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IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Buixp Tox’s Granp Piayo Conceuts. “Matinee at Three o'Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY’S—O.p Scnoou or MinstReLsy, Battaps, Mosicau Gums, &c., Fifth Avenue Opera Honse, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourtn street.—Maskep Bat. Matinee at Two 0’ Clock. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Erwior.aN SINGING, DANcING, &0.— Yur Sruyxx, A Heap Witnour 4 Bopr. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Srvc- ING, DANCING, BURLESQUES, &¢.—Tux WORKING GIRLS oF Nuw Yous. Matinee at 24g o'Clock, BRYANTS! MINSTRELS. Mechamies’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Necro Comicaitizs, BURLESQUES, &C.—BURLESQUE Hirropromx. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ernrorian Mux. STRELSY—Bavians, BURLESQUES AND PanToMings. NEW YORK MUSE\M Of ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Openfrom 104. M. till 10 P.M COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Piace.—Great Farr or tur Lapixs or St. Axx’s Cuvnon, Righth street. ST. COLUMBA’S SCHOOL HAL! between Eighth und Ninth avenues.—] Banerit or Tux Scnoors, Eto. Twenty-fifth street, ies’ Fain FOR THY WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘Tipawe areal aes acany: aera. 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. ‘The Herald the Great Org: of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advortising of all the daily papers of this city for two years, In tho first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1364, with one month of 1863, and in the second eolumn are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865 :— Thirteen months For the ending Dec, 31, 1864. Year 1865. $577,455 $662,102 . 260,960 301,841 251,812 284,412 163,177 202,715 128,056 177,204 100,595 178,646 62,644 164,461 67,550 126,380 94,328 101,798 Commercial Advert! 60,322 77,556 Daily No’ 48,968 77,088 Evening Ex 52,350 68,742 21,052 25,734 Wit alert $1,878,267 $2,483,724 ‘This shows the Hxnaxp to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- lisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- eating their business wants to the public. NOTE. ‘The Times and Tridune, in order to make a show of ‘Dusiness, publish statements pretending that they are from official returns to the Revenue Department. These statements are made up in tho Tim:s and Tribune offices to suit their own purposes, and very curiously the Times shows a larger business thin the Tribune, 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 is strictly correct in every par Any one can satisfy himself on this point by inspecting the books at the Internal Revenue Office, ‘ticalar. THE FENIANS. The British sitn-of-war Pylades went to sea from Cam- pobello suddenly on Thursday. Rumors of a mutiny on board are rifein Eastport. A party of English soldiers who ventured Into Calais were roaghly handled by the Fenians and driven out of the town, ‘two hundred Fenians bad come from Boston, and Killian came from New York with many more. Three hundred mon, it is sald, are to be stationed at Castine. Itis now thought that Murphy and lis staff will be tried under the Alien bill, which was passed after the rebel St. Albans raid had been commiited. This bill No lives were lost, gives power to incarcerate a man on suspicion of plotting against a friendly State, and of retaining itn against the demands of the habeas corpus, The press and public were led from the trial on Wednesday, which fact ng indignation among even the loyal Canadians, thorities are recovering from their seare and de- clare they will not scare again, The government ts, ° ping a watchful eye on every suspicious and will be prepared when danger comes. on that the movement of the Fenighs so far is that the intention ts to attack Canada, in- stead of New Bronswick, 1# gaining ground, another Arrest was made yesterday morning. Sheedy is to be tried at Cornwall, with the other prisoners. jo Washington Navy Department has sent the edie Winccan to Eastport. At the O'Mahony head. quarters in this city everything is quiet, bat those who know say that matters are progressing steadily and surely. 100. Owing to the interruption occasioned by the present war in Mexico no election for President of the republic could be hetd, and in the meantime Juarea’ term ot office expired, In this state of affairs extraordinary powers were conferred by the Congress granting to Juaren the power to extend his term of office until an giection gould be held Therefore, gu the Sh of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. November, 1865, Juarez issued his decree declaring that the functions of President of the Republic and President of the Supreme Court would be exercised by the present incumbents until an election for new ones has taken Place. By advices from the city of Mexico we learn that Mr. Maury’s immigration scheme nas proven » complete swindling operation. Emigrants arriving at Cordova find the promises of lands and assistance are all merely lures tofgull them, and they are returning to the United States. ‘The liberals have concentrated part of their forces at Omeolca. The occupation of Tlacotalpam secures the Vera Cruz coast and Orizaba district, Ronda, one of the lib- eral chiefs in Morelia, is forcing large loans, and Mejia, the Mexican imperialist, was pursuing the same course in Matamoros, Tho liberals are still watching the latter city, keeping Mejia closely within his entrenchments The General-in-Chief of the Tamaulipas forces, Juan de la Garza, has issued a proclamation encouraging Maxi- milian’s soldiers to desert. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a bill providing that no terri- torial officer should be permitted to absent himself from the territory for a period longer than thirty days was called up and debated, but pending its consideration the morning hour arrived. The House amendment to the Dill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating Mquors in the Capitol buildings was not concurred in. Mr. Morrill said he would introduce a bill at an early day conferring the right of suffrage upon colored persons in the District of Columbia, A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for what information may be im his possession as to the prevalence of the» rinderpest in this country, what mea- sures should be taken for its prevention, &c. Further details were furnished, ina communication to the Sccretary of the Treasury, relative to the taking of the oath of office required by act of Congress by Trea- sury Department employes in the Southern States. In some cases the officials have taken the oath in a modified form; but in no instance where it has not been sub- scribed to without reservation has any money for salary been paid to the incumbent. The Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House a joint resolution for the relief of Mrs. McCook, was passed. It directs the Secretary of the In- terior to pay her, in consideration of the services to their country in the late war, of her husband and eight sons, four of whom perished of wounds received in battle in the line of ftheir duty, an annuity of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid semi-annually. A communica tion from the Secretary of War was presented stating that he has no data by which to form an opinion as to the effect the erection of @ quarantine station will have on the navigable waters of New York harbor. A mes- sage from the President, in response toa resolution of the House, was taken up and referred to the Foreign Committee, stating that measures had been taken to send & naval force to the fishing grounds to protect the in- terests of American citizens against violence. The Army bill, after considerable debate, went over unti! Monday. It was ordered that the proceedings to-day be confined to debate on the President's annual message. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills to reorganize the Bureau of Military Records and other staff departments and incorporating the Metropolitan Improvement Company were reported, The Metropolitan Police Salary bill was reported, and the report was adopted. Bills to prevent the introduction and spread of rinderpest among the cat- tle and sheep; to provide for improving the pavement in Broadway, between the Battery and Fourteenth street; for the appointment of members of Assembly for this State; to reorganize the Senate districts of the State, were passed, Mr. Stanford reported favorably the bill incor- porating the Niagara Ship Canal Company. The bill for the establishment of a quarantine establishment on the west bank in the lower bay of New York, was discussed and saddled with twoamendments. The bill authorizing ihe taxation of stockholders in the national banks was ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly the bill to regulate the salaries of the Metropolitan police was reported with the following salaries, which were agreed to :—Superint:ndouts, $7,500; commissioners, $5,000; inspectors, $3,500; captains, $2,000; sergeants, $1,600; surgeons, $2,250; policemen, $1,200; doormen, $900. When the United States currency shall be worth par, then twenty per cent reduction on the above is to be made, excopt in the case of captains and sergeants, whose saln- ries shall be $1,800 and $1,400, respectively. The Dill to regulate the sate of intoxicating Hquors in the Metro- politan distrist was passed by a vote of 66 yoas against S8lnaya. The New York County Tax Levy was ordered to a third reading. Nine of the items recommended by the county officers were reduced. An item of $136,000 for the Harlem bridge, reported by tho committeo, created considerable discussion, but was retained in the bill, THE CITY. The Board of Health Commissioners met yesterday. Tbe committee appointed at the previous meeting to de> fine the dangers, if any, existing in the Metropolitan dis- trict from cholera, and such precautionary measures 95 deemed advisable, made a report in which it is declared that that epidemic is imminent, and the Governor of the State 18 called upon to proclaim to the public the fagts sct forth therein. The Board, after hearmg the report, then adopted a series of resolutions and specifications in ac- cordance with the report, asking the Governor for ad- ditional controlling power and expenditure for sanitary Purposes, and