The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1867, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, DECEMBER THE 8 Vv 7 | | one neod an“assuraace that thoy will be eo complied wih, SWITZERLAND 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. itso, wil = rapidiy . tig i) an sas tO ree LOUISIANA. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. CUBA. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALO, The Austrian Frignte Novara to fail on , Wedaesday—Condi Maxiui Re- maine—The Embaimer Imprisoned in Mexice. Havana, Dec. 2, 1867. The Austrian steam frigate Novara will sail from here for Trieste on Wednesday, December 4. Your correspondent has viewed the remains of Maximilian. The eyes, hair and beard are want- ing. The party accused of having thus mutilated the remains is the embalmer, and he has been im- prisoned at the capital of Mexico. Three Shocks of Earthquake at Santingo. Santiago px Cusa, Dec. 2, 1867. Three shocks of earthquake were felt here at midnight, November 30. Considerable alarm was caused throughout the entire population. THE PRESS TELEGRAM, Buslaees Dull—Firet Sagar of the Season— Marine Intehtigence. Havana, Dec, 2, 1857, Bustaegs ts dull, and all article of produce are pomi- nal, The first augar of the season arrived to-day. Tue quality (a good, but buyers are shy of the prices, Balled, steamer Eagle, for New York, ; ST. DOMINGO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Terrible Destruction by au Earthquake. Havana, Dec. 2, 1867. A severe shock of earthquake was felt at St. Domingo city. It demolished many houses and drove many vessels ashore. The population was vainly striving to emigrate, such was the alarm. TORTOLA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Ald for the Sufferers. Havana, Dec, 2, 1867. ‘The British Consul here has received orders to forward aid in the shape of provisions to the suf- forers by the hurricane at Tortola Island. PORTO RICO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Ald for the Sufferers by the Hurricane—Shock of Earthquake at Mayaguez. Havana, Dec. 2, 1867. The Spanish steam frigate Francisco de Asis will sail again on the 4th inst. for Porto Rico, with | some, iutellectual, charming women; Provisions for the sufferers by the late hurricane. + On the 18th of November a violent shock of earthquake was felt at Mayaguez. VENEZUELA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALS. ja! Daty on Lmports—Ie Affects Ameri- | ean Products from December 15. Havana, Dec. 2, 1867. The Venezuelan Consul at this port has received a copy of a decree issued on November 6, which establishes, an additional import duty of twenty por centum ad valorem on all foreign goods ex- |. cepting flour. The decree is to take effect De- ember 15 for all American products, This addi- tional duty will continue for one year, when it will be reduced to ten per cent for the ensuing year. Add WEST INDIES. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Earthqunakes—Volcanic = E and Heavy Losses. Krnosrtox, Jam., Nov. 29, } Via Havana, Dec, 2, 1867. Advices received here state that the island of &t. Thomas has been visited by a terrible shock of earthquake, \ Thesea rose fifty feet, and a volcano vomited forth lava. * Little Saba was submerged for a short time, after being visited by earthquake and volcanic eruptions simultaneously. The English, Danish and Dutch consujs on the island saved nothing. * The English Consul has reccived orders to send .Provisions to the island of Tortola from New York. ‘Terrible ROME. ree Still im the City=Pope Noth Reerulting. Paais, Dec, 2, 1967, A small body of Freach cavalry still vocupy Rome, and probebiy will permanently. With this exception ‘the Freach troops have evacuated the Papal dominious. Romm, Deo. 2, 1861. His Holiness the Pope has taken measures to mate- Mivita Vecchin Being Fortified=The Pope to Have a Telegraph Cuble te France. Fionesce, Dec, 2, 1867. The fortifications of Civita Vecchia are being strength. ened and altered so that a garrison of Papal troops can hold the cliy as 4n open gate for the return of tho French troops, should the eatoiy of the Pope hereafter wequire it, Ia addition to these precautions Civita Veechia is to be placed in direct telegraphic communication with | ‘Teulon, and for this purpose » eudmarine eable hes beoo ‘ordered, whith will be Iaid as soon as it renches | ‘Toulon. A Small French Piue t ENGLAND. ‘The London Times he Temporal Pewer= A Severe Storm. : Loxpox, Dea. 2, 1967, The London Times in ite tesa of thit moroing hes a Jeading editorial on the Italian question, which t# cou- sidered important as it in some degree reflects the policy | of the British goverament as woll se the tone of public opinton on the subject. ‘The writer makes a strong arguinent against the con- | tingance of the temporal power of the Pope; expresees the belief that the conference called by the Emperor | a to wolves the ‘will never meet; and | that the Pope and italy mast | got rid of their mutua) mistrust and come to an nare- | the assistance of (be European Po! Sunday was some yawning gentlemen lounged up and dow: and dress, morals, manner, ry Comm * optipent was ajwost entirely suspended. IRELAND. Religions Services for the Manchester Fe. mae Cone, Dee. 2, 1807, Funers: ceremonies of 4 religious oharacter for Atien, Powld and Larkin took place today at Kanturk, about . tuites from this city. A solema requiem mass celebrated 1s of the departed in the church, itoteh was neevily a with Brena @difice was filled and surrounded by tho crow came in from (he surroundiag coantry to attond Napoleen’s Conference Pinn Accepted. Pars, Deo. 2, 1807 The Swiss government bas accepied the mvitation of France to participate in the geuera! coufersuce on the Roman question. DICKENS IN BOSTON. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. First Appearance ef Mr. Dickeus la the Tre mont Temple at Boston—Complote Succeas of Mis Readings. x, Dee, 2, 1887, 11.00 o'Clock P.M. } Mr. Dickens’ frat reading took place this evening at Tremont Temple, accordiog to announcement. 