The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, see eeeees eee OF =e —— = mdi mse AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, street. Dor: on, Tu Caicxer oN TAR Bt 13g 0'Clock. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Satan iN Pais, SAN FRANCISOO MINSTRSL3, 535 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotal.—Grmior AW SiNatx@, Daxotka, &0.— Tux Comaurres on Wars ann near Rroome TH. Matinee TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Siva- ING Dancing, BuRLesquxs, &0.—Sternun’s Excars; on Exatisa Rute om Ineianp. Matinee ut 246 0’ Clock. GBORGE CHRISTY’S—Oxp Scnoou or Munsrastsr, Panane. Maneas dans, Ac.. Fifth Avenue Onere “House, and ‘wenty-fourtn street.—Tux Keen Actors. Matinee at Two o’Clock. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. Meohanios’ Hall, 472 Broad- Way.—Nxaro Comicatiti«s, Buruxsques, &0.~Icr On Pancy Feanoais. *_HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratorian Min BrARLeY—BaLans, BUxLESQUES 4ND PaNntomimas. COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Gaeat Fam or tue Lapues or St. Ann's Cuvaoa, Eighth street. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Saturday, April 7, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS, The Herald the ‘Great Organ of the Business Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advertising of all the Gaily papers of this city for two years, In tho first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the socond column are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thivieen months Por the Payer. ending Dez, 31, 1864. Year 1865. Herald $577,455 $662,192 Tr bune.. 260,960 301,841 Times... 251 812 284,412 Evening Post. 163,177 222,715 World......4. 128,056 177,204 Journal of Commerce. 109,595 173,646 Transcript... 02,044 164,451 67, 126,380 101,793 48,968 52,350 21,052 $1,878,267 This shows the Hxratp to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- tisers of the Metropolis, and the modium of communi- cating their business wants to the public. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. ‘The Senate yesterday passed the Civil Rights bill vor the President’s veto, by a voto of thirty-three to Gfteon, Tho bill originally passed the Sonate on Feb- ruary 2, by a vote of thirty-three to twelve, five mem- bors being absent. It passed the House of Representa- tives on March 13, the vote being one hundred and eleven in favor to thirty-eight against (not quite two thirds), with thirty-four members not voting. Of the five Sena- fors not voting on the original bill, viz:—Creswell, Doolittle, Grimes, Johnson and Wright—Messrs, Doo- Mitle, Johnson and Wright voted for qustaining the President, while Messrs. Creswell and Grimes cast Uheir votes for the bill. The conservatives lost the ote of Stockton, while they gained that of Lano, of Kansas, who supported the bill onginally. Mr. Ed- smunds, the now Senator from Vermont, voted for the bill. Mr. Dixon was the only member of the Senate not vot- ing: Senator Morgan, who cast his vote in favor of the Freedmen's Bureau bill, and afterwards voted to sustain tho President's voto, voted for the bill, as he did origin- ally, The New York State Senate on Wednesday last Passed aresolution expressing disappointment and regret jt the veto of this bill by the President. | Thore was a great deal of excitement in the Senate uring the discussion preceding the passage of the bill, the galleries being densely filled and tho floor occupied Py members of the House of Representatives and other Privileged persons. On the result of the vote being an- nounced much applause followed, the friends of the measure belgs especially Jubilant. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a bill was introduced to amend Soction twemgg-one of the actto provide a national cur- rency by a pledge of United States bonds, which was re- ferred to the Committee on Finance. A joint resolution was introduced, bat ordered to lie on the table and be Printed, respecting the admission of Senators and Rep- resentatives from States lately in rebellion. The Civil Rights bill was then taken up and passed over the President's veto by a vote of thirty-three to fifteen. Am order was passed to ac. quaint the House with the action of the Senate, and to furnish it with the bill, together with the President's ob- ‘Sections, that it may be likewise reconsidered, as is pro- widod by the constitution of the United States, after Which the Senate adjourned to meet on Monday next. The time of nearly the entire session of the House of Representatives was devoted to the consideration of the Dodge-Brooks contested election case, Mr. Dodge Deing declared entitled to the seat from the ‘Fighth Congressional district of New York, and ‘the oath of office was administered to him by the Speaker. Two messages were received from the President, one recommending an appropriation to watisfy the claims of the owners of the British vessel Magiclonne, and the other suggosting certain modifications Of the test oath prescribed by the act of July 6, 1864, both ©! which Wore appropriately referred. The motion to re- consider the vote rejecting the Bankrupt bill was made fe frst business after the morning hour on Monday, It ‘was ordered that the proceedings in the House to-day be Confined to genvral debate on the Presidont’s message. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills wore passed authorizing dhe Park Commissioners to maxe further improvements, jaring Tompkins square a public parade ground, and Socorporating the New York Mutual Gaslight Company. A (sper was received from the Governor vetoing the bill incorporate the}American Exploring and Mining Com. Pany. The bill directing the distribution of the Safety Bank fund among the bill holders of Insolvent Bafety Fund banks was amended, A bill was intro- Aluced dividing the city of New York into twenty-one Bidermanic districts, In the Assembly five of the New York city railroad Pills were passed, viz:—The Broadway elevated, the Powory and Lexington avenue, the Cortlandt and Dey Pireet, the Christopher street, and the Grand street, Tho New York Central Railroad fare bill, the bill incorporating Use Niagara Ship Canal Company, and one authorizing the taxation of Btockbolders of banks, were also passed, to- gotbor with bills repealing the Soldiers voting law, and in Corporating the National Safe Deposit Company and the Vnited States Savings Bank, both of this city. The Now York County Tax levy was recommitted. Special Feports were mado for the construction of the New York fnd Kingsbridge Rallroad Company, and to change the youto of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad; Jucorporating the Metropolitan Medical and Surgical | Lollege, , We print this morning the New York County Tax Levy Jl! in Call, ag tt pasted the Senate, FIRES. { A Gre broke out yesterday morning, shortly after four Bock, 1p so restaurant of H 4 Rang, 231 Broadwar, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1866.—WITH which soon communicated to the adjoining building, for- merly tho American Hotel, but occupied at the time by tailors, lawyers and others, Both buildings were com- Plotely gutted, and the entire losses will not full far short of three hundred thousand dollars. About the samo time another firo broke out in the Tear of George C. Richmond's boot and shoe store, No. 150 Fulton street, which spread to 202 Broadway, the store of Messrs. Knapp & Sniffin, clothiers, Two build- ings on Broadway and three on Fulton stroet were al- most entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at three hundred thousand dollara. Columbia College, in Fiftieth street, was also damaged by fire last evening to the extont of two thousand dollars, Ashed in the Washington arsenal, in which a large quantity of muskets were stored, caught fire yesterday evening, and a soldier engaged in suppressing tt was wounded by tho explosion of one of the muskets. Port au Prince, the capital of the empire of Hayt!, was visited by a destructive fire on the 19th ult. The city is built principally of wooden buildings, and the fire, in the absence of proper means for extingu'shing the flames, spread with such rapidity that one thousand buildings were destroyed and seven thousand persons rendered houseless before the flames were subdued. It ig not stated whether the fire ombraced the business part of the city, but from the meagre accounts at hand it ap- pears to have been confined to the residences. THE CITY. ‘Tho Health Commigsioners held their regular meoting yesterday afternoon. A lengthy report was read from the President of the Board on the street cleaning con- tract, and the negligent manner in which it is per-' formed. ‘The counsel for the contractors had a hearing before the Board as to their right to use certain public wharves and streets for a dumping ground, which subject was referred to the Sanitary Superintondent to report, éspecially as to the description of street manure deposited by the contractors. A full) report of the proceedings will be found in the Supplement. . Judge McCunn has granted an injunction against George Scott and others, on the petition of Daniel Drew, restraining them from buying in two thousand shares of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad stock, valued at about two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Drew complained that he had borrowed two thou- sand shares of the stock, and that the defendants and others had conspired to make a “corner” in tho mar- ket, causing an unnatural rise in the price, and greatly damaging parties in his position. The case is «not yet decided. In the General Sessions yesterday Leopold Cohen was convicted of stealing apiece of silk from the store of Rodolph Leinhart, and sent to the State Prison for two years and six months, Charles Peterson, against whom were six charges for grand larceny, committed in fashionable boardiag houses, was convicted of atealing jewelry from the house of Mrs. Brinkerhoff, Recorder Hackett sentenced him to the State Prison for five years. The case of the Ansche Chesed Jewish congregation, in which the trustees sought to change the ritual, and in wh ch an injunction was granted to restrain the trustees, came up again yesterday before Judgé Brady, in the Court of Common Pleas, on a motion to distnizs the m- junction, he motion was deuied, the Judge holding that no change of the character complained of could be made unless by a majority of the male members of the congregation, A case of alleged crucity by the captain of the Ameri- can ship Washington Booth has come up for hearing before Commissioner Osborn, who has taken testimony to the effect that the captain struck tho second officer repeated blows with aslung shot while the vessel lay at anchor in the Garonne, France, on