The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume MXXL,.......cceeeeeeeereee sees No, 149 = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN(NG. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome etreet.—Saran in Pagis—Janny Lino. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—imx Eives—Pas pk Fascination. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth stroet, near Sixth avenue —Fagncu Comrany—Lu Taatuvre—La Niaise De Sr, Frovn. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Mettopeiitan Hotel —BrtioFiaN SINGING, DANCING, nggive Mazerra 4 14 MENKEN. GEORGE CHRIS’ Batraps, Musical \im! Nos. "2 and 4 West tue Pouicemast TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixa. ang, DancinG, Buresguxs, &¢.—Tax New Yora Sar CARPENTER, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broad- yyy, Nuate Cosncasrins, Lemussqums, &0.—Tux Luausay LPUANT. LD Somoon M itty Avenue’ Opers House -tourta street.—Wuo KILLED HOOLEY'S OPERA ROUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermoriax Mine STRELSY—BacLaps, BURLESQUES AND PaNroMinds. BROOKLYN ATHBN#UM.—Biixp Tom's Farewxti Concerts. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tus Conn Soocan. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue,—Agt Exu:pit10n. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. tll 10 P.M. New York, Tuesday, May 29, 1866. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Owing to the crowded state of our columns we are compellod this morning to leave out a uumber of adver- tizements. PRUE Ss SP LTRLATSN CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a committee was appointed to investigate the condition of the national banks, The Jo'nt resolution to facilitate inter-State communication ‘was called up, and soon after the Senate adjournod. In the House Mr, Stevens introduced a bill to enable the states lately in rebellion to regain their privileges io the Unign. The main points in the bill are that the State governments are illegal and as soon as they form legal governments they will recelve representation, the present govornmenta being valid enough for municl- Pal purposes until the formation of new ones. All rebels are considered as foreigners and must take out naturali- zation papers five years before they are allowed to vote. ‘The sections relative to the negro ara as usual. The bill ‘was ordered to the Committee of the While. Th> con- sideration of the Tax bill was then reaumed, and, after some discussion, the bill was reported to the Hous, Several amendments were voted upon and the bill was finally passed by a vote of 111 to 11. The republican Senatorial caucus yesterday transferred the wholo subject of reconstruction to the Senatorial portion of the Reconstruction Committed, excluding Senator Johnson, who is a democrat. It is the gencral opinion that the second and third sections will be amended so that representation will be apportioned by the ncmber of voters, and only those rebels who have violated oaths to the federal government be disfran- chised, THE CITY. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday the special committee appointed to designate # proper site for the ercction of a structure for the United States Post Office and Courts recommended that these edifices be erected in any portion of the City Hall Park south of = Une drawn from the nor:herly corner of Beekman street and Park row. Tne Board subsequently adjourned to ‘Monday next. ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and adopted ‘2 resolution directing the Street Commissioner to adver- tise for proposals for the erection of an iron ra‘ling ‘around Madison square, A resolution in favor of provid- ing @ stand cf colors for the Ninth regiment was laid over, After disposing of a number of routine papers the Board adjourned. The Board of Appeals met yesterday to hear applica- Hons from those liquor dealers in Brooklyn precincts Whose licenses have been hitherto reserved. A full re- Port of the most noticeable cases appears im another col- umn, Fifteen arrests wero made yesterday for viola- ‘tions of the Excise law. The parties were ali:held to ‘Dail in three hundred dollars each to appear before the Court of General Sessions, The reguiar monthly meoting of the Youn; Men’s ‘Christian Association was held last evening at the room of the society. The attendance. was large, including many ladies, The appoiutment of offesrs for the cnsu- ing year was made, aud after the reports of the various committees were submitted the meeting adjourn~d, ‘The second and closing session of the annual conven tion of the Board of Delogates of American Israelites was held last evening. The report of the exceutive comm t- ‘toe was adopted, and a resolution of thanks tendered to the American Minister at Berne, Switzerland, for’ bis efforts in behalf of the oppressed Jewish citizena of that country. Aftera lengthy discussion on the expediency Of establishing a theological seminary for the education of candidates tor the Jewish ministry the measuro was finally adopted, the delegates in charge of tho matter engaging to report as to the euccess of their movements ai the next meeting of the convention. Having elected Mesars, Abram Hart, H. Josoph, Rev. Isuac Leeser and S& Saroni officers of the Board fur the ensuing