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Commercial Adve! Daily Nows.... Evening Expross. New Yorkor Demokrat $2,489,724 to be, by ils extensive and Totais This shows the Hrnat comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adyor- tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of commun’ cating their business wants to the public $1,878,267 THD NEWS. President Jolinson has issued « circular direct- ing that preference shali be given to meritorions antl honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, expecially tioso disabled by wounds received or disease con- tracted in tho service, in appointments to oflice ia the soveral executive departments, and that al! promotions in such departments shall be given to such persons in preference to those who have not served faithfully iw the land or naval forces, According to our Washington despatches the brevets granted by Congress through the working of Secrotary Blanton, and which were ignored by the St. Louis board of officers, are making the Oghting regulars indignant An attempt is proposed to secure the recowsideration of them by the Senate, The findings and sentences of the military comm «sion inthe Alexandria riot case are published by the War De partment. Jobn Mankin, John Lawler and others charged with murder on the person of John Auvlorvon, a colored man, and assault with intent to kill four soldi tn the United States service, were sentenced as follows: — ohn Mankin to be confined at hard labor for fifteen years, John Lawler for five yoars, and three others for 4 months. The Prosident mitizated the sontenge of Mankin to five and that of Lawler to two years. An intoresting @ompilation (rom our latest European foports, dated to the 24th of March, which appears in Axratp this morning, embraces an important lar. Hamentary history of the rise and progress of Fenianiem in Ireland and America, its growth and maturity under the guidance of James Stephens and his ait, and ite Preseut position ag an agent of embarraesment, ff not an instrument of danger, to the Eng- Aish government. «Mr. Whiteside, MP, a very bic lawyer and exAttorney General of Ireland, fin noticing Stephens’ escape from the Richmond Prison, in the House of Commons, damaged the Russell Cabinet considerably by giving an exposé if which whowed that the Head Centre was a “daring aod al revolutionist,”’ has been able to move about Ireland and fowrney from Ireland to France and America, aud vice werea, aimont at pleasure, and that thus be perfected a Tach “conspiracy"’ against the Crown He also shows that s “faithful British spy feported the Fenian Drganization in America as dangerous so early as the year (9558-'59, and that English agents have been watching its extension over since, both In this country and at heme, ‘The latest arrests made in Ireland under the suspension bf the habeas corpus are given. The entire police force of , Sroland i» to be armod with rovolvers in addition fo their rifles and sword bayonets Amoricafi ¢ tizens fn prison as “suspects’’ in Ireland may obtain Bheir release by promising to leave the country Tor home, The article from the Madrid Epo, prhich we print, makes very light of Ireland's ‘riev. paces’ at the haud of England. The United States at Boifast, Iroland, delivered ® very !inportant prot Ss gn to the American officers in jtownard’s, in which he pointe out, in a vory friendly fmanner, the points of divergence betwoon our govern. (mont system and that of England, showing the superiority fof the Amorican. James Stephens, during bis last jour. eT esas "abe Bila a - NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1866. it is sald, very Httle effort, if any, at concealing his | The Loam Bille-Progress of Correct Views identity, although a reward of £2,000 is on his head. About seventy O'Mahony Fenians arrived yesterday fm Portland from Boston, and about five hundred stand of arms, with accoutrements and ammunition, from New York. Rumors are rife in Fredericton, N. B., of an in- vasion at St, Andrews, on the St Croix, but no impor- tance Mattached to them in government circles, Mr. M. J. Hefforuan, of this city, Central Correspond- ing Secretary of the Fenian Brotherhood, denies that Mr. Doran Killian holds correspondence with Darcy Mc- Geo, and says that no man named James Ryan was ever employed at the headquarters, Our Albany letter indicates that the Niagara Ship Cana! bill will probably become a law unless vetoed by Governor Fenton. If appears also that the New York city reform measures aro not entirely exhausted, as It is proposed to put the Board of Revision asa ridor upon the tax levy, and itis anticipated that Senator Lent’s bill creating twenty-one aldermanie districts may also be saddied with provisions amending tho charter and return- ing to the former inexpedient plan of choosing the Com- mon Council to serve without pay. One of the principal merchants of Mazatlan, Mexico, writes on February 22 to the effect that French restric- tions interrupt all trade, and fears that business with Califompia will have to cease. He says the Mexicans are willing to be ruled by Americana, but not by Europeans, A Newfoundland paper, of