The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1867, Page 4

,' NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addresshd New York Herawp. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 17 Volume XXXII. AMUSE OLYMPIC THEATRE, Minscmmer Dicur's Dewan. WALLACR'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — ‘Town axp Counrny. a ey BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticxet ov Leave M AK. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteeath streot—Tas Granp Ducisss. rts BOWERY THEATRE, wery,—Heart oy me GREAT Crry—Tuxn Ha Our MAN STADT TH. . 45 and 47 Bowery.— Ack Cnoos. opposits New York Hotel. ACAD Fourteenth street.—Gorpen Buanou. MUSIC, STEINWAY HALL ENS’ Reapinas. NEW YORK CIRC! Street, —Granastics, Equesteianis: PIFTA AV Nos. 2 aud 4 West 2th siroe,—Ye GRAND QuREN Bi E COMIQ 514 Brosdway.—Wusre, v's MNsT Corrox 585 Broadway.—Ermio- G AND BURLESQUES. TOD STC Vocatism, Neox BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baru, Faunce, Pantone, & BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street—Tur | Piven. DODWORTA 1 as, wernt Lecron HOOLEY'S OPERA Hc Minstauisy, BaLLaDs ap Bu 806 Broadway. —Camicaroxe Part. Brooklya,—Eruioriay QUES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScrueNcR AND Ant, Friday, December 1 THH NBWS. ee EEE Eee: ~ EUROPE. The news reported by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, December 12. Tho London Times thinks that the financial diMculties of the United States are “extrome,”’ but that the people will not sanction the payment of the bonds in paper, ‘The session of the North German Parliament is closed. ‘The Spanish government bas abolishod the impost duties on all articles required for tho relief of Porto Rio, Several British soldiers who marched with the Fenian funeral procession in Dublin bave been arrested and will be tried by court martial, Despatches from Ireland state that the island is unasually agitated by theeo funoral displaya, at which “multitudes” tarn out wearing the national colors, The Fenian fanoruls have boon declared geditious by government proclamation and prohibited. ve Consols closed at 927% for money in London, Five- twenties were at T13¢ in London and 75}4 in Frankfort. ‘The feeling on the Paris Bourse was quite strong. The bollion inthe Bank of England decreased £53,000 on the week. ‘The Liverpool cotton market declined one-eighth of a penny tor American, but was active, with middimg up- jands at 73; Breadstutfs and provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill relative to the pro- coeds of captured and abandoned property was taken up, and pending disew upon it the morning hour red. Mr, Dra resolution cousuring the Presi- was then taken up, and Mr. Jobnsoa, of Maryland, in opposition +o it, It was finally postponed until Monday, The House resotation providing for a recess luring the holidays was lost. Communications were re- ceived from the President containing his reasons for nding Secretary Stanton and the papors in Fitz Joln Horter's ease. ‘The oon aftor adjourned. In the House, after numorous resolutions of minor | amportanes were acted upon, Mr. Maynard offered | one of inquiry into tbe expediency of providing that diplomatic re ations of the government at Hayti nd shall 4 from citizeus of African It was referred. A resolution of inquiry into the expediency of reducing the army to # pence establishment was adopied, but as the pre ambie was supposed to contain a reflection on General Grant it was reconsidered, and, tho objectionable feature being stricken out, was again adopted. A resolution of inquiry into the expediency of exempting from tax all incomes not exceeding $2,500 was adopted. A resolution directing the Com- missioner of Internal Revenue to report why the super- visors of the scheme known as the Gettysburg Asylum for Invalid Soldiers have been exempted from the pay- of duty as lottery deslors was also adopted; ant the House adjourned until to-day, which wit! be devoted lo discassion in committee of the whole. THE CITY. The terrific snow storm which visited thle city and vicinity yesterday extended all over the country. The city car routes were so blocked up as to render maviga- tion dificult and irreguiar, and the trains op most of the rasiroads leading to the city were delayed. A commupication was yesterday submitted to the Board of Commissioners and Charities by Peter Cooper, on behalf of the Citizens’ Association, asking the ap- porntment of a committee to confer with the association in relaton to the sum the Board will require for the coming year, and with @ view to reduction of the same the lowes: possible Ngure and thereby aid in reducing tho aggregate of taxes for the coming year. A reply was ordered to be sent that the estknaic of expenses had already been sent to the Comptroiler; bat expressing a ‘illingnoss ‘o make any explanations in the case that may be required, ‘The Board of City Canvassers