year, the d“egates dixpersed to reassemble at the call of the cha'r, ‘Dr. Bissell reports no admissions to the Cholera Hospy-. tl Ship since the last report. ‘The number now on hand is forty-four. The Second brigade, National Guard, Colonel Loais Birger commanding, held their field day in Kast New ‘York yesterday. The movements consisted for the greater part in cloro column mancuvrea This brigade #umbers about three thousand men. In the evening they were revicwed by Major General Sandford and staff. The Ninth regiment paraded yesterday about threo hondred and fifty strong and were reviewed by the Mayor and Common Connct in front of the City Hall, The African Mothodiat Kpiscopal Confersnce held mornin: and afternoon secret sessions yesteriay at Zion thureh, corner of P'eccker aad Wost Tenth streets. This morning aa oper sesaion will be held. The sbyp carpenters, coulkers and jofnors now on a Firike marched im provession along the docks yester- day, with the view of induc'ng the men who bad return- ed to work to desist, The demonstration was condacted {na peacerble manner, * Tay on the bodies of the firemen who were killed at the focint Ark at the Academy of Muste was commenced yesterday, Evidence was adduced showing where the deceased were at the time the roof foiPin, The examimation will be continued this moraing. The Weed-secor case camo up before Judge Jones yes- tonlay on the presentation of the documents already published In the Hensty, The Judge tout the papers fod reserved b's decision. In the United States Commissioners’ office, yesterday, Hefore Comm esoner Betts, James Reilly charged James Wo 4 hed { 9750 bounty mw ve extraordinary €or aly juuping aya Ge, wen with havin i i lars of the charges Pe Serre agtinet Me Lavitt of having abscondad + th several thousand france, the property of the Bank ©) Poletiors, Framce, was opened yesterday before Com- joner Betta, Some ovidence having been given, the . 1g adjourned till to day ') the General Sessions, yesterday, William O'Neil was cted of grand larceny in stenting whovt three hun- ! dollars worth of clothing frou Sarah Octe, No, 8 k steost, on the Sth of Maroh, He wos remanded 1 ‘sentence, Samuel Moulton pleaded guil'y to an at tompt to steal a ailyer watch from Francis Wilcox, and yous gent to the Penitentiary for six mouths. Xosterday, in the United Statés Distret Court, before J dye Benedict, the government obtained a verdict ins case in which they had soired five chaos of cigars con- pigned from Havana to 8 Trischet & Go, The goods vere entered at this port at a valuation of $2,009, but the government appraiser advanced this fgareto over $9,000, and the cizars were sized forcondemnation. Mr. fre Aliot and Mr. B, K. Pheips, United States Asstet- i Darriot Aijornevs, were for the government, aad | Messrs, Kauffman, Frank and Wilcoxson for the defend. anta. ‘The Tilt divorce guit has been discontinued, an amica- ble settlement having beem made between the parties. lodictments have been found by the-Grand Jury in the Court of General Sessions against William Churchill aud nine others for violating the new law to prevent boarding house runners from boarding emigrant ships while iying tn the stream. A writ of error and stay of proceedings has been granted in the case of Dr. Otto Claus, cpmvicted of the manslaughter of Philip Carson and to State Prison for two yeara, The case will now be brought be- fore the General Teem of the Supreme Court. The North American Lloyd steamer Atlantic, which arrived at this port on Sunday last from Bremen, had one thousand one hundred and fifty-eight passengers on Doard, all of whom were in good health. There were three births during the passage. The steamship South America, having beon detained over one day, will sail from pier No. 43 North river, to- morrow, 30th, at three P. M., for St. Thomas, Para, Per- nambuco, Bahia and Rio Jane‘re, The mails -for the above places will close at the Post Office at half-past one P. M. David Carmody, who was sentenced some time ago to the State Prison for three years for an assault on James Campbell, in Brooklyn, had bis sentence commuted yos- terday to six months in the Penitentiary, facts having come to (he knowledge of the Court to the effect that Camptell was intimate with Carmody’s wife while the laster was in the army, and the prisoner being thereby justified to a certain extent th the assault. ‘The stook market opened buoyant, became heavy and closed very firm yesterday. Governments were steady. Gold closed at 187%. The fall in gold rendered commercial values more or Jess nominal and in many instances holders were anxious to secure a market for their merchandise even at lower prices. Cotton was dull, with more sellers than buyers, and prices were lower. Grocories were generally dul. and heavy, but not decidedly lower. On ’Change flour was dull and lower, Wheat was lower, Corn lower and oats lower, Pork was somewhat firme, Beef steady. Lard dull but unchanged. Petroleum dull and heavy, and whiskey nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho total expenditures of the United States for tho quarter ending March 31 were $172,049,363 16. Tho total receipis were $237,544,644 85. The expenditures on account of the public debt were $81,300,472 46. Official despatches from Mazatlan, dated May 