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

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE X. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, oe No. 71 Volume XXXII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, Broadway, near Broome RATRE, BROADWAY THRAT ver ae street. —Saanpy Maccize—Aw Hour NEW YORK THEAT! ite New York Hoiel.—Miss Exur 0'C! EATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avtues the CuaPeau De’ Panis 'lzAtie GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dea Faesscuturs. woon's TEEATRE, oel.—Tax Wicd Tats Tas Roxwce Fisa Wire. DODWOnrH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proresson Hants wi. PervOR® His Mimacies—Tax ut THE AU Tus InptaN B48: Taick—Prorgus. Broadway, opposite St. Nicholas Gime MUNICLE ENTRRTALNMRNT— SAN FRANCISCO MINS7REL3, 58 Broadway, opposite the ge a = a Bruiorian NTERTAIN- prs r ANC: RLESQURS.—THE BLACK Coou-Tux Haauray Ourips. ee ELLY & LEON'S MINSTRI 120 BrosAway, sietne Now Yors Holst eis rama Sovas, Danes ‘goo ex. bern, ce yng &c.—Cinper-Leon—Madaqascar Baur UPE—Parti in Paris. 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THE RUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall. corner of way, at 7.—Movinc MiR- IXTY MAGNIFICENT New York, Tuesday, Marcn 12, 1867, —- oo THA NOW s.. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated yesterday evening, March 11. The Home Secretary of England announced to Parlia- ment that the news from Ireland was ‘‘good.” The Country is represented as tranquil and the Fenians moving rapidly to the mountains, The British army in the island is being organized into six flying columns for parsuit of the scattered Fentan bands, or, it is added, “for active service in case the necessity should arise.”” The Fenians encamped on the Galtee mountains have “vanished,”’ making an effectual retreat no one knows whither. ‘The Princess Alexandra, wife of the Prince of Wales, te seriously ill. The English bill for a subsidy to the Canadian railroad line isto be presented to Parliament ina few days. “Artemus Ward” willed the reversion of his property to found an asylum for printers. The Italian government has gained a majority of the elec- tons. Consols closed at 90%{ for money in London. United States five-twenties wore at 7444. The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet, with middling upiands at 1330. Breadstuffs and provisions quiet. Our special correspondence from Ireland, dated in Athlone on the 25th of February, contains matter of the very highest importance, which goes to prove that the Fenian insurrection in that country forms part of a revo- lutionary movement which is daily becoming more im- misent in Great Britain, and in which the Irish military Orgamization acts according to a clearly defined and strictly ordered plan. Of this plan the writer is enabled to speak confidently. Anticipating the last rising by many days, he, as will be seen, fixes the very day en whieh it occurred, and sketches pretty freely the coming Operations, such as the destruction of the telegraphs and railroads and respecting the safety of the Atlantic cable on account of “the American interests."’ . From this communication {t appears as if the Irish Fenians are controlied and commanded by military men of dis- tinction and experience, acting quite independently of James Stephens, CONGRESS. To the Senate yesterday bills providing for the regis- Sration of voters in the Territories; the adjustment of claims of citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to 1801; fer the defence of the northeast- era frontier; relative to the redemption of iands sold for taxes; and amendatory to the act defining the number and regulating the appointment of officers of ths navy, were introduced and appropriately referred. Resolu- tions of inquiry as to whother the sale of vessels to bel- Hgerent powers was lawful, were agreed to. The resolu- tion !ntroduced by Mr. Sumner declaring further guar- antees required in the reconsirction of the Southern States, was called up and debated. One section secures & piece of land to the freedman asa homestead. The resolutions were laid on the table by a vote of 36 yeas to 10 nays. A resolution directing the Secretary of War to furnish arms and equipments to the Gov- ernor of the State of Tennessee, to replace the arms and equipments of the militia taken by the rebels was re- ferred to the Military Committees, and the Senate soon efter adjourned, Te the House, under the call of States for bille and ree- olations, bills te construct ® ship canal around Ni- agate Falls, to guarantee to certsin States a re- publican form of government, to equalize bounties, and numerous others were referred to committees, The Committees on Foreign Affairs, Enrolled Bilis, and others Were appointed, Messrs, McCarthy, Washburne of Filineis, Biair, Myers, Robinson and Morgan, are newly pppointed