The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1867, Page 6

i] NEW YORK HERALD. SAMES GORDON BENS YETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ~~ OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTO® 1wp NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome OaDWwaY oan ‘Eva—Laresr rom Naw Yous. street, —AcL HaLiow NEW YORK THEATRE, Broxdway, opposite New York Howl. —Kexiiwouth—Tne Prevry HORSEBREAKER. RE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth av Le Scrriice Done Fexue--L’Awour p'uxx Is GERMAN STADT, THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Zwei Tacs acs Dew Leaew Eves Fosrsren, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. tou Reowxnn, big Pte Tec ot WOOD'S THEATRE, Bi Boel —Unous Tou's Chaim, na ay* opposite Bt, Nicholas oN NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1867.—-TRIPLE SHEET, THE CITY. A meeting of the Board of Education took place last ovoning, at which a communication was received from the Board of Health suggesting that the pupils and teachers in the public schools should be vaccinated. There was also a communication received urging the establishment of nautical schools in the city. Both documents were referred to committees, The question of repealing the bylaw fixing the minimum amount of ‘eachors’ salaries at $400 a year came up, and was finally referred to the Committee on Bylaws, A second private meeting of the Peavody trustees was hold at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, A banquet will be given by Mr. Peabody on Friday evening. The Irish enthusiasm in this city has all subsided, and the lato rebellion in Ireland is conceded to have been @ disgraceful failure, The only party who receive any attention are those who favor an invasion of Canada. Several meetings have been held on the subject of an early invasion, and steps are being taken that look some- what like work, Our St. Albans correspondent says that several United States army officers had arrived and passed through that village lately, although no troops had come as yet. It was rumored, however, that a force bad been forwarded from Fort Warren, The militia officers about the village bad been consulting as to the DODWORTH HALL, 806 Breadway.—Prorzssor Hara | amount of equipage and ammunition needed to fit out eR iu, Pxrvorm His Minactes—L'Escamatkur Famy Siscine STEINWAY or Onameme Mi SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 885 Broadway, opposite the Mo'ropotan’ Hotel iw re Bewiorian’ Haregtarn. ag 10 an ‘Tue Bea Coor—sriaw Haan Earens oF me Aaron ee aoe aND ROOMS, Fourteenth street.—Tamp Sorex KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. # sitethe Now York Hotel. Is tmuin Sougs, Dances. Bee ox. worries. BURLusarEs, £0.—CINDER-LRON—MADAGABCAD jatset TROUPE—ParTt IN Panis, FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSRK, Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘wenty-fourth street.—Guirriy & Onnisty’s Minstarcs.— miorian MINstasLsy, BatLaps, Buatesqves, &c.—Tne ‘Ocean Yacut ‘Tue Biack Croox. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coxic Voua.mm, Negro Morsastav, Bater Diveatissemxyr, &c.—Tux Wortxna Grats or New Yors. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, °472 Broadway—In 4 Vaninry or Taour arp Lai Enrentalnments, Coars pk Bauer, &0. Scnoo.sor's LIC. ROOnay Soran. HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiortaw Mry- Qrrytsy. Brians amp Burtesques.—Tur Biack Max THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of Twenty-third sige and Broadway, al 7.—Morina, Mine mon OF THE TLGRIM’: ROGBESS—S1) Bemwes. Matinee Wedhesday und Susurday at 8 o'clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— ss> axp Ricut ARM OF Pronst—Tux Wasuincron s—Wonpers ix Natvnat History, Scrmnce ap ART. ees Daity, Open from 8 4.M. tll UP. M. ——~ INSTITUTE OF ART (Derby Gallery). 625 Broadway.— Qnanp Exnisition oF Panga” Tux Repusuican Cover" m tax Days or Lixcorn. TRIPLE SHEET New York, Thursday, March 21, 1867. — = z THB NOW s. EUROPE. The uews reported by the cable is dated yesterday evening, March 20, Labor riots have taken place in one of the rural dis- certain companies for service. On the other hand several bands of Irishmen had arrived, well equipped with everything requisite fora tour, and bearing traces of an undoubted tendency towards Fenianism. Dr. George Beakley, of West Twenty-fourth street, and Mrs. Cole, of West Twenty-fifth street, were ar- rested on Tuesday for alleged murder and abortion on the person of Mra, Edward Kimball, widow of Major Kimball, of Hawkins’ Zouaves. Mrs, Kimball died at the Irving House on the 28th of January last, and was buried at Providence, R.1., a