The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. — Volume XXXI. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TREATRE. Broadway, near Broom: street Tux Viovus—Foury Winns, ij LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 and 73% Broadway.—Fortone’s Frouc—Tus NT ‘xNT—PHENOMENON LN 4 Smock FRoox. WOOD'S THEATR! jicholé Hee Aras. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas GEORGE CHRISTY’S—O.p Scmoot or Mixsrnecsr, Bawuaps, Musica, Guus, &0.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Now ir 4 West Twenty-fourth sireet.—Tux Contes: ‘BAND iL SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Hotel.—Ermiorian Sinaina, Dancind, &0.— LYING TRAPEZE. ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- a Di ‘Boruxsques, £c.—Ine.and in 1866; On, THR Dazx Hour Berors Dawn. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, ‘way.—Nworo Comicaritixs, Gnznn. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Buniesquas, &c.—Jack ON DE HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, slyn.—Ermrortan Mix. @raxisr—Ba..aps, Busvesquas ano Pawrouiwss. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @pen from 10.4. M. till 10 P.M BRADY'S GALLERY, 785 Broadway, corner of Tenth sireel—Open every day and evening this, week-—New Col. xrcrion or Wan Visws axp Husroaio Ponruaits, to the pul FINE ARTS INSTITUTE, 625 Broadway.—Ket.oce's igus Patina tax OxieNtaL Paincess “Arreg THE ari,” HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Conmar's Iniostrarep ‘Tour oF SCOTLAND. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Porvian Con- cert UNDER Tum Direction or Ma. J. 3. Tuomas. COOPER HALL, Jersey City.—Dasuincton’s Bxcrision Munsteas. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Friday, March 16, 1866. THES Naw s. EUROPE. The Cunard steamship Africa arrived at Halifax yes- terday, bringing news from Europe two days later. ‘The privateering question still troubled the British Parliament, A resolution had been introduced declaring private property at sea inviolate, but had been with- drawn on the strong representation of the government that such a course would b2 most impolitic for England. The London correspondent of the Manchester Gu tdian, usually very well informed, assorts that Lord Clarendon, the new Foreign Secretary, is aaxious to reopen the Alabama claims and come to a settlement with the United States. In the new born geal of the English govern. ment for the maintenance of strict neutrality between belligerent Powers, two Spanish iron-clads,and a Colom- ‘Dian steamer had becn seized in England. The paragraph in the address to the throne on the Moxican question had be»n adopted in the French Corps Logislasif, on the understanding that discussion should be reserved till the recent diplomatic correspondence on, the subject was published. ‘The Memorial Diploma 'ique, a paper of some authority, asserts that Mr, Seward has promised United States neu- trality in Mexico, in view ef the promised withdrawal of the Frengh troops. bs There had been no new developments of tho Fenian movoment in Ircland; but a growing uneasine«w was felt in official circles in regard to the ramications of the movement in the British army. United States five-twenties were quoted in London, on tho 3d inst, at 70)¢ a 70%. CONGRESS. im the Sonate yesterday Mr. Sumnor reported a pream. bie and resolution from the Foreign Atiairs Committeo, which wore ordered to be printed, protesting against the alleged transportation to the United States of p»rsons convicted of crime ia European countries, by order o! the authorities therzof. Considerable debate took piace over & resolution to print ten thousand copies of the Recon- struction Committee's report and evidence, Ms, Garrett Davis, in opposition thereto, taking occasion to make another extended speech. An amendment to reduo: the number to six thousand was rejected, and the wholo number of ten thousand was ordered. “The bill to guar- antec all inhabitants of the country protection in the ‘enjoyment of their civil rights, and known as tho Civil Ri ‘hts bill, came up for concurrence ja the amendm nts made by the House, ali of which were agreed to, and the bill, which appears in full in our report, now ouly noods the Preside: jigmature to be a law. The remainder of the session was devoted to the consideration of tho Do- ficiency Appropriation bill, which was not disposed of. At the commencement of proceeding: in the House of Representatives a sharp and angry controversy took place between Mr, Smith, of Kentucky, and Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, over a request of the former to be allowed to make a personal explauation in reference to certain charges which had been made against him in connection with his introduction of a resolution to admit Colonel Johnson as a Representative from Arkansas, The war of words was also participated in by other members, some of whom objected to Mr. Smith being allowed to proceed with his explanation; bat finally he was granted the privilege, and the excitement passed away, for the time at least, The Ludian Appro. priation bill was reported from the Appropriations Com- mittee, read twice, referred to the Committee of tho Whole, and made the special order for next Thursday. The bill to amend the act relating to the habeas corpus was taken up and -discussed till the con- clusion of the morning hour, when it went ‘over, Petiiions were presented for a reduction of the duty on barley imported from the British provinces, and from the Adains Express Cotapany for the issue to ead company of legal tender notes in place of like notes destroyed by fire. The consideration of the special order, the Loan bill, was then resamed, and occypied the re. mainder of the day, without final action. During