The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1870, Page 5

FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Fatal Gales and Snow Storms in Europe. “THE FRENCH CABINET CRISIS. Violent Note from the Sultan to Egypt. Mr. Ashbury Proposes to Race for the Cup Won by the Yacht America. Reported Spanish Successes in Cuba. ‘THE REVOLUTION DYING OUT. Almost Another Avondale Horror : in Pennsylvania, Marrow Hscape of Miners from a $ Terrible Death. Governor McDougall’s Version of the Red River Rebellion. ‘the Winnipeg Indians Opposed to An- nexation. FRANCE. ‘Phe Cabinet Crisis Continued. Panis, Dec. 31—1:30 P, M. The new Ministry has not yet been formed, and there are no further developments in the direction Of ite formation. Its feared that M. Ollivier will De unable to form one, Later. Paris, Dec. 31—11 P. M. Up tothe present time’ the new Ministry has not ‘deen formed, but it is reported this evening that it ‘will be to-morrow. Royal German Visitors. Panis, Dec. 31, 1869. . Prince Charles, of Prussia, ana his wife are in the ity and stopping at the Grand Hotel. Yesterday she Emperor called upon them there. . ENGLAND. The Alabama Claims Question. Lonpoy, Dee. 31, 1869. A persistent contributor to the London Times on ‘this subject writes another article to that journai Yo-day assalling the despatch of Secretary Fish on . the Alabama question. ie { The Weekly Hxaminer, tasued to day, has an arti- Cle on the Alabama diMiculty. It says when the na- ture bfthe American struggle was understood Eng- and restored her sympathies to the North, and that ations now, based on earlier wrongs, are ply unduly vindictive, Capital and Trade. Lonpon, Dec. 31, 1869. \ The Shipping Gazette, in its money article, ascribes jgpe case in the money market to the diminished capital required, owing to the ‘shrinkage of prices, ‘€or conducting business since 1865. Severe Gules on the Const—Marine Disas- ters=Loss of Liie. Lonpon, Dec. 31, 1869, , . Heavy gales nave prevailed af around the coast daring the past few days. Many shipwrecks, at- im some instances with loss of life, have already been reported. | The American bark C. V. Minot, Captain Healey, “which left Mobile on the 10th of November with a ‘cargo of cotton for Havre, experienced one of these gales when about two days’ sail from the Cornish coast, but weathered the storm and made the port of Penzance. She lost two masts and suffered other damage, though to what extent is not yet ascer- tained. Advices have also been received to the effect that ;the bark Edna, bound from Montreal to Greenock, ‘was driven ashore on the coast of Ireland py a furious gale. The captain and seven of the crew {were @rowned. The bark will probably be a total oss, THE OCEAN YACHT RACE. Zetter From Mr. Ashbury—He Proposes to Contend for the Queen’s Cup Won by the Yacht America Upon His Arrival in New York. 78 Lonpon, Dec. 31, 1869. Mr. Ashbury has forwarded to the London Morn- }ing Post the correspondence had between himself , and My. Bennett, per Atiantic telegraph, on the sub- of an ocean yacht race between his yaoht Cam- h ud Mr. Bennett’s yacht Dauntless, on the 4th ‘of July next, from Kinsale Head to Sandy Hook. ‘He accompanies this correspondence with a letter “whefein he says he accepts the terms, and that he rill be ready on reaching New York to race for the ‘up Won by the yacht America on the 22d of Au- gust, 1861. _ IRELAND. Disastrous Storm. LIMERICK, Dec. 31, 1869. , Afearful gale from the northwest occurred here ‘to-day, Trees were uprooted, chimneys were thrown down, and in some instances houses pros @rated. Ten persons are known to have lost their ives, and many others have been badly injured. SCOTLAND. A United States Oficial Sentenced. Gxasaow, Dec. 31, 1869. ‘William Cook, United States -Vice Consui at this ‘Port, has been sentenced to seven years imprison- gnont at hard lapor for forgery. GERMANY. Severe Winter Wenther. HAMBURG, Dec. 31, 1869. ‘The weather is severe, The £lbe 1s blocked with {Be and navigation avove this point 1s suspended. SPAIN. : moet Ae Amuesty—Heavy Snow, Manrip, Dec. 31, 1869, General Peirrad has been released from prison. No French or English mails have been received ®@ere for four days, all roads being blocked by snow. The Vacant Throne. : MADRID, Dec. 31, 1869. Tt ts reported to-day that Victor Emanuel has pos- Atively refuses his consent to the candidature or the \Duke of Genoa. TURKEY AND EGYPT. A “Violent? Message from the Sultan, CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 31, 1860, Sometime since the Subiime Porte sent a demand to Ismael Pacha to abandon his iron-clad fleet. The demand remaming unanswered the Sultan to-day lorwarded a violent message to the same effect, PENNSYLVANIA. Buroing of the Breaker at the Nottingham Mine—Flity-fve Men Belew Kept in Igno- rance of Thelr Danger—The Fire Extin- eulshed—Indignation Meeting of the Miners. PLyMouTH, Deo, 31, 1800, There was nearly 8 repetition of the Avondale horror at this place yesterday. At about half-past ten A. M. the breaker of the Nottingham mine, situ- ated at the southern end of the town, was discovered tobe on fire, There were fifty-five men tn the mine at the time, which is one of the man-traps like the Avondale—one with out one outiet—yer, notwithstanding this, no notice was given to the men below that the butiding above was on fire. Fortunately, it was discovered soon after it broke out, and with great