The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICH N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON @TS. FP ne low highs ore by mail will be at the of the vender, Postage received as subscription THE DAILY MERALD to cents por copy, $1 per annem THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Satyr, al ke cents por 5 i the Bs Edition Wednewlay, ortito 4 o cle i the i tion‘om the than 3th of wach month a cent ‘annwn OTHE FAMILY HERALD on Wednenday, at four conte per ney, or ‘annum OLUNTARY. CORRESPONDENCE, containing important , solicttedt from any quarter of the world; 4 teed, will be puid for, BQPOUR FOReGK CORRESPONDENTS ARE AMFICULAKLY ABQUESTED TO BRAL AL LarrERs axp Pack: very Us YO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We dojnot (return rejected communicutions. Money sent stamps not Woke EXV.......eecceecsee ee eee ness MMOs 8B AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. RIBLO'’S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Iuztinp 48 It Was— Law row Lapims- Harry Man. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—f'4z10~Tom anv Jeaay— Love in Humare Live. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Bvancaus. ae THEATRE, Broadway.—Romance or 4 Poor LAURA KEEFR’S THEATBE, 6% Broadway.—Varitr Fam—Onsrouars Fauy, NEW BOWSRY THEA’ sen—Loax or 4 Loven—Sr. BROADWAY BOUDOIR, 444 Broad: 0 Quamnni—Rowanox or 4 Vaur Poor Bowery.—Warcren’s Davau- nY's Eve, —Ie Takes Two founa Mam. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Afer. moon—Tux Octoxoom. Evening—Okgen Susuxs. ? MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broadway.— prmizsavna, Sones, Danced, do—Cuaw Boast Baar. NIBLO’S SAL@ON, Broadway.—Geo. Canistr’s Min- Qrnacs 1x Songs, Dances, 4c.—Tux Toonixs. NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre,— Bones, Dances, Buaiesques, 40. New York, Friday, March 23, 1860, The News. The steamship Canada, which left Liverpool on the 10th inst., had not arrived at Halifax up to the hour of closing the telegraph offices last night. She brings three days later news. Our special Washington despatch states that Spain is to be called on for an explanation with re. gard to the fitting out at the port of Havana of the steamers recently captured by the Gulf Squadran: and ifthe explanations are not satisfactory, the neutrality laws,so far as regards Spain, will as- suredly be suspended, In Congrees yesterday the Senate passed the bill to establish mail routes in Kansas Territory. A reso- lution was adopted ‘calling for information relative to the expulsion of a naturalized citizen of the United States from Prussia, in 1857. A bill providing that persons, by endorsing their names on letters sent by mail,can have them returned free of postage, when undelivered, was passed. The Pacific Railroad bill and amendments thereto were ordered to be printed. The Homestead bill was then taken up: A motion was made to substitute the House for the Benate bill, and the Committee on Public Lands re- ported in favor of the Senate bill. An interesting debate ensued, in which Messrs. Clingman, Hale, and Wigfall took part. The discussion took a wide range, embracing, among other subjects, the New England strikers and the relations between the North and the South. In the Houge the Se- nate’s amendment to the bill providing for the pro- tection of female emigrants on shipboard was agreed to, and the bill passed. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday are somewhat important. In the Senate the bill imposing tolls on railroads was received from the Assembly and referred to a conference committee. The bills to foreclose the New York and Erie Rail- Toad mortgage and to lay out Madison avenue were passed. The bill laying out Washington Heights passed to a third reading. In the Assembly six of the New York city railroad bills were referred to the Standing Committee on Cities and Villages, with instructions to report complete. Our reports give full particulars of the action of the Assembly on these bills. The West Washington Market bill was referred to & select committee. ‘The democrats are carrying ona lively campaign in Connecticut. Reports of speeches delivered by Mayor Wood and Hon. Caleb Cushing, at meetings held at Danbury and Hartford, are given in today’s Herarp. x An interesting meeting 10 promote Dr. Hayes’ proposed expedition to the Polar regions was held by the Geographical and Statistical Society last evening. Dr. Hayes and Professor Mitzhell ad- dressed the meeting. A subscription circular has been proposed, and is now in circulation,andample funds for the expedition will doubtless be promptly forthcoming. Already ten thousand dollars have been subscribed. The circumstances connected with the mysterious tragedy on board the oyster sloop E. A. Johnson, of which we published a full account