burial permit being obtained on the certificate of Coroner Gamble, @ranted by that officer on the verdict of a jury that death was caused by hemorrhage and congestion of the bowels, the result of an accidental fail. On the 14th of March, however, another inquest was held om the body by the Coroner in Providence, which resulted in suspl- cions of foul play against the deceased, and finally led to the arrests of the physician and nurse attending her in her last illness. They were both committed without bail. The argument in the Supreme Court, Chambers, on the motion to set aside the injunction in the suit of ot Christopher Pullman against the Mayor, &c., restrain- ing the execution by the Corporation of the lease, for the use of the municipal Law Department, of Fernando Wood’s premises, Nos. 115 and 117 Nassau street, at a rental of $18,000 per annum, has been further adjourned until the 27th inst. An order of arrest was granted yesterday in the Supreme Court, Chambers, in the case of Isaac E. Drey- fuss, by his guardian, against Wm. Kiefer, in which the plaintiff claims $2,000 damages for personal injuries at the hands of the defendant. Bail was fixed at $600. Kiofer has since been arrested on ® criminal warrant for the same offence. In the case of Wolf Benedict vs. Bernhard Wolf, which ‘was an action in the Supreme Court, Circuit, for alleged false imprisonment, iaying damages at $2,000, the court, after all the evidence was taken, dismissed the com- plaint on the ground that there was not sufficient prob- able cause for the charge made by defendant, and upon which the plaintiff bad been arrested. In the Supreme Court, Circuit, part 3, a sult was brought yesterday by Wm. H. Post vs. Willet Leaman to (ricta of France, Prussia is to have command of the | recover $4,700, which the plaintiff alleges he had been troops of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden when Germgay is at war, Consols closed at 91 for money in London, United States five-twenties were at 743¢ in London and 843 in Paris, The Liverpool cotton market was quiet and easier, with middling uplands at 18344. to 134d. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions unchanged. THE EAST. The mail steamship Colorado reached San Francisco yesterday morning aftar completing the round trip from. California to China and Japan and return voyage, under induced to invest in real estate and oil stocks in the Pennsyivania oll region through the representations of the defendant. The plaintiff states that the property subsequently turned out to be almost valuciess. Case still on, In Common Pleas, Chambers, yesterday, 9 motion to vacate the arrést of George W. Chadwick, late Vice President of the North River Bank at Hoboken, was argued before Judge Cardozo, who reserved his decision. In the Superior Court, Trial Term, Theo. Griffiths re- covered $546 10 from E. C. Schenck for an illegal seizure the most favorable circumstances, The Colorado landed | °f bis goods. one hundred and seventy-five passengers, the American The grand jury were discharged yesterday im the and European mails anda full and valuable cargo. She | General Sessions, Charles Lloyd, who pleaded guilty to brought very late and interesting news from-China and | 9 assault with intent to maim, was sent to the State Japan, dated at Hong Kong the 17th, and Yokohama the | Prison for ten years, John Shannon, who attempted to ‘27th of February, which has been telegraphed to the | Commitan offence upon @ littie child was sen- isaatp by our special correspondent, and appears !n our columns vhis morning. A full Japanese commission, Geatined for Washington, to arrange a naval contract, ‘enced to the State prison for five years. A Frenchman named Charles de Villiers, a professor of languages by occupation, was, on Tuesday last ar- Jandod at San Francisco from the Colorado, The Mikado | Tested by officer Strauss of the Central office. The or Spiritual Emperor of Japan is dead, and the prisoner is charged with having swindied a number of court of the new Tyooon or temporal ruler is in | Persons by porchasing goods and giving in payment mourning. The governmental course of the Tycoon | therefor valueless checks. Gives satisfaction to the foreigners. He bas formally in- vited all the naval officers serving in the ports of the The stock market was weak and unsettled yesterday. Gold was steady, opening at 134%, and closing at 134%. empire te visit him. The war with Chosin is suspended The steady ruling of the gold premium prevented any fora season. Trade was very dull in Yokohama Tho brother of the Tycoon sailed in French steamer for material change in values of imported merchandise, which, however, still