The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Ail business or news leiters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yonk | Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Rejected communications will not be turned. re- OLYMric oadway.—A = Mipscmaen Nigur's Dream. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Maup's Meus. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery. ~ Lopwic pra Eisen, THEATR pbhoapwar THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticker or Leays aN. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street,—Taz Granp Docuess. BOWERY THEATRE, Noramua. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Buack Croox. Bowery.—Buugsein—Goop row NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel — Noxwoon. BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirtieth street.—Deviu's Auctions. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street,—Grunastica, Equastuiastsat, 46, FIFTA AVENUE THEATER, 2 and 4 West 24th street, — Owoxnx..ta—Fit To Be 4 Ducness, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 troadway.—Wuute, Cotton & Suanpvey's Mixsrrens, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 54% Broadway.—Erato- Pian ENTERTAINMENTS, S\ |, DANCING AND BURLESQUKS. KELLY & LEON’S MI % Broadway,—Soxas, Dances, Eocewtuicrrix: ae. TONY PASTOR'S 01 Vovattsm, Necro Minster: RUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tar Puce. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSES, Brooklyn.—Ermoriuax Mavsteecsy, BALLaps AND BURLEsques, BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Ingoan— lowest Mi.kMan. STEINWAY HALL.—Granp Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bomnce ayo Aur, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauiax Orxea—Catsrino E La Comane. New York, Monday, Decen THD NWO EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yestor- Gay evening, December 1, The Marquis de Moustier, Foreign Minister of Franco, Assured (he Senate that the expedition to Rome was in- tended merely to guarantee the safety of the Pope. The question between the Holy See and Iialy was ono of “distrust,” which the conference was intended to remove. The Prussian government has concluded a favorable contract for the conveyance of the mails to tho United states, Fenian funeral demonstrations wore made in Manchester and Cork. Fivo-twenties wore at 764 in Frankfort, MISCELLANEOUS, Our special Havana despatches state that another earthquake had occurred at St. Thomas, Tortola and other isiands, accompanied with volcanic eruptions, and that the soa roso fifty feet, doing much damage to shipping and buildings on the tslands Immense loss of life and property are reported in consequence, The American schooner Wild Pigeon was sunk, News from Paraguay by the Atlantic cable is to the effect that the allies had mado an attack on the Para. guayans, which resulted in a complete victory for the former, Reports from Mexico via San Francisco state that a revolution has broken in Durango, of which Vega ‘was the leader, Ortega and Patoni are reported to have joined him, and all the Northern and Western States ‘were expocted to follow, A party of government troops out against the revolutionists Lad been defeated. ! Tho remains of Maxiwiliao arrived at Havana yester- day. ws. Our Panama letter is dated November 23. Mogquera’s | trial is concluded and he has beon sentenced to banish- went for four years, Ho was expected daily at Santa Martha, whonce he would proceed to Aspinwail and probably thence to Pera to spend his exile His trial ‘was ono of great interest and occasioned much excite: fo considerably by the trial that a revolution and disso lution of the Union was imminent atany moment. Ad. vices from Central America couiained no political news of importance. Our Lima, Peru, letter is dated November 12, Prado, at the head of bis army, had arrived within four ti'os of Arequipa, His artillery bad not yet arrived, and an attack on the town was delayed in consequence, The rebellion was continually extending, and a party of robels bad made a strong demonstration against Iquique, Bolivian army was about to come . An atiempt at revolution in Callao had been quotied. Our Valparaiso, Cuile, correspondence ts dated Novem. ber 3. Everything was quiet and trade was staguant, Arrangements bad been completed for the estabdlish- ment of a line of s'eamers to England, Rich deposits Of gold had been discovered in the northern provinces, Our Wasbington despatedes stato that the President's Messago wiil not be sent in to Congress until to morrow. ‘The substance of the supplementary evidence taken by the Impeachment Commities, and not yet submitted to Cong:oas, is published tn the Heearo this morning. It us principally the testimony of J. M. Ashley, the chief impeacher himself, and as it shows up the Conover