in yesterday's pa- per, continne to create considerable interest. The police are on the track of the perpetrator of the marders, and we shall probably in a day or two Jearn-all the facts connected with the affair. Such facts as have transpired are reported in another co- tumn. The Post Office Department announces that in consequence of arecent reduction of the: Swiss postage on newspapers conveyed in the Bremen mails between the United States and Switzerland to one cent a paper not exceeding three ounces in weight, the combined rate of postage on a single newspaper not exceeding three ounces in Weight between this country and Switzerland, by Bremen mail, will hereafter be four cents, prepayment re- quired, viz:—American and sca postage, two cents; German postage, one cent; Swiss postage, one cent—total, four cents. The three cent rate on newspapers for Switzerland, as stated in the foreign postage table issued on the 8th of March inst., is the United States and German postage only, to and from the Swiss frontier of Germany, and does not embrace any Swiss postage. The Aldermanic Special Committee appointed to investigate the claims of the rival aspirants to the contested seats in the Board of Aldermen were to have met yesterday afternoon, but failed to have quorum. The meeting was therefore adjourned to Monday next, at two o'clock P.M. The counsel for Messrs. Barry and Russell were present. ‘The Board of Councilmen adjourned last even- ing till Monday, a quorum not being present at the call of the roll. Our correspondent at Rio Janeiro, writing on the 8th ult., says:—The stock of coffee in first hands is large, and receipts for the interior average a thousand bags per day; butall is of an inferior quality, and only finds a market in England and Germany. In 16,000 bags, not 1,000 bags could be selected for the American markets, and the ex penses of loading, freight and insurance would cover the prices in the United States. The stock of flour is 70,000 bbls, of which, 35,500 from Richmond, 16,000 bbls. from Philadelphia, and 3,000 bbls. from Trieste and Genoa, remain in im- 4 porters’ hands, and prices range from 14/250 to 18000. Nearly all American vessels leave in ballast. ‘The cotton market yesterday continued heavy for ordi- mary and common grades, and prices wore somewhat ir- regular, while the good and higher grades were steady, ‘with ales of 2,000 bales, incluaing 1,060 in tranait, on the basis of quotations gtven in another column. Flour was firmer for common grades of State and Western, while the higher and extra brands were steady. Sales of all kinds were moderate. Southern flour was steady and in fair request Wheat was insctive, andjcommon qualities of Western spring were nominal. Indiana white sold at $1 €5 and Milwaukee club at $1 24. Corn was in some better c.qucst, with fair tales, at prices given elpe ahore. Pork was rather stiffer, with ales of new mess at $17 75 a$17 80, and pew prime at $14 25.0814 37%. Culloe was firmly held, while sales were moderate ant at ful; prices, quality considered. Sugars were steady and la good request, with sales of 1,100.0 1,200 bhis, and 123 boxes, at prices given in another place, Freights were steady, with’s fair amount of ongagementa. Important from Washington—Threaten- ing Aspect of Our Relations with Spaia and Mexico, The advices from Washington inform us that the government will call upon Spain to know if the Miramon cruisers were fitted out at Tiavang with her connivance, and for the pur- pose of annoying our commerce, and indicate that the black republican Senators are disposed to review their hasty and ill-advised action on the Nicaragua treaty, and to take such mea- sures for restoring the respect due to our flag and the safety of our citizens and their inter- ests in the anarchical countries south of us as becomes our hcnor as a people and our cham- pionship of the American name. When, with the full knowledge of past and recent events in Mexico and the Isthmus re- publica, we remember that the Senate of the United States has refused to ratify the treaty with Nicaragua, and delays that with Mexico, on the sole ground that they confer upon the President the authority to order any officer of the army and navy who may happen to be on duty in the vicinity, to see that the lives and property of American citizens are secured to them, and their just rights respected, we tremble for the consequences that may accrue to our countrymen resident abroad, and to the vast interests that flow continually between our Atlantic and Pacific States. The action of the black republican Senators, as a party, on this vitally important subject, gives assurance to every revolutionary leader in Central America that he can despoil with im- punity any American citizen that he can lay hands upon; and no one will doubt that they would be quick