The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNBR OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, RE, Broadway, near Broome streel.—SOLoN Suinae—Li LAN. vk IND) 5 THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nic Hotel. Serious Fawity—HyPocuonperac. — Mutines Lsg—Senious Fauity—Too Muca Fox Goop Naruse IRVING HALL, Irving Tom's GRAND place. —Biixp Piano Coxcents. "Matinee at Three jock. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Brot vy, opposita Metropolitan Hotel. —Grmior.ax SiNGt%G, Danctna, &o.— Tax Boarp or Heatru. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bower, ua, Dancing, Buxcesauss, &¢.—Tuk Bonn Matinee at Two o'Clock. _GBORGE cuRISTY’S TG useae (igus. &0., BALL ApS. Mee Weat Twenty-fourta street. OLD, Scoot or MinstReLsy, Fifth Avenue Opera House, —Hanpy Anpr. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanies’ Mall, 472. Broad way.—Necno Comicauitiss, BuRLRSQUES, &¢.—TAMING 4x Evpruant. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Avsert Russet, PuestipiGitarkuR AND VENTRILOQUIST. Matinee at Two o' Clock. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Erarortan Mine STRELSY—BALLaDS, DURLESQUES AND PantomiMes. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. ‘rune, “Courts AND MaRRiace, in. De Conpora’s Lec GERMANIA ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 293 Bowery.—Inisn NaTiONal Fair, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open trom 104. M. ull 10 P.M TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Wednesday, April 25, 1566. “ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. The Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenuo 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 column are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Thirteen months For the Paper. ending De:. 31, 1864. Year 1865. Heral $577,455 $662,192 Tribune... 260,960 301,841 ‘Times... 251,812 284,412 Evening Post. . 163,177 222,715 World 125,056 177,204 Journal of Commerce. ++ 109,595 173,646 Transeript.... + 62,644 164,461 Staats Zoitung. 67,550 126,380 Sun, is 94,328 101,793 Commercial Ady ~ 60,822 77,556 Daily News... 48,968 ‘77,048 Evenins Express. . 62,350 65,742 New Yorker Dewokrat.. « 21,052 26,734 Totals... ce s6 eeeees $1,878,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Hxraup to be, by its extensive and comprehonsive circulation, the chiof organ of the adver- Uiserg of the Metropolis, and the medium of communt: cating their business wants to the public. ‘The above table also shows that the advertising patron, -€ehe Heparp is more than doublo that of the Time NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1866.—-TRIPLE SHEET. to place the well passengers arriving at this port om board of infected vessels; also one or more slips to be used for @ similar purpose. The report of the Sanitary Committee on the best means of action in regard to the cleansing of streets by allowing the water to flow from the hydrants, the publi- cation of a hygeinic circular, the prevention against the over-crowding of tenement houses, and clearing out the cellar population, and other important sani- tary matters to guard against the cholera, was presented and adopted in the Board of Health yesterday, ‘An interesting debate on the general management of quarantine matters also took place, from which it ap- pears that the facilities for properly providing for the care and comfort of the afilicted passengers are very meagre Dr. J. G. Webster last evening delivered his second lecture on cholera in the chapel of the University Build- ing. In his address he alluded particularly to the three great preventives against the disease—i. ¢., a strict quar- antine, an efficient sanitary police and cleanliness and attention to diet, and gave minute instructions for the treatment of patients in the early stages of the malady. ‘The ship fever is prevailing in Willamsburg among the occupants of crowded tenement houses to an alarming extent. An examination of numerous cases yesterday disclosed the fact, and the patients were removed from their unhealthy domiciles to the Flatbush Hospital. ‘The Board of Excise held their second meeting yester- day. A private social club asked that they may be exempt from license, as they clain that no liquors aro sold over the counter, those which are kept at their club house being merely for their own use. The matter was referred tothe Attorney for his legal opinion on the subject. ‘The blank forms for issue to applicants for license will bo in readiness for distribution on Monday next, under the direction of the Superintendent of Police. The German innkeepers of Brooklyn met yesterday for the purpose of forming an organization to protect themselves against the operations of the new Excise and Liquor law, when they were ad- iressed by District Attorney Morris, who advised them to disband all organizations and = com- Dinations having for their object the impeding of the en- forcement of the new law, The District Attorney holds that the constitutionality of the law cannot be disputed, and that it has to be obeyed until’ repealed. An execu- tive committee was appointed to take further action in the matter. The leases for ten years, commencing May 1, of several piers in North and East river, were sold at public auction yesterday, Judge Monell, of the Superior Court, has granted an injunction to Mr, Russell Sturgis and the Stevens & Condit Transportation Company, restraining the Comptroller from disposing of piers Nos. 12 and 13 North river, on the ground that the applicants have a legal right to the use and occupation of the same. In- junctions were also issued restraining the Comptroller from selling piers Nos. 20 and 29 North river, and Nos. 40 and 41 Fast river. The Butler gold case was again up before Judge Car- do70. of the Court of Common Pleas, on the old motion for the Sheriff's fees. General Butler's counsel presented an affidavit, in