The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1867.—TRIPLE SHKET., NEW YORK HERALD. was adopted calling upon the President and Congress to grant belligerent rights to the Irish people in revels A JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR liberties bequeathed to them by their Revolue tionary fathers, are less apt to be jealously vigilant against tyranny in the guise of alleged public opinion than our naturalized citiz-ns, who have been accustomed at home to enjoy private, individual and social freedom, even under despotic governments. In this and nearly every other aphere of influence in New York society the German element is at work, and, for the most part, beneficially. Tho Custom House Broil—Terrible Onslaughs on the Congressional Committee’s Report. The report of the committee of the House of Representatives on the affairs of the New York Custom House, which was recently ushered im with aloud flourish of trumpels and a keen relish by some of our contemporaries, is receiv- ing a terrible overbanling on all sides. It is one of the most singular documents ever put forth from a responsible or respectable source. Tt reads very much like the harrowing, stories of conjugal infidelity, divorce cases, heartless abandonments and startling crimes toldin some of the sensational Sunday papers, and turns out to have about as good foundation. “All its material statements have been promptly con- tradicted on the floor of Congress and clse- where, and this morning it receives severe pun- ishment from every side. The cardsof E. C, Jobuson and others show conclusively that the report of the committee was no error of judg- ment, but a wilful and deliberate misrepresen- tation of facts and distortion of testimony for the purpose of accomplishing an unworthy object. Collector Smythe comes out of a dangerous contest with political guerillas entirely un- harmed. His plain, straightforward conduct has fortunately baffled tae cunning plots of the shrewdest and most unscrupulous lobby leaders and office brokers in the State. Heis#hown to be the only Collector of the port for a number of years who has not directly or indirectly used the patronage of the Custom House to his own advantage or for the benefit of members of his family or near connections. But while he escapes unscathed some of the particular friends of the committee are placed in a Mag awkward position. Mr.’ Henry C. Bowen, of the Indepen- dent, whose share in the “big plums” of the Custom House was carefully ignored and con- cealed by the committee, has been smoked out, Tho Great Settlomont—What the South Ought | certain to arise between the parties in interest. | reform. Ifony new commissions are now created Now to Do. The danger is in a combivation,by which three | by the Legislature they may be materially With the meeting of the Fortfeth Congress | or four of the most promising echemes may | altered or swept away altogether in a few we commence a new volume in the new de-| prove powerful enough to secure favorable | months by the action of the Convention on Re- parture in our national history. The forfeitures, | legislation for all. If the real interest of the | vision, and the cost of putting the useless pains and penalties of the late rebellion have | city is taken into account by the Legislature | machinery into motion will fall upon the tax- been defined, the terms of Southern recon- | the jobs will be rejected. The people want no | payers of the city. No honest friend of city struction and restoration have been established, | additional surface roads in the present con-| reform will ask sueh legislation, and to all and, however harsh they may appear to those | dition of the city, and the underground and | others the Senators and Assemblymen should Southern politicians who had pinned their faith | elevated projects are yet more objectionable. | turn a deaf ear, and their hopes to President Johnson’s lenient | The only substantial relief for New York is to policy, the thing is now fixed in the ultimatum | be found in the opening of three or tour broad Immediate Resumption. of Congress, The Southern press, taken all | avenues to the Battery and the construction ot The “on to Richmond” party were the same aback, is blindly beating about for some way | railroads on the European plan—through the | ™en who now cry out just as ignorantly and of escape, but the stern necessity of submis-| blocks and over the houses. All other with equal danger to the country, on to specie sion meets them at every point. The officious | schemes are simply speculations got up for payments. In fact, they are -impracticable copperhead journals of the North are, as usual, | the purpose of making money. If carried radical-theorists in everything, and are always promptly on hand to aid their Southern | through the Legislature at all it will only be crying on to something that leads to disaster. friends with their advice; but the response |'through a disgraceful system of bribery and | Mr. Chase and the radical party of which he is from Virginia to Texas is, that we have had | corruption, and it will become the duty of @ prominent