The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GUKDUN BE EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Annual subscription price, $14. at Five Fc urcents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, Annual subscription price every Saturday, cents per copy. One Copy..... - 62 ‘Three Copie: 5 Five Copies... 8 Tem Coples....++++ I» NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We dc not return rejected communications. 2 JOB PRINTING of every description,” also Stereotyp- ingand Engraving, neatly and promplly executed at the west rates. se a oe No. 45 AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome aireot.—ALappin, ax WoNperrcL SCAMP—CIUNDERELLA. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York ‘Hotel.—Tax Ticker oy Leave Man. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. uear Sixth avenue.—Un Doge Sous Ricue.uz—Manis BRuie, GERMAN OPERA, Olympic Theatre, Broadway.—Merer Wivas or Wixpsox. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Bread Witt Perron Hrs Mrascues—Tar Tux Inpian Basket Trice—Prorevs, PROFESSOR FARTS mw Tas Aim— STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Comriurentary Coxcenr 70 MR. Frepenice Wippows. ANSCHUT2'3 MUSICAL INSTITUTE, No. 141 Eighth street.—Firta Musical Somme. BAN FRANCISCO MIN3(RGU3. 585) Broatway, opnosite the Metropolitan Hotel—Iw ragim Ermioriay Exrkeraty- ry ae Danctne axpD Bounixsques.—Tux Ocean acer CLuB. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. oppo- sitethe som York Lg Sal Feere cones, Tyres Ecc sn. trormtxs, Burizsques, &c.—Tax Two Paina Dowxas—Cin- pxr-Leon—Mapacascan Bauier Toure. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Guirriy & Curisty’s MinstrEis.— Ermorian Minsreevsy, Battaps, BuxLesques, &c.—Just Brroxs tux Broxe or Dar. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowc Vocatism, Necro Munstaxtsy, Baucer Divearisement, &4c.—Smax Mac Cuttom, THe Inisn Rerucer. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Variety or Lignt and Lavenaste Enrerrainments, Cours pe Baier, &c. ‘Tun Stace Stuck CuaMBERwatD. MRS. PF. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrooklyo.— Mazgizp Lire—Tax Ocean Yacut Race—Anrrrut Dopasr. —Etarorian Mix Buace Croom. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brookly erexist, Baciaps any BURLESQUEs.. COOPER INSTITUTE. Eighth street.—Dr. Henssarp's’ Ittosatep Lectures ON HeALTH TO GENTLEMEN. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of ‘Twenty-third street and Broadway.—Movinc MIRROR OF THe Piorim’s Progress—Sizty MaGNiricent eS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rrondway.— Hixap ano Ricut ARM oF Puosst—Tas Wasuincton Twixs—Woxpers im Naturat History, Scrmyce anv Art. Lecrones Dairy. Open from 8 4. M. till 10P. M. New York, Thursday, February 14, 1867. EUROPE. By special telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated im Chester, London and Dublin. February 13, we have interesting details of the Fenian movement in the first mamed city which wae specially reported in the Hnatp yesterday. Despatches read in the House of Commons stated that the demonstration was serious, and that the Fenians might have taken the town bat for * timely in- formation” given to the authorities. The London papers say that the fourteen bundred strangers went merely to witness a prize fight. The men have left Chester, No arrests were made. Seventy sapposed Fenians were ar- rested in Dublin on the arrival of the Holyhead mall steamer on Tuesday. The Fenians in Liverpool assert that attempts will be made to blow up some of the docks is@tbat port, and “more trouble” is looked for iu England. The Derby reform plan is unpopular. King Victor Emanuel has dissolved the Italian Parlia- ment. The Premier Ricasoli resigned at the King’s re- quest, An American ship has sailed from the Spanish coast to take off Christian families from Candia, Tho Prussian liborals have carried the city of Berlin at the election of members for the North German Parlia- ment. Consols closed at 91, for money, in London yesterday. United States five-twenties were at 73\4 in London, and 76% iu Frankfort, The Liverpool cotton market had a downward tendency with middling uplands at 143¢d. Breadstuifs quiet. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the passage of the bill for the establishment of civil government by the House was announced, and the same bill was immediatoly taken up. Its consideration requiring unanimous consent it ‘was postponed until to-day, Mr. Hendricks objecting. ‘The bill to punish larceny of goverament property by a fine of $6,000 and imprisonment was passed Numerous bills were reported favorably or adversely from the various committees, The bill to establish a naval station at Leaguo Island was taken up, and pending its con- sideration the Senate took a recess. In the evening session eeveral bills of personal or local character were acted upon, A bill appropriating $20,000 for the temporary relief of destitute colored poopie in the District , the sum to be distributed by the Freedmen’s Bureau, was passed. The bill amending the act incorporating the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home, by changing the corporators, who were originally General Grant and other officers of the Army, to citizens of the District of Columbia, was passed. The passage of the Military Governmént bill by the House was announced, ‘and its