The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1866, Page 4

4 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, at Five cents per copy. Anntial subscription price:— One Copy... $3 Three Copies 5 Five Copies. 8 Ten Copies 13 Postage five cents per copy for three months. Apvenrisemants, toa limited nuraber, will be inserted ‘nthe Wexxiy Heravp, the European and California Editions. Volume XXXI... «No, 114 — ee AMUSEMENTS THL3 BVENINJ. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—SoLon SHingLe—Live INDIAN, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. —Seniovs FawtLy—Hyrocdonpaiac, IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Buixp Tom's " Graxp Piano Conceats. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. —Ermi0PiaN SINGING, DANUING, &d.— Tux Boano or Hearn. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Sixa- 1G, DANCING, Buntesques, &¢.—Tue Bono Ronpery. GEORGE CHRISTY’S—OLD ScHoou or Mrvstaecsy, Bauiaps, Musican Guns, &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos, 2 and ¢ West Twenty-fourtn street,—Hanpy ANbY. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechantos’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Neoro Comicazitizs, BURLESQUES, &C.—TaMinG 4X Everuant. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Atpert Rvsszx1, PRestiDiGITATEUR AND VENTRILOQUIST. HOOLEY’S OPERA HO! sTRkisY—Baians, Brest WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Tuesday, April 24, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. , Brooklyn. —Ermoriax Mix. ‘BS AND PANTOMIMS3, The Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advertising of all the daily papers of this city for two years. In the first column are the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second eolumn are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months For the Paper. ending Des. 31, 1864. Year 1865, Herald 577,455 $662,192 Tribune. 260,960 301,841 Times... 251,812 284,412 Evening Post. 168,177 222,715 World..... 128,056 177,204 Journal of Commerce. 109,505 173,646 Transcript. 62,644 164,461 Staats Zeitung. 87,550 126,380 Bun... 94,328 101,793 Commercial Advertiser. 60,322 17,556 Datly Nows..... 48,968 77,048 Evening Express, . 52,350 68,742 Now Yorkor Demoi 21,052 25,734 THANE... coesceesssseens $1,878,267 $2,483,724 ‘This shows tho Heratp to be, by its extensive and comprehensive circulation, the chief organ of the adver. tisors of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi- ating their business wants to the public, NoTR. ‘Tho Times and Tribune, in order to make a show of ‘business, publish statemonts pretending that they are from official returns to the Revenue Department. These statements are made up in the Tim-s and Tribune offices to suit their own purposes, and very curiously tho Times shows a larger business than the Tribune, and the Tribune @ larger business than the Times! But no roturns of the kind have ever been made to that dopartment. Our table, given above, is taken from 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 Office, TH NBW Ss. MEXICO. omatic cortesponderte between Socretary the Marquis de Montholon in relation to the of Fr-pe troops in Mexico, and communications n to the same matters from the Secretary to Mr. Bigolow, our Minister at Paria, and to Mr. Motley, our Minister at Vienna, were presented for the consideration of tho House of Representatives yesterday by the Prosi- dent, with his message, ia answer to a resolution asking for information relative to the proposed ev: tion of Mexico by the French. In ans the Marquis de Montholon, Mr. Seward, a tho explanation of the motives and’ objects of Franco in exercising the right of war, and the right to withdraw what remains of her army there when she is able to do 80 with safety to her citizens and respect to herself,main- tains that the attempted subversion of republicanism thoro is regarded by the United States as having been undertaken against the will and opinions of the Mexican people. It therefore recognizes and must continue to recognize in Mexico only the ancient republic and can in no case inrolve itself in relation with the in- stitution of Prince Maximilian. Fran e cannot expect States to go further than to assure her of our the United desire to facilitate tho withdrawal of Fronch troops from Mexico and- in that purposs do whatsoever shall be compatible with our just regards for the sovereign rights of that republic Mr, Seward was oMelally informed by the Marquis de Montholon, om the Sth of April, that the Emperor had decided to withdraw the French troops in thro detach- ments, the first to leave in Novembor, 1866, the second in March, and the third in November, 1867. In his communications to Mr, Motley, our mmister at Vienna, Mr, Seward, having learned that ten thousand Austrians wore to be fitted out by the diplomatic repre. sentative of Maximilian for service in Mexico, directs | tuo former to ask frank oxplanations of the matter from Austria, emphatically protest against it if true, and to state that the United States, in the evont of a war of this kind, eannot engage to remain silent or neutral, Passengers from Panama who arrived in San Francisco state that a French frigate at Acapulco brought confirma. tin of the report that the French were defeated at further news to the effect that they were ar Tepic. The imperialist consul, how. t al desp from Mazatlan de- Mazatlan, and vin routed hb in tont state that General Mejia, jonas, was ambuscaded by Cortinas, n peno’rating {t with a loss of six killed. nio Matamoras two hundred wagons and $900,000 ia coin, He br t CONGRESS. Ip the Senate yesterday a resolution was adopted in- ra n Commerce to Inquire into sifu ting | the expedien viding against the importation, | transportatic ture of nitro-glycerine. The bill for the better nizaton of the pay department of the navy was passe an amendment that all future appointments in that department shall be from | those who have served two years therein, The tall making appropriations = for the Post Office Department was called up, and an emend- mont was offered, providing that no person appointed in any department of the government during the recese of the Senate, whose eprops Ja be pa NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1866.