16, to the imperial Consul of Mexico, statigned at San Fran- cisco, which are corroborated by private letters, state that the liberals attacked the garrison of Hermosillo on the 4th, and after a bloody atrurgle captured the town. A scene of pillage then commenced, in which stores were ransacked, rich men robbed, poor ones murdered and women violated: Corona had been defeated at Sin- aloa by the imperialists who were in hot pursuit of him. ‘The North Carolina State Convention continued its scs- sion yesterday. ‘An ordinance was introduced granting an amnesty to all prisoners except those guilty of crimi- nal fetonies prior to May 1, 1865. While discussing the question Mr. Caldwell, of Burke county, stated that bills of indictment against persons who had been in the rebel army were quietly ignored by a grand jury which has on the commission of the slightest offences prosecuted Union men to the bitter end. The whole subjoct was finally refetred to a special committee. A Fonian Convention was held im the city pf Newark N. J., yesterday, at which both factions of the party were fully represented. A tesolution wad ‘adopted ro- organizing James Stephens as the Head Centre of the organization. At a mass meeting in the evening Mr. Stephens enforced the necessity of union and organiza- tion, and repeated his agvertion thaf fighting shall com- mence this year. ‘ Joff Davis is making the most of his limited parole at Fortress Monroe. His out whenever the weather will permit. Itis thought by bis counsel that in case his trial 18 postponed as was reported in yesterday's Herap, he will be allowed to go to his home on his parole until it takes place. ‘The coort martial for the trial of Colonel Paulding, the disbirsing paymaster who duposited his fands in the Merchants’ National Bank of Washington, thereby losing $300,000 to the government whon tke bank failed, was to have azsembled in Washington yesterday. ‘The bodies of aman and woman were found on tho boach at Fort Hamilton yesterday. The body of the wo- man, like those discovered on Sunday at Coney Island, was enclosed:iif @ sack. The rainy weather which prevailed here on Sunday was general throughout the country. In Fenosylvania it bocame a terrific tornado, blowing down ‘the bridge over Lackawaxcn river at Honesdale, and committing other damage. In Wisconsin a mortheaster sot in and continued twenty-four hours, accompanied by, considera- die rain, In California the rain fell in sich abundance ‘that serious fears aro entertained for the wheat crop, whole fields of it boing prostrated. The Saperintendent of Ind'an Affairs tn Arizona writes to the Commissioner at Washington, under date of April 12, that # serious rupture bad eccurred between tho whites and Indians in the neighborlood of Fort Majors, in which ten persons, one white and nine Indiaus, bad ‘been killed. The Missouri river steamboat Leodora waa burned near Yancton City four days ago. Loss $25,000. Within a week, if Mr. Thaddeus Stevens keeps bis word—and we sincerely hope that he will have pluck enough to keep it—the quarrel between the President and Congreas will be brought to 2 decided issne. In his epecch on Saturday, referring to the removal of officials who do not sustain the President, Mr. Stevens angrily exclaimed:—“ It is time that we built up « wall such tyranny as this. It is malfeasance ff I were & little. younger—and I ina week, I thinke—T would let these officers know that this is @ grand inquest of the nation, before which men who are guilty in office shall be bronght and their cases presented to another tribunal to try them.” Mr, Stevens is quite right. The House of Representatives isa grand inquest before which guilty officials can be brought and the Senate is a constitutional tribunal by which such cases may be tried. If the Presi- dent be “treasonable,” if his Secretaries are “recreant,” if Senators are “apostate,” and if the President and his secretaries are “guilty of malfeasance in office,” it is propor that they should be punished. Nobody can object to this, The constitution commands it Mr. Stevens has, therefore, a clear course before him. Let not, his backbone bend nor his knees grow weak. Let him present his charges in due and legal form and let as hive 4 trial. The country is all ready for this movement if the radicals are. Things cannot and ought not to go on any longer as they have been going on during the past few months: The best in- terests of the American people require that the quarrel between the President and Congress shall be cndod it some way or other. The way that Mr. Stevens has chosen is, perhaps, the shortest, and conacquently we are in favor of its adoption. We betieve that in the bitter quarrel which has lasted #0 Jong and causod 80 much Ill-feel- ing the President i entirely right and the radicals entirely wrong. We believe that the President is acting ‘acéording to the constita- tion and that the fadicals are trampling the constitution under foot We believe that the President's policy of reconstruction ts safe, practical, national and ptatesmaniike, and that the failure of the radicals to offer any- thing better or half so good, after many montis of carcful deliberation, ought to have been fol- lowed by a general and cordial acquiescence Ia the President's plan. We believe that the