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6 Durtness of minor importancs was transacted, Board adjourned. . The Board of Counctlmen met yesterday and trans. acted considerable routine business. The Committee on Law, to whom was roferred a resolution directing the Corporation Counsel to suspend the execution of con- veyances to the United States authorities of the lower end of the City Hall Park for a new Post Oilice, reported that they wero in favorof the selection of Union or Madison squares for that purpose. Tne paper was laid over until the special committee on the subject sball have presented their report. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in directing the Clerk of the Common Counct! to nogotiate for the purchase of a complete file of the Hunatp for the past twenty-five years, to be deposited tm the City Library; also in directing the Corporation Counsel to take the necessary steps to pro- tect Justice Connolly in discharging his judicial func- tions The Board adjourned till Monday, the 1st of April. ‘The Kings Vounty Board of Supervisors met yesterday afternoon, when a resolution was adopted requesting the representatives of the county in the Legislature to use their influence towards defeating tho scheme having for its object the establishment of a paid Fire Department in Brooklyn. A resolution was also adopted remonstrat- ing against the passage of any law depriving the Board of the power of appointing inspectors and canvassers of and the | The Next Prestdeocy—The Prospect for a New Opposition Party. Great political parties, like great empires, when they have no tonger any outside enemies to fight, are apt to fall to pieces from internal disturbances, Thus the old Jeffersonian repub- lican party of ‘this country, which carried everything before it from 1800 to 1820, went to pieces in the Presidential acrub race of 1824, because there was no longer an opposition party in the field, the old federal organization having grown “small by degrees and beauti- fully lesa” till entirely frittered away. Our present republican party, organized in 1854, for the restriction of African slavery to ite then existing limits, has, since it was elected to power in 1860, achiéved the total abolition of slavery and the elevation of the black race to civil and political equality with the dominant white race in the reconstruction of the rebel States. This brief statement covers a series of conflicts and triumphs in the battle fields of the South, in the political elections of the North and in the legislation of Congress, so NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GonDoN BENSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome atreet. Roxy O'Monx—Yankuw Counrsnir, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.— Tue STRANGER. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue —Le Station Cmampauper. QERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery,— Dis Stuume vor Pomict (MasantELo). WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite St. Nich HolelUsoas sum Habe Beoowe enaton . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadw: Bowsmiax Gint. DOPWORTH HALL, %6 Broadway.—Proresson Hants wu. Prerona Mimacuss—L'Bscamateun axp Her Farr Stxging Binp SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—Ix tusin Bruroriay gxrautats- | election. Some other business was transacted, after H murs, Siow, Daxcina any Boauesaces.—Yax BLACK | which tho meeting adjourned. terrible, splendid and decisive as to be with- The Brooklya Board of Aléermen met yesterday after- noon, when the Committee on Government Property and Claims submitted a report om the reselt of their negotia- tions with the Navy Popartmeat Commission for the ac. quisition to the city of certain lands deemed necessary for the perfection of the proposed Wallabout improve- ments, The memoranda of agreements aud the report are published elsewhere. The Trustecs of the Peabody Education Fund mot in- formally on Saturday last and adopted a resolution to moet again in Richmond on the third Tuesday in January next, The official report of the action of the Trustees “relative to the disposition of the fund wil! be found in another column Tho mortality report for the last weck shows four hun- dred and thirty-three deaths in the city and the public institutions. Navigation on tho Hudson, between this city and Troy, was resumed yesterday, only a smal! quantity of ice re- maining in the river. Coroner Wildey on Saturday last held an inquest on the remains of Mrs. Mary E. Noble, a woman aged thirly-eight years, whose death it would appear, was the result of malpractice. Upon the deposition of George Wait Carson, the man who cohabited with the decoased female subseqeent to ber separation from her husband, the police yesterday arrested Dr. Thiers and Mrs. Amelia Armstrong, who, under tho names of Dr, and Mrs, Dubois, are charged with having procured the abor- tion which resulted in the death of Mrs Noble. All tho facts of the case, as also the testimony taken before the coroner, will be found in another column. Acolored girl aged fourteen was arrested yesterday, charged with kidnapping another ou? aged about six. Tho Court of Appeals witi inaugurate its first session for 1867 in this city to-day, being the Orst time im seven years that it has beid a