The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT.; NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR R OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash inadvance. Money sent by mail will be aithe risk ofthe sender, None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, is per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. ‘The Kcrorkax Epmtox, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, 4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postaze. ‘The CauvoRnta Eprriox, on the Ist, 11th and 2st of each month, at Six cents per copy, or $3 per apnum. Four AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. near Broome BROADWAY THEATRE, | Broadway, atreet.— Tun Vicrins—Forte WINKS. LUCY RUSHTON'S NEW YORK THEATRE Now 728 ana 73) Broadway.—Domistaue, THe DesknTer—Tu x AP- POINTMENT. 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ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, ements for the Wrexty Urrarp must be handed 1 o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, rehants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the ys increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in the Weexty Hrranp wiil thus be seen by a large { the active aud energetic people of the United ube: TH NEaws. CONGRESS. Jn sue senate yesterday the Military Academy Appro- priation bill was reported from the Finance Committee, with amendments striking out the proviso prohibiung the payrvent of money in violation of the oath of office act of 1862, and the cadets appointed since January last from States lately in rebellion. A resolution appro- priating twonty-five thousand dollars for the re- lief of destitute negroes in the District of Cotumbia was introduced, and, after considerable dette, ‘ “1 by thirty-three to five. Mr. Saulsbury offered nt giving the same amount to the poor \ was rejected, The Naval Appropriation Will was passed, as was alsa, after some discussion, the bill to amend the acts relative to officers em- ployed ip the examination of imported merchandise at th port, The provisions of the latter will be found in fali ig our report of the proceedings. The Sonate Lkowken paceed the bille estabtishing the collec ‘on district of Port Haron and extending the district of Puget Sound, authorizing the sale of marine hospitals and revenue cutters, and empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to issue American registers to the «ian steamers Michigan and Despatch and the Amerivau built’ vessel W. RK. Mure. The remainder of the sexsion was spent in discussion of the bill grant ing Uae International Ocean Telegraph Company the » of ustablishing telegraphic ly and the West Indies, and at the adjourn « understood that a vote is to be taken on the sage of the measure to-day. In the House of Representatives the Post Office Appro: whit peiation bill, the Executive, Legislative ana Judicial Appropriation bill, and the Dill to amend the act of March & 1863, relating to the habeas corpus, and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases, were all pe On the Habeas Corpus bill, one of the objects of which is to protect any officers aalnst civil proseention for acts done in the course of duity while engaged in suppressing the rebellion, there was anextended debate, it being strongly opposed by some of the democratic members, The vote on it, h was strictly a party one, was one hundred twelve yeas to thirty-one mays, A bill sab ng non-interest bearing Treasury notes to State and picipal taxation was reported from the Way» and amittee, and gave rise to much disenssion, on of which recommitted and be printed. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill wae debated for some time in ‘wmmittce of the Whole, and then wid over till to \ micskage was received from the President, er to a resolution ot inquiry, accompanied by a rt of the Secretary of War relative to the numeric wth of the army, showing, among many other { interest, that on the 9th of January last wi ne Ce it was were over one hundred and fifty-two thou send men in the military service of th niry. Mr. Wingham, of the Reconstruction Comiittee, in response to an inquiry, stated that the measure reported some time ago from that cominittee tu regard to the Tennessee representatives would be np for a vote very soon, A resolution instract tary Committee to report on the propriety of xcraphical naps ¢ battle tlelds of the ed, A resoluth thanks to Gene ras n Granger and Garfield wae referred to the Miltary Committer, The Senate resolution r garding the transportation to thir y from Rurope of erin wale was tend twite® and referred to the Foreign Atkins MEXICO. arlicle giving a comprehensive view of Megiean afore in vt Vepect, Which appears tm our “ this morning, w 1 great interest as it doos, some artiiog facts and figtres regarding Louie Napoleon pecntation in Mexioo, anda statement of the © expend tures and government indely under republican and imperial rate, Ib shows that while twelve millions of dollars war the yearly amount r : to catty on the republic, t 1 expenditures of imper.al rhment are forty nine millions that the foreign debt of Mexico, which at the time of the invasion Ww eighty -« tions, bas risen under Maximilian to two hundred and seventy millions The French claims againet the M ablic Were lev than the me of a t the empite red mmittions of Aoliars t of the they are now nearly tw An account is given ee tore and confiecaty perial authorities of riean schooner W Crawford, and the finin atof her master because some powder war found on board the vessel ‘The master's sentence was t was pardoned by the Empres isal_ correspond n that port by the M the Aw Lipa yeare’ penal labor, ont he