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6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henao, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXII......... + No. 325 AMUSEMENTS THIS BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jossrains—Nicx oF van Woons. MIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Btace Cnoox. NEW YORK THEATRE. opposite New York Hotel. Nonwooo. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Nigur's Dasau. a WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ané 18tn street.— ‘Tas Beice's Sreatacex. Broadway.—& MipsomuEE GERMAN STADT THEATR' Nos, 4 and 47 Bowery.— Frorrs Buascas—Loraxg UND eine Scuwester, Ac. yineanwaes THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticast or Laavs AN. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Tas Gaann ucKmss. —— PaRK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Kenitwosrs. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirtieth sirest.—Devit's Avotion. 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Now York, Thursday, November 21, 1867. z=—— EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yester- day evening, November 20. The speech addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the French Legisiature at the opening of tho session is reported. His Majesty accepts the situation in Germany as altered by ‘he will of the people, vindicates his action fm Rome and towards Italy and expresses himself in favor of peace and national progress, eustained by an eMicient organization of the army and navy. In England the speech was regarded as the most pacific ever deliv. @red by the Emperor. The English Parliament assembled in session on the 19th Instant. Queen Victoria's speech was read by com. mission. References are made to the Abyssinian war as affecting the Supply bill, the termination of the invasion of the Roman territory, the Fenian “murders” in Eng- Jand and the maturing of reform bills for Ireland and Scotland. Lord Stanley announced that England refused to join in a conference on the Italo-Roman question unless a distinct plan of action was proposed. The members of the House of Commons were almost unanimous in con- demning Napoleon's action on the Roman question. Substantial works of defence are being rapidiy thrown: up on all the approaches to Rome, Napoleon's speech produced » good effect in Italy, The Italian government is about to issue a large supply of paper money. Most extensive military preparations are being made for the execution of the Fenians in Manchester. The Sultan of Turkey is dangerously ill, Admiral Farraget’s fleet was about to sail from Lis bom, Sefior Julian Pavia is appointed Governor of Porte Rico, THE CITY. ‘It will be seen by our law report that Judge Blaich- ford bas issued an injunction, in the United States Cir- oult Court, at the suit of W. R, Brown, Bart, and others, an English firm, against the Atlantic Steamship Com- pany, restraining that corporation from holding the election of directors. It is alleged that combinations had ‘been formed by the purchase of new stock on the part Of the defendants to control the election and retain the services of the old board. ‘The steamer Morro Castle, Adams, frem Havana, No- vember 16, arrived at this port yesterday. The news is ell anticipated. The North German Lloyd's steamship Deutschland, Captain Wessels, will leave Hoboken to-day (Taursday) for Southampton aad Bremen. The mails for the United Kingdom and the Continent will close at the Post Office et twelve M. to-day. The steamship Kagie, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day (Thureday) for Havana. The mails for Cuba will close at two P. M. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Goverament @ecurities were dull and heavy, Gold was firm and Closed at 130%. MISCELLANEOUS. By the arrival of the steamship Great Republic at San Wrancisco we have advices from China and Japan te tbe ‘16th and 25th of October. The astive jankmen on the Peiho river have shown such great hostility to foreign- ere that trouble was anticipated. The English Admiral feed been fired at while on board bis ship, and the American steamer Wacbusett was threatened. A fearful eyclone had cocurred at Hong Kong, doing damage esti- mated at $10,000,000. Commercial failures continued plentiful in China, In Japan the opening of Jeddo was considered very problematical. A disastrous inundation Dad occurred at Manila, that place being for three days ‘under water. Our special despatches from Mexico, via Havana, state ‘that an escort was tendered Admiral Tegethoff to Vera Cruz, where be goes in charge of Maximilian's remains, ‘Dut all public demonstrations were forbidden. Juarez, ‘Mt is ea id, had requested Escobedo to bring his troops to the capital, on account of the large force which Dias bad ‘9t bie