The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1869, Page 6

4 6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HURALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed NEw York HERALp. : Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st, betweea ots aad 6a are.— Finsr Parr ov King Henny IY. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broaaway.—Dazivs Durrox— A BULL is A CuLNA 5 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Dappy Guay—CurokMats, NIBLO'S ¢ OF FiRk DEN, Broadway.—Tne MILITARY DRAMA woop's ner Thirtieth Bowery.—Favusivs-Tur iaisu BOWERY THEATRE, TvToR. Broadway and 1s:b treet. THE. LAR MEATRE. th st, and Mth av.—LONDON; on, Lights AND SUAvOWS WE GREAT Orry, ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Mth street.—Iravian GPERA— Luowgzia Borata, ae THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth streot.—Tuz HANLON BaornEys, 20. corner ot Highth avenue and —Faust. GRAND 0. 983d sueet.—Enutisu OP MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEA’ East Lynne : BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Many Wants. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— OpERa Bur¥a—OnPruRs. ASTOR'S OPERA HOU: 18, Brooklyn, — 201 Bowery.—Comte THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Comto Vooat IBM, NEGRO Acs, &c. BRYANiS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Bwiding, 14th B—BRYasis’ MINSTRELS, SAN FRANCISCO MI Plan Mivsrer.sy, N. Broa lway.--Erato- WAVERLEY TH Broadway.—Etit10- PIAN MING TRELSY, NEW Yor AND GYMNA CIRCUS, Fourtee: PERFORMANOR:! et. QU FSTRIAN HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUS n. —-HOOLEY'S. MINSTRELY—NeoRo Eocenseicitins, &o. STE AY HALL.SENaron SvuMNER's LecruRE, “Caste. EMPIRE RINK, EXmMivition or } ty-third street and Third avenue.— York STaTE POULTKY Soorry, DORE ART UNION, 587 Broadway.—ZXxuipiTioN oF Paintings. ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and Mth OF THE NINK MosEa. UM OF ANATOMY, €13 Broadway.— EM OF LES ONLY IN ATTENDA TRIPL New York, Friday, December 3, 1869. 84 TOMY, Cable telegrams are dated December 2. The London 7isves says the Qaeen’s authority must be miaintaimed im Ireland, but also that the Irish land question must be settied by a reform of the system in the next Parliament, M. E. Oilivier says the French legislature should rally round the Bonaparte aynasty so as to guard against popular excesses, The Viceroy of Egypt presented to the Em- press of France a diadem of diamonds valued at €,000,000f. The Schleswig-Holsiein “question” ts again spoken of, France and England endeauor to reconcile tne Sultan and the Viceroy of Egypt. The Aw in slip Scotswood, missing at sea since August jast, put into the port of Genoa on the Ast inst. Paris remained tranquil at eight o'clock last night. Four liundred Catholic prelates have arrived in Rome to attend the Council. By steamship at this port we have our special cor-" Tespoidence and newspaper mail details of cable telegram: {rom Europe dated to sunday evening, November 21. New Zealand. The British ministerial correspondence of Earl Granville with the colonial authorities of New Zea- land on the subject pf the Maori rebellion against Queen Victoria, which we publish. to-day, is very important, as illustrating still further the marcn of the nationalities towards independence and seif- rule. Earl Granville, having lvarned of the Maoris being in the fleld, 1s willing to grant their liberation, permit them to “manage their own affairs,” @ Cabinet tendency which is strongly opposed by My. Governor Grey, who warns England of the fate of ‘ncient Rome after her fag was lowered abroad and in the face of peoples of different races. Hayti. Our Port au Prince letter is dated November 19, Salnave is still strengthening bis capital. It is re- Ported that ois steamer Pequod fas gone over to the insurgents, General Vil Lubin, who was placcd in command of Bizoton, has disappeared. Chevalier, on account of his treachery, las been declared out lawed by President Salnave. Jamaica. Despatches from Jamaica are dated November 21, The schooner La Have, which wa pod by @ Span- ish cruiser, bas been ordered released py the Chief Justice, ou the ground that her seizure Was illegal, willbe taken. The steamer Estrella eat to Port au Prince, and Salnave wil probably buy her. The Southern Elections. The indications in Mississippi are that Alcorn, the Fadical candidate for Governor, ts elected by 20,000 majority over Dent. he poils are closed, but as yet the complexion of the Legislature is ugknown. In Texas the voting will continue until this even- ing, when the polls will fnaliy be closed, The State is claimed for Hamilton (conservative) by 30,000 ma- jority. Miscellaneous, The President is still busy upon his annual mes- sage, and declines to receive any visitors. Jolin Cc. Lreckinridge, ex-Vice President, called upon him yesterday, but his card couid not be taken in on ac- count of the Prestdent’s special instructions, Anew postal arrangement, reducing the toll on letters from tweive to six cents, has been concluded with Great Britain, It goes into effect on the Ist of January next. The postage on everything but let- tera remains as it was before. A Special messenger 18 about to be sent to the Red tiver country by the Ottawa government to con- ciate the insurgent