The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1866, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash inadvance. Money sent by mail will be atthe risk ofthe sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, as Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price: ‘One Copy... Postage five cents per copy for three months, Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1.50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club often. Twonty copies to ono address, one year, $25, andany larger number at same price. An extra copy ‘will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the ‘Waxxcr Henn the cheapest publication im the country. ‘Tho Evrorzan Epmiox, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or 66 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage, Volume XXXT........ccceeseeesee eee eeee Oe LIL AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—SoLon Suixcie—Live INpian. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, oppostte the St, Nicholas Hotel.—Ssxious Famity—Hyrocuonpriac. IRVING MALL, Irving place.—Brixp Tow’s Gaayp Prano Concents, 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel —Ermior.aN SINGING, DaNctNa, &0.— Tux Boanp or Heautn. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sina ine, Dancing, Buriesques, &c.—Tux Bonn Rossery. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Onp Scioon or Mrvstrexsy, Bau.aps, Musicat Gess. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Haspy ANpY. BR ‘TS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- ry: no Comicatitins, BURLESQUES, &0.—TAMING 4N UEP! HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Atssat Rvssevt, PRESTIDIGITATEUR AND VENTRILOQUIST. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratoriax Mux. STRELSY—BatLaps, BURLESQUES AND Pantowiaes. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @pen from 104. M. ull10 P.M. COOPER INSTITUTE, AND Bazaan. LECTURE ON CHOLERA—By J. G. Wensrer, M. D., in the Chapel of the University, Washington Square. stor Place.—Graxp Concert ST. JULIAN HALL, Staten Island.—Tuz Dosson Buo- qaxns, WiZaRps AND Bansoises. SHEET. New York, Sunday, April 22, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. The Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Pablic. Annexed are the returns to the Intornal 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 second eolumn are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months For the ending Dec, 81, 1864. Year 1865. -9577,455 $662,102 + 200,900 801,841 261,812 284,412, 163,177 222,715 128,056 177,206 109,595 173,646 62,644 164,461 67,550 126,380 94,328 101,798 0,823 177,556 48,968 77,048 Evening Express. 52,350 68,742 New Yorker Demokrat, 21,052 25,734 NIG Sos, sees tec sens $1,873,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Hrratn to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver- tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- cating their business wants to the public. NOTE. ‘The Times and Tribune, in order to make ashow of Dusiness, publish statements pretending that they are from official returns to the Revenue Department. These atatemonts are made up in the Times and Tribune 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. the official books and is strictly correct in every par- ticular. Any one can satisfy himself on this point by inspecting the books at the Internal Revenue OMco. Our table, given above, is taken from CONGRESS. ‘Tho Senate was not in session yesterday. The proceedings in the House were confined to debate on the President's annual mossage, The pros and oma on the stitutional amondment, reconstraction and the veto re discussed fully and completely. Mr. Smith, of Kentucky, said that Congress did not know whether the Soath had elected loyal men to Congross or not, and had closed the doors against them without inquiring. He wanted some of those members who were bloodthirsty to Propose the trial of Jef Davis and others who had been prominent | was Congres poke jors in the rebellion. But the fact had dodgod the question. Other members veition, Mr, Shellabargor said that Congress had as much right to dectare the rights of citizenship of rebels forfeived ag it had to declare the same of deserters from the army, which {t did in 1864. EUROPE. ‘The compilation of news from Rurope, the Hanau this morning, from Paris, Madrid, Fle burg, showing forth the con { affairs—politicn! eoc'al, military, naval and industrial —from the capital of France away to tho peninsula of Kamschatka, w it it said, Amorican enterppise and energy are likely to found and build up the seat of a great commercial asso ciation, after the plan of the HudSon Bay Company, on the very confines of Siberia, Our Madrid correspondent states tbat the Spanish peo: ple aro hearttly tired of transatlantic war, after the ex. periences gained by their commanders in St. Domingo and Chile; but the Cabinet plays on their hereditary national pride to such an extent that they must, if possi. bie, avenge the Chilean “insult,” He repeate that strict orders have been despatchod by Queen Isabella to her Admiral in the Pacifie to