The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1866, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI.. «No. 149 = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome etreet.—SaTan IN Panis—Jenny Lino. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Hotel,—1ax Exves—Pas pe THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth stroet, near Sixth pisnne —Fasncu Comrany—Le Tastuvrs—La Niaise De ix, FLoun. RELS. 385 Broadway, opposite Piax SINGING, Dance Be SAN FRANCISCO M Metropolitan Hotel. ‘Magerra 4.4 MENKEN. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—OLD, Scaoou or Muxsteeusy Bariaps, Musical ines. . Fifth Avenue Overs House Nos. 2 and 4 West Twency-fourtn street.—Wuo Kitiep tux Pouicemant TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixa- yng, Dancinc, Buruesquxs, &¢.—Tax New Yore Suir CanrEnTER, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ way.—Neono CosticaLinixs, Bumtesques, Eueruant. Hall, 472 Broad- £0. —Tux Learnep HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS: prmgisy—Bavtans, BuRLEsQui Brooklyn. —Ermioriax Mun ano Payromimas. BROOKLYN ATHBN#UM.—Bunp Tox's FaRewxtu Concunts. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Soogan. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty. third street and Fourth avenue.—Agt Exu:eition. MUSIC.—Tusz Connux NEW YORK MUSEUM O1 Open from 10 A. M, tll 10 P. 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 number of adver- tisements. THH,NUW Ss. NN ee CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a committee was appointed to investigate the condition of the national banks, The Jont 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 tates lately in rebellion to regain their privileges io ‘tho Unign. The main points in the bili are that the State governments are illegal and as soon as they form legal governments they will receive representation, the present govornments being valid enough for munici- Pal purposes until the formation of new ones. All rebels are considered as foreigners and must take out naturali- zation papers five yeara before they are allowed to vote. ‘The sections relative to the nogro ara as usual The bill ‘was ordered to the Committee of the While. Th> con- sideration of the Tax bill was then resumed, 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 Committee, excluding Senator Johnson, who isa democrat. It is the gencral opinion that the second and third sections will be amended so that representation will be apportioned by the nember of voters, and only those rebels who have violated oaths to the federal goverament 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 s 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 a Hine drawn from the noriherly corner of Beekman. street and Park row. Tne Board subsequently adjourned to ‘Monday next, The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and adopted ‘@ 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 a 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 Mquor dealers in Brooklyn precincts Whose licenses have been hitherto reserved. A full re- Port of the most noticeable cxses appears in artother col- fumn. Fifteen arrests wero made yesterday for viola- ‘tions of the Excise law. The parties were alvheld to ‘Dail in three hundred dollars each to appear beforo the Court of General Sessions, Tho reguiar monthly meoting of the Youm; Men's Christian Association was helt last evening at the room of the society. The ationdance. was large, including Many ladies. The appointment of oflesrs for the ensu- ing year was made, ani after the reports of the various committees wore submitted the meeting adjourn™, ‘The second and closing session of the anaual conven tion of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites was held last evening. The report of the executive comm t- toe was adopted, and a resolution of thanks tendered to the American Minister at Berne, Switzerland, for his efforts in bebalf of the oppressed Jowish citizens of thay country. After a lengthy discussion on the expediency of establishing a theological seminary for the education of candidates tor the Jewish ministry the measure was finally adopted, the delegates in charge of tho matter engaging to report as to the success of their movements al the next meeting of the convention. Having elected Mersrs. Abram Hart, H. Josoph, Rev. Inuac Leeser and 5S Saroni officers of the Board for the ensuing year, the degates divpersed to reassemble at the call of the cha'r. Dr. Bisseil reports no admissions to the Cholera Hospy- tal Ship since the last report. ‘The number now on hand is forty-four. The Sceond brigade, National Guard, Colonel Loais Burger commanding, held their field day in Kast New York yesterday, The movements consisted for the greater part in closo column mancuvrea This brigade numbers about three thousand men. In the