The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1867, Page 6

8 'NEW YORK HERALD. AMES GORDON BENNETT, @FYFLOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. See A sleet AMUSEMENTS THIS BVBNING. DWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome a Rony, tae Wowpenren, "BCaMP—CixpRneLs- NRW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite’New York Foie. —Tar Ticket or Leave Max, THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth ‘wrenue.—La ParitLomme—Lus Damorsseiies D2 St. Cre. \ @BRMAN OPERA, Olympic Theatre, Broadway.—Tann- mare DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Breadway.—Proresson Hants Dwi. Pasroam His Minsocas—Tax Heap ww THs AIn— ‘Tux Inpian Basxer Taicx—Prorevs. \ gaM FRANCISCO MINSTREL oxiway, opnostt: “wee Metropolitan Hoiel—[y ras Oriay BM PERPALNe wares, Singine, Daxciva 4ND Buruusques.—Tux Ocean Nowe Gave KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, [pitothe New York Hotel. min Songs, Dances, Reve ‘rsorrtes, BurLssques, 40.—Tae Two Pains Ke Trou! Dvu-Leon—MapagascaR BALuat PR, FIFT! AVENUE OPRRA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Guivem & oA MinnrRELs— Frvoriay Minsraersy, Bavuaps, Buacesquas, &c.—Just Barone ran Baoxs or Dar. ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSER, 201 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocacim, Nucno Munerni . Batuer Divketiseexsr, @c.—Suan Mac Cuttom, tam Rervors. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics? Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Vaatery or Light Ax» Lavenastx Exteetatwurves, Cours pe BaLier, dc. Tus Sracu Stnuck CuamBERMarD. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Maxawo Lirs—Tue Yaour Racs—Antrut Dovexr. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Erirorray Mine wrxeisr, Bantaps axp Boncxsques.—lux Buack CKoox. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of ‘Twenty-chird street and Broadyay,—Movinc Mirror or ux Pucxin’s Paocrese—Sixry Magniricent ScEN es. \ ew vork MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 619 Rroadway.— axp Ricnt AxM oF Prosst—Tum Wasuinctox Wonpers 1x Naturat Mistory, Science axp Ant. mus Dac, Open from 8 A. M, till WP, ML ‘MRS, EUGENE CRUGER'S ANNUAL CONCERT— Churob of the Puritans, DERBY'S NEW ART RO! Exnwrrion ov Pawwrings. IP »MS, 45 Rroadway.—Graxp u Rosa Bonnxun’s dlorse Fain, New York, T E SHEE EUROPE. Ove news by the cable is to February 11. ‘The Belgian troops will return from Mexico. The re- form demonstration in Loudon was an’immense display of moral force, and passed off quietly. The people paid respect to the American Consulate. Mr, Disraeli is likely to introduce a reform bill and propose its adoption ‘By resolution of the House. The Sultan is to emancipate his Christian subjects from political, disabilities. Tho ~ King of Prussia closed the Diet with a speoch, in which hho expressed his hopes for German unity and peace. Consols cloged in London yesterday at 91 for money. ‘Waited States five-twenties were 72 13-16. In Liverpool <otton was steady, Middling upiands closed®at 143. MnadstuMls were lower. Provisions easier. By mail we have the letter of the London Pimes Wash- ington correspondent, in which hereports, by “sanction,” ‘the conversation which he had with President Johnson, giving Mr, Johnson's definition of his position and opinion orf the animus of his enemies in Congross on reconstruc. tion, the democracy and Magna Charta, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Chandler moved to take up his resolution inquiring into the authority of the Acting President of the United States to appoint pro- visional governora for the States recently in rebellion. Ho made s long speech in favor of bis proposition, and ‘on the resolution being taken up Messrs, Conness, How- ard, Fessenden and Pomeroy also spoke. Mr. Conness contended that Andrew Johnson was only acting Presi- dent, but he thought that his being addressed by that title would detract from the dignity of the office, Mr. Fessendon thought the resolution should not have been offered, aa Senators should be careful about forming or ex preasing opinions regarding the actions of the President, @ they would thereby render themselves incompeteut fo sit a» judges in case of his impeachment, The reso- lution was iaid on the table. The House bill making *ppropriations for the payment of tavalid pensions was akon up and paszed, and also the Post Office Appropria- @on bill, The joint resolution proposing to amend the coustitution by making the President ineligible for re- election was called up, and debate upon it was taver- rupted by other business. In the evening session the resolution giving additional compensation to certain employés of the civil service in Washington was passed, ‘with aevoral amendments, and the Senate adjourned. Im the House, under the call of =tates for bills and res moiutions, a bill declaring the ratification of the four. ‘teenth article of the constitution was referred to the Commitiee on the Judiciary. The resolution of Mr. Noel! favoring the extension of the rigbt of suffrage to ‘women was called op, and pending discussion upon it the morning hour expired. The bill to amend existing Jaws relating to interna! revenue was reported by the Committees on Ways and Means. The select committee charged with investigating the New Orleans riots made a majority and a minority