The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1868, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Al! business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorK HERALD. Volume XXXIILL.......ceeeereseeeer eee NOs 340 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—APTBE DARE, OB LON- DON BY Nigut, Matinee atl. y THEATRE, Bowery.—Matines at 9—DnvNk- aor ER ing RED SCARF--HANDSOMB JACK. way.—MEB Scor7-SID- 8 You Lise It, W YORK THEATRE, Bros mane ‘AB JULIET. Matinee at 2 KES OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and sau tree. BALDR BLEUE, &c. Matinee atl. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIRVE DE BRABAN'. Matinee at 1. OLYMPIC THEATRE, BrondwagBUMrse Domrry. with NEW FEATURES. Matinee at 134. ROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—SHaANDY Ma- ebrae RouGs DIAMOND—IRISH TUTOR, Matinee at ly. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— WILLiAM TELL. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and f3th strect.— tur Lancaster Lass. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tur Lancasuine Lass. NTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Pretest he MINSTRELSY, £0. Matinee at 2” KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN -MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—TAMB Cats. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETm10- PIAN ENTERTALNMENTS, Sieaisc, DANOING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comico VOCALIsN, NEGRO MINSTBELSY, &c. Matinee at 254. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. NEW YORK CIROUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuEsTBIAN AND GyMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 23g. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoornr’s MINeTRELS—Tus Guanp Ducnxss, &c. Matinee at 2). HOOLEY’S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Willtamsburg.— Hoorer's MinetReLs—Ou! Husu, £0. Mati 4 mee at 23s. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOrRNCE AND ART. New York, Seturday, December 5, 1868. THE NOWS. Europe. Our cable telegrams are dated December 4. On Thursday Mr. Gladstone, after an interview with the Queen, formally accepted the appointment of Premier. Mr. John Bright has been asked to join the new Ministry. The names of Lord Romilly and Sir Robert P. Collier are mentioned in connection with the new Cabinet, The Paris Moniteur gives an account of the Baudin demonstration on Wednesday, and says that but few arrests were made, General Laureano Sanz y Soto, the newly appointed Captain General of Porto Rico, accepted the office ou condition that more regular troops be sent to the island. General Dulce saiis for Havana on the 15th inst. Miscellaneons. Gencra! Grant had a reception in Boston yester day and visited the manufactoriea in Lowell, We publish this moraing an abstract of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. The public debt is decreasing. ‘the internal revenue for this year ‘Will reach $120,000.09. We also publish elsewhere a synopsis of the re- port of the Commissioners of the Union Pacific Rail- road Company, and the report of General Reynolds, commanding in Texas. The argument on the motion to quash the Indict- ment against Jeff Davis was continued yesterday by Mr. R. H. Dana for the government and Mr, Charles O'Conor for the defendant. At the close of the argu- ment Chief Justice Chase announced that the court was divided, he being in favor of quashing the indictment while District Judge Underwood opposed it. The payments to the army during the present year ‘were $123,000,000, Senator Willtams, of Oregon, thinks that the unt- versal suffrage doctrine will give California and pos- sibly the whole Pacific slope over to the Chinese in a few years, Judge Fullerton had @ highiy satisfactory inter- view with President Johnson yesterday on matters connected with the whiskey frauds. He also had a talk with Colonel Messmore on the same subject, The injunction against the Mayor and Chief of Police of New Orleans has been dismissed, the Court holding that the new Metropolitan Police billis un- constitutional. The impeachment case in Florida is ended for the present, Lieutenant Governor Gleeson being denied higassumed right to oust Governor Reed by the Supreme Court, The temporary bridge across the Missouri at Omaha was completed on Wednesday and swept away by floating ice on Thursday night. Yellow Smoke, Chief of the Omaha Indians, a friendly tribe, was murdered by white rufians at Dunlap, Iowa, iast week. The warriors of his tribe are mustering in force in consequence. Aman named Reeves cut off his brother-tn-law's bead with a cleaver in a sausage factory in Charles- town, Mass., yesterday, during an altercation. He surrendered himself and denies his gulit. The New York sympathizers with Hester Vaughn called upon Governor Geary, at Harrisburg, yeatér- day, and were told that the Governor had already studied the case and determined on his course of action. Governor Fenton has commuted the sentence of death imposed on Catharine Johnson, of Buffalo, for the murder of Bridget McDermot, to tmprison- ment for life in the State Prison at Sing Sing. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has com- mutea the sentence of Alexander Willis, a negro, condemned to death for murder, to hard labor and imprisonment for life. J. E. Van Steenburg, cashier of the Bank of Fish- kill, jumped from the Poughkeepsie special train on Thursday night, thinking that he had passed his sta- tion, and was killed, Buras, alias Brickley, and Whittington, the Sing Sing convicts, have been found not guilty of the murder of their fellow convict, Jemerds, The jury im the Cole triai at Albany are aeliberat- ing on the verdict. ‘The trial of Deacon Andrews for murder is pro- gressing at Plymouth. On two occasions the pri- woner has shrieked and beaten himself in the face with bis open hand during the progress of the trial, and being questioned has stated that he thought some one was striking him tn the face. ’ The City. A sult has been commenced by a stockbo'der fgainst the New York Centra! Raliroad Company, complaining of large over issues of stock, and Judge Barnard yesterday granted an injunction agains: the lesue of any further convertible bonds or certificates Of stock, and enjoined the payment of dividends on Qny other than the original capital stock of the com- pany. In the United States Court the Kentucky Bourbon whiskey fraud case has been set down for trial on Monday next. Judge Sutheriand, at Supreme Court chambers, yesterday discharged the parties committed by Coroner Fiynn for the wilful murder of Felix Larkin. Hugh Campbell, the saloon keeper, was required to give bail in $7,000; James Berrigan, the bartender, $5,000, and Ann Hines, the cook, in $1,000, ‘The Theatre Comique, No. 614 Broadway, was par- tially destroyed by fire at early hour yesterday morning. The loss is about $20,000. The Paymaster’s clerk who is euppored to have absconded from the Navy Yard at Brookiyn with government funds. is named Rt, D. Bogert. He is to Cuba. AB inquest was held yesterday in the Dominic NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1858. Rosa stabbing affair, at No. 68 Crosby street. A ver- dict Was rendered charging Joseph Antonio Nasca with the murder, Nasca is at large. ‘The streets and housctops of the city were covered with snow last night. It also suowed in Washing- ton, Buffaio, Chicago and St. Louis. ‘Yhe steamship Ariadne. Captain Eldridge, will leave pier > East river this afternoon for Galveston, Texas. The sidewheel steamship Rapidan, Captain Mal- lory, of Livingston, Fox & Co.'s line, will sail from Pier 36 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana and New Orleans. Mails for Havana by this steamer close at tne Post Ofice at two P. M. The steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P, M. to- day for New Orleans. 7 The steamer Flag, Captain Hoffman, for Mobile via Fernandina, will leave pier 29 North river at three P. M. to-day. The steamship San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, sails from pler No. 8 North river at three P. M. to- day for Savannah. The steamship Manhattan, Captatn Woodhull, leaves pier No. 5 North river at three #. M, to-day for Charleston. The steamship Virginia, Captain Drew, for Wash- ington and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria, will leave pler 15 East river at four P. M. to-day. ‘The stock market yesterday was excited in conse- quence of a heavy decline in New York Central. Gold was firm and closed at 13534. * Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman T. M. Pomeroy and Congressman A. H. Laflin, of New York; General J. H. Whitney, of Boston, and J. W. Park, of Vermont, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman T, W. Ferry, of Michigan; Dr. H. 0. Yarrow, of the United States Army; Captain Chas. E. Simmons, of Baltimore, and W. W. De Witt, of Montana, are at the,Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman W.B. Allison, of Iowa, and E. W. King, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House. Chas. J. Faulkner, of Virginia, ts at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Colonel ©. W. Tompkins, of Rhode Island; Jas. Karrick Riggs, ‘of Paris, France, and V. Bunta Kopsky, of St. Petersburg, Russia, are at the Hoffman House, Judge Ingersoll, of Mlinots; Captain E. B. Wads- worth and Major Truesdale, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. A High Tariff Cabinet Ring. The wire-pullers and ring men at Washing- ton, although baffled in their most ingenious plans for lassoing and leading General Grant, have not relaxed in their efforts to secure the control of affairs under the next administration. They early took time by the forelock. So long ago as in May last the Hzratp noticed the secret circular which was issued by the sec- retary of the high tariff league to the mem- bers of the executive council. In that circular the secretary urged the necessity of raising more money, and gave a summary of what the league had already accomplished, particularly in influencing the making up of the committees of Congress. The hocus-pocus which had been at work was