pre- sont Congress does not represent the senti- ments of tho people in regard to this great question and that the people are with the Presk- dont almost anan’mously. This is our t steed, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1866. and yet we call upon Mr. Stevens to make good the threat which he uttered on Saturday. It does not matter for whst reason he)nttored it His wishes in regard to the Pennsylvania ap- pointments may heve been disregarded; he may have been aggravated by the predestined failure ot his reconstraction scheme in the Sen- ate; but, whatever his motives, he bas at length reached the logical conclusion of the radical programme, and we want to see the g2me played out. All through this quarrel the radi- cals have displayed the utmost consistency. They have struck repeated blows at the Presi- dent; they have controlled hia Cabinet; they have dared him to change his advisers; they have treated his vetoes contemptuously; they have annoyed him in every possible manner snd they have abused bim in public and private upon every occasion. To these outrages there have been merely verbal responses from the White House. Not until recently have radicals been re- moved from office; and even now the Presi- dent has commenced at the little end of the hydra’s tail, instead of chopping off its heads like a Hercules. But these removals, small as they are, have aroused the wrath of Mr. Ste- vens. He bas already ordered a bill to be prepared depriving the President of his consti- tutional and time-honored prerogat've, and he now proposes to impeach all the officials con- cerned in the affair. We sincerely trast that he will carry out his threat and talk no more buncombe about the wonders he intends to perform. We assame this po jp yelation to this quarrel and state Sir views thus frank!” agd unreservedly because it is evident that the people are heartily tired of having the govern- ment disgraced at home an@abroad by 80 vio- lent a feud. What respect ean anybody enter- Jain for a country whose executive and legisla- tive departments are openly and bitterly hostile? When the radicals declare that the President ioe iaitor and the President asserts that Con- gress is led by rebels, {i is time thal some sotu- Wen of the d'fficulty should be discovered. We have fought four years for the Union; we have sacrificed thousands of lives and millions of money for the Union ; our gallant armies under General Grant triumphed over the Southern rebellion in order to restore the Union, but we are now more disunited than ever. This is somebody’s fault ; somebody is to blame for it and the people insist upon a sottlement of the dispute as to whether the President or Congress is responsible, From neither the President nor Congress can they ob- tain any satisfactory response. Thus far the President has the best of the argument but the worst of the quarrel. He talks as though he were right; but the radicals act as though they were right. He insists that Southemn representatives ought to be admitted to Con: gress; but the radicals keep them out. He ii- sists that the South ought to bo governed like the rest of the nation ; but the radicals keep the Sonth under the dominion of the bayonet and the Freedmen’s Bureau. He issues orders and by command of the radicals his own Cabi- net officers disregard these ofders. In the meantime here we are with half a country, heavy taxes, depreciated currency and the extremists of both parties omly restrained from meditating revolutionary proceedings by the certainty that General Grant, who is acceptable to all parties, will be our next President. But the next Presidency is still a long way off and this quarrel cannot contiaue until then with- out fearfully inyuring the country. When a Congressman is permitted to accuse the Presi+ dent of treason, the Secretaries of malfeasance in office and honorable Senators of apostacy, without being once called to order for his vio- lations of parliamentary rules and without 4 vote of censure being passed upon him, the most indifferent must be roused to an appres ciation of the dangers-of the situation. Sach outbreaks are perilous to the public peace, fatal to the reputation of the United States and indicative of an animosity that cannot be too ‘promptly checked. The remedy which Mr. Stevens himself proposes isa severe one; but it is much better than doing nothing. If the President will take no decided stop, if he will not change his Cabinet and call our leading generals and admirals into his councils, it re- ma‘ns for the radicals to force matters to an issue, just as they have always taken tho initia- tive. We know precisely how the scheme of Mr. Stevens will end; we know that the President will be sustained both by Con+ gress and the people. And It is for thie very reason and Lecause we hope that this new attack will cause the President to act amd thus expose the weakness and puaish the perfidy of these malcontents that we eagerly second the proposal of Mr. Stevens and pray that he may be young enough “within a week” to make good his threats and boasts. Toe Orerations or THE Excise Law.