The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. A petition of naval surgeons and assistant surgeons for and forming a pile of considerable height. John Wilson, increase of pay was presented. The Senate concurred in | @carman, who was riding past om his truck at the time, the Joint resolution for a commitiee to take suitable ac- | and James Hagan, sustained severe injuries. Thore was tion relative to the death of President Lincoln, and then | a report, which, however, could not be traced to any re- adjourned over till Monday next. lable source, thet two mon were buried under the ruins. In the House of Representatives a bill was introduced ‘The case of the goverument against William C. Bar- ‘OFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nassau srs. | and referred te the Judiciary Committée which is in- | ney, Benthan Fabian and Captain Reginald Chauncy, — tended to guard against any possibility of the office of | on the alleged charge of attempting to defraud the in- ‘TERMS oash in advance. Money sent by mail will be | President of the United States becoming vacant. It pricnad werent sor ae _ Saturday pas at cession to the position, if events -past ten o'clock, when brought up before Justice * ate a eee peepee Lee a ccrgncliag tm in the order of their | Dowling yesterday, owing to the unavoidable absence of eathcenyn caine official standing, of the Vice President, Prosi- | counsel for the prosecution, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, | dont pro tem. of the Senate, Speaker of tho | The splendid sidewhoe! steamship Morro Castle, com- Four cents per copy: Annual subscription price, @14. | House, Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the aay by the mee Pepsi pany * ep wail ipeper: WEEKLY HERA! e Court. A resolution was offered and referred to | Tow (Friday) morning ma oc! for Havana, ees : oer wane Sane pean Committee, proposing another amend- | Pier No. 4 North nyer. cig dha alesse taaeaaitt mont to the constitution, to the effect that duties on ex- | Patrick McCruddon, an oMfcdr attached to the Court of ports shall be legal, that no portion of the rebel debt | Gvneral Sessions, and whose residence was on the corner 5 | shall ever be recognizedyand that Congress shall have | of Prince and Mulberry streets, while in the drinking g | Power to secure equal liberty and protection to all per- | house on the northwest corner of Broome and Marion sonsthroughout the country. A resolution was offered, | Streets, early yesterday morning, waa assaulted by the bar- but laid over, for a committee to report in reference to | keeper, Patrick Dwyer, who, itis allored, fired three pistol + bers from the Southern States; for each house is the judge in such cases, and a majority rules. The constitutionality of rejecting the members from whole States, and of the present proceed- ings of Congress on the subject, are very ques- “tionable; but the President has no power over the matter. All he can do is to restore the States to tai point, put all their local State machinery in motion, withdraw the military, and leave them ia the enjoyment of local self- government. He ought, and we think he will, pursue the even tenor of his way in restoring them. He can perform his duty, if Congress does not perform ita duty. If that body be revolutionary and anarchical, ho can be con- servative. A conflict between the policy of the Executive and Congress on this subject would be very unfortunate, would embarrass our finances, paralyze our industry, and bring Any larger number addressed to nameqof subscribers | refunding the several States their war expendituros, @1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club | Resolutions were adopted oftem. 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A bill reviving the grade of full general was introduced and referred to the Mifitary Committee, “A bill for the ‘Tho Catwomsta Epmiox, on tho Ist and 16th of each | Felief of the widow of President Lincoln was prosented month, at Sux cents per copy, or @3 por annum. VOLUNTARY CORRESPQNDENCE, containing im- portant news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if ‘used, will be Kberally paid for. gg- Our Forkiay Cor- RESPONDENTS ARN PARTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL LETTERS AND PACKAGES SENT UB. Wolume XXX....... 0.2 :ee cesses eee eee ee Oe 340 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. - BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau. Matinee at 1sg 0 Clock. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 635 Broadway, opposite Ee Hotel.—Erm10rian SinGina, Dancina, & PALIAN AIRS BY Nativx Anrists. Matinée At One o'Clock. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sixa- axa, DANCING, Buriasques. &0.—THe FxNIAN's DREAM; OR, ‘Tuxtanp Faug at Last. Matinee at Two o'Clock. TEMPLE OF MUSIC, corner of Grand and Crosby streets.—THorr2 & Ovenin’s Minstae.s oF ALL Nations— ipgrioN; OR Tux DowNraLt or Huysud. Matinee at ‘ook. GEORGE CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Tne Oxp Scuoor or Minstretsy, Bataps, Musi@at Gras, &o., at the Fifth Avenue Opera’ House, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. ‘Matinee at One o'Clock. