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4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1866. a ized, tobe able to road. Mr. Conkling, of this State, | taken the Coroner adjourned the further oxamination disappear with the restoration of the Southern NEW YORK HERALD. offered a resolution, which was referred to the Recon- | until to-day. States to their proper relations to the federal een nnnnnete struction Committee, for an amendment to the constitu. ‘The inquest in the case of Mrs. Gilroy, who died from A overnment, A rovi JAMES GORDON BENNETT, tion simiiar to that already proposed by Mr. Blaine, | exposure and want of proper treatment on board the 8 ede te half dozen eee ye EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, basing Congressional representation on the number of | ship Neptune, was continued yesterday. ‘The drift of | Vagabon aregion just emerging from the rye inhabitants, excepting such persons as are denied politi- | the testimony was to the effect that those in charge of | chaos of a great revolution may give the ap- cal rights on account of color or race. Mr. Broomall, of | the ship had done for her all that they could do under | pearance of prevailing insubordination to half Pennsylvania, offered a preamble and resolution, which | the circumstances. The case is still under investigation, | g dozen counties, Against such exceptional were tabled, snggesting that, as the white men of the | and the examination of witnesses will be resumed this | ito chances the evidence is overwhelming sity—namely, whiskey, When the tax of two | sels us to move sofily, not t0 get ita rage, nna dollars a gallon was imposed upon this domes- | all will bo well. In thus counselling us it even tic manufacture at the time that the Internal | leaps toa broad admission of the infrangible Revenue law was passed a few years ago, ex- | character of the Montoe doctrine “in the nature empting from the tax the whiskey then on | Of things,” and finally sees that that doctrine hand, several large fortunes were made by the | hasa very positive basis, These are its words:— holders of the article. Among those who held | “European interforence in the affair: of America very large quantities of whiskey were Crosby, | is impossible in the very nature of things, and OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advance. Mon nt by mail will be District of Coluaabia had voted on the question of giving | morning at eleven o'clock, ” * . " atthe risk ofthe sender, None but bunk bills current in | th ni Se ice n bays reg be une permitted to | An inquest was yesterday held at the New York Hos- | ‘hat the responsible and influential men of the | of Chicago, and Pike, of Cincinnati, and, singue | if the Americans will but quiet for the while New York taken, voto on allowing it to the whites.- In accordance with | pital over the remains of Patrick Dunlap, whose death, | South, and the great body of the intelligent | lar to say, both of these lucky speculators in- | @ not unnatural sensitiveness they will find all as alleged, was caused by stabs inflicted on Friday last, | whites, have in good faith submitted to the at 150 Washington street, by Edward Johnson. On the | igsueg of the war, and are honest in their pro- conclusion of the evidence and the rendition of the jury’s verdict to the above effect, a warrant was issued for the fessions of submission. But however well dis- arrest of Johnson, who is yet at large. posed the people of Alabama, for instance, A meeting of property owners opposed to the proposed | May be to prove their loyalty, appearances widening of Ann and Fulton streots, from Broadway to | will occasionally be against them so long as Fulton ferry, was held yesterday at Powers’ Hotel, inPark | their local laws and civil officers are regulated Tow. Speeches wore made by several gentlemen, and arrangements were made for giving practical effect to | PY federal decrees and federal soldiers, thelr opposition by bringing the matter before the Legis- In the face of all these drawbacks, however, lature and the courts, and by endeavoring to induce the | such has been the success of President John- Common Council to rescind the ordinance authorizing | son’s conciliatory policy of Southern restora- the work. tion that the leading organs of the Northern Cooper Parris and Abraham Greenthal were arrested at a 184 Seventh street on Saturday evening on charge of radical school are beginning to recognize it. having been concerned in the robbery, on Thursday last, Let the reconstructors of the South in Congress at 36 Walker street, of over three thousand dollars’ worth | try a little of his policy of faith in the honesty of raw silk, and were yesterday committed to the Tombs | of Southern submission, and they will soon dis- for examination. Ali the stolen property was recovered. | cover that neither the harmony of the Union aan bangin A bona Aopen dg Eases piel nor the political interests of the party in power guished after damage to both buildings to the amount of | Will be endangered from the readmission of ‘about two thousand dollars had been done. A fire at | the now excluded States to both houses, with- No. 6 Duane street yesterday afternoon did damage to | out any further conditions of security in the the extent of one thousand’iollars, Ourtolegraphic