The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1866, Page 4

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Uil10 FM NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue.—ExMiptTiON oF ORIGINAL Wouna we Daving Arrists. y, May 7, 1866. ‘Tho #teamship Peruvian, from Londonderry March 27, pamed Mather Point yesterday om hor voyage to Quebec. ‘Hor news is five days later. ‘The steamship City of Washington, from New ¥ark, and Propontis from Philadelphia, both on the Jet of March, had not yet been heard of. Tho United States steamer Kearsarge, from Sierra Leone, was in quarantine off Lisbon, with fever on bourd, Fourteen of her crow had died. A New York correspondent of the London Times as- eorta, on “high authority,” that the United States gov Fament will “do what is right” against the Fenians. acl Russell's anticipated majority in the Reform bil! Das being diminished; a good many liberal members pring been unseated in the Commons for bribery dur- Bg thoir slection. The division was expected to be very Joao, and the defeat of the Cabinet was conjectured in domo quarters, Austria and Prussia bad agreed to a mutual disarma- ment and settlement of the German question; Austria maintaining, however, a vory warlike attitude towards Ttaty. Tho situation became so menacing in this respect that, just previous to the departure of the Peruvian, Prusata refused to disarm so long as Victor Emanuel was threatened. It is said that Napoleon had informed the King of Italy that, in the event of a war with Austria, France will not lend him aid. The London Tims was hoagod by forged despatches, dated at the Foreign Office in London into the publication of the news of the actual rapture of diplomatic relations between Austria and Prussia. The armies of Austria and Italy were on a war footing, and strict war precautions were exercised by the Austrians on the frontier, Consuls closed in London April 27 at 867; a 87 for money. United States five-twonties 700 70%. The Liv- erpoot cotton market opened firmer in the week, with an advance of one and one-fourth of a penny on American. ‘This gain was partially lost during the five days, the martot closing atan advance ranging from one-half to ove penny on the 2th ultimo, Breadstufs inactive, with prices nominally unchanged. Business dult MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Tho liquor saloons of this city and Brooklyn wore Closed yosterday in accordance with the Sabbath pro- ‘vision of the new excise law. There was, afar as could bo ascertained, the fulles. compliance with the law. As a comsequence thonaands of citizens adjourned to Fordaam, Tremont, Morrisania and Jersey, or any placo where there waa 4 possible chance of obtaining liquors. Many also pro- oared « supply of liquor on Saturday and passed the Sebbath in putting it out of sight, But there were no drunkon inen upon the strects, and the city was as @tiet o4 could be desired by the most oltra Sabbaterian. Nineteon arrests were made yesterday for volating tho Icxcise law. The parties were all held in the sums of $300 and $500 bail to answer, ‘Tho American and Foreign Cbristian Union held its | aniversary last evening in the Presbyterian churoh, corner of Fourth avenue and Twonty-second street. The | o Rev. Howarl Crosby, D.D., ‘who adverted at groft length and in the strongest terms | “Wo the ever-increasing and pernicious influence of the ‘Ohuroh of Romo."? ‘The ov. Mr. Hartt, of the new Church of the Advent, ou Forty sixth strest, addressed the congregation in be- half of tho trustees of the church, who required more money to complete the parchase. Munificent donations wore made The tenth antiversary of the Church of the Memorial, ‘on Hammond street, at Waverley place, war celebrated ‘with appropriate services yesterday morning, afternoon ant ovening. Rev. Dr, Spencer addressed the congre- gation in the morning, and the Rev. Dr, Hepburn fa the aflernoon ‘Tho thirty second anniversary of the American Female Guardian Society was held last evening at the Collegiate Deen advanced to the Mexican Minister in aid of the t. Acircular has just been iasued by Commissioner Rol- lins, of the Internal Revenue office, at Washington, which directs assessors and collectors to proceed to the assessment and collection of taxes arising from the sale of stocks, &¢., by brokers and bankers, whether on thoir own account or on commission. Henry G. Wheeler, the President of the Florida and Brunswick Railroad, who was arrested in Boston some time ago, on the charge of intending to abscond with two hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds belonging to tho Pike's Peak Railroad Company, was before the Supreme Court in that city yesterday. Tne caso was continued. The new hospital of the Catholic Sisters of the Poor in Roboken was blessed and opened yesterday by Bishop Bayley. The crops in Texas are in excellent condition, and all fears of an overflow of Red river have disappeared. Lord John Russell and Our Enfant Terri- ble—* Why Should We Not be Friends?” Lord John Russell is a man of excellent senti- ments—like Joseph Surface. He is also an eminently respectable man; 80 very respecta- ble that it would not at all do, it would be a kind of social outrage, to suppose that he could be guilty of any act of questionable morality. He has assured us frequently of his high regard. He has told us how much he admired our spirit, and paid us the highest of