The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. (vores xXxXI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. { BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome jotreet.—Souon Smixore—Liv's Ixpian. | woon’s THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Wiolel.—iyrocuonpaiac—Too MvcM FoR Goop Narune. ‘IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Buxp Tow’s Guan Piano Concerts, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadsriy, oppoalta jocropolitan Hotel. —Srmior ax Sixct sa, DAXctXa, &.— ik COMMITTEE ON WaYS aND MEANS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2 Bowery —Suxa- ano, Dancin, BuRLEsques, @ WORKING GIRLS OF New Youx. ’ GEORGE CHRISTY'S—O.p. Scuoon or Minstrersy, ALLADS, Musican os. 2und 4 West Tw rin , NTs’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472, Broad BND ComicaLitis . hc. —SurLocK; ‘ew or CuaTHAM ‘4c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, fourth strect.—Maskep BALL, TREE. gray. pe \ HOOLEY'S OPRRA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Erntoriax Mist. prntisy—BatLans, BURLKSQUES AND PANTOMIMES. } WASHINGTON HALL, Harlem.—Cuantey Buckiey's (MiNsTRELS IN SoNGs, Dancrs, Buatusauss, dc. "_WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.= @pen from I) A.M. till 10 P.M BOTANIC HALL, 68 East Broadway.—Lxcture ny Rxv. Faruxa D. V. Dowcern. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Friday, April 20, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS, The Herald © Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Department of the receipts from advertising of all the In tho first folumn are the receipts for thirteen months, being the sear 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second Revenue ‘Baily papers of this city for two years, column are the receipts for the twelve montis of 1865:— Thirteen months For the Paper. ending Des. 31, 1864. Year 1865. Herald. $577,455 $662,192 Mr dune. 260,960 301,941 Times. 251,812 284,412 Evoning Pos 163,177 222,715 World...... 128,056 177,204 Journal of Commerc’ 109,595 173,646 Transcript... 62,644 164,461 Btoats Zeitung. 67,550 126,380 94,328 101,793 Commorcial Adve: 60,322 77,656 Daily News.. 48,968 77,048 Evening Exp! 62,350 68,742 Now Yorker Demokrat.. + 21,052 25,734 Totals, +++ $1,578,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Hunan to bo, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- tisers of tho Metropolis, and the medium of communi- geating their business wants to the public. NOTE. The Times and Tribune, 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 the Tims and Tribune offices fo suit their own purposes, and very curiously the ‘Times shows a larger business than the Tribune, and bhe Trilmne a larger business than the Times! But no welurns of the kind have ever been made to that Gepartment. Our table, given above, is taken from ho official books and is strictly correct in every par- ticular, Any one cun satisfy himself on this point by ‘Anspecting the books at the Internal Revenue Office. THE NWS. EUROPE. The steamship Persia, from Queenstown April 8, Peached thia port last night. Hor news is three days Rater. + The German question was not materially changed. Prussia still maintained a firm war attitude, Notes charged with crimination and recrimination were exchanged freely before. It was said that Ane Czar of Russia had taken the important step of ondering his mediation by autograph letter addressed @o the King of Prussia and Emperor of Austria, The majority of the minor German States were inclined to fake part against the Power which would first break the peace, Eavland still hoped for a peaceful adjustment, and it is denied that Italy was aggregating her army or centrating it at any given points, French pamphlet ou the era of great events, Napoleon III. et la Prusse,’” was jast pub- ris, It reveals, it was thought, the grand fdea Emperor on the German difficulty. The writer insists that an alliance between France and Prostia is “iudispensable,’’ that, united, they may ‘ the other powers; that Italy can “hurt nobody,” England is afraid of the Fenians and India, Russia cannot leave the East, so that Napoleon and the a may become ‘invincible in congress or King of Prus humble Austria, - “rectify ’ frontier and obliterate the French the effects of the enmity to France expressed in the treaty of 181. Minister Bismark is termed the Richelieu of Germany The French army will march from Mexico in the order France will, however, hold Vera principal ports to indemnify her war wos, The Paris Moniteur hopes that the evacua- will be agreeable to the Cabinet in Washington. A Fenian sergeant (English army) was sentenced to be ebot for treason. Quen Victoria commuted his sentence to penal servitude for life. Fresh arrests of Fenians wore being made in Ireland. An Irish volunteer in one of the London rifle companies was charged with threat ening to shoot the Pri of Wales, Ten rounds of ball rartridge were taken from him. He pleaded being very drunk at the time, and was discharged. Mr. Gladstone, Chanceilor of the Exchequer, pledged the English Cabinct to stand or full by the Reform bill Tae working tailors of London obtained a partial ad vance in their Wagez, and the great strike in England ‘was at an end The colliers and fron workers of England and South ‘Wales wore rushing off to the L os in hundreds, sixty families