The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1867, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic | alespatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly wealed. Rejected communications wil! noi be re- turned. Se eee THE DAILY HERALD, published every dary wii lie year. ‘Your cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14 \ THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturdey, at Five ‘Cuxie per copy. Annual subscription price:— } Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers S150 each? An extra copy will be sent to every club «of ton, ‘Twenty copies to one addreas, one year, $25, ‘od apy larger number at game price. An extra copy ‘will be sent to clubs of twenty. Warnir Haran the cheapest publication in (he country. These rater make the , Postage five cents per copy for three months The Eunoreay Epinon, every Wednesday, at fants per copy, $4 perannum to any part of Great ‘Britain, or BG to any part of the Continent, both to Six nolude postage, the Causronsia Eprtiow, om the Ist, tith and 2st of each month, at Six Cents per copy, or $3 per annum. ADVERTISEMENTS, (0 @ Hmited number, will be inserted Su the Weekty Herato, European and the California Yditions Volume XXXII. No. 321 | RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Afternoon—Bisnor ihsow, ox “Tus’ Mayaga axp Tuwr or tax Exp or iam Wort.’ CHURCH OF THR STRANGERS, Washington sauare.— | ‘ne. Dexus. Morning and evening. UUURCH OF THE REFORMATION, Fiftieth sivest.— Mev, Ansotr Brows. Morning and evening. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Greene areal. Rev. Davip Mitcart.. Morning and even! ' CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Brooklyn.—Rev. Wanze atm awar, Morning and evening. CATROLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH, Sitteenih aireet.— Brening—"Wuo 1s Gop im Ammuica." ‘ CHURCH OF THE RES iti avenue.—De. E. 0, F RECTION, Ruiger's Colleve, od, Morning. | COOPER INSTITUTB.—Jo mire. Evening * DODWORTH HALL—B. Srraove, ox “Max's Awrt qurry,” and “Bins Eraxovocy.”” Morning and evening. ' FREE WILL AND OPEN COMMUNION BAYTIST 4. UURCH, Soventeenth street,—Ray. Cusxces FE. Brann. ‘Moraing aad evening. ‘ ou JONN STRERT METHODIST EVIsCOrAL CAUKCH. Rev, Steraax Manntrr. Ereaing NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. up the attempt to make nus hundred miles, on account Of the swelling of bis fect Shephard, the alleged Worcester wife marderer, bas Deen heard from in Webster, Mass, and officers have Deen despatched to arrest hia. ‘Two cases of trichina resulted fatally {n St. Louis re- cently. A Kerosene explosion at St, Paul, Minn., recently caused the death of one young lady and the lose of an arm te Miss Guasie Sibley, 4 daughter of the General of that name, A photographer named Gregery, in Cleveland on Fri- day ight, killed a young girl im his employ named Isabelia Roy, with whom be had beem oriminally fati- mate, aad then Kilied himeeif. Jt snowed heavily in Concord, N. H., yesterday more- ing. The thermometer stood at twenty-seven degrees above zero, A locomotive exploded at Binghamton yesterday, killing the engineer and froman, Sixteen steamships left this city yesterday for Euro. pean and coastwise ports, The Europe and City of New York took cver $200,000 in specie, Europeao fretghis are full. Freights to Southern ports show a slight im- provement. The stock market was on the whole firm yesterday. Government securities wore firm. Gold was weak and closed at 139%, Business yesterday io almost al! departments of trade was remarkably light, and prices of some articles ex- Derienced a marked decline; some instances, how- ever, higher prices were obtai Coffe was steaay and firm, while cotton was sparingly dealt in and ic. per Ib. lower, On ‘Change the flour market was very quiet and prices receded 0c, @ lbs, per bbl, while wheat, though quiet, was Ormer, Corn and oats were moderately active and firmer. Pork was in light demand, but quite firm. Boef and lard were not materially changed. Whiskey wag dul! aud nominal, Freights were quist and weak. Naval stores were unchanged, while petro- leum, owing to the unfavorable advices from Antwerp, was dull and fully 1c. per gallon lower. Falling Star canic EraptionsWhat Next? The meteoric shower of 1867 was delayed until half-past three on the morning of Thura- day, the 14th of November. By that hour the reporters of ali the city journals excopt the Heravp had wearied of watching for the event, and after gravely recording their opinion that it would not occur, that the moteoric shower was a meteorological myth, had gone to bed. But the Herarp of the same morning duly chronicled this fifty-ninth exhibition of falling stars since the beginning of the Christian era, and gave special telegrams from vigilant } astronomers at Washington and Albany. On Friday morning we published in our special telegrams and correspondence full and minute reports of obssrvations 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 Loomis. We published a neat little report of the spectacle by Professor Loomis himself, who, it appears, had luckily returned homs in time to see it. In the course of his report he modestly hints that he retracts his foolish contradiction of the testimony of the heavens and the Hegatp to the meteoric display which he now admits was “seen in Europe Iast November.” The Professor has TRINITY CHAPEL.