The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1866, Page 4

a 4 NEW YORK HERALD. *yDaOR AAD PROPRIETOR OFEIOR N. W. CORNER QF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. BROADWAY THKATRE, Broadway, near Broome : -Tux Marrisr Day or My Live—Tue 9; ‘s Law eRe, NEW YORK THEAPRS, Broadway, opposite New. York Sovol. —Cuxpemton. TUEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth strest. near Sixth acollve.—Lu BaRsige DR SEVILLE. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Die Pamiite Higsca—Ein Taratine ScaxDan, GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Dan GRSANDTSCHAPTy ATTACHER. CLINTON HALL, A®or place.—Vargwrixe VouRDEN IN His Onicinal ENTRRTAL ENT, STEINWAY HALL, Bast Fourteenth street, near Irving Place,—SavExtY-rinst Reimer Bano Concurt. Cai. Wo: esoun's Fount Bexrmovan Matixue, at 3 o'Clock. DODWORTA'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proressor Hartz wits Psrvorm mis Minacams,—Tue Heap iN Tue AIK, SAN PRANCISCO MI LS. 585 Broadway, opposite the wropolian Hotel—in cuca Eruiortax ENTeRrAiN- gaara, SINGING, Daxcina™ axD BURLESQUES—CENDRILLON ay cat Four SENSES: FIFTH AVENUE OPERA\ROUSE, Nos. 2 and « West Twonty-fourdh street.—Birm 's Mutarexis,—Eeaiortay Danwnetsy, Babess, BoRcasgues, 2c, ons. —_— KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway, oppo- nite the New York Hotel.—In, ruere Songs, Dances. Eccun. jomuxsques, &e.—Sqguirt wae 4 Y—Horm, races, Bi D'AFRIQUE, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 30) Bowerv.—Couto Vooaitsu—Necro Mrnsrexcsy, Bacuer Diventissamenr, dc —-Auuaicans 1x Tommy. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TRO! at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway~Ix 4 Varisry or Bicer ano Laccuante Gonrs px Batter, a0. ‘Tne Wurte Boys ov Inxianp. ‘MRS. PF. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE. Brookiyn.— Sricc Waters Row Derr—Sreotne Bripecnoom. HOOLEY’SOPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Eratorias Mine srrsisy, BaLLaps, BURLESQUES AND Pantominxs. EVERETT ROOMS, corner of Broadwa: fourts atreet.—Ma, Da Coapova's Lecrore art tae Orema. ae 2agoHN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, corner of Grand and Crosby ‘ratte Gaeat Masonic Faw if Ato or tux HALL AND “ye FORD, NEW xORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway. Luctouns yen tae Ox HypRocen Micnoscore twice OF re 4g Eicur Anu or Prosser. Open from 3 ‘and Thirty. "Mus, SLocum Now York, Friday. December 31, 1866. NOTICE eS ‘Tne public are hereby notified ital the silver badges heretofore used by the regular reporters of the New Yong Henatp have been recallod, and will no longer be ngod 9° @ means of identifying the attachés of this office, TO THE PUBLIC. EUROPE. By the Allantic cable we hate a news report dated yesterday morning, December 20. Tr is asserted in Paris that Napoleon has been informed of Maximitian’s abdication. Tao relations between Italy and the Pope will probably ogod on a ‘firm’? footing. Unired States iron-clad Miantonomoh with other can war vessels aro in the Siratts of Gibraltar, roading of the full text of President Johnson's Messago produced a good effect in Paris, M. Pould states that thewevenue and expenditures of Fiance are ina state of “equilibrium.” ‘vance ts reported to have made a heavy money loan to spain ‘Jue Emperor of Austria has resolved to. restore the ition to Hungary. Bauk of England rate has been reduced to three per cent. Conso's closed in London at 89}4 for money yesterday. United States five-twenties were at 71%. United States bonds (6) were at 755, in Frankfort, the Liverpool cotton market was steady and closed firm, with middling uplands at fourteen five-eighths wence. Breadstufs were dull, CONGRESS. fn the Senate yesterday Mr. Williams, in making » per- Nanation, said that he had been misrepresented : regard tom memorial of Indies in the Treasury De- partment asking for an increase of sulary, which it was stated, be bad reported against in committes, when in 6 temoral waa agreed to and the salaries raised. 5 misuaderstaading, he said, he had received sev- vrilous aad inculting lettcrs om the subject from sinterested. The resolutions presested on Wed- looking to the establwhment of territorint 1ents for the Southern States, were referred to tine on construction, A bill was intro- wocure the speedy onstruction of the soulbern wrascb of the Cniou Pacific Raitroad. A resolution sulhorizing the Fresident to prevent the infliction of corporeal panisiment in the States lately in rebettion was rsforred to the Judiciary Committee, A resotution of coquiry was adopted as to whether tho Presidont bad caused United States troops to be marchod into the foierior of Missouri simce the Ist of December; f so, why, and it tt was done at the requeat of the of that State. The Nebraska Admission bill akon up, $be question being npow Mr. Hendricks’ postpone further consideration of the bill until Tin day of Jangary next. Mr, Edmunds, of Ver- roost, spake im support of Mr, Brown's impartial wattage amendment as a condition of admission; and after actor: debate the Senate went into executive ses- om without voting on the bill or pending amendment, AnG adjoorned soom after to meet again on Thursday, Jowuaey o nthe House a revolution forbidding any officer of the 1 ‘Lod “totes trom paying any claim against the govern- ving pror to April, 1861, ia favor of any per- yuraged