The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAT wD. JAMES GORVON BENNETT, AMUSEMENTS TUIS AFIERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome treet —Painy Cuncux—Ix 4x Our or Prace. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel. —Psxsaus anv ANDROMEDA—NiNe POINTS OF THE Law. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Staeet} or Naw Yous. Matinee at Une o'Ulock, DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proresson Hants witt Paxront His Mimacuws—Tus Heap in tHe Ain— Tux inpiaw Basaer Teicx—Prorsus. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel Tamim Ermioriax nransaun: seers Sin and Buutxsquus.—Tue Back ‘oox— KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo- siethe New York Hotel.—Iw raxim Sovas, Dances. Ecc en- Tucrties. Buriesguas, &0.—Cinpen-LRON—MADAGASCAR Batust Taours—Stor Tuat Lavourna. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Rrmorian Muctraster, Baccaps, BURLGSGUES, bore Tue rat r . Bavwal _ Ockas Yaout Race—Tas ‘Brace noon. vy! 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(er Pa New York, Wednesday, March 6, 1867, THES NEw s. areata eee EUROPE. Ry the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated yes- terday, March 5. A general rising of the Christians all over Turkey is looked for. Tho Duke of Buckingham is appointed Colonial Secretary of Ireland, the Duke of Richmond having declined the office tendered to him by Lord Derby. Generai O'Connor, the Fenian leader, has not been arrested. Consots rated at 91 for money in London at noon. United States five-twenties were at 73%. ‘The Liverpool co:ton market was quiet, at a decline, at Doon. Breadstufls quiet and steady. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday notice was given of bills to arantes a republican form of government in the lately rebellions States and to prescribe a form of oath to sus- tain a republican form of government. Joint resolu- tions of thanks to George Peabody ; and in relation to the Paris Exposition, the latter having passed both houses of the last Congress too tate for tho Prosident’s signa- ture, and bills to regulate certain proceedings in crimi- nal cases; concerning injunctions and proceedings in civil cases, to reorganize the judiciary of the Unitea States; and the Wool Tariff bill, the latter having passed both houses too late to receive the President's signature, wore severally introduced and ordered upon the tabdie to await reference to a committee. The committes ap- Pointed to wait upon the President reported that he had mo message to communicate at present and the Senate adjourned. {n the Horse, the committee to wait upon the Presi- dent reported that be had no commuaication to make at present. Elections for Sergeant-at-Arms, Doorkoepr and Postmaster resulted in the choice of N. G. Ordway, Charles &. Lippincott and William S. King, to ‘those ‘omices respectively. The drawing for seats took place, and onan election for Chaplaia Mr. Boynton was re- elected. Among the nominations Rev. William G- Brownlow, of Tonnessee, was named by Mr. Eldridge, but he received no votes, Leave was asked to intro- duce a bill to amend the National Currency act, but ob- jection being made a motion to suspend the rules fol- lowed. Ponding its consideration the House adjourned. The republican members of both houses will hold Acaucus to-nignt to consider the business to be traus- acted during the present session, THE LEGISLATURE. in the Senate yesterday the bill to establish a board of public works was reported back from the committee un- dor instructions, Bills to extend Madison 3 to designate a quorum of the Metropolitan Board Ex- cise, and for the consolidation of the State Line and Fre and Northeast Railroad Compamies, were passed. A communication from the Comptroller of the city of New York was received. Bilis were introduced to ex- tend Fifth avenue, and relative to the powers and duties of the Park Commissioners, Notice was given of the jntention to introduce bills to change the route of the Broadway and Seventh avenue Railroad, and relative to assessments in New York. The Constitutional Conven- tion bill was discussed in Committee of the Whole, and it was made a special order for this morning. A recess was taken until evening, and on reassembling the bill establishing a Metropolitan Board of Pubiic Works was considered in Committee of the Whole. It was made a special order for Friday, and the Senate adjourned, In the Assembly bilis to amend an act relative to wills, and to facilitate the construction of the New York and Oswego Midiand Railradd, were reported. A bill to prevent delays in the transportation of freight and paa- songers over railroads in the State was also reported, accompanied by a written communication from the com- mittee relative to the recent disagreement between the Central and Hudson River Railroads, which says the break in connection betwoen the two was made by tho Jatier. Bilis of minor or local importance wore passed, And the death of Colonel Cochrane being announced the Asembly adjourned until this moraing in respect to his memory. THE CITY. An article on “Our Shipyards and Foundries” will be found in another column, with an account of sailors’ boarding houses and how Jack Tar is victimized ashore. Mr, James W. Gerard delivered « conversational