The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1866, Page 4

a: NEW 7 YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXI.. No. 107 aul USEMENTS THIS A BROADWAY | THEATR atreet —OLiver Twist, Ma pe Bazan—A Day in Pa WOOD'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Ixvisiate Puixce—Me. aD Mas. Perea Waits. ‘Tux Nicoro Tuovre. HEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth irs -FRexcd ComMPANY—Roquetaune—Le Covcien Une Brows, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tux Rose or Cas- rine. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS ee at 14g o'Clock—DoN Carsan 201 Bowery.—Sa ation TROUPE—Tnx lock. NOISCO MINSTRELS, 885 Broadway, opposite n Hotel —Krutortan Sunaing, Dancing, &c.— A ON THE FLYING 2 CHRISTY'S—Op or Mrxsraersy, M Pitty Avenue’ Upers House, 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourtn street.—It 1s NEVER Too Latn 10 MrND, Mutinee nt Two o'Clock. E GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- ty ninth streets. —Tuxo, THom4s’ ORCHMSTRAL t Four o’Clock. i GaupeN Concerts, commencin, BELVIDERE PARK, Eighth avenue and 110th atreet.— Can Benaman’s Summum Coxcekrs, commencing at 424 o'Clock, MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tur Nab Queen, HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! Brooklyn.—Eraroriay Mime armacsy—! AnD Pantowines. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Opn os WW A.M. till 10 P.M. New York, saturday, June 16, 1866. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the joint resolution for the re- nee entation of the United States at the Paris Exposition staken up, and the amendment proposing an appro+ priation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose was agreed to, The resolution was then passed. A mes- sage wa seived from the President, returning with his oljections the bill authorizing the New York and Montana Iron Mining Company to purchase certain lands reserved from sale and not now in market. His objections are that it gives to that company iron and coal lands on a large scaic and at one-sixteenth of the minimum price re- quired {rom pre-emptors; such grants and privileges are hostile to the principles of pre-emption laws; and it gives the company a right to acquire a patent to tho land before the Indian title is extinct. The Senate ad- journed until Monday. In the House a resolution was adopted appointing a select committee of five to investigate the recent breach of privilege committed by Mr. Rousseau in his assault on Mr. Grinnell, A discussion ensued on the request of Mr, Bingham to offer a concurrent resolution re- questing the President to forward copies of the new amendinent to the constitution to the several States for ratification, Mr, Le Blond, (dem.) of Ohio, objected to the introduction of the concurrent resolution, and argued that it should not be adopted antil the joint resolution proposing the famendments was {submitted to and jsigned by the Executive. The Speaker made a lengthy decision, fortified by citations, to the effect that the joint resolution proposing amendments to the constitution shonld not be submitted to the President. Objection was thon mado to the introduction of the conenrrent resolution, and the” objection was sustained. Mr. Bingham gave notice that he would introduce the concurrent resolution again on Monday next. The ree- toration bill went over until Monday. To day isto be dovoted to ornamenting the records of the Glube by gen- oral debate on the President's mossage, ‘HE FENIANS. Reports of threatened invasions were quite current throughout Canada yesterday, but they were most pro- bably without foundation. Fenian raids for the present are confine: to localities nearer home, General Meado has ordered the return of ali troops to their former sta- tions. He thinks no further trouble is to be anticipated. The Fenian prisoners in the bands of the Canadian an- thorities bave been transferred to St. Armand, that they may be identified by tho citizens of that vicinity. Yesterday morning, when Commissioner Betts took this seat in court for the purpose of proceeding with the inquiry Into the charge made against Colonel Roberts, Mr. 8. G. Courtney stated, on the part of the govern- ment, that he had come to the determination of abandon- ing the proceedings in convequence of tho intimidation of witnesses and the difficulty he had met with in pro- curing evidence. He announced his Intention of sub- mitting the matter to the acuion of the Grand Jury. Colonel Roberts was then discharged, and on leaving court was greeted with applause by the spectators THE CITY. At« meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday the report for the year 1865 was received from the Comptroller and ordered on file, The Beard adjourned to twelve o'clock on Monday next. A supposed case of cholera is reported in Elizabeth street, near Broome, The patient died, The situation at Seguine’s Point is quiet. ‘Two cases were admitted to the cholera ship from the Peruvian and one death oc- curred, The number at preseat under treatinent is forty- eight The Commissioners of the Board of Excise met yes- terday alternoon. They decided that applications should be received ap to the 19h inst. A licensed dealer named Rernard had bis license revoked in consequence of selling lager ou Sunday. The Cerman beer retailora and mnkeopers yesterday held another meoting ia aid of the Falk injunction case, with a view of brouking down the Sanday law, There was a large attendance and a considerable amount of money was collected. ‘The argument in ths care of Molt versus the Board of