bombard Valparaiso and after. ‘wards rotire the fleet to Montevideo. Admiral Goldsborough, with the officers of his flag- ship, had an elegant reception at the residence of the United States Minister in Florence. The condition of the other vessels of our Mediterrancan squadron, as Ww the Hioalth of the moo, was very good. The army an: navy of Italy are spoken of as likely to be very efficient on Whatever side the King may take ina European war, Details of the plan for the evacuation of Mexico by the French army wore published in Paria, It ts sald that Secretary Seward had Officially expressed to the Emperor the gratification experienced by the Cabinet in Washing- ton at the approaching march of the French troops from the soil, and defined our future position towards the empire to consist in no recognition of Maximilian, and no relations except commercial with him. Affairs remained dangerously unsettled along the @horna of the Persian Gult NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho discovery of coal in Abyssinia produced consider- ablo excitement on the coast of the Red Sea, Should the fields prove permanently valuable the claim for sov- ereignty of the territory will evoke an important discus- sion of the respective rights of the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy of Egypt. THE FENIANS. From the Maine border we havo news to the effect that the United States troops are on guard duty at the bridge between Calais and St. Stephens, The Fenians from Calais take the liberty of frequently crossing the bridge and observing the drilling of the Canadian volunteers. In Montreal threo soldiers of the Royal artillery had been privately arrested, charged with the utterance of Fenian sentiments. The matter is kept as profound a secret as possible, A rumor which was current to the effect that the peo- ple of Stansted object to the presence of the volunteers, who were sent for their protection, and had engaged in acombat with them, is said to be very probable, as the inhabitants of that town are Americans generally eager for a return to thelr old allegiance by annexation. A detective from Montreal joined a Fenian expedition at Calais and has not been heard from since. Trouble is anticipated on account of the exclusion of Catholics from the Mayor's Court for the trial of the Cornwall prisoners, The Fenian situation on this side of the border has conveniently changed its aspect, They now declare that they havo for the present no other intention than to in- vest their heavy Fenian fund in good paying fisheries. ‘They propose to make a grand piscatory excursion, and for the present capture codfish instead of freeing Ireland. Mr. Killian is to be the business manager, and the arms they are to carry are only to be used in self-defence in case the English or any other power should attack them. Tt is supposed that by this means they may force a rup- tare between the United States and Great Britain, al- though they profess no such object. THE OITY. The pestilence is still increasing among the passengers of the steamer Virginia, now in the Lower Quarantine, four deaths having taken place on Friday night, and thirty-three new cases having been discovered. The total number of sick on board the hospital ship at noon yesterday was sixty-seven, Tho steamship England arrived yesterday—one death having occurred since leaving Halifax, and tnat an infant, from whooping cough—and was quarantined in the lower bay, The passengers and crew were all well, A collision case came up in the United States Commis- sioners’ Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, in which one of the witnesses, on being questioned as to whether he could attend on Monday, to which time it was proposed to adjourn the case, testified that he was a seafaring man ; that he is a member of a political society; that he has been under orders from that society for the past fortnight to be ready to sail; that it was doubtful whether he would be hereon Monday or not, and that he was not at liberty to say whother the organization to which he be longed was Fenianism or not, The case was adjourned to Monday. ‘The case of Wallace Dykeman, charged with passing a fifty dollar counterfeit note on a bartender in the Eighth avenue, came up yesterday again before Commissioner Osborn, in the United States Commissioners’ Court. The evidence was concluded; but the Commissioner reserved his decision till Monday. The case of the Meteor, tho alleged Chilean privateer, was again up yesterday in the United States District Court, Counsel on either side closed their arguments, and Judge Betts took the papers, reserving his decision in the case to a future day. Judge Monell, of tho Superior Court, has delivered a very important decision touching tho right of the city to have mistakes corrected which tend to its disadvantage and are committed by its lawadvisers. In a case of damages awarded against;the city, Corporation Counsel O'Gorman moved for a new trial on account of a mis- take in the awards, or for a correction of the judgments, and Judge Monell decided to grant the motion, tak- ing the ground that mistakes ought