The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1867, Page 5

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Mineteetsy, Baviaps axp Bo Rrookiya,—Erniortax wsQues, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Kroadway.— ScreNox AND Ant. mo w York, Monday, December 23. 1867. = | THB WH Ws. | EUROPE. ‘The news report hy the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, Imcomber 22, The army reorgavization bill was warmly debated in tho French Lagislature. It was impugned by the oppo sition as a proparation for early war. This was denied by the Ministors aud the Cabinet measure was sustained. General Menabrea’s policy towards Rome was condomned afier an angty debate, in the Italian Parliament, ‘The Poenian alarm was subsiding in London, | be involved in still greater financial embar- Congress and the National Finances, has not some nostram or theory to apply to the financial condition of the country, few un} derstand it or the remedy. Tho trouble is that they want to do too much and to try all torts of experiments, just as unskilful doctors and quacks do with their unfortunate patients. Our Congressional doctors have a case before them novel and unprecedented in the history of this country, with symptoms and effects | different in some respects to those which have appeared in any other country, 4nd requiring treatment suitable to these peculiarities, rather than such as foreign financial doctors have ap- plied to foreign diseases, Unfortunately, mem- bers of Congress, instead of seeking a remedy for this peculiar case of ours, go back to the exploded practices and blunders of British Suancicrs, whereas the only value of their ex- | perience is to warn us against ‘ling into their errors. We must, however, give Congress credit for doing one good thing under tho | Pressure of necessity. Whatever theories members tay entertain about the finances and currency, they have yielded to the demands of the country in stopping Mr. McCulloch frony contracting the currency any further at present, As to the President, he does not pretend to understand well great financial questions, and says litile about them. He regards the early restoration of the South on @ liberal basis, so as not to Africanize that productive region and destroy ils productiveness, as of the high- est importance both financially and potiileally. And he is right in this; for if the cotton fields, the sugar, rice and tobacco plantations and the industry of the South generally bo de- stroyed, as now seems hkely under the negro supremacy policy of Congress, how can the financial condition of the country or govern- ment be improved? If the negroes be en- couraged in idleness by inspiring false hopes in them, by taking them away from labor to mingle in political contests, and by creating mistaken notions of their own importance—if the Intelligent white people be driven away, as they assuredly must, from this second Hayti—if we have to suppert a Freednten’s Bureau to prevent these people from starving, and an expensive military establishment to keep down disorder, how {is it possible to reduce expenditures and taxation and to organize a healthy system of finance? Indeed, there is great danger that by the falling off of Southern products, with the consequent decline of trade and revenue, and by the enormous demands upon the Treasury, the country may rassments. Unquestionably, then, a different and more liberal policy of reeonstruction then that now pursued is necessary to prevent these evils coming upen us. One of the greatest dificultios at present im the way of putting the national finances on a proper foundation and of relieving the people of a portion of their heavy burdens is the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. McCulloch is not only ignorent on questions of national finance, but he is stubborn, conceiied and in- capable of learning. In the best times such a | man at the head of the Treasury Department | The now trading poris at Hiogo and Osaka, Japan, are {o bo shrown open to foreigners, and the foreign habitation rales at Jeddo take effect early in January, the complete ‘of the convention @ by virtwo of which this Important advance in the Fs Fivo-twei By the we have mv of Decomber. Very interesting reports, additional, of the destruo- tion of her Majesty's theatre, Loudon, by fire, are given, including an enumeration of the losses of Madame Titiens, Mr. Mapieson, Kari Dudiey and tho insurance companies, with reminiscences of the opera and stage | at the house. The peoplo of London were always assured, and belioved, that a huge tank filled with water | was adjusted on the roof of the building, but the fre proved that this was really a delosion, as the dry wood | of the tank was immediately burned off like paper, | MISCELLANEOUS. General Ord, commanding the Fifth Military District, | thas issuod an order directing General Gillam to proceed to Washington