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

6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1866.~—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance, k of the sender, Money sent by mail will be None but bank bills curreut ia atthe New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Annual eubseription price:— cents per copy: Ten Copies. Postage five cents per copy for three months, Volume XXXI. No, 126 AMU: TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, 4 near Broome street.—Mazxrra. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nichol: Botel.— lus Evves—Nan ‘tHe Goop ror Noruinc. yg GEORGE CHRISTY’: uD Sowoon oF Minste os, Musical Gus. tv.. Fifth Avenue Opera Hous Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘Twenty-fourtn street.—Tux Tun! Graces, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadw iy, oppoalta Batpvaiitan Hotel —Gruior.ay SiNatva DawctNn. o.— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 21 Bowery —Stva FRG, Dancinc, Buniusques, &c.—One Huxpeep Yaans NOR, BRYANTS' MINSTR! way.—Neano Come. Mecianica’ Hall, 472 Broads Bunuesques, &¢.—Mazerra. HOOLEY'S OPERA H¢ a. —Ernorian Mine smeLsy—Bairans, Bur ‘ANTOMIMES, BROOKLYN ATHEN.#UM.—Roneer Hevurr, rae Geet Consvaor. NEW YORK MUSE!M O¢ ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— pen trom i0 A.M. wil lv? M NATIONAL DESIGN, Corner of Twenty: —Exmipition of Ontain at New York, Sua jay, May 6, 1866. THS NEWS. CONGRESS. ‘Tho Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House the generat debate, for which the day was set apart, consisted almost entirely of attacks upon the President by Mr. Ingersoll and upon the Blair family by Mr. Lawrence. THE CITY. The Excise Committeo an applications for liconse to soll hquor were ongaged yesterday morning, and dis- pored of about one hundred and fifty cases of dealers, ‘who protested against the action of the police captains i rofusing to endorse their form for application, But few wore decided on favorably. ‘The total number of appli- Cations filed at the office of the Inspector of Excise is three thousand five hundred. To-day is the first Sunday, ‘under the new law, and those who wish to imb.be to-day should have prepared for the emergency yesterday. ‘The Aldermanic Committee on Streets held a meeting yesterday to hear parties interested in the proposed widening of West strect. Two gentlemen only spoke against the project, while one advocated it, The com- amilice promised to hoid another meeting before repori- as usual on Saturdays, both in foreign and domestic merchandise. Sugar was firm. Coffee dull, Cotton firmer for even middting. Petroleum scarce and firm, but quiet on 'Change, Flour was higher; so was wheat; but corn favored the buyer, Oats ruled firmer. Pork was also firmer, Beef was steady. Lard Armor; and whisky dull and nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. Our San Francisco correspondent, who is to accompany the expedition of Colonel Bulkley and witness the laying of the Russian-American telegraph, gives in his letter publshed this morning a very valuable résumé o tho labor already done on this great work, An historical sketch of the first campaigns of the expedition shows the difficuities encountered and overcome during the first season, together with descriptions of the routes which have been surveyed and over which it is expected the line will be laid during the present year. We also give seme interesting reminiscences of the lost Atlantic cable, and particulars of the preparations to attempt to lay a new cable. The letter of our correspondent in Kingston, Jamaica, dated the 24th of April, to which we referred in tho ‘Heracp of the 4th inst., appears in full In our columns this morning. It contains very interesting matter rela- tive to the close of the government commission inquiry concerning the causes of the late rebellion, with a de- scription of the present condition of the istand—amili tary, civil and religious, The execution of Levi Mayhew, the murderer of Theo- dore Durham, took place at Batavia, Genosee county, on | the 4th instant. It appears from the confossion of the crimipal that the murder was committed at the sugges- '] tion of the wife of the victim, who declared that she was “sick and tired of her husband.” The culprit had mado several unsuccessful attempts tocscape, At his execu- tion he expressed the hope that his fate aud doom might prove a warning to all young men. George E. Gordom, who has been on trial for soveral days past at Scoharie, N. Y., for tho murder af Owen Thompson, was yesterday found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the State Prison for life. ‘The banking house of Maury & Co., Washington, sus- pendea payment yesterday. The firm is said to have been involved in the Merchants’ National Bank. Almost every county in East Tennesse? was repre- sented in the Union Convention at Knoxville for the purpose of establishing a new State, to be called Fast Tennessee. The ‘onvention adjourned Py Friday. A verdict of Gfteen thousand dollars damages for false imprisonment was assossed on Friday in the Hudson county Court of Now Jersey. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at Troy, N. ¥., was burned last evening, supposed to have been the work of one of the former inmates. The loss is estimated at $10,000. Wone of the inmates were injured. A fire which destroyed the depot of the Fifth street Railroad Co., in St. Louis, on Friday, also consumad oue hundred and forty horses and mules. Tho loss 1s esti- matod at $55,000. Mr. Moses Ward, the father of Governor Ward, of Now Jersey, died in Newark yestorday. General Grant’s Promotion.—Thaddeus Stevens and that “Higher Office” in Reserve. The House of Representatives, by a nearly unanimous vote, has passed the bill “reviving the grade of general of the army of the United States,” and authorizing the President, when- ever he shall deem it expedient, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a general of the army of the United States, to be selected from among those officers in the military service of the United States most distinguished for courage, skill and ability; who being commissioned as general, may be authorized, under the direction and during the pleasure of the President, to command the ing on the maitor. Tho strike of the ship carpenters, joiners and canlkers of New York and vicinity, which was inaugurated five weeks aco, to put into force the eight hour system of Aabor, still continues, with very little prospect of a satis- factory understanding between the mechanics and their employers, The men receive aid from the various trade societies throughout the country, and are thus enabled to hold out against the old regulations of ten hours. A delogation of Indians from the far West have beon sojourning in our midst during the last few days. They lef the umbrageous shelter of their forest glados to come to the pent-up, dusty confines of the white man, for the purpose of negotiating a sale of some of their Tich lands, near Vermillion lake, Minnesota. In this they havo been entirely succcasful, and the lands will be id for in the true Indian custom—that is, part in oney, part in goods, and the whole to be paid within Bwonty years, They leave town to-day for their wig- ‘wams and papooses, highly delighted with the sale they Davo effected, and with their visit to their pale-faced * Brothers. ‘The guoboats Augusta, Ashuelot and iron-clad Mianto- nomoh, of the Eastern flying squadron, will sail from this port to-day for Eastport, Me, The gunboat Sham- rock was to have jed from Philadelphia for tho same destination yesterday. ‘The Fenian Senators wore present in preliminary ses- sion in this city yesterday. An inquiry is to be made nto Steplions’ management of the Irish department, and he is said to be held morally responsible for the fleecing ef the Brotherhood here. The Killianite circles are again €0 be in judicial conclave to-day. In the United States Commissioners’ Uffice, yesterday, vefore Commissioner Osborn, the case of John Lambert, ‘who has been charged with having stolon $20,000in gold, the proporty of the United States, eamo on again for further hearing. Mr. Joseph Bell, Assistant District At- torney, summed up on behalf of the government, Com- missioner Osborn expressed a wish to be made acquainted with the contents of a certain missing letter that has re- ference to the matter, and said he hoped to be able to pronounce his judgment on Monday (to-morrow). The General Term of the Supreme Court met yoster- day, and rendered a number of decisions. On applica- tion of Mr. Charles O'Conor, Mr. Enoch Louis Lowe, formerly Governor of the State of Maryland, was, with others, admitted to practice in the courts of this State, The May term of the law courts will commence to morrow. Tho most important case on the calendar is that in relation to the will of Madam Jumel, which is on the calendar of Part I. of the Supreme Court, William Browne, alias Barron, was arrested and taken before Commissioner Stilwell yesterday, charged with attempting to pass a twenty dollar counterfeit bill on Henry ¥. Repper, bookkeeper for George Shaffer, No. 127 avenue B. The caso was adjourned till Tuesday nex! ‘ Ferdinand Buesche, who was arrested a few days ago on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Newton, on the charge of committing forgeries on various bankers in Mecklenberg-Schwerin, vofuntarily agreod to return to that place and surrender himself to the authorities of his own country, was discharged yester- day (rom the custody ofthe United States authorities and sailed for Europe, ‘Tho wills of the following persons have boon admitted t probate during the pust week by Surrogate Tucker: — Mary FE. Weaver, William Gray, Rebecca 8 Ives, Wil- iam Quanzer, Christine Linderman, Minna & Wilson, Frederick A. Thibault and William Forgay. The only ‘ones containing bequests of public interest are the Inst two, Froderick A. Thibanlt boqueaths to the American Bible+Soctoty $250, and Willham Forgay bequeaths to the American Bible Soetety $2,000; to the Trustees of the Seventh Presbyterian church, $1,000; to the Society for the Relief of Aged and Indigent Fomaies, $2,000, to the American Sanday School Uaion, $1,000; to the Trus- tees of the Easthrn Dispensary, $1,000; and to the Society for the Relief of Half Orphans and Destitute Children, $1,000. In the Brookiyn Surrogate Court last week the wills of dhe following named deceased persons were admitted to probate —James Whittian, Charles Ketsoy, James J. Dillon and C. L. Denntington, all of Brooklyn. Letters of administration were granted on the estates of Wn. H. McDonald, Jobn Donnelly, Jobn M. Skillman, Sarah L. McDermott, Catherine Quinn and C. L. Valentine, all of