The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1866, Page 4

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The Evrorzax Enis, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of tho Continent, both to include postage, The Curvowus Eprtiox, on tho Ist, 11th and 2ist of each month, ot *ix centy per copy, or $3 per annum. «No. 54 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BROADWAY TTEATRE, Broadway, near Broome alreel, -50L0N Livi IXDIAN. RK THEATRE. Nos, 728 Dowino—-Barwien You Woob's 7 ATRE, Hews Hotel. Arona’ iT; on, T SAN FIRAN Metropolitan. Iu Par Cut.p Steavsns, ox . 1N OMA AND GREAST. 201 Bowery —Sina- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! &e. wes OF A NeW ING Dancing, SQUEX, Yorx Derwer GEORGE, CHRISTY'S-O1p, Scuoon of Minsturisy, Batiavs, Musas Gems, &c., Fifth Avenue Ope Nos. 2and 4 Wes: Twenty-fourth sireot.—Tuu Kees J wll, 472 Brot mo CoMIcALt 14E. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechames 1 why. —Dax Bavaxt's New Stour seve .u— mks, BukLEsQuaS, &C.—Tue BiacksuiTa’s Jv ERA HOUSE, Rrooklya.—Ermopian Mine . BURLESQURS 4D PANtOMImEs, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broalway.— Open from 10 A of, il iD PM sonar f HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway, TLAND, Connie's [uivsinaran Tour or 5 ATIONATL PAINTING-—“Tar road ay, THe ‘NEWS. THE VETO. The celebration of the 22d throughout the country appears to have taken the form of a great politicul Gomonstration in support of the conservative and na. tional position assumed by President Johnson; and frou All parts of the coantry wo have news of mass meetings, Patriotic spooches and resolutions of endorsement and Spproval, A large and enthuslastic meoting wes held at mendatory Washington, and a series of very stroug Pesolutions were presented aud pass. After the ad. fournment of the meeting the persons composing it re paired by common consent to the open space ip front o the Exocui've Mansion where the I’ Femarkable speock, wich wo give entire He reiterated bis polley ag declared in his: Ya ago, und aiied that that poltey was to be pursued, resolved that the Federal Uuton shall bo preserved, The meeting of the citivena of New York hold st + Cooper Insitute lack evening was, beyond all prow tb) most numerous, entuusiaatic and influential sembled within that building. One thing was wanting ¢ @ve full scope and expression th the sentiment of the Reople, that war, aplace of meeting suMiciont to accom modato the thousends whe went away from the doors « tho building, and tho thousands who stayed away meeting altogether, ku wing there was no clam The subject of takengroat holdor te public mind throughout the coun try, gant, as « £ course, ¥ »than t this city, whose interests aud proxy Dlended with the peace and States Thy eT Rorean bill was the Sta mat w ere inor rao intant ni of dent to the Fi n the city and throw, usual demonstrations of pop But in New York it nons sould be formal eudorsemont to th ond me'in If ever alr bia Hoed throu, hat af ¢ ihe delight, firing of cannon, & that their he the ¢ the he deemed proper together to give Just policy of last eveniny wa should in a pol patriotives the req support ire h ag const foliow, a4 againat cident male a very In this issue ‘oto mes. Ne bas tokeu for us motto that of Andrew Jackson, and 10 f ad- mu was one wh oh hos all the edinen’s out called tion that being reduced into our posseesion sho will not again depart from British waters iu a hostile character.” An aifidavit by one of the crew of the Shenandoah, showing how the British portion of the pirates’ crow were Permitted to escape, having been lid before Lord Cia don by Minister Adams, the British Foroign Seer tary observed that there were some matters contained in this affidavit upon which the government might possibly found prosteutions if evidence were fur- nished (hem. Mr, Adams rejoined, that with their pre- vious experienes of Engl secutions he could not preauin? to say that the United States government would be willing to take this course, ‘The entire eorrespon- deu-e ix summed wp by the London prees as being of an “lprtaling’ character, placing the question in a less satisfactory position than ever, EUROPE. The Conard steamship Cuba, with European dates to the 11th in: t, arrived at this port yesterday. M. Monthelon, French Minisier at Washington, had addressed a despatch to his government on the Bagdad affair, He bears testimony to the neutrality of the United States and expresses himself entirely satisfed with the action of Genoral Sheridan, though surprised at tho course taken by Geveral Weitzel in sending United States troops into the town, ‘The prevailing ferment continued in Spain, and the minont bad authorized (he isgue of letters of marque, conditional upon Chile's adopting this mode of warfare. Yo a deputation of Catalan deputies who waited upon General 0’ Dovaell to suggest a national subscription for purchase of iron-clads, the Spanish Prime Minister plied that he had instructed the Captain General of Cuba to purchase what was necessary in this lino in the United States, The Fenian conspiracy in Ire!and was rapidly coming toa pout. No fewer than four ammunition factories had been disesvered in Dublin, in which the manufac- tire of hand greundes, Orsini bombs and other weapons had been carried on on @ most extensive Newly hall the available forces of the British were stationed im Ireland. In Parliament notice buen given of a question as to the complicity of » citizens in the conspiracy, cul Slates five-twenties were quoted at 6734 a 6734 bu in the London money market on the 10tb, MISCELLANEOUS. Genera) Grant