The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YOR JAMES GORDON EDITOR AND PROP HERALD. lolume XXXII es AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATS%, Broadway, near Broome atroct, —Camansigauat AND BADOURAwRIVAL Pages. Mall- nee at 1 o'Clock. NEW YORK THRATRE, Broadwey, onnovie Now York Hotel. —Cenvniiiox. Matinee at Two o' Clock. TABATRE FRANCAIS, Fourtesuth sirest. near Sixth aveaue.—La Parictonns. THALIA THEATRE, " ite St. Nicholas. Hotel—Onrugs 4ux oh ated ir STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—Acenep HL. Prase's ANNUAL Gnaxp Coxounr. | Afiernoon at, Three 'Clock—Pusitd REMEARSAL oF Tus PuiLiskwonie SOCURTE ov New Youre. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broad way.—P Ro wie Pi Hrs AM Toe HAD IN THE + Panvor His Mimaovas—Txe Hea iis Mamaou! RIOHINGS’ ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, Spectre, Broadway.—Faa Diavoio, Matines Tas Inpus Baseer Txiox. Matinee at Two o'C! at two Clock—Doctos oF ALCANTARA. BAN FRANOISOO MINSTR&LS. 585 Broadway, opnostte he Metropoliian Hotel—[x tucim Brmiorian BWreRrAls: yerwrs, Sixatva, DaNorno aND BuRLESQUAS. BLACK Coox np Avaican Bauer TRovPs, FIFTH AVENUE 0! A HOU! Nos, 2 and 4 West ener street. pworra’s Citsreecs.—Eruroriay uxsremst. 8. Bor 4 z —Un Misomena. Matince at 2% o'C! an KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 120 Broadway, oppo- ails the Now Tork, lots ain tumie Bore, Dieses Bscter rors, Bemeesauey ko—Jaon Gabe —Cunnun-Lz0x— ADAGASOAR Battat TROUPE, : Bato TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowerr.—Cours Vocatsm—Neono Minstaecsy, Bavwer Diveerissexetr, &c.—SaiLons Asnor om Yani Matinee at 254 0'C! CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechantos’ Hall, 472 Broadway—in 4 Vaniery or Lrawe xp Lavomants Ewrartaivannrs, Corrs ps Baucat. £0 ‘Tux Fevian’s Ore, om tam LvioT or KiLLaRver, Matinee At 236 o'Clock. imme TARS ON 4 FRoLic, THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of Twenty-third street and Broadway.—Movina Mingo OF Puanin's Procnmss—Srxre Maoxipionr Scenes, SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY, Tompkins Market.— Guarvira's RecimentaL Bap Concanr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Tirap axp Riaur ARM or Fnoner—Tun Wasiinctox Twins—Wowpers 1m Narorat 1 SGRNCR AND ART. Lyororys Dairy. Open from tun P.M. New York, Saturday, January 19, 1807. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable wo have a news report, dated yeaterday, January 18, It is said that the great Powers will “argo” Turkey to call a conference on the Eastern question. Woe are told that a conspiracy has been detected in Egypt having for its object the assassination of the Pacha and the subversion of tho existing government. Ttaly has negotiated the question of the return of tho exiled bishops with Rome. The Church property wili be taxed heavily for ransom by the King's government. ‘The Hungarian Logisiature is unanimous in support of the national policy. Consols wore at 905; for money in London at noon. United States five-twenties opened at ‘¥24%. The Liverpool cotton market opened dull yester- day, with middling uplands at 144. CONGRESS. Ee tho Senate yesterday the moraing “hear was used ‘up in the discussion of bills of a private or local nature, and the bill to regulate the tenure of office came up in wogalar order. Mr. Sumner addressed the Genate on his amendment providing that all officers of the government, except clerks of the Departments, shall be appointed by (tho President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, In the course of his remarks he alluded to the President as @ usurper, a monster of discord, the Presi- Gent of the rebellion revived, and in other terms oven ‘more opprobrious. Mr, Johnson, of Maryland, replied, and the amendment of Mr. Sumner was disagreed to. ‘The bill was then passed by 29 yeas to © mays The Benate-goon after adjourned. Ta the House the Senate bill to incorporate the Metro. politaa Fire and Marine Insurance Company of the Dis- trict of Columbia was reported back from the Committee and amended by inserting the name of John T. Jonuson, the colored barber of the House, among the incorpora- tora The House, on the expiration of the morning hour, proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Stevens’ Re- Construction bill, the pecding question being on Mr. Bingham’s motion to refer it to tho Committee on Re- Construction. Mr. Donnelly, of Minnesota, spoke in favor of the billand Mr. Eldridge jn opposition to it, ‘The House then took a recess until half-past seven, and, On reassembling, the proceedings were confined entirely © discussion on the bill. ‘THE LEGISLATURE. Tn the Sonate, yesterday, notice was given of inten- tion to introduce bilis relative to the use of boats and ‘vessels in the Metropolitan Police district, and regulating Pawnbrokers. The bill to provent delay in the transit of passengers and freight over railroads, was passe! by a ‘unanimous vows. It compels connecting roads in this Stato to sell tickets and check baggage for each other, and imposes fines and impriso: mt on the presidents and directors for a refusal to y