members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, ‘Mesers. Banks, Orth and Culiom of the old committee being retained. bill supplementary to the act for the more efficient government of the rebel States, was reported from the Judisiary Committee. It provides for B registration of voters under the Sherman bill and the holding of Conventions in the Southern States. The Dill was debated by Mesars. Wilson, Wood, Blaine and others, and was finally passed by 117 yeas to 27 nays, ‘Leave was asked to introduce @ resolution of sympathy for Ireland, but Mr, Stevens objected and pending a inotioa lo suspend the rules, the house adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. Tu the Senate yesterday bills amending the code of pro- eodure as to witnesses; for the better protection of female employésin New York and for other purposes ‘Wore introdaced. Inthe Assembly the bill toamend the general rail- road law was reported. Several bills of a local or pri- ‘vate character were passed, and bills to incorporate the New York Associated press, for the better protection of Deaith and the suppression of vice in New York, and for the improvement of Atlantic street, Brooklyn, were Introduced, THE CITY. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon. A Tesolution was presented and iald over directing the Clerk of the Common Council to negotiate with Mr. D, A. Shotwell for the purchase of » complete file of the New Yous Herat for the last twenty-five years to be placed in the Olty Library, provided the cost doss not exceed $2,000, The Tax Lovy wns diseussed and amendments were made to the appropriations estimated by the Comp- trolier which amounted In the aggrogate to $85,900. The Board adjourned till Tharsday at two o'c lock, The Kings county Board of Bapervisors held « pro. tracted meeting yesterday afternoon and transacted » g00d deal of business, A resolution was adopted direct. {ng the proper committees to draft an act to empower Fe ae bonds for the purpose of ying the expenses of enlarging the present Nursery building or erecting @ new one, Bofors the New York Young Men's Roman Catholic Benevolent Association last evening, at Cooper Institute, rection of a monument at Calvary Cometery, Wil- members of the ‘Vamsburg, over the remains of former Father Fischer, to neutralize these family influ- to make him a bishop if he succeeds in retain- ing Max in Mexico. This accounts for Max's fite and starts one way and the other in NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. raise money enongh to sot afloat Fenian privateers and | Message from the President Through Private men-of-war immediately. Mules O’Reilly—The Financial Aduirs of the An extensive system of burglary has been broken up Country. Although President Johnson did not think proper to send in a message to the Fortieth Congress at the commencement of its first ses- sion a few days ago, he has issued ono in- formally to the country through Private Miles O'Reilly and the columns of the Citizen. It is in the form of a letter from Washington, and is headed “A Talk with the President.” The views expressed, as well as the words gen- erally, are those of the President, and, as the writer says, “nothing has been set down to which the full assent of Mr. Johnson was not given.” This communication, which we copy in another part of the paper, refers mostly to the important subject of our national finances and national debt, though the political situa- tion of the country is treated of in connection with that. Whatever mistakes Mr. Johnson may have made in his conflict with Congress and the dominant party in power, we must admit he possesses a good deal of sagacity. Ho sees that the “main {issue looming up in the im- mediate future” is the great financial one, and that this “must swallow up all minor ques- tions.” We agree with him; we have repeat- edly asserted the same opinion. But while he is correct in this and expresses some sound views with regard to financial matters, the na- tional debt and the necessity of economy, he evidently is not master of the whole subject. He is confused, like one who gropes along with only flashes of light to guide him through darkness. He dwells gloomily on the prospect of repudiation and a great financial crash. There is a morbid exaggeration of danger in his mind which the actual condition of the country and the future prospect of our affairs do not warrant. Still we agree with him that something must be done to prevent great evils with which we are threatened. Our whole financial system must be remodelled; we must provide for lightening the burden of the na- tional debt and for its payment in the easiest manner possible, in order to prevent the ques- tion of repudiation being agitated. He says truly that ifthe debt be made too burdensome the people will begin to talk of repudiation. “Our debt might be easily paid,” he asserts, “provided the brakes against excessive ex- penditures could be