The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Orrio8 N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 813. AMUSBMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EY BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway, near wireet,—Mankera, Matinee at 14 o' Clock, Broome WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Micholas Motel.—Tux Evyas—Nan Tax Goon vox Notuina. QBORGR CHRISTY'S—Ocy Scaoor or Mrstretsy, pa, Musical Gaxs. &c.. Fifth Avenue Overa House, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-(ourta street. —Tm& SxxieToN ‘Wrernwass. Matinee at Two 0’ Clock, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, Beopoliian Hotel —Ermior.a® SINGING. Dance rn Tun Dring Briann. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Stwa. 1nd, Dancing BURLESQUKS, — HO, Dancin Bummasaues, &o—Tax Pair GUaKbias. BR¥ANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall way. Neato Comicauitins, BuRLESQUKS, wou: soot. SOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —1 as at Sk cSROQRLre ATHEN ZUM.—Ropert Heruer, tHe Geet NEW YORK MUSEUM OF = ORD FORE MUSEOM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty- and Fourth avenuc.—Exuisition or OxIGINAL Woras wy Living Artists. STUDIO BUILDING, 15 Tenth street. —Msan's Sratvz: mr Marnie. 3 Now York, Saturday, May 5, 1866. CONGRESS. the Senate yesterday nothing of importance was Uansacied, The bill providing for the payment of claims of Joyal persons for stores and subsistence furnished the army, was laid over until Tuesday next. {n the House a resolution expressive of regret at the attompted assassination of the Czar of Russia was unanimously adopted. A bill to pay a certain private claim growing out of the burning of vessels by the pirate Shenandoah was passed. The bill to revive the grade of General in the Army waa then taken under consideration, and an amendment to tho effect that there should be but one lientenant gen- eral horeafter, in case of a vacancy occurring in that office, was lost. Mr. Deming, of Connecticut, addressed tho House on the obligations of the country to General Grant. Mr Shellabarger claimed, as an additional bonor for the Gencral, that be had proposed the destruction of slavery a month before the President issued bis proclamation of emancipa- tion, Tho bill reviving the grade was passed finally, by vote of 116 yeas to 11 nays. It was originally intro- duced by Mr. Washburne, on the 16th of December last, nd reported back from the Committee on Mililary Af- Owvrs with amondments. A message from the President im relation to pardons granted and property seized as abandoned and belonging to a belligerent enemy, was received and ordered to be printed. The session to-day will be devoted to general debate. THE CITY. Matz one cape of cholera and two of varioloid were re- ported on the ship Falcon yesterday. The cabin pas- «engors of the England were allowed to come to the city; but the steerage passengers remain ou board. At tha meeting of the Board of Health yestorday ‘afternoon resolutions were adopted asking power from thy Gevernor to provide establishments for the deten- thom and accommodation of passengers arriving on in- focied vessels, and also to remove and provide for such Potions aa reside in cellars or dwellings, when, in the ‘opinion of the Board, such aetion becomes uecessary for tho prowrvation of public health. _ -Abthe meoting of the Board of Excise yesterday the pinion of the counsel was rendered on the right of a Aiquor deater to sell at more than one place on the same License. ‘The decision ts to the effect that a separate and Gintinct Jiconse is requisite for euch place. Several pro. teats wore ontered before the committe by the liquor Aoalons who were not endorsed by the captains and ac- doa taken on their cases. Two arrests were made in Now York and threein Brooklyn fer violations of the * daw A mooltng of the Missouri bondholders waa held at the ‘Jows Rooms in Pine street yesterday afternoon, W. B. Bunoan, I69q., presided, and the don. Mr, loot, a mem- of tho Missouri State Legislature, delivered a lengthy Shsoourse replete with information as to the condition of Po wovoral railroads in his State. A committee of baroe bondholders having been appointed to wait upon Seo Governor of Missouri and confer with him on the subject of their common interests, the meeting 1 journea, subject to the call of the Chair. ‘Vo stimulate the exertions of the parties engaged in @udoayoring to eftcct the capture of John Ross, the al. lagod hore of the Wal! street forgeries, a reward of five thouso4 dollars for his apprehension and an additional gm of ten per cont on all the stolen money recovered has een offered by the Union and Continental National Banks. The affair is atill in strte quo. In the Gaited States Cireuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, tho governmont gained a verdict for the tocovory of a quarier’s rent for a tore, withheld by the Ioasoa, on the ground that the store for that period had boon ko injured by a storm that it was untenable, and trat tho lessor had nogleoted to repair the same. The government claimed that by the Iaw of the State the losaor was not bound to keep the store ia question in Topair unless it was so provided in the lease, Judgo Clerke, in the Sapreme Court, Chambers, yer- terday decided to continue the injunction restraining the Now York Mail Steamship Company from selling the Rising Star, on complaint of Mr George Sumner, one of