leaving in one day—a fact cr-atly deplored by the London Times. The French horee Gladiateur bad a ‘walk over the Derby trial stakos at Newmarket, England. Me Eur glish artist, is dead Consols closed , April 7, at 86% 86%; for Tho Liverpool cotton market was easier, with Bread for moacy ' inquiry, and prices weak on the 7th April. julet and steady, Provisions bad a downward ten deo THE FENIANS. port is st eresting. The Fe- ' 1 again and unloaded of her ' n spirited away in ‘ Fenians (rom immediately ' an war ship Winooski. Mente had arrived at Eastport, with @ pe from Portland, and announced Die intention to be the enforcement of the Nea tratity laws. Hf wded to Calais, where an enthusiastic reception 1 citi waited him, ond where be again ed bis intentions. Bie had @ private intery ow ) General Doyle, the jtish commander at St Siephens, on board the tegulator. * that the The result of tue it 7 ‘United States troops will prevent n dist picinity of St. Stephens, and the I Vy destined for that place will be Grows, General Meade left aga! fornoon, where he expects fart’ tated that he had telegraphed for f General Killiap is qissing from the vicinity of East. port, having gone off in the Boston boat, but to what point is not knows even to the most prominent Fenians Ghere. | The British frigato Duncan arrived on Wednesday in Ft Andrews, having on board Admiral Sir James Hove NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1866.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. sense, since each House can examine the | Whet Cotton Has Done for Us Since the | be desirable to assume. How different is this and the Seventeenth regiment of regulars. There are now three men.of-war at that point—the Duncan with eighty-one, the Rosario with sixteen, and the Fawn with eighteen guns, The Lower Canada volunteers have been withdrawn, as the fears of the people have subsided. ‘The Cornwall trial is continued with closed doors, but enough has been elicited to show that the Crown counsel hhas failed so far to produce satisfactory proofs of gullt. Sheedy is not on trial yot, he being only # witness in the case of Murphy and the others. ‘A public meeting of the Daniel O'Connell Circle was held last ovening at Tammany Hail, Contre Brosnan pre- siding. Addresses were made by Mr. 8. J, Meaney, Colo- nel O'Mahony, Rev. Father Curley, Judge Connolly and General W. G. Halpino, advocating unity of action in their undertaking, and giving assurance of a speedy struggle for Irish nationality, It is generally believed that Head Centre Stephens has sailed from Brest, France, in the steamship La‘ayette, which is due here on Wednesday next, 25th inst. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. McDougall apologized for his recent personal romarks, A debate on the admis- sion of Colorado took place, during which the morning hour expfred. The bill relative to the habeas corpus was taken up, and the yeas and nays on Mr. Edmunds’ amendment called, but, pending the call, the Senate ad- Journed, i In the House the bill to Increase the salaries of pen- sion officers was passed. A bill to construct a ship canal around Niagara Falls was reported from the Committee on Roads and laid over until Tuesday. The bill for the reorganization of tho army was thon considered. The fifth section was amended so that all first and second Heutenants shall be chosen from those who have served faithfully during the late war. Amendments were made to other portions of the bill, relative to the enlistment of bands and other matters, The House adjourned at half. past four. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate the City Tax Levy was received from the Assembly with amendments, in which the Senate re- fused to concur, A message from the Governor was received, vetoing the “Act to Secure the Navl- gation of the Oncida Lake Canal and to provide for the expenses thereof.”” The message was tabled. Bills were passed to make more stringent the Unsafe Building act of New York, and incorporating the New York Ma- rine Association. The New York County Tax Levy was taken up, and the section providing that the State shall refund to the city the amount of taxes on government securities illegally paid in 1863 and 1864 was stricken gut. An amendment was adopted naming the Mayor, County Clerk and Chief Engineer of tho Croton Aque- duct Commissioners to superintend the erection of the New York Court House, and the bill ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly the New York City Tax Levy was an- nounced from the Senate with a message of non-concur- rence, and a committee of conference was appointed thereon. The following bills were passed:—To provide for the widening of Bloomingdale road, to establish fire limits fa Brooklyn, and to authorize the Dry Dock Com- pany to extend their track, The bill providing for the taxation of stockholders of banks, after some dis- cussion, was agreed to as it came from the Senate, tax- ing the par value of the stock. THE CITY. Tho steamer Virginia, which arrived at this port on Wednesday evening with sickness on board, was detained at quarantine, where the Health Officer boarded her, and, after acareful examination of the passengers and ship, he pronounced the disease to be Asiatic cholera ‘The veasel was sent to the lower bay yesterday, where she will remain until fumigated. There were over one hundred cases during the