session here. The stock market was comparatively dull yosterday, bat closed firm with an upward tendency. Gold was dull, closing at 133% There was nothing new in commercial circles yester- day. Tho markets wero .generally dull, though prices were in the main sustained. Qotton was firmer, under more favorable European nows, and prices wore higher. The budyancey in breadstuffs noticed last week con- tinued, and aearly all kinds of fleur and grain were higher; the speculators contrelied the corn market, and comparatively little ousiness was done. Provisions were Ormer. Freights were quict,. Whiekey was dull ead Naval stores ruled quict, Petreleum re- oa. MISCELLANEOUS. Reports from Matamoros are to the effect that there is Do trath in the aceountsof a liberal doteat near Querétare, ‘The libera! limes had been advanced to within seven miles of that place, Rumors of au attempted arrange- ment by Maximilian with the liberal government are rite, Juarez was about to issue a decree deciaring the jons of commerce aad amity with France to be at an . Cortion bad returned to his allegiance to Juarez, and had been ordered to the interior. Full de- tails of the evacuation of Colima and Aoapuleo are furnished by our correspondents. General Corona was proparing to march against Genoral Mender, who held Moreiia, but tater accounts state that Corona had joined Escobedo, and Mender had joined Maximilian near Querotaro, Our correspondent at Chibuahua, writing under date of February 28, says that the hatred of the peopie towards Americans grows more intense evory day. Pates to the 22d state that the imperial army are becoming rapidly demoralized, whole companies deserting at once. Supplies were scarce, and all provisions were being seized for the use of the troops. Both armies were pillaging the inhabitants as much as possible. Our Tampico letter says Napoleon delayed embarking bis troops for the purpose of allowing Maxi- m'lian time to organize his army. A longthy lettér from Governor Patton, of Alabama, on the reconstruction question, will be found elsewhere in the Henatp this morning. He advises the people to accept the terms proposed cheerfully and carry out the Jaw faithfully. Rear Admiral Godon, commanding the South Atlantic squadron, under date of Montevideo, February 13, re- ports the whereabouts of the vesacls composing his fleet, The Brooklyn, Sumatra and Resaca were at Mon- tevideo. Tho Nipsic was at Buenos Ayres. The Ossipee had arrived at Rio Janciro, The Kansas sailed for Africa on the Ith of January and the Mohican for the Pacife on the 14th, The On- ward had arrived with supplics on the 14th of and sailed on the Tth of February for Rio, whence she waste have sailed for New York. The okin was at Santa Maria. The French iron-clad Bulleguerre was at Montevideo, on route for the Pacific, with anadmiral on board; and the English iron-clad Jealous, with Admi- ral Hastings on board, had arrived at Rio Janeiro, also bound for the Pacific. Rear Admiral Godon concludes his report by saying that the Spanish fleet had disap- peared, probably in search of the Chilean iron-clads, which wore reported to intend visiting Cuba. He jearns that the Spanish feot wore requested not to visit Brazi- lian ports in future except for ordinary supplies. The Penobscot was at St. Thomas, West Indies, on the 13th inst. Three of the crow had died of yellow fever at the Marine Hospital, but no type of that disease had ap- peared ou board. The officers and crew were all well. Our Richmond letter says that Jobn Minor Botts re- contly called upom General Schofield and ventured some advice regarding the manner in which the new powers delegated to the General as commander of the district should be applied. No reply was vouchsafed to him, however, and be loft feeling himself snubbed. The press are all turning their attention to secnring the negro vote, and Hunnicutt’s paper warns the colored people against voting for rebels In Louisiana similar efforts are being made by the politicians who a month ago were defiantly bent on not voting at all if the negro did and their late leaders did mot. Now they call upon their leaders to sacrifice themselves and the negro to vote with “their old masters and best friends.’ The first act of General Sheridan under his new aathority, it is re- ported, will be the removal of Mayor Monroe and the secession manicipal government. Governor Weils and the General, who have been enemtes since the riots, have resumed amicable relations. The Grand Army of the Republic, an association of discharged federal sol- diers, nuwbers over seven thousand men in two parishes of the State alone, and is extending all over the State. Major General Hancock started from Leavenworth, Kansas, yesterday for the country inhabited by the Siouz, Cheyenne and Arrpahoo Indians with fifteen hundred cavairy and infantry anda battery of artillery. He was also accompanied by several chiefs and braves of the Delawares, who are to act as guides and scouts. Gen- eral A. J. Smith commands the regiment of cavalry. Tho expedition is not bound on a hostile errand further than punishing thowe inclined to be belligerent, the main object being to strengthen the friendship of the peaceable inhabitants. ‘The Michigan Legislatare adjourned yesterday, The eight hour labor bill was lost, The National Bank of