the law, Bilis were introdaced authorizing certain persons to lay a railroad 4n Lexington avenue and other streots; and reconstruct, ing tho Bureau of Taxes and Assessments in New York. ‘Tne Sonate adjourned till Monday. In the Assombly a resolution of inqairy into the facts fogarding the disagreement between the Hudson River ‘and New York Gontral Railroads and instructing tue ‘Ratlroad Commities to report a bill for the protection of he public, if necessary, after an investigation into the Gisagroement referred to, was adopted uvanimously, Novices was given of intention to introduce a bill to amoad therevised statutes relative to excise and for the regulation of taverns and groceries. Bills were intro- duced reducing the fare on the Harlem and Hudson Rivor Railroads; to prevent the use of steam on rail- roads in Now York; to authorizo the Second and Thira Avenue Railroads to extend their tracks; to organize the Metropolitan Board of Public Works and dofine its duties an@ powers; and tn rolation to omnibuses and stage routes, Resolutions were offored to the effect that ‘Territorial governments should be cdfablished in the Southern States by act of Congress without delay. Thoy wore referred to the Commiites on Federal Relations without debate, and the Assembly adjouraed. ~ THE CITY. ‘The Inspector of Excise was busy yesterday tn at- tending to the applications of liquor doalers who have suddenly become clamorous for licenses. Ono hundred tered on the Excise books,aid there are five hundred and eighty spplications awaiting the decision of thx Board. Over one hundred and forty dealers were befre the Justices yesterday for trial on various charger of ‘violation of the law. a A fire broke out in Primary School No, 11, on Green- ‘wich street, yesterday. “The children became very much alarmed, but owing to the promptitude of Miss Moorehouse, the principal, they were all taken out & the building without injury, The loss was very slight, ‘the firemen boing quickly on the ground end extin- Guished the fames before they committed any damage. ‘Tho gtoeamsbip Ellen 8. Terry, of the Hartford and Albany Transportation Company, took fire at pier No. 12 North river yesterday morning. She had steam up and was ready to sali for Newnern, N.C., whon the are was discovered. It was subdiied in « short time, and the damage will not probably exceed $12,000. ; In the Supreme Court, General Torm, yesterday, be- fore Justices Leonard and Clerke, the case of Joun 0'Oon- or, an enlisted soldier of the United States Army, came ‘Gp on a certiorari to review tho recent decision of Mr. Justice Ingraham refusing to order the discharge of the petitioner on the plea of minority, The point involved in the present case is the jurisdiction of the State courte to interfere in such matter, Decision reserved. In the Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Herne, the case of Rigga va. Dusenbury, an action for assault and , Tesulted in a-vordict for the plaintiff of $326, Sova! wedded wow PN Me i eo visiainy bi Lihnaeeh Tho steamship Saxonia, Captain Haack, will leave | in the final success of President Julmson, but NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JQNUARY 19, 1867. | Hoboken at twelve o'clock, noon ,to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. Tho mails will. close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock this morning. The West India Mail Steauship Gompany’s steamor Columbia, Capiain Barton, will leave pier No, 4 North river at three o'clock this afternoon for Havana; and hereafter the steamers of this line will be despatched on Saturdays instead of as heretofore, The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past one o'clock this after- noon. The flue steamship Wilmington, Captain Spencer, be- longing to C, H, Mallory & Co.'s Texas line, now loading at pier No. 20 East rivor, will sail this afternoon for Gal- veston, Texas, She takes out a good freight and a num- ber of passengers, The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, of B. B, Cromwell & Co.'s line, will leave pier No, 9 North river @f three o'clock this afternoon for New Orleans The Black Star line steamship Montgomery, Captain Faircloth, will sail from pier No. 13 North river at throe @clock this afternoon for New Orleans, with nearly a full cargo of assoried merchandise, principally dry goods. The Emptre line steamship San Salvador, Captain At- king, will safl punctually at three P, M. to-day for Savannah, from pler No. 13, North river. ‘The popular steamship Saragossa, of Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 14, East river, at three P, M. to-day for Oharleston, connecting at that port with the steamer Dictator for the Florida porta, The stock market was heavy yesterday, Gold was irregular, and after selling up to 137% closed at 136%. Quietude was the pervading feature throughout com- mercial ramifications yesterday, though the markets were generally rendered firm by the high ruling of the gold premium. In many departments of general trade business was positively duil, yet holders were none the 108s confident of a reaction, and generally demanded bigh prices, In groceries, sugar