and represeat to the President aad Sec- retary of War (he slarviog condition of the freedmen in his district, and the necessity of some provision being made by the government to feod (hein and avert the im- ponding war of races, General Ord also orders that all freedmon who are ablo will be required to earn their own support during the commmg year, and to go to work on the best terms that can be made, and thus prevent ‘their being a burden to the government. Thoso who €an, but will not, earn a livelihood will tay themselves Mable to arrest and punishment as vagranta ‘The commissioner sent by the Georgia Reconstrnotion Convention to draw $40,000 from the State Treasury to pay the expenses of the Convention was informed by the Treasurer that be could pay out no moneys except on & warrant signed by the Goveroor. A radical Judicial Convention was held in Nashville, Yenv,, on faturday, at which nearly two thousand negroos were present, and which broke up in # row after the nominations were made, one of the speakers being knocked duwn by a candidate aud the presemt Circuit Judge. The funeral of the victims of the railroad disaster at Angola took place at Buttalo yerterday at tho Central Railroad depot, which bad been fitted up for the occa- tis port yesterday, | despatches to the 10a | ¢ details of ouRcable sion, A large number of the clergy of Buialo officiated, | and the services were of @ solemn and impressive char- actor. Some eight thousand persons wore in attendance, and accompanied the charred remains of nineteen un- fortanate # were depos An oxpross train frém New Yo fo freight train near Natick yesterday, killing jot in one of the hk his, incapadiy & With the enormous rosyure/s St Miskvom mate the debt might have been tfdnced. since the {| war closed four or five hundred millions more ngors to St, Paul’s Cathedral, where they | would bring the country to the verge of bank- ruptcy. Hundreds of millions have been lost than it has been. It was his duty to recom- mend to Congress a financial system. that would relieve the country of its bardens and embar- rassments; but he has not the capacity—he has uiterly failed to do 80. None but the bond- holders, national bankers, gold and stock gam- blers and the Jay Cooke speculators on government loans favor his policy. The mass of the people repudiate it, and our Washington correspondent informs us that the “general expression of feeling among Congressmen is decidedly adverse to his management of tho finances.” They have come to the opinion, which we have entertained all along, that he should not remain longer at the bead of the Treasury Depariment. The interests of the country, and probably its salvation from finan- cial ruin, call for his immediate removal. This mate consequences of their policy in the abso- crimes against persons: and property, is reproach to the pretence that there is any gov- erpment of lay, The European Situation—France wad (er- many. Our late despatches by the Atlantic cable relating to the situation in Europe have been singularly interesting and suggestive, While Napoloon is submitting with a3 much grace a3 possible to his last humiliating defeat at the hands of the various Powers who refused to join him in an international Congress; while Ilaly, mainly through his meddling policy 1s convuised throughout all her borders aud threatened with revolution and disintegration ; while the Holy Father sits uneasy on his throne, and, notwithstanding the presence of French bayonets, trembles for the future, Germany gathers strength more and more, and marches steadily onward to her magnificent future. 1t has been known for some time that the North- eri and Southern Confederattfons were united by military 414 commercial treaties ; it was also known that Prussia had been successful in inducing Holland to join the Zollverein ; but it was not known beforo that Belgium, France’s nearest and weakest neighbor, had elected to cast in her lot with Germany rather than with France. On being requested by the govern- ment of the Tuileries to join & customs union with France, the little kingdom politely replics that to do so was impossible, as she had already concluded a military and commercial allience with Prussia, At the same time we are informed that in order to leave bis duchy free to join the Confederation of the North, the Grand Duke of Baden proposes to abdicate. A straw, it is often said, {s sufficient to indicate how the wind blows. The present ten- dency of things is too manifest for Napoleon to misunderstand it, He has taught with great emplasis the doc- trine of the rights of nationality. The teach- ing is now turning out strongly to his own disadvantage. In this case, as often before, ambition hath o’erleapt itself and fallen on the other side. The German element in and around France may yet prove much more powerful improbable that at no distant day the energies | of France will be directed