still honors us with his visit, During yostorday ho reviewed (he regiments which paraded in honor of the day aud received a marching salute from each. A large nimber of visitors called upon him during the day, and in the afternoon he took a drive through the Park, In the evening @ number of his Iady friends presented him with a portrait of General Scott, v st regiment gave @ battalion drill and de coneertat the State Arsenal last evening. mining up in the case of John Cahill, charged with the murder of officer Duryea, took place yesterday, iu the General Sessions, Judge Ruasell will charge the jury this morning. The trial of James F. Oram for the alleged murder of, Joseph Van Doren, in Beaver street, on the 29th of July. Inet, Lorminated yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Ter- minor, b fore Judge @. G, Barnard, in the conviction of the pei « for manslaughior in the fourth degree, In couaideration of the time the accused had beon in prison the Judge ordered him to be dtscharged. The spectators applauded whon the reault of the case was announced. A jeowure on “ National Vitality” was delivered last evening by Mr. Grange St, Andrews,‘in the Fifth Avenuo Bay tist church. The leature was a review of what the nation bas accomplished since the Revolution of 1776, and was a very able production. ‘There were four several fires in the city yesterday. Tho j tinsmith shop of George Marr, No, 193 William street, was damaged to the value of eight hundred dollars, and the photograph frame manufactory tu the same building to tho amount of four thousand doliara, F.C. Lighte & Co. lost twenty thousand dollars by the burning of their pianoforte inanufactory In Crosby stroet, A fire in Cen- tro street inflicted @ lose of ono thousand five hundred dollars on Thomas Wright, brush manufacturer, and about three hundved dotlars on John Forgie, model and pattern maker to the adjoining building. A daring attempt to fire the restdenco of Mr, Charles T. McClouschan, in Eighty-thirdggtrect, on Thursday smorniug, was happily frustrated, and resulted only in the destruction of some clothing and farniture. Jumes MeDonald was severoly cut and injured on Wed- needay night ja the porter house 127 avenue D. John Cohn dangerously stabbed Peter Keller, of 331 Th rd avenuo, yesterday, Keller ia not expected to re- gover, Cohn was committed to await tho rosult of the stabbing. Flien Luwless, @ domestic at No. 72 Carmine street, was dangerotsly stubbed on Wednesday by her husband, 1 was arrerted and committed to jar. Mrs. El-zabeth Sieinfecher, of No. 475 Ninth street, yesterday secidentalty shot and probably fatally ded by « party of boys ongaged in firing their pas. fois un the stro | The Fenion Congress was in seasion at Pittsburg yester- tay. General Sweeny delivered a speech and submit \d bis plang probably for the taking of Canada, or somo other pi The plans were approved by a committes of military men frem cach State, The memorial services to tho late Henry Winter Davis, o° Maryland, were held in Washington yesterday. Au | address was delivered by the Hon, A. J. Ceeawell com- memorative of the virtues and public services of Mr. Davis, The President was not pregent during the do- livery of shy pp: and the the diplomatic corps, tion of Senor Romero, was #80 MeCulluch and Stanton repre. ie 0 c once of with the | law has been declared unconstitu tlonat ) The Texas avery andr bese heat Reconstruction Convention has abolished nized tho right of the negroes to sue, eupport was. freely and enthusiasticall and hold property, aud to testify in the Uzens in mass moeing assembled; and President John. | @2:T i ; son may fairly And properly accept it, Th neo of The Executive Council of Canada adjourned yesterday, the distinguished Secrotary of State, and hia pa. | AMINE Its last acts was the pi ligation of a caution to triotic Le was not least feature in | ¢ States Oa! in-shore fisheries after t was m that ne | the of@ tare! the Reciproett resty expires, ore hear hima; aud bis dent, and ail sore Anxious d we pr dorvemeut of t that aa greater ; fom the sureese of peng w formed t od 1 proc From vari " repor 2° news fun upon the important at Lou ° pur 2 to bo by ey were Fe. but the New Jonesy House re WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. t nundred and th yuri anniversa dieh of die Father of his Country was colcvried in thie sity wich more than naval «; t Aner v gory due, ie vr ae Baleny as that of an Apri! day a ahowor 4 in conseqs ot moat ? as better ¢ wis qeneraiiy anticipates, Ita principal feature was | the ipian of the Thicd and Fourth vetoran | yimen wore reviewed by the Mayor at the Oity He’ a 7 General Graat ov they | Preed op Fieveath regiment also | passed io r resented with a #tand of solors by the May rane cheorted by Beompany of the Wastiagin ¢ . Were also Out on parade. i eof he Gene City Hall Park, Hattery, Motion Jaceern ant rere Squares and at several ober parts of the ciiy The of Hibitions wore nnuenaliy fine, that at the Cliy Hell etom tng with a beautifully consty Dito» appropriate t the day sis Siicini OUR CLAIMS AGAINST ENGLAND The correspondence between the Caited States guvorg Mont and the British Foreign office Toa ee Bhenandoah’s oxploite hos boon reopened fee Sr. Seward refuses to recognine the vaca as the © . Woah, asserting that she was never other than “Britioh rogistered ship Soa King." He barply de Pleres that he did wot ask for proceedings to be taken for the condemnation of the ship becance ihe cour whioh the British government has heretofore pursued fo regard to our applications justice wae yeh an to discourage on our part an @Xpeetat on ” bf such & disposition of the vousel, addtuy, Boat the United States fecapt her now ‘simply PRA pKClosirely wom fio erudential cousidera » see and | } of the | ot | tow Sarded (he war as a struggle The Nova Scot mont met yest Tue Removar or Secrwrary Sraytox.