The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1866, Page 4

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HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratoriax Mime sTRELS1—BaLLans, BUMLESQUES AND Panzomass., BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF ouing—Aw Hove in Srvinie—Tom PE ANATOMY, 618 Broadwag.— MUSTC.—Suanpy MaA- Connix Soogan. NEW YORK MUSEUM Open from 10 A. BM. till 10 New York, Monday, May 28, 1806. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements to insure a proper classification @hould be brought in before half-past eight o’clock in the evening. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrexty Usratp must be handed in before ten o'clo.k every Wednesday ovoning. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Wxexty Hxnazp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States, THES NEWS. EUROPE. The steamship City of Boston, from Queenstown May 17, arrived at this port yesterday morning. Her news is two days later. There was little change in the aspect of the German question. Austria pushed on Ler armaments and it was thought sho would have nine hundred thousand men in the field within two weeks, should the oxisting status be preserved so long. Italy seemed ready and tho cquipment of Prussia was almost completed. Our telegraphic report of the 17:h of May—the very latest— states, in the face of these facts, that the prospect of a Peace Congress was “improving.” Indeed, it is said that Italy and Prossia hag agccpted this plan of sottle- ment, but thatthe reply of Austria had not been re- evived. Count Bismark, it is alleged, had letters daily advising him that his assassination was immiaent. The electoral agitation in iavor of peace was extending in Prussia, The money panic excitement continued in process of abatement in England. A few additional failures urs re- Ported from Liverpool and others were expected in tuat | town, The Commercial Bauk Corporation o! India, hay- = ing branches in China, Japan and San Francisco, had failed. There was a heavy drain of specie from England to the Continent. The news of the bombardment of Valparaiso produced avery intense excitement in Enginnd. Tho act of the ‘Spaniards was denounced in Parliament and by tue poo- ple and'press. At an indignation movting held in Liv- erpool Commodore Rodgers, United Stules Navy, was formally thanked for his action The Liverpool shipping firms bad notified their agen 's on the Cemtinent that German emigrauts would uot be taken in England on account of the eholera. The Derby was won by Lord Lyon; the Brother of S'. Albans, by Stockwell, known as the Dribory colt, seanne. and Rustic third, Twouty-tour st-- ~ Closely contested t~ ew aaish, Tord Lyon wianing by hut a length. The time is not good, it being only at the rate of 2:52 2-3 the mils, Two seullor matches have been mate tm Enzland be- tweon Honry Kelley, the champion scaller of Putney, ‘and Hamill, the American champions. ‘The races will te for £250. side each race; the first will bea four mie siraight gay race, and the second will be a five mils fico, Boi will be pulled on the @no week on tLe Tyne, early in July. ene" The appesrance of the cattle plague in Ireland pro- dacod great alarm, but it was thought ihe disease would not extend. The Liverpool cotton market was dull and prices weak on the 17h of May, with little inquiry. Broadstuits steady. Provisions gencrally inactive. Lard firmer. Consols rated in Loudou, ou the &Tth of May, at 86% a 87!g for money. United Stats five-twenties were at 65% a G8. The rate of diseontdt remoiued at ten per cent in London. MISCELLANEOUS. It is now considered cor'a‘n that the trial of Jem Day's ‘will be postponed until the November term of the Kich- mond court. It is also quite probable that the ludiet- ment will be altered, the Grand Jury having only ad- journed and being, theretore, entitled to make changos in the Lill, Other presentments will be made at the suggestion of tle Attorney General, who conducts the prosecution. James f. Brady, of New York, is now known to be reta ned as counsel in the race of Davis, and ts at Forte s Monroe ii daily consults’ ion with him, together wth O'Vonor and Sica, ‘The counsel have agreed to demand on immediat» trial at the June court, or, if 2 postponement is insisted wpom, they will demand that their client be rel ased pom bail, which he iy rendy to give do the amount of ten nil! ons of dollars, if neous. sary. The last exhibit of the Compirviler of the Treasury shows that there are about one thousand six hundred and fifty national banks, wit! an aggrecate circulation of $40,510. Four hundred of iese banks we de- Positories for the reception of gorerumout funds, By way of England we have iaicr news from South America. A Rio Janciro despaicli of April 24 says tho operations of the allied army upon the Parana were being vigorously pushed forward. Kxehange on London was at 24% 026 premium in Riv. Re. cipis of coltee for ‘& fortnight, 66,000 bays; stcck, 10,000 bags. Our