Immediately after re gaining his liberty, however, he was once wore artested aud sentenced to pays fine of five handred d which he avoided liquidating by secretly leaving the country, THE FENIANS. Tho excitement and the military sitoation along the Canadian border are well deseribed im oor Torome snd Ogdensburg despatches, The entire froniier tx pieketed by provincial voluntecrs, while heavy detachments ore | held in reserve at all the chief towne and principa: strategic” points, and the people are quite ax con ie to be invaded by is also entertained regarding Fenian sympathizers in their midst, No relaxation has taken place in the de- fensive operations, the organizing, drilling and despatch- ing to the front of troops still going on energetically, though there is yet no sign that any attack is to be made, The citizens and soldiery at Prescott, a town on the Canadian side of the St — ite densburg, were thrown into @ on een Se night by musketry fring being heard and rockets seen on the American shore. the little town was in a great state of excitement, troops were in motion, and the guns of Fort Wellington opened ‘on nothing. It is yet unascertained whether the rockets and the musketry firing were the work of Fenians or jokers, Ogdensburg is regarded as a prospective Fenian rendezvous, dn account of the natural and artificial facilities offered by the coun+ try opposite for penetrating Canada and cutting it in two, The commander of Fort Wellington has therefore trained his guns on the American shore, to repel ‘the first attempt at an armed crossing, and an American revenue cutter ties at one of the Ogdensburg docks, ready to respond if hostile shots should be sent over to our territory by the British, The French Cana- dians, many of whom sympathize with the anticipated Fenian invasion, are said to be coming over to this country to settle in large numbers. Very little apprehension is said to be entertained in official circles in Washington that the Fenians will attempt the invasion of Canada, No act of belligerency on the part of the Brotherhood which would justify in- terference by our government has yet come to its knowledge. The Central Council of the Fenians remained in secret session at the Union square headquarters yesterday; bat nothing could be learned of their proceedings. Prepara- tions on an extensive scale were made last evening by the Fenian Sisterhood, at u meeting in their rooms in the Moffat Mansion, for the relief of the families of the Irish State prisoners. ‘The Louisiana State Convention of Fenians has resolved to collect funds and keep them ir the State until the Sweeny and O'Mahony wings sball submit an exhibit of their plans, on receipt of which the convention is to re- assemble and tender aid to the most feasible project. THE LEGISLATURE. The Senate yesterday passed the bills authorizing our City Comptroller to borrow money for the use of the Metropolitan Fire Department, to clos? Ninety-ninth, 100th and 101st streets, between Third and Fourth ave- nues, appropriating one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to continue the improvement of Hudson river navigation, and permitting the Oswego and Rome Rail- road Company to issue seventy thousand dollars worth of preferred stock, Bills were introduced to provide for paying those members of the Metropolitan police assigned to duty in Richmond county, and to incorporate the Commercial Navigation Company of the State and the Assoviation of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America, The bills providing additional relief for sick and destitute soldiers and for the improvement of the lands in the vicinity of Wallabout Bay were, among others, ordered to third reading. There was considera- ble discussion, withont any decisive action, of the bill requiring taxpayers to make annual sworn statements of their real and personal property. The Assembly passed the bills to facilitate the con- struction of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, amending the act for the incorporation of life and health insurance companies, authorizing special meetings of boards of supervisors, und to incorporate the Brooklyn Mutual Gaslight Company, The Niagara Frontior bill was under consideration for some time in Commiltee of the Whole, and was afterwards made the special order for to-morrow forenoon. A report was submitted by the minority of the Committee on the Consus and Apportion- ment in favor of giving Kings county tensmembers of Assembly and Ontario county only one member, the majority report allowing the former county only nine and the latter two. THE CITY. The Aldermanic Committee on Lands and Paces met yesterday to hear arguments for and against the proposed conversion of the City Hall Park into an open paved plaza, The only gentlemen appearing were two im opposition tothe project, and the committee, therefor, adjourned a further hearing till next Tuesday afternoon. ‘The Court House investigation was Drought toa close yesterday, so far as the evidence was concerned. The points proved were of little importance, and the com- mittee adjourned to Monday next to hear the summing up of counsel, A report of the proceedings appears in our Supplement sheet, ‘The Metropolitan Health Commissioners held a meot- ing yesterday afternoon, whon the committee appointed to coufer with the butchers presented their report, which was laid over tor future considera.ion, Details of the matter are furnished in our Supplement. A communi- cation was received from the Mayor of Hoboken, com- plaining of the offal thrown into the river on the New York side, and praying for an abatement of the nui- ance, aa it continually floated over to the Jersey shore, ‘Yhe Board