The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOB AND PROPRIETOR, and having its streets paved with polished stone. Many fine specimens of architecture were discovered, among them a magnificent palace, supposed to have been the residence of some Indian King, and also statuary and paintings of a superior character, monuments, reser- Voirs, aqueducts, canals and all the concomitants of a civilized and educated condition of society. Later South American advices inform us that a communi- cation had been sent from President Lopez, of Paraguay, to General Mitre, leader of the Argentine forces, which was generally supposed to contain proposals for a cessa- tion of the war between Paraguay on the one side and Brazil, the Argentine Confederation and Uruguay on the other, though some suspected that it wag merely a trick of Lopez to obtain information of the movements of the allies. The land forces of the latter were still pressing forward after the retreating Paraguayans, and it was re- ported that their advance had reached the Parana, Five steamers of the Brazilian fleet had pushed up the river nearly to Corrientes on the 21st of November last, and reinforcements for the Brazilian army were still being sent on to the scene of action. ‘The office of General Baker, late chief of the War De- partment detective force, has been closed, and the re- cords have been turned over to the Department. In commenting on the prospects of the Metropolitan Health bill in the present Legislature, our Albany cor- tespondent states that, though its passage has been generally regarded as certain, the opposition’to It is so @FFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ‘TERMS cash inadvance, Money sent by mail will be atthe risk ofthe sender, Nono but bank bills current in New vork taken. THE DAs.y HERALD, published every day in the year, Foor ceats per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five eonts per copy. Annual subscription pri One Copy... ‘Phree Copies, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. gVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sotey Suincux. RUSHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE, Ni ete Pec Brouiway.—Tum Dav ‘Arran rue WEDDING,” ? strongly'arrayed that its defeat is ‘stit! mong tho possi- : i is a Kis expected to go dbrough igh the Senate with | FONT PASTOR'S 01 HOUSE, 201 rg Sims 2a nti id : na ity 3 ‘sucon : | AToronto paper ‘says that artangemunts have been GEORG cuRIser's wivereers. tax ors enone Perfected ‘for the renewal by our ‘government of the {-neatty: penning od ors ere he ij é ged Canadian treaty, on condition that the Cana- dians will raise the provincial excise duties to the American standard, enlarge their canals and make cer- tain other commercial concesstons. At Ottawa, how- ever, as we are informed by our Montreal corre- spondence, the Canadian lumber merchants are not making their actions accord with any such expec- tation, immense quantities of lumber being now in process of changing hands, so that it may be shipped to this country before the arrival of the time appointed for the temnination of the treaty, the 17th of March next. It if reported that Mr. George Brown, inte Presl- dent of the Provincial Council, designs shortly abandon- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 53% Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Ermorian Sincing, Dancing, £0.— L’Avricaing BY THE GERMAN OPERA TROUPE. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ way —Dan Brrant’s New Stomp Sree wigs, Buaiesques, &c.—Tuat's My Sistel fall, 472 Broad- eGR0 Comicatt- HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etmortax Mix- eramisy—Baicans, BuRLESQUEs AND PANTOMIME, NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Bradway. a from 10 A pw As Cciaal New Yerk, Sunday, Ja i NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers, OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper May 1, 1865, HEratp.. - $1,095,000 ‘Times. 368,150 ‘Tribune. . 252,000 Evening Post, World.... 169,427 100,000 Sun.... sees 151,079 Expreag...... wees = 90,548. Naw YoRE HERALD. 0.4.0... .c0sseeee scene $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun. combined... 871,239 bills giving the appointment: of pension agents to the President, and making appropriations for pensioners for the yoar ending June, 1867, wore passod. Notice was Given that the application of Colorado foradmission aa a~ State would be called upon Wednesday next. The bill | to enlarge the powers of the en’a Bureap was, then taken up and discussed to the adjournment, several. Sonators participating in the debate. On a proposition to exctude from the Bureau’s cognizance the States of Ken- tucky, Missourl, Maryland and Delaware, on which» vote was not reached, Mr. Guthrie, democrat, of Ken. tacky, apoke at some longth, contending against the con- tinvance of the institution in his State and tn favor of the oarly admission to Congress of the Southern repre- sentatives. Tue House of Representatives was not in session yes- torday. z, The Cunard steamsh!p Asia, from Liverpool on Janu- ary @ and Londonderry on January 7, arrived at Halifax yesterday, with news from Europe threo days later. The German steamship Hansa, from Southampton on* January 