the 8d of February last, Tho complainant, according to his statement, was very much injured, The further hearing of the case will be resumed on Monday next. The trial of the libel suit of Mr. De Puy, formerly Indian agent of the government to the Pawnee tribe, against Mr. Hurford, was continued yesterday. The case for the plaintiff was closed and the defence opened. No new facis of an important character were developed in the evidence introduced. In the City Court of Brooklyn yesterday the suit in which B, Haddock was plaintiff and the Brooklyn City Railroad was defendants—tho former acting on behalf of his son, a boy six years of age, to recover damages’ for personal injuries—the jury returned a verdict of two thousand dollars, The Meteor case wasagain up yesterday in the United States District Court, before Judge Betts. Mr. Geo. M. Ramsey, the contractor for building certain torpedo ‘boats and torpedoes, to bo used against the commerce and vessels-of-war of Spain, was examined, and the papers and contracts were readand put in evidence. ‘The case will be resumed this morning. Georgo W. Washington, an employe in a warehouse in the lower part of the city, cut his throat in his room at the Putman House, corner of Twonty-sixth strect and Fourth avenue, yesterday evening. He was about fifty. four years of age. Low spirits consequent on disastrous oll speculations are said to have been the indirect cause of the rash act. It is also believed that he was a spiritu- alist. The third day of the session of the New York Metho- dist (East) Conference was held yesterday in Brooklyn. Bishop Ames was introduced to the conference. The business of the day was principally confined to mission work in New York. Addresses were delivered last evening by Rev. Dr. Cummings, President of the Wes- leyan University, and Rev. J. L. Breckinridge on educa- tional matters. The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, Captain MeGuigan, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool from pier 44 North river. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The new and splendid steamship General Grant, Cap- tain Holmes, of the Cromwell line, will sail from pier No, 9 North river, at three P. M. to-day, for New Orleans direct. The Empire Sidewheel Line steamship San Salvador, Captain J. Atkins, will said for Savannah direct, at three P. M. to-day, from pier No, 13 North river, foot of Cedar street, The popular sidewheel steamship Quaker City, of Leary’s line, commanded by Captain Wm. H. West, will sail for Charleston, at three P. M. to-day, from pler 14 East river, foot of Wall street. The Shipping Intelligence will be found in our Sup- plement sheet this morning. The stock market was firm yesterday and closed steady, Governments were dull and without material change. Gold was steady, closing at 127%. The depression in trade circles is intensified by the con- tinued uncertainty of the future and by the failure of one or two Jarge firms, which is interpreted as a warning to stand from under. Prudent business men are now striv- ing to prepare for the worst, while they hope for the beat. Yesterday cotton continued dull and heavy, Petroleum was also dull, Groceries were quiet. On ‘Change flour was dull at previous prices, wheat was more active, corn firmer, oats fm, pork a shade lower, lard a shade lower and whiskey dull and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. A number of Virginians called upon the President yes- terday to give assurance that the people of Virginia would give their sincere and cordial support to his policy. The President exprossed his gratification to be assured that his public course was approved by the people, and that it would cheer him in the path of duty he was try. ing to tread. Lieutenant General Grant gave a splendid reception at his residence in Washington iast evening, which was attended by Presidewt Johnson, Thad Stevens, the French Ministor, Madame Juarez, Minister Romero, Alexander H, Stephens an@many members of Congress ‘and ladies in the capital, From Turk’s Isiands we have m March. The price of salt continu tions, with a supply on hand sufficient to meet any de- mand. Two American vessels loaded during the week and two others were just ready to sail from Salt Cay for the United States. At Bermuda, March 21, the weather was vory favorable for the spring crops of onione aud potatoes, which gave promise of an @arly and abundant return. The steamship Talisman, at this port yesterday, brought advices from Jaruaica, dated at Kingston, to March 21. The apecial commission for the trial of prison- ere charged with offences during tho revolt was still sit- ting, but hoped to close its labors in a fow days. Our *pecial correspondent furnishes a very interesting re- view of the sitaation of the colony, noticing particularly the depreciation of its agricultural and financial interests, and the gradual descent of the bulk of its inhabitants in the social scale, He attributes the state of affairs now existing on the island to the failure of England's system of rule, ‘The Upper House of the Provincial Parliament of New Brunswick yesterday adopted, by a vote of thirteen to five, the resolutions urging confederation according to the Quebec scheme, which, together with an address asking tbat the auestion of the union of the North American Provinces be submitted to the action of the Imperial Parliament, were