Memphis corrosponde.' writes that the recount riots had no party signilicande ‘in the eyes of evn the most radical who are aq ainted with the cir am- stances. The bad character of tii poltee, the drunkon- ness of discharged ne gry auld and the ox\sten‘e of an old feud between tho two pories were the immediate causes of the atrocities. Nowe lowed themselves more Anxious to quell the riot than (ve revurned bela, Trouble ts anticipated on the app intinent of t ., lately authorized by the Gor Par Asvew!y posed the present ingimbe «who art ters in the Stato, will eoniost their The sidewheel stew. iip South America, Captain ‘Tinklepaagh, will sal con pier 43 North ver, toomor row, 20th, at three | for St, Vhomaa, Para, Perna. bnco, Bahia and Rio Jooeiro, The matis for the above places will @lote at the Post Oifice at half-past one P.M, Mecors. Garrivon & Ailen are now the ager’s of this line The rain storm which visited hie secuion yosterday was prevalentaliso in various poriions of thy country. The Rey. Cyrus D. Foss conducted the dedicatory orvices at the new Methodist Rpiscopal churci) on Lex ington avenue, This congregation formerly wor b\ ped in the old Fiftieth street church, The present church as ouly completed Inst week. Rov. Dr, Cheever preached last eventing in the Chir) tthe Puritans on the benevolence and morey of God The revereud gontleman {n the course of said (hata fecrfal responsibility tr etel ov hi r any govern. od, that mont that Aid not carry out the orijaances o id not punish treason and tra that refused to enfranctise men on account of the color of their skin. A mooting of parishioners of the Chuyeh of St. Charles Borromeo, in Brooklyn, of which the inte Rey. Dr. Pise was pastor, was held yesterday afiornoon, at whieh com: Plimentary resolutions wore passed in memory of the de- ‘eoased clergyman. Archbishop MeCloskey yostoriay mimiuistered tho aacrament of confirmation to about two hundred persons at Fordham, . ‘Tho Rey, William Irvine, of the Westegan Methodigs denomination, reached in the open alr, at Lefferts Part in Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, efter the rain ceased, to over Sve hundred persons. ‘The first session of tas Seventh Annual @eavention of the Board of Delegates of American Isractites was Dold yesterday afternoon. The annual report of the Execu- tive Committee having been read, an wes had until this evening when, the questions at issue will discussed. At the Turn Hall in Orchard street a cenvention was eld yesterday of delegates representing the German s0- ciet‘es who are making preparations for a demonstration against the Sunday law, which is to take place in Union square on the 4th or June, Measures to complete the were discussed and acted upon. The liquor law was discussed yesterday afternoon at 166 Clinton street in presence ef about fifty hearers. ‘The speakers were nearly all tempsrance men. The Broadway concert saloons which employ female waiters flanked the Excise Commissioners yesterday. They remained open, dealing only in light refreshments, such ap ice creams, soda water, coffee, cigars, &c. The law was observed very generally thropghout the city and in Brooklyn, The number of excursioniste was, not- withstanding the rain, fully as great as on any previous Sunday. During one of the trips of the Hoboken ferryboats\yea- terday, while crowded with the pleasure-seekers who had fled from the dry scones. of the metropolis, in the hopes gf fefreshing the inner man ‘in New Jersey, the cry of “Fira”? was raised. A panic ensued among the passengers, many of whom were women end children, and the utmost terror prevailed, The boat was rapidly nearing her dock, however, when pistol shots were heard in the front part of tho boat, and the panic increased. A man named Louis Lovoy fired two shots at anothor, named Michael Cullen, one of which took off:ct in bis breast, severely wounding him. The panic abated—no one else being injured—on the arrival of tho boat at hor dock, when the firing parties were arrested, The dead bodies of three fomales, supposed to have ‘beon victims of the cholera, buried in the water from the ship Falcon, were discovered on Coney Island boach op Friday and Saturday, A fire occurred in No. 25 Amity place yestorday. The damage amounted to about eight hundred @oliars. A fire was discovered on Saturday night im the Uquor store of Heury Gracey, in Hudson street, Brooklyn, The proprietor was arrosted'on the belief that he set the placo on fire for the purpose of obtaining the insurance. ‘The loss conseqment on the disastrous fire at St. Louis on Saturday ovening is now reported to be $220,000. The Union foundry, at Providence, R. I., was destroyed by fire yestorday. The loss is about eight thousand dol- lara, Thomas Murphy was arrested yesterday on suspicion of being concerned in the robbory of Afr. Higgins, on Forty-third strect, on the 12th inst., when, it will be re- momb>red, over sixteen thousand dol ars were stolen. William MeCormick, the perpetrator of the Fourth street