report, and Mr. Elliot, in con- “poction with the first named, presented a bill for the ‘re catatMishment of civil government in Louisiana. Tho bill and both reports are published inthe colamas of the fiwxato this morning Mr. Eliot almost immedi- ately moved the previous question, and the House sended the motion. A movement towards delaying action upon the bill by flibustering was bere percepuble Smong te democrats, Mr. Eliot finally said it was de- donirable thet the gentlemen should read the bill before ® vote wat (son upon it, and so moved to adjourn. Several executive communications were first presented, mad the House adjoorned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday notice was given of intention © introdace a bill for tho construction of a bulkhead watirond in New York. Several bills were acted upon, moet of them being of # local character, and the Senate edjourned. in the Assembly @ statement of reprieves, commuta- tions, pardons, &6., for the year 1866, was received from the Governor. The Railroad Committee reported unani- mousy in favor of Mr, Swain's bill for the construction of a three tier railroad in New York, and for the facilis talon of the construction of the New York and Alleay Railroad on the west bank of the Fiudson. Bills were introduced to amend an act relative to the use of boats and vessels {mn the Metropolitan district, and for other purposes. Resotutions were offered, inquiring into the practical wispension of business before one of the police justices @{ New York by order of Superintendent Kennedy, and thy what authority such an order was issued; and direct. ‘ng the Military Committee to inquire into the expe- ivacy of paying bounty to soldiers who enlisted during ‘Ms early portion of the war. THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. Several reso- Juvions of & personal nature wore acted upon, and the Board adjourned anti Thursday. The Board of Council- men did not meet yesterday, a quorum not being present ‘when the roll war called. The President declared the Board adjourned till Thursday next, The Board of Excise held & meeting yesterday, » quo- ‘Pom being Om band for the firs time sinee the Court of Appeals declared the law to be constitutional. The Com- ‘Wittes on Applications reported that four hundred and forty-one licenses had been granted since the permit aystom bad been inaugurated, A legislative committee is now in the city for the por. pows of inapecting the various institntions for the retiot of the unfortunate and the correction of youthful de. pravity. Yosterday they visited the Juvenito Asyium, ‘he Deaf and Dumb Asylum aud tho House of Refuge on Randall's island. | ACommeanication from Jadge Whiting on the condi. @ion of the streets was received at a mobting of tho Piroet Cleaning Commissson yesterday, ) The Kings county Board of Supervisors met yesterday when a lengthy discussion took piace on the of the Lunatic agytam and Nursery, afer oh a tosmlution wae adepied remonstrating against EE NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1867.—TRIPLE SHERT. the proposed removal of the quarantine station from | qa, Periious Position of Congrose—A Rescue Richmond cennty to Kings, ‘The legislative Committee on Commerce and Naviga- tion mot yesterday at Washington Hall, Williamsburg, for the purpose of receiving evidence in reference to the alleged mismanagement of the Williamsburg ferries and the necessity for increased accommodations, The committee will again sit to-day at the same place. Last evening Professor Agassiz delivered the third of a series of lectures at the Cooper Institute to a very large audience on the subject of “The Climate and Produc- Uons of the River Amazon,’? In the General Term of the Superior Cour}, Judge Garvin yesterday delivered an opinion in the case of Mittelstadt va. The Ninth Avenue Railroad Company, anaction for damages against defendants, which bad been dismissed by the Court in which it was tried. The cage was then appealed and argued before this court in May, 1866, The judgement of the former Court is reversed and s new trial ordered. In the Marine Court, yesterday, before Judge Alker, the case of Bassing vs. Walshe, was heard. It was an ‘action to recover compensation for services rendered by plaintiff wo defendant, the former agreeing to cure the latter of rheumatism by the application of hog's lard. The defendant alleges that the treatment he received made his malady worse. Tho Judgo took the papers and reserved his decision. Yesterday a number of dofendante—Messrs. Stein- heimer, Ernharmer, Hoxter, Stern and Stein—were charged before Commissioner Betts with having ille- gaily interfered with one William H. Craig, a revenue inspector, while making @ seizure of a rectifying dis- tillery, at 136 Cedar street, The Commissioner, after hearing the facts, dismissed the complainant on the ground that Craig was not legally authorized to put the premises undor seizure, The examination of George N. Carleton, lately em- ployed as Treasury agent at Memphis, Teen., who is charged with having embezzled money and property belonging to the United States to the amount of half a million of dollars, was commenced yesterday before Commissioner Betts, The defendant maintains that be has already been exonerated by an officer of the Treasury Department and a committee of Congress from this charge, The evidence of one