4, aud the Inman steamship City of New York, from Liverpool and Queenstown on January 3 and 4, ar- rived at this port yesterday. Indications of some approaching settlement of the Mexican question thicken in Paris, The private secre- tary of M. Montholon, French Minister in this country, is in that city, and the statement, at first denied, that his mission is to seck some fresh instractions for Louis Na- poleon’s Ambassador at Washing!on, is now armiiied to be correct. The Reene der Deuz Mendes, ono of the most powert inion in France, has an article tof the intervention, and ar; Mexican bondholders te the only difficulty ia tue way of the withdrawal of the French troops the French people would willin ly submit to an increase o° her own debt dor that purpose, ‘There were agaiv rumors of a probable peacofal ter- mination of the Chiteau trouble. More suspect! Fenians had been arrested, some of them | in the city of London itself, ‘The traiueon- taining the Irich Lort Léeutenant had heen sot at, ‘The Conmmiesion appaiated to inquire into tee Jamaica massacre was completo. Tt consisted of Sir Henry Storks, President; Mr. Russel @. Gurney, Recorder ef Lendon, and Mr. Maule, Recorder of Leeda, b Intel cought be the Agia that, in adettion to the seriowx disasters to American shipping during the December yaies. previonsiy reported, the American ship Gay Mannering has been toally lost, with seventeen of her crew and the captain, United States five-.wention were quoted at 644 in the London money morket on tre 6th inst. MISCELLANEOUS. A continuation is given in our iesue of this morning of tho narrative of a journey from Vers Croz io Mexico by the Heastp corr spe whose letter, publi. ood on the 12th jnst., furnished such entertaining account of his visit to the American colony of the ex-rebel General Prie ir Coniova, The present letter is from Puebla, aud MS agranhic pine of the trip to that place from Cordova, tinweh # long stretoh of the most mag. aifcent country, in the drat part of the journey of « per- fectly troy ance of v al ele ur all the concomitant Jaxuri a temperate region, where @ spring cimelo prevails and the frnits and eoreals of the ter piiiish To gerd against Whe depredatior deoritias, Max niifan has the entire road from Veva (rug to che capital patrolled by a military police, and, though the foree fx oot a very nume- Tous one, it is said to anewer at present the purpose de- signed, Our correspondent passed through many places which ware once flourishing towne, but which, throgzh the wars and spo jai vas of contending factions, have bean reduced to a cond of ruin oF decay. With Puobla, which contains many fu» buildings and nome. rous cholee works o. ltoraiare and att, he was delighted, and he received fron the imbabiiante every facility and eourteay necomury to conble him to view all the beantios and curiosities of the place, whith be fully describes. ‘The poople of Poebla are claimed to be strongly imperial im saoir sentiments, but they uve, Nike the impertaliswe Maroughout the couniry, ext auxious to know what the United Sintes intends t do in fogard tw Maximilien, + ® the cfvilian portion of them. The swidiem, on the conteary, are represented to be for war with this ¢ ry. It ts related of Maximilian that in & recent couversation he maintained that Presitent Jotinson aut he are hy Position as well ax by interest patural allies “If he hoips me," said the Emperor, “I will he'p him, and we will raise this continent to auch @ degree of prosperity and greatness that we shall soon be able to dictate to the rest of the world, Europe inciuded. | A lation of an interesting report of explorations | ¢ of Maxtmilian’s prefocts in the interior i eo in ovr columns this morning with our news from that country. The explorer found in the | midst of a large forcast the ruins of a city built and inhabited by tho aborigines long before the time of Cortez, arid Carnighing indubitable evidence of the bigh attainments of the people in civilization and the arta. This olty is of considerable extent, surrounded by @ atone well five yards in thickness «ud ton feet bigh, that the reform party in his section, of which he has been the leader, will soom fall to pieces. lancé is now being observed by the Canadian military authorities to guard against a Fenian surprise fromthe United States, in consequence of the St, Lawrence river betng frozen over, and thus affordinga eonvénient bridge for raiders, Some of the forts along the line aro being strengthened. financial relations to the inception of the Fenian Brother- “hood in this city, We give a synopsis of this.addreas in ‘The Sonate heid a short session yesterday, and tranc- to-day’s Hera, ing Canada altogether. Should he do so it ts anticipated Increased vigi- ‘The Fenian Senate adjourned yesterday, after adopting an address and performing some important work as to operating their organization under the Philadelphia con- stitution. President Roberts and General Sweeny are to canvass the country and address the circles in the in- terests of the Pittsburg Military Congress. A number of cities and towns~in all the States are named on their route. Patrick J, Meehan, the Senator whose visit to Treland and losing of papers have been connected with the Irish arrests, puts