The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1866, Page 4

| 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS, ——— Volume XXX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATK! Bros wieee “Pas Viorus—Foate Woes ar Ser Broome LUCY RUSHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE, N and 730 Broadway.—Ginatpa—Loaw oF 4 Loven” WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. ATONEMENT; OR, Tuk CHILD STEALER. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixa- ina Danoina, Bugisquss, &¢.—Tue Carture or Four DowxLson, GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Oup Scnoou or MiNsTRELsY, Kattaps, MusicaL Gimms, &c.. Fifth Avenue Overa House, hie and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Nuw Yxar's SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel —"rmioriaN SINGING, Daxcina, &0.— INNOCENCE AND ENDURANCE. BRYANTS' MINSTREL3, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Nzoro Comicatirixs, Buruxsques, &c.—Tur Hanp- a-Lows BRoTuxns. ROOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratortan Mie wrnuisy—BatLaps, BuaLesques AND PANtouiMEs. NEW YORK MUSEUM O% ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 104M. tll 10 P.M BRADY'S GALLTRY, 785 aireet—Open eve ugcrion or Wak she public. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Corrm's Iniustratep ‘Tour oF ScoTLann. way, corner of Tenth day and evening this week,—-New Co. igws AND Historic Portkaits. Free to DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Hxnat B. Las- skuve’s Granp Concent. FINE ARTS GALLERY, 625 Broadway.—Grear Exm- MiTION OF PeTuRES, Buonzes, &c. SEAVER'S OPERA TOUSE, PIN MINSTRELSY, WITH SUPPLEMENT. oor n, E. D.—Eraio- jew York, Friday, March 9, 1866. THD NEw s. INTERNATIONAL NEUTRALITY. Two important debates on the obligations of neutrals towards a friendly Power at war took place in the Eng- lish House of Commons on the 23d of February, and full reports of the proceedings are published in our Supple- ment sheet to-day. Mr. Labouchere, in calling attention to the ineffective character of the British neutrality laws, reviewed the queation of English complicity in the fitting out of the pirate Alabama and her companions, and elicited from weveral members strong entreaties to the gov- ernment to reopen the Alabama claims and have the subject satisfactorily sottled by arbitration. To these entreaties the Attorney General replied on the part of the government by intimating his willingness to consider the question in friendly commu. nication with the United States government. Extra point and significance wus given to the discussion by the subsequent proceedings, in which the neutrality of the United States towards England in the Fenian rebellion came 1 question. Mr. Watkin asked ot the British gov- ernment if any representations had been made to Wash- mgton with rogard to the complicity of American citl- vens in the Fenian movement. Mr. Gladstone replied that her Majesty’s Ministers had found much to deplore, ‘but nothing to complain of, in the conduct of the United States authorities, and had therefore: made no repres*n- tations whatever to President Johnson, He begged tho House in God’s name not to agitate this (question at a critical time like the present. The discussion, how- ever, was continued for some time longer, and naturally veverted back to the Alabama claims, Mr. T. Hughes, oné of the most notable of the new members of Parlia- ment, emphatically declared that the present Fenian trouble was the natural result of the course England pur- sued during the American rebellion, and he asserted that had there been no Alabamas there would have been no Fenians, ‘The news from Irciand relative to the Fenians reports further arrests, but still no fighting. An entire Fenian cooncil had been captured in Dublin. The names of those arrosted are given in our reports, Several disturb- ances of small import had also taken place, in one of which a policeman had been shot by a Fenian named Geary, an Amorican and brother of the Cork Head Centre of that name. Arumor prevailed and was credited in official circles that St. Patrick's day (March 17) had been st for the uprising of the Fenians. EUROPE. The Cunard steamship Java, from Liverpool February 24 via Queenstown wy 25, arrived at this port yes- terday with three coy» oter news from Europe. News of the declur .of war by Pera against Spain bad produced asin “fect in Europe. The Peruvian tron-clad Huescar wee still detained at Brest by the French authorities, nod at the Iast reports her consort, the Independencia, het joined ber there. An English captain had been fined and imprisoued for supplying stores to the Peruvians. Arevolation in Romania had ended in the dethrone- moot of Prince Couza and the proclamation of the Compte de Flandres (Maximilian’s brother-in-law, Hos- podar, ‘United States five-twonties maintained their high post on im the London money market. CONGRESS. Other States are following the example of Missouri, and asking Congress to pay their war debt. The resolu- tron providing for the reimbursement of West Virginia came upin the Senate and was sent to the Military Com- mittee. A petition asking for the modification of the tax law rogarding savings banks was referred to the Finance Committee. A joint resolution to amend the constitution by disqualifying from voting or holding office all who have taken in the reveliion