a committee proceeded to Albany last evening with that document. The strike among the drivers has spread to all the railroad lines tn the city, travel being almost completely suspended. Thes far the companies have made no offer to the men, who seem determined to hold out. A mass meeting of the drivers on the various roads was held yesterday at Union square. Spoeches were made by a number of gentlemen, all of whom encouraged the men in their present course. Daniel 8. Dickinson, the District Attorney of the United States for New York, died at his residence in this city, at eight o’elock on Thursday evening. The courts in the city all paid just tribute to his memory, adjourn ing all further business until Monday next. Our State Assembly passed resolutions sympathizing with the family and expressing regret at his death. Unsuccessful speculations in stocks are reported to be the primary cause of the defalcation of Sareau Lami- rande, cashier of the Poitiers branch of the Bank of France. Before leaving for this country he is alleged to have abstracted an additional sum of about eighty thou- sand dollars, the greater part of which was recovered when he was arrested in this city on Monday last, The examination before United States Commissioner Betts has been postponed until Tuesday next, A man named Lambert was arrested on Thursday on board the California steamer Santiago de Cuba, charged with stealing twenty thousand five bundred dollars in gold. Four thousand five hundred dollars in gold was found im his trank. He was committed to await the action of the California authorities. Walter Price, an old offender, was arrested yesterday for stealmg & wallet containing eleven dollars in gold. He was committed. ‘An action against the Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad Company, brought by Michael Kidney, for bodily injuries received in being run over, on the 27th of last September, by one of the cars belonging to that com. pany, on the corner of Water and Beekman streets, was tried during the past two days in the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2, before Judge Bocke. At the conclusion of the evidence counsel for the company moved to dis. miss the complaint, on the ground of negligence on the pari of plaintiff! Judge Bocke granted the motion, and delivered an important opinion in regard to the law of negligence as applicable to cases of this character. In the General Sessions yesterday James Hunt, who stole forty doliars worth of clothing, pleaded guilty to ‘an attompt at larceny, and was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months: Jobn Conners, who pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary, was sent to Sing Sing Prison for the same time, James Buchanan, convicted of embezalement, was sent to the State Prison for one year. Jacob Gookkind, guilty of iareeny, was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. —- The new and substantial steamship City of Paris, Captain J. Kennedy, belonging to the Inman line, will tail precisely at nine o'clock this morning, from pier 4 North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The stearoshiip Bavaria, Captain Taube, sails to-day at twolve o'clock for Southampton and Hamburg, from het wharf at Hoboken. The mails for the German States by her will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock. The superior steamship Star of the Union, Captain Blanchard, of the Cromwell line, will eail at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direet, from pier No. @ North river, The mails will close at the Post Ofice at half- past one, The favorite steamship Missour!, Captain Loveland, of the Empire Sidewheel lipe will sail from fopt of Cedar street, North river, at three P. M. to-day for Savannah direct, The stock market was steady yesterday, with excep- tional buoyancy in the miscellaneous list, Governments were dull. Gold was heavy and closed at 12634. There was less activity in commercial circles yester- day, and not so much done as on Thursday. The ex+ treme prices demanded by holders tended to restrict 5 especially in domestic produce. The cot- ton market was firm. Petroleum was dull and nominal. Sugar was steady. Coffee was dull and heavy. On *Change the demand for flour was fair, and prices again advanced. Wheat was firm. Corn was unchanced. Oats were steady. Pork opened firm, but closed with downward tendency. Beef was steady. Lard was higher. Whiskey was dull and nominal at previous rates. MISCELLANEOUS. Our European files by the Asia, dated to the Sist of March, reached this city from Boston at an early hour this morning. The main points of the news were em- braced in our telegraphic report from Halifax, published in the Hsrazp on Thursday. Thoro is nothing addi- tional concerning the German question. To-day being the anniversary of the assassination of Abrabam Lincoln, orders have been issued by the Presi- dent closing all the public offices. steamboat Financier, bound from Pittsburg to New elk was last night burned at Remington, twenty miles bélow Pittsburg. Several lives were lost, and tho vessel and cargo were entirely destroyed, The Governor of New Brunswick has accepted the resignations of the anti-confederation