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hail, 472 Broad way.—Dan Bryant's New Stume Srencu—Nucro Comicatt ‘ving, Buatesquas, dc. reiaN, Gymnastic AND Acropatic Frats, &0. muntra Zanraetra, Equesreixnnx. Matinee a! HOPE CHAPEL, 72) Broadway.—Proresson WiseMan's Evawinas or Mystery anp Visions. Matinee at Two o'Clock. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermrorian Mix- erReusr- \LLADS, BURLESQUES AND PaNnTOMixes. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Taropors Tuomas’ Conorsr. Afternoon and Evening. STUDIO BUILDINGS, Tenth street.—Exurnitrox oF Fexnou, BNGuisu anp FLRMisi PiotcKes. New York, Thursday, December 7, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Saics of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1865. +» $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 151,070 90,548 871,229 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. ee Our city subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Hunaup. Country subscribers to the New Yorn Herat are re- quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advertisements should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. THE NEWS. THE CONSTITUSIONAL AMENDMENT. Tho Legislature of Georgia has ratified the constitu. tional amendment abolishing and prohibiting slavery, ‘as we are informed by a despatch from Provisional Gov- ernor Johnson, of that State, to President Johngon. This amendment is now virtually a part of the national con- stitution, Georgia being the twenty-cighth State to adopt ft, and comploting the three-fourths of all the States re- quired to render it binding, Georgia is also the fourth of the States engaged in the rebellion to ratify it, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama having already done 90, Governor Johnson states that. the Georgia ‘Logisiature will also pass laws protecting the freedmen fn their rights of person and property, and aljowing them to sue, be sued and to testify im the courts.’ THANKSGIVING. To-day having been appointed by the President to be Dbserved aa a day of national thanksgiving for our many Dicasings asa people, it will doubtless be recognized as puch throughout the greater part of pur‘country, forming pn occasion sich as has not hervtofore occurred in our history, but which will ne dqubt hereafter be the prece- font for many similar qeervances, The Governors of ‘our own and a numbey of the other States, as woll as the Mayors of this snd ether cities, have issued thelr proctamations enjoining the recognition of the day, fn accordance with the President's recommendation. Mn the metropolis the public offices, the courts, ho business places, the schools and other institutions mill be closed, and the majority of the churches will be ‘open and will have appropriate services. The charitable Bstablishments treat their inmates to choice feasts, and Pome of the places of amusement, as will be seen bY our ‘advertising columns, offer enjoyment to the public in the Torm of matinecs. Together with all these and many ther modes of observance will be the reunions around the homo tables of family members separated through fll the remainder of the year, which have been tho Characteristic features of Thanksgiving since the first ‘Ostablishment of the institution. CONGRESS. preport of the proceedings, Bills wore introduced in re- gard td the carriage of passengers and freight by rail- (international Telegraph Company and establish tele- WeBdlutions, which, objection boing made, wore laid over, Woquesting the SGoretary of the Treasury, so far as the by lam, Dit. Message and in previously introduced wore feferred to appro: committoss, A redolution calling for vigorois Mmalast the hostile Indians waa tntrodycod. and referred. A resolution requesting the President to furnish any information he may possess in regard to a s0-called decree of Maximilian re-establishing slavery 1n Mexico was submitted, but laid over, The House also adjourned till Monday next. IUROPE. The Canadian steamship Hibernian arrived at Portiand yesterday, with news from Europe one day later, Tho war botween pain and Chile had occasioned great excitement among the merchants of both France and England, and théy were urging thoir respective govern- ments to interfere actively in favor of the Chileans. The Shipowners of Liverpool were preparing to une the blockade runners cast out of employment by the end of the American war in Chile, ° Stephens, the reputed Fenian Head Centre of Ireland, had mysteriously escaped from the prison in which he had been confined. » Under the impression that there was no immodiate danger of arupture with this country on the Alabama claims, United States securities remained firm in the London market. Five-twenttes Were quoted on the 24th inst, at 64%. MISCELLANEOUS. St. John, New Brunswick, was somewhat excited yes- terday by rumors of an intended Fonian raid on that Place from the United States; but nothing definite in ro- gard to tho matter has yet developed itself. P Acondonsed and carefully prepared statément of the receipts and exponditures, from all sources and for all purposes, of the national government fur the fiseal year ending on the 30th of Juno last, as shown by the report of the Sd@etary of the Treasury, is given