The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDUN BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR @PFPIOR UW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fourcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We @onot return rejected communications, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- fing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed af the bowest rales. Le ee sooee Noe 107 Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THI> AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near etroot.—Tum Lirtix Barxroor. Broome GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dew Dsvtscuzn Komepianten. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Excnanrruss. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth aveuue.—Loan or 4 Loven—Senious Famity. DODWORTH HAL! wes Pxrromm His Farr Singing Brrp, TRYING HALL, Enreerauent—Tux 806 Broadway.—Proresson Hartz RACLES—L'ESCAMATEUR 4ND His STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street and Fourth ave- nde.—Ma. Ovoan Prxivrxr's Tuimp Granpn Concent. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broxdway, opposits the Metropolitan Hotel—in tame Ermorian Exteatatn- MENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND Buauesques.—Tae BLACK Coox—Jxnoun’s Prise STUDENTS. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTREL. 72) Broadway. o} sitethe Now York Hotal.—Ix tanin Joy 3s, Dancas, Eeoen- ‘TRICITIES. BURLESQUES, —CinpER-LEON—MaDaGascan Bauer Teoves—INrivgnce or Music. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2and 4 West Twonty-fourth strect.—Griveiw & Causry’s Mix-reecs.— Brmorian Minstencsy, Bavaps, Buaiesques, &c.—Tue Brace Croox—Rosuat Macaine, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowic Vocause, Neono Mixstaetsy, Boruesaues, Bauit Diven- Tissmment, &c.—New Yore Sui 33g o'Clock. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Ix 4 Variety or Liaur ano Lavcmastx Ewrertar Tas Harry Fairy. HOOLEY'S OPERA 80! Brooklya.—Eratorian Mix- ermELsy, BaLiaps anv BuRLEsQuzs. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of Twenty-third street and Broadway, at &—Moving Mine Ron OF Ty Pi.ori’s Proceess—sixry MAGNIFICENT Soanxs, Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 8 o'clock. THE “ACCIDENTALS."—Ar Stanton Street Barrist Cavron, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Rroadway.— Hira axp Ricut Arm or Pxorst—Tux Wasiixarox Twie—Wowprns ix Natonat. Histo : Lxoroass Daur. ‘Open from 8 AM EM TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Wednesday, April 17, 1867. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yeator- Gay ovoning, April 16. Admiral Persano has been cashiered from the Italian ‘ary. The American yachts Flectwing, Vesta and Hon- tietta were ready for sea, Console closed at 91 for money in London. United States Gve-twenties wore at 72 in London and 76% in Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market was unimproved, and Closed with middling up!ands at 12d. The advices from Manchester are unfavorable. Breadatul™ experienced @ Gecided advance, the market closing frm and buoyant. Provisions firm and quict. Amorican produce generally unchanged. Our special correspondents in Paris and London fur- wish letters of much interest, the one reporting the Scenes witnossed at the opening of the Paris Exhibition by Napoleon, and describing the situations of affairs in- sido and outside tho building at the moment; the other Presenting a comprehensive and livoly sketch of London * life," as seen among the people, at court, and in the theatres THE LEGISLATURE. In tho Senate yesterday tho bill providing for the pay- ment of bounties to certain volunteers in New York city was reported. The bills providing for an additional Metropolitan Fire Commissioner; creating the office of Metropolitan Fire Marshal; relative to young female vagrants In New York; relative tothe storage of com- ‘bustibles, and incorporating the Board of Fire Usder- ‘writers, and the New York county tax levy were passed. A communication from the Governor was received, veto- tog the Broadway Sarface Rallroad bill, and the motion to pass it over the Governor's objections was lost by six yeas to twenty-five nays. A resolution to ad- Journ sine die on Friday was laid on the table. Tho Quarantine bill was considered, and it was made a spe. olal order for the evening. In the evening session bills for maintaining public urinals in New York; relative to the torm of office of the Fire Marshal, and requiring re- ports from certain horse railroad companies were re- ported. The question on passing the Central Ratiroad Fare bill over the Governor's veto was decided in the Begativo by eight yeas to twenty-three nays, Ta the Assombly, a bill amending the laws of 1867 rola- fave to the election of members of tho Legislature to ‘Gil vacancies was passed. The New York Tax Levy was weported. In the evening session, the bill authorizing the construction of an clevated railway in the counties of Now York ana Westchester was ordered to a third igi THE CITY. A leoture was delivered