The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1867, Page 6

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Evening DWORTH HALL.—E. and “Brace Eraxo.oe ACTR, ON ad evening. | eRRE WILL AND OPES 4 HURCH, wenteen(l etree, Moraing aad evening. COMMUNION GAYTIST Rey. Cuaxcms & Biase OLD SONN STREET METHODIST EViscoraL AURCH. fhe. Srerugy Mannie, Evening j (RINITY CHAPEL.—Rev, Wa. Fo Mokcax, U. 0, on wae “Mioxzcne Mission.” Evening i] CHURCH OF TRE PU NS, Union equare Ray. Marracy Hate Surra. WILLETT CHURCH.—Rey. J.B Mrances. M THE SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rev. 7, | Ri, Dawson, on “Tae Wouas oF Pirasone.'* Morning aud | vering. f. ANN'S FREE CHURCH, Bighiesuth siree!.—Rev, | aay might, Killed a | day, the Ith of November. NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1867.—TRIPLE SHBET. up the attempt to make nis hundred miloa, 08 account of the swelling of bis fest pe ye alleged Worcester wife marderer, bas Deen heard from in Webster, Mass aud officers have been despatched to arrest bia. ‘Two cases of trichina resulted fatally (n St, Louis re- cently. ‘A kerosene exptorion a St. Paul, Mion., recently caused the death of one young lady and the loss of an arm to Mies Guasie 5) ® daughter of the General of that name. A photographer named (regery, tn Cleveland on Fri- aiet in his employ named o had Deem oriminaliy iati- Isabella Roy, with wh | mate, and then killed himself. It snowed heavily in Concord, N. H., peaterday mora- ing. The thermometer stood at twenty-seven degrees above zero, A locomotive exploded at Binghamton yesterday, killing the engioeer and froman. Sixteen steamships left this city yesterday for Kuro- pean and coastwise ports, The Zurope and City of New York took over $200,000 in specie, Kuropeao freights are full, Freights to Southern ports show a slight im- provement. The stock market was on the whole frm yosterday. Government securities wore firm, Gold was weak and | closed at 13974. Business yesterday in almost all departments of trade was remarkably light, and prices of some articles ex- Derienced a marked decline; in some instances, how- ever, higher prices were obtained. Cofse was steady frm, while cotton was sparingly dealt in and {c. per Ib. lower. On ‘Change the flour market was very quiet and prices receded 0c, @ 150. per bbl, while wheat, though quiet, was firmer, Corn and = oats were moderately active and firmer, Pork was in light demand, but quite firm. Boef and lard were not materially changed Whiskey was dul! and nominal, Freights were quiet and weak. Naval stores were unchanged, while petro- leum, owing to the unfavorable advices from Antwerp, was duil and fully lc. per gallon lower. Falling Stars, Hurricanes, Floods and Vel- canic Eraptions—What Next? The meteoric shower of 1867 was delayed until half-past three on the morning of Thurs- By that hour the reporters of ali the city journals excopt the | Herarp had wearied of watching for the event, and after gravely recording their opinion that | it would not occur, that the meteoric shower | was a meteorological myth, had gone to bed. But the Heratp of the same morning duly chronicled this fifiy-ninth exhibition of falling stars since the beginning of tho Christian era, and gave special telegrams from vigilant astronomers at Washington and Albany. On Friday morning we published in our apecial telegrams and correspondence full and minute reports of observations made at Greenwich, in England, at Washington, Richmond, Albany, Troy, Poughkeepsie, Chicago, Detroit, at vari- ous points in Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carol na, Louisiana—in a word, from all parts of the Union, including Connecticut, the home of Professor Looms, We published # neat little report of the spectacle by Professor Loomis himself, who, it appears, had luckily returned homo in time to see it. In the course of hig report he modestly hints that he retracts | his foolish contradiction of the testimony of the heavens and the Heratp to the meteoric display which he now admits was “seen in Europe last November.” The Professor has evidently become a wiser and a less presump- tuous man than he was “last November,” when he rashly and in vain resisted the united forces of: the telegraph and the press. Professor Loomis mentions that the expected display ot shooting stars attiined its greatest magnifi- cence at half-past four on Thursday morning, and describes it,s0 far as numbers are con- cerned, as more remarkable than that seen in Howwrs axo Rer. De Gatcavver, Morning and STBPAEN'S EPISCOPAL CHUROH, coroer Bi ad Tweniy-eighth sireet.