forth a statement giving most in- teresting details regarding documents and detectives there, and also revicws the: surroundings of cortain drafts of money which felt into the hands of the govern- ment. The somewhat famous Phoenix movement of 1858, out of which the F. B, grew, is glanced at in ita “Owing.to the provalence from ‘early na nay seni es interfered.with; butwe have learned of no cfilisions oF accitients tesulting therefrom. All the East river ferries : enth ‘cented running altogethor while the thickest of, lgsted. The Sound bonts wore all sev- eral boom pe in their arrival, and they as well as ‘several Ocean steamers were delayod in thetr departure. ‘Tho sky was clouded all day, and about noon there was a slight fall of rain. In the streets the walking was of course execrabe, mud and slush covering the pavements, and altogether the day was a very blue and suicide-pro- voking one. Commisatoner Osborn was occupied for e considerable time yesterday, with the case of Rober Maxweli Martin, who is charged with having been concerned in the rebel attompt to birn the city of New York, on the 27th of November, 1864, The evidence on the part’ of the prosecution hae closed. The prisoner called no wit- nesses; but his counscl ontered into a lengthoned argu- ment to show that Martin sliould not be held by the Court to answor the accusation. To this counsel for the governmont replied in a lengthened address, The Com- missioner said that as the matter in issue involved ques- tions of arson, conspiracy, the giving aid and comfort to the rebellion @nd the constitutionality of the law, he wonld considef the evidence carefully, and deiiver his judgment early next week The further hearing of the case of Captain Peabody, of the ship Neptune, who is charged with having cruelly and illegally beaten a seaman on board that vessel while ou the voyage from Liverpool to New York, was resumed yesterday in the United States Commissoner's office, before Commissioner Stilwell. Some wiiitional evidence having been given, the case was again adjouraed till to- morrow, Another case of alleged {Il treatmont on shipboard came up yesterday before Commissioner Osborn, Tt was that of Peter MeNoill, a seaman, who charges Luther C. Hopkins, master of the ahip Carlisle, with having beaten im on board that vessel while om the voyage from Greenock, Scotland, to New York. Mr. Hopkins was present to answer the chareo, It was understood that a warrant bad bea tssued for the arrest of the mate, who, McNeill asserts, shot bim in the armywith a revolver. MoNeill having been examined, the oase was adjournett till Tuesday, Mtr, A. T. Stewart, tho we!l known and wealthy mor- chant of this city, yesterday appeared before Justice Dowliny at the Tombs, and, after making oath to the statements fy the case, asked that a warrant be (gguod for the arrest of George W. Matsell and William Mac- Kellar, for the alleged publication in their paper of an article charged to be highly libellous and detrimental to his moral character, in connection with what purported to be an exposition of the particulars of the sndden flight of a Wall streot broker and a lato attache of the French theatre, The defendants subsequently present- ed themselves betore the Justice and gave bail for their appearance for examination. Additional details of late severe marine disasters off our Atiantie coast have reached aa, The achooner Pattie Martin was wrecked on the 7th inst. outside of Hatteras Inlet bar, and her captain end cook were frozen to death. The mate end # eeaman remained on board the wreck for fivedays, enduring great suffering, and living for the last twenty.(our hours previons to their rescue on the dead body of the cook, The ship Elvira Owen and the bark Adelaide Ponderzrast arrived at Fortrew Monroe on Thavetey leet, after passing through terrifie storms, In @ complotety disabled condition. The former is considered unfit for further service, The schooner General Sheridan, from Newfoundiand for Gloucester, Maxe,, was wreeked on last Tuesday night off Cape Canso, and four of her crew perished A fire broke out about nine o'clock Iast night In the storage atore of Messrs Miller & Conger, Nos 489 and 491 Wator atenet, running through to South street, which continned to burn until alate hour in spite ef the ut- most exertions of the firemen. The building was filled with cotton, Remy, rage, sugar and free, owned by various parties, The loss is cetimated at between three and four handted thousand dollara . A fire carly yosterday morning, caused by ® flue, at 191 Grand street, effected damage to stocks and building to the amount of about five thousand dollars, A dycing company's office, 8 millinory store and a bakery wero the estabilehments which suffered. The damage by the fire in Buffalo on Friday night which destroyed Utley's piano establishment and the clothing store of Actman & Co. is estimated at three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars A fre in St Louis on Friday destroyed forty thousand dollars worth of property. A cas» of a singalar mode of committing suicide ovourred on veday at the brewery No. 266% William street. AG named Charles Haefnor, aged about thirty, who had been for some time {n a very melai frame of mind, jumped into