recent date, states that the government of the colony ‘dare not” propose a confed- eration scheme to the Legislature, Resolutions of a decidedly anti:confederation character were passed in the Parliament. Uur advices from New Brunswick state that the Gov- ernor has communicated his reply to the Logis‘ative Council endorsing the confederation recommendations embodied in the address to the Queen. Great excite- ment prevails, consequently, as the government party aro anti-confederation, and this document forces upon them the necessity of resigning. They threaten that an aitempt to force confederation on them will be attended with serious consequences. A correspondent gives interesting details of the forced abdication of Prince Alexander Couza, of Moldavia, Twenty of the most prominent nebles swore to drive him out of the country or die in the attompt; they gained most of the army to their side, proceeded to his palace and compelled him to sign the act of abdica- tion, The people aud soldiery Alled the streets, giving vent to their joy in hurrahs, Conza is now in France, probably, with his immense treasures. Advices from San Francisco state that the total army expenditures for the Pacific coast for the past quarter were $2,817,950. Tho receipts from customs for the sume period were $2,536,852; from interual revenue, $59,156,900. Mining stocks were stronger. Some anxiety was manifested to hear of the steamer Ajax, six days overdue from Honolulu. Mr. John H, Reagan, ex-Postinaster General of the Inte Confederate States, in a private letter from Palestine, Texas, of March 13, states that he ®as quictly sottled down to farming, and that he employs one whito man and seven freedmen. He says that the Texas Convention is doing just what he advised the people todo in his letter to them from Fort Warren and for which he was yory much condemned at the time. Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, calls on the capitalists of that State to furnish him with money for any length of time they may profor, at seven per cent interest, for the purpose of relieving the people made destitute by the war, ‘the Richmond papers will resume publication to-day, having adjusted matters with their coupositors or secured now ones at reduced rates, Tho fruit crop im Northern Obio has been damaged by severe weather, though not so much as apprehended. In Fast Teonessee the wheat promises badly, and farm- ers are ploughing up their tlelds to sow oats. The maple sugar season in Maine is late, but the run of sap is frec. | In Texas the crop of winter wheat ts well advanced. Southern papers are urging planters to plant grain, and nol give up all their laud to cotton under the incitement ef high prices, A planter of South Carolina writes that the crop of rice on Cooper river will not excved eight hundrod tierces this year, Before the emancipation the annual product of Cooper river was about twenty thou- sand tierees. The cigh! P. M. train from this city to New Haven on Saturday night laet parted near Mamaroneck, and the forward part of the train being checked up suddenly in consequonce, the rear end dashed vidlently against it ‘he train was badly damaged, and a brakeman, named George Peck, had both legs broken, A ption was opened lately for the construction off railroad from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, The latier city is now the common cen!re of five important rail- roads. ‘A now church, erected by the German Lutheran con- gregation, om Staten Islund, of which the Rev. Mr. Goch- ling ts pastor, was opened for divine service yesterday. Tho pastor and the Rev, Mr. Ebart, of Newark, conduct- ed the dedication services, In the case of the United States against Peter Riley and others, which waa tried in the United States District Court, Jersey City, Judge Fields rendered a decision in favor of the defendants. The indictment charged the latier with defrauding one John McCarty, a volunteer duly enlisted in tho service of the United States and credited to Jersey City, of the bounty of that city to which he was entitled, Tho argument on which the decision was based was the fact of McCarty a Posi- dent of New York at the time of his enlistment, and therefore comld not be credited to Jersey City. The express termsof the act under which the indictmont was framed were that volunteers should be credited to the dis trict in whieh they actually resided. . ‘The Board of Health on Friday last referred @ resolu tion to the Sanitary Superintendent, directing that offl- cor to investigate the condition of the New York Hospital, as it had been understood that crysipelas, cangrone and other diseases fatal to persons with open wounds infested the institution, owing to some fault in the construction of the building. The superintendent of the hospital claims that the rativ of such diseases treated im the inatituion i lese than that of any other similar institution, and that the ventilation is as perfect as that of any hospi- tal in the country, Tho institution is stroggling under pecuniary difficulties, the Governors having be u refused any gratuity from the Legislature, and it now depende on the generosity of the individual members of