The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1866, Page 4

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Jotn HSurratt was placed on board the war steamer Swatarn, at Alexandria, on Friday, for conveyance "to . ‘uiing two war vessels to demand satisfaction ‘kay on account of the recent mail steamer ‘The Pope’ tomaind “peevian” ‘and fittle disposed to te tho solution of the Roman question with hough advised by the neighboring Princes— itiarly—to do so, on the basis proposed by Victor Emantel. ‘The official journal of Saint Petersburg conveys the. exprossion of a friéndly Rusdian foctag towards Austria. Fighting contiaues in Candia, and the Turkish bloek- ado of the island has been strengthened. ‘The Prussian Legislative Chambers has voted the finan. Gial demands of the Crown, and agreéd to the Incorpo- ration of tht late Danish duchies with the kingdom. Hunaary is confident of the speedy enjoyment of an indopeadent Cabinet, Switzorland is about to furnish her troops with breech- loading arma, MISCELLANEOUS. News to the 20th from Vera Cruz has been received by way of New Orleans. The French had seized $200,000 of the :mperial treasure, and the steamer Eugenié had sailed with $600,000, $400,000 of which belonged to the ‘French government and $200,000 to the citizens, One thousand French troops had sailed for France. Our cor- respondence from Vera Crug is to the 14th inst., and from Orizaba to the 12th, The French steamer Panama bad arrived at Vera Cruz with two hundred additional troops anda large quantity of gunpowder. A special courier to General Castlencau also arrived by the steamer, The Custom Mouse was seized by the French on tho 9th inst, and when Maxtmilian presented an order for 00 |. was not cashed. Jacob Thompson, of the late , wasin Vera Cruz, He took passage for but the steamer did net stop there, and he was od © #0 on to Mexico, Maximilian left Orizaba on the 12th instant for the capital. Miramon hha‘! fled (o Queretaro to avold arrest by Marshal Bazaine, and Marqnez had made @ decides fatlare in his efforts to raise money for the Emperor, The war between Maxi- milian and Bagaine had become open and avowed The former 6 said lo have enjoyed that portion. of President Jotmnse messace "relating to Mexican afwirs, which Fas totegeapied him from Vera Cra immediately on ats recaptt 9, siwply becnuse it afforded him another oppor- tunity o: humniliaung Bazaine, Our correspondent at New Orleans givesa most inter. @suig 'e) me of the objects and aims intended and ac- comp. by the Sherman mission to Mexico, Ho says that oe oxpedition was by no meansa fasure. A dolia- ite and of action was agreed upon between the two rey 8 nted respectively by Suerman and Campdel! aad doutial agents of Juarez. The with. drawal of tuo Frouch troops will take place unquestion. ably before the last of next March, whon, in the event of any fragiieat of ‘mperial power remaining, United States troops will be matched to the support of Juarez, Gen- eral Shetman will leave New Orleans to day for St fouls, and Minister Campbell will remain in New Orleans to await the tarn of events. By al cable télogram from Liverpool, dated yes. tersay learn that the news of the destruction of the ety of Miragoane, Bayt, By an \vecodary fire, has been eonirmed by steamship advices just to hand in England from Port att Prins Our St. Domingo letter is dated December 9, Porfect tranqultity prevailed under the Presiaency of Cabrol, ‘Tho petroleum grounds and the guano island of Alto Vole were in full operation. Our Fortress Monroe correspondent says that Lieuton- ant Oleutt, who was reported to have Killed a private soldier of his regiment near Yorktown fécently, is still at large, awaiting the action of the authorities at Wash- fngton, t whom a court of inquiry have forwarded the facta in the case, It is believed, however, that the in- Vestigation has ended ina verdict of jnetifiable homi- cide. An attempt was made to burn Hampton a fow Rights ago. Tt ts supposed to have been the work of ne grees for purposes of plunder, but fortunately the (Plan was a failure. Our Richmond (Va) correspondent says the osury law Fecentiy moritied by the State Sovate does not meot the Fequirements of the people. The negroes are rapidly Goyonerating morally. Vico is decidedly on tho increasé Smong thom, and they compose two-thirds of the In- Mates of the penitentiary. The complexion of pollueal affairs grow darker every day, and business is unfavora- br correspondent in Milledgeville, Georgia, rm ‘Ue political questions of the day—the prelimi: towards oftering the Union, nad the feasibility of wegre suffrago—are boing at last publicly discussed, and Re regards thie a# a Hopeful rign Our Atlanta (Ga) correspontonce saya that ally is farcer, handsomer and of more importance than iLever ‘Was The