The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BKOADWAY AND ANN STREET. sAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, nan Ail business or news letters and telegraphic Conetitution Making in tho South—Nigger By the proceedings of the Alabame C tion the nation may see the results of radical rule—first, to drive from the governing coun- cils of a community all learning, all discretion, all regard for the stability of society, all quali- ties that men respect ; and, second, to replace these qualities by ignorance, savagery and the most intense spiritjof revenge, An assem- despatches must be addressed New Yor« | bly to make a State constitution is composed Hera. Lelters and packages should be properly wealed. turned. 6 yea THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in | Four cots per copy. Avnual subserip! on price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, over Cums por copy. vturday, a! Five Annual subscrip\ioa price "hres Copies... Vive Copies... ‘Vem Copics Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 cach. 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SROOKLYN OPERA HOUS! ne Dig. iN ou 1B, Wiliams big. —Nosonr's “INE ART GALLERIE: al wr TIME Al 8, $45 Broadway, -Bauyminos oF NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— fommoe any Aur, DEMY OF MUSIO. Fourteenth street —Die Carts: oomueiex—Love ano Inrmeur, a. New York, Monday, November 11, 1867. THES NEWs. ity dhe arrival at this port yostorday of the steamer avon, from Rio Janeiro on the 10Uh ult., and st. mas om the Ist inst, we are enabled to iuy before our readérs additiovs! particulars of the terz.bie burri+ cane at the latter place onthe 29th of October, The |. wale lasted only avout four hours, but raged with such | visionce that trees were torn ap and houses lified from their foundations and daybed to pieces, Thousands of | people are rendered bhouseiess, and a number of lives were lost, We pubiish in another columa a fist of the vessels lost aud damaged, so far as could ve aacertaiged a! the tine of sailing of the Marmion from St. Thomas, | is reported that several citizens of Matamoros, Mex. tou, revently charged certain e¢ivil officials with being coacorned in a contemplated revolution, whereupon the commander of the pust arrested and imprisoned tbe in- formants. Apother revolutionary movement is ex- pected within a few mouths, Our Washigtom correspondent states that General mory bas, under official imstractions from General ‘ 4, issaed an order disbanding all, irresponsible tary organizations, black and white, tr the District of Columbia, Tue bollers in floating = mil! exploded yesterday = morniog, with violance, demolishing tbe building, whith took a ia Chicago tremendous | of men unknown to the people of that State, or | where known “ known to be men of indifferent | character.” Its prominent white men are po- | litical adventurers, who were the scum of Rejected communications will aot be re- | Northern polities, and commended themselves to nigger voters by the extravagance with | which they expressed hatreds with which the nigger felt an active eympathy, In somo de- gree the Convention is made up of that class whose principal qualification is that it has always been under the white man’s foot and been content with the place ; whose qualifica- tion for‘law making is its former slavery, be- cause itis supposed that slavery has filled it with # bitterness that it will put into the lew. Here are constitution makers who not only cannot write their names but cannot always tell what their names are. Moses, possessed of all the learning of the Egyptians, and divinely inspired, matte a constitution for his people, and why should not Sambo make a cons\itution when he gets the chance? Plato was a constitution maker also; nations of antiquity sent their delegates a year’s jour- ney to have their constitutions shaped by thé wisdom of the Siagyrite ; Menu, So:on, Lycur- gus were constitution makers; Rome, before the time of the Twelve Tables, feeling the necessity for a consitution, sent wise men into all the cities of Greece to study the forme of government and frame her law ; all the barons of England became constitution makers in an- other age; and now all the niggers of Alabama are to give the subject their lofty considera- tion. Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay were constitution makers, and they baye their suc- cessors. Sambo, Cuffee and Pomp are the names that our age adds to the illustrious list that, beginning with Solon, comes down to Story. Constitution makers were the wisest fire and was entirely consumed. The engineer ia ec pposed ta have been killed. The loss is estimated ut 5,000. In the afternoon a fire occurred on the south alo of Calcage river, which destroyed ten buildings, to- gether with the decks and freig sheds of the Norther ‘transportation Company, involving a loss.of $70,000, Tae religious sorviges yesterday were well attonded st tue vacrous places of worship, Archbishop McCloskey rstone of @ new church to be erected by i the Dominican order in Lexington avenue, mer Sety-Ob evrest, aud delivered address ou the occasion, Bishop Bailey, of Newark, N. J., conferred holy orders on six condidates for the priesthood, and administered conirmation to about 4nroe hundred persons at West Hobokea. The Evangell- cal Aliiance mot at the Madison square Presbyterian e@uuroh, sad were addressed by the Rev. SJ, Prime. Mc, Gilmer bas deposited with General schofeld bis chatgoe against General Rose for misconduct in super. tovendimg (be late efertion in Richmond, Va, which aré ®. (ollows:—Conduct unbecoming an oulcer and gentio: maa drunkensess on duty, disobedience of orders and v.otar.on of the pinety-ninth article of war. fhose strong minded ladies, Susan B. Aatbany, Lucy men of a nation, and now they are the men whose learning consists in the ability to distin- guish between pork and possum. Happy age! ‘The direction and tendency of this Alabama Convention are obvious. lis first move is to.get the State government into other hands than those that now hold il. This measure receives the support of “the negroes and the extreme members.” Another propos'tion is to go behind the record of courts in cases of alleged crime and pursue some private feudsin public law. One more measure is supported by “ very vio- lent speeches.” This isa measure of whole- sale proscription and disfranchisement, and ao usn, 2 Bowery.—Couc | the Convention has determined, by a vote of sixty-three to twenty-two, that it will have some HOUSE, corner Toiriy-fourih + such measure and will not leave disfranchise- ment where it was left by the Military. bill, The Convention will cirzy radicalism further ‘than Congress dared. Proscription is the word. Let the people understand this and the result {t must have. Remember that in France, when the great revolution was made, the men who made it knew where it should stop, and desired to-stop it there. All the patriots would have preserved order when they had secured guar- antees of publie liberty, but this did not satisty the factions. The Sumners and Wendell Phil- lipses of that time urged on ignorance, bru- tality snd barbarism, and the revolution became a war of classes and a slaughter. This is the course marked out forges, The American people are satisfied with the resulis of the war, and wish to see order established on the basis laid down in the constitutional amendment. But this wise limit is not enough for’ the fanatics who have given power to thé /nizger, and hence these latter are urged forward and raise the cry of proscription. Will the people permit this, or will they “save the revolution’’ by the im- perative demand that this nigger carnival sball come to an end? Congress, radical as it was, dared only go a certain distance in its pursuit of vengeance for fear of the people. But it delegated its power to the niggers, and they are relied upon to go further. ‘This is the plan that has put the law-making power of the South into the hands of @ race that, in its native land, never met in convention for any other purpose but to roast and eat its enemies. There is but One remedy against the evil inherent in this plan, and that is the im- mediate repeal, as soon as Congress ‘comes together, of the infamous laws under which these Southern Conventions are to meet and upon which the one in Alabama is now acting. ‘Phe State Constitutional Convention. The State Constitational Convention is to reassemble at Albany to-morrow, and will meet under very gloomy and depressing circum- stances, The radical majority, after ‘sneaking out of the responsibility of presenting the n appropriate | question of free negro suffrage distinctly to the voters of the State, find themselves neverthe- loss repudiated by the people and kicked out of power, All the theories upon which they attempted to base the new constitation have heen rejected, and the only result they have accomplished after a whole summer's work bas been the reversal of their majority of fourteen thousand to ® minority of over forly thon- sand, and the disastrons overthrow of their party in the State. Rut this is not all. The Comptroller of the Sone and Mra Cady Stanton, together with “other | State has, we understand, come to the conclu- prom aenut indies of Kansas,’ bave projected an exten. | mpaign in the Northern and Eastern Stntes, ani Dave arranged for meetings next meath in ibe principal oa of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to mg tate the question of fomale suffrage. The Potledetpnia city