witness having been taken, the further hearing was adjourned to Wednes- day. Should the Commissioner hold the defendant on this charge it is mot unlikely that his trial will take place in Memphis, ‘The stock market was dull yesterday. Gold closed at 13634. ‘There was but little activity in commercial circles yes- terday, and prices for both foreign and domestic produce favored the buyer in almost all instances, Cotton was dull and lower, Coffee was firmly held, though quiet. On ’Change flour ruled dull and Sc, a 10. lower, Wheat, corn and oats ruled dull and drooping. Pork was quiet, but rather more steady, Boof was steady and firm. Lard was Reavy, with but little doing. Freights, though quiet, ruled Ormer, Whiskey was moro active, Petro- leum was dull and lower. Naval stores goneraliy lower, with but little doing. Under asmall supply and an active demand, the market for beef cattle ruled firmer, prices for afl grades being 3g¢, alo. higher than Inst week. Extra sold at 180. a 18\¢., chiefly at the inside price, Fair to good, $16 8 $17 50, and common at 120. a 1dc. All the offerings were readily disposed of. Veal catves were lower at 10c. a 13c., tho latter price for oxtra, Milch oows ruled dull and heavy at prices ranging at from $45 to $115. Sheep and lambs under increased receipts ruled scarcely as firm at Ge. a 7c. The hog market ruled firm under a small supply, only seven car londs being on sale, which were readily disposed of at 8c. a 8igc. for bost quality, and 77%. a 8c. for fair to good. The total receipta were 3,841 beoves, 59 milch cows, 658 veal calves, 23,409 sheep and lamba, and 14,450 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Mexican advices by way of Ggivestom are dated the 2d iast, at Mexico City. Miramon/had surprised Zacatecas while the rejoicing over Juarez's arrival was going on, and routed the garrison. He! immediately followed in pursuit, and rumor says that Juarez was captured. It was considered certain that San Luis Potosi would bo recaptured by the imperialists. Ortega had been sent to Monterey to be tried by court martial, The evacuation of Acapulco by the imperialists was expected daily, and probably took place early in January. About fifteen hundred French and Belgian troops were embarked at Vera Cruz on the 19th ult, ‘Tbe exodus from the interior still continues, Oficial advices had reached Matamoros of the defeat of Miramon by Trevino, near Zacatecas, and groat rejoicing over the event was manifosted in Monterey. Both armies were supposed to have concen- trated for this fight, Maxtmilian having urged his com- mander to it, saying that he should ad‘de by its resuit, in leaving the country or staying. Mojia is again re- ported to have abandoned the Imperial cause, Wo have Havana advices to the Gth inst. The great Spanish iron-clad Tetuan was still coaling in port. The Hugh McCulloch and and Chocura were in the harbor, and the Florida was expected. Ten oases of small pox proved fatal at Mtanzas on the Ist inst. Hitherto not a Chinaman in the town has been attacked by it. The cholera ‘was still prevailing at St, Thomas, and the yellow tever was epidemic among the European sailors in port. From Porto Rico we have advices dated at Mayaguez on the 24th of January. Tho commercial report says:— No marked change has taken place in the position of our coffee market sincg the 8th of January, prices, although weak, having still been maintained at $14 for pueblo and $15 for plantation description. After some delay, planters refusing to accept offers made hy shippers, prices of sugar have been opened at $3 for rofining grades, at which rate several hundred» hogsheads have changed bands. No prime and strictly choice quality bas come to market, At Ponce prices bave opened at from €3 for refining up to $4 for prime quality, at which rates the demand seemed to be quite active. In St. Jobns a lot “low grocery” changed hands at $3 60. So far no price has been fixed for molames. The demand, however, ts active. In Ponce, it seoms, $20 per 110 gallons has been paid—a high rate. No charters have transpired for the north of Europe. For the United States tonnage has been in some demand, and several vessels have been taken up in the island at 40c., gold, on sugar aud $4, gold, on molasses, under deck, for a port north of Cape Hatteras, Accounts of damage by the heavy rain of Saturday night come in from various directions, The floors of many houses in the lower portion of Boston wore covered with water to the depth of two and three feet. In East Boston a wooden dwelling was blown down and the roof of a storehouse was blown off. An express train over the Worcester Railroad was delayed by the washing away of an ombankment. The ship Dashing Wave, which sunk inside Sandy Hook on Friday, will probably prove a total wreck. The Hugo Grotius is still ashore on the West Bank, and is making about fifteen inches of water per hour. It is probapie that she will be got afloat again. A bark was reported ashore near Medford, L. I, last evening. A member of the Kentucky Legislature, who had re- turned from Washington, stated in debate yesterday, at Frankfort, that tho President would not be impeached, but would acquiesce in the demands of Congress. The jury in the case of Sanford Conover, indicted at Washington for perjary in the trials of the Lincotn aniassing, yesterday returned a verdict of “guilty.” Counsel for the prisoner gave notice of intention to apply for a new trial. Nine houses in Ottawa, Il, were destroyed by fre on Sunday night. ‘The treasury of Marion county, Iowa, was robbed on Sand ay night of over $40,000. Tar Diary Doctors axp Tauern Dierr Sta- ‘tstics.