last evening by Dr. Browne om “The Dangerous Parasites that Infest the Human System,” at Cooper Institute, before the Society for the Advancement of Science. There wore 407 deaths in this city and the public institutions adjacent last woek. Coroner Gover yesterday afternoon held an inquest, at the Fourth precinct station house, over the remains of Ann Weibel, who was found dead yesterday morning, ‘with her throat out, at the storo No. 33 James street. ‘The evidence adduced tended to prove that the woman was murdered by her busband, and the verdict of the jury waa rendered accordingly. In the Supreme Court, chambers, yesterday, the cases of H. B Claflin & Co, vs. Wm. 8 Belding ot al., and twonty-two other plaintif™, mercantile firms of this city, ‘against the same defendants, came up on motion to change the piace of trial from New Yorr to Poughkeep- tie. The complaints charge the defendants with fraud im purchasing large quantities of goods from plaintiffs for the purpose of carrying on business at Dover Plains, Dutchess county, and afterwards failing and making a fraudulont assignment, The amount involved is up- ‘wards of $50,000. Decision reserved. Tn the Superior Court, Part 1, yesterday, the case of ‘Matthies Hoffman ve. the Sixth Avenue Railroad Com- Deny, which was commenced the day before, and the Particulars of which were published In yestorday’s ‘Buna, wes givon the jury with instructions to bring in @ seated verdict at eleven o'clock this morning. ‘The orders of arrest in the caso of Joseph B. Stewart *% Daniel Drow and Fisk & Belden, by which Drow was held to bail in the sum of $250,000 and Fisk & Bel- don in $50,008, for alleged frauds in connection with the rie poole, was vaeatod yesterday by Justice Bar- ‘aard, of the Supreme Court, on the ground that one part- nor cannot obtain an order of arrest against his copart- faor for failure to pay over his share of the profits, and that the plaintiff’s remedy is by an action for an recount. ‘mg. The condition fe aleo stipulated that the defend. ate are not to sue the plalatiff. ‘The stook market was unsettled yosterday morning, but closed firm, with an improving tendency. Goid Phoned at 184%. ‘business was done, either in foreign or domestic goods. On 'Ohango flour and grain were quiet, but generally }, Were dull, heavy ud Nominal held firm. Provisions, on ond lower Whiskey Irvi lace.—Mn. Kenwepr's Last Bones OF ScomaxD, Canrenrer. Matinee at NEW ‘YORK HERALD, ‘WRDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1667.TREPLY SHBET. quiet, but generally steady in value, dull and heavy. Wool remained heavy, MISCELLANEOUS, Our Havana correspondence is deted April 10. Ra- mors were current that the steamer R. R. Cuyler, hav- ing become a Chilean privateer, had captured the Spanish steamer Moctezuma, The Coneepcion, one of Admiral Nujez's Spanish fleet at Santiago, had left that port for some purpose unknown, but presumed to be a search for the missing vessel or her oaptor, The Havana entre- Pot scheme is likely to meet with success. A special commission was seat to Spain to confer with the home officials on the subject. Complaints are numerous ‘against the new tariff lawa, Currency exchange on New ‘York sells at 27 per cent discount. Our advices from St. Thomas are dated to the 2d inst. The French packets have again made that port their central station, The great irom floating dock was ex- Pected to be quite ready to admit the largest mail steamers by the middle of May,” The pontoons have all been launched and put in place. The length of the stracture in the main is three hundred feet and the width one hundred feet, . in the United States Senate yesterday, business was ‘suspended for a time, owing tothe want of a quorum The requisite number of members having finally ap- Peared, the resolution extending the time for adjourn- ‘ment until this afternoon was called up, and a long de- bate ensued upon it, The question was finally settled by agreeing to adjourn to-morrow at four o'clock. Another attempt was made on Saturday to blow up the rebel ram Merrimac in the James river by means of tor- pedoes, The destruction was not complete, and further efforts will have to be made, The official correspondence between Frederick W. Seward, the Mexican Minister Romero and Don Lerdo de Tejada, the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, in reference to the reported capture and shooting by the liberals of the young Marquis de Montholon, son of the late Minister of France at Washington, has been made Public, The Mexican Secretary disavows any belief in the truth of the shooting or capture of the young man, A young man calling himself L. M. Hosea, who mar- ried the daughter of prominent physician of Philadel- phia last month, was arrested recently on acharge of committing forgeries on his father-in-law and others to the amount of $11,000 or more, and has been sont to the Pennsylvania Penitentiary, The Tennessee State Conservative Convention was held in Nashville yesterday. The representation of negroes was very small, only six being present, Speeches of a most violent