The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAwEs Gonpox MEANBTT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFtOE MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, pudjished every day in the yar, Founocents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. ‘THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five conta per copy. Annual subscription price: ‘Ten Copies..... Any larger oumber addressed to names of subscribers @9-G@ cach. An oxtra copy will be sent toevery club tom Twenty copies to one address, one year, $35, ‘end eny larger number of same price. An extza copy ‘WiB-be eont to clubs of twenty. hese rates make the Wanaiv Henste the cheapest ication im the country. ——— - Ne. 93 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, treet. —Fanonom, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Mew York sear Broome Soto. —Jaanm Deans. THBATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue,—Le SUPFLION D'us Howms—Les Drvx Bouse. QRRMAN STADT THEATRE. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Ronset, tas Daviv. 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Muano Minstreisy, Burtxsaues, Bacuer Diven- exssxuent, £0.—Tuw Rive Rats or New York. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at jechanios' Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Vanixry or Liowt anp Lavenasus Byraxrainments.—Tux Feaate Curaxs ov Wasuunoton, AHOOLRY’S OPBRA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortan Mrx- @eRHLSE, BaLLads AND BuRLESQUES.—STREETS OF BROOKLIN NEW YORK MUSRUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Heap ano Rigur Aru or Puonsr—Tur Wasutxatow Twurs— We Im Natcrat History, Screxcr ane Aur. Leoronea Datty. Open from 8 4. x TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Tuesday, April 2, 1867, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. . Advertisers yrill please bear in mind thet in order to have their advertisements properly classi- _ fled’, thay should be'sent in before half-past eight o'otovk th the evening. EUROPE. ‘Tao sews report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- dav evening, April 1. ‘Tho great Paris Exposition was formerly opened by Napoleon. The arrangements were pot compicted and the imterior view was greatly confused. The American department is greatly behind in erganization. A @erious agitation prevails on both sides of the Rhine im cqnsequence of the anti- Prussian feeling expressed by Placard in Luxemburg. France and Germany are excited ‘on the aubject. ‘Tne London journals and English politicians express regret at the cession of Russian America to the United Staces. The revenue of Great Britain exceeded the gov- ernment expenses by two millions and a half of pounds storliag im the past fecal year. Consola closed at 91 for money in London. United States five-twenties wore at 74% in London at the close. United States bonds closed at 78 in Frankfort, and opened at 8455 in Paris. The Liverpool cotton market closed dull, with mid- dling uplands at 134. Breadstuffs generally firm. Pro- visions dail, From London we bave a special letter in analysis of the new Derby Reform bill, propounded to Parliament by Mr, Disraeli om the 18:0 of March, im which the writer places in an important point of view the subject of the great strngxle which is being made by the British people for sheir franchise rights, as against the ““decep- tions’ of the two leading political parties which rule thom. Our special correspondent in Paris recapitulates the leading points of argument used by the opposition mem - bers in the legislative body to-day during the debate on the Thiers interpeliation on the foreign policy of the Emporor. He calls attention to the value of the decision as exhibiting the relative strength of the imperialists and liberala, The defence of Napoleon's course by M. Rouhor, Minister of State, is characterized as an ex- coodingly able effort. The debate on the Mexican ques- tion stood adjourned. From Ireland our special correspondents fur- mish advices reporting the Fenian insurrec- tionary aituation as late as those to hand by the cable on that particular subject. It is said that tho English goveroment has forbidden the trans- mission of news respecting Fenianism since St. Pa'rick’s day—whon all was quiet—leaving the inference that the movement had died out. Our special letters indicate the cootrary, the writers asserting that another rising will be made by the Fenians immediately afier the intensely eovore weather moderates, Snow had fallen, without a full day's intermission, during fifteen days and nights, and a train of ambulance wagons filled with invalided English soldiers had reached Dublin from the out sta- tions, The field of both the “belligerents”* were suspended on account of the weather. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the Eight Hour Labor bill and the bill to regulate the wharves and piers in New York wore advanced to a third reading. A communication was received from Comptroller Connolly covering the Now York county tax levy. The amount is $2,216,816. lu the Assembly several bills of a local character were advanced to a third reading. THE CITY. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution in- quiring into the present condition of the negotiation with the general government for a Post Office site was adopted. A resolution directing the Corporation Coun- gel to take legal measures for the widening and extend. ing of Ann and Fulton streets wae reterred. The resolu- tion giving new badges and staves of office to the mem- bors of the Common Council was passed over the Mayor's ‘voto. A message from the Mayor vetoing the reso- ution for & purchase of a file of the New York Henao for twenty-five years was Inid on the table, Several other matters of minor importance were transacted and the Board adjourned. The Board of Councilmen me. yerterday, when the apecial committee on revoking the action of the Com. mon Council of last year in disposing of the lower end of the City Hall Park to the United States government for the erection of a Post Office presented majority and minority reporte, The majority report, which favors the repeal of the sale, was laid over, while the minority report was laid on the table, ‘A mooting of the Executive Committee of the Union Republican Association was held last evening at Union Hall, corner of Broadway and Twenty-third street, Judge Dittenhoefer in thé chair, The only business not of a routine nature transacted was the appointment of a committee to confer with the organization of which Mr. Charles 3, Spencer is chairman. ‘The steamship Costa Rica sailed (rom this port yester- day for China direct by way of the Cape of Good Hope. ‘The case of the receiver of the Merchants’ National ‘Bank of Washington vs, Leonard Huyck and Joseph B. -| Congress to abolish the present when the proclamation of the President was read, and a a. committee was appointed to wait upon him to inform him that the Senate was in readiness to receive any in- formation he might wish to make known. success of English, the Democratic candidate for Gov- in Memphis on Satarday night by some person un- known. new line of steamers to New York. The Mississippi steamer Alabama, with twelve han- dred bales of cotton on board, is reported to have been NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1867.—TRIPLE . SHEET. .. Atewart came before the Suprome Court, Chambers, yes- | M6 Roeukt te Conneotiont—The Republican terday, on a motion to set aside the order of arrea} and Tho mattor was then set down for ® reduction of bail. for argument this morning riety, to recover for Tail. Yesterday, Recorder Hackett presiding. manslaughter in the fourth degree, James charged with being implicated in the riot om St. Patrick's Day, was bailed in the sum of $3,000, The stock market was dull yesterday. Gold closed at 13436. was generally quiet, but steady. quiet but firm. Wheat was steady. essentially changed. Freights were dull and heavy. quiet though firm. Petroleum was a shade easier. At tho National Drove Yards yesterday there was a fair degree of business perceptible in the market for beef cattle, and prices wore advanced Sc. a 1c, per Ib. uponall grades, in view of the scant offerings, which exceeded not 1,150 head. The demand was fair, and the supply was quickly sold. Extra realized 18c., frst quality 1c, a 1TXc., fair to good 16c. @ 17c., and common 120. a 140. Milch cows ruled exceedingly dull and beavy, at prices ranging from $40 to $11/0—tho latter for extra. Consequent upon the heavy arrivals of dressed calves the market for veal calves ruled heavy, aud a alight decline ‘was submitted to, extra being gold at 120. a 12\c., and prime Llc, a 113c., while inferior to common were dis- posed of at 93;c, @ 10%c. Sheep and Iambe, notwith- standing the light receipts, declined 3c. per Ib., with only a moderate demand. We quote the range 7c. @ 93¢c.—latter price for extra, The hog market was with- ut decided change, being steady aad firm at previous prices; ten car loads were on gale, which sold at 7Xc. a 840, The total receipts were 4,000 beeves, 93 milch cows, 1,216 veal calves, 15,770 sheep and lamba, and 15,169 swine. MISCELLANEOUS. Gur lettors from Mexico are dated at Merico city on the 27th of February, and at Vera (ruz om the 19th of March. Vera Crus was closely besieged, the liberals hav- ing advanced, and the imperialiats were firing upon them from the walls, A surrender had been demanded, but General Gomez refused to comply. The United States gunboat Tahoma had anchored inside the castle of San Juan D'Ulioa, probably to assist American citizens, if mecessary. Maximuilian’s yacht was coaling and had steam up. The road to ¢he capital was tined with liberals, and it was reported that Diaz had partially occupied Puebla. Maximilian’s intention om leaving Mexico city, it 1s further said, was for the purpose of holding elections in the districts through which he should