The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1868, Page 6

6 NE Ww YORK I i Dy RA LI ) be ‘ous of the same name, and having the same seneral Seope of plan and purpose. A variety of very interesting papers, bearing upon topics ger- main to social science and human advancement BRoApWwAY ‘AND ANN STRURT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, number of other equauy interestiyg papers are still to be read, es ‘The rumored setuement of the Alabama clams Ls Ne. 320 | causing no little comment in oMcial circles at Wash- RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. an Prospect of removing every cause of dissatisfaction, A Washington democratic organ has a sensational rumor that prominent republicans aredntriguing to give Mr. Colfax, noi General Grant, the repubilcan electoral vote for President. ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCIL-Rzy. Tuomas a, Saauen. Moruiag and evening. WLERCKER STREET UNIVERSATISY CHURCH. Ruy. Dav &. Lie, alorning and evening, CHURCH OF TIT RESURRECTION.—Ksv. Dz. Fraga, ft Boraing & the Seventh Congressional district, Jones,republican, is elected by over 200 majority, The district has been clalmed by the democrats by a large majority. AVIOUR, Thirt and evening. h stract.—Rey, J. F.C, Ewxe, Morning the leadersiitp of several old filibustera, have formed 1 organization with a view to raise recruits for an expedition to Cuba, ‘Two lavorers were killed by a land slide ina gravel pit near Gardner, Mass., om Friday. TUALISTS. Mie 1k BRiG- Rev, East. CHURCH. | ranity sailed from Quebec yesterday by the steamer ‘estorlan, It is believed that the new Governor General of the New Dominion is already en route for Ca nm board the steamer Austria, due at Quebec » Caaunery | ina few days, The City. {,—Morning — at seven o’c! Hamilton, on the Fultou ferry, in en- 2A HOUS tering the sip on the New York side, ran into the PIKES Bouwou—a passengers, most of whom had congregated on the forward part of the boat and several of the more Da. Goopwry. | ©XPOSed, Seeing a collision was imminent, jumped ns. at into the river. The crash on the boats coming to- SEAMEN'S MISSION.—-Rey, Jouy Miugs. Afternoon, wounding some thirty others, pide: TAINITY CHAPEL.—R Evening. ‘ Aa adRiee Maen ied fey. 3. Stanvoep | 2 bllot of the Hamilton. General Grant and Mrs, Grant and Generals Dent aud Badeau left yesterday morning for West Point, where they will remain untll Wednesday, when the party will return to this city en outs for Wash- ington. The Governor elect has accepted the offer of tho Seventy-frst regiment N. G.S. N.Y. to escort him to Albany on the day of his inauguration. Yesterday two steamers sailed from this port for Liverpool and Queenstown, one for Glasgow and Londonderry, one for London, one for Havre, four for New Orleans, one for Mobile, two for Savannah and four for other Southern ports. RSUY—Washington square.-Bisiur SNow. Af- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rxv. J. orning and TAN 001 TRIPLE SHEET CHURCH. Rey, ne New York, Sunday, November 15, 1868. & Soeeecet eel During the last quarter the number of Ietters SHE NaWs. AES La Was 938,111; number forwarded to Europe, 1,063,650; Eurepe. total number, 2,001,761, The total amount of postage The cable reports are dated November 14. recetved in the same time was $260,390. The provisional government of Spain hae declared A democrat is| $0.conyey's Fepubliosn ine: whiecl- tue freedom of the colonial ports. Baron von der Heydt, the Prussian Finance Min- ister, states that the financial dificuities of Prussia are but transitory. Nothing has been published yet in Berlin respect- Jng Prussia’s position regarding the Alabama clauns. Count von der Goltz hag resigned as Prussian aor to Paris, and Herr von Werther has wen appointed in his place. Rossinl, the great composer, died yesterday in Paris. Londo the HERALD building, on Monday, in payment of an election bet. The Cuban filibuster expedition now organizing in this city 1s pronounced a huge swindle. Was 1,447. The amount of taxes received at the Tax Col- jector’s oMce last week was $1,155, total collec- tions ou the last tax levy, $10,552,264. The stock market was strong aud excited yester- day. Gold closed at 1347,. |, M44; fve-twenties, 74.4; Ilinots Centrals, e shares, 26: Liverpool—Cotton With but few exceptions the markets were ex- —Middling wplands, 104. London-Linseed ou, | emely quiet yesterday. Coffee was siow £28, of sale but firm at former prices. Got- Australasia, Our Australian corresp nee 1s dated October 1. The recent outbreak in New Zealand indicates the Policy of the natives to be extermination of the set- ‘Vers or themselves, The war has assumed a reil- gious aspect, a new sect, called Hau-haus, having sprang up, and whose growth is marked by a num- ber of atrocities, On the 7th of September a force of British troops had an encounter with the natives, in which the troops were defeated with a heavy loss, The French