The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1867, Page 6

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Jules Favre assailed Napoleon's policy of !nterven- tion in the Roman question in a brilliant address to the French Legislature, The staff officers of the French expedition retired from Rome, ‘General!’ Nagle, a Prominent Fenian was arrested in Ireland, All the cab- mon in London are oma “strike’’ against an obnoxious Police regulation. Bombay, India, and the surrounding country have auffered from the eftects of a disastrous cyclone. Consols cjosd at 934¢ for money in London. Five- twonties wore at 71% in London and 763, in Frankfort, | CONGRESS. In the Senate yosterday, on motion of Mr. Buckalew, the word “Hon.,” attached to the names of Senators Prosent at the session on Monday, was erased {rom the Journal. The regular standing committees were selected, no cha! f importance being made. Tho President's ‘Mmossage was received and read, soon after which tho Senate adjourned. Tn the House Mr. Stevens asked leave to offer resolu- tions dividing the late State of Texas into two States and providing for a census in the conquered Biates; but objection being made they went over, The report of the Committee on Elec- tions, relating to the Kentucky members, was submitted, Dut pending its reading tho Presidqnt’s Mossage was recoived. Some discussion ensued on the ‘fact of the Message having been published in the nowspapers be- fore it was received in the House, at the conclusion of which it was referred to the Committea of the Whole. Four of tho Kentucky delogation wore admitted to geata, the caso of Judge Young being still under con: - ration. Tho Committee on Ways and Means reported a Dill abolishing tho tax on all cotton that may be grown afier 1867, pending debate on which the Houso adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho Mayoralty election in this city yesterday re- fulted in a victory for Hoffman by 21,634 majority over the vote of the other two candidates combined. In the Constiutional Convention yesterday, a call on the secretary f statement of the condition of busi- ness before the Convention was atopted, In the even- ing session a vote on the section of the article on finance Goclaring that taxation upon real estate and personal property shall be oqual and uniform, was taken, reault- ing tn a vote of sixty-six ayes to ten nocs, whereupon the President announced there was no quorum present, and the Convention adjourned. Tho Alabama Convention have received an intimation from General Pope that they bad better adjourn, as they ‘Were doing great injury to reconstruction, at which the Gologates felt very much insulted. They yesterday passed ordinances staying the collection of debts until January 1, and oxompting # small sum and a home- ‘stead for each head of a family from taxation, and pass- ed to a second reading an ordinance suspending all the courts but the Supreme, Probate and Criminal. They ave not Gxed a day for adjournment. It is understood ‘that the military will enforce ali their ordinances. In the Louisians Convention yestorday a movo was made towards building © new State House at Baton Rouge. A mooting of the bar of Washington and the Suprome Court of the United States was held yesterday, when Attorney General Stanbery and Chief Justice Chase mado oculogisilo rémarks rejativo to the late Justice Wayne. A proposed anti-impeachment meeting in Boston. gotten up by leading republicans, has been postponed, 00 account, it is said, of its being usoless, as the opinion of New England ie unanimous On tne subject and has been already well expressed through the press, The Canadian Parliament think of making American silver a logal tender. ‘The Virginia Reconstraction Conrontion mot yester- day, olected a white man temporary chairman and a nogro secretary, and then adjourned anti: to-day. Several slight marine disasiers have occurrod near Quebec, owing to the flelde of ico in the rivers. ‘The clection in South Carolina ts stil! doudtfal Gonoral Candy bas issued aa order roguiating Stato taxes in South Carolina. General J, A. Mower bas beon ordored to bis regiment by General Hancock. Edward Duobar, the reverend Minnesd'a polygamist, has becn sentenced to three years eight moaths’ imprisonment at bard labor in the Penitentiary. ‘The steamship Bs\'ic, of the Bremon line, was seized n Monday for all Jed violation of law in carrying more passeagers than (he law allows The government 1s BOW anoing the owners of the vouse!l for $160,000 for this alleged infraction of the law, ‘The stock market was firm, but