pass. If the decision was against him # wasprobable he would resiga ip favor of Ortegaand. take a direct kme for the Rio Grande. be “ Our Lima (Peru) correspondence iq dated March 26. ‘There wes some prospect of a spéedy settlement with’ Spain, asthe impression provaiied that Chile was about to break the alliance and make terms for herself. State- ments to this effect had been made im Congress, awit fears were entertained that a war would emeue between the two allies as soon ag they had made peace with their common enemy. There is also a proposition before constftution, as being one adopted by a conquering party. The proposed Von- gress of all the South American republics will probably not be assembled. Steamers from Panama were quaran- tined for fear of the yellow fever. Captain Doane, of the ship Scotia, was killed by a gailor et the Chincha Islands on the 22d of February. Two villages in Bolivia had been visited by a fearful thunderstorm, which de- stroyed more thaa twenty houses and killed about a hundred people, The United States steamer Pensacola sailed on tho 4th ult. for San Francisco, Our Panama correspondence is dated March 24. The Colombian Congress had determined to adjourn to Tolima, in ordor to be beyond Mosquera’s influence, giving him an opportunity beforehand however te mend his policy. The required extension of the Panama Rail- Toail charter will probably be granted. The rebellion ia Guatemala had beon crushed. The steamship Meteor, after a mysterious voyage to Singapore and the China Sea, and after a liberal proposition from the Spanish Admiral to purchase her, bad arrtved at Callao. ‘The called session of the Senate convoned yesterday, ‘The election in Connecticut resulted yesterday in the ernor. ‘The municipal election in Columbas, Ohio, was car- ried yesterday by the democrats, with a gain, however, for the republicans. In Detroit, Mich., the republican majority was small. A conse rvative convention was held in Nashville yes- terday, at which acolored speaker, who had served in the federal army, said thatthe Southern man was the ne- gfo’s best friend, and their interests were idontical. News from the eeat of war in Paraguay comes by the Atiantic cable, and is to the pffect that a proposition for peace had been forwarded from the allied Soath Amori- can forces to Lopez. ‘The militia of Tennessee are being called upon to enlist ‘under the State military bill, Easy service and good pay are offered. A detailed report of the recent radical colored mass meeting in Charleston is furnished by our correspondent to-day. Mr. Solon Robinson's speech 1s given. It was 80 affecting that during its delivery several of the women in the crowd went into hysterics and were carried away. General Sickles also addressed the freedmen on the oc- camon of a torchlight procession the same evening. A ‘mass meeting of Northern white citizens was held on the 26th ult, and at the Board of Trade banquet to-day General Sickies and the United States civil officers of the port are expected to be present. Our Raleigh, N. C., correspondence says that the late rebel press of the State bas thrown a complete summorsault, and is now Jond in its calls on the negro to vote “right” A repub- bean convention was held in Raleigh om the 28th ult., ‘and resolutions thanking Congress and favoring the edu- cation of freedmen were adopted. ‘A machine intended to level ratlroad tracks, lay ties, deposit rails, lay them in their places, and almost con- stroct a railroad bas been successfully experimented with in San Francisco. The Attorney General of the United States has approved of the title which the city of New York has given to the lower end of the City Hall Park for a new Post Office site. Bids for the Pennsylvania State loan were opened yes- terday, and exceed the amount required by about eight million dollars, Advices from Honduras of the 15th Inet. state that Kanul, the Chichiwa chief, had been captured, and all fears of further aggressions from the Indians had sub- sided. The ex-rebe! Gentral Bankhead was beaten to death ‘The capitalists of Troy are talking of establishing a vurned about five miles above New Orleans, ‘Travel on Lake Erie has been resumed. ‘The citizens of St Louis propose to rebuild the Lin- dell House, ‘The strike of the cotton spinners of Manchester, N. HL, has been abandoned. : Efforts are being made in Baltimore to prevent by Operation of the law the holding of a Maryland State Convention authorized by the Legislature, The negroes in Charleston bad another riot about the street cars last night, which t have proved serious but for the latertivenve or td anes. Every public retail Niqaor aatoon in Boston has been closed by the authorities, except the bars connected with hotels. The latter and the wholesale establishments would-have been closed but for fear of a riot, gut was commenced yesterday in the Equity the United States Ciroult Court by the lessees of the Now Porbgbeatro, against Robert Brewster, surety of aliie