The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1866, Page 4

- 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFvICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI. 106 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwi sireet.—SoLow SmiNGLE: ieee POE OS Woon’s T! Hotel. —Hrro. TRE, way, opposite the Hohotns ONPRLAC—TOO Mou ros Goon kane HALL, Irving place.—Buxp Tom's cmIETS. Gran SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRI 0 Motropolitan Hotel —Ermor nog a Tg net Page eld tum Commrrrke Ox Wars anv Means. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Sina- inc, Dancing, BuRumsquas, &¢.—Tak Wonxinc GiR.s oF Naw York. CHRISTY S—O1p Scuoor. oF Mins usical. Gums. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-roura street, Tax Car Daivxns’ BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad: way.—NecRo Comicaur BURLESQUES, &0.—SHYLOCK; om, Tax Jew or CuaTHA’ REET. HOOLEY'S OPERA HC Brooklyn.—Eraiorian Mur BPRELST—Battans, BURLESQUE AND PANTOMIMRS. GEORG BALLADS, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Broadway.< Open from i) AM, illo P. M = el HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—A: pussrpigitaraU AxD Vaxtninoguisn, aT BUSI DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Miss Many M, Recton's Gaann Concert. New York, Monday, April 16, 1866, —— OF THE CITY PRESS, The Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advertising of all the daily papers of this city for two years. In the first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the socond column are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thivteen months Por the Paper ending Dec, 31, 1864. Year 1865. Herald 5 Bs $662,192 Tr.bune. 301,841 Times 251 812 284,412 Evening Post... 163,177 222,715 World. 128,056 177,204 Journal of Con 109,595 173,646 Transcript. 62,644 164,461 Staats Zeitung 67,550 126,380 Sun. 5 3 101,793 Commercial Adverti 77,556 Daily N i ‘77,058 Evening Express, 68,742 New Yorker Demokrat 25,734 Totals. seseecccsses (OLS $2,483,724 This shows the Herauo to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- Users of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- cating their business wants to the public. NOTE. The Timer and Tribune, in order to make ashow of publizh statements pretending that they are tal returns to the Revenue Department. These ‘atementa are made up in the Times aad Tjbune offices to suit their own purposes, and very curiously the Times shows a larger business than 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 strietly correct in every par- Any one can satisfy himself on this point by inapocting the book: Internal Revenue Office, wow Ss. EUROPE. > steamship Saxonia, from Southampton April 4, rday morning. Sho was off Hook on rday night, but was detained by a fog. Hor news is two days later, and of a very important and interesting character, Ouraavices from the continent show that the war atti still maintained by Austria and Prussia, France, and Italy were agitated, and their commer. bly aifected by the of France was considerably licy towards Germany, in the event of a war, remained still in doubt, The comments aris press on the subject conta:n sentences of F of them, the Delata, pro- fe frontier either towards a,and that the Silesian territory could icia and Bohemia” The Paris exation of Savoy and Nice by ls which will not be closed »btained the Rhenish frontier.” England, nthe London Times, again deprecatos the idea of a war, bopes for peaceful jon, bateviness 4sympathy with Austria. The very latest the tea of a settlement through nee. » Bonaparte was in Florence. The Kaly wer amoned to assomble ia bo 6th of Apr Am Italian squadron is to Adriatic, Military preparations were going va _¢ Victoria forwarded a flattering letter to Mr. body thanking him for bis “princely munifl-. towards the poorer clastes residing in Longon. Mr Peabody would have been. created a baronet‘or have Grand did he not feel himselt “do- barred ¢ such distinction. Tho London Tim es Highly of the royal compliment, ticular, Trade ‘ strikes" prevailed to a very gypat extent in London and other large cities of England, The strike of the Lond rs and that of the building trades in most important, The energy and . of the workingmen's unions ature of the movement, which, ) with the reform agitation, reveals the commencement of quite @ social and political revo- lution in Great Britain. Marie Amelie, ex-Queen of the Fren beneath the Catholic church of Weybridge, England, on Jof April. A brilliant rssembia Froneb nota jod. Her family wore present, The King of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge n the ceremonial. The ox-Queen was in » gown she wore when she left Fr the cap sho wore asa widow, in mn foquest by heF, as jadicati he two 1 her life—digvotion to country, France. 