—Rev, Wu. Fo Moxcas. VW. 0., on bar “Miomcne Mission.” Eveniog i CUORCH OF THE PURITANS, Onion Martucw Hate Surtu. Evening. WILLETT STREET M. BE. CHURCH.—Rev. J, 5. @ranies. Morning THE GEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —Key, T, . Dawsox, ox “Tae Womas ov Pirasner.’* Morning aud ‘vening. ST, ANN'S FREE CHURCH, Eighteenth street. —Rev, 4. F Houwxs axp Rev. De. Gattacver, Morning and evening by iS ee ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, corer Broad. sa and Twenty-eighth street.—Rav. De. Price. Morning = evening. * MASONIC UALL, Bast Thiriesnth street.—Tus Society or Progaassive Srimrvatiers. Morolng and evening UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, Thiris-foncth etrest, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE he py ee -Bay. Hewey Bian. ceemo, on “Tee Rew Fr , TRIPLE SHEET. day. New York, mbor 17. 1867. EUROPE. y the AUiamtc cable is daled yester- 16, ot @ general conference on the Italo- Tomaam question 1s surrounded with difficulties, Pope owe the Niath objects to being made the subject of a conference, aad most of the other Powers are divided in piawm as to the necessity of such an sssembiage. pain aloee supports the temporal power, reek despatches say that the war in Candia has been renewed since the fa:lure of the Tarco-Cretan mission. ‘Vi te aid that the United States is to take all the Danish ‘West ladie isiaada, paying cleven and a haif millions of <\oltare, The Chief Judges in Ireland are busity engaged ‘p eontencing Fenians to imprisoamen! and exile, while ‘he Eaglieh Cobinet ie debeting how many of the “Weelaa rescue rioters wil te hanged in Manchester. ‘The meteoric duepiay was visible all over France. Console were at 94 9-16, for money, In Londos. Five. twenties wore at 70 10-16 im Londoa aad in improved domeed Five-twention wore at 76K in Frankfort, Voltes decliaed one-sirtecnth of a pesay ia Liverpool; vaiddliag upland closed at 6 1-16 pence Breadetut wendy. Provisions easier, sie a MISCELLANEOUS. {a tee Alabama Convention yesterday the day of ad- jourpment was Gzed for (be 25th instant. Ordinances changing the names of certain counties to Lincoln and Herowniow were referred to the appropriate committee. The Committee om the Executive reported in feror of removing the power of pardon for tresson from the Veverner to the State Senate, Our @pecial correspondence et Matamoras gives an account of @ comepiracy to overturn the civil govern. ment of thecity, The conspirators, among whom rere «overall prominent politicians, were arrested. The specch of General Sherman at &. Lous on the conaton Of the reunion of the officers of ‘my of the Toan , le pophehed elsewhere io our columns this morning. A conservative ticket bar Been hreaghi out ie ‘arotias, and s eonsidereble reaction if obve among the colored voters. General Sickles has been mustered opt of the volun- ‘eer service as Major General, by order of the President. rn | the Forty-fourth infaptry, The greed council at Fort Laramie has commenced. ‘The Crows desire to remain in their own country, and ‘he MOOk requested that Genera! Hareey meet them at Fort Phil Kearny. ‘The majority for «convention in Georgia is shown to We 08,156, the number of whues roung is feror of it etng 36,600 i 33 bili HE if a | 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, so far as numbers are con- cerned, as more remarkable than that seen in 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 fully compared will probably establish, seve- ral points which have hitherto been doubtful In the theory of meteoric bodies. Our Washing- ton correspondent said, in his special telegram of the 14th inet., that one point which appears to have been determined by the observations of th:s 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- oric phenomena must be limited to one display in the same year. Indeed, the bypothesis seems now more probable than ever that these thooting stars, which have sometimes appeared in August as well as in November, and which may hive had a 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 hundred and cighty-two days, in an ellipti- cal orbit, and that, in passing through the aphelion in August and November they come im 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 hundred miles above the earth— although some approach much nearer—and are occasionally