—Rav. De, Pree, Mor and evening. ae } * MASONIC UAL or Paogcasre 8 Kast Thirieanth street —Tns Socuery atrers. Moralug and evening UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, Thiriy-foncth trast. M ‘and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESTORATION. tay, Eysay Biam caano, On “Tae Retigion on Fre Tr. Evening. " TRIPLE SHEET. New Verk. Sunday, November 17. 1867. THE NIUwW s. EUROPE. tne wows day evenin, 5 Napoleon's plan for a general conference on the Italo- Toman question is surrounded with difficulties, Pope Now the Niath objects to being made the subject of « conference, sad most of the other Powers are divided in | opine as to the necessity of such an assembiage. pain alone aupports the temporal power, reek despatches say that the war in Candia bas been ‘onewed since the fa:lure of the Tarco-Cretan mission, “Ht is said that the United States is to take all the Danish ‘eat lodie isiands, paying eleven and a haif millions of <iotiare, The Chief Judges in Ireland are busi! b sentencing Fenians (to imprisonment and exile, while he Raglish Cabinet is debeting how many of the “Weniaa rescue rioters wil be hanged in Manchester. ‘Vhe meteoric diepiay was visible ail over France. Cousote were at 949-16, for money, in London. Five. twoaties were at 70 10-16 in Londom aad im improved domaad Five-twentios were at 76% in Frankfort, Colton declined one-sizteenth of a peany im Liverpool; riddliag upland closed at 6 7-16 pence Breadstatte wendy. Provisions easier, : MISCELLANEOUS. ju (o@ Alabama Convention yesterday the day of ad- jourpment was ized forthe 25th ant, Ordinances changing the names of certain counties to Lincoln and rowniow were referred to the appropriate im ithee, Vhe Comvittee on the Executive reported in favor of removing the power of pardon for tresoa from the “evernor to the State Senate, Our apecial correspondence et Matamoras gives an seoount of a comspiracy to overturn the civil govern. moat of the city. The conspirators, among whom rere <9veral prominent politicians, were arrested. The speech of General Sherman at St. Louw on the covastion of the reanion of the officers of the Arn tue Tomneneas, le p ta our ¢ this mornin ' oh ‘arotma, and a eonsideradle reaction (# ohervabie among the oviored voters. j General Sickles has been mestered ont of the ve ‘eer service as Major General, by order of she Presi Ho retaing bis rank im the regular service of Colonel of the Forty-fourth infaptry, The graad council at Port Laranué has commenced. The Crows desire to remain in their own country, end (he Miouk requested that General Harney meet them at Wort Phil Kearny, The majority for & convention ts Georgia is shows to ho 98,156, the number of whites voting (@ favor of it voing 36,600. ‘The Congressional Commitice on Netrenchmen: ie now holding iteeessions in Aroom jm the Custom Mouse ia inte ofty, Gencral C,H. Van Wyck Chairman. Abont a nandred witoesses Lave Leen sudpenaed and several siready @xamined. Srande upsh the government, both paliey and stupendous, have alreaty been testified to, Europe last November and but little inferior to that seen in the United States in 1833, The most important fact in connection with this year’s exhibition is that the very careful observations made by our astronomers have confirmed already, and when fally compared will probably establish, seve- ral points which bave hitherto been doubiful In the theory of meteoric bodies. Our Washing- ton correspondent said, in his special telegram of the 14th inst., that one point which appears to have been determined by the observations of this morning is that the exact anniversary of these phenomena is not confined alone to the 14th of November, as it returns each time ata later hour; nor is it certain that the mete- ; orice phenomena must be limited to one display in the same year. Indeed, the hypothesis secias now more probable than ever that these shooting stars, which have sometimes appeared in August as well as in November, and which | Many hive had « similar origin to the thirteen amall bodies revolving between Mars and Jupiter, and, it is conjectured, having once formed the mass of a now exploded planet, belong to a group revolving about the sun in one bundred and cighty-two days, in an ellipti- cal orbii, and that, in passing through the aphelion in August and November they come in contact with the earth’s atmosphere, on entering which with great velocity they become ignited and consumed. Mrs. Somerville adds to her statement of this hypothesis that “an event eo tremendous as the explosion of a world is by no moans beyond the unlimited power of steam under intense pressure.” Meteors are supposed to be the débris of comets, and, according to’ observations made in order to determine the parallax, it has been decided that the general body of them is from sixty to one bundred miles above