The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1866, Page 6

NEW ‘YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. —— : Wolume XXXL... .ccceccseeeeee seeeeeeees No. 193 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING near Broome BROADWAY THEATRE, pireol.—Mazerra. 3 THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Beran ELyas—Nan Tux Goop rox Notming, Matinee at 146 o' Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Oxp Scnoou oF Mrnsrnexsr, auLaps, Musicat Guxs, &c.. FHth Bon? and 4 West Twenry-iourta ate Peas, ‘Wirxass. CISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadwry, opposite wae Nias tote —LrMi0P.AN BLNGLNG, Dasara, £0. TING BRiGaNnn. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bow Broadway, SIGs Buatusques, 40.—Tux Fairy Guaxpian, Matinge ate o'Clook. YANTS' MINSTRELS, Meohanics’ Hall, Broad Pohl rtd Gomiaritias, Buaiesquas, &0.—Lus Misen, OOLEY'S OPRRA HOUSR, Brooklya.—Erm BROOKLYN ATHEN£ZUM.—Rosenrr Hewuzr, roe Great Comsunon. NEW YORK UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. hen trou Wk we tio IM wy = NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty- street and avenue.: HIBITION OF ORIGINAL ORES BY LivinG Aurists. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, May 2, 1866. THE NEWS. BOMBARDMENT OF VALPARAISO. The steamship Costa Rica, Captain Bradbury, arrived at this port yesterday, from Aspinwall on the 23d ult., bringing us most imporisnt intelligence from the South’ Pacific, E Dur special correspondent at Valparaiso sends us full and complete information of the last and most atrocious act of the Spanish naval commander in the Pacific, Sefior Mendez Nuiiez, committed under orders from his govern- ment—viz,, the bombardment of the city of Valparaiso and destruction of twenty million dollars’ worth of prop- erty, principally that of foreignors, On the 27th of March Commodore Nufiez informed the authorities that on the 3lst he should bombard the city unless the terms of his government were complied with, and gave four days’ notice in order that the sick, women, children and non-combatants could be removed from danger. Every effort was made by General Kil- patrick and Commodore Rodgers to avert the coming storm and save the doomed city; im fact, the latter is said to have offered to interfere if the English Admiral would do the same; but the latter declined, as did the French naval command or, All efforts were unavailing, and at eight o'clock on the morning of the Dist of March tho English and American squadrons moved out of the line of fire to a position on the other side of the bay. Shortly before nine the Spanish ships Villa de Madrid, Blanca, Resolucion and Vencedora moved into po- mtion within point blank range of tho city, the Numancia remaining cutside, and the Berenguela with the prizes and storeships. The Villa de Madrid and Blanca were opposite the Custom House; the Resolucion opposite the railway station, and the Vencedora close into the beach, to select smaller marks. At nine A. M. the Blanca opened fire, and tmmediately the other threo vessels followed her oxample, neither the Numancia nor Beronguola taking part in the bombardment, About ton A. M. a shell from the Vencedora set fire to a build- ing, and the flames soon spread with rapidity. This vessel kept up # stomdy and vory accurate fire upon the game spot, and thus prevented the conflagration from being oxtinguishod. About the same time the Custom House took fre, and it and all the government buildings in the vicinity, including the bonded ware- houses, wore, with their contents, entirely destroyed. Ata little after noon the Numancia made signal +epase firing," when the bombardment ended. It is woll understood that the bombardment of Valpa- raiso ig but the commencement; that Coquimbo, Cal. 4ora, Callao and all accessible points fare to have their rare, and that the orders of the Spanish commander Jro to do all the damage he can with - the force at his dis- << English residents are loudjin their denunciation of their Admiral, the Hoo. Joseph Denman, and their Bharge, and have passed a series of resolutions against them, andat the same time give the most unbounded Praise to General Kilpatrick and Commodore Rodgers for “thoie oarnest endeavors to prevent, by co-operation with the British forces, the bombardment of this city." THE PLATE WAB. The steamship South America, from Rio Janeiro, on ‘the 84 of April, arrived at this portslast might. Our cor- respondent states that the allied army, supported by the fleet, had crossed the Parana and were preparing to at- tack Fort Humaita, The condition of the Paraguayan army was reported to be very bad, sustaining a daily loss of from one hundred and forty to one hundred and sixty men. They had to subsist wholly on beef, which was doalt out in very insufficient quantities, . EUROPE. Tho steamship Scotia, from Queenstown on the evening of April 22, arrived at this port early yesterday morning, after a very rapid pasiage—iess than nine days by some hours. The news by the Scotia is two days later. Germany was again shadowed by the war cloud. It is said that the Emperor Francis Joseph had himself recommended to the Austrian Cabinet the immediate suspension of diplomatic relations with Prussia, and that the recommendation was adopted. England, France and Italy were again alarmed at the prospect of war Italy was preparing fora great naval demonstration, The