The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1866, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, e Volume XXXI.,. 5 ++ No. 132 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BROADW: HE ATR! Broadway, earns iataeen ut 1 0 'Oloc! WOOD'S THRATRE, Broads jicholas Hotel.—Tux Euvss Cnossing’ vam Pee mF GEORGE CHRISTY'S—O Battaps, Vowcas G on. ae. ‘Nos. 2 and 4 twe Corns. “Matinee at Two o' Clock. near Broome Le Munster: rite ot manana atreet.—Tax Vinginia TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Srvc- How anc, DAXciNG, BURLESQUES, et Hancm, Matinee at 384 o'Clocks ae SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, it BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, ae Hall, 472 Broat way.—NzGro Comica.itixs, BURLESQUES, &C.—MAsurra. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—M: announ Gonones” Meh Me, Mageors BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Grav’s Irauun Ovens Trovre—Sarro. ROOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, —— —ETaiOPiAaN Mine BRRRLST—BALLans, BURLUSQURS AND PANTOMIMES, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF | ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M, till 10 P. wa Drapvous's ART GALLERY, 845 Bi Me Braproup’s 2 so roadway. 10TURE, “SRALERS CRUSHED BY Icx. Bras. TRIPLE | SHE a2 TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements to insure a proper classification Juould be brought in before half-past eight o'clock hh tho evening. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill for the reorganization of the naval pay department was passed. Tho Post Office Appropriation bill was then taken up, the pending ques- tion being on Mr. Trumbull’s amendment restricting the appointing powers of the President. Mr. Howard, of Michigan, was on the floor, and indulged in an invective Against the President and Mr. Seward. He was answered by Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, who defended the course of the President and Secretary against the attack, and declared that the doctrine of the radicals ‘was disunion. The question was taken upon the amend- Mont at the conclusion of Mr, Cowan's speech, and re- sBulted—For the passage of the amendment, 16; against the passage of the amendment, 23; absent or not voting, 10. The following republicans, among others, voted against it:—Cowan, Fessenden, Foster, Lane of Kansas, Sherman, Stewart and Wilson, The Appropriation bill ‘was then passed without the amendment, The Senate then adjourned until Monday next, The House was not in session, having adjourned until Monday. THE CITY. The Head Centre of the Irish Republic, James Ste- Pphens, was the great attraction of the city yesterday. He received his friends at the Metropolitan Hotel, and mong the rest Colonel Roberts and otbers of the dis- Renting party, with whom he had a friendly and hopeful interchange of views, He was affable and agreeable to every one. He accepted the resignation of Colonel O'Mahony, and at a serenade given to him ta the evoen- ing by an immense multitude delivered a short and tell- ing specch, which was greeted with unbounded enthu- biasm, At the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday the Sanitary Committee reported a plan for the division of the city into six hospital districts, to be known as the Department of Medical Relief, which will be under the control of the Board of Health. In case of epidemic as mauy hospitals will be established in theso districts as Jue exigencies may require, The matter of allowing the pffal to float off from Barren Island and drop from the boats conveying it to that depot was discussed. It ap- pears that the carcasses of dead animals, for the safe re- Inoval and burial of which the contraciors are respon- }ible, have been allowed to fall overboard, and, lodging ‘on Long Island, have become the source of a great nuisance, The Board of Excise met yesterday, The total number Of licenses passed thus far is three thonsand. The sutler at Fort Wood, Bedloc’s Island, having applied for a mse to sell ale tho matter was referred to the counsel, 0 rendered his opinion to the effect that the Fort was for practical purposes outside the Excise district, The counsel also declared that the trustees of the village of Now Brighton have no authority to grant license or to regulate the sale of liquor in their village, as claimed by them, the sic power in the matier belonging to the Excise Board, Mr. Henry A. Smythe, whose confirmation as Collector of the Port was announced in yesterday's Hrraup, will be duly instalied on Tuesday morning next. Mr. Smythe started for Washington yesterday afternoon, to confer with the Secretary of the Treasury on the.subject of the important duties shortly to devolve upon him, An im- promptu gathering of the wel-lwishers of the Collector paid their respects to him yesterday eveming at Wash- incton Heights. The strike among the shipearpenters, shipjoiners and shipeauikers sulf continues, Yesterday the master ship- Dotlders held a meeting, at which they passed a resoln. tion offerimg a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest and conviction of the persons who had nesaulted or might assault the men while going to or from thelr work or while in the employment of the ship- Duilders, It wae agreed that a letter should be addressed to Saperintendont Kennedy, asking the agsistance of the Metropolitan police in the matter, The Houresmiths’ Mutual Protective Association held a "Jneoting in Delancey street last night, and expressed ‘Yhemselves, after a couple of hours quiet talk, fally sat 3itied with the prosent condition of their trade. There are *}o differences between journeymen and boss honsesmiths, The Freedman’s American and British Commission old their anniversary last evening at the African Methodist Episcopel Church, Sullivan street, The atten- dance was very large and enthusiastic. The proceedings ‘were dpened with prayer, after w Adresses were de livered by Rev. H. H. Garnett and General 0. 