The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or nejs letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hyratn. N. He, committed sutcide with: pr ic acid in that NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 's, 1868. will be no more impeachment and bis term of city on Saturday. He was only twenty-aix cat Of | office will soon’ expire: We call upon him, age. 4 snow storm prevailed in Augusta, Me,, all day yesterday, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Page, of Phitade!phia; Coldpel 3. R John- son, of the United States Army, and Lieutenant Commander E.G. Watson, of the United Navy, are at the Hoffman House. Ex-Governor Underwood, of Vermont; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, end C. J, Gilmore, of Maine, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Letters and packages should be properly Baron Drlesen, of St, Petersburg, Russia, and aealed. “Rejected communications will not be re- Theo. F. Randolph, Governor elect of New Jersey, are at the Ularendon Hotel. ase , Ernest Gogdeaux, French Consat at New Orteans, and Lee Guinness, of Loudoa, Bugland, are at the Brevoort House, to AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S Lhe Broadway and ith street.— Tue Lancasuyee Lal NIBLO'S (GARDEN, Broadway—Mns. D. P. BowEns as Queen Evizeuere. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Arrer Dank; 08, SOENES IN Livz IN LONDON—NICODEMUS NODLES. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of ighth avenue and ‘33d street.—La + i BRLLE HELENE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth Rue. —GENEVIEVE DE Brapant. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-Huarry Dumptt, wits New Feature. street and Sixth ave- : BROADWAY THEATRE. Brosdway—Mas. F. W. Lax- ‘DEBS AS MARIE ANTOINETTE. ‘ GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery. — ADRIBNNE LrocouvERUR MRS F. B. CONWAY'S PABK THRATRE, Brooklyn. JARETIE, THE Lirr.e -ARD OF FRANCE. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammaoy Building, 14th street,—ETH1OPIAN MINSTRELSY, 40. 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OPERA HOUSE, Will b— Hoouur's MINsTERL6—BUBLESQUEH— ARON AUTO, Or “ART GALLERY, &5 Broad Paintinas. : pas ram MBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, roadway.— BGIBMOK AND ART, aigepenges or EXHIBITION OF OIL 9 1868, ‘New York, Monday, November a ‘Marshal Serrano has confirmed General Prim’s appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish army. General Dulce will leave for Cuba in December, ‘The republican party has held meetings deciuring ‘against a monarchy in Spain. Genera! Prim objects Wo sOidlers taking part in politics, The Papal army is being reduced by aumerous de- sertions. The steamship City of Paris, Captain Kennedy, from Liverpool! 28th and Queenstown 29th uit., arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. ‘ St. Domingo. Our St. Domingo letter Is dated October 20, Father Buggenics, the Apostolic Vicar, who recently ar- | rived as the Pope's Nuncio, was formeriy a parish | priest jo St, Thomas, and was used by Baez in 1866 | to incite rebellion in St. Domingo against Cabral, who compeiled him to leave the island. The finan- cial condition of the country grows worse every day. No business is done, the government has no inoneg, and it is doubtful if any support will be rendered to | Mr. Sullivan's proposed line of steamers to New York | and New Orleans, The revolution was spreadiag. Hayti. Advices ‘rom Port au Priuce are to the 27th ult. | The Alexandre Petion, gunboat, was slightly dam- aged in the bombardment of Jeremie. Four coun- terfeiters of Haytien paper money had been captured by the police. The finances, according to the report of the Minister, M. Tate, have cecidedly improved of Jate. Generals Lynch and Montes, of the insurgent army, have been arrested by the other rebel com- manders and sent under guard to St. Marc. Miscellancons. Genera Grant's nnexpected arrival in Washington ‘was the town talk there yesterday. He kept himself aloof from all comers during the day, passing moat of his time at the army headquarters. The sentinel on duty in front of his residence, and the servants at the door, were-all questioned without success by SB fi feporters. It is said, however, that his entire has been agreed upon. Senator Wade, it is understood, expects the Treasury Department. Another democratic flank movement is proposed. It is to have the States which went for Seymour cast their electoral votes for Grant and thus secure him & unanimous vote of all the States, It is thought by this means he will be relieved of any obligation to party and can preside impartially over the whole coantry without being bound by any partisan policy. » Senator Wade and Speaker Colfax are in Washing- ton for the purpose of calling Congress together and adjourning it to-morrow. A serenade was given to Speaker Colfax in Cam- den, N. J., on Saturday night, and he responded in a neat speech, ‘The collision of the steamshipa General Meade and Marmion was published in the ship news