The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1866, Page 4

4 a with the porpetzation of the deed, and two ot NEW YORE HERALD Segre gee with National ‘boy named EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, forging a check for $8,000.08 the Bank. He confessed his guilt and implicated two other OFFICE K. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASBAU Jadg, one of whem was arrested yesterday, and the de- thal testes ah, 3) ~~ map ayonseretiygy oo rico se poeta ‘was recovered. af Detective Richard Fields, of the Fifth precinct, suc- ceeded on Saturday night in arresting Charles Jones, AMUSEMENTS THIS RVENING. alias Burahor, alias Charley, the alleged murderer of the BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, a me | shoemaker in Thompson street, and his accomplice, eiroot.—Cutonorona, ou Nuw Yous ts 1967 Tam aa. | Thomas Cook alias Sweeney, the “white man.’’ It seoms a ee aes that the above officer arrested them on suspicion, cw NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Register and Street Commissioner intend to | tinue. The state of socioty in Magland at °° Pursue in relation to the purification and thor- | present moment is not without certain pofats ough reorganization of their several depart- | of resemblance to the state of society fo ments. These officers have a duty to perform | France in the times that immediately which they cannot evade or delay. Two of | the great revolution of 1789. Nor would {t them bave been elected as city reformers, and | be difficult to discover points of comparison one, Seen Seen by the Mayor and | betwixt England in the days of John Bright pProgpss re use she ini with confirmed by the Board of Aldermen, is iden- | and England in the days of John Ham of we ; 2 . f tiflea with the Union democracy, an opponent | It was not Hampden’s ph Breeder the danger ot” sllowing such s person to be at | Logan and Mary Gannon. plage. Vou XXXI having at the ume a lamp in their custody which they : to act | proof brandy, is too stimulating for our reer bndictidlen aden: sneediditinn tha venaiten. of Tammany and of the corrupt Corporation that created the rebellion, but | large, ad sopidy,” bas as perfeot a right ; , is too oSRATREEAtEsi* Foie em mr cn | ghee verte coma an gun | “ng.” ‘Thy aro called upon to purllyde-| the tgraany and fajutce of which the ship | tn selt-detmos ax X48 indlviaal who slays | tatlous, andthe sooner we shat it out by DODWORTH'SHALL Si Broadwar chao. 2. : ward potice by Captain Petty to await the action of the | partments which have for years been nothing | money was the last expression. So the present | a mad dog. In fact, al! social law and order | duties the belter we will ‘ll he for it. Se Exsrous any Minacuxs Taw Haan: - Sri -Sremenin eer ene manes more nor less than almshouses for the support | political excitement throughout the United | spring from this inatiay'tive pemattie; | | Se: ee Haein pay es elegren : CLINTON HALL, Astor pinon-aVarexrcme Vorss: = + | changed wilh robbing » man of « gold wath’ aot long | Of WeTd politicians and lazy loafers who are | Kingdom fe not the result of Joho Bright’s | officer of the people, thea). oF of seolety— the jocenstty of Publici:y ‘.: Our Pinaectad Gnnat Poursaionin Mimo. since in West Broadway. Great credit ts due Oftcer | *lWays on the lookout for positions in which | unquestionably able advocacy of the people’s | terms are synomymous—whe 0,8 through miis- |, 110 een HAN FRANCISCO MINGTRELS 695 Broutwir, opens | Fields for eMctenoy in the matiar, they being in his | they.can draw pay and do no work. Hun-| rights Mr. Bright hes but given exptession | taken wotives of clemency mad,turns rte 9 wine bare As Lat. | Berm BINGING, Daxoine ane Boaiesqves—F A1.ino Oorips custedy within two hours after the murder. dreds of thousands of dollars have been | to feelings already existing and broadly and | person once separated from socted,” x we - wis A einen Fac WovaE, ton, tant wou | Dodie eens MZ named Bilen Alcorn, was burned #0 | absiraoted from the treasury: to remuyerate | widely diffused. We have certatuly wo desire | ance with law, really violaten his trast, Which is | perty and interests of every womas sqefomre gras, Corowenre iiaumtaceteenct | pouting on the ee the’ services. rendered by such men to’ the | that Great Britain should pass through a revo- | one of protection, smi does am outyy,xeous.