The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1866, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICH N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXI. AMUSEMBNTS THIS BYENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome Btreet,—SoLon Buingie—Live INDIAN. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotol.—Hrrocoxpaiac—Too Muom wor Goop Narvas. IRVING HALL, Irvi = "3 Gnaxp ere Balt ing place.—Buixp Tom's Ona: QBORGE CHRISTY'S—Oup Scuoon or Mrvsraetsy, aLtaps, Musical Guus, ‘Avenue Opera House, ioe. me. Bande West Twenty-iourta sireot.—Tux Cae Daivens’ SAN FRANCISOO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, opposite Hotel.—£ruior as Sinciva, Danvina, &0.— = ow Wars axp Mxaxs, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU; Re, i Danowa, Buatusquav, &c. . 201 Bowery —Stnae me Worgixa Ginis or BRYANTS’ MINSTRE! L —Neoao ComioaLitens, On, rae Jaw of CuaTnay Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Bunumeavas,, £0.83 09%; BOOLET'S OPERA MOUSR, Brookiya.—Remiortay Mus, gramcer—Baia09, Bonuesquas ane Paxtournns. Ww YORK 4U: Chen tron ba COOPER INSTITUTR. ator Place. Cx san Aue oF Tun Pons oF tus Auxnica® Biaix Society. pindad or 4 UM: OF ANATOMY, 618: Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. "New York, Thursday, Apri 19, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE city PRESS. Whe 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 Gaily papors of this city for two yoars, In the first ©olumn are the recoipts for thirteen months, being the iyear 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second Colum are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months For the Paper. ending Dec. 31, 1864. Fear 1865. Horald. $662,192 ‘Tr duno, 301,841 Tines. 284,412 Evening 222,718 World 177,204 Journal of Commer 173,648 Transcript. 164,461 Staats Zoitun; 126,380 ay. i,65%.) 101,793 Commorcjal Advertiser: 17,556 Daily Nows. 77,048 Evening Express, é 68,742 New Yorkor Demokrat........ 25,734 TOWNE .<0. o0ssewnm dan 40s na $1,878,207 $2,483,724 This shows the Hxratp to be, by its extensive and ompreheonsive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- sors of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- Gating their business wants to the public. NOTE. The Times and Tridwne, in order to make a show of ‘Dusiness, publish statements pretending that they are @rom official returns to the Revenue Department. These Gtatomonts are made up in the Times and Tribune offices ‘© suit their own purposes, and very curiously the Times shows a larger business than the Tribune, and Ge Tribune a larger business than the Times! But no returns of the kind have ever been made to that @opartment. Our table, given above, is taken from tho official books and is strictly correct in every par- @icular, Any one can satisfy himself on this point by tnspeoting the books at the Laternal Revenue omee. ‘The Fenian sohooner at Eastport was seized by orders Jrom Washington yesterday, but released soon after- wards, It is now believed she will be allowed to unload hher arms. The steamer Regulator was oxpected to Jeave Portland, with United States troops, as soon as General Meade should arrive. He was expected to reach there fm the noon train, aud proceed by special steamer to Bastport. The Adjutant General of Maine was at Calais, y order of the Governor ef the State, to acquaint him- @elf with the movements of the Fenians. It is the inten- don of the Governor to organize the militia if no United ‘States troops are sent to that point. The order to re- ‘move arms from Calais has been countermanded. A British frigate was in the river off that point with Groops aboard. The flagship of the West India squadron woot up the St, Crotx yesterday afternoon with seven undred troops from Halifax. The tug Relief, one of the strongest and most powerful ‘on the takes, has been purchased by P.O. Day, the Hi ad Contre at Buffaio. ‘Tho examination of the Fenians at Cornwall was still Progressing with closed doors, The prisoners cannot be convicted unless more proof is obtained than what has feaked out. The flagship De Soto, of the flying squadron, is ordered to sail from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day for Eastport, Captain Boggs is to be in command of the squadron, with the temporary rank of acting rear admiral, The Don and Ashuclot will sail in a few days. A meeting of the Fenians who surtain the objects of Goenoral Sweeny and Colonel Roberts was held last even- dng at the Cooper Institute. There was a large attend- fnce, and after several speeches had been delivered con. tributions to «considerable amount were handed in for the parchase of ammunition. MEXICO. Our city of Mexico correspondence, dated April 3, says the disagrooment between Ortega and Juarez bas become alarming, and the liberals see no way of adjusting the difficulty, Ortega claims the Proeidency and denounces Juaren, The Indians were still making raids upon So- Bors and committing groat outrages. From Vera Cruz wo have correspondence of the 8th 4nst The morchants of that city were complaining bit- terly of the addition of thirty per cent to the tariff ‘They claim that it should not extend to the merchandise Imported before the publication of the decree; bat Maxi. m lian has declared not only that they must pay the additional duty upon such goods, but in case