officers Of the Freedmen's Bareau thore are * Portect accord wtth the Civil authorities, and the per copy. Apuual subscription prige, @l@s" NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1866. rights of the freedmen are very gonerally” 4. Io regard to polities a feeling of u'ter apathy is evinced, Our special Alabama correspondence gives the imter- esting points of General Wagor Swayne's report as Com- missioner of the Freedinen’s Bureau for the year ending ‘with’ last November. He says that the former Pro- ‘Vigiotial Governor (Parsons) and. the present Gevernor (Patton) are warm supporters of the bureawin its mea- stres of humanity. Work and compensation for freed- men are ample. Governor Wells, of Louisiana, has written lotter to Senator Trumbull, in which he comments severely upon General Sheridan and his administration of affairs in the Deparment of the Gulf, Tho Congressional Inyeatigat- ing Committee, it 1s said, aro charged with an examina - tion into Sheridan’s fitness for the administration of the department, Judge Magruder, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, re- cently sentenced negrocs convicted of larceny to be sold, im gecordance with an old provision of the Maryland code, which has been repealed since Maryland became a free State. The sentences are in conflict with the Civil Rights bill, and it is probable that the United States Dis- trict Court will take some action in reference to them. The Congressional excursion party reached Chatta- nooga, Tenn., yesterday. No public reception was ten- dered them, but they were treated with marked con- sideration. A dolegation from Nashville tendered the hospitalities of that city to the party, They will go Feconstruction views to an audience of conservatives ‘and.ex-rebels on the river trip to Chattanooga, © Our correspondent at Toronto, Canada, recently paid a place. He found all of them in a miserable condition as aah hr aia as wr lal pel ‘nished with the most unpalatabte food. ‘@fect an armory and ongage in the manufacture of arme, ‘The Quebec Relief Committee. have failed to account for @ large sum of money entrusted to their hands for dis- tzibation among the sufferersof the great fire. A private despatch received at Montreal states that owing to the Opposition of the Fresh Canadians the English Parlia- ‘mont will not take action on the confederation question ‘at present. * Desertions from the British navy in American waters fverage fivo per cont daily, Two government detectives are in Montreal looking »ap, evidence against Surratt. Several prominent South- erners have offered to go to Washington and testify in Abe coming trial. Ligue |... Rev. Honry Ward Beecher preached in Plymouth Ghurch, Brooklyn, yesterday. Rev. Charles B. Smyth @igcoused at the-Everett Rooms on the two’ Naked ) Teaths.” Reve W. L. Van Meter addressed a large con- @regution in Madison avenue church on his recent visit tothe charitable institutions of Europe. The church of ‘S& Stephen's, in Twenty-elghth strect, was dedicated with impressive ceremonies, One of Hayden's "Imperial ‘masses was performed, and a sermon appropriate to the wotasion was delivered by Archbishop McCloskey. The pressure of snow on the Ningara Market House, in. Buffalo, caused the veranda to fall yesterday, carry- twenty feet of a wall with it. National Taxation and the Carrency. “The newspapers of the old protectionist and tariff school—and prominently among '] them the chicf radical organ of this city—are *oonstantly calling for more taxation and rotection. They have but one idea on the “subject, and that is to favor a certain closs of ‘the community and its interests at the expense ‘of all the.rest. The manufacturers, who have and are making colossal fortunes, are be favored, and agriculture and all ‘Pther industrial pursuits are to be taxed. The great West, the impoverished South and the populous Central States are all to be held “gs “the hewers of wood and drawers of water” -forthat small section of the country called New England. Allied. with this class and their Porgatis sre the great government contractors, claim brokers and lobby agents, the notional ‘banks and all those who wish to put their hands deeply into the Treasury, clamoring for qmore taxation and a vast superabundant reve- tne. “Corgress, acting under this powerful combined influence, has manifested little dispo- sition to relieve the burdens of t@e. people. Even the pretended efforts to do this last ses-" sion, by seme modification of the tariff and tax mentiis larger than ever. Our legislators cither did not. wish to relieve the people from the weight of taxation, out of regard to the interests of the classes we have named,‘or they have been misled by those interested classes in the work of legislation. But the time has come when the burdens of taxution