railroads were in full operation yenerday under the recent decision of the Pennsylvania HW iprome Court, In several of the churches the minis- tory denounced the movement as wicked and unchrin- tinmi ee, The litte child, Joho Hartung, who wae rum over by @ car of the Bast Broadway aud avenue B line on Satur. day night, died yesterday, A prive Nght took place early yesterday morutog in | the people of the State. sion that he has no legal anthority to pay the | members of the Convention their per diem. With the adjournment, before the election, he holds that the right of the members to draw pay censed ; and this is even a more severe blow to the Convention than the forty odd (housnad majority rolled up against them by Their defeat they could siaad, but the stoppage of thar supplies ia fatal to them. They will no doubt immedi- ately adjourn and go home to awaitthe action Now Jersey ata pines called “Sbady Hoitow,” on the | Of the Legislature; and the hope of the people Hareensack road, between two bruisers of Jersey City, mamed Price and Watson, fora parse of $900, in which farty-three rounds were fought, when, Price failing to <vome w time,” the referee declared Watson the victor. A general melée then ensued between the partisans of the two principals, if which stones and clutm were freely need, remulting im several ptack eyes and brokes heads. ‘Vne Northern Cheyenses, Siouz, Arapahoes aad Crow Jodiansare to meet the Commissioners at Fort Laramie. will be that such a set of dishonest drivellers may never be wed to assemble again, No by the Cable. . We bave had no news by the Atlantic cable during the past three days, our European de- wpatches having failed in transmission since last Thursday nigbt to the moment when the Governor Fletaher, of Misvourl, bas appointed the | Henaty went to press this morning. No in- Pach inet. ase day of thankagivi ng. Vhe United States revenue steamer Wilderness, !ieu- troaat Carey, from Charleston, bound for Mexico, with Fenor Romero, Mexican Minister, and bis mother ond winter on board, tovdhed at Key West for coal en ihe ‘Ao! cast, and proceeded to Vera Crus om the 2d, formation has been given as to the cause of the interruption of the communication. The land telegraph lines from Newfoundiand may lave been prosteated bye storm or the cable itself injured, Ta: ai We are more heavily taxed im thie country than the people of any other epun'ry in the world. Not even those nations of Burop: which heve beon piling up enormous n.tional Gebts for centuries, through ambitious and dy- nastio wa's, and which have to support exp:n- sive monarohical goveroments aad privileged aristocracics, are burdened as is this young re- public, The national debt of England is larger than that of any other nation; but ours is not loss woighty, because the interest ig much bizher. But when we take into account the dobts of the several Sia‘es, the counties and the cities and towns, in addition to the debt of the fod- eral government, the burden is mach heamer sad the taxation far greater, We used to boast of our cheap goverhment, and point to the people of Great Britain, weighed down with taxation, by way of striking contrast. Now, however, our taxes in the aggregate are for each indiviiual nearly if not quite as much as the people of England have to bear; and almost ail this mountain of debt has been accumulated within seven years, The question which the American people will soon ask—which, in fact, they begin to ask—is, how has it happened that such an enormous debt was contracted? Admitting the necessarily wast expenses of a war uo- parallelod in history, we still cannot shut oar eyes to the. fact that other nations have had wars, of vast’ magnitude and of much longer duration without creating anything like such adebt. Well might Mr. Stevens say, in his re- markable letter which we published on Satur- day, that “we have thrown away our billions. and are still throwing away millions by mis- management.” Seven years or leas of radical republican rule has piled up a debt in the aggregate of over four theusand millions of dollars. Expensive -as the war was, there was no necossity for creating a debt one-half or a third as large as this. History furn:shes no example comparable with such ignorance, corruption and mismanagement in national finances a4 the party in power has exhibited. Mr, Chase inaugurated this frightful aystem of finance, and Mr. McCulloch and his other friends and supporters have continued to carry it out. Not only did they create un- necessarily a stupendous debt while the war Iaated, but they have kept up the burden since by reckless and extravagant legialation. They have given us the most ruinous and costly internal revenue system to support an army o! partisan office holders, and then have