The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1867, Page 6

6 NiEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GOURD FDITOR AND PROPR! OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, MUSEMENTS TH ATR®, Broadway, near Broome maoee ex’ —An Hove IN SEVILLE. atreet,—Suanoy Macg ulwax, opposite New York ‘ORK THEA ~ otal o8—BwornER Bos. Hotel —Miss Ey O WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite St. Nicholas Motel.—Lapy's BarLe—Kary O'pmteLL, TADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—La Vou 4 La RouLapE—Lxs Datux Krouxps. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Paoressor Harts wiut Pearoum His Migagies—Tue Heap ix tus Am— Tux Inpian Basket TRICK—PRotevs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—[N rugin Ezaiorian ENTRRTALN- ments, SINGING, DaNcING AND Buncesques,—Tax Buace Coox—Tax Heauruy Curis. xl & LBOWS MINSTRSL3, 729 Broadway, oppo- sitethe New York ‘otal. —Iy rumin Sov3s, Danoss. Eco mx Tuicrting, Buruesques, &c.—CinveR-LEON—MADAGASCAR Batiet Troure—Parn iN Panis, A HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West jriery & Cunisty’s Minstrers.— Baccaps, Borvesques, £0.—Tae ux Biack CRoox. FIFTH AVENUE OP: ‘Twonty-fourth stre Ermorian Mustaet Ockax Yacat Race— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic Vocauism. Necko Munstrecsy, Bacust Diventisement. &c,—MASSANIELLO, OR THE FISHCATCHER. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Vamtery or Licur axp LavgHanLe’ ENTERTAINMENTS, Conrs DB Bauver, £c. ‘Tux Pevan's Oat. MRS. F. B. CONWAY’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Hiazarpous GRounn. HOOLEY’ SOPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortan Mrx- errsisy, LatLaps AND BURLESQUES.—Tux BLACK CROOK. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX. Union Hall. corner of Twenty-third street and Broadway, at 7%4.—Movina Mrn- kor OF THE Pitorim’s Procni IXTY MAGNIFICENT Scenag. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 3 o'Clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Heap axp Rigut Aru or Pronst—Tux Wasincton ‘Twins—Wonpers rx Natorat History, Scrence anp Ant. Lxerures Day, Open from 8 A.M. Ull 10P. M. TITUTE OF ART (Derby Gallery), 625 Broadway.— Exmmtion oF Paintixcs.—' Tue REPUBLICAN c ux Tax Days or Lixcoun. LYRIC HALL, corner of Broadway and_Forty-seventh sireet,—Lxcture BY THe Ruy, Gxoros F. Sermoun, “Tux CaTwEpRats ov ENGLanp.” New York, Thursday, reh 14, 1867, gis wews. EUROPE. The news by the cable is dated yesterday evening, March 13. Ireland ts reported quiet. In Limerick the inhabitants cheer the Fenian prisoners, Fenian agents have ordered tho people, by placards, not to pay the rents now falling due, and the papers are posted in the chief town of Tip- perary. The ex-Premier of Hanover challenges Count Bismarck toaduel. The Viceroy of Egypt refuses to pay his con. tingent of the Tarkish tax imposed on account of the Candian revolt. The proposed reduction of the charges ‘on messages by the Atlantic cable has failed, in conse- quence of the opposition of the original Atlantic Tele- graph Company. Consols closed at 9114, for money, in London—an ad- vance, United States five-twenties were at 74}¢ in London and 773g in Frankfort. The banks of Amster. dam and Berlin have reduced the rate of discount to three per cen‘, The Liverpool cotton market was active at an advance; middling uplands closing at 134g pence. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions dull, Our special correspondence from Presburg, the an- cient capital of Hungary, Berlin and Rome, published this morning, conta'ns matter of considerable interest in historical elucidation of our cable despatches relative to the political situation in Austria and Germany as in process of reconstruction, and the state of relations ex- isting between the Papal government and Italy. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Chair presented a com munication from the Secretary of War transmitting a statement of contracts for the medical department of the army for the year 1866. Mr. Trumbu!l, from the Judi- ciary Cominittee, reported adversely on the bil! confer- ring on territorial courts jurisdiction under the Bank- rupt law. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Com- mere», reported a joint resojution directing a survey for a ship canal between Lake Erie aud Lake Ontario, which was passed. Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a substitute for the House supplemental bill to the Recon-truction bill, but, Mr. Howard objecting to its consideration, it went over. ‘The joint resolution relating to the settlement of claims due to colored soldicrs was called up, and, after some debate, was recommitted to the Military Committee, In the House the Senate joint resolution of thanks to George Peabody was taken up and was opposed by Mr. Harding, of Iilinois, who declared that Mr. Peabody had mado money by the rebellion and given it aid and comfort. Towards the close of the session the resolu: tion was again taken up and passed. The Senate joint resolution, donating $1,000,000 for the relief of the destitute in the South was then taken up, and produced much discussion. Mr. Butler offered a substitute appropriating $1,000,000 to be expended in relieving the widows and children of Union soldiers starved to death in rebel prisona. Mr. Bingham urged the passage of the original resolution as an act of charity to the starving thousands in the South. After a somewhat lengthy debate the committeo rose without disposing of the bill. Mr. Banks introduced a bill to more effectually preserve the noutral relations of the United States, which was referred. The House then adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills for the relief of Mr, Wo0e, tate receiver of taxes in Brooklyn; incorporating the Stuyvesass Safe Deposit Company; against increas. ing the number Of wstaries; relalive to assessments in New York, and to discosinue a portion of Madison square, were reported favorably. 