was referred to the Committee on Re. onstroction. A sories of resolutions declaratory of the daty of Congress, asserting that to Congress, and not to the Executive, belongs the power of re-establishing civil aovernment in the lately seceded States, &c., was to be printed. The proposed amendment regarding representa- Hon was taken tp at ono o'clock, when Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, spoke ationgth. He was followed by Senator Wilsov, of Maeaghusetts, at the conclusion of whose speceh it was agreed by the Senate that a vote on the amendinent should be had at four o'clock P. M. to-day. ‘The Senate then went into executive session, In the House the bill for the retmbursement of Miss Clara Barton for monoy expended by her in searching for missing soldiers was unanimously passed. The mi- nority report of the Reconstruction Committee was ontered to be printed, The House bills to facilitate com. munication with the South and to fix the number of Judges of the United states Sapreme Court were reported back by the Judiciary Committee—the former with an smendinent and the latter with @ recommendation that it be pased, which wae done. A warm debate arose on the ting back to the Hous» the Senate bill ‘© resirict the feos for collecting soldiers’ claims to ton dollar, The bill was fiually recom. mitted to the Judiciary Committee, The special order of the morning was the Senate bill “to protect all perwons in the United States in thelr civil righta, and to furnish the moans of their Vindication." it was dis- camsed in asharp debate, and Onally made the special order for Y, When Messrs, Wilson, (rep.) of Iowa, and Bingham, (rep.) of Ohio, will discuss it. Other un- important and merely local matters oecupiod the atten. tion of the House for the rost of the day. THE LEGISLATURE. A full report of tho procesdings of the important caucus of Union members of the Legislature endorsing President Johnson, reference to which was made yoater. day motning, will be found in fall in to-day's Henan, An evening sesgion of the Senate was held last night to take further action on the resolutions adopted by the caucus After a few spirited speeches 4 was decided t make the resolutions on. dorsing the Presilent the special order for Wednesday. The same resolutions were introduced in the Amombly by Mr. Tromain, whose resolutions in opposition to the President's polley were defeated in eanous and adopted by a strict party vote of 70 to 29. Vitor actions of the Senate and Assembly were ue. vious day were very extensive. list in another columa, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1966.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. ~~ ~~ important, The New York Tax Levy bill was introduced into the Assembly. The report awarding the seat dis- puted by Messra, Lyon and Williams to the latter was sdopted. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho Canadians are in a terrible state of excitement over rumors of invasion by the Fenians, who aro re- ported by them as actually across the border, A report had reached Montreal that ten thousand Fenians had seed Navy Island. A Cabinet council was held at ‘Toronto on the night of the 7th imst., and yesterday morning ten thousand volunteers for defence were called out, The utmost excitement ensued on the publication of this call, and many persons were put under arrest for refusing to do militia duty. We publish this morning the balance of the proceed- ings of the Republican State Convention at Harrisburg on Wednesday last. Owing to the crowded state of our columns we were unable to find room for its publication with the resolutions yesterday. Tate effort was made to exclude all reference to President Johnson in the platform, but that the friends of General Geary insisted upon having some reference to his patri- otic servicea, The convention at one time was exceed- ingly boisterous, but finally closed its labors with perfoct good feeling and with great enthusiasm. A large and enthusiastic meeting of Fenians was held last evening in Washington Hall, corner of South seventh and Fourth streets, Williamsburg. They were addressed by Colonel Roborts, Senator Morrison, of Kansas, and other gentlemen, who stated that an army of thirty thousand men would shortly be marched across the Canadian border, all that was wanted to render the movement a success being money, a large amount of which was contributed by those present. Large and en- thusiastic meetings were also held last evening at Water- bury, Conn., and Newark, N. J. Yesterday, jn the United States Circuit Court, Judge Shipman presiding, tho case of the United States against Senor MacKenna and Dr. Rogers was again up. These gen- tlemen, who were represented by counsel, were indicted under the third section of the neutrality law, for fitting out the steamer Meteor as an armed privateer, to be di- rected against the commerce of Spain, a Power with which the government is at peace and amity. Answer on the part of the defepdants will bo rendered to the in- dietmont on Wednesday next, A second indictment, based on the neutrality laws of 1818, has been found by the Grand Jury against Senor McaKenna and Dr. Stephen Rogers in reference to their alleged fitting out of a Chilean privateer at this port. On yosterday they eutered into bail in five thousand dollars each, and their trial will take place in April before Chief Justice Nelson, sol