turned on quickly enough; but now is the appointed time, and now or never the work must be commenced. If that debt is ever to be paid we need economy in every branch of the public service.” The President comments severely on the extravagant and reckless appropriations of have lost nearly $8,000 by burglars during the past few weeks, and it was found on ‘xamination that the son of the habit of purloining the key which his father carried, Young Regntault is only seventeen years of age, All the parties were arrested, In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, a motion was made for temporary alimony in the case of Anna L. Murphy against Daniel T. Murphy, formerly a merchant of this city, and reputed to be worth $600,000, The action is brought for limited divorce on the ground of alleged cruelty. Voluminous affidavits wore read and the further hearing of the caso was set down for April 11, to allow counsel to procure additional evidence. In the case of the St, Nicholas and other national banks against the Comptroller, on mandamus to compel the delivery of bonds of the city to refund taxes paid by the banks on “certificates of indebtedness of the United States,” Mr. Justice Ingraham yesterday gave a pro forma judgment in favor of the city, to enable the cage to be heard before tho General Term of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals during its sessions in th A The “rial of John J. Skeean, charged with murder, ‘was sot down for yesterday in the General Sessions, but fm consequence of the absence of a material witness the case was postponed till Thursday. The Grand Jury brought in a large number ‘of indictments, and the prisoners when arraigned pleaded not guilty, In the Marine Court, yesterday, before Judge Hearn, in the case of Dumont va. Pokorney, which was an action to recover $500 damages for alleged breach of warranty in the sale of dye stuffs, the court non-suited the plaintiff on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence to show that there had been a warranty. Acase is pending in the Circuit Court, in Brooklyn, before Judge Gilbert, wherein a woman ciaims $5,000 damages for the death of her husband, who was killed by the fall of a building, alleged to Have been defective. The defendant owns the building. The elegant sidewhoel steamship Quaker City will renew her regular trips to Charleston on Saturday, the 16th inst, The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold closed at 13456. ans markets yesterday were somewhat irregular. Cot- ton opened firm, and a good business was in progress at rather higher prices, till towards tho close, when holders were free sellers at about previous prices, Naval stores were dull. Petroleum rather more active, Groceries quiet, On 'Change flour was firmer, Whoat advanced Je, a2c¢ per bushel. Corn was firm at previous quota- tions, Oats, rye and barley ruled a shade in sellers’ favor under an improved demand. Pork opened dull, but closed firmer, Beef was steady. Lard firmer. But- ter and chesse quiet and heavy. With a supply at the national yards not excecding 1,400 head, the market for beef cattle exbibited a fair dogree of firmness, though but little activity; still the offerings were disposed of at an improvement of 3<c. a 4gc. per Ib., the advance being more perceptible upon fairish cattle, which constituted the balk of the receipts. Extra lots realized 174c., first quality 163gc. a 17c,, and fair to good 1530. a 1634., while common ranged from 12¢. to 150, Milch cows were less active and heavy, though prices were without quotable change, ranging at from $40 to $125. Veal calves, andor increased receipts and a moderate demand, have declined to 130, forextra, 12c. a 12}gc for prime and 9c. a 11¥%c for inferior tocommon. The market for sheep and lambs raled firmer, in view of a limited supply and a vigorous demand; extra sold as high as10c.a 10%; prime 9X0. 29%c., while inferior to common realized 7340. a 9c. Consequent upon the Lental sessoa the hog market has ruled dull,-and a decline of fally 3c. por Ib. has boon conceded, the market closing heavy at the concession; yesterday twenty-six car loads were on gale, which commanded the following prices:—8. a 83¢c. for heavy prime corn fed, 7%c. # 8c. for fair to gfod, and 70. a ‘TX. for common and rough. The total receipts were 6,083 beoves, 72 milch cows, 702 veal calves, 12,953 sheep and lambs and 16,860 swine. MISCELLANEOUS, The dates from Mexico city are to the 16th, and from Sisal to the 234 ult., and come by way of Havana. The, Uberais gate ‘bombarding Campeche, in Yucatan, and had captured the artillery sent to the relief of tho im- perialists In the town, The remainder of the nows is mainly confirmatory of former intelligence received. From Mazatian the dates are to February 28. Juarez had declared a genoral amnesty to all political offenders, Ho bad arrived at San Luis Potosi, Lozada was enforc- ing bis noutrality im