The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1867, Page 6

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Sara ors uu BELS. 10 Hrostway. oppo- fotat. — 1 NONG#, Danced, BOO ii ~ one pacity ‘ie, Musical ‘Twiks—SO1RER py’ eruiors. 2% Bowery. —Comta ie Diverrisscueye, ND Dots OF WALL CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TRO OFPT, at Hall, 472 Broniway—iw a Vaxirre or Ligaz Avennees Enveuiatnxents, be Baccer, £q HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— Emuorax Mur @ sy, Batrans, Buncesgces aND Pavtouimes—A He AROUND THE WoRLD. rTERIAN CUUROR, corner of Grind ant Crosby {ineay Masomtd Faum 1 Ai or tax MALL Axo (UND. ORK MUSRUM OF ANATOMY, #13 Rroadway.— win Tun Oxr-Mronogex Micsacore twice yap v Riggs Anx or Prousr. Qpen from 3 TRIPLE ‘SHEET. eke [SSS New Pucedays aan janry S 1807. a r u 3 IW 3 aw bed : EUROPE. Ry ¢ho Atiantic cable we have a news report dated to of Jannary. pembers of the Royal Thames Yacht Club enter- » American yachtmen at a banquct ta London jay, Lord Alfred Paget presiding, The speechos expressed tfe most frioudly feeling towards the Uniced Sustas. Engiand and France have agreod, it is said, not to in the difficulty between Grecce and Turkey 91a should interfere. ‘The Cuited States Consul in Candia refu edge the Turkish bieckade of the island, declaring it non-affective, ‘Tie hoatth of the ex-Empress of Mexico i improvod. ‘The Spanigh government is using every precaution against « revolutionary outbreak. The London Times declares the nationality of Poland extine. Console cldsed at 90% for money tn Yondon yesterday, eu advance of 3 from the opening. United Stnjoa five- twenties were at 73, ‘The Liverpool cotton market was firm and ateaty, with middling uplands at fifteen pence. CONGRESS. in ¢ Senate yesterday, the bill providing (hat the re- por! of the Civil Appropriation Commissioners, provided for ina former act, shall be sent to Congross by the Secretary of War, and no payments appertaining thereto should be made until such report was approved by Con- greas, was called up and passed. A resolutton directing ‘Gre Commissioner of Agriculture to forward specimens of tae corea! products of the several States to the Paris Ex- position was paused. A bill to protect the rights of amarded women in the District of Columbia was reforred te the /istrict committes. A bill to amend the copy right law was referred to the Committers on L'brary, and a bill regulating the courts in Idaho was roferred to the Cocomittes on Territories. The Message of the Presi- dont, containing bis objections to the District Suffrage Dill, was received, read and discussed. The question was tosw taken om the passage of the bill over the veto, end rewnited ima vote of twenty-nine for to ten against tt, Doing & two-thirds majority of the members prosent. ‘Tos Nebraska Admission bill was then taken up, «nd tne amendment that the act shall take effect only upon condition that negro suffrage ie admitted in the Terri- tory, waa disagreed to. The Senate soon after adjourned. in the flonze Mr. Farnsworth’s resolution directing to Postmaater General to allow Senators and Represent- aclves (@ examine all papers and recommendations for OMe pertaining to postmasiers, post offces and olner posig) matters was passed. ‘A resotntion instructing the Commiites on the Judiciary to inquire imto the expediency of a ropoal of all laws allowing compensation to loval owner of colored volunteers was adopted by 100 yee to 8 nays = Mr. Loan, of Missouri, tntrodeeed = =@ = resclution declering i} to be the duty of the present Congress “ie limpaach tha oMftoar now exercieing the fanctions poriaining to he office of President and to resnove him on conviction of the bigh orimes and misdemeanors of which he ix no- voriousiy guilty;"* which waa referred to the Recon- straction Committes. Mr. Keizo offered « sintiiar resolu tion, but pending action upon it the moraink hour ex- pired. A message from the President was presented contaiaing ® report of the arrest of John H. Surratt, Ts was iad on the table, Mr. Ashley wen offered a resolution preferring certain charges against the Proei- dont and authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate his conduct with a view to impsach- mont, whioh, after a great der! of skirmishing, waa adopted by @ vote of 107 yeas to 39 nays. The Renato bill anspending the payment of moneys from the ‘Treasury as compensation to persone claiming the ser- ‘viogs of Jabor of colored volunteers or drafted men war passed vy « vote of 106 yeas to 27 nays. Mr. Stevens’ Resontruction bill was postponed anti! Tuestay, the toe fost., @nd after other business the House ef journed. THE CITY. ‘The Soar of Sapervisors met yesierday aud organized for sme present year in re-electing the officers of the Hoard during 1866, Milling the vacancy occasioned by the deat of Supervisor Purdy by the eloction of John Brice. ‘Tho aaiary of the Mayor was fixed at @5,000 a year, and wat of Lue Corporation (ounsel at $2,000. An ordipaace was passed appropriating $40,000 fer armories and drill fowwns for the current year, ‘Tue now Board of Aldermen met, and organized by the election of Joseph Shanfion to be President avd David T. ‘Valentine to be Clerk. The Message of the Mayor was received and partially