The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. me XXXI... AMUSBMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, THEATRE. Broadway, near Broome oa pAR mi ouorons. om Mew Yors 1x 1967—Tas Victims, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel. —Canpnicion. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth strect, maar Sixth Stuart. avenue.—Many ODWORTH’S HALL. 86 Broadway. Beal mts MisacLes. TAS Mucrow ix 1'aRvo. CLINTON HALL, agtor place.=Vataaane YousDs%, T™E Gasat Po.rnationaL Mimi NIPRELS, JAN FRANCISCO MI y ae Metopoutsa Hotel—Iu rasre mars, SINGING, DAXCiN@ AND on Love's Rampur, FIFTH AVENUB OPERA Ywoatv-fourth stree.—B; . Babbapa, ~Paorasen Hants ‘Heap we Tue Ain— Broriwav, opvosite OPtAS BNTRRTALN 65 F ALLING CUPIDS gf, Nos. 2 and 4 West soe diistnets. —STRIOP(ak ons, &c.—New Year's 730 Broadway, oppo as, DANCE. Roc ex. srast. KELLY & LRON'S MINST! yd Omir or site the New ¥ rank rmores, Bu —Souxitt With & tax OLD Broce. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU3, I Bowory. —Couta —! instauLsY, BaLuwt Divearissemant, Vooaise- ry Ree 3 4&c.—Littes "3 COMBINATION TROUPE, at wCRARLEY, rT proniway—is & Vinny oF Lnaet ‘arp Lavamasis ENTERTAINMENTS, Conra DB BALLER, & La Starom Cosare. MRS. F. F. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— ‘Tax Porty TainvEs. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Firra Monpar Poryias CONCERT. HOOLEY’SOPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermrorias Mine aris, BALtaDs, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMLMES. BROOKLYN ATHANEUM.—Avers & Co.'s Gueat Pax- eC-N4-THRC-& OF TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND AMRRICA, AND VovaGe ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, corner of Grand and Crosby slrorts, Great Masonic Fait in Aw OF THs HALL and Asrium Fux, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, GIR Brondway.— Lxcrones wira tae Oxi-Hyproges Microscore | tw! enliye leap axp Kigur Au or Vaomst, Open trem 3 4.M, th 10 P.M. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Gaawp Sacenp Concent at Sreixway Hatt, Fourteenth street, Now York, Sunday, December 30, 1806. THB NOWS. THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE. Our special telegrams and news reports through the cable announce the termination of the great Aulantic yocht race, with the success of the Henrietta, which arrived off the Needles, Isle of Wight, England, at a quarter to six o'clock on the afternoon of Christmas day, haviug made the run in thirteen days and twenty-two bours, mean time. The yachts Flectwing and Vesta ar- rived on the following morning, the former at two and tho latter at half-past three o'clock, Tho greatest speed attained by the Henrietta in one day was two hundred and eighty miles, and ber course was the same tack throughout, Severe weather and heavy gales were ex- ed during the jirst week of the voyage, The 1a took every sail and spar in safety to the point of destination, Tho Fleetwing had the melancholy mis- fortune to lose six of her yachtmen, who were washed from the boweprit while furling the jib inagale. The arrival of the party bas been attended with most cordial welcomss from the people of England and from the Noyat Yacht Club, Salutes were interchanged, greetings dand hospiialities of al! kinds tendered. The members of the Now York Yacht Club were entertained exten at a grand banquet by the Royal Yacht Club on Thurs- day, and on the following day the members of both cluba wort, by royal invitation, to visit Queem Victoria at Osborne House, There was also great rejoicing in Fraoce at the auccess of the transatlantic yacht race, And a banquet to the yachten is to be given in Paris, he Henrietta bag announced his willing- ness to accep! « chatlenge from any yacht on the other Side Of the Atlantic for a similar race, is city the wows of the race commanded the utmoat mn, and the exira edition of the Heraty found fiasers in every part of the metropolis, At the Theatre Frongals the result of the contest,was anuounced from the stage, and received with enthusiastic cheers, EUROPE. Ry (he AUantic edble our news reports are to Friday, 28. iazz'ni appeals to the people of Rome to de- & republi im guarantees the rights of her Polish subjects, ustria is said to be meditating an invasion of Tar- The ex-King of Hanover releases his ofeers from their Alic signee, «nd many of them will join the Prussian 18 were at 902, for,monoy in London at son on Caited States fve-twenties were quoted at 72%. 