The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1866, Page 4

‘D7 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, » EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ney sent by mail will be None but bank bills current in atthe risk of the sender. New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, @14. a Volume XXXI..........00000+ seeseceeen MO, 103 = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. near Broome street.—Dor; om, Tux Cricket on tux Hearts. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hoiel.—Luceeria Bongis—Tux HonxrMoon. IRVING HALL, Irving place —Buinp Tow’s Garand Puno Concerts. GEORGE CHRISTYS-Oup, Scoot, or | Mrvstastsy, . Musicat Gxas. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Reed tind 4 West Twenty-fourth strect--MAsuED Batt. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel —Ermior.aw Sinatxa, Dancisa, &C.— Yux Sruywx, A Heap Wiraovt 4 Boor. 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In the first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second column are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865 :— Thirteen months Por the ending Dec, 31, 1364. Year 1865. $577,455 $662,192 260,980 301,841 251,812 284,412 163,177 222,715 128,056 177,204 Journal of Commerce: 109,505 173,646 Transcript... 62,044 164,461 Staats Zeitung. 67,550 126,380 94,328 101,793 60,322 77,556 Daily News... 48,968 77,048 Evening Expres $2,350 68,742 New Yorker Demokr: 21,052 25.734 TOMB... oissc ces esscsas $1,878,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Henaup to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver. tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- cating thelr business wants ta the public. NOTE. ‘The Times and Tribune, in order to make ashow of business, publish statements pretending that they are from official returns to the Revenue Department. These statements are made up in the Times and Tribune offices to suit their own purposes, The Times shows a larger business than the 7'ritune, and the Tribune a larger business than the Times! But no returns of the kind have ever been made to that department. Our table, given above, is taken from the official books and ts strictly correct in every particular. Any one can satisfy himself on this point by inspecting the books at the In tornal Revenue Oflice. TH Nuw s. THE FENIANS. The fright of the Canadians over the demonstrations of the Fenians at Eastpor!, and their excitement over the capture of Head Centre Murphy and his friends at Corn. wall, appear to have in no way abated. The residents of Campobello Island are flying rom that threatened point, while St. Stephens, and indeed all New Brunswick, is aroused and agitated by the appearance of a small Fon'an force ais, It was suppawed that the Fenians were leaving port for Calais, and were about to make a descent on St, Stephens instead of Campobello. At all points in the British provinces fears appear to be enter- tained of a raid. The government authorities appear to think the Campobelio demonstration as a feint only, and Are preparing for the appearance of an invading force along the Niagara frontier, Cabinet meetings wore held daily, voluntecring was very brisk and much feeling and @ great deal more fright is generally manifest on the part of the Canadians. Sone of the Canadian papers are en deavoring to impress on the minds of the people the idea that the United States authorities are encouraging the Fen'an movement in order to bring about a war on the fishery question. The full details which we give of the arrest and exam. ination of Head Centre Murphy, Sheedy and their friends and companions will be found highty inter. esting, as showing still further the excitable state of mind of tho Canadian peoplé and authorities, the latter of whom are acting in a singularly erratic manner. Tho arrest of the Fenians appears to have been unwarrantable, Ex-Attorney General Macdonald, the counsel of Murphy, deciares that no evidence exists by which he and his staff can be held on sny other charge than that of a misdemeanor 'n carryings cealed deadly weapons Sheedy was examined aud ed on the charges upon which arrested, but bound over for safe keeping on other charges made by a gov. ernment detective, He has been sent to Cornwall as a Witness againot the other prisouers. President Ipberte, Washington, belioves that the movement on frontier will not assist the cause of Irish CONGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday a bill reported from the Com- mittee on Commerce was passed, aut tary of the Treasury to remit any dut independen rizing the Secre- levied on pro. duce shipped from any port of the * to any port of the United States, via Canada, if the said produce was actually in transitu when the recent Reciprocity treaty expired, Mr. Stewart Introduced joint resolutions proposing an amendment to the constitution to the of fect that all discriminations among the people because of race, color or previous condition of servitude, 6 ther in civil rights or in the right of suffrage, be prohibited. They were referred to the Joint Committee on Recon. atruct Senate, in respect for the memory of the late Sena‘or Foot, then adjourned, In the House the bill for the relief of army paymas lers was recommitted to the Committee on Military Atirs. A joint resolution was adopted