The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1867, Page 4

A NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ZAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, YRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth streah—Taur Gusnp Doecumss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Huwarr or rut Great rr_TAMiNg OF TUX 8: NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Biacs On005. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New Yort Hotel.— Unown moe Gascigur, OLYMPIC TIBATRE, Brostway.-A Minsuxxee Dicur's Duras, GERMAN STADT THEA Nos. #5 and «7 Bowery. Crnvatato, 2 WALLACK’S'THEATEE, Broatway and th street. — Tue Rivas, BROADWAY TIUATRE, Broadway.—Dora. STRINWAY HALL.—Caanixs Dicxess' Reapinas, Fourtecath street, —Grenasti¢s, NEW YORK CIRC! Feooxsreianism, £0. FIVTA AVENUE THEATRE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Mth —Ye Gann QurEn Bess. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Wares, Cotrox 2 suagrter's MinsTee.s, "3 MINSTRELS, 7% Broadway.—Somes, ITIES, BURLESQUES, BO. KELLY & dances, Lecunts SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58% Brosdway.—Erato- Pian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING axD BURLESQUES Heres ‘201 Bowery.—Como 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ‘Vocasisa, NecRo MINSTRELSY, RUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRI Broadway.— Bacost, Fancr, Pawtouiae, &, ma ug BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth strest.—Tae Pica. DOPWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway, —Cagioarens Patwr- $xos, wita Lecruse NOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiya.—Brun ‘Wssraeisy, BaLians any BURLESQUES, ah . NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— 1RNCH AND ART. Thureday, December 1 EUROPE ine oews report by the Atlantic cable i dated yester- @ay evening, December 18. ‘The Fealans made an useuccessfal atteimpt te blow ap Que Mlbank prison, London, in which a number of ‘smombers of the Brotherhood are confined, Fenian arms wad ammunition were sexed im different places in ‘Maglaed, The President, with other members of the lrish Reform League, are held for trial for political misdemeanor ie Dublin. | General Menabrea, the Premicr of Italy, enys that ome wilt be acquired by moral force only, Miron Diatasai objecting to the policy of the Ministry, The ‘iussian official journal says that the diplomacy and coarse of France and Austria towards the Eastern ques- Son may endanger the peace of Europe, A more — censorship of the Paris press bas been esiab- ished, { The King of Abyssinia. ts reported to have burned Webra Tabor, one of the ancient capitals and the seat of @ royal residence, in fear of the invasion of the Britiab. 4 Consels closed at 92 9-16 for money in Londen, Five- Rwenties were at 72 in London sad 76}¢ in Frankfort, The Liverpoot cotton market closed at an advance of @ne-cighth of a peney; middliog uplands, in port, rating m 73,¢. Breadstaffs and provisions witheat marked change, The steamship Africa, from Queenstown the Sth of December, arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, and ‘was to sail at three o'clock in the aftermooa for Boston. fam Juam by Great Britain, alter some debate, was adopted, A bill rupplemental to the reeonstruction acts ‘eras referred to the Judiciary Committee, It repeals the ‘plies of $12,067,000, In Commities of the Bpalding addressed the House ou ppower. The President's message relative to eral Hancock was laid on the table and ‘to be printed, Mr. Stevens’ bill amending the eucuction acts ¢0 that a majority only shall be pecessary & carry the election ratifying the constitution proposed av the Southern States was adopted after considerabie dehate, The House then adjoarned. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telograma by the Cuba cable coutain in- teiligonco from Mexico, Jamaica and St. Thomas. The news from Mexico city is dated the 10th inst. cent Juares read his message to Congress on the end was replied to by the Speaker of the House. Gneenage was bighty eulogintic of the people of Varted States for their aid in defeating European vention, The reply of the Hpeaker of the House was of Une same character. He deciared that Mexico would ° fezei bed been liberated. ¢ To Jpmaien o great hue and cry is #till kept up by the Pottifoggers over Sir T. FP, Grant's plan of olipping thelr eppointed at tho policy ef the home government in re- -Tusing to fever Hoathera immigrante. From all indiea- her insular and continents! possessions, as bes jast ‘¢akon place 1a Jamaica and Bolsa, Taesday, December NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 18687. by acclamation, and adopted resolutions endorsing Grant for next President and protesting against the pur- chase of mew territory. In the Goorgis Convention yesterday, the resolution Tequesting General Pope to remove Goversor Jenkins, afer a stormy debate, was adopted. A frighsful railroad accident occurred gear Angola, N. Y., on the Erie Lake Shore Rallread, yesterday after- day afternoon, Two cars were throwa down an embank- ment ifty feet and one of them caught Gre, Forty- eight peraons out of fifty occupying