and of her stores, arms, munitions, &c., should sho be condemneil, goes to the use of tho informer, and tho other half to the government. Judge Cardozo, in the case of the petition of Louis A. Colin for discharge from arrest on the ground that ho had no property, has decided adverse to the prayer. This is the party who, it will be remombered, was described a few days ago as under arrest for the alleged misappropriation of forty thousand dollars worth of secu- rities undor his charze as foreign clerk in the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co, The Judge bases his decision on the theory that the accused did not give satisfactory answers to questions put to him on his ex- amination touching his alleged improper conversion of tho funds in his custody. The case of the United States vs, W. D. Morgan was bofore Judge Betts, in the United States Circuit Court, yesterday. to the extont of $5,000 for Captam Anderson, of the ship Villafranca, who was charged with barsh treatment of passengers on board that vessel. He did not appear to stand his trial, and after some extension of time the gov- ernment entered up judgment on the bond. A motion was made yesterday by defendant’s counsel to set the judgmentaside and for further extension ef time to an- swer. Tho. Lawrence boud case was set down for further hearing before Justice Dowling in the Tombs, yesterday, but was postponed in consequence of the absence of some of the counsel concerned. It will come up on nex! Monday at ten A. M., at the same place. : In tho United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, John Goi was found guilty of passing acounterfelt one hundred dollar bill. Remandod for sentence, It seems that a despe- By the law of 1818 one-half of the ves- It appeared that Mr. Morgan had gono bail The Court reserved its judgment. Edward Moran, found guilty last week of passing coun- terfeit currency walagPestorday sentenced by Judge Ship- man to two years’ imprisonment, ‘The litigation about the proprictorship of “Our Amor- ican Cousin," between Laura Keene and Clarke & Co., ‘was up on appeal before the General Term of tho Supe- rior Court on Wednesday. The case was argued at great length, mainly on the question whether the proceedings of the United States Court in Pennsylvania bad been properly proved in evidence, The three judges—Robert- son, McCunn and Jones—took the papers for examina- tion and will render a decision at an early day. A sum of four thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars was recovered yesterday from the Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company, in the Suprome Court, part 2, before Judge Foster, by Israel W. Raymond, as assignee of Sir Charles Fox, of London. On the trial it appeared that the latter was employed in 1858 as con- sulting engineer of the company in their transactions in England, and was summarily dismissed in the middie of the year. The gentleman claimed that he should have six months’ notice of dismissal, direction of the Court, gave a verdict for the full amount claimed. The jury, under The fifty-ninth annual commencement of the Modical Department of Columbia Coleg» took place last evening in Dr. Crosby's church, Fourth avenue. Degrees were conferred on one hundred and twelve young gentiemen. The exercises were quite interesting, and thore was a large and well dressed audience present. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday, and adopted & resolution almost unanimously justifying President Johnson m vetoing the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, thank- ing him for the salutary exercise of his prerogative, and expressing the belief that that act would meot with the hearty approbation of the American people, Mr. Pull- man presented a series of resolutions which set forth that as the faith of the nation was pledged to the freed- men {ft was necessary that Congress should pass a bill possessing the main features of the one which the Presi- dent vetoed. On motion the consideration of the resolu- tions was indefinitely postponed. A resolution in favor of heating the City Hall by steam and appropriating fifty thousand dollars therefor way adopted. Richard O'Sullivan was shot and mortally wounded by Peter O'Neill, a barkeeper in the porter house No. 9 James slip, yesterday. in drink and had slapped O'Neill on the cheeks. The wounded man died at the New York Hospital during the day. O'Neill was committed after the inquest to await his trial. O'Sullivan had been indulging An inquest was held on the body found in 100th street, as mentioned in yesterday's Henao, but no clue to the identity of the person or the perpetrator of tho murdor has been reached. Ata meeting of the New York Association of Science ‘and Art Inst evening Dr. Macgowan gave an account of a method by which tolegraphic messages can be sent in the Chinese language with the same facility as if the Chinese were an alphabetic language. A mass mooting of Germans, mechanics and working- men was held in avenue A last evening, for the purpose of discussing measures to secure @ reduction of house rents. A committee was appointed to agitate this matter, ‘and it was proposed to call upon the Legislature to enact Jaws to prevent extortion by house agents and landlords, ‘The body of Colonel T, 8, Rowers was buried at West Point yesterday, with military honors, General Grant ‘and staf attended. The