A. Hinckloy, the dansense of Cendrillon noto- the aon-fulfilment of » contract entered into by her with the plaintiff. Defendant being unable to give bail was committed to the eustody of the United States Marshal and lodged tm Ludlow Street Alfred St Clair, who had been employed as « measen- gor in the Custom House, was brought before Commis- sioner White yesterday om a charge of having obtained from the Assistant Auditor's office the eum of $1,086 by means of pay rolis alleged to have been altered The Commissioner set down the examination for Wednesday. The April term of the General Seasious commenced Louts Muller, ‘The week opened in commercial circles yesterday with but few changes from last week. . Imported merchandise Coffee was firm though quiet, Cotton was unchanged. On ‘Change four was Comm was firmer and more active, Oats were higher. Pork was dull anda shade lower, Beef remained steady, white lard was not Whiskey was nominal. Naval stores still continued the selection of their onndidates, the resalt will 4 ' Defeat, York went dowm under the load of John his defeat to the self-convicted humbug and his @ the prize’ fighter, faro dealer and & triumph of femocracy, but a vindica- party that could nominate and support for the the chowman Barnum deserved and met defeat, just as a party that chose for ita Congressional candidates a John Morrissey and « Fernando Wood merited and encountered overthrow. For some years Connecticut has cast her vote against the democracy. Her majorities have sometimes been rolled up by thousands and sometimes been counted by hundreds; but she has kept her faith unswervingly and has maintained her stand steadily in the Union ranks. That ahe has now fallen back from grace is to be attributed, not te aay abandon- ment or weakening of republican principles, but to the simple fact that the dominant party made nominations not fit to be made and abused the trust and confidence of the people. The reeult in Connecticut may be product. ive of substantial and important benefit to the country at large. If its lesson shall be read aright it will teach atl political parties that, however great the strength they may possess, tions for important representative offices they must have regard to common decency and pro- priety. Bad mon frequently succeed in gaining public positions, but their qualities are aeldom known in advance of their election, except when the targe majority of their constituents are of the same calibre with themselves. But when ® great political party boldly puts before a respectable community a candidate notoriously undeserving ef support, it does so at its own hazard, and cannot. wonder ‘if the rebuke it receives reaches beyond the ‘immediate cause of offenne.. This has boon the case in Gonnec- tiont ; bat if the defeat of awlog through the ‘Phe Russe-American Purchase—The Climax of Mr. Seward’s Foreign Pelicy. ‘The treaty just concluded between the high contracting parties at Washington for the transfer of Russian America to the United States for the ovh equivalent of seven millions of dollars in gold may be considered the dis- tinguisbing and crowning achievement of Mr. Seward’s foreign policy. With a laudable am- bition to leave some conspicuous and enduring landmark behind him in connection with his name as the head of our Executive Department on foreign affairs, he has at last made a decided hit in this acquisition from Russia of a land- mark which covers a ficial area greater than that.of the empires dt France and Austria combined, and which embraces a mountain peak (Mount St. Blias), two thousand feet higher than Mont Blanc, “the monarch” of the mountains of Europe. With Mount St. Elias, then, at the very head of the mighty backbone of the American continent, away up yonder under the brilliant auroral lights of the Arctic Circle—with Mount St. Elias, we say, as Mr. Seward’s diplomatic monument, may he not joyously exclaim, with good old Simeon, “Now, Lord, letteat thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation?” We are inclined to be enthusiastic over this achievement, like the heroic Dutch veteran in his desoription of the great battle of Blen- heim. We remember, however, that he was cooled down as with a wet blanket by that direct question from “hia little grandchild, Wilhelmine,” “What good came of it?” And what was his answer? “ladeod, I cannot tell.” quoth he; “But 'twas a famous victory,” So, if we are asked what advantages or equivalents do wo get for Mr. Seward’s pro- posed seven millions in gold for Russian America, we are constrained to answer that we cannot tell, but it is a tremendous acquisi- tion of territory. It is larger than the original thirteen United States of America all put together! Only think of that. And all for seven millions in gold! May not this amount ten times multiplied be hid away under the seventeen thousand feet of perpetual snow of Mount St. Elias? He is the head and front of the gold and silver chain of California, Nevada Mexico