the latter were burned to death, and their remains were #0 blackened and charred thai it was impossible to identify them, A lurge number were also wounded, a list ef whom, as far as it was possible to ascertain their names, is given else- where in te Haxap this morning, | A violent shock of earthquake which shook firm buildings and ratued loose furniture was experienced in Syracuse, Ogdensburg, Utica, Auburn, Burlington, Vt, and throughout Canada yesterday morsing about three o'clock, ‘ The election for a Convention in Texas is ordered for the 10th and i4in of February, inclusive, Gqveral Reynolds, commanding the sub-district of Texus, has ordered that all refugees arriving at Browns- Ville from Mexico be returned to the Mexican authori- ties as deserters, Freedmen iu Alabama are not generally making con- tracts for the coming year, In some sections farmers Fequire them when doing go to sign an agreement also © vote against the constitation. ‘The Erie and Oswego Canals are to be cloged by official order on Friday. A baweer parted on board the City of Paris, lying in the North river, yesterday, and eleven men employed om board were severely wounded, one of them dying afterwards of his injuries, ‘The steamship Chins left Boston for Liverpool yester- day, carrying $220,000 in specie and thirty-three pas- sengera, This is the last Cunarder that will leave Bos- ton, asall the vessels in the line will hereafter ply be- tween New York and Liverpool, ‘The steamer ‘Happho, Captain Lingo, which left New ‘York on the 11th inst, for Wilmington, N. C., was aban- doned om the 14th, in a sinking condition, The crew ‘wore taken off by the brig Stephen Bishop and ianded at Fortress Monroe yesterday. ‘The North German Lioyd’s steamship New York, Cap- tein Dreyer, will sail from Hoboken at noon to day (Thurss day) for Southampton and Bremon. The mails for Great Britain and the Continent will close at the Post Office at balf-past ten this morning. ‘The steamship C, W. Lord, Captain Wanl, of ©, H. Mallory & Co.’s tine, will sail from pier 20 East river to- Gay (Thureday) for Galveston, Texas. The National Finances-A Senatorial De- Jasion. Mr. Sherman, of the Senate Finance Com- mittee, has reported a bill that, if it become a law, will determine some important points in our national finances. It provides for the fanding of the debt, the conversion of the legal tender currency and the settlement of the question of the taxation of public securt ties, It is proposed to fund the debt on bonds, bearing six per cent interest, payable in forty years, and redeemable at the pleasure of the government after ten years. These bonds aro to be exempt from all taxation, State and national; yet, in consideration of this exemption, a certain proportion of the interest is reserved for distribution among the several States, By this course the bill proposes to hold on to the principle of the exemption of government securities from taxation, yet at the same time recogniz> that property should contribute to support the government that gives it safety. These bonds are made con- vertible with legal tender currency, “unless the amount of United States notes outstanding shall be equal to four hundred millions of dol- lars.” With thie bill the committees has sent in lengthy report, the principal point in which is its argument that the five-twenty bonds sbould be paid in gold, because, as the law does not declare the contrary, it must be determined by the precedent estab- lished by the practice of the government hitherto, which has been to pay in coin. The bill makes no mention of the national banks, éxamined. Whatever viow may be taken by Congress as to the continued existence of this system, it is manifest, from the report of the Comptroller of the Currency, that a more equitable distribution of the bonds among the States, and new provisions for reports and for the redemption of their notcs, must be made.” The members of the Finance Committee seem to believe that this bill reflects a “‘com- prehensive policy that will preserve the public faith, restore. confidence to the people and stability to our business interests,” and even “rapidly restore our currency to the standard of gold.” And of all this it would be difficult to convince any one outside the Senate Finance Committee. It is clear that the remedy for the financial difficulties of the country is not to come from that source; and the reason is that these troubles have not their origin in any mere departare from financial laws, but are due to the political condition of the country. Political and financial troubles go together in the United States more than anywhere else, long as the politicians in the interest of wild partisan echemes and President making pur- a E 2 = rt ii A Dendiock on the Alabama Cjaims. Our government and that of England bave come to @desdiock 1 the Alabams claims, 93 all those claims growing out of the depre- dations of the Alabama end other British equipped cruisers during the war are now gene- Tally called. The point at which our Secre- tary of State and the British Minister of For eign Affairs halt and take very ‘ nd is as to the responsibility or not of England arising from recognizing the rebels