the debate on it allusion was made to the recent loiter of Comptrolier of the Currency Clark to Secretary of the Treasury MeCulloch, ia which the former charged the latter with putting the amount of goverument funds on hand at over iifty million dollars below the correct figure. This called out & response from Mr. Hooper, on behalf of the Commit- tee of Ways and Means, who stated that that committee had instituted an Investication of the matter, and found that the statement of the Socretary of the Treasury was correct, and that the amount of money in the national treasury on the Ist inst, was one hondred and sixteen millions, and no more, a& reported by the secretary. THE LEGISLATURE. A number of new measures were introduced in the State Senate yesterday, Few of them, however, are of general interest, Among them were bills to grade Tompkins square and make it a pobite parade ground for the National Guard, to regulate the grade of Eighth avenue, to incorporate the New York Methodist Sanday School Missionary Society and the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, to provide tor additicnal potaries public in this city and to regulate fare on the New York Contra! Railroad. The latter provides that on trains running from sixteen to tweaty miles per hour two cents per mile shail be the fare; on those ran- ‘ning twenty-two to twenty-five miles, two and « balf conts; and on those running thirty or moro miles per hour, three cents, A few bills were passed, including that incorporating the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francia An evening session was held, which was taken up in an Interesting disenssion of the resgiations on ational affairs, urging the importance of « better understanding and full co-Oparat on in the work of reconstraction be- twoon the President and Congress, which have already been adopted by the Assenbly. Final actios on them was not taken. ‘The chief feature of the proceedings in the Assen. Diy was its action, im evening session, on the ‘Dill to limit a day's work to eight hors After ‘an extended debate the bill was ordered to fits «third = reading, mays. A large number of other matters re. Gotved the attention during the day. Among several Dilla reported from committees wore those to reorganise ‘the jadicial districts of the State, for the better inspection of steam botlera, for the constriction of & permanent quarantine establishment in our harbor, fo reguinte fare on. the Bight’ Avenue Railroad, prohibiting persons from selling stock or bonds of eorpo- rations of which they are officers, allowing husband and (cite te tantly for oF gutiagt cock ofuer, making spproy by forty-five yeas to twenty | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. priations for miliary purposes, and the An- nual Sapply bill ‘Included in an extensive list of introductions were bills for railroads im Cortlandt, Dey, Seventy-ninth and other streets and an elevated railroad in Broadway and Sates ont. other streets, to regulate the fare on all the railroads this city and Brooklyn, and to regulate the Central Rail- road fare. Among a few bills passed was that increas- ing the pay of the Metropolitan police. The Niagara Frontier Police bill was made the special ordor for next % HE FENIAN AGITATION. ‘There seems still to be little if any abatement of the excitement among our Canadian neighbors over the an- ticipated attack of she Fenians or of the activity of the Brotherhood in this country in their military and finan- cial operations, The work of organizing volunteer com- panies for defence still goes on in all the Canadian towns, and a warlike aspect has already beon assumed by the frontier, which begins to bristle with bayonets, has its skirmish Mnes extending many miles, and is being fast outlined by earthworks. General Lindsey has been placed in command of the troops of the Lower province, and General Napier of those of the Upper. Twenty- five thousand Enfield rifles wore’ yestorday despatched from Montreal to Upper Canada, The St, Patrick’s So- ciety of Kingston held a meeting on Monday night, and unanimously resolved, amid much enthusiasm, to assist the government in repelling Fenian invasion. A force of two hundred United States troops, supposed to be intended to preserve American neutrality, arrived af Buffalo on Wednesday, and were sent to Fort Porter,. and it is said that more are expected. a In this city there was evidence yesterday of great ac- tivity and much sécrecy of movement at both the 0’Ma- hony and Sweeny headquarters. There is no dimunition in the influx of the sinews of war at either establishment, money continuing to pour in from all quarters. The work of organizing new circles isalsostill kept up. The officials at Union square yesterday conducted themselves with a mystery and reticence indicative of some new step of importance. It was intended to have a demon- stration on Sunday next for the benefit of the families of Fenian prisoners in Iveland; but it has been for the present postponed. THE CITY. A very important decision on the subject of the value of United States Treasury notes, making them equal in every respect, in legal contemplation, to similar denom!