its Board of Governora, The question of the removal of the hospital was thoroughly debated ou Tuesday last by the Board, though no definite action was taken. The report of the Board of Governors to the present Legisia- ture states that three-fourths of tlie cases of fractures, contusions, &e., treated in the institution are brought from below Grand street, and that other hospitals were stablished remote from this one in the belief that the Joeation of the New York Hospital was permanent. Candidates for deacon of the Methodist Episcopal church of the New York Kast Conference were ordained yesterday morning at the Washington street church, Brooklyp, Bishop Seott preached the sermon, The an- nivereary of the Conference Misstonary Society was held last evening, when Bishop Ames and others delivered addresses. Mrs. Mary Arato wa run over by a milk wagon on the corner of Bayard and Mott streets and severely injured. ‘The driver of the wagon was arrested and commitied. On Saturday afternoon an old man, nated Cornelius Craven, foll down a cellar way in Brooklyn while in a Gt ‘and died of his injuries. Richard Morris, chief cook of the steamship Scotia, fell overboard from that steamer at pier 47 North river, on Saturday night, and was drowned, The body was recovered. Mn. Raywonp’s Postriox—The constituents of Hon. Henry J. Raymond are somewhat purzled to define his position in Congress, According to the Times he is a stanch advo- cate of President Jobnson’s policy; but ac- cording to Mr. Raymond’s votes in the House of Representatives he is sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally missing. He did not vote on the original peasage of the Civil Rights bill in the House, because, perhaps, there might, and then, again, there might not, be a veto. Ho will probably be equally puzzled to-day between the veto and the two-thirds vote of the Senate, includ- ing the vote of Senator Morgan against the veto. We guess that, as his vote will not amount to much on either side, Mr. Raymond will remain upon the fence, clapping his hands for Andrew Johnson. Why does not the Presi- dent put Mr. Raymond of Congress and Mr. Raymond of the Times out of their misery by settling the vexed question of the New York 4 wad cade » Caitam nares om the Questions of Currency and Na- tional Finanee. We publish to-day, in another part of the HeRraxp, extracts from prominent journals in thé country on the subject of tho Loan bill, and on the questions of curreney and national finanoc, The newspapers from which we quote represent all parties, and do not look upon the matter in a partisan point of view. They are published, too, for the most part, in the great interior cities and industrial and commercial centres of the country, and therefore the views they express are entitled to consideration. A short time ago these questions were little understood, and consequently not much was said about them. The opinions expressed were very crude, were approached timidly, and gen- erally were in favor of largely contracting the currency. The writers jumped at conclusions without reason and without understanding the subject. But time and common sense have pro- duced a change. The press begins to, see the truth of what we have asserted all along: that any sudden and large contraction of the currency would produce widespread disaster to the whole community and paralyze the finances of the government. Some of the opinions and arguments of the journals re- ferred to are not altogether sound, but the general tenor of them shows that light is break- img upon the public, and that considerable progress has been made within a few months toward correct views. People will not fail to notice that while nearly all the press in this city advocates im- mediate resumption of specie payments and the most visionary theories about the currency and national finances, that of the great com- mercial and industrial centres of the country, and particularly of the West, begins to see the danger of such a policy. The reason of this course on the part of the press here and of a different course on the part of the country press is plain. This is the centre of stock- jobbing, of the bondholders and of all those who expect to be benefited by forcing specie payments. They look only toa rapid appre- ciation of the bonds they hold. If they could suddenly contract the currency, and thus bring their securitics to par in gold, they would im- mediately be twenty-five to thirty per cent richer than they are now. The people would be so much poorer, and the burden of the government increased, it is true; but what is that to them? This is the secret of the course which the organs of the bondholders here are pursuing. The news- papers of such cities as Chicago and Cincin- nati represent different interests, They look more to the welfare of the farmers, the manu- facturers, the laborers, and all the great indus- trial pursuits of the country. In fact, they begin to see that the struggle now commencing upon the questions of currency and national finance is between the bondholders on one hand and the industry of the country on the other, From present appearances the amended Loan bill of the