Excise, which brought up the question of the constitu. tionality of the new liquor law, was concluded yester. day, A decision is expected soon. The ease of Paul Falk {s to be argued at half-past ten o'clock this morning, A case involving the right of the Dry Dock and East Broadway Railroad Company to use a track constructed in Jane, 1965, from their track in Frest avenue thfongh ‘Thirty-fourth street towards the Kast river, was argaed yesterday before the General Term of the Supreme Coart, After hearing a lengthy argument on both sides the Court reserved its decision. Joseph Tamaro, the tenor singer, brought an action yesterday ia Part 2 of the Supreme Court against Leonard Grover, the operatic managor, for balance of salary eged to have been due for professional services during ihe case of Williams McQuade agaioet Francis Borkie was also tried yesterday in Part 2 of the Supreme Court, Pivintifalleged that in June, 1865, ho arcived in New York from California, and ow lauding from the steamer gave bis trunk tothe defendant t be carried to North Orange, N. J. The trimk never reached its destination, ud a suit was brought to recover the value of ite con+ tents—some six hundred dollars, Defendant claimed that the tronk was given to him to bo transferred to an express company and that he was not Hable. The jury Brongie tea eee hot Cor detondan von which was a test taint was die pel bad made default in paying the amount secured y the form of the undertaking. In the United Statea Curonit Conrt yeeteriay the case of Mchael Kearney, an enlisted minor, who was brought »p open a writ of habeas corpus, was dw, 4 of, the Court remanding the minor to the custody of the mi! tory authorities, Also the ease of Charles Carrey, who was employed as atamping clerk in the New York Post ce, and charged with embezzling valuables th Som—packets having been found on bie person tc clng rings and other articleswas submited to Jory, Who brought im a verdict of guilty. The dofend: counsel moved for # new trial on the ground that the in Qictment charged the Jefdndant with ombezaling pack. © -< and not packets, and that packets containmg other than mallable matter, sueh as printed or written ‘maau- Fr pt, did not come under the act of Congress of July, ‘25 4, and commeqaently the defendant could not be tried Ny the present indictment. Motion granted. . 40 the Vuiled “tates Commissioners’ office yesterday « ’ 1 u Mareus Cicero Stanley was notified to appear be fore Com- usssioner Betts to answer an accusation, made on infor- mation and belief, to the effect that he had:been mpli- cated in the alleged Hoboken bounty frauds. Mr. Brady appeared for Mr, Stanley, and held that the charge was not tenable, a8 mo warrant could be issued on an affidavit based on information and belief. Mr. Courtney, United States District Attorney, and ex-Recorder Smith were heard on the other side, Commissioner Betts reserved his decisien, The libel suit brought by ex-senator Demas Strong against the editor of the Brookiyn Times was continued yesterday fm the Circuit Court of Brooklyn, The entire day was ocenpied in examining witnesses for the defence; but from the extraordinarily bad momories of those put on the stand very little real, pertinent testimony was elicited, Several prominent public men testified as to the character of the plaintitt. Recorder Hackett sentenced a number of prisoners yesterday in the General Sessions, Albert James and William Arnold, who were convicted of an attempt at grand larceny, were each sent to the State Prison for two years and six months, James B. Gerow, guilty of an attempt at burglary, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year. John Harrington and Timothy Fiynn, who were tried for petty larceny, were sont to Blackwell’s Island for six months, and Thomag Jones, who pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, received a similar sentence, John Kennedy, indicted for burgla- riously entering the premises of Samuel 8. Dale, 168 South street, pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary, and was sent to the State Prison for two years and gix months, General Dulce, the late Captain Gonoral of Cuba, ar- rived in the city yesterday from Washington, ‘The Spanish steamer Isabel la Catolica is preparing to receive him and sait for Spain, He will probably remain in this country not more than a week. ‘ahe Spiritualists of Ebbitt Hall yesterday held a pic- nic at Fort Lee. There was a large gathering present, and the festivities passed off quite pleasantly, ‘Two young men, named Garland and Rivington, were arrested on Thursday night under suspicious circum. stances, and a lot of burglar’s tools were found upon their persons. One of them, Garland, was only eighteen yoars of age. Patrick McKenna, who lived at No. 105 West Twenty- eighth street, was killed on Thursday night by falling from the fourth story window. Alad named Edward Keene, aged twelve years, was killed on Wednesday by being ran over by tho freight cars on the Hudson River Railroad as they were being drawn by a dummy engine, on the corner of West and Canal streets, The Mayor, Board of Aldermen and heads of the seve- ral executive departments of the city of Brooklyn made the regular annual inspection of the Ridgewood Water- works day before yesterday, Everything was found in perfect order, The Board of Fire Commissionors of Brooklyn at their last meeting passed a resolution forbidding fre compa- nies from running their engines on down grades, under penalty of disbandment, holding the companies and not individuals responsible therefor. They also passed a resolution to take active