The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1867, Page 6

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New York, Re newwrtintel Decem! —— a — = uB x 3 w 8. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. The President's annual Message, which will be laid before Congress at noon to-day, is given in fall in this morning's Herap. THE IR? ASURY REPORT. An abstract of the annual report of Mr. McCul- loch, Secretary of the Treasury, is printed in this morning’s Henan. GENERAL GRANT'S REPORT. The report of General Grant, Secretary of War ad interin, is given complete in to-day’s Henan, EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yester- day evening, Deoomber 2, The London Times arguos very strongly against tho temporal power of tne Pope, and expresses the opinion that Napoleon's conference will not assemble, Switzer- land accopted the conference plan. A detachment of French cavalry remains in Rome. 8 Pope is taking measures for an efficient recruitment ot bis army. Civita Vecchia 1s bein rongiy fortified and will be de- fendea by Papal Zousves, so as to bold it open for the French to return if necessary, A submarine enable is to be laid from Clvita Vecchia, to Toulon, A mass was | celebrated in Kapturk, Irolami, for the repose of tho souls of the Manchester Fenian convicts. » Consols closed at 93 5-15 for money, Fivo-twenties wore at 71);, 10 Londum and 16% ia Frrokfort, Cotton closed dull tn Liverpool, with middling uplanas at 73 pence, Breadsiulls aud provisions without mate. rial obango, By the French steamship Pereiro, at this port yoster- day, wo Lavo very interesting mail details of our cable despatches to the 234 of Nove:uber, as late as tho news- paper advices on board the China, at Halifax. + Oyr coatinental Ales furnish a translation of the text of Napoloon’s invitation to the European Powers to attend the Italo-Roman Conference, the comments of the French press ou Queen Victoria's speech to Perlia- ment, rewarks of the Napoleon's «psech and a manifesto of Joseph Mazziai to the Tialians. CONGRESS. “1. the Senate vesterlay a bill was introduced to sub- stitute gold notes for legal tender notes, and to facilitate the resumption of specie payment. It was Iaid overand ordered to be printed, At tweive o'clock the first session of the Fortieth Congress was declared adjourned, and the second session was called to order. The usual com- Mittees wore appointed to walt upon the House and the Preside Nr. Stewart, of Nevada, introduced an act tablishinent of a national school of mines Resolutions proposing a policy in reference to the Indi- ans, and for the repeal of tho tax on raw cotton were also tatroduced, when, the commiitee having returned aad reported that tho Presideat would communicate With the Senate to-day , an adjournment took place. In the House, Mr, Wilsen, Chairman of the Impeach- ment (comm ities, made a persona! explanation in refor- ‘ence to Mr, Churchill's action in changing bis opinion On the subject, exonora'ing that gootieman from all im Proper motives tn go doing. A resolution inqmring whethor (ongress bas the right to refuse to pay for Walrus. sin was adopted. A bill providing for the taxation of greon- backs, Ao, was referred, Mr. Banks introduced a reso- Vution protesting against the rodemption of the fuaded debt of the United States in a paper currency, and moved the previous question, The House refused to seeoed 1, only troaty-nino voting in favor of it, Several resolutions Protesting against her contraction of the currency Were introduced an fepolution propoet deciariny, among Public debt shall no cumbent on ali States to ma tweive o'clock the first sesrio and the second session wea coin of New York, offored as a question ivilege & resol. tion for the impeachment of or Consul at Dublin, which wea referred to the Comm tice on Foreign Alfairs. After some further enimportaut business the House ad. journed. MISCELLANTZODS. Our spocial telegrams from Havens embrace nows from St. Domingo, Tortola, Porto Rieo, St. Thomas and Vonezuela. Maximilian’s body was somewhat murrlated, a6 It appears at present without eyes, hair or beard. The Novara, with the remains, will sail to-morrew, Shocks of earthquake bad been felt at Santiago de Cuba, A shock was also felt at St. Domingo city, which do- molished many houses, and drove many vessels ashore. A violent shock was felt at Mayaguez, Porto Rigo ad- vices from Jamaica conirm the report of the late Sabubig Soak. 42772 9 Denied West ladies in London, | Paris and Floresce journals on | NEW YORK HFRALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. Our correspondence from Santiago, Calle, te dated November 1, Tho Spanish floet was not suet au the ot year, if at all, although m9 nego! kar Seitiemead with spain wero peoding, Work On the Valparaiso fortifications was continuing. The Peruvian vezsols had beea detached frum the Chilean aquadron. The city