less to the exton- | sion than to the preservation of her territory. The union of Germany, which is now inevitable, will by many be accepied as a cause of thankful- ness; for while it will hold in check the ambition of France on the one hand, it will act as a pow- erful bulwark against Russian aggression on | the other, Tho complete unification of the | Fatherland may yet be found to establish the | European equilibrium on a firmer and more enduring basia than ever. Meanwhile, though the proteetor of the Vicar of Christ, it is not to | be denied that the fates seem to be against | Napoleon. Ferry Moungement—The Kempston. The case of Mr. Kempston, killed atthe Ful- | ton ferry on Saturday night, should fix public attention upon the necessity of forcing the ferry companies to take some measures for securing the safety of their passengers. Mr. Kempston came- to: an’ until Pebike Redaction EN, wri paid his fare, Ph¥s Aeath' wal obstinate, wilful, Jong maintaine’ yi hitherto successful resistence on the part of the com- pany to all ‘steps taken to compe! them to make such arrangemenis as would reader a daily staughter not inevitable. As the helter- skelter, réckless,. rushing embarkation and debarkation now go on at the ferry slips it isa marvel that a day should pasa withowt its Death: of Mr. | Be then Napoleon imagines. It isnot by any means | end through | pute, fear of the consequences that must pln. PERMITE re rosul} of-y injary. NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1867. ideas, #0 determined not to accept advice or Tho government at Washington is in a great | fute destruction iow coming upon the people. | tobe influenced by public opinion, that their muddle about the national finances, Though | Death by starvation stares the negroes in the | case cannot be reached by ordinary remedies, there is searcely a member of Congress that | face, and the daily record of acts of violence, | If a death caused like the one in question were treated in the proper way—as a manslaughter resulting from the wilful negligence of the ferry authorities—the eyes of those persons would be opened to the fact that they were amenable to law, if not ” public opinion. Concealed Weapons, Woe are apt in America to consider ourselves more advanced in the race of civilization than the inhabitants of the European world; to have carried the improvements of the age we live in to greater lengths ; to have discarded the absurdilies of bygone ages more com- pletely, and to have inaugurated fresher ideas and more excellent systems than either our progenitors, the English, or their more volatile neighbors of France. We laugh at feudalism, we sneer at an aristocracy and we abhor the idea of despotism} yet we permit, and encour age by permitting, a malicious practice, severely punished even ij feudal times and utterly stamped out by those other govern- mental and social institutions whose example of self-regulation we decline to follow. We profess t6 havea law for the prevention of secret arms; but séarcely a week passes with- out bringing with it fresh cases of lives sacri- ficed from the fatal facility which the practice we condemn lends to the murderous intent of an angry man. A word, a joke, a laugh is fol- lowed by a blow, and in the first flush of startled anger a pistol is drawn and another life destroyed ere judgment or reasom has had time to offer one deterring word. Regret may accompany the flash of the pistol, and the homicide—to call him by no harsher name— may feel the horror of his desd; but the mis- chief is done, and his next care must be to , seek some Alsatia until time and influence may dim the recollection of his offence. On the | other hand, there are too many men who, con- scious of being armed, seek occasion to quar- | rel, or at least use no effort to avoid doing so, mentally calculating that if circumstances demand it they are prepared to resort to | extreme measures. The very fact of a mao deliberately loading a pistol and hidlag it on | his person before going about bis daily occu- pation must mean one of two things—either he is in a lawless country, where every man’s life is in his hand, or he sets out calmly con- templating th» possibility, if not the proba- bility, of shooting some triend or enemy before the day is over. In a peaceful community, where the former circumstances do not exist, the Jatter, perforce, must be the case, and the excuse usually made in extenua- tion of an act such as that to which. we now allude—that the shot was fired in a moment of anger and under great provocation—loses much of its force when met by the statement that carrying the weapon was intentional and deliberate. A defiance of the law, a contempt of its ven- | geunee and an utter disregard for the life of some future antagonist are the salient points in: the character of a man who thus-secrotly arms himself; and we have no hesitation in saying that the feeling which