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. adjourned without taking any action on the bill or the amendment. In tho House a resolution was offered, which lays over until next Monday, instructing the Committee on Public Expenditures to investigate the compromise of frauds on the revenue alleged to have taken placo in connec- tion with the Boston Custom House, A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Commerce to ine quire into the subject of the storage and transportation of combustible matter. The resolution calling for the speedy trial of Jef Davis went over under the rules to next Monday. The Judiciary Committee roported ad- versely to the President’s proposition to modify the test oath, On the consideration of the Army bill # motion was made to postpone it until next December. No ace tion was taken on the motion, as a motion to adjourn tervened, ini Leading politicians in Montreal are of the opinion that Mr. Killian and Mr. D'Arcy McGee have formed an alli- ance for the benefit of each other, and that the move- ment at Eastport is intended to further the provincial confederation scheme. Colonel Wheeler remains in Canada, with the intention, as stated by himself, of travelling through it. He de- nies, in a newspaper card, that he is a government spy. ‘At Calais the excitement was revived yesterday by an attack on the British guard on the other side of the St. Croix bridge, by two American citizens, to whom he re- fused permission to pass into St. Stephens, One of them, while returning, fired a pistol shot at the guard, which did not, however, take effect. They were both arrested ‘and turned over to the civil authorities, It is supposed they will be demanded under the extradition treaty, as the act was committed on English ground. A rescue, it is feared, will be attompted by the Fenians. The United States gunboat De Soto arrived at Eastport yesterday. At Oswego threo cases of muskets were seizod on Sun- day, by order of the Department of the East, and asearch for more was instituted, The Fenians wore greatly ex- cited in consequence. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The news this morning from lower Quarantine is more encouraging than it has been any day since the arrival of the steamship Virginia at this port. There are but sev- enty-three cases now on the Falcon. Two deaths oc- curred on board of the steamer England—one old lady and one infant—but neither of them were from cholera, ‘The remainder of the passengers are in good health, and appear to be very cheerful, looking upon their detention as being an absolute necessity. At a meoting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution directing the Committee on Lamps and Gas to inquire into the advisability of creating a department in the city government with the object of furnishing cheap- er and better gas to the citizens of the metropolis, was referred to the committee in question. A resolution to reduce the salary of the Corporation Attorney to the sum of two thousand dollars was referred to the Commit- tee on Salaries and Offices. The Board concurred in a || resolution emanating from the Board of Councilmen directing the Corporation Counsel to sue all railway com- panics charging more fare than they are allowed to by their charters. The proposed extension of Worth strect was referred to, but further consideration of the question was postponed. The Board adjourned to Thursday next. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. A resolution requesting the Board of Health to establish free public baths throughout the city during the summer was re- ferred to the Committee on Police. A large number of the leading citizens of the metro- polis met last evening at the rooms of the Geo- graphical Society, Clinton Hall, to complete the organiza- tion of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, under an act of incorporation passed by the late legislature. Henry Bergh, was clected President; W. C. H. Waddell, Seerotary; Wm. McMurray, Treas- urer, and also an executive committee of fifteen, and ten vice presidents. A subscription list was opened for the purpose of assisting the society in its good work, and it will remain open at the library of the Geographical Society. Mr. Samuel G. Courtney was yesterday formally in- ducted into the office of United States District Attorney for the Southern district of the State, succeeding thorein the late Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. The new incumb-nt was accompanied into court by Mr. Blatchford, of this city, and Judge Ames, of Washington, a largo number of members of the bar being also present in compliment to the appointee, The oaths of office and of allegiance required upon such occasions were taken before Judge Betts, and proper record made thereof. Mayor Hoffman yesterday directed Fire Marshal Baker, as a vesse] was expected at this port laden with nitro- glycerine, to have that dangerous substance properly stored and guarded on its arrival. The United States gunboat James Adger, from guard duty at Aspinwall, arrived at this