completed heir can- vase of the returns of the Iate charter election yester- day. On Monday the oijieial announcement of the result will be made. Full returns of votes for councy- men in some of the districts not having been made, a resolution was passed asking the op!uion of the Counsel lo the Corporation ag to the duties and powers of the Board in the premises, Both Hoards of the City Council met yesterday, The proceedings, which are oi imporiavoe, will be found in another colaran this morning. Sam Sharpley, or rather Sharpe, was taken before Justioe Dodge yesterday, and a motion to admit to ball was refused, There continues to be great excitement among the members of tho various minstrel troupes relative to the shooting affray of Wednesday afternoon. Kelly ts doing well, considering the naturo of bis wound An inquest was held yesterday upon the body of David Moore, who was killed in the Fourth ward on Wednesday night. A vordict was rendered charging James Griffin, » sailor, who is in custody, with the ‘wurder, ‘An inquest was hetd yesterday in the case of Mre land her daughter Jennie, the victims io the myr- out poisoning case In Atiantic stroct, Brookiye. The tetimony weet % show that Price, the prisoner, way fu tho habit of vieWog Mre. Fall, and that he was di- Yorced from his Wife. The investigation was postponed until Monday, In the Canadian wool caye yesterday, wherein eighty+ six bales of wool seized by the go for alieged vader valuation are involved, a verdict for tbe govern. ment was returned, In the case of two packages of military gauntiets Seized om board a New Orleans steamer as contraband of war im 1863, Juage Bintonford yesterday decided ‘hat the articles were contraband. The case is still on, Jona V. Donovan charged with causing the dont of © select ‘SE, 201 Bowery.—Comic | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1867. Christian Kretzer, by pushing him, ip an intoxicated condition, off the sidewalk, so that he fell upon the curbstone and fractured his skull, was yosterday ac- quitted im the Court of General Sessions The General ‘Transatianti¢ Company's steamship Poreire, Captain Duchesne, will sail at nine o'clock to-morrow morning for Brest and Havre, The mails Will close at the Post Ofce at seven A. M. The splendid now steamship France, Captain Grace, belonging to the National line, will leave pier 47 North river at noon to-morrow for Liverpool, touching at Queevstown to land passengers, &c. The Anchor line steamship United Kingdom, Captain Donaldson, will sail from pier No, 6 North River, at noos to-morrow, for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, ‘The North American Steamship Company's steamship Santiago de Guba, Captain J, W, Smith, will sail from pier 29 North River, at noon to-morrow (Saturday), for San Francisco, connecting at Panama with the new and jast steamship Oregonian, Captain Sutton, The Cromwell ne steamshrp General Grant, Captain Holmes, will sail from pier No. 9 North River, at three P. M. to-morrow, for New Orleans direct. The fine sidewheel steamship San Satvador, Captain | Nickerson, will leave pier 1% North River, punctually, at three P, M. to-morrow, forSavannah, connecting with steamer to Florida ports, &e. The stock market was firm yesterday. Government | securities were dull, Gold was wank, and closed at 13334. Consequent upon the severe snow storm almost #/] of tho markets were excessively dull and depressed, and prices were generally lower. MISCELLANEOUS. By special cable telegrams from Havana wo have news from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, St. Thomas and St. Domingo, The Mexican ministry wi waiting the or- ganization of Congress to resign. Shocks of earthquake were felt in Guatemala and Venezuela, There were rumors in St, Domingo that negotiations for tho sale of Samana had been renewed, The Island of St, Thomas will bo transferred to the United States on the Ist of January, Admiral Palmer and the Governor of St Thomas were at Jamaica, In the Conservative Convention at Richmond, yes. terday, resolutions wore adopted declaring this to bo white man’s government and guaranteeing the per- formance of her constitutional duties on the part of Vir- ginia on her restoration to the Union. In the Constitutional Con jon yesterday Colonel Pmmons Clark’s offer of th enth Regimont Armory for tho use of the Convention was declined with thanks, and the resolution favoring the securing of a hall in | Albany was adopted, A resolution to adjourn on the | 20th sine die, was laid on the table, Pending further | consideration of the report on the Judiciary relative to the organization of the Supreme Court, the Convention adjourned, LY The Alabama Union Loyal Leagee of Montgomery protest against the adoption of the new constitution proposed by the Convention a ground that it is too radical in its provisions. The number of homicides that have ocourred recently throughout the country would seem to