was dull of sale, but held at higher prices. Coffee was moderately active at full prices, Cotton was held at higher figures under an active demand, On ’Change flour was firm, with a fair quiry. Wheat dull. Corn dull but firmer, Oats quiet. ork a shade higher, Beof very steady. Beef hams ‘was active and sleady. Cut meats were in good de- mand. Lard Ormer, but quiet. Butter and cheese was steady, with afair demand. Tallow firmer, and whiskey MISCELLANEOUS. The disasters attendant on the recent snow storm bo- ‘as usual. gin to become apparent. All dolayod yesterday for a longer mails to this city were me than has ever been known before, Four trains from Washington are blocked up at New Brunswick. The train on the New Jersey Railroad which left New Srunswick at two o'clock yes- terday afternoon for New York ran off the track at Untonvilie, while two locomotives wore pulling it, and two cars wore smashed and another and @ locomotive were overturned. Soveral of the passengors were in- jured. The track was much obstracted by snow. A little girl aged twelve years was smothered in the snow in Boston, and Commodore Biake, an old officer of the navy, sixty-two years of age, was lost in the storm on Thursday, in that city, and has not since been heard of. On the North and East rivers navigation by the ferry- boats was very difficult and attended with great danger, both rivers being filled with massive cakes of ice. The schooner Julia Ann, from Baltimore for Boston, {s supposed to bave been lost in the recent gale, with all bands on board. Papers belonging to ber have been picked up on Nantasket beach. Captain Harding, who commanded the Julia Ann, leaves a family residing at ‘Chatham, to which place the mate also belonged. The latter was a son of Isaiah Harding; aged 23, and unmar- ried. The names of the others, some eight or nine, are unknown. The vessel was valued at $10,000, The grand banquet extended to the winner of the. ocean yacht race took place, under the auspices of the Americans in Paris, on Thuraday might, General Dix and the representatives of the foreign legation were present, and Mr. Kingsland, som of the former Vice Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, presided. At @ grand ball at the Tuileries on Wednesday evening the Emperor and Empress personally congratulated Mr. Bennett o his victory. Advices of December 27 from Durango, Mexico, say that Juarez was received with the utmost enthusiasm ‘by the citizens on his arrival at that place. He imme- Giately commenced serious operations against the enemy, sending two thousand men to Jalisco, with or- dors to General Anza to follow the French on the way to the capital General Vega also marched with a brigade in that direction. are on the staff of Juarez. Eighteen American officers 4/ Farther particulars relative to the loss of the steamer Platte Valley on the Mississippi, at Memphis, have been received. The number of lives lost is now stated at sixty, but it is impossible to obtain a list, as the pas- senger registor was lost. One family of thirteen wore all lost. The boat was valued at $40,000, A fire occurred in the conservatory attached to the President's mansion in Washington yesterday morning, and ‘the most valuable plants, many of them of the rarest character and of foreign origin, were destroyed. ‘A Sago palm which had been imported by General Washington was among those burned up. Thé loss to the buildings amounts to $20,000, and the Executive mansion was injured to the amount of $1,000. Peter Paui Ledwith, a Fenian, was tried in the Toronto court yesterday, and found guilty. Sentence was de- ferred. James McDanald was acquitted, ‘The Kentucky Legislature is still balloting for Sona- tor, ex-Attorney General Speed having received the largest number of votes yesterday. Chauncey V. Page, the man who murdered his wife, mother-in-law and an old man and daughter, in Valpa- raiso, Ind., on Monday last, was arresied in Chicago oh ‘Thursday, The Refractory Southera States, Congress and the Adininistration, President Johnson’s Southern policy has turned out o failure, profitless to the South and disastrous to his administration. He began well enough, in taking the ground that his measures of geconstruction, in the absence of Congress, were merely, provisional and sub- ject to the approval or rejection of Congress; but directly after his anfiual message of De- cember, 1865, he boldly diverged to the other road, which has resulted in the ruin of his for- tunes. He was, perhaps, dazzled and deluded by the idea of becoming the founder of anew party, and, like Jackson, the head of a new dynasty, in re-establishing the old political balance of power held by the South on the nucleus of the floating elements of the North opposed to the dominant party in Congress. | In this conception, however, he estimated too lightly, the issues of the war and the public sentiment of the North developed by a great revolution, and counted too much on the force of those old political associations and dogmas, North and South, which éhe war had destroyed. Northern allies aginst the loyat a their in Congress and polloy as om! fn the pending con- gpa