Brooklyn. ‘The total number of deaths in Brooklyn during last week wore 125, of which 25 were men, 31 women, 48 boys and 21 girls—n decrease from the previous week. ‘Tho principal causes of death were consumption, pnon- monia, diseaso of tho brain, dobility, convulsions and paralysis. Pour more alleged robbers, charged with being impl- ented in tho Adams Express robbery last January, were arrested yesterday ‘The stock market was quiet bat firm yesterday. Gov- ernments were strong. Gol closed at 127%. ‘There was leas excitement among the brokers In for- a» twerchandiee yesterday, but business was moderate, armies of the United States.” In other words, the object of the bill is to confer the next higher rank of general, upon Licutenant General Grant, the victorious champion 6f the Union, and justly recognized by “the oldest, as the greatest general of the age.” In support of this measure Mr. Deming, of Connecticut, had a grateful task in recapitulat- ing the marked events in the glorious military career of his hero, and the task was gracefully performed. Mr. Raymond next took the floor, and enthusiastically supportod the bill. “Not only this,” said he, “but let whatever else can be done be done with free, hearty, cordial good will, such as that with which the nation always rewards those who serve the people.” At this point the venerable Thaddeus Stevens, who keeps a vigilant eye upon Raymond, spoke, first, in favor of an amendment, limiting the grade of lieutenant general to one officer, and then said:—“I agree with the gentleman trom New York, who is willing not only to promote General Grant to this offiee (of gene- ral), but, as I understand him, and I hope I do not misunderstand him, to a higher office, whenever the happy moment shall arrive.” This happy hit of the pungent old gentleman from Pennsylvania, it appears, was received | with laughter and applause—the laughter, we presume, emanating from the radicals, at the expense of Mr. Raymond, as a supporter of President Johnson, and the applause in approval of the nomination of General Grant by Mr. Stevens as the radical candidate for the next Presidency. Mr. Delano, of Ohio, opposed the Stevens amendment. He wanted the bill as reported, for “he wanted the American people to be permitted to say that (with Grant’s promotion) Sherman should take the place (as a lieutenant general) now occupied by Grant” And so the bill was passed, and the attempt of Stevens to shut out Sherman failed. But the nomination of General Grant for the Presidency by the radical leader of Congress sa more significant movement. It shows that against President Johnson’s successful and popular Southern policy this radical Con- gress upon its own merits cannot stand, and that the great name of General Grant is to be employed to hold this Congress and the republican party together, in opposition to the administration. Stevens bas evidently become alarmed at the desertion from his Committee of Fifteen of the hitherto inflexible radical Secretary of War. General Grant may go next, unless promptly looked after. But this desperate game. General Grant has nothin fear, and has no favors to ask of any faction or party. He is so strongly intrenched in the affections of the people as to be absolutely independent of parties and party managers. He is, moreover, a practical man and a firm believer in practical measures and results. In judging, therefore, between the restoration policy of the President and that of Congress he will judge the tree by its fruits. lyrhe reconstruction schemes of Congress, from present appearances, will come to nothing between the two houses, How, then, can Gen- eral Grant be expected to side with a Congress and a faction which have failed, and against the administration which has been practically successful in its measures of reconstruction? - Secretary Stanton, sagacious and vigilant polttician, takes a livelier interest in the shift- ping political: currgnts of the day than General T Grant, who can afford to rest apon his oars and quietly look on. Stanton, however, in cutting loose from the Reconstruction Committee of Congress, seos that the populer tide is setting in the opposite direction, and that the issue between Congress and the President in going tions, two years in advance of the next Prosi- dential election, may result in a new organiza- tion of parties for that contest. We look for a reconstruction of parties which will bring the bulk ofthe Union party of the war, including the army, into the party of the administration; and in this event, if General Grant is not the candidate of Andrew Johnson, Johnson will be the candidate of Grant. The party in power, with their two-thirds majority ‘in each house of Congress, foundering in the radical quagmire of reconstruction, will not be extricated by call- ing upon Hercules, They must extricate them- selves or give way to the administration. It is the height of presumption on their part to sup- pose that General Grant will consent to screen them from their blunders and their responsibili- ties to the country, The Concert Season, Theatres. A remarkable increase in the popular taste for concerts at which musio of the best class is introduced and fairly interproted is observable in this community. It has been growing for a long time, and the patronage extended to man- agers of concerts and to artists is the beat Proof that their