to act upon such an assurance. The making such a denial of suthority to the President a party cry is the most dangerous thing that could be done by Congress: It is an abandonment, in fact, of the vast interests that now cross the American Isthmus té the tender mercies of Spanish-American pronun- ciamientos and the milk and water protection of diplomatic notes. It is the withdrawal from every merchant ship in those ports of that mo- ral palladium which the American fiag should ever be. More than this, it throws open the sea to these partisan strifes, to the danger of commerce everywhere. Fortunately the gallant and energetic course lately pursued by our navy in the Mexican wa- ters has stopped this danger at its very initia. tion. The domestic strife now raging in Mexico bad succeeded, through the con- nivance of the Spanish authorities in Cuba, in descending to the sea. The war was to be made to harass all foreign commerce that frequented those waters, just as it had ha- rassed and violated the rights of every foreign merchant within the country. But at the very time that the black republican Senators, ga- thered in party caucus, had determined to withhold national protection to our commercial interests abroad, a small knet of navy officers, looking only to their national duty, overhauled the corsairs, and when these thought to fright- en them witha few guns, gave them a broad- side which soon taught them the respect which our flag is entitled to. The event was provi- dential. A bage and unpatriotic partisan spirit was on the eve of inaugurating a national po-. licy which would have enveloped our com- merce in danger and our name in disgrace. It has come at the very moment when it was re- quired to recall ‘Congress to ita senses, and to awaken the country to the disgrace that was prepared for it by the black republican Senators. ‘The probability now is that the Senate will wake to reason and retrace its steps. It has resumed the discussion of the Nicaragua treaty: and it is to be hoped that it will reconsider the unwise action it took a few days since on that instrument. But something more than this must be done. The position of Mext- co, and its territorial, political and industrial relations with us, require action on our part of a decided and energetic character. The re- pellious government of Miramon has been at open war with our citizens and our diplomatic representatives for more thana year. With the aid of the Spanish authorities in Cuba it has fitted out corsairs. -We now learn that the Spanish sbips-of-war at Sacrificios were sup- plying him with war materials for an assault on Vera Cruz. This gives color to the statement that there are secret articles in the treaty rv cently made between Almonte and the Spanish government, under which Miramon is to re- ceive assistance from Havana. If he triumphs in Mexico, or even if he merely captures Vera Cruz, we have a war in fact upon our hands; and, perhaps, not one war, but two. Spain is becoming complicated in this quarrel; and be- sides reconquering Mexico, we may yet have to take Cuba before we can secure peace. The honor of the country requires, and the ad- ministration is determined to enforce, a demand on Spain, to know whether the fitting out of the cruisers of Miramon at Havana was done with the knowledge or the connivance of the Spanish officials, and serious complications may at once ensue. These great questions cannot be de- layed by palliation and discussion and inde- cision at Washington. If Congress will not act, the people will. Events will force the ifsue. Sam Houston will carry the whole country across the Rubicon when he crosees the Rio Grande. i In this emergency Congress must accept the issue forced upon it by the expulsion of our Minister to Mexico in 1859, by thé murder of our countrymen at Tacubaya and Tepic, by the robbery of our citizens in the Mexican capi- tal, and now by the firing upon our ships-of- war at Anton Lizardo. We are at war with the Miramon faction in Mexico, and we cannot escape from the fact. The treaty with the le- gitimate and liberal government of President Juarez should be at once ratified, and the whole moral power of our government thrown in his favor. Our postal communications with Mext- co, which have been closed by an unwise par- simony, should be at once re-established. The memorials which are pouring into Congress from our merchants, manufacturers, artisans, and every other industrial interest, in favor of these great objects, should be listened to. And above all, the future should be provided for by conferring upon the Executive the authority to order the army and navy to protect the lives, the interests and the rights of individual citi- zens, not only in Mexico, but everywhere that il pay be necessary. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1866, Tux Coyxveneur Exxctiox—Tux Enior ov iHe MaNnvuFsorcuests.