should be lessened. The in- come of the government for the last fiscal year ending June 30 was, exclusive of loans and Treasury notes, five hundred and fifty-eight millions. The following quarter, ending Sep- tember 30, the rvceipts from the. ordinary sources of revenue were over one hundred and fifty-eight millions, which is a still further pro- portionate increase. . If the receipts shonld be equal to these for,the remaining three quarters of the fiscal year the income would be over six hundred and thirty millions, Such a revenue in time of peace is astounding. It is double or nearly double what it ought to ‘be; Three hundred millions a year ought.to be ample for all the current expenses ofthe governmont, the interest of the debt and a sinking fund» to extinguish the debt, in twenty-five years. Mr. McCulloch estimates the receipts for the next fiscal year at four hun- dred and thirty-six millions.» But we have seen how wide of the mark the Secretary has been in all his estimates heretofore, and it is safe to say, looking at the income of the last quarter and the resources of the country, that the receipts will be nearer six hundred mil- lions than four hundred and thirty-six mil- lions. He cstimates the expenditures, includ- ing sixty-four millions for bounties, .at three hundred and fifty millions. This we consider too high, or, at least, no such an amount would be expended ina proper economical administration of the government, Taking one hundred and thirty-three millions for the interest of the debt from this sum there would be loft for the current and ordinary ex- penses of government two hundred and twenty-one millions, That is by far too much. It is over thrée times the amount expended six years ago. We have become extravagant and wasteful—nay, we might say reckloss— through having so much money in the Trea- sury and through our minds becoming familiar with bach large figures. Three hundred mil- lions, as we said, should be an ample revenue for current expenses, interest on the debt and & sinking find as well, Half or noarly half the present taxes and high duties might be taken off. Yet wo see no effort being made by ether the Socretary of the Treasury ot Congress to bring ‘about that much needed result. Nothing tends to proser-e the purity of gow- ernment so much as economy, and nothing to corrupt.it.and the people more than euch éx- travagance qe. we now see. There ongit to be retrenchment in’évery department, and the In+ terest of the debt ought to be reduced by consolidating the whole into five per cents, pt mmy be anid tnt by keeping up the pres- ChdFikeus Income the Seoretary would be @nabled to pay off a large amount of the debt in a short time. It would be far moro ‘there to-day. Ben Wade took occasion to, ventilate his* visit to the condemned Fenjans in the old jail of that "The Canadian government have asked permission to | laws, proved futile. The income of the govern-" band Castelneau and by the church Mikoly)\ fo. MhGomb) 8 walt / nor desirable to pay off the debt too rapidly, Pay it off steadily and regularly, by all means #o that it may be extinguished in twenty-five or. thirty years; bat to liquidate it rapidly would produce too great a change in the financial condition of the country and be unjust to the people of the present timo, who have borne the heavy burdens and sac- rifices of the war. Then the interest of the debt could be re- duced twenty millions or more, which amount might be, used at compound interest as a sinking fund, by issuing legal tenders in place of the national bank: circula- tion. With an issue of three hundred mil- lions of legal tenders the same ainount of interest bearing bonds could be withdrawn or bought up. ‘The volume of currency would not be increased ; it would’ be only ubstitut- ing legal tenders for national bank notes, a better currency for one, not ao good. The difference to the country would be that the ‘government and people at large. would reap the profits and” benefit,of this circulation, instead of rich private corporations getting it. ‘With regard ‘to the absurd demand for im- mediate specie payments made by the same class of radical theorists who want more taxa- tion and 0 higher tariff, we have only to repeat what we have said frequently: before on the subject» . Our legal tenders. answer all the purposes of trade, and are a convenient and excellent money. Under. this circulating me- dium the country has been astonishingly pros- perous, as the enormous revenue of the government shows,,and we need a much larger amount of currency than We ever needed before. In fact, we have been and are doing well with this greenback money, The business and wealth of the country are grow- ing immensely, and it will not be many years before the present volume of currency will be found ‘small enough