efforts are appreciated. It must continue to be 0 as long as this kind of entertainment is well conducted. There never ‘was @ season whea the concert rooms were bet- ter attended or more constantly occupied than the present. It is not difficult to discover the cause of thia, Music of a better class than was ever before offered was almost universally found in the concert rooms; and more care was taken to do justice to the works of the great com- posers. The judgment of our community is quickened, and they will not tolerate either in- different music or bad performers. The result of the concert season now about to draw to a close proves that the musica! public have not fa‘led to support the enterprise of the concert managers when their duties were conscientious- ly pe: formed. One good effect which the concerts have produced is the introduction of several Ameri- can artists of various merit, Let us take Miss Sterling as an example of one good singer who is certain to make a mark by careful study and well applied experience; and there aro many others, who require only a little familiarity with the stage to enable them to take a place in the list of American artists which is already assuming a very respectable position before the world. The Philharmonic and Mendelssohn societies, some of the purely German singing societies, the concerts of chamber music of Mason and Thomas, and the symphony soirees of the latter gentleman have all done a great deal to elevate music in this community, as well as to supply along-felt want of the musical public. All these benefits will be greatly enhanced when the new theatres aro completed. We expect that the French theatre will supply us with all those de- lightfal light operas that are so popular in Paris, and are equally suitable to New York, so that we shall hear the leading airs whistled by our young men in the streets and sung in the parlors; and those pleasant dramas and vaudevilles that will comprise the finishing course in the study of the French language for our young ladies fresh from the school routine of their teacher. ee pi. We do not know how the Fréneti theatre fs going to be conducted so far as the privilege of the stockholders is concerned; but we hope that these individuals will not be as grasping as the stockholders of other houses; that is to say, that they will not appropriate all the best seats, to the exclusion of people who are willing to pay for them. It should satisfy stockholders to receive their dividends with- out claiming the best seats in the house. Own- ers of stock in other concerns are content with the percentage which it brings, and we see no reason why owners of stock in theatres and opera houses should claim extra privileges. The opening of the French theatre is prom- ised for the middle of this month. In Septem- ber next it passes into the hands of Mr. Grau, for a season of alternate nights, when the grand Italian tragedienne Ristori, with an effi- cient company from Europe, will make her first appearance in this country. Grau has com- pleted all his arrangements with the great actress, secured the theatre and is prepared to give us a treat in the fall which we hardly cal- culated upon, and which will be all the more welcome for that. We understand that Ristori looks forward with great pleasure to her American visit. Bhe does not forget, we sup- pose, how cordially Rachel, the representative of French tragedy, was received here. With the promised light operas and dramas at the opening of the new theatre during the summer season, and the advent of the cele- brated Italian (ragedienne in September, we cannot be much mistaken in anticipating a great addition to our enjoyments from this es- tablishmeni. Tue Nero Riors iv Memputs.—We have pub- lished accounts of the collision betweon the whites and blacks in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. It appears that the municipal affairs of the city are conducted by white men. The police regulations are shaped accordingly. The military, however, are mostly blacks; and the city is, in a measure, under black military law. There is buta small detachment of United States regulars (part of the Eighteenth regi- ment) in the city. The accounts furnished give us a list of Killed and wounded, black and white; a list of casualties that would have been considered in Europe the beginning of a revo- tutionary outbreak; but we find the case dif- ferent in this instance. While the whites and blacks were fighting, there stepped in a com- pany of United States regulars, and under their bayonets ordor and peace were restored. This black riot in Memphis should teach Congress and the War Department a lesson. It may be that this riot is to be repeated in all parts of the South where negro troops are stationed. We hope not. But no one ean be blind to the fact that there will be difficulty in carrying out any plan of reconstruction if those two hostile elements, no doubt purposely placed so by the radicals, a black military force to overawe a loyal white population, come together. In the Memphis business we see that a small detachment of United States regulars suppressed all difficulties. Is it not better, then, to have in all disquieted districts the negro troops withdrawn and their places supplied by United States regulars? If one regular is worth » hundred black soldiers the United States Treasury will gain much