The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1869, Page 8

THE GREAT STORM. Its Effects Throughout the West. Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo. Detroit—All Outdoor Business Suspended. [From the Detroit Free Press, Nov. 17.) About eleven o'clock yesterday morning a@ real ‘Winter storm set in, the snow, wet and heavy, fall- fg thick snd fast, and @ heavy gale biowing from the east. The streets were in ‘@ great measure Ge- gerted during the afternoon, and all outside busi- ness had to be suspended. ‘The air was go dark and murky that vision scarcely extended two blocks ‘ay, and men and horses were chillea through ‘with the clinging snow: 5 On whe river the storm was yet flercer. Vessels anchored in mid stream could hardly be discerned from the wharf, and those lying in dock heaved and Yugged at their moorings. ‘The river was rougher ‘Shun at any time since navigation opened the wind having a fair sweep down from Belle Isie, and the ‘Waves washed and spray dashed over the bows of the ‘Vessels af anchor, aud in several places 8wept por- tions of the dock. Warehousemen and sulppers were Working like giants at receiving and getting away frets, nearly every vessel making Wwe trp her last. he Jerryboats had hard work to make their landings, breaking the cables and ofttimes missing the dock. There now need be no hope that winter 4# pot at hand, Everything shows (iat such is tne se, and from all imaicatious Uke oaly iterim will ah occasionally pleasant day. A Tempest of Snow, Wind and Rain in Chicago—Condition of the Railroads, Tele- graphs and Streets~The Lake and the Mariners, (From the Chicago Evening Post, Nov. 17.] A Wild and ungratetul heraid of the Thanksgiving Day testivities so near at hana was the storm of snow, rain and wind which commenced early yester- @ay morning, raged through the day and night, and still continues in a mitigated forin, with a good prospect of making @ disagreeable day of it to- orrow. Long belore jast night it became a dreaded task to attempt to walk the streets, covered avkie deep with slush, while the Wind came around corners and through alieys with such force that siris were in unminent danger of inverting, and winbreilas became balloons and nearly took the holders of their ieet, Many human forms di- Vine lost their equiitbriam on ‘the slippery pave- Mieits, and assumed the recumbent position with a wudden shock to the dorsal vertebra, not even the fair and gentie sex being exempt from such mis haps. Glossy silk hats were soaked with the rainy show or sent whirling along Uae gutters, and as for foot aud leg coverings, they Were 1n a state of cling- log sloppiness miserable to contemplate. ‘This morning Le prospect was dismal, ana few opie Tose al their usual hour unless absolutely forced todo 60. A few scatiered fakes are coming cheeriessly down, though the mercury stands above the freezing point, aud the snow becomes a semi- higquid, with no prospect of furnishing any enjoyment w owners OF sleighs. THE STREET CARS, These useful but muci abused means of trans- portation were greatly delayed in starting out iis morning, and crowds of would-be passengers footed tt through the slush or ptied the omuibuses, The @uow plouglis were early set in motion, and with two horses on the “one horse” cars and tiree or four on the others the vehicies began to make their trips at interyais. By noon the tracks were pretty Weil cleared, aud st 1s probable tnat the crowd going puppy ae will not find more than ordinary dif- uity. THE TELEGRAPHS. The heavy snow, driven by the wing, made sad Bavoc with the countless telegraph wires radiating from the city, tearing them doWn and twisting them Together so that communication was stopped by sole lines early yesterday morning, and by mid- nightevery line 12 the city was useiess except one Wire of the new Pacific aud Atlantic line, which Novy Witustood the storm and kept up cominunica- ton as iaras Logansport. This morning, with this excepuon, the hundred or more fustrumeats in the Wesvern Union, Atlantic and Paciiic, Great Western Bnd Pacific and Atlantic offices, and the various rall- Toad oilices, were ail silent, and the telegraph mana- gers, iull of trouble, were plunging wildly avout, Sending out troops of men to do the best they could to igut the elements and restore communication With the outer world. THE RAILROADS, The damp and heavy character of the suow and the severity of the wind have made some troubie with the railroads, though probably all trains start- ing out to-day will get turough. The telegragh wires Were blown down on the [illinois Central Railroad Une, and this lack of means of communication has @aused delay in the safe running of trams. The storin excended pretty generally along the Chicago branch, but the soow has not materiaily gretarued the progress of trains, The passenger train due here at e.git o'clock this morning hau notarrived up toeleven A.M. All outward pound trains have de- parted on time. The detention will not prove very Serious, and trains Will probably be on time this al- fernoon. ‘he track, so far as can be Jearned, is in jod order, ‘Trains Will be run as regularly as pos wile autil the wires are repaired. Suuuar touole exists on the Michigan Central, the detention of trains being Caused vy the inter- Fuption to telegraphic communication. The Pacitic express was (wo hours and twenty minutes late, owing to (he breakage of the telegraph, This 18 tne only detention that Las been caused, ali the other trains arriving nearly on schedule time, The storm exiended along tue whole line. At half-past ten this morning 1t was reported to the line operator falling at Kalamazoo, but tne heavy All eastward bound freight and passenger tralus have departed on time. Tue snow has caused uo particular trouble. Workmea have been sent to repair vue telegraph. ‘The wires are also down on the Chicago, Burling- ton and quincy, and some slight detentions have @nsucd therefrom. The telegraph line was broken down yesterday, and great caution is necessary in Fuuning the trains, The trata due at six o'clock ‘this morning did not arrive until half-past teu. The freight trains due this morntag are all behind. The outward bound trains have been despatched accord- ing to schedule time, The storm has, as near a3 40 be ascertained, prevailed along the whole line. The track 18 reported in good condition. The heavy storm of now and rain caused two acci- @ents to ireight trains on the Chicago and Alton Kail- oad. About Six o'clock last eveniug an outward bound treight Was thrown from the track about tree miles outside the city limits by the spreading of the rails, the road bed having been sunk by the heavy ram. Six cars and the engine were thrown into the ditch, several of the former being badiy smashed and the latter being turned wrong side up. The engineer, freman and brakemen nar- Towly escaped with their lives. The express train, due at balf-pasi seven o'clock last eveniug, was de- Jayed three hours. Tne track Nad to be relaid for some distance, A freight train on the same road ran off the track under situilar circumstances as tbe above, at Bridge rt, yesterday morning, aod four cars were thrown Into the ditch and damaged. The morning express south was delayed ap hour. Trains are running on time now, as usual {he various divisions of the Chicago and North- western Railroad @ in running suape, although she storm extendea over aii tue lines and worked havoc with e telegraph wires, The passenger trains leave on lime (u-day. The trams of Lue Fort Wayne, Michigan Southern, Rock Island aud ocuer ls ail met with more or TUE MAILS. v sls were from two to The Pittsburg and A. M., dia not arrive ihe Micuigan Soutuern mail, after Glue, Was five uoure] oeniud no Central mali, due at nine A, AL, as ope P. M Taay and last night has N ators report that 4. @ vi