tecweny es ag onyay a the late Northern elections, . Next, in the om- phatic defiant tone in which this amond- mént ts by the outelde Statcs, li fe} BUT be Baik wd ani ere future political success they will give New | nothing. We thus disposo. of the broad fact. York areal, substantial reform in this and in } #24 ite cause, all other matters, and not fritter away the | ‘i.bere is but one other consideration—namely, opportunity their majority afforda them in| a romeq,’: This possibly may be the object of promo‘ing private jobs and enriching groedy | the commity’e. In tho matte? of tax lists in speculators. general no remedy for frauds oan be dovised. The lists are sworn to and must be accepted as correct, Investigation would be endless and unsatisfactory. Bat in the matter of whis- key frauds we propose a very simple remedy, withont desiring to prevent, however, the mem- bers of Mr. Darling’s committee from exercia- ing their own ingenuity. In all cases of illicit distillation the owner of the premises, as well as the proprietor of the still, should be seized and held responsible,.and the punishment shonld be equally heavy for both. It is even more important to seize the landlord than the tenant. Bear this in mind, gentlemen of the committee; and where there is violence used, as is the case every day, a confiscation to gov- ernment, not of the whiskey and still alone, but of the entire property, house, ground and all, would operate as a sure preventive. Try it. Passage of the Tenure of Office Bill by the " United States Senate. : The United States Senate yesterday, by a vote of twenty-nine to nine, passed the Tenure of Office bill, a measure which deprives the President of the power to appoint or remove any officers except the members of his Cabinet without the advice and consent of the Senate, and effectually prevents removals and appoint- ments during the recess of Congress, except in certain specified cases, and in such subjects them to the action of the Senate within twenty days after its reassembling. Prior to the pas- sage of the bill Senator Sumner made a terrific attack upon the President, in which he accused him of having usurped the powers of Congress on a colossal scale and of employ- ing these usurped powers in fomenting a rebel spirit and rekindling the fires of the rebellion. A few months ago the speech of Mr. Sumner and the passage of such a bill would have created a sensation throughout the country. Now neither will excite extraordinary notice. This fact is a striking indication of the steady and certain approach of the great event that must finally give peace and settlement to the country. In view of the more important and absorbing movement that lies beyond it the bill which is calculated to work so material a change in matters in which so many interests are involved becomes of comparatively little moment. City Railroads and Crowded Streets—A Plan for Relief. The city railroad projects before the Legis- lature pi to be as numerous this session as in any previous year, and a powerful lobby representing the various interests is already | gathering at the State capital. The plan gene- rally adopted in relation to these schemes is to introduce a number of bills for less impor tant on such things as a cénsiderable portion of ove people produce may be tolerated ; but the gem erg! principle of taxing a part, and especially the largest part, of the community, for the bes» efit or protection of a fewis wrong. Thero ie an evident tendency in the dominant party to favor these special interests referred to, and there is a very powerful lobby at work in Wash- ington to that end ; but we hope Congress wilt not enter upon any such partial and injurious legislation. 4 Parson Bracuxr snp Parson Baowntow.— Parson Beecher has written a letter of bro therly love invoking the choicest blessings of =) Heaven on the “sweet spoken” Parson Brown- low, to whom it is addressed, in bebalf of negro suffrage. Brother Beecher, since last September, as a doctor of political divinity, has repented the error of his ways in pinning his — faith to the waistcoat of President Johnson. His nosegay is therefore transferred to the buttonhole of the more orthodox Parson Brownlow. The vote of Plymouth church wae the will of the people to Parson Beecher. He is a shrewder politician than President John- son, and wiser even than Greeley, who backs, Out, but never confesses he was! wapne. A Sensmiz Movement.—The Indiana Logis- lature has before it a bill to make “bolting” from either house by any member, when a question is before it, a misdemeanor, punish- able with one thousand dollars fine. This isa - very sensible measure. Representatives are not elected for the purpose of running away to prevent legislation when they happen to be in a minority. But the bill is likely to be defeated by a “bolt” of the democratic Sena- tors to prevent its passage. Tae Boarp or Councr.mey—Aut Quiet Trt ; | Next Waex.