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BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel —Sraior ww Sivatya, Daca, &0.— Tux Srursx, A Heap Wituovr 4 Bopr. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Stxa- 3NG, Dancina, BURLESQUES, &c.—Tux Wonkina Ginus oF New Yous. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Oup Scnoou or Minstrexsr, Battaps, Musica (ems. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos. Zand 4 West Twenty-fourta street.—Raw Recauits. BRYANTS’ MINSTREL3, Mechantos, Hall, 472 Brows Way.—Nxcuo Comicaritixs, BURLESQUES, &0.—BURLESQUE Hirropnome. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Brixp Tom's Graxp Piano Concert. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSER, Brooklyn.—Eraroriax Mine STRELSY—BatLaps, BUKLESQUES AND PAaNtoMntes. NEW YORK MUSEUM Of ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @penfrom 10 A. M. till10 . M COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Gneat Fare or THe ov St. Ann’s Cuvucu, Eighth street, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO.—Lapy or Lyons. DBRBY FINE ARTS GALLERY, 625 Broadway.—Ex- ‘MIBITIONS OF PalnTiNGs, dc. SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Granp Sacrzp Concert. ST. PETEWS GHURCH, Barclay street,—Sxcoxn ‘WuaL Sacngn Con e ‘ork, Sunday, April 8, 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 tho receipts from advertising of all the daily papers of this city for two years, In the first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second columa are the recoipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months Pir the ending Dec, 31, 1864. Yenr 1865. $577,455 $652,192 260 960 301,941 251,812 284,412 163,177 222,715 128,056 177,204 100,595, 173,646 62,644 164,461 67,550 126,380 94,228 101,793 60,322 77,556 45,968 77,048 Evening Express. . 62,350 63,742 Now Yorker Demokrat. 21,052 5 Tb WOMB Ss ies essinsdic’ $1,878,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Hxratp to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- cating their business wants to the public. THB NEWS. CONGRESS. . ‘Tho Senate was not in session yesterday. ‘In the House, in accordance with the order of the day before, business was confined to debate on the Pros.dent’s Message. Mr. Hogan, (dem.) of Missouri, designated this session as one of magazine articles, and stated that the Globe contained three or four hundred more pages this session than it did for the corresponding period in any former session. Mr. Wilson, (rep) of Towa, gave notice that he would ask to have the veto message taken up on Monday Morning, if received from the Senate, and that he would ‘Move the previous question in order to bring the House to an immediate vote on the bill. He thought the i'l had Qeon discussed sufficiently. Mr. Bingham did not think Tennessee was in a condition to exercise tho func- tions of a State in the Union. A communication from the Secretary of War in relation to various matters was Presented by the Speaker. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yosterday the bills amending the char- tors of the New York Conservatory of Muvic and of the Long Island Water Company, incorporating the Blank Book Binding Association of New York, providing for the orection of @ public market in New York, ond amend Ing the act for the widening of Broadway between Fifty- seventh and Fifty-ninth street, were al! pares’. Bilis to increase the salary of the Metropolitan Police, and for the improvement of the Broadway pavement from the Battery to Fourteenth street, were ordered to # third reading. In the Assembly, the Annual Supply and the State Charity bills were ordered to a third reading. Instead of the Bowery and Lexington Avenue Railroad Dill, reported yesterday to have passed the Senate, it ‘was the Broadway and Lexington avenue. THE CITY. * The committee of the Legislature on Jadioury Afure fnd the Quarantine Commission went down the harbor yestorday for the purpose of surveying the Lower Bay, ‘with & view to ascertain the propriety of the establish- mont of lazaretioes on the West Ranks; but the weather being unpropitious they retarned to New York after visiting the hospital ship Faichion, tying atthe Ene basin. General Superintendent Kennedy yesterday isened an order addressed to the captains of tho several police Precincts notifying them of the recent pareage of an act to prevent the throwing of asbes and other cubstances in the streets, and directing them to cause the Immediate of all persons who are lable to be charged with a for violation of the law. Betts was engaged yesterday investi. ‘8 charge preferred by the captain of the berk Against eight of the crew for mutinous conduct om the veenee from Lavereool to Now York. i appeared from the evidenco that from time to during the voyage the men wefused to work, but it was not alleged that they had committed any aggravated act. The defendants were committed for further examination till Tuesday. ‘The caso of the Meteor was again up yesterday before Judge Betts, in the United State District Court One witness was examined, when thooase for