1t was a guccess in every possible respect—pecuniarily, artistic. ally and fasbionably. The wosther was just stormy and unpleasant enough out of doors to make almost apy interior seem deliciously cosey, yet it was not stormy enough to frighten the ladies into thore precantions in regard to dress that might have takee all the brilliancy and color out of the picture, So the Temple bioomed freshly and richiy ia toilets, and must bave suited the most dificult taste by their very variety. Tne piecos read were a “Christmas Carol,” and the “Trial of Bardeli versus Pickwick," from the "Pickwick Papera.” They were read with consummate skill, and the effect in securing and carrying with the reader the sympathies of his hearers was beyond whatever the ‘warmeat admirers of Mr. Dickens had conceived possi- bie. The compliment in applause was extravagant; and this wasacase in which extravagance in compliment ‘was perhaps no offence against good taste, even in the eyes of the teast amiable of satirist. The scene outside was all animation. Carriages began to arrive in profusion at quarter past seven o’elock, and afew minutes before eight o'clock the human freight which they had brought, together with the pedestrian arrivals, bad filled nearly all the seats in the Temple. The ticket office was then opened, and some ten hun- dred tickets for standing room were quickly disposed of, the eager purchasers having patiently waited for the eame for an hour or mvre, At mo time was there any great crowd or confusion about the hail. Very few assembled who bad not secured ad- mission before coming, and if there bad been any moderate rusb of the curious they would have been outnumbered by the police, who were there in force to repel any demonstration that an eager multitude might have made, Indeed, when all were gathered and seated, awaiting the reader, the scone was one to which happy and expectant faces gave the Predominant tone, All the world of literature, of fashion, and much also of the world of politics, was present, The Governor of Massachusetts stood for the politics, all the handsome ladies of the city presented fashion in a most attractive mood, while iterature and science were represented by Agassiz, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, Iu the aisies, it ia true, and in the passage ways outside the seats, ith hands in their pockets; and withie without, wherever haif # dozen people were collected togother, there, in their looks, habits, intellect and conversation, wore ‘‘Mr. Jefferson Brick,'’ ‘Colonel Diver," “Major Pawkins,"’ ““Goneral Choke" and ‘Mr, Lafayette Koutle,’’ over and over and over again—at least so-Mr. Dickens bas said in respectable print. Having |t on such incontestible authority that the whole mass of Americans, wherever sven, are of the same stamp and class with the utterly pitiful persons named, we scarcely venture dissent; otherwise we should hi heid firmly to the opinion that the audience was made up of sensible good-natared men, and hand- in short, that it was s model assemblage of the ladies and gentlemen of the republic, which was, to use the words of Mr, Dickens, “but yesterday let loose upon her noble course, and is to-day, s0 maimed and iamc— 60 fail of sores and ulcers, foul to the eye and almost, hopeloss to the sense—that hor best friends tura from the loathsome creature with disgust.” About two thousand of the people of this naughty and unpleasant republic, men and women, were seated comfortably in their places at eight o'clock, awaiting the coming of Mr. Dickena ‘The ball, ® light and pleasant one, was Qiled to its utmost capacity. 1t is a ball that presents a very pleasant coup dail when filled The gallery, rising very gracefully from the turther wall of the iowor portion and giving e good distance from the very foot of the reader's desk to the limit of this distance, was one delightful per- spective of happy faces. You might suppose the whole male portion of the company to be the melancholy ghosis of departed bookkeepers who had fallen dead at their desks, such was their weary air of business, and calculating undertakers on duty would bo sprightly beside them, These aro the words of Mr, Dickens, To us the men seemed quite as bappy as the women, Promptly at his hour Vr. Dickens came. He was clad fo a plaio dress sult, with white necktie, and wore kid gloves of a neutral tint. His bead and {ace shew the finger of Time in deepening lines and coming gray—for {he color has gone from the thin beard he wears.on his chin and from bw musiache, His head is baid on top, and the hair remaining at the sides is brushed energetically forward, as if to show a spirit in what remains, He stepped lightly and quickly across the piatform to the reading desk, and bis coming was the signal for an outburst of applanse that lasted some moments, It gained strength as it waa kept up, and went from hand to mouth till trom the ordinary event of clapping hands it became quite an oration of cheers, the subject taking it all with ensy dignity. Here justice requires us to rocord a memora- ble fact—Mr. Dickens’ coming in did not shake the house down, We deem it necessary to men- tion this from (he account that gentleman has given the world of American arohitectare. He has eaid of our public buildings that their “walls and colonades wero 80 g.isp and thin and slight that thoy bad exactly the appearance of being built with cards’ Ho bas even thought himself called upon to say of one of these buildings, “I wes careful not to draw my breath as wo passed.” On tho present occasion he was, perhaps, equally considerate. He came in, he walked across, he bowed to the right, to tho left, to the front and all round again; and with all this there was not the slightest calamity, The walla wore unshaken, the roof remsined in ite place, the very windows did not rattle, V'erhaps thie Tremont ‘Temple is an exceptionally soild piece of American ar- chitecture, since it not only endured Mr, Dickeas’ breath- ing in it, but i withstood aiso the little thunders vol- thelr leyed from the hands and mouths of the sssembiel | many. From the reader's standpoint the sight of this ples- | sant reception must have been vory agreeable. “My attention was: attracted,” Mr, Dickens has written, ‘10 remarkable appoarance immediately in front of ine, which I supposed for a time waa occasioned by a nuim- ber of industrious persons ing open feather beds and g‘ving the feathers to the wind. At nit occurred to me that they were only spitting, which wos indeed the case, though bow any Bumber of ons which It was possible for