The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1865, Page 4

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On yesterday and the day before there wore long sos- sions of tho Cabinet at Washington, in which the subject of throwing upon the entire Suuth to unrestricted trade ‘was under consideration, and it is understood that Pre- sident Johnson and ali his Secretaries excepting one are in fayor 0° this proceeding. The matter, however, re- Mains ye! undecided. ‘Tho trial of tho persons charged with implication in the great assassination conspiracy will be commenced in ‘Washington some timo next week. Our Richmond despatchos show the terrible state of impoverishment in which the people of Virginia are now found to be, and to which they have been reduced by the drafts of the rebel military establishment on their resources of all kinds. Thousands of the inhabitants of Richmond, Petersburg and the surrounding country are preserved from starvation only by the supplies of food which the United States commtzearies furnish them. Strong desires are expressed for the removal by government of all restrictions on trade not contraband of war, 60 that fuc'lities may be af- forded for # resuscitation of industry both in the towns and rural districte, At present the far- mers generally are without seeds necessary to do their planting, and unlose these ean be speedily procured there will be no crops forth- oomidg in the State in the summer and fall, It tn understood that the Army of the James, com- manded by Gonernl Oni, and consisting of the Twenty- fourth and Twenty-Afth ec tho present. sisting of colored troope, will go into camp at City Point, A portion of tho Army of the Potomac waa expected to pass through Richmond on Thursday or yesterday, on its way to Washington, The principal cit'zens and local officials of Richmond aro rapidly coming forward to the Provost Marshal's office and taking the th of allegiance to the govern. ment, Among others who havo subscribed to it are Mayor Mayo, Judge lyons and Littleton Tazowoll, Proncenting Attorney in one of the courte. Judge Onld, formerly of Washington, and = Iately rebel of Exchange, has, {t Is reported, been arrested, by order of the govern- mont, Mr. Pierpont, the loyal Govornor of Virginia, is expected to arrive in Richmond shortly, when, It is sup- posed, the seat of the Stato government will be trans- forred to that city from Alexandria. Our Charleston depatches are to tho Lat inst, General Potter's force had-returned from its expedition into the intertor of South Carolina, having (vetroyed an immense amount of rebol property, Tho guerilias have again be- come troublesome In the southern part of the State, On the 27th ult. a party of them made their appearance within ‘gtx miles of Charieston and tore up some railroad track. Aother strong force of national troops is soon to be sent out through the State. The rebel ram Columbia, sunk fm Magnolia croek, has beon raived, and is found to be mot greatly injured. She will be brought to the North. ‘The secessionists of Ubarleston wero wild with Joy on learning of the arsassination of President Lin- coln, and it fs sald that women were actually > profane and sacrilegious as to fall on their knoes and exprere their thanks to God for this en- Ormous crime. But the sudden arrest of ex-Governor Alken appoared to Lring them to their senses, and they immediately became more discreet in their conduct, Mr. Aiken's arrest and the éxpulsion of the @ontamacious Episcopalian clergyman, Mr. Mar- Giall, who refused to substitute the prayer for Go Provident of the United States for that Privd to had voor offering cor Jotf Davia, had caused tho implements or rps, will remain in Virgin'a for It is bald that the Twenty-fifth corps, con- Commirsioner NEW YORK HERALD, [2° = SySGuemwn 27 O28 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY) MAY", 1885. .uut Aiken Das mover been anything but o Union men. Gencral Sherman's headquarters are being estabitehid at Alexandria, Vo., for which plage big army is now on the march from Raleigh across North Carclina und V.r- gin'a, by way of Richmond. ‘There was still au absence yeatentay of the necessary witnoss"s to proceed with the trial of Benjamin G. Har. ris, of Maryland, charged with troasonable conduct, and the case wes further adjouraed over til! to-day Another of tho rebel agents in Canada, William C. Cleary, for whose arrest Prosidont Johnson has offvred @ reward of ten ihousand dollars, has publishd a e-mmunication asserting that he had no connec- tion with tho Washington assassination plot, Be- verly Tucker and George N. Sanders yesterday tasued nt Johnson with conspiring to m'rder ngness to stand their thoy charge Prostd Joff, Davis, und assert their w! trial for the crime with which they aro charged MISCELLANEOUS NEW3. Tater and int ting news from the Spanish-American republics on the Pacific coast, 1s furmshed in tho des- paiches of our Panama and Lina correspgndenta, brought by the stearaship Costa Riea which arrived here , yester- day, from Aspinwall on the 26th of April. The Costa Rica broaght to this port over six hundred and sixty thousand dollars in sp cic. ‘A now contract between the government of Colombia and the Panniaa Rairoad