London Times, which first announced the oxciting news, hoped, notwithstanding, that peace would stil be pre- served. The debate on the English Reform bill stood adjourned in the Commons to the 234 of April. Mr. George Peabody, the American banker, arrived tn the Scotia, He was the reciptent of grateful adiens from the English people—civic, mercantile and moneyed—to the moment of his embarkation at Liverpool. Hoad Contre Stephens was enterjaincd at a banquet at the residence of the Marquis de Boissy in Paris. General Prim bad left Paris for Italy. ‘The financial panic in England was considerab'y inten- sified by the suspension of Bwmped’s banking house, of Liverpool. The Habilities were estimated as high as three millions and a quarter pounds sterling, and the bad effects of tho disaster were likely to extend widely. Consols closed tm London, April 21, at 873 a 87% for money, an advance duting tho day. The Liverpool cotton market maintained the improvement of April 20 during April 21, Breadstuffs were inactive, Provisions dull. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a | etition from the citizens of Staunton, Va., was read asking the return of troops to that place for the protection of loyal citizeus. A letter from Wade Hampton, denying the charge of burning Columbia, S. C,, was read; but the Senate refused to re. ceive or consider it, In the discussion on the amend. ‘ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill Mr. Henderson remarked that if the President attempted to carry out the policy proposed by Garrett Davis tho result would be the same as that between King Charles and the Parliamont. The Conference Committee on the Habeas Corpus bill made ® report, which was agreed to, and the bill goes to tho President, In the Houge two amendments to the reconstruction amendmont to the constitution offered by the committee on Monday were sent to the Clerk's desk, The bill to fogulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels was pasted. Two resolutions were adopted looking to the relief of destitute families in certain por- tions of the South. The bill making appropriations for the use of the Freedmen's Bureau, with an amendment || feduoing the amount for schoolhouses from three mil- lon to five hundred thousand dollars was passed. The Niagara Ship Canal bill was passed. {a the Kentacky State Democratic Convention, held in Loulsvilie yoster’.,, Judge Alvin Daval was nomi nated for Glerk of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions fae vefore the Convention support President Johnson's policy, request the abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. f a8 THE crry. But thro@ now cases of cholora ocourred on Monday among the passengers of the steamer Virginia, and these were all of a very mild form. No additional deaths had taken place on board of tho Falcon, and the patients now under treatment in the hospital, numbering one hundred and one, were doing well at the last accounts, Pormis- sion will be granted to the steamer England and hor pas- Songers, also to the cabin passengers of the Virginia, to come up to the city oither to-day or to-morrow, but be- fore doing so tho veasel and effects of the passengers will be subjected to a thorough and effectual fumigation, In the United States Commissioners’ Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, & case camo up in which John Lambert was charged with stealing property on board the California steamer Oregon worth $20,000. The defendant was attested by Superintendent Kennedy, who received a telegram from California informing him of the prisoner's arrival hore, Edmon Blankman, the prisoner's counsel, stated that the prisoner was three weeks incarcerated without being allowed communica- tion with any one, and only discharged by a habeas cor- pus obtained from the Recorder. He charged the Super- intendent with having $4,500 of the prisoner's money, and asked for an early examination, The case was set down for twelve o'clock to-morrow. The Board of Health mot yesterday. Reports from the Sanitary Committee referring to the proposed inter- ference of the Board in bebalf of the Quarantine Com- missioners’ request to obtain a proper place om shore for well passengers; on the gas nuisance, and other subjects of interest, wore submitted. The Board of Excise mot yeaterday, when resolutions were introduéed by Mr. Bosworth to create a third and fourth class ficense, at the rate of thirty and fifty dollars, for apothecaries, grocers and beer retailers. Those resolutions were lost, and the Board refused to grant licenses to these classes, A atate- ment was submitted from which it appeared that during yesterday three hundred and forty-cight firat claas li- censes and forty-cight of the second clasa were granted by the Board. Lact night tho New York Liquor Dealora’ Society held another meeting, when & committee appointed at a pre- vious meeting submitted a report of a conference with the Board of Exoise, in reference to the action taken by that Board rogarding grocors, Tho members of tho s0- clety wore advised to go on with thelr business as usual until otherwise notifiod, At a meeting of the New York Historical Socioty, held at thoir hall last night, a paper on America was read by Mr. Tuckerman, anda miniature mortar, moulded from bullets picked up at one of the Jamos river forts, was pre- sented to the society by General Crawford, throrgh General De