The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. = Volume XXXI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, -No. 61 BROADWAY. THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome sirect.-SoLox Suixcux—Live INpiax, YORK THEATRE. Ni Ganpenxe—Ginatpa. i LUCY RUSHTON'S NEW and 73) Broadway.—Kixa’s WOOD'S THEATRE, Broad: the St Nicholas Hotel.—ATOxsMENT; Of, Tus Cully Srasten” Me ” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL: Met litan Hotel.—Ermior.am duseura, ey. corsste Wuo Kitten Coox Roaimt a oe TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Sina- wo Danowna, BuRtmsques, &0.—AbvantuREs OF 4 New Yous Dermoriva, GEORGE CHRISTY’S8—O.p Scuoo. or Minstasisy, Guus, &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Zand 4 West Twonty-fourth strest.—Bar Masque xs RY, MINSTREL3, Meonemies’ Mall, 472 Broad. qay.—Dan Buvave s Naw Stour Srewca—Nugro Comicati- wus, Buniusques, 2c. Mau. 1001 RA we Toren HOUSE, Brotha. —Bomeotn Mis W YORK MUSEUM Of ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— open trom 10 A se thie vale HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Conrnir's Invusteatep To AcorLann, eee eRe jow York, Friday, March THE FENIANS. ‘The advices from Europe by the last two or three steamers have indicated that the Fenian movement in Treland was coming to a point. ~All these mysterious indications have now culminated in the suspen- sion of the writ of habeas corpus throughout tho whole of Ireiand, the British government virtually declaring that coontry in open rebellion. ‘On the 16th of February a Cabinet council was held at Dsborne, Isle of Wight, where Queen Victoria is at pre- sent staying. On the following day a spec'al meetin: of Parliament was convened for the purpose of declaring the Habeas Corpus act suspended, Sir George Grey, in proposing this oxtreme measure, made the remarkable statcment that Lord Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of Ire- thus land, would not be responsible for the safety of the coun- try ifthis course were not adopted. The bill was harried turough both Houses without active opposition, though Br. Bright registered protest against it, and the samo nightat cieven o'clock received the royal assent No time was lost in putting in foree the arbitrary powers thus conferred on the government, Before tho steamsiiip Asia, which brought the latest news, left Queenstown, a hundred Fenians, most of them strangers, but, at is to be presumed, from this country, had been placed wader arrest, aud further proecedings of a like wholesa’e char- acter wore in contemplation, This sudden and vigorous action on the part of the English government is attributed in some quarters to the alarm caused by the hoax about the calling of a Fenian privateer from this couutry. Avother staiemont has it that the writ was susponded in order to cnuble the govermment to deai effectually ith the American emissarie3 of the organization. All accounis, however, agree that the government must be tm posarssion of highly important tuformation of some kind to ind..ce thom to make so decisive a move. Tn this city the excitement created among the Fenians by this intoiligonce was very great, and on its receipt a meeting of the Council of the O'Mahony branch was im. mediately held in Union square, and circulars were sent to all tho circlea, d recting them to assomblo for deo sive ection, A stirring address to all the members of the Brotherhood was aiso issued, These calla were responded to by largoly atitonded mostings of ail the circles which ‘Wore held last n git. “ EUROPE ‘Thy Cunard steamship Asia, from Liverpool on Feb- ruary 17, via Queenstown on February 18, arrived at Halifax yosterday. By this arrival we have received the text of the im- portant speech made by Marshal Forey in the French enate on the Mexican question, In this counection there is a rumor, which goes to confirm the statement of | ® Wash'ngton despatch published In the Herann of Feb- Fuary 19, to the effect that the Emperor of Austria has Offered to supply his brother of Mexico with Lronps on con- dition that they are incorporated with the Mexican army. Tho differences betweon the courts of Pr. ssia and Ans tria on th eternal dechios question, which ere ‘daily widening, may possibly prevent that arrangemont, if contemplated, frum being carried Into eftect, A diplomatic ruptare had occurred betwoon the Czar and the Pope. Nothing ‘urther had transpired in Europe with ro'e ene? to the Ch The Peruvian ivou Tnd. pond at Brest by the French authori({c United States fvo.twenties had advanced to 68 a 6535 in the London market, British consuls were quoted at ATG a dT CONGRES}. In the Sonate yesterday a petition of army officers for increase of pay and a memoralof the New York Freo ‘irade Ls » fora cont.nuance of the Recipro ity treaty were presentet. A resolution tho militia of the lately rebeliions 8 their reorganization for the present ¥ orted irom the Military Committee, The Finance Commiitee wor) in- | structed to report on the expediency of an appropriation for bu‘lding a custom hous, post oifice and bonded warehouse at and, Oregon. The Dill gi the § route Pacific Railroad wa: or some time, and then laid over again till today. The Agricu!