The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1867, Page 6

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JOR PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyping and tograving, neatly and promplly executed at the lowest vales. ‘Volume XXXIL RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO.DAY. BLBECKER STREET ONIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Morning and Bveniug—"Wiit Bvit, SIN AND SUFFERING BE Browwac! and “Waar Swaut Wk Kewensgr oy Eauru an Hmavest? CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Piftieth strect. Morning and évening. * CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Washington square.— Moraing aud evening. {CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH, Sixteenth street.— Bi nthe “Tue NXARNESS OF ‘THE SkCOND COMING ot) Y, Washington square.—Afternoon—Bisnor vow, os “Tux Garawaing SATION?" CHURCH OF THE E. RES th avenue.—Dx. EB. O, Fi TION, Rutger’s College, LaGc. Morning. ' CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOOR, Thirty-tifth street.—Rxy. BK. 6, Bouss, Morning and evesing en treet Bev, (, MISSION CHURCH, Centre street.—Ray, J. Syurux, of ‘Liverpool, Evening. CHURCH OF THE PURITANS, Union square.—Rev. (Marsinew HaLe Swit, on “Loxpos Mipsianr Missions ‘ro mus Fatuex.” Evening. 4 CHRISTIAN CHURC Twenty-eighth street.—F: Gaaac Rauerr. Morping eS Soe id Evening. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Amenican Braxou oF THe EVANGELICAL Evening. \ (REE CHURCH OF THE REDEMPTION, Fi @ireet—Rev, Unian Bcorr. Morning. sa MADISON SQUARE Meamrinc or ray ALCAN, FRENCH EVANGELICAL CHURCH, Universi — Rev. fC, Hewmiop, Morning and evening. a An ex-Governor of Honduras aad au English General left Havana yesterday for New York ea their way to England. Senta Anna, baving sojourned for seversl deys in Havana, bas naturally become iavolved ta a law suit, He bas been summoned to appear before an inferior ‘court to settle up an old score. ‘News from Montevideo and Buenos Ayres is received to Octoberé. In Buenos Ayres there had been » minis- terial crisis caused by the desertion of his party by the Vice President. It was intended to impeach him, General Grant has directed that leaves of absence will be granted im future only om application through whe regular channels, thus putting a stop te an abuse of political influence very general heretofore, by which certain officers were permitted to remain away from their commands almost at pleasure. ‘The negroes in Virginia are becoming more and more violent in thelr incendiarism. One of the biack dele- gates to the comveation teld the discharged negroes in Richmond that before his children should want bread the city weuld ‘run knee deep in blood. Everywhere Sbrougbout the State the darkies are drilling in the manual and evolutions, and many of them refuse to hire out at farm labor without @ share of the crops, The it is thought, will be in session only about two weeks, as it is pretty well understood that the con- stitution which they are to adopt is already prepared in Washington, and they will have nothing to do beyond casting their vote upon it, A judge in Blountsville, Tenn, has decide@ that federal troops during the war were not a common enemy, anda judgment in $6,000 has been rendered against ® Southern express company accordingly for goods destroyed by the military. : The Indian Peace Commissioners left North Platte on Friday for Fort Laramie, where they are to hold a grand taik with the northern hostile tribes, In the Alabama Convention yesterday a party vote was taken on the question of leaving proscription and disfranchisement where the Miliary bill bed placed them, resulting in a defeat of the motion by sixty-three enty-two, thus showing a preponderance of forty- one extreme radicals in the Convention, The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia yes- terday sustained Juago Fisher in his order striking the name of Joseph Bradley, sr., from the rol! of attorneys, Mr, Bradley took occasion to inform the court that he bad intended some time ago to retire from the bar, Notwithstanding the determination of the senor coun- sel for the government to postpone the trial of Jet Davis until May, Mr, Chandler, the junior counsel, is making great efforts te bring the case to a bearing this month, and bas requested a conference with bis associ- ates on the subject. A tornado visited portions of Indiana and Kestucky yesterday, demolishing a Baptist church, a large tobacco factory and five other buildings at Fravklin, Ky., and the Baptist churcl in Greencastie, Ind. Another split among the radicals has taken place. Hounnicutt, of Richmond, is loudly denouncing the New York Tribune. Captain David Hunter died at Livermore, Me., yoater. day, one bundred and two years old, He voted for Washington for Presient, Twelve steamships left this city yesterday for Euro- pean and coastwise porte, The City of Antwerp, of the Inman line, took out seventy-five thousand doliars in specia Southern