passage since the 12th inst., thirty-eight deaths, and twenty-one of the passengers are now on the sick list with the disease. It is said that there is no immodiate danger of the disease reach. ing this city from the veesel. The sickness is confined to the steerage, no cases having occurred among the cabin Passengers. The government has allowed the Commis- sioner of Quarantine the use of the steamer Illinois for placing the well on board, and those afflicted with the epidemic will be removed to the hospital ship. The England, which has been in quarantine at Halifax, sailed for this port on Wednesday, all on board being well. At ‘the special meeting of the Health Commissioners, held yesterday to devise some, means and take such action in the premises as the proximity of the cholera on the Virginia, now at quarantine, requires, a sanitary com- mittee was appointed to visit and examine that veasel and report to the Board to-day. Governor Fenton, of this State, will issue to-day the proclamation called for by the Board of Health, to the effect that New York city is in peril from impending pestilence, ‘The strike of the car drivers is ended. The men of the Second Avenue Railroad in a meeting yesterday re- solved that they tender their services again to the officers of the company, at the old wages, and by thres x < yesterday afternoon footsore travellers on that ine were agreeably disappointed at the unexpected con- venience presented to them by the regular and safo pas- sage of the cars. All the lines followed suit exeept the Grand and Houston strest, which still bolds out; but on the Fourth avenue road it was determined to coatinue the new drivers in their employment and receive the old ones when vacancies should occur, A rail was discov- ered taken out of its place om the South Street Railroad ‘on Wednesday night, by whom is not known. It was replaced and occasioned no delay in the running of the cal The Board of Councilmen held a short session yester- day, A resolution was adopted directing the Comptroller to accept the offer, which it is alleged the Second Avenue Ra! Company has made to surrender the rights granted by the Common Coancil, in order that the requi- site measures may be taken for the city authorities to ran the cara, Ataspecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday resolutions setting forth the opinion that no interposition on the part of the general government would be required to cause the late rebollious States to pay the principal and interest err respective State ndebtedness were adopted, Resolati incidental to he announcement of the death of Captain Nye were also offered and endorsed. In the.case of Jane Anh Gleason against Henry G. Schaoffer, being an action for slander, tried yesterday in Part 2 of the Supreme Court, before Judge Mason, the jury Drought in a verdict for plaintify, assessing the damages at six cents, There was no defence in the suit, and the allegation was that defendant accused plaintiff of theft. Judge Mason reprimanded the jury for bringing in such a verdict, and, on a motion t set it aside, reserved his dec sion. in the contest relative to the election of directors of the St. Mark's Insurance Company, on the 9th of last January, the General Term of the Supreme Court yester- day ordered a new election. At the present term of the Superior Court the regular Dasiness has been very much impeded in consequence of the absence of jurors. Yesterday, Judge MoCunn pre- siding, at Part 1 of Superior Court, ordered Mr. Reid, acting clork, to fine seven delinquent jurors $250 each, and expressed a strong determination to enforce the penalties, During the wook Judgo Jones, presiding at Part 2 of the same court, directed Mr. Haviland, the clerk, to fine several jurors $26 for each day of non attendance. The case of the United States vs. several of the crew of the ship Tanjore for alleged mutiny while on the voyage from Hong Kong to New York, came on again for hearing yesterday before Commissioner Osborn. Further evidence was given respecting the means which the captain had to use to quell the disturbance. The tes- timony on bebalf of the prosecution has closed, and the matter was adjourned for the examination of witnesses on behalf of the defendants. The case of Daly versus Bateman, in which the plaintiff claims $410 for services rendered to the defend- ant in the spring of 1863, came before the Marine Court yesterday, Several witnesses wore examined, and the case was adjourned until to-day, A grand demonstration took place last ovening in Cooper Institute, im aid of the American Bible Society Fond. It beng the anniversary of t signing of the Protest by Martin Lather and his associate reformers, the ccoasion was referred to in strong and impressive language by the several speakers. Selections from dif. ferent oratorios were sung during the evening by the ork Harmonie Society. Jeneral Transatlantic Company's new screw steam- ship Pereire was yesterday thrown open for the inspection of the cofhpaly's gacsta The now vessel, which is magnificently fitted up for the accommodation of two liondred and forty fret class passengers, wiil sail for Havre on Saturday next, under command of Captain Duchesne. Tho Ormnese in the gald market yesterday had the effect of imparting a greater degree of firmness in commer lal clrelgs. (hongh business was moderate in both foreiaa and domestic