| snd child inthe country. It : ' us llamas fo—New Ysan's | nat aho died in two hours afterwards. Miss Annette 1. | “Ting” at primaries; in barrooms and at the’| lution similar to either of those we have just | wrong tosociety, There ought to be a BACYY | oxercises this power to enbance orto oSUNg HRD aa reste: | aay at naan tt tees | Prt whe le. thom io aa | nee neh ae ice owe ake |e petented oa iajeten, fometig neat f Gaels To tpt he power fore riots ques, be—Sow rt nts wi y y 3 . bo ; i Ths ub BeooeSuw Yeaws Canes," * SOR OF ic ah nara ap ed cre see. that no ‘enueigetane man end - ov bin fon procera ay weal Y be dons to put a stop to ruffaniom, and the | CA0’s exertions to Gustaln himeelf nd family. TONE PARTON'S OPERA HOTS: Bowery. Cox, Ps ati _ pence a ROT erpNDS nH ourist is suffered in future to draw one dollar | We shall not be surprised if some slight | best way is to insist on the execution of the | asd; wae kis soaren, suddenly A¢-—Lrris Tox Iver assassination conspirators, now serving a life term on | Of the people’s money. concessions made by the approaching Parlia- | law. Let us have no. more injndicious par- | and 08) ed done on one oF j SRASLTT, WHITES COMBINATION TROUPE, st the Dry Tortugas, bas been denied. Street Commissioner Mol.ean is already in | ment shall have the effect of producing @ tem- | donizigs. Nise A, two pk natin the ae two > y AnD Lavesabs Hurcurattunses, Court on Bante on On the 224 instant s gang of Chioamen working on La Srarow Commaus. the Pacide Railroad, in California, was buried ander a MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— | 9% arift, and Ave of them perished. ‘Tus Forty TaisvEs, 1 SUPA, Pak sROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—F roouran Coxeeny. eile and Seamen. AMOOLRY'SOPERA HOTSE, Rooo'den —Eraieiay Mite The material tacts of the late Atlantic yacht possession of his office, and while it may have | porary lull. But no arrangement can be per- : been eng gr for him to retain for awhile the | manent in which the popular elemont Is not Mane OTL ho Some ene sil eso, and ih Pte od ns ne services of Deputy Tweed, until he became | fully recognized. The affairs of the British i " y- eects ‘ conversant himself with the business, yet he | people are not always to be exclusively picts Som eiailint tel eacakie me octet deo and serene contraction we may refer sbould not delay one hour longer than neces- | managed by a narrow and bigoted oligarchy; mercial, intellectwal. apa: aeolal iateroourse: of. the instances of ‘¢he Morse panic tu 1664 and sary in getting rid of that relic of the Cornell | and this resolution of the Trades Unions all lie:nuidsearniad Septal fihieoanloniins tue of the late panic in November last. In both m- erusior, Bartaps, Buauesquxs ano Vaxtomiees. race may be briefly told. BROOKLYN ATHANEUM.—Avens & Co.'s Guiat Pan: vite Na-THeC-A OF TRAVELS Kusore axp Awexiws, AND Vorage AOROSS THX ATLANTIC. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, coragr of Groat ant Cr strests. Great Masoxig Pam in Aw or tux ian. Agtiom Fup, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 413 ftroitway.— Lecrunys wirn tux Oxe-Hyprouen Mickoscore twice dolly, Heap axp Riou Axa or Faonst, Open from $ 4.8, Ul 10 P.M. THH ATLANTIC YACHT RACE. Our news reports through the cable record the progress the Amorican yachtmon in Engiand. On Friday they visited Osborn House, one of the Queen's residences, and were courtrously enterinined. In the evening (hey dined with Lord Lennox, Priace Atfred making one ot the pariy, The municipa! banquet given by the author. due of Cowes took plac> the same day. The grand Henquet of the Royo! Yacht Club was to come off on erday, and it was expected Sir John Simon would preside, The Henrietia was to sail to-day, Decomoer Si, for Havre, whither she goes by invitation of French yachtmen and American citizens. Ouly four men were drowned from the Vieetwiug, Seven others were Swept overboard, but fortunate! y rescuod. ‘The result of the yacht race was the universal topic of conversation throughout the city and vieimity yesterday. Rev, Henry Wart Beecher made a passing a'tvsion to the great eveut in his sermon at Piy- mouth church, in Brooklyn, and the frequenters of all kinds of clabs passed Wve day in lively disenssion on the subject. Considerable money is known to have been lust aud won on the result, A description of the yachta wad asbort sketch of their capia if are given in our columns this morning EUROPF. the news report by the Atlantic cable ia daied to Sunday, December 30. fhe Eastern question ts assamiag a very serions ‘aapact. Napoleon is aaid to have proposed to Eng- jaad, Austria and Ttaly to form wth France # quad- | ruple alliance, in view of approaching trouble in that quarter. Italy bas addrossed a firm note to Turkey on tha subject cf the steamsiiip dificulty on the Candian coast. The relations betweon Greece and Turkey are very critical, and Fngtand nav addressed @ noise of warning to Greece concerniag an invasion of Thessaly from the kingdom. ‘Tae United States iron-clad Miantonomoh was ai Gib- voltar Prussia has ordered ter olicers at Bremen to arrest Prassian subjects seekiag to emigrate