the place to contain could bare maintained such a playfal and incessant shower of ex- pectoration, I am still at a loss to understand,” We aid not see any of thia ourse!ves, but we cannot boast such powers of observation as have made Dickens famous So soon as the pleasant tittle storm of welcoming spplacse bed’ passed away, Yr, Dickens went rapidly | reading. Both pisces are highly dra- matic in ii wita great variety of character, tne ype Carol” the more acreesbl re Ply wo of the tea 1) ateners were in & mo" very nee Of Od Bersoge, of is paiieaty light hearted "cle the Jolly Nephow, the ghost of ley, Tiny Tim ibe Conversational Boy under the window, is hardly correct vo say that Mr. Dicken? read this story. Hoe told it-—he the story Just as common- place persons will tel! any litle anecdote, givmg, with more or lors ance the air sud toue of such speaker as they may introduce, opty that Mr, "ickens prosenied the ludividuality of bie kere with euch wetl-definet Hines, wilh such a vivid conception of the identity of each, that they became eal; and no one of his dozen charactors following be through the hour pecaine confused with another, had a differ. ent air, aod many a different tone of voice, a different face, 90 that the recognition of who was speaking in tho story was as ready and a4 easy as \f each had walked on in ‘The reador was frequently interrupted by the ap- planse and continued laughter of thy d when, im the Pickwiek trial, to canre to that jut where the clerk calls “The next witness, Samuel Weller; the very name of thie favorite brourht @ yenial recognition from over¢ tmhd io the house §=“All_ present were ver dismal, and seemed to have tremendous sem woighi oo their minds. Thore was no Isugb. tor, ‘s cheertulncss, no sociability, exce) in epitting’—ot lesst that ts the way forward with it mond Hill end ‘Tho Reconstruction Convention=The B4anen- tlomnl System—Taxation to be Resorted to to Pay the Delegates. Nsw Oxreas, Deo, 2, 1867, Section four of Mr. Wicklife’s educational ordinance, which was referred on Saturday, ia as foliows:— No person shall establish a pri o by the state, and all such seltoale shall be tarot’ ascether professional tnatitutions. The Legislature shall make lawa ARTO EMINg tits eniive subject in accordance With the sp.rit of his euactment. Some member to-day offered an ordinance having in view the raimng of funds to defray the expenses of the Convention by direct taxation on real and perronal property above the value of $200; also upon calliags or ———_ and by @ poll all taxes to be paid in ited States currency. It provides for the appointment of a board of three collectors in each pari-h or munictpal district, collection to commence within thirty days after the parsage of this act, with ten days’ notice, Section ten of this act empowers cotiectora with ail mecessary authority to enforce the collection of taxea by um: Process, authorizing them to seize and eel! all Property at auetion after ten days’ notice, Also giving them power to call out a posse comitatus, and imprison any one interfering with them. Section eleven is as follows:—Al] courte and officers of courts throughout the Stare are hereby forbidden to interfere with said collectors in the discharge of their ties under this ordinance by any lege) process what- Se. under penalty, !mpeachment and dae or imprison- Section sixteen saye—No privileges, exemptions or riptions, ag heretofore established by law, shall we any force against the provisions of this ordinance, All rights, credits, and tities shail be liable to seizure for collection of the taxes herein lovied ; all laws heretofore and now in force to the contrary notwithstanding, Section sovenieen provides for the appointment of a special committee, styled the Tax Judicial Committee, to decide ail difficulties arising from the entorcement Of this act, whose decision shail be tinal. The nee was referred to the Committee on Con- resolution was offered that the members of the Con- Yent:on receive eight dollars per diem, and the same mileage as members of the State Loxisiat compen- sation to cease at the expiration of thirty The resolution was laid over. A resolution was offered recommending General Han- cock to remove from office all mep disfranchised under the Reconstruction laws, urging the appointment of loyal citizens in their places. Laid over under the rule. The resolutions offered last Saturday to ratify the levee bonds came up, and, after discussion, was post- poned. It was flercely opposed by tbe extrome radicals, on the ground it was an attempt to endorse rebel logis- Jation and compensate rebel planters, The following order bas been issued by General Heapquaaters Fiero Mivrrary District, New Orveans, Dec. 2, 1867. two of special orders No. 108, fourth cur- ent series from these wartors, issued by Brevet Major General J. A. Mower, appoit R. King Cutler, Judge of the Second Judicial District Court of isiana in place of A. Cazebot, is hereby revoked; that office is therefore vacant. By command of Major General HANCOCK, W. J. Mrronezs, Brevet Lieut. Colonel A.A A. G. b 1 of Special Orders No. 197, from these headqi dated November 29, 1867,’ tssued by Brevet Major General J. A. Mower, removing from office Smith Izard, Aid to the Chief of Police of this city, and apt ie in his place Vorter V. Perkins, ia hereby re- ¥ ig ; 0) Paragraph 3 of Orders No. 191, from these headquarvers, datea November 28, 1867, removing from office Lieutenant O'Donnall, of the police, and appoint- ing Augslo V. Wara in his place, is bereby revoked, If any charges or all ns are presented against the officers who are reinstated by this order, they will be considered by the Mayor and Police Board, to whom the subject rly pertains, andof ‘nay Goneral HANCOCK. By command of W. G. Mrromztt, A. A A. The order revoked by the above was issued on tho morning of General Hanouck’s arrival. Archbishop Odin had a gratifying recoption from tho petrolen ky | Naver seek, clergy and laity of the diocese yosterday. The proceed- \nga Were very impressive, Genorai Hancock and staff were present, NEW YORK. The State Canals. Scuexecrapr, Dec. 2, 1867, Canal navigation has been interrupted hero since Friday morning last, It was caused by the sinking of a boat near the aqueduct, which ran on a stone which had.ialien into the canal, From two