troubles and the atloged complicity of the President in the assassination of Lincoln, is deciediy moro fatoresting than the testimony heretofore pub- Hished. Mr. Ashley undergoes a close examination, aad confesses to having written movt of the lotters imputed to him im @ publication of the Avsisiant Attorney Gene. ral's somo time age. He states that he has not « living ‘witness to prove Mr. Johoson's complicity in the assas- sination of Lincoln, but from a certain theory which bo Feligiously believes he has no doubt of it himself, That theory ts mothing more nor less than that is hay brea a customary thing to assassinate Presidents, Harrison and ‘Taylor both, according to Mr, Ashley's idea, having been poisoned through the machinations of ambitious Vice Presidents. Mr, Buchanan, he thinks, was also poisoned, but got over it. The testimony of Colonel Moore, the President's Secretary, and others, relative to the pardon of deserters in West Virginia, is also gives. The roligious services were generaily very well Qulended yesterday, notwithstanding the cold wenther, Rev, Stophea H. Tyng, Jr., lectured to the Brookiya fire- men at (lie Academy of Music last oveniog. Dering his Giscourss an alarm of (re struck and most of bis audi- Once dispersed. Tue Sixty-first street Methodist Epis. Copal chapel, which has been elosed for some time vo make room for improvements, was reopened yesterday. Je the Chureh of the Holy lonocents, on Wost Thirtys @oventh street, high mass was heid and @ sermon was delivered by Dr. Fitzpatrick, of ‘Trinidad A Course of lectures was insugurated at St. Philip's Pro. tesiant Episcopal church by Rev. Bb. F, De Costa, under the auspices of the Colored Young Men’s Christian As. sociation. Robert Dale Owen leciured before tie Pro. @reesive Spiritualiste at the Masonic Hail on East Tuir- teonth street, Special service was performed in rt. Patrick's Cathedral, on the occasion of its complete re. @oration and repair after tho disastrous Gre of jast year. ‘The United “tates Circuit Court of Mississippi, in the case of Colowel MoCardie, an editor, who @as arrened by the military for denouncing General Ord, impeding Fecomstraction aad other matiore has dartted iher hig » NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1867, arrest waa perfectly logal, aud ordored him to be ro- turned to the custody of the military authorities, The fase will bo taken to the Supreme Court of the United ‘States The crew of tho Owogo, which was wrecked in the late galo on Lake Eri, near Dunkirk, have been saved, with the exception of five, who were lost by the capsiz~ ing of ono of the boats, Legal proceedings are about to commence in Boston in consequence of au alleged heavy over issue of sharos in a mining company. It is reported that some of the | old officers of the company have been arrested. By a railroad accident in Alabama recently the wild | aninals in a menagerie were fet loose, their cages | being broken, They took to the woods, bat were caugut | again without much difficulty, The Second Session ef the Forticth Con- aress—Tho President’s Message-The Lum- peachment Questien. The second session-of the Fortieth Congress commences to-day. The federal constitution provides that “the Congress shall assemble at least once in every year,” and that “such meeiing shall be on the firat Monday in De- cember, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.” At the last session of the Thirty-ninth Congress they did appoint by law gress, viz., the 4th of March last, without touching the regular December session. The sessions of July last and November, not being appointed by law, were but parts of said 4th of March session, which ends with the com- mencement of the regular December session to-day. 4 Having, in point of fact, however, had three sessions of Congross since the last regular annual Message of the President to both houses, and having passed through some very momentous experimental lessons in Southern reconstruction and public opinion in the twelve months which have intervened, we shall probably havo in the Prestdent’s annual Message—(which, wa are informed, will be withheld until to-morrow, in order that printed copies may be furaished to the press at all accessible points)—-a State paper of unusual public importance. It is understood that on Southern reconstruction he will aub- stantially adhere to his own policy, and espe- cially in reference to universal or indiscrimi- nate negro suffrage; that on the national finances he will endorse the general pro- gramme of Secretary McCultoch, and that he will have something of a satisfactory character to say touching those unsettled Alabama claims, and likewise in the matter of Mr. Seward’s extensive speculations in real estate in the regions of perpetual snow and in the zone of perpetual flowers. On the subject of the suspension of