a tub of boiling bee although immediately afer taken ont, war so dread! fcalded that he died on Friday night a the New York Hosp tal. Surrogate Torker yestentay admitted to prow tb contested will of Mrs Suen Oe Hart, the trial of wh | government, of all public debts and obliga- we have before noticed, and heard argument as to the distribution of the proceeds of the real estate of the late Chauncey St. John. ‘The report of the Harlem Bridge Commissioners, sub- mitted to the Legislature a few days ago, is given in our columns this morning. It presents an account of thoir operations from the 6th of May to the 224 of December, 1865, including ® statement of their diMoulty with our City Comptroller on account of his refusal to honer their certificates for the payment of the contractor. This, however, was finally adjusted, when the work was again | prosecuted, and they anticipate the completion of the bridge at an early day. Tho present Commissioners have expended on the structure $115,302, and have, therefore, remaining unexpended a balance of $164,608 of the $270,000 appropriated. They estimate that @ further expenditure of $341,425 will be uecessary to complete the bridge, to make up which sum, with the unexpended balance, another appropriation of $186,817 will oonse- quently be required, The One Hundred and Ninety-third regiment of Now York Volunteers, numbering seven hundred men, arrived in this city yesterday, em rowlefor Albany, where they will be paid off and recoive their final discharge. Another of the old landmarks of New York will shortly disappear. The old North Dutgiehurch, on tho corner of Fuiton and William streets, which is nearly one hun- dred years old, having been erected in 1769, is to'bo torn down and supplanted by business houses, f A farther éxamination tdpk’ place yesterday in the cu- ‘lous spirttual case of ‘Mrs. Cutler, the.old lady of South furniture disappeared myateriously at night, and-the oid woman till within a short time was credulous enough to, suppose that her property was carried off by the spirits. Hereyes have beon opened, however, by the discovery of her furniture in a second hand store, and it is alleged that hcrown son is the person who carried it off, The investigation of the matter is not yet concluded. The stock market was excited yesterday and strong. Governments were heavy. Gold closed at 139. The commercial status'was about the same on Satur- day ason almost every other day last week, duluess being the ruling feature. Domestic produce was again very generally lowor. Groceries were quiet, but steady. Cotton was a little easier, under the Liverpool advices to the 6th inst, Petroleum was duil and nominal. On ‘Change flour was again lower. Wheat was dull and nominal, Corn was dull and weaker. Pork was irregu- lar. Beef was steady. Lard was dull and lower. Whis- key was quiet but steady. The Restoration of the Rebel States— Mr. Conkling’s Conditions. The Hon, Roscoe Conkling, of New York (Utica district), has laid before the House of Representatives the conditions precedent which he deems essential to the readmission of the late rebel States into Congress. He would have— First—The absolute renunciation of all the pretensions and evasions of secession as a doc- trine andasa practice. If weare not mistaken, President Johnson has made this substantially @ condition of Southern restoration; and in the reorganization of most, if not.of.all the States ooncerned, under his instructions, except Texas, which is bebindhand, the dociriae of secession Secondty-—Mr; ConkTing demands the “repi- ‘ Wiation, ‘both ‘by the tdte and by the antiowsl tions, including State and municipal liabilities, contracted or assumed in aid of the late rebel- Yon, and-incleding also ali claims by er on be- half of those Who wore in the miliiary id naval service of the insurgents for bounty, pay or. pensions, and all claims by persons not loyal to tle United States for damages suffered by Teaaon of the rebell’on and for advances made in its aid.” Here, too, beyond the coniitions exacted by the President from the States directly interested we cannot perceive that anything further in the way of pledges in ad- vance is needed. A law of Congress upon the subject will setile the whole business, based upon the declaration that, as there is no vaild- ity in the debis and obligations incurred in the interest of the late rebellion—individual, cor- porate, municipal, State or Confederate—and no remedy ‘for losses of property suffered by disloyal parties, it shall be unlawful for any ual, to attach any validity hereafter to such debts or obligations, or to put in any claim anywhere for any losses incurred in the cause of the late rebellion. A simple act of Con- gress of this sort will cover the whole ground, The authority over tho subject is as clear ag the power of Congress “to declare the punish- ment of treason.” In the next place, Mr. Conkling demands “the assurance of human rights” in the lately insurgent States, “to ail persons within their borders, regardless of race, creed or color, and the adoption of such provisions against barbar- iam, disorder and oppression, as will relieve the general government from the necessity of standing guard over any portion of the coun- try,” &. Now,-it