tho slockholders of the company, setting forth that fraud iad bean committed in a recent atterupt to eell the voows! The injunction preventing a sale of other vessels Of tho company was removed. The case of Carl Noelte, who is charged with embez. sling several thousand thalers, the property of Meyer & Co., bankers, Borlin, Prussia, se extradition @everal motions have been made alt of the P ian government, en again before Commission Nowton, but the Sheriff of New York, who has the ac- cused in custody at the suit of a party who has com- meaced Acivi! suit against him, «till decline Gor Nowtto to the United States officials, The matter hag been again adjourned. ‘Tho case of the United States vs John Lambert, who is charged with having stolen twenty thousand dol- lars in gold, the property of tho government, was re- Gumed yesterday Before Commissioner Osborn, Ade @itional oy sience having been taken the inquiry wae fur- ther say orned. Tw Lioket speculators brought an action svainet Mr. George Wood, of Wood's theatre, at the Third Judicial Diateict Court, yesterday, for interfering with them in the alo of Lickett opposite bia theatre. The complaint was diame by Justice Smith, Mr Noble made some experiments yesterday with Nitro glycerine at a qnarry in the neighborhood of Rightythird street snd Eighth avenue, He clearly @omonstratiod the terribly destructive nature of the Mever, a German, robbed an old gentieman famed Wornandes, on Thursday ovening, of $3,700 in gold, a: 446 Canal street, by applying chloroform, but by the watohfuiness of the proprietor of the e lishment, who sspected foul play, the whole amount was recover fH and (he robber arrested Anthony Reich, employed in the store No. 484 Righth | avenue, was burned so badly, on Saturday morning la that ho vxpired yesterday of his injuries A liltio git! named Adelaide Stineon fell into a pot of bolting wator, on Wednesday last, on Twenty-tifth street, end tied postorday of the injuries received Afr ocourred on Thursday night in the stables in tow 440 and 451 Seventh avenue, Tt was suppored to by ins vf incendiaries. Five horses were burned to oath ‘The [nas is eatimated at two thousand two han. Gred dollars ‘The strike among the laborers in the Williamsbarg fopowalk att!) continvee The steam 'p City of London, Captain Mirehouse, of he Loman line, til sait at half-past nine o'clock this Hatortoy) morning for Qoeonstown and Liverpool. The @eamship Aflemania, Captain Tran for Sonth empuon ant Hamburg; the Hermann, Captain Wonke. for “ou'thamoton and Bremen, and the Lafayette, for Brest aud Havre, all sail today. Tho mails by the City Of Louton sod Latavett! will close at the Vow Gites at eight A. M. and those by the other vessels at half-paat ten. Tho new steamship Sheridan, Captain E. W. Holmes, of the Cromwell Line, will sail for New Orleans al three P. M. to-day, from pier 9 North river, Mails will close ‘at the usual hour, The steamship San Salvador, Captain Atkins, will saul at three P, M. to-day, from pier No. 13 North river, for Savannah. ‘The steamship Quaker City, Captain William H. West, for Charleston, will leave pier No, 14 Kast river at three P. M. to-day. The stock market was strong yesterday morning, but afterwards became somewhat unsettled. Governments were strong. Gold closed at 1274; a %. ‘There was rather more doing in business circles yes- terday and a better feeling was prevalent. It having been ascertained beyond a doubt that the Brokers’ Tax law is unconstitutfonal, business proceeded as usual, and there was more done than om any other day this week on Change. The grocery market was firm. Coffee was unchanged. Cotton dull. On 'Change four was higher. Wheat also better. Corn easier. Oats firmer, Pork firmer. Beef steady. Lard a trifle higher. Whiskey dull and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. The Austrian troops at Matamoros are discontented and grumbling on account of not being paid. Forced loans are still made on the merchants, who are being driven away by the pressure upon them. Martinez, the liberal commandant at Almos, encountered a force of Maximilian’s troops near Villa del Fuerte and was defeated, losing three pieces of artillery. Garcia's libe- ral forces have broken up into small bands. Thirty- three persons had been arrested and tried by court martial for uttering sontiments favorable to Juarez, Further official confirmation of the capture of Chihua- hua by the libsrals has been received by way of San Francisco. A decided victory in Coahuila, at Santa Isabel, is aldo officially reported, over a hundred itnperialiste, tho French commander among them, being killed, and nearly two hundred captured, together with the artillery, baggage and munitions of war. Commissioner Rollins, of the Internal Revenue Office of the Treasury Department, has decided that the tax assessors are not obliged to send blank forms to the income tax payers. They must be obtained at the assessor's office, The Commissioner also rules that house rent actually paid may be deducted, but that the rentat value of property owned is not subject to deduction, The law, however, says directly that the rental value of a homestead occupied and owned by the taxpaycr is nob included in his income. The Governor has signed the City Tax Levy as origin- ally received by him from the Legislature, not, after correcting an alleged error, as was erroneously stated yesterday. Mr. Beckwith, Commissioner for the United States to the Paris Exposition, writes