—We are pained to see two of our prin- cipal religious journals, the World and Tribune, backsliding so sadly from their moral mission. In all our experience we have never seen any- thing so filthy and disgusting as the articles to which they daily devote their columns on what they call the “social evil.” We question if any of the publications issued from that sink of iniquity, Holywell street, London, can com- pare with them in pruriency. There is no doubt great deal of this same social evil in New York, and the State Legislature, which is supposed to be the guardian of the public morals, is bound to adopt the most stringent measures to protect the community against it. But in doing this they should remember that the least that is said about it the better. Let them legislate but not talk about it ; but if they must talk let them take care that no reporters are present, The subject is one which, like the dirty linen of the Napoleon femily, it will not do to ventilate. i or a Shipwreck. “The Campbells are coming! Dinva ye hear the slogan?” poke the quick-eared Jessie Brown to the exhausted garrison of Lucknow, invested by the swarming Sepoys and despair ing of a rescue. So now, applying his eye to the loophole of a compromise with President Johnson, and peering through the dense fog of “ Saturday’s sayings and doings in Congress,” the far-sighted Greeley thinks he sees some- thing like a streak of daylight. Thus relieved of the bobgoblin of impeachment, he joyfully rubs his hands and appeals to the two houses to take courage and try and do something. He has been under a panic for some time, as if he had just escaped with his carpet bag from the terrors of the first Bull Run. He has seen visions of a coup d’dat and of another civil war, with countless thousands of rebels from the South and copperheads from the North pouring into Washington, gobbling up Con- gress and the Freedmen’s Bureau, dividing the spoils of the Treasury with “Andy Johnson” and setting up Jeff Davis in his place under. the Union as it was in the time of Drod Scott. But now, assured that Johnson is ready to strike a bargain, more than half way, these terrors vanish and “Richard is himself again.” The impeachment, then, hangs fire. Tempo- rizing hag intervened. The Presbyterians have baffled the independents of Congress, and a weaker man than Cromwell may manage them. The two houses are all adrift. Every would-be leader has his schome of reconstruction, and there is no leader among them all. Upon the tariff question and upon the money question, as upon the Southern question, there are discords and divisions in the republican camp, all working to the advan- tage of Mr. Johnson. Give him an armistice of 8 month or two or a week or two, and he may be more successful than was Santa Anna through the same device with General Scott. The crisis which is now upon Congress de- mands bold measures, and that which is bold- est and most comprehensive, authorized by the constitution, is the best. The proposed im- peachment covers the whole ground, and, if carried out, would remove every difficulty which stands in the way of Congress and its Southern policy. Greeley’s fears upon this matter are all moonshine, President John- son’s impeachment and removal, in settling the Southern question, instead of bringing on another war, would be followed by another political carnival, North and South, something like that of 1840,in which the shedding of blood would give way to the shedding of whis- key, apple jack, hard cider and lager beer. In this war radicals and copperheads, Yankees and Southerners, rebel whites und loyal nig- gers, would all be enlisted, and President and Congress would not be far behind. Union and rebel soldiers would clink their glasses and sing together, and Sambo would chime ig with the chorus:— « Is must be new de, kingdom's coming, And do year of jubile, =” This is the civil war which a¢ this juncture President Johnson’s removal, as’ provided for in the constitution, would bring about, in bring- ing about the restoration of the South upon the ultimatum of the North. That would settle the whole trouble and give us peace, reunion, harmony, confidence and cotton once more, Give us this settlement before the end of March, and it will perhaps be equal to a clear gain of a hundred millions in gold in the South- ern crops of the current year. The North has the capital, the South has the soil and labor. Touch them all with the magic wand of confi- dence, and cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco will line our docks again with Southern hogsheads, tierces, boxes and bales. This is the business view of the impeachment; but the political view, in its application to the party in power, is still more in favor ofthis measure. Here is the North- ern ultimatum backed by intelligent Northern majorities, rolled up to the grand aggregate of halfa million. What do they meant They mean that the people are far ahead of Congress. They bad to drag Abraham Lincoln after them by main strength all through the war, ready and anxious as he was to understand and obey their will. But the lights for