the prosecution rested, and tho court adjourned till Monday at eleven , ° basa Dodge yesterday committed policeman William Walton, of the Metropolitan Police, on the charge of dis- orderly conduct, im default of three hundred dollars dail. On the 4th inst, « man giving his name as J. G, Town- send purchased of Mesars. L. E. Amswick & Co., Broad street, cigars to the amouat of $807 90, ordering them to be delivered to J. S. Miner, No. 29 Qld alip, who would give acheck for the amount on delivery. The goods were delivered, and the check bn the Bowery National Bank given in the name of J. 8 Mwuer by a man who, it is now alleged, was named James Woodis, On going to the bank to have the check certified Mr. Amswick’s salesman was informed that there was not sufficient money to Mr, Miner's credit to pay the amount, The owner of tho cigars, placing a watch over the property, found they were con- veyed to a pawnbroker’s establishment, when be entered his complaint, and Woodis was arrested and committed for examination. John Rosser, who had been @ seaman on board the American ship Charles Sprague, has’ been held by Com- missioner Osborn for examination on Tuesday next, on a charge of having attempted to scuttle that vessel while on her voyage from Newport, Wales, to New York, inthe month of February last. ‘The New York East (Methodist Episcopal) Conference concluded the fourth day of its session in Brooklyn yes- terday, Bishop Scott in the chair, The Rev. D. Andrews conducted the devotional exercises. A report and a series of resolutions were submitted by the Committee on Tem- perance, to the offect that they recognized in the Na- tional Temperance Society recently organized a most effectual agent for the prosecution of the work before them, and pledging themselves to aid it by all possible means, The Rev. E. E. Griswold presented recommendations of four young men to dea- con's orders, One thousand dollars was subscribed to farnish a house for tho Rev. Mr. Weed, a venerable min- ister of the Church, The Committee on Church Exten- sion submitted resolutions recommending that collec- tions be taken up for the Church Extension Society during the month of May. A debate arose on this sub- ject, in which the subjects of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Civil Rights bill were discussed, To-day tho ordination of elders and deacons will take place. The Convention adjourned to meet to-morrow morning. During last week the wills of the following named persons were admitted to probate by the Surrovate of Kings county:—Henry Hendrickson, Patrick Hogan, Priscilla Barker Smith, Thos, A. O'Neil, Thos. H. Gilder- sleeve, Ellen D. Gilderaleeve, Maria H. Ellison and Wr. Loughlin, all of Brooklyn, Letters of administration wore granted on the estates of Jas. Murray, Geo. H. Scott, Margaret Alexander, Eleanor Carhart, John Con- nell, Geo, Wangner, Margaretta Saunders and James McTeague, also all of Brooklyn, The piano manufactory occupied by Mr. Lars Thiseng, in the rear of Thirty-third street, was entirely destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss about $30,000; in- surance about $16,000. About eight P. M, yesterday some frame stables in rear of No, 360 Fifth street were also burned. There havo 49 steamers, 21 ships, 48 barks, 61 brigs, 212 schooners—in all 391 vessels—arrived at this port during the week ending April 7. Ninetecn steamers sailed yesterday, seven for foreign and twelve for do- mestic ports. ‘The deaths in the city of Brooklyn during 1ast week numbered one hundred and thirty-eight. Of these thiriy- three were mon, thirty-two women, forty-four boys and twenty-aine girls, The principal diseases were con- sumption, diseases ot th brain, dropsy and bronchitis. The stock market was strong yesterday, and prices ad- vanced throvghout the railway list, Governments were steady and dull. Goid weakened to 127 and closed at 127%. Business was decidedly dull yesterday, the downward start of gold having the tendency to unsettle the market values of almost all kinds of merchandise and thus check the demand, Cotton was dull and nominal. Po- tro!eum was dull and nominal. Coffee without decided chenge. Sugar firm, with a moderate demand. On "Change flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was heavy. Corn was firm. Oats were drooping. Pork dull but unchanged. Lard inactive and drooping. Whiskoy duil and nominal, MISCELLANEOUS. Ocr correspondent at Fredericton, N. B., gives us this mornivg some highly interesting facts about the con- federation scheme now being agitated there, embracing a lustory of its rise and progress and an idea of the pub- lic feeling regarding it. Popular opinion is strongly opposed to any union of the maritime with the interior Provinces of Canada; and the people openly ex- press a preference for union with the United States, The hostility w the confederation schowe in Parlin. mont and other official circles of New Bruvswick is not, however, #0 positive, and fears wero entertained at tho time our correspondent wrote that home influence and “British gold’ would procure the passage by Parhament