evening they were reviowed by Major General Sandford and staff. The Ninth regiment paraded yesterday about three Dondred and fifty strong and were reviowed by the Mayor and Common Connect! in front of the City Hall, ‘The African Mothodlat Kpiscopal Coofersnce held mornin: and atteracon secret sessions yester lay at Zion tharch, cornerof P'eccker sad Wost Tenth streets, This morning an oper session will be held. The sh:p carpenters, coulkers and joiners now on a trike marched im provession tho docks yester- day, with the view of indweing the men who bad return- ed to work to devist, The domonstratios was condacted fo a pe ple manner, * Te uzrest om the bodies of the Sr-men who were wilted at the foodnt Ark at the Academy of Music was cominenced yesterday. Eyidence was adduced showing where the deceased were at the time the roof foiPin. The examinat til be continued this moruing. The Weed-secor cas no up before Judge Jones yes- foray on the presentation of the documents already published In the Hensty. The Judge touk the papers fod reserved h's decision In the United States Commissioners’ office, yesterday, before Comm esoner Betts, James Rely charged James Baghes with having d Wd $750 bounty poemey, 7 own ne es traordinary C wit © f the bean jampiag aya i vars of the charges 1 wr M. Lawire of having absconded + th several thousand francs, the property of the Bank. «© Potetions, Pramee, was opened yesterday before Com- jouer Betts, Bome evidence having boon given, the » was adjourned till to day. 1) the General Sessions, yeateriay, William O'Neil wae cled of grand larceny in stenting abont three hun- { dollars worth of clothing from Sarah Oita, No, 8 kc street, on the 8th of March. He wns remanded + ‘sentence. Samuel Moulton pleaded guilly to an at por torpt to steal a silver watch from Francis Wiloor, and vos sent to the Penttentiary for six mouths. Kosterday, in the United States Distret Court, before Jidgn Benedict, the government obtained a verdict in » care in which they had seized five casos of cigars con- figned from Havana to 8 Trischet & Co. ‘The goods were entered at this port ata valuation of $2,009, but the government appraiser advanced this figere to over $2,000, and the clzars were sized for condemnation. Mr. han Alief and Mr. B, K. Phelps, United States Asslet- Ei Daret Aijornevs. were Cor the goverment, and Messrs, Kauffman, Frank and Wilooxson for the defend- anta ‘The Tilt divorce suit has been discontinued, an amioa- ble settlement having beem made between the parties. ludwiments have bem found by the Grand Jury in the Court of General Seasionsazainst William Churchill aud nine others for violating the new law to prevent boarding house runners from boarding emigrant ships while lying in the streain. A writ of error and stay of proceedings has been granted in the case of Dr. Otto Claus, cgmvicted of the manslaughter of Philip Carson and sgnteficed to State Prison for two yeara, The case will now bo brought be- fore the Goneral 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- mambuco, 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 (be knowledge of the Court to the effect that Camptell was intimate with Carmody’s wife while the latter 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 137%. ‘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. Groceries wore gonerally dull ‘and heavy, but not decidedly lower. On ’Change flour was dull and lower. Wheat was lower. Corn lower and oats lower. Pork was somewhat firmop Beef steady. Lard dull but unchanged. Petroleum dull and heavy, and whiskey nominal, MISCELLANEOUS. The total expenditures of the United States for tho quarter ending March 31 were $172,049,363 16. Tho total receipia 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 ‘ho 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 strurgle captured the town. A scene of pillage then commenced, in which stores wore ransacked, rich mon 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 bas on the commission of the slightest offences prosecuted Univa men to the bitter end. The whole subject was finally refetred to a special committee, A Fonian Convention was held m the pf Newark N. J., yesterday, at which both faction# of the party were fully represented. A tesolution wad jadopted ro- Organizing James Stephens as the Mend Centre of the organization. At a mass meeting in the evening Mr. Stephens enforced the necessity of union and organiza- tion, and repeated his assertion thaé fighting shall com- mence'this year. 4 Jeff Davis is making the most of his limited parote at Fortress Montoe, His out whenever the weather wilt permit. It is thought by bis counsel that in case his trial is postponed as was reported in yesterday's Haran, he will be allowed to go to his homo on his parole until it takes place. ‘The court martial for the trial of Colonel Paulding, the disbursing paymaster