for our requirements. Specie and paper money are gradually ap- proximating the same value. If the currency be left to regulate itself or to be regulated by the laws of nature and trade, without being interfered with by legislation or forcibly con- tracted, we shall reach a specie basis in the course of a few years, Let well alone should be the rule of action for Congress and the Secretary of the Treasury on. this question of the currency. Our Latest Reports of thgMoxicaa Squabble— Still in the Fog. A cable despatch from London on the 22d instant says that it is reported on the Coatinent that thé French authorities in Mexico seized the baggage of Maximilian, which had been carried to Vera Cruz, and that among this baggage were secreted a number of private letters which have a tendency to compromise the Emperor Napoleon with the United States, What this means we cannot divine; nor is.it, we guess, of any importance to know. The facts thus revamped on the other side the water are thése:—On the approach of General Castelneau from Vera Cruz, fresh from Napoleon to the city of Mexico, by way of the Jalapa or northern road, Maximilian, as we all know, left his capi- tal for Vera Craz by the Orizaba or southern road;.that the Austrian war steamer Dandolo ‘was waiting at Vera Cruz to receive ‘him and his baggage, but that poor Max was stopped at Ofizaba, where he has remained ever since, ‘end that still the good ship Dandolo is waiting at Vera Crus to take him home. It is thas ‘apparent that poor Max, in sheer |. disgust, bad determined to run off and leave | the, French in Mexieo without a government tovsettle ap their affairs and get away if they could without being cut to -picous, bat that Castelneau and Marshal Baralne stopped him, and compelled him to keep up his government a little longer, to meet the necessities of Napo- leon, though they could not get their man back to his capital. Since the failure of this hegira of Mahomet he has been persuaded by Bazaine Party to proclaim hjs purpose to fight it out-fer bis Mexican crown, though it appears that, like the pouting Achilles in “his tent, he ‘still re- thains at Orizaba. We fear that the instrac- tions to Messrs. Campbell and Sherman, in which he was no more recognized or hinted at than the Emperor of China, and by the appear- ance off Vera Cruz of our ambassadors to Juarez, poor Max was worked upon to have s little revenge upon President Johnson for his cavalier treatment of the Mexican empire. At any rate the empire, it appears, is to be up- held by Max, with or without the assistance of Napoleon, and especially against the Yankees and Juarez, the champion of President Johnson. As alast resort, it is reported that the Empe- ror will lay aside his crown and put,on the straw hat of a Mexican president, as the head of a provisional republic, under the support of Miramon, the church, a lot of European volun- teer soldiers and & draft. In all this he has no doubt been ‘acting under the advice of Napo- leon and his agents, and for the simple purpose of keeping the liberals at a respectful distance until the French Emperor can make some sort of a bargain touching his claims and got his troops quietly out of the country. He. docs not want to be thrust out at the pointof the bayonet. Meantime, Minister Campbell and General Sherman have returned ‘to New Ofleans, and the latter was enjoying _ himself the other day with General Sheridan among the lions of the Jockey Club at the New Orleans races. As for Juarez and Escobédo, it seems that Ortega, the contesting President, and Canales were after them again; and’as for Mr. Seward, we understand that he writing his cable despatches, and is pro- bably devising new instructions for Minister Campbell. Is Atapama a State on a Teartroart—The question of the status of the Southern States lately in rebellion is about to come before the United States Suprome Court for decision. A tan omed Jordan was recently brought be- fore tho federal District Court ene fn Mont- gonery, Alabama, on a charge of felony, and having been found guilty was sentenced by Judge Busteed to twenty-one years’ imprison- ment. His counsel have dotermined to apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas ¢or- pus, on the ground that Alabama is not # State, but a territory, and as such Judge Diatriot Court had no legal wate will thus be brought fairly the learned judges of o: bunal, and if they wil] i DP te question openly and render @ ahd wo may expoot s peer ‘at {2 now a eney complicated placat Judicial rt- fund. Besides, it is neither necessary -} Our Athens-correspondent has re tn Gua Wetter published yesterday, the of the fighting and indisoriminate slaughter of Turks and Greek Chtistians at the convent of Arcs- dion, This convent, which is situated in » sttong position in the de; of