1 was lower in Liverpool. Breadstnifs quiet. Oar special imail despatches and correspondence by tho wteame' |p Australasian, at this port, embrace very Important detade of our erable advices to the 16th of De- combar. K og Victor Emanuel’s speech to the Tlalian Parlia- ment is tod in full by telegraph, His Majesty, it the highest confidence ia the wand their abitity to maintain Peovay, will be seen, expe of the I the He is Catholic, yet national towards R ul to Franco, and distinctly Adinoaishes his subjoct# of the necessity of exercising their solf- roliwnce and securing & economic administration of uperia) Turkish report on the military andia appears in our columns. Tho fight- Hewed, and it w quite evident from the com- Russtao, French and Austrian journals, 4, that the agitation is extending from the island further East, and aw ning a form tending to serious Complications, Advices from Constantinople speak of political agitation in varions quanere of the Ottoman empire, and we give a telegram which says that the Bulgarians are agitating for separation from Turkey. Our correspondeuts In Madrid and Lisbon report the journey of Queen Isabella of Spain from her capital and her reception by the King of Portugal, The visit was undertaken evidently with fear aad trembling, as Mar- shal Narvacs was not fully assured if the royal party would be permitted to return to their positions, The Portuguese government has in fact organized a military camp on tbe Spanish frontier, The Dasaine-Casteineaa cable despatch to Napoleon on the subject of Mazimilian’s povition and the shor. man and Campbell inission appears iu the Hunatp. Tue London Timea intimates in very plain terms to Napoleon that France, even with a ‘reorganized army," will got bea match for Prussia MISCELLANEOUS. Our despatches from Albany, Troy, Rochcater, Buf. falo and other points give further details of the effects Of the. lato terrible gale apd snow storm on the railroads, On the “chonectady and Saratoga road a train was com- pletely buried in the snow, and in the city of Troy ton horse cars wore also buried. The cashier and teller of the Union Bank of Albany, living s few milos from that city, amd having the keys of the bank with them, were storm bound, and consequently no business could be trayaacted with that imstitution yesterday, Wo give additional particuiare of the loss of the steamer Commodore, No lives were lost, The vessel is total wreck, fome of the deck hands broke out in open mutiny, and attacked (heir officers when remon- Strated with. The siatoment of the officers of the vessel ie given. Portions of awteck have been washed asbore at Bolmes’ Hole, upon which the word © Sytph was cut fu smail letters, Jt ie feared that the bark Sylph, of Boston, has Leow wrecked and all bands lost, A murdéor was committed to ilompson street at half. past six o'clock yerterday evepiog by a vegro—the vic. tim be'hg & Gorman journeyman shoemaker. The affair is wrapped io mystery, as none Dulthe assassin aod vio- tino wore present, ihe intter died Without being able ive the pert So far no arterts by been Although the detectives are ou the aearcu, ‘The cages of Davis and Cunniaghem, charged witb cou. neotion with the alleged whiskey frauds in Brooklya, have Deen ordered to await the aot.on of the Grand Jury in Jan- wary next. Wm, | , a Brooklyn distiller, was artested yeatorday om. warrent issucd by the United States Dis} trict Attoruey, charged with ranning his distillery with- out a license, The caso will be heard before United States Commissioner Newton at ten o'clock to-morrow Mr. E ©. Scranton, President of the New York and New Haven Railroad, was run over and instantly killed yesterday morning, at South Norwalk, Cons, In endeav- ‘fing to jump on the train after it bad started the un- fortunate man fell, and two cars passed over him, man- gling his body horribly. At half past @rree o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the gasoliac and paraffine manufactory of W. R. Winobester, corner of Richards and Delavan streets, Brooklyn, extendiag to the ol! refineries of Mossra, James Hudson and James L. Houston, resulting in a lose of some $30,000, Two men were burned, one, it is feared, fatally. At nine o'clock last night « fire broke out ig the cloth- ing store of Meyer Gensler, 66 West stroet, It was dis- covered by an officer of the Twenty-seventh precinct, who had seen the owner, Gensler, leave the store but a fow minutes prior to its occurrence, The suspicious cir- cumstances under which the fire ocourred led to the arrest of Gensler, who will be held to await an investi. gation by the Fire Marshal, A large fire, involving a loas of about $75,000, occurred Philadelphia yesterday. George Schlegel, a lithographer in this city, was yes- terday brought before Justice Dowling, on complaint of Dapiel Holmes, agent of the Longworth Wine Manufac- tory of Cincinnati, on the charge of having engraved countertelt or imitation labels of that house, to be used for furthering the sale of spurious champagne and sparkling American wines, He waived an examination and was held in $1,000 bail to answer the charge. Five or six civil sufte against alleged manufacturers of this Alctitious wine are pending im tho Supreme Court. In the Court of Common Pleas, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Cardozo, a motion was made for the release. on bail of Wm. R, Babcock, who 1s alleged to have been implicated in the Lord bond robbery. After hearing the argument of counsel the court admitted him to bail in the sum of twenty thousand dollars. A