murder, surrendered himself 6 the authorities yesterday. He stated that he and Pollard bad a diMculty about the wife of the prisoner, and he accused Pollard of slandering her, which Pollard dea‘ed. From words thoy came to blows, but were separated. They again came to biows, and while clinching the second time he stabbed the deceased, After the murder McCormick hid himself in the house of a friend in Eighth street until yesterday Morning, when, by advice, he actermined to surronder Dhaself, He was committed to the Tombs to await his trial. Generals Stosdman and Fullerton arrived in Augusta, Georgia, yesterday, in the putruance of their investiga- tions, They are preparing anviher report of the conduct Of the Bureau, and the condition of frecdmen, with pot ta ga to Florida and the South Carolina sca pa : Thb Freedmén's courts in Tennessee were abolished on Spturday by tho Commissioner of the Bureau for that Btate, as tho law making colored persons competent witnesses befere the civil courts has gouo into effcot, Thaddeus Stevens om Seerctary MeCul- loch—A Threat of Impeachment Against Halt the Cabinet. The proceedings of tho House of Represen- tatives on Saturday last were entivened by an- other war whoop ‘rom the heau sachem of the radical camp against the administration gen- erally, but especially directed at ‘the “rocreant’? Tax bill ha Tenn Sepratere! f dasideration, Mr. Stevens moved to amend the sixty-‘ifth section by striking out the words “the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to appoint an officer in his department who shall be s'yled commissioner,” &e., and inserting in lien thercof, “Congress, vy @ concurrent action, shall elect a special commissioner.” Mr. Steveng gildx—? ‘am done giving patronaes to the Secretary of the Treasury Where it can be avoided. Ho has dy said be will appoint no one to office wito will not sustain the poliey of the Presi- @ent, He distinctly so informod a member of the House this morning who called upon him for an appoinimen'. The Secretary referred to an apostate Senator (supposed to be Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania), and said:—‘I will consult him wien I make the »ppointment, and will appoint nobody not recommended by him.’ It is therefore for this House to let the people of the country know whether officers are to be eacrificed to this determination of the subordinates of the Prosident.” Secretary McOulloch has touched the vulner- able heel of the radical Achilles. He feels the wound artd chafes and roars like an angry tiger. Ho declaims against the tyranny of the adminis- iration. He says “ii is time that wo bailtup a wall against such tyranny as this. It is malfoas- ancvin ofice. [have already ascertained that four of the subordinates of the President have made the sume declaration, IfI were a little young- er—end I shall be in week, I think—I would let these officers know that this is a grand inquest of the nation, before which men who are guilty tn afice shall be brought and their cases presented to another tribunal to try then.” [Excitement A voicee—“Good."] “Sir,” continued the re- morveless Stevens, working up in his wrath, “we are recreanis to our interests, we are re- creants to our dignity, we are recreants to the interests of the country, if we do not stand by those who stand by us. We must take care that no more patronage be put into the hands of any man to be abased, avowedly abused, It is time that we speak aloud and let our friends abroad know that they are in no dan- get; that they shali not be sacrificed because they stand by Congress, because they are not the tools of « reereant President’ (Great excitement.) This is bringing the war to close quarters, Here is a direct threat of impeachment pro- cvedings against at least four members of the Cabinet. McCulloch is one of them and the other three, we presume, are Messrs. Seward, Welles, of the Navy, and Deanison, of the Post Office Department, The constitution declares that the TTouse of Representatives “shall have the sole power of impeachment,” and that the § e shal have the sole power to try 0 The House, then, is “the andl the Senate the other tribu- rial to which Mr, Stevens refers. He all imy a erand inquest’ | nal for ® | bas given his warning; let him follow it up. He may, perhops, or he may not suoceed in Securing a two-\hirds vote in the Senate; but now is bis only time. Ta the event of success against the four Cabinet recreants complained of, or against any one of them, we shall doubt less have » new Cabinet, from stem to stern; “a consummation devoutly to be wished.” This will be the issue, sooner or later, between NEW. YORK ‘HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 2128) 11868. this Congress and thé sdministation. The President, then, should himself take the initia- tive and follow the example of Andrew Jack- Gon, if he would svoid the fate of John Tyler. In the course of. week the old, facetious and ferocious leader of the House thinks he will be Young enongh “to let these