The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1867, Page 4

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Tho Evrorzay Epinon, every Wednesday, at Six Cents per copy, $4 perannum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. Apvatmienaeyrs, (oa limited number, will be inserted ‘dn tho Weesuy Herat, European and tho California Editions. - Volume XX ANU ACADEMY OF MU Opera—No performance. Letra. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Fancuon, tax Cricxst, Fourteenth street. —Italian In preparation Roazo E Grur- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—~A Minsvmmer Dicut's Dazaw. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Ita sireet.— Bru Warexs Kun Dexe, | will be lost to the republicans from the popu- | which commenced in the Connecticut spring GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Fiorre Burscne—Das Gastuavs Zum Hinpenxisse, Ac. {BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Insuavooon— ‘Turice Margixy. { PRENCH THEATRE. Fourteenth street—Tux Gnaxp Dvoness. 5 \ BOWERY Breor, &. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—JAaQues Buack Crook, ‘ BANVARD'S OPERA HC AND MUSEUM, Broad. ‘way and Thirtieth astreet.—Dxvit's Avotion, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth streot.—Grayastics, Equestaiayisa, &c. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2 and 4 West 2éth stveet.— BurLock—Cinpuneica. THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadway.—Wurre, Corrox & Suagriny’s Minstaais. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadwo, Fias Exrgatainuents, Singixe, DaNcina axp BU KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Soxca, aNCRS, ECCENTRICITIES, BURLRSQUES, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, WL Bowory.—Cowic ‘Voca.ism, Necoo Minsrieisy, &c. EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth Bireel,—Aluxsrnucsy, Faxcs, &c, BUTLER'S AMERICA {BBates, 412 Broadway.— Bawisr, Faxcr, l’antoxime, &c BUNYAN HALL, Broadway aud Fifteenth street. —Tme Puna. DODWORTH'S HALL TURES Or Mrs. Brows. corner of Atlantic and Clin- BROOKLYN ATHENA: Mostoat Propiay, ton streets,—iixp Tom, 1 HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etaoriax Munstagisy, BaLiaps axp Boucesauas. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, or New York. FINE ART GALLERIES, 845 Broadway,—Exnimirion oF Partines. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv Ant. Williameburg.~Srneers New York, Monday, pt “2c ea THa NEBW Ss. November 4, 1867. EUROPE. ‘Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated Satur @ay, November 2, at midnight. Garibaldi retired {rom his position in view of Rome at Rhe advance of the French troops on ono side, and the Atalian army on the other. He has taken up a strong {Position at Monte Rotondo, In reply to the summons sof the King of lialy to disarm, the Goneral refused un- flees the reactionary Cabinet {n Florence was changed mod the government placed in accordance with ‘the popular will, Napoleon proposed to Vic ‘tor Emanuel that the citizens of Rome and Mnhabitants of the Papal territory shoul? settle jthe Roman question by the exercise of a ‘free vote, or pletscite, but the King refused his assent, the whole Itaiian nation being “ deoply concerned” in the issue { Tho report of the sale of the Island of St. Thomas to the United States is renewod. Charles Dickens was @ntertained at a ‘‘farowoil’’ dianor by his literary friends in London, MISCELLANEDUS. By the Atlantic cable we are ioformed that Brazilian Papers announce that the allied forces on the Parana ‘will not undertake any operations for the siege of Fort Bumaita. £ General Schofield, commanding tho First Military District, has iesued an ordor deciaring the number of ‘votes cast fora convention at the late election in Vir! @inia to be a majority of all tho votes cast upon that | question, and that the convention will bs hold in the Hall of the House of Delegates, io Richmond, at ten o'clock on Tuoaday, the 84 of December next. From the roturns received at the headquarters of | General Pope it is es:imatod that 105,090 votes wore cast | 0 the question of a convention at the receat election to Georgia, } Cathbert Bullitt, who was on Friday appointed by | Genoral Mower Sueriff of Orleans parisb, has deciined to ‘ROCHE the office, | A white men was arrested on Saturday morning, noar Charleston, 5. C., under tue authority of a negro vigi- lance commitice, but those who made tho arrest were @absoquently arrested by the military and held in cus- | * tody. » Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an inquost ai Rolle. ‘Yue Hospital on the body of Mr. Henry Detour, night ‘Watchman at tho Academy of Music, who was found on Baterday morning im an insensiblo condition in the Fourteenth street entrance to the Academy. Tho Coro- Mer'sjary rendered a verdict that death was caused by fraoture of the ekull, but how the fracture was caused they wero unable to determine, Superintendent Kennody bas issued a general order to the police captains of the Metropolitan district Instructing them as to thoir dutios at the approaching election. A Ore oocdrred last evening