protesting Against the shipment of criminals to this country by foreign nations, A concurrent resolution prohibiting the fale of spiritnous and other liquors in any public building of grownds in the city of Washington wae Adopted. ‘The bill appropriating $25,000 fo PorArY relief of the destitate people in the Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commiasioner of the Frocdmen's Bureau, wae passed by a vote of 100to 2% = In ry t for the memory of the late Senator Foot the House then adjourned, ' THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yesterday bills authorizing the Comp. troller of New York city to designate thrbe bank® f which shall be deposited alfeity funds; to amend the Metropolitan Health act by increasing tne powers three thousand dollars for uniforms worn , out in tho rebellion; ceding to the United States jurisdie- tion over a portion of the Battery, New York city; to incorporate the National Safe Deposit Company, New York city; relative to the Justices’ courts, in Brook- lyn; confirming the location of the capital at Albany; authorizing the Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company to extend their tracks through Grand and certain other streets were passed. ‘The Quarantine bill was mado the special order for Friday evening. Bills making more stringent laws rela- tive to the storage of combustible matter in New York, ‘and to organize the Senate districts and apportion the Assembly districts of the State were advanced to a third reading. In the Assembly bills to enable the Metropolitan Police Commissioners to appoint additional surgeons, to regu- late the fare on street railroads in New York and Brook- lyn, to incorporate the Association of the Reformed Pro- testant Dutch Church of North America, to authorize the New York Park Commissioners to make certain improve- ments, to declare Tompkins square « parade ground for the use of the National Guard, to incorporate the Safe Deposit Company of Brooklyn, to incorporate the Work- ingmen’s Union of the city of New York, were passed. A bill to amend the charter of New York city was intro- duced. A motion to adjourn on the 19th inst, was laid over under the rules, MISCELLANEOUS. Our advices from Mexico are to the 27th ult. A fire occurred in the capital city on the 234 which destroyed property to the amount of three hundred thousand dol- lars. In Coahuila the imperialists suffered a defeat at the hands of the Mexicans on the Ist ult., losing one hundred and forty killed. There were cther fights of a desultory character going on in the interior. Maxi- millan’s organ states that about one hundred Americans bad invaded Sonora, ostensibly in pursuit of the Indians; but nothing positive is known as to their intentions, ‘The imperialist commandant of Chihuahua on the 27th of February shot three liberal chiefs whom he had cap- tured, Our New Orleaus despatches state that Coroza is besieging Mazatlan. He also has possession of Sinaloa mines and is coining money on his own account. The French subjects on the Pacific coast ars subjected to forced loans, and the whole coast is in the hands of the liberals, Our reports from Cuba are to the 7th inst. Senor Cip - riana del Mazo was installed as Gobernador Civil on the 4th. The fortifications at Havana and elsewhere on the island were being strengthened, and rifled cannon sub- stituted for old ordnance. Five passengers from the American steamer Tonawanda had arrived from the wreck of that vessel off Key West, and report that all the cargo was saved, The strike continues on the city railroads. The drivers of almost every line in the city are now in it, and those who have not as yet struck threaten to do so at any mo- ment. The inconvenience to the public is immense, No compromise has as yet been effected with the men by the directors, and asthe latter are determined to hold ont it is hard to tell how the matter will end. Throughout the men have acted ina quiet, peaceable manner, and no attempt whatever at a disturbance has been made. A large number of the people living up town were compelled to walk last evening and may probably have to do the same this morning Ata meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution was adopted regulating the fares to be charged by the drivers of hackney coaches within the Central Park, as follows:—All around the park, with the privi- loge of keoping the coach for two hours, four dollars; principal parts of the park, three dollars; to casino and Jake and return, two dollars; when engaged by the hour, two dollars per hour; for three or more hours, each one dollar and fifty cents, The Board adjourned to Monday next. The Board of Councilmen*met yesterday and adopted ‘® resolution appointing a committee to thquire into the expediency of erecting temporary buildings on the pub- lic grounds to relfeve the overcrowded tenoment houses occasioned by the exorbitant rents demanded by land- lords. The resolution to postpone further action in the matter of widening Fulton and Ann streets was referred to the Committee on Law. Tho first grammar class of St. Xavier College gave an entertainment yesterday at the large hall of that institution, The students acquitted themscives creditably and received much applause. In the case of the Crescent City Bank vs. Edward Mathows, impleaded with Brander and Chambliss, which