The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1867, Page 6

*. 6 ——————e NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the years Your cents per copy. Annual subseri!! a price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Cents per copy. Aunual subscription price Five Copies. ‘Ten Copies. ' Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, andany larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rales make the Werxiy Heratp the cheapest publication in the couniry. Postage five cents per copy for three months. The Catrornmia Epitiox, on the Ist, Mth and 2ist of each month, at Six Cuts per copy, or $8 per annum. RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—-—Bisiior Snow ox “Tax Comme Kinepox oF Gon.’' Afternoon. ' CHURCH OF THR RESURRECTION, Ruigers College, Fifth avenue.—Dr. E. 0. Fiacc. Morning. % CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Moraing and even- ing. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Morning and afternoon. ' CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC bi aga Nemansess or tux Commxe or Tax Loan.” Even! CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —Rxv. Davio Mitcmxy.., Morning and afteracon. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Paoressor Oc- ex Donswvs on “Tam Creation.” Evening. * pannamcartt CHURCH OF DIVINE PATERNITY.—Rey. B. OH, Cuarix, Morning and eventng. BLOOMINGDALF BAPTIST C! Yeawax, Morning and evening. (URCH.—Rev. W. Pore SYNAGOGUE OF THE CONGREGATION BIKUR CHOLIN.—U-Kapisme. Rev. 3. Cano, “Rarraronr Mes MORIAL Semvicg.” Afternoo: ' CHURCH OF TRE PURITANS, Union aquare.—try. Martucw Hate Suitu. Evening. ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—Rer. De. Trice. Morning and afternoon. ST. ANN'S FREE CHURCH.—Morning, afternoon and evening. Sv. LUKE'S CHURCH.—Rev. Proresson Sarnore ox) “Tas Panis anp tts Muvistas."’ Evening. CHURCH, —“Tax Puarine Baw.” Morning and evening. ' THE UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—Morn- tng aud evening. ' MASONIC HALL.—Sociery of Paoanessive Seimmcar- urs. Morning and evening. ° DODWORTH HALL.—Ruy, Mr. Fismeoven on “Mas.” te W. H. Cuancer on ‘Oevestia Magnermy,” Even! TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Ne , EUROPE. Pope Pius the Ninth has accepted Napoleon’s plan of acenference on the Italo-Roman question, and the assemblage will be organized in Munich, on the 11th of December. Italy, Barvaria ané W iirtemburg have given their adhesion to the conference. It is denied in Paris that Geveral Dix appiied for a representation for the United States in the assemblage. The Fenian convicts Allen, Gould and Larkin were hanged in Manchester yesterday forenoon. A dense fog and rain storm prevailed at the moment, yet the crowd was very large. The city remained quiet, Consois closed at 94°; for money in London. Five- twenties were at 70 11-16 in Londom and 75% in Frank- fax. ‘The Liverpoo! cotton market closed quiet, with mid. dling uplands at 8\44. Breadstuf's steady. Provisions without marked change, By the steamship America at this port yesterday we . have very interesting mail reports, in detail of our cable despatches from Europe, to the 12th of November. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telegrams from Havana contain items of news from Porto Rico, Rayti, St. Domingo, Jamaica, Veveanela, Colombia, Barbados, Antigua, British Hon~ auras and Tortola, Fearful results were apprehended ia Parto Rico from the inundations caused by the tate hurricame. Large forces of insurrectionary troops were at work im Bayti for t werthrow of “alnave. They had taken « town @ Dominican border. Montes was stil) in prison. A dictatorship was de- manded by thé people. The negro rising io Jamaica ‘was expected to take place about Christmas, An inves- tigation of the atate of affairs was being made by order of Governor Grant. Two shocks of earthquake were felt om the 12th instant. In Venezula President Faicon had suceseded in reorganizing his Cabinet. In the Constitutional Convention yesterday « resolu. tion relative to bribery and corruption in the Legisia- ture was referred to the Committee en Oficial Corrup- | tiov, The Convention wen: into commitice of the | whole on the report of the Judiewry Committee, and without coming to a vote adjourned to Monday evening. The Impeachment (ommitiee had a long meeting yes- terday, at which, it is understood, a determination was arrived at to report in favor of impeachment. The Louisiane Convention met in New Orleans yes- terday, For temporary chairman and secretary negroes were chosee. Without effecting a permaneni organi- vation the body adjoursed over tw Monday, but it ix probable, as the negroes bave a large majority, that ove of their own color will be elected permanent President. (So the Alavamna (onvention yesterday an ordinance was passed levying (axes to pay the expenses