in the Arciic Linveed and Lard Oil Works of DeForrest & Co., in East Rievenw Birest, destroying property to the extont of $25,000. An incendiary fire occurred at the Ohio Penitentiary, | ‘olaumbus, on Saturday evening, whic: consumed two Marge shops, involving @ loss of $75,000, upon which there was an insurance of about £21,000, Governor Crapo, of Michigan, Appointed the 28th Of November as a day of thankegivimy in that Sta‘o Tho United States steamor Oneida, Captain Creighton, from New York via Rio Janeiro, bound t Houg Kong, Putin at Simon's Bay on tho Bist of August for coal | Bad bopplire. AU On board wore well, | Mr. Chase by general consent, should New | contenta, The defence set up was that on the NEW YORK Our State Election=The Great Issne and the Prospect. The Empire State speaks to-morrow on the great political issue of universal negro suf- frage, and her verdict will be apt to determine the party platfo nd the candidates on both sides for the Presidential succession, We are aware that elections will also be held to-mor- row in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mis- sour! and Nevada, and we expect that in most, if not all, of these States there will be a terrible shaking up of (he dry bones of radical’sm; but the eyes of the politicians and of the whole country are fixed upon New York, under the general impression that the vote of this power- ful State in ‘his contest will give the winning side the inside track for the four-mile sweep- stakes of the Presidency, It is also the general belief that New York | lar reaction against the excesses of radicalism | election, which his since been made manitest in California, and even in Maine, to some ex- tent, and which, passing lightly over Pennsyl- vania, rolled with the perturbations of an earthquake over the radical State of Ohio, hitherto deemed perfectly safe for tho wildest notions of radical fanaticism. In Pennsylvania the republicans came within a few hundred votes of carrying their State ticket, because of their adroit evasion of the question of universal negro suffrage; while in, Obio, in making this suffrage proposition a direct test in the election, it was swamped by an adverse majority of filty thousand, including thousands of otherwise stringent republicans. In New York the radi- cal managers of our Constitutional State Con- vention snuffed the battle and the danger afar off, and postponed the issue as a State constitu- tional amendment to more convenient season; but still the general proposition is the main issue upon which the New York republican State ticket will be elected or rejected. The fearful warning from Ohio has made the New York radical managers still more cautious than before in their agitation of this thing of “manhood suffrage,” and very active in diverting public attention to what they call the repudiation schemes of the democrac ; but still this main issue of universal negro suf- trage looms up into bold relief. Upon this question, from all the indications of the can- vasa, there will be an unusually beavy demo- cratic vote cast throughout the State, begin- ning with a majority of perhaps fifty thousand or more in this city. Itis also believed that the democratic State ticket against this negro suffrage idea will receive considerable re‘n- forcements from the conservative republicans, But the radicals, including all the capilalisis, banks, financiers, bondholders, &c., in the in- terest of Mr. Chase and his financial system, are moving heaven and earth to hold their ground and to secure the control of the Na- tional Republican Convention by a victory in si State of New York. They are keenly alive to the danger of the dropping of York pronounce against him and his ultima- tum of universal negro suffrage, after tho sc- vere rebuff he has suffered in his own State of Ohio. But Mr. Chase and his followers have not only the vote of Ohio against them as an index of the public sentiment of the North on this teat of universal negro suffrage ; they have, also, the ugly developments of the date South- ern reconstruction elections staring them in the face. From these elections we see that under the presont reconstruction laws of Con- gress the ten outside rebel States, from Vir- ginia to Texas inclusive, will be reinstated in the general government aa negro States, though only three of them (South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana) have a majority of blacks in their population. Thus reorganized and re- stored, the ignorant blacks of these ten Squth- ern Slates will hold that balance of power over Congress and our Presidential elections which was held by their white masters down to 1860, and which they then forever lost by drifting into their ruinous rebellion. Is this to be th» seitiemont of our late costly and bloody war for the Union—a Southern con- trolling negro balance of power in exchange for the late white s!avcholding Southern oligar- chy? This question, we expect, will be an- swered by New York to-morrow in a voice which will not only be understood by Mr. Chase and his radical managers, but which will be beard to some purpose even in the present Congress. ae The Emperor of