Peyster. The rainy weather that provailed in this city last night was provalent also in Philadelphia and Washington. In Baltimore it culmiated in a severe hailstorm, and in Buffalo was varied with a light fall of anow. The ease of John Piggott, charged with attempting to pass counterfeit fractional currency, waa concluded ycs- terday before Commissioner Betta, Tho dofendant was held for trial in default of $1,000 bail. A caso came up yesterday in the United States District Court in, which Martin Quirk, alias Martin Jonos, was charged with passing a counterfeit twonty dollar Treasury note. The examination of tho caso was postponed till this morning. Yesterday was moving day in Now York, and notwith- standing the continuous fall of a drizzly, uncomfortable rain, the citizens celebrated the anniversary with con siderable zeal and industry. Thomas M. Doyle was yesterday olected Chiof Engineer of the Fire Department of Williamaburg. A fire took place in Cherry street on Monday night in a lumber yard. Loss about thirteen hundred dollars, The brick building on the corner of Front and Fulton streeta, Brooklyn, was discovered to be on fire yesterday afternoon, but prompt action prevented « serious con- flagration. An unknown woman, supposed to be German, com- mitted suicide by drowning herself in the lake at the Park on Monday afternoon, The wife of Julius Matson, living on First avenue, be- tweon Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth gtrocts, fas been missing aluce last Thuraday, and yosterday, on therepre~ sentations of neighbors, Matson was errosted to await an inveatigation-of the cause of Lor disappearance, ‘The popular steamship Morro Caatic, Captain R. Adana, will sail from pior NO, 4 North rivor, at three P. M. to- day, for Havana direct. Tho mail will close at tho Post Office at half-past one P. M. { The fine tron steamship Lodons, Captain Hovey, will sail to-morrow, Thuraday, at two P. M., for Galveston, Texas, from pier 28 East River. The Lodona has beon ‘well fitted up for the accommodation of passengers and for the delivery of freight in good order, and since the opening of tho new line business has gradually in- creased between the two sections of country. The stock market opened firm, became dui! aud closed moderately strong at a slight advance yesterday. Gov- ernments were dull and rather heavy. Gold opened at 12556 and closed at 126% 8%. There was not much life in commercial circles yaator- day, and not a great deal of business was done ither in domestic or foreign goods. The fluctuations in gold un- settled prices of most kinda of merchandise, and values in many cases wore merely nominal. The market for Beef cattle was firmor at the opening and prices advanced %0. ac. per pound, but closed dull, with the advante lost, Prices varied from 120. to 1c. a 180, ; the latter” an extreme rato, and the averago about 16c. All the cattle were sold. Milch cows wore ull and irregular. Prices variedjfrom $30 to $95. Veals were irregular, varying all the way from 5c. to 12c. Sheep anddambs were active at from $4to $10, Hogs wore active at 10c, to 10%0, The total receipts wore 5,369 beaves, 81 cows, 2,178 veals, 13,686 sheop and lambs, 9,080 bogs. MISCELLANEOUS. An important meoting of tho Cabinet was hold yesterday, all tho mombora present except Secretary Harlan declaring themselves opposed to the Commitice acheme of reconstruction and decidedly in favor of the President's policy as regards the admission of loyal repre- sentatives from the Southern States. Mr, Speed was the only member absont, he boing in Kentucky on a visit, Mr. Harlan expressed no opinion. The Preaident sent a mosaage to the House yesterday, enclosing a letter from Secrotary Seward, giving the re. sult of his examination of various propositions from British holders of the rebel cotton bonds for an adjust- ment to the satisfaction of the United States, The Secre} tary says that none of them are entitled to considera. tion. Our correspondent with the mission of Gonerais Steed- man and Fullerton through the South, writes from New- bern, N. C., an interesting letter relative to the social congition of the freedmen in North Osrolina. He states that they are generally at work and that nothing will disturb the satisfactory adjustment of the labor market in that State but ill-advised agitation on the subject of eocial equality, He gives also some interesting details of the outrages practised on the freedmen by agents of the Burean, i: To-day the recently lected Governors of Rhode Island and Cognectiont are to be inaugurated—the one at Nowport and the other at New Haven. The custo- mary election parade will take place im each city, The funeral of Rey. Father Kelly, late pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church in Jersey City, took place yeaterday afternoon. The Woodstock and Catakill mountains are reported to have been on fire on Sunday, over dive thousand acres having been swept by the flames. Alarge fire in Thorold, C. W., on Sunday afternoon destroyed thirty-three shops and @ large number of out- buildings. Nearly the whole of the two principal streets in the city are destroyed, and forty or fifty families ren- dered houseleas, A tito at Grand Rapids, Mich., yesterday, destroyed the Union Hotel and four other buildings. Loss eati- mated at one hundred thousand dollars, Aire occurred in Boston yesterday afternoon which destroyed two government bonded warehouses