character, denouncing Congress and the radical party and applauding the confederacy, were delivered, Emerson Etheridge was nominated for Governor. Ulysses 8, Grant, Edwin M. Stanton and John Pope have been subpanaed to appear before the Sipreme Court at Washington on the firat Monday of December next to answer to the bill of complaint of the State of Georgia. This subpena was served at General Grant's headquarters yesterday. The colored people of Washington had a large domon- stration in honor of their emancipation yesterday, A grand procession paraded the streets and was reviewed by President Johnson from the steps of the White House. Senator Henry Wilson delivered a lecture on temper- ance in Tremont Temple, Boston, on Monday evening. Two young girls were curried off by Camanche Indians from the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Texas, several months ago, One of them was murdered on the road, the other, after suffering terrible privations, was only recently released on payment of a ransom. The village of Alliance, Ohio, was flooded yesterday by the bursting of a reservoir belonging to the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad. Two children are re- Ported to have been drowned. Alargo meeting was held in Charleston, 8 C., last evening to encourage emigration to that port fronrEu- rope. Three hundred emigrants galled from New Orloans yesterday for Brazil. The Opelousas railroad in Westera Louisiana is over- sowed, and trains have ceased running. The ice biockade has broken up in front of Montreal, Canada, Bishop Timon, of Buffalo, died at his resicence in that city last night. The Old Regime and the New—Our Manifest Destiny. “Stands Scotland where it did?” or are we drifting headlong to sure destruction? Where are the old landmarks of the constitution? What hope is there of “ the Union as it was?” These questions, in various modifications, bandied about among our democratic Bourbons, are at length answered by their favorite oracle, Val- landigham, with the assurance that there is a gleam of light from Connecticut, that the inevitable reaction has set in, and that the ancient régime of the old democratic dynasty will surely be revived. This is the ruling idea, even at this late day, of all that class of democratic politicians who stupidly shut their eyes to all that the country has gained from a mighty revolution, in lamenting the power and prestige and the spoils and plunder which their party has lost, Ins word, they hold that the Bourbons must be restored or that France must be utterly destroyed. Was there ever a delusion, a Jack o’ lantern or monomania of fanatic or lunatic more absurd than this? Yet it is only the old story of the standstill party against the party of progress from the time of Moses down to the dispensation of Andrew Johnson. Equally preposterous, too, in the United States at this day, provements,” is the fear entertained by “with all our modern im- our old time, slow-coach conservatives, that with the expansion of our boundaries the cohesion of States and sections must be more and more weakened until they fall to pieces. From the empire of Assyria down to our late Southern rebellion the fatal examples of too much territory are held up to warn us against this greatest of dangers to @ great nation. But the difficulties which thus affected the territorial enlargement of any government under the old regime of dromedaries, horses and sailing vessels, as the means of intercom- munication, have been swept away by the in- troduction in harness of steam and electricity. Within the last twenty-five years these two powerfal agents of modern development and national cohesion have worked out, in this country, the most amazing political revolution in the history of mankind. Many of our readers will grasp all its details from a brief glance at some of the old land- marks. For instance, twenty-five years ago a half dozen democratic party newspapers, in- cluding one at Washington, one at Richmond, one in Philadelphia, one in New York, one at Albany and another at Boston, controlled the politics of the United States. The Washington Globe and the Albany Regency of that day wielded the power of Cardinal Wolsey in all his glory,and the word of Old Hickory was the will of Harry the Bighth. This was before the railway train had superseded anywhere the old stagecoach. Nextcame the innovations of the locomotive and the independent press, and then the power of the anointed party newspaper organs began to wane. Then the slaveholding oligarchy of the South (1844) undertook to “run the democratic machine.” They maintained the fight with varying for- tunes till 1860, when they broke up the national democracy into fragments in the Charleston Convention. Then came the rebellion for slavery of the Confederate slave States; but the very agents—steam and electricity—upon which they most confidently relied for success, were the most efficient in their overthrow, slavery included. Steam, eloctricity, an independent press and Freights were exceedingly quiet Saval stores. were’| universal education bave enabled the