as:belliger ents at the time she did, and as to the right of raising this question. The claim of our gov- ernment, “that the Queen’s proclamation of 1861, which accorded delligerent rights to insurgents against the authority of the United States, was not justified on any grounds, either of nece:sity or moral rights, and therefore was an act of wrongful intervention, a departure from the obligation of existing treaties, and without the sanction of the law of nations,” lies at the foundation of the whole matter, It we do not base our claims on this ground of responsibility we might as well give them up and say nothing more about thom. - Yet Lord Stanley emphatically refuses to negotiate on this basis. He will not allow the moral respon- sibility, or any other responsibility, to reat on this foundation. Indeed, he says positively, “J have repeatedly stated that her Majesty's government could not consent to refer to » foreign Power to determine whether the policy of her Majosty’s government in recognizing the Confederate States as belligerents was or was not suitable to the circumstances of the time when the negotiation took place.” Again he stys,in another part of his despatch to the British Minister at Washington, that her Majesty’s government cannot depart, directly or indirectly, from its refusal to refer to a foreign Power its policy in recognising the Confederate States as a belligerent Power. This is tho state of the caso, which, as we said, isa deadlock between the two govern- ments. The President, in his Message to Congress, informs that body that he had declined the proposition of arbitration made by Bngland, with the limitations and reservations to which we have referred. He said, also, that “it is not to be apprehended that Great Britain will persist in her refusal to satisfy these just and reasonable claims, which involve the sacred principle of non-intervention.” Here, then, again, it is evident our government regards this intervention—this according of belligerent rights to rebels against a friendly Power—as lying at the bottom of these claims—a question which Lord Stanley positively refuses to admit in the discussion. Under this state of the case who is to back down—Lord Stanley or Mr. Seward—Great Britain or the United States? It is not at all likely this country will recede from the important principle it has laid down as the basis of arbitration and settlement If England should persist in the position she has taken the time may not be far off when we may take Canada as a guarantee, or British property on the ocean, for payment of the claims. The Horrors ef Tenement Henses. The fearful results of the tenement house disaster in Second avenue are fresh in all our bouses will attain some idea of humanity. ‘The State of Affaire in Chile. The letter of our special correspondent at Val- of the allied republics docs not meet with much favor, but the heart of the republic is declared of the , but of the H Hr The President’s Message. “Here we are again, Mr. Merryman!” The President, yesterday sent a message to Con gress to give that body, for some wise reasone of his own, his views on the life and. character of George Washington. He said “the strong- est claim of Washington to be first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen is founded on the great fact that in all hig illustrious career he scrupulously ab- stained from violating the legal and constity- tional rights of his fellow citizens.” In all this Mr. Johnson seems to have ‘an idea that Con- gressmen are quite unlike the Father of his Country, but that General Hancock, Com- mander of the Fifth Military District, bears such wonderful resemblance to the great man that the historian of a thousand years hence may be unable te distinguish between the two. The special reason for telling Congress all this at the present time seems to be that the General bas issued an order in which his in- tention to do his duty is boldly declared. Mr. Johnson suggests that Congress should make the General some compliment for this, which would seem to imply that in the President's opinion General Hancock is the first United States offtcer that ever did his duty, or ever declared his intention to do it in agreeable terms. Somebody should save General cock, from his friends, n An Earthquake Near Home. Our news columns to-day contain the start- ling announcement of an earthquake felt all across the northern part of this State and in Vermont and Canada, The extent of area in which the disturbance was felt is indicated by the fact that our despatches are from such limits as Syracuse, in this State; Burlington, in Vermont, and Montreal Assuming the trath of the theory that regards the whole centre of the globe as still liquid with original heat, and our habitable crust as bearing to the whole mass some such proportion as the equatorial regions bas seemed to ex- press a law of naturé in that regard, and has given s feeling of security from such terrors to the inhabitants of our zone. But it is pro- bable that the presont disturbance in the physi- Hin 5 i : il t a z i if jealous ; for the wealth of the West will nata- rally, whon our great railway system is per- | fected, find its way to this