Tennessee has failed. Acolored man was admitted to registry asa voter in Meriden, Connectiout, yesterday, and the peopte of that town were much exoited in consequence. George Rolfe was murdered in Falmouth, Me, on Sunday morning by Eben Williams, an imbecile, twenty- out anything like a parallel in the records of any other party or people under the sun. But now comes the danger of internal dis- sensions, all outside hostile coalitions against this powerful party having been disarmed and defeated, North and South. Having, therefore, now nothing better to do, the repub- licans of Congress dre beginning that inva- giably disastrous squabble among themselves for the leader’s baton, for the power, spoils and plunder, The late passage-at-arms be- tween Bingham and Butler, the party divisions ou the impeachment question and the ridicu- lous smelling committees and their astonish- ing discoveries of mares’ nesta in the shape of bargains and corruptions in the New York Custom House—all signify the beginning of the demoralization and disintegration of the party. Have the republican leaders forgotten the important historical fact that the fatal dis- solution of the old democratic party com- menced with its squabbles over the spoils of the New York Custom House? Poor Pierce carried New York in 1852 by 25,000 majority over General Scott; and yet in 1853 the de- mocracy of this State were divided into two nearly equal factions, hardshells and sofishells, thus letting the election go by default, and losing it again from this same division in 1854, and all because of the party squabble over Collector Bronson, hardshell, and then over Collector Redfield, softsboll, and the spoils of our Custom House. From that divi- sion the democrats never recovered, and they have never since that split regained the Em- pire State, exvept in the sporadic election of Seymour in 1862, on the war plattorm. Hand President Johnson, like. poor Pierce, maintained his fight fur the anccession, inside his party lines, he would probably have been party. But the momont Mi, Johnson broke ground for o new andiedependest Presidential Johnson party, the wavering republicans took the alarm, and their radical whippers-in soon brought them into line again. Ask Mr. Ray- mond and the Rev. Honry Ward Beecher. Taus in all bis conflicts with Congress. Mr. Jobnson has still strengthened and consolidated the re- publican lines and weakened himself and the democracy supporting him, till he and they are as powerless in the clenched hand of Con- gress as the rebel States. What prospect, then, is there for a new opposition pacty in the Presidential contest of 1868 Mr. August Belmont and his national democratic com- mittee see no opening for the present, but they are hopefully waiting for “something to turn up.” Something, too, may turn up, very much to their advantage in behalf of a new national opposition party before next spring. The final break up of the old democracy occurred in 1860, in their quarrels over their rival Presi- dential platforms and candidates. In 1864, in the midst of the war, the same causes for a time threatened a division of the republican party. It was only the popularity of President Lincoln and the war that saved it. How much greater, then, must the chances of a rupture be when this party is lett without a recognized leader and without a platform and with half a dozen Presidential candidates and cliques mining and countermining for the inside track. In any event, General Longstreet, in his frank and sensible advice as an honest soldier, to the people of the rebel States, has pointed out their way of salvation. It is honest sub- mission to the issues of the war embodied in the laws of Congress. General Wade Hamp- ton, on the other hand, has shown those people their true plan of political action. It is the sagacious plan of fusing the interests of whites and blacks, planters and laborers, in a new and harmonious Southern political party. With anything like systematic and general action in that direction the ten ex- cluded States may regain their seats in Con- gress next winter and be able to present a solid front on their own Presidential ticket in 1868. Here, then, will be a balance of power upon which the floating elements of the North, on the new political issues which will soon come into the foreground, may build up a new and powerful opposition party. Meantime when the leaders of the party in power can find no better employment than wrangling among themselves and with the President and his official ‘subordmates over the spoils of the New York Custom House and federal offices generally, we may be sure that the party has pessed its meridian and is rapidly going down. oppo- win SONGS, Dances. Eco gn. 40.—Oinper-Lron—Map. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, nite the New York Hotel.—Iw rasorries, Batier Trovrs—Nonua. AG ASCAR FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Tyony fourth street —Gairrue & Cxnisry’s, Minereeis— Efuortan Mivsraxcsy, Baviavs, Burcesques, &c.—Tue Bond Bossxnr—Buacx Crook. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, MN Bowery. —Comic Voostisu. Nuano Minstrs Boruxsques, Bavuur Diver- ‘Wissamunr, &0.—Tux Sci Hero. CHARLEY WHITE! Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Varin ap LAUQHADLE ENTER TAINMENTS.