a:t- dress to the girls in the grammar departmont of Public School No. 1, in the Fourth ward, on volcanoes and earthquakes yesterday. The Kings county Board of Supervisors held a meeting yesterday afternoon, atwhich some important business ‘was transacted. Authority was vested in the County Treasurer to raiso the sum of $300,000, with which to pay tho State tax, there not being sufficient money in the Treasury for that purpose ; and the proper com- mittee was directed to prepare and transmit an act to the Legislature anthorizing the county to rame $130,000 with which to defray the expenses of enlarging the Lunatic Asylum at Flatbush, A committee was also appointed to consult with the Representatives of Kings county, at Albany, and take whatever action that may be deomod necessary against the establishment of a quarant ne station fn the county, In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, a motion was mado through counsel, on the part of Fernando Wood, to set aside the injunction in the case of Christo. pher Pullman va. the Mayor, &¢., restraining the Comp- trotier from paying to Wood the rental of the prom. feos Now 115 and 117 Nassau street, which had been leated for the uses of the Municipal Law Department. ‘Tho object of this motion is to remove the objection upon which Mr. Justice Leonard refused mandamus com- polting the Comptroller to satisfy the claim. Jodgo Russel charged the Grand Jury yesterday in the Cour: of Genoral Sessions, His Honor disposed of a large number of burglary and larceny-cases. ‘The stock markot was weak and unsettled yesterday. Gold was heavy and closed at 126%. ‘The failure of Congresd to pace the Tariff bill has @x- @rtod loss influence in trade circies than it would have ‘fone, be oot bbe neromnuila eublia igang since Loreneen New YORK Hukauy, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1867,—-TRIPLE SHEET. | the certainty of adigher tari schedule in the future. j ‘The failure of “ho last Congress to provide for higher duties on imported merchandise is by no means regarded as a safe criterion for the future. Per contra, the busi- ness public have made up their minds that Congress will not rest content to let the tariff alone, and any change nowadays is certain te be @ change for the worse. The markets were somewhat unsettled yesterday, but scarcely more so than during Saturday and Monday, Cotton was in- active and drooping. Coffee was dull, but firm. On Change flour was irregular, with but Mttle doing. Wheat was unchanged. Corn advanced 2c. a8c. under a fair demand Oats ruled steady, Pork was more active and firmer. Beef was steady. Lard, though quiet, ruled firm. Freights were steady. Whiskey unchanged. Na- val stores quiet, but steady. Potroloum remained dull and heavy. Wool was dull and unsettled, though higher, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Mexican legation at Washington have regeived comufiMications from Vera Cruz dated the 224 ultimo. Porfirio Diaz has thrown a portion of bis troops between Puebla and the Capital, thus almost completely cutting Off the transmission of mails, The Frengh left Puebla on the 16th, and it was rumored that Diaz had captured that city. Maximilian and Marquez had left the capital ‘at the head of four thousand men, and impressions pre- vailed that they were either going to the Coast or to capit- ulate with Juarez for an armistice. The commanication also says that Maximilian, Marques, Miramon, Mejia, Castillo and all their troops were completely defeated near Queretaro on the 16th, The French transports wore arriving daily, and the troops were embarking with activity. Almost all of the men who acted as Maximilian’s Ministers are leaving the country. Our Mexican letters are dated at Mexico City on the 11th and Vera Cruz on the 15th ultimo, Our Mexico city correspondent says Maximilian and Miramon, with their troops, went in tho direction of Queretaro on the 14th ult, and thought it probable that a battle would soon be fought. ‘the probability is, there- fore, that the report referred to above of their defeat by Escobedo on the 16th refers to a late battle, and not to the former engagement at Aguas Calientes. The liberals were closing in upon the capital, and the commencement of a siege was only a question of a few days. The American Consul at Vera Cruz had protested against the quartering of French troops upou resident Americans, but his communications were apparently ignored. One American citizen was arrested for refusing to supply quarters when called upon, The protest finally had some effect, however, and the quartering was discon- tinued, Only one small United States gunboat was in port, the Tahoma, About eight thousand five hundred troops had aiready embarked for France, Isham Harris, the Tennessee ex-Governor and ex-confoderate, had gone to Havana, where, it is supposed, he is to meet Breck- enridge, Mason, Slidell, Benjamin and others, Our Chilean letters are dated at Coquimbo, February 4; Valparaiso, February 2, and Santiago, January 25. ‘Tho government was deliberating on a scheme te raise money, and the English and French Ministers had ad- vised their countrymen to refuse payment of the contri- butions that are ordered to be forced. It was highly im- probable that any truce with Spain would be entered into by the allies, and the proposition