binding. nf oO hea beiore entering Ui lor juts belng unabie to discern whe Url 4 from a distance of @ quarter of a mi to shipping must huve been grew g to the interruption of televraphic Communication tew reports have been received. The captain of the sch i hi seen tWo vessels ashore at Gr 1 jars have been received frow ti « the Gray, arrived a Finch, of here in the storui yesterday He reports having met av outivard bo Captain Anderson, of the scow Magdalena, 1 4 the storm very leave ab noon yesterday, the tine he arrived here. {oth the above named gentiemen report the sca running very heavy when they were out. the schooner Guide, of St. Joseph, was driven so close to shore yesterday, at Hyde Vark, Uiat her ceu tre board was tarown UD. ihe wind Was southeast ye hauled aroand co the east duns y morning forenoo! and In the afternoon it avain changed, aud blew heavily from the nortneast. During last night the storm was at its height, and did Not aterialiy abate before morning About forty vessels Wérefcieared yesterday at the Custom House, but no departures a6 lar @8 Can ve learned. Lhe propelie Racine yesterday. to stop Gt Milwauk The boats of G during te storm “lied to put into 28 aiv0 compelled trich's and Chapman's Itnes < yesterday. ral propel- baviy wok shelter in oth lers were due, bub harbors. The report that the schooner Two Charlies, of Waukegan, had gone ashore vetween that point and $his, and that two lives were lost, was nniounded. Tho vessel arrived safely, bui was damaged in her rigging. Aiexander Nelson, mate of the schooner Thomas Binms, from Oswego, with coul, wax awept over- board and jot avout four miles from Unis port yes- terday afternoon, while endeavoring to Jasien a tow-line from the tug Evané to the anchor-siock of the Bohooner. A yaw!, containing taree mev, was jowered, bot the man sank belore he conid NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. tiona that the ya conks be got Back to the vessel. Nelson leaves a wile and child in Oswego. The lake is stil running hich, and mariners now nore: will celebrate ther Thanksgiving saiely 10 port The Hurricane ig Cleveland—A Sixteen Inch Wall Blown Down—Trees Uprooted and Telegraph Poles Demolished. (From the Cleveland Leader, Nov. 18.) A gale of unprecedented fury has raged for the past two days ali through the surrounding country. iv isnot only the severest storm that has been ex- perienced this fall, but for many years mo storm has been characterized with such violence. It began to ‘blow hard during Tuesday evening—at first trom the southeast. It howled over the lake and swept through the streets, striking down chimneys, break- ing off branches, uprooting trees, wrenching signs frow their binges, suatters from buildings and deaf- ening the ear With is wild mutterings. Yesterday morming it shifted its course and whistled strongly Irom the southwest, but with siighuy abated fury. ‘Tne full extent of the storm can hardly be deter- mined at present, Telegraph poles have been blowa down and communication with many points inter- rupted. Tue giants of the forest have been thrown across railroad tracks and the arrival of trains de- jayed. Near Erie seven telegraph poles bad been thrown from their position, snapping the wires tn two. Mr. Wright yesterday sent out six men on the Toledo Railroad to repair the lines, which were broken in many places. Between Chicago and Oieveland the lines were down at several places. ‘The only way to send despatches to that city was by twlegraphing to Buffalo, trom there to Detroit by the Canada line and thence to Chicago. In this city Judge Cleveland’s barn, in the rear of his residence, 383 Buciid avenue, was biown over on anew building, completely destroying the former structure and damaging the new tenement to some extent, On North Perry street a frame dwelling was unceremoniously seized by the storm xing and tipped over on the dwelling house of oMcer Dunn, Mr. Dunn’s chimney was demolisued by one feil swoop. No personai injuries were received. Yesterday awnings were rent In twain and torn into tatters in various parts of the cluy, Wble some were picked up by the wind and borne some distance before falling. A flag pole on the west side was brogen in two, aad the upper splice of the ove on the southwest corner of the square was broken from its fastenings. A large sign on the corner of Supe- rior and Seneca streets was sent down with @ crash. The damage occasioned to the new rink on Euclid avenue was probably the most serious met with in the city, A heavy brick wall, sixteen inches thick, constructed im accordance with every sound rule of jasonry, was throwa to the ground by the violeat storm. The wall was perhaps aifty feet high and about elguty wide, having no braces Or WUsKes Co SUPpOrt It, and bul one oF UFO Aper- tures through wuieh the wind could pass. From tne rear the wind hada clear sweep at the wall, aud it reflects no discredit whatever on the builders that it yielded to the pressure and fell. The storm passed through Walnut, Chestnut and Muirson streets, causing Violent resuits among the shade trees. Limbs were broken and hurled a dis- tance of 100 yards. ‘Trees were uprooted and blown by the wind fifty feet from where they grew. Last night a sailor Was seen staggering up street and loudly thanking God that he was once more on dry tand, " His language calied to mind one of Bul- wer's characters, Who, in the midst of a storm at sea, wished that he “was only on dry Jand, with somebody kicking him violently.” The kicking was desirabie to make sure of his footing. The saiior io question said be had been nine days comipg from Chicago, Ona bark loaded with wheat, and “wather” coming in all the time. He deciared that he would “go ho more a-sailing While there was a bit of work on Jand."” The Storm in Buffalo and on the Lakes, (From the Buffalo Courier, Nov. 18.) About noon of Tuesday a violent gale of wind commenced at Chicago aud was accompanidd 0b: snow. ‘Telegraph wires were blown down tn all di- recuons, and yesterday the Garden City was almost completely isolated from the rest of the world, as far as twlegraphic communication 18 concerned. ‘The storm travelled eastward, aud reached this sec- tion of the country at an early hour yesterday morning. The wires were badly broken be- tween Cleveland and Toledo, between Buffuo and Cleveland and in all directions from New York city. Up to noon yesterday there was no telegraphic communication between this city and New York, out about tuat hour one line was got into working order and later in the day other wires were availa- bie, The storm Was the most severe of the season. All day yesterday and up to a late hour last night the wind blew a perfect hurricane, The violence of the gale was such that to stand up in the strect or advance against it was a dificult operation, The lighter class of portable articles were pitcued about in a lively manner, fences Jaid prostrate, limps of trees torn off, &c. About the dock the scene was an exciting one. On Tuesday the water in te creek, harbor and slips was unusually low; but early yesterday morning tie wind drove it back and raised 11 higher than it had been for years past. About half-past nine o'clock the water was almost level with the dock, and, a.though it fell somewhat aiterwards, was very biga allday. The Wiud came in violent gusts, throwing water and spray around in grand style. The waves dashed over the Gummy and over the breakwater; in short, the waves were mountain high. In the canal the water was level with the tow path gener- aily, and iu many places overfowed it. ‘fhe under ground story of the buildings along the Commercial Street slip were flooded and the occupants forced to beat a precipitate retreat. At Black Kock the water Was six feet higher taan on Tuesday; the break- water and towpath were overflowed, but no 1mate- rial