The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1869, Page 8

QUICK TRANSIT. OUR FUTURE PROCESSES CF CIRCULATION, Relation of the Metropolis to Tis Suburk: Theories of Under, Surface and Hlevated Transit. Tunnels and rilges Relotivel7 Cousideors Tho Problem from the Stand; Engineering. BATTERY TO HARLEM, FIVE CENTS, The back of the huge hydrosaur npen which the city of New York ts situated 13 thirteen miles long Dy an average ot one and three eighths miles in width, having a superficial area of nearly twenty-two S| re mules or 14,000 acres. Spuyten Duyvil creek and the Harlem river cut it off from tho mainland on the north; the East river separates it from Long Islaud ‘op the east; oa the south hes the bay, and on the west the Hudson craw!s southward between it aad the Jersey shore, This area 18 divided mto 141,486 Jots, of Which 71,122 are built upon, leaving 50,504 vacant. The number of buildings annually erected averages, or has for six years averaged 3,209, at which rate at ihe end of sixtcon years not a vacant Jot will remain; and taking all things into account, it is safe to predict that the end ef the year 1880 will fnd the whole area covered, tayolying Population of 1,750,000. Gradually, however, a8 the commerce of the city increases, business pushing northward and demanding all available space, mo: of the present area will be compeiled to yield to the inexorable beleaguer of material progress, and New York will become ono vast commercial mart, the popu’ation of which by day is a couple of mil- Mons, and by night the straggling pickets of law nodations for and order and accom travel- Jers. ‘Tbe ratio of popular circulation to num- ber of tphabitants is ono of the questions to be investigated before pre ‘ing to the @iscussion of the supply of adequate means for {tg accommodation. In 1865, the populetion of the city being 630,000, the nuuiber of passengera carried on horse cars Was 19,728,000—ratio 31 tol, In 1853, rs cariied popala- tation 690,099, the nuniber of pa Was 23,153,000—ratio 35 to, Int tion of 694,000, the pa zers carried by city rail- Toads was 26,126, 40 tol. In 1968, poputa- tion 751,000, the nu Was 27,901,000—ratlo 38 to 1. And thence for ten years the ratio of popular cire Jation to population has kept Increasing, until the conclusion of 1869 must yield aratio not less than 120to1. The eubjoined table, data for which are taken from the reports of the State Engineer, exhiv- its the Snevease of tis ratio for ten yeurs ending With September 20, 133: rears. Pe 1869. isso. tio Ratio, 3 to 1 ai tol #2101 4 tol 45to1 «1 tol 82tol 93 tol 100 tod lod tot tio for 1869 Is 116 Lo 1 by the eity Failroads alone—the number of passengers carried being set down at 118,000,000; and, oi the same ratio, 1880 will open with a demand for means of transit equal to 200,099,000 in the mere matter of tnternal circulation. Were every longitudinal avenue to be fied with borse ralroads on the surface aud panc- tured underneath with double track tunuels, the facilitics would not, therefore, be egaal to the demand, besides being uelther conventemt nor Pleasant, But in calculating the ratio of ¢'rentation to nuin- ber of inhabits # means of transit at present Jn operation must be c hice wagon and two faltidad bruige y York with the mainland on the north, fifteen ferries with Brook- lyn and otler towns on the ea ferries with New Jersey on the west aod ‘wo ferries with Staven Island on the eourh Besides th forty or fifty gmall steamers connect the c:ty with small towns and Villoges tu the suburbs, and besides these three through and six way boats ply to points along the Hudson, and six reguiar boats to polats eastward. From these data the av y cirealation, ex- elusive of large distance caloulated by com- paring and massing the static of everal pro- cesses of it. The East river ferries oxuibitan averages (120,000 boat passengers and 5, Korth river ferries a daily transit of 40,000 foot pas @evgers aud 12,000 vehicles; the st poat and steam railroad lines @ dutiy avera: ing these stauist distances may By city rat i By Bast river serrt By jindsoa river fer By steawcrs and sicam Total... MAton tio to pop This is quite exc ulation by stage and hacks, which y ratio wick not v rom {actaa)) for this ye ove Jeast 99,090,000 (by oity railroad) cl enlation northward aloug the longitudtual avenu 43,800,000 represonta th viation to and from Long Island and Staten 1 1,000 the citron. lation to and from ew Jersey and the remaining 14,600,000 a cirenlation the points ae, f whi are Indetennina Yet with all the unequal to the de tion of the north, river, and to a 8 river, The enpacity of the city r a@northerly direction 18 equal to 12,000 per hour; the demand for northerly t tdurir of tno day being eqaal—something ov 40,000 in excess of the capacity of the Tis demand is, however, limited as comp Whit it would be were there any tueans by which the armies of tenement ho transported to the couulry. Deeds 8 transit to the Duyvil creek in fifteen minut not exceeding dive cents; and ual of the problem can be satis for him and bis jam ment catacombs of sidering the City Halt avenues of travel in tuis dire: inclindtion and terminate #1 ve ‘Thus the Second avenue terr river, about seven miles from the City Hau. the Third, Fourth and Pith avenues. cuts the river nine mies from the same the King’s Briage road about twelve. of ine county north run in a similar ¢ the leadiug avenues of New York travel, ¢ aiord easy and natural continual tie surface Of tie county Is exceedingly Well adity to purposes of suburban residence, its tmmeci front ov the Hariem river 13 capable of being availaule for v of commerce, aud as tl is jot far dist he triangular gore east of Hariem river wiil be bat a contiuation of the city of @ centre, tne lo ton Lave ane y differeut diacan ates at the Harlem So also New york it becomes a giesiton of the utmost im- portance thet the inying out of it be accommodate to circumstances of the case. The dificaitic which wil lie tn the way of this whe the property has beeome more valuable can- not be estimated. For instance, lying witain thty ore are tie Villages of Morvisania, Mott Haven, Port orris, Willow, North New York, Kast and Weat Morrisania, Melrose, Woodstock, Elion, Ciaremont, Higubndgey: ‘trem: Beimont, West Farma, Central Morrisania, Mc Rupe, Mount Eden, Wil- lamebridge, Fairinount and Fordiam, neither of Wwiuch can be @aid Co lave been said out with just regard to its relaions wo others adjacent or to gen- eral surroundings. Less regard still has been paid fo their alumaie relation to tho great metropolls, Whicd 18 at last destined to swallow thom, aga shark swallows sinaiier fab. The case ts similar with that rt of Yonkers which adjoins this city. ft needs put ittle foresight, therefore, to see diticuities In ibe distance in this respect and obviate tiem before perty shall have become too yaiuavle to be tam- red with With impunity. ‘The Hariem river avd Spuyten Duyvil creek, now Utue nayuented Loy conimervial purposca, aud ob- deep acierecearoicsekenie = oer ns mud flats and badly constracted ri will fora OR PUTURE WATER WAY OF TRADE, and one may forecast tuem covered with cratt win. istering to commerce along thelr banks. Really the two rivers constitute an estuary connecting the tide waters of the bast river and the Sound with che Norih river. As a water Way this estuary has (he alvantage of the Thames in jess Incoaveurcuce from fidal phenomena, the dactuation of the