Of resolutions fevoring confederation. This surmise has proven to be parily correct, forthe Upper House of the Now Pranswick Parliament on the 6th inst, passed such resolutions, and expressed m an address to the Queen a desire for the inauguration of steps looking to the adop- tion of the Quebec scheme of confederation, The Canadians are still reducing thoir frontier force, notwithstanding the Bermuda expedition reports, B. Doran Killian, according to the statement of a prominent ‘Toronto editor, mforms the Canadian government of the Fenian designs. Thero has been no invasion of Campo Bello by the Fenians as yet. Advices from Mexico via Now Orleans state that Cor- tina's camp at San Fernando was Ufoken up, and Mon. torey, Loredo, Piedras and Negras were in possession of the imperialists. By way of San Francisco it is stated that Godoy, the Mexican Consni at that place, contra- diets the ramor that Ogazon bas procieimed himself President, and declares that the decree «xtending Jua- rez? term of oifice is sanctioned by him. ; ‘The Legislature of California on the 16th of February jast passed resolutions almost unanimousiy calling on the United Stai+s government to interfere and overthrow by force of erma the empire of Maximilian in Mexico. ‘The President has approved and signed the bill for the mor effectual punishment of certain crimes against the United States, It pronounces the uttering of counterfeit bonds, guarantecs, s-curities, &¢., for the purpose of de- fravding the government, a felony, and punishable with ten years imprisoument and hard jabor, ora fine of one thousand dollars, or both. The bills providing compen- sation for the Joss of the effects of @ naval officer at sea, and transferring the custody of the Smiths sian Library ‘to the library of Congress, were also approve: and signed. Our despatches (rom New Orteans state that the cre. vasses in Loulsiana ore very extensive. The whole parish of West Rouge and the rear of the city of Now Orleans is the The British Steamship Company and the merchants of New Orleans are agitating the subject of deepening the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi. General Scott left New Orieans for this city on the tth stant, The steamer Eliza Hancox, from Galveston, at Fortress jontoe on the Sth mst, passed a large propeller on the ‘28th ult., about five miles below Carysfort light, wrecked. She is suppoeed to be une of the steamers running be- tween New York and New Orleans, The bank panic at Rochester, in thie State, is over. No more failures are reported, the banking houses having withstood the calls upon them. The assignité: of Ward & Brother, who suspended os Thursday morning. are preparing to pay ® percentage to depomtors, and finally to fuily satisfy all creditors, \ The boiler of the steamtag Charles H. and wndows. Al! on board (said to be five porsons) were of course instantly killed. The Oregon Democratic State Convention yesterday dominated Mr. Kelly for Governor and Mr. Fay for Con- gress. President Johnson's policy was endorsed. Salutes were fired in Philadelphia, Boston, Portland and other places yesterday in honor of the passage of tho Civil Rights bill ovor the veto of the President. Five steamboats were burned at the levee in St. Louis, ‘Mo., yesterday, involving a loss of $625,000 in boate and cargoes. ‘The receipts from internal revenue ‘ih Washington doring the past week were $7,000,000. Captain Semmes bas been released Wy order of the Dresdens NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1866. Fae The Civil Rights Bill—The Conflict Be- tween the Radicals and the Adminis- tration. The Civil Rights bill, by the required con- stitutional two-thirds vote in the affirmative— 33 to 15—has passed the Senate, and will doubtless pass the House also by the required majority. The constitution declares “that every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United States. If he approve he shall aign it; but if not he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal and proceed to recon- sider it. If, after such reconsideration, two- thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objec- tions, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and, if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become 9 law.” gras settee In anticipation of this complete action on the Civil Rights bill the Tribune throws out this offensive insinuation:—“Well, it is said the President will not enforce the provisions of the act. It is possible” The hint has also been suggested by certain democratic jour- nals,and upon the assumption that the Presi- dent is not bound to enforce a law which he believes to be unconstitutional. There is,no authority, however, and no precedent on re- cord to justify this assumption, If this Civil Rights bill shall pass the House, as it has passed the Senate, by a two-thirds vote, assum- ing the validity of this Congress, it becomes a law notwithstanding the President’s objec- tions, and he is bound to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” This is his duty until the proper department, the Supreme Court, shall