administration. ‘No new government has been formed. The German laborer, who was suspected of killing the / Deering family in Philadelphia, has been arrested and confesses the dee’, He states that he was assisted by an accomplices, and gives a full description of him. An immense crowd collected around the police station and threatened to lyngh the prisoner, but he was safely con- ducted to Moyamensing Prison. Edward Greon, the Malden Bank murderer, was hung at East Cambridge yesterday. The execution was very much bungled, and he died with fearful contortions. Green, it will be remembered, killed a young lad, Frank E. Converse, inthe bank at Malden, in broad daylight, and robbed the safe of five thousand dollare, When he was sentenced Governor Andrew refused to sign the death warrant on account of some informality, but Gov- ernor Bullock coming into office soon after, took up the matter and signed the fatal document. A bridge across a carriageway near Williston, on the New York Central road, was burned on Thursday night, and the next morning at half-past four o’clock the night express, moving at full speed, ran over the chasm. Ono man was killed, the conductor badly wounded, and six or eight others more or less hurt, Navigation on Lake Erie is reopened between Cleve- Jand and Dunkirk. Choleric diarrhea was very prevalent in Montreal, Canada, on April. The streets of the city are exceed- ingly filthy. Richard Paterson, of Tiverton Stone Bridge, Rhode Island, was killed at Bothwell, Canada, April 11, by being struck on the head with the gearing of a derrick which gave way when he was at work under it. Southern Restoration—Mr. Senator Stew- art’s Amended Proposition. Mr. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has modified his proposition of universal suffrage and uni- versal amnesty into the form of a constitutional amendment, declaring that “all discriminations among the people because of race, color or previous condition of servitude, either in civil rights or in the right of suffrage, are prohibit- ed, but the States may exempt persons now voting from restrictions on suffrage hereafter imposed;” and (section 2) that “obligations in- curred in aid of the insurrection or war against the Union, and claims for compensation for slaves emancipated, are void, and shall not be assumed or paid by any State, or by the United States.” Mr.Stewart next proposes that, when any one of the late rebel States shall have rati- fied the foregoing amendments of the federal constitution, and shall have adapted its local laws in conformity therewith, said State shall be fully reinstated in Congress, and a general amnesty shall exist in regard to all persons in, such State in any way Sonnetted with the late rebellion. The objects thus contemplated by Mr. Stew- art are, security against any efforts hereafter to assume, in Congress or in any State, the debts of the rebellion, or compensation for slaves in- volved in the abolition of slavery; the con- cession of the elective franchise to the black race throughout the country, under ench re- strictions as the several States may hereafter think fit to impose, withou. distinction of race or color, and, upon these terms, a universal am- nesty to all persons concerned in the late re- bellion. sonable compromise, but it involves the tedious process of an amendment of the federal con- stitution, and its ratification by the several States concerned. session of Congress, it is Now, this seems to be a fair and rea- If passed at the present probable that the amendment in question could be brought to a ratification in all the Southern States in season to get them into both houses at the next session which ends, and ends this Congress, on the 4th March, 1867; but there is hardly a probability, from present appearances, that this amendment, or anything like it, can be passed at the present session. the States most concerned are suffering, and will continue to suffer, from the absence of an established system of law, order and public confidence, resulting from their exclusion from Congress. Meantime We think that there is a shorter and more ac- ceptable way to Southern restoration than this, We have no fears of the assumption by Con- gress, or by any State, of the debts of the re- bellion; nor do we believe that Congress will hereafter undertake to pay for slaves set free in consequence of the rebellion; but if any such apprehensions exist in the public mind, we think that a simple act of Congress will be sufficient to allay them. Surely such an act will stand as the law during the existence of the government, if the acts of the rebellion are null and void, and if the war measures of the gov- ernment for the suppression of the rebellion cannot be questioned. So far, then, there is really no necessity for a constitutional amend- ment as security for the future. The main point, however, of Mr. Stewart's proposition is, the equivalent of negro suffrage in the South for a general amnesty to persons concerned in the rebellion. But has negro suf frage anything to do with the right of the Southern States to a restoration to Congress with their submission to the legal and practical consequences of the war? We believe that the public