The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1867, Page 6

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New York, Wednesday, March 20, 1867, THES NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, March 19. The despatches reached us ‘Sfter some slight interruption, caused on the Island of Cape Breton, by a snow storm, which raged on Monday, and a temporary “going down” of the Irish telegraph Jines at an early hour yesterday morning. Mr. Disraeli outfined the Derby Reform bill to Parlia- ment on the 18th inst., and obtained leave to introduce the measure in the House of Commons next evening. He supported the general principle of the bill by copious Statistics, Mr, Gladstone, the cable is made to say, thought the figures “absurd,” but reserved his argument until the bill was before the mom bers The debate 1s adjourned to the 25th instant. Forty prominent Fenians, including Gen- eral Burke, were conveyed in irons to the county Jail of Tipperary. MM. Thiers aud Jules Favre at. tacked Napoleon's foreign policy in the French Leguala- ture, as inducing a unity of Germany and Italy hostile to the interests of France. The Emperor Napoleon is 4in favor of the Catholic Powers assuming the Papal debt in pro rala proportions, and guaranteeing its pay- ment. Prussia will not protest against the incorpora- tion of Poland in the Russian empire, The national Cabinet of Hungary has been installed in the presence Of the Emperor of Austria, Admiral Tegethoff, of the Auatrian navy, has been recalled from the United States to aseume command of the fleet in the Adriatic. Ruasia is said vo be purchasing vessels suitable for war transports, Consols closed at 91 for money in London. United States five-twenties were at 7434. Five-twenties closed at 77, in Frankfort yesterday, Cotton cloeed steady in Liverpool yesterday, with middling uplands at 134d. Broadstuffs firm. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday @ bill to farther define the qualifications of members of Congress was introduced, referred to the Judiciary Committee, and ordered to be Printed. Numerous bills and resolutions of a local or unimportant character were reported, and referred, or otherwise acted upon. The action of the House on the Supplementary Reconstruction bill’ being announced, the Senate meisted upon its amendments, and agroed to a committee of conference. Mr. Johnson moved that the credentials of Mr. Thomas, of Maryland, be referred to the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Thomas himself re- questing an investigation into the charges preferred on Monday. This motion was agreed to, and the creden- als were so referred. The report of the conference committee on the Suppiementary Reconstruction bi ll ‘was agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. In the House a joint resolution, prohibiting the issue of Agricultural College scrip to the States lately in rebol- hon excepting Tennessee, was introduced under a sus- pension of the rules, and passed by a vote of 103 yeas to 23 nays, The Senate's disagreement in the House amendment to the Supplementary Reconstruction bil! ‘was announced, and the amendment being insisted upon @ committee of comference was asked for. Mr. Stevens called up a motion te reconsider the vote by which his ‘Dill providing for the confiacation of the public lands in ‘the South was referred to the Committee of the Whole on the 11th of March, and attempted to read a speech in advocacy of his motion, but becoming too weak through fil health to finieh it, Mr. McPherson, the Clerk, was called upon and read the remainder of it, Mr. Stevens then moved that it be postponed until the second Tues- day in December which was agreed to. The House then ‘went into Committee of the Whole on the bill appropri- ating $1,000,000 for the rolief of destitute people at the South Am amendment was offered by Mr. Batler authorizing the district commanders to assess Cortain sums for the purpose from landholders in their respective districts. The commuttee rose afier a long discussion, without disposing of the Dill or the amend. ments. A resolution directing the Committee on Fore: Affairs to inquire into the interests of American com. mere on the tragsit routes across the Central and South Atorican isthmuses was adopted. The conference re- port on the Supplementary Reconstruction bill was agreed to, and it now goes to the President for hie action, The House soon after adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE In the Senate yesterday the bill to amend an act for the prevention of frauds in the laying out of streets in New York was advanced to a third reading. Communi- Cations from the Board of Health relative to a quaran- tine station and from the Superintendent of the Metro- Politan Police relative to the controversy between Jus- ‘toe Connolly and himself were presented, The bills to in- Corporate the Meiropolitan Underground Railway Com- + Pany was passed by a vote of twenty yous to cleven nays. ‘Numerous other ville of a local or personal nature were passed, and in the evening session the bill authorizing the Central Railroad to charge two cents and a half per mile passenger fore was taken up as aspecial order, It ‘was reported after some discussion and ordered to a third reading. The report of tne conference committee on the Constitutional Convention bill was adopted, In the Assembly 2 large number of claim bilis were parsed. Some difficalty occurred in keeping a quorum present and the Asrembty took & recess, On roassem- Diing, bills to provent injury and loss of life to persons on railroad care; to amend the act relative to the Com. mussioners of Emigration, and to prevent obstructions ‘upon the piers and wharves and to regulate the use of slips and wharves in New York were passed. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, whon, by re. solution, Corporation Counsel Richard U'Gorman was directed to assist Police Jumtice Miggpel Connoiliy in the suits Institated by him against Superintendent K The Mayor communicated the fact of his havi proved of the city tax budget, falthough there wore some ftome in it that were objectionable. 1 The Board of Councilmen met vosterday, and voa- anma w tes Rs Rede Porte Coan IPLE SHEET. oi NEW YORK H#KALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1867.-TKIPLE SHEET. from vaterferiag with that thoroughfare, and to take the necessary logal measures to test the constitationality of the commission A resolution was offered requesting ¢ to present Captain Freeman, of the ship |, with a suitably inscribed gold medal for his orts in rescuing one bundred and seventy om the ship Bavaria, It was laid over. The Board adjourned to meet on Thursday at two o’clocks The batch of documen ts furnished to the Legislature by the Police Commissioners relative to the action of Superintendent Kennedy in practically suspending buai- ness at Justice Michael Connolly’s court, in the Fourth district, embraces the general order issued by the Super- intendent an the occaston, the report of the Commis- sto themselves, and a lengthy statement from Ken- nedy, Im the lattera number of affidavits are given, which extend over a period of six years, detailing !an- guage and cenduct on the part of Justice Connolly, cal- culated, it is charged, to intimidate and degrade tho officers and detor them from performing their duties, The lease of the terry from Whitehall street to Staten Isiand, for ten years, was sold to Commodore Vander- Dilt yesterday, at auction, for $1,000 per annum, and the franchise of the ferry to be established between the foot of Twenty-third street and Pavonia, N. J., was sold to the Erie Railway Company for $50 per annum, the lease having ten years to run. ‘The funeral of General Strong took place yesterday at oue P. M., from Calvary church, Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street. A number of prominent citizens and friends of the family assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to this highly respected man. The service was conducted by the Rev. Drs. Tyng and Dyer, of st. George's church, of which congregation deceased had tong been a member. Register Harris, of the Board of Health, sent in bis weekly mortality report for the week ending Saturday, March 16, to the Board of Health yesterday afternoon. ‘The grandjtotal of deaths during the wook was three hundred and ninety, There were deaths from the fol- lowing causes:—Measles, six; scarlatina, thirteen; cholera morbus and other diarrhoeal diseases, ten; acei- dents and negligence, uirie. ‘The riots which occurred on St. Patrick's Day were” the subject of excited conversation among the public generaily and the policemen especially yesterday. Officer Kearney, one of the first of the policemen mal- treated, gives an exciting statement of the affair. The wounded are still suffering seriously, and, although im. Proving, several of them are still in a precarious con- dition. The man found mortally wounded in Williamsburg on Monday uight has been identified as John Fitzpatrick, aa employs of Waterbury’s ropewalk on Bushwick ave- nue. A young man named Nicholas Hughes who was seen in the company of deceased just previous to the marder has been arrested. 1m the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2, yesterday an action was brought by Oscar Requa, administrator, against John W. Sherwood, to recover $350, the value of some seven-thirty United States bonds deposited by the decedent, Emma Requa, with the defendont, her brother, for the benefit of hor children. The plaintiff alleged that the deceased was temporarily aberrated at the time of mating the disposition. The jury returned 8 verdict for the defendant without leaving ther seats. A suit was brought in the Supreme Court, Circnit, Part 2, yesterday by Wm. Copley, against George Haupt et al. for the recovery of $125, the value of two hundred and fifty camelias sold by plaintiff to defendants a short time previous to New Year's Day, 1366, Both the partios to this action are florists, and a large number of profes- siona! horticalturists were examined in reference to the value of camolias during the holiday seasons, &c. The jury returned a verdict for the piaintif® in the sum of $88 50. In the Supreme Court Circnit, Kings county (before Judge Gilbert), yesterday, an action was brought by Mr, Francis Kowing sgainst Washington Manloy & Co , stock brokers, to recover $11,000, the amount of bonds heid by defendants in plaintiff's name and owned by him. It was claimed by plaintiff that defendants had refused to deliver the bonds to him or return an equivalent in movey, while they set up the defence that the bonds had been delivered to Mrs. Kowing on an order signed by her huaband. Testimony was introduced by plaintiff proving that atthe time defendants claimed they had given Mrs. Kowing the bonds he was almost at the point of death and unabte to write. The jury rendered a ver- in his favor for $10,641, subject to the court at General Term. This was the second trial of the case. In the Superior Court yesterday Anna Barrett was awarded by the jury $2,000 damages against the Third Avenue Railroad Company for injuries sustained by her last December in the collision of a Third avenue car with a freight oar of the Harlem Railroad. In the General Sessions yesterday Patrick Kelly was convicted of robbery in the first degree, and sentenced to the State Prison for fifteen years, Robert Maylard was convicted of obtaining a package of goods from EF. 8. Jaffray & Co. by means of a false token, which wasa check upon the Second National Bank, signed by Ander- son & Maylard, who kept no account with the bank. Maylard was sent to the Mate Prison for two yoars. In the Marine Court yesterday before Judge Aiker anda jury, inthe case of Mooney vs. the North and Kast River and Centra) Park Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad Companies, which was an action by plaintiff to recover damages for the loss of the services of his wife, who had received injuries rosulting from a colfision of « ppasenger car and a locomotive, the pro- perty of the defendants, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $100—the fassesament to be made in two equal sums upon both defendants. The stock market was firm yesterday, and closed steady. Gold closed at 1337 a 134. There was but little change in the general aspect of commercial affairs yesterday, yet there wore some marked changes. In imported merchandise business was fair, aud in some commodities quite large, but in the absence of any material change in the price of goid Prices were generally without noteworthy change. The eotton market ruled quiet, peading the receipt of later cable news, which arrived too late to affect the market either one way or the other. The movement in bread- stuffs continued fair, and the market ruled buoyant. Flour was 10c, a 20c. higher, and in some cases prices wore advanced stifl farther, but the demand was only moderate. Wheat and corn were higher. Provisions wore dull and lower, except lard, which was firm. Freights were quiet. Naval stores were moderately ac- tive, and firm. Petroleam was steady. Wool was less active though quite steady. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Havana correspondence, dated March 13, aays that ‘a royal decree had arrived from Spain abolishing several taxes hitherto enforced, to take effect in July next, when a aew impost substitated for them will go inte opera- tion, The measures are apparently liberal, but will in teality add twenty millions to the revenae from Cuba. ‘The coolie immigration is increasing rapidiy, and te at- tended with more than the usual crueity and inhumaaity. Passengers leaving Havana are subjected to the annoy- ance and detention consequent on the enforcement of the laws requiring their identification. Vensels from Kurope with clean bills of health are not subjected to quarantine, The sugar market is dull. Freights are not active, and exchange is tending downwards, currency om New York quoting at 26 and 27 per cent discount. Special letters from British Honduras, dated at Belize on the 22d of February, inform us that subsequent to their late reverses the British troops gained a very im- portant victory over the Indians, who had beerraiding om the colonists, Quite a number of Indians—men, women and children—were killed by rockets thrown into a retreating crowd, many of their villages were burned and ‘heir corn fields laid waste. Considerable discontent ex- isted in the public mind in Belize notwithstanding, and the colonists at large continued alarmed and excited. ‘The sugar making season had opened, but operations wore likely to be suspended for want of hands, and the same difficulty existed in the mahogany and logwood fields of the Northern district, The Fenian news by the latest despatches gives little however, attracting more general attention, and its inau- guration is believed to be near at hand. The city of Mon. (weal has been in a state of the most unwarrantable ex. citement for the last two or three days. atartling rumors were set aftoat, to the Victoria Bridge or the powder magazine was to blown up. An extraordinary Cabinet council was held, ‘and it (ranapired that more troops had been for to England. Tne guaboats on the lakes are thoroughly equipped, and the volunteers are readiness for marching at a moment's notice. Coapondent in St, Albans, Vt., says that there alfeiags Wi'ovian facee aoticoadte sbout the strests, | that very probably that little towa will soon be the base of @ Fenian goluma in Canada. Our Richmond correspondent gays that Aunnicutt is about