The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1866, Page 6

a) AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Ouy Special Mail Despatches and Correspondence. Ravages of the Cattle Plague in Holland. General 3ix’s Mission---His Position and Emoluments. American Review of the Sitwa- tion in Rome. @he Bank of Bngland—Xts Charter aud Influence. ae OUR SPECIAL DESPATCHES. ae. ae Fearful Ravages of the Ci Brorssis, Dec, "The Belgian Moriiteur pubdhshes the following particu- Sare concerning the cattle plague In Holland :— The cattle plague appears to be making dreadful ravages to Holland. The number of fatal cases do not cease in imcrease, and if the progress obecrved to have been made ‘by the disease since the end of November continues the Aoenes of the Dutch farmers will soon exceed those of the English cattle owners at the time when the plague was ‘most violent. According to the official reports the number of cases ssmong cattle were, for the week ending November 3, 1,443; 10th, 1,551; 17th, 1,608; 24th, 3,257, and Decem- Der 4, 7,162. The last number4s more than double that ‘Which was recorded when the opidemic was at its worst, 4p December, 1965, and everything tends to-show that it do’s pot indicate the greatest height of the disease. 1 eattle plague was especially virulent in the provinces of ‘Wtrecht.and Southern and Northern Hol and, but {t has also shown itself in Friesiand and in Overyssel, and has ay attacked mapy parishes of Guelderland and orth Brabant, Belgvam, having such extended and frequent relations with the Netheriaods, is especially menaced by these gircometancea, She will only suceeedin keeping ber- self free from contagion by never foram »ment relaxing ‘the most rigorous vigilance and circumspection. The authorities and farmers on the frontier, especially, ought ever to lose s'ght of this line of conduct. HUNGARY. Tocuisiative Address in Reply tothe Austrinn Reseript. Prove, Dec. 12, 1966, The following iss complete summary of the draft of the address which will be discussed on Saturday next (16th) in the Lower Houge of the Hungarian Diet, The address states that the last royal reeeript bas not been ble (o allay the apprehensions entertained by Hungary, notwithstanding the promises and acknowledzements of the nuional rights contained therein, kince the request of the Diet for an immediate re-establishment of the Constitution has not been complied with, The address requests the Emperor not to render a eatiefactory reconciliation impossible by postponing the Fe-establishmient of the legal basis of public affairs, and continues as followe:—" Thore are tituations in the life ot nations which can never be maintained without @anger. Such is the case when the ‘ternal affairs of mation have been unsettled for along period. Always dangerous, such a position of things is in the present day periicularly perilous when we ure threatened by great European questions ealeulated to produce serious com- plications. Our own aifairs and those of the Empire generally are not so completely set in order that we could caimy meet all the emergencies that might arise; foreign complications might reach us as by some unfore- seen incident. The address requests hie Majesty to grant means and opportunities to the Diet tor effecting-a satiafactory com- mise, ‘Before all,” 1t continues, “it fe necessary to it end that the constitution of Hungary shoula be zompletely re-established. We ask this in the interest of our own country, of your Majesty, of the dynasty nnd of the whole empire. | Our dewands are justified by she fundamental lawe which form the basis of the qmutual jegal relations between us and the tmperial dynasty. That portion of the royal reseript which refers go the common affairs of Austria and Hungary, and to ‘the draft of the committee of fitteen, can only be dis- ussed when the D.et is in a position to consider the whole constitutional scheme und to pass resolutions in foference thereto."” The address again requ'sts that hore porsons upon whom seniences have been passed, oF who are dxsled for political oflences, shall be amnestied, _ folfiiment of these requests can alone satisfy the riap nation and cive hope for the arrapgoment of © successful compromise, In conclusion, the address requests his Majesty not to delay the fulfitment of these demands, and stales that the Diet has learned with great Satisfaction from the royal reserpt that the Emperor in- be prin- tends to introduc> in his other provinces also ciple of Ministerial responsibility. FRANCE. ‘QUA PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. Ne News from Mexic Dix—Hie Movement«—C! tlen—How an American ve—The Evening Recept jomplimehtary Dinner to Minkser, dc. Pans, Dec, 11, 1866, The doabdt and uncertainty abou! the result of the Mexican empire scheme is daily growing greater. ‘Whether Maximilian has returned to the capital; whether he is on his way to Southampton, Gibraltar of Miramar; whether he bas abdicated or whether be Satends to do 80; whether his fever is “intermittent” or permanent, we are blissfully Ignorant. A Mexican steamer, with dates to Novesber 15, ar- Fived at