—From intelligence in another column it will be seen that Caleb Cushing delivered a speech at Hurtford yeater- day in favor of the conservative ticket in the Connecticut election, which has Seymour at its ‘head. The democrats are making tremendous exertions im this campaign, and the republicans are putting forth equally vigorous efforts. Itis ahighly important contest—not as a State matter, for it ia of little Consequence to the people, as regards their internal government, which ticket is trinmpbant, but of vast moment as touching the effect it will have upon the Presidential election in that State next fall, and the influence it will produce on other States which are trembling in the balance. If Connecticut should go republican, then the New England States will be one unbroken phalanx for the higher law. If Connecticut should go democratic, then a link is wanting in the chain, and the cordon and the charm are broken together, and other States of far larger votes will follow her example, The South, too, will see that there is at the North s remnant of good men and true in the midst of disaffection to the constitution and hostility to Southern rights, who will stand by the compact on which the Union is based, and never permit fanati- cism to ride roughshod over the solemn league and covenant made by aur fathers and conse- crated by the best blood of North and South. The republicans justly regard it as the criti- cal position—the key of the battle. Hence they are resorting to desperate means of suc- cess. The manufacturers are for the most part republicans, and they gay to the hands in their establishments, “No vote, no work.” If, therefore, the operatives will not vote the republican ticket they will be sent adrift to starve. With wives and children depending on them for subsistence, most of them may submit, and votefor their bread and butter, though it will be of short duration; for if Connecticut goes for republicanism, its manufactures will be very seriously damaged, and both masters and men thrown out of employment. The goods hitherto taken by the jobbing houses of New York for the Southern market will be wanted no more; the demand ceases, and 80, will the supply. Stagnation of trade, fail- ures in New York, bankruptcy in Connecticut, an idle, hungry population driven to despera- tion, will be the fruits of the republican victo- ry, even if the Union should not be dissolved. What the effect will be of the cruel edict compelling the hands in the factories to vote against the best interests of themselves and their employers remains to be seen. No doubt one effect of it will be to rouse the indignation of honorable men of all parties against a po- litical tyranny which can only be equalled by an Irish landlord driving his tenants to the polls like a herd of sheep. Meantime itis the duty as well as the interest of the jobbing houses of New York to remonstrate with the Connecticut manufacturers, who seem bent on self-destruction, like so matty swine swimming down the stream, and at every stroke cutting their own throats. “Tun =Pustic Pamtic—More Devetore- MeNTS.-~The facts brought to light by the opening of the bids for the contracts for print- ing the Post Office blanks, as detailed in our Washington correspondence yesterday, surpass the most extravagant statements hitherto made as to the extent to which the public have been plundered in these matters. Only think of tenders being received at 94j and 93 per cent Jess than the present rates! Why, there is no placer, not even excepting the great Washoe mine, which yields more largely for the labor and risk incurred than did the contracts under the old system. Bowman, the Senate Printer, is, it ap- peara, greatly alarmed at the idea of the establishment of a national printing office, and declares that “the typesetting and presswork have never been a just cause for complaint.” He suggests that all the frauds heretofore com- mitted have been in the paper, engraving, binding, &c. Now, the “typesetting and press. work” are all that Wendell was paid for, and ever since the establishment of a Superinten- dent of Printing the paper has been pur- chased by that officer by contract. Bowmartheld this effice, and, therefore, is not ignorant of the fact, however ignorant he may be generally. Butthe dishonesty of his plea as to “the typeset- ting and presswork”’ is effectually demonstrat- ed by Rives’ evidence before the Senate Inves- tigating Committee, where he gwore he was paid but twothirds of the price which the Senate allowed for this work, the balance of | one-third going into Bowman’s pocket as plun- cer, The government is thus overcharged for is pcsetting and presswork” thirty-three and a third per cept, and Bowman, who pockets this overcharge, has the impudence to insist that this is nota “just cause for complaint.” The conscience of there Washington spoilsmen is certainly of the toughest. A national printing office, with a superinten- ent and foremen paid respectable salaries, and Sworn to perform their duties faithfully, to- gether with the necessary force of printers, &c., Paid by the piece for the work they actually perform, is what is required to save the coun- try the enormous expense and the gross cor- tuptions which exist under the present system. Of course it is not to be expected that either Bowman or Ford should approve of it. Tar New Tartrr Brit.