consideration moved, bat, requiring unanimous consent, it was postponed The Senate soon after ad- Journed. In the House the consideration of the bill to establish military governments tn the South was resumed. Mr. Stevens withdrew his motion to recommit the Dill, in order to offer an amendment authorizing Congress to dotail five general officers to commands in the districts proposed; but Mr. Garfield suggesting that \t was not for Congress to detail army officers, the amendment was withdrawn. Mr. Boutwell took the floor in advocacy of the bill, and Mr. Stevens, at the conclusion, moved the previous question. The House refused to second the motion by a vote of 64 to 79, Mr. Bingham spoke in opposition to the bill A motion to lay the bill on the table was made to test the sense of the House and resulted, yeas, 39; nays, 115. Mr. ‘Stevens was entitled to close the debate, and in the course of his remarks censured Mr. Bingham, for his re- marks in opposition to the bill, very severely. The question, on the motion referring the bill to the Judi- clary Committee, was then taken and defeated by 69 yeas to 95 nays. The bill wasthen passed as modified by a vote of 109 yous against 55 nays The bill as Passed describes the States affected by it as “the late so-called confederate States,” instead of “ so-called States,” sa originally printed, and inserts the word “local” before the words “civil tribunala”? A Tecees was} taken, and on reassembling, the considera- tion of the bill to amend oxisting laws relative to the pon hte = Proceeded with in Committee of e ir. Morrill made a speech on the sub; ‘The bill, 60 far az passed by the committes, is pen in our columns this morning. The House adjourned at ton o'clock. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yosterday s petition signed by fifteen hundred property owners and tenants in Broadway was presented favoring an underground railroad. 4 bill for the extension of Madison avenue was reported favors. bly, and a bill for the extension of Second avenue was introduced. A resolution inquiring what legisiation is necessary to protect property in New York from fires was adopted, The bili incorporating a company to build « bridge over East river was ordored to a third reading, and the Senate adjourned, Inthe Assembly the bill to construct an elevated rail. way in the streets of New York was reported from the committee unfavorably, and the report was agreed to, Several other ugimportant bills were reported, and a res- olution to adjourn on the 16th until the 25th inst, was adopted, The Aseenbly then adjourned, ’ Works bill was adopted by the The Board of Publ: enate Committee last night with some amendments, sere being only two disseuting voices. MISCELLANEOUS. News from Mexico, by way of New Orleans, reports that Maximilian was in Mexico city, aud rumors were conflicting relative to bis intended departure, Marshal Bazaine aud the last of the French troop# would leave the capital about the 15th inst. Foreigners were depart- ing as rapidly as possible, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a lecture in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening on universal suffrage, in which he strongly advocated the extension of the suffrage to woman, The lecture was delivered under the auspices of the Brooklyn Fraternity, and was the first of a course of four announced for the season. Tho ceremony of closing the evening schools through- out the city took place last evening. Four liquor dealers were arraigned before the poilce magistrates of this city yesterday, charged with violat- ing the Excise law, Superintendent Kennedy appeared before Justice Dowling 1a the Tombs Police Court yesterday to answor to a complaint preferred against him by Justice Michael Connolly, The Superintendent waived an examination, and after some sharp words between him and Mr. Con- nolly the necessary papers were signed and he left the court. The charges against him wil! be sent to the Grand Jury. seo In the Supreme Court at Washington yesterday judg- ment against the city of New York for $10,000 damages has been affirmed in the case of one Sheffield, a citizen of Rhode Island, who fell over the stump of a tree near City Hall Park, receiving thereby serious injuries, ‘The points of law in the case of Smoidar vs, Barney were yeaterday decided by Judge Smalley, in the United States Circuit Court, in favor of the plaintiff. Verdict accordingly. The case will be brought before the Su- preme Court at Washington, An important case was yesterday decided in the United ‘States Circuit Court in an action brought to recover an alleged excess of duty upon an importation of paper admitted to be sized, but not sized to a degree within the meaning of the act which imposes a tax of thirty- five per cent on such goods, The question being one to be decided by a jury, that body, after brief instructions from the Court, returned a verdict for the government. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday JuagegCar- dozo delivered an important charge to the jury in the case of William Cappe vs. the Marine Bank, upon the subject of legal tender, which will be found under the head of law reports. The trial of John Kane for the alleged murder of Mary Sanford, one of the victims of the fire at the premises 563 Second avenue (owned by Kane), in the month of December last, is fixed to take place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, one week from Monday next. William A. Gilder was examined yesterday, before Commissioner Betts, on acharge of having drawn pay as an officer of the United States Army after he had been discharged from the service, {he further hearing was adjourned till Saturday. The case of Mooney vs. the Central Park and North and East River Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad companies—an action to recover damages for alleged in- Juries caused to plaintiff by a collision between a street car and a locomotive—was at hearing in the Marine Court yesterday before Judge Alkerand a jury, and had not concluded at the rising of the Court. In the United States Commissioner's Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, Silvius Landsberg, jewel- ler, was examined on a ‘charge of having illegally de- tained a letter addressed to Charles Loeffler. The evi- dence of Loeffier having beon taken, the Commissioner adjourned the case with the view of ascertaining if he had jurisdiction in the matter. In the Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Alker ‘in the case of Healey vs. Cranston, which was an action, for alleged false imprisonment, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $100. Judge Russell disposed of a namber of forgery cases yesterday in the General Sessions, ‘ ‘The State Agricultural Society met at Albany yester- day. , The Mississippi River Convention, at St. Louis, ad- Journed sine die yesterday. Seven thousand Indians are reported in council at Downer’s Station, on the Smoky Hill route across the Plains, on the question of war or peace, with a decided majority in favor of war before the grass grows. The R, R. Cuyler bas been permitted to sail on condi- tion of giving bonds in double the value of the vessél and cargo not to violate the neutrality laws. ‘The stock market was dull and heavy yesterday. Gold opened.at 1373¢ and closed in the room at 136% a 3%; but subsequently on the street transactions were re- ported at 137% a %, Domestic produce ruled extremely quiet yesterday, and prices still continued to favor the purchaser. Mer- chaadise was in limited demand, but holders were frm in their views. Coffee was steady and firm. Cotion was dull. On ’Change flour was dull, and 5c. a 10c. per bbl. lower; while wheat, corn and oats ruled dull and drooping. Pork was heavy and lower, Beef was active at former prices, Lard was in fair demand, but at easier prices. Freights were quiet, Whiskey was steady and frm. Naval stores more active, Petroleum dull, but prices were unchanged. The Drift of Congress—The I Party Gaining Ground. The heavy vote—113 against 48—by which the bill of Mr. Eliot for the reconstruction of Louisiana has passed the House of Representa- tives is very significant; for it means nothing less than this—that all the State governments set up by President Johnson without authority from Congress are to be pulled down, and that every State concerned is to be reconstructed from the beginning. This Louisiana bill provides that the Presi- dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint for one year a Gover- nor for the State,a man of thoroughly loyal antecedents and character, whose skirts are entirely free of any rebel affiliations, and that in the same way and under the same condi- tions a provisional council of nine members shall be forthwith appointed for the temporary government of the State, including the ap- pointment of subordinate officers, &c., all of whom are to be subject to the iron-clad oath ; that on the first Tuesday in June next, under said provisional government, there shall be an election for a regular Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Legislature ; that male citizens of all colors, above the age of twenty-one, thoroughly loyal and free from any taint of the rebellion, shall have the right to vote, and “none others;” that in October next a convention of loyal men shall be elected to form a new State constitution; that the State meantime shall be mage under the addi- tional protection of a fhilltary commander, with sufficient force to maintain order, and that all the proceedings of this provisional and regular State government and convention shall be subject to the approval of Congress from the first to the last step required for the restoration of said State to full fellowship in the Union. This bill, therefore, so far as Lou- isiana is concerned, utterly overthrows and supersedes the State establishment set up and recognized by President Johnson, and may thus be considered as putting to him the alter- native of an absolute surrender of his policy or the hazards of those ulterior measures—im- peachment and refhoval—suggested by Mr. Banks, Having disposed of this bill the House yes- terday resumed the consideration of and passed, by the equally decisive vote of 109 to 55, the bill of Mr. Stevens, from the Recon- struction Committee, providing temporarily for the division of the ten excluded rebel States into five military districts and the revival of martial law ‘therein, each district to be under a military commander and all to be mbject to the general supervision and control of General Grant. The objecta contemplated sre—the maintenance achment NEW YORK HERALD, of law and order, the protec! of the loyal Southern whites and blacks in the States concerned, until new civil govern- ments can be established by Congress. In support