tobe corrected, especially in the ense of the city, which was entirely at the mercy of its law adviser. Another large robbery bya more lad was effected on Thursday evening. The safe of Messrs. Ruger Brothers, on Beaver street, was opened by Johannes Troveranus, a boy of fifteen, employed by the firm, and money ab- stractod to the amount of $6,400, with which he fitted himself out, bought a ticket for New Orleans, and then visited the Bowery theatre, where he was arrested. All the monoy was recovered except $609, which be had found means to expend. Mayor Hoffman yesterday Issued an order to the effect that all nitro-glycerine discovered in the city should be Placed in vessels filled with water and particular guard kept over it. The number of prisoners confined at tho present time tn the Tombs prison is two hundred and fitty-two, which is about equally proportioned betwoen males and females. Tho number of murderers, five of whom have been tried and sentenced to be executed, is sixteen, one of whom is a woman charged with the marder of her children, but not yet indicted. There are oighty-fivo prisoners charged with felonies and ove hundred and fifty-ono with petty offences. Mrs. Caroline E. Schenck, who was missing for some time from her residence on Fourteenth street, was yes- terday found dead in her rear yard, having, it is sup- posed, while in a deranged state of mind thrown herself from the flifth story window of her hous. There were one hundred and thirty-one deaths in Brooklyn last week. Of this numbor twenty-nine were men, twenty-nine women, thirty-eight boys and tnirty- three girls, The principal diseases were consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis, typhoid fever and disease of the brain, Last week the wills of the following porsons were ad- mitted to probate in the office of the Surrogate of Kings county :—Hoteo Van Sinderin, of New Lots; Maria Ber- gon, Julia C. Douglass and Garrett Tunison, of Brooklyn. Letiors of administration were granted on the estates of the following pamed persons :—Elizaboth Jordan, Catha- rine Maginais, Patrick Higgins, Charles F. K. Freginsin, Fd. Ryan, Job Davis, Ed. C. Thorn, John McMahon and Michael Taggart, all of Brooklyn. ‘The stock market was firm yestorday, and prices ad- vanced. Governments were strong. Gold was steady, and closed at 126%% a %&. But little business was done yesterday, either on or off ‘Change, in foreign or domestic mer- chandise. tn the way of shipments scarcely anything was done, even in cotton, which forms the clnef article nowadays. The breadstufls markets were dull and heavy, but provisions were steady, pork boing somewhat better. A heavy stock depressed the sugar market somewhat, and prices rather favored the pur- chaser. Common grades of coffee had a declining ten- doncy. Prime grades were steady. Cotton was dulland drooping. Petroleum steady, Freightsdull. Dry goods dall. MISCELLANEOUS. Prosident Johnson lately despatchod Major Genoral James B. Steodman and Brigadier General Fullerton to inform him upon the social status of the Southern States. General Steedman is well known by his military career as Colonel of the Fourteenth Ohio, whieh fought the battle of Carrick’s Ford, Va., one of MoClelian's first victories; for gallant conduct at Mill Spring, as the com. mander who led Gordon Granger's reserve corps to Thomas’ assistance at Chickamauga, 4D@ as a corps com- mander in the battle of Nashville, Tenm., in Decomber, 1364. General Fullerton was for many months General Howard's adjutant, and was at one time a principal agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. The experience of Generals Fullerton and Steodman, as traced by our cor respondent, is identical with that of General Grant, and shows conclusively that the representations of radi cal leaders and papers, showing antagonism be tween the races and outrages upon the weaker are exaggerations of individual cases, and wholly inapplicable to the people generally, Our corres. Ppondent was strongly improssed with the idea that the antagoulsm between the races was bitter and relentless, and has been astonished to find ite entire absence. He represents the reliance, respect and dependenc» of the days of slavery as still existing, and picvures the native Virginians as the friends and tutors of their former slaves ‘The two nogroes just executed in Jamaica for partici. pation in the late revolt to the extent of murder, con- fossed that they had been sworn into an association organized for the purpose of such a rising by Pan! Bogle, and were bound to obey his commands, They denied that they had strack the person for whose death they wore to sufter, buf acknowledged they were present when he was killed. General Grant and his wife arrived in Richmond yes. terday. The Supreme Court of Massachusetta has decided that ‘A revenue stamp on @ pote is no part of tt and need not be copied, nor does the want of & stamp on the nove affect the validity of it unless fraudulently omitted, The State Legislature—Its Final Ad- journment. The State Legislature has finally concluded its labors and adjourned sine die. The session was brought toa close