The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Orrick N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS APTERNOON AND EVENING, THEATRE, Brovdway, near Broome Ds BROADWAY Vietims—Forty Wives. Matinee at 1OTIMS. LUCY RUSHPON’S NEW YORK THEATRE. Nos. 728 ana 730 Broadway.—Dominigus, tue Deseatex—Tux Ar- POLNTMENT, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Holel—Bast LYNNE. ACADEMY OF M ing place—Lxs Exyrns (THEATRE FRANCAYS), Irv. ARIS. Irving Place.—Pu CADEM MUSIC, sic Ree ACADEMY OF MUSII pchuesie _F MPARSAL OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Counven Bawy; or, TH% BULDES OF GARRYOWEN. +E CHRISTY’S-OLp ScHooL or MurNarnetsy, Musicat Guws, &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera Hi Matinee at 2 o'clock, Huxors. 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THE LOAN BILL. ‘The Loan bill, defeated on the 16th inst, and reported back with amendments, passed the House yesterday in its moditied form by a vote of 83 to 63. Under the pro- visions of this Dill, as modified, the Secretary of the ‘treasury is restricted in his efforts to return to specie payments. He cannot retire more than ten millions of the currency during the first six months elapsing after the adoption of the bill by both Houses, and not more than four millions per month thereafter. It is esti- mated that by the full exercise of this powor the Secretary can retire the entire issue of green- backs in about nine year. The bill thus pre. vents the retirement of more than eighteen oF twenty suillions during the propos ed recess of Congress, when 1ts further operation may be ertirely suspended by the two houses, if deemed advisable, With a view to such a pur- pose, perhaps, a section was introduced ix the bill requir- ing the Secretary to make a report of his operations under this bill at the commencement of the next session, The bill as thus adopted now goes for the first time to the Senate, CONGRESS. Very litte of importance was transacted in either house of Congtess yesterday other than the passage by the House of the reconsidered Loan bill. In the Senate mat- ters of loval interest only occupied the principal part of the day's session, An important bill to prevent smug- wing, the points of which are given elsewhere in our Congressional report, was introduced. The New Jersey contested seat then came up for debate and action, and a imost exciting scene ensued. The vote was taken on the adoption of the report of the committee declaring that Jobo). Stockton was entitied to the seat, and stood 21 10-20, when Mr, Sumner demanded that Mr. Mornll, who had paired of with an absent Senator, should vote. Mr. Morrii! did so, thas making the vote a tie, wifen Mr. ‘Stockton, after explaining the circumstances under whic!) Mr. Morrill had patred off, demanded that his own name be calle and, on the clerk doing so, he voted in his own favor, thus making the vote 22t021. The Chair decided the vote to be legal, aud thus Mr. Stockton be- comes & member of the Senate, In the House matters were neither so interesting nor “oimpormnt, Bills were reported looking to the gront. ing of aid to the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad and the establishment of a navy yard on the Hudson »pposite Hastings, while resolutions requesting in- formation on Indian affairs and projected barbor im. provements were presented and'referred, A bill for the relief of army officers was reported and passed. An important pension bill was reported, but uo action was taken upon it, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate at Albany yestorday there were favor- yeral important bills, among which are rizing an Increase of the capital stock of the Steamship Company; amending the charter of the New York and Brooklyn Petroloum Floating Stor. age Company ; authorizin nptrolier of New York to raise money for the pe nt in ent of the docks and slips of the city; amending t to facilitate the acquisition of lands for Croton Aquodnet parpores; the Brooklyn Dedieieney bill; the Roadon Oswego I facititate the construction of iroad, and incorporating the Brooklyn Ladies’ College, Bills were pa the New York and Brookiyn Company and the Brooklyn tu the Aseombly the Niagara Frontier Poljce bill was od aod referred to the Committee on Cities, A duced authorizing the extension of tho stage route. During the evening session n Cominittee of the Whole, disen 1! without arriving at a final vote THE SOUTH PACIFIC. we have news of interest aud in anee by The ma of th Spanieb squadron witie) had been for some time pact at sea looking for the allled feet The Villk de Madrid | and Blanen—had been stteoometul in fadt and to their cost, too-—the object of their Ancud, Island of Chiloe Th close to sin order to feet they .were 1 apon by “yon shore, armed principally with recovered from the Jost frigate Amaronae, and one of thom \vas hulled seven. teen times, while thy ner, the Hiawes, received one heavy shot below the water line, which had te plagged © two frigates steamed ae ¢ dare and fire, although at lone rw pon the Peruvian at Joan ships; bat after two hours’ wo and expending about seven hundred shot and shell hauled off, finding that the shore batterios first silenced or crippled ber be able to get inside at the ships there anchored. Thoy waited off the port nti! the noxt day, oping that the allied equadron might be in duced to come out, but as they did not, the two Spanish ships returned to Valparaiso It f Numancia was to leave at once for the spot, in order to run the batteries, and finteh the work commonced, Our correspondent at Panama gives some de the en gagement, embracing both Spanish and Chi verstons, but for full particulars we must walt patiently until the Roxt arrival, Thore te no dowbt that 