indicate that crime is now holding a high carmival, Aman and his two children wero killed, and his wife badly wounded, near Alton, Til, on Monday, by two men supposed to bo negroes. One of the alleged murderers was ar- rested in St. Louis yesterday, An Irishwoman named Mary Shea was murdered by her stepson, John Shea, in Springfield, Mass., on Wednesday night A young woman named Johanna More was litorally kicked to death on the same day by her husband, near Gosport, Va. Near Centreville, IL, a man named Wagner was killed recently by his wife, and numerous other homi- cides aro reported from various parts of the country. The United States steamor De Soto, Commodore Boggs, which was reported lost in the hurricane at St. Thomas, arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday with all weil on board. The Republican National Convention—Gen- ern! Grant in Possession. The Republican National Committee (ap- poigted for the purpose by the National Con- vention which nominated President Lincoln for re-election in 1864) met in Washington on the 11th instant, to appoint the time and place for the Repnblican Presidential Convention of 1868. Twenty-three States, each by one mem- ber personally present, were represented. The 20th of May was, without difficulty, agreed | upon as the time, and then, after considerable | debate and balloting, Chicago was adopted as | the place, and the Commitieo have issued their | proclamation accordingly. The question next recurs—Who is to be the candidate of this Convention? Upon this point we think there is something signifi- cant in the fact that the Convention is conceded to Illinois, the State to which Gen- eral Grant belongs. It appears, however, that all doubts as to the candidate of the National Committee were settled by an informal vote In council, in which, it is reported, twenty mem- | bers appeared for General Grant, one for Mr. | Chase (no dowbt Horace Greeley, of New ork), and two seattering. In any event, we er from the recent popular manifestations in ialf of General Grant, and feom his nomina- jt by that powerful republican body, the | Union League Club of Philadelphia, and from” various outgivings of his strong position among the republicans of the National Committee and of Congress, that our present General-in-Chief | will carry the Convention by aévlamation, Mr. Chase, through seven years of active and skilful mancevring, has, with the aid of his national banks and other agéncies of his financial system, secured o pretty firm grip upon the management of the republican périy. But his recent disasters have pro- duced a recoil against him and in favor of | Grant, which, operating upon the masses of the party, will be apt to undo all the labora of the aspiring Chief Justice, in the election of the delegates to the Convention. In short, from present sappearances, he will be shelved at Chicago, in May next, as neatly as he was shelved at Baltimore in 1864, and as decisively as Mr. Seward was disposed of at Chicago in 1860. Excepting the melancholy case of poor old James Buchanan, who at last came in on an alivi, every man who bas thrust himself forward for the White House and persistently pushed his own claims has sigaally failed, either in convention or before the people. In this category we may mention Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Wood- bury, Cass, Douglas, Marcy and Seward. After the 20th of May next Mr. Chase will, im all | probabilily, be added to the list, | In the call for this Convention it is declared | that “each State im the United States is | wuthorized to be represented therein by the | number of delegates equal to twice the number | of Senators and Representatives to which each | State is entitled in the national Congress, The States not represented in Congress will be excluded; bus we presume that most of the ten outside States, if not all of diem, will be reorganized ou the baais of universal negro | suffrage and reinstated in season to be repre- | sented at Chicago. The object, with Graot as the republican candidate, will be not so much the votes of there negro reconstracted States to help him in the election as to clinch | this negro aystem of Southern reorganization, | with the admission of the States concerned upon this footing. This will be a heavy load even for General Grant to carry, but it may possibly be lightened a little before the moath of May or in the platform of the Convention. The radicals in Congress, since the collapse of the impeachment bubble, seem disposed to halt in their mad oareer. and even to retrace their steps to some extent; but they have | shown no signs of any retreat from their | Despite all the present system of Southern negro reconstruc- tion. A few months, or even a few weeks, however, may bring about some wonderful things, We turn to the inquiry, Who will be the candidate of the democracy against General Grant as the republican nominee? Neither Seymour nor Pendleton