- ttee reported the bil amending the act to Prevent the spre gue, by p rmitting cattle importations, in retion of the sec y of the Treasu mm jufected countries, and empor ing the whenever he shall deom pro pr t the entire sospension of the low, and it was “passed. It previously passed the House toa was given to a fow other minor nm a then th? Reconstruction Com the House, to sntatives until Congress States entitled to represeuta- tion, was Procecded Moneed on tty om took tho f fn 0 close of the & 1 the discussion of it was remarks com. oily, and tho Senate adjourned with the understanding that th qiation is to be ¥ la In the House tatives insiractions given to the Committoo of Ways and Moans to report oo the expediency of reducing the paper duly and of r funding to the oltixens of Chambersbury, Pa, who cut fered by MeCaveland’s rebei raid the amount of their internal revenue tax for i864, A substitute for thy 4, Oregon, to connect with the ¢ cifle R i was reported from the Pacific Ratiroad Committee ond ordered to be printed. A resola- tion of tho New York Legielaturo relative to a hip ennal between Lakes Superior and Portage was Presented and rofe Mr, Wilson reported from the. Judiciory Committee, with amendments, the Benato bill for the protection of all inhabitants of the Comntry in the enjoyment of thotretvil riehts, and moved $s recommitment, making a speech in explanation and @dvocacy of it. A long discussion on the measure fol lowed, participated in by several members, a e others Mr. Rogers, of Now Jersey, wh 1 consider. able amusement to tho H remarks believed that whon the rebols were fphting ayainst Sho flag of thoir country they wore mo scientious convictions, and consider tionary fathers fought as much fort African slavery as for the protection o r rights Finally further consideration of the bill was postpsaod til to-day. Tho Miscellaneous Appropriatifn bil was ogan Conaldered for some time in Commitize of the Whole fand passod. Among iis provisions is one that ft (pe portrait of a living person shall be placed on « i by high con w n bandment of | the national bonds, notes or postal currency, A resolu- tion was adopted requesting the Secretary of War to furnish a report of the number of regiments furnished by all of the States, the numerical strength of each, and the number of battles in which each was engaged, kc. A resolution in favor of the eight hour labor system was introduced and referred to the Judiciary Commitioe. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the annual report of the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction of this city was presented. Among @ large number of bills reported from committees were those ceding to the national gov- ernment jurisdiction over certain quarantine lands in our lower bay, regulating the use of our wharves and slips, and providing for two additional surrogates in this city. The bill to amend the act to prevent persons doing business under fictitious names was reported upon ad- versely, and the report was agreed to, The bill amend- ing the Sing Sing Prison charter was passed. A now set of reconstruction resolutions was in- troduced by Mr. Low, republican, of Sullivan county, and referred without debate to the select committee. They assert the power of Congress to fix the conditions on which representatives shall be admitted from the lately rebellious. States, oppose such admission until proper ‘guarantees for future loyalty and good behavior are given, recognize the truest patriotism in the course of the Congressional republican majority, and trust that _ they, in co-operation with the President, ‘will concert ‘measures for the restoration of Southern representation on a just and stable basis, An evening session was held, which was devoted to debate on the Governor's message. In tho: Assembly but little business was transacted during the day session The annual report of the Trus- tees of the Institution for the Blind was presented. An evening session was held for the purpose of discussing the resolutions presented on the previous day, designed to assist in the restoration of harmony between Presi- dent Johnsen and Congress, The debate was a very intoresting and significant one. Speaker Lyman Tremain, who has ‘been known as a radical republican, being the principal speaker. He eulogized the Presi- dent in warm language, and condemned the opposition to him which had been manifested by cortain radical Congressmen, but insisted on the right of Congress to determine the coaditions on which the lately re- bellious States shall be granted Congressional ropre- sentation, and concluded by an earnest appeal for a re- newal of accord between the Executive and national legisiators, THE CITY. Governor Fenton's nominations for Metropolitan Heaith Commissloners were yesterday confirmed by the State Senate, and the new Health Board will probably be organized in this city to-day, The captains of the Metro- politan police have already received instractions regard- ing tho now duties which the act establiching the Health Commission will impose upon them. ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and adopted the Tax Lovy for the present year, The total amount of the appropriation is $8,468,275 72. The special Common Council committee appointed to consider the subject of bridging Broadway were to have met yesterday, but Alderman Loew only was present. He adjourned the meeting to Saturday, at one o'clock P. ¥,, and announced that he would then go on with the werk even if there were no otber members present. The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Mr. B. F. Manierre, was duly installed yesterday at the meeting of the Puhee Voard, which was organized by tho eloction of Messrs, Acton and Bergen respectively as Prosident and ‘dreasarer. A meeting of the captains of the force waa eld on Wednesday afternoon, at which there wasa formal leave-taking of the retring Commissioner, and a committea was appointed to draft and preacnt to him a series of resolutions expressive of tho estcem and respect entertained for him by the entire department. E The jury in the Breusing will case yesterday brought inayerdict for tho plaintiff, Miss Regina Kauffman, on aii the iss: es, This verdict bands over the entire prop: erty of Mr. Breusing, valued at Ofty thousand dcliars, to Miss Kauffman, as the aileged will of deceased is: vali- dated. ‘the case will probably be appealed. ‘The cave of Carl Noelte, recently arrested in this city on charge of defrauding Meyer & Co., bankers, of Berlin, Prussa, of forty thousand dorlars, was again up yester- day before United States Commnasioner Newton, in Trooklyn, on a motion for the production of the person of the accused, to be dealt with im cccordance with the provisions of the Extradition treaty. The Sheriff of New York, in whose custody Noelte ts, atitl refuses to surren der him. ‘The case hax beeu adjourted t6 the 24 of April. Mary Clippen-teln, a so from Berlin, bas commenced an action in tho Euperior Court in this city agalnst Noolte for breach of promise of marriage. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon the report of the committee on building fron docks, piers and wharfa in this city was adopted as amended, ng published some days since in the Herat, Tho annual meeting o° the managers of the Nareery and Child's Hospital was beid yesterday in the rooms of the inguitution, in Lexington avenue, when the regular reporis were read, officers for the ensuing year were elected, and other business was transacted, ‘Tho number of adiuiesions during the past year was five hundred and ton, and the present number of inmates Is two hundred and thirty-seven, The siock market was firm yesterday. Governments were quiet, Gold was weak, and closed at 13574. MISCELLANEOUS. President Jonson was yesterday visited by two addi- tional delegations, ove consisting of a committee ap- polated at the mass meeting held im Balt.more on Monday aight, and the other of the membors of the Iron and Steel Covention in session in Wasiungton, in. cluding gentlemen froma number of the States. The Pres.dent addressed each delegation brioily ; bat his ro- marks were pointed, and contained something more than mere ordinary reception formutaries, He altuded to the policy which he has hith wil hereafter be conti gardiess of opposition and- | ta nts. He spoko hopefally of tho fut ure of the coun try, at 1 no doubt that all will como right in the end, despiie the secession extromists of the South and | the consotidation fanaties of t th, both of which | purtics he regarded as equally laboring to destroy the Union. By an early restoration of the Soith to iis forwer Union relations its products would bo broaght juto our commerce, and, by thas extending the area of the curreney circulation, @ Quavcial crash would bo averted. Demonstrations of approval of President Johnson's cource and his late veto of the Freedmen's Barsaa bill continue to be made in different paris of the covntry, A mars meeting of the supporters of tho President's policy was hold last evening in Morruania, Westchester county, which was The proceed- ings wore of a Secretary Mel requiar monthly statement of our national debt was issued yesterday, and appears in our columns this morning. The total amount of the debt at tho prosent time is something over twenty-eight hun- rod millions of dollars, or, in complete figures, $2,927,808,959, being an increasé Of nearly three mil- A half since the Ist of last mouth, rom Cuba, by the steamship Eagle, which arrived here yesterday, our correspondence contains news of a varied character and far wore Interesting than the usval atvic © from that istand. There was great excitement r garding the war between Spain and the South Ame. rican reptblics and over apprehensions of Chilean pri- ness in Hayaua and tho other towns bas seriously deprossed thereby. On the 17th of | Fobruory @ Spanish steamer which sailed from Cadiz with sealed orders arrived at Havana, and it is said | thet she bronght a command to Captain General Dulce patch five th nd troops to join the Spanich he Chilean coast, General Dulee was very plying with this order, and the result of rhad not transpired, In addition to their ex- citem nt over reports of privateors let loose on Spanish commerce from English ports, the people were alarmed by a ramor that Chilean expeditions, projected in