1+ was quite a brisk engagement. Bolivia har jotned the alliance, oifensive and deien nive, against Hpain, thas completely closing every door against tho Spend slong the entire west const of South Americe, and leaving no point between Cape Horn fend the Equator where he har other than enemion From Peru there t# nothing but the stereotyped om Prossions that she ie ready for active war, ing the country firmly aod vkrifully fteoee more and more every day. aod insp ag) Te fq ut mich of imietest, exe Pree 1G that portion o | tse8 formeriy occupi reported that the m Panama, or the interior of the republic, there NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. dent Murillo’s message to Congress relating to existing relations with the United States. San Salvador has ratified the treaty with Spain. EUROPE. We publish in our Supplement sheet a curious debate im the French Chambers on the internal affairs of the empire, The discussion turned on paragraphs six and seven of the address—the first relating to working- men’s co-operative societies, which were spoken of as most dangerous and the second referring to French agriculture. On the latter topic much important infor- mation was élicited as to the extent to which American ‘and Russian grain enterg into the consumption of Eng- land and France, and the relative cost at French ports of -Russian and american wheat, Some curious facts were also elicited as to the manner in which ‘French pro- ducts” were swelled in the customs returns by the intro- duction as native grown of such products as cotton, which must either have been produced in America, Egypt or India, and of eight million francs worth of ostrich feathers, which, if they really were what they professed to be, “French products,” must have been extracted from the tails of six small specimens in the Garden of Acclimatization. Our correspondent at Rome, as will be seen in our Supplement sheet, gives an mteresting account of how the Americans in the Eternal City celebrated Washing- ton’s Birthday, At a banquet givon on that day Presi- dent Charles King, of Columbia College, presided; Gene- ral Rufus King, Minister Resident, was chief orgtor; Rev. C. P. Brooks was the poet of the occasion, while General Bartlett, and Storey and Freeman, the artists, made excellent and patriotic speeches. It ia also stated that the Mediterranean squadron had left Lisbon to return to the waters in which it was originally intended it should make an important cruise, It 18 stated very positively by our correspondent at Rome that the Pope will appoint no eardinal from this or any other Protestant country. THE CITY. i ‘The German Republican Central Committee last night passed resolutions calling upon the Legislature to pass the bilis providing for a Board of Control and Revision and a Board of Public Works, and a committee was autho- rized to protest against alleged abuses in Castle Garden, where, it is alleged, German immigrants are enticed to the Southern States under false pretences. An important arrest of burglars was made in Frout street late on Thursday night. Three daring rascals were detected by the police in ihe act of drilling holes in the safe of Messrs. Wheeler & Merritt, No, 252 Front street, and were taken into custody with all the tools and other evidences of their guilt, A boy accomplice was subse- 1 quently found secreted in another part of the store. ‘The burglars, known as Willian Moore, alias Dan Kelly, George Johnson, John Saunders and Robert Smith, arc old offenders. They were committed yesterday in default of two thousand dollars bail each. Another extensive robbery of bonds took place in this | city yesterday. A sneak thief entered the residence of Mr. John P, Moore, No. 110 Madison avenue, and stole a box containing bonds to the value of one hundred thou- sand dollars. A reward of five thousand dotlars 1s offered for the recovery of the lost articles, Charles Hawkins, a laborer, was fatally injured on Thursday by failing trom a ladder, and died shortly after, The coroner's jury censured Frederick Bannan, the foreman in charge of the laborers on the new build- ing No. 67 Canal street, for carelegsneas which resulted thus seriously. Norman Ambrose, the deaf mut jured near Fort Washington, as previously reported, 4 of his wounds on Thursday. The verdict of the jury exonerates the engineer of the train which struck the unfoFtnnate man from all blame. A German woman named Olker died yesterday at No. 26 Jay street from the effects of falling on a slippery pavement. Lonisa Reis, a little girl seven years of age, was killed yes- terday by falling down a flight of stairs, ‘The Health Board met yesterday afternoon. A report from Dr. Dalton, Superintendent, was received and adopted, in which he recommends the removal of Wash- ington Market as a measure requisite to the preservation of life and public health. A great deal of routine duty of an important character was transacted during the meeting, & report of which will be found tn another part of to-day’s iesue, ‘The Committee on Street Openings of the Board of Councilmen met yesterday to hear parties interested in the proposed opening of Lewis street to Fourteenth street. There was no one present. to speak against the Project, and the members of the committee present, Messrs. Roberts and Halloran, concluded to report in favor of it, An application having been made betore Judge Barbour yesterday for the arrest of « person charged with having maliciously procured another person's arrest by a police- man, the Justice refused to grant the warrant unless on afidavits showing the direct instrumentality of the per- son accused, The Judge further stated that the common feature of policemen arresting citizens without warrant was entirely egal and