column of the Hgnaup yesterday. The collision occurred off Sandy Hgok and near the Scotland Lightship. A telegraph signal on the Marmion was mistaken for hex vort light, and the Meade ran into her amidships, “Causing one of her bollers wo burst, without, how- ever, severoly injuring anyone on board. The Mar- mion sank to her main deck and the Meade had @ hole knocked in her bows, from which she leaked badiy and \\ was found necessary form her on tus Jersey fats. ee ed : The Right Rev. Bishop Kip, of California, preached in the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation yesterday morning on the missionary work accomplished by the Church in his State. The corner stone of the St. Vincent do Paul Orphan Asyium, on Twenty-third street, was laid In the presence of a large assemblage, Vicar General Starrs officiating. The Free Methodiats, asmall body of worshippers who believe that God and the Bible have not changed to accommodate the fashions, were addressed in an upper room on Fighth avenue by the Rev. Mr. Henderson. The de votion ended by prayer, nearly all present praying audibly or indulging in ejaculatory demonstrations. ‘The Rev. Mr. Ward preached in the Allen street Methodist church, and proved that dancing was 6ip- +Neo. 314 Geneval Schofeld, Secretary of War; W. D. Bara. ing, of ihe United States Coast Survey; Colonel Jas. —= | E. Tait, of Baltimore, and Geo, A. Adler, of Salt Lake City, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge W. E, Wilson, of Massachusetts; Colonel Adams, of Waterbury, Conn., and Judge Gibson, of Yazoo, Miss., are at the St. Juiien Hotel, Mr. McCulloch’s Financial Statemest—A New Secretary Wanted. On the heel of Mr. MoCulloch’s monthly Treasury statement, in which he puts s better face on the financial condition of the govern- ment than in preceding months, rumors come thick and fast from Washington that he is likely to be overhauled, and that the President at last has discovered his incapacity and insen- cerity. We hope it is so, and thst Mr. John- son. Ww nd him. A more incompetent Sascaey ol bs teeciary never controlled the financial affairs of a great country. His last monthly statement, in which he makes it ap- pear there is a reduction of the debt of over seven millions of dollars, amounts to nothing. If the receipts have been larger or the drafts | paid emailer the last month than in former months, that may arise from incidental causes or acunning manipulation of the finances. To understand how the Treasury Department has been managed, or rather mismanaged, we must take the last year's statement or the financial condition of the government for the last three years anda half, since peace was restored. ; b The national debt has been increased, ac- cording to Mr. McCulloch's own showing, within one year over thirty-five millions. It may be said that this amount and six millions more have been issued in bonds to the Pacific Railroad Company. But the debt has been increased nevertheless, and yaluable and Be- cesaary as tliat “Great work of @ railroad across the continent may be, there is reason to believe the bonds will be permanently. saddled upon the government and people. Howevor this may be, it is the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to see that the total expenditures and liabilities of the government shall not exceed the income. More than that, it ‘is his duty to see that the debt should be diminished rather than increased. It is needless to’ point to the extravagance of Congress and to lay all | the blame on that body, though it has been 4 fearfully reckless and corrupt. Had he not Aéseoived Congress as to the finances of the country by too flattering a Féproséntation, and had he urged necessary measures of reforin and economy, he would have checked extrava- gant appropriations. This was his duty. But be had neither the capacity nor inclination. | Then, with the enormous income of the Treasury, he might have used it in such am economical manner as to | have brought the debt down several hundred | millions below what it is. Within the last four | years, or nearly so, of peace the receipts of the Treasury have been sixteen hundred millions, or, by reducing the gold receipts to curreacy, nearly eighteen lundred millions. Even in this, the fourth year of pence, the income ap- proaches four hundred millions, yet the debt has been increased over thirty-five millions. Why, with such an income in the hands of a statesman or great financier not only would all | the liabilities of the government have been covered, but there would have beena large surplus applied to the liquidation of the debt. Bat that is not all, The Treasury has lost hundreds of millions by frauds upon the reve- nue, arising chiefly from the incapacity and mismanagement of the Secretary. Then he has kept the money market in a disturbed state through his gold sales and operations, and has at different times pnralyzed trade by his stupid efforts to contract the currency. It is well known that Congress had to check him in his contraction folly in order to save