who doposited his fands in the Merchants’ National Bank of Washington, thereby losing $200,000 to the government whon tke bank failed, was to have azsembled in Washington yesterday. The: bodies of a man and woman were found on tho beach at Fort Hamilton yesterday. The body of the wo- man, like those discovered on Sunday at Concy Island, was enclosed dif & sack. ¥ The rainy er which prevailed here on Sunday was gencral throughout the country. In Peposytvania it bocame a terrific tornado, blowing down the bridge over Lackawaxcn river at Honesdate, and committing other damage. In Wisconsin a northeaster wot in and continued twenty-four hours, accompanied by considera- bie rain. In California tho ralu fell in sich abundance that serious {ears are entortained for the wheat crop, iwhole flelds of it being prostrated. * The Superintendent of Ind'an Affairs in Arizona writes to the Commissioner at Washington, under date of April 12, that @ serious rupture bad eccurred between the whites and Indians in the neighborlood of Fort Majors, in which ten persons, one white and nine Indiaus, bad ‘voen killed, The Missouri river steamboat Leodora was burned near Yancton City four days ago. Loss $25,000. ‘The President Congress—An End to the Quarrel. Within & 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 Congress will be brought to a decided issne. In his speech on Saturday, referring to the removal of officials who do not sustain the President, Mr. Stovens angrily exclnimed:—“ It is time that we built up a wall such tyranny as this. It is malfeasance if I were & little. younger—and I in a week, I thinke—I would let these officers know that this is a grand inquest of the nation, before which men who are guilty in office shall be brought and their cases presented to another tribunal to try them.” Mr, Stovens 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 eases 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 pest few months; The best in- terests of the American people require that the 1 between the President and Congress shall be cndod in somo way or other. The way that Mr.'Stevens has chosen is, perhaps, the shortest, and conacquently we are in favor of its ad We rar 5g in the bitter quarrel which has lasted so long and caused so much ill-feel- ing the President i entirely right and the radicals entirely wrong. We believe that the President is acting ‘acéotding to the constitu- tion and that fhe fadlcals are trampling the constitution under foot We believe that the President's policy of reconstruction is axfe, practical, national and statesmaniike, and that the fallure of the radicals to offer any- (hing better or half so good, after many montis of careful deliberation, ought to have been fol- lowed by a general and cordial acqulenence In the President's plan. We believe that the pre- sont Congress does not represent the sonti- ments of the people in regard to this great queation and that the peaple are with the Presl- dent almost unan'monsly. This is oar t gteod, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1866. and yet we call upon Mr. Stevens to make good the threst which he uttered on Saturday. It dges not matter for whst reason hentibred it, His wishes in regard to the Pennsylvania ap- pointments may heave been disregarded; be may have been aggravated by the predestined failure ot hia reconstruction scheme in the Sen- ate; but, whatever his motives, he has at length reached the logical conclusion of the radical programme, and we want to see the game 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 his Cabinet; they have dared him to change his advisers; they have treated his vetoes contemptuously; they have annoyed him in every possible manner and 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 Preai- 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 trust that he will carry out his threat and talk no more buncombe about the wonders he intends to perform. We assame this peapte Bp riaiien to quarrel and state Sir views thus fraix!y and 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 iss iaitor and the President asserts that Con- gress fs led by rebels, ft is time that some sotu- ion of ‘the difficulty 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 settlement 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 Southem representatives ought to be admitted to Con: gress; but the radicals keep them out. He in- sists that the South ought to bo governed like the reat of the nation; but the radicals keep the South 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 theve ofders. In the meantime here we are with half a country, heavy taxes, a depreciated currency and tho 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 Presideacy is still a long way off and this quarrel cannot contiaue until then with- out fearfully injuring the country. When a Congressman is