all the re- spectable compliments in declaring that we were second only to England herself in the possession of all admirable qualities. His sentiments were so beautiful and his respecta- bility so positive that it would have been the basest ingratitude in us not to feel how splendid a thing it was to have secured his re- cognition, We felt it accordingly. How could we have had the moral courage to intimate that he might not be sincere? We so young and he so respectable. It is true that we knew all the time he had done things not consistent with his professed admiration and amity. We had a thousand good evidences that he hated us with bitter intensity. But we were a0 over- powered by his respectability, so oppressed by the gracious condescension of his sentiments, that we never had the heart to speak out plainly and call him to account, and“so we went on in the conventional way, and through Mr. Seward, who does propriety on our part, we answered Lord Russell’s polite palaver with pataver equally polite and assured him in the true society style of our distinguished con- sideration. But there is a character not to be controlled by the ordinary usages of society, not crushed by the dignity of others, never put down by any reflections on its own insignificance. This is the enfant terrible. It is @ creature that is the horror of all good society on account of the simple truths it blurts out. No solemn sham is safe against its childlike simplicity. It asks the splendid lady of fashion if those are her new teeth, and what she has done with the ugly ones she had last year, and to please take her hair off to show how easy she can do it. It tells the elegant fop that the coat he has on now is prettier than the blue one with patches on the elbows that he had on last timo, and so on, exposing with innocent unconsciousness all the admirably arranged cheats of the respecta- ble people. We have in our Ameri¢an family & good specimen of this character named Ban- croft. One day we had a party, and among those invited were some particular friends of the eminently respectable man of beautiful sentiments, Earl Russell. And it happened that the enfant terrible let out in the presence of these persons all our private family opinions of the great Barl. It was terrible. All our fire- side expressions were absolutely laid bare to the world by this indiscreet little gabbler, and the Earl, who had supposed that our polite ex- pressions were sincere, learned that we really saw through all his shams and actually had the audacity to canvass his hypocrisy. We were awfully ashamed it made such a tuss. But this, bad as it was, was not the worst of it. The exposures of an enfant terrible are un- comfortable enough, and people generally show their common sense by refusing to hear what is said. I will commonly be noticed that when an enfant terrible bas bit upon any particularly awkward point everybody is looking out of the window or lost in rapturous admiration of Domenichino, or doubled up over a torso in the corner, #0 that you can hardly attract their atten- tion. This is polite, and the injured individual may suppose that no one has heard what was said. Imagine any one stupid enough to answer the enfant terrible, or institating an argument on the topic to correct false impressions! ‘This is just what Lord Russell bas done. We invite particular attention to the letters and extracts that illustrate bis folly in another part of the paper. He has written to pater familias that the enfant terrible mast be hauled over the couls; that such @ prattler must not be per- mitted to throw suspicion on the good inten- tions of so respectable a person. His letter to Mr. Adams is a model for all future person- | ages who, scandalized by uncomfortable truths, may deem it expedient to write to the guar dians or other persons supposed to be respon- sible for the offending infant. The enfant terrible, however, had found a let- ter somewhere, and no sooner does he hear of Reformed Duteh church, corner of Twenty-ninth street ‘and Fifth avenue, Some one handred and fifty children, provided for by the.society, were in the church, looking Russell's demand that he should be laid across | the paternal knee than, presto, he produces this Bible societies in the distribution of the sacred Scrip-, remarkably neat and clean, and denoting that every care | letter. Brought to the point, he gives clear, was takon of them. The order of exercives comprised, | distinct, deliberate, unquestionable proof of after prayer, singing by the children, the sonal fer | Hig original declaration that Russell had “made moo, singing by the choir, an address and « collection | for the funda of tho society The eighth anniversary of the Charch Anti-Slavery Boeiaty took place last evening in Dr. Cheever's church The revorond gentioman delivered an address stating what the society i, and then delivered a sermon ia advo- cacy of nogto suffrage. Re it wr, in the prosence of a numerous eongrogatfon, administered the Sacrament of Confirma- ion tw about afty persons, male and female, in the Charch of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue, yesterday evening The Rav, Isaac Forrls, D. D., delivered a discourse, fast evening, in the Presbyterian church, corner of Fifth Brvovue and Nineteenth sirect, on the progress and suc | haste to send word through all the palaces of | Europe that the great republic was in its | agony; that