the country from general bankruptcy. He has manipulated the debt so as to make the yearly interest larger and more burdensome. Instead of studying the welfare of the mass of the people he is the most active friend of the bondholders, the large capitalists and that great swindle upon the public—the national banks. He is nothing more than ao small country banker in his ideas and manner of then, to signalize the last months of his admin- istration by making a clean sweep of all belonging to the incapable and corrupt old Treasury ring, beginning with Mr. McCulloch, who is the centre around which the whole revolve. Two Civil Wars at Once—The Oyster aud Other Spoils. Old Abe was of opinion that it was best to have one war at a time, and permitted the nation ‘te endure at the hands of England the ingult and outrage of the Alabama business rather than violate so safe a rule. Hence the destruction of our commerce and qur temper and terrible logs of time in reading Seward’s despatches, to say nothing of the vexation of Reverdy Johnson and his apologies to that famous old invalid, the British lion, for our bad behavior. Now we are’ more than half ready to conviot Old Abe of a too timid spirit, of 3 too great fearfulness of war; for here we have actually doubled Old Abe's allowance without evident damage. We have two wars on hand, eaging in full fury, either as bad as the Dorr war in Rhode Island, or the anti-rent war up the Hudson, or the whiskey war in Pennsylvania, or Peter Stuyvesant’s dreadful war with the Delaware mon, orany other of the famous wars of history—two such wars, and we are none the worse for them, or not much the worse. Except for a little tightness in the money market down in Wall street, a tendency to speculation and panic in all sorta of fancy printed paper, an unusual extravagance in the style ‘of Indice’ dresses at the opera and the appearance of notes from G. W. B. in the papers, we might almost fancy that there was as profound a peace in the land as we all hope there will be when Grant takes hold. Yet there isa dreadful war on the Chesa- peake waters between the Virginians and the Marylanders. From the character of the com- batants this war evidently is no trifle. We all know how the Virginians fight, Haven't we heard of the Army of Northern Virginia, and Stonewall Jackson, and Governor Wise, and Magruder, and Lee, and all the other sons of the mother of States and of statesmen, who, though she has lately boen looked'upon as no better than she ought to be, is a stout old girt nevertheless?) We know that the Virgi- niand will fight—at least while they ‘preserve that fine sensibility of character that makes the fear of being laughed at for running awa; more terrible than the fear of an theasy to front. We also know that the Marylanders will fight. We know the history of the Balti- more streets. Moreover, we have heard of the Maryland line. Whether it is only a common chalk line, or whether it is a firat cousin to the equator, or whether it isthe line with which they catch the Spanish mackerel they have at Guy's, is point of no importance whatever. We have heard that this line, like Solon Shingle's grandfather, ‘‘fit into the Revolu- tion,” and we have no doubt It ‘‘fit” better than Nihil did, for there was good material in ‘it, It was composed of two regiments of in- fantry, all Irishmen. Thus there is no doubt that the Marylanders will fight and the Virgi- nians will fight if there is an object worthy of their prowess In dispute, and the object in this case is-—-tho oyster! They will fight, of course. Who would not fight for his oystera? Now that nigger breeding as a busindss is done with; now that the soil of Virginia is so ex- hausted for tobacco thatthe best districts hardly give a crop, and now that, as always, it takes labor to raise wheat, the oyster is Virginia's bottom dollar—her last source of wealth; so she will fight in this war with all the chivalry of her spirit—first, because the object is her beloved oyster; next, because it is the last resource of her sons in making money. Mary- land, therefore, is not going to have an easy time on the Chesapeake. The other war is in Florida, and is trivial to the oyster war, It is a war of the politicians about the plunder. We have no great respect for the Florida fighters themselves. They threshed little Hay once, Old Abe's secretary, pretty badly; but as Hay was not of much account on the field of slaughter they are entitled tono honor for the achievement. But this Florida war has a more seriows aspect when we remember that all the combatants of both sides went from Massachusetts. Massa- chusetts will fight terribly when the spoils are in danger; so there may be some bloody noses yet. It seems the Legislature has found out that the Governor has got a better hold on the State purse than they have, and that he “ies,” (that being radical for a difference of opinion); so they have impeached him. He in return has impeached all the members in his way—has declared their seats vacant under the constitution because they held other