will visit Washington Market, this morning for the purpose of ascertaining its true condition. ‘The argument on a motion for the removal of the re- ceivers of the Columbian Insurance Company was con- tinued yesterday before Judge G. G. Barnard, in the Su prome Court, Chambers. After hearing counsel on both sides Judge Barnard reserved bis decision. Judge James has delivered an opinion denying the motion for an injunction to restrain Mr. Edward Mat- thews, owner of the City Assembly Rooms, from tearing down the rains of his premises, lately destroyed by tire, This motion being made on bebalf of the tenants of Mr. Matthews, the opmion is of some importance as relates to the rights of those parties in connection with their landlord. Reports of this aud other law cases are given iu our Supplement sheet. Suits against railroad companies for injuries sustained while riding Im their cars are daily becoming more numerous orday, in the Supreme Court, a former conductor of the Grand and Forty-secoud streets line re- covered # vordict for one hundred dotlars in an action against the Park and North and East Rivers Railroad Company for injuries alleged to have been caused by one of defendants’ care ranning mto that on whieh plaintiff was engaged ax condnetor, the poe striking him and knocking him to the ground, ‘The trial of Theodore Yates for the murder of police. man Curran, in October, 1864, was continued yesterday n the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in Brooklyn, Con- siderable evidence for the provecation was taken; bat it is merely @ repetition of tbat adduced on the former trial, and excites litte interest. The case will be con tinued to-day. 'A meeting of the journeymen concumakers was held ut 267 Bowery last evening, when the eight hour system of labor was discussed, and also the propriety of de manding a nniform rate of wages, and it was determined that steps sbould be taken to secure both these objects, ‘The honee painters of Brooklyn are on « “strike,” They have heretofore received three dollars per day, and now demand three doliars and a half, some of the employers have acceded to the demand; bat others are holding oat against it, surrogate Tueker has admitted to probate the enntested will of Charles Scholl, deceased. The proceedings to set aside Jettors of administration on the estate of Irwin | Acken have been dismissed, A commission has heen ordered to take evidence in North Carolina as to the alleged will of Benjamin Hallett, deceased. ‘The inquest into the cause of the death of James Col. Lins, the jeweller, who was fuond ina dying condition | snout two weeks sinee in his store, in Brooklya, ED. ath wae caused by injuries received at the ome unknown person. The steamehp Morro Castle, ander the commend of Captain Adwine, will sail today at three I M. for Hayava from plier No. 4 North river The stock market was strong and active yesterday. Governments were dull Gold closed at 128%4 a 125', Huciness yesterday wae cortailed, the markets were uneettio’, aud prices were rendered nominal by the deprosion in the gold market, and the mer- chante were all cat cea"? with regard to the vatue of goods There ww: very little inclination to do business, and but very little was done, excepting im eotion, for whieh there war quite an active demand for export; Groceries were quiet, Petroteam eh four and wheat were Lard was heavy. ni but prices were weak wae dott and notulne! lower, Corn and pork were tem | Whiskey wax nominal MISCELLANEOUS. By the ari in thie city of oar foreign files by the steamship Peruvian at Portland we have intelligence of | che ettmet produced in Burope by President Johnson's ateat speech at Washington on the 224 of February. This effect wae very remarkable, as will be seen from the etiracts published in oar Supplement thie morning The fidemt that their territory London Time remarks: «We cannot withhold our ad the Fenians ae they Ha pe the inva: | miration from the jon taken up by Mr Johneom, pounce army wes wseede fronting ©, Stich fear! apd vie manly Giewr STH which ne majotaine te” tb jay, When the jury rendered a ver. | says that the President, if any man ever did, ‘occupies nobly and worthily a great historic position,” adding that “the destinies of millions of the human race de- pend upon him, and he rises fully to the height of the occasion.”” The other English journals, with the excep- tion of the insignificant few devoted to negro worship, speak in similarly oulogistic terms of the President's The Republican Convention of Rhode Island yesterday nominated General Ambrose E. Burnside for Governor by acclamation, and William Greene for Lieutenant Gov- ernor, In view of the dissensions existing in the party no platform resolutions were adopted. The democracy of Rhode Island will hold their con- vention in Providence to-day. The President has signed the bill recently passed by Congress in reference to the Court of Claims, which, among other things, repeals that section of an old law Prohibiting the payment out of the national treasury of money for any claim passed upon by the court until after an appropriation therefor shall be estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury. General Spinner, the national Treasurer, has taken part in the financial differences between Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch and Comptroller of the Currency Clarke, and ina letter which we publish this morning maintains the correctness of the former's statements re- garding the amount of government funds on hand. Hudson river navigation is now opon, and will proba- bly not be again closed during this spring, though there 4s still some ice in the stream. The steamers have re- sumed their