the earth— although some approach much nearer—and are occasionally so large that they are not fured in their passage, but reach the earth and pene- trate it. We have not yet heard that any of these “meteorle stones” fell daring the recent ahower. This “tempest-dropping fire” called to mind Ehakspeare’s description of the portentous storm at Rome previous to the assastination of Julins Cesar:- Rithor there ie » civil strife in heaven, Or ele the world, 409 saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction. Aud when we turn from signs in (he heaven to signs on earth it must be conceded thet the disciples of Cumming and Miller are appar- ently justified in their expectation that the end of the world # approaching. The same number | of the Hanauv that chronicles the celestial pyro- | technics of Thurrday morning gives special | telegrams announcing on the same day an ernp- tion of Mount Vesuvius, detailing the destruc - tion of millions of property and five hundred lives at St. Thomas during the recent gales; announcing the Joes of two hundred lives and the destitution of four thousand families hy a terrible hurricane in the southern portion of | Heity of the Hararn, protinatprigrciystesee = od Soe Szamined are eer | Porto Rico, and the lose of ten thousand lives yore to be. Sreperes i More | and incaloulable wealth by the flood that fol- prsreriyttia. Sates alk i ane ‘cnanaien lowed the great gale of the 7th insiwnt and en- are reflected upon by the winesses in anything vrs | tirely submerged for eight hours the isiand of | creditabie manner, The alitings Of the commities wil | Tortole, in the West Indies; aad, finsily, an- vulsions which have Intely been reported from | the Indian Ocean we may not be tempted, like the Millerites, to fear that the late meteoric shower foretokens the approaching hour of doom ; but we shall have to agree with Emer- son’s conclusion, that “ Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of Do use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed in- atrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific bene- factor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student of divinity.” Our special telegrams | have lately been full of falling stars, hurri- canes and volcanic eruptions. What next? The Real Issue in the City Election. The recent political revolution in all the State elections, from Maine to California, was | the result of the reckless policy of the repub- | licans in power, and does not by any means imply that the country has abandoned those republican principles which carried the war to | a successful issue, suppressed the rebellion and would have accomplished the reconstruc- tion of tae South long since had they been faithfully carried out. Still less is the great change to be taken as any indication that the loyal people are prepared to reinstate the old copperhead democracy in power, after its at- tempt to destroy the government and its per- sistent efforts for four years to embarrass the Union cause and make the war a failure. The republicans have been defeated and their large majorities scattered to the winds be- cause they yielded to the violence of radical leaders, who insisted upon dragging the | party into all manner of vindictive and ex- travagant legislation, and who defied popular sentiment in the measures they brought for- ward, aa well aa in the men they put in nomination for public trusts, These leaders believed that their large majorities all over the North could not possibly be overcome, and, assuming to represent their party, they forced upon the country the Freedmen’s Bu. reau, the national banks, the military govern ments in the Southern States, and other schemes, all calculated to swell the public debt and heavily increase the burden of taxa- tion. They left the South unreconstructed, her valuable commerce lost to the nation and her idle black population pensioners upon the | general government, in order to force negro supremacy upon her people. The verdict of the recent clections waa rendered against a policy that is dragg’ng the country rapidly to financial ruin and threatening to involve us in @ war of races. So far as our municipal affairs are con- cerned, the Tammany democracy occupy a similar position in the city of New York to that filled by the radicals in the nation. The Tam- many ring has long hall possession of the city government and now controls all its patron- age and profits, The leaders have pressed through all sorts of iniquitous jobs, and have increased the expenses of the government to twenty-four million dollars @ year, or twenty- four dollars for every man, woman and child in the city. They have felt so confident in the strength of thoir large