and Central and South America, and why, therefore, should not old St. Elias dis- close the richest placer of them all, provided you can get at it? It may be a white elephant, a costly keepsake ; but there can be no mis- taking its political bearings. It points to an alliance, political, commercial and military, offensive and defensive, between Russia and the United States, against England and France, in the future adjustments of the balances of power in both hemispheres. In this and important view, leaving all statis of beaver skins, seahorse teeth and fish oil, Mount St. Elias and all conjec- tures of gold and silver mines, out of the ques- tion, Mr. Seward has flanked England from the north pole or northwest passage, and has gained the icebound key of Behring Strait between Asia and America. He has only to purchase the Strait of Magellan, the islands on the one side and the mainland on the other, in order to place both extremes of this conti- nent within our grasp. Patagonia must be a splendid country for the development of the buman form; for there the balf-starved abori- gines are said to grow eight feet high. But Russian America, with Mount St Elias, Behring Strait and its majestic icebergs, are glory enough for one day. Mr. Seward thus looms up in bold relief as an encouraging ex- ample of diplomatic perseverance for a grand result, He worked very hard through all the war, on the rebellion, the slavery question, the Mason and Slidell question, on neatral rights, The election held yeulerday in Connecticut has resulted in the snocess of English, the democratic candidate for Governor, and the defeat of Phineas T. Barnum, the small swin- dling humbug, for Congress. The two events consistently go ‘ogether; for they are closely connected and follow each other in the natural order of cause and offect. The Tepublicans of Connecticut bave sunk under the weight of woolly homes, Fejee mermaids, old Joyoe Heth, learned seals, fat women, living skeletons, dwarfs, six- legged aheep, double headed calves and other monstrosities, as the demoorats of New Morrissey and Fernando Wood. Hawley owes bogus showman, as Hoffman waa indebted for copperhead. The election of English is not tion of common decency and morality. A Congress.ef the United States auch 3 man as they cannot hope to outrage the self-respect of &@ community with impunity. In their nomina- beltigerent rights, the Momroe doctrine, and the French intervention in Mexico and he has accu- mulated a mass of diplomatic correspondence on these subjects which would occupy one printer at least a hundred years to put in type ; and what does itall amount tot A muddle and a medley of positions, promises, doctrines, demands, ooncessions, facts and arguments that would puzzle even Prince Gortachakoff to make head or tail of, much aa he is sald to ad- mire Mr. Seward's diplomacy. Satisfied that all these labors were doomed to the cobwebs, Mr. Seward, since the collapse of the rebellion, has been aiming at some- thing in the way of diplomacy more tangi>le, positive and enduring. And 90 for the Inst two years he haa been nosing about in the West Indies for the purchase of an island, or half an island, or a naval station, or # coal- ing depot, and has failed only from the want of the ready cash. Next we find him aa mediator, contriving a South American peace convention in Washington; and: then we have him planning a grand surprise for Maximilian, which ends in the wild goose chase of Campbell and Sher- man, He missed all his chances in Mexloo and iet slip all his neutrality chances in-Canada with the Fenians. He has lost many golden opportunities for grand results; but may they not all be excused in this grand achievement, this Napoleonic idea of Russian America t Here is matter for a sensation in Paris and London, and for demands upon the Czar for an explanation. Here is an opening for the acqui- sition of fifty thousand Esquimaux, every man of whom oan drink @ half gallon of fish oil for breakfast. And yet we are told that this treaty will be rejected. The rumor, we guess, was intended for the Connecticut election ; but as that election is now over we expect the Senate will be better prepared to consider the ques- tion whether this mighty republic shall helt in its grand career or advance to the North Pole. Tho Atlantic and Great Western Ratlway. It will be seen by our London correspond- ence, published to-day, that the affairs of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway are look- ing up. By the general panic last year, which affected aeriously all railroad property, and especially through the failure of Sir Morton Peta, the stock, bonds and affairs of this rail- wep became greatly depressed. It appears also that there was a combination both here and in England of speculators to injure the road as well as Mr. McHenry, the gentleman who, it ia known, organized this important enterprise. We are happy to see that, after all his difficulties and suspense, the crisis is