amidst great excite- ment of the lobby at a late hour on Friday night. The members are by this time en rowe for home to report to their families and con- stituents, From all accounts it has been one of the most singular bodies that has assembled in Albany since the eventful year of 1860. There was so much confusion in the proceed- ings during the last few hours of its session, and so many important questions acted upon amidst this excitement, that it is almost impos- sible, at the present time, to tell what evil has been done or what good has been accom- plished. If there is no wrong committed it is not for the want of a disposition on the part of @ large body of the lawmakers, but for the lack of time and power. A very large amount of business has been transacted and laws enough passed to fill a large volume. Many of them, as usual, are special acta, which are only local in their application and only intended as such. There have been some sixty odd bills passed which refer exclusively to interests in this city, But when the bills which have be- come laws are analyzed we judge that it will be found that by far less than the usual pro- portion are what are termed public measures, looking exclusively to the public good. In this respect the Legislature will be found more remarkable for what it did not do than for what it did accomplish. It is true that this session has given us a new sanitary department, or health board, which we trust will prove a great benefit to this me- tropolis, From all appearances the lawmakers seemed inclined to rest on their laurels after they had passed that measure, and to consider that they had made a reputation by that act which would cover up all subsequent misdeeds. This bill, with the liquor law and one or two other measures are the only public laws among the entire list for this city, while there were an innumerable number of jobs on all sorts of questions, The Central Railroad Fare bill is the only one of those schemes for the rural dis- tricts which has passed in a practical form. The Niagara Ship Canal was so encumbered by out- side matters that it will prove perfectly useless, All the railroad bills for this city seem to have failed at the last stage of the session. s@lt was brought about by the managers of each scheme fighting all others, until finally all fell in the general melee. The bills granting aid to the Susquehanna and Whitehall Railroads and the Oneida Canal were log-rolled through in both houses, going through in a sort of an omnibus arrangement, but were vetoed by the Governor on the last day of the session. Strange to say, no strenuous effort was made to pass those bills over the vetos, nor did we hear of any denunciations of the Governor, or charges by the radicals that he was an usurper or a despot, although it is clearly evident that Governor Fenton vetoed those measures for the purpose of making capital for his own re-elec- tion. The Code has also been amended and changed in many particulars, but just how and where it is impossible to tell, and we presume that none but the lawyers can decide the effect that the modifications will have. They proba- bly all relate, as usual, to some special case where some lawyer has been unable to win his suit in court, and has applied to the Legis- latare for an amendment to the Code which This re- will enable him to carry his point. This style of sharp practice has become too extensive for the general good. It seems, however, that an anchor was thrown out to the windward by the Senate just before the adjournment, looking towards business at the next session. The resolution appoint- ing a committee to report routes and plans for railroads in this city looks like work in this line at the next session. But the Legis- lature has adjourned, the lights have been put out and the doors closed. Its members are now of no more importance than other citi- zens, and they will gradually sink back into the normal condition which they occupied be- fore they became legislators. No person will regret that the session has been brought to a close, while thousands will rejoice and breathe more freely now they know that all turther danger from that source is over until the com- mencement of another year. The public are no doubt thankful that no more damage has been done, and will be inclined to look with charity upon many of the misdeeds of the mem- bers. We could have had a worse Legislature, yet there was unquestionably great room for improvement, and we hope to have a much better one next year. Dany Apvertiswe—Su.ty Tricks oF a Con- TEMPoRARY.—By the following comparative statement it will be seen that the Heratp has, during the past five days, gontained upwards of one thousand more advertisements than both the Times and Tribune: — NUMBER OF ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE MERALD, TIMES AND TRIBUNE POR FIVE DAYS. Herald, Times, Tril Tuosday, April 17. 480 Wednesday, April 1 440, Thursday, April 19 482 Friday, April 20. 420 Saturday, April 21, Excess of Hrxap Times and Tribun . 