to Secretary Seward that there are as many assistant commissioners with him as he wants, and that persons really desirous of assisting the United States exhibition at that great fair can do 50 best at home, The Winooski returned to Eastport empty-handed from her chase after the Fenians yesterday afternoon. Captain Grace, an original Fenian in Boston, denounces O'Mahony in the columns of the Post and urges all to rally under Sweeny’s standard. The Merchants’ National Bank at Washington failed yesterday. The amount of its notes in circulation is one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, secured by United States bonds. In the Court of Appeals of tho State of New York de- cisions were recently rendered to the effect that parties to criminal prosecution were not entitled to testify on their own behalf; that goods consigned for sale on com- mission could not be seized for the consignees’ debts, Providing that no advances had been made specially on the goods seized, or that the consignees were not entitled by agreement to a balance of advances generally. The Kuoxville Convention called to propose measures for the separition of Kast Tonnessee from the rest of the State was in session on Thursday. A committee of three to bring the matter before the Logislature was appointed, and also « committee to prepare an address to the people of Fast Tenneaseo. Mrs, Jeff Davis and her little daughter were admitted to Carroll Hall to see Mr. Davis on Thursday. Tho meet- ing was witnessed only by the officer in attendance, but is reported to have been a most tender and affecting ono. Ii, is not known how long they will remain, Our correspondence from Havana gives an account of Several duels there between Spanish army oficers and the chiefs of the Cuban republican clubs, in which the Spaniards were worsted. The Sonate yesterday confirmed the appointment of Lowis D. Campbell, of Ohio, as Minister to the Republic of Mexico. In the Massachusetts House of Representatives yes- terday Speaker Stone ruled, that members of the House who would receive the benefits of the bill to equalize the bounties of Stato troops by reason of having been sol- diers would not be allowed to vote. The ruling was sustained. An old citizey, named Ben 0. Davis, in Memphis, made some remark during the recent riot as to the good disposition of a colored barber with whom he was con- versing, when he was instantly shot dead for it by some person unknown, Levi Mayhew was executed at Batavin yesterday for the murder of Theodore Durham. Another towboat, the Nick Hughes, exploded noar Memphis on Thursday night. Nine persons were killed. Henry Marsh, a broker in Boston, disappearea on Thursday, leaving worthless checks behind him oo which he bad realized from seven to ten thousand dollars, Pest, the wife murderer, cut his throat in his cell in the prison at Auburn yesterday. ‘The schooner Corsican arrived at Oswego yesterday, having on its trip from Hamilton, €, W., picked up two boys and a girl in an open skiff, of Oakville. The boys were nearly exhausted, and the girl died of exposure. The skiff hod drifted trom shore with three girls and the two boys, but two of the girls bad been washed over- board. General Sherman left St, Lonis yesterday for an ex- tended tour through Wisconsin, Kansas and Nebraska, with a view to observe the projected Pacific Railroad rontes and the proposed eastern termini. Governor Fentoy’s Potrriear, Heaura Bris. ror THe Metrovouis.—One of the good mens- ures that became a law at the recent session of the Legislature was that establishing a super- vision of our city government. This super- vision is similar in character to that which was to have been exercised by the Board of Con- trol, but it gives promise of a more effective } discharge of this important duty than we could have hoped from any board, however consti- tuted. The law authorizes the Governor to appoint commissioners to inquire into alleged abuses in any executive department of the city gov- ernment. A commissioner or referee ap- pointed to investigate charges against Brennan and the Financial Department, Cornell and the Street Department, any supervisor, alderman, commissioner or board, bas full authority to investigate the case by means of persons and | papers, and upon his report the Governor has | power to remove the delinquent official. This is thorough and must be effective. It is no half-way measure; it goee to the root, and by putting the responsibility in « definite place renders it hardly possible for | it to be abused. This Jaw is an admirable moral and political healih bill. Cornell, Bren- nan and the rest must clean up their bouses and rout out all the old official corruptions and impurities, or by and by, when the Gov- ernor comes round with his disinfectants, he may abolish their establishments altogether, as the Commirsioners of Health threaten to do with some other unclean places, | Toe Board of Control bill, a remedy mild in comparison with the one promised by this law, was beaten by men interested in city corrup- tion. An assessinent was made on the holders of places in the city departments, and the money so collected secured the defeat of that mild bill only to make ‘room for this more NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1866. Seoretary Stamton’s Coup d’Etat—The Radicals Flanked. Galileo was right. The world does move. The great gun of the radicals in the Cabinet, supposed to be firm as a rock, bas been turned