The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1866, Page 4

4 _ NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, UF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. @Frrice N. W. COR! AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. DWAY TREATRE, tux Vicrias—Forry W UCX =USHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE. Nos. 728 730 WSiwey-Ta Cap or tux Rugiment—Tuw roadway, near Broome Ks. and Arrourtn WOOD'S THEATKa 7200'S THEATI. Broadway, opposite the Bt Nicholas GEORGE CHRISTYS—Ow, son LT, Bacians, Musica Guan, 20 PLS et OMe Howe: Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth siret,—Tux Contes: samp Bowoon. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL, 535 Broad: , opposite Metropolitan Hotel —Gravor.an sivalty "DamctHa Bo.— ‘am Fiying Tearess. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 20) Bowery —SiNG- wa Dancing, Buetesaves, &c.—IRxcann wy 1836; Om, THE Dane Hour burone Dawn. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brosd- asa tacee Comicatitixs, BURLESQUES, &C.—JAck ON DE HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, —] Mu qensisy-Hatabe, Buuieaguss ano Eistomaas SKAVER'S OPERA HOUSR, Brook! Erm Pian MinstRaLsT, SiNGING, Dasoure, ~galied - Fs ODELL'S ORGAN FACTORY, 163 Seventh avenue.—MR. Gronax W. Moagan's Oncan ENTeRtaixwent. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATO! Broadway.— @pen from 10 4. M. till 10 P. WN ae BRADY'S GALLERY, 785 Broad: street—Open ever Lxction oy Wan tthe public. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Corue's IuuvstRateD Tour or Scotanp. DERBY FINE ARTS GALLERY, 62 Broadway.—Ex- ‘BIBITIONS OF PatNTINGS, &c. , corner of Tenth day and evening this week.—New Co. ‘EWS AND Historic Vortaaits. Free to New York, Monday, March 12, 1866. i ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrex.y Uxratn must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- tulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country ia increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- perted in the Warxty Hxratp will thus be seen by alargo Portion of the active and energetic people of the United THE NEWS. EUROPE. The Inman steamship City of Boston arrived at this port yesterday, after a remarkably fine run of only ten days from Queenstown. She brings news from Europe four days later. ‘The advance in our national bonds abroad continued. United States five-twenties were quoted in the London market on the Ist inst, at 71 a 713¢. Two vessels supposed to be intended for Chilean pri- vateers had been seized in the London docks. The Peruvian iron-clads were still detained by the French government at Brest, though the right to detain them ‘was vigorously contested by the Paris Opinion Nationale, which contrasts the course pursued towards tho Poru- vians with the measures taken against the American rebel rams. Advices from Paris with respect to the termination of the Mexican intervention grow less satisfactory with each mail. Count Flandres, Maximilian’s brother-in-law, had de- clined with thanks the position offered him as Hospodar of Roumania. The microscopic revolution in that prin- vipality was causing considerable uneasiness, Russia ‘was moving her troops in a threatening manner, and the Porte bad hastily called together the representatives of the great European Powers, There were rumors, apparently premature, of a minis- Yerial crisis in England and the resignation of Earl Russell. ‘ FENIANISM. Wholsesale arrests and anxious anticipation of yhe inevitable ‘Seventeenth’? form the staple of the news from Ireland by the European steamer which arrived yesterday. A reputed Head Centre, for whose arrest ‘one hundred pounds bad been offered, and any num- ber of British soldiers, were among the latest cap- tures. In fact the loyalty of the army, which was at first so triumpbantly quoted, seems to have gone down in the market pretty considerably, and the London Post gow starts a convenient theory that these Fenian soldiers are emissaries of the Brotherhood, who enlisted solely for the purpose of sewing treason in the military. Feni- ‘anism had also turned up among the irreproachable police ferce. Ata mecting held in Liverpool a considerable gum had been subscribed for the relief of Fenian pris. oners. With all these indications of the widely spread ramifications of the order oficial alarm was increasing, and several more counties had been proclaimed. The London Times strongly urges Mr. Gladstone to make rep- resentations to the Washington government on the sub- ject. Details of military and other Canadian movements, of which we have hitherto had brief reports by telegraph, embracing the letter of Darcy McGee and the pastoral of Bishop Lynch, which we give in full, are furn'shed by our Toronto correspondent, It is believed in Toronto that the Fenian scare, which still continues, is, as has already been intimated in our columns, only a means pit in foree by the British government to create a stronger feeling in fayor of confederation, and to point out the benefits which would result from the carrying outof that scheme. It is further believed that there will bean attempt to rush the confederation echem® through the Canadian Parliament during the excitement about Fenianism and invasion, In this clty and throughout this country the excite- ment among the an Brotherhood continues, Move- ments of significance were reported to be in process of preparation here yesterday, and funds con- tinue to pour into the treasury. In Washington it is sad that the Fenians, in order to extibit the perfidy of the British government, will shortly make some astound. ing developments in regard to the direct assistance g ven by agents of Earl Russell to the late rebellion In the South THE