Company had been drawn up, by whi h the perpetual proprictorship-of thelr line ts conced vl to the company, and no other ra troad nor any canal is allowed to be built without their consent, within ninety mites on either sido. ‘This contract had not yet ‘been acied upon hy the Colombian Congress, but the be- lief was thut i would be ratified by that body. ‘The nows of Use surrender of Lee's army had been re- ceived in Panama, nud the rojo cing over it by the loyal Amer was urea, ‘The pirate Shenandoah, from Australian, vas helvg looked for on the Pacific coast. of Pera wasagein ina state o° revolu- y and confusion, which was expected to con- tilla, who was absent, returned, when it was Would as a matter of conrse once nore b> Thore were rnmora that Spain had maud on Chile for indemnity for the in @ eustained in consequence of the the latter repr refusing tow low the Spante oal and stipplies In Sts ports aur with Pora regarding tho Chinois Islands. In the department of Chiriqat, State of Vana ma, there had been threo differeM revolutions in about asinany days, A forced loan of eighteen thovrand dol- lars whith the government had made in the city of Panama bad caus ‘d considerable excitement; but it was generally pad without much hesitation. In Lglivia General Relaa had been shot while endeavoring io get up & now revolution. * In another portion ef this morning’s Hxrarp will be found some important and exceedingly interesting offie’al correspondence regarding Mexican affairs between the Ministor of the republic of Mexico in Washington, Mr. Romero, and Secretary Seward. Mr. Romero enters & Strong protest against the transfer to Loris Napoloon by Maximilian of certain Northern States of Mexico. We also publish a communication sent to us by Mr. Romero, enclosing a note from President Juarez, in both of which the statements that the latter had offered to sell certain Morican territory to the government of the United States are positively denied. Much excitement was created in Washington yesterday by the appearance in one of the papers of that city of an advertisement calling for volunteers to go to Mexico, in- forming all desirons ot embracing the opportunity where they can cal! to register their namee, and also stating that similar acencies will be opened in this city, Phila delphia, Baltimore and other places, ‘We havo received Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, pa- pers to the 22d of February; but they contain no news of interest, ‘The etcamship Clty of Port au Prince, from Port au Prince on the 27th ult., arrived here yesterday. She brought no news of importance. The health of Hayt! generally was good. A formal demand on behalf of the now Fire Commis- sioners of this city was yesterday made on the Comp- troller and Street Commissioner for the delivery of all the Fire Department property. Great socresy is still Preserved by the Commizsioners in all their movements and proceedings, and even the place where they hold their meetings {s yet known to but a very few persons. The marshals charged with the duty of serving tho in- junction granted by Judgo Sutherland restratning the Commissioners from assuming the duties of their post- tion had much difficulty in finding these officials, who Kept thomselves well out of the way; but yesterday afternoon some of them wero discovered in Wall street, and the injroction was served. What course the Com- missioners will now pursue has not been made manifest, The Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions brought ina large number of indictments yesterday, to which the prisoners, on being arraigned, pleaded not guilty, Their trials were set down for next week. Mar- garet McKean was charged with stealing a shawl from Mrs. R. M. Hardy, No. 22 East Fourteenth street. The testimony being of a doubtful character, the case was abandoned and the jury acquitted the accused. In the afternoon councel for Mr. Peter R. Strong (who is in- dicted for an alleged abortion upon his wife, Mary Strong, against whom he has brought a suit for divorce), made a motion before Judge Russel to have the case speedily tried or the indictment quashed. He alleged that the indictment was found without a prehminary examination, and that oppressive acts had been resorted to in finding the bill. Counsel for the prosecntion replied; but in consequence of the Judge having an engagement the argument was ad- Journed tI this morning, at eleven o'clock. John Ravel plead-d guilty to picking the pocket of William Redfleld of a gold watch on the day of the funeral of President Lincoln, He was one of a gang of thirty pickpockets who were arrested on that occasion. The City Judge sent Ravel to the State prison for three years and six months. ‘The North American and Itallan Stearaship Company, chartered at the late session of the Legislature of this State, was organized at a maceting of the corporators hold at tho Astor Rouse yesterday. The vessels of this line, which are expected to commence thelr trips in a very short time, will run between New York and Genoa, touching at Madeira and Cadia. Superintendent Kennedy has isened an order giving directions for a new summer uniform to be worn by the police, The principal change, and one which will no