read, when oa motion the justher reeding was suspended and the document ordered to be printed. The Board then adjourned till Monday. The Board of Councilmen for the present year organ- ford yootorday. Mr. James G. Brinkman was clected Prevdent and’ Mr. Johm BE. Green, Clerk. The Mayor'é mounags was reosived, after which the Board adjourned tim Thorsday. ‘Yo regular theeting of the Tammany Society took place Inst evening, William M. Tweed presiding, but no business of public interest eame up. A® inquost was held yesterday on the body of Thomas . Burke, 6o¢ roundsman, who killed Mre. Faaay Willard, ang © vordictof “death at his own hails’ was ren. dered. ‘the case of H. T, Livingston agains the Atiantic Coast Mail Steamship Company, which is an injunction re. @vraining defendants from removing plaintiff from the poition of general agent on the ground that they are indebted to him in the sum of $260,000, came up for ment before Judgo Brady yesterday in the Court of » Pleas, The defendants claim that the pinintiy vod by @ mortgage of $100,000 on the property of the compauy, Tho counsel for defence offered to exe- cole & mortgnge covering the whole amount due the piginvilt, whioh was refused on the ground thal it would Bt doiaying the payment of the money. The conneit for pinlutiff desired an order for an accounting, that the gnatior might be epocdity settled. The conse will be pegued on Wednesday next at ton o'clock “A. M., before Judge Brady. Micheal Shery was yesterday charged before Commis - iowse Oavore with Having Ulerslly removed (wo bartels NEW .YORK -HERALD,- TUKSDAY, JANUARY of whiskey from a distillory on Thirtieth street, betwoen Seventh and Eighth avenues. This distillery had been asized and placed in charge of the Collector of Internal Revenue of the district, Two or three witnesses having been examined, the further hearing was adjourned till Friday, The investigation into the chaage preferred by seaman, agatust Julius Calkins, waster Edward Dwyer, a of the ship Knergy, of haying assaulted him with a be- laying pin on Christmas Dey, while on the voyage from Liverpool to New York, was adjourned till Wednesday, The January term of the General Sessions was opentd yesterday, Judge Russel presiding. His Honor, in his charge to the Grand Jury, instructed them that, as the Court of Appeals had decided the Excise law to be con- stitutional, indictments must be found upon any com- plaints presented by the District Attorney. The City Judgg aiso called attention tothe obstruction of the Second avenue by Belgian paving stones, and said that the District Attorney would present a matter for their action which was left ya@inished by the last Grand Juay. It was understood that the Judge alluded to the con- struction of the Academy of Music. James Dolan, noted young pickpocket, was sent.to the State Prison for five years, ‘The steamship Zodiac, Captain Rogers, will sail at three o'clock this afternoon for Savannah, from pier No. 16 East river, foot of Wall strect, ‘The stock market was dull yesterday and closed steady. Gold closed at 1335 in the room, with sales afterwards at 18436. 4 Only a moderate busigess was consummated in com- merocml circles yeatetday, though values were not es- sentially changed, except for breadstaffs, which conttn- Bed to advance. Cotton was moderately active and . steady. Coffeo was more active and firm. On 'Change flour was quite active and 10c, a 20c. higher, Wheat advanced 2c, a $c. and corn 1c. @ 20, Oats were more active atan advance of lc. Pork was quiet but steady. Beef and lard were unchanged in every respect. Freights, though quiet, wore firm. Whiskey was dull and nominal, Naval stores were firmer and more active. Petroloum was steady, but very quiet, Under a heavy supply—some 3,200 head being on gale—and a limited demand, the market for beef cattle was much depressed, anda decline of 340. a ic, per 1), was submitted to, extra cattle selling at 170. a 17340. — the latter price being obtained in a few instances at the opening—and good at 163<c. a 16c., while common was disposed of at llc. a 130. Mitch cows continued dull and depressod at $50 a $100—the latter price for fancy. Veal calves were without essontial change, being in moderate request and firm at 1330. a 140, for primo and exiza and 10c, a12%¢c. for fair to good. The mar- ket for sheop and Iimbs hay advanoed fully 440. por pound, with a good demand, closing firm at Sc. a 8c., according to quality. The hog market has ruled very unsteady, but closed steady and firm. About twenty car loads were on sale, which were disposed of at the follow- ing prices, viz:—-Best quality, 7c. 9 7%c; fair to good, 6%c, a Ta, and common and rough, 6 a 6X%c. The tota! receipts were 6,316 beeves, 90 milch cows, 445 voal caives, 16,958 sheep and lambs and 18,983 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Vora Crnz dates are to the 234 of December. Maxim!