charier election takea places to-day, A Mayor, Alderman and Councilmen in some districts, School Commissioners and Trustees, and one Civil | Justice are to bechosen The candidates for the Mayor- aluy 8 follows:— Movw ‘ernando Wood, Tammany—Jobn T, Hoffman, RApublican—Wiiliam A. Darling. In the Cons'tiutionat Convention yesterday reports were received from the Committees on Intozicating Liquors and Official Corruption, The majority report of the former opposes the passage of a probibitory liquor law, but permits the Legislature to regulate the sale of quor by uniform laws throughout tho State, The Com- mittee on Official Corruption made quite a lengthy re- port, in which an article providing various penaltios for bribery and corruption tu office was presented. In tho Louisiana Convention yesterday an ordinance was offered providing for the pay of members by taxa- tion, \. In the Alabama Convention an oath of office was adopted. A resolution that whea the Convention ad- journ it adjourn subject to the order of the Military Commandant or the President of the Convention was also adopted. N General’Shorman left St, Louis last night for Wesh- ington, Genoral Hancock has issued an order revoking somo of Genoral Mower's orders ot removal in Louisiana. The United States Supreme Court convened in Wash- ington yesterday morning, and before proceeding to business made the customary call upon the President. The Stato canals are still in working order, At Alba- by an interruption to navigation had occurred by the sinking of a boat; but the obstacle was removed on Sunday, The gale on the lakes has subsided. More disasters are reported; none, howevor, of a vory serious nature, Atafomale suffrage meeting in Vineland, N. J., resc~ lutions were adopted declaring that ono hundred and thirty-four thousand women in Now Jersey were entitled to vote, and it was decided to iasue th'rty thousand copies of an address and to employ lecturers tocanvass the Stato to awukon the womon to a knowledge and maintenance of their rights, Charles Dickens gave his first readings in America at Tremont Tempte in Boston last evoning. After all the seats were occupied the box office was opened and ono thousand tickets for standing room were sold, Van Aradale, the Spiritualist mardorer of Somerville, NN J, bas had bis sentence commuted to impr sonment for life on the ground of insanity. Farrelly, for the murder of Tormay at Newark, was yesterday sentenced to ten years imprisonment. A railroad safe in Springfleld, Mass, was broken open on Saturday and $12,500 in bonds and notes were stolen. : A family named Cook was recontly polzoned by mis- take in preparing their bread, in McMinnville, Tenn., and four of them died. The negro who committed an outrage on a white woman in Perceton, Ind., was recently caught by a mob and shot, stabbed and beaten to death, after which his body was dragged through tho streeta, Important Political Movement=Grent In- itial Now York Graut Meeting. The solid men of this me‘ropolis—the Stewarts, Astors, Vanderbilts, Grinnells and a host of others, bankers, merchants, mechanics and workingmen, a body of c'tizens which can command two hundred millions of capital— have united in a call for a mass meeting at Cooper Institute, on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, to give a litt to the name and the claims of General Ulysses &. Grant for the next Presidency. Representing all the sub- stantial interests of the city ond the country, we have the evitlence in the list of the signers of this call of the powerful hold which General Grant has secured upon the public confidence, embracing all classes of the American people, irrespective of past party distinctions. We may therefore venture the prediction that this iniiial New York Grant mass meeting will in- augurate a succession of similar popular de- monstrations throughout the country so em- phatic in their character as to leave the Re- publican National Convention no alternative but the nomination of General Grant. Mr. Chase, through seven years of active and skilful engineering, has secured to himself the control of the machinery of the republican party, headed by his legion of national banks and other agents of his paper money syslem. Against this powerful inside pacty machinery the indopendent advocates of General Grant must mainly rely upon the outside pressure of public opinion. We think, however, to use an | old and expressive political figure ofspeech, that | it is only necessary to “put the ball in motion” | in order to set it rolling with » resistless mo- | mentum to the White House, so powerful do | we believe the prevailing popular sentiment when once it is given any definite mole and | form of expression. Chase, through his active financi.) instruments, would vigorously dispute the claims of Mr. Lincoln to o second nomination ; but so strong was the faith of the loyal masses of tbe North