prompts him to carry a pisto) is unknown to the mind of s brave man, and is nothing else than a pa!try fear—fear lest be may not have a decidod-advantage in a dis- follow rn thay #6 tons! 1 toMis disadvantage. In other communities than our own a man who carried a pistol concealed about him would bo branded as « bally anl « coward and ostracized from all deceat society; and we fear that untiL our own people take-a devided line and pronounce their unqualified con- demnation of the custom and thoss who follow it tne law will be comparatively powerless to bloody accident;:and it is certain that it would not so pass with any population tess used to taking care of iiself, less keen eyed and active, than ours. There are three or four hours toward the close of every day wren each boat that comes from Brooklyn is bring- ing home to this-city the hundreds of peopte uproot it.. In making these romerks we allude to: no particular cases, nor do we mako any reference to individuals, We speak only of a matter'so. general that it is constantly recur- ring even in the heart of New York, where at least respect for the law and the certainty of that have been going in the other direction ull day on visits and business, and as the boat nears the slip the crowd of humanity on its torward deck is 0 dense thet it is sometimes obstruction must be thrown out of the way before we can hope to reach a better condition. Mr. Sherman’s report from the Senate Com- mittee on Finance for funding the debt and for other purposes fails to lay down such a plan of finance as the country wants. It is crude and complicated, and would tend to perpetuate the burden of a stupendous debt, with little hope of removirg it hereafter. It is e grand project for stockjobbing and gambling, and for creating corraptiog and trouble in the States and between the States and the general govern- ment. Undoubtedly the debt should be funded, after having paid as much of it as possible while unfunded. It sould be made uniform and bear as low a rate of interest as the mar- ket and government credt: can reduce ft; but wo should be in no burry to make ita gold debt, both principal and interest, while the currency is the money of the country and gold ata premium. Let the currency remain as it is, not attempting to force specie paymenis, and get rid of as much of the debt as we can man aot slightly injuring Poveral of the pussengers. Four igrge distilleries were seized In Philadelphia on Saturday on the charge of defrawiing Ue government by falao returns. Mr, Mariscal, the Mexican Charg) ( \oires at Wash- ington, has been gtanted leave of absence by bis gov. ernment, which produces s temporary enepensicn of the Mexican Legation. It is expected thata full minisor Fill soon bo seat to the United States ‘A man named Moran was arrested yesterday and takon before Justfow Hogan charged witb crusty beat. ing two of his childrea and assaulting the oflcer who yando the arrest, He was commiliod ( tho Tombs in default of batt Josepha and Jorephine Brown, who w wook at Martford, Conn., eberged with murd child at Canaan, Columbia county, N. ¥ en Airing the house, for the purpote of otal 5,000, for whieb the life of the cbild bh sred, arrived at Albamy yorterday und Fonton. The woman of the crime, and ways he bat effected an jusurapee fora like som on her Aife, and that she bolioves lis intended to destroy her also, Tho grain elevator of the Michigan Southern and Northern indiana Railroad at Toledo, Ohio, wes Aeatroyed by fire yesterday, involving a loss of $900,000, Accounts from Crete state that the Torks at Diatis- Tinsstav war vessel. ‘The United States pine? arrented last } ing a) | do at present is to restore the country to pence | um from Govetner | cant Grod upon a company of Sve hundred women aud | childten who were about embarking for Greece, Killing ‘a number, and those who escaped were picked up by a nd Brazil Matl Steamship Com. “5 fino steamer North America, Captain Zimmor- ‘man, will sail from pier No. 40 North river at three P, M. to-morrow (Tuesday) for Rio Janeiro, toaching at 8% Thomes, Para, Pornambuco and Babla, to land mails fad passengers, The matis witl close at the Post Otice in the meantime, The proposition to collect the tax on government bonds, and then to dis- tribute this among the States, is highly ohjec- | Honable. The corrupting influence of such a | distribution and the trouble it would cause, to say nothing of the political objections arising from the ‘power it would give the federal government over the several States, should | lead Congress to reject the proposition at once. The corroption and trouble arising from the distribution of the surplus fands in the Trea- sury ata former poriod of our history should be a sufficient warning. All Congress should and harmony, to abandon ils negro supremacy | programme, to stimulate the productions of | the South and promote trade, to lighten the burdens