they do mot render a full account of merchandise on hand in three days, they would be compelled to pay sixty in. stead of thirty per cent, Moxican adviees of the 2ist of March, via Havana, Stole that Minatitlan, Tlacatalpam and Alvarado had been occupied by the imperialists, and five French war steam- ery wore on the bar at Coatzaconlcos, Nows from Oriaaba is to the effect that the imperial m litary railway betwoen Vera Cruz and Mexico city will be completed to Puebla about the Ist of August next. From Cordova an account of the Confederate emigrants is forwarded by our corryapondent, Judge Oldham and General Early are both engaged on Iiterary works rela- hve to the late war, The emigrants are generally dis- batisfled with their situation. CONGRESS. lo the Senate yesterday « resolution calling spon the Tiowdent to communicate to the Senate the proceedings Of (he Military Board recently assembled at St Louis in Folation to brovet appointments in the regular army, was Sdoptod. The House bill to ameud the act relating to the Habeas corpus was taleen up, and during the discussion Of it the Senate adjourned. In the House the bill to increase the salary of officers: fn (he Pension Bureau was rejected, and on a motion to foconstder was laid over until to-day. ‘The army Dill Came ander consideration, and an amendment providing Ghat officers of the Veteran Reserve corps, except those yemployed in the Freedmen’s Bureau or elsewhere, shall mustered out of service was agreed to, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were passed for the better rotection of sick and infirm immigrants arriving at the rt of New York; amending the law relative tothe jarine Court in Now York; to establish fire limite in é rookie: the annual tax bill for the suovort of the ’ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. State government, the Central Railroad Fare bill, the Annual Supply and the State Charity Appropriation bills were also passed, Tn the House the following bills were passed:—The State Tax bill, the New York County Tax Levy, to amend the charter of the city of New York, and the New York City Tax Levy. The Committee of the Judiciary made a report adverse to the impeachment of Judge Barnard, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of the sub- ject. , THE CITY. Tho steamship Virginia, from Liverpool, arrived at Quarantine last evening, having sailed with one thousand ‘and forty-three passengers, During the passage thirty- eight deaths took place, and the vessel has been conse- quently sent to the lower quarantine. The precise cause of this mortaltty does not appear, but it is said to have resulted from the same disease as that on board of the England, now at Halifax. ‘The total number of emigrants arrived at this port from Europe during the past week was unprecedentedly large, being 10,331 The aggregate arrivals from Jan. 1 is 45,971, ‘The large sidowhee! steamboat City of Norwich, be- longing to the Norwich and Now York Transportation Company, was run into, when off Huntington light, yes- terday morning about a quarter to four o'clock by the |. schooner General 8. Van Viiet, The steamer caught fire from her, furnaces shortly after the collision’ occurted, and, together with her entire cargo, will prove.a total . lous. Eleven lives are supposed to have been lost upon | +} the ill-fated vessel, and but for the timely assistanes Fen- dered by the propellor Electra, which was, providentially, | néar st hand at the tine ot. “Wie accident, many persons ‘would undoubtedly have been drowned, The vessel and cargo Were valued at over a million’ Of dollars, both of which are partly inaured. A mass meeting of the car drivers was held in the City Hall Park yesterday, when a series of resolutions was adopted expressing a determination not to return to work until the advance they ask for is given. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Corcoran, Mc- Mastors, Luke F. Cozans and others, and several dona- tions of money were received from sympathizing friends, Thirty-six conductors were discharged from the Seventh avenue line yesterday for refusing to act as drivers. Two assaults on the new drivers were made, one of them boing slightly wounded in the log. One of the strikers was arrested. A very largo and influential meeting of the Ba: of New York was held yesterday in the United States District Court, in pursuance of a public call, to express the sense entertained by the legal profession at the loss sustained by it in the demise of the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. The meeting was presided over by Judge Betts, assisted by a number of vice presidents. Resolutions expressive of the feelings ot the meeting were adopted, and a committee was appointed to act with other committees in devising and orecting a suitable monument to commemorate the public services and virtues of the deceased. Appropriate address ¢3 wore delivered by Judge Pierrepont, A. K. Kirkland, Judge Bosworth, General Dix, Wm. M. Evarts, James 1. Brady and M. Birdsell. The proceedings were marked by a pervading expression among all present of foeling at the loss of an honest statesman and an upright cit- he Board of Education had a meeting last evening. ‘The City Superintendent requested a change in the by- laws, requiring him to certify to the moral character and ability of teachers. The trustees of