exertion was not only prevented from spreading but was extin- guished, the men below remaining all the while in ignorance of their danger. ‘The fire was the result of gross carelessness on the part of the company working 11. It appears that two stoves wefe kept in the breaker to give heat to the boys employed there to pick out the slate from the coal as it goes in the breaker, and tho pipes from these stoves were run directly through the wocd- work of the building, without any protection. The result was what any sane man might have expected. The woodwork heated until it beoame of tne con- sistency of tinder and then ignited. “At noon some of the men came up to dinner, and, although every exertion was made to keep the fire irom their knowledge, the fact leaked out and they became aware for the first time of the terrible fate they had escaped. When they went down again they mformed the rest of the mon in the mine, and they at once got together and held aa indignation meeting and resolved at once to go up out of the mine. When they got up they assembled the rest of the men belonging to the mine—in all about seventy-five—and held an- other meeting, resolying that they would not again go down into the mine until there was built two brick chimneys for tne stove pipes, a watchman Placed in the butiding night and day and a bell at the bottom of the shaft so thac they shouid have @ signal when there was danger at the surface. Since that time the mine has not veen worked, and the men still remain firm. The proprictors, Messrs. Thomas Brodrick & Co., not being able to get any men to supply the places of their old hands, have yielded to their demands so far asthe two chimneys are concerned, and their construction has commenced; but they think one watchman in the night is suMictent, and decline to Place one there in the day time. The men say that this only shows a willingness to protect their own property, and as their lives are exposed in the day time they say they shall insist on the two watch- men and also on the alarm bell. A Couple of Spanish Yarns—Fight Near Mngua and Annihilation of the Insurgenta— Cubans Sarrenderi " Havana, Deo. 31, 1809, Asharp engagement occurred yesterday between the imperial troops and the insurgents at Magua, in the Cinco Villas district. Twenty of the latter were killed and sixty-six captured. Not one escaped. A large quantity of provisions and muni- Uons of war, as well as some important correspond- ence, was also captured. ‘The msurgents continue to present themselves to the Spanish authorities of the island to soitcit pardon. The insurgents have burned another plantation near Mayajigua. They killed four soldiers and six unarmed Spaniards, Exchange on London, 13% a 14% per cent pre- mium; on Paris, 1 2 per cent premium; on the United States, in gold, long sight, 3433, per cent premium; do.,, in currency, 25 a 24 per cent discount; do. short sigut currency, 224 @ 21), per cent dis- count. ‘The sugar market is dull. A Spanish Story via Washington—Insar- gents Surrendering—Their Cause Growing Weaker. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 1869, Private despatches from responsible sources in Havana, received nere to-day, states Valmaseda re- Ports that in bis district about 700 men, with their omicers, latd down their arms to the Spanish forces, and that in the district of Remedios the chief Coca and all his men surrendered. Spanish successes are also reported in the aistrict of Puerto Principe in the surrender of the insurgents. -Tue opinion is expressed in the despatches that the Cuban cause is daily growing weaker. THE RED RIVER REBELLION. Governor McDongall’s View of the Situation— The Hudson Bay Company Instigate the InsurrectionAn Indian War the Conse- quence of Annexation. , CHICAGO, Dec. 31, 1869. The following is the Canadian view of the rebel- lion on Red river as given by aspectal correspondent of the Toronto Globe:— St. CLoup, Minn., Dec. 30, 1869. Gov@nor McDougall, with Colonel Dennis and Mrs. Begg, arrived here this afternoon trom Fort Aber- crombie, ‘Lhe party seems somewhat despondent at the state of matters at Red river; not so much from ‘the formidab.eness of the insurrection as from seve- ral other causes, In fact, they seem to regard the thing itseii as @ very small matver, a$ only a very Suall section of the inhabitants are concerned in it =6The difficulty bas been with the authorities of the Hudson Bay Company, includ- ing Aclavisn. ‘they wave been altogetuer sileat in the matter, and it 18 suspected that some of their empjoyés where the lustigators of the whole affair. The Ottawa government, it is gavoered from the party, has done much to weaken the guthority of Uhe Governor by their dilatoriness. The spir- ivual autiorities have been excessively busy, but it is expected that the Vicar General of Quebec has authority from Kome to clear away that phase; besides the priests do not favor the annexationists’ views, and would probably resist aunexation were it pushed. The Americans and one or two adven- turous pettiloggers on American territory, are evi- dently pulling strong and pusting annexation ideas. Regaruing the Indians, the stories related are merely favulous. One thing, however, is certain, uf anything like annexation 1s attempted the Indians will rise to @ man, and the consequences of such a Tising woula be dreadful. In fact, the people here, though distant, are in terror atthe idea. As