to tree hundred boats have been detained here since. Navigation was resumed yesterday (Sunday) morning. The boats aro passing eastward now as fast as they can be locked through, but as they are arriving about as fast as they depart the crowd of boats doos not lessen any. Deo. 2, 1867, ‘The canal is all right and the weather is mild, Syracuse, Doc. 2, 1807. The locks are working, the canal is open and boats are pass! ard. About one hundred and fifty boats ass, Scumnectapy, Dec, 2, 1867. There are about seventy-five boats on the canal level at this place, which are being passed through the locks saseniely as poastbie, There is no impediment to navi- on, ise soveedae boats this city, eastward bound, since the 224 of ovember. it ts estimated that there are about three hundred loaded boats between this city and Moutezama The present appearances are that it will rain and navigation will be resumed. The Chenango Canal is frozen up. Tne East Frankfort lock is sadly in need of attention, and forwarders find much fault with this ag well as with o Fatal Accident at North Erans. Burrano, Des. 2, 1867. George Hurrell, a drover belonging to Loursvilie, Ky, was killed on the cattle train at North Evans, coming to this city. Hurrell, it is supposed, was struck on tho bead whilo standing om the car passing under the bridge. GEORGIA. The British Ship Consul Burned tn Tyboe Ronds. Savannan, Deo, 2, 1867, The British ship Consul, lying at Tybee Roads, took fire at cleven o'clock last night. when engines: from the city aud two tugs were seot down, but failed to subdue the flames. She was run aground and scuttled to save portions of her cargo, but hor upper works are still burning, The ship will de a a total loss, aud is not insured. cargo of 2, #25 bales of upland cotton and sevent; bales of sea isiand, which wore insured in Liverpool. The Screamer was in great daogor at one time, but is sale, ‘ INDIANA, Mob Law nt Plerceton. Crncissati, Dec. 2, 1867. The negro who committed the outrage on Mra. Baker at Pi ton, Ind, was caught the samo made full confession of the crime, and hen seized by amob and stabbed, sbot and beaten dead. His body was then dragged througn EUROPEAN MARKETS. Tux Loxpos Moxuy Marcet.—Lonvos, Dec. 3—5 | P. M.—Consola for money (ox-dividend), 93 6-16; Unhed Siates tive-twenty bonds, 71%; Illinois Central Railway shares, 89; Ere Railway sbaros, 43. Tms Fraxxvorr Bovnse.—Fraxxrort, Dec, 2—5 M.—United States five-twenties for the issue of 1662, | 76 | _ Liverroon P. M.—Cotton, 8,000 rn Middiing uplands loans, LiverPoot Breapstcrrs Marxer.—Liverroot, Doc, 2— 5 P, M.—Corn, 486, for mizea Western; wheat, 159. for white Calitoruia, and 13s. 1d, for No. 2 Milwaukee red; barloy, 68. 4d, for American; oats, 38, 11d, for Ameri: can; peas, 49a, 64. tor Canadian. Liverroot Provisioxs Maner.—L Deo. 2—~ 5). M—Beof, 112 64 for winter cured extra prime meas; pork, 708 for prime Raatern mess; lard, 40s. for fine American ; cheese, 528, for the hibgoat range of foe; bacon, 444, for Camberiand cut. Livenroot Propuck MARKST.—Livanroor, Dec, 2— 5. M.—No. 12 Dutch standard sugar, 265. 64. : rosin, Wists Sha"toe Amerionny’ apiete of tciposiiaa, tallow, vf An A urpentine, 374, epirite 2s, por om and refined 10s, 31; 303. for No. 1 Smerican ted. | Lospow Mankets.—Lowoox, Dec, 2—5 P. M,—Whate | off, £30 por 262 gall £99 on, Sperm olf, £112 per ton. Linseed cakes, £11 per too for thin oblony | petnouKt Gsncer.—axtwenr, Dee, 2-5 PM Petrvieum, 4 franes for standard white, ! MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Dec, 2—The steamsbip Javi oie joston, has arrived here rn ote Liters Retvotia, Captain fr. iith of 'Noveriber, has armired ‘ore |, Qexamerows, Haven, Deo, §2. General Transatlantic Com. ny's wleamship Pur bas ome Lemaitre, which left Rev York on the 16th uititoo, bas arrived, } . Disasters a? Sta. —Liv' Dec. 2—Evev,ing.—The | Weather ba Boe | bes yp meena a fow days pat, ‘The teiegrapt ues enn va have raced, and numerous sb! ge oe) wid Tho ship Lydia Willlame, Captain Carr, whicb left this port on the atin of Sepiersber last Por Ham Francisco, ‘went ashore at Holyhead (7) when craly a few days out, ‘and will vos loss, Ihe crew saved. The British Guarding Ange, from bound to New York, was lost off the coast false (no date), Oniy seven of the Grew wore caved. Invetl Pye Pe Cha tng 4 which from ‘York for Ai arrived at Lisbon lonky, having experienced yattt0e exper weather. Se qould Cd SPCCIAL TELEGRAM TQ THE HEAALD. Abstract of the Annual Report of the Seere- tary of the Treasury. Treasury Deranryxst, Wasaixarox, Noy, 30, 1867. & conformity with law, the Secretary of the Treasury has he honor to submit to Congress this, his regular annuat report, The finances of the United States, not- withstanding the continued depreciation of the currency, are in # much more satisfactory condition than they were whou the Secretary had the honor to make to Congress his last annual report, Since the let day of November, 18:4, $493,999,263 of interest bearing notos, certificates sf indebtedness and of temporrry loans, have been paid or converted into bonds, and the public debt, deducting therefrom cash in the Treasury, which eto be applied to ite payment, has been reduced $59,805,565. During the same period a de- cided improvement nas also been witnessed in the general economrcat condition of the country. ‘The policy of contracting the currency, although not enforced to that extent authorized by law, has prevented an expansion of credits to which a redundant and espe- cially a depreciated currency ig always an incentive, aud has had no little influence in stimulating labor and in- creasing production. Industry has been steadily retarn- ing to the healthy channels from which it was diverted during the war, and although incomes have bean small and trade generally inactive, in no other commerctal country bas there been less financial embarrassment than in the United States, Since the lst day of September, 1865, the temporary loans, certificates of indebiedness and five per cent notes have all been paid, with the exception of small amounts, The compound interest have been reduced from $217,024,169 to $71,878,040, $11,500,000 having been taken up with three per cent certificates; soven and three-tentn notes from $830,000, 000 to $337,978,800; United States not including