- finn bad been closely pursued by guerillas, they having been but two hours behind him tn passing through Acultzino, Perote had been bombarded by the imporial- ists. Our San Luts Potesi correspondent writes, vader date of December 17, that Mejia had levied another forced Joan, and was compelling payment on the part of every one, whether native or foreign. The example of Canales in rebelling at Aatamoros, was having a disastrous effect, two other liboral chiefs having declared for Ortega, and moro of them being very likely to follow their oxample. Miranfon intendod establishing his headquarters at Gau- dolajura, in order to co-oporate wit. Mejia, The report regarding General Lozoda declaring himself neutral, is condrmed, and his manifesto promulgating the order is given. An assembly for the State'of Nayares ig convoked ander the new governorahip for the purpose of appointing new civil authorities, Both beiligerents are given the right to traverse the territory of the State, and any person may settle there, provided he keep the Peace, no matter what his political opinions may have been, We have advices from St. Thomas, W. I. dated to tho 29th of December. The sickness prevailing in the town and suburbs is reported az ‘abating. From Wednesday, December 26, at eight o'clock in the morniag, to Satur- day morning, December 29, the deaths amounted to fifty- five. Six handred and twenty-nine deaths had occurred from the outbreak of the diseaso to the 26th of Decem- ber. A letter from our Si, Thomas correspondent says :-— Communication with Porto Rico, Venezuela and St. Do- mingo, and in fact with all the isiauds, is prohibited, ex- cept the delivery of correspondence. Our st, Domingo correspondence is dated Decomber 24. The copper and rock salt mines, tho petroioum walls and the guano islaad of Ally Velo wore working iu good order and beyond the possibility of failure. President Cabral was on a tour througu the oovntry and bad beon reseived with the greatest enthusiasm. Oar Montreal despatches ay that’Sie John Michel has received no information of the reported commutation of the death sentence of the Feniaus to twenty years im- prisonment, Telegrams were received there yesterday, stating that the Confederation bil! had been defeated by a large majority in Prince Edward’s Island. Ice bas closed up the St, Lawrence river at Kingston, Our, Georgia correspondent, in a letier from Macon, proceeds'to show the losses which the Southerm States in general are ioflicting upon themasives by the obsti- macy of their ootogenatiau politicians, and the great gain which would result to both sections by @ free tner- change of sentiment. Among our law reports will be found an interesting and very important caso now bsfore tue United States Supreme Court, involving the queetion whether Stnte courts may proceed in admiralty avatust ocean steamers in causes of action arsing on the high seas, The case is that of one Hammans against the steamship Moses Taylor, for alleged failure of contract on the part of the vossel and Marshal 0. Roberts, her avent, touching the turaishing of suitable provisions aud proper accommo dations for steerece passeacers making the voyage from New York to San Francisco. Fifiy-five other cases ia California will be disposed of by the decision in this. Our despatches from Albany state that Lymaa ‘fre- foain bar withdrawn from the Senatorial contest, The Iliimois Legisiatare convened yesterday, and Frankim Corwin, a republican, was elected Speaker of the House. ‘The Suprems Court of New Jersey renderod a decision, yosterday, in which a liquor bill wae not recognized as a legal debt. A Dill to repent the teat oath, adopted in 1864, passed the lower Houze of the Colorado Legislature on the Sist ult, ‘A mesting of Boston citizens was held yorterday to give uid to the Cretane in Candia, A committes to solicit subseriptions was appointed. Western capitalisis are urging that the Mississippi should be the great highway for Western produce to Rarope, They claim they cas ship to Liverpool fifieen cents cheaper than by way of New York. Joun Van Horn, « prominent citizen of Chicago, shot bis wife through the head on sunday, because she in- terfered to prevent hie whipping one of their childreu, He then attempted to blow his own brains out, but was prevented. ,Both partics are atill alive, and the man, has been held in $5,000 bail, An.old woman, 4 rag picker, in Charlestown, Mesa, died yesterday, m the greatest poverty, and several thousand dollars in gold were {quad sewed up in one of her skirts in the room. ‘Thesehooner L. P. Smith was wrecked, Decomber 24, on her way to New York from Wilmington, The ecbooner and cargo wore a total loss, An earthquake shock whs distinctly felt 1 Wheatland and Caledonia, Livingston county, N. Y., on Sunday last, ‘The light honse at the entrance of the harbor of St. Johus, N. Bi, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Tur Henatp axp tHe Joppers.—Ii will be seen by a telegram from Washington that tho name of the Henatp bas been used by some impadent scoundrels in respect to pretended disciosures in relation to the New York Custom House. No corrupt tricksters can “open” the so-called batteries of the Heratp on any one to subserve private interests; nor are we ever a party to any bargains for secrecy in matters toaching the public welfare. Exrnaonpixany Diveorwenre of Low Live in New York.