patronage, their money and their machine organization, that they have believed it in their power to defy popular sentiment in the measares they have adopted andin the men they have put forward for office. They now desire to re-establish in power for two years longer the game adminis- tration under which the Gourt House job has flourished and the taxation of the cily been swelled to twenty-four million dollars a year. This is the real issue that is before the people in the approaching charter election. It isa question of debt and taxation in the city, as in the State elections it was a question of debt and taxation in the nation. The taxpayers of New York, after being robbed of some ten million dollars a year by the corrapt rings that have held control of the municipal offices for two years past, are now coolly requested to replace the same adminis- tration in office for two years to come. Under these circumstances it is no longer a consid- eration of party, of organization or of regu- larity. It is a question of increased debt and increased taxation alone ; and as the radicals were swept from power on this issue in the State, so will the Tammany rings be swept from power in the city. The Terrible Tornado at Tortoia—The Herald’s Special Telegrams. We yesterday gave an account of the gale which swept over Porto Rico and the adjacent islands, especially that of Tortola, which was completely submerged. Further advices state that this island was under water for eight hours, and that “every living thing, man or snimal, upon it perished.” These gales which #0 often vielt the West India islands have been unusually severe this year, and especially at Porto R'co. Thus, it is stated in our special telegram of yesterday “that the tempest was more severe than the two terrible gales which visited the ill-fated island previous to 1850. All the towns have been terribly desolated. One thousand houses have been laid in ruins and three thousand have been severely damaged ;” “cattle have been killed and flelds swept entircly bare.” The sufferings of the inbabitanis must be fearful; and it is an- nounced that the merchants have demanded that flour, corn and provisions shall be ad- mitted free. With reference io Tortola, it is probable that all the level habitable lands were at once sabmerged before the people could reach places of safety. The island is 8 vory small ove and the shores are very low. As usual, our contemporaries are disposed to avall themselves of our news. Falling to be in the van themselves, they assail the authen- We are accustomed to this, however. The valuable information which we have chronicled from time to time from Kurope and elsewhere is well opleniated to create envy. i Paes #0 Py | Stambery the Oracle } Like the old oracle at Delphi, Mr. Stanbery descanis upon the affairs of the nation as if hie opinion wae sbsoluicly necessary to the existence of the government. Kvery now and then the wise men cousnis him ; and when they de not coorult him he makes himeelf heard by volunteering hit advice, seeing how utterly impossible it ie to ran the machine without hire, Hie leet serep of windom I given to the | Washington papers, probably ax « warning to Congress end the Presidents that they do not know what they are shont aud ought to turn | water fronts will be employed for buildings, ‘The Fashions. We learn from Paris, through our special fashions correspondence, that modisles and ministers, ladies and lackeys, and, in short, the whole world of fashion, are in a flutter of excitement over the visit of the Kaiser. The distinguished visitor has been taken every- where and has been féted to his heart’s con- tent. A grand fifteen hundred franc banquet was got up for his special benefit, and tickets of admission to see the lions feed were issued. The Parisians are greatly exercised over a new book on etiquette, publisbed by a lady of rank, in which the requisite number of bows in the presence of royalty, the proper time to cough or sneeze, and the manner in which the knite and fork must be handled at an imperial ban- quet, are given in painful detail, The latest novelty in fashions is what is termed “ plastic proportions,” and every figure must be reduced to this standard. The Empress wore a fringe of diamonds and rubies on her poult repe at the banquet, but we hardly think that this trimming will become popular or general in this city. The belles of the ballroom and promenade have adopted a very suggestive ornament, as far as matrimonial proclivities are concerned. Their toilets are completely cov- ered with rings of all sorts and materials. Spiteful little ferret heads scowl on muff and boa, and a timid young man will find his cour- age sorely tested in approaching a lady