similar application was denied by. Justice Ingralgm, of the ‘Supreme Court, a short time since. Thirteen steamers left this city yesterday, six of them bound for European and seven for coastwise ports. in During the past year seven hundred complaints Lave | boen sent to the Court of General Sessiors from the Tombs Polico Court, two thonsand to the Special Ses- sions, and thirty thousand complaints dismissed, a'l of which have been officiated over by Justices Dowling ang elly. a steamships Atlantic and Baltic, belonging to the American Lloyd Steamship Company, were yesterday sold at auction under mortgages held by the Pacific Mall Steamship Company, They were bought by Captain Isaac Taylor for $10,000. A meeting of prominent and influential manufacturers was held yesterday, in PMladolphia, for the purpose of securing @ reduction of the five per cent tax on manu- factures. A committee was appointed to memorialize Congress on the subject, and particularly to demand its immediate consideration by the Committee of Ways and Means of the House, bd The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold closed at 18336 a 3%. The amownt of busincas consummated in commercial circles was extremely light, the demand for both foreign and domestic merchandise being confined to the immediate requirements of the trade, and prices were generally nominal. Cotton was a shade highor and rather more active. Coffee was dull and nominal. On "Change flour was in moderate demand at previous prices, Wheat was steady. Corn was dull and nomi- nal, Oats unchanged. Pork was moderately active and steady at the clove. Beef ruled heavy, while iard was firmer, with rather more doing. Freights were, quist and a shade lower, Whiskey was dull and nominal. Petroleum was dull and heavy. Naval stores were quict and heavy. The Great Ocean Yucht Race—The Henrietta the Winaer. The cable, which has been silent for some days, spoke last evening and prougit ws the gratifying intelligence that the three yachts which started on the great ocean race on the 11th instant had all afrived safely at their destination, and that the Henrietta was the winner. The victorious yacht passed the Necdles on Christmas day, having made th: passage in the unprece- dented time of thirteen days and twenty-two hours. She experienced some rough weather, and on the eighth day out had to heave to in abeavy gale; but she behaved splendidly all the voyage and fully justified the expectations of those who expressed confidence in her seaworthy qualities. The Fleetwing and the Vesta also made splendid runs, arriving at the Needles on the following day in good condition. There was one melancholy circum stance, however, attending this unprecedented adventure of pleasure sailing yachts—the loss of six men, who were swept from the boweprit of the Fleetwing in a gale. This sad misfortune mars what would otherwise be an event of un- mixed gratification to this community and the American people. The Henrietta, on starting, took a middle course, the Fleetwing going to the north and the Vesta to the south of her track. She saw nothing of either of her com- petitora after the first day out. This great race marks the commencement of a new era in yachting and in the construction of salling vessels. Henceforth we may expect annually to see American yachts on the Atlantic race course, and the yachis of the British squadron arriving in our harbor on similar trials of speed. The three pioneer ad- venturers have braved the dangers of an ocean race in the roughest and moat threatening season, and future races will create no excite- ment equal to that attendant upon their gaHant contest. It is anid that the victorious yacht was received with much enthusiasm by the British clubs and the English people generally, and doubtless the presence, in person, of the owner on board contributed nota little to the eclat Of his success, The details of the race are to be found in our columns, and will be read with more than ordinary imtercet and pride by every American citizen. The event hae made a European sensation. The London journals are full of it, the Times having given @ full report of the trip of the Henrietta. On Thursday last the Royal Yacht Club gave a banquet to the officers of the Ameri- can squadron ; on Friday, in pursuance of an invitation from the Queen, the Royal Yacht Club were to present theit American guests to her Majesty at Osborne House, and yesterday tbe municipal authorities of Cowes were to give them a dinner. When through with their immediate round of English welcomes our yachtmen, we expect, will avail themsolves of an invitation to a banquet in Paris. We hope that the young gentlemen concerned have borne and will throughout bear themselves in @ manuer worthy of all orelse, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1866. Mere Light ou DMexice—Junrce at Ubihua- bua—A Grand Ball and « Splendid Line of Poltey. , Dream, his little y Puck, foreto! the pangs hy 1897 and Pacific cables,, in the promise to “put a girdle round about the earth, in forty