will answer, and McClellan’s. Richmond campaign against Grant's effectually disposes of the first named chieftain. General Hancock, @ splendid sol- dier, and one who seems, from a certain recent order issued by him at New Orleans, to be decidedly opposed to universal negro equality, is beginning to be discussed as the coming man. Asa Pennsylvanian, too, his nomination would give considerable strength to his party. At any rate, if the batile is to be fought with the great leader of the Union army as the republican captain, the opposition, as in the case of Franklin Pierce, must endeavor in their candidate to divide the honors of the war, at least sufficiently to bring the great political issues of the day into the foreground. Dickéns, Dolby, the Dollars, and “Demaition Public.” There is an authorized portrait maker to his Highness the Lion—so says the lion’s keeper— as we learn from the advertisement in these words :—;“I will guarantee your various like- nesses of Charles Dickens to be the only por- trait for which he has sat or will sit in the United States.” This, signed by Dolby, is associated with a mercenary intimation that the “trade will be supplied at the usual dis- count,” just as in pickled mackerel or mouldy cheese. All other portrais makers, therefore, are warned away. There are man traps and spring guns and other contrivances of polite life and attendants upon literary greatness that will turn up suddenly or be brought to bear at any distance if poachers violate the vermilion edict of Dolby.- Alas for the pho- tographers who are out in the cold in this bad weather! Alas for the artists with their big plates roady, their mighty lenses lev- elled, and the collodion and the nitrate of silver that even in the glass stoppered bottles ache to feel the shadow of genius! Alas for these artists ruthlessly forbidden to meddle with that face, notified that those eyes have been secured for the special use of an authorized establishment; that those locks are “private,” like the first dish of green peas at a hotel table, and that that jaw is subject to contract ! We know not if the sun will be per- mitted to shine on the novelist, lest it might be in league with opposition photographers; and it is quite certain that if the public buy pic- tures not made by the authorized picture maker it may regard its money as thrown away ; for one condition of the contract cer- tainly must be that Dickens has bound himself never more to look like any pictures hitherto taken. Does any one suppose that a man of his imagination and versatility is to be con- trolled in his features by the five hundred photographs of him already in existence ? The intimation in regard to the novelist’s face hav- ing been bought—as to an enterprising pho- tographer having been permitted to secure a property in the great man’s very shadow— throws a flood of light upon the relations be- tween Dickens, Dolby and the “demnition public.” Once Dickens came to see the .coun- try, and the people, with more enthusiasm than good manners, rushed to see him. Genius was at once honored and bored in his person. He wes honored “bere by gentlemen of high character and station as he had not been at home ; and it was a little odd that Americans should so honor literature in Dickens when we had never gone much ont of our way to honor it in any of our own countrymen, But there was one point we failed in. Our demonstrations had no money in thom. Dickens wanted to secure a copyright law that would enable him to get fifty cents or a dollar ov every copy of his books sold in this coun- try. He did not get that, and what did he care for all the rest? He did not want admira- tion, nor civility, nor friendship. He wanted our money. As to sympathy with his philan- thropic spirit—pah! He couldn’t hear it jingle. As to our love for the artist whose creations had moved our souls—could he spend that? What would that buy in London? All sentiment was mere leather and pranella to s man who wanted what he could make out of us in hard cash. So he went home and filled his pockets with the price of a book that, as it panderod strongly to all the English prejudices against this country, of course sold well. He did not get his money through copyright, but he got a good sum through round abuse of the people who refused the copyright; and that did nearly as well. Now he comes again, but only as part of an arrangement openly and honestly organized on the money getting basi«. He is in the hands of Dolby, that his tame may be turned into coin. Dickens is apparently to stand aside and seem to do the digtlty—not to be mixed up with filthy lucre—and Dolby is to chaffer over the price. Hence we have Dolby’s name to the announcement that the bighest bidder has secured the lion’s shadow. We shall hear soon what barber bas clipped his mane, that the young ladies may know where to apply for a precious bit of hair. We shall have a pronunciamiento that only one hotel hes