the rebullioa, was passed. A reso- overed by Mr, Stevens, of Pennsylvania, appoint. smmittee to report a bill to establish free com: ie {a the District of Columbia, from which no s exeluded except for improper conduct, mebt ave . Tho House then went into of his proposition to reduce the salaries nd Represent s ig Cougress. Some evasion of the qu m followed, and after Sanvatee the House adjonrued anti! Thare- eh = eee rte, eo mensage of the Preside at ive to the attempts of Santa Anoa and Ortega to organ.ce armed expeditions #ituin Cho United States for tho purpore of overthrow. img tbo national government of the republic of Mexico, and areport from the Secretary of Site on the same t referred to the Committee on Forcign avure ant will be foand ia full in our cotums thls wens THE CITY. wea uddenly turned very cold yesterday with so on aed an eager alr from the northwest. Tho theonometer at one o’clock this morning marke six dogcaen abowe 2000, At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday report (rom the committee appointed to take into con « jon (be cession of a portion of the Battory to the ave onbaw ea site fora now barve and revenue office, favoring: such coasion and em \odying the anggestions on the sabject presented by the Moyor at a previous meet- ‘nc, wae adopted. The aneual reports of the Corpora- on Attoruey and Public Administrator were received Soc plaaed tn the bends of the printer. A resolution 4 /-etag the Street Commissioner to remove the sheds On the Mattory was adopted. The Bosrd adjourned to Monday afternoon meet, at tero o'clock, “Das Board of Health mot terday. Inspector Far. Man, Who was charged with maifensance im office, was Gomiserd from his office, A resuliiton was adopted Inetituting suit agninst the owners or managers of the forcyboat Idaho forthe recuvery of any penalties In- curred By the allexed nevligence of omission which caunedidanger to humas life st the time of her deatsuc Hon by Ore, ‘The Chamber of Comuoeros bold am adtourned mesting yeetorday, when the advieanity of presenting a memo- Fial to Congress for & feduct onof the tax on cotton was considored, and afer Some debnia for and against the Proposition further consideration of the subject was bored indodnitely 5 Mation ah abvording wptgrect to Shows aby yetp oy | yesterday morning, and eighteen cows and a horse were burned to death. of Boehm & Co,, charged with the illicit distillation of whiskey ander the name of burning fluid, that they had thereby evaded the Internal Revenue tax, and ordered that they be held to await the action of the Grand Jury. Their bail was increased to $20,000, John Devlin, charged asa debler to the United States in the sum of $400,000 fines and penalties incurred by alleged viola- tions of the revenue laws, was hetd in default of $200,000 bail. The case of Tilton, Devlin and Levan was continued. be ; Virginia, Captain Browse, will sail at noon to-morrow, Saterday, for Queenstown and Liverpool from pier 47 North river, ‘ will sail from pier 43 North river to-morrow, Saturday, for Rio Janeiro, calling at St. Thomas, Para, Pernam- buco and Bahia, both going and returning. will close at the Post Office at half-past one o'clock. wenk and closed at 184% a %. markets yesterday, and prices for almost all commodi- ties ruled in favor of the purchaser. Cotton was less active and a shade easier. Coffee was quiet but steady. On 'Change flour was less active, though not essentially lower. Wheat declined 5c,, while corn was 2c. a 3c. lower, with but little doing. sion of lc. Pork opened lower, but closed firm. Beef was steady, while lard was dulland heavy. Freights were also dull and lower, Whiskey was nominal. Na- val stores generally lower. Potrotenm tending down- ward, with but little doing. _—_—— eee. as tobaccovists under the firm of Ross & Co,, in this city, for having rendered false returns of their manu- facture and sales to the Collector of Internal Revenue, was resumed before Commissioner Osborn. The testi- mony of one witness having been taken, the matter was adjourned to Monday. The evidence touching the accusation against Max Beringer, of having illegally distilled spirits, bas closed. The defence is that Beringer ‘Was not distilling spirits, but burning fluid, upon which the government does not levy any tax. The Commis- sioner announced that he would give his decision this ‘day. ‘Winslow was tried for stealing a pocketbook containing $30,000. The case wil! be Gnished this morning. York Buckalew was.tried an convicted of stealing $60 worth of clothing. John Newland pleaded guilty to an attempt ‘at grand larceny. ‘Samuel Phillips also pleaded guilty of grand lareeny. Catharine Roberts pleaded guilty to stealing » silk dross worth $70. These prisoners were each sentenced to the State Prison for two years und six “months, Caroline Hyde pleaded guilty to grand larceny and was sent to tho penitentiary for one year. Benjemia ‘Levi war sent to the House of Refuge for stealing a quan- tity of cloth, Thomas Mortha was acquitted from acharge of stealing. R. Massey was concluded yestorday, avd the jury ren- dorod a verdict that he came to his death at the hands of two or moro unknown men, for whose arrest the Mayor is recommended to offer a reward, yestecday, but was extinguished before spreading to any considcrable extent. $55,000. eh inst., reports that the information recently given of cholera having appeared at