in another Portion of this morning’s Hxranp, Zhe total receipts wore a little over one thousand eight ,hundred and ton millions of dollars, of which nearly two hundred and nine and a half millions were from internal revenue, eighty-five millions from customs, and about flye and a half millions consisted of commutation money from drafted persons, The total expenditures were a little over one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven millions of dollars, one thousand and thirty-one millions being for the army, and one hundred and twenty-two anda haif millions for the navy; ‘The outstretching arma of our commerce and the trado necessities,consequent on the gold discoveries in Cali- forniathaving of late years made tho Sandwicti Islands « place of interest to Americans, the sketch of the history, manners and customs of the inhabitants of that distant Togion presented by our Honolulu correspondent will bo found entertaining. The population amounts to about four hundred thousand, and the people havo reachod quite an advanced stage of @alightenment, boing well supplied with newspapers, books and schools. As an evidence of their civilization it is mentioned that in thoir coufts they have trials for murdor, perjury, polygatny, burglary, assault and battery, larceny and all the other crimes known to civilized society. Business and gone- 169,427 | ral industry are flourishing, and on the whole the islands 100,000 | are doing well. The coolie labor system hag recently been inaugurated, but has not yet been sufficiently tosted to enablo a judgment of its results to be formed from actual experience. Govornor Bramlette, in his message rocently delivered $1,095,000 | to the Kentucky Logisinture, says that, the result of the late war having put at rest the heresy of secession, tt only romains for the judiciary, by passing upon the caso of the ebief traitor, togecide all attempts to enforce the dogma treason, and to have it finally disposed of for- ever. The Governor again urges upon the Legislature the adoption of the anti-slavery amendment to tho na- tional constitution, and advocates encouraging a superior class of laborers to immigrate into the State. Ho gives eighty-nino thousand five hundred as the number of troops, white and colored, furnished by Kentucky to the Union armies. The people of Richmond, one of our correspondents in that city informs us, are considerably exercised in mind over the report, noticed in Tuesday's Hrrap, that Genoral Butler is shortly to become military commander there, and many of them are disposed to think that his anticipated assumption of the control of, affairs in Virginia is in some way connected with the intended trial of Jeff. Davis, Our correspondent also alludes to some incidents of recent occurrence in the ex-rebel capital not at all creditable to the individuals concerned, and which indicate that a strongly disloyal feoling is stil! entertained in leading Richmond circles. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia yester- day denied the application of James and Richard H. Pot- ter for a mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Trea- sury to pay them an alleged award of nine thousand doligrs for supplies furnished the Utah expeditionary army. ‘Thote was no meeting of the Board of Aldermen yos- torday, only four members answering to their names when tho roll was called, and the Board was declared ad- Journed sine die. The Board of Educo\ion last evening confirmed the nominations for Inspectors of Common Schools in tho Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh dis- tricts. The nomination in the First district was not con- firmed because of the nominee being a non-resident of the district. The Board also adopted a resolution to close the public schools to-day in observance of Thanksgiving. ‘They will remain closed until Monday next. The Boardof Fire Commissioners held a meeting yes- terday, but did not transact a large amount of business. Some minor appointments were announced, requisitions wore made on the Comptroller for one hundred thousand dollars, and payment was ordered of bills amounting to some twenty-four thousand dollars. An engine is to be placed in the Corporation yard, to bejoporated by the em- ployas. The Board adjourned to Wodnesday noxt at ten o'clock A. M. A large number of workmen of the city assembled Inst evening in the Cooper Institute to discuss the question of the abridgment of the day's labor to eight hours. The gathering was an immense one, filling the great ball of the Institute in every part. The proceedings wero admirably conducted, and there was some good and perti- nont speaking on the question. The loaders in the move- ment had invited friends and sympathizers in the learned professions, and on the platform there were representa- tives of the bar, the pulpit and the press. The Ladios’ Protective Association was numerously represented, as ‘wore also the fernaic members of workingmen’s families. An excellent band of music was in attendance. Tho Strong divorce case still occupied the attention Sf the Superior Court, Judge Garvin presiding, yesterday, of tho In the Sonate yesterday the standing committees for | argument of counsel for Mrs. Stropg, which was