trips between this city and Albany, the St. Jobn and the Erastus Corning, hence on Monday night, going through, and the propeller John Taylor arriving here from Albany yesterday morning. A man named King, arrested in Louisville on charge of theft, has stated that he is the man who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward, and that Payne was inno- cent of the crime. A young lady named Mary Filen Kearney was shot dead in the doorway of her father’s house in Roxbury, bs Monday evening, by John Moran, a rejected lover, The Schleswig-Holstein Question—Ger- man Unity. The Schleswig-Holstein question is agitated between Austria and Prussia, and there is some little apprehension that it may disturb the peace of Europe. So far as respects the mere possession of the duchies the question is not important beyond their limits. It will mat- ter but little to the world at large who rules in those small States—whether it be Denmark, as it has been for so long a period; whether it be Prussia, as the people themselyes desire, or whether Austria shall hold certain rights there till Prussia shall be pleased to buy her out. But the question of the duchies has an intimate relation with the other and far grander ques- tion of German unity, and in that respect it is important. It is this relation of the subject that makes Austria disinclined to give way. It is this seductive aspect of the question that in- spirits Prussia to insist. It is in its relation to German unity only that the question of the duchies is worthy the notice of the other great Powers, ever looking jealously on, and always ready to put themselves in the way of any ten- dencies that may lead to the union of the great people so infinitely divided. Which shall be the great, preponderating Power in Germany? Around whose throne shall be gathered, in some common bond of unity, the great people that ought to exer- cise @ controlling influence in the destinies of Europe? This is the question for Austria and Prussia and for the German people. Political unity, the accretion of all the small States on some great one, is the grand, rational idea of German politics—the aspiration of the people; and Prussia is disposed to show that her sym- pathies with this idea are active, earnest, prac- tical. She desires to demonstrate that she is the true German Power, in so far as she is moved by the German mind. Her hunger for aggrandizement and dominion is doubtless what it has always been since little Branden- burg began to be Prussia, and was carried up to the proportions of a great European State by the genius of Fasher Fritz. But undoubt- edly the duchies are far less to her as mere territory than as German territory—as an earnest of grander acquisitions in the future. | | | Schleswig and Holstein, though together an appanage of the Danish crown through all their history, are yet German. The wishes of the people naturally lead them to prefer associ- ation with « German Power, and they would be Prussian by choice. The position of Prus- sia in relation to them, while it will add to her possessions a district inhabited by a million per- sons, the vast majority of whom use the German language, will also increase her power and in- fluence throughout the rest of Germany as the true champion of the German-speaking people. And that is the fear of Austria; for as Prus- sian influence grows Austrian decreases. Austria cares very little for any part of the territory taken from Denmark, and would not fight for a mile of it. She would much rather have the money that Prussia might give for the abandonment of her claims ; but she hesitates to assist by her own acts the tendency, already sufficiently great, of all Germany toward Prussia, There is a material difference in the com- position of the two great Powers that is all in favor of Prussia. Her people are one, apd national, because all German. Austria is a political mosaic, and is only German in the least part of her dominions. She is made up ot Hungary, Transylvania, Illyria, Venetia, Tyrol, Bohemia, and to true Germany she is a foreign Power. This is not only against her morally, but physically; for hostility to the central power in all the parts of her empire is a weakness she can never ignore. Having nominally a very large army, she has practi- cally a very small one, because the larger part of her force must necessarily be employed to keep down the people already subject to ber rule. Prossia, with a smaller army and a’ na- tional, patriotic people, is, therefore, greatly her superior; and this fact alone will avert war. Austria will not, because she cannot, fight. She must look on and see her power wane in Western Europe, and content herself with aggrandizement down the Danube, and with pushing her frontier at the expense of the Turk, if Russia will consent. Prussia has a grand field open to her, and her present bold Minister, acting wisely, may | hecome the giant of European politics, He | cannot do so by shutting up a representative chamber and sending the deputies home; but | if be will pat his government more actively than ever in sympathy with the political aspira- tions of Germany; if he will go with and rightly direct the German sentiment, whichts revolutionary only so far as it hates the present pitiful king system of German States, he will make Prussia the head of a nation second to none in Europe, and will preside at the birth of a Power far greater than any other on the Continent, It will then matter very little what reference to Germany may be made in French addresses. Germany united would be well able to stand along against all foreign aggres- sion; nor need united Germany ever foar 4 domestic rans Secretary McCulloch and Comptroller Clarke—The Propricties of Official Life. Mr. Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Cur- rency, discusses financial questions with the Secretary of the Treasury in the public prints, Making a spread-eagle display of “in- dependence of judgment,” and “freedom of action”—things understood to be dear to the average American heart—he declares to the man whose subordinate he is, “I do notseeany impropriety in my giving publicity to my dis- sent from your views of public financial policy.” That a man intelligent enough to fill such a position creditably should not be able to see the impropriety, the indelicacy, the offensive- ness of such a course, is due to a want of manly tone in official life—to a low state of official morality. Under our system the confidence of the country is intrusted to one man in each necessary department of government. While any man is Secretary of the Treasury or head of any other department his views of public neceasity must prevail, and, when they are not satisfactory, means are generally found to make the place so hot that any man with a sense of personal dignity and decent self-respect will leave it. There is and can be but one pos- sible understanding in relation to subordinates in these departments. Assent to the thoughts of their chief and earnest endeavor to carry out his ideas are assumed as necessities of the po- sition. It is not contemplated that any one in a department should differ with its head and retain his place. It is true any man may differ from another and believe his plans to be wrong, and not be willing to lend himself to the propa- gation of plans that he supposes to be mis- chievous, There can be no proper or honora- bié escape from such a difficulty but the resig- nation of the post that imposes duties which violate our sense of right. Ifa subordinate differs from his chief, and still executes the poli- cy of that chief, he docs violence to his own sense of right; while, if he refuses to execute that policy, he embarrasses the business of his position, and the publicservice suffers. Resig- nation furnishes an easy escape from his dilemma, and it is not to be supposed that any man is so attached to office or salary that he would hold the one or draw the other while these acts required him to do violence to his conscience, or when his services had ceased to be valuable to the community. There was formerly « better tone in public life on this subject. With our British ances- tors, with the generations that framed the con- stitution and first lived under it, this was not so mucha matter of official courtesy as it was an absolute point of honor. Men had not then that tenacity of office that induced them to hold it at the expense of public obloquy. It would have been considered a disgrace to hold posi- tion under a man and oppose his policy; while to bicker and dispute publicly over the busi- ness of the department would have been to forteit the last respect of the community. But now the subordinate sees “no impropriety in giving pubHcity to his dissent” from the policy of his superior. It is not a favorable sign for official delicacy, for that nicety of honor that men once carried with them even into office, when they no longer resign position, but require to be driven from it; when, to use the fashionable cant, they want to throw the responsibility on some one else. Such a responsibility ought to be taken with- out hesitation, if for no other purpose than to fill public places with another class of men. A Disoracervt Srecraciz.—The Senate of the United States, which ought to be a body distinguished for its dignity and high sense of propriety, has for secretary a political dema- gogue who daily abuses the President of the United States in the coarsest language. This man, it is well known, is the editor of, or con- trols, two newspapers—one in Washington and one in Philadelphia, He makes these the chan- nels through which he vents his spleen upon the chief of the nation. This is a sad commen- iary on the times, and shows the demoralizing revolutionary spirit that is abfoad, and that has even penetrated the Senate. It is a step to- ward the orgies of the Jacobin Convention of France. The appointment of this man to the respectable position of Secretary of the Senate, looking at his history, was remarkable, and showed how low that great body had fallen from its former high character. But it is posi- tively disgraceful for the Senate to retain him, now that he is daily pouring out coarse abuse upon the President. A decent respect from one co-ordinate branch of the government is due to another. That is the way to make gov- ernment respectable in the eyes of the people. But for the Senate—that dignified body of the nation, which is a part of the executive, and holds a particular relation to the President—to tolerate such conduct is inexcusable. The Senate, out of respect to itself as well as to the President, ought to dismiss him at once. Nursed into political existence by that weak and scheming old copperhead politician Bu- chanan, whom he betrayed, he has belonged to all parties, and is ready to belong to any party to serve bis ends. It is high time such Northern demagogues were squelched, as the Southern ones have been, Let these Northern Marplot politicians be put down, as their old, mischievous companions of the South bave been. At least, let not the Senate of the United States keep this one, the worst of all, in the high office he holds. If he will follow his mischievous instinets and throw bis venom upon the chief of the nation, let not the Senate sanction it by any connection with him. Tur Gas Monopouies ov THR Crry.