CITY. Further particulars are given in our news colamns to- day of the extensive robbery of a million and a half dollars worth of bonds, which were abstracted last week from the safe of Mr. Rafus L. Lord, the extensive capi- talist and real estate owner of No. 38 Exchange place, In the report wilt 80 found a partial list of the stolen securities. The police are prosecuting the investigation Of the case with the utmost zeal; but up todast even- ing they had not deem able to obtain any clue leading to the identification of the robber or robbers. A reward » hundred thousand dollars bas been offered for the recovery of the bonds and the capture of the person or persons who stole them, In connection with this matter we also furnish some interesting facts relating to other burglaries, including recent curious proceedings in « London court, wherein a burglar, who was introduced ax & witnows to prove that a certain style of safe warranted to be thief-proof was not #0, gave a fall account of the ingenious operations by which he and bis companions robbed a jewelry store. The membors of the State Senate Committee on Com. merce on Saturday had an interesting conference in one of the rooms of the City Hall with Mayor Hoffman and a number of our wharf owners and business men in regard to the bill now before the Legisiature granting permis sion to the Pier and Warehouse Company to lease certain private piers and wharves for public purposes, Objec- tions to the bill were stated by the Mayor and other gen- tlemen, and the former thanked the committee for coming here, as they did by request, to boar how the measure is regarded by those of our citizens who best understand it. In St. Ann's Episcopal church, Brooklyn, inst even. Ing @ conference of the Christian Union Association took place, at whjch addresses (n favor of the unity of all the SFvangelical Protestant churches were delivered by clergy men representing several Protestant Dieation to the contrary from any man or men was re polled. This probably referred to Bishop Potter's recent prder to Dr. Smith. Great preparations are being made by the Irish citizens of the metropolis and the surrounding cities for the jevlebration of St Patrick's day, on Saturday next. \Colgad 0’ Mahony has iseved an onter for the parade on Ph etmmis 6 Hh Sey plas segimioul Ue ava) denominations Guard, The Knights of St. Patrick will celebrate the day bya banquet at the Maison Dorée, in Union square. Another meeting of the Irish societies of Brooklyn was held yesterday, at which all the arrangements for the Anniversary procession in that city were completed. In accordance with the regulations established by the new Metropolitan Health Commission, between thirty and forty carcasses of unwholesome veal were on Satur- day evening seized on butchers’ stalls in Catharine mar- ket and sent to the offal dock, Mr. James Coyne, of 320 Eighth avenue, was assaulted and brutally beaten and robbed by two men, about three o’clock yesterday morning, on the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. A man giving the name of Patrick Ryan was soon after arrested and committed for trial on charge of being one of the highwaymen. A coroner’s inquest was held yesterday in the case of Mrs. Joanna O’Brien, who died on Saturday from the effects of a pistol shot wound alleged to have been in- filcted on the 5th inst. by her husband, John O’Brien, at their residence, 31 Roosevelt strect. O’Brien is in the Tombs, awaiting bis trial. MISCELLANEOUS. A good presentment of poltical and legislative transac- tions and mancouvrings at the State capital is contained in our Albany correspondence, including the results of the recent meeting there of the Executive Council of the Union Leagues of the State and of numerous conferences of the republican leaders. The radicals, in order to head off the movement for the formation of a strong Johnson party by a coalition of democrats and conservative republicans, have resolved to stand by the President for tho present, but meanwhile to make their arrangements for bringing forward General Grant as the candidate of thelr party for the succession in 1868, Further explanation is given of the bills to provide a Board of Revision and a Board of Public Works for this city, tho former of which it 1s expeoted will be roported in the Assembly from the Committee on Cities to-day. It provides for six com- missioners, including the Mayor. The president and sec- retary of the board are to bave salaries respectively of five thousand and threo thousand dollars. The passage of the bill during this sossion is considered doubtful. There is thought to be still less chance for the Public Works Commission bill. It is reported that arrangements have been made by some of the late rebel blockade runners to enter exten- sively into the smuggling business, and that they have already secured thirty-five vessels for the purpose, and contemplate the Florida coast as promising field for the prosecution of their operations, ‘The first office for the sale of government lands to be established in any of tho lately rebellious States since the termina‘ion of the rebellion has recently been opened at Little Rock, Arkansas, and already a large business has been done there, Arrangements have been mado by the Gensral Land Office in Washington which will soon result in the opening of land offices in all the Southern States, Our Washington despatches now pronounce as prema- ture the report that the coin of the Richmond banks, carried off at the time of the rebel evacuation of that city, has been restored to those institutions. it is still in the national treasury, and its disposition is said to be yet an undecided matter. Cushing Stetson, an old and well known merchant of Boston, died on tho Sth inst. Suspending