—Tux Fix. op Wasuinarom. COMBINATION TROUPF. at Jagat CurRKs HOOLBY'8 OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etimiorian Mix- erneusy, BaLLaps 4ND BURLESQUES.—Tae Biack Max or Agan. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, U: Twenty-third sirest und Broadway, ROR OF Boenns. ie Picrin’s PROGRESS 2 c Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 3 o'clock, Rogar Axm or Pronst—' -Woxnxns iN Natoxat History, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tue THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic @able is dated yos- terday evening, March 25. turkey is decided against the cession of Candia to Greece, and the Sultan’s government denies that the grat powers have advised such astep. Lord Derby's Re(orm bill is before the House of Commons with Mr, Gladstone in firm opposition to the measure. Louis Kossuth, dating from his residence in Turin, protests ‘against the Hungarian constitutional agreement with the ‘Emperor of Austria. Consots closed in London at 911¢ for money. United States five-twonties were at 74'¢ in London, 84°; im Pare and 77% im Frankfort. ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed firm, after an ac- five wade, with middling aplands at 13}gd. Breads(ufls quiet. Provisions unchanged. Ry steamships at this port and Portland, Maine, yes- torday, we received very interesting mail details of our @ablo despatches to the 14th of March. Tho Wonian insurreotionary excitement kept Ireland sill tevered, but it was evident that the armed insurzent movemont was a failure. Six “flying columns’? of the British army were on active duty ia the island, and de- taohments of troops appeared suddenly at every sus. ected point. The men who had been ‘out’ were re- turning te thelr different daily avocations. Arrests of the more prominent rebels were made daily. ‘Tho Parts correspondent of the London Sunday Gaze//e ‘writes :—‘‘l seat you the intelligence of James St-phens’ arrival ia this country, and though active operations wore not long in manifesting themselves after thie hero landed in Europe, sill Iam told that the late Head Contre is quite innocent of the present troubies. I learn that James Stephens and a few officers, Yate of the United States army, are located ina hotel tows to the Rue St. Lazare terminus, and the ‘rising has taken them by surprise "” The Opinione Nationale of Paris has an article on the Fenian movement, in which it hints that the United States government connived st the rebellion in the in- terest of Russia asa means of embarrassing England at @ oritical moment of her diplomacy on the Eastern quoation Tbe four important notes addressed by order of the Crar to tho Russian Minister in London, on the subject of the astern difficulty, of which a synopsis bas already appeared in the Henacp, are pblished in ext-nso in our columus. The Emperor of Russia expresses the most friendly intentions towards Turkey, and alludes point. diy to the “ organic changes” just completed on the cootineut as marking the moment inopportune for faiaiug another war, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday memorials asking that the provisions of the Military Reconstruction bill be extend- 4 fo Maryland were referred to the Judiciary Commit- tes. A bill authorizing the employment of additional examivers in the Patent Office was passed. A joint re- solution, covering by warrant all moneys in the Trea. sury which are the proceeds of property capiured during the rebsilion, was postponed until the firar Monday in December, The bill to allow citizens to sell war veasels to friendly bolligerents was under consi tion, but it was interrupted by other business be- fore action was taken upon it. Several resolutions of minor importance were acted upon, and the House evolution to adjourn was referred to the Judiciary Com- mittee, Mr. Wilson mado a motion tor the reconsidera- tion of the Senate resolution to adjourn until December, bat pending ite consideration te Senate went into executive session, and adjourned until this morning. In the House, under the Monday call of States for bills for reference, Mr. Hooper introduced one enacting that Congress shall meet on the first Mond the months of May, Jane, September, November and Doeomber, 1867, unless notified ten days previous by tho presiding officers that no necessity for such mooting oxists. It was referred to the Committee of the ‘Whole on the State of the Union. Bilis to reorganize the Judiciary ; to construct a s bip canal from the Missis- sippi river to Lake Michigan; to establish @ national buresa of insurance, and others were appropriately re- ferred A concurrent resolution that each house shail adjourn om Thursday, to meet on the first Wednesday fo May, June, September and October, unless other- wise aotified by the presiding officers, was adopted, by yeas 88, nays 31. A resolution allowing Collector Smythe to appear before the Custom Hoane lavestigating Committee by counsel was adopted. The Sonate joint resolution relative to persons on the Aiplomatic service of the government wearing uniforms ‘was taken up and passed, A preamble and resolution @xpromsing the desire of the House that the Southera States should provide for a system of free schools in theit now constitutions was adopted. Pending con- Gideration of ® bill authorizing the occupation of & portion