colonists of New Caledonia have been Fecently seriously embarrassed with native troubles, Many setilers were murdered by the savages, who Mnally broke into open revolt against the govern- auent. Tho revolt, however, has been suppressed, ‘the natives severely punished and the colony is more Mourishing and prosperous than ever before. » Affairs in the Feejee Islands are more unsettled than ever, aud a bloody war has been inaugurated (between the settlers and natives, in which the parties (vie with each other in deeds of cruelty and inhu- Judge E. F. Mahon, of Mississippi; Judge T. F. quunity. The natives appear to have recovered their | Fuller, of Nevada; General F. D. Callender and Dr. felish for human flesh, and several instances are | J. S. Knight, of the United States Army; Dr. F. 9. vlich they killed and ate prisoners taken in | Day, of San Francisco, and Dr. Brolasiz, of Callao, King Thakombau has paid the first instal- | Peru, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Muent of the debt due the Uniied States. The com- ] Robert Urquhart, of Japan; Captain J, L. Case, of Juander of the British war steamer Challenger at. | Saratoga, and Dr. Dawson, of Toronto, are at the tacked and destroyed a native village, killing forty- | St. Charles Hotel, ene savages gnd wounding a still larger number, Theo. F. Randolph, Governor elect of New Jersey, Central and Seuth America. and P. Brignoli, of New York, are at the Clarendon By cable we learn that the allie army is before | Hotel. Angostura, The Paraguayans came out in force and v attacked it, put were repulsed with a loss of 380 | Ctx ton was fairly active but irregular, and prices of the lower grades receded %c. per pound, the market closing at 245{c. for middling upland, On ‘Change four was sparingly dealt in but un- changed in value. Wheat was tn fair demand but Jc. a ze. lower. Corn was dull and nominal, while oats were in moderate request and a shade lower. Pork was dulland nominal. Beef was a trifle more active and steady, while lard was quiet and heavy. Whiskey was firm with a moderate demand. Freights were tolerably active and firm. Naval stores were dull but firmly held. Petroleum was ox- @ Lie. for crude and 273¢c. for refined. Prominent Arrival he City. General L. E. Webb, of Wisconsin; Judge R. R. Sloane, of Sandusky, and R. R. Bridges, of North Carolina, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. William Prescott Smith and Y. W. Renfletd, of Pennsylvania, are at the Colman House, 1s) y Grosbeck,. of Cincinnati, and Congressman O'Neill, of Peunsylivania, are at the Fifth killed and wounded. The p jon held by Lopez is | Avenue Hotel. thonght to be unassailable. The rumor that Lopez General W. D. Cushing, of Cleveland; 5, T. Fair- had shot lis two brothers is fully condrmed, Gen- | child, of Cazenovia, and Mr. Livingston, of San Fran- erai MeMaion, the new United States Minister to | cisco, are at the Hofman House. Paraguay, had arrived at Rio Janeiro en route to the Sor eee pet yet Our Pacific Railways—Theie Commorcial nnd Political Effect on the World. The first great period of the world’s com- mercial history ended when Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good in 1498, Previous to this date the trade of India with Europe amounted to a few thousands of tons annually, wcone of Lis ‘oken out in Cotombta. 2 Vergara, Governor of tue State of Cundinamarca, pronounced against the general government. The President of the re- public immediately called ont the nattonal troops and captured the rebel Governor nad ail his fol- lowers, In other parts of the republic the frieuds of Vergara have risen, aad a general civil war is Jooked upon as mevitabee, Panama is kept im ® eonstant state of alarm ty | Of time and labor across the Persian empire, fears of an attack by fhe revolutionists, aith Asiatic Turkey and Arabia. These countries none have yot beew geen in the vicinity of the cits. | (hen stood between the two commercial ter- Tue decree of the Bxecutive to double tho coxnmor | int of the world--India and the Mediterra- cial tax on all merchants has not yet been enfo m and has been protested against | the nean. India then, already old and stagnant, Consuls, A fellow calling himself Cap scarcely fell the touch of this traffic. Light as Smith has been arrested in Panawa for stealing a f credit from a Mr. Sargent, of San Fran- is belleved that Smith is one of the gang of erated so extensively on the piaine it was, however, it gave civilization to the Mediterranean shores. ho the Pacific Ocean. The new trade gave a wonderful impuise and was pregnant with opu- lent cities which it scattered broadcast over the Persian empire. The wealth that was tions of revolution are to be perceiver h President Halta has, by his energy and sternacss, shown his ability to qmekly put an end to any ordinary uprising. ‘The adminis. : “Er . tration ! vl nobly towards the suerers by the | Poured into Syria produced an extraordinary earthquakes