in “Honest Old Abe” that it controlled the nominating party convention as by magic, and | Mr. Chase was nowhere on the first ballot. Woe are prepared for the same results, from the same eanaes, as between Chase and Grant. | The republicans in Congress are casting about for the safest road and the surest pilot to the succession. The radical leaders who have so far ruled the party and its policy have met with some severe rebuffs in the late eloc- tions; Dut they still believe in Mr. Chase and his radical negro suffrage and paper money programme. We daro say they will be as much astonishod at the manifest destiny of this New York Grant meeting as were the New Havea philosophers with the verification of our first report last year from Greenwich of the shower of moteors in England, when they wora looked for in Connecticut, It soems to be understood that the radical ' leaders will not abate one jot or tittle of their negro suffrage and white disfranchisement policy of Southern _feconstraction, and that } ir. Chase relles upoh the elevea rebel States | so reconstructed to give him, against all con- | tingencies, the balance of power in the repab- | | ein convention, aud in the Prestdential elec- | tion itself. But his reliance upon this new, | this monstrous and dangerous Sontbern bal- | anoe of power, may prove n delusion and a | snare. Assuming that it may give tp Mr. | poss the republican convention, ond that | General Grant will then dectine to rua against him, it does not follow by any means that Mr. | Chase will be elected. On the contrary, the most crushing popular reaction in the hisiory | of tho country will be apt to tollow the noim!- | nation of Chief Jastice as the leader and | embodimen of the republican party. Under the Northern lights of these late elec- tions these things were brought ont fhto the bold relief of » lighthouse against the setting tun. First, that the people are chafing under the burdens of Mr. Chase’s financial system, banks and taxation, and are resolved upon some moasures of relief. Secondly, that they abbor and rer protest against the con- In 1864 it was thought for a time that Mr. | Southern reconstruction, that repulsive and unparallole! mixed system of Asiatle despo!- ism and African barbarism, military abso- lutism enforcing negro domination, Agains! al! these obnoxious and perilous innovations on the money question and on the negro ques- tion, we believe that any respectable candidate in oppos'tion to Mr. Chase would serve to drivo him and the rajicals into Coventry as effectu- ally as Van Buren and the blunders of his Jackson pet bank policy were rebuked in 1840. Let our fellow citizens who would avoid tho Scylla of radicalism on the one side, and the Charybdis of copperheadism on the other side, rally under the trusty Union standard of General Grant and come forth to this initial grand mass meeting in bis behalf. With such able an] popular orators as General Logan, General Sickles, Governor Curtin, of Pennsy!- vania ; Governor Ward, of New Jersey; Lyman Tremain ani Francis B, Cutting, the occasion will be one of great interest and power. It will be nothing less than the gathering of “the Boya in Blue” around Richmond and Peters- burg under the banner of United States Grant. The War Depnrtment—Grant’s Report. We publish to-day the report of General Grant, Acting Secretary of War. It is a clear, concise, business like document, and presents in its facts a gratifying record of all that Gene- ral Grant has accomplished in the wiy of re- trenchment during the comparatively brief time he has held control of the Department. The report sets forth the circumstances under which the change in the War Office took place, by a reproduction of the correspondence that passed between the President, Mr. Stanton and the Acting Secretary, and then proceeds at once, in 8 direct manner, to recount the abuses which were in existence at the time of the change and the means that have been, taken to remedy them. General Grant found that “army prac- tices of extravagance totally unjustifiable in time of peace” were continued, and he put a stop to them. Ambulances and horses were used at every post by evory officer who de- sired to ride at the government expense. Orders were given to break up this imposition, and “steps were taken to see that the orders were executed.” Tho Bureau of Rebel Archives was found to be an almshouse for a host of political paupers and gingerbread offi- cers; so the Bureau was abolished and the business transferred to one or two clerks in tho Adjutant General’s Department. Stores per- ishable in their nature and utterly useless were being kept on hand, necessitating the renting of large storehouses and the employment of an army of storekeepers. The stores were sold and the leeches shaken off from the Treasury. From the Freedmen’s Bureau a number of civil agents and military figure- heads have been cut