of the vention. A bill of rights was adopted providing that equal, The Franchwe article the twenty thousand dollars men, betweem thirty and forty (uousand persone in (he State are affected by it. An amendment to the bill of rights was offered, giving Hiacks equal rights te accommodations in sleeping cars, Dut the debate evér it becoming somewhat lively, it ‘was postponed until Monday N ‘Three men fell froma seafolding forty feet to th ground at Worcester, Mavs, jyenterday, two of them being imetaptly killed and tne third dangerously wounded, Ia the case Of Mre. Morehouse who died recently ‘in Brooklya from the effects of an abortion, the jury yes- terday found @ verdict imp cating Mrs, Jacobin Fok bert aod Sophia Kaappier in the commission of the deed. Among the witnesses for the government at the tria! of Jof Davis, which commences te-morrew, are Joe Jobnaton, the rebel general, and the er-rebe Secretary of War, James A. Seaden. i “ix megrose and four white men were publicly whipped 'n Newcastle, Delaware, yesterday. ‘ue Tadians at North Pintte have réfused to come to council with the Pesce Commissioners, whe had conse. “cently scattered, only the secretary remaining at North Piate, A hand loom among the Indians was greauly erlang theit wonder. Ji 400k market ene caved yesterday bet afer. wards advanced and closed strong. Government seour- ities wore strong but rather dull Gold closed at 140, Consequent upon the inclemoncy of (he weather, basi- meas yesterday in all departments of trade was very light; some articles, however, were quite freely dealt in The generality of holders were very anxious to realize, and prices of many commodities were materially lower, ‘The demand for cotton was good, but prices were in favor of the buyer. Coffee was without decided change. Oa ‘Change almost all of the markets were dull, Beavy and lower, Flour declined 100, a 25c, per bbl, and some grades were offered decline of 50c, Wheat was nomi- nal ata reduction of 1c. a 2c, Corn wassteady, and oats, though quiet, were le, higher. Pork wasdull and heavy, while beof and Jard wore dull, but unchanged in value. Freights were dul!, but rates were steady. Naval stores were almost noglected. Petroleum was im better de- mand, and fully \c. per gallom higher. The Papal Drama, In his recent speech, on the occasion of the opening of the French Chambers, the Emperor Napoleon spoke of the Papal question as one which affected the interest and well-being of Europe. Ip this he, no doubt, spoke truly, but he would have spoken with equal truthfulness and with more point if he had said it affected the interest and well-being of the world. It is the question par excellence of the hour, and is creating quite as much interest in Protestant as in Papal countries, in the New World as in the Old. Nor is this at all to be wondered at; for the struggle which may now be’ said 10 have reached a climax, and which is now witnessed by us in the last scenes of a protracted drama, has lasted for well nigh fitteen hundred years, and during that long period has never ceased to command a large share of the attention of mankind. The battle which is at present raging, and which has now, as it ever has had, Rome for its centre, is in reality a battle for supremacy between the secular and religious principles which jointly govern society. There are unquestionably other standpoints from which, the struggle may be contemplated, but there is no other standpoint which enables us to see it with so much fulness and clearness of vision. The history of the Papacy comprises almost all that is great or interesting in the annals of the world since the commencement of the Christian era. The descent of the Northern barbarians, the early conquests of Islam, the resurrection of the Weatern empire and the glories of Charlemagne, the fall of the Carlovingians and the rise of the Capeta, the successes of the Norman in- vaders. the Crusades, the struggles of the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, the triumphs in the far East of Zingis Khan, the growth of the French monarchy, the growth of English free- dom, the capture of Constantinople and the final settlement of the Turk in Europe, the revival of learning, the invention of priniing, the discovery of America, the decay of the Italian republics, the growth and ascendency of the Spanish monarchy, the Reformation, the 3 | struggle in the Netherlands, the thirty years’ * REVENTEENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL war, the glory of France under the Grand Monarque, the revolution of 1688 in England, j the revolution of 1789 in France, the rise and fall of the French empire, the growth of Russia and of | Prussia—not one of these events but has been ‘ connected more or less directly with the Papacy; and most, if not all, of them serve as mementos of that struggle between the secu- lar and the sacred