and ‘about five thousand hogsheads of sugar and molasses. The loss is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars, Henry C. Wheotor, of New York city, President of the Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company, was arrest- od yosterday on the steamship Asia, at Boston, on & writ issued by the company, who claim that he ts about de- camping with two hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds belonging to them. The nineteenth annual session of the American Medi- cal Association commenced in Baltimore on the Ist {nst, There wore some two hundred delegates prosent. Tho inauguration of Governor Hawley at New Haren takes place to-day, Samuel Witturn, alias Jack Cooper, was executed at Ravenna, Ohio, on the 27th ult., for the marder of Jobn Rodenbaugh. He mountéd the scaffold with a cigar in bis moath, made his coofession io 4 rambling, bravado apesch, adjnated the kavt bimesif, in tho State, and the withdrawal of the United States | Stevems on the Rebels—Proscription, Confiscation and Destruction. The terrible old man of Pennsylvania who has been the whipper-in-of the present revolu- tionary and weak Congress has again brought forth his bantling of vindictive legislation against the helpless ex-rebels. On Monday he offered in the House of Representatives a sub- stitute for the bill he introduced last Decem- ber #0 confiscate the property of these people. The character and general features of the original bill and the substitute are the same. The confiscation clause is preceded by and mixed up with other matters, but that is the gist of the proposed law. It provides for doubling the pensions of those who were made prisoners by the casualties of the late war. This, of course, is a tempting bait for the soldiers to swallow the iniquitous proposi- tion for. seizing all the property of the Southerners: It adroitly appeals to the selfish interests of a large and influential body of citizens in order to disguise or cover up the injustice and cruelty of the measure. The bill provitles also for paying the damages done to. mon by the rebel government and « This, too, is intended, doubtless, to bring'to the support of the bill's large class, of o ta. But the prime motive for the olat ly, may be found in the desire of “Ms. Stevens and other Pennaylvahia patriots to pu their hands into the Treasury. Mr. Stevens:had a foundry de- stroyed somewhere in the neighborhood of Get- tyaburg, we believe, by thewrebol raiders, and his constituents lost horses, ‘cattle and other things, No doubt Mr. Stevens and his Pennayl- vania friends and neighbor# could make ont a nice little account for damages. A great many others out of Pennsylvania could do the same. It may be seen from this bill that Mr. Stevens is not the pure, distitereated patriot, after all, that some people haye supposed him to be. The motive for makigg such a sweep- ing confiscation of the property of the Southern- ers as proposed is infamous, The mere pro- position is a disgrace to the Congress which could listen to it. We seem to be carried back to uncivilized ages or to the horrible times of the French revolution, Let us hope for the credit of the country and the age that this bill will never come up again. But in addition to doubling. the pengions of pensioners and paying war cifims out of the confiscated property, it is proposed to distri bute the lands among the late slaves of the South and to erect buildings for them. That ia, in reality, to turn over the whole of that magnificent productive country/the latest and best portion of the American *tontinent,'to an inferior and ignorant race, to reduce it to the condition of Jamaica or worse, to drive out or reduce to an inferior position te the blacks the people of our own race and blood—our tela- tives—the white man and the Bighest type of humanity. The proposition is perfectly mon- strous, and it is difficult to conceive of any one making It but a crazy, vindictive cynic. Only let us imagine the state of things if such a mea- sure could be carried out, though we have not the remotest idea itcan. Eight millions of the elevated white‘race, and nearly foug millions of negroes, the Ipwest-in the of hamanity, occupying’ the country? ~ lands ‘and other property of the whites confiscated and the Iands given to the negroes, with buildings erected thereon ai the expense of the govern- ment and from the proceeds of thie confiscated property! Nearly all the whites disfranchised and proseribed and the negroes enfranchised. } That is precisely the state of things intended to be brought about by Mr. Stevens’and his radi- cal friends in Congress. There nbrér has been in modern times, if ever, such ® tremendous revolution; no, not even in France, for although the sweeping confiscation measures of the Con- vention placed the landed property in other hands it did not go to negroes, bnt to French- men, to people of the same race and nation. The bill in principle and detail is so outrageous and preposterous that we should ‘not think of rring to it seriously did we nol believe that the radioal party, who have the’ power in Con- gress, is capablaof doing almost anything, how- ever monstrous. Still we hope the more mod- erate and conservative men in the national legislature will be wise enough and have strength enough to prevent Mr. Stevens’ mon- strous bantling from being revived again. Tar Dectixa or Caorers.