was a motion on the part of the defendant to be Telieved from liability aa joint maker of a promissory note in 1862, on the ground that the city of New Orleans was then under rebel rule, and he being @ rosi- dent of the North and a loyal citizen, business relations Were dissolved ipso focto, Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, has rendered a decision denying tho motion. The case of the United States vs. Sinclair Webb, who has been charged with doing business in lottery tickets without a license, was on yesterday postponed by Com- missioner Osborn till Monday, owing to the absonce of counsel for the accused, who 13 iil John Kosser was committed for trial for having, as alleged in the tosti- mony adduced against him, attempted to scuttle the suip Charles Sprague. Further testimony was taken touching the accusation against F.C. Bryant, captain of the Washington Booth, of having assaulted Cosbin Wash- ington, the second officer, with a slungshot. The evi- dence for the prosecution has closed, and the defence will be entered upon in the course of a few days, Surean Lamirande, cashier of the Poitiers branch of the Bank of France, was arrested in this city on Mon- day last on a charge of having robbed that institution of about one hundred and forty thousand dollars, He is now confined in Ludlow street jail, and application will be made before United States Commissioner Betis on Saturday next for bis return under the Extradition treaty. The jury in the case of the Arctic Insurance Company against the Albany aud Canal Towboat Line, which was @ Suil to recover the value of a cargo of corn destroyed by a collision on the Hudson river between boats of the defendants, yesterday brought in a verdict for plaintiff for $5,000, the fuil amount claimed. In the General Sessions yesterday James Clark, a pickpocket, who stole twelve dollars from Daulel Royalo, in East Broadway, was sent to the State Prison for four Years and six months, Francis Montague, who stole a pocketbook from Samuel A. Hoyt, in Earle’s Hotel, was sentenced to’ the State [’rison for three years and six months, James Buchanan was convicted of embezzling Uuree hundred dollars from Daragawnath & Van Wisker, and was remanded for sentence Iu the Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday Edward Cassidy was found guilty of burglary and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at St On Tuesday afternoon last Mr, Condell, an assistant to tho tirst teller of the Bank of America, was knocked down by an unknown man as he was entering the Sub- | Treasury building in Walt street, and robbed of a five thousand dollar gold certificate and four thousand dollars in United States Treasury notes. The assailant eg. caped. Yesterday two men named Clark and Denais were arrested on suspiciva of haying been concerned in the on the night of the 234 ult, at the hn P. Moore, in Madison avenue, when resutence of Mr. J: one hundred and sixty thousand doliars iu bonds and securities were stolen, The officers succeeded in securing Rineteen thousand four handred and Afly « ta bonds, wentified as belonging to Mr, Moore, and having been seen iu the possession of the prisoners. They were committed Justice Dowling committed James Fitzjohn to the Tombs yesterday on suspicion of having been concerned in the Greenwich street robbery a few nights ago. The prisoner confessat that he and an accomplice had as Sisted at the robbery. Seventeen hundred dollars’ wort! of silks were found in hia possession, the property of Mosers. A. T. Stewart & Oo, Three notorious offenders were caught robbing acigar store on South street on Wednesday night, and were committed to the Tombs for trial A man cailing himself William Little was canght Wednesdaf night forcing opon Mrs Sagal’s store, on Fourth avemte, and committed to jail to await examina. tion. A Chicago merchant namod T.\vingston was arrested tn that oity on the Oth on the charge of swindling J. Fried- lander, a New York merchant, about two weeks ago, Governor Fenton has made a requisition for him, A rigid investigation, tobe conducted by Saperintond- eus Kennedy, it is alleged has been ordered by the Board of Police Commissioners, with a view to the facts re- garding the compounding of felonies by police officials, The investigation will be conducted with closed doors. “Hod Annis, who was lately arrested in this city for tho great Lord robbery has been release’ on a writ of habeas corpus, as there were no legal documents for holding him, It is said only about $217,000 of the of the Sanitary Commission #0 as to cstablish health code enabling them to bring auits; relative to the Fifty-sixth regiment.” Nationa! Guard. to refund stolen property have been recovered. Fall reports of the horrible murder of the Deering family. a} Poiladetphie, disciowe the fact thet the hired —$—$——$—3 boy, who was missing and supposed to be an accomplice, was really another victim. He was found yesterday under a haystaek, with his throat cut. The victims, with their ages, are:—Mr. Deering, forty years; Mrs. Deering, thirty-five; Miss Keating, twenty-five; John, Thomas, Anna and Emily Deering, aged respectively eight, six, four and two years, The eldest child was at his grandfather's, in West Philadelphia, at the time. ‘The German laborer who ia suspected of having com- mitted the termble murder is