a headstone was all that re- mained dne by the Iaw of nations.” His argu- ment will immensely deepen the impression | made by his original utterance. He discloses, | also, s curious fact—namely, that he had told | the British Minister not to come to the House | of Representatives on the day in question. He informed him twice that he would hear un- pleasant things and had better stay away; bat ‘the bold Briton wouldn't do it, He would NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1866. have his feelings hurt. He was resolved and determined to endure the hard things, and went just where he knew they would reach him. Tho letters of Russell to Adams about Bancroft, and of Bancroft to Adams about Rus- sell, with the accompanying papers, are richly worth perusal. There is one very remarkable point in Rus- sell’s exculpation of himself, as fine a piece of British cant as we have ever seen. Unable to answer the arguments of bis complicity in the English scheme against us, he threw himself back on the general principles of philanthropy. He quotes from the Declaration of Inde- pendence the words of the fathers that English- men should be to us as the rest of mankind, “enemies in war, in peace friends.” And upon this he echoes, “Why should we not be friends as the great men of the American Revolution intended us to bet” Can anything of lofty impudence surpass this? Why should we not be friends? says this high priest of cant. Why are you always remembering and throwing up to.me the uncomfortable things I have done? Why don’t you let me love yout Why should we mot be friends? Why? He sent out the Alabama armed with British cannon, shielded in British ports, to burn hundreds of American ships; but why should we not be friends? He did the same with the Sea King, and when she came home again he set her red-handed pirates free, as if they had done something praise- worthy. And why should we not be friends? He thought it was all right that men should cross from Canada to burn our villages and attempt to burn our great cities—right that the British authorities should support them and set them at large when brought into court. Why should we not be friends? Can anybody possibly find any reason why we should not be friends, and why the Amorican people should not love and admire Lord Russell just as much as Lord Russell does the American people? Weak Spots in the National Banking System. Tt is not many weeks since the failure of Culver, Penn & Co., in this city, led to the im- mediate suspension of several national banks in the oil regions of Pennsylvania and else- where, and just now the failure of a Baltimore stock house has involved that of the Merchants’ National Bank at Washington, and the loss of about four hundred thousand dollars to the government, it having been a public deposi- tary. This, we fear, is only the beginning of a long series of similar explosions and the first symptom of the decline of the entire system of national banking, which was originated by Mr. Chase for selfish and political purposes, without regard to the good of the country. That the banks so constituted are parasites upon the Treasury is manifest enough from @ perusal of the act authorizing their creation, which confers upon them pecuniary privileges and exemptions enjoyed by no such institu- tions under any other governmentin the world: and that in many cases they are used as in- struments for supporting and promoting the speculations and credit of their stockholders is equally certain from recent developments. They are also gradually becoming what they were de- signed to be, namely, a huge political power, to be used by unscrupulous men for the furtherance of sinister purposes. These, therefore, are not the objects upon which the public money should be wasted when there-are- so many other interests which have a claim upon the government for support. The interest money now paid to national banks upon the bonds deposited as the baais of their circulation would be much better employed, for instance, in subsidizing American steamers, and so alle- viating the miseries attending immigration to this country from Europe in ill-provided and overcrowded vessels sailing under alien flags. The profits of national banks are shown by the large dividends which, in most cases, they are enabled to pay, somo rising as high as twenty per cent per annum; and we consider it the duty of Congress to pass measures for the reduction and ultimate extinction of the interest on the bonds deposited by them with the Treasury, and from which, as it is, they reap the profit of a double investment. The rottenness which underlies the manage- ment of a large portion of them foreshadows the ultimate fate of the whole. They will con- tinue to collapse one by one at intervals till finally public confidence in them will be lost, their depositors will share in the prevailing distrust, their notes will fall to a discount and be bought up by speculators, who will present them for redemption, thus forcing them into liquidation; and the pet scheme of Mr. Chase will havo been tried and found wanting. This gen- eral collapse may not occur until an attempt is made to resume specie payments, but the props are already beginning to give way, and the Treasury cannot be too careful in the selection of its depositaries after ite tresh experience in the case of the Merchants’ National Bank at Washington. Tue Income Tax anv THE Tax ContEctors.