The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1867, Page 6

TRLEGRAPING NRW FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. THE REVOLUTION IN YUCATAN. | LOUISIANA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE WERALE A Quiet Chriagmas in Now Urieans—Alarming Crevasses to the Leveosticneral Runcock Applies fer Permission to Work Starving Negroes—Indinn Depredatiens in Texas— Stare Rereaeninnee tie and Per- Seant PeRPOwte 3? a cacausia Dai Sh tit, Christmas Day passed off here unprecedentediy quiet. There was but little merriment displayed apywhere in the city during the day, in consequence of the mourn- ing, want, desolation and distress which appear on every side. The day was delightful, with a clear sky and an almost summer sun, the thermometer standing as high as seventy-cight degrees, Ail the churches were beautifully decorated with evergreens and ex- quisite flowers, and were thronged with worshippers. ‘Two serious breaks have occurred im the levee; one below Plaquemine, and the other pelow bayou Manchae, threatening to overflow the lands and submerge the country to Lake Ponchartrain and Jackson Raliroad, A large force of men bas been placed upon the latter break, to repair damages and prevent s further destruo- tion of property, Santa Anna Proclaimed Dicta- tor by the Revolutionists. Sisal in the Hands of the Bebels and Bleckaded by Mexican Gunboats, Hoavy French Reinforcements for General Hancock bas telegraphed for authority to Civita Vecchia. Place the siarving negroes at work upom the levees generally, and to issue to them rations, “ MEXICO. Accounts from parishes in the taterior state that ‘Regro depredations continue in an alarming manner. A large military force will be needed, it is added, to pre- vent a rising of the loyal leaguers, The military forces have quietly disbanded large assembiages of ermed negroes at Jackson and East Feliciana, The State Convention is drawing to a clea Bills bave been passed to raise money for the State by layitig a tax of one mill per cont on real and personal property. Resistance to their enforcement has been threatened. Advices from Texas state that Indian depredations continue om the frontier notwithstanding General McCook’s disposition of troops, THE PRESS TELEGRAM. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. sho Ywontan Trouble—No Blood splitted Yet. Havana, Dec. 26, 1867. The steamer Virginia arrived to-day from Vers Cruz and Sisal, Her dates are, from the former port December 20, and from the latter December 23. Mr. Dabney, steward of the Virginis, was drowned during the trip, The resistance to the State authorities in Yuca- tan still continued. Two schooners had arrived at Vera Craz from that portion of the republic, ‘with commissioners to notify the general govern- of what had taken place. One of these tchooners conveyed the Captain of the Port whence she had safled. He boarded the Virginia, and notified her officers not to touch at any Yuca- tican port. The pronunciamiento at Méride, however, had met with an almost universal support, and the new State Legislature convened on the 16th inst. THE PRESS TELEGRAMS. n— of the First Article of the New Constitu- tlon. Naw Onteans, Dec, 26, 1867. The Convention occupied the day in censidering re- Ports of the eommittee appointed to draft a constitution. Both the majority and minority reports were taken up at the same timo. The following, which was the second article of the minority report, was adopted as tho frst article of the constitution by a vote of 57 to 17:— “All men are created free and equal, and have certain Mwallenable rights; among those are life, Hberty and t! pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights govern. in Yuentan Assuming Gr Mente are instituted among men, deriving their just janen Anna Proc! | Powers from the consent of tho governed. ter—Sisal Blockaded, \ Mesers. Crawford, Coley and Cudaling opposed its Havana, Dec, 26, 1967. adoption, stating that it would bring ridicule upoo the The steamship Virginia, from Vera Cruz, which | Convention and work lo prejudice the State; inasmuch as Louched at Sisal on the 23d inst., brings important if embodied in the constitution no criminal could be pua- trom that quarter. ished by death or imprisonment, The revolution in Yucatan was assuming large propor The following was offered, but crowded out by the tions, Provious question: "The citizens of this State awe alle- Santa Anna bad been proctaimed Dictator by the revo- — > be te egre ens 2 allegiance {8 para. mount to allegiance due the Le, Treaaisth and Was cxpected bouriy Ao arpve from | Mthe Courention adjourned until Ii A, M. to-morrow, The port and town of Sisal were in the hands of the rebels; but the port was blockaded by two Mexican gua- ALABAMA. boats. A number of officers who formerly s:rved under the ‘empire had arrived at Sisal from Matamoros. On the 16th an engagemont took places between the Mexican gunboats and the batteries on the shore. The coast of Yucatan, in the vicinity of Sisal, was diligentiy watched to prevent the landing of troops coming from any foreign country to aid the rebellion. When tho Virginia left Vera Cruz, on the 20th, the Mexican sieamer Tobasco was ready to sail for Sisal on the next day with an expedition to restore the authority of the government that place, She had on board five hun- dred orsix hundred men and several pieces of artillery. Havana, Dec. 26, 1867. ‘Santa Anna ts in this city. Many ex-Imperialist of- cers have arrived were, They all seem to be very busily engaged. Uxhuustion of The Views of Ex-Senator Fitzpatrick on the Proposed Constitution—Reported Di ances at Greenville, Demopolis and Came ° Moxrcomery, Deo, 26, 1867, ‘The Advertiser of to-morrow will contain a letter from ex-Senator Bonjamia Fitzpatrick clearly stating the ‘evils to follow the ratification of the proposed constitu. tion, He regards it_ at war with the civilization of the age, and believes it will produce disorder and conflict of the races, He advocates a defeat of the constitution and the adoption ef one moro tn accordance with the genius of