The New-York Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1866, Page 4

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N @6 Brosdwey. ___ | CrisTapoR0's HAIR-DYE. ~The best ever manufac- | ool Yo o applied, ot sor Hows,__ | AT GiMBrEDE's, No. 583 Broadway, on exhibition o waak choics acicls (sporting) and seapiesof the Jockey Clab o Fusex. K. Se RS S . WILLOOX & GIBBS'S BEWING-MACHINE.—'* 113 seam s Ivas liabie to rip than the lock-stitch.”—[* Judges’ Decigion” at the * Grand Trial.” or samples of both stitohes. No. 98 Brosdwsy. “PouLAK & SON, No. 692 Broadway, New-York, waat ¥ .. Masnscuat Pira MAXUPACTORERS. Plpos cut to. OBITUARY. ———— JAMES D. CULVER. Consumption carried off James D, Culver at Louisians onthe 34 ult. He was an intellectually gifted gentle- man, 4ad took & prominent part in those public bodies of | which he was & member. Ho was intimate with all the Mnumo‘::l;;)fm ;hmh'fllmq{nucl n‘“ . Mn on some import- ant measures. Mr. Culver had been ) ..-a.s?;m since 1864, and worked a plantation on the Wachita River. Ho diod st the age of 50 years, leaving a wife and four chuMroo. Tslent seems to ‘have been in Mr. Culvers | fausily. His brother, E. D. Culver, is 8 lawyer of great ominonce end has discharged some official wissions iv s | manner. | highly satistaotory . REV. DR. JENKS. The Rev. Dr. Jenks, a well-known clergyman, | ot in Boston on the 13th of November, aged #&. Dr.Jenks | graduated ot Harvard in 1797, and of bis graduating class the Hou, Horece Binney of Philadeiphia is the ouly survivor. Dr. | demonstrations in favor of Manhood Suffrage in & | eutirely from the hands of it ignorant masses. 1f something be K¥R'S LIGREST PREMIUM ELASTIC | | | of race bein the author of s comprohensive commentary on the #uch & that over X, copies the printing of about o0 eified oher MQ‘?-& dnmflu«l bi n‘b- u M-—cwd-hu ,.’n?uu a ‘The Africsn, too, wfl-fl-flnflnfinum & hisn @ friond whose sywpatty in his bebalf was active | 1 The Kews, which notes the retarn of Street Commis- sioners Cornell aud Tweed from Albany, thus pointedly takes those gontlamen to task: It mattors not what Gov. Featon may do, we know that Jobn 7. Hofman, Mayor of this eity, will no{-nd in the names of Mowsrs. Cornell and Tweed for tment. But the public ‘will not be satisfied with the removal of those gontlemen. Mr. luddn:fi:m—;g e—lfici Hall ll{lun-mfl,duty fulsl), and the pooplo . o No more DTG o et aice on the Thib ot 1he mantn. »® e % NEW-YORK 'DATLY TRIBUNE, Nm@urg_i_'ajg@rihum FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1866 TO CORRESFONDENTS. No notice ean be taken of Asonymoys Communications. What ever is intended for insertion must be suthonticated by the name and addreds of the writers-not necessarily for publica tioo, but & o guaranty for his good faith. ATl business letters for this office should be addressed to * Tk PuinusE," New. York. We cannot undertake to return rejoeted Communioatione. TO ADVERTISERS. ‘We will thank our sdvertising customors to hand i their Advertisements at as early an hour as possible. 1( receivod alter 9 o'clock they cannot be classined uuder their proper hoads. 17 A detailed “““—'— : the projected Broudiway Radlroads, with a of the proceedings of the Senate Committee on the st yesterday; reports of the trial O'Brien, the murderer, and of the meetings of the rds of Aldermen and Councilmen; articles upon Street Stands, the Wharves and Piers of New-York, and In- surance Brokerage; and the Ciril and Criminal Court Reports, will be found on the m':::‘}“r: the Monetary article and the Markets are printed on the third page, this morning. U7 The Semi-Weekly Tribune, ready this morning, contains a letter from Tom Hugies, from London; Mr. Bright in freland, and Correspondence from different parts of Enrope; Interesting Gleanings from our Foreign Files; a Visit to the Blossburg Mines; the Pacific Roul- road; the ** Mastodon;" On the Border; the Cheap Cab System; American Institute—Implied Science; New Pub- lications; Literary Items; Foreign Miscellany; the Bal- timore Dificulty; the Fenian Trials; a full Summary of Latest News, both Foreign and Domestic; Editorials; Commercial Matters; Market Reports, &e., §c. The arrest of Ortega is so outrageous that it -is not strange that there are many who doubt its truth. We are informed, however, that Gen. Sheridan acted under instructions from Washington. The old Police Commissioners of Baltimore for- mally surrendered their office yestorday to the new Board appointed by Gov. Swann, Thus ends, hap- pily without actual strife, a difficulty for all the threatened danger of which the folly and dishonesty of the Governor of Maryland must bo held chiefly responsible. e The Chicago Times advocates impartial suffrage on the grounds that the negro vote, by auy test of intel- ligence, would be small, that the whites would con- trol it, and that the colored race on this continent is destined to extinction. Add to this the concession already ‘made that impartial suffrage is inevitable, and the argument ought to be convincing. The agent of the Associated Press at Washington telographs that he obtained at the Headquarters of the Army the incorrect information that General Orders No. 44 had not been revoked. This is bardly an an- swer to our question, but transfers the rospon- sibility. We should now like to Know who at Army Headquarters, while ignorant, Nov. 12, of Gen. Grant's instructions of Oct. 17, assumed the right to speak for bim, and send