officers know (Mesars, Seward, McCulloch, Welles and Den- nison) that this isa grand inquest of the nd- tion.” But why strike at these subordinates and spare the principal offender? These off- cers are only doing the President's work. , To this impeachment it will probably come at last, unless the President in good time shall fortify himself with a now Cabinet, from Alpha to Omega, drawn from the heroes of the army and the navy and the leading clv- ilians of the country, distinguished for their good work in the suppression of the rebellion and yet sympathizing with the President in bis general policy of Southern restoration. Andrew Johnson, instead of retreating under the wrath of Thaddeus Stevens, should him- self bring this conflict tos decisive issue; for the public sentiment of the country is with him againat the revolutionary schemes of Ste- vens and his radical faction. Later News from Europe=State of Affairs, ‘We receive by the steamship City of Boston, from Queenstown, two days’ later European news than that which we laid before our read- ers yesterday by the America and Saxonia. The dates by the City of Boston are up to May 17. The nows bears a mere hopeful aspect, both with regard to the qttestion of war and the financial state of affairs, although there had been little change. While matters were not get~’ ting worse, apparently, there was room for’ hope; and this suspension of threatened evil allayed in some degree apprehension and ex- citement, ; The newest feature. about the war question is found ins popular demonstration in Berlin against the policy of the Prussian gov- ernment and in the extraordinary arma- ment of Ausiria. Elections are to take place shortly in Prussia, and from the public sentiment shown at a large meeting of electors in Berlin there is some reason to believe the government may not be sustained in its warlike and ambitious policy. The Prussian people are much concerned just now about the internal affairs of the country. They want reform and stronger guarantees for their liberties. The government under Bismark, on the contrary, is arbitrary and highly conserva- tive, if not reactionary; and one of the motives for creating this war fever, no doubt, was to swamp the political movement at home, It appears, however, that the Prussians begin to seo through this and are setting their faces against the course pursued by tho.government. If this popular_and sensible view of the situa- tion taken by the mass meeting in Berlin should be generally entertained by the people and deputies be elected holding the same view, the government may be compelled to give up its war, policy, There is the chance still that Count Bismark, foreseeing this and being bent on carrying out his policy, may precipi- tate war before the voice of the people can be heard. The formidable attitude of Austria, too, may cause Prussia to hesitate. It is stated that Austria would have within two or three weeks nine hundred thousand men under arms, This chowe ew ~vusuent ustria tat ---testag the ambitious preten- ions of Prussia and what a great military Power she is. The voice of the lesser German States may have some weight also. They have nothing to gain by war; indeod, it is likely they would be swallowed up by one or other of their big neighbors; for it war should come it will be one of ambition purely and would end in a reconstrestion of tie map of Enrope, thé aggrendizement of the great Powers and the ennihilation of the small ones. The lofiy and far-reaching policy of Count Bismark uniloubiedly is to consolidate“the German people under one great Power, and Prussia to be that Power. For this he claims all the spoils of the iniqnitous war on Denmark, and for this he will make an ally of the Italians and cause Germans to spill the blaod of Germans. Tf the question were narrowed down to one between Prussia and Austria only,4he military power the latter displays and public sentiment might have the effect of causing the former to keep the peace, but the difficulty lies in Italy. Victor Emanuel, backed by Garibaldi andthe Italian people, w.11 take advantage of the pre- sent difficulty, if possible, to carry out the popular ide of Italian unity. The Italian gov- ernment would use Prussia in order to drive the hated Ausirians ont of Italy and Venetia, and Prussia would use Italy in order to weaken Austria inGermany. Thus the matter stands, and the only chance there appears to be of preventing war is in the attitude of the other great Powers of Europe and especially that of France. The very latest news indicates that these Powers may interpose. A Congress is spoken of, and it was supposed thata re- ported conference in Paris between the British aid Russian ambassadors and M, Druyn de Lhuys had reference to that. It may be that the dread of war makes the people of Europe cling to any circumstance that may be con- strued to favor peace and that they are mis taken as to the signs of the times. Still there does appear to be more hope. The financial crisis was