off, and officers serving with troops in the South have been required to perform their duties, For the first time in the history of this expensive national luxury the “expenditures havo fallen below the original estimates,” and no further appropriation of funds is asked for. Out of one hundred and seven voluateer quartermasiers retained by Stanton, thirty-one only have escaped General Grant’s pruning knife. In every branch of the Department it is evident that the strong will and honest purpose of the Acting Secretary have been working for the good of the country. The recommendations and suggestions in the report for securing tho better regulation and efficiency of the United States army are of much interest and value, and bear the imprint ot a practical, straightforward, honest soldier, and of an efficient executive officer. They will be read with interest. General Grant regards the converted Springfield musket as the best breech loading arm yet produced here or in Europe, and recommends that the, work of conversion, discontinued by order of the late Secretary of War, be resumed. Some good saggestions are made in relation to Weat Point, and it is recommended that the number of cadets be increased to four hundred. The report is, altogether, a clear, interesting docu- ment, and will probably put a stop to any further clamor for the reinstatement of Stanton. Signs ta the Heavens Above. ia the Earth Beneath and in the Waters Under tho Earth. Recently the earth passed through a torrent, or what seemed a torrent, of fiery matter. Simultaneously with the appearance of this deluge of fire the floodgates of the great deep were opened up, and a local flood was ex- perienced in many paris, particularly -in the West Indies, At the same time strange grum- bling noises were heard in the earth beneath, earthquakes abounded, volcanic eruptions be- came general and the smouldering fires of Vesuvius burst forth anew with tremendous | fury. Whether the earth is still on the trail of the late fiery visitor, and to a certain extent under its influence, or whether there was any connection between the signs in the heavens above, the signs in the earth beneath and the signs in the waters under the earth, we yet await some learned Loomis to inform us. It is at least undeniable that the earth and its inbabit- ants are yet under some strange and rather extraordinary influences. Politically, soci- ally, materially, we are evidently, what- ever the cause or causes, passing through 8 peculiar crisis, In the Old World and in the New men’s minds are filled with strange thdughts, and what is to be the character of the immediate future is a problem to all. Vesuvius, according to our latest news, was still in flames. In the West Indies, a special telegram informs us, carthquakes are abun- ; dant and the watery deluge has not yet sub- | sided. There are many inferegces which might | be legitimately drawh from thls stake of things. | We content ourselves with one. Mr. Seward is busy with his real estate investments in the | West Indies. Might it hot be well for him to | hesitate before he concludes bis purchases ? | | Real estate in that part of the world may be | very valuable; but the American people, will- ing as they are to have their money spent for them in making the islanda of the sea their.own, would prefer that the islands purchased should have their heads above water. St. Thomas submerged might prove a very good fishing | ground, but it would not be of much use as an | outpost or ports @ coaling station. ‘dia Mea’ News. In yesterday's Henad D we printed tather an | alarming (elegram relating to the siate of | affairs in Mexico and received through the Associated Press. Reports from Durango have it that ceriain leaders there bad pronounced in favor of an independent republic, and that government troops sent against them had been SF PSE, Pett etek, Sen A joined the insurgents, and the Northern and Western States are declared to be in sympathy with the revolution. Our special telegram of the same date makes no mention of the cireum- stance. Mexico has, no doubt, much hard ex- perience to pass through before she settles down into a prosperous peacefulness, She is evidently now on the right path ; and though it will be a long time before all turbulent epirits admit that their vocation 1s gone, every liitle commotion is not to be magnified into a revo- lution. We are unwilling to admit that mat- ters are go bad as the press telegram would have us belisve, Democracy as Develeped in Our City _ Election. All the troubles, intrigues and agitations that are at the present moment shaking up tho dry bones of the old European nations have for their foundation a simple political problem, to wit: whether a peop!o are more prosperous and happy under a republican than under an imperial or monarchical government. Gari- baldi, Mazzini, and other so-called liberators, together with the