4 at Covent Gar. Birmin form a rem: ch, was burie® es. ¢ for her ad aa gated a ual victory” over the re u, Oy thousand of the laiver being killed 1 ¢ for Conso! J in London, Apri 3, at Sif 86 b coun demand, with a ; Flour was quiet at pre THE Our nows frOm the Fenian ‘ or G ye commission of the fr t an privateor capiarey : 1 Saturday might froin an cor tho gam ored to the capture, 11 States gunboat Winooski {4 at Easiyort A sos brig was brought i by the United States r enue aturday night, The Corresn 5; ent of the Montreal Gazette leays the Fenians aro scattering, and that thay are with- jout arois. faere. de public indignation ia regard to the secret trial of NEW YORK: HERALD, MONDAY,’ APRID 16; Murpy and his mon is till openly demonstrated all over The Financial Problem of the Country— Canam, and « aympathy for the prisoners is thereby ox- cited Th» scare is extending. It provails along Lake Eriy’s shores to as great an extent as it docs in Now Necessity of Understanding and Seiv- ing It. ‘The Loan bill has become a law by the sig- Bmnswick, and the people are skedaddling to our shores | nature of the President to it, So far the wants for safety. European nows to the 4th inst. atatos that serious Fenian riots prevailed in Bradford, England, in whioh of the government as regards its accruing debt obligations are provided for until the next ses- the Queen was denounced, and the English residents had sion of Congress, The Secretary of the Treas- tolock themselves indoors for safety. Several arrests | ury is empowered to meet the bonds or securi- were made. arrested in Cork, and it is thought that the number olse- whore is very large. The American Consul at Cork had ‘an interview with somo American Fenians Nino uational schoolmasters have been | ties that will be due by such means es he may have, or by changing one form of indebtedness inthe Cork | for another. This ample power conferred on county jail. ‘The probability is they will be sent home. him is fortunately limited, however, by restric- THE CITY. tions that will prevent an undue contraction of The strike on the city railroads still continues, al- | the currency, or any serious disturbance of the though the interruption to traffic was not 80 noticeable finances, business or values of the country. yesterday. Tho public appear to be decidedly in favor of | Had his power not been limited he might bring the drivers, The citizens of Harlem decided to support {hose on the Third Avenue road for one week, and it is probable that Manhattanvile and other places will follow its example. irretrievable disasters upon us by attempting to carry out the bullionist theory he enunciated in his speeches last year, and..the resumption ‘Tho “Preasurer of the Second Avenud' Railroad, pub- | "vagaries of those .who clamor forthe instant’ lishos acard this morning stating that the company in | return to specie payments. The only people | the last five years has lost over ond hundred and twelve thousand dollars. A correspondent this morning proposes that passenger? in the city cars should make up parties of eight and pay forty-one cents farofor all, which is the logal rate, in- cluding the government tax. ‘Tho caulkers, who are striking fora reduction in the number of hours for labor, have published an address to tho merchants, shipowners and underwriters of the port of Now York, stating that the exorbitant bills made on them for repairs are the doings of the master ship- wrights, and mot the actual charges of the caulkers themselves, The funeral of Brigadier General J. Lyman Van Buren took place in this city yesterday, the particulars of which, together with a brief account of his life and services, is published in another column. A sermon was delivered yesterday morning at the church of St. Francis Xavier, Sixtoonth street, near Sixth avenue, by tho Right Reverend Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, 8. C, The Bishop explained his mission here to be the collecting of funds to enable him to repair some of the damage the churches and institutions in his dioceso had suffered through the war, and for this purpose col- lections were taken up atall the masses and at vespers in the afternoon. Tho Reverend Mr. Huntingdon delivered a discourse in reference to the death of the late Hon. Daniel S. Dickin- son in the Church of the Reconciliation, on East Thirty- frat street. Tho Rev. Fred. Brown, of Meriden, Conn., yesterday ‘assumed the pastorship of the Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. ‘At tho Rev. Mr. & H. Tyng, Jr.'s, Church of the Holy Trinity, yesterday, the aunivorsary exercises wero held. Six thousand dollars were collected towards building a schoo! house adjoining the church ‘The frst communion was administered to over thirty young persons, male and female, at the German Catholic in the community that could be benefited by a forced contraction of the currency are the fundholders. Their property would be in- creased in value twenty-five to thirty per cent ‘at once, and the property of everyone elae de- creased the same amount. It is gratifyng to perceive, therefore, that Congress has been suf- ficiently enlightened and patriotic to view the matter properly, and to resist the powerful influence of the fundholding interest. Two important'objecta, then, have been attained in the passage of this amended Loan bilt—the accruing indebtedness has been provided for, and we are safe for the next eight months from those evils that would befall us by tampering with the currency. We may breathe freely and go on with our business without fear of any great change during this period. But what of the future? How are we going to establish a sound financial and monetary system that will not create and perpetuate monopolies, that