sentiment of the country is against the enforcement of any such condition of restora- tion. We believe, too, that as, since the pas sage of the Civil Rights bill, the radicals can no longer complain of Southern injustice and cruelties touching the civil rights of the black man, they have disarmed themselves of their only efficient weapon as exclusionists against the Southern States. With the civil rights of the blacks declared and placed by law under the pfotection of the United States courts, President, army and navy, we cannot perceive the necessity of going behind our own promises to make negro suffrage even a condition of for- giveness to the Southern whites concerned in the rebellion. Congress is bound by its own declarations to a different course of treatment. Jp apy evegt the great auestion now is. the | the money expended in buying up leg! restoration of the Southern States to Congress, and not the enforcement of negro suffrage as & condition of restoration. Upon this question, we contend, the public sentiment of the North is with the President and in opposition to Thad- deus Stevens, We have only to urge, therefore, that if the President can bring neither reason, justice nor expediency to bear upon this Con- gress, it is his duty to carry this issue before the people and make it the test question in the approaching elections for the next Congress. Otherwise, it is evidently the purpose of Stevens and his managing committee to keep out the excluded States till after the next Presi- dential election, whatever may be the losses to the Treasury and our national taxpayers from the continued derangements of Southern society and continued short crops of Southern cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar. What we want now isa fall development of these great staples of trade, to assist us in meeting our national debt; and this tull development awaits the action of Congress. Our City Railroads=—The Strike of the Drivers. Residents of the upper portion of the city were disagreeably surprised yesterday morn- ing to find that the strike of the drivers had extended to all the lines of city railroads, and that no cars were running. The greatest con- fusion, annoyance and discomfortensued. The stages were overcrowded, hacks were in un- usual demand, and the majority, finding no room in the omnibuses, and not being rich enough to hire carriages, started to walk down town. Of course many mechanics, laboring men and women, clerks and artisans, were late in reaching their places of labor, and com- pletely exhausted before their day’s work began. The prospect of a similar tiresome trudge home again in the evening did not act as a stimulant to their exertions. Thus we have no doubt that the industry of this city has been injured hundreds of thousands of dol- lars by the failure of the railroad companies to make their regular trips during the past two or three days. In other words, the mis- management of these companies has imposed this enormous tax upon the community in ad- dition to all the various other troubles to which it has subjected our patient and long suffering people. This is a pretty time to go before the Legislature and ask for another city railroad, to be mismanaged in the same manner and to place us still more in the power of these companies. We have one principal strect free from railroad tracks. Carriages and stages can ran upon it, It is a popular and asplendid thoroughfare. In the name of the people we demand that the Legislature shall leave that street as it is, and not put us under the tyranny of another railroad company, as greedy, as unscrupulous and as mismanaged as the rest. If the present Legislature desires to dabble in city railroads, let it compel the companies now existing to carry on their business with some regard to the convenience of the public. The agents of the Citizens’ Association should direct their efforts to this object, instead of wasting time, words and money in treating of subjects which they do not and never will un- derstand, The management of our city rail- roads is disgraceful. We are told that corpora- tions have no souls; but these corporations are equally destitute of brains. The Legislature gives them their charters for nothing—unless tors is to be regarded as the price of their fran- chises, They take our streets, tear up the pavements, lay a lot of tracks, drive away all other kinds of public conveyances, ruin the thoroughfares of travel, charge exorbitant rates of passage, do not put on enough cars to aceommodate the public, and then cease run- ning altogether upon so flimsy a pretence as a strike among the drivers, or among the con- ductors, or among the hostlers, or among some other of their employes. Under no other gov- ernment on the face of the earth would such conduct be permitted. Itis the duty of these railroad companies to guard against strikes; to anticipate and prevent them; to pay the men what they ask or to employ other men in their places; but, instead of this, they make the whole city suffer in order that they may coerce their drivers into subjection. Suppose this rule should be adopt- ed on the steam railroads. Suppose the captain of a European steamer should wait until the last