liqoor establishments and Proseente only the smaller ones. This gives rise to the suspicion that the reigning { powers dare not raise a political dust by gutting the rnvu- | Alor establishments, Five-sixths of those who are prose ented are said to be opposed to the dominant party on whole action of the State constabulary force ts Chai Boston Yach Cold Weather in Tennessee, Nasnvii BS peeancy at ‘the Memptns and ( ville and Chattanooga Railroads war day that several trains were delayed b giving out and pipes fremog white epon the road The Weather in Canadn. Toncevo, Dee. Hi 19,—Weather cold, cloudy, and with ap Owen re Deo, 12, —It ey snowing here since Saturd anew fe not Joot in depth, Pore Das-noorta fee 1h the AWottand Canal is froxem over and closes wily oo the Tth imetant. Boar oF cr Canvassems—Tas Riaars Wino Aan masic Costes. —The Roard of Couvasere ine aterday. R00 | 4 protest ftom Theodore Allen, charging frauds tm to, be one aided, and a legisintive inquiry i threatened | AP int their eonduet by the oe temperance mon, | te Tweltth election district @f the Eighth ward, was Efforts are on foot to restore the agencies of large | rand, with i Javit from James Lynch. momntreturing eatablishimente, hitherto carried to New eee Taattte Wibedieiaes ox rroan. Tah York, and locate them again. im Hosion, ‘The oxtal Meta: \ ¥ on to believer ment’ of lines of neumers 10 the South is believed to be ‘nat vehee wele fresselented wd ie the i to dofrnud favorable to thie restaration, bat the maautacturing cor- | Mr. Alten The canvaes of the vote for woe porations are not willing to <nrteuder their Now York | completed, with the following rextiit, aa the of the Agencies taest the theory of tie promoters of the new whole ciy:—Richard B. Comnolly, Richard cheme, ‘ + Miebaet jo.ots; Charlee L. 7 The amount of money contributed Inet year to the Kelty, 9857 care Cae zs The Commtt ebarities of this Co by the State Legislature and pe vate | te on Protests then yotest of Ragone individual subseri s, 80 far as ean be eoneetanand, is | Ward against the returns of the Se em | diniriet not far from $150 0.000, The amount is reprevemtod as | of the Bighth ward wae taken up an ag . Thompwy, Rie Port exceeding similar eontributions in tbe elty of | i wor testified by Mr. ' on that @ had beea ut stituted in the The now Rostom Yacht Clab t reported to be be canvasnor:, that one pag ne Fevuras for ane which he had signed on the 11RD election. Inthe correct returns Mc Ward given at 107 and My, Allen's ne G40. On crime ing for a challenge regatta, to come olf mext summer, with apecial reference to showing the New York yachts men “how to de it’ There ar many plucky and | tion the witheer pid he could moe cwcar th ‘wealthy men connected with the eub. polated shoet was not ju the relorns when he wagned John Bronghara hax eo far tecovered from tis tilne" | them, August Sehunidt tentihen + y be 4 oe ty Jo a to beable to resume his engagement at tue Boston retarns as Ow appeal. Vaeatse on Monday nex. 1 ee rete Nar” Chere B Tn the caso of McAvens, tried for the murder of Mary | that he made oi two of the to Geary, the Mey were andble to apron on m verdict, stand. | tel.e mame Oe ee ie tbe ing six to Bix, The prisoner Wes remanded ta jail. | tad sister, ‘The vows for Al The trial of Mrs. elizabeth Sali, urder of her | received 77 votes and ‘anen ‘ao. grand daughter, was concluded tis afternoon in the | cided that this @Pn strentd Supreme Conrt. Testimony way taken forthe defence | goard of Cantamore their ae until Jace in the afiernoon, when Attorney Genera! ‘aiao taken. with, ot to the pr eaid the government, » tor having heard she testim trick Gibne! inst the return could not bat covsemt toa verdict of not guilty J. Kehoe wa cordingly after a littie deMay such « verdiet was rendersd, adjourned, The court room was crowded at tion was soown. Mra. Snel) wi guilty’ wae a in wi Connon Ox a CHT Raine, — About ghalt.past «tt o'elpek ladt evening, as one of the freigh! car, belong: ingto the New Haven Railroad Company, was cross om dye corner of Grand ond Bowery, it ran into one of the Thomas & Co, in relation to the Home and Scuool for Wasennger cars of the Grand sire Ling, nearly de:nai, ‘the maintenance and dueation of the destitute childrem ¢ ing the latter. Was at the time quite « large ‘of our soldiers and sailors au BN ated ge The inher of Ma] io tae car ht Corivaaiely Come obiect geome to be overy laiucgs Sonomrs’ 4% Sanome CaILoREN,