chief were the original inflation- enough, sinee 1861, of the treacherous instruc- | Governor Fenton to interpose his veto for the | {st8; for they flooded the country with paper tions and false promises of Northern demo- | protection of the city. The members who | money. Now they turn round, after doiog all cratic politicians. We want no more of them. | vote for these bills on “contingencies” and | the mischief, and demand immediate resump- They are intent only upon recovering their old | because they have secured “friends” among | ton of specie payments, But their inconsis- Southern balance of power, in view of the | the corporators will in the end ind that they | ‘ency is.still more glaring from the fact that, government spoils and plunder; but we of the | have made a profitleas sacrifice of their repu- while they urge a contraction of the currency South have our own interests to consider | tations, They will never realize'a dollar from | With s view to force resumption, they are the under this new order of things. the investment. advocates of the national bank system, under This is the true point of departure for the which three hundred millions of circulation is South. The first’ duty devolving upon the | THe Revolution in Groat Britain and Ireland. added to the currency. They support a mon- people of the excluded States is to take care | That there are very disturbing elements at | strous monopoly, which is not only useless and of themselves and to secure their own local | Work in England and Ireland just now is quite | unnecessary as a banking system, but is posi- governments against the Northern radicals in manifest. Tho reform movement is keeping | tively dangerous to the country and injurious their work of reorganization. In this connec- | England in hot water, which probably may be | to the material interests of the mass of the peo- tion they have two difficulties confronting them | Made a little hotter by the Fenian spirit which | ple. While professing to be par excellence the upon the threshold—the disfranchisement of a | 8Pparently exists in tho manufacturing dis-| friends of the industrious classes, the whole considerable claas of their leaders in the re- | ‘ticts. The Fonian conspiracy in Ireland looks | tendency of their theories and policy is in bellion and the general enfranchisement of | troublesome and embarrassing. The dragon’s | favor of the fow. They talk about the general their emancipated blacks. Ex-Governor Brown, | teeth which the omnipresent Stephens has | welfare, at the same time they support only of Georgia, however, a disfranchised lender, | 0W2 are springing up, in accordance with the | monopolies and particular classes. They are old fable, into armed bodies of men in all | the most earnest bigh tariff men, and they use terms of Congress, pleads the plea of trae | qWsrters of that island, north and south, west | all their influeace to sustain the national banks patriotism and common sense which ‘should | 924 east, These may be only feints to bewil- | and every other monopoly whereby the many govern all. his associates. They should be | der the government, in conformity with a pre- | are made to suffer for the benefit of a fow. arranged plau, or they may be nothing more Now, if these radical theorists were not than spontaneous movements of the organized | governed by corrupt political motives or not people to the general government and all its | ™s#es who cannot be kept in control, owing | incurably inconsistent, they might reach their blessings. A general amnesty will then be to the fever heat which the people have | object of bringing about immediate resump- sure to follow. Next, with regard to the reached. The telegraphic news which, of | tion by breaking up their pet national bank blacks, we find that under the lead of their | Course, is modelled tosult the will of the Eng- | system. If they be sincere and in such a white Parson Hunnicutt—a diluted second | lish government, and, therefore, must be taken | hurry to force specie payments why not extin- edition of Parson Brownlow—the colored | ‘© represent the mildest form of the state of guish the national bank circulation? Three large mass meeting of the Roberts’ branch was held in ‘Troy last night. A bundred additional recruits and a large sum of money were taken in, ‘Tho son of a wealthy gentleman of Taunton, Masa, ab- sconded recently after borrowing $88,000, He was found in this elty on Thursday and returned to his home in charge of a Sheriff. ‘The argument in the case of the People ex rel. Hill Fowler vs, the Canvassers of Election in the Eighth Election Disiriet took place yesterday, in the Supreme Court, Chambers, on the return of an alternative writ of mandamus to compel the respondents to count the votes polled in favor of the relator, in a political contest for a judgeship in the Eighth Judicial District, at the last charter clection. Decision reserved. The caso of Wellington Wilmot, who 1s charged with having forged papers in reference to the pension claim of one James Allen, was resumed yesterday before Com- missioner Betts, Testimony having beon given on the part of