0, Howard, ‘The speeh of the General was listened to with great attention, It being a complete review of the working of the Freedian's Bureau, the state of the South, Ms Present improvement, aud the remedy demanded to Temove oxisting evils, Major General 0. 0. Howard yesterday addressed the children of the Five Points House of Industry. There large concourse of children present, After: the addross the General looked through the (netitution. ‘The thirtioth anniversary of w York Lostitution for the Blind took place last evening at Irving Hall.” ‘The house was crowded to witness the examination of the pupils. The aunivereary of the American Board of Commis sioners for Foreign Missions was celebrated yesterday in Irving Hall, The Secretary's report shows the society to be ina floarishing pecuniary condition, and its opera. tions are giving bright promises of great success among the heathen nations. The seventh regular examination of the eontor class of Columbia College Law school for the degree of Bachelor nnd for admission to the bar, which was continued ‘fat the Institute, No, 87 Lafayette place, for the past three days, was brought toa close yesterday, The students compoaing the senior class, about sixty-one, during yes. torday were examined by Profestor Dwight on equity, evidence and practice on the New York code, and sey. eral of the young gentlemen passed a One exemnation. Asuit was brought yoeterday against the Sheriff be- fore Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, to recover the value of & horse and wagon alleged to have been seized and sold under an execution. The verdict was Tendered in favor of the sheriff, Judge Ingrabam has rendered bis decision in the case of James M. Bfown against T| MM, Mason Jape M. Mason, which wai & wilt brought for breach of con- tract. Plaintiff claimed that the defendant, Mr. Thomas H. Mason, agreed to sell him bis house, corner of Thirty- Path street and Madison avOBue, for eighty-five thousand justly censured. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1866.~—TRIPLE 6HEET. dollars, and afterwards sought to be released from suoh contract, which plaintiff refused, and instituted an action, On the trial it was claimed that the house belonged to defendant’s wife, giving him no authority to sell. Ver dict was given for plaintiff for Ofty thousand doMars damages. ‘The Christy will case was again up before Judge Bar- nard in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yosterday, On & motion to settle the issues to be tried before a jury, and for the appointment of a day on which the cause may Ve tried. Decision was reserved. An action for breach of contract in the purchase of a farm of Ofty acres in Suffolk county, brought by Alexan- der Henderson against Hannah Iron and another, was tried yesterday in part 8 of the Supreme Court, before Judge Foster, In the contract of sale it was agreed that, in case of non-performance by either party, the sum of five hundred dollars should be forfeited, plaintiff being the purchaser and defendants the sellers. Fraud on the part of plaintiff, in procuring the contract, being set up as defence. A verdict was given for the defendants. * Messrs, Peyton and Frank Jaudon, stock brokers) brought an action against Mesara, Joseph J. Walton and Nehemiah Perry, Jr., which was tried yesterday in Part 2 of the Supreme Court, Circait, before Judge Mullen. ‘The suit was instituted to recover throe thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fourteon cents, claimed to be due plaintiffsas brokers for buying and selling stock, Personal notice of sale of stock not having been given the defendants, a non-suit was granted in the case, Dennis G. Ferguson, who was arrested some days ago on charge of being implicated in the Lord bond robbery case, was brought before Judge Cardozo, of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus, through the efforis of his counsel, who objectod to his being confined in the Sixth ward station house when the commitment ordered him to be placed in tho custody of the City Warden at the Tombs. The Court granted the application for the removal of the prisoner. In the United States Commissioners’ oillce yesterday, before Commissioner Betts, Colonel T. P, Shaffner was examined in the case of the United States against Otto Burstenbinder, siderable length on the properties of nitro-glycerine. The investigation was farther adjourned till Monday next. The Colonel gave his evidence at oon- John O’Brien was yesterday put on trinl in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Ingraham, for the murdor of his wife by shooting. case have been already reported. The jury, after a brief trial, returned a verdict of manslaughter in tho third de- gree. Sentence reserved. The details of the In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Judge Rus- sel sentenced a batch of prisoners convicted of burglary, forgery, larceny and othor crimes, to serve terms in the State Prison varying from one to five years, Albert Bryson brought suit yesterday against the Brooklyn City Raiiroad Company before Judge Reynolds to recover ten thousand dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by being run over by one of their cars in October last. The caso was continued. Lewis Clark and Charles Dennis, charged with the theft of $130,000 worth of United States bonds and rail- road securities from Mr. John P. Moore, No, 110 Madison avenue, were yosterday discharged from custody by Jus- tice Dowling, the evidence of their