which he waited are now all ablaze, and Congress has no excuse for hesitation or delay. The party chosen by the people to do their work must do it or be displaced ; for the great North is terribly in earnest upon this business, Isit not true ‘that the most radical of the radicals in these late elections, in reference to President Johnson, was always nearest the policy of the people t With the fall of Brutus and Cassius the warldwide dominions of the Roman republic fell into the hands of the triumvirate of Oc- tavius, Antony and Lepidus. The last named, like the fifth wheel to a coach, was soon shuffied off, and then Mark Antony, under the smiles and wiles of the fascinating Cleo- patra of Egypt, began to be factious and unruly. Octavius, with the gift of his devoted sister for a wife, first tried to wean off his colleague from the beautiful but dangerous Egyptian. The experiment failed, and we know what followed. Antony was impeached and removed, under the constitutional forms of that day, and the Augustan era next dawned upon Rome with the empire. Now, ifwe may compare Jeff Davis and Alexander H. Stephens, of the late Southern confederacy, with Bratus and Cassius, we may call Congress at this crisis our Octavius, the Supreme Court our Lepidus and President Johnson our Mark Antony with the South as his fascinating Cleopatra. We are just at that point, too, where we may consider the compromise of General Banks, or that of Mr. Raymond, as the offer of the fair Octavia for the bride of Antony. The rest has yet to come. The bat- tlo of Actium, from present appearances, will be avoided by © compromise. In this event, the same as if the nose of Cleopatra had been half an inch shorter, the fate of the Ro- man world may be changed, and the succession thay be controlled by Antony. It is a toss-up whether Congress will hold its position and its strength or inaugurate, within the next few days, the beginning of the end of the party in power, The War Against the Gas Monopoliats. The bill introduced in the Assembly by Mr. Thomas Creamer to protect the public against the extortions of gas companies would receive our cordial support if there were any reason- able hope that it would effect the object aimed at. But stringont as are its provisions they would easily be evaded by the monopoliats. Like the Union Ferry Company, they would divide in the shape of contracts among them- selveg. of im some other equally ingenious man- ner, the surplus profits above the ten per cent to which the law limits them. As to the gas consumers deriving any benefit from them, the idea is preposterous. The only true remedy for the extortions practised is to take the sup- ply entirely out of the hands of the companies and vest it in a commission like that of the Croton Board. If this were done the city could be supplied with the article at from one dollar and fifty cents to two dollars per thousand feet, at the present price of coal, and when the latter falls, at a correspondingly reduced rate. We trust that some one will move a substitute of this kind for Mr. Creamer’s bill, for in the present disposition of the Legislature we are satisfied that it would have a fair chance of passing. Napoleon and bis Coming Speech. The French Chambers will meet on an early day, when the Emperor will deliver his accus- tomed speech. Since the establishment of the Second Empire these bodies have assembled more than once in circumstances of peculiar interest. It is not too much to say, however, that the interest which attaches to the forth- coming meeting has not been exceeded on any former occasion, Not to speak of the questions which relate to the internal admin- istration of France herself, there are others of European, nay, of worldwide interest, which imperiously demand solution. On the Empe- ror more than upon any other single indi- vidual does it depend what shall be the cha- racter of the solution which these questions shall receive, It is not the habit of Napoleon to waste words or to speak aside from the point. Judging from the past and from the known character of the man it may safely be concluded that the forthcoming speech will be in every respect worthy of its author and worthy of the great occasion. Impressed with a sense of iis great value, we have given in- structions that immediately on its delivery it be reported by special cable telegram to the Hxraxp, and we shall expect our contem- poraries to bear a portion of the expense. There can be no doubt that for the present the Emperor is interested in the preservation of peace. The grand Exposition is on hand and must be allowed to goon. During the course of the next summer Paris will be the centre of attraction to admiring and wondering thou- sands from all the ends of the earth. Peace, at almost any price, must be preserved till the “ World’s Fair” is brought to a close. At the same time Napoleon is not to be supposed to be insensible to the importance and urgency of the many questions which press for solu- tion. Considering the attitude now assumed by the other great Powers, the form which the Eastern question must immediately take, and which may be largely infiuential in determia- ing the character of its final settlement, may be said to hang upon his word. But this is not all. There is another question scarcely leas urgent, certainly not leas important, than that which relates to the affairs of