St. Nazaire yesterday; bot the official or an- official journals have not yet given us any detaile of her mews, It is understood, however, that M Berthémy, the newly appointed French Minister to Washington, who sailed from Breet on Saturday, carried with him tbe assurance te your goverament that the French troope would all be wishdrawa from Mexico im March mext General Dix, whose arrival in Parte bas been looked forwari to co anxiously, it being hoped that coming frosh from Washington he may being with him the solution of the Mexican question, reached here ow Saturday evening Jeet and immedinte'y proceeded to Versailles, where bis ily has been staying since their arrival in Farope, Festerday he came iato Waris, aad calling at the lega. presented to Dr. Bigelow hia letter of recall, and eo will, | understand, take possession of the legation ed as possible, A son of General Dix, who has wived the appointment of Second secretary of Lega: dion, accompanies him, Mr. \ Hollman, who was first appointed to that posit’ {nto informed, pve made First Secretary of Legation, in place of Mi ay. Tam loformed tbat General Dix intends inangurating inay be called the social diplomacy of the American o a much more liberal and extensive upan of Tate years. American ve alwaya felt not » litte humili mt the fact that, while the Britieh government and furnighes a splendid residence for ite auntrassad and while the representatives even of sume of the petty States which were wiped out by last sum gover th atives of the too frequent ‘ved in small end inc and remote postion commensurate with the importance Say what may be sald about a fact tbat no that the intin- ‘ly and takes noe accord! he wilt be expected to t & back weat A government such as ours onght @rumept hag, to have a residence Jegation in Paris to occupy. ¢ the Engtish gov longing to it for the The salary of the American Mipister, although seemingly a large one, and in reality greater than that of President of the United Paves, te nor w than sufficient to enable fie possessor manger comport with the dignity jon; and if poeeens no other snc js inelined to @ portion of bis salnry rily reqaired to live cheaply apd coonorm ze, and be made the subject of ii matured remark a - matic golleagyer, aud bis inttuonce will’ auffer 5 hrord it siajed that a subscription js Bow on foot in New York to raise 000 to purchasd a house and lot io Paris and pi it ft to the United States governmer inister, ® permanent residende for (ue American n in Paris, Another advantage of the goverpinent’ ng * permanent Le ogo here wanjd be of the continuel changes in the the legation—cbanges so frequent that ‘he gnide books profess to keop pace with them. there things deirnot greatly from the ity and jn « ¢ Paris legation, and your government, If jt Pumtd bore ity renyenontquye meron @ position berg no nead to despair of 4 4 i tel e258s ‘usage in ¥ in society of evening in week for the reception of soformal manoer. s ii ie, fe This bas necessarily, instead of creating harm camp of the Americans tn Paris, led to no little discord, and subjected the Minister to no little il! natured remark, Of course as an individual be bad soe ges to invite such guests as be chose to his white, however, Americans natorally felt that his duty. to: ‘his conmtrymen as Minister “would .im part be better performed by making the ion, one evening in the week, common ground, upon which, Americans could: meet together agreeably and infor- mally, This want has been felt much the more among Americans in Paris of late from the fact that Mr. Bige- low, When Consul, like all the former Consuls within my recollection, was inthe habit of having a general weekly reception. evening, a custom to which the resent Consul has not conformed. . Under all thes cir- mstanees the probability that the new~ Minister wil) psd the good old custom creates very general 4atis- faction. ‘A numberof American gentlemen, permanent resi- dents and temporary sojourvers in Paris, have tendered Mr, Bigalow a omplimentary dinner at the Grand Hotel, which, J learn, hae’ accepted, and which will take.place on Weduesday evening, December 19. The invitation is signed by Mr. Charles King, John Munroe. T. W. Evans, 6. T. Richards, ©. Bryant, Edward Gould Buffum, James Phalen, ©. B. Norton and ra, THE ROMAN QUESTION. OUR CORRESPONDENCE FROM ROME, ‘An Unexcited View of Afinirs—Poepular Feeling and Public Speculation—Chances of n Hevo- lution—The Pope’s Policy—Victor Emanuel’s Positi: oC. Semen: Hee Rowr, Dec. 7, 1966, To the alarmists who have never ceased predicting a ‘revolution in Rome since it was known that the terms of the September convention would be strictly carried out by the French Emperor, the present state of peace and quietness in the Eternal City must be very provoking. With ah imagination worked up to the highest pitch, with an expectation of much excitement, with doubt and tribulation I entered Rome, prepared to see the population wild with apprehension and rife for mischief, and to my astonishment, dhd I will say it to my disap- pointmeat, I found everything flat, dull and insipid. To all appearances business, pleasure, gossip