a false statement to the people? pih Our Washington correspondence states that in a few days Gov. Wells will demand of the military suthorities in Louisiana the arrest of the persons known to bave committed murders in the New-Orleans massacre, whom the civil courts bave, with bold de- fiance of justice, refused to prosecute. This action will test the worth of Gen. Grant's Order No. 44, and, if it is nullified, will definitely hold the President ro- sponsible for the protection of the assassins. The Union men of Louisiana, impatient of Rebel tyrauny and a rule which does not protect them, will petition Congress to appoint a Provisional Governor. The Public Dioner to Cyrus W. Field, given last evening by the Chamber of Commerce of our City at the Metropolitan Hotel, was an emphatic acknowl- | cdgment of & signal service rendered to America and to mavkind. Mr. Field's enterpriso challenges admirstion not more by the boldness and felicity of its conception, than by the dauntless perseverance wherewith it was pursued through obstacle, defeat, public skepticism, personal baukruptcy. and all man- ner of delays and discouragements, to a complete and beneficent succese, There were not many, & year 8go, who believéd that telegraphic communication across the Atlantic would ever be established; there are still fewer to-day who believe it will ever again bo abandoned. - And the credit of its establishment is preéminently due, as it is_freely accorded, to Cyrus W. Field. _— THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE. The N. Y. Times discusses the recent Democratic spirit which we regret. It says: | “Universal ignorant sufrago has fairly broken down in New. York City. We openly admit it. Every one knows that the only portions of our municipal affairs wisely and Lonestly ad- ministered are just those in which general City suffrage has no control, but only o whare; while every department managed directly by the" people of the City, is infamous for its corruption. and inetliciency. So conspicuous is the truth of 1 that an open eflort will be mode this Winter in the Legisiature to take the control of the City almost not done to check the increasing power of the ignorent constit- uencies in New-York, it will be but few years before the popu- Wands of this City. crowded with an ignorant multitude, sutrol the State offices, and, to a certain extent, the whole legislation of our State. 1f this be the result here of ignorant White suffrage, what different results should we expeet from the suftrage of & combined Wlnte and Black ignorant population ot the South ! “Many intelligent Southern men dread this; aud many Northeri Conservatives share io the fear. “Why should we niot have, us & basis of reconciliation, an | impartial intelligence ewfrage for both North and South, the condition being,” say, the ability o read (or to read and write) 0 tho satiafaction ol l’hojudxn, and all other tests of color and excluded ¢ “* An smendment of this kind, if adopted by the North and in. corporated also in the State Constitutions, would teud at once 10 8 great reform in our own cities; and, though it could not disfrauchise the existing ignorant masses, it would check their mnuhnnnl accession by the addition of ignorant snd degraded youth.' w Remarks by The Tribune. It is exceedingly desirable, no doubt, that voters should be intelligent. But is it not equally desirable that they be virtuous aud patriotic? * Yet lot us not be misled by abstractions. How are we to ‘distingnish unpatriotic voters? They have done their best to ex- clude disloyal voters in Maryland, and tbe attempt utterly broke down in the late election. Do you say, That was because Gov. Swann turped renegade? Well: Gov. Fletcher did pot; yet the attempt to dis- franchise Rebels failed very nearly as emphatically in Missouri as in Maryland. Let us not butt our heads | against notorious facts. i Surely, it is as vital that a voter should be virtuous | as that he should be intelligent; but bow will you fix | it? Even when, in Puritan days, only church mem. | bers in good standing could vote, there were doubtless | many knaves who joined the church in order to vote and get elected to office. We heartily wish all voters were virtuous; yet we know not how te make certain that they shali be, Now as to the ‘“‘intelligence” lest: There are & great meny igoorant and quite &s many rascally voters in our City; but the rascals are not all igno- rent, nor the jgnorsut all rascals, by eousiderable, | Thousands of our most bardened, desperate, danger- ous villaina conld stand any *intelligence test that could safely be applied. To require that each voter shotuld kuow bow to read and write, would bardly. improve the quality of our City Suffrage. Bat who shall apply your ““intelligence” test? Just look at the grist our Naturalizetion mill grinds out, and then think of o Five-Points Registry Board de- ciding on the adequacy of the intelligence of s thou- sand would-be voters. Ability to read and write is not definite, absolute, incontestible: itis relative: snd one board would pass hundreds which aunother, in perfoct good conscience, would reject. Then ! o think of the endless jealousies, disputes and | | heart-burnings, touching the political bias of | the Judges snd their decisions as affected there- by. A Democratio Board would be apt to find the literary acquirements of Mackerelville absolutely as- tounding: and, if you sent & Republican Board thither, it could not reject