produce. On 'Change there was altogether leas excitement, though the views of sellors were woll up at the opening. Prices wore about the same as on Wed- neaday, excopt for pork and lard, which were higher. In the sugar market there was but little stir, yet pricos were well maintained. Coffee was quiet, Petroleum firmer. Cotton nominal and irregular. Dry goods quict, and freights dull and heavy. MISCELLANEOUS. The emancipation celebration by the colored citizens and soldiers of the District of Columbia yesterday, in Washington, was the largest demonstration of that race ever made in the capital. Two regiments of colored troops and various civic societies formed in front of tho Executive mansion, and wore addressed by the Presi- dent. He thanked them for the compliment they paid him and wished to mingle with them in their celebration of the day of emancipation. He said they would find out before long who were their best frienda. He felt and knew that be had contributed as much to establish the great principle of freedom as any other living man im the United States, It was with them to show man- kind whether the boon of freedom was appreciated by them, and whether they were worthy of being fr:emen. He again returned thanks and shook hands with many colored persons who pushed forward to greet him as the procession moved on. In Franklin square addresses were delivered by several distinguished gentlemen, among others Senator Wilson, who remarked that the President had just said he was the best friend of the colored man. Ho was not there to dispute it. The President reached the Executive chair by the votes of anti-slavery men, and they wished him to exercise his high function for the advancement of all. They would hail him as the best friend.of the black man whenever he proved himself to be so, Only a slight accident marred the celebration, and the crowd dispersed after the coremonios in tho square. The United States side-wheol gunboat De Soto, ten guns, the flag ship of the “flying squadron,” to do duty on the coast of Maine and on the coast of British North Amorics, sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday afternoon. Her departure was hurried, and she went fully supplied with ammunition for active service. Her destination is Eastport, Maine, Woe publish this morning a full de- scription of the squadron to do duty on the coast of British North America, It is said that the government will reinforce the fleet with larger and more powerful vessels should it prove necossary, and a full rear ad- miral will be placed in command. Mexican news of March 23, via San Francisco, is to the effect that the Liberals had severely defeated the French near Mazatlan and were about occupying that city. ‘Tho Parliament of Nova Scotia has, like that of New Brunswick, adopted resolutions favoring the formation of agreat confederacy of the various North American British "rovinces under oné government and law; and in 80 doing have excited the almost rogoluuiczary feelings of the people, which we have previously observed 44 1 noted as oxisting in New Brunswick. Accompanying the confirmation of the report of our speciat correspondent at St. Stephens, published two days ago, of the passage of resolutions favoring confederation, wo give elso- where in this morning's Heratp some interesting ox- tracts, showing conclusively the strong opposition of the people against, and the no less strong predilection of the Provincial Parliament for the Quebec achems; and also the demand that the parliament be dissolved and the question put before the people in a general oloc- tion, From the British West Indios wo have files dated at Antigua, March 24, and Hamilton, Bermuda, April 10. The veasels of the English North American and West India squadron were in active motion to and from Hali- fax and the islands, and ships were expected from Eng- land with marmes and war supplies. The Colonial Par- Jiamont met in Bormuda on tho 10th of April. Mr. Bayne is to assume the government of Granada. Major Munday is appointed Governor pro tem. of British Guiana. Breadstuffs aud provisions had advanced in tho Jamaica market, From Kingston, Jamaica, we are informed of the adjournment sins die of the ‘royal commission for the trial of the rebela, Two more megroos had been exe- cuted. The public mind was still excited concerning the revolt amd all its consequences. Brevet Major General Jefferson C. Devis has been a- signed to the command of the Department of Kentucky, relieving General Palmer, who has tendeved his resig- nation. President Johnson's Speeches to the Sol- diers, Sailors, Citizens and Colored People. We published yesterday the speech of Prosi- dent Johnson to the soldiors, sailors aad citi- zens who called to serenade him on Wednes- day. To-day we publish his speech te the colored people of Washington. Both of these speeches, like everything else which has ema- nated from President Johnson, aro full of plain, sound, practical common sense and sturdy, an- compromising honesty and independence of opinion. Those who have expected him to: falter or quail before the storm of radical abuse and vituperation will be disappointed by these speeches. He places himself fairly and squarely in contrast with those Senators and Representatives who have maligned and abused him, and appeals to the American peo- ple to decide who is most worthy of confidence. To the soldiers