have declared unconstitutional any measure which may become a law in spite of his objections; and we know from the record of his whole public course that Andrew Jobn- son is not the man to evade or neglect a con- stitational duty. But it is urged in certain quarters that the President will not be bound in the case of this Civil Rights bill, even if passed over his veto; because this Congress is not a congress of the United States, eleven States being excluded from any representation in it. This was one of President Johnson’s leading objections to the Civil Rights bill, that it most affected the local concerns of States which are excluded from any voice in this legislation. But in the acts of this Congress which he has signed he has recog- nized it as competent to legislate in behalf of the general interests of the United States, not- withstanding the exclusion of the eleven lately rebellious States. We infer, therefore, that with the passage of the Civil Rights bill by a two- thirds vote of the House it will be recognized and executed by the President as a law of the Iund until the Supreme Court shall have pro- nounced against it, In the meantime the contest between the yadicals and the President will be transferred from Congress to the States and the people. ‘The popular sense of the injustice of the con- tinued exclusion from this Congress of the late rebel States will become stronger and stronger, until this game of exclusion shall be defpated in the elections for the next Congress. In this connection the injustice of these radical mea- sures of legislation for the reconstruction of the locat affairs of the States denied any representation in Congress will be made appa- rent; but, above all, the tendencies of the radical plan of Southern resto- ration to the placing of whites, negroes, In- dians, Chinese and gypseys on the same level of political and social equality will control the reorganization of our political parties, The Civil Rights bill is the entering wedge to the division of the political elemenis of the country between the administration and the radicale. That hitherto most ultra of the abolition ultras, Senator Lane, of Kansas, very forcibly said in Friday’s debate in the Seunte that “the repub- lican party is crumbling to pieces,” and that “every day we postpone ihe reception of these States (the excluded States of the Sonth) insures the destruction of the party,” and that nothing can eave it but harmony between Con- gress and the administration. Hence Senator Lane proposed that when eny one of the late rebel States s)all present satisfactory evidence that it has complied with President Jobn- son’s terms of reeonstraction, including a limited negro suffrage, the Senators and Repre- sentatives of euch State, duly qualified as loyal men, shall be admitted into Congress. From.this proposition from a Kansas radical it will be perceived that there is some alarm in the republican camp, and an idea that they have been pushing their extreme notions too far. In this Civil Rix hts bill tly upset all (he me. sures of local legislation accompfished or undertaken by the late siave States to adapt their two races of people to the abolition of slavery, without undne violence to the Inws, usages, customs, distinction: and prejudices of @ bundred yeers of cultivation and legal pro- tection, colonial, Siaie and federal. A gen- erous consideration of these things had its full weight in the President’s veto. Had the two houses of Congress been controlled by the same comprehensive patriotism they would have pursued the sam8 course. In adhering to their extreme theorie® and schemes of “human rights” they come into conflict not only with the administration, but with the predominant public sentiment of the country; and in an appeal from Congress to the people the safe, sound and acceptable policy of President Johnson will surely be sustained, A Worxmo Lrorststons.—In the bistery of legislation we do not remember to have seen as much work done in a few hours as was accomplished by the Assembly of this State on Friday. We think that the work performed often ut the last few hours of an expiring Con- gress has not been greater or more varied. Besides other bills of not s> much importance, the Assembly passed the Quarantine bill, « bill to divide the Sta‘e into judicial districts, the Niagara Ship Canal bill, the bill abolishing feudal tenures, the Central Railroad Fare bill, and various city railroad bills, as the Christo- pher street, Cortlandt street, Broadway and Lexington avenue, and the Corrugated Ele- vated Railway. How these various measures may fare in the Senate is yet to be seen. Some of them, as the Quorantine, Niagara Ship CanAl, and Judicial Districts bills, are undoubt edly for the public benefiy Some of the city railroad bills also may be ne but there is reason to fenr that at the bottom and behind all these there lies the grand job of » Surface Broadway raiiroed. While we give the Assew- bly credit for several of its measures and for doing so much work, we cannot help feeling a little suspicious that the hurrying and crowd- ing