— Tho Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de- cided that it is not necessary for tax collectors to serve official notice upon person before paying his income tax; but that he must go to the collector's office, obtain a blank and fill it up. In other words, he must step up to the collector's office and settle. This occasions an inconvenience to taxpayers which we hardly think the circumstances of the case warrant. No people in the world ever submitted more uncomplainingly to s great burden of taxa- tion than the people of the United States do to theirs. They have paid into the national witbin a few years upwards of a thou- sand millions of dollars in excess of their taxa- tion of former years. They deserve the highest praise for their liberality, and posterity will honor them for it. But; while they submit so cheerfully to this burden, there is no reason why the government should impose un necessary hardships or inconvenience upon them in regard to the manner in which taxes shall be collected. It requires very little labor for collectors to serve blanks upon every taxable person in their several districts. They are paid well for their services, and many of them contrive to carry on some other business besides that of collecting the internal revenue. Some have their down town offices, and when engaged in government matters behave more like great moguls than servants of the people. To see them at times one would imagine them to have been the sole heroes of the war and saviours of the Union, whereas probably not one ins thousand ever smelt gunpowder. With them, during the rebellion, everything certainly was “quiet on the Poto- mac.” We repeat that the internal revenue, especially that derived trom the income tax, should be collected in as easy a manner as possible. In no case should it be done in a way calculated to be offensive to the people, for their burdens are already sufficiently onerous. ‘It will dono harm to the collectors if they should be obliged to send blanks to be filled up by taxpayers, and not have citizens mulcted in heavy damages for failure to wait upon their majeaties, the collectors, and beg for an oppor- tunity to be severely taxed. Governor Fenton's Municipal Investiga. tions to be Resumed. We publish elsewhere the act passed by the recent Legislature perfecting the existing laws relative to the powers of the Governor for the removal of public officers. It was originated and reported from the Judiciary Committee, of which Judge Selden was chairman, and it sim- ply comprises a brief and practical extension of the existing laws, giving the Executive of the State a direct and effective control over all those officials, whether city or county, who it isnow provided by law he shall remove for cause. It will be remembered that the Governor, after a prolonged hearing last year of the charges against the Comptroller and other officials of this city, concluded his action by referring the subject to the Legislature in a special communication, asking for power to appoint commissioners to carry on the investigation. It was shown last year that the law did not give more than nominal powers to the Governor; hence the postpone- ment of action on the charges which are still pending, and which, under the amended law, can now be examined to some purpose. In view of the action of the Legislature it becomes at once the duty of Governor Fen- ton to select a judicious and efficient person to enter thoroughly and dispassionately upon the work of finally disposing of the various charges before him. He owes it also to the public interests of this city, in view of the election this year of the Comptroller, the princi- pal official of the municipality, to have the ex- aminationso conducted as to afford the people a fullinsight into the extraordinary manner in which the affairs of the corporation depart- ments are carried on. The amended law provides that the Gov- ernor shall appoint 8 commissioner in these inquiries, and file such appointment ‘in writing with the Secretary of State, the proceedings to be conducted by the Attorney General, who also will probably designate some suitable person to prosecute the inquiry. There is no limitation or restriction as to the range which this investigation shall take, and the cause to be found for authorizing the Governor to act rests in bis own executive discretion, without question or review by any other authority. The power to compel testimony is absolute, and the production of books and papers and pun- #shment for perjury are provided for, without any of the legal obstructions which de- feated this last year. The range of his juris- diction comprises the county officers, the executive officers of the corporation, and the various commissioners, practi- cally the entire government of the muni- cipality. Holding this power exclusively, the State Executive is now absolutely responsi- ble tor any wrong doing here almost as much as he might be for the misconduct of his im- mediate-staff. -The- power to investigate and remove necessarily implies this responsibility, and should hereafter direct the vigilance of the executive chamber to every serious abuse and complaint here, as much as to any other por- tion of the Governor’s charge in the State. It appears that the invidious and partisan spirit which greatly marred the examinations last year has subsided or has been bought off altogether. There