damage was done. Severai fences were blown down, ‘The hickory pole at the corner of Fifth and Pennsylvania streets Was uprooted; the water mains in Pennsylvania street, between Niagara and Seve- enth streets, and at Sixth and Hudson street, burst, owing to the unusual pressure upon them. A sheet of tron off the Sturges elevator was blown across the creek asif ithad been @ shingle, and lodged on Washington street—a good evidence that the sLorm Was 4 very violent one. The fats were entirely overflowed, and communi. cation between the tnhabitants thereof and with the matniand was during the day carried on by means of boats. ‘The Gamage done in the city, so far as we can learn, 18 comparatively trifing. We wish we could say tie sane of the lake, but there is every reason to fear that such 1s not the case. 1t must have been utterly impossible for any vessel on the lake to do more than run before the wind. Fortunately there are not near 80 many vessels outtide gs there were a week ago last Friday, the day of the last severe storm, Then, again, the gale did not come on sud- denly, so that if captains were careful they bad time to prepare in a@ measure for it, No vessel of auy description jeft here yesterday;4some six or eight clearea on Tuesday evening. Two of the num- ber, the W. G. Keith and Kilderhouse, came back yesterday. The tug W. A. Moore cleared for De- troit the same evening, with the barge Empire aad another barge in tow. She had to return and on her way back ran on Windmill Point. The ty; Dragon went to her assistance, and both tugs an barges came in all right about eleven o’clock yester- @ay morning. About noon yesterday a portion of the crew of the schooner Hippogrut arrived bere in the yaw! poat for assistance for that vessel. They reported the Hippogriff at anchor of Sturgeun Point, with her Sails spiit and leaking. She was lying easy, how- ever. The tugs Bryant and Perew started for her, but after proceeding eight miles returned, as they couid not reach her before dark, owing to tne heavy sea. They got back about three o'clock. ‘The captains of the tugs say that they nad a very rough time of it; and we have not the slightest doubt that such was the case. When two such staunch tuga as the Bryant and Perew found it 80 hard to make headway, some idea can be formed of the task which the sailors of the Hippogritt had in ulllng the eighteen miles in the yawl. ‘he wonder 4 that they reached bere safely. The commander of the Hippogritt, Captain Nobile, the second mate, the cook and two of the crew remained on board ot bev. She 18 loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat from Chi- cago Jor this port. A MISSOURI TRAGEBY. A Double Murder Avenged by a Brother of the Victims. (From the Kanaas City (Mo.) News, Noy. 15.} Some weeks since the Tires of this city chronicled tue cold-blooded wurder of aman and his wife in the hours of nigut by some unknown fiend in the form of a human being. The double murder was committed near Kingsville, Mo,, at the residence of the victims, Mr. aud Mra, John Cox. For a time afwr we crime was noised abroad the most intense ex- citement prevailed in that community, ana lings of the citizens were aroused to ihe point of revenge. Mr. Dryden, a Wh citizen there, Was suspected, and had to wrath of an outraged community. He re- ned, however, was tried and found iunocent of heinous crime imputed to him. Time wore on. ihe murderer escaped and no Clue whatever leading to lus whereabouts was obtained. But following close upon the heels of ail crimes comes the step of avenger, and he Who Violates the ordinances of naity es as that the nignt follows day or come after the sunshine. It may come s00N, Or fate may daily with revenge and years ere (he storm breaks upon the gulity party's life; but come it will, and We question la only one of tit it speedily has the avenger followed up the tile murder and sated its ire in Diood and H. Saturday night & brother of the murdered came upon, ta & brotbel, in southwestern Mis- sour, # Man around Whom clustered in the minda of those wito Knew him may dark suspicions, A game os cards Was suggested and entered tnto, during which time frequent libations of ‘poisoned’ Missouri whiskey were enjoyed. The whiskey bad a wonderfal elfect upon the mind of the suspected gamester, and in the heat of the conversation and spirited retort hi yosed to Cox some facta which petrator Of the terrible Kingsville ar In an instant, without & moment's warning, Cox unseated @ 46 dagger aud plunged (¢ uw whe bosom of the murderer of las brother and slater, ‘The man fei) upon the foor with curses and groans, and Cox fed. Tae wound was a fearful one, pierc- ug thé heart and prodacing almost ijetant death. The name of the man £0 suddenly ushered before the tribunal of another world by Cox ts Wilham ©. Bevis. Revis formerly jabored on the farm for neighbor of Lue murdered Cox family, aud was wel acqualoted In the neighborhood in which that douvie trageay was comuitied. Le hae reiatons living near Springiield, Lil. A recent jinperial ukase places the press of Poland on the same footing as thatol the restos the Russian be reached, aud & was With the groaivst exer- | empire CHAINED LIGHTNING. The Telegraph in New York—A Lubyrinth of Wires—Bankers’ and Merchants’ Private Lines—The Gold and Stock Exchange Electric Indicators— New Fire Alarm Telegraph. Few persons are aware of the extent to which the telegraph 1s being imtroduced into general use, par- ticularly among business men in New York. Not only is it taking the place ot the postal service in nearly all transactions where expedition is impor-" tant, but even city messenger boys are being super- seded by electricity, and bankers, brokers, mer- cbants and manufacturers are rapidly connecting their residences and several places of business with private telegraphs, uote the city has already become @ vast and bewildering labyrinth of wires. I a bird’s eye view of thia network could be ob- tained what @ picture would be presented, and how much it would remind one of that delicate and wonderful organization, man's nervous system, Here ts tue financial and commercial brain of the Continent. These wires that string along the streets, that stretch from roof to roof, and interlace im apparently mextricable confasion are throbbing with the impulses of New York. ‘rhe scores of lines that radiate from this great centre east, north, west and south are the nerves that quicken or depress commercial life, according as this vital power may fuctuate, and minutely communicate to the govern- ing invelligence every variation in the condition of the vast system subject to {ts control, Every one Is familiar with the general characteristics of the tele- graph in this country. From the main lines, centring in New York, branches diverge and ramiy through every section unill scarcely @ city in the United States can be found that ls not connected by telegraph with ail the world; and now, when distan@ is annihilated and gli parts of the Union are being united by this wonder of the century, New York seizes upon tt and perfects it in miniature, In describing the new and uuparalieied application of the telegraph to the ordinary wansaction of business in this city it is proper to refer briefly to the lines centring here, and whose connections give such importance to the metropolis. THE CONVERGING LINES from abroad number nearly 200, These are inde- pendent of the wires belonging to railroads and are all deyoted to the accommodation of the public. Most of them come from the West and South, crossing the Hudson by means of cables, above Jersey City, and the rest are divided between the routes of the Hudson River, Harlem and New Haven railroads, These Jines include over 130,000 miles of wire in this country alone, and more than 6,000 oMices, and some idea of the amount of