against them. Secretary Stanton, the slayer of the Philistines, has declared in favor of President Johnson's restoration polcy. The fadical reconstruction scheme of the joint com- mittee of Congress has proved too radical for Stanton. Perceiving, with the sagacity of an old campaigner, that this scheme is sure to prove bad investment, he reizes the first occa- sion of a Cabinet council to express his un- bounded admiration of the wise and beneficent policy of the administration. This movement of the enthusiastic Stanton at this crisis is as remarkable as tho abandonment of the Jacobins by Danton in the midst of the bloody French “Reign of Terror.” Danton, like Stanton, from the profession of a lawyer, became‘a re- publican leader remarkable for his energy and terrible a.tivity against the rebels and cop- perheads of his day; but Danton, in pleading for mercy to the Girondista, brought upon him- self the wrath of Robespierre and the axe of the guillotine. Stanton, like Danton, lias ev!- dently had blood enough of his own country; men, and will also have to answer to his Robespierre of the convention; but, unlike Danton, Stanton, in having the balance of power on his side, will come off the victor. Thus the great outrage against justice and humanity perpetrated in the execution of Dan- ton will, as an event in history, be rectified in the triumph of Stanton. The lover of Plutarch may enturge upon this parallel between Danton and Stanton, for there are abundant materials in the public career of these two distinguished men to pursue the comparison to any extent; but our pur- pose is secured in vindicating the memory of Danton in the living and snecossful example of Stanton. Everything depends upon the circumstances by which we are surrounded. The same virtuous act which one day and in one place adds another victim to the guillotine, on another day and in another place opens the door to a new epoch of power and glory. Secretary Stanton, with more patience and calculation than his French prototype, Danton, uses the political factions of his day and awaitshis opportunity. Thus, with the decline of Cameron in the War Office, Stanton, by his adroit and successful flatteries of Gen. McClellan, secured the then powerful influence of that officer in his favor, till firmly fixed in the War Department, and then, quick to perceive the weak poinis of McClellan, Stanton, without remorse, out him down. A politician of the shrewd and energetic char- acter of Secretary Stanton, brought up in the school of Martin Van Buren and James Bu- chanan, and in the midst of a great revolution, perfected in his studies under Secretaries Sew- ard and Chagg, is not the man to play the sub- ordinate to Thaddeus Stevens a moment longer than is necessary. As it has. been the rule of men in power in allages of the world to seek a still higher elc- vation, we may assume that Mr. Stanton, as Secretary of War, has not forgotten himself in hia services to the country. We may assume that there was something of personal ambition in his shelving of McClellan and in his attempt to disgrace Sherman, which, under all the cir- cumstances, but for the prompt and effective interposition of General Grant, might Have been successful. We may even venture upon the theory that the Secretary of War, as a profes- sional politician, bas learned how to trim his sails to the popular wind, and that he trims them accordingly, and has no more reluctance in parting company with Forney and Greeley than he had in cutting loose from the old broken down hulk of the democratic party. Certainly, 93 he has little to lose and a fair prospect of much to gain bya cordial support of President Johnson, there is nothing very surprising in this decision of the Secretary of War with the report of the Committee of Fifteen before him, He sees that his radical friends in Congress are on the road to rnin, and he has no disposition to be numbered among the victims of their folly. The radicals profess to be incradulous; this thing is impossible, they say, but they are none the less alarmed. If Stanton deserts us, who can be trusted? This is the trouble. The discipline of the party camp is disturbed, con- fusion is tntroduced, and the conservative elements sympathizing with the administra- tion are invited to take possession of the field. With Stanton in cordial co-operation with the President’s policy, the State of Pennsylvania, in October, will cast out the faction of Stevens and Forney; for, according to the resolutions of their late convention, Stauton, in Pennsyl- vania, is the embodiment among the republi- cans of all that is good and great. And as Pennsylvania goes so will go the other great central States of the North, from New York to Milinois inclusive. Secretary Stanton, in falling in with the policy ot the administration, makes an important change among the figures on the Presidential chess-board; tor thus Secretary Seward, as the head of the New York conservatives, may be overshadowed by the more vigorous Stan- ton and the first gun of the fall elections from the Keystone State. It is probable, too, that the Secretary of War and General Grant, as in all their relations heretofore, will soon be found in perfect accord on this paramount question of Southern restoration. The princi- ples of Mr. Stanton may be patriotic, or they may be the seven democratic principles of Jobn Randolph—the five loaves and two fishes; or the principles of the Albany regency, Machiavelli and Mephistopheles combined; but whatever they may be, when Stanton aban- dons his party worshippers of the radical camp we are safe in the conclusion that they are weighed in the balance ond found want- ing; that they are near the end of their reign, and that their kingdom is already divided among the Medes and Persians. Tue Cor.ecrorsm.