dreased in the new fur sets, Necklaces of thirty rows | and trimmings of gimp leaves are also coming into fashion. Among our own modistes there is a gratifying disposition manifested to in- | sult no longer the tastes and good sense of | their customers with the extravagances and ridiculous extremes of fashion. It has been | the case before, and to a great extent also, that the American purveyors of fashion buy up in Paris the most outré caricatures of the prevail- | ing modes and bring them to New York | as genuine copies of the toilets of the best society in the former city. The term Paris fashions has been, therefore, mis- applied in many iastances, even when the goods actually came from the capital of fashion. No refined French lady would wear the unbecoming, unsuitable and ridiculous toilets that are sometimes exhibited by our modisies as “the latest from Paris.” There is a great improvement in this respect in the winter styles that are now exhibited at the principal houses. Perhaps the change may become a@ revolution, and American modistes and American ladies may originate and select their own styles, irrespective of foreign dicta- tion. It is, indeed, time for our leading estab- lishments to adopt this course ; for the man- ner in which they have heretofore acted has not been very complimentary to their cus- tomers. They have made dresses and cloaks according to some pattern, material or color, | without the slightest reference to its adapta- bility to the wearer. Toilets were cut out and arranged by them as if by machinery, and pre- sented to blonde and brunette, fat and thin, indiscriminately. This is not the custom of the belles of Paris. Fashion there means a prevailing tone in some particulars, not a carpenter’s rule and measure method of build- ing up the edifice of the motley goddess. Each lady adapts the prevailing mode to suit her age, complexion, form and height; and in nearly every instance she displays originality in the very adaptation. Our ladies have been too long bound down by the capricos and tyramiiy, of tho modes ln this city } sind {eis | to be hoped that they will now imitate the example of the fashionable Parisians in think- ing for themselves what is becoming to them and adapting the prevailing modes to. their own particular wants. They will then compel the modistes to present to them the true styles of the French capital, and will, besides, have the gratification of exercising « little origi- nality in adapting those styles. Addition te the Living and Feediag Places of the Metropolis. New York wants room for its people to live in. It wants a space within its immediate proximity where the vegetable materials that supply its markets can be furnished cheaply in afresh and healthy condition. It wants, moré- over, that the miasmatic swamps that lie around itehould be converted from places of pesti- lence to sources of usefulness. Manhattan Island is eo rapidly being absorbed for busi- ness purposes that its working population, and, for the matter of that, its wealthy population also, has to seek a domicile either on Long Island or in New Jersey. The more land we ean gain for building and agricultural uses, then, the better, in this inevitable emergency. On the Jersey side there are thousands of acres, extending from within three miles of the ter- minus of the Erie and Neq Jersey Railroads ae far as Newark, which are now being made available for these purposes by the very simple process of shutting off the tidal flow from the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, by meane of an iron dike and an earthen embankment, which parties travelling on these lines may probably have in was a formidable line of breast- works, means over six thousand acres of land have been reclaimed almost at the door of the metropolis, and will proba- bly, within @ year or less, add just that much urea to the living places and feeding places of the city and vicinity. For raising vegetable products there can herdly be finer land then this, manured o# ft hes been hy nature for thousands of years. No doubt it will soon be oconpied by thrifty farmers, and possibly the factories and dwellings. Speculators, we pre- sume, have already set their eyes upon this improvement in the jtong-abandoned Jersey meadows, now #0 likely to become a blooming garden under the system which has been suc- cesefully spplied there. At all evente, how- ever the newly acquired Jands may be em- ployed, they will prove » great addition to our available suburbs, as well as sesist to re more ® very dangerous ally of such diseases ar spring from minsmastic exhalations. The recia- mation of this vast tract of hitherte worthless ground ie only another evidence of American enterpriee, before which no diffoulties or ob- stroctions can stand long where skill and capi- tal can avail anything. Sono Ovr.