the Constitution—The Dan. ger of the Republic. Every radical member of Congress has a new plan of government for the United States in his pocket, or has offered one to the House. Judging from the proceedings in Congress alone, from the view taken of the country by the radical party, we might suppose it was in the condition that France was in when a new constitution was suggested every day, anda new one adopted once a fortnight. When the National Assembly trampled the ancient mon- archy under foot and sat to frame a constitu- tion, France was not more completely adrift with respect to organic law than we seem to be now. All the pitiful theorists, all the malig- nant fanatics, all the corrupt schemers have substitutes to offér for the constitution framed by the fathers of the republic and still vener- ated by the people. Nearly fifty so-called amendments have been proposed. If only half of these were adopted, the true constitution would be buried under the superimposed rub- bish, its powers for good would be negatived by greater powers for evil, and the distinctive character of the government would be lost. What is the significance of all these proposed amendments? Is the constitution really sus- pended or set aside? That is the position of the radical faction, and they acton it, And as this faction rules, it isa practical fact that the constitution is set aside so far as the action of Congress goes. This is the issue between Con- gress and the President. The President, like another Cato, adheres to the republic—stands by the government that has carried the country safely through so many years; and the fac- tions, finding the full operation of the constitu- tion interrupted by the war, eager to hold on to the power given by that interruption, as- sume that the constitution is set aside, and en- deavor to force upon the country systems more suitable to their factious purposes. No point in our history has been more dan- gerous than this; and we may see the real ex- tent of this danger by comparing our position with analagous ones in the history of other nations, Rome, England and France, inex- haustible examples of political evils, show us how, in cases like the present, freedom falls a victim to the violence of faction. Rome, under the republican system, had passed through a period of unparalelled ‘growth and grandeur. Her government was then tested tremendously by the Punic, Macedonian and Spanish wars. It was shaken in those struggles. They dis- turbed that nice equilibrium of powers which is the glory and the safety of free government. There was a great increase in the power of the Senate. That was the first change in the con- stitution, and it opened the door to all others, because the factions in the legislature, corrupt, arrogant, thirsty for power, would not permit the Senate to retrace that dangerons step when it was possible. That change—that departure from the old system—had been forced by the occasions of war; but it was dangerous—an evil—and ought not to have outlived the cir- cumstances in which it arose. But the Senate would not give way. It was determined to hold on to a preponderance of power that en- abled it to keep down those elements in the State likely to thwart its will. All sense of the rights of others, all moderation in council, all patriotic purposes, were gone. Faction, short- sighted, insolent, mean, ruled the State, and freedom had already perished. No tyranny wag ever more oppressive than this of the legislature transcending its power. From this tyranny to that of Marius was a short step, and iteven seemed to the people like an alleviation of misery. Again, to Sylla and to Pompey was only a change of factions, and it seemed only another change of the same character when Ceasar established the empire on the ruins of Roman freedom. Thus, when the first step is taken, all the rest are easy. We see the same sequence of events in the great rebellion in England, when the grand struggle of a people for freedom, perverted by faction, resulted only in the establishment of anew tyranny. There also the necessities of the people compelled them to set aside the constitution.” By the execution of Charles the constitution was dissolved, and the Parliament Depumc a svmcms rowes Udid nop boldite / NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1866. power for the public good, ready to relinquish it when the public good should require. It did not endeavor to settle the peace of the country on @ permanent constitutional basis. It seemed determined to perpetuate its virtual sovereignty. Guided by faction only, itignored the great truth that every day that it kept the country in that unsettled state was a day of danger. It ruled more oppressively than tho King had done, Then Cromwell seized the supreme power, and the great struggle for freedom failed in the very hour of ita success. It was the same in France. The constitution was thrown away »y the revolution, and the Con- vention, by its Committee of Safety, ruled with the most horrible affluence of despotic bar- barity. Torn by the various factions, the coun- try lay prostrate, ready to become the prey of any one bold enough to seize the sovereign power. Such was the position when the Directory, the last of the governing factions, was displaced by Napoleon, and the struggle that France had made for liberty served only to crown an adventurer. Our own situation is the same as that shown in taese instances. Our constitution, limited in its operation by the necessities of war is practically set aside by the party that rules in Congress. Congress has before it but the one obvious duty of re-establishing the operation of the law for a state of peace, It ignores or denies this duty. It insists upon holding on to this dangerous power, insists that the constitu- tion is suspended, even superseded, and pro- poses new plans. We have therefore areign of faction, and not of law, and in this condition any event is possible. The only hope of the nation lies in the character of the people. They are more intelligent than the people of other nations, and their influence on the government is more direct. They only can prevent us from sliding into the despotism of faction, to be fol- lowed by the despotism of some individual party leader. They, through the elections, must signally rebuke the despotic spimt in which Congress now plays the dictator, or the inevitable consequences of this Congressional suspension of the constitution will be the destruction of our freedom. How Canapa can Get Ovr or Her Trov- BLES.