command. Our dates from Laguayra are to October 25. The Fevolt of General Mendoza had bees quelied, and Presi- Gent Faloon bad granted an amnesty to all concerned fn it, There have been some changes made in the Cabi- Bet, General Aristeguicta has been mamed Minister of Ghe Interior; Dr. Fernando Arvelo, Public Werke; Don ‘Miguel Gil, fer War and Navy; Don ©. Urdancta, for Fimance; Genera! N, Silva, for Public Credit Bureaa; Don Jaciate Gutierrez, continues as Minister for Foreign Affairs, The government of the district bas been with. drawn from the Ministry for the Interior and confided to General J. F, Peres, who did great service to the country as Minister of War. The above changes have Deen well received by the peopm. | Our correspondence from British Columbia is dated Ostover 4 Everybody tn the colony except the officials ‘was openly edvecating annexation to the United States, Our Paname letter te dated November 12 Affairs @bout Bogota are reported to be anasually quiet A Probability existed of the abandonment of the steamship Tine to Australia and the substitation of @ line to San Francisco. Our Velparniss, Chile, letter ie dated October 16, The news had been received thai the Spanish fleet had been ordered to the peninsula, and would not therefore visit the Pacific coast, It wes thought probable that this movement would encourage the equipment of priva- teers by the Chilean aod Peruvian governments to prey upon Spanish commerce, The allied squad- ron was scattering, some of the Peruvian ves- sels at Coquimbo returaing to Valparaiso, and others to Peru. Noasid had yet been sent to Prado in queliing the rebellion ia Peru, but it was well under- ‘stood that the success of the revolution would be the forerunner of a war upon Chile by the new government. | The ship Asia, of Now Bedford, was loston the 2lst of August off Cape Horn. The crew, after one month's suffering on a barren rock, were reseued, Our Lima, Peru, correspondence is dated October 28. Trujillo bad been taken possession of by the government troops without a fight, Prado’s army was on the march for Arequipa, with eighteen pieces of artillery, A great many arrests had been made in Lima for attempts to upset the government. Twenty-seven members of Con- gress bad waited upon La Puerta, who is acting Presi- dent during Prado’s absence, and urged him to take the reins of government permanently, but he indignantly refused, Advices from Central America represent that « diffi- culty bad arisen between Guatemala and Costa Rica, and that diplomatic relations between the two countries had been suspended. The cholera had entirely disap- peared from Nicaragua. The surveys for the Costa Rica interoceanic railroad have beem completed and ma- chinery for carrying on the work was arriving. In the Constitutional Convention yesterdey a minority ireport of the Committee on Cities was submitted, In Committee of the Whole on the powers and duties of the Legislature, several sections of the article were adopted. The correspondence between the Comptroller and tbe Attorney General relative to the payment of the members was produced, The Comptroller expressed himself unwilling to draw warrants on the Treasury for that purpose, but had made an arrangement with the Commercial Bank of Albany to pay them and rely on ; the Legislature for reimbursement, with interest, A motion to acoopt the proposition of the bank was adopted. Pending s vote on special or local Excise laws, the Convention adjourned, The Convention elections in North and South Caro- lina appear to have gone altogether one way. The egroes, notwithstanding their reported conservative \ tendencies in North Carolina, all seem to bave voted / the radical ticket, and in South Carolina none of any color appear to have voted for the conservatives, \ In the Alabama Convention last night the clause of the article on franchise, which disfranchises all who refuse to vote on the new consitution, was stricken out by a vote of fifty-three to thirty-two. Jeff Davis and bis wite will leave Canada for Rich- mond to-night, passing through Troy to New York, where they will take steamer for Fortress Monroe and Richmond, reaching the latter city next Sunday after- noon. General Mower has issued an order making wholesale removals among the judicial officials in Orleans parish, Louisiana, Returns from the Convention election in Mississipp! come in very slowly, but indications are that the Con- vention will be defeated. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad has declared a dividend of forty per cent, payable in stock, ‘Two car loads of arms were received at St. Albans, Vt., yesterday by a prominent Fenian, who refused to say whether they were restored by the goverament or intended for a fresh invasion of Canada, Eleven lives are reported los: on board the steamboat Onward, which was burned recently on the Alabama river with cargo of cotton. The Georgia Reconstruction Committee is ordered to assemble Decembor 9 at Atlanta. The fight between Bussy and Duffy came off near Chicago yesterday, Duffy being whipped in one bundred and thirty-five rounds, The Meeting of Congress. The two houses of the Fortleth Congress reassemble in the national Capitol to-day. As this session, legally considered, may be set down, like that of July, as but a continu- ance of the 4th of March session, fixed by law, it is understood that the President’s annual message will be withheld till the regular meet- ing on the first Monday in December. Meantime the question recurs, What will Congress do to fill up the interval to the first Monday in December? It is probable that the two houses will, after a short session to-day, adjourn over to Monday next, and that the intervening time will be mainly occupied in caucuses and consultations, and in the count- ing of noses upon the great issues of the day and the course to be pursued thereon by the party in power. On Monday, it is given out, two reports will be presented from the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment—a majority report against impeachment and a minority report in favor of impeachment. We have some hints that this minority report from & majority of the republican members of the committee will astonish the country with its heavy catalogue of charges and specifications, facts and testimony, of “high crimes and mis- demeanors” against Andrew Johnson. It is said, too, that he is somewhat apprehensive that the impeachment faction will carry their point, and that hence be has been calling con- siderable reinforcements of troops into the defences of Washington, in view of the possible contingency of @ resolution or bill to suspend him in the functions of his office during his trial. We guess, however, that Mr. Johnson may dismiss all such apprehensions, that the reso- lution indicting him and handing him over to the Senate for trial will fail, and that the de- bate upon {t and the charges and specifica- tions from the Judiciary Committee will bardly amount to anything more than a nine days’ wonder. The whole of the coming week in the House may be devoted to the discussion of this subject; but we shall not be surprised—if put to the vote by Saturday evening, the 29th— if there will be a definite settlement of the matter in the abandonment of the prosecation. The President, perhaps, is waiting to shape his annual message as the upshot of this impeach- ment movement may require. In any event, we expect that this message will be exceed- ingly interesting, and not without some points and recommendations of great importance on Southern reconstruction, on negro suffrage, on the national finances, and on Walrussia and St. Thomas, and probably some other real estate speculations of Mr. Seward. There is one matter upon which any action upon the impeachment question may be post- poned for a time. We refer to the case of Edwin M. Stanton, late Secretary of War. The Tenure of Ofice law provides substantially that no momber of the Cabinet shall be re- moved by the President unless witb the advice and consent of the Senate, and that if in the absence of Congress the President ehall suspend any Cabinet officer, he shall within twenty days of the reassembling of Congress submit his reasons for such sus- pension. Then, ifthe Senate concur in such suspension, ft shall hold good; but if they shall by vote declare the President’s reasons for such suspension insufficient, the ples suspended This lay covers the case of Stanton ; the law was made for Stanton, and there may be some trouble about it, Mr. Speaker Colfax sald, at the Cooper Institate some two wooks ago, that within twenty days after the of Congress Mr. Stanton would be restored to hie post in the War Department. How does Mr. Jobneon intend to meet this diflculty? His reasons—if presented—for the suspens'on of Stanton we know will be rejected by the Senate. The removal of Stanton, if indicated by another appointment submitted to the Senate for ratification, will probably result in ® resolution pronouncing removal and appoint ment illegal and void. What then? The President, it is said, will appeal to his con- struction of the law and make a case for the Supreme Court. As yet we hear of no regular appointment in place of Stanton, and it may be withheld for some two or three weeks longer. The party of impeachment may insist upon @ suspension of any action on the subject until Mr. Jobnson shall sbow his hand in the case of Stanton, Otherwise, within the coming week, from the facts and charges against the Execu- tive from the impeachment committee, we shall be prepared for the quashing of the indictment. The late elections cannot have failed to make an