1,065 The above demonstrates the extont of the Henaty’s daily advertising over that of the Times and Tribune. It must be remembered that this excess is not attributable to extra ex- ertions or drumming on the part of the Herarp. On the contrary, we have more difficulty in keeping out rather than rushing in advertisements. It is simply the legitimate result of an immense circulation and the benefit an appreciative advertising public derive from making use of our columns, How is it with our contemporaries? Take the Tribune, for example. We have before usa cir- cular issued from the Tribune office, in which an advertisement cut from the Heratp is pasted, and the Tribune's terms for publishing the same annexed. These terms, of course, are much lower than those of the Hrratp, and as the circular is addressed to the person named in the advertisement it is, of course, simply an underhand mode of drumming up advertise- ments. The trick isa silly one, for many of our advertisers to whom these circulars are ad- dressed forward them to us for the purpose of exposing the extremes to which the Tribune resorts to obtain advertisements. A short time ‘ago the same concern had circulars printed in green ink, with the cut of an Irish harp, and sent them to the Irish chambermaids whe ad- vertised in the Henatn for the purpose of in- ducing them to transfer their advertisements to the columns of the Tribune. But all these ridiculous efforts to drum up an advertising patronage avail nothing against the HeraLp. Look at our paper to-day. For the first time in the history of oity newspapers printed on Sunday we are obliged to-day, by the pressure of advertisements, to issue a triple sheet. But notwithstanding this rush of advertisements upon our columns we do not intend that our friends shall be deprived of their usual smount of news and other reading matter. To-day’s paper presents a marked appearance in another respect. It shows that the local advertising public are beginning to appreciate the advan- tages of advertising in a Sunday issue, The Sunday Heratp is more thoroughly read in the city than the issues of week days, and the knowledge of that fact is being seen by shrewd and intelligent advertisers, American Outdoor Sports—Opening of the Spring Season. Winter no longer lingers in the lap of spring. The sunshine is bright and golden, the air soft and pleasant, and warm weather has come at last. Now the theatres are too close and sultry, lectarers are a bore, books are stupid, all the amusements of winter are no longer attractive, and everbody feels an irre- sistible longing for out of doors. We publish this morning, as appropriate to the opening of the season, an elaborate review of our national games and sports, Races and racers, trots and trotters, yachts and yachtmen, boats and oarsmen, base ball and base ball clubs, cricket and cricketers, croquet and the co- quettes who have naturalized the game, arch- ery and archers, are all fully treated in this careful and interesting summary. It is evi- dent, from the preparations and the matches to come off, that this season is to be the most attractive that we have ever had in this coun- try. The great game of war is happily over and the irrepressible energy and activity of the national character will turn heartily and cordially to these peaceful amusements. It has been said that Americans work too much; but every year the popular interest in outdoor sports jincreases, and we dis- cover that Americans can play as well and as hard as they work. Already we quite rival the English in this respect, and in course of time we shall certainly surpass them in sporting as we do in every kind of labor. From present indications this season will piace us a long way ahead in yachting, in racing and in boating. The New York Yacht Club is quite ready for action. The club is well officered and com- posed of members who love the sport and are not afraid to venture out of sight of land. The old mill-pond races are now completely ig- nored, and ocean regattas are the popular sub- jects of discussion. The programme of the club for this year embraces a regatta, a re- view, 8 squadron cruise and several ocean matches. The regatta will be unusually ex- citing and interesting. The review will be for the benefit of the ladies, who will be conveyed to and from the fleet iq steamers, and will be refreshed by a magnificent collation and a sail on board the yachts. The squadron will prob- ably go to Boston during the cruise, and it is expected that a steamer will be chartered for the accommodation of those members who do not own yachts. The club has not forgotten that it still has possession of the cham- pion cup won by the America, and Eng- lish yachtmen are also beginning to remem- ber the loss of this trophy, and are becom- ing ambitious to regain it. We hope that an international regatta may be arranged by autumn and that British yachts may come into our waters to compete for the supremacy. But ifthe yachtmen of England are too slow about this matter itis probable that we may send a fleet of Americas across the ocean in 1867 to win several more cups for our Club. The Paris Exposition will be held in that year; thousands of Americans will go to Europe to attend it, and it