by the the New exchange, and the country be saved eh outrages as have lately occurred in ‘The subject is worthy the consideration of Con- before the people in the approaching fall olec- ! gress and the War Department i Four, ‘Leven, Forty-four in Deep Water. Mr. Scott, of New Jersey, comes into court and alleges that he has been swindled out of forty thousand dollars by dealers in “lottery tickets and policy slips.” He gives their names, The most widely known of the number is Mr. Ben Wood, formerly a member of the United States Congress, now a member of that august and honorable body the New York State Sen- ate. Mr.Scott goes into particulars. He gives the very manner of the swindle, showing a fa- miliarity with the processes that is astonishing tm a green one, which, of course, he must be by his losses. Scott tells us how he purchased and continued to purchase tickets and slips of various venders in the city—gambling on draw- ings to be made in another State. He then tells us how the numbers were drawn in that other State, and ‘then how the drawn numbers were manipulated and changed to suit the tickets and slips sold in this or other cities by the agents of the said Ben Wood and the rest. That is, if the sales in tickets or slips had run largely on any certain number and that num- ber should happen to be drawn, so that the State Senator above named and his friends should be in danger of losing largely, then, as Mr. Scott alleges, this honorable Senator and his friends would change that number, substi- tuting for it in the published lists some other number on which they would lose less or not atall. And having lost forty thousand dollars on this game, Mr. Scott prays that it may be restored, We are very happy to know that the light is to be let in on the lottery and policy business; that it is finally to be made the duty of the courts to inquire into a piece of gigantic knavery that we have become weary of de- nouncing. Weare glad of this, but not be- cause we sympathize with Mr. Scott. We may, perhaps, be permitted to have our doubts as to the ideality of this innocent man from New Jersey—this badly swindled countryman who knows the lottery game so weil; who spends forty thousand dollars for tickets and slips in three years, and yet can tell how the cheating is done, to the least particular. Is he a man recently escaped from any of the New Jersey insane asylums? Is he the Mr. Scott to whom the coon came down? Is he some hitherto un- heard-of Jersey millionaire who can afford to do this for fan, as some magnificent fellow used to make kites of thousand pound notes, and raise them only to cut them loose? Or, is he a Jersey philanthropist who has played only to accumulate evidence against the gamblers in order that he might prevent them from longer plundering the infatuated wretches that are kept in the gutter by this robbery? Whois he? Whatishe? Or, not being a lunatic, a millionaire or a philanthropist, is it possible that he is himself one of these gamblers ousted by the rest for wanting even the honor that ought to be among thieves, or that he is a per- son who wants to be one of these gambiers and cannot get in, and takes this method for his revenge? No matter. From whatever motive he acts, the result will be the same as to that part of this matter in which the public interest lies; this most tremendous and most villanous the gambling systems that disgrace our city | will be laid bare; its authors and upholders will be exposed to that full measure of public intamy that they have managed hitherto to escape, and may poasibly be consigned to that prison discipline they have so richly earned; and if this mythical Mr. Scott assails one set of policy gamblers only in the interest of another set, let us hope that he will so damage the business by his exposures that it will be worth but little when he geis it. If the rogues have fallen out, the honest men may come by their rights so far that this great system for the de- moralization of our poorer population will be quite broken up. Docrors Disacreemwo Apout tar CnorERa.— We make room this morning for soveral com} munications from allopathic and homeopathic physicians in regard to the cholera. It would be quite useless for us to give any opinion as to the merits of the question which these cor- respondents discuss. Just as there are differ- ent sects in religion, 0 there are different schools of medicine, and any attempt to recon- cile them before the millennium will be impos- sible. The allopathists will always believe that the homevpathists administer water and sugar instead of medicines, and the homeo- pathists will always believe that the allopath- ists scare and dose people to death with their powerful purgatives and emetics. It is our opinion that the less anybody has to do with doctors the better. If the homeopathists can cure cholera more surely, easily and quickly than the allopathists the public will soon find it out, and vice versa ; but if the Board of Hi is to give an equal chance to all the physi the hydropathists, the clairvoyants, the mes- merists, the Thompsonians, the herbalists, the Swedish curers, the gangrados and the patent medicine men ought to have their share. Frovrismne Conprrion or tie Society ror THE Prevention or Crvetty To Axtmats.