4 report relative to printing expenses was received from the Comptroller of New York. A bill was introduced to amona the jaw relating to registration of voters in New York. On tus. tion the Finanoe Committee was directed to report forth- with a bill appropriating $100,000 for the destitute people of the South; a bill appropriating $150,000 to continue the improvements of the Hudson river, was ordered to a third reading. Tne Senate then adjourned. In the Assembly a bill to provide for the construc- tion of a railroad in Christopher and other streets of New York was reported; also one to improve Atlantic street, Brooklyn. A resolu. tion was adopied aking for a committee to investi Gate the affairs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. A Dill was introduced to legalize certain acts of the Common Council of New Yor! ; also one to amend the Ret relative to the wharves and piers of Now York and Brooklyn. A resolution was adopted requiring the Me- (ropolitan Police Commis:ioners to vacate the premises now occupied by them in Fesex Market. The House then took @ recess until seven o'clock. The evening session ‘was devoted to the consideration of canal claims, ral of which were ordered to a third reading. =e THE city. A grand mass meeting of the Fenians woe hold Inst evening in Union square. Upwards of ton thousand per- fons were present, notwithstanding tho unpropitions Stato of the weather, and tho speakers’ platforms, which which wore handsomely illuminated, were surrounded by an anxious and earnest throng. Intenso enthusiasm prevailed, and “aid for Ireland” was evidently the ob. ject and Intention of the vast concourse, A large num. Jor of speakers addressed tho assemblage. | ‘othing of importance transpired at the headquarters | © the Gleeson branch of the Fenian party yesterday. | < -atribations were received from the circles in the «oantry, It was stated that private information bad Docn received to the effect that Sir Frederick Bruce had alvised the British government to allow no more news of the Fenian rising to be forwarded over the cable, and one at Newark to-morrow evening, The Fenian Con- vention at Chicago bas passed resolutions endorsing President Roberts and promising that the men in the field should be supported by money and means, Tn another colump will be found an interesting article an the ice business of New York, Tho supply of ice for the present year amounts to 598,000 tons, boing an excess ‘of 55,000 over that of thé previous year. This supply is distributed among eight companies, one of which owns over one-half of the entire number of tons. The Brooklyn Navy Yard bas been reduced to a peace footing, and ali of the departments put inorder. A large amount of work has been done there during the past five years, and much credit is due Admiral Bel! for the good condition it is now in, Naval officers say that the Dunderberg is not as formidable as our turretted Monitors, and point to the capture of the Atalanta and Tennessee, which are types of the Dunder- berg, a8 proofs of their assertion. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Fire Insurance Companies it was resolved that where the doors and windows of buildings located in streets less than eighty feet in width were so constructed as to admit of their being opened from the outside in case of emergency, a deduction of ten cents may be made from the standard rate, All stores which have hoistways, dummies, &¢., inside of the building, without iron coverings, shall be charged ten cents in addition to the standard rate. In the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2, yesterday, an action was brought by Henry J. Levy vs. A. H. Samuels to recover $5,000 damages for alleged false and malicious arrest, The defendant had charged the plaintiff before the United States Commissioner’s Court with embezzling a letter containing a draft im favor of the defendant and partner for $600, but the charge was unsupported on ex- amination. Sealed verdict to be rendered this morning. ‘The case of Atkins ot al. against Elwell et al., in which the plaintiffs sued for $15,000 damages accrsing from detention and repairs of the ship J. F, Chapman, which they had purchased of the defendants, and which, after completing a long voyage was fonnd to be very badly eaten by marine worms, was decided yesterday by a ver- dict for the defendants, The case, which is of peculiar interest to shipowners and marine insurance companies, occupied nearly a week in trial, A Spaniard named Carlos J. Banero was arrested yes- terday on a charge of having abducted a littlo girl from her mother at Havana At first he claimed to be her and disappear. nature. The present republican party of this country bas had a short reign, bat fis cam- paigns against the old effete demorracy have been those of the Great Napoleon sgainst Austria, “short, sharp and decisive.” Yet this powerful party, called into life for the pur- pose of arresting the exteasion of slavery, has fulfilled more than its appointed mission in