unjustifiable; that they had no more power to do so than any other citizen, and actions shonld be brought against policemen in such cases, and inst parties who merely make the so-called com- aimts, In the Superior Court yesterday, before Judge Monell, @ jury rendered a verdict for one hundred dollars dam- ages in favor of Mr. Anton Schaeffer, who brought an action against Mr, Adam Gesell for accusing him of in- torcepting and purloining @ letter, The parties were for- merly partners in a lager beer saloon and restaurant in Nassau street, Mr, Stillman Witte, owner in fee of the Times buiid- ing, brought an action yesterday in the Superior Court againet the city to recover one year’s rent of the prem- by the Street Commissioner. The claim is baved on the fuct that the removal did not ake place on the Ist of May, but the day following, The de. et up was that the Istof May fellon Sunday. The presenting 4 somewhat novel law point was ubmitted to Judge Monell without a jury, and he has re- served his dectsion, ‘The case of the United States vs, the parties who are accused of having committed certain frands in connec- tion with the distillery business in this city was re sumed yesterday before Commissioner Betts. Mr. A. Oukey Hall, on the part of the d lout, Donan, moved to dismiss the complaint, on the groand that it did not come within the parview of the statute. The Commis sioner, withont passing on this matier, permitted the examination to be proceeded with. the officer alleged to have been bribed giving the use of the government ti implicated in the alleged fraud, war examined on the part of the prosecution, after which the court adjourned till this morning. In the United States District Court yest Hetts pranoaneed an elaborate judg rac declared that the application of the owne steamship, for the bonding of that veevel, should be re fared, It will be remembered that the Meteor had been seized by order of the government, on information that she was intended to be used as a Chilean privateer the commerce of Spain. A lecture was delivered Inst evening by KE. EK. Dunbar, Feq., President of the Travellers’ Club, on ¢ of gold in Culifornia, which gave a full deseription of the efforts of Captain Sutter to found a colony in California, Jing of gold on his property. Short addresses e by General Sutter, the pioneer of Califor x Gorernor Price, of California v will be colebrated to-morrow in the vari- throughout the city, The ceremouy of the Diesting of the palm will be performed in the Catholi chlurches at the principal mass, whieh commenees gon erally at haif- past ten o'clock. , The steamehip City of Boston, Coptain Roskell, of the Inman line, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, from pter 44 North river. The maile will close at the Post Office at balf-past ten A. M. The steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, of the Cromwell line, will sal! for New Orleans direct at three P. M. to-day, from pier No @ North river. The mails will close at the usaal hoor ‘The Empire Sidewhee! Line steamship Aan Salvador, Captain Atkins, will sail from pler No. 1% North river, foot of Cedar etreet, at three I M. today, for Savannah direct. and the ff were also The viock tharket was strong: yomerday morning afterwards became feverish, and cioed firm Govern ments were dail. Weakened at the close w 198% MISCELLANEOUS San Francisco advices to February 2 mate that Mazatlan, Mexico, hae been clowly imvecuet by the Liberate ander Corona, aud the Freee! © chet ety are completely “bottled up." Later stress % Merny I state that the imperial General Lolmres haf mewomet the relief of the besciged garrison with twee or four thovaand men. The Canadians have quieted down eines Uh find begin to perceive that they were frigh shadows. The preparations for defence are stil however, and the people along the border are til fally w The gov ous nent organs, sptions to far nish excuses for the late scare and to justify the gov- ernment in its measures of defence, intimate that the invasion by the Fenians is but a question of time, Our correspondence and despatches describing aflairs over the border will be found to be highly interesting. News from Honolulu, Hawaii Islands, states that the Bremen underwriters have decided to pay the insurance on a Hawaiian bark destroyed by the pirate Shenandoah. Efforts are being made at Honolulu to improve that har- bor and fit it for the reception and accommodation of the largest mail ships, Tt will be seen by our San Francisco correspondence that large meetings have been held in various parts of California to endorse the policy of the President and his late veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill. The great ma- Jority of the merchants and influential men of San Fran- cisco, as well as the citizens in the interior, are with the President, ° ‘The great fire at Cincinnati on Thursday night proves to have been much more destructive than previously re” ported, The splendid opera house built by Mr. Pike, and of which he was the sole owner, was completely destroyed. The loss of Mr. Pike will foot up a million of dollars, He had only $35,000 insurance on the opera house. Several others of those among the sufferers loge to the amount of over a hundred thousand dollars, The fire extended across the wide thoroughfare known as Fourth street, injuring the Buckeye Billiard Saloon to the extent of ten thousand dollarz, but not ex- tending to other buildings on the same block. We also have roports of a large fire at Medina, N. Y., but tho losses are not estimated. The Next Presidency—The Position of General Grant. In the midst of the political excitements of the day General Grant is looming up into bold relief as the man for the next Presidency. As King Saul among the