— Mr. an evil influence the Cabinet from the day he entered it, He has abused his position to the vilest uses, and the immense power that it gave him—the graud opportunities tuat it would bave afforded any other to serve the country—have by him only | beea employed to build up a selfish and fanati- cal party. Ho never for a moment considered | the welfare of the country where it stood in the way of @ party purpose. He never re- for the nation’s lite, but only as the opportunity to destroy ver the great Southern party by war; and now (hat the country is saved he opposes the not‘on that the war is at an end simply because be fears that the party he desired to kill is not yt quit dead, THis greatest fear during the war was not thag the North would fail, but that it would succeed too soon ; that it would | pat down the rebellion before the people were ripe for redicaliem—befors, alarmed by the | Continuance of the struggle, they would be y Stanton has been in that seemed to promise success, With this sole idea in view he was a greater power against our generals than all the armies the enemy together. He strove to | carry out even against General Grant the tac+ | tics employed against so many others, and bis of | creature Dana lived at Grant's headquarters | for months, being nelther more nor loss than a | Spy upon the great soldier. Baker was his spy upon others. Such were the tactics employed | hy this great Secretary against every one who should be guilty’of deteating tho rebels, They nirere enemies to the purposes of his party, and ‘onst be dragged down. Aud this man still sin the Cabinet as the adviser of the Prost. dout, ond still abases his high Position to far *F iasartes whose only end can be to baila “P ® party on the ruins of our freedom. Het sh spurned from the place. He should be sand bis removal would be recog- | Rived by the conniry as an act only second in ils national nad pairtotic «ptrit to the voto of the Freedmon’s Bureau sailitury desvotiom bill, ond ube move etait Teady to accept any idea and any measure | Johnson he ts thoroughly practical, plain and NEW YORK HERAL The Succession—The President and Gen eral Grant—Schomes of the Politicians. Acertain set of the radical wing of the republican party in Congress, headed by Mr. Wasbburne, of Iino’s, as we are informed, are plotting to make a breach between the Presi dent aud Geaoral Grant ou the great political issues of tho day, For this purpose they begin thus early to take up the question of the Presidenoy forthe next four years with a view of creating a rivalry, or au apparent rivalry, between these two warm trionds and illustrious public men, This faction have tried to wheedle Mr. Johnson, then to coerce him into their destructive measures, and finally have adopted this plan to break him and his policy down. During the elections last year and up to tho meeting of Congress he was all right—their man—the man they had chosen to succeed Mr. Lincoln—a statesman, and all that, and this at a time, too, when his reconstruction policy was well defined, and while he was carrying out that policy. He has neither swerved to the right or to the left from the course he first took, and which they then seemed to approve. When Congress met they marked out another course, and endeavored to coax him to enter upon that. Not having any fac- tious political object in view, as they had, and looking only to the good of the whole country, he declined to abandon his reconstruction pro- gramme. They then threatened him, set the spies of the War Department to assail his pri- vate ‘character, and commenced a course of together, a8 they have done, for the good of the country, Let Goneral Grant stand aloof from political factions, cliques and conven- ilons—for he does not need any such extra neous and doubtful support—and the people will make him President by such spontaneous action and unanimous support as no candidate has received since the time of Washington. The Russian Telegraph and the Russian Alliance. We are glad to perceive that the House reso- lution introduced by Mr. Banks instructing the Secretary of the Navy to detail a steam vessel to assist in the construction of the Russo- American telegraph by way of Behring’s Strait has been adopted by the Senate. It is of material interest to this country that we ehould have telegraphic communication with Europe, and inasmuch as the Russian scheme of Mr. Collings is the most likely to be imme- diately carried out it is manifestly due to the Russian government, which has so liberally sustained it, that the United States should afford every facility for its accomplishment.’ There exists also a strong political reason why Russia should have. our co-operation in this project. Russia, of all nations in Europe, is the most consistent friend of this country ; we may say the only one that in our hour of trial stood firm and steadfast, the most honest ob- server of inlernational law without permitting kinks or quibbles to interfere with its fair interpretation. We gave material aid to the veckless and vindictive legislation, in direct opposition to his well-known views, for the purpose of embarrassing and overriding him. This driving and coercive plan culminated in the passage of the infamous Freedmen’s Bureau bill. But he wasimmovable. He vetoed the bill from a high"sense of duty, in spite of the immense vote by which it was passed through radical engineering. The issue was made, the Senate sustained the veto, the President tri- umphed, and the voice of the country spoke loudly and promptly in praiso of his wisdom and firmness. Thus baffled, these gadicals take another tack. Presuming for their purpose, without believing it, that the President was looking to a second term in his office, they en- deavor to pit General Grant against him as a rival candidate. Knowing that the General has cordially supported and does cor- dially support the conservative and states- manlike reconstruction policy of Mr. Johnson, they are muking efforts to induce him to aban- don the President through the tempting bait of taking him up for the succezsion. Mr. Wash- burne, who is known to be a personal friend of General Grant, and at the same time a leading radical of the faction in Congress, is believed to be an active agent in this business. Senator Wade’s movement to limit the President to one term, and other movements in and out of Congress within the last few days, all have a bearing to the same end. This is the political situation as regards the war between the radi- cals and Mr. Johnson at the present time. When men are led by their selfish passions, vindictiveness or excitement, they generally act blindly, and are very apt to make mis- takes; and it ia quite evident these radicals are floundering about in the dark. The President declared to the Montana delegation that he was not looking to another term, and that he was not going to be a candidate, He is in the habit of saying what he means, and we ought not to quostion the sincerity of his statement on this important matter. We are bound to believe him end take it for granted that he is not and will not be a candidate. His highest ambition, as he said, is to restore the country to peace and harmony. If he can do this he need not want another term. He could have no greater bonor. Another term would add nothing to it, and he might well prefer to retire then to pri- vaie life. The attempt to create a rivalry, therefore, between him and General Grant, and to separate them on the all-absorbing questions of the day, for political ends, must prove utterly futil ‘General Grant, whether he desire it or not, is destined to be the next Prasiden’. He has in a pre-eminent degree those qualities of mind and heart, conservative ideas and com- prehensive national views, that will be. re- quired to carry the country forward in its glorions career of prosperity and grandenr. He will be called, like Washington, by the spontaneous voice of the people to the chair of State. Two millions of soldiers stand ready to drop their ballots for him. He does not need this or that political party or faction to bring him out, and least of all the destructive radicals who now wish to use him. The old corrupt trading caucuses and conventions may keep their doors shut. He will want none of their monipulation or assistance, and will be tdin spite of them. It required a man of such great political expericnce, sagacity and firmoess as Mr. Johuson to close up the war and to carry us throngh the crisis of recon- struction, and Providence bas given him to us. When he shall have accomplished this and bave retired crowned with honor the country will want the man who conquered a peace, who stood by the President in the war of political elements that follows the war with the sword, and who stauds high in the estima- tion of the world. After we shall have settled our domestic troubles, shall Lave restored every portion of the country to lis former po- litical priviliges and equality, and eball have placed it on the way to fulfil ils grand destiny, there will be important international questions to adjust. Here the high character and well known broad national views of General Grant will come in at the right time, Like President e vnostentatious, a true republican (in the gene- ral sense of that term) in hobits and bearing, firm as a rock, sagacious, and in every respect his fit successor. If we may judge from the record beiween General Grant and the Presi- dent in the genera! policy of the latter's ad- ministration, particularty with regard to that most important phase of it-the restoration of the South—we should conclude that the Prosi« dent is for Genoral Grant as his successor. Ibis understood that when Mr. Jobnson Ait laid down his programme of reconstruetion ke sub- mitted it to General Grant, that the General approved of it, and that the President, in expressing his satisfuelion, remarked that he felt himself safe with the General's support. General Grant has supported him, as is well known, ali through, and doubtless will upport him him to the end, notwithstanding the intrigues of politicians, They are not rivals; they cannot be made rivals; the each fa determined by the circumstances of their position and the times: their patriot. rile of Attantic telegraph enterprise by sending the Niagara to assist in laying the first cable, which was designed to connect this country with England—a nation which we have no reason to regard as over friendly to us during our late war. In this view we do not sce but that it is vastly more to our advantage to have a telegraphic connection established through Russia than through either England or France. The late demonstration in Moscow, where the American Minister and Secretary of Lega- tion were entertained ata grand banquet by the Corporation of Merchants, was but an incidental expression of real sentiments enter- tamed by the Russian people towards this country, and the language used on that occa- sion is all the more