the Fifth ward asked authority to close colored school No. 5, to have it repaired. Both were referred. The act of the Legisla- ture giving the Board control of the colored schools of the city and changing the name of the Free Academy to “The New York Collego,”’ were read. The corner stone of the new Jewish temple, to be erected by the congregation Adas Jeshurun, in West Thirty-ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth ave- nues wae laid yesterday with appropriate ceremonies. An attachment was sued out on Tuesday by Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, against Mr. Leonard Grover, of the German Opera troupe, on the complaint of Joseph Tamaro, formerly employed by the defendant as one of his singers. It is alleged by Mr. Tamaro that Mr. Grover is indebted to him for salary in the sum of three thousand dollars. The attachment was placed in the hands of two deputies from the Sheriff's office, who om Tuesday evening procoeded to the Academy of Music, and entering the ticket office seized upon some nine bundred dollars: In the General Sefs'ons yeatorday Albert Friendlander and Carl Bowen pleaded guilty to an attempt at bur- glary. The former was sent to the Penitentiary for two years and six months, and the latter for one year and six months. James McDonald, guilty of a similar offence, ‘was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. An unusually large assomblage gathered last evening at the Travellers’ Club, to listen to an address by Mr. Raphael Pumpelly, descriptive of an overland journey to the Old Continent. The gentleman's remarks, which were quite lengthy, were in every respect worthy the attention bestowed om them. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday, including gov- ernments. Gold was strong, and advanced to 127% a at the close of business. There was no change yesterday in the complexion of commercial matters, generally speaking, business being very moderate, except ina few instances. The most nota- ble exception was in breadstuffs, in which an active spec- ulative movement on Western account was inaugurated, resulting in an advance of 25c. a 50c, on flour, 8. a 12c. on wheat, 2c. a 3c. on corn, and lc. on oats. Provisions were very quiet, Refined petroleum was firmer. Crude petroleum continued dull and nominal. Cotton ~was lower. Freights wore dull, and rates were entirely nomi- nal. Sugar was firm. Coffee was dull, but unchanged. Whiskey continued dull and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. A large number of soldiers and sailors last night formed in procession in Washington, and, marching to the Executive mansion, complimented President John- son by a serenade, in return for his recent order direct- ing that they should have preference in the bostowal of civil offices, There was also present in the White House grounds a large assemblage of civ‘lians, and many ladies graced the oocasion by their presonce. The Prestdent, in response to the enthusiastic calls of his visitors, appeared, and, afior thanking them for their compliment, proceeded, at considerable length, to elucidate ina clear and able manner his public course and policy, and to illustrate the efforts made by radical Congressmen to hinder him in hia work of reconstructing the Union. His remarks were frequently greeted with applause. The commission appointed to examine and report upon the claims of persons to the awaris offered by the gov- ernment for the arrest of the conspirators, award to Gen- eral Baker $3,750, to Captain Doherty $7,500, to two de. tectives $4,000 each, and the rest is distributed proper- a twenty-six members of the Sixteenth For the capture of Jeff. Davis the commission award to Colonel Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan cavalry, $10,000, and the remaining $90,000 is proportionately divided among officers and men of that regiment. Our Fredericton correspondents furnish us with additional statements of the growing discontent of the people of New Brunawick at the legisiation now being forced upon them, and the adoption of the Quebec confederation scheme by the provincial Parliament in spite of the large popular vote polled against it in 1865. The minority in the Upper House have prepared and pre- sented ® protest agaings tho adoption of the Quebec scheme and the address to the Queen, in which the dit. ficulties and grievances under which the people labor are set down with great force. From St. Stephens we have pushed through the Parliament of that province. Woe have additional news from Chile and the West Indies, via Havana on the 14th inst, The port of Con- cepeion, Chile, had been bombarded and occupied by the Spaniards. Another oil well has been discovered near Villa Clara, Cuba. The government of Porto Rico has abolished the pasaport system, Slight earthquake shocks ‘were felt at Ponce, St. Jago and Jiguani. The disturbance during the Civil Rights demonstration by the colored people in Norfolk, on the 16th, was more serious than at first supposed. A white man and woman and a colored boy were killed. Four white men were injured, though it fe believed not seriously, Samuel G. Courtney has been confirmed by the Senate an United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The Treasury Department has decided to libel the tron steamer Coquette as confiscated property. She is alleged to have belonged to the