—There are two conspicuous features in the operations of the Excise law that must attract observation. One is the humorous side of the question, aa presented by the many shifts resorted to in order to avoid its obligations, and the other is the tragic phase of the question, as exemplified in the riots, bloodshed and general turbulence rising from it in the suburbs of the metropolis, where the law is not in foree. On the one hand we have the concert saloons flanking the commissioners by keeping open on Sunday, which they have not done for a long time, pre~ senting all the attractions of their pretty wait- ing girls and other inducements to Sabbath oesecration, on the pretence of vending only coffee and tea and sweetmeats. This they can do with impunity, it appears; but how long will it be before the surreptitious distribution of more intoxicating beverages will become fa miliar to the frequenters of the Sunday con- certs? Dut whether liquor is ever sold in these resorts or pot, we take it that it is inf nitely more demoralizing to keep these places open on Sunday than to furnish » gentleman with a bottle of claret at his dinner in « hotel or restanrant, In the light of this curious discrimination the Excise law is absurd. Then we had the extraordinary apeo tacle the other day of a number of dealers who wore arrested for violating the law by keeping open after midnight putting in the plea that as they had no license the law was not binding ‘pon them. The plea was sustained by the po- lice justices, thus establishing the fact that those who violate the first principles of the law by solling liquor without a license are not subject to the penalty for disregarding ite minor fea- tures, patting & premium, as it were, apon ille gal business; another evidence of the absurd: ity of the law, Bat the frst serious ense of the tyanle effecte of this enactment occu: red on a Hoboken ferry- boat on Sunday, when a man discharged a pistol jat another [and)ijounded him, 19 (io midst of a dense crowd of women and children. Various trivial cages of assault have occurred! in that vicinity since the law went into opera- tion and also in our own immediate suburbs. In fact drunkenness has increased op Sunday in and around the city for the past tew weeks, although the public drinking places have been closed. This fact is sufficient to prove that stringent laws for the regulation of the appe- tite defeat themselves. Polico laws for the maintenance of public order, whether applied to the sale of liquors within certain hours and by respectable parties, or for any other pur- pose, can easily be made effective; but sump- tuary laws or laws indiscriminately constrnct- ed, with exireme and impractical provisions, are always a failure and work more harm than good, In this latter category the new Excise law comes and its fruits are already beginning to develop themselves. War on Peace—Prosrecrs or «4 Evrorean Conaress.—As the dangers of a general war are thickening in Europe rumiors, suggestions and speculations in reference to a peace con- gress are mulliplied. Among the latest of such rumors is that of the Florence Nazione of May 15, that » note from the French. government had reached the Italian capital proposing the assembling of 9 congress; “that Franco is eaid to have declared that she makes this proposal with the view of preventing war, without, how- ever, pretending to impose that mode of sottle- ment,” and that the Italian government is stated fo RAVE declared in rep,y {2 this note thpt while Italy did not decline the proposal ske would require the basis of the preliminary negotiations to be the cession of Venetia. “The cession of Venetia,” # condition pre- cedent, is, then, the d-fiiculiy to a peace con- gress, so far as Italy is concerned, while the exclusion of this question from @ congress would be the obstacle pagsented by Austria, In the sams Way, pro aid oon, the ocision of the Danish duchies operates as @ bar against © congress in reference to both Ausiria and Prussia. The three Powers, theréfore, that are on the verge of war are exc!uded from a peace congress in advance by the very terms which they severally impose as the conditions necessary to secure their participation in it, The chances of peaco, then, depend upon the chances of a conferencs between England, France and Russia; and the consent of Napo leon to such a conference will depend upon the understanding that it is not to be bound by those detested treaties of 1815. ° It appears that on May 15 several of the Paris jo teported- that there bad beon a meeting tween Earl Cowley (ihe English ambassador), Baron Budberg (Russian ambassador) and M. Druyn de Lhnys (French Minister of For eign Affairs), “with the object. of bringing about a peaceful solution of the pending diffi- culties.” There was, however, no confirmation of the intelligence; and from the simple fact that Napoleon stands aloof, on the ples of nou- trality and freedom of action, wien his active intervention in behalf of peace would secure peace, it is apparent that he wants war, is pre- pared for war and that it is not likely there will be a congress to prevent war through his agency as a peacemaker. France has every- thing to gain trom war; Russia may also gain largely and has nothing to lose. England can do nothing without France rnd Rure'n, and 20 the chances for a European peace congress are oxceedingly slim and doubtfal. We are rather inclined to the conclusion thet war will acta- ally be commenced in Italy while the news- papers of Paris are sttll discussing the chanccs of peace and a peace congress, Gewerat Howanp ano Tux Ovmagrs IN THE Frxepmen’s Bureav.