of the land in Boston harbor for military pur- Poses the House adjourned, A cauous of the republican members of both houres iho House of Representatives last night to take action concerning futare political movemen's North and South, and completing their Congressional organiza- tion, A committee of one from each State was ap- pointed, and the cances adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. fo the Senate yesterday bills to change the route of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Raliroad, and autho- izing the Third Avenue Railroad Company to lay a switeh im 130th street, were introduced. In the Assombly ® bill was reported to authorize the construction of city transverse railroads in certain street of Now York, The resolution protesting agninst the formation of @ monarchical government in Camads was 4. ge THE OrTY. one years of age, who shot him through the heart with ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, when the | rife and then out off his head with an axe. report of the committee charged with optaining « set- | Accounts of lawless outrages ta North Carolina are Cloment of the city’s claims against the government for | still reported, a baad of outiaws having been organised expenses incurred during the first two years of the war | since the establishment of martial law. A party of oitl- LB ewsipping troops was received and edopted. Other | sons reoeay etecked tpg ond captured goveral, The Turns of the Political Dice. How Napoleon must laugh in his sleeve at the embarrassments of England. She helped him into bis Mexican involvement and then unscrupulously deserted him. It was a mancuvre to render him powerless against herself, Now that he has succeeded in draw- ing bis chestnuts out of the fire he has the sat- isfaction of seeing her plunged into far worse difficulties than his Mexican one. In England the reform question threatens to culminate in revolution, in Ireland rebellion is rampant, and in the British Provinces there is only the alter- native between annexation and the creation of a new kingdom, followed by a war with this country. With the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico all cause of distrust on our part against the Emperor ends. When shall we be able to say that we have no further canse of suspicion against England? The unfriendly course pursued by her during the rebellion is being followed up by her offensive programme for the Provinces. She is certainly not fortanate in her statesmen. They neither know how to keep out of nor to extricate themsctvop from didiquition, The process of NEW YORK SERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1867.—TRIPLE, SHEET. alienation seems the omly one familiar to them, Notcontent with driving their own people into disaffection, they do their bes! to estrafge the governments of whose frieadship they have most need. This policy cammot endare. It will be brought to a sudden and violent termi- nation, we trust rather from internal influences than from any intervention of ours. It would not be desirable for us tobe compelled to aid in precipitating an event which the folly of those shaping the destinies of the British empire will assuredly bring about. Napoleon and Bismarck. Our cable announcements for the last few days in regard to certain deeply significant movements on the part of Prussia and France have naturally crested not 4 little excitement. On the one hand we learn that by means of treaties concluded with Bavaria, Wirtemberg and the grand duchy of Baden, Prussia bas put herself in a position in which she will be able to command the entire military strength of the South German Confederation. On the other hand we are told that the Emperor Napoleon favors a confederation of the govern- ments of France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland against Prussia, and that the recent movements of Prussia have engendered in France considerable bitterness of feeling—a bitterness of feeling which'has doubiless been increased by a knowledge of the fact that King Leopold of Belgium refuses to enter into the Emperor’s proposed confedoration. Prussia and France are assuming more and more the attitude of antagonists. We do not say that there is danger of an immediate col- lision. But both on the one side and on the other there is a visible struggle for supremacy and an unconcealed anxiety to be ready for any emergency. It is curious to see how, in this as in other matters, Bismarck has success- fully reduced to practice the teachings of Napoleon. Napoleon was the firat to proclaim the doctrine of united nationalities ; Bismarck waa the first to turn that doctrine to practical account. Napoleon was the first to announce the theory that henceforward in Europe the safety of the smaller Powers was {o conaist in entering into alliances offensive and defensive with their larger and more powerful neighbors. Here again, as in the tormer case, Bismarck has been the first to exhibit the doctrine in practi- cal shape. In this last affair, indeed, the master has been compelled to’ imitate the pupil. Bismarck forms military alliances with the smaller adjoining States. Napoleon sees that his interest lies in adopting a similar policy. In the one case, however, the experi- ment has been successful ; whether it will be equally so in