- nations in gold, has just been rendered by the General Term of the Superior Court. The decision, which is published in full in our Supplement sheet of this morning, goes further than any other yet mado in this State, former adjudications merely going the length of estab- lishing that contracts made before the passage of the act of 1862, and providing for payment in the then legal currency of the country, could be satisfied by pay- ment im United States Treasury notes, The agree- ment in this case was to pay freight mency in gold or silver dollars on delivery of cargo in New York, The plaintiffs, John Wilson & Co., owners of the British ship Atalanta, in January, 1863, chartered the vessel to Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Co., of Calcutta, and the cargo was consigned to Edwin D. Morgan and others of this city. The vessel arrived here in June, and the freight money, amounting to thirty-two thou- sand six hundred and thirty dollars, was tendered in Treasury notes. The offer was refused, and paymont in specie was demanded. This wés refused, and the con- troversy carried to the Superior Court. After the usual preliminaries the case was brought before the General Term, and the decision, written by Judge Monell, lays down the law to be that all debts can be satisfied bya teader of payment in United States Treasury notes. An amusing account of a hoax practised upon tho Spanish authorities here a few days since, with the con- nivance of the Chilean envoy in this city, is published im the Hexato of to-day. A letter purporting to be in- tended for the Chilean Minister at Buenos Ayres, and bearing an excellent imitation of Senor B. Vicuna Mac- Kenna’s signature, was drepped-in the street ata point where two Spanish spies were passing. They fell into the trap, picked up the letter, and very soon after its contents were known to the Spanish authorities. The protended information given in the letter, a translation of which we give, concerning the movements of imagi- nary Chilean privateers, appears to solve the mystery of the sudden departure of the two Spanish war vessels, the Carmen and the Isabel la Catolica, from this port. ‘The expense to the Spanish government of the fool's errand upon which these vessels were despatched, owing to the ruse played by the Chilean envoy, is estimated at thirty thousand dollars, The steatner San Jacinto, of Messrs. Garrison & Allen's line of Savannah steamers, caught fire between two and three o'clock yesterday morning, at her pier, 13 North river, and was totally destroyed in her wood work. The hull, being of iron, was filled with water, and she now lies on the bottom. Sbe had on board five hundred bales of her inward cargo and about :wo thousand barrels of flour for Savannah. Tho veasel was not insured, and the loss on ship and cargo will not fall snort of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Full particulars of the dis- aster are given in our Supplement. The investigating committee of the Board of Super- visors still hammer away daily at the alleged Court House frauds, Yesterday the architect of the Court House was on the stand; but his evidence was of an entirely negative character. Ex-Mayor Opdyke testi- fied in reference to a communication sent to the Board by him three years ago, which it was decided had noth- ing to do with the case, The county bookkeeper, Mr. Lynes, gave the only really interesting evidence, which was that the Court House had cost $2,275,406 02, of which $450,000 was for the ground. The witnesses for the prosecution were not forthcoming, and Mr. Anthon showed a disposition to procrastinate. Their case will be closed to-day. The Board of Councilmen held a short session yester- day. A report of the Special Committee on tho cele bration of Washington's birthday, recommending the payment of bills amounting to twelve thoasand four hundrd and s:venty-throo dollars and sixty cents, was adopted. The Bokrd concurred with the Aldermen in adopting resolutions recommending that the courts and puble offices be closed in order to enable our citizens to participate in the celebration of St. Patrick's day. The new Health Board continues its inroads on the genus of pestilence in the Metropolitan district. The streets are being cleaned in the vicinity of West Broad- way, Since Tuesday last two hundred and fourteen head of “bob” veal have been seized by the sanitary police, and disposed of at the offal dock. A large quan- tity of this unwholesome species of meat was found and taken possession of on Wednesday at the Chambers street station of the Hudson River Railroad. The litigation about the gold seized tn New Orleans by order of Major General Butler was again before the Court of Common Pleas yesterday. The case having been settled, the counsel for the Sherif applied to Judge Cardozo to tax the fees of the Sheriff for poundage on one hundred and fifty thorsand dollars, Wut the matter was adjourned after some argument, to give time for. the production of farther papers on both sides. Nothing of additional interest transpired yesterday in relation to the alleged whiskey frauds. Mr. B. A. Rol. ling, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, ts expected to arrive in this ¢lty to-morrow, for the purpose of further investigating the matter. Aman named Jowph Scholtz was brought up yester day before Commissioner Stilwell on a charge of having passed two counterfeit fifty dollar Treasury notes upon two personaof the name of Rader and Fisber. It ap- poared that the note passed upon Fisher was so well execated that he was informed by the cashier of a bank and several of the clerks that it was a genuine good one The prisoner was remanded for further examination. A suit against the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, brought by Lawrence Burke, for in- Jaries sustain a by his son, a child #tx years old, in being run over on the 8d of May, 1865, in Thompson street, was tried in the Supreme Court, Part 8, yesterday. The Jury will bring in a sealed verdict this morning. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, William Jones and William Murray, pickpockets, were sent to tho State Prison respectively for five years and four years and «x montha John Geary, for burglary, was seat to the same place for three yeara Mary Conners, « servant girl, and Jobo Conners, the latter indicted for horse steaffag, both of whom pleaded guilty of attempts at grand larceny, were remanded for sentenca Henry Bauor, charged with felonious assault and battery, was acquitted. The trial of William Sobn, Jr., charged with ‘stabbing Frederick Shoemaker io a lager beer saloon, ‘was commenced, and will be concluded to-day. There wore rumors in the city yesterday that some of ‘the miilion and @ half dollars worth of bonds recéatly stolen from the office of Mr. Lord, in Exchange place, liad been recovered; but these proved unfounded, no clue having yet been obtained to any of the missing property or the thieves, though the police are still vigor- ously prosecuting their operations in the matter. A man was cut to pieces last evening, between Hous- ton and King streets, by © wala of the Hudson River Railroad cars drawn by a dummy ine, The remains have not yet been identified. An inquest will probably be held in the case to-day. St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated by our Irish popa- lation to-morrow with much spirit and disphy. There will be a grand parade of a portion of the military and the Irish civic societies; a Pontifical high mass will be celebrated 1n St. Patrick’s cathedral, by Arehbishop Mc- Closkey; Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, wili deliver a panegyric on St. Patrick, and in the evening the Knights of St. Patrick will have a banquet at the Maison Doreo. ‘The day will be observed in like manner ig Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, as also, no doubt, throughout the country. A meeting was held in the Universalist church 548 Broadway last evening, for the purpose of musing sub- scriptions to promote the missionary work in this coun- try. Several addresses were delivered, after which a sum of $1,249 was announced as the amount of the con- tributions from several ladies and gentlemea present. ‘The first annual exhibition of the Italian Free School took place last evening in the presence of a large audi- ence, at the House of Industry on the Five Points, A series of exercises of a very interesting naturp were gone through with successfully, and twelve medalg sent over by the King of Italy for that purpose, wore distributed to the most deserving pupils. Meetings of: German tenants were heli last nightin the Tenth, Eleventh, Seventeenth and Eighitconth wards, for the purpose of forming district organizations to agl- tate the “rent question,” and to signa pétition to be Presented to the Legislature on the subject. ~” Tho stock market was strong and higher yesterday morning, but somewhat unsettled in the afternoon, Governments were dull Gold closed steady at 1318 131%. MISCELLANEOUS, From Cuba we learn, by our correspondence by the steamship Morro Castle, which arrived here yesterday, that ‘the ever faithrul isle” has recently been the sceno of an attempt at revolution, which, though insignificant as regards the number of those engaged in it, appears to be looked upon by the authorities as not entirely unim- portant, A party of twenty-three young Cubans, sald to belong to good families, and supposed to be members of a republican club, after issuing a pronunciamiento,went from Villa Clara, armed with cutlasses, into the district of Sagua laGrande, and were met and attacked by -panish troops, when twelve of their number were captured ; but the re- mainder escaped, and it was apprehended they would attempt the rescue of their comrades. The battle cry of the young republicans was “ Viva la independencia.”” It was reported that another slaver had been captured on the Cuban coast while attempting to land nearly four hundred Africans. Owing to the Spanish insurance offices, in consideration of the existing hostilities between Spain and the South American republics, having refused to tako war risks, a Matanzas merchant proposes to ¢s- tablish an office for the insurance of Spanish vessels against capture by Chilean and Peruvian privateers. There have been extensive supposed incendiary fires on plantations near Cardenas. ' To-morrow, the 17th of March, in accordance with the official notification given by our government a year ago, the treaty regulating trade between this country and Canada, known as the Canadian Reciprocity treaty, after an existence of ten years, will expire. This event will cause a great revolution in commercial transactions be- tween the citizens of the United States and the provin- cials; but of the two it will affect the latter far more seriously, and they yield to it with the greatest regret, well understanding the losses which it will inflict upon them. The strendous efforts which they have made for its continuance the columns, of the Hxxatp have already, from time to time, fully re- corded. Finally becoming convinced that all these exer- tions would prove fruitless, and that the treaty must ex- Pire, the Canadians deveted their energies to getting the utmost benefit from it possible white it still émsted, and bave lately been push'ng forward their produce to this country in vast quantities and with all possible expedi- tion, The French Minister at Washington, Marquis de Mon- tholon, gave a public reception last evening, which was attended by nearly all the members of the diplomatic corps in the national capital and numerous officers of our army and navy. The last of Speaker Colfax's receptions came off in ‘Washington last evening, and was perfect jam. Mem- bers of Congress, oMcers of the army and navy and several Governors of States, together with many of the fairest of the fair sex of the national capital, were present. There was wrecked during last January an Eastern schooner on Hatteras cove, and two men were frozen to death in the rigging. Although more than two months have olapsed since the disaster occurred, and although the