hailf-preeds, Governor Mc- Tavish recently issued a proclamation urging the \nsurgents to disperse; and a special despatch to Toronto says 1) had o marked effect, The same despatch says there are not more than 500 persons engaged in the rebellion. A council was held on the 16th uit., but nothing was done. Bustness 18 at a standstill and money 1 scarce. Another despatch says the force of insurgents is sufficient to oppose any force sent acainst them, aud they will never submit to Governor McDougall. The Waiker party of Virginia have organized with ® State Central Committee of a most variegated character, including whigs, repuviicans, democrats and Union and Contederate ex-omcers. Generals {mboden and Taylor, of Lee’s army, end General “Charles P. Stone and Colonel Norman Smith, of the Union army, are on the ‘ist. Seven hundred dollars in Treasury notes were lost tast week in the rooms of the Printing Buteau of the Treasury Department and whe femuie clerks em- Ployed there were searched closely, but the money not forthcoming they have been mulcted tn seven dollars each to make up the loss, The ladies com. plain that the money might have been lost in any other parcof their butiding, and they.ought not be made to bear the whole loss both of money and character. ‘The Ways and Means Committee of tne House of Representatives are being dined considerably, for the purpose, it is supposed, of Keeping them in good humor over the dry details of the Tariff bill. In the Alabama Legislature yesterday Mr. Worthy, @ democrat, offered an. amendment to an equal rights bill providing that common carriers shall be compelled to give equa factiittes and accommoda- tions Wo negroes, but not to carry them in the same apartments with whites. The Committee on Elec- tons favored the ousting of Mr. Brown, democrat, and of Mr, Alexander, colored radical. The loss to the Second National Bank of Cleve- land, Ohio, by the defalcatton of Buell, the cashier, amounts to $477,000, The bank is reported to have suflicjent assevs remaining to put the stock at par. ‘The government property at Harper’s Ferry has been soid, ‘The City. Albert Richardson died yesterday morning and a Coroner's inquest was immediately commenced, A number of eminent physicians made a post mortem examination and testited that death resulted from peritonis induced by a gunshot wound. The inquest was then adjourned until Monday. ‘The troops at Forts Hamilton, Wadsworth and Schuyler, under General Vordes, and at Fort Trum- bull, under General Brannan, have received orders to be in readiness to march at a moment’s notice, with ten days’ rations. The object of the movement is Kept secret, but it is surmised that the purpose ts to check a contemplated Fenlan movement on Canada. Governor Hoffman yesterday refused to commute the sehtence of Owen Hand, who 1s condemned to death on the 17th inst. for the murder of James O'Donnell tn Soath Brooklyn. The investigation into the contested election case between Goodrich and Jones, of the Fifth Assembly district in Brooklyn, was commenced before Mayor Kalbfielsh yesterday, Eleven witnesses were ex- amined and swore to having voted for Goodrich, who claims to have witnesses enough to show that he had a majority of forty-eight, while Jones was counted in by the canvassers oa a majority of only twelve. Mrs. Sarah A. Kruger died at the Washington Hotel, Fourth avenue, on Wednesday night, from the inhalation of chloroform which her husband bought for her ata drug store without a prescrip- tion, The two had not been living together for a year, and Dr. Cormins testtfled that she had told Rim she intended to take her life that way, owing to her domestic troubles The jury found that death was caused by inhaling chloroform to relieve headache. The steamship City ot Brussels, Captain Kennedy, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at seven o’clock to-morrow morning for Queenstown ana Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post OfMice at haif-past five o'clock A, M. on the 4th inst. The National line steamship France, Captain Grogan, will sail at seven o'clock to-morrow morn- ing, from pier 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown. The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Dumbreck, wiil leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow, Saturday, for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry. The steamship Mississippl, Captain Henry, or the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M, to morrow, 4th inst., for New Orleans direct. ‘The stock market festerday was strong and active, Gold was dull between 1224 and 122%, closing finally at 12214 a 1222. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Dr. £, Humphries and Colonel G. Thayer, of Bos- ton; Lieutenant A. Chapman, of the United States Army; Colonel C, F. Thebo, of Texas; Captain G. Sterling, of Albany; Judge S. Munger, of Kalama- zoo; Colonel H. P. Tenbrook, of Georgia; Judge 8, Truckhouse, of Pennsylvania; Colonel F. C. Crowley and Rev. FE. H. Brown, of Port Jervis; br. J. #1. Morris, of Michigan, and Judge A. Bennett, of Pitus- burg, are at the Metropolitan flotel. ‘e Colonel O. H. Deane, of New Rochelle; Captain J. Anderson, of Toronto, and Seflor Rodrigues, of Cuba, are at the St. Cnaries Hotel, Dr. Charles Bernacki, of New York; Eben Wright, of Bostcn; C. G, de Garmendi, of Baltimore, and Charles Tudor Stewart, of Paris, are at the New York Hotel. J.C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and 0. B. King, of Connecticut, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Congressman 0. Ferris, of New York; Henry P. Adams, of Canada, and J. S. Cunningham, of the United States Army, are at thé’Fitth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander B. J. Cornwall, and Lieu- tenant B. Mclivain, of the United States Navy; Sena- tor M. H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin; George Everett, of Boston, and H. D, Hawkins, 6f Albany, are at the Hoffman House, General Cooper, of Albany; Surgeon ¥. P. ‘Thacker, of the United States Army; Colonel James H. H. Howe. of Chicago; G. W. Miller, of Monroe, and Jarvis Lord, of Rochester, are at the St Nicholas ara Prominent Departures. Senator Stewart, for Washington; Colonel A. Lincoln, for Boston; Colonel Samuel Dustin, for Albany; Judge McDowell, for Philadelpnia; T. G. Gaylord and J. U. Paul, for Phitadeipmia, ana 0. B, Skinner, for Clevelana, SevEN Mi.Lions Mork Gong.—The last pub- lic debt statement shows, as Mr. Boutwell puts it, another reduction of seven millions. It is but just to add that that count leaves out of view certain points that ought not to be soleft. But it is worth a note in this last month of the year that 1869 has seen a decrease of our debt by sixty-five millions, Even at this rate of reduction it would only take thirty years to sink two billions, and the debt now only counts two billion and a half, Goop For THE Poor—The decline in the price of dry goods which has followed the decline in gold. The merchants may complain, but we think they will be able to stand it; while for the poor cheap food and clothing with the approach of winter are great blessings. A Nice Case in Cuemistry.—The anthori- ties in Pennsylvania ought to make it very clear, if they hang Dr. Schoeppe, that they do it independently of the chemist’s testimony. If they have sufficient proof of the murder aside from the finding of poison in the stomach, very well; but if it can be shown that the verdict is due to the evidence given that prussic acid was found in the intestines of the victim, the execution on that verdict will itself be a crime. It is declared on sufficient chemical authority that in the processes adopted for the detection of prussic acid this very poison might have been made. If it is at all possible that the chemist could have made the poison he detected, hia analysis should be of no effect against the accused, BrienTer THan Ever—The cause of Cuban independence. The detention of her Mosquito fleet has spoiled all the calculations of Spain; and, between President Grant and Congress, we expect a speedy settlement of the whole question. * Tur ANNEXATION oF St, DomiNco.—The London Times thinks the annexation of the island of St. Domingo to the United States, in the way of trade, will be a good thing, The islanders think 80, wo think so, everybody thinks so. Let the island, then, be annexed, Success to trade. Condition aud Prospects of the Country The Trade Conveution at Richmond. Simultaneously with the report we published yesterday of the proceedings of the National Board of Trade at Richmond, Va., appeared the monthly statement of the public debt and condition of the Treasury. Both pertain to and reflect, in a measure, the financial and commercial state of the country. The revenue continues to come in abundantly, and far more than the current expenses of the government amount to, There is over seven millions and a half surplus for the month of November to be applied to the liquidation of the debt, while the amount in ‘Treasury is over a hundred and eighty. illions of dollars; or, de- ducting th bonds and sinking fund, which Mr, reckons as cash in the Treasury, © remains nearly a hundred ‘ millions in coin and nearly t in currency on hand una and dead capital—tbat is, reckoned in currency, the Treasurer has over a hundred and forty millions of spare cash, Talk of the resources and wealth of this country—why, Mr. Boutwell could go over to London and buy up the Bank of England and remove it to the United States, There is about as much gold lying idle all the time in the Treasury vaults as the Bank of England has to@gepresent the whole circulation and business of England. The national debt has been decreased nearly seventy-two millions during the first nine months of General Grant’s administration. By the end of the first year a hundred millions, probably, will be liqui- dated. This exhibit of the condition of the revenue and Treasury shows the wonderful resources of the country and leaves no fear of the extinguishment of the public debt within leas than twenty years. At the same time some of the industrial interests of the country are- suffering, and much remains to be done to stimulate the vast undeveloped resources we posses# as well as to restore those branches of trade which de- clined during the war or in consequence of it. To this end a number of prominent men of all sections, and more particu- larly of the South, have been holding conventions to discuss the various subjects bearing upon the commercial and material in- terests of the United States. These gentlemen have-assumed the name of the ‘National Board of Trade,” and under that