significant becanse it comes from the representgtives of the commer- cial clement of the central mercantile city of the Russian empire. Mutual commercial interests, as well as the political analogy which in a measure exists between the two countries, are the links that bind them together, and bave created a seem- ingly anomalous union between a republic and an autocracy, at which the London Times sneers as a cur‘ous evidence of extremes meeting, but which one of the speakers at the Moscow ban- quet very apily explains by the truism that the love of the strong for the strong is both natural and profitable; a sentiment which our minister, Mr. Clay, adopts when he says of Russia and America, that “both of us have nothing to be ashamed of in the past, and nothing to fear in the future.” A variety of circumstances have drawn the great Russian empire very closely into alliance with our people, and the establishment of tele- graphic communication will tend greatly to strengthen the connection. The Czar should not loose an opportunity of still more firmly cement- “ing this spontaneous alliance by the exercise of better judgment in selecting the representatives ,af hia government in this connirg. He has been unfortunate heretofore in the class of men who have represented Russian interesis here. It is not because Russia has to bear the traditionary reputation of barbarism that she should be represented abroad by barbarians. Socicty, which recognizes the force of such sentimenis as we find embraced in some of the tonsts at the Moscow banquet—such as “The progress of education and enlightenment in our commer- cial classes,” and “The improvement of the moral and intellectual condition of the mill hands”—cannot be regarded as one of the elements of a barbarous nation. Toe Paras axp Powtricans ov tre Sourn— . A Worp or Apvice.— Loyalty. ‘This ts the word which we would now commend to the earnest consiferation of the press and politicians of the South, The recent sus- pension of the Richmond Eeaniner by order ot General Grant was a timely warning against a mischievous movement to turn the elements o/ the rebellion into a sociol com- bination agaiast “Yankees” and Unionists of all soris in any way identified with the Union cause in the late war. The inevitable resulis of such a Southern social organization, if tolerated, would deteat all attempts at political reconciliation and harmony between the North and the South—between the government and the Southern States, and between the Unionists and rebels and the whites and blacks from Vir- ginia to Texas, The fire-eating journals and politicians of the South, with very few excep- tious, have yet to learn that their Southern con- federacy has been destroyed; that an honest submission to the consequences of the war re- quires an honest recognition of the Union, the powers that be, and tho new order of things; and that a social war against Union sol- diers, citizens, visitors or emigrants is a foolish and #uicidal game to any Southern commu- nity. The magnanimous policy of Southern restora- tion adopted by President Johnson calls for something better than noisy professions of sup: port and active movements of hostility from Southern journals and political leaders, Since the war, as before the war, they have becn, as a rule, playing into the hands of the radical revo- lntionary faction of the North, in their efforis to keep alive the embers of the rebellion. Now, if these loaders and organs-of Southern pubite opinion wish fo help themselves, thelr neighbors and their ive Btates in Getting back into Congress, they Will prove by thelr works and their counsels hencoforward that they are entitled to that generous forbearance and confidence manifested towards thom by the Administration, The masses of the Southern people must no longer be misrepresented and placed in a false position by their leading ora- tors and newspaper organs. These Southern leaders and organs must change their tactics and cease to furnish political capital to Thad- deus Stevens if they are houest in their profes sions of gratitude towards Vresident Jobason, The wagoner who prayed to Hercules to help bim ont of the mud was required first to put hia own shoulder to the wheel, ay Law. aos, Fob 21, 1866. Appeals has decided poohstituwonal The High Court of Error at tuguitously that the Stae law y D, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1866. et | ism is of the highest order, and they will work > THE FENIANS. The Pittsburg C eral Swee- ny’s Address—Election of Senators, dc. Prrtssora, Pa., Feb. 22, 1968, The Congress is in joint session--Vieo President Gib- bons in the chair, As General Swéeny’s plans and re- ports are to be examined, the atrictest scrutmy is taking place, Members are paraded in fromt of the Speaker's dosk by State and district delegations, so that every one will be recognized personally, The guards are excluded, the doors locked, and every member is Intensely serious, General Sweeny opened his remarks by stating that he nover desired and never would accept any position ia the Fenian Brotherhood but that of a soldier, He knew nothing about civil affairs. When ho joined the organization he invoked his God to assist him in the completion of bis plans, had given them the most mature consideration, and, if scppored, he bad no hestiation in saying that they would be successful rred to the present position of Europe, whic! is ultimately and very soon to become republican. monstrated the impossibility of a revolution in Ireland at present, and said it is only those who have no knowledge of warfare, no conception of the vizantic force It requires to mect an organized military enomy, with his base of operations tmimediately behind him, who dreams of such impossibility, He denounced the attempt as an ab- surdity, aud tho sending of detached parties to Ireland murder. He said:—“Never, betore my God, haye I had any other object in connection with the Fenaa Brotherhood than the deliverance of the home of my boyhood from the accursed yoke of the usurper, and if ide to strike the enemy three thousand miles from his base and within a few miles of ours Iam confident that tho common sense and knowledge of my country- men will sustain me.”