regards Colonel Dennis, instead of instigating the Indians to fight he used the strongest, and happily successful, endeavors to keep them at home and prevent @ shot being tired. He nad a party of flity in a stone Jort wuen the Bill of Rights was published. He peacefully disbanded them, awaiting further negotiations, which the French expressed their wil- ivugness to effect, He, moreover, stopped a large party of Sioux on their way to tight the Americans, and went to Pembina to report to the Governor. ‘Ihe whole matter is evidently in a fearful muddle, The want of tact and judgment on the part of tne Canadian goverument on one hand, and shrewd cal- culations on the part of two or three smart specula- tors on the other hand, have made the trouble, DOMINION OF CANADA. The Niagara Ship Canal—New Postal Ar- rangemout. Orrawa, Dec. 31, 1369. The oMcial Gazette published to-day contams the following notice:— Application will be made to the Dominion Parlia- Ment next session for an act to incorporate the Niagara and Erie Canal Company, with powers to construct a ship canai from the Niagara river, near Fort George, to a point near the vill of Thorold, on the Welland Canal, and to extend to Port Col- borne or the Upper Niagara river at Chippewa. Yhe discount on American invoices for the coming ‘week will be eigiteen per cent. On and alter the 1st of January, 1870, postage rates on letters passing between Canada and tne Uniied Kingdom will be as follows:—It sent prepaid by Canada mail packet via Quebec, Portland in win- ter, or Halifax, six cents per hall ounce weight; if sent ei via New York, eight cents per half ounce. tters for the United Kingdom posted un- paid or prepaid less than the proper rate will be charged on delivery with doubie the amount of dell- cient postage. TENNESSEE. Pevsion Frauds Investigation—Bribing u Gove ernment Detective. NASHVILLE, Dec. 31, 1869. A commission of federal officers convened hei this morning to investigate frauds alleged to have been practiced by claim agents in collecting the bounty and back pay of the colored soldicts. It 1s thought hundreds of thousands of doliars have been diverted from the pockets of this class of soldiers, Mr. Lyons, formerly detective in the United States ‘termaster’s Department, waa before Commis- sioner Noah, this afternoon, charged with receiving brives, ‘The case was continued unwil to-morrow. , from apy other quarter; - HAYTI.~ FALL OF PORT AU PRINCE. Capture of the Steamer Algonquin. Salnave Takes Refuge in Nationel. Fort By an arrival yesterday from St. Marc important news has been received from Hayti to the 20th ult, The war steamers in possession of the revolution- {ate having accomplished their object in transport- {ug troops to Petit Goave and Grand Goave imme- diately returned to Port aa Prince ana blockaded that port, acting in concert with the forces on land. The attack upon Port au Prince was made simul- taneously by sea and land in the nignt petween the 16th and 19th ult. Tne land forces entered the city, driving the different outposts before them, the enemy retiring on their approach in disastrqus con- fusion, The revolutionary forces took unresisted possession of every point of advantage, and the entire olty was speedily in their hands. In the meantime the revolutionary war vessels were doing their part in the plan of attack. Sal- nave’s war vessel, the Algonquin, was boarded while all her occupants were asleep end taken pos- session of without bloodshed. The Algonquin and clty'were thus captured without even @ shot veing firea, Sainave made his escape trom the city and took refuge in Fort Nationel, commonly called Fort Alexandre, which is situated on one of the highest Points overlooking the city on the nortnwest side. Salnave is in imminent pertl, but it is expectea that the foreign consuis will interpose for his pro- tection and ultimate safety. The entire population of the city are rejoiced at the turn affairs bave taken. Saget and bis staff had. left St. Mare for Port au Prince and had been heard from at Arcahie. OCEAN TELEGRAPHS. The French Transatlantic Cable Company and President Grant. 2 Pawis, Dec. 81, 1869, The French Cable Company forward, free of charge, and beg you will publish, the following telegram copied from the Journal ufictel of this morning:— OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF TELEGRAPH LINES, The Message of the President of the Untied States to Congregs at its opening, as it is pubitshed by the é, Contains, im the part relative to the ‘Tiansatiantic Cable Company, an assertion which this administration considers it a duty to cor- rect. 1t states, 1n substance, that, according to the terms of the concession, despatches from America transmitted by that route are subject to examina- Uon and control of the French governinent, aud it is eviaent that the passage was Written unger the im- pression that such are the conditions of tue conces- sion. This administration exercises no controi of that ature, either over despatches from America or ut it is 11s duty to see that communications are transmitted over the cavie in the order of their filing or of their reception at Brest, and that there is no favoritism in this re- spect. It must, also, on account of the telegraphic mMonopoiy held by the government, see that no de- spatches are clandestinely introduced upon the Line, and so avoid the tax which legitimately accrues to the Stace, Such