The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1868, Page 4

NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN * HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT. pRoPRIBLOR All business or news Ietter and telegtaphic despatches must be addressed New Yori Arar. : Rejevied communications will not be re- turned. Leliers and packages should be properly sesled. Volume XX XIE PIKES OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and Ma streot.—BAZGk BLEUE--LInscURN AND FRiT cout. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth wireet and Sixth ave- nue. —GENEVIEVE DR BRAGANT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, , Broadway.—Hopry pouty. wrra New FEATURES. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Tar GntaT ORIGINAL LINGARD A VAUDEVILLE COMVANY. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nou, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Div JUNGFRAU VON ORLEANS SROADWAY Was—Gonnk WAGLAOR'S Sur LANCASUIEE LASS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—AFTE2 DARK, on Lon- DON BY NIGHT. BOWFRY var Gurat. THUATRE, Bowery.-RED SoaRr--O'NEAL MRS. FP. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tne Lani e ba BRYANTS' OP! » Tammany Building, Mth steel. —-LUIOVIAN MINSTRELBY, dG. 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Europe. ‘The despaiches are dated November 29, British shipowners are dissutisied with the Ata Dawe ircaty, on accoant of certain provisions con- ority of the ud has been stilt further reduced. ‘Yue riots in some of the elec- Hon districts are attributed to the influence of the prganizations, ‘The health of Lonis Napoleon is reported to be on the wane, ‘The celebrated Frenca advocate Berryer died last Saturday. ‘The editors of the Revi, Tritune, Laventr, Temps aud Journal de Paris, bave been fined and imprisoned fur encouraging the Baudin sub- scriptions. Prince Charlies of Roumanta sperks encourag- mely of the joreigu relations of the Dannblan Prin- eipalities, An Austrian, feet has started on av expedition around the world. "ears are entertained that the monarchists and re- publicans of Spain may plunge the nation tnto blood. lican demonsiration took place Prrngony. Ry the Atiantic eable we learn that a column of 12,000 allied: troops bad been gent across the Cran Chaco to Gack the Paraguayan positien at Vitiets, Mexico. adviece by way of San francisco state that Lozada, wudent chief of Jalisco, had published a ifesto to the eect that he did not intend to war agaiust te general government, though he had means #uiiclent to carry on # war vo a successful end. Governor Alvarez, of Guerrero, has been ac- cused before the general government of appro- priating the rece!pts at the Custom House ip Aca- pulco ty his own use Cuba, date of November liad many svec Kemington rites Moll advices unde fhe insurger capturing tm money, near Puerto Princip and pletely vonting Colowel Quiros, driving in hot haste into nuago do Cuba with a josa of more than haif his force, It was stated that Puerto Principe hal fallea, bul the goveroment ergans deny %. The authorities are pinched for funds, gnd their calls on the wealtuy merchants to support them are unheoder Yho Havang papers yesterdar publistied a con. waional governm are fighting not ioc reforms, but independence of Spain. - a“ Porto Rive, Vaile deted November 9, say that although the armed there la a freat deal of Jemonstra- bona agains. the A wutiny among the troops (ook pier ve np by granting the Gene ‘ trials of the prisoners al \rect commer Miscetianeeas. a ieiter tow prominent larael- yor laek, dn reference to Jews os @ clase trom ais Hitmeeii dor od wathor emaod by wr Corlain acts of the Jews 4 camp, al Sheridan, with his sta? and two battalions as eriive ly, Indian Ter. n rt imnediately on 4 probably last one the in derably and had eap- tured a raat be ‘ila varton between the The United Suu Franc of the portal cup Great Britain. ported ehoal ones Islands, Purther part ars of tho Ulster coanty murder loave vo doubt that i woman was Mrs. Jevemtah Shuili, end that ce marderer was ber ansbaud. A daughier of the deceased recognizes the body on Sat vue murderer has goo westward, (aking with tim three children of the doce bond, for whoap fate great appr are entertained, A feward of $1,000 Bas beer oferod for Lia arrest. A nurse gir, ars of age, White left in ren of the McCulloch family, pear Corning, N.Y. Wednesday, in a ft of rage ac the youngest chi or being . threw it upon ho Moor, stamped Upon it vou i. was almost dife- nd then roasted tle haute onthe hot stove. 