measures against any person usually known as “runners’using the badges of the Fire Department. It was finally determined that the nates of those persons who have badges, and who are no longer members of the department, be advertised, and they be requested to return their badges. A meeting of the Workingmen’s Union was heid last evening at No 267 Bowery. Tho matter of the strike of the ‘longshore operatives was fully gone into, The caulkers are detormined to continue the strike under all circumstances, and prompt and, it is believed, effectual Tmensures ure to be immediately adopted to sustain them. The ship carpenters of Brooklyn, E. D., have re- turned to their employment with their former boss~s at the old system. ‘The joinera bave also declarod their readiness to return. A scaman named Jones, of the steamship Scotia, fell overboard yesterday and was drowned. An inquest was held by Coroner Kirsten, of Jersey City, and a verdict of “Accidental drowning” roturned, The Hoboken regatta took place yesterday and was well attended. The Cornelia and Carrie took the prizes. ‘This is the Jast home regatta for the spring season. ‘The steamaljp Caledonia, of the Anchor life, arrived on Thursday in eleven and a half days from Gilas- gow, being the quickest on record between the two ports. As part of her cargo she has several thousand bushels of wheat and a considerable portion of French flour. The steamer Hibernia, of the same Mue, sails from pier No. 37 North river, at two P. M. to-day for Liverpool aad Glasgow. The steamship Etna, Captain Tlobits, of the Inman line, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liver- pool from pier No. 44 North river. The mails will close at the Post office at half-past ten A. M. ‘The new steamship Denmark, Captain W. H. Thomp- son, belonging to the National Steam Navigation Com- pany’s line, will sail from pier No. 47, North river, at noon to-day, for Liverpool via Queenstown. On the passage to this city the cabin and stoerage passengers: of the Deumark presented to Captain Thompson a flat- tering testimonial as an expression of their feelings in Tegard to the ship and her commander. ‘The steamship General Sedgwick, Captain Sawyor, will fall at three P. M. to-day, from pier 23 East river, for Galveston, Texas, touching at Key Wost. She takes out a full freight and a number of passengers. The steamship Geo, Washington, Captain Gager, will sail from pier No. 9 North river, at three P. M. to day, for New Orleans diroct. The steamship San Salvador, Captain Atkins, of the Empiro Sidewheel Line, sails from pier No. 13 North river, at throe P. M. to-day for “avannah, The popular steamship Quaker City, commanded by Captain Wm, H. West, will sail at turee P. M. to-day for Charleston. The stock market was dull but firm yesterday. Gold rose to 14934 and closed at 148%. Tho firmness in goid rendered the merchan‘tise market more buoyant and firm; but there was too much differ. ence in the views of buyors and sollers, as a general thing, to admit of much business; still our commercial column shows that trade was quite lively, Cotton was somewhat drmer, Groceries were very steady but quiet. On ‘Change flour was Ormer for good, but lower for common grades, Wheat was in the same condition. Corn advanced. Pork advanc%d. Beef was steady. Lard Ormer. Pe'roleum active and firmer. Whiskey steady but quiet, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican correspondencs is dated in tho city of Mexico June 8, and Vera Cruz Jane 5. The departare of Santa Anna for the United States had cagsed great surprise, and was recotred by the liberals with great joy. and by the imperialists with manifest uneasiness. Tt ts said that General Vidaurri proposes visting the Untied states, Six more rebel exties at the colony of Cartotta had been captured by the liberals. The Im- perial Couneil are continually exchanging ideas on the important subject of how not to stay behiad when the solders go away, The State of Chihuahua is now en- tirely rid of the presence of imperialists, A doplorable state of affairs exists in Sinaloa, Tlacatalpam and elac- where, brought about by the ruthless warfare waged by Maximilian, Our news from St, Domingo is by the way of Havana, ‘om the 11th inst, The revolution againat President Baes ‘wns tncreasing in strength and dimensions. A email vie- tory had been gainod by the government troops im the Province of Cibao, bat on the other hand the capital was in astate of close siege by the insurgonta. In all proba- bility the present revolution will succeed in the flual overthrow of Baoz's government, By the arrival of the steamship Talisman at this port yosterday we have advices from the West Indies dated in Jamaica, on the 16th of Jing Our commercial report from Kingston saya:—The basiness of the last fortnight ba; been limited. Vory fow estatos have finished crop yet. Most of them are pushing om with sugar making, which te lave thie year; bat the greater namber will have all their canes off by the oud of the present month. The retarns ato still keeping up to planters’ expecta. tions, Showers have fallon pretty generally during the fortnight, and they wore much required for the young cancs, while they have not beon eo heavy as to affect making. The coffee crops for 1866 are almost hed; and tho prospects for the coming crop hot been #0 good for several years; there hav | hos been abandaneo of healthy blossoms, and the ‘her has been very favorable for ite development * of (90 crop will So mush earlier than thé pre- ne, aod & good deal will bo picked before the close of the year. There is not that want of tounage