canvassing ghe State in order to counteract she in- fluence excited by several prominent rebels whv, having accepted the situation, are now endeavoring 1 tnflueace the negro vote for their own political ends. Hunnicutt is considered a good orator, and the question of opposing him with Heury A. Wise is mooted. Report says that Wardwell, for Mayor, heads @ municipal ticket nomi- nated by the negroes in Richmond. The first vessel of a regular French governinent hue between the Soclety Istands and San Francisco arrived at the latter place on Monday from. Tahiti. The vessels will make monthly trips in future, and the base of sup- plies for those islands bas been changed from Valparaiso to San Francisco. A fire broke out in the Carroll House, Bothwell, Canada West, on Monday night, which destroyed the main portion of the town. Overone hundred houses wore burned down, and a large number of families are thus rendered houseless and destitute. Southern Reconstruction—The Power and the Programme of Secretary Stanton. Has the age of miracles returned? One would think so from the amazing political events almost daily transpiring around us. How, for example, short of some miraculous agency, can we account for the extraordinary fraterni- zation on Monday last, at Columbia, the State capital of South Carolina, of whites and blacks at a political colored meeting for the celebra- tion of the enfranchisement of the colored race. This meeting, by invitation, was addressed by General Wade Hampton (the owner only the other day of over a thousand negro slaves), W. F. Dassaussure, and other leaders of the ruling white class of the Palmetto State, and by Rev. David Pickett and Beverly Nash, black men. That the best spirit of harmony prevailed on this novel occasion between these late white masters and black slaves on this new platform of civil and political equality is evident: from the fact that the black speaker Nash, on behalt of his race, promised a petition to Congress to repeal the white rebel defranchisements in the laws of Southern reconstruction which deprive the blacks of the political services Of those in whom they have the greatest confidence. Now the questior recurs, what can be the secret.of this wonderful fraternization of Wade Hampton, the embodiment of Southern white chivalry, and Beverly Nash, the representative of Hampton’s emancipated black slaves? We think we have the explanation at hand. In the ten excluded States (census of 1860) the population of cach was thus divided—except- ing a rough estimate for Virginia deducting the new State of West Virginia:— Z Blacks, 437.970 (361,522 412,310 182,921 420,865, 271,981 3,227,699 At the present time, making allowancea for natural increase on the one hand and the effects of the war on the other, in these ten States, in cutting off the whites and in increasing the blacks by accessions from Tenneasee, Ken- tacky, Missouri and Maryland, brought-down for security aa slaves during the war, the ag- gregate population is perhaps now about 4,500,000 whites against 3,750,000 blacks. The blacks are in the majority in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana ; and they are pro- bably about equal in numbers to the whites in Georgia, Alabama and Florida ; and with uni- versal black suffrage ‘they form a strong bal. ance of power in the other four States. General Wade Hampton, then, is simply leading off in behalf of the dominant Southern white landholding class tor this important Southern black balance of power in this work of Southern reconstruction. This is the true policy for Hampton and all his class and for the South. But, under the regulations of Con- gress the Secretary of War has a grand game to play for the negro vote, and he has also many advantages in his hands. The President is the chief executive officer in this business ; but the military commanders appointed by him are General Grant’s nominations, approved by Secretary Stanton. They report to General Grant, he reports to the head of the War De- partment, through whom all instructions be- yond the usual routine of military authority must pass. The President may disagree with his Secretary of War in this thing, that thing or the other; but if Mr. Stanton will not yield there is no help for it, because under the new Tenure of Office bill he cannot'be removed without the consent of the Senate. The radicals of Congress, in short, have thrown the protection of the Sen- ate around Mr. Stanton, in order to secure through him, even against the President, if necessary, « thorough enforcement of the terms of Southern reconstruction. In the event of a hitch between the President and the Secretary we need not be at a loss in guessing the deci- sion of Congress. The test of these reconstruc- tion laws will settle one way or the other the impeachment question. President Johnson, therefore, on trial, has no alternative of safety but that of leaving this reconstruction business to the management of Secretary Stanton, through General Grant and his five district commanders. We know, too, from the experience of the unfortunate General McClellan and others that Stanton, when he has an object in view and sees his way clearly, is not a man of half-way