to enforce a loan was confirmatory of reports to that effect, It was well understood that propositions for mediation had been re- ceived from Mr. Seward, in which he invites Tepresentatives of the belligeront Powers to Washington for consultation, and suggests that the President be authorized to appoint some neutral Power as umpire for the arrangement of differences respecting international laws and courte- sies, without, however, interfering with the terms agreed upon between the interested Powers. The letter of Mr. Seward is published in another column. The Chilean government will confer with her allies before accepting the proposition; but it is probable thas it will be finally accepted. There appears to be a lack of hearty sym- pathy botween Peru and Chile. The issue of two million dollars in treasury notes bad been authorized by Chile, and it was probable that the sum would be augmented to five millions. The United States steamer Dakota was in port, The Tuscarora had gone to the Feejeo Islands to punish the savages for some barbarities on American seamen. The Nyack left for the southern coast on the 1st ultimo. Our Santiago correspondent deals altogether with his experiences in a ramble among the haciondas ‘on the pampas, and his letter will be found decidedly interesting. Our Havana correspondent states that the text of a treaty of commerce and amity between the United States and St. Domingo governments had been sent to the United States for final ratification, as it had been already accepted and ratified by the government of General Cabral, There is nothing tn the treaty concern- ing the Ray of Samana. . Rear Admiral Beil, commanding the Asiatic squadron, reports to the Navy Department from Hong Kong, China, under date of December 31. The Hartford was at Hong Kong, and had been undergoing repairs, but was then ready for sea. The Wyoming had left Nagasaki on December 13 for Yokobama with the American Minister on board. The Wachusett had been scouring the coast for pirates, but witbout meeting any, as the monsoons had set in, during which time the seas were very heavy. The Asbuelot bad been delayed at Manila by the weather, from which place she was to sail for the China Sea. The storesbip Supply was daily expected at Hong Kong. Three deaths had occurred in the squadron. Our Richmond correspondence gives a synopsis of Governor Pierpont’s message to the Legislature relative to the recent act of Congress for the more efficient government of the rebel States, commonly known as Sherma Military Reconstruction bill. Several able speeches favoring the acceptance of the terms proposed, as recommended in the message, were made, and both houres adjourned pending its consideration. The United States Commissioner at Norfolk, Va, before whom five magistrates were recently arraigned for vio- lation of the Civil Rights bill, in rendering his decision, says the evidence excluded by the parties arraigned would not have materially affected a change in the re- sult, as it was really of little importance, It was not an aggravated case, and the injury done is remote and indi- rect, The magistrates were then bound over ia $500 each, Au election for municipalfofficers took place in Alex- andria, Va.. yesterday. It being understood that the negroes intended to vote, a committee of white citizens waited upon the Attorney General at Washington to inquire as to their right to do so, but he declined to give an opinion except by request of the President The negroes offered their votes at the regular polling places, but the judges refused to receive them, and they were recorded by the radical candidates. The demo- cratic candidate for Mayor was re-elected by sixty three majority. General Grant sent a regiment to maintain order. No disturbance occurred, Governor Brownlow, of Tennosser, has issued a general ordor organizing a volunteer force in the State for three years, to act as a military police, subject to his orders as Commander-in-Chief, Charter clections were held in most of the interior towns of this State yesterday. In Albany, Troy and Rochester the democratic ticket was elected, and in Elmira, Auburn and Oswego the republicans carried the day. The delogation of New York firemen arrived in Charles- ton, & C., yerterday, ‘ A Bap Tare ror tHe SenaTe.—We were sorry to notice during the seasion of the Thirty-ninth Congress, just closed, a determination on the part of the Senate, which was consistently carried out, to reject the nominations of many worthy and patriotic officers who had served with fidelity and distinction in the Union armies, merely beewuse they did not acquiesce in all the extravagant measures of the radical majority. This is simply persecution, narrow- minded and najust, and cannot be sustained when the matter comes tairly before the people. We hope the Senate of the new Congress will show a brighter record upon the conclusion of the present session. A Sixactar Stan.