of this measure Mr, Allison, of Iowa, said that the House had repudiated (in the Louisiana bill) the pretended State govern ments set up in the South by the Preaitent; that if Congress did not mow place the control of those States in the hands of loyal men it would be derelict to its duties and untrue to its pledges; that he did not believe the Presi- dent would yield one hair’s breadth of his position, His plan was to place rebels in the control of those States, Nor were military gov- ernments a new thing tothem. They bad been under martial law frora the collapse of the rebellion to the lst of August, 1866, and from that day to this it has been a sad period for the Union people of the South. Such was the general drift of this disoussion on the republi- can side, their so-called, conservatives, as the debate progressed, giving way. The Louisiana n, will be the test. The vote of the House indicates a nearly un- broken front of the republicans in the Senate upon it. They have no previous questions in that body; but within four or five days the debate may be exhausted, tke minority being only ten or fifteen men. The bill may thus be passed in time to give the President his ten days for consideration within the prescribed limits of this Congress, Should the measure thus come before him he must sign it, veto it, or, as with the Territorial Suffrage bill, by hold- ing it beyond his ten days’ limit, permit it to become a Jaw without his signature. We guess that the expectation and “the true intent and meaning of the bill” isa veto, which, as it will be equivalent to a reaffirmation of his purpose to adhere to his policy, qill inevitably bring upon him the alternative of impeachment. The complete abandonment of his policy and his surrender to and co-oy/eration with the policy of Congress, or his impeachment and removal from office, is the alternative now presented to Mr. Johnson. The vote upon this Louisiana bill extinguishes the halfway measures sug- gested by Messrs. Banks, Bingham and Ray- mond. Nor is there any other course left to Congress in declaring and assuming its consti- tutional rights and powers but to maintain them to the last extremity. The duty and the policy of Congress upon this question of juris- diction are as clear as its rights. It was not the “poundage and tonnage” that arrayed the Long Parliament against Charles the First, but it was the great question of executive usurpa- tions of the exclusive powers of, Parliament. Upon that issue the maintenance of our con- stitution and its delegated powers depend— upon the surrender, resignation or removal of our present Executive; and upon this issue hangs for some time longer the cohesion or the speedy disintegration of the party in power. ° e The Reform Mevement in Great Britain. Our recent cable intelligence relating to the political situation in Great Britain is intensely interesting and exciting. The long- looked for demonstration has at last come off. Old England still lives, but it is manifest she contains within herself elements of a very dangerous, a very combustible description. The procession was large, though not perhaps just so large as many had been led to expect. The conduct of the multitude was orderly and dignified throughout the entire line of march ; nor can it be said that the proceedings in the Agricultural Hall, at Islington, where the business of the day was brought to a close, were out of keeping with those which had preceded. It would be unsafe, however, to argue from the absence of violence on the part of the people that they were lukewarm in the cause. A more satisfactory reason might be found in their rectitude of motive and con- sciousness of strength. Some of their mottoes were daring in the extreme ; all of them were deeply significant. The bearing aloft ofa picture of an American yacht was not without a lesson which many doubtless read ; while the tribute of respect paid to the American Minister indicates how powerfully the popular mind is inclining towards republican institutions, Altogether it must be admitted that if the cause of reform has not been materially helped by the demon- stration itself, it has not been damaged by the behavior of the populace. The reform movement now, however, has entered upon an entirely new phase of its ex- istence. The demonstration period is ended. This last, indeed, was not needed te convince those in power that reform in the representa- tion was wanted and must be conceded. It is not to be denied that the affair of the 11th was robbed of much of its importance by the pre- vious declaration of the government that they were willing to attempt the settlement of the vexed question. The people have done their part and done it well. The struggle has been transferred to another arena and must be settled by other combatants. Interest centres now in the House of Commons. Disraeli, with characteristic boldness, has taken the matter in hand. The course which he proposes to follow, though revealing in some sense the timidity of the party to which he adheres, and certain to meet with disfavor at the hands of his whig rivals, is amply justified by the circumstances in which he finds himself placed. The defeat of the late reform bill was the result of dis- union among the ]jperals themselves, rather than of diy factious opposition on the part of the conservatives, He is not in any sense barred by his antece- dents from