measures, but an ener- getic and decisive man, stopping at no impedi- ments. He is accordingly the very man for Congress in this Southern work, and that he will so direct it as to be gratefully remembered in the republican national convention of 1868 we cannot doubt. The prize for which he is to contend is the Southern political balance of power now held by the blacks. If he can con- trol this negro balance of power so as to place the excluded States in the hands of the repub- lican party in their reorganization he may dis- pute even with General Grant the honors of the succession. The ruling Southern white class, the landholders, to whom the laboring class, the blacks, have mainly to look for work and bread, can, however, if they will only follow at once the example of Wade Hampton, secure their black voters in the organization of new Southern party, comprehending the political and commercial interests of the South in the Union, with the social interests of both races blended in the same community, This is to be the great contest in Southern reconstruc- tion, and so it wil more distinctly appear as the work goes on. City Reform in the Legislature—Wharves and Piers. ‘The bill providing for s Commission of New York Wharves and Piers will be considered by the State Senate to-day, and should be re- jected, together with all similar billy thet mex $$ be proposed during the present seasion. This particular measure has very much the appear- ance of a job and is full of imperfections. But good or bad, it is inexpedient to enact it into @ law at this time. The State Coustitu- tional Convention, which is now certain to be held, will beyond doubt lay down a system of government for this city which, to be efficient, economical and satisfactory to the people, must entirely change the existing system. The wharves and piers, as well as all other city property, will then probably be placed in the hands of a Department of Public Works, and all the present independent commissions will give place to departments responsible to one executive head, Any machinery that may now be put in motfon by the Legislature will there- fore be liable to be altered or interrupted by the operation of the new system, and the expense attendant upon the change will be an uuneces- sary charge upon the taxpayers. The people of New York who .are interested in the pros- perity of the city do not ask for any of these tinkering jobs at the hands of the present Legislature. The applicants for the Piers and Wharves bill, and for all the other schemes at Albany at this time, are only the speculators and lobbyists, who hope to make a profit out of them. They are looking to their own pock- ets and not to the real interests of the city and of the taxpayers. The Legislature should re- fuse to favor these jobs, and should leave the whole question of city reform in the hands of the Convention of Revision. re Abbett Louis Na; Our readers, some of them at least, have heard of Abbott's Life of the Firat Napoleon, @ work the engravings of which not unfre- quently remind one of the caricatures io Punch, or which, to put it more correctly, both because of the excellency of ita illustra- tions and the accuracy of its historical state- ments, is not unworthy of a place side by side with Harper’s celebrated Journal of Civiliza- tion. It appears from a letter which we print in another columa, and which we commend? to those of our readers especially who have @ liking for psychological! studies, that this same Mr. Abbott, who has done so much justice te the memory of one Napoleon, has already set about collecting materials for the perform- ance of a similar task for his great namesake and successor, the present ruler of France. If this letter does not prove to be a mischievous practical joke, perpetrated by some knowing wag, Mr. Abbott is going about his business in a somewhat practical manner. It is per- fectly natural for an artist who has resolved upon a great historical picture to obtain, it possible, a sitting from the original. This favor it appears the Emperor accorded with “the most gratifying cordiali Tt must, indeed, have been gratifying to the Emperor himself to listen to the glowing eulogy on his life aad labors which Mr. Abbott tells us he pronounced in his pre- sence, sad which manifestly must have been written beforehand and carefully committed to memory—to be told by the impartial! historian of his uncle that the “acts of his own administration were to be recorded in an equally triendly spirit,” aad that in order to do full justice to the subject and “to carry the conviction of the trath of the narrative to every impartial mind” the libraries and book- stalls of Paris had been explored by the his- torian himself, and that a similar work was being done by an agent in London. It would certainly have been strange if the imperial author of the Lite of Julius Oxsar had not been enchanted with the thought; strange if the interesting interview had not been “prolonged for nearly an hour;” stranger still, if, on the following evening, when the reverend chevalier was honored with » public presentation to the Emperor and Empresa at a magnificent soirée in the Tuileries, the Emperor had not, in the presence of.four thousand guests, honored him as he honored no other. “When my name was mentioned,” the reverend chevalier tells us, “the Emperor approached, and taking me by the hand said :—‘I am happy to see you, Mr. Abbott. Ibid you welcome to the Palace of the Tuileries.’ ” lier not inform us how the Empress Eugenie looked and what her Majesty was graciously pleased to say? Did she, too, take him by the hand? But we must uot be too inquisitive. Chevaliers are men of tionor, and there are some things they may not tell. America is becoming richer in the chevalier species of the genus homo; the Rev. John S, C. Abbott must now be added to the number. In the new rdle which he has assumed the Rev. Chevalier John S.C. Abbott has evidently a great deal to learn. Compared, for example, with the Chevalier Wikof, his powers of ob- servation are grievously defective. From the book which Wikoff has already given to the world and in which he has related his inter- views with Louis Napoleon, with Lord Pal- merston and Count Cavour and others, as well as his bootless chase after the beautiful Miss Gamble, Chevalier Abbott might have learned what was expected of men of his order when they are made the honored guests of illustrious personages. If the Chevalier Abbott could get © peep into that work on which the Chevalier Wikoff is now engaged, and which will yet delight and astonish the world, he would see how much he had yet to learn. He has written 8 letter about Napoleon. With the exception of the few complimentary words which Napo- leon addressed to himself, all that he tells us about the Emperor is that since he last saw him he looks fourteen years older. Inasmuch se he tolls us in the same sentence that it is just fourteen years since he last saw him, the information surely is quite unnecessary. Che- valiers are proverbially vain; Mr. Abbott, however, if he would rise to any eminence in his order, must not obtrude self just quite so much, The Supplementary Reconstraction Bill Pawed. The Supplementary Reconstruction bill finally passed Congress yesterday, the report of the committee of conference havings been agreed to by both houses. A formal opposi- tion to the report was made by the democrats in the House, but without avail. The bill now goes to the President, and will no doubt be promptly retarned, with his veto, and as promptly passed by the required two-thirds vote in the Senate and House, When this work is finished Congress will at once adjourn for the long recess, subject, however, to be re- assembled in onse of aay contumacious con- duct on the part of the President in oacryiig out the lew, The Rov. Che ad the Emperor Why did the reverend cheva- Another Border War. The government is evidently in possession of evidence sufficiently strong to warrant the belief that another attempt is about to be made by the Fenian organization to invade the Canadian provinces. Yesterday a force of United States regulars, in numbers sufficient to load nine passenger cars, which would not be less than five or six hundred men, was despatched over the Hudson River Railroad for Oswego, where they will probably remain until their services are required on the fron- tiers. This looks as if the government is de- termined to again interfere for the preserva- tion of our neutrality laws. Forty Cents’ Worth of Candy. There has been a gteat deal of fuss made in some of the newspapers over certain alleged corruptions at the Custom House in this city and the official conduct of Collector Smythe. A committee of Congress sat for thirty days and thirty nights at the Astor House, collect- ing a fund of tattling and gossip and listening to all the tales carried to them by disappointed applicants for Custom House “plums,” dis- charged officials and political brokers and jobbers. This trash they made up into a lengthy report, written in the. most approved style of yellow covered literature, which they published with a flourish of trumpets intended to astonish the world and make the Collector of the port and the President of the United States shake in their shoes. Some of the news- papers seized upon the sensational document with an avidity which at once indicated that Collector Smythe had not properly appreci- ated their friendship and influence; but the public soon discovered that there was not in the whole report, from beginning to end, one particle of evidence connecting the Collector with any corruption or fraud or malpractice of any description in relation to money mat- ters, excepting in one single instance, which, strangely enough, was stricken out by the committee. This solitary piece of bribery and corruption, which was brought home to Collector Smythe by his own admission, was the bestowal upon one of the President’s daughters of forty cents’ worth of candy. When asked, upon his oath, if he had given money or any article or thing of value costing money, to any person in Washington, his reply was, “Yes, sir; I once gave Senator Patterson’s lady forty cents’ worth of candy.” This was the only instance in which the use of money was proved against the Collector, and this was ignored and stricken out by the com- mittee, together with another piece of evidence which