The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1867, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD. SAMES GORDON BES VETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR — OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTO® swp NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THRATRG, Broadway, near Broome eDROADWAT ow Evs—Latesr 720m Naw YORE, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hovol.—-Kexicwouth—Tne Prevey Hoi AKER. ATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth vr Le Scrruice D'UNE Fsmun~-L’AMouR v'uNE ry Inge GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.~ wer TaGe ave Dem Exsew Eines Foxrsten. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Davantar or soa Reomenr, WOOD'S THEATRE, Broad A Hotel —Usoue Tou's Canim, ny" OPPosie Bt. Nicholas DODWORTH HALL, 806 Breadway.— E8801 yuu Panrona His Minactrs“LiBsciaateon ano Hee Fay Sixcivc Baap STEINWAY ROOMS, Fou Ll of TEIN WAY 8, Fourteenth street.—Tarep Soman SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposi the Motropolltan Hotel —ix ug Brutorian’ Rveneatn, ACH —! Coor_srine Haan Extuus ov vax auazos. nt DUCE KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 129 Broadway. oppo- site the Now York Hotal. ~Ix ragie Soxcs, Daxces. Boo ex worries. BURLESQUES, iNDER-LEON—MaDaGascaa jatiet Teourk—Parzi iN Panis. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Eiestias’ Morranchy’ Moet: mecttecnae Ean tas Ocuax Yacut Rach—Tue Busse Guoor 8° —*8* TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comtc Vouactm, Necro INSTRRLSY, Batter Divegtisseexyt, &c.—Tux Woruna Gra.s or New Yorx. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanios’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Vaairry or Licut "D Lavonages ENYSSTAINMENTS, Cours pe Batter, jOHOOLBOY’S FROLICS. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermioriax Mrv- rir ALLads ND BuRuesques.—Tur BLack Man THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of Twenty-third strget and Broadway, at 744. —Morina “Min. a OF THE ILGRIN’S ROGRESS—SIXTY | AGNIFIC! Benwus. Matinee Wednesday and Suturday at B o'clock. REW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. js> axp Rigur ARM or Proasr—Tux Wasainaron ‘s—Wowpers ix Natvrat History, Scrsnce anp Apt. mes Daity, Open from 8 A.M. till 10P. M. INSTITUTE OF ART (Derby Gallery). 625 Broadway.— xb Exminition oF Paurrings.—* Covrr” m tax Days oF Lixcoun. Tux Rervs.ican jew York, Thursday, March 21, 1867. —= EUROPE. The news reported by the cable is dated yesterday ovening, March 20. Labor riots have taken place in one of the rural dis- tricta of France, Prussia is to have command of the troopa of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden when y is at war, oe closed at 91 for money in London, United States fivo-twenties were at 743¢ in London and 84} in Paris. The Liverpool cotton market was quiet and easier, with middling uplands at 18364, to 131¢d. 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 the most favorable circumstances. The Colorado landed one hundred and seventy-five passengers, the American and European mails and a full and valuable cargo, She brought very late and interesting news from-China and Japan, dated at Hong Kong the 17th, and Yokohama the ‘Sth of February, which has been telegraphed to the iwaacp by our specia! correspondent, and appears in our colamns this morning. A full Japanese commission, Geatined for Washington, to arrange a naval contract, fandod at San Francisco from the Colorado, The Mikado or Spiritual Emperor of Japan is dead, and the court of the new Tycoon or temporal ruler is in mourning. The governmental course of the Tycoon Gives satisfaction to the foreigners. He bas formally in- vited all the naval officers serving in the ports of the empire te visit him. The war with Chosin is suspended fora season. Trade was Very dull in Yokohama The brother of the Tycoon sailed in French steamer for Paris to represent the Sovereign at the great Exhibition. The British Minister at Japan is disposed to be surly ‘with the Tycoon, From China we are informed that the authorities did ‘Bot reply to the note of Captain Schufeldt, of the United Sates steamer Wachusett, relative to the murder of the crew of the ship General Sherman. The American com- mercial fag will soon predominate on the Chinese waterr. ‘The French were to build a short line of railroad from Shanghae. The growing interest of France in the East renders England jealous. ThejRussian fleet was about to eafi from China, Goods for export were firm at Hong Kong. The United States steamers Hartford, Shonan- cab and Asbuslot were at Hong Kong, and the Wachu- gotta wes at Shanghes, A large quantity of gunpowder stored on a hulkship tm the harbor of Hong Kong exploded, causing the loss of many lives and the destruction of a large amount of Property. The city was shaken as if by an earthquake. An extensive and most disastrous fre raged in the river waburbs of Foo Chow. The China Mail speaks highly of the Colorado, and gays she Is the largest vessel which bas ever appeared in the harbor of Hong Kong. CONGRESS. ‘In the Senate yesterday a joint resolution prohibiting the wearing of any uniform by diplomatic agents abroad mot prescribed by Congress was passed. The Committee on Territories reported favorably the bill for the admis- ston of Colorado, The bills authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the warehouses on Atlantic docks, Brooklyn, and