impression upon the domi- nant party in Congress which will clip the wings of the radicals upon impeachment as well as upon negro suffrage. The Muddle and Cerruption of the Mayor- alty Election, The Mayoralty election, which a day or two ago promised to settle down into something like a definite shape, is again minddled up in a manner that surpasses any former experience in our city politics, Three candidates were in the field, nominated respectively by the Morart democracy, the republicans and the Tammany democracy, and it seemed as if the lines had been finally drawn prior to the great struggle in December. But another and highly influential section of the democratic party has suddenly come forward with # fourth candi- date, and its action is very likely to upset all former calculations and to impart an entirely new aspect to the Mayoralty contest. The nomination of John H. Anthon ig the best movement ever made by the Miles O'Reilly organization. If it had preceded the meeting of the republican convention {t would have rendered the nomination of Mr. Darling un- necessary. No respectable republican could have objected to the endorsement by his party, in a city so hopelessly democratic, of a repre- sentative of the old Knickerbocker line, as well as of the respectability, integrity and worth of the great commercial metropolis. As it is, Mr. Anthon will command a large vote under any circumstances; and if he will boldly declare himself in favor of the popular Grant movement, Darling, who ig a Grant man, will undoubtedly withdraw in his favor, and he can be elected by one of the grandest majorities ever cast for a Mayor of New York city. The importance of such a concentration of votes upon the Knickerbocker candi- date must be rendered yet more obvious to the taxpayers and to all respectable citizens by the astounding developments made in the latest fulmination of that astute politician and shrewd old campsigner Peter Cooper, who, in political tact and saga- city, beats Peter Cagger, Peter Sweeny, Peter the Great, or any other Peter that ever lived. His letter to the Corporation Counsel has fired a mine of corruption more terrible than ever spread consternation and destruction through the ranks of an army of plunderers. It is nominally addressed to Richard O’Gorman, but its thunderbolts are directed at the head of | tffin John T. Hoffman, who is in reality responsible for the consummation of all the political ras- cality developed in its startling disclosures. O'Gorman is simply an Irish patriot and poet, who dreamed rosy dreams of a liberated Emerald Isle and came over to the United States in 1848, when the explosion of the Young Ireland affair sent Mitchel firat to Van Dieman’s Land, and subsequently to our more hospitable shores, Mitchel went South, the height of his ambition being to become pro- prietor of a plantation covered with good fat niggers—and failed. O’Gorman, with more shrewdness and good judgment, saw that the right place for a fine young Irish gentleman was New York city, and so he planted his vine and fig tree among us and got a good fat office. Gifted with all the accomplishments of a model Dublin gentleman, winning in the company of his own sex, irresistible in the society of the ladies, excellent at a dinner, ex- cellent at a political, Jiterary or religious meet- ing, and at all times fully competent to main- tain the time-honored reputation of the famous blarney stone, he won Peter Cooper and his party to his support and swallowed the whole Citizens’ Association with as much ease as a Bowery boy swallows an oyster. But his main reliance and his greatest faith were in the Tammany and the Fenians, and he felt that to them he owed his first allegiance. He believed in Tammany es he believed in the Pope, and would as soon have doubted the purity of the Holy Father as of the Grand Sachem. When elected Corporation {Counsel he was instructed by Hoffman and the Tam- many ring that it was necessary and proper to favor certain claims against the city, and to bestow large fees upon certain Tammany lew- yers, and he did not question the any more than be would haye dered to ran his bead against a Papal b Indeed, O'Gorman knows more about petticoats than politics, and is more familiar with Irish eloquence and Irish poetry than with the corruptions of the rings. In all the astounding rascality disclosed by Peter Cooper he was the victim of innocence and faith, and the real culprit is Grand Sachem Hoffman, who advised and consum- mated the several jobs by signing the warrants necessary to draw the money involved in them out of the city treasury, + The terrible Peter Cooper tells us that within 0 year judgments havo been obtained against the city for advertising to the amount of one hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars. Of this the sam