taking up the question; and if Mr. Gladstone at the head of the great liberal party failed to carry reform as a government measure, there is no reason why he at the head of @ party numerically inferior should not learn from his rival’s failure and avoid a similar dan- ger. If reform is really wanted it should be welcome at any hand; nor can there be any reasonable objection on the part of the House to consider the question without regard to dis- tinction of party. Much will depend upon the form which Mr. Disracli’s promised resolutions may assume. The 25th of February, the day fixed for their announcement, will be anxiously awaited. We have no desire to forecast events where possibilities are so namerous, Whether reform shall be carried by resolution or in the shape of @ government measure, whether it shall be effected by a tory or by a liberal government, it matters little, It is enough that a liberal measure of representative reform must be con- ceded—a measure which will be but one step farther towards that inevitable fatare in which the invidious distinctions of class shall disap- pear forever, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1867, Mississippi River Improvement Convention. Between four and five hundred delegates were present on the first day of the River Im- provement Convention at St. Louis on the 12th of February. Only eleven States appear to be represented at this convention; but the whole natioi id interested in its objects. The area drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries includes a vast portion of the interior of North America. It is limited above by the high lands in which rise the Red river of the North, the Assin‘born and the Saskatche- wan tributaries of Hudson's Bay and the Arctic Ocean and the waters that flow into the lakes of British America; on one side by the western slopes of the Alleghanies, and on the other by the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and below by the Gulf of Mexico, into which pours the whole system of rivers, uniting ig one main channel. The areas of drainage of the principal branches of the Mississippi—the Missouri, the Ohio, the Upper Mississippi, the Arkansas and the Red river— have been computed by Ellett to be 1,185,200 square mileg, and the total area of the Missis- sippi above the mouth of the Red river 1,226,600. The entire length of the Mississippi from its source in the “ Hauteurs de Terre ” to the Gulf is 2,986 miles; but its main branch, the Missouri, which runs 3,096 miles before uniting with it, is in all, from its source in the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf, 4,506 miles long— the longest river in the world. The amount of wealth which has already found an outlet in these Western waters is almost incredible; but we can scarcely begin to imagine how in- calculable it mast hereafter become. Imme- diate measures to improve the facilities for commerce—and, in the first place, to remove the obstructions to commerce—on the Mis- sissippi and its tributaries are of urgent im- portance. Not only is a vigorous and systematic war to be waged against those well known old enemies of Mississippi boatmen—the snags and sawyers and drift material or “raft,” together with the shifting sand and sed- iment that bar the channels and border the long coast of the delta, but a new class of ob- structions, created during our late civil con- test, must be attacked. Not long ago a valua- ble steamer was lost near Memphis, with its cargo and many precious lives, in consequence of striking against the submerged wrecks of the rebel fleet. More than one steamer and gunboat and fire raft went down with its federal or Confederate fing and still lies embedded in the mud of the Mississippi. These wrecks and the remnants of the battered defensive works of the rebels at different points along the river must be re- moved. The levées, which were neglected during the war and for long miles were swept away by floods which have covered millions of fertile acres admirably adapted to the cultiva- tion of cotton or of sugar, must be restored, Stronger and higher levées must be constructed in lower Louisiana. In this kind of “recon- struction”—tbe reconstruction of the levées— South and North may surely co-operate with hearty good will. The cut-off at Vicksburg might be advantageously deepened, although additional cut-offs in the upper part of the river and its branches should be prohibited for obvious reasons. The channels of the Atchafalaya and the Bayou Plaquemine should beenlarged. An outlet of the greatest possible capacity from the Mississippi to the head of Lake Borgne should bo formed, with a view of converting this ultimately into the main channel of the river. Extensive reservoirs might be formed by placing dams across, with apertures sufficient for their uniform discharge, 80 as to retain a portion of the water till the floods have subsided below, and thus in part compensate for the loss of the natural reser- voirs destroyed by the levées, improve the navigation of the tributaries and proportion- ally abate the violence of the floods below. In short, whatever oxperience and due deliber- ation may suggest as indispensable and prac- ticable in the way of improving the Mississippi and its tributaries should be determined upon and done. Nodoubt the deliberations of the convention will result in an application to Congress for such appropriations