is likely that those who belong to the Club will go in their own yachts, which are much more comfortable than any steamer. This will be decidedly more sensible and more characteristic of the Americans than to send over the Seventh regiment ina glass case to provoke the ridicule of the Parisian wits. We consider a contest between the yachts of the two countries as certain, and it is simply a question as to whether we shall go to England or wait for the English to come here. In boating we have boldly taken the initiative. Hamill, our champion oarsman, has started to row Kelley, the champion of England, upon English waters, and the general opinion seems to be that Hamill will win. If he have a fair race and a clear course it will be almosé use- less for Kelley to try to keep up with him. The progress which we have made in base ball and cricket, and the enthusiasm which has welcomed the introduction of croquet and archery among our national gamos, are de- scribed in the review to which we have re- ferred our readers. Base ball is essentially an American game, and although not perhaps so scientific it is much more exciting than cricket, which has, however, many American practi- tioners. Croquet is a sort of out of door bil- liards or bagatelle, and will be quite generally adopted by the ladies. Archery has been popu- lar since the days of Robin Hood, and was probably invented by Adam himself; but it has hitherto found very few experts in this country, where the rifle and pistol are pre- ferred; but during the present season it will be in fall feather at all the watering places. But in none of these sports are the masses of the people so thoroughly interested as in those of the turf, A few years ago trotting horses were altogether in vogue. The good old racing times, when thousands flocked to this city from all parts of the country to see the performances of such clippers as Eclipse, seemed to have passed forever. But now we have a genuine revival of racing. We have our New Jersey Derby and our Epsom and our Oaks. A Jockey Club is in process of formation, and a splendid new racecourse is to be opened at Bathgate, near Fordham, in September. The Paterson races, which are first class, will take place in June, and the Saratoga races, which have already become a fashionable institution, will soon follow. A Richmond manager will gake charge of the Hoboken Course, which was admirably inaugurated last season, and he has just arrived here with eleven race horses and twenty negro jockeys, who used to be his slaves, but are now contented to remain in his employ as freedmen. In the meantime the trotting matches on Long Island will not be neglected. Twenty purses have been offered by the proprietors of the Union and Fashion Courses, to be trotted for in May and June, and several good trots have come off within the ' past week, With this programme of epiertain- ments on the turf; with the extensive prepara- tions for yacht races, regattas and international contests; with the boat matches that have been arranged, including that between the American and English champions, and with the increas- ing interest in base ball, cricket, croquet, archery and all other kinds of open-air sports and games, we are justified in predicting that, in spite of the croaking about cholera, the spring season will be unprecedentedly brilliant. ‘The Army Bill. The bill for the increase of the regular army, as amended in the Senate, appears to be un- dergoing extensive manipulation in the House. The everlasting negro comes up on this as on every other subject, and there is a great deal of twaddle and affectation of sentiment both about the heroic darkeys and the maimed veterans of the war. All this is out of place, much of it untrue as to facts of history, as it is false in sentiment, and the greater partis mere buncombe for political effect. We almost despair of getting a body of legislators to- gether again who will have sense and capacity enough to comprehend and adhere to the simple merits of a measure. The only ques- tion, really, should be how to make the most efficient arthy with the smallest amount of ma- terials and at the least expense. This is a proposition so self-evident that we might sup- pose the commonest understanding wonld com- prehend it. Charity has nothing too with it The negro ought not to enter into it, and the reward for past services should be subordinate to the main question of efficiency. If Congress would keep this idea before them constantly we might expect such a reorganiza- tion of the army as would make that branch of the service the admiration of the world. But, unfortunately, efficiency is made subordinate to political and partisan considerations, to fa- voritism and to false sentiment. Let us look, for instance, at the proposition to make negro regiments in the regular army. Does any one suppose the negroes are equal to white men as soldiers? We are not disposed to undervalue the services of some of these people during the war, and it might have been very well to employ them when we needed all the available resources of the country to sub- due the rebellion. Without making