of taxation, to establish economy in | every department of the government, to stop contraction of the currency, and give us 9 ani form legal tender circulation in place of national bank notes, and to let other financial measures alone for o while. This would be stateswansip ; anything else \s uncalled for, will be nothing put tinkering, aud will lead us Into farther difficulties. Condition of the Seuthera Country. Radicals who have kept the South in a siate of absolute disorganization, im order to pro- duce certain political results, Gan gee the legiti- impossible to turn in it, and never possible for each, person to govern his own movements. At the same time there is assembled on the ferry bridge the throngiag mass of those who have been at business in the city sll day and are hurrying to their homes in Brocklyn. Each crowd is equally eager, one to get on and the other to get off; yet to contral the move- ments of these bodies that must necessarily be influenced by the reckless spiriy of the more, active few there is not the simplest mechanical contrivance—not o railing, not « gate—nothing but the despised warning not to.go on the boat till it is made fast—a warning which only means that the company will not “pay ” for your broken bones if you do All this is bar- barous, and more care should be taken for even the life of catile. Woll might the potice- man who was on duty say at this inquest :— “The arrangements for admitting passengers on these boats is reprehensible and dangerous, It is surprising there are not moro accidents happoning, as the rush of people at this hour of the evening fs tremendous.” Well, also, might the Coroner’s jury soy :--“We severely censure the Union Ferry Corapany for not pro- viding gates to preven! passengers from enter- ing a boat until the saine is made fast and all the passengers and vebicles Innded. We further recommend the city authorities to. pass an ordinance compelling said company to pro- vide the same.” But, fina!ly, whut is the good of having these thiugs said, and what effect | will they produce? None; or, at most, no to spend enough money in the Common Coun- cll to defeat the passage of any ordinance that would interfere with tho present obstinate, stolid, stupld, wilfal, murderous management of the ferries, Ordinances of the kind indi- | cated have been repeatedly urged and dix | cussed. Public agitation on the subject of gates at these forries has been kept up for years; but when the general ideas take the | form of a law the measure falls into the hands of our money making legislators, and a fow dollars smother the whole matter for @ yorr. | Such law as fs demanded recently passed the | Board of Councilmen by an almost unanimous | vote and went to the Board of Aldermen. Where is it gow t In the pocket of the presi- | quajatance, they would resolutely sot thelr punishment might bo supposed to have a deterring effect. Who can count. the number of Americans that in billiard rooms, hotels and other public places have been sacrificed at the shrine of passion and so-called honor? Who can.tell the number of men tha daily saunter down Broadway with the blood of ono or two of their fellows yet to answer for? and who can reckon the number of widows and orphans left desolate because their husbands and fathers would persist in carrying pistols? What record is there of unfortunate people who have lost their lives through the reckless fire of these self-constituted executioners? The frays that occur in. crowded places are fur more numerous than single-handed com- bats, and when pistols are drawn their rlee and refusing to consort of have aly com- munication whatever with s man who was on te ee The State Constitutional Convention. The State Constitutional Convention ad- journed last week for the holidays, and will reassemble on tho 14th of January at the Common Council chamber in the city of Albany, as ‘the Capitol at that time will be oceupied by the State Legislature and the lobby. The work of the Convention has pro- gressed slowly; the judiciary article, which has occupied most of its time, is not yet completed, nor are any of the important points of the hew donstitution concluded, with the exeeption of the negro suffrags clause, which, under the lessoas of the recent State election, will have to be reopened, reconsidered and submitted soparately to the people, unless the whole action of the Convention is to end in a broad farce, Indeed, the people are 99 little impressed with the wisdom and competency of tuia body of constitution tinkers that it is more than probable their work will be re- jected, whatever it may be; aud it will need the clearest. and most self-evident improve- ments, unencumbered with any unnecessary maiter, to give it any prospect of success. Among the canal propositions before the Convention is one by Israel T. Hatch, of Erie, to insert a provision in the organic law of the State prohibiting the