named Antoine, and is about twenty-eight or thirty yearsold, He was formerly from Brooklyn, and has beon in the army. No marks of the hellish deed were left to betray the murderer—not even a spot of blood in the house or yard, Everything was in perfect order about the premises, except in the houae, where the open drawers and the general disorder gave evidence of a search for plunder. The City of Paris, a new and magnificent screw steamer belonging to the Inman line, will ail for Europe to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock. The Inman steamship Edinburg, from Queenstown March 29, reached this port yesterday, Her news and newspaper files have been anticipated. Governor Hamilton, in a speech recently at Austin, Texas, objects to some of the ordinances passed by the convention. He says persons who under cover of mili- tary orders injured loyal pooplo in the State hall not be shielded by the action of the convention. The friends of Jeff, Davis have abandoned the attempt to have him removed on a writ of habeas corpus, as that ‘writ would require the signature of Chief Justice Chase, which they had no hopes of obtaining. The stock market was firm, closing strong yesterday. Governments were dull, Gold was quiet, closing at 12734. More activity and buoyancy prevailed in commercial circles yesterday, and nearly all kinds of domestic pro- duce sold at improved prices, while higher prices wero generally asked for foreign. The firmness in gold was re- flected in the cotton market, and prices were firmer. Breadstuffs were decidedly firmer, except wheat, which was steady, Provisions were also more active and higher. Petroleum and whiskey continued nominal, under 4 limited inquiry. Sugar was very steady. Coffee was rather more active for prime qualities, but no improve- ment was noticeable in the market for common grades. Dry goods were firm, with a moderate inquiry. President Johnson’s Policy and His Position with Regard to Political Parties. No President of the United States was ever placed in such a difficult and trying position as Mr. Jobnson is at the present time. Made Vice President by the powerful party which prose- cuted the war to preserve the Union to a suc- cessful issue, and which now has an over- whelming majority in Congress, together with “the control of nearly all the State govern- ments, he finds himself as President bitterly opposed by this same party which elected him. By the term “party” we do not mean the mass of the people who voted the republican ticket under a different state of things and before the existing issues of the day were made, but party organization and the leaders who control that. This is 80 compact and well regulated that a few determined men, as Thaddeus Ste- vens, Sumner, Ben Wade, Bingham and others, have been able to govern the whole or nearly the whole. Dread of losing the benefits of party organization and of breaking up the great republican party has prevented many conservative men from following the dictates of their convictions and sustaining the Presi- dent in the war between him and the radical leaders. Hence a few dominant radicals have ‘been the whippers-in of the rest. Tho oppo- sition to the policy of the President, then, is that of a few bold radical leaders, who have been able to control and carry with them their party organization. It is generally so in troublous or revolutionary times. We are passing through the same history as other nations, Every one will remem- ber how the Marats, Dantons, Couthons and Robespierres governed and even terrified the French legislative bodies and government as well as the people. Men like these, in such a position, claim to act in accordance with pub- lic sentiment at the same time they are acting in direct opposition to it. Like the extreme republicans in Congress, these French revolu- tionists held their position by deceiving the People; but in time the climax was reached, and the reaction drove them from power. The same must take place here, if the country be not bereft of common sense. But what is the ground of this extraordinary opposition to the President? He is only car- rying out the policy laid down by Mr. Lincoln. The principle and general plan of reconstruc- tion followed by Mr. Johnson were inaugurated by his lamented predecessor. This is well known to the prominent public men of the country, and the evidence of it may be found in the State Department. Mr. Lincoln’s original plan was even more broadly liberal than that of his successor. Had Mr. Lincoln lived, there is no doubt the majority of the republican party and of Congress would have gone with him in carrying out a policy of restoration fully as liberal or more liberal than that of Mr, Jobnson. Why? He was the recognized chief of that party, and a few factionists or hot- headed extremists cou!d not have alienated the majority from him. After his death the rival Presidential aspirants and factions began to plot for the succession, As soon as the eleo- tions last year were secured upon the administration platform, and there was no chance of success upon any other, the politicians commenced to head off President Johnson, who was hecoming too popular to suit them. In spite of his declara- tions to the contrary, they were afraid he would become a candidate in 1868, Not hav- ing beet & Yepublican anterior to the