past and Mr. McHenry has triumphed. A meeting of the parties interested in the railway was held in London. From the proceedings we learn that St, Louis and all the great West, placed ina prosperous condition. It is probable that Mr. McHenry may be. sent to the United States to accompliah this. Thore is no doubt that under the new order of things the value of the stock | and efficiency.ef: the Atlantic and Great West- orn Railway will be greatly increased. Bon Butler Answered. Ben Butlerin a speeoh in Gongress made a very noisy, rash and precipitate charge against the President the other day of having pardoned abatch of deserters at the instigation of @ democratic politician in West Virginia, fa order to enable the men to vote the democratic ticket in that State at the election in October Last. Itappears from the facts that Butler slightly overshot the mark. His charge upon President Johnson had ae little effect as his great military attack on Fort Fisher. It turns out first, that the men pardoned were not deserters at all, which demolishes the primary clause in the charge. Nextit appears that the men were not restored to their rights as citizens on the application of any politician, but by the recom- mendation of the surgeon of their division, who established the fact on his own knowledge that they never deserted, nor were they tried by court martial for desertion. In the last place it is shown that the pardon extended to these soldiers was not issued by the War Department until nearly a month after the election in Wost Virginia took place; consequently they were not pardoned for the purpose of voting. With these facts on the record what becomes of Ben Butler’s malicious charge on the President? Mr. Johnson has enough to carry on his should- ers without being burdened with such silly and groundless attacks as this. Let justice be done though the heavens fall. Receipts from [aternual Revenue. The internal revenue receipts, according to the official statement, from the first of July, 1866, to the end of March, 1867, nine months of the fiscal year, amounted to two hundred and fourteen million dollars. The income tax has not yet been collected. Should the amount of this tax, when collected, equal that of 1866, the total internal revenue receipts for the year will exceed the estimates. It is probable that with the revival of business the income for the re- maining quarter will be proportionately larger than that of any of the last three-quarters of the fiscal year. On the whole there is no reason to fear a deficiency of revenue from this source. The Treasury evidently will be in a cous condition when the makes his next financial exhibit. It is to be hoped that Congress will not take advantage — of this to squander away the public money, as it has done lately, but that it will apply a por- tion of this large income to the liquidation of the national debt, and will reduce the burdens of taxation as much as possible. ~ A Fair Decision—Measure tor Measure. Justice Hogan delivered a decision at the Tombs on Sunday morning, in the case of some young women who were brought before him, charged with disorderly conduct, to which no exception can be taken. It was alleged, and indeed proved by ocular testimony in court, that the dresses of the ladies were a little too short for propriety—a little too low and a little too high at the same time. The Judge decided that asa style of costume more ob- jectionable in this respect was adopted and tolerated by the publio ata certsin theatre every night there was nothing disorderly in these four girls wearing an attire which was evidently more modest. If the authorities and _—_—- present case! Perhaps it was thought that the passage of this law might give the credulous public a motion that it conferred an exelusive privilege for twenty years. That supposition would help to sell stock, no doubt, thouch of course no such exclusive privilege could be given in view of the law of July, 1566. the public recognise the ballet costumes of the Black Crook as the standard of morality in dreas, why should not the police justices meagure their decisions upon this point ac- cordingly t ‘Tho English Reform Bill. 4m yesterday’s Herat we gave some éz- tracts from the speeches which were delivered in the House of Commons on the occasion of the introduction of the government Reform bill on the evening of the 19th ultimo. The Tremors which had already reached us as to the nature and character of the bill, and which have been duly noticed in these columns, are now proved to have been substantially cor- rect. The speech with which Mr. Disraeli in- troduced the bill, though long, labored end ingenious, is by no means clear, or up to his ususl mark of brilliancy. Altheugh some of the members of the House complained, and not unjustly, of the vagueness and indefinite- ness of some of the Chancellor of the Exche- quor’s statements, it is not difficult to lay hold of the leading features of the bill. Tho borough franchise