collection of any tolls on the canals other than such as may be necessary for their ordinary repair and running ex- penses ; or, in other words, to lay down the owners care little who else they may shoot, provided they injure their oppo- nent A man may bo killod in the strect and a family left to. mourn his loss and seek their bread ae best they may; but if the man that fired the pistol has missed the one he intended to kill the death of the other is looked upon as a mild species of manslaughter. We cannot afford time or space now to argue with those men-—and there are many—who excuse and uphold the practice ofcarrying frearms. We will only say that if they are insonsible to Christian obligations, regardless of the laws of their country and indifferent about their own lives and the lives of others, some touch of pity for the misery of helpless women and children might reach the hearis of those gen- Uenen whose honor appears to be such a precious commodity. If a man reflected when he loaded his pistol in the morning that the wife and principle in the constitution that after the pay- ment of existing debts the canals shall be used for purposes of commerce only, and not for revenue. The object is to place the canals, as far as possible, beyond the reach of con- stantly changing Legislatures and Canal Boards, and to insure the lowest tolls upon all goods carried by canal, in the belief that the State realizes a greater advantage from the increased commerce, secured by cheap trana- portation, than out of any profits that can arise directly from hor carrying trade. Much might be said in favor of Mr. Hatch’s proposition. The canals havo been a prolific source of corruptivn in almost all our State administrations, and our Legislatures, always under the control of the railroads, have been too willing to sacrifice the real interests of commerce to. the policy of those corporations. But the only sound principle of government is to leave the question of revenue entirely free and untrammetled in the organic law, so that the Legislature of a State may deal with it ficcording to the exigencies of the time. No constitution can be made, bamp:red with financial limits and restrictions, that will serve the purposes of o Siate for twenty years. Emergencies will arise in which i will ve ne- cessary to break down such restrabats, and full power-mast be left to the Legislature in all matters ef revenue if wo desire: to have 2 sound and-strong system of government. If we cannot elect honest legislaiors, the fault is our own, aud we must pay the-penaliy. But it is idle to attempt by any straight-laced constitutional restrictions: to provide against official incompetency and corruption. rN Developments in the South, Although some of our contemporaries seem to find gleams of sunshine in the eondition of the South, we confess that no sueh desirable ine cobs trPGad ave just ocurred jm’ Richmon\ pi” Macon, Ga., in Mobile, ja Little Rock, Ark., and elsewhere, Conservative clubs are in process of organiza- tion.in. the Carol! as woll-es tuo me of the other unreconatracted: Slates, It is stated that Florida has chosen an anti-radical mojority to her constilutional convention. General Hancock, the military commander in New Orleans, has also thrown a new and more congenial feeling into the administration of. affairs in Louisiana. But no one whose eyes are open can fail to observe indications of determination on the part of Congress to enforce its extreme doctrines of Southern recon- struction. This is bad enough, if no other unpleasant cloud obscured the view to happier days for the South, Yet wo find that tho Alabama Convention has adjourned and pre- sented a constitution for the suffvages of the people of that unrecoastructed State—or those who are favored with the elective franchise— containing provisions abhorrent to- every re- spectable and responsible white man living within {ts borders. We also know that black supremacy conventions are now insession in Georgia and Louisiana, that others will shortly assemble in Mississippi and: Arkansas, and that so far from expecting reason and toleration from. those bodies the reverse can only be expected. Moreover, we have accounts of unspeakable distress among both whites and blacks throughout the once fertile Southern domains. These accounts are accompanied by others which exhibit the lamentable lengths to which Northern radicalism has progressed in prostrating commerce, desiroying agriculture, sundering family ties, uprooting civil law, and in seducing the ignorant blacks into the belief that no more labor is due-from them, that thoy have worked long enongh and that the inher- itance of the whites, omce their masters, be- comes now their own. The fact that conspira- cies exist to carry out thelr ideas is no longer doubied. Names, places and dates to that effect aro in the hands of the authorities, and that great mischief is meditated cannot