—It-ds a pleasant duty to report that the Asiatic cholera which has for-some weeks been lingering on the in- fected vessels in the Lower Bay is gradually de- creasing, and the prospect of the disease ap- proaching the city is therefore very slim. We have from the beginning discountenanced the idea of panic in connection with a coming epi- demic, and the turn which affairs have taken at Quarantine strengthens the opintbir that there is no necessity for any alarm. It does not fol- low that because cases of cholera.can be found | on board vessels from foreign ports; lying in | the harbor, the disease should desolate tho city, The precantions taken so far have protected us from this calamity; but although the reports from Quarantine are highly favorable, the Health Commissioners should not relax thei exertions on ‘that account. We do not anticl- pate a visit of this fearful scourge, but at the same time it is well to be prepared, The sani- tary condition of the city depends'a good deal upon the precautionary measures ‘taken by in- dividuals in keeping their houses clean, in ob- serving rules as to diet, abstinenge from the use of unripe fruit, raw vegetables and other provocatives of sickness incident to early sum- mer. The best preventive of epidemic disease of cholera than to be killed by a stroke from acomet. The necessity of attending to one’s vicinity of London, but it did not take hold of that great city with its population of over two i <= =e Bombardment of Valpsratso—Oriminal Conduet of the Spanish, French and English Authorities. ‘We announced on the 13th ult, that on the 17th of March the Spanish government sent orders to Admiral Nujfiez, commanding the Spanish fleet blockading Valparaiso, to bom- bard that city, and then, withdrawing to Monte- video, abandon as fruitless the war against the allied republics of South America. The first part of this atrocious programme has been carried out. Valparaiso was bom- barded on the 3lst of March for three hours with great fury #hid with considerable loss of life and property. Women and children as well as soldiers were killed, and churches and hospitals as well as public buildings were burned. The citizens could not reply to the fire of the fleet in consequence of the ab- sence of all defences to their city. The treach- erous conduct of the Spanish Admiral appears to have been totally unwarrantable and highly criminal, and must lessen him and his govern- ment in the eyes of the civilized world. Not leas criminal, however, was the conduct of the French and English Admirals and Con- suls at Valparaiso, in whose power it was to prevent the wanton destruction of the property in the city. Commodore Rodgers, of the United States fleet, tendered them his hearty co-opera- tion in any efforts to prevent, by force; if neces- sary, the commission of the outrage contem- plated by the Spanish Admiral; but co-opera- tion was not only declined, but the French and British Admirals refused to interfere even to protect the property of French and English res- idents, who were forced to call upon Commo- dore Rodgers for protection. The commendable conduct of this officer and the exertions of our Minister, General Kilpatrick, to prevent the outrage will endear them to their country and to all civilized nations, and remain forever a reproach to those who so criminally refused to aid them in preserving the peace. The Late Blection in France=The Em- pire Before the Poople. The people of a province of France recently had an opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings in relation to the Emperor Napo- leon and his government. A representative of the Department of Bas-Rhin was to be chosen. There was a government candidate and an op- position candidate, and the government candi- date was elected by an immense majority, re- ceiging rather more than double the number of votes cast for his adversary. This expression of universal suffrege is remarkable, significant, as it is of the real views of France, of the masses of the people taken in any given part of the country. His bold faith in his hold upon the people, the confidence with which he. accepts any ap- peal to the nation, his readiness at all times to carry his case to the polling places, is one of the greatest facts in the Emperor's history. From whatever cause it arises, whether it be the old faith in his name or the result of a deepor insight into the character of the people, itis wnqnestionable that this readiness to sub- mit his government to the popular verdict is an important element of its strength. It frees it from any necessity to consider the-embarrass- ments that factious opposition wottld put in its way. It liftd‘it far above the whole atmosphere of party discassion and quarrel. No party can even have a base of operations against the gov- ernment or get the least foothold in public esteem; for the party that ‘promises most can offer nothing more delusive or attractive than an appeal to the people, and the government is ready for that at any time, and makes.it con- stantly. Thus the government # not tram- melled by the necessity of trimming close to any party breezes. 