St. Thomes turns ont to be false. at Havana. The perusal of President Johnson's Message made a favorable impression upon tho minds of all classes, The police bad refused to afford any further information of the discoveries made in regard to the Mila murder. The municipal tax on villiards had been abolished. Sugar was firm at Si¢re. for No. 12, Ex- chango on the United States, fat; sixty days’ gold bills, ‘134 premium, on the 24th of Novomber, The British war steamer Nimble was afloat, baving been released from the posi- tion Nassau the work of rebuilding continued rapidly, the arrival of carpenters from New York haying given addi- tional impetus to the resident workmen. Trinity Wesleyan chapel are being cleared away. Sev- eral extensive warebouses were also being rapidly pushed to completion. General Sherman and hus staf arrived at that city yes- NEW YORK HBRALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1866. monicipal taxes will be found in an article pablished in the Huxavp this morning, headed “Municipal Extra- vagance.”’ Among othor items mentioned in the Comp trolier’s quarterly report of claims against the county paid during the quarter ending Septembor 30, is one of $12,318 for the expanses of the Volunteering Committe» which still employs a chairman, nine clerks and two messengers for the transaction of business connected with volunteers and bounties. The ship General McClellan, which ran ashore oppo- posite Patchogue, L. L, on Wednesday, was reseued early yesterday morning by the aid of the steamtug ‘Chamberiain and the schooner Johason, of the Coast Wrecking Company, and towed to this city. In the United States'Commissioners Court yesterday, the examination of the charge preferred againat Alex- ander Ross, M. D. Sharkey and Joseph J. Yates, trading Reformed City Gevernment? lature ‘we have had s batch of Senatorial mittees in the city, pt different times, in eating a varicty of matters of public interest connected with our municipal government. One of these bodies has. been charged with the duty of inquiring into the best means of reliey- ing Broadway; another has had the manage- ment of our piers and wharves under con- sideration; a third has been searching ont alleged abuses at Castle Garden, including, we suppose, the payment of two thousand dol- lars by the Commissioners of Emigration to.two outside agents,for setiling a controversy in which the Commissioners had become in- volved. Some of these committees, it is said, have agreed to report to. the Senate at its next session in favor of such measures as they believe will remedy the evils they have dis covered. The Broadway ‘trouble is to be met by the recommendation of the underground railroad scheme, and it is rumored that the interests of a company formed for the purpose of building docks and warehouses are not to suffer in the report upon piers and wharves. Of course these conclusions of the committeesare ments from the projectors of ‘rival jobs. Tho underground railroad is very well, says one, but we nepd.an aerial railway for way passengers also. An arcade railroad or system of railroads will do better than both, says another. No person wants to travel through a dark, damp tunnel, or to kite along through the air or run through blocks of honses, urges an original Jacob, and a surface road is all that is required. So in the matter of piers and wharves; half a dozen different speculators claim that each has ‘a plan better than that of the Dock and Warchouse Company, and is just as well entitled to have the city piers and wharves handed over to him, at a nominal price, to make a fortune out of. This is not the age for picayune legislation or for parcelling out jobs to seta of philanthro- pists whose object is to make money out of the public necessities. The city needs relief’ in all these matters; but it does not want and does not desire any further tinkering at reform. Its present evils aris> in a great measure from the lack of an honest and efficient executive power, having authority over all the depart- ments, and responsible to the highest officer of the State, who, in his turn, is responsible to the whole people. Under the existing pernicious system the city is governed by a batch of commissions and departments each inde- pendent of the other and without any recog- nized head. Legislation, demanded from time to time by glaring instances of official corrup- tion, has made reforms by piecemeal and without any definite, connected system. We want no more of such patchwork relief. On the contrary, it is essential to the prosperity and safety of the city that the whole system shonld be chenged ond the government put under one responsible end efficient head. Tf the Senate committees propery appre- ciate the condition’ end necessities of the city they will consolidate their work, and, instead of making a series of disconnected reports on the several subjects which they have had under consideration, and all of which need reformatory legislation, they will submit a general soheme of government which ° will cover the whole ground and necessarily insure all the reforms sought to be accomplished by piecemea! legislation. Ifa metropolitan board of control is created it will form the central executive head, under which subordinate de- partments will be placed. Among these should be a boord of public works, with fall power to make public improvements commensurate with the rapid