continued quiet, though ia some Paris to represent the Sovereign at the great Exhibition, | Commodities a fair business was transacted. Domestic The British Minister at Japan is disposed to be surly produce generally ruled firm. Flour was a shade firmer with the Tycoon. and more active, Wheat was steady. Corn was lc. a From China we are informed that the authorities did | 2: lower. Oats likewise declined 1c. a20. Pork closed Rot reply te the note of Captain Schufeldt, of the United | frm. Beef was irmer, while lard ruled heavy, though States steamer Wachusett, relative to the murder of the | Moderately active. Whiskey was dull and nominal. crew of the ship General Sherman. ‘the American com. | Freights were scarcely as firm. Naval stores ruled quiet, mereial flag will soon predominate on the Chinese waters. | ‘ough frm. Petroleum was firmer. Tne French were to build » short lino of railroad trom | MISCELLANEOUS. Shanghae. The growing interest of France in the East ‘Our Mexican letters are from various points and under renders England jealous. ThejRussian fleet was about to various dates, the latest being special correspondence afi from China, Goods for export were firm at Hong | from Masatian dated March 18 Colima and Tamora had Kong. The United States steamers Hartford, Shenan- | peen occupied by tho liberals. President Juarez was at Goan and Ashuslot were at Hong Kong, and ,the Wachu- | gan Luis with detachments of the liberal army. About pote wen ot Bhanghee, five hundred men were at Mazatlan under command of A large quantity of gunpowder stored ona bulkship | General Martines. All waa quiet in Sonora Corona had tm the harbor of Hong Kong exploded, causing the los | ievied a tax on all property in the States of Jalisco, of many lives and the destruction of a large amount of | sinaioa and Colima, but it was thought doubtfal that Property. The olty was shaken as if by an earthquake. | Lersda would allow it to be collected in Jalisco, which An extensive sud most disastrous fre raged in the river | ne nolds as neutral. Our Matamoros and San Luis cor- wuburbs of Foo Ohow. The China Met! speaks highly | respondents reiterate the assertion that the fate Of the Colorado, and gays she is the largest vessel which | o¢ the bogus empire reste upon the expected tan over appensed tn the harbor of Hesg Kong. battle between Kecobedo and Maximilian. The CONGRESS. forces of Corona from the west are closing In the Senate yesterday @ jotut resolution prohibiting | 1 for a part in the contest, and om the imperial side the he wearing of any uniform by diplomatic agents abroad | forces of Mendez have been recalled from Morelia to re- fot prescribed by Congress was passed. The Committee | inforce the army at that important point, thus surrender. on Territories reported favorably the bill for the admis. | ing the last possessions of the empire in the west. Both ston of Colorade, The bills authorizing the Secretary of | parties appear intent on mustering their strongest force Sssanre Mancgpviguaiany Sunssie to ecmey ton en, | iron in orc Reseda, Nat on ts impure oto Brooklyn, and appropriating $500,000 to defray the ox- | !cy on the part on fpences of carrying the Reconstruction bill into effect | # thought the best jshow is in a fight by detail and ‘wore passed, Some dis:ussion ensued on the joint reso | Without delay. Ortega is still s prisoner at Saltillo, \and for the sale of certain stooks held in trust for the | '# looked upon as an elephant drawn ina lottery. His w and Cherokee Indians, pending which the | captors don’t know what todo with him. Orizabaand Benate adjourned. Cordova were in the hands of the liberals. In the House, resolutions ef inquiry were adopted It ts reported that all the tobacco manafactarers of Calling for the facts relative to the imprisonment of the ‘the capital had sespended business, owing to the Rev. Mr. MeMabon in Canada; why American claims | ruinous tax imposed by Maximilian om all kinds of ‘against the British government have not been paid, and | Cigers, enuff, &e. This throws an immense number of what ought to be dene to seoure a speedy payment of operatives out of work and endangers the peace of the Bhe same, and as to the expediency of constituting a | city of Mexico, Our Vern Cras correspondent, under Standing committee on labor. A memorial from the poate geet ag oo: ig ecto oma Legislative Assembly of Utah was presented, praying for | bersemen known in Mexico admiasion asa Stave, ‘The report of the Committee on | feanized and placed under Majia’s command, and ‘Biections in the case of the contested seats of the Colo- | should the expected battle prove a liberal defeat, it will tado Territory