appropriating $500,000 to defray the ex- (penses of carrying the Reconstruction bill into effect wore passed. Some dis:ussion ensued on the joint reso- for the sale of certain stocks held in trust for the and Cherokees Indians, pending which the Bonate adjourned. + [In the House, resotutions ef inquiry were adopted calling for the facts relative to the imprisonment of the Rev. Mr. McMabon im Canada; why American claims against the British government have not been paid, and what ought to be dene to seoure a speedy payment of Bhe same, and aste the expediency of constituting a Standing committee on labor. A memorial from the Legislative Assembly of Utah was presented, praying for admission ag a Stare, Fhe report of the Commitice on Biections tn the case of the contested seats of the Colo- vedo Territory delegates was presented, with a resolution toatinning the investigation, and Mr. Chaloott was sworn Yas the sitting delegate pending the decision, The Bouse then went into Commitise of the Whole on the Jout resolution appropriating $1,000,000 for the relief of the portof Now York. The bill authorizing the Central Company to charge two and «half conts per pasmnger fare, end several other bills of a local or ™~* NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET, THE CITY. A meoling of the Board of Education took place last evoulng, 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, Tho question of repealing the bylaw fixing the minimum amount of ‘eachors’ salaries @\ $400 a year came up, and was finally referred to the Committee on Bylawa, A second private meeting of the Peavody trustees was held 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 late 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 amount of equipage and ammunition needed to fit out certain companies for service. On the other band soveral 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 Mra. 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’ Zousves. 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, granted 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 on 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 laat 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 of 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, 116 and 117 Nassau streot, 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- fass, 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. Kiefer has since been arrested on a 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 had been arrested. In the Supreme Court, Circuit, part 3, 0 sult was brought yesterday by Wm. H. Post vs. Willet Leaman to recover $4,700, which the plaintiff alleges he had been 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, a motion to vacate the arrést of George W. Chadwick, late Vice President of the Nort 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 of his goods. The grand jury were discharged yesterday im the General Sessions, Charles Lioyd, who pleaded guilty to an assault with intent to maim, was sent to the State prison for ten years. John Shannon, who attempted to commit an infamous offence upon a little child was sen- ‘tenced to the State prison for five years. A Frenchman named Charles de Villiers, © professor of languages by occupation, was, on Tuesday last ar- rested by officer Strauss of the Central office. The prisoner is charged with having swindled a number of persons by porchasing goods and giving in payment therefor valueless checks. . ‘The stock market was weak and unsettled yesterday. Gold was steady, opening at 134%, and closing at 134%. ‘The steady ruling of the gold premium prevented any material change in values of imported merchandise, which, however, still continued quiet, though ia some commodities a fair business was transacted. Domestic produce generally ruled frm. Flour was a shade firmer and more active. Wheat was steady. Corn was lc a ‘2c. lower. Oats likewise declined 1c. a 2c. Pork closed firm. Beef was firmer, while lard ruled heavy, though moderately active. Whiskey was dull and nominal. Freights were scarcely as firm. Naval stores ruled quiet, though Orm. Petroleum was firmer. F MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican letters are from various points and under various dates, the latest being special correspondence from Maszatian dated March 18. Colima and Tamora had been occupied by the liberals. President Juarez was at San Luis with detachments of the liberal army. About five hundred men were at Mazatlan ander command of General Martines. All was quiet in Senora Corona had levied a tax on all property in the States of Jalisco, in for a part in the contest, and on the imperial the forces of Mendez have been recalled from Morelia to re- fey on the part of Escobedo, bat on the imperial side it te thought the best jhow is in a fight by detail and without delay. Ortega is still a prisoner at Saltillo, and fe looked upon as an elephant drawn ina lottery. His captors don’t know what to do with him. Orizaba and Cordova were in the hands ef the liberals, riyte ay afyetl z hat Wale The Now Cepfiict tm Connecticut—What Say the People? Tho newspaper organs and stump orators on both sides in Connecticut are making 9 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 midst of 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 mankind.” 