to avoid military wer vice, Queen Isabella, it is gaia, will dissolve the Spanish Covies, tue United States govervaent, it ts said, 19 treating a Spain for the puretase of the Istand of Minorca. serious riots oceurred during the elections 1a Hungary. A‘ one place the people were charged with cavairy, aud @ man was killed. Vousols closed at 00, ox-dividead, in London oa the sw inst, United Siates five-twenties were at 72", Cotton closed firm im Liverpool ou the 20:0 inst. idling New Orleans at Uifteen peace. Breadstuils were ‘ya and unchanged on the 24th inst, Our apectal despat hea and correspondence by mail vrata Interesting detatis of the cable reports to the 16/4 of December. : The cattle plague prevails to a fearfal oxtont in Hol. ust, (he losses of stock by deaib exceoding those sus ened by the farmers in England, A complete satumary of tho legislative address drafted ¢ Hungarian mombers*in Pesth, in reply to the jan reseript, is pablebed. From Rome we have aepecial report of the political # {cation existing ia the city on the 7th of December. Sue writer did not peresive any signs of a revolutionary (break, and chronietes a very cordial outdoor recep- toa of the Pope by the popalace. (ur correspondent in Cracow states that it is imporst- r Russia to conceal the fact that sho is making snl and most extensive military preparations look Ing (0 war, MISCELLANEOUS. General Sherman arrived in Washingiou om Satarday night (t fa stated in Washington that Minister Campbell bas socerved bis instructions aad a on his way to Chinuahua ') Soin President Juares The steamer Gettyshyry is stitla ground at Annapolis, Phe Don has been seiected to xo in her place upon the seocet mission, and it \s vow reported that General Grant iv (o accompany the expedition. Our correspondent at the Bat tal ‘an account che situation there relative to the early reassembling be Logisiature and the expected lively contest for Secator in place of tra Harria, Metropolitan afaire, it hought, will be the subject of swooping legislative roron daring the coming veal, and a general on ewught on manicipal institutions will be made. A let to from prominent New York merchants has been re. colved by a member for presentation to the Senate on His assembling, which petitions for the expalsion of ex Sireet Commissioner Cornell from that body. A petition to the State Legislature praying for the rolecuon of the constitutional amendment is ta eireula- ton thronghont the city, he religious services in the various churches yester- day were generally appropriate to the occasion as the ‘abbath of the old year. Rev. James B. Donn die- varsed at Lyric Hall on Forty-soventh street, neat Nooadway, on the subject of “Wine at New Year.’ fies. GC. Beray delivered a peculiarly touching and ioquent sermon on the “Legacy gf the Dead Year,” nod the Rey. Henry Blanchard preached on the on nad Abuses of the New Year.'' Rev, Charles B, Smyth jectured at the Everett Rooms, on ‘Hypocrisy in Charebes,” and the Rev. J. T. Hecker at Irving Bali oa “Lather and the Reformation." ‘The question of the power of the spirit to travel over space, and report details of eveuts to the body, was heeuased yesterday by the select epiritualiet elements hat assemble every Sunday at Dodwortn Hall, Several torcible stories were told about the ability of men to be in several plages at once, and the power of foreteiling events while in @ trance. A debate respecting the ‘' Moral Influence of Theatres’ speakers were shockiny for the most part being a tirade against religion. The church had bat few defenders in the conclave, The de- bate will be continued on Sunday next son was stabbed and beaten so severely in nie yeaterday morning that he t not ox te od to recover, George Wilson was arrested charged Joho Poghth, « Three pleasure yachts, of some two bandred tons measure- ment, start together from Sandy Hook for the Isle of Wight af midday on the Lith of De- On the evening of Christmas day the tirst one reaches her destination, and within ten hours from ber arrival the last one has coméin. After the first day they have not been’ visible to each other daring the voyage, each has sailed upoa a different course, each has encountered heavy gales, and yet they all reach their goal nearly together, like well trained, sure footed and long winded Arabian horses in a race over the desert. the materin! fucts of this trial of speed by our three New York yachts acrows the rough A‘- lantic in the hurricane month of December. The ‘sweepstakes secured by the winner, it may be said, constitute a fact of some sub- stantial weight; but this is a mere incident subject to the fortunes of war. Is thia daring and successful adventure, then, of these three summer pleasura cruisers nothing more than a nine days’ wonder, like a canoe