—Be‘ween the intense ferment created by the hob-goblin of Fenianism, the abrogation of the Reciprocity treaty and the monarchical dodge of confederation, our poor Canadian neighbors are in the midst of a sea of troubles. Their leading men are pestering the people about politics and reciprocity, and their in- vincible militia are in arms ready to hurl back to American shores any body of Fenians who may attempt to invade the sacred soil of Cana- da, Now there isa very easy method by which our provincial cousins can be relieved of their Fenian afflictions, may be made to cease grum- bling about reciprocity and to abate their jeal- ousy and irritation about confederation. Let Canada come into the American Union. We have a seat for her in our republic; for at the adoption of the original articles of confedera- tion of the States provision was made with a view to the ultimate annexation of Canada to the Union. We will treat her kindly. We will even pay her debta. She shall sit at our festive board and partake of tho bountiful feasta which the great republic is ever ready to offer to a free and loyal people. Canada will thereby become elevated, dignified and powerful. She will have no further fear of raids, or of retaliation for having fur- nished a harbor for land pirates and rebels, as in the case of the St Albans piracy. In short, she will, instead of being s paltry, iso- lated province, with nothing to hope for from the home government, but in continual danger of punishment for the international crimes of the mother country, be placed under the pro- tection of the broad shield of the Union, and share in our prosperity and glories. There could not be a better time for the Canadians to pronounce for annexation than the present; and once accomplished, a perfect panacea will be applied to all their internal troubles and dangers. Come along, Canada. Our Crna Courts—The lawmakers at Albany ofttimes make a muddle of it when they attempt to legislate for this city. Recently, in the lower branch of the Legislature, a bil! has been introduced to abolish the court of criminal justice known as the Special Sessions, for the reason that the salary paid the pre- siding justices is exorbitant. The justices of this court are chosen trom among the regular district police justices, and are each paid a salary of six thousand five hundred dollara per annum for their services. The law permitting them this amount has no provision for prohibit- ing payment to them of the salary of five thou- sand dollars per annum for their services as police justices; but this latter sum the present incumbents have never received. It was left in the law by a blunder; yet it is proposed to abolish the court in order to correct the mis- take. In the Senate a proposition has been made to fix the salary at six thousand five hun- dred—a more sensible plan than that of total abolition, for the grievance complained of wil! then be entirely remedied, and the institution of the Special Sessions preserved to the ad- ministration of justice. This court has been in existence under its present form only since May last. The total number of punishments in 1864 was 2,042, and in 1865, 2,930. Under the pre- vious system the monthly average of con- victions was 154. Under the present system the average was 288, The increase in the ave- rage monthly receipts from fines under the new organization has been over seven hundred dollars. There is therefore evidently a neces- sity for the continuance of the court, and it would be better to correct the mistake of salary than to reach that point by wiping the court entirely out of existence. Duty on Coat—The Pennsylvania protec- tionists are again hammering away at Con- gress for an increase of duties on articles that compete with the home productions of that State. They now demand a tariff of one dollar and twenty cents per ton upon bituminous coal. It not unfrequently occurs that the grasping ambition and ava- riciousness of moneyed monopolists bring about reforms, from the monstrous character of their appeals. We shall not be surprised to Jearn that this will be the case with the pro- posed attempt to place an onerous duty on such an universal article of consumption and necessity as coal. The effort ought to open the eyes of Congress to the rapacity of these coal and iron monopolists of Pennsylvania, and modify the tariff in this and other respects more in consonance with the views and neces sities of the creat mass of our neonle, Orerations or THE Boarp or Hzatra.