the keeping of Dickens, and that he takes bis amusement only at one theatre. By these pro- cesses he may be made to produce the utmost cent, dividing profits with the happy photo- gtapher and the caterers. There is a point on which Dickens and Dolby should not be mis- understood. Dickens, having appeared to be disgusted at the way he was bored on the for- mer visit, may induce people to leave him alone now. This would be a great mistake and a great disappointment. In that day the bores did not pay. Now they do, eo let them come on. Money is what is wanted, and let it jake any shape, it will be welcome. the Mexico-The Durange Rising a Canard, Somelimes the press telegrams are correet; sometimes they are ridiculous, A fow days ago we were informed by the Associated Press that the province of Durango was in open te- bellion, that it threatened to areume it proportions, and was aciually porilous to future of Mexico. Our special telegram of the same date was silent regarding Durango. We doubted the correciness of the press. In yesterday's Henaro we printed @ dexpaich from Havana which shows that D ts hopefully progressing, and which positively declares the Durango revolution to be 8 canard, The Great Snew Storm. of the weatherwise that the present would prove a mild winter, the threats of Wednesday in the chilly air and the aspect of the clouds and the direction of the wind, were yesterday fulfilled by @ snow storm which forebodes s winter of extraordinary severity. Our telegraphic weather reports announced that at nine o’clock yesterday morning it was raining at Richmond, that heavy sleet was falling at Washington, that snow and rain were commingled at Wilmington, in Delaware ; that it was snowing at Philadelphia as well as in New York, that it was cloudy at Boston and Portland and clear at Port Hood. In this city the snow was falling lightly at one o’clock in the morning, with a gentle breeze from the northeast, which increased toa gale by ten o’clock, when the snow fell thick and fast, seriously impeding travel and bringing business almost to a standstill, The tracks of the city railways were cleared by the ald of snow ploughs; four horses and two drivers were ‘put on each car, and during the greater part of the day the ears, although reduced in number, made their usual time. Stages, backs und drays moved with great difficulty, horses | frequently slipping and falling in a way the most distressing to the sensitive Mr. Bergh. Pedestrians found the streets difficult to travel, and several persons were run over, narrowly escaping with their lives, Scarcely a lady was to be seen on Broadway ; indeed, an army of “street soldiers” would have been invisible at the distance of a block. -The wagons of express companies, especially those which were overloaded, and all heavy teams could scarcely move, The ferryboats arrived punc- tually only throughout the earlier part of the day. All the Sound boats except the Newport boat were in on time, The railroad trains from Philadelphia and elsewhere came in safely and on time during tie early portion of the day, but in the evening they were all delayed. The furious wind that drove the blinding snow through the air and along the ground spoiled the prospect of an immediate sleighing carnival. The ground was left almost bare in many spots, while in others the snow was drifted into formidable heaps. We trust that the police will remind householders and storekeopers of their duty to have the snow xe- moved at once from the sidewalks in front of their premises. This duty often seems to be especially neglected in front of government buildings, When shall we reach so high a degree of civilizaiion as to bave—as the Pa- risians have, for instance, along the Rue de Rivoli—miles of covered sidewalks? The aggregate sum wasted in spoiled ambrellas, overcoats, overshoos, &c., within a few months in New York would suffice to build piazzas on both sides of Broadway throughout its entire length. “As we have intimated, many signs, includ- ing the alleged approach of the Gulf Stream towards our const, were relied upon by the weatherwise as infallibly predicting that the winter of 1867-68 would be mild. But the snow storm of yesterday apparently contra- dicts all these signs, and adds its testimony to that of the recent hurricanes in the West Indies in favor of a general disturbance and confusion of the elements of nature. The sudden advent of winter, with all its rigors, cannot fail to remind the rich, in the midst of their com-, forts, of their duties to the poor, who are exposed to suffering during this inclement season. Deadly Wenpons—“ Order Reigns in War- saw? é Our readers are familiar with the facts of the shooting and murder done in Broadway on‘ Wednesday, therefore we will not recapitulate them. Butwe desire here to express our fullest condemnation of the practice which led to this double shooting and one murder—the practice pursued by men dwelling in a