for Europe which lately was felt, and sagare are more frooly, shipped. Tonnage for Amorica ts still wanted. The Jate monetary eris.s In Eugiand has not affected bus!aces hore, but it is feared that, if mousy continuds at ton per ent in the mother country, tho bank here may bo da- willing to grant its usual accommodation, Spanish view nes kU. ~~ | YORK HEKABD, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1866; Town was excited by an alarm of oholora, but the cases proved to be from diarrha@a, produced by the use of tm- properfood, Nine families sailed from Jamaica in one steamer for England, Six English artillerymen de- serted from Yort Royal, with their arms and a full supply of ammunition, in an open boat, and, although pursued by a British gunboat to sea, they had not been heard from. ‘The State Senate was in session yosterday. It was resolved to try Judge Smith under the first rendering of the Governor’s Message. They then adjourned until August 28, when, it is rumored, they will reassemble for the purpose of taking action on the now constitutional amendment. Major General Wood, commanding at Vicksburg, has issued an order warning all persons engaged in.the enlist- ment of negroes in his department for a foreign service that it is an offence against the noutrality laws. The freedmen are also advised to have nothing to do with Persons engaged in such unlawful business. The trial of Colonél Paulding, the chief paymaster at Washington, by military commission, for alleged fraud in connection with the recent failure of the Merchants’ National Bank, was concluded at Washington yesterday. The result is supposed to have fully sustained the repu- tation of the Colonel for integrity and honesty, but is not of course yet published. Hon. James W. Patterson, a member of the House of Bepresentatives from New Hampshire, was elected sena- tor for that Stave, by the Logislature yesterday, to suc- ceed Daniel Clark, the present incumbent. A row took place on Thursday evening in Jersey City, which involved a conflict of the new police force with the Mayor's or old force. Que of the latter, named Nu- gent, was assaulted by his nephew and an‘accomplice named O'Brien. The latter was seized by Samuel Ram- say, another of the Mayor's force, who was worsted in the encounter, New accessions came to both sides, and at the conclusion of the scuffle officer Campbell found himself hurried off to prison, and was taken before the Recorder. Several other persons were also arrested. The woollen and cotton mills of Richard Garsed and the cotton mill of Foster & Qo., in Frankfort street, Philadelphia, were destroyed by fre yesterday morning. ‘Loss $150,000, A convention of railroad enginecrs has veen in secret session at Rochester for two days, their supposed inten- tions being to mature a plan for the prevention of labor strikes on the roads. A scaffolding on the Vassar College grounds at Pough- keepsic gave way yesterday and precipitated a number of workmen thirty feet to the ground. Five men were seriously injured, two of them being expected to die from the effects of their fall. Three men were killed near Memphis, Tenn., on Thurs- day, while engaged in arresting a gang of outlaws. A single individual attempted to rescue the party and killed two of their captors, but was shot himscif. The Republican Party and its Imperial Game of Reconstruction, That shrewd old political campaigner, Thad- deus Stevens, said the other day, in the House, in a¢cepting his constitutional amendment as ra- zeed and reconstructed by the Senate, that he was constrained to take it as the best thing he could ges. It was unsatisfactory; it was too much a composition of milk and waiter for bis taste; but he hoped for something better in the way of-enabling acts defining the precise terms upon which the excluded States will be read- mitied into Congress. . What he means by “enabling acts” is pretty broadly expressed in his enabling bill, pro- posed the same morning in reference to Ten- nessee, In consideration of what that State has done in the way of reconstruction Mr. Stevens proposes to admit for ihe time being her members elect to Congress; “provided that unless tho said State of Tennessee shall, before the 1st day of January next, cither by legislation or constitutional provision, en- franchise all classes of her citizens and extend the right of suffrage impartially to every class, and shall give to every person within her jnris- diction an eqnal standing in her courts of law and equity, both as suitors and witnesses, and shall ratify the amendment: to tho consti- tution, article fourteen, proposed by this Con- gress, then the provisions of this act, so far as they relate to the State of Tennessee exclu- sively, shall cease and become null and void, and the said State shall no longer be repre- sented in Congress.” This is the ordeal of reconstruction through which the excluded Southern States, each for itself, will be required to pass before they can reach the reward of restoration. The constitu- tional amendment adopted covers a few broad and general principles; but in ‘these “enabling acts” the States concerned will have the pre- cise conditions upon which they will be read- mitted into the two houses of Congress. They will have to begin again at the beginning of reconstruction; they will have to ratify this aforesaid constitutional amendment; they will have to remodel their State constitutions, revise their local laws and put them in force accordingly before they can be pronounced as purged of their sins of rebellion and washed clean enough to sit once more at the commn- nion