is to be reduced to houschold rating, qualified by ® two years’ residence and personal payment of the poor rates, As the law now stands no one is en- titled to vote for member or members to serve in Parlisment who does not pay ten pounds in actual rent. This bill provides that every inhabitant who can give evidence that for two full years he has occupied a dwelling house within the limits of the borough, and has during that time paid all poor rates pay- able by him as the occupsat of such premises, shall be entitled to the benefit of the franchise. The county franchise, which now stands at ten pounds actual rental, is to be reduced to fifteen pounds rental valuation, and to be qualified by @ one year’s residence and the personal payment of the rates. There are two other franchises, one of which is based on education, and the other on property. The educational franchise is intended’ to cover graduates of universities, ordained priests or deacons of the Church of England, clergy- men of all denominations, lawyers, medical practitioners and certificated achoolmasters. This franchise is qualified by one year’s resi- denoe in the county or borough, as the case may be. The last or, as we have called it, the property franchise, gives the right of voting to all per- sons whe can prove en any first of July that for two years previous they have had a balance of fifty pounds in the savings bank, in their own sole name and for their own use; or who have a similar sum on similar conditions in the The Revolution in Hayti. There appears to have been a complete upset of the recently existing order of things in. the republic of Hayti. If the reports that reach us are correct the insurgents had not only obtained possession of the capital, but President Geffrard was actually on his way te Jamaica in a French man-of-war. Several other French war vessels were expected at Port-au-Prince to enforce French claims; and it was regarded as not improbable that the return troops from Mexico, under Bazaine, would be called in to assist. All this is very curious, Hayti was once a French possession: the Ianguage of its people is French, and France has always regarded its loss with mor- tification. It is a singular. coincidence, to say the least of it, that this fresh revolution should break out just..as the Mexicae expeditionary force was on its way home aa@ within easy reach of the island. If the Frenoh were again to secure possession of it it would compensate them for the disappointments of the Mexican éxpedition and help to pay the cost of it. Spain made a desperate effort te obtain St. Domingo, but failed, owing to the blundering manner in which she went about it. The European governments evidently re- gard the island as 4 prize worth securing, an@ we should not be at all astonished to learn that France had atirred up this fresh revole- tion in order to afford her a pretext for seiming, upon it, Legisiating in Albany for this City. There appears to be a great deal of uscloss work going on in the Legislature about aub- jects connected with this city, such as inau- merable railroad jobs, new Tax Commissioners, the demands for an advance commutation for the ion Commission, and go forth, All this kind of legislation should be laid aside. The constitutional convention will meet in « few weeks, and we look to it to give us am entirely now and original system of govera- ment for the city from the start, which in the first place will embrace the consolidation of New York, Brooklyn and Williamsburg inte one great metropolis. In the next place we want ene responsible chief magistrate, whe will make his own appointments, clothed solely with executive power, and having one Beard of Councilmen, whose power,shall. be strictly legislative, with euthority to investigate | look to the convention to provide's wholesome “AM those’ who “have “the right of. voting in virtue of the payment of direct taxes will be entitled to a double vote in the event of their being occupants of rated houscholds—that is, if the rates have been duly paid. Such, in aubatance, is the bill as set forth in the House of Commons on the evening of Tues- day, 19th ultimo. If we are to judge from the fierce though guarded attack of Mr. Gladstone, and from the general temper of the House on the occasion, there is but small chance of the bill passing into law. The dual voting Mr. Gladstone characterized as a “gigantic engine of fraud” and as “a proclamation of war of ‘They should be all dropped at onoe. Important Veto Message from the Mayer. Mayor Hoffman yesterday transmitted s veto message to the Common Council, giving tis objections to the ordinance authorizing the purchase of a twenty-five years file of the Naw Youu Henao tor the city library, at a cost of two thousand dollars. The Mayor in this im- value of a file of the Henarp extending back ® quarter of « century, but he thinks it would be of mo use in the city library. It woud seem that-he has but a poor opinion of the classes.” As a