—The Board of Health is now in full operation, and bas issued its firat bulletin defining its own duties and those of the public. It now remains with every citizen to assist the Board in its labors to preserve the health of the metrop- olis, to remove nuisances of every descrip- tion and keep tbe streets, lanes, yards and tenement houses in a clean condition. But it is desirable that the Board should not be embar- rassed with unnecessary complaints, a'though they invite the public to enter such upon the books at their office, provided for that pur- pose, If every one will see that his own pre- mises are in proper condition there will be no necessity to complain of his neighbor. The Board of Health is now in possession of the authority formerly enjoyed by the City Inspoc- tor’s t, that office being abolished, and it is to be hoped that they will insist upon having the streets properly cleaned, according to contract, or else take the matter out of the hands of the present contractors altogether and have the work done under their own su- pervision. They have the Metropolitan Police subject to their control fory all sanitary pur- poses, and there can be no reason why all the orders of the Board should not be efficiently carried out. ‘ It is most desirable, furthermore, that there should be no carping on the part of the parti- san press the action of the Board of Health, for factious purposes, until they have had a fair trial. to show their capacity to fulfil their duties, and when they fail in any degree it will be the proper time to denounce them. The preserva- tion of the public health, especially at the present time, with prospects of cholera in ad- vance, is a matter of vital interest to the whole public, and the actions of the Board of Health will be carefully watched and criticised. In the meantime, let every one, whether landlord or tenant, co-operate with them to the best of his ability. United States Commissioner's Office. IMPORTANT TO CATTLE DEALERS AND BROKERS. ‘A case of interest to cattle dealers and cattle brokers camo up for hearing on Saturday before Commissioner Osborn, Mr. Barney Bertram, a cattle broker, was charged with having made to the assessor of the Ninth district a false and fraudulent return of the amount of his sales from tho 1st of May, 1864, to the 1st of May, The evidence showed that upon being notified 1865. by the assessor to make a return of his sales Mr. Ber- tram returned them at $260,000, whereas the tor of revenue, on an examination of the defendant's books, showed that the return should have been for $314,777 50. Counsel for the defendant ciaimed that the assessor had no right, in forming an estimate of what license tax a ear from the Ist of , to take the sales of broker should pay for the present May, 1865 to the Ist of May, 1 tho ‘previous year a8 m basis, ‘and that the in- tion of tho statute gave no authority to the ollicer of internal revenue to do so. Counsel also further clined that the defendant misapprehended the assessor when asked to make a return of his sales in 1864—that the return mado was morely a calculation of what he would do in 1865, Therefore the act of the de- fendant, done under a m’sapprehonsion, could not be heid as constituting an offence. The government, repre- sented by Mr. Joseph Bell, United Stat s Assistant Dis- trict Attorney, claimed otherwise, The case was sub- mitted on the law and the facts to the Commissioner, who will render a decision at an¢arly day. Mr. Bertram is a heavy cattle broker. Several cases stated to be sim!- Jar to this one are waiting for disposition, and they will in all probability be regulated by the judgment which the Commissioner may pronounce on tho ings in- stituted against Mr. Bertram. The basis of calculation in the assessment of a cattle broker is laid down by the government in the same way as it affects wholesale dealers, though the law is stated to be not quite specific on the point, and this is a question which the Commis- sioner will have to take into consideration In his judg- ment. Obituary. CUSHING STETSON, OP BOSTON. This well known Boston merchant died in that city om the 8th instant. Mr. Stetson's place of business for Many yoars was upon India wharf, where he carried on an extensive trade with Venezuela, frequently visiting that country, He was a personal friend of General Paez, the patriot leader in the struggle for the independ. ence of Venezuela, a half century eal from the rule of Spain, and who was afterwards the President of the new republic. Mr. Stetson, ever an of enlightened liberty, warmly espoused the cause of those who in years gone by atterm to rescue that beautiful lapd from the domination of its military tyranta, ‘The trade of this country with Venezuela was at one time quito extensive, and Mr. Stetson had a number of vessels running from Boston to Laguayra, Porto Cabello, &c., amd he accumulated in this way a handsomo for- tune, The last years of Mr. Stetson’s life were some- what clouded by financial reverses. SIR JOHN HOWLEY, FIRST SERGEANT AT LAW IN IRELAND, ‘Tho Irish papers announce the death of Sir John Howley, her Majesty's First Sergeant at Law in Ireland. The honor of knighthood was conferred upon him a year ago, when he was retiring from the chairmanship of the county of Tipperary, a position which he had held for about thirty years,’ During Sergeant Howley’s official connection with Tipperary be was known for the rigor with which he dealt with offenders ogainst the law; he pronounced sentences of transportation in hundreds, Thaps thousands, of cases, The peasantry got up a vailad respecting the learned Sergeant, the last line of every verse ending with the words, “Transport them, says Barrister Howley.’’ The life of the learned gentie- man was once placed in jeopardy ingthe town of Tip- erary. While trying @ prisoner off a crituinal charge the accused flung at the head of the learned Sergeaut a stove, which micved its aum and broke in pieces against the wall of the court room. AS ap repetition of similar acts “the dock court in which prisoners are obliged to sit or stand while tion against the on trial—was enclosed with a eage-like covering, mado t Howley was the same type of strong iron wire, Serge: of man as Sr. Justice Keogh, who has been so lately dealing out “aw,” and trying to restore “order” among the Feusaus ip Ireland. News from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Moxnox, March 9, 1866, Captain C. B. Wilder, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, who for four years, has been in charge of the negroes on the peninsula, has been relieved, and Brevet Brigadier Gen- eral Armstrong, late Colonel of the Eighth United States colored troops, has been appointed Superintendent of the district. Captain G. 8. Wells bas been appointed Assist- ant Superintendent in connection with Lieutenant Colo. nel W. H. Seip, late of the First United States colored cavalry, With headquarters at W illiam-buj Large fires wero observed to-day in Cape Henry. The Utien and asque Rallrond, Atvasy, March 11, 1864. The taxpayers of Utica, by a vote of 1,055 against 239, have decided that the city will take stock to the amount of half « million dollars in the Utiea, Chenango and Susquelanna Valley Railroad. Fire at Elmira. Etuma, March 11, 1866. A fire occurred in this city before daybreak this morn- ing, which destroyed the block of frame buildings situated on the corner of Wisner and Second streets. Five bnildings were barned, occupied by a grocery and provision store, two saloons and a tailors shop. Loss about $10,000; 5 rincipaily in Ne York office. Th noch ot an Incendiary. x4 mne Valicy Norroug, March 11, 1865. Mr. Flint, paymaster of the United States Navy, and sub-editor, under Charlee W. Butts, of the Norfolk Old Dominion, was fogged in his office yesterday by three ntlemen. Mr. Fiint will survive bis wounda the approach of the assailants the assistant editors fied, including Mr. Butte, Masical. To-night Mr. G. W. Morgan, assisted by Mra Marie Abbott, Mr. 3. B, Mills and other artists, will give Agrand concert at the manufactory of Mesera Odell & Co., No. 163 Seventh avenue, The new organ, built by them for Dr. Grant will be the chief attraction. t the Mendelssohu Union, under their W. Berge, will give a concert at the On Tuesday ni able conductor, Lafay ett rots Telegraphic Market Reports. Cmicaco, March 10, 1866. Flour dull, Wheat dull and declined le. a 20. at $1 24 tor No. 1. Corn dull. Oats quiet. Highwives inactive. Provisions dull. Small sales of moss pork at $25 Tha $26. Lard dull, Nothing doing in prime mess English, and bulk meats. Hogs moderately active at $8 87% a $9 3745 for medium to choice per 100 ibs. Dressed hoy quiet and unchanged. Receipts, 4.400 bbia. four, 12,000 bushels wheat, 12,000 busbels corn, 1,800 head hogs and 600 dressed hogs. Shipmenta, 1,000 bbia four, 11,600 bushels wheat and 10,008 pusheis corn. Civemywan, March 10, 1866. Flour and wheat unchanged. Provisions unsettied; 27. Lard " Whiter Hal, weer Ais Yolen eS Let them have a chance first the part of the the woods near NATIONAL CAPITAL, ‘Wasnnatox, March 11, 1866. THE DEFAMERS OF THE PRESIDENT. Thad Stevens’ speech in the House on Saturday elicits much unfavorable comment from his former party asso- ciates, and is pronounced by nearly all to have been in exceedingly bad taste throughout. His sole purpose seems to have been to furnish apologetically a rehash of all the slanders and calumnies that have been hurled at the President by violent partisans since the day of bis in- uguration as Vice President. Price, of Iowa, contented himself with playing the part of prompter in this lowest of low Congressional comedies, and manifested indecent zeal to hunt down his game for tho radical cormorant. ‘We respectfully call Secretary McCulloch’s attention to the fact that this Mr. Price, of Iowa, is holding a lucra- tive government office under the control of the Treasury Department in the State of Iowa in direct and positive violation ot law. It is quite time such assailants of the administration were at least deprived of such sinews of war, BINGHAM’S COURSE—BETWEEN TWO BUNDLES OF waY. Representative Bingbam’s opposition to the Civil Rights bill in the House excites considerable comment on account of bis fixed position as one of the radical chiefs, It is expiained by the fact that the Civil Liberty Dill confticte with his constitutional amendment, and he had to give up one or the other; so he choso his Srat love, which he earnestly hopes will soon become part of the fundamental Jaw of the land. Before he carefully compared tile two he bad prepared a speech favoring the Civil Liberty bin. THE RADICALS QUIET—NO NEW PLOTS ON HAND. Since the Senate's discussion of a bill requiring re- moval from public office to be confined to that body, as in the case of appointment, the radicals have devised no new scheme to control Executive appointments. While the breezo between the White House andthe majority im Congress blew strong several plans were talked up by the radicals, but they were quietly dropped as neither warrantable nor feasible. Congressional supporters of the President have wiscly refrained from asking too much of him in the way of little favors for their constituency, while the followers of St»vens, who have not been so backward, havo rarcly been re- fused. They do not now see any occasion for further alarm. CORRECTION OF A RADICAL MISSTATEMENT. ‘The stories from time to time republished in the New York Tritune and papers of its ilk to the effect that the Freedmen’s Bureau bill was read to the President by Senator Trumbull in tho presence of General 0. 