dull, yesterday. Gov. @romont securities were inactive, Gold was firmer and Gloned wt 136% 0 197. The Groat Grant Mase Mooting. ‘Let the independent men of this metropolis of all past party affiliations, who believe that neither the excesses of radicalism nor tho stu- pidities of copperheadism will savo the country, rally in their strength at the Cooper Institute to-night and assist in putting tho ball in mo- tion for General Grant, as people's favor- fte and the country’s safest choice, In this movement a new epdch in our political parties and political affairs will be inaugurated to- night. A bell will be rang which will be fol- lowod by # gonoral ringing of bells through- Out the land fe Grant, the Union and the con- Alitusion, The President's Message. The President’s Message is mainly devoted to a reproduction, in extenso, of his peculiar views on Southern reconstruction. His argu- ment in reference to the status and constitu- tional rights of the rebel States is that of an earnest and well satisfled advocate; but he forgets that in 1865 he offictally pronounced those States as without legal governments or civil officers, and proceeded to set them up with Provisional Governors, reconstruction conventions and constitutions, subject to the decision of Congress. But letting all this pass, Mr, Johnson, on the uanconstitutionality of the existing Reconstruction laws, on the folly and dangerous tendencies of unqualified negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy, on the costs of reconstruction under this per- nicious system, and on the verdict of the late Northern elections, makes up a powerful case against the radicals and in favor of “ the re- peal of those acts of Congress which place ten of the Southern, States under the domina- tion of military masters.” But what does Mr. Johnson propos? instead of these obnoxious laws? In 1866 Congress passed a certain constitutional amendment and submitted it to the States for their ratification. In opposition to this amendment Mr. Johnson submitted his policy of Southern reconstruc- tion and restoration to the public judgment. Thus, between his policy and the amendment from Congress the issue was joined which controlled the elections of last September, October and November, a year ago. And what was the result? An overwhelming pop- ular majority in every State for the Con- gressional amendment, from Maine to Califor- nia. That was the verdict of the people. They approved that amendment, which de- clared equal civil rights to individuals as citi- zens, regardless of race or color, and which left the question of the elective franchise to the several States to settle, the only condition exacted being this, to wit: that where there was no suffrage there should be no counting of the excluded race or class in counting the people for representation in Congress. Now, had Mr. Johnson recommended to Congress a return to this amendment in defer- ence to the voice of the people, his argument would have been as strong as a line of rivets driven through the splicing of a steam boiler and clinched on tho other side. In re- commending nothing but the repeal of these Southern military despotisms he leaves us to the conclusion that he will approve nothing but his own policy, condemned by the people as emphatically as they have condemned in its turn this more re- cent Congressional policy of Southern negro supremacy. The President indicates no margin for a compromise with the two houses of this Fortieth Congress, Ho will not budge a peg, and they will not budge a peg; and so, we suppose, it will be to the ond of his term of office, when he will retire, and they will retire, and that will be the last of them. Touching tho enormous frauds upon the Treasury (whiskey) from which colossal for- tunes liave been made, the Message says they are still increasing, and if not diminished will soon bring us into total ruin and disgrace—a warning which, we hope, will be respected by the whiskey law makers. In the Tenure of Office bill Mr. Johnson has a good cause and turns itto a good account. On the national finances his views, being substantially those of the Secretary of the Troasury, need no special remark here, being covered by a special article upon the subject in theso columns. On the quostion of the Alabama clalus the Mes- sage merely gives a little fact and ahiat, but the hint is a very broad and sig- nificant one. In regard to the general condi- tion of our foreign relations, otherwise, it is “gs well as could be expected,” though here we have a vast field for improvement and pro- gress as one of the leading nations of the