title assem- bled at Richmond, Va., on Wednesday last. From the proceedings which we have pub- lished it appears that a number of sub- jects relating to trade have been taken up. Among these were—the uniform mea- surement of grain, and in favor of the cental system and against the present mode of measurement by bulk; the ques- tion of tare and short weights was taken up and a uniform fixed standard recommended ; then propositions were submitted relative to uniformity in executing land conveyances; for a uniform practice in courts with regard to the collection of debts, and for a repeal of all license laws discriminating against non-resi- dent traders. These seem to be small subjects comparatively, but have doubtless an impor- tant bearing upon trading transactions between different sections and States. The tendency is to facilitate intercourse, to place the citizens of every part of the republio on the same footing and to make trade, as far as the limits of this country go, unrestricted, or free to the utmost extent, So far this is all very well. But there are broader and wider interests to be considered, and if this body, which assumes a national character, would turn its attention to these there might be some hope of its use- fulness. General Hiram Walbridge, in his speech at the opening of the Convention, seemed to have some idea of what is needcd, but his remarks were so mixed up with party politics and the old, exploded notions of pro- tection that we are led to fear the Convention will do little that is practicable. We fear this because General Walbridge is one of the lead- ers of the movement. He talked about the general government taking up great schemes of improvement and doing other things that properly belong to the States or individual en- terprise. To carry out his idea the government would become a vast machine of unlimited power and corruption. There were important subjects that he might have touched and which will soon be pressed upon the government— such, for example, as_ reviving our mercantile marine to something like what it formerly was, by taking off duties that press upon the shipbuilding interest, and by allow- ing our merchants and capitalists to buy ships wherever they can be got cheapest and best, without refusing them a national register; such as placing the telegraph system under the con- trol of the government, so as to cheapen and facilitate communication among the people; such as regulating the railroads of tho coun- try, which involves commerce among the several States, by government authority, in order that the people may not have to pay enormous fares and freight to pay dividends on stock watered three or four times over; such as constructing the Darien Canal, with a view to enlarge our trade with South America and the countries across the Pacific, and other great projects and works of a grand national character, But Mr. Walbridge and the National Board of Trade have not grasped these, Yesterday, indeed, Mr. Walbridge in- troduced a resolution recommending the pas- sage by Congress of a National Railroad law, to authorize five grand trunk railroad freight lines between the West and the seaboard, and & proposition to request Congress to establish a Department of Commerce was adopted, This looks somewhat like business; but the truth is, these trade and commercial conventions, as they are called, have never yet accom- plished anything, and seem only to be got up for the purpose of giving certain men an op- portunity to make long-winded speeches. How 1s Iv Wits tue Bong Borters?—We ask this question in the spirit of Rosa Dartle— “merely for intormation”—since it is not at any moment certain exactly what relation the bone boilers stand in with the law. One day they are condemned as outrageous nuisances and driven into satisfactory exile, and on the next they get a permit to suffocate the people for several months more. The last heard of them, before yesterday, was that they were hidden to decamp, and yesterday they were authorized to stay. How is it to-day? Only one fact is certain in regard to thom—they have money. ee The Death of A. D. Richardson—A La- mentable Tragedy. It is with regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Richardson, It is the untimely loss of a young man possessing brilliant capa- bilities for great achievements in his profes- sion, and of one, too, who had already estab- lished for himself a highly promising literary reputation. From any cause, and under any circumstances, such a loss is naturally painful to contemplate; but under the peculiar cir- cumstances of this case it becomes, from every point of view, a deplorable misfortune. The unfortunate young woman who at the bedside of the dying man was united with him in the holy bonds of marriage; the wretched man, her former husband, who now lies in prison in the character of a murderer, and the childron of the assassin and the orphans of his victim must all now share in the distressing conse- quences of a lamentable tragedy. For the sake of all these parties we had entertained a hope, while there was a thread to support it, that the wounded man might recover. He was young and strong, and we had heard at least of one case of arestoration from a wound re- ported to be exactly similar. Why, then, we thought, might not this man survive? And what sorrows