be doubted. In viow of these developments, occurring every day, we say we confess wo cannot discern the gleams of sunshine through the black Southern clouds which some of our contemporaries, with all the keenness of their optics, allege they have discovered. But let the Southern whites who are now wader the heel of radicalism be firm, let them keep up other effect than to cause the iaterested parties | cbildren whom ho professes to love more | their courage, let theim be pationt and await dearly than bis own life may find bim in | the hour of their complete redemption, which the evening a corpse or a felon, he would pos | every sign portends will occnr within a twelve- sibly hesitate before helping such a contin- gency by any direct act of his own. W he re- membered that when ho was in prison or in the grave she who had become part of himself and they who looked to him for life would be homeless and beggars, be might possibly hesi- tate before putting in his pocket the weapon which was to aid in working this calamity; and if American society would remember the outrages that ho¢e been perpetrated in their midst and calito mind tho friends and rela- tions who Wave met their death to appease the anger of ‘crush the honor of some angry ac- dent of the ferry company t One thing Is cer- | fa60 against the murderons custom and deqstoy tain: the managoment of the company is in tho bands of those wo satisfied with thelr, 6wn this remnant of barbarous ages by traltating tho example of thelr European ontempory month, Cheap Lauds tn Alebnuen. Tf we can judge from the statement that land in Alabama sold recently at a sheriff's sale for from five cents to twenty conts an acre, Ala- bama must bea good place for real estate speculators, But does it not seem curious that whilo we are paying immense prices for land in Walrussia find the West Indies our own land should be going off so cheap? It would bo axthost worth while to buy up all Alabama atthe present quoted price and orsf it off to up the gaps in the West Taiia Islands which the tornadoes, floods sn oarthquakes have mado, as it appears Aikely that we aro sooner or later to thew fragmentary porilons of the surface. Tux Wearasn Yerranrsz:—A dul, damp, Aya, te! cidal day was yosterday, On v.0¢ rivers the fog resieg from early moraing, and the forryeats cro wits, caution and slowness, In the streets the iy in deep pools, and pedestrians tried in vain tofind the solid matters: u iiabe gory socon/ori an el at area the day, and from the house and awn ings was a constant dripping, varied with the falt- ing of lumps of partially meited snow and ‘Was one of those days when yhilosophy fails to susiala the droeping spirits, when the lively become Sct mac eerie’ Song sear asameans of shuffling off a focehan None but ‘those whe were absolutely obliged todo ao left their homes, and the deseried appearance of the streets very fitly corresponded with the general duiness of the Weexiy WsaTner Rerort,—The mazimam of the . barometer at the Park during the past week was 30 593 at9P, Moon the 19th, and the minimam 29.653 at P. M.on the 17th, The maximum of the thermometer was 40.20 at 1 and 2 P. M, on the 21st and the minimum 11.40 at 8 A. M. on the 20th. There was rain on the 17th at Sand 12 P. M. aud on the 20th, the duration being four hours and thirty-eight minwies respectively, Snow fell on the 20th for five hours and thirty-two minutes, the Soph being 1.40 inches. Snow mixed with raim also fell on the 20th for thirty-one minutes, Toal duration of raining and snowing, six hours and forty- five minutes, Depth of rain aud meited suow, tweive inches, A very beautiful areolite was observed at 6:47 A.M. of 19th, and a ificent at B:8g A, M. of 2ist, Several bandsome shooting stars were observed during the week, . Fosgxa, or Axorien Vereray.—Tho remaing of 1812, wore removed from bis late resideace, 134 Cherry atreet, yesterday, The funeral was largely attended, the train of sorrowing fmends wors not ew ct. comrades, who mournfully followed ail that was mortai of the departed. Tbe veterans of 181 like the antumnal leav are graduaily falliog aud the demise of Charles yy is, with that of those gallant ones who have gone bofore him, felt uumingied regret. Grammar Scuoor, No, 24.