House will pass the Senate in its present form, or with immaterial alterations— probably as it is. In that case'the people will be satisfied. They will feel safe as long as they know it will not be in the power of the Secretary of the Treasury, or anybody else, to disarrange present values and the operations of trade. With this guarantee of security we shall go on in our carcer of develop- ment and prosperity; the currency will continue to approximate, as it has been approximating, a gold standard, and by the time Congress will meet again next December we shall gain a fund of useful experience and information to guide us in the future. We all want to return to specie payments; but we must not plunge the country into bankrupicy and the government into financial embarrass ments by doing this suddenly. This, in truth, would only delay specte payments. The only wise course isto let the laws of trade and nature operate as they are operating to bring about this desirable object. The expression of public opinion throngh the press will have weight, doubtless, with the Senate; and as the Loan bill is in no respect a party measnre, we may expect to see it passed in its present form, or, at least, with but little alteration. Soppression oF tue Stave Traps wy Srain.— A new bill has been introduced into the Spanish Cortes, and referred to « comin.ttee, for the suppression of the slave trade and the punisbment of slave traders It is very airingent in its provisions, and imposes heavy penaltios for fitting out slave ships, or in- troducing negroes as slaves into Cuba and Porto Rico; for example, from twelve to twenty years’ imprisonment in irons and a fine of a thousand dollars for every negro landed in these islands, Death 1 the penalty allotted to captains and other officers of vesvels who resist Spanish vessels of war while intercepting the trade, and so on in like proportion to owners of slave ships, or all who aid and abet in the abduction of negroes from Africa and their introduction to the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. It is but recently that measures have been set on foot in Brazil to abolish slavery in that empire, and if this law should pass in Madrid, the only two countries which sustain the system with any force will have abandoned it, and it will soon vanish from the face of the earth. Portugal is not yet bound by any treaty to suppress the slave trade, but she ia of very little account. The object of this new law in Spain fs obviously intended not only to destroy the slave trade—for Spain is pledged to that already—but to abolish slavery in her West India colonies. If, there- fore, this bill should pass, and the contem- plated movement in Brazil should be carried out, this country, which has undoubtedly stimulated these proceedings by our recent action on the slavery question, will have the glory of setting a bright example to all the world in the establishment of human freedom. It iso mission for which Providence has mani- festly designed this republic, and whether these measures in Spain and Brazil are brought to a happy issue at the present moment or not, they are sure to be perfected before long. ‘Tue Test Oatu.—The President, the other day, sent in a special message to Congress re- commending « modification of the test oath now required of every man entering into the service of the United States in any way. The oath, as it now stands, is so stringent against those persons guilty of rendering any service to the rebellion that it bas been found impossi- ble, in adhering to it, to obtain in many places among the local population South individuals competent for postmasters, revenue officers, &c., and the President wishes to avoid the alterna: tive of Gilling these Southern local-office* with | present time {ni nea; of the necessaries of Life, strangers from the North, and for obvious rea- as the records of the AncY 8nd Navy Ansocia- sons of sound policy. It is to be hoped, there- fore, that the radicals of Congress will at least recognize the propriety and expediency of the President’s suggestions on this subject, and modify this rigid test oath accordingly. It was framed to meet the stern requirements of the war; but, the war being over, it ought to be revised to suit the restoration of peace. The Coalition Against the Constitution— Cato and Andrew Johnson. That period in the history of Rome which immediately preceded the destruction of the republic and the establishment of » military tyranny was exactly analogous to the present period in our own histoty. There wag then in Rome a coalition of ambitious leaders, soldiers and demagogues together, who seduced the people to their side with the cry of popular rights, by promises to ameliorate the condition of the oppressed and to obliterate aristocratic privi- leges. The people listened to this cry and ad- hered to those who raised it, notwithstanding that any new privileges could only be obtained in defiance of the very constitution that guar- anteed those they already had; notwithstanding that to set aside that constitution would take away the very foundation of popular rights and leave the people exposed to the encroachment of power from whatever quarter it came. The short-sighted people listened to the flattering pleas of the demagogues, and by their counte- nance and support gave strength to those cor- ruptions of the law that undermined the glorious fabric of the republig and brought in the empire; for the cry of popular rights, the support of the oppressed, was the pretext and power the only object of those ambitious leaders. It isthe same with us. We have the same coalition, animated by the same purpose, pulting forth the same pretext. One of the least discreet of the radical leaders has declared that power is the only object of his party. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has publicly given as the reason of their violent acta that the republican party must be kept in control at any expense. But the mass of these men, more discreet and more dangerous, ever insist before the people on the cry of greater freedom, equal rights to all, the hollow sham of philanthropy and national justice. And with this pretext these organizers of evil, these enemies of the con- stitution, have hitherto been able to deceive the people. At the time when the coalition between the demagogues and the people was forming in Rome there was one man who saw through the whole, and saw that the inevitable results of success must be the ruin of the country. He stood up alone, the incorruptible, unflinching defender of the constitution. Friendship, in- terest, fear—none of the influences that ordi- narily move men —could turn him aside from thatcourse, He had the most undaunted moral courage that ever ennobled a human cause. He had an honorable impatience of the at- tempts against bis country, and denounced with fiercely bitter invective the authors of those attempts. He could brave odium easier pan surrender his convictions, and be regard- ed popularity with contempt when it became necessary to weighit against duty. He was the one man of that age whom tho lover of freedom can sincerely admire. He watched faithfully over his chosen charge—the constitution of his country—and detected in the inception and fearlessly exposed the dangers of all those laws that, passed in defiance of his protest, finally made the republic such political chaos that despotism wee a preferable chatige from such freedom. This man was Cato. In the posses- sion also of this very character the analogy between the Roman period angour own holds good. Andrew Johnson ts another Cato. He also is the great defender of the constitution of his country, alike from the open and insidi- ous assaults of the men who fiad that its clear, unquestioned provisions stand in the way of their ambitious purposes. He defends it with & courage, a constancy, an unflinching firmness, worthy of his great prototype, and denounces its oom Bs with invective not less bold and biting. men against whom Cato defended his country foreed him to the execution of a law obnoxious to his sense of right. Thatduty removed him far from Rome, and left them tree to pursue their purposes; and in the same way the radicals, whatever obnoxious duty they may force upon the President, will not bo free to pursue their schemes against the consti- tution until they have removed him from the sphere in which he can defend it, In our country there is a limit to the suc- cess of bad ambition never before found in any other. That limit is the earnest, deep patriotism of the people and their universal in- telligence. Had there been a sufficient intelli- gence and true Jove of country in the Roman people to understand the motives and the acts of Cato he would have been sustained against all opponents, the events that crumbled away the liberties of Rome would not have taken place, and the splendid qualities of Casar would have done something better than make mag- nificent the downfall of Roman greatness. The American people, unlike those of Rome, see all, hear all, and understand enough. They will in due time rebuke and put down this political rebellion as resolutely as they did the recent military rebollion. Fora time the enemies of freedom may seem to triumph, but all must go before the people, and they will sustain An- drew Johnson, as the sentiment of the whole intelligent world has sustained and applauded the patriotic course of Cato. Brooxiyn axp Hex Veterans or TH Late War.—During the late war the city of Brook- lyn furnished thirty thousand volunteers. Of this number not more than one-third, probably, survive, and many of these are injured in health and limb, The Common Council of that city have taken the initiatory steps to farnish these survivors silver medals in honor of their honor- able service, also to give a grand open air ban- quet to them on Fort Green square some time during the month of next June. The expense of these measures is estimated, in round oum- bers, at one hundred thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which the Common Council will appropriate from the city funds, and the balance is to be raised by voluntary contribu- tions from the citisens of Brooklyn. So far as the medals are concerned the measure is just and proper, but as to a grand banquet, which is the biggest item of the bill, we think the money would be better invested if it were put into she hands of a carefully selected board of trustees, to be distributed for the benefit of the thousands of widows and orphans of deceased soldiers who were during Inst winter and are at the .