whole it sadly wants simpli- | jiterary taste of our city officials. city. There is little doubt that it must either be greatly modified or entirely abandoned. THE WAR IN PARAQUAY. ‘The Post Office Site—Roport ef the Special Committec. The Special Committee of the Common Coun- cil—Messrs. Gilmore, Lamb and Hart—ap- pointed to consider the propriety of repealing the resolution authorizing the sale of the lower portion of the City Hall Park for a Post Office site, made a report yesterday, in which they clearly set forth the objectionable features of the proposed sale. They show that the shape- BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE Te THE WERALS. The Alliod Propositions of Peace. Lonpos, April 1, 1087. ‘The Brazilian mail steamer from Rio Janeiro has ar- rived at Lisbon. She brings the report that an American man-of-war of the plot of ground is unfitted either for | 4! Lorex convenience or display in the architecture ; AMUSEMENTS. that the property proposed to be disposed of pees for half a million dollars is worth from two million and a half to five millions; -that the noise would render the Mcation peculiarly ill- adapted for courts of law; and that the erec- tion of the building in that part of Broadway, with’ the necessary accumulation of mail wagons, would seriously increase the ob- struction of the lower portion of the city-and | ° ay augment all the evils of which the peoplé are clamorous to be relieved. On these grounds they recommend the ‘passage of a resolution repealing the authority to sell the objection- able site to the general government. Atthe same time a report was presented by Alderman Webber, from the Law Committee of the Common Council, urging that the city, by the passage of the former resolution, author- izing the sale, is in good faith called upon to carry the contract into effect. Alderman Webber forgets that the Common Council did not give its consent to the spoliation of the city, and that, independent of all other con- siderations, the attempt to dispose of a piece of property according to some estimates worth five million dollars for five hundred thousand, should alone be sufficient to induce the Board to reconsider its action and stand forward for the protection of the city. The Law Commit- tee’s report was laid on the table by the sig- nificant vote of fourteen affirmafive to nine in the negative. The report of the special com- mittee was laid over for the present, at the request of the chairman. It should be taken up and acted upon at an early day, so that the Broadway Theatre. Mss Maggie Mitchell commenced the first week of a limited engagement at this favorite theatre last evening. ‘The house was crowded from parquet to gallery bya The Ragpicker of Paris, a drama of the sensational school, in five acts and a prologue, was produced at the \bove theatre last night, with Mr. Bogumil Dawison in his celebrated character of Jean. The announcement of ‘is appearance in this character drew together a numer- ‘us audience, and the efforts of the actor were throughout the whole He was by the efficient company ing to the Masical. With all dae respect to Mastanicllo and Fra Diavelo, ‘we give the Crown Diamonds the first place in Auver's exensive répertoire, and hail their appearance at the Minsver of Police and in the royal palace itself, flash over varying scintillations of melody and barmony and general government may proceed at once to | som diaine a expiant ierronmatic sbventeres of secure a desirable site for a Post Office in the the youne Quen of Fore Bana Gennes are old neighborhood of the Five Points or else. | Baife or Wallace ever wrote pales into utter or insig- where. Rificenoe, It with few exceptions, finely by the Miss Richings is not Louisa Pyne or a Ne ‘bat she sang the Long od Humbug by Act of Congress. Catarina ia, he pK | SS One of the latest acts of the present Congress Cam, Carpal rg Mi. a eet tie tae Ba eae ‘was to passa bill in relation to the “American | were © , and the chorus and orchestra sane ‘Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company of New |?" York,” giving it the “power and privilege to PERSONAL INTEL LIGENCE, lay, land and operate its cables for twenty Governor 8B. Churchill, of Albion; General T. BE. years,” &o., eo. This bill was approved by the ences z thet. Neb ons Ho ee President. The necessity for the passage of Judge m, of Yonkers, x ¥.;% 8 Adame, such @ bill is not obvious. In July, 1866, a |Sia'v.o Crane nab eld, of Pansine, ave. ot0 atthe law was enacted making the laying of cables “over, under or across the waters of the United } of England, are stopping States” absolutely free to any companics what- soever upon their subscribing to certain easy | % conditions—conditions from which the above er bay is ha ig se named company is not exempt. Whero, then, | B- Woot, of the Untied tates was the necessity for a special law im the | iw So of Wisconsin; General J. are stopping at the Astor portant document acknowledges the greet.