forwarded to the Queen of England. ‘The New Jersey State Legislature yesterday adjourned sine die, withqut electing a Senator to the Congress of the United States, Tho closing scenes of the session were very animated, The galleries in the Senate chaw- ber and the lobbies were crowded—the first merely with Spectators and the others with particularly interested Parties. Mr, Soovel made a speech, in which he ex- pressed his willingness to go into joint session at any moment up to the hvur of adjournment, provided the radical republicans would pledge themselves to vote to fend Mr. Stockton back and also to elect a Johnson re- publican in Mr, Wright's place, A full report of the pro- ceeding#, together with an account of the inc/dents which took place after the adjournment, will be found in another column under the head of “Our Trenton Cor- respondence.”” It is said that the Governor has no power to appoint any one to fill the vacancy. According to despatches from Washington, official in- formation shows that during the nineteen months of Maximilian’s reign in Mexico there have been in the battles between the French and Moxicans 8,951 killed and 2,579 wounded. On an average during the last twelve months there has beon nearly one engagement of more or less importance per day. The New York canals will be opened for navigation on tho 1st of May, with the exception of the Champlain, which opens on the 7th of that month. Our correspondent at Fortress Monroe, by conversing with discharged prisoners from the Dry Tortugas, is en- abled to give interesting'detalls of the assassination con- spirators now confined there, Several parties believed to be implicated in the Nash- ville frauds on the Quartermaster’s Department have dis- appeared. It is supposed that some astounding facts will be revealed on tho trial relative to the management of the Quartermaster’s Department in that city. A collision occurred on Long Island Sound yesterday morning, about three o’clock, between the steamers New London and Monitor, while both vessels were steering their respective courses, Adense fog prevailed at tho time of the accident, which rendered objects at but a short distanc> quite indiscernible, and both vessels were close aboard of each other before their lights were dis- covered by the lookouts, No lives were lost and but slight damage was done either vessel. The New London arrived at this city yesterday morning, and it is supposed that the Monitor continued on her course to Derby, Conn. A very destructive freshet has occurred m Wisconsin. On the morning of the 4th inst. the Milwaukee dam was carried away, and tho flood, sweeping on, either carried away or badly damaged almost all the bridges of the city. The Daily Wisconsin estimates the damage at one hun- dred thousand dollars, Great damage has also been done to the railroads in the State, The Menomones, Wiscon- sin, Black and Mississipp! rivers are all much swollen, and bridges have been carried away. At La Crosse the water was so high on the 4th that trains could not get into the city, The railroad bridge at Beloit was carried away by the flood. No lives are reported lost as yot, although several families narrowly escaped. At last ac- counts it was still raining. The terrible tornado which recently visited Indiana also extended into Southern Illinois. It is estimated that not less than a thousand persons were killed and in- Jured by it, The last rail between Kansas City, Missouri, and Wyan- dotte, Kansas, joining tho Mississippi Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, was laid on Monday last, Governor Crapo, of Michigan, has appomted the 19th of April as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, Napoleon’s Reply to the Legislative Address. “Tranquillity and prosperity!” These words are the burden of one more utterance from the French Emperor to the French people. They are at once Napoleon’s boast and his admis- sion. From the constant use made of the ideas they convey we see their author’s own view of his position. He represents tranquillity and prosperity. These are what France wants, what she must have, and for the possession of these she will exchange all doubtful and many positive advantages—even to political liberty. For tranquillity she will suffer the arguments of freedom to be silenced as “vain theories.” Her revolutions, the extremities to which her struggles for emancipation go, the way in which they have all been abused—all this has made her timid, and the fear of disorder holds her still. Assuming this, the Emperor reminds the people once more that he has given France “fifteen years of tranquillity and prosperity,” and thus insinuates into the common mind that his reign is identified with peace and good order, and that all who oppose him do so only as anarchists and disturbers. But does the fact of his fifteen years of tranquillity justify this view? Are those years in reality anything more than the period of quiet that follows every revolution? Was it not also all tranquillity after 1815— after 1830—after 1848? Was not each mute- tion followed by its full fifteen years of repose, as if that space of time were the necessary in- cubation of the next? Fifteen years seems to be the time of a political generation; and every generation has its revolution. In this age of intellectual activity nations can no more stand still politically than materially, and will not permit the