will not oppress the people and bea burden upon labor? How shall we continue to bear the weight of an enormous debt and provide for its liquidation in such a manner that the people will not chafe under it and be tempted to repudiate? What plan can be devised to make this great and rich country the financial centre of the world, in- stead of being, as we are now, the mere hewers of wood and drawers of water to Europe? These are questions that demand our serious church of St. Alphonsus, in Thompson street, yester- | consideration. Some of them are intimately try, with wonderful natural resources, mWY help ug to stave off the evil, but it will come, for all that, unless we avoid the errors. of France and England, and change our present financial policy. The first step taken should be to legislate the so-called national banks out of existence within a reasonable time. They constitute an immense moneyed monopoly of the fundholders that can control the resources and business of the country for the advantage of the few, and will have the power of controlling the govern- ment itself, Such a stupendous mistake as the creation of these banks was never committed be- fore by any men calling themselves statesmen. Admitting that their circulation will amount to only three hundred millions, the amount pre- scribed by the presen$ law, they will make about forty-five millions of dollars a year out of the public.’ ‘That, is, they, make. seyengperg| ‘cent on the bonds deposited, and about eight per cent on the profits of their circulation, in- cluding interest and discount, They pay the government, or the people, nothing for the privilege of this circulation. Even the Bank of England, with all its advantages to the gov- ernment, pays the government a handsome percentage for its circulation. There never was a greater fraud upon the people than these national banks. They are dangerous at the same time, The profits on this circulation alone, placed at compound interest, would liqui- date the entire national debt in about forty years. The noxt step should be to consolidate the whole debt and make a uniform and re- duced rate of interest. A sinking fand, look- ing to the extinguishment of the debt in forty or fifty years, should also be established. This would give stability and confidence, and would lighten the burdens of the people. The greenback legal tenders onght to be the eur- rency of the country, the same as Bank of England notes are in Great Britain. ‘There should be a central establishment at the commercial metropolis similar to the Bank of England, over which the government should have proper control, and all banknotes, if there should be others in circulation, ought to be redeemed in legal tenders. 1 1s:impossible to go into the details of such measures here, but they are practicable, necessary to save us from the evils we are running into, and are sound in principle. If we would avoid the evils of a vast moneyed oligarchy, which a tolegraph{ Som Rastport, Turee British war steamers, he says, aro day. . Fast night a Lincoln celebration was held by the Ger. | Connected with the adjustment of our national mans at the Turn Hall, in Orchard street, under the auspices of the German Republican Central Committees, There was a large attendance, and various addresses in honor of the martyr President were delivered. An individual claiming to be a stranger in the city ob- tained permission to havo his letters directed to No. 70 Chatham street, the jewelry store of Mesars. Lyons & Co., about a week ago, Various Jotters arrived for him, and wore delivered to him, until it was discovered that he had published a circular stating that a watch and jewelry would be sent to any one in the country by forwarding three dollars to Jamas Hamilton & Co., No, 70 Chatham street. He was caught and committed for trial. Mrs. Margaret Fleming, who lived on Hester atroet, it is alleged committed auicide on Saturday, by swallowing a box of Costar’s rat oxterminator. Mr. John Burns died yesterday from the offects of a fall from a third story window roceived last Wednesday. James Francia, a colored man, was caught in the act of breaking open the wardrobe in Mr. James Weed’s bedchamber, on Grand atrest, yeaterday, and was com- mitted. Jeremiah Kirby and John Connors were arrested yes- terday for knocking down Henry Meyers and robbing him of seventy-three dollars, They were committed. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho President has ordered that the Treasury agent, Dextor, who was convicted by military commission of fraud on the government, be turned over the civil au thorities for trial. He was in confinement in default of two hundred thousand dollars bail. ‘This ix looked upon as a solution of the peace proclamation by the President himself to the effect that it removes martial law. A military court martial assembles to-day at Lonia- ville, Kentucky, to investigate tho reeent frauds 1m the Quartermaster's Department at Nashville, the Supreme Court of the United States having de= elared the military commission which tried Bowles and Mulligan of Indiana to be {llegal and those persons hav- ing been discharged, the friends of Arnold, Spangler and Madd, the ‘assassination conspirators, propose to make an eflort to release them under the