so large that they are not fused in their passage, but reach the earth and pene- trate it. We have not yet heard that any of these “meteoric stones” fell daring the recont ahower. This “tempest-dropping fire” called to mind Bhakspeare’s description of the portentous storm at Rome previous to the assassination of | Jaling Cesar:— ! Rither there ie a civil strife in heaven, ‘Or cleo the world, $00 saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction. Aad when we turn from signs in (he heaven | to signs on earth it must be conceded (het the disciples of Cumming and Miller are appar- \ ently justified Io their expectation that the end | of the world approaching. The same number | of the Hxnavv that chronicles the celestial pyro- | technics of Thureday morning gives special | telegrams announcing on (be same day an erap- tos of Mount Vesuviur, detailing the destruc. tion of of property aad five hundred lives at 6 Thomas during the recent gales; announding the los of two hundred lives and the destitution of four thousand families hy « terrible hurricane in tbe southern portion of Porto Rico, and the loss of ten thousand lives incaleulable wealth by the flood inat fol- vulsions which have lately 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 s wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of Ro use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed in- strumentalities, or to dress up that terrific bene- factor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of o student of divinity.” Our special telegrams have lately been full of falling stars, burri- 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 successfal 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, a3 well as in the men they put in nomination for public trusts. These leaders believed that thoir 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. Thoy left the South unreconstrucied, her valuable commerce lost to the nation and her idle black population pensioners upon the general government, in order to force negro gupremacy upon her people. The verdict of the recent clections was rendered against a policy that is dragg’ng the country rapidly to financial ruin and threatening to involve us in a war of races, So far as our municipal affairs are con- cerned, the Tammany democracy occupy a similar position in the city of Now York to that filled by the radicals in the nation. The Tam- many ring has long hell 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 a 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 measadres 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 same adminis- tration under which the Court House job has flourished and the taxation of the city 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 ques:ion 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 beld 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 isene in the State, so will the Tammany rings be swept from power in the city. The Terrible Ternade at Toerteia—The Herald’s Special Telegrame. 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 visit 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 ia ruins and three thousand have been severely damaged ;” “catile have been killed and fields 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 to Tortola, it is probable that all the level habitable lands were at once submerged before the people could reach places of safety. The island ts & vory small one and the shores are very low. As usual, our contemporaries are disposed to avail themselves of our news. Falling to be in the van themeelves, they assail the authen- tleity of the Hmmary. We are accustomed to | this, however. The valuable information which | we have chronicled from time to time from Kurope and elsewhere is well oplentated to create envy. - - Stambery the Oracte. Like the old oracle at Delphi, Mr. Stanbery descents upon the affairs of the nation ae if his opinion was absolutely necessary to the existence of the government. Kvrery now and then the wise men conenit him ; end when they de not conrult him he makes himself heard by volunteering hit advice, seeing how utterly it ie to rum the machine without him, Hie leet serep of window ts given to the Washingion papers, probably ax @ warning to Congress end the President that they do not know what they are shout sud ought to ture over the seine to Mr. <tanbery. We warn Con- grees that they shonid do sothing af the coming session which conflicts with Mr, “Ptanbery’s opinion,” otherwise he may lemme oermpncteryice “gpullinn all Wasir got ~ a The Faebiens. We learn from Paris, through our special fashions correspondence, that modisies and ministers, ladies and lackeys, and, in short, the whole world of fashion, are in « flutter of excitement over the visit of the Kaiser. The distinguished visitor has been teken every- where and has been {éted 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 fursets, 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 # great extent also, that the American purveyors of fashion buy up in Paris the most oufré 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 instances, 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 modistes 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, ind: . 