doubt condure much to the comfort of the members of the force, will be in the cont, which, instead of being tight waisted, as in the winter suit, will be a loose rack, ‘The material for both coat and pants will be blue flannel. The steamship City of Washington, Captain 8 ¢ Brooks, of the Inman line, wit! eail to-day at noon for Queenstown and Liverpool, from plor 44 North river, Tie mails will close at the Post Office at half past ten A. M. ‘Two entire blocks in the business portion of Ironton, Obie, were destroyed by fire on the 28d ult. Seventecn firms were burned ont, and tho loss ig estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. The stock market was very dull yesterday. Govern. ments were rather heavy, Gold opoued at 143% and cloved at 14254. ‘Thore was but little change in commercial affairs yes- terday. A fair businoss was dono, and as a goneral thing fill priees obtained for both domestic and foreign pro- duce, whilo many kinds were even higher, Cotton was le. per Ib. higher. On ’Change flour was more nctive and be. higher. Wheat was firmer, while corn was dall and lower. Oats declined 10, 2 20., with @ Hmited de- mand. The pork market opened dull and heavy, but Clored active and firm. Beef was eteady, while lard was firm, with a fair inquiry. Froights wero dull and heavy, and whiskey was unchanged, Tue Biockane.—The Cabinet, we understand, have been considering the question of declaring the blockade at an end. It is probable that the time depends only npon the capture of Jeff. Davis or information of his eacape from the country. In any event the blockade will soon be terminated, and then, with « market for their cotton, in exchange at their own doors for salt and sugar, coffee and tea, bread and bacon, shoes and stockings, and the lotest fashions, even the rebellious beautiful women of the South will rejoice that the war ts over, and be ready, “for better or for worse,” for a union ' with “those detestable Yankees,” their second manifesto on tho uscassination, in which. The Negro Question—A Settlement with the Factious Agitators, North end South, In closing up this terrible. civil war, the most sanguinary in the history of mavkind, we naturally recur to the causes and the insligo tors of this unhappy struggle. We sev that the causes underlying and cropping out on all sides were elavery and the political agitation of the slavery question, North and South; that the trouble commenced in tho’ convention which adopted the constitution of the United States, and that the framers of that instrument, for the sake of the Union, had to transmit that trouble to their posterity, in being compelled to enter into a compromise on slavery, which included, among other concessions, even the adoption of the African slave trade for a term of twenty years. Under this compromise the country pros- pered, passed triumphantly through enother war with England, and had rest from any vio- lont agitation of slavery for thirty years. But thon the question of the admission of Missouri as a slave State convulscd the nation, and threatened very serious consequences, till Henry Clay calmed tho troubled waters with the oil of his famous Mis- souri compromise. But twenty years later the of Banquo to frighten us at our feast over the territorial spoils conquered from Mexico, when again a new compromise from Henry Clay, in- cluding the Missouri compact, gave us enother term of peace, This adjustment would, per- haps, have lasted for twenty or thirty yours had not poor Pierce, in 1854, four years after its | adoption, under the influence of Jeff. Davis, Mason, Slidell, and their associate Sou’hern | democratic leaders, brought about, asa Pre | dential party moasure, the repeal of the Missouri | compromiso, This was the opening of Pandora’s box; this act, which tore the democratic pariy to piccos, cast it out of power and rapidly, under their disunion leaders, hurried the bulk of the Southern States headlong into the fath- omless abyss of the rebellion, That Kansas- Nebragka bill lified the curtain, and the open- ing scones of the sanguinary drama of civil war which has followed were played in Kansas. In all this business a heavy responsibility at- taches to the democratic party; and it hasbeen feartully punished for its treachery to itself and the country. But behind the old democratio party, and controlling it to ifs destruction, wo find the real elements of this mischief in tho Southern slavery propaganda; just as we find the elemonts which destroyed the old whig prrty in the Northern radical abolition faction. Tho whig party courted the Northern aboli- tionists for their support, and it was destroyed by a Southern reaction; the democratic party truckled so basely to the Southern pro-slavery fire-enters that it was literally torn to pieces by a Northern convulsion. These discrganizing aboli- tion and pro-slavery sectional factions were started into life with the establishment of tho first Northern abolition journals, over thirty years ago. But what with the tariff, nullification, the national bank, internal improvements, the financial revulsion fof 1837 and other leading questions, the power of the abolitionists as a political faction was not made manifest until the year 1844, on the