connected a pious republican journal notorious for its abuse of the President with the Castom House pickings and stealings. We are now furnished with a second edition of this report in a terrible speech by Mr. Hulburd in the House of Rep) tatives, in which he seeks to alarm the Collector in the true Bombastes Furioso stvle. But the speech is ag trashy as the report. There is nota single fact in it, from beginning to end, which in any way implicates Collector Smythe, in corrupt practices. There is rascality enonghin the Custom House, outside of the Collector, and in the forty thousand dollar job gotup by a “ring” who were anxious to secure for themselves the general order business; but either Mr. Hul- burd and his committee qwere too stupid to find it out or had no desire to do so. The fact is there is one very curious feature connected with this investigation. While the Hulburd committee was sitting at the Astor House another committee was engaged in inqniring into the enormous whiskey frauds committed in this city and Brooklyn, as well as into other corruptions in the inter- nal revenue system. Nothing has been heard of the latter committee or their labors and discoveries. Yet itis an admitted fact that the government has been robbed to the ex- tent of millions of dollars through the negli- gence and connivance of revenue officials. Some developments have been made which show that most gigantic frauds are yet in the background, but scarcely & word ‘of the testimony taken by the committee has been given to the public. What is the meaning of this? CollectOr Smythe is no politician, and the people laugh at his open- ness and candor. He probably believes that he has committed some very heinous. offences, bewildered as he has been by the tricks of po- litical brokers and sharp Congressmen ; but of what public interest is his forty cents’ worth of candy as compared with the mon- strous frauds, involving millions of dollars, per- petrated in the Internal Revenue Department? It looks very much as if all this outcry made by the Hulburd committee over the Custom House humbug were designed to divert public attention from the internal revenue frauds. No doubt some of the republican managers would be glad to cover up this matter and to ralse a fuss over the Hulburd report, so that the silence of the other committee may mot attract observation. But we insist that the public are more interested in ascertaining what officials are implicated in the gigantic frauds in the Internal Revenue Department, by which the Treasury has been robbed of mil- lions of dollars, than in all the Custom House squabbles and intrigues put together, includ- ing collectors, Congressmen, copperhead Sen- ators, President’s relatives, veteran lobbyists, political jobbers, forty cents’ worth of candy, old Mrs, Perry and all. ‘The Late Attack on the Police. There is but one opinion abroad with refer- ence to the rash and inexcusable attack made ‘on the police during the procession on Mon- day, and that is that those who were parties to it should be summarily and severely punished. Without going into the merits of the case, or referring to the causes of the disturbance, or attempting to decide which party were the ag- gi@ssors—for these are facts for the proper authorities to find out—we must condemn in the most unqualified manner the violence with which ‘the police were assailed. It is abso- lutely necessary that the police should be sustained by the whole community in the per- formance of their duty. If they are not sup- ported there can be no security for the pre- servation of peace, If the police are to be not only obstructed in their duty, but cruelly as- saulted and wounded almost unto death, as in, this late case, we cannot expect to be pro- tected from the ravages of burglars or the |: attacks of highwaymen and cutthroats, The ealy organization upon which we cap rely (es I eorrow protection in this city and its surroundings @ the police fore, and if the police are not BUS tained we will be lefi to the mercy of the roughest elements of the community. In thia point of view the collision which occurred during the procession on Monday must bo unsparingly condemned, and: those who participated in it must be regarded as gross violators of the law, and in no other light, no matter who they were or to what nationality they belong. While the general body of the participants im the celebration during which this unfortunate occurrence took place cannot be held responsi- ble for it, inasmuch as they were wholly ignorant of the disturbance and pursued their line of march in an orderly and creditable manner, there is no excuse for the individuals who made the wicked and violent assault om the police, who, according to the facts as stated, were engaged in preserving order and affording every facility for the convenience of the processionists. The attack was wantem and lawless, and we trust the ringleaders will be brought to justice ; and thus, by fastening the guilt upon the offending parties, the peace- ful and well conducted portion—which com- prised the vast majority of the celebrants— will be fully relieved from any odium which may be unthinkingly attachell to them from the conduct