1¢ may choose its own course boldly, confidently, only keeping in view the great mass and body of the people, watching the temper and tone of the nation. So long as it is sure of these it may despise all else, and so long as he can get such verdicts as this from the Bas-Rhin the Emperor may certainly feel sure of the people. Asa consequence of this state of affairs there is now areal political tranquillity in France. All the factions that in the past have agitated the country {are in existence still, but they. have lost that confidence of the people that was the only element of their power. Whether they are Bourbons or republicans it is the same. France, sure of what she has, and satisfied with it, will not give it up for the splendid promises of any of the parties that have led her such a horrible dance since she first cast down the Bourbons. This is the declaration she makes every time she elects a candidate known to sustain the government. This is more emphat- foally still the declaration she has made in this last election, because it follows so cloacly upon those more than usually bold arraign- ments of the government that have been heard in the Chamber of Deputies this winter. The old Bourbon oppression hed become so bad tliat the nation was compelled to get rid of it, and in the exertions of getting rid of it she lost her equilibrium. That lost equilibrium of a nation could not be regained at once, and France staggered and reeled through all the moods of trouble-—-the Jacobing, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Bourbons, the Republic; through all these ahe went and was in trouble still, but now she is firmly on her feet again and will stay there; however the Reds promise something better and the rhetoricians declaim against the Empire. France is the more ready to stay as she is, because she believes that she can change her condition whenever she desires it. She believes she can do this because the possesses universal suffrage; ang in this way also universal suffrage adds a ‘vast strength to the empire, since it has edu- cated the people to believe that it Is the crea- ture ot their own will and has gotten them into the habit of endorsing it every now and then. Thatisa habit that only the greatest possible errors on the part of the Emperor can ohange; for France is not fickle, though her hie tory following the Revolution bas made her seem so. Nothing less than the vices of the Bourbons could have induced her to cast them out, and changeable as she seemed in the many mutations she subsequently paseed through, she would have seemed a great deal worse if she bad quietly accepted any one of those many bad systems. It has been argued that the elections in France ara not fair expressions of the popular sentiment because they are so largely con- trolled by government influences, direct and indirect. This argument may hold in Europe, but cannot here, where we are familiar with the whole machinery of elections and know exactly bow little oan be effected by organiza- tion in mfluencing the choice of the people. In view of the history of France she oannct be accused of moral or physical cowardice. She is neither so timid as to fear the displeasure of government agents, nor is she to be controlled by the presence of bayonets. We must accept the decision arrived at by universal suffrage as the real voice of the people, and the great fact of the present condition of France is that that voice is now overwhelmingly in favor of the empire, ———_—__—— Lottery Managers—State and United States Laws. We called the attention of the Attorney General of the State a few days since to the decision of Judge Nelson in the Massachusetts liquor case, which arose under the provisions of the Internal Revenue law, and pointed to that decree as a precedence for him to enforce the laws of this State in regard to the lottery policy business. We again urge upon him the duty of enforcing the law and seeing that the statute is not violated with impunity under his own nose. He can very ensily ascertain who have been violating the lottery statute by referring to the records in the offices of the different col- leotors of internal revenue, where the lottery ticket venders have filed their licenses under the law of Congress. There is a special provi- sion in the Internal Revenue law which declares that no license provided for in that act, if granted, shall be held or construed to exempt from the penalty provided by State laws for carrying on the trade, or to authorize a busi- ness prohibited by State laws. Nothing could be plainer than this provision. It leaves no room for doubt as to the duty of the legal officer of the State in the premises. This provision is based upon a well established principle—that the Legislatures of the several States have the right to enact laws regulating all classes’ of business which are injurious to the public morals. It is on’this principle that the enact- ments in relation to gambling, concert saloons, liquor traffic and lottery policies are based. They all more or less affect the public morals, the peace and quiet of society, and legitimately come under the jurisdiction of the State Legls- latures. The lottery business is declared un- lawful by a statute of the State of New York, and every person who has taken out a license is liable under it. It is said that there are some six hundred lottery ticket vendors in this city, all obtaining their licenses under the bonds of the managers of the lotteries, They are carrying on an illegal business and are amenable undor the laws of the State. The ticket venders and their bondsmen, the managers, should be at once arraigned a3.4 warning in the futuro. The clause in the Internal Revenue law