accuser, Mr. Morri- son, not having been corroborated by that of other wit- nesses. ‘Two boys named George Fatherly and Hance Gowdan, aged respectively thirteen and fourteen, were yesterday arrested for arson, and, confessing their guilt were sent to the House of Correction. ‘The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain mbites, will sail at noon to-day from pior 44 North river, for Queens- town and Liverpool. The steamship Borussia, Captain Schwensen, for Cowes and Hamburg, will also sail at noon to-day. The mails for both vessels will cloge at the Post Office at half-past ten. ‘Tho steamship Star of the Union, Captain Blanchard, of the Cromwell line, will sail for New Orleans at three P. M. to-day, from pier No. 9 North river. ‘The mails will close at half-past one, The Empire Sidewhvel Line steamship Missouri, Cap- tain Loveland, will sail at three P. M. to-day for Bavan: nah, from pier No. 13 North river, foot of Cedar street, ‘The stock market was dull but firm yesterday. ov- ernments were steady. Gold closod at 129% a %. ‘The continued firmness in gold exerted a favorable in- fluence in trade circles yesterday, and the market for Doth foreign and domestic produce was generally firmer. Breadstuifs was the most noticeable exception to this rule, however, a strong reaction having set in, re- sulting ina decline of 20c. a 60c. on flour and 3c. a 6c. on wheat, Provisions were firm. Groceries quiet. Cotton firmer but not active. Petroleum in moderate demand, with an advancing tendency. Whiskey dull and nom- inal. MISCELLANEOUS. Generals Steedman and Fullerton, the commissioners appointed to investigate the workings of the Freedmen’s Bureau through the Southern States, have made a re- port of their observations in Virginia aud North Carolina, The statements made from time to tino by our corre- spondent, travelling with the commissioners, are fully corroborated by this report, and the out- rages perpetrated by the agents of the Bureau in North Carolina are freely ventilated and A recommendation is made in the re- port for the removal of the present officers of the Bu- reau from those States, and the tranefer of the duties to the officer commanding troops in the State, as the agents have but little to do, all cases for trial or adjust- ment having been turned over to the civil courts. Tho President has approved the resolution exempting parafine ofl and crude petroleum from internal taxation, and also the bill extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, so that it may determine the claims of army disbursing oflicers who may ask relief from respons'- Dillty for losses sustained by capture oF otherwise, Jefterson Davis was indicted for treason on Thursday by the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court now in gesston at Norfolk, The Court adjourned until June next, when it will moet in Richmond and, it 13 supposed, proceed to the trial of the prisoner. Official documents which bave been placed in the hands of Secretary Seward by M. Romero, the Minister of Mexico at Washington, reveal the fact that Santa Anna was a warm advocate of a monarchical form of govern- ment in that country, and is now a warm adherent of Maximilian. General Butler, in the Music Hail at Boston, yesterday evening, expounded his scheme of reconstruction to an immense audience. All the leading politicians of the State, and some of neighboring States, were in attend. ance, In his remarks he deprecated the restoration policy of the President and the committee as alike un- satisfactory, and onuneiated substantially the principles set forth in his plan published some days ago. An extensive and valuable collection of information regarding the great basin of the Columbia river, the re- sult of five years spent in exploration and observation, is presented in the letter of our correspondent at the Dailies, Oregon. That portion of this immense region which belongs to the United States, lying between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains ‘on the west, and of which our people generally have only an Mndistinct idea, is five hundred and twenty-iive miles long from north to south and nearly five hundred inilee wide, and its area comprises two hundred aud sixty thousand square mile, or one-tenth of the territory of ourcountry, Its real wealth bas only beena few years in process of development by the hardy pioneers; but already it containe a mining population of over twenty-three thousand, numerons rich mines are being worked in it, and its gold and silver yiold of last year was twenty four millions of dollars, ‘hough there are yet tens of thousands ef equare miles within it on which the eye of a white man has never reeted. Our correspondent gives an interesting description of ite physical charaeter- jatics, tte scenery being represented aa sublime and its climate as incomparably salubrious. A list of the names and rank of the officers who died of yellow fever on board the United States eteamer Kearearge, to the 11th of April, appears in our columns to-day, with some details of the origin and progress of the disease on the vessel, The Americans resident in St. Petersburg forwarded ‘fn address of congratulation to the Czar on his recent escape from assassination, aud received a gracious reply Both papers are published to-day, with some particulars concerning the arsassins, Galignani’s Messenger, of Paris, dated on the 24th of April, says that the pative Japanese engineer who was connected with the tron-clad built in America for the Tycoon, and who was brother of one of the Ambassadors from Japan who olin Paris, believed himself dis. honored by the o) expressed concerning the vessel, and asked for and obtained permission from the Tycoom, to commit suicide, and that he