of a few hot-headed individuats. Maximilian in a New Phase. The graphic letter of our special carre- spondent from the headquarters of the impe- rial army in Mexico, which we publlished yes- terday, shows Maximilian in a new light. Our correspondent accompanied the army in its march to Queretaro, occasionally, however, being im advance and falling in with bands of liberals, and once with band of guerillas, who relieved him, of course, of all his movable property. He writes, therefore, not from report, but from what he saw and actual experience. It is evident that when Maximilian said, ia the address he issued to the army, “that to-day places me in the front, that this is the day I have long and ardently desired to see and that we will fight bravely and tenaciously,” it was not an unmeaning boast or a mere flourish of words. He has acted up to this part; for we find him marching at the head of his army and in command of it, undergoing all the fatigues and dangers of a regular cam- paign. Relieved of the contro! or assistance of the French, he stands upon his own bottom. His pride is aroused and his pluck is up, and, like a brave man, he is resolved to fight for his crown. We cannot help admiring this con- duct, however much we may doubt his pru- dence in remaining in Mexico or his chance of success, General Marquez was chief of staff to Maxt- milian. The army, which is variously eati- mated at from eight thousand to thirteen thou- sand men, was divided into three corps. The command of the first corps was given to Gea- eral Miramon, the second’ corps to Mar- quez and the third to Mejia. The intention was to move out of Queretaro, in the direc- tion of San Luis Potosi, probably with the expectation of engaging Escobedo in battle. The imperial army is not a large one, it is true, but there is some good material in it, and Maximilian has concentrated around him all the military talent of his party. The liberals must have » good force and it must be well managed, or they may find the imperialists too much for them. Escobedo’s forces, which are supposed. to be about twenty thousand men, were at or near San Luis Potosi, and occupied two-thirds of a circle, it was said, round the approaching army of Maximilian. Some of these specifie military details as to the relative positions of the two forces must be taken with due allow- ance for mistakes. There seems to be no doubt that an important battle, and perhaps a decisive one, was imminent. The next news from Mexico, probably, will be highly interesting. While al) this was going on in the interior we learn that most of the French had left, and that Marshal Bazaine was to leave Vera Crus for France in a day or two. The Marshal, however, was about to leave his regrets with the Mexicans in the form of a private bor coa- taining three hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars, which it is said the guerillas gobbled up as it was coming to Vera Croz. Four bun- dred Chasseurs d’ Afrique were sent in pursuit of the robbers, and the Marshal had appealed to Porfirio Diaz, the liberal general commanding along the road, to have investigations made. This, though a serious affair to Bazaine, is o comical ending to his career in Mexico, and highly illustrative of that country. We canne’ say whether Porfirio Diaz knew anything about these twenty-two thousand ounces or not, bat he must have laughed in his sleeve whoa Bazaine called upon him for assistance. The scenes are continually shifting in Mexico, pre- senting to our view new, interesting and some- times comical phases of the intervention aad the war. From the present state of things we may look soon for news from our correspondent of an unusually important character. A Trusty Warsina To Present Jounson.— Congress will soon adjourn, and the work of | reconstruction will then go on under the con- trol of the President, the Secretary of War and the military officers in the newly constructed ' districts of the South. It is for Mr. Johnsoa to see that he leaves no loophole for his ene- mies to creep in—that he faithfully carries out the programme set down by the law. If there are any shortcomings to be set down against him when Congress is called together again he may be removed in three weeks theres after. Therefore a timely word of warning te the President may not be out of place. Egypt and the Kant. From yesterday’s cable despatches it appears that Egypt is about to secure her independence. Whether Ismail Pacha will assume tho title of Caliph or Sultan is immaterial, in view of the fact that, freed from the control of the imperial t at Constantinople, he will be at liberty to yield to the influence of European thought, which is destined at no distant day to revolutionize the “entire country over which he rales. Egypt is already in possession of several lines of railway, telegraphic lines connect the principal centres of population, and the Suez canal promises to be a success, @ wise government the wealth of the try will be more fully developed, and may yet surpass the splendor to which she attained under the wisest of the Ptolomtes, UNION MEETING Im LOUISVILLE, Lomavctam, Mah 10, tear, © Aovernor Ogteaby will atdcgus tho Uwiva eyeeting tidy iti