Texas queation, when, by @ strange inconsistency, fifteen thousand aboli- tion whigs, in voting for Birney, the first regular abolition Presidential candidate, defeated Henry Clay and elected Polk. We may now trace to those fifteen thousand stupid abolition votes all the troubles that have followed to the country. From that day commenced the active demo- ralization of the two great national parties then in the foreground—the whig party from its jug- gling affiliations with the Northern abolitionists, and the democratic party from its servile con- cessions to the Southern pro-slavery fire-eaters. Disunion was the political war cry of both these disturbing factions. “No union with slaveholders” shouted the Northern abolition- ists. “Our rights under the constitation, or dis- union,” shouted the Southern fire-eaters. Abo- litionists and fire-eaters played into cach other’s hands. On the one side fugitive slaves, in vio- lation of the constitution and the laws, were systematically spirited away, and their recovery resisted in all sorts of petty annoyances; on the other side abolitionists, by mob law, were sys- tematically tarred and feathered when caught south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and were not at all times exempt from lynching by the roughs of the Northern democracy. Th:cse acts of law- lessness and violence on both sides, by aboli- tionists and Southern disunfonists, in due time widened the bitterness of feeling North and South into a sectional organization of parties, no slavery and pro-slavery, and we need not repeat the consequences, What we want now isu dnal settlement with these disorgauizing soctional factions on the slavery question and the negro question, The war has killed Southern slavery. Let it be buried and put out of the wey as soon as possi- ble. It ends the slavery agitction. But there is yet something left for abolition capital in the negro agitation. Against this demand thatas slavery is abolished, and that as the African race have powerfully aseisted us in putting down the rebellion and in saving the life of the nation, they should have a share in the political right of the ballot box, what valid objection can be made? We cannot long resist this demand in view of the extinction of slavery and the ser- vices of the Southern blacks during this war. With every opportunity and in every way they have been our faithful allies. We have had two hundred and fifty thousand of them in the service of the army and navy. Their battle of emancipation, involving four millions of their race, has turned the acale in our favor, and we must yield to the sagacity of President Lincoln’s emancipation edicts. It is folly to argue ngainst established facts, We adhere to the lights of experienco and common sense. Hence we would say again to President Johnson that he has nothing to fear in laboring to give the Southern blacks the right of suffrage in the reconstruction of the rebellious States. Political negro exclusions, looking to the safety of negro slavery, are no longer necessary, slavery being dead.’ Above all, we want to see not only the slavery ques- tion, but the negro question, as a political hobby, permanently settled, so that Northern and Southern negro agitators may be silenced, in being deprived of the last parcel of their stock in trade—negro suffrage in the recon- quered States. Mommy Ascwpawt.—It may be observed from the of the government loans taken up for several days past that they average be- tween five and six millions » day, varying from four t0.seven millions ver diem, Thes it is ev slavery question again stalked in like the ghost | dent that the governmeng ean be supplied with money almost without limit, so complete is the confidence in its solvency, and so abundans are the financial means to moet all its requirements. ‘The resources of this country are not half de- veloped. As the demands upon them increase, 60 do they yield out of their abundance tho wherewithal to supply these demands, and the time is now com’ng when this fact will be moro fully realized than ever before, Mexico and France—'Phe Mextean Minti~ ter and the Reported Cessions of Terri- tory. We publish in our columns to-day two or three interesting documents relative to Mexico. One is a reply of the Mexican Minister at Wash- ington to the statements recently made by M. Costa in the French Legislature, Another 13 a translation of thy timely, patriotic and able protest which Sefior Romero addressed to our government on the 6th of February last, with reference to the reported sale or bypothecation by the ox-Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria of certain portions of the territory of the republic of Mexico to Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French. This protest is nata- rally and properly addressed by the represen- tative of Mexico to the United States, not only as itis the country to which he is accredited, but because of the vital interest which tho United States and all of the republics on this continent have in a transaction so directly affecting their security as independent soy- ercignties. If Fraace has the right to come to this conti- nent and partition out Mexico at her will, what safeguard has any other Power