and sailors he compares his own brave conduct during the rebellion with the conduct of those politicians who remained at home in ease and comfort while he and other patriots were at the front of danger. To the colored people he says that their trucst friends are not those who are using the negro race to ride into political power, but those, like himself, whose sympathy is practical and whose actions are dictated by a sincere, unselfish regard for the best interests of the freedmen, The soldiers, the sailors, the citi- zens and the negroes greeted the President’s speeches with enthusiastic cheers, and he may learn from this umanimous applause that the hearts of the people are still with him and will always be, so long os he is true to the great principles which he avows. On Wednesday, after reviewing the other ordeals to which this nation has been subjected, the President came to speak of that latest and greatest ordeal—the recent rebellion. Ina few strong and unanswerable sentences he ex- plained his whole theory of reconstruc- tion. He showed that, although the war for the Union is over the Union is not yet restored, and he denounced in terms only less vigorous than those of his twenty- second of February speech the Northern rebels who are now conspiring to prevent restora- tion. The plea of the radicals that the Southern States are out of the Union was logi- cally annihilated, When the rebellion in Mas- sachusetts was put down, that State was not declared out of the Union. The Dorr rebel- lion in Rhode Island did not make that a dead State. The whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania did not transform that State into a Territory. And yet the Senators and Representatives from these very States are now loudly clamoring that the South is not in the Union because a rebellion has existed and been suppressed there. This argument is irresistible, and the radicals will not attempt to refute it. Quite as convincing is the logic by which the Presi- dent proves that his plan of reconstruction is both practical and constitutional. Since his accession to office he has given the Southern States courts and judges, he has restored the postal service, he has re-opened their block- aded ports, he has authorized elections of Governors and State legislators, and in all there has been mn contrary to the constitutlon, Now, he fsks, what remains to be done? Merely for Con- gress to allow the States the right of repre- sentation. He then shows clearly hat the talk of admitting traitors to Congress is all non- loyalty of the Southern delegates for itself, and send back those who are disloyal. With equal strength he retorts upon the radicals for calling him a wsurper because he has written a3 many vetoes as Washington did; and, after indignantly demanding what he had usurped, he quoted Jefferson and others to prove that there is a tyranny of the many more to be dreaded in a republic than the despotism of any President. In this Mr. Johnson is un- doubtedly correct. Our President is compara- tively powerless; but this radical Congress can legislate itself into office for life, and become an unendurable aristocracy. In both these remarkable speeches of the President he bids his bearors to wait and see who will be most faithful and who is the real friend of the freedmen, and he promises that they will not have to wait very long. These significant declarations will inspire the utmost curiosity among all parties. From them we infer that the President is about to take some decided and important action before many days, and the probabilities are that he will commence by dismissing the radical members of his Cabinet. We say that this is probable; but if the President is about to do anything, a reorganization of the Cabinet is, in fact, indis- pensable. The radical strength ip Congress must be broken, and the only way to break it is to remove the Cabinet which supports and inspires it, The fate of the veto of the Civil Rights bill has shown that so long as the radi- cal leaders can maintain their present ascend- ancy it is useless to attempt to check Congres- sicnal action. Besides this, there is no plan which the President can frame that can be carried out without the co-operation of his Cabinet Ministers, and it is evident that some of his present Cabinot rotain their places for the express and avowed purpose of thwarting all his plans. As President Johnson is a prac- tical, common sense man, be must perceive the absurdity of an effort to make Stanton, Speed and Harlan assist him in any conservative measures. Why, these very persons hold their portfolios, not at the pleasure of the President, but at the pleasure of Mr. Sumner and Mx. Stevens, aid will only relinquish them volun- tarily when Mr. Sumnor and Mr. Stevens com- mand. It is a matter of public notoricty—it has been repeatedly published in the radical papers—that certain members of the Cabinet were about to resign when the Freedmen’s Bureau bill was vetoed, but concluded to re- main at the request of the radical leaders, An administration thus divided against itself will be powerless to assist the President in the ac- tion which he is about to take. tion is to be prompt and important is evident from the fact that in both his speeches Mr. That this ac- ‘Wear. The amount of cotton that has come out of the South since the war closed has been equal in value to six or seven