of one hundred and two thousand dollars goes to an obscure paper owned by the Tammany ring, and seventy-nine thousand dol- lars to another paper, without any ciroulation and only seen in the lowest barroome of the city. It was perfectly nataral and justifiable for O'Gorman to allow Ben Wood to get as many thousand dollars ag he could out of the city; for he came here to help the Fenians and relied on their support ; but it was an official outrage on the part of the Paritan Hoffman to back up Ben Wood and the others in their out- rageous raids upon the city treasury. Poter Cooper tells us that the sum Of one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars was drawn from the city treasury for expenses of the Corporation Counsel’s department in twenty4wo months, In this expenditare O'Gorman was but an instrament in the hands of his Tammany Pope. Hoffman, the man who so greatly exceeds Fernando Wood in honor and integrity, signed the warrants by which this sum was drawn from the treasury, and the responsibility attaches to bim. Peter Cooper tells us that thirty thousand dollars was paid to three counsel, ten thou- sand to each, as extra fees for arguing a suit to which the city was a party. O'Gorman, « brilliant young Irish orator, may be exoused for thus helping on his profession; put Hoff- man, the Mayor of such wonderful honesty, signed the warrants authorizing the payment of these enormous fees, and without his act they could not have been drawn from the treasury. Peter Cooper tells us that the sum of twenty thousand dollars was paid for clerk hire in the Corporation Attorney’s office in a little over a year. O’Gorman, the generous Irish gentle- man, was, no doubt, willing to employ all the needy fellows quartered upon him by Tam- many. Hoffman, who, as Mayor, signed the warrants for these salaries of sinecure clerks, is the party really responsible for the job. Peter Oooper tells us that the sum of forty- four thousand dollars has ggne into the pockets of outside lawyers for defending the city; that eight thousand dollars’ worth of contingencies, and some thirty thousand dollars’ worth of all imaginary items of which contingencies are usually made up, have been drawn from the treasury for the department, The outside lawyers appear all to have been old line Tam- many politicians, farmed off on the political Irish genius, O’Gorman, by the Tammany ring. Their warrants for pay were all signed by Hoffman, the incorruptible, and the jobs are all to be credited to him. If Peter Cooper will follow up this famous bombshell with a demand for the withdrawal of Darling and the concentration of all the honest voters upon the conservative demo cratic republican candidate, John H. Anthon, he may yet save the city the disgrace of elect- ing either Wood or Hoffman, clear out all the rascals in a body, and place New York at the head of the great movement for Grant, re- trenchment and reduced taxation. ‘The Emperor's Speech. We give in another column the speech of the Emperor Napoleon to both houses of the French Legislature at the recent opening of the session. It is like all the Napoleonic utter- ances, in being unlike the speeches of other potentates on similar occasions. It touches boldly on topics that sovereigns, as a rule, scarcely touch at all; and though ifscrutinized closely it will be found to have said very little, yet it seems, as we read it, to be saying a great deal. It alludes to the “vague disquietudes ” that have disturbed the mind of Europe, and to the notion that the modification of the internal sysiem of Germany must be a cause of conflict with Europe, and asserta the necessity of accepting frankly the changes beyond the Rhine. As to the Italian trouble, we are assured that France could not be hostile to the independence of Italy, but was compelled to “save the monarchical principle” from revolutionary agitators. For France, it is said, the Con- vention of September exists till it is replaced, and Europe has been invited to replace it by a congress; from which the Emperor will doubt- less draw the inference that if the Powers will no congress they cannot be dissatisfied that France should protect the Pope. We see the Emperor’s appreciation of the Exhibition in his declaration that it has de- stroyed a host of prejudices and international hatreds, and his knowledge of just how far such influence goes in his addition that this, nevertheless, does not enable him to dispense with the necessity of improving the military institutions of France. He goes fully over the field of the internal affairs of his empire, notes that the choice of representatives by universal suf- frage has once more demonstrated the good will of the populace ; that the situation, owing to general uneasiness and business embar- rassments, is grave; but expresses his purpose to pursue