against a simi- lar attempt at some convenient time when it may please France or some European Power to atiack them? It is idle for Louis Napoleon to assert that Maximilian is a responsible sove- reign, As the representative of Mexico very | justly says, he 1s for Mexico only the agopt of the Ei ror of the French. THe was carried to Moxico by French arms, and he is sustained there to-day only by French power. No specious arguments or assumptions can gloss over this fuct, which is patent to all the world, and its bearings clearly understood. Conse- quently any transaction between Maximilian and Louis Napoleon is prec'sely of the same nature, and has no other, of a transaction be- tween General Bazaine and Louis Napoleon. It can have no binding force whatever cither in law or in equity upon the Mexican nation. Its provisions may be enforced so long as there aro French arms present to enforce them, but they can be no. longer. For French arms to remain in Mexico, however, to keep down the republic, is for Louis Napoleon to assumo that French arms are to be stronger on this continent than the will of the American people. Thero are not many who will agree with him in this opin- ion after the verdict that has just beon rendered in the United States that republican institutions shall live, We regret, for the sake of those sanguine but {ill-informed financiers of the speculative persua- sion in Paris who have just made a present to the unfortunate Maximilian of their first instalment of the loan which will come quite convenient for bim to retire upon, that we could not have communicated to them this interesting correspondence at an earlier date. We know they would have been pleased to have seen it before.they signed their late con- tract. Indeed, had this been the case, or had they been better informed as to the course of affuirs on this continent, they would at least have saved the cost of the paper upon which their worthless scrip, like the rebel scrip in its every feature, is written. It may be possible also for them to draw some conclusions from the nature of Mr. Seward’s reply to Sefior Ro- mero’s protest quite at variance, perhaps, with the assurances so confidently communicated by M. Rouher in the speech to which se much credit has unwisely been given. We commend these documents to the thought- ful consideration of the subscribers to Maxi- milian’s loan, and particularly to the public, whom they have sought to dupe. Tax TRIBUNE oN THE LEG'sL«TURF.—Has there been a popular error in relat'on to the Legisla- ture of this year? Every one supposed it to be a tolerably fair body—at least quite as hon- est as such bodies usually are; but the Tribune says it was a very corrupt one. Now, it is well known that the Legislature was republican, and that the Tribune is the organ of the party that elected the Legislature. Must we not sup- pose, therefore, that the Tribune has special sources of knowledge on this subject, and knows more about the matter than the public does? There was the Health bill, for Instance. It was acknowledged by all that the passage of that bill would greatly benefit this city. It was recognized asa measure full of public good. The clergy spoke in its favor from the pulpit even, and the medical profession and the whole intelligent community were in its favor. But it was lost. Has the 7ribune any special knowl- edge of the secret history of tiat bill, and is that the knowledge that induces it to denounce the corruption of the Legislaiure? There was a Warehouse and Pier bill, too—not so neces- sary to the public as the other—in which the Tribune concern was interested, and in which the members of the Tribune concern were named as corporators. Perhaps the Tribune knows how it happened that the Warehouse and Pler bill passed, while tho Health bill was lost. Does is? The Tribune dwolls upon the fact that the Tax levy was kept back, and cries out corrup- tion! Why, then, perhaps it knows all about that, too. Has the Tribune been informed that the levy was kept back in order that there might be attached to it the Tax Commissioners’ bill, by which the 7ribune was to be made com- fortable and happy? R.8. V. P.—which, being rendered into the vernacular, significs please answer ond let us know all about it. Esrorants ror Mextco—Agents of the Mexi- can republic at Washington are calling upon our discharged Union soldiers to volunteer as emigrants to Mexico under very favorable in- ducements, Doubtless considerable numbers of our enterprising young men will go, and go, too, ag believers in the Monroe doctrine, and the government cannot interfere with their right to go. How they will be received by the Emperor Maximilian is another question; but we that if the Monroe doctrine gets into Mexico, the Emperor will find it expedient to get out In the bare mention of this proposi- tion of 9 liberally compensated from the United Btates we reach o oe the Mexican question without giving any Ground of complaint to Louls Nenoleon. or any trouble to ourgovernmemt Union and <ebel soldiers will most on the sams platform fo Mexico. Ove FivaXouat Seatva—Wo have accom- plished extraordinary things in this country within the past our years, causing no litHle astonishmont in Burope. The