the province of Tepic. Maximilian was at Queretaro with his army, ten thousand strong, commanded by Miramon, Castillo and Mejia Marques had been appointed Chief of Staff to the Emperor. Esco- bedo waseighteen leagues distant, waiting the arrival of Regules and Corona, with twelve thousand men, when he would give the Emperor battle, In taking command of the army, Maximilian sald that he had long wished for the opportunity, but being now free from compro- mises he could follow his sentiments, Canales had re- belied again, and civil war was imminent in Tamaulipas. Our Havana correspondence, dated March 6, says that there is considerable mystery attending the movements of the Spanish men-of-war who left that port on the 4th inst. The greater part of the crew and passengers of the Ciudad Condal had arrived, among them several prominent adherents of Maximilian. The shipwrecked Texans, who were emigrating to the Brazile, were taken care of by the Portuguese Consul. From St. Domingo information comes that all Mr. Frederic Seward is known to have done on his recent visit to that republic was to supply Mr. Sommers Smith with bis necessary credentials as Minister Plenipoten- ary. The right ef exploring for guano on the islet of Altovelo was ceded-to an American. Chilean and Pera- vian privatecrs had been refused certain ports which emivsaries of those governments had been attemptiig to obtain for their use. Secretary McCulloch has issued a circular to the col- lectors of customs in reference to the privilege of cart- ing merchandise from vessels to bonded warehouses or general order stores, The Legisiatares of Indiana and Tenness:e yesterday adjourned sine die. An extra seasion of the Nevada Legislature is dema: 4- ed by the people of that State, but the Governor refuses. to call it unless a revenue bill is agreed upon before. hand, and the members pledge themselves to pase it. A large democratic mass meeting was held in Bridge- port, Conn., last night. Mr. A. H. Dawson, formerty of Georgia, and Green Clay Smith, Governor of Montana, addressed the assombiage, ‘The First National Baak of Hudson, N. Y., which sus- pended recently owing to the alleged defatcations of Hasbrouck, the cashier, will resume business to-day with new cashisr in office. Awomen named Welsh was found on the roadside, Dear Germantown, Columbia county, N. Y., on Saturday, dead, and the body brutally mangted about the head with stones, Her husband was arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed, Two men, calling themselves William Stripp and Wil- Ham Canningham, were arrested on Sunday night, charged with brutally outraging a woman named Ada Lamb, who was at the time a guest 6t the Tontine Branch Hotel, on West and Cortlandt streets. Strip is sald to have been indicted in this city on a charge of murder some years ago, but fled to Bermuda, Maxmauy, His Faur.y anv Hts Conressor.— The Paris Avenir Nationale says that the family of Maximilian urgently advises him to return home ; and the Mexican clergy, hearing of that and knowing the vacillating spirit of the pseudo-Emperor, are using his confessor, and he warns the “bondholding aristocracy,” who have controlled in a great measure the action of Congress, that they are working for their own ruin; Mr. Johnson does not point out specifically the way of safety, though his remarks of a general character about economy and go forth are well enough. He does not see the way clearly; probably he has never studied the subject much. It is a subject, however, of the first importance, as he says, and if he would maké himself master of ithe could recover bis popularity and make himself the foremost man in the country. What should be done, then, to save us from financial disasters and the perpetual burden of an enormous debt, or, as Mr. Johnson thinks, from repudiation? First and foremost Con- gress must check its reckless extravagance in appropriations of the public money. In fact, it ought to retrace its steps in this respect and undo much that it has done. Nothing short of strict economy in every branch of the government cansaveus. The enormous grants for bounties and other purposes must be stopped. The next thing to be done is to abolish the three hundred millions of national bank cur- gency by substituting non-interest bearing legal tenders in place of that. With these three hundred millions of legal tenders the government could buy up or cancel the bonds mow deposited as security by the banks for their circulation. The govern- ment would save about twenty millions a year by this operation in the interest on the debt. Practically the debt would be reduced three hundred millions. And who would suffer? No one but the national bank mo- nopolists. Injustice would be done to,nobody. The volume of currency afloat would not be increased ; it would be simply substituting il tenders for national bank notes. There would be this advantage, too, that we should have