permitted to accuse the Presi+ dent of treason, the Scoretaries of malfeasance in office and honorable Senators of apostacy, without being once called to order for his vio- lations of parliamentary rules and without a vote of censure being passed upon him, the most indifferent must be roused to an appro’ ciation of the dangers of the situation. Such outbreaks are perilous to the public poace, 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 step, 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 precissly how the scheme of Mr. Stevens will end; we know that the President will be sustained both by Cony gress and the people. And It is for thie very reason and because we hope that this new attack will cause the President to act and 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, as 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 arising 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, whioh they have not done for a long time, pre~ senting all the attractions of their pretty walt- ing girls and other inducements to Sabbath @esecration, on the pretence of vending only coffee and tea and sweetmeats. This they ean do with impunity, it appears; but how long will it be before the surreptitious distribution of more intoxicating beverages will become f- miliar to the frequenters of the Sunday con- certs? But whether liqnor is ever sold in these resorts or not, we take it that it is inf nitely more demoralizing to keep these places open on Sunday than to furnish » gentleman with « bottle of claret at his dinner in « hotel or restanrant, In the light of this curions discrimination the Excise law is absurd. Then we had the extraordinary speo- 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 selling liquor without » license are not subject to the penalty for disregarding ite minor fea- tures, putting @ premium, as it wore, upon ille gal business; another evidence of the absurd: ity of the law. of this enactment occu: red on a Hoboken ferry- boat on Sunday, when a man discharged a pistol at another {and'/qoanded him, fs de midat of » dense crowd of women and children. Various trivial cages of egsault. 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. Police 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 construct- 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—Paosrecrs or 4 Evrorgan Conaness.—As the dangers. of a general war are thickening in Europe runiors, suggestions and speculations in reference to # peace con- gress are mulliplied. Among the latest of such rumors is that of the Florence Nazione of May 15, that a note from the French. government had reached the Italian capital proposing the assembling of a congress; “that France is aaid to have declared that she makes this proposal with the view of preventing war, without, hosv- ever, pretending to impose that mode of settle- ment,” and that the Italian government is stated fo BAV® declared in repyy {2 thls note that while Italy did not decline the proposal she would require the basis of the preliminary negotiations to be the cession of Venetia. “Tho cession of Venetia,” a condition pre- cedent, is, then, the d-fiiculiy to a peace con- gress, so far aa Italy is concerned, while the exclusion of this question from ® congress would be the obstacle pngsented by Austria. In the same Way, pro ai oon, the cossion of the congress in reference to both Austria and Prussin. The three Powers, theréfore, that are on the verge of war are exc'uded froma 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 peace, then, depend upon the chances of a conference 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 joi veported> that there bad beon a meeting tween Earl Cowley (the English ambassador), Baron Budberg (Russian ambassador) and M. Druyn de Lhuys (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 plea 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 asa peacemaker, France has every- thing to gain from war; Russia may also gain largely and has nothing to lose. England can do nothing without France cad Ruaze‘a, and 20 the chances for a European pence congress are oxceedingly slim and doubtful. We are rather inclined to the conclusion thet war will actu- ally be commenced in Italy while the news- papers of Paris are still discussing the chances of peace and a peace congress. Generat Howanp AnD Tux OUERAGES IN TRE Freepmen’s Buraav.