way we deal! with the stupendous rebellion and put it down, ‘the vast military resagiregs which wo developed, tho atrength manifested by our government whon, under circumsiances wnparelleled in this country, its elected head was assassinated, and yet the stream of government flowed on, with- outa ripple disturbing its surtrce, save the shadow of grief which fell upon thre Jand—all these events are beyond the comprehension of tho people of Europe. But they have yet to witness the most remarkable and nove! of all the ovents arising out of this war, and that is the capacily of the country to pay the dobt which the war has created. It ts a notorious fact that no country in Europe has over paid its war deb‘s. From England, with {ts four thousand mil- lions of dollars of national debt, down to the smallest Powers. of Germany, thoy have never been able fo do more than pay the interest, and that by heavy taxation on the people. They have, on the contrary, been increasing, bat never prying off, their debt. But how is it with us? The debt acounmlated by the war of the Revolution and that of 1812 was not only pald off in «© few years, but, in the time of Jackson, we had a sur- plus of forty or fity millions, which was dis- tributed: among the States for the purposes of education, and it was not until twenty years had clapsed that the last State accepted its quota. The money had, in fact, almost to bo forced upon them, The debt incurred by this war, now inst concluded, immense as it may be, will be paid off in a few years, The gonera- tion now living will see it iqnidated, and with- out oppressing the people with taxation to a greater extent than they feel the taxation of to- day. We have borrowed nothing of foreign Powers, but have carricd on the war entirely with our own resources—have supplied our own fighting material and our own money, while foreign nations were supplying the enc- my with all that was needed in the way of loans and munitions of war, to be used against us, This is somothing in the history of great wars which the world has never before oxhib- ited, and it is only a country with such bound- Jess resources and such a free and firm govern- ment that could accomplish it, Despite the severo struggle through which we have passed our financial status to-day is without example. Present Lixcory’s Return To I.11Nows.— When Abraham Lincoln, as President elect, in 1861, left Springficld, Illinois, for Washington, he was comparatively an unknown mén, charged with the heaviest ‘responsibilities that ever fell upon mortal shoulders. After sub- stantially finishing his great work, to the admiration of the country and the ap- proval of all honest and impartial men of the world, his mortal remains are borne back to Illinois with such honors as were never bestowed upon mortal man before. His faneral procession, starting from Washing- ton on Wednoaday, the 19th of April, reached the tomb at Springfield on Thursday, the 4th of May, thus extending through fifteen days, over a line-of thonsands of miles, along which the precious body of the nation’s martyred leader was honored with every possible mani- featation of grief and veneration by millions of people. Truly has he returned to Illinois a mighty conqueror, lifted to the side of Wash- ington from his gloriows work, and mourned in every house, from the Atlantic to ihe Pacific, as the head of the family cruelly taken away. Mount Vernon and Springfield are widely seps- rated, but henceforth the visitor to either will pay his tribute to both. Tuanssorvina anv Fast Days.—The Presi- dent of the United States and the Gover- nors of the several States should be supplied with an almanac of each of our religious de- nominations so that in the appointment of thanksgiving and fast days they may not come {nto collision with some important festival or saint’s day of this church, that or the other. Gov. Fenton made aserious mistake in appoint- ing Good Friday as 9 day of thanksgiving; but this was negligence. , President Johnson, how- ever, with a Christian-almanac before him, would not have named Ascension day for a day of mourning. The Episcopalians appealed for ® change, and the day was changed accordingly to the Ist of June; but here the Jews come in with the plea that this arrangement will inter- fere with their great festive) of Shervuous, and all for the want of a Jewish almonac. If our religious societies wish tho Prosident or the Governor to respect their church calleadars they must send in their almanacs. Torrzpo Exrropep Unver Tur Coat. Monoro- Ly.—Tho government purchases of coal in this city have been reduced from ten thousand tons a day to nine thousand tons a week, Ganwan Orena.—As the season of Gorman Opera ad vancoa, the houses are more largely attend! Laxt night the Academy was pretty fairly filled, presenting one of the bost appearances of the season. Halevy's grand opera La Juive was given, with Mme, Johansen, Mme. Rotter and Mesirs, Weinlich, Hunmor and Habio- man in the cast, Tho latior gentleman was remarkably good as Leopold. Carl Formes, it appeara, was suddenty attacked with the favorite disease of artists known ae ‘+ indisposition,” and, therefore, the part of the Cardinal was assumed by Welnlich, who sang it well, and was very warmly reocived, Faust will be given to-day ata grand matinée, Hawurr at rim Broapwar Trmarar.