not Bhe session wore announced, and will be found in our concluded at the adjournmentef the court, Tho cage the entire day being taken up in a cont! will be resumed to-morrow. Coroner Collin commenced an investigation yeaterday, Jroads from one State to another and to incorporate the | at the Fifteenth precinct station house, into the cause of the late disaster at the junction of the Third and Several witnesses werd FRR Fourth avenue titges the utmog around, the 4 tomding the portion of ss) ore ak Se ale ta anses 10 O° sitizons irom the wane oe Daoper regulations on both roads at this point, and from Gepartment indicate, to furnish @ [ist of | the recksessness of the driversg The investigation will have ‘not taken | be continued to-morrow afternoon, at one o'clock, party wall of the buildings Nos. 14and 16 Front street, whjeh was being ‘shored up” with beama and wcrows, gavé way yesterday afternoon, when the two structures, used for storage purposes, and containing probably about ton thourind barrels of flour, foll to the shots at hf, all of which took efict producing injuries which it is thought 1mpossible for McUrudden to eurvive. The latter was taken to the Now York Hospital, and Dwyer was arrested and locked up. ‘The examination of the charges against Charles Reath and August Gunther, barkeepers at the Lion Brewery, of having caused the death of Danicl Clafy at that place on. the 19th of last Septembor, was concluded yesterday, and resulted in the.accused being committed te prison for trial. . Thowtock market, including governmonts, was highor yesterday. Gold was weak, and olosed at 146%. No business will bo transacted in Wall street to-aay,” ‘Tho decline in gold had a depressing influence on tho merchandise market yesterday, and, with only a limited demand, prices ruled in favor of the buyer. Foreign Koods were quiet, but unchanged. - Domestic goods were dull and generally lower. Potroloum was ateady. Cotton was dull and nominal. Groceries wore dull, but un- changed. On 'Change flour was moderately active, but at decidedly lower prices. Whoat was a shado lower, Corn was steady, with » fair demand. Pork wag irrogu- lar, closing firmer, Beef was dull and a shade off, Lard ‘was inactive and also a trifle in buyor’s favor. Butter and cheese wero nominally unchangod, Whiskey was dull and nominal. many evils upon us, but would not necessarily he the worst of evils. The country would be kept disturbed another year or 80; but the people would settle the difficulty at the next elections. Should the Southern States be kept out of this Congress it is quite evident the next ‘Congress would be chosen of a different character. A now conservative party would grow up and sink the faction that has now at- tained power by a gross political fraud deeper than ever plummet sounded. If the President pursues firmly the even tenor of his statesman- like policy, he may be assured the conserva; tive masses will approve of his course, and, as soon as they can speak, will choose a different set of men to sustain him. ° General Grant's Report of the wes tion of the Military Power of the Con- federacy. General Grant's report is the description of the final gigantic effort by which the United States crushed the greatest rebellion of which any inemory {a preserved in the history of the human rao. Distinctly and straightforwardly it tells’ how the nation, putting into one at- tempt a power equal to what it had before wasted in twonty—s power greater than the world believed it to possess—balanced thereby the advantages of position and interior lines that the enemy had, and brought him to the earth by the unrelenting repetition and weight of its blows. ‘ In tho lavish use of our superior power and in properly concerted aotion, East and West, lay, im General Grant's view, the solution of the problem of the war. It was common sense applied to ques tions of strategy that had been mystified by technical jargon. “The armies in the East and West acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pull- ing together.” Now the East struck—now the Wost—and the enemy was able to use the same force to moot both. The necessity was to over- come that fact by “the use of the greatest num~- ber of troops practicable” at.the proper times, and then “to hammer continuously against the armed forca of the enemy and his resources until, by more attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing. lef} to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the constitution and laws of the land.” Such is tho simple theory on which Grant directed the last grand operations of the war. - His success tho country knows. Even with- out his report, every step of the way is forever famous. The “let-alone policy” that demoral- ized tho enomy west of the Mississippi and sent home a force of forty thousand rebols that resistance would have kept out; the fearless penetration of the Southwestern country by Sherman, with its bloody incidents all along the way to Atlanta and thence to the sea, and the other incident of Hood’s army straying all the way up to Nashville to make Sherman's retreat “worse than Moscow;” the terrible com- bay, fought step by step, from the Rapidan to. Richmond, and the final triumph