offices. The war will give us a fine view of the way doing business, and he shaves the public just as he would customers over a bank counter. He has no knowledge of the interests of the people as distinguished from those of the great capitalists and money lenders, and no sympa- thy with them. Looking at these undeniable facts, is it not high time a change sbould be made in the Treasury Department? No business estab- lishment would keep such an incapable man in its employ a day. There are four months yet before the new administration comes into power, By suspending Mr. McCulloch now nd appointing ao ablo maa in his place Mr, obnson can render tho country a great ser- vice; can save millions upon roped to of ‘Treasury, and prepare the way for # new an better -- of things under General Grant. Aemall country banker, a country lawyer or a local politician will not do. The Secretary of the Treasury should be a man of great expe- rience in financial matters—one who has been accustomed to deal with such matters and business generally on a large scale. Such ean be found in this great commercial and financial metropolis, and from here the finance minister of the republic should be taken. We fal and Christians should not indulge init. Rev. 8. | might name several, but we know of none H. ‘Tyng, Jr, preached st the Wigwam, in JereY | more suitable than Commodore Henry G. City, to an immense crowd. Henry Ward Beecher preached at Plymouth church in the morning and Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, in the evening. . The Right Rev, 8. V. Ryan was consecrated as financial operations, Stebbins. No one is better acquainted with the business tants of the country or large He fs capable and sulta- Bishop of Buffalo in that city yesterday with im: | bJe in every way, is well known abroad as well “ ceremonies. Pope Loatevilie Journal haa been consolidated wi r the style of the Courter the Loutsville Courter, De Preaties bas been thé | of New York. Perhaps Mr, McCulloch editor of the.Journal since its inception in | try to play the game of Stanton over again if heme aithongh he ts apparently still connected | &4 gare puspended or could not get a man and Journal, George D. ‘1890; bat, ty | 8 at home for his financial ability, and would be most acceptable to the business community might government is carried on in a reconstructed State, unless (which fortune forfend) the par- tios, finding each other's power, make peace on a fair distribution of the spoils. The Portuguese in Mozambique. Our cable despatches inform us that the Portuguese have met, with serious reverses in Mozambique—an expedition of some six hun- dred men having been all but completely de- stroyed by the natives. The despatch is neither very intelligible nor very correct. We are not told why the expedition was sent into the interior. We are vaguely told that the expedition was in Mozambique. When It is borne in mind that Mozambique is, strictly speaking, the chief city or metropolis of the Portuguese possessions on the east ge of Africa, and that when it is used in a latger sense it signifies the whole territory in that quarter claimed by the Portuguese, it will be seen at once bow meagre and imperfect ig tre cable despatch, Dr. Livingstone, In his latest book on Africa, makes loud complaints agpinst the Portuguese for the iniquitous en gen ment given by them to the slave trade in ti quarters, If this expedition had anything to do with the support or encouragement of this inhuman traffic there are hundred) of thonsands who will say, and say justly, “‘setved them right” | Our Wasnrxeron Corresronpences—It was rumored in Washington yesterday that Ben Wade was to be Grant's Secretary of the Treasury. It was also stated that while the British government was anxious to refot the Alabama claims to arbitration the United States insisted on @ mixed commission, Gran with the new paper, Henry Watterson fs @ufounced ) | +44, the Treasury ring in his place, | was retiring and taciturn as ever. See our fs editorial manager. William HL. Sale bury, @ pb yaician of Portsmouth, but Mr. Jebnson neod got foar that. There | Washington letter. The jon) ip) Wall Street and McCulloch. There was great excitement in Wall street on Saturday in consequence of the press despatch from Washington to the effect that | Mr. McCulloch had decided that he had power | to reissue any legal tender notes that may have been redeemed but not cancelled, pro- viding the total amount of United States notes in circulation does not exceed four hundred millions of dollars. The Treasury ring here- upon circulated a report that forty-four mil- lions of new greenbacks would be immedi- ately issued, and having succeeded in fright- ening the bears into covering their contracts they sold out the gold, government securities and railway stocks they had bought on Friday at a handsome profit. Several Wall street houses were made aware at one o'clock on that day of what was coming, and they acted accordingly, much to their own profit. Of course the Secretary of the Treasury has no authority to