minutes,” 60 Mother Goose, in one of her populag melodies, bas left upon record a graphio ‘p1 of the Mexican muss of the present day—so graphic that. it must have been to her a epiritual tmanifesta- tion: Hore it is:— . The gow camein the saddlo; Senter stood behind the duor Benn pa ee Fim thefuoed oonnable; bring thom too.” Could any thing more olearly describe the Mexican situation? The sow that eame in with the saddle is the French intervention; the little pig that rocked the cradle is Maximilian; the dish jumping up on the toble is Marshal Bazaine, to see the empire swallow the repub- lic; the spit behind’ the door is Juarez, and, while Santa Anna figures es the pudding stick, in comes Secretary Seward as Gridiron and head constable. Well done, Gridiron; for, to give him his deserts, he has, by dint of hard and persistent scolding, cleared out the principal disturber of the kitchen—the sow With the saddle. Likewise, in the very interesting letter from one of our special Mexican correspondents published in yosterday’s Heratp, we have a flood of républican light on this Mexican business. Onr representative, more fortunate than Messrs. Campbell and Sherman, not only got upon the track of Juarez, but followed him up and found -him at the interior city of Chi- huahua, and had the high pleasure of partici- pating there in a grand bell given by the Presi dent of the republic as a farewell in honor of the patriotic and beautiful ladies of his capital pro tem. From the description of this festival and of “the well developed and magnificently rounded forms of the Cumuauia incics” 6iid their “dark Andalusian-like eyes,” the “flame of which is softened by their shading lashes,” we guess that the unfortunate ambassadors of President Johnson, when they read this ac- count, will scratch their heads with mortifica- tion and regret that they had not put them- selves under the wing of the Hxraup commis- sioner. He might have carricd them through and made them the principal lions at this charming ball of Juarez, a living illustration— climate, palace, decorations, dark eyed beau- ties and everything—of some of those dazzling Oriental scenes we read of in the “Arabian Nights.” . All this, by taking the wrong track, was lost by Messrs. Campbell and Sherman, and some- thing of more importance in the political pro- gramme of Juarez, as developed at this Oriental entertainment. At the supper, where the wine flowed in abundance to bring out the toasts and speeches, President Juarez made scveral little responses, and all to the purpose. He said, for instance, that while they had been successful in driving the French from their soil there were other nations that talked of inter- vention; but, he continued, “We want none of this—neither from France, Spain, Englund, nor the United States, We believe we aro capable of self-government if we are allowed the opportunity. Our territory must remain intact.” And yet again, while acknowledging in grateful terms the great value of the pow- erfal moral support given by the United States to the Mexican republic, he said :-—“Gentle- men, you must lay aside any idea that the United States desire to overshadow us. It is a mistake, They desire, by their moral support, to ald the cause of liberty in Mexico. They do not desire more of our territory, nor will they insolt us by asking for it.” This is the Juarez programme, and it is just the thing— the very thing needed to give the Mexicans and all “Yankee” speculators in land and mining projects a fair understanding of the policy of Juarez and our government. The Sighting Gen- eral Lew Wallace, the hero of Monocacy bridge, also turned up with Juarez at this festival, and gave, in his toast as a Union soldier, “Tho Mexican nation and all its States—the States subordinate to the nation’—a timely bint to beware of the rocks dud shoals of State rights among whioh we have so narrowly escaped shipwreck. To make perfectly clear the position of Juarez and the Mexican liberals our correspondent says that they looked upon the Campbell- Sherman mission with suspicion; that if terri- tory is the object of General Sherman, he will fail: that it his object is a protectorate, he will fuil; that if he comes to offer the services of United States troops, they will be rejected, and that the Mexicans only want the continu- ance of our moral support. All this tallies with the instructions to Campbell and Sherman; bat when, if with our correspondent at Chi- huabua, they might have given a powerful lift to Juarez, in the simple statement of their mission, they were off on their wild goose chase to Vera Cruz, only tocome away each with a fies in his ear and from the sneets and scoffs of au imperial carnival. 