Rethym- 08, was occupied by five ‘h and -forty: persona, three hundred and forty-three of whom. were women anf’ children, leaving one hun-_ dred and ninety-deven men capable af bearing | arms. On the 20th of November Mustapha ’ Pacha left his headquarters. at Episcopi, with | twelve thousand 'men, and advanced u} the convent, demanding the surrender of the garri- son: The refusal of the Cretans was followed by a tremendous fire from the Turkish aetillery, and the bombardment was kept up for two days and nights, At length, a breach having been effected, the Turks, who had ‘suffered heavy losses, poured into the court ef. the con- vent. Barricading themselves in the'surround- ing cells, the Christians bravely resisted for six hours, and then desperately resolved to fire the powder magazine. A monk applied the match, anda tremendous eee killed two thou- and Turks on the Among wp- wards of a. thousand wounded Turks was a brother-in-law of Mustapha Pacha, The Turk- ish army is reported to have been sorely dis- pirited by the disaster, This incident in the Candian revolution should, on the ether hand, encourage the Cretans and enlist in their behalf the sympn- thies of the whole Christian world. It reveals the fact that the old heroic-spirit still survives,@ to which, according to Herodotus, the Greek Demaratus bore testimony when asked by Xerxes, after the latter had surveyod the im- mense hosts wherewith he was about to invade Greece by land @nd sea, whether the Greeks would presamo to resist his power. “You may depend upon.it,” replied Demaratus, “that your propésitions which threaten Greece with servitude will be rejected, and if all the other Greeks side with you against them, the Lacedemonians will engage’ you in battle. Make no. inquiries. as to their. number; for if they shall have but a thousand mea, or even fewer, they will fight you.” The same spirit animated Leonidas, of whom Plutarch relates that when asked how he dared to encounter so prodigious a multitude as composed the army of Xerxes with so few men he replicd:— you reckon by numbers, all Greece is not able to oppose a small part of that army; bat if by courage, the number I have with mo is suffi- cient.” This was the spirit which fired Leo- nidas and his three hundred Spartans when they defended the pass of Thermopyle and immortalized ils.name. All are familiar with | the numerous ‘instances in which this spirit again broke forth gloriously during the seven years struggle of modern Greece agaiast Tarkish oppression. From 1821 until the battle of Navarino, in 1827, when the Tarco-Egyptian fleet was annihilated by the combined squad- rons of England, France and Russia, this re- markable contest was carried on by the Turks with such atrocious barbarity and by the Greeks with such heroic bravery as to engage the sympathy and the active interference of all Christian nations. It is a shame that sym- pathy and interference should be withheld fro! the Cretans who are now displaying the same heroism in struggling against the same tyranny, Aremonstrance at least should be made at. once by the United States government—now, far more emphatically than in 1821, one of the great. Powers of the earth—against. Turkish craelties and ravages in Candis, which pain- fully remind us of the blood shed at Constan_ tinople, the execution of the patriarch, the massacres of, Scio, and the other ‘horrible scenes of the Greek revolution. The universal | feeling awaked in America at that time was eloquently expressed by Webster, Clay and Everett, and in Greene Halleck. We are glad to learn that Dr. Howe, of Boston, who, like Lord Byron, devoted himself personally to the Hellenic cause, has set on foot a project for the imm2- diate relief of suffgrers in the Candian revbiu- tion. Democratic Fossia ny Counctt—The organ of the live Miles O’Reilly Unioa Democracy no- tices the fact that sonfe of the old fossils of the @efunct democratic organization have been holding .councit with the Manhattan Club patriots, including Thurlow Weed and Barlow, Aa to the best method of “patching up sotte “Moasures which .may again reconcile all fac- tions of our local democracy under a common standard.” Ex-Governor Seymour, it is fur- ther stated, “received an invitation to join this caucus of democratic mxgnates, but re- specifully declined, empbatizing his refusal by asudden flight from the city.” Tho day has gone by when these old copperhead hacks could aceomplish any reorganization of the democracy. They are all “played out.” They had a chance to do some good for their party and for their country in 1862, if they had not been behind the age and blinded by their cop- perhead secession sympathies. But instead of the war as a fact and acting as patriots and statesmen, they put themselves in the hands of Wood, Barlow and others, who bought