soon manifest in the selection of the chairmen of several of these committees. Thus a new member from one of the Pennsyl- vania districts, but a national bank president and superintendent of a large tron mill, and also a vice president of the high tariff league, was made chairman of the Committee on Man- ufactures, Another reliable Treasury and high tariff ring man was made chairman of the Committee on Accounts—the most important committee of the House except that on Ways and Means, inasmuch as the Committee on Accounts has power to get all sorts of elec- tioneering expenses through in the shape of le- gitimate House expenses. All these ring men and their friends worked like beavers previous to the Chicago Conven- tion to make Colfax President, if possible, or at least Vice President. One of them was heard to declare that ‘the was in favor of Colfax and Grant, in the order named”—Colfax for President and General Grant for Vice Pres- ident—but he supposed ‘“‘that the Convention would give General Grant the first position.” The secretary of the Iron and Steel Associa- tion said he was in favor of Colfax for Presi- dent. One leader of the combination, who was a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury in case Mr. Wade should be made President, openly expressed in a public speech his want of confidence in the nominee of the Chicago Convention. li is said that this high tariff ring, not con- tent with selecting their own candidate for Vico President and with making up the committees, actually attempted to control Congressional nominations. Thus men were asked to work against a prominent republican candidate for Congress in Indiana on the ground that he was “‘a free trader" and ‘not sound on the finance question ;” and to work for another republican who was in favor of ‘“‘the highest kind of a tariff and immediate return to specie payments,” and, what was “far better, a good friend of Mr. Colfax!” The anti-high tariff, anti-Treasury ring and anti-Colfax republican got, however, the nomination, and will take his seat in Congress next March. Now, this high tariff ring fears General Grant. They know that he is honest and firm. They know that the only show their schemes will have during his administration will be by intrigue. They hope to prevent a repeal of the Tenure of Office law, and to get a man popularly supposed to be honest, but really under their control, made the next Secretary ot the Treasury. If they can do this they may possibly make a few millions after the 4th of March. They both hate and fear the Heratp. They know that the Herarp was the first to bring General Grant forward a8 President and for President—not to play second fiddle to Mr. Colfax under the .Tenure of Office law, but to be the First Magistrate of the nation. They also hate and fear ail the honest men whom they suspect of having any induence with Genera! Grant. It remains to be seen whether the high tariff and Treasury ring, even with Mr, Colfax as their tower of strength, can euccessfully carry out their schemes. Meanwhile it will be the duty of the press and of the public to watch closely the “‘wheols within wheels” of this and every othee Washington ring. Jarrenson Davis ix THR Usirap Stares Sv- rremz Covnt.—The proceedings in the case of Jefferson Davis before the United States Cir- cuit Court in Richmond have ended, it seems, in a division of opinion between the two judges, Chief Justice Chase being in favor of quashing the indictment, Judge Underwood opposing. The case of the chief rebel, therefore, in- stead of being peremptorily concluded, as it was hoped it would be in this trial, must now be dragged before the Supreme Court of the United States and probably continue for some time to come 4 source of irritation and annoy- ance to all who have, with patriotic reasons, desired the issues of the rebellion to be closed forever. The Report of the Secretary of the Trea- sury. We publish elsewhere an abstract of the forthcoming report of the Secretary of the Treasury. The country will be gratified to learn that the national finances are in a good condition, however practical experience may show the contrary. The Secretary is opposed to a forced resumption of specie payments. There he shows some sense, The funding of the public debt he regards as one step toward resumption. Of the seven-thirty bonds it appears that upwards of eight hundred and twenty-seven and a half millions have been funded into five-twenty six per cent bonds— thus leaving of the outstanding seven-thirty notes but little over two millions ang a third. Only a few millions of the outstanding com- pound interest notes remain. The policy of funding, by converting the temporary loans, interest-bearing notes, &c., into a six per cent gold-bearing bond, hag, in the opinion of the Secretary, a most important bearing upon the question of resumption. As regards contraction of the paper circulation Mr. MoCulloch has no new views to offer. The expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, are estimated to be two hun- dred and fifty million dollars: The annual interest on the public