the defendant, the examination was adjourned itill to-day. The examination into the accusation preferred against Nathaniel J. Mills, of having fraudulently prepared a bond with the view of removing a quantity of whiskey from a bonded warehouse, was resumed yesterday before Commissioner Osborn. Two witnomes having been ex- amined for the prosecution. the matter was postponed tll Tuesday. In the General Soasions yesterday Philip Rodman was Convicted of a misdemeanor in violating the act to pro- Vent cruelty to animals, and was fined $100 by the City Judge. in the Brooklyn City Court, yesterday, Mr. Jobn Aromheimer obtained judgment in the sum of $2,500 against the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, for injuries received by being thrown from a Fulton avenue car, in consequence of tho carelessness of a conductor, who started it boforo plaintiff had reached the atrect. The splendid stecmship Pereire, Captain Duchesne, belonging to the French General Transatlantic Com- pany’s line, will sale at nine o'clock this morning from pier 60 North river for Havre, calling at Brest to land passengers and mails. The Pereiro has made six pas- sages from this port to Brest since she commenced run- ning, and tho averago length of each was but nine days and ten hours, Tho mails for France will close at the Post Office at six o'clock A. M. The now steamship City of Antworp, Captain Mire- house, belonging to the Inman lino, will leave pier 45 North river at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The mails will close at the Post Office at halt-past ten A. M. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Louisiana, Captain Harrington, will sail from pior 47 North river at twelve, noon, to-day for Liverpool, touch- ing at Queenstown to Jand passengers and freight. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at threo P. M. to-day for Havana. Tho mails will close at the Post Office at half- past one P. M. Tho steamship General Sedgwick, Captain Whitehurst, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, @1&. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We @onot roturn rejected communicationa JOB PRINTING of every description, leo Stereotyp- ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome streot—Inxtanp As te Was—Rovan ‘Diamoxp—Harry Mam. Matinee at 13g o'Clook—Fainy Cincuz—Rovon Dia ‘MOND. NEW YORK THEATRE, Brotawny, opposite New York Hlotel—Panencs AnD ANDROMEDA—NiNK POINTS OF THE AW. THBATRE peamosss. a rar street, near Sixth avenue.—La Famitix Bux GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— ‘us Kopemrs. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proressor Hants wit Peavoum His Mimacuus—Tux Huap in Tus Am— Tus Inpian Basxxt Tricx—Paorsvs. Matinee at 2 0'Clook. STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth strect.—Fourtm Con- cant or tax Paitaanmonic Soctery ov New Yous, Morn- ing, at Ten o'Clock—Pumuic Remeansat.. 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CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at ropa Hall, Ro Broad way—In a bageong A or aaaee nD LAvGHABLE ENTERTAINMENTS, Cones ALLET, &e. ee JUDOR ARR Rvrepraupene a ngere 8 content for a season to sacrifice themselves in order to restore their respective States and oon Fg Sed COMIQUE, Broadway, opposite St. Micholne wp COMBINATION oF Minster Etsy, Bat: Maecenas LEsTHENICS, &0.—La Statue Biancus. Malinee at lg ‘orClooke MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Ingowaa—Hanown Hawk. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn,—Erntoriay Mt. Bautaps axp Buxixsquxs.—Tue Biace Croox. at 934 0°Clook. ' i affairs in Ireland, announces a rising at various | hundred millions of currency withdrawn fro: —— bel toC. H. Mallory & Co.'s Texas line, will sail | voters of Richmond are moving for an inde- . es cy wn from sa: RUNYAN, TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of sai tier East river thls protege Galvan with | pendent black party. se hans i of thig | Points and the result of several collisions be- | circulation would, according to their own Having in the customary style of the high- Jus Tiiouin's Paouass—Sisve Maawirioest Scaxas.” °” | passongers and a full froight. movement to.a general independent organiza- | ‘ween the insurgents and tho military, in one | theory, soon bring us to specie payments, | moral-pressure radical prose branded the ox- posure of his interest in the general order busi- ness under former collectors ‘as “an abominable falsehood,” Mr, E. ©. Johnson publishes an ugly document in the shape of aa agreement signed by Bowen, by which he, his brother and another party, “their heirs and assigns,” were Guaranteed thirty per cont on the storage’ of all general order goods from the 6th day of Sep- tember, 1861, so long as such generat order ‘nsiness should remain in the hands of thé pare ties upon whom it was at that time bestowed. The report of the committee ‘was got up for. the purpose. of); removing the Collector and putting some one else in his place... ‘That..was the end and aim of the whole ' business. But aldiotigh the shrewdest political” engineers have been engaged