—We publish elsewhere a communication from the Treasurer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, giving « list-of the contri- butions of several parties, who, we take it, are members of the society. I appears from this exhibit that the organization bids fair to receive ample funds to carry out the intentions of its founders. Mr. Bergh, the President, has also an excellent list of names to select his sub- ordinate officers from, and can place on his list of detectives men who will do honor to any office. Only imagine what dignity will be given to the society when Angnst Belmont and Marshall O. Roberts, Hamilton Fish and Jobn D. Wolfe, Wm. B. Duncan and A. T. Stewart, Jas, Lenox and Henry Clews are arrayed in their appro- priate uniforms, with the badges of their offices, and parade our streets to detect and arrest parties guilty of violating the law under which the society is formed. Belmont walks up Broadway and discovers an old decrepid horse limping aloag, draw- ing a heavily laden cart, and immediately notifies the cartman that that is cruelty to ani- mals, The cartman at once replies: “What business is that to you, sir?” and very signifi- cantly notifies him to go to that orthodox place which is supposed to be hotter than any other place in existence. Whereupon Mr. Belmont exhibits the badge of his office, jumps upon the cart and arrests the impudent driver. The limping horse is at once unhitched and taken ty Elysian fields, there out and permit- tod to feed for the balande wine Mr. Dunean walks tp and down Wall street end diggovers that the bplle are pitehing into . the bears unmercifully, tossing them into the air and causing general havoc. He sees that this is cruelty to animals, displays his badge and thereupon makes an indiscriminate arrest of the bulls for violating the law. A. T. Stew- art, having had considerable experience in watching the city railroads, could be detailed to look after the several fines. In the discharge of this duty he discovers a car so densely packed with men, women and children that an arm sticks out of one place, a head here and a leg there, something after the order in which calves were transported through the Streets before the society of which he is a member was organized. This as a matter of course he declares to be a gross cruelty to animals, and at once hauls up the company for trial. Thus it will be seen that great good can be accomplished and the city relieved from many of the unpleasant scenes which are now daily transpiring. There is certainly a wide field for our public spirited men to display their genius and perform great service to the city, much to the benefit of those animals which are daily suffering from the cruelties practised upon them. Immigration—What Ought to be Done a With Regard to It. The great tide of immigration that has been setting in lately on our shores and that in- creases in volume every month as the summer advances, has not received the attention it merits, Within the last month, ending April 30, there arrived at this port alone from Europe twenty thousand four hundred and seventy-eight emigrants. Ten thousand six hundred of these came from Liverpool, and nearly seven thou- sand from the ports of Bremen and Hamburg. The first wero mostly Irish, and the latter were Germans. Twenty-eight steamships and twen- ty-vight sailing vessels were employed in con- veying these emigrants from Europe to New York. Since our war closed, and the resources and grandeur of the great American republic have become better known, the desire to emi- grate to this country has spread far and wide over the European continent. The atten- tion of the people everywhere has been aroused to America, and the thousands of letters that are going by every mail from the brothers, sisters, parents, chil- dren and friends of people in Europe, who are settled here, convey information of the bound- lessness of our resources and the glory of the country. Every arrival, therefore, is the advance guard of a larger body. With the full restora- tion of peace and harmony in the United States this tide must continue to swell. There is room enough and to spare for all Europe here, and we can scarcely conjecture what the emigra- tion to this country will be. The means the emigrants bring with thom, and the value of their labor in increasing the national wealth, are worth to us a vast amount. The twenty thousand and upwards who arrived in April at -this port only may be reckoned as an addition of twenty millions of dollars to the wealth of the coyntry.. This, therefore, is a ‘subject we A savin ita general bearing and fe. ~ ‘ me, per # or the fror have been iu. these vessels carry over # -.W.. eleven hundred passengers, with the poorest’ accommodation. They are huddled together like slaves in the pen of a slave trader. The appearance of these poor creatures when they land shows plainly how they have been treated. The wonder is, not that the cholera or ship fever, which was engendered on board lately and which has created so much anxiety in the city, made its appearance, but we may be surprised that it has not killed more of the emigrants. The shipping merchants are reaping a rich har- vest by this trade, and they are so grbedy of gain that they lose sight of humanity, decency and public opinion. We call upon Congress, therefore, to pass a law without delay regulat- ing the transportation of emigrants, fixing the number that each vessel may carry according to its tonnage and measurement, and