latter being equal, sometimes, to twenty-one feet, and occasion- img great neouventenee Mm the handing of goods, ‘The tides of the Hariem rise about six feet, It has the advantage of the Sete i easy Mux into bord rivers, and i that, while any saddea fad of rai swells the Seme inconveaieatly, the Harlem 18 not apparent, ciel by the sae cause. Ata smatl comparative costa water way trom the North river tw the Sound can be made by way of tis estuary, win greater depth of water taan the Hudson 3 at several points beiween New nd Albany, and with a width quits saflelent for ail practical purposes. ‘fhe importance of this measure IS NOW besinniag to abtract the attention it deserves, aD sooner Or jater Wil be wade a subject ror legislation, Shortening the disraace from the Norta river to the Sodad by More tiga twensy mies of tedi-us navigation through an overcrowdod way around the Battery, itis @ wonder tuat logisiation has Not sooner grappled with te ques- tion of the restorait_n of we Harlea river and Spuyten Duyvii creek to commerce. As early as 1700 tuls estaary Was reapected ad @ navigadie stream, the first bridve across It having been a diaw- bridge erected by Frederick Pi.lupse, near Lue spot of ibe present King’s Bridge; and recent surveys demonsirate the fact that prior to the erection uf the water mill at King’s Bridge the widéh of tho myer Bear that powt was not less than 160 feet, with a depth of sy or seven fect at high water. its present widih at the same point 1s rather less than elgity foot, Betwoen High Bridge aod the Last river, tie atacoomb’s Dam obstruction bas been erected during the current coutury; also that of Marien Bridge. Ini tue Croton voard, threateuing still further obscrue QA ACL Was PASsed Mites We structions to those presented by High Bridge. A briage ut the Second avenue was aiso preventea, anda legal action was set oa foot to comper the removal of Mucoouls Dam and the erecuon of draw-bridge Thivd ad Fourth avenues, ‘the opening of t obsiacica ia its wa deculed to be wick vs, Me ‘The engineering ph and need not be (dary to commerce has no legal Macoomo $s Lam having been ace in tae cause of Ren- 13L ensue sooner or jater. e8 of ihe problem are simple cussed, the Inethod of cross.ng tue river falliag more l9gitimately witain the scope of the pr aper. Tadic on the river and trac acrosa the river must be so adjusted that neituer Shall mteriere wiih the oer, aud tis leads to tne consideration of the exweui of BuLDGE AND TUNNEL COMMUNICATION that will uldinately be meeded im the (acure rela- tou of New York to its suburos, Sawe uotion of its extent may be gathered from the experience of the great cities of oudon aad Pais. ‘ihe former has 7 ven bridges ior ordinary traite across the Thames, and three exclusively ” tor railcoads, within @ distavee of three miles. Beginning atthe east cad, there ondon bridge, Soutuwark bridge, for general tr. With @ ralway bridge between, at a aistance of 1,46) from tue The next 18 Liucktriar’s bridge, 2430 frow uthwark, With a raul briige betwe Is 2,900 feet fro Biacsir, minster, 8,160 leet (rom Waterloo, with a rau- Way structare ‘between; Lamoetu, 2,250 feet trou Westmiuster; Vauxhail, 2,700 feat uy the river near te iimicor the dense popuiauon. Beyond the are two more, at intervals of a mule. @ structures Vary in lsagch from 703 to 1,3 eof no iced whith, “A century since only bridges ta London (witain the above iusits) e Old London, Blackiria’s and Westiuiaster; it 1s now churty years sluce the Loudon was re- ed, al an expéeuse equal to $14,00,000 United States carreucy, or #2,000,0u0 sleriing, The designs of all are on a scale of great magaificen ‘ane th TYoames T non connecuon, 13 two mies velow Ld Bridge, = Wntn ‘the preciacts of Pans tt eine 13 crus: by tyeuty six bridges, disy a halt mi ted along a distance of sovea and cluding Une NuMber across bow waier ctne Isie of St. Louis and the {s.e da OF these stractures seven are Suspension, hree of tron aud stone piers, one OL Wood, aad the rest of stone structures, Inlengen they vary from 170 tO 460 feet, in breadth from fifteen to etgity- tures feet. Two are for the use of foot pa: sengera only, and two are exclusively for raul- w Twelve are leas tnan 1,000 feet apact; ween fourtecn the distance 13 less than 4,00), and tne greatest distance between any two 18 bat 4,700 feet. Most of them are elaborate ana elegant structures, put up at mumicipalexpease, aud free of tolls, ‘the everest pressure will continue for some yoats to past northward, in which direction, with the opemmg of the Harlem river and Spuytea Dvyvil_creek to navigation, exceilent water ways will be aiforded, ‘Ie communication de- manded in all directions will, however, within the next fen years, be fully equal to tuat for passage across the Thames or the Seine. The leugtti of water way frou tue North river to late Lie Gate, by way of the estuary, 18 about 39,000 feet, or nearly elgit miles. w cording to tie Loudon averaze, 0: J leat, Would need nineteen bridges, or, according to tae Paris average, ouce tn 1,500 feet, wouid afford twen- ty five stroctures. Ths lengta, except those built on the suspension plan, Woal'l vary icon to 60 leet, To span tho ast river in the same way froin Ward's ialand to the bavery twenty-two would be required, accordmg to We Loudon average, and tlirty according te the Paris averagss aud, again, for the North river forty would be needed, on the a1 average, and Alty-four, according to the * al width of these rivers as cou- LOWES Ad SELNE id= Feet. ++ 100 to 600 + 870 to 1,200 aytea Dusvi Harlem aud § 200 to 450 wast river ons 200 0 2,506 North river +++52,700 to 4,000 The construction of ingress way to tunnels nuder he Hariem river would be easier taau under the Tuames, (OM aecount of the greater rise of tides in the latter) and, tor Varioup req of tungels Whca prackicabie fu lea ot bridges bas tact with jeral favor—iaouga irom High Bridge to Sucrman’s creck tae topography is nataranty pte for suspension or wrial structures, in de- termining the height of bridges 1% mant be remeca- bered (hat si¢aia Vessels are rapidiy taking the place of sauing ve sais, aud that the aceommodaiion 4, the eonstruction of lotty MASS WM Constantly lessening necessity. The resclt will doubt, suspension bridges when practic otherwise tanels Har to that wder the Thames, Radia 28 of tite ower part of the city, tuum cuy would 6 bridges, aibel have been pr d anu publi ‘ue 1d) cavelliug teaea und ts old— a3 old ag Babvyioulan grandcur. Connecting the sees of Bavyion with tae farther shore oF tus Bue tes, und that tiver rung a (vane Juv feet log, on feet in Jeet ug! y d adunutof its const bogan im 1507, aban gad resimel im 1825, ‘as the colozsal un * of modera tmes, urally recurs outset. In work ea in Adriit had been ate was abandouea 3} Brauel r for the distance ount of quick atod the Lied aud sul termination by the at MG.d, HOWL traded twice, tae last nigutes and drownlug 2 circa ar saul ag ta t nea. ‘The or mel 1 t mal plan i t oa potl b by way of 2 hese bAVE 1 ‘A const 3 only weed by foot passen ves no 1 gold:— wail bed, not under it, aad for er reagous iron’ ts ihe only available must, tr ure, be Gismissed ission, Ure climtuatton of Which Boe 4 the e0lutioa of tue problem. O1 tue ST AND NORTH RIVE T NELS which he a oposed ond discussed three merit me idedeription, The iirss proposes to iny UWo babes of proper thickness gud fourteen fect In diameter upon the bed of the river. ‘The tubes are