Confederate navy. ‘The arrest of General 8. G. Burbridge, in Now Orleans, @ contradicted, Judge Smally, of the United States Circuit Court, at Baffalo, has decided that a United States assessor has po suthority to require any man to appear before him, or to submit his books for examination, ‘The San Franciern arningion @ sow known to have | Times. the intelligence that the confederation scheme has been — been caused by nitro-glycerine. Seven or eight bodies are still missing, and are supposed to have been blown to atoms. Three more persons have died from the effects of the explosion. The Grand Jury of Philadelphia yesterday found true bill against Antoine Probst for the murder of the Deering family. The telegraph reports that a man died in Portland yos- terday of cholera, He is supposed to be one of the five who escaped from the steamer England, at Halifax. A large fire, supposed to be the work of incendiaries, Occurred yesterday morning in Titusville, Pa., and de- stroyed over fourteen buildings before it could be brought under subjection. Two parties have been ar- rested on suspicion of being the incendiaries, The loss 1s $300,000. The Reconstruction of the Cabinet the First Duty of the Presiden’ President Johnson must be convinced by this time that those members of his Cabinet who are opposing his restoration policy have not sufficient respect for their own dignity nor regard for his position to throw up their port- folios, It must also be quite evident to him that they are retaining their positions for the express purpose of assisting the radicals in Congress in their efforts to defeat the measures of his administration. Whether this. is thelr “known to be using ‘the several departments to strengthen the radicals, ‘and the President at the same -time retaining them in his Cabinet, confuses the minds of the people. It creates doubt and hesitancy in re- gard to the objects of his administration. This confusion is precisely what the radicals desire; for with it they are able to discourage the conservative republicans and dishearten them in ‘their efforts to sustain the Presi- dent’s restoration policy, They imagine that all that is necessary for their complete success is to continue the present régime until after the next Congressional elec- tion, when they believe that they will have everything their own way. This shows very plainly that the greatest danger which now threatens Andrew Johnson’s administration is the intriguing against him by his own consti- tutional advisers. It has already increased the strength of the radicals in Congress and given them so large a majority that the Presi- dent is unable to carry through any of his measures. As long as such men as Stanton, Harlan and Speed are permitted to remain in their present positions just so long will they use the influ- ence of their department against the Executive, and for the express purpose of building up the radicals, This fact of itself proves the necessity ofan immediate change and their prompt re- moval by the President. This action should be taken by Mr. Johnson without delay, before they succeed in strengthening the radical politicians with the people. There is no doubt that the great mass of the people approve Mr. Johnson’s restoration policy, and will sustain the measures of his administration. But this does not appear to have any weight with the present Congress, and will, therefore, be without avail to the President until another Congress is elected and takes its seat in the national legislative halls. To postpone recon- struction until then will be a serious calamity to the country. It will increase our difficulties and lead us to dangerous complications both at home and abroad. But whatever is accom- plished sooner than that will have to be done through the present Congress. It is with them that he is now obliged to deal. It is casential for his own sake and that of the country that he should have a party there strong enough to check the radical majority, and, if possible, control it. This he could have had to-day were it not for the intrigues of the radicals in his own Cabinet. These spies in his camp must be removed. Their opposition to the measures of his administration has already become a too serious question for the President to longer hesitate or trifle with them. We are aware of and can appreciate the delicacy which a man like Mr. Johnson would have in reference to the removal of those men from office who were associated with his lamented predecessor, but he has by his for- bearance, even in the face of provocations, already allowed this to control his actions too, long for his own good. Aside from that, there is too much at stake for him to allow feelings of delicacy to control his action. He has tried the radicals long enough by letting them have their own way and the support of several of the most important departments of the govern- ment. Now let him try and see what virtue there is in a harmonious administration. It is cer- tain that every day that he retains the radical disorganizers in his Cabinet he loses strength in the present Congress, and the revolutionary party in that body becomes more powerful and defiant. In view of these facts it is essen- tially necessary that the President should act at once in this matter. It has reached a point where 4 reconstruction of his Cabinet becomes a necessity. He bas everything to gain and nothing to lose by prompt action. Let him, then, boldly assume the responsibility, and select from the ranks of the conservative re- publicans constitutional advisers to take the place of every radical disorganizer now in his Cabinet, and he will find that it will work like magic on the politicians in and out of Con- gress. It will show to them that he is in earn- est, reassure the public and encourage the friends of his administratioa every where, ‘Tae Apvertisine Orcan oF THE MeTROPOLIs.