debt is one hundred and forty million dollars. It is estimated that next year it will be about the same, The interna} revenue for the year will reach one hundred and twenty million dollars, leavinge out the whiskey frauds and wholesale stealings by revenue officials. It is gratifying to learn that the public debt has been reduced during the year, taking it up to the 1st of Decem- ber, 1868, about twenty-seven millions. There have been expended on account of the public debt during the year the sum of eight hundred and eighty million five hundred thousand dol- lars, and the general taxation not increased a dollar. It will be interesting to the people to learn from the above that the public debt is decreas- ing, although in a minute ratio as compared with its magnitude. The Secretary’s ideas about the prospect of resumption of specie payments may be accepted as reasonable in view of the fact that he recommends the conservative policy of not forcing them against the irrevo- cable laws of trade. The Indian war now pending may add a few millions to the budget of the government’s expenses next year; but we think the country will agree to bear it ifthe war be pushed in the energetic manner inaugurated by General Sheridan. The report of the Secretary is open to criticism. Gold in Dutchess County. There has been a great discovery of gold in Dutchess county, It is ascertained by careful exploration and examination, made by profes- sional gold discoverers, that there is as much gold in the soil of Dutchess county, taken alto- gether, as there is—in the soil of any other county in the State. The gold prospectors have written a report—we cannot say for how much. According to this report it appears that the ore in the veins of Dutchess is worth something like thirty dollars a ton. To get the ore out and work it would not coat more than fifty dollars a ton at the outside, so that the owner of a first rate Dutchess county gold mine would not lose more than twenty dollars on any ton of ore he might take out, This is rather better than the North Carolina mines, and a great deal better than the Madoc mines in Canada, or tho mines that are regularly dis- covered from time to time in the other sections in which people wish to sell land. Such a mine would not be a very expensive luxury for a man who had more money than he knew what to do with; but we hope that all others know by this time that gold discoveries of this sort are among the oldest of land-se!ling dodges, and thus will not be led to have faith tn the quartz-bearing gold of our up the river coun- ty. Let that happy district couzt on her quarts of milk, richly bearing go!den butter, as all the quarts she hag of peculiar value. The Emperor Napolecon’s Position. It appears that the Baudin manifestations, as they are called, in Paris are increasing, and that the police is active in suppressing them: These demonstrations, with the free expres- sions of the liberal press and the revoluticnary movement in Spain, are regarded by some as extremely embarrassing if not critical to the | Emperor Napoleon. There is no doubt that they are troublesome and tend to keep the active brain of hie Majesty employed to fortify his position. But Napoleon has shown him- self to be equal to great emergencies on pre- vious occasions, and probably will be on this. He has an immense and most! efficient army ready to act at home or abroad when neces- sity calls for action; and he can most lilely depend upon this army. Should the reroiu- tionary elements at home or on the border become in the least dangerous to his govero- ment he has always a means of esoape by arousing the ambition of the army and the vanity of the French people through a foreign war. A war with Prussia or Russia, or a more general war, combining the Latin Powers of Southern Europe against the Northern Powers, | would occupy the French mind and torn aside revolution at home. Paris has been to much changed and te so much under the | grip of the Emperor that it is no longer the | great central volcano of revolution that it was ibe formerly. After him may come the d politically speaking, but while he lives he + turn aside revolution from France. Follerton Back at Washington, Fullerton ts back again at Washington wit! a fresh budget of charges and additiona! evi- dence against the whiskey rings and their alleged official accomplices In this city. is, of course, a corresponding futter and ex- citement among those who have been seeking | to indict Judge Fullerton on some pretended | counter-charges, and for {nnocent men they appear to be making themselves curiously uneasy. [tis time now for District Atturney | Courtney to prepare his new plea, as be wi probably be summoned to Washington by the | President in a tew days. Fallerton for the prosecution of thi gation President Johnson has at least selected a man who, having put his hand to the plough, will not look back, The Judge !s evidently in earnest, and believes that he has | the right track and fs ina fair way to bring the guilty parties to justice. So thought Binckley and so thought Fitch; bat the rings | were evidently too powerful for them » vestit { “etars." There | at In selecting Judge | | gave way betere the pressure. Fullerton is 3 horse of another color, He has character, position, influence and ability to back him, and it will be a gi matter to turn him from his purpose. But he must insist upon prompt action. The time is short, and if President Johnson desires to do justice to his | agent and to clear his own skirts of the stain of these notorious frauds he must take a de- cisive step at once towards the exposure and punishment of the guilty. Mrs. ScotteSiddons and tho Theatrical Ring. When Mrs. Scott-Siddons first appeared in New York asaredder the Bohemian critics chimed in with the unanimous praises which the public bestowed upon her gifts and accom- plishments as well as upon her beanty. But no sooner had she been induced by the uni- versal recognition of the histrionic genius re- vealed by her in her Shakspearian readings to appear on the stage of the New York theatre than the tone of these critics suddenly and un- accountably changed. Now, it is true that ono may read well and yet fail to act well. But even the Bohemian critics who now most ve- hemently attack Mrs, Scott-Siddons for her youth—as if that were not a fault which is every day mending—and for an alleged ignorance of certain stage tricks which it usually requires more than three short years to learn—even these critics are constrained to qualify the rail- ing accusations which they bring against her. They assert that, as Juliet, “‘she has little pas- sion and leas power,” and that her Lady Teazle “cannot for an instant be tolerated beside the superior representations of that character to which the local stage has been accustomed.” But in the same breath they disclaim ‘‘a wish or intent to disparage her signal merits.” They have to acknowledge ‘ther signal merits,” wretchedly supported as she has been this week by almost all the members of the company excepting Mr. Davidge, a good Shakspeare scholar and an _ experienced actor, Thus they agree that on Mon- day evening “over the representation of ‘As You Like It’ the beauty and sweetness of Mrs. Scott-Siddons cast a softening light and a redeeming charm.” They admit that on Wednesday evening, notwithstanding her un- lucky surroundings, she held ‘“‘her audience in an attentive mood from first to last,” and her Juliet, “crude” as they stigmatize it, was “earnest, intelligent and sweet.” They are well nigh surprised into enthusiasm in describ- ing the scene with the nurse after her return from Romeo: ‘‘Girlish petulance, graceful impetuosity and delicious assumption of a simple, tender, coaxing mood made this a charming scene.” They condescend to promise a flattering future for Mrs. Scott-Siddons— “that she will progress there is no room to doubt.” After all their sneers at her youth and inexperience they cainot help adding: “She is an unusually gifted woman, and al- though her professional career extends over a period of only three years she has already outstripped many competitors in the race for fame.” Just so. And it is the advent of this “unusually gifted woman” which has occa- sioned eo remarkable a commotion in the Bohemian theatrical ring. Whether her advent does or does not heraid a grand dramatic regeneration, it certainly has agitated the nerves of all who are directly or indirectly interested in not having anybody or anything disturb the placid course of events at the only two theatres in town where the legitimate drama can find refuge. Managers and critics alike seem to be at aJoss whut to say or what to do under the circumstances. But they all forget that Fanny Kemble her- self, when she first came to the United States, was young and comparatively inexperienced, as her fascinating cousin, who so vividly re- minds us of her appearance’ at that time, is at present. Yet Fanny Kembie speedily justified Talfourd’s glowing eulogy Oo! her first appear- ance at the Covent Garden tleaire in London. She soon established the great tation by which sue absorbed public attention untii her marriage. It is not rash to predict similar good fortune for Mrs, Scott-Siddons if some intelligent, en- terprising manager shall afford her requi- site favorably opportunit! perfecting and d the Should this + not be tb Bohemian é 1 geniu come when tie American pui to succe urope. Ataliev the lively diss the | Scott ys on the first appearance of t has excited wil attract the nitivated classes to the vastly s of high tragedy and the glittering tinsel shows, atte superior comedy ove “Bl of th high the nudities aud the violent shocks nsational drama may wi should be proper! i etock company t+ should be learned by our fact that the recent train ath iro 1e mira bvouge ie largely due to the care both Which M:, Grau and this esse tof thelr 9p xf to act ag if bis or her rile ssly painfal dray ngs" on Th , ft Mr. David | torn up. | from the King of Prussia of hie friendship for | | France. | who ta also gifted with loquacious powers. | ©. Sraneise toe sive™in her dramatio education, Mrs. Scott- Siddons need fear no cabal against her on