loyal North to disarm the rebellious South, and thus was the old effete democracy displaced by the present republican party. Now, with the pow- erful additions to the Union cause of universal Uberty, universal suffrage and civil and politi- cal equality, what have we to fear from the extension of our boundaries, though we ab sorb the Esquimaux of Bebring Strait and the mixed breeds of Mexicot Our vast acquisi- tion of territory in 1848, from Mexico, was regarded at first as only a howling wilderness; but to-day what developments of wealth and prosperity have we in the gold mines and vineyards of California, in the silver moun- tains and rock salt of Nevada, in the golden rocks of Colorado, in the copper of New Mexico and in the wheat fields of Utah! And our fellow citizens of Spanish descent ac- quired with these Territories have, under our institutions, been models of law and order. With our telegraphs, railroads, steamships and boats, the Union of to-day, extending from ocean to ocean, is far more compact and nearer to the centre, from its remotest oxtremi- ties, than was the original Union limited to the Atlantic coast between Massachusetts and Georgia. With connecting railroads the city of Mexico can be brought nearer to Washing- ton than was Chicago thirty years ago. What has finally broken up all that puzzling cata- logue of petty German States, Duchies and free cities handed down from the Middle Ages? Railroads and telegraphs, fusing their people into one homogeneous masa. Under this now age little nationalities and the dividing lines of races and languages must disappear as the con- necting agents of steam and electricity are ex- tended. With these agents, and with an inde- pendent press, ourcommon schools, universal liberty, suffrage and political equality (always “excepting Indians not taxed’’), our constitu- tion is broad enough, long enough and strong enough to hold the North American continent and its islands on both sides. “The Union as it was” went down with the old democratic party, which went down with the rebellion and slavery ; the Union as it is is a Union of liberty and equality, enterprise, progress and continu- ous expansion. The solid masses of an edu- cated people have taken the place of cliques of politicians, Ourrural districts speak for them- selves, and through the mediums of telegraphs, railroads and an independent press, they speak the same volce from Maine to Oregon. Manifest destiny, under all these advantages, marks out the North American continent as the future map of the United States. Men of tue present generation may live to hoar in Con- gress that the Speaker has appointed a member each from New York, Quebec, New Archangel, San Francisco, the city of Mexico, Panama, Ha- vana, Haytiand Jamaica as the Houss Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, If within the last six years we have put down a rebellion ofover half a million of armed men, liberated four millions of slaves, reconquered wight hundred thousand square miles of territory, and pur- chased four hundred and fifty thousand square miles more, how long will it take us to absorb ail North America? Vete of the Broadway Sarface Railread Bill--The Central and Broadway Railroad Bills Both Killed. The Governor yesterday returned to the Senate without his approval the Broadway Surface Railroad bill. The reasons given for this action in the veto message are such as will satisfy the citizens of New York, who will be well pleased, as well as agreeably astonished, that nearly the whole batch of city railroad jobs have after all been defeated this session. Governor Fenton admits the necessity for more rapid transit through the length of the island, but he does not believe that a surface railroad along Broadway would meet the requirements of the case, and questions whether it would not in fact rather add to than decrease the existing confusion and obstruc- tion ot the main thoroughfare. He considers, in addition, that the large value of the franchise should induce the Logislature to make it a source of profit or revenue to the city. These, and a repetition of the objections heretofore urged by him to the Christopher Street Rail- road, form the leading features of this last veto. * The Senate has been kept in a state of tur- moil for several days past in anticipation of this action of the Executive, and by the efforts made to combine the Broadway Rail- road and Central Railroad Fare bills and pass them both over the Governor’s vetoes. But the pressure of public sentiment has been too powerful for the brokers of the two schemes, and the result shows that all their exertions and all their good moncy have been thrown away. The Senate sustained the Governor in both the vetoes by the significant vote of twenty-four to six on the Broadway Surface bill, and twenty-three to eight on the Centeal Fare bill. There is nothing left, therefore, for the Broad- way Railroad “ring” but to raise another purso and try their luck again, or for the Central Railroad directors but to act upon the sensible advice given to them in the Hzratp and collect their