table of the faithful. The question then recurs, how long, upon a reasonable estimate, will it take the Siates concerned to pass through all these processes ot penance and purification? Considering the time and trouble required of President John- son in his comparatively easy-to-take prescrip- tions of reconstruction, we think it extremely doubtfal whether even Tennessee will be able to touch bottom this side our next Presidential election, The game of the republican party in Congress is admirably contrived to secure them in their ascendancy in the Northern States and to exclude the Southern States involved in the late rebellion from any voice in the federal elections of 1868, either for Congress or the Presidency. This is evidently the game of the republican managers, and from all the signs of the times they will succeed in it. But if the exctuded States can be kept out till the end of the year 1868, may they not be still excluded for two or three, or ten or twenty years longer, and governed according to the old Roman provincial system? Of course. In fact, if we get quictly through this next Presi- dential election with the exclusion of the late Jeff Davis States, there is no telling what may be the next chapter of reconstruction. It may be the effete Roman republic, with its consuls, its generals, its provincial establishments, and ite wrangling and fighting political factions; or it may be something like the empire of Augustus again in full blast, and embracing, this time, the British possessions to the north of us from Newfound- land to Vancouver's Island, all the West Indies and Mexico and the Central American States. ‘Within the last three years we have gone through a revolution which even President Lincoln five years ago supposed could hardly be accomplished this side of the year of grace 1900, Who, then, can undertake to fix the bounds to tho revolutionary changes we may pass through within the next three years? After all, human nature is pretty much the same in all ages, and the American republic may possibly be on the verge of the last re- construction experiments of the old Roman republic. How can we pretend exemption from the common vicisslindes of the republics and empires that have gone before as? We live, moreover, fa an age of great events and great revolutions. There seems to be a sort of moral epidemic in the air, taking its course over the world like the cholera and operating upon the minds of men in masses and in the most extraordinary manifestations, Look at Europe and at Mexico, and look at this last terrible flareup of the Fenians, The simple fact is, we are drifting along with the tide of events, and if, from present appearances, our republican managers of the ship of State are heading for another Roman Empire, they still have the tide in their favor. Yachts and Yachting—The Late Re- gatta. Had the weather been more favorable, the regatta of Thursday last would have been one of the most beautiful as well as most exciting scenes ever witnessed in the harbor of New York, and even as it was, with fog and rain rendering every objeét obscure and ill defined, the yachtsmen of New York had every reason to be proud of the number and beauty of the vessels composing the squadron that got under way from Owl’s Head for a run to the light- ship and back. The waters of Great Britain can show no more perfect specimens of naval architecture than the yachts of New York; per- fect in the models of their hulls, rigged with every regard to symmetry and sirength, ad- mirably appointed in every manner, they form a fleet that calls forth the admiration of all, from the veteran “salt” who for a lifetime has ploughed the briny deep, to the timid miss who for the first time is allowed to receive informa- tion on the subject of tar, canvas and rope- yarns. A stranger viewing the race would very naturally have supposed all the vessels to be contending for the prize; for it seemed hardly possible that of the number under way but five were entered, and they of the smaller class, as competitors for the much de- sired piece of plate, while all the larger ves- sels and the majority of the smaller ones were but mere lookers on, enjoying the sport but not doing their share to enhance ‘the interest and excitement of the regat‘n, It is generally conecded that the reason for this is the unfair allowance of time to the smaller vessels, which offers but little prospect for the large schooners to enter into the contest with any hope of being successful. Owners of yachts such as the Fleet- wing, Vesta and others of like tonnage and rig, knowing the speed of their vessels, do not wish to risk their reputations by entering them against others of known inferior speed, yet which may, and probably will, carry off the palm by an allowance of time that is almost impossible to overcome, especially in the limited distance io be passed over. Consequently they prefer to remain outside as more observers, being satis- fled with watching a race or wuiting a time when a private match can be made with an equal in size, where speed and. judicious man- agement will be sure to tell. Again, New York bay is not the proper field fora display of the sailing powers and sea- going qualities of the large schooner yachts; their place is at sea, not from Sandy Hook to the lightship, but from the lightehip around Block Island or to the Capes of the Delaware, or extend it further, if you please; for these vessels are fitted for any weather they may en- counter during the usual cruising season, and they should resign the placid waters of the bay to the smaller craft, considering