—We have already printed some account of the changes in the customs duties which are foreshadowed in the bill reported in the House from the Ways and Means Committee, and we gave further parti- culars of the measure before. At the same time we only assert a fact familiar to all who are acquainted with the machinery of politics, when we say that this bill is only a dodge of the republican leaders to make capital for the Presidential campaign. The increase in the iron impost is intended as a sop to the Penn- sylvanian interest, and the movement generally is gotten up solely for the purpose of helping the black republicans in the North. They do not expect the bill to pass; probably they will make no very strenuous efforts to bring about such a consummation. Just before every Pre- sidential election we always have a little sugar for the fron founders, and a bon bon or two for the Northern manufacturers. The new tariff act is a little bit of, Papa Sherman’s confectionary, and is intended asa persuader to all good little boys to- come to the republican schoolhouse. After the election the children will find themselves cheated out of their can- dy, and the tariff will remain untouched till next Presidential election, when the farce will be played over ageia with a new cast. Incoxsmsrexcres o¥ Buack Revupacan Le- GIsLaTioN.—-The up town moyement in New York {s.creating a reaction amongst the Brook- lyn people, which bids fair to act as a counter- check upon black republican legislation. Onr neighbors across the river naturally see in the proposed removal of the City Hall to Madison aquare, and the transfer of the old down town theatres to localities beyond their reach, a dis- position to separate as widely as possible the interests of the two cities. They are accord- ingly creating institutions for themselves, which will render them, to a great extent, indepen- dent of us. They have a splendid Opera house in progress of erection, which will be finished and ready for use by the beginning of Novem- ber; they will inaugurate in a few days the Long Island College Hospital, which is munifi- cently endowed, and which will boast of a Faculty and a Clinical School second to none in the country; they are about to create a chain of parks which will extend along the heights crowning the city, and which will com- mand an uninterrupted view of the bay and the ocean, and, running at right angles with these they will obtain a noble boulevard from the widening of Atlantic ave- nue, for which a bill has already passed the Legielature. Even Brooklyn art is asserting its individuality, if we may judge from the suc- cess of the first artists’ reception, which was held there on Wednesday evening, and which was attended by upwards of a thousand of the leading people of the city. Thus, whilst our black republican legislators are endeavoring to consolidate the two popula- tions for the purpose of more wholesale spolia- tion, by the creation of metropolitan districis and commissions, natural laws are creating be- tween them a wider divergence. The corrupt inconsistency of these legislative plunderers is, curious to say, helping the latter tendency. By taking the bribes of the ferry monopolists, and rejecting, contrary to the claims of justice and the voice of the public, the bill for cheap ferriage, they have contributed to maintain for a further period of ten years one of the great- est obstacles to the closer union of the two cities. They do not see that they have supplied their opponents with one of the most powerful arguments that can be urged against their policy of consolidation. Wuar tre Crry oy New Yorx Requires.