New York, were to disembark American freedmen on their shores to révolutivnize the island, The Cubans are also still in great trouble owing to the obstruc- tions thrown in the way of all desired reforms by the home government. The landing of slaves from Africa gontinves. A lot of one hundred were re- oontly eoid for eighty thousand dotiars to a planter, who, it te sald, one Of thore who some time ago entered into a covenant to no longer deal in human flesh, The Mayor of Manzanitla was recently assussinated because, it ts understood, he could not be seduced into the schemes of the lave tradors, There have lately been & | large number of supposed incendiary fires in Matanaas, | Ta Havana the Grau opera company is giving much satie- | faction, There is still a large number of New Yorkers S Journ ng in that elty, The catile disease is provaiting in some portions of Cuba, attended with considerable mortality. tm Toceipt of later advices from Mexico, re- celv 4 Vora Cruz and Havava The renoblicans had 7 captured the town of Alamos, after a fight of seven ‘ours’ duration, when the impertalista were forced to yield, leaving the place to be plundered by the enemy. ‘With the exception of Mazatlan, which ws threatened by @ force two thousand strong, under Corona, the entire Stato of Sinaloa was in the power of the republicans. Details of the capture of property belonging to Tampico merchants by the force under Mendez show that the goods seized amounted to half a mill.on of dollars, exclusive of one thousand mules captured at Tancasnequi. The impz=rialist organs report victories gained over the republicans in Sonora, Michoacan and elsowhere. A bend of Americans, about one hundred strong, belonging to Cortina’s force, had, it is stated, detached itself in order to make an independent raid through the State of Sinaloa, The arrival of nearly three thousand troops from France, on the way to Mexico, te reinforce the imperialists, was looked for at Havana on the 24th of Fobruary, Ireland in Rebellion—Shall We Grant Belligerent Rights? The news from Ireland is very important. The writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended by a special Act of Parliament, and the whole country has thus been declared in a state of ‘rebellion. This extreme measure appears to have been adopted in consequence of the ru- mored departure of a Fenian privateer from America. In this particular instance the ‘report was a hoax, though in the end it msy possibly prove only premature. The Fenians in this country were greatly excited over the news, as will be seen in another column, and meetings were immediately held in every quar- terto make arrangements to meet the emer- gency. Ireland now occupies the same position towards England which the Southern States occupied towards the United States during our own rebellion. The question which must now come before the statesmen having charge of the afairs 0? our government is, whether it is right ‘or the United States, in the present hour of En_;land’s distress, to jump at the chance and recognize the Irish as belligerents— whether we should make efforts to stop any privateers leaving this country, or wait and see if Ireland will gain her independence before recognizing her at all. Were weto adopt the p>licy of Earl Russell the commerce of Eng- land would be obliged to change its flag and sail under Americn colors, as the United States flag had to be changed and our vessels to sail under English colors during our own troubles. The parallel character of the two cases is telt at last even in the English Parlia- ment; for, simultanvously with the government announcement that the Habeas Corpus Act was to be suspended, Mr. Labouchere gave notice in the House of Commons that, on the 23d.ot February, he would cail attention “to the inade- quacy of the neut:al laws to enablo“Eingtend to fulfil her international, obligations towards foreign countries.” When the Alabamasteamed out of Liverpool, and the British ship Soa King, alias the Shenandoah, started froma British seaport on lier piratical cruise, nothing was eaid then about the “inadequacy of neutral laws.” ‘To Minister Adams’ remonstranpes: Earl Russell replied that England “could not make new laws to meet every new emergency.” But rebellion in his own kingdom has madea wonderful difference in John Bull’s estimate of the duties of neutral nations to friendly , Meanwhile the question remains, what will the United States government adopt? This is a point which not only England but other European Powers may discuss with interest and profit, because what happened here and what has happened in Ireland is likely to hap- pen to any one of them. There is a quaint old saying with regard to the ultimate destination of curses, which, if rendered into French or Latin, would read very nicely and quite classi- cally, but which in plain English is very homely. This same saying applies with equal fores to acts of national bad faith and un- friendliness. Sooner or later, “like chickens they come home to roost.” The Radical Fear of the People—Walt- ing for the New Hampshire and Con- necticut Elections. On Monday last the famous Committee of Fifteen sent to the House as an amendment to