growth and future prospects of the metropolis. Instead of any experimenis under the ground or up in the air we might then have the Fifth avenue in all its splendid dimensions opened through to the Britery, together with the Seventh and the Fourth ave- nues, With four broad avenues thns extend- ing through the tength of the city railroads could be run on three of them, affording ample facilities for all the travel of the nexi century, without any risk of obsira delay. Under the same autbority our piers and wharves would be properly managed. Shippers would pay- an adequaie sum for wharfage, and the owners and lessees would be compelled to keep the docks ia » condition equal to the demands of commerae, All tho abuses of an inefiiciont and dishowest govern- mont would be swept away at once and cvery necessary reform would be secured. This is the sort of legislative interference that the citizens demand, and they ask the Senators of the State to assume the character of farsecing statesmen, and not of mere tinkerers at reform, Yesterday, at the Court of General Sessions, Frederick ‘The Coroner's inquest over the body of Dr. William Affre broke out in the premises No. 388 Broadway ‘The loss is estimated at Amilk stable, on Lott lane, in Brooklyn, was burned Commissioner Newton yesterday decided in the case The National steau Navigation Company’s steamship ON Oe at “ ‘The olegant sieamuship Guiding Star, Captain Slocum, The mails The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Gold was Undor the decline in gold, less activity prevailed in the Oats raled dull at a conces- MISCELLANEOUS. Our Havana correspondonce, under date of the 12th ‘The English aloop-of-war Wolverine had arrived Our files from the Bahamas are dated at Nassau, N. P., she cocupied on shore since the hurricane, In The ruins of Our special despatch from New Orleans states that terday. He had an interview with Kacobodo at Mata- moros, where Minister Campbo!! remained with the yatention of soon proceeding to Monterey. General ‘Sherman will await orders from the War Department, and the Susquehanna wilt await orfers from the Navy Dopariment. The triat of Madden, one of the Fenlan prisoners, was continued yesterday at Sweats! , and evidence for the prosecution was chsed. Twp mon were arresiod in Mon- troalon Wednesday charged with robbing the New York Royal Insurance Company of $250,000 in bonds, but were discharged by the Jullge of the Court of Sessions on the ground that there was no extradition treaty between the United States and Eaglond for larcoay, Tho prison- es wero subsequently rearvested aod commitied ov a civil warrant. * Colonel Bomford, commanding in North Carolina, pre- vented the infliction of corporoat punishment by the Sheriff on anogro ig Baleigh yesterday, Indictments wore immediately ordored against him by Judge Fowio, and the Governor of tho State was called on to carry out the laws of the State, The whipping of te negro is to be continued this morning. ‘The President yestorday ordered a pardon forC. @ Meormminger, the late secretary of the rebel treasury. ‘The South Carotina House of Reprosemtatives yester- day rejected the © tational amendment by 9 vote ef Cee % to i we Government Apventisino.—We thoughi the teasons for which we declined the Post Office advertising had been made sufficiently clear to our readers, The following, which is only one of several communications recegtly fey ecived, shows that there ate some who have not read our explanations on the subjecti— To Wilk ROINUA Oy 7 ALD, New Yous, Dec, 18, 1866. Why is it that the lettors remaining in the New York Poet Office are not advertised in your paper, as they used to be, go that people can see the list? Now thoy aro advertised in & paper called The Mat! Bag, wh no one buys, for they do not know where to buy it if they wanted it, Please, Mr. Editor, get the list again, as every one reads (be Hewato. Yours, traly, A MERCHANT. As our correspondent is a commercial man he will have no difficulty in comprehending our explonation. The other day an advertisement was seni us from the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, for which the sum of one bundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents was tendored as payment. We re- fused to insert it, because on computing the apace it would occupy we found that it would cost, on the lowest terms, seven hundred and fifty dollars. We declined the publication of the Post Office list for the same reason—simply because ft does not pay. The rates offered for tt would not cover the price of composition, much less our usual rates of advertising, and wo did not see why we should be galled apon to pay the difference out of our own pockets or to place the government on « more favora- bie footing than the poor chambermaids who find it to their advantage to occupy the space spat fon Tua Congrreviioxat, Amenoment—A Nice Dierinction ror Concaess.