—It appears from a radical conieim- porary that the Seward-Weed faction of this clty has been sold out to Hoffman, while from the special of that faction it appears that the continne severni days, probably until Congrest com | renee, ‘Weston reached Erie, Pa, at noon vesierdsy, having walked Atty-cigdt of bis one hundred mise ia thirteon naaty 404 ign mingion. At Comngagt, Ont, No gare | Moods in Amerion we oG@ eaep elemental con: | nouncing that « fearfhl gale awept over Alseke on the 26th ultimo, If to all the disssters by voleanio fires in Rarope gad by horricanes and over the reine to Mr. <tanbery. We warn Con- | Chase radicals bave been or are to be sold out grees that they should do sothing at the | to Fernando Wood. If euch is the case, or coming session which conflicts with Mr, | anything near it, Mr. Darling, as the repablioan “Btanbery’s opinion,” otherwise he may terue | nomlues for Mayor, hes anquestlonably been sermunclerisae Ampallinn all tasle get, -- | gold. The Fine Arts te America. To judge by the meagre collection with which the American Academy of Design has opened ite fall and winter exhibition, the fine arts are at a discount in America, even among our artists themselves. But such an inference should not too hastily be drawn. The Council of the Academy might have wisely postponed the exhibition until » larger and superior col- lection had been gathered from the studios of those artists who, we have reason to know, have not been idle during the past summer. At home and abroad nota few of them have been industriously at work. A little well directed effort might have brought to the walls of the Academy many a canvas that would respoud to the increasing demand of our citizens for a greater variety and a higher standard of ex- cellence in the productions of American art. We are not unaware of the difficulties and discouragement with which art has had to con- tend during the comparatively few years since it fairly began its course in this country, We would do full honor to those artists, several of whose names stand high on the catalogue of the Academy, who have turned aside from the temptations of political life and foregone the prizes offered by a successful business life in this newand active democratic society, and devoted themselves to the education and the gratification of an artistic taste which is but of recent development here. But this taste has now been developed, and, as we have intimated, its demands are in- creasing. Only let our artisis keep pace with the rapid progress of the taste which they themselves have done so much to create and to foster, and a.school of American art may ere long arise not unworthy of the field which the future promises to open. There is abundant wealth to reward liberally the highest efforts of genius in art. In our incom- parable scenery, in our history, and particu- larly in the stirving incidents and scenes of our recent war, there is no lack of material for the finest pictures and statues. The requirements of private and public life are daily multiplying opportunities for a higher style ot architecture. To mention but one or two points of detail which offer room for improvement in the de- partment of art, why should our architects persist in encouraging the whims that lead to the disfigurement of our principal streets by such a wild irregularity in the heights of the splendid marble buildings which are, one after another, towering, like so many Babels, to the sky? Could not something like what the French call alignement bo introduced in our street architecture that would secure the com- bined advantages of a general uniformity and of the utmost variety in detail? Is it not time also to stippregs in our fine private dwellings those unsightly and inconvenient excrescencss in the shape of bay windows, which should never have come into fashion? Even in a country house the alleged aivantagesa of the bay win- dow are counterbalanced by its certain disad- vantages, It is both too hot in summer and too cold in winter. In a city house it is simply intolerable all the year round. Mismanagement ef the Ferries. We have had reason to complain very fre- quently of the disregard of human life mani- fested in the management of the Brooklyn fer- ries; but it appears impossible to wake up the company to the necessity of providing gome means whereby accidents can be pre- vented or tendered less disastrous in their nature. A monstrous case, however, occurred on the South ferry on Friday, for which ng plea of mere negligence can ve Sitiered ‘ao? the often quoted argument that the rules of the company cannot be intringed. A