the constitution a proposal to re-enact two clauses of that instrament with especial refer- ence to the negre. This amendment was dis- cussed for three days, and on Wednesday the House agreed, by a large vote, to postpone farther consideration of the measure until the second Tuesday in April. This has been rather hastily interpreted as the end of the amendment. It indicates the disposition of Stevens and Company to dodge a vote that would further excite the public mind against their extreme views; but it is certainly not the end of the measure. The specific purpose of this postponement is to keep quiet and lie low until the New Hampshire and Connecticut elections até over, The radical leaders are not insensible to the effect that their crazy course has already had upof fhe republican party; and they have now consented io keep quiet for a little, lest a new cxbibition of theif violence should defeat the republican ticket in the two States named, This action also shows their fear of the people and their consciousness that thelr coitise In Congress is in deflance of the popular will. ¢ ess same The last of the two elections will take placé on the first Tuesday in April; and on the second Tuesday of the same month—all immediate danger from the people being past—the radi- cals will take up the amendment again, and make another terrible effort to strengthen themselves against the Southern people; for that is the purpose of this last proposed muti- lation of the law. It is another ridiculous little attempt to do the work of the war better than the war did ft. It is another expression of the radical fear that the South is not yet views of the radical party. All these attempts to legislate the Southern white man down and the negro up are the same, The radicals base their claims to give law to the South upon the fact that the North conquered it in the war. But why all this fear of a conquered people? Why all this desperate eagerness to tie down & people that we have beaten in open battle? Would it not ho warthier « brave and magnan- sufficiently crushed for the safety of the extreme | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARUH 2, 1866. imous people to depend more upon the moral result of the grest fact of the con- quest that is made the basis of all this cow- ardly and contemptible legislation? The Spring Trade—Mischicvous Effects of Radicalism. There is a very general opinion abroad that the spring season will not be so prosperous a one for trade as it ought to bo; and if all the in- dications should prove true we will know at whose door to lay the responsibility. The radicals in Congress are keeping the country in a very unsettled condition for their own miserable purposes. In all stages of a semi-revolutionary state of things in every country commerce receives a se vere check, and we cannot expect to escape results which are inevitable all over the world. There was good reason to expect that before the spring season opened the businoss of the country would have settled down into its old channels, that the South would have been reconstructed, its in- dustry partially restored, and that a consequent demand for goods would be created that might justify the caleulations of merchants in import- ing largely. But owing to the action of the are very likely to be defeated. Had no ob- structions been thrown in the way by the mar- plots in their vindictive opposition to the Pre- sident’s policy the South would to-day be in a position to open a trade with New York and the Northern States generally, which would have increased tenfold the trade of this city. But in the present state of things, and in view of the proceedings in Congress, how does the matter stand? Industry in the South is paralyzed. Capital- ists are discouraged. The sources of wealth which might have been developed are still dry. Our merchants have imported very extensively, basing their operations in a great measure upon the Southern market, and the Southern market is very likely to fail them as long as the Jaco- bins continue to pursue their present course, The bonded warehouses are laden with goods. Bills have to be met on the other side of the Atlantic to pay for these goods in September. How can they be met if the calculations upon . which the purchases were predicated are frus- trated by a faction in Congress? Governor Orr, of South Carolina, stated the other day that that State was ina fair way. of reviving her trade and industry, but while certain mea- sures were in consideration in Congress capi- talists were holding back, and her progress bad received # material check. The samo is true of many other Southern States. The cot- ton and other plantations along the Mississippi, where Northern enterprise and capital were just beginning to develop themselves most -hopefuliy, are now lying comparatively waste, in consequence of the unsettied state of the _eoutitry. The-radicals bave-put the times out ol joint... Not only -have ‘they placed the poli- tical condition of the country in jeopardy, but ‘the financial condition also, The effect of their iniquitous course is felt upon every interest, and it will perhaps first touch the commercial affairs of this city most