reissue any part of the United States notes withdrawn from circulation, and Mr never had, while the of Congress prohibiting contraction also ited inflation, More- over, if he had, such @ meagure of expediency as that here threatened, apparently for a ét0ck- jobbing purpose, would be contrary to sound policy and would copyert the national Trea- aury jnto a machine for alternately ‘‘bulling” and “bearing” the markets for the benefit of a few officials and their favored friends. : Mr. MoCulloch placed himself in direct con- filot with everything he had previously said ip relation to the currency when he countenanced the despatch roferred to, and wrote a letter similar in effect to the Assistant Treasurer in this city, but committing himself to nothing, and he already seems to have repented of his inconsistent course, fora despatch from the same source, published yesterday morning, informed the public that although the Secre- tary of the Treasury believes he has the-power to reissue notes redeemed but not cancelled, it is not determined what he will do, and it may not become necessary to resort to that ‘ measure in order to afford relief. Itis to be supposed, from this as well as other signs, that the Treasury ring have already realized their profits, and that Mr. McCulloch is anxious to back out gracefully after aid- ing in perpetrating this extraordinary stockjobbing trick to the great surprise of all not in the secret. Why, it may be asked, did he not speak sooner on this subject, and why did he write letters dated as late as Wednes- day last stating that he had no means what- ever of relieving the prevailing stringency, and while defending} the Treasury from all blame in producing it censuring the banks for so far extending their loans on speculative stocks as to be unable to afford any relief to the money market? Despatches to the same effect were inspired by him as late as Friday last, and yet on Saturday morning mark the change and the effect. Was there ever a more cleverly designed bull movement following one in the opposite direction? For inthe midst of the October stringency the Treasury secretly sold more than seven millions of five-twenties in addition to its gold sales, thus drawing cur- rency out of the banks into the Sub-Treasury and forcing them to convert about fifteen mil- lions of three per cent legal tender certificates, luvolving so much contraction of the cur- rency, these certificates having been held by the banks as a portion of their lawful reserve. The stringency in the money market affords no justification of the threatened action of Mr. McCulloch, the inflation of prices on the Stock Exchange and the hoarding of breadstuffs in the West being the two great causes of this stringency ; aud if such a course of inflation was actually pursued, in the face of law and the public welfare, the Treasury would be confessedly used to promote bull and bear operations in Wall street. But, without doubt, no attempt of the kind will really be made, although the stockjobbing manceuvre is none the less discreditable. There was a sharp rise of nearly three per cent in gold on the strength of this despatch on Saturday, and. this is one of the mischievous results attend- ing it; and as breadstuffs and all the other necessnries of life rise or fall with gold it fol- lows that the cost of living has been tempora- rily enhanced all over the country. Prices on the Stock Exchange also experienced a sharp advance, but they will doubtless immediately fall back again, as there is nothing to main- tain them at their present high point, and we are entering upon a period of financial depres- sion like that which England passed through after the Napoleonic wars. Women’s Rights Women in England. A Miss Becker, who quite recently figured prominently at the Social Science gathering in defence of women’s rights, has taken steps to have a legal decision pronounced on the ques- tion whether women are entitled to the suf- frage. It is @ fact not wholly without signifi- cance that at the same time this woman's rights question should have been pushed to the test so vigorously in the State of New Jersey, in Scotland and in England, New Jersey and Scotland have both denied to women the right to vote. The question has been carried by Miss Becker to the Court of Common Pleas. The presumption is that the decision will be against Miss Becker. hat- ever be the result in this ca one thing must be admitted, that the right of woman to the suffrage is a question of growing importance. It may not be much longer possible, either here or in Great Britain, to withhold what by and by we shall learn to calla right, Although we are fully convinced that there are other and more effective ways of gratifying the ambition of strong-minded wo- men than by admitting them to the franchise, ‘wo are not apprehensive of any serious calamity from their admission. Better for them to stay at home and attend to husbands’, broth- ers’ or fathers’ stockings, collars, &c., than to waste time and defile themselves with the mire of politics, But if