—We print eleewhore an account from One of our reporters of the life of the tene- ment house population of the city. Taking the subject up, as started by the Board of Health, the reporter gives some statisticn that aro worthy of public attention, abolition districts in the United States, here the roll resuited—yeas, 39; nays, 105; the republicans, radicals and conservatives, with a few exceptions, standing together for the reso- lution, which was next adopted. So the Com- mittee on the Judiciary is authorized to inquire into the propriety of impesching President Johnson and to report to the House according to their conclusions from the evidence which . ‘The President’s Impoachment—The adil Step Taken in Congress, “2 There wére some significant and ominous Proceedings in the House of Representatives yesterday. The morning Bour was first enlivened by an impeachment resolution from as presented, by turning it over to the Recon- atraction Committee, was forthwith reproduced in a new shape by Mr. Kelso, also of Missouri, when s motion to Isy it upon the table was rejected—yeas 40, nays 103—an ominous look- ing vote in the negative. Here, however, what is known as the morning hour in the House expired, and the subject was superseded by the regular business of the day, subject to any privileged question which might be ‘inter- posed. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, at this point, in fulfil- ment of his promise of last summer to “give neither sleep to his eyes nor slumber to his eyclids” until he had brought in against An- drew Johnson articles of impeachment, rose to that privileged question. His revolution was accordingly submitted, the preamble declaring, in the name of “the gentleman from Ohio,” that “I do impeach Andrew Johnson, Vice President. and Acting President of the United States, of ‘high crimes’ and misdemeanors. I charge him with usurpation of power and violation of law, in that he has corruptly abused the appointing power; in that he has corruptly used the pardoning power ; in that he has corruptly disposed of the public property of the United States; in that he has corruptly interfered in elections and committed acts and conspired with others to commit acts which im the contemplation of the constitution are bigh crimes and misde- meanors; therefore be it resolved; that the Committee on the Judicigry be. and they are hereby authorized to inquire into the official conduct of Andrew Johnson, Vice President and discharging the duties and powers of the | Prosident of the United States, and to report ‘to the House” whether in their opinion he has been guilty of crimes and misdemeanors re- quiring the interposition of the constitutional power of the House, and that said committee have power to send for persons and papers and to take the oaths of witnesses, This proposed the initial step to an impeach- ment, and the question recurring, Shall the resolution be adopted? Mr. Spalding of Ohio, @ republican from one of the most’ radical interposed with a motion to lay on the table. Upon this preliminary test question the call of they may collect im their investigations upon the general charges submitted. The vote of 106 ageinst 39 in favor of this inquiry is signi- flcant and has an omifBus look. | It looks as if the dominant party in Congress had arrived at some definite plan of operations in this busi- ness and had agreed to proceed at once to carry it into effect. In the matter of impeachments, as in tho general organization of the two houses of Con- gress, the framers of our constitution followed the example of the Baltish Parliament. Thus, as in England, the House of Commons has the sole power of impeachment, while the House of Lords has the sole power to try impeachments, these powers with us belong respectively to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House aa a grand jury (by a vote of a majority) presents its charges to the Senate, which as- sumes the character of a high court, and—we quote from the constitution—“‘when the Presi- dent of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two- thirde of the members present.” The consti- tution next ordains that “judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, under the United States; but the pariy convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to in- dictment, triai, judgment and punishmont ac- cording to law.” ‘The object contemplated in this resoluifon of Mr. Ashley, then, is the removal’of the President from office. But why remove him when the charges preferred against him or when, at least, the “high crimes and misde- meanors” of which he has been guilty have * been a common thing with all his predeces- sors as party leaders, from General Jackson down to poor Picrce and Buchanan, to say nothing of the lamented Lincoln? It seems a little rough and uncharitable that President Andrew Johnson should be made the first victim to the wrath of Congress, and partign- larly when he has ceased to be an obstruction to the legislative policy of Congress and when over a two-thirds vote in both houses is secured against him to the end ofhis term of office. In this situation of affairs it appears to us that if thts impeachment movement he followed up to its legal conclusion it will be productive of a mischievous confusion in our political parties, a serious panic and derangement in our finan- cial affairs and needless and damaging delays on those practical measures of legislation de- manded to meet the general interests and wants of the country. We think it altogether probable, however, that the Judiciary Commit- tee of the House will be occupied to the end of the present Congress in their preliminary investigations, and that with the meeting of the new Congress in March the intervening chapter of events may serve to bring a treaty of peace and co-operation between the two honses and the President. As Exprosion 18 1m Cocxertaaxte Boarp.