earth, particularly in that important matter which gave tho Roman citizen safety, reapect and consideration in every corner of the globe. The impartial reader of the Message will find in it not mach to condemn, but many things to approve. The general tone is that of a calm and dispassionate state paper, although slightly tinctured with the constitutional odor of the stump in some passages. ‘Lhe most re- markable thing about it, however, is, that after having by facis and arguments thoroughly demolished the Southern negro supremacy | policy of Congress, Mr. Johnson bas nothing definite to recommend in its place. This, we apprehend, means that the split between Presi- dent aud Congress offers “no diplomatic half way house of rest,” and that therefore nothing in the way of relief need be expected for the South until the people shall have established at Washington a new President and a new Congress. Across the Continent In Fifteen Days, The Union Pacific Railroad has already reduced in point of time the overland journey to California one week. However important this reduction is deemed by those whom busi- ness or pleasure prompts to undertake this journey across the Continent, it is of far greater moment to commercial and financial operators. A notable instance of the value of this saving in time by reason of the railroad facilities which this company have made available is just announced. Despatches received here yesterday state that the mails from China and Japan, which have heretofore beea sent from San Francisco by sea, and which have occupied from twenty-two to twenty-four days in transit from that city to New York, left the formor city by the overland route on the 20th ult, and will be due here to-morrow morning, only fifteen days from the Pacific coast. Such rapidity of transmission is unprecedented, and the fact that it is now possible is due to the energy which has been manifested by the Union Pacific Railroad Company in the construction of the great national line which that corporation bas had in hand. The total time from Japan to New York is now reduced to about forty days, while the Liverpool merchants may receive their advices by this route in nine or ton days more, The industrial armies who are digging and blasting a way for the locomotive through the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada fre working as directly in the interests of New York and European capitalists and merchants as of those personally connected with tho rail- rond companies, In five years henco the wonder will be, not that any parties wore audacious enough to project and bulld s Pacific railroad, but that the business mon of this city and of the country wore so long content 40 do without §t NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEC ‘The Report of tho of the Trea- oury. We publish in full to-day Mr. MeOutloch’s annual report te Congress. It is a very long one, and we wish we could say that {ts ability corresponds with its length; but we cannot, for it aboxnds with absurd and pernicious financial theories, and shows, what we have always said, that the Secretary is morely a small country banker, and has not the first qualification of a statesman. But before we proceed to touch upon his arguments and recommendations let us look at his figures—at the actual financial condition of the country. The total debt on the Ist of November, 1867, was $2,625,502,843. Of this there was bearing coin interest, $2,204,879,631 ; bearing no interest, $402,385,848 ; besides over eighteen millions of Texas bonds and other items of old indebtedness. There was in the Treasury, however, $111,540,317 in coin and $22,458,080 in currency; leaving the debt, less money on hand, $2,491,504,450, The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, were $490,634,010. The expenditures for the civil service, including pensions, Indions, War Department, Navy Department and interest on the public debt, were $346,729,129. Of this the interest on the debt was $143,781,591. The loans paid, as they are called, were $746,350,525 ; and the receipts from loans were $640,426,910. That is, in the payment and transformation of this portion of the debt there was a falling off of $105,923,615. This would make the total drain upon the Treasury $452,652,734, leaving a balance of income over expenditures of $37,981,276, The estimated income for the three-quarters of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, is $296,000,000, and the expenditures $295,000,000, leaving a surplus of a million. The Secretary makes an estimate also of the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1869. The