breast- works of them, as was the case at Fort Hudson and some other places, they were made useful by dovetailing their regiments in with the white regiments and by employing them as supernu- meraries of the army. But everybody knows, and our great generals particularly know, that the radical negro worshippers have let off a great deal of nonsense about the heroism and services of the negroes. Such radicals as Ben Butler, Saxton and Carl Schurz may attempt to humbug the country about negro efficiency, but these men will certainly not be regarded as authorities in military matters. The facts of the war are against the statements and assump- tions of the negro worshippers. That, how- ever, is all over. The question now is, do we want negro troops as a part of the regular army? Is it necessary or expedient to have them? We can get: plenty of white men. There is no excuse for employing negroes on that ground. In times of peace our army is chiefly employed on the plains and remote posts to keep the Indians in order. Now, it is well known that the negro has fan instinctive and unconquerable dread of the Indian. The Indian, too, has much less fear of the negro than of the white man. How, then, would negro troops answer for this service on the score of efficiency compared with white troops? The answer is plain. Then, to use negro sol- diers against our own race in times ot civil disturbances, either in the South or North, unless, indeed, it be in a general war, such as we have passed through, would be revolting, and would inflame men’s passions rather than subdue them. No statesman or philanthropist would wish to employ colored troops against white people in such an event, for the tendency would be to create a war of races, in which the weakest must go to the wall. On what ground, then, is it proposed to make the negroes a part of our permanent army? It looks very much like vindictiveness or a hatred on the part of the radicals toward a portion of the people of their own race and color. That is the sort of legislation with which this country is unhappily afflicted at present. Bs Nor should the army be regarded as a great chariiable institution, in which to put either blacks or whites’ who cannot help themselves. If men have performed meritorious services, and they are still efficient, their past services ought to give them the preference to others. But the efficiency of the army ought not to be impaired, even by rewarding those with ap- pointments who can no longer be as serviceable as others. If, for example, there are men in the Veteran Reserve corps fully as capable as others of less merit let them by all means be employed. But this preference should not override the question it cficleney. Let us reward those who deserve it or who have be- come jdisabled by the war by pensions or in some other way, but in the reorganization of the army let the paramount question be that of efficiency. This, in the end, will be the least cost, and we shall have the proud satisfaction of knowing that our army, in proportion to its numbers, will be equal, if not superior, to any in the world. While on this subject let us hope Congress will not fail to appreciate the supe- rior services and capabilities of those who have been educated to the profession at West Point. We do not think it necessary to go into all the details of the bill before Congress, and have simply laid down the principles which ought to govern that body in its action. Ixerrictency or Tue Pam Fine Derant- MeNT.—There appears to be something radi- cally wrong in our present Fire Department. There was a time when buildings once on fire could be saved, but such seems to be no longer the case. Just as sure as a fire breaks out just so certain is that building doomed to become one mass of charred and blackened ruins. Now, why is this? Has the system proved a failure, or is the fault in the management? The department certainly ought to be thor- oughly organized by this time. Nearly a year has been consumed in placing it in working order. The experiment of a change of system has in that time been a costly one to our citi- zens. If it is not to work any better in the fature than during the past nine months, the sooner we get rid of the system or the present managers the better. . The insurance companies were very strong advocates of the present system, and are in & qtopt wapemte resnqpsihle for ite adpp- facts all summed up, conclusively prove that the new Fire Department has thus far proved = failure. The number of fires and the amount of losses both far exceed what they were un- der the old arrangement, and the cost of in- surance has materially increased. There is no wonder that our people are inquiring what is the cause of all this? This is not the result that they expected when the change of system: was made. It is clear that there is-something wrong which requires an immediate remedy. If the troubles with the present management then it should be changed; if with the system. then let it be abolished without delay. But some action should be taken at once, The French Theatre—A Revolution tm Opera and the Drama. It was promised that the new