t# the double aim of 118 control, to protect at once the interests of the public aud of the treasury, Finally, the conditions under which this depart- ment exercises control over the business of the line are without political intention. Its subordinate employes are charged with the task, and their duty ig restricted to the verification of ciphers—such as the signals of place and time of filing and of refor- warding—and tie number of words which forin the basis lor application of the government tax. Again, the most of the despatches—particularly those destined for Nantes, Bordeaux, Tours, Toulouse and those sections—arrive at their destination without passing through Paris at all. The same ts true of correspondence addressed to any part of Spain or England, such messages being transmitted direct from breast to London. THE PACIFIC COAST. Railrond Hospital in Sacramento—Indian Fight in Arizona. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31, 1569. The Central Pacific Railroad Company nave erected @ hospital at Sacramento at a cost of'$70,000. The government commissioners yesterday for- Mally accepted the first section of the Oregon Cen+ tral Railroad. Arizonia advices have been received. The placer mines in the vicinity of Prescott are reported as pay- ing well. A few army recruits had arrived. They are much needed throughout the Territory. ‘The indians captured a mail rider between Florence and Camp McDowell, and were pursued by the soldiers, when a fight ensued and eleven Indtane were killed. ‘Tne mail Was not recovered. ‘the government order notifying settlers to vacate the lands inside the military reservation of Fort Whippie. January i, if enforced, wiil injuriously affect the settlers without material benetlt to tne government. An appeal has been made to the muil- tary authorities in behalf of the settlers. Flour 18 unchanged; small sales of choice wheat, $1 6234. Legal tenders 8334. LOUISIANA. The New York Mutuals in New Orleans—The City Council Muddle. New OBLEans, Dec. 31, 1869. The Mutual Base Ball Ciub of New York played a Picked nine this afternoon. The Mutuais were vic- torious, the score being thirty-one to fifteen. ‘Lhe proceeds of the game were devoted to the House of the Good Shepherd, The City Counclt muddle continues. Some of the Governor’s appointees have been installed, but nave been served with a mandamus to show cause, on the 3d of January, why they should not vacate. Governor Warmouth forbids Auditor Wickliffe from occupying his room in the Mechanics’ Insu- tute, and the courts have been resorted to. MASSACHUSETTS. Reception of the Hemains ef George Poa- body—Payment of Pacific Railroad Coupons. Boston, Dec. 31, 1860. The Unived States steamers Miantonomah and Terror are under orders at the Navy Yard to proceed to Portland on Monday to receive the war vessel bearing the remains of George Peabody. Two special cars are being prepared by the Eastern Rall- road Company to convey Mr. Peabody’s remains from Portiand to Peaboay. The coupons of the Union Pacific Railroad due January 1 will be paid on and -after that date at the banking house of Morton, Bilss & Co., New York. ses aso Beil THE PRIVATEERING HOAX. The Canard About the Schooner Marin and Her Departure for Cuba with Arms Ammuoition—The Steam Yacht Anna Re- ported Of. United States Marshal Harlow pronounces the Story published in a morning paper yesterday in relation to am alleged departure of the schooner Maria for Cuba, joaded with arms ana ammunition, @ tissue Of falsehoods in so far as it states anythiag relating to him, and says he believes it to be false in all other particulars, Some days since the captain of the yacht Anna called on Marshal Harlow and told nim he desired to icave for Nassau and take fifteen passengers, and asked whether there would be any attempt to de- tain bim. Marshal Harlow had previously been watching the vessel, and when the captain commnu- nicated with him he went on poard and thoroughly examined the vessel m every way, and found no arms, ammunition, nor anything else on poard of a suspicious character. He then consulted with Dis- trict Attorney Pierrepont, and they both came to the conclusion that, as the vessel's papers were all right; as she carried no arms nor ammunition, and had a perfect right to carry passengers, wey had no power to detain her, and she accordingly sailed, ostensibly for Nassau, im the early part of this week. There was a report in circulation last evening to the effect i the steam yacht Anna had left for Cuba, and that when outside of Sandy Hook she was met by a tugboat, with a number of Cubans on board.” It is also stated that Javier Cisneros, the [ois who piloted the first expedition on board the Perit, left with the Anna. He says he intends to be ‘back here in about two months, bringing with him lesters of marque from Cespedes, and expects to je these to certain shipping firms in thts city, who a engaged to ft out privateers under the Quban NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1870. EE ORS SRT a © TTRLBGRAPIHIC NEWS: sine some sevasioso rym A MANHATTENESE FEUD. THE BRAVES ON THE WARPATH. Hezekiah L. Bateman Smites Hiram Cran- ston on the Cheek at the Manhattan Club—The Fifth Avenue Lodge in Arms—Donning the War Paint and Feathers—The Toma- hawk Exhumed and the Calumet Buried. A wild war whoop swept out from the glittering Portals of the lodge of the Manhattans about an hour after the setting