? He next revealed his plans and explained (hem minutely, excepting thos’ whirh com manding generals cannot reveal, convincing tho most obtuse of their feasibility. Every question put was promptly and satisfactorily answered The estimates of various matters councetod with the War Department were presen‘ed aud approved, and for the firsi time the representatives of the Fenian Brotheruood have proved posilively that action is meant. General Teres, Adjutant Gen>ral of the Fenian Bro- therhood, reada comprehensive and well written report of the business of bis vltice. On motion the report of General Sweeny was unani- mously adopted, and a committee of one ‘military man from each state'and district was appointed to examine its complicated military points, Afwer a caroful aud thorougt examination tie committee reported in favor of every part of the above plans. On nioton a commitice was appointed to clect Sena- tors to fili vacancies. The folowing gentiomn were ciected:—Edward L. Canby, of New York; P, W. Duna, of Peoria, Ii. ; BE. L. Morrison, of Missouri; J. W. Dou- nally, of Bosion; John Darby, of Washington, D. ©.; John’Cartion, of Bordentown, N. J. enator Daly, of fndnna, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, adininistered the oaih of office. A telegrain was received from Petersburg, Va., offering men, money and arms to General Sweeny. B. Doraw Killian, accompanied by an ex-president and one of Mr. O'Mahony’s employes, is here, stopping at the St. Charles Hviel. In keeping with 's parlor of fashionable Hberality he has hired thy pri the hotol, for which he pays ten dollars a day. He pub- Tishes a card in the morning paper, a copy of wh.ch he sent to the Speaker of tho House.’ He counsels recon- ciliat’on, but the parties he bas addrossed are suspicious of the pucnomuna of a fox becoming honest. . Fires in This City. A DARING ACT OP INCENDIARISM—THRER PARTIES ARRESTED ON SUS?ICION OF ARSON. The residence of Mr. Gharles T. MeCionachan, in Eighty-third street, botween Second aud Third avenues, Yorkville, was entered by some persons at present un- known at about one o'clock on Thursday morning, and upwards of fifty doliars worth of property was carried away and the premises fired in three places, The smoke, acconding to the bedroom of the servant girl, alarmed hor, and she awoke the family, and it was with much didiculty that Mrs, MeClenacan and ber small children escap:d suffeation. It seems that Mr. MeCienachan arrived nome at near twelve o'clock, fastened up the houve ag usual and retired to no one sleeping on the first tloor, The servant girl, Mary Ann Farrell, awoke Mr, MeCionachan, who ran down, and in tho din ng room found a lot of clothing, which lay on the lounge, all in ao blaze. Tie lounge was also on fire. By a] of waier the flames ‘were subdaed, the lounge dragged into the yard and the fire put out. The clean finen undergarments and other articles of cloth 'ng were pretty much all destroyed, and the covering of the lounge was also burnt to pirces, in- volving ‘a loss of about — Upon an examination made the ‘ses by Captain Hutchings an: ire Marshal Baker it was evitont that two other fires had been kindied—one tn the kitchen closet and the other under the flooring of the house. These two latter fires had been nade with pine kindling wood, saturated with keroseng oil, but from some cause had shgnt charring on the floor. A suspicion aga ost three ehae and officer Brown, by direction of Captain Hut , took them into custody on the charge of case will be more fully investigated to day. of his prop- arson. Mr. McC nachan is uot lagured op any part erty. r WILLIAM STREET. Between eight and nino o'clock tast night a fire oceur- red in tho tiusmith’s shop of George Marr, No, 193 Wil- Ham street, first floor, Before tho fire wns O€Ungulsbod damage to the amount of eight hundred dollars wad dove to tho stock ; fully insured in the Etna Insurance Com- pany. ‘The second floor is occupied by G, Belout, photo- graph picture fraine manufacturer, Damaze to stock estimated at abodt four thousand dollars; insured for two thourand dive hundred dollars la tho United States Tnsurance Company. The building 1s damaged about one thousand dollars, RIDGE STREET—THE CHIRF ENGINEER INJURED, About onv o'clock on Thursday moruing a fre broke out on the fourth floor of the ciuair manufactory of &. C, Robinson, in the rear of Nu. 10.Ridge street, The dre. men were promptly on the gronad, and soon had water op the fire, and coutined the Hames to the two top Hours of the building. The damage to the stock by fire and water will be about $1,500—eaid to be insured, The building is damaged aboat $500, Clie’ Kogincer Kings. lund, wile in tho yard near (ue building, was back by a plank which fell trom the top of He was knocked to the cari senseless Lup he was supposed to be killed; but, on ing building, he revived, aud we are happy to ray, although very severely injured, Te board in falling must have Janting position, and thus be providen- tatly eseaped death, [tseems almost miracalous