—Shaksparo’s great tragedy of Hamict was last night produced at this theatre, The attendance of the public was very large, and, we need scarcely say, it consisted of the most fasinionadle and critical of our citizens. The drama was represented by sore leading actors well known to faine, and the bench and bar were not without thelr repre- tentatives, Considering the limited advantages and re- sources of this small theatre for bringing out spectacular pieces, we must say that Hamlet was very successfully Played, Of Mr. and Mra, Kean there can be but one opinion—they are always favorites, because they are always great, Yot we must say that we prefer Mr. Koan in alinost any of his ovher rétes to the one he sustained last night, With a larger stage and more effective. sup- port the pleee would have been better rondered; yet all that couid be done under the circumstances was done, atid well done, The Ophelia of Mies Chapman was in ‘every way commendable, and that lady deserves a word of praise and encouragement, as does Mr, Cathcart for the energy and spirit with which he played the part of Lacrtes, ‘Tonight we will havea repetition of King John; and Monday next, the last of tho brief season, Mr. Saaties Ken takes hie benefit, wien Henry the Kighth and the Wife will be represented. Lot there be ofall om both these oceasians by all means, Saqnmense Hevival in the Business—E fect of the Cessation of the War on the Travel to the Old World, &e, Thore is a ruse to Borope, Our packet steamer: are crowiud with paszonvers, Amarica, im @ fog for four yoars, is tu sunshine again. In tho peacefsl and happy tines that provailed jast Yofore the breaking out of tho rebeltiow me people were snore celebrated for ‘heir love of travel thea tha natives of republican Aimert'a, ‘Their foorsteps wer? to be found tn every part of the globe. Wherever a railroad was tn'd, or a ship could navigate, or a ballven sail on its siry voy. ayoa, thero the familiar face of Brother Jomathan was to be seen ip all {ts glory, Obztactes, large or stall, were more trifles'in i's way, to be over’omns &¥ Son as met It mado Iittle difference to hia whother ho had to par'es vou; Francais with Johnny Crapear in sunny Frange, or ~abvber in high Dutch with the Germans, or kiss the ‘Papal toe in Romo, or talk politics with Jobn Bull, of inqeatigate the humanity of Sando in Africa, or drink strong tea and study commorce in China or Jupan, or ffrt with the maids, sans erinoline, of the Sandwich Islands, or wander in tho anctont regions of Hindoo, Kzgypt or Palestine—tho enterprising wat ever-reaty Yankee was equally at home. Tho cat of the prasnnt or the Kavee of the Einperor was open to bin, aad he walked fo with true American style, brtTlout and bracing. Acommercs as unbounded ag the resources of his counsby carried the Stars and Strijies to wrery civi- lized, and many of the nnetvilized, ports of the wniverse. In short, Jonathan was everywhere, and always chuck full of his natural ep rit of independence and of patriotie pride tor home and ite inst'tatiens. ‘The reboliton mado asad change in all this, Jonathan found 49 much to o-cupy him serio sly at home that he coased to. wander moro, From being, fa tho opinion of aristocratic ‘sembblers, the Paul Pry of vations, alvaye pok ‘ng bts noso into ‘strange places, ho becane euddonly & groai stay-at-home, and dovoted himsel to Jrilling «ad Aghting, instosd of wandering and sporting, For sour long and weary years—years of suffering and tri! suet as no other nation ever cudured befure-—thi« of affairs coutinned, At last # reaction has come, The triumphant successes of our amy ard navy, and tho prosp ct of the speedy dawn of the day of peace, together with the heavy fall in gold, have revived the American penck.»t for wan- dering. With confirmed fa'th in their national instita- tions and restored confidence in the security of their proporty and effects, they feel once moro tho old passion impelling them to latneh upon the waves and direct their course to distant countries tn search of recreation, ploa- sure and businoas, ‘The result is that the travel to the Old World has been amazingly increased §within the Inst five or s'x weeks, Every vessel for England, France, Germany and the other countries of Europe is crowded to Its fullest capa- city. Tho Cunard steamer Peraia, which left this port Wednesday, was unable to accommodate all the xpplicants for passage, and carried out an unusually large com- pany of American travellers, The Bromen, of the North German Lloyds Company, which 4s announced to sail on Saturday, will depart with all hor acsommoda- tions for passengers completely oxbacsted. Our re- port’r was informet at tho ol: of the compony yoo terday that there were applicants enough to fil three veasols of the capacity of the Bremen, and that never before, since the establishment of the line, were the com- pany obliged to refuse passage to people for want of euf- ficient accommodations, The same with Dale's splendid Hino of steamers, Thus ‘t was at nearly all the other steamship offices. Mr. Richards, of tho Hamburg Ameri- can Packot Company, has observed a marvellous