his governmental reforms in accord- ance with the programme formerly laid down, by “developing liberal institutions without weakening the principle of authority.” Hav- ing said all which he closes with a—perhaps— superfluous announcement that “no obstacle or unjust opposition will shake either his courage or his faith in the future ”—a sort of advance defiance to the clamorous opposition he ex- pects to hear from. The Quaker City Pligrimage. In yesterday’s Heratd we published a most amusing letter from the pen of that most amus- ing American genius, Mark Twain, giving an account of that most amusing of all modern pilgrimages—the pilgrimage of the Quaker City. It has been amusing all through, this Quaker City affair. It might have become more serious than amusing if the ship had been sold at Jaffa, Alexandria, or Yalta, in the Black Sea, as it appears might have happened. In such a would have been more arn TE the ship. The descend- ants of the Puritan pilgrims have, naturally enough, some of them, an affection for ships; but ff all that is said about this religious cruise be true they have also a singularly sharp eye to business, It was scarcely wise on the part of the pilgrims, although it was well for the public, that so sirange a genius as Mr. Mark Twain should have found admission into the mored circle, We are not sware whether Mr. Twain intends giving us a book on this pilgrimage, but we do know that s book written from his own peculiar stand- point, giving an account of the characters and events on board ship and of the scenes which the pilgrims witnessed, would command an almost unprecedented sale. There are varie- ties of genius peculiar to America. Of one of these varieties Mark Twain is a striking spec!- men. For the development of his peculiar genius he has nevor had a more fitting op- portunity. Besides, there are some things which he knows and which the world ought to know about this last edition of the May Flower. Journalistic Courtesies, ‘We would remind some of our contempore- merce, that it is customary, when one journal copies from another, to give proper oredit and to recognize ine friendly way the source of such extracts, We notice that the paper above named copies our marine news the day after its publication in thie paper and neglects to place over it the line “From the New Yous Benary of yeoterdey.” Celestial and Terrestrial Phonomeun—Moral Effect of Physical Forces. Vesuvius is once again pouring its torrent of fire through the vineyards of Lachrymi Christi and to engulf cities as it did in the days when the world was first divided between the thoughts of Julius Cxsar and those of Jesus Christ. There is terror in the valley of Mexico also, and the people are filled with alarm at the threatened activity of svoleano long extinct, whose blaze was per- haps a beacon to the adventurous Cortes and 8 portent to the falling empire of the Monte- zumas. News from the West Indies hints the devastation of an earthquake in the island memorable for its association with the name of Columbus and as the first seat of Spanish power in this hemisphere. From such differ- ent points on the earth’s surface come the evi- dences that there is perturbation within; that the collision of the pent-up forces has for the time destroyed the balance. Simultaneously with these internal distarbances—dependent upon them by unknown relation—we have also wonderful disturbances on the surface—storms in the air of scarcely paralleled power, burri- canes that have blown the sea completely over great tracts of land, Beyond our atmosphere, in open space—there are storms in the stars, too—shoals of nebulous matter have been lately driving across the earth’s orbit, rebound- ing from the elasticity of our atmospheric armor, or masses of this matter consumed by combustion resulting from the contact, or from the heat generated by the friction of their flight. In all the great divisions of visible nature there is perturbation, destruction of the common order, perhaps derangement of natural and planetary laws. Yet it was long since wisely suggested that our so-called discord might be “ harmony not understood,” and this is a sub- ject on which itis hardly safe to eay that what seems to us derangement is not order. In whatever phrase science may state the relation between these several wonders of the universe— for it seems difficult to believe that they are not related one with soe is doubtful whether the phrases can do‘more than disguise ignorance. When Moses said of somewhat similar wonders that “the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” he perhaps ex- pressed the first cause quite as satisfactorily as science can do it even now. Human observation has noted in every age that there is an agreement between the great perturbations in the physical world and those