the complete extirpation of slavery and in the elevation of the emancipated black race in the South to the radical ultimatum of civil and political equality. These great issues being settled, new issues must inevitably come into the foreground and a new organization of parties in reference to tho future policy of the general government. ‘EW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Appronching Collapse of the Republican Party—Mr. Johnson’s Policy. Parties, like nations, rise, flourish, decline It is the universal law of President Johnson, with the keen scent of an old politician, has struck upon the trail of the money question @s the great issne upon which our political parties are next to be divided. He is right in this; but his particular view of the impending conflict, as publicly detailed in his behalf by Private Miles O'Reilly, is dis- torted, exaggerated and full of mischict. It takes the broad, downhill road to repudiation, national dishonor and national bankruptcy, the only opposition programme against which this republican party may hold its ground until the debts (twenty-five hundred millions) of our great and terrible war for the Union are fully paid. Miles O’Reilly, however, though figuring in this matter as the private secretary and attorney of Mr. Jobnson for the Southern district of New York, has no doubt overshot the mark, as poets, in their flights of fancy, are apt to do. Nevertheless, the re- Legislature. If there be any seriousness, there- fore, in the application, it must eeme from weak interests desirous of fettering capital and enterprise. We denounce the movement as not merely a selfish but as an unconstitu- tional one; for it aims at a direct interference with the liberty of the press. For these reasons we call upon the Assembly to summarily re- ject the bill when it comes before them in a shape to be voted upon. It is not asked for by those most concerned in such @ measure, and it is certainly not applied for with a view of benefiting the interests of the public. pointed phrase- “ In the midst of emancipated Europe you would fain be a minister of Marcus Aurelius or of Trajan; for my part I demand to be a citizen of a free country.” The response of M. Rouher, as we have seen, satisfied the majority of the Legislature; but, like the French people, we must wait to see how well the imperial promises of which he is the mouthpiece shall be fulfilled. A Hint to European Rulers. No one who watches the course of political events in Europe can fail to be struck with the strong revolutionary tendency which it mani- fests. Even the so-called constitutional gov- ernments are afflicted by it. The progress of education and the influence of newspapers, the electric telegraph, railroads and steam navigation are unsettling all the old political ideas and originating new ones, The conflict of universal suffrage with dynastic interests in France, Italy and Germany, and the resistance that will be made to it by the ruling classes in England, will inevitably lead to a disturbance of the internal organization of those countries unless their rulers can find some counter check toit. Themost effectual would evidently be the origination of some great scheme or enter- prise which would enlist the enthusiasm of the various nationalities and draw off the restless spirits who are always ready for revolution. We know of none more likely to do this than a crusade to emancipate the Christian subjects of the Porte and to drive the Osmanlis out of Europe. If the Pope, like a second Peter the Hermit, would put himself at the head of the movement, he would win the admiration and esteem not only of his own subjects but of Proteste.nt Europe, and would perhaps save to his successors “the patrimony of the Chureb.”” Tte zeal which marked the first crusades How is Connecticut Going ?—Another Chance for Humbug Barnum. The republicans of Connecticut are in a terrible quandary. In the midst of an im- portant State election they find themselves adrift on an unknown sea, with all their former landmarks gone, and old nogresses, Feejee mermaids, learned seals, woolly horses and other monstrosities floating all around them. They discover that the people are coming out in April en masse, independent of party, to vote onthe great moral and political prin- ciples involved in the new issues that have taken the place of the slavery question and the reconstruction question, both of which are now settled and out of the way. All over the State the appeals of the republi- cans to the workingmen, their labor resolu- tions and their loyal speeches are covered up and hidden by the large posters of a small, swindling showman. They tremble for their whole ticket, Governor and all, under this state of affairs. Old Joyce Heth casts a black cloud over their hopes. They feel no confi dence in the tale of the Feejee mermaid, and the woolly horse is a nightmare to them. They publican party has reached its culminating point, and its leaders snd managers, in look- ing ahead, are becoming alarmed. As evi- dence strongly supporting this fact we pub- lish to-day a very suggestive Washington let- father, but afterwards confessed that he at one time cohabited with her mother, and had taken the child from her pazent on account of her ill-treatment of it. The prisoner says he is a merchant and was secretary to General Prim during the late insurrection in Spain. He was committed to prison. Later in the evening it was have good cause for alarm, but their case is not quite hopeless) We