way passenger fare in gold or its equivalent in greenbacks, This they are entitled to do, and they owe it to the stockholders, whom they represent to be in such a bad way, to do it. If they neglect the duty « board of directors will be elected next year who will not fear or evade the responsi- bility. The people of New York will breathe more freely now that the city railroad projecte— underground, elevated, transit, surface and all—are finally disposed of for the present sea- sion. Their hope is that the revised constitu- tion of the State will afford them greater pro- tection than they have hitherto enjoyed against corrupt and jobbing legislation, so that another year the city will be safe from the bold schemes and depredations of the Albany lobby. Uneam 10 Maxturiax — Peenars. — Count Wydenbruck, the Austrian Minister, in return- ing thanks to Secretary Seward for the prompt interposition of the United States government for the protection of Maximilian’s life in case he should fall into the hands of the liberals, states that he has recalled his own special mes- senger to Juarez because the courler dee patched by Minister Campbell is already some distance on his way to the headquarters of the Mexican President. This is hardly fair to Max- imilian; for if the courier has no better fortane than attended Minister Campbell himself in his wanderings the ex-Emperor may be cap tured and disposed of » dozen times over Defore the message reaches the bands of Juaren. Insarasce—The Jows and Jow Risks. It is proverbial that when a man is over- taken by apy great sorrow he suddenly at- tempts to tear all his hair out by the roots, as ff baldness wore a remedy for grief. Buta heavy heart is quite consistent with a shining poll, and the connection between this common line ofconduct and il] fortune is not so obvious as that between cause and effect ought to be. We find the same fault with the course taken by some very respectable Israelites of our city with regard to insurance. We think that these gentlemen are taking up the cudgel in a case in which, if they are concerned at all, it ought to be on the other side. No insurance company, we believe, has yet refused to insure any respectable merchant of this or any other city, be he Jew or Gentile. Bat it seems that there isa class of swindlers who get large insurance on small stocks, and then are conveniently burned out; and the companies say that an unusual proportion of this class are men of Jewish race. We sup- pose that the most respectable Jews do not deny that there may be Jewish as well as Christian rogues, and this, perhaps, is the de- velopment that roguery has taken in that financiering race. This is not at all improba- ble; and, supposing it to be true, how does it concern that large number of our citizens who are Israelites, and who yield to none in their high integrity, in their ability as merchants and brokers, and ia the whole purity of their lives? Not at all, we should aay, unless it might stimulate these gentlemen to assist the companies in the exposure of these rogues for the credit of their class, and lest even temporary odium should be brought on better men. This, it seems to us, should be the true posi- tion of our Jewish citizens in this case. There cannot be any question now, and in this city, of a persecution of a sectasasect. But as this is purely a matter of business it must ar- range itself on business principles, and there will be a discrimination against dishonest deal- ers. Some of these, perhaps, do not live far from Chatham street. If so, exalted protesis against the discrimination on the part of those who live in better quarters will be absurd, and, like the tearing of the hair, more laughable than effective. Decision of the Supreme rt in the Mivsis- sippi Injunction Case. The decision of the Supreme Court, delivered by Chief Justice Chase, in the Mississippi in- junction case, will be universally approved. The Court refused leave to file a bill to enjoin and restrain the President and his subordinate officers from carrying out the reconstruction acts of Congress, It is unnecessary to restate the argument of the Chief Justice, which we published yesterday, and we will only remark that the Sonth itself has reason to rejoice at ao decision which sweeps away the obstraction that Sharkey, Walker and other impracticable State rights theorists would have thrown in the way of restoration. : With regard to the Georgia bill of complatat - for a similar purpose, though upon somewhat different proceedings, the Court decided to allow a bill to be filed. But further proceedings in the case are postponed till the regular term of the Court in December. From the progress of the work of reconstruction and the prospects before us we have reason to hope the Southern States will be prepared for restoration before this case could be heard. If this be accom- plished and Representatives and Senators from those States take their seats in Congress, as now seems probable, the Supreme Court may be relieved of the trouble of hearing the Georgia complaint; for what will Georgia have to