game deci- sion ‘The resolution of Mr. McCulloch, of Maryland, calling for information as to cortain matters in tho administra. tion of the War Department, is of considerable interest, ‘as it i$ believed in Washington it will reveal several Megat and’ despotic acts of Secretary Stanton that will astound the public It is probable that Clement © Clay wilt be reloased ina few days. Such x course ts recommended by General Grant, Senator Wilson and Thad, Stevens. Henry A. Smythe is to havo bis mamo sent to the Senate to-day as Collector of the Port of New York. Oor Albany correspondent details the report of the Railroad Committeo on the Broadway Raitroad schemes in the State Senate. ‘They offer to grant the privilege of ‘a railroad on Broadway on A. T, Stewart's terms, as siib- mitted in writing, for two mitlions of dotlars to be paid info the city treasury. Having reported adversely on the underground ‘bill of abominations,” they were charged with corrupt motivés, although it now appears that this project is only an extension of the Murray MM tunnel, with open cuttings below “Walt street, Nike the Atlantic street affair, which proved saeb an offenwive nuisance until bought out by the property owners of South Brooklyn. ‘The committee also, It apporrs, wore notified that the Sanitary Doard would have onjoimed the excavation as dangerous to the public healuy ‘Our nows from Mexico is to the 6h, via" New Orleans, Sixteen hundred imperialists loft Caderoiba on the Ist. Mejin had made another forced loan on the merchants of Matamorda, The investment of that -—place still con- tinues. The liverais are gaining ground, ia Nerthern ny Vera Cros, it ie thought, will, with the exception of a portion $1 hor cargo, proves total lov. In addition to thono already pablished Don Luis do Arroyo, Ereston Berron, 7. P O’Saltivinggl CRauvitoau Duavalier Wikolf were among the pagsengors. in the most emphatic manner, that (hero was an) nol or unnecessary abridgement of the comedy of the Merry Wives of Wind- sor, as performed by Mr, James H. Hackett and thecom- pany under Mr, Tayloare’s management, in Providénee, RL, lay Friday, as charged by those who towke part in gd 4 them. Mr, Hackott r his sipnatare e na has exteaded the jortedtetron 8€ te Southern church in every direc~ tion asked for. es. ent frost has ki 1 somo of the covton im Loub . ol, "tho guerilla, is reported to have gone to é : great national debt tends to create through the fundholders, we should begin at once to provide finances and system of currency, and will press upon us for an early solution. Our public men and the people ought to begin to educate themselves about this important matter, At present they are ignorant. Their ideas are very crnde and limited. Under a former and very different state of things, anterior to the war, we drifted along smoothly because we had no great national debt, and our immense productions of cotton, gold and other things, drained from us annually, made us easy and supplied us with Inxuries from abroad. But a great revolution has taken place in our finan- cial and monetary situation. It. is necessary now to have a sound and well established sys- tem, If we do not we shall be orore than ever tributary to Europe, and the laboring classes of this country will be brought to a level with those of the Old World. We have only to look at the crude notions on finance which Mr. Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury, exbib- ited, which even Mr. McCulloch, who was one of the Troasury officials with Mr. Chase, and who inaugurated our present system, exhibits, and which most of our public men evince, to understand how much this country has to learn, and how necessary it is that we set about educating ourselves. A man may be a very, good lawyer or banker and yet be ignorant on the subject of national finances. The conse- quence of not understanding the subject pro- perly has been that we commenced wrong when a change was forced upon us by the war, have been going wrong since, and ought at once to begin upon s sound basis. It is true we have not felt the evils of this mischievous policy very much up to the present time, be eanse the immense production of the precious metais and the two or three hundred millions worth of cotton that has come out of the South. since the war closed bave kept us going swim- mingly along; bat we must fect It unless there be a change. Imagine what a condition we should have been in if we bad not had these iwo to three hundred millions worth of cotton, which has been equal to so much gold; equal, In fact, to five-years’ production of the Califar- nia mines. Imagine this, and then it will be perceived what a crisis the mischievous flnmn- ciaf policy of Mr. Chase would have broaght upon us, But we cannot drift on much louger . without great danger. We toust have a radical “and sound change. | The evils most to be feared, if the present state of things should be continued, wonld be from the. aceumulation and absorption of the } wealth of the country in the hands of the tew, | from monopolies, from the power of the fond- ; holders over the labor and productions of the country and over the government itself, and from the inevitable tendency to make the rich” richer and the poor poorer. England, before .the great European war against France and; Napoleon, bad three hundred and fifty thousant landed proprietors.’ Now there are but forty- | Sve thonsand. Thus wealth has accumulated in the hands of the few, while parperism has to- creased in fearful degree. This isthe natural consequence of an enormons debt in the hands of fundbolders, whe by this power have enriched™ themselves, while the laboring classes have beea reduced to the lowest point of subsisfence or to pavperism. That is one side of the alter- native. , Let us tool on the other; let us take France for xamp|e. This country contracted an enormous debt also during ‘the Revolutions ary ware, bot she expanged it ia part by the prompt process of re padiation, and, of course, by tersible « 2} but in partalso by confls A boy tn Phitadelphia m eating tho lands of the riche There were ap emp tam ; eighty thousand landed- proprietors in France ot rh Mt . 1 cry ‘e ay nig & a} before the ReVolntion; now, there are four mil ean whiok r f.ns bétonging | lion Bve bondred’ thoneand, Thos different ro- to 8 de Arréy EF. W. Bo in ansthting. - - %, 203 Third - ¥ Wreck o Sntz— The r i port tho und Vera d on’ the Qarolins, const on Amotg the Spassengers werg 0,and family, agentof Meximitian, ion and the Chevalier Wikoff, bound jal mission to the Emperor of Mexico. this shipwreck ts a forerunner of the yf the imperial cause in Mexico, which several of the parties on board were engaged sults “have been prodviced in the two countrica, but both attended with unparalicted evils. Fron passod thronch streams of Diood, long periods of unexo d suffering, natisag) Aig honor and. loss of liborty; Prataba ended In perpetnating an enor debt that rests Like with a vast and oppressive monopoly of wealth ap lnculyy, upon the industry of the, country, * against it, We see what has been the result in England—the absorption of all the wealth of the country in the hands of a few, and the de- pression of the laboring masses to the lowest degree.. We’see the same tendency in France now, notwithstanding the immense number of landed proprietors there. The number of these are becoming leas every year by the same ab- sorbing process—the poor becoming poorer;and the rich richer. It has been and still is se in every conntry with a great national debt. Let us begin: in: time, then, to avert similar evils from our great, happy and virgincountry. And let us hope tliat statesmen may be found who can comprehend and grapple the subject. Thus, not only will the well-being of the Inbor- ing masses be: preserved, but we may become, what England: is now, the moneyed centre of the world. ‘The Choler# and the Health Commission. The resolutions and declarations of the Health. Board, denominated the proclamation of peril, were transmitted to the Governor with the request that. he should make some public official announcement of the danger from cholera... It is said that the Governor has the subject under consideration, and will not act at once, We believe that the Governor acts unwisely in this, and that he should issue sach ‘a proclamation without delay. We are not disposed’ to be over hasty in the assump- tion that the-cholera must scourge our city or to accept every report that it is already here. The Health. Board itself bas been ineautions in this respect. We expressed upon the first announcement that the cholera had broken out on the ship England our doubta of the truth of that report, and oar belief that it was only virulent ship fever. That has proved to be the case. No cholera is here yet, noe will be for, a month; bat still we believe that there are good!reasons why the proclamation should be put forth. » ‘This. preclamation, thengh it migit be an alarmist measure to some extent, will do good enough to far more than balance tiiat evil in Torcibly calling the attention of the commu- nity to, the imminent necessity of doing all that may he done to break the power of the pestilence. It will also untie the hands of the Health Commissioners in an important way. As matters now stand, the expenditures of the Commission are fixed by law at a very low limit, and this renders it im le for the Commission-to make all the provision that Would otherwise be in its power. Bat in case of pestilence the Board is allowed to make extraordinary expenditure, amd the proclama- tion of ‘the Governor, declaring the necessity, would set free thisdatent power. The Gov- ernor, therefore, most issue hig proclamation as part of the machinery of the law before the utmost that is possible ean be done to sare us. » We believe that with this financial power, as. well as with the new powers likely to be given to get over some legal difficulties, the Health Commission’ will render us absolutely , safe from the cholera. * We should not be surprised if the exertions of that body of energetic, earnest gentlemen made the mortality of the city lighter this year than it has been for many @ summer past, At all eventa, everything should be done that isenecessary to make this possible. It would be in the bighést degree ‘tnjust to hold the Com- mission morally responsible, as the public will, and yet keep their hands tied by limiting their expenditure to bacely enough for a common department in ordipary mes. Single burevus in the city government are put in the tex lovy for