—The Board of Councilmen met this week without a quorum and adjourned over till next Monday. So the members enjoy a few days safety from personal injury. THE OCEAN YACHT RACE, Grand Banquet and Ball in Paris in Honor of the Winner—The Emperor an@ Empress Present at the Ball. Panu, Jam, 18, 1607. The banquet extended by the Americans of this city to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., occurfed lasteven- | ing. Mr, Kingsland, son of the former Vice Commo- dore of the New York Yacht Club, presided. General John A. Dix, the American Minister, and the representatives of the foreign legation, were present. It ‘was @ grand affair. ‘There was great enthusiasm at the ball at the Tullories that there isa sort of league or understand- ing among them en rappori with the adminis- tration, What can this understanding or this general expectation be? We infer from the late decisions of the Supreme Court and from the hints throwa out by some of our Soathern ex- changes that the fuling Southern politicians rely upon some further decisions from this court whioh will amount to thé complete up- setting ef the pending amendment and the theory that the excluded States are not, as they stand, restored to all their rights as members of the Union. Under such encouragements to adhere to the Executive it is not surprising that the rebel States should stand upon their dignity and their reserved rights under the constitution as expounded by Calhoun and put into practice at Fort Sumter, If the Supreme Court, then, shall next decide, in deciding the Alabama appeal case now before it, touching the status of Alabama, that she is a State of the Union, entitled to all the rights ofa member in fall communion, and if President Johnson shall accordingly proclaim this decision a law of the land, overriding the laws of Congress, and shall proceed to execute it in fulfilment of his oath of office, what can Congress do? We cannot answer; but as to what President Johnson is expected to do by over confident and unrecon- structed Southern rebels we have, perhaps, an answer from Kentucky. We refer to the suggestive telegram pub- lished, yesterday from Frankfort, stating that in the Kentucky State Senate, on the 17th instant, Mr. Helm “made a long speech in favor of a proposition to raise ten regiments of Ken- tucky infantry for the purpose of resisting all aggressions and to maintain the principles of State rights.” State rights! The old story of South Carolina. And this Kentucky Senator “desired that these troops should at any time be subject to the call of the President of the United States.” Now, when it is remembered that the Governor of Kentucky threw back into his face the first call of President Lincoln for a few regiments of troops to assist in putting down a rebellion striking for a Southern con- federacy, and looking at Kentucky neutrality during the war and at the Kentucky Legis- lature since the return of peace, we can under- stand this State rights proposition. It is a movement to put Kentucky in the vanguard of another fight for a Southern confederacy or for “the Union as it was,” State rights, slavery, Dred Scott decision and all. This skeleton outline of the Southern situa- tion and its Northern affiliations we believe is not overdrawn. It is apparent, then, that Congress, charged by the loyal States with the enforcement of their ultimatum to the South, must proceed to decisive measures, or that the fruits of the war, like the beautiful apples of the Dead Sea, may turn to ashes upon our lips. Can any one suppose, then, that the movement Tho Kailroad Fight—Prompt Action ef the Legislature, The Leg'slature has acted very promptly and properly, in both branches, in relation to the inconvenience and injury threatened to the public by the quarrel betweon the New York Central and Hudson River Railroads. In the Sehate a bill was introduced by Honry C. Murphy, of Kings, compelling railroads with connedting tracks of the same gauge to run through freight ears without breaking bulk, and to ticket passengers and check freight from any station on their respective roads to any station on the other line, and making provision for the arrangement of terms and conditions through the instrumentality of the State Engineer and Surveyor and the Supreme Court when the roads fail to agree. This bill, under @ suspension of the rules, was put wpon its third reading and passed, The Assembly also signified its condemnation of the course pursued by the roads, by thé introduction and adoption by unanimous consent of a preamble and resolu- tion directing the Railroad Committee to inves- tigate the facts in relation to the disagreement between the two companies. This prompt action insures to the public a speedy termination of the existing difficulty and of its accompanying annoyance and injury to the commerce of the State. There is an evident intention on the part of the Legislature to take the evil by the threat and strangle it in its infamcy. Railroad corporations, whether ruled by boards or held within the grasp of a single individual, should not forget that they owe some consideration to the people who grant them special and valu- able privileges, and to whose patronage and support they are indobted for their success. Oar Ferries and Their Shortcomings. Complainis about the management of the Brooklyn ferries are becoming every day more