race down the rapids of the St. Lawrence, or a balloon excursion skimming over the tops of the Alleghanies in the dark? Are we to set it down in this category, or is there something inv it of practical value demonstrated und se- We think that in this view it is a great event, marking a new chapier in mari- time affairs hardly lesa distinct than that which may be dated from the iron-clad conflict in Hamplon Roads between the rebel monster Mer-imac and that famous little cheese box on As for the daring of these gallant yachtmen, it had its more daring prece- denis in the adventures of the hardy North- in the experiment of Columbus, with his three little old fashioned tubs, to reach Asia by striking across an un- known ocean westward from Spain, and in the bold exploit of Magellan of first weathering the fearful atraits which bear bis name ina fishing smack. The Mayflowor, from which in a stormy December were landed the Puritans of Plymouth Rock, and the Dove and the Ark. which brought the first Catholic colonists of Lord Ba!timore to St. Mary’s, were all smali so clumsily built that they had dritted for weeks at the mercy of the winds and waves. But siili we say this ocean yacht race establishes a new landmark in the history of navigation. ‘The important fact that three little pleasure schooners have made the Atlantic trip trom New York to Cowes in the time of the first astounding trip of the steamship Great West- ern must set shipbuilders, m skippers, and naval architects withal, in both hemispheres to a serious application ot the grent result here atiained in the matter of time. ‘The work of Mr. W. Tooker, in his model of the Henrietta, and of her builder, Mr. Henry Steers; of the designer and builder of the Fleetwing, Mr. Joseph Van Deusen, and of the modeller and builder of the Vesta, Mr. Carll, stands ap- proved as of the first quality. Next, in Captain Dayton, of the Vesta; Captain Thomas, of the Fleetwing, and Captain Samuels, of the Hen- rietta, and in their assistant officers and tried and experienced sailors, we have the proof of the superiority of American seamen and sea- manship against all competitors. Trained to their work from the forecastle, these captains know the roads and the gales of the Atlantic as exactly as a New York belle knows the shops ot Broadway or the windings of the Bowery. In truth, the American seamen on these yachts have exhibited the same high qualities in their noble calling which, only on a larger scale, were shown to the world by the invincible American tars in the memorable confilet of the Kearsarge with the Alabama. The great change in British public opinion of this country and its people which this and other conflicts of our great war have brought about we see in the honors showered upon these yachtmen. We have conquered even the doubts and delusions of England, and John Bull welcomes Brother Jonathan asa chip of the old block. The good Queen, always our friend, has at last won her Cabinet to our side; and so those Alabama claims, Mr. Seward tell us, need not oceasion the least alarm. And this is well for England, for just here comes in the most important hint suggested by this yacht race, to wit:—What will become of the commerce of England in the event of a rupture with this country, unless we have in advance a settlement of this Alabama ques tion on the American doctrine of maritime bel- ligerent righta? We believe that, as we can build and man galling vessels so as to make the time of steamships, a war of twelve months with the United States would be more disas- trous to England trom such craft than the work of the Alabama a hundred times over. are among the practical teachings of this yacht But as England has turned from the offences of our late war to the courtesies and hospitalities of peace and friendship, let us hope that the influence of this yacht race will largely operate in behalf of the general inter- ents of peace, and in widening the moral power of the great republic, its people and its insti- dynasty, The charges made against Cornell before the Governor did not leava Deputy | far distant. Tweed unscathed, and it is notorious that he has supplied the - brains and the ingenuity for the political working of the department, suffer him to remainfor any length of time in the office would be’ to give a guarantee that the maéhine was to be run in the old rut, and would warrant the prompt abolishment of the whole department by the Logislature. Tweed should go all the loafers who have been farmed on the department without doing any We understand that the sens and brothers of State politicians, ex-office holders and editors from the country have been packed into the office for the sake of giving Tammany capital in the Siate conventions of the party, and that hundreds of men have