so many city railroad bills through at once has something to do with the vast combination to gridiron this metropolis, including Broad- way, with railroads for the benefit of individual and corporate monopolists. In this view of the case it behooves our citizens to watch care- fully the proceedings. lines will be constructed at the expense of company, and interfere in the least pos- sible manner with the rights of property holders and those tradesmen who are doing a valuable business upoa the principal thorough- fares, and whose loss would be irreparable if the Broadway underground project be carried into exeeution. A biH having in view some measure of this kind, without selecting the pre- cise. location, te before . the Legislature in Committee of the Whole, and if it do not prove a job or a miserable speculation on the part of the getters-up, neither of which appears at present, itis deserving of consideration at the hands of our legislators in Albany. It is time the Broadway railroad complication at Al- bany were settled some way or other, and this is the best way to do it. Potrmcat Civss anp Humeva Poxrricians.— We notice that a set of old, worn-out, scheming politicians have got up a club in Washington which they presume to call the Johnson Club. In looking over the list of names of those who organized the club, and who are its officers, we were struck with such a singular mdange or hodge podge of poli- ticians being brought together. As to the use of the President’s name for the club, they were at liberty, of course, to use that or any other name, just the same as Mr. Snooks might call his new bitters the Johnson Bitters, or the patent medicine man call his new nostrum the Johnson Cure All. There is no libel or any- thing particularly wrong in that, though there may be some humbug, assumption or indelicacy in it. But these chaps of the Johnson Club, living at Washington under the nose of the President, and being cunning old _poli- ticians who will make the most of that fact, simple-minded people may imag- ine the President has something to do with it or favors it, The platform of principles they represent is a very heterogeneous one, and one which he cannot stand upon. There are rank secessionists, extreme copperheads, mod- erate democrats, republicans of various shades, pro-tlavery and anti-slavery men, with a large mixture of those who are anything and every- thing to suit their own purposes. A prominent set in this club, who appear to be the man- agers, some of the others only having lent their names probably, are the miserable old District of Columbia politicians, who have been always presumptious and mischievous. It is time these trading and scheming old bunkers were buried out of sight under a load of public contempt. They have neither any status nor influence in the country ; and we did hope till we saw this programme that the revolution we have passed through had buried them, with the secessionists of the South, beyond the chance of resurrec- tion. The secret of the whole movement is that these fellows are laying their plans for the offices which better men ought to have. These politi- cal clubs—and we have some of them here— are great humbuge. Their platforms, speeches, twaddle, and all their action have but one object in view—the spoils. They can do no good, and generally do nothing but mischief. The true power in this country, and we may say of the age, is the independent press. It is under the control of no party; has no schemes to carry out, and looks only to the welfare of the country. It is this, and not any political club, that enlightens the people—that makes and governs public opinion. The day is past when a few old fossil politicians could do anything except to create a smile of con- tempt by parading their names before the public. We recommend this Washington club to shut up its shop, or at least to drop the name of our patriotic President, who is in no way identified with it, and take the more ap- priate one of the Washington Conglomerate Club of Ancient Office Seekers. Tue Porutarrry avp Position or GENERAL Grant.—The universal popularity of Lieutenant General Grant and the unrivalled position which he occupies above all cliques, factions and parties were never better illustrated than at his feception at Washington on Friday even- ing, an account of which we published yester- day. The excitement about the vote on the veto was at its height and the feeling on both sides was very bitter; but representatives of all shades of national and ical opinions met at General Grant’s house as upon neutral ground. President Johnson was present Music in the Metropolis—Bright Prospecta of a Complete Reform. The people of this metropolis are tized of going to the opera simply to look at each other’s dresses. They begin to appreciate music for its own sake and to wonder at the singular infatuation of thosg provincials who sit for a long, cold evening in a great barn of an Academy, where none but the noisiest singers can bg heard, because they think that $0 do-89 is fashionable. Than: this there could be no gtéater mistake. The