seems to us, that without waiting upon the excinded States to farnish all these guarantees of security as the price of their readmission into the federal councils, Congress, under the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and establishing equal ciygl and political rights, has “the power io enforce” this amendment “by appropriate legislation.” Mr. Conkling next requires “the impartial distribution of political power among all sec- tions of the country, so that four millions of : people (emancipated blacks) shall no longer ' be represented in Cungress in the Interest of sectional aggrandizement, and at the same time be excluded from political privileges and tights.” Very well. Do something. Either try how far the amended constitution establishes the civil and political rights of the black race, | and the power of Congress to enforce them in the States, or proceed to your constitutional amendment. We think, however, that a de- cision from the Supreme Court, embracing » fall interpretation of the constitution as it now stands in regard to the civil and political rights of the blacks in the States as citizens of the United States, should without delay be brought about in the application of some law or sediment of the rebellion. 80, then, let it be; but let not this be a bar to the admission of unqnestionably loyal men. We fear, how- ever, that Mr. Conkling is looking to the purifl- cation or reconstruction of the whole people of the South, so that they shall think as he thinks | upon all the conditions be proposes before | their readmission into Congress. In this view | they would have to be kept out not only to | the end of the present, but of the next genera- | tion; for the ideas and prejudices of caste and | color, social and political, resulting from a | hundred years of African slavery, cannot be extinguished short of two generations. But we can leave the Southern people to think their own thoaghts 6 long as in their acts they con- form in good faith t the new order of things in their submission to the Union. They are rendered powerless for mischief if restored at onoe ;-and they are bound by every instinct and reason of self-interest and self-preservation to be genuinely loyal. We can tell Mr. Conkling, and all of his school, that the people of the whole country are more interested in what Congress ought to do for the speedy restoration of the South than in what additional securities should be exacted as the price of Southern restoration, tions truly worthy the name of the Empire City. The Sub-Treasury and the Custom House are both governmental establishments wherein pub- lic business can be transacted with a proper degree of celerity. But, spite of the rapidity with which monumental piles have risen on all sides, Gotham has yet to obtain proper accom- modations for a Post Office, and the me- tropolis de facto, the city of a million souls, is‘ afflicted with a postal establishment scarcely worthy a second rate European. town, The central office, in Nassau street, should be. s. large and bandsome structure, to which mitrance. could he. obtained on all sides, In ing, | ofthe accommodations required by: the thousands that daily congregate to avail: themselves of the facilities of postal despatch. Of contemptible outward aspect, it should pre- State, city or town, or corporation or individ-_ ‘The New York Post Office. New York has cause to boast of some institu- it is a small.and badly ventilated build-; sent to the eye a facade of massive, if not gran- diose, proportions. Provided with internal departments that are totally insufficient for the wants of some hundreds of employes, the inte- rior should be of such spaciousness as to allow the enlistment of an increased force. These are a few of the more important features of which the Post Office of a city like ours should be possessed. Who can say when the much needed reform will be instituted ? Occasionally, it is true, rumors of improve- ments have reached the public ear. Among the most credited was the feeble suggestion offered by that fossilized organization, com- prising many of the solid and not a few of the stolid men of New York, and known to the world as the Chamber of Commerce. The stir- ring eloquence of its members proved as inef- fective as the petitions of less prominent citi- zens, We will admit that at distant intervals it has appeared to a few of the more hopeful of the community that some changes were likely to be made, Thus one day the good people of Nassau street hailed with astonishment the afivent of a dozen carpenters, who, for a few successive days, made the hours of labor hideous with the din of their operations, In an instant the news that improvements were being made spread like wildfire; and, ore night ; hed closed in,'as if every character in the School for Seabdat “had "been on duty, it was Proper accommodations, What the improve-.) ‘ments and their value were wae clearly demon-. strated when an alray of slamming doors, the destruction of a partition separating the ladies’ tment from thnt of the sterner sex, and ablidhment.of half hundred extra let- "boxes, designed to facilitate the labors of farclerks, at the cost of the time.and trouble ‘of business men, were the manifesiations of the Progressive