an applicant for registration who did n't know B from & bull's foot, without exciting a furjous_outery of pastisan . preseription. It wotld n't bo wholesome for such a Board to scrutinize too closely the literary pretensions of the ** Dead Rab- bit" distriot; if they did, they would find that, though {he schoolmaster was abroad, he bad left his cudgel behind him. In short. wo don't believe it practicablo to apply beneficently aud fairly any “intelligonce” test to the voters and voting of this City. But it is utterly mistaken to deduce general conclu- sions from the state of things existing im this City. We bave here a vast population who live by practic- ing on the frailties and paudering to the vices of their fellow men. All who make money by ethers' debauch- ery or lowdness are natural Demograts-~that is, they hate any party which scems to have a moral basis, and, feel instinotively ‘that its ascendapoy threatens the impunity for immoral practices they delight in. Tt is vice, not ignorance, that rolls up the hideous Demo- eratio majoritios in this City. Asto ** & combined White and Black ignorant popula- tion at the South,” or elsewhere, it is extremely iz~ probable. The presumption is entirely in favor of & general and earnest antagonism between the diverse races. Betwoen the gentlomen and the Blacks of the South, there are many chords of interest and sym- pathy; botwoeen White loaferism and Black industry, thero aro nome, We think it would be found, by experiende, were the Southern Blacks enfran- chised. that “# et e All Nature's difference makes all Nature's peace.” We judge that an annual poll-tax of a dollar or so —to bo paid some months before voting—would prove a far better safoguard against improper voting than any “intelligence test" that could be devised. A poll-tax would exclude vagrants, idiots, lunatics, paupers, and most of the criminal class,which does not remain long enough in one place to vote under such a rule. Under such u tax, all who gain an houost living would vote, and not many others. THE SCARE MILITARY. Five military gentlemen, named Curtis, Hinton, Bennett, Morse and Dudley, have issued a proclama- tion inviting an army to assemblo in Washington on the 15t proximo, by its presence ‘‘to honor and assure protection to the loyal majority in the XXXIXth Congross"—-* to show how stern loyalty can rebuke treason,” *to prove that the threats of a treacherous Executive against the legislative branch of the Gov- ernment cannot intimidate a free people;” and this call, which can hardly be very important whatever may be the response to it, has thrown The National Intelligencer into such a atate of mind that we do not Delieve, if put to the familiar test, that n.cuuld pro- nounce its own name without stuttering. It is “ pained,” it is-also ‘*shocked.” It finds in this call, the project of *“ an establishment en permanence of an organized force to bo subject to the orders of Con- gross,” Tt fears that *‘disastrous calamities an im- pending over our beloved country,” although it takes the prrcaution to add that * Heaven only knows" what they are. “ Butler, Wade and Forney" ate the Danton, Robespierre and Marat of the enterprise, and each of them is to carry in his red right band & “gword smoking with the bloody execution.” Asd all this because five members of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Union bave called a Convention to be held in Wash- ington on the 18t of Decensber ' Lotus be calm! Let ug, in such a tremendous emergency, leave hysterics to the natarally hysterical sex! Lot us remember, in tho first place, the charac- ter of the men to whom this appeal is addressed. Admitting it 10 be sinister in ita purposes, although nothing like this has been proved agsinst it, what is there in the character of the American volunteer, a¥ exhibited through several years of bloody eivil war, .which suthorizes The National Intelligemcer, or any other newspaper, to publish these suspicions, or to presuppose that, if this Committes design mischief, the veterans of the Republic will be made its blind sod unquestioning tools 7—that troops why have fought and bled for the law, its support and its sapremacy, will be among the first to discard it'— that the champions of order will be ready, ujon the least invitation, to inaugurate anarchy '—tbat the upholders of the Governwent through the dreary days of doubt and disaster, will plot for the return of con- fusion, and become themselves rebels agaimst the Constitution? Prima facie, the very suspidon is itself an insult. No matter wbat may be the motives or the desigus of D, 8, Curtis and the others, altaough we do not suppose that they mean any harm, what reason fis there for apprebending that any con- siderable vumber of our retired soldiers wil be betrayed into acts of fully and of crimel—that the *‘ferocious” Forney, the still more **ferotious” ‘Wade, and the inexpressibly ‘* ferocious" Butler have | only to command an attack upon the White House, the lanternization of the President, the confiscation and immediate consumption of His Excellency’s small stores—have only to speak, however foolishly or wick- edly, to be obeyed? Forney may have a mightily per- suasive way of his own, Wade's talents may be of a peculiarly seductive character, and Butler a perfect Napoleon in magnetizing divisions and regiments; but that either of them, or all thfee together, can us: the late army, or any part of it, in forwarding destructive and