the East. France equally with the Emperor himself fools sore under the “snubbing” received from Count Bismarck at the close of the late war. The Emperor has not yet withdrawn, nor is France willing that he should withdraw his claims to an extension of territory towards the Rhine. Tt was not without reason that these claims were made, and, unless we greatly misunderstand the Emperor’s character and grievously misinterpret the feeling of the French people, it will not be for the want of an effort if these claims be not made good. No one can deny that the treaties of 1815 wore buried under the wreck and ruin of Sadowa. With the close of the late war they became practically non-existent, Yetit wasupon these treaties that the European system was based. It was upon them particularly that France had been limited to ber present territory. The po- sition, therefore, in which Napoleon now finds himself is pre-eminently both difficult and deli- cate. Peace is necessary for the present War is inevitable in the early future. Tho Emperor is little likely to fail in the emergency. His forthcoming speech may be expected to prove that he is wanting neither in the requisite daring nor in the requisite tact. Meanwhile the public mind of France is sufficientiy occupied with his proposed reforms. The Exposition will be got over and then will come the tug of war. A’pretty fight, too, it will be. It will be a trial of atrength be- tween the new French empire and the new Ger- man kingdom—between two of the largest, best disciplined and best equipped armics of modern times. The other Powers will be in- terested onlookers, but they will be nothing more. Until this primary matter is settled the Eastern question will, in all likelihood, be allowed to lie over. It is no doubt the promi- nent topic of the day ; but we have become ac- customed to connect surprises with Napoleon’s words and with Napoleon’s deeds. His speech will naturally be anxiously looked for. The Fuss About the Lotteries, Tucre ‘sas been a good deal of excitement vt late about lotteries, gift enterprises and the distribution of prizes, all of which have made ® portion of our court reports, grand jury business, newspaper comments and police activity. A passion for the gambling pro- pensity, which is always more or less de- veloped by anything which has the name of lot- tery, is an inherent part of human nature, and, like the effects of malaria in the system, is very likely to crop out in fever. Thai it has done so in this community recently is evident. This, however, has little to do with the legal action which has been taken with regard to the char- itable lotteries or disiribations or gift enter- prises which have become the subject of legal action or public condemnation. The objection to these enterprises and the arrests which have followed it emanated from the managers of the swindling lotteries established in the Southern and Western States—Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. The charitable lot- teries were spoiling their business. They could not elect Congressmen and State Sena- tors any longer—which they had done through their lotteries and gambling houses—if these charitable enterprises were tolerated; so they went to work to break them up. The gambling lotteries had established between five and six handred offices in this city; bat their business has of late come toa standstill. Therefore it was a matter of life and death to shat up the charitable lottery institutions. If the Legista- ture would only take the trouble to look into the constitution they might find authority to permit such schemes of distribution of prises as are intended to further the interests of charity in this city and Stato—to turn the changss of fortune to good purvoses instead of bad ones, The machinations of the swin- dling lottery dealers would thus be easily de- feated. Secretary McCullock and Curreucy. Mr. McCulloch is evidently out of his place as Secretary of the Treasury at this important period of our history. The extraordinary change in our financial condition within a few years, and the urgent necessity of placing the currency and finances on a safe and stable foundation, call for abilities of « much higher order than he possesses. Ho might do very well as president of one of his favorite national banks, as he knows the difference probably be- tween one and two per cent, and has had some experience in ordinary banking business ; but the very qualities he has acquired from acting in such a limited sphere make him unfit for the broad field of national finance. He measures everything—all the great questions of national finance and currency—by the counting house standard of s small country bank. To be the finance minister of a great nation, under ordi- nary circumstances, a man should be a states- man ; but to fill that position in this country at the present time requires the highest order of statesmanship, What we want is stability with regard to the currency. To contract or expand changes the value of things, disturbs and paralyzes busi- ness and checks the country in its career of development. No one knows on what basis to buy, sell or make contracts. Whatever may be the character of the currency, it ought to be fixed in amount. It would be better to have the currency uniform and all of government legal tenders, as we have repeatedly urged, but by all means let