several months. in. manufacturing this terrible torpedo which, was desigped to blow the old Collectdr through the roof‘of the Custom House and » new Colléctor in at the window, now that it-has exploded, it pied hurt the fingers of those who fired ik~ The truth is, the Tenure’ of Office law which" was passed by the last Congress over the Executive veto enables the President to keep Collector Smythe in the New York Custom: House fust as long as he himself remains in possession of the White House. That law contains at least one provision that is advantageous to the country—it insures permanence in office, un- less the incumbent commits a crime, or is The steamship General Grant, Captain Couch, of Cromwell’s line, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct. The Empire line steamship San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, will sail at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, from pier No, 13 North rivor. The fine steamship Saragossa, belonging to Leary's lige, will sail from pier 14 Kast river, foot of Wall street, at three P. M. to-day, for Charleston, connecting at that port with the steamer Dictator, for tho Florida ports. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold closed at 1% The continued recession of gold has unsettled com- mercial values to such an extent as to render almost all kinds of fmerchandise nominal. The markets are generally dull for this season of the year, and the general aspect of commercial affairs is regarded as decidedly uapromising. Ootton continues to decline under the fall of gold and in view of the unfavorable cable advices, and prices are again lower. Coffee ruled. quict but firm, On (Change flour was more active at former prices. Wheat was dull aod drooping. “Corn advanced 1c. a 26, with a moderate demand. Oats were steady. Pork closed firm, while beef was stendy and lard dull and heavy. Whiskey was unchanged. Freights were steady. Naval stores rolef@ dull and nommal. Petroloum remained heavy. ‘Woul was more eétive at the advance established during the fore part of the week. MISCELLANEOUS. An agreement has been signed for the foundation of a new establishment of Europeans at Yokohama The new Tycoon of Japan, Prince Toshibaski, shows himeslf favorable to foreign courte, ‘The Hpoca of Madrid, Fobruary 10, says that the press of Buenos Ayres and of Montevideo is favorable to an a ‘Spain against the republics of the tap cancabans ‘Varnum. from Bucksport, Me, for Pensacola, Florida, was lost at soa on the 20th of January last. The captain and crew remained twenty- three days on board after the vessel was wrecked and unmanageable, when assistance came and they were all safely landed in Hermuda. The captain (Sparling) was a brevet brigadier Pere NmnenS arte Oe the war. Governor Walle, of Louisiana, bas isveed his procia- tion of the blacks throughout the South, under | Of which, near Dublin, the Fenians succeeded | This is bringing the matter to a practical test. the management of radical whites, is a matter |10 mastering and disarming the garrison, after | Are these original infiationists prepared to of the gravest importance to thé ruling | ® sharp engagemont. hurry up resumption in this practical way? Southern landowning class, They have no| The government cannotbe unaware of the We think not; for it would damage their time to lose, if they would seeure for the- @anget which threatens the peace of the | friends, the few capitalists and monopolists fature this African balance of power. Surely | Country, and they may find themselves com- | who own the national banks. . We do not think the owners of the land and the owners of the | Pélled to adopt such measures of reform in jithey are prepared to give up the profits of labor ought at the ballot box to stand together; England and a fair sottlemont of the land | three handred millions of circulation for the for no greater danger can threaten the future question in Ireland as will appease the wrath | good of the country. But apart from this harmony of Southern society, whites” and | °f the people; or they may decide to crush | enormous privilege, worth twonty millions or blacks, than that of a political organization of | 0% by the most violent and crucl. means, the | more s year, the national banks were estab- the one race against the other, The Iand- Trish movement, in order to strike terror into lished by these very men as 8 gigantic politi- owners have the Isboring class within their the English and Scotch reformers, There is n0 cal machine, through which they» expected to reach, and they should dismiss their old pre doubt that in adopting either of these policie: | make Presidents and Congresses and control judices of slavery, caste and color at onoe, the British government will be guided by the | the destinies of the republic. A financial and and use the advantages which they possess to | ¢™Pédiency of the hour. political monopoly like this, which will absorb | gain and bold their black votes. j It appears by our late despatches last night | all the profits of industry ‘and control the This balance of power secured, the w! that a