real fashionables of New York are too intelligent to submit to’ be bored by operas which were trite dozen years ago, and too wealthy to be seduced into the Academy by a reduction in the price of admission. They love music; but it is too much to expect them to listen with any pleasure to voices that are cracked and strained and to melodies so hackneyed that even the street organs have discarded them for something fresher. The time for incompetent manage- ment, fifth-rate musicians and old operas has passed. Concerts are becoming immensely popular, and are superseding the style of per- formance with which all lovers of music have been so disgusted. We shall never have first class Italian opera in this metropolis until ® new opera house is erected of a con- venient and comfortable size and in ac- cordance with those acoustic principles which distinguish a large music hall from a big barn. We hope that before another year the enter- prise and liberality of our citizens will supply us with such a building, properly fitted up and in the charge of a worthy and artistic director. Then, and not till then, New York will be the musical centre of this country. But in the meantime we have evidences on every hand that the spring season is not to be without its attractions for true lovers of music The taste which the Philharmonic Society and the Mendelssohn Union—the two leading mu- sical associations of America—have done 80 much to create and to educate demands enjoy- ment, and means are to be provided for its gratification. Many concerts will be given this season, and most of them by artists of acknow- ledged ability. At these concerts American. singers and performers will be introduced, and @ constant succession of novelties placed before the public. Genuine music will replace the nursery melodies and operatic fripperies which were popular some time ago, simply because the public then despaired of hearing anything better. Irving Hall has been secured for a season of sacred conceris on Sunday after- noons; and, in order to give the proper effect to this religious music, a new organ has been erected. In the summer or the early fall we are promised a series of light, sparkling English operas, like those to be presented at the new French Opera Comique. If the French theatre on Fourteenth street were completed, as it should be, the public might speedily enjoy this delightful programme; but for some reason or other the erection of that edifice is unaccountably delayed. The work upon Steinway’s new concert hall is being pushed rapidly forward, and the new monster organ, which is to throw that of Boston completely |.into the shade, will be ready by the time the hall is finished. Thus we already see the bright prospects of a complete musical reform in this metropolis, and have every reason to believe that New York will not be much longer so far behind the great capitals of Europe in her attention to this department of the arts, There is every opportunity here for good singers and performers. The patronage which has been so lavishly bestowed upon undesery- ing objects will now be reserved for the en- couragement of those who are really excellent. The taste of the community has remarkably improved, and it only remains for our capi- talists to display their usual munificence and this city will soon become the veritable home of the Muses. Tue Broapway Rarroap Comprications at Atpayy.—The muddle at Albany about the relief of Broadway grows more and more curious every day. At one time we learn that all the elevated railroad bills have been quelched. At another that they have not. At one time we hear that the Broadway surface bill has been passed in one house. At another that the corrugated railroad scheme, literally a new “wrinkle,” has also been adopted. In the midst of this muddle it is difficult to under- sland what has and what has not been done on the subject. Four things, however, seem the engineers of the scheme of a clear: railroad under Broadway have succeeded in having the bill for their job adopted in the Assembly by a vote of ninety-six to thirteen; the bills for the Broadway Suface the Crosstown railroad, and the Elevevated railroad (which one does not appear) have passed. These are probably only a few among the many acts in the Broadway railroad farce that is being enacted at Albany. The Broadway underground rail- road men are thoroughly aware that the'r plan willegever be carried into execution. The idea is preposterons, repugnant to the good sense of our citizens, and will never meet their sanction. Its friends may coalesce with the Broadway surface schemers, and thus accomplish something in the end—perhaps in two ends, it none other than the erection of enormous warehouses at both extremities of the city. The Broadway Surface Railroad is, with- out doubt, the real object in view in the at- tainment of which all other interests in the way of relief tor Broadway will finally be suab- merged. But the plan that seems best adapted to the views of all parties, if it does not meet approbation, is to have a combination of all their the schemes