have already made an effort to aid them by calling upon the lead- ing members of Congress to come to their rescue. ‘These gentlemen do not respond. They are not usually averse to making a show would bear no comparison to the wild enthu- siasm which would characterize this modern one. All that is extreme, visfonary and fanati- cal in religion and politics would be swept into the tide, and for a generation at least the The Senate of the brotherhood (Roberts party) ‘as been called together ty Vico Prosidont James Gibbons. A masa mooting of Fenians (will be held at Trenton, N, J, this evening, averred that the prisoner had attempted to seduce the child, ‘The stock market was, on the whole, steady yester- day, the fluctuations being frequent but slight. Gold closed at 134%. ‘The fluctuations in gold and the unfavorable state of the weather acted as a hinderence to commercial opera- itons, yet there waa hnt little change in the general aspect of affairs as compared with Tuesday. The ac- tivity and buoyancy in breadstuffs was even more marked than on Tuesday, and a material advance was established, Cotton was active and decidedly higher on the strength of cable news quoting an advance to 18% a. a 131d. was steady. On ‘Change flour was active at an advance of Sc. to 15c, per bbl Wheat advanced 3c, ac, while corn was Sc. ado. higher. Oats also ad- vanced, being 1c. a2¢. higher. Pork was lower and irregalar. Beef ruled steady, while lard ruled frm. Freights were unchanged. Whiskey was dull and nom- inal. Petroleum was moro active, though heavy. MISCELLANEOUS. Our %ashington correspondence reports that General Grant has issued General Orders No. 10, assigning mili- tary commanders te the five districts of the South, in pur- suance to the Reconstruction bill. Generala Schofield, Sickles, Thomas, Ord and Sheridan command the first, second, third, fourth and fifth districts respectively. General Schofield has issued an order directing all officers * under the existing government of Virginia to continue the duties of thelr offices, He appeals to the people to obey and administer the laws with strict impartiality, so that tho exercise of military power may be avoided as much as possible. General Robinson, commanding in the absence of General Sickles, has announced the re- ceipt of a copy of the Military act, and declared it the law of the Department of the Carolinas, Our correspondent at Albany writes that at the Execu- tive session of the Senate yesterday the name of Colonel Emmons Clark was sent in ag one of the Fire Commis- sioners. This nommation having been made without the previous knowledge of the New York members, those gentlemen were highly indignant thereat, Tne breach between the two factions of the republican party was growing wider Matamoros advices trom the interior of Mexico to February 25 report that on that day Maximilian, with a strong column of troops, marched from Queretaro to attack the Northern republican army. It was probable that a battle would take place within a week from that date. The liberal General Lamer was to make a junc- tion with Corona’s army at Zelaga. Porfirio Diaz was near Puebla. Cortina was reported at Meier with @ decreasing force, composed of Amoricans The liberals in large force, under General Benavideo, were near Vera Cruz. and expected to occupy the city when abandoned by the French. The Imperial Commissioner at Vera Cruz had isvued a decree requir ing all parties travelling in the departm?nt to take out passports. Escobedo’s order for the execution of the Frenchmen captured in his recent battle with Miramon is published. The Courier of Mexico, in commenting shows that of over 300,000,000 francs borrowed for the empire only 34,000,000 have gone into the Mexican treasury. The same paper upon the Mexican debt, denounces the French in very severe terms. Our cor- respondent at Orizaba gives an interesting history of the Cordova colony. Our intelligence from the Central and South American President Prado, of Peru, had abandoned his dictatorabip and Cfigress had been regu A Dill had been presented to Congress in which it was declared that Peru would listen to no offer of mediation until Spain declared that the acts of her republics is important. larly instal‘ed. agents in the Pacific were in violation of international law, Our Lima letter contains no mention of the revo- lation in Pera; but our Panama correspondent reports that the revolutionists had defeated the government forces in two engagements, Revolutionary action was manifesting itself m the north, and revolts had occurred among the troops. Our advices from the United States of Colombia are to the effect that Mosquera and the Congress were still at war, Mosquera’s message to Congress was bombastic and egotistical. Both branches of the Legislature had disapproved all of his important measures, From Central America we learn that a serious outbreak, headed by General Cruz, had taken place in Guatemala. Martial law was promptly proclaimed, bat the rebels Succeeded in evading pursuit. The coffee lands of Costa Rica are to be improved by means of artesian wells. The exports of the Sandwich Islands for the year 1866 show a derease of $33,500, as compared with those of 1865. Alfred Caldwell, United States Consul at Hong- lula, resigned his post in January last, Harbor im- provements at Honolulu were being pushed forward. Some feeling was being manifested by the natives at the acquittal by a jury of whites of a man named Holden, charged with an attempted outrage on a