is, however, an organized preparation at hand to push the examination into our municipal affairs on a more judicious and temperate plan. It is proposed to have the subject taken up forthwith on the pending charges, with revisions and emendations which shall comprise more especially the Street De- partment, and 80 as to take in the notorious scope of the remaining junta of the “ring” as it stands, The Finance Department is the centre of all the other offices and the grand aim of all their operations. From ita archives these op- erations can all be tracked. Let the matter be trusted to a really capable and able man. Let bun pursue his investigation in the sphere of Tweed and Sweeny behind the scenes, as well as in those of Cornell and Brennan in their off- cial capacities as Street Commissioner and Comptroller. Let it be ascertained how the city contracts are given out, how they are paid, and what the contractors mean by their talk about heavy percentages and margins which are discounted from their warrants before they realize their money. ‘The inquiry should take in its scope all the fiscal transactions of the city and the county, including the audit of expenses and materials for the new Court House, and all the other county transactions which have excited public attention from their fraudulent or suspicious nature. The result of such a work would prove most salutary. Changing our officials does not amount to any practical remedy or even a change in the existing evils. It is a change in the system which we want. The investigations of last year by the Governor, and of the year previous by the Senate Committee, have given us board of health and a number of other most excellent measures at the hands of the Legislature. This year, with the expiration of the terms of office of Cornell and Brennan, another investigation must prove of the greatest importance. The office of Comptroller alone, in the bands of an able and honest man, with the right purposes, would comprise almost all the reform legislation we need. With the right man also for Street Commissioner, who could be forced upon Mayor Hoffman, a new municipal era could be secured for the city. ANA A ah Tar Sunpay Law tw Force 1x New York axp Brooxiyy.—The law prohibiting the sale of in- toxicating liquors in any form on the Sabbath went into operation in this city and Brooklyn yesterday, and we believe waa universally ob- served. No drinking places of any kind were open, and not even a glass of small beer could be procured in the usual places for love or money. It was curious to witness the effect of so sudden a suppression of these places of common resort on Sunday. Along the docks numbers of persons could be seen congregated or listlessly strolling about without any ap parent object. The streets aleo wore occupied by a new class of pedestrians, and it was alio- gether anew epoch in the lives of the old cam- paigners of New York. Those who wanted a drink very badly bgiog& themselves to the shores ~ \i sed ” a ar ee te el of New Jersey—Jerey City, Hoboken, &. Wo | songratulate Jersey upon its good fortune in seenring so valuable anaddition to her Bunday popmiation; but we caution her against these Sunday raids upon her pleasure retreats by the rowdies and other hard characters of New York. Let her pass a Sunday law like ours if she desires peace and quietness on the Sab- bath; get proper men to enforce it, and try the benefit of having one good sober Sunday. It will be a good thing for Jersey. Saturday’s Debate Congress—The Wrath of the Radicals Against Andrew Jo Saturday has become a day in which the House of Representatives, like a steamboat tied up at the dock, has its valves opened to let off from its boilers their useless but still accumulating volume of steam. Thus the gen- eral debate in the House on Saturday last was chiefly devoted to the discharge of the accu- mulated wrath of the radicals against Presi- dent Johnson. In this salutary and refreshing pastime Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, led off in the peculiar style of a prairie radical. According to Ingersoll the patriotic people of the North had now not only the defeated rebels and their Northern allies to fight, but the Executive, with all his power and patronage; but the Southern aristocracy and the President to boot would-| have to succumb to Northern patriotism. “An- drew Johnson never had been with the Union republican people at heart.” “Andrew John- son was essentially a Southern man, with the prejudices, the animosities, the hatreds and the superstitions of the Southern people.” “He was to-day filled with the poison of the ma- laria of slavery, which he inherited in his infancy and in the ripening years of his life.” He “had talked loud about the blackness of treason;” but now that he “looked to be re- elected in 1868, he whispered in, the ears of rebels that all his talk about punishing traitors was mere gammon, intended for New England and Illinois.” “The President had pardoned his old friends and betrayed the party which gave him name. He had given the lie by his own actions to the sentiments which he had expressed.” Such disgraceful language as this from a member of Congress on the floor of the House, in deliberative debate, against the head of the Executive department of the government is, if we are not mistaken, without a precedent in the history of this country. But, having lashed himself into