—The academical exercises of the male departnient of Grammar School No, 24, near Leonard street, takes place to-day, at a quarter past x ‘hen the half certificates for good Sead oe pe ye eo Paves) will be disiributed, ‘The occasion IIS bp one of such interest to the gexonie and {riende of the scholare, whose mer'ts wud ; ro! will be brought to the test, and the awards made ing to the deserts of each, =~ Sr, Micuasc’s Teupxnace Socrery,—This society ab ita last meeting adopted a'diploms novel in desiga and striking im application. On an enamelied card is the St. Michael from Guido. It represonts the Archangel resting one foot upon the dragon and holding a lanee sot for the lunge, while the dragon lies prostrate on the verge of » precipice, looking horror and desperation, yet clutching the broken fragmont of bis fatlen. ~ sera Beneat! arout jim in thick confusion is the prot pe ee peg ‘gle vaults," tee con certs,’ ‘sample rvoins,”’ besides broken casks, bottios, &c., through which consuming flames are raging. The two figures are inteaded to personify Temperamc> and In- temperance, and St. Michael heids PS pean te banver with the inscription, *‘Faver of |, peace, plenty, heaith, heaven;"’ and cast dowm beside bim is we dragon's standard with tho words, “Anger of God, pov- erty, crime, disease, sudden death, children kidi - and’ perverted, boll.”’ Tho fea, us taken from hoy is fonnded on’ the battle between the victorious Arch angel and the dragon relaged in Revelations, twelve, verse nine. . At THe Morave yor Imgxciecation,—Thore was taken to the Morgue last night, from the East river, she body of an unxooww man, aged adout thirty-five years, five feet ten inches high, and slimly bultt, Time bar, beard, whiskers and mustache ary o! a brownish abade. When taken out of the water ho hud one black Diack cloth pents and vest, white linen shirt, white merino undershirt, white cotton dravers, blue wooilem socks and eiastic gaitera, The body of the upkeowa~ will be reiained at the Morgue to-day fur identédcation.- Ciry Car Acorawrs,—Atabout half-past Sve o’ciock last evening a man, who refused to give his name, elf from the front platform of a Third avenue oar, te wheels of which passed over his‘ left band, almost entirely severing it from the arm, Cortina Grinthal, while in: company with ber bus- band on E.ghth avenue car No. 44, the cae at the corner of Hudeon ant \ Clarkson wher the conductor pulied tue bel tow soon and oe swarted, dragging Mra. Griathal adistaa \ce of some fey. feet, teary her clothes and injuring he ¢ very severciy. POLICE INTELLIGEN€A Tur thovses ix Somow Cuurcu—Axa 3F AND Rex some of the civil courts, assumed a asial hour of service the Rév. Highland @ywnett, for. merly pastor of the church, with bis wits, Appeared at the gate fronting the building, but was } prevé nted from entering by the interference of Mr. Job m L. Hudson, . chairman of the Board of Trustees, The \revoread gen- tiemap did not atrenuous insist upon | his rigut to enter the. church but f sering thore yyht be trouble Mr, Hudson oc allied offi.er oy r Decker, of the Fourteenth precinct, ar @ the siergyman in charge. He was taken to the ‘Sprig street police station, and thence before Justice b logan, at the Tombs. dir. Hudson appeared to make ac burce Of dis- “orderly conduct against the prisoner, and tioned by the trate be stated that, acc: wding to the recent decision of Jude lograbam, Mr. Gar Bett bad ne right to go into the church. At the same-time, how~ Sho’ may please. to. onter, The complata aoe utisrip who’ may onter, aa fmied to establish his complaint against | Mr. frresern who was thereupon discharged from ci eody. officer was censured for naking ap arrest ola 60 ® charge. A Desexnats Max—Horrieta Beotaramx vo Hie Cmipaes—Taxes ComrLaints AGainst Hiyt.-—A horrible ons) being quene Z th yes discolored aud exts emely swollen, their legs and bodies terribly bruised and Incerated, were brought into court and. made «flidavits agains i t i if : i : & Hi dln if Hy il z se il = 5 . i 7 Fe i miputes afterwards sha att without making any investment, whem Mr. intercepted sud took the stolen from ber, oMficer bevng called, took the Wo in charge. Yes- terday morning Maria was arraige@t before Jvstice Hogaa, avd not having anything to vay in her defeuce Was committed for trial in default of “bail, VioLavion oF Ta Liqvon Law, —Laywrence Hearne, 227 Temth avenus, was brought before Justice Ledwith, of the Jeffernon Merket Polico Court, yesterday for selling Uiquor without heemse, Hearne was arrested by am oMicer of the Twentieth precinct. The accn.sed was hel@ p. the sux of $200 bak Wa. Robt, of No 1b y brought befu oe Jay streoi, yeaberday on the charg? of violating the Excise ly @, and req mane $100 br) to answer before the Court of | Sessions, Pengoxatrea as Orricen,—Edward Smith, residing ab! No. 17 Waverley place, caused the arrest of a mam bamed William Rielly, on a charge of personating am officer, It t# charged against the accused that las Saturday aight ho stopped the oompbminant in the sree anf throatenod to arrest him, br, i bie A betn of toney he would net Ses nee fa ‘ walked along with the preten ded officer until met on omMoer of the Fifteenth preci et, when be charge. He was brought b ean youre day morning, and, Dele charged with the edense #08 committed for trial in of $200 bail. ‘Tie Dont Case—J'satioe Ledwith rendered & decision yesterday in tho C4se of Mra. Ange 4 whe wes charged with the ettempted murder of her foar children, 4 poison. From Ae phen ieee ee Charles Halsey, a distinguished véteran of the war of ~~~