figures will bo seen in the report on another page. But we must remark that, in view of the extraordinary changes that aro likely to take p'ace and the Secretary’s ridiculous mistakes about the income and expenditures of the gov- ernment, this seems to us a superfluous labor and very unreliable, The Secretary still clings to his resumption theory. While he confesses that the trade, revenue and condition of the country have been such as to check him in his efforts to contract the currency and force specie payments, he still hopes resumption may be reached within a short time. “He did expect to reach this by next July, and notwithstanding the adverse circum- stances, as he regards them, operating against him, he says “the Ist of January, or at the fur- thermost the Ist of July, 1869, specie payments should be resumed.” He takes credit for having done “much preliminary work” to bring this about. Of course he means by that that he has contracted the currency and thereby brought us nearer specie payments. In this we think he deceives himself. At any rate, we are con- vinced he bas brought us nearer financial trouble, and that unless Congress checks. him serious disasters must soon follow. By far the greater part of the report is occu- pied with a discussion of the national bank system and about contraction of the currency and specie payments. Mr. McCulloch comes to the conclusion that the national banks should be sustained. He argues that they are “go interwoven with all branches of business, and are so connected with the credit of the government, that they could not be destroyed without precipitating upon the country finan- celal troubles.” Yet he thinks that when we shall have attained substantial prosperity “it may be wise for Congress to consider whether the national banking system may not be dis- pensed with.” Did any one ever see before such ajumble of contradictions? The national banks are the greatest blessing to the government, to its credit, to the trade of the country, and they cannot be destroyed without breaking faith ond doing them great injustice ; yet the time may come when it may be wise to break them up. What absurdity! If they are to ba broken up at all the time to do that is before thoy become firmly established, before they are rooted and interwoven in all tho transactions and property of the country. At present they may be regarded only as an experiment, but if they should continue long in existence they may claim vested rights and privileges. However great the evil may be it will be hard to remove it when firmly established. It took years of tho most desperate struggle with all the power and will of Andrew Jackson to put down Biddle’s United States Bank ; but that was a weak insti- tution compared with the national bank combi- nation. A vast moneyed power like this when deeply rooted cannot be removed without the greatest difficulty—without a struggle that would shake the foundations of the govern- ment. Ifit be an evil, now is the time to re- move it or never. The Secretary speaks of the banks being “connected with the credit of the government.” He has not the hardihood to say they are necessary to ils credit. Yes, they are con- neoted with the credit of the government—that is, the governmont lends them its credit to bank upon, and makes in addition a gratulty to them of a national girculating medium. Itisa ono sided affair and the banks gei a’! the bene- fit, They are of no earthly use to the credit o* the government and nevercan be. They draw oven and a half to eight per cent in currency on their bonds deposited and make about as much on their circulation. It is a monstrous monopoly, drawing upon the crodit leat to them, and the circulation given to them, fifteen or sixteen per cent from the industrial earnings of the people. Mr. McCulloch and the Comptroller of the Currency endeavor to make it appear that the banks do not receive this enormous benefit, and that there would be no saving by the, substitution of a legal tender currency for national bank circulation, and they particularly refor to the taxes the banks pay by the way of sustaining their argument, This is simply ridiculous and an insult to the common sense of the nation, It is woll known that the property or wealth and busi- ness of the banka are not taxed more than the property and business of all our citizens, In- deed, they are not taxed as much, while the profits on their three hundred millions ofetren- lation, amounting to twenty-five millions in cur- roncy @ year, at least, is a clear gift from the government. It fs giving away to an over- grown