—The question whether one of the late sebel Siates can be considered as a State in the ratification of constitutional amendment and etjll be nof » State entitled to represénintion in in ‘088, hag be wyh copfusinn throughout the country and in Congressitself. Mr. Fessenden, however, in the Senate debate of Thursday last, threw some light upon the subject. He said that the men protendin fet upon the amendment whalhbhok saree tately insurgent States were not the Legislature in any casé dntil Congress saw fit to recognize them as auch. But even Mr. Fessenden was puzzled to answer the question as to when one of these excluded States may be deemed compe- tent to vote in the ratification of an amendment of the constitution, We think, however, that the case admits of a very simple explanation, The States, represented in the general govern- ment are in law the United States, Otherwise all ower federal legislation sinee 1861 goes for nothing. The States, therefore, represented in Congress as members of the government, and only those, are competent to ratify @ constiiu- tional amenjment, Tennessee, on the other hand, as one of the lately insurgent States, in ratifying the pendiag constitutional amond- ment, cannot be counted in the catifitation, because at tho time of the act she was not, in the eye of the law, one of the United States, not being reprosented or recognized in Con- gress. Her ratification secured her admission, as embracing the terms of restoration proposed by Congress, but {t goes no further. It was only with her reinstatement aa» State in full communion that Tennoassce became qualified to be counted, you or nay, io the ra ifcation of said amendment. The ratification of the amendmont by the outside States respectively amounts, thon, to am acceptance of the terms proposed hy Congres ige their restoration inty Legisintive Tinkering—Are We te Have a | the official membership of the United States, Since the adjournment of the last State Logis- and nothing more; for surely no State, until recogni¢ed in this capacity by Congress, has a right to vote.asa State upon ap amendment ofthe constitution of the United States, We respectfully submit to our wise men of Oon- gross this nice and’ consistent distinction be- tween the States outside and those inside the two houses as completely solving the difficulty suggested. We must have some system of legislation and uniformity and consistency im this business, or we shall never get through with it. ‘ Mr. Pomoroy’s Propesition te Make National Bank Curreacy Legal Tenders. There are more absurd propositions made in Congress on .the subject of the currency and national finances than on any other. This arises in a great measure from the ignorance of mem- bers on such matters, but partly from the great influence which the national banks have secured in that body. Among the most objectionable and one of the last measures introduced was that of Mr. Pomeroy, a Senator from Kansas. It is called » bill to equalize the currency of the ,United States, and proviiies . that all notes of the mational banking sssocia- tions shall be made legal tenders, to the same extent and forall purposes for which ‘Treasury. notes, called legal tenders, are co made. - It provides also for the withdrawal of govern- ment legal tenders’ from circulation—the same asthe bHI of last session, only in a slower manner fer the first year—thus looking to the ultimate extinguishment of the present Tegal tender currency and the perpetuatiom of the national bank cireulation. Mr. Pomeroy makes the great mistake of beginning at the wrong end—of putting the cart before the horse. If he had proposed to withdraw the national bank currency and sub- stitute therefor government legal tenders he would have been acting like a sensible man, We agree with him that it would be better to have only one kind of currency ; but it should be goverament legal’ tenders, and not the notes of private corporations guaranteed by the gov- ernment. Why should the government give these private companies—these individual capi- talists—the benefit of a national eirculation worth more than twenty million dollars a year? What claim have these monopolizing corporations to such an enormous gratuity ? Why should the taxpayers of the country be ‘called upon to contribute to the vast profits of these capitalists’ without any oorresponding advantages—without, indeed, any. advantages atall? If they want to do a banking busi- ness let them do it on government legal tenders. In this way the people, and not private companies, would get the profits of a national circulation. If Congress would shbstitute legal tenders for the national bank currency it would with that amount buy up br cancel the interest bearing bonds now deposited by the national banks, from which these banks draw interest—some three hundred millions or more—and thus save twenty millions a year to the Treasury. What mofe.simple? . What more natural? Yet our dull legislators do not or wiil:not understand it. The Semator from Kansas assumes: that the national bank circulation is as good as the legal tender for currency.. We do not think so, nor do-the people of this-country think so; for in a great orisis the security given by the banks for their circulation might not realize enough to redeem theiy notes. The loss wouki fall upon the people,.either directly or inai- rectly, through the: government having ‘to redeem them, while everybody knows the gov- ernment is always good for its notes. The Bank of England, all through its existence, bas paid largely to the British government for tho privi- lege of its circuintion, and yet we make « free gift of such a valuable privilege in this country to private associations. Wo do not believe that such @ state of things can continue to exist; and as to the proposition to make the circulation of the national banks legal tenders, it is simply absurd and dangerous. We hope some statesman may be found in Con- greaa who will mature a dill of a comprehen- sive charaeter, which may be accepted, to give usa permanent government legal tender cur- reney,and no other. That isthe way to put an eud (0 all such tinkering schemes as this of Me. Pomeroy TamMany Parvrep sy 4 Master Haxn.