4 This Chibuahua farewell ball of Juarez took place on the 29th of November. The 10th of December he had named as the day of bis departure for Durango. Thence, after the lapse of a few days, he would move on to Zacatecas, and thence to Guanajuato, working his way gradusily round by the west to the city of Mexico. The liberal chiefs en route will join him as he goes on; so that he will probably, sooner or later than he anticipates, enter national capital at the head of a considerable army. But while be has Ortega, Canales and other factious disturbers, with their guerillas, behind bim, there are Maximilian, Miramon, Mejia, Marquez and the Church party, with their forces, amounting to sixty thousand men, before bim and on bis flank, independently of the French. It is probable, however, that with the removal of the French ia March next, and pet before, Juarez will advance upon the city of Mexico, and that then will come the tug of war. Meantime we suppose Juarez, not over- flash of cash, would accepts loan from the United States, and from what we learn from Washington, it is probable that with the fair prospect which now opens before him, a bill to give bim a lift will soon be brought forward in Congress. Tas Gasat Promo Reroau w Gas.—The recent agitation of tho gas question bas already been productive of some good, and thore is hope that before long the public will be effectively protected against the impositions of whese monster monovolics In Boston the « ‘ special commitice of the city council bave en some. steps toward reform, apd have Pp 8 eheck upon the operations of the gas pany. It appears from the facts ascer- tained by the committoe that the company has made @ lear profit of three million dollars in the past twenty yoars. In Brooklyn the agita- tipn of the subject has seoured a reduction of the price of gas supplicd by one company of fifty cents per thousand. In other cities it is aid, the.private corporations are about to lower rates in order to hoad off the movement made against » continuation of such monopo- lies.. We have hitherto advocated the policy of taking the manufacture and supply of gas into the hands of the city, and bave shown that the cost*of'the artiole to the consumer could be reduced thereby to one-half of the present rates, But the recent proposition to manufac- ture gas in tho immediate neighborhood of the coal mines and convey it by mains to the several “States promives to work a yet more thorongh revolution in this direction. The gas thus gupplied would be-purified so as to afford a better light than is now supplied by the gas companies, with one-half the quantity now con-, sumod. ‘Phe cost, would be diminished to one- fourth of the present rates. The scheme is entirely feasible and is endorsed be the load- ing’ ad! men of #3 age. We shall be enabled shortly to place such facts before our readers:as will assure them that before threo yotrs havo passed they will receive their sup- ply of gas in this city direct from the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and that they will be able to burn a better and purer article than they are now using at a ccst of not more than one dollar or ten shillings for the thousand feet. ‘The Congressional Southern Excursion Gene. ral Beaurcgard’s Specoh, In no quarter of our vast country can winter be considered a pleasant season or adapted to pleesure excursions. Even in remote corners of the sunny South snow and ice are to be met with, while the condition of the railroads and highways in Dixte, together with the absence of many of the comforts which make travelling more endurable elsewhere, are not calculated to invite a tour for mere pleasure. Pleasure, however, is the ostensible motive which has in- duced Senator Wade and his Congressional brethren to undertake a Southern tour, and we hear of them spending pleasant evenings at Magnolia, where they were the recipients of whatever hospitality that impoverished coun- try'can offer, and again at Now Orleans, They bad been inet previously at Canton, on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, by General P. T. Beauregard, President of the New Or- leans and Jackson Railrond, where they listened to a speech from that gentleman which muat have caused them as much sur- prise as the courtesy which the Southern peo- ple everywhere extended to them, in a manner unexpectedly frank and cordial. It is fortu- nate for the interests of the country, North and South, on the eve of the assembling of Con- gress, that the rigors of this inclement season have gotdeterred these Congressional excur- sionists from making this tour. They set out under a strong conviction that a flerce desire to renew the late terrible contlict burned in Southern bosoms; that there are but few “Union men” scattered thinly throughout that entire section, againet whom every system of persecution was devised and directed by the majority of the people, under the guidance cf those chiefs who so recently led the armed hosts of the extinct confederacy to battle, and that those chiefs are prepared to so lead them once more. To cherish this wicked and ma- licious delusion millions of copies of news- papers are daily disiributed and read by the population of the Northern and Western States, engendering a hatred and spirit of vengeance which strive, with, unbappily, too much suc- cess, to find « vent in further aud endless