moment without knowing whether his crew would sail with him or not, and them coolly inform his passengers that he could not start because his engineers had struck for higher wages. Bat even these cases would not be so had as that of the city railroads. Other lines of steam cars might be patronized, other ves- sels might be procured; but against these city companies the public is powerless, for they are & monopoly and permit no competition. The city government and the Legislature of the State scem to be equally in the pay of the companies, and the great, patient, suffering public is without any protection against outrage and annoyance. The question between the drivers and the railroad directors is simply one of wages. The drivers, who number only a few hundred men, demand fifty cents a day more than they now receive. Whether or not this demand is just we shall not now inquire. We are speaking, not in the interest of the drivers, but on behalf of the great body of our citizens. From that point of view it is very clear that the people should not be thus injured and aggrieved in order to save a few hundreds of dollars to the companies. We know that these companies are rich; they are making plenty of money; their stock cannot be bought. They could very well afford, therefore, to pay the advanceé rates of wages until other drivers could be procared. Rather than do this they deliber- ately deprive the whole city of the ordinary means of transit and compel poor working men and women to walk miles before and after their hard day’s labor. A shrewd cor- respondent, however, throws a still stronger light upon the conduct of these companies. When Congress taxed the receipts of the rail- roads one-eighth of cent; per passenger the companies raised the fare trom five to six cents, thus making each paswonger pay the tax— which ought to come from the treasury of the companies—and sever-cighths of a cent be- sides, Our correspondent proceeds to show that this excess of se ven-eighths of a cent per passenger actually pays the wages of the drivers and condrictors. Thus it appears that the companies, ‘instead of refusing to pay the drivers an @/ivance of fifly cente # day, are fefusing to ‘pay them anything. The public bare the @:ivers’ wages by making the com- panies a ‘present of soven-cighths of a cent per passenger. If the companies cared to deal fairly with the people they would issue tickets in such numbers and at such prices as would enable them to receive just the one-eighth of a cent to which they are honestly entitled—and no more, But they do not wish to deal fairly with the people. On the contrary, they swindle and humbug the public in every possible way. They do not enforce their own rules and regu- lations; they charge a higher rate of fare than their charters permit, aud they ran cars or not, as it happens to suit their peculiar financial notions. We call upon our judges, our Mayor and our Common Council to take some action in regard to this matter at once, and we urge the Legislature to grant no more charters for railroads until the companies now in existence are completely reconstructed and reformed. s—The Excitement in the British Provinces. The Canadian journals fume s great deal about the Fenians and amuse themselves and thelr readers with the uso of the fercest phrases. They hold our govzrnment responsible for all the Fenien trouble, and directly charge it with oonniving at the plans of the Fenian leaders. They make this charge rather early; for, though we are as well informed as others re- specting the movements of these excited Irish- men, we have not yet heard of their having taken a town of the size of St, Albans, Ver- mont. Many subjects of her Majesty, Irishmen mostly, have sought asylum, and homes even, in our midst, saying that they have been driven to do this by the tyranny of British law. We know that many subjects of our own govern- ment, saying the same things against our laws, sought asylum in her Majesty’s dominions during the years of the war. We know that they crossed the line and committed outrages against us, and it may be that the Canadians reason from what they did as to what the Irish may do. But governments cannot act on such reasons, They must have the more substantial basis of facts, As yet the Irish have violated no law. They have neither taken any town, nor robbed a bank, nor killed even a single man, in any of her Majesty’s loyal provinces. Neither have we heard that these men had The Fen! captured a British ship—of the size of the’ Chesapeake, say. It is constantly rumored that they intend to try this. But bad intentions are not criminal; attempt is not success ; and ramor is not evidence. Above all, we have not learned that men had been held guiltless in an American court for the capture of any such ship. It is not even alleged by the Ca- nadians themselves that the Fenians had taken passage in our ports on any Canadian lake or river steamer, murdered the captain and crew, and confiscated the vessel. There is no evi- dence that they have, while living under the protection of our law, concocted a plan to burn a great city like Montreal or Quebec, and sent their agents forward bearing the necessary material. If they have