proclamation, patporting to come | affairs of the country, cannot be overthrown work of State reconstruction, even in South | “from the government of the Irish republic,” | without the most earnest and persistent efforts. Caroline, will bocome simple and easy, so that fs published in » many of » the English | In making the attempt the greatest difficuky by the time the Presidential election comes | *2¢. Irish papers slike, which is a signifi. | will be found in the hypocritical hostility of round, with the ten rebel states reclaimed and | C®@t fact, considering the severity of | the Chase radical party who established the soveral new States admitted, we shall probably the bonds which mnowspaper proprietors | banks, who flooded .the country with paper have forty States participating in the contest, | 8f@ obliged to give to the government re-| money and who now clamor for immediate Meantime, the Southern press, from the Poto- atricting them from publishing treasonable | resumption for the special benefit of the -bond- mao to the Rio Grande, will be pursuing the matter. Armed bodies of Fonians are said to | holders and a few capitalists. We must not course of wisdom, safety, harmony and pros- be coming into frequent conflict with the British:| expect to find consistency in'‘such men nor in perity in falling in with the example of Gov- troops in the counties of Clare, Tipperary and the cragy radical journals that support them. ernor Brown, of Georgia. Any other course | Limerick, in the South, and the counties of will only serve to prolong the present euffer- Down, Wicklow, Louth, and Dublin in tho | The Exedus from Germany—The German Ele- ings of the Southern people and to bring the | North and East. Incendiary fires in the ment in. New Wert. two races into hostile array against each | ity of Limerick and throughout the county | The exodus from Germany, which we’ pre- other, instead of bringing them toe barmo- | f Limorick are aleo reported, showing | dicted would be one consequence of the recent nious political understanding. At the samo | that the insurrection is not confined to European war, has already swollen to a sur- time, to show that they are in earnest in this | 00¢ district, but has spread itself almost prising height the flood of emigration to the work of reorganization and that they have | throughout the entire island. The London | United States. According to the report just |" faith in its speedy fulfilment, the Southern | 7¥mes states that the insurgents are rationed submitted to the German Emigrant Society by press would make a decided hit in proctaim- | Md takon good care of in the matter | its agent no less than 2,728 out of the 5,695 ing as their reunion national ticket for 1863 | of supplies by the people, and supported by | migran’s who arrived in New York during ar YORK beat grm = ANATOMY, 6!3 Broadway. Leorvnes Daur. Open ‘rem 8 4. M, ull 10 P, “” er INSTITUTE OF gRT (Derby Gi Broadway.— Euuarrion’ or Pushisen hae’ Heresuivan wn ram Dave oF Lincoux. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Saturday, March 9, 1867, EUROPE. “The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated in Lon- -dom yestorday, March 8, at noon. The Fonian insurrectionary movement was in active Progress in the provinces of Munster, Ulster and Leinster, and s genoral excitement prevailed all over Ireland. Bome of the newspapers in Ireland and Engiand publish @ manifesto from the “Government of the Republic of Ireland,” which sets forth reasons for the revolt, and con- ‘tains an appeal to the republican peoples of the world for aympathy andaid. Sharp actions had taken place between the Fenians and the military, police and coast guards, ‘and incendiary fires prevailed in the city and county of ‘Tdmerick. Railroad travel had been resumed on some Of the lines but was interrupted on others, Troops are Dotng poured into Ireland from England at every “avail- ‘able point.” The London Times says that the island is “fall” of Irish Americans, and that the peasantry not involved in the rising ald the armed bands. The French government has obtained a verdict under ‘the new press law against M. Girardin. Some of the ‘Christian insurgents in the East are in negotiation with the Turkish government. Conmeols rated at 90% for money in London at noon yesterday. Five-twontics were at 73}<. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was dull, with middling ‘uplands at 134 In the Liverpool breadstuffs market mixed western corn was selling at 37a 8d. per quarter. ‘The letter of our special correspondent ip Dublin, with the maii details of our cable despatches to the 23d of February, published to-day, contain matter of eonsider- ‘able interest. CONGRESS. mation declaring the Reconstraction bitl to be in force | the tollowing :— numerous Irish-American officers, who keep | he month of February are Germans, who | Brown, the inde In the Sonate yeetorday, several bills and resolutions | throughout that State. Stopes are being taken by whites For President, them in thorough discipline. Our telegraphic | ®iled from the ports of Bremen, Havre, | pendent and the whole fy that bave been Of minor importance were actod upon. Tho resolution Se ee eer eet tet eer repub- See secees”” news siates that troops are being despatched | Hamburg, London, Liverpool and Antwerp. | crowding and tumbling after the “big olzme” Of thanks to George Peabody came up and was adopted regia ne Colorado and Now Menico te to the Geyeeat RE. Law. from all available pointe in Bagland te Ireland. During the corresponding period of last year | of the Custom House all go for nothing. 