—Private advices from Washington are to the effect that the Senate will lay the appointment for Collector of this port on the shelf, It is reported that Mr. Mor gan ia the only republican Senator on the com- mittee in favor of his confirmation. The radi- cala have no doubt taken this course to save their friends in the Custom House from removal until after the fall elections, But this will make no difference. The Secretary of the Treasuty has full power to remove all the sub- ordinate employes in the Custom House and appoint others in their places. We call upon thorough measure. We will publish this law atm early diy. him to exercise this power immediately, and thus defeat the scheme of the radicals to retin office under an adminis‘ation which they are <i, ~ immediate stepa by proper legislation as will opposing. Let Mr. Clinch make out a list of | compel all of f&e nations? banks to place them- the radical employes and sen@ them on to Washington for the action of the Sesretary of the Treasury. There are plenty of competent men in the republican party, who sustain the policy of the administration, and will be glad to accept the positions thus made vacant. That Old Woman with the Cholera, It is singular how often a little common sense will change a panic into a laugh, On Thurs- day the whole city was in the greatest alarm on account of the discovery of the first case of cholera, and yesterday &verybody was joking about the very case that had caused all this alarm. It appears that on the corner of Ninety- third street and Third avenue there is a three- story frame house, which, up to Tuesday last, was inhabited by five families. The cellar was filled with stagnant water, the yard was crowded with goats and pigs, the surroundings were emphatically desoribed as filthy. Among the residents of this house was a Mrs, Jenkins, and about a week ago she undertook to empty the privy in order to use its contents as a fer- tilizer for her potato patch, She proceeded with this work until Monday afternoon, when she became very ill, sent for a physician and diod in a fow hours.’ Half a dozen doctors in- vestigated the cause of her decease, and it was formally decide@ that Mrs. Jenkins had died of Asiatic cholera. The whole neighborhood was excited, the terrible intelligence spread through the city like wild fire, and the Board of Health felt called upon to take very vigorous measures to prevent infection. Consequently the bed- ding and clothing of the deceased were imme- diately burned ; six barrels of chloride of lime were strewn over the premises; the dead body was removed to the morgue; the other re- sidents were ordered to vacate the house; a fire engine was employed to cleanse the build- ing, which the authorities threatened to burn if water d'd not purify it sufficiently, and shelter tenis were provided for the ,accommodation of the poor people thus turned out of their home. More than this, an agent was appointed to keep watch over the sanitary condition of every per- son who had visited the dwelling while Mrs. Jenkins was ill, and a learned investigation was commenced as to the reason why cholera should make its first appearance upon a high bluff, like that at Nivety-third street, instead of in some swampy locality. No one will deny thaf§all these precautions were very proper under circumstances, and that they were admirably\designed to forestall any danger of contagion. deed, their obvi- ous effect would be to scaretpeople out of any idea of having the cholera.§ To be afflicted with the disease is quite bad qnough; but when we are warned beforehand thet our clothing will be burned, onr houses} and furniture | drenched by fire engines, and lour neighbors quarantined in shelter-tents, if we bappen to die of the disease, no right-minded person will take the cholera if every possible can save him’ from it. But to err is human, and doctors’ decisions are not exceptions to the adage. Instead of having the desired eect the very proper precautions adopted made \every- body feel a little qualmish, and rumors of other chotera cases in Mulberry street and elsewhere began to be circulated through the city. The public, in fact, were fast sinking into that state of fear which is a positive en- couragement to epidemics, and not until yes- terday’s Henaup appeared did “that old woman with the cholera” change from 9 terror to a witticism. We published yesterday a letter from Mr. Jenkins, the husband of the deceased woman, in which he declares the statements in regard to the death of his wife decidedly er- roneous. The friends of Mrs. Jenkins are more emphatic in conversation than in print. They | assert that she did not die of cholera at all but of a disease somewhat resembling cholera’ with which she has been afflicted for more than a year past. Another correspondent puts for- ward the theory that Mrs, Jenkins dicd of in- huling the foul gases from the privy which she was emptying, ¢nd he shows that cramps in the stomach are among the symptoms induced hy such inhalations. ft is very likely that the husband and the friends are right and the doc- tora wrong. At any rate the public accept that conclusion. They remember the case of the old lady in Delancey street who was re- ported as having died of cholera, but who was afterwards ascertained to have been poisoned, They remember the case of the boy on the. west side of the town who died of disease of ; Success of such a measure in connection with selves on a more substantia) basis. Iuprovements ws THE Urry—Increase or Pow- tic Revenve.