war, and being a Southern man, they pretended to doubt his persistent fideliiy to them. They feared that, if the Southern States should be restored before the next Presidential election, the vote of that section would be thrown against them, unless, indeed, they could give the negroes the suffrage. This is the secret and these are the motives for opposing the President and the restoration of the South, and for keeping the country in @ revolutionary condition. They will see the constitution destroyed, the spirit of our institutions perish, the country kept in anarchy and in danger of despotism, negro eqnality with the whites, and even amal- gamation; all this, and much more, to gratify their ambition and for mere party purposes, Yet the President has disavowed any per sonal ambition or wish to separate from the party that elected him. And he ts an honest man; his word can be believed. His actions {n the dispensation of government patronage and in every way show that -he wished to ad- here to the republican party and preserve ite organization. Month after month he has been giving the officos to those who op- posed him and withholding them from those who supported him, with the hope that the former would become more rea- sonable, would cease to follow the tew radical destructives that have been, leading them, and would continue to make the repub- licans the party of the administration. With all his efforts and for! ice, he has been dis appointed. It is now evident that the majority in Comaress will still tollow the radical loadore, that they are determined to make waron his policy, and, if possible, ruin him. Under these circumstances what is his duty? What ought he to do for the welfare of the country and to save himself? Clearly, he must change hia course with regard to those opposing him. The sentiment of the country is with him in his public policy relative to the South. There is no mistake about this. His very opponents have been compelled, in the elections that have taken place, to disguise their hostility to him. The reaction that is setting in against them shows that the people begin to eee through the deception, and are turning against these enemies of the adminis- tration. But there is growing up at the same time a feeling of dissatisfaction at what is deemed weakness on the part of the President, He may not know this, but he ought to know it. Whispers of discontent are becoming gen- eral among tbe friends of the President. We mean among conservative men—republicans, and not copperheads. They say the issue is fairly made between bim and the radicals, and that he ought to be decided and firm in the crisis, These radicals cannot be brought over to him, and he cannot go to them. They will make war on him openly or insidiously all along. The people now see this, and want him to show his well known courage by removing them from his Cabinet and from all offices under the government. He will thus detach the conservative portion of the republicans from the radicals, and can reward them by the offices the latter now hold. The time has come when he ought to strike. The people will ad- mire his courage as they now do his pa- triotism; and the reaction which is now setting in will bring an overwhelming majority at the next elections to his support. Delay will look like weakness and be dangerous. Decision and firmness will save his administration and the country. Highly Important Intelligence from Spain—Valparaiso to be Bombarded and the War Against Chile and Her Allles Abandoned. The last Southampton steamer which arrived at this port brought private intelligence of starting import to the Pacific coast States en- gaged in the war with Spain, and of great in- terest to all civilized nations, On the 17th of March an officer of the Span- ish navy, supposed to have been Rear Admiral Isquierdo, left Southampton, with positive or- ders to bombard Valparaiso, and then, with- drawing to Montevideo, abandon as fruitless the war against the allies. A Chilean bearer Of despatches left this city on the 11th instant for Aspinwall, bearing this important intelli- gence to the Chilean authorities, The Spaniards, despairing at their inability to continue the war in the Pacific, and cha- grined at the repbated reverses with which their inadequate navy has met, have resorted to this treacherous and barbarous way of end- ing the war which they so foolishly began. The bombardment of Valparaiso as a measure of mere revenge would be not only barbarous and impolitic, but highly criminal. The city is defenceless, not a gun being mounted to pro- tect it. It is the most important port and city on the South Pacific coast, has a population of 60,000 natives and 10,000 foreigners, and is the entrepot for all central South America. The greater part of the city, called the Puerto, is owned by foreigners principally—Engl'sh, Germans and Americans—and the palace of the Intendencia, the’ Mercantile Exchange, the Post Office and ‘the Castom House storehouses all lie within short range of vessels in the harbor, and in case of bombardment cannot fail to be destroyed, together with three or four hundred millions of property. The sacrifice of life in such an event would be incalculable, for not on:-half of the population could leave the city. These facts render this intelligence important to our own couniry and