—General Howard bas written a communication to the Secrétary of War in explanation of his attempt to scrocn ceriain agents of the 'reedman’s Bureau frow the consequences of offences charged against them, and says that “said letter was written prior to the publication of Steedman’s and Fullerton’s report and only intended to vouch for the officers referred te in the private letter received.” Ho now earnestly recommends that, inasmuch as “a majority of those officers complained of are officers selected {rom the army, generally of excellent record and always vouched for by men of the highest standing im the community, hereafter a f:ir trial be al- lowed to every officer accused prior to the publication of charges against them.” This request bears a suspicious aspect. What is there in _the reports of Generals Stoedman and Fallerton in regard to the opera- tions of the Bureau that does not thus far aup- port and endorse all that has been received and published from private: sources? Docs: General Howard pretend that it is necessary the charges shall be referred to.a secret com- mission before the poor negro can be pro- tected from the cruelty and avariciousness of the puritanical agents of the Bureau? Is it ne- essary to whitewash the glaring evidences of Tapaecity concerning these agents which come ‘before the..public through responsible, if not immediately official, channels? It seems to us that General Howard, while vainly attempting to excuse himself from the accusation of sereening the implicated officers from the charges preferred has laid himself liable ton more serious one, and that is of a desire to have the malefactors tried before a secret and partisan tribunal, where their wrong doings can be conveniently colored to suit party in- terests, if not of public propriety. The more the subject of this Freedman’s Bureau is ven-- tilated the more the public will come into» knowledge of its improprictics. We publish elsewhere, in this connection, an official list of the officers of the Bureau who have been. placed under arrest by order of the President. Iuportant From Brazit.—Some time ago the: government of Brazil evinced its liberality by a respectable subsidy to the line of American established between the port of New York and the port of Rio Janeiro, in Bra- sil, We are now led to the opinion, by reports from Washington, at present nnofficial, that the policy of the Emperor of Brasil will be still farther carried out It is stated that the Emperor purposes to open the const- wise trade of his empire to foreign vessels, peam country can compete. Dom Pedro de~ serves credit for thia substantial evidence of the liberal policy of his government. It Tore- shadows the enlightenment that is obtaining in the of the Emperor of Bre,¢:1, which we hope Bot be extinguis+ed until the ‘ magnificent Amazon and the rich treasures and resources of the interior of the great empire of Brazil are offered to the Americans of the | Prorostat History or ras North for development. Then will the Em- peror practically realize the richness of his! realm and the usefulness of his reign. Bomparpuent or VaLransiso—Evract OF THB News w Enoianp.—There can be no more marked indication of the increasing weakness of the ruling class in England than the manner in which the news of the Valparaiso affair was received there. While in Parliament minis- ters were compelled to own that they had tied up the hands of the British admiral, by instruc- tions which left him no alternative, the mer- chants of Liverpool held a meeting at which, after a great deal of strong language’ had been used, condemnatory of the course of the govern- ment, a resolution of thanks to Commodore Rodgers, of the United States Navy, was passed, for his generous and spirited conduct. This is just what we expected. We know that the! British ‘people would not be satisfied with the conduct of their representatives and that their indignation would react upon the government, It makes us regret all the more that Commo- dore Rodgers did not fling aside his own instrac- tions and act out the part to which his inclina- tions led him. It would have made him a hero abroad as well as at home and established a precedent that would have conferred a lasting benefit on the commerce of the world. The refusal of Earl Russell to permit the British Admiral to protect the property of the English merchants at Valparaiso was, no Acubt, dictated by the same cowardly appre- hensions that prevented him from uttering a word in defence of Denmark, when a little firm- ness on bis part would have prevented Europe from drif'ing into a general war. The truth is that. the governing class in England have such a dread of the effect of war on their interests that they prefer ihat Great Britain should abdi- cate her position as one of the firat class Pow- ers ef the world to their incurring such a risk. They do not see that the pursuante of a timid 1 Policy is the eurest way to provoke what they fear. Aggression always follows upon tho ex- hibition of a consciousness of weakness, From be.ng despised abroad they will fli into con- tempy at Lome and the people will very soon