ideas of the department. ‘Let us consider a few of the many tribula- flons ofthe public. If a person visit the central office to purchase a stamp. be must stand among the crowd, and sacrifice from ten to twenty minutes before he succeeds in pp- proaching . the single wicket whereat one solitary employe is doomed to supply the wants of thousands, Having purchased the stamp, at the cost of a temporary station ina without, he must elbow his way throngh the cipher the hieroglyphics that are to enlighten the Post Office. ticularly favorable circumstances, affair which the accomm public atforded him. agaiti on his footsieps to become ncquainied with any deiails relative to postal farflitics throughout the Union, And if « change take place in the hours of closing the mail pack- ‘ages, the placard on which the change is an- nounced is #0 carefully secreted from the gaze of the-vulgar that nine men of every ten will pags it by unheeded. system in postal matters is caused by the lack of such a structure as is required in a metropolis like ours. It will, therefore, suffice for us to call attention once more to the fact that New York is still unprovided with a Post Office worthy the Empire City, and that our citizens demand the immediate adoption of measures teuding to give thom an institution of which the sccom- modations shall be adequate to the wants of the public. The sooner those whom it may concern will set out upon the work the sooner they will become aware that they are not per- forming an act of condescension, bat an act of daty. Tam Soxt or Evivenck tax Reconsrrecrion Comurrrar 1s Taxtna.—It is stated in the Washington correspondence that a Mr. Schafer, formerly chief of staff to General Butler, “had just returned from aa ex- tended feip through the Southwest, and gives 2 discouraging acconat of the temper of the people he saw and conversed with,” and that this same Mr. Schafer “has been before the Reconstruction Committee once, and is to meet with them again on Monday.” Of course this ex-chief of staff was not sent by the committes, for it has not had time to send any agents or commissioners. He is a witness ready made to hand, and his evidence just suits the object of the radicals who created this committee. Tt is true his testimony conflicts with that of the President, General Grant, and other high authorities; but it is evidently considered valuable from the fact that he is to meet with the committee again, A great deal of expense can be saved the govern- Ment by taking volunteer witnesses and those that can be found on the spot, without sending commissioners to the South. We think, too, | their testimony would be equally as rollable as | {sh race appear'to have curious notions about honor and ‘official responsibility, xa “was ex. | teat it bs emplified recently im the suicide of the Spanish ‘Of themselves, and aave himself by. cowardly locale which is generally colder than the street crowd to reach the mail boxes, and stop to de- him as to the proper disposition to be made of his missive. If he desire to mail a newspaper he must return to the street, and then re-enter He will thus, even under par- expend much valuable time in the transaction of an ould be setiled in a trice were tions so justly claimed by the Itis needless here to recapitulate the un- numbered inconveniences te which the man of business is daily subjected while at tee Post Office. He must hasten trom the northern to the southern extremity of the department if he wish to ascertain the hour of the closing of tho European mails, and must return time agg The lack of a proper NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1866. that of the persons the committee would sea. We suggest, therefore, that not ouly the evi- dence of Butler’s chief of staf be taken, bnt Butler's also.’ Butler has been fm the South, and can testify as strongly as the radicals de- sire of the temper of the Southern people while he had his heel on them. required to-speak of the time. The temper of the South whea he was there may be accepted as that of the present time, commend that he be sent a4 commissioner, a3 it might not be personally conyenfent, and as his past experience is very full and will answer the purpose. We recommend, however, that Hoface Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Carl Schurz, and other euch like impartial philosophers, be called to testify as to the discouraging atate of affuirs in the South, the temper of the people, and so forth. This will answer just as well, will save expense, and will satisfy the country quite as much. Still, there need be no hurry about the matter, as the Reconstruction Committee is not expected to )report for some time, and for all praetical pur-. poses weican anticipate what ‘their report will: be, ; >. He need not be We would not re- Admiral Pareja, commanding the fleet in Chilean waters, because of a temporary dis- aster in the loss of one of his vessels. Here | was an officer who represented his government six thousand miles away from home, not only as a naval commander but as an ambas- sador, with the whole charge of the cause of his country in that region absolutely dependent upon him, and yet at the first sign of calamity, in the capture of one of his little eockboats by the