consequently ripped Pn his abdomen in prosence of his colleagues and servants, who stood in a circle around him, The Internal Revenue office, in accordance with the general law, has required gil citizens of ty South to render statements of their incomes for 1864, and asseases the price of rations in the rebel army at forty conta. General Sickies has been confirmed as Minister resident ‘at the Hague, ‘Mr. J, Ross Browne, who has just arrived at Washing- ton from Arizonia, says that it te scarcely possible that the massacre at Fort Goodwin could have occurred. He Says that there are not more than seven or ight hun- dred fighting Apaches in the entire Territory, whereas oe Teport states there wore two thousand engaged in the utehery, The losses consequent on the failure of Messrs. Bayne & Co,, of Baltimere, and the Merchants’ National Bank at Washington, are affecting some of the mercantile houses moro disastrously than was at first supposed. Two houses in Baltimore are known to have lost nearly five hundred thousand dollars, and others have suffered considerably, but to what extent is not known. Mr. Henry G. Wheeler, who has been before the Su- preme Court at Boston, was yesterday allowed a reduc- tion of bail from $200,000 to $100,000. The Court stated that {6 did not think Mr. Wheeler's intentions were criminal. A large. mecting of Missouri radicals to celebrate the anniversary of the capture of Camp Jackeon was hold on Thursday evening in St. Louis, Resolutions were adopted condemning the President's course, advocating the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine, and endorsing the passage of the Civil Rights bill over the veto. ‘The flood in ippi shows no sign of abating. he Facti: jocracy of Congress the Resorves of Thaddeus Stevens. The distinguishing feature in the intensely exciting and unfortunate proceedings in Con- gress on Thursday last was in the division of the House upon the proposition to open the door to a modification of the third section of the constitutional amendment under considera- tion. The proposed exclusion till the 4'h of July, 1870, of all persons voluntarily aiding the rebellion from the elections for Congress and the Presidential clection was obnoxious to a majority of the republican members. They de- sired a modification, they voted for it, and yet they fuiled to secure it. The democrats came to the rescue of Thaddeus Stevens, and by shutting off any modification compelled the re- publicans to take his whole scheme or nothing. Mr. Stevens having moved the previous ques- | tion, Mr. Garfield, of Ohio (republican), in- quired of the Speaker whether, in case the mo- tion was not seconded, it would be in order to move to strike out the third section, and to substitute the amendment offered by Mr. Mc- Kee, of Kentucky (another republican), pre- venting those persons who had voluntarily taken part in the rebellion from holding any federal office. The Speaker replicd that if the previous question should not be seconded, mo- tions to amend would be in order. Mr. Gar- field then expressed the hope that the previous question would be voted down. The Honse divided—yens 90, nays 59, as counted by the Speaker. Another count was demanded by tellers and ordered, and the result was the same, nearly all the democrats voting with Ste- vens to cut off all amendments. Next, it appears that on the question, “Shall the main question be now put?” the yeas and nays were demanded, so as to bring the demo- crats to the record, when they began to shufile, so that at the close of the roll call there was one majority against ordering the main ques- tion. Then, it appears, Mr. Chanler, ot New York; Eldridge, of Wisconsin; Kerr and Nib- lack, of Indiana, and the famous Jack Rogers, of New Jersey, either changed their votes or asked to have their names called, when the main question was carried by five majority. The republican conservatives, thus baffled and betrayed hy the democrats, left them in disgust, and in a solid body voted for the Stevens proposition, third section and all. By the same tactics precisely the democrats gave the assistance required by Stevena to carry through his District Negro Suffrage bill. This is the old destructive game of the South- ern secessionists over again, As during the long agony of the slavery agitation they played into the hands of the Northern aboli- tionists, so now, as if guided by the same reck- less and revolutionary designs, the democrats in Congress play into the hands of the North- ern abolition radicals. Between the abolition- isis and secessionists the Southern States at length were plunged into the fearful abyss of their late rebellion, and the loyal States into the enormous sacrifices of blood and treasure required to save the Union. But the rebellion is suppressed, and slavery with it. The con- servatives of the country, merged for a time in the fierce extremes of the twe sections, with the return of peace begin to show their heads again. Public sentiment is in favor of reconciliation and restoration. President Johnson, in adopting this policy, is sustained by public opinion. The democrats in Con- gress, copperheads and all, profess the warmest admiration of his course. Indeed, the most intractable copperheads are the noisi- est in their pretences of Johnsonian enthusi- asm. And yet, when they might act most effi- ciently to strengthen the President’s hands they serve as the rear guard of Thaddeus Stevens. What is the meaning of such trickery? We cannot account for it upon any theory of hon- esty or common sense, We see only that stu- pid Bourbon infatuation which forgets nothing and learns nothing. It is the old democratic party, is it, and its reign of power and plunder that are to be restored? But that party existed