Secre- tary Stanton and the removal of Generals Sheridan and Sickles Mr. Johnson may perhaps vouchsafe some explanations of the why and wherefore in this Message, or he may reserve his reasons for an answer to some resolution of special inquiry. The first regular business broached in the two houses this morning (in the usual course of proceedings at the second session of every Congress), will be the appointment of a joint committee to wait upon the President and in- form bim that both houses are in sessior and duly organized, and ready to receive any com- munication he may have to make. This, we expect, will’ bring in some, if not all, the annual reports from the executive depart- ments. The Secretary of the Treasury does not report through the President, but directly to Congress, so that he may take his own time in making up his bill ot profits and losses, receipts, expenses, estimates and recommenda- tions. We suspect there will be a republican caucus with a view to a party unier- standing touching the course to be phirsucd upon the great questions of the day, and espe- cialiy upon the impeachment question. This subject will come up in the House as the regu- lar order of the day on Wednesday, and as it has become pretty well ascertained that the majority report of the Committee on Impeach- ment will signally fail when put to the test, it | becomes advisable for, the leading radicals to beat a retreat as gracefully as possible. Ac- | cordingly, we anticipate a party agreement involving the abandonment of the prosecution against Andrew Johnson, including the bill of Mr. Kelsey providing for the President’s sus- pension with his indictment before the Senate, which is clearly in violation of the intent and | reservations of the constitution. The tone of the Message, it ia given ont, will be temperate and dignified ; and, if so, its effect upon the House will be decisive, were there any doubts even now remaining as to the col- lapse of the impeachment faction. Mr. John- son bas certainly a fine opportunity on the negro question and the moncy question to con- trol the balance of power in both houses, by a skilfal adaptation of his Message to the drift of events, though we are not very sanguine that he will improve the occasion to its full extent. Why the Italian Patriote Failed. The failure of the Italian patriois to perfect the unity of Italy by taking Rome was due principally, no doubt, to the armed interven- tion of France ; but there were other causes, and not the least was the want of union among Italians themselves. Some of those under the government of the Pope, as well as others not under the Papal rule, joined the forces of his Holiness and fought against the Garibaldians. We have reliable private information that some holding bigh positions even under Victor | Emanuel’s government voluntarily entered the | service of the Pope at the time when all Italians should have been united in the oom- mon cause. With such.facts before us we can see in what a trying situation the King of Italy was placed. If his own subjects, aud particu- larly those in prominent positions, were on the side of the Pope, whethee from re- ligious prejadices or other causes, how could he resist the pressure from without? No doubt @ very large majority of the Italians are for unit'ng Rome with the kingdom, but to accom- plish this object against the resistance of the Pope and outsile pressure from the Catholic Powers there must be both unanimity and great resolution. Perhaps the fairest way would be to take the vote of the people of the | Pontifical States on the question, That would be in accordance with Napoleon’s once fine theory of a people deciding for themselves who should rale over them. Hoe will hardly apply this, however, to the Romans. A theory is good when it suits his policy, and bad when it does not. In the meantime, if the Italians be not united themselves on tho question there is no hope of Rome being incorporated with Italy until Napoleon permits it, ond that, perhaps, in no case till Pin Nono dies. a different day for the first session of this Con- 3 Congress on the National Finances and Cur- reney. It is clear that Congress understands what is to be shortly the absorbing subjoct before the country, Members see that the press and men’s minds everywhere are oceupied with questions relating to our national finances, the © rrency and the national bank system. This is shown by the numerous measures submilted and the discussions that commenced imme- diately on the reassembling of that body. I! is equally clear that our representatives have exhibited thus far narrow views upon those questions. They have been nibbling at them all round, and do not seem to have the gapac ty to take them in and digest them, No ope his presented a general, comprehensive and siates- manlike measure, adapted to our situation