—General Howard bas written ® communication to the Secrétary of War in explanation of his attempt to screen ceriain agents of the Freedman’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 thosc officers complained of sre officers selected trom the army, generally of excellent record and always vouched for by men of the highest standing in the community, hereafter a fiir trial be nl- 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 Steedman and Follerton in regard to the opera- tions of the Burean that does not thus far sup- 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- cessary to whitewash the glaring evidences of rapacity 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 Hable ton more serious one, and that is of a desire to have the malefactors tried before a secret and terests, if not of public propriety. The more the subject of this Freedman’s Bureau is ven-. tilated the moré the public will come into n wise trade of his empire to foreign vessels, thas yielding American merchants and ship- owners profitable trade with which no Buro- pean can compete. Dom Pedro de for thia substantial evidence of megnifi cent Amazon and the rich treasures and rannarges of the jateciar ot'the gyned empire 4 o Brazil are offered to the Americans Prorosrat History or ras Civ, Was in North for development. Then will the Em Usrenn Suavas ov dumnica, By Benson J. Les yemnaneaieabe sine, Contant »0F bis) Celaucamannuneacumeesnanmromes ‘and eagraver bas been called in to illustrate the crenengpeane-pancgeinsnianighe with most advantage to the narrative, is Mr. Lossing's Bomparpment or VaLPaRsls0—EFF&CT OF THR | history of the war just ended. It is seldom that such.o News mw Enauanp.—There can be no more | careful compilation of fects and such correct artistical marked indication of the increasing weakness | embellishments are to be found ig the same book. There hich has not one or more explanatery: of the ruling class in England than the manner | ' 0 page in ft which Naa net o in which the news of the Valparaiso affair was | 11,54, Taseish tel gestae tranaow 4¢' Glo herve received there. While in Parliament minis- | those which will first attract attention, they muss not be LITERARY NOTICES. Danish duchies operates as a bar against ¢ , the Mbaral policy of his government. It fore- shadows the enlightenment that is obtexning in of the Emperor of Brr.¢:1, which got be extinguls.cd until the ' found echoim, ters were compelled to own that they had tied | allowed to eclipse its iorary morits. We can amare up the hands of the British admiral, by instruc- tions which left him no alternative, the mer- trath that it is the frst con-ciontiously written history of the warthat has been given to the world since its close. Jt is neither one-sided ag to {ta facts nor as te chants of Liverpool held a meeting at whivb, | 1, conclusions, Mr. Lossing, ase loyal man, of course after a great dealof strong langunge’had been | canner “be expected to justify the course of used, condemnatory of the course of the govern- | the rebels; but every plea which has been ment, @ resolution of thanks to Rodgers, of the United States Navy, was passed, Commodore | 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, for his generous and spirited conduct This i8,| gags» pisce in hin narrative. It is thus wo understand just what we expected. We knew that the |] the duties of the historian; and 1t is a gratification tg un British people would not be satisfled with the | to find thatthey.a:>% andersteod by the historian bim- conduct of their representatives and that their indignation would react upon the government, self. The work in its typographical features is a cred to the American press. It has been got up with a fastidi- ‘ousness and a recklessness of expense which fow bat It makes us regret all the more that Commo- | printers can appreciate. A cholocr, daintior or mote dore Rodgers did not fling aside his own instruc- | attractive object for the drawing room table could mot tions and act out the part to which his inclina- | well baye becn devised. It is all the moro entitled to tions led him. It would have made him a hero abroad as well'as at home and established a precedent that would have conferred 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 doubt, dictated by the same cowardly appre- hensions that prevented bim from uttering a word fence of Denmark, when a little firm- our admiration because it combines literary with artiste and constitutes a monument to the patriot- iam, s*if devotion and heroism of our coldiers the like of whicli hag mot hitherto been built up. Bayruinsree, A Novel. By the Author of “The Sient Woner,” ‘King’s Cope,” Xc., &e. Carleton, Pub her. This is a story somewhat in the style of Trollope’s “Dr. Thorne.” The plot is good and the interest in well sustained throughout. The author givoa us a little too much of English middle class countyy life and tho tittle tattle of small neighborhoods, Still it does not clog the progress of the story, which reads siMctently rapidly. ness on his part would have prevented Europe | pio heroine, Regina Howard, is a charming from drif'ing into a general war, The truth is Regine, te ‘tho great grand-denghier of an old thatthe governing class in England have such a dread of the effect of war on their interests that they prefer that Great Britain should abdi- cate