— We gave yesterday some figures showing the number of advertisements in the Heravp as | compared with a couple of contemporary jour- nals They were as follows :— ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE HERALD, TIMES, AND TRIBUNE, APRIL 17, 1866. Henatp, Tribune, We will now see w! bring forth, namely :— aor IN THE HERALD, TIMES, AND iB, APRIL 18, 1866. figures Herarp had two hundred and forty-four adver- tisements above its issne of the previous day. The Times had an increase of one hundred and eleven, and the Tribune a decrease of forty. This is a practical method of ascertaining whioh paper is the organ of the advertising public. The Henatp on Wednesday contained only one hundred and sixty-three advertise- ments over those of the Times and the Tribune combined, and in the succeeding issue (yes- terday) it bed three hundred and forty-one more than the aggregate of these two papers. From the above facts and figures the public are enabled to judge which way the current of business advertising ls fowing. Great Manufacturing Centre of the Country. We publish in another part of to-day’s paper some . carefully prepared, interesting and curious statistical information regarding the manufacturing interests of the country, showing that, besides being the great commercial empo- rium, New York city isthe great manufacturing centre of the Union. The facts are compiled from the Census report of 1860, Department of Manufactures, which has just been issued by the government press, Although aware of the gigantic strides the metropolis has been making for years past in all the elements of commercial greatness, we confess we were scarcely prepared for the light which these figures throw upon her position as the first manufacturing city in the country. It is true, Philadelphia had, six yearsago, more men employed and more capital invested in manu- factures than New York; but the aggregate value of the goods manufactured was in favor of the. latter city. to the amount of about twen- ty-three ‘millions of dollars, the whole ‘amonnt | ia New York being over one hundred and fifty- nine’ millions; ° Philadelpbih, * with ininatgen | leoders thousand more operatives than’ New Yor'k, less 'thinm” abe hundred aid thirty-elie milous, . In “the. calculation | for New : York: the. heavy of Brook- lyn, * Jersey City, ‘Newark and Pater- son, which might very properly be in- cluded within the manufacturing area of the city, for they are in the sane interest, are omitted. If they should be included the posi- tion of New York as the great manufacturing centre of the continent will be largely in ad vance of any other localities that can be named. In productiveness the manufactures of New York eclipse those of either of the vast manu- facturing centres in the New England States. Taking the value of the manufactures in four of those six States, and it will be found that the city of New York exceeds them all, even to the amount of twenty-eight million dollars, We believe a majority of our citizens will scarcely credit these extraordinary statements; but a reference to the figures given in another col- umn will exhibit their truthfulness. Now, what are the causes producing these marvellous results? Everyone can draw his own deductions from the facts given; but our theory is very simple. New York is the great natural centre of the money or capital of the country. With unexampled advantages for ocean and inland commerce, this city attracts to its waters the great foreign and domestic mercantile business of the country. This, with the swarming population of the city proper and the neighboring cities and towns, and the immense and inces- sant current of transient travel to and from more distant places, renders New York pre-em- inently the centre where all kinds of traffic and trade can be carried on upon the most liberal and extensive scale. . This is the great point of sale and purchase. We. have here a supera- bundance of labor, of the necessaries of life, and a class of people unsurpassed for their en- terprise and energy. We have here no exces- sive transportation costs to cut down the p: ofits of business, like the cotton manufacturers in New England or the manufacturers in Penn- sylvania, like those at Reading, and other places remote from a great mart for the sale of goods; The quick eye of the intelligent manu- sees these great advantages, and he promptly seizes them. He finds that the policy of going to a place where goods can be manu- factured cheap on account of the presence of water power, or where the cost of fuel for steam machinery is comparatively nominal, but where there is no market, is a bad one; and he sagaciously concludes that it is wiser to make goods, perhaps at a little heavier cost, where there is a market for their speedy trans- fer into cash. Briefly, he reasons that it is safer to