| Non will abundantly verify. —_——_____~ PrcrtR® Satge—Tomin Usa axp .2°88— There has been a great inpetus given to the salo of pictues of late. There have probabi? | gTATE CAPITAL. ne aed Prosperous Progress of the Niagara been more pictures sold at auction within the last three or four months than within as many years before. Of course, as might be expected, many of these so-called works of art are mere and do not sell for the price of the frames, and in some cases, where the names of old masters appear in the catalogues, they sre frauds. Still, art education receives some ad- vantages even from this immoral phase of our picture auctions. People learn by experience, and by comparison of the good and the bad, who would never learn in any other way. There are men of wealth and taste for pictures, men who take a pride in adorning their homes with works of real merit, but many of them have been debarred through their business habits from acquiring a knowledge of pictures, They may often purchase works possessing no merit at all; but when their purchases come to be viewed by their friends, and criticised by con- noisseurs, the owners will soon discover the difference between the good and the bad, and in course of time the bad pic- tures will be weeded out. In this man- ner, while we are not disposed to encour- age the wholesale importations of trashy pictures which are daily exposed for sale in the auction rooms, we see a grain of comfort for art in the familiarity with pictures which is en- grafted upon the public through the medium of these large sales and exhibitions. By degrees people will learn to discriminate, and in the course of a few years we may expect to see a dozen or two of really good private galleries in the country. Our native arlists who have any reputation have their hands always full. Their works command highly remunerative prices, so that many of them have grown rich, and are rather delicate upon the subject of who they shall paint a picture for. ‘Proud of their professional reputation they look beyond the mere price of their works, This is as it should be, if art is to be elevated to its proper stand- ard. It would be well for those who are making collections and have no knowledge of pictures themselves either to entrust the purchase to some one who is a judge or take a friend with them who knows something about them. We would then have fewer daubs sold at high prices, and charlatanism at picture ,Suctions would soon find its own level. Tae Crvm Ricnts Bir1—Propasue Action or Ta Hovss To-Day.—Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, chairman on thé Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, gave notice in the course of last Saturday’s miscellaneous debate that’on Monday (to-day), at the cfose of the morning hour, he should call up the Civil Rights bill, presuming that the bill will then have been received from the Senate, Mr. Wilson said:—“I shall ask to have the Veto message taken up, and after its reading I shall move the previous question on the passage of the bill, notwithstanding the objections of the .President, in order to bring the House to an immediate vote,” It is probable, therefore, that the bill will be passed by the two-thirds vote required to give it effect over the veto, and that thus it will become a law before this day’s adjournment. And what next? Having secured their great object of placing all races and colors in all the States and Territories of the Union as citizens on a footing of equality in regard to their civil rights, and having placed the Southern blacks under the protection of the President, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the judicial and mili- tary authorities of the United States, &c., may we not conclude that the radicals will be pre- pared to consider the claims of the excluded Southern States toa hearing in Congress? It is high time, at all events, for 3 report from the Reconstruction Committee as to how far, in their judgment, the excluded States are satis- factorily reconstructed, «nd how tar they need reconstructing in order to be qualified for a readmission into the national councils. If Mr. Stevens and his commitice have not been able to reach any conclusion gn the subject they dught so to report, and ask to be disohared, as unequal to the task assigned them. The civil rights of the blacks being amply secured? something is now due in regard to the cousti- tutional rights of the excluded States. Tur Femats Cierxs or tue Tunasvny De- PARTMENT.