mighty men of Israel stopd a head and shoulders above them all, so stands General Grant, in his great achievements, among the heroes of the Union, victorious from the difficult work of crushing the late gigantic Southern rebellion. He has accordingly se- cured a place in the gratitude and confidence of the American people which is regarded as certain to bring an easy triumph to the party for the succession with which his great name may be identified. Hence we find that the Northern radicals, in Congress and in their news- paper press, are beginning to claim and pe claim him as their candidate and their exclu- sive property. Thus Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, in the House; Mr: Wilson, of Massachusetts, in the Senate, and Master Forney, of their Wash- ington organ, and various other journals of the same school, have taken up and announced the name of General Grant as the watchword which is to hold their rank and file together in the in- terval, and give them another lease of power in 1868, We apprehend, however, that in all these neat calculations and great expectations the radi- cals are reckoning without their hosi. © What is the position of General Grant on the leading issues of the day? From the morning after the assassination of President Lincoln to this time he has been the right hand man of President Johnson. We believe that there is a cordial understanding and perfect harmony between these two distinguished men. In regard to the restoration of the Southern States to Congress, and in regard to Mexico, though (General Grant is not a political speech maker or letter writer, he has spoken and written in support of the President’s policy. We undertake to say, too, that when President Johnson, in his recent speech to the Montana delegation, declared that he had no aspirations for the next Presi- dency, he had General Grant in view as his rightful and acceptable successor. In his lib- eral terms of surrender accorded to General Lee, and in everything else that he has said or done, General Grant has shown himself any- thing but a radical. From his intimate offi- cial relations with the President, and from the absence of even a rumor of a disagreement, we may safely assume that there is no rivalry he- tween Johnson and Grant for the succession, but that the one is well pleased with the idea that the other, in 1868, may be elected to regu- late the radicals. But it will be remembered that President Johnson is ambitious of one thing. He believes that his Southern policy is right ; he believes that it commands the approbation of the coun- try, and he desires and hopes to accomplish the work of Southern restoration during his present term of office. In this hope, however, he may be disappointed, and the contest be- tween his system and the radical system of re- construction may be prolonged to the end of his present term, and may then be cast in such a shape as to leave him no alternative but that of a direct appeal to the people for their ver- dict upon his administration. In this event, we predict the radicals will be disappointed in their calculations of using the name and fame of General Grant expressly to break down Presi- dent Johnson and bis policy; for, in fighting out his fight with Stevens, Johnson will become the candidate of Grant, inasmuch as Grant may now be considered the candidate of Johnson, under the impression that with his present term the appoinied work of the latter will be finished, and that he may wisely and grace- fully retire, If the radicals, therefore, wish to share in the honors and emoluments of the next Presidency they must change their tactics and seek rather to assist than toembarrass the President in restor- ing the South to Congress, Otherwise, in the vin- ‘lication of his policy, he may be compelled to stand before the people for another term, and General Grant, recognizing the justice of his claims, may withdraw in his favor. The ques- tion to be considered is, not the popularity of General Grant, in any contingeney, but whether he will consent to run in opposition to an ad- ministration with which he is identified as an active co-laborer. From the cordial relations | between them we predict that if President Johnson shall be pushed to the extremity of running for another term General Grant will sustain bim, for we cannot believe that the General has the remotest idea of taking the field in opposition to President Johnson or his policy. | The News rrow turn Soort Paco —Tar Skeoxp Navan Viorory ov rim Onitean-Perv- viAN Fieet.—The news from the seat of war on the Sonth Pacific coast grows in interest, The Spanish frigates Villa de Madrid and Blencs had encountered the allied squadron in the harbor of Ancud, and, after a brisk en- gagement of two hours’ duration, were re- pulsed, each badly damaged. The gunners of the allied squadron displayed unexpected skill, and hulled the Villa de Madrid seventeen times, | while the Blanca received one shot below the water line, and both drew off in distress, re- turning to Valparaiso, This is the second positive victory won by the allied fleet, and though the Spanish vessels were not captured in this as in the first engagement between the Hameralda and Covadonga, and the disaster is hardly s0 great a to induce the new Spanish | Admiral to commit bari-kari, as did his pre- decessor, still it is a serious afwir for the Spaniards, It is suggestive of suspected weak- ness on their part, and unexpected strength and skill on that of the allies, A few more such defeats as this, and a few more heavy draws on the depleted Spanish ex- chequer, will soon force Spain to abandon the present war against the allied republics of South America, as she was forced to abandon that against St. Domingo—in disgrace. Yachting