and the wants of the country. We are like a ship at sea tossed about without any one at the helm. Never was there such a want of o great statesman to manuge the financial affairs of a nation, and never such an opportuaity for one to become famous. Onr public men are in this like ignorant doc- tors, who break down the health or kill their patients by overdosing—by dosing too much. The country néeds no! so many nostrums. Itis fall of latent vitality and will recover itself if leftalone. As to the currency and returning to specie payments, nothing should be done, The laws of trade, which aro as immutable as the laws of the Medes and Persians, will regulate all that, Let the currency remain as it is, ex- cept to make it uniform by withdrawing the national bank circulation an substituting legal tenders in its place, and we shall grow up to specie payments within a few years, and as soon as it would be prudent to come to that. Indeed, looking at the wonderful progress of the country, there is reagon to conclude that the prosent volume of currency will be insufii- cient in the course of a few years. The popu- lation increases millions every year, and our 1n- ternal trade is growing constantly in a surpris- ing manner. Our trade will be doubled, prob- ably, in ten years, and fifteen millions or more will be added to the population. Will there not be required a corresponding amount of cur- rency? Andif weare all the time growing thus, with an increasing necessity for more cur- rency, is it not evident that we shall gradually and healihfully coms up to specie payments, should the present circulation be left undis- turbed? Everything is established upon our present currency basis—all debts, all obligations of whatever kind, all property and all the trans- actions of business and life are established upon it, If legislation or the action of tho government in any way forcibly disturbs this state of things, and it be not allowed to regu- late itself by the ordinary course of events, would not that violently change all values and obligations? Rich men and creditors, and especially the bondholders, would be benefited; but debtors and the poor must suffer. The means of the industrious classes would be reduced, the burden of taxation would become insupportable, and the revenue of the govern- ment would become insufficient. It is said by the contraction theorists that forcing specie payments would benefit the laboring poor, because prices would decline, But would not wages decline in the same proportion? Wages would fall probably more than prices, while the demand for labor would necessarily be less on account of the less amount of money to employ it If the laborer and farmer pay more for what they have to buy they get more for their labor and produce. There is no class of the community that would be benefited, and hardly any that would not suffer, by forcing specie payments, except the rich and the bondholders. England tried this forcing process in obo- dience to the clamors of the rich and the bondholders after the exhausting wars with the First Napoleon, and the consequence was seen in continued revulsions, financial dis- tress and general pauperism. The masses of the people had no voice in the government, and the great capitalists, the Jews, the landholders and the bondholders, had it all their own way. The history of England from 1817, when the efforts to force specie payments commencad, to about 1825, when this was reached, is a history of commercial disasters and distress, The re- sumptionists found the difficulties so great that the government had to extend the time of resumption, though bent upon forcing it, Long after that, indeed, there recurred the most terrible periods of suffering trom the samo cause. More than once England, with all her stability, was brought to the verge of revolu- tion, The history of that country should teach us to avoid the evils she suffered. But suppose we should never have a moetal- lie currency, what harm would be done? Who would suffer? If the currency be paper or | gold, iron or brass, it is the samo for one as for another—the same for all. Whatever tho government makes a legal tender is the money of the country, and all values are based upon it. One material is as good as another for the purposes of internal trade, and paper is fully as convenient, or perhaps more convenient, than gold and silver. Indeed, if we had a metallic currency to-morrow, by far the greater part of transactions in trade would bo done wish paper—with paper checks, notes, or bank circulation. It has always been so, and all the specie that we ever had in the country would not be saficient for the purposes for which paper is used in one form or anothor. The historian Alison says a great commer. cial country should have two currencies—paper money for internal trade, and specie for pay- ing