not entirely over, but there was an abatement of fear and excite- ment. The Bank of England still maintained the high rate of discount, but the pressure upon it had not been so great as previously. As far as we are concerned in the disturbed stato of affairs in Europe we have little to fear. For the sake of humanity wo may wish for peace, but after the first shock shall be over, if war should come, we will not suffer. There would be at first some little derangement as ® Natural consequence of our commercial rela- tions with Europe; but in the end our securi- ties would rise higher and the wealth and in- dustry of the Old World would flow to the New. We may hope for peace, therefore, for the sake of humanity; but as far as our inter- ests are concerned we need not fear war, Coxreperation ty Canava.—From the lower provinces we have information of eleotion riots, the killing of one confederationist and the election of several confederate candidiites, Although public opinion in Canada seems to be decidedly against the confederation schemes, yet it is probable that the government, backed by England, will manage to control the elec- tions and push the project throngh. We look upon the Canadians as in a state of probation, certain sooner or later to como into the Union. What they may do in the interval is really of very little account But if thé “opponents of | able.’ Thitead of being tTehtly tied and’ thrown confederation wish to win at the elections let | heedlesaly into carts, their fieads. lolling pain- them come out openly for annexation and go | fully over the sides, the calves now ride along before the people upon that issue, ; The Senatorial Recenstruction Caucus To-Day. ‘Tho radical members of hd Sonate at Wash- ington, finding that they were unsble to agree upon the proposition reported by the Central Directory for the reconstruction of the South, have held a caucus to reconstruct thomselyes, ‘They held two sessions on Friday and from all indications found it about as hard to recon- struct the republican party in tho Senate as they have heretofore to reconstruct the South- ern States, The task was greater than they could accomplish in one day; they therefore postponed final decision until to-day, when they hope to secure a restoration of the factions in that body as a preliminary to the political adjustment of the Southern States. Tt seems to us that the labors of these men in this direction must convince them that they do not understand the business of reconstruc- tion; that they have never learned the trade, ate not adepts in the profession and are at the best only cobblors in that-line. hed better acknowledge this fact at once save themselves from mortification and disappoint- ment in the future, Our private advices from Washington are to the effect that this caucus was far from being barmonious, Thosein favor of the third sec- tion of the report of the Committee of Fifteen as it passed the House are in hopes of getting the entire republiean portion of the Senate bound to that proposition by the action of the caucus and thus push it through ‘the Senate. The more moderate portion endeavored to modify it by limiting those who are to be excluded from political ‘and official honors to those who were officers in the United States army and navy and resigned their positions to take part in the rebellion, those who retired from either house of Congress and those who had held official positions under the United States government prior to their taking part in the rebellion. To those three classifications the moderate portion of the caucus desired to contine the operations of the third section of the Congressional. plan of reconstruction. It does not appear that anything transpired to determine whether those maintaining these views were ‘in a majority or not, inasmuch as no test vote was taken. An adjournment was had until today with the impression that the modification as stated above will be agreed upon. This im- pression may be but the foreshadowing of the final vote in the caucus; but wo strongly sus- pect that it has been given out for the purpose of securing a full attendance of the conserva- tive republicans, for the purpose of ‘getting them bound by the action of the caucus. At @ny rate. the determination appears to be to practically settle this business of reconstruc- ‘tion in the caucus, with closed doors, rather than in the open Senate. The prime object of it all is to save the party from: the ruin which now threatens it from their past course. So, after all, it is not the Southern States which the radical Senators are exercised about, but the republican party. From all accounts there were many pitiful Storics told in the caucus about the dangers that threaten the party this fall. Like a set of converia at a revival each had his expe- vionron ta volate. and among the facts thus de- veloped was that they were ruining themselves by refusing to confirm capable and loyal men appointed by the President to office. Others saw the danger of remaining