political ideas of the past to control the present, any more than they will accept from the past its carrier pigeons for the telegraph and its distaff and spinning wheel for the appliances of the mod- ern loom. This is true of every generation; and as France has matured the political dev:l- opment of each generation in a period of tran- quillity, so it will not do to assume a present period of tranquillity as an evidence that she is not still growing in the same way. This fact of periodical revolution is true wherever there is a national intelligence. Eng- land has it no less than France; But it disturbs her less because its operation is more con- sistent with the spirit of her institutions. It is in fall operation now, and is forcing a modi- fication of the suffrage that certain parties in England denounce as destructive. This revo- lationary tendency in England is stronger to- day than for many years previously, and part of this strength it borrows from the great ver- dict rendered on this side of the Atlantic in favor of popular institutions. Because the failure of these institutions had been assumed by the aristocratic elements in England, and because such a failure had been relied upon to strengthen the repressive powers, for these very reasons the reaction of sentiment conse- quent upon our success has immensely greater force, and the popular principle in Britain advances with positive tread it never as- pmed before. Upon the principle of revo- Jution, as embodied in national institutions, the world must rely for peaceful political progress; and just in proportion as nations acknowledge this principle, and provide in their constitutions for its action, so will all pro- gress be possible and peaceful. The Emperor of the French, in his reply to the committee that waited upon him with the address, laid the stress of his observations upon the words “trap- quillity and prosperity.” By that—putting him- self on another issue entirely—he begged the whole question of the political position of his government. But in the speech from the throne that called out the address he had offered a defence of his position, In that speech also ho had rejoiced “in seeing, at the end of four- teen yoars, France respected abroad, tranquil within;” he had denounced political discussion as the pretext of unquiet spirits, and he had guggceted a comparison of Frenoh institutions with those of England and the United States, intimating that the differences between them were only such ag were necessary to fit those institutions to the genius of France. But in those very differences lies the vital spirit of the institutions—the conservative revolu- tionary principle. In the suppression of that principle by the Emperor lies the danger of France, This the opposition saw in its declaration that “France would willingly ac- cept the example proposed to her of the United States; but she cannot consent to borrow, from the republic and the monarchy what consti- tutes authority, while respecting in each of thoge forms of government what constitutes authority.” : All the philosophy of all the ages vainly discussed the problem of goverment in search of some principle that might render it perma- nent, and modern practice discovers that this long sought secret of permanence is the prin- ciple of change. No governments can be per- manent but those that allow for growth—the progressive development of the people—ang accept and-utilize it. Governments that deny that growth and struggle against it, it will in- evitably overthrow. It is the especial glory of our institutions that we accept this principle in the fullest degree. Every four years comes to us the appointed period for a revolution. We watch the government with respect to our action for that proper time. If it becomes ob- noxious, if it is behind the times, if it does not do the will of the people, it goes out If it is a government that suits us, we may retain it for anotker period. In Great Britain the princi- ple is accepted, but not so positively. The Ministry falls before a Parliamentary majority against it; but the grand difference between that test and the test of direct appeal to the people robs the principle in England of fully half its force. But the Emperor of the French says, “with a Chamber mistress of the fate of ministers, the executive is without authority and without spirit.” He makes the grand error of opposing the saving principle for the sake of a more efficient executive. He falls into the error of the ancient régime. He assumes the exact position of the sovereigns who forced the revolution by a direct negation of the prin- ciples of 1789. The principle that Napoleon would crnsh out of the constitution of France the great Revolution put into it, and this prin- ciple is to some extent admitted by uni- versal suffrage, though in practice it is robbed of its pdéwer. But it lies there an instrument ready to the hands of the nation whenever sho shall feel the will to use it, Tox Jounson Unton- Mertine at Wasninc- TON.