the balances of foreign trade. This, in fact, would be but one currency ; for gold would be only an article of commerce, answering tho same purpose as cotton or any other commodity in paying the balance of foreign trade. Our legal tenders answer the first purpose now, ani onr annual crop ot eighty or ninety millions of gold and silvor answers the other. The great advantage is that neither Eagiand nor any other foreign country can disturb our internal trade or financial affairs at home while we have a paper currency. They cwnot drain that away from us and create financial distress. With a purely metallic currency we should be always at the mercy of foreigners. They could put the serews on at any time and drain enough specie away to produce trouble. It is for this reason chiefly, we suppose, Mr. Alison recommended & paper currency for home use in & great com- mercial nation. If the mational bank circula- tion were witsdrawn, a6 it ought to be, snd we had 9 uniform legal tends: currency, wo shonld realiz:, in a ereat measure. Mt. Alieon’a idea, It may be that this republic ia destined, through its experience, to establish a new and improved system of currency and finance, as it has initiated other great reforms in the world. Will Congress take up this enbject in a broad and comprehensive point of view? At all events, any further contraction of the currency should be stopped, Mr. McCulloch’s power to do evil should be taken away, and if the Presi- dent will not voluntarily remove bis incompe- tent Seoretary of the Treasury, Congress should demand his removal and the appoint- mvat of a siatesman in his place. Zoological Gardens in the Park. The Henaup presented yesterday, in con- nection with interesting statistics relative to the Park improvements of the past yar, a de- tailed account of the plan proposed by the Park Commissioners for zoological gardens and museums which sball surpass anything of the kind in London, Paris, Antwerp, Amater- dam and other European cities. Efforts will be made to insure the superiority of the col- lection, not only in the number and varioty of living or properly preserved specimens of the animal kingdom throughout the world, but in numerous other important particulars, In tho first place, these specimens will be ¢lassified and arranged, as the learned Dr. Huxley would advise, according to what is termed “ the typical principle,” so that the public may learn something of them instead of being, as at present in almost every European collection, merely confused by their multiplicity. Dr. Huxley cites, for example, the grand ornitho- logical gallery at the Brilish Museum, which contains between two and three thousand species of birds, and sometimes five or six specimens of a specivs, He adds, “They are very pretty to look at, and some of the cases are, indeed, splendid; but I will undertake to say that no man but a professed ornithologist ever gathered much information from the collection.” It will be the first aim, in every department of the Park collection, to remedy this defect, which seriously impairs the value of almost every European collection as an instrument of scientific education. In the next place, greater attention than ever will be paid to the natural warts and habits of every living creature which is to be domiciled at the Park. No pains will be spared to pre- vent the great mortality which is usual in such a collection, and the frequent loss of the reproductive powers of beast, bird or reptile, by providing “food convenient for them,” by graduating the atmosphere to that of their respective climates, and by surrounding them, as far as is possible, with the flowers, trees and other objects with which they were familiar in their native wilds. A double purpose will thus be subserved—they will be benefited, and the mind of the spectator will be greatly aided by what Isaac Taylor used to call “the actual juxtaposition of things and their local con- comitance,” in studying natural history in its several branches on the principle of bring:ng together things which really meet the travel- le:’s eye in the same scenes. The most vivid impressions may thus be obtained, and both the flora and the fauna of any particular rogion may be studied to advantage. Arrange- ments have been made to secure in every part of the globe additions to the number of about ® thousand animals, which already form the nucleus of a grand collection at the Park. We should have at the Park not only the best general zoological collection in the world, with tigers and liona finer than those formerly at the Surrey Gardens, and giraffes and rattle- snakes more rare than those at the gardens in the Regeni’s Park; but espeelally we should haye a uniqae and complete collection ot specimens from the vast zoological provinces of North and South America. The United States alone, with their own