in the world before the last deluge. It is among the fossils of a transition epoch. It is superseded by a new order of things. Norcan the surviving relics of that party hope to phay successfully the réle of the abolitionists be- tween the old democratic and whig parties, in playing fast and loose between the radical party and the administration, The one or the other of these two forces must prevail. There isno ground for an intermediate party. In fastening upon slavery the moral strength of the abolitionists was irresistible as a third party; but what is there left upon which to re- build the Cincinnati, Charleston or Chicago democratic conventions? Nothing, absolutely nothing. The course of the demecrats in Con- gress is that of a disturbing faction, which, without a fixed policy or principle, must inevi- tably be ground to powder between the active conflicting ideas which divide the eountry be- tween the radicals and the administration. Tue Pouce Jvstices.—The Legislature need not pass any more laws to punish crime in this city until it has abolished police justices. So long as men sit on the bench to shield rogues from the legitimate consequences of their crimes, laws against crime are merely ridicu- lous. Nine persons, keepers of emigrant board- ing houses and emigrant runners, were arrested the other day for a violation of the law in rele- tign to boarding emigrant ships. They were known to be men of bad character, the same class of men that have been in the habit of committing the grossest outrages,on emigrants, They were arrested by the police, taken before & justice, and of course discharged “with a re- was done with. It was said they were the first cases under the law, and they profeased igne- rance even of the existence of the law. . But no Persons are better posted as to laws introduced into the Legislature bearing upon their busi- ness than these men. They have since made a movement inconsistent with the defence on which they were let off, which is, that they had no criminal intention; that their arrest was a violation of personal liberty, and they have ac- tually commenced proceedings against the offi- cers, which is an outrage in the peculiar style of emigrant runners. If men of this character are to be let off at the discretion of a justice, when caught in the very act of violating the law, what is the use of the law? James Stephens, H.C. ¥. B. The event to which all our Irish fellow citi zens and incipient citizens of Irish birth have been looking for some time past—that is, the arrival of James Stephens, Head Centre of Ire- land, Head Centre of America, Chief of the Irish republic, and universal representative of all the Imsh that ever did live, do live, or ever will live—has burst upon us at last. The H. C. is actually in the city of New York. He arrived in the new steamship Napoleon IIL, from Havre, on Thursday evening. This “ Kossuth of Ireland,” as may be readily supposed, was received by great demonstrations of fealty from his fellow citizens (or subjects) of the Irish re- public located in America. It was with great difficulty his devoted admirers, the sturdy lovers of independence, could be prevented fcom turning themselves into horses to draw his carriage through the streets from the ship to the hotel. Mr. Stephens, in good taste, and out of compassion to the bipeds who would have made themselves horses, refused to let them be harnessed. The team which properly belonged to the carriage were nearly frightened to death by the effort to take their vocation from them, but finally escaped with their precious freight to the Metropolitan Hotel. Having arrived safely, Mr. Stephens was immediately called upon by friends and by the “committee,” of course, and of course made a little speech full of encouragement and promises. Everybody is happy, Mr. Stephens not less so than any one, at the auspicious event. The bonds of the Trish republic will go up, the subscriptions from the hard-working chambermaids will pour in, we shall have receptions and monster mect- ings without number, there will be the groatest overflow of eloquence about British tyranny, Irish independence, armed hosts, bloody war and suffering patriots. We shall have all this without stint for some time to come, to keep up the excitement and flow of funds; and then we shall have—what? Perhaps a collapse, with a good round sum in the hands of the leaders, a la Kossuth, to make them comfort- able for life. That will probably be the end of all this fuss, parade and fary. We say this in kindness to our Irish fellow citizens, and in no spirit of unkindness to the leaders of the Fenians. If there were any chance of success of making Ireland free and establishing a republic, we would not utter ‘a discouraging word, for we know what Ire- land has suffered through ages of misrule, and our sympathies are with the Irish people We do not doubt either that many, if not all the Feniun leaders, are in earnest and imagine they have a chance of accomplishing some- thing. Men of intelligence often become vis- ionary and believe the most improbable things when their feelings and hopes are fixed on an object and when their minds;dwell constantly upon it. They become incapable of taking the comprehensive and impartial views others take, and are carried away into the most ex- travagant schemes by their enthusiasm. We are willing to believe this is the case with the Fenian leaders. Kossuth probably was sincere at one time in his desire and expectation to liberate Hungary, and he had a better chance than the Fenians to liberate Ireland; but when he had no hope of that he found a handsome fund of money in his hands, and to return this to the individual subscribers was neither con- venient or possible. These men ought to know what is practicable before they take the hard- earned money of the people. If it be only a grand display and noise to amuse the Irish people, to gratify their sentiment of love for the old country, and to work up their enthusiasm by way of amusement, and they are willing to pay for that as they pay for being amused at the theatre, all very well. There is no particular objection to that, so that nobody be hurt and the United States’ government be not put to expense to maintain the neutrality laws. But ifthe movement be a serious one on the part of the leaders a few pertinent questions might be asked. How many ships would it take to carry an invading army across the Atlantic—such an army as would not be gobbled up piecemeal by the British men-of- war and redconts? How many? A hundred? Fifty?’ Twenty? How much money would it cost?’ A hundred millions? Or fifty millions? And where is this money to come from? Then how are these ships to be obtained, and how get away from our shores? Can one, can a schooner, be permitted to break the neutrality laws and escape the vigilance of our govern- ment? But some say the colonies are to be taken first and made the point d’appui of opera- tions for the liberation of Ireland. How ab- surd! Would not this be fillibustering—piracy? There are some Irishmen in the colonies, but there are more of others who do not want to be conquered and governed by a few Irish fillibus- ters. The colonies are not Ireland. And would the United States permit the invasion of a friendly territory? General Meade’s presence on the border and the United States Navy on the coast are a sufficient answer to the question ‘as to what our government would be bound to do. It is not. question of sympathy with Irish- men—here or in Ireland—in their generous de- sires and aspirations. That they have, probably, from beth our government and people; but it is one of law, of international obligations and prudence that must govern us in this case. In hatever way we look at the visionary scheme B establish an Ina republic we see it is utter~ ly impracticable. Worse then that; the Irish people are not only deluded, but the leaders are putting this generous eguntry, which some of them have adopted, to great exponse and trouble. They have no Aght to do this under any circumstances, but under the present im- pragticable and absurd movement they are en- tirely inexcusable. Perhaps the voice of reason may fot be listened to just now, and our Irish follow citizens may feel it necessary to excite themselves and have « grand sensation, as Head Contre Stephens has arrived, but the time must soon come when the whole affair will primand.” That is all wrong, and jt ig time it! collapee gad reagon regain its sway The Tactics of the Radicals—Thad Ste- vens and His Tongue. In the old times of peace and plenty, when the present dominant faction was just strug- gling into existence, we used to hear s great deal about plantation manners and the bar- barism of slavery. The debates in Congress at that time furnished the republican editors with ®@ vast quantity of ammunition. Whenever a Southern member became a little violent in his language all the abolition papers would harp upon it asa proof of the demoralizing effects of the peculiar institution, With the philo- sophic Sumner this was favorite theme. He would turn it and twist it and squeeze every drop of eloquence and of argument out of it, in the peculiar style which he mistakes for ora- tory and logic. Under the irritating influences of Sumner and the other reformers and aboli- tionists affairs in Congress grew worse and worse. Honorable members began to flourish their fists and brandish spittoons and feel in their coattails for pistols and in their coat collars for bowie knives. At this pe- riod a Congressman was s walking arsenal. He was afraid to sit down for fear he should stab himself in some portion of his anatomy by accident, and prudent people were afraid to sit near bim lest some of his weapons should go off and scatter death and destruction around. He was as dangerous as a box of nitro-glycerine. When excited upon any sub- ject he would pick his teeth ferociously with a large dagger, and shoot down the insolent waiter who happened to bring him rye whis- key for bourbon. In these good old times, as our readers will remember, Congress became the laughing-stock of Europe. It was suggested that during a heated debate sentinels ought to be posted around the Capitol to warn outsiders to keep beyond pistol shot. Our brethren from the sunny South stalked about the floor of the House breathing threatenings and slaughter against all those who did not agree with them in.opinion. Members practised firing at a mark without taking their pistols out of their pock- ets, in order to be prepared for sudden emer- gencies. When an important vote was taken each side stood to ¢rms, and those who had no other weapons ascertained that their inkstands were handy and sharpened their penknives on the soles of their boots. Challenges were fre- quent, though duels were rare. Various at- tempts were made to scalp Barksdale, of Mis- sissippi, whose life was saved by his wearing a wig. Then Sumner was flogged by Preston Brooks for calling Senator Butler the Sancho Panza of slavery. Afterwards Burlingame de- sired to fight Brooks with rifles, but the latter gentleman declined. At about the same period Potter, of Wisconsin, invited Pryor, a foolish fire-eatef, to an interview in a dark room with a couple of bowie knives; but Pryor also backed down, on the ground that be preferred to fight with some weapon that wonld not burt so much. Meanwhile all this rowdyism was set down to the account of slavery, and thus it all assisted to build up the anti-slavery party. So by and