of the sun last night, and ut once the savages of the order comméhced to buckle on their war gear for a contest that will tu all proba- bility terminate with the extinction of the Manhat- tan Club as a separate and individual goufederacy. It was virtuelly an encroachment on the sacred “game” reserves that in this as in many other say- age wars led to the lighting of the council fires, the unsiinging of clubs, the replenishment of quivers and the bending of the bows. It appears that one of the brethren, Hezekiah 1. Bateman by name, and by profession well known as one famed in deeds of theatrical prestige, on Wenesday evening invited those pale faces who were bis friends to sup with him witnin the sacred confines of the lodge. Now these friends were not of the fraternity of Manhattans and were therefore, in the eyes of the brotherhood, so to speak, part and parcel of the great unwashed. The rules of the great council, Known as the House Commtttee, pro- vide that no outsider shall partake of the hospitality of the cuisinieri in the public dining room, and Heze- kiah had infringed this very rule by inviting the friends above alluded to to a seat in the banqueting chamber and ordering for their entertainment some of the rarest and most delicate of the spoils o1 the chase, done up brown, or, more properly speaking, im the highest style of cookery, whether that styie necessitated thoir being ‘done brown” or rare. Hiram Cranston, once the proprietor of the famed lodge known as the New York Hotel, is one of she presiding chiefs of the great council; and, deeming the intrusion of the outsiders a flagrant violation of the rules governing the presence of guests, sent a flunkey to direct imperatively that Hezekiah with- draw, or at least withdraw his friends. Among the latter were Mr. Samuel Ward and James Connolly, nephew of the Comptroller, Bateman declined to retire or to allow his (riends to leave, and the result was that Mr. Cranston sent @ message which, ander any circumstances, would be deemed deficient injcourtesy. In fact, the whole proceeding, on the part of the latter gentieman, was deemed discourteous, asthe ordinary custom would have been to permit the strangers or guests to have enjoyed their entertainment, and to have called the member to account before the House Committee for breach of rules. The matter created much comment as a large num- ber of the members were present at the ume, and those who wére not present were, of cousse, duly in- formed of tne aifair by the quid nuncs, Of course, the matter was not bettered by being made a sub- ject, of gossip, and several notes passed between Messrs. Bate man and Cranston, each one of which, it was surmised, was a challenge to a triatof lead ‘and coffee, Ultimately Cranston deciined any fur- ther correspondence, and the dispute was left ina decidedly ugly aspect. Things brightened up, however, about seven o’clock last evening, as Mr. Bateman, burning under the knowledge that when he had sought an explaaa- tion he was insulted, walked cheerfully into the club room, and seeing Cranston there, deliberately slapped him in the face. There was a grand scene of confusion for the time, and everybody kept his individual eye on Cranston, expecting that Hezekiah, by his temerity, had precipitated a ‘‘Hascings” upon himself. The long roll was sounded and the alarm was brayed out for the assemoling of the forces, and Cranston shouted lustily for tne police. Finally, two of the servants were despatched in search of some of the blue coats and clubs, and one went trantically along Fourteenth street, while the other spanked at @ tremendous pace up the avenue, But there wasno policeman to be found, and when the tired messen- gers returned Bateman had taken his departure, and there was no one left to be arrested. Pistols and probably a little coffee, with a few rods of clear ground, just over one of the Weehawken hills, are in active demand and are deemed inevita- bie. HUDSON RIVER NAVIGATION. Navigation on the Hudson river is now open to Albany. A propeiler made the passage through yesterday without any great dificulty. Al the wide bays, as at Pougnkeepsie, Newburg, Haverstraw and Tappan-Zee, are perfectly free from ice, with the exception of a very little skimming on the shore. At the sharp benas, as at West Point, New Hamp- burg, Crummelbo and some other sharp curves, there are considerable quantities of floating ice lodged, which does not seem to be much affected by the tides, These floes are in such broken and loose pieces that any ordinary sailing vessel can make a passage with but trifing tmpeat- ment. From West Point and Newbure to Pough- keepsie the river is almost as clear of ice as ai _mid- summer, Quite a number of barges, sloopa, steam- ers and tugs, some of which had been caught by the sudden closing up of the season, are taking advan- tage of the oprortunity and are waiking through the waters at will. A frail and decrepli pleasure acht—the Neilie—owned by Colonel Madison jaker, of Brooklyn, while nergy to move through the floe at Crummeibe, on Wednesday, Was cut into and sunk. “wo men in charge came very near being drowned in her. They were rescued by & passing propeller. Thia woulda not have hap- pened to @ vessel of any ordinary strength. ‘his sudden reopening of course cannot be depended on for any length of ume, tig the river may be havigable for a fortnight yet. Undoubtedly its clos- ing will come with a sudden snap, unless all prece- deut is not followed in this case. ‘The old river pilow prophesy an open winter and open navigation at Irequeut intervals, EUROPEAN MARKETS. LONDON MoNRY MAkKET.