des- | federal constitution. There is sufficient secu- patches report several fires in country towns, Fires in % *. Oswego and Binghamton, N. Y., on Sunday, destroyed | Tity for the Southern blacks in the constitution about eight thousand dollars’ worth of property in each | 98 it now stands. place. Seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed in the late fire at Talladega, Alabama. The Police Commisstoners—Better Work From the report of the City Inspector it appears that Instead of Greater Power. the total mortality for the past week was 440, of which ‘The recent report of the Metropolitan Police ‘228 deaths were from acute diseases, 175 from chronic | Commissioners is a very curious document. diseases, and from external and other causes 42, Of the In every paragraph it asks for more power, deaths 100 were men, 89 women, 143 boys and 108 girls. di t this i vt ‘te di There was a decrease of 70 compared with the corres- nd iH mom vases inoreased power & ponding week of 1865, and an increase of 8 over the pre- | quested over depertments not usually placed ceding week. under police control. The Commissioners pro- Ata large meeting of merchants held in Boston yes- | pose to build new station houses in various terday arrangements were made for presenting a hand- precincts in this city and Brooklyn at a some testimonial to Captain Burke, of the bark Fredo- nia, for his noble action in the rescue of the passengers | COMsiderable expense. They desire to be and crew of tho ship Gratitude, the circumstances of | #uthorized to license pawnbrokers, junk which were fully described in yesterday’s Huai. dealers, auctioneers, carts and cartmen, hacks pica: ee oe abies on 3 and hackmen, omnibuses and omntbus drivers. inst., on the Fio coast, of the brig Neva, ot " - Machias, Me., and the burning on the Ocmulgee river, on tants were Sirs pie _ prin ow the following day, of tho steamer Asher Ayres, with the | 8" °y Teqi P Joss of six lives in each case. vided to bribe offenders whom they are unable The prize fight between James Kerrigan and Morris | to arrest. They are in favor of the abolition Phelan, for | eet dollars a side, for which ar- | of all target companies and the establishment rangements have m some time in progress, is ex- ae . i" pected to take place this morning somewhore in the State | 0% % military brigade of seg your of Pennsylvania; but the particular locality hasbeen, of | Want to superintend tenement houses an course, kept secret. cheap lodging houses. They urge the passage Acitizen of Now Orleans has, it is sald, invented a | of a law giving them power over the concert now style of telegraph, which uses neither electricity, i0- | saloons. They suggest that the police should pprseng daptecd Seana ss rday, | D@. intrusted with the excise licenses, Ps sind sas Cry Gold closed rk 1393. | and that all places where liquor is sold There was no decided change in the aspect of com- | should be placed under thelr super- mercial affairs yesterday, though there was rather more | vison. The Commissioners are like Oliver firmness, in sympathy with gold. Groceries were | Twist on a grand scale. They have produced sid Prseape gail ebay Sp ane’ cee report which, on the score of modesty, is cer- tainly unrivalled. They have no confidence in the Mayor, no confidence in the police justices, their difficulties on this score disappear, prob- ably without the necessity of any serious exer- tions.” France has been told repeatedly and distinctly that the continuance of her troops in Mexico would disturb the harmonious relations» not to say the peace, existing between her and the United States. She sufficiently appreciates this, as we believe, and we certainly are not disposed to press the point too sorely. Our cause does not require that she should be urged to any undignified haste in her motions. We can afford to give duc time, as we have shown. But what the country requires is to be beyond all question sure that it is really the purpose of France to retire from Mexico soon. We do not want to be put off and quieted down with specious statements, made only for such @ purpose. We want to know that all these stories of the Emperor’s intentions are not part of the soothing system adopted to prevent interference until such time as some- thing in the Mexican matter may turn up favor- able to Maximilian, or until it shall be judged * safe to leave that would-be Emperor to stand alone. We may be informed of this when the French Legislature meets next month. In the meantime we may remember that just about the time all this pleasant news was leaving Europe freshly arrived French troops were Charleston and Savannah. The States on the |. landing at Vera Cruz, and troops were moving border of the Mississippi river afford good op- | * ‘tive Juarez from Chihuahua, portunities for this kind of enterprise. Num-| The Docks and Piers and the Tribune bers of capitalists in the West have recently Warehouse Job. leased cotton plantations on the Mississippi, | The Mayor in his recent message to the Com- but they have been heretofore deterred from | mon Council informed us that the revenues working them from one cause or another, the | from the wharves and piers which are the principal difficulty, it would seem, arising from | Property of the Corporation are pledged to the fears