—It appears that the female clerks of the Treasury Department are considerably exercised over the fact that the late distribu- tion of moneys to the higher grade clerks was not extended to them; and it further appears that they are actively electioneering, as they have the right to do, for a little extra pay. If their claims have been overlooked, it is doubt- less because Congress has been absorbed in the superior claims of Sambo. Still, we think that the mother, widow, or orphan daughter of the Union white soldier who has given up his life for the country has a good claim upon the government. Nor can we understand how it is that while Congress, in the Freedmen’s Bu- reau Extension bill, proposed to squander mil- lions upon millions of money for the encour- agement of idleness and insolence among the liberated blacks, the two houses should find it proper to economize, to the extent of a few hundred dollars, in reterence to the poor white women industrionsly at work in the government service. Can the venerable Thaddeus Stevens give us any explanation of this pitiful bit of retrenchment? We want to know. Ramzoap Car Taeves.—We are continually receiving communications complaining of the number of pickpockets that infest our city railroad cars, These fellows travel in gangs, and are frequently so audacious as to take entire control of the tars, overawing conductors and timid passengers. It is time the commu- nity were rid of these pests. The police are strong enough to accomplish this if they arc encouraged to do so by the authorities, Ii would also have @ tendency to suppress the evil if the conductors were entrusted with the authority of detectives, having power to arrest the thieves when detected in their villainous acts, At any rate something should be done by the authorities to check the depredations of these scamps; otherwise passengers will have to take the law into their own bands and adminis. ter a few doses of Lynch law to the villains. ee News from Louwtevilie. Lomamiuun, April &, 1968 James 8. Litehgow was elected Mayor yo ny by about 1,800 majority. The Soldiore’ Convention adjswened rin Me wee opday Ship Canal, | pS ane Revival of the Board of Re- vision Bill, Mew Work Aldermaiic and Assem- bly Apportionment. ao, ae? &eo. Oar Albany Correspondenee, ALany, April 7, 1866. THE MIAGARA SHIP CANAL. Ibave already indicated that the Niagara Ship Canaf was the pioneer of the Assembly ‘combination of bilis which, having been finaily matured, bave been passed within a fortnight and sent up to the Senate, The latter body will have the balance of the session to overhaul these measures, although they have been so much dis- cussed already that their details as weil as their merite ‘are well known, and the Senate can be pretty closely tal- ed already. No better indication of this could be given than the action of this body on the Niagara Ship Canal Dill to-day. The President of the Sonate roferred it, as a matter of course, to the Committee on Canals, as it came up from the Assembly. A motion was then made te take it from that committee and send it to the Com- mittee on Commerce and Navigation, which was carried by vote of thirteen Ca Aitnoogs this does not indicate e certain e , it ts a very strong evidence that its merle are perfectly under and that the views of the Senate are pretty well known by the Sena- tors respectively. The Canal Committee is conceded to ‘be hostile tothe scheme in any shape, and hence the vote which sent the bill to the Commerce and Navigation Committee, understood to be more favorable to the measure, ‘There is @ very positive opposition to this bill, and t the people of the western part of the State it bears the same relation as the updercround railroad does to the property owners on Broudway. Ido not s» fully realize this, however, secing that such a charter bas been gives once be’ore, some ten years since, and that it expired y limitation, as nobody would embark capital in it. wvernor Fenton stands ina position to t effective care of the bill should he deem it, like Lieutenant Gov- ermor Alvord, so dangerous a flank movement upon the interests of the western countics of the Siate. ‘THE BOARD OF UEVISION AND THE 7AX LEVIES. An effort is being made to calculate the pro ramme of the combined interests upon # bass which shall not need the vote of ; ew York city, and 80 move througi both houses without concessions or sacritices to the tax levy interest and the corporation officials. Should Senators Thomas Morphy and Lent fall mto tho party traces without kicking there would be no trouble. But as this may not be achieved the shape of th.nvs in the Senate is as yet uncertain. The reason of this attempt to get along without New York is a nat effort for passing cer- tain reform measures, including the Board of Revision. It is propos d in the Assembly to take the tax levy as by the Senate, strike out the sections put in to Testrict expenditure and tie up the city officials by legal ligavures, and in the place of these sections substitute the Assembly bill creating the proposed Bourd of Audit or Revision, It is certain that the Committee on Cities will be diviged on such a proposition, Mr. Jenkins om the one side, and the chairman, Mr. Brandreth, on the other against it, Aithoush fam deposed to ‘think that uo. apportion. though I am ink that no apport ment bi:ls will be finally passed this year, and the sub- ject thus left until aiter the constitutional conven- « tion, yet some provress 1s made in the bills for the re- ctive Senate, Assembly and Judicial districts, Lent’s Dill, creating twenty-one Aldermanie