out an.old, oe et per concern, called the Courter and Enquirer, with all the Bohemians attached to it, like they would if they had purchased a plantation with all the niggers apon it, ss and started it asa with the: Times at. Chicago ba Wyre Now England, quickly dggtfoyed all the repu- tation the demooragp had remaining and led the party from defeat to defeat, until they brought up at the Inst élestion withont a sitgle State in their possession and with a miserable handful of representatives at Washington. If the democrats desire to ‘maintain existence as ® political organization they must cast, off | these old backs and decayed organs énd go In for new men and anew press, Let them osll & national convention, if they p' but ite first act must be to repudiate the’ old tion in (olo, and to commence anew'from the foundation. They have the groundwork of a ving Brome at the stronghold of = Miles cee ona pene nch Let thom build om thats and then if ‘ gener |~ their old errors and fol! et ee war as the revol the rooogp?raotion policy as ombedied ta the “Ig memorable verse by Fitz North Carolina bill, they may again become Tas Gis Quesrion—Movements have re- cently been set on foot in the cities of this and Other States for a reform in the prevailing method of supplying gas to the consumers. "With very few exceptions the gas companied are in the hands of private individuals, who from'time to time have obtained charters,aad who have generally been powerful enough to exolude competition, either by successfully the granting of new charters or by buying out the interests of the parties who have obtained’ them. The consumers are at the mercy of these monopolies, and have been compelled to pay an exorbitant price for their gas-and to'submit to other annoying exactions. used to defeat any attempt to sumer, The citizens of New’ dyn have recently beon directing their suffer, tial saving to the mechanic a stop to many of the distressing calamities are tyrannical and destitute of conscience. monopolies, readers, the compliments of the season, and.J accompanied by 1, or trust that with the reassembling of our national | f"iteate 4 rd sony under Jaw makers, they will be sufficiently enlight- ened to know exactly what to do for the South and the country, and sufficiently inspired to do it speedily and thoroughly. Taw Vatce ov Apventisixa.—The value of a liberal systom of advertising is strikingly fl- lustrated in the results of the annual meetings societios in honor of | © re Congressional excursion party strived: here thie of the mutual admiratios the Pilgrim Fathers of uth Rock. They have thus become known all over the world as the first settlers of every State in the Uniqn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Capt. John Smith and ther anti-Puritan ploncers to the contrary notwith- but nothing like advertising, say the | Tivet Pilgrign Fathi, sad we advertising, Prosapta Exp or run Fextan Moveweyr ond, nothing like Iaetanp,—The Fenian tronbles in Ireland, it {s jm reported by the cable, “ have entirely abated;” | Louis and “the {sland Js trangiil and confidence | 8 has returned to the people.” The C. 0. 1, Rij” James Stephens, has not come up to time, so that, though his whereabouts is « mystery, it is now of little consequence, The Lage Immense fortunes have been made by the directors and stockholders of the corporations | at the expanse of the public; and the wealth. ee thus. aooumulsted has not unfrequently been | cise of ‘and Brook- This is a movement in the right direction: | Gas. has become one of the necessities of life, and there is no reason why it should not be | ex-minister, was at the State Department yesterday and placed on the same footing with “water. No’ } had quite a tong interview with the Secretary. He will person, would consent that the Crotom Aque- | }ave here about'the 27th instant for Lisbon. duct Department should be abolished end the |’ ".,, supply of water for the use of the ‘citizens of} washington, during recess, A» majority of mombers New York intrusted to the hands of a private | have gone bomo to pass the Lolidays, ‘and the depart. 9 | corporation. It is an established fact that gas } ment clerks are making the most of their pric! leisure could be made st a cost of less than two dol- lars to the consumer, and a profit realized by the department at that rate, which would be so much direct gain to the taxpayers. | secretary Seward at St. Joun’s. Cheap gas would not only be a mate- and the housekeeper, but it would drive kerosene and all explosive burning fluids out of use, and put if | Zea UP W.dato 1s $161,637, 454. According: Coxaress—Tue Hotmpar Recess.—The two houses of Congress stand adjourned over to Thursday, January 3. Meantime the Congres- sional railway excursion party to New Orleans.