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 buat 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 Tight arm of the government in its defence and maintenance, suffers the humiliation of a mil- lion of people without any retognized 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 clty of New York. The republicans of Connec- ticut, in falling from their high estate into the braces of the Feejee mermaid and the Scams Diddler of the woolly horse, have made « bold departure to demoralize their party and disgrace 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 Stilt Harping on Specie Pay- t mente. ‘The Tribune persists in urging “a general and prompt resumption of specie ” It attempts, however, no refutation of what it terms “ the Hznaty’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 too currency? Was it not lack af opiiflcient gold and en San the war @et created this necessity t not the war bequeathed this must be borne until it shall have : Giseppeared t 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 premature re- sumption of specie payments would cause disastrous panics which would postpone indefinitely the good time coming. The Foreign Policy et the Emperor Napeleen— 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- mista. M. Thiers may be regarded as giving expression to the general sentiment of the Orleanists, Nor is it possible to donbt 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. One is that the Emperor has been slightly outwitted. He is entitled to all praise for his policy towards the Italians. History will 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 sprivg 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 her 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 sam 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 s 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 under the present 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 own hands the company has for some ‘The Last of Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall has been sold. The sachems have resolved that the old headquarters shall know them no more, but that they will take their scalps and tomshawks 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 proposition to sell the rotten hall and get into & purer atmosphere and cleancr quarters was then defeated ; but it now appears that sachems have reeonsidered their sion and that yesterday it was finally diggened of by private sale. @f Temmany. But if her old cannot impose upon the people by wigwam and moving the same 014 goods and chattels into a aew habitation. There must be o throughout, Let them of sins, throw off their copperhead 984 their obsolete theories, catoh eo With Geo living terues of the day gad wait patiently until 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, Ifthey do not they might justas well have remained all their lives shut up in the fileh and impurity of Tammany Hall, so graphically de- scribed by Mayor Hoffman. A Dogberry in New York—Gems of the Blective Judiciary, The trath of the saying that “history repeats itself” is vindicated by the reap- pearance upon the New York bench of the veritable Dogherry 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 as 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 yon, sir, to arrest this man? Ihave a great mind to lock youup. If you arrest that man again or any other on s 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 a simi- lar obarge, received the following rebuke :— “Most horrible crime! most horrible crime! How dare you bring a citizen betore m: on such 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 acell. You have your choice, to obey me or to obey the Super. intendent of Police. Now, sir, go to the sta- tion house and tell your captain what I have said to you.” A policoman 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.” The Dogberry of Messina had the same views of the duty of the watch that the New York Dogberry has of the province of the patrolmen :— Dogurernr—You shall make no to do, whereupon the verely rebuking respect towards officers to prison. berry of two and proudly on his dignity:— him be writ dowa—the ¥ind them. Thea FJ thou Saeure. write me eas! bat, am an ess; it be not that I om on ems. No, thou ‘vies follows aaa wich more, a householder; and is ee, e ot Teen f net We do not tibility to new impressions aid perhaps ef 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. Recenstruction in Seuth Carclina—The Re- markable Mecting 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 moat 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 chivalry, standing im the capital of their State. It’ must have been a singular sight to see such men af 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 resolved 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 suche movement the whole South could be brought back into the Union before the next Presiden- 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 Hxratp 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 u Ht & which have given Manhattan Island its present shape, and of those laws, almost equally fired, which regulate the growth of all great cities and which have made New York ling New York was, if we remember aright, fatally tardy with his plans and specifications st Port Royal. But he was prompt enough, we have been told, with a proposition to erect @ mole from Hilton Head to Havana as & | safe and sure outlet for the black element in the problem whioh perplexed the national mind during our late wer. All the negroes in the Sopth ware to straggle over this mole, dry ahod,