other neutral Powers, and call for action in the matter. It remains to be seen if-the commanders of the American and English floets will consent to the perpetra- tion of such a covardly and wanton outrage. Commodore Rodgers, commanding the special squadron, and Commodore Pearson, command- ing the Pacific squadron, are now in the vicinity of Valparaiso, and little doubt remains that they will both not only protest against but prevent the commission of such a crime. It is reported that Commodore Rodgers has written toa friend in Washington that nothing would give him greater pleasure than to receive or. ders to sink the Numancia, which, he declaves, the Monadnock can do with ease in five min- tutes, At any rate, such an act on the part of Spain would not long go unpunished. It would arouse the passions of the allies and inspire them lo carry the war home to Spanish cities, and Spanish commerce would be driven from the sea by Chilean privateers, built in the nen- tral ports of nations whose sympathies such an act would justly awaken, Such an act would rob Spain not only of what litue of the respect of other people she yet possesses, but would at once place her without the pale ot civilized nations. ‘Tne Fentay Excrrement ts Canapa.—Accord- ing to the intelligence we publish this morning from Canada there has been a revival of the | excitement there’ in regard to the Fenians. The arrest of one of the Head Centres and associates in Cornwall created a profound sensation, and it is stated the populace were so exasperated against them that there was danger of Lynch law being administered upon the prisoners, The reports from that quarter are stirring, if credence can be given them. At all events, it is certain that a disturbed siate of feeling exists, which may in the end lead to some act on the part of the loyal Canadians against the friends of Ireland among them that will arouse a feeling of resentment which it will be difficult, if not impossible, to restrain. We advise the monarchy-loving subjects of Great Britain in Canada not to let their pas sions become too violent. Their loyalty to the Crown may be established without resorting to extreme or cruel measures toward those who differ with them. Let them keep their tempers cool and their powder dry. When the bugle sounds to arms they have the right to take that side whither their inclinations, their instincts, or their interests incline them. They can fight for fe monarch who rules them three thousand miles away, or they can take the side of the friends of free and liberal government, who are their neighbors, and who wish to live on amicable terms with them. They have the right to choose; and upon them rests the responsibility of making a mistake. The news from Canada and the provinces will continue for some time to be 1, be ro exceedingly The Nigger Aristocracy of the United States. Some days ago, in commenting upon the poli- tical canvass in Connecticut, we endeavored to point out the differences between the party which supports the President and that which opposes him. Basing our arguments upon facts furnished by official documents, we showed that the President’s party is the Union party, and that opposed to him the disunion party; that the President believes in restoring the Union, while the party opposed to him believes in keeping eleven States out of the Union, as foreign, conquered provinces; that the President's party is the white man’s party, and those who oppose him are the nigger’s party; that the President’s party regards the war as ended and believes in re- ducing the war prices and war rates to a peace standard, while the party op- posed to the President is in favor of maintaining a large standing army at the South, and of employing another immense army of government officials to collect the nigger’s wages for him, to take care of him when he is sick, lazy or idle, and to manage a great national poorhonse for his exclusive benefit, at a cost so tremendous as to keep up prices and taxes; and that the President’s party wishes to conduct this government for the benefit of forty millions of white people and of all people of other complexions who may seek its protection, while the party opposed to the President would build up an aristocracy of three millions of niggers, having peculiar rights and privileges, and superior to white men in every legal respect. We con- sider these statements in regard to the distinc- tions between the two parties to be incontro- vertible, and we therefore most emphatically repeat them. One of the radical journals of this city, tacitly admitting that the other portions of our article were correct, has assailed us in the most outrageous terms for asserting that the radical party was endeavoring to build up a genuine nigger aristocracy. “Liar” and “villain” are some of the choice terms that have been hurled at us, day after day, to the disgrace of journalism and the disgust of all sensible people. We have given the editor of the journal in question every opportunity to apologize for his indecent language and to deny our statements, if he desires to deny them, in terms befiiting a gentleman. He has retused to do so. In the safe impersonality of a paper conducted by an association he has reiterated his insulting, violent and dishonorable epithets. We now propose to meet him upon his own ground, and