arranged in New York, Boston or Chicago any diabolical plan for the murder of the Governor of Canada and his Cabinet, it is not known, and the men, much as we may regret it, must be permitted to go for- ward. For what a farce it would make of jus- tice to arrest men on the mere possibility that they might have such horrible intentions. We should be sorry to hear that the Fenians had done any of these things. Such acts are simply horrible pieces of barbarism. .,. This we thought and said when they were committed on our soil by men who had the encourage- ment and assistance of the Canadians, Nova Scotians and New Brunswickers, But, much as we might regret such acts, it seems to be doubtful whether, in the existing state of neu- trality laws, any restraint can be exercised by our government until after the harm is done. This was shown in the cases alluded to. If we accept as definitive the experience of the Cana- dian government, it is not possible for us to prevent the Fenians doing what they will; for we mmst suppose that the Canadian and other provincial governments made their utmost ef- forts to do their duty in restraining the Con- federates, and we all know what poor success they had. Laws for the punishment of crime restrain men principally by moral force, in fixing a prescribed penalty to a given act; but when passion or a sense of injury carries a man, like a whirlwind, above the influence of all moral restraint, it is evident that he can rush out and plunge a knife into another in spite of all law, and before the machinery of law can inter- fere. So, if men are excited by a sense of na- tional wrongs and a spirit of patriotism, until they regard all the penalties prescribed as utterly trivial compared to the good they hope to secure, it is evident, from the many examples that Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia gave us during the war, that they caw rash across a frontier, take a town, murder the citi- zens, plunder the banks and capture the ships before. any one can prevent it. Provision against such raids cannot be coextensive with a whole frontier, and the raiders must only take the caution to fix on some town—like St. Albans, say—that is wholly defenceless. We say this for the comfort of New Bruns- wiek, Canada and Nova Scotia, and in order that they may know we sympathize with them now just as they did with us, under simi- lar circumstances, some time ago. The whole country would be sorry te hear that the Fenians had followed the bad examples set across the line; but the provinces may feel assured, in this unfortunate state of affairs, that if the Fenians do burn, murder and plunder across the Hines, and then seck refuge on our side, the case wilt then be taken up with proper vigor, and all be done that justice would seem to require. InvestiaaTiIoN BY THE Potick Commesston- Ens.—The Commissioners of Police are about to institute an investigation into the facts con- nected with the custom ot compounding felonies by police officials. We hope that this measure will be carried through vigorously; for there can be little doubt that crime has been to a great extent encouraged by the system of com- pounding with criminals on the part of the police officials, and in many cases by private citizens who have been the victims of thieves, who are kindly invited to return a portion of the spoil, with the promise that no questions will be asked. We have recently seen instances of this kind in the extensive bond robberies. It is reported that the investigation will be carried on in secret; but the public will look anxiously for the denouement. If properly con- ducted, this investigation will prove of great Public utilizy, and it s, therefore, desirable ‘oat it ghould not be smoheredum =~ ‘ Borotary as 4 Frm Axt—The audacity with which extensive burglaries are every day committed is » matter that demands the serious attention of business men and the public gene- rally. It is but a few years since that people became pretty well satisfied there was at least one unpickable safe lock, and subsequently we have had announcements that certain safes were absolutely burglar proof. But experience has shown that the art of lock-making and safe- making has not kept pace with the art of break- ing them open. The most improved safes seem to afford but feeble resistance to the genius of first’ class cracksmen, who appear to have in- vented implements capable of penetrating any metal, and, according to distinguished English authority, of overcoming every obstacle. These industrious and adroit rascals, the safe burglars, devote more labor and frequently display as much science in carrying on their nefarious business as would, if employed in honest yooations, yield them » handsome nd honorable livelihood. Let a new and impenetrable patent burglar proof safe be offered the public, and how easy it is for them to buy one and devote their time and cunning to the work of ing out its weak poipts, Once discovered—for the safes of any single patent are generally constructed upon asimilar principle—and thelr whole merit of impenetrability vanishes. Only a few even> ings since burglars went to work with muffled instruments upon a patent burglar proof safe, placed near a window ona public street, with gaslight burning near, and directly in front of a detective office. They succeeded in opening the safe and plundering it ofa large amount of valu- able bonds and Treasury notes, with which they made good their escape. It is time that our patent safe makers should bestir them- selves and discover some new and improved method of defeating the work of these burglars, or they will, before long, be able to go through their safes as if they were so many paper boxes. Tue Fst Oreration or THe Crvm. Ricats Bru.