that other tire near him eeaped uninjured. ‘The eause of is under investigation by the Fire Marshal, CENTKE STRERT. About half-past three o'clock on Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in the brush manufactory of Thomas Wright, in the basement of 183 Ceatre street. The prom- izes Wad been locked up aboutan hour when the fire was discovered, upkuown estimated at about 21,500; tusured for $1,000, Rutgers Insurance Compauy. The adjoining a trance at 114 White stret, occupied by Joho pattern al Himaker age by water about Deimeuraace, ‘the Now ¥ floor, have sustained damog amount of ¢ The association own the buiiding, which Is also damagot to the extent of $400 or $400; said to be iusured, CROSBY STREET, At about eleven o'clock last night a fire broke out in the first floor of a four story brick building, reat of No, How the fire originated is at present ‘The da:naye to the stock and machinory is a tho 13 Crosby street, occupied by F.C. Lighte & Co., piano. forte mannfaeturers, The fre extended to the second and there its progress was stopped. The damage iano caves and material is estimated at about $20,000; said to be fullyfinsured. The damage done to the building wil! amount to about $400. The cause of tho firo at preront unknown, bat is supposed to originate from the stove, Captinn Williamson aud a strong foros of yolice rendered excelient service in keoping a clear space for the Aremen to work. FIGHT IN A PORTER HOUSE—A MAN DANGEROUSLY eur. About eleven o'clock on Wednesday night a quarrel Occurred in the porter houte of John Male, 127 avenue D, in consequence of a number of parties present who had called for liquor tefusing to pay the Dil, A general fight ensued, during which James McDonald was ¢ut across the wrist, the stecl sinking deep into the Besh and severing all the aroeries The wrist bound up, after which MeDovald was Temoved to Bellevue Hospital. It is feared he will forever lose the uso of bis hand, Male, the keeper of the place, was arrested, axtwere also James and George Horn. den, and the prise: were taken before Justice Shand- officer Byv of the Eleventh precinct, The magistrate on hearing the case discharged fale and took ‘his complaint for asswuit aud battery against the other isonera, who were detained for examination, By whom JeDonulg way cut did not appear. anol a Huon ancean mascot Bate At an carly hour yesterday morning John Cohn entered the lager beer saloon of Peter Keller, 231 Third a ue, and after calling for refreshments refused to pay for them. On being remonstrated with Coun feommencod breaking tumblers on the floor, whereupon the proprie- tor attem| to eject him from the preruisea, Tn doing $0 Cohn, it is alleged, turned upow,iim, and, drawipg a kalfe, stabbed Kelle the abdomen, taf cling ew ox- coedingly dapgerous wound. Keller was also in’ the left arm. Officer Harria, of the Eighteenth preciact, Colin, and Justice Dodge committed him to await tho result of his victim's injuries. Mr. Keller 16 under treatment at bie own house, and there are serious fears concerning his recovery. STABBED HIS WIFR. : ‘On Wednesday evening Thomas Lawless called at Ne 72 Carmino street, where bis wife Ellen is employed as A domestic, and exprensed a desire to see her. As she made her appearance Lawless drew a knife and siabbed her in the left shoulder, the steel penetrating to the depth of several inches, A physic an was called, an after making an examination, oxpressed the opinion th the wound might result fatally. Law!oss was arrested, aad Justice Dodeo committed him to prisow. SEWARD.: Secretary. His Appearance and Physicaland Mental Condition. His West India Tour and Discovery of a New Irrepressible Conflict. &. &o. &e, Aside from the ordinary route and throng of the peo- ple which any “public training day” will call toto Broadway, there was yesterday a consciousness im the community that, apart from the interest felt in the pab- lic events and the day as a celebration, something was to be enteriained which gavo un electric fecling even te the cooler reservoirs of intellectual sentiment. There was a consciousness abroad which stirred tlie most sub- stantial classes and exercised the strongest intellects, Everybody felt that there was on this occasion the peculiar exciting and inspiring power of brains con. corned in the public feeling. While the people in the street presented tho usual aspect of tho crowd at @ procession, the peculiar feature of the day was the busy and animated condition of those resoris whero the organized intellects of the inetropolis meet or mapifest their activity in great public junctures, While the crowd in the strecta were paticatly waiting for Grant and the military procession there was a stir aud a ouri- gene out, leaving only a rewied ————_ 4+ osity among the lawyers, the capitalists, the merchants and the men of the best intellects and most infaenee among us, which found its source in the arrival bere af the great Secretary of ffate, William H. Seward. ARRIVAL AND REUBPTION OF THE GREAT §EC- RETARY. For three or four duys it has been understood that Seward would come here and deliver one more of his great speeches, The political excitement in regard to the events in Congress gave the ke:ncet interest to this event. H's enthusiastic recoption at the Cooper Tmati tute last mivht indicated how deeply the people partake in this interest, There was, too, far greater curiosity to see lim than perhaps to hear him, His connection with the great na- tional tragedy, his striking part in the dreadful drama which carried off President Linculn, lent a fascination te his person which was never felt on previous