as may be requisite to effect the river improvements which are contemplated. These appropria- tions should be liberally made, inasmuch as the sums needed for the purpose would form too heavy a burden for the States lying along the course of the Mississippi and as it is but just that the nation should share the expense of works of so great national importance and advantage. The Recent Conffagration—The New Fire Department. The fire in Broadway, by which nearly a mil- lion and a half of property was destroyed, re- vives the question as to whether we have ex- hausted the means of guarding against, or, at all events, of greatly mitigating such calam- ities. . The opponents of the paid department point to this, as well as to the many other de- structive fires which have occurred since it commenced operatldfis, as evidence that it has failed to effect what was promised in its be- half. If the facts of each case were investi- gated it would be found that the conclusion is an unfair one. It was never asserted that the paid department would accomplish at once a marked reduction in the aggregate of property destroyed. This can only be the result of sey. eral years’ experience of the working of the 4ystem and of gradual improvements in its or- ganization. If it showed no difference even in thistegard there are other points ia which its superiority is so manifest that they ought to content us with the change. But is it quite fair to say that it gains nothing by the comparison referred to? Under the old department when a fire took place several buildings, and occasionally a whole block, would fall a prey to the flames. Now the fire is generally confined to a single house or store, showing that when the steam engines once get to work they are thoroughly effective. Whether the losees that occur might be dimin- ished by an addition to the numerical force of the department, by greater vigor and watch- fulness on the part of its officers, or by a com- bination of hand enginos with the steamers, are points that should be inquired into, There is no reason why a paid department should be inferior in any respect to a voluntary one. If there be any such inferiority observable it can only be attributable to defects in the organi- zation which can easily be remedied. A well paid and properly disciplined force can be brought within any conditions that may be deemed essential to ita efficiency. The sever ity of the losses which have occurred during the past year may be due to some fault of management. The matter, at all events, is one that it would be well for the Legislature to investigate. If it does no other good it will, satigfy the public doubts op the subject. pattincinn —ieaeaS Indignation Among the Lawrers, The lawyers made serious complaints some time ago that their business and that of their clients was materially obstructed by the fact of the judges in some of the courts not being punctual in their attendance on the bench. The discontent appears to have culminated on Tuesday in the Supreme Court, chambers, by & very decided expression of opinion on the part of the lawyers that too much time in the forenoon was devoted to the hearing of o parte cases, and that contested motions were consequently deferred to a late hour, until after the judges had “a somewhat lengthy recess,” There ought to be a remedy for this, and it can probably be best found in the con- struction of additional courts, if those now established are not sufficient for the transac- tion of legal business. The interests of a large portion of ouffcitizens, as well as the con- venience of the lawyers, are involved in this question. It is true that the legal gentlemen may be impatient and even exacting upon the judiciary; but surely there can be a remedy provided which will obviate these conflicts between the two branches of the pro- fession. Our City Markets. We published on Wednesday a most interest- ing descriptive account of all our city markets. The deduction to be drawn from this state- ment is that this great metropolis is very far behind other cities of much smaller popula- tion in the matter of public markets. If we take such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Buffalo, we will find markets there equal to the requirements of the inhabit- ants, and models of cleanliness, comfort and convenience. Compared with these our Wash- ington Market, Fulton Market and others are mere dens of filth. It is a penance for respect- able people to visit them. Tompkins Market and Essex Market may be exceptions, but they are small in comparison with the others, and only supply the wants of circumscribed locali- ties. It is a disgrace to the city that we have not as good markets here as many of the pro- vincial cities can boast of. The Legislature, while overhauling so many matters concerning the welfare of the metropolis, should dirett ite attention to the fact that we have nota single public market creditable to a city of a million of inhabitants. MEXICO. Maximilian in the City of Mexico—Conflicting Rumors—Bazaine and the Last Detachment of the French te I the Capital eon the 15th of February—Confusion in the Vicinity ef Vera Craz, &c. New Onteans, Foo 8, 1867, ‘The French steamer Tabasco, eight day ‘rom Vera Craz, has arrived with telegrams for France ‘rom Maxi- miliam and a bag of important despatches for the United States Consul from Vera Craz. Maximilian was at the pational palace in the city of Mexico. It was rumored that he would abdicate after the French depart. A contrary report says he would remain and fight it out. Marshal Bazaine and the last detachment of Frencl troops would leave the capitalon February 15. af ‘There were no French transports at Vera Crus whea the Tabasco left, but the United States gunboat Tahoma was lying in port. Foreigners were leaving Mexico as rapidly as they could, ’ The steamer Alabama, from Yew York, had arrived at Vera Cruz. Everything is reported to ba in confusion in the vicin- ity of Vera Cruz. Among the paseengers on the Tabasco is Colonel Du- pel, of Maximilian’s household. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Aunany, Feb. 13, 1867. The State Acricultural Society met in the Assembly chamber at one o’clock this afternoon, President J. ‘Stanton Gould in the chair. ‘The repért of the Treasurer showed a balance im the treasury of $9,202 39. The report of B. F. Johnson, Secretary, was read and adopted. A committee of three from each Judicial district were appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year. After consultation tne poner reported tne following officers for the it, and they wert unani — bs Preslaent, General by io Rati of Ontario; Thorne, Duiches; ‘Adin ‘tha; et, Beunected ; Miles Ruecaldsbs Wastingron, famvel’ Campbell, bneida; sonee Pasta 5 kins; H. os 8. Foster, Seneca; jum! = oes p> ne he ng re B, P. ‘ivan, “zecative’ ‘Odmeice’ Geant ue eekets Albany Geo. H. Brown, ;,, John_ Havens, New York; S. T. Tabor, ioersd; demes adaee Omeeen: Ww.) Ohambertain’ Datchess; J. C. Mathews, Eric | At the evening session an address was delivered by X. A. Willard on the manufactire of cheese, also an ad- dress by Dr. Asa Fitch on thedestruction of pl trees by in sects. praiths NEW YORK STATE HOMQOPATHIC SOCIETY, MANY, Feb. 13, 1867. Ala meeting of the State ic Society to- the following were elected pflicers for the ensuing year:—President, Dr. B. F. ell, Moreau Station; First Vice President, 8. B. w, New York; Second Vice President, W. H. Watson, Utica; Third Vice Presi- dent, W. L. M.’ Pratt, Albany: \Deccete Secretary, H. M. Paine, Albany Secretary, E. D. Aibauy ;"Preaeurer, J. We Cox, y one — MAINE LEGISLATURE. Avovra, Ms, Feb. 18, 1967, The Committee on Federal ions reported the fol- lowing resolutions in the day :— Resolved, political ‘power: ag Tnhorent right of the citizen, Impartial su It be made the uniform rule, of all the oad of the U jon, etther by authority tient of the constitution of the Cited Staten, nn? amend: coniiy Tepel Staten exeopting Fe outside of the legal authority of sanction of the people whom th mete that it ia the duty of Congress to finn! vhem necessary Which shall eftord. Uberty. anit over whom they exercise auithorit, General Butler this afternoon didrested both branches of the Legislature, in response toan invitation from that . The audience was one of be |i ove \- in the representatives’ bail, o guuecion aad Sere being erenacd to ar << we Chamberlain and su heads of dopa: Wore present. substance of General Butler's addres was og I goreruments of the re. jexsee, Were established nation, and without the represent, and ‘and adopt the the right the suspension of he officer while be! ing e fmoky Hill Route— ‘ar fore the Grass Torexa, lanaas, Feb. 13, 1867, ‘The oditor of the Salt Lake Vi who has just ar. rived via Smoky Hill route, that at Dawner's station there were seven Big Indian Council They Threaten Grows. |WASHINGTON IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. Thad Stevens’ Bill for the Establishment of Military Governments in the South “Passed in the House, The Louisiana Reconstruction Dill Reported in the Senate. Consideration of the Amendatory Internal Revenue Billinthe House. ° &e, ke. Wasuixctox, Feb 13, 1867. Military Governments for the Seathers Mr, Stevens’ the House to-day, after giving its progenitor several ume easy twinges as to ite probable fate, Avote of 100 ta favor of it to 65 against it was recorded, and Mr. Stevens was 80 elated at ita success that he ventured to assert “that Heaven yet rule, and that there were gods above." of Mr. Eliet’s Reconstruction Bill. It is believed that Mr. Eliot’s bill for the re-establish. ment of civil government in Louisiana will pass the Senate before the close of the week, and will goto the President in good time to pass it again in the event of its mot receiving the signature of the President. Compound Interest Notes. The following is an official statement of the whole amount of compound interest notes yet outstanding, and also of the amount yet outstanding which falls due due in 1887, $99, 685,008 19,340,128 Total.....sese+++. $170,826,561 $19,006,122 From this it will appear that the Treasury will be com- pelled to provide for this large amount of compound interest notes during the present year, and in addition to the provision made for the seven-thirties falling due during the same period. Conversion of Seven-Thirty Bonds. To faciliate the conversion of seven-thirty bonds due in August, 1867, the Secretary of the Treasury has de- cided to pay express charges until March 31 on seven- thirty bonds transmitted to Washington for conversion, and also the express charges on bonds sent in returm, Holders of seven-thirty bonds falling due in August forwarding the same before March 31, can feel certain ef, getting a prompt return of the bonds, while if