of negro insurrections that were threat. | Sinking Fund for the paymen’ of the interest } ened, but which never took place. The factis | on the city debt, and that when he as Re that the negroes in the Southwestern States, | corder, and by virtue of that office one of the such as Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mis- | Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, was ap- sissippi, as we learn upon excellent authority, | Plied to by the Pier and Warehouse Company, aye well disposed to labor at a fair price, and | oT what is better known as the Tribune Job are actually working more zealously than many | Association, to lease several of the most valu- of the white race. able piers of the city for a term of fifty years There can be no doubt, we think, that the | upon a mere nominal consideration, he recom- South offers fine opportunities for the invest- | mended that no action should be taken upon ment of capital. Before the war the resources | the application—meaning, of course, that he of this section of the country were never half | 8aw through the whole scheme, and was con- developed. The obstructions presented by the | Vinced that it was one of the legislative jobs old aristocratic prejudice against labor, and | by which the city was to be despoiled of a the millstone of slavery which hung upon the | portion of its property to benefit a few unscra- neck of industry, have both.been removed by | pulous speculators. the results of the war, and tho richest soil and | We arc aware that the city derives very the best mineral deposits probably to be found little revenue at present from the wharves; but on the continent are now open to all who are | that {sno reason why they should be given away THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, | the request of the House, the Dill to facilitate commerce between the States, the one which affects some of the large railroad monopolies of the country, was returned from the Senate; but there was no deiinite action on it, On motion of Thad Stevens, the Judiciary Committee were instructed, by a vote of cighty-two yeas to seventy- seven nays, to report on the expediency of repealing the lawyers’ tost oath. The credentials and # memorial of the Representatives from Arkansas were presented, The Dill to grant negro suffrage in the District of Columbia was taken up and discussed jn a spirited manner till the adjournment; but no vote on it was reached. During the course of the day’s proceedings Mr. Kasson, of Iili- nois, took occasion to refer to the late charges of the Daily News of this city that the widow of President Lin- coln carried public property away with her from the White House, and to pronounce these statements slander- ous and unqualifledly false, ’ THE LEGISLATURE. ‘The Senate of our State Legislature assembled at seven. o’clock last evening, and but very little business was done, Bills were noticed to abolish all laws relative to. the present canal contract system,‘and to amend the assessment laws in relation to non-residents, A resolu- tion was adopted calling upon the State Engineer to re- port the names of all persons holding repair contracts on the State canals, the date of the commencement of such contracts and the time when they will expire. In the Assembly a resolution was introduced and re- ferred providing that the New York city tax levy shall be reported by the 18th of March and taken up for con- sideration on some day not later than the Ist of April. Two bills of no general interest were passed, and some of a like character were introduced. The Speaker an- nounced the Committee on Joint Rules. Bills wero noticed to grant State aid to the Albany and Susqehanna Railroad, to amend the general Manufacturing law, to confirm certain action of the Union Telegraph Company directors, and for othor purposes of minor interest, MISCELLANEOUS. The cold weather which commenced on Sunday con- tinued yesterday; but it lacked to a very sensible and agreeable extent the severity of temperature with which last week was ushered in, and the mercury did not reach zero. From two till six inthe morning four de- grees above zero was about its figure throughout the city, though in some particular localities a lower point was reached, At nine o'clock it had risen to six degrees above, and at throe o'clock in the afternoon to twenty-four degrees. At nine o’clock at night it had fallen back to twenty-two degrees above, and at ten o'clock to twenty. At about half-past ten snow storm, which had been threatening throughout the afternoon and evening, set in, And at the hour at which wo go to preas snow continues to fall, affording a fine prospect of good sleighing, We give elsewhere tele- graphic reports of the character of the weather through- out the country. With the renewal of the skating season yesterday there ‘was an immensity of good sport at all the ponds, both public and private. “There was a grand time last evening at Sylvan Lake, Hoboken, there being an immense at- tendance, From the sWar Department records it appears that over throg hundred‘and one millions of dollars have been paid by governjuent in bounties to volunteors in thelate, vested their suddenly acquired fortunes in opera houses—two of the finest establishments of the kind in the United States, The West is thus ins large