elements of human society | to which we have already alluded. The strug- | gle has been as keen as it has been protracted ; «nd though the Papacy has not always been successful, it must be admitted that it has mar- vellously maintained its existence and its power, in spite of many fierce attacks and much combined opposition. The first great triumph of the Papacy, of the sacred over the secular in human affairs, was won on Christmas day in the year of our Lord 800. On that day Leo Ill. placed the imperial middlemen. Business people prefer to do their advertising directly with the newspaper, and in the case of the Heaatp they find in the per- fect system of its classification the best mode of making their wants known to the public and putting their business in an intelligible shape before the community. The Mysterioys Influence ef the Herald and the Charter Election, For the past quarter of a century, at inter- vals of about six months each, the public mind has been agitated by heated discussions and. wild speculations on the mysterious influence of the Huratp. War, pestilence and famine, battle and murder, convulsions at home and abroad, politics, impeachment, elections, finances and Fenianism, have all been insuffi- cient to divert attention for a longer time from this engrossing topic. Holy alliances take up the subject, angrily discuss it, determine to break the Hunatp down, and end in breaking themselves down instead. Hungry ghouls and infidels congregate in garrets and howl over it. Reverend Chadbands raise up their fat hands, wipe their oily ‘oreheads and preach about it from their pulpits, as being of more importance than the Gospel to their congregations. Pom- pous professors brosk their wooder lances against. it; envious newspapers rack their copper beads for arguments with which’ to assail it; Bohemians soak themselves with lager beer and grow bewildered in pondering over it; little political dogs snarl and snap at it and hang their ears in dread of it. All such parties acknowledge it, but none can understand it. It is to them more wonderful and incompre- hensible than the solar system or the doctrine of the Trinity. Still, they regard its existence as undeniable. It continues to control all events, great and small, to shape the destiny of nations and of parties, to build up public men or knock them down, and to regulate all matters, from the heavenly display of a mote- oric shower down to the devil's display of the “Black Crook.” _ According to our contemporaries, the mys- terious influence of thé Herat is responsible for everything that happens in this world, if not in the next. The most surprising part of the business to them’ is the mysterious way in which it moves its wonders to perform. At one time it opposes a candidate to elect him, and at another it advocates him to defeat him. Now it agsails a theatre in order to fill its trea- sury, and now it praises a performer for the purpose of damning him. A humbag showman impudently asks to be sent to Congress from Connecticut, and it is the Heravp that consigns to private life the party that presumed to nomi- nate him. A third rate lawyer and ward poli- tician, with very little brains, endeavors to be- come Governor of the State of New York by a combination between the Tammany ring and the pr'ze ring, the Puritan and the blackleg, and the Herato, with retributive justice, elects the blackleg and defeats the Puritan. The re- publican party shows a disposition to recon- struct the country on a. fair and liberal basis, receives the endorsement of the Harao, and carries every State in the Union by grand ma- jorities. The next session the radical Congress alters its policy, is abandoned by the Hzratp, and radicalism is scattered to the winds. In the meantime peddling politicians and Bohe- mian newspapers are puzzled to know what it all means, and keep deciaring, in a bewildered state, that they cannot make out the Herap’s politics. They cannot understand that the Herawo’s politica are principles, and that men and parties are as nothing in its estimation. All these things excite wonder, envy, confu- sion, bewilderment and terror in the breasts of our contemporaries, and of humbugs, impos- tors and rascals of every description, whether in science, art, religion, politics, literature or any other calling. The Hezatp and its mys- terious influence are the nightmares that sit upon their chests, disturbing their digestion by day and their rest by night. It looms up be- fore them at all hours and in all seasons, A day or two since the machinery of the opera became deranged and the performance ceased. Instantly ® copperhead paper attributed the troubles of the manager to the mysterious in- fluence of the Hzratp. A mayoralty election is approaching, and Hoffman, the candidate of all the municipal cutpurses who live by plun- dering the city, makes a speech to