enemy, he blows out his brains—if he had any—rather than brave whatever personal obloquy might be attached to a failure in the performance of his duty. How differently would an American sailor have acted under the circumstances. He would undoubtedly have repaired the loss of one vessel by inflicting terrible damage upon the enemy, and would probably have embraced in the same bulletin to his government the loss of one of his own ships and the capture of half a dozen of the enemy’s. The most curious part of the extraordinary transaction is that the Spanish newspapers not only endorse the conduct of the Admiral, but glorify it. They declare that the pompous and foolish Pareja did precisely what a Spanish soldier should have done under the ciroumstances—that is, in plain words, to leave all the concerns of his Queen. .and. government, fleet and troops and all, with which bo was intrusted, tp take care inthe days of Pizarro and Cortes. ‘The. letter, ow. ides in Spanish civilization... Fe barbarous hari-karl sys pad, where, when a government officer becomes derelict in his duty he is graciously permitted to rip bimself open with his aword. Admiral Pareja, one would suppose, must have obtained his notions of duty from the Japanese rather than from the old Castilians. ‘ Is Nor tax Lossy m Fur. Busr Aaamt— We notice in the Congressional proceedings that a bill was reported by the Committee on Public Buildings, and adopted by the Honse of Representatives, gppropriating the snug sum of seventy-five thousand dollars for the relief of Charles F, Anderson, as payment for plans and drawings for the Capitol extension. When Mr. Fillmore was President designs were in- vited for the Capitol extension. Amon@many ethers presented was one by Mr. Anderson. This was considered the best, and was accepted as such, though the design was modified in some respects in its application. Mr. Ander- son received the premium or payment for his plan. We do not remember what the amodnt was,and are under the impression it was a small amount, and, probably, too small. For some reason Mr. Anderson was not employed as the architect. We think it woul@have been bul just, and accordiag to custom, to have en- ployed him in that capacity when his design chiefly was accepted; still the government was at liberty to omploy any one it chose, and he hed 00 right demand tho position. The plan, as out, is materially modified, whether for better or worse we Jo net under- take to discuss. (Under these circumstances we cannot conceive what claim Mr, Anderson has for the immense sum of seventy-five thou- sand dollars. It looks very much as if the lobby was in full blast again. Lerrtz Detaware ww A Brsze or Groay.— Incidentally the other day Mr, Saulsbury, the facetious Senator from Delaware, remarked in the Senate that Delaware was the first State to enter the Union under the constitntion and the last to disobey that constitution; but in what matter he does not inform us. But “he was glad to say that she was the lost slavebolding State (Ephraim is bound to his idols), and that he was tho laat slaveholder init.” This is very curious. Only # short time ago, in look- ing to the gradual abolition of slavery, we invariably counted upon Delaware as the first of the then existing slave Siates to abate the nuisance, and that South Carolina would pro- bably be the last. But the prophecy even in this matter is substantially falfilled, that “the last shall be first and the firat shall be last.” In whatever elae Senstor Saulsbury may be distinguished we presume that nobedy will contest his ciaim to the honor of being the last slavebolder in the United States, and thet the last vestige of Amorionn slavery fizzled out in Delaware. Tavte Urow a Seniocs Screcr.Gov- ernor Humpbroys, of Mississippi, bas iswued his proclamation, in pursnance of a rebel State law of 1861, calling upon the parties concerned for the bales of cotton required to moet cer- tain advances of money from the State under said rebel State government. Does Governor Humphreys know that all such transactions are null and void? Does be know that bis official edict on thia subject as a loyal Governor amounts to @ proclamation of the legality of that rebel State government of 1861? Does he know that this sort of (hing is not in accord- ance, with the purposes intended in the pardon of President Johnson’? The Governor may be joking ; but such jokes at this time from Mix sissippi will bordly pay expenses. Le THE BRITISH PROVINCES. Rumored Renewal of MReeiprocity—- Hurrying Up the Lumber Before the Treaty Uxpire:mArming the Canadia: Wrontier Forts—Probabic Departure of Mr. Brown from the Country—Tho New Superior of the Jesuits, &e. Toxonro, Jan. 20, 1866. Tho Canadian Trade Review professes to know that the United States government have congonted to renew the Reciprocity treaty if Cavada will raise the provincial ex- cise duties to the American standard, admit certain manu~ factures free, and enlarge the canals, the United States bearing part of the expense, the whole matter to be ar- ranged by the respective Legislatures without « treaty. Captain 3, 3. Smith, ex-Confederate officer, is under arrest hereon a charge of robbing anold man of four thousand United States bonds, at Windsor, where Smite kept a hotel. OUR MONTREAL CORRESPONDENCH, Mowrreat, Jan. 19, 1886. ° The ice bridge on the St, Lawrence being formed at all points now has led the commander of the forces, Sir J. Michel, to look after the state of his forts. The fort at Prescott has had new guns mounted, an@ now heavy Armstrong guns are belng placed in battery in Quebec, to make the old Stadacoua as strong a8 pos- sible. m4 P loads before the 1' degree reduce the immense stock of lumber in the Ot- be district. in rica, The will ad General of the Order in Ame! @ wi 07 wi Sault ne Recalls wenfound. He will hares ‘teiate at aux 01 5 Tore act as Superior unti! ibe General of the Order has been heard of me. City Intelligence. Tax Foo.