poor young woman, afflicted with insanity, jumps overboard. Her brother-in-law implores the “hands’—as they are very properly called, for they cer- tainly have no hearts--to stop the boat and try to save a life precious to him, and precious, it is to be supposed, to the God that created it; but we must remember that the boat was on time, and the “rules of the company” inter- posed their authority between death and the chances of escape for the poor, weak-miaded suicide, and the “rules of the company” are omnipotent on the boats of the Union Ferry Company. Dividends there are balsnced against human lives, and dividends weigh down the scale. Now, let us be plain about this matter. Neither the lew, we will sgeume, nor the charter of the company, compels the pilot to stop a boat in order to save a drowning passenger, therefore the law cannot reach an atrocity like this; but public criticism should follow the parties implicated and scathe them without mercy. To ask the company to vindicate themselves by dismizsing the heartless employs on the boat at the time of this disaster would, of course, be only wasting words, because the company does not care @ rash bow many people are drowned, blown up or burned on the ferryboate—a fact which makes it a very unpleasant thing to con- template that about forty thousand people are at the absolute mercy of this abominable ferry mismenagentent twice a day; but public should de brought to bear upon each individual director with such overwhelming contumely that he covfd not rest his head upon his pillow st night without feeling that he was constractively a murderer. Probably the con- science of # ferry director Would not be much distarbed by this: but, however, that may be not exactly to the point. As long as communi- cation between New York and Brooklyn is confined to ferries the public will be compelled to submit to all the inconveniences which now afflict them; but is it not possible to have either an overwater or underwater mode of transit? A bridge has been talked of. It ie objected to on the ground that navigation on the Kast river would be obstracted by # bridge ; but of this we ere net quite certain. Perhaps « tunnel under the river would answer the pur- pore. It has proved euccesstnl elsewhere, and why not here? However, the ferry manage- ment ought to be improved, for it hee grown into general disrepute. ‘Telegraphic Arrangements in Eugtand. le appears from one of our cable announce- ments that the British government hae resolved to place all the telegraphic lines of the country under the direction of the Post Office Depart ; ment. There are some who will conalder ibis ae an oxample of dangerous centralization. ‘There are others who will doubtless accept the | change as ® great public benefit. The ques {lon is beset with some difficulty and is liad) to be praised or blamed from the point of viow | from which it is looked at, (ne thing It is safe ee a a Ee oaks bo accepted fm this cougtry gnttl i) hye. serlously and patiently considered and untii is seen how it can be protected from abuse by . numerous and powertul safeguards. The Relief of Broadway. Periodically, and generally about the time of the meeting of the State Legislature, the question, “How ie Broadway to be relieved !” springs into sudden prominence. The people become spasmodically aware of the incon- venience, annoyance and ivjury to com- merce occasioned by constant crowding, jost- ling and blockade in the principal thorough- fare of the metropolis during the business hours of the day. Not that the citizers are not sensible all the year round of ths necessity for more space to move about in in the lower part of the city, biit their minds are too much occupied to dwell upon the evil until it is forced upon their attention. This is certain to be done on the approach of evéry legisla- tive session, when the projectors of the rail- road schemes commence to deplore the terri- ble conditiog of Broadway and to bring for ward their specifics for ready relief. It is unquestionably true, that neither the comfort of the citizens nor the convenience of commerce is enhanoed by, confining three-" fourths of the traffic and business of the largest city of the United States to one street. We are every day reminded of. the want of fore thought on the part of our ancestors in tura- ing the island into a huge bottle, with a nar row neck, which is constantly getting clogged and choked ; and we never cease to regrot that they did not open four or five broad thoroughfares through the length of the city while property was worth something less than a small fortune per square foot. But the evil exists, and we have nothing left but to seek a remedy. The plans for the relief of Broadway