civilized com- munity, and devoted themselves to peaceful pursuits, carrying deadly weapons concealed on their persons. There was a great turmoil on Broadway during the scene in which Tom Sharpley lost his life so suddenly. Tho street was filled with women and children, the lives of all of whom were exposed to imminent danger; there were a few angry words, an exchange of blows, two pistol shots, and one man was carried off a bloody corpse into the vestibule of a theatre, and another, with a bullet in his brain, to the station house. For & few moments only the scene of conflict and death lasted, and then “order reigned in War- saw.” Blood had wiped out angry passions, a victim lay bleeding in the gutter, and another scene illustrative of the pernicious practice of carrying concealed weapons had been enacted. We have no intention to prejudge this case, There may have been no malice preceding the act which sent Sharpley to his account, and much shame and remorse may follow it; but we confess it is somewhat singular that these men, engaged as they are in a business more or less artistic, subject nightly to the influences of music, which are supposed, according to mythology and poetry, to exercise a refining effect even upon brutes—men who were cater- ing for the public amusement—should go armed in the streets like bandita, These men are not reputed bullies. On the contrary, they are regarded as good citizens; and herein les the mischief of this practice against which public condemnation cannot be too strongly or too iftly hurled. Society has come to that pass that when a strong ruffian attacks a weak one, and a third or a fourth ruffian comes into the mélie, the party which is getting the worst in the physical contest resorts at once to the pistol, regardless of the safety of any one who may be within range of the bullet. Now, such being incontestibly the fact, what is the law of the matter? Is it legal or is it not to carry concealed weapons? We think the law is very explicit which guarantees the right to every citizen to bear arms; but be muet carry his sword openly upon his thigh or his musket op bis ehoulder, like 4 man. ‘There is no law that justities him in carrying « pistol, a dagger, of a slung shot concealed, like a bravo. But, av/ortunately, we have touched that paftt in this community when law is wholly disre- garded ond liwteasnees has come to be wor shipped ag an idol. Is it not time, therefore, to pull thie idol down? Shall we not bave an upheaving of public sentiment that will compel the due obscrvance of the laws which are sap 1 posed to protect baman life and eheck men in | making ® petty quarrel the occasion of a | hideous murder! : ‘This Sharpley and Kelly affray was not the only bloody one recorded on that day. Two sailors got into ® quarrel in Cherry sireet, and one drew a pistol and killed the other instantly. There may be some license given to the hot blood of passion, and in both these cases there may have been injuries to resent, whether real or fancied; but it is certain that had there been no deadly weapons on the persons of the parties implicated there would have been no foul murder done either in the aristocratic precincts of Broadway and Fifth avenue or in the democratic purlieus of the Fourth ward. This is just the point we want to make. The President’s Message in ‘England. President Johnson’s Message to Congress, as reporied by the Atlantic cable in London, elicited universal comment from the English press, and has evidently produced a very marked effect on the British public. We judge that its effect has been decided from the fact that the London Times appears to have adopted an editorial system of continuous daily com- ment with regard to it, and assumed not only the office of censor of the Message, but also that of advisor of the American people as to low they should regard it at home. In its first expression the London Times la- mented our polilical fate in having sucha Chief Magistrate as Mr, Johnson, and appeared to sigh for the consequences likely to ensue to our country from his administration of the government. A day or two afterwards the writer deigned to publish his approval of the action of Congress on the impeachment ques- tion, informing his readers that the American representatives had thus reopened a “ course of practical legislation.” This little gleam of com- fort to the London Times was almost immedi- ately clouded, however, and, strange to say, again by Mr. Jobnson’s appearance; for the editorial concludes with the inference that “ the President will accept the action of the House as a néw endorsement of his policy, and from this allhopes of a sound reconstruction must be deferred.” On the 11th instant the London Times re- viewed the paragraph of the Message which refers to the rights of American citizens when travelling in foreign countries, and hastened to pronounce the consoling fact that the news- paper corporation in Printing