the other our most recent intelligence makes it appear doubtful. The game which Napoleon and Bismarck have been playing,.and which may be eaid to have commenced at the celebrated Biarritz mecting in the opring of fst your, bas.been protracted spectively made on. the political ohest-: board have commanded the attention of |: the world. That skill and caution and daring bave been manifested on both sides all must admit. If Napoleon has more than once been checkmated it is to be borne in mind, first of all, that while his oppo- nent has been yielding up his entire energies to the attainment of one end, he has, unfor- tunately, been engaged throughout in more games than one, and ‘secondly, that this game has not yet been concluded. The result, in fact, is as yet doubtful. It is by no means improbable that before the game is played out it may assume a much more serious character. The difficulties un- solved by diplomacy may have to be referred to the arbitrament of the sword. In the event of Prussia and France coming into open collision, 80 numerous are the contingencies on which the result would be dependent, that he would be a bold man who ebould venture to predict beforehand to which side victory would lean. Prussia is undoubtedly a powerful military nation. The number, the rapidity, the brilliancy of her successes in her recent encounter with Austria, proved that to the greatest of modern Powers she would be a dangerous antagonist. But Prussia since then has added many millions to her population, has enlarged her territory and has proportion- ately increased her forces. Not only so. By the alliances which she has formed with the members of the Southern Confederation she has acquired the entire military control of the whole of Germany, with the exception of those provinces which still remain attached to the bouse of Austria. Nor is this all. In the altered and rapidly altering condition of the Austrian empire it requires, we believe, but the occasion to reveal the fact that the German popnla- tion there are as enthusiastically devoted to the interests of their common nation- ality as are the Germans of the North and South. Such is the position of Prus- sia at the present moment. Formidable as an antagonist before, the presumption is that she would be found greatly more formidable now. Powerful, however, as Prussia undoubt- edly is, it is not to be denied that ina war with France she would labor under many and serious disadvantages. Not to speak of popu- lation, of wealth, of unequalled military re- sources and of great military renown, France has the unspeakable advantage of being united and of moving with the accuracy of s machine under the guidance and control of a powerful central will. Prussia, on the other hand, acting in conjanction with her German allies, would labor under all the disadvantages which are inseparable from @ State in process of consolidation from sup- posed diversity of interests and from a number of separate and independent heads, It is a question which the result alone could satisfac- torily answer, whether the intense patriotism ofthe German people would secure unity of heart and aim in spite of these distracting in- fluences. The game, as we have said, is not yet played out. We shalt watch ite progress with interest. ‘The Fighting Men in the Wreng Pince. The late rising of the Fenians in Ireland has been remarkably barren of bloody collisions with the British troops or police. The Fenians, in fact, seem to have, made no fight at all, On the other hand, in the city of New York, on St. Patrick’s Day, we find from Superintendent Kennedy's official report, that from the Irish procession our city police, interfering for the rescue of an unfortunate truckman, were pun- ished more severely in wounded men—some of them Irishmen, too—than all the British troops and police engaged against the Fenians from one end of Ireland to the other. From that fact we conclude, first, that the Irish fightiog men were on the wrong side o¢ ‘ho water; secondly, that President Roberts, in rem."e2ce to another Fenian invasion of Canada, my SP his collections and hang up his fiddle; ##, thirdly, that the innocent Irish societies of this St. Patrick’s procession owe it to themselves and this community to establish, each society for itself, their innocence of this bloody dis- turbance of the public peace. The Board of Health and the Tenement Heuse Systom. The letter which we published yesterday from our Consul at Queenstown to the State Department is calculated to revive all the anxiety that was felt last spring at the ap- proach of the cholera, He states that at Whitegate, small village in Queenstown har- bor, there were at the date of his letter eight undoubted cases of the Asiatic disease, and as sbout @ thousand emigrants leave that port weekly for America, he recommends the authorities here to be on the alert. We are not aware that the Board of Health have as yet taken any steps to prepare for the coming danger. The fight over the quarantine ground occupies, it is true, a good deal of its attention; but we regard that as but a small portion of the work to be done. We believe more in preventive measures than in pro- visions for a state of things which argues more or less the absence of them. If the sani- tary precautions which scientific demon- stration