they will vote let them, More of the Gamble Case. Mr. Gamble and Mrs. Hujus ate fortunately not yet through with the authorities. It will bo remembered that they were discharged from custody by the country justice as injured innocents, They are now legally, if not actu- ally, before a coroner in Brooklyn, and some pains seems to be taken here also to show that they are persecuted victims; that they are pursued by the relatives of Mrs. Gamble, who are anxious to secure the money left by that e lady. Justice, we suppose, has no right to know much about that money, and it may be fortunate that there is some stimulus to urge the closest scrutiny in cases like this. The evidence was clear that the woman died by poison, and that that poison was some prepa- ration of opium. Dr. Doremus swore that he found enough of this poison jn the woman's stomach and intestines to cause death. He did not examine all the contents, only a small portion, and in that portion found poison enough to assure him of the presence of such 8 quantity as would kil It was endeavored to show that this was the medicine given by the doctor. But drugs of this class pass out of the system soon, more especially where stimulants are taken, and the medicine given by the doctor was given so long before death that chemistry could not have found it in the woman’sbody. She died, then, from the effect of preparations of opium not given by the doctor, but by some one else, immediately be- fore her death—on the very day of her death, no doubt. Who gave them? As it was sworn that Mr. Gamble was constantly administering something from a bottle, we are of opinion that the discharge of Mr. Gamble and Mrs. Hojus is not» satisfactory close to the case, and wo hope the coroner may unravel the mystery that befogged the country justice, — Telegraphs ig China and Across tho Pacific The project for laying @ telegraph cable along the coast of China is soon ‘to be oggri out, The East India Telegraph Con , of which Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is president, is about to close its subscription book and to commence immediately the manu- facture of the cables to connect the great com- mercial cities of the Chinese empire by this wonderful agent of modern civilization. It is confidently asserted that the entire line from Canton to Macao, Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Wan-Chu, Ningpo, Hangtchean and Shanghae will be completed and in opera- tion in little more than a year from this time— say by January, 1870. The company, which is entirely an American one, and which has its headquarters in New York, has the privilege from the government of China to make this telegraph connection. The cities which we have named and at which the cable or cables will touch extend along the coast a distance of near nine hundred miles, and are the outlet and inlet of all the vast foreign trade of the empire. They contain a population of six millions. When it is considered that the trade of China coming and going through these ports amounts to about sixteen hundred mil lions of dollars a year, and that the Chinese and foreign merchants there are among the most enterprising in the world, it can be seen what an immense business there must be for o telegraph. But vast as the present trade is it will receive an extraordinary development under the operation of telegraphic communica- tion. This, however, is only the beginning. As soon as the Chinese see the value of this mighty power in stimulating trade and diffus- ing intelligence, and their prejudices as a con- sequence shall be removed, they will want telegraphs all over their vast empire. Who can imagine the results of such progress among a population of four hundred. millions of in- dustrious people ? Who can realize the advan- tages to all nations trading with China and the civilizing influence of such a movement? That great empire, containing more than a third of the human race, which has been closed against the rest of the world through all ages, has been brought for the first time into the family of nations through the Burlingame mission. But that great event is only the pioneer of more sur- prising progress. The telegraph, railroads and steam power are going to open a wonder- ful future, and ia this the enterprise of the East India Telegraph Company is the com- mencement. There is, however, another project now be- fore Congress, and introduced by Mr. Collins, of Russian telegraph fame, which is destined to turn the current of trade from Asia to and through the United States. We mean the pro- ject of the Pacific telegraph, starting from San Francisco, thence along the shores of America to Alaska, and from there across the North Pacific Ocean by way ofthe Aleutian Islands to Kamschatka, Japan and China. This, to- gether with the lines from Russia and from Europe by way of India, will complete the girdle of the earth. Shakspeare’s prophetic dream will be aecomplished. Telegraphic communication with China and all the East by this route is much easier of attainment than has been generally