permit- ted frauds upon the government to the amount of hundreds of millions. They have estab- lished a military despotism in the South that will cost another hundred millions at. least, and in the end, probably, several hundred millions, They have given us’ the infamous national bank system, which robs the people directly of twenty-tive to'thirty millions a year and absorbs all the profits of industry. ‘The Freedmen’s Buresu, the: Pension and Bounty lawa, with other qumetous‘uricalled for geatui- ties and grants, amount to an inorsdible sum. They bave heaped up burdens too grievous to be borne. No other nation ‘could have atood uader them so long, and the people of this country cannot bear them much loager, If we look to history we shull see that nearly all great revolutions lave been caused by un- just or oppressive taxation. Touch the pockets of the people, tax them beyond measure, call upon the Isboring maases for the product ot their sweat and labor to maintain an extrava- gant government, and there will surely be a revolt. In arbitrary or moaarch:cal govern- ments there will be insurrection or a bloody revolution; under # popular government like ours the revolution will be effected at the bal- lot box. Our own glorious Revolution was the result of unjust and oppressive taxes imposed by the imperial government of Great Britain. ‘The first great revolution and succeeding revo- lutions in France sprang mainly from like causes, So ithas been in Englaud and otber countries throughout all history, and even as far buck as the revoliof the ten tribes of Israel under Jeroboam, because the yoke of Reha bowm was too heavy to be borne. Can any one be so short-sighted, then, as not to sce that the Americaas must soon revolt at ihe oppres- sive taxation now imposed upon them! A people who make their own laws by represent atives chosen every two years will not long endure extravagant and opprevsive legislation. And if any moneyed oligarchy. in the shape of national banks, bondholders, or privileged capitalists, think they have the power to con- trol legislaiion, and endeavor to do so, they will .find out their mistake. Should thess classes selfishly push their own iatorests against the interests and sentiments of the people they may conié out of the contest seri- gysly damaged. There is no desire on the part of the American people to repudiate the debt, but should the bondhoiders attempt to force specie payments before the weight of the debt be removed, and thoreby perpe‘uate the debt and the burdtn of taxation, public sentiment may take a shape that will make their securi- ties less valuable than they are, We wara them to beware of pushing their selfish inter- ests too far. The taxpayers and Isboring masses are the governing power in this country. The first and paramount object i# ta estab- lish an economical government in place of the recklessly extravagant one we have, and to both reduce taxation and pay off the bulk of the debt while we have an abundant currency. The national bank circulation should be with- drawn, greenbacks issucd in its place, and with these three hundred millions of the inter- est bearing bonds be bought up and éancelled. This would save twenty-five millions a year in curfent money, und would give us at the same time s uniform currency, Ifthe business of the country can bear a greater circulation without unduly inflating prices, a farther issue might be made, and more of the interest bearing debt be cancelled. At all events, we ought to have a uniform legal tendor ourreney instead of the miserable mixed currency now afloat. Archibald Alison, in writing upon British finance and currency, makes a suggestion that might be useful to follow. He suggests two kinds of currency—paper and the precious metals—the first, in fact, to be the money of the country, legal tenders, and the latter to be & reserve for conversion in » way similar to thet which exists in the case of the Bank of England. The prgcious metals nowhere are & sufficient currency for business purposes. Even ia England and in all specie paying cona- tries and times by for the largest amount of business is done through paper, through bank ot pelvate notes, The paper issues of the gov. croment, properly mould ,qnjy take the place of they would be money in faot as substantial as fhe governmbat Iteelf We are now im © position to eatybli:h an inde- pendent American sys‘om of finance and car- rency euied t our owa condition, aad not tying ourselves down to tuo errors, or what is unsuitabie im the old systems, of Burope. The time has come when we should do this. It is going (o be the great and absorbing question beiore the people and for state:man to study. ‘Sapeleon’s Reman Policy. In the Henatp of yesterday woe printed a variety of special