boen fa the habit of drawing # per diem pay for imaginary of direst distress, and refused to work at the bervices on the streets, The new Commissioner is bound to correct all this at once, and not to allow any persuasions of political leadsrs— whether mayors or aldermen or anything else— to prevail upon bim to break faith with the people and disappoint the confidence placed ip his political and business reputation. Comptroller Connolly bas an onerous duty The to perform, and we call apoa him to be for tho Seund trade, but was more fitted Tho taxpayers and for him as an honest and compeient myn, and be mast prove to them that their trast was well deserved. We call upoa him to make a therough clearing out of the rotten department to which he suc- ceeds, It will be wetl for him to inquire whether any of the employes of the late Comp- troller have ever been undor indictment for He must clear ont ull lazy dependenis and incompeicnt men, they happen to be a raft, the Monitor. criminal ofene*s, erners to Greenland, the blood relat'vas or brothers-in-law of Peter Blotherskite Swe*ny or the young representatives of the several branches of the race o” Brannan. Tho depart- ment must undergo » thorouga cleansing and old odor will rémain, and the Legislature will speedily aubject it to a purifying process. “Miles O'Reilly,” aa the head and front of the reform piriy, will beexpected to be very thocongh in his eradication of abuses in the office to which the independent reformers of the city have elected him, We have every | ny confidence that he will make his department a model one in thacity. We understand that under the retiring Register it has been the habit to employ as copyists a set of worthless politi- | cians who cannot write a legible band or make a correct copy of a document. @ prolific source of annoyance to lawyers and | others who have transacted batiness with the | Of course Register Halpine qill see that this evil is entirely removed, and will givo employment in future to none but competent He will turn all of Fernando Wood's dependents into the streets, to make an honest living, if they can, by honest labor, and will retain only such clerks as have proved their fidelity and capacity by « proper disetiarge of reformation, or the The incoming officials must bear in, mind that these reforms must be made promptly. The people are resolved wpon « very thorough cleansing of the city departments, and unless the work is done speedily and effectually by the new officers the necessary relief will be sought at once at Albany. ‘The Politien! Sitmat' je The resolution como to by the Trades Unions of London to place their entire strength at the service of the reform party ia of deeper sig- nificance than appears on the surface. The example of London is certain to be generally followed. These unions, it is to be borne in mind, have their ramifications thronghont the length and breadth of the land. nook and corner of the Inte every | The Punishinent ot c the intellect, the energy of the working section It is charactertatic of these societies that instructions from headquarters | the penalty thus affixed to it is scarcely ade- receive a prompt and unqualified obedience. The resolution, therefore, places in the hands of reformers the entire strength of the intelli- gent industry of the country. tion such as this, if managed with ordinary discretion, cannot fail to bave a mighty influ- ence in furthering the interests reformers hava of the community. This latest phase of the reform movement is confirmatory of the conclusion to which intel- ligent observers hod already come, that how- ever prolonged the struggle may be, and what- | atrocities and received sentences confining ever temporary settlement may be effected, it is destined ultimately to overthrow the present order of things, Its tendency is unmistakably | plied with. The sentences have been merely revolutionary. The question is not as some | nominal. The laws of the country are the bul- seem to regard it, whether there shall or shall not be granted to the people a further instal- ment of representative reform, but whether the affairs of the nation are to continue | rale. Following pist examples, some Gover- to be managed by a hanghty and ex- of the | just sentenced. Hence such sentences are not of | @ torror to evil doers, as daily and honrly out- 1832, the government of England since, | rages in this city can amply testify. In the as before, has been the government of | punishment of crimes by society the principle Not own it be denied that 0 chriatian th discussion effects of the great reform measure 4 privileged order. would seem to indicate that revolution is not Wreek of the Stenmbent Commodore. Some facts in connection with the loss of the steamboat Commodore on the Sound during