—LONDON, Dec. 31—5 P. M.—Consols closed at 92}; for money and 92% for the account. United States five-twenty bonds, 1862, 8634; 1865, Old, 8534; 1867, 851s; ten-forties, 8334. Erie Ratway shares, 1734; Illinois Centrais, 102). Atlantic aud Great Western, 2544. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—LIVERPOOL. Dec. 31—5 P. M.—The cotton market closed active. Mid- dling uplands, 11%0.; middling Orleans, 11%d. The sales of the day have been 16,000 bales, tucluding 4,000 for speculation and export. The stock of cot- ton at sea bound to this port is estimated at 268,000 vaies, of which 178,000 are American, The sales of the week have been 69,000 bales, of which 12,000 were taken for export ayd 9,000 on speculation. The stock in port 1s estimate it 328,000 bales, of which 77,000 are America. ‘Tie receipts of the week have been 51,000 bales, of which 34,000 were American, PARIS BOURSE.—Panis, Dec. 31.—Tne Bourse FRANKFORT, Dec, 31,— United States five-twenty bonds closed firm at 9134. HAVRE COTTON MAKKET.—HAVRE, Dec, 31.—Cotton closed quiet for both on spot and afoat. naire, on the spot, 137/4f. per cwt. STATE OF TRADE.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.—The mar- ket for yarns and fabrics at Manchester 1s firmer. LIVERPOOL | BREADSTUYYS MARKS’ AVERVOOL, Dec. 3i—1 P. M.—Wheat, 98, 8d. @ 98. per cental for California white, aud 88. 3d. for No. 2 red Weat- ern, The receipts of wheat at this port for the past three days have been 12,500 quarters, all of whicn 1s American, Flour, 22s, per vpl. ior Western canal, Corn, 23, 3d, per quarier for European. Peas, 353, 6d. per quarter for Canadian. MARKUT.—LIVERPOOL, ‘Tres ordi- LivEarool PROVISION Dec. 31-1 P. M.—Lard, Tis. per cwt. LIVERPOOL PRODUCH MARERT.—LAVERPOOL, Dec. 31—6 P. M.—Common rosin, 58. per cwt, LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—LONDON, Dec, 31.— Linseed cakes declining. Taiiow quiet. Sugar quiet and steady, both on the spot snd afloat. Line seed oi! firmer. Refined petroleum flat at 1s. 8d, er gallon. Turpentine, 258. dd. per cwt, Calcutta ingeed, 648. 9d. PETROLEUM MARKET.—ANTWERY, Dec, 31.—Petro- leum closed quiet and steady at 697¢f, Bremen, Dec. $1.—Petroleum ciozed firm, but un- changed. The great Southern mati route from New York, Boston and the Northcast, heretolore going via Washington, Richmond aud Lynckourg to Mobile and New Oveans, has been changed via Cincinnafi and Louisville, The Loutsvilie and Cinemnatl short line railroad running turee daily trains from Ciaciu- nati, and making close conneciion at Louisville wish {he Nashville and Mompiis lines ts te cause, HAPPY NEW SEAR. A Great Invention of Man —‘K'me fs Money — The Dying Old — The Youthful New—An Inter- esting Question. It was given fable of the mytho.ogy of Greece that Saturn, the God of Time, fed on nis own chil- dren, and ate them one by one in the order as they were born. Though couched in the figure of the barbarous unt of prehistoric times this favie ts but a crude yet poetic version of the irresistible marcn of time, which George Gascoigne, In the sixteenth cen- tury, has 80 beautifully mouelled into English in the above lines, ‘fhe earth nas once more run tts course around the sun,’’ saya the Jewish Times of yesterday; ‘another year has been added to the past, and a new one has been ushered into existence, How many million times bas the earth run {ts swift race? We know it not; we count it not, Man’s record of the past applies only to the sphere of bis own actions, and the evolutions of the planets are only the hands that point forward and backward to the imprint made by man in the world of mind, ‘Time’ is an invention of man. It is a conception of the intellect, Of all the earthly creatures man alone records the automatic and tm- mutable revolutions of the heavenly bodies.”” Yes, ’tis well said, that “time” is an invention of man, its division into segments of yeurs, months and days. And as useful an invention as human in- tellect ever vouchsafed to its kind stnce the nomades of Asia counted “time” by the first, second or sub- sequent “moons.” Especially, im the present ma- terialistic and utilitarian age, what would the nations of this globe be without “time,” since “time 1 money?’ What would the merchant do were it not for this use- ful invention of maa, the chronology of time—iet this seeming tautology be excused—how could he post up his bills recetvable and bills payable? Would not the mechanic and the workingmen gen- erally look rather “down in the mouth” if there were no Saturdays to look forward to on which to receive the wages for the week, and if there were no Sundayson which to enjoy the money earaed and rest from the week’s labor? And the army of clerks, what would they do without a first of the month for pay day? And the bondholders, who count the days when the interest on their bonds 13 to become due? And then what would become of the glorious Fourth of July? of Merry Christmas, and, above all, the subject being just now upper- most in mind, of Happy New Year? Consider all this, ye people that are happy to-day, and imagine the dread calamity, equalled only by @ simultaneous universal earthquake, were “time” and its chronol- ogy suddenly taken away, and had we but to gaze on the udless Hight of Lime who “never claps her wings.” But be not discouraged; it is as it 1s, and New Yeur’s Day at that. In past centuries, with true poetic instinct, the peopie personified the “old year’? as @ decrepit dylug man: ‘Thou desolate and dying ye Prop! ¢ our final tal ‘Thy Duda are goue, thy leaves are seu: ‘Thy beauties shrouded in the pall, And the new year it wero wont to descrive as a gay promising youth blooining into manhood: ! 