and is maturing plans to aitord perma- | advancement in the arts, sciences and civili- nent relief to the thousands nd themselves | gation. ruined by that catast Ad paseo a gave it such wealth and architectural splendor vote of t that the tide of war surged around its walls in aster to [ 1 nited States Mim- on account of his generous con during Uy iakes. Advnirel Turner and the | more sieges than ever fell to the lot of any Moers of th i States Navy are also very | other city in history. As the trade developed kindly ren ed for thelr services on that ocoa | itself Alexandria sprang in greatness and betng made by the liberal party in extended its civilization to Greece. Rome, Carthage, and then Venice felt its impulse, and in turn dictated to the world. The Mediterranean commercial cities were in their full tide of splendor at the end of the in the election laws, secure y to the press, and to protect the judi- 8 originating solely in the passions Thes is are resisted by perteet clary fre of politic the ad M, Dut are uryed with vehemence r by the 18 of the peo} On the 13th ult, ase enth century, They had received their vere cari] was felt at € ps, which injured | civilization, their religion, their arts and sci- thirty-eigi) bnilding® and caused great cousterna- | ences from the interchange of products. These ihe inhabitants, Several volcauges in gave a forward impulse, enlarged the ideas of statesmen and of people, enabled them to ap- preciate art, forced inventive talent into action, built ships suited to a limited navigation, and, in general, gave the highest brain growth of that period, Bat the whole development was n Ti was the caravan, the oar-propelled vel nnd the pathway of animal traffic. Now the world, entering upon the sixteenth century, faces about and breathes west- ward, The Mediterranean staggers under three reeling blows—that of Columbus, of Vasco de Gama and of Magellan. France, Portugal, Spain and England, fall on the western u. The diap'ay of meteors t Qessed in all parts of the United & rom 4 ae chusetts to California, Our despatches state that the shower was far more brilliaat than the display wit. TOW. elegram ann nees that great prepa tions were made in nd for the observance of | VI the meteors oa Fr: hight, but the heavens were fo obscured by clouds that none were visible, Last wight, however, @ brilliant display was witnessed fat Oxford University. Miscellaneous. The meeting convened in Chicago ganizing a Weatern Sociai s« he purpose tation, a will be seen by our report of proceodtin slidiaas , pid se, ak, CE woond mn Wee oun Buropean confine, And employment for their adopted as the basis of their m va. | Semi-clvilized people ; cities spring into exist- whialion of ihe American PASCAL Ga ENYDE North Carolina gives Grant 12,000 majority. In | tion into the New World About thirty young men of St. Louis, Mo., under | in full tension awaits a further development Lord Mones, late Governor General of Canada, and | at the linking of its rails to pass across the ck yesterday morning The advantages ferryboat Union. ‘The Hamilton was crowded with | Whole world must pay tribute to North gether was fearful, killing two passengers ana | Said that the energy of the world here concen- caused solely by the incompeteucy of the man acting | kind and not with the simple idea of national for trade, virtually untouched as yet, will now take new forms and receive new impulses by from Europe received at the Post OMice in this city being placed in such immediate relationship with the whole civilized world. It is impossi- ble to calculate tho effect of the influences thus brought to bear on Eastern Asia. barrow from Sixth avenue, near Bleecker street, to | ties must go down, ideas of religion and of life be completely changed and the Asiatic mind take new and strange directions. Europe, con- forming to the changes wrought, must recog- ‘The nutuber of arrests by the city police last week | nizo in the United States the favored land des- tined to deal civilization to the nations of the earth. world homogeneous, cut down national barriers, break the marked distinctiveness of races, crush national jealousies, teach one half of mankind what the other half is, show to Asia that Europe has valuable ideas, and vice versa, and that either possesses elements of civiliza- tion foreign to the other. selves the schoolmaster of the world, while we dispense its blessings shall teach the best method of making use of them. will so make us the highway of nations that the vory interest taken in uninterrupted com- munication across our territory will be our best ceedingly quiet, but prices were frm, closing at | safeguard of unbroken nationality. If, further, we would estimate the natural result of our means of communication upon our future wealth, commerce and civilization, we have only to look at the results upon Europe of the ou, fashioned upon the mods! of Buropean | tecture sulfed to the stormy Atlantic; the