us have the amount deter- mined, and let not the dangerous power of contraction be placed in the hands of one man, particularly in the hands of Mr. McCulloch, who is totally unfit to use it, Looking at the power he holds now and his well known theories about forcing specie payments through contracting the currency, we may expect most disastrous consequences, unless Congress should take some action in the matter. He can contract at the rate of four millions a month or forty-eight millions a year. He can, therefore, in the course of a few years mate- rially change the value ofeverything. By this process te will be able in the course of five or six years to reduce the value of property throughout the country twenty per cent or more, to increase the debts of all whose property is mortgaged and all who are debtors in other ways twenty per cent at least, and at the same time to enrich the bondholders in the same proportion. This plan, which originated with the Secretary, is entirely in favor of the few rich and against the poor and the masses of the community. Though the process appears to operate gradually it will be none the less effective in producing this result. It will act as a constant disturber of the value of property of every,kind. Trade and all branohes of in- dustry will feel the pressure of the screw with- out perceiving the hand that works it. These consequences of Mr. McCulloch’s adroit plan of contraction are inevitable. The country, the mass of the people, the great agricultural West, do not want contrac- tion. They have been and are doing well. Why not let well alone? Why not accept the plain facts of our experience as a guide instead of the dangerous theories of petty financiers? ‘These theorists have been predicting year after year and month after month re- vulsions and all sorts of evils from what they erroneously term an inflated currency; but they have proved false propbets. The fact is, anything like general revulsion is impossible with an abundant currency which foreign nations cannot draw from us, There may be a crisis of a temporary or local char- acter from over-trading or speculation, but this, if it should come, must be limited ; it could not be general with the monetary ease our present currency gives us. The true course to pursue is to let the currency alone, except to make it a uniform legal tender. The coun- try, in its rapid and wonderful growth, would soon absorb the currency to such a degree that in the course of a few years the greenback would be at par with gold. The growth of the country and the natural laws of trade would bring this about far better than the Secretary's forcing process, and without disturbing values or business,. These views are so sound and reasonable that we sometimes doubt whether Mr. McCulloch is so ignorantas not to see the correctness of them. We are constrained to. believe he permits himwelf to be made thetool ofthe bad influences ing him—of the scheming and agitating’ politicians and the bondholding speculators, It is high time that either Congress should limit his power for evil or that we should have a more capable finance minister. Repert of the Investigating Committce on the New Orleans Riots. The report which we publish this morning presenta the views submitted to the House of Repfesentatives yesterday by Hon. T. D. Eliot and Hon. 8. Shellabarger—a majority of the In- vestigating Cc mmittee—resvecting the origin, incidents and results of the riots last summer in New Orleans. It contains a detailed account of the action of the city authorities, of the military and particularly of President Jobn- son. It concludes by recommending that a provisional government be formed for, the pro- tection of all Union men within the State of Louisiana, for the welt being of the nation and the permanent peace of the republic. We do not find that the Investigating Com- mittee have elicited any important facts not already familiar to the public. But it is ob- vions that after the investigation—if not before it—they were convinced that “it was the de- termined purpose of the Mayor of the city of New Orleans to break up the convention by armed force.” They appear to be equally well convinced that “the effect of the action of the President was to encourage the heart, to strengthen the band, and to hold up the arms of those men who intended to prevent the convention from assembling.” Indeed, to make this ont seems to be the main point of the whole special plea. The majority of the committee would fain give President Johnson Roland for his Oliver. They charge him with having aided and abetted, if not instigated the riot, and thus repel the insinuation in bis St. Louis speech that the riot might be traced back to “the radical Congress” as its source. That speech, to be sure, must be counted omong the censurable indiseretions of the Presidential tour. But its pendant is now sup- plied by the ex parte statements of this report. If the President made an electioncering tour, | the Commitice haye made an electioncoring . Reet cere it report. They give each other tit for tat, and pot calls the kettle black. The truth is that on both sides crimination and recrimination are alike uncalled for and undignified. Adequate causes of the riot unhappily existed within the limits of New Orleans. It is needless to seek for them at either end of the avenue in Wash- ington. The devil in