city, which, with the commerce of the Atlantic om the one hand and the growing commerce of the Pacific i on the other, must atno distant day be another | i General Grant’s Private Lotter. That famous private letter of General Grant to the President remonstrating against the re- moval of Stanton and. Sheridan is out at lest, and it seems that the radicals in Congress are pleased with it, as far asit gocs. The letter shows, however, that General Grant, in dipping into party politics, is out of his proper element, ‘and that as a political prophet he is not infalli- ble. Butagain, this letter, together witb his en- dorsement upon one of Sheridaa’s letters from New Orleans, describing the atrocious doings of the unreconstracted rebels of Texas, will, we dare say, serve to settle all doubts as to General Grant’s adhesion to Congress, and his availability for the Presidency as the republi- ean candidate. We may, therefore, consider his nomination by the Republican National Convention as a foregone conclusion ; and the politicians on all sides may just as well begin at once to shape their plans accordingly. The Brookiya Mystery. As the: inquest in the caso of the death of | Mrs. Fall and her daughter in Atlantio street, Brooklyn, progresses, the mystery acems to grow thicker and darker. So far from the tes- timony throwing any light upon the cause of the death of these two unfortunates, it appears | to have wrapped itin more obscurity. No point has yet been reached showing any motive, except it be found in the woman her- self, to bring her to her death. That she craved for a release from troubles “known only to herself and God,” as expressed in con- versation with her acquaintances, has indeed been sworn to. The range of testimony has been wide and not always to the point, Minute details of the connection between the deceased and the father and mother of the accused, even to the delicate subject of what they ate occasionally for breakfast, have been furnished, and various other facts, of-a more delicate nature, were very carefully eluci- dated; but the main point as to the party who committed the crime, or the motive for the crime, which, in crimiaal jurisprudence, is an essential issue, has not been reached, and, from the mode in which the inquest is con- ducted we very mach doubt whether it will be. Hence the latest Brooklyn tragedy will probably remain a mystery unless the intelli- gence of the coroner’s jury baffles the astute- ness of the lawyers. Radicaliom Still Rampant. Thad Stevens’ Reconstruction bill yesterday passed the House. The first section of this bill changes an important clause in the former Reconstruction laws, so a3 to put more power in the bands ef the negroes. As the Recon- struction laws stand the constitutions that are « Acnot im the simple Jacksonian ultimatum of indemnity or reprisals—tho cash. or the i init 3s g F E Pie t I tr i iy? Ff | i I ie : Hf 4 if i E F ii iF i! i i i : ciel a " ‘ Twe. Passenger Cars on the Lake Shere Railroad Thrown Dewa an Embankment Fifty Feet. - Qne Car Set on Fire and Forty- eight Persons Burned to Death. NAMES OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Burraro, Deo, 18, 1867. The New York expfess train from Clovelaad, oa the Lake Shore road, “due here at forty-five minutes past. twelve P. M,, being behind time, when two miles this side of Angola, either from defect in rail, oF frost, met with a serious accidegs about three o'clock this after- noon. Two rear passenger cars were thrown of the track and rolled over an embankment of twenty feet, A train with surgeons, officers of the road aad others, loft at four o'clock to render assistance, The killed and wounded are expected to arrive here at nine o'olosk, and every preparation is being made by the citizens of this city to make the wounded comfortable. The fet- lowing is a list of the Killed and wounded, eo (ar as ascbriained :— KILLED, Mrs, J, M. Strong, of Buffalo, Mary Freeman; residence unknown. J.P. Hayward, agent of the road at State tine, ‘WoumDsD. Anva Maria Sales, of Corfe, N. ¥. Mary Moore, of Brooklyn, N. ¥. Mary Sbelden and child, of Corfu, M. &. Mrs. H. A. Thomas, of Utica, N. ¥. RM. Russell, of franklin, Tenn, W. L, Potton, of New York. James Brows, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mra, Laing and two children, Groton, Lydia Strong, Buffalo, N. ¥. Ira Baboock and wife, Syracase, N. ¥. Robert Stewart and wife, Oneida. Mra, Buffalo, N.Y. , Lowell, Mam, A, H. Thomas, Utica. ‘M, Copely, Minneapolis, Misa. W. HL. Teller, Utica, ‘Mrs. L. B. Thomas, Kenosha, We. Garret Harley, Corry, Pa J. Mayer, New York city. Chas, W, Layne, Utica MSING, Btepben Stewart, President of the Oil Creek Read. Additional Particulare-A Passenger Onur ‘Thrown Down an Embankment Fifty Foot ‘The Car Set on Fire and Forty-cight Pas. songers Burned to Death, ¢ -Borrazo, Dee. 18-11 P.M The accident at Angola, on the Lake Shore Railway, ‘was moro serious than at first reported. The rear aur went over an embankment of Afty fect, was setcn Gra, and out of fifty passengers only two escaped. The read wore burned to death, gad all that is loft ion mast of Dinckened aud charred remains, witheut aay means Of mul if uf ik ij E i fil ays ee i ab