4 43 wother returned home at night it wae The cirl was arcested aud the coroner's Jury ia investigating the caro A lgruaue lamp exploded at the house of Fa Lege, o dng Sing, qt Setanta » Coulis dir Leslie cad wer twe cblldrea, vbe 4499 OF Bout charge of three Sn ar i 2 EE REN coe Bn ‘i | three years and tho other a baby of ning months of age. ‘The contested city election in Charleston, & ©., has been declared null and void by the City Council, and the repubhcan candidates elect are thus thrown over. The present eity government will continue th power, The Fenian Congress in Philadelphia has ad- joarned, after elocting General Johu O'Neill Prest- dent of the Brotherhood, by ‘the Bremen bark Ganaie Gans arrived at Charies- ton, 8. C., yesterday, with 300 German cimgranty ‘ ‘Tho Ohy. O'Raldwin, the Irish giant, was ict out on ball by Justice Dowling yesterday, aller promising to get into no more brawis. Prominent Arrivals In the City. Gencral Hazard and General 0., M. Yoo, of the United Siaies Army, are at the Hoffman House. Alexander von Sievold, of Japan; W. ¥. Chafdler ana E. H, Reynolds, of New Hampshire, and Captain Dixon, of the Britiah Army, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. { General O'Connor and Captain Cairns, of the Brit- ish Army, West Indies, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel J. S. Curtis, of New York, and E. Garduer, of Orange, N. d., are at the St, Julien Hotel, Colonel Sam Logan god Major &, Taylor, of the United Staves Army, und W. 8, Suydam, of the Uaited States Navy, are at the St. Charles Hotel. H. G, Coin, of the United States Marine Corpa; John E. Risley, of Washington, and FE. A, Barnard, of Maine, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, General J, A. Morris, of Indiana; I. ©. Lord, of Cincinnati; Wm. Prescott Smith, of Baltimore, and Nie Bentley, of Chicago, are at the St. Nicholas ‘otel. The Charter ElectionmA Splendid Oppor= tunity for Municipal Reform, The charter eleetion takes place in this city to-morrow, when the people will go through the form of choosing A. Oakey Hall their Mayor for the unexpired term, and of bestowing upon the patriotic Richard O'Gor- man the honors and emoluments of the Cor- poration Counsel’a offiea for another three years. Afier much consideration and discus- sion the outside democratic organizations have united with Tammany upon these two candi- dates, who will therefore walk over the eourse. The republicans have made a nomination for Mayor, but, ag their own organs state, it is merély with the object of keeping their forces within the limits of their own party lines, and without any serious idea of contesting the eleetion with the democracy. An attempt was mode to get up a combination of republicanism end all outside Tactions against Tammany, but the heart of the people was not in such a movement, and it fell dead. This was partly owing to the difficulty of finding desirable in- dependent candidate upon whom to unite, but mainly to the satisfactory character of. the Tammany nominations, District Attorney Hall is entitled to the respect and support of the people of New York, irrespective of party, and will make an efficient brilliant and popu- lar Mayor, + Under these circumstances the best thing the repeblican nominee can do for the interests of the city and of his party is to withdraw from tho contest and recommend his. friends to vote for Oakey Hall and to make his election unanimens, For the pgst eight or ten years we have been without an efficient munici- pal governaent in New York. There has been a division of power and re- sponsibility entirely incoasistent with the idea of a strong and vigorous government. Some departments have been placed under the control of State commissions made by law in- dependent of the municipal authorities, while others have remained in the hands of officers elected by the people of the city, and hence there has been no direct responsibility in any quarter. The natural results of this disjointed and inharmonioug system have been increased expenditures and taxation, without any ade- quate public advantages, If extravagance and corruption have prevailed it has been {mpossi- ble to hold any individual officer answerable for the evils, and all the efforts of partisan journals have failed to persuade the people that the responsibility for our twenty-four million dollars annfal taxation rests upon the shoulders of a Chief Magistrate whose powers have been crippled by State laws, and who is deprived of all control over some of the most important departments of the municipal gov- ermment, The city of New York is now an ompire within herself. She has over a million of in- habitants, besides half a million in her suburbs who are the same as her own population, ‘The greater portion of the nation’s wealth is gathered in her lap, and she is rapidly becom- ing the centre of the world In commerce and in news, as she is already the great commercial centre and settling house of the American Gontinent, She needs a strong, harmonious and responsible government, and now is the time to secure it, Some of the legisiative commissions in the cily are good enough aod have been an advantage to tbe people; but with them and over them all we should bave one recognized municipal head, holding power directly from the people and responsible directly to the people for the faith- fal and honest discharge of his trust. We have frequently disenssed the details of sach a systew, and it was expected that the Conatitu- tional Convention which met a year and a half ago sould havo given us in the revived