—There ia a vast amount of prop- erty on this island which, wader judicious man- agement, might be made to return large revenues to the treasury and thus relieve the enormous burden of individual taxation now raised for the expenses of the city and county government. Let us look, for instance, at the large water line on the frontage of the North and East rivers and the Harlem river, which, under the present system of piers and wharves, is a most unprolific souree of public revenue compared to what it might be and ought to be. Tf, instead of the rickety, dangerous and filthy wharves now in existence, which, instead of being @ means of large profit, require a consid- erable outlay annually to keep them in repair, the city government would only construct long docks of granite or iron, which might easily be extended to assume the dimensions of streets or boulevards, with commodious stores *t each” side, something on the plan of the Atlantic docks in Brooklyn, for example, the rents de- rived from them would bring millions into the treasury, and this plan would give us, besides, clean wharves, where the water traffic of ihe metropolis could be conducted decently, safely and efficiently. At present there is not onc tenth of the accommodation on our piers that we require, and as the business of the city ix increasing every year, in a short time it will be necessary to build more piers and wharves, or commerce will be wholly obstructed. We suggest, then, that a succession of solid granite or iron piers of the dimensions and character before referred to shall be con- structed along the entire water front of both rivers from Harlem and Manhattanville to the Battery. The cost will be amply repaid by the increased revenue and the economy in repairs, Tf, in addition, the next Legislature would op- point a respectable commission to open a con- nection from the Harlem river to Tubby Hook, uniting the North and East rivers at the upper end of the island, it would afford immense facilities for the transit of produce from the interior of the State, and give a clear water route round ihe city. This could be very easily done, and at very little expense. A trench twenty feet deep, and sufficiently wide for good sized steamers, sloops, schooners and canul boata, would be sufficient. The required cutting would not be quite a mile in length from Kings- bridge through Spuyten Duyvil creek to the Hudson river, which would require, perhaps, a little dredging to improve its availability for vavigation. The flow of the tidal waters would keep the canal clear enough at very: little cost. There is another method whereby the pubiic revenue could be enhanced, and that is by the reclamation of the waste marshes and meadows which line the water side all round the city. These lands are perhaps the richest for farming purposes in the vicinity. They cover over a million of acres, and yet they are at present en- tirely worthless, and do not-pay a cent of taxes to the Treasury. If they could be reclaimed their value might be estimated at a thousand dollars an acre, bearing proportionable taxa- ‘sion. The Legislature of New Jersey, we per- cefive, has passed a bill for the drainage of marsikes on that side not see wity Now’ York should not reap equal benefit by increasing the property of the city in the same way. In England large tracts have been reclaimed and rendered valuable. It would only require a well constructed, im- pervious wall to shut out the tidal flow until the surface dried by evaporation, and the land would become almost immediately available— probably in one year—for arable purposen, and it would return a very handsome income to the city. With our proverbial ingenuity some plan certainly can be devised to accom- plish this. It is unnecessary to add that the the improvements we have proposed in uniting the two rivers at the head of the island, and the construction of permanent wharves all round the city would be a great public benefit, and | would add many millions to the value of the property of the city. , Horrors on Sarproarv.—We have repeatedly | had occasion to refer to the horrible manner | in which steerage passengers are stowed away ; and treated on board emigrant ships. The the brain, tut who was at once set down | Intent case is that of the English emigrant as a victim of cholera, They can see noth- | steamship Queen, which arrived at this port a ing eo singular in the death of Mrs. Jen- | fay days ago. It appears trom the statement kins that they must call in the cholera to ac- count for it. If a woman who had been ill for a year did not die afier a week’s work at emptying a privy then there would be some room for asionishment. We hope, therefore, that the Bourd of Health will not burn down the house of Mr. Jenkins. The investigation as to the cause of the unhealthiness of high bluffs may also cense. Ii is like the old seien- tific puzzle as to why meat decayed sooner in alight cellar than in a dark cellar, which was finally settled by the discovery that meat did not thus dec: Let the Board of Health sup- press all such great nuisances as the bone boil- | ing esiablishments and preserve the public mind from panic, and we shall have no cholera here even though a few old ladies do happen to depart this life for a better during the sum- mer. But once start an uncontrollable panic and the city is doomed. Contarse or A Nationa Bank at WasninG- toy.