manufacture goods where there is a great market than where there is none, Sev- eral foreign manufacturers have brought their entire establishments hither from distant countries, and have, by commencing opera- tions bere and in the adjoining towns, impart- ed a thriftiness to manufacturing communities that would not otherwise have prevailed. Hence we find the manufacturing interests of New York city and its environs swelling up so prodigiously. We believe, -however, that the city of New York is but in the beginning of her manufacturing greatness; and before many years we shall find her absorb all the small manufacturing interests in distant localities; in short, that she will finally hold as conspicu- ous a position in the world as a manufacturing, as she has for many years held as a commercial metropolis. “very | moroan Conoress AND 1H ApMINistRaTion.—We are advised through our Washington correspond- ence that several republican members are con- fident that Congress will not adjourn this sum- mer; that they assert that “many things are worse than hot weather,” and that an increased disturbance of the pirblic tranquillity by inju- dicious Presidential appointments would be worse than hot weather and cholera combined. According to this representation of the matter, Congress is to stand guard over the President, after the fashion of the Long Parliament. But still these questions recur: what has Congress done? what is Congress doing? and what does Congress expect or propose to do towards the restoration of the excluded States to their pro- per constitutional relations with the general government’ We answer that Congress has established a reconstruction joint committee ; that this committee has been taking volum:s of testimony from all sorts of witnesses in reference to the loyalty of the Southern peo- ple rescued trom the late rebellion, and that when this joint committee shall be so disposed the admission of the members elect from Vir- | ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, &c., will begin, and not before. Congress has passed the Civil Rights bill over the President's veto, and there are on the table or in the hands of | the committee of the two houses a hundred propositions, more or less, for the amendment of the federal constitution in reference to negro | suffrage, negro representation, rebel debte, a general amnesty, and various other things in the way of Southern reconstruction. What Congress proposes or expects to do in regard to the excluded States we think is sim- Statistios—New York as the | the approaching fall elections for the next ply to keep them excluded as long as possible. It is not very likely that any member to either house from any of those States will be admitted this session, though we are told from time to time that Tennessee is to be soon honored with & special act of grace. The issue between the President and the radicals upon this all-im- portant matter of Southern reconstruction will go over from this Congress to the people ia Congress, and after those elections we hope that public opinion in favor of Southern repre- sentation will be respected even by the radi- cals. We expect nothing from Congress in the interval but the manufacture of electioneer- ing speeches and documents. ‘The New Leader ef the Democratic Party. Mr. James Brooks has come home from Con- grees and has had a good dinner at the Man- hattan Club. This olub is the new headquar- ters of the remnant of the flerce democracy of New York, and Mr. Brooks has been received there with all the honors due to the new leader of the party. There were rich viands from a kitchen which, as we are officially informed, is “already renowned,” although we go not know for what. There were wines of those “rarest vintages” that always flourish upon such occa- sions, The table was “elegantly and appropri- ately decorated with magnificent natural flow- -ers,”.an if Nature herself had joined in the ova- -tlon +0 Mr. Brooks.’ ‘The portraits of Jecknon, Van ‘Bureo, Warcy, Douglas: and, other former leaders ‘of the domoorsoy looked own. With fit person in every respect for the aigh posi- tion, He is an able lawyer and dignifed, intellectual and conservative man. ap- pointment meets with universal appro! outside of the radical republicans. It is now understood that this faction in Congress, which cannot object to Mr. Stansbury on personal grounds,or as wanting the highest qualifications, propose to prevent him becoming a Supreme Judge on political grounds. Had he been @ radical like Mr. Chase no such bill as proposed would be passed. The appointment would be confirmed by the Senate instantly. What evil days have we fallen upon, when the Supreme Court of the United States is to be made = po litical machine! If this great and only bul- wark of the constitution, of equity and of our civil rights be invaded and controlled by fao tion, what hope of the republic, of liberty or of justice shall we have left? Lrrerary Trrsrrs.