—We have frequently had occasion to rebuke the city cor- | poration for corrupt practices. These have bgen flagrant and notorious, and a remedy is about being applied by the Legislature. But another evil is permitted to prevail here which equally demands legislative action and effectual eradi- cation. We allude to the gas companies. These companies are carried on ander State charters, and with the growth of the city have become monopolies of the most oppressive and offensive kind. The corporation jobs we have referred to are only paralleled in iniquity by the ex- travagant and extortionate demands of the gas companies of the city. These companies are all rich, and instead of being accommodating and reasonable with those who made them so they are arrogant, selfish and insolent. Their stock is above par, and so is their standard of extortion with customers. They have their own method of computing the amount of gas con- snined, their own way of making out bills, and bat one way of collecting them. Consumers are practically at the mercy of these gas extor- tioners. If they dispute a bill out goes their light, and, unless they have the resources to be indanoadent. they are Snally obliged t euc- cumb to the fiat of these grasping dispensers of light. Who ever heard of a gas consumer express surprise at the moderation of a gas bill? We will venture to say that such a person could scarcely be found in the city; and if he could, he would prove to be a creature, in some man- ner or other, of some one of the gas corpora- tions. These things should not be tolerated in any community, and the Legislature could not do a wiser thing than to prohibit the unconscion- able extortion practised by the gas monopolies of this city. Therefrom might flow legislation for another great good to the city, and which should be brought to the immediate attention of the new Board of Health. We mean the nuisances that exist wherever gas works are constructed, These sources of ill health, the resulta of foul atmosphere, improper conduits and general neglect and indifference of the gas companies for the people in the neighborhood where their works are located, afford sufficient grounds for legislative action. Our citizens should continue to send in their petitions to the Legislature on all matters looking to a reform in the operations of the gas companies in this and adjoining cities. Coxaress anp Bustvess—The dry goods trade is at a standstill. A crash is impend- ing. Imported goods, ordered long ago in anticipation of an immense spring trade, are pouring in upon our merchants; but no goods are sold. What is the reason of this stoppage in business? It is the radicalism of Congress. Our merchants counted upon a large influx of buyers from the South as soon as the war was over and the Union restored. The war is over; but Congress persists in keeping the South out of the Union. Consequently there is no Southern trade, The Western merchants ar rive here, look about, see no business doing, no rivalry, no competition, and conclude that they will wait a while before purchas- ing “until things get settled.” There is now no sale for the goods produced by our manufactories, Presently the manufactories will have to stop work. Then we shall see thousands of people thrown out of employ- ment, starvation staring them in the face, their children crying for food. Riots will follow, and perhaps a revolution. Why is all this? Not because of the high price of gold, for gold is lower than at any time during the war. Not be- cause of the tariff, for that has not been changed since the war. No; it is because a few dozen radicals in Congress have made up their minds to ruin the country or carry the next Presiden- tial election by negro votes or by the exclu- sion of all votes from the South. It is because another rebellion, more wicked than the last, is tugging at the vitals of the nation. It is be- cause afew men at Washington prefer their psrty to their country. Let the people mark them well and remember them in future. Peppiina Financiers mw Conaress.—Every day gentlemen rise in their places in Congress and endeavor to enlighten the house upon the finances of the country, whereas these mem- bers are totally ignorant of everything con- nected with finance. They talk wildly about the relative value of specie and currency, and attempt to tinker legislation so as to return to immediate specie payments, without any regard to the effect of such a measure upon the com- mercial interesta of the country, or without knowing that the thing is an impossibility. A radical journal in this city, which is always riding some hobby or another, endorses these absurd arguments in Congress. This journal bas already ridden its favorite hobby, slavery, to death. It appears now to be in search of « fresh one, and finance has been hit upon. The finance p<dlers in Congress do not seem to know that this question is quictly settling itself. Gold is gradually coming down, and its decline cannot be forced by indiscreet legislation. The general commerce of the country is at a stand- still, owing to the course pursued by the radi- cals in Congress. It is the reconstraction of the South that is needed to restore its original vi- tality, and not any peddling legislation with the questions of currency and gold. If mem- bers of Congress would only understand this all the difficulties connected with the currency question would soon be settled, and the public would be spared the perpetual display of igno- rance and folly to which they are treated from day to day in the Congressional proceedings. Cnotena 1s Crries.