body was so horribly mutilated that the parts could not be properly repiaced, but were gathered together, shrouded in the American flag and buried in this manner. Tho sales of real estate made yesterday and the pre. We publish a complete An effort made in the Texas Reconstruction Conven- tion to base representation in the Legislature on the number of free residents has failed. The fine new steamship General Grant, whieb has Just ‘deen added to Cromwell's line, will sail from pier No. North river to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, at three o'clock, for New Orleans direct. The General Grant bas ‘execllent accommodations for passengers, is of immense strength, and is furnished with all the requisites neces- ary for a first class vessel. She is commanded by Cap- ‘tain E. W. Molmes, who is well known as a popular taster. Oscar T. Burns, a speculator of Albion, N. ¥., is re- Ported to bo a defaulter in the amount of about $200,000. A large fire yesterday destreyed a block of buildings in Titusville, Pa, The French mail steamer Nouveau Monde will leave pier No. 60 North river, for Brest and Marra, a gleven erndock om Rannedgy, Megch Wa | | alty of Lieutenant General Grant,” and a re- ‘The stock market was generally higher, but feverish, yesterday, and closedj strong. Governments were firm. Gold was heavy, and closed at 132. There was but little stirin business places yesterday, the fall in gold and the unfavorable character of the European news tending to depress the markets and ren- der merchandise nominal. Cotton, groceries, petroleum, &c., were dull and drooping. On ’Change the chief feature was the continued depression of the pork mar- ket, the “bottom” of which seems hard to find, Flour ‘was inactive and unchanged, Lard rather firm, with a fair demand, Butter, cheese and whiskey steady but quiet at previous prices, The Pennsylvania Republicans—Their Candidate and Platform. The Republican State Convention of Penn- sylvania has placed its ticket and platform for their next October election before the people of the State. The candidate for Governor thus adopted is General John W. Geary, whose record as a soldier of the Union is one of which the party and the State may be justly proud, His services in a detached command along the line of the Upper Potomac, at Harper’s Ferry and inthe Shenandoah valley, in the early stages of the rebellion; his subsequent opera- tions with the grand old Army of the Potomac; his efficient work under Grant at Chattanooga, and his crowning campaign with Sherman from that point to Atlanta, and thence to Savannah, where he was made’ Military Governor of the city, have stamped him as one of the most dis- tinguished and deserving heroes of the war. Against this popular candidate, who, in ad- dition to his military services, has proved his administrative capabilities in Kansas and in various other places, the Pennsylvania demo- crats have set up Mr. Heister Clymer, a Berks county favorite, whose antecedents are rather those of the original peace democracy than anything else. In the person of their party standard bearer, therefore, the republicans have an immense advantage over the demo- crats; but how far the popularity of Geary may be neutralized by the mischievous fanati- cism of Thaddeus Stevens in Congres, is a question which may well excite some misgiv- ings in the republican camp. The platform upon which General Geary is Nominated is, upon the main question, somo- what bold and startling. The Convention de- clares “that the most imperative duty of the present is to gather the legitimate fruits of the war, in order that our constitution may come out of the rebellion purified, our institutions strengthened, and our national life prolonged.” Very good. But. what are these “legitimate fruits?” Are they embodied in the Stevens or in the President’s programme? Let us see. The Convention is “filled with admiration at the patriotic devotion and fearless courage with which Andrew Johnson resisted and denounced the efforts of the rebels to overthrow the gov- ernment” and so on, and “appeals to him to stand firmly by the side, and to repose upon the support,” of the party electing him, and which have “pledged to him their support in all measures by which treason shall be stigma- tized, loyalty recognized, and the freedom, sta- bility and unity of the nation secured.” Not a word of the veto here—nothing better than an appeal to the President to pause and consider. In the next place, the republican party of Pennsylvania declares “that the work of restor- ing the late insurrectionary States to their pro- per relations to the Union, necessarily devolves upon the law-making power, and that until such action be taken, no State lately in insur- rection is entitled to representation in either branch of Congress.” This is meeting the question fairly and honestly. It is a flat repudiation of the President's policy and vicws of reconstruction, and there may be dan- ger init. The Convention repeats the estab- lished formulas of the party in Pennsylvania in regard to the unfitness of rebels for office under the general government, and in relation to the national credit, the public faith towards the Southern blacks, the protection of home industry, the patriotic services of Governor Curtin, the gallantry and glory of the defend- ers of the Union, “the services, labors, consum- mate ability and unyielding faith