numerous. The companies seem to forget that they are the servants and not the masters of the people, that they receive their franchises by the consent of the voters through their re- presentatives and are employed and paid by the people for the conveniences and comforts of travel. As the ferries are managed there is Very little of either convenience or comfort about them. The boats are run at intervals to suit the ferrymasters and deck hands, and are often detained after nightfall an unconscionable time without any necessity but the whim of the employés. Courtesy and good conduct on the part of these people are the exception and not the rule. They are generally abusive in their manner and not unfrequently positively offensive in» their language. Some of the for President Johnson’s impeachment will not | employés of the Fulton Ferry Company on the | routes at an early day, and to hold back the | ‘a’ ‘hey present aa attractive an ment as any be carried throught No. The republican | Fulton street line are remarkable for their | pig sabi deh wee the Glee a the legislative | ty. athe performance of 6 ca 3 ‘ast Bight party, all-powerful in Congress and in the | brutality, even to ladies, If a citizen attempts | term, By that time all the arrangements for ony eae frequently applauded and compelled te, | loyal States, and with ho reliable footing in the rebel States, will remove President John- son in order to reach those States. His scheme of re-establishing the Northern democracy on their old Southern balance of powor was started too soon. With the restoration of the South on the ultimatum of the North the mission of the republican party will be fulfilled. This party will then be broken up, and a scrub race in 1872, like that of 1824, will probably mark the first step to a reorganization of parties, Meantime the party in power will tolerate no stumbling blocks which it has constitutional authority to remove. : to resent any affront he is likely to be set upon by a whole gang of attachés and seriously ill- treated. There is no protection to be expected from the attendant policeman who keeps guard at the ferry houses; for he appears to be in the interest of the company.and is naturally on the side of its employés. Thus both ladies and gentlemen are constantly to rudeness and insult for the least inadvertent violation of the “rules” of the company, which very few know anything at all about. There are also constant complaints against the company for permitting two opposing crowds to meet when a boat arrives at the bridges on the New York side, One crowd is anxious to get off the boat and the other is equally anxious to get on, and in their determination to pass each other there is always more or less danger of some one slipping between the boat and the bridge. If the directors of the company would displa: less obstinacy this cause of complaint and attendant danger could be very easily re- moved. Thése are some of the grievances of which the public have to complain. And in addition there is the illiberality displayed in furnishing light on board the boats and waiting rooms. What with the delays and tediousness of travel it is almost essential that passengers should be enabled to read their newspapers; but this little comfort is denied to them in consequence of the misorable gas light supplied through the smallest possible burners, Then it is very properly complained of that thirty or forty thousand people who cross, these ferries every day do so at the risk of their lives, dependent only on+be mercy of Providence for staving off accidents, for there is no provision at all made by the companies for saving life in case of collisions or fires or explosions. Not an available lifeboat or life preserver nor even a rope is on hand. When we remember that a very large por- tion of our metropolitan population are com- pelled by high rents to reside in Brooklyn and cross the East river at least twice a day, it be- comes a matter of some importance that these oft-complained of deliquencies-on the part of combinations and logrolling will have been per- fected, the respective values of members have been ascertained, and the necessary bargains with individuals It appears prob- able that the impracticable underground pro- ject will take the lead and find favor with a number of leading men in the Senate and Assembly; but before the matter is finally acted upon it will be linked on to the Broad- way surface road, the serial, the three story road, and a number of side schemes, and will be compelled to carry them all through or to suffer defeat. While all this lobby business is going on it is probable that the city will be left without relief and with the evil of crowded and obstracted thoroughfares growing greater and greater day after day. The public necessities will be disregarded, while interested parties are striving to push this plan or that and to outbid or outmaneuvre their rivals. If the Legislature really desires to benefit the city and afford an effectual relief to its rapidly in- creasing travel and commerce, it will disre- gard private interests and lay down a compre- hensive plan by which alone a sufficient