work performed by them may be formed from the fact that the tolls on press despatches transmitted by a single company last year, at the rate of two and three-tenths mills per word, amounted to nearly $1,000,000, and the gross receipts of the same com- pany for the year to $7,316,918, THE HUDSON RIVER CABLES form an interesting feature of the telegraph in New York, These cross the river at the foot of Fifteenth, Thirty-ninth, Filty-Mfth, Fifty-ninth and Seventy-sec- ond streets, and are ¢ach from seven to eight tons in weight. Most of them are composed of twelve strands of No. 4 wire enclosing three telegraph wires, They are fastened to the docks with chains, and are sufll- ciently strong to resist the strain of vessels which, anchoring near them, sometimes drag their anchors and hook into acable. Watcnmen are employed to keep guard at the piers where tue cables land, and to give notice whenever a vessel gets foul of the wires. In such cases it generally becomes necessary to un- derrun the cabie in order to detach the anchor. Large painted signs are planted at the ends of the cables, Warning Vessels from anchoring in their vicinity, and their locality being weil known to river craft the wires are only disturbed when some vessel, auchor- ing up the stream, drags her anchor aod drifts down with the current, NEW YORK OFFICES, Seventy-five oMices and over 260 operators are located in the ctly. These belong exclusively to regular companies, and are distributed among the hotels and principal business centres. In addition to receiving and transmitting outside despatches they afford a convenient means of communication between business men in diferent parts of the city, and are generally crowded with messages. Thus 4 merchant down town, Wio may Wish to communi- cate with uptown parties, instead of sending an errand boy forwards his message through @ neigh- boring telegrapi station, securing expedition and certainty of delivery at less expense thao it would cost to send & messenger. Joho Smith, stopping at the Astor House, wants to see Jolin Jones, a guest of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, but not wishing to make the journey without the certainty of au interview, gtepa to the Astor House telegraph office and asks Filth Avenue Hotel if Jones is in. He gets a reply ina minute or two and can either have Jones wait for him or can have a note put in Jones’ box designating an hour waen he willcal. New oifices are being opened aimost daily, and gangs of men are constantiy employed puting up Wires through the city, so that at the present rate of progress in this particular, a short time will sufllce to connect all parts of the city vy telegraph. THE PRIVATE TELEGRAPHS of New York are the great feature of tne vast elec- tric network of communication now being 30 rap- idly extended. Although only about four years have elapsed since private lines were first intro- duced, nearly a hundred have already been put up in the city, and the provavilities are that the num- ber will be more than doubled in the next twelve months. These lines are erected by private indi- viduais between their residences and places of busi- hess, and not only extend in all directions through- out the city, but cross imto Brooklya and New Jersey, one. private line being seven- teen miles in length, The only peculiarity of the private lines consista in the instruments used for the transmission of messages. These are somewhat similar to the alphabetical dial instru- ment commonly used in police stations, and are go suuple in their operation that any person abie to Tead can be taught, 1n a few moments, to send and receive messages. No skilled operators are neces- sary, and the only expense involved in the private telegraph is that of putting up the wire, the price of instruments and the irifling cost of keeping the line in repair. The rea engaged in the business of erecting private lines have aiready plaated poics in many parta of the city, so. tbat the trouble and ex- pense of stretching additional wires is very much lessened, Among tho private telegraph in use in New York are te followin, Anchor Steamship Company, from No, 2 Bowling Green tg pier 20 North river; National Steamsntp Company, from No. 69 Broadway to pier 47; Pacitic Mail Sveamstip Compauy, from No. 57 Wail Btreet 10 Pler 42; Oid Lomtuion Steamship Company, from corner of Dey and Greenwich atrects to pler 37; Liverpool, New York and Fhiladeiphig Steamship Company, from No, 16 Broadway to pier 45; Metropo- jitan Steainship Company, from foot of Wail street to pier 15; Williatina & Guion, from No. 63 Wail street to pier 46; the JIERALD iines, from tne oflice to Mr. Bennett's residence at Washington Heights and to the HERALD’A slip DeWs OMce at Iho Battery; Booth & Eagar, from No. 67 W street wo their jugar refinery loot of King sire Ockerhausen & 0., from No, 109 Front street to their sugar redinery in ftose street; Withams, GriMfith & Co., irom No. 83 Wall street to their reflaery tn West street; William Muller & Sons, trom No, 09 Wail street to No. 3 Vandam street; Matthiessen & Wiechers, from No. 106 Walt street to foot of Washington street, Jersey City (this line ts seventeen miles long, crossing the Hudson at Thirty-ninth street to Wee- hawken and running through Hoboken), Havemeyer & Elder, trom No, 98 Wail street to South Seventh street, Willlarmsburg (fifteen nities long); Archiiec- tural (ron Works, trou. No. 42 Duane street wo the corner of Fourteenth street and avenue 0; J. B. & W. W. Cornell, trom No. 145 Centre street to No, 526 West Tweuty-sixth street; Lowther & Bros., from No. 129 Weat Eleventh street to No, 403 Third ave- nae; Penusyivania Coal Company, from No. lil Broadway to No, 388 West sweet; Manhattan Gas- light Company, from No, 4Irving piace to foot of East Fourteenth street and to soot of West B i street; Morgan & Sons, from No, 2 BLOM street to No. 440 West atreet; J Linseed and Sperin Ot! Company, from No. 139 Front street to foot of Grand street; Phelan & Collen’ from No, 788 Broadway w No. 36 Tenth avenu: Crampton & Bros, fram No, 36 Front street to No. 65 Jefferson street; Kagleton Manufacturin: Company, tron No, 81 John street to No. 423 Kane Dweuly-second street; Jewell, Murris & Ov. from No. 21 Water street wo No. 68 Kobinsoa street; Kemp, Day % Co,, from No, 116 Wall street to No. 100 idur- Yay streei; Dayton & Waldo, from No. 129 Peari sireet to No. 21 Lispenard street; American Express Company, from No. 115 Broadway to No. 61 Hudson elrect; Dodd's Express Company, from main oitice vo hranch offices in the ciuy; J. & Be Cosgrove, trom No. 2 Burling sip to No. 81 Front sireet; Delmonico’s stables, from No. 14 Fifth avenue to 13 University place; Wright, Gililq & Bro., from No. 92 Wali street to No. 205 Wastlogton street; K. Hoe & Co., from NO. 31 Gold sirect to No. 11 Sheriff street; West, Brediey & Carey, trom No, 234 West Twenty-pmth street to coruer of Broadway and Franklin street; United States Watch Compauy, from No. 3 Park place to No. 46 Tenth avenue, GOLD AND STOO INDICATORS. Another interesting branch of telegraphy ta the system of gold and siock indicators, by witch the Huctoutions in the gold and siock’ exchanges are instantaneously announced in the counting rooms of bankers and brokers, ‘This invention first came into use jn 1867, and there are aiready over 700 inetru- Idents in the varioas bustiess oMces of the city about 600 of which are within tue radius of ® quarior of a mile frou the Golo and Block Bx) ee Among other influences upon business these conveniences have had the effect of lowering oMce rents In Wall and the adjacent streets, aa when brokers and bankers depended on messengers sor their quotations from the Exchange proximity wo the Exchange commanded a high premium, Now distanee makes no difference, the banks up town getting the