measure indebted to the whis- key tax, with its exemption clause, for a long Progressive step toward civilization. Another opportunity is now likely to occur, in the im- position of an additional tax on whiskey, for the construction of other opera houses in the Weat. ¥ The Southern People on the Bight Track. What the South now most needs in order to give practical effect to the reconstruction poli- ey of the President, which can be most effect- ually aided by attending to the industrial re- sources of the Southern States, is to bring the land as rapidly as possible under cultivation, and by every means to make up for time lost during the war, in raising cotton, suger and other staples, and restoring all the appli- ances of industry and labor which have been dormant for the past four years. That the land- owners and leascholders of farms'and planta- tions in the South are awake to their interest in this matter is evident from the fact that they have established agencies here to divert the Jabor and capital of European emigrants to Southern farms, Several of this class, it ap- pears, havé been recently sent to Memphis, Four conts per copy. Annual subscription price, $146 THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five eents per copy. Annual subscription price:— Ten Copies. 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NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected communications, BROADWAY THEAT adway.—SOLON SuinaLx, LUCY RUSHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 728 @nd73 Broadway.—Tax ScuooL ¥oR SCANDAL, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Tux BaLLoon Weppina. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL3, 585 Broadway, opposite 1 L—ETmioPiaN SiNGiNG, DANCING, &C.— 201 Bowery. —Stnc- cpunNs’ ESCAPE; oR, GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tuz Oxp Scorn or Minsru+usy, Batuaps, Musical Gems, &c., at the Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ way.—Dan Bryant's New Stowe Sexu. mms, Boxuxseuas, &c.—Lavanrovcansin. Hall, 472 Broad- Necuo Comicaur- HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratortan Mine STRELST—BaAtians, BuRiesques ann PANTOMIMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM Of ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 104. M. till uP. Me aes ‘dn aad ‘TH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Dx C. v dull and nominal. Pork was firmer. Beef was steady. ‘Wew York, Tuesday, January 16, ay oe Bor was steady. Whiskey was unolin: ged. of men who enlisted was 40. ea = ions sadefonr hundred end sixty-one of enterprising 1 to > them. It is | to any and every one who das permission of the BRWAPAFER CIRCULATION, [ire sige hans ad cueseh esters | Senemee 2d essen aomtumnnin) town | 22 Soule in anybody bal mmesions. We J SISTA Se ne i cor | Legtaeere tock Scvthoms "We corms eh ~ colved ne hountyffom the natictal government’) orm Polley—Cheering Signe ami Move- | St omy to.ssy.that tho focis sake sain: ' or when be cays that “ New York, the Receipts of Sales of the New York Dally | the adaitjona!, Paste correspondence relative to'the.| , memta ] ¢* tify thissetfconcelt. Many of the | to the Southern States. ‘The warhas-established | @tee‘est commerciat ‘Gly ot tee ‘conthrent, hee ; Newspapers. Moxican qupstion whigh wo give this morning shdwa'f”” It is a remarkable fact that, while Northern | which they make in their-report are undoubt. |. fo fe Pa bs not a single wharf or pier which is not = die- orrictau. how the imtéhest im. te ‘matter is increasing there, and’]” of the copperhead genus discover | edly excellent, and wo should be inclined-| this, among many other valuable facts, that no eect rer ieee | Bow anxions tho Trench government is to prevent it | ‘trom day to da in the proceedings of Congress | to endorse them if the. Commissioners made a | Pert of the-world can supply the place of the eS 1G.” Bik we weell ‘ek, lectere ne, resit's/ Paper May’, 1965.) cousing an entanglement with the United States, Our diwitoand eiwhat have, . But | Southern States in the growth of the indispen- | Way by which they may be restored except by Henao... ++-61,095,000 | correspondent says that Louie Napoleon is not only | ® fixed purpose on the part of the radicals to | better use of what power they ah acid. ahaain Wa. secs in | Surrendering them a free offering to monopolists ‘Times... 368,150 } anxious, but is evon now preparing, to withdraw his | Tylerize the administration, the leading radical | ander present circumstances wo are rathpr dis- ple, cotton. We,recognize, then, end greedy specalators. We think there is. ‘Teibune 259,000 | tops from Mexican torritory. ‘Tho Paris Jounal de | newspaper organs are beginning to recognize | posed to hold them toa more strict accounta- | the movement on bert sarellg eatney Let the Ia the rates of ee 1oo,27 | Didets in anarticle published in ite tesue of the 260 | the good results and cheering prospects of | bility for thelr sins of omission than to confer | landowners to invito industry, labor and capl- hrmniag pac spared ening, Post. 427 | ultimo, reasoned that tho danger of collision between A Jusive jurisdiction of | tal to thelr section, an evidence that they com- | be #0 amend: it from vessel ’ President Johnson’s Southern policy.| Thus | upon them that almost oxclusive j iction of World... 