Austrin and the Church, ‘The recent autograph letver addressed by the Emperor of Austria to th» Prince Cardinal Rauscher, with reference to the action of the Catholic bishops on the concordat, partly indi- cates that the Emperor and the clergy aie notin very good accord. The archbishops and bishops of the Church are naturally uneasy about the temporal power of the Pope, and they ventured to remonstrate with his Majesty upon the subject. In responding Francis Josoph gives them credit for all pastoral zeal and good intentions; but he complains that instead of supporting, in accordance with his wishes, the earnest endeavors of the government in Church questions, and instead of advancing their most pressing solution in a spirit of mutual concilia- tion, the bishops have preferred to increase the dificulties of the task at a time when unity is #0 necessary, and when it is so urgently en- joined not to add to the causes of dissonston | and complaint. He conciudes by trusting that the bishops will be convinced that he shall at all times protect and shelter the Church, but that they will also remember the duti-s which he, as@ coustitutional ruler, has to perform. This, although very tenderly spoken, is never- theless a rebuke which the bishops may not relish, and which may lead to some complica- tion between Uburch and State. Liability of Express Companies. A case, reported in another column, was re- cently tried in Brooklyn in which an express company contested a claim of about two thousand dollars for the loss of a trunk and its back of the receipt given to the owner of the | | trank {| was stipulated that the company | would not hold itself liable for any jowelry nor for any value above one hundred dollars, | Such printed notice, it was contended, was a | Contract which, whem accepted, bound the | owner of property entrusted to their care. | The Judge held that in the burry of | railroad travel it would be impossible for every person to read the printed matter on the back of sach receipts before them, and he therefors instructed Powe bring in a verdict, which thoy did, for the full amount claimed. This will be looked upon by the travelling public as a very just decision. If it were otherwise it would be a profitable busi- ness for the employés of expreas companies to lose the trunks of travellera, very few of which contain as liit!e as one hundred dollars’ worth of wearing apparel and other necessa- ries, A lady’s silk dress would almost reach that amount in value, Redemption of the Dedt in Lawful Money. The bondholders and their organs ery out a3 lustily and unyieldingly for their pound of flesh or the bond as Shylock did. They are, too, equally as blind to the probable conse- quences of their overreaching cupidity and exactions, Let us see what claim in justice, | in equity, in conscience they have for their dewnand, In the strict letter of law and of the bonds, except in a limited amount of bonds, where it is expressly said the principal as well as interest shall be paid in gold, there is no obligation to pay the principal in any other than lawtul money. On the bulk of the debt there is nothing said about paying the princi- pal in gold; and the fact that it is expressly mentioned on one class of securities—the class referred to—proves that the intention was to leave the payment of the others to be made by the government in whatever currency might be legal. Tho opinion of Mr. Chase, of Mr. McCulloch, or of any other individual, weighs 28 nothing against this fact, But we are told by the leader of the party in power in the House of Representatives, by the finan- cial organ of that body, he who was chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Stevens, that it was understood the government was not bound to pay the principal in gold at tae time tho law was made authorizing the issue of these bonds, That, indeed, was the general und -ratanding, and the demand now of the bondholders and the declarations of Mr. Chase and Mr, McCulloch show that the claim is an afterthought. No, the Shylocks have not even got it written down ia the bond, though they grin with satisfaction at the grip they suppose they have got on their victims through a farfetched logal inference. If the bonds had been paid for in specie or its equivalent there might be some justice in the claim to be repaid in the same money, though no‘hing be said on the bonds about it ; but the government got only depreciated paper money for them. About two hundred millions ouly of the debt was paid for in gold—that is, the debt contracted in the summer and fall of 1861 and previous to the suspension of the banks the last of December in that year. After that came the issue of legal tender greenbacks, which was followed by further loans and issues of greonbacks, Gold commenced to rise then, though ils fiuctuations and relative value de- pended more on the news of military opera- tions tian on the quant'ty of currency in circu- lation. In 1862 the premium averaged about fifteen per cont; in 1863 about forty-five per cent; in 1864 it graduatly rose to eighty, until in June it reached ninety-eight, and in the following month itrun up to a hundred