in permanent session. The confessions on this point evidontly made an impression, for it seems that there was an understanding that if they could succeod in reconstructing the republican party they would adjourn about the middle of July. We there- fore infer that if they do not succeed in accom- plishing that task tho adjournment will be indefinitely postponed. ‘The fact of the matter | is a number of the republicans in that body are very anxious to hedge and work the pariy back #s near to President Jobnson’s position as possible, in hopes of going through another canvass under the plea of beivg in perfect accord with the Executive. But if there was any hope of their accomplishing that result when the caucus adjourncd on Friday that hope must bave vanished after the malignant demonstrations of Thad Stevens in the House on Saturday. Hls invective against the Executive and the. Seoretary of the Treasury in regard to the éppointmenis to office is conclusive that the moderate republicans in the Senate cannot bridge over the breach between the Executive and Congress, Those tacts make the immediate reorganization of the Cabinet an imperative necessity on the part of Dir. Johnson, Ii is hia first duty; without it the radicals may deceive the people again by pointing to the acts of his constitutional advisers'as proof that they are in perfect accord. The developments of this caucus, and the proceedings in the House on Saturday, bring tLe matter down to thisdilemma 9m the part of tho President. If he desires that his administration shall go down to history as the second edition of Tyler’s, all that he has to do is to retain ‘his present Cabinet; but #f he is anxious that it shall be successful and be ranked in the future with that of Jackson, then ho must remodel bis Cabinet and call around him military and navel heroes and thus secure the co-operation of the live mon of the day. President Johnson is the only man who can decide which of those two positions his administration shall occupy in the futare. His decision and action must be made very soon or it will be too late. The political canvass is already commencing in several of the Central States and there is no time to be lost. Ceverry to Omcxens.—The President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals has had two men arresied and held to bail, before Justice Dowling, upon a very cari- ous charge, He seserts that the men com- plained of have been treating chickens very cruelly by plucking off their pin-feathers while they were alive, then piicliny Weir necks and then throwing them into a barrel in an inhu- man manner. The accused reply that the necks of the chickens were pinched before the pin-feathers were plucked. Is that the point in dispute? Must the poulirymen pinch first and pluck afterwards? Is that less cruel than to pluck firatand pinch next? And is it intbuman to throw chickens into a barrel after they are killed? Does Mr. Bergh intend to deprive us of spring chickens altogether? More light is needed upon this subject of cruelty to chickens, In the meantime several improvements in the treatment of animals are already notice- the streets in state, their graceful limbs ens tirely freo and their heads turned this way and that as they look at the fashions tng re- turn the salutations of ped®sirians, The little pigs, too, are carted about in comfortable cages and quite an aristooratio sp- pearance, drivors of omnibuses and cars are very: Satefal of thelr horses and chary of using tue whip, They see in every passenger and passerby an agent o, the society. In fact,; Mr. Bergh and his associates a¢°% ubiquitous. It would greatly relieve the drivers if theso agents would wear a uniform. The minds of some of the Jebus are beginning to give way under the pressure of this constant inspection, and several butcher boys, compelled by their trade to be cruel, and thus kept in constant dread of Mr. Bergh, have fallen into a melan- choly mood, refuse to drink anything stronger than coffee and seriously contemplate commit- ting hari-kari with their-cleavers. : The Grand Boulevards—Reconstruction y of the Metropolis. ‘Wo publish this morning « detailed socount of the plans of the Park Commissioners for laying out the upper part of New York city and a description of the grand Boulevards authorized by the Legislature and already partially comple‘ed. This document is equally interesting and important, When the plans of the Commissioners are practically carried out we shall have a magnificent drive around the upper end of the island, beginning at and re- turning to the Park. In effect all of the city above Fifly-ninth street will become in its beanty a part of the Park and will be con- sidered both by residents and visitors a per- fect garden of delights. Streets are to be opened as the necessities of our population re- quire; but for many years to come elegant villas and delightful little rural retreats will adorn a large extent of that portion of the city. The suburbs and environs of ithe