vessel in question lies but a short distance trom the shore, the bodies have never been removed. There cer- tainly appears to be a necessity for sending missionaries to that section of our coast, Misrepresentati of the Radicale—Their Schemes for the Next Presidency. The radical disorganizers in Congress and their organs throughout the country are doing their utmost to create a false impression in re- gard to President Johnson’s course in reference to restoration. On no one point is this more marked than on the position of Mr. Johnson in regard to the admission of Southern represen- tatives in Congress. They are constantly harp- ing upon a statement that the President is try- ing to force Congress to receive late rebels and secessionists into that body. Their organs are filled with misrepresentations of this kind, all tending to create an impression on the public mind that the President is insisting that the doors of the national Legislature shall be opened to the leading secessionists and the important trust of the nation placed in their hands and at their disposal. This is the burden of the radical speeches and the song of the radical editors. In this course they have to a certain extent misled that portion of the public who take only a super ficial glance at the policy of the Executive. Their frequent reiterations of these false state- ments have had the effect of convincing many that they are true. But nothing can be further from the truth than their assertions about Presi- dent Johnson’s position on the admission of those representatives, and none know this better than the radical leaders. But it serves their purpose to keep up their misrepresenta- tions, and they are constantly repeating them. It is part of their scheme for success in the next Presidential lection, and as long as they see that the public are ready to swallow their falsehoods just so long will they continue to repeat them. The position of the President on the admission of Southern representatives is so well defined, and has been so plainly stated by him, that it does not seem possible that any person with the least self-respect would have the effrontery to repeat the malicious statements of the radi- cals, The policy of Andrew Jobnson on this point is precisely this:— First—-That the Southern States are in the Union. Their ordinances of secession being null and void, they have never been out, and are legally entitled to representation in Con- grees, the same as New York or Massachusetts. Second—That whenever the people in any of those States elect Union men, of whose loyalty there can be no question or doubt, it is the duty of Congress to admit them. Third—That all those claiming seats in'Con- gress from the Southern States who were promi- nently identified with the rebel government or rebel army should be immediately rejected and their constituents requested to elect loyal Paion men in their places. kee These three points embrace Mr. Johnson's policy on this subject. Nothing could be plainer [or more fair than this proposition, This is the position that he bas been Congress to take. But instead of meeting him and refuse to consider the claims even of those men who fought in the Union armies, and were loyal and true to the Union in the darkest days of our wer. In order to sustain them- selves before the people in their opposition to this plain, sensible and practical plan, they are continually asserting that the President is trying to force them to open the doors of Congress to the leading secessionists. They know that if the people once fully comprehend Mr. Jobnson’s position they will rally to his support en masse, Butby system of misrepresentation they hope to create a pre- judice against the Exeoutive, secure their own re-election and an endorsement of their course in rejecting ell claimants for seats from the South. The effect of the two systems will be directly opposite. It that of the President could be adopted it would strengthen the loyal Union men in the South, and, from necessity, make them the nucleus for the controlling party in all those States, The people would at once see that their only course, their only salvation, was in the election of men who bad not been prominently identified with the secession cause; while, on the other band, the policy announced by Congress places the few men who remained loyal and true to tbe government during the rebellion at the mercy of the old secessionists and destroys their power and influence at home. The late rebels will very justly say to such men as Maynard, Stokes and Mar vin: You might as well bave united with us in the rebellion. You have gained nothing by remaining loyal to the United States; for now that the war is over you are received no better by Congress than we are. So long as Congress places the loyal men of the South in this position there is no possible chance for the growth of Union sentiment in those States. The people cannot see how they are going to gain anything by electing loyal men to repre- sent them in Congress, and the result is that they are daily losing their strength and influence at home. Thus, while the policy of the President, if carried out, will strengthen and increase the Union sentiment of the South, and make those | men who remained loyal throughout the war the basis for the governing party in that sec- tion, that pursued by Congress emboldens the secessionists and continues the political control of all of those eleven States in the hands of the very men who led the people into the mael- strom of secession. This is the issue between the President and the radicals. Let the peo- ple take their choice. But the radicals are determined that the issue shall not be made up in this way. They, there- fore, are laboring night and day and spreading false