and our own experience have shown to be effective are carried out on a proper scale it will be a matter of very little consequence where the quarantine station is to be located. It is certain that last year the progress of the epidemic was arrested by such imperfect regulations as the Board of Health was induced to enforce. We all know that they fell short of the actual necessities of the case, and that so faras the tenement houses were concerned influence of one kind or enother was successfully exerted to defeat them. i This must not again be permitted. If the epidemic visits us this year there is reason to believe it will be in an aggravated form, and it is in tenement houses that it will find the majority of its victims, Of the shocking condition of these habitations none but those, who are in the habit of visiting the poor can form any idea. Occasionally we have a reve- lation of it in the police reports; but unfor- tunately these do not produce much impres- sion. It is only when repeated losses of life oceur or a verdict of censure is found by 4 coroner’s jury, as in the case of the Eleventh street disaster, re- corded in our paper of Sunday, that their con- dition elicits any notice. The facts disclosed on that investigation are most discreditable not only to-the owner of the house but to the Board-of Health. If we are to take them as evidence of the manner in which the sanitary inapeoters discharge their duties, all we can say igAhat it is'to the mercy of Providence,and “hot to their guardis that we shall have to season of danger. Before the Legislature breaks up we would impress upon it the urgency of providing a corrective for the avarice and inhumanity of the owners of tenement houses. The bill now before it has some good points, but it may be greatly improved. We desire to see it so amended that it will prevent the possibility of collusion between the landlords and the Health Inspectors. All tenement houses should be licensed and subjected to rogulations the vio- lation of which should be followed by a fine, and on the repetition of the offence by a depri- vation of the license. In this way protection would be secured for the health and comfort of the working classes and the city rendered less liable to decimation by epidemics. Com- mon humanity dictates the enforcement of regulations of some sort. We shall lose all claim to the character of a civilized commu- nity if we permit the further continuance of such a reprehensible state of things. South American Affairs. Our latest special correspondence from Val- paraiso informs us that the question of a truce with Spain on the part of Peru, and possibly also on that of Chile, has been settled by a decided refusal. A more important subject for the future of both countries is the proposal of our government for a convention of the repre- sentatives of the republics of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador and the Spanish govern- ment, at Washington, to discuss debatable questions and settle final terms of peace. This measure appeared to be in a fair way towards accomplishment, but it turns out that a quarrel based upon some assumed viclation of etiquette which has arisen between one of our naval officers—Captain Stanley, of the Tuscarora— and Admiral Tucker, of the Peruvian squadron, has retarded the progress of negotiations upon the question of = peace conference to such an extent that the influence of the American Minister, General Kilpatrick, has been called in to settle the difficulty. It is to be hoped that no trifling between these officers will be allowed to stand in the way of a friendly arbitration so essential to the prosperity of the South American republics. There are evidences of progress in these States which give hope of a thorough regenera- on. For instance,in the Congress at Lima there has recently been introduced a bill for the sequestration of church property for the benefit of the State. This {8 the first step towards « better order of things. It looks towards relieving the South American republics from an incubus which has weighed upon them to the utter destruction of their commercial progress. For thirty years or more this system of large land and other proprietary by the Church has been a millstone around the neck of progress. If the Southern republics are wise enough to abolish it, by following the example of Peru, they may hopefally look for the dawn of a better day. Meantime the first object they should seek is peace ; and the plan proposed by the United States government of a conference between all the contending powers at Washington, under our saspices, offers the best chance for this result. Is must therefore: be regretted if any trifling question of courtesy as regards officials of the United States or Peru should delay the consummation which all parties interested evidently desire. A Vatraptz Apprrion ro tae Cry Lr BRakY.