and intrigue go on in much the same way they have ever done. No one feels any apprehension-of danger or anticipates any- {ning but the greatest qnist. In iact, monotony seems rather the order of the day. Of rumors aud doubts and speculations there are Plenty, but these only refer to the Pope's intentions, or Victor Emanuel's future policy; as to entertaining the slightest idea of barricades, street firing or other demon- stration it has never entered the brain of the Pope’s Roman subjects. Like the rest of mankind they are given to looking after their own private interests bef re thinkivg of their pablic dniy; they well know that any signs of trouble or outward demonstration of dissatisfac- tion would prevent the travellers on whose pockets, cre- ulity and good nature they live and flourish from pay- ing the usual piigrimave to Rome, and consequently lose them the profit arising from the visits of sald travellers, There cortainly is in Rome asmall party, the ultra- clerical one, who are all anxiety to fire the citizens to some act of violence, which, being put down by the papal troops, might lead to other demonstrations still more marked, aud in the end to open revolution, Their object In this ia to find a good pretext for the Pope's fligbt from the city. They do not wish him to leave it quietly, a8 be could do now, nor without a sufficient pretext, as his doing so at the present moment would appear like abdication and lose him the support of some apostolic majesty or other, on whose assistance they rely to re-establish the Holy Father's ascondancy should the events of the next fortnight irretrievably endanger his temporal power, The Josuits, with what particular aim tn view Tam at a loss to understand, are also strong in their endeavors to induce the Pope to leave the Roman city. It seems their object, as itis that of the ultra conservatives here in Rome and elsewhere in Italy, to bring matters to a crisis and determine within ten days the future status of tho Holy Father, and consequentiy their own position in the Roman Catholic world. That these parttes may succeed in creating a disturb- ance immediately after the departure from Civita Vec- chia of the French troops, is just possible, ‘They will not attempt it before, as it is well known the Fren Italian sovereigns are pledged to suppress 7, distarb- ance which may arise prior to the complete fulfiment of ‘the terms of the convention. Of the Reoporen plebiscite one hears very little, and T strongty doubt the people’s desire to put it into effect; as I said above, their sense of prudence, their own Inter- ests and foresight are against any movements which may gE the free access of re to the city. If they ve a plebissite—I mean if it is thought necessary 10 have one—it must be considered er to carry into exeention the demres expressed by it; this cannot be done without collision with the Papal troops—al taking it into consideration that the Pope remains in Rome—for it is almost needless to add that the Pope's subjects openly express the bope that they may one day be Italians ip the full semze of the word. The plebiscite if it take place, can go no other way than in favor of apuerxation to Italy, and if this decree be resisted by th Pope's orders a revolution will naturally follow, bat at papeed there seems no appearance of the likelihooa of its taking . Frora what one sees and hears in Rome it is pretty safe to predict that things will follow their usual course and that no disturbance will occur at the final departure of the French troops, 1 bave it from good authority here, from a person in the highest diplomatic cifties ana jin constant Inrercourse with the Papal authorities, that it ta the Pope's intention to remain in ) ewteguis conte,” that nothing will alter his lately expressed deter- mination te stick to “his policy,” and that nothing ebort of violence will remove him from the seat of his prede- censors. | have it also on equally good authority, and that ye the strange part of !t, from a yerson who believes what he states and yet knows how opposed are the ideas of pereens supposed to be equally well iufor med as himeelf, that the Cardinal's and all the Pope's auite have packed up all their own traps, atl documents of imy nce and ah valuables belonging to hin Pontifical Highness with the intention of na at the first sign of a popular outbreak. J mention thie to show that all do not eb my opinion of the b osemmanat Meg quietness reign! Rome after the deparwre of t h Nepotsations of a comercial rather than of matic nature which bad been going on between the Holy Father and the King of Italy, and broken of a littla while ago. are about to be reopened; the Florent ne Comuiss oner is expected shortly here, This, among other things, tends to the belief that an understandii exists botween the Pope, Napoleon and Victor manu No ove longer doubts the latter's intention to execate his part of the September convention, or rather his inten- Kion Of witneesing its execution withont demovseration, tor the King of Maly’s part is move a pars ve than an active one in the programme. Tf, as be faithful; promises, he does