complain of when restored and she shall have the privileges accorded to her which are enjoyed by all the other States? It would be like a man suing for his property after it had been restored to him. But whether the work of restoration be so far advanced by December or not, we have no fear of the action of the Court. It is now evident that this high tribunal is not going to do anything that might obstruct reconstruction under the acts of Congress. It will not perpetuate disorganization and its consequent evils by technical abstractions. It knows that Congress is the supreme power, and that if the Court itself should stand in the way of speedy restoration, that body has the power to remodel the Court. We see, then, all branches of the government, as well as the people of the South themselves, assisting in the work of reconstruction as marked out by the acts of Congress. Such being the case we may safely hope that we are approaching the end of our sectional difficulties. Tammany at Its Old Tricks. The character of the nominations for dele- gates to the State Constitutional Convention to be expected from the Tammany democracy may be gathered from the account published in to-day’s Heratp of the disgraceful scenes enacted at the Fourth Senatorial District Con- vention of that interesting and spirited organi- zation. On Monday night the proceedings were broken up by the roughs of the First ward. Yesterday the Sixth warders held con- trol ‘of the Convention, and the presence of a strong body of police was necessary to pre- vent bloodshed. This is the district repre sented by the Hon. Ben Wood in the State Senate and mainly by the Hon. John Fox in Congress. Admiral Dahigren om the Naval Difficulty at Caliac. We published yesterday the letter of Admi- ral Dahlgren to Mr. Hovey, United States Min- ister in Pera, which has been received at the State Department, with regard to a Peruvian naval commander refusing to extend the usual courtesies to the offieers of our government vessels in the harbor of Valparaiso. This let- ter is in admirable temper and mild, considering the circumstances, though Admiral Dahlgren had cause enough to be more severe. No American can read the letter without feeling that the Peruvian government has acted badly and in an unfriendly manner in the matter. It was bad enough to employ Tucker in the Peru- vian navy, and especially to give him the high rank of Rear Admiral, when it was known he was an unpardoned rebel and renegade from the United States; but the offence was much aggravated when the Peruvian Minister shielded this man in his flagrantly discourteous conduct toward our officers, It is enough to rouse one’s anger to know that this rebel should be permitted to rudely repel courtesies tendered to him in his new position by our officers, which he did not deserve, without an apology being made by the government om- of dutty on the part of the State Department at | wm Washington relative to this officer. Mr. Seward has not maintained the dignity of the United States as the circumstances required. In his fedtape {diplomacy he is too anxious to please everybody, and forgets what is due to his Country and its representatives abroad. An energetic protest should have been sent to Peru. The representatives of the republic, whether naval or any other, should have proper Tespect paid to them. It is high time that Something like the spirit of the old Roman republic, which threw the shield of its dignity and power over Romans everywhere, and made them respected abroad, should take the place of our timid and time-serving policy. Inetreiapentecapetereeseraree American Enterprise and the Paris Expesi- tlon. We have information by cable that the American yachts Fleetwing, Vesta and Hen- rietta were all ready for soa yesterday at South- ampton. We do not know where thoy are going, whether to run @ channel race round the British islands or to start on a voyage for the discovery of some new territory in which the United States government can invest its capital. However, it is not unlikely that this little transatlantic American squadron will be largely reinforced during the coming season; for we observe that there is great activity in the yacht business. Two or three fine schoon- ers of three hundred tons are being built in this city, which will be very fast, trim boats, and there are a few more in construction at Boston. We should not be surprised to see a squadron of such yachts as the Alarm, the Phantom, the Halcyon, the Widgeon, and per- haps some of the new boats, making a cruise or running a sweepstakes across the Atlantic. Thissummer race may not be as exciting or as risky as the winter race of last year, but no doubt it will be quite as pleasant, and may obtain in enjoyment what it lacks in novelty. It appears that the American part of the great show in Paris isa little meagre so far in the matter of machinery, shirts, pianos and {ndians. But we are not very particular about these things. Our machinery is good enough for all domestic purposes; so are our shirts, Our pianos are as familiar as household tunes in every