metropolis will then vie with those of Paris and many persons who are now crowded into fiftven by forty feet of brick and brown stone will be able, for even less money, to live comforiably and pleasantly at the extremity of the island, keeping@hcir modest equipages to convey them to the cars and enjoying the com- bined advantages and suffering from none of the discomforts of the city and country. Above Fifty-ninth street there are vast tracts of land not yet built upon and which could not have been built upon under the old admin- istration of affairs. The Common Council, the Sireet Commissioner and the proper'y owners bad all to be consulted before streets could be opened and the grades fixed. People were: afraid to build, hecanso no one could say that. when the grade came to be established the houses prematurely erected would not be ton feet above or six feet bclow the level of the’ street. But mow that the Park Com- missioners have charge of the matter the grades will be definitely establishc? and in’ the course of » couple of years hundreds of houses will be erected, thus reducing the pre- sent exorbitant rents and relieving the lower part of the city from its plethora of population. ‘The Legislature could desire no betser evidence of the inefficiency of the old system and the public confidence in the new order of things than the faot that so soon ns the Park Commis- sionors were intrusted with the laying out of the upper part of the metropolis the prices of lots there rapidly advanced. New York has been and is a busy city, a wealthy city and a splendid city; but the improvements contem- plated in these plans wil! make {t pro-eml- nently the beautiful city. We remember what itwas thirty-five years ago and we see what it is now. But the contrast between the New York ot the past and the present is no greater thon will be the contrags between the New York of the present and the future. Next to the Park itself the cstablishment of the Boulevards is the greatest thing over done for the metropolis. The Park id its Visitors. Nature ts made up of contrasts. Tho old dowag>r, {rom tine immemorial, has beon distinguished for her strange caprices, avd tho weather officials seem as if playing Into hor hands on all occasions, In the forenoon of yesterday how perfee ly miserable the Park looked. The cloudy sky enshrouded its beauties in gloom, while the wrath of the Storm King scomed as if determined to expend itself upon the devoted trees, shrubs and flowers which stud its variod hills, plains and mead. The Mali, usually peopled with its fashtonable promenadors, was deserted, the Terrace loungers were nowhere, and even the fish which people the Lake fled im torror under the bridges, “out of the rain.” All was drizzle and rain; arid the festive members of the Purk police, who had gotten themselves up in dustiess gray ‘uuiforms and highly polisied boots for an attack on the, tender affections of susceptible nurse. ‘maids, became at once di and downbearted. Old Jupiter Pluvius shook sides with laughtor at the state of affairs he was bringing about, but soon a Change came over his merry face as he thoughtof the Excise law. Wot weather was conducive to dryness, and as there was no drink to be had the and all, éndowed with tho newly born majesty of civil rights, “the observed of au observers and the eliogether “ad nice, they criticieed tho passers by, their appearance and dress, with evidently nc sinall enjoyment, and blessed Stevens and bis friends for thelr appreciation cf thelr position in ‘he gucial ecale, And on into the svening the visitors of all colors and aasions ¢1 themselves as best they conld, ‘taking thomeeives to the railroad cars ‘hey retw fully invigorated and prepared to resume the labors of the com ing weet Lolling on the sents in the Ter- Base Ball in Hartford. It was closely contested throughout, the score at tho Glove of the eighth innings being eleven each. The Charter Oaks finally won by a score of eighteen to fif- sii WASHINGTON. PORE rene i Wasumratos, May 21, 1966. GANTA 494 ON THE MEXICAN QUESTION. mers te 20 the fact that the unex. pected arrival of Santa Anna in the United States at this juncture in Mexican affairs, is creating quite a sen gation among tho real and pretended friends of that called vpon Mr. Seward in a body, but in a private maa- ner, and on bohalf of Santa Anna expressly us a Mexican Citizen, ‘The usual courtesies wore exchanged, bit ne other or further significance is attributed to the visit by either party, or by those best informed on tho subject. The Mexican gentlemen who are now abusing Bante Anna go roundly through the pressof the United States are merely giving a new abd sad illustration of the mis- fortune of Mexico in having so many sons who @waste their energies in domestic quarr:ls and personal jeal- ousies, instead of employing them against a common enemy. No ma ter what faults Santa Anna may have committed, Mexico owes to him gome glorious pages of history connected with the proclamation of the republic. It