—The vigor and energy displayed by the new Health Board insure u that this metropolis will be placed in a condi- tion to stay the ravages of the cholera. But while they, with the assistance of proper quaran- tine regulations, may prevent its introduction in this country by this port, this is not sufficient. They will be perfectly powerless to prevent that scourge being brought here by the rail- roads from other cities.. It is important, there- fore, that adequate measures should be pro- vided at all other seaboard cities, such as Port- land, Boston and Baltimore, to prevent its out- break there. There is a direct trade between all of those cities and the West Indies, and, more or less, with European ports. When once brought to those points it will be easy to con- vey the infection to this city by rail, and there is no power in our Board of Health to prevent it. We trast that the anthorities in all of those cities will take immediate steps to provide against this contingency, and set their houses in order to prevent its breaking out or impor- tation from other countries into those places. Action in time will prevent « large amount of suffering and go 4 great way to arrest the calamities of this scourge. Leorstative Apportionment Bit.—We no- tice that the committee in the State Assembly which bad the apportionment ot the members for that body has made a report. The increase in the population in this city secures us an in- crease of representatives. This city will have in the next Legislature twenty instead of seven- twen representatives as now, while Brooklyn will have nine, or (wo more than its present num- ber. Nothing is «aid in our Albany despatches in reference to the Senatorial representation ; but the increase in that branch of the Legisia- tare for this city must natarally be in a like proportion, which will secure us five Senators. While the population in this metropolis has increased sufficiently to bring abeut this resnit, many of the counties in the interior have fallen off, and their number of members decreased. in like proportion. Thus every enumeration of inhabitants reveals great pro- gress in this city both in population and wealth, and increases ita voice in the State and National Legislatures, by Apvice To TH Canapians.—Cense soldiering; go home; take off your uniforms; attend to your business, pad eure your colds in the head. sss... You are fighting shadows. There is no such thing ass Fenian army. On the night of St Patrick’s Dey, when you imagined General Sweeny to be heading an army of invasion, he was dining sociably st one of our restaurants, Follow his example. Keep ewsy from the border, and leave the Fenians to Stephens and O’Mahony. BHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Assemblage of the Delegates at Provi- dence—Harmonizing the Two Wings of the Party—General Burnside Unani- mously Neminated for GovernersWil- Mam Greene Nominated for Lieutenant Governor, d&c, OUR PROVIDENCE DRSPATCHES. Provipence, March 20, 1868. The delegates of the republican party in Rhode (sland, tothe number of about one hundred, assemnled in the dingy State House here to-day to initiate the political campaign by the nomination of Stato officor. This, it seems, was the only purpose for which the Convention ‘was convened, for it made the nominations, and, unlike most gatberings, dissolved without adopting of attempting to adopt any form of a platform. There has of late been a threatened disruption of the Tepublican party in this State, one clique constituting the foliowers of Senator Sprague and the other clique being known as the Smith party, or the supporters of the present Governor, Mr. Smith. Both Sprague and Smith are wealthy, and possess much influence in political matters in the State, and being divided there seomed to be a chance for the democrats to step in and carry the day. With this danger staring them in the face it was found expedient among tho two republican wings of the party to compromise in the matter of giving the minor State offices, and this was done. Governor Smith hoped for a renoiiiimiion, but seeing that the honor was likely to fall on General Burnside, the Governor withdrew from the contest in his favor, and the nomination of General Burnside was of course unanimous. ‘The Convention was organized by the choice of E. Wouden, of Westerly, for President, and Elias M. Jouks, of Woonsocket, and George W, Danielson, of Provideace, for Secretaries, After an hour or two of wrangling about admitting cer- tain delegations the President of the Convention sa.d:— We have met, I trast, to do honor to one of our most distinguished and honored fellow citizens; and as the State 1s to be, I hope, reciprocally honored by his accept- ance of the position to which it is in our power to asaign him, I fee! I am doubly honored. The harmony and good feoling which has appeared to prevail im the organization of this Convention appears to me to be auspicious of a better feeling and more harmony in the national Union party of Rhode Island. I hope hereafter that all local contentions and all personal feelings and personal contentions in the ranks of our own party will be laid aside and the attention of the party will be turned to the great national questions upon which we shall soon be called to act. On motion of H. H. Day, of Ne’ Burnside was then nominated for Governor by acclama- tion and the action was followed by vociferous applause. Benoni Carpenter, who was prompt to second the Gene- ral’s nomination, said that if there were any differences in Rnode Island it was now the best time to harmonize those differences, that the party act with one thought, one idea, one mind, one purpose. The name that has been suggested is well known to all. We knew him at Bull Run, where, had he been sustained, he would have been victorious, as he would also have been burg. We have seen him