the part of the Bohemian theatrical ring. Shemay hope to outlive happily even the comparisons provoked by the illustrious name which she in- herits, She will win applanse and gratitude by her ambition to revive the legitimate drama and to restore the stage to its sweetest and noblest uses. i Bogus Speculations. The spirit of speculation is bad enough in its effects when there ia some real value at bottom in the article traded upon, but it is a swindle of peculiar wickedness when the specu- lation is fictitious through and through, as it is in so many of the ways now spread before the public in advertisements as sure and easy roads to fortune. There appears to he great activity in this direction just now. It is difficult to say why. It may be that the spirit of speculation working recently on such an immense scale in Wall street is spreading to the community generally. We notice as a particularly hein- ous phase of the mania the tendency to specu- late on the desire that every man has to pos- sess a home of his own. Advertisements an- nouncing that for the most trivial sum a man can secure land in a thriving village with a romantic name, and build a house’on the land too, are very seductive to the overworked denizen of a crowded city, and he is led by a happy dream of suburban quiet and ease to part with hard earned savings that swell the gainings of the land shark. Nearly all these affairs are bogus—of the same character and worse if possible than all the famous phalanxes that stanted with the name of Fourier, and that are remembered only in the curses of the vic- tims. Sympatny yor Womzn Murprrers.—There are now incarcerated throughout the country, in various jails, women under sentence of death for murder and others lying in prison under charges of that crime. A poor woman in Buffalo awaits the execution of her sen- tence and there are many others of her sex in a like predicament. But it is curious to ob- serve that all the sentiment of the philan- thropic journals is expended upon only one case—that of Hester Vaughn, condemned, to die for the murder of her child. Have none of these other unhappy women any claim to sym- pathy? If it be cruel to sacrifice a woman upon the gallows, out of commiseration for her sex, why not all women be included in the arguments which are employed to shield one from the fate to which the court has legally condemned her? If sentimentality is to enter into this question at all we see no reason why all the female victims of an inexorable law should not be included in the philanthropic movement. But it appears that they are not. Gapstong AND Bricut.—Mr. Disraeli and the tories may now be considered out; Mr. Gladstone and the liberals may be considered in. Mr. Gladstone has a large numerical majority; Mr. Disraeli hag a compact and vigorous minority. Mr. Disfaeli has his forces entirely under control and grasps the reins with a steady hand; Mr. Gladstone is less fortunate. On one question only are the libe- rals pledged to him; on many other ques- tions they are more likely to follow John Bright, who in his liberal tendencies is far ahead of the acknowledged liberal chief. It will not be wonderful, therefore, if in Mr. Gladstone’s hands the liberal party in the House should, to quote the language of Gene- ral Grant, prove a “‘balky team.” GeneraL’Grant IN tHe Hvus.—The Bos- tonians have succeeded in trotting General Grant around considerably; in fact, they suc- ceeded so far at one time that they thought they had cornered him for a speech, but they were mistaken. In the presence of the coming ; man, the foremost lion of all the lions of the day, however, the Hub has been made happy, | and the General has made himself a public benefactor. Let the Hub rejoice. A Rina or Smvc@tens.—Some important discoveries at this port in smuggled zoods were made the other day, and we understand that Collector Smythe and the Treasury detec- tives have got on the trail of an extensive ring of emugglers, extending from this city to the Canadian border, and that we may possibly have some developments soon in the smuggling business at par with the doings of the whiskey | rings. ine Tr Looks Lrxx Boarygas—The sailing of the steamship China from San Francisco with four hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars in specie for China and two hundred and soventy thousand dollars for Japan; but this Asiatic trade with San Francisco and thence to New York is but a bagatelle compared with what will follow the completion of the Pacific Railroad. the lawyers engaged in his defence—to wit, that Jeff Davis, under the new amendment of the constitution, article fuurteen, ie entitled to go scot free, If it shall so appear we have no | objection, for surely we have had enough of f j this humbug—the trial of Davia Wich Was Ir?