donble the amount allowed to the Board that is expected to overhaul entirely the sani- tary condition 6f the dirtiest and most wm- healthy elty in the world. ‘The arrangements for qnarangine made by the Legislature will probably be of no tonefit this your, sine an Island ‘4g jo -he made on certain suse’ and thon sheds built on tho island. But the United States governmént nag fn the hand# of the fundboldess, and with a] 8° abundance of old bulks, and these ean pro- . * more widespread and deep-sdted pauperism than ever existed in any civilized country. Let ns avoid the fate of both France and Eng- land in this respect. But unless wo be carofal, we sball not. Having » vast and virglareoun-| bably all be speedily put at the disposal of ovr local authorities for uve in the lower bay. Satisfactory arrangement of all this should be made, however, before the hulks are-wanted tor immesiate usp * - The Fentaw Faror at Home and Abroad. Every day the news about the Fenians be- somes more interesting and important. The locat papers throughout the country find it a most fraltfpl subject; the Canadian journals can treat of nothing else, and the excitement about it in Europe seen upon the increase. The presence of the famous Stephens in Paris has created a decided sensation. 1t is now report- ed that the French people with the Fenians almost unanimously, end that the Em- peror Napoleon has a:mnounced to the British government that he will mot surrender Stephens if he should be demanded under the Nxtradition treaty. More than this, we are inforsned that the British government has addressed “fim but temperate” remonstrances to the governnvents of the United States and Franee in regarct to the Fenian movements. We do not place the most, implicit reliance upon all these state- ments; but still, where there is so much smoke we are inclined to believe that there must be a little fire. Great Britain once regarded Fenianism as _ ridiculous and contemptible; but since then it bas as- sumed really alarming proportions, Ag Lieu- tenant Governor Gordon, of New Brunswick, very truly observed, “ff Fenianism bea hoax it is one of the most serfous that ever was con- cocted.” This seems to be the genera! impres- sion in the United States, in England, im France and in Canada, A more curious and remarkable development has never occupied’ public attention. The more the people hear about Fenianism the less they appear to under- stand it. In Canada there is a tremendous furor. The volunteers haye been called out and ordered to drill twice a week; but Fenians. have been discovered in both the volunteer and regular armies. Arrests have been made; the writ of habeas corpus has been practically suspended; in effect, Canada is under martial law. We bear that the young aristocracy are enlisting in the militia; the Governors are delivering war speeches; the Canadians near the border are suffering from @ perfect panic. Among other prisoners the authorities have ‘secured @ person named Wheeler, an American and an ex-rebcl officer. When arrested Colonel Wheeler produced a commission from the Fenian General Sweeny; and when sent to jail he coolly declared that the General would soon come with an army to release him. It will be remembered that the condemned Fenians in Ireland were inspired with the same ‘spirit, and astonished’ their judges by asserting that there would soon be an exchange of prisoners between Tteland and England. The rank and file of the Fenians, therefore, seem to be very much in earnest, very hopeful, very enthusiastic. The British government is 80 well convinced that there is some hiddem dan- ger under all this apparently silly, and‘fatile display, that a fleet.of war vessels hasbeen sont over to the Canada coast and now guards the border line, with steam up and loaded guns pointed towards the American shore, from whence an attack is momentarily ex- pected. It hag been: often denied that there are any’ Fenians in Canada, and the loyalty of the provinclals has been heartily praised; bat the arrests have been nnmerous, desertions from the army are: hourly reported, amd the whole colony, from Newfoundland to Hudson Bay, 18 in a state of the most painful ferment and uncertainty. It is quite natural that, under all these cir- cumstances, the Canadian authorities should be terribly excited aginst the United States, und should charge our government with com- plicity in the Fenian pilots. It is by-no means unlikely, also, that the British government has mildly remonstrated:with us upon the subjéct. But Fenianism in this country presents even more singular phases:than in any other. Our government can take-no action, beeause there has been no breach of our neuttality laws. Mectings have beea:tield and funds collected, and arms and ammunition purchased ; but dur- ing our recent rebellion similar proceedings on behalf of the Confederates occurred in neutral Engiand and in neutral Canada, and the neu- tral authorities di not interfere. Nay ;: the Fenfans have not gone half so far here aw the Confederates did in England and Canada. They have fitted jout no privateers ; they have casried out no raids; they have tried t» burn ne» cities ; they have robbed no banks ; they have murderedino. citizens ; thay have assassin- ated no rulers. We know that Sir Frederic