our institutions. It is reported that a disturbance occurred at Gr ville last uight, A military detachment was gent there to restore order, No particulars of the affair have been received, but the latest accounts report all quiet. The Selma papers report disturbances at Demopolis Pee at Camden, towhich poluts troops have been or- ¢ Country—Juarez’ Majer. tty Very Larac. Havana, Dec. 26, 1867. ‘There was much misery throughout the republic in consequence ef the exhaustion and disorganization caused by the protracted war for independence. A gon- eral call wag madeupon the government to take effec _ tive meacdree:to prevent the increasing brigandage to which many people were compelied to resort by hua- gor. TENNESSEE. Christinns la Momphis—Three Persens Kitled Some Dosen Weunded Fracas. PI Memruw, Deo. 26, 1567. Policeman Joho Fenton, white attempting to arrest three drunken mon yesterday on Main street, was shot ‘and mortally wounded. A German lad namod Joseph Peace had teen re-established at Tepic, Scholler was killed by a stray shot, The assassins were Ad official count of the vote for President was to be | oi) arrested and held for trial. A nogro boy named mado in the capital on the 20th, The majority for pinta ha = io hy boad and hayene f led by an hoy, aud some dozen , mostly ni Juarex ie kuown to bo very large. aideetally enct dasiag tha deg tr tbe orontees! Several were coufined 16 of pistols loaded with bail, liberated. Many disturbances of public tranquillity had taken ANA place iu different parts of the republic. oe it \DA. Preparations to Repel n Fenian Uprising on CUBA. Chrietmas Day. i Montruat, Ooo, 26, 1867. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Some uneasiness was oceasioned here yesterday by Christmas Vestivitie—Jef Davis at Vann. reports, which have been in circulation for some time P 7 past, of a proposed Fentan uprising om Christmas day, The festival of dislikes rcs onsclonted hack ee ee cathedral Threatening lotters wi i by th ice authori« with great devotion, The ceremonies of the mpc Berg etre Se Ghoon aneitera Church were of the most solemn kind. As usnal ties, and as @ matter of precaution mea wore sent to guard the water works, and troops kept in readiness to in Catholic coantries, the afternoon and evening were passed ia festivities of the most entertaining move when called upon, Nothing of an unusual charac: character. ter, however, occurred to disturb the festivities of the ‘The steamer Cuba, Captain Dukehart, has ar- | day. rived here ou her way to New Orleans. Jefferson Davis and his wife have arrived here by the Cuba ov their way to New Orleans. , im Perote bad been NEW HAMPSHIRE. Meectivog of the R Committee at Concord. Coxconn, N. H., Dec. 26, 1847. The Republican State Central Committees met to-night at Phosaix Hall, and organized by electing EK. H, Rolling Chairman; Benjamin Gerrish, Jr., Sooretary, 04 Joun Central respondence Between lntetuational Oc rd Naw Youx, Dee. 23, 1967, | <imbeth Trensurer. To his Hxcellency Captain eral Lewsusv1, Havana, | CONNECTICUT. Cada: Aine anrilnnnctitinan ‘The faternational Ocean Telegraph Company congratu- | Aftray at lates itself om the accession to power in Cuba of £0 dis- Aingaished and enlightened a roldier and statesman as your Excellency, and I sm requested by the direetors to express to your Excellency their wishes for your health and success, and their aesurance that nothing ip the ad- State Hospitni-The Steward Severely Stabbed. Naw Havan, Dec, 26, 1867. Jobn Goss yesterday assaulted Joseph Colton, steward of the State Hospital, stabbing him Give times, The arri- val of the police saved Colton's life. The wounds are not eainistration of the affairs of the compauy shall be done | considered dangerous. The steward was attacked while to interrupt the perfect arcord which han existed be | Mate pene Diag duties, and the assault was appa tween the representatives of her Catholic Majesty tu the deland of Cuda and thie company. INDIANA. W. F. SMITH, President. | 2 Havaxa, Doo. 24, 1867, To General W. F. surra. New York:— | I have reovived with great pleasure the congratulations that your Excellency sent me in the name of the direc. the I tors of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, and Fatal Kailrond Accident at Andersen. Ixmanarous, Dec, 26, 1887. A man pamed Joe! Brown, while under the influence of liquor, was ——_ killed by a train on the Chicago and Great Eastern Railroad, at Anderson, tant nighi. Lk ope aber whi ere —— the | * repreren! ves of Datholic | fo ‘he Adtilies % ne | {will try carefully to maintain t EUROPEAN MARKETS, good undersianding, exrrying out thus the recommenda: Doub cdiaaSticls ous Spanah government in behal com: ° 0, nay sree eu Tr Eeeltey te moriay prea | ones Penton Lonny Caanan —tosion we UNDI, the Captain General. over the Kingiom, and there are no regular financial or rp | Commercial transactions to mong the opera- FRANCE. | tons on the street, however, United States five.twonty | bonds have deciined ty aud salos were made at 72),. IAT MLAy" Liverroot Barapetcrrs Marker. —Livea! Dee. | 26—Noon,—A despatch from Liverpooi quotes the bread- studs market quiet, but firm, No business was nciog | transacted, Retatorcewment of the Roman Expeditionary Army—Sadden Death of an American Jour- 4 a Pans, Dee. 26, 1867. Areport that the Freach Fxpeditionary Corps re- maining in Italy i to be reinforced ie confirmed thi: | ’ morning by the Patrie (newspaper), which states that | the French government has issued orders for the de- | & - Ch ce mag ig yoy Parture of twenty thousend more troops for Civita | garly this moruiog. ‘Veeohia. i] . Mr. K. Gowld Buffum, an old American journalist, deo very: Gabba fees dag vetete ‘youartay afer STATEN ISLAND INTELLIGENCE. taking an anodyne, Mr. Butlum bad deew connected | Paral Ran.noav Acccwasr.