monopoly twenty-five millions a yoar which belong to the people, and which ought to bo saved. If the national banks be such a blessing to the couatry, let thom show it by doing their business with government legal tenders, and let the people have the profits that belong to them of a circulating medium There is no objection to these banks—let them exist if they will—only let the people and government not be robbed for their exclusive advantage, and let us not perpetuate an enormous monopo- ly that will control the government itself, rule the marketa and swallow up all the profiis of industry. Mr. McCulloch, throughout the whole of his long rigmarole about the national banking system, has but one idea, and that is to favor the banks and banking capital at the expense of the industrious classes anl the government, It would be an interminable and profitless laber to go into all the contradictions and absurdities of this report, or to endeavor to sift out any grain from such a mass of chaff. But some things should be noticed. For ex- ample, he concedes the general prosperity of the country, the extraordinary stimulus that has been given to production through an abundant currency and an easy money market. He could not do otherwise ; for his enormous revenue and the condition of the people show that too* plainly. Yet at the same time he calls this an unhealthy state of things, and urges a further contraction of the currency to give health. The country is remarkably well, he says in one breath, and in another he de- clares,there must be some disease not actually | seen. He would bleed the patient for an imaginary disease, and then, of course, when the patient dies, he, like all other quacks, would declare the experiment was a legitimate one, We do not want Mr. McCulloch’s experi- mental quackery, The country is very well, and will go on very well if the currency bo let alone. We want no contraction, and only a uniform currency by substituting legal tenders for the national bank circulation. We shall grow up (o specie payments, if that be desir- able, within a few years through the natural growth of population, business and the country. 2 With regard to the payment of the debt in coin or currency the Secretary makes a long and labored argument for the bondholders, He quotes the proceedings of Congress (though, unfortunately for his object, they are against him) to show that the principal of all the debt, the five-twenties included, should be paid in coin. He talks a great deal about national honor and all that to sustain bis weak argu- ment. The whole truth about the matter is simply thls, that there is no obligation to pay the principal of the debt in coin, except where that is expressly stipulated on the bonds ; that whenever paper or specie is the currency of the country it is perfectly legitimate for the government to pay the bonds or buy them up in either ; that it was so understood in Congress when the bonds were issued, as Mr. Stevens has clearly stated, and that we are not called upon to force specie payments for the special benefit of the bondholders, so as to pay them forty or fifty per cent more for their bonds than they gave for them. There is no fear about the national honor so long as we pay in the same money in which every one is paid. One of the most absurd and mischievous propositions of Mr. McCulloch in this report is relative to taxing the bonds for the benefit of the several States. No doubt this kind of property ought to be taxed as well as any other ; but for the general government to col- lect the tax and. thon distribute it among the States is preposterous. The Secretary knows nothing of history, or he would be warned by the land and surplus revenue distribution funds in former times in this country. It was, as history shows, a frightful source of corrup- tion and dissension. This proposition is noth- ing more than a gigantic bribe offered to the States and politicians to support Mr. McCul- loch’s infamous system of finance. Mr. McCulloch is not very explicit about the progress and amount of contraction of the cur- rency, nor upon the effect produced. He has touched this matter very gingerly. He has utterly failed to propose a good system of revenue, 80 as to reduce the burdens of tax- ation, to prevent the stupendous frauds prac- tised and to provide for the rapid liquidation of the debt. On all these important topics he deals in vague generalities, or says nothing. In fact, there never came from any Secretary of the Treasury such an unsatisfactory mass of wordy, meaningless stuff as wo find in this report. Our Mayoralty