organic law 4ome snch well considered plan of reform in our municipal government. These hopes were disappointed, and the people of New York have since shown fu unmistakable majorities their condemnation of the Ynixed and muddled legislatioa torced upon the city by repeblican Legislatures for partisan pur- poses, Tet therepublican party now take a new departure, commencing with the with- drawal of thelr candidate for Mayor and onding with the revision of all laws relating to the city of New York and the passage of an amended charter which shall secare to the metropotig » vigorous, efficient, centralized and responsible municipal governutent. Oakey Hall is independent as politician, and pos- sesses firmness of purpose, strength of will and integrity of character. He would use power with discration, and would be just the nan to inaugurate the now system. At the sawe time, the republican party by such o policy would encceed tn effectually breaking down the enormous democratic majorities in this city which are built up upon the people's jealousy of their mupietpal rights, The re- publican candidate for Mayor should imme- diately execute this great coup ditat by pub- licly withdrawing from « hopeless contest, and advising all party to unite on Oakey Hall for Mayor on the basis of a restoration of the rights of the electors of the city and the torong) ceform of our present ineMolent and itresyourible mualcipal government The Krio Reitroad and the Courts Wey | | Out ef the Woods, The poople care very Ulile about the Eric Railroad litigatign, so far as it is a more scramble between stockjobbers, brokers, specu- lators and Wall street operators generally for mastery in the control of a siock that has for years’ been just as sacredly devoted to’ gam- bling purposes as a roulette board or faro table in any of our fashionable uptown banks. Whether tho bull with the longest horns or the bear with the sharpest claws may gain the victory is a matter of no consequence, except to the bulls and bears themselves and the job- bing newspapers that fight for pay on one side or the other. But when, the judiciary gets mixed up in the muddle, when judges aad courts begin to play at cross purposes and come in conflict with each other, granting mandamuses and counter-mandamusez, in- junctions and counter-injmetions, orders and counter-orders, and evincing, moreover, some personal feeling in the proceedings, it becomes quite enother affair. The mere suspicion of a tainted judiciary is a public evil, and some of our daily journals have not hesitated to reflect in strong terms upon the action of certain judges fn this Erie liliga- tion. They argue, justly or unjustly, that a judge's salary is only doven or eight thousand dollars a year, while the receivership of the Erie Railroad is worth at least two hundred thousand dollars a yéar; and these journalists, having always an eye to the main ehance themselves, seem to conclude that a judge who is anxious to bestow go valuable an appointment upon a friend must expect a re- ward for his generosity here or hereafter. The United States courts have now been dragged into the unclean pool without much oppareat prospect of coming to a more harmo- nious decision than has been reached in the State courts, There is, however, one practical way of settling the whole difiiculiy. The fundamental queftion seems to be, who had batter old possession of the funds of the Erie Railroad and thus actually control the manage- meut of the affairs of the corporation in the interests of the stockholders and of the public? The company is chartered under the laws of the State of New York. It has received a large amount of money from the ireasury of the State, besides other important grants and privileges. The people of New York have, therefore, rights in the road which cannot be ignored, and the Attorney General of the State is the proper officer to protect those rights and to see that the interests of the Commonwealth do not suffer from the mismanagement of the ofiicers of the company or the intrigues, plots and speculations of stockjobbers. Let the Attorney General cut the Gordian knot of this disgraceful litigation by stepping in and taking possession of the road in the name of the people of the State of New York, and let him make such arrangements for the management of the affairs of the company as will effectu- ally dispose of the squabbles and scrambles of all the Wall street cliques on one side and the other, Disnarn’s Mopesty.—Mr. Disraeli, it ap- pears, has declined a title and a peerage offered him by the Crown, but has consented to transfer the honor to his wife, who is here- after to be known as Viscountess of Beacon- fields, Sir Robert Peel, it is known, always refused a higher title than that of baronet, preferring to send his family name down to posterity allied with his deeds as a statesman aud a premier. Lord John Russell coquetied «long thae with the earldom befere he ac- cepied it and gave up his leadership of tite liberal party in the House of Commons to take his seat among the Peers, Mr. Disraeli’s modesty stands by him now, but should his popularity be seriously diminished and power remain long ont of his hands he may yet ba tempted to acknowledge her Majesty's kind- ness and slip quietly into the Upper House with some fine old Oriental title revived for the occasion. fur New Postar, ARRANGEMENTS wrth Grear Burrais.