ence has a corps of English detectives bere watching the Fenians; but there: is a corps of Fenian: Aetectives watching the Eag- fish and constantly bumbugging and misleading them, so that nothing reliable cun be learned in that way. English spies have enlisted in the Fenian army, amd vice versa; but the Fenians know who, these English spies are, and take care that they shall discover nothing important, while the English officers cannot identify the Fenian emissaries. There is a large collection of Fenians wpon the Canada border, and a Fe- nign front of seventy mites is said to have been establishe?t; but these men behave very peace- ably, and our government cannot prevent them from sojoerning en the border it they please. They havé no arms; but army are said to be soncealed.in-the woods. Caunon appear; but before they can be seized they disappear. Ino ‘word, everything & mysterious; but everything is vory orderly and {peaceable and ominously quiet. A careful consideration of all the facts of the case will sbow that the best policy for our government, in regard to Fentanism at present, "is masterly inactivity. Fenianism is a marvel- lous institusion, and cannot be judged by or- dinary rules. Some time ago, when the quarrel between Roberts ang O'Mahony occurred, all the wiseacres predicted that the organization was at an end. On the contrary, the excitement, the subscriptions and the reerulling were doubled, New it seems proba- bie that the two branches of the Fenians will be united ‘pon, the advent of Stephens, or that the one which makes the first “fht wil! absorb the other. But then the question recurs, Will there be any Gyhting? To thix we ein only re ply that there has not been apy pp to this date; for the street row nt Cal>is, in whieh the Bng- lish were thrasbod, can hardly be dalled a hate tle. But there are the Fenians and there are 2% Canadian volunteers and British regulars, nd nobody knows at whgmoment an oul break may occyt, Some persons believe that the Fenian leaders, having been forced to do something for the money with whith they arc £0 liberally supplied, ‘are now trying to get this government to “arrest them, 80 that they may haves good excuse for inaction. Bat the care which they have taken not to violate the ncuteality laws ‘rather refutes tis theory, A Fenian Colonel Kerrigan arrived at Baal: port and bogan to talk of buying uniforms and chartering ships; but when his superior officers arrived, © day or two after, they were dis- pleased with his conduct, and adopted every means to allay the excitement he had created. The Fenian soldiers, like those of Cromwell, do not drink, do not swear, do not riot; but, unlike those of Cromwell, they pass the time in playing “forty-fves” and talking of ‘'98 We here remark how completely Fenianism has revolutionized tho traditional Irish character. The Fenians hold their meetings in spite of the protests of the priests, and they live together at Eastport with-- out drinking any whiskey or cracking each other’s skulls. Having accomplished these phenomena it is not difficult to believe that Fenianism can accomplish something more. What it will be and whether it will occur im this country, in Canada, in Ireland, England or France, the ambiguons future must determine. Witt rae Preswenr Onanor His Capinet ?— One of our Washington correspondents an- nounced a day or two sinee that it is conceded that the Presideat has the power and can re- move members of his Cabinet, without regard to the Senate, “as more than one of his Cabi- net will learn, should they provoke orchallengo him 40 exercise it” Why, then, does he delay action? If it is a challenge that the President is waiting for he need not postpone it any longer. The people, at least, believe that nos only men in‘ his Cabinet, but their radical sup- porters in Congress, have made the challenge more than once this winter. There is no: rea- son for any further delay on that score. THE CAPITAL. ‘Wasmmeron, April 15, 1866. SMYTHE TO BE COLLECTOR OF ‘THE PORT OF NEW YORK. The uncortainty go lomg havging over the New York: Collectorship ts about torbo dispelled by the appointment of Honey A. Smythe. His name will go to the Sonate to-morrow, Mr, Davies left for New York to-night with a large sized floa in his esr, MOVEMENT TO/RXPOSE THK ARBITRARY AND ILLE- GAL ACTS OF THE S&CRETARY OF WAR. Considerable interest is felt here among officers to see what sort'of an answer the Secretary of War will make to @ resolution introduced in the House on Monday, by Mr. McCullough, of Maryland, calling for information concerning: tae Quartermaster Gencral’s Department in this city, Aglanco at the resolution will show that it is protty broad-im its scope, anc asks for information on» number of subjects, all of which are of vital interest to’ the public. It is intended. by this resolution to bring to’ light and expose the vast number of high-handed acts, as unnecessary as they were tryannical, committed by ‘Mr. Stanton, many of which were merely to gratify a: personal dislike to the peraops chosen as victims of his persecution. It is also intended to bring out the fact that, . notwithstanding the conflict of arms has ceased, Mr. Stanton yet cousimues to set his will above taw, and to per- potrate, in violation of tho rights and liberties