them- selves “outsiders” or excluded from any race not outside of the “Hook.” If this plan were adopted ocean yacht races wouid rapidly be- come popular, and while at first around Long Island would be considexed tar enouzh, there would be a constant desire to go further, until in time the venturcsome yachtsman would risk crossing the Gu!f Siream aud make Bermuda, instead of Block Island or the Five Fatbom Bank lighthoat, the turning point of an ocean race. If we expect to induce the yacbtemen of England to leave their present cruising grounds to visit this part of the world in order to bave a trial of speed, we must hold forth some other inducements than mere inland cruising, for they will contend that, by keeping within bays and narrow channel ways with which we are familiar, we have au undue advantage over them which cxnnot well be overcome and in which they do noi care to risk the reputation 0° their vessels. But once adopt the ocean races, and then the case be- comes different, They wil! venture forth when they see their chances eqnal, until in time, and avery little time, the waters of the United States during the yacht cruising season will be dotted with the white sails of many an English yaclit, coming to see and be seen, to conquer or be conquered. With this plain common sense view of the ease would it nos be well for our yachismen to take the matter in hand at once and com- mence the good work by getling up a sweep- stakes for all large seagoing yachts, over a route entirely at sea, and giving a course and distance worthy of the vessels that will doubt- less enter at once for the race? Here would be something worth while; a race that would interest all, outside as well as inside the Yacht and that would serve to bring back the interest and excitemont that used to exist whenever it was known that a regatia was to take place, The first one over, others will soon be called for, until ocean yacht races become as much an institution with us as trotting races, and bay and river crnising be confined to the smaller vessels, By all means let the attempt be made. We have the veasels fitted for the work, and once inaugurated our yachtsmen will wonder it was never attempted before, 80 popular will the sport become. Tar Navat. Orrice Vacancy.—There is con- siderable excitement among the politicians in regard to the vacancy in the Naval Office at this port. This being one of the most Incra- tive positions connected with the Custom House numerous aspirants are anxiously waiting for orders to take possession. Among the most prominent is Genoral James Watson Webb. Learning on his recent visit here that there would probably soon be a vacancy in that office by the death of Mr. Odell, but being unable to prevail upon the Stato Depariment to grant him a leave of absence from duties in Brazil long enough to await that event, he drew up his petition and left an application for the ap- pointment in the hands of a friend, to be used as soon as the vacancy occurred. This done, he sailed for Rio Janelro. by way of London, | to discharge bis duties as the representative of the United States at the Brazilian Court, We trust that the gentleman in whose hands this application was left will at once present it at the White House. There are several reasons why he should be avoointed. Hy bas sacrificed everything for the party and should now be rewarded with some lucrative position, There is none better suited to his taste than the Naval Office. The Courier and Enquirer was at one time the beat paying paper in this city and wasa fortune in itself. Webb, however, yielded to the seductive influences of Seward and Weed and allowed his paper to be used to advance their interests. The Courter and Enquirer became a mere machine for the whig and afterwards the republican party, until it was reduced so low that Webb was glad to ell it out for any price. He served the party interests and Seward and Weed better than he did himself, and in fact did more to build up the republican party than many of those who are now fattening in official positions, Seward and Weed, as a re- ward for all this, turned a cold shoulder to him, the same as they did to Greeley. When they found that they no longer needed his ser- vices Seward sent him off to Rio Janeiro to get rid of him. We object to this unceremoni- ous manner of disposing of one of the founders of the party, now that it has obtained power. He should be forthwith appointed to the posi- tion of naval officer and not be kept like an exile in South America, No man needs the fees of that office more than he does, and we venture the prediction that no man in America would make more money out of the office and spend it more liberally than Webb, The pro- fits of the office would thus be kept in circula- tion and benefit the public generally, As for George W. Blunt, he is not fit for the place. He certainly has no claims upon the present ad- ministration and is the laait man who should receive the appointment, As between him and Webb President Johnson should not hesitate fora moment. The latter should be commis- sioned and permitted to recuperate his for- tune, even if he should spend it the next minute. his death, a access | wee ce ene sen ee oll ech GL ee ee cr as ct cel [tn as cad petal eae et particularly the manner of it, a greater calamity to the South than the North. Of President Johnson he spoke only as a Sena- tor, He said he was a man of the people, a democrat of pride, ¢onviction and self-asser- tion, an immense worker and student, his habits marked by temperance, industry, cour- age and unswerving perseverance; also by in- veterate