delegates was presented, with a resolution ahs og dyed berg igh ert oat tontinning the investigation, and Mr. Chaloott was sworn - dealer haan ata’ fama are interesting. In Georgia the Military Reocon- the majority consider st onerous and unjust they think it ought to ve acquiesced in as a matter of necessity. In Virginia the order disbanding militia THE LEGISLATURE. ‘organisations has caused the disbandment of Hunnicutt’s In the Senate yesterday bills were reported relative to | colored guards, st which Hunnicutt and the megroes are {he Third Avenue Railroad Company ; requiring the Har- | very mush grieved. Heary A Wise has consented to Jem Ratrosd Company to wall up the Yorkville cut; and | stump the State in opposition to Hunnicutt, In the House amending the act for the better protection of seamen in | of Representatives of the Louisiana Legislature « joint the portof New York. The bill the Central | protest has been introduced against the Reconstruction ‘Company to charge two and a haif cents per | bill, which will be found elsewhere. The office of Regis- Pasemnger fare, and several other bills of a local or | tor of Voters had been closed by the Register himself, at unimportant character were passed. The evening sos- | the advice of General Sheridan. In the Louisiana Senate yesterday © joint resolation @largemen: of the locks on the Brie and Oswego canais, | was introduced recommending all citizens, white and In the Amembly bills for & raliroad in Eighty-sizth | bisck, entitled to vote to register thelr names, and take other ekeets of New York, for the relief of the | an active part in the reorganization of the State. The (metropolitan railway companies and to regulate the | report from the Special Impeachment Committee in the @>rrice were introduced, Bills to alter the commis. | House recommending that no further steps for the im- Monet map of Brooklyn, to provide for the laying out | peachmont of Governor Wells be taken, as the establish. streets in New York, and ‘others of an un- | ment of military rule in the State would render such wore Mr, Weed, by | action , wae adopted. m ¥ CMfered © projgst egainst the estab. The town of Columbus, Ky., situated on Che Missie a fa Canada, which | stppi river, is completely inundated, the levdes above it In the evening seaston | having given way before the bigh water. Cairo is still bitte were Co Prodi of | dry, Doing protected by very high embankments, le. fhe Mase of Mow York and cévertl others of a lecal or | tracts from the Chattanooga papers contain « heartrend- aw fam den ‘1% Marshals in the ofty | ing account of the terrtble euffertag in thas olty daring 6 Wey Tormand fof owner purpose wore named. Me taapdation The New Conflict in Connectiout—What Say the People? The newspaper organs and stump orators on both sides in Connecticut are making ® pro- digious fuss over their old party platforms, principles and records, including all the usual tricks of noisy demagogues in whitewashing their own ticket and in blackening that of their opponents, The rebellion, treason, copper headism, Southern reconstruction, State rights, negroes’ rights and negro suffrage are the lead- ing elements of these party discussions ; but in the midstof all this “sound and fury, signi- fying nothing,” the real issue before the people still looms up into bold relief. The issues of the war for the Union and the issues of Southern reconstruction, the penalties of rebellion and the civil and political rights henceforth of the black race under the constitution and laws of the United States are substantially settled. They can no longer be affected by a Connecti- cut election one way or the other. In fact, the only gencral and practical issue before the people of Connecticut now is one of political morality, involving the moral character of the State, the good name and influence of our popular institutions abroad and strongly sug- gesting “a decent respect for the opinions of maokind.” Barnum, the showman, as a candidate for Congress, brings this great issue of morality, decency and propriety before the people of Connecticut in a bold and palpable shape. Let him and the general ticket with which he is associated be elected, and hereafter, at home or abroad, when the question is asked, “What sort of people are those of Connecti- cut?” the answer will be supplied in a refer- ence to Barnum, the showman. They will thus be understood, parsons, professors and people, as a community of those traditional Yankees in the South who flourish upon hypocritical professions and false pretences. They may answer, “Suppose you look nearer home and tell us of Connecticut something of the moral character and moral influence