to be of cast iron and subinergea in ge feet in 1¢ A cans gin, be tg Hest d ia Bun iea and a flo: on others are ad inaing in the mtd na len: ing d froin the canal, ons are ty ve rings of «disposed of 5 ast, LWO feet deep, 18 ad upon tals 18 laid a road. filled i way 1 idth, to be used by cars and over Velucles in common. Two feet above the road. Way, like aid footpaths, four feet and a hait'in widt 1e two ContguoUs tubes arranged In thy ono is to be used for passage to Brook- Lyn aud te other for retara, It is expected that the Oe ¥ ¢ river ved, exceps not piles will middie of the aya belug a $1,599,000 ale towards ty e to fifty, the ga sare: ents wi Labor, imp! + 1,600,000 Tine required for co 1 year. Te sovond pian forvus & far pieasanter and more commodious structure, ab ratuer less expense, It Consists ESventiaLy Of two oval taoes, one within tho other, with @ apace of two-tiurds of @ fuot between, which is partiaily filled with tron ribs and Gngig tons, all riveted flruly togetior, ‘The tubes axe of Chin rolle ib¥ aad angle irons giv= ing & strength er al Of cast tron pipe two thirde of a foot ti Arne diameter aud shape. The ovisl tive 18 to be sixty. ter and hait iat in ehors ¢ ; And Wii! be inter. nally divided by galleries of 8 into a central carriage Way twenty Iret wide; two rallways, eltnor ten sect In width, and two foot patus, of equal width with the railways. The pian, for economy of tw, cont Aiding “the tabe in sec Uons of 109 f at diferent pomts along tue river, whica to be loaded with bale lest parually buoyancy, and bot with buikheaas, to be sunk, The section 1s floated between barges firmiy set, from the decks of which s«priug heavy timbers, forming @ derrick that bridges the inter val, and is worked by seam. The section having been properly wecured to the derrick, water is au- mitted, and the tube sinks, For tne canal in which the tube ig to repose it is proposed to avedge deep enough #9 that the longer axig Aball bo on a leyoi wo feet in Jong diame- are overcome ends having been closed watertigi NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, * with the bottom. The of the dtfferent lengths 4s effected by means of tue (olding iolat; and the tabe complete |, the water will be puuped from the im shore sect ons, and additional ballast tuserted, An thterior structure of columns, separating the road- ‘wave and footpaths, ts placed within the tube. The buikhead of the next section ts then tapped, and the water pumped out; and so onpuntil the structure has been completed, secuion by section. {t ts ex- ag Le ba bn eet pacer this tunnel with deposit, ‘The specifications are:— 21600 twat of tube $1,711,990 Whole cust... 2,500,000 Time required to bud. One year Grade toward the middie of the river. 8 in 109 A chip t and very ingenious pian merits even thore exteand*t description, on account of its novelty. Piers baying besn selected, upon them are built balt tubes of roded iron of suMcient thickness, Lhe sec- tions being 100 feet long, sixty feet wide and thirty feet high, and girt at the, bottom with Iron stringers at smservals of three feet, ‘The are is reimfurced wuere tid plates join by ribs of T iron one Loot by one foxt, The werght per section 1s 350 tons. Barges are floated to etther side of the wharf, tho interval between being flied with a gallows frame. Toe degeuding ropes of irom are next made fast to the section, which is lifted from the pier and towed into the stream, ‘The submers weace begins at the bank or at tue eud of toe future (uunel. A oulknead having been inseried in the off shore cud, aud the loose made fast to the same end water 1s admitted and the secion einks to the river bed. ‘Tae water 13 then puuped ont trough a maphole, aud, by mere pressure of super- incu ubent water, the whole 13 driven down until the crown is even with the river bed, An endless screw reinoves most of the earth and mud, the rest being pumped out. Abed of stone and cement 13 then added, for a bottom and yoadway foundation; And Luus, section alter sec the tunnel 13 coin pieced, A hood of waterproof 1a temporarily pul over the juactloa of the sections to prevent leakere while the Jomt 1s betug made, Holes are thon druled, bots inserted and tae jomts carefully ealked as in bonermaking. The pressure aud tead- eacy © mse are calcuiated by H. O. Wells, an en gincering critic of apity, at Pounds, 149,000 ressure per Hneal foot... Pressure to collapse, 5,000 Tendency to r.se.. — Teuaency to rise in signa saesones - 68)000 ‘Tue design for the interior includes a double car Way i Lae middie, tweaiy feet wide; two side car. Tiage Ways, nrueteen feet wide respectively, and Upon a KevoNnd Hoor above these carriage Ways Wo fuot ways, avons elghieen feet in width. For dura- bility 1b is recommended to line tue interior with masonry, Supposing tue crossing where put down to be without rocks, spe@vilicativas would stand ADdONE as Sao,o1ned;— Seven tiousaad tons of iron. + $120,001 WHOLE COSL.., e+ seeeseececeee eee 0 ‘Time necessary for building. One yoar Grade toward the middie of tag river. + 3 in lv ‘These plaus have been mstancea merely to prove that the provlem 1s a very simpte one and itiputian 1a tts proportions—tilipu tan, indeed, compared with the project of a tunnel uaiang france with England, Witieh iost Cngiacers regard as feas.bie—thouga tweaty miles to traverse, aud a depth of 169 feet of witer reader the work comp!ex compared with tne New Yora and Brooxiyn project. Lhe cartons subject of the corrosion OF Cast iron submerged in sea water Wil need to be thoroughly vesugated. 1tisatauiuar Tact taat the body loses a consider- aole portion of 13 substance, While pr juz the same exteraal appearance. — ‘The lost substance {8 substituted by a graphitic couling, Wwiich, upon exposure to the atinos- puere, becomes jutensely hot and crumbles in rt ‘lois fact Was discovered in 1840; but its rationale aud te principles that govern it are Bull ovscure, aud Reed experiment and elucidation. ‘the tueory of Corrosion 1s that neither water nor dry air corrode Waea acung separately; and iron tinmecsed ta water not boked, containing oxyeea, comes electrically at 1. dresik water acti wit hittie yruience; clean salt water acts with more raph lity; foul salt water is more rapidly de- siracuve suil; aod tue putresceat mad of # salt Water bed actacks the metal win the greatest viru Jeace of ail. The subject is worta atteution, and in this ren are onght to command 16 put is one for svieniille experiment racher tuan Kpeculation, ‘The discussion of the bridge ana tunnel question Aisposes Of the subject of lateral pressure and tie means of giving tt full vent. Lue northerly pressure, Taustly longitudmal, remains for examination, ‘ihe elevated ralway as tested wiust be aduutted to have failed; reports adverse to the Manhattan Un ground Raudroad, People’s Ralivoad, People's polufan avd Suburban Rallway, New York Un wround Kativoad, Metropolitan Underground Kan road and Neirovolitan 'ransit Ratlway were made in 1563, evencuating, of course, in the throttling of whe prospects. ‘tne Vandenburg Tunuel having played the part of a mere duminy, there remalas only two PROJECTS FOR NORTHERLY STEAM TRANSIT to be cousidered. They are the tunnel and tne areade, the tatier of Which has been and still is most favored by practical engmecrs. The bill ior the construction of the tunuel beeame a Jaw @ year ead a half since, but no work hag as yee besa done, though work has been frequentiy Wireatoned, and