a uniform and « better currency. The banks could do their business with legal tenders just as well as with national bank notes, They are now a most dangerous moneyed power and political machine, If per- mitted to retain their privileges they will ab- sorb all the profits of industry and control the destinics of the nation. Let the axe, then, be put to the root of these dangerous establish- ments, ; Another plan that should be adopted to lighten the burden of the debt is to pay off the debt as it becomes due by the issue of legal tenders at whatever might be their value in the market. This should be done, however, as gradually as possible to avoid « great flood of paper money. Then, in order to keep the volume of currency within reasonable bounds, the legal tenders should be made convertible at the option of the holder into three per cent eonsols, If the circulation should become very redundant the legal tenders would soon find their way into these consols. The gov- ernment would not break faith with its oredit- ors; for their action would be voluntary. Though these creditors may not have given more than fifty per cent on the dollar for the debt originally, they would be paid when it should becomefdue at the market value, and could convert their greenbacks into consols or not as they might chose, The debt would thus become consoli- dated and uniform and would bear but a low tate of interest. This, of iteelf, would operate as a sinking fand to a great extent; but there should be established ® permanent and an inviolable sinking fand, based upon some fixed income, with a view to extinguish the whole debt within & given time. The entire system of internal revenue and imposts should be revised. Instead of the present complicated and cumbersome system, which eats up @ large portion of the revenue in carrying it out, only a few articles of luxury and general use should be taxed. The Bri- tish government raises a large revenue, with comparatively little cost in collecting tt, in ences. The clergy have promised the confessor the republic. ‘ Ruwstorr w New Onteans—We understand that Ristori has made one of her grandest suc- cesses yet in New Orleans, which is all the more surprising because that city is not very flush of money. Her receipts for.twelve repre- sentations were nearly $40,000, She made the Greatest sensations in two tragedies which she never played in this country before—Myrrha and Victor Hugo's Angelo, The New York public will be anxious to see the great trage- dienne in these retarn city text month.” ““# aio a Congress as hurrying us on to repudiation, this way. We might do the same or better. At present the cost of collection and the enor- mous frauds make our taxes doubly as burden- some as they ought to be. With these reforms the income tax—which yields little, compara- tively, and which is odious—might be abol- ished. So might many other taxes, equally or more obnoxious and paralyzing to the industry of the country. If the President will take up these important financial reforms, study them thoroughly and lay them before Congress and the people in a statesmanlike manner, he may prevent the evils which threaten us, and can make himself a name that will live when his political ene- mies will be forgotten. pci cacao Barnum in Distress—A Call Upon the Radicals ef Congress. A cry of distress comes over to us from Con” necticut in behalf of P. T. Barnum, and we do pity Barnum. The Philistines are down upon him as they came down upon Samson, when “heaps upon heaps” he Jaid out a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass. Barnum, with the shoulder blade-of the woolly horse, is doing the best he can ; but he lacks the strength ofSamson. Moreover, his right hand man, Tom Thumb, is abroad, and cannot come to his rescue, because, we suppose, of the death of that “blessed baby.” (By the way, can Mr. Oakey Hall give us any account of the fate or manifest destiny of that “blessed baby” of Bond street?) Barnum wants help. “ Grizzly Burleigh,” in his cause, has proved a flasco ; General Logan, who made a flank movement into Connecticut in support of his fellow sol- dier, General Hawley, on finding himself con- fronted by Joyce Heth, made a flank move- ment out again. -“ Who is there to mourn for Logan?” Notone. Governor Hahn, of Loui- siana, knows something about alligators; but Feejee mermaids are not in his line. Greeley, who would run “just once” the gauntlet of the first Bull Run for a Fourierite phalanx, shrinks with benevolent disgust from Barnum’s pha- lanx of owls and monkeys, cats, rats and dogs, allin the same cage. Is not this likewise a clear case for Mr. Bergh in the matter of heart- less cruelty to animals? .Is not this thing a thousand times worse than 9 dog fight? It has been suggested that if Barnum would parade his caravan of monstrosities around his district “tree gratis, for nothing,” he might get up a hurrah and do something among the