— Our telegraphic despatches of this morn- | ing announce the failure of the Merchante’ National Bank at Washington. The billholders are all secured by the United States securities deposited with the government, and there is no possibility for loss on that score. But there is no doubt a different story to tell as tar as the depositors are concerned. They have relied upon good faith in the management of the bank. It is represented that the list of depositors is very large. As a matter of course there is great excitement among those who have trusted their funds to the bank. depository of the government; how much the general public have lost in this way does not appear. We fear that this is to be the fate of too many of these national bank institutions, They have been as a general thing organized on too loose a basis, without those safeguards which experience has shown to be necessary. They were the creatures of Chase, who con- cfived the idea that they would become a great political power, and a stepping stone for him to reach the Presidency. How many others are to follow this Washington bank time aloge can wll; but Gongryss should take such It was, we believe, a | | of the steerage passengers on board this stexm- ‘er that the berths were only twenty inches wide and were arranged in tiers of twelve , each. Two tiers formed one compartment, | each of which was about thirteen feet in length, | ten in breadth and eight in heighf. Twenty- four persons thus ocenpied one compartment, « space not more than sufficient for sixteen. Tie foul smell in the compartments, especially | during a gale of wind, which lasted the greater part of three days during the first week of the | voyege, was intolerable. During the gale it | was impossible for women and children to go | on deck, and the stench in the steerage during that time was abominable. The ship, in fact, | was overcrowded with passengers, One poor | woman had no berth at all; but another woman, | pitying her, allowed ber to sleep at the foot | of ber berth. Another woman, who had a child with her six months old, and for whore parsare | she paid £4 15s., wax allowed only one berth for herself and child. that under circumstances like these the out on board a vessel so crowded end so badly ventilated Another thing is mentioned as prevailing on board, which is # disgrace ic civilization: that is the indiscriminate manner in which the married and unmarried were bu i- dled together. Young unmarried women were obliged to dress, undress and sleep in the same compartment with men, merried ond un- | married. Altogether a state of things like that witnessed on board the Queen would scarcely among a cargo of Coolies, We again appes! passenger act, which shall peremptorily sorbic person than that now allowed by law. of cruel treatment to passengers by petty and | other officers of emigrant ships, and more strin- gent requirements should be made in regard jo the quantity as well os quality of provisions furnighed, Until Cougress takes hotd of tps Is there any wonder | cholera or some other pestilence should break | | be tolerated in a» tribe of Digger Indians or | to Congress for a‘amendment to the emigren’ — the overcrowding of passenger shipe and pre- | scribe a greater amount of area for each | Pro- vision should also be made for the prevention | \ ee ek ee subject wik® vigor and acts upon it promptly, we no doubt a/ball before long hear of ontrages and mortality 0 emigrant voagols that-will horrify the comunity. Tux Ransears SYOWING THE Croven Foor.— The radicals baye bad a great deal to say about their being the soldiers’ friends, but the action of the party in tive United States Senate reveals to the poblic the bhollow-heartedaess of their professions. Geneval Frank P. Blair, who resigned his position ia Congress to en- goge in fighting the battles of oar country, aud by his gallant deeds worked his way up to the foremost rank of our civilian generals, was aominsted by the President for Coector of in- ternal revenue, and the vwical# nod only re- fused to confirm him, but «ejected the appoint- ment. General Blair is reoognized as one of the most efficient officers in the volunteer ser- vice during the late war. Heverved with great credit to himself and his country in all the eam- paigns of General Sherman, and'was with phat officer in command ofa very important porfion of the army on the march from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and from there into» North Caro» lina, where Johnston surrenderet. He cer tuinly has earned the gratitude of tle public. vices, appointed him to an office, and! no per- gon can possibly raise a doubt in regard to his qualifications to diseharge the duties,‘ yet the Senate rejected him. Nor is thisall. Genervt Sickles, who has been in the foremost rank where the battle raged the fiercest, and has lost a leg in the service of his country, is ap- pointed Minister to a foreign country and: the Senate forthwith lays the appointment ox the table and refuses to confirm him. With this record, what becomes of the boasted friendabip of the radicals for the men who fought our tat- tles? Here is a direct refusal on the part of the radicals to allow thoze men who saved the nation to share its official patronage. It is well that they have shown the cloven foot thus early. The people can now see who are the true friends of our gallant soldiers—the radi- cals in Congress or the President. Tue LeGIs.aToRE AND THR MxRCHANDIN® Broxens.