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 tho very adaptation. Our ladies have been too long bound down by the caprices and tyranny Ff the modieles In this city} sind {t fe 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 Motrepolis. 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 turnisbed cheaply in afresh and healthy condition. It wants, moré- over, that the miasmatic swamps that lie around itebould be converted from places of pesti- lence to sources of usefulness, Manhattan Inland is eo rapidly being absorbed for busi- ness purposes that its working population, and, for the matter of that, ite wealthy population also, has to seek a domicile either on Long Island or in New Jersey. The more land we can gain for building and egricultural 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 fhe 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, mneans over alx thousand acres of land bave been reclaimed almost at the door of the metropolis, and will proba- bly, within @ year or less, add just that much area 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 ne it has been by uature for thousande of years. No doubt it will soon be ocoupied by thrifty farmers, and possibly the water fronts will be employed for buildings, factories and dwellings. Speculators, we pre- sume, have already set their eyes upon this improvement in the jong-abandoned Jersey meadows, now #0 likely to become s blooming garden under the system which bas been suc- cesefully applied there. At all events, how- evor the newly acquired lands may be om- ployed, they will prove » great addition te our available suburbs, as well as assist to re move 6 very dangerous ally of such diseases as spring from miaematic exhalations. The recla- mation of this vast tract of hitherte worthless ground ie only another evidence of American enterprise, before which no diffloulties or ob- stractions can stand long where skill and capi- tel can avail anything. Soro Our. —It appears from a radical coniem- porary that the Seward-Weed faction of thie alty hes been sold ont to Hoffaian, while from the special of that faction it appears that the Chase radicals bave been or are to be sold out to Wernando Wood. If ouch te the ease, or enything near it, Mr. Darling, as the ~ wa for Mayor, wa soeamaaiie ¥en wit ‘The Fise Arts te America. To judge by the meagre collection with which the American Academy of Design has opened its 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 s canvas that would respoud to the increasing demand of our citizens for a greater variety and « 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 {s but of recent development here. But this taste has now been developed, and, as wo have intimated, its demands are in- creasing. Only lét our artists 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 atyle ot architecture. To mention bui 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 be introduced in our street architecture that would secure the com- bined advantages of a general uniformity and of the utmost variety in detall? Is it not time also to sippregs {n our fine private dwellings those unsightly and inconvenient excrescences in the shape of bay windows, which should never have come into fashion? Even in a country house the alleged alvantages 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 fendered les: disastrous in their nature. A monstrous case, however, occurred on the South ferry on Friday, for which no plea of mere negligence can ve 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 “bands’’—as they are very properly called, for they cer- tainly have no hearte--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 balanced against human lives, and dividends weigh down the scale. Now, let as be plain about this matter. Neither the lew, we will ageume, nor the charter of the company, compels the pilot to stop s 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 ecathe them without mercy. To ask the company to vindicate themselves by dismissing the heartless employ<e on the hoat 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 tulemenagentent twice a day; but public opinion should be brought to bear upon each individasl director with such overwhelming contumely that he could not rest his head upon liis pillow at night without feeling that he was constractively a murderer. Probably the con- science of a ferry director Would not be mach 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 