of the city of New York in the political world.” We will. New York is a city of a million of inhabitants, and as the great financial and commercial centre and settling house of this continent this city, with its million of people, ought to have ten times the moral weight in Congress of any other community of a million in the country. But what is the fact? This imperial city has no influence in Congress, none whatever, that we can perceive, beyond the strength in the yeas and nays of its six Representatives. Certainly they do not wield the twentieth part of the power of the ten Representatives from Massachusetts, nor the weight of any six members from the western border of civiliza- tion. And why? Because the antecedents, the intellectual calibre, moral character and political make up of the members from ‘this metropolis in Congress amount to nothing but yea or nay. The question then naturally follows, why, then, do not the people of this great city elect better men? We are constrained to answer that it is because “the roughs” have the ma- jority, and as they alone make our political elections their special business, they manage the nominations and the elections to suit them- selves. In Congress, however, and before the world, this powerful metropolis, this strong right arm of the government in its defence and maintenance, suffers the humiliation of a mil- lion of people without any rebognized influ- ence in the government—yea, of a people in- capable of governing themselves. Our city councils and their shameless spoliations, our riots, our primary elections, our elective judges, in most cases, and our members of Congress are all to some purpose, among the monarchists of Europe, employed as unanswer- able facts and arguments in proving the de- moralizing tendencies of popular institutions. We may say, too, that Af this city has been saved from still more deplorable evils, it has been, from time to time, by the seasonable and saving interventions of the State. Does the State of Connecticut desire to stand on the same stool of political humiliation, penance and repentance with the city of New York? If her people desire it the way is open before them in the election of Barnum, the showman, and his political associates; for the same vicious elements which in New York find their represontative manin a Fernando Wood or John Morrissey have him in Connecticut in the showman, Barnum. When nominations not fit to be made, and the moral delinquencies of such nominees, are brought into the field to “tickle the ears of the groundlings,” and are winked at by moral professors and pious par- sons, the community concerned are in danger of falling into the low political scale of the city of New York. The republicans of Connec- ticut, in falling from their high estate into the po or of the Feejee mermaid and the jeremy Diddler of the woolly horse, have made a bold @eparture to demoralize their party and Gisgrace their State; and hence we may properly appeal to the religious and moral people of Connecticut to beware of “stealing the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in.” Mayor Hoffman has the repatation of a respec- table man ; but his associations with the rings, political, pugilistic and gambling, of this city, and their candidates for Congress, were the death of Hoffman. The State could reach him and did, though it could not directly reach his most obnoxious confederates, In Connecticut they can reach the obnoxious showman and his supporters and apologists, and they should all be held toa rigid responsibility for the grave offence of parading before an honest, truthful and moral people such an unworthy represen- tative of their State as this presuming show- man, Barnum. The Tribune Gtili Harping on Specie Pay- ‘ ments. The Tribune persists in urging “s general and prompt resumption of specie payments.” It attempts, however, no refutation of what it terms “ the Henatn’s sophistry” infcalling upon ft to resume specie payments itself, and upon its paper makers, writers, mailers, clerks, &., to test the sincerity of its professions with regard to resumption. With an affectation of modesty it declines to initiate the policy which it advocates. It piteously cries “How can we pay in gold while we receive all our dues in depreciated paper which the government bas made a legal tender?” But why bas the government been compelled to resprt to. paper currency? Was it lack af oyfilicient gold and silver to ree tho war (at created this necessity? . not the war bequeathed this must be borne until it shall have Qseppoared ? A sudden thaw in the overwhelms the valley with such destructive floods as have lately desolated certain portions of