disorganizing projects, we do not believe, they do not believe, and nobody in the possession of his sexses believes. Whatever strength they wmay have, is in their fidelity to law; and the least attempt to employ the military power of the land for their own selfisb or smbitious purposes, would leave them without ‘he power of a corporal, the laughing stocks of gods abcve and of men below. Congress itself would disdainto be assisted by such anxiliaries, by such defendess; and the simple and ignominious end of the speculatin would be, that Mr. Forney and his two friends wotld be marched to the round house in the custody of the very troops upon whose credulity they had so impmu- dently relied. Of course, there is a barely possible mischief in tie suggestions themselves of The Intelligencer. Can- seience, it in said, makes cowards; and the Presideit and bis advisers know best what violent designs, po- vocative of violence in return and in self-defense, they may bave entertaived and nourished, What- ever apprehensions may be well founded, arise soldy from Mr. Johnson's ill-considered, after-dinner st- tacks upon Congress, They spring naturally fran the ides, which he has done wothing to discourag, that Congress is in an illegally hostile attitude, that it is claiming powers which, by the provisions of the Constitution, do not belong to it, and that in some way, by the strong arm of Presidential authority, the representatives of the people must be, and ought to be checkmated in their determination to pass laws of whicki Mr. Jobuson did not approve. Hence those rumors which have filled the minds of the peopls with indefinite ‘fears—hence those rapid deductions from the President's swashy speeckes which have put the Repullic earnestly upon its guard—hence the -growing .conviction of the communjty that fhere is nothing too absurd, nothing too dangerous, nothing 0o unprecedented, 1o be included in what is called the President's “policy.” That officer now plesses to assume the part of injured’ innocence. Let him possess his soul ‘in peace. His life is not in the smallest danger, and Congress will take care that all the laws are obeyed. Aftor the *‘pain " and “‘shook” of the late elections, His Excellency onght net to be frightened by such & simple matter as Mr R.J. Hinton's military conveéntion, The World u)n “The Atiantic Cable is getting to bo eird and Orphio than ever. Yeatordar, it nlw:‘od us ll:lml‘l:' were ' vaguo | ever, they must, to say the least, have shown | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1866, ors afloat in London that Maximilian had been offered tho x:o‘l Puh.‘:sl under certain eventualitios,’ ' &e., & —We thought The Times had a monopoly of utter- ing this sort of absurd drivel. Pray, what bas ‘“the Atlantic Cable” to do with the news it brings us from Furope bul to conzey each message exactly ds the agent of the Assooiated Press bands it into the telo- graph office 7 'Why ot abuse the New-Jersoy ot the Hudson River Reilroad for bringing so many: fools into the City ! What can they mean who rail at the telegraph, which i3 a mere conduit or carrier, for %ho quality of that over which it has no control whatever? THE SOUTH-WEST RAILROAD. Owiulonm"nnmionmdond by a dispatoh to Trie TripuNe misconstruing the nature of the in- junotion of Messrs. Jessup & Co. against tho sale of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad, and assigning the effect as influencing the purchase of Gen. Frémont and asso01- ates in the South-West Branoh of the Pacifio Railroad, wo deem it our duty to give the publio the oxact status of the South West Railroad in the forfoiture | and purchaze. . The State of Missouri, about a dozen years sinoe, adopted the polioy of granting Btate aid to insure the building of railroads in that State. To do this, the State gusrantecd-the bonds of the various railroads, taking therefor, to secure the payment, s lien on the roads, franchises, and appur- tenances. The bonds, to insure the building of the South-West Branch, were authorized to the amount ot $3,000,000, under “* An Act entitled an Aot tosecure the completion of certain railroads in the State, ap- proved December H), 1855, and section 23 of said Act provided as follows: e “Soo, 28. Tn case the Paeific Railroad fails to complete the ‘u.lldlrlk l.lh%o: of said Boulh-W;:lml!nnm;: in l'h.r&r“ years mleed e pansage of this act, or to pay ¢ on said guaran bonds, or to hold m‘km Larmless from said itee, then, and in that case, the snid South-Weat Branch Railroad, with the lands appropriated to the construction thereof, hdalgt-! [ the milroad company at the time of such defantt, and all appurtenances and franchises, shill at once, by operation of law, and without any process or ing, become the of the State, subject only to the id mortgage. Al v ernor of this State, upon the failure of the said Company to por- form all or either.of the above couditions, may take on thereof in bebalf of the State, and manage and control the same until otherwise disposed of by Act of the Legislature.” Tu 1861, the railroads failed o pay the interest, thereby working forfeiture to the State. The country was just entering into the borrors of the Rebellion. Missouri was, like Virginia, the scene of a determined conflict for the supremacy of the contending parties. The State authorities, headed by Gov. Jackson, were nearly all disloyal, and, by a Conveution elected by the people in February, 1861, were deposed in July, 1861, and a new State Government, with the Hon, Hamilton R. Gamble as Governor, formed. As will bo seen, the failure to pay the interest had worked an absolute forfeiture of the roads; and it be- came the duty of the Governor to take possession. On the assembling of the newly-elected Logislature, which was elected at the regnlar election in the Fall of 1862, and convened on the last Monday of Decem- ber, Gov. Gamble referred to the forfeiture of the South-West Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the fol- lowing words: * From tho other railroad, companies I have no report or in- o Soutt west Branch of the Pacific Railrond is forfeited by law, nad is. with its lJands, the property of the'State, on ne count of the failure of the Company topay interest on the Stato bonds. 