in the destiny of the country manifested by the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton” in the conduct of the War Depart- ment through the rebellion, and the duty of an equitable adjustment of bounties, Then, after & grateful recognition of “the marvellous and memorable services and uncompromising loy- affirmation substantially of the Monroe doo- trine, the Convention crowns its platform with the resolution “that the Hon. Edgar A. Cowan, Senator from Pennsylvania, by his course in the Senate of the United States, has disap- pointed the hopes and forfeited the confidence of those to whom he owes his place, and thathe is hereby most earnestly requested to resign.” “Oh! most lame and impotent conclusion.” Of what has Mr. Cowan been guilty? He has supported the programme of President John- son. “Only this, and nothing more.” The case is made up. The Pennsylvania republicans stand forth in direct antagonism to the admin- istration. The issue, therefore, in the Keystone State is in reality not between General Geary and Heister Clymer, but between Andrew John- son and Thaddeus Stevens, and we may expect therefore an exciting contest in the interval to October. Eno.isn Errroxtery.—Among the most re- freshing instances of English effrontery is the proposition of Mr. Labouchere, in Parliament, to amend international neutrality laws, in order that the British empire may reap some signal be- nefit. It would have appeared much better for the English government to have respected the neutrality laws that existed at the time of the Southern rebellion, than to attempt now to amend the code so that the British crown may be shielded from menacing dangers. During our troubles, England so far respected the laws of neutrality as to allow piratical craft to be built and to sail from her waters to prey upon unprotected American merchant vessels. And even now she so far respects those laws as to supply Brazil with one or more iron-clads to help her in her war against Paraguay. This is the kind of neutrality that England respects. It is purely of that sort which suits herself, and she interprets all laws on the sub- ject according as they may be made to hinge upon some of her own particular interests, Time was when the decrees of England ruled the world, especially on all great maritime con- cerns, But that day is passed. She is not the bullying, arbitrary Power she once was. Her mandates are no longer the gospel for all mankind. Half a century has worn terri- bly upon her constitution, and although once & blustering, brow-beating beldamo, she is now little better than an il tempered, decre- pit, tattling old woman. Her military glory doparted tp the Crimeap war. whan all her warlike honors were transferred to the ban- ners of her hereditary rival and foe, France. Her old wooden navy has been partly re- placed by iron-clads that incur the danger of capsizing on the firing of a broadside. Her prestige as the first naval power of the earth is gone; and a new naval power is growing up instead on the western hemisphere, where a mighty nation of freemen has sprung into existence, with traditions of inexorable hos- tility to the British throne. How absurd, how impudent a thing it is, then, for Great Bri- tain to pretend to dictate to other nations laws in regard to neutrality or anything else. In the day of our adversity the neutrality laws were good enough for her, and now in this critical period of her own existence they are good enough for us, and ought to be for the rest of the world. The Fenian Movement and English Inconsistency. The latest news from England and from Canada shows that a terrible state of alarm exists both in the mother country and her American provinces on the Fenian question. There may be some reason for this alarm in view of the fact that the British government has been compelled to declare Ireland ino state of revolution, and that the provincial government in Canada has suddenly ordered out ten thousand militia to protect that colony from an anticipated attack of the Fenians. To whatever danger the British empire at home and abroad may be exposed is a matter which concerns its rulers, and no one else. have permitted a condition of affairs in Ireland to reach a point which makes insurrection a fixed fact, that is their own affair. were at war with our rebellious States, England was on the side of the enemy; but we fought our own battle successfully, not only against the South, but against its ally—England. It would appear, from certain indications in the British press, that our government is likely to be asked to interfere in suppressing Fenianism in America, We might suppose that a sense of decent consistency would prevent the gov- ernment of England from making any such re- quisition, and we opine that if any proposition of this kind should be made it will be re- garded, and very justly, as the most impudent and shameless one that ever emanated from any government, considering the position that England assumed towards this country during the rebellion. If they When we ‘Twelve months have not elapsed since some of the most prominent men in England, even members of the government, were contributors to the Confederate loan, the sinews of war to be employed against our nationality. Mr. Laird, occupying @ position in the House of Com- mons, was then daily addressing the represen- tative body of the English people and at the