conver- sion is delayed until nearer August the pressure for conversion will be so great as to prevent a prompt re-_ turn of the bonds, Leyal Demonstrations in Virginia. A despatch received in this city from Richmond, Va., States that a yery strong feeling of radical republicanism is developing iteelf in the southwestern portion of Vir. ginis, particularly in the counties bordering on North Carolina, In Carroll county the organization known ae ‘Red strings" recently held a meeting at Hillsville, which was addressed by an ex-rebel officer. He Claimed their affiliation to the radical party at the Ne denounced the present Legislature as disjoyal, and, advocated the adoption of the constitutional amend- ment. He demanded that they should bave representa- tives who would adopt that document, and was particularity said, should be impeached and could be ‘Security for Uniog They then through the streetson herseback and on foot, numbering about five hundred, carrying a United Stator, fiag, and were very expressive in their demen- Wations of loyalty to the present Congress, They adopted resolutions calling fora large mecting of the Organization at a future day, when they will take mea sures to make known their grievances to Congress, with @ view to procure immediate action for their protection and relief, ., General Dix and the Naval Office. 4y An effort has been made to prejudice public opinion against General Dix and affect the chances of his com- firmation as Minister to France, by the statement that he has been receiving pay both as Minister to- France and Naval Officer of New York, which statement ta totally untrye, Your correspondent has seen an official letter from Assistant Secretary Chandler, of the Tressury. Department, from which it appears that the accounts ef the Naval Officer since October, 1866, have been: out and signed by Mr, Franklin, the deputy, A telegram from General Dix has been received here, dated Paris, February 12, 1867, in which he says thaé the salary was deposited without bis knowledge, if was deposited at all, and that he had before written thas he should not accept it. ‘The Steamor R. R. Cayler Allowed te Pre- ceed on Her Voyage. The Attorney General has decided to allow the steamor R. R. Cuyler to proceed on her voyage, after giving, bonds to the government for a sum double the value of the vessel and cargo not to violate the neutrality laws, The Tehuantepec Roate. . The President to-day communicated to the Senate, in Tesponse to a resolution of the 6th inst., several doca- ments concerning the controversy between the Tehuam tepec Transit Company, of New York, and the Louisiana’ Transit Company. A grant to the former by Presideat Suarez was made October 15, 1866, for @ fallroad across the Isthmus. The latter clay the grant and franchine under a priviloge October 25, 1860, with an ex. tonion of the sage by Maximilian October 12, 1868, The company o%iming under Juarez maintain that the fofimer grant had lapsed from length of time, Opinions of Caleb Cushing and Reverdy Johnson and other papers relating to the case are included, No result ie indt- cated. Recognition of Consuls. The President has recognized Guido von Grabow as Consul General of Prussia in New York; Robert William Welch, Vice Consui of Prussia at Key West, Fin; Laurent Cochglet, Consul 1 of Franco at Ahi, rs Frederick Withelm Hanewenckel, Consul of Prussia, at Richmond, Va. ; Ferdinando de Luca, Consul General of Italy, to reside at New York; Francisco 4. Guledo, Come sul General of the United States of Colombia at New York, and Jose Jermon Ribon, Consul of Salvador, at New York. Loes of the Bark Elia Virginia. Our Cousul at Zanzabar advises the State Department of the loss on the 30th of July last of the bark Elia Vir- ginia, of New York, on Faugalane Point, at the entrance of Quiltimane river. She is said to have been owned by Rufus Green & Co., of Providence. Tho supercargo Teports the vessel a total Joss, but the cargo was saved in @ damaged condition, and taken to Quiltimane for sale, The Rinderpest in the Netherlands. United States Minister Ewing writes ‘from the Hague on January 21 that the loss of cattle by rinderpest im the Netherlands was for the week ending December 23, 5,771; for the week ending December 29, 6,832; for the week ending January 5, 4,988; and that the impression prevailod that the malady was on the decline there, but that it had crossed into Prussia, and threatens Belgiam and France, As the disease is believed to be decidedly marked by congestion 8 one of its leading symptoms, has been proposed that the treatment so strongly adve- cated by Dr. Merrill, of New York, for diseases of thie type, be tried, He advocates the administration of pare chloroferm, not to be inhaled, but to be swallowed im teaspoonful doses until sleep is produced. This is the dose for human adults, but for cattle it would probably have been larger. THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. Waanixotox, Feb. 18, 1867. PETITION FOR REORGANIZATION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR ARKANSAR, Petitions and mamorials were presented, among them one from citizens of Arkansas, asking that a similar bill to that passed by the House for the government of ‘Louisiana be passed for the organization of civil govern. mont in Arkansas, ‘THE HOUSE RESOLUTION OF THANEN TO THE SRORNTART Oe WAR REPORTRD ADYEREMLT, Mr. Wineom, (rep.) of Mass.