years’ production of the precious metals in the whole country. We do not mean equal in value only in the same way that the corn, wheat or hay crop is esti- mated, but in a much more important and wider sense, Cotton is not only an article of prime necessity for home consumption—not only employs millions of hands and hundreds | The Release of C. C. Cla of millions of capital among ourselyes—but it takes the same place as gold and silver in the commerce and exchanges of the world. In this sense we say the three to four bundred | 41,1, at Fortress millions of dollars’ worth of cotton that has come out of the South since the war closed— in one year—tis equal in value to six or seven years’ production of precious metals in Cali- fornia and the other States and Territories on with the course of England in regard to nea- trality during the rebellion. We do not wait for any overt act to be committed, but antiel- pate any such event, and place ourselves in @ position to defend it, England never did aa much at any period in the progress of our war. The prompt action of our government to force the neutrality laws will challenge the miration of every Power in Europe. som and the Senatorial Leaders of the Rebellion. Clement C. Clay, formerly a United States Senator from Alabama, snd lately a prisoner of Monroe, has been released on parole. He was captured nearly a year ago, or rather he delivered himself up in Georgia as a prisoner, to meet the charge of being one of the rebel conspirators in Canada concerned in the murder of President Lincoln, He has the Pacific side of the continent. We speak in | heen released because President Johnson, no round numbers, for we have not the data to be precise as to a few millions, But every com- mercial man or statistician who has thought upon the subject cnows that our estimate is about correct, ‘The amount of cotton has been varlonsiy estimated from a million and a bet bales to two millions and a half. Say the amount was two millions of bales; and this, at doubt, has become satisfied that he is not guilty in the premiges, It appears, too, that some of the leading radicals of Congress hold- ing this opinion, such as Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Wilson, joined General Grant in recom- mending the prisoner’s enlargement; and when Thaddeus Stevens thus interposes for mag- nanimity towards a ringleader of the rebellion, the high price of cotton, would yield over surely the small fry of the radical school ought three hundred millions in gold. Few, probably, have reflected upon the in- fluence of this on the country, on our condi- tion and credit, and on the relative value of to be satisfied that the day of vengeance has passed away. This unfortunate and fortunate man, Clay, was one of that audacious league of Southers gold and currency. Sappose the South had democratic rebel members of the United States been merely # grain, coin, or stock producing | Sonate which Andrew Jobnson, of Tennessee, country, or producing such other things only | «solitary and alone’ in that hody, as Southern as a people consume within themselves, it would have had little or nothing to spare, or that the rest of the world would have required, when the war ended. Or suppose the Southern- man, in 1860-61, had the moral courage to face and denounce as plotters of treason and rebel- lion. This rebel Senatorial league embraced guch distinguished champions of the rebellion ers could have used this valuable production ' .. yon 0, Breckinridge, Vice President of the during the war, what would have been the result? Had not our navy blockaded their harbors and coast and sealed up the cotton, what immenge resgurces would have beon at their use. We know not how long the war might have been prolonged, or what would have been the end of it. We ought to give awe credit to the navy for the invaluable ser- vice iy rendered. But let us reflect upon what our condition would have been after the war was over, and wonn’ be fora long time to come, without this cotton of the South. The republic had raised upon its creo! within a short time sums of money that no nation ad ever raised before; and more, probably, than puny other could raise. Little short of a thousand mil- lions had been expended in a year, But this extraordinary financial success must have been United States and President of the Senate; Jeff. Davis and Brown, of Mississippi; the famous Dr. Gwin, of California (last reported as Duke of Sonora under Napoleon and Maxi- milian); Mallory, of Florida, since Secretary of the rebel navy; Iverson and Toombs, Georgia, ferociou§ fire-caters; the notoris firm of Mason and Slidell; the equally noto- rious Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisana; and Wigtall, of Texas; Clay, of Alabama; Hammond, ‘of South Carolina; Hunter, of Virginia, and half a dozen others. . This was the Southern democratic rebel league in the Senate which, single-handed, as a Southern democratic Senator, Andrew Johnson had to fight in the seasion of 1860-’61. The whole of these conspirators regarded him then with supreme detestation and contempt. Clement followed by as great a revulsion and depres- | (, Clay, like the rest, would not have touched Johnson is careful to reiterate his promises to stand by the conservative masses of the coun- try, though everybody else may falter and fail, and to prove himself, before very long, the beat