native girl. Our Atlanta cerrespondent roports that the prejudice against négro suffrage in Georgia is gradually giving way. Tho freshets between Nashville and Atlanta had destroyed several railroad bridges, The people were anxious to have the reconstruction question settled, so that Northern capital could flow into the State and de- volop ita mineral and other interests, The freshets in the South and West are represented as unprecedented. The bridges south of Louisville have been carried away, together with culverts and land slides. The Ohio river is still rising, the buildings on the levee of Cincinnati being in from ten to fifteen feet of water, There has been great destruction of property in Indiana, Ilinols, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, Between New Albany and Evansville the river is thirty miles wide, Shawneetown is completely inundated. The damage in East Tennessee is estimated at] $2,000,000, Tne United States Court at Louisvilte have granted | damages in the sum of $56,000 for a steamboat seized by the Confederates at Paducah, Ky., in 1961. ‘The city of Paducah will have to pay the damages. The Log'slature of Maryland elected the Hon. P. F. ‘Thomas (Jemocrat) United States Sonator, ‘ war pn Geary, of Pennsylvania, has respited Alex- ylie, the uel ee condemned murderer, until Thursday, Thete wore two suicides at Key Wost daring Inst week, One ware young Prussian named Rodolph Ryor and the other Captain Ch: United Statos artillery, aries Simone, of the Fifth on middling uplands. Cotfee ter from George Wilkes to Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, written the next day afier the final passage of the new Reconstruction bill over the President’s veto. Wilkes is a'shrewd observer. As an expe- rienced man of the world, as gentleman jockey and radical politician, he knows a thing or two. He is evidently, likewise, as intimate in the councils of the radical camp at Washing- ton as Miles O’Reilly is with the private views of Andy Johnson on public affairs. The profession of a jockey, involving a thorough knowledge of all the points of excellence or inferiority in a horse, has been applied to some purpose by Wilkes in regard to politicians. As at a single glance, from his nostrils to his tail and his pasterns, Wilkes knows all about his horse, so in a single glance, under the same rules of judgment, he knows his politician. . In this respect the jockey, as a man of science and fixed facts, has an immense advantage in a view of the political situation over the poct and his flights of fancy. between Agassiz and Beecher in a description It is the difference of a Greenland whale or the woolly horse. Mark, then, what Wilkes says of the dilemma ot the radicals at Washington. He says that when the Reconstruction bill had become a law they saw clearly “that the man at the other end of the avenue, who now s‘ands utterly without a friend or a party, may in less than six months have at his back the compact power of thirteen States and all the copper- head party of the North;” that then, with its two-thirds of each house of Congress destroyed, the republican party will become demoralized and will perhaps be broken up. The only remedy, he contends, in order that the military machinery of Southern reconstruction may be given ‘into upright hands, is the removal of President Johnson. He must be removed, or with the weapon which has been furnished him in this Reconstruction bill he may demolish the republican party. This, then, is the radical difficulty at Washing- ton and the secret of the new movement for the President’s impeachment. It is manifest, how- ever, that since the passage of the Reconstruc- tion bill, and with the general belief that Mr. Johnson will “see the law faithfully executed” — it is manifest, we say, that this alternative of impeachment has so far lost ground in Congress that it may be considered as virtually abandoned. Let Mr. Johnson faithfully exe- cute these new laws of Congress, and even the impeachment investigation will be given up. He has the case in his hands, and by straight- forward, honest work he may by next Decem- ber have all the excluded States at his back in both houses of Congress. Of course this will produce a complete change in our present party organizations, in Con- gress and out of Congress, North and South; unquestionably, as Southern slavery and all its accessories will be settled, the money question in allits phases, national debt, national taxations, expenditures, currency, banks, everything, will form the absorbing question of the day, marking party lines as in the time of Jackson. In this view of the coming conflict, if Mr. Jobneson will only take time by the forelock, in a careful message to Congress, defining a well considered financial policy of reform, economy and retrenchment, he may still become master of the situation. The statement of his views of the tendencies of this financial question as given to the world by Miles O'Reilly is over- done. It puts Mr. Jobnson in a bad position and is operating to stren, ef J Chase and the political pipelayers'of his cial system. Twenty-five hundred millions of money are at stake, and Mr. Johnson owes it to the country to define liis position officially on this subject as soon as practicable in a message to Congress. The political advantages which are thus offered him, moreover, no shrewd, aspiring politician or wise statesman would overlook. To Mr. Jobnson here is still another golden opportunity which ought not to be lost. Superftaons