—At the general elections recently beld for the North German Parlia- ment all the great military heroes of the late war, including Count Bismarck, were defeated by their civilian opponents. The men who were invincible in the field have been routed at the polls. The list of the defeated embraces the most renowned generals and the Minister of War, Is this an indioatfon of what ts to take place on this sidejand are all the military méh who henceforth stand a5 candidates for aftiee pefore the neonle to meet e similar iajat Proposed Conference of North and South America in Washiai'ton- We publish to-day a highly im,0rtant docu- ment which we have received from Washing- ton in the shape of a circular letter, sddressed, in December last, by the Secretary or State to the South Americam republics involved in the present war with Spain. It proposes that a conference of representatives from Spain, PexU, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador shall bo held at Washington on the Ist of April next, to treat of all matters in difference between the bellig- erent parties, and to agree, if possible, upon terms of permanent peace. It is further pro- posed that the President of the United States shall appoint a person to attend and preside at this conference and use his good offices, infor- mation and advice in facilitating its objects, without exercising the power to vote upon any questions brought up or assuming any obli- gation om the part of the United States. Should any questions be referred to the President of the United States arising out of disagreement on the part of the Plenipotentiaries, the Presi- dent is to have the power of selecting as an umpire “some State or sovereign, not the United States nor any State among the belligerents” to decide, and that decision shall be binding upon all parties participating in the conference. It is provided further that if this proposition is accepted by the parties interested an armistice between the Powers now at war in South America until the termi- nation of the conference shall be declared by all such as consent to send Plenipotentiaries to Washington. This circular letter of Mr. Seward, issued under instructions from the President, was ratified by a resolution of the House of Repre- sentatives on the 17th of December last. The proposal to mediate between the South Ameri- can republics and Spain may be regarded as nothing more than a revival of the proposition made by our government in the time of John Quincy Adams’ Presidency, in 1825, when a conference of the South American States, to be hela at Panama, was suggested and was strongly urged by Henry Clay for similar pur- poses—namely, the peaceful solution of ques- tions then distracting the South American States, which were then, as now, at war with Spain, with the additional idea, as it was ex- pressed at that time, “to complete the inde- pendence of the New World by expelling the foreign forces that still occupy certain points,” and so forth. Here was the Monroe doctrine practically proposed for adoption in this con- ception of rejecting European interference in all and every portion of the American conti- nent. But perhaps we owe ‘the origin of the Monroe doctrine more directly to the English Cabinet Minister, George Canning, than to any other source; for in his hostility to the schemes of the Holy Alliance, as far as they regarded the then existing relations between Spain and the South American States, the doctrine of non-interference on the American continent was substantially, for the first time, promul- gated, and took a shape which we have since improved upon. It was a purely com- mercial measure at that time, because the main object of the English gov- ernment was to reserve to itself the privileges of trading with the rich countries of South America and absorbing the wealth of the mines of Peru and Mexico, after which Spain was then thirsting. We have since made it a political measure, in theory, if not in practice. The proposed Panama conference of 1825, however, broke down. It was opposed by a factious opposition, led by Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Crawford and others, who arrayed them- aclves against Clay, then the expectant candi- date for the next Presidency. Mr. Seward, it appears, has now renewed the proposition of a South American conference to meet at Wash- ington, which may be regarded as a holy alli- ance against the interference of Spain in the affairs of this continent. If the proposal should be accepted by the Southern republics, as it probably may be, for they have only the matter before them for consideration since De- cember, still Spain may reject it, in which event she must be considered outside the pale, as obstinately refusing the friendly mediation of this government in her difficulty with the South American States, and her refusal may eventuate ultimately in her expulsion from Cuba as well as her discomfiture in Chile and and Peru. This proposition from our govern- ment to the belligerents in South America must be regarded as a bighly important movo- ment; for it may not only affect the claims and ambition of Spain in South America, but exercise considerable influence upon other schemes, such, for example, as the establish- ment of an empire to the south of this repub- lic, in Mexico, and the proposed kingdom to the north of us in Canada. This whole question of foreign interference may be ovened up by the proposed conference in Washington, may be thoroughly vertilated and end in winding up all the schemes which conflict with the Monroe doctrine. A general packing up of bag and baggage, assumed crowns, seeptres, and titles may possibly result from it both in Mexico and Canada. Barnam’s