—There was @ very spirited mass meeting of the friends of the Union and the constitution, on the Johnson platform, in Washington, on Thursday evening last. It was a meeting of some importance, too, as marking the com- mencement of active work, the breaking of the ground, towards the formation of a new na- tional party on the basis of President John- son’s Union policy. The managers and orators of the meeting were not old copperheads cast- ing about for something to keep their heads above water ; nor was it a meeting of recon- structed rebels anxious for vengeance against the abolition radicals ; nor was it a democratic contrivance designed to influence any forth- com'ng political eleotion ; for we shall have no more political elections of any consequence until October next, when Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana will speak upon the great issues of the day, The meeting in question, regardless of party distinctions, was a meeting of Union men, who believe that the policy of President Johnson is good, and will restore the Union on the solid foundation of peace and harmony among all sections, all races and all classes of the Ameri- can people, and that the schemes of the“ radi: cals are impracticable and revolutionary. The great object of the war against the late rebel- lion, as defined in the resolutions of Congress of 1861 and 1862, and in the Baltimore Union war party platform of 1864, upon which Lincoln and Johnson were elected, was the object of this mass meeting—the restoration of the Union. This, too, being the great object of President Johnson’s Southern nfs the meeting was harmonious and en ic in his sup- port. On this ground such loyal Union war men as General Swift, an old line Massa- chusetts abolitionist; Senator Cowan, of Penn- sylvania, a steadfast republican supporter of the war for the Union from the beginning, and Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, of the House of Representatives, a Union war man and abolitionist of the Lincoln school—all found in Andrew Johnson, as the case now stands, a satisfactory champion of the Union cause. The gathering of these conservative elements at Washington in defence of President John- son’s administration is, we say, © movement which marks the beginning of the practical work looking to the organization, upon the living and leading issues of the day, of the great national party of the future. The example thus set in Washington should be followed up by conservative Union men throughout the country. Men who carried the brand of peace copperheads during the war ought to keep in the background, and be con- tent rather to follow than to lead in these move- ments for an independent Johnson Union party. The true course for the men of the outlawed Chicago democratic organization is not to wait for President Johnson to come over to thom; but it is for them to drop their old, wornout party uniform, leaders and bylaws, and go over to President Johnson and the nucleus of the Union war party crystallizing around his administration. This is the way in which the Johnson Union party movement inaugurated at Washington can be pushed forward with such success against the radicals as to clear the track for the Presidential succession. Tar Granp Bovtxvarp.—The Park Board of Commissioners, who have charge of the grand boulevagd around the upper part of the island, have just been reappointed for five years, and this magnificent work can now be pushed rapidly forward. Next to the Park itself, the boulevard will be the greatest ornament of the city, and after it has been opened but a short time poople will wonder, as in the case of the Park, how New York ever existed without it. Jerr. Davis ann Cononesa—The resolution offered in Congress instructing the Judiciary Committee to report whether there is probable cause to believe Jeff. Davis and other State Prisoners guilty of treason, and whether any legislation is necessary to bring them to trial, ought to be passed. Jeff. Davis and his asso- ciates are either guilty or innocent, and, in SUPPLEMENT. either case, they have a xight to be tried and convicted or ‘acquitted. country cannot afford to have any man in an iron mask, like France. Let Davis be sent out of the country or be put upon his trial. Rumors of Wars Among the Fenians. There isa variety of rumors afloat concern- ing what the Fenians are doing and what they are not doing. Expeditions to Bermuda are talked of to establish in that portion of British domain a base of attack upon Ireland. Movo- ments upon Canada, which were supposed to have been abandoned, it is also said, are now to be revived; and so on. Without pretending to any knowledge as to the truth of these re- ports, we may say that the Fenians have kept the British authorities in hot water, both in Great Britain and Canada, for some time past; and they ought to do something now besides collecting money, which appears to be coming in without stint. If all the reports be true, greenbacks and munitions of war are flowing into “headquarters” like a perfect sea. It is natural to suppose that the liberal contributors have “great expectations” of the result which is to come out of the movement, and it would appear to be the duty of the official recipients of these contributions to put them to good use. Whether they have really sent an expedition abroad, or are husbanding thelr resources until the right time to strike shall arrive, is a matter of which the leaders of this mysterious con- spiracy are the best judges; but in the mean- time Fenian projects form excellent matter for public gossip and private discussion. If they have sent their argonauts in search of the golden fleece of Irish independence it is all very well; for they must have done it very skilfully not to have been caught by those