port yesterday, having been rolieved by the Florida. The trial of Otto Burstenbinder, before Commissioner Betts, tor the alleged careless shipment of the nitro-gly- cerine which exploded in San Francisco, was continued yesterday, and several witnesses examined for the de- fenee, The chief point of the evidence was to show the careloss manner in which large quantities of this power- ful explosive fluid was carried from place to place in New York. The case was adjourned to Wednesday. Judge James, im the caso of Hattio M. Tighlman against Georgo W. Hunt, has rendered an important de- cision, which bears upon the right of hotel proprietors in claims against debtors who owe for board and lodg- ing. The plaintiff stopped at the hotel of defeudant in this city, and left owing a bill of $80 68, for which her trunk and clothing were detained. The plaintiff after- wards obtained possossion of the trunk. “The Judge do- cided that defendant was entitled to jadgmont for the return of the tronk and contents or the vaite thereof to tho sum of $80 68, if a return could not be bad. Dr. J. G. Webster delivered last evening, in the Chapel of the University, the first of two lectures on the cholera, descriptive of the symptoms, progress and results of the disease. ‘Three men were arrested on Saturday night, in Warren street, suspected of being burglars, but a search disclosed the fact that they were in possession of a bottle of phos- phorus submerged. in water, a quantity of oxalte acid and tinder. They confessed that their intention was to burn down a store near which they were seizod. An affray occurred in the tenement house No. 254 East Fourteenth street on Sunday evening which resulted in tho serious wounding of Patrick Donnelly, it is alleged by two brothers named O'Reilly. Donneily's injuries, it is feared, will prove fatal. The partics who committed the assault were arrested and committed to await the result. Lewis Clark and Charles Dennis, charged with the re- cent bond robbery in Madison avenue, amounting to one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, were examined yesterday. The only witness examined was Mr. John P. Moore, the ownor of the bonds, The caso was adjourned until Wednesday. Yesterday, according to the best authorities upon the subject, was the three hundred and second anniversary of the birth of the great poct, Shakspers. A delogation of Knights Templar of the United States called to pay their respects to President Johnson yes: terday. Governor Fenton's private secretary has, by his diree- tion, forwarded the Central Railroad Faro bill to the Sec- retary of State without his approval, The now constitution of Texas fixes the basis of repro sentation on the white population, the old one fixed it ‘on the free population. The Logislature is enjoined to | encourage schools among the freedmen. A military commission in Charleston , which has been trying certain parties for the murder of a United States soldier while on guard daty at Anderson, 8. C., has sen- tenced two men, named Stowers and Kris, to be bung next Friday, and the others to imprisonment for life. ‘The Coroner's jury on the nitro-glycerine case in San Francisco have expressed the opinion that the shipper of the article is guilty of manslaughter, and should be prosecuted. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday, and prices ad- vanced. Governments were strong. Gold was steady, and closed at 126% a %. Business was very doll yesterday, and, as @ genoral thing, commercial transactions were few and far be- tweon. Imported goods were held firm in anticipation of bigher rates of duty; but domestic goods were quite generally nominal, In the cotton market there was scarcely any movement, Buyers and sellers wore far apart in their views, the difference sometimes being 10, a2. per Ib, Sugar was rather quiet, but prices were steady. Coffee was heavy. On ‘Change flour was lower, Wheat also lower, Corn dull, Oats quiet, Pork steady. Beet firm, Lard firmer, Butter and cheese quiet and al- most nominal, and whiskey unchanged in every respect. Tak Heath Coumtsstovers should request contirmed of revokgd bf the Sonate, shall receive any salary of compensation for his services, unless he bo eppolbted to fill a vacancy occurring during the recess of ae Seunlg. of tinge ite last adoproment The Senate the Croton Board to let the water run through the gutters for twelve hours. It will sweep away many of the seeds of disenee, The Withdrawal of the French from | venders themselves are not responsible to the Mexico—The Oficial Notification. We have the information from Washington that Count Montholon, the French Minister, on Saturday last waited upon the Secretary of State and “presented the formal adhesion of the French government to the American prin- ciple of non-intervention as explained by our government ;” that the Emperor Napoleon kindly and cordially replies to the United States, and engages to withdraw his troops in three detachments, one of them next Novem- ber, and the others in May and November, 1867. An abstract of the correspondence on the subject, in answer to a recent resolution of the House of Representatives, was laid before that body yesterday by Secretary Sew- ard and published in the Haratp this morning. Accepting these promises. of Napoleon in good faith, and with the full belief that he has relinquished the “grand idea” suggested by Marshal Forey, we may now consider the Mexican question settled in favor of the Mon- roe doctrine. We accept the engagement to withdraw the French troops as the surrender of the whole case by Napoleon, the inevitable alternative resulting from the downfall of Jeff Davis. Upon this point it is not