per- secutions of a ruined, helpless and misrepre- sented people. At such a juncture General Beaurogard’s speech at Canton is most oppor- tune and important. Standing upon ground still moist with fraternal blood he tells the national legislators that the South has thrown behind her forever the doctrines and princi- ples for which she fought so long and so ob- stinately. He tells them that ho expresses the sentiments of the fighting men of the South when he says that he favors a consolidated government, that the doctrine of State rights is buried out of sight and that slavery can never be re-established, even if the power to do so existed. Ge Beauregard is in- capable of practising a petty deceit, and what he says may be relied on. He is, more- over, immensely popular at the South, and as good a mouthpiece for those who recognize bis leadership as any man from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. We know that his speech made a most fevor- able impression upon those to whom he addressed it, and that with the echo of his last word there arose in their minds feolings of confidence and reassurance. To this Sen- ator Wade bears testimony. Taking, thon, the character of the speaker into consideration, we must believe that the majority of the South- ern people, the sense and siaew of that section, are desirous of peace and concord and en- courage no Wild dreams of insurrection, If there be any who think otherwise the speech of General Beauregard is calculated to lead thom to better thoughts, But all the duties of peace and goodfellowship do not devolve upon the Soath alone. The people of the North have their share to perform. The South bas suffered infinitely more, and yet, with a courage and maniinces worthy the descendants of heroic sires, they struggle to forget bitter recollections for the common weal. According to thelr manner of thinking they have much to forgive and forget—for they have been sorely punished ; but they promise that com- plete oblivion shall shroud the past. They are willing that the severed country should be reunited, and are anxious to lend their aid to the great and good work of recoustruo- tion. Why are they thwarted, and who are they that thwart them? Men who would make history write for the loformation of all coming time that the North was less magnani- mous and patriotic than the weaker sister; men who stick to the wretobed, obildish idea that there is no faith, truth or honor in men who have fonght against the armies of the United States; men who would sink the grand old idea of independence and bappiness for all in the aunibilation of those Inalienable rights among millions of our fellow countrymen, History teaches us that the presoat ia the parent of the future. ‘These mon sean the present hour with feverish @lance end tho auerulousness of a detard: but nected with the New Orleans riots, recently made a demand upon the superintendent of the New Orleans Telegraph line, as we are in- formed on good authority, that: be sbould de- liver wp for their inspection all the Zeppatehes, public. or private, that were sent over the wires about the period of the troubles in that city, and upon his refusal to conform to their requirement gaye orders for his arrest, This aotion of the committee suggests the question, how far are the public protected in the tranamis- sion of private despatches over the telegraph wires? By a low of this State, enacted ip 1850, it is made a misdemeanor, punishable with not more than three months imprison- ment or five hundred dollars fine for operators or others connected with telegraph companies to disclose or use any matter contained in despatches entrusted to them for transmission. There is not, we believe, any law of the United States making simtiar provisions. The Post Office regulations are, how- ever, strict in reference to the inviolability of private -correspondence. By the United States law of 1825, to be found in Brightly’s Digest, page 217, section 81, it is made an. offence for any person to open letters or “pry into another's secrets Or busincs’;” #9 contained in letters efitrusted to the mails, punishable with a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and imprisonment for not exceeding twelve months. Another law of the United States imposes a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, upon any employé of the Post Office Department who sbal) wilfully delay or detain or open any letter entrusted to.the Department for delivery. It has been proposed t> put the telegraph lines throughout the Union under control of the government as a part and parcel of the Post Office Depart- ment, and to subject them to the same rules and regulations. There are muny coo- siderations in favor of such a policy, and one of its principal recommendations is that it would place private despatches upon precisely thé eame footing as private let- ters. At prosent there is no safeguard against the dishonesty of the employée of the telegraph companies, The law of this State is faopsra- tive the moment the