everywhere the fame indefatigable man, ‘He is the man of all others who can unite the republican party of Rhod» Island. There was then cousiderable of a squabble for the Lientenant Governorship, the contest being chiefly be- tween General Lyman B. Friese, of Providence, and Wil liam Groene, of Warwick. Mr. Greene got the nomina tion after several ballots, and the rest of the ticket was made up by the nomination of Joba R. Bartlett, of Provi- dence, for Secretary of State; Horatio Rogers, ol Provi- dence, for Attorney General, and Goorge W. Tew, of New- port, for General Treasurer, As bofore stated, there were no resolutions presented, but the nomination for Governor was endorsed by the firing of several salutes im difierent parts of the city. ‘To-morrow the democrats will have a convention. , Major General THE MATINRES TO-DAY. Very brilliant and entertaining performances have been arranged for this (Wednesday) afternoon at some of the best houses im this city and Brooklyn, as will be seen by reference to the advertising columns of the Bera, At Wood's theatro, Broadway, East Iynne, or the Klopement, will be played at » grand matinee; Miss Lu cille Western sustaining her original and unequalled personation of Lady isabel and Madame Vine. She will be supported by Str. Barton Hilland the numerous and. talented company engaged at Wood's. The performances: commence at half-past one o'clock. Tony Pastor's matinee commences at half-past twe o'clock, at his Opera House, in the Bowery. Ireland ia 1866, or the Dark Hour Before the Dawn, will be per- formed with fine effect. Tony Pastor will sing his new song, “The Canadian Scare, or the Fenian Yankee Doodles.”’ William Carleton will bring forward his new specialties, and The Bolle of the Village is beautiful aw ever. THE SAN PRANCISCO MINSTRELS IN HROOKLYN. The San Francisco Minstrels of thix city give a gran@ matinee at the Brooklyn Atheneum to-day, commencing at two o'clock. The entertainment will be # fine affair, aud prove a great accommodation to crowds of ladies and children in the sister city, The talented and well knowm performers, Birch, Wambold, Bernard and Backus, will be on the boards in all their glory. Ratlroad © y- ACTION EY A CONDUCTOR OF THE GRAND AND FORTY-SRCOND STREET LINE AGAINST THE CEN- TRAL PARK, NORTH AND EAST RIVER BAILROAD COMPANY. SUPREME CooRT, crroviT—rarT 1. Before Judge James. Manon 20.—Henry H. Linley va. The Central Park, North and Kast Rewer Railroad Company —The plan in this action was formerly a conductor employed by the Grand and Forty-second Street Railroad Company, and claimed to have received injuries from one of the cars of defendants under the following circumstances :—On the 6th of August, 1865, plainti, while coming down Tenih avenue in charge of bis car, stopped between Thirty fourth and Thirty-fifth streets for the purpose of taking on some lady passengers. Behind him some eighteen or twenty yards was acarof the defendants Instead of putting on the brakes, the latter car, as it was alleged, came rapidly up and struck the former, the pole going through the dashboard and striking Oy gr knock: ing him into the street. On the stand Mr, Linley swore that he received serious injuries, and has since fre- quently thrown up a quantity of blood. Carelessnes on the part of plaintiff’ was set up in defence. After several witnesses bad been examined and a charge from Judge James, which clearly’ laid down the law governing such cases, the jury retired, and soon after brought ins verdict for plaintif, assessing the damages at $100. Mesere. Tugwell and Slocum for plaintiff; Mr. Vander- poel for defendant Supposed CONFESSION OF & PRISONER IN 1 KKPRESENTS HIMSELY AX THR WOULD RR ASSAM SIN OF SECRETARY SRWAKD. Louwvnie, Ky., March 20, 1806 A man named King, arrested « few days ago [ors theft recently committed in Ohio, and awaiting in jai & requisition from the Governor of Ohio, 60% femsed to Harrie, os recently confined goverm ment detective, that he (King), and not Paya was the man who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward. Thix confession being repeated to General Jef © Davis, who temporarily commands this departmert, the latter telegraphed to Washin for the parties #20 were acquainted with the facts of the assassination tam spiracy to come and investigate the affair, King (* identified bere ax a rebel spy during the rebellion. The Fenians in Philade! PimtapeLruts, A large and enthusiastic meeting of nationality was held at Sansom Street Hall to night, and was addressed by & J. Meany and Major J. & Haggerty, of New York. The excitement of the audience was especially aroused by reading of # telegraph despatch tw Mr. from General B, F. Mullen, stating that Ireland had just arrived and that all was fine and safe at home. Mr. Meany assured bie hearers that this deapatch from General Mulien meant work. Major Haggerty 4e- manded immediate aid for Stephens Irish bouds were liberally mubseribed for. sber) Marder in Ro oy Taree 20, 19868 dead last evening in the Roxbury, by John Mo- company, but Moran's ther of the young ¥o- alleged mur Elien Kearney war shot of her father’s house, in 6 partien tad been keepi character bei weet mad ididen him t ora cared parrendered Himaeit to the police thie morning ‘Another cause for shooting the young woman is the statement ‘sccidentally Ioarned the contents of @ Site trees e men unenee Mallory iv Philadelphia, writ ton to Moran, announditik that the man the rroted: had died of his i and cautioning him (Moran) to keep out of the way. It is said that Moran was recently in Philadetpbia Movement ‘of the Ste Death of Professor Charles Beek. March 20, 1 Dootar, ‘Beok, a woceen formerly a professor in hie residence « =