wealth of the Indios pours round the Cape of NEW YORK HRALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEMT. ‘The Fire Department. The annual report of the Fire Department Good Hope; grass: grows in the doop caravan | for the year 1867 has just been issued. It ruts of the Persian empire, of Arabia and of have already been submitted to the convention and | Syria; their cities disappear with the trado that gave them birth, A new civilization, born of the times, prodadés cn intense mental im- pulse in Europe. The world has swelled out ington. ‘The impression prevails that a basis of set- | @nd requires more brains. India now feels ement has been agreed upon which affords a fair | the western touch ; ordinary products mingle with the rare, and trade takes immense pro- portions, The tide sweeps on for three centuries ; the commercial nations roll their surplus popula- 3 steamboats, rail- roads and telegraphs force the wildest com- mercial projects into realities, and progress in a third and culminating period. The third period will date from the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Four hundred and sixty thousand tons of freight per year are ready Continent. England awaits its completion to change her Australian steamship line from Panama and make Australia tributary to San Francisco, France and Holland will commu- nicate by this route with their Indian colonies. of our geographical posi- tion make ft as inevitable as fate that the America, This tribute will, however, be but a small tax upon the immense advantages which it will reap in exchange. It may be trated is working for the general good of man- aggrandizement. In building our Pacific railroads we shall do more for the dormant masses of Asfa than has been done for them in the last threé thousand years. We shall draw upon them, and this will foree them to produce. We shall have a closer contact with them, for their doors now face ours. We shall thus be able to exchange ideas, resulting in great mental as well as material gain to both. The capacity of Asia Old dynas- With our Pacific railroads we shall make the We shall make our- and For ourselves, our railways to the Pacific a reduction previous equivalent progressive improvement we may hope to see the losses by fire gradually reduced until the wholesale destraction which in former times devastated whole blocks and millions of property shall exist no more. expenses of the paid Fire Department may appear upon the surface to be greater than that of the voluntary system; but we must measure the expense by the value of the ser- vice rendered. $393,000. Of this amount $700,000 was used for the pay of the officers and men, the rest was absorbed for repairs of machines and buildings, the construction of new steamers and other contingent expenses. The number of men employed is 504. There are in active ser- vice 34 steamers and 9 hand engines, with 8 steamers held in reserve for emergencies. The number of buildings used for the department is 63, and they are represented to be now, under the management of the new Board, in a cleanly and perfect condition. paratus, the harness and horses. are reported, on the testimony of the district engineers and foremen, to be in a complete shows a most héalthy and efficient condition of things in the deparfment—economy in manage- ment, a faithful discharge of duty on the part | of the employés and generz! activity in the suppression of fires, The well-dicciplined and soldierly mind of the President of the Cemmis- sioners, General Alexander Shaler, has ev:- dently impressed itself most effectually upon the entire force, and the consequence is that a thorough system of discipline exists which renders the paid department infinitely more effective than the old volunteer system, excel- lent as that was in many respects. Tha department is indebted a good deal also to the sagacity of Colonel T. Bailey Myers, who, together with General Shaler, visited the fire departments of all the leading cities throughout the country, made a careful investi- gation of the different systems and embodicd their experience in a valuable report which has furnished immense information towarda the better organization of our own department. There has been a variety of opinion as to the comparative efficacy of the new and the old fire organizations, but we think that experience leads us to the new as the better system. One fact alone, as stated in the report before us, is of importance. It is this, that during the past year only one case of robbery at a fire had been taken cognizance of, the police protection afforded by the firemen themselves being sufficient to protect the most valuable property. We kuow that this was not the case under the old system, nor could it be ex- pected, because the mob, composed mostly of idlers and rowdies, continually hung on the skirts of the regular members of the Fire De- partment, took a hand at the ‘‘machine,” created dire