—The Board of Councilmen yesterday adopted a resolution directing the clerk of the Common Council to purchase a file of the Naw Youn Hanatp for the past twenty-five yeazs, ‘at a gost of two thousand dollars, $$$ $$ National Encouragement to the Fine Arts. We have always been amoig the warmest advocates of the encouragement of the fino arts, We are consequently unwilling to find fayilt with any steps taken by Congress in that direction. Jt is a question with us, however, whether the grants of public money that have been made within the last few years for pic- tures and statuary for the Capitol have been dictated by proper spirit. Looking at the professional standing of most of the artists who have been benefited by them, it seems to us that they have been made either under very mistaken impreasions or that they are rank jobs. With a few exceptions they have been persous whose werks would have very little value for any private gallery,jand in the highest of all branches, that of historical ‘composition, literally none at all. Now, at a time when the country is burdened with an enormous debt, and when we more than ever require the exercise of the strictes$ economy in the administration of our finances, this isan unwarrantable waste of the public money. The pretence that the adornment of the Capitol calls for it or that.it tende to encourage art is ridiculous, The pictures that have been thus ordered and paid for are « disfigurement rather than an improvement to that building, and as to these grants serving as an encour- agement to the profession, the contrary is the fact. Artists of genlus and who respect them- selves too much to stoop to the means by which these government orders are obtained loudly express their disgust at the system and assert that it tends more to retard our progress im painting and sculpture than any other ‘ob- noxious influence that they know of. This we can very well believe; for nothing can be more depressing than to see mediocrity winning the rewards due to genius, The practice of voting the public money for objects of this kind with- out proper investigation should be put a stop to. As there are but few good judges of plo- tures it is not to be expected that a body con- stituted as Congress is should be very well acquainted with the merits of artists, and, therefore, all such matters should be referred to the decision of @ committee supposed to possess a special knowledge of the subject. Constitutional Quibblers. Certain antediluvian politicians, particularly those of the Seward stripe, affect to be in great distress on account of the alleged danger that the constitution may be violated or even abol- ished. The truth is that their pet notion of the coequality of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of our government is absurd. It is borne out neither by facts nor by history, nor by the constitption itself. Sovereignty over the States and over the decision of all great governmental questions resides in Congress, backed by the will ofthe people. The Presi- dent can do nothing authority of law. He is at the mercy whenever he ventures.to come in conflict with the repre- sentatives of the national will. The Snprome Court has jurisdiction over matters of property and merely legal issues, not over the grand questions settled by the war. It is but recently that the citizens of the United States have begun to realize the unde- veloped might of their government. It has come forth stronger than ever from the ordeal of a tremendous war, and it is strong with ite ‘own hitherto unsuspected strength. It was discovered only the other day that it was not unconstitutional to pass a baeokrapt law of untold relief and advantage, and .for a long time it had been regarded as constitutionally imperative to leave the control of the currency to the individual States. But the constitution ofthe United States is now known to be equal to any emergency; for it involves potentially all that is essential to the preservation and development of our national life. It is idle te whine, like some old fogy journals, that the constitution is in danger of being violated or abolished when its inherent energies are being brought into fuller and more vigorous play than at any previous period in our history. Fair Play te Collector Smythe. The House of Representatives yesterday, notwithstanding the factious opposition of some of the radical members, evinced a disposition to show Collector Smythe fair play. By « vote of eighty to thirty-five it was decided that the Collector should be allowed to appear by counsel before the Committee on Public Ex- penditure in the investigation into his official conduct, and that the privilege of introducing witnesses in his own defence should be ex- tended to him. This is just what the commit- tee did not want, Tae Post Orrice Srre—The Committee om Law of the Board of Councilmen yesterday reported that the City Hall Park is not the proper place for the loostion of the Post Office. This is the opinion of a large majority of the people of this city. MILITARY EXPEDITION TO THE INDIAN COUNTRY. Lravanworta Crrr, Kansas, March 25, 1867. ‘The expedition to visit the country around the Ropub- lican amd Arkansas rivers, where the Stoux, Cheyennes, = i it it i d i Hi in Ry f #F it s F if i s3 ttt meetin; 2 ca subject was discus it red on thas no dictation be submitted to, even if the mills were to stop, a8 & suspension of manufacturing at the present time would relieve rather than embarrass ownors. The master Sete nT eaning notifies thete workmen on afternoon that eight hour bie for Gy ~ Would be discontinued after pril 1, the immediately left their work, and to-day workshops have been nearly ail . FIRE IN BOSTON, store’ was ay 000; insured tor gan von,”