1 did not possession of this road, as [ wis em powered to do b becanse I regarded it as better for the interoats of the Stato itaelf that it should continue to be worked by the Company than by the State. It is, however, the property of the State, to be disposed of as you may judgo best.” Various bills were introduced, but no definite ac- tion baving been taken by the General Assembly, the following intersener, by way of act, was passed to authorize the action of the Governor until definite ac- tion of the General Assembly. An act to prevent the sale of the Railroads of the State. 150t enacted by the General, Aswembly of the State of Missouri, as folloor 1/ That the Governor of the State be. and is hereby required 1o make no sale of the ratlroads of this State. aa is now required by law, until dirceted by the General Assembly of this State ““This act to takn effect (rom and after its passage. “Approved March 2i, 1864 This intervenor remained in force until the action of the General Assembly in February, 1866, passing # bill providing for a sale of the South-West Branch of the Pacific Railread, &c. Under the provisions of this act, Gen. Fremont purchased the road. It may be proper to add that Gov. (iamble (whose message we bave quoted), was one of the most eminent and clear headed lawyers of the country. He was familiar with all the legislation and law vn the subject, and know that he was right in declaring the road “‘the property of the State,” The interests of the bondholders are enbanced by the action of the State in disposing of various unfin- ished railroads under terms insuring their completion. The State has thrown off the incubus of Slavery, has repudiated disloyalty, and is making giant strides in progress, Her citizons are using every offort to de- velop the wealth of her mines and her soil. It is unfortunate that a debt of such magnitude should be thrust upon the attention of the State at this period; but ber citizens are acting energetically, with a full determination to resume at the earliest possible day a | full payment of her obligations, and nothing now | seems to threaten to prevent snch action. f DOCKS, PIERS AND WHARVES, Lothe's wharf, with the fat weed rotting by it, has | attained a sleepy immortality in Shakespeare’s tragedy ! of Hamlet, and is deservedly popular among ghosts | and poets. Allowing the preposterous suppositien ! that the inhabitants of the melancholy port of ob-§ livion bad any marine enterprise or commerce what- | a drowsy dissatisfaction as to the cnm‘li(ionl of their piers and wharves. That the whnn‘ul of that rather lachrymal seaport should be | in the condition of sbocking neglect described by | the poet of all time, must bave required nothing short | of & total oblivion on the part of its commeroial circles to get over a proper feeling of business wortification, If the wharves of Lethe were at all like the wharves of Gotham—and the analogy seems to be remarkably exact—we suppose that they were left pretty much to themselves; that all craft coming that way drifted in on some unhappy sufferance; that the piers were never taken care of, and were momentarily in danger ' of sinking out of sight from sheer shadowyness and | unreality; that the stones whereof the piers were built were rapidly making their way down, like Poe's sunken city, and paving the court of Neptune with good intentions; that the spiles and beams which fenced the city from the flood were getting rotten and ruinously picturesque; that the broken eod crippled condition of these wooden dykes did not covspire with the drainage system to make things a whit pleasanter in the vicinity of fish-markets; and surely there must have been s company of moldy Commssioners, chiefly empowered to see that the wharves took care of themselves, and ruinous body of municipal officials, who robbed overybody while everybody was nsleop. We are satisfied that the wharves of Lethe were in no single respect better than our ownp; but that is small consolation, ‘Wo have certainly much to reform before the docks, piers and wharves of this extensive City are wortby of o second-class European seaport. The docks and warehouses of Liverpool are of nearly equal sise with :those of London, which cover 1,000 acres, and cost $75,000,000; but New-York, 8 mneh more important port, has few warchouses worthy of even a alight com- patison with these, while out of its 152 piers and bulk. heads, but fise are reported in good order. Conse- «quently, & considerable part of our marine is being driven perforce away to Jersey City. The remedies proposed are many; but they all point, we believe, to ono general plan and object. Theso are to give permanent jurisdiction over the matter