and eighty-five. This was when Leo’s army in- vaded Pennsylvania, In August, September, October and November, 1864, it ranged at a hundred and thirty to a hundred and sixty. Then it gradually declined till the surrender of Lee’s army ia April, 1865, when it fell to forty- five. During all this time of paper deprecia- tion or premium on gold the bulk of the debt was takea—all, in fact, except about two hun- dred miilions, which we referred to before as having been taken ingold, The bondholders, then, paid for the bonds in government paper monoy, and that ata heavy shave. We have not before us the data to show what was ac- tdally given for each issue of bonds through the period when gold was at a premium ; but as the necessity of the government was greatest, and its sale of bonds largest, during the last years of the war, when the premium on gold was high, they must have been obtained at a low rate. Making an averago of the whole bought in depreciated currency, it is probable that the bondholders did not give for the bonds much over fifty per cent of the value in gold. This, of course, is only an approximate state- ment of the average; but if the bondholders gave sixty per cent or moro of the value in gold it is monstronsly usurious and exacting in them to demand now, without law or jus- tic>, from an overburdened people a hundred in gold. All other debis are payable in law- ful money, no matter when contracted or what may be the relative value of that money to yold; and yet we are called upon to force specie payments in order that ths bondholders may be paid thirty to forty per cent more than private creditors are paid, or more than they gave for their bonds. If specte were the currency of the country of course the bonds would be redeemed in that; butas we have another cyrrency there is no reason why the redemption should not go on, The government is under no obliga- tion not to pay the debt in greon- backs. It can surely cnter the market and buy bonds the same as Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones can. It is not obliged to force specie payments before redeeming the debt, Justice to the bondholder does not require it, while it would be a groat injustice to the country and wretched policy to do so. What we demand is that the government should act as every prudent business man acts who takes advantage ot the most favorable circumstances to pay his debts. Ins‘cad of hurrying on to specie payments, and thus weighing the people down with @ perpetual and an overwhelming debt, as utuch of the debt should be paid as possible while the currency is depreciated and abundant. We sbould be in no hurry to arrive at specie payments till a large portion of the debt be paid. We should certainly not con- ivact the currency till this be done. With a determination to reduce the debt as rapidly as possible, and with a rigorous application of all the moans we can raise for this parpose while there isan abundance of currency, we should soon see the effect upon the gold market, A rapid reduction of the national debt would bring us to apecle payments sooner than any- thing else. The cry of the bondholders and their organs about repudiation is all clyp-trap end like Shylock’s cry of rain whea he demanded the pound of flesh, ‘To pay the debt in lawfal money as fast as possible is the way to prevent repudiation, if there be any danger ofthat. Is is the wue financial policy, and, if we mistake not, the country is rapidly coming’ bo it Fa The Fashions. " The letter of our eprightly Paris correspon- dent which we printed yesterday, gave, in ad- dition to an interesting budget of court gossip, the most recent news of the fashions in Paris, Enigmatical satins, with Egyptian sleeves; velvet leaves that simulate tunics on soft colored poplias; gold pheasant plumage muffs, foretokening winter; “the great dress novelty” of waistband rings, through which saskes are hung in elegant folds behind; the scarf mantle in velvet trimmed with gimp ; tho Japanese foulard ; white and blue monair for walking dresses; plaided silk petticoats under white leno; the strangest overskirts, cut apron shape and indented like leaves, or buttoned on the side widths, castel- lated and worn everywhere for trayek ling and promenade; Marie Antoinette fichus for demi-toilette, and richly trimmed with point, for evening wear, over ashes of rose satin; the mantilla veil and “twenty- three buttons” which our correspondent counted on a beauty’s vast overskirt up- wards+such are the salient points of her pic- ture of the latest Paris styles. No new bonnets have appeared, but promises are whispered of hidden treasurea for the coming weddings, and we are favored with a glimpse of the famous bonnet which has been sent to the unfortunate Empress Carlota at Tervueren. “Tt was Algerian trimmed with floss fringe. She wears a red necktie, a blue bonnet, and sometimes mauve gloves.” Apropos of gloves: it is said that nicer gloves are exported to New York than can easily be found in Paris itself. An American lady, with such adorable little teet as alone suit the short walking dresses which, accord- ing to a recent English traveller, “everybody wears