the gale of Thursday night have been alleged which will prove important subjects for inves- tigation by the authorities. It is stated in the first place that the boat was fully eighteen years old, her hull was ina most un- safe condition, the hog-frames being quite rotten. Indeed, so manifestly unfit to contend against a heavy storm was the boat that the passengers, even at the commencement of the gale, lost all confidence in her and expressed their opinion freely that she was not in a safe condition for navigation. The conduct of the deck hands, who became mutinous at the time pumps unless paid by the passengers, was most atrocious and should be severely pun- ished. {t might be a matter of some surprise, if we were not too familiar with the heartless- ness of steamboat and railroad companies, thai the boat was permitted to sail up the Sound at ail in such weather as that of Thursday. ‘ommodore was not properly constructed for a North river line, where the waters are usually as smooth as # millpond. She was pai on this trip as a substitute for one of the regular boats, which was undergoing repairs, an! was no more fit than a cockte shell to brave the dangers and rough seas of the Long Island Sonnd, whiea require stanch boats to navigate in winter weather. One would suppose that a discreet com: mander, knowing she unsniinble sea qualities of bis vessel—as we presume he did—would have headed for some harbor of shelter as soou as be found the gale coming up. There are pleniy of such harbors all ajong the Sound, and the vessel could hardly have been far dis- tant {rom one of them. Instead of that, bow- ever, the vessel was kept on her course until she became unmanageabie, and then waa driven helplessly ashore at the mercy of the storm. There may be no blame attachable to the captain in ibis case. Probably, as the pasasugers aay, he did hia beat io save the boat when the catastrophe occured, we have no desire to impuga his conduct; but there is no excnse for the recklessness of the company in sending the | Commodore on this trip at auch an inclement season. When the Havana line of boats, of which the ill-fated Evening Star was one, firat commenced their coastward voyages it was stated by good nautical authority that the first one of them that met a heavy gale would go down, The Evening Star was the first to ¢n- counter a severe storm, and she now lies. with her hundreds of stark corsea at the bottom of the Atlantic. From the character and condi- tion of ibe steamboat Commodore the com- pany might have kaown tha! a similar fate wna in store for her whenever sh» attempted to buffet the heavy seas of the Sound in tém- pestuous weather. We strenuously urge, as we have repeatedly. done in like cases, that a rigid investigatiqn be entered upon as to the actail fitness or unfitness of this boxt for the service in which she perished; and if the facts alleged as to her condition be true, we hope that condign pun- nishment will be inflicted upon somebody to serve asa warning to steamboat proprietors. We would throw out the suggestion at the same time to the inspectors of boilers that | they should make it their duty to look at the hulls as well as the machinery, and see that sound boilers be not introduced into ansound boats, Otherwise their certificates are not worth the paper they are written on. je in New York Within the past seven days Recorder Hackett sentenced a fellow to twenty years’ imprisonment for « crime of such bratality that quate. It is doubtfal, even, if this severe pun- ishment would have been inflicted if the scoundrel had not been tried about a month previously on a precisely similar charge, escap- ing conviction only through the incompetency of the principal witness—a little girl of tender years—to testify. fortunately the accusation was satisfactorily proved on the next occasion, and the roffian goes to Sing Sing. So far there is nv w in the case. Human brutes have many times been convicted of just such them for a long term of years; but the exigen- cies of justice have seldom if ever been com- warks of society, and when outraged should be vindicated to the last letter, In New York this thorough vindication ts exceptional, not the nor may, one of these days, liberate this fellow at the bottom is got the lathetion of panish- construction would be, according to an elo- quent writer on the subject, the same thing as if by some revolution of the globe the eastern shore of Asia and the southera continent were brought nearer to us. One hundred and seventy years ago the far-reaching mind of "William Paterson—who was ied by information acquired from the buccaneers to found a colony at Caledonia Harbor for ihe purpose of “removing distances and drawing nations nearer together’’—anticipated the enlightened views of modern