—Yesterday morning was.ushered in by ther ringing of bells at the various ferry slips.and tho sbrilt whistle of river steamers, to guide vessels in transit and to guard agaist collision, which would appear almost inevitable from the heavy and impenetrable fog banks which gat upon the waters of this vicinity from an early hour in the morning until tate im the afternoon. two boats wero engaged on any of tho ferries, a being considersd dangerous, as affording risks in the chances of a collision; though, strange to say, no acci- eel the river, With the ception. of hy ic fry.mto which of onion 3. — the SSrooklyn, ferriea gpl og rter intorvals tham fifteen or twenty minutes during the fog. The South Seventh street boats ceased their trips at Pe in which ih ; © manner in which the ferry pi boate Pmegen § im the dense fog reflects much credit upon thoir skill; for should an accident have occurred, ¢ boats being so heavily freighted with human beings, it would neceasarily haye beon attended with moat palling. circumstances, as the appliances on these for saving life are entirely inadequate to the numberof J carried, The Now Haven steamer due here tedvo ‘A. M. didnot reach bey pier uatila late-hour im Ss arena oer did her consort stpamer depart at the fe crone mma ssiina, nik tomes ates ‘The other river suffered similar incenre- it wore well satisiied. The of the Brother- timo of sickness or. ; the burial deceased , the succor of their widows and and the promo. tion of Christian fellowshi; love. Two hundred and fourteen members have been enrolled, of whom -one remain, the others having removed, Many of them have recived ald thr Manaen bee, oe stn number. ree g etn! a ¥ consisted of a wom snt eaeeee is Everett P. jor, Wisq. ; mouatc and feading from id other authors; and concluding with thesong “Boaa- I Isle of the Sea,” by Mr. Weeks, One of the most + Pleasing exercises of the ovontng was the trio “On Thee , eavh living soul awaits,’’ from I 's oratorio of Creation, Miss Harrison and Mesars. Weeks Tucker, which was well rendered. Tas Tax Ovrive.—Iu the Henan Given a statement of the bustin the Reosiver of Taxes up to Jon warulng to thove whose perro on the Lith inst. to settle shal called upon the terest." That this waa evinced by thi Receiver was be payers, Whose cayarnoss t6 shal should levy then aud there, the good natare and prouptn deputy, Mr. J. V. Mone, = 0. roceived was $15,128 '74, nod on Monday, eftap the no- fice in the Tiekats, the ATLONEL MOMMTNA Was $37,772 85. As the delinqueuls seemed to have been stirred up Re- ceiver Marphy de ar but on Monday h the marshal for taxes. At the o » week more of grace; fesue his warraut + Peeor Yarn —Home weeks ago Dr. Horman Coro, of No. 11 Carrot place, was ar. Tested on the comp! «ut of Margaret Ktuney, residing at terminating an discovered, when {stored the proper restorative, effect of the poisou Powisd ANMIVES4is. —O» Monday evening next, 224 in- stant, the Poles ree: tiv city and vicinity will mect at No, 198 Essex st: yoae of colebrating the anniversary of t) r 1 in their Fatherland, and also to make rs age given in this city for cL trymen who may weer ois Smizone oF Caan: oy tar Hannoe Porton Officers Al- len and Nesbitt, of the Harbor in Woet street Wm. Me irath wagon, having in hie; supposed to have been emay man named Silva, it: tor was hold for exam nat The ‘wore pat io po authorities ‘Tus Grama Prrtene’ V s00x.—Tbis organization hela an annual meeting ancl an election last night at its head of @ grand concert to be of those of their coun- foliows:—President, Mr German s View Preentent, Cart the Lutheran Heraid; Sec: (ary, Cart Heine, of the New York Demokerat; Treasurer, Contad Wagner, of the New Kaemle. & Lt ‘The ship Lancaster salle’ for Antwerp this morning with the largest cargo of petroleum ever taken from the Vaited States in one vessel—viz., 6,903 barrels, contain ing 270,191 gaitons of retined and 96,118 gallons of crude oil, valued at over $200,000, The Sailing of Steamship Moravian. Porthaxn, Jan. 20, 1966. The steamship Moravian will probably sail about five o'clock this afternoon ; not before Railroad Collision—One Man Killed. Conor vart, Jan. 20, 1866. The Indianapolis express train collided with a bor cor at Delhi this morning, upsetting the engine snd causing the death of the engineer, Several others were injured Pollard Reprim: by the Virginia re. worn, Va., Jan, 20, 1968. Pollard was arraigned boiore the House of Delogates to-day for breach of decorum on the Sth inst. He was, on motion, reprimanied by the *peaker, and digouarged.