in America—The New York Yacht Squadron. The prospects of the New York Yacht Club for the approaching season are unusually bril- liant. A year ago Vice Commodore Kings- land resigned his position, having grown temporarily tired of yachting and disposed of his yacht; but when the Alarm—a splendid vessel and one of the fastest in the squad- ron—returned from the West Indies, Mr. Kingsland, unable to resist the temptation, purchased her and again became actively connected with the club, though not in an official capacity. This year the club has lost the valuable presidency of Commodore Stevens, deeply to the regret of every member; but, in spite of this, the revival of interest among yacht owners and the number of new yachts now being built justify. our predictions of a splendid season. A few years ago the club seemed to be dull and drooping, and its funds insufficient to carry out its objects; but the adoption of a higher rate of subscription so increased the efficiency of the members that ell are now active and energetic. The result of this practical reconstruction is that the club now has a full treasury and a most promising tuture. Its performances last season were decidedly commendable, and this year it is probable that all former efforts will be surpassed. Like Congress, the club once had its Thad Stevens and its Jack Rogers, always bitter, satirical and opposed to every- thing that anybody else proposed ; always talkative, irrepressible, hopping up upon every occasion and spinning out nonsense by the yard; but they have been turned adrift in course of time, and perfect harmony and una- nimity now prevail. There is consequently nothing to impede the progress of the club. Besides the match races between individual members, we are promised a regatta, a review and the customary squadron cruise. We pre- sume that the reform inaugurated last year will be adhered to, for it certainly proved very suc- cessful. Instead of having the ladies accom- pany the yachts at the regatta, a steamer will be provided for members of the club only, and the ladies will be invited to witness the review a day or two after. At the review a steamer will convey the guests to the rendezvous; the yachts will mancwuvre by signals, in true man o’ war style, and then the ladies will be transferred tothe yachts for short excur- sions, returning to a sumptuous lunch on the steamer when the Commodore gives the word. Upon the squadron cruise, in August, it is pro- bable that the yachts will go to Boston, as such a trip has been in contemplation for several seasons, and a most hospitable welcome is cer-. tain. If this be resolved upon, we understand that a steamer will be chartered for the conveyance of those members who do not own yachts. The expense will be but trifling in | comparison with the enjoyment of the party. In addition to all this, it must be remembered that the club holds the cup won by the famous yacht America in England as a challenge cup, open to the competition of all foreign clubs, and it is not improbuble that some enterprising English yachtsman may be bold enough to lay claim to it during the summer. New yachts are now being built, not singly, but by scores, in all parts of this country, and of course they will have to be tested against the established favo- rites, Before the excitement caused by these private matches has subsided, we hope to see an international yacht race, which is the only thing now needed to give the New York Yacht Club a universal prestige. If our national Congress could only control its Thad Stevens, its Jack Rogers and all its other incorrigibles as easily as our Yacht Club has done we might safely predict as bright a future for the country as for the clab. Then we should engage in a friendly international contest with England, not alone as to which Power possesses the fastest yachts, but in regard to commerce, manufactures, trade, finances and literature. And thus the reform in the Yacht Club has its moral, which should not pass unheeded. Nor is this sub- ject unworthy of consideration in another point of view. The present Congress is about to take away the subsidy paid to New England in the shape of fishing bounties under the pre- tence of supporting a nursery for seamen, The experience of the recent war has shown that, if the New England fisheries have been nurseries for seamen, few of those who have been so long codled by the government were ready to volunteer to defend it. Ships sent to New England harbors to recrait were obliged to send to New York depots for their men. But now that the fishing bounties are to be with- drawn the government will have a genuine school for sailors in our Yacht Club as well as in our merchant marine, and that without the expenditure of fifteen millions of dollars for the purpose. The ocean races in which our yachtemen now indulge, and the ocean cruises which will be in favor before five years have passed, and the man-o’-war discipline whieh ix strictly maintained, will benefit not only the yacht owners, but also the seamen employed; aud in case of a maritime war the govern- ment will have a emall bat efficient volunteer navy ready to play no unimportant part in the nautical drama. Crry Reronw.