now on Broadway,” cannot hop? in Paris to find ready made such exquisitely filting little shoes as she is accustomed to wear athome. There are nota few of the cutters tor our New York tailors who could be equalled by no Parisian rival. Indeed, the signs are encouraging that with such new journals of fashion of our own as Harper's Pazar, with skilful and. tasteful mantua- makers, milliners, 4ailors, shoemakers and hat- makers of our own, inoluding, of course, the very best European workmen and workwomen, whom high wages have tempted to migrate here ; and last, not least, with the refined inge- nuiiy, the audacious whims and caprices, and, we fear we must add, the boundless exiravagance of our American ladies, the sceptre ot fasbion may yet be transferred from Puris to New York. New colors flash on our eyes in the Park, in Jerome Park, on Fifth avenue and Broadway, in church, st the opera and the theatre, at balla and dinner parties, and emulate the various hues of our autumnal foliage. But these co'ors, such as marine greens, with their fantastic names of Frog, Mermaid, Sea Foam and Undine; nut browns and dead browns, Noissttes and Egyptian; redder shades, like Etna, Vesuvius and Feu; and chameleon grays, like the Moon on the Desert, are by no means all of foreign importation. Nor can an altogether foreiga origin be atiributed to all the materials or the multitudinous styles of walking and riding dresses and indoor toilets for morning and evening, to the profusion of trimmings, the sleeveless jackets, the coquettish caps, the bewildering variety of bonneis and cloaks, shawls and wrappers. One of the newest and most graceful of the latter bears, by the by, the popular name of The Gerolstein. Even when foreign fashions, of which the ocean cable can now bring instantaneous nows, are adopted, they are ofteu adopted but partially. Our ladies have learned, xt length, to require that they be modided and improved to suit their respective figures, complexions and tastes, In fashion, as in politics and in business, Ameri- cans are beginning to make to the Old World a Declaration of Independence, The ladies demand liberty and progress, and their motto, like that of their husbands and brothers, is— “Go Ahead !” Spain and Cuba. The Spanish government has made its an- nual estimate of the revenues of Cuba; in other words, the estimate of how much bleed- ing Cuba can stand this year. It is taken for granted that the island will produce $31,162,653, while the expenditures will be $25,659,834, leaving a snug little balance of $5,502,819. The total revenue from Cuba and Porto Rico is estimated at $34,558,133, and total estimated surplus $5,714,509. These are snug little figures for the Spaniards to control. They furnish to Spain, in a small way, what the East Indies furnish to England on a grand scale, Cuba is, however, quite disgusted with the taxation which goes to the support of a wornout, priest-ridden and co:rapt Earopean nationality. It is with the greatest difficulty the Spanish islands can be held under the fron rod of a Captain General and many thousands of Spanish troops. Why these islands should be mado to support a dominating force of fifteen or twenty thousand men we cannot understand. It is not for the interests of the Western Contineat that any European country should hold armed control over eny portion of its people. The Cubane should make com- mon cause ogainst the effete remnant of the Spanish race which chains them. A revolution against old Spain would more than pay; for it would give Cuba a chance to develop her- self in consonance with the methods of the New World. Where are the Cuban patriots? Have they no rovolntionary blood in them that possesses fire enough to draw the sword against Spanish oppreasion? Te ent House Owners on the Mend. For some time past the ownera of tenement houses, calling themselves an association, have been somewhat contumacious in their efforts to evade the tenement house law, or to set it aside altogether, if they could accomplish that pur- pose by a legal test. Now, what does this law require of them? Simply to observe such rules in the construction of tencments as will insure safety, health and cleanliness to the in- habitants, and protect the city against the ravages of disease. Humanity has a plea here as well as law, and the public interest has a claim higher than individual greed. We are glad to observe, however, that the Tenement House Association, after conaulting with the Superintendent of Public Buildings, have seen the wisdom of acquiescing,in the provisions of the law, and promise in fatare to make all the alterations requiced by the same. This will relieve the city from a great deal of misery if the promise be carried out in good faith. Tene- mont houses, unfortunately, aro a necessity in \VEMBER 4, 1867. this city, owing to the confined limits of its boundaries, and, as commerce is taking posses sion of all the lower part of the island, rest dences, even for the most humble, must be found up town in the adjoining suburbs, to which New York is fast betaking i'self Al- ready, in fact, people only work in New York ; they live in Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, Westchester and Astoria. But there are thou- sands of working people whose occupations compel them to reside somewhere within the city limits, and therefore tenement houses be- come indispensible to that class, It {8 of vital moment to us all that these buildings should be properly constructed; that there should be good ventilation, sufficient sewerage | and plenty of water for the occupants. We trust, therefore, that the proprietors of these establishments will keep their word, and at | once put them in the condition which the law demands. Registration. The registration recoris in this city and Brooklyn, which the work of Friday and Satur-_| day completed, show preity clearly that the people are aroused to the necessity of casting their votes on Tuesday agains! the system of logislation and State and city governments which insists upon placing the negro over the white man, and piling up taxation in every odious shape upon the people at large. The number registered in New York is 128,006, which is an increase on the regisiry of last year of 5,864. In Brooklyn the number regis- tered is 54.397, an advance on last year of fully 6,000. Itis to be presumed that every man who put himself to the inconvenience of complying with the vexatious Registry law which the re- publican party impose upon us intends to vote on Tucaday. Therefore we may anticipate a very large vote, and as there is no office to be filled higher than that of Secretary of State, it is presumable that the vote will be called out upon principle, and that principla is the defeat of the infamous radical policy. Senator Yates at the Cooper Institute. Senator Yates, of Illinois, under the auspices of the Union Republican State Committee, de- livered a campaign speech at the Cooper Insti- tute on Saturday evening last, the most promi- nent feature of which was his wrath against Andrew Johnson. But we can tell Mr. Yates that Andrew Johuson, in reality, is not in the fight. This contest in New York will turn upon the universal negro suffrage and Southern reconstruction laws of ‘the present radical Congress. No sensible man has any fear that Andrew Jobnson, by any overt act, will at- tempt to overthrow this government; but from the results of these late Southern elections thousands of good Union men are beginning to feara revolution in tho structure of our political institutions if the radical leaders of the republican party are permitted to carry out their schemes. Svnator Yates is betind the time. Surry Ety, Jr., was an honest and faithful Supervisor. He is again a candidate for the same offive, and ought to be elected by a ma- jority that will uomistakably prove that his services were appreciated. BROOKLYN. - SUPREME COURT—CIXCUIT. Tuteresting Question of the Liubility of Exe press Companies. - Before Judge Gilbert, Susan T. Williams vs, Moses Dodd, President of Dodd's Express. —This was an action to recover the value of a trunk, a check for which was given Dodd’s Express mossenger in January last to carry it from Jersey City to Brooklyn, aud which they aver was lost out of the wagon at or near thor office in Brooklyn. The trank Contained, besides dresses and other articles belongin; % a lady’s wardrobe valued at $800, about $1,000 wort weiry. ‘ne deiendanis admitted the receipt and loes of the trunk, but claimed that it was received wader a special contract limiting their responsibility to $100. That, in any event, they could not be held responsible for the diamouds and ther jewelry, m the back of tho check givon for the trunk by the mes- senger was a printed agreement by which the party receiving in agreed that the company esuculd not liabie for any jewelry nor for baxgage excecding $100 wn value unless the value was stated and aa exira price paid therefor, The Court held that the mere giving and and taking of a check in the burry of railroad travel was no evidence of an assent to a contract on tue baiior’s part limiting the carrier's liability, and that as to the jewelry the only question Was whether it was a reasonable amount for@ lady in the position aud cir- cumstances of the piaintill to carry op @ visit. The jury returned a virdict for the plaintiff for $1,913 70, the whole amount claimed, to which the Judge addod au allowance of five per ceat, BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE, Ssniove Resutt oy a Row.—A couple of fellows named Jobn Handley and Edmond Kirby, who had been engaged in a political discussion as to the relative merits of their respective favorite candidates for election, while on Hamilton avenue, near President street, about two o'clock yesterday morning, came to blows. While thus employed in giviog veut to their angry passions, Kirby was the recipient of a very severe biow on the head [omen ing: & jot, which iavor was, it is charged, be- stowed by Handley. Officers Sution and were speedily on the scene of action and conveyed the ia- to the Long Island College Hospital, ‘while the other was cared for at the station house on . The surgecn pronounced the wound to bo of a very dangero aracter. Handley, who is held to answer 0 charge of felonious assault, made a counter- charge againt Kirby of assault and bastery. Prosrnot Park.