fractional currency, from $459,504,311 to $937,871,477; while the cash in the treasury has been increased from $88,218,055 to $13,998,398; and tho funded debt has Deen increased $686,504,800.' While this has boen ac- com ed there has been no commercial crises, and oul of the Southern States, which are still greatly suffering from the effects of the war, there has been no considerable financial ombarrassment. In his last report the Secrotary remarked that, after acareful survey of the whole field, he was of opinion that specie payments might be resumed, and ought to be resumed, as early as first day of July, 1868. While he indu! the hope that such would be the character of future slation, and such the condition of our productive industry, that this moat desirable event might be brought about at a stil earlier day. These anticipations of the Secretary may not be fully realized. The grain crops of 1866 were barely sufficient for home consumption. ‘the expenses of the War Department, by reason of Indian hostilities and the establishment of military govern- ments im the Southern States, having greatly exceeded the estimates. Tho government has been dofrauded of a large part of its revenue upon led liquors, and the condition of the South has been disturbed and unsatisfactory. These facts and appre- hensions, created in Europe and to some extont at home by the utterances of some of our public mon upon the < lem an age venir = mignt me maintained, may postpone the time when epecie payments shall’ be resumed; but, notwithstand- jug these unexpected embarrassments, much pre- liminary work has been done, and there is not, inthe opinion of the Secretary, any insuperable diMioulty in the way of an early aud a ‘manent ro- storation of specie standard. It may not safe to fix the exact time, but with favorable crops uext year, and with no legislation unfavorable to contraction at this session, it ought mot to be delayed beyond the Ist of January, or at farthermost the Ist of = July, 1889. Nothing will = be » however, by a forced resumption, When the country is ing condition to maintain specie payments they will be restored as a necessary consequence, To suc a con- itton of national prosperity as will insure a ent Festoration of the specie standerd the following moas- ures are, inthe opinion of the Secretary, important if not indispensa! Fira—The funding or paying of the balance of the interest bearing votes and the continued contraction of the paper curreacy. ‘The maintenance of the publio faith ia regard to the funded debt. Third—Restoration of the Southern States to their Proper relations to the federal government. Tn the present condition of the country, and in view of the relations that the national banks sustain to the government, ignoring in this connection the question of good faith, the Secretary bas no esaige fn coming to ti conclusion that they sboula be sustained. hey are so interwoven with all brauches of busines, and aro so direct!y coanected with the credit of tne ernment that they could not be destroyed without precipitating upon the country financial troubles which itis now tn No condition to meet, At some more propitious period, when the Union shall have been fully restored, and ail the States shail have attained that substanflal prosperity which their great resources and the energy of thoir people must eooner or later secure for them, st may perhaps be wise for Congress to consider whether the national banking system may not be dispensed with. The pres- ent is nota favorable timo to consider thia question. The condition ot our political and financial affaira is too critical to justify any action Keen mm 1 gr na- ae yea a ir fae perpeat a irpowe of providing moans of retiring their circu. lation, Conservative legislation is now tadispensable, The public mind ts too sensitr business is too un- steady end the political ture is oO une certain to warrant any finenocial experiments, Fortunately none are required, The national bauking system hes furnished a circulation, depreciated, it is true, ike United States notes, but solvent beyond ques- tion and current throughout the Union, It bas aided tn regulating domestic exchanges, and furnished govern. ment with valuable finaticial agente, it not been adopted the State banks would bave continued ag long as they were tolerated to furnish tue country with benk notes, In most of the States banks were not “required to deposit stocks for security of their notes, and in those States where sccurity was required there was no Iimit tothe amount of bonds that might be deposited, and consequently no limit to amount of notes that might de put io ciredlation, In other States there was no security beyond the capital of oanks, and frequentiy the uoreai aod partial lability of stockbolders. Engine f deceptive, who can estimate the extent of injury whic: the people and government would bave sustamed if Stato institutions, without any restric. tions than were enforced by State laws, bad been permitted during the war to occupy the field. Ail having euspended specie payments, and thereby been relieved from the necessity of far. vishimg evidence of solvency, banks unwisely or dix honestly managed would have stood on a ievel with those why were managed wisely nod bonestiy, white the lntter would have foand i difficult to keep their tssues within reasonablo limits, stimulated, as they would have been, to tasve freely by the necesmtiea of the government and the iwerea-ing demaad for money, wh. pote result of an incronsed supply, he former would have poured out the irredeemabie promises until distrust created panic and panic disaster, Tiet the pational system, with its limited and secured circulation and its re. stricted provisions, by suspending the State systoma, hag prevented @ financial criss, there can be but Mitte doabt, For this it ie entitled to credit, and for this and for other reasons suggested it should be sus. tamed until a better system shail be devised of the country is In a condition to dispense with bank issues altogether, Arguments in favor of co’ ing the banks to retire their notes and yield the fold to the notes of the gov- ernment are upoa the supposition that if shree hundred = millions United moles = were substituted for bundred millions of | na- tional bank notes now in _ circulation the ernment would