— There is nota large city in the world which offers greater facilities for being made a mag- nificent and healthy metropolis than New York, and with a proper govérnment to con- duct its affairs it would become a model capi- tal. With two splendid water fronts washed by rapid rivers, a gradual declension of the grade from the backbone of the island to each of these *tivers, the most complete system of sewerage could be effected, and with the body of fresh air constantly pouring in from the sea below us, and the open end ofthe island from the north, the health of the city ought to be second to none in any part of the universe. But with all these advantages, together with our fine streets and avenues, handsome build- inge, superb hotels, and our material progress in every Edepartment, there are still a few things needed to render this city perfect as a great capital, and the most delightful residence on the globe. First and most important, we require the streets to be kept clean winter and summer; we require our parks and public squares to be kept in decent order; we require substantial store piers for the accommodation of shipping on both rivers, and we require our city railroads to be placed under the control and management of the public authorities, and not left to the mercy of monopolising specu- @ators: These wants, it will strike any one, are not extravagant, nor are they impossible to be supplied. No other large city in the world oan complain of them, and we do not see any teason why New York should be compelled to remain in its present inchoate condition, ex- cept that it is the most misgoverned city upon which the sun shines. " Sprine Fasutons ix THE Merroro.is—-Oren- inc Day.—Although the weather was as unfa- vorable as it could-be for the opening of the spring fashions, the attendance was very fair and the display of goods exceeded that of any former season. The articles are unsurpassed in richness, style and the expensive character of the material of which they are composed. There is a promise of a busy spring, and al- though each establishment appears to have laid in a large stock, they are all sanguine of a brisk and lively demand for their goods. The season has certainly opened well, and the orders have thus far been very numerous Our readers will find all the details in regard to the new styles of dress in another part of this morning’s paper. Sar Bempre i THE MErroroiis.—We lately despatched a reporter through the ship- yards of New York, with directions to ascer- tain the number and size of the varioug craft in process of construction. A portion of the report was laid before our readers in the Henarp of yesterday, and the remainder will be found in another column. The grand result of the investigation is that for thirty years the ship building interest has never been so far depressed as it is at the present moment. There are but very few ves eels on the stocks, and those are of the smallest class—chiefly pilot boats, yachts, &c., &c. This state of things may be traced to two or three causes. In the first place, the panic of 1857, by reducing the imports, inflicted a terrible blow upon the shipping interest, from which it has not altogether recovered. It is quite true that the imports have come up to their old standard, and have increased over those of the flush times of 1855-'56; yet the carrying trade for fine goods is almost monopolized by the English screws. About ten years ago, when the fast Yankee clipper was in its glory, many of our ships were chartered abroad, and their owners reaped a golden harvest. Their work is now done by the screw propellers, which beat the clippers in time, stow more freight, and stand the atrain of their work better than any fast sailing vessel. We must come to the screw ships if we intend to maintain our position as 3 maritime Power, and assert our supremacy on the seas. The slavery agitation, too, has had some ef- fect upon shipping interests. The Charleston line of steamships was to be reinforced by two new vessels of the firat class; but since the John wn raid the order has been countermanded, and the ehips will not be built at present. Thus the almighty nigger’s tracks may be found in all our commercial, social and mari- time affairs, as well as being « continual bug- bear to the politicians. * i, tte Ovn Forsroy Rxtations.—There is now in the port of New York 4 corvette of the Bra- zilian navy, making » temporary atay.in our harbor. She is at present in service asa school ship, and is officered, no doubt, by many mem- bers of the first families of the empire of Bra- zil—certainly the fine appearance and gentle- manly bearing. of her officers would at least warrant that conclusion—and yet these gentle- men have received no courtesy or recognition fromthe public authorities. Private citizens, it is true, have not falled to extend to them every kindness and Wospitality; but they should have been received with some mark of official recognition, and have been afforded an oppor- tunity of visiting our public institutions, When an American national vessel enters a foreign port, which our abips of war rarely visit—eepecially in the capacity of a school chip, as at Southampton on a late oecasion— her officers are.always treated with attention and respect, not alone by private citizens, but by the authorities, in consideration for the American nation; and; in a spirit of reciproci- ty, the officers of foreign navies