—Miles O'Reilly's “Baked ogee aye published by Carleton, Se eet: “beauty, their otilveley and.thérr - dress conte; to ‘pay bomage to the ‘gallant democratic chieftain. Speeches were delivered by Mr. James Brooks, by Mr. Erastus Brooks, by Washington Hunt, by General Slocum and others. Letters were read from Mr. Charles O'Conor, Senator Stockton, Mr. Voorhees and other public men. In a word, there was a very grand time, apd the new leader of what is left of the democracy was splendidly in- augurated. But now that the lights are fied, the gar- lands dead and all the guests departed, we may not unnaturally inquire what Mr. James Brooks, of the political firm of Brooks Brothers, bas done to deserve all this distinc- tion. It has been decided that he was not elected to Congress; but that is not enough to entitle him to the double position of a martyr and a leader. A great many other men have not been elected to Congress; but they re- ceive no especial recognition upon that ac- count. A great many other men have thought that they ought to be elected; but nobody has given them a dinner for that reason. The case of Mr. Brooks is very different from that of Senator Stockton, to which it has been compared. The people and the Legislature of New Jersey conceded the election of Mr. Stockton; the majority of the Judiciary Com- mittee of the Senate had no doubt about it; but he was expelled by a close parti- gan vote in order to permit the radicals to override the President’s vetoes. The election of Mr. Brooks, on the other hand, was disputed from the very first; the Congressional Commit- tee reported adversely to his claims; and although the radicals had nothing to gain by his expulsion, nothing to fear from his vote it he remained, and several good reasons for allowing him to retain his seat, he was turned out simply because he had no more right in Congress than any other person not legally elected. If this state of affairs constitutes Mr. Brooks a political martyr of the first wine and water, we really cannot understand why thou- sands of other disappointed aspirants for office are not eligibié to the honors and refreshments of that new democratic paradise, the Manhat- tan Club. If everybody who tries to get into Congress and fails is to be dined and toasted and promoted to leadership, that “already, re- nowned cuisine” will be kept pretty busy in future, and those “wines of rarest vintages” will become as common as Bourbon Whiskey or small beer. It may be, however, that the course of Mr. Brooks in Congress has occa- sioned this remarkable mantfestation of re- spect for one whom the democrats used to denounce most bitterly as a Know Nothing, From the tone of the speeches and letters we inter that the still unterrified democracy en- dorse and approve of all the proceedings of |, Mr. Brooks. This seems to us singularly incon- sistent in view of the fact that Mr. Brooks, as the democratic leader of the House, helped Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the radical leader, to pass the bill granting suffrage to the negroes of the District of Columbia. A large majority of the House was opposed to this bill; the conserva- tive republicans tried to repudiate it; Mr. Stevens, with all his power, could not. have passed it it Mr. Brooks had not led the demo- crats to his assistance. When the bill came up for action Mr. Hale, a New York republican, moved to qualify it so as to conform with the well-known wishes of President Johnson. Fitty-three conservative republicans voted in favor of Mr. Hale’s motion, and if the thirty- five democrats had voted with them it would have been carried. But Mr. Brooks and bis | democraté voted with Mr. Stevens and hid radicals, and the motion was defeated. Thus the conservative republicans were driven back to their party lines and under their party discipline, and on the next vote the Negro Suffrage bill was passed, and the golden opportunity for completely extinguishing the radicals bad been thrown away. We hold Mr. James Brooks, the democratic leader, respon- sible for this result and for all the troubles which have followed it. When the conserva- tive republicans deserted Mr. Stevens and the radical line was broken Mr. Brooks went over to the enemy, installed Mr. Stevens again in power and restored the supremacy of the radi- cals, {t may seem strange that the Manhattan Club should feast Mr. Brooks for this and inau- gurate him as their leader; but nothing is strange in the democratic party. That Mr. Brooks, an ancient whig and the editor of a Know Nothing organ, that hated democracy as Satan hates holy water, should be a democrat at all, is a genuine phenomenon, quite inexpli- cable to those who do not understand the present race of politicians. Why should we be more astonished, then, because the Man- hattan Club gives a dinner to the assistant of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and elevates the practi- cal advocate of negro suffrage to the barren honors of the democratic leadership t Tar Scrreme Court anp THe Rapicars.