statements of Johnson’s position before the country in hopes of misleading the public. They adopt for this purpose the cry that the President urges the admjssion into Congress of | all who have been elected in the late rebellions States. There is not a hadow of truth in this assertion. But they have an object in thar persistence in these statements. They are de- termined to keep the Southern States unrepre- sented until after another Presidential election, and take this course to justify their action be- fore the people. By keeping those States out they imagine that they can secure the election of their candidate for the Presidency in 1868, and thus obtain another four years’ control of the government. This is the secret of all their moverhents: Party and power, instead of the interests of the country, are the motives that actuate them. If they are permitted to carry out this scheme, then we may look for another revolution and more bloody scenes than any that we have heretofore witnessed. Suppose, for instance, that in the election of 1868 the parties are nearly evenly balanced in the Northern States, or that the radicals have only one or two majority in the Electoral College, and that the Southern States, which have been decided by the Supreme Court to be States in the Union, although not represented in Con- gress, should hold their elections and give their electoral votes to the conservative candidate. The result would be that we would be plunged into a struggle at once for the possession of the government. This is the logical result and the sequence to the present policy of the radi- cals. It would be a struggle both fierce and relentless. This the Presideut wishes to avoid, and has designated a policy which will secure a peaceful and permanent restoration of the country, without any danger of collisions hereafter. If the people desire an early and amicable adjustment of the affsirs of the nation, and to avoid all breakers ahead, then let them rally to the support of the President. But if they desire another war, another revolution, they can have it by sustaining the radical Jaco- bins. This is the issue, and the people must not be deceived in regard to it. Tae Svpriy or Corroy anp tHe Price or Corrox Goovs.—Just after the surrender of General Lee, in April, 1865, we presented an estimate of the amount of cotton on hand, in store or concealed in the South- ern States, and showed that in our judg- ment there could not be less than two million five hundred thousand bales, and possibly, including surplus from previous crops, three million two hundred thousand bales ready for exportation as soon as transportation could be procured. This calculation exited much atten- tion at the time, and various counter statements were made, all pretending to show that our estimate was an exaggeration, and that the amount of cotton in the South at the close of the war could not exceed a million bales—some set it as low as six hundred thousand. Statis- tical evidence on the subject, however, since received, sustains our calculation and shows that those who disputed its correctness were either wilfully ignorant or grossly mistaken. It is & well established fact that about one million eight hundred thousand bales have already reached the great cotton marts or been shipped from Southern ports to Northern or for- eign ports since last May; and it is conceded that @ million bales or more are now on hand in the interior, awaiting conveyance to market. ‘This, taking the entire old crop, and without trenching upon the present or new crop, which is gathered in the month of Sep- tember, gives us, to make good our esti- mate until that time, seven hundred thou- sand bales to be exhumed and to reach the Southern seaboard from the interior. Our in- formation on this subject is clear and definite, It is the same with regard to the new crop, the extent of which croakers and specu- lators are busily at work in belittling. With all the ery about the disabi'ity of planters t® weather prove propitious there need be no fears about a large yield. This is the character of our information from several Southern States where planting has slready begun. In view of this favorable condition of the cotton supply, is it not remarkable that the prices of all our cotton fabrics and domestic goods to consumers keep so enor- mously hight The dry goods trade of import- era, it is true, is dull; but that is the result of excessive importations, without taking into consideration the facilities of home manufac- turers for steadily and rapidly supplying the newly opened Southern market. We expect very soon to hear of heavy auction sales of imported dry goods, and then, in view also of the large cotton supply, we imagine our home mannfacturers will be gracious enough to relax the tension of present pricea upon domestic goods. The latest development of the many Eu- ropean schemes to obtain commercial and politi- cal influence in the Pacific, is the lecture de- livered a short time ago in England by Captain Pim, of the British navy, formerly known as an Arctic navigator, but of late years an explorer in Central America, with a view to establish a connection between the Pacific and Atlantio, to be used for European interest in opposition to the Panama route controlled by the United States. This question of a new transit route has been long agitated by European nations. Napoleon had a pet scheme of a ship canal across Nicaragua, which he concocted while in the fortress of Ham. Many years later. it will be remembered, he sent out the little diplomat, Monsieur Felix Belly, to make examinations in Central America, but his labors did not amount to anything practical. The principal difficul- ties in the way of s transit route in this direc- tion have been found in