7 ‘by a vole of 85 yeasto 2 nays, The resolation to pro- hibit tho sale or use of spiritaous liquors in the Capitol ‘was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Inthe course of debate Mr. Wilson said it ‘was time the committes rooms ceased to be used as Groggories, and that he had in hiseye the room of an officer of the Senate that had been used as a barroom. A Dili for the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls was roferred to the Commerce Committee, and the ‘Dill to reannex Alexandria, Va, to tho district was re- ferred to the Judiciary Commiitea, In tho House, the motion to suspend the rules to enable Mr. Price to introduce his compound interest note re- domption resolution was lost. The business on the Bpeaker's table being taken up, the resolution appro- Ppriating $600,000 for the Paris Exposition purposes was passed. A Joint resolution providing for a commission to dotermine on the claims of Northern creditors to cer- tain money seized by the Unitod States forces in New Orleans and paid into the Treasury, which was offered by Mr. Batler, was passed. A joint resolu- tion of sympathy for Ireland was introduced ‘Under @ suspension of the rules, and referred to the Committec on Foreign Affairs, A resolution requesting ‘the Speaker to appoint that committee immediately, in ‘view of events tranapiring on the Northern frontier, was adopted, after a short deba’e upon it, A motion to @uspend the rules 80 as to allow Mr. Stevens to introduce ‘8 Joint resolution reappointing the Committee on Recon- struction was rejected by 87 yeas to 60 nays, a two-thirds ‘Voto being necessary for its adoption. Pending a motion fo refer the Tariff bill of the last Congress to the Com- mitioo of Ways and Means, the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday notico was given of bills to Incorporate an East River Bridge Company and to amend the Metropolitan Health Bill. A bill for an @evatod railway was introduced. The bill to provide for tho election of a Board of Assistant Aldermen and to abolish the Board of Councilmen in New York was Passed, and also the bill relative to @ quarantine in the Port of New York. The Board of Public Works bill was Gonsidered in Committee of the Whole, and the exacting Clause wes stricken out, thus virtually killing tra din In the Assombly tho Constitutional Conveution bill was received from the Senate, and the amendments ‘boing non-concurred in a committee of conference was ‘asked for, Bills were noticed for the incorporation of en East River Bridge Company; tho regulation of tone- The nomination of this ticket in the South | This fact may be an incentive to the English | the number of German emigrants was 2,829, would operate so powerfully upon the North- | reformers to adopt'those “other means of re- | 4nd during that of the year previous only 547. ern public mind, in behalf of a general am- | dress” which Jobn Bright alluded to in one of | Since the Ist’ day of January 6,719 Germans nesty, that this Fortieth Congress, by a two- | his late letters. Looking at the whole condi- | bave landed at this port alone. thirds voto in each house, would proclaim it, | tion of things in the British empire'at the pres- | New York had become, it is said, the third in ordor to ratify this Southern proposed treaty | ent moment, there appears to be serious appre- | “rman city in the world even previous to this of peace, harmony, fraternity and reunion, | hension of # general revolution. large influx of German emigration. German in the names of Grant and Lee. And what a enterprise has found its way into every chan- splendid consummation this would be—uni- | New York City Commission Bills in the Legis. | nel of business activity in our metropolis. He versal harmony supéradded to universal lib- tature—Tinkering at Reform, that runs may read the multiplied signboards erty, universal equality and universal suffrage, | The State Senate vary properly yesterday | which everywhere attest the increase af the “excepting Indians not taxed.” Grant for rejected the bill to establish a Board of Public | German element. Its growth in our midst is President and Lee for Vice President, and | Works in New York. The enacting clause was | sometimes curiously enough illustrated. Thus Union and rebel soldiers from all our battle- | stricken out by a vote of nineteen to five in | a large fashionable hotel on Broadway has fields, from the first Bull Run to Appomattox | Committee of the Whole, and a vote to disagree | boen completely transformed, even to its name, Court Honse, walking, like South Carolina and with the report of the committee and recommit | from an American to a German hotel; and