revolutions, changes, upheavals of society, those disturbances of political and moral rela- tions that are in a common view regarded as due either to human pride, passion and ambi- tion, or to the direct interposition of a super- intending “providence.” Falling dynasties ‘are associated in the oldest of human remem- brances with the portent of some blazing comet; and so following there is hardly an ill worthy the dignity of history but has had its attend ing ‘er preceding signal in, the heavens. Men readily associated these things in the ages when faith was a governing princlple—when it was assumed that they daw God in all that they could not otherwise explain, and when the physical wonder that came in the same period was naturally taken as a warning of some more strictly human event But this is an inquiring rather than a believing age; yet we must still associate great stellar- atmospheric or terrestrial perturbation with periods remarkable for human changes. We associate them inevitably because they come together as a matter of fact ; and then follows the inquiry, Is the ‘relation merely one of coin- cidence, or did the thinkers who groped and guessed in the early dawn of intellectual light “reason better than they knew?” Doubtless this inquiry is to be answered fully only when farther discovery shall exactly develop the nature, power and modes of action of that yet comparatively unknown principle—electricity. It is a remarkable characteristic of this princi- ple that it is at once a cause and a result of the greatest operations in nature, while no more definite account can be given of varying states of humanity, whether in respect to health in the common sense or in respect to intellectual status, than consists in the alle- gation of varying electrical conditions. Is the vis nervosa upon which our daily health, opinions, acts depend, electricity? Many im- portant experiments seem to indicate that it is nothing else, and that if it differs in certain respects it differs only as its natural medium of action does from those things thatare the usual media of electricity. Well, this power, that so effectually determines for better or worse our daily acts, is also the spirit of the empire Church) which, seizing the falling sdeptre of the Cesars, established ® more extensive if less material power, presided over the birth of the modern civilization of law and literature, and fostered and secured the growth and de- velopment of that system which now pushes it from ite pride of place. Asia, slumbering eo long under the fallen ruins of former glory, is awaking at the touch of Europe, with Russia striding toward her across the steppes, nd inside rebellion aiding the outside barba- rians coming by the sea to break down and throw open the only remaining one of the empires that were old in the time of Darius On this Continent changes of the most momen- tous character seemed but lately to be drawing to their close, as we saw the end of the war in Mexico, the languishing progress of that in South America and the termination of the bloody straggle that had devastated ten of our own States; bat there are indications that even yet we may have popular troubles almost without peralleleruptions that breaking through the crust of social order, msy simas late in terror and desolation some of those great natural events to which they seem allied. It seems that there may well be a new heaven and anew earth—in other words, a new re ligion and a new civilization—before the time comes again that all “shall stand still and be at rest.” The Arrival of Dickens. Charles Dickens arrived at Boston on Tues- day, the 19th of November, by the steamer Cuba. Seven thousand of the philosophers of “the Hub,” in breeches and in petticoats, awaited his arrival on the dock ; but they lost the opportunity of welcoming him with the usual demonstrations of tondyism, inasmuch as he left the steamer on a tug, and directly he landed hastened to his hotel in School street. To make amends for the loss of a chance te take the horses from his carriage and to haul him up to Parker’s, the Bostonians all met before sunrise on the first day of the sale of tickets for his readings in the Tri-mountain city; and, besieging the book store of his publishers, created furor unequalled since that excited by his arrival in the same city twenty-five years ago. The police force had to be sum- moned in order to preserve peace and order among the eager purchasers of tickets. Nothing like this furor has been occasioned since his first visit, unless we except that which marked the reception of Jenny Lind on her arrival in this country. Mr. Dolby, the agent of Mr. Dickens, appears to be a sort of refined Barnum, with all the enterprise and none of the vulgarity of the notorious showman. The Boston journals inform us that Mr. Dolby has