peculiar varieties, ranging from the fur bearing animals of frozon Walrussia to humming birds and butterflies almost as tropically brilliant as those of the Isthmus of Panama, might occupy the entire space allotted to the new gardens and museums. We should have there representatives of all those varieties—-the musk ox, polar bear und reindeer, the gr'zzly bear ond the big horned sheep of the Rocky Mountains, the buffalo of the prairies, the horned frog*of Alabama, the rattlesnake and the almost mythical hoop- snake of Virginia—in Gne, specimens of every kind of quad:uped and creeping thing in the United States, together with cages full of more birds than Audubon ever painied, and aquaria full of more fish than Agassiz ever saw. In view of the proverbial destructiveness of our Western pioneers, particular care should be taken to secure specimens of certain species that are in danger of becoming extinct. All species should be duly represented in this zoological congress. We would refuse ad- mission only to the New Jersey mosquitoes and to any duplicate of that notorious nonde- script alleged to have been captured by Fre- mont and twenty bold dragoons, and which proved to be pari camel, part horse, part alii- gator, and wholly—Barnum! The regions west of the Mississippi and south of the Obio will contribute their full share to such a national zoological collection as should excite # national interest, Our tourists, hunters, trappers, and particularly all official explorers, should vie with each other in sending* contributions to it American travellers in foreign countries should “ do like- wise.” And our citizens generally might well make generous donations in furtherance of the liberality with which our State Legislature and our city Common Council have initiated this magnificent scheme, Successfully carried out, it will promote science as well as delight the public. Winter, With o slight struggle to get up a snow storm on Saturday, and a decided success in producing a cold snap yesterday and a fair slew of ice, Winter has taken possession of the closing month of the year 1867. There is no use now in combating any longer his right to rule. He has taken hold of the frosty scep- tre and we must submit to his imperial sove- reignty. Nor have wo any reason to complain; for Winter has kept his power in abeyance for along speil, making Autumn a present of the month of November, Our advices from the different quarters of the country report a gen- eral opening of the cold season. From Baiti- more a snow storm; from Lewiston, Maine, the first act isa skating carnival, closed by « tragedy of “two deaths by drowning,” and from the tar West the closing of the Upper Mis- sissippi, which is locked up securely in ite icy bonds until the swallows come back again. All alane tha canals of our own State tho an- | nouncement came on Saturd.:y that they were still opev; how long they will revaain 60, if this weather continues, it is impossible w say. The Canal Board have declared, by the usual pro- clamation, that they will be closed for the col- lection of tolls on the 20th instant. They may, however, be practically vhut up by Jack Frost before that time, We may regard Winter as fairly upon us, un- less in the next twenty-four hours the weather shall lapse back inlo the soft season of the past month, At all events, the keen air of yesterday admonishes us to brighten up our skates, look afier our furs, and prepare for a fair measure both of the enjoyments and the discomforls of Winter—its skating rinks, sleigh rides, blue noses and slushy streets. The coming season also should suggest the inevitable sufferings of the poor, and quicken in every heart the determination to minisier to their wants to the extent of each on’s capacity, We should not forget that Winter to many is a season of mirth; to many @ season of misery; but to all a season of heavenly charity, ~ Sanauschok and the German Dramatic Company. The people of this city are aware, from the advertisements and comments in the news- papers and from the placards in the streets, that a superior German actress, with a Ger- man company, have been performing some time at the Academy of Music, and a great many, particularly of the German population, have seen the performances, but the greater part have no idea of the ability of tho performers. Tt is true Janausachek came here witha high reputation from Germany, and it was reason- able to suppose she would not bring out to perform with her a company of iacompetent artistes; but for all that the German drama, as it is called, has not been very successful. Why is itso? The performanves being in ‘a foreign langusge—in German—was a drawback, un- doubdtedly, to success to some extent; but that was not all, for we have seen Rachel succeed when performing in French, and Ristori, when performing in Italian, We have