our territory. But a gradual melting away of the snows of winter loosens the girdle of spring, and, almost before we are aware, glorious summer dances joyously forward. The financial “winter of our discontent” must follow the order of nature. We must patiently endure its diminishing rigors until golden Prosperity shall return. The promature re- sumption of specie payments would cause disastrous panics which would postpone indefinitely the good time coming. The Foreign Policy of the Emperor Napeleon— Debate in the French Chambers. According t one of yesterday’s telegrams the foreign policy of the Emperor had been vigorously attacked in the Corps Legislatif, MM. Thiers and Favre declaring that the encouragement which the Emperor had given to the unification of Germany and Italy had proved hostile to the interests of France. Count de Chambord, the chief of all the Bour- bons, has already with much seriousness and sorrow told France and the world the same Story. Such, therefore, it may be taken for granted, is the general conviction of the legiti- mists. M. Thiers may be regarded as giving expression to the general sentiment of the Orleanists. Nor is it possible to doubt that M. Jules Favre speaks in the name of a very large proportion of the liberals of France. It is not difficult to understand the position assumed by the Count de Chambord. The position of the ex-Prime Minister of Louis Philippe is equally intelligible. It is impossi- ble to deny either the one or the other the merit of consistency. How the leader of the French liberals should adopt such a course it would be less easy to understand did we not bear in mind that there is nothing which so completely blinds a Frenchman to justice and reason as that which touches or seems to touch the greatness of his ‘country. With a united Germany on the one hand and a united Italy on the other every intelligent Frenchman sees that his coun- try can never again occupy the same proud and prominent position which she has been wont to occupy in the European system, and that her influence in European councils must be materially lessened. It is our conviction, therefore, that ‘MM. Thiers and Favre have bat echoed the general sentiment of the French people of all grades and sections of society. There are many thoughts to which this view of the situation gives rise. Qne is that the Emperor has been slightly outwitted. He is entitled to all praise for his policy towards the Italians. History wil) not refuse to admit that the unity of Italy redounds to his lasting honor. But the Emperor did not calculate that a united Italy, which he encouraged, and a united Ger- many, which he did not encourage, should spring into existence at one and the same time. This is the difficulty which the Emperor equally with every intelligent Frenchman feels, Another thought is that a foreign war which promised to win back for her ber proud position would not be unpopular in France. Were it not for this Exposition which, fortunately or unfortunately, he has on hand, we do not be- lieve that either his infirm health or his ad- vanced years would prevent Napoleon from engaging in some such enterprise. ‘The Ferry Leases and City Franchises. We perceive that a lease of the Staten Island ferry has been granted to Commodore Vander- bilt for the next ten years at the insignificant sum of one thousand dollars a year. Now, the income from this and other ferries is a part of the property of the city, which goegto lighten taxation. The Staten Island ferry, which in fact embraces three or four ferries, could be leased for one hundred thousand dollars « year, and there are, no doubt, companies who would gladly pay that price for the lease. But unfortunately the law requires all parties offer- ing to lease it also to purchase the boats and other property of the present owners, and at a valuation which, under the circumstances, might be inconvenient and unprofitable, as some of the boats are pretty well worn out and the docks and landings in very indifferent con- dition. It is notorious that undor the present management no attention is paid to the safety or comfort of the public on the Staten Island ferry. It is run for the profits which it returns, and nothing more. It is therefore to be regret- ted that this ferry should be left in the same hands for ten years more. The lease of the Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn is pro- tected by the same' provision, requiring pur- chasers of the lease to buy the property of the company, and in order to keep the lease in they will give some attention to it betore they adjourn. ‘The Last of Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall has been sold. The