coastwise business sti)! continues dull, The stock market was dull and barely steady yoster- day. Government securities were steady. Gold closed at 138 9 1387. There was but little vitality in commorcial circles yesterday, the transactions being ilmited, a3 ‘usual, to the real wants of buyers. Holders generally were ex- exceedingly anxious to realize, and lower prices were accepted im many cases. Business in cotton was materially restricted by the absence of Liverpool advices, but firmer prices were maintained, Coffee was steady. On ’Change flour was in limited request, and a deciine of 10c. a 25c. per bbi. wags \ Sf. LUKE'S CHURCH, Hudson street—Rev. Dr. Dix. Evening SEVENTEENTH STREET METHODIST EPISC CHURCH. —Morning and evening pits 26 i} ST. ANN'S FRE dog. afleranoon and eve: HUROH, Eighteenth atreet.—Morn. ning. ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, co road TAY and Twenty eignth street.—Rxv, Dn, Paice. ¥—~) evening. ‘, TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, Pifty-second street Twed avenue.—Kuv, De. J. Stasvonv Home, Evening UPPER CHURCH OF THE ENSION, e @trest. Morning and evening. ano sini ws { MASONIC HALL, East Thirteenth streei.—Tux Society Om Sprmrrgatiers. | Morning and evening. HAUL.—Tae Finst Srimireauisr Socrerr. ening. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, November 10, 1867. EUROPE. By tbe German mail steamships Hammonia and Dentecbiand at ths port yesterday we have our special Earopean correspondence and files, embracing im- Portant details of our cable despatches to the 20th of Dctover. © our special correspondent in Paris describes the hes!- ancy of Napoleon in deciding on his action between Jialy and Rome aud the doubts and difficulties of his Position, while our correspondent im foulon reports the weome of excitement which was ipaugurated in that town immediately after the receipt of the ‘Yuperial order for the expeditionary embarkation. The interview between the special correspondent of the Mxnarn detailed (y accompany the expedition and the Fremoh gonérai {n soivitaaud, and the surprise of the | Sit Boor at such{a proposition, so novel to him, make n interestifig part of tho narrative, Jeon visited the Exhibition during the Italo- Roman agitation, when, as alleged, an egg was thrown at | and broken on the portrait of his Majesiy suspended in the tiding. MISCELLANEOUS. | (ur Liman, Pera, correspondence ts dated October 22. | ‘Toe revolution in Arequipa was still in operation, and waking rapid progress. Kindred revolutions bad broken | ‘out in two provinces In the South and five in the North, ‘nil influenced by the leaders in Arequipa, The city of ‘Truxiilo had aiso rovolted and the Governor was killed at the first uprising. Colonel Balta bad been asked to take charge of the revolutionary forces, A corvette had boon sent from Callao with three hundred troops to put down the movemnt, Prado bad arrived at Yslay and to march against Arequipa. The Spanish pendencia ond Huascar were expected to @ days for the Pacitic coast, Advices from Chi to October 10, The new Min- tetor of Foreign Reiations bad stated in Congross that it was noi intended to withdraw any of the demands made by Chile as « basis of a sottioment with Spain. The war spirit was rampant, and everybody was wishing that ‘tho Spanish fleet would eome to Valparaiso, where the defences are still rapidiy going up. Remorse had been current, however, of | one year's truce between the Powers, but they were not considered creditable. It is now ted that » messenger passed through Pan- uma just before the bombardment of Valparaiso, An 1866, bearing instructions from Washing- ‘ton to General Kiipatrick and Commodore Modgors to prevent the bombardment and to pro- ‘oct the city. He arrived too late, however, The Chile. tans propose sending aid te Prado to suppress the revolt Do Peru. 7 By our special telegrams from Havana we have news late date from St. Thomas. In the late terrible gale five American vessels wont ashore, were dismasted wor sumk, Fifty-nine vessels of various other nation. salitieg were also destroyed. Tho lighthouse at Key oat Was dostroyed and pratique at that place hae been { om letter i dated November 1. The case Mesquera was still before the Colombian Congress. tele had denied in his defence that his military despot. Jem bed anything to do with the Powers of Europe, Congress is convinced to the contrary. ion seesce. lip correspondence to anied Cotaber 18 \Great preparations were making for the reception of Romero and General Banks, who it was thought bed jailed together. Prince Salm Salm's reply to the traitor tropes ts published elsewhere, He denies Loper's state. ‘ments én fol0, and challenges him to mortal combat, as a war ies from, Contes! America state that another ols had been quetied in Costa Rica. A treaty of ity, pence and commeree with the United States hed eon made by Nicaragua. oe granted, while wheat declined ic. a2c., and oats quiet. Corn was slightly firmer. Pork continued to rule dull