0. How- ard, and received the Executive approval before its pas- sage, are pure fabrications and devoid of all truth. I am authorized to say that the bill was never read to the President by Senator Trumbull at all, and that he never approved it inthe presence of General Howard or any one else, Such bubbles are easily pricked. MEXICAN GOSSIP. A report is in the street this evening that the Mexican General Ochoa, who was stated to be here for tho pur- pose of furthering the project of Congressionally indem- nitying the fifty million Mexican loan now proposed, has been ordered to report to his commanding officer at home immediately, on pain of being considered a deserter. He is said to bo here without any authority whatever from the Mexican government, to be mixed up in General Fre- mont’s arrangements, and to make sucn an addition to the corps de cuisine as would inevitably spoil all forth- coming Mexican broth. If the true frends of Mexico can also succeed in overcoming General Fremont’s damaging profession of disinterested friendship, they will have taken another tremendous stride towards ac- complishing their purpose. A GOVERNMENT LAND OFFICE OPENED IN ARKANSAS, Information has been received atthe General Land Office announcing the active resumption of business at the United States District Land Office at Little Rock, Arkansas. The returns are oncouraging, showing a large disposal of public lands, Tho Little Rock office is the first as yet established in the Southern States, though preparations are being made to open others, and it is expected that the sale of public lands will speedily be renewed in all the States recently in rebellion. RE-BSTABLISHMENT OF SOUTHERN LIGHTHOUSES. {The old lighthouses on the Zouthorn coast will soon be fu operation again. The Board has already re-catablishod eleven. REDUCTION OF TAXATION. The Committee of Ways and Means have agreed to re- port a very considerable reduction in the internal reve- FINANCIAL MATTERS. The amount of certificates of indebtedness issued during the week was one hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. Five hundred and twenty thousand and ten dollars of national bank note circulation have been cancelled and destroyed for various reasons since the system went into operation, Nearly two hundred and sixty thousand are still out, For the week ending March 10 tho Treasury disburse- menta wore as follows: — War Department Navy Dopartmen' Interior Department. ‘Two hundred and ninety-seven thousand five handred dollars in fractional currency was printed this week, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand of which was issued mainly to national banks in the North. Three hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars of the same mutilated currency was destroyed during the corresponding period, all of which was received from New York, Philadalphia and Boston. The Internal Revenue receipts for the weck amounted to five million five hundred and twenty-two thousand seven hundred and six dollars, The redemption bureau for mutilated currency is ex- pected to be in full operation during this week, under the direction of Comptroller Freeman Clarke, when at least one of the evils of the present system will be remedied. DETECTION OF COUNTERFFIT CURRENCY. ; The Redemption Bureau last week stamped as counter. feits four hundred and eighteen fifty cent notes, cighty- three twenty-fives, twenty-seven tens, ono Ofty dollar and one ten dollar—total two hundred and ninety two dollars and forty-five cents. CUSTOMS RECKIPTS AT CHARLESTON. The receipts from customs at the port of Charleston, 8. C., last month amounted to $3,161,871. SECURITIES HELD BY GOVERNMENT. ‘Tho total securities held by General Spinner for the de- posite tn the different designated depositories amounts to thirty-five million twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. The amount of deposits outstanding is claimed to be Jess than that sum. The total security held by him for the circulation of national banks is three hundred and fourteen million nine hundred and twenty-six thou- sand one hundred dollars, a sum largely in excess of the cireulation issued THE RICHMOND GOLD STILL IN THE TRRASCRY. The reported return to the Richmond banks of the one hundred thousand dollars in gold claimed as theirs. but seized and brought here by agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, ae abagloned property, wasjpremature. The coin is still in the treasury vaults, and ite return to the banks an undecided question. AN ARMY OF HELPLESS Poor. The Ase\stant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau informs General Howard that the number of helpless poor in Arkansas and Missouri that will be dependent on the government for support during the next three months will be about four thousand, They are without mouey or means (o procure ford from a distance, and there seems to be no alternative but to supply the belp- jess women and children from the commissary stores, or leave them to starve to death. THR GREAT PARIS EXPOSITION. The Prince Imperial is announced in the Moniteur, of the 23d ult,, as honorary president of the Paris Exposi- tion, The business of the agency at New York isin a most satisfactory condition. Mechanical applications Will be received for few days longer. The Commissioner of Agriculture sent out over five hundred circulars to the agricultural societies with a view to a full representation of our agricultural proaue- tions, stocks, soils, fertilizers, &c. There will be sixty or nihety daye yet for agricultural applications THE RAILROAD LOBBY. The Congressional committees which have bills regn- lating commercial intercourse between the States ip charge have been badgered considerably of late by the commissioners of the railroad lines which may be affected bf} the passage of such bili, Some of these eminsarics STATE CAPITAL, The Loyal Leagues and Their Presidential Campaign. Grand Flank Movement of the Radicals. Andy Jobnson in H's Day and Grant fer the Future, The Board of Revision Coming Into Shape. The Board of Works, Central Park Extension - and Municipal Measures, &. &. &. _ Our Albany Correspondence. ALsany, Maroh 10, 1806, A most important political change has been concia- sively developed in the ranks of the dominant party, as well, I am reliably informed, in other States as in this State. The heated and sanguine anticipations of the radicals built up a very ultra programme upon the suc- cession of Johnson after ho bad so positively declared bimself a “radical man.’’ They now reluctantly sur- render their overdrawn expectations, but only in obedi- ence to a deliberate plan which postpones their antict- pated millenium until the next Presidential term. The executive council, recently held in this city, of the Union Leagues of the State compared notes on this subject. Since the recent visit of General Grant to New York he bas been formally adopted as their future candidate for President. The campaign is but a little more than twe years distant, and the radicals have formally concluded that the danger of their being thrown out of power is so threatening that every effort will be needed to secure their hold. The radical papers in different parts of the State have fairly opened the ball, while the League ma- chinery is thoroughly wound up for a formal organiza- tion of every district in this interest. GREAT CHANGE IN THE RADICAL TACTICS. The signification of this change is manifested in the general tactics of the radicals. They’ are no longer bent upon immediate ultra measures. They are temporizing and hedging on every hand. The watchword has beea passed, They have cooled down in Congress and turned conservative all at once in Albany. From Washbarne im the West and Wilson in New England, as well as Alvord, Folger, Fenton and Tremain in this State, formal indica- tions of this policy bave gone forth. The Rochester Democrat, their strongest organ in the interior of this State, backed by the Tribune and the recent conventions for local etections, have endorsed the new programme. Tho course of the Hxratp on the nomination of Grant ts a subject of lively interest and constan’ inquiry among the radical politicians, as it is algo the causé of no amalt anxiety among their antagonists, both conservative aad democratic, who have of course other views. The formula which these facts present is the only solution of the recent action of the Legislature on national issues. That formula is Johnson for to-day and Grant for the future. With a two-thirds radical majority the strife here has been in reality for the leadership, and nes as between factions. The democrats are a nullity. Whether in talent or im numbers thoy are capable of ae Dut are mot in the ascendancy numerically. The radi- cals have, therefore, got all sway here, and except the his and into the mem paete’ ting theig ing disciptine of the party and its will got tolerate any movement Jobuson party,"’ ang, if necessary, will every sooner than surrender their grasp of Legend They even, if necessary, carry op the “Andy Job ment” themselves, with a mental reservation in favor Grant and a radical millen! MUNICIPAL APPAIRS OF XEW YORK. of the Committee on Cities of the Board point of interest in the business of the Legistaturo. have announced this re- port in about every despatch that I have sent for a fort- night—upon the authority of the committee. It has been repeatedly delayed for modification and amend- ment, and I am still reluctant to accept its iow from the pregnant committer as sure until it is fairly delivered. Mr. Brandreth, the chairman, has held on to the bill with the most vehement anxiety for his friend n, who isa collector of assessments in the Street Department, and whose influence is exer- cised for the defeat of this bill. Jenkins, of New York, has devoted bis skill to the measure, and if at all succesful it will be through bis pertinacity. It has been ui upon the committee not to amend or perfect the bill as sent here, but to leave its incongruities and impracticable features, so as to provide the better chane of it eventually. With a copy of the amendments adopted by the committee before me, I do not yet feel warranted in transmitting the Dill, as its form will inevitably be further changed. The in- vidious feature by which power was provided for an im- quisition of the afairs, and condemnation of any public offic.al, has been stricken out. It savored too much of the malice and slander seeking agressiveness which has exploded the Citizens Association gang. ee would place the very best men at the mercy of such campaigning as tl illustrated confes- sions of the ward iticians §=who make Govermor Fenton the instrument of spleen and falsehoods last year. The encroaching upon the powers of the 8 missioners, have been stricken out; the number of the Commissioners of Revision has been reduced to six, in- cluding the Mayor. A president at five thousand aoe aa and undred lars, organization le its name is to be finally the “ Board of Revision’ It hasthe power 2 employing its own attorneys and counsellors in suits, c. THR BOARD OF REVIMON AND THE CHANCES OF Mm Pagssce. Persons who have been familiar with the municipal affairs of the city of New York, and particularly with the Finance Department, will recollect the ver fent necessary Deputy Comptroller, W. W. Warren. It is onl; for tnoee who know the Jal probably attribu ui fuking up this view of the of Revision bill, it i# impossible to resist the ante ipate troller Brennan's term of office. that officer is vs much doubted, as against the fntrt en of the Ley gnd the Cornell Street bey my! ost Fenian candidate, Mike Con- ly; the sorehead candidate, Dick Connolly ; the Wood and Hecker candidate the other suspect that the that there will be no comptroller except the board, after the expiration of the term of Comptroller Rrenoan on the first of January next. was reorganized by The Finance