ihe probability seoins to be Laat the project willin the end be abandoned 1 favor of the Arcade Ratlway, all parities nniwng lo pat through a Di for Its CONstruction at tke NeXt sessiou, “Lhe two routes may be described comparativety. ‘Ybe Centra Underzronnd (tannei) taps Broadway at the City Hall Park, leaves tic Park at the northeast corucr, and, following the ling of City Mail place, curves luto Mulberry seve Tae line of Mulberry to Bleecker having becu passed over, the tannel tine breaks through Bond aud Great Jones streets into TATOS pidce and moves straight auead, cutting tie line of Fovrta avenue at Niuth surcet. The Hourth avenue is foiiowed as far a3 Union syuare, where the tunic) cuts the square urtd- and moves ta a direct line for the joot of Madisun avenue, fo ing which to its nortnern termination 't pushes 2 git norta to the Harlem river. It will be seon, therefore, thatthis project is not identical with the Lvoadway taoael project gnd bears tele relatioa to local ciréutatton. Tt snigut be ®, of great vaine to adequate to (as working clas: a ’ Want, to fil the popul which tue line of broadway Must be made tne route of tue proposed quic sit, The proposed route of the Arcade aur from the battery to Union way, Al Union square, wh great coutval depot or the begin—ihe one on the Iino of kroadw the other on the line of Fourth avenue, Tne western prong follows the line of broadway to Jaaciion wi Nuitn aveaue; follows Ninth avenue to its junction with the Kingsbridge Toad; thence follows the road to 202d street; thonce diverges westward and termiaates at Tubby look, Ou Ute line of tie Hudson River Railroad. ‘ihe east- ern pursues the line of Fourta avenuo co the Harlem river, W 1X tracks, instead of four, on account of Lig great width of the sireet. ‘These’ two pronys, therefore, 18 WUl be seen, connect directly with the great Northern routes, the Harlem and Hadson river railroads, Tlie pronability 1a, therefore, that Union square will be @ ceutre of travel;’ and ave, by way of Broad. Will be located the road, two arcades & Viadact over the Hudgon at Fourteenth st tis already agitate ‘This would render Union square & sort of tray ‘ous, The con- clusion ts, then, that Pourt et is hereafter at Croas-LOWn thorougifares of the metropols, and jon Square A cen aim lar to that which Cit U square bas been. Tue Arcade route is in harmony with the great routes of travel to and from the city; that of tie central un- dergrownd 13 local, isolated and open to fatal odjece tion, 10 that it con: ules neither an exterior nor a to become one of the gr ceutra, tube of travel, The open cults necessary for the ventilation of a tuunel preciude, however, the {dea of tanneling Broadway, which would in eroat measure « troy lis utility as a retall thorox ifare, to say nothing of the anesiton of beanty, of which Broa lway has nothing to boast, Buliing lots hav. ing only Lwenty-flye Jeet front a square oa Broadway has the arated Of GO MAY sices of buildings Sei One Aguinst the Otler—a defect witch might be remedied by 8 combluation of several froats in one, which 045 been attempted in a few cases wita ¢@ cellent eect. ‘Me main seacures of v TUNNEL PLAN may be rapidly outiined, taking the London tunnel aaa basis; forthe work 033 not been cominance! oa tao Central Under rount of defective route, dliite great e089, Ib Will not be easy to set ine capital unless with guaranties that Broadway shall rover bs made aroule of unde @ travel. Tho whole engi- neering taicat of the city, with little exception, Opposes the tunnel plan; aad ag capitalists in tess he optaions of engineers, it warcely probabie taas the stock will ever be 1 Tho London wunnel consists of a series of Jon tunnels twenty-cigat feet in width by ttfteen and @ half foet in height, completed and in u for tho length of five and a half iites, toast one fourth of tha whole distance the tunnel i# dependent upon the openings at tho stations for on, aud tpon the open Intervals cisewte tue atinospheric currents necessary to ca saves g ed. The stations, nine m nuniver, are at the opencats, being on the average at jeast hailarote apart. The length of the tunnel being five and 4 hat€ mites, the length of open cuts Smounts fo a mile and three-eights. General Viele, from materials supped py Mr. Jamas P. Kirk @n eminent American engineer, who, under legisla live commission, devoted some weeks to the exani- ion of the Lendon stractare, computes the open 5! ‘ds im length against every 907 tonnel, The end stations being ‘ance of the tunnel, the do- scription of the work from ena to end’ ts thug expre Siatlon—tunnel, 007% yards; open cnt, WIth S\acton, 545 d-7 yards; tunnel, 90749 yards; ope: Cut, With station, 845 5-7 yards; tunnel, 9074s yar Open cut, with station, 840 6-7 yards; tunnel, 90744 yards; open cut, wita station, $15 6-7 yards; tunnel, 9076 yards; onen cut, with station, 345 6-7 yards; tunnel, 9074 yards; open cat, with ‘station, 545 5-7 yards; tunnel, 90755 yards; open cul, with station, 846 5-7 yards; winunel, 90714 yards; station, The opon cuts, It appears irom this computation, average over one-lfth Of a mile in length, for that ‘distance dostroyiog the street for business purposes, for which reaaon the idea of » Broadway tunnel ta utterly Inadutesible, Notwithstanding Una aggre. gato lengin of open cut, ventilation inthe tunael sections 14 encumbered with i ities and quite madequare at boat, especially when many trams are running.’ The coke gay in certain states of the atmosphere becomes very oppressive, although, it nuss be remembered, these jong pieces of tunnel are ventilated by occa- sional open Intervals besides the longer cuts men- tioned, Tne average weekly carriage of the road 19 avout 625,000 engera, Which is about equal to toat of the Third avenue horse cara. ‘Tue nurbor of engines needed for this amount of traction could not bo vory large, yet it was suiticiens to render the atmosphere often oppressive. Toere is no rock found on auy portion of the circuit, the soll consist jaw of gravel and Band on bed of clay, Bub al- ~ NOVEMBER though Raasite Sct in wisied, to construcé a tunnel without the suriace, it was found more practi- cabie and less expeusive to excavate from the sur- face—ihat 18, to make an open cutuug, build the tunnel at the pottom and cover it after wards, The tunnel is two leet thick over tho contre, and consists of five brick rings, with no bond between them except mortar, The shoulders are covered witi concrete, aud a layer @f concrete cov. ers Wve structure of the roof, Near the jiuction of Vauxhall road aad Vicvoria street tne rati way passes under the King’s Scholars’ poad sewer and 13 2134 feet below ‘drimity hizh water mark, ‘Toese data are of great value in determining the practicability of tho Luguel theory tn tis city, and polvt tw the conciusiva that it must be ranked as valuable only for want o: sometiing bel.er—in a Word, Uiatit may bo better than notuing, bat is by no means What 1s Wanted, und by no means answers the purpose tuily, ‘ihe sveepeat gradicus of tue Lon- don tunnel 1s 624-5 feet per mile, te cost of con- suuction having averaged $3,000,000 per inile mn old, equal to $4,000,000 currency, ‘She aimcaity of kLoeping the alr pure has not been met in the face, but racner Danked by omitting tue Dring up in uie sections aud exhausuing the s:cam im a Water tank, London journals ailese that tue ventilation 1s 60 desective, however, that the generation of noxious guses is Dota