save some eighteen millions delfare cede yet now a Semone he eae ee there wor no such saving, nor any e ii is clearly shown “by the in his accompanying Compirolier of the C report, to which the attention of ‘* naked. If an account were with the they were ch: with interest om three hundred tuilllons of dollars, and the losses susiained through those tbat bave failed and credited with interost on the Untied States notes permanent reserve, with 4 by thas to. the government rn states, and with a commis- ston covering — hp) oy bevn ye by mp te and disbarsing the pul money, wou! tained that the banks were not debtors to the United States, It is not necessary, however, for the to dwoil on this point, a6 bis main objection to the subsil- first instavce as bavi misforiane, and their continuanee as a circulating Medium, unless steadily reduced, as fraught with misebief, the Lye =“ can ocouceite no cifeum- mances that wou hetandi Geprectated bat le; hotes, notwft! ng the reduction that has taken piace, still s'and im the way of a return towpecie payments, A substitution of them for bank notes would be regaried by bim and by the covnt as 8 = declaration that resumption had been finitely postpoaod. If those now outstanding sball be retired at the rate of four millions per month, the amount in actual cirealation will soon be reduced so that retard the restoration to a tr jue, If, om the contrary, under pretvens or any purpose whatever thelr value should be lncreasod, expecially if they strould be made tbe sold paper circulation of the country @ felse mensare of vajue wil be coutinned, speculation will be strmuiated, {1 wilt dectiod and tisk be incurred. financial healthy will be only obtained by & revolsion, the fect whieh apon = the material intorests estimate. Soch & fevuision the Secretary is most anxions to prevent, and he therefore cannot approve of the proposition for ew notes of the United States for national bank, but recommends that the polley of contraetion be continued, Apprehension that this policy wi!) embarrass bealthy trade js, in bis judgment, usfounded. Legitimate bust~ bas not suffered by the curta:!ne: &® furtbor issue, Thase | NATIONAL FIWANCES. | « such exten! qure three bundred and eigniy itilions of Cuited Stales notes and fractional currency, dred millions of bavk notes for its proper and needful accommodation. Not) can bo more {aMacious than this wfortunate popular ides An frredeemable currency ig@ financ:.! disease wi retards growth instead of epeouracing i, Which stimulates speculation, but dimiaisives labor. A healthy growth is to be secured by a removal of dis- ease, and nos by postponin; in the expectation that the Pationt will eventually overcome it, The next subject to be considered, in connection with the permanent resumption of specie payments, is the Mmawmitenanco of public faith, which involves the neces ity of wise and stable revenue laws, impartialiy ang rigorously euforved, Economy in the public ex- Penditares, and @ recognition of the obligation of government to pay its bonds accordance with the wuderstan@ing under which they were issued. The remarks of the Secretary in (uis report upon the Subject Of public revenues must necessarily be brief aud general, Fortuvatoly, the accompanying report of the Commissioner of the Revenue i so full and exhaustive es to render discussion of this great sudject on his j eos ‘Taxation, the power to tax, is one of the mast important powers exercised by a gor ment To tax wisely, 80 enyes wiihous oppressing most difiicalt duties ry | wemaking power, Tax. ation can never be otherwise than burdensome, and it becomes especially go when subject to frequent changes. 1s ta, therefore, of > Importance that the Revenue laws should be stable, By this it isnot meant that they should be uachangeatte, but that wiiilo from tune to | time they may be aiodified’ to meet the changing condition of the country, the principles upon which they are based should be so wise and just as to give to them permanency of character. Periape as much mischief has resaited from the frequent changes: in the tariff laws of the United Staies as from their de- fects, From the time when tho first tariff was framed, in 1789, up to the last eesmon: of ) the tariff was been a fruittul subject of discussion, and at no period has the policy of government in regard to customs duties been considered as definitely settled: There has been @ constant struggle between the advocates and ents of protection and free trade, am cendency goverally being with the protection ists. Pho tariffs of 1816, 1824, 1828, 1642 aud 1861, were all of & highly proteciive character, {hose of 1833 apd 1846 reduced duties largely aud looked a the direction of free wade. So evenly, however, have Parties been divided tbat although protective laws bave generally been in force, at no period from 1789 to the Present day have importers and manufacturers had any’ reasonable assurances that the existing tariff! laws might not be suddenly and materially altered. That the effect of these changes, actual and apprehended, has been. highly injurious to the couniry, canaot be questioned. That it has not been ‘disastrous mdicates the readiness of the people of the United States to adapt their business to policy of the government, whatever it may be. Frequent changes of the tariff laws are attributanie to the fact that in none of them has revenue heen tho principal object. Thore bas er been in tho United Srates a strictiy revonue if, and consequent! the has ‘been no stability in the tari Up to 1861 the revenue from customs under any scale-of duties adapted were aufficiont to defray the: ex- penses of the government, and therefore the question Row 80 interesting was hardly a prominent one, In the present Gnancial condition of the country large: revenues are indispensable, and in adjusting the present tariff the question of revenue must necessarily be a question of paramount importance When the government was ubstantiully free trum debt, and the public expenditures were smati, as was the case before:the rebeilion, a revenue tariff, properly to the public necessities, would have been a ff; bat vow, whee a heavy debt and lik eral expenditures create a necessity for large Tevenues, & considerable portion of which must for somo years to come be derived from customs, it is