friend of the white man and the black. The President weighs his words well, and when he makes such pledges as these we are justified in expecting some section more decis- ive than a veto, which may be voted down, or a epeech, which of itself will affect the radicals very little. Consequently we look to cee these remarkable addresses followed up by a change of Cabinet and renewed energy im the work of Feconstruction. sion if we had not had the cotton of the South. | him with a ten foot pole; for Clay was of that The production of the precious metals, great | oraer of Southern chivalry who believed that agit is, would have been very inadequate to | Oainoun was a greater man than Julius Cesar, meet the necessities of the country. The credit | thes cotton wits king, that African slavery was of the government abroad would have been low, | » nivine institution, that the Yankees would the revenue would have been much reduced— not fight, that a Southern confederacy—grand for our former large commerce would have re- | a4 glorious, niggers, potton, chivalry and all— mained suspended—gold would have flowed was as eve as fate, sud that Andy Johnson, from the country, and instead of being, as # is “the poor white Southesm renegade,” would to-day, at a premium of twenty-six or twenty- remorseleasly be cut off, as # Southern outlaw, seven, it would have reached, probably, with a price spon his head. two handred or more. What else but tht! Now where are those high and mighty cotton has brought down gold from two hun- Southern rebel Confederates of 1860-'61, and dred to one hundred and twenty-seven in little | 41.19 is Andrew Jobnson, that solitary over @ yeart This has been secomplished, x 4 Tus Cnotzra—Tom Nevessrrr or Enen- @wnc Acrion.—Another ehip has reached this side the Atlantic wits an unvpually large sick list. This is al® that is posi- tively known to the publis in relation to the Virginia, which arrived in our port two days ago; and, in the absence of posi- tive knowledge, and in the present state of the public mind, it will be generally assumed | that the disease on board is cholera. We have had recent illustration that people may be unneces- | sarily procipitate im their conclusions on this subject. Et is going too fast to assume that all diseases that come bere just now are Asiatic cholera; aml we evem seem to be going. too fast in aceepting ss euch all diseases pro- nounced te be eholers by men who ought to be competent jndges. In the case of the Eng- land we were first assured that the disease was the cholora,. than that itwas not, then again that it was;. and, by the time that opinion has been. turned topsy-turvy vo often as this, men nat- urally doubt whether even the last jadgment is to be: final, and then whether opinions so changeable are of the highest value, whatever they ultimately declare. decided that we had epidemic Asiatic cholera in Delancey street; but a proper examination determined that the woman had died from polson. died from cholera im the upper part of the city, on the north side ; but it proved to be disease of the brain. Numberless recent embryotic panics Have been exploded in just this way, and the people will use only a wise and proper caution.in doubting all alarming stories in rela- tion torthe presence of the epidemic. all probability that a disease coming to our shores in April is not cholera; but we must remember that the doctrine of probabilities cannot always be accepted as a safe guide. When Columbus told, im Europe, of the new. world he had found, his stories were doubted aa fictions, because travellers were more likely to lie than continents to be discovered. Ex+ traordinary cases go beyond all probability. We may have the cholera here now, in defiance of the usually accepted facts of its history, and. in relation to all needful acts of preparation against it we ought to act as if already sure that it is among us. of Health. They should assume its early ad- vent as an inevitable fact and act accordingly with that assumption, They have now ail legal power and should use it boldly. In the presence of the great scourge the Board of Health will become practically the govern. ment of the city, and it is to be hoped that the enorgy, earnestness and intelligence of its membegs will place this body in our history in excellent contrast with all other govcraynents we have lately had. advertisements, against the Tribune’s beggarky One of the learned aesistants of a coroner It was also: declared that a boy had There is This is especially true of the Commissioners “Wat Ans tus Heratp?’ inqvires the Tribune. We answer, thirty-aix columns of new eighteen columns of advertisements, both old and new. That's what’s the ‘matter. The Tri- dune pretends to give a glotsary of the Hymatp’s advertisements, and, In doing s0, reveals a degree of intimacy with vice and immoralliy which can only enjoyed by ag expert We wore not aware thet Greeley yas behaving 90 badly | ton would have: been by referring to the history of other netiems under similar citeam- stances, Take the-case of England, for ezam- ple; at the close: of the long and exhausting | view of thevabject the release of Clement 0. Clay, thoughtbat a drop in ‘he bucket, is still an incident which will be prodective of good results; amdé the associatien~ of Thaddews Stevens and’ Senator Wilson with this act of generosity, let-us hope, is a sigathat