—The foot passengers on Broadway, near.the Metropolitan. were puz- { zied yesterday to determine whether the street pavers were laying down the new blocks of stone or relaying the old ones which they had At any rate they get on very slowly. To sg TAKEN wir Some Grains oF SALT— | The assurances to the French Ambassador A Birt or Sruriprry—The iate arrest of Superintendent Kennedy, a public officer who tg a terror only to evil deers, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, et of Amoricans registered in Parts for the week tuig November is, 1s68:—Philadeiphia—Mr. and soodwin, Washington Butcher and family, soph F. Page and ‘uate, Persifor Frazer, Bugene } ‘. Lenman, Mr and Mrs. G, Ailsa Fann, Howard Helmick, Mr. and Mra, re famtiy, Boeon—Ceorgs 0, Powers. hington—Mre M. 4, Ooston. W. F. Coston, w York—Co.. James MeKaye, Mra. John &, Grit. Mr. and Mrs, 8. Douglass, Mr, and Mrs. ou. Wilson, Wr umbel Wilson, Henry Har. Jit Huckman, Edward R. Betts, Misa’ Betta, n. Shaw, W. 'R. Farrington, Mrs. H. Amelia arah A. Cole, Mr. and Mra, Miner DB. . John §, Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Loomis ‘ s Worth, Baltimore—P. B. Mayer, Ha r M. Finiey. S& Paul~Mr. and Dr. Paul Quinn, U, Port. Churcbill. Dresden—Robert Thode, 3 i, P. Weddells, J. A. Butch (Paria). wa—Mr. ond is. d, Henning, RS GRANT. Progress of His Massachusetts Tour—A Re- ception in Boston Yesterdny=Several Thov- sands of Hands Shaken—Visit to the Manu- factories of Lowell. —-$———— Boston, Dee, 4, 1868. ‘Singular as tt may seem the Bostonians have con- quered General Grant; for, in spite of his frequentiy expressed determination to escape any and every- thing bearing the complexion of a public demonstra. ton, he has to-day allowed himself to be put through the same tedious order of exercises as other men of distinction who have gratiled their curiosity in visiting the Hub. The only marked exception to the general rule was that the General shook tho hands of the multitude in the parlors of his hotel Instead of within the hallowed but filthy precincts of Fanueti Hall, and the two Boston members of Congress were masters of ceremonies Instead of the worthy chief magistrate of the city. The crowd was about the same, however, compris- ing politicians, judges of courts, solvent and inso!l- vent merchants and a general medley of toadies pe- culiar onty to Boston. There were, of course, afew who adi the General and went to pay their complimelits, including soldiers and sailors among the number, but the majority consisted of those time-honored frauds whose countenances are fa- miliar with the change of every national adminis- tration. There were also many ladies among the handshakers, and these, together with those who had seen service in either the army or navy, were ap- parently more cordtally greeted by. the visitor than those whose appéarance indicated wealth rather than brains or patriotism. The clergy of the city and surburbs turned out al- most en masse, and each and every one was highly gratified with the demeanor of the com- ing Chief Magistrate, The reception, as it was termed, commenced at three o’clock and lasted until five. During these two hours several thousand passed through the hotel parlors, many of the num- ber pausing fora grasp of the General's hand, and when the hour for bringing the proceedings to a close had arrived there were still several thousand waiting outside who had beep deiained by the more fortunate portion of the crowd from getting a glimpse of the distinguished visitor. The ordeal having been successfully gone through with the General became the guest of Mr. William Gray later in the evening, and it is to be presumed that he enjoyed the select and quiet party there assembied. During the forenooa the General, by invitation of Mayor Richardson, made a short visit to the spindle city of Lowell, the home of the irrepressible Ben Butler. Accompanied by the Mayor of Lowell and a detachment of the city government, the General embarked on board a special train at nine o'clock and arrived at Lowelt at ten o’clock, where carriages were in readiness to convey the party to the various manufactories in the city. The General, in company with Mayor Richard- son, rode in an open barouche drawn by four hand- some white horses, the remainder of the party fol- lowing tn open carriages. At the depot in Lowell @ crowd of several hundred had congregated - to catch a glimpse of the President elect, and all along the route thousands of people lined the side- walks and filled the windows and balcontes. The route lay through Middlesex. Jackson, Elliot, Cen- tral and Merrimack streets to the mills of the Merrt- mack Manufacturing Company. Here the party aliguted and were shown over the establishment by Genera! Palfrey, making brief visits to each room. This mill turas out about four miles of cotton cloth per day, as the General was informed. From here the General was sho wr over the print works of the same corporation by th 6 agent, Mr. Burrows. After spending about forty minutes at this corporation the party re-entered their carrlages and were driven to the Lawrence mills, devoted principally to the manufacture of stockings, 1,200 dozen pairs belng turned out com- plete each day. Mr. Salmon, agent of this corpora- tion, was present and explained the various me- chanical contrivances. The next place visited was the carpet manufacturing corporation, where the