severely. Tho consti- tuents of these men, all over the country, may soon find the shoe pinching too tightly to be any longer borne. .Without belng alarmists or desiring to suggest « revulsion as at hand, wo cannot tail to see very serious embarrassment to. the commerce of the country.as the reauit of the conduct of the Jacobins in Congress, who, for the sake of maintaining party power, are resisting the return of the whole country to its former prosperity. Another Iasurance Company Colla psed— * ‘What Next} In 1857 the foundering of the Ohio Life and Trust Company of Cincinnatl was the forcrunner of the great financial crisis and panic of that year. That corporation held enormous amounts of money in trust,and when it suspended the distress created thereby was unusually widespread and severe, So, but upon a smaller scale, are the effects of the sus- pensions of insurance companies of these days. The smoke and dust from the ruins of the Columbian Insurance Company have not cleared away when the explosion of another corporation—the Morris Fire and Inland Insu- rance Company—startles policy holders and unseities all kinds of insurance business, The sound insurance companics are more or less affected by these failures of the rotten or badly managed ones. The public confilence in them is shaken, just as the public confi- dence is shaken in the character of stock- jobbers when cases occur like that of a Bank Note Company, where the stock of the company was represented to be worth but sixty dollars per share to the administrator of an estate, when it was privately known that it was worth over three hundred dollars per share, and a suitin court is the consequence. The same with other stock companies, particularly bogus petroleum companies, where those who invest- ed small sums were made to see their little Means swallowed up, and they had no reco%rse, The same with many glittering mining compa- nies and other joint stock concerns, which were made to inhale the financial atmosphere of Wall street and kindred localities for a while and then burst, leaving the pockets of their swindling getter-up well lined with pro- coeds fleeced from innocent outsiders. All sound and substantial companies are affected by the operations of these unprincipled rogues. It is the same with bank, insurance, petroleum, mining or any other stock that roally bas « lid foundation. The public corifidence in all tiem ie more or less disturbed by the fraud- ulent transactions of these financial crackamen. This should not be tolerated; and it is the duty of the officers appointed by the Legislature to look after the condition of insurance and other corporations, and see that the great commer. celal and monetary interests of the community are not infuxjonsly affected by the intrusion of bogus companies into regular and legitimate financial business, The sound companies of ‘all kinds will of course stand, while the hum- bugs are swept away. But was i} not carious to see, as we did in the case of the Morris In- surance Company, the President of that dorpo- ration, in its present condition of suspended animation, if not of total insolvency and col lapse, appointed the receiver of its property? Here is @ company brought to insolvency through the mismanagement of its officers, and yet one of the officers selected to wind up the affairs of the concern. But we understand that the order appoint- ing the Prosident the receiver of the pro- perty of the company has been vacated, and that another and © far more suitable person has been appointed in his place. This is all right aod prover: and now. while we do not immediately’ *pprehend the disastrous financial crash that succeeded the foundering of the Ohio Life and Trust Com- pany, it is well for our business community fo look after such concerns as the Columbian In- surance Company and the Morris Fire and In- land Insurance Company, and see that the con- tagion of insurance bankruptcy does not spread. New Places of Amusement in New York. In spite of the sudden chill which has fallen upon trade in consequence of the radical re- bellion at the North, new dwellings, stores, offices, public buildings and places of amuse- ment are being erected in every part of this metropolis, Almost all of these new erections are to be magnificent specimens of architec- ture, They will not only serve the purposes of their proprietors, but they will be splendid ornaments to our already beautiful city. The time has passed when mere piles of brick and mortar can satisfy our citizens. The utmost attention is now paid to those details which render our edifices elegant, as well as to those modern conveniencés which add to their com- fort and utility. Broadway, which was dis- figured by wooden shanties only a few years ago, is ‘now lined with palatial stores, with hardly an unsightly building to break its splendid uniformity. That which is being ac- complished in Paris by means of stringent laws nd an official architect is achieved here by tho good sense and good taste ot our citizens them- selves, and the most parsimonious owner of real estate would not think of putting up a plain, unornamental store or house upon any of our grand avenues. The progress of