mysterious hosts of Fenian- ism, desire that ull the thrones of Europe shall be destroyed, and that the free voice of the people shall take the place of the divine rights of kings; while the Pope, the Emperor Napoleon, Queen Victoria and all the crowned underatrappers of the Old World are resolved upon preserving their present agroeable and profitable forms of government intact. Both sides to this interesting struggle look naturally to the great republio across the Atlantic for practical arguments with which to strength-n their respective positions—the reformers for proofs of our advancement, enterprise and reapectability ; the autocrats for evidence of our faults, follies and failures. In such a test New York is certain to attract the greatest share of observation and attention, asthe centre of the commercial interests, the intellect and business talent of the New World; and what sort of a spectacle does the great metropolis present at the present moment to the eyes of Europe? An election takes place to-day for the chief executive magistrate of the city, and during the two preceding weeks we have seen the candidates between whom the contest lies perambulating the streets and enlivening the grogshops of Mackerelville and the Five Points by abusing each other in every conceivable way, and endeavoring to convict each other of all sorts of official dishonesty and miscon- duct. The respectable Hoffman has been as eloquent on the delinquencies and _ sbort- comings of the magnificent Fernando Wood as the magnificent Wood has been on those of tho respectable Hoffm1n ; and the imp ression of disinterested parties who have listened to the tirades of eithor of the candidates must be that his opponent is better qualified for the State Prison than for the City Hall Nor has the case been at all improved by tho aid of the subsidiary oratora, such as that fine young Irish gentleman, Richard O’Gorman, who have only served to atir up tho dirt and filth of the political puddle more effectually by proving that they have been dealing out the people’s money as liberally as if it had been thelr own, and with a periect indifference as to whether the recipients might be leading republicans or copperhead. confidence men. No matter who the orator or what his position in public life, the story has been the samo, and the result has been the plunder of the people. In the whole municipal electiog,controversy there is not a pin to choose between the two prominent can- didates, according to their own stories and tho testimony of their supporters, the only dif- ference between Hoffman and Wood being in the color of their mustaches. There has, it is true, been a third candidate in the ficld, who enjoys a respectable reputation, is a member ofa great many churches and possesses all the Christian virtues; but his own party friends have thrown him overboard from the firat moment of his nomination, and everybody turns up the nose at him and gives him up as a bad bargain. So that the choice for the chief magistrate of the great city of New York lies between two men, each of whom proves the other to be utterly unworthy of public confi- dence or res pect. With this spectacle before them is it surpris- ing that Disraeli and the other plausible toadies of aristocracy in the Old World should sneer at the United States, and question whether the nutions of Europe are prepared to plunge into such democracy as we present for their example on this side of the Atlantic? We are accustomed to hear Louis Napoleon denouaced as a tyrant and oppressor; but can we shut our eyes to the fact that he is the best executive ' officer Paris has ever known, and that if we could elect him Mayor of New York the people would be the gainers by his rale? With the single exception of the Park, the whole public property in New York is suffered to fall into ruin and decay, and to become a burden on the taxpayers. The people can find no relief, either from city officials, Legislatures or con- stitational conventions. fndeed, between the two greatest institutions of the State, the Legislature and the State Prison, there is very little to choose, except that our big robbers are sent to the former and our little thieves to the latter. Oar whole system of government, as at present carried out, ts a farce and a die grace, and only serves to furnish the monarch- ists of the Old World with argumonts against republican institutions. Nor can we expect any reform so long as tho people submit patiently to the present enormous burden of taxation. While we are contented to pay twenty-four million dollars a year without grumbling for city taxation alone, and to see onr natlonal and Stats (axes roy up by hun- dreds of millions of dollars, the richness of | qhe prize will foster corraption and keep us at the mercy of the plunderera. It needs a move- ment of the people in thoir might to sweep away theso abuses, to reform our