unlikely that in the outset Napoleon was led astray by the dazzling representations of Slidell of the monopoly of American commerce by 8 Southern confederacy, : end a French protectorate in Mexico, established un- der a firm alliance on the basis of free trade. Napoleon, however, is prepared for # graceful retirement. He falls back upon his Mexican indemnities. For these he looks to Maximilian, and to secure them he delays the recall of the last instalment of the French troops till No- vember, 1867. In the interval Maximilian must “make his hay while the sun shines;” but as it appears that no French reinforcements are going in to supply his losses in the field we shall not be surprised if the removal of the | first detachment were to start his Imporial Majesty of Mexico out of “the halls of the Montezumas” on the road to Vera Cruz. The liberals, in some mysterious way, are beginning to be supplied with efficient arms, and from their present activity between Matamoros and Mazatlan we are inclined to think that the de- parture of the first instalment of the French will be the signal for a combination of liberal movements which will give them their capital. It must be remembered, meantime, that, ac- cording to Napoleon, the government of Maxi- milian is a creation of the Mexican people, as expressed in a special election in the presence of the French troops. After the withdrawal of those troops, therefore, and the set- tlement of certain French indemnities, if the Mexican people should forcibly expel or earnestly invite Maximilian to remain and rule over them, it is their affair, and not Napoleon's. He is pledged to the French people, after the fashion of the Bona- partes, to respect the popular will. Thus the nephew and his uncle were each confirmed as Emperor of the French, and thus Maximilian, by the popular will, as the French have been made to understand it, is Emperor of Mexico. While Napoleon, then, withdraws his troops in deference to the United States, he leaves government, under the law, nor to anybody else except so as far they may be obliged to make private bargains with the managers of the lot- tery to get them to endorse their bonds. As no bonds but those of the managers will do, they have a monopoly of the business and can dictate their own terms for becoming sureties. The Committee of Ways and Means are now engaged in readjusting the internal revenue laws, and we call upon them to modify this provision. The lottery policy business is only a species of gambling, by which thousands of innocent persons are constantly being fleeced, and should be abolished altogether. But if the general government finds it necessary to regu- late s tax upon the trade, by all means let it be done in a way that will not increase tho power of the managers of those concerns and assist them in defrauding the public. We ob- ject to Congress legalizing the business under any such subterfuges as tho provisions which now exist in the tax law. More New Theatres. In addition to the French theatre now in course of construction, there is another build- ing being erected which will prove a great re- lief to the metropolitan community when it is completed. We refer to the new Opora Hone, on Fourteenth street, opposite Stemway’s. We understand that it will be a compact and elegant theatre, suitable alike for opera and the drama, and will altogether supersede the dreary cata- combs on the other side of the way. The Academy can be used for what it is best fitted—political meetings and religious ser- vices, like the old Broadway Taber- nacle. When we have the French theatre for comic opera, and French dramas, the Fourteenth street Opera House for Italian opera, and Steinway’s splendid new hall for concerts, our wants in these respects will be pretty well gunplied, and the “establishments that do not advertise in the New York Heraty” will be defunct. These new structures are all designed to suit the present public taste. They will be elegant and comfortable in their in- terior arrangements, and especially calculated for musical effect. All the modern composi- tions are set higher. than the music of a hundred years ago; the orchestras are pitched higher, and it demands an immense effort of the voice to produce any effect in such monstrous barns as the Academy of Music. Consequent- ly we find that what might be called singing in ® moderate sizod house constructed on acoustic principles is only screaming in the former building. The best of artists sang there at a great disadvantage, while the poor strained voices that have been lately holding forth can- not be said to have sung at all. Hence it was that the audiences did not go to the Academy to enjoy the opera so much as to fulfil the obli- gations of fashion and have a pleasant reunion with their friends. Two centuries ago, in the early days of the playhouse, cavalicrs and no- bles of the court were accustomed to frequent the theatre as a general rendezvous, because they had no better place to go to, even crude and almost uninteresting as the theatre then was. It has been pretty much the same for some time with tho Irving place barn. Cer- Maximilian still subject to the will of the Mexi- 4ainly, whatever was the attraction to the limited can people. This is doubtless the understand- ing between Louis Napoleon and Andrew Johnson, and we incline to the opinfon that it will be perfectly satisfactory to President Juarez and the Mexicans. In “the formal ad- hesion of the French government to the Amer- ican principle of non-intervention” we secare all that we desire from Napoleon, and it would be absurd to suppose that Austria, with or without his consent, would undertake to ostab- lish a transatlantic imperiaf protectorate’ which Napoleon has formally abandoned as a blunder and a failure. It is stated that the Secretary of State has given instructions to our Minister at Vienna regarding the sending of Austrian soldiers to Mexico, and that he protests against such action in terms that cannot be very well mis- understood by the Austrian government. Mortatrry rr 1 Sarp 18 [xcreastno on the steamer Virginia in the lower bay. We have no fear of it if the Health Commissioners do their duty by abating the nuisances in the city. Tne Lorrery Manacrrs—Tner Sarr Prao- tice tN Conoress.