and heavy and prices were lower. Lard was a shade firmer, and beef heavy. Froights were firmer, 104, being asked by sail to Liverpool. Whiskey was not materially changed, while petroleum was quite steady, on the spot, but decidedly lower for fature delivery. The President and Congress—Washington Movements and Ramors. In view of the reassembling of Congress on the 21st inst., the members of the two houses are beginning to drop into Washington to look up their winter quarters and compare notes in reference to the prospects of the coming ses- sion and the next Presidency. At the same time the newspaper correspondents are filling the air with their flying rumors of the move- ments of the politicians to entrap or head off General Grant ; of the intentions of Mr. John- son touching a reconstruction of his Cabinet and his treatment of the radicals, and of the designs of the radicajs towards “the man at the other end of the avenue.” Forney was terribly frightened not long ago at the new militia organization of Maryland. It was a cat in the meal tub. It covered a bloody design on the part of “an apostate President” to expel and disperse a loyal Congress by force of arms, and to inaugurate in his name a new rebellion as the lineal successor of Jeff Davis. Bat a Congressional investigating committee having looked into the matter, and no danger being reported, we infer that no orders have been issued from General Schenck, of the Executive Congressional Committee, to Gover- | nor Fenton or Governor Geary to be ready with their “boys in blue” to meet the Maryland “boys in gray” at a moment’s warning. On the other hand, it appears that Mr. Johnson, from some misgivings in regard to certain un- authorized military companies of negroes, “boys in black,” in Washington, has caused an order to be issued disbanding all such unlaw- ful organizations in the District of Columbia, so that all fears may be dismissed of a negro coup dat upon the White House. Still, it appears that “by hook or by crook” Mr. Johnson has his plan for getting rid of this intractable radical Congress. He has made or procure? a regular uniform of the style of Oliver Cromwell (“Old Noll’”)—broad brimmed felt hat, one side turned up, short coat, long waistcoat, box breeches, cavalry boots, spurs, heavy broadsword and all—to wear some day into the Long Parliament. His plan of operations to this end is not specified, thongh it is supposed that it will be developed in pushing the Tenure of Office law to an issue in the Supreme Court, with the case of the re- moval of Stanton as Secretary of War. We do not apprehend, however, a revolution upon this matter, nor that Mr. Johnson will be re- quired to put on his sword and buckler to de- fend the dignity of his office against a suspen- sion on being arraigned on charges of im- peachment before the Senate. He bas his fears ot thie proceeding, according to the Washing- ton newemongers; but we guess that he is bumbugging them in thie and ia his threats of resistance, or simply playing the game of bluff with the radicals. We are informed that the President will not, resent his annual message to the two houses on the 2iet of November, because he considers thie meeting as nothing more than a resump- tion of the first session of the Fortieth Con- grese, which met on the 4th of March Inst—the July meeting and this November meet- ing being parte of the same session. This view of the matter seems to us correct; for the constitution says :— meeting on the 4th of March was by law, it was the first session of the Fortieth Congress ; but as the July meeting was, and as this November meeting will be, from mere agreement be- tween the two houses, their will belong to the first session of the Fortieth Con- gress till the first Mondsy in December next. That day, then, as it has not been superseded by law, will be the first day of the second ses- sion of this Congress ; and so till that day we shall probably have to wait for the President's ennual message and the department reports. The intervening time will, doubtless, be taken up by the House in discussing and dis- posing of the impeachment reports (majority and minority) from the Judiclary Committee, assigned to the investigation of “the high crimes and misdemeanors” charged upon President Johnson by the Hon. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio. It is rumored that Mr. Jobngon has not yet commenced work upon his message; and if this be so, he is, perhaps, awaiting these im- peachment reports for the purpose of distinctly answering his accusers in the vindication of his official acts and measures. In any event, looking at the results of the recent elections on universal negro suffrage and women’s rights, and at the late splendid manifesto of “Old Thad Stevens” on the national finances, the meeting of Congress on the 21st of Novem- ber will attract, in an unprecedented degree, the attention of all parties, races, sections and classes of the American people. Our City Election-The King Nominations. The two city rings, the outside and the in- side, have made their nominations for Mayor in accordance with the prearranged pro- grammes, Fernando Wood on the one side and Hoffman on the other. The people, of course, had nothing whatever to do with either selection, Fernando being the master ot his own clique and nominating himself, and Hoffman having been selected as the most convenient representative of the inner Tammany ring, and put forward by a ready prepared committee accordingly. Tt remains now to be seen what will be the action of the respectable and independent por- tion of the electors under these circumstances. The opposition to the prevailing system of forcing undesirable and unfit men into nomi- nation, by means of a corrupt machinery, is composed of the Union democracy, the, McKeon democracy, the Citizens’ Association and the republicans, with the addition of numbers of citizens who belong to no _ political faction or organization whatever. They are strong enough to elect a candidate of their own if they will not fritter away their strength by divisions among themsélves. As between Wood and Hoffman, the former is likely to be successful, since h2 will command the great bulk of the Irish whiskey and German lager beer influence outside of the immediate partisans of Tammany, and becaase his admin- istration shows favorably when compared with that of Hoffman, under whose rule the taxation of the city has reached twenty-four million dollars. His magnificent rascality does not appear to have extended to raids upon the city treasury, and the boldness and decision of his character are more popular than the timid and tomporizing policy of his Paritanical opponent. If, therefore, the respectable portion of the community desire to prevent. the election of Wood for Mayor, they must unite upon some good citizen for that offize, and defeat him. In the recent State election one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast in this city, of which forty-two thousand were for Tammany, leaving sixty-nine thousand, or a majority of twenty-seven thou- sand against that organization. In the Mayor- alty election there will probably be not more than eighty or eighty-five thousand votes polled in all. Of these from thirty to thirty- five thousand will be cast by independent democrats and republicans who are opposed to the corrupt cliques represented by Wood and Hoffman. If they are given to one man he cannot fail to be elected; for the remain- ing fifty thousand will be nearly equally di- vided between Wood and Hoffman, with a balance of « thousand or two, probably, in favor of Wood. In 1865 three candidates— Roberts, Hecker and Gunther—ran against Hoffman. Eighty-one thousand votes were polled, and the three opposition nominees compined obtained seventeen thousand ma- jority over Hoffman, who was successful only bya plurality of eleven hundred over Roberts. The united votes of either Roberts and Hecker or Roberts and Gunther would have defeated Hoffman by several thousand. With these facts before them, if the respecta- ble and independent people of New York choose to have unfit and objectionable candi- dates thrust upon them by corrupt cliques and rings, they deserve that their taxation shall continue to grow, as it has under Hoffman, by four or five million dollars every year. They have the power, if they have the desire, to make a change. There are citizens enough upon whom all good meg could combine—such as Andrew H. Green, Cornelius K. Garrison, John Anderson or John Kelly, and who are deserving the support of all parties. If some sach candidate cannot be put in nomination against such men as Wood and Hoffman, then it matters little who may be elected or what may become of the city government. We may as well throw open the city treasury, clear the road of all obstractions, shut our eyes, hold our tongues, anl let the whole army of rascals, big and little, magnificent and Peck- sniffian, run the machine after whatever fashion they may please. The European Exedne. The Land Commissioner at Washington bas received a communication from some parties in England, as to the destination of some fitty thousand emigrants who design leaving that country to try their fortunes in this. We learn that he has referred the applicants to the Plains as the best point for a settlement. That is very well. The country is wide enough for all whom oppression or discontent may send here. All the Englishmen who are unhappy under the present disturbed rule, all the Italians in the Papal territories who do not like the government of the Pope, disaffected Spaniards and unconsolidated Germans, will find plenty of room and abundance of éccupa- tion here. According to late returns of the Land Office there are fourteen hundred million acres of public lands to be disposed of, and there are over seventeen thousand miles of railnoad actusily in construction in the coun- Turkey im Kurepe. Within the last two days we have published some interesting and instructive