sachems have reselved that the old headquarters shall know them no more, but that they will take their scalps and tomahawks to some other locality. Some months since, after his defeat for Governor, Mayor Hoffman denounced Tam- many Hall as © nest of filth and and feelingly declared that its muck and mire clung to the garments of all who entered the Old Wigwam, and could not be shaken off. His end moving the same 01d goods a ‘ls into new habitation. There must hee throughout, Let them of sine, throw off their copperhead gad thelr obsolete theories, eatoh eo With Go Living toques of the day gad wait patiently antil their past offences are forgot- ten. If they do this they will take a promi- nent part in the financial issues that must fol- low the complete reconstruction of the South, If they do not they might justas well-have remained all their lives shut up in the fildhand impurity of Tammany Hall, so graphically de- scribed by Mayor Hoffman. A Dogberry in New York—Goms of the Elective Judiciary. The truth of the saying that “history repeats itself” is vindicated by the reap- pearance upon the New York bench of the veritable Dogberry drawn by Shakspeare over two hundred and fifty years ago. The investigation of the State Senate into the Connolly-Kennedy imbroglio has been the means of making public a chapter in the official history of the jovial Justice of the Fourth dis- trict which proves that an active politician and a jolly boon companion may at the same time be anything but an ornament to the bench. The Senate having requested informa- tion a8 to the reasons that influenced Superin- tendent Kennedy to order the police of the city to take no prisoners before Justice Con- nolly’s court, the Superintendent replies by producing a very singular batch of affidavits tending to fasten upon the Judge very un- judgelike conduct. It appears from these documents that Justice Connolly has a very poor opinion of the Metropolitan Police force, and has omitted no opportunity to give them abit of his mind. One patrolman, who had arrested a rioter for breaking a citizen’s win- dows, was told, “What right had you, sir, to arrest this man? I have a great mind to lock youup. If you arrest that man again or any other on a similar charge I will have you com - mitted and tried for a misdemeanor.” A second, who had made an arrest for a violation of the Excise law, was lectured after this fash- ion :—“Citizens ought to protect themselves, If some of you officers had your brains knocked out the parties who did it would be justified. How long have you been on the police? You are one of those smart, efficient officers looking for promotion. Now, I shall discharge the man, and if you bring any more men here on such a charge as this I will lock you up. If I were this man I would sue you for false arrest.” Another, who brought up a prisoner on s!mi- lar charge, received the following rebuke :— “Most horrible crime! most horrible crime ! How dare you bring a citizen betore me on sach a complaint? Don’t you know that the Recorder has given his opinion that the law is unconstitutional? Now, sir, if you bring another person before me on a similar com- plaint I will commit you to a cell. You have your choice, to obey me or to obey the Super. intendent of Police. Now, sir, go to the sta- ion house and tell your captain what I have said to you.” A policeman who was indis- creet enough to arrest a man whom he found in the act of kicking another in the head, after knocking him down on the sidewalk, was. told “you saw too much. You are a d—d nui- sance. There has not been one day’s peace in the Twenty-second ward since you have been there.” . And a yet more inconsiderate member of the force, who went into a brewery to cap- ture 8 man who was trying to murder a woman, was severely rebuked for conduct that might have been the means of “spoiling a whole brewing of ale.” Doaseanr—You shall make no noise in the streets; for, for the watch to babble ble and not to be sndured. * © ee and bid them that Warca—How if they will not? Dodasazt—Why thea jet them un sober; if they make you not then the better answer, say are not the men you took them for. aToa—Well, sir. Doosarny—If you meet a thief, you may by virtue of your office, to be no true man: kind of men, the less you meddie or make with them, wh; See ee i ‘arcu—If we know him to be a thief, shall we not ooamae Ct — by your office you but I think say eco ect be eager ee Se pee night you may willing; for, indeed, the waieh ought fo ofend ne sac ‘and it is an’ offence to stay a man iL. On one occasion we are fold in Super- intendent Kennedy’s statemen(that a number of hackmen were taken befor our modern Dogberry, charged