districts for the city of New York, forestall the action of the Board of Supervisors, to whieh the division of New York into Assembly d'stricts is alloited by the constitution, This bill is also suspected of being @ Trojan horse in resp-cts, and suspicions of charior ameudments and danger to the pay of the Common Counc, as weil aa provisions for abolishing the Supervisors’ Bourd, are talked about. For these, however, I have little ap heusion, ux Lent has himself been a member of the Com- mon Council and ts a member of the committee before which the bill will como or completion, He has pro- cured a very good bearing thus far for his former asso- ciates, and far more respect than they have been alowed here fur wany years. Calendar. Court of Ap Auwaxy, April 7, 1566. The day caiendar of the Court of Appeals for April @ embraces the following numbers:—i08, 110, 112, 118, 114, 145, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, ‘aud 122, There will be uo further day caiendar at this term. The court will mect at half-past nine o'clock Monday morning, April 9. MEXICO. Letter from One the Principal Mer- Interv: United States De~ sired, MazaTnan, Feb, 22, 1866. The civil war here has almost put a stop to business of every kind. Transportation to the iuterior is next to imposeible, The French interrupt all trade by their restrictions. Tle mining interests are almost paralyzed, and I fear our business with Califoruia will have to cease, ‘This state of things, however, cannot last always, If the government of the Uuited States only would take hold ot this Mexican question in carnest al! would room be well Lam now fully satistied that no government of avy kind can exist here except some such a offe as that of Jcarez, under a kind of prote tor ste from that of the United states The French are wholly unfit for cole- t never subdue. They om 8, Maximilian pod enough man th bit be cannot give this country with his forcign troops of every {he were furaished with 4 hundred millions a year for twenty — . ‘You see { have somewhat changed my views ou this subject; and Twill even go so far as to say that the on of the government of Maximilian by the nizing a United States would not now avail, The Mexicans are y arilling to be ruled by Amer bat not by Suropeans. These are now tho’ prevailiug seutiaents Ubroughout all classes bere. The Board of Health and the New York Hospital. At the meeting of tig Metropolitan Board of Health, on Friday last, a resolution was introduced and referred tu tho Sanitary Superintendent, directing that officer to in vestigate the cond.tion of the New York Hospital, ax it had been understood that the institation was infested with erysipuias, gangreae and other diseases, Which in- dicate sowe fault tn the construction of the building, and which are especially fatal to persoos suffering from opem wounds, Such a resolution, introduced as it was by a physician of superior ability, very waturally induces oue to ask if an inatitytion which bas becom # landroark in the lower portion of the city, and Which bas proven itself to be am almost indispensable establistinent in that neighbor! ood, can possibly be found, at this kage of ity oxste » be & proper sutyect for inv eougation by 1 Health. The Superintendent i there are no persons admitted are affiicted with contagious div ase. in ‘cases of erysipelas and such ke di o8 that have been trented in the institution has been apd is leas than that of almost any Other similar matitution, and that the means of ventilation are ax periect as those of any hor pital in the country ‘The resolution of the Board of Health implies that the hospital te a nuisenes, and they may onler its removal; but if the Governors of the hosp.tal decide to rewove the inatitution from its present location, it will certainly mot be because the Board of Health objects to the bospitat where it now stands, but because of the pectniary ditt bay J under eg BS fe nes oo ee Governors of the horpi re ° ‘used any gratuity from the State Legislature for some years past, and on applying to the Common Coune:! for retie! were told by that send the cases brought by the polew w Bellevue, ana that the city would care for tiem; that the hospital has been obliged to depend on the Kee erosity of the individual members of the Board uf bors for its ort, . Should the hospital be removed, the Joss to portion of the city may \ —, = = oor ix hundred an cases of per daring the rmaty tt six han Pony a and wounded have ne ie ice force, five hundred and fifty of which have Broome street, Of these six hundred amd condition that would surtion compliance with the wishew o ‘and for all such cases the boepital ‘bo Compensation. ‘Board erpers Dospital held a meeting Ye imme, bat no denne action War taken it on removal hospital, althovgls the que tae wal pretty iavresghly asneted The general cout: ment of the Governors may be found In (he following from the report. of the , tranamitied t> the are, now in session, and the treth ef the ob servations will recommend them with pooullar forve to all who take an interest in the subject — ould A sale of the hospital grounds woi'! Targe sum of money. Weiter * anit now Is, roblem