nothing, he will at the eame titae ful- fl his part of the agreement and greatly enhance the probabilities of eventuatty porsoesing Rome xs a capital. No single act of Victor Etwanuel, nor ay movemeut be may choose to iMaugurate, eau so rowlily serve the canse of Hiatian unity m the Roman qnestion ax complete ction irom Pontifical attains In the present ab-tr, siate of italian temper, the wisest and safest course Victor Emanuel ean parsue fs sirict neutrality and non- oterveution. In common with many others, I fally believe this to be his intention, ia which caxe there Is seving the foldiment of the vows 1 well wishers to italy. OF the Pope's foreign Joeton go little # now heard, and what is mentioned so much against {ts eiftciency, that one # forced to took on It as another oxampl¢ of the atter dsaleesness the com- ency af ail mercenary troops employed iu Wines the German and daring bh atixiliary ; prior to that the Sp: legion int Maximitian's Belgian legion; the Pope's former experience with his Trish friends, aud the French ‘eg on cvonyere’’ daring the italian war of 1849-0 ues nore sources of trouble vetation and pense than a tithe of the service rendered. In S case the Pope's legion first manifested their discontent wien informod tbat they were to serve under the Papal, not the Fr uch, dag. Since thea they have wend ly deserting, Hil, Lam now red, not more bint of the original nagber of men are pres nt, aod that thoke who aro «till with their colors are 80 \neubordinate and dierespertiul to their officers as to be more (hun MLrAnCe—Apositive aouros of anxiety, clock this afternoon the Pope will vslt the hoof the Apostles. As it may be one of the last opport 4 strangers or Romans ba very large crowd will certa to Know in what manner hi aes nt that hour | must reserve the desoription xt letter, iy number of Americans in Rome this more are expected #* soon ae ittle more settied = Among ¢ Tam be able to inform intending visitors to Rome railway from Venice to Florence is now oom- pleted, and shortens the journey one day. of seving him, © Tam anxious Hiness the Pope in Public-Visit to the Church of the Apoation, Roma, Dee. 1—Fvening. It heeame Koown in Rome thie morning that the Pope _FOU!d QLy@ fo the Church nf the Maly Awpation, for the perpose of performing sume religious ceremony. The @ousequence of this announcement was that almost every stranger in Rome went early to that partof the city Wrough which it was known he would pass, to obtain what some considered might be the last leok at the old gentleman. I, of course, went and obtained a very g00d position close to St, Peter's, withina yard of the clay strewn road op which the Pontifical carriages were to drive, The first notification the crowd of expectants received of his Holiness’s approach was the strewing on the middie of the street this c! used, I presume, to deaden the sound. sid bi A little while after @ detachment of the Pontifical Guards, in their slashed red, yellow and black uniforma, same colored stockings and wide brecches; black hel- mets and white horseLair plumes, with pikes over their shouldera and swords by pes atta marched. by in ex- cellentorder. Next canie G. P. R. es’ solitary Lorse- men, and in another minute & second, e These were followed by a carriage and four horses, containing some ecclesiastic itaries, and then imme- diately by a . of cavalry, oe erg Be ge soll aie an 16 Pope's vebicle, wn six vel 6 horses, handsomely caparisoned and 7 magnitioons condition. The guiness itself wasya very fine one,not so remark~ able for elegance as for richness and solid splendor. Be- hind steod two footmen in red plush uniform; the game aber sat on the box. With the Pope sat Cardinal acca and some other high dignitary. The Holy Father looked out alternately from each window, bowing and giving bis benediction to ‘the populace, who threw themselves on’ thelr knees tweuty yards before the approach of the leadiog horses of ‘the vehicle, He appeared stout, in excellent health, and certaiuly bore no appearance of teing much worrl or dist: ‘mentally or bodily. Of course, no cheering sorotplace, bay the demeanor of the, popuiauon suc e mor ala iru = Pe ang setae in devout, and, indeed, sabservient, One cannot understand how any persons se4 signs of discontent or rising trouble. in the attitude of, Rome's residents, As faras I can adge, no probability of an outbreak exists, aud none but alarmfsts or passionists could find gigus of coming trouble in the conver-ation, appearance or behavior of the citizens of the Papal city. Tho wale line of the Pope's drive from the Vat'can to the Church of the Apostles this morning was lined with devout, submissive subjects. If ove can judge from ap- pearances, there was no evidence of ill-will or discontent anywhere; but yet ono is forced to feel that the Pope's departure from ‘Rome would greatly plrase her citizens, who would not, however, go the leugih of revolution to Obiain thelr desires, RUSSIA QUR CRACOW CORRESPONDENCE. The Polish Question Likely to be Revived— Precautionary Military Dispositions Againet Russian Expected Aggression—The Attitude of France—A French