same time building privateers to prey upon American commerce. Earl Russell grasped at the first opportunity to recognize belligerent rights ina rebellious section of this country, and thus threw the whole weight of his gov- ernment against us. Nothing which the most unfriendly nation could desire was left undone by Great Britain to support rebel- lion in the United States, and destroy our gov- ernment, and yet we are told that an impu- dent demand is about tobe made upon our government now to obstruct a movement of the Irish people to accomplish an object in a portion of the British Empire which the gov- ernment of Great Britain lent all {ts power, covertly and openly, to assist when similar plans were on foot in this country. And while the analogy between the two cases is very strong in some points, how widely different it is in others. Do we see any prominent Ameri- cans taking part in this Fenian movement? Are any of our leading men purchasers of the bonds of the contemplated Irish republic? Are our members of Congress among the fore- most to lend their aid to the movement? Is any member of our government implicated in it, as the members of the British government and Parliament, and the men representing the largest commercial interests in Great Britain, were found on the side of the Southern Con- federacy? Notat all. So far the Fenian move- ment is confined to the Irish portion of our population, who have adopted this country as their home, with a view to the amelioration of Ireland. Whether their aims are crowned with success, or overwhelmed with failure, they are undertaken at their own risk. Whether they strike in Ireland or make a diversion in Canada, | the danger and the risk are with themselves. If England is alarmed and Canada is excited with fear, is that any reason why we should in- terfere to soothe their distressed feelings? Most of the men engaged in the Fenian move- ment fought under the flag of this country against the rebellious South and its English ally. power of England now upon another field, that is their own business, and not ours. When they commit an overt act involving the neutral- ity of the government; when they send priva- teers to sea, as England sent the Shenandoah to destroy our helpless whalers, it will be time enough for our government to interfere, and we are certain that it will not leave itself open to any objection as to the strict ob- servance of neutrality. But to ask us to become a detective police in this matter of Irish discontent and English misrule, is » piece of impudence which, considering all the eir- cumstances connected with the policy that Eng- land pursued towards this country of late ought to be denounced. If they are disposed to confront the catnaasnchntenahenemeenpecente Sra axp Curex—Reportep Proposrrion ror an Arwisrice.—The news from Havana is sig- nificant, if true. It informs us that the Spanish commander in the Pacific has made certain propositions to the Chilean government look- ing to an amicable settlement of the difficulties between the two nations. There is no good authority for this report, though it may still be reliable; but if true, it is an evidence that the Spanish Admiral understands the Chileans quite as little as they seem to be understood in Madrid. He proposed a suspension of hos- tillties and the appointment of commissioners to discuss the points in issue; but, asa pre- liminary and necessary precedent to this step toward peace, Chile was to surrender to him the Covadongs and all the Spanish prisoners, Of course this modest proposition was refused, as was also subsequent one that the Chilean Minister fot Foreign Affairs should go on board the Admira’s flagship and endeavor to make some othe more satisfactory arrangement. ‘The Admiral was informed that if he had any propositiom to make they would be received in the Chilian capital. Tt will be Seen that the little republic has her dignity es well os the bI mooaroby. J ™ Restavrayr ann Hore. Living m™ New Yorx, Paris anp Lonpon.—A few years ago the old American hotel system of the table @héte was general, and we might say almost universal, in this metropolis. It is still so in the provincial cities and towns. But there has been a great change. The refined, educat- ed and wealthy classes, both visitors and reai- dents in the city, who do not wish to keep house, now prefer the restaurant plan. Some good hotels in the old style still flourish, it is true; but the new are fast superseding them. We think this shows better taste. The only objection we know of to it—and that naturally would come from the ladies—is, that this excel- lent way of living is calculated to make bache- lors contented with a life of single blessedness. However, this need not be, for our restaurant- hotels are as comfortable for families as for single persons. The old system of hotel living has a good deal of the mess-table character in it. The hungry expectant guests stand watch- ing the opening of the dining room and signal for operations, then rush in eagerly and gobble up their dinner hastily. There is always the same everlasting bill of fare, except that for the sake of variety the order of the dishes named is changed sometimes, Every dish has a taste of every other, as if they had acquired an affinity by standing long and through proximity to each other in the kitchen. They certainly all smell alike. Then, the noise among the waiters