—We would respectfully call upon the Sachems of Tammany for.» report of the speech of Mayor Hofman 'st the mecting held to consider the question of the proposed sale of the Old Wig- wam. We understand that the Mayor adyo- cated the sale, and gave for his poason that “the mud and filth of the old den clung to the character ot Tammany, ang ‘nade it offensive to the sight and a stened fn the nostrils ofthe people of the State! He declared that the bad reputation of Tammany was fatal to the success of an Candidate she might put forth, and gave ie % his opinion that this must continue to he so until she was purified from gafret to base- ment, Thoy should have anew, n bull up town, hé sald, SHY wis make the character of Tammany look brighter and clearer. But the mud and impurity of the Old Wiswom o6tid not be shaken of Tammany 30 long as they remained in that notorious hall. He did not wish « change of neme ; for there were associations with Tammany that none would desire to forget. But, like the building, she had grown foul and filthy, and needed purification and good air and cleanliness, unless she wanted (0 crumble to pieces and become # worthless and offensive ruin. This, we learn from good authority, was the substance of Mayor Hoffman’s remarks. The speech is the most sensible one he ever made, and should be published in fall. But the Sachems refused to get rid of their “mud and filth.” They would not sell the hall. ‘Tax Stare Boxps or Georou axp Norra Canorina.—A few months before the war the State bonds of Georgia sold at 106, and those of North Carolina at 104. Last full the State of Georgia were offered’ in New York and were: taken at 99. To-day North Carolina bonds, with six per cent accrued interest added, are selling at fifty cents on the dollar. Georgia has & loyal Governor, who is doing all he can to induce the State to adopt the constitutional amendment and regain her position in the Union. North Caroliua is growing-more and more dis- loyal and has recently elected a United States Senator whose open and defiant seceasiouism is so notorious as to render his election « direct insult to the loyal Congrosa, These facts speak for (wernsalves, If the Southern States would see their prosperity restored and their bonds agria at a pe ‘miam they oxuat repudiate ‘bys pawees wad glevigd Koya. 4 vias re © aj aity. adoption of the constitutional amendment. ’ ‘The report of the Registrar of Vital Statis- tics orings to our recoMeotion the deplorable fact that during the past week there were no less than twenty-one deaths in the city caused byfire and explosion. We can infer frem this how little safety for human life there is in this crowded metropolis, how gross the careless- ness in the construction of tenement buildings, and how absolute the necessity for better laws upon this subject. We are aimost tired of calling attention to the frequent loss of life occurring from want of proper means of escape from those traps which avarice has set for its poor victims, and from the habit of storing -explosive materials within the limits of the city, . ‘ Let us hope that the Legislature which will convene in a few days will take some active steps towards a remedy. The mortuary atatistics for the week show four hundred and thirty-three deaths from all causes—an: increase of forty-eight over the previous week. Con- sidering the peculiar location of New York, lying as it dees between two noble rivers, and basking, a3 it were, upon the very borders of the ocean, it ought to be the healthiest city in the world. Enjoying a climate almost unex- ceptionable, and free from the local miasma which afflicts many other cities in different portions of the world, there appears to: be no reason why it should not show a lighter record of mortality tham these statistics present:. And yet the number of deaths in New York is greater in proportiom to its populatiom not only to Philadelphia and other American cities, but to London, with iis sluggish) mal- odorous Thames flowing through the heart of it, and the miasmatic marshes which outlié-it. ‘We must attribute this fact to two or three very prominent causes, First, the crowded state of many localities in the centre of the city; next, the insufficient sanitary measures adopted to preserve the public health, which, vithough greatly improved under the present Board of Health, are still defective; and again, to the lerge influx of foreign populétion, amounting at certain periods to about: forty thousand a month, who bring with them the seeds of disease ‘from other countries and'from shipboard. The latter cause is one whick, per- haps, cannot be wholly removed, thangh a bet- ter sysiem at Castie Garden might relitve us from a great deal of the evil. But there-is a remedy for overcrowding dwellings by facili- tating the communications by railroad and steamboats with the suburbs and the interior. With two fine water highways open all the year round for lines of steamboats, wity should there not be a cleep means of transportation to and from the upper end of the island of Man- hattan, Jersey and Long Islaad for those who labor in the