Legisiation. We see that of Monday last a bill was intro- duced in the Assembly for the incorporation of the New York Associated Press, We should like to know the object of this measure. We are one of the principal membors of the asso- ciation, and we have had no notice or intima- tion of any kind that such a project was in contemplation. There is certainly some trick, some selfish interest at the bottom of it. The Associated Press has been established about twenty years, and none of those contributing most largely to its expenditure have ever felt or expressed an opinion as to the necessity of a charter. The members of ihe association are men of honor and intelligence, and canmanage their business without avy assistance from the European governments would be rid of all disturbing elements. There is no ruler more interested in such a diversion than Napoleon. He has arrived at a point where it will require all his wisdom and energy to cope with the difficulties of his posilion. If he were to take the lead in a movement of this kind he would at once emancipate himself from his embarrassments and compel the other European Powers to fol- low in his wake. He made a great mistake when he forced England to join him ip the Crimean war. That wasa step back to bar- barism. This would be a step forward and would conduce more to the consolidation of his power than all the experimental conces- sions on which he is hazarding his character for sagacity and boldness. of themselves; but they ar2 just now in a state of anxiety an4 trepidation, and are fully occupied with their own affairs. They begin to fear that the President has the power in his own hands of immediately reconstructing the Union on the basis of the constitutional amend- ment, under the Sherman Military District bill, and thus bringing the Southern States back before the next Presidential election, and they are too intent upon their efforts to reopen the reconstruction agitation to find time to hes'ow upon Barnum and his small swindles. Went- worth refuses to travel as the Belgian giant, when he may have more smelling duties on his hands at Washington. Ashley cannot consent to put on a roaring lion’s skin in the Barnum caravan, when he hag a call to play the more congenial réle of the jackass in Congress. Ben Butler will not bottle himself up for the amuse- ment of Barnum’s audiences, when he hasa chance of bottling up Audy Johnson by im- peachment. In this dilemma what is to be done? There appears to be only one way left of help- ing the humbug Barnum in his distress, The associated managers of the theatres, who made a bond of union with the twenty- five cent shownan about a year ago, are now bound to come to his relief. They should all take their companies and go down to Connecticut and perform there every night for Barnum’s benefit, all over the State, until the day of election. They will not be missed here. The Black Crook should take the lead and defy the blue laws. Wheat- ley, with his half nude ballet girls from France and England, should start at once on the friendly expedition and dance from one end of the State to the other. They would bring the naked truth before the eyes of the people and carry the State with a regular sweep. Stuart should take down Edwin Booth to delight the countrymen with his popular imita- tions of celebrated actors, Wallack should contribute his whole stock company or com- pany of “stocks” and play a series of his famous pieces dressed up out of old dramos and yellow covered novels. Maretzek, with his opera troupe, would prove a valuable addi- tion to the strolling companies, and their bad singing and worse acting would be no draw- back. They will not do for New York, but in Connecticut they will be considered superb. Their cracked notes will pass current in the nutmeg State. We believe that, on the whole, the associated managers will be more useful than the Congressional menagerie to Barnum ; and as his career as a small, swindling show- man has taught him always to turn every hum- bug to his own pecuniary profit, instead of going about the State making silly speeches that do not pay, be can follow the shows, sit at the doors and take in the twenty-five cents admission fee to each performance. One thing is evident—every republican is bewildered and alarmed, and the general inquiry is, “ How is Connecticut going? Some- thing must be done.” The Late Debates in the French Legisiature. The discussion in the French Legislature on the interpellation relative to the suppression of the address has resulted in a division favorable to government by a majority of 241 against 25 votes, The weighty and impressive speech of M. Rouher, the Minister ‘of State, affirming the liberal intentions by which the last reforms were suggested, together with the defection of M. Olivier from the opposition party, counter. balanced the effect of all the united logic ana eloquence of M. Jules Favre. But the voice of the latter commanded the attention of both parties and must-have awakened the deepest sympathy on the part of the French people. “He claimed,” says our Paris correspondent, “ the discussion of the address, not as a favor granted from the throne, but as an inalienable right of Frenchmen, and intimated that, as in some other cases in the history of France when the 80 had attempted to remove The Democratic’ National Committce and Their Orgaus. A meeting of the members of the Demo- cratic National Committce was held on Tues- day last at the residence of the chairman, Mr. August