prescrib- ing such rules as the comfort and health of the emigrants require. Not only does bumani- ty demand such an act, but it is to our interest to make the voyage across the Atlantic as safe and agreeable as possible. The sufferings and danger from disease which have come to our notice lately are calculated to frighten those who are disposed to emigate from undertaking the voyage. It is to our interest to promote emigration, and consequently to provide for the safety and comfort of the emigrants as far as this can be done by legislation. There is another view of this subject relative to emigration which our shipping merchants and Congress ought to consider. We see by the number of vessels employed what an ex- tensive and a profitable business it is. Yet all this is done by foreigners, and by English ship- pers chiefly. Why is it that we do not have the business, or at least a large portion of it? There might have been some reason for letting foreigners take this and other shipping busi- ness from us during the war; bat there is no reason why we should not have at least a share of it now. Cannot we build as good vessels and sail them as well and as cheaply as the English or any others? No doubt there are many other more profitable ways of using capital here than abroad; but this is profitable also, and our national pride and character for enterprise call upon us to renew the former maritime rivalry with other nations, and espe- cially in connection with the immense and in- creasing emigration to our own country. Will our shipping merchants and shipbuilders turn their attention to the subject? Congress, too, ought to do something to promote the shipping interest, and this busiaess in particular. What- ever can be done legitimately, by mail con- tracts, or by laws favoring our own mercantile marine over that of other nations, should be done promptly and liberally. Let us promote emigration, protect the emigrants, and give a new impulse to the shipping interests of the country. Disixreottxe Agunts.—The city is flooded with circulars and the press is pestered with recommendations about this or that disinfecting agent for cholera. Why does not somebody get up ao disinfecting agent for Such an agent would be @ desirable one for the Tribune. Tax on Mercuaxpist Broxens.—Our attention bopni called +9 the fact that nearly all the tie tdémbers of the Legislature from Gity rocopdod their votes egainst the | ruinous bill taxing the commission merchants and brokers, We readily give these members the benefit of this correction; but the public have some interest in knowing who concocted this scheme and lobbied it through the legisle- ture so quietly. Fire in Yorkville, Shoftly before twelve o'ciock on Friday night « fre broke out inaframe stable in Eighty-fifth street, near the northwest corner of Third avenue. The flames quickly spread to the building on the corner, the first floor of which, together with the stable, was occupied by J. G. Downing, butcher. The property was all de- stroyed; logs $400, no insurance. The flames exteaded to the next adjoining building on Third avenue, eettees by Joba Sullivan as a boot and shoe store and dwell 4 damage about $1,000, insured for 000 in the Im- rters’ and Traders’ Insurance Cot r ing building to this also caught fire; it was occupied by J. G. Kipp as a drug store and dwelling; loas about $2,000, insured in the Bowery and another company. ‘The corner building and the st were owned by Mr. Walsh; loss about $2,000. The two buildings on Third avenue were owned by Mr. Hazeltine; damage about $1,000, The police of the Twenty-third precinct are deserving of praise for saving goods from the burning buildings Destruction of the Roman Catholic Or phan Asylum. Troy, N. ¥., May 5, 1868, About eight o'clock this evening » fire broke out im the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, and in an hour the building was burned to the ground, with a portion of ite contents, The building was a large wooden structure, and was the private property of Rev. Father Peter Haver- mans, There-wore one hundred and seventy-two orphaa. boys in the asylum, all of whom were saved. The ‘lum was pi set on fire by a young man originally from Virginia, Ho was an inmate of asylum five years ago, when he set fire to the building. For this he was sent to the House of Refuge for four sgn but as he threatened to fire the building when got out he was kept a year longer. He was set ab liberty two weeks ago, and a few days since attempted to set fire to a barn near the asylum, He was soem lurking about the asylum to-day, and circumstances strongly indicate that he fired the buildings. The orphans have been temporarily provided for in other quarters. A large Catholic Orphan Asylum is now im course of construction in this city. A barn near the asylum was also burned, and a large brick building, used as a dormitory and school room, was several tines om fire, but was saved. The Troy Catholic Hospital, in close proximity, escaped unharmed. Loas by tho fire $10,000; insured for $5,000; Fire in St. Loufs—One Hundred and Forty Horses Burned. Sr, Louis, Mo., May 5, 1866. ‘The oxtensive stables and car house of the Fifth street railroad, in the lower part of the city, together with one hundred and forty horses and mules, sixteen cars and all the harness and forage, were destroyed by fire last night. Loss $55,000; insurance $20,00C, in city offices. The fire is supposed to have beon the work of an ia- condiary. ? 