Election. The following are the figures reported of our city election yesterday for Mayor :— The registered vote.. « 136,444 The total vote cast. 104,228 Hoffman's vote 62,931 Wood's vote.. 22,832 Darling's vote. 18,465 Hoffman over Wood 40,099 Hoffman over —— 44,446 Hoffman over both... ai, These results show. that ‘Tammany rales the roost; that Mozart Hall may be pronounced a defunct institution ; that radicaligm in this city, with a candidate acceptable in every other re- spect, cannot touch bottom; that for at least another year or two our taxes and spoliations are to be as they have been, and that only from the general shaking "p gf, the Presidential eiection gan we Lon4 {> make a break ‘in the spoils and plunder combinations and their wheels within wheels of this metropolis. In this "tapecta tant report of Commissioner Rollins, which we @ lay be before our readers this morning, will be found ‘facss and figures in which they are all directly intérgsted, His exposition of the numerous, varlous and eo tensive whiskey frauds, whereby the Treasury and honest distillers and doalers and tax- payers have all been cheated, while frandulent operators have been enriched, are exceedingly interesting. His recommendations in the way of amendments of these Revenue laws are also entitled to the sorious and apeedy vonsidera- tion of Congress. Unquestionably, as they stand, these laws operate only to the advan- tage of dishonest men and the demoralization of many honest ones, and to the continual en- largement of the appalling volume of frauds and corruptions ; and if not checked they will rapidly bring our whole internal revenue sys tem into public contempt and reduce the Treasury to bankruptcy and our national finances to a disastrous collapse. FUNERAL OF CHANCELLOR WALWORTH. Saratoga, Dec, 3, 1857. Tho faneral of Chancellor Walworth this afternoon was largely attended. The Masonic Orders of Troy, Albany and Saratoga joined in Lew drad ‘oe Jast honors to their departed brother. The services 1 og) house were conducted by Rov. Dr, Wi The members, of the bar of the county, to the m of thirty, were in uitendance, THLBORAPHIC NEWS Jules Favre Assalis the Roman Intervention Policy. Losvon, Dec, 3, 1867, In the Corps Legialatif yesterday M. Julos Favre deliv- ered a brilliant speech against the policy of the govern- ment on the Roman question. He attacked French intervention in the affairs of Italy and denounced the sending of the expedition to Rome asa violation Of justice and as injurious to the interests of France, He declared that this interference by force burt the cause whieh it was designed to help, and in- volved the government in complications, to escape Lasy which it was obliged to persist in a policy of error, to the general discontent of the country. Instead of as- suming all the responsibility in so grave a matter, he said the government should have first consulted the Legislature, ROME. The French Staff Officers Retire from the c ity. 3 7* Panis, Doe. 3, 1867, Tho staff officora of the French’ expeditionary corps to Ttaly have all left Rome, ENGLAND. All the City Cabmen fn Opposition to a Now Law—Tho Abyssal War Tax—News from Admiral bianca Loxpox, Dec, 8, 1867. All the eabmen of this metropolis have left their stands and refuse to go to work, because of an obnoxious regulation which bas been put in force requiring them to attach lamps to their vehicles, The sudden suspen- sion of tho means of city travel causes much confusion snd embarrassment, and no little amusement, The cabmen hold a meeting to-night at Exeter Hall to protest against the new law, and to take measures for keeping up the strike, Lompon, Dec, 8—Midnight, ‘The bill for a tax of one per cent on incomes, to defray the expenses of the Abyssinian war, passed the House of Commons to-night. Parliament will adjourn on the 7th inst. No additional particulars of the cyclone at Bombay have been received. The meeting of the cabmen at Exeter Hall to-night was a vory large one. Another meeting was held at the same time in Trafalgar square. Many speeches be made, and resolutions were enthusiastically id @: determination not to submit to tl ion and to persist in the strike uniil tho la’ ished, The movement creates quite a social eras in a city, Adespatch from Gibraltar announces the arrival at that fortress of Admiral Farragut and the United States squadron under his command, IRELAND. Capture of a Prominent Fenian. Loypox, Deo, 3, 1967. A despatch has been received in this city to-day from Sligo, Ireland, announcing that the notorious Fenian General Nagle was captured in that city late last even- ing