—Mr, Bode! Cole, of New with & number of American journals, chiefly on the | Dorp, afier transacting business at Tortenvilie yostor- Pacific ovnst, had Written several books, aud at (be tine | Gay, Was awaiting the train tw return home. As the of his doath was the Paris correspondent of the New | twoo’cioox train from Vaniderbiit was nearing the Tot. Vora Hexaty, tenrille depot Mr. Cole was raoning along the track to EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. Livarvoot, Deo, 26,—The ste ip France, Capen Company, which oft + Rerived at this por NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27, WASHINGTON. Determinution of the Presideat te Remove * General Pope. President Johnson has determined, beyond s doubt, to remove General Pope from the command of the Fourth Military District. The step was rescived upon some weeks ago, and has only been delayed by the dim- culty tn Gnding @ competent and reliable successor. This persom has not yet been decided upon, ai rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, The charges against General Pope are numerous and daily on the inerease, ‘The last one is that he encourages the arming and )*ablic displays of armed bodies of negroes, He is biamed for the exh bition made by the negroes on Chrutmas Day in Montgomery, Als, Tho St. Thomas and Ainska Purchases. From a trustwortiry source I learn that the dispaytion of the House ef Representatives previous to their ad- journment was positively inimical to the consummation of the purehase of the islands of 81 Thomas and st. Jona, The recent earthquakes have had tne effect of sbaiting the enthusiasm of masy who fevored the acquisition, and the retreachment agitation has operated unfavorably in @ pecuniary point of view. This, it is anid, accounts for the hesitation of the government in hastening the transfer until the overtoweriug obstacto— an appropriation of the necessary monoy—be either removed or the House take conoldsive action to the contrary, Respecting Alaska, no apprehensions are entertained? a8 to the o0-operation of the House, though it is gpueraliy known many cold votes will be given in its favor, As the United States government has already taken formal possession of that hyperborean region, it is argued that & Dogative of the money feature in the affair would place tho government in a very awkward position, Upon this ground many will support the measure who under other circumstances would act adversely. Great efforts will be made by the House Commitiee on Foreign Affairs to carry both purchases, Ex-Secretary Stanton Preparing His Defence for the Senate—Additional Rensone for His Suspension from Offic Ex-Secretary Stanton bas iroed to this city, and is busy, it is said, preparing his defence before the Senate, What line he will adopt is unkaown to outside barba- rians, as since his retirement from office he bas practised the utmost reticence and secrecy, refusing to be interro- gated by correspondents, and declining to taform even his friends what he is about. The geteral impression Bow seqms to be that he has a poor case, and that he cannot muster a corporal’s guard of supporiers in the Senate, In this connection it may bo stated that the causes assigned in the President's Message for the re- moval of Mr, Stanton are by no means the only ones which led to that result. There were others which, in the mind of the President, furnished sizong grounds for the decapitation of the Secretary. Among these were charges of divulging Cabinet proceedings and of con- niving at the circulation of slanders against the Presi- | dent. As an illustration I may mention that it was charged against Mr. Johusou that he had spoilated Booth’s diary by tearing out of it a number of teaves containing positive evidence of complicity in the assas sination of President Lincoln, These leaves, it was said, were hidden away somewhere in the War Depart- ment, under the control of Mr, Stanton and Judge Advo- cate Genera! Hoit, Whether such icaves existed or not it was doomed by President Johnson to be the duty of the Secretary of War to make the fact known. If the story of the existence of evidence of the kind mentioned was true, Stanton ought to have had the parties impli- cated by the ¢évidence, brought to justice aud con- vieted, even though one of them happened to be | the President of the United States. ‘that, the Provident believed, was a daty the Secretary of War owed to the people, If it were not trac, then, as a Cabinet officer, asa confidential adviser of the President, it was his duty to clearaway such a black cloud from the fame of his superior, Mr. Stanton did neithor the one thing nor the other, though he knew ali along that the story of Prori- deat Johnson's complicity in tne erime was utterly un- founded, This alone, in the Prosident's opinion, was a sufficient ground for Stanton’s removal At the sum- mer meeting of Congress Goneral Scheuck intro- duced a resolution — calling spoctfically for the President to furnish to Congresa a copy of the Cabinet proceedings on unfinished and Incomplete discussions relative to instructions to the ave Military Commanders, It ja charged that Stanton penned that resolution, and mast have informed Scheuck of the character of thas | part of the Cabinet proceedings not given ofticially to the public. The President, as will be remembered, re- fased to accommodate Schenck and Congress on the subject until such time es, im tLe opinion of the Execu- tive, it would redound to the public bonefit to do a0, Notwithstanding this decision of the Presdent, Mr. Stanton, it is charged, furnished the particulars of the | Cabinet discussions sought for by Schenck to the cor- respondent of a Western paper, thus violating the good faith deemed ossentia! in an honorable Cabinet officer. The particulars, the l’resident considers, leaked out from no other quarter. | Tho Retgn of Terror in the Nouth—Three Mil- | m Whites and Bincks Point of | these organizations were a One of your travelling correspondents, who has jus! made an extensive tour of Louisiana, Georgia, Missix- | sippi, Alabama, North Carolina snd South Carolina, represents the condition of the freedinen as heartrepd- ing in the extreme, In all the cotton districts of those States the great mass of the freedmen are not only the point of starvation but possess scarcely a yulliciency of clothing to cover thoir