Emissary in Poland. Cracow, Dec. 10, 1866. In spite of oficial and semi official contradiction in the Viennese journals military movements, not on a large scale, but what in European political slang are called ‘‘reasuring precautionary measures,” of a very decided character have been taken by the Austrian gov- ernment. Thore are, it is true, but few signs here of increased military activity, but large numbers of troops are being concentrated upon the Hungarian frontier of Galicia, at points from which they will easily be marched through Cracow to the frontiers of the Russian kingdom of Poland. These movements have heon quietly and secretly effected, tor Austria bas learned from experience that the open concentration of troops in provinces bordering om neighboring States, however defensive its ebject may be, may easily be construed into @ menace by a Power desirous of going to war. ‘There cannot be a doubt of Austria’s purely peaceful and defensive intentions. Prostrated as she 1s from the effects of the digastrous conflict which she has just sustained in reality, single- banded against two powerful antagonists, she can hardly desire to cut her own throat by rushing into a quarrel with afresh and immonsely powerful State like Riss a. A war against her Northern neighbor, whether victorious or not, wonld inevitably make her an easy prey to Prus- sian rapacity or internal disruption. The fact is relf- evident that only the wilfaily bind can pretend to be- Nieve that In this quarre! with Raesia Austria is the at- tacking party. Bat let us turn. a moment to Rnesia, and first, as re- gards facts. The most important fact—the military pre- parations which are being carried on throughout the whole Rusaian empire—I need hardly reveal to you. It is not concealed, because it is impoesible to conceal it. Twill only say tha: with the new conscription of four ‘men in every thousand inbabitanta in some parts of the empire, and tive in every thoneand in others, to be com- pleted by the 15th of February next, an addition of at least three hundred thousand men, the Russian army in active He would be raised to over half a million of amen; and it is caleutated that half a miltion will be on a'war footing by the begioning of May. ‘The ileet ix being considerably strengthened, and for some time past engineors have been sent to England to stndy the building of jron-clad vessels in order to r-uder Russia a perfectly independeut of any foreign country in case ar. The motives ure more interesting than the facta. Rassia's natoral tea dency is extension—to tho cast iato Agia; to the west, to Scandinavia; to the south upon Turkey.” ‘This is the natural law of her existence; i| was the will of Peter the Great. To Russia, therefore, the bare possibility of contraction—the antithesis to her chosen destiny—is an insult and # menace. Sooner than see Poland er any other corner of her immense terrivory wrung trom her, Russia woud pnt forth the last particle of strength in defence of her *“‘Moproe doctrine.’ Under these ctr- cumatances it i# not dificult to understand the tndigna- the reeont liberal steps of Galicia, ‘The appointment of Count Goluchy was looked uy by Russia with florce indignation as au insult which she must resent, andan attack which she must repel with the vigor oi outraged omnipotence, fhe people were at once aroused by violent articles in every Russan paper, and immense military preparations were at once undertaken. The population of Galicia consis's of Poles and Ruthe- viaus, latter being considerably in the minority, ‘The Ruthevians are not Ruasia y do not speak the Roasian langnoge. Indeed, they are even more allied to the Poles than 1 faxcovites; but unfortonuiely a tra- ditional hatred exisis betwcen them und their Polish countrymea, Russian agents are said to be scattered over the country exciting the Ruthevian peasants with hopes of a war of extermination #guinst the Poles. The latier are represented to them as desiring to re-establish the Polish gegen and make the Ruthevians their slaves and bon en. These pensants belong to the United Greek Chorch, and are, thereiore, by no means coreligionists of the orthodox Russians; but yet they are boing Infinenoed by fears of persectition from their Boman Catholic brethren—fears carefully ivetitied into their minds by their religious adversarien, the Russtaus, ‘The many fresh romors that ave set ationt every day ‘with regaid to these Muse: euts would bardiv be re} ‘ing. They are half of them potpably falee, and the tendency of avory one of them seeins to be to excite a Vague terror in the minds of the people. At all events, the greatest excitement prevails, and that principaliy among the lower ciasxes, both of Poles and Ruthevians, These people are led to velleve (nat as coon as the severest part of the winter is fighting will commence simultaneously in ry detect and commene of Poland, and each on his own side ix expecied to stand ready, gun or scythe in hand to Aght for their homes, their church and their rights. Should an outbreak occur such piven Will fight desperately, and perhaps, alas, iu a mistaken cause, the tools of those who are