to a responsible Commission, and, under this authority and direction, to allow private enterprise its natural aim and scops. The Chamber of Comworco recommonds & permsnent Commis. sion, to bo appointed by the Logislature, | which Commission shall bo composed of two mer- chants and an engineer, who shall be charged with the construction and rental of all wharves, S —— but he was & Free-80il Demoerat in 1848, an anti. lecompton Demoorat in 1869, and & War Democrat piers, | fom the hour in which the Rebels opefied fire docks, and ferries, The Citizens' Association indorse | 01 Fort Sumter to that of his death. In foehly the svggestion of appointing a Commission, b that the whasves and piers should be sold to private owners, T Into power to presoribe and regulote. this meothod the London is said to work admirably, parently the most economic and some. ‘The motion that a Board of Pablic Works be oreated, charged with this and other matters, enters easily into the scheme, and bardly conflicts plan of the Citizens’ Association. and others approve the plans of the and Warehouse Company; but all are to the general scheme of & control of an interest, which, Under the Legislative private enterprise. By the time trust that the sab- mittee conclude their visit, wo stance of & bill, embodying the agreement of our ‘morohants, will be matured and ready for the Legis- ‘eirculation. Iaturé to act upon without delag. sarobe e o LIRW THE BROADWAY RAILROADS. There ate streets as famons a8 cities or great men. The wonder of the walls of Babylon, on which six chariots could be driven side by side, has outlasted tho names of most Assyrian kings. The Appian Way will endure as long as Rome. With English litera- the least barden- | His speeches at War at add | health, and o scholar and orator rather than & man of action, he was not widely known, haviog held no otaining in the Commission the abso- | office but that of Assemblyman (in 1862:) yol he was oneof the most effective writers and speakers ever dock and pier system of | known in our City, and lelt & few public adfroses and it is ap- | and letters which stamp him a man of true geniue, meetings in our City, of the Wae Democratic meeting i favor of Lincoln's reé leotion, Workingmen's Letter to Lin. with the | coln, and Eulogy on the martyred President, havs Judge Edmonds mlyhuoun‘edhu—buchyndm.& New-York Pier | vigor. These, with somo otber of his best addresses, finally agreed have been collected, prefaced by a brief biograpby, acd an octavo of 177 pages Ly the with safe provision, can | Appletons. They are emineutly eveditable to bo left at | to the cheapening competition of | American politics and e Com- | them to our young men as admirable and expression. It will be & misfortune to the Ameri. best | oan peeplo if this thin volumie doss not attain & wile G GEN. GRANT'S ORDER NO. M—THE WAR UPCA 00M MISSONER ROLLINS TURNED AGAINST ME. M0- CULLOCH—THE OASE OF MR. SMITHSON, THN BANKER—GEN. ORANT NOT THE GUEST OF JUbGN BOND—BOUNTY CLAIMS—THE ROW IN THE Na- TIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTRE—PRRIONAL. ture how many London streets have pleasant associa- | o o by vo yun maimown. tion, and aro commemorated in comedies, poems, and essays, from the Strand with its coffeo-houses, to Ox- ford-st., “stony-bearted step-mother,” which the | view of the comments of Tur Nkw-YoRx Tmisvwn - young De Quincey nightly paced for miserable | of to-day, WasmixaTox, Thursdag, Nov. 15, 1865 The Washington agent of the Associated Press, ic deems it proper to say that both the Prosi- months. The Grand Canal of Venice, a watery Way | deut and the Secretary of War, baving heretofore de- where the stages are gondolas; the gay Boulevards | nied that they had revoked Genoral Order No. 44, be of Paris; the High-street of Edinburg, through | on T%M at the which half the heroiues and heroes of Sir Walter Scott have passed; the Under Lindex of Berlin, are his- torical. The streets of American cities have less | o, uarters of the army, and there that neither Gen. Graat re- voked it. This was the basis of the dispatch in gues- tion. The letter to Gen. Sheridan g OGrant's copstruction of the i teaditional value, but the curious names of many | dent's m,:u.mm, a3 pullifying that order, New-York streets suggest interesting reminiscences | W8s ob! b{membenol the press from a source which need not now be noted. The Bowery is a great avenue, dazzliog of a Saturday evening; Wall street | poyal is a part of the financial history of the country; and | failure to the determined opposition of Secref d old | Culloch, who refused to assent to the serious njucy Nossau-st., with its out of the way haunts an bookstores, we hold to be one of the most charm- ing streets of the world, and the more delightful being so uncomfortably narrow. But Broadway is | ory the ropresentative street of America; there the old has been torn down and the new built up; between its mighty walls millions of people aanually pour; it | the is the great gate through which Europe enters America, and every year the crowd, the bustle, and the busi- ness are increased. The countryman who stood in Broadway for hours waiting till tie procession went by, might still be standivg and waiting in vain, But Broadway is ‘wretchedly paved.. On its slip- pery and muddy stones the very stage horses bave acquired an unnatural gait, skaters upon ice. The new Nicholson pavement on Nassau-st., near Wall, bas already been proven far superior. In Brondway tho eudless train of/stages, | the defendant, and a plea of not guilty from the Bowling Green | entered, the case atands for trial. and | bowever, that it will be reached at the present term ascending and descending, to Union-square, make travel actually unsafe, there ia pot an hour in the day that does not see some hairbreadth escape from their wheels. In time the | races, and has not been the guest of Jus excess of business on Broadway threatens to injure | Baltimore, a# stated in the newspapers. the prosperity of the thoroughfare, and not only its uarters of the army. failed to obtain the re- ins, and attributing u.