correspondence, tozother with numerous extracts from the Fronch and English journals, all of which reflect, with more or loss accuracy, tho sentiments which prevail in regard to Napolson’s policy in the Roman difficulty. Is is notowor'hy that the Emperor bas never, af any p evious period, shown such hesitation as be has shown in this case, Again and again were orders received at Toulon for tho fl ot to gail, and aa often were the orders countermanied. It is quite possible that this hesitation my yet be ex plained by vaol lation on the partof the Ita'tan government Mexnwhilc, ai matiers stand the’ hesitation is noteworthy, Ina msn like Napo- leon, who bas built up his power by acllon as prompt as ithas beon resoluts ad-vigorous, want of decision is liable to be considered an indication of coming werkuoss, It ig also manifest from our correapondence, and from the extracts raferred to, that the ex- pedition bas bsen popular with no class in France, not even with the army, who bave ever hitherto been pliant to the Emperor's will, The inoident recorded by our corte- spondent as having occurred in ‘ho Exhibition building on Sunday, 27:h Ootober, reveals the tone of fecling which prevails among the mili- tary classes. While in the building an egg was flung at the Emperor’s picture, and his appearance in one of the departmen's was greeted with loud and distinct hiss- ing. The suspected pariiss wore men in blouses. The Fréach government organs alone yustify the Roman intervention. Among the English papors few have been other than condemn tory. The London Ferald, of course, haa all along been against what it calls revolution and anarchy. More recently the Times has become apologetic, and feels itself “compelled to avow that ths Empe- ror had every rigbt to .act as he has done.” Tho Emperor’s position was unquestionably a difficult one, and there are many who will | agree with us when we say that if he substi- tutes for the September Convention some wiser and more equitable arrangem nt, his interven- tion will be forgiven and forgotten. The Sep- tember Convention, which ought never to have ‘existed, ia to be credited with all the misobiet. Had Napoleon im September of !sst year yielded to wiser and more daring thoughts, he would not now be exposed to the charge of ; demolishing in. Italy the fabric which he so laLoriously and magnanimously reared. The Piers and Wharves of New York. We utiderstand that Comptroller Connolly and the Commissioners of tae Sinking Fund will be prepared to submit to the State Logis- lature, at an early day of the approaching ses- sion, a full repors of the present condition of tho pliers and wharves of New York, the amounis and periods for which (hey are leased, and the work necessary to be done in order to put them in @ proper coudi'ion to meet the demands of the commerce of the port. With this statement will be submitted a practical plan by which this valuable public property cinspeedily bs made to yivld alarge revenue to the city, instead of being, as it now is, a barden to the taxpavers and a disgrace to the great commercial metropolis; and the complex- ion of the noxt Log'slature leads to the hope that it may be promptly adopted and pnt into the shape of a law. The dock property is worth from one bun- ard to one hundred and fifty million doliars. Such an estate owned by a private individual would be made to yield a princely income. Under honest management it would pay slacge portion of the ex»enses of the cliy government. It has not done so for a number of years past, because it has been in the hands of poilticians who have made jobs out of that as out of all the public properiy, and because a number of greedy lobby adventurers have beon striving to get it into theie own bands. The city has made no repairs, and the leases have bean held by men who have tried 10 make all the money they could during their term of oecupation, heedless of wha! became of the property atter- wards, Indeed, the rates of wharfage havo not been high enough to warrant its being pur into proper order. The Legislature might have remedied the evil by proper legislation, but this hag been prevented by the intrigues and influence of designing men, who dosired that the docks should fall into dilapidation as @ ples for giving them over tw private hands. Whatever sum is found necessary to entirely rebuild or thoroughly repair ail the piers and wharves belonging to the city should be raised at once by » loan and the work done. The leases should then all be made at fair rentals, such as private owners would ask for similar property, the city doing all the fumre repairs, The rates of whariage should be raised to an amount that would worrant the payment of a fair rent by the leasee, so as to ensure to the city an income large enough to keep