on overwater or underwater mode of transit? A bridge bas been talked of. It ie objected to on the ground that navigation on the Rast river would be obstructed by # bridge; but of this we ore not quite certain. Perhaps « tannel under the river would anewer the pur- pore. It hae proved successfnl elsewhere, and why not here? However. the forry manage ment ought to be improved, for it hae grown into geveral disrepute. ‘Telegraphic Arrangements in Eugtand. | Is appears from one of our cable annownce- | ments thas 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 conslder ibis ae gn cxample of contratizacion. ‘There are others who will doubtioss aocept the change as © great pablic benefit. The ques- {lon fe bevet with some difficulty aad is liable to be praised or blamed from the point of view froma which it 1s looked at One thing It is eafe to ony, that no euch system of contrallzing 7 “7 vo coogntad tn tho cougtry ga) ip, boon! Raves” “Salored ‘aor seriously and patiently considered and uatit is seen how it can be protected from abuse by | Bumerous and powertul safeguards. ‘The Relief of Broadway. Periodically, and generally about.the time of the meeting of the State Legislature, the question, “How is Broadway to be relieved” springs into sudden prominence. The people become spasmodically aware of the incon- venience, annoyance and injury to com merce oceasioned by constant crowding, jost- ling-and blockade in tho principal thorough- fare of the metropolis during the business hours of the day. Not that the citizens are not sensible all the year round of the necessity for more space to move about in in the lower part of the city, but their minds are too much occupied to dwell upon the evil until it is forced upon thelr 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 specifica for ready relief. Tt is unquestionably true, that neither the comfort of the citizens nor the convenience of commerce is enhanced by, confining three: fourths of the traffls and business of the largest city of the United States to one street, We are every day reminded of. the want of fore- thonght on the part of our ancestors in turm- ing the island into a huge bottle, with » nar row neck, which is constantly getting clogged and choked ; and we never cease to regret 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 sre numerous enough. Sometimes we are advised of a sort of Ara- bian Nights scheme by which one side 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 objects 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. Thos 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 ts not » Baro- pean empire. An application to Baron Hanss- mann, Préfet of the Seine, will enlighten them as to the cost of such a policy. The readiest and surest way of relidving Broadway is to make other avenues o thoroughfare. To open Fifth avenue at its present width down to the Battery, and to ex- tend Seventh and Fourth avenues by widening length of the city, in place of one, -pay for the improvement in value of the property along the Rew avenues, paved with the splendid 0 pavement, would be the great attractions ¢ the city, and Fifth avenue in be the favorite drive of the fashionable down to the Battery, where om enjoy the magnificent view of the bay, of being confined to the upper portion of island. Let us adopt a broad, practical system of improvement and teiief, such as this, and we ehall bear no more complaiate of the Broad- way blockade. ; ae i i " Hilf in the progress of German unity. Now that the south was bound to the north by e military and commercial treaty there was no deager of disturbance within the limits of Germany iteslf. 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. existence. The best thing they can sow do is to adjourn sine dis. ; A Hanp Nor ron Covonses 10 Caaca— Whether the national bondholders shall be paid in gold or greenbacks. Chase says gold ; “Old Thad” says greenbecks. McCulloch says gold; Ben Butler says greenbacks. Seymour eaye gold; Pendleton says greenbacks. What will Congress do’ MEXICO. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE WERALS. Conspiracy at Matameree—Attempted Kove lation=The Conspiraters Arrested—Proat- neot Politicians is the Geard Henee. Matamoros, Nov. 7, 1967. Antonio Longoria, the Pelitiesl Prefect of Matamoroe. & crafty, eabtle, ambitions agitator, wholly unserupu- lous and devoid of principle, aided by Edward Longoria. of the same clase, Lawyer Margain, Judge of Firet In- stance, Felipe Marques, President of the City Council. aod Francisce Arvamedes, Chief ef Finance, toncocted » grand redeliion, which was to revolationise Tamsulipae, Citizens te the guarthoase or & worse fata Jus before the tire appoteted for action the above- mentioned werthies were arrested end their ‘itile plan apeiled for the time being. By courtesy they are conmdered as released, but ecte-