the disturbed condition of Nicaragua and the neighboring States. But, according to the statements of Captain Pim, he has at length secured—after many years of patient labor and frequent visits—a contract from the Congress of Nicara- gua for the right of way across that State for ninety years, as well as other advantages, such as a grant of a million and a half acres of min- eral lands, Fortified with these assurances he proposes to construct a railroad from Gor- gon Bay, on the Atlantic side, to Realejo, on the Pacific, making a connection for the present between the intermediate termini of the Atlan- tic and Pacific divisions by steamers on Lake icaragua. Starting out by showing that the Panama Railroad is a monopoly of American citizens, and is very oppressive to English intereste— not alone on the Isthmus, but on the Pacific and in the British colony of Columbia—English ecommerce being, in fact, seriously jeopardized in these quarters, he thinks that England ought to have a. road.of her own to the Pacific, and Nicaragus is just the place to construct it! Sueli a road he regards es “a stepping stone toa wonderful increase of our commerce, and ® guarantee against the surprise and disaster which at present could be inflicted on our poli- tical and commerci#l interests in the Pacific, with entire impunity, by a rival nation.” The cost of this railroad is estimated at two and « half millions sterling. The distance to be traversed is about two hundred and twenty-five miles, ninety of which is to be by water until the road is finished round the margin of the lake. Captain Pim was perplexed concerning an available port on the Atlantic ooast, the harbor of Grey- town being filled up with sand, but he slight- ed upon a little bay inclosed within Monkey Point, three miles north of Greytown, to which he gave the name of Gorgon Bay, after the ship be commanded. We believe, however, that the harbor of Greytown has since been cleared out by the San Juan river, and is now quite practicable as a place of entry for vessels. The object of Captain Pim’s lecture, we dare say, is to obtain the sanction of the British gov- ernment for this scheme. Louis Napoleon has already favored it,and would no doubt be glad to see it carried out if France could have a controlling power; but Captain Pim evident- ly desires, like a true son of Britain, that his own country should have all the advantages. Hence he appeals to the British government and British capitalists that “all may be accom- plished in the interests of England” in the great commercial batile, in which, if England is defeated, she will be “overshadowed once and forever.” He very sagely concludes that “our great rival, now that thelr war is con- cluded, will strain every nerve to beat us as a nation in the commercial race, and, as a na- tion, cateh us napping, however sharp we may be individually,” and tbat if this transit route is not constructed, England will have the pedestal she now stands on knocked from under her feet, because America is rapidly overtaking Great Britain in commercial progress, and in the year 1890, according to the present ratio of increase, will double the population of the latter coun- try and leave England nowhere; in all of which we may say that Captain Pim is entirely correct, and we thoroughly endorse his opinions upon this point. It Is evident, upon the whole, that both Eng- land and France are exceedingly uneasy, and with good reason, about the vast strides which this country is making towards commercial and political supremacy among the nations, as the present revived effort to obtain a foothold in Central America very clearly shows. The mind of the French Emperor has been directed to that end for many years. Indeed his Mexican scheme had its inception in the idea that the progress of the United States was about to re- ceive a severe check by means of the rebellion, through which he, as well as our neutral friends in England, expected to see the power and greatness of this country prostrated. And having been deceived in this expectation, they are falling back upon the plan of a transit route to the Pacific, which they can control, and thereby circumecribe, if they can, our growing influence in that ocean and in the East. Swinptixe Gurr axp Orwen Lorrents.—We have repeatedly cautioned the public, expecially the country people, against being deceived by swindling gift and other lotteries; and we have lately received communications on the subject witich Indicate that the scamps concerned in getting them up are still at their rascally work. It seems that the Southern country has lately been the scene of their operations, and that that section of the country is flooded with cir- culars offering prizes of « very attractive de- scription to those who may be indaced to invest in the schemes. One dodge is to send a circu lar to some citizen whose name bas pre- viously ascertained, suggesting how he can 66 made the recipient of a certain prize, say a few hundred dollars, on the payment of a nominal sum, generally ten dollars, All that is requir edof him is to show the prize money to his neighbors, and represent that it is the fruits of @ fortunate investment in a lottery ticket, there- by inducing his friends to invest in a similar game. This, of course, is the last the victim hears or sees of his ten dollars, and the swind- lers pocket the money. The cry against the swindling gift jewelry enterprises is universal, and the feeling is general that they ought to be suppressed and the managers served as a pro minent mock auctioneer recently was—to wit, sent to the State Prison. The Post Office detec- tives have broken up several of these concerng, but the number does not appear to diminitth— in fact, the rascals who managg them shew more and more