of the citizen, aueh acts of petty tyranny as have horeto- fore marked only the meancst despotisme.the world ever knew. If thiresolution brings out all the facts it will be shown thatéthe Secretary of War still not only per- mits but directs his sabordinates to seize, ho!d and turn over tothe Freedmen’s Bureau, without warrant of law, the private property of persons against whom he is known to entertain personal dislike. Thus, although we live in a land of boasted liberty, it will be shown that = public offlcer uses the power entrusted to him for the public good merely to gratify his own malignant spirit. It wiil be shown alo that the Quartermaster General's Dopsrtment in this city has become a hoge nursery for major and brigadier generals of @ peculiar political com~ ploxion, who rather retard than facititate business, but, ‘Doing especial favorites with the Secretary, were bre. vetted, when it is welt known that the majority of thom. did little or nothing during the war, It is believed by many that the Scoretary of War keeps up this bureaw merely as a means of power and patropage. THE SUPREMACY OF OIVIT. LAW—THR PROBLEM OF THB PRACK PROCLAMATION SOLVED. ‘The speculations and doubts as to whether the late peace proclamation of President Jonson was intende@ *to abolish martial law in the South, and restore the am- thority, and jurisdiction of civil courts, have finally beem set at rest by am act which gives his own interpretation of it. The Treasury agent, Dexter, convicved by @ mill- tary commission of fraud on the goverument, kept. im confinoment im default of two hundred thousand dollars Bail, and rofased the benelit of the habeas corpum by General Woods, commanding the district of Mobile, aet- jng under the order of the War Department, bas.beem ‘turned over to the oivil authorities for trial, Gomoral ‘Woods has been ordered to doiiver the prisoner to the District Marshal, aud the District Attorney will take: the papers in (the case and ormign him for, trial His imocence or galit i. a matter of tittle consequence to Uke Country a& jarge, but all who revere the supremacy of law will rejoige to know that a speedy and legal trial will be accorded him. Many similar cases are in existence, and the same orders will probably be made ip aldof them. General. Butler was retained some time for Dexter's defence, and is now in the city pres pared tosubmit his argument to Judge Advosate General Holt against the jurisdiction of tho Commission and the logality of its proceaqure and findings. Tho President's order ip the case removed Lhe prisoner to another tri« bunal, and changes the nature of the defence, JkeY. DAVIS AND OR ASSASSINATION CON- s SPIRACT. usNEY A. The Jucoinry Comrmittes of (ue House had « meeting yesterday over the compheity of Jolf. tarts ip the assage sination conspiracy. Wothiag can be established against the rebel exPresident by the evidence produced before the committee up to this Lime, but Ley are a hard work ing sot of legislators, end have sent for other eyidenso, which may settlc the disputed question, FROBADLE SPEEDE WELEASH OMCLEMENT OC. CLAY. * Mra Clement ©, Clay returned (rom Fortress Momroe within a few days, and has iaid befone the President re commendations for her husband’s release on parole from such officials. as General Graut, Sonator Wilson and ‘Vhad Stevens, They all oxpress the opinigh that Mr. Clay will observe his parole, and that his conduction . voluntarity giving himself up to the authorities entities, him to this much consideration. His release from Com finement at Fortress Monroe is expected within a fow @aya. MOVEWENT IN FAVOR OP THE CONSPIRATORS aT TORTUGAS. Tho “apreme Court of tho United States having de- cided tho Indiana Military Commission tor the trial of Civilinnw to be iMegal, and the persons convicted by it baving in cons®quence been discharged, thers iW no doubt that steps will soon be taken to procure the re-, lease of Dr. Mudd, Arnold, O'Loughiin and Sgancler, com ‘wicted of conspiracy against tho lilo of Prosident Lincoln, ‘The friends of thosd parties claim the benofit of that do-" ersion, and-will take action accordingly. 4 118 RETICENCR OF DP MOCKATIC RETAMNner ATV Es. The demooratic aide of the toyer hours of Congress haa.at jast abandoned a!) hope of influencing legislation by speccties where party questions are concerned. Bo aides koopiag as silent 8 powibid on all, other questions, MP. Rogers, of Now Jersty, bas lifted wp lia voice bat ottge in many daga, that time in Tavor of the annaity to Martha MoCook, and gainers 14 ftvor of 1 ping dis abled woldiers, Uncit tidomrand bs Dai Voorhees and Jamer Brooks lertetio eppe nfm boachea.ln comparailvé darkness, for Biiridge, Ni tack, Kerr and) Marshal! havo Go hi tkera ..Chaaier,' of pre panied twp bit. ia advan alldwed t» Proceed ‘ne iF apoint of ord. am Fee hfon:,"AN "eve gee re hop for hottae titties afS> he moxt esproesion of south meat by the people at tt weet ‘Tho President has 4 formerly alddo-camp and isp Of Goneral Grant, » paymaster 16 edges fn n fommy -Len oh ararmy, vice the reg Colotiel BW. Prica,protmoted we Mey rarier comet The actection of Colonel trie from, Une large ust of applicants for the position * regattO”, as an appropriate feonguition of am aftiver why LAS 4oab excolons series in the field. ‘ .