Massachusetts, arm in arm, and voting tho | the bill was defeated by nine to twenty. This | one of the principal life insurance companies same ticket of Grant and Lee, Let the South- | ¢mpbatic expression of the views of the Senate | in New York has undergone, at least in one df ern newspaper press proclaim this ticket and indicates the failure of the whole batch | its departments, a somewhat similar transform- it will carry everything before it—reconstruc- | f bills introduced under the guise of | ation, while at the same time retaining its origi- tion, the negro vote, a general amnesty, the New York city reforms, but which, in truth, | nal name, which is peculiarly appropriate to next Congress and the next Presidency. if passed into laws, would only increase | this city of the old Knickerbockers, and also its Meantime, let hesitating Southern politicians, | the evils under which the city suffers | extensive American business, Its enterprising upon this tack of reconstruction, remember and add to the present heavy taxation. Such | American president, on the eve of his recent that the sword of impeachment still hangs over | Of the representatives at Albany as are hon- | departure on a Southern tour, gave a farewell the head of President Jobnson, and ‘that | °Sly in favor of protecting the taxpayers of | dinner in true German style to more than fifty whether it Is to be withdrawn ultimately or | the city and desirous of securing the substantial | German agents, whose work lies entirely among brought into action will depend upon his use | *4 actual reform of our municipal govern- | the German population of New York and its of the opportunity which will be given himfor | ment should vote against all these new | vicinity. The same American company has a 8 faithful execution of the law. schemes. The people do not ask that the | flourishingagency in Dresden. We now havein i expenditure of their money and the distribution | New York not only German meerschaum man- New York City Rallroad Jobs iu the Legista- | of city patronage shall simply be transferred | ufactories, German breweries and lager beer ture. from one set of hands to another, What they | saloons, but also German churches, schools, The New York city railroad jobbers have | wish ig that an effective and economical system | newspapers, bookstores, theatres—in fine, all fairly opened their batteries and commenced | of government shall be given them which will | interests, professions and trades have their Ger- in earnest their annual bombardment of the | do away with official corruption and reduce the | man representatives. Music is almost monopo- State Legislature. Bills have been poured into | taxes below twenty million dollars a year. We | lized here by our Teutonic fellow citizens. The both houses for new surface roads up and down | have now a number of independent commissions | orchestra of every theatre is largely composed and across the city, from one end of the island | and boards, each acting without responsibility | of German musicians. Several of the great to the other. Treading upon the heels of the | to any common municipal head, often coming | metropolitan musical socicties, the Liederkranz underground projects, the proprietors of which | into conflict one with another, extravagant in | and the rost, are exclusively German. The bullied the Senate committee into a favorable | their expenditures and inefficient in their ope- | great Germar actor, Bogumil Dawison, would report, comes the “original Jacobs,” the surface | ration. We want no addition to these bodies. | find either of our German theatres, if enlarged road along Broadway and Lexington avenue, | The best thing the Legislature can do is to | to twice its size, too small for the crowds of his This scheme, by its magnitude, takes the prece- | turn the whole subject of the New York: city | compatriots who have applauded him in New dence and overshadows all others. Simulta- | government over to the State Constitutional | York. Our late carnival would haye been dull neously with this big job bills make their ap- | Convention, and to pass the bill to provide for | and dismal enough if it had not been enlivened pearance for routes along Fulton street, for | the eleotion of delegates to that Convention as | by German balls and masquerades. The Ger- elevated railways, experimental railways, a | soon as possible. The Conference Committee | man Republican Central Committees of this west side suspension and transverse railroads, | which has just beon agreed to should report in | city and Brooklyn have just memorialized the up town and down, after the fashion of | favor of the Assembly bill without any unneces- | Legislature, not against the Excise law itself, the smaller fish that swim in the wake of the.