difficult to perceive bow, without exces sive importations, a strictly revenue tariff can jail to be 1) it may thus turn out that the necessities t may give incidentally to American mauu- production they are supposed wo requive facturers without special legislation, alwaye odious and geuerally unreliable, tn ther behalf. Tuasmuch as large and permanent revenues cannot be roalized unless the lawa are so framed a8 not to bear heavily upoo industrial pursuits, @ tariff which, bar- monizing with the internal taxes, should year by your yield the large revenues, would undoubtedly prove to be the least prejudicial to tue national growth ‘and prosper'ty. A high tariff, by reducing importations, and threo nun | oustanding, | Tho importance of the restoration of the Southern relations with the feferal governs estimated. A cu: out of the Yand the maintenance of the public faith ere ¢ all taat ia required to restore the coumiry to perfect financial health, We need, in addition | 40 these, 8 walled country—unied in fact op well as’ in mame, Tk may pot be propor f F the Socvetary im this report 10 discuss the measures vegerded by hin as be tated wo bring aboub this MOS Aeviraie reault. This, however, he feels tt bis Gaty tomy, as he betaciially sa) in bis last year's report, thai tue \wiestion of reconstruction, ag a purely flopoclal question, 1s, ta bis Jadgment, second in import uncd to hove tha: Congress’ will ever be called upoa to consider. ‘There 18 a gereral sentiment among taxpayers that the exomphes of overnw a! bonds from jecal taxauon te not exastly righs, exc av in iwvuro Weve, «The Seerstery hes no =herMation $m adwiting that be is ia sympathy with the motiment The io way; However, ae has Ween sugwerted, the fact that if the Sends herealior wo be issued were to be subject to local wmation, ¥ery few would be beld where taxes ave bigh, amd there Would de w constans ten- dency t© a concentation Of the States and and citie# where taxs4 are low, or iat countries, where’ they would escent taxation: rr: Itto a matter of great Importanc® that gor. ‘bends #ould be a‘deairable snvestinent ia att of the coumry, and iM is obvious that toe Statew atould be in some manver compsusaied for the right now denied of taxing” them ao other kind? of property are taxed, Alter gitiug the subject careful consiveration, the Seeretary ca» sugest Bo better any of doing it shan by ea issue of bonds, to be known us the Consolidated Dobs of tho United 4, bearing: siz* per cout imerést, and baving Swenty years’ to run, into which eM? other obligations of the @vernmaui ‘shall as rapidly as pessiblo be sopveried, ope-sixth pact Of the interest 4) each sembannual ment te be reserved Dy the gevernmon: paid over to tho Siaies, etcording to. tion. this moans ail bo taxed alike, aud a gem secured, State taxes, inebading iovic# for couvty aod’ municipal purposes, Low, as a general Uiag, excead one por cent, but when debts incurred for payment of beuntios are paid, and in most ef the States ey are already in procesa of rapid extinction, and” opomy is again pratiiced in the administration of Stare allaira, this ivdirect eseassment will de quite Ukely* to equal the tax Assessed upon other Srepeery If the debt to be funded shail amount to 9%2,005,000,000, the anrount to be reserved and posd to the states annually“ would be $20,000,000. The Secretary estimates that the receipts ant rs goed tures for the three quarters ending Juue 40, 1868, will be $296,000,000. The expenditures for tho same penod, according ‘to his estimates, wilt be $295,000,« 000; feaving a surplus of estimated receipts Over estimated oxpenditures of $1,000,000; The receipts and Expenditures for the next fiscal year, ending June 80, 1868, and estimated $381,000,000, The Ex» penditures for the san Period are estimated at 72,000,000 ; surplus of 4 Haring a eceipts over estimated Expendiiuros of Since the first day of September, 1895, the debt bas reduced $206,186,121, Now tf such a reduction could be mado while the industry of one third part of the coantry by reason wer and the unsettled sta‘e of its political affairs haa been exceedingly de- pressed, and other thirds have by no meaus exeried their full proauctivencss soomer—if such a re duction could be made notwithstanding the liberal miscellaneous appropriations by Congress, payment of « bounties and the great expeuse of maiotaining . military forces upou tho frontier apd in the Southers States, can there be any good reason why-«@ + redaction, #0 successfully commenced under the most fnauspicious circumstances, should not be continu steadily and without interruption, until every dotiar tt tg extinguished, MAILS FOR EUROPE. The Conard mail steamship Africa will leave Poston on Wednesday for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will closo in this city at a quar. ter past one and half-past five o'clock on Tuesday after Boon, $9,000,000. been The Naw Yore Hxnaip—Edition for Europe—wilt oe ready at ten o'clock this morning. dingle copies, tu wrappers, ready for mailing,. siz cents, Ast, of Justice to Piszer, offman. e Catholic Inmates of Nai ig tarbor. Card from Rev. J. L. Conron, pastor of St Peter's Catholic eharely or by oppressing important brancues of trade and i duatry which are subject to internal duties, might pro’ to be ag untavorable to revenue as a low one, and equally uneuited to the public necessities. The present tariff, although a high one, bas not proved to be protective, white for (he past two years it has been highly productive of revenue; but its failure to protect those inverests for whose benefit it was ina great measure framed, and the large revenues which have been de- rived from st. do not prove it to be in any just sons revenue tar:if, Jt has failed to give to American inanu- factures the protection it was intended to afford, and it has yielded much targer revenues than were antici- ated, because the high prices prevailing in United States havo stimulated importations. It does not follow because it is producing @ iarge revenue now that it will continue to do so when business and the cur- rency shali be restored to a healthy condition. The time me whea the United States will cease to bo able country to sell in, and whep jt must \ purchases, not in ite vonds, but in own productions Staten Island. New Brigrron, Staten Island, Dec. %, 