under which the revenue collectors grant'these licenses was inserted by a picce of sharp practice, in which it is reported that Pendleton, of Obto, and Senator Morrill, of Maine, were the prominent operators. The affair having been called to the attention of the committee of Congress en- gaged in revising the tax law, it was supposed that they would amend the obnoxious pro- visions, 80 as not to-give the policy dealers an opportunity to take out licenses in those States where the business is illegal nader the State laws, or at least, that some person or persons besides the lottcry managers shonlé give bonds as seeurity against frauds under the law. This has thot been done by the bill recently reported by the committee. The provision in the present law governing thls matter is as ful- lows:— license ghall horeafter issue untiy the ors of @ lottery now existing shall give bonds in the sum of one thousand doliars; that tho persons re- coiving such license shall not sell any ticket or supple- mentary ticket of such. lottery which has not been duly staraped according to law, The Ways and Means Committee of the present Congress have thrown those words in together, and given them a shake up, and in the new Internal Revenue bill reported a few days since the provision has come out in the following language:— tno sum of one thoussad dollers: that the forson paying Sle ti tty ah at se scoutagtene. Ns ais ee aE This looks very much like a distinction with- out a difference. The public anticipated that the moment the attention of Congress was called to this question the evil would be rem- edied. But the action of the committee shows that they are to be disappointed and that the necessary modification must be made, ifat all, in the Committee of the Whole. It is evident that some person has been elbowing the com- mittee, and it is ramored that S.S. Cox has taken the. place of Pendleton in this business. There is evidently a “nigger” in this wood- pile. We cannot account on any other hypoth- esis for the fact that the radicals adhere so tena- ciously to the idea that none bnt the bonds of the managers of the lotteries shall be received ‘ag security. Now, why is it that the radicals in Congress prefer Ben Wood and his associates as security in this business to such men as Van- derbilt, Law, Moses Taylor, A. T. Stewart, or any of that glass of capitalisis and business men? There must be some canse for this great preference for Ben Wood and other lottery managers, or there would not be such marked determination to insist that the bonds of no other persons should be taken as seourity against the violation of the law. There have been several vague rumors afloat for the last three or four months about Ben Wood working in the in- terest of the radicale during the war under a mutual understanding, and that this lottery clause in the Internal Revenue law was his share of the profits of the alliance. The efforts of the present committee in Congress to sub- stantially retain this provision gives some color to these stories, to say the least. But it is not too late yet for Congress to remedy the evil, and we urge upon them the importance of radically changing the law in this respect. In the meantime let the Attorney General of the State and the courts here atiend to the viola- | tion of the statutes of this State. Eveven Mruioys ron THE Frespuen’s Bu- nEAv.—Upon the estimater of General Howard, Chief of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it appears that an item of eleven millions of dollars for the expenses of that establishment for the en- suing year has been reported in one of the ap- propriation bills before Congress, This is within two millions of the whole expenses of the government under John Quincy Adame. What tremendous strides we have made, to be sure, in expenditures and taxes since then, and especially since the late rebellion, when an appropriation in Congress of eleven millions is Tegarded as a mere incidental item in the way of charity. It must be given, however, it is urged, or a much larger number of destitute Southern whites than suffering blacks, de- pendent upon this bureau, will be apt to perish from hunger or nakedness. This may | be true, to some extent, and yet we fear that , reau is an establishment forefgn to the pury Poses and functions of the. genersl gov ment, and a sort of impértun i tiperio the several States conce! inconsistent the restoration of peace and the late States to the exercise of their local attributes Tt seems to us, moreover, tliat this burean, witl, the thousands of able-bodied blacks and whitep under its control, Onght to be able, from theig labor, to pay ita current expenses by this time We hope that this proposed appropriation, at all events, will be thoroughly sifted before i¢ is passed by the House, Retrenchment is the first essential if we would lighten the burdens of the general taxation and save the Treasury, The Rebel Cottom Loan—The Last Kick of the English Bondholders. The letter of the Secretary of State to Secretary of the Treasury, which we pub! this morning, in reference to the relief of distressed English bondholders of the cotton loan and to certain proposed new lish loans te “the cotton and tobacco States” the South, under the management of George MoHenry, of London, and said rebel bondholds ers and others, will be found to be a very curious and an entirely satisfactory State paper, It embraces