there—all these are the household words of the country— the recognition of the great events of the greatest period of our national life. Grant dates Sherman’s march to the sea from Davis’ celebrated speech at Macon—a speech in which he stated the weakness of the South, and dis- closod his pjan for sending Hood’ into Ten- nessee. , Davis there exhibited the weakness of supposing that an army that had been beaten and fearfully decimated ina vain attempt at the defensive could successfully undertake the offensive against the army that had so often beaten it, and while hé did so he showed Sher- man where to strike. s Grant’s account of the campaign against Richmond is particularly full and clear, and his tributes and references to all his great lieu- tenants—Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas and Meade—give the country further illustrations of tbe no! frankness of his nature. @Bis re- port, as the Fecord of great events by the hero of all, is an invaluable contribution to the national history. The Proceedings of Congress tok tho Prosident’s Position. The peopie of this country have been in- dulging the hope for the last fow months that the war tvas being closed up, its wounds woro being healed, and thatiwe were about to emerge from the shock of domestic convul- sions to peace and harmony. They believed, as Speakor Colfax said in his opening address to Congress on Monday, that “peace reigned from shore to shore’ in our land” ‘They thought, from the universal support given to President Johnson and the eulogiums passed upon him and bis policy by all parties, during the late elections, that we had entered upon a new and an astonishing period of-harmony. In fact, there was no other but this. Both republicans and democrats claimed the Proesi- dent, and made him and his policy their plat- form. The former were particularly positive And earnest in their appeals to the people on this; and it was on that ground, doubtless, they ebtained such an overwhelming success over their opponents. *It was the doubt which ex- isted as to th’ sincerily of tho demoorats in professing to support thé President that de feated them, snd confidence in the professions of the republicans that gave them the victory. At the time tbe Prosident was making as much progress a8 pessible to restore the Southern Siates and to have their representatives ready to iuke seals in Congress his name was the ban- the lattle cry of the elections. Yes, y of the republican members now sitting ss (etasphed through carrying tho rof Andy Johnson. ‘is one side of the picture. Now let us The smoke of the contest ia away; for many days, or weeks, t have not passed since tho jon. The President has not changed in (he meantime, exeept that he has been moro urgent and emphatic in demanding of the South such measures 28 will satisfy the North, Yet in the face of these facts wo see a sudden assault made upon Mr. Joinson’s policy by tho very party which claimed him, and by the very men who obtained their seats through using his name and pretending to support him. They did not even wait till tho President could in- form them by message what he was doing and proposed to do, or what was the condition of affairs. Adecont respect to the Chief Magis- trate and for the views he might expross in tho mode cribed by the constitution was the least might have been expected from those who claimed to be his party and who so lately professed to be his warm supporters, It is the first Congress, we believe, that ever acted in such a manner, and the act shows plainly the revolutionary character of that body. Nover in the histéry of the country had the chief of the nation such important matter t6 communi- cate and submit to Congress; never did that body need full official information more, and never was careful deliberation more required. Yet the first day—the first hours of the seasion— before (he President had time to send his mos- sage, ihése men began to legislate on.the most important questions, and that in a mannor directly in conflict with bis policy. Why this unseemly haste? Why this disrespect and covert hostility to the President? We suppose Thaddeus Stevens, Summer, Wade, Wilson and other revolutionary radicals of that stripe oan tell the reason; but we think the greater part of the conservative republicans can not. Looking at both sides of this, picture we do not hesitate to say tat: there never was a greater fraud committed upon & people—upon their constituencies— than the members lately locted' to this Congress have committed—that is, judging from their conduct at the commencement of the session. We can only hope that the major- ity have been deceived themselves—carried away, as it were, in an unguarded moment by an artful and unscrupulous conspiracy, and that they may get out of ‘the trap into which they have fallen. The whole proceedings, the snap judgment that was taken, the concert of action in both bouses, the leaders of the move- ment, as Sumner, Thad Stevens, Bon Wade and Wilson; the radical revolutionary moasures initiated and the secrecy maintained till the last moment—all show that it was @ matured conspiracy against the President and bis policy. It reminds us of the convention during the French Revolution. That is nearest par- allel in history we know of. Jacobine are ag rabid, impracticable and prosoriptive as the Jacobins of the French Revolution were, and if allowed to have thelr own way they’ 37) lunge ghe country into. Novopy To BLame.