1867. With no desire to interfere in the poliucal’ discussion of New York city or elsewhere, justice to Mayor John T. Hoff man demands that his action in favor of religious Mberty to the inmates of the Sailors’ Suug Harbor, on Staten Island, sball be made known, Finding that the Catholic inmates of the institution were denied the privilege of passing through the guics on Bune days toattend the chureh of their faith T cpasod the matter to be laid before Mr. Hotfman. Mi sident of the Board of Trustees, and he imtaediately called n meeting of the sald Board tor (he purpose of having this wrong re dressed. ‘At that meeting of the Board I was not present, but am fect re. informed tat the vote stood as foilows:—For T. Hoffman, Recorder John K. Hackets ‘Trinity church. Against ft, Eh mand Captains Dunham a . as T believe, through the tnt, f the Sailore* atnat such inmates one act of atompte a lot! have known tof oficers of this insticution, my experi. / In order that the present tari should be a revenue tariff, tmportant moditications wit! Se neovssary, which cannot be inteiligeuly mad | business ceases to be subject to Cerangement by irredeemabie currency. The does aot, therefore, recommend « com- plete revision of tho tarifl at the there are some features of it, an’ nected with it, which require arty atteation. ‘Tho experience of whe deparimont disc.oses many dis- advantages attendant upon the colieciion of dutics on imports when (ho rates aro bigh aad ostimated ow an ad valorom basis, For the cvilection of such duties machinery more or less complicated 1s necessary for verification abroad of tnvolcos of importations, and for examinacion and appraisoment of merchandise on its arrival in this country. In every instance 4 com son ww Tequited between the invoice estimate and the general value in the principal markets of the country fo whence a commmodiey is The difficuky of atcertainiug the foret; kot value, especially {n cases where @ commodity ufactured express y for exportation, affording tempt- portunities for successful uuder-valuation and mi than commensurate with the risk of detection. Since tho paasage of the Tariff act of March 2, 161, the rates of duty, which were exclusively ad ' valorem, bave op many articles boon specific. The system of specifie duties appears to have given mach satisfaction to honorsbie dealers and to Officers of customs for the easo with the character and quantity of merchandise im- ported can be determined, for the uniformity with which duties may be a at iiferent sorts, and partical: as it precludes the possi- bitliy of fraudulent updervaluations, Without reco: mending an ex! adoption of specific du- ties, the would suggest for the con- sideration of ress whether the eystem might not with proprie'ary extended to all commodities on which the duty Dears a large proportion to value, or of whieh fc market price Is subject to great flactoa. toms, or = other causes witb diffloalty ascertained, Pabhe faith does not depend alone upon adequate Tevenue lawa, nor upon economy in the administration of the government; it rests also upon the observance of contracts in spirit a4 well as io letier, Im fact, | without this there wilt be neither ao nor economy in expenditures, Nothi bus absolute insolvency will wave from the infamy of repudiation a nation that does not ita debta according to the understanding at the time thoy were contracted; and when a nation volun. tarity violates this understanding it .will soos bo unabi from the very effect of own exam to pend touly be checked by is thabllty to ie expenditures will only ec iy its cat t. How much of the demoralization which exists in the revenue sorvice of the United States ‘s atiribut- able to the failure of the verninent to legal tender soies according to tenor, Petry be an at nge Li tg , but hardly appropriate ia a commun! ib, Now, to what is the United States pledged in regard to the public debt? Is ft not that it be paid according to the uderstanding between the gov- ernment and the subseribers to ite loans at the subscriptions were solicited and obtained? And can thero be any question in regard to the nature of this andersianding? Was it not that while ini noter should be converted into bond: money the bonds should be paid, interest, in coin? Was not this the passed the Loan bills, and of the the Con; whied opie who furnished money? Did any member of the Rouse or Souate prior to fm the exhaustive discus. sions of these bills, ever intimate that the bonds to be | fesned tp their provisions might be currency? Wav | there a mn; breriber to the five-twenty bonds or to the feven and three-teoths notes, which by their terms wore convertable into bounds, who did not believe, and who was not given to undersiand by agents of the government, that both the princips: and interest of tuese bonds were payabio in coin’ Dore aay ono suppose that the people of the United States, soit. menfcing a¢ they were in support the goverament, would bave sold their stocks, their lands, the products of thoir farms, of their factories and their shops, and invested their proceeds in ire-twenty bonds | and seven and Lbree-tonth notes, convertible Into meh bonds if they had inderstood that these bonds were to be redeemed, afier Gvo years from their re cilve dates, in & currency of the vain Wor whieh they could form no reliable extimate? the Secrot of the Treasury or would Congress, when | the fato of the pation was trembling ia the balanvo, and | when « failure to rite money for the mupport of the | federal army would have beon # success to tle rebellion | nod ram to the Union cause, have dared to attempt the experiment of raising money oa bouds redoomable at the pleasure of tho government after five years ju a on Convertible, but the value of which might not upon the solvency of government, ‘dus upon the amount in circulation ? ‘No such understanding existed, and fortonately no such , or The bonds were negotiated Wi) 9 the definite andorstandivg that thoy were payable in co the seven and thres-tonths notes with am sie ay ‘that copvertib! ry miiar cbar: dur, high rates of duty, offer inducements (or evasion more | y ence during (he last six years being that the nurses, wardenr and others tu charge perform their duties faithiuuy ao with Kinduess. 8. 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