up the repairs, pay tho interest on the loam and set apart a proper amount as a sink- ing fand for the redemption of the bonds. We understand that the lessees who hold leases ran- ning until 18756 would cheerfully relinquish them for others at an equitably increased rent if this policy should be carried out, The speculators who are striving to lay their fingers on the piers and wharves would pursue just such @ plan as this and make enormous for- tones out of the job. There is no reason why the city should not keep the property in its own hands and realize the benefits to be se- cared from its improvement and proper management. If the very respectable gentlemen who met together Inst Friday to listen to ® food of commonplace twaddie shout our piers and wharves, and who raised » committee of a hundred or a bundred and firty highly polished fossils to take the matter into consideration, will back up the City Comptroller in his efforts to improve the public property and increase the city revenues, instoad of being led by their respectablo noses by « clique of lobby adven- turers and speculators, they will confer @ prac- tional benefit upon the city, and in the shape of Brazilian Finances. We recetitly published « very interesting statement of the fiasncial condition of Brazil. In 1826 the whole revenue of the empire was but little over three millions of dollars. In 1866 1t wae over thirty-ono and a half mil- lions—an increase which denotes that there exists in Brazil the elements of a great na- tionality, providing they are properly devel- oped. The greatest increase in the exports and imports took place when steamships com- menood running to tho Brazilian ports. The facilities which these offered to learn the wants of the people and supply them gave a great impulse to production and the consumption of foreign goods in exchange for exports, Steam lines algo furnished # rapil and safe transit for exchanges and letters—somothing absolutely necessary to the unrolling of international trade. The value of merchandise which has been imported into Brasil direct from foreign coun- ties has doubled gincs 1846. To-day the value of thelr imports reaches nearly. forty- throo millions of dollars. : In the products of Brazil there is very marked inoreasy during she last twenty years, The coffee prodaot has boon trebled, until, in 1866, it reached. moarly thirty-one millions of dollars, Cotton raising also shows well, and from one and 6 half millions of dollars ip 1846 ths product of 1866 shows nearly twenty- three milliona. © This branch of industry re- o-ived a great impetus during our civil war, From the figures w» quote it is evident that Brasil, as woll #3 India, did not fail to profit by our dissensions. These figures prove also that there’ is some chance for the South American countries to com- pete with us in the coiton growing business. Not only is this the oase in Brazil, but Southern Bolivis, the northern half of the Argentine republic, the provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios, anl Paraguay, all in La Plata valley, possess cotton lands which are scarcely surpassed by ourown. This cotton product of Brazil should teach us that wegan never hope to hold such s monopoly of its culture as we held in 1860. Co:ton in the United States can no longer olaim aristooratic privileges or boast that it is king. It is a curious featur>, how- ever, that though the co‘ton product has been inetowod 60 much in twenty years, there has been but little effort made to foster home manu- factures. Whi'e they produce twenty-three million dollars’ worth of cotton, they import fifesn miliion dollars’ worth of cotton goods. Tits is mostly from England. It shows that Brasil is paying a tribute to Enzlish commerce and English manufactures, of which thre is no necessity; for within the Bragilian territory there are minutacturing elements sufficient to supply the wants of the empire. . Great Britain ranks as the first in the list of | consumers of Brazilian products, and the | United States, France and ‘the Argentine re-, public follow in line. ‘The great secret of thé | English trade is the steamship policy, which, witiin five yoars from the date of its establish- ment, added a fabulous increase to British Brazilian commerce, France, pursuing the same broad scheme, is tapping the South American trade with great rapidity, and if the United States pursue their present retrograde commercial system we may hops to stand not second in the Bruziliaa trade, but iourth or fifth. One featurs of the statistics we have pub- lished shows what a competition there is among foreign nations for the trade of South America. Of tho commercial houses which pay taxes about three-seventha are toreign. Were wo to go to the great commercial emporium of La