supposed. Comparatively short cables will be required; perhaps the longest will mot. be more than six hundred miles, That beautiful chain of islands which stretches across the North Pa- cific from Alaska to Kamschatka, and which recently came into our possession by the Rus- sian purchase, seems to have been placed there by Providence for the purpose of connecting Asia and America in the bonds of commerce and civilization. With the completion of the Pacific Railroads over the Continent, with the establishment of steamship lines across the Pacific Ocean, and with the telegraphic com- munication we speak of the United States must soon acquire a monopoly of Asiatic trade and become the commercial centre of the globe. But we must not neglect the opportu- nities that lie before us. The British are vig- orously pushing their telegraph lines by the way of the Mediterranean and Central Asia to India and China. They are making desperate efforts to draw and hold a monopoly of the Chinese trade by this means, All the natural advantages, however, are on our side. Shall we not avail ourselves of them? We hope Congress will not delay in passing the neces- sary laws and in giving all the encouragement possible for the Pacific telegraph. It should act atonce. Then we should see within two years not only the telegraph established in China but one across the Pacific as well, plac- ing us in instant communication with all the im- portant points of that great empire and the Asi- atic Continen t. Tue Latest From Sraus,—We learn by the cable that Prim has been appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the armies of Spain, A brigade of infantry is to gail for Cuba on the 15th instant, General Dulce, in all likelihood anxious to see the result of the elections, does not leave for Cuba until December. Mean- while it appears Spain ts becoming more lively 49 the time of election approaches. A public meeting had been held in Madrid, and oe agreed to go in for a republic. The soldioraf it appears, have been taking an active part ig! Political meetings. General Prim has, in Sequence, issucd a circular disapproving such conduct, The situation becomes more interesting as time advances. Demorauizavion oF THE PAraL Aguy—+ DxseRtions Genurat.—A cable despatch from’ London which we print this morning informa us that the heterogeneous gathering of moat known as the Pope's army in Rome is rapidly, becoming demoralized. Desertions in large numbers are becoming more and more frequent. It was 8 mistake on the part of his Holiness at tho outset to lean upon this arm of flesh. Hie kingdom ought not to be temporal, but spiritual.’ His only true support is to be sought im the hearts of a willing and devoted people. This will remain when the Papal army aod the Papal temporalities are no more. Hewt Garg Improvemenrs.—Je there a hitcle or a deadlock in the progress of this work® Fifteen million dollars’ worth of property that passes through Hell Gate every day in the yose is liable to be destroyed among the rocks and whirlpools of that intricate neck of navigation. Wasker Fravps.—The members of the whiskey rings are just now ina great state of alarm, They are @duffing indications of a approaching storm. NOTES ABOUT ToWy. =t>. A short time-since one of the French mail steams orP displayed an electric light in our bay. The coss of the light was calculated at about twelve cents aa hour. Cannot the Central Park Commissioners have aimilar apparatus for the akating ponds the coming winter? It is not true that the Erie Railroad Company have bought Pike’s upera House for the purposing of pro- ducing “Under the Gaslight” there and getting ape hew sensation. The speculators there will have @ ‘new cry, ‘Tickets for Buffalo and all pointe Went, and best seats in parquet.” . We have had so many parades of various societies in this city, all of which are generally reviewed frou. the steps of the City Hall, that it is a matter of aur- prise that the principal and most numerous patrons of that venerable structure, the bootblacks, do nos. get up a procession. Suppose the patres conscripe review a legion of “shine ’em ups,” and address them as to what their views are on the constitution. When the earthquake visits New York—it is on Its travels now—what will become of our one brick thick mansions which are going up in our city at the present time? We have a Board of Survey who ex- amine unsafe buildings and write reports about them. Buta Sanscrit manuscript is more intelligi- ble than their explanation. If they continue suck reports as have been hitherto promulgated, the Legislature will have to found an asylum for house owners who become crazy in the attemps to understand what is said about their houses, If @ bonnie Gaelic lass from the braes and giens of. Inverness had walked up Broadway a month ago clad in the tartan of her native land everybody would have gaped and stared at her til! she blushed. But Dame Fashion has lately said that Fifth avenue- dom must array itself in green, black and crimgom plaids. Upper tendom submits, wears the pretty patterns, wrought in the “loudest” coiors, and ne one “gapes,” no one “stares,” and the world wage on. COLLISION OF STEAMSHIPS AT SEA. Farther Particulars of the Collision of the General Meade and Marmion—The Dame age—No Loss of Life—Danger of Showing Supernumerary Lights. In the marine department of yesterday’s HeraLe was published exclusively the subjoined para- graph:— Steamship Marmion, Fairél Savannah 4th inat, witte miserand Runperigera'te Re Lowden Now 7,at Sc) P Me whea near the Scotland lighiship, was run into by ateamship for New Orlenna, striking id which Captain Sampson mistook for hei ight, and mae his whee! to starboard, which cansed the collision; the « Mende took of the crew and passengers off and brought?’ them to the city, Captain Faircloth and the remainiag part of the crew stayed by ¢ ship and would try and get her inthe fook. ‘The accident was one that, under the ctreum- stances, waa unavoidable. In addition to her regue Jation lights—consisting of a bright one at the foremast “head, a red one on the port and a green one on the atarboard side—she had another red light swinging at her main gaff, a3 a signal to the tele- graph operator at Sandy Hook. The last named light was, there ts little doubt, the cause of the col- lision. Captain Sampson, of the General Meade, supposing itto be the port light of Captain Fatr- cloth’s ship, caused the helm of his vessel to be pnt hard astarboard, by which, had his supposition proved correct, the accident would have beea avoided. When he perceived the misq! take it was tod late, and the Meade wen crashing about midships into the Mar Toion, cutting her from the main deck to below thy water line and into the hull, causing one of the boilers to burst, but, fortunately (beyond stightiy’ scalding one of the firemen), without maiming or killing any one on board either ship. As soon as the twoships came together several of the passengers and crew of the Marmoin jumped on board the Meade; but on Captain Faircloth ordering’ hus crew back nearly all complied. During this time: the Marmion was settling rapidly, and notwithe standing this fact Captatn Faircioth and the majority of his crew remained on board of her. As con a® the General Meade got clear and after waiting to sce if assistance could be rendered, she turned round and steamed to the city, a hole having been knocke® io her bows, causing her to leak badly. When slim had reached Bedloe’s Island five fect of water wer found in her forward com} it, and the leaic increasing it was deemed prudent to put her on shore to prevent her from ron Which was accord- iny apt ‘She was run on the mud flats betwoen Bedloe and Ellis Islands, where she remainod untit yeaterday at two o'clock P. M., when she was hauled off and taken to Red Hook to discharge her cargo, for the most part composed of coffee and provisions. The Marmion sank to the main deck, but was pre- vented from going to the bottom by the cotton of which her cargo was principally composed. A@ soon as ler owners were apprised of the accident they despatched several tugs to her assistance, and at sundown yesterday had her towed to sandy Hook point, where she will probably be beached, her cargo dischar; and temporary repairs made, pre- paratory to bringing her to the city, Captain Hazard, of the are Philip, came up to the city from the Marnuon at six o'clock Jast night aud reports a break in her starboard side tweive feet in length by ten in width. She ts in charge of the Submarine Wrecking Company's steamers Phillp and Lackawanna. ‘These towed her into al water at the Southwest Spit. Captain Samuels, the President. of the company, will proceed to the ship after procuring a supply of lumber, &c. A — of divers aad sieam pumps have been put on board. The General Meade is an tron vessel, of 893 tons measurement, has three water tight compartments, Duilt at Stockton in 1861 and rates Al in the Ameri- can Lloyd's. Le Sey to the Merchants’ Steam- ship line of this ¢ +a and has been running for some time past between thia city and New Orleans. ‘The Marmion was built at Philadelphia in 1964; her hall is constructed of oak, with copper and iron fastenings; she is 1,051 tons burden, ia a propeller, we owned by R. L. Taylor and othera, of New ork. POLITICAL NOTES. ‘The Montgomery dfail thinks the State of Alabama has gone democratic by 40,000 majority. Southern papers are congratulating themselves pon the prospect of lively times between the radical and conservative wings of the republican party. ' ‘The Washington Mntettigencer thinks General Grant is free to take his own course. Very likely he will. ‘The Nashville Republican Aanner—anti-Grant be~ fore the election—now has no hesitation in saying that there is no other man im the republican pariy whom it would rather’ see in the Presidential chair than General Grant, Furthermore it says:~The South, we believe, recognize tn him ‘a man of sound Judgment and kindness of heart.”” The “Old Blue Hen’s Chickens” (Delaware) ara Atitt crowing over the election, New Rogisud gives a republican majority of 148.000, .