they, too, are beginnixg:te look im the right direction for danger. We shall require a large amount ot eotton to pay for cur increasing importations,, and the interest of the debt held abroad, to say. nothing of our own, manufactures and supply ing our people with. cheaper clothing. if the cultivation of cotton be retarded through @@ insane legislation of our radical cueieredicde both the Times and Tribune as the organ of the shall yet feel sorely the effects of the war viiitoh have been averted up to the present tir ee by the stock of cotton om hand. It is tir ge the commercial, classes of the community under- stood this. Let them and let the whol © people | and six fect hold. Centre board and sloop rigged. demand the speedy restoration of the ‘ south—of that great and valuable section of the country— to its former status in the Union. true way to save us from revulsic in, to restore specie. payments, to enable the g »vernment to meet the debt, to case our pr osent burdens, | * Complimentary dinner last evening at the Maison We may form some idea of what our condi- war against Napoleon im 1814. She had acow ranlated an enormons debt, and her commerse wit the rest of Ezpope had been paralyzed. Th pressure of this:debt and the demands of the-sountry for supplies from abroad, together wité.the spirit of speculation that revived wits the: return of peacey. drained the country of| a liage amount of specie. Years of depression, : revalsion, and intense-suffering am: the mase Bo rr DROIT of the people followed ae a shen conse- | Tar Apvearimxns’ Oneax— kb following le quence. Now, suppose-England had possossed | ® Statement showing the numberof in 1815 the same amount of cotton we found, or that she had suddenly discovered three or four hundred millions in gold, which would have been the same thing, how easily, comparatively, she:would have passed: through her troubles. What is India to Engjand, or what were the mines of South America to Spain, compared pam with the South to the-North? Yet we see the | Tribu extraordinary spectacle of a powerful party trying to ruin this greatest of all El Dorados. a The crazy revolutionists of France never did | Tiburce anything so foolish or ruineas. We need the valuable productions.of the South hereafier as ‘That is the and to keep the country going on in its career of prosperity. Our Fuytxa SqvapRon. —The promptitude with which the governm Ant has sent a fleet of war vessels to our Nort) seastorn waters is highly commendab! It is an indication that the government fhot only to preserve neu- trality, but to be *srepared to enforce it. The fying squadron, @hich is ordered to rendezvous at Eastport to “took after the movements of the Fenians, and for other purposes, is compose) of some of the best vessels in the American , and is competent to maintain anv position it may } and will no danvt navy, CO.mmanded by experienced fits obtained from, the cotton that bay been a In all brought out of the South within one yea. magtatinlty sie comet “ there is me precedent for ie geed results se~ complished by the concilistory Southern policy of Presidest Johnson, in wim@ing: over millions of men frensthe position of relenfless enemies: to the dutiée-of submission sd:peace. In thie the speedy, sound and perm: nent restoration ot the Union. advertise- ments contained im the Herat, Times,and Th bune respectively for the past these days:— 1896S OF APRIL 17. Toi Adwertisementa, 128 Th is gives the Herat an exsess of 00 han dred and thirty-nine advertisereents over both mach as we needed them during the last year. | #4 Times and Tribune in yesterday's Issacs. Prosperous as we have-beem under the difficul. | Tht> following will show the axcess over the thes of our situation, we are not yet out of | Sac papers for the past three days:— HERALD OVER BOTH TIMES meatier ‘Thursday, Agarogate oxcers for three day ai a ‘This demonstrates how far the Hrratp leads advertising public. Yacurre.—The yacht Eva, owned by George L. Lorit- lard, Req, was launched yesterday from the yard foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, at one o'clock. Her dimen- sions are seventy-two feet on deck, twenty-two feet beam Dinwen to Hasitt, THe Camron Oanswax,—Jamew Hamill, the champion oarsman, of Pitteburg, who ® the eve of his departure for Fngland, to engage in the great international match with Harry Kelly for two thousand five hundred dollars a side, was the reciploat Doree, in Fourteenth street, Stephen Roberts, who pre~ sided as chairman, introdgced the champion to the invited ‘saying thet he was a countryman of pon ey might all be proud He was about to enter into a contest with the champion of England, and from what they all knew of him (Hamil!) the speaker wap confident in the ability of their fellow countryinan to carry off the laurels, Mr, John Hamill respouded on behalf of the champion, his brother, saying the latter, wi a very good =. wee no speaker. Hoe thanked the company for the fri that had been given his brother, and asaai them thac if the mateh war not won by ao American It woutd not be t! fault of his brother. The match if it was possible for nvited guesta were the Dudley La & other notables of the sporting wor! bm A ‘hich Hamill moans to engage was = os ¥ ay Fy BE BR jt ie thiriy-thre feet long, and y-eight pounds, The match will come of four este of tae i when Hamill resches Boy oan exciting affkir,