vigi- lant custodians of international law, the United States marshals. If they have not, and are still contemplating such a movement, they had better look sharp, or the government authori- ties may lay an embargo upon their iron-clads, A good many mysterious movements have been.going on for a few days past which might warrant the suspicion that an expedition was really on foot. For instance, we have been inforn.ed that quite a number of work- men have been missing from factories and foundries, and several Irish waiters have vacated: their places in some of the hotels. Fenianism is now pretty well understood to be almost omnipresent. It is said that you can hardly put your finger upon an Irishman, either in Great Britain or America, without touching a Fenian. According to the statement of the Irish ex-Attorney General Whiteside, in the British Parliament, Stephens, who is the inspiration of the movement, Is one of the shrewdest and ablest revolutionists of modern times. If we can judge from the tone of the French press, Fenianism does not find its only adherents and advocates in Ireland and America, It has sympathizers also on the Con- tinent of Europe. The French Canadians, too, rather appear to favor it, because they object to the centralizing idea of British imperialism embraced in the project of confederation. Fe- nianism, therefore, may claim some strength and some significance. How the leaders of the movement intend to use the power which they apparently hold is a matter at’ the present time merely of conjecture. Rumors are abun- dant and wild. We must wait for the facts. However, one thing ts certain: that whether any fruit ripens from all these rosy buds and blossoms of revolution, or the nipping frost of disappointment shall wither them up, the Brit- ish government at home and in the American colonies have been grievously disturbed and put to great expense—a inatter which, in cot sideration of the course that government pur- sued during our late war, we can hardly be ex- pected to regret very deeply. Frees Aut Arounp Us—Somernina Wrono iN Tae Fine Derartwent.—Our local columns furnish accounts of conflagrations that occurred during yesterday at two or three different points around the Henarp office. The loss at one of these fires was very heavy, having destroyed a large amount of valuable property on Broadway, near the Astor House. The fire alarms were sounded from five o’clock yester- day morning until two o’clock in the afternoon. The steam fire engines were busily at work during this time, and were on hand at each fire with their usual alacrity. The alarming in. crease of serious conflagrations in this city admonishes us that there is something radically wrong in the mansgement of our new paid fire department. The fault cannot lie with the engines, for they are the best that can be manufactured; it cannot well be attributed to the firemen themselves, for they comprise some of the oldest and most experienced in the city; it cannot be traced to an insufficient supply of water, for that is next to inexhaustible. Some of these fires burn four or five hours, when, with the new steam apparatus, streams of water can be poured upon them sufficient to inundate a large town. It is folly to attribute the in- efficiency of the department to the fact that the men are paid for their services, There are less men than under the volunteer system, itis trae; but this deficiency is supplied by good, strong and speedy horses, with capable drivers. In the way things are going on with regard to this matter the city will in time be without fire insurance companies. Several have already failed on account of severe losses, and others are presumed to be in an unsound eondition. The present fire sysiem seems to be all right, but with all that we have more fires and more losses than ever before. The Board of Fire Commissioners must be held responsi- ble for the mismanagement of the department, and unless they can make proper explanations the Governor should remove them and fill their places with better men. MassacuvseTts Quispiine Asout Parive Her Recevrrine AGExts.—A case is before the Su- preme Bench of Massachusetts in which the plaintiff claims of that State the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars for services rendered in enabling the State to fill its quota of troops during the rebellion. Although hor native troops are entitled to the highest credit for their services during the war, Massachnscits can Claim no credit at all for the manner in which she filled her levies outside her borders, In sending agents to South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and other rebel- Mons Southern States, for the purpose of recruit- ing negroes, she reflected upon the patriotism of her sons, who, according to the declaration of Governor Andrew, would “block up the ave- nues” in their eagerness to volunteer, if Pres} dent Lincoln would but issue an emancipation proclamation. The proclamation was imsued, but no avenues were blocked, unless they were the avenues on Deer Island, where German ang other foreign immigrants were landed and “gently pressed” to help the State f!1 her quotas. Tho amart rebuke administered by General Sherman to one of the agents of Mas- sachusetts, who asked permission to recrait contrabands within his lines, must also be taken into consideration when the glory of the State, is vaunted as her muster roll is pointed at Massachusetts should not quibble about paying the bills for the gory dance her radicals did so much toward leading off. Rapicat Braspnemy.