his consti- tuents. He does not tell the people why he has suffered the taxes of the city to mount up to twenty-four million dollars. He does not explain how he came to sign the warrants for all the thievish jobs of the new Court House. He does not attempt to answer Peter Cooper's last terrible indictment against him for squan- dering one hundred and fifty thousand dollars upon a gang of Tammany lawyers. He docs not let us know how he managed to be “out of the city” when this grand plundering acheme was passed by the Common Council, or why, after writing a Puritanical veto of that municipal swindle, he signed the warrants to enable its concoctors to draw their money out of the public treasury. He does not inform us how it is that an honest and pious man happens to be supported by every one of the notorious Corpo- ration rings who have been robbing the citizens for years in every department of the municipal gevernmeni. But he devotes his time to a cock-and-bull story about the Hxratp and some mysterious person—-supposed to be Fernando Wood by the confused reporter of « copperhead jouraal--who was some way inter- ested in the widening of Ann street. He de- clares, after the fashion of Bohemians of every degree, that the Hrracp is supporting Anthon to elect Fernando Wood, running his head against the mysterious influence which has purzled other heads not so empty as his own. It is possible that Hoffman hopes, by raising a hubbub about the « mysterious influence,” to crown on the head of Charles the Great and hailed him Emperor ofthe Romans. Charles the Great, in return, gave the Pope the benefit of his imperial protection and invested him with an Italian principality. Thus commenced the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted from 800 to 1806, when it was put an end to by Napoleon I. Thus, too, commenced that temporal power of the Roman bishops which, with varying fortune, has lasted up to the present time. Prior to this date the bishops of Rome, though sufficiently arrogant and pretentious, had never been able to shine as the disposers of empires and of crowns. It was natural that the power thus acquired should continue to grow. It is not surprising, therefore, to find | that out of the disorders which followed the death of Charlemagne the Papacy should have emerged mightier and more formidable than ever. The supremacy was not won by the Popes until after a long and severe struggle. Three hundred years, however, had not rolled past when ample proof was given that the Pope was mightier than the Emperor. A successor of Charlemagne—Henry IV.—to win back the favor of Pope Gregory VIL, the famous Hildebrand, was content to stand in | the outer court of the castle of Canossa, in Tuscany, at which the Pope was then resident, nd there, in cold January weather, barefoot | and fasting, for three days await the pleasure | of his Holiness. The power acquired by Hil- | debrand was bequeathed to his successors. The struggle for power has never ceased from that time till now. The Papacy bas often been triumphant ; it has often, also, been seriously humbled. It now appears, however, as if that power which survived the attack of Philip | the Fair, the humility of the seventy years’ cap- ) tivity at Avignon, the disastrous effects of the | Reformation, was about to sink beneath the | misfortunes which are crowding upon it. 'Th8 | principality granted by Charlemagne must at | Inst be abandoned. It may be retained yet for atime, but it may reasonably be presumed | that the present generation shall see the suc- | cessor of St. Peter disappear from the list of | divert attention from the several jobs and temporal princes. The loss will be # gain to | plundering schemes for which, as Mayor, he is the Pope himvelf, to the Catholic Church and to | Fesponsible, just as he induced that poetical and oratorical Irish genins, O'Gorman, to plead | to Peter Cooper's indictment, which was in Advertising Agents. reality directed against the Mayor. But he will Some of our contemporaries Iaid groat stress | aot succeed. Every taxpayer knows that the upon the value of advertising agenta, but the fact of the matter is that they are great humbugs as far as influential papers are concerned. They are more leeches which bang upon the newspaper establishment, and borer who anaoy bnsiness men, oftentimes at their most busy the world. accomplished “ Young Ireland” refugee is only & babe in the Tammany woods. The cunning old plotters of the municipal rings have used him to draw their chestnuts out of the fire. Under the charter it is made the duty of the Mayor “‘ to exercise a constant supervision over hours. The system of drumming up advertise. | the conduct and acts of all subordinate offi. | mente was abandoned by the Henin five or | ciale,” and in order that he may have fall limit | six years ago, because we found it entirely | to