— There was a terrible explosion in the new Board of Councilmen yesterday. The demo- cratic members had thet in caucus on Saturday evening, laying down ® programme: of pro- ceeding and eelecting their candidates from President down. But Sunday interveneé be- fore the assembling of the new Board, and there is reason to fear that certain Councilmen spent that sacred day in some mavner other than attending divine worship or listening to the interesting sermons of Rev. Mr. Smyth and his fellow divines, so fully sketched in the Herarn. When the Boatd met yesterday one of their number quietly moved an amendment to the caucus nominatiogs, containing new names for alt the officers to be cleoted, and, without a word, the vote was taken and the amondment adopted. Then came a storm of consterna- tion, astonishment. disanvotntment, rage, blus- Mr. Loan, of Missouri, which, being disposed of ter, fury and all the passions and emotions that Councilmanio flesh is heir to, ending in a general application to’ strong whiskey and hard words, threatening © finale in which it might become the province of Superintendent Kennedy’s stock company to take prominent parts. ‘The Mayor’s Message—How Shall We Get a Good City Government ¢ The Message published this year by Mayor Hoffman is « creditable document, for him, and contains some good points, although they are marred by the wrong-headed views of its author. The Mayor very truthfully says that the present system of governing New York in slices is one under’ which we can never expect to enjoy an efficient, competent and honest government, and that to secure such a desira- ble and anususl blessing it is necessary that there should be one powerful and responsible head to the whole organization. In other words, Mayor Hoffman finds by practical obser- vation that, to render a government in reality beneficial to the people there is needed ® cer- tain ‘amount of centralization of power; @ principle against which his political friends so eloquently declaim when applied to the federal government, Direct responsibility: to the people is, no doubt, an essential requisite towards securing an honest administration of our municipal affairs. But how is it to be. obtained? Cer tainly not by popular election in the city of New York alone, where it is notorious that the polls are controlled by the worst influences, where new voters are made by the thousand at every recurring election, a large number of whom are only temporary residents of the city, and pass away before another election comes round, and where, in the general scramble for place, the successful candidates seldom repre- sent a majority of the voters and are for tho most part the choice. of the grogshop, the gambling house and the ring. The great error into which Mayor Hoffman falls is in supposing that the municipal officers elected by the people of New York represent the majority of her citizens, and that any inter- ference with the city government by the State Legislature is a species of oppression practised by 8 minority against majority. The fact is that the whole elective portion of our city gov- ernment represents only « fraction of the voting population. Mayor Hoffman, who grandilo- quently claims to possess the confidence of the yast majority of the people, holds his office by a vote of only thirty two thousand. out ofa registered list of one hundred and five thousand electors. By a scramble between several can- didates he luckily succeeded in obtaining a certificate of a doubtfal election. But he is a minority Mayor, the. representative of ‘a repu- faction, with @ imajority ot forty thou-' send votes agains} Wim, ‘In like manner the | Aldermen who compose “the present. Board are, im an aggregete, minority. of neatly, twenty thousand on the whole. vote of the pity.. Yet the Mayor indignantly spuras-the ides, of“ mi- norities” ruling over “ majorities.” ‘The Governor of the State is elected by the voters of the whole State.. He is more directly responsible to the people than is any other public officer. He leads the ticket of his party, and is its acknowledged Tepresentative, His acts are subject to the scrutiny of the public, and the account of his stewardship must be rendered every second year. The head of the municipal government of New York should be his appointee, and directly responsible to-him, as he is directly respoasible to the people. It is immaterial whether this head be one man or a commission of fiveor more men; but from this head, pos- sessing all the executive power, should emanate every subordinate branch of the city govorn- ment. The Mayor or commissioners thus ap- pointed by the Governor should, in their turn, have the appointment of the heads of every department and the absolute power of re- moval. This is the system that would bring responsibility to the people directly home to the whole city government. Mayor Hoffman objecta that the