city? The miserable manner in whith the street railroads are comdneted and the, suffering bich passengers are compelled to.endure in the cars, deter inany from living uptown, where they could obtain comfortable: in healthy localities, instead of packing themse! tenements with iy or thirty families. Ontil the city railroads and ferries are taken in charge by a board of control and removed from the hands of monopolisis we cannot expect much teduetion of mortality aris- ing from overcrowded terements. That will be the frst measure of reliet in this direction, and we have no doubt that this is the principal cause after all of the unsatisfactory returns presented by the Rogistrar of Vital Statistics, Wiikout plenty of fresh air, good ventilation and facilities for personal cleanliness, it is im- possible to preserve healih, and none of these are to be bad in tenement houses, White there is nothing alarming in the Registrar's report beyond the deaths by fire aud explosion, it con- veys a caution which should not go unheeded, and impresses upon us the necessity of legisla- tive action to secure a bettcr sanitary condition for this city, which nature wanifesily desigaed to be the healthiest in the world. Torna Baxsarrrtms w Cannta.—The com- munication received by the Secretary of State from Mr. Stillman, the Unifed States agent at Candia, which was published in the Heraty yeaterday, shows that the Torkish authorities acted with great soverity to the Candians during the lete troubles in Crete, gone by the word furk wes <vnopymous qith ernelly; but we bad hoped that the progrons of civilization find humanity in the preseat age had jenctrated even the Ottoman empire, The acts of barbarity spoken of by Mr. Still- Maan ought to arouse the indignation of ths Buch a barbarous power Christian world. should not be permitied to exit in Europe and over Christian populations. While our government cannot interfere direviiy in the affairs of that pa the world, both it and the Amoyi6an peeks do scwethipg in reer Snee to Mr. Stillman’s call upon the friends of humanity in the case of the brave and suffering Candians. A Dasxcenove Oneranvcrios ar Tum Exinsxce Or ram Hanson.—Tho wreck of the ship Kate Dyer, which was S@Hk on the first of the prosont month by ,colliding With the “steamship Scotland, voars from Fire Island ght south by west, and is distant about ton miles from Bandy Hook light. Her topsail yards are barely covered with water at low tide, Whe wreck Nes directly in the track of inward bound vessels from the eastward, aa well as the numerous coasting vousels that are contina- ally passing between the Sontbern and Eastern ports. ‘The government officers, without submitting to the usual red tape routine, should abt immodiately upon the necessity of the case, and have the wreck removed be- fore some serious damage to shipping is canved.hy ie. FINE ARTS. The seventh annual exhibition of the Artiste’ Fund Society closed yesterday. We have [requently alluded to its superiority over the exhibitions of previous years, and particularly to the fact that it has presented for the first Umea remarkable and quite «large collection of water color drawings, Among theso we have specified a vignette by Turner, and works by sevoral other English artists in whom Ruskin has excited transatiantic ouri- Osity and interest. The drawings of Roeotti, for instance, wilt have proved usefal, if only by warning our artiste aguiast the exaggerations of the school with which bis Bame is comuected. Without egain particulerizing the fae works of foreign and-American artists which “havo made this exhibition attractive and suoceesful, we will simply invite the favorable attention of the public ty the sale of the Fund picturos, which W advertised in the Hinavo as to begin to-day, Iecember 2), Aside from tho merits of several Of these contributions from our best and most em\aent resident artists, the benevolent Purposes of the sale, which is for the benefit of sick and auperaanuated artists and of the widaws and orphans of deoeaped artista, are highly commendable, MUNBIPAL ELECTION JATH CAROLINA, Wesrnarey, VO, Dee 20, 1906. The municipal slection passed olf to-day amid etcitemeat, bul without serinw. dinurvance. In times THE WEATHER, 4 forming miniature maclstroms at every corner. Thesun shone brightly, but its rays were and failed te soften the adamantine surface of the The stight fall of saow bad thrown # carpet upon the ground, to be hardened by the cold and to rise in little chains of moun- tains, and trip-up the unwary pedestrian at cach step, ‘Few ventured into the streets, and those who werecom- polled to brave the inclemeacy of the weather hurried along, with feet cased in overshoes and necks er. sircled ; with mantfold comforters, Tbe upper portion of’ the | city was almost deserted, and in the lower thoroughfares ofthe business world the bulls and bears ran to and fre, socarefully wrapped in heavy overcoats and fur capes that had it mot been for the crimsoned noses and twink- = The Weather Elsewhere. Forrazas-Mowros, Dec. 20—A heavy gale has been pe eet fom the northwest. Vory Tough out- 0. Anges, clear, jurFALO, Dec. 20.—Tho weathor yesterday was warm and thawing. To-day is the coldest of the ssason. The thermometer stands at about ten degrees above zere. Qurnso, Deo. 20.—The weather is colder-to-day, with the thermometer at zero and the wind wostRorthwest, Louris, Dec. 20.