is also a damaging fact to those patriots par excellence that the liberals who are now fighting iu Mexico have written hundreds of letters (o Santa Anna invoking bis ‘assistance, while these censorious critics have contented themselves with ventliag noisy abuse at a safe distance, On reading the protest of these gentlemen Santa Anna remarked, jocularly, that he was happy to know that there were so many Mexican patriots at hand, and that be hoped they would be as ready to Sight for their coun- try, now that it was a prey to foreigners, as they were to write against b'm and others who dosired to assist im Mexican regeneration. As they were young and onerge- tic, be hoped they would not hesitate to follow the ex- ample of an old man Ifke himself, and devote the future to their country’s defence. As to hi; errors, he asks ‘what Mexican there is who, after a long public carcer, can throw a stone at him on account of inconsistency. Tho suppos tion that Santa An: a is in the interest of the French or of Maximilian is considered’ too’ preposterets: ‘by bim for serious denial. Ho says the Mexicati squab- blers aro the only ones who are playing tate Maximilian’s interest. These are gome of Sante Anna's arguments ‘and professions, and are urged with great seal and ap- Paront sincerity by bis friends in Washington. They have bad no ijuterviow with Preeideat Johnson, and ex- ‘pect mono, but are preparing to leave by to-morrow's ‘noon train for Now York. © THE #7 ie ARMY. , Information has been ‘received at the Department of State that on the Oth inst. the French transport steamer Rhone loft Vera Cruz for France, having on board about one thousand soldiers whose term of had ox- pired. On the 10th inet. the French steam packet La France arrived there from St Nasatre, bringing three hundred and sixty men of the file of the Foreign Legion, and fifteca oMcers of the same corps and of the Engincer corps. ‘THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM. The last exhibit of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that there are ono thousand six hundred and fifty national bonds, with an aggregate circulation amounting to $276,640,610, which {s secured by bonds hel by the Upited States Troasurer estimated at $824,364,50. The total capital 1s $414,921,479, Of theso banks nearly fear hundred are national depositories for the reception of government funds, As securiiy for such funds the amount heli by the department ts $36,776,500. FRACTIONAL CURRESGT. The redemption division of the United States Trea surer’e office last weck redecmed and cancelled frac- tional currency amounting lo $450,700, besides other govérnment szcurities, WAM CLAIMS OF THR STATES. The regulations of the Treasury Department in rogaré to the setilomen! of claims gf States (or reimburse: of expenses incurred by them in raising truops have bee 80 amended as to allow in proper cases for the transporta- tion of the men by wagons, an important matter to many of the Western States whero railroads were scarce and the State authorities compelled to transport volanteers and drafted men to distant redezvous by wagon} stage, coaches and private conveyances, THR MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK. The Comptroller of the Currency gives notice to all per- sons who have claims against (ie Merchaots’ Nationst Bank that they must present the samo ani maxe legal proof thereof to James C. Kennedy, receiver of said bank, at Washington, D, C., eu or before the 26:h day of August next. IMPORTANT TRADE CONCZSSION. The Department of Siate has received unofficial but relisblo information that the, tmperial goverament of Beazil is resolved to ‘the coastwise trate to shipe of all, nations, This has bees obtained by the liberal party after # long strnggle, and {t is believed to be an carnest of future and still more impertant changes in the commercial policy of the country. The opening of the Amazon canpet be much longer cciayed. Clerical Foree of the Treasury Depart- ment. ‘Phe following is @ statoment of the clerical force in the Treasury Department at Washington, showing number appointed from each State, number which have served in army, &0.:— Total Served Sta’e. Males, Females. State. in U.S.A. so in n 32 =. 56 10 06 ph 32 13 46 2 Massachusetts 9 26 125 42 Rhode island at 4 b & Connecticut. 47 LJ 65 2 New York 3 70 43 los iw J 42 4 46 ts 62 2 2 Delaware 9 2 i 2 Maryjand, 2 26 8 oid Virginia. + a7 “4 61 8 North Caroiti 2 = 2 =- Georra ee: eet i Geore! Florida, «2 - 2 = Alabama. «3 1 ‘ 1 ALieninaippi 3 - 2 1 3 1 $ i ‘ % 4 Fy e is ee a 5, © & a w b % 53” x a 3 wv 4 6 cea 8 ry 16 2 4 1 3 Ww 3 2 uu 7 — a 9 - r - - 1 ~ _ 4 a - 4 -_ - 1 - = 1 = 1% 296 Ww AT 30% Generals Steedman and Fallerton ta Georgia. Avavera, Ga, May 27, 1666. Generals Stcedman and Fullerton arrived this after- nobn from Florida They will remain a week, forthe purpose of preparing ® report in reference to the con- duct of the Bareau and the condition of the freedmen im South Carolina, Florida and the see islands . ee