check all extravagance and corruption the | unnecessary. It may do very well for small | law gives bim tho power to prevent any money ! and insignificant journals, but any paper with | from being drawa from the elty treasury by | ® large circulation can obtain plenty of adver. | withholding bis signature from the warrants. i pleted during his term: of office, and hence all the corrupt city rings—Supervisors, Aldermen and Councilmen—unite with the Tammany ring in hia support. The Heratp supports an honest democrat— John H. Anthon—againgt these. plundering rings and. their candidate. If Darling will reaign, the election of Anthon by # splendid majority is assured. If our mysterious influ- ence should elect Wood, instead of Hoffman, we should only give to the city # nine million rascal instead. of a twenty-four million Puri- tan. But if the respectable citizens will con- centrate their votes upon Anthon, we can swoep the dry bones of cheap rascals and dear rascals, Tammany rings, Corporation rings and copperheads into a common coffin, and bury them all together in the Potter’s Field beyond the hope of resurrection. . Popular Parsese—The Degradatien of a Sacred Omice. In the days of the primitive Churob, when men gave up their lives to the propagation of the religion af Christ, society altogether stood on a very different basis trom that it stands on now, and we can hardly expect that the Gospel should be preached in this nine- teenth century clty'as it was in Ephesus and Antioch, Preachers in this day have chosen quite other models than the Apostles. No man gives up his house, his home, his friends, his de- sires, his ambition for distinction, for the prides and vanities of the world, and simply labors to make men better—to save his own soul and the souls of other sinners. We have written no man does this—but we mean that no man popularly kaown &s “strong in the Scriptures” does it. It may be done still by as many men as ever; but they are men who keep out of public sight. The men generally recognized as th@ pillars of Christ’s kingdom hereabout are of another sort. Their first requirement seems to be that their devotion to the service of God shall pay them so much a year—just aa it it were devotion to mammon, in fact. Just as if prayer were merchandise, and the power to perceive and expound the ways and mys- teries of Providence, the sympathetic mag- netism that strengthens wavering faith, were to be disposed of by the quantity, like gum shellac. Different conditions of society render it in- evitable that the preacher of the Gospel should in many respects, to some degree in all re- spects, perhaps, stand on a different footing from that he held when Paul was a preacher; but is it wise in the parsons to annihilate all those characteristics of their office in virtue of which for 46 many centuries they have been respected and looked up to as guides above the influence of worldly passion and evil? The pastoral office has been regarded as one apart from all others, in consideration of the vir- tues it implied, the very first of which was self- abnogation, if not self-sacrifice, Men “gave up the world” for themselves to teach sinners the way to a better life ; but how muoh giving up of the world is there in ¢he conduct of the distinguished’ preachers of our day, the Beechers, Chapins andso on? They give up the world for a church that pays ten thou- sand dollars in salary, and if one in another State offers twelve thousand they make the change. In their pulpits they get the reputa- tion as sayers of emart things, and on the strength of this go about the country peddling their opinions on every sort of subject in lecture rooms. By such practices the famous parsons of the period are breaking down the lingering respect that people have for their sacred office, and are coming to be regarded simply as men who pursue @ money-gotting avocation. m We know it is the common answer to all this that even parsons must live, and must maintain the dignity of their position in social circles. Tf a man has no other dignity than that which is to be maintained by broadcloth, brown stone fronts and extravagant living, he has mistaken his vocation in attempting to be a mediator be- tween man and his Maker. If he has not those gifts of heart and mind that carry their own assertion in his acts and thoughts—if he follows this vocation out of any other than a holy pur- pose—if he associates his office mainly with the thought of his income, then for him the Church is a market and not a temple, and ontof respect to his high place he should relinquish it to those who will fill it more worthily and himself take to novel writing, lecturing, or the political rostram, where he may properly dis- pute the popular applause with Wendell Phillips, George Francis Train, Sojourner Truth, or Captain Rynders, Dr. Livingstone, the African Explorer. The