the Crescent City was malignant, active and strong enough to do his work alone through the agency of intermed- ~ dling and infuriated fanatics representing both extremes of political opinion, and already on the spot. ‘The devit in Washington had bis too fall to bother himself about the mischief his colleagre Moloch was bent upou in New Orleans. Moreover, if he had been tempted for a day to quit the Halls of Congress | for the Hall of the Mechanies’ Institute on Dryades street, some aspiring imp might have ; usurped his functions during his absence. So Belial stayed where he/felt himself at home and had quite enough to do. He awaited the re turn of the Investigating Committee, well satis- fied to “inspire,” if necessary, their report. — ‘That this is a partisan report is not surprising. Can we expect to see the devfl—especially a radical devil—transformed into an angel o8 light ? ij Tho Street Cleaning Contract. The street cleaning contractor, Judge Whiting, publishes to-day a communication addressed to the commission for cleaning the streets, in which he sets forth the difficulties under which he has labored in fulfilling the terms of his contract. He submits the draftx of two letters addressed to the Presidents of the Police Commission and the Board of Health, the former asking the aid of the police in keeping the gutters and sidewalks clear, and the latter offering some valuable suggestions in relation to the sanitary regul: tions proper to be adopted in some of the | wards of the city, to neither of which he has) received any reply. It would seem that these two bodies are at least dilatory in their effor' to aid the street contractor in the discharge of | his duties. The whole affair shows how. undo; sirable is our present system of commissions, where each department is independent of the other and where there is no general control: ling head. The street cleaning, like all othe: | public works, would be far more efficiently prosecuted than at present if the contractor, were under the immediate control of an execu tive power directly responsible to the peopl: for the proper discharge of its duties. Unde) the existing system there is no common pu | pose among the several departments, and eac! | appears to be striving to usurp some of thy) privileges and emoluments of the other. } OFFICIAL INSPECTION OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Senator Thomas Murphy and Mr, A. P. Wood, Chaf, man of the Committee of Ways and Meaas, are now this city upen official business. They have deem cons! toted s committee to inspect the management, dist phne aad condition of the various city institutions ¢ | the relief of the unfortunate and the correction of yout) fal depravity, which annually solicit for’thetr support Ds respective committees of the Legisiaure #u information, statistical and otherwise, as will them to consider intelligently and decide ju-tly upon propriety of granting the jon asked for. | ‘Yootoraay they visited the lum, with whose internal arrangements and government they appeared to be well sat institation was originated for the benefit of the unca: for and unprotected children of the metropolis. inf the police roaming about the streets, ragged, filthy hungry, and without visible means of support. .7 object of the Association managing the Asylum is home for those wretched ones, to uurtere a instruct them until they are of sufficient ¢| to be apprenticed, and then to send thi | wh ge find fend others” For due stantly at important peints in the West, to wi mu ay Nectar Re Race EG poy gs hem ip ns of eafe to future usefulness. rear, ‘since that date, FIRES IN THE CITY. Fine x Broapwar.—aA few minutes o'clock last night @ fire broke out i building, No. 1,360. Broadway, next door but Thirty-seventh street, The flames were first iss1@ from an office on the first floor occupied by T. Yenadie as a carving and turning establishment, read rapidly from toor to floor, aad carried a roof and top floor before the firemen extingu’ Tax Lingrrt Sraeer Finn —The fire at No. 2 street on Saturday night originated.in the third occupied by Hagerty Brothers, dealers in d1 @iasaware. They estimate their ioas at about §$) Insured 000 in the Continental, Park and St sant Taomeanee Com) en : Bernstein ‘Son, first floor, estimate their loss at about 3 for $82,500 as follows:—St. Nichol; $5,000; a $2,500; Pacific, $2,500; Haven, $3,000; New York, $2,600; Hope, of Providence, $2,500; Me: Mechanics’ and Traders’, Tneured. Fiax tx Rrvixeron Street.—About soven ool Monday morning a fire broke out in the apartm Mra, Eliza Van Zandt, om the fifth floor of N ton street. In trying to save some of the goo Zandt and her daughter Losena were borned about the fe and neck. The firom promptly at the premises, and extinguished the jore it extended to he floors below, Mrs, Van loss will be about £490: the tenants om the second, sustained damage by water to the extent of $300; suranca, The first floor is oceupied by G. Mahts| imaged by water about OCH in the Stuyvesant Insurance C The building is owned by Bowman. It is about $1,000, in the Bowery and sant Insurarice Compa ee FIRE IN CHICAGO, Cmeago, Feb, 11, Thr, building on the corner of Cass and Kenseo| was dlostroyed by fire Inst night, Loss about in ared for $16,000 in the Home Insurance Com pina my i. RA of Cincinnati, and len, 6 principal losers are Pago & 'o ail and varnigly ae re