yeomanry. But, as when a member of our Board of Aldermen is understood to be up to his ears in a job, he is said to be “on the make,” so Barnum is “on the make,” and a froe caravan wouldn’t pay. Whether we con- sider this political campaign of his an adver- tising dodge or a movement for another book on humbugs, there is money in it for Barnum, elected or rejected. He objects to making contributions to the party on the score of patriotism ; but the republicans who support him may make as many contributions as they like. “Heads I win, tails you lose.” Woolly horse or California jackass, just as you like. “You pays your money and you takes your choice.” . John Morrissey went into Congress with a rach, because he came down like a prince— sixty thousand dollars, they say, down on the nail. Whereat the democracy rejoiced, and great was the slaughter of the Amalekites, the wind from right hand olearing the track also for Mr. Brooks and Fernando the first and Inst. But for lack of “der monish’’ Barnum’s chariot wheels drag heavily, and for lack of speakers he 'is losing ground. So now, in this difficulty, as in every other, we tarn- to Congress for relief. Tho present session, we guess, will be closed in season to give the members returning homeward chance for a liftto Barnum in Connecticut, to lighten this dead weight upon Hawley. To this end Gene- ral Ben Butler, with his famous trick of bot- tling himself up, would be the very thing for Barnum. Ashley, too, in Connecticut, as the roaring sea liom against Andy Johnson, would astonish the copperhends. Mr, Raymond as the “What Is It?” would bother ’em; Long John Wentworth as the Belgian giant would seatter them; and in seeing “old Thad Stevens” they would see the white elephant of Congress in all bis glory. With same other members to fill the parts of the bearded woman, the “fat man of Bombay,” the living ekeleton, the ox with three horns, the beast with seven heads and ten horns, and the nigger turning white, and with some repenting one-legged rebel to show off Santa Anna’s wooden leg, the Barnum plan of operations in Connecticut would be complete and it would sweep the ficld. By the beard of the prophet! we like the scheme. We call upon the republicans in Congress to stand by their new leader and their new plat- form in Connectieut. After the terrible revo- lution and the stern moral reign in Englaod of the Puritans came the jolly reaction under the harum scarum “merry monarch,” with his barem and his Black Crook diversions, when religion and morality were “whistled down the wind,” and bear dances, bull baitings, show- men, free concerts and the hangman were the order of the day. We, too, have passed through the ordeal of a great revolution, and @ great reaction is upon us. It opens like that of under Charles the Second, and for this “hail fellow well met” for fanny tricks, Charley, in his day, would have gone, with all the beauties of his court,§ to electioneer for Barnam. In this direction the republican party is now drifting in Connecticut, and the radicals of Congress, in going with-the tide of reform, such as it is, are called upon to gite a lift to Barnum. If Barnum will not bleed for his party the party must bleed for Barnum. We can’t all be captains. The Opening Ceremon' - Buatiding. A sensible correspondent writes from Pitts- burg as follows :— Are you Sat ten the new Henao bulding with any Please let me know in ti I have more desire to see your new building, with ite machi than ing else in New Yi fone be ay onus fea this spring, and shoul ike desks, and proceeding with their daily duties, About the same time a through the grand front on Broadway, and, filing into line, will proceed to thetr advertisements for the next | tions of Spanish Minister in this country with po = waaay Om and to pay | great credit, is about te-return to Spain imme- their cash over the counter for the same, receiv- | diately, where, no doubt, after his long resi- ing back their change and taking their depar- | dence among this republican people, he will ture. This will continue uninterruptedly all day be very useful to the liberal party in their con- and until. a late hour in the evening. If our | templated revolution. He carries back a’great correspondent and any number of his friends | fund of enlightened ideas with him. desire to witness these ceremonies they can Sees join the latter procession and pay an amount When Job had lost all his worldly goods, hie from fifty cents upwards, when they will POF) 065 ang camels and oxen and asses, when only enjoy the grand spectacle of ‘the openiNE | she great wind coming from the wilderness had OF a ruina: Yas will havo Me erat | smitten, the four corners of bis house so that it fication of reading their advertisements in print fell pon bis young men and destroyed them, daa nest days ‘ and when his person had become.covered with sores from the sole of his foot to the crow. of his head, so that