by the police authorities. INDIA. A Disastrous Cyclone at Bombay. Loxpox, Dec. 3—Evening, Telegraphic despatches from India report that a dis- astrous cyclone had visited Bombay and vicinity, In the city many houses were demolished, and the crops in the surronading country were Kompass the co bo. ing swe} hae ores i dons to ahip- ping. uaa he were a The scanty details so far received make no mention of disasters to American shipping, VIRGINIA. The Constitutional Convention. [From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Wasuimaton, Dec. 3, 1867, Thave just received the following from Richmond; ‘The Constitutional Convention met this morning at ten o'clock. The house was called to order by Mr. Platte, Of Petersburg, and, on his motion Colonel D, B. White, of Elizabeth City county, was appointed chairman. The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. J. .N, Mitchell, “On motion of Mr. Porter, of Chester- field, J. W. Bland, colored, of Prinee Edwards, was appointed secretary. Mr. Whitelsey, of Alexandria, was be assistant secretary. the roll was then called on motion of Mr. Porter, and it was found that only eight delegates were absent. A motion of M:. eee cco & committee of three be appointed to inform eral Schofield that a tem- porary organization of the committee had been offected to ask when he had any orders for its consideration—was not entertained. The Convention then adjourned until twolve o'clock to-morrow. As soon asa ent organization is effected Gene ae Schofield will send a letter to the Convention inform- ing that body that it will be their duty to decide as to ihe eligibility of members to seats, and to be the Judges In all cases of ailoged frauds—tho pen the of ciding in cases of this kind does not rest with The Radical Caucus. Ricamoxp, Dec. 3, 1867. In the radical caucus to-night Underwood received thirty-three votes for President, Bowden fifteen and Hawxharst nine, George Ryo is unanimously nominated for secretary. This will socure Underwood's election. ALABAMA. #5 The Convention bas Cb rohan The members a a insulting, vention passed an ordinant ee eso wen real rty and @ homesiond thet the milit Passed by fee Ceaveaiions “Louisiana. Order of General Hancoc! R i meuithe Hee ans, Doc, 3, 1867, ‘The following order Bot ee by General Hancock :— SPRCIAL ORDERS—NO. on Hrapquactens, Fiera Miu, at Desert} nw ORLEANS, Deo. A. Cazabat ie horeb ited Judge of the Second Judicial District Court of Louisiana. Lieutenant Colonel William H. Wood, First United States infan' Ld Snees unnecessary dolay, relieve Sie ath tt tiea trees tofeatey, fr fom dunt | quotations nl ates dai strict of Louisiana, embract stave reqelred, Broves Mejor vor jor Sine coed eee on 3 il “tL cetsieen, rs ‘be established at Green command Majer ee Se L @, Mirowsit, Acting abstians aajen Adjatant General. Ia the Convention to-day resolutions were offered to establish the seat of government at Baton Rouge, em. pone the con ol late t build A resolution was offered fixing a day's work at eight hours, and fixing an tne re guarant Seale ‘per cent on all collections, Ticlann three vit [t was laid over under the rule, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Election Still Doubtfal—Milltary Regus lation of the State Taxes. Cuanuastox, 8, 0., Dec, 3, 1867. Further returns from the State election leave the result {9 doubt as to the success or defeat of the con- vention, The rosuit is ci decided b; ee cn teennr a8 ae his order sg = ~ renooert ot State organizations during the cur DICKENS IN BOSTON. _ SPECIAL TELEGRAM T0 THE HERALD, Mr. Dickens’ Second Hending at the Tremont Temple. 1 Mr. Dickens’ second reading was given this evening, On this occasion the sudience the happiness ta world bas hed Printed of tbeir acts and thoughts; evening they were actually present, will in fature be known and remembered more by those — traits of voice, manner and grimace, that were an actual experience of tho senses, than by the more elaborate pictures of them in the chronicles of theit lives, Taken altogether, perhaps Copperfield is the most successful of the pieces read. It is the one with the larger range of apeapstey: te it, In the others the ior and the thost Un the gaat clase peouliari Copperfield 19 80 broadly natural that will be tat oty will be dashing wherevor there are homes and lovers. iniseu ceacarear cee ton cule who haere themselves very and ee Ay eeu! ou ee sae fete history, the impression, thor not demonstrat was Boveri! deop. David's finnee and his had the first effect of the liv. ‘ort, wi icawber's declaration that she would never desert Mr. been