her position as one of the first class Pow- ers ef the world to their incurring such 2 risk. They do not-see that the pursuapte of a timid policy is the sures} way to provoke what they fear. Aggression always follows upon tho ex- French nobleman ahd daughter of an English curate. Sho bas been left an orphan early in life, and ix brought up by her grandmother. fhe fs vers handsome, Ap exe cellent music’an, and very amiable Qualities which, of course, insure her rivals and enemies. She inherits = large fortune, of whieh her future lover and basbaad Las been despolled by one of those combinations of Mt- luck which are at the service of all novel writers. The lover is a certain Sir Aibort Wellingham. H's mother, woman of great intellect and gefinement, is one of the hibition of a consciousness of weakness. From ffominent characters of the story, which has many be.ng despised abroad they will fli into con- striking features of resemblance to “Never Too Late To tempy at home and the people will very soon | Mend.” begin (6 ask if it be Gtting that their affairs should be conumeted by men who consult only their own selfish ingorests. Expt, ania ep tanai plenruis. Riors-—The initial official report iu relabv2 to the Mem- phis riots hue by this time been roccived by the government. It is that of General Stoxc- man, commander of the post, and itv tenor wits foreshadowed by ou? Memphis correspondent in our issue of yesterday. It will be interest ing to the country to know that these outrages are not traceable toe amy complicity oft jhe part of the respectable inhabitants of Mem phis, disloyal as they might have been. during tue rebellion, mor to the retarned rebel sol- diers, 08 many people in the Nerth have sur- mised. The whole series of tnmults and tragedies, it appears from our prerent informa- tion, resulted from a fecling of intense hatred entertained by the local police against a de- tachment of negro troops stationed in Mem- phis, between whom there have boem f.equent encounters in the discharge of their respective duties. With the light before us of Hie negro riots that have ocenrved at certain periods in the city cf New York, there can be bet linle question as to the chsracier of the rists in Memphis, It has been »desperute confiet be- tween whites and blacks as to who shall com- mand domestic labor in stbordinate capagttles, This contest will probably prevail until either one face or the other can ‘ivmphantly come mand the position, and, in # Political point of view, the votes. In the mesmtime we awnti further reports from Memphis, ia order that we | may avoid prematucely judgitg the merits oF the case. Tax Pexnsrrsania Camparon—Byrsrer Cry- wER.—The demoeratic canidaletor. Governor of Pennsylvania now in the field is @ Mr, Heister Clymer; of Berks county). a copper- head of the Vallndigham school.- Hie oppo- nent, the republican candidate, i» General Geary, one of the mest distinguisheitand popu- lar Union soldi: resof the war. The setting up of €lymer, ‘therefore, against Geary: amonnté tow democratic defent in advance. We have heratofore urged the propriety of 2 recon- sideration of Clymer and the nomination of a candidate by the denzweracy acceptable, from hia antecedenis antopinions, to the Johnson republicans. The Baltimore Americca 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 svaila- ble man for the Johnsow Union platform upon which the democrats: now profess to stand. ‘The: real fight in the October Pennsylvania election, however, wilt; be upon the Congress- men and the Legisiataee; and for Congrees and * the next Legislature (which will have the elec- tiom of a United States-Senator) the efforte of all conservative Uaidn men, republicans - amd democrats, should be directed against the game . of Thaddeus Stevens.and his henchman, For ney. The candidate for Governor is only im- portant as bringing. strength or weakiess to the party concerned. upon these other ineues; nt even in this view Clymer is a dead weight thet ought to be thrown aff. Board of Aldermen. ‘NMR PROPOSED WADENING. OF FIFTH AVRRUR—A SITR FOR THE UXITED STATES POST OFFICE AND COURT HOUSE SELECTED. ‘Tho Board met at two o'clock yesterday aftemoon, Al- to the effect that a commission Raving bee! selection of a mitsble the Gity Ball ee nent on adoption of be Subseq) to" on is resolution, appointed on such Commitice aldermen McGinnis, ‘Varuem, and Ryers. ‘Oa motion the Poard adjourned to Monday afternoon nat, at two o'clock. Personal Intelligence. General Green Clay Smith, aysmber of Cungress from. Kentucky, ts stopping wider. Nicholas, Judge Ingraham, of th! over the Cirenit Court of ego, whieh has just closed was mado the reciplera of a set of reacluuions, uyom the termination of Feed pan. bP hp cent Oswego county, Watch resolutions ‘oir appre- y (nage and pro. | ciation of that gentlemnan as #”. ity, who baa been