quotations ay soon as the bank next door Ww the Geld Room, The gold and stock indicators are quite different from each other, the former #im- ply announcing the quotason, ‘without registering, while the stock indicator prints the quotation on & long sip of paper. The gold indicators throughout the city are all worked by the Kegister of the Gold Room, who has @ keyboard before him, and with a touch of his finger sends an electric fash along the wires 10 every direc- ton to hitue boxes in banks, brokers’ offices, &c., where ingenious clockwork displaya the price of gold at the very instant it ig announced in the Gold Room. These instruments require two wires, and are placed in offices for $100. T1218 amount, however, does not purchase the instrument, but with the additional payment of five dollars per week for the quotations secures its services ag long as they are required. The party taking an mstrument may transfer it to hia succeagor on the premises or to any one else who desires to connect nimself by telegraph with the Gold Room, but it cannot be disposed of ag private property. The stock indicators are worked from a@ central ofice over the Gold Room, and are much more intricate in their mechanism. Indicators tn Phila delphia are aiso connected with the central office in New York, so that the business men of that city can in their oMces watch the fuctuations of the stock and gold market just the game as the bankers and brokers of Wallstreet, An attempt was made to introduce the indicators in Boston, but business was too slow there, and the enterprise had to be aban- doned, NEW FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. Among the improvements going on in New York is the introduction of a new fire alarm telegraph, with 400 signal boxes, distributed throughout the city, and 800 tiles of wire. ‘The poles are already being stipped from the South, and it is expected that @ few months will suiice to complete the work. Tne present system requires the alarm of a fire to be given from a police station, and frequently so much time Is necessary to reach the station that before tue engines can be notitiea and reach the spot the fire attains destructive heaaWay. ‘lhe new ment of signal boxes scattered near each other in all parts of the city will enable @ person to sound the bells without calling on the police, and to summon the engines without @ moment’s delay. The signal boxes are worked by means of @ small crank, which, upon being turned siowly, puls in motion an electric apparatus within that communi- cates to the Cental Oiice the number of the box. ‘The crank may be turned in elther direction, and any parsons however stupid he may be, can give an alarm. ‘0 prevent false alarms irom belng red by mis- chievous persons the crank is enclosed within the box and the Key of the aoor placed in the hands of the policeman on that beat, or in some store adjotn- ing the box, The other details of the new systein do not differ materially from those of the present fire alarm, there already being telegraphic communica- tion between the police stations and the engine houses and alarm bells. GROWTH OF THE TELEGRAPH. Itis interesting 1n this connection to glance at the wonderfully rapid progress that has been made in telegraphic matters since the subject first came before the public. The first telegraph line estab- {ished for the transmission of despatches was erected 1838,,between London and Birmingham. France constructed a line between Paris and Rouen tn 1844, 8nd in June of the same year Morse put in operation the first line in the United States, ‘ns ran from Baltimore to Washington, and the next year it was extended to New York and Boston. In 1846 @ line was built from New York to Buffalo and Harrisburg, and tn 1847 lines were con- structed between Buifalo and Montreal and from Boston to Portland, The next year the whole country became excited upon the subject, and tele- graphs were put up in every direction. Since that perfod very great improvements nave been made in al branches of telegraphy, not only in the introduc- tion of new appliances, but in the instruments then used. The relay magnet, which then weighed nearly 200 pounds, now weighs only a few ounces, and the magnetic coils have been reduced from eighteen inches to one inch in diameter. Ten years ago there were only eight wires running south and ten east from New York; now nearly 200 centre in this city, and the telegraph is becoming as common @ means of communication a3 the Post Oftice. ‘The United States are far in advance of Europe in this respect, having more miles of wire ana trans- muitting @ much greater number of messages, at jower rates, Last winter Congress devoted con- siderable attention to the project of establishing government telegraph lines, and several bilis were introduced for that purpose. The first was intro- duced by Mr, Washburne, of Illinois, and provided for the construction by government of @ line of telegraph, with Tour wires, from Washington to New York, to be operated as far as practicable. by the employés of the Post Orfice, the rate for the trans- mission of messages to be one cent for each word, exchisive of date, address and signature, in addi- tton to three cents for postage and two cents for delivery. Press reports were to be transmitted at a reduction not exceeding fifty per cent on the estab lished rates. Another bill provided for the incorpo- ration of the United States Postal Telegraph Com- pany, and authorized the Postmaster Geueral to establish telegraphic offices in connection with the Post Office in every city and village of 6,000 inhabi- tants and over, and at such other places on the lines of the wires as the business of the country might from time to time demand. Messages were to be prepaid by stamps, and received at every Post Oftice and street letter box. A third bill authorized certain parties to construct, under the supervision of the Postmaster General, ltues of telegraph between Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Baitimore and Washington, which’ iines were to be purchased by the government after three years of successful operation. One cent per word, counting date, address and siguature, was to be charged upon me: to each of which a three cent stamp was also to be aMxed. These bills were all referred to the Post Office Committee, which, alter @ protracted examination of the subject, reported adversely, and the project was abandoned. The Collowing statistics show the operations of the telegraph in all countries for the year 1866:— Total No. tion of Countries. Mites of| Messages Dijicea to Wire. |Tranmitted| Poputation. 73,854 2,507,472; to 46,811 6,146) 128,005} 1to 12,416 sa 308,150] 1 to 18,921 6 D| to 18, 65,687 842,554, 1to 3,641 Be), 460 6,781,189] 1to 13,750 20,120) 1,760,889] 1 to 49,000 — 289,875] 1to 19,773 85,149} 964,003, L to 82,955 2y214) 635,668} 1 to 221,508 8,716) 668,916) Lto 10,000 17,748 588,376] 1 to 100,000 125,564) 12,904,770, Lto 7,649 Dominion of | etasa| 878,219] 1to 10,40 Stnce the above table was prepared the number of offices in the United States nas increased to 4,599, making the proportion of ofices to population at the present time 1 to 6,772. THE TELEGRAPH ABROAD. Extension of the Wire In Aaustralasia to the North and West. We borrow, says the Melbourne Argis, from the South Australian Register the following epitome of @report by Mr. Todd, the superintendent of teie- graphs in South Australia, on the extension of the telegraph iines to Northern and Western Australia:— He observes that the first phase of compeiition to be studied bas reference to the overland routes, ‘Ehese have now been virtually reduced to two—the Northern, or Burke Town, and the Western, or Perth, ronte, Mr. Todd selects, in illustration of the latter, the recent proposal made by Mr. Watts on behalf of the Direct