a fury, this excited Mlinois radical did not stop here. He went on to say that “he would wager all he owned that Andrew John- son would never have Jeff Davis tried, or that it Davis were tried and convicted Andrew Johnson would pardon him. All that traitors had now to do was to scrape up money enough to come to Washington and apply for pardon, and they got it; or if they did not present their applications personally they could do it through the mail just as- well.” Here a mem- ber of the House interposed, “or the females” — a remark which oxcited an outburst of laugh- ter. Adopting the hint, the gentleman from Illinois repeated, “or through the females,” which was regarded as so exquisitely spicy that the House again broke out into laughter. Now this scandalous inuendo may have been very amusing and grateful to the radical fa- natics of the House sharing in the sentiments of this insane man of [llinois, but we can_only. regard such assaults at this crisis upon the President in Congress as significant of danger to and revolutionary troubles in the govern- ment. It appears, too, that with this Illinois radical fire-eater the question seemed to be “whether William H. Seward or Andrew John- son was to get the thanks of the Southern rebels for the crumbs and loaves they were throwing to them on every side. He (Inger- soll) had not the least particle of faith in either of them—not a particle. He believed that W. H. Seward was running a race with Andrew Johnson to see which would have the support of the Southern people in 1868, and that they were erawfishing also in the Northern States to see if they could not get votes enough to be elected,” and so on for two mortal hours, when, relieved of his explosive steam and gas and exhausted in his efforts, this mode! Illinois radical took his seat. This two houta’ tirade of Ingersoll “was glory enough for one day,” but an extra allow- ance was given in a somewhat similar speech from Mr. Lawrence (republican), of Pennsyl- vania, His variations were, first, a showing up of Heister Clymer (democratic candidate now in the field for Governor of Pennsylvania), as a man who had denounced Andrew Johnson two years ago “asa ruffian, an incendiary, a hire- ling and an abolitionist, and utterly unworthy the confidence of the democratic party ;” and secondly, a showing up of the Blair family, “sometimes on one side and sometimes on another.” Thus, through the democratic and Blair influence a man had been appointed United States Marshal for the Western district of Pennsylvania “who had been tried by court martial and dismissed the service for frauds committed on the government.” And so, between Ingersoll and Lawrence, Andrew Jobnson would, perhaps, have been utterly annibilated, had not one or two democrats, including the indomitable and always ready Mr. Rogers (familiarly known as Jack Rogers), of New Jersey, come to the rescue. Otherwise, from the dead silence of Mr. Raymond and ali | the other republican conservatives of the House, such as they are, the President would have been condemned without « word in hie defence. Now, we must repeat our apprehension that these violent outbreaks in Congress signify that serious and revolutionary troubles are ahead. It is evident that the radicals are determined to bring Andrew Johnson to the gnillotine. Such denunciations as those of Ingersoll and Lawrence indicate a state of feeling which will not stop short of desperate measures against him. What they are to be it is needless now to conjecture ; but when baf- fled politicians, struggling for power, cast off their disguises and declare tor no quarter to Andrew Jobnson we may look from day to day for still more startling developments. Creeaty on Sairsoann—Tar Duties or Car TAINS AND Caxws.—A case was tried in the Marine Court, on Friday, which presented some very unusual and reprehensible features, A sailor who bad been picked up from a wreck off the coast af Mexico, together with two conr panions, by an American schooner, brought an action for damages against the captain of the schoonet for a violent assault comreitted upon hiza while on the return voyage to New York, | Wy which one of his eyes was totally destroyed. | The testimony cliciied a very extraordinary ¢ and Niles H. Shearer Uaited states Army Fy. fact, which, for the honor of Our merchan® searine, we are happy to say, has rarely if ever, occurred before. The captain of this vessel,’ findiag that the unfortunate men whom he had rescusd from death were in possession of some money, charged them sixty dollars each for their passage to this port, and subsequently demanded their services as .eamen in working the vessel. In resisting this demand the | assault was eommitted. Without comment- ing further ugon the act of charging pass- age money for the conveyance of the shipwrecked mem than to add that it is con- trary custom in such cases, and not ia keeping with the’ generous and chivalric character supposed to belong to sailors, it must be admitted that these men were in every sense passengers on board that vessel, and the cap- tain had no right to their servises in any othor capacity. In this light itwas evidently viewed by the court, for the poor: outraged seaman’ re- ceived five hundred dollars damages. Cases of cruelty on the part of sbip:captains on board our trading and emigrant ships, and their subordinate officers, are'too frequent... We are always reading in the papers, both