would be averted by his recovery! From all such reflections, however, we are now drawn to the causes of this painful affair and to the consequences suggested. The causes, we apprehend, may be traced to those pernicious teachings of certain schools of moral and social reform which of late years have been operating in our midst to the de- moralization and disorganization of the estab- lished order of society. Materialism in various manifestations, Fourierism and its conge- ners, spiritual affinities, tree love and women’s rights, embrace the doctrines taught in these pernicious schools of reform. How fur the peculiar relations established between Mr. Richardson and Mrs. McFarland may be rightly charged to any of these demoralizing teachings we cannot tell; but from the associ- ations surrounding them, their moral atmos- phere and the divorce laws of Indiana, we cannot resist the impression that the delusive fascinations of spiritual affinity and free love were the false lights which led these parties astray. @ We would not projudge this case. We have avoided it so far on this account; but when we find it taken up by a woman suffrage asso- ciation, in this city, and in advocacy of the free and easy divorce laws of Indiana, and the conduct of Richardson in a!l this melan- choly business proclaimed by an organ of the Puritans as worthy of admiration, we feel at liberty to discuss the vital principles of social order involved. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a shining light of modern reform, and President of the National Woman Suffrage Association, has in this matter given us an extraordinary piece of evidence of his endorse- ment of these Indiana divorces. It was this Indiana divorce, no doubt, which directly led McFarland to the murder which followed. Thus (leaving McFarland in the hands of justice) it appéars from the facts disclosed that this dreadful tragedy, from first to last, on both sides, betrays that contempt and deflance of personal decorum, vested rights, public sentiment and law and order which are sapping the very foundations of our social fabric. The moral is to be found in that commandment which says, ‘Thou shalt do no murder,” and in that other one, which says, ‘‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.” The deiails in relation to the death and post mortem examination of the remains of Mr. Richardson, and the remarkable facts em- bodied in the report of certain legal proceed- ings which we publish elsewhere in these columns bearing upon the moral aspects of this gloomy case we submit, without further remark, to the reader. Increase of Rogues and Robberies. There is an alarming and a growing increase of crime in this and the more contiguous cities to us. Murders, dangerous assaulis combined with robbery from the person, burglaries, garrotings in the public streets in broad day- light, with thefts of every degree and kind, are constantly occurring. There must be some solution for this state of affairs. It can- not be that the police force of the city is insufficient in numbers to grapple with the evil doers, or that the laws are inadequate for their’ punishment and suppression. Neither will it sufficiently explain the matter to say that the lawlessness is in part due to the late State election, and in part due to the fact that we have another election near at hand, and therefore to an extent directly traceable to the roughs and repeaters imported to swell the vote of this or that party, or of this or that can- didate. The offences generally committed by this class of law-breakers are rather directed against the persons than tho property of indi- viduals, and are as quickly suppressed as they are sudden in outbreak. The fact is that the Police Commissioners and their subordinates, from the Superinten- dent down to the roundsman and patrolman, are responsible for the impunity with which the lives and property of the citizens are im- perilled by the professional contemners of the law that infest every quarter of the city. The papers daily teem with proofs of this. Stores are broken open in the most public thoroughfares ; private houses entered at all hours of the day and night; the cry for help of some set-upon pedestrian is heard in thronged places, and rarely indeed are the offenders arrested by the police to be adjudged or receive the penalty of their crimes, There is a large force of detec- tive police also paid by the citizens, and it is another fact that to these detectives the majority of the professional burglars, gar- roters, sneak and panel thieves are known, and that it is within their power at any time, with the aid of the regular force, to cut the career of these fellows short. For an example of this, in the report of the late bank rob- bery at Port Jervis it was stated that immedi- ately after the burglary was committed the supposed burglars were seen hurrying to the adjacent roadside station to take the train, just then arrived, for New York. A detective on the platform of one of the cars pointed out the two men as “‘safe blowers.” A little proper official zeal on the part of this detective, acting from his knowledge of the parties, would have led to a prompt arrest of these men, and to the probable disclosure that they were in very fact the perpetrators of the burglary, and con- sequently to the'recovory of