meonventent aad dangerous. To construct & tunnel lu New York would be far more expensive tian tt has been ia Loudaa, the cost Of .avor and materials being greater aud the pro- perty Seanites for the open cute being more vain- able, and yet Mr, Evans estimates tue cost of the Loudon stracture at over £7.0,000 per mile, while Mr. Kirkwood puta it at $3,452,001, one-third of witich was for Construction aad the other two-thirds foropen cuts and ventiauon, Yaking Air, Robin son’s estimate for tunneling in this city, therefore, with a cost of construction of $1,570,000 per mile, the whole cost for coustrucuiou, O,ea cats and ven- ulation Would amount to $4,590,000 to the mile, or $22,600,009 to tunnel irom tie Battery to the Park, ‘The objection) to the tunuel road are, all things considered, therefore iatal. They ae three. First, that it 1s unsurted aud in adequate to the purpose imtended; second, it js very cidienlt of venulation, whicn would make the mode of transit uncou/fortiole, . unwholesome and unswe; and, thirdly, it yermanently nulliles More Than ONe-LoUrta OL Che Surface O. bud route for business purposes. The idea of forcmg toe alr Along Loe Lunael ia front Of Lue engine, icaving pure alr to be sucked in or driven in by atiuospueric pres- sure, belug, in the Opinion of General Quiuiby, na. practivcavie, ib is duticué to understand how the Venillaiton 1s to be vettere’, except by increasing tag open cms Bb aa imumeusely lacrease. expease; and tu this view of the mutier the duilcuity of ven- tiation, singly considercd, 13 sudic.eat w condewa the project trom the stuuipoiat of pracucal engi neerlng. Besides the clevated railway one other plan has been bs ageorgaal Which hus gederally received tie ane o. THE ANCADE PROSECT, And an exammation of whici leads to more favor- able couclusions. = ‘Tis 13 rat an undersuriace, than an undereronid railway, ald Couceupiates (Ue use of the Whole widéu OF the sivecis and avenues through Wick ib passes, Wicd tne exception of five feot on citer side, allotted to buddings, 1h 8 so cures a capacity for tans equal tv the present de- maad, ‘the excavation is to oe made vo tue Lue of Lio areas; sidewalks aud roalway are to be re- piaced and a grotned roof of solid masonry, ported by heavy tron co.umus, resting upoa secure joundations. An imipervious Cosuig of asphaiwiar Is to be used WO reauer tug root Water git, aad upon it is formed a road bed of dry sand, rammed gud pounded to receive a pay ue Waver pipes, as pipes, sewers, hydraais, Luny posts and all ocaer s ors perialuing LO sivect Lavrousutares are pi vided for tu tue desiga im a s¥stemauc a ner—the tuoular iron columns beng usable to conduct the sewage from ibe upper Bleet, and aiway 18 tuus restored with a more baantifal i convenient suriace tana before, a aecoud Bros way haying been created beneata it tur purposes of travel, d@ivery of goods and Lleise ue who.e lengiil 18 proposed to de igiied Aud Veutilared frou the open avea adjointag tie butidings, whence to the railroad egress is as casy as 1b Would bein the case Of an ordigary suriace road, Tue sidewalks of the uudergrouud or audersuiace ToudWway corres pond with the sidewalks avoye, tue railway coa- sistiag of four tines, two or Larougu Craasit and two for the accommodation of way uray Tue th desiderata of capactiy, und couveneace are thus essenually secured, Wide the road bed being solid aud the separate tracks appropriated Lo sper clic uses, the fourtl esscudal con litioa, that of safety, is provided fur. Ac the street crossings vaulted wansepis are projevted wuich, witie faciiltatlug yeutilation, auvrd space for Bir age and delivery of fouds IM Cur-loads, aad AE all Sireet Crossiugs clroular slates Lorin a comand nicaiion between the two Booad iv the resale 13 to Create a second broadway uuder le brat, by rendering the basements aloug the line wei veatie lated, weil ignted and readily accessible pisces of busitess—LhNs Buginenting tae aauual rental of Lroadway not less toad 96,00,000, ‘The columns under te roadway are to be Wweaty-two eet apari; those under the sidewalks Cleved feet apart, aud movable bridges Wil be used to prevent any later- ruption of trae and travel Witle Uie wors is going ou. Prom tie Battery to SeveuWwen.a strece the cavation is easy; above taat puiaé ensues primitive formation of suratillcd gneiss, or, 10 otage words, te ribs of the earch lie neay Whe surface. ‘Lae projected opin being only sevenieca feet, aud (ue pitue of stvaufication runing uoria and south, te excava- Hon wil, however, prove comparatively easy, ‘The averaye cat to the Intie 18 Chis estimate l:— EXCAVUUOD.sesseseeeee seeteeeee $208,930 Replacing and modiiyng sewers, de. Foandation work, stoae, &¢ Iron Work of all kinds... Sidewails, upper aud lower. Avea ligts, grating, laapposta, &6 Road bed and eumpments.. Hngureering and conungenc, Upper roadway, paving, «ec. 3 186,900 125,000 200,009 Total, $2,008,950 Time of but! «3 years ‘The Pourta avenue paving, on accouat of the great Width Of (ae AVENUS, Wil AdiMic Of SIX tracas. The estimated vapaclly of the road is: Way passengers «120,000,900 Throusa passeugers., + 40,900,000 TODD vessssessidecesscesse cone +160,900,000 Estimated capaciey of taaoel, with two tracks, througa travel uuly. + 40,000,000 Capacity of areade over cinnal...... «129,000,000 ‘rhe arcade, being of moderate devin andl lovated for convenient detivery, cua be wade avaliavie for transportation, thus iasaring deuvery of goous withont tae tedious process of teuckiag, which has proved an item greally auzimeating the coat of com- mercial transit, besides losseaiug 1s rapidity and conyentcuce, The sastawing power of tac upper roadway is computed at 1.2 tons per lineal cot, which is considerably More than Wat iasisted upon for safe ratiroad bridges, Butluings erected duriag the pase twenty years on Broaiway are deep enouga of foundavon to reguive no savring up, wich an ex- cavation of sevenieen feet, thou<u one-teuth, posst- bly, (ue fraction of old siructures remaining, would need to be ghorel up and uuderpianed, which ts easily done wWitvout lujury, aad, in fact, with Yeal aiyantage to ‘souhty of — siructure, A wore brillant and tavrough y pracicable conception than that of the Arcals latiway Was hever evoked (or (ha accoumouation of popuiar Circulation fa a great cay; aud tae value of iV 1s that whenever applied, or if Universauy applied, te builds acity iwo S.oros Nga, thus doupiug vie su for cowmerciai transit and popular travel, Pur more, I is a4 Applicadle Lo horse Fairouls a8 Lo Lait roais UPON Wicd BiCauI 15 Used; aad bag aay way be predicted A% not very distant, saowid te pr. Jevted arcade ve bailt, wien suctace tracks for tavel Will Mave disappeared aivoy moder surince princigd WAL ha tho ereation of au aveune for New York wit have ti oughfares @ biVo story © apare the coming douvie Broadway, upon the arcade principle Witt broadway ast Would be, stio- jecwd to the open cus of tuo jane A leading 2 cara, wuen, in ecOume IM ail Its leading engineer thus ontlines Lue Laie: A New York ty has its tirst ata! nel road, commencing at Bowling Groen om at Fal he Taide 14 Just hat a nile, MEAS at FUILIE Breet, And one-sixth Of & Ve Dicks tO Muay steel. If tue open eut 1) mado on the wost sie of Broadway it takes in Lie Astor aud soverat other vtldlags of eyual val mit takes tho Morald building, toe sile t N Mail Park to Murray scroet, here fo! of Liroad way to Canal a:rect, tist talk cut, W m Cana lo Broo. id, to Fourth