| sary delay. There is no doubt but @ woll | butonly against certain obnoxious features in shark. considered and officient aystem of government | it “which interfere with the supposed rights of The safoty of the people against all these | fot this olty will bo laid down io the new con-{ the people and thelr personal liberty.” Native lobby jobs seems to jie in the condict that is | e{tution, which will soquro real municipal | Americans, notwithatanding all the golitiqal effoct that the Indians are again becoming hostile. Gen. eral Crook killed sixty and took thirty prisoners at the battle of Steen mountain. A New Jersey Legislative committee ts engaged in in- vestigating the affairs andj management of the North river ferries, The Virginia aod Tennesse valley, from Lynchburg to Chattanooga, is suffering from the heaviest freshet known there during the present generation. ‘¥ The statement of Captain West, of the Andalusia, and of other officers of the vossel, rogarding her burning at sea recently, together with a list of the lost and saved, ‘will be found elsewhere Im to day's paper. Two more defalcations are reported in Baltimore. The ships Mary Giover and Washington went ashoro recently off Vancouver's Island. The people of Vancouver's Island are thinking about joining the Canadian confederation. Gen. George H. Thomasdecliines the nomipation for President proposed by the Union men of Tennessee. The building io Washington on the southwest cornor of Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street was destroyed by fire yesterday. Six or seven persons wore buried under the walls, whieh fell, and two bodies had been recovered up to midnight, Propesed New Peatal Facilities, extraordinary influences, seems to be From experiments which are now in opéta- tion it has ‘been demonstrated that the Post Office mails, and even passengers, can be con- veyed ata rate of from one hundred ‘to one hundred and fifty miles an bour with the most perfect safety, The pneumatic railway system by which this marvel is accomplished bas as yet been applied only to the transmission of the mails from one part of London to the other, but the capital has been subscribed and preparations are being made for a passenger line on the same principle. There are no en- gineering difficulties to be apprehended in the way of this new project; for the power. re- quired to carry a certain weight of mail matter will convey the same weight of passengers, and there is no limit to the increase of either. Congress should institute an inquiry at once into the advantages of the pneumatic system. If it finds theur to be what is represented it should establish pneumatic post routes over all the great lines of communication. As far as our opportunities of information are con cerned we are satisfied that the mails can be conveyed by this system four or five times as rapidly as by railroad, and that it will become a formidable competitor to the tele. graph, seems to us equally probable. People who can have messages and documents trans- mitted for the price of mail matter with sach rapidity will not be satisfied to pay exorbitant rates for incorrect abstracts of them. The adoption of the pneumatic mode of transmis- sion by the Post Office Department will no doubt lead to the appropriation by it of all the telegraph lines in the country, They consti- tate too great a power end are too corruptly managed to be left in the hands of companies or individuals. ‘As to the right of Congress to assume the control of the telegraplis there can be no ques- is tion, The constitution gives i. arbitrary powers as to the postal arrangements of the country. It can estabjish Post Offices “and post routes wherever it thinks fit, and do whatever else may bo neces- sary to perfect the postal service, When the ‘constitution was framed there was no idea of teloaragha or pneumatic or other railwaya: but Another Atiaatic Cable. We understand that negotiations have been on foot for some time on the part of the Em- peror Napoleon, with certain parties in this couatry, with the sanction of our government, to lay an Atlantic cable between Brest and New York. We have reason to believe, from the best authority, that the Emperor is not only most favorably disposed to the enterprise, but that he is willing to give all his influence to encourage the capitalists throughout France to embark in it, conjointly with the moneyed men of New York, such as A. T. Stewart, William B. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt, Marshall O. Roberts, and others on this side of the Atlantic. The advantage of such a line cannot well be overrated. The goveriment and Congress should take up the subject at once. Inasmuch as nothing can bind distant nations more closely together than telegraphic communication, can set matters of policy more clearly and speedily before the govern- ments on both sides of the Atlantic, it is de- sirable that we should not be dependent upon the caprice of the British government, which now controls the only Atlantic cable and mani- festly uses it for its own purposes. By the establishment of a cable to France we will have an opportunity of obtaining correct views of the state of affairs in Europe gene- rally, instead of being deluded, as we now are, by the garbled news which roaches us The Board of Councilmen mot yesterday afternoon, ‘and after passing a few unimportant resolutions received + (tiie tax levy from the Board of Aldermen. The orti- laid the Board adjourned til) : ; i i