—We publish in full the text of the recent convention between the United States and Great Britain on the subject of in- ternational postae. There has for some years been more or less difference of opinion between the poste! deporimentd of the two governments in regard ‘to the construction to be put upon the stipulations of the several treaties on the subject. These seem to be defined by the provisions of the present convention, An important point, however, which principally concerns the citizens of the United States, seems to have been overlooked. We mean the transmission of mail matter between the iwo countries in American sieamers. That point, perhaps, is left for futare negotiations, * when we have regularly established lines of ocean steamships of our own to British ports, Law Axp ORDER IN AkKANSAs.—The State of Arkansas appears to be in «a bad way from ihe over-zeal of Its matural protectors, the militix, Ifthe band of marsuders which en- tured the towa of Centre Point recently was really « foree of militia, as represented, then that district of Arkansas may well cry out to be saved from its friends. But it is far more likely that these fellows who sacked the town, arrested its inhabitants and shot three of its leading citizens were nothing but a gang of biigaads roving through the country. It is evident that law and order are ont of joint in Arkansas, and something must be done to heal the difficulty or the State will fo!! cbaos. [ Hessioorr Vanguisimy.—The Deity New Notion, Hnnaicutls rabid revolutionary radi- cal organ at Richmond, Va., has given up the ghost “in consequence of the unexampled proscription against it.” Aw the special organ of the revolutiouary radical blocks, the great mivtuke of Hunnicutt wae in starting such a daily before bis backers had learned to read. Moreover, Hunnicutt’s failure signifies that the day io the South, not only of the Ku Klux Klan, bnt of the “carpet-baggers” and “scala- wage,” Is drawing to a close. + us have peace.” A Rove Passagr--Down or up Broad- way fn carriage or omnlbus. A good snow storm will give us a regular blockade, and to auch a blockade we must sow look for some offective measures of relief, A foot of snow Is our last hope. A Yankee Sprovtarion—An American vessel with arms on board for the Walla- chiaug passing up the Danubo, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEM! EH? 20, 1863. Tue Frees Prosecutions tn Poxis. A certain lecturer once attributed to the femily of mankind two distinctly separate na- tures—human aature and French nature, and announced the latter as the topic of his lec- ture. Were he now to repeat it-he might find fresh illustrations in the account which we published yesterday of the recent exirao:- dinary press prosecutions in Paris, In the tris] of the Baudin case, which came to a close on the 15th inst., the charge against the defen- dants, their adroit replies to the inquisitorial interrogatory of the President of the court, the caustic eloquence of their counsel and the strange verdicts rendered compose a legal and historical curiosity of the greatest interest. ‘The defendants were charged with having “practiced manwuvres within the realm with the object of holding up the government to hatred and contempt.” The kind of interro- gatory to which, according to the peculiar custom of French courts, they were sub- jected may be inferred from one or two exam- ples, Taus Mr. Quentin, editor of the tévait, was closely questioned as to his motives and those of his son in wearing a red cachenez, or comforter, at the commemoration of the funeral of Baudin, who was killed at the barricades when Louis Napoleon made his coup @’état. ‘The same editor was also asked why he made a speech at Baudin’s grave, and what were the words he uttered? His reply was:—-‘‘The prosecution has no substance; it is founded on nothing. You prosecute me for making a speech, and you want me to tell what the speech was.” The cross-examination of ihe dgiendants was followed by a speech by the Avocat Impérial, who developed at enormous length his theme that they were guilty of ‘‘a regularly organized plan to atiack the very principle of the government under the pre- tence ot doing honor to Baudin’s memory.” Mr. Crcmieux, in defending Mr. Quentin, demonstrated the absurdity of the prosecution of his client for a speech of which the Procureur Impérial could not produce either the text or the substance. He said ‘the goy- ernment had brought the 2d of December into court and he would exercise @ counsel’s privi- lege to speak about it.” Among the strongest points of the philippic into which he then launched was his declaration that ‘it was nothing to the purpose to say that December 2 had been ‘absolved.’’ So had the 18th Brumaire. How many millions of suffrages had proclaimed first the consulate for life and afterwards the empire? But crime could not be absolved by a catch vote, and certainly not the greatest of all crimes, that of laying a soldier's violent hand upon the national repre- sentation, Sixteen years later (here Mr. Crémieux said with marked emphasis, ‘I beg you to observe the date’), the representatives of the people drove out the author of the 18th Brumaire.” In conclusion Mr. Crémieux said :—‘‘Let the Second Empire erect as many statues as it likes to its favorites, and let pos- terity respect them as it might see fit, but let the vangnished of 1851 be at liberty to pay simple funeral honor to thedead. France was agreatand glorious nation which must be taken as it was, with all fts good. qualities and defects. France, like Neptune, would some- times stride across the world in three days, and then, frightened at her owa progress, she would come back again and suffer, herself to be guided instead of guiding. But it should be remembered that three days might repair all losses; the future was with progress.” Mr. Emanuel Arago and Mr. Gambetta were no legs severe than Mr. Crémieux in their invec- tives against the government. All the counsel availed themselves to the utmost of the capi- tal opportunity the government had foolishly enough afforded them of arraigning December 2 before the bar of public opinion, and of hurling at it terrific indictments, which will be copied by the press throughout the world and stereotyped for the perusal of posterity. It is difficult to resist the conviction that in these press proseentions in Paris Napoleon LiL. has committed mistakes similar to those of Charles X. and of Louis Philippe. It remains to be seen whether suc mistakes will prove as fatal to the Bonaparies as they proved to the Bourbons and to the Orleans. We know, however, that history repeats itself ia all nations and oftencst in France Tax Unto Sraras Covris any mK Sovrngrn Tesr Onru.—The action of Chief dustice Chase in declining to enforce the test oath on jurors in the United States Court at Richmond may be regarded as the beginning of a liberal régime in the South, which will no doubt find a fuller development when Grant's administration comes into power. The exam- ple of the Chief Justice, we are glad to see, was followed on Saturday by Judge Durrill, in Louisiana, who’ordered the oath to be admin- istered to jurors as it was before the war, thus setting aside the “‘iron-clad” piece of, petty persecution which radical vindictiveness had imposed upon the Southern people. This oath was never necessary for the ends of justice, but, on the contrary, greatly impeded ite pro- cress. It is well that it is now practically abrogated. Roast Beer anv Prom Peppwe Dirro- macy, —dohn Bull continues bis roast beet » plum pudding diplomacy with the aimics Reverdy Johnson, and with the greatest anc- cess. It is evident that the finale of his mis- sion in reference to the Alabama claims will be “Failed ffom a surfelt of English roast heef and plum pudding.” An Ruglish Christmas will be apt to finish him. SovewnaT Sranrricant—The effect of the Cuban insurrection oa the banks at Havana and the departure of eight hundred govern- ment volunteers for the front. This muster- ing of volunteers means that the regular gov- ernment troops are wholly inadequate for the work before them, and that the revolt is a formidable one, abet “avs Quiet on TH Porowac.”——The office seekers, and even the newsmongers, seem to have dropped General Grant as a hopeless case, He is succeeding admirably in his idea of having peace. The Members of Congress ard beginniag to drop in, but still there is Fen atk Trovere Brewine ty Sraiw.—The popular movements for a republic are increasing in Spain, while the Provisional Junty at Madrid is finessing for a monarchy. Crear As Mup—The opiaton of Attorney General Evarts on the Hight Hour lew. The Thontrey This Evealng. The list of our theatrical amusements for this evening is that of Jast week, with these exceptions :—First, Mrs, Scoit-Siddons, who, with her personal attractions and her rare ac complishments as un artist, has made the great- ost hit of the season in Boston, appears for the first time in New York in her charming réle of Rosalind, in Shakspeare’s sparkling comedy “As You Like It;” secondly, Bateman’s two opéra bouffe companies are to join their forces at Pike's to-night, and they are, in addi- tion to “Barbe Bleue,” to give us the new rigmarole of ‘‘Lieschen and Fritzchen;” and, thirdly, the Catacombs ‘‘for one night only” will be enlivened with Lingard’s budget of comicalities. Grau is satisfied with Genevitve and her funny adventures ; Wood has uo ocea- sion to stop the wheel of ‘Ixion,” which turns him in some forty-six thousand dollars 4 month; “Humpty Dumpty,” footing up thirty odd thousand, wilt hardly retire till after the inauguration of our next Mayor$ “The Lan- cashire Lass” still fills the avidijorium of Wallack’s with her admirers; '*London by Night” is a sensation which leaves only-stand- room for our