public opinion in this regard has been most remarkable. In certain sections of the eity the purchaser of land is bound by the terms of his bargain to build houses of a deslg- nated style or forteit his deed. The result will be that in a very few years we shall have the most elegant city in the world. The same refinement of taste displayed in our architecture is beginning to reform our places of amusemen‘. Besides the two new theatres recently opened upon Broadway, and the new French theatre in course of comple- tion, other still more important enterprises are in contemplation. Manager Wood, of the Broadway, will remodel his house daring the summer, and muke it one of the handsomest, as it is already one of the most popular, of our metropolitan theatres. The want of a grand concert hall, which has been very severely felt by our musical public, is to be supplied by the Messrs. Steinway, who are sbout to build such an institution in the rear of their marble store on Fourteenth street. The estimated ex- pense is about ninety thousand dollars, The hall will be perfect in its proportions and its acoustic properties, and will be supplied with an immerise organ, costing thonsand doliurs. The great organ of Boston will then be ssentirely ccltpsed as its Common is now sur- passed by oar Park. ‘Ihe Messrs. Steinway de- serve every credit for their enterprise and pub- lio spirit in originating an institution whidh has been go long needed in New York; and we are certain that it will prove to be a8 profitable to them as it will be beneficial to the aris and to: our poopie. There is no question that the ma- jority of our present places of amnsement are far behind the. requirements of the age, and that this is the reason why they are being com- paratively deserted. With no ventilation, no means of rapid egress in case of fire, n0 conve niences either for the spectators or the por formers, and w.th seals expressly contrived to be uncomtortable, these theatres subject their audiences to,a species of mild: in order to gratify that managoeria! cupidity which, like vaulting ambition, doth o’erleap itself. We anticipate a thorough reform in these mat- ters when the new theatres are opened. But the most necessary and most popular improvement of all yet remains to be noticed, A company of twenty gentlemen have secured the plot of ground on Fourteenth street, oppo- site Irving place, which is now occupied by stables and their ef ceteras, and propose to erect a new opera house, The plot rans through to Thirteenth street, and is amply large for the purpose, The opera house is to be of a comloriable size and furnished with every possible accommodation and convenience. Rows of small boxes will take the place of the uncomfortable seats which are appropriately called stalla, and those who aitend the per- formances will be able to see the actors and each other without the aid of telescopes. The auditorium will not be so barntike as to crack the voices of those singers who make heroic but Ineffec- tual efforts to be heard, nor will it have that unhealthy dampness which reminds one so for- cibly of the gloomy catacombs. It will be what an opera house ought to be—(he por. fection of acoustic skill, grehitectural beauly and refined luxury, As it will be owned and manaeo; by twenty wealthy and cducated gentlemen, and put in charge of a competent director, the public will not be thrust into the worst seats in order to give way to a band of three bundred stockholders, as much devoted to the pass and dendhead systems as were Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans, In- stead of being attended only by persons from the country, who fondly imagine that they are fashionable because ay go to the opera, sit it out at the risk of colds in thé head and sglace themselves for not hearing the music by an abigntive perysa] of the Ubretto, we expect that the Hew Opeth house will have its crowd of habitués who will throng it in a blaze of beauty and real fashion on every opera evening. This opera house will, we presume, altogether supersede the mis-termed Academy —which will then be entirely devoted to mass meetings and political gatherings—and, with the new thea- tres and Steinway’s new hall, will completely revolutionize and reform the amusements of the metropolis. Tas Price or Coat.—The auction sales of coal in this city on Wednesday show a reduc- tivn ia the prices of that article varying from saga an DAs Genta to two dollars and cents per ton since the 3ist of Janua- ry. Itis generally the case that reductions in the wholesale price of coal make very litile difference to the consumer. The wholesale dealers reap ail the benefit, the consumer none. Coal is a monopoly in the hands of the transportation companies. The cost of the ar- ticle at the mines is a mere trifle compared with the value it is assumed to bear when it reaches the public. The profits are piled on at & fearful rate in its transit to the city, The quo- tations of the last sale show an immense reduo- tion. We shall see whether consumers will get say advantage from » << Two More Delegations Received by President Johzson. Presentation of Resolutions of Endorsement from the Baltimore Mass Meeting. His Policy: is Before the Country and Will Continue to Be Pursued. Statement of the National Debt to the 1st of March. Increase of Nearly Three and a Half Millions During the Past Month. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill Passed by the House. Debate in the Sonate on the Besolution te Bx- clude the Southern Representatives, &e. &o. &e. ‘Wasmnctox, March 1, 1866. BY THE PRESIDENT OF A DELEGATION OF BALTIMOREANS. To-day the commiitee appointed at tho mass mecting held in Baltimore to endorse the President waited upon President Johnson and prosented the resolutions adopted at that meeting. The committee was accompanied by Governor Cox, and was composed of the following gen- tlemen:—P, W. Crain, Thos, Cautlau, Jr., A. A. Chap- man, Clonton Levering and Chas. G. Kerr. On being admitted the members were introduced to the President, and Governor Cox made a short address, in which he assured the Executive that Maryland is true to the Vnion and would firmly support the policy of the Presi- RECEPTION i Judge Crain, after a few remarks, in which he spoke of the policy of the President as one which would be eap- ported by the people, presented the resolution,s — ‘The Preswent eaid in reply that he could make ao i the dissolution ef the Union was concerned, one Is as bad as tins 1 can exclaim with a full heart have reached the Summit of my amtition, I have no other ambition ; my only object is to restore the Union to its foil and reconciled normal condition; then my work will be done. Ithank you, gentlemen, for this mark of your countenance and support. The company a few minutes after withdrew. Visit OF THE DELEGATES FROM THE 1NON AND STEEL CONVENTION. ‘The delegates to the Iron and Stecl Convention then called on the President. They wore from Pengsy!vania, New Jersey, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Mlinols, Missiesippl, Maryland, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con- necticut, Virginia, Michigan, Delawere, Ohio, Missouri and other States. Mr. J. K. Moorehead, of Pennsy!- vania, accompanied the delegation. Captain B. B. Wann, of Detroit, President of the American Iron and Stee! Association, presented the gen- tlemen who wero ropresentatives to the convention held yesterday to the President, remarking substantially :— “We bave come to tender you our respecta We area convention of workingmen representing one hundred and fifty thousand employes with their farulillea, seven hundred and fifty thousand people in various States. ‘They are trying to got Congress to raise the duties om their manufactures, and && far ds possible assist the manufacturing interests of the country, We be- lieve that the Southern States in a few years will develop thor resources, They are as rich ia resources ag tho Northern Statée, They have A largo number of their people poor whites, to the mumber of two millions, who can be employed in manufacturing pursuits, and thereby advantage themselves and raise the manufactoring luterests of their section. We assem- bled last night and passed resolutions In reference to the interests of the laboring classes, whom wo are desiroas of improving.” ext “a Tho Pentveyt raid in reply that he was much obliced to them for this visit, and thanked them for the comp!i- ment of calling apon him. He sympathized to the ot- ‘most extent in what they destred to perform in referenc? to increasing the happiness the Interests of the working classes. His ob Th kab een devoved to the work of levating the condition of working classes. Every action of his life had been im consonance with that principio, Whether im tho means he had pdopted he had boon right tage wypld decide. He would say tg them that wiitle they garaged Im their object he hoped there was another object in which they word equally interested—the thorough restoration of the government. The full and complete reconciliation of the country ought to be @ precursor to all movements— should be the first object, Such a reconciliation would Produce the development of the manafacturing, the com- mercial, the agricultural and the other industrial inter- eats of the country, He spoke of the state of the our- Toney and the different views entortained of contraction ‘and expansion, and said:—When wo look at there things the first object is the restoration of the government. You thereby enlarge the area for the currenty to clr culate in, which would have tho effect of preventing contraction, while it would give all the practical benefits to be derived from coniraction. It would give it @ sounder basis to rest upon, By bringing the prodacte of the South—some three hundred millions of dollars worth of tobacco, cotton, &e.—into our commerce ft would avert any possibility of # financial crash. It would make the currency perfectly sound, and it would develop all the industrial resources and promote the indvstrial interests of the country. The restoration of the gover mont ts the greatest stimulant that can be applied not only to the tuanufacturing, but the agricultural, com- mercial and other ‘ndustrial interests of the nation, He spoke of the internal revenue, and sald that a restora tion of the aovernmegs in all its brapches Would bees NATIONAL CAPITAL