nakedness At most of the railway stations many colored children collect on the arrival of the trains and enter into competition with the famished swine and dogs for the possession of the bones thrown by passengéra from the trains, while scores of lazy negroes collect about the depots as apecta- ; tore, Inthe corn growing districts the prospecis of a famine are not so near, aod whites and blacks are ou friendly terms, He dectares that the negroes are much more destitute than under the old slave réyim/, In many counties of these States the forests are fied with armed negroes, who luat game in day time and make raids upon planters’ stock at night, The reign of terror is goneral io upper Touisiana, lower Mississippi and the cotton districts of Georgia and the Carolinas he destitution, however, is not confined to the placks, | ‘Thousands of the white population have not a mouth’s provisions ahead, and uo money with which to lay in « supply. Many planters, who were farsesing, provided a year’s supply for their families, but the starving negroes have very generally pillaged their smoke houses and granaries and stripped them clean. His estimate of the number of persons (compiled from statistics collected by the Executives of the States and others) who will siarve unless Congress provides some relief, is three millions, two-thirds of whom are negroes. This estimate em- braces Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. He has oo estimate of the other anre- constructed Aiates. Unies prompt action is taken to provide for the starving froedmen and whites the pillaging of the whites will become general, latter «will resist, aod a bioody conflict will be the result, Planters are gene rally alarmed and would leave the country could they raise the means to remove their families, Hundreds areoffering their homes for « more song, but can find no purchasers, Plantations that before the war com- manded as bigh as Oty dollars per acro can be pur- chased for five dollars per acre, so general is the terror that reigns and the desire of the owners to save their famition from the outrages that are thro atened by the pogross, unless atd comes from the government or the | people of the North. On the way North he witnested a striking illustration | of the effect of radical teachings. At Greensboro,"N. C., | | a party of negro emigrants entered the cars, In the | a eens catch it, The engineer view the whistle, but the old | ENGLAND. man being deal ho did not hear it aad continued on the rm iw. track, coweatcher caught bin, throwing coe him over, and the wheels of the ve The New Minister to Washington—The Ki: of bis bead, turling ‘t some eight dom niet Christos Da: feet from the body. Mr. Cole wae an old aad much regretted. An inquest ‘ Losnos, Dec, 26, 1867, | Mr, Balwant Thornton, the newly appointed rinistd eae on eat ie fon ee Of Great Britain to Washington, will sail in a few days Pooaes To Deatt.—A few ts since Captain Joseph Martling, of Port Richmond, was returning from ns wed. ding, at Tottenvilio, in @ cartinge driven by Jacob @oour, and the day was one of tranquillity and good | Heexer, On seating Springville the horses beesune footing. e wubernensed, the parties ” ride home one each. decane The extraordinary measures of caution taken by the 2 a alates wepartad at Fin set lawinesnese were appar: { Capen Fang st fn fot Va fant 60, che” ron negeseary. : for America, (0 eater upon the ee of bis mission, | ‘The expected rising of tho Fenians yesterday did not pretty white giris, Investigation | that they wore the daughters of an — Kagilah gold miner in Guilford county, N. C., and bad | voluntarily loft ther homes as tbe mistresses of two coal black negroes. They are destined to Vincennes, Tad, | and Xenia, Ohio, Much tndignation was manifested by the white paseengors, and threats of lyachiog the Groes wero indulged ia, bat not carried out. Hiness of Thad Stevens. Thad Stevens has. been confined to hiv bed all day from the effects of @ cold taken on Friday fast. This morning Mr, MePhorson, Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives, spont some time w him writing iptiers. It ig not anticipated that the present iiluces of Mr. | Stevens will prove of @ serious character, The Whiskey M: Syatem,. ‘The Sa>-Committoe of Ways and Means, after revorai sessions and interviews with the Of the Treas. ‘ary, have arrived at the conclusion tat ibe Tice metre frauds in will avail nothing tm the matter the manufacture of whiskey. to base their de. cision Upon the most reilabig © series Of experi. mente were mado in the case of the Tice, as well as other metres, and the results were not so favorable as anticipated. The rejection of the metre system will lead to @ radical change in the administration of this branch of the revenue, and necessitates a complete re- modelling io the officers now having charge of tho col- tection of tho whiskey tax, Murder of a White Man by a Negro. Last might, while three ite men were turning & corner in the Firat ward, one of them ran against a col- ored man, who, in company with a colored woman, was going im an opposite direction. The colored man, after uttering an oath, fired bis revolver at the white man, who to-day died from the effects of the wound, The murderer escaped. Appolatment of a Receiver tora Defunct Vir- einia Bank. e Judge Caderwood, who several days ago decreed that the deed of trust im the ease of the Merchants’ National Bank of Baltimore vs. the Bank of the Valley in Vir- ginia was invalid, to-day appointed Hamilton G. Faut, of Richmond, receiver to take charge of the assets of the latter bank, The assets are overs wmillion of dellara, Ratlrend Statistics. Divector Deimar, of the Bureau of Statiatics, reports’ the tegal duthorized mileage of railroads in the United Btates to be 54,000; of which over 33,000 miles have deen completed. The total cost was $1,654,000,000, Untted States Supreme Court. The following cases were disposed of im the United States Supreme Court to-day:—~ No, 67—United States, appetlants, va, Schooner Soa Witeh aad cargo. Case - No < apeiped Slaton ‘eppetlaats, ve. Brig