and the clatter on the table, the crowded and mixed condition of things on the table, and the jammed condition in which one has to sit, with scarcely room to stir the arms, are features of the table d’héte not at all comfortable, We admit that tosome of our best hotels on this plan these remarks are not 80 applicable; but the general character is the same everywhere. We say nothing about the enormous charges of five dollars or more a day for a little crib on the sixth story; we refer only to the matter of eating. Compare this with the system that has been coming into fashion for the last few years, and that has now become quite fashionable—the elegant restaurant mode of living—and the superior taste and advantages of the latter will be admitted at once. Take, for example, the Brevoort House, Delmonico’s, the Maison Dorée, Hoffman House, Albemarle, and others that might be named, and where in the world can one live better or more elegantly? We have the best-market, and one in which everything can be obtained; the richest wines can be pro- cured here, and the very first French cooks are to be found at the places referredto. A gentle- man or family may live at whatever rate their taste and purse prescribe. A person can live as cheaply or perhaps for less than under the old system, if his tastes be moderate, and more comfortably. Or he can live as extravagantly ag he may pleage. Then what charming places they are for a dinner party, or for a petit souper after leaving the places of amusement, New York, which is making such strides in every- thing as @ great metropolitan city, now com- bines the best features of hotel and restaurant life in Paris and London. The heavy, solemn, and what we would call the strong appetite system of London does not prevail here, while we use as many of the elements of good living ‘as the English. We have the lightness, elegance, charm and finished cooking of the best restau- rants in Paris, with more substance, more liber- ality, and less that is mean, trifling or merely fanciful. In fact we combine the best fea- tures of hotel-restaurant living of the two great cities of Europe, without adopting their worst. There is no place in the world where a person or family can live better or more ele- gantly than in New York. NEWS FROM TEXAS. Gatvestox, March 6, 1866. An effort was made in the Texas State Convention to- day to base reproventation in the Legislature on the num- bor of free persous in the State, but it failed. TheCommittee on Legisiative Department expressed unqualified opposition to negro suftrage. Provision was madp fur the election of Htate officers as s00n as practicable. The Finance Committee reported a sweeping ordi- nance, declaring all debts contractod by the State in the late war null and void, and forbidding the Legislature to assum’ the payment thereof. Dr. Gener made a minority report favoring unlimited an Srdinence was passed, making five years’ residence in the state a necessary qualilication forfegisiators. New On.eans, March 7, 1866, The President's veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill , has arrested the contemplated emigration of a large num- ber of Texans to foreign countries, Freedmen's affairs ia Texas are progressing favorably. Goods at Houston are selling at twenty-five per cent below invoice prices. ‘The report of the abrogation of the decree making Matamoros a free pol waserroneous. The decree makes duties payable at Matamoros instead of the interior. WEWS FROM LOUISIANA. Ramors That Gen, Steedman is to Suc- ceed Canby—Recraiting for the Mexican Liberal Army, é&c. New Onurana, March 7, 1866. It is rumored that General Steadman will sneceed Genesal Canby in command bere. Recruiting for the liberal army in Mexico is going on here. Governor Wells has issued a proclamation ordering municipal elections in the State on the 12th inst. Mr. Carr, of Belize, Honduras, is here to endeavor to open regular steam communication between that port and New Orleans. Governor Austin, in his address to the |, Fecommends official aid to the ander. by | On 12th inet. daily ‘trains will commence running on the Jackson making close conneo- tions with the roads above. Prosident Waskom notifies the stock! Southern Pacific Railroad that one-half of their accrued dues must be paid by the 15th of April and the balance by the 15th of June next, or they will be forever General Longstreet has been elected President of the Great Southern and Western Life and Accident Insurance Company just established. General Dick Taylor has leased from the State the new canal connecting the upper of New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain for $750,000, payable in an- nual instalments. Goneral W. P. Benton, the new Collector of Internal Revenue, has arrived here. General Scott is still here, and not at Pensacola, as re The inshore F Sr. Joux, N. B., March 8, 1860. The Lieutenant Governor of this province has issued &® proclamation warning American fishermen off from the inshore @shing grounds after the 17th inst. , Alleged Defaulter. Rocnmeran, March 8, 1966, Oscar T. Burns, of Albion, is reported as an absentee And a defaulter to the amount of more than two hundred thousand dollars, Ho was largely engaged in speculation in real estate, oll stocks, &c, A large number of banks are largely involved by the transaction. Tar Batt, Saasox.