Plata valley, Bnenos Ayres, we would find @ much greater proportion of foreign houses than this. Of these but very few are American. ‘They mostly range be- tween the English, French, Portngnose, Ger. man and Italian competitors for trade. Owing to our difficulty of communication with those countries we have almost .lost sight of ihe im- mense ahd rapidly growing advantage: which they offer for our commercial development, Brasil, by ® reliable estimate, has ten mil- lions of people, The taxes thus far are very light, averaging two dollars and ninotsen cents tor each individual. These, however, must be greatly increased this yeor as well as in the future, on account of the immense war debt Braz 1 is rolling up in her efforts to extend her territory towards the magnificent La Plata valley. This war must damage Brazil im- mensely. Had sh» created an equal debt for the purposes of internal development, and waited five or ten years for the results, she might have dicia‘ed terms to the whole of Eastorn South America; as it is now, she is wasting every energy in a ctruggle out of which she neither reaps glory in coveted terri- torial aggrandiz:ment nor ia military action. We recognize, however, that she is simply play- ing her part of the great gamo against repub- licanism which was inaugurated in Europe in 1860-1. She only finds that Paraguay is a worse field to retire from than was Mexico to Napoleon, New Granada to Eaglaad in the contest for the Panama Railroad, or the west coast of South America to Spain. Brasil has & glorious future before her if sbe will but govern hersclf wisely. Let her retire from her Paraguay war and confine herself to her internal progress. If she will but do this she may, before the year 1900, show a wonder- ful increase in her exports and imports, far in excess of that which she has shown since native impulse, aided largely by foreign energy, forced her unwieldy tsrritory into commercial notice. The Charter Kiection=The Inirigues ef the Ring. The ring politicians are bard at work striv- ing to prevent any union of the honest and in- dependent voters of the city upon 9 candidate certain to defeat their own nominees, To that end they have made a bazgain with some of the radical leaders: to put into the field a strictly party nominee representing the princi- ples of the last Syracuse Convention, alrendy repudiated by the of the State. The radicals, with all the aid that could be given them by the several departments over which they hold control in this city, could only mus- tor in the State election twenty-five thousand votes out of 4 poll of one hundred and eleven thousand. Now that it. fs known that their power is broken, that the State Legislature is against thom, and that all their packed Fenton commissions sre about to be shorn of their [ot votes tor any candidate they might r might run ag” 9 distinctive radical a ment to place » fanatical radical candidate im the ficld for Mayor of the city is nothing more than a job of the rings, probably paid for with 80 many dollars, and intended to leave the track clear for their own nominzes. If any~ thing is to be done to save the city from the hands of these corrupt cliques, between whom there Is little choice, it should be done as once, Let @ respectable business citixen be placed in nomination, and there is little doubs that he will receive the votes of all independ- ent, honest mea, irrespective of party, and ba elected over Wood and Hoffman, with a negre supremacy, national bank, Sunday law, played out radical thrown in. Heathonism in New Kogland Tf wo are to believe the Hartford Courant, the stase of things in New Enzland ts euff- ciently alarming, The old centro of religion on this continent, the home of the ‘Pilgrim Fathors, the land of Mather. and Williams and Edwards, threatens to laps: into infidelity. What cam be the reason of this? Devotion te the nigger, we fear, has taken the place of de- votjon ‘to the Church, Henveforth it will ba well for New England apostles to limit the sphere of their labors, and to'look at home, THE HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS, Narrow Path of the Storm—Full Particulars Stephen Hasbrouck, of the Marmios, for tho folowing account of the recent hurricane at &. Thomas ;— ‘We arrived at 3t, Thomas on the morning of the 30th, ° and fouad that the island had beon visited the day pre- vious by the most terrific hurricane ever known thore, the town being partiaily destroyed and th» loss of life Very great. The amount of property destroyed at pres ent is impossible te estimate; the scone of destruction and devastation impossible to describe. ‘The wind commenced Glowing a pretty stiff brecse about from the northwest, an@ abeut it “changed round to the everything it. It Inated = about four hours, but