telegraphic despatch which we published yesterday, contradicting the reports of the death of Dr. Livingstone, and announcing that this bold and enterprising traveller was safe and well in April last, at which date he was exploring the wastes of Africa hundreds of miles from the sea coast, gave universal plea- sure. We have already intimated that Sir Rod- erick Murchison and the other members of the Royal Geographical Society were probably right in their convictions that the testimony in reference to his death was unreliable. There is so deep and general an interest not only in the personal welfare of Dr. Livingstone, but also in the important results which both Africa and the civilized world are likely to reap from his explorations, that we earnestly hope. the latest reports of his safety may be confirmed. The suspense and anxiety regarding the fate of the great African explorer have been as pain- ful, but, happily, less prolonged than in the mebancholy case of Sir John Franklin. Jet Davis. Jeff Davis is in Richmond. Quietly and un- attended he slipped out of Canada the other day, and was back again in the late capital of the late Southern confederacy on Friday even- ing, in the shape of a surprise party. Bound in a hundred thousand dollars to report in person before the Circuit Court of the United States, in Richmond, on the 25th instant, he has ‘evidently taken time by the forelock in order to prove to his bondsmen that they were not mistake in their man. It is a grateful recognition of thbic services, however, which will sarprise nobody; for if Davis has nothing else left him his personal honor and his bond are something to maintain, even before the hazards-of » negro jury. Whether his trial is to be opened on Monday or is to be again poat- Poned we cannot tell, bat we think it most probable that it will be put off agaiv, and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Execution of the Fenian Prisoners ia Eng- laed. Three of the men convicted of participation in the riot at Manchester, in England, during which the Fenian prisoners Kelly and Deasy were rescued from the custody of the police, and one of the policemen, Brett, was murdered by the mob, suffered death upon the scaffold yesterday, all the efforts to obtain a commuta- tion of the extreme sentence of the law having failed. Extensive preparations had been made by the authorities to meet and quell any disturbance; but the fears of an outbreak proved groundless, and the cable despatches inform us that the city of Manches- ter, where the executions took place, was quiet during the day and evening. Five persons in all were tried and convicted of the crime, one of whom was pardoned after sentence, and another respited. The three who suffered death were all young men, and seem to have borne good characters previous to the unfortu- nate affair in which they became implicated, The death of these men will create a pro- found sensation throughout the civilized world, . while the reckless and hopeless attempts of the Femans to excite a rebellion against the British government are to be deplored as only tending to destroy human life and to increase the sufferings of the oppressed Irish people. England will meet with little sympathy from other nations in her domestic troubles. When the position she took during our own rebellion is remembered, the United States might well be justified in con- demning her severity towards her own political offenders as barbarous and brutal. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been sac- Tificed by the acts of the traitors with whom England sympathized on this side of the Atlantic, and not one has suffered an ignomin- fous death, except for the crime of wilful mur- der or revolting inhumanity to prisoners of war. But the rescue of two prisoners and the shooting of one officer during a riot on British soil has cost three of the participants their lives upon the scaffold. Whether the triple execution will lay the terrible Fenian ghost in Ireland and England remains to be seen. It may check any more outbreaks for awhile, but it is not at all impro- bable that it may rankle in the minds of the masses, and in the end bring forth even more bitter fruit than the tree of Fenianism has yet produced. The Evo Telegram and O’German. ,There is a strutty, pompous, loud-voiced bantam of a paper called the Evening Tele- gram, which might more properly be called the Evening Balderdash, This self-conceited sheet assumes to discuss city politics quite in the vein and tone of ita bigger brothers, the morning dailies. And this lofty style from such a small source has a very ridiculous effect. the more notable of these attémpts in the Telegram ia its late effort to defend O’Gor- man in the case made against that worthy by our venerable silveratick in waiting, Peter Cooper. Peter’s honesty not only makes him a terror to all chaps who cannot keep their ac- counts straight, but his delicious civilities to the Prince of Wales, on the occasion of that worthy’s visit, make him a horror and a disgust to all Irishmen, Therefore nobody can de- fend any member of our city government without speaking as disrespectfully of Peter as Sidney Smith’s grandmother did of the equa- tor. For our own part, we would not say a word against O'Gorman, He is @ fine, even a’ superfine, specimen of the reai old Irish gentle- man who lived in the days beforé tiiat beggarly Euclid—bad cess to him !