the large sum of money in notes, bonds and securities of which they had deapoiled the bank. Instead of 80 acting, this model detective—no doubt one of our own city fraternity—permitted the men to go unquestioned and thus escape. It has been frequently charged, even by the well informed reporters of the press, and instances given in proof of the fact, that patrolmen as well as deteetives are at times in league with the most succesaful and consequently the moat dangerous of the class who live by violations of the law, and it is only when some more than ordinarily daring crime upon life or pro- perty is committed that the league is exposed and broken up. But yet the evil continues and these unholy alliances go on. In the face, therefore, of these flagrant official outrages against the citizens any change in the Police Department that may be brought about by democratic legislative action will be welcomed as a change for the better and as one long and greatly needed. Remedies Recommended for Declining Amer- tcan Shipping Interests. The committee appointed by Congress to inquire into and report upon the decline of American shipping interests closed its investi- gations in Philadelphia yesterday, having visited and taken testimony in Port- land, Boston and New York In Octo- ber. The testimony taken covera about eight hundred manuscript pages and is now being printed at Washington. The remedies recommended for the great evil which the committee has investigated have resolved themselves in almost every instance into three propositions. First, a drawback of the duty upon all materials entering into the construc- tion of vessels, and a subsidy equal to the amount of the duty when American materials are used. Second, permission to purchase and admit to American regis- ters foreign built vessels, Third, subsidies to American lines of ocean steamers, The majority report of the committee appointed by the New York Chamber of Commerce, on “The Decline of American Commerce and the Remedies the Chamber would recommend to Congress,” was submitted yesterday after- noon, but excited a lively debate and was laid over for further discussion a fortnight hence. It recommended such modifications of existing laws that foreign built steamers may be imported free of duty and privileged to carry the American flag provided they are American owned and not to be employed in our coastwise trade; that iron plates and such other material for the construction of steamers as may be deemed advisable be admit- ted free of duty; that on all ship stores procurable in bond drawback be returned, as upon goods shipped for sale in foreign lands ; and, finally, that ample subsidies be granted to lines of steamers built in American yards, Surely it is high time that effectual remedies for the decline of American shipping interests be discovered and applied. Architect Mullet’s Report on Public Buildings. The Supervising Architect, Mr. Mullet, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury for the current year, has a good deal to say about our new Post Office, Custom House, Barge Office, Assay Office and new Custom House pier. His report on the Post Office is most satisfactory. He states that the building will be closed in during the coming season, if sufficient appro- priations are made to enable him to carry on the work with the same vigor that has marked the operations heretofore under the able super- vision of Mr. S. J. Hulburd, and the financial punctuality of the Postmaster and paymaster, General P. H. Jones. The public have no reason to find fault with the way in which the Post Office has been advanced up to this point. Relays of men, day and night, have been kept at work on it while the excavations were being made until now the foundation of masonry is laid. The traffic in the vicinity of the building is perbaps as little impeded as could be expected, considering the magnitude of the work on hand. Mr. Mullet says that he is greatly in- debted to Mayor Hall and Street Commissioners McLean and Tweed for facilitating his opera- tions. Perhaps this is the reason why the public have been so little incommoded at this point, where, of all other parts of the city, the greatest discomfort might have been expected. With reference to the Appraiser’s dopart- ment of the Custom House, the erection of a commodious fireproof building in the place of the present contracted and dangerous one seems a good suggestion. Mr. Mullét suggests that the new Barge Office, which is now in course of construction on the Battery, tho foundations of which have to be laid under water by divers, and is therefore a very slow and expensive piece of work, is not necessary, provided that the contemplated new Custom House and revenue dock are built on the Bat- tery ground. The removal of the Assay Office to the same locality is also urged. There is no doubt that the pressure of business in and about Wall street, where these buildings stand, is such as to make a change of location very desirable. Besides, the sale of property in that vicinity used by the government would pay a large proportion of the cost of new buildings on the water front, where the Custom House should properly be located, These propositions to erect so many gigantic publi¢ buildings, involving a vast expense, as they must do, would be alarming were it not for the experience we have recently had in the new Post Office, which shows that public works conducted by the federal government present a striking contrast, in economy and time, to those like the Court House under the management of our county authorities. Tne Winter InavauratEp.