5 Thy amit And sheds a ght on every woe ; Hope wakes for thee and to her tongue ‘A tone of melody is given, As if her maxic voice were strung With the empyroal fire of ueayen, This aesimilation of the incomprehensible to the human jorm; this picture of the past as the dying year aod of the beginning as tue new born year; ‘tfis contrast of old age aud death with a new birth and youth, touches a sympatnetic chord la every heart. Whetter consciousiy or unconsciously, it is all the samy; yet in most people a more humane sentiment gushes forth on this day. It is asi! they Jelt that the dead weight of the past is take Irom their burdened shoulders, that a new year awakes Within them new vopes of brighter days, and that What failed of success, the year just ushered in may see accomplished, ‘The past 14 @ Certaluty, its gloomy hours, its days of sorrow, its weeks of an- guish aud suilering are but too well rememvered. The year Has gone, and, with it, many a glorious throng OF happy dreams. Its’ murk fx on each brow ; Its shagow in euch heart. In ite awift course Tt waved its scepire o'er the beautiful— And they are ni is But dashed hopes revive, happy dreams that have vanished come ugain to miuKe glad, be it even for curt moments; Ue hearv’a shadows are liited and the furrows on the brow are less deep when the New Year beckons mankind to his shrine and from his cornucopia throws his many good Wishes and fair proniises to all the world, And tn this view, it may be assumed, originated the custom of New Years’ “‘calis.”” 1t is to mingle amoung friends, to exchange gratulations, to suake hands and make each other feel, what filis every heart, that the New Year may bring brighter days and reaiize many a hope so rudely cleaved im twain by the ‘desolate and dead year.’’ While the poesy of this’ custom Is truly peautiful and of acnaracter to evoke a melodious response from ali not marred by degradation in thougnt ana iinmorality in feeling, and while it will Undoubtedly be followed to-day, a4 in years past, througbout the whole land, tuere 18 @ limit to its Observance which ought not to be overstepped, but whicn, 1 is regretted, many are in the habit of con- stantly overlooking. Youth loves extravagauce, it ig true, yet it 18 especially the young men who should remember that ‘loo iwuch of a good thing spoils the fun.” it ts one taing to visit Your friends, grasp them heartily py the haud, and to wish them a “happy New Year’? with aii your heart and soul, but it 18 quite another and of a baser sort to employ this occasion for railiery and de- bauching extravagance. However, believing tbat the “world” will do to- day as it has done on similar days heretofore and no amount of moralizing could at present mena it, a very interesting question may be asked, to wich it is believed a variety of answers will be given. This 1s the first day of the year of our Lord 1870. Is this the first year oi the eighth deeade of tie century, or ts it the last year of the seventh decade? Who wil say? Who bas authority to determine? Let all enjoy the New Year and be happy. But let them also remember that in the course of a stort twelvemontu the new will have become the old deso- late apd dying year, and that then they will have occasion to say Of tt, arch begirds the storm, ensures fade like thine; adows disappear, And icave the spirit to repine. 1HE BAXTER MUFFINS. Dancing the Old Year Out and the New Year In—Masquerade Ball at Hoboken. Last night a party of overa hundred masqueraders of the Old Forge Fifth ward, “Baxter Muffins,” marched down Broadway to the music of the band, and then crossed the river to receive the hospitality of the “Hoboken MumMins,”’ a comic club, formed on the same basis. On their arrival across the water the Hobokenites mustered in a line sixty strong, and after the order, ‘prepare to salute,’’ blew @ blast of welcome on sixty tin trumpets. The effect 18 more easily imagined than described. Tie costumes were Of the richest possible character, comprising midw- val warriors, Chinese mandarins, jesters, jockeys, bloomers, Limerick tads, Falstaify and many other bait understood though rarely interviewed char- actera. After the musical honors a torchlight procession took place. A bali occurred subsequently at the Uld Napoleon Hotel, in Washiogton street, which was kept up till an early hour this morning, and the New Year was danced in with great vigor. MEVHODIST WATCH NIGHT MEETINGS. The Old Yenr Out and the New Year In= The Midnight Devotions. The Methodists alone of ail Christian denomina- tions watch the old year out and the new year in. Surrounding the merest infinitesimal measure of tume—the delicate artery that connects the past with the future—by solemn and impressive devotion, some of the churches last evening went through the historical exercise of saying prayers of thanks for the blessings of 1869 and of singing psalms of praise in anticipation of 1870, Other Churches regara UUme as a