national, State and municipal governments, and to estab- lish the character of republican institutions in the eyes of Europe. The Convention Defeated iv South Caroltan, The fntelligence that the call for the Consti- tutional Convention in South Carolina bas been defeated is condrmed, Thus it appears that in at least one of the unreconstracted States the Congressional plan of reconstruction has failed at the outsst, What onght now to be done? We think that hore is the opportunity and that ndw is-tho time for Congtess to act in a liberal and conciliatory spirit, and relax the stringency of some of its military measures for the political rehabilitation of the Southern States. The experiment of allowing all the negroes to vote, and but s emall fraction of tho whites, has collapsed in one State, and there is evidence that it has come near going by the board in others. Now, suppose Congress pass ® general amnesty bill and allow the whites and blacks to vote upon equal terms. In doing this it will exbibit a spirit that will appeal to the good sense of the Southern white population, and in some degree demon- strate that what the majority in Congress aver, namely, that it is not their aim to make the negro the superior of the white, is true, This is the first chance that bas occurred for testing their sincority. If Congress neglect to take this or some equally moderate step toward conciliation, there is scarcely a radical member from the North or West in the present who will enjoy the privilege of taking a seat in the next Congress, 80 goneral will be the whirl- wind that will sweep the party from power the coming year. The experiment is worth trying, at any rate, Greeley and Raymond Before the Presi-« dent and Senate. The fate of Greeley and Raymond in the ex- periment of officeseeking furnishes a very cu- rious and instructive piece of history. Both editors, and conducting papers in the interest of the same party, the greater and lesser radi- cal organs of this cliy; both ambitious to be diplomats and to represent the republic at the royal courts of Europe, and both having strong claims upon the party in power, yet one. was rejected by the Senate and tie other confirmed. Though Raymond has tried a good many feats in political tumbling and balancing, he bas confined himself pretty strictly to the company called republicans, and has never gone over wholly to tho rival establishment of democrats, He only made an effort at Philadelphia to break up the two and to amalgamate the choice elements of them into one, but fa'ling soon in this he lost no time in jumping back to his original companions. Ho is a republican of twelve or thirteen years’ s:anding, and, we be- lieve, ho made his début in the party at Pitte- burg about so many yeara ago. Of late he has pursued a moderate course, and, on the whole, rather friendly to Presideat Johuson’s policy and administration. His nomination to a foreign mission by Mr. Johnson, therefore, was consistent enough, The Prosidont in this case was rewarding one who supported him and who was of the same parly which raised him to the Presidency. But the Senate had become radi- cal, and spurned this man of moderate and compromising tendencies. He hung on to the party and atill hangs on, but it would not allow him to have a mission and even drove him out of Congress. The country has lost a suitable representative abroad, the President's purpose to reward a friend has been defeated, the am- bition of a prominent partisan has been blasted by his own party, and we have in all this a striking example of the ingratitude of poli- ticians. The confirmation of Greeley’s appointment as Minister to Austria by the Senate was quite natural. He is as radical as the Senate, or more radical, and consequently his nomination passed without tho least difficulty. But the strangest thing is that the President should bave nominated him. He has been throwing dirt at Mr. Johnson for the last two years. The Tribune has so besmeared the President'with filth that the readers of that journal can no longer recognize his features or form. The changes have been rung in the coarsest Five Points epithets, over and over again, to blacken him in the eyesof the public. The man whom he has appointed Minister to Vienna has called him a drunkard, debauched sot, renegade, scoundrel, liar, and everything else vile. For two years he has been unmercifully assailed in this way by his new appointee to Austria, What a commentary on the ways and doings of presidents and politicians! Evidently the way to the highest offices is to abuse the President in un- measured terms. Moderate abuse might be sufficient to get a small office, but a great deal is necessary to obtain a mission abroad. How- ever, it may be that the President considers Greeley’s appointment a good stroke of policy. He may think that Greeley will be out of the way of doing mischief, that his Minister to