agent, Mr. Samuel Fay, conducted the party through the various departments of interest. Here, as at the other factories, the Generai exhibited much satisfac- tion at what he saw, and was apparently gratified with his visit. From the carpet factory the party were driven to the Merrimack depot, and embarked on voard of a special train for Boston at twelve o'clock. Tho streets along the route were hand- somely decorated with flags, bunting, &c., and on Merrimack street, near the depot, there . was a beautiful arch, with the words “Welcome to Lowell” inscribed upon it. The reception was not noisy, but respectful and kind, and the Gen- erai doubtiess felt weil pleased with the trip. Atthe depot, as soon as the General had taken his seat in the car, crowds rushed to the open window to shake him by'the hand, and a number were gratified by @ warm grip. As the train left the depot cheer aiter cheer went up for the President elect. A lunch was ready in the car, and was partaken of while en rouie for ton. The bill of fare was neatly printed on Oo smal quarto sheet of note, having the words “Lunch on this line, Loweil, Decein- ber 4 1863," with the Lowell city coat of arms in the centre. Jt contained 8 variety of cold dishes and bot scalloped oysters and hot coifec, At the couctusion of the lunch a num- ber of the party visited the General’s car, where @ quict chat and smoke were enjoyed. The General expressed to Mayor Richardson nruch Satisfaction at the reguit of his brief visit to the city of spindies. On arriving atthe depot tn Boston a private carriaze was in mess to convey the Generai to Congress and Pear! streets, where he paid a brief visit to @ few of his friends previous to his reception at the St. James. To-morrow the General, accompanied by e€x-Governor Cil:Jord, will leave for Providence in an early train, and will probably pass Sunday in Provt- dence. He wili visit Hartiord, stopping a few nours, on hia way to New York. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES. ‘The iast matinee of “Genevieve takes pace to-day. Matinee: everywhere. Why will some actors still persist in being ‘on the streots? To-night Miss N. Millet gives her first concert since her return from Europe at Steinway (smaller) Hall. Harry Sanderson wil! delight some of the Jersey folks on Monday next by some of his “lightening” octave at % agey"? ‘M. Offenbach, undaunted by two previous fatiures ‘and not choostng to “beware of the third time,” bas written another work for thi Comique, St. Pani bag had the “White Pawn," which the papers describe aa performed by girls “barefooted ap to the neck." Heal water @ used to make rain in a London theatre and the actors ret really wet. The author of the piece should be dipped in the Thames. Why don't the clouds obtain an injunction ¢ The popular Purtstan chanteuse Theresa, who has sung tn Parts for upwards of a year, has accepted an AS age for ten sotrees at the Theatre de ia 2. The big diamond tn the end of Ole Bull's violin bow was a present from the Duke of Devonshire, a deaf old eman, for whose pleasure the violinist ayed half an hour with a string connecting the tn- Strument and lis bearer’s teoth, Wherevy the laver heard the music, Parepa- Ro: as written a letter to the Cincinnatt papers vindicating her stater artists (rom the asper- sions cast upon them by certain Western clerg: mien, whose heads are cracking with hypocri Sweeping insinuations were made from the me touching the character of public singers generally. ‘The \etter, however, gailantly refutes the charges and asterly prostrates the clerical blockhead, “Les Bavards” is announced at Pike's for Wednes- day night. The plot i# simple. A weaithy burgher of Saragossa haa a wife with a neve asing tongue, and @ protty niece, beloved by a needy pee rau by creditors he at length presents himself te the ood burgher, who proposes to We young adventurer e dimMcuit task of toning down his better half. bis eloquence succeeds, and his persnasiveness 18 re- warded with the hand of her lovely niece; the vo- racious creditors are appeased and the curtain falls on 8 happy group. The music is said to be apart: Le gallant homme will be tmpersonated Mile. Toste, while the second and last acts will be coy tinued with Mile. (rma and M. Aujac, The matin! to-day ‘onsist of selections from “La Granda Duchease" and “La Belle Héié LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. MACHINERY AcctDENT.— Yosterday afternoon Geo. Grisvei, of No, 216 avenue B, had bie ry Ta thas machinery at No. 19 Beekman street and waa bud!y injured, He was taken to the Otty Hospital. APPRAY.—Last night John Lahao, living on the corner of Thirtieth street oe si avenue, was ‘Thirty-firet street, near First ave. bas and adn at ry the head, it ts said by a man named John Bert ‘The wounded man was taken to Bellevue Hosp! Faran Accipant.— Yesterday afternoon Catharine Witteman, agod eight years, living at 194 Second avenue, was run over by @ truck, driven by Jonn Mott, of 60 Ridge street, who was arrested, The tad was taken Bellevue Hospital, where she sud+ seauently died from her tniuries. a | )