matter relative to the present condition and immediate pros pects of the Mohammedan empire in Europe. The letter of our special correspondent at Constantinople, printed in Friday’s Hanan, is an indication of that revolution of feeling which is taking place in the minds of all thoughtful and unprejudiced men in reference to the long talked of Eastern question. In the Hematp of yesterday we printed a letter from the pen of another correspondent—a letter conceived in a spirit similar to and evidently called forth by that of the previous day. The burden of these lettere may be put in a sen- tence or two, Turkey, though long backward and inactive, has recently shown a willingness to advance with the advancing times. Turkey is fairly entitled to a fresh trial, and has a right to ask a suspension of judgment. For our part we are willing to grant this suspension. Nay, more; we are willing to give to the Porte every encouragement in our power. It has long been our opinion that the government of the Sultan was the most unjusily abused of all existing governments. It had become the fashion to abuse Turkey, therefore she was abused. It had become the fashion to doctor her, therefore she was doctored. The world said she was sick, therefore she must be sick. All this was very well, and perbaps very natural, so long as the Ottoman government set itself in opposition to the current of modern Progress and ignored the tendencies of the times. This opposition is now no more. It is already a thing of the past. No one who has made himself at all familiar with the state of affairs in the East but knows that a revolu- tion of the most sweeping kind has taken place in the sentiments and opinions of Ottoman rulers. The old spirit of exclusivism has com- pletely broken down. Something good, it is admitted, may come out of Nazareth. Not only is the superiority of Christian civilization con- fessed, its influence is courted, and the long closed doors have been thrown open to receive it, If proof were wanted to establish the cor- rectness of our opinions we might point to the Sultan’s recent visit to the west of Europe. In itself this visit was a revolution. Ittrampled upon all precedent and laid prostrate the walls of exclusivism. If further proof were de- manded we should quote the Sultan’s own words, In bis address to Napoleon he said :— “The Sultan comes to visit the Emperor, and Islamism renders homage to Christianity.” His language to Queen Victoria was not less significant :—“Not only do I consider it my duty to assimilate my Christian subjects to the Mussulmans, and to regard them as equal be- fore God and the law, but the interests of my throne are at stake; for I cannot hope “The Congress shall assemble at least once in | try at the present time, Here is « magnificent evesy year, and such meeting shall be on the | chance for the immigrants of halfthe Old Hemi- first Monday in December, unless they shall by | sphere to find comfortable homes and good law appoint a different dey.” Now, as the | employment if they are only willing to labor. to govern thirty-six millions of subjects without removing all barriers which sepa- rate them, outside even of religious faith.” ‘Nor are these empty words. All our most autaentic intelligence from the East shows us that they were spoken with truthful and honest intention. Since his return home the Sultan has not permitted us to think that he is un- mindful either of what he saw or of what he eaid. His conduct towards Crete, and the dis- position which he has manifested to consult the young and more hopeful class of “Turkish statesmen whose education has been received in France and England, encourage us to be- lieve that a new era has dawned on the Turkish empire. There are many, we are well aware, who connect all the evils of Mohammedan countries with the system of religious belief to which the people are wedded, and who look for no im- provement until that system i» extirpated. This class of thinkers, we are glad to know, is at once less numerous and less powerful than formerly. In intelligent and governing circles they are gradually sinking imto the minority. Material progress is compatible with great variation in the religious sentiment. In these days we are less anxious to know what is the religious belief of a people than whether they are willing to receive the steam engine, with its countless applications and accompaniments, and whether they have any objection to the printing press and the tele- graph. These are the great modern forces, and, materially, they are more potent than any religion. These forces are finding their way into the Turkish empire, liberal sentiment is also in the ascendant, and we feel it to be our duty to ask for suspension of judgment until at least sufficient opportunity has been given and a fair trial has been made. Let us be mag- nanimous as well as exacting. Rev. Dr. Hall and the London Times, Unmindful neither of the great and beneficial influence which the Rev. Christopher Newman Hall bas exerted over the working classes in London, nor of his consistent advocacy of the efforts of the United States government to re- press the rebellion which occasioned our late civil war, we are sorry to be compelled by his disjointed and illogical harangue on Wednes- day, at Steinway Hall, to class him in the cate- gory of Thomas Carlyle’s {spouting wretches.” Unfortunately he has left us no alternative, and out of his own mouth we must condemn him. What, for instance, could be more absurd than the judgment which he ventured to pronounce on the London Times ? “It was read,” he declar- ed, “ by everybody because of the accuracy of its news and the force and beauty of its English, but no one minded what it eaid.’’ A similarly illogical verdict was rendered against the New Yor Heratp by another Englishman, imported from Grub street and employed by the North American Review. This writer was constrained | to eulogize the Herat as the beat newspaper in the world, bnt in the same breath denied its importance as a vehicle of opinion. Thus both Parton and Newman Hall write themselves down as asininely ignorant of the true scope and purpose of the modern newspaper. Without the slightest ill-will against the Reverend Christopher Newman Hall, we find ourselves compelled by his ridiculous speech at Steinway Hall to regard him as a type of that hypocritical class of Exeter Hall “philanthropists” who, from the time that they sent George Thompson to this eountry in order to initiate a crusade ageinet the constitution and the union of the United States, did all that they could to provoke the civil war which bas cost asso many lives and #0 much money, and the consequences of which, we fear, will long retard our restoration to peace and prosperity. No language is strong enough to charactarize properly she conduct of British fanatics, first in fomerting s war be- tween the Northern and Southern sections of the Union, and nextin ledding aid and com- NEW ‘YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1667.—TRIPLE SHEET. fort to the South, after the North had been driven by the logic of events to decide in favor of emancipation. There is a cool impudence which we cannot help resenting in those Bri- tish abolitionists who labored for the dissolu- tion of the American Union, chuckled over it when they imagined that it had been accom- plished, and now have the sudacity to claim recognition and reward for services which they profess to have rendered during our civil war. To hear them talk, one might suppose that we are indebted to them, and not to General Grant and to the heroism of the federal army and to the sacrifices and the determination of the North- era people, forthe suppression of the rebellion. When, therefore, they come here to beg for money to build churches in London, or for any other object, we must counsel them to urge some other plea than the profeesed friendship of a people who sent out Alabamas to sweep our commerce from every sea, and who must have been disagreeably surprised at the victo- ries of the federal army. Unsolicited and spontaneously the American public bas made liberal contributions, during and previous to the war, in behalf of the famine-stricken popu- lations of Great Britain. The aggregate eum of money annually sent to “the Old Country” by emigrants who wish to enable their relatives to join them here would astonish the statisti- cians. We trust that the Rev. Christopher Newman Hall will not regard us as uncharita- ble, if we advise him to base his appeals to our public upon altogether different grounds from those which he has assumed. And we must recommend both Mr. Hall and Mr. Parion to correct their illogical views of the mission of the newspaper. The Fashions. From our special fashions correspondent in Paris we learn that the fashionable world there is convulsed and jubilant over the visit of the Kaiser. Napoleon probably winced on being introduced to the Austrian archdukes when he reflected on the manner in which he treated one of their body: Still, the reception of the distinguished visitors was of the most gor- geous kind, and princes, marshals, excellen- cies, barons and colonels were there in hun- dreds. Cent Gardes pranced about in all di- rections, and reviews, banquets, hunting fétes and addresses, of course, occupied the -atten- tion of the fashionable world and brought out the richest toilets of the season. Satin and velvet flowers, with jewelled hearts, are ex- tensively worn on evening dresses. The rage for horticultural trimming is of the most ex- travagant kind. The ladies have hauled dowh their streamers and substituted Roman rings and sashes. Gold galloon and braid adorn black silk, and Scotch merino costumes are looped up over colored petticoats, The gentle- men have a walking étick with a sword at one end and matches and a candlestick at the other. This is the new torch of hymen and the light of love that illuminates nocturnal in- | terviews. In the American metropolis the fair dignitaries of