audacity with every exposure. A swinging, wholesome example should be made of some prominent one of these swindlers, and then, perhaps, the little gift villains would cease to commit their depredations on the unwary. The Necessity of Unity in the Adminis- tration. There. is a good deal of philosophy in the trite old adage, “In unity there is strength;” and not less so in the opposite of this, that in di- vision there is weakness. We see this in 9 striking manner when applied to the adminis. tration of the government. No government ever stood long the assaults of opposition oz faction without being ruined or plunging the country into trouble when {fs executive mem- bers are not united. A hundred imatances might be adduced from history in proof of this assertion, and common sense tells us it is true. If even there be a man of strong mind and firm will at the head, the subordinates can do much mischief when acting in opposition to him. The President of the United States, for example, may be both able and determined, but if his Cabinet and other officials under him be opposed to his measures they can and will embarrass him and bring disasters upon the country. He cannot see or do everything. They, in fact, should be his eyes and hands to perceive and execute what he wills. In no other way can the executive machinery of the government work harmoniously and suc- cessfully. Now, what is the situation of President Johnson in this respect? He has members of the Cabinet and numerous subordinates hold- ing different views to his own and working against him. They not only work against him secretly, but show their hostility to his policy. This has the double effect of embarrassing him in the execution of his measures and of bring- ing the administration into contempt. ‘The people have confidece in Mr. Johnson; they appreciate his great ability, firm character and patriotic devotion to the Union and the interests of all sections; but his administration would beoome demorelized and feeble in their eyes if its members continue to pull one against the other or against him. The organ in this city of the faction opposing the President said, not long ago, that @ caucus of the radicals held in Washington had resolved that the members of the Cabinet representing thetr views should not resign. That is, they resolved to embarrass the President by keeping in those members, meaning Stanton and Harlan especially, who are hostile to his policy, or to force the responsibility upon bim of dismissing them. If he keep these Cabinet officials in they can serve the faction opposed to him, and if he dismiss them he is threatened with a more intense opposition. Never before did a faction crack the whip so impudently over a President. This did not disturb Mr. Johnson, it is true; he keeps on the even tenor of his way as coolly as ever. His convictions are too strong and his head too clear to change his policy to suit such factionists. They are only dangerous while they are near him and associated in his government. Their threats can do no harm. In every point of view, then—for the strength of his administration, for the success of his measures, for the destruction of a cabal of revolutionists, and for the purity and respect of his government— he ought to change his Cabinet, to remove those opposed to him, to make it a unit. Pierce tried to accommodate all factions in his pateh- work Cabinet, and laid the foundation of the terrible war and revolution we have passed through. Buchanan did the same, and brought on the rebellion with all its feartul conse- quences. Let President Johnson, who is am abler, purer and firmer man than these two of his predecessors, not temporize with opposition. Let him put his foot down like Jackson, and take the responsibility. He has the sagacity and nerve to do it. The people will admire his courage and patriotism, and will stand by him. In his Cabinet and subordinate officials he must have unity of sentiment and co-opera- tion. In this lie strength and success; in amy other course weakness, 5 Me Joun Mrrows. uy 4 New Puase.--John has appeared from time to time in a variety of characters. He has worn costumes of many hues, and figured in innumerable réles in the great political drama of the last twenty years. When he was in the North he pitched in for the institution of the South, and languished for plantation and a stock of niggers. When he went South he got neither the plantation nor the negroes, but he took up the literary cudgel for the rebellion. When that scheme failed he came North again, but was soon transferred to the sacred soil of Virginia, where he graduated in Fortress Monroe, and since that time he bas been very steady and sedate—so much so that his letters from Paris are so tame that they are not worth reading. His eloquence appears to have deserted him, and his wonted fires to have gone out. If Mitchel is a*seoret agent of the Fenians at the Court of Napoleon that might ‘account for his dealing so tenderly with French affairs, and his conversion to the opinion that the press of France is quite as free as is good for the French people. A Rapicat Ficrtox—A story has been going the rounds of the radical press to the effect that before the passage of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill it had been read to the President by Senator Trumbull mm the presence of (eral Howard, and that the President had then agreed to it, and expressed his intention to sign it. This whole story, so evidently false om its face, is simply @ radical coinage, though the meaner portion of the radical press adheres to its fiction spite of denial. We are able to declare positively that General Howard never was present on any such occasion, and that the President never told him be would sign the bild : “