3 ' Fire in St. Joseph. Sr. Louis, May 6, 1868. Six houses in St. Joseph, Mo., were burned Thursday night. Loss $40,000; insured for $25,000 in Eastern companies. City Intelligence. Suicipk.—About five o'clock yesterday aftornooa @ German, named Michael Koloz, residing with his family at 143 Sixth street, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, Kolez had been suffering for a long time with consumption, and having been told by bis doctor that he could scarcely live more than two or three days, became. des , and cut and himself in’ a most shocking manner, almost sev the head from'his body. His wife discovered bim notified the police. Kolez was forty-one years of age and leaves a wife and two children. Farat Faut.—About half-past three o'clock yesterday: afvornoon a boy named Bernard Brady, aged nine years, while gathering wood on the second floor of the new. building No, 63 Third aye: fell thi fh bet rama oti cela and wis insiantiy killed” Ofteee Lang, soven' precinct, conveyed body the residence of the boy’s parents, 1 East ‘Eleventh street. Ron Ovwr.—Patrick Murphy, residing at 185 Thomp- ‘> eeossing Third avenue between Seventy- ootarday afternoon, was one was up alote ass. fell on the rail fel a ‘the ves. a4 hen rescued, some time ‘afterwards, i. ° The Jury Ligg satel vote ot wooidéntal jeath. aw e was fo ive years United States, ies * ae ESE ee Ronuep Waite Movinc.—On Monday last, while a goa- tleman by tho name of John McLaughlin was engaged im moving from his place in Spring street, as a better means of prosorving thom from loss he placed in the pockets of his coat jewelry to the amount of about $200, some manuscript and a number of other valuable papers. Sab- sequently, being called upon to assist in loading the fdr- niture he took off his coat and left it in the house. Whew he returned some predatory plunderer had made off with it and forgotten to leave the other property, since which HUNG ihe eee aes aoe aay is @ thi} or fou ins hea edb ime the samo i ARRIVAL OF A D FAR West— OBJECT OF THEIR VISIT—HOW THEY CONFORM TO THE MANNERS OF CIVILIZATION, HTC. Within the last few days our city has been honored with the presence of adolegation from the far West. Eight members of the Indian tribes left St. Paul, Minm., on the 3d of last Fobruary, via La Crosse, Chicago, Pitt burg and Baltimore, arriving in Washington on the 19th of February. The delegation desired to soll a tract of country near Vermillion lake, in the State of Minnesota, bordering on the British Possessions. The land is re- ported to be very rich in gold. The majority of the delegation belong to the Chippewa tribe of Indiana, and re- Joice in the following names :—Maw-gonab—The foremost ; Ga-besh-co-da-way—He who goeth through the prairte; Ba-baw-mad-je-weach-cang—The mountain traveller; daw-waw-no-qua-be-nace—The two eloud bird; Ga-baw- da-cam -ogish-cang—He who tries the earth ; Ga-naw-waw~ banined—The observed; Ne o-ming—The four fi Gaw-nan-da-wa-wingd—Berry hunter; A-be-tal who inhabits; Wa-bag amaw-gaw—The temat Our reporter visited the delegation yesterday, com- pany with an attache of the Heranp who bas spent Lom § moons among the Indians of the far West. He fou them in room 138 of the Girard House, and all were dressed in the costume of civihzation. Some were lying on the beds, some lonnging on the chairs, and others ox- tended full length on the floor, and all were smok: qii-quik, the inside bark of the wild cherry tree mi: with a small portion of tobacco. Afi appeared to be in health except Ne-o-ming, who was confined to his rd with rheumatism. The Indians were highly de lighted and at hearing good Indian from the lips of so elegant and civilized a specimen of humamty ag our attache. The pipe of peace (or rather a piece of SS from mouth to mouth, Indian as well as white, with all due solemnity, and the chiefs cially were — ted on being informed of namo of our its semifeance, when they ex- claimed, “We hanska,”’—“ho is a star ot the Mrmt magnitude,” A dwellers of the West confarm to aes tion may be found from the fact that way wore his shirt hanging outside his pantaloons; he had a strip of red fannel pinned aro his bat, into wheh was stuck four peacock feathers. oe additions to the ani ingers;, tion has succeeded in making a treaty with Wr. D. Cooley, of the Indian Bureau. Their lands have been purchased on the following terms:—Part of th: et Oe eee an Ge whole is to be paid within twenty yoars. Webb, — for all the Lake Lo tage nn has taken charge of the delegation during their stay olty. od ae ‘for home to-morrow, ‘he Bay- looeph D. Gurnee, roverament interpreter of field Agency of Lake Superior, via Albany and Niagara May Term of the Law Courts. To-morrow morning the May frm of the Inw courts opens. The case which wil! attract most attention and general interest in the Supreme Court is the content relative to the will of Madame Jumel. This case is om tho calendar for part 1. The most eminent of our Inw- and some fe specimens of forensic Woyeenee,t ‘weil as highty interusimg evidence, may be anticipated. rt of and Terminer wilt be od over by Judge Won, he will also botd part lof te ee preme Lours (ctreult), when be basiness = ‘The Canadian Parliament. Ortawa, ©. W., May 5, 186m The Canadian Parliament is summoned to moet for