the court of fashion have been long deliberating on what they should wear this winter. They absolutely refuse to accept the importations from the third rate establish- ments of Paris, and the modistes are com- pelled to originate styles suitable for this side of the Atlantic. The despotic reign of the Parisian demi-monde over the fashions of New York is now at an end, and American styles are to be seen everywhers, It will give the ladies here more study and trouble, probably, to invent: novelties every season; but their independence of European restrictions will be a source of pleasure to them. A Presbyterian Divine in High Dudgeon. Dr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is a fighting Presbyterian. He is ready to prove his doc- trines orthodox at ten paces. “If any man don’t like what I say, he knows where I live.” Such is the reverend gentleman’s style—such are his words used in the Convention of Pres- byterian divines assembled at Philadelphia to endeavor to put all the Presbyterian disputes at rest, to recancile Old School with New School, to provide generally that the branches of a great religious sect shall cease to quarrel in their prayers. -Since the time of the unfor- tunate difficulty between Adam’s two sons religion has been a tolerably prolific source of dispute, and Breckinridge is inclined to keep up the usages of the good old golden, silver and other ages. He has not expressly said that he would burn at a stake any person who differed with him, or -boil said person in oil, or roast him in batter; but he evidently bas « notion that if the difference were on a@ point of doctrine such acts on his part, if possible, would find favor in the sight of God. We derive this from words actually spoken by the learned Doctor; for he informed the Presbyte- rian Convention that “the curse of God would rest upon” it if it went on in certain practices that he thought wrong. Now, the “curse of God,” if all be true that we have heard, is a heavy thing—a great deal harder to bear, perhape, than fire in any of the above specified forms; and since Breckinridge will dispense this curse as his final argument against his very pious brethren, would he withhold fire if the case were only against some wretched sin- ner? Not he. All honor to this fine specimen of a Presbyterian “of the Old School.” But this class of Presbyterians ought to get some other name for themselves besides Christians, Certainly, the doctrines and words of the Nazarine are far too mild—feeble, even—to suit their energetic piety, and a typical disciple of Jesus of Nazareth would be far behind them in spirit, Breckinridge clearly spurns all pretence that he is in any such category. The words of Christ are: “By this shall all know that ye are my disciples--that ye have love one to another.” This is the un- changeable sign ; and Breckinridge, spurning and scorning all the disciples of the other School, because they were without “theological learning,” throwing dows bis defiance, pro- nouncing the “curse of God” because the meet- ing would not hear him, evidently does not mean to be counted in'any such mild man- nered company. Yet ft is strange that this body, of which Breckinridge ic a most distin- guished member, Inid down its principles by “acknowledging the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the inspired word of God—the only infallible rule of faith and practice.” If the Convention stands on this doctrine, where does Breckinridge stand! He will have to start a denomination of his own, ‘and found it on that sounding old biblical declaration, “And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gileal.” That is —— aT Breckinridge’s style, and his favorit’ emblems shall be, not those of the shephesd’s oratt, bus battle axe and « pair of pistols. “The Dean Richmond Disaster. Yesterday afternoon the Vanderbilt and Dean Richmond investigation, which has lasted nearly 8 fortnight, was at length brought to a clese and the case summed up, and the result of this official inquiry will probably be presented to the public in a few days more. The govern- ment inspectors of all steam vessels and machinery afloat have an onerous duty to dis- charge in arriving at their decision as to how the collision ocourred and which boat was in fault, as the evidence is somewhat conflicting. But no matter what the determination they come to, no possible loophole of escape is open to the boat that is to blame, From the evi- dence produced it is palpable that the boats were seen by each other when more than three miles apart, or thereabouts; the channel of the river was clear and broad, and no impediment was in the way to oblige either to keep the particular course it did, and yet they came in contact. There is little doubt that the groesest carelessness and most culpable neglect is to be attached to some parties on board one or the other of the two boats. The inspectors must remember this in considering the case, and no excuses should be allowed to have weight in letting