despatoh entrusted to the wires gets beyond the borders of the State, and the merchant who sends an important message to New Orleans or any other point outside of New York is subject to the proba- bility of the information he transmits being used for the profit of others before his mes- sage reaches its destination. The press is peculiarly liable to suffer from the dishonest practices of the telegraph companies, and it has become almost impossible to guard against the dishonesty of the employés of the several lines, The matter hag already been under the consideration of Congress, and it is to be hoped that if the government does not decide in favor of taking possession of the telegraph lines, as a part of the Post Offce Department, some stringent law will be parsed which may insure the inviolability of private despatches, FN Misrzpresentation of Waat tur Prestpent Says ov Pustic Matrenrs.—It appears from our Washington despatches that many of the state- ments which have been made about the Presi- dent having said this, that and the other witb re gard to the constitutional amendment and other public matters are antrue or very much dis- torted. A great many persons seek an inter- view with the President for no other parpose than to bear his opiuions, and some to give themsetves notoriety, by publishing atterwards either what he really says or by misrepreseut- ing his language for party purposes. It is possible, too, that his hearers may sometimes misunderstand him. One of the last oases in which his language has not been unders'ood, or was wilfully misrepresented, according to the information we have received from Wash- ington, is thut of the statement published in a Charlesion paper relative to what he said to a Mr. Weatherby, of South Cxrolina. The same may be remarked with regard to what is said to have transpired at @ reported interview with the Hon. Mr. Eggleston. As these re- ported conversations represent the President to have expressed opinions on the policy of the South rejecting or adopting the constitutional amendment, and on other highly important matters, be naturally desires that no false im- pressions should go abroad. Be properly says tbat bis message to Congress and otber public declarations are before the coantry ; that these express his views, and that he bas not expressed and cannot express any otber opinions to individuals in @ private manner upon national effairs. Thie isa detural aod reavonable explanation of the matter. We are bound, therefore, to take the statement of the President before those of private and irre- sponsible individuals His message and otber public declarations, and not the roundabout reports of notoriety seekers and political scbemers ehow his position. Tow Paesivext Div Not Maze 4 Srenen.-- President Johnson, from the commencement of his public life, has always been a learner, not- withstanding his tenacity of purpose. He bas evidently learned that speechmeking is not always profitable ; for we aro informed that on visiting the Masonic fair in Wasbington on Friday ovening he “did not address the assem- blage,” and that “after receiving a number of ladies and gentlomen he reilred without any special remarks.” General Scott could never learn the impolicy or be cured of the weak- ness of writing; but Andy Johnson has more shrewdness and a greater command over him- eelf. He, as wellas every man, is liable to make mistakes; but be bas a way of coming out right ta the end. Reticence in a Presidont of the United States is sometimes a virtua, FEARS FOR THE SAFETY WE STEAMER WARLCAN, LTRs, Dom 29, 1808, mena ey Ley fa aaloty the meamer jon! whieh sailed from a twee tbs port mare Hare eae AMUSEMENTS. approach of Net Day, whose advent esa- the fall of the curtain apon the most atriking tebleaam, did loug peat up applause Gad vent in deafening onan imity, Medea, which was selected as the piece ia whiem ‘the great (ragedionne was to make ber début in this coaa- try, was listened to with the unbroken attention which. {ts Grst producuen commanded, and its latest tion was as effective as on that day when Mme. Ristors acbioved ber Initial triumpR Ta America, The peo samme for the ensuing week 1 0 mbraces the performeace of a new tragedy (Camma), writtea for Mme. Ristori oy Ghugeppe Montaneli, ao Malian and adventures are worthy of cecord. A lawyer sion, Montapell!, the revoluiion of mended a regiment of an , at ‘attic of Curtaione he was dangerously woun: end Goally Cott into the hands of the Anstrieng In 1649 he cesteted Puérazzi in the Ca of the duties sacem- bent upon the membdre of the provistonsl government of Tuscany. On the-seturo of the Austriaas, Monteselts was @] and having chosen Pars as bis dealing he ed literature as a orotession aad Orst dia Tuaetnepesiet rogues! he mbeenueatty rots At Mme. "8 requ @ wut for ber Camma, whiob was aorcted in Paris ho succesa i will undoubtedly Commend it 10 the critical as one of the most effective Daye ‘of the distinguished tragedionne’s vrépertoire, Musical A concert for the benedt of Widrew Pres Schoot