which he stated that tn the seizure of the gold of Mr. Smith at New Orleans he acted under the orders of President Lincoln. A suit against the Camden and Amboy Transportation Company was tried yerterday in Part 1 of the Supreme Conrt, before Judge Bockes, bronght by Lavandosky Martin, for loss sustained in the alleged detention by the defendants of two casks of ginseng and one of beeswax. In consequence of a fall in the market value of these artcles during the alleged period of their detention plaintiff claims loss to the amount of eight hundred dol- lars. Judge Bockes reserved his decision, ‘A new trial has been ordered by the Court of Appeals in the case of Rodger Lamb, convicted in the Court of General Sessions of the murder of his wife, and sen- tenced to be executed on the Sth of May, 1865. The new trial will probably come off at tho next term of the Gen- eral Sessions. Under the provisions of the Revised Statutes the estate of Zono Burnham, convicted of swindling and sent to and Tril dt moorly equal to the combined revo w of al! the other papers in New York. THB NEWS. EUROPE. The steamship America, from Southampton April 11, reached this port yesterday. Her news is three days Inter. ‘The German question experienced little change. Min- tsterial notes were freely exchanged between Austria and Prussia, but in the correspondence the future of the duchies is not mentioned. Austria now appears a+ tho more firm belligerent, insisting that Prussia shall disarm before pacific measures are spoken of. The Lon- don Times still holds out the idea of a peaceful issue. ‘The Frankfort money market was very much unsottled The London Times endorses President Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights bill The writer asserts that the nogro, just emancipated by war, is entirely unfit to ox ercise the franchises which the radicals seek (o thrust upon bom ‘A meeting of the liberals in the English Parliament was Keld at Earl Russell's residence, in London, on the uh of April, Over two hundred and fifty gentlemen wore present, Reporters of the press were excluded. the State Prison, bas been placed in the hands of trus, toon) who have analified before Judge Clerke, in the su- prome Court, Chambers, An order of apregt has been issued by Judge Clerke against Wm. I Mills, Otto Burstenbindor, J, H. Prentice and J. Dovau, as shippers in this city of the package of nito-glycerine which exploded in San Prncisco on the 10th iisiant. Wells, Fargo & Co. sue the defendants for proporty destroyod at the explosion. Bail has been sot down at $100,000, At the regular weekly meeting of the Farmers’ Club of the American Institute, held yesterday, the subjerts of Pyrencan spinach, cutting of timothy hay and the utility of barometers for farmers were discussed, Models of a rotatory harrow and a frame for building concrete walle wore exhibited The sixtieth anniversary of the Orphan Asylum Soctoty of the city of New York was celobrated yesterday after. noon A seaman named James H. Bailey, belonging to the schooner Alice A. Bandell, pier No. 21, East river, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. His death, it is alloged, was eansod by inhaling charcoal gas. Tho Goréner's jury censure the owner of the vessel for light- ing such fires in his ship without warning the attaches. Patrick Donnelly, who was stabbed in tenement house 254 Fast Fourteenth street on Sunday evening, by Daniel and Miles O'Reiily, died yesterday in Bellevue Hospital. It was understood that Earl Russell spoke during an hour in support of the Reform bill proposed by his Cabinet, and pledged his Ministry to stand or fall by the fate of the measure at its second reading. Mr. Laing, M. P. and Mr, Edward James, M. P. disapproved of the bill. Mr Bright supported the measure, Meetings in support of tho bil were being held all over England The “Easter Banquet” at the Mansion House, London, was unusually elogant and animated. The Lord Mayor presided. The Duke of Cambridg* represented the Crown and army. Mr. Adams, Minister of the United States, appeared as a most honored guest. The Doke of Cambridge denied that Fenianism had tainted the Brit- ish army to any great extent. It was thought in England that the Fenian demonstra tion against Canada would promote the cause of confed- eration ‘The conferences on the Danubian question stood ad- journed. There was a great diversity of opinion among tho mombers; but all were agreed on the necessity of preserving the integrity of the Turkish empire and the sovereignty of the Porte over the principalties There was @ vory brilliant assemblage at the Paris Spring races, April 8, Gladiateur, in splendid develop- ment, won the Priz de.’ Imp'ratrice by fifteen lengths, There were « couple of failures reported on the Lon don 'Change, and a slight tremor was experienced in nancial and commercial circles. The agitation existing In Germany, with excessive receipts of the staple, unsettled the Liverpool cotton On the 11th of April a decline of one penny was experienced, with trade dull and sales tr-ogular Brondst wore Orn, with a quiet market Pro visions dull and easier, Consols rated in London at 864 a 565y, April 11, in the forenoon, market CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday the bill to make appropria- tions to supply deficiencies in the public printing appro priat'o he prosent your was passed. A resolution was ad alling upon the Secretary of War for infor mation as to the evidence upon which the awards for (he apprehension of Jefferson Davis were made. A message from the President was received in response to a resolution of the Senate transmitting the record of the commission mbled in St Louis in relation to brevet appointments in the regular army. Ponding the debate on the admission of Colorado the Senate ad. journed, In the House the Niagara Ship Canal bill, after & short obate, was postponed until today, The Senate amend ments to the Habeas Corpus bill