to prove the truth of the views we have advanced. The radical party has origi- nated two important measures during the present session of Congress, One of these was the Freedman’s Bureau bill; the other is the Civil Rights bill. In his veto messoge upon the former measure the President declares it to be unconstitutional; that it “proposes to establish military jurisdiction over all parts of the United States contnining refugees and freedmen;”’ that “the number of salaried agents to be employed may be equal to the number of countics or parishes in all the United States where freed- men and refugees are to be found;” that “this military jurisdiction also extends to all questions that may arise respecting con- tracts ;” that “the trials having their origin under this bill are to take place without the intervention of a jury, and without any fixed Tules of law or evidence ;” that “no previous presentment is required, nor any indictmént ;” that “from these arbitrary tribunals there lies lo appeal;” that the bill “authorizes a general and unlimited grant of support to the destitute and suffering refugees snd freedmen ;” that provisions are made for ‘‘the rent or purchase ot landed estates tor freedmen and for the erec- tion, for their benefit, of suitable buildings for asylums and schools,” although Congress “has never heretofore thought itself competent to establish asylums beyond the limits of the Dis- trict of Columbia, except for the benefit of our disabled soldiers and sailors,” and “has never founded schools for any class of our own peo- ple, not even for the orphans of those who have fallen in the defence of the Union.” Continuing his annibilating analysis of this infamous bill, the President says that Congress “has never deemed itself authorized to expend the public money for the rent or purchase of homes for the thousands, not to say millions, of the white race who are honestly toiling ‘rom day to day,” and adds, “nor can any good reason be ad- vanced why, a8 ® permament establishment, it should be founded for one class or color more than for another.” He further remarks that, “jn this connection the query presents. itself whether the system proposed by the bill will not practically transfer the entire care, support and control of four millions of emancipated slaves to agents, éverseers or taskmasters appointed at Washington?” Resuming the some line of argument in his message upon the Civil Rights bill, he rays that it “in effect proposes a discrimination against large numbers of intelligent, worthy and patriotic foreigners and in favor of the negro;” that “numerous official agents are made to consti- tute a crt of police, in addition to the mili- tary,” to carry out iiia law; that “this Jan- guage seems to imply a permanent military force, that is to be always on hand, and whose only business is to be the enforcement of this measure;” that “in all our history, in all our experience as a people living under federal and State laws, no such system as that contem- plated by the details of this bill has ever be- fore been proposed or adopted;” that “they establish for the security of the colored race safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the general government has ever provided for the white race;” that, “in fact, the distinction of race and color is by this bill made to’ operate in favor of the colored and against the white race.” More could be quoted; but is not this enough? That “the President's party believes in conducting this gov- ernment for the benefit of forty mil- lions of white people, and of all people of other complexions who may seek its protec- tion” must be conceded; for the President and his party obey the constitution, which instituted the government for. this purpose. As to the second clause of our statement, we ‘hare proven from bills passed by the radicals that they desire to give the nigger unconstitutional rights; to protect him by military jurisdiction; to gmploy numerous extraordinary agents for his benefit; to enforce his contracts by martial law; to deprive those who differ with him of the right of jury and of previous indictment; to turnish him a special tribunal, beyond which there ia no appeal: to arant him unlimited sap- port; to rent or purchase lands for him; to erect for him schools and asylums at the national expense; to organize a system for his entire care, support and control; to give him the preference over intelli- gent foreigners in regard to citizenship; to create for him special police; to maintain for him a standing army, whose only business is to guard his domestic and industrial interests; to devise for him a series of laws never before contemplated in our history; to establish for him safeguards never provided for the white race, and to discriminate in his favor against the whites. In other words, we have shown that “the party opposed to the President would build up an aristocracy of three millions of negroes, having peculiar rights and privileges, and superior to white men in every legal respect.” And now we leave the public to decide who is the “liar,” who is the “villain,” who has been guilty of “ga wicked, deliberate, villanous lie.” Sudden Popularity of Concerts. A great revolution is taking place in our musical amusemergs. Where opera once ruled supreme—when it was conducted in a fashion agreeable