wtreet ; ir tieuee to Nii Or woth e ‘That portion of the biocks the open cuts and s for aii other business purpores, aro reqitis to be ility feet wide nnd finty 1) Feet Long; and these are construuted, at ramaiaiag would be of little value. ‘There js NO necossity for cumulative reasoning tn the question between the arcude aad taunted tdeas. Tae whole matter is sumzned tu the Lact tuat the Jor- mer is adequate, conyeutent, vaianole aud thor. oughly practicable, per se; wild we latier Is only rejwtiveiy valuable In ie absenee of the forme which if desuned to find a very extensive appite tion hereafter la the provision sor tie conccatratod Circulation of cities; aad nolitng 1 hazarded in tie way of Sagactty when iv t# preaiwted tae ten years irom tis date aurlace ratiroads wit be remeinberca Tn this city a8 @ Lith Of the past, Sixth avenue and other avenues aud Cross cnorougiiares Having besa nade two-svory Birects, the JoWer Blory devoted to transit and Leavy Urailic, the upper Vo carriage way and retail trade, it 18 demonstrably true that the Arcade Rail- Way 1ulfis one of Wie condtlivas of the provieua— transit to the Hariem ri jo fifMeod minutes, ata cout of five cents—aud 1b remains to see Waettor it can faim the other conditiow, Tae rapuuty is domoustrated; now a4 to (he question of tarul. The Intended Lari mcrdent Lo the project 18 ten cents for Way passengers and Liteen cents for inrourh passage. rondsray) taki compicie.y ces Highteen miles of road will Coat $40,000,000, Ai the tariit proposed {ta receipts Will be:— 40,000,000 through passengers $6,009,900 120,000,000 way passengers. ++ 12,090,000 Letinated treight carriage. 6,000,000 os seae ees 4 $24,000,000 Aung, repairs, 2,000,000 $22,090,007 Total annual recetpts. Baciaated expenses of apc &G. Net... This would be unjast to the pabli aud one of tho Wost colossal monopolies every placod in toc hanus OF a corporation, ald Cano’ oF Goud not ve Lier. ed ‘ " Would foot un: OOdaVay Passeng $2,009,006 123,000,000 through passe! 6,009" 000 Freight carriage. 6,090,000 TOtAL.... se reseresse0e $14 000,000 Expenses of operating. 2,000,009 Net... Perpentage on luves It is denonstrably true, therefore, Railway can be made—with the most wemendous profit at that—to fulfil both conditions of the problem, In fact, saying nothing about treignt carriage, which will ‘be enormous, In tie matter of pawenger carriage alone the project 13 capable of soiving the proviem of quick and inexpensive transit to the suburbs 00 the portly and were the passenger tari to be put at three cents Instead of Nive the proilt on caplial invested would be twenty-two per cent; at two cents tari 1b would be elghtéen per cent; at one cent it would be fourteen per cent—sthl an adequate and peying profit on capital invested, It is seen, therefore, that transit from the Battery to the Harlem river ia Bf tech minutes, at an expense of one ceut, is an attainable thing instead of a Utopian idea. hot available for treight, the tunnel could not foil these condiuions. At $4,500,000 per mile, seven miles of tunnel, from the City Hal to Haviem, by the proposed ceatral undergrouad route, Would cost $31,500,000, upon which, reui- img fen per cent, the divident must be $4,150,009, to which add $850,00@ for expenses of operating and repatring, and a round $4,000,000 {a aggregated. This sum must be eked from 49,000,000 of passengers, proving that a tariff leas than ten cents would be, in the case of Lhe Cenwal Underground, quite impracticable, with whitch con. clusion the tople may be dismissed, the Inference peing Uthat the Arcade project is the only oue at be before the public by which the conditions of he problem can be ausivered. It would be useless to protest, probably; but should the Legislature ever incorporate tho Arcade Kullway ab a tary of ten and fiitecn cenis the passage of tae bill will be worth more to is corpo- rators than would the whole vast length of the Paciiic Ratiroad, with ull its prospective bist ness. The facilities New York must uive—quick transit gloria mund/—but phe monopoly vy a Livtie caution may be avoided, High tariiis have been proved by vie statistics of the railways of Belgium, a3 compared with those of England, to be a failacy, even When considered a8 to the question of prod; and though the rate is in eonsonanee with American rates in the way of railroad taruif it behvoves the State fatuers to Invesugate before votlag tat a cor- poration shall net $22,000,009 rea on & Capital employed of about $49,000,000. The road New york Must Lave; bul the tarif 1s too exorbitant. THE GIRDLE PLAN, as brilliant In Its wey as the arcade project, remaing Lo be noted, and is due to che inveutive fecunduy of General Viele. The pian contemplates tie buiidiag of a jour track elevated railway, encircling ine city on the exterior line—that 18, from the Battery noreh, via the Hudson river baak on the west and via the Hast river Dauk on taceast. The design oonsises of @ series of tron columus, making & sort of columui- ated border for tue city, betweea which will be ferry and pier entrances. Tae four tracks, sustaincd on a bridge similar to the Ar- cade, though nob under surface, are laid upon @ solid road bed, formed by the brick roof of this elevated arcade, and handsome railings are erected at the sides by way of breaking or nulittying tho sense of swinging in mid alr, wi.ca Would aifect the passenger unpleagantly were tie surface to be leftepen, With a new system of piers and wharves, like that proposed by engineer Hyde or by General Vielo hinasen, this over-suriave aredde might be built for avout $1,260,0u0 per mile, aud woud form & complete girdie of quick ¢ ausit, by which, owing to the small cost of tho road and its hnmense patronage, passeagers might be taken up at the Battery aud set down ot Harigin, oriaken upat the Sateery and set dowa at Cock Mill Fort, at an expense of three or jive cents, ewher of witch tariis would render fhe rows a source of profit. Tue idea isa practicavie oue—a briliaut one in polut of fact—aud musi oot ve lost signt of in any discussion of the quics traasit que: tion, for, With the arcade asa Central Ime of trave! and the girdle on the two extensive line the problem of northerly travel is soiyed, no uter how densely populated and ay of circulation Manhattan” Ishiod may lereatier become. ‘The Capacity of the two ia equal to the possible capacli of the area for business purposes aud density of populat'on; and in them tho soiutioa Oo. the problem ot rapid and tnexpenstve poputar cir. culation {s attamed, With due caution as to tal ris on the part of the Legisiavure, 1375 whl opea with transit from the Batteryto Harlem 1 fiteen minutes av ao expense of three conis, and New York's tenement house population will be poured Into the suburbs by tens of thou. sands. Quick transit gloria mundi is the motio of the age; and it will bo seen that the welfare of the eity depends upon ‘he reali- zation of the moito to ifs utmost. ‘Then, with tho horse railroads compelled to adopt tie arcade system, the problem of tho surface beauty of the strecia aud avenues of the city may be solved with periect regard to health, coinfort and convenience; And all tis Will come about by natural evoli ion within the next ten yea The openlug of 143) witt, i may be predicted, ind all these outline, of tho future fitied out in practical color; and how many more 1s @ question upon which no foresight cau or had best bazard its repatation for sanity. CUBA, Propesed