electors of the whole State would thas control the affairs of the city; but he ‘orgets that New York is not @ little town on the Seneca river, but a great metropolis, in the prosperity, bealth and safety of which the State is vitally interested. It is the heart of the State and disiributes the Jife blood through the whole system. The people of the Commonwealih have a right toa-volcein its government. Nor is their control of its great general interests at all inconsistent with the idea of local self-government ; for the legis- lative power in all matters relating to the city and the largest powers of investigation into the affairs of every department would remain in the Common Council, which would continue to be elected by the voters of the city alone. Under such a system the evil to which Mayor Hoffman alludes, of a number of independent, irresponsible commissions, having no common head, would bo removed, as well as the cvil to which he does not allude, of an elective grog- shop government, representing only a miser- able minority of the citizens, Among the sonsible suggestions of the Mes sage are those relating to the wharves and piers and the opening of Fifth aud Fourth avenues to the Battery. The Mayor elludes to the dilap- fdated condition of the pliers and wharves ag a crying evil,and welieves that the Legislatare should provide for increased rates of wharfage to enable the owners and leseces to make the necessary repsirs, This is @ practical suggestion upon which the Segisla- ture can act. Of course the Mayor pro- testa against the wharves and piers being Placed under the control of s commission or board appointed by the Governor; but he exprosses the hope that should such a policy be adopted the porsons selected for the trust may be possessed of the experience and cupa- city requisite to its proper discharge. Whe net funded debt of the city and county is found to be thirty-one millions and the tem. porary debt threo millions. The Mayor tells ws that there is no prospect of diminished tax- ation this year, Hé mokes excuses for the expensiveness of the government and endeay- ors to shift the responsibility from the shoul- ders of dhe municipal “ring” to ‘those of the Legislative commissions. The people will acoopt all this for what it is worth ; aye will have no difficulty in Saathdy ae « iu tiod te ae ae system of our city government, Upon the whole we regard the message as the best thing Mayor Hoffman has done since he has, been before the people. “Ills spoeches during the canvass wore torrible twaddle and trash, and wo suspect that the drossings we administered 1867.~TRiPL& SHEED, to him, qhich, although severe, were kindly meant, have done him some practical good. Still he needs much improvement yet, and he must not suffer hitheelf to be too much inflated by the approval we ive bestowed upon bim, Ristort and the Critics. The marvellous success of Ristori in her representations of the highest order of dramatic art, and—mirabile dictu—the success also of the Black Crook and Cendrillon, the semi-naked type of modern drama, appear to have com- pletely shut up the other theatres and so reduced the managers to a threadbare condi- tion that we observe some of them have resorted to the profitable occupation of dramatic critics, which, in the absence of full houses, may serve to make both ends meet. Thus we find in an obsoure journal of very limited circulation, which is generally regarded as the accredited organ of the Associated Managers, an elaborate critique on Ristori, written apparently by the erudite, learned, accomplished and classic manager of the Winter Garden. It smacks so much of the style of the Forrest criticioms of olden times, the combination of adjectives, the affectation of the German inflation of language, that the suthorahip cannot easily be misplaced by laying it on the massive head and shoniders of the Winter Garden manager, Stuart, assisted and inspired by his colleague, Booth, the pet of the petticoats, We are not a little astonished, however, to find so learned a man as Stuart making 60 absurd’ a comparison’ between the physical qualifications of Ristori and Rachel to represent Mary Stuart, preferring the lean, lank figure of the French Jewess to the fine, womanly form and passion-lit countenance of the Italian tragedienne as a natural impersonation of the beautiful, lovable and unhappy Stuart— we mean the Queen of Scotia, not the critic. It is a queer comparison, to say the least of it, and the less said about it the better. The legitimate drama at the theatres where neither Ristori nor the Parisian ballet attract attention being entirely played out, we shall not be surprised to. see Wallack and the mana- gers of the Bowery and other theatres follow- ing the example of Stuart in the penny-a-line business. They will no doubt find it more re- munerative than playing to empty benches. Nor should we’ be astonished to find that the effect of this unctuous criticism from the Winter Garden, if published in a paper of any respect- able circulation, would have the same effect upon the artistic career of Ristori that the hos- tile articles on Forrest from the same source had upon that eminent tragedian. The criti- cisms, which were intended to depreciate him, only doubled his audiences and ‘increased hiv fame. Probably the purpdse of this attack ‘upon Ristori, who is really the only living rep- of all that is grand and classic in “Gtamstio art, is intended to give a lift to the drama pnd the associated managers with if, upon the samo: priaciple that the attack upon | Forrest helped him along in public favor. If this 'be the result of the criticisms of the Winter Garden managers, who naturally feel. sore at the nightly exhibition of empty benches, per- haps it fs jast as well that the revival of the drama should come in this ee as in any other, Politics inthe Pulpit. = _>~ Among the sermons reported in our columns yesterday are three which are strongly indica- tive of the tendency of the times. Dr. Cheever comes out in the character of a con- stitutional lawyer, the “nigger,” of course, as usual, constituting the burden of his song. Dr. Marsh gives évidence that, whatever be his qualifications as an expounder of gospel truth, he is by no means out of his sphere when dealing with grogshops and the working of the Excise law. Mr. Smyth, with that broad, gene- rouscatholicity for which he is so distinguished, finds a congenial theme’ in the Occan Yacht Race and reads a lesson of daring and perse- verance in matters spiritual to this lukewarm and indifferent gencration. It would be inter- esting to go over their sermons in detail, point- ing out their various exeellences and noting the spiritual qualifications of the respective preachers. Dr. Cheever, in this his latest ox- hibition, is as witty as he is learned. So fnce- tious, indeed, does the doctor become that in reading his sermon we feel disponed at times to find fault with our reporter for omitting to note, in thelr respective plarca, “laughter” and: “cheers.” We are not sure what the congrega- tion which is wont to assemble in the Church of the Puritans may have to say to the pro- posal, but we humbly think that it might be of nome national advantage to rev- erend doctor constitutional lecturer ‘to Com- gress. Considering the helplessness. and in- competency which the Board of Excise have recently manifested, it might not be. out of place to call in the assistance of the Rov. Dr. Marsh, His keen eye 9nd special know- ledge might be the means of introducing some bencficial changes where improvement is so necessury. As for Mr. Smyth, we ere sur- prised that his great abilities are not more fuily appreciated. If the New Yorkers were alive to their own interests they would erect a Plymouth chapel on this side the river and permanently secure the services of: a man who has already, given evidence of talent searcely sevond to thet of Beecher himself, We notice these sermons, however, chiefly because they ecem to us to indicate a growing tendency of the times. An apostle once can- tioning a young teacher against some of the evils incideut to his office, and reminding him that his spacial duty was with word and doc- trine og applied to the souls of his hearers, ad- dressed hign in these words:—“Givo, thyself wholly to these things.” But it de long since then. Time works sad changes. The world has grown wiser since the apostle spoke to bis young friend. The clergy are no exvep- tion, They have become wiser agd thoy are no longer backward to avow it, There are other things to which they may give heed. Why should they be, bound down by old and Obsolete dogmas? The gospel, it seems, ceases .to be interesting. Why should they be blind to the trath? There is nothing, in fact, too new for the pulpit. The greater the novelty the fitter the theme. verything is tried. Politics, however, ‘is the most popular. We remember tho time when» liquor iwelf seomed to have lost its charm and when the sig? of the “Pewter in @ certain well known street, indicated that under its shadow the liqnors were soa- soned with politics, The “Pewter Mag” grog- shop became the rage, But this was not to be borne. It might be inconvenient to make the “Pewter Mug” the ‘universal sign, but there was no laconvenience at allin the cangrel gon- version of the club. Politics has = << showy habiliments. to appear in the ak We surprised if we have the Croat a Mug” over again. Politics is likely In that case it will find a home, not gtogshop, as before, but in the pect ple. After all, however, there may be wisdom inthe apostle’s remarks, and Dr. Cheéver and Dr. Marsh and others of their order may yet have cause to admit that they would have dome better and nobler had they given themselves wholly to those things that more © properly re- late to their office. M gonads a Oe 2 ae since ete obh.!t the “ @ debating then. It a Fizzling Out ef the C. 0. I. R. Stephens. Fenianism, the Irish Republic and the Chief Organizer Stephens appear to have all end- denly collapsed. Few sensible people, we pre- sume, anticipated any other termination to the affair than that announced at the meoting a the representatives of the organization on Sea day, that Stephens,the C.0.1,R., had turned ont tobe a H-v-u-s-p-o and had become am enfant perdis, bis whereabouts and thé funds pane being » mystery te the eireles and centres of circles. Fenianism made 6 geod deal of noise in its day, and tt has gone out ef sight ina most ignominious fashion. A few miserable pretenders succeeded in intriguing out of the movement the