proposed, and a new avenue con- structed in the rear of the principal buildings on Broadway, say somewhere between that thoroughfare and West Broadway, and under- ground, surface, and elevated railroads erected between the walls, under the second stories of the buildings through which they may be obliged to pass. This will practically be affording three or four now avenues from the lower to the upper part of the city, from the Battery to Central Park. Here, if the underground plan be found impracticable, the surface and ele- vated roads will be of great service in relieving tha areamraa? travel upon Broadway. The and assisted the General to receive his guests, Among those who called to pay their respects was Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. Quite as prominent as this radical Stevens was the ex-rebel Stephens, of Georgia. The Mar quis de Montholon encountered Senor Romero and the wife of President Juarez. engaged in friendly discourse. In the presence of General Grant there was a truce to all hos- tilities. This shows the truly national—we may say the universal—fame of the Lieuteffant General, and the remirkably liberal and com- prehensive scope of his character. No man since Washington has ever held so conspicu- ous, 60 cuntral and so acknowledged a position as the true representatiwe of the whole country, towering above all differences of polities and opinions, Conrepgration IN THE Barrtisn Provixcrs.— The correspondence from New Brunswick which we publish to-day throws a good deal of light upon the question now agitating the British American colonies—the subject of confedera- tion. On the part of the maritime portion of those States there appears to be a very decided hostility to the confederation scheme. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island do not seem to recognize the value to their own interests in this project. The feeling ‘among the people in these colonies is rather in favor of annexation to the United States than to aconsolidation of power in a centralized of the maritime provinces regard the measure of confederation, and hence their hostility to the movement, The predominance of this feeling would indicate that there are vor, small chances of the confederation project being carried out, despite the strenuous efforts being made by the home government and its agente and officials to help it along. pecnrcie Sth tains dine thactat. ‘Tue Usonrer Evyraxonen.—The radicals have denounced President Johnson as a usurper, and now they have by their votes in the Sea- ate not only accepted him as such, but haye entrusted to him dictatorial powers. Against his will they have declared that he ball im- prison all State judges who disagree with him about the negro; they have declared that he shall fill thousands of offices with his favorites; that he shall have supreme control of the Southern States; that he shall use to an arbi- trary extent his power as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. These are momentous powers to entrust to a single individual. But we hope President Johnson has the eagacity to exercise them with prudence and judgment. FIRS. Five Steamers Burned at St. Louis—Loss $525,000. Sr, Lov, April 7, 1866, The steamers Majors, EMe Deans, Nevada, Fannie Ogden and Frank Bates were burned at the levee this morning. The loss on the boats is about two hundred ang twenty-five thousand dollars and on cargoes three hundred thousand dollars, The Bates belonyed to the North American Fur Company, and was heavily laden with supplies for their trading posts, The insurance is not ascertained, Fire in East Thirty.third Street. About three o’clock on Satarday morning a fire broke out in the pianoforte manufactory owned by Lars Ihiseng, in the rear of Nos. 101, 103 and 105 East Thirty-third street. When first soon the fire appeared to be on the first floor, in the vicinity of the stove, The building was five stories high, seventy-five feet front _by twenty-seven feet deep. It was entirely destroyed. ‘The loss on stock, tools, &c., is o-timated by Mr. Ishlseng at about $2,000; insured for $9,000, The build'ng was owned by Mra Ann M. Thiserg. Loss about, $10,000; insured. for $7,300. When the-rear wall fell som? of the window blinds on the buildings on Thirty-fourth stret wre destroyed, The cornice of Nos, 108 and 110 were also on fire several times, The cause of the fire le unknown at present. Fire in Fifth Street. Shortly before eight o'clock last night a fire occurred in a range of frame stables, rear of No. 360 Fifth street, owned by George T. Laird, and occupied by John Goods - berg, Jacob Simon and others. ‘Iho fire, it seems, was first discovered burning in the hay loft of Mr. Simon’s stable. The whole of the siables wore burned down, involving a loss 0° about $500; no wrurance. The dwelling house No. 248, owned by Mrs E. Laird, was damazed about $500; insured for $3,000 in Peter Cooper Insurance Company, The occupant, Louis Lewengood, has met with a losf of about $100 on furniture; insured. The fire is supposed to be the act of an incendiary The Late Fire in Brondway. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS—A YOUNG MAN MISS- ING—LOSSES, RTC. In the account which app°ared yesterday morning of the fire at the restaurant of H. J, Bang, 231 Broadway, on Friday fast, it was stated that a maidservant named Green had been missing, and that it was feared sho had falien a victim to the flames. The giri’s name is Jane Moore, and it isto be hoped that she is safe. A young man named Victor Steger ia also missing. In the account of the losses by this fire Mr. Sherman’s Joss was erroneously stat'd at $2,000. It should have been $50,000, on which he has an insurance of $30,000. The Bankers’ and Brokers’ Telegraph Company, late at No. 229 Broadway, has been removed to No. 161 Broadway. "The Now York Agency of the Baltimore and Ohio Rall- road Company, also d stroyed by the above mentioned fire, has boen re-established at No. 233 Broadway. Sourm.—The following ism tabular statement of the amount of arms, powder, shot, &c., shipped from the portof New York tothe Southern States during the month of March:— Percusion Car. Gunes & Shot, Caps. tridgs, Piste. Ox, No. N. No. 16,975 110 000 9, 4,526 67,000 4,00 18,045 618,000 80,513 32,254 84.000 29,500 5,675 32,000 6,000 34.999 38,000 = 87,100 4,195 — 4,500 23,385, 2.000 130,009 18,360 358.000 x — 281,000 157,258 1,600,000 Bat or Tre Feviay Stsrens.—On Monday General Sweeny Cirvie of the Fenian Sisterhood will give a ball at Jones’ Assembly Rooms, No. 656 Broadway. The. President of the Fenian Brotherhood, Colonel Roberts, with his Indy, General Sweeny and his staff, and the Fenian élite generally will attend, The affair has been long on the fapis and wi'l_no doubt be a bril- by = 183 O'Shea, the Head Directross, hmm ut tI are to enable General Sweeny to take the ea Prone New Reanixa Roow,—Tho Young Men's Christian As- sociation have organized a branch re: 76 Varick street, for the free use of dhe yo others residing in the neihborhood of St and will open it formally oa Monday Mayor Hoffman and several eating citize —t to be present and take part in the opening exercises. The Meteor Case. CLOSE OF THE CASE FOR THR PROSECUTION. UNITED STATES DISTRICT CovRT, Before Judge Betts, Appi, 7.—At the opening of the court this morning the first witness called was Leonard W. Jerothe, who was re-examined for the prosecution. By Mr. Courtney—Was on board the Moteoronce; that ‘was some four or five months ago; visited the ship im company with the Chilean Minister, Mr. Asta Darnagas; I believe I met Mr. Burnagas on board by appointmer T asked him to, look atthe ship and see if it would euit him to buy 't forfiis government; I know Mr. Mackenna; Twas introdnced to bim by Mr, Burnagas; this was after Thad shown the vessel to Mr. Burnagas; the visit tomo ‘at my office was altogether of a social character, nothing of business being connecteg with it; eaw Mr, Mackenna vera! times after, that; never bad any conversation with Mr, Mackenna irr regard to the Meteor; the mter- view and conversation Thad with the Chilern Minister was to the breaking out of the war between Chile and Spain: the date at which I met Mr. Burnagw on the Meteor was several months before seizure of the vessel. Cross examined—Tho Meteor has been for sale since the clore of the war; when we visited the ship on the occasion referred to the only conversation we had was with reference to the sale and purchase of the vessel; did not say in direct examination that the Chilean Min- ister said he desired to purchase the ship; asked the Minister merely to go and look at the ship; did not ex: pect him to buy it, but to recommend her for sale to his government. The prosecution at this stage rested, and the court adjourned until Monday, at eleven o'clock. Acase came before Commissioner Osborn yextertay disclosing the following circumstances:—It appeared from the deposition of George W. Pike that he is the ‘master of the ship Charles Sprague, and was such on her late voyage from Newport, Wales, to New York. While on the high seas, Mout the Ist of February last, the po gr states thaf'Jghn Rosser, who was a seaman, and an owner or part owner of the ship, mailctously bored of attempted to bore several augur holes (p the bottom of the vessel, with Intent t destroy her. The Charles Sprague is the y of an American citizen. The offence charged is ome which is severely punished by the laws of the United States, Roser har ar. rested on A warrant issued the Commusioner and held for examination on Tuesday. News from Fortress Monroe. The steamer Eliza Hancox arrived here this morning from Galveston, Texas, having touched at Key Weat and Charieston to obtain a supply of coal. She encountered a heavy blow in the Gulf, and reports baving passed om the 28th ult, a large propeller steamship, supposed to be fr New York to New Ry ee with her foremast gone, and the wreckers naling towards her. The Hancox was inside the board #he could not find way setae, Se pit Pe ceosquentty usable to render the to-day short of coal. improved today, and aportion of the y been lying in the which have John Sylvester arrived here this after. Tt ia tmtended to piace her om elfe}