to profit by if nnserupalons agilation. Thos fer I have been ding ouly to the lower ciasves, bat 1 must not be supposed that they are the only ones deceived, i ceived they be. I was remonstrating the other day with 8 well educated and experienced Poie on the wilduess of his predicons and tue dangerons effect such lan; he used inust have upon the lower classes, I leave you to judge of his answer. “Phings ‘a Polund,”’ he raid, * 1 reman as they are, Kither Russia most have the entire Polish under her sway or there aust be a revival of I The steady advance of this logical theory mnat be ¢ to all; itis 'o Austria and itis to Rossa, The prostra- tion of Austria fords the Cvara good epportu carrying into ete t necessity of Russian policy, Appropriation ¢ and, Prassia will selt her prov inc Rosma ix arming; it can't be for nothing. Austria is more prepared than unprepared by the last war, but she is too weak to cope with the power of the Czar, France will hot allow t Pole question to be settled without wr interference, She eucoorages Austria to remain firm, and promises the support of her legions, The motives which actuate the French Emperor are the necessity raiss# barrier to Museovite eneroachtent whiek thre ens to overwhelm Hurope, and the absuinte mecossity of hot permitting the dissolntion of Austria, whom he hound to conser the natural counterpoise of Pruasia, The intention of France is the re-establishment of tbe Polish kingdom, with the Keperor of Austria as ity King." Iu support of this theory of French interference, I must, in justice to my Poleb friend, aliow that the ar | rival of Prince Cyartorigky in Gatiols Is a very suspicious nuaet Vrinee Czartormky is well known, i» the great aristocratic centre of the Poliah nationality in Pars, He isin intinate connection with the Tuileres, vt has the countenance not only of the ie, Dut, whon it suite his Majesty, of the BD humself, He is believed to have come here to report on the condition of the country for the Kmperor Napoteon, and to encourage and organize bis (riends and adherents. It is aad that he is being closely watehed by the Austrian police, but this is omiy said by the quid- aud there ix ne way of proving whether it is t IC true it woull lead to the belie that Abstr: does not approve of his wnterlerence; if false, this visit would go (ar to prove the truth of the prophesies tat at no distant date Poland ix to be once more a scene of bloodshed aud strife, that mighty armies are again to be Wurled against ove avotber, and that on their viotory or detent will depend the fate of a nauouaiity, perhaps the existence, of an empire, THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Proposed Reforma in the Charter Dees the Justitution Promote \ y Panties ¢ [Prom the London Times, Dee. 12.) We publish to-day letters upon the Baok Charter act, from correupensoats who, differing from exch other ax io the mode of cnring the evila of which they com- plain, agree in complaining of them hat something te each invites inquiry and die. ween 1 they may not wafairty be the somewhat vague discontent In the following table will be found the date and place of eaoh fire in the United States during the year 1866 at which the loss was $20,000 or more, Additional tables saow the loas in each month of the years 1666 and 1866 and the losses in each year since 1884¢:— ilwaukee. 2-Poliadelphia : 2—Lockport, 2—Cincinnatl. 3—Yonkers, N.Y, 3—Plymouth,Ind 8—Jonesville, 1i—St. Albans, Vt. 17—South Adams, ‘Mass....... 150,000 60,000 18—St.Jogeph,Mo. 35,000 ba aca) 60,000 Py é Mich. ....46 2 | 4—Washington, r0'00 (steamer) 4—Racine, Wis, 4—Gallon, Ohio. ‘Marcell i October. 1—New York... $20,000. 12—New 215,000 12—Louisvilie . 30,000 12-011 its object. In each case we seo a reasoner | 4—Pbiladeiphia, to call an excess aside these acct- to the heart of the 1—Jeffersonvilio, (steam! 6—Aurora, Cal. in. 80,000 rmont,N.¥. 100,000. 1 8—Pitislleld, Max 8—Westficld,Mass_ 25, 9 Me. ation mics, and the three occasions Re erorg the permission to suspend was deemed necessary, and was found suilicient the panics which bad arizon, natural deduction that the suspension of an act must it would beas wise to say that water causes thirst: and it is not difficalt to show that panics are the result 3s SE: 8—Chieago....., staunioe, Mass 8—Covington, Ky . It, nie. which ceases on the due to its existence, but 3 27—Elmore, Ohio, 28— Governor's Is- 28—South Orange, £ 3s ™ would only arise in a more intensified form were the Bank Charter act forthwith abolished. The demonatra- tion has been made so often, and is m itself 20 simple, that it ought by this time to be thoroughly understood ; bnt error outlasts all inquiry, and it 1s so much easier to jump to a conclusion for oneself than to follow the rea- soning of another that the Bank Charter act will proba- bly always remain'a stumbling block. The Bank Charter act makes the Ieane Department a ranch of the government worked by machinery. allows notes to be issued to the extent of fonrtcen (now fifteen) mill{ons on the national security, but forbids any issue beyond that, except against an eqnal amount One common charge