—An important suit was com- menced in the Superior Court in this city on Saturday last, in refereree to the lottery policy business. A complaint was made in regard to the illegal nature of that business, and upon that an order for the arrest of certain lottery managers was asked and granted, and the sheriff of the county directed to arrest the parties named. These proceedings would be of no particular general interest were it not for facts that it is anticipated the trial will develop in regard to a sharp prac- tice in inserting a clause in the Internal Reve- nue law at Washington during tho last session of Congress, under which this lottery policy business is now conducted. Under the laws of this State the lottery and policy trade is de- clared unlawful. But it seems that the lottery managers have resorted to various artifices to legalize the business, and among other schemes adopted for this purpose was one to get them- selves taxed by the government under the In- ternal Revenue law, and in that form obtain o legal recognition. Having accomplished this object, their next project was to place the pri- vate dealers in tickets under the control of the owners and managers of the lottery. This seems to have been the whole mission and the particular business of Ben Wood in Congress, After the Tax bill had passed the House of Representatives, and while pending in the | Senate, a provision was adroitly inserted de- claring that “no license shall hereafter be isaned until the managers of a lottery now ex- isting shall give bonds in the sum of one thou- sand dollars that the person receiving such license shall not sell any ticket or supplemen- tary ticket of such lottery which has not been duly stamped according to law.” This, as a matter of course, placed all the venders of lot- tery tickets at the mercy of Ben Wood and his associates, and placed the matter in the shape that Wood & Company, or “the monagers of a lottery now existing,” are the only parties responsible to the government for the tax pre- soribed under the law. This is certainly a very singular provision of law, and its adoption can only be accounted for on the system of sharp practice in the hurry of business. The bondy of Astor or any of our wealthy merchants tannot be received. If offered they are co be set one side until Ben Wood and associates have made their terms ith the yendors and givon their bond, Ths audiences—whether fashion, sociability or flirta- tion—it was not the music. We hope soon to see @ reformation fn all this. By proper managoment in the new then- tres the public will be favored with the kind of amusements they desire. There are plenty of rich repertoires to be drawn upon, plenty of French and Englist light operas, brilliant plays and vaudevilles that the au- dicace can thoroughly enjoy and the critic can conscientiously praise. It was because we wonld not accept na first class artists singers with broken down voices, of which the public were thoroughly tired, that the present “estab- lishments did not advertise in the New York Tignatp;” it was because we would not puff stale old plays, or new immoral trash that “these establistments did not advertise in the jew York Heray.” It was because we de- manded for the publie something that was worth their money and good for their minds and morals that “these establishments did not advertise in the New Yorn Herap.” In short, it was because we could not be “manipulated” after the fashion of certain city papers, as shown in the Bateman trix}, that “these estab- lishments did not advertise in the New York Hera.” Such were the causes; wow, what are the consequences? Slim houses, empty coffers, discontented actors, a demoralized drama, and—two new respectable theatres ! We wit Provasty have » het spell after the rain of yesterday. Is the Board of Health prepared for it? Tae New Excise Law.—Every good citizen must acknowledge that efforts to suppress in- temperance should at all times be encouraged. No scourge can affliet a community more dire- fully than the vice of drunkenness, and it is a misfortune to find that it is spreading to the extent it isin our chief American cities. Legis- lation: on the subject has not been able to reach or to restrict the spread of intemperance, from the very fact that most of the laws on the subject are so stringent that it is absolutely impossible to enforce them. This is the case, we fear, with the new exoise law passed by the Legislature at the session just closed. Like many other laws, its provisions are so extrava- gant that there is danger of its becoming an utterly dead letter and only an encumbrance to our statute book. It creates the Metropolitan Board of Health, already possessed of extra- ordinary and plenary powers, into a Board of Excise, withfauthority to enforce its provisions. It forbids, under a penalty of fine and impris- onment, any person from selling liquors to any. apprentice or person under eighteen years of age, How is this to beoscertained? Some youths nowadays eighteen years of age are a@ old as their grandfathers in the experiences of city life, and it would be difficult to estab- lish the date of the birth of many of them with sufficient distinctness to satisfy a court of law. It forbide the selling of strong drink to an habitual drunkard or to an intoxicated person, Who is to define what an habitual drankard is, or who is to establish at what stage of intoxi- catlow liquor must be denied to a person? It was a difficult matter for the supporters of the Maine Liquor law to define these pointa, No, respectable dealer will ever sell strong drink ‘@ a confirmed drunkard, or to 9 person he belir,yes to be in an improper condition ta receive ‘¢, The law should be framed to reach per? otiewho have no consciences, like many of/the low erogcery dealers, and not, hy & svteping pro- vision, take in all alike—the man who trades in the pure article alike with the one who poi- sons his customers with the counterfeit. On a similar principle the dealer m good money would be placed ona par with the dealer in the spurious article and punished accordingly. The law condemns to fine and imprisonment any person giving or selling to any husband, wife, parent or child any strong drink against the request of either. How can this be made to work in our great hotels, where a promiscu- ous population is generally congregated or transiently stopping? It forbids the keeping open ‘ef liquor shops after twelve o’clock at night and completely closes them on Sunday. To respectable dealers such a law is unneces- sary. The Sunday law can never be enforced among that immense class of population who have been accustomed to make Sunday a day of pastime and recreation. They are as reli- giously addicted to making the Sabbath a day of pleasure and innocent rural amusement as other classes of our people are to making it a day of church-going. The law denies the pri- vilege of obtaining pay for indebtedness in- curred in the sale of liquors in any quantity less than five gallons. This is a revival in part of the old Ten Gallon law of Magsachusotts, which heoamsé so odious that it overthrew a political party and was subsequently repealed. In short, however much all good people may desire to have intemperance banished forever from our land, we do not think that great object can be attained through extreme and over- stringent sumptuary laws. Have any of the bone-boiling establishments on the Hudson River Railroad line been gus- pended yet? Wearnercock Oprsions.—Mr. Alexander Ste- phens, ex-Vice President of the defunct South- ern confederacy, seems to be subject to very sudden changes and fluctuations of opinion. In 1861 he made a bold and uncompromising Dnion gpeech, which attracted and deserved the adntiration of the whole country, and yet the next thing‘wé heard of him he was over head and ears in rebellion, @ssisting to bring upon the Southern people the ve:y evils against which he had warned them, and joining the very band of traitors whom he had de- nounced. In the same way Mr. Stephens pub- licly declared, when the war was over, that the South was satisfied and willing to regard the questions at issue during the war as settled, and ready to come quietly back into the Union; but now we find him declaring that the South still adheres to'its dogma of State rights and will not relinquish this heresy, although no attempt will be made to enforce it at present. Here is a flat contradiction, an inconsistency as palpable as that of Mr. Stephens’ conduct in 1861. The State rights heresy was one ot the questions at issue, and it was decided against the South by force of arms. If it is to be revived we shall have another rebellion be- fore many years, and it will be better to keep the South ovt in the cold than to run such a risk, if there be any risk. But we do not place much confidence im what Mr. Stephens may say of the South now. He has been ma- nipulated by the copperheads and is playing into their hands and: those of the radicals, just as he was manipalated by Jeff Davis and played into the bands of the secessionists when the rebollion was inaugurated. But he and the copperheads are only damaging their own cause. Every word they say about State rights strengthens the radicals. The sooner such nonsense ceases the better for the coun- try and all concerned. Preeautionary Measurts for the Storage of Nitro-Glycerine in This City. Tt appears that the Mayor an¢’Fire Marshal Baker are on the qui viee for this explosive compound, which bas recently prodsced such disastrows effects. The com- munity will sustain their endeavors to rid the city of such adangerows substance. If it "must be used the pre- cautionary measures in selation to ganpowder should at le applicable to it, Let it be stored in hulks or floating storehouses over on the Jersey flats, or some other locality, witere it would be hiely to harm nobody except thoso’ wh» meddle with it, The following order wasissued to the Siro Marshal yesterday :— Mayor's Orrick, New Yor April 23, 1866. Free Mansuat Baxer:—I understand that a vessel is expected daily at this port with a quantity of nitro-gly- cerine on board, You will pleass, with “the concurrence and sid of the Custom House authorities, seo that the same if properly stored and guarded immediately upon its arrival, JOUN T. HOFIMAN, Mayor. City Intelligence. Tuk New Roarp or Exceex.—The various blanks pre- pared by the attorney for the new Boar“of Excise will be in readiness for tesue to-the applicants for licerse on Wednesday afternoon, by the Inspector of Excias, Colon! Bart ram, No. 301 Mott street. There are now in this city-nine thousand liquor dealers, of which number about four hundred and fifty are licensed; consequently, the run of applicants on the new board for seme time to come will be very great. The Board of Excise Commis- sioners will hold the r second meeting this afternoon. Not rrom Bostor.—In the course of anvarticle upon “Our Sports,’ printed in the Heratp of Sunday morn- ing, it was stated that the Athletic Club was composed of Boetonians, This is not the fact. They alt hail from Philadeipbia. But it makes little difference, as they are all New Yorkers now, and belong to an association in the success of which they may well feel considerable pride. Drowsrn.—Captain Augustus Bowman, of.’ the barge Saranas, lying at pier No. 87 North river, last evening fell overboard and was drowned before he could be res- = The body had not been recovered up to as late our, Movements of General Grant. Rremmonp, April 23, 1866. Liectenant General Grant and suite will: leave for Washiagton, vi to-morrow morning. Overfiow of xa, Aprik 1866, Tho: parishes of Baton Ronge, Iberville and Pointe Coupee are overflowed. It is reported that the grand leveo at Morganzia ts broken. ry Ordered to Washi General Gr: ton. Gatvaston, Toxas, April 22, 1866. General Gregory, of the Freedmon’s Bureau, bas been disuaissed and ordered to Washington. The Liability of Guests to. Hotel Pro- prietors. A THST CASE—IMPORTANT OPINION OF TIfE COURT SUPREME COTRT, CIRCUIT—PARY |. Before Judge Jara. Hattie M. Tighiman ws. George W. Hunt. —The defend- ant in this case keeps @ hotel inthe city, at which the npatntlf pat up, Tho Inter left the hotel owing the pro- prietor $80 68, for which amcunt her trank and some slething were retemed. A avit was brought 4 Mra Tighiman to recover her property, and tried at the inst term of the cours without # jory. Judge James has rendered the following decision (which was reserved on the conclusion of the trial) he case — This action carge on to be tried before the court with- oat a jury, a jury having bean waived ip open court, and after hearing proofs of dhe partios and the arguments of their respective counsel, 1 find the followin, with my conslustons of law thereon :—First, That the defendant wae an integer in New York city in April 1865, Second. That on the 18th day of April aforesaid the plaintiff came #® the defondant’s ine and took rooms and had moals and washing as 4 quest, where sho re- mained undil the 26th of said mouth, her bill amovating r 6%. Third. Toat on said 26th day of April the plaintiff i@ft said inn without paying her bill, leaving ber trunk wed Cothing, of the value of over $100, Bourth That om sa’d plaintiff's sending for said trunk sad con- tonte the defendant claimed to bold it by virtue of his Ken, as innkeeper for the plaintiff's said bill. Rifth. That *ai@Wunk and contents was demanded of detandant ty P'Ainwil's agent, who offered to pay a portion of said 4 ‘and defendant refused to -omply with such demand, ‘on: jeas his whole bill was paid; and that said bill bras not yet been pak, nor was tf Amount ever made, Sixth, That a writ of ‘sossession was issued in this case, the trunk and. cor cents taken under \t from the defendant and delivere?, to the plain- wf. mee oon ny te defendant i@ entitled to a judgment for t! ta. of ‘che property, the trunk and contents, or the value wertrof, to the sum of cighty dollars and sixty-eight centa, // 9 return cannot be had, and damages for takiag 800, withholding of tho ‘costs to be ad- acoord- facts, arnount to the sum of Ove @oilare, with ju And'T dircet thes tatvaent be entered to offer or tender of {ts full | THE CHOLERA. Precautionary Measures to Prevent the Intro- duction of the Disease Into the City. Official Report of Dr. Bissell Relative to the Hospital Ship. NAMES OF THE SICK AND DEAD. &e. &e, &e. Tho latest intelligence from the lower Quarantine “6 more encouraging than it hasbeen any day since tne arrival of the steamship Virginia in our harbor, There are at present but seventy-three cases now on board the hospital ship, and the number of new vationts is daily growing smaller, All those on boar’, of the Eng- land still rotain their health and show yo signs of hav ing contracted the disease. PRECAUTIONARY WeEASURES. Not only is Dr. Switonrne constantly employed in relleving the distr2as of those persons at prosont quar- antined in <a lower bay, but he {s also engaged in pre- Yeviffig, co far as lies in his power, the introduction of any contagious diseases into this city. Every vessel arriving at this port with emigrants, even if hailing from healthy ports, is detained by the Health Officer at Quarantine, where it is subjected to a careful im- spection for the purpose of ascertaining whether some infectious disease may not be lurking on board of such vessel in an incipient state, The passengers are examined separately before being per- mitted to come up to the city, and their entire baggage undergoes a thorough and effectual fumigation through the agency of chlorine, which is said to possess the strongest known properties, The skliful medical gen- tlemen on board of the hospita! ship, with their veteran assistants, are doing all that skill and knowledge can suggest to stay the progress and prevent the spreading of the pestilence. They feel confident it can be confined on board of the Falcon, where they expect to check ite course and prevent its committing such frightful ravages among the plague-stricken patients, Dr, Bissell and Dr. Harcourt both entertain the pleasing hope that they will be able to save a large percentage of those already sick, ‘and are of opinion that the disease will soon fail to claim any more new victims, THE OFFICIAL REPORT FROM THE HOSPITAL SHIP. For the benefit of those who” may have relatives or friends upon tho hospital ship we append tho official report of ‘Dr. Bissoll, containing the names of all the sick Who have boon admitted on board of the Falcon, together with the namce of such of them as have died since arrival of the Virginc % this port, The report is date Sunday, and includes the pames of all tho patients ad- mitted to the hospital up FE a Tate hour on that day:— Hosprrar Suir “axcos, April 22, 1866, fince my last report there have been ten deaths on boar the hospital ship from choler: Aud twenty new cases ftave been received from the Virginia, There have been two éeaths on board the England—an old lady ap one infant—-Seither of them from cholera. 7% ‘There are goventy-three cases of cholera now on ital ship. nthe names of those now on board of the Falcon, as well as those who have died, are herewith enclosod. D. H. BISSELL, Deputy Health Officer. NAMES OF THE SICK AND DEAD. ‘The following are the names of thé invalids which wero transmitted with [yr Bissell’s report, and which contains the names, ages, nativity, and the time thas each were admitted on board of the hospital ship, toge- ther with the date of the dosh of such of them as have ‘red aince the Virginia arrived at Quarantine:— “John Gl % aged 19, from Yorkshire, Euviend—ad-: mitted April 20, died April 20—steward of tho Virginia, Henry McCoy, Nottingtam, Eng! tod April 20, died 22d—stoward of the Virginia, Morris Gossill, aged 23, Cork, Ireiaud—admitted April 20 pened Rhein, aged 28, Wurtombury—admitied Aprit 20—passenger. James Dem, aged 50, Wiggin, England-—admitted aot r. iret en Og sali J cia { Al 4 *Tinomas ‘Quinian, aged 22, Tipperary, Irolsnd—admittwat Tohamnce Kobergh, aged 24, Wartombury—admitted i 3 “Nicht Beery, ‘ged 45, Roscommon, Irelad—admit~ A passenger. "young man’ (name enknown), Italy—adm/tted Aprit Odd ae ecphua, aged 23, Cork, Iroland—sdinitted Aifredenck Franco, aged 24, Kisas, Franco—aAmitteg: '20—passonzer. Osterfiandt, aged’ 28, Corci, Holland—adtaitted April Se preonet (hoot hus children died at sos Kus and 18th inst. s William ‘Long, aged 31, South Waves, Eugland—admitted "iti Frickey" aged’ 18, Limerick, Lreland—admittes April - E Thontaa Corr, aged 18, Cavan. Ieeland-admitted Apel "Ni Teter Work, oged 26, Donewark—admitted April Julius Miller, aged 22, Germany—admitted April 20> Owen Finley, aged 23, Cavan, Trolamé—admitted Aprit 20 nx. Holland, aged 18, Erie county, N. ¥.—admit= ted 1] 20--passenger. Soba MeGest aged 16, Lettrim, Iretand-—admitted Apri John Dulort, otha Somersotehiro, Ragland—admit- ted April 20—beatswain. Jolin Fulton, aged 26, Down, [rotand—mimittod April 20—passe! ir. orn oh, ged about 70, Germeny—adimitted April 2 i tp aed ep ed er. bs ns, aged 1134, Waterford, Trotand—admit- ted April 20—passenger (Cather diod’ 1th inst. on board the Virginia. Sarnee Dee aged 26, Moath, Ireiandsdmitted April 20. Tfatt, Costrave, aged 20, Cork county, Drotamd—admit- tod April 20. John Dolan, aged. 15, Leitrim, Irotund—edmiteed April 20, John McGrath, aged 18, Irciand—admitved’ April 20, diod 224. Francis Van Viosslar, aged 28, Holland—adimitted April: 20, died 224. Jolin McSweeney, aged 28, Cork, [roland—admitted rth 20. ohn Manion, aged 19, Galway, Ireland-admitted April 20. Fohn Graham, aged 20, Roscommon, Ireland—admitted April 20— passenger. Trohn Wallace, aged 90, Kerry, Ireland—admaitted Apeit 20—passenger. Michael Hicaneberry, aged 25, Kilkeany, Iretand—ed- itted A) \— parse r. manos Burk, aged 2 Tipperary, Ireland—adnitted April 20— Tr. Thomas Uilvoyis, aged 12, Queens ccunty, Ireianded- mitted April 20—passenger. Bridget MoGrath, aged 7%, Cork, Ireland—adtaitted April 20, died April 20—passenger. " ‘oung woman, natge unknown, Treland—sdmitted April 20, died April 20—sister died at cea. ‘Lena Jorgensen, aged 14, Denmark—admitted Apsil 20 —passenger. Catherine Sheehan. aged 12, Limerick, Trelondad- mitted April 20--passeoger. Ellon Duann, aged 20, Tipperary, Treland—atmitted Apri ger. Bridget Donobiie, aged 50, Ireland—admitted April 20 died April 20—passenger. ‘dagahe Coramins, aged 8, Ireland—admitted Agri 20— hi ‘on board Virginia. itary anton scp 4, lreiand-—ademitied Apet!, 20-— died on board Virginia me Gdcet Walsh, aged 25, Mayo, [rvland—sdmitted Aprit 20—-child diedron board Virginia, 1¢ mofiths old, Mary Teskor, aged 83, Clare, Ireland—admitsed: April 20— nger. mare R. Donde, aged 26, Tipperacy, Ireland—admait- tod April 20— ir, Mody MoCaitrem, aged 90, Cork, Ireland—admisted sprit 20— passenger. Filon Degnar,aged 22, Moath, Iroland—admiicod April oriorn Sceban, aged 28, Kerry, Ireland—sdmitted Ail 20— * JSonrine 9 aged 28, Denmask—admitted April 20 er. ‘Porontins Bentson, aged 1}, Deamark—admitied April died Apel 21—passenger 7a vice Ontarband, aged 26, Hollaad—admitied Apeit 90— pasnonger Katarira Vogel, aged 30, Baden, Germaay—admitted ; on f eo, ge ‘0, Hedand—admittod April 20— A Katar‘aa » god passenger. : Bridget Lowell, aged 30, Mayo, Irctand-—admitted April 20— paseon, r. Maria 11, aged 6, Mayo, Treland—admitted Apri 2 get laltpenny, aged 19, Louth, troland—admitted ANSehaine’ Ribole aged 27, Nassau, Germany—admittod ry Chole, need $2, Sligo, Iroland—sdmitted Aprit OO et re ieebener, eget Oy Dublin, Ireland—ads It ‘1 21—fourth officer, ge ‘Gibbon, ‘aged 28, Leitrim, Ireland—adrmitted A vides Collins aged Ql, Cort, Treland—admitied, aprtd, 2 i Nik Tpiamas Cronin, aged 6, Cork, Ireland—admitied April 21, died April 22—sintor died at sea, 13 months old Mary Colhoun, oged 28, Manchester, England—admit. 1 er. oe Liverpool, England—admit., —prasenger. 21, Liverpool, England—admitted Wilt am ‘4er, > April 21, died Apri Peter ©. 30, Denmark — passenger. Bemjrste se , aged 30, Woecestorshire, England adm \tted April nh Xe 's torvant. Wary Gilmartin, aged Cort, Lreland—agmitted April