—Weathor cloudy. Mercury 32. Skating in New York and Breoklyn. | Skating, though in order, was not very generally par- tiotpatedim» The three fakes in the Park were frosem. over; but from the fact that snow was a-prominent ele- ment in the compoaition of the surface the condition of the ice was scarcely as excellent as the critical might: have oxpeeted. On the lower pond, which is sheltered in a measure from the rude blasts, a daring band of" skaters, including a few heroic lassies, bid defiance to. the overt unkindmess. of the clerk of the weather. The central aad.Harlem lakes were also graced by the pre- senve of awelect fow, but the visitation of the wind pre- vented many from indulging in the pastime of the soasen. Majer Oatman’s Fifth avenue: Riate enclosedia, magnifeent surface of smooth ice, and the patrons.of the locality were complately aheltered from the reethines. of - mine is gs! galleries ru around pond, The snow com] ly away, the cavity veflooded, and now the Mende of the Major cam skato: to thetr heart's content without being blown o.and froby the boisterous whills of Zolus. The Fifth Avenue Rink ts now the great centre of attraction and oevtainly offers admirable acoommodations beth fer nikators-and spectators. Mr. McMilian’s Inke was day aloo covered by a magnificent sheet of ice, the soinom hat exposed condition of the a — oe rg aa aang the splendid for omercise, the-skat. the comm ', of the art throughout the winter, The pr of the Sat@lite Pond are now complet their raents for an early reception of the public. THE SRROMR PARK SKATING TORD will be thrown open to the membem of the J and their families on Christmas Day, if e continuance ef the cold weather be vouchsafed the skaters, A train wil) be provided for the who will loave the Hasiem depot, = xth street and pes Lemony 4 ¢ ities tetoe- joven im the morning, Frokets ‘will be in oxder. ing at foar o'clock. MARINE DISASTERS. Tho Ship Genoral McClellan Rescued Unia- jured and Towed to This City. Tho ship General McCiellan, Captain Leach, from Antwerp, with freight and passengers for New York, which ron ashore opposite Patchogue, Long Island,on ‘ lest Wodnesday morning, was rescued from her perilous position, and was towed up tothis city yesterday by the pleamtug Chamberiin. The wrecking schooner Jobnsce materially assisted in relieving tho whip from total loss. ‘Those Yoasols were sent from this city on last Wednes- day night, about nine o'clock, the Intter in tow of the former. As soon as the lights of the tug were seen from tho ship, rockols wore sent up to show her position, whem the veawels went alongside and commenced ope to work bor over tho bar, Cablea and anchors were out to the ship and ‘ho: ut.” As the tide rose the effect was badge AL increased echo of the dete, four o'clock y: morning sho floated over the har. She was then taken ig tow by, eee a of ‘brought to this city. * 2 As the gallant ship freza The bar into deap passengers ou io General i hig La ra ne overjoyed when they Were info: that sho was out-of dangor and ow “a k up anchora, ity a wheres We pigs of lead had beon thray is will probably be all recovered. it weather end sandy beach the ship bas Rorious injury. ‘The cause of hor going ashore was from standing im towards the beach in weather so calm that there was net wiad for her to “go a tn cm = Captain Leach, om groun ton very ecutoiy, and Lownd he an we ou! iy *t work, ng alt in their power to remedy the dicaster as muah ie. ‘Fie MoClellan baa one hundred and seventy parsen- ors, among whom there is considerableysickness; and, since the abip bas been ashore, there have been uine births of childron, three of therm yesterday morning. fae <a ee The British jubilee Ashore. Bostox, Dec. 2, 1366. The Sritish brig Jubilee, from St. Johns, N. F., for Boston, wont ashore last night, oue mile nortan of Scituate Light House, aad is high and dry on the beach, The crow wore saved. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tho Coustitutional A ent Rejected te the § oasis, Dec. 20, 1968. Tho House rejected the constitutional amendment by © vote of ninety Ave-against one. CORPOREAL PUNISHMENT IN NORTH CARDLINA. Interference of the Military Acthorities— Judge Fowto Orders the Indictment of the Military OMicers Concerned. &c. Raceiwa, Dec. 20, 1966. Colonel Bomford, commanding the United States matli- tary forces in thia State, interfered and prevented the sheriff from inflicting corporoal punishment on the per- on of anogro this morning. Judge Danie! D, Fowle ordered the indictment of ali the mit officers whe were concerned in the transaction, The negro was re turned, Aftor receiving cight lashes the soldiers left the Ground. Indictments wil! he issued agninat the oficers. ‘Tho nbgro will he whipped to-morrow, Judge Fowte hae catied an tho Governor to carry out the laws of the State, FACILITICS. FOR HEGRO TRANSPONTATION TO DISTRICTS bo WHERE LABORERS ARE SCARCE. Garvawnon, Doc, 2, 1868. doo, of the Mreedmen’s Bureau, bas am eae = intention furnish transportation to " ‘whore jen ity of tnbor esas nee He wal creel nanauah desiring labors. ——— WISSISSIPP: FREEOMEN. New Ontwane, Deo. ty, 1866. Clarion, the official paper oF Minsweinpi, atater ianaaneomame Jaws in force ia that state which pro- Libit tresdmen Requiring real estate, but, on the com. parchi and the ooarts ranks the purchase | trary, Oiemare Uncy prevented bearing arma, Go teeame * ) yolog regeice?