had in Janauschek « grand actress among us, and the mass of the people did not knowit. She and her company wero not properly announced, have not been properly managed, were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the critics secm to have been afraid to do them justice. It was announced that the last performanco of the Janauschek company at the Academy would be on Saturday night, and that the play would be “Thusnelde, or the Gladiator of Ravenna.” We resolved to seo the famous actress, of whom the Germans particularly speak enthusiastically, and we have no hesita- tion in saying that the performance was of the highest order. There was a full house and the audience was spellbound while the per- formance was going on, and it showed its ap- preciation of the splendid acting by enthnsias- tic applause and by repeatedly calling Janau- sohek before the curtain at the end of each act. We have no wish to make comparisons be- tween her and other distinguished living ar- tists, for there is a diversity of gifts and tal- ents, each ono excellent in its way; but it is not too much to say that we might have im- agined we were in the presence of Mra. Siddons or Fanny Kemble. This is not an un. merited comparison ; yet the public generally have not known there is an actress here that may jusily be compared with either of those remarkable women. Could either of these reappear upon the stage what crowds would rush tosee them! Yet this extraordinary actress has not received the attention she merits. Her action is true to nature and sur prisingly forcible. It startles one by its truth- fulness and energy. In repose she is equally striking. She is remarkably fine looking, has a wonderful mobility of expression, aad ber fine, expreasive eyos would show, if there were no other action, the various emotions of the soul. In this character of Thusnelde we see not Janauschek, but the heroic wife of the German hero Arminius, tae proud mother of Thumili- cus and tie unbending captive of Caligula We are travsported to Rome in the days of that monster emperor, and look upon the scenes ag if they wero passing before us in reality, Janauschek’s reading is eloquent in the high- est degree. Hor intonation, emphasis, pauses and modulation of voice rivet the attention of the audience, and her words roll over one another like notes of music apon the ear. No person of taste should fail to see this splendid ac'ress; for such an opportunity rarely occurs in one’s life, and it would be something that none could forget. Nor must we omit to men- tion the fine .acting of Mr. Crelinger. His representation of Caligula was admirable. We see in him what we conceive to have been the face and debauched figure of the half insane and monstrous tyrant. He both looked and acted well the debauched and cruel Omzar. Mr. Scherenberg performed well the part of Thumilicus, as did most of the company their paris, of whom we may specially mention the handsome Mile, Tietz as Lycisca, and Mlle. Luger as Cusonia, If Janauschek and ber company should remain in New York this fine performance of Thusnelde should be repeated. Peter Cooper versus Richard O’Gorman, We are requested to notify Mr. Peter Coopor, through Mr. Richard O’Gorman, that the latter gentleman intends to answer at length the com- munication of the Citizens’ Association which appeared in some of the cily papers, end date1 271h ult, taking occasion also to allude further to some matters referred to in the forme, letter of the 12th, We have already given thirteen columns of the Heranp to this contro- vorsy, offering to both sides an opportunity to make charges and refute them. As our space is valuable, we ask to be relieved from devoting any more of it to this subject. As it is understood to be, on the part of the Citizens’ Association, a mere piece of electioncering machinery, all interes! in it will have subsided when the poils close to-morrow. Besides, there is really “nobody hurt.” Axoraen Casm or ALticoen Mistakes Hospanp Ipen- Tity-—In Worcester, Masa, recently, @ man was accused - ALONG THE HUDSON, SPCOIAL CORAESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Sudden Change in the Weather—A Gate of Wind—Work on the Dutchess and Colum. bin Railread—Frial Accitent- on a Steams bont—The Poughkeepsie Ice Bout Associue a bigs Poucaxseraiz, Dec. 1, 1867, For two days past the wind bas biown a gale along the Hudson, and a very sudden change in the atmes- phere hastakem place, Friday night, at eleven o'clock, the mercury im the thermometer marked 55. Between that date aod two o'clock Sunday morning the wind shifted to the northwest and blew beavily, aod al eigut o'clock Saturday morning the thermometer marked 28, © At six o'clock last evening it marked 25, All day xester- day ice tormed rapidly, and many vessels were seem going south, having vo freight on board, their owners