—invented mathoma- tics, and trouble and accounts, and stuff of that ultra views, party spite and narrow prejudices The Winter Fashions. Great battles are of some benefit nowadays in the fashionable world, according to our Paris correspondent. Solferino gave the men 8 rified cannon and the ladies a new color; Sadowa created needle guns and those high boots which the belles of Paris prize so dearly; and now Mentaas presents the men with Chas- sepots, and the ladies are in session deciding . upon what their share shall be. The newest costume on the Boulevards is called the “in- soluble,” and has a loose mantilla with flowing sleeves and chenille fringe. The Polonaise, or passion for belt rings is on the increase, and these ornaments now hold lyres and arrows suspended from the waist behind. Conse- quently the blind archer peeps from every fold of « voluminous train, and miniature Apollos jingle from the girdle where in the days of yore naught but the rattling of the house keys was heard. Where two or three belles are gathered together at the present time there a perfect Bistefodd of lyres may be heard, and a Welshman may hail the revival of his national harp even in # diminished form. We are not surprised that Paris ran away with La Belle Héléne, and that the elopement was considered ® casus belli, if Offenbach’s and Homer’s heroine was dressed like her present repre- sentative, the Queen of Greece. Her toilet conaisted of a robe of silver cloth, worked all over with bouquets of silver thread and white silk, and adorned with double rows of diamond buttons down in front, and her necklace, brace- lets, diadem and chignon circle were entirely composed of diamonds. The young king ia dazzled. and devoted, and no wonder. His mother-in-law keeps a jealous guard over both, and is no less dazsling than her daughter im her tollet, Woe rather think that the above toilet will not come generally into fashion. The Empress has been hunting at Compidgne, and the royal visitors have been shooting the requisite amount of game that the dailies and weeklies of the French capital require to parade in their columns as a standard for roy- alty. Underakirts are elaborately ornamented for the winter, and bats are unchanged for the It is @ oheering indication of the progress of taste. among our modistes to find that they are adopting one idea from Paris wiich common sense and refined taste should have taught them long ago. They have been in the habit of sending over their patroneases. to Paris in toilets which excited only the ridi- oule and pity of French Iadies. . An extrava- gantly trimmed rich satin dress was worn in the ballroom, on the promenade and in the carriage, and the only idea in the construction of toilets was to crowd all the expensive ma- terials that could be collected together on a lndy’s back. When tight fitting basques were in vogue our modistes insisted upon trying thom on customers of embonpoint proclivi- ties. B@hnets which would look charming on freah young faces were offered to ladies con- siderably beyond the prime of life. The idea of adaptability of toilet to age, form, com- Bear shed tke he es ee true standard of taste in Paris. A fashionable sort, and brought into the world the mean- minded idea that people should have things of their own. He is a fine relic of those days, A sweet, frolicsome, exuberant, bubbling nature is O'Gorman, that never could do a dishonest act, and therefore never dreamed that any one else could—and never looked out for it, ye see—and so became the dupe of the dirty ras- cals of native born rogues that are constantly robbing the treasury—tbe blackguards. But why could not the Telegram defend and save O’Gorman without pitching into worthy old Peter? General Dainess in Business. The present condition of our leading com- mercial houses is calculated to alarm the minds of the most careless and reckless, and make people reflect seriously on the causes of such a state of affairs. Everywhere the same complaints of utter. stagnation of trade are heard, and the largest establishments are con- ducting their business on a scale equal only to some small retailer, or one-tenth of their usual requirements. Asa consequence of this gene- ral dulness in trade, hundreds are thrown out of employment, and the city is filled with clerks, salesmen, seamstresses