-‘.u ™ other than The the r bhayin Cclnug:‘:)yner Bofi which & chauge in the Internal Revenve Iu- reau at the present time would cause, merely for partisen nr::ml and are ::: iring & raid against the Seerotary him- uflnh%flkm secure hin removal and the appointment of & less conscientious and more pliable rson in his place. An effort is being made to unite Democratic members of Congress and others against Mr. MecCulloch, and ate on the President vigorously until he may be induced to with bim, or the Secretary become di ed and resign. Itis hardly probable the plan wi succeed, but the - ence of Mr. and his friends in their raid upon Mr. Rollins is sufficient evidence that the war apon Mr. McCulloch will be pursued not only with energy Dbut with determination. In the case of Wm. T. Smithson, the banker, agt. and slide along like | Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, for trespass, damages are olaimed of $10,000, in the suit instituted by Messra. Hughes, Dawer and Peck for the plaintiff. Mr. W. Y. Fendall has entered his npr.mm for aving been t is not probable, of the Cireuit Court. Gen. Grant has pot been to the Baltimore horse- Boud of e is here, attending to his official duties. A military agent of New-York City was bere to- own needs,but these of the entire City, have persuaded day with 8 petition signed by some two our legislators to see if better use cannot be made of the finest street in America. The fact that it requires two hours to travel from one end of the island to the other, and that persons dwelling twenty miles up the Hudson can reach the business center of the city as speedily and more conveniently than persons dwell- ing at Harlem, bave convinced the Yankee mind of the necessity of providing new forms of travel. To the Senate Committee, which met yesterday, & agm ber of plans were submitted, most'of them proposing Broadway as the great central road of the island. The ordinary street cars will be, of course, rejected. It is presumed they would add to the confusion of the street, though we think that they could scarcely be worse than the stages. There are four other classes of plans offered to the Committee; an eleyated rail- way, s tunnol, s basement road, and a parallel road on one side of Broadway. Some of these plans seem, at the first glance, very odd; for instance, Mr. Nicholson's Americon Poeumatic Way, an olliptical tube through which the cars are to Le carried by a coofined column of air, forming a continous circuit, and set in motion by a rotary pump. We believe o similar plan was pro- posed in London, in which the cars were to be drawn by suction, on the principle that nature abhors a vacuum. We are to travel on the wings of the wind, and the hurricane is to be tamed like the lightning. Ariol is to become, like Caliban, & slave. Another plan presents what is really & suspension bridge, to rest on iron columns 20 feet above the curb- stoes, the cars to be pulled by dummy- ongines. The Basement road bhas merits which entitle it to serious consideration, avd so with the elevated track. Tunneling bas been successfully tried in London. Still another plan is offered for an endloss belt road; the cars to run in one direction on the belt, and in the other to Le suspended under it. An engine of %000 barse power, at Central Park, is required to work this original arrangement. We | should prefer to see other people riding on this road | to trying the experiment ourselves. From the forty plans included in these classes, wise and foolish, the Legislature may find several worthy of a'trial. But we trast it will not rashly adopt any theory without satisfactory experiment. As in the case of the Nicholson pavement, the tunpel road or the elevated road might be tested for a short distance, and the expense of a dozen experiments would be nothing compared to the loss by the failure of any plan. THE LATEST RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Another terrible railroad accident has just oceurred, resulting in the death of four of the passengers, aud in injury, more or less serious, to forty-one. The par- tioulars we have already published. The verdict of | the jury that made inquest into the case we give this | morning. The accident is attributed to gross care- | lossness on the part of the foreman in charge of.the | track and workmen, ho being absent from bis post, having no correct time, and being without s signal flag for the purpose of signaling the stoppage of trains. The conductor and engineer of the train are pronounced free from all blame, and the officers soldiers, asking of the President a settlement of their claims for additional bounty. President has gmnhed to have the Secretary of War bring op the Paymaster-General in the matter. Col. Lee, the New-York State agent bere, has also been moving in the matter. The row in the National