only two sincere men who probably ever intended to put it to any honest uses—O’Mahony and General Sweeny. Falling into the hands of the Philis- tines its fate was only a matter of time. We trust that the exposure will serve as a warning '} to our honest, warm-hearted and patriotic Irish citizens, laborers, mechanics and servant women not tobe led astray again by selfish and designing fellows who play upon thelr generous natures inorder to line their own pockets and make a little notoriety. We have had many examples of the same kind of ap- peals to the sympathy of this republican peo- ple for the last twenty years. Kossuth sue- ceeded in raising thousands of dollars in this country Tor the cause of Hungary, and whea he departed for Europe under the name of John Smith, Jr, he bad nothing to show for the money but a few saddics and bridles for an imagioary force of Hungarian cavalry. In the same way during the attempted insur- rection in Ireland in 1848 a large fund was raised hore, amounting to some fifty or sixty thousand dollars, and, with the exception of that portion of it expended in effeoting the release of the patriots sentenced to penal eer- vitade in Van Dieman’s Land, it. has never been, accounted for. In all probability we shall soon have some English radicals and re- formers coming out here asking for pecuniary — ‘aid; but while we have no objection to-seeing the Britigh people demolishing thé aristocracy and obtaining all the ‘rights, immanttics and trea: ohises they require, we. hope they will do it on their own, responsibility and with their own means. We are tired of responding to appeals from. foreign nationalities in their domestic difficulties without any result except the en- riching of a few individuals. If upon thesym- :} pathies of the American people there is any claim stronger than another it is, of course, ‘| that of Ireland—firet, because her people com- prise so large and so valuable an element ta our population, and secondly, because we owe no particular obligation to England for her course in our late war. But the recent ex- posure of the Fenian fraud upon the poor Irish laborers and chatabermaids, and the cruel fate it has brought upom the déceived people in Treland, will deter the public’ in future from lending countenance to any, scheme of reck- less and dishonest agitators trading fn the name of Irish liberty. Comments of the Press on the Yack: Hace * and the Yachtmen, It is interesting to observe the various cou ments of (he press on the late yacht race and those who participated in it. ‘The press of the |, metropolis generally, as well as of the other seaport cities, where people are naturally more alive to maritime or shipping coe bg eulogistic, and in some casos ¢ the enterprise and success of the rao», in the interior, where people feel more interest ia ploughs, reapers, crops and fine live siock, less has been said. In some few cases the race and its results have been spoken of diaparagingly, a gambling affair or of a consequence. Abroad, particularly among the English, whe ee, trom their commercial character and insa- lgr position, essentisily = maritime and yachting people, the rice had created the Hveliest “interest, Each one to hile, titte, we say. But wo must remark that in some casesenthusiasm has outstripped dscretion. One of the city weekly papers, for ample, has thought proper to nominate the orner of the Henrietta for our next Mayor and fiture Governor on account of his sud success. This was inspired, doubtless, by Kind feeling and tho best motive; but we would emind our contemporary that nelther the “pluck,” if he chooses to call it,eo, im under- “taking such a race nor the winning of it would qalify or entitle any one to the high offices _ tamed. Then, the owner of the Henrietta, in the ftst place, bas no wish to claim the merit of those ty whose science and seamanship success is the. We owe that to the supertor skill of American shipbuilding and to the skill of American seamanship. Nor is the owner of tle Henrietta ambitious of any such distinction a that saggested. Comparatively speaking, he isbut « youth, of an age at which many young nen in Kurope would be at Besides, ithas been his fortune to inherit a vocation— tht of a leading journalist—which he prefers ani prizes before any distinction that offices of & jolitical character could give him. The pro~ posal, therefore, to, ran him for the office men- tihed, however kindly meant, is altogether ont oftharacter ; is not, as the writer justly sup- poed, agreeable elther to the “venerable 7’ whose successor he ie, or to himself. With rezard to the proposed race round the Ish of Wight next Angust, should the owner ofthe Henrietta undertake to act as the cap- tah of his yacht, he will do so not because he lia) any pretension to superior ‘skill in navi~ gaion of seamanship, but because the com minder of the Viking, joe Alfred, is a yong man like himself, and out of compli mot to his royal antagonisi. 4s to the comments of a portion of the coun- trypress about the late race being a gambling affir or of no consequence, we have simply to ga} we are surprised that any one can regard hn that light, There certainly is no more fanbling ip thio than, ia » vloughing meich of on more even not be ’ ewter ay. c) re , .