Gaziena Hilligonda and cargo, argued. at ‘Cage a ee io a va. Se € Oregen, "Cass argucns” PNT I error, vm Samuel G. Courtney, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on motion of Attorney General Stanbery, was to-day admitted to prac- tice ia the Supreme Court of the United States. & Pending Affair of Honor at Washington. {From the Evening Telegram of yesterday. ] Wasminctos, Dec, 26, 1967, A Gael ‘sou the tapis here between a major general and am ex-capiain of the Army of the Potomac, The difficulty originated at the opera on Monday evening in this way :—Ihe captain referred to, who is noted for his gallantry and politeness, occnpied a seat in the orcbestra, and eeeing iua private box a friend with whom he de- sired: to speak he endeavored to pass out in the direction nearest the poiut he sought. a the eame line of seats with the captaia was the major general, at a distance of some three or four chairs from the end, The occupants of all the intermediate seats, with the exception of the major general, quietiy arose to jet the captain pass out, The tnan of two stars, however, was leaning agafost tho row of seats ‘ront, and showed po sign of moving aside, The captain aaid to him, “General, please al- low me (o pass out fora moment.’ The major general answered, without moving, ‘This is mot tho way to air, You-shell not get out this way, Go aroun other way, ‘General,’ said the Captain, “I thought you were a gentleman, You are a general, and ought to be a gentieman, but you behave like a ruillan, Allow me to pass," At this point a person in military uniform who was in company with the general rewarked to the captain, ‘Phat Is not the way, sir, in which to address a goneral.’” ‘The captain reptied, “My quarre! is with tbat man,’ general. “and not with you. Allow me ral, The general refused to budg and the captain seeing a number of ladies about, a unwilliog to interrupt the performance by a row, re: strained his indignation and passed out ia an opposite direction, ince sont a challenge to 0 will brand him in the ‘come out.” ‘The afair the parties are both nds iu Washington, the goneral, newspapers if be refuses to causes quite an oxcitetaent her well known aud have inang fi Generat Mende Declines a Military Come munderahip. [From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Wacuin , Dec, 26, 1867. It is stated to-aay that Goneral Meade, having ex- pressed to the President his dosire to remain in com- mand of the Departwent of the Fast, it has teen docided Pope {rou to select some other officer to relieve Gen command of the Fourth Military District, ' ning Telegram of yesterday.) Wasinorox, Deo, 26, 1867. ‘The order issued some time sinos, directing the dis- -) Vandment of the irregular militia organizations (white wes, ne {-™ ould bave THE SHIPPING INTEREST. ee Aspect of the Commerce of tee Clty~What Is Detug in Exports=The Trado with Culifor- nin, Aust Perts-Unemployed Vesscis—Sallers ? Longehoremen and their Present Condition. Nothing is more calculated to give a correst ides of the depressed condition of trade in this eity at the Prevent time, the almost complete prostration of buéle ness than a walk through those streets which border the river side, True, long double lines of carts, drays and other vebicles used in the conveyance of goods may be percetved filing in funeral order in opposite directions; but the attentive observer will not fall to note that many of them are uuladen, while tbere is that in the mien and bearing of their drivers indicative of an indifference to haste and an indisposition to become unduly excited, which unmistakably procaine that Dusiness (s dull, and is ia glaring coutrass to what might have been seen in former periods of great commercial activity, i "LORGEHOREM EY Along the whole length of the strests borderiag those ricketty projections which are dignified by the mame of pliers crowds of rough looking men congregate {np groups at corners, surrounding garb- exe boxes, or in front of liquor stores, philosophically engaged im the Micawberic eccoupation of waiting for “domething te turn up," Pending this ‘“‘coasummation most devoutly to be wished,"”’ they smoke short pipes and discuss the leading topics of the day, being simost unanimous in thele convictions that the Alabama claims ought to be paid. These are what are known es ‘long- shoremen, In busy times their services are in great de- mand {p loading and unloading vossels, and the present stagnation presses upon them with peculiar hardship. ALONG THE DOCKS. ‘While is ts unmistakably true that business is duil, very dull, it aa status of affairs by vo means of recent inception. Bat very little ditferencs ists between the condition of business now and a ir since, although im the intermediate time there was more of activity am h greater’ commercial stir than now exists. A comparison of the situation now this time last year exhibite a rem: le uniformity of AMUSEMENTS. ders Watisox's Tucaree.—Tho Christmas vill of fare of Wallack’s was tbat sparkling od anvusing oid Engiism comedy, the “Double Gailant,"’ writtsa by a distin { gulshed Bonemtan named Colley Cibver one hundred nd sixty years ago. The title is suggestive of » fear- ful labyrinth of awful firtations, and the pilot of the play in developing them brings out # eucceasion M Sunay Giscoveries and amusing situations ail the way tbrongif.” Tt isacpicy, sprightly and sparkling old comedy, aba ite moral is simply this—thet human nature in New’ York in i867 is pretty much what « was tw Loudom in 1707, especially im the “Double Gatiant.” The play, with ite twenty-one differeas characters, Was o'cely cast and neatly done, Indeed, from the inepitetions of Christmas night and a Christmas audience the j@ aud the house were in the happiest accord, aud the Mt wea a perfect success and fun and sbarpgarcesms and cool rascaltites of the I re eaPyed BOB lex 1) wagon up the h all pullin, serves Wall of fifty characters. Here! Jew's magic Gute, “discourses most exceilent In @ll these essentials to the enjoyment of the dt , thes bighost degree—a choice play, fino performers, u tic