Executive Committee yes- terday, which resulted in its complete dispersion, arose on the question of taxing the Clerks in the de- rmmanu to pay the $30,000 due Rittenhouse, Fow- jer & Co. One of the Committee has left this city to try to raise funds wflry this debt from the Democrats of New-Y Gen. Daniel E. Sickles arrived in town , and visited the Executive Mansion. Homer A. Nelson and H. C. Fahnestock of New-York, and Jay Cooke of Philadelphia, are here. Fernando Wood arrived here again this merning, and is stopping at Willard's. Among other arrivals here to-day is the Hon. Joshua Hill of Georgia. The Military Commission wkich has been in session at Raleigh, N. C., for the trial of the Freedmen's Bureau officers, and of which Col. J. W. Mansfisld nrshPmldent, hlfli been 1|inwlvod;’_m ¢ accompanying documents Navy Depart- ment are all prinud,‘-nd the printers at ‘lhe’ National printing office begin to-day on the accompanying doc- uments of the War Department, including the Quar- termaster’s report, Major-Gen. Howard's on the Freedmen's Bureau, and the reports of Chie Engineer aud the Chief of Ordunance. These will not be ready for a day or two after the assembling of Congress. The Johnson Departmental Club, organized for the purpose of spying out and having dismissed from office clerks who would not indorse **my policy,” is fast dwindling down into nothing. The members are daily resigning and becoming silent as regards poli- ties, The attendance at the White House to-day has been c’u(u large, and the President received many of the callers during the day. A considerable number were also present this ouning. and the President was giving audience until quite a late hour. It is under- | stood that the President is engaged in the preparation of his Message, but it is difficult to understand what time he has to devote to it, as he is constantly en- ‘llugod in receiving visitors, except upon Cabinet ays. FREE HOSPITAL FOR THE POOR AT AT- LANTA. i ‘The attention of our citizens is called to the benevolent mission of Dr. Wood of the City of Atlanta, Georgis, who comes here well aceredited, He reports that the City of Atlanta was burned during the late war, and out of about 5,000 houses only some 300 were left standing. The natursl resources of Georgis are great, and the building up of Atlanta, along with its gold mines, is caus- ing hundreds whose crops bave failed, to remove thither to tind work wheteby to escape starvation, They aro liv- ing in tents and alanties, and have uo chauce to be prop- erly attended in thewr sickness. R Dr. Wood's special mission bere 18 to raise means for supplying this want to all residents and strangers, ime- spective of color or condition. He makes 8 strong appesl to the benevolent, and some of our most charitable eiti- 2eu8 are taking him by the hand, See the following: New-YORK, Nov. 6, 1866, We. the undersigned citimns of New- York, having examined the statementa of Dr. .;. ‘wa :w:‘: hfih Ae:m G, the Free Hospital of tl Ly N-,udlu the late war—oheerfully mission of Tmercy to the kiud consideration of eur citisens. He is author. for min 1 10 use our names for an or call that may )L‘:umnmwm'u{wm t undertaking: Jonx T. HOOFPMAN, PETER COOPER, HeNRY WarD Bexcer, WILLIAX F. MORGAN, GroRGE B. Cupaver, Sreegey H. TvNe, HORACE GRERLEY, EDWARD MeGiLY Contributions may ba sent to Robert H. Lowry, of the Erie and Buflalo Railroad cul- | pable in not employing efficient men for | track-layers, and furnishing them with flags and instructions to signal and stop trains in all cases of danger. It iv painfully satisfactory to find that the jury have in this case done their duty, and fixed blame in the proper quarter. ‘The carelossnoss of the foteman is utterly inexcusable, and be ought to suffer the penalty of his wanton neglect. of duty. But to punish bim alone would not meet the demands of justice. The higher the respansibility, the greater the culpability of a crelessness whioh endangers human life, and the 1aw should: be: safficiently strong to deal with railroad offioers ‘ss well s with the subordinates. The ‘efficers in_this case are clearly guilty of manslsughter. The verdict of the jury has fixed this on them. Will avything be done to give offect to that verdiot ? | | Davip 8. Cooprsaroy, (son of Jonathan I. Cod- | dington, formerly Postmaster of our City,) was born | hore in 1823, and died at Saratoga Springs in 1835, He waa, like his futher, a zealous and life-long Demo- orat, and uvever callod him=o!l by any othor same; | dent of the National Bank of Atlanta. The importance of one vote is seen in the fact that in Middlesex County, New-Jersey, Mr. Natbao H. Tyrell waa elected member of the Legislature by s majority oue over the Democratic cendidate. Y | e RELIGIOUS, ~ R OENRBAL ASSEMBLY OF THR PRENBYTERIAN CHURCH SOUTH. l\vc-dnnrll-' address. The Rev, Andrew H. Kerr of the Memphis Presbytery was e number of ministers from our Soutbern Statos A very large nldMnm'nhm 1 the o wl harmony au e THE STORM. BY TELEGRAPE TO THE TRISUNE Bautiore, Nov. 15.—A south-east rain siorm commenced here at noou. : A heavy easterly storm is prevaiiing to- night Fowt Moxmok, Va., Nov. 15.—A beavy souti-cast gule provails to-ugkt. q., Nationdl k of the Rej Dlic, eorner of Wall-st. and Broadwa, , wherethe ' | Bank ol the R e o wanied 1o Mr. Joha Hice, Pres pr e - »r TER TRIDUNE ¥ PF::’ an. 15, —The General A—-hl{_slh terian Church South commonced here to-da. Rev. « G-cnb’ 5 .lm-h-o-u-ufln-m,b ' 1 1 |