Belmont, and after a splendid enter- tainment the condition and prospects of the party and the*policy to be pursued in the future were maturely considered. The views ot the members in attendance were very freely expressed, and with much unanimity it was decided that any movement for a democratic convention at this time would be inexpedient and injurions. It was the opinion of the most experienced of the politicians present that no good could result from any proclamation of a democratic platform at this time, for the rea- son that the republican party is broken and divided within itself, with an evidently widen- ing breach, and that the shrewd managers of that organization would gladly avail them- selves of any declaration of principles on the part of the democracy to make issue against them and reunite their own ranks in opposi- tion to the common enemy. It was decided, however, to commence at once the labor of State reorganization throughout the Union. Tie democracy have a promising fulure be- fore them, if they can only be induced to act with greater discretion and judgment than they have exhibited for the past ten or twelve years, The financial issues which must suc- ceed the settlement of the question of recon- struction will bring the better part of demo- cratic principles into popular favor again, and the members of that party have it within their reach to shape the future policy and wicld the future power of the country. But they must cast aside their old prejudiced and embit'ered leaders and put the work of reorganization into new and young hands. It would be well, if not necessary, for them to change their name, as well as their old copperhead pro clivities; for both have become offensive to the people. The committee should have con- sidered and taken some action upon the lamentable condition of their party press. The recent reckless action of their principal organ in this city, in eursing Washington, as Job was advised by his wife to curse God, has created a great deal of trouble in the party, and we understand that many of the better class of democrats are casting about for a new organ. Tie beh le the democracy needs every- thing new if it desires anccess—a new press, a one al Hall in place of the old one, wi according to =e with its own corruption;” a Be new leaders and probably a new name. Thus purified, if they wait patiently until President Johnson has reconstructed the Southern States and opened the great financial questions of the country, they will have @ good chance of success. _ The Drift of the Fenian Mavewicht In Ireland, It is evident from the varied and somewhat conflicting accounts of the Fenian movement in Ireland that the germs of grave embarrass- ment for the British government are not only laid but are springing up and blossoming in that island. Evem assuming that the insutreo- tion may not accomplish all the ends sought for by those who are directing it, there will probably be great results arrived at which may materially affect the condition of the Bri- tish empire, when viewed in connection with the events now developing themselves in Eng- land. The Fenian movement, it is true, may not succeed in establishing an Irish republic ; but it must prove a powerful agent in the cause of popular reform, from which Ireland, as well as England, will derive substantial advantages. The revolution going on in England has not yet ripened. At the present time we may say it is more of an agitation—hot, flory and dan- than a fully developed revolution. But all the signs are abroad that it is coming to arevoluiion after all. Univergal guffrage is any of the people's prerogatives, they had known how to guard them.” He contended that if interpellation was a privilege the same will which accorded it now might withdraw it at any other time, as well as the privilege, if it be a privilege, of discussing the address, The man who, after having had both arms bound, recovers the use now of one and now of the other, is no more free than if he still had both arms tied. His specch was interrupted to- wards its conclusion, as he was saying—“ It is well sometimes to study the history of our fathers. A right was contested to them, they took it Let us maintain the address, it bo- longs to us.” M. Favre hit many a flaw in M. Rouher’s argument. One of the severest blows which ke dealt his antagonist was with this $$$ eee” the point to which tl:is reform movement really tends. Nothing less will eatisfy the English people. They have examples before them cal- culated to stimulate their desires in this direc- tion. In this country, in France, in Italy and even in Spain, the people enjoy the right of the franchise, and if the government of England expects to maintain itself it surely cannot be by resisting the appeal to the precedents of other nations and withholding the privilege from its own people. This question has inevi- tablyto be solved, and the insurrectionary movements in Ireland, with co-operative action in England, may hasten the solution and bring about not only an extension of the franchise and a fair representation in Parliament, but lead to the redress of those grievances which keep Ireland in a perpetual ferment of discon- tent. These grievances can be found chiefly in the existence of the Established Church and the insecurity of the land tenure, which reduce the majority of the people of that island to a con- dition bordering on pauperism. This, we think, is the drift of the Fenian movement in Ireland, whatever may be hoped for by the men who conduct it, If the inchoate revolu- tion in England and the actual insurrection in Treland can accomplish these results much good will come out of them. A Specrat Inqumy.