confusion, destroyed all discipline and proved too much for the ordinary polico force allotted to duty at a great fire. This evil has been remedied by the admirable method of military subordination which Gene- ral Shaler has introduced. As the present de- partment increases in time of service the de- cline in the number of disastrous conflagra- tions is apparent. For instance, the destruc- tion by fire during the year ending in Novem- ber were 873, involving a loss of $5,711,000— from the losses of the year of $717,736. With an The The appropriation for 1365 was So also with the ap The men first two periods of imperfect commercial inter- change to feel that America strides onward to a great destiny—that to be an American citi- ven is greater than to be a king. The Whiskey Frauds—Didiculty of Reuche stolen from the government. defrauded of an amount more than sufficient to pay the current expenses of the government, if economically administered, and more than the government ever cost before the late war, This fact is as undeniable as it is startling. Who will not say, then, that we have the most inefficient and corrupt government on the face which result in disabling individuals of the earth? Probably there is no parallel to | f “ the force are necessarily = un- it in history. But what is worse and more | 8voldable, and we are glad to per- astounding still is that these stupendous frauds cannot be reached and the criminals punished. So powerful is the combination known as the “whiskey ring,” and such enormous wealth has it with which to defeat investigation and the which trade found its way at an immense cost | ends of justice, that all efforts to probe the evil have failed. now we see that Judge Fullerton and others, honest and talented men, are badgered, ham- pered and paralyzed in the same cause. President himself seems to be powerless. truth is, the heads of the Treasury and Inter- nal Revenue Departments and even the mem- Tyre became to the | bers of the Cabinet are either directly coa- great inland sea what San Francisco is now to | cerned in and screen themselves or these friends they throw obstacles in the way of investigation. curious fact, too, that immediately a move- ment is made by the Executive to probe these frauds the Congressional Investigating Com- It built up the famed Jerusalem and | mittee steps in and, under the pretence of aid- ing inquiry, actually defeats it, Wyck pretends to be the hend and most active member of that committee, and if any- body could find out the frauds he ought, for he has a number of relatives of the Van Wyck fumily holding prominent offices in this city ia the internal revenue service. relatives or friends has Mr. McCulloch or Mr. Rolling in this service or the whiskey business ? las Mr, Someth the shipyards give a new naval archi 7 aad hoper hig (or bis cousace, state of military discipline, well uniformed and filled with an honest pride in the service to which they are devoted. Some good suggestions are contained ia the report with reference to the storage of such dangerous combustibles a3 nitro-glycerine, gunpowder and petroleum oil. It is earnestly recommended that more stringent laws should be enacted in this regard. We have had some terrible examples of the danger accruing from the storage of these articles in the city and around the docks recently, and itis to be hoped that the Legislature about to assemble in January will pay some attention to the warn- ing of the Fire Commissioners. In such a service as our firemen are engaged accidents ing Them. A hundred millions of dollars a year are ‘The revenue is ceive that the Commissioners are not unmind- fnlof the sufferers. Itisa rule wisely and charitably established that all disabled fire- men shall be transferred from active duty to the easier post of bellringers as soon as they are able to perform that work. There appears to be some iiuprovement necessary in the fire alarms and telegraphs in certain districts of the city—a matter which should be, if it has not already been, attended to. The system of street boxes for telegraphic alarms, used in many of the Western cities, might be employed in the metropolis with equal if not greater effect, inasmuch as we have alarger area of danger to cover. Upon the whole, the account which the Fire Department gives of itself is highly satisfuc- tory, and is calculated to inspire confidence in the minds of the property owners and citi- zens generally. There are, doubtless, many improvements which inay be made ia the de- partment, but with so clear a head and so well trained an official in charge of the department as General Shaler we have no reason to presume that improvement will not follow improvement until the whole organization is We saw how Binckley failed, and The The the intimate frauds or have powerful friends who are. To Itis a Mr. Van perfect, - as Ciencoat Amenities. —We publish elsewhero to-day a flagrant violation of clerical ameni- tic It seems that an Episcopal clergyman from a distant diocese, who was invited Inet Sunday to address the Sunday school children of a church not @ thousand miles from Wall street, indulged himself in an entirely unjustifia- ble strain of vituperation against the priests of the Roman Catholic Church. He denounced them a# ‘Romish” priests, as ‘‘so-called” spiritual fathers, and did not hesitate to stig- matize the ceremonies of that Church as “abominations.” Surely this was not an oex- emplification of the Christian charity which it is the holy office of preachers of every denomi- nation to practise as well as to ratommend. Iver So.