English, tndian and sustralian Tele- graph gs) rag It specifies the general de- sign of the projectors without condescend- ing much to detatis, They would raise 4 capital of £1,060,000, Of which £300,000 would be required to construct tho line, and the remaining quarter mil- liom would be invested in colonial bonds as @ reserve fund, The Australian terminus would be at Perth, from which Mr, Todd suggests an overland line to Port Augusta, Via the Sound, This, if wholly a \and line, would cost £116,800—at the rate of £80 per mile from Port Augusta around the head of the Bight, and £60 per mile trom the Sound to Perth, But if a section of sea cable were to be | interposed between the Sound and Fowler's Bay, the original cost would be raised to £192,000, subject, however, to @ large allowance for reduced expense in working. The Northern schemes deacribed in the report are:—First, Mr. Gisborne’s, published two years ago; second, Captain Sherard Osborne's, as commuai- cated to Mr. Verdon; and third, Mr. Frager’s, Watch is being promoted by the Queensiand government, Mr. Glsborne’s original demand was for £547,000 for @ cable from East Java w the Gulf of Carpen- taria—a distance of 1,900 Knots. Mr. Todd has recently Jearned from him that an extension of the Indian linea from Rangoon to Singapore is now under negouation, and should it end successfully, he may be enabied to make a modified proposal to the Auatratian governments. ‘Lhe Fraser and Orack- nell project 18 to carry a cable from Kast Java via Tinor and Port Darwin; also, “should suMicieny in- Gocements offer,” to Burke Town. The estimated ‘istinee 18 2,000 knots for the direct route, kad the cost—waich Mr, Todd emphasizes as a tniniium— 2,600,000, Were the cable to stop at Port Darwin the ocean section would be only 1,000 knots and the cost £450,000; but there Would Lien be 1,260 miics of land iine to construct before achieving ® connection with Queensiand, namely, 700 miiles in South Ausira- han territory aad 650 to the eastward. ‘The Brisbane ‘government are said to have made overtures ty our own government some time ago regarding this #ec- ton, on the basis tab each should be respousibie for the line toits own boundary, The South Aus. tralian share, as esuniatea by Mr. Todd, would be £66,000, aud Lar of queensiand £44,000. The Fraser scheme thus modified—witn a cable irom East Java, via Timor to Port Darwin, and @ land line from Port Darwin via Borke Town to Rockhampion Bay— Would coat £450,000, Fraser, Who was receatiy in Batavia, entertains @ visionary hope that tie Dutch government would re half the auosidy with the Australian government, making £17,000 per annum foreach. Mt. Todd, though obviously weil inciined toward the scheme and its promoters, finds this too much for his credulity. He candidly endorses the opinion we expressed on Mr, Fraser's sanguine temperament when it first showed itweif.” The Dutch,” ne says, “after having speot so much in perfecting the land iines through Java, and having besides to provide the cable and jand lines connect. Ing Java with xe, Gre Hardly likely vo render financta) assistance to the Australien cable.” Very unlikely, indeed; #0 that the outcome of Mr. Fra- ser's arrangement would be agovernmental liability of ae per annum for the direct line and of per- me 125,000 @ year for the Port Darwin deviation, ir. Todd disinisses Captain Osborne’s suggestions with very scanty notice, and does not admit them at all into his final com: ‘Their vagueness and the exorbitant subsidies attached to them sud Caney eealy the sight, It will be remembered shat the cheaper land route was to have started from 1B, aud to have connected Fast Java by @ cable with Melville stand. It would have cost, to Captain Osborne, £390,000 or £400,900, it as amended by Mr. ‘Lodd only £360,000; and the annual subsidy stipa- lated for was £40,000, ‘The direct sea route offered as an alternative would bave consisted of two sec tions—the first from Gaile to Java Head. and the sec- ond from Java Head to Port Darwin. The aggregate distance would have been 3,200 knots, the cost about £1,100,000, and the annual subsidy £60,000. Mr. Todd does not allude here to 8 third supplementary sug- tion of Captain Osborne's, for saving about 100,000 by landing at the Northwest Cape instead of Port Darwin. The report thus begins by ignoring Mr. Towler, then 1s drops Captain Osborne and Mr. Gisborne en route, and on reaching ite journey’s end it finds it bas only two rival projects to adju- dicate upon—the direct caole line from Galle Perth, and the Fraser line trom Java to Queensland, either direct or ve Port Di It recommends both to the commls- stoner’s attention and points out their distinctive merits, but offers po practical decision, ‘The Gaile and Perth route would be expensive—£366,860; but 1t could be expeditiously and easily worked. The northern route would be economical—£450,000, or at the outside £628,000; but ite operation would be de- pendent on a network of Dutch and L[udian tines, over which no control could be exercised, Post Office Telegraphs in Ireland—The Insula- tors Mauufactared in Ireland. ‘The Dublin Evening Mail, of the 16th of November, publishes the following notes on this all-important subject:— We have already directed attention to the exten- sions now being made by the Electric Telegraph Company, Whose wires have hitherto run through @ few of the most important towns in Ireland. There can be no doubts that great benefit will ac- crue to the public by these extengions. It will, how- ever, be @ source of sill greater satisfac- tion to the public to learn that the Magnetic Telegraph Company, whose wires run through the entire country, are now rapidly carrying out a more complete system and the wires are now being ex- tended ander the supervision of the well-known and distinguished electrician, B. D. Watlock, assisted by an etticient staif of engineers. ‘Yne followmg are some of the northern towns {the writer enumerates eighty towns and villages) Lo which new Wires are already being erected, and it is expected they will shortly be in direct communica- tion with the General Post Ofice, Dublin, The sonthern and western sections will be commenced immediately. One highly gratifying feature in connection with these extensious of the government telegrapls 1s WwW be found in the great encouragement given to lrish Manufacture; the whole of the insulators are being manufactured at the Belleek Potteries. THE CHINESE QUESTION. Views of Senator Cole, of Calfornia. [From the San Francisco Bulletin, Nov. 9.) ‘The following letter, written by Senator Coie to a gentiewan in this city, discusses the Chinese ques- uon at length: WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 1869. Sir—I have noticed with some interest tue ob- jections taken to a ietter of mine, published some ume in relation to the diversion of Chinese im- migration to Mexico. In my comparison of the two races no referance was intended to those Mexicans who would ,or could read the letter, but only to that other and much Poe class of Whom Setior Flores spoke in his late address, delivered at Mazatian. He, himself a Mexican, says: they are degraded and worn down by ignorauce and poverty. ‘They are not fit to be jurymen, voters or even sol- diers.” If thia class of Mexican population is supe- rior to the Chineve it must be in respect to some other quality than their industry and frugality, of which alone I spoke, Shoula the tudustrious, inge- nioug and economical Chinese go among these peo- ple, cultivate their neglected feids and work their rich mines, it would spur them up to a degree of euergy which they do not now Ae revert ‘The ports of Mexico are without wharves or any of the conveniences of commerce; her streams are destitute of milis; her farms lack the most common implements of husbandry, and machinery of every description is almost wholly unknown. The loco- motive, which has @ track of 40,000 miles in this re- public, has hafdly a place to stand in that. Her ships, of all sorts, may be numbered on your fingers, She has been harassed: by wars, both mtestine and foreign, till she 1s poor and dependent to tue last de- gree. What she needs above all things 1s a revival Of her industry, She has resources unlimited, which only await development. Her present inhabi- tants do not, perhaps they Ccaunot, elfect a reforma- uuon. if Chinese iavorers could be transported there in sufficient numbers they would compieteiy regene- rate the country, and it seems to me that itis avery proper field for thetr operations. 