Triumphal Procession. If Connecticut sets the same estimate on the value of her son, the showman Barnum, which he sets on himself, it will not surprise us to learn in due time that this new standard-bearer of the radical party has swept the State by ten thousand majority. To be sure atthe last elec- tion a democratic majority of one hundred and twenty-five was returned in Barnum’s own Con- gressional district. But what can withstand the crushing influence of the conquering hero of a hundred victories over human credulity? His procession is bound to be triumphal. It will re- vive all the dubious associations with which be has laboriously connected bis name. In the imagination of his constituents he will be com- passed round about by a cloud of humbug wit- nesses; and at some fuiure period, when the history of the present shall have become legen- dary and traditional, poetry and painting will doubtless represent Barnum as having can- vassed the district astride of a woolly horse, with Joyce Heth and the Feejee mermaid pil- lioned bebind him, with General Tom Thumb on his shoulders, with Captain Cook’s club and Santa Anna’s leg dangling at his side, with the “Life of P. T. B, written by himself,” in one hand and his “History of Humbugs” in the other, while he drives a herd of buffaloes before him and is, followed by a whole menagerie of nondescripts. ‘Taw Svez Canat.—One of the moat impor- tant ftems of French nows that reached us by leat mail is that th Sues qanal is preqioally open, one iundred bales of goods from Siam for Paris laving taken the route of this canal to the Meliterranean. A telegram from M. Lesseps says that the waters of that sea now reach to Serapeum. Thus Lesseps has mas- tered the sands of the Isthmus. After this, and the laying cf the Atlantic cable, who will say that anything is impossible ? The Fuss About the New York Collectership. The fuss about the New York Collectorship is a very singular piece of business in its way, and affords the uninitiated public some curious insight into the dealings and intrigues of poli- ticians as well as into the purchasable value of public men who occupy positions of influ- ence and importance. Thus, according to the investigating committee’s report, United States Senators and Presidents’ sons and sons-in-law are put down at from three to five thousand dollars each, copperhead newspaper man at five thousand dollars, a private secretary at three thousand dollars, a deputy collector at two thousand dollars, and a female known as “q Washington woman” at three thousand dollars, So far as Collector Smythe is concerned, the facts in relation to his administration of the Custom House are such as ean be readily un- derstood by every person of ordinkry intelli- gence. He has no subterfuges or conceal- ments to resort to, and tells his story in a straightforward manner. When he came into office he was met at once by urgent applica- tions from half a dozen or more different par- ties for the warehousing and cartage business under the general order system. He knew nothing about the matter, but became at once aware that it was, as he’ ex pressed himself, “the biggest plum in the |’ gitté of the Collector.” The Seward .and Weed combination assailed him on oneside and the Manhattan Club copperhead. influerice attacked him on the other, and he wastold that forty thousand dollars would be readily paid to secure the general order business. He soon learned that he would be expected to levy an assessment for political purposes upon the poor clerks, messengers, porters and others in his employ, who were receiving beggarly salaries, and most of whom had families to support, and it occurred to bim that it would be more just to make the men who received the “big plums” pay this assessment than to extort it out of the hard earnings of needy subordinates, He therefore made it obligatory upon the par- tics to whom he should give the general order business to set aparta fund to meet the de- mands of political committees, and thusrelieved the poor clerks from the necessity of handing over one or two months’ salary out of their pittance as a political tax. This isin substance his share in the general order transaction. The politicians who were working to. secure the “big plum ” set to work to bring outside influence to bear upon the Collector to enforce their claims, They visited Washington and’ made overtures and proposals to members of the Prosideni’s family, and pressed a female, called Mrs. Perry, of Cincinnati, who seems to be as mysterious a person as the famous veiled murderess, into their service, and got up the intriguo which has afforded the Congressional committee ma- terial for their recent lengthy report The Collector gave the coveted “plum” to other parties, and the disappointed speculators, find- ing themselves unable to obtaia a reversal of his action or to get 60 much as a finger in the pie, set to work to make public and to turn on to the shoulders of the Collector the very facts they had themselves created. The whole business is a plot of these greedy politicians from beginning to end, and the Collector bas had nothing to do with it. There are two rival interests af work to secure his removal, each with the hope of carrying its own point in the scramble for his old shoes, On one side are the copperhead