Austria will be so intent on making an im- pression at the court there that home politics will be forgotten. No doubt Gresley will be very much occupied in his new réle and novel posi- tion. We can foresee how he will try to imitate the philosopher Franklin at the brilliant Court of Louis the Sixteenth, how proudly he will move about among the Hapsburgs—the de- acendants of the Cesars—in his cowskin boots, slouched hat and white coat, and how he will astonish the proud nobles of the empire by his patura! simplicity. We can imagine the benign smile upon his countenance as the beautiful and elegant ladies of the Court of Vienna crowd around and admire the unique specimen of American republicanism. Under the fascination of this new sonsation we should not be surprised if our white coated philoso- pher were to revolutionize the dress, social habits and the government of the Austrians. At any rate, the Viennese will have an exalted opinion of the great republic and republican institutions, when they see tho remarkable individual we send to represent us. To make the mission perfeclly agreeable to his taste and truly representative of our country under the new order of things, the only thing to be done is to send with him full blooded planta- tion negroes from the South as secretary and attachés of legation. We shall watch with pro- found interest the effect of this novel, extraor- dinary and unique mission to the Court of Vienna. Charles Dickens and Newman Hall. Newman Hall ts a divino, while the chiet | boast of Charles Dickens is that ho is “ hu- man.” Both the divine and the “human,” however, have come to America for the samo purpose—not for Almighty God, but for the almighty dollar. Thoir object is the same, but ihey are following different roads to reach it, Charles Dickens announces his arrival in Boston by a new edition of his “ American Notes.” His letters of introduction are b's orit!- ciems on Amertcan society, Several specimens of them were given in the sprightly letter of our Boston correspondent which we published yesterday. He could not have brought better recommendations than these criticisms, because they are trne as well as sharp, and because the American people like to be oriticised and to return the compliment. Ttis true that some Americans do spit. They spit in a way that astonishes, if not the natives, every foretgner, Mr. Dickens discovered and recordod this fact twenty-five years ago. It is to be hoped that on renewing his in tions be will ascertain precisely how far and how accurately they spit at present The world will be happy to learn whether American spitiers aim at the firoplace, the window pane or the spittoon, and which of the three they bit, It ts true, moreover, that some Americans have @ keen appreciation of tho value of dollars, whether in gold or in greenbacks, If Dickens were a disinterested witness, and bad not been tempted across the ocean by the very same pecuniary motives for which be ocnsures Americans, we should be glad to listen again to his testimony against inordinate love of filthy lucre. To be sure, if he were to read the items profusely scattered without comment in American newspapers, aa if occasions for thom were too frequent and common to require comment, and chronicling contributions by single private individuals, of sums from ‘ten thousand dollars to five hundred thousand to various charities, be might discover this other fact—that an American may know how to spend and give away dollars as well as to earn them, Americans can, therefore, afford to be criticised by Mr. Dickens and by other foreigners who—as you might imagine, to hear them talk—come to this country with a sublime indifference as to whether they “ make any- thing” out of it or not. It is also true that a dull dinner party is no livelier in America than in Europe, and that if Mr. Dickens chooses “to feed silently with follow animals, each of whom empties his Yahoo's trough as quickly as he can and then slinks sullenly away” (these elegant expres- sions are pretty nearly his own), he cannot expect to enjoy such a “funeral feast” here any more than he would enjoy it athome. We would not have our critic spare the rod when he finds here or elsewhere “creatures who strip these social sacraments of everything but the mere greedy satisfaction of the yatural orav- ings.” But if he catches himself “sitting down with so many fellow animals to ward off thirst and hunger as a business,” why, it’s no busi- ness of ours, Only we warn him that he will disappoint everybody if in his new “American Notes” he does not more vigorously than ever “pitch into” the stupid hosts whose invitations he may accept, The truth is that Americans are no longer 0 thin-skinned as they used to be. They have become so accustomed to foreign abuse and misrepresentation, and they have so much else to think of, that they scarcely heed any attacks which are not far more