by the republican party came into power, the Southern members withdrew from Congress, the rebellion began in earnest, the fighting men went off to the wars, slavery was abolished, and for awhile we hud comparative peace and quiet in the marble halls of var na- tional Legislature. But now tuut the military part of the war is over, and the battle for the Union has been aguin transferred to Congress, what do we see and hear? Was the barbarism of slavery as illustrated by the Southern members any worse than the barbarism of anti-slavery as illustrated by the radical members? Were Toombs and his fire-eaters any more rowdyish than Thad Stevens and his gang? Were Barksdale, Craig, Pryor and Wigfall any more violent and out- rageous than Ben Wade, Ingersoll, Conkling, Trumbull and Blaine? It is true that we have not yet come to fisticuffs, pistol shooting and displays of bowie knives; but no one can say at what moment this may begin. Honorable members have already pretty thoroughly ex. hausted the vocabulary of hard words, and after abuse come blows. Within a short time Congressmen have declared themselves “re- sponsible” for their language “here or else. where,” which is equivalent to an invitation to aduel. Look at the belligerent demonsiratio is of Conkling and Blaine. Listen to the blas- phemy of Ben Wade, the brutal ravings of Trambnll, the slanders which Ingersoll was permitted to heap upon the Presi- dent. Read the speech of Thad Stevens, as reported in our columns yesterday. Trambull and Stevens have outrivalled Toombs and Wigfall at their own game. No slave- driver ever cracked his whip in debete so loudly as Stevens cracks his whip over the backs of both republicans and democrats. When Mr. Stevens compared himself to Almighty God, avowed his determination to humiliate the Southern people “like animals or felons,” and declared that they ought io be kept “in the penitentiary of hell, guarded by bayonets,” he went further than any fire-eater ever cared to go. Yet there was no one to call him to order; no one to resent this disgrace to the House, and even the democratic members submitted to be bufied into the support of the radical plans. The tongues of Thad Stevens and of Trambull are the lashes which drive the members before them like a flock of sheep. The tactics of the radicals are to bully Congress and then to bully the country into an endorsement of their scheme of reconstruction, just as the fire-eaters used to bully everybody into acquiescence in their demands. But we warn the people that, as the former extravagances in Congress were followed by civil war, so the extravagances of the radicals will result in a military deepotiem unless they are checked and rebuked at the polls, Qur warnings in regard to the rebellion have been proved too true, and our warnings in regard to the radicals will be equally justi- fied by the facts of the future. Jerr Davis—A Tres Buu.—On Thareday afternoon, it appears, the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court, in session at Nor- folk, brought in a trae bill against Jefferson Davis for treason, and adjourned until tbe firet, Tuesday in June (the fifth of the month), ‘0 meet in Richmond. Jeff Davis, then, is fted for a trial at last. Richmond is within tl cir- cuit of Chief Justice Chase; but whether he has consented to hold a court there or not, ae provided for in this indictment, wg ‘bave yet to learn. It will be remembered t¥sat last Novem- ber he objected, in consideration of the unsel- tled and begnar ca iy As state of rd can in Virginia, including the supremacy law. We presume, however, that, in removing martial law from Viry’inia, President Johnson wilt endeavor t move this objection of the Chief Justice, But he suggested last Novem- ber the necessity of some legislation from Con- gress to meet the case, The matter has beem for some time before the Judiciary Committee of the House; but although we have heard that the committee have been laboring to provide for a trial that will insure conviction, we have heard nothing more. Doubtless, however, the Grand Jury at Norfolk has been acting by authority, and their removal of the case to Rich- mond and appointment of the day means that the trial is provided for and that counsel and witnesses on both sides are ready. It is under- stood that in casting about among the most distinguished lawyers in the country, Davis, not long after his incarceration hit upon Charles O’Conor, of this city, as his leading counsellor, nd that Mr. O’Conor is now preparing himself for the heavy task before him. Tae Lorrery anp Powicy Swinvte—Mx. Scorr axp Marcus Cicero Stantey.—We give elsewhere the card of Mr. Marcus Cicero Stanley in relation to the recent affidavit of Mr. Scott, of New Jersey, on the lottery swin- dle. Our readers will remember that Mr. Scott, of New Jersey, swore that he had been robbed of forty-one thousand dollars by certain persons, dealers in lotteries, the most prominent of the number being the Hon. Ben Wood. Mr. Scote then, as alleged, made another affidavit, swear- ing that he had been incited to make those allegations by Marcus Cicero Stanley. It ia now declared by Mr. Stanley that this latter Scott—Lyman B. Scott—is a myth, a fiction, a weak invention of the lottery robbers, put up .to break the force of the charges made in the first affidavit; that the real Scott is named Lyman C.; and, furthermore, Mr. Stanley pro- poses, for a reasonable forfeit, to prove all the statements made in the first affidavit, out of the mouth of Ben Wood himself, unless that honor- able Senator shall “decline to answer all ques- tions pertinent to the issue, on the ground that such answers would degrade or criminate him.” This, as was observed by the learned Toueh- stone, “is a very pretty