100,000 | the American troops in Texas and the imperialists om | | © jc plo, has at length discov. | the city which they appear to desire prehond, and are ready to use, the very best | be sufficient to pay a reasonable interest om the opposite bank of the dividing stream was imminent, Tribune, exampis, “i 3 and them ia ee: 151,079 | od thought it would be mich better for France to with. | ered that the work of reconstruction in pro-| In thiscity crimes of all kinds are alarmingly | #gencies whereby they can build up the South. the cost of rebuilding keeping Such means are of vastly more importance to | Proper fepair, and eventually they will retura the interests of the South in its efforts to rein- | ® fair revenue to the Sinking Fund, to be ap- vigorate itself than anything which the poli- | Plied to its legitimate purposes. ticians can accomplish. Qne acre of Southern | it is very evident that the rates, as now soil redeemed from its four years barrenness, | established by law, are too low. Previous to one railroad put in operation, one cotton mill | the war dock builders and laborers could be set to work, is worth the labors of » dozen | bired for from one to two dollars aday. La- reconstruction committees, or six months of | bor is now two hundred per cent higher, the windy Congressional debates, and we are glad | Price of material has advanced in the same to see that the Southern people are beginning | Proportion, the taxes on private wharves have to understand that fact. more than doubled, and yet there has been * —— no increase in the rates of wharfage. The The ica op Raat the French consequence is that the docks have been per ci te re mitted by lessees and private owners to go to We give to-day a letter from Paris and an = decay, and in some instances, where they have t ry mages Setar Team, Se Tehtow- Tees om sunk or been carried away by the ice, the tide 90,548 }1,095,000 871,229 Express draw altogether than to risk a war with the United States, Meantime the troubled condition of affairs on the Rio Grande ut and around Matamoros continues, and itis said that the majority of tho inhabitants of that town are leaving, principally for San Luis Potosi, carrying with them their specie and other movables of value, Somo of the men of the command which the American General Crawford has enlisted for the Mexican republican ser- vice recently undertook to capture an imperial gunboat near Matamoros; but the accidental discharge of a mur- ket gave the alarm, led to an exchange of shots from the Texan and Mexican sides of the river, and frustrated the scheme. Wo publish this morning the instructions issued by the Secretary of the Navy of Chile to govern the conduct of tho commanders of the privateers of that republic du- ring the continuance of the present hostilities with Spain. gress at Washington is but the shadow of the | upon the increase, In Williamsburg burglars substantial work going on throughout the | have rendered whole neighborhoods almost un- South; that whites and blacks, landowners and | tenable. I» Brooklyn a man was recently mur- laborers, are harmoniously co-operating for | dered in a public park at eight o’clock in profitable crops of cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco | the evening, within a stonc’s throw of and corn the coming season; that negro suf- | station house, and the police knew frage need not be enforced as the first easential | nothing about it until his body was to Southern restoration, and that there is | accidentally discovered. The street in every prospect that all the Southern States will | which Deputy Carpenter and Superintendent be represented in Congress before the close of | Kennedy and one of the Commissioners reside the present session. isso infested with thieves that househoiders Such admissions and calculations from a | are obliged to take the most extraordinary radical journal of the straitest sect very precautions. Footpads patrol our parks and broadly indicate the resistless advances and public places. Pickpockets take undisputed the final success of the restoration programme | possession of our city cars. We may trace the New Yorn Herato... Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined - ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wargiy Urea must be hanced tm before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Ita cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is Increasing very rapidly, Advertisements in- serted in the Waaxty Herat will thus be seen by alarge portion of the active and energetic people of the United Statos. THES NEWS. CONGRESS. The Hon. Marcus L.. Ward is to be inaugurated as Gov- | of President Johnson. His work goes prosper- | causes of this increase of crime to the demo- | the Mexican question, which are worthy of par- i In the Senate yesterday Mr. Wilson reported from the | ¢rnor of the Stato of New Jersey, at Trenton, to-day. ously on, while the two houses of Congr:ss are | ralization of the age; but for the remedy we look | ticular attention, They discuss the probability rovll ye eae it ia ba a ill ~te Military Committee his bill increasing and fixing the | Extensive proparations Rave heen made for the cere: discussing constitutional amendmenis, and im- | to the police. We regret to add that we gene- | that the French troops will be withdrawn at an he rh ees ” rami healed monies, and a fine military display is promised. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday and transacted a large amount of routine business. Resolutions were introduced and laid over directing the paving of por- tions of East Thirteenth, East Thirtieth and East Thirty- third streets and of Second and Third avenues with Bol- gian pavement, and directing the payment to F. L A. Boole of the sum of nine thousand six hundred and fifty dollars for legal disbursements in the matter of the seve- ral investigations of charges against him as City In- spector during the past two years, A communication was received from the Counsel to the Corporation trans- mitting @ report from Mr. Murray Hofman in relation to the affairs of the Public Administrator's office, which was referred to the special committee having the subject in chergo. Judge Bernard, sitting in Part 1, of the Supreme Court, yesterday ordered that twenty-two jurors per- sonally summoned and not answering to their names bo fined twenty-five dollars each. An important motion was argued yesterday before Judge MeCunn at the special term of the Superior Court. It involved the right of city railroads to change the six cent fare, and was brought by one Mr. Moneypenny, under the Extortion act of 1967. ‘The case of McCabe against the proprietors of the Sunday Mercury, which ig an action for alleged libel in publishing certain statements regarding the character of Amember of the Hedding Methodist church of Jorsey City, war called for trial at alate hour yerterday after. noon by Judge Jones, of the Superior Court, and a jury was sworn. The opening of the counsel for plaintiff will begin at eleven o'clock this morning. In the Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Gross, Peter Wilson, a seaman of the ship Caprera, brought an action against Captain Anderson, of that vessel, for al- lJeged cruel treatment. The cage is not yet concluded. Captain Peabody, of tho ship Neptune, recently charged regular army, with amendments, and it was recom- mitted. As amended it provides for five regiments of artillery, tweive of cavalry and fifty-five of infantry, ten of the latter to be Veteran Reserves and colored troops. Mr. Wilson alvo reported favorably from the same caimmittee a bill to establish a national military and nayai asylum, and introduced a bill, which was re- ferred, providing for the appointment of a board to examine all army officers and drop or retire incompe- tents, Petitions were presented in favor of increased tariff, prot mn to various kinds of domestic industry, for allowance of prize money to certain officers who’ took part in the destruction of the rebel ram Albeo marie, for presentation of copies of all public documenta to the public schools of the country, for the retention in service of the Veteran Re- gerve corps, for an equalization of bounty be- tween the carly and late volunteors for the army, and for negro suffrage. A resolution was imtroduced, and re forred to the Naval Committee, providing for the expul ston from the national Naval Academy of a cadet from Kentucky, named James J. Wheelor, who, it is alleged, served in tho rebel army, and that hereafter no parson of a similar character shall be appointed to either that institation or the Military Academy. Mr, Howard, of Michigan, offered a resolution, which was laid over, re- commending that Jem. Davis and Clement C. Clay be im modiately brought to trial oa charge of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoin and the starvation of national soldiera Mr. Chandler, of the same State, offered a preamble and resolutions, which were iso laid over, requesting the Premdent, on ae: count of ‘ircot Britain having failod to re. ognize our claims on her for damages committed by rebel pirates, to withdraw our Minister in England and fesue @ proclamation for non-intorcourss with that coum try. A resolution was adopted instructing the Miliary Committee to roport on the expediency of creating brevet ranks for men who have served with distinction in the army. Tho bill for the facilitation of commerce be- Sween the States, with am amendment providing that it ball not interfere with any existing contract betweep the government and any raliroad, was taken up, and Mr. Foote spoke in its favor, The consideration of the bill to give the voting privilege in the District of Columbia fo Mogrocs was resumed, but, without much pro- qress being mace on It, was further postponed till to-day, after which the Senate held anf executive session, and e@onirmed a large number of Presidential nominations, @meluding Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson as District Attorney fp this ottg, 20d then adjourned. 