th given as it was with what could not but nave HE faithful creature’s ” Bc: gee air and awakened laughter that cl way every Cloud’ from” the ‘bill “atmospnere of Boston taste, ot ta Obwervable that a Boston audience takes at for granted, Other pesene would lets man from bis reputation ; this audience gow dsg ached him to start even, and make bi bis reputation under its very eyes. He does it, too, and thi 18 triumph is all the greater, and Sirthe coe penis ively the triumph of his art and skill as 8 reader, and not of his name asa writer. The house was ctowded with the beauty, fashion and culture of the city—an audience much aalsber in tone and siyle than metropolitan audiences universally aro, CALIFORNIA, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Sandwich Telande. Saw Francrsoo, Deo, 8, The report of the committee appointed by seasion ; third, that a the only the object desired; fourth, commerce ol Paoiflo coast and of the Ninited. States will be: banedted immediately and largely by such a treaty. MISSOURI. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. Fatal Accident—Chrisman, the Murderer, Sr. Loui, Deo, 8, 1867, A horrible accident happened at an early hour thie morning. A Frenchman, named Josoph Labe, while under the effects of liquor, fell from a three pete corner of Broadway aud FAS eae Se tantly killed. He had been 7 hich characterized him during the trie). He is in- credulous as to being banged, and thinks his sentence will be commuted though the Governor bas declined to interfere, He denies the murder, = the evidence was overwhelming, and says the 7 deed. entered the house and committed the Preparations nearly pleted. ie for the execution are CANADA. American Silver as a Legal Tender. Orrawa, Deo. 3, 1867. Notice was given in the House last night that a resolu- tion would be moved to-day favoring the use of Ameri- can silver as a legal tender, Marine Disasters Near Quebec—Fields of Ico in the St. Charles River. Quasro, Dec. 3, 1867. The ships Stratharon and Canada wero considerably Gamaged by ice during their passage from Montreal. The Stratharon will winter hero, and tho Canada at Throe Rivers, The steamer Nova Scotian carried her eS to ao. being unable to effect a landing at Fathor Point on account of the storm. Port Cotnorne, Deo, 3, 1867. The schooners New Dominion and t Davy have Olied with water, and will be a total loss. MASSACHUSETTS. The Proposed Anti-impeachment Meeting at Boston. Boston, Dec, 3, 1867, The anti-impeachmont moeting which was to have been held at Faneuil Hall to-morrow night bas been postponed, because the sentiment of New Engiand is so unanimous that it seems needless, and because the has fully expressed that (sentiment. The move- eens was controlied by earnest republicans, such as Governor Bullock, Mr, H. Rice, Gardner Brewor and Willian Whiting. If neo’ the meeting will be held and will be a monster ing. MICHIGAN. Supposed Loss of a Schooner on Lake On tarlo. Oswaao, Deo. 3, 1867. The schooner Hastings, Chalmers master, from Cleve- “land for this port, with coal, was out in the late gale on Lake Ontario, and as nothing has been heard from her since then it is feared she ts lost, with all on board. NEW YORK. Canal Navigation. Bcuenactapr, Deo. 8, 1867, About eighty boats are on the cana! level at tnis place, They have been passed through as fast as possible, but the work at best is very slow. It takes halfan hour ta Gatae bits” esd aS Gok ‘Gee Oe a 10 duct to Troy. os EUROPEAN MARKETS, xy Tae Loxpow Mower Sankar, —Loxox, Deo, 8—Even- ing.—Console closed at 934, ex dividend, for monoy, American securities—The following are the closing rates: —United States five-twentios, 1h ; Contrals, Sh Fesanrone Bovuse, PE sites Dec, 3—Evea- Y bins States bonds cloned at 10%¢ for the lnave of Livenreot Corros Manner, — Eaten A pomp ery en gn pep gm pa ha age sg al but cotton to arrive ere the Lon oe bay oe! VERPOOL Baeapstcrrs MaRKet.—Corn closed rather peter or at ata, Od, for new mixed Western. Peas dull at unchanged. einer Ce tara JUS Fk ng. —Beef er at 3 | eee Pork 708, Lard 490, Cheese 62s. Manger. —| 480. 64, Barioy, oats and wheat bi. Bacon "one MARINE NEWS, ateanip’ Dettoshiend; Capsas onan nich ‘wich et Rew Ye he Bist of be "~The Chicago, Oaptain | ot line, whieh Wat new Tek ce tee — arrived here to-day, on the way (0 Deo. 8.—The Inman of Quaaxetows, Baltimore, Captain McGui a ‘23d ult,, touched at to Liverpool,’ Cranaow, Deo. 9.—The steamed pa Snep strived ts the Clyde. Dieasrer at Sua. — , Deo, 8.—Ths ship G, al Teds Sena heat Livesgost ts dan Preacton, ‘bas put beck te ore, Lit argo TY pe ee yi on