were not concurred 0, and ® committee of conference asked for. The made on Monday to postpone the consid. oration of the Army bill having been withdrawn, the section relating to the Subsistence Department, was amended so that Wost Point graduates could not hereafter be placed on duty in that department The section relating to the Provost Marshal's Department was stricken out, The Northern Pacific Railroad, and different land grants of Congress to Western States to aid in rail road construction, Were considered in the evening ses sion, without final disposition THE CITY Ten additional cases of cholera were received on board of the hospital ship on Monday. and up to ten o'clock | that morning but one more death than those previously reported had occurred. The passengers on board of the steamer Englang still remain in @ healthy condition, and Altogether affatrs at quarantine are progressing very fatisfactorily, The Quarantine Commissioners are about making an effort to obtain permission from the govern Bl Ww eth ig rely sueds at Sandy Hook in which The trial of Charles Schmidt, for the murder of Hugo Weichner, on Now Year's night, will take place in the Kings county Court of Oyer and Terminer, Brooklyn, to morrow. The stock market was firm on the whole, but some- what irregular yesterday, Government securities were steady. Gold closed at 120% a %. » There was not much, if any, improvement in the situa- tion of commercial affairs yesterday, except in those articles which wore influenced by the European advices, Breatstuffs were firmer, while cotton and provisions were lower. In the sugar market there was considerable firm- noes exhibited, but the business was smal. Coffee was in moderate demand, but buyers operated with caution at the prices asked. Petroleum was dull but unchanged. Dry goods were very dull, and some brands were offered freely at lower prices. Freights to Europe without im- provement, The market for beef cattle was depressed by heavy receipts, and though the cattle are nearly all in the hands of speculators prices fell 1c. a 2. per pound, varying fiom Me. to 1e., with the bolk of the sales at 140, a 16, Cows were dull and nominal at $35. $95. Veals we ull and nominal at Se. a lic, as to quality. Sheep and lambs were steady at $40 $8 a $9, Hogs were dull, heavy and lower, varying from 9c. a 10c, The total re- ceipts were 6,638 beeves, 73 cows, 2,240 veal, 12,000 sheop and lambs and 10,183 hogs. MISCELLANEOUS. The steamer John L Stephens, on her trip from Callie | fornia to Mazatlan, was recently seized at Cape St. Lecas, Mexico, by order of the liberal General Corona, and searched for contraband articles, Bonds were given by the capiain, and she was released. The Attorney General, on the question referred to him by the Secretary of State as to whether the exportation of arma by way of the frontier to Mexico was in con formity with the laws, bas decided that such exportation is poriectly legal The Secretary of the Treasury, in a letter to the chair | man of the Finance Committee, on the apportionment of the national currency, aays the principle on which the ap- | portionments are made # not a correct one, He pro- coeds, after stating wherein the principle is wrong, to offer some amendments looking to the expediency of allowing State banks to become national banks, and the | provision that should be made to meet the wants of the rn States. The amount to be withdrawn from the State of New York by the proposed Senate amendments would be $7,914,630 The two Fenians who Gred on the English guard at Calais wore tried before dudge Corthell yesterday and found guilty of dronkenness, fined Ofty cente each and discharged General Doyle, the British commander at St. Stephens; had requested their detention, and the English authorities were highly indignant at their re. lease Governor Cony, however, sent » deapateh fo the Mayor of Calais ordering their detention antil Secretary Seward could be heard from in the matter. They were | accordingly rearrested. The message of the President enciosing the proceed ngs of the military bonrd appointed to inquire into the question of brevet promotions was sent to the Senate yostertay. The board recommends twenty promotions to the rank of brevet major general and vixty.st to the rank of brevet brigadier general. : Moses F Ode!) was yesterday confirmed by the Senate as Naval Officer ab this port Tho entire left bank of the Mississipp! below Now Orleans is (nandated, an acre and & hail of the levee having given way, This district i# planted with engar ~~ OOOO he Mexi stion—President John- Qi to be s'ricken out; the assessments on the son’s Settlement with France, and His | necessaries of life will be lightened, while thos Ultimatum to Austria, A gratefil sense of satisfaction will be im- perted to all sections and classes of the Ameri- can people in the Mexican correspondence which we published yesterday. After many months of letter writing between the two gov- ernments, in which every device of diplomacy is exhausted by Louis Napoleon, he gives way to our inflexible requisition of non-interven- tion in Mexican affairs, and gracefully retires. We perceive, too, from the calm and deliberate manner in which this great victory of Ameri- can diplomacy has been achieved, that Presi- dent Jobnson from the first clearly foresaw that the game was entirely in his hands, and that there was no occasion for any hurry in its solution or any excitement or apprehen- sion. Lonis Napoleon gracefully retires from his Mexican adventure, which, with the collapse of the late Southern confederacy, became to him a fading castle in the clouds; but what is the position in which he has placed the deluded house of Austria? It is a position at once ludi- crous and humiliating. A prince of the house of Austria, under the protection of Napoleon, and with the escort of a French army of fifty thousand men, is set up in “the halls of the Montezumas” as the