—Russell 3, Chidsey, James Tyler, Edward Johnson, George W. Miller, Edward Davis, Mary Francia and 8. W. Edinger, seven persons, were butchered « few days since on the Now Jersey Central Railroad. They were guillotined in the most ingenious way. The express train in which they were ran into a coal train, and one car was lifted and driven with awful force through another car, the bottom edge just even with the heads of the passengers. Since the ocourrence @ coro- ner’s jury of 90 called “good and lawful men,” who allege that they are conscientiously scrupulous of ‘taking an oath, has been in sos- sion near the scene of the acoident, trying to find some plea on which to justify the act. After 8 patient search of three days for such a plea the jury failed to find one, and then resolved to do without it; so it comes boldly ont and justifies the act in defiance of all the circum- stances. It declares that there was nobody to blame. “We cannot,” say these wonderful jurors, “attach blame to any of the employes on tho trains or to the company.” And why? Not becanse they were not guilty of culpable negligence, but because they were as the recognize, The jury recognizes that the “em. ployes og the train” had cars op the road ate time when they 6d no rou thero, and thgd the adbifany ought to station fiagmen whore there were none. And yet it “cannot attach blame” to either for this butebery: | the same Bloody 53 ar tre a On Sup gygd snd oubstanial SERF with pleasure, however, that some of 2 this bold of members of the Honse—and the members of | that are not apparent to tho public. | this great State: are particularly montioned— } to blame! rvde are slarmod at tho false ‘step they have boon dragged into, and will not follow the Toad of our American Marate, Couthons and Robe- eplorred any farthes. Yongrecs, (tis 'ruc ¢ afuse to Alias Giem Lesravorve Reapma ron Bonorsan States- w&N—Tho Prosident’s Mossago and accompa- nying documents on the strength, resources and mooilost doetlay of the United States, NEW YORK’ HERALD; THURSDAY; DECEMBER 1, 1865. aes a Theatrical Reforms in This Me, tropolis. Among the new thestrical enterprises in contemplation in this metropolis that of the new French theatre is the most prominent. The building is in process of erection and will be ready for oooupancy soon after the com- mencement of the New Year. This theatre: will be of the most comfortable dimensions. Instead of a big barn, like the Academy of Music, where the voices of most of the per- formers are lost in the realms of space, or 4 little room, so small that the orchestra desfens the audience, the French theatre will hit the happy medium. We understand that ‘the interior arrangements will be some- what similar to those of the Opera Comique, at Paria, The upper portion of the house will be divided into small boxes that will be really private, and not open to all curious eyes and ears, like the so-called pri- vate boxes of the Academy first tier. Sociality will be encouraged among the audience. At present it is impossible to enter or leave one’s seat at the opera‘or the typatres without. dis- turbing and incommoding an entire row of people, and the slightest attempt at conversa- tion is checked by admonishing hisses. ‘Under these circumstances, as the play is dull, the opera not worth hearing, conversation inter- @icted and exit impossible, the only resource of the Indies ia to study each other’s toileties and of the gentlomen to go to sleep. Peaple attend the present performances, not to enjoy themselves or to meet their friends, but to show off their fine clothes, which are generally pretty well damaged in getting in and out of the narrow, inconvenient stalls, In the new French theatre all this is to be reme- died. There will be good performances for those who care to listen, and those who wish to talk can do so without dis turbing the others. If any one dosires to go out or to visit his friends’ boxes he can ac- complish this without any noise or confusion. You may attend in full dress if you want to be conspicuous, or in ordinary attire if you choose to be unnoticed. Undoubtedly this theatre will be patronized by our best people. It will have its habitués, like the famous old Olympic. Its boxes will be engaged weeks in advance for family parties, and Young New York will drop in to while away an hour or two every evening. The now theatre will be devoted to per- formances in both the English and French lan- guages. We believe that Mr. E. L. Davenport will prosont English plays on four nights of the week, and M. Juignet will bring out French comedies, vaudevilles and comic operas on the other two evenings. Of the talents of these gentlemen, both as actors and managers, it is unnecessary to speak. Mr. Davenport promises to collect an unequalled company of American artists, and he will encourage the American drama, which has too long been sup- pressed by the lack of taste and tact which distinguishes the British adventurers who now manage the