—In the Senate on Thursday, speaking upon motion to adjourn, Senator Wade insisted upon taking an imme- diate vote upon the President’s veto, end stated, in effect, that the Almighty had made- certain conservative Senators ill in order to afford the radicals an opportunity to override the vete. Such blasphemy deserved the severe rebuke which it received im the Senate, and merits the unanimous disapprobation ‘of all right-minded men. The New York Battery “in Olden Times.” 10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Our old companions are mostly gone, and our nom~ bers are but few who can relate to the present genera- tiom the lovelinoss and beauty of the Battery grounds which New Yorkers were once charmed to speak of and take their friends to watt, in good olden times, with the greatest men of America, All of us now living who can remember that daily resort of tho most clevated New York population, who considered it necessary for their health to walk there at least onco or twice a day during the heated summer weather, can realize the fear- ful change it now presents and the mortificat‘on an ol@ Now Yorker feels in seeing what was once the sacre® spot of his health, pride and pleasure, transformed by some Vandal power to its present neglected, loathsome, , polluted situation, H We can well remember when the grass was cultivated and looked rich as a velvet carpet, when the walse were dally swept, and goats arranged under the foliage of the trees, where the children played and their parents assembled to enjoy with them the delicious sea breeze, ag a messenger from the Atlantic Ocean, with healing om its wings to all our confln d city popula ion. We can well remember many an evening, when ork day’s work was done, congregating together with th: dear to us on the New York Battery, and with pride conversation, anticipating what our fieet, then of tle Battery, with the broad pennant flying from the frignie President, Commodore Rogers, would accomplish in the second war of our national independence. We then reahzed that it was necessary to spend an hour or two in the evening on the Battery in orJer to enjoy a 10frosh- ing night of sleep, and in the heated mornings an hour there intaling the sea bro:ze gave life and animation ta meet the labors of the day. The Battery was thon the beautiful spot of vegetation with which the s¢a breeze firet united from its ocean travel to transport the w love of nature's choicest offsprings to the home of every inhabitant of @ar city. The faint old man wou'd len his silvered head to feel its It kissed the little child aslegs, ee ii. { Eh ae crate eo ry who stood Pico friend's bed 207h 12 haar fhe GumDE soUnS, A eit; Grateful wo the burning brow. Now how changed the scone, to every American ; for its fascinations were not conti to Now Yorkers. ‘The New York Battery was blended with the national of our ee ‘The Destroyer’s hands have obiiterated beautiful connected with that sacred spot, and sul tuted for nature’s here the ma- Jaria from the filth and ition of the city, carted from different streets and ped ul ‘the grass to annibilate its existence and prepare the germ of cholera that contaminates this once sacred to there vegetate and extend its deadly ‘hen the lovely sea breeze, if | & tH EE of past genorasions. avction sale ov PicruaRs. A collection of pictures, said to be the property of a gentleman about to go abroad—Mr. Roope, of Brovkiog, N. Y.—was sold in the old Dusseldorf Gallery last even- ing, by Héory H. Leods, auctioneer, On the catalogue were announced works by Rubens, Guereino, Claude Lorraine, Domeniehino, Voract, Ruysdael, Jaspar Poussin, and other artists, whose names aro less familiar them these great masters, The attendance was very slim, aad that the frames were to be sold with the pictures, The purchasers of works catalogued as by Claude Lorraine, Carlo Dolet, Ruyedac!, Domenichino, Poussin or Rubeas, at prices would have been for dy cuuien 6 teen sonctares did not. rea in the collec ton thom were wretched caricatures: ine peta the whole soventy-nine pic! being Sone ave o 'n price, rushed the rest of sto commence at half-past one o'clock. Mr. John E. Owens plays his famous cheracter, Caleb Plammer, sustained ‘hy the entire foree of the company. Tony Pastor's matinee commences at his Op-ra House in the Bowery at half-pag@ two o'clock. Stephens’ Feeape will be performed, song and dance abound, and the whole concluding with a grand tableau, George Christy's fashionable matinee, at the new Fifth Avenue Opera House, opons at two o'clock, A splendid programme is issued. Robin Ruff and Gaffer Green, Stocks are Up, the Miller and his Men, with all the other Inte novelues, are ombraced in it, Mr. W. 8. Bud- worth, a favorite, takes @ benefit at the house in te evening. News fics Cinctumati. DRATH OF AN EDITON—MOVRMENTS OF MRI JEP- PERSON DAVIS, BTC. Cimcaenars, April®, 1865, James D. Taylor, formerly editor of the Cincinnats Times, died in Richiand county, Tiieots, 9 ‘the Sist wit, ‘Mra. Jefferson Davis arnved bere thie morning from Loutaville. ‘The bill authorizing the city of Ciy.cinnati to purchase the gas works passed both houws of the Logisiatare yesterday, so amended as tp ry¥,uire the question to he Pubmitted to the popular von