French theatre would be finished about the first week in April, and now we are in the third week and it is not yet completed. However, the construction of theatres, like all other human affairs, is liable to uncertainty and disappointment. At all events, the new theatre will be ready by the fall, and then we may look for a revolution, to @ certain extent, in our metropolitan enjoy- ments. We will be relieved ‘from the night- mare of dull and heavy old operas. We will have some place of amusement to go to where the attraction will be found in the performance rather than in the audience, where people will gladly visit, not for fashion’s sake nor at the bidding of custom, but for the real pleasure to be obtained there. In short, we are to have at the new French theatre a sories of those light and delightful operas which render the Opera Comique in Paris always charming, and the Academié de Musique always enjoyable. The French composers, such as Auber and Gounod, and others whom we might mention, are infinitely more fertile than the Italians, . and even those of the former school who have attempted the gravest compositions are willing at times to devote their talents to the lighter and more sparkling class of operas which harmonize so well with the French mind and character. Thus, while we have to wait for three or four years until the work of an Italian composer is completed, and must content ourselves with this one opera from that master probably for ten years before he puts forth another, the supply of light French opera is always abundant for the popu- lar want. In this respect the French opera writers have a decided advantage over the Italians, and are more suitable to the present taste. Our people want varicty, and they want mote other houses playing light pieces with twice the profit. No one who has Academy of Music of late could have to observe that the audience did not to hear the music, but simply to other and talk together in little coteries, What passed on the stage was little heeded; there- fore indifferent music and wornout artists did just as well as the best. People had boxes which they must occupy and season tickets which they must use, and hence they went to the opera, not for the love of art, but in sub- mission to prevailing custom. Country folks went there to see the fashionables of the city. In the Opera Comique, of Paris, how differ- ent. There every one is intent upon the per- formance. There can be no mistaking the ob- ject of the audience. They come seeking for pleasure and they get it. In former times, when dramatic writers were scarce, the public had to be content with a few plays, which were presented again and again until all interest in them was exhausted; but there is no necessity in this age of fertile brains and vivid imagination, when so many literary men are dramatists and so many musicians are composers, for being compelled to sit out old wornout plays and hackneyed operas, We ex- pect to see this corrected when the French the- atre is opened. With brilliant new operas and fresh dramas put upon the stage with judicious management, we trust there will be no cause to complain of the stupidity or the demoraliza- tion which have for some time past character- ized so many of our places of amusement. It is true that the French theatre is not as well located as it might be. It should be further up town and nearer to Broadway; but then this disadvantage will be counterbalgpeed_b: the elegance and comfort of its construction, for it will be arranged on the plan of the Opera Comique—divided off principally into private boxes, where social inter- course of the most delightful kind can be made to harmonize with the pleasure of the perform- ances. This may be only the beginning of an entire revolution in the plan of our theatres, and we hope it will prove so, for itis a revolu- tion very much needed. There is an advantage allied to the charac- ter of performances to be introduced at the new theatre which we have not alluded to, and that is, that the operas and dramas played there will be in a language which it is most desirable to cultivate, because it is essential to the everyday life of this community. Italian is of little value; French is almost indispensa- ble. We all wish that our children should be- come French scholars, and there is no better way of acquiring proficiency in the language than by following a good drama through in that tongue. One good French theatre, where the interest felt in the performance stimulates the ambition to acquire a knowledge of the language employed, will make more proficients than a dozen teachers, For these reasons, therefore, the French theatre cannot be put in working order too soon. Tas Case or Jere Davis—The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives for some days past have had the case of Jeff Davis under consideration, the questions before them being what are we to do with him? how shall he be tried, where, and whatfor? He was arrested in pursuance of President John- son’s proclamation of April Inst, offering one hundred thousand dollar: reward for his capture as one of Whe rebel conapicatem ea