Formation of a Constabulary Force Composed of Foreign Residents in Finvava, HAVANA, Oci, 2, 13592, A member of the committee appotnied by the for- elgn residents tn Havana in order to offer thetr ser- vices in @ constabulary force to bo composed of for- elgners omy for the protection of proporty in the city, on presenting the respective petition to tne Captain General, on the 20th tnst., addressed his Wxcollency, after a few introductory words, tn the following manger, viZi— The petitioners, being mon of business, came to this tsland with the intcat to work and thore are those among them who have been working on tits Spanish soil during the quarter part ot a cen! iiy, wings lor. under a political and social conditioa of which allowed many of them to increase th tunes and under which all could live quiet ad tenied, Could tese men fail to taciine gractuly toward the Spentsli people of Havana who always met them with urbanity m padlie, with probity m Dasine aud with curdiaiity ta thelr private rela. tious ere are also younger men among fhe petition. ers, whose arrival ta lavana la of a comparatively recent date, but these, too, have embraced tke cause of order, defended by all the Peutnsulars ead loyal Cubans and identified by your Excellency, ts whose well directed measures We owe, not only the pros. pect of an early pactication of this counuy, but also, in the meanwhile, some excellent rosalts of ad- ministration, We poe with preference bo the \050- lute suppression of smuggiiny, witch result, atier achieving some years ago the sappressioa vf tho siave trade, follows very properly 1a tle wake of that great moral triumph. And what signify (liese mantfestations by a lim. ted namber of foreigners? Weil, even It sig niiying nothing, we obey the dictates of our conscience in making them. Surely tho causa of Spain does not want vir he'p of strangers in order to triumph over those Who iu this isiaud have In arms against their own raco; but abroad, y there are oriers at work imposlag upon public optaton—abroad, before the tribunal of that opin the Jateliigent and impartia) tesiimony of th : is im Havana may count for aring that they piace fail conflde in this government, Ure repr ve of the Ith princ’ ier, We 088 advances ia Invor Of ti sof this country 6 cruelly pulsed by a party of “irreconcilables," tn ympathize with this go nent and with noble Spanish nation, 1 ding the vast nu its loyal oifsprings born fa Caba, that the Spanish rale aud an intuvate union with the moter country to be the only guarantee for liberty, poaco aad prosperity in this Isand. His Excelicncy expressed Himself much ploased With these overtures and promised his support. SLAUGHTER BY RAIL, Mer! Lt This Time on the Scio and 1 (Ala) nt Passengers Badly Lue ‘rom the Selina (Ala.) Times ana Measenger, Nov. 4) A serious acci’d curred on the Selma and Meridian itailroad yesterday about twolve M., threo miles tis side of Untontown, at the kame’ place Where a slmbar aveiiont occurred some tive sinve, Wars Of iis unfortunate catasteoo; 3 foliowa:— The train had been detained for some time at ALOWN, O2 ACcoUnL Of B previous accident toa Bat train, aud was consequently several Lous behind schcdule tae. 1 having’ been cieared the train acted for Selma, and every. thing Worked weil until reaching tue trestiework Aud oridgs at tho pla bove mentioued. Here tue locomotive, tender and ross car crossed the bridge, tearing 1b and the track up, and jetting Into tue ravine below te first coach, and throwing tlie second coach from the track. The coach that Was precipitated wio tie ravine contained about twenty Serge fo four of whom weve ladies, Lae foliow- ag Isa hat of the ’, MoMulion, of and dan ratios owton county, Miss, painful i in the head, simovt com. plaveiy as loft at Tayloo's depot in a very ‘critical condition; his wound presented a @iuasily appearance, orge T. Hands, ireight clerk at Meridian, bitss., face badly bratsed. Janos Chism, of Pairlivid District, & C., badly and proba. bly mortally wounde] in the spine; ieft at Porus. George Brown, of Marion, face aud warm braiwed. Mati Baker, of Kentucky, wounded in the noads PAinfal but not dangerous, John Mason, of Oxiord, Ala, wounded in tie hip, P. & Baker, wounded in tnearm. K.C. Kirby, of Parla, Tenn, braised im the right shoulder and left knee; painful bub not dangerous, Joseph Fleming, of rikvenden, ATK, it log braised, Marry Moore, Of Mason's Depot, erm bruised, Miss Wilson, of Georgia, patniuly bruised in Jest arm and breast. A fearful catastrophe hos just occurred in the Gouttre coal pit at Ohateitoneau, near Charierol, in Ueigiam, by an trraption of water from sane cause unexplained while the men Were at Work, ‘The bodes of tnieveen have been recovered, bub seventeen Ota OFM ate HISAR. hard gravel and clay constitnte the best | ated, At five cents through and way tariff annual Valencia as Seon After the Siege and Battles. Tho Dead aad Wounded and General Effects of the Bombardment. VALENCIA DEL Crp, Sopt. 18, 1869. Is ts always within the province of a newspaper correspondent to collate a3 many facts as possible, After a battle or a stege it 13 @ greater duty; for during their éxistenca the salient potnts alone cam be touched upon, So it 1s with me at this perlod, While tne loge of Valencia ‘of the Cid’? conunued 1s was impossible to Know anything save what was actually reporied ag transplring, and that bas been sufficiently dwelt upon iu my previous letter; bus after 1 had closed my description of the battle there were the losses to be sumed up, the amount of destruction to be stated, reports and orders to be Gathered, the subsequect condition of the city to be reported upon, until I had exhausted the snbject. With this view I have lost na time in securing whatever facts could be collected from responaipic authority, | have travelled through end through tue city to note the effects of the bom bardment; I have counted the barricades, have seem the wounded and tie prisoners. There are even yet afloat diferent versions of tha losses experienced during tae siege. Some say—for instance, the American Consn!—that the loss of both sides amounts to 1,500 killed, besides 2,099 wounded. The Consul is very good aucthoriey, but still Iam in- clined to think he has been misled, and cannot believe that tbe number amounts to that figure, Merchants in the city say there were abouts 1,690 killod; others reduce the number to 1200 and even 1,600, But from ofMicers of the staff have heard tc stated that thelr losses Wmounigd to from 650 to 700 mon Killed, be- sides 2,009 wounded, many aanzerously, with but slight chances of life, As for the repubitcans, they Stated {t as their firm belief that there could not have been less than 320 kiled, probably 409; but they were almost sure that accouais of mare than 300 dead insurgents had been verified by strict investle gation, that (00 were known to have been buried, ‘but as many Were interred in the co!lars of the bonsea it was dificult to give am accurate Ist. Using discrimination sll may come to the conclusion that altogether there were between 950 and 1,100 kulea on both sides, while those in immediate Gauger of deata fro a serious Wouads may probably adda hundred more to the teartul list of mortality. ‘The wounded on the repaolieaa site 18 NO’ SO grave, ift may judge from the numer ia the hospitala, for these univer bat 412, yet 1618 reasouable to supe pose that if the dead weve buried in cellars thac wounded