and others unable to procure the means of daily subsist ence. A glance at the advertising columns of the Heratp, will be sufficient to convince any one of the immense increase of “ situations wanted.” It has been estimated that there are uo less than ten thousand women in this city seeking employment in any capacity by which food and shelter may be procured. The list of com- mercial failures this year is almost sufficient to cause a strong feeling of distrust and suspicion among all circles, and auction sales are exten- sively resorted to by some of the largest firms to keep up their business. Now, this isa very serious and the causes should be made known to the entire country. Some of our oldest and most discerning merchants ascribe (be stag- nation of trade to the unsettled state of the country, owing to the persisient exclusion by Congress of ten important Statex from com- mercial as well as political rights and _privi- leges; to the ruinous financial policy of the government in the contraction of the currency, and the pestilential national banks; to the too frequent and needlessly long sessions of Con- gtess, and the consiant meddling with the tariff, end to the gigantic frauds which are daily per- petrated with immunity by illegitimase traders. The Southern trade, which has always been of vital importance to the commercial fnterests of the nation, is now prastrated by the suicidal fanaticiom of the radicals in Congress. Not content with injuring (rade in this particular, they paralyze it completely by constantyy under easier terms to the prisoner than before. | dictory kind, ‘Then, to finish the werk, wo At all eventa, it is to be hoped that hy the tising without worrving the pnblic through | Hofman has siaped every warrant Gr every | court or ky Cogaress bis cose will be Snally have our unfortunate currency tampered with ead made o bv wapd of reereach as mere food te of things, | | | we see some new and costly stracture holding over our merchants’ heads threats, of | legislation of the most pernicious and cr,nira- lady of that city in selecting a toilet consul aly ho petyellnty tea bt Sahisn, and changed it so as to harmonize with her form and com. plexion, and wears a different dress for differ< ent occasions. This is true taste, and our ladied should insist upon the modistes attending to it for the future. Their former course partook more of vulgarity than fashion, and exposed them to ridicule in Paris. When American ladies learn to think for themselves, and not accept indiscriminately everything the modiste may offer, then the metropolis may become a fashionable centre and be independent of French modistes. But for the sake of refine- ment and tasto let not the daughters of Uncle Sam suffer a drab boot to peep from beneath a black silk dress, or wear orange flowers on a purple bat, or otherwise make female rainbows of themselves. The progress of the metropolis is not confined to any particular point ; it can pe seen in every quarter of the city and every line of business, The staid old Kuickerbookere never dreamed of the constant, rapid and lib- eral style of doing business adopted by their successors. Take Union square as an instance. Magnificent emporiums of fashion replace some of the dingy, antiquated buildings that have ever given such a sombre aspect to this busy thoroughfare. On Broadway a destructive con- flagration often results in the erection of a palace in the place of some rickety concern. or humbug shop that stood as a disgrace to our noble thoroughfare. In the same manner the ideas of the ladies in relation to fashions are progressive, and the time will undoubtedly come when we shall supply Europe with the latest and most becoming toilets, as we have taught them how to construct monitors, yachts, besides pianos, sewing machines, loco. motives and reaping machines. Ruilding Improvements in New Vor. In spite of the high price of building materiais and labor New York advances rapidly in improvements. There are more costly and even elegant stractures going up than at any former period, As to the fine pri.ate residences being constructed, one has only to ride up Fifth avenue to see the enter- prise, taste and ambition of our people. Of course there is a great deal of building of this character going on in other parts of the city. - Though zhere have been complaints of a dull busines season we notice magnificent stores looming up in all directions, Then, as to pleces for amusement, are there not being bailt, in addition to the number already finished, Pike's splendid opera house and Booth’s Gre theatre? But the most remarkable progress is made io church building. At every turn for public worship. The Catholics, the Jows, the Protestants of every sect, vie with one another in erecting the most, expensive places of worship. A sitamger, would think’ New York the most religique tv jn the world,