democrats of the Manhattan Club, who put forward Richard Schell as their candidate. On the other are the Seward and Weed faction, who are work- ing to secure the nomination of Abram Wake- man, under whose administration they would make a grand bolt of the whole spoils, from the general order business down to the hall porters in the Custom House building. These Seward politicians, with Weed as their lieuten- ant, have been the most active and efficient in concocting this plot and bringing about the recent investigation, They have been restleas and greedy during the whole of President Johnson’s term of office, and after enjoying his patronage now turn round and bring this shame upon him. Prior to the investigation they endeavored to alarm or bully the Presi- dent into the removal of Collector Smythe by threatening the exposure of the very overtures they had themselves made to bis relatives and connections, ‘ A more barefaced and disreputable piece of business has seldom been brought to light. The report of the Congressional committee, based upon the testimony of the very men who credted all the facts elicited in the evi- dence, is a fitting finale of the impudent in- trigue. Misery is sometimes said to make strange bedfellows; but here in the greedy scramble after the “big plums” of the New York Collectorship we find Manbattan Club politicians, copperhead newspaper men, Seward republicans, United States Senators, mysterious females, members of the President's family, Congressmen and political: hircksters all bundled and huddled together-in the same dirty straw. Napol New Reforms. It is stated that the French government is about to prosecute Emile de Girardin for an editorial article in his journal criticising the Emperor's policy. Now, it is notorious that Girardin is an intimate personal friend of Napoleon, and would not be likely to assail him at such @ eritical period as the present unless there was a strong motive for it. This certainly cannot be a hostile one. The article upon which the prorccution is founded will turn out, we believe, to have been inspired from thé Tuileries with a view to test in a safe manner the operation of the new law. Of course no One supposes for a moment that M. de Girardin will take any harm from the sen- tence of the court, whatever it may be. The prosecution is simply one of those clever feelers to which the Emperor is in the habit of resorting when the effect of his measures on the public mind is at all doubtful. Like the political pamphlets which he ie in the habit of putting forth when he is about ta embark in one of his foreign enterprises, it will show him how far he may go or where should stop in the new line of policy which he bag adopted tqwardg the press, by the associations of my , youth.” —. Barnam the Scowman Shown Up by Bar- num—His Marly Education. White P. 7, B, & mounting the stump as a candidate for Congr:%s8 and the leadership of the radical party, not only Connecticut voters, but “all the world and the rc¢t of mankind,” are asking “What Is It?” This qcestion is pretty fully answered in “The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by himself’—or somebody else. He tells us that when he had conceived the iu'e® of writing this book—or of having it written he visited his uncle, Colonel Starr Barnum, and said, “Uncle Starr, 1 want to come up and spend several days with you. I am col- lating facts for my autobiography, and I have no doubt you could remind me of many things that I would like to put into my book.” “I guess I could remind you of many things that you would not like to put in your book,” grunted the old colonel, with a chuckle which showed his love of the humorous to be as strong as ever. The old colonel may have said a true as well as a witty thing; but what- ever may have been omitted in the “autobiog- raphy,” & contains enough to enable us to exhibit the showman as shown up by himself. Wordsworth sang, “The child is father of the man,” aff, adds Barnum, “Phineas Taylor was my maternal grandfather.” A very few extracts will suffice to show what a lively illustration of the poet’s celebrated line the child Barnum was, and what a queer cus- tomer was his grandsire. “It is said by all who knew him and have knowledge of me that Iam a chip of the old block.” From old Phin young Phin inherited his name, with “\vy Island” and what he calls his “natural bias” for practical jokes and all manner “of swindling. This natural bias, he says, “was developed and . strengthened He multiplies amusing anecdotes to show in what “an atmosphere he was born and reared.” The heaven that lay about his in- fancy—to quote Wordsworth again—was Hum- bug. With what gusto docs he relate, “as a capital practical joke,” his grandfather's “famous church lottery scheme,” by which the whole pious community in the Blue Law State was swindled. He winds up the narrative by saying :—“The whole country was in an uproar. ‘Uncle Phin Taylor’ was unanimously voted a regular old cheat; the scheme, with ‘not a blank in the lottery,’ was denounced as ‘the meanest scheme ever invented, and nobody but Phin Taylor would have ever thought of such a plan for deceiving the people.’ In fact, from that date to the day of his death he was called ‘Old Two Dollars and Fifty Cents,’ and many was the hearty laugh which he enjoyed at the thought thereof. As time wore away he was declared to be the ’culest man in thogo paris.” Old »Phin’s “first. grandchild” was naturally inspire? ‘by such an- example. “Among the various ways which I had for ‘making money on my own: account, from the age of twelve to, Gfteen years, was that of lotteries.” And when he was about fifteen he delighted his grandfather by a lottery swindle of his own which cleared the store he was then “tending” in Grassy Plains of an accu- mulation of green glass bottles and old tin. Must we be surprised if the Grassy Plains bottle imp shall expand into a full-blown Con- gressman? Why should not Connecticut proudly hope tosee Barnum win his longed-for prize in the political lottery? Will he not shine “bright as a new tin pan” among the so-called national lights at Washington ? Long previous to the first successful lottery swindle of Barnum he had evinced “propen- sities” for making money and a noise in the world. “My good mother declares that I made a great deal of noise the first hour I saw the light, and that she has never been able to discover any cessation since.” Another characteristic distinguished him in boyhood and clings to him still. “I never really liked work. I always disliked work. Head work I was excessively fond of. I was always ready to concoct fun, or lay plans for money-making, but tiandwork was decidedly not in my line. My father insisted that I could hoe and plough and dig in the garden as well as anybody else, but I gene- rally contrived to shirk the work altogether, or by slighting it, get through with the day’s work.” He was manifestly born to live by his wits. “My organ of acquisiliveness must be large, or else my parents commenced its cul- tivation at an early period. Before I was five years offage I began to accumulate pennies and sixpennies.” He describes his “ first swop,” however, as showing more taste (for molasses candy) than ‘cuteness. “Molasses candy was the rock on which I split.” Bat even this perilous rock he was shrewd enough to make the stepping stone to boyish wealth as soon as he became a clerk in a country atore, where, he says, “I asked and obtained the privilege of purchasing candies on my own account, to sell to the juvenile portion of our customers.” In this store he learned to repeat his favorite adage, “ There’s cheating in all trades but ours.” But the Grassy Plain store was the commercial college in which he graduated with the highest honors. We can only refer here to bis full and graphic description” of this store, in which “nearly everything was different from what it was represented. The customers cheated us in their fabrics : we cheated the customers with our goods,” &., &e. No wonder that he ex- claims, in conclusion, “Such a school would ‘out eye-téeth,’ but if it did not cut conscience, morals and integrity all up by the root, it would be because the scholars quit before their education was completed!” P, T. B. does not complain that in this school his early education was neglected or incomplete. This model of the traditional Yankee, as the new standard bearer of the radicals of Connecticut, opens ® new era in American politics, The slavery agitation is finished, negro suffrage is virtually settled, the oid democratic theory of Siate rights has been knocked into flinders, and so Barnum leads off with.the Connecticut radicals upon his original Yankee platform, which, whittled down tos point, ix the three thimbles and the “little joker.” How is this Barnum, then, to be beaten in Connecticut? The Perte and the Viceroy of Egypt. A new cause of trouble presents itself to the Porte, the Viceroy of Egypt having asked for four concessions:—First, that he may be al- lowed to assnme the title of Caliph ; second, that he may be allowed to raise his army to one hundred thousand men; third, that he upon it; fourth, that he may be empowered $0 great bighcr raak 40 bis officers than he gaa ‘may be allowed to coin money with bis effigy | at present, Masballah! Th Viceroy might as well have asked the Olloma® government at once for independence. Trus,¥ the “sick man” must be sick unto death, an? the pro- vince of Egypt cannot long be his. Recenstruction at Last—What the Sox'ttera States Ought New to Do, The recent decisive proceedings of Congn ss in the important matter of Southern reconstruc tion have already made a profound and hopeful’ impression upon the Southern public mind. ‘The Legislature ef Virginia has been called ther again, and Governor Pierpont has sent to that body an elaborate message on the situation, Counselling the two houses to accept the ultimatm. of Congress in its full and true sense, and reson.ttions providing for # reorgan- izing State Convention have been referred to the appropriate committee in each house. This is a good sign from Virginia, the head and front and mainstay of the rebellion. Georgia next is thoroughly aroused by the movement of ex-Governor Brown in favor of a frank acceptance of the terms.of Congress. Three-fourths of the newspapers a” the State, as we are informed, support him ; bat most of the disfranchised rebel politicians ap,pear to be on the other side. As for South Ca: lina, she bas sent a delegation to Washingt” t see about the commander who is to be a> pointed over the military district number two, which embraces North and South Carolina. The