quarrel as it stands.” Whatever doubt there may be as to the mo- tives of the parties to this quarrel, there ' is one point as to which there can be ne doubt at all—that is, that all are right who denounce the villany of the lottery swindle. Therefore, the more noise that is made on this matter, the more affidavits there are, pro and con, the more the modus operandi of this enormous swindle is brought before the people, the better for public mo- rality. Gambling in any shape is bad enough, demoralizing enough; but all other gambling together does not do one tithe the harm done by the lottery and policy dealers. The dupes of this villany are found in the poorer classes, and while other gambling only does harm im the cities or towns and in gambling houses, the lottery gambler, by means of his circulars, invades every house in the land, and tempts te ruin the unsophisticated youth of the rural = | districts. No other system of villany ever invented could possibly be so effective for the absolute destruction of public morality. It is to be hoped that these disclosures, if the quarrel is kept up, will open the eyes of the dupes throughout the country, and there js @ passibility that the attention of our law officers may be called to the fact that the lot tery business is nowhere so flourishing as f= this State of New York, where we have the strongest possible enactments against it. Lieutenant General Scott at West Point. ‘This veteran hero made his usual annual visit to West Point on Thursday last, The occasion was taken advantage: of to honor the old soldier by the officers of the army ow duty here. General Van Viiet placed at the disposal of the General the goveroment steamer C. W. Thomas. The Lieutenant General was accompanied by two members of his staif in Mexico, Colonels Munroe and Van Buren also by Major General Pleasanton, Butterfield, Potter, Van Viiet and Vogdes, and a select party of prominent civilians. General Vogdes sent the band of the First regular artillery with the company. On passing Castle William, Governor's Island, a salute of thirteen guns wae fired, by order of General Butterfield, in honor of the hero of two wara, At dinmor on board the steamer toaste in honor of General Scott were drank with much entha- siasm by all the party. The Lieutenant General exe pressed himself mach indebted to ail for their courtesy and kindness, On the way up the river every steamer =» honored the Lieutenant General by salutes and dipping their colore. Passing Stony Point, a place famous in re vol:itionary story, and “Benny Havens, 0!" a place well remembered by many living West Pointers, the hand played appropriate aire. On arriving at West Point the Lieatenant General was received with due honors by General Cullum, Colonel Black and Captain Boynton. The cadets were cut on parade and presented a fine ap- pearance. ihe Laeutenant General js in rather feeble health. The Reeent Fai HEAVY LOSSES TO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS. Bavrimone, May 11, 1868, The results of the failare of Messrs. Bayne & Co., of this city—already known to the public as the prime cause of the failure of the Merchants’ National Bank, Washington—proves to have beem more disastrous, | financially, than was at first eupposed, Four of oureity | banks, at least, are sufferers; one of the oldest and moet reliable ie eaid to have lost about three hundred and ~ ninety thourand dollars, which will no doubt somewhas curtail dividends for a time, One other is said tohave § Jost a hundred thousand dollars by the same operationa, And besides these loxses many private individuals bave Jost largely. The Case of Henry Wheeler. HIS BALL REDUCED TO OXE BUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR: Boston, May 11, 1866, In the case of Heury G. Wheeler the Suprome Court to-day decided to allow a reduction of bis bail to one hundred thousand dollars, also stating that it did not think Mr, Wheeler intended to abscond, bot that he was, leaving the country In good faith. a artes Intelligence. Madame la Comtesee d’ Agouit, a literary Indy and ari tocratic French republican, has published in Paris, with | the nom de plume Daniel Sterne, @ book on Dante amd Goethe, written in the form of a dialogue, and ably con- ducted in support of popular freedom to the end. Anew book, ' Las Divinites leur Culted ler Expansion dana le Monde,” vy M. Ollivier Beaure- gard, bas been printed in Paria. The author proposes the rebabilitation of the Egyptian divinities, maintalp- ing that the Catholic form of worship is nothing ese than the Egyptian religion modernized and appropriated to the use of humanity at large. t ‘A book bas been published in Paris containing aco lection 6f dates that have been of ill omen or brough® AI logic to celebrated personages in France. The 16th of |) has been fatal to several lacies of high distinction, (fm the 16th April, 167, died the Duchess of Longue sville; April 16, 1710, Madame de Maintanon; April 18, 1720, Madame de Caylus, and on the game day, in 1764, Madame de Pompadeur. A number of unpublished letiers in the autograph of Mre. Siddone have been sold in London. They wore for the most part addressed to the Viewountess Perceval and Mre, Soame, and range ever & period of ten years, whem Mre, Biddone was at the height of her profesefnal suc- cose, In ao letter addressed to the Viscountess, date@ August 156, 1786, ocours the followigg passace:—‘‘1 wild proceed to tell you that the labors of the summer have attained for me a litte comfortable independence, and as ae that, if it should please God tm His wigdcm to affiot me with che ay ge ba Soares ee to London my utmost ambit wee to one worth Oe ‘and I have now got it; and xt T dare wry many who can give proof that I em worth £40.