insurgents are beimg attended to in ther own houses, ‘The wounded present a gbasily sight, Toe horrors of & batve teld avo tuily realized in the bleeding and laceraigd forms, aud the gory couches upon which thoy ate laid in tue bioody iitters, and the woe begode, pallid, suffering victiins of the hor- riole civil Ww. The wounded eoiders Ml the hospitais, The amputated limos numbered Mity- tiree last night, and Liose dying or dead within the bospital are cise on the Nuadevds, It has now transpired that tue insurgents, havi captured the foundvies, had manufactured for cannon, bat they proved wortuiest ‘They alsa manufactured guas resombilas rovéets, from whit Wiih & Very & Ssut charge Of powder, a piece of spikea iron driven into a handie of wood could shot upwards aid 80 be made to drop, spiked en first, upon tie Lead, the necK or the beat back Of a soidier or O.llcer, They aiso threw baud grenades Will siaga among the houses garrisoned by the mille tary frow el 4 towels aud from the Migueletta of the Cathedral, ‘Yue exact naither of bomba thrown into the elty was 420, wh'le tue greuades, though many in num- ber, Were nearly all deteciive. As I have been to nore the wreck made by tue bombs, tho most calamitous resulis Irom the bombardment may here be stated. A Lwelve-pounder slicll shot by the battere situatod ia Cailede Lau Vicente penetrated tue second story of the palace of Marquis de Caceres and burst in tie fulon, blowiog the third story inte Iragments, and destroyiug alaiust every bit of fur- nicure contatucd in tue secoud anc third pt ries, His family, foviunately, nad leit. in the morning of that day uguer the protection ol a fag of le The Marauis’ grand picture gallery, coutainea nearly 60) p.cluced of the anctent mas- ters—Murillo, Ribaita, Cano, Rubens and Vau Dyck. In Calle de ve vers another projectile penetrated a house inhabited by von Vicente Pine, and explodiug witha brought the three npper stories down. The familys nowever, were ip 4 cellar, 86 there Was no addition to the already sovi loss entailed upon Sefior Fino, A bomb in Cuile Vilar, entering the second story, couverted nearly a dozen roows tate one, destroying we ding the lack and plaster partitions completely, bombs entered the Church of the Cannon, a bull used as the Provincial Museum, destroying pictures in ADY quantity ana lacerauing the stove pillars and walls geverety, A suell dropped in the patio of the Provincial Hospitai, and exploding kulcd the porter, In Callie Acerezadorea tureo houses have been gutted. Great, ugly reuts are tm the walls, and the cellings hang a5 11 the sligutest weight would bring the whole miss dowa, In Cabeils iret a house was utterly demolished, In & nouse betwecn the gates of Serrano and Trine dad, oa the 12th lust, were assembled togetner eigdteen persous; & sve entered the frst story, where thoy were, earried of the table, exploded, and wounded ovocy soul of them, hall p dozen most seriously abont W6 head, Ln tua disicict surcotading the hospital the ral seems to have been general, for there ia hardly house Which has escapods; the balcoales have torn, Window sills carried away, houses unrook and houses Gown, tats tae tale of ths Parte Cally de Santa leresa has aso sugars | Trig! Ly. A grenade was ihrown iuio the patio o! the Purity Coavent, where there » ere several hundred lapors of he municipal, Whgre It exploded aud wound Seriously noaiiy bw: desea Pre Gotuico Lowa las, for a wonder, cscaped alt damage; but the Cuurci of Sautos Juanes, eet has sudored, a etavue Wis beva Kaocked down, th Virgin's nicue iuaveded and mutiated, gritins have their sioue Winxs shorn off, the tower of the church hag also been muca defaced, the catucdeal tower, La Migueletta, has beea so battered and torn thatit @an never bo resivred to 118 pristiue beauty, The ponderons bell Gvelzlung tree tons) hanging Over the tower had a very Darrow oscape, it seems w me, for had @ sold eanuen bali War'eh stinply fractured a corner blocé of stone and spimlered the corner of auotler, sue’ tauirly In the ceutre of tie colum which Was one of tue supports of the beil, 1t wour be a@ difiicy 6 tusk to Colmute the wreek and ru above, Ywo Jo Ty houses ol Sehwrs Garribay aud Munoz were sacsed by the insurgents, Ad@ozen of trees have veen cut down tn tho Market. Hiyht houses in the market faye heen rendered wseie.s; bey whl bave to be rebuilt. The poor wary sof nas suivered; columns knocked: dowa, the veripped, the byochs aaniniiated, &e. Yhe beil Catalina ia (he cathedral, ove Of the basa, Wich rings With the chute, is destroyed, Bat {t would be Impossilve to note the whole, Let 1t be understood tat will ton of Vas leet ine duma.e caunot be compated, for erated, ‘Tir ats wre coversd With glass, orocks e yies trom daimagsd baidings, carte fe papers and maiseciiavegas tit he Daria atecantie apa “Lt Tribune of this day state tite barricades amount io the nunwer of 94) and your cdrrespo1 though he bas secu them and conater i on Minutes, each in company with an America , Were te number stated vould mot Gare to dispirte it; but the Muraber O40 If, Lo the Inst uMt, correct; nor need there boauy doubt, as Culle Gracia sel) nad ten ig Tront of the josin ong, each guarded by a dozeg lusurgent. ‘Tne old Ayu , pieces iopionto having absconded, and th 4 come Into power, 16 has been foun rd 18 At A Cont ta the Lreasury left, aud cone wibutions sed irdm the citizens. ‘Lhe chain g4 fre peng employed in repaying the streets agiu aud cleauig up the mouutams iuith, The number of prisoners now in the Plaga do Toras (buil Ping) Cake. since Uke termination of the aloge a4 ro wre (6) ta the correctional of Sam Dus they are ail to be seviree, The scion were the Mayor, Guerrero, and a volun vucral named Porta, but there were five OF KIX LINC, Wao DAVE escaped, Porta 18 a brave asa hon, tnd tas & weil trained battalion, ‘3 01 being able to kill a dove om Enquererivo had e regimens tho wing of 1,200 Under Link, aud so solect were his men tat they were permiied to defend wherever they choo to cecnpy, ‘Hho 1,200 men were stationed tn by mansion Of the ¢ de rorceat, and witha they let Mt there wer Toaves of Derewd and two beeves yee leit after (ne nine da BIE LO. The bodies of (no lusurrec.tonists are buried in the jes of bat Martin, Sancos Juan Vatilis of tio ole 1% gad these nimber 81 San Nicolas gid Santa © A tow only Lia been taken mito the cemetery, ‘Ihe log? of ollicers to tue army has been irighttuy, Forty-eight w killed ta the slaughter of the fest Gay, and during tie seven remaining days tho deaths aversged six, whica would mate the totat huwver ninety, The deatus are cnumeracd tius;— Sever colonels, thirteen Commandautes or majora, iweniy-eigut capaias of regiments Loft siult, twenty-three hic “pres aud ptnetecn trst ser. geants, Bat outor t 000 soldiers this number om a battle Nelda may Bot be great, bab these people for elgat days were fighting belind corners and Crom benind furniture barricades. Lhe number of dead - wie considered by autioriy here aw 1 ule Peace has returned to the city, but the fall Now of trade and comucrce has nut qulte artived yet. ‘Tha arury has lete aud taeve is bat the garrisud remata ing. As the mat is certainly ieaying J mast close my letter apoa these facts and ligures, Captain General tivers is removed from Valencia and ts Severely consured by all for not ety 2 ine er woud barricades on tie eL.th day, Woon he Nad Li with bin; for they Say a simnitencouR attack have been yericctly succossul.