majority of our places of amuse- ment. M. Juignet, on the other hand, has made engagemonts with admirable French comedians, and we presume that some of the leading favorites of his former company will be re tained. Besides this, he.will import a troupe of French comic opera singers, of a class seldom heard by the public of this oity. The per- formances he will give will be invaluable both to our native artists and to those in the audience who wish to acquire the Frenclf language in its purity. Now-a-days almost everybody learns something of French, and M. Juignot’s new theatre will afford an excellent oppor- tunity to learn the Parisian accent and pronun- ciation. The people go to our opera to hear Ita- lian words sung or shouted by German singers, orby Italians who can only speak a dialect of their language as different from the genuine Ttalian as the Canadian patois is from pure French, or the Lancastershire gibberish from pure’ English. We hope that Manager Grau’s opera troupe, which is to perform here in the spring, will offer us something better than this vocal murder ; but still, in a city where so many persons understand a little French, and so few persons understand any Italian, the French opera comique will be our main re- source for that sort ofamusement, and the grand operas which Grau will produce must be con- sidered as exceptional treats. There is no reason, however, why this metropolis should not support both a grand Italian opera, under Grau, atid a comic French opera, under Juignet ; and we look forward to such a reaction and reform in musical circlee -as will justify us in predicting the permanent success of both these en terprises. © , Without speculating as to the probable cha- racter of the other new theatres to be opened in Broadway and on the corner of Twenty-third atroet and Eighth avenue, we certainly expect that Messrs. Juignet and Davenport will assist us in our work of theatrical reform by showing the public how good theatres ought to be built and conducted, and how good plays ought to be accepied, produced and acted. Mr. George Christy, of the original Christy’s Minstrels—a troupe famous both in this country and in Europe as the originators of this popular style of entertainment—has cleverly followed up the reform in Ethiopian minstrelsy which we sug- gested Sand which the Californians and Thorpe & Overin’s band had begun. Christy has opened a beautiful little hall in the white marble building in Twenty-fourth street, near Fifth avenue, and has already made it the resort of some of the best families in the city. The locality is very accessible; the decorations of the elegant half ore in the best taste, and Mr. Chiisty himself leads an excellent troupe in « brief and spark- Ung performance. The most of the melodies 80 popular during the recent war originated with negro minstrels, and Christy has only to give the publi¢ similar songs to become a per- manent institution. And we are bere reminded of one reform in negro minstrelay which hes already been brought about by the attention we have called to the subject, and which is set forth in the following card in the advertising columns of yesterday’s Heratn :— To TH8 ol HERALD. i pry a 4 having had anything to do with it. “With ortisement and request you to Accompanying this card was an sdvettise- meat, which we printed. It is very certain that the Bryants are by no means the only members of the Menagors’ Association who regret hay- ing had anything to do with ft; but they aro the first who have lied the candor and good sense to come out publicly and admit, as they all adinit privately, that the Matmgers’ As60- | qo make three hundred dollarg a diye wane 0 far as ite aftempt to interfere with the press fs concerned, and that the action of the associated managers the Huzatp was most foolish ‘« and ill-advised. We have no objection to print the Bryants’ advertisement, or that of any other reputable place of amusement; but we did not object when the managers took their advertise- ments away, and we do not ask them to bring their advertisements back. This is 9 mere matter of business, which concerns themselves alone, and in which they ought to be wise enough to consult their own imterests. But as a proof of the practical dissolation of en asso. ciation which impudently attempted to check theatrical reforms and to assail the Heratp for proposing them, the card of Nei} Bryant will be welcome to all who hope for a new and better era in dramatic affairs. Report of the Postmaster General. The American people have become go ac- customed to the statement annually made by their Postmaster General that 9 deficiency existe in the Postal Department of the govern- ment that anything to the contrary must awaken emotions of surprise, They must, therefore, be not only astonished but pleased te learn from the report just published that the receipts of the department for the current year were above the expenditures by the handsome sum of over three-quarters of a million of dol- lars, Tho estimate for the coming year, how- ‘ ever, shows a deficiency of over a million of dollars, which is covered by appropriations al- ready made and unexpended. The mail service in operation on June 30, 1865, embraced six thousand