increase tn the nimbor of sicerage passengers bound on short trips to their natave land. Thoy are three te one as compared with the corresponding season last yar. Among the cabin passengors by this route the per cen'age of Americans ts also vory large. The French line also goes full and is @ success, Of course, at this season every year the “steamers are genorally pretty well filled with tourists bound for the fashionable watering places of Europe. But the increase this year is 90 entirely beyond anything of the kind that as occurrod for years, that it.can only be explained as duo to the inevitable restoration af poace and the conse- quent sonse ‘of security and costaenos «experienced by ail classes of our poople. Bes‘des, the American can go abroad now with more assurance and pride, being ne longer the citizen of a divided and distracted country, but of a reunited and more firmly than ever established republic of States, founded on the surest and wisest prin- ciples of free government. The reappearance of Brother Jonathan abroad once more, in all his pride and all bie glory, will teach the world @ lesson which was sadly needed. It will show that the repubi:¢ is not an instita- tion tobe tumbled down at the first rude shook, and that it is as well constituted to ride through the horrors of war triumphantly as it is to flourish and expand amid the blessings of peace. Another effect of the explosion of the rebellion bubble 4s tho preparation fora speedy emigration from Europe to this country acain, on the largest scale, All the ship- ping offices aro now disposing of more certificates of pas- sage ins week than used to be disposed of ina month formerly. These certificates are for persons preparing te leave Ruropo for free America, The agents of the Amert- can steam Iines in Europe write that the emigration will be enormous during the next three months, from Eng- land, Ireland and the interior of Germany, Let them come—thore is room for all, and more too. GOING TO EVROPz. Indian Troubles in the Northwest. Sr. Pavt, Minn., May 5, 1865. A party of six Indians murdered four persons, name@ Jowott, in Blue Karth county. A haif-breed, named Camp- bell, was lynched as one of the murderers, In his con- fession he stated that nino bands of Indians, numbering one hundred, were in the vicinity-of Mankato. Plenty of troops are in the vicinity, and they will probably cap- turo the muderors and prevent furthor mischief, DEATH OF REV. Younans, N. Y., May Rey, Rdward Lynch, of Yonkers, died at ten o’clook DEATH OF A BOSTON BANK PRESIDENT. Bostrom, May 5, 1865. J. Amory Davis, President of the Suffolk Bank, died this morning, after a brief iIness. srs in econ Om ‘Vit.anova's Concert. 'r. Villanova, the eminent pianist gives his grand concert at Dodworth Hall this evening. In tho estimation of many Mr. Villanova ig not excelled by Gottechalk as a pianist, Matives at Tnvinc Hats.—After a considerable inter val, in which the artists have been delighting the dent- zens of other cities, Mile de Katow and Mr. Webli will perform at a final matinée in Irving Hall this afternoon. No doubt thoir reappearance will be welcomed by those who have learned to appreciate the talents of both artists, ‘Tor Siaxerva Reavty—Grand Martvex.—The fairy spectacle of the “Sleeping Beauty,” which has had such ‘a succesefcl run atthe Olympic, will be produced, with all ite brilliant attractions, at a grand malings to-day, ‘This will be a fine opportunity for those ladies an@ children who have not yet seen It etna ‘Tum Norra Americas asp Transan Staavam Comprar, A uow company, bearing the above title, recently char- tered by tho Legistature of this State, was organized yes torday, ata meeting of the directors held at tho Astor House, The corporators are Charies M. Wilkins, George Mackay, Hiram Dixon and William HE. Hagan, of New York; N. B. Bryant, of Boston, and James Pollock and J. H. Walton, of Philadciphia. H. D. Foster, of Pennsyl- vania, and Hiram Barney, Osborne Macdaniel, G. F. Sec chi de Casall and K. EB. Kendrick, of New York, have been constituted associate directors, under the provisions of the charter, We understand that this line of steamships has been oatablished und pecial concession of the Italian gow ernmont, who are desirous of forming closer and more extonded relations with the United States, and that it has grantod to the company the most favorwile terms for the transmission of the mails between the twa countries, with a guarantee of four por cent apon the eapital of foar mi ions of dollars, The lino will be started inimediately, te run between New York and Genos, towshing at Madeira and Cadia, thus affording direct comm: jnication between New York and those places, whiah big Jong been desira- ble for the convenience and ecom Passengers, whe are now compelled to go, via EngloAd, and other indirect routes, as well as for our large sa growing commerce, — ee Lavsew or A Prot Boat.--Tha new plot boat Wile liam Bell will be launched ak five gyolock this afternoon, from Qpe yard of Edwin F. Witliamo, at Groenpoint Ghe tp to take the place Of the, “William Bell which was deprroyed by the pirate Tallr‘aassos off Sandy Hook last Aragust, The now pilot brut te expscted to bos very Tt teat caller: ‘