and thorough reform can be secured. This is by opening five great thoroughfares through the length of the city to the Battery, remov- ing all existing lines of surface railroads, macadamizing the streets, and constructing six, eight or ten elevated roads, running from the upper end of the island, over the tops of the houses if necessary, and converging towards the Battery, where a grand depot should be located. These roads would ran through the blocks or at the backs of the houses, leaving the streets wholly unobstructed and affording ample facilities for reaching any part of the city. The system of elovated railroads exists in Europe and is an entire success. It is better adapted to New York than to London or any other city, in consequence of the peculiar shape of the island, and is here, in fact, a necessity. If our legislators will take @ broad view of this question and give us this reform, either through the instrumentality of » Board of Public Works or in any other and, it is almost needless to say, continues to atirac! and elight large numbers of the admirers of the spangled the English opera troupe. We have seldom heard her sing 80 well as in the charming, ever popular Sonnam- bDula, and her Amina was greeted with well doscrved applause. Castie’s Eivino and Campbell's Count Ra- Clty Reform in the State Legisiature—Oar Public Markets. There are indications that under the specious guise of city reform a number of jobs may be foisted upon the Legislature, which, instead of bettering the condition of the city, will only increase the evils under which it is at present suffering. A proposition to create a Metropoli- tan Market Commission is before the Assembly, which wears a suspicions appearance and should be very ‘carefully examined by those who really desire to protect the interests of the city. New York ought to have the best and the cheapest markets in the world. The seasons interfere but little with her supplies. While the frost still locks up the felds of the North she gets her vegetables and fraits from the South. Game is poured into her lap if unlim- ited quantities in the proper seasons from the prairies and forests of the North and West. Fish she can command at all times, of the best quality and of every variety. Meats and poul- try, butter, cheese and all dairy products come to her from her own State as well as from others, and Canada is glad to seck purchasers in New York for her choicest products. With all these advantages the markets of New York are probably the dirtiest, meanest, most insuffl- cient and. worst managed in the Union, and combinations .are successful in kpeping her prices as a general thing higher than those of other otties, Even the slow and@menterprising little etty of Philadelphia puts the great me- tropolis to shame in this respect. Prices are the bluff, good-natured jailor, Rocco; Wilhelm Formos, the Governor, or beavy villain; Tacquino; and Miss Sophie Daui tepals daar aino; an Nghter. Mr. femsdet deneeves eames ‘excellent orchestral of The National Conservatory of Music. The fourth soirée of the Conservatory, in Madison ave. wer teen of twen' the ferry companies should be put an end to, | manner, they will deserve the thanks of the rteowg thyself 4. 4 arb and wo muggtst to the directors tpt athe people of the alty and of the State. Legisla: has the right to abolish, restrict or The New York 6 en Weel. in white sftin slippers with the same imputity asina ball room. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Buf falo, all have markets that are a credit té'them anda blessing to their people. The New York markets are noticeable only for theit incon- revise franchises of the ferry companies, it Would be wise of them to reform the system altogether, and make some provision for the comfort and safety of.the public, The State Senate passed a resolution on Thursday, by s vote of twenty-six in favor to one against, instructing “our Representatives and Senators in Congress to vote for a suitable maaked ball at Irving Hall last evening. Asa successful pegeant ands pleasant reunion the gathering will é 3 t lh ri venience and dirt, antt the buzzards of tariff on wool and other foreign prodtcts and | bellscers brassy | ton would turtt‘up their noses in 4 at manufactares for protection to American j the sight they present. i labor,” and so forth. It would have been more proper to have used the word “capital” instead of “labor ;” for labor generally and in the ag- gregate is not mach protected by tariffs, while capital may be. The resolution refers to other ‘and com- it is evident that wool was the article in the minds of our Senators. ‘The last words of the resolution were thrown | in as asop or makeweight. The vote was'a large one of the Western men representing the of the Stato demand that {t shall be given ently and officiontly, and they oxpoot thelr it reprosentatives to carry out this object ® very thopough manner. One of the most popular acts of the Emperor Napoleon was the Aostruotion of the old markets and tho erection of new ones on @ magnificcnt saale. If our ‘Fapublignn Aneenuer. Oem pepengie ond. aiaio' OMY 40 Gotindimexo ona of ae ARE RTT]