and a govd house, in quantity and qi A ‘tains night, 1867, at Wallack’s, may be yecorded ag 8 go example, Jan scsomen ox Hen Ow Hoox;—We learn that famous’ German actress Miss Fanny Janauschek beg sueceed.v@ im closing her engagement with Maretzek, Her perf.wrmances and those of her company, here ang elsewhere in joe United States, will henceforth be under her own ment. If sho be as successful in mane aging as sho is great in seting she will haveno reason to compiain of the change, Rustort,—Madame Adelane Ristori appears to-night im” conditions, slowing that the causes which operate to Produce the exieting depression are neither ephemoral nor easy of removal, but deep seated aud of a character requiring sound jadgment {o their conrideration and radicat dealing in every effort made for their removal. There are at present in this port ninety steamers, rixty- five ships, ninety-two barks, ove hundred and five brigs and one bundred and sixty-tbree schooners, making a total of five hundred and fifteen vessela, In the first week in January of the present your there were in port ninety-five steamers, seventy-seven ships, ninety- three bare, ove hundred and thirty-three brigs and one hundred and sevénty-two schooners, being # total of five hundred'and seventy vessele, exhibiting a differ. ence of fifty-five vessels in favor of the trede of jast year, Of the versels now im port from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five are lying idle, with but tite prospect of employment; the baiance, although receiving freight, yet obtaining it so slowly that they are often obliged to remain in dock fora month, when, in a comparatively tusy season, they would be foaded aud despaiched in- side of a week. Of the one hundred and i¥ty vessels above mentioned between thirty-five and forty are | stoamers, At pior 14 East rivera very fine steamer 15 | lying, which bas fitted a berth there for overs year. | Much of the import trade of thie port is done fo British | bottoms, to the great injury of tho American shippiug interest. The condition of the piers and wharves, which at ono time operaiocd to (the injury of | American commerce, bas been so far improved since the | passage of the act of Inst sossion that, although: stitt more abominable, they no longer presout those almost invurmountable obstacles to their use for the purposes | were designed, which one would think ven shipping not positively obliged to It is possible now to | come here to some other port. drive acart down oue of thos to receive or deliver a 4 if the horse should happen to fall through a | 4 an wafortauate accident, but may be avoided | by careful driving. The most active business now being | done m the various brancues of commercial enterprise which has given the city of New York such pre-om- uence over tie other citles of the continent, is ia | 1 THE VALFOKNIA TRADE, | | which, from a condition of almost apathy, lias within | the last *sixty or ninety daya become most stirriag. Freighs are fuir, higher than they were during the sommer, but In considerable demand. The principat articles being forwarded are railroad iron and machinery, pig iron, coal and agricultural implementa, besides large quanuities of hardware, drugs and Liquor. On two voasels now alfmost ready to sail 2,000 gallons of whis- | key have been shipped, This 1 the bury seagon with | California shippers, goods being despatched vow, 30 that they may rench San Francisco before the rainy season seta Ia, transportation to the interior being | exceedingly dificult’ during — that jod ee | | cause of the condition of the roads. average number of vessels which leave this port during the year for California t# between seventy and eighty. Although leaving under tne designation of regu lar liners they and black) in the District of Columbia, which occasioned at the time such an outcry on the part of the radical press of this city, the complaint being grounded on the Asgartion that the restraint Was intended to cutirely alfect the negroes, accomplished its object, though not In"the Epon the recipt of the ord by General Fmery a point aros milltary to break up these organizations, except during the existence of martial law. The question having arisen the General-fu-Cbief, with the assent of the President, directed the suspension of (he order, and the leaders in t for and requested to take advantage of the militia laws, to which proposition they assented. Although the order has never been revokod the suspension effectually terminates its co, The or- ganizations ed at have disbanded, at ioact so far the kno! of the government ie concerned, and stops are known to have been taken to evntinae wi Jegal authority. Salety of the Cutte ier Retin ation. {From the Evening Yelegram of yesterday. } Wasnisatox, Dec. 26, 1867. ‘The Troasury Department bas received a despateh stating that the revenue cutter Rotiance, Capiam Hen- e—Voliticn! Ree | riques, which feft Baltimore on the 15th of August for Sao Francisco, arrived safe at St. Catherines, Brazil, on the 22d of October, having had heavy weather and Lead winds throughvut pearly the whole passaxe, Fears were entoriained fer the safoty of the Reliance, but ae has proved horself to be an excellent seagoug esol. ‘Tho dospatch siated that she would «mi on the 27th for Sa Francisco, Erastus Foote, Collector of Customs at the port of Wiscasset, Maine, bas resigned. No sor will be appointed gutit the recess of Congres MOZART GENERAL CONMITTEL, A museting of the Mozart Committee was bed last evening at Mozart Hall, No, $14 Brondway, William P, Leo presided and called the meeting to order, The roll haying been called, the following resolutions were pro- posed and adopted :— Resolved. That the ordeal through which Mozart Hall has ust passed leaves it strengthened and puritied, soane Auindstreuds aud. open combination. of all the corrupt Ine taresia of the city organized by Tammany Holi have neither dispirited vor irupatred the eflicieney of tho part jRevolved, ‘That th elect! ied inte Under this s,stero an can be accomplished without reference to the pupuler wish, Headed by