off whichever pilot is proved to have been in the wrong. The public havea right to demand that after the strict investiga- tion already held the promptest action be now taken. FIRE IM WARREN STREET. Damage Ton Thousand Dellars—Arrest om Suspicion of Arson. Between three and four o'clock yesterday morning @ fire was discovered by officer Joseph Betz, of the Third Precinct pol ce, on the third floor of No. 80 Warren street. ‘The flames spread up the hatchway to the fourth and fifth floors, and before the fire was extinguished the roof of the building was nearly destroyed, On entering the building, District Engineer Brandoa discov. two lighted candies on the second flour, surrou with ehavings and . Arthur McGiaughiin, member of No.1 and ler, also saw them. A few me- ments more and the would have burned and de- stroyed all evidence of preparation. Fire Marshal Baker, who was at the promises at the time, took charge of the candles, which were banded to him by Engineer Brandon, and aided by Captain Greer, of the lnird precinct police, commenced an immediate invesi! Mr Meyer Finn. owner of the premises where the lighted candies were found, was — for by Captain Greer, to be detained pending the veal nthe to Mr, Finn’s stock will be principally by water, the tremen having extinguished the flames be- fore they extended to the goods, and will not exceed $2,000. He is insured f: r $60,000 in the fodew- ing insurance companies:—Relief, $6,000; owing ‘$0,000; mtaryveamnt’ $6,000: St. Nickolan, $4,000, Te ; Sturyvesant > ic ; Ie- surance Company of North America, $5,000; Park, $5,000; Firemon’s Trust, $2,500; Mechanics and Trad and Insurance Company ‘The first floor is occupied by Manma; dealers in saddiers’ hair and burlapa, about $5,000 fully io the Ahern ase) > ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. Between seven and eight o'clock last night a most box, ‘Wight at the further end om the floor. On approaching it he discovered @ lighted candice upon piece of Hy i 4 i 4‘ Bu i ef ii i | Hl gee i ii E £x8 g ! i i Li Fy if rf Fa i i | ! | 3. i 5 i E i 8 g a) 3 fl 8g HH i A iy if = 2 7s i FA i i i i I 2 Hs 5 g 3 a BPEEERE 8 7 g ial E H Mr. Hartman was sent for, and after hearing his atate- ment Captain Dickson concluded to detain him.in cas- shal. Mr. Hartman is insured for $800—$500 of which has bey, Pr recenily obtained in the Germania insa- ranco pany. The shavings found in Mr. Cook's premises were of = wood, and were, it is alleged, broaght from Mr. jartman’s shop. Traces of them could be seea on the steps leading from one shop to the other. Mr, only works in bard wood. [he door of Mr. Hartman's found locked, » Cook's shop had been forced |, through which the incendiary entered. The "staple to the Padlock on Mr. Crauso’s door, on the second floor, had been pulied owt and put back again. Had not the workman returned so jnely the burned down in ap hour's time and ings, and from the combustible char- acter of the contents of the building tRe entire promises and all evidence of the incendiary origin the fire would have been destroyed. » CROTON AQUEDUCT AFFAIAS. Iu the original construction of the rosarvoir in the Central Park there were, and still are, two 36 inch mates ropning through Fifth avenge. In 1849 there was a 30. inch main from the east side of the reservoir down through Third avenue, Im the yoar 1966 a 90-inch main was run on the west side of the receiving roser- voir im the Centrai Park, down through. Eighth avenue. Afterwards there was a 4-(oot main from the old reser- voir through Fightieth street to Foarth avenue, and down Fourth avenue to Thirty-eighsh street, with a branch through F irty-second street to the disteibuiag All these pipes conmect, on their way of the city, with the’ distributing re- ‘ond street. “Sie pipes to supply the elty auth of ox am it. These pipes .¢ ‘id Inctes each, in diameter, and tend to the Park “opposes Bighiieth ‘eurcet ane Fifth tend to the o avenue, where four of them aze connected with the i which must have > reservoir there. mrtg to the upper part of the city when re- quired, The reservoir now under construction at Carmansvilie is to supply all of that portion of the city which lies be- tween a level of one hundred ten apore tide, and two hundred and ten feet ide, This reservoir is on the bluff near the High Bridge Hotel, and the waier to supply it will be pur from z t i duct at the southern end of the m4 Bridge, one hundred and ten feet is now being suppli uke without the pumpin, dition (0 this a contract has been ry tower which will sapply the honses Heights with water, ‘ad else other | Of two hundred and ten feat, and | of two hundred seventy-five fc | tower will be one hundred -A0vOR ei kane ass tana aes All preea ih construt oR | and will have « large tank | the water, This tower “will stand reservoir above spoken of on @ foes above tide, @¢ Board are potting in water meters as fast aa large mar al usher viaces Whesr, large qi tody, to await a farther investigation by the Fire Mar. *