| ¢¢a.one month. are on their journey, and will doubtless learn muoh of the actual condition und necessities of | hero to-day, ahd is stopping at Willard’s. the South before their return to Washington. The special committee on the New Oricans riot are at work at the scene of their labors, | of seven-thirty notes forwarded to the Treasury Dopart- and the other special committee of invostiga- |. ment for conversion must be carefuily observed: — tion into the murder case of certain soldiers in South Carolina are en route to their destination. Lastlyyit appears that a Congressional plea- sure party will avail themselves of the recess for | order are held by other parties than the 4 visit to the battle fields around Richmond, while @ large number of the members of both | yh, he Becretary of eee, houses are homeward bound for n Chrisiinas dinner. We wish them all, together with the President end all in authority, and all our Nothing like leather, says the shoe. Souneih of Raw ot belt ot them, on ols, ar Ss Ges mS to-morrow am il be and lionized te hn | landing of the Pilgrims, Seca aneet es antic bites Forefathers’ day wae ime disclosed, but that they will sensibly affect financial and commercial interests of the Country there is every indication. Military Commissions end the Civil Law. ‘The statement that the government has issued ag order interdicting ali military commissions in the futare 18 at least premature. In the Cabinet on Friday iaat it was determined tbat the of War should promulgate en order to the commanders of all military departments enjoining them from interfering in any manner with civil affairs, and requiring them to confine the exercise of their power to military matters and thé proper discipline, contro! and magagement of the troops in their various departments, This order is designed to cover not only the abolition of mifitary commissions, in conformity tothe recent opinion of the Supreme Court that auch tribunals obi unconstiiutional where civil process ts other arbi for the trial of ‘Dr. maar, “a anisipel to this question with a view toa thorough be turaed over to the civil authorities. | reform. A Brooklyn Alderman has.introduced: & resolution in the Board which proposes that 8 law be framed and submitted to the Legisla- ture to provide for the creation of a Municipal bureau.of a character similar to.the Water arid | ‘before. the committee during the present week. Mr. Sewerage boards, which shall be invested. with |. Wells’ bill is supposed to be not sufficiently protective ot the power of supplying citizens with gas at the’) cost of production and relieving them from the-private monopolies under which they now |’ “Phe Tart Bint. : Sin ok RGN Bia day a tn tno wrenegesrece of tha West and the-iron’ men of Popnsylvania are prepared to make e/fight against the Tariff bill of ‘Mr, Wells, the United States Commissioner, which 1a expected to be their peculiar interests, and they therefore prefer the bili which passed the House in July last. , ‘The New French Minteter, _M. Berthéwy, the new French tothis countey, will be officially received by the Secretary of State at twelve g'clock to-morrow, after which he proceed te ive Mansion and be presented tO the Preat- tink and members of the Cabinot. Mf Momtholon, the * Quiet Sabbath—The, Holiday Senson. e Sabbath has been unusually quiet, even for time to enjoy tne same, Among the attendants as of church to-day wore Secretaries Stanton and McCulloch, Attorney General Stanbery, Judge Swayne,,Sir Frederick: Braeg.and others atthe Church of the Epiphany, and President Johason mades donation of $1,000 lately ta the Methodist Episcopal of Foundry church (Dr. Ryan's). Limself and family worship there, ~ ‘The holy season iv béing duly observed) at all the Catholic churches bere, and the attenduncyat the services is unuauatly large, The choir of the Church of st. with which. the columns -of the.papers) are [Aloysius is an attractive one, for the eapAlipace with almost daily filled’ The private companies No maiter how low’ the price of coal may be, we | MeCullocwthat such of them »5 wished co neverhear of any decrease in their rates, while they’are always ready to resort to some scheme or other to raise the actual cost to the consumer. The Legislature should take the matter in hand at an early day of the approsehing sea- “sion, and give us a thorough reform in New York and Brooklyn. Letthem repealail exist- ing charters and create municipal bureaus in | Tue party-will bo-wbsont until Sarurday Next, . both cities similar to the Croton Department, 80 that the citizens may be supplied with that necessary article at the lowest possible cost. If such a measure shat be proposed it wil! not be an easy matter to defeat it by the usual appliances, since no member can obstruct or oppose such a law without rendering himsel: obnoxious to