new law declares that for the time being “ said rebel States shall be divided into military districts,” and subject, under certain reser- vations, to military law, and that for this purpose Virginia shall constitute the First district, North and South Carolina the Second, Georgia, Alabama and Florida the Third, Mississippi and Arkansas the Fourth, and Louisiana and Texas the Fifth district. The South Carolina politicians, therefore, with an eye to business, first proceed to look up theis military commander. From all these movements it is evident that the people of these outside States are begin- ning to comprehend the real situation of things, in the collapse of the President's policy and the fixed purpose and power of Congress. The South might have done a great deal better, and Mr. Johnson, too, by following our seasonable advice ; but as broken eggs cannot be mended it is useless to debate the upsetting of the basket. Until the States con- cerned are reinstated in Congress they can do nothing to help themselves or their friends, and Congress has the absolute control over this subject. There is, then, no alternative for said States but submission to and the fulfil- ment of the terms of restoration laid down by Congrees, and the sooner the bettor. Nor need the great body of the Southern whites stand back because their blind leaders in the rebel- lion are excluded from this work. If those leaders can be reached by common sensethey will advise and assist in these essential labors of reorganization. Po The Southern landholders, in their control of Southern black labor, comprising in most cases their late slaves, may, if they will, con- trol the black vote, and algo the loyal whites toa very greatextent, who are mainly of that class known in the South as “poor whites.” Look- ing to this end the Southern planters ought to take hold of this business at once; for if they lead off actively and systematically in meet- ing the conditions of Congress every State in- volved in these neceasities may be restored to both houses in season to have a voice in the coming Presidentiat election. Against the North Southern politicians, still looking to the old landmarks, may regard the vote of the South tor the next President with indifference. But they cannot so regard the important ques- tion of the return of financial confidence and Northern and European capital, skill and en- terprise in the Southern States. Restoration will settle this problem at once in such a new epoch of Southern prosperity as no Southern confederacy dreamer ever dreamed of under King Cotton. And yet again, in behalf of Southern inte- rests and the general welfare, the votes of the Southern States may be very powerful in Con- gress in the reconstruction of our whole finam cial system, national banks, bonds, currency, internal and external taxes, retrenchment and reform, which, taken all together, will soce mark the dividing lines of a new organization of parties, It is also certain that when any one of the excluded States shall have fulfilled these conditions of Congress: all disfranchise- ments and disabilities on account of the rebel- lion will be removed. These inducements and crowning advantages of material prosper- ity, political power and a full restoration to all the blessings of the Union ought to bring even the Southern rebel leaders temporarily disfran- chised to active co-operation in behalf of the ultimatum of Congress. The Southern white landlord, if he will only try, may make bie black laborer a political ally for life against all comers and all political combinations. Thus, with this very element of the negro vote, the South, in behalf of Southern inte- rests, may soon assume a more compact front in Congress than it has ever held heretofore. Every consideration of wisdom pleads for Southern submission promptly and in good faith to the terms of Congress, It is so s et- tled, and there is no way of escape. The Spring Businens. While a great many are croaking about the duiness of business the present spring, and predicting that duller times still are in store, we look around in vain to find evi- dences of the kind. Quite the reverse ap- pears to be the case, When people are prow perous they are mote or less extravagant; and, judging from this standard, we feel justified in saying that New York has scarcely ever been in a more prosperous condition than at present. To prove this it is only necessary to take the number of fashionable balls that have recently oceurred, all of which have been attended with a profusion of expenditure hitherto absolutely unparalleled in the festive history of the metro- polis, Several more of these recherché and costly affairs are to take place within a fort- night, thus winding up the season with a haloof brilliancy and gayety unexampled, even in the heyday of the reign of King Shoddy. There are other unmistakable evidences that business is not so dull as some wish to make it appear. The streets, wharves, docks and piers, steam- boat landings, railroad depots and express office’ localities are crowded with vehicles passing and repassing or unloading goods for shipment to other parts. Another unfailing thermometer of a lively business season is to be found in the ad- vertising columns of the Herato, which indicate # business emounting to fiteen ver cent above