—During the proceedings in the Senate Chamber on Thursday, when the eulogiums on the late Senator Foot were being pronounced, & pompous negro entered the diplomatic gal- lery and took a seat in the midst of the foreign representatives. He had evidently studied the Civil Rights bill carefully, and thought that a negro was as good as an ambas- sador from any of the foreign courts. He was in presence of the radical Senators who voted for the passage of the bill over the President's veto, and very naturally concluded that his rights were equal to those of any man on the floor of the Senate or in the gallery sct apart for the foreign representatives. Now, although this colored person was prevailed upon to retire, after some effort on the part of the doorkeeper, because he happened to get into the wrong place, it is questionable whether, under the provisions of the Civil Rights bill, he was not justified in concluding that he had the same privi'ege to sit in the gallery as anybody else. If he fell into a mistake in this matter he only shared in the error committed by the radical Congress when they voted for an equality which is obnoxious to the great mass of the people, and never can be recognized, though a thou- sand laws were passed to make it legal. The poor negro, who took his own rade interpreta- tion of the law, might be pardoned for the breach of etiquette; but what shall be said of the intelligent white men who made the law? How must the diplomatic corps have felt at this untoward incident arising from our new legislation? The first practical operation of the Civil Rights bill must have proved rather dis: gly able in their estimation. Tue Cottectorsnip.—We notice that several applicants for this office are now in Washington pressing their claims. The fact that they are there at this particular time, when, if they were anxious to serve Mr. Johnson, they could be doing him more good at home, is a sufficient reason why they should not be appointed. None of those who are now personally im- portuning around the White House should be appointed to that position. Even in a political point of view it would weaken the President in this State if he should send their names into the Senate. Their position is such that it would be impossible for any of them to bring him any strength, politically or any other way; but, on the other hand, they would be a dead weight upon him. But we want no mere politician. Why should not the President appoint some such business man as Wilson G. Hunt or Moses Taylor, and thus recognize the business inte- rests of this city infact? They have amassed a fortune, and would have no personal ends to serve while in that office. The position. has heretofore been filled by politicians; now let us have a business man to conduct the office in business way; but none of that class who are there now, personally asking for their own ap- pointment, will answer. TERRIBLE DISASTER. A Steamboat Burned on the Ohio River— Tei es Lost, and Many Persons Se- verely Injared. ie Prrrsevre, Pa., April 18, 1866. ‘The steamboat Financier, bound from Pittsburg to New Orleans, was burned last night at Remingtom, twenty miles below this city. Ten lives were lost. The boat and the cargo, consisting of agricultural im- plements, iron, nails and glass, were totally destroyed. ‘The insurance on the boat was $25,000, om the cargo $50,000, mostly in Pitteburg offices, The names of the lost were Emanuel Rothschild, wife and two children, of Texas; the wife and.daughter of Captain Darragh; Thomas Balder (colored), pantryman, two deck hands and the fireman. Others of the crew were severely, but.aot seriously burned. The fire was occasicned by the explosion} of a petrole- um lamp in the bands of Mra, Darragh. Ratiroad Accidents. A TRAIN ON THE VERMONT CENTRAL WRECKRD—ONB MAN KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURRD. Exenx Junction, Vt, April 13, 1866, ‘A painful accident occurred near Williston, on the Can- tral road, early this morning, occasioned by the buraing of a briage, twenty feet in. length, which spanned a car- ringe way. The fire took place in the night, and the night express going north, due there about balf-past four, having no. knowledge of it, was moving at full speed. The engine leaped the chasra, but knocked ont all her trucks whea she struck the opposite mde, 80 that she halted instantly. The cars, consisting of the baggage ear, two ‘ears and two sleeping cars, were piled pb ‘another into the gap, in a badly wrecked con- unknown, was instantly ki tl hy Joton was seriously Injured in the a, FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ERIK RAILROAD. nine o'clock yesterday as a freight