begin (6 ask if it be Gtting that their affairs should be conuneted by men who consult only their own selfigl ingorests. Expraxation or tum semrnis. Riots —The initial official report i relanv2 to the Mem- phis riots hve by this time been received by the government. It is that of General Stour nan, commander of the post, and ity tenor wats foreshadowed by ou? Memphis correspondent in our issue of yesterday. It will be interest ing to the country to know that these outtages are not traceable tee aay complicity om jhe part of the respectable inhabitants of Mem- phis, disloyal as they might have been.during the rebellion, nor to the retarned rebel sol- ders, a8 many people in the Nerth have sur- mised. The whole series of timults and tragedies, it appears from our present informa- tion, resulted from a fecling of intense hatred entertained by the local police against a de- tachment of negro troops statiomed in Mem- phis, between whom there have boem f.equent encounters in the @scharge of their respective duties. With the light before us of Hie negro riots that have ocenreed at certain periods in the city cf New York, there can be bet litle question as to the cheracier of the ricts in Memphis, It has been »desperate conflict be- tween whites and blacks as to who shall com mand domestic labor in subordinate cupaeities, This contest will probably prevail until either one race or the other caw ‘vivmphantly come mand the position, and, in # gelitical point of view, the votes, In the mesmtime we awati further reports from Memphis, a order that we may avoid prematucely judgi#g the merits of the case. Tax Pexnsynsanta Camparon—Bersrer Cry- MER.—The demoeratic candidaletor, Governor of Pennsylvania pow in, the field is 9 Mr, Heister Clymers. of Berks county/. a copper- head of the Valluadigham school.- His oppo- nent, the republican candidate, i General Geary, one.of the mest distinguishedtand popu- lar Union soldi: rzsof the war, The setting up of Clymer, ‘therefore, against Geary: amounts tow democratic defent in advance. We have | heratofore urged the propriety of 2 recon- sideration of Clymer and the nomin:ition of a candidate by the denzoericy acceptable, from his antecedenis anKepinions, to the Johnson republicans, The Baltimore Americas says that this step will probably be taken; that a movement is on foot for the withdrawal of Clymer and the substitution of a more availa- ble man for the Johasox Union platform upon which the democrats now profess to stand. The: real fight in the October Pennsylvania election, however, will; be upon the Congress- men and the Legislature; and for Congress and * the next Legislature (which will have the elec- tiom of a United StatesSenator) the efforts of all conservative Union men, republicans amd democrats, should be directed against the game || of Thaddeus Stevens. and his henchman, For- ney. The candidate for Governor is onig im- portant as bringing. strength or weakuess to the party concerned. upon these other issues; nt even in this view Clymer is a dead weight thet ought to be thrown aif. Board of Aldermen. ‘NER PROPOSED WADENING. OF FIFTH AVAKUR—A SITR FOR THE UXITED STATES OST OFFICE AND COURT HOUSE SRLECTED. Tho Board met et two o'clock yesterday aftemoon, Al- derman Norton in the chair. Alderman Vanncm having presented a rerseustrance Oa otlon ‘the naa, at two o'clock. vi : bby Poard adjourned to Monday afternoon Kentucky, ts stopping Judge Ingravam, of thigdity, over the Cirenit Court of whieh has just cloeed was mado the reciplera of a sot of resolutions, upon the tormination of the (stout, by the members of ihe bat of Oswego county, Watch resolutions set forth “heir appre- | Nee aman ‘hdge and pro~ fownd echolan, LL LL LLL LLL LE, LITERARY NOTICES. Crvm Was in raw Unirap Szarss or Awmnica. Benson J. Los- One of the works in which the skill of the draughtsman and engraver bas been called in to illustrate the test, history of the war just ended, It is seldom that suoh.e careful compilation of facts and auch correct artistical embellishments are to be found is the same book. There ta not a page in ft which has not one or more explanatery: engravings, the fidelity of which can be at ome recog- nized, Although the plotorial features of the work are those which will first attract attention, they must not Be ‘allowed to eclipse its Merary merits. We can assert with truth that it is the first con-cientiously written history of the warthat has beep given to the world since its close. It is neither one-sided ag to its facts nor as te {ts conclusions, Mr. Lossing, asa loyal man, of course cannet “be expected to justify the course of the rebels; but every plea which has been urged in favor of secession, every extenuating circum- stance which has been advanced in justification of the ‘extreme measures resorted to by them during the war, finds a piace in his-narrative. It is thus we understaad the duties of the historian; and it is a gratification tous to find that they.are so understeod by the historian bim- self. The work in its typographical foatures is a. cred to the American press. It has been got up with a fastidi- ousnesg and a recklessness of expense which few bat printers can appreciate. A choloer, daintior or mote attractive object for the drawing room table could mes ‘well baye been