Association took place at Steinway fal! ‘ast aight Mad- amo Jobanasen, soprano; F “1. Ebon, Outist, W J Hie, tenor; J. N. Pattison, pianist, and J. Pollaok, beriteae, ‘were tho soloists. Mr. Colby was the accompanist, end an officiont orchestra assed. The coucert was very successful, . ° Lucia di Lammermoor was givon at the French theatre last night for tho benedt of the entire company, opera. and comedy. The audience was very large and enthust- tis, tho opera well performed, and Mile Naddie re Stead t otatvo acatice Thy opern compen) will base appcar at the Thalia theatre, wh ee week, a season of Frétch and @ menaced. The dramatoe com; French theatre. M Chol, during one of the -ntre aéles, announced the news of the remuit of te yacht raee, which was received with eothuy'astic applaise, SKATING, Ig ye cot wad opetd wi ay will comain The Lakes ta and About the City. A good day's skating was the booa which the clerk of the weather yosterday granted those members of the community who prefer the iron ruaners to the volves cushions of a coach, and who would rather gitde co eae fro on a smooth sheet of toe than promédady Brvadqay, peering into the well filled windows of the shops or drive over the half-deserted roads of the Park Jecte Frost bad been at work over night, and his breath bad but bardened the already solid suriace of the takes, eo that the aspect of the vast sheets of class tempted evem the untutored skater fo try bis foot at the health- giving sport, With the sunbeams that cheer, even though they fall somewhat coldly upom the glistening rinks, shone from amid « clesr Wine sky, @ sight breeze scarce sufficient te the flags from their folds, and the the scenes presented withia the private ponds and the precincts of the Park were eni- mated iudeed. The city cars were crowded, and the pale-frosea conductors utterly nonplussed on aacertata- the pumber of passengers which their olastio vehicles could contain §=In the Park the upper, lower 4 central pouds were in possession of thousands, and the while pxpanse of snow-ice was hidven —— the swarm o, skatera who gitded to aud te no other music ‘8am that of their own giad voiies Major Oatm: Fifth Avenue Skating Rink had within ite lime all us fasbionable aad the Fifth Avenue Skating Sark was ten by as aristocrat: a gatberng as the “et ambitiogs mans, of a lake could well desire, On doth poade exccilent bands of music discoureed selectioss from opera and baliroom music, and op both dispteySoF robeency were to be admired 2 nok wad Hiantly Wumtowted, and at MoMy'! ka carnival, with tho aecompaatment of ¢ Innierns and bonfires, biought togetber a cooaty gstberag. Skating in W ton. Wasniveros, (00 20, 3868, ‘The Weshtagtow 2Kating Club opened their park to ¢he public for the Grst Ume this afternoon =A large numbes ve to attendaoce, amoag a 5 pote. The tee was in foe unde though not yet concluded, red gers. The marine band discour and every one seemet much pleased @ the occusten, RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, Nec 2, 168 Fx Mayor F.C, Soravtca, of this city President of the New York end New Haven Katiroed. war iv over aad ingtani'y killed by (he e18 o'clock tra'n from th 8 eHty, ab Scoth Norwalk, this mort Me. Seran'oe tad ato trai bad started, and be passed aronnd of tho depot to jampon the train The piatfora betag one used for froight wan very bigh, and to jnnping dowm upon the platform of (he car he fil, et eanog ander Two ears paced over Lim, mang! The euu'ces and rare of the cv Ang vent es cert a heavy gloom over thin eartrs city, where the decoused was greatly estecmed The Collision at Knewlesy: the Central Railroad yesterday, at Kn sequeare of the breaking of a ewteh bar mm this city The eogineet and Gremem engine, and escaped impnry, No por- 4, jon on the Greet Western Haltrond. Loxpos. C W, Dec 29, 1808, The omigraat train on the Great Western Rasiwey, heued for Windsor, ran into a trata om the Saree ranch a Komoka station thie morning. Threeeare were otal smashed and sin persooy injured, two sortoasly. Masonic Fale, The fe'r bow open in the church at the corner of Gram@ and Crosby streets is im the full tide of gratifying eee cose. Contributions are daily being received from varizee sources, and the attraction of variety in the assortmens: of articles, usefal end ornamental, offered for sale, > well majutainet The tasteful arrangement of the tablen, the grace and beauty of the lady attendants and the other variowts concomitant allurements which all faim Present, have been frequently referred to durieg the progress of thie, and it remains but to be raid thet these still continue the theme of universal admiration. There oe exhibition here of useful articles then te Sey ore at pees of the kind, and these are odere® at Teavopable priess that, paradot'sal ae it appear, it ta Rog pew ny to make purebasee pumerous things daily household or family meat ite an economically, in come cases ppt ampio spony dotivery, vy enprean, of Oe te oe je ov whioh there are several mamerous articien attached to iid safe i fH] 3