—When a good measure is pro- posed there should be mo rest for iis friends until what is aimed at be accomplished. The bill before the Legislature establishing for this city a Board of Revision or Control is a mens ure of this kind. The mnnicipal government of New York is now in an anomalous position. There are thirteen or fourteen different govern- ments for the city—all without a head. The Mayor is literally a nonentity. Hix simple business is to sign drafts or veto the proceed- ings of the Common Council, This condition of things has been brought about by the doings of that evil genius for the city’s interests, Thur- low Weed, in the Albany lobby, and by the influence of the rowdy faction headed by Fer- nando Wood. By the works of these men the departments of the municipal government have become decentralized. The Legislature did well when it gave ns a Metropolitan police. It did betier when it gave usa Metropolitan Health Board. Ti will do still better when it gives us a Board of Public Works. But, above all these, it will accomplish a crowning act if it will give us the Board of Revision or Control. Under an administration of that kind taxpayers will know that responsible and capable men are supervising the expenditures of the city, and are prepared to account for every dollar of outlay of the public’s money. We repeat, there should be no delay, much less obstruction, in the passage of the bill before the Legislature giving to the city of New York a head that all taxpayers must respect, like that of the pro- posed Board of Revision. Let no member halt in the performance of this good work. Frenca Iroy-cuaps 4 Farmcre—Americay Tron-ctaps rok THE Paciric.—Late accounts from Europe report the iron-clads in the French navy to be utter failures, and of no use what- ever, except to remain stationary in port. This has proved a source of extreme annoy- ance to the French Emperor, who, being ats loss upon whom to vent his wrath for these blunders, makes some of his ministers, who are entirely ignorant on the subject of iron-clads, feel the weight of his imperial displeasure. But Napoleon can console himeelf with the reflection that so far as iron-plated men-of-war are concerned the British is as badly off as the French navy. Neither of their iron-clad ships, so far as experimental trips have tested them, can withstand a gale atsea. This is an unfor- tunate result; and, when compared with the success of the Americans in constructing their Monitors and iron-plated vessels, shows @ very striking advantage in favor of the latter. Both France and England have been for years en- gaged in building and experimenting upon iron- clads, while we have built them as we wanted them, and have never made a decided failure yet. Our people hardly knew that we had iron-clad vessels until some remarkable naval achievement signalized the fact. Very fow people were aware of the existence of the oriai- nal Monitor until she bad conquered the rebel ram Merrimac; and when we some time ago presented a statement showing that the Ameri- cans had in number more iron-clads than those in the navies of England and France combined, and carried metal of heavier calibre than either, the account was scarcely credited. Nearly all our Monitors and iron-clads have made success- ful trips up and down the dangerous Southern coast, and one Monitor, the Monadnock, is now well on her way to the Pacific coast, and has thus far—having left Rio Janeiro at last re- ports—made a highly satisfactory and success- ful passage. We do not, however, hold to the propriety of sending Monitors upon so lengthy a voyage when it is easier to build them on the Pacific coast. California furnishes in abundance allthe material for building iron-clads and Mon- itors, and other war vessels. She has plenty of iron, coal, copper, timber, &., and San Fran cisco (or Mare Island) furnishes a splendid site for the erection of foundries for the building of this class of vessels. By establishing a navy yard on the Pacific coast for this purpose, upon a proper scale, we shall be placing our- selves fur in advance of the Powers of Europe when the contest arises, which will come be- fore many years, for the mastery of the com- merce between Europe and the East Indies by the way of the American continent and the Pacific. Before that time it may be that both England and France will learn something about that of which each, France particularly, seems at present to be obstinately and per- sistently ignorant, to wit: the proper mode of constructing iron-clad vessels. Therefore it is wise for the United States to look a few years ahead, and prepare for what may then be de- manded on the Pacific coast and on the Pacific Ocean, a formidable iron-clad squadron. Curar Coat.—The consumers of coal have great cause for congratulation over the pros- pects of cheap fuel during the coming season. The dealers and monopolists, it is very evident, have had their day, and have exhausted their ingenuity and power to keep coal up to the standard of high prices, and they must now succumb to the influences of events which favor the consumer. The wages of workmen at the mines have been reduced from four to five dollars per week, the canals are about to open with freights fixed far below those of last year, the Reading Railroad Company have revised their tariff of charges for transporta- tion, and have ascertained that they can carry coal at a much less rate than they have hereto- fore been doing; but whether the fact that the Pennsylvania Legislature has just given au- thority to a new company to gridiron the coal regions with rails and forbidding a greater charge for transportation than two and a balf cents per mile has had anything to do with convincing the Reading corporation that they could carry coal for less than double that price we are not advised. The effect of these cir- cumstances combined has been seen in the recent auction sales of coal at Elizabethtown, where a reduction of three dollars per ton in two months has been submitied to. Tae Prestoent’s Srezca is Evrorr.