high oiliciais selected to euforce the law, aud ast ained by public moneys ity troanury, the polttioaf power this crea most invinel: Tiesolved, That the time has arrived when good clitzens must seok for a rpaedy. The general demoralization of the city guverament has been knows sad admitied for years bat how for the first time means for the perpetuation of this condition of things have been found in the new tuctios drawe from ted as beeon by which th: ry re denied any vulce in accomplishing political res g batlot box. Resoiy at this Organization will contions in the fu. ture, as past, to offeran unyleldr ion fame Hall, elying “on the ror ol use we represent, aud beileving that 29 reckiow @ faction muat Souner or later fait to places wy i we shall maintain the fight agai ‘and resolation ion, it with resewed energy of effecting a more of. mittee to Pormonnel of the General Comrnitie, and hereby give to that comiittes full authority to create (he committee for 1868 and to reorgaalze the party ons Grm and improved basis Kerolved, the nuel Tl which to Tammany fin Ls he post, Fesa'e Served Wane a0 090 votes, around all who a correct the Abuses of U, wecan hold the balance of power ta th ipled men. shoruly after adjourned. IMPORTANT RAILWAY CASE. Woe Hundred aod Fitty Thousand Dollars Involved, {From the New Albany (Ind.) Commercial. | An important raitroad case is now before the Cireatt Court, a special term of which ts now being held by Judge Jowett, of the Court of Commen Pieas. The of property affected by the seit will be vory reat, ot lose than $150,000. The ug residence owned no P, Cromie, on Upper Mafn; the beautiful country sent lavely ging (0 Cap@un Gobb, north of the Fair Grounds, a8 weil as sovemn! business houses, are incladed im the list of ren! eawate likeiy to chauge ownership from the povstb!e issues of this case, ‘The state of the questions at imsue is ebowt as fol lo The New Albany and Santiusky Halirond Compa- ny issued bonde to the ammount oF $110,000, sennred by mortgage upon property in this city, The bonds wore eo MOrigage eventually forecioeed And the Pp y #0. At the time of the forecinaure three of the bonds were not found, asd wore therefore not included in the jude ment onder whic! soid for the venett of the bond! of $1,090 each, were of Lindley. of Washington suit, Te asks that the gage bo bi top and enable bin to une Thia would require that ¢ y show! to tho railroad compaag the etock holders: gaging iv the China or Last Tndin trade, or take cargos | Or'graiu for England. This trade is pretty sten not subject to much fla Nine vessels \ we Am the Tanuary of this year there were seven WK AURPRALIAN TRADE is jcularty dail just now. © Americaa manu- factured goods are ro high, owing to the heavy tax im- | posed by the infernal revenue enactments, shat too eek want trade, bas hoon 80 cheap (here la now flood The other principal articies of | export in th’s direction aro lumber an we. Hardware tou! are genorally in good demand, There are no reguinr tradera with Australin, bat about twenty-eight vessels leave here every year under charter parties in propor. | tion to #ix to New South Wales, sixteen to Melbourne, | aud six to New Zealsad, Freiguts have receatly vanced, and are néw about | irty cents, are now up for Melbourne and two tor Sydney, South Wales. In the fitss weelt of January this year Three vessels | | | (hore was but one for each of these ports | THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON TRADE | hag passed almost from the clipper ships to the steam- | ors, the use of steam for #bort voyages having almos' | j entirely superseded the sailing vestele. All of thena | lines carry passengers, and in their outward bownd trips | from Evginnd bring cargoes of emigrants Freight they , contrive 10 zet here somehow, but not with that prompt. | | ness with which they would ofler ti the goneral business of | | the country were prosperons. Asa rule, those which are | | not positively obliged to sail at a particular time are very | much delayed. Sailing vesxels fare worse, althoagl | within the iast six weoks freight was offered protiy lively. The sbip Daniel Webster, which jet bere on + | Friday last, went omiy partly leaded, but could bere | | filled up if sho bad watied longer. It is sald, however, | | it was cheaper for her to leave bere licht and seek a | | freight on the other than to delay longer in this | | port for freight to offer. Quite a numrof vessels bave | left here recently in a mmilar speculation, the idea | being that the taking np of tonnage by’ the brit ish government for the Abysinian expedition would create ® yacuum of which, i i hoped, | they would receive the navaniaye, ‘The launch of wav eral vessel# vow buildivy down Kast has bach postpoued | to the spring in consequence of thi# sizguation, and a | great many of the vessels sesking obarters require ad. | vances to pay of expenses whieh have secrued duriag theit prolonged period of inactivity, The ehtpwent of | | cotton from the Sow hery ports on theough b's of tact. | | ing, via New York—a aystam of commerce originated | since the war—furnishes the major part oi the treghia | im this trade, | THe SOUTH RY TRADY fs generally dull. Some title iv doing with Washing. ton, but the Charleston, Savenval: and New Orleans lines are not doing much; indeed it tH suepectod that none of them are paying, or if go not mech bayond that Great corapetition existe in thie coasting trade, th steamers sold by the goveruiment ‘mmediately upon thi clone of the war having been purchesed by Various oo panies, and put on the several lines ranoing South: ju anticipation of « speedy settiement of tne political isces which hed distracted the conatry sud @ conasquent great demand for Northern products and manufaciores, Iy this they were disappointed, and now many of thexe vessels Hie rotting In dock withow ; employment. Phe Wost [udia trade, although som ». what it has beeu. At this seneon of the year cargow@ of sugar are being shipped here, but the importations W vere are greater from the Cuited Kingdom than from «| States, such articles as