—We wish to inquire whether the paper manufacturers, printers, pressmen, editors, correspondents, reporters, tailors, bootblacks (if any), hatters and all others who have claims against the Tribune Association, managed by H. Greeley & Co, have presented their bills, according to our advice, and duly received their pay in ringing gold and silver coin? It so, we again call on them to report to us the fact. We want to see and know positively if these advocates of the immediate resumption of specie payments have actually carried their theories into prac- tice. But we shall not be surprised to learn that, after all, H. G. “recks not his own rede.” Caste To11s.—In another column will be found a cable despatch stating the reason why the extravagant tolls of the Atlantic Telegraph are not to be reduced, ‘as the public was promised they would be. Now is the time, thérefore, for the American and French gov- ernments to push forward the enterprise of a new cable, which with less tolls than those now charged would doa good basiness, and cut the English line out of its monopoly. A Qcestion FoR InsuRANcE Compantes.— What would be a fair rate of insurance on the national debt, with the care for its payment entrusted to such men as John Morrissey and P. T. Barnum, and the income tax, which is a stench in the nostrils of a free people, in force, to excite the most intense hatred of taxation? FLOODS IN THE SOUTH AND WEST. Great Rise in the Ohio River—Immense Lees of Property-Bridges and Houses Swept Away, &c. Qyecisxati, March 13, 1367, ‘The greatest flood in the Ohio river since 1847 te im evitable. The heavy rains of the last two days have been general, and disasters and inundation cannot be avoided, ‘The houses along the levée in this city have from tem to fifteen feet of water in them, and merchants on the from their stores, The coming tise will swell the river still further from four to seven fect, which will make the flood the greatest for twenty years. Several of the railroad tracks are under water, and trains for Marietta and Indianapolis are obliged to use @ temporary depot. Adam in Mill Creek, near the city, gave way this afternoon, sweeping off a dwelling nearat hand. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. The Kentucky river and all the smaller streams are pouring Out tremendous floods. Great distress prevails along many of the streams, and worse is to be appre- hended. Carro, Til, March 18, 1867. 4 ‘The levee near Mound City broke this morning. The breach is about forty feet wide and six inches deep. The citizens are doing all they can to prevent an inundation of the town, emasapan ~. Catro is intact, and is bolieved to be capable of with- standing the flood at its maximum. . Aha Louisvitze, March 13, 1867, News from all directions represents the flood as unpre- cedented. The roads south from Louisville are badly broken up by the carrying away of bridges, culverts and by land slides, The river here rose nine inches in four- toon hours, up to half-past eight o'clock this moruing. It is now witnin four feet of the rise of 1847, and five feet of the rise of 1832, and continues to rise at the rate of one inch per hour. e It is estimated that the Iate floof has damaged East Tennessee over $2,000,000. Over two hundred persone were washed out of their homes in Knoxville, The damage to farming interests is very heavy. Many farm- ers lost their houses, barns, grain and live stock, The Flood in the James River. Fontrss Moxros, March 12, 1867, The late s>vere rain storms which have been prevail. ing-in the mountain ranges of Virginia and North Car- olina have swollen all the streams and rivers aod occasioned an extensive freshet, A heavy freshet in the James river for {he Jast three days bas overt Rocketts and prevented the steamers ees the wharves, many of them having to discharge down the river, But the freshet is now subsidii rivera flowing into the Chesapeake a : a in many cases flood Peres their Tanks, is ghee Le Bly Carried down eae. streline by Bay and Hampton owt decolorng the wala be fe flooded by the raina, driving the. beare ‘and other wid the bears and animals from their lairs into the bushes and 4 forest. Large ‘oon ot Si enreras 2° ing around the occasionally making a rds of the farmers and committing oir live stock, om The river’ is still vei come up to the city. | high vessels ptt iy THE MILITARY BILL RECEIVED IN CHARLESTON. See, Mite It te Ometally An Department of the Carolinas. morning anotncing the OF an official copy of thé Military aot, and declaring it now the law of the Department of the Carolinas, LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE, ‘The Constitutionality of the Military Bill to be Tested—Resolution Apprupriating 830,000 For Tho Purpose, &c. New Orteans, March 13, 1867. A joint protest introduced in the House to-day declaring the Wilitary bill unconstitational, and appro- priating $30,000 vo test the constitutionality of the act, was read and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, In the House Mr. Simonds ‘atroduged a resolution to select the most tmportant bills tom the calendar, as the neosion was drawing to a close, was for acting at once, for a laws for the — repealing the Convent'on (my and Gg bed ‘eer —- tre determined 49" cunt al? lower streets to-night are busy moving perishable goods - Freee