cousins from the country by the seven o'clock train, and Barney and Mrs. Baraoey Williams are popular as ever. The circuses and the minstrels never fail; but for the present Mrs. Scott-Siddons and company, “solitary and alone,” maintain the cause of the legitimate drama. As for the Italian opera here, if Offenbach has not killed it he has driven it for a time from the field, and Maretzek sits brooding over its fallen glories like Marius over the ruins of Carthage. Views of # United States Senator. We give to-day the result of # conversation held between a HeRaLp correspondent und Senator Morton, of Indiana. Senator Morton represents, ‘probably as well as any other member of the Senate, the views of the sub- stantial republicans of the West upon national quesiions, In regard io financial matters he may, perhaps, nol be so egsentially the oracle of the West as his colletigue from the same section, Senator Sherman, of Ohio, who, as chairinan of the Senate Committee on Finance, is supposed to be better posted on those sub- jects, But Senator Morton utters the senti- ments of a practical man, while Senator Sher- man is apt to indulge in theories. The In- diana Senator's ideas about the resumption of specie payments at a given period are, how- ever, open to those objections which we have all along entertained and uttered {nu that re- spect. Specie payments will be resumed when the natural increase in the trade, credit and sperity of the nation warrdnts re- sumpti and any attempt to force specie payments before that period will end in failure and disaster. The suggestion that resumption shall take place by law in the year 1871 savors of the tact and trick of the old politician, for in that year the people will be considering the matter of a new Presidential term, and the financial issue, if not settled before, will thea be a vital one, which » circumstances then ing «wi bave 9 momen tons aiecass upon. We wish Scoatoe Morton bad been more particular and explicit, in expressing his viewsin regard to the Ala-" bama claims; As a member of the Senate Commilitee on Foreign Relations he ought to be well informed on that interesting point. But, as a whole, the exposition of,his views, as given by our correspondent, are valuable to the community as foreshadowing the policy of the majority in the approaching and final ses- sion of the Fortieth Congress. GENERAL NOTES, An exchange says Mrs, Colfax is thirty-two. Mr. Colfax is over thirty, too. jrant had just eight majority over Seymour ig Galena, A woman was recently grrested in Chicago for carrying a concealed Weapon. It was her tongue. A Naspville paper says if is diMfcalt to teli whether Grant isa “pig or & pap’? He was been found rather pugnacions in the South. A Boston paper thinks that a rocelver was ap- pointed m the matter of the Erie railroad upon the principle that the receiver Is a5 bad as the titer. ‘Tne New Nation—a violent and unscrupulous ri sheet in Riehinond—ts dead: Cause, “Unex- proscription "not subscviption, A Boston pailosopher says the whiskey ring ts the “emblem of cternity,’’ because there is ao end tora, nor to its Bwindling, ef Davis has “jined” the Charch, and Robert FE, Leo has a Gidle class of 160 members, Who says the rebeiiion accomplished nothing? \ Chariesion paper avers Ua tae goverameut of the Unitdd states is to be cousolidated and imperial in form. W it could be made imperial ti reform at would be « blessed thing. ‘There are 1,150 convicts in the Hhnois State Pent. tentiary, 1 is remarkable that uot a singie reve oMicer is stated to be among the number, We can do better than that in New York. ‘Whe etreus companies travelling in the Souta now get a good share of gratuitous advertising by getting up mock rows and fights and having them reported im the pap era. a Generat joe Johnston was in Athatla, Ga, on the 25th inst. A radical editorsags he “had the pleasure of again shaking hands with this oobte old Rouraa.” He has been called an Irishman. A “National Bureau of Education” with be simone the schemes of the next Congress, West Point taught the young America idea Low to shoot and the weapons in many cases recoiled with aad effect. Middieboro’, Mase., has been visited by an earta- quake. No great shakes. The destre of @ distin- guished politician that Massachusetis aud South Carolina should be swallowed up by earthquakes is not yet in # fair way to be realized. it is stated that President Johnson ix “going back” on his political career, Ho can't, forthe town oft Greenville, Venn, im whieh he was an Alderman, and in which ofice he commenced that carrer, Nas gone radical republican, A New Orleans paper las discovered that the Cavan HMibustoring movement alleged to exist in New Or Jeans i#@ myth. Thisis novthe fess time yesion pevdoeta io Now Oreaua Dave peo. e terivw A Washington paper draws a comp: the jer4 of Pollard and Larkin ——— img one the yr atal rough’? been thrown in te. aa the command ower Job. That he emul politicians for Wie pur | have beer your dirt high, M of @ sul-contractor on Aa £ Would Ve wuiecessary adv: who are throwing