should meet like treatment at our hands. Perhaps we ought to congratulate the Brazilian officers upon escaping the bore of an Aldermanic ovation, with its accustomed vulgarity and gastronomic excesses; but out of regard for the dignity of this great metropolis, it isto be regretted that some official notice was not taken of their visit in a quiet and unostentatious manner. When our foreign relations from Ireland or Germany arrive here they are received at Cas- tle Garden and taken care of by the State authorities; and, though we would by no means desire to see the officers of the Brazilian navy landed at Castle Garden—for they would pro- bably be plundered of all they possessed by the baggagesmashers and runners—yet we think that such distinguished foreign relations should have been recived upon their arrival by some of our officials with at. least as much at- tention as a stalworth voter from Germany or Treland. Tue ALDERMEN AND THE NewsPaPEeRs.—The newspapers would seem to be a source of great trouble to the Board of Aldermen. On the 15th inst. Alderman Boole introduced the fol- lowing resolution in the Board:— ‘Whereas, the advertising of the proceedings of the Common Council in numerous newspapers is @ subject that should receive carly attention trom the Common Council, ina pecuniary sense, as well as in the advantages to be derived by the public greater publicity to the acts of the Common therefore, be it Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by this Board, to actin conjunction with a committee from the Board of Councilmen, to revise the present list of news| ” Sdopleds and tho President rotate Aiderme 2 Boole, Genet and rages Sg Ae Though more than a week has passed since this resolution was adopted, no conclusion appears to have been as yet arrived at—indeed, we be- lieve no action has been taken in the premises. This may, perhaps, be accounted for by the fact that the Aldermen have been away at Albany lobbying, and have had other fish to fry. But the movement seems to be the veriest humbug. It is an old game with the Aldermen, which they have played so often that it is played out. They have many times adopted the same sort of ‘resolution, but it alwsys ended in smoke. It will so end now. Ifthe Aldermen really wanted to find the papers in this city with the largest circulation, they could as easily find them as the chamber- maids, and the general community, who, when they want to sell or buy, and to make the fact known to the largest number of persons, have no difficulty if selecting the paper which is in everybody's hands. The Post Office Department has ascertained by sworn testimony the paper of largeat cffculation in New York, and this is no secret to the Aldermen. Yet their object is not to “let their light shine before men,” but to hide it under a bushel. Hence their practice has generally been to advertise their “good works” in obscare papers of limited cir- culation, The first the property owners know of the operations of the Aldermen is when the tax collector puts his hand into their pockets, and the people find it out soon after by a new addition to their ever increasing rates and rents. Tae Lrrriz Ratroap GRIRONS IN THE Leorsiature.—Three of the city railroad bills were before the House at Albany yesterday, namely, the Seventh Avenue, Tenth Avenue and Forty-second- Street, and Avenue D and East Broadway roads. An effort was made to snb- stitute the Senate bill authorizing the Comp- troller to dispose of the leases at public auc- tion, but it failed, and a motion was carried to refer these three bills, together with the re- mainder ofthe batch of gridirons, with. orders toreportthem complete. The House seemed to hang fire on the question, the friends of the bills, whoever they are, refusing to give any information concerning them when it was asked for. We conclude that the entire lot of gridirons now only await the vote of the House, the result of which it is hardly possible to calculate upon in the present aspect of affairs. New Berwpises ww ome Crry.—There are less preparations than usual at this sea- son of the year for putting “up new build- ings. But few stores and houses are being erected throughout the city,.and these are confined to the erection of stores and fronts to complete the lines of the recently widened streets. In real estate there is just the same indisposition manifested to invest. The dry gocds men and jobbers, who are the principal speculators in this way on Broadway, decline for the present to enter into any new purchases or leases. For the general stagna- tion which prevails in these matters we have to thank the Harper's Ferry insurrection and the disunion movement. Men in trade will not in- vest large sums in building operations, with the uncertainties staring them in the face arising from violent political agitation. We shall probably eee no alteration ia the Present state of things until after the November elec- tion. If a Union candidate should concentrate the popular vote upon him, then business operations of every kind will resume their former activity. ‘Tur Cost or 4 Drsty Day.