—The Secretary of the Treasury is opposed to anything like a ‘yurry in the prose- cution of Fulletton’s fesearches iato the whiskey frauds, and Vikewise to any precipi- tate action upon the disclosures made against certain officigts, Meantime the whiskey rings remain intact, Abd that’s the way the money gote, Pop goes the Weasel. How many Evarts any? What political in- fluences are at work to screen the guilty ? is radically wrong with the high officials of the government or the frauds would beexposed and prevented, They are either guiliy of wilfully screening the defrauders or are incapable of performing the duties devolv- ing upon them. In either case they ought to be suspended without delay. The President, who is honest and means Well, undoubtedly, should act at once, should suspend all those who hold responsible positions and fail to do their duty in protecting the Treasury. That is the only way to reach the evil, With a new, honest and capable set of men we shall get at the truth and prevent frauds in future, This the President should do promptly and leave the responsibility with Congress to sustain him or the Treasury thieves. Whatever Congregs mfy do the people will approve of his aption . Our Parts Fashions Lettor. Our Paris fashiona letter, which is to-day as sparkling a3 it always has been, startles us by the anuouncement of two events of no \ small interest and importance. The first is the promulgation by the Emperor of all the Russias of a ukase prohibiting the entrance of Paris fashion journals into any part of his vast empire. ‘Russian ladies are not to be taught about panniers nor to be told that thoy Wear their evening bodices much lower than Parisian dames, Polish ladiey are strictly forbidden also to wear toquets; and this is, all enierced,” adds our correspondent, ‘“‘by the game Enzperor who was quite enraptured when here by the Grand Duchess, toquet and aigrettes and all!” Our correspondent, allowing that some of the fashions in the “advanced capital” of the French empire are “absurd, overdone, ruinous, suicidal, and so on,” is, nevertheless, of opinion that ‘‘this cru- sade against fashion journals will but give them greater prestige,” and, moreover, put a stop to many of the very curious questions and answers which now appear in those jour- nals. Some of these questions, futile as they may seem, are such as no young lady can know without being told—for instance, the question as to ‘‘whether there is any parti- cular shape for a priest’s shirt distinct from other shirts.” To what a lamentable state of ignorance will this new ukase of the Czar con- demn his fair subjects! The second event is a mecting lately held at Stuttgart, at which a motion was voted insist- {ng on the necessity of modifying the toilets of ladies. ‘‘So far, so good,” says our corre- spondent; “I approve that Paris should not lay down the law exclusively; but a committee was organized at the close of the German meeting, composed of painters, doctors and scientific tailors, who are henceforth to set the styles, after deliberation. If I were a husband this new system would alarm me extremely. The getting up of one’s wife by a painter is surely as objectionable as the turning out of one’s wife by a milliner, and the chalking over of one’s wife by a tailor cannot be more agreea- ble.” Russia and Germany are manifestly throwing fashion into anarchy. The ‘fash- ionable constitution of women” ia in danger, and our American ladies are advised in the midst of these revolutionary movements to remain neutral, like France in regard to Spain. We must refer our lady readers to our Paris fashions letter for a detailed description of the most unique among the latest toilets—a morn- ing robe, au elegant evening costume without a train (to be wora by a lady invited to the second series of invilations to the chateau at Compi?gne), a hunting costume for a huntress who does not hunt, the new “plain and pretty costumes, with Styrian hats” (for one of which an American lady is responsible); a ‘new flower star for the forehead” and the very newest and very tasteful fashion, set at the first performance of the ‘‘Périchole,” of ‘hay- ing buttons and jeweiry of the same shade as ribbon sashes, worn behind.” The ‘Péri- chole,” by the bye, is, we are told, no less suc- cessful at the Varictés than the “Grande Duchesse,” and