scientific men, explorers, political economists and statesmen who, like Humboldt, Napoleon UL, Fitz Roy, Squier, Childs, Engle, Garella, Oliphant, Cullen, Airiau, Bourdiol Michier, and particularly Kellvy, of New York, have seen and pointed out the prodigious advantages of interoceanic communication. The Herap of Wednesday was the frst and only journal to publish the recent interesting and valuable report made by Rear Admiral Davis, Superintendent of the Naval Observa- tery, in actordance with @ resoiution of tho United States Senate calling for an account of the various proposed lines of communica- tion between the Allantic an@ Pacific oceans—eapecially by ‘Tehuantepec, Hoa- duras, Nicaragua, Panama and Atrato— with a siatement of the relative merits of the rontes a3 practicable lines for the construc ‘Lon of a ship canal, The Fiera. also pub- lished with this report a fall and accurate map of the proposed routes of interoceanic oom- munication in Centra! America. tgar Admiral Davis presents a summary of all the surveys and reconnoissances which have been malo of these routes, togeiber with a statement of the advantages and disadvantages of each. He gives decided preference to the route across the Isthmus of Darien, convinced as ho-is by the results of even the imperfect explorations hitherto made, that this ronte is atraight, short, and apparently practicable. At.each end of thia line, from the Gulf of San Miguel to Caledonin Bay, thore are natural harbors, spacious, deep, securo—in short, ad mirable in every respect. On the Pacific side there is a rise of tide suited to the construction of docks for building and repairs. The line cuts the Cordilleras at a depression at toast thirty feet below any that has ever been re- ported, and several hundred fee) below any that bas actually been surrayed. “Its course is direct, free from obsiractions and excep- tionally healiby, while its outlets open upon coasts where violeni storms are rarely known. The plains on each side of the dividing ridge are of easy slope and readily peuetrated. The Savana river itself would form a part of the canal; and, finally, accepiing the particular statement of Dr. Cullen aa fally reliable, a ship canal may be cut on this line with. out locks and even without tunnel, aod yet mot surpasy in difficulty, in labor or ia the :amonat of time and money copsumed in its construction, several other monuments of human genius and eaterprise!in past times and in owe own day.” Thas does Adiniral Davis sum up the advantages of a ship canal twenty-six or twenty-seven miles in leugth on such a tine as that described by Dr. Cullen, with a cut of two miles only through hard rock. The Admiral is confident that in respect to time, money and diffienlty, it would fall far short of that tunnel which is now in progress under the Alps at Mont Cents for the purpose of connecting France and Italy by a continuous railway. He presenis, moreover, a number of tables which show the saving in distance trom New York to Caloutta, Canton, Shanghae, Valparaiso, Callao, Guayaquil, Panama, San Blas, Mazatlan, San Diego, San Francisco, Wellington, in New & ind, and Melbourne, in Ausiralia, Sy The aus of Panui, OVE the pe routes, amounting in each case of five of these ports to fourteen thon- aund miles; the total amount of tonnage and trade affected by the projected canal ($467,- 831,130), and, finally, the yearly saving to the trade of the world that would result from the wae of the canal ($49,530,205). An isthmus canal, which will at once make a yearly saving of nearly fifty millions to the de of the world, certainly commends itself .o the atten- tion of the commercial classes everywhere. Statesmen and philanthropists are already aware that its prospective advantages to man- kind cannot be over estimated. Protgction ror Ant.—We undersiand that our American painters and sculptors have been holding meetings lately to consider the pro- pricty of memoriatizing Congress to impose additional duties on all the works of art im ported into this country. The proposition to lay a fixed tax of one hundred dollars on every oil printing, no matter what may be its size or merits, with an additional ten per cent ad valorem, seems to meet with great favor. We shall not say a word as to the effect which the passage of such a measure would have on the real interests of art. gentlemen who have taken the matter in of course see in it great advantages, or they wonld not pro- pose it, Tt is certainly a move tn & diraotion that the public were G08 prepared for; bat the stances the reductiow of values on the Stock Exohange, in @ week oP ten days, amounted to some twenty-five or thitty millions in the aggregate. And this great ioes was nminly in- eurred through the want of adequate aotice to the public. And so it