—Phe English papers praise in the est terms the President's speech delivered on Wash- ington’s birthday. That speech has put be- fore the world the true, clear view of the state of parties here, and has extorted, for the leader of the people, expressions of the most earnest admiration from quarters hitherto con- tent to cavil and sneer at all that originates on this side the Atlantic. The speech that the radicals denounced as horrible, valgar, unfor- tunate and outrageous ; that some of the Presi- dent's friends even were inclined to excuse and explain, and that the Henain declared to be greater and finer than anything in Demos thenes, receives from Europe the bighest pos sible meed of praise for its energetic simplicity, and for its sentiments is declared to be “ not unworthy the great fonnder of the American republic.” Such « speech, saye the London Times, “bas not often been heard in Ameriva # speech entirely free from tawdry ornament or ambitious metaphor, but conveying the firmest determination and the most enlightened principles in the plainest and simplest lan- guage.” And the same paper saye In another ar- ticle :—“ There is a stamp of reality and proud self-confidence in this appeal. to the sovereign people which obliterates the effect of some in- discreet expressions, and makes us feel that Mr. Johnson is equal to guiding the destinies ota great nation through a perilous crisis. * * * No hereditary monarch, nor even an elective emperor, inheriting the traditions and administrative system of an hereditary mon- rehy, can ever be placed in the same position as President Johnson, and it is to be feared that few princes horn in the purple would be capable of facing a great emergency with | sald, “if any man ever did, occupies nobly and worthily a great historic position. ‘The des- | tinies of millions of the human race depend upon him, and he rises fully to the height of the occasion. Men whose nerves are shaken by the holiday polities of such a country as ours will stand aghast at the apdacity with which President Johnson confronts his adver- saries.” Such is the European verdict, and the country may thus see that, viewed from a pro- per distance—a distance that enables one to take in its full proportions and relations to the state of the country—the President’s speech is not less great and statesman-like than we de- clared it to be from the first. THE HEALTH BOARD. Important Meeting Yesterday—Washi: ton Market Doomed—Report of the itary Superintendent on that Anci Nuatsance—General Abatement of Na sances by the Board—A Fulton Market Delegation, é&e. ‘The regular mecting of the Health Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon, President Schultz in the chair. ‘The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- proved, ‘A lengthy communication from Dr. Conklin, Sanitary Superintendent of Brooklyn, represented the condition of the streets of that city as very filthy. Commissioner Beran said that the Legislature Iast year abolished the Board of Contracts, and that a law had been passed causing the street cleaning to be done ‘by proposals, the work to be awarded to the “lowest bidder.” When the Board of Aldermen put the con tracts up they find the bids at such a low figure and to be made by such irresponsible persons that they did not decom it advisable to give them out at all. On motion this report was referred to Mayor Booth, with the mae that he urge its importance to the Com- mon Council. . Commissioner Masterre, from the Finance Committee, stated that he had been to Albany, and had an interview with the proper committee of the jislature with refer: ence to A put to the Ie for the spacial pareaase of Board, Ho had pe goupt that it would ‘Commi per, rnissiier Boswonts, from Committee on Laws and Craimances, said that in 1855 the city of Brooklyn abol- ished the volume containing the Jaws m health and ihcit ardinances relating thereto; in 1866 a similar volume was published in this city for the metropolis. The Council thought that proper bylaws could be in- serted for the Board. It was therefore inexpedient to consider further the powers of the Board. On motion William E. Van Orden and Jacob Johnson, Jr., were appointed clerks for Brooklyn. ‘ommissioner Bercex—With to the Brooklyn offal contract, and that of the existing contract. four boats should be employed in the removal of night soil, while but one is actually employed, Mr. Swift had stated that he was prevented from carrying out his contract by the scavengers, who had an injunction served bim on the ground that the contract was illegal. He had now boats at the docks which were capable of removing four hundred tons per night. The scavengers’ license will expire on the 1st of April, and with it their injunction also. He was willing, however, to go to work under order of the Board. @ scavengers, on the other hand, claim that they were willing to go to work, but that ‘Swift had only one boat. Referred to the Superintendent, with power to issuo orders to parties to clean up. ‘The Council said that men might be appointed to act in the capacity of scavengers, Several fat boiling concerns were reported as nuisances and referred to the attorney for opinion. ‘The report of the inspector, in the matter of huckster's wagons and the refuse which they have been complained of throwing in the vicinity of Washington Market, was received, which states that the farmers’ os with vegetables arrive in town during the night, take up their stands in Greenwich, Washington and the lower paris of all the cross streets ther it; and that they constantly throw leaves and Lope into the streets under cir carts, where they lie until they rot and e of sive, and that their effect is dangerous to public heal th Inspector Emerson also reported a number of butchers’ stands at that market asa nuisance, owing to the fact that these stands extend. in many instances, for a dis- Senha & 13 Bones 198 are Bee ee ey Preventing a or cleansing of those Channels. ‘ne following are vambag the stands com att til ios, 402, 300. 