prejudices or preconceptions on cer- tain points; and in whose character justice was en eminent feature, though not un- coupled—as true justice rarely fails to be— with kindness and generosity. “ But for his decided attitude against secession,” Mr. Davia says, “Mr. Johnson would probably bave been given the place of Mr. Stephens on the presi- dential ticket of the confederacy.” The prisoner all through expressed the hope of speedy trial, not doubting be would be ao- quitted. If he be guilty he maintains that the whole people are guilty, and, quoting the lan- guage of Edmund Burke, eays, “I know not how an indictment ngainst a whole people shall. be framed.” There 48 much more of a highly interesting character in the book we cannot notice here, but it wil! doubiless excite @ good deal of attention. Both Houses The gross violations of parliamentary law, in both houses of Congress call for ay immediate and effective reform. On Thursday there were two flagrant instances of these violations, In the Senate Mr. Wade denounced the Emperor Napoleon as “a robber” and Minister Bigelow as “a snob.” For words spoken during a debate in the House General Roussean admin- istered a caning to ‘Congressman Grinnell. Wade and Grinnell have long been notorious for their unparliamentary language. Senator Trumbull seems unable to open his lips without using tbe most undignified teyms, Blaine and Conkling recently disgraced themselves by in- sulting each other. Thad Stevens, although he is now a little tamed by sickness and defeat, ie generally remarkable for the violence of his epithets and the brutality of his philippics. Congressman Ingersoll has earned the bad opinion of his constituents by the recklessness of his manner of attacking the President, Sen- ator Grimes is another of these blusterers whe mistake hard words for strong ideas and abuse for argument. They do not understand that it is not necessary to be unparliamentary in order to be severe, sarcastic and crushing. Some of the most terrific invectives ever uttered have been couched in language so calm and gentle- manly as to be perfectiy faultless. Tho rattling thunder makes the most noise, but it is the keen, polished lightning that strik>s. Sumner and Fessenden in the Senate and Banks and others in the House always sponk like gentle: men; and cven when thoy are the most severe they never outrage parliamentary decorum, From these genitemen the oratoncal rioters may take a lesson or they may profitably stady the debates in tho English Parliament, which @re much more personel than those in Oon- gress, but are invariably tempered by good sense and good breeding. In old times, when Sumner was caned for ridiculing Senator Butler, tho republicans claimed that the caning was the result of the barbarism of slavery. If so, the exceedingly unparliamentary conduct of the present Con- gress must be set down to the barbarism of antielavery. We are rather disposed, how- ever, to attribute such outbreaks to the incom- potency of the presiding officers of the Senate and the House. They evidently do not under- stand their duties and are only distinguished by the partisanship of their decisions. When S.nator Wade called Napoleon “a robber” and our minister at Paris “a snob,” the President of the Senate should have called him to order at once, informing him that, even if theso things be true, they rhould not be stated in such lan- guage, and directing that the offensive words be expunged from the official reports of the debate and the Senator only allowed to pro- ceed in order. One such rebuke as this, firmly and temperately administered, would act like a charm upon these verbal bullies, such as Wade and Grimes and Trumbull. The other day, when Mr. Grinnell was abusing General Rousseau in a tone and language appropriate to a barroom; when he was displaying his. own ignorance by maliciously stating that Rousseau had no military record, and when he was imputing cowardice to one of the bravest generals of our army, Speaker Colfax should have stopped him at the very outset and insisted upon his apologizing both to General Rous» scau and the House. Had this been done there would have been no further altercations and no caning. In his reply Rouseean displayed great moderation, and if be bad dropped the subject then, he would have clevated himself in public estimation and left Grinnell with- out a defender, But his undertaking to canes member of the House for words spoken m debate was quite indiscreet and indefensible; and we can only say that if the current report that General Bourbon had more to do with the caning than General Roussean is uot true, it certainly ought to be true for Roussean’s sake. The main fault, however, lies at the door of Speaker Colfax for permitting the original offence. Some time ago, in referring to thie subject, we warned Congress that unpariia- mentary language would soon lead to personal assaults, and the event bas justified our pre- diction. It is the duty of the Speaker to protect members from insult, and if he does not protest them he mast be held responsible when they take the law into their own hands. It is espe cially his duly to protect the minority instead of conniving at all insults to the Presidcat’s supporters, We appeal to the intelligence of Congress in regard to this matter; and we ask the republican majority—the “party of ideas,” the “moral ‘reform party”’—whether they cam select no better representative than Speaker Colfax and whether they imagive that they are increasing their. popularity by sanctioning blackguardi«m. Prison Life of Jeffvrson Davis. A book with this title