against the by Mr, Procter, that it Jiarits the clroula- tion of the country, which ought now to be much greater than in 1844, since our trade bas increased at least three- ‘This accusation is tounded on. a complete misun- derstanding. The act no move Jinits the currency than it Timits the quantity of wa or sugar in tho king- dom. Gold and siver are freely imported according to our need, and pags into circulation directly or indirectly, in the form of the notes which are received against them when deposited in the bank celiars, The currency is thus inereasd o¢ diminihed acowding ‘o a natural law, and the stock of coin and bullon in the issue depart- lving dormant, but really circulating notes issued against it, is a measure of the extent of the currency at any time, If our ia- creasod trade had made it neecssary to have a larger amount in cirenlatvon, that stock would have shown a corresponding inerease. varied but liste, and we may conclude that the de- velopment of banking in the greater use of checks, the formation of the jovrease’ of the town, clearing house have so ecouomized the use of money ag to coun- terbalance the inifuence of a multiphed trade. does not complain that the act limits the currency, but that it sanctions its debasement. right, he would not permit the issue of any bank notes except againat gold; in other words, he would rednce the Issue Department to the condit’oa of the old Bank of Amsterdam, making it a mere storing house for gold, against which notes would Le ixned sis ca k deposited ‘tor sufe keeping. prevent panios as little as the present bank act pose the Ixene Department thus transformed, and, to make the working clearer, suppose it removed from the ingland to Somerze: house or Downing street, nglant would then become formally what ct, merely the oldest established of the in order to complete the Supposition, let no transferible notes be ‘ssned excopt at Banking and discounting would ven; bills of exchange ag money » lead would resume its $8 EES SeSEE5E88 | 81—Fort Riley, Kansas, .. ! 80—Philadelpiia., 600.000 30—Newark, N. J. 20,000 31—Petroleum Centre, Pa,. 110,000 31—Oriskany,N.¥ 25,000 sees 180,875,000 10—Elmira, N. 10—Waukesha, T1—Melrose, Mass 40,000 bays: Ga. 1l—Jersey City.. Howddetows, 1—Franklin, Pa. $200,000 000 2—Plantavilie,Ct: 50,000 c 100,000 12—xehuplervilie, of coin or bullion, 33: 522 15—Cobden, Il Total ....sseeeeeeee Be 3—New York... 3—B ooklyn.... eed | York.. assesses |88 88 S883 E88sesseesee = 38s 19—1 20—New York... 20—Loi se a3 5—Nowark,N. J. New Orleans 7—New Haven. ment, apparent! in the form of t eSEeeescse S82888322288S82253 3 bey Et 8—Norfolk, Va. 9—Burlgt’n, Vt. 9—Nashville ... 9—Atlanta, Ga, 9—Smitheon, Mo 10—New Orleans 11—HghV'a Falls, Se of fact it hay Sse sssuey 5 SEs. 23—Vickb’g, Miss 23—ranFrancieco 24—Warrnb’g, Mo 24—New Orleans 4—Ha 26—Suillw'r, Mi e last twenty years, 2 ss5st8 $3 88353223558833 323322333 2 = Eges BESEEBES If we noderstand him 88 3 3 338 s g “ 14—Philadelphia 4 14—Cincinnati .. 3 3 18—Elmira, N. ¥. $50,000 18—Newark, N. J. 19-—-New Orleans. 21—St, Jounebory, 22—Petrol’m Cen- ly as certtfica’es of | 3—West Spring- ‘This machinery would 3 38 88 38 = Be 16~Steamer Pi 88 rs Fy = $ BES 5822823 S85 5—H yhtst'n, N.J. 0, 23—Cincinnati 25—Darl’gton,&, 25—Laporte, Ind. , 26—Danvilie, Va. 26—Wilm’g’n, N.C. 27—Peter- burg, Via 27—Vhiladelpnin.. 6—Keaver Dain, & k banks; and, Recapitulation, The following table shows the number of fires and the lusses each month compared with those of the year guyse3s 7—Titasville, Pa, T—Syracuve,N.Y. the new tase offie ». g0 on as before. would be in cirenlation; teou'd compe'e fer bills, and speontal i Suddenly itis found that speculation lowed to run ‘lo excess; some firm roekoned above susp cion suspends payment; others are dist: usted ; the bankers are anxious aod contract thew discoan's; depositors are auxious ant cali in thelr depots; fear argravates fear, and the sate of discount rises. Here we have all the well known saocessive stages of a panic, and, meanwhile, at Semeriet howse or Downtug street there would 0° same thirty millions of god, repreenting the same 5 or dina: y Corre, 2 = 28—St. Louis... 28—New York... 29—st Paul, Minn. 29—~Olean, N. Y.. 30—New York, 31—Petrol'in Cen- £588 £28888 Ep g 3882338 EBss Les SSz penn SSES3EREES4 $383832828 3838 3833 ¢ 16—Minnea’s, Min, 17—Buftalo ,.. z 3 Tressure would this iene office to PPP. Ele a g 13 EB 3 be put upon the government fo alle lend som: of its gold, or, which comes to the same thing, ft advance some mle om eredit tothe banks mot hardly or dive wat; tho panie would abate, ‘and the phonomens of this year would be reproduced Lhe course of events would not be > s r4 4 presied by domand> ue 3-—Deehard, Ala. 4—Mobile....... , 4—Ledamaviite, 0, 30,000 tharlorton,s.C, 100,000 $s 38 uuder other pen essentially ditere The following tablé gives the losses by fire in the .d States from the year 1856 to the year 1806, incla~ if by the side of the automatic or gold storehouse, the other bavks now the privilece were wlowed to issue notes toa extent on oredit. as now, or if any were allowed to issue ay inany