a synopsis of the contents of cere tain papers referred to Mr. Seward by direction of the President and the Secretary’s passing remarks and final conclusion thereon. These papers include, first, a letter (March 10, 1866) to the President from the English bondholders of said rebelcotton loan, Second—A letter, same date, from the same parties to Governor Orr, of South Carolina. Third—A letter, same date, from the same parties, to Hugh McCulloch, Seer retary of the Treasury. Fourth and fifth—Twe letters from George McHenry, April 10, to the Secretary of the Treasury. The gbjecta go by these parties are: First, a copy at tho 6 tract between Erlanger & Co., of Paris, and the late rebel government of the so-called Confod- erate States, which, it is supposed, is in the possession of our government, with other do . ments on the subject; and secondly, the cotts- tenance or consent of the United States to cots tain new loans proposed to be raised in Eng» land, to the extent of £20,000,000, for the ré- development of our Southern industry in cof ton, tobacco, &. The English cement | the rebel cotton loan (some $13,000,000) ¢! that if they can get those documents of the sald contract they may yet be able to squeeze some money out of Erlanger & Co.; and thatif our government will give its moral support to thoap proposed new Southern loans, the parties comp cerned in giving the South a liberal hel; State and federal securities. Best of all, Contederate-English bondholders think that throngh these new loans they may, after awhile, get something from the gonerosity of the Souths ern States upon those aforesaid rebel coltom bonds. . Mr. George McHenry is the infallible cior of the English holders of these © ton bonds in these arrangements. great faith in his surpassing Onancial wisdom and patriotism, and he has great. faith tr him- self. The Secretary of State, however, after summing up their case, very coolly knocks Mr, McHenry on the head, aa 4 fire-cating rebel pamphlet writer and financier in Bogland dar- ing the late war, and then says that.in bia opinion “neither the nature of these sdyera communications, nor the matters discussed therein, nor tho form in which they are theres treated, nor the charactet of their author, noe that of their agent (MoHenry) is anch as'to de- serve consideration on the part of the goverm- ment of the United States.” This being suf- cient for the occasion, the Seoretary has ae more to say. Thus, then, ends the speculation of those English investments in that famous rebel cotton loan. Their thirteen millions of dol lars put into this business have gone up in a balloon. Erlanger & Oo. of Paris, and M. Erlanger’s hopetal -fatberin- law, Slidell, are supposed to have made & good thing of it. Laird &Co., the shipbuildes of the Alabama, Shenandoah, and those rebel rams, got a good share of the money, but upos the whole were losers, and the capture of Jo? Davis spoiled their calculations of mitiions of profits, Rebel “Confederate cotton” at twelve cents 8 pound, when it commanded from fifty te sixty in England, was a temptation which John Bull could not resist, with the conviction that the Southern confederacy was a sure thing. Now we prosume tbat with the cool dismissal of MoHenry the unfortunate Britishers will hardly hesitate to exchange those rebel “Confederate cotton” loan bonds for Confederate scrip, an@ this, no doubt, will still be furnished them on application by Erlanger & Co., or John Slidell, or, peradventure, by Jake Thompson or the Hon. Ben. Wood. City Intelligence, Pouce STArIeTIos FoR tas Quaarex Extaxa Mat L— The following table shows some interesting police sta tistics for the quarter ending May 1, 1866:—Property recovered and restored to owners, $20,863; money taken from prisoners and lodgers for safe keeping aud restored to them, $5,286; complaints (for violation of Corporation ordinances) aganst city raitroad cars, car drivers, hack~ men, expressmen, second hand dealers and Tutetligenes office keepers, 10,330, Coxvznnina Tut Onor oF Daacos.—In St, Thomas? free chapel Bishop Potter yesterday admitted to the or- der of deacons Mr. Thomas Marsden, long and favorably known as a minister among the Wesleyans, The s¢rmos was preached by Rev. Dr. Morgan, who also presented the candidate, and the Bishop was assisted in the com- maunion and other services by Rev. Dr. Johnson, of the Seminary of the Ct Tounessoe, and Rey. Momera. W. ¥. Walker and T. H. sil of Trinity chapel, and F. $i, hay The Coy! looked fneiys of 8. Thomas’ free ol ‘and clorgy, bode the newly or. Se tat Se or Sered deacon a hearty Muetixe ov Toe Fanuens’ Civs or tun Auumegy Le- enircre.—The club met yesterday afternoon at the Cooper Institute, Professor 8. D. Tillman being in the chair. Acommunication from W. R. Prince, Flushing, 1. L, giving directions for planting seeds, was read. & new improved farm gate was exhibited by Mr. C. T. Smith ,of Nyack, Rockland county, N.Y, Itis a double four inch hinge ai the post is attached ta te A communication from , Ae xk a diebury, N. ¥., was read. ‘ined of etah why some of his lambs are born slump or bench on the throat, from the size of a large to we tt th wee aa ge Tae oe oi ‘tbat this swell was tho of goitre. alter the Ful other communi re the boats are passing of the Phi Governor Certin bas issued a tun dar frog gtopeemannea tse memes Poinasipnia on the Fourth of 4 hand will give tnoreased value to Northera . % .