has been often with the sales of gold. The amount on hand to the Treasury and the uncertainty of the time when and quantity to be sold causes a degres of alarm which is inconsistent with an intelli- gent mode of doing business. Bat if the law required due notice to be given to the public of the time of eale and the amount to be sold some week or ten days in advance of the occurrence there would be no panic, no sudder snd spas modic jerking of loans, and consequently no unreasonable sacrifices of properiy. Every man could prepare bimself at leisure with the necessary means and enter into open competi- tion wiih others for the precious metal. So might it be also with the negotiations for the government bonds, &e. The objection raised by some to this mode of disposing of gov- ernment gold and bonds, that eombina- tions might be formed so as to keep the government from obtaining a fair amaeket price, is not valid, as in open market the competition would inevitably bring price up to a fair valuation, it the article were putup in lotsa within the moans of ordinary bayers. But, cven if the goverament should receive « small fraction less than a full valuation, what is this to be compared with the losses to all classes of the commnnity arising out of panion and spasmodic convulsions in the business of the country? Taen let us have no secret opera- tions by the Treasury ; let us have everything dons with due public aotice, and we shall then have stability and confidence in business circles. While the government shall continue to exercise an arbitrary contro! of the gold market it also exeris its influence on other wholesale markets; but this has only « tem- porary effect on either; it disturbs values, but does not permanently reduce them. Whereas a public policy, known and under- atood by all to tead toa gradual and perma- neat preparation for specie payments in the future, without unreasonable hasie, aad with no spasmodic convulsions, is what the country wants. By the use of compound interest notes and the gradual conversion of them at maturity into long bonds this transition is deemed prac- ticable, and the actual reduction for each year may be determined by law and made kaown to the country ia advance. Untvnasat, Suvrraage mm Evrorr.—Among the revolutions ia political ideas which stamp the presant epoch as one of the most remark- able in the history of the world there is aot one which excites more surprise than the favor with which universal suffrage is bogin- ning to be regarded in Kurope.. Qualifications of the elective franchise have there beea eateemed the main safeguards of property and hereditary privileges. Now they are being so reduced that they will soon cease to afford —if, igdeed, they ever did afford--the protection claimed for them. ‘ The newest and most singular development of the progress of lheral ideas in this regatd is that which is contained in the anaounce- ment made yesterday by the cable that the German Parliament is to be chosen by ani- versal suffrage. When we take into considera- tion the recent condition of the States that are to take part in this election—enslaved as they were by institations having more or less of the feudal stamp—the advance which they have thus suddenly made in liberalism seems mar- veilous, It certainly tells strongly in favor of the principle asserted by Prussia in the recent conflict, that one of its first resalte shoglg be tye congeagion of such a measare. ff it be carried out loyally and boldly it will ereante such a bond between rulers and people that it will be impossible ever hereafter te disanite them. While these exirsordinary changes are taking place in despotic Germany it is lament- able to see how in Great Britain the ruling classes are resolately shutting their eyes to them and opposing such a tair extension of the franchise as will satisfy the popular demands. Does it not seem like a sort of insanity which courts destruction as the term of its delusions ? What the masses in England ask for ia very far removed from universal suffrage ; what would pacity Ireland is equally short of what she in justice might insist upon. To neither wil? these moderate claims be conceded. The aristocracy seem determined to take their stand upon the isenes that have been raised. In such a case there is but one alternative, and that is revolution. That it should sweep away all the obstacles that have been opposed to reform is an essential condition of success. Were it, for example, to leave a relic of hereditary privileges, the victory would be in complete. baa WEGRO AFFRAY AT HAMPTON, VA. Fortnese Moxnon, Dee. 90, 1968, A difficalty occurred in Bampton tast wight. A party of aegroes made an attack om « store to ar one whe wae hot while atiomptny to seq, Phar divooreed br the wiliinct, c ?