having Lurcied away from Albany and jroy fearing that navigation would Ciose ut those points, aad their vessels be frozen in. Dosing. the gale Balt son, &@ nchooner went ashore bet dozens of small boats wore swamped. Above Hudsom the wind blow 80 hard that the waves wore hurled over the track of the Hudson Kiver Railroad, but no damage was done. Tbe Dutohess and Lolumbia Railroad is now all under contract. A force is. ai work on @ out ham. One of (he iargest gangs is at within @ sbort distance or Pine Plains, 5 HH 2g z 5 maing of the wuforiuuate mae wore taken to Catski! where bis family reside. All the vessels to the copsie Ic Boat Agsociation are being rapidly put im trim for the winter racea. Tbe grand for the Silver Piate of tbe association will come off just as quick as new ice forms. WESTCHESTER. Fatan Aocpenr on me Haruem Ramnoso.—Oa Saturday evening Philip Hardenkiaw, a Frenchman em- loyed at Dunbam's 0 factory, Meirose, while pro- pow Aelernarcagiel gy rls ogg. Ng ae on voute tor his home tn the city, was ‘press, going north, and instant; Tlie” ‘i nga er 1 ‘was oubuss uel On the. body by Coroner t. M. 10 neither of them could iby testily to his bavi deen struck ‘A vordict wes radaccoa that tue i nate man bad died from causes pisined. An examination of showed thas, tbe forehead bad been struck, body was removed to the residonce of his trends ia Now York. He was about filty-two years of age, Anoruma. Wagon Accipewt.—A German named Wichans, residing in New York, while driving along Boston road 1a a light wagon, yesterday afternoemy.zan over a lady, Laney her very severely. Shoruy afterwards his horses foll and upset the vi ing bim aod two little boys who were with hi much violence against the road. Noither of the sustained much jajury, and the lady was removed home in the city, NEW JERSEY. Union Hill. ABor Fatauy and 4 Man Sucutiy Insurep Wane Buitring 4 Rocg.—On Saturday aftornoon two men were employed in blasting arock near the brewery of Mr. sane and, the charge having missed, were reboring the hole, when the charge exploded, the skull aad breaking the leg of Charles eighteon years of age, and bly bruisit man named Kolly, was removed to the Sistera’ Hospital, at Hoboken, and there are no hopes of his recovery, Newark. Pouce Recorp,—During the month of November the He in the previous mouth and 427 in September. During the week 72 arrests were made by the polico—an taereuse oF two over those of the previous weok, Finguzy’s Exscriovs—Tho various fire companies of Newark will hold elections to-vieht for members of the Board of Representatives to the Fire Department, ‘Tract Society.—The Board of Directorsof the Newark. Tract Society have elected the following officers:— President, Willham G. Lord; Secretary, Isaiah Peckham; Treasurer, John C, Woodruff. is Apvent Sunpat.—The Episcopal charches observed tion wero cbildren of e to the BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. Proserct Parx.—Several thousand persons visited Prospect Park yesterday, and despite the chilly atmos- phore enjoyed tho invigoraling and cheering exereise of perambulating through its already inviting precincts, ‘The ‘drive’? was well patronized and several hundred equipages of almost every description were to bs seen roiling over the smooth road. Prospect Park is now an ‘institation of a most essential character to tho people of opinion of their Park as * Ax ALLEGED Deuoxgst Exrtore.—John Underwood, a clerk in the employ of William A. Fischer, feed dealor Sa Saterday mghs lat on s charge ef graad aroeny on 7 ona The accused is charged by bis employer with having pg mar to bis owa use the receipts of cortain sales made by him withio the past few weeks, and amounting, in the aggregate, to $150, He was locked up for examie Swawatx Acctpent.—Miss Agees Houstis, while waik- by Fire marshal Lawrence, the number during tbe past month is shown to bo eighteen. The losses amount to $60,000, and the iusurance on the property was $90,000, FUNERAL OF REAR ADMIRAL JOHA DRAKE SLOAT. The funeral of this veteran oMfcer took place from his Inte rosidence, New Brighton, yesterday aiternoon, The body was placed in a beautiful rosewood coffin, richly mounted with heavy silver plating. On the centre was a beautiful plato bearing the inscription :— enero ne rene re Lente ett DLE reEEOD ETE: REAR ADMIRAL JOHN DRAKE SLOAI, ATES farrenton and Joba D, Jobn McKeon, son-ime prised about tweaty —_ Fringes, the friends of the deceased tmoursera private vehicles aod a numbor of bis ne on fot. tuaeral wont on board the two o'clock boas time, eed Teached the foot of Whitehail street at three o'clock, They were there met by stent In the entrance the marines tue same order to tue and headed the rad aed ry Siete arms enti wes Masonin cere~ monies were; the yA St. Niahotas ‘Dattalion of, marines: passed out of the “city tbe dena €