it will probably be equally suc- cessful when brought out in New York at Fisk's splendid Opera Iouse. The Cuban Filibusters. There is an active Cuban filibustering organi- zation in this city, largely made up of dis- banded soldiers from onr Iate civil war, ready for any military enterprise promising good pay and fat pickings. But there must be some money in the movement, and, assuming that the leaders have men of means to back them up, the question still recurs how they expect to be reimbursed for their outlays? The plan of operations is, first, to secure the independ- ence of Cuba, and, secondly, annexation to the United States. Of course with the annexa- tion slavery would be abolished, for our fede- ral “constitution as it is” says that ‘neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States, nor within their jurisdic- tion, save in the punishment of crimes,” &c. But in the government of Cuba, first as a republic, and next in the work of transferring the island, and next iu its government as a State of the Union, the leading filibusters no «doubt expect to be handsomely rewarded, while it is probable that many of the island sugar and tobacco planters and manufacturers are ready to give up their slaves for the advan- tages of free trade and full political and sociel communion with the United States. There is something, too, so extortionate in the Spanish taxation of Cuba that a transfer to our Custom House and internal revenue taxes would be a great relief. These Cuban filibusters, then, have somethiag to build upon, and so they will be apt to go ahead. Phystcal and Other Convulsions America, Simultaneously with the announcement that earthquakes are again shaking up the southern half of our Continent we have the news that revolution has broken out afresh in Colombia, This time the conservatives have made an attempt to get possession of the liberal Presi- dent and overibrow the present order of things—not quite a year old. The State of Panama presents the same picture as other States. What does titis mean? Are the South Americans still so stupid ag not to see that the commercial interests of foreigners are ready to sympathize with liberal or conservative, just as moy suit? In all Spanish American countries foreigners are “neither fish nor flesh, nor yet good red herring.” So we find them conservatives now; they will be liberals to-morrow; any- thing the next day; afier the dollars always. Let the people of South America study and adopt General Grant's motto—Let us have peace. This Continent ts eminently one for industry, and Uncle Sam must have peace to carcy out the terms of his grant in the New World. of South Gexerat Grani's Movewents.--General Grant, from his flying visit to this city on Friday, last, deparied yesterday for West Point and will probably return this way, en route for Washington, to-morrow or next day. We understand that ho will spend seve- ral days here before leaving ns in, and that gre Club will give him « quict but princely re We suspect that these sorties of the oral feom Washington are shrowdly dosignod to scatter tho officessayers, Tho idea ia a good bal a shops trig to Londgn and Paris. or ag dnring his sojoura the Union 1 | 1 ome; even to Havana, would be equal to the Nanking of Vicksburg against the numerous birds of prey on the seen! of the spoila. The Metvoric Shower, In the Herarp of w-day we give accounts of the grand meteoric display, a3 witnessed all over this Continent, on the evening of tho 13th and morning of the i4ih inst. So far aa details have reached us—and we have ac- counts from almost every State in the Union— the display seems to have boen ona scale of aguas quite as grand as that of the cor- responding period of last year. Our savane have again been at fault. The meteoric shower was not wholly unexpected ; but it was confidently predicted that it would be see only in the Pacifle Ocean and would not he visible until an advanced hour of the morning. It is undeniable that in this partioular department modern science is sadly vebind. Theso material phenomena are not new. They ' have been witnessed at irregular intervals from the very earliest times. In the ages of darkness and superstition they were not un- naturally looked upon as special indications of the. pleasure or displeasure of the gods. We have got beyond this belief; but what these brilliant visitants are, to what cause or causes we are to atiribute their appearance, we are as | mich in darkness as ever. It is now a grow- ing conviction with many that at this particu- lar season of the year they have, circum- stances being favorable, been visible from the very earliest times. This, however, is point which we are willing as yet to lea to the learned in meteorological phenomena, This much, at least, it is now safe to say—that the time has come when the whole subject should be fully discussed and when the wits of the wisest should be taxed to answer the following and kindred questions: First— What are these falling or shooting stars, as we callthem? Second—Do we come into contact with them after tho intervals of long ages? or might they not be seen at all times if only we occupied a favorable point of observation? Third—What conneciion has their visible manifestation with terrestrial and atmospherio disturbances? or have they any such connes- tion? The Fulton Ferry Accident. {a another place in this day's Heratp we give full details of the shocking accident which occurred yesterday morning at Fulton ferry. The details speak for themselves more elo- quently than any words of ours can. &t is certainly to be admitted that such accidents are of rare occurrence. One such acei- dent, however, is sufficient to inspire the community with just and well-grounded alarm, There are thousands of our people who, from the necessities of the case, have no choice but to entrust their lives twice a day to the safe keeping of our ferry companies. It is a notorious fact that the ferry companies are miserably unworthy of the trust thus reposed in them. It would not be difficult to multiply evidence to prove that the safety of the passengers is altogether a secondary consideration with the managers. In this case, however, we have to deal with the servants rather than with the masters. We have no fault to find with the deck hand who was temporarily entrusted with the man- agement of the boat and who was directly the cause of the catastrophe. It is impossible, however, to find language sufficiently strong to denounce theconduct of the pilot. There is not one word to be said in his favor. By his negk- gence two persons have been killed and thirty persons have been wounded, many of them seriously, some of them, perhaps, fatally. In a community like ours it is an absolute neces- sity that the culpable negligence of this man be severely punished. It is unpleasant to be compelled so to write, but an example, must be made. Out even of this great calamity good will have come if it hastens the erec- tion of a bridge over the East river. Ovr Sranpixa Army.—According to the report of the Adjutant General prepared for December the regular army of the United States is 43,741 mon, whites and blacks, ox- clusive of 4,340 in the engineer corps and other specialties. Put the whole army force ih round numbers at fifty thousand men, and it does not appear large in view of the demands upon it in the South among the turbulent whites and blacks and in the West among the hostile Indians. General Grant has been cut- ting it down all the time, but he will have a fairer field for retrenchment after the 4th of March next, including the Freedmen’s Bu- reau. Tus Sourners Ku Krux Kians.—tt fs re- ported that the Ku Klux Klans of Arkansas, in consequence of the discovery of their signs and pass words by the State authorities, have burned up their records and have suspended operations till further orders from their general headquarters at New Orleans. We guess that in view of tlie incoming sdminis- tration at Washington the best course for the whole Ku Klux organization and for all other secret political disturbers of the same citarac- ter down South, on either side, will be to dis- band, disperse and go into some honeat.calling, as soon as possible. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. A deinoornt ta to tote a repubiican in a wheel. barrow from Sixth avenue, near Bleecker street, to the Heratp butiding, on Tuesday aext, starting at half-past two o’clock P. This is to settle @ wager on tie iate election, 000 being staked aa forfeit in the eveut of the non-fuldimeut of (ue terns of the bet. It would ecem the Nicolson pavement ts coming to its legitimate end—to the fire, On Friday a reng of laborers took up a portion of the tarred gooring near Beekman street, and set it Ina jolly blaze, to the comfort of the poor woman at the appie stand near by. It was taken up, however, for replacement. Titw long would tt stand Broadway? The traasmogrification of Tammany Nall from a council chamber for the Sachems of “the groat “aa. washed, unterrified Gemocracy” to a varictigu con- cert hall was commenced yesterday. The “pig Ine jun’ in the niche ever the entrance to the preten+ tions “wigwai” @tiil looks exceedingly paic: yut by the time the “braves” have selected anothers “happy huuting ground” he may probably recover bis oriyt- nal roveate complexion. ‘The attention of the pollee authorities is again dt. rected to that insufferable nuisance of coxcomba and pickpockets who congregate around the doors of our metropolitan’ churches every Sunday, and who, a3 soon aa the congregations are diamiwed from divine ¢ co, string themselves! mong the curbstone the better to choke up the thorough(ara and piy their nefarious avocations. Af the pottea will buy make these saintly Idlers ta¢e on after they Jahive the church fewer Indies will “be siarad ont of fountenance and fewer persoay Will Ue rolloved of Do thee yalhgus gad Walobens