in this conntry and in England, of charges brought against them in the courts, and imsome instances severe penalties are imposed. It is true that maa- tera of veesels have a good deal to’contend with: from unruly sailors. This class require, as @ general rule, the exercise of stern discipline; but that is no excuse for the brutal treatment to which they are so frequently subjected. The law should be made more definite, declaring what the duties of the men before the mast are, and what the authority of the captain is. Fifly years ago, before the war of 1812, the barbarous cruelty of American ship captains was proverbial. With our increased enlighten- ment of course an improvement has taken place since then, but the evil is bad enongh still. Captains of English merchantmen also are not exempted from the same charge, and their unjust severity is not confined to the crew, but is exercised also upon the unfortn- nate emigrant passengers. But there appears to be a better influence brought to bear by the application of the law in England reaching these cases, and the brutality of captains in the merchant service is more or less restrained. Why not we have laws as stringent to reach: this subject en this side of the Atlantic? If we had a Board of Admiralty, for instance, similor to that existing in England, a great many of those evils incident to the emigrant and carry- ing trade could be remedied, and our merchant vessels would be commanded by better navi- gators than, im too many cases, now have charge of them. Aton Marker Hovsk Ossrructions anp Oraxr Norsances.—The Board of Health bas been at work upon the Washington Market obstruc- tions and nuisances, and seems jto have sus pended its functions in regard to market reform at that place. Why not investigate complaints about Fulton Market, a6 well as Centre Market, Essex Market, &c., in all of which encroachments have been made upon the rights of citizens, the privileges of regular marketmen, and the convenience, health and comfort of the public generally? When Cen- tre Market was built a space on the north end, at Broome street, we are informed, was left, designed to facilitate the unloading of market truck. In open violation of the market fine laws, which really appear to be a dead letter, the walk on the east side is new enclosed with wooden sheds through which there is no pass- ing, and pedestrians are obliged to cross to the other side of the street. At the end on Broome street the space is. enclosed and occupied by dealers in dry goods, crockery ware, West India fruits, pickles, pocketbooks, penknives and pes- tilence. In consequence of this enclosure it is impossible for the market to be properly ven- tilated, and, as a matter of course, meats and vegetables decay quickly and furnish tood to feed the cholera or any other epidemic. The regular market stalls also become so dark- ened as to require lighting up early in the afternoon. Some times the stench in an after- noon in this market is alone sufficient to breed disease. All this can be attributed to the encroachments that have beea made, inch by inch and foot by foot, upon the space allotted by law for the regular market ground, a mat- ter to which the attention of the Board of Health is called by. the appeals of many suffer- ing citizens. Cuotera Priors ror Coonrry Boanpina.— Taking advantage of the cry about the cholera. committing ravages in. this city the approach- ing summer, and the presumed panic among citizens in consequence, eountry people are requiring the most exorbitant rates for sum- mer boarding. In places where fair country boarding could at other times be obtained for the season at from three te seven dollars per week, double those rates are demanded. What will be the result of this spirit of speculation upon the apprehensions of city people? I will be this: Many of the country ooarding places will be deserted and the seeside and mountain summer resorts occupied’ by city people who would, at reasonable rates, have been satified with good, homely couatry board. Like some avaricious country peop'e who hold on to their produce, thei butter, cheese, &c., anticipating a rise, they will’ in the end. be compelled: to do. as seme dairy fermere have had to do; that is, to sell their butter on terme and at a time it would only pay © be used for wagon grease. We advise alk people who keep places of summer resort, whether they furnish solid home comforts ornare centres tor the display of taskéon avd extravagance, not to be-too greedy. The cholara. may not pro~ ducea panic that will drive: so many people) from their eity homes as they imagine. ARMY BULLETIN. MUSTERED OUT. Coloneie—Heery F. Clarke, George Thorn, Amos Beck. with, John (. Kelbon, William F, Reynold, Thomas J, Maines, John N. Macomb, Robert C. Clary, Edward G. Beckwith, Samuet B. Hal abird, Brevet Brigaher Generals—Witliam Myers, George D, Rugates. Lieutenane Colonels-- 8. = Alexander, Frank Myers jors—David ©. Henston, C. H. Meneely &. Hughes, W RESIGNED. Captain Jobn ©, Palfrey, Brevet Colonel Kngi corpe, May 1 First Liewter mnt Alexander Johnson, Eleventh (nit the States infantry, from May 1 ‘ORDNANCE OFFICERS ORDERED Brevet \Jajor General George D. Ramsay, to comms Washingtyn Arsenal Brevet, Colone! T. T & Laidley, to command the Ne York 4 esenal Bre cet Colonel J. G. Benton, to command the Spring: feild Armory DISCHARGED. Hoepital Stewards John D. W Roberta, J Mo Die