— It is reported that the bill abolishing one of the judicial districts, which passed the lower house of Congress and which, it was supposed, was buried in the Senate, is to be revived and passed to prevent Mr. Stansbury, of Ohio, be- coming 8 Judge of the Supreme Court. It is known that this gentleman has been nominated by the President for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Coust, to take the place of the late Judeo Catron. Mr. Stansbury is a “matters, just a8 one could papery lier we and indulge in the creature comforts without deranging or hardly interrupting other affairs. Both authors are sufficiently well known to the public, The bold soldier boy, Private Miles, here reproduces some of his more famous contributiong to the press, among others his humorous account of the dinner of the National Club, with its happy scraps of song, and his account of the Fenian Brotherhood—the same account that, originally published in the Heracp, first brought the now pugnacious and noisy Brotherhood prominently into public notice. Here-also we find the true history of the “tipsy total abstinence party” that urged the removal of Grant; the song on “Sambo’s right to be kilt;” that piece of exquisite sen- timent and pathos, “The Waste of War,” and many others of the brilliant scintillations of fun and fancy that have given the singing soldier a place in the popular heart, and made him, above all others, the poet of the war. Gurowski prefaces his volume with a list of the names of the persons mentioned in it class- ified, according as he has praised or blamed them, or as he has given them an equal half-and- half of praise and blame. By reference to this list any one may find that Gurowski has praised just one hundred and one persons; and this is @ sufficient refutation of all possible declara- tions. that he is ill-natured, cross, sore-headed and quarrelsome. Such declarations have been made; but the world will see that a man must be the very acme of amiability if he can find it in his soul to praise one hundred and one men in a littleduodecimo like Gurowski’s. Gurow- ski bas praise for Wendell Phillips and Thad Stevens, for Dana, Ben Butler and Vienna Schenck. Is not this the essence of amiability? He shows the exact limit and measure of his amiability. He could stand the five named above; but Thurlow Weed was too much for him, apa th the illustrious lord of the os accordingly put down in the list of “blamed.” In the shrowd sentences of Gurowaki there is much good sense and some history. The thoughtful reader, carrying away with him a scrap here and there, will find abundant food for reflection on the practical and philosophi- cal peculiarities of life in the capital. Here is part of the entry for April 9, 1864:—“Grant told me that Butler pleases him more than any one among his new acquaintances.” Suth was the first impression made by the man who sub- sequently had to be bottled up. Such was the success with which the little Butler courted the great Bottler. Gurowski stands up ase hater of shams and humbugs and « “disrober of false gods.” He would, therefore, naturally admire Grant as a true, simple-minded hero. We find him even enthusiastic in his praises of that soldier:—“Grant is a soldier to the core, and a genuine democratic commander of a democratic army from a democratic people.” Both the volumes are admirable parts of the light literature of the day and will richly re- pay perusal, filled full, as they are, with tithits of history, sentiment, fun, fancy, song, gossip, fealt-nding and crisciam, Important Revenue Decision 1x Reaarp ro Newsparer Saues.—By the following official notice from the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Washington, it will be seen that an important decision bas been made in regard to the tax on the circulation or sales of newspapers:— Sm—Your letter of the 26th inst. has been received You inquire whether proprietors of newspapers aro exompt lability as wholesale dealers under the ruling of this office T reply that publishers of newapapers, being held to be manufacturers in respect to such publication, may sell their newspapers or other issues of the press at the piace of manufacture (section 81 of the amended act of June, 1864) without any license additional to that which they hold as manufacturers, and may sell in the same way at their principal office or place of basiness (section 74 of the act), provided ‘no goods, wares or merchandise be kept for sale at said office.” But if they sell at places other than those above men- tioned they become liable to dealers’ license, wholesale or retail, az the case may be. There is neither specific nor ad valorem tax on news- Papers as manufactutes, Very respectfully, D. ©. WHITMAN, for Commimioner. Prior to this decision newspapers have been taxed at the rate of one tenth of one per cent on sales or circulation. Under this ruling the Heratp has paid a tax amounting to over one thousand dollars per annum into the Treasury of the United States which was not required of it. Other newspapershave paid a proportionate amount. By the above decision newspapers are simply required to take out a manufacturer’s license for their papers, amounting to a nominal sum—ten dollars or thereabouts. We pay our full share of taxes legitimately assessed, and shall therefore claim from the government the refunding of the sums overpaid. We suggest that the proprietors of other journals do the same, and, with us, invest the amount in some charitable object that will benefit the widows and orphans of soldiers who perished In the war for the Union. Tur Eicut Hocr Law.—Let all our me- chanics stick to what is to their advantage and their duty. They proclaim for eight hours labor and pey accordingly. The Legislature, their only re:v:roe in any event, allows the car drivers a favorab'c position. By making a law fixing the time status of car drivers to ten hours day, they help to relieve the public Pintenai the Imovement for the ight is a com be the result? Tur Fiao oF poy have received re- Besta on" Brak sate Pong ron py a thor the way to war, al rm alae ge for .. is