—Yesterday being fine, though rather too windy for outdoor enjoyment, was taken advantage of by many hundreds of people, wno visitéd the now park, The drive was enuutered over, avd its real and rospective beauties were di-cussed with a decided zest, ‘nere could not bave been less than six thousand persons at Prospect Park yosterday, There were a number of fine equipages, also, ou tho drive, A Srrext Ixcroext,—Yesteraay afternoon a spirited horse, attached to a light wagon, was allowed to stand unbitched ia Union avenue, near Grand street, E D., ‘and becoming (rightened with some passing object be started off on a gailop down South nd street and nover stopped in his headiong career until be reached First street, @ distance of turee-quarters of a mile, woen the wagon cliided with & lamppost aod was into fragments. A moment aftefwards tho alurmed animal felt to the ground, broke bis snoulder and sustained other injuries which will render it neces. nery to shoot him. The utmost consternation pervaded the pedesiriaus on South Second strext as the foamiag ‘apimal pursued his wild earoer, and many children nar. rowly eacaped instant death or mutilation, Campren Cast iio THe Street By Taam Fatusr,— Frank MoArdle, aged six years, and his sisier Maggio, nine years, last night called at the Forty-fifth precinct station house, Fourth street, E. D., and told the Ser. tt behind the desk that their iather turned them into the streot and refused to allow them to return, ‘They were directed to the station house by their mother, ‘but the residence of their alleged heartless parent was not ascertained. Lhe children were furnished with | More unsigned lodgings for tue night, and will probably be sent to the Almshoure to-day, Tus History or a Baxxen.—The death of Eustaquio Barron, the celebrated English bauker of the city of Mexico, bas already been annouaced. His bistory was W. Nov. a, 1867, 11:39. Glock uM “The Approaching Elections. ‘The interest foit here wp "gard (0 the coming election io New York is more intense them tbat manifested over the late elections in Peonsylvania and Obio. The um expected result of the electiaue 1st month has con- tributed greatly to increase the politcal excitement ia view of those that are approsching, an® the theory of probabilities ts studiously discussed to obtatw the faint- est foreshadowing of the great issae im New Boek, Bets are freely offered, it is said, on the triamph of the zis- ing democracy, and so far they generally find takera> ‘The opinion expressed by those shrewd politicians who profess to understand the science of foreteiling the re- eultof popular voves ia that jNew York wiil go demo- cratic by a small majority. The Virginia Electlon—General Schofeld’s Order fur the Assembling ef the Cone vention, The following general order was issued this inorning by General Schofield, commanding the First Miliary District:— Heapqvarrars First Miurtary Disteror, }- Stare oF Vinciis, Ricamonn; Nov. 2, 1867 At the election beid in the Stato of Virginia on the 224 day of October, 1867, and the folowing days, tor delegates to & state Convention, and to take the sense of the regis- tered — bag brig oon Weowsine 4 such ¢onven- tion shoul e he! for jury ol s constitution and civil govemaret or the Sate Inoattie the Union, 169,229 votes were cast upon the question of hoiding a coavention, of whieh number tonsa were cast for a convention and 61,857 against a convention, ‘The whoie number of votes cast upon that question being a majority of vhe whole number of voters in the state, and the number of votes cast for = convention being @ majority of all the votes cast Bpen, that question, the convention will be held, as provi by the act of Congress of March 23, 1887. The hall of the House of Delegates iu the city of Richmond, and ten o’clock A. M. on Tuesday, the 3d day of December, 1867, are de as the place and time for the meet: * of the convention. ‘hen follows a list of the delegates elected in the different cities, counties and districts of the State, whe are notified to meet in convention at ihe time and place. above specified, The order concludes as follows :— Each delegate will be furnishod with an official copy of this order, which will consttute his cel ot eloction. The complexion of tho convention is as follows:—~ Conservatives, thirty-five; radicals, seventy. Of the latter twenty-five are negroes. Retrenchment in the War Department. The announcement that the retrenchment reforms already inaugurated in the War Department by Genoral Grant will amount to five millions of dollars per annum has attracted inquiry respecting the payments at the Treasory on account of the eervice of the War Office from the 1st of January last to the 20th ult, Thoy are as tollows:— » Pay Department. $25,555,006 Bounty...... 10,600 006 Quartermaster’s Department, 86,024,006 Subalstence Department. 10,947,008 Miscellaneous. . 26,781,000 ‘Total. $109,807,008 Appropriati Tho following are the apprupriations made at the second sessiou of the Thirty-ninth Congress, as obtained from an official source :— Deficiencies for the year ending Jane 30, oeee 1,135,963. Post Office Department 19,133,000 NB. wen ee H 33,280,000, Consular and di 1,425,464 Military Academy.. 