uotes ay ‘only effect would be that another mode or modes of credit would be creaied, to become at the Lime of panic another source of distiist, and at bo a raid npon the national siorelonse as before this leads us to what ie practically the onty real alter- native to the present system, made it must not be so in increasing the lmit would apparently desire, it making a note a dock wat rant for gold, bnt in absoiute freedom of t=eues, ove can foresee What wold be the consequence of a rystem. We should not have portodic suspension: of the Bank act, but we should have periodic snspearions wonid be no reserve of coin or credit at band to allay panic when it rose to a fever height, and the jnevitante result would be temporary but universal insolvency. « * * Tsit not plain, on their own showing, that the amendment must be the cous-qnence of something It must not be looked for from any alteration of the law, bat from «# revorm of banking and mercantiie practioe—trom & return, in short, to those elementary principles of fuancial management which have of late years been wholly disregarded, 29—Suitield, Conn, 29—Ieavenworth, 7 8—Ashland, Pa. last there would Pa 30—-New Haven. Tota)... 62... $3,825,000 If alieration ia to bo ht, as Mr. Procter would think, fifteen millions, , jo—C 12—P. Cambridge, Mas» RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. Nomber of Accidents and the Ki Wounded in 1866 and the Twelve Pree 18—Franklio, Va 19—Ki'bourne 19—Hudson, Wis 1—South Boston,— Mas. wholly different ¥ A French paper a mnivenes) currency ;— ‘The United States propose, it ie «nid, to modify the composition o° their gold dollar to conform ig vaine to our five-frane piece, The Union woalt accede before the end of the yeur to ihe proportions of reountiy adopted by several Kurepean ‘Vhe linportance of Ai this measure ix once ad ed, permite the bell imple will be Tottovwed Uy the other countries of 14—Salern, Mass. ein Gardiner, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Gamevens is tite Towas,—twey are Hein to Ban. — erce, the repnted proprietor of the gambling , Fest Houston street, who was arrested on Saturday night, together with George Lane, Patrick Fina, Joseph Roberts, John Johnson, Patrick Mansfeld WAS yesterday arraigned before Jus. the Tombs, Sergeant Robbins testified that when arrested Pierwe was dealing cards as a game called “Caro” 00 the ascond floor of the premises No. 2 Fast Houston strect; that the place it kept and maia- talued by Pierce ass cambling houre, where money is won and lost at The magistrate to answer belore the Court of Sessions. ” table exbibits the number of a-cidents, of persons killed and . the last thirween years. injured, during: | Killed, Wounded. * 186 oN 3~Albion, NY. 3—Son Francisco sz3 S1—st Jonepte Me 360,000 7—Ran Francisco 9— Philadelphia. O—Naabyile..... 10—Cyarieston, a8. 10.—Peoria, II}. 11—Manistee, Mic! 12—New Vork. , 13— Now York. 28—Piuiladelphia - and: ci Nevada other prisoners, setting forth that they wore playing, Detting and participating in the game of “faro,"? prisoner Roberts Was acting as Cuekeeper at the gate, while the others had ivory checks in their hands and were standing and sitting by the ‘lay out board,” aud that more than $25 was Jost and w he (Roberts) waa present. tn $500 bait cack to answor, Tarvr oF A Hoase axo Terex. —Joun Campbell was arrested by ottiver Glynn, of the Sixth precinct, om the charge of having stolen a hors and truck valued at $230 from J Sullivan, living at 6% Baxter street. The ky which taken trom the corner of » found im possession of ng committed him to the zz 838. gis gs 335 ) One sitting while ihe accused partis were held = 3 Fy 3 STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTS. ber of Acciden 3 g z 15—Kalamazoo, at the Killed and ded in 1866 aud the Twelve Preced= B32 15—Newbury, 8. ss =3 23 19—Lawrence, Mase THE LAST SNAKE STORY. A Snake Five Feet Lo rom te New Albany (Iud.) Ledger. } pan in the lower part of this ety ordinarily gives from 18—Coneord, N.H. 15—-Wiliansepor, Milks a Cow, 14-—Baitle ‘Creek, Mich. ~Lawrenceburg, 4—Willowvaie, N.Y the twat two month® she eaivor than in warm, W: kh in obundant, but when it moder: radneed down freqnently to les th: imarkable freak attranied the wotic ago, and ever since he bas to divine the cause, At fret he thonght she was milk rtfes than members of bie family, but as fin adjoining bis residence and closely watched be became satisied ao ou Kher than some one of bis tamil; Doring the recent @xtreme cold waather her milk but yesterday very much mod morning he was up eark: 5—New York... 6— Philadelphia: ork 21—Wheeling, nded by accidents i occurring at sen, or those who lont their lives or received ‘on board of steam vessels < a the fast thirtcom Killed, Wea 58% ¥ Ang 1—Pitthole, Pa, $160,000 Pia pe eee 4 from underneath the to his favorite milker and deliberate. vewin stripping her touts, The snake was at least ge AS A Man's arm at the shoul. 1i—New Lomion, t five feet long, « Conn. — eM inystory was now explained, sties dormant, bybernating, bi he from lis winter quarters. 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