5 early day. There has been lately a quite posi- tive modification in the character of the expres- sions on this subject that come from Europe. It was nota great while ago that the expres- sions of European letter writors, of the Euro- pean preas and of French diplomacy, though smooth and flowing enough on the surface, were mnch less satisfactory it subjected to analysis, Late in the last year Mr. Seward said in an official letter:—“ No communications, formal or informal, which have been received from the government of France seem to justify us in ex- pecting that she is likely soon to be ready to remove, as far as may depend upon her, the peavey porte Cer We have no doubt if rates of wharfage were ment that then, though so much had been established even approximating the charges written, France had never said a word to jus- upon vessels in other ports we would soon tify the thought that she intended to withdraw | '¥¢ docks fully equal to those of any come her troops. Neither had she said any such mercial city in the world, with the exception, word in the last French official letters made | Pethap®, of those of London and Liverpool, public. On the contrary, she made positive | WBere more strength and durability are re- declarations of «quite different nature. She | TFed; and, as Mayor Hoffman says, they could informed us that she would not withdraw her | °° ™Ade to yield a revenue not only sufficient troops until we did what, in the circum. | ' Pay the interest on the cost, but eventually stances, it was absurd to require—that is, sur- |“ PAY the whole of such cost. render the very pith of the principle that led | Our City Matlresds and the Gix Cent us to remonstrate against the occupation of Fare. Mexico, and give up our whole position in the SUPERIOR CouRT—sPEcLAL dispute. This is the only interpretation that can be given to the note in which M. Druyn de Lhays states the only condition upon which France will leave Mexico—that condition being that the United States should recognize Maxi millan and guarentee the stability of the impe tial establishment. “Should the Cabinet ét Washington,” wrote the French Minister, “de cide to open diplomatic relations with the Court of Mexico, we would see no difficulty in entering into en arrangement for the recall of our agining dangers from the old secession spirit, | Tally look in vain. Our police force is a great still supposed, by such narrow-sighted politi- | improvement upon the old régime, but it is cians as Thaddeus Stevens, to be predominant | still capable of much better work. D’Argen- in the South. But so it is that often, while | son, the famous lieutenant general of the an- philosophera, reformers and political tinkers | cient police of Paris, declared that he kept his are perplexed with the disorders resulting from | gendarmes for show, but depended upon his great revolutions, they are quietly setiled by | detectives for the real efficiency of the public the laws of self-preservation and self-interest | service. We have a fine array of showy gen- operating upon the people directly concerned. | darmes to escort ladics across Broadway, but Self-preservation suggests to the Southern | we.need more detectives and more esprit du whites the necessity of a good understanding | corps between the detectives and the patrol- with the blacks with whom they are inter- | men. The present detective force is very mingled, and self-interest teaches the saving | capable, but it is mot large enough to do policy of mutual concessions between the two | what is required of it, Every night you races. When, too, as in the Sonth, the num- | may find the detectives distributed among bers on cach side are about equal, and the Ia- | the various theatres, while the rest of bor of the blacks -is urgently demanded to res- | the city is left unprotected. We should cue not only themselves, but the whites, from | have detectives enough to prevent crime as destitution, we have the strongest securities | well as to hunt down criminals. The patrol- for the protection of the black race, men, too, should be men of more intelligence, What means, then, this late letter of General | and promotion from the ranks should be made Grant, in which he says that “for the present, | the reward of merit, instead of being influenced and until there is full security for equitably | by the favoritism of politicians. When our maintaining the safety and rights of all classes | police turn out fora parade nothing can be of citizens in the States lately inrebellion, I | more admirable than their display; but for would not recommend the withdrawal of the | some reason or other they fail to prevent the United States troops from them,” and that | increase of crime. The Commissioners should “while such a force is retained in the South I | attend to this; for upon them rests the respon- doubt the propriety of putting arms in the | sibility. Instead of asking for increased power hands of the militia?” This means that, as the | and for control over all sorts of outside depart late rebel States are now govertitd partly by energies to improving the efficiency of the force. Let them perform their present duties to the complete satisfaction of the public, and all the new duties which they are so eager to They should not be permitted thus to remain a disgrace to the city, and the Legislature, in- stead of giving designing men a carte blancheto plunder the Corporation of its property, should endeavor to protect it and make it yield a revenue for the purpose of enabling the city to keep faith with its creditors. We do not think our merchants and shipowners, whose interest it ia to have good and safe docks, would oppose the raising of the wharfage to paying rates; but they would unquestionably object to sur rendering to a company the control of the piers, or of placing themselves at the mercy of & complete monopoly. | i Hi i : it iE j i iH