he was an offence to the eye il, his finding bim py = m2 himself and. everybody else, gave him this piece of advice, “Curse God and die.” She honestly believed that there was nothing else for him to do. "The last organ of the Northern copperheads remembers the advice of Job’s wife and is dis- posed to follow it. Through the instrumental ity of Satan, who is “going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it’ in 1867, as he was 1520 years before Christ, the copper- heads have lost all their worldly goods, and the great wind from the wilderness bas Demeralization of fhe Theatres. In another column will be found an excel lent article from the Round Tably a weekly paper of some pretension, on the low condl- tion—intellectual and moral—of our metro- Politan theatres. Severe as are its strictures, they will not be found to be exaggerated. For the last few years the tendency of theatrical performances in this city has been to appeal to the passions, and not to the cultivated tastes of audiences. We have had in them all the worst features of the modern French drama, without its artistical attractions. As the jour- nal to which we refer justly observes in allud- ing to a piece of this character which has held destroyed their young men, and their body the boards of one of our Broadway theatres has become offensive through corruption, and for many months past, “They give us all its their heads are very sore, and they sit among inaatineaty scnROReANe- Ce Rete the ashes; and so their last organ, finding itself When Ristori came here we had hopes that in a God-forsaken condition, curses George the enjoyment of the legitimate drama, as Washington and prepares to give up the ghost. presented by that great tragedienne, would In its malignant tirade this copperhead arouse a spirit of emulation in the managers grumblercan find no virtue in the Father of of our theatres and induce them to follow #0 | 4; country. It says :—It would be difficult profitablean example. We were satisfied, and | 1, pane an idea in our politics or a feature of nothing has since occurred to make us change | ,,, government for which we are indebted to that opinion, that the public would have sus-| 1. Nor is there any siate paper of surpass tained them in the effort. With the exception ing ability that can be fairly called bis. His of Messrs, Wallack and Stuart none of them farewell address, the most celebrated of his pro- made any attempt to turn to account the re-| auctions, the only one, in fact, which is much vival of correct dramatic taste, for which we remembered, was written for him by others.” were indebted to the great Italian artist. | sj ory, which was once the idol of the copper But these gentlemen, so far from compre- heads, is urged against Washington by the hending the true nature of the reforms | 114¢ organ as an offence, and it is said, “the needed, expended their time and money on fact that Washington emancipated his slaves in mere scenic improvements. These are all very his will is no alleviation ; for, in the first piace, well in their way ; but they do not fulfil the he bad no children to-whoms they ooyld bavg requirements of the regular drama. Of bow | a.scended, and in the next place it takes away small account they really are we had evidence | 14) arouse of ignorance.” in the fact that the pieces in which Ristori But the chief assault is made against Wash-. achieved her-gupnteel.spempen Deke We'e,,60 ington “as a rebel.” The following extracts ~ far as the mere accessories went, as indiffer- show that the copperhead design is to make ently presented as they well could be. The the crime of the Southern traitors a] white truth is. that the managers of Wallack’s and the by hlackeakig the fame of Wadhingtea += Winter Garden think that when they ees _Sshiogion's vito of bi ath wa ee axle creditable mise en sctne to their pieces than that of 1 rel inasmuch as work is done. The quality of the acting is of | Pot peu cauosted ine bellet ties oie erranee minor consideration, and therefore it is that at | crown 4 ‘on the colony’s consent, and both their establishments there are only to be colony hada rightful authority to withiraw Dis giance and cancel the oath. Men’s belie(s on such found second or third rate artists, Take the —— best of them—Mr. Booth—and measure him by | more sincerely in the Fope, than, the, Southern, the standard of Ristori, and into what small | oc their sovora Sine. Bat ening suey proportions doos he not dwindle! Those who | sine the violated solemnity of an cath of ellegians, ‘ th rave about high art as revealed to us through the performances of such exponents as Mr. Revolution did to Washington, * * © Booth talk sheer nonsense. They give us its | only ciroumstance ja which ther diftered. from Tass. form, but not its soul ;.for'we look vainly for those great moral end intellectual features | Nov Jersey, he wot tho vengeance. of jhe goverumeas % the moral jt