805, 204, 404, 418, 415, 403, ‘ ‘The roport’ concludes by stating that the occu seem recently to have taken ins to make and keep the gutters and covered part pavement en, bo scrapin; cod woting sot. the use of chloride of lime aa dhintectant, i, in flooring was removed, a great quantity of dirt was found to exist, and these measures ve been entirely neglected, ‘The matter was roferred to the attorney. Pane oe rcapeedtay” cereal lowing facts regard: ashington Markets ‘discovered wy yr inspection. maot the bul nmi Iy upon the sireets are stone or joora, beneath which are for storage of fruit and other articles of ‘The building thus constructed forms, eelogged by the of which not only are the dri salle retained in and beneath the floors, but during ® rate the water conducted the roof by tin leaders Into said outlet, and finds its way through yari- ous crevices int» holes, and from holes inio the of the outer bulla ‘These cellars are provided with floors, be- neath which the water accumulates. ‘At the time of my inspection the water beneath these cel and floors had a depth some six inches. The floors, both of the market and of the cellars, are io maa aces rotten. Tn view of the above facts I am of the opinion that Waah- ington Market ts In a condition dangerous to life and detri mental to health it ts also my opinion that this nulsance can ouly be abat the removal market. spectfully, your obedient servant, ED. B. DALTON, Sanitary Superintendent Metropolitan Board of Health. ‘The report was unanimously adopted and referred to the attorney. The following, by Commissioner Manterey, was adopted drains has no pro Very re Resolved, That the polier be requested to notify all per sons and keepers of stables that they will not be permitted to dry or place atraw or other liter in the streets or on the sidewalks. A report from Inspector Emerson on the condition of the dumping ground nuisance in the vicinity of Washing- ton Market was read. Tt appears that some twenty cars carry staff to this place some fifteen times a day, the stench from which is terrible. This dith ts allowed to ac. cumulate by the contractors to a pile eight or ten feet in height, the m from which at times runs into the market and taints the moat, The Presipext said he bad been there, and was aatis- fied that it was an intolerable nuisance in that neighbor hood; yet he did not with to give those Hien on the city, euch as they would have if we remove it, though there is no authority for their allowing it to accumulate in such a manner, He would like the views of the Council on the subject, Commissioner Baxcen thought the accumulation could not be avoided at these places in ceriain parts of the Poy! and it had been so for more than thirty years of is experience. In fact it could not be carried off as fast as it gathered, Rag establishments Noe. 444 and 446 Reaie street were ried a* @ uuisance and ordered to be abated Commissioner Swinnuns® thought that tt would be ad visable to adopt some measure to prevent the spread of tafectious Games which are imported to this country, in traffic, ity im the summer season. ‘rou be wel He thought that it to have thie commodity assorted during the warm weather on some of the islands in this vicinity. Commissioner Bosworti ed that the matter suggest, lie over matil the mext meeting, and that in the inean time a conference be had with the rag deaters on the sub Ject. A resolution to this effect was adopted. The Inspector for the Fifth district, Brooklyn, re ried a number of nuisances in the forms of offal estab- ishmepts in Newtown. Ordered to be abated. Dr. Parkes said that these men must have some place to carry on their business, which is a legitimate one. ae long ae they keep their places clean, and be thought hy ey should be compelled to clean up before their whole business should be aboliched. They are ineidenta! to our population. He would have the thing investigated before he would undertake to put a stop to these estab lishmente. We might be undertaking too much, and might have an avalanche of opinion om ourselves ere ton: cubject was referred to the Superiatenient for his Bedford brewery on Franklin avenue, near Pacttic was ordered to be cleaned. street 257 East Fourteenth street, tenement ibenes, oper’ as improperly ventilated, and that several cases of typhaa fever had occurred there; alxo as being In a dirty comdi tion, Ordered ventilated and cleaned, Commissioner Swinnenye said that last week prey cight casos of ship fever were reported among tte om grants on the City of Cork, whic! arrived at Bas and snggested that the Legislature should pase a iow compelling the Commissioners of oo charge of passengers at their institutions during p rod of probation Adjourned wo Tuesday next, A DRLPOATION FROM FULTON MARKET ‘ In the afternoon a delegation of fiah dealers from the fulton Market waited on Mr. Senules, for the purpe conferring with bim on their prospects of aba’ among the other nuieances, The tmereting was tial, and no doubt very ifteresting, being similar to that of the batchers’ recent confer state that all lobsters sold at the market are cooked before sold at their stands, which is mach for that article of shell fish, leaving serious doubt ae to the date of their existence, They, however, prom ised to do all in their power to hold their own in the estimation of the sanitary authorities by keeping things generally to the best possible order about thelr stands Soldiers’ Matiny at Galveston. Gavepetos, March 20, 1°66. The Porty-cighth Ohio regiment have matinied, saving their tine of service is out. So far over sixty of the men are under arrest. They were taken into custody by the equal courage and dignity.” Mr. Johnson, it 19 } cotsred troops who mow quart Gatvostomy,