devised. It is all the more entitied to our admiration because it combines literary with artiste excellence and constitates a monument to the patriot- fem, seif devotion and heroism of our roldiers the like of whic has not hitherto been built up. Baruinsree. A Novel. By the Author of “The Silent Women,” ‘King’s Cope,” &c., &. Carleton, Publ her. This is a story somewhat in the style of Trollope’s “Dr. Thorne.” The plot is good and the interest is well sustained throughout. The author givoa us a little too much of English middie class countyy life and the tittle tattle of small neighborhoods, Still it dooa not clog the progress of the story, which reads sumMciently rapidly. The heroine, Regina Howard, is a charming creation. Regina fe tho great grand-daughter of an old French nobleman ahd daughter of an English curate. Sho bas been left an orphan early in life, and ix brought up by her grandmother, he ts vers handsome, ap exe cellent mrsic'an, and very amiable—tualities which, of course, insure her rivals and enemies, She inherits s large fortune, of which her future lover and busbaad Lar been despoiled by one of those combinations of Mt. luck which are at the service of all novel writers, The lover is a certain Sir Albort Welliogham. H's mother, a woman of great intellect and gefinement, is one of the prominent characters of the story, which has many striking features of resemblance to “Never Too Late To Mend.” . Maproan Execrarcitt, Exagacina Enectto-Par- sIOLogy AND EvxorricitY As 4 TitknaPrauric. By- Alfred C. Garratt, M.D, J.B; Lippincots, P iladelphia, : There is no branch of medical science which has been more experimented with and.ty still 80 lite undorstood as that of which Dr. Garratt's book treats, Whenever the Dervons system begins to manifest diseased action by locat-dteturbance of a sérious ‘charioter electricity is acnerally one of the first remedies resorted to, .. Whether Prong! ignorancs on the part of the medical” pesetl- tioner or through the inefficiency of the agent itelf, we faye seldom acer permancntly beneficial effecta, requis from peaprtication, In that class of nervous affections, for example, tu wl ob Tterary, mon are subject, and whieh more generally + from inattention to dietetics than frofe their ged-niery habits, it, hes almost always, proved a \falnre, A change in the mode of life, greatey. atiention to the regularity cf one’s mealay.apd absifen.co from such things ae are hikely to'unduy stimulate the system, will, in ave capte out of tan, the inyitid to good health.” La terly tho nse of elagtvicity as a remedial agent ba fallen ito discredit ith the facuRy. Jott Rot {t works more injary f@an good? OF coume Br. Gas rat's th¥eries goto estatiisfi the contrary; but we hare cen enotgh of the coxfitems and frequently pretensionyof medical scievee for us to ignore, ab. fresh buret'sf etithusiaam te fever of a particular camer of remedies; the rosulis of etpertence eri observation. As a complicctom the book is Tiely to provernseful, Tor ie groxps together ‘if the facts ax@ discoveries connected with this branet of gherapoute® It is in this light, rathor thaw in-(iatef a work offen originaY and ang- geative characte} that wo doom it Worthy of noties, Joen Bruzinca;: Hie Baxmos, wre C wo Iueoe TRATION’. Carleton, Broadway. ‘ The peculiar ett@ts of witof which tis volumvts one of the exomplars is* claimed to be exvtatially Amoticap. We have nover so repat@ied it. Its, according tb our notions, simply a Yarkec mextifastion of those extra- vaganoos In Punch -WAtch 96 ane inv used to amuse the world, but of which people eapn Pecams “heartily cited. ‘The same fate awaits :He effosteof our ows word contor- tioniwts, They are owty Inenry clowns who tumbtte and ent capers for the ngvusemer’ ef chiléven—eome af” them, we adm't, of lorytr erewth. Amusing as each Usings may be on the stage or eneir occasivanlly inthe lecture room, “we regret to tee then: passing into form, Our ianguage is becoming @nficiently-eorraptel by (he admixture of forsign4diogns without oor helping: id rend’ it ati worse by a sjargem @” our ownsereation. Ut were pure wit we shoaithnot ve much objet to it; bit tho wit to the chapterof*sncth al ang is, it ‘matte adel of influitesimal propurices, May canots awp Hrews any .Ornen Poms. By Aubrey de Vere. Lawrence Kehoor Nae- sau’ street. De vores get weeye enn nee always original or striking inits forme. In a co’! purely devotional, like the present, ttioum, searcely beex- peeied to rise to the pointof genius, Then tot 2 room or imep'ration of that tatty compe stows must follow a Certain fixedorder of ideas It is iree tha’ some of the finest poetieo! ofusiae wnt be lenguage have bees of « scligious characters, but they were froleerd aad not multiplied efurtx Amityt = | may bee. poet's tetigons feelings, he weuld fed im -ossible to maintain (hrough a volume eb-such thimnes th © fire tims urgetdtim onto his first attempt, Joi» weil, neverthe- lena, (0-flud the poets devoting a portionef tl cir atten- tion i@ charch paafmody. Itwotld poipsnoe What the lendenoy of the age 1s religions, an@. that ther ¢ m ade mand for sach works, Soxos ov THe Noon ave Nog. By M iss Eive Waod. Published for the Au’ ‘To say that this colleetom does not exbiti it many faults of sentiment and metre would be accor line # a.