of mame which shotid live and breathe in it. Berg and pe odganea s Of course, after such representations as those of the great Italian tragedienne, it is not to be expected that our public will turn with any- thing like satisfaction to such spiritless substi- tutes, All the skill of the brush and paint-pot will not compensate for the loss of the glowing creations of her genius. What is wanted in our dramatic representations is not so much color in the accessories as in the action itself. afflicted, “played out’ last organ of the de- mocracy has only one thing left to do:—Lot it “curse God and die.” The Union Comont—Grant and Lee. The proposition .of the Hmmatp to unite the 5 & disgust from the sickly simulation of it pre- fice sented elsewhere on our boards. Is it surpris- | 1078! people North and South, and will never be tolerates, ing, then, in the absence of the exciting and | ° Gonerst Grant, precasn ak elevating influence exercised by the genius of veneration of the great Italian actress, many should relapse and the respect of alt into the patronage of a theatre like Niblo’s, General Lee enjoys the affection which offers them a different kind of excite- tion of the South and the ot of ment, or that the success of the indecent exhi- General Grant isa patriot who bitions which are presented there should saved his country in the field. encourage the other theatres and places of was s rebel, but confesses now that he was amusement to vie with that establishment 19 | wrong, and repents of his former the effort to demoralise and ruin the youth of | 3. or our city? y i chee i with us in the effort to stem the torrent of cor- ruption which is being let loose upon us through the medium of the theatres. By ful- filling with stern impartiality their duties as critics, by discouraging the loose and danger- ous adaptations of the modern French drama, #0 much in vogue with managers, and endeav- oring te bring our stage up to the standard of moral and intellectual excellence exhibited by the representations of Ristori, they will be best respondent as he compliments us, but we will say to him that it would be to his advantage to take a few lessons of some of his neighbors in good language and decent man- ners, and that if we can succeed in the North and South and restoring peace, good will and prosperity to every part of the Union, we shall be content to allow him all accomplishing that object. degraded associates to call us “a d—— fool” as long as we live, and to engrave the titie The re Minister tn bdormimgagy and upon our tombstone when we die, view of the proposed convention to be held in tors sensibly object to taking their own medi- that city during next month. It is quite pro- | cines; but a good physician can have no such bable that Sefior Gofii has been clothed with | scruples, and the Zribune will proceed to put authority to represent the Spanish government | its precepts into practice by at once resuming on this occasion provided that Peru, Chile, Boli- | specie payments in its own business and set- via aad Eouador should consent to the amicable | tling all its Mabilities in coin. We therefore proposals of our government in the direction-} advise all who have bills against the Tritune— of peace. This will be a most important con- | paper manufacturers, printers, editors, report- vention in more respects than one. If it should | ers, correspondents, pressmen, tailors, haters, eventaate in effecting peace between Spain and grocers, bran bread bakers and bootblacks (if the republics now in conflict it will be pro-4 any)—to call at once at the Zribune counting ductive of material benefit to the commercial | room and receive their money in gold and interests of the latter, which havo been for so | silver, and report to us the result. distracte erted poston ae wanton roped = Tae Incomz Tax.—The annual inquisition of ; result would enforced the income tax is about to be again. relieve Spain from an embarrassing war it may sensibly affec This obnoxious tax—the spreading of every See een trict her statue in the New | cary bea and boutd before the publio—ts e World. For instance, the question ofher aban- | “*” ae Li “¥ tirely foreign to the spirit of American liberty, doning Cuba may be mooted at the conference commen for the frst time, and seriously urged If the republican party wish to d the ‘ 46 part | heavy taxes which the national debt has ron, of the compact into which the South American dered necessary to the favor of the people they republics may be disposed to enter, All the had bet ter repeal this obnoxious law, experience and sagacity of the now Spanish — oo may be required to deal VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE, — many cate matters not contemplated Ricmwowp, March 11, 1967, in the original programme. wamingion torignt to donfor: withthe govensincek Sefior Taseara, who bas performed the func- | abgus the reauiremente of the Sherman bul,