already disposed of more than eight thousand tickets for Mr. Dickens’ first course of readings in Boston. But Mr. Dolby seems to have failed to profit by our recent suggestion—that the price of tickets for Mr. Dickens’ readings safely be put ata higher figure than he set upon them. The consequence of this mistake is that the speculators have got pos session of no inconsiderable number of tickets and ere selling them at twenty dollars apiece. By the time that Mr. Dickens reaches New York it seems not unlikely that the price of tickets will advance to a hundred dollars or more. At his first visit. Boston fell into ecate- cles over him. The excitement occasioned by his arrival was in the beginning like a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand; but it sooa swelled to a hurricane of adulation, which afterwards reached its height at the Dickens ball in New York, and then subsided. It will be easy for the New Yorkers to beat the Bos tonians if the former think fit to enter into competition with the latter. If the Bostonians can assemble seven thousand people to wel- come Dickens, we can assemble, at equally short notice, seventy thousand. We can afford to pay higher prices for tickets than even those demanded by the Boston speculators. We can have an suction, at which some rival of the hatter who made his fortune by bidding twe hundred and twelve dollars for a reserved seat, may double, if need be, that sum. We do not know what has become of Genin, who became famous for the highest bid at Jenny Lind’s first concert, but here is certainly a chance for Knox to become equally: famous. Dickens might have spared himeelf the trouble of bringing over any London clothes, for the tailors: and hatters and boot makers of Boston and New York must be ready and eager to take his measure and supply him with complete outfit, replenishing it as often as circumstances may require. Neither Bos- tonians nor New Yorkers seem disposed to listen to our advice, so far to moderate their enthusiasm in behalf of Dickens as to abstain from making themselves ridiculous. We think they might do this and still manifest their hearty appreciation of his genius, But it appears to be useless to try to check any of those storms of popular excitement which peri- odically agitate the American mind, whether caused by Jenny Lind, Japanese Tommy, the Prince of Wales or Mr. Dickens. We can only advise the public to keep as cool as possible, and Mr. Dolby to make the most of “ the latest sensation” as long as it laste. The Mayeralty Contest—Anthon’s Nomina- tion. ‘The nomination of John H. Anthon as a can- didate for Mayor is the first nominatin made for which the people should have any respect whatever. Hitherto democratic organizations of every stripe, class and character have thought it necessary to put up Irishmen for every possible office ; and our municipal ma- chinery has for years been run by a class of noble politicians who came to us through the bands of the Commissioners of Emigration and put on their first pairs of baots when they took oaths of office as aldermen. That sort of thing city besides the Irish vote. It has, therefore, nominated a man of the real old Knickerbocker style—e man beyond and sbove all the vile ruses of the political swindlers; a man of fine intellect and thorough education, and whose character is such that it can receive no dignity from the office, but will convey full assurance of honest administration to a tax- ridden people. Such a nomination should draw out the earnest efforts of all decent citi- zens in its support Mr. Anthon isa candidate around whom can be rallied votes enough to beat the ring machinery. Mr. Darling should withdraw. It would bea fine piece of self- sacrifice if Mr. Wood would do the same thing, and thus, with Anthon and Hoffman as oppo- nents, we should have a square contest be- tween the honest men and the rogues, and we would know, once for all, whether o majority of the people really desire to bave an honest man in the Mayor’s office. Struck Ol at Last. The people of this city, and particularly the political managers of the different rings, have been boring # long time fora proper Mayor without striking the genuine article, When the auger reached Fernando Wood, and he was brought to the surface, the smell of the muddy and deleterious material proved so offensive that the unwholesome specimen was cast aside. Going till deoper Hoffman was reached, but the stench became unendarable to honest nostrils, The republicans bored and struck Darling, hard rock with no oil whatever in it At last the Grant democratic republicans, with Engineer Miles O'Reilly ot their head, bored deeper and struok the finest syecimen of clear and pure off in Join H. Anthon. The borers, the well sinkers, the purface hands end the whole community. Gav now co to work