Witt ata eof “bringing thei Cowu.” ‘ee and Drle latrmary’? ought to be the yoary Ingtitntige 9 be char. tered by the ucxt Logislature of State. Patchogue mewber may. lowever, propose to change the name to “Mind Your Bye and brie, It ls stated that Congress will be asked, [0 pars & provibitory liquor law for the District of Coluw bia Abia ne xtsosmon, That's the Way the prosibition and abolition of slavery began. Are tho raiicals gor ing co try Dew to deprive the poopie of thelr grog? The Mormon organ In Salt Lake Oi xuitang decane civiilmetion has penetrated t Saints im the shape of murders, rob hangings, burnings, Vigilance corginitiors, Mes a6 Bear ©) Is in Magvachuectts for the enger to carry tle Woshington. — ihbe nd eepensiv@ and my might tome on @ etia (opie. ig Lee Ow WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov, 20, 1853, The Next Sevnter from MissourimHender- som’s ChaucesAnothor Aupirant for Cabincs Houors, : A gentleman has just arrived from Missouri, where he has been engaged for the past two mouths in the turmoil of politi-s, states that the contest in that State for United Siates Sena’or to succeed Mr, Hen- dergon is very spirited. Tus most prominent candi- dates in the felt are General Cari Schusa, Senator Henderson and B. F, Loan, Represent: from that State, Loan and Hendorsoa, ue thinks, divide the chances pretty evenly between them, though Sena- tor Henderson seems to have a good deal of up-nill work, his action in the impeachment trial having offended the radicais and his views in favor of negro Suffrage having disgusted the democrats. The iriends of General Schurz are working like beavers, but his opponents charge upon him with tho re- proach that he is @ carpet-bagger and has not lived long enough in the State to have become properly identified witn tt, Henry T. Blow, he states, has aspirations for diling a Cabinet position, and a mul- ttude of friends have taken charge of the task of getting him into General Grant’s good graces, Senator Morton and the Fineucial Questions, Senator Morton authorizes the statement that the account published in the Times last weak of a “conversation between htm and Secretar McCulloch was not correctly reported. Tho Senator said noting about introduciag a bill to provide for pay- ing five-twenlics in greenbacks, The talk was chiefly apout resuming specie payments, which the Senator sald was the first duty of tue government. In twlking about the payment of the bonds the Senator said the government had a right under the law to use the existing greenbacks in paying the ve-twenties; but that the question would become unimportant when the government returned ta specie payments, and would become important only by the continuance of a depreciated currency and no steps beiog.taken lo improve It, ‘Tae Secrstary said he did not know that legislation could hasten specie Payment, unless it would be’ to increase the tariff and such as would promote industry and develop the resources of the couatry and thus tiprove the credit of the goverament. Survey of the Northern Boundary of New Mexico. Colone! Samuel S$. Smoot has received a letter from Captain E. W. Darling's surveying and astro- notuicat party informing him of the completion of tha survey of the thirty-seventh parallel, so far as ib constitutes the northern boundary of New Moxtco, this being a very important survey for the settlers near the line of the two Territories. A large amount of money has been expended tn mining in that region, and those engaged in {t have been anxious to know whcther their amines were lu New Mexico or Colorado, ‘This tine runs through a mountainous region, crossing. the east- ern siope of the Rocky Mountains. Many hard- ships were encountered in prosecuting the survey. ‘The contract was made with the Commissioner of the General Land OMice last spring, the appropria- tions having been made tn Congress tor the survey of the boundary. The Western end of this survey establishes the northwest corner of New Mexico, the southwest corner of Colorado, the southeast corner ot Utuh and the northeast corner of Arizona, ‘The rich mines known as the Maxwell Mines are direcuy south of this survey. THE INUNDATIONS IN SWITZERLAND. Oficial Report of the Recent Terrible Disne ter-Immense Destruction of Property— ‘Thousands of Families Rendered House~ lessAppenl to the Charitable. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 1608. ‘The following oMcial account of tie national oa- lamity tn Switzerland bas just been recelyed at the Department of State:— WEGATION ov THE UnrrED Sratss, BERNE, Oct. 10, Sin:—Switzerland has recently been sub; to what may justly be termed o national calamity. Alter an exceptionally dry and agreeabie season the country has been visited by @ heretofore une- qualied ruin fall, and much of the cantons of Gre- sons, Tessin, the Valais, Glaris and St, Gall and Uri have, in consequence thereof, been literally deao- lated by inundations. ‘The mountain rivuiets aud cascades, suddenly swelled to wrrents, swept vit- jages, hatniets, cattle, ro. bridges, dikes, earth an@ stone as debris upon the fields below, which are (aus rendered forever hopeless wasies. The appeal oi the authorities of the canton of Tess sin to their more fortunate fellow countrymen oft- cially sets forth the efiects ol the storm, and this de. scription may be taken as applicable in a greater or jess extent to the other cantous named. In the night of the 27th and 28th of September our canton was struck by a frightiul catastrophe. A vowume of water precipitated itself as a deluge ints the valleys of Bleuio, of the Levantine, the Rivieva, ihe Vernasco and the Baggia. ‘This scourge was accompanied by the destracuion of buildings and by the fail of trees, by earth and rock siides iu such manner as it all the elements had combined to rival each other in the work of devastation. Aji the beau- tlui country that extends from Giornies and Ulivons to Biasca, unrecognizable to-day, t8 noting bul & mass of debris, Koads, bridges and dixes are destroyed; houses, mills aud stables have been swept away; the rich fores:s, te jertile ields and 3, Dut yesterday flourishing, have disap ‘altie have perished by Lhousanas, aud tuak which adds to the consiernaiion is the loss of more than fifty persons—some surprised in their sieep and otuers the victiuas of their devotion Wiile attenpung to rescue and assist the drowning; fathers and mothers of familtes haye been crasued under the falling houses and their bodies swept off by the ruse jug waters. ‘The disaster surpasses all that imagination cam picture, ‘Thousands of families nave beeu struck by whe calamity, and too many of them have been re- duced to ihe last extremity, without rool, withou’ clotues, without bread and several deprived of their fatiers, ‘ihe, iosses, which tor the moment cannot ve stated, will rise (0 mlilons. ‘She guthorities, the societies and the citizens of this canton, reserved by Heaven for 80 crucl ap ex- perielce, are occupying hemselves in provieins for the immediaie Wants of we viedms; bub our forces Wil not provide for ths immense burdea, To you we address the appeal, which, in this supreme necessity, j8 an utterance of the heart rather than ihe thoughts. We ask of your brothers with conil- dence mot to ubandon us to taese blows of destiny, aud that they share with ua toe cross of adversity. Ail species of succours will be accepted by us with thankiui-hearts, and the canton autuorities wil tke care that the most suffering shad be the firat to re- ceive the Leneiits of your charities. Jo the Swiss people * * so blessed by God the desolate 4 we vailey of the Tessin address their peas ar their prayers. " ns LUGANo, Oct. 1, 1968. Subsequent information proves that tis sad pio-~ wore is Tot overwrought. The governments, both federal and joeal, as also the peopie, are for promptly and geuerally responding to the appeals of which this is put oue. The President of tae con federation, at the Instance of the Federal Council, at once repaired to the acoue of the disaster, The ailitary engineers were linmediately despatched to periitend and direct the resivraiion wand rebuild- ing of the highways aud bridges and dikes, in order to restore communications, altogether ded. Citizen committees have been organized In the re-~ Tasining cantons for the purpose of visiting each house jor assistance, and every means i pat in requisition /to relieve the suiferers and repair the ounetwise wee oe damages. ‘The disaster, however, has been and the number of people left at the threshold of win- ter, without shelter, cloihes and bread, has been too large to be more than scantily and partiaily repaired and reteres by co local contrioutions, however enerous they tay be. wan not aware Nhat appenls will be made to the dwiss or other residents abroad. Should such be addressed to the resident Swiss of the United States. 1 bog to state thus briefly but officially that no human. soresiaht cuald have evaded this blow and that this ory of distress appeals with equal force to the benevo- jeat of our couuirymen of whacever origia or naWou siily they may ov. With great respect, your obedient rervant, ‘di GRORUE KARKINUTON. Hon, WitLtaM Hf. Sewano, Secretury of Stave, Waal tugton, D.C. TELEGBAPAIS NEWS ITEM. e: F. Rolly, a well Known broker of Phitadelphia, cited fu (hal city yesterday after a short Hines, Ue had been a prominent man in the stock market for the last eighteen years, A portion of the carriage maunfactory of B. C. Shaw, in Incianapoils, was destroyed by dre on Sar- urday night. Loss abont $10,000. ‘The Titra Presbyterian church in Pittsburg was dedicated yesterday, The edifice cost abot $200,008 ope 15 the Daest in the city, Thomas Clayton, of Great Barrington, Mass, was instantly killed on Saturday by the accidental dis- charge of bis gun, the charge passing tirongh bis bead. A delegation of tha Philadelphia Board of Trade leave on Monday for Cincinnati, to attend the first pusines# meeting of the National Board of Trade Held stice Its orgamizerion, aocoupanicd by repre- sentatives of the Philadelphia Commercial Ex change and delegations Sra laiimere god Wie rwyton, Del.