will be published in a few days by Carleton, of this city, and it is reported that the work has already. appeared in Washington, It is from the pen of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John J. Craven, M. D., who was physician to the prisoner at Fortress Mon- roe from May 25 to December 25, 1865. This work, doubtless, will not only be interesting as a correct narrative of Jeff Davis’ prison life, of which so many contradictory and ex.gger- ated statements have been published, but more particularly for the remarks upon the events of the war and the prominent men who figured in it. Whatever we may think of the egotism or prejudices of Mr. Davis, there is no denying that the views of a man of his nacquiremonts and intellectual capacity and who had been such a prominent actor in the rebellion, must have their bistorical value, The first days of his prison life must have been excruciating. When this man who had been the chief of a confederacy that put more than half a million of men in the ficld and carried on a war of tho most gigantic character, saw the blacksmith approach his cell at Fortress Monroe to manacte him with heavy irons, he might well exclaim, in the anguish of his soul, “My God! you cannot have been sent to iron me!” How was the mighty fallen! The Presi- dent of the so-called Confederate States—of a rebellion it is true, but still of a mighty bel- ligerent power—a former Secretary of War and Senator of the United States, the high-spirited representative of Southern chivalry, to be manacled as a felon mast bave sent the iron deep into his soul. This extreme rigor was relaxed, however, after five days, upon the representation of the fed»ral physician at the fortress that the prisoner’s feeble slate of health could not endure the sevonity. There was, too, a gradual relaxation of prison disci- pline from time to time after that, for the same reason, until his condition as a prisoner was made comparatively easy. He compiained bit- terly of the treatment he received at first, and seemed hardly to comprehend the motive for it. Mr. Davis lost sight apparently of the state of the public mind in the loyal Staies at the time of his capture and for some time after- ward. The President of the United States had just been murdered. This fearfal crime grew out of the rebellion of which he was the recog- nigod chief; and though few may now imagine that he had any hand in or knowledge of the ccime, it was natural that the public should then feel both vindictive and suspicious. The severity exercised toward him was the natural consequence o! the state of things then existing. Afier he was allowed to have reading matter almost all he chose to read were the Bible, prayer book, Bancroft’a “History of the United States” and the New York Herarp. In the first two he found religious consolation, no doubt; for he appears to have been sincerely religions; and in the last bis mind was inter ested with history, philosophy and a compre- hensive view of the current news of the day. In his conversations with his physician he spoke freely and frankly of the generals and public men on both sides, In Albert Sidney- Johnston he realized the idea of a perfect com- mander, remarking that all that Napoleon said of Dessaix and Kleber, except the slovenly habits of one of them, might be combined truthfully and said of Jobnston. He spoke of Stonewall Jackson with great tenderness and with something of reverence. “The confede- racy,” he said, “lost an eye and an arm in losing him.” He expressed himself in bigh terms of General Lee as a great soldier and pure Christian gentleman; but he was not dis- posed to say much about Joe Johnston. His old prejudice against this latter general evi- dently exists yet. He did not have a very good opinion of hie Cabinet or the rebel Congress, and was quite severe on Toombs, whom he designates “a destroyer, a born Jacobin;” on Foote, “a man of no account,” and on the Rhett faction of South Carolina, which was never “at home save when in the attitude of contradiction.” He thinks “General Grant a great soldier beyond doubt, but of a new school.” He says that if Grant had started in bis carver as commander-in-chief earlier in the war he would probably have failed from the sane causes from which MeClellan and others did, “If he had not started with an enormous account in bank his checks would have been dishonored.” Davis owed to Geheral Butler “the bes joke of the wor—Dnich Gap.” He spoke highly of Sum- ner, Sedgwick and Hunter as gallant soldiers and excellent gentlemen; of Pope as “a kind mener. General Dulce reached this city at six o'clock Inst evem- ing, by the Now Jersey Railrow, from Washington, whither he bad boon to pay bie reapeets to the Spanish Minieter and to retarn the viet whieh Secretary Seward: paid to him in Havana last winter, Ho war accompanied on the trip) by Sonor D. Jon Valle y Puig, Secretary of tho Saperior Civil Government of the Island of Cabs, and Gefor D. Juan Mufior y Vargas, bie aide. de-camp. His stey bi this country will not be as long om al fret expected, probably not more than another week, during Which time he intends to ruke » trip to Niagarm Fol” Yesterdsy the Isabel la Catolica commoncett coat. ing and recsived about four hundred tone of fuel om , of American gascon, but with good scientific | board. There is no i)kelihwod ef hoe in dock hore attainments.” McClellan he thinks a good)? 7 pam tee haaad officer, but too cautions and cos haan in : XY ame mai a Ue Fi Avenue rol command of a great army. keer ot Oonsocimna; sat fh, Bee are ae Svenkivg of President Lincoln be “thousht Ncholas