—Fortunately for the lungs and eyes of the citizens, the snow of yesterday vanquished the dust of the day before. The dust which the flerce March blast of Wednesday whirled off from oar parched streets did damage to property and person to an amount that would keep the city clean for six months. Dry goods, of course, were the greatest sufferers, both in the merchants’ stores and on the backs of pedestrians; farniture, too, must have been damaged considerably; and what with opticians’ bills, oud the edditional - Coneultation of physicians on the part of tho afflicted with lany and throat diseases, and Thd money spent for lager and other liquids wash down the dust, the sum which that o day’s blow will cause to be expended in rious ways would ampty euffice to give usc! as well as comfort, then, is dn argument favor of sweeping the street. —_—_—_—_—_— THE SPRING FASHIONS. ne Opening Day in the ‘The opening of the spring fashions took place day, socording tothe announcement in the Heap. ‘ae| ‘Weather was most unfavorable for the occasica, aad the| ‘warercoms and stores were not as crowded, therefore, ‘weual, Bull it was successful in the display of goods, which was more extensive and varied than we have seen at aay Previous spring opening. In fact, it exceeds that of last, Or amy former year, in the amount, variety, and the em- pensive quality of the various articles om exhibition. The Into financial revulsion sppeara.to have boos altogethor fer- gotten, and the world of faahion—or the New York per- tion of itis as gay, as: stylish, and as indifferent to ex- pense as if revulsions existed only im imagination and hed ‘Ro part in the bard realities of life. ‘Despite the weather there was, however, e very fair at tendance; the ladies were ovidently determined to see all that was to be seen, and the modisies, dressmakers and importers bad « busy time in attending to their Everything indicated a favorable season, and the dealers are in high hopes witn their future prospects. Bolow we give a detailed account of the opening day im ‘the various departments. The following are the names ef Broapway—John Brown & ©o,, W. Jackson, Mrs. J, H. Gosson, John Simmons, Mrs. G. Schlegel, Mile. Bar- nett, Madame Harris & Son, Madame Elvina Guerin, Hea- ry Wilkens, G. W. Bassford, Mra, Soofield, A. Hathaway, ‘Misses Thomas, Mesdsimes Pioot & Wilkinson, Mra, Lavats,, Jas. Tucker, Madame Kabn, Geo. Hearu, Jas. EXgers, Charlotte G, Smith, Lord & Taylor, A. Boyle, ‘Mme. Demarest, J. A. Rose, Mrs. Levins. Caamnens Steser—P. & H. Lewis. ‘Wavaazy PLace—Mlle, R. Barnett, Bonp Sraast—Mre. A. Fuller. Cutow Prace—A. M. Furlong. i Cana Sreexr—Misses Smith & Daly, Miesee Gaflier, lara, Johneon, Mrs. T. Johnson, Kellogg, Maaame Rallings, Mra, E. Gary, Mrs, Mulchinock, E. W. Cripps, Mrs. Barton, Mies Neale. Bowxay—Mrs. W. B. Dowdell, Mrs. J. W. Dempesy, ‘Miss E. Driscoll. Buxecerer Srezet—Mrs. Davidgon. Division Srxamt—Mrs. M. Freely, Mrs. Openhym. “BONNETS. ‘The bonnets for the coming spring and summer. Of the crown as in that of the front; for the fist ‘still holds its place, and thus affords excellent opp tunity for contrasting two styles 0 essentially dif- ferent in every particular. Theruche has seon its days, and it is now decidedly ont of fashion. It must content to he superseded for a time, in order that it return to us some future day, with allthe charm novelty. It has kept its hold on public favor “for a Jong time, and, like am unconscionable visiter, its parture does not excite one regret. We must be under. -8tood as speaking of the fall ruche, for side ruches atill seen, but so soant and curtailed that their jg changed. They are not now, as of yore, face trim bat rather « frame in which the trimming ia got. . In some hate designed for summer wear we have served @ novelty in the form of barbes or lappets, long and wide, floating on each side, and formed of a of tulle of the same color as the hat, and edged with lcate blonde. The flowers used in trimming are this son more than ordinarily beautifal; they are exqu a model of stately grace, the other of 6 tiners-—are also used in trimming; likewiae Titboss, who copsequent are fact esotnlay when French bats form o of the day. Crowds of slowly round the rooms af Ha eateaeede hr : i [ Pi 5 iH i caught in at intervais by clasps trimming was composed of cra aningied in fan-like forms large white roees. Round of bicnde, which added Another of the sane style, ccked more brilliant, but recherché, stylish looking crown, covered with reat attention. a DI arches of pur under the rich Jock'ng that