—December, January and February are our winter months ; and a snow storm on the 2a of December in- dicates that Old Winter this time intends to take the full benefit of his term, though we still hope that he will deal with us kindly, after his rough conduct of the last three or four years, Tne Conpvoror who put a man off his train on the New Jersey Railroad, so that the man lost his life, now says that he did not know his train was on the bridgg. The con- ductor who stops his train, not knowing that it is on a bridge, is one that the company should look after for its own safety. Goop ror Soutu Carotina.—Her Legisla- ture is the first of all the States in declaring itself in favor of Cuban independence. But in all other quarters ‘the work goes bravely on.” a ed Srizi ANorner Pavement.—Another pave- ment has been discovered, and of course it is to be tried in this metropolis. It will make, wo believe, the ninety-sixth different kind in use. Nearly every full grown man in Massa- chusetts owns a patent for a pavement, and all these varieties are to be in due time experi- mented upon in our streets, so that we shall some time have an unexceptionable article. We have tried all the possible combinations of wood, éar and stone, whole and cut; the new article will be our first experiment in artificial stone—and will fail, of course. Important TO DgapHEADS.—It has just been decided in New Jersey that a deadhead on a railroad must be killed at his own expense if he is killed at all. Neither the traveller on a free ticket nor his heirs can recover damages for injury by accident on the rail. It seems there was some Jersey deadhead meaner than the rest who sued the company that gave bim a ride; hence the decision, The moral for deadheads is that they must get an accidont insurance ticket. If to buy such a ticket coste as much as the ride would the difficulty ie insuperable, unless the insurance ticket also can be obtained on the deadhead plan. THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE OF ISRAEL. First Meeting of the Board of Trusteea=Prac- tical Measures Discussed—Intoresting Pro- ceedings. Last evening, at the private residence of Dr. 8. L. Moses, No. 11 East Baltic street, Brooklyn, the board of trustees of the new Reform Temple of Isracl, elected at the meeting on Sunday last, held tholr frat session, all the seven trustees being present, and Dr. Moses, president of the congregation, presiding. On opening the meeting the chairman stated that he had called them together to consider the arrangemenw to be made for the business of the congregation at its next assemblage on Sunday. Up to this thirty- four of their co-religioniats have signified thetr assent to the movement. Many more would join, and their prospects were bright. He had been informed that quite a number of Jewish families now residing in New York would remove to Brooklyn if such @ temple, on the reform basis, were organized, A number of others are only awaiting the progress of their lavors and the assurance of success. They should not run headlong. into expenses, but graduate their expenditures to thelr means. He had seen Rev. Dr. Myers, Rabbi of the Tempia Emanuel on Fifth avenue, in New York city, before Rey. Dr, Gutheun’s ar rival, and that gentie- man volunteered, free of charge, to conduct thir religious services and preach a sermon every Sz})- bath, until the congregation should be strong enough to have a sottled minister. A en een, running Cou- versation followed, in which Dr. Moses and Messrs. Louis Bass, Julius Baere, Samuel Koch, A. Fleiscn- bauer, Samuel Wecheler and A. Abraham took part, from which it appeared that there were now two Hebrew congregations tn Brooklyn—one numbering about 100, the other about seventy families—both of which have many members favoring reform, who will join the new temple as soon as its existence is assured. There werd also a good many Jews, belonging to no congrega- tion at present, who are eager for the success of this movement. Warnings, however, had been given that they should not be too radical, but introduce moderate reforms only. Dr. Moses bo- lheved 1t necessary to take a stand, let all know on what ground they proposed to work and induce no one to join on false pretences, - He knew there were men in the Brooklyn congregations who wouldn't darken the doors of the Filta avenue temple. He himself, though for enlarged reform, is not for innovation; there are points in the Fifth avenue temple, to which he also was opposed, as ‘for instance, having Christians in the choir. A Ohristlan cannot honestly sing Shamang, Israel, Adonai Alohans Adonat Achad—(Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord isone,) Aman cannot honestly say that for a con- gregation what he does not believe. They shouid have Jews and Jewesses in the choir, and there were many young men and:ladies among them with musi- cal taste Who would take pride in assisting in the choir; in fact, some have already volunteered. Mr. FLEISCHHAVER—But in the Temple Emanuel the singer in the choir 1s paid. Dr. Moszs—That’s the