—In our article alluding to the vark ous balls of the season, which was published in the Hera of Sanday, we inadvertently stated that fifteen thousand persons had attended the different bails given at the Germania Assembly Rooms this winter. Ttshould have Yoon got dawn at « little over sixty thousagd. CANADIAN SCARE. GREAT EXCITEMENTIVER THE BORCER. an Rumor that the Feéans Are march- ing on the Pyvinces, pone EL Reported Seizure of avy Island by. Ten Thousand \njans, HASTY MEETING OF % capiyer. Ten Thousand Canad) yolun- teers Called 0\ Mutinous Conduct - the Military. GUARDS PLACED AY ALL THE tgres, &e. &e. THE FENIAN INVASIO Great Excitement Over the = Thousand Fenians Marehing fro 7. falo—Meeting of the Cabinet wa—Ten Thousand Volunteers “Out—Guards Stationed at All morles—Troops Imprisoned for M i SHE SITUATION IN TORONTO. Toronto, March 8: Avery big Fenian scare is creating intense ment in this city. A Cabinet Council was held las' and during the night and this morning ten th| f volunteers were called out for frontier duty. ‘The streets here are full of uniformed men mt for duty. Two regiments are going from here. But many are put under arrest for refusing to go. The govern holds the volunteers well in hand for assembling at , moment, Sweeny’s skirmishers, it ia said, are showing ther selyés, and all manner of rumors are afloat, among othe that ten thousand Fenians are marching between Buffak | and Suspension Bridge, The Glote of this morning has the following special de~ spatch from Ottawa:—Iminediately upon the arrival of Hon. Mr. MoGeo from Montreal a Cabinet Council was held. Atthe important sitting were present Messrs. John A. Macdonald, Galt, Campbell, MoGoo, Chapiag, Backburn and Ferguson Blair, In view of present circumstances anil the vast amount of property at stake, and the more important considera- tion of the protection of our fellow subjects along the frontier, exposed to the marauding operations of the Fenians, it was resolved to call out ten thousand volun teers for the protection and defence of the Canadial frontier. ‘This stop is adopted mainly as a precautionary mea- sure; but if wanted for more active service the volun- teers will be on hand. It is hoped that active ex ertions will not be necessary; but if they are the gov ernment relies with confidence and courage on ‘the Canadiam volunteers. THE SITUATION IN MONTREAL. ‘Mpwtneat, March 8, 1866. Tho morning papers state that last night orders wore received by the militia authorities to call out ton thou- sand volunteers within twenty-four hours. All the volunteer militia are under arms and ordered to parade at half past seven o'clock to-night. The whole force 1s to be inspected to-night for duty. The militia will be under pay. It is reported that Navy Island has been seized by tem thousand Fenians, and that the Orangemen are being armed by the government. Great excitement exists in this city, and the place is filled with strangers. Guards have been stationed at all the armories, and everything put in a state of defence for any emergency that may arise. : The Canadian Militia Called Out at Sus pension Bridge. Rocasster, March 8, 1866. ‘The Canadian militia were called out last night at Sus- pension Bridge to guard against an apprehended raid by the Fenians. No raid occurred, it being postponed until St, Patrick's Day. i City Intelligence. Batt ov rar Saventy-Nixta Reamsnt Versran Asse- cuTiox.—The members of this organization, veterans of the Seventy-ninth regiment New York State Voluntecrs, gave their first annual ball at the Everett Rooms, and, albeit somewhat late in the season, made the occasion most enjoyable. The salle de danse was tastefully de- - corated, the inusic good, and th e committees were inde- fatigable in their endeavors to ote the pa gg theme Borg of Scottish and other the night until sundry of Burne’ became quite appropriate. While was an evidence of ex organizing ailairs of this Kind. Messrs. and Joseph Stewart, respectively the President and Secretary of the association, are especially deserving of compliment. Gnamma® Scaoo, No, 11.—The examination of the Doys’ department of this excellent public sehool, which has just been completed, shows, as usual, superiority im scholarship over the other boys’ grammar schools of the city. This school was the first to enter upon the sup plomentary course of study, and is now tho first boys? ‘school to graduate its papila, The following six young * gentlemen received their diplomas after a searching ex- amination by the City Superintendent: mK Rud- yr William B. e, Walter Hutton, Willam H. ard, Andrew Mitchell and Charles K. Hitchcock. This school is, and —— my four Kpowy We wot chargo of Alonzo , Esq. teacher of the graduates is D. B. aes” Fire at Titusville, Pa.—Loss Loss dred Thousand Dollars. east to Arch, and south to W: an entire block, fifteen bulidings in number, among which was the Mann House buildt pied mostly as cloth- Insurance $25, Court Calendar—This Day. Scramwe Court—Urovi?. —Part 1—Adpurned to Mom- ‘12th instant. —Part 2—Short jon. 1916, 1551, Tae inh soe Tey 2012408 aa 1, 28, Sa, 2170, 2218, 2147, 2314. Part 3.—Noe. ius, Sha, ‘860, 872, 922, 742, 746, 812, 998, 862, 1103, 18, 681, 261, 619, 389, 1025, Svrxexe Court—Cuamngns.—Nos, 02, 108, 110, 121, 188, 201, 202, 213. Telegraphic Market Re New ORLBANS 566, Cotton unsettled and we Sales to-day 2,000 . iddlin, bales; 969 bal z nominal at 44 se. | atic. God Tei Sterling exchange, 142.