368,918 Legislative, Executt ‘28,387,978 Sundry civil expenses. 307,191. rosie eae Ee rd od pair of public wor! Naval service... 16.207,241 Indian Departmen Repair com) WOKS... 005 Deficiéncles ending June 30, 1867, Miscellaneous Total, Appropriati Total for the entire Congress. Business of the Pat It appears from the of the Patent Office that in 1864 the number of applications for patents was six thousand; in 1865, nino thousand; in 1860, fifteen thousand, and in 1867 about twenty-five thousand, The bighest number of caveats last year was twenty-seven hundred, and this year upwards of four thousand. This astounding increase of business has of course augmented the labor of the clerks, who work day and night to bring up orrears, By the time Congross meets it will all be concluded to the 20:b of November, Such prompt- neas has not heretofore been known. Commissioner Thoeaker has now all the room required for the examin- ora, an additional number of whom were recently ap- pointed. The delay in putting them to work was owing to tusufiicient accommodations, Additional room, however, is needed for the clerks, who are now uncom- fortably crowded in their several departments, The Memphis and Charleston fnilroad, It ts stated that the Memphis and Charleston Rafl- road Company has paid up ail indebtednoss to the a amounting to about balf a million of dol. Internal Revenue Bonded Warchouse Rega- lations. Regulations supplemental to those of the Treasury Dopartment, August 29, 1867, series 3, number 9, on the subject of Interval Revenue bonded warehouses, have been prepared, under the immediate direction of the ] Secretary of the Treasury, with a view to reileve the tobacco and coal oil interests from many restrictions imposed upon them by former regulations, which were especially designed for distilled spirits, but which cam be dispensed with im case of coal oil and tobacco with safety to the revenue, saving much time aud expense to dealors and exporters. Decisions of the Internal Revenue Commies sioner. Tho Commissioner of Toternal Revenue has made the following decisions :— Section 75,—Articies liable to stamp ton. Babbitt metal, tinners’ solder and brass solder liabie to a tax of five cent ad valorem, under general provision of the ninety-fourte section of the of June 30, 1864, amenaed by the actof July 13, as a mabulacture not otherwise for. Hair inner on toa tax of per cont ad valorem. Portable cider mills are regarded as portable a mills, and are exempt from the tax under the March 2. 1807, and cider mills, beimg perma- nent stroctures, are not tax: ‘as manufactares, A hegotiabie promissory noe m: signed and issued in a (oreign country, and made there, may be Degoti by endorsement in this country without being Hable to any United States stamp tax. A guarantee endorsed upon a note, bond, mortgage or contract, whee ther made at the time of the execution of the note, &c. or subsequently, should be stamped av an agreement. & Memorandum of the amount of SF paid upon a bond or cumiract, made upom the iself in the usual way of endorsing pay meuts, need not be stamped, whatever the sum When @ person who hes entered into contract to con- i Voy certain lands upom »@y ment of a certain sum makes @ written endorsement of @ partial payment the copy of the contract held by the party mak! pay- meut and signs it he should afix a two stamp if tue amount received exceeds twenty dollars. A county clerk's certificate respecting the of a person to administer oaths, &c., issued to be used by a privato party for his own beaeft, is not as within section 154, which exempts instruments by the county im the exorcise of functions strictly be- ord.nary governmental capacity. between tenants in common need not eays:— remarkabie, The vast haciendas of the Escalera and On the 1th inst. 4 tolegram was recoils ‘the Cristo, in the valiey of Mexico, belonged to his tirm; | island the governtannt st Madras perros b+ ' the famous quickstiver mines of the New Almaden, in | American Continent had been declared foul by the Calitornia, had been bis ; he was s shareholder | Health a cousequence no vessela from in the silver mines of del Monti; he had = port in the United will be admitted estates and cotton factories @t Tepic and San Blas, first been to the lasaretios of Vigo or San Bias he was once British Consul, and he used to | and Brriving boro. direct wilt be seut'frea Ong el Mg Ris salary 1s pommel 80 Ste of the above, nan Isgarettos to porform ten of 0 came a wioe ‘teen F a aoe mg I and was oue the foremost ne umaline, eee bankers in ® exico; “and yet,’ Mr, Barroo hed accustomed to observe, ‘“‘when | come te England MIAN ELECTION. half a dozen people ihow whol am,” In the United THE WEST Veta howover, he was as the plaintif in @ | All the Senatorial aistricts of the State, eleven tn famous lawsuit against tho United States government, ‘which had aeized upon the negocio of the and, although victorions in the ington, was fain at inst to Sorat te for @ million and three-qu: vars. were an ancient Roman and settled ia Spain dur! teat