very objection, that he 1s paid for saying what ie does not believe. This is hot so with the organist; but even for that a Jew might be preferred. Mr. Koch and others referred to the fact that ap- prehension was felt taey woula overstep the Ilmtts of their means, on Which subject it was agreed to disabuse the minds of those who may have believed it. Drs Moses suggested that it should be recom. mended to the congregation to secure a temporary place of worship and to estabiish a Sunday school, to which he would devote his time every Sunday for one year. This suggestion was formulated into a motion by Mr. Louis Bass and carried, as well as another, proposed by Mr. A. Abraham, tnat the con- ar are rica @ committee to take steps for pro- curing a hai On motion of Mr. Julius Baere it was resolved to appoint a committee of three trustees to conier with the trustees of the Temple Emanuel as to tne conditions under which they would let this new con- gregation have a piece of ground for acemetery. A Suggestion was adopted that Dr. Moses be one of this committee, and Messrs. Baere and Wecheler were named his associates. ‘Some unimportant routine business was transacted and the meeting adjourned, all present, at tne invitation of Dr. Mo-es, retiring to the dining room, where a collation was partaken of and toasts and speeches were in order. THE BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Tho Controversy in Cincinnati—Argument of Counsel for the Detence. CrNcINNATI, Dec. 2, 1869. The interest in the Bible question before the Supreme Court does not abate. Citizens throng the court room, and the floor and galleries are crowded, dudge Matthews, for the defence, began an argu. ment yesterday, and at the noon recess to-day he had spoken four hours, His argument will consume the afternoon. Rufus King will make the closing srgument for the plaintiff probably to-morrow. ‘The decision of the Court will probably not be rendered for two or three weeks. Judge Matthews took up the first question suggested by tne Court, First, whether the reading of the Bible was teact- ing sectarian dogma; and second, what good it was to dispense with reading the Bible when Catholics refused to send their children to school where there was no religious instruction ? In answer to the first, he said:—Religious instruction, as pro- posed by the plaintiffs, was sectarian. The Bible was read as aboly book of revelation from Heaven, which is a dogma held only by Protestant Christians; the Jews held the New Testament to be blasphemous, and Catholics denied that the Binle is the source of truth, except as interpreted by their infailibie Church; therefore, to read the Bible in the way tne Jaintitfs propose Would be to establish a dogma hela by one sect as a law of the State. In reply to the second question, he said he had no doubt the Catholics held precisely the samo views tat were held by the gentiemen on the other side—that the State should provide religious instruction. They now wanted to secularize schools; afterwards they would try to strike @ bargain with those now attemptung to have the schoo! made a vehicle of religious instruction, They would Bay, let us divide the school fund, and give our children the religious instruction we think ig right and you give yours. This would follow it the Geotsion in this cage was in favor of the plain- tits, He disclaimed being & Catholic or Jew or Infidel, He was an orthodox Calvinist. He had*be- lief in the divinity of Christ, and if agked the ground of his faith would not enter into d. ubtful argument, but say he had felt evidence of Christ's existence and grace in his heart. And, he continued, I have more than three heavenly witnesses; | have five witnesses before the Throne waiting for me and cail- ing for me to join them, ‘Tnts 18 my creed. te concluded by say that because he was a Chris tian he dostred to exercise the attributes of Christ— to be just, to be charitable, to take into the arms of bip human sympatiy all classes of men, He woud atte nothing of his belief, but he would at the same time ve magnanimous by not compeliing everybody else to subscribe to his creed. lie charged that the ultimate result of the argument of the Matntitt was that Protestant Christianity was an established religion; that its teachings were essential ' to good government; that because the Unurc has not the power to compel people to attend its instruc: tions, while the State has, therefore the State must exercise it, He claimed that the Schvo! Board in this matter had used we discretion given it by law, and no court had @ right to review the exercise of a legal discretion. He nilustrated this by supposing a case where aschool board had omitted ww provide for gymnastics. ‘There was as much reason for com- pelling them to provide for gymnastics as for com- elling them to provide for religions instruction, Juage Matthews was proceeding to say that one of the ease ts the court had ttimated that there ‘were persons Who Were not entitied to set up a right of conscience. Juage Storer dented making such an assertion, A controversy followed, Judge Matthews took his neat, declining to speak further, but at the solicita- lion of counsel and of the Court he resumed ais arga- ment, referring to the case in Second Howard, Vidoall va. the Executors of te Girard esiaic in Second Harringtou.