during that time raged with such violence that trees were tora up, houses lifted from their foundations aad dashed to pieces, Shipe aud steamers of the largest class, as well ap emailer vosgels, were huried - together and either dashed to pieces or sunk. Some fifty or aixty vessols are ashore, dismasted or sunk, and part ef their crews lost. Thousands are rendered - homeless, and the amouat of suffering, confusion an@ excitement it is impossible to describe, There is nothing doing; everybody seems paralysea. dh Oa tho morning of the 29:h, there being indications or a ctorm, the passengers of tte old steamer Conway, Cap- tain Hammack, did not fool safe to go to aea in her, an@ wished to be transferred to the Rhone, a new stesmer of tbe lime, where they might consider themselves safe im case of @ storm. They were accordingly transferred, and both vessels put to sea; but during the storm ihe Rhono strack on Peter's Isiand, her boiler exploded, and al! wert lost with the exception of twelve or fifteen. The Bridish steamship Conway, Captain Hammack, thrown on Tortola Isiand, and all hands were saved. Upto thetime of our departure, nothing defaite im Tegard to the other isiands had been heard, with the ox-— eight o'clock eleven o’oleok aad a While nobly attempting to rescue others. Having suc- cocded in bis tirst attempt, he was returning the secon@ time, when his boat capsized and he lost bis life. - ‘The steamer Columbian came im at about clover o'clock, and at two o'clock was sunk, amd six porsomm lost. Her cargo was valued at {rom $1,000,000 te $2,000,000. ‘The track of the hurricane secins to have been nare row, aa the Marmion, trew Rio, and the North America, from New York, arrived the day after, and neither bev- ing experienced more than s stiif breeze. The North America arrived at St. Thomas on the ‘0th, at two P. M., aad lef: agaim at six o'clock, without coaling; re= Ported all right, Lappend a itst of disasters, as fer «a known :— Y VESSELS SUNK IN TAR HARBOR OF HT. HOMEY on the 29th of October, 1867, during the gale:— spanish war steamer Camaguel sunk, aud sixteen per- sons drowned. wy Britisn steamer Columbiaa, six mon lort; cargo worte froin $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Brive steamer Khong, lust at Peter's Island; 160 men British steamer Wye, Captain Taylor, lost off the bar- bor; 59 men lost. F British scuooner Proctor, British brig Omsiphores, Bnitish schooner Ocean Gem, three men lost; American Captaia oe trom New Yors. Clinton, j French bark tug boat, French bark Emma, French sioop Syiph. captain ‘fost; Spanish schooner Jost; Spanish schooner ires Hermanos, captain lost; schooaer spanish schooact Bera ‘ish schooner Altagracia, Vonezucia Joran Panchita, Venezusla. achuoner Oriental, Venezueia schooner with $5,000 specie; Venezuela schooner Pancbita Vanish schooner Maggie, Danish schooner West Ea@ Danish bark Ludwig Hohn, ‘Danish, scnoomer z janeite Dutch schooner Ainalia. “Bremen brig Jobana, two tug boats and all the Lgatera ‘wore destroyed. German Bertha, all lost but two men, ‘Prusgiao ‘Tuffer. AND DAMACKED, 7, was ter, rated Al, jue New Com- York Thien Naw ‘gation Sprague, Captain Pike, ie @ total and thirteen men lost ther tives, (The C. §. waenaet sel of 746 tons measurement, was built Me., in 1851, and was owned by N, L. & New bgt) i i fi Aa i ff : g i i i; ti i i i re 3 Fi Z f 3 i Hi i i g s Fy i I > 5 pe z é 22 BE B iG Se at iH aa 5 & = 2 i af z E gz i i 4 i if inh ti i i 4 ; if Derwent. Freneh bark Brume, Freneb bark bark Gazelle, French bark General de Lourme!, French oy ion brig Valkyricn, Danish bark Nordaker, Danish schooner Das Hermanos, dismasted; Freach sobooner Petrel. German brig Hotios, German brig Edward. Norwegian ship Veloz, Dutch brigs Maria aad Anna and Anytis. Datch schooner Jutiat dismasied Spanish steamer Velayo. Spanish war steamer Vasquez Nunex de Bilbo die About all the coverings of the roofs of houses were blown away—sach aa tiles, zine, £o. All the wharves were smashed, an@ the fort barracks ars gona The lighthouse was destroged, and aboot three hundred porsous have been buried, after having been pioked up in the harbor. The loss, both on whore and én the shipping, Is very Heitish brig Atpha, Captam Davison, from New York, bound here, anchored at Anoy.vda, dismasted.” American bark Estber, blown off from sombrero Island, was dismusted, «ad was just coring into port. Pane ry 4 Chonen. 42 Crit Grant a on Sunday ‘white Divine prvi nay bag i Christ arch, the building (a frame) took which cansed grene consternatien the congroga tion, A rush war, of course, the house was 8000 emptied. i work tearing the seats away from iags and ited ie tas nap ace thm re welat (get $f the ust ta, Segoe unos eared, from dagieuetien. Tun Bre wns from 0 detegita san,