and twelve routes, of the aggregate length of one hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and forty miles, costing $6,246,884 (exclusive of compensation to route and other agents, amounting to $556,602). The num- ber'of postage stamps issued during the year was three hundred and eighty-seven million four hundred and nineteen thousand fourhun- \ dred and fifty-five, representing $12,099,787 — an increase of $1,873,108 over the previous year. An appropriation will be necessary for the San Francisco, Japan and China steamship line from January 1 to June 30, 1867, of $250,000; Brazil line, for eight months of the present and the whole of next year, $250,000. The Postmaster General speaks hope- fully of the prospects of revenue from the Southern States after the re-establishment ofthe postal system in that section. Refer- ences to the misapplication of the postal fund will command the attention of Congress. One of the points made by the Postmaster. General is that of obtaining from Congress the right of giving subventions to sailing vessels for carry- ing the mails. This is of especial importance as affecting our postal arrangements—or rather want of arrangemente—with the Central Ameri- can States. For instance, the mails between New York and Santa Marta, Carthage ns, &c:, ia Colombia, lie for weeks at Aspinwall without being forwarded.’ Transactions with England are enormously on the increase, solely because there are three lines of subsidized steamers be- tween the Colombian ports and Liverpool, which lines are directing the trade from us, The new postal treaty with Colombia is yet unfinished, and if it were not, it would not necessarily bring about sny great or immediate facilities, unless both countries united in a subvention to some company to undertake the service, and this is not probable. ‘ But as there are regular lines of fast sailing vessels from this to these Colombian ports, which, in fact, could deliver the United States mails there quicker than by any existing means, and really in much shorter time, the present propused service would be a great benefit to both countries and gratefully acknowledged by our sister republic. Tas Paseipant or Tas Sanats.—The Prest- dent of the Senate, Mr. Foster, of Conneoticat, now occupies, to all intents and purposes, the position of Vice President of the United States. In the event of the death of President Johnson, therefore, in the interval to 1868, Mr. Foster, as he now stands, would become President of the United States. He is understood to be-a sort of semi-radical, semi-conservative old line whig; but it is probable that this is not enough for the leading radicals. Hence there may be . some truth in the report afloat that “there is some talk of a change in the presiding officer of the Senate.” Perhaps Charies Sumner may be the coming man. Who knows? In any event, we trust that the life and health of Presi- dent Johnson may be spared to the country to the end of his present term of office, and for many years after ita expiration. A Proper Derinrrion or THe Posiic Dest— That of Secretary McCulloch, who defines it, not as a public blessing, but as a public burden, to be got rid of as soon a8 possible by hard work aad economy. Tas Hovse Commirrees.—Speaker Coltax is engaged in the appointment of the standing committees of the House; and we are to hear that Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, will ba- ably succeed Mr. Thaddeus Stevens as chair- man on Ways and Means, who in the last Con- gress proved himself a blundering . financier. Mr. Raymond, it is said, will be made chair- man on Foreign Affairs, which is very likely, as he is the protégé of the Secretary of State, and the hopetul mon of the firm of Seward, Weed & Raymond. We hope, however, that if put at the head of the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee he will not play the artful dodger on the, Monroe doctrine. Board of Kdueation. This Board mot last evening, Commissioner Mclean. presiding. om The Committee on Elections and Qualifications reported in favor of confirmtng all the nominations for inspectors of common schools made to them, except that of Jero- miah Fitzpatrick, from the First district, who it appears, is not a resident of the district, The report was adopted. | ‘The names of the new inspectors aro as follows :— Dist, Diet. 2—John M. Williams. 5—Robt, Enover. " W. C. Livi bm A. ‘st FA puptls from attending ing non- ni panos, This vise cadocsed tne ayes Mr. Girard, from which it appeared that many who have almost graduated would be gine oye ey Sule alt who are Q0t ‘eirealy law altered #0 as to axel ae ta falaaining the ye e totands at present, ‘Tho sub- Ject k to the committee, resol clowe the ic schools of the city on Feet wan adapted, and the Board som after ad- journed. News from the Pacific Coast. DISOVERY OF BICH tt In VICTORIA —dngat =x . Ban Francia0o, Deo. 6, 1865. ‘The seater Paoitio, from Portinnd, has arrived. There waa great exoitement in Victoria over che re- ported discovery of rich placers at Dig Bend. The largest nugget yot found was worth four vhovsand dot tara, One mah took ont oight hundred dollpéy inone day. on ciation la 4 vory witty aad eidioulgus failure, #0 ¢ ayoe ” \