are numerous enough. Sometimes we are advised of a sort of Ara- bian Nights scheme by which one sido of the street is to be set back some fifteen or twenty feet, and then again we are told that the real panacea is to be found in a dose of rail- roads. Underground, surface, elevated, one story and three story roads are crowded upon us for our acceptance, each endorsed and pressed by a crowd of disinterested patriots, whose only objecis are the benefit of commerce and the convenience of their fellow citizens. The truth is, some of these schemes are Ute- pian and the rest of them are jobs. Those who advocate a similar plan for the improve- ment of New York to that adopted by Louis Napoleon for the improvement of Paris should remember that the United States is not a Buro- pean empire. An application to Baron Hauss- mann, Préfet of the Seine, will enlighten them as to the cost of such a policy. The readiest and surest way of relieving Broadway is to make other avenues capable of drawing off two-thirds of the traffic from that thoroughfare. To open Fifth avenuc at its present width down to the Battery, and to ex- tend Seventh aud Fourth avenues by widening their continuing streets in the same manne», would give us four fine thoronghfares the whole length of the city, in place of one, and would pay for the improvement in the increased value of the property along the routes, The new avenues, paved with the splendid Nicolsog, pavement, would be the great attractions of the city, and Fifth avenue in especial would be the favorite drive of the fashionable world down to the Battery, where uppertendom could enjoy the magnificent view of the bay, instead of being confined to the upper portion of the island. Let us adopt a broad, practical system of improvement and telief, such as this, and we shall bear no more complaiats of the Broad- way blockade. a yee German Consolidation—The King of Cras* ata’s Spoovk. On the morning of Friday, the 15th instant, was opened the third session of the North German Parliament. The King of Prussia made the usual speech on the occasion. The speech was characterized by true German caa- tion. There was no attempt at reviewing the situation in Europe. There was no unneces- sary brag. But there was a quiet confidence in the progress of German unity. Now that the south was bound to the north by « military and commercial treaty there was no danger of disturbance within the limits of Germany itself. The pacific aims of Prussia were appreciated and respected by ali foreign Powers. In the opinion of the King the preservation of peace in Europe was now certain. et 8 Pracricatty Darvxctr—Our Constitutional State Convention. The responsible majority spent all the summer doing nothing, and thea, in adjourning over to avoid « popular vote om the negro suffrage amendment in our Novem- ber olection, they voted tho Convention out of existence. The best thing they can now do is to adjourn sine die. A Hanp Not ron Congress 10 Caaca— Whether the national bondholders shall be paid in gold or greonbacks. Chase says gold ; “Old Thad” says greenbacks. McCulloch says gold; Ben Butler says greenbacks. Seymour waye gold; Pendleton says greenbacks. What will Cougress do’ MEXICO. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALS. Conspiracy at Matameros—Attempted Keove- tatlon=—The C raters Arrested—Pronl- neot Politicians ia the Gaard House. Matamoros, Nov. 7, 1867. Antonio Longoria, the Politics! Prefect of Matamoror, & crafty, eudtle, ambitious agitator, wholly unserupu- lous and devoid of principle, aided by Edward Longoria, of the same class, Lawyor Margain, Judge of First In- mance, Felipe Marques, President of the City Council. and Francisce Arzamedes, Chief ef Finance, toncocted » grand rebellion, which was to revolutionize Tamaulipas, grep the munteipal reins of Matameros, overturn the authority of Colonel Palacios, and consign prominent citizens to the geardhoase or a worse fate, Jast before the time appolpted for action the above- mentioned werthies were srresied end their litsle plan spoited for the time being. By courtesy they are considered ar released, but acte- aliy thoy are as much under guard ee if confined, One of them was preparing to come to "the asylum of (he oppressed,” but wea politely iaformed by @ stranger that Meticas soli wae much healihierg and that Mate- ‘mores could pot dispense with bie valuable services. Purther developments are daily expected, as some of the band aregetting weak-kneed. No surpriee witl be feit if Colonel Palacios should order a surgien! operation: before hreakfast ai uso Macieoane. A OSTON “BEAR” 1m TROUBLE. ime o z] Yrom ihe evening Telegram ome cen A prominent “bene” operator oy hie contracts yeserday in © Sas ers,