pungent than those of tourists like Parson Fiddler and Mra. Troliope. Mr. Dickens himself must ssason his next dish of criticisms more highly than the first if be wishes to have bis American readers relish it. Give us more curry and cayenne-popper, Mr. Dickens, if you would whet our appotite for what we have learned to like. Now that we can give as well as take, and do not hesitate to return a Roland for an Oliver, we smack our lips over such spicy criticisms a3 Mr. Dickens dishes up for us, and we ask for more, like Oliver Twist. Dickens, whip in hand, is gal- loping along the right road to his goal. Rev. Newman Hall, however, has taken the wrong road. In all the speeches and sermona which he has made since his arrival in the United States he has rolled as a sweet morsel under his tongue all his old flatteries of the American people, or at least of the Northern people. Everybody has been sickened by the repetition of these flatteries, Such candy and sugar plums will not bring the dollars in thia market half so quickly or pleniifully as the lemons and limes of Mr. Dickens, Even the Rev. Mr. Stiggins, hospitably as he may haye been entertained by a Mrs. Weller at home, would not here pick up enough cold victuals to fill his bag. We shou!d be less liberal to Mrs. Weller’s sanctimonious shepherd than to Samivel Weller himself, who won the “deep, unspeakable admiration” of his father by frankly avowing his readiness to “pison the ram and waier” of some victlm of his critical cruelty. Sam ‘added, however, “I would’nt be too hard on him at first, I'd drop him in the water butt and put the lid on, and if I found he was insens’ble to kindness I’d try the other persvasion.” Dickens thought, perhaps, that in criticising Americans “he would’nt be too hard on us at first; but on his second visit we must look out for squalls. Well, that’s the true way to raise the wind. The saccharine Hal) will not fill his bag, while Digkens, on return- ing to England, will have to charter two stearm- ers to carry back his cargo of greenbacks. His début at Boston last evening was a decided success in every respect. BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. Tux Recewt Fata Acctogyr os tax Fuurox Avance Lise—Dascens o* Daivina iv tom Ramnoap Tracks, — An inquest was held yesterday on the body of James Fama drt fourteen years of age, who died at the op the 23th ultimo from the effects of in- fi ies received the day previous by being thrown from @ ‘wagon. From the tostimony taken in case it ap pears that on the day in questi: vie ee pany with two other boys, named William Kenny and George rnd fs tap te Ae Fulton avenus in a covered w: ge tet, track of the Fulton avenue road, De’ ior lively — selves and jogged along at a moderate pace, less of the car which was coming up behind ‘tee vehicle, until near tia Kamar e pm Ryton & car was in close proximity to them, Turoing sharply endeavored to leave ‘ the wih euch force that the deceased and young Conkiin, who were seatod in the front of the vehicle, were out with great violence. Morrow strack hia head on sidewalk, fracturing Lis skull, and Conklin bad a mirac- ane fore The ee Fo Bae falling great presonce of m: ite » on which he rods for cette in ite fri ht ras down 9 itu av it by a man. 19 third boy, fort qj fy bry ona was uninjured, One witness driver of the car put on the brakes nnd caseery 10 stop, and another was of the opinion that he could have douse 80 in tino to prevent n collision, bad he tried (vo do so, The further hearing of witnesses was postponed until Wednesday ext, Frequent marrow escapes from‘ ace cldents of this nature were daily witnessed by the ob- serving public on every lime in the city, and tho erimi- nal carglessness of both car and wagon drivers ia a sub- ject of mach reprehension. The tiucements of a ‘smooth groove, Which the city railroad track presents is too great to be resisted, and hence the car tracks aro constantly filled with ‘vobicles, thereby impeding the Ss ‘of the care and evdangoriog their own salty pe Bh ve = their occupants to coilisions of the above co oF Ti Board ov Aupensey.—The Board of Aldermen held a regular session yoxerday afternoon, Aldermen Hathaway in the chair A communication . ‘was recotved from the Corporation Counsel on the sab- Ject of the jegality of the proceedings of be etd fa relation to the paving of Pierrepout street with Ni Wwanent, Me 5 ~ submit oe ~ a otis ‘cn uase, was ol LJ jaton ular, Alderman Orkald objected is the ree opteion, on on the ground of ite larity, and Wr at opusiderable length in support of bis views, en wag anally ‘erred baak to the nrough, and the meeting thea ‘Tue Acciwarral SnooTixa Case Coronet Lynch con- cluded the inquest yesterday afternaon over the body of pepepreponye i her accidentally shot, ‘and Ciasson avenues, on aS) ‘of Somo chambers of a a the dt ie im the fire for the purpose woe rendered, revolver whi Of ropairing,