to the public, with good, freah singers, or artists of reputation, such as we used to have in olden times—concerts now seem to control public attention. Italian opera, as recently managed, has to yield the palm to the charms of the concert room, where the most refined classes of society, and those to whom good music is a necessity more than a luxury, can gratify their tastes, The most popular kind of enjoyment at present is de- cidedly to be found in the concert room, and we observe that the caterers for this class of amusement are devoting themselves zealously to the task of furnishing abundance of materiat of this character. A series of sacred concerts is about to be inaugurated immediately at Lucy Rushton’s theatre. There is not a Sun- day in which concerts of sacred music from the best masters are not given in some of the churches, Next Sunday a combination of talent, embracing that of com- posers and artists, will be given at St. Stephen’s church. The Philharmonic Society alwaya commands a large amount of interest for its concerts. The Mendelssobn Union has just formed a junction with the well trained orchestra of Theodore Thomas, in order to give greater effect to their concer's, and a happier combination could hardly be formed. This soclety, we understand, has now in prepara, tion the new grand mass of Abbe Liszt, which recently made such a profound sensation in the Church of St. Eustache, in Paris. When Steinway’s new hall is completed, and its magnificent organ, which will beat the Boston marvel completely, is erec‘ed, we shalt |. probably have monster concerts on the Lon- don style, and oratorios which will equal anything produced in Europe. We have all the material here, and, with the rapidly grow- ing taste of our people for this kind of musical enjoyment, there is no reason why the best works of the most eminent composers should not be faithfully interpreted, and supersede altogether the lame attempts to produce Italian opera in ® manner worthy of public patronage. Un'il we get something better in the way of opera than we have been recently bored with, it is evident that the concert rooms will monopolize the interest of the musical public, In a great measure, indeed, they have done so already. The opera audiences have been reduced to a mutual admiration society, where people went more to see and be seen by their neighbors, to criticise and envy their toilets, than to indulge in the luxury of fine music. The modistes held a higher place there than the great masters, The catacombs in Irving place have been more like a magasin des modes than a temple ofCecilia. This was all bad for art and a stigma upon our reputation as a refined and music loving people. But this could hardly be helped; for people who would go to the opera for the love of art will not go only to be dis appointed. Therefore it is, we presume, that concerts where the best works of the first composers are properly rendered have become 80 suddenly popular. The Civil Rig Bill—The True Policy of the Southern States. The Civil Rights bill has become a law of the land over the President’s veto. The act declares all persons born in the United States not subject to any foreign Power, and ex- cluding Indians not taxed, citizens of the United States, and that “such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery,” &c., “shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue and be sued, be par- ties anf give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell, hold and convey real and personal prop- erty, and to full and equal benefits of all laws and proceedings for the security of per- son and property, as are enjoyed by white citi- zens; and shall be subject to like punish- ment, pains and penalties, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the con- trary notwithstanding.” J This is the substance of the bill, Its execu. tion or enforcement is committed to the district and circuit courts of the United States and the commissioners thereof, and to the United States district attorneys, marshals and depu- ties, the officers and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau, “and to every other officer who may be specially empowered by the President of the United States; and, finally, “it shall be lawful for the President, or sueh persons as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due execution of this act.” This is the law. It sweeps away not only al? the old slave codes and free negro laws of the Southern States, but the legislation which they have adopted in reference to their black popu- lation since the suppression of the rebellion and their submission to the supreme authority of the United States. From Virginia to Texas President Johnson, acting upon the old truism that Rome was not built in a day, had adopted the policy, under some general instructions, of leaving to each State the adoption of its own system of Inws touching the civil as well as the political rights of its black population under the new order of things resulting from the abo- lition and constitational interdiction of slavery. Thus the civil rights of the blacks in every State, from Virginia to Texas, have been more or less enlarged; but in no case that we are aware of have they been placed on the same footing as white citizens. In any event all (hese State eromediags are now superseded.