convenient fiction, as a formal apportion. ment of man, as in no wise deriving divinity from the Supreme Being. Hence the general indif- ference pervading religious circies, to what people in every-day life regard as the most important periodical epoch that annually occurs, Last night or this morning—in either case we can vary but a second—the older members of the various Methodist churches conveued as usual, and the event was fittingly commeuoraved. Prayer and singing were the order, the covenant hymn bemg given with peculiar Methoddst intonation, aud in the colored Caurches the words beginning The Lord of oarth and sky, ‘The God of ages praise. Prepavations ware taade by the sextons to Daye the proceed: transpire stmulténeously, as indi All the ‘Weslovans attached to the custom of thete e great aj were out im force. At the Bedfo: street Episcopal church the services place under the direction of the Rev. J. E. and threw Ce They impressed overy one with a’ the transition ef the old year to the new & solemnity that one must witness to appr a 16 Was preaching; prayer was offered and sing- {ng rendered. Just before midnight the congrega-' Nan keeled in silent prayer. The stiness of death Wag Abr ‘Lue faintest rustle of the air made au- diblé vibrations in the room. Watohes ay people breathing, were all the sounds tegt cou! heard. Eighteen hundred ana seventy dawi Minutes few by. “Amen” broke the quiet; ope b¥ one the people rose. Singing werd. - covenant hymn, “Come let us use the grace divine,’” by = saree. rvices likewise took place at the Hudson street Methodist Episcopal church, guided by the Rev. Alexander McCiair, St. Paul's Mechodist rrr church drew its old members uader tne lead of iNev. R. R. Meredith, the pastor, who began the ser- y.‘ge 83 usual early in the evening. Tne Lord's Sup- was adininistered and the hymn ‘Come let ns Roew our journey pursue” was sung. At the Various churches of the colored men the event)Was fervently commemorated. At the Greene street, Duane street, Eighteenth street, Eighth ave- nue, 1 ikiin street, Alien street, Beekman Hill, Forsyth street, Central, Union and Willet street churches; Watch meetings were beld, with lite deviation from the customary forms. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals im New York Chy Yesterday. Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, at the vAstor House. Governor Safford, of Arizon# Territory; Gcmeral H. G. Stillman, of Troy; Generat Brayman, of tue nois; Colonel J. Holmes, of New Yor jeneral B. J, Larke, of Connecticut, and Colonel Henry Bruce, of Pennsylvanta, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor H. W. Adams, of Philadelphia; W. PF Reynolds, of the United States Army; ex-Governor Patton, of Alabama, and Colonel Johm A. Ellfzen, of Oswego, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General C. RK. McDonald, of the Toronto Rife Brt- gade, and Professor Daygson, of Hamilton, C. W., are at the St. Charles Hotel. Proiessor Simpson, of England, and Dr: Mardock, of Edinburg, Scotland, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. Ogden Hoffman Burrows, of China; J. J. Russell, of the United States Navy, aud Dr. Randoipn, of tae United States Army, are at the Hoffman House. Major General W. W. Averill, of the United States: Army, and Captain R. A. Allen, of steamship City of Washington, are at the Everett House. Governor Smith, for Vet it; Thomas A. Scott, for Philadelphia, and T. H. %plbot, A. Packer, N. G. Ordway, W. H. Painter, J. ¥. » T. We Ferry, J. N. Tyner, G. Twioneil, ' as Fitch’ and G, M. Adams, for Boston. bing WAVAL INTELLIGENCE,” SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31, 1869, Intelligence from the Marquesas Island; *> °° ber | has been received, The United Stat . of-war Jamestown had arrived there. cruising among the islands of Oveanica board of her were well, BLOODY WO2K WITH THE KNIFE, A Saloon Keeper Seriously Injure Notorious Character in the Ninth \ The Ninth ward is becoming the rend Some of tue worst characters in the city these—James Cusick—was on the rampa day and the day before, and after numero bles, arrests and releases at last, with ¢ roughs, about forty minutes past tweive o’c yesterday, eateread the oysver saloon of Jar 335 Hudson street, and had a dim the proprietor, who to avoid trouble arrested and conveyed to the Twenty-eignth but Keed fatling to puso the matter Cusick charged. Attive A.M. he aguin entered t and assauited Read, inflicting serious inju heaa Most shockingiy bruised. Ons knife and appears to have used it freely. arrested at half-past three M. and @ ¢ assault and baitery preicrred against. hin Reed, He is heid for trial ai tae Twer precinct, Cusick resides, so he says, av street. WHAT IS THE MATTI WITH THE PO) gw York, Dec. i To Tae Epiror or THE HkRALD:— As Iwas walking down Monroe street nine and ten o'clock last evening, 1 was ac one of a number of young women who wer to some young men. She asked me wh going. I told her I was going home. She “Time enough, young man.’ With that o young men called out—“Come back, you turned round, when I was struck in the fa large stone, cutting me on the forenead ar Tan and called tne police. ‘These men said sulted them. 1 gave two of the privcipais t When We alicame to the Seventh ward was tola to wash my face, which I did, anc policeman toid me w go away or | arrested myself. 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