presiding, Maproat, Execracitt, Easgacixa E.ectto-Par- SIOLOGY AND EvrorricitY As "HERAPRUTIC. By Alfred ©. Garratt, @. D, J. B: Lippincots, P: iladelphia, _ There is no branch of medical science which’ has been more experimented with andty still 60 Hite understood as that of which br. Garratt's book treats, Whenever the retvons system begins (o manifest diseased action by tocat disturbance of a serious chariclor electricity ie generally one of the first remedies resorted to, .. Whether Tiong! ignoranes on the part of the medics!” prset- tioner or thzough the ineflicency of the agent tteelf, we faye seldom acer permancntiy beneficial effects, requis from ps aptiicaiion. In that clasr of pervous fer exatsple, to 1) sh terary men are subject, and whieh mone geneyally 7/0 from inattention to dietties then frome their grd-niery habits, it hes almost always proved a \falure. A chenge tm the mode of life, greatey. aliention to the regularity of one’s mealsy.apd absiferce from such things a are likely to\undely ‘stimulate the system, will, in aioe cage out of ten, the invalid te good heatth. terly tho nse of elegtsicity as a remedial agent bax fallen to discredit with the facumy. Js it Rot ft work more’ injury fan good? Of coume Br: Gar. ratt's th¥erica goto estahiaf the comtrary; but we here scen enatigh of the confttem and frequently sallow pretension¥of medical sciepee for us to ignore, fresh burst’ of efithusiasm f2 fever of a particnlar elatir of remedies; the resulis of etpertonce ari observation. As a compliscion the book is Thfety to provernseful, Lorie grozps togother aif the facts ae@ discoverie? connected with this Drareh of gherapouties It is in this light, rath<r thaw’ in Mat of a work offen origina and eng gestive charactsr; that wo doom it #orthy of notes, Joon Bruzixca;: Hire Saxnvas, wre C we Leos TRATION’. Cirteton, Broadway. me The peculiar ets of witof which @is volumvts ose of the exomplars in> claimed to be esuatially American. We have nover so regatéied st. Its, according (> omy notions, simply s Yiinkec mextifiastion of those extra- vaganees In Punch Witch 68 ane simi used to ariuse the world, but of which people eape Pecame “heartily tired. ‘The same fate awaity :He effomeyof our ows word contor- tiomuts. They are rowty Inenry clowss who tumbie— and ent capers for the amusomem’ ef chilesen—eome of thom, we admit, of longer erewth. Amusing ae euch: Uringe may be on the stage oF evar occasivmally in. the lecture room, Wwe regret to ‘ree ten: passing timo book form, Our language is Seooming q@fficient!;"eorraptel by the admixture of forsignidiogne without owt hetping. Lorende? it still worse by a yargom @° our ownsereation, 1M were pure wit we shoaidnet xe much obfeet to tt; birt tho wit to the chapterof'sucth a ang is, it meat bo admitted, of inflnitesimal proportions, May ©anos amp Hyiews ano ,Ornee Pomus. By Aubrey de Vere. Lawrence Kehoor Nas- sau’ street, ‘Vm De Vore’s poctey is abways plunge ‘ne, though alwaye original or striking inits forme In & co purely devotional, like the present, ttiaam, searcely beex- peeied to rise to the pointof gemine, Then is 7 room or inep'ration of that inétn conpe stows murs follow a Certain Gixetorder of idess. It is ioe thad some of the Hvest poction! ofushae wt he language have bees of « seligious characters, bat they were frolew> ad not multiplied oferta Aitut a = may Bee. poet's tetigioun feelings, he woutd tdi tem -o-sible to maintain Chrough a volume ebtwtoh tienes th © fire tims urgetiim onto his first attempt: Ii» weil, nevertite- leas, (o-flud the poets devoting « portionof t cir stten- io church paatmody. TRwatild pxibsnoe That the lendemoy of the age 1s religions, and. that ther em ade mand for sach works, Soxas ge Noon axe Niogr. By M iss Hive Wood. lished for the Au’ To say that this collection doesnot exbili it many faults of sentiment and metre would be accor ling # a. Praise that {t does not desarve; eae the general run of pooma “by young ladies” W2 attest. Seme of the pieces arc masked by com sidemBie- power, ‘Their tone ie in general healthy, and ont thom all we find « deep religious fueling p Carnowe ae or the — Ep Bokocis, ‘Tasiated. frou. the Prench, lay Mas. 4, Sadtier. B¢.dlice & Co. ‘Thore is little that Js doctrinal in the aim or matter thie little volame. It is wholesome reading for the Protestant, the Rrewtgterian, the Jew and the Qualies, an welb an for the Ca-bolic. For young peoplo especially {tiga desirable boola There are few, young or ol, whe wall mot profit by e.perueal of it, salaries of the officers and men of the dopartmant-ee- cording to they appropriation made by tho Lo;islatane, ‘ehich will t ake effect from the 4th of May, the day the tax vy wee aigned by the Governor. It has be om « question whetner the Board wwonld met Tefuse te tay the fall Ineressed amounts, and ane of the Commissioners, who has bitterly opposed tho tincreses,