thay require being cheaper frou there, votwithanding the grenar ; anc t they bave to be brought, it conraquee the reduced cost of their manafacture Vv the first place; secondly, the greater cheapne xs of fitting out vessels, and, shirdiy, the lower ° raw of seamen's ‘A slight demand exists for ¥@ seein for Cuba, bat te not equal to last yey were then chartering at from ne 4 to, sixty while this year vot more than Strom ntiy cen! to Afig-Ove ‘cone is being paid. The fnil- ure, recently, of «large sugar bone in t# 6 city has Induced great caution 'p purchasing car, with Rio Janeiro is sito very slack, shipped there, Freight# are about v Littie offers, scarcely any Gour be! hast trade Deing done with there ports is Se oe aon tn modorately lie | present. imber, kerosene oil, lard, ror in and (urpev- | Une are algo staple articies of this trade the . rn sattons of course feo! to a great extent this 4 nese which com fines so many venvels to the piety whieh, i! freighte would but would be dai ore of the deep in search of a markets The ® amanda for seamen at provent is very limited, more ao, y, opi of ow of the ent agente, than it baw years, uate od Henge howe ve) wages paid them within two yew able reaman $30, On long vi “ often paid only $25, some supply of seamen was short oe ere a or cumsances, but thoy take am 'gie com) ton when tho next tara of the whee! ms ~ Soma prin 4 port—those connected , forming » distinct class bretbre pi foriner are ction their abips, mostly merried, and are “elected with & rt 2a, tbeir steadine mand ai A fn the ‘or goveraiiy ia regular con o 4 mode! trade S08 eijer--namsiy, the in Kteameabip Bailors’ Society sed jon, They ere organize, bean ” usually rotoain on the other side on. | ind | | vividly every eliaracier ne assays, | order of ue | Wargrooms Now 1 what livelier, ts wot very promising, and novning WV xe | Albaay, and will return to New York to-morrow. She ‘will commencoa short season at tho Fhédtre Frangale on Mouslay nigit, selecting the great charactus of “Marig’ Aatoineie’’ for that occasion, CHARLES DICKENS’ READINGS. - “A Christmas Carol” and the Priat Scena” im Pickwick. That chapter of t¥e inimitable “Pickwiek Papere,'" which, accoréimg to the table of contents, “is wholly’ devoted to a full and faithful report of the memorable triad of Bardelt against Pickwick,” has probably beea oftener read than any other selection contained in the works of Charlies Dickens, As consequence, the sub Joct matter of it is more extensivety and more particu- larly known to the countless readers of the great Kug- lish govelist, and therefore the announcement that #® was to be read by it# author was sufficient to attract to © Steinway Hall last evening (as it bad on all previows” occasions) large and refined audience—the more go ms the “Christuras Carol” was offered in addition aa another dish going towards the makeup of this inteltectual fast, ‘The “Carol’’ was read first. Every reader of Dickous f# familiar with it, wad each of them bas formed in his mind what it appeara to. Bim must be the oniy possible impersonation of ite principal characters, Not one of thom, however, it is safe to say, would find Dickens’ portrnyal of these widely known yet ideal personages to bo such as ho ba@ pictured t Old Scrooge, the avarictous money screw; Bot fehett, the humble, whole sonled ané contented clerk; ‘liny ‘Vim, the puny cripple, who, om account of hia’ vary helpiessness, had a more tham ordinury hold on tho affections of his loving father, are uot, whem invested with tho living voiwe by their , the same that they appese to be ferred to the reader's Lraim from the pake of Evea tho traneparent form of Mariey’s ts a different view when described to us by - Dickens in porson, instead of Dickens on paper; is becomes then doubly paipable to the sense of’ vision, how, ‘when looking through the broast of his ghost large walsteoat we can plainly discern the gilt The “Christmas Carol’? bacom: lion one -hears it read by Dickens Rover can one get at the pith ang pointedness of thet immortal opowmse speech of Ser- | geaut Barfus to “a couscientions, sympathizing aad coutemplative jury of his countrymen ;'' or form a true conception of the tone aad manuer in which Mr. Justice Mtareleigh so comprehensively delivered his charge— that mivister of the Jaw who “was a particularly and so fat that he seemed all face nd when seated all you conid soe of wo qneer little eges, one broad pink face, an@ awoow halt of a big and very comical lool until be bss benrd thi pecimens of ability from tho lips of their author. wh Justetal The court soede was inimitably rendered throughout, ao@ lowlarly ao were the examinations of tho witnesses jatheniet Wiakle (whose Christian name was ae engeme litle prospect of profit is presented in their exportation: | to tne fat Hltle {iatios) and the. ready w while kecosone oll, Which. was a staple article of this | tor, who always spelt it with @ ¢ we. rT pes tm, Wok pr some time that the market | 1 in Mr. 1 vince on er listening to bit for only a few minuios, that, had he adopted tho #iage inaiead of authorship as hig profension, he would evon havo risen to the dignity of estar of the firet magaitnde, let bis audiences have beew evor eo critical. His “reading” is, in fact, a specion of protean acting, wherein the sole actor revdera most Tt Is neediess to add that every “point’ made by the actor reader Inst evening was folly appreciated by his hearers, who ac kuowledged bis enecessful efforts by giviug bom free juont and hearty applause, Wow, On Tharaday, December 26, Witt cam Wavewr, aged 49 years, Vhs frionds and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from 654 West Pittye second atroet. on “aturday, at twoive o'clock noon, (Por other Deaths ae Sixth Page.) AN Kinds of neatly & Plain and Faney ly exeowled, at ra the METROPOT . oloew be ING ESTABLISHM A.-tiniversal Kxpeeall STEINWAY & BONS tric the fires grand gow Upright, Pianos, untfopal Jury more tb ar haadred penrty all the most, cote at over non entered for conpatition by Am Furepe. 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