the charge of being influcnced | gininution” of receipis from this source must be ‘by corrupt mocives. The republican party, with its overwhelming majority in both houses and in possession of the executive power, will be held accountable to the people for thia and other popular reforms. They have a positive responsibility which they cannot evade, und it | year the recotnts wore $2,466,940, is moreover necessary that they should vindi- cate themselves against the charge so tre- quently made by their opponents, that they are the especial champions of aristocratic which sacred music is reudored there, A verbal notice wax given yesterday evehthg to the employes of the Treasury Deparsment iy Secretary abseat Yrom theif desks on Monday—tho intention belg to give them au opportunity of making preparations ‘for Christ - sy Excursion to Richwiend.~ A distinguished party, amoug whom are.meationed Senator Poisud, of Vermont, and wife; Hon. R P. Spalding, of Ohio, aud Wie, and 8, B. Colby, Register of the Treasury, and wife, wilt start’ to-tiorrow on @ trip to Richmond, Va., im the revenue cutter Gortherner. Taternal Revenue Receipte. The receipts from Internal Revenue Saturday shiount to $499,151, and for the past week to $2,956,614. This is somewhat Lelow tho averagefor.gome weeks past, resulting probably from the fal of in many branches of trade always noticeable im thereturns for this particular holiday period. The total for this flecal the lawa which govern some branches of our ‘trade @ gradual expected, commencing “from the first): of calendar year. Thie deoranse is not very grea! fa amount nor very ateady day by day, Tesagbas we experienved in this branch of finances, ‘branches, tp'to the fist day e¥On of tho fiscal ycar, as may he seen from the fact that on April2 ofthe last Oscal 340; on May 8, §2,236,802, andon Juno? thoy reachod tho large sam Of $3,421,062, whigh is the secon.) highest amount ever ™ one Gay, and which was the mote noticeable the fact thas tho second was atarday, on which receipts re almost uniformly toss than oa other days; and dur- ing these three months of April, May and Jane the ave- rage reccipts were under a milion perdicm, Other facts might be given to show the fluctuations and prove that thé total. for the ‘ie PM on not be arbitrarily estimated by the pete for any.one day, or Personal © ~—Tt Collector Henry A. Smythe, of New York, arrived Regulations to be Observed in Forwarding Seven-thirty Notes for Conyersion. The following regulations in. relation to endorsement tted for settlenent or, and ‘are teld and Iwansinied by tne the seata ‘ta ya the Breast 22 the + re 4 u oO! the ry for * and bonds will tesueda thelr nawea When adic te owners they must have ¢ endorsement of tho they pare, 20mm: Original owners be endorsed ‘by the present owners tank fre f et foe ie conqgrica al ire forwarde: they must be endorsed “Pay the Secreta: the —S for redemption’ by ‘the party: arding hem. When notes jorsed are transmitted by ati att ecntor, or Other agont, they must be aduly rp J copy or administrator, under which he acts, and im it cases by & lettor stati the kind—* ro oo bn = '—and the denomination of the bonds ited im excaange. When registered bonds are oftered, parties should state at which of the foliowi placee they wists the interest ¥viz.; New York, Baltimore, Chicago. "Bt . Louis, innati, or Charleston, = Fy charges on seven- y notes forwarded for ‘must in ‘all eases be prepaid. Bonds will be sent by express on returp, free of expense. —_——— THE CONGRESSIONAL EXCURSIONISTS. morning. They spent the day in reviewing “nie tle fleld and National Cemctery and taking an.¢ down theriver, During the river trip Bon thirds of ts heerors rebels. The party is ie dew eine mak codserrattes ‘cod tena with Mem vine & rons the City Howard is not aeglocting tramp. -s bis, ada. Dey zs. ere Sere tS inthe St. Fh Ie veh. T 2a CELEBRATION OF THE OF THE PILGRIMS. Waanmarox, Doc. 23, 1866 A number of New Englandors last night colevreced ‘With appropriate coromonies the anniversary of ‘he Celobrated by tne Yous of New enterprise and will absorb its active clements; | Rngiand by « banquet at the Walnat Street Howse, end 10, if Irish and the proposed | night read Sa soe tea sopuniis re teay ish betty ent ropa eee ork ct aushalicdn Mab bo gaieoa te Ct to: cant Dae, 2, 1800 tion of the British empire an s grost omen tate ell a eet Wipe a, even under Qucen OF tans, a a win 1 Mr. Davi rotarned to morning ne aon 2th toe a te, Pigrime with Rouse, About Ppa bngineters wnat Prevent, and oa. voy given ands hamorous orlet rey {nesting adjourned at tid. net at the & titra and Oy latin and vote , odes Ooms te Nawan.—The Right Rove. serrabop Overnaimer, of uke Diocove of Now Jersey 4 See os eon pe age OF Ap se voit: cae nation 153 2281 ie the sang sas * full exer} pape =