Emperor of Mexico. An election is held under French bayonets, from which Maximilian is proclaimed Emperor by the will of the Mexican people. He is thus recognized by France as an independent sove- reign, though still the ward of Napoleon. But Napoleon, from the remonstrances of our gov- ernment, is constrained to withdraw his bayo- nets and leave his Austrian protegé to the will of the Mexican people. Maximilian then pleads the necessity of European troops. “True,” says Napoleon. “They, however, will be sup- plied you by our brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph’? It is understood, accordingly, that Austria is to fill up the deficiencies resulting from the recall of the soldiers of France, and that ten thousand Austrians, as the first instal- ment, are awaiting at Trieste transportation for Vera Cruz. Now, considering the present complications between Austria and Prussia, with Napoleon as tho,prompter of Bismark behind the scenes, the stupidity of the Hapsbures in this Mexican arrangement taxes our credulity. All the facts and all the indications connected with the pres- ent situation of European affairs point to a settlement with Austria by Napoleon the Third of all the outstanding balances against her from the time of her decisive alliance against Napoleon the First. They involve the sacri- fice, first, of Josephine, and next, of Moria Louisa, who was given to and accepted by Napoleon as a certain bond of peace between Austria and France. The perfidy of Austrff in joining the Holy Alliance which cartied the first Napoleon to St. Helena remains as an out- standing balance to be settled by Napoleon the Third, and that he meditates a settlement which will cut down Austria to a second or third rate Power is now apparent upon the surface of European politics. Tn thia nastnre of European affairs, Austria, it appears, is preparing to supply the piaces ve the French troops to be withdrawn from Mexico, and by an arrangement, too, with Napoleon. What, then, will be the course of Francis Joseph when informed from Mr. Seward, through oyr Minister at Vienna, as it appeats he is by this time, that the sailing of the first detachment of Austrian troops for Mexico will be the signal for the suspension of diplomatic relations between the United States and Austria, and that General Grant, if neces- sary, may next be called upon to enforce the doctrine of European non-intervention in Mex'co? In this dilemma Austria will doubt- ess apply for redress to Napoleon. But what hen’ Napoleon can only advise his imperial lrotier and catspaw to follow his example. Maximilian must then return home, the laugh- ing stock of all Europe. There will be matter here for a misunderstanding between the im- perial houses of Paris and Vienna, from which we may expect a resumption of the work of Napoleon where it was left off in the late Ttalian war. With the success of Jeff Davis we should have bad, no doubt, under Napoleon, a reconstruction of the map of North America; with the downfall of Davis and the Mexican offshoot of his Southern confederacy we may look for a reconstruction of the map of Europe, and that Austria, the stalking horse of Na- poleon in one hemisphere, will become his victim in the other. In any event the diplo- matic solution of this Mexican problem at Washington is an achievement which will place this countey in its proper position as a leading and positive Power among the great nations of the earth and as the arbiter of the affairs of this continent. Iscespiarny Fines.—The extraordinary destructive conflugrations which have curred in this city for the past weeks have created no litte alarm and have set people speculating as to the probable cause. They were evidently not the work of accident, because two or three great fires do not break out on the same day or night by chance, aa on the recent occasion of the two fires on Broadway and another on Fulton street. But we have obtained some elue to the origin of these conflagrations in the arrest of two supposed burglars on Warren street last Monday night, who had a quantity of phospho- rus and oxalic acid on their persons, and who confessed that they intended to set fire to a store in the vicinity. It must be obvious that the object of this kind of incendiarism is plun- der; and it tells very badly for the efficiency of the detective force that gangs of these fel- lows should be allowed to go at large and prac- tise their infamous profession without let or hindrance. We hope thatthe police authorities will look to it. While we blame the paid Fire Department for the extent of the damage done when a fire occurs, it is but fair that we should demand of the police that vigilance which may protect us from incendiarism. and oc: few Tue Revistox or THe INTERNAL Revesvn.— | The report of the Committee of Ways and Means, proposing certain modifications of the taxes, indicates a disposition to impose the in- ternal revenue taxation in accordance with a reasonable plan. The state of the country now is such as to justify a large reduction of the total amount raised by this system, and there is @ probability that the reduction will be made in the right places, All that long list of articles that under al! tax laws realize so little at the tax searcely vars for its collection is on luxuries of extensive use will be kept up or increased, and the burden of taxation will be laid on those extensive interests by which it reaches the whole people far less perceptibly than in any other way, This system now pro- posed is the one that the experience of Europe has found to be the most excellent. The New York Collector, Administration Officeholders and the Approaching Congressional Elections, The President has shown by his selection of a collector for this port that he intends to make his fight for the success of the policy of his ad- ministration within the lines of the republican party. It is there that he contemplates making the issue