—No better commentary can be offered’ on the loose manner in which the Legisla- ture of this State acts upon measures brought before it than the announcement of the passage of the bill taxing brokers and commission merchants. Here is a measure which taxes all those men engaged in the commission and merchandise brokerage business out of exiat] ence, yet i¢ passes the Legislature without at- tracting any particular attention and meets with but little opposition from any source. The class of men who are affected by the bill by their energy and enterprise draw a large amount’ of business to this city. The benefit derived is not alone confined to goods pur- chased of the brokers and commission mer- chants, but parties once here secure gnp- ply in every other class of goods at point. This, creating a demand, opens the market and” furnishes inducement to wholesale dealers everywhere to send their wares and merchandise to ‘this point. *®ut here comes a bill, hastily passed by the Legis lature it seems, without any consideration and almost by unanimous consent, which, ifen- forced, will compel nearly every claas of mere chandise brokers and commission merchants to abandon their business and seek a livelihood the door against a large portion of the trade with foreign countries at this port, and drives it to other points. Had our Legislature beea called upon to enact laws tor the relief of Bos- ton and Philadelphia they could have adopted no measure more appropriate for that purpose than the bill in question. We trast that this wilt be « warning to our business men, and awaken them to the necessity of electing men to the Legislature hereafter who will look after the interests of ourowm State, and mot pase bills for the special benefit of some other city and State. If there is any- thing that will arouse owr merchants and busi- ness men to do their duty in this respect, this ought to have that effect. The bill to tex mer- chandise brokers ought to open the eyes of the public to the necessity of sending mem to the Legislature who have brains enough to know what they are voting for. In the meantime we trust that those injured by the measure will unite together and test the law in the courts. In this is their only hope until the assembling of the next Legislature. Unless it can be set one side in this form the basiness of the metropo- Jis, taking in view the effect of the incon- siderate action of the Legislature and the cholera combined, will be deplorably dull during the summer. Obitaary. WILLIAM HUTCHINGS, A VETERAN OF THR BRVO~ LUTION. The country ig not likely to be searce of veterans for @ few generations to come, The veterans of the war for the Union are plentiful enough now; but there are now alive only three vetorane of the war that made the coun- try worth fighting for and the Union worth preserving. On Thureday Inet Willem Hatchings, who was one of te fowr men borne on »ifow! pension roll as revolution. 'y soldiers, ‘euobecot, Maine, bebina him Somnel Cook, of Harfeld, Mace. ; Samuel of Carroll county, New Hampehire, and James iy, f Missour)—the latter a substitute tor one of the F. i. of revolutionary days. William Hatehirigs was bora unexpl part chasett: & of colony years old when, the battle ought, and beat a drom for the the standard of i . ways neglected draminer and bigh privates, fails tw tell us whether Od iggy tbrough the whole war or occasionally pulled a He 20! throu, oo ate and y, in which he bid- hen Congressman John Law their seclusion, to Congres tamed & bounty for each of three hundred dollere—a sum just sufficient to. make their poverty reepecteble, if they worked hard enough. y Hutchings, we are told by a despateh announc nm death, thet something moro ie to be done, “Special honors are to be accorded to the of the de. dat the funera! on Monday next." shal! et tie that greet and rich repablies Iie ors arr History, which b Coroners’ Inquest. baumy Beasepssaunan Cage Dat Saturday ng George Dellgman, @ led ip the emplog of Garnw Winter, proprietor of a paint store at 484 Righth avewie, entored the cellar with alighted lamp, and while there peel the lamp into @ paint pet, whieh inunediataly wool, fire, The niorm was given, when Mr, Winter ram down staire and eeized the burning pet for the purpose of vet. At that time Anthony Beicl, ©, was m tbe act of into ‘ , when he met Mr Winter an the whieh | were ‘very narrow, The pot becoming hiy hot Mr. Winter let it avop, in consequense of whieh be was med and the clothes of Mr. Releh took fearfully burned that he died a e ey 290 Wost Thir veroble Feld an ingest on the of death from borne accidentally r* by the Jory, Decemmed wae thoriy. of age, and a native ot Germauy, Drak reow ScaLus—Coroner Gover yeatorday hold vest as 261 Wess Twenty-fitth street, om the bude | of Adelaide Stinson, a Hite’ girl three and a half yeas | Of age, Whose deuth was the result of sealds seeidentally theeived on Wednesday last, by falling inte a pot af toile rad been removed From the stove and while Mrs. Stinson's hark wae : din ronning bmokworls fyil ugto te v1 Was songs as galgd hove latrer was 90 - t 2 The President, appreciating his vathable ser- « ane |