occasions of his presence here. He must be under tho influence of this feel'ng himself, too; for instead of his wsusd mode of reading his speech im bis parlor at Aubarn, ho has yielded to the public fecling and presonted himself to the packed and excited populace gathored at the prinel- pal political tabernacte in the metropolis of the country. At Washington Bir. Seward is a more familiar institu. tion than he ishere. Tis appearance, his movements, his health and everything about him seem to be matters of moro interest, He arrived here yesterday at noon by the train from Philadelphia, baving stayed im that city over night on his way hore from Washington. He ocea- pied himself while on bis journey yesterday forenoon im preparing his speech, which he dictated to a steno- frapher on the train, That address was copied in the afternoon and corrected for the press, and in the evening delivered almost exactly as pospared aud printed. ea30 and accuracy With W i this, usual method, is carried out are equally remarkable and admirable. | * ‘On arriving in this city he was taton by a cortige im wailing to the residenge of B. M. Blatchford (bis former law partuer), in Fourteenth street, opposite Delmonico’s. After receiving the congratulations and calls of many distinguished citizens ho Pree to his room for some rest, and In the afternoun before dinner again recelved his frien HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Mr. Seward’s appoarance moro sirikingly Mlustrates the expression “‘vaves of State’ tham—any other public man’s. Seeing him reeiin:ng in his room with aud dressing gown, the chang: in his aspect to persons who had not seeu him for some years Was very. strik- ing. Recalling the occasion w he delivered his great speech on the Dred Scott decidon, the contrast was avarked indeed. The clear, firm, elastic, compact and ‘active man he was has given place to a condition, framo both furrowed aud enfeebled. It is not warmth of conversation bas aroused hin that feeling of sym; y and apprehension 1s got rid of for his health, is about sixty-ilve years of ago, but years or their influence are ten iy his appearaggs and his presence. One fecly cvnisouting @ century in_his face and In his words, ~ He grew quite animated and excecdinzly interested f aah during a couveriat on regarding hit health, bis dally bavits, and more particulariy h.s recent visit to the West. Todios (or his health. The pd the assassin om the right aide-of bis jaw has been so well handled by the surgeon that it appears like a wrinkle, yet the ie almost a distortion. Tho loft vide of his face the strength, amiability and fine contour made familieg by so many popular portraits, ° IIS TROPICAL TOUR AND, SUMMARY OF THE APRI> OX. th great interest, He afairs there presente a complete array of expericace for the treatment of the African ques: with us, The great fact which le spoke all this experience ja, that the blacks, and the whites all get along in their fe spective sphores so long as they neither attompt toewn, to master or to thi His deserip- tion of the bl and thelr developed fovern. ment in Hayt, evil rosulis of French, Bugileh apd Spanish rule aud interserence with them ; tie botching of the Gritish in Jamaica, the experience of the Danes, the Frouch, &c., in the other islands; the relative siatures of mulatwes ond the blacks and their irreconcilable eom- flicts; the insoluble opposition of the black and white Z to colonize the hed npon With spirit aod ive logic and point of a great ck vill find is" status and to know for his self govern- ; and he, like all the other tineut, must be left te mek his level w.thout the imeddlesome’ mis-bief of au water. ference and control by er races, such as had been is bane in the West Indies. lils idea wonid seem to i@- diate that tue blacks would gravitate to the tropics, would be crowded into thelr place by the je mau it they did not y ry coon seck their natural m wrritoriaily on the coulinent. Mr. reward yory strongly impressed with the “drrepremible conflict” of races by lils vieit tu the Gulf of Mexi its ielands. ' WIS MENTAL AND RODILY VIGOR. While the great Secretary bears upon his countenance very striking records of the great care and toil whien he bas gone through for the past Ove years, yet his appetite and general health, i seems, are in an’ excotient atate. Ho is in calm, Clear, gout spifits, works all day without fatigue—writing. d.c:ating. consulting and advising—and 1D & incutal point of view shows perhaps to as good, if wot Delier, Advantage ‘hun ever, Oa the stand ab the Cooper institute be veliversd his epoech leaning with bis Jeft arm and his bedy against the rostrum, yet hie de- livery reached a» bich a piich of animation and vigor as times as Le has ever mani ested on such occasions, ¥ Snor 1s Tum Stanst, As Mes, Elizabeth Steinbecher, resiaizy at No. 415 Niuth avenue, was passing through Fi serenth street yesterday, afternoon, a party of boys in the viclaliy ere engaged in firing their pistols in the street. Unfortunately the ball with which ono of the weapons was loaded took ellect im the breast of the woman, causing a serious and probably fatal wound, SLe was conveyed to her resi- dene, Two of the boys, named John & Levy and Adolph Ackerman, were arrested by the fwenty second Precinct police, aud hela fot examination. obvious qui lect. He said ti quickly learn ali he o aud seff-advancens races and people of this and that they wh A Womay Acctorytas rary Family Joar The Wrexty Henatp for the present week, now ready, BCS @ coptiguation of the doeply iutercsing —— wade . 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