and meeting the present radical Congress before the people. Planting himself upon the platform of immediate restoration of the Union, with the admission of the known loyal representatives from the Southern States and the rejection of those with disloyal records, he is now preparing himself for the great con- test in the next Congressional elections. We learn that the new Collector ofthis port is pre- pared to second his efforts in this direction, as it is clearly the duty of every administration office- holder throughout the country to do. This | much President Johnson has the right to de- mand of those who are holding offices under him. It is furthermore his duty to remove all those officials who refuse to ald in this great work of restoring the country and thus assist in cementing the victories gained by our gal- lant soldiers after a long and fierce struggle on the battle field. We look upon the recent re- movals of radical internal revenue officials, and the appointment of conservative republicans in their places, as additional evidence of the determination of the President to make the issue in this form with the radical politicians, In this he has the people with him. The great mass of the republican party approve his ac- tion, notwithstanding the politicians and the radicals in the Senate may oppose it. The radical disorganizers in Congress who have thus far been defiant and openly threat- ening the President, now exhibit unmistaka- ble signs of their fears of the result of the issue which they have made before the people. This is exhibited in the movement to attach a rider to the Post Office Appropriation bill virtually prohibiting all removals from office by the President. This is simply the struggle of the drowning man who grasps at every floating straw in hopes of thereby sustaining lite a few moments longer. The very fact that the radi- cals are proposing to resort to this extreme course is proof of their weakness before the people, and is a significant hint to the President which clearly indicates to him the weak point in their position, This fact of itself exhibits the necessity of Andrew Johnson following up the few removals that he has made by a clean sweep of the radical officcholders, from his Cabinet down to the smaliest postmaster in the country. The consternation that be has caused in the ranks of his disorganizing oppo- nents by the few removals and appointments that he has made is conclusive evidence that he has attacked their weakest point, and if he nnt follows up his advantage boldly the battle is his and the victory won In advance ot tho elections. On tae other hand, this effort to attach the officeholding amendment to the Post Office bill reveals the desperate effort that the radicals are determined to make to retain the patronage of an administration which they op- pose. It also shows the necessity of the friends of r, Jobnson’s administration preparing for a bold and flerce contest in the coming Con- greasional elections. Thé Prestacny Wil! ha to contend with an unscrupulous set of politi- cians everywhere, who will throw every obsta- cle in his way and endeavor to so confuse the public mind that the people will be deceived as to the real issue. It is for the accomplish- ment of this purpose that the Reconstruction Committee is constantly spreading before the public ex parte evidence on the condition of the Southern States. They propose no plan of restoration, knowing full well that they can offer none that will stand the test of a cam- paign with the plain and practical policy of the President. They therefore prepare chap- ter after chapter of trashy evidence, which amounts to nothing and proves much less, The people are anxious for a speedy restora- tion of the country, but the present radical Congress are determined that there shall be no restoration. Its joint committee stands as an obstruction in the way. It is very evident that nothing can be accomplished by way of readjusting our present difficulties with the present body. This being the case—and it may be considered a fixed fact—it is the duty of the conservative republicans and the friends of the administration to organize in every Congres- sional district thronghout the country and pre- pare for the contest. The issue should be made and the great battles of the country fought out on the election of members of Con- gress. There is no use of frittering away | Strength on other offices, but let there be. a united effort of the conservative masses on members of Congress. This is the point where they can make themselves felt and accomplish something practical for the future peace and prosperity of the country. The officeholders of the administration can in this way make themselves felt and render efficient aid towards securing the * success of Mr. Jobnson’s policy as well as advancing the best interests of the nation and government upon which they are feeding. While it is the duty of the friends of the admin- istration to thus put their shoulders to the wheels, it is also necessary that the President should in every way strengthen their hands by removing all those officials who are working in the interest of the radicals, It may be said the Senate will not confirm the President's appoint- ments. But no matter; this makes the issue all the more perfect, and will at least make those officeholders who hold on by that slender | thread powerleas inthe campaign. We believe | that Mr. Smythe stands ready to use the influ- ence of the Custom House for the election of conservative republicans to Congress. All | administration officeholders who have any respect for themselves or regard for the coun- try will imitate his example tn that réspect, and those who do not should be notified that “their time has come.” Let the Pres- ident, then, use all the legitimate means at bis command, in the dispensation of patron- age, to strengthen his position and encourage bis supporters withM the