House square “has no hesitancy in counselling the accept- ance by the American people of Mr. Johnson’s views onthe question of citizenship.” We published this wonderful intelligence in the HeEraLp yesterday morning, and presume that the people.of the United States breathe more freely’ and experience more joyous anticipa- tions of Christmas from the knowledge so con- veyed. Speaking seriously, we cannot understand why the London Times is so exercised respect- ing our governmental affairs. We respect the legitimate comment of the foreign press on our system of rule, but beg to assure the editors that the American people are’ themselves the best judgés of its consequence. We have a good many things to complain of, but we can, and |, will, right them all at the ballot box. It is not very likely that our people will, in the mean- time, pay much attention to the sympatbizing paragraphs of the London Times. They have bad almost enough advice from that quarter; and if it had been equally unheeded here in former years perhaps the necessity for the present would not exist. The people of Great Britain who flock to our shores by tens of thousands afford by their presence among us a much more valuable evidence of how our republican form of government is estimated in England than can fifty articles from the London Times. . Senator Wilson in Virginia. Senator Wilson seems to have, or to imagine that he has, a roving com- mission as a sort of political bishop in partibus. Not long ago he “swung round the circle” in the South, speaking everywhere as “one having authority.” On Tuesday night he turned up again in the South with a speech before the republican caucus at Richmond: He condescendingly said in this speech that “he favored extending the franchise to the South- ern States rather than curtailing it.” He added that he had come from Washington—where it is generally supposed that his constituents had sent him to attend to his duties as a Massa- chusetts Senator—to Richmond, in order to look after the Conservative Convention, but. that “he found, after all the talk about republican secret leagues, that this convention was not open to him.” No person is admitted to this convention without a ticket, which it might not have been impossible for the Senator to obtain. But he appears to have been surprised that he was not formally invited to intermeddie with its counsels as he intermeddles with reconstruc- tion conventions. Now, who has authorized the Senator from Massachusetts to interfere either with radical or conservative conventions in the Southern States? And, if unauthorized, who shall deny that his fhterference is ex- tremely impertinent? It is obvious that in Virginia Senator Wilson forgets that.he is not in Massachusetts. Transfer of the English Prize Ring. English eentiment has suddenly revolted against the brutalities of the prize ring, and Eng)ish law sustained the sentiment, in so far as it put an end to the late projected fight for the championship by arresting Mace and binding -bim over nottofight in England. 0 Mace and Baldwin are both compelled to exercise their muscle in exile. England would have none of them: It fairly cast them out. One of the heroes arrived? in New York by steamer on Wednesday and the othef is announced by the next arrival. Thus we are importing English hardware ins new shape. We will see what kind of « market it will find here. QUARANTINE BOARDING STATION, of the “ Sepoy war” on Staten Island been ina muddle, and there seems to be no prospect of an improvement. The marine hospital grounds, incladmg the boarding station, are advertised to be sold on the 18th instant, with the price limited at $300,000, instead of $850,000, as heretofore asked, and possession to be given on the 1st of May next, the reservation of two years having been removed, Shouid a sale be effected, what will we do for a Quaran- une? ‘The Commissioners are from ual Coney Island, as by 186 ast Log if the presont pro) should be State would ve loft without a station, With the present in- Gications of stcknese, as is known by the several arrivals recently with cholera board, it the ‘authorities, whoever they may be, to look to ft that quarantine affairs b6 80 arranged as that when summer comes, with ite Increasing dangers of sickness, the city will not be left without WJ for any emer- gsucy, should one present FIRE WW MOTT STREET. Petween fv si o'clock Inst evening 4 fire oc- curred ip Singer's sewing machine factory, No. 182 Mott street, The firemen were very promptly at the premises and soon extinguished the fire. The da done by fire aud waser 1s estimated at avons 33,000 wliy tasured, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Preparations for the Transfer of St. Thomas to the United States. Arrival of the Steamer De Soto at Fortress Monroe. Proceedings of the Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana Conventions. ST. DOMINGO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE HERALD. The Samana Sale Boez’s Connection Th ith, Havana, Dee. 11, 1867. By way of Santiago de Cuba we have news from St. Domingo. There were rumors there that negotiations for the sale of Samana had been renewed. Presi- dent Cabral has officially denied any inten- tion on the part of his government to part with any portion of Dominican territory. As the ex- President Baez is said to be short of funds to carry out his filibustering plans against Cabral, partisans of the former report that he is willing to enter into negotiations with any Power that will lend effective aid to his cause. THE PRESS TELEGRAM, Ex-President Baez and the Bay ef Samana— The Baez Filibustering from Curacon. Havana, Dec, 11, 1867. It ig reported that ex-Prosident Baez has offered the Bay of Samana to the United States for a loan of one mullion of doliars in gola. It is also reported that the United States government bas reopened negotiations for the purchase from Baez of the Bay of Samana. The. attempts to organize expeditions in Curacoa against President Cabral have failed for want of funds to Carry them out, ST. THOMAS. SPECIAL TELEC \M TO THE HERALD. Denmark Bids Far. veil tb the People ef St. Thomas—Prepara ‘ons for the Transfer of the Island—The Wrecks at St. Croix. Havana, Dec. 11, 1867. Later advices from St. Thomas have been re- ceived in Santiago. A royal Danish proclamation, couched in the most affectionate terms, has been addressed to the inhabitants of the possessions who are about to be loosed from their allegiance to the Crown by the transference, of the island territory to the United States. The Danish commissioner, lately arrived from Copenhagen, has gone on to Washington. Tt has been arranged that the island of St. Thomas will be delivered over to the United States on the Ist proximo. Admiral Palmer, United States Navy, with the Governor of St. Thomas, have arrived at Jamaica. The Western Packet and Water Witch have been floated off by the divers. GUATEMALA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD, Barthquake and Submersion of Zapadilia Key—Tue, People Drowned. Havana, Dec. 11, 1867. . A passenger who arrived at Batabano on the 10th inat., by the schooner Carmits, from Trujillo, Honduras, reports that severe shocks of earth- “ quake had been {elt on the 26th of November at Isabal, near the Gulf of Dulce. He reports also that the Zapadilla Key in said Gulf had disap- peared, and all the inhabitants were drowned. MEXICO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. The Ministry Anxious to Resign—The Pase del Norte Cabinet bably to be the Suc- cessors—The Ex-Imperialists Deprived of Bente te Conaroee: Fs .vaua, Doo. 11, 1867. Farther details of the news from Mexico by the Georgia have been obtained by your corre- spondent. The Ministry were desirous of resigning, but were retaining their places merely until such time as Congress could be, fully, organized for business. ‘ ! It was expected that President Juarez would renominate the same Cabinet that accompanied} him to Paso del Norte, during the trying days of, the intervention. ‘ Some anxiety 1s created by the move depriving the amnestied imperialists of their seats in Con- gress, after they had been admitted. HONDURAS. ‘SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE WERALS, Election fer Congress. Havana, Dec. 11, 1867. The election for new members of the Legialae ture is to take place on the 18th of December. THE PRESS TELEGRAM. ; An Earthquake and Disappenrance ef Isl- nade Reported. Havana, Dec. 11, 1967. A vessel has arrived from Honduras, reporting om ‘earthquake there and the disappearance of the islande im that neighborhood. JAMAICA. The Weather and Crops in Jamaica. Havana, Dec, 11, 1867. Jamaica is suffering from continual rains, and there i@ ‘much suffering among the planters. HAYTI. . The Border KuMans-Montes Tries Escape—Arrest of Suspected Parties. “ Havama, Dec. Up 1867. 5 Small bands of revolationists are flocking into Hay badly provided with arms and ammunition. An atlompt was recently made by General Montes ta, escape from the custody of President Saluave, but it failed. j Manp parties who are suspected of having been en- gaged in atiempis to get up revolution im Hayti have been arrested by ordor of President Salnave. “VENEZUELA. Shocks of Kurthadake on the Main Land and Among the Islands. Havaya, Deo, 11, 1867. Statements hare been received here that overs shocks, Of earthquake bave been fel: down in Venezuela aod among ali the islands in that vicinity, . CANADA. Preecedings in the House of Commong, Ormawa, Deo, 12, 186% In the House of Commone yesterday the resolutions i Telerence to the Northwest territory came up for Cone, currence, and were carried by a large majority. The Crew of the Untted states Schooner! Corinthian. Mr. F. N. Blake, United Staves Consul lod has directed that aid be turn! the crew of American schooner Corinthian, off Lone Pal nd they will be seat to seit Hemon