1 am not disposed to belteve that the Mexicans would be so thougnt- less ag to repel them; the more intelligent certain, would not. That the ignorant and besotted, suc! as Senor Flores describes, might be foolish 18 more than probable, for jealousy taat is born of ignorance often imagines evil where none 1s threatened. The greatest difficulty which the more enlightened Mexicans would encounter in reference to this Celestial labor would be in obtaining enough of it to effect a complete regeneration of the industrial system ofthe country. All the suips of tuat republic and of China combined, could do but little in that direction, and Mf every vessel of ne United States on the Pacific Ocean were added vo the trade a long tme inust claps belore any considerable reiles would be afforded. It nas apparently escaped the attention of those who deprecate the preseace of the iew thousand Chinese in California that they came not there by their Own conveyances, but were all brought by us to our own shores. ‘Their coming was soilcited b; American shipmastera, whose motive was the Chi- nese money. If there is any fault, uere- fore, in the premises, Or apy ground for com- plaint, 1 should be directed against citizens of our own country, and not against tue victims of their cupidity. Flaming handbills posted throughout the seaports of China, setting forth the existence in Catiformia of mountains of goid and silver, have attracted to the Pacific coast a few thousand Celes- tials, not to permanently remain, but so firmly bent upon returning to tueir own country that even their dead bodies are taken back. Such as have come contributed ly to the development of the west- ern portion of the United States, and in the account of benefits rendered and received are yet entitied to @ congiderable credit. ‘That a number large enough or a cias8 bad enough wul ever cross the Facific to our shores to change the account i# not at all probable. They are Loo fond of home, the distance ly Loo great, ii Costs too much, the means of transportation are too lintited, and the inducements are growing less and less day by day. We bave as yet no occasion to repel then, growing out of political or otuer reasons. Wheaour waters are vexed by Asiatic junks, freighted with a people intended to overtirow aud destroy our institutions it will be time enough to compiain of their coming. fut while we bring, in our own ships, & peopie who bulid railroads, cultivate our waste places, and direct our machinery, we ought neither to complain of the individuals who bring them, nor of the people thac are brought. Every nation has the mght, and is jJustidable tn exercising that rignt, to warn otf from tts shores, and even eject irom its borders, ail vile, corrupting and degenerate people, like paupers and criminals, and persons infected with contagious disease. But the exercise of this ais cretion 18 @ yery diferent tung from the indiscriminate exclusion of a@ whole people, ana particularly of a people who, as a rule, are industrious, ingenious and irugal. We successfully disputed the right of the governments Of Chine and Japan vo establish any such polley for theuiselves. although the reason in their case Was much strooger than 1a ours, for those countries were already full even to overflowing with population, while ours is comparatively unoccupied. In thes no room was left for Immigration, but the unclaimed territory of She New World is almost without limit. Having broken over the Chinese wall and penetrated the poria of Japau we should not now Wall ourseives in And Shut Our poris against nose people. To adopt the seliisa and exclusive polloy which Was so much despised in them: would ve, on our part, extremely inconsistent. It would justly call dowa upon our heads all the inaiedicuons Which we have in the past heaped upon thes, and much besides, for we are supposed to be not only more Hoerat and more just, bab we Have an abundance of room wad ample gcctpalion jor al that can come, The great trepidation that has lately seized upon the Civistian world on account ol the appearance of # (ew Cutoese tn California has, 1 trust, about ron its course, A truly missionary spirit: would havo turned it to betier account ip Caristianiaing the Fiowery Kingdom, to which ail of them expected to rewura, Such would have been more in harwony with our professions of taith, Ag It is few of then Will return to thelr homes with a better opinion of our holy region after the persecution to wich they have been subjected im this eminentiy free couaty; and tua labors of the missionaries in China aud Japan will not be facilitated by the experiuce of their wards in America It has not veon charged that the Chinese came to our country to convert our inhabitants from Cnristi- auity to Buddhism; but, if such were Welr aims, and ihey were partially suocessful, more haraiy be created than 18 manifested al their coming werely to Javor aod Ww increase our wealth and prosperity. But Lue sear 1s not uf those Who are here, for they Nave done jittie if any bari, but of those Whomay cvme, and we imagination Is drawn upon bo the exwnt of many miilions—a swarm as numerous as the grassioppers with which our shored bave been once or twice visited. Way these people whould come in such gr ov what should bring them, is oever asked. this lear J8 stiaulated in the face of the fact that twenty odd yoars of great gold excitement, now forever past, have brought less than the lonth Van of 1,000,000, or, on vhe average, even less than 5,000 @ year, Surely this excitement, whien has sprung Up almost since the eompiction of the Pacitic Hatiroad, by which immigravion trom the Bast aa be increased indefinitely, muat have been fomen' for some sinister object. Tt has already served a pati BUrpyee Gud oUght How to bo vermlterto a But su) gome other unimagined attraction, oven greater than ‘that o1 mines, should bring to our shores ap ber of these p gv) how natural! Giverted to she new and richer Mexico? There ts room and scope en mullous ‘Sipe sanans wy amenon by some ha ant ion of an é! our fellow citizens, but an unprejudiced examina- then of the case may last abow inat it is more & matter of t that they are not likely to com 4 ponsideral ae numbers to the new Qontinent than» fear Overrun as. CORNELIUS COLE, LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. TAB ANCESTRY OF GENERAL GRANT AND THEIR CON TEMPORARIES, By Edward Chauncy Marsbail, A.M. New York: Sheldon & Co, When, soon after Napoleon’s marriage to Marie Louise, the Austrian emperor endeavored to prove: bis son-in-law descended fvom the Lords of Treviso, the great Corsican is reported to have deciared thas his patent of nobility dated from Millesimo and Monte Notte. And yet, when we consider the sya tem of government that obtging in Europe, the pride of birth and the value which ia placed upon the possession of an ancient and distin- guished ancestry, 1t seems quite natural that an effors. should have been made to prove Napoleon some- thing more than a mere “soldier of fortune.” But tt seems to us inexpressibly absurd to even write sucl @ book as the one before us, In the first place