with viol the city or- dinances in not having #8 of the legal rates of fare to show their mers, The New York Dogberry at first to receive tibility to new impressions and perhaps @f progress. We may presume that “with youth at the prow,” and with the pressure of outside influence from “the barbarians of the West,’” Japan will now enter upon a new and eventful era in her history, Recesstruction tm Seuth Carolina—The Re- markable Meeting at Columbia. The recent meeting at the capital of South Carolina, a more extended account of which we publish this morning, is one of the most significant events of the present day. Disfran- chised whites and enfranchised blacks mingled together and took counsel on the policy of the future under the new order of affairs in the Southern States. As South Carolina was for- merly the foremost in secession and the bold- est advocate of slavery, so now she leads the van in reconstruction and is the first of the rebel States to recognize the equal rights of the freedmen. The politicians of South Carolina were always shrewd, active men; and the speeches of the whites at this remarkable meet- ing show that if the rebellion has stripped them of everything else it has not deprived them of political energy and sagacity. An assemblage of abolitionists in Boston, presided over by Wendell Phillips, could not have claimed more for or conceded more to the colored man than did the representatives of the South Carolina ehivalry, standing im the capital of their State. It’ must have been a singular sight to see such men as Wade Hampton, De Saussure, Colonel Talley, E. J. Arthur and others telling their emancipated slaves that “they have the right of franchise;” that they are “politically the equals of the whites;” that “the white man and the colored man of the South have the same interest, the same destiny;” that “the two races must prosper or perish together;” that the whites cherish “no hostility towards the colored man on account of his altered circumstances,” and exhorting the blacks, in the exercise of their new rights and power, “to try those of the community whom they have known—those who have the same interests”—and not to “experi- ment on the sympathies of strangers” until they find themselves deceived by their white brethren of the South. It is evident that the white citizens of South Carolina have reaolved to accept the situation, and by a prompt and masterly movement towards immediate reconstruction under the Sherman act to seize and hold control of the negro vote before the republicans have time to obtain a commanding influence over the freedmen through the machinery to be ope- rated by Secretary Stanton. If all the ex- cluded States should adopt a similar policy and push forward the work of reconstruction in the same spirit and with equal promptness and vigor they might yet make themselves masters of the position and effectually over- throw all the plans of the radicals. By such o movement the whole South could be brought back into the Union before the next Presidem- tial election, and the disfranchised whites would have as complete political control over their several States as if the ballots remained in their own hands and the shackles were still on the arms of their former slaves. Remodelling New York City. The Heratp has published the memorial which was presented .the other day to the Legislature by James E. Serrell, proposing to remodel the city of New York. We meed mot say that we should be the last to discourage any feasible plan which claims, like the plan of Mr. Serrell, to be “the g 2 z HEE say eLii i of the channels ’ Island, the island itself and the land oa Long Island, and also Ward’s and Randall's islands. The proposed new East river or chan- nel could be completed before the present channels are in the least changed or interfered with, and would be five and » quarter miles Jong, three thousand three bundred feet wide and forty feet deep.” t are pretty well built up already. We are the leas inclined to waste time im seriously discussing Mr. Serrell’s grand but impracticable scheme, inasmuch as it is, if we are not misinformed, but a single one of many similar echemes which have swarmed forth from the same busy, but, we fear, overheated brain. The projector of this plan for remodel. ling New York was, if we remember aright, fatally tardy with his plans and specifications at Port Royal. Buthe was prompt enough, we have beon told, with a proposition to erect ® mole from Hilton Head to Havana as & | safe and sare outlet for the black clement in the problem whioh perplexed the national mind during our late wer. All the nogroes in the Sonth ware to straggle over this mole, dry ehod,