The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-21

ton on the relief question" Among the
latest proceedings of the Convention is reso-
luton requesting General Pope to remove the
obnoxious Governor Jenkins and to put
certain MFR. Bullock in his place, q request
which General Pope will probably find 10
quires a good deal OF nice consideration.
Under the spur of this new bill in Congress,
we may expect however, that these little side
issues will be dropped, and that the Conven-
ton will follow the example Of Alabama in
pushing through their new consultation. Oh,
yes "The work goes bravely on"
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DIR. Cnnard's Withdrawal fromzfhs Hub.
Mr.. Cunard has given "she Hub OF the Uni
verse" the "unkindesl cut OF all" He has as
serted--and, what is worse, he has proved-that
Boston has not sufficient trade to freight fort
nightly steamship for Liverpool After trying
the experiment for more than twenty-fve years,
half of tho time filling MP tho holds Of his ships
with stone ballast he has decided that "it
don't pay" and has deprived Boston Of bis
steamers Ruthless Cunard Unhappy Bos-
toni Who that has ever spent ''stsamer day"
in that delightful village can forget the excite
ment occasioned by the departure Of the
steamer?" Merchants would hardly return
friendly salutation ip the street; they had
letters 10 writs-it was steamer dayw People
who met each other inquired, care you going
to sac the steamer off?' As the hour for her
departure approached traders left what little
business they had, gave their clerks half
holiday. and with them swclled the throng
that crowded the wharyes to witness the event.
/" The" hackney coach of the city was in de-
mand from early dawn, conveying passengers
70 and from East Boston. People even climbed
TO the crosstrees of the ballast lighters which
had just completed their regular task Of fur
nishing geological freight for the Cuuarder
that they might catch glimpse Of her when
she was hull down to less fortunate spectators.
Half Of the Custom House officers were de-
tailed for the special duty of seeing her off.
And scarcely had the long trail Of smoke from
her tunnels been blended with the lower strata
Of the clouds when the newspapers issued
"extras" announcing the momentous fact that
the steamer had sailed Alas their "occu-
pation's gone ~ Stone ballast has fallen
twenty-five per cent The hackney coachman
loses half Of his revenue the newspapers
issue no moro "extras," and Boston, shorn Of
her steamers, turns her face to the wall and
weeps. xst vr atstn
But there will be change in her mood
from sorrow to wrath. from speechle,s woe to
loud-mouthed invective. Let Cunari beware
Let England shrink! Let the earth trembe !!
There remains still that ferce remedy Of all
Boston woes and wrongs--an indignation
meeting In Faneuil Hall II will be opened
with prayer by thu Rev. Mr.. Stone, j" the best
(but one) ever addressed to Boston
audience" Then there will follow an elegy
by Oliver Wendell Holmes and an grafton
by Robert G. Winthrop or by some other
eloquent Athenian /; resolutions will be passed,
a committee will be chosen to memorialize
Congress, and It will be unanimously voted
that the proceedings Of the meeting be gratu-
tously published in all the daily and weekly
papers OF "the Hub" which boasts Of several.
How they. arc sustained He only knows who
fed the prophet in the wilderness aud then
the meeting, like the Fortiesh Congress, will
adjourn.
It is not impossible that the Bostonians may
renew their oit-repcatsd threats to
establish steamship line OF their own. Once,
we remember, they wen. so far as almost to
carry their threats into execution. They actu-
ally started o little steamer for Liverpool.
With great flourish of irumpets it was an
nounced that the Grand Trunk Railway and
the Western road were to drain the Canadas
and the States and pour their afluence directly
through Boston to Europe. New York was to
be extinguishel. On the occasion OF the de-
parture OF the steamer Boston revelled in q
three days jubilee schools wers dismissed |;
the "anciant and honorable and oil the
other military forces turncd out; . process
sion was formed in the Common Faneuil Hall
resounded with speeches oil Bos ion--nay, all
achusetts-focked to the wharf But,
strange to soy, the steamer never came back
II was eventually lost, we have heard, some
where on the Pacific coast We know not
whether she got ont Of her reckoning on her
return and mistook Cape Horn for Cape Cod.
However this may have been, she failed to re-
turn to Boston, and the Boston steamship
project utterly failed.
We fear that the revival of . similar project
at this time on the part Of the Bostonisns, and
their wrath against Mr.. Cunard, will prove
equally impotent They must make up their
minds to the distressing fact that they have
irrevocably lost the Cunard steamers But
don's cry about II, Boston boys Wipe your
eyes and mouches-uoas bien, like brave little
fellows. Ycu shall have Grand Duchess
brought to you Ut New YEARS.; and won't
that be funny enough to console you for the
loss Of your Cunarderss
Railway Accidents.
The shocking accident on Wednesday 10 the
New York express train on the Lake shore