we hazard the assertion that not the slightest curiosits is felt hy the public to know from whom General Grant is descended, But, granting that any such curiosity does exist, it would be necessary to snow that his ancestors were persons of distinction, an@ not, a8 is here clearly proved, individuals holding: very ordinary positions tn their communities, The first thing that strikes one’s attention is the very large number of persons that aided In the com- plation of thia work. The next thing ts Mr. Mar~ shall’s failure to give a satisfactory history of the ancestors of President Grant. Weare told at the out+ set that direct evidence as to the descent of General Grant from the ancient Scottish clan of Grants can+ not easily be procured at this late day, but there cam be scarce any room for doubt in the minds of those who weigh rightly the circumstantial evidence. Under the most favorable circumstances, “circume Stantial evidence” should be recetved with consid erable caution, but when it comprises solely the statement of Jesse R. Grant, the father of the Presl- dent, and who “mentions ina letter to the writer that his father ‘used to teil him he was of Scotch ancestry,’ wecan hardly regard it as evidence a8. all, Itis true we are given a sketch of the clan of Grants, whose motto 1s “Stand fast,” but it proves: nothing. All of Mr. Marshall's argument is come priged in the evidence already stated, and in the broad sentence ‘If we suppose that Matthew, or one of his ancestors, came * * * from tho imme= diate vicinity of Castle Urquehart.”” Now, this is all: mere speculation, To leave ‘scarce any room for doubt” valid proof is needed, not suppositon. ‘Though failing in showing the President's descen® from the Scottish clan, Mr, Marshall has better suce cess in tracing his ancestry, probably to Matthew Grant, of Windsor, certainly to Noah Grant, of Tole land. We find that two of the latter name served on the battle fleid with credit, though not wita distinction. ‘To all that is written, from Matthew down to the father of the President, we have no ob- Jection to offer. But when Mr. Marshall takes up- Jesse R. Grant we object, in the name of good taste, tohis blographical sketch. Not only ia there the most fulsome puffery throughout, but one part ig. positively ridiculous, If we were not certain that the following paragraph was seriously penned we should assuredly believe it a bit of humorous satire:— We have omitted mentioning fn {ts proper connection th fact that Mr. Jesse R. Grant has displayed frequently a happ} talent in fraining verses which inight have given him = laste ing reputation if he had enjoyed better advantages of educa~ ton in bis youth, We ahall see, in another part of this work, that there Gale very ancient time, » distinguished Bard’ in the clan of Grants in the Highlan ‘occasional dis- plays of poetical genius among the various members of the Grant family are to be expected. We wi.l permit Mr. Grant to describe, himself, the circumstances under which specimens were wriiten. Here follows a letter from the old gentleman, explaining how, when a tanner, a poor school teacher in his town, wrote him in verse, which was published in tne village newspaper, we regret to say, asking ‘for leather for a pair of shoes.” Mr. Grant sent him the leather, as also a poetical reply, printed in full 1a this book and beginaing:— Backwoodaman, sir, my aged friend, These lines in anawer back I send, To thank you for your rhyming letter, Pablished in the Castig tor. Which last word, we presume, must be prd- nounced “Castigetter,” to enable it to rhyme with “letter.” Thirty-four lines of this doggerel ang thirty-six lines of @ rhyming advertisement are printed as exhibitions of the poetic genius of the Grant family. we can well imagine how annoyed General Grant was or will be upon reading this part of nis father’s biography. Again, in giving a list of the President’s children, we have the follows ing:— Ulyanes Simpson, an amiable youth ot much promise ; Ellen, an interesting er Jeasie Root, “decidedly the most promising of tbe family,” his grandfather says. We shall not take up more space in review of thia book. It is certainly the most toadyish that an American could write. In a biography of General Grant the facta stated here of his ancestry would not be uninteresting; but made as they are the gub- Jects for a volume of 200 pages is an exhibition of “hero worship” unworthy of the faintest commenda- on, We have no doubt whatever that General Grant, with Nis characteristic modesty, will look upon the publication of this book with as much dige pleasure as we regard it with regret. THR PasSTOR AND His Pror.e; On, Toe Word oP GOD AND THE FLOOK OF CuRisT. By Rev. Thomas % Eeettes New York: Catholic Publication So- iety. ‘The object of this book 1s to assist the Catholio clergy in the discharge of theic duties. Its contents are undoubtedly very learned and pious, and very dull. Whether the clergymen for whose reading is jg specially intended will agree with us in the lai named opmion we cannot say. Tne lessons 1% teaches will doubtless be found very valuable to missionary priests, to whose judgment of its merits we prefer to leave the work. TREBS, PLANTS AND FLOWBRS.—Where and How ‘They Grow, By the author of “Our Owo Birds.? Philadelphia: J, B. Lippincott & Co. We commend this little book as containing mach interesting information, in brief and popular form. A knowledge of the subjects treated of should be possessed by all educated persons, Tne part relat ing to fowers is particularly good, but hardly full enough. A really well compiled, interesting book, devoted exclustvely to flowers, and not covering the entire range of horticulture, would become popular, it written in the piquant, vivacious style ot the French, However, in the absence of auch @ book, we must rest content with those we have, inojuding tue neat little volume before us, JouN PLOUGHMAN'’S TALK; OR, PLAIN ADVICE TO VLsIN PaorLs, By C. H. Spurgeon, New Yorks Sheiton & Co. The Rey. Mr. Spurgeon’s literary style ts by no means the most elegans, bat he ts a man of original ideas, and many of the doctrines laid down by tint in this book @re to be recommended for the lesson# they inculcate. His satire is not without point; In deed, We nave noted some very keen and trenchant sarcasm which appiles admirably to no inconside: able class In our midst. 'The convents are divided into numetous papers, each on diferent subject, and all tending to w religious end, What religious effect they wili have upon the roader we cannot surmise, We do not hesitate, however, to pronounce them, very interesting reading, aud to recommend them to the pubitt, The volume is a small one, and is neauy printed aud bound. Oe FA:NCH OUELLING. The Gautols of Parts states that a fracas betwoen. M. Schou, writer of the Lorgnon, and Count de Bis- sob occurred mn the Hue Lrouot before the Hotel des Venies. ‘ihe former appears to have accused the otver, in tis journal, of Liegally wearing certain decorations, aud thie statement procured Vount de Bisson @ visit from the police agent, The two parties met by accident in the strect recently, whem ‘Count de Bisson advanced to M. Scholl and asked him, ina ineaacing tone, how he dared to make such ® cnarge. The latter answered that there were grounds for it, and, observing that the other was armed with & poinard knife, he accompanied his re ply with @ biow from @ waiking cane across the Counv’s face, which was liumediately covered with blood. The two adversaries then proceeded to the nearest police station to give each an explanation @ his conduct, ‘This incident appears to ve conmect with a recent suit for judicial separation bavween M. and Mine. Sonoil, the husband attributing the ree turn of his wife to her friends in England to the ite fiyence of the Yount and Countess d