lines of the Union war party. The Johnson republicans everywhere, | under this encouragement, can go into the Con- | gressional contest with every assurance of On this road lies the victory for Me see ons, a people, the administration and the nation: On this line success can be made certain and cut plete and members of Congress chosen, com mencing with Pennsylvania, in October, and from there in all of the Central States, which will'secure, beyond a doubt, a majority in favor of the policy of restoration and. readjustment of all our difficulties, both domestic and foreign, now proclaimed by the present administration. Advertisement Extraordinary. Wantep ImuepraTeLy—A plan for the recon- struction of the Union. The Congressional Reconstruction Committee have been in labor on the subject for many months and brought forward no fruits. Many old political mid- wives have been applied to without success. Some plan of reconstruction is now positively required, and a reward of one hundred thousand dollars—more than was offered for the capture of Jeff Davis—will be given for a suitable plan. Applications may be addressed to Charles Sumner, United States Senate Cham- ber; Ben Wade, anywhere in Radicaldom; Thad Stevens, House of Representatives, or Robert Dale Owen, of New Harmony. Tae Cuorzra Ciamor.—There is too much fuss raised in certain papers about the cholera. It is driving business away from this city and scaring the country people out of their wits. The truth is, as these panic-makers well know, that there has not yet been a single case of cholera in New York. The only cases are those at Quarantine, which is a long distance from the city, and even about those cases we have our doubts. The disease which has broken out upon the crowded emigrant ships is much more likely to be ship fever than cholera. The doctors disagree about it, first calling it one thing and then the other, and the symptoms of the two diseases are very similar. The fact that one of the doctors at Halifax caught the complaint and died of it is evidence that it is ship fever; for doctors do not catch the cholera, as has | been proven by long experience. We know all about cholera, having lived through two epidemics here in this city. Our observation convinced us that the cholera of 1832 was a great panic and a great hoax, and that of 1849 was about the same thing. If people had kept their senses we should have had no such a carnival of death; but everybody imagined that he had the cholera if his stomach ached or his bowels were out of order, and many died before they could be convinced of their mistake. It will be the same way now if the excitement about the cholera is allowed to become a panic. People who have no regard for the cleanliness of their persons or their houses will certainly be ill, cholera or no cholera, and therefore it is right for the Board ot Health to take every possible precaution to insure us against dis-ase. But we repeat that there is no cholera in New York city, that there has not been any, and that, with ordinary care on the part of our authorities, it is not likely to come here. Tae Managers’ AssoctaTion is @ conspiracy against the rights of labor. It was organized to compel the employes of the theatres to work for unremunerative salaries. It is self- protecting for the grinding managers and op- prossiva to the employes. When labor “strikes” against capital 11 somet'mes makes headway; but when capital, as represented by the Managers’ combination, “strikes” against labor, the poor actors and musicians stand a bad chance. We put the combination in this light before the public; so the Managers’ Asso- ciation does not “advertise in the New Yor Hera.” Tat EstaDLisuMEnts controlled by the Man- agers’ Association did not “advertfse In the New Yore Herat” because we would not submit to the imposition upon the public of plays possessing no merit; of performances which usurped the place of the legitimate drama, and put sensation p'eces of equivocal morality and spectacular delusions in their stead, for the profit of the managers and the demorulization of the stage. Ivreriat Borciars i Evrore.—Austria and Prussia should be ‘ndicted at common law for burglary in the first degree. They are each trying the art of experienced cracksmen upon Schleswig and Hols‘ein, and are ready to pum- mel each other in order to bag the booty. Temrenance IN THE Unrrep Srates Sexate.— It has been proposed to expel # member of the United States Senate because he gets drunk on corn whiskey. Suppose those should be ex- pelled who get drunk on the nigger? Taking both extremes, there would be very little left of the United States Senate. City Intelligence. Sextieti ANstversary of THe Orr.» Asyiem Socrery. — The sixtieth anniversary of the Orphan Asylum Society of the city of New York was celebrated at Dodworth Hall yesterday afternoon. The exercises, which were of an unusually interesting nature, commenced at two o'clock, when a large assemblage of Indies and gentle- men had gathered in the half™ After an opening chor's and a prayer, the children sang in excellent style an niversary hymn, the music being eompored express the ‘occasion by Professor Trastour, Svbsequent to this feature, which was received with decided satisfac. tion, the reading of the annual report was proceeded with, The statement of the treasurer showed that the number of children in the asylum on the Ist of April, 1845, amounted to one hundred and seventy-two, thir ty-nine had been admitted during the yenr, thirty-five had been discharged, three had died, two had been sent to the House of Refuge and Juvenile Asylum, and one hundred and seventy-one remained In the asylum on the Ist inet, Tho financial report gavo evidence that the pecuniary position of the association was good, nearly thirty thousand dollars having been expended and re ceived during the past twelve months, After the rad. ing of the report Rev. Dr. Montgomery delivered a eloquent address and appeal in favor of the pr tigi: the offtanization, and singing and recitations brought the sixtieth anniversary celebration to a close, Farat Ervects of Innativa Cnancodt. Gas —Coronor Gamble was yesterday called to hold an inquest on board the echooner Alice A. Bandell, lying at pier 21 East river, on the body of James H. Bailey, whore doath was the result of inhaling the fumes of charcoal gas. The schooner arrived in this port on the 2ist instant, with a cargo of frait belonging to Mr. John Pearsall, residine at 152 West Forty-fourth street. As some of the fruit was unripe Mr. Pearsall on Monday afternoon ordered Bailey, who was employed on board the vessel, to build a fire in the hold, the object being to ripen the fruit. Bailey ac- cord ngly kindled a charcoal fire ina small furnace which he placed in the hold. On leaving the vessel in the even. Mr. Pearsall says that he cautioned Bailey bout going to sleep in the cabin for the night without first opening the window The other employes of the voasel, however, did not hear the deceased warned by Mr Pearsall, Yesterday morning about six o'clock Bailey was found lying dead im his berth in the cabin, the latter of which was tightly closed. At that time thé smell of cas there was very strong Several witnesses were examined before the Corouer, and thelr testimony showod a state of facts about as related above, The jary found “that James H Bailoy eame to his death by suffo. cation, from inhalation of gas generated by lighting char. con and anthracite coal in the hold of the above vessel, on the 28d day of April, 1866. ‘ibey further censure John Pearvall for lighting the said fire and neglecting to warn the attaches of the vessel of {te danger.’ ‘Tue Tavewent Hoven Stanpino Arrrat—Deatn or Tam | Vievim, Patrick Donnelly, the man who was £0 terribly stabbed on Sunday evening, daring a fight with Daniel and Miles O'Reilly, in the tenement house Fast Fourteenth street, died in Bellevue Hoepital, about | twelve o'clock on Monday night. from the e of the | wounds he received. Coroner Gover was notified, and Will hold an inquest on the body to day Death of Judge Thompson, of Virgin bg Tenmono Apel 26180. Virginia Bupreme | Amy Lnene P Thompeon, of the Inder our died at Stavnton on & Court ot Avpeat ed MEXICO. Opinion of Attorney General Spexd «2 the Orders of General McDowelimEe portation of Arms for the Mexican Belo ligerents Declared Perfectly Lege], &e- Wasmxcron, Apri} 24, 1866. It appears from official documents that in December last Senor Romoro addressed two notes to the Secretary of State in relation to an order issued by Major General McDowell, commanding the Military Department of California, prohibiting the exportation of arms or muni- tions of war by way of tho frontier into Mexico. These notes were referred’ to the Attorney General of the United States, who said the question raised by the Secretary of State was, whether, in the opinion of the former, this order was in conformity with any tawa, regulations or orders in force bearing on the subjvet, ‘The Attorney General says no military offeer has the right to issue any order to which he cannot lawfully compel obedience by the forces under his command. The test, therefore, of the validity, in point of law, of this order, is whether he could law- fully employ the forces subject to his control to prevent American citizens and other persons within our jurisdic- tion from ting arms or munitions of war, as merchandise, across the frontier inte Mexico, in the present state of affairs in that country. The Attorney Gen- eral says he is of the opinion that the order of General McDowell was not intended to Interfere with such trad», conducted bv our people, as the authorities have de Ini to be lawful, and is not, therefore, in conformity with any order, and was probably intended to be directed againet military expeditions or armed enterprises carried on from this government against the belligerents con- tending in Mexico, Svch expeditions and enterprises are, of course, violations of our statutes, and nothing, im his opinion, ‘8 intended to ‘Im- pe the validity of the order in res] to em. The Attorney General apprehends it to be wel! set~ tled that merchants may law‘ully sell at home to a bel- Jigerent purchaser, or carry themselves to the belligerent Power contraband articles, subject to the right of seizure ‘in fransitu, The right of the nentral to transport and the hostile power to seize are conflicting rights, and neither party can charge the other with a criminal act. This is the view taken by Chancellor Kent. . An American Steamer Selzed by the Mexican R-publicans. Saw Franciso, Anr] 24, 1866. The steamer John L. Stephens, frota Mazatlan, has arrived, with $45,500 in treasure. On her down trip the steamer was seized at Cape St. Lucas by order of General Corona, and an effort was made to sond her to Altata, bnt she was finally ordered to La Paz. Captain Wakeman forwarded to the United States Conenl his protest against tho soiznre of the vessel or intermeddling with her cargo; notwithstanding which a gnarl of repnblican sold’ers was placed on board, who ed her in search of contraband articles.’ As ® rowd of republicans on shore was prenared to co} tence, Captain Wakeman deemed it exnodiont to vive $500 cash and a bond for $1,500 more, when the vossel was released, and proceeded on her voyage. THE FENIANS. The Fenians Arrested at Calais on Mon- day for Firing at the British Guard Fined Fifty Cents for Drunkenness and Discharged—Their Subsequent Re- arrest by Order of Governor Cony, “£+.] Canals, Me., April 24, 1866. ‘Tho namos of the two men arrested here last evening aro McDormot and Groen, McDermot is the one who discharged the pistol at the English guard. They were arraigned here this afternoon before Judge Corthell and fonnd guilty of drankenness—the only charge pressed— fined fifty cents each and discharzed. Goneral Doyle had requested early in the day, through tho magistrates of St. Stephens, that the authorities here would retain the prisoners in custody until further ac- tion could be taken by the Governor of New Bronewick, who has been farnished with the particulars of the trans. acton. The English authorities were hivhly indignant at the release, : Tater in the dav a telegram wns received by acting Mavor Smith, of th's place, from Gov. Cony, at Augusta, stating that he bad advised Mr. Seward of the matter and ordering the men to be detained tH! “nether instras tions, They were accord’ngly rearrested and are now in the hands of the Citv Marshal. ‘This afiernoon five more Fenians were stopped on the bridge by the English guard and obliged to go back at havonet. Fenians left ina body on foot for East- port this afternoon. Meeting of the Geraldine Circle, Brooke lyn. Last night a largoly attended public meeting, under the anspices of the Geraldine Circle, was held at the Assembly Roms, 1,002 Falton avenue, Brooklyn, ia support of the O'Mahony intrest, “Mr. Jeremiah Kara. nagh, of California, Gonoral W. G Falnin and Mr. Sto. phen J. Meany, District Centre of Ohio, made tone and effective addresses, An attempt was made by a gentle. man in the Roberts interest to disturb the meeting ; but tha only resulted im a more vigorous snstentation of Union aquare, and in a liberal subscription for the bonds. ‘The meeting was a success, See Grent's Viste to Rithmond. The Richman’ Eaaminer of tho 26 says: — We have avain to chron'cle tie "al. at he Ppatac wood Hote! of Lientonant General Grant; this the. if ever, accompanied by Mra Lientenant’ General Grant, her father, Mr. Dent. and Colonel Rodean, of the Gen- eral’s stall, The distingmmhed party let Washengton on Saturday morning by the Fredericksburg train, and reached this city at two o'clock in the evenin=, taking rooms at the Spotswood, our leading fashionable hotel. The Washineton papers state that it was the fn'ention of the General and party to visit the Inte intereeting scenes of hie campaicns—City Point, the Richmond front and Potersburg—for the pnrpose, as we sunpsse, of showing Mrs. Grant the leading features of the General's strategy and military movements on thee histore Vir- ginia flelds, It is expected the distingnished visitors will leave here to-day for Petersburg, thongh itis not known whether they will return to Washington. Ricnoxn, April 24, 1866, General Grant last night decided to postpone his de- parture for Washington until to-morrow morning He visited the thea're last night. Amusements. THE MATINEES TO-DAY. Tho Wednesday matinee performances, dramatic and musical, are attractive and very seasonable for ladies, visitors from the country and children. At Wood's theatre, Broadway, Mr. Charles Barras—Vertigo Morbid and Aminadab Sleok—will appear this afternoon, at the usual hour, dupported by the company. Tony Pastor's matinee opens at his Opera House, in the Bowory, at half-past two o'clock ; the Bond Robbery will be played, with the “new faces’’ and new songs and dances, Blind Tom gives his musical Tom matinee at Irving Hall, commencing at three o'clock. MISS EATTIK M. GIBBS’ FIRST CONCERT. This season has brought out quite a number of dé- butantes, some of whom possess considerable vocal ability. The Inst was the above mentioned young Indy, who appeared at Dodworth Hall last night, Hor teacher, Mr. Ricarde, was director, Miss Toodt violinist, Mr. Robert Goldbeck pianist, and two gentlemen whose hames were not given assisted in the vocal parts. Miss Gibbs has a sweet, clear and well modulated soprano voice ; but the same remarks we made of a previous débutan’g at the Same hall may be to some oxtent applied to her. If the lower and medium registers of a soprano voice are not developed in the eame proportion with the upper there is @ want of proper balance and uniformity shown in the rendering of the simplest ballad. The voice should be built up as on architectural principl"s—a good foundagion first, and then gradually extend it to prima donna point. ‘Miss Gibbs, however, with more p bli practice and confidence, may justly expect to win a high Position among American vocalists her vowe i ‘more matured and even, and less tremulous and weak in the lower register, there is no doubt of her success, Misw Toodt took the place of Jehin Prams, who was anable to appear as advertised. The disting iehed Bet could not have a better or more satisfactory Her execution of an andante movement from Mendel. sobin's concerto and a fan'asia by Hanman, confirmed us in the opinion formed of her powers at the Inst Brooklyn Philharmonic concert. She lacks o and consequently power, atill, bat plays with taste and ex joldbeck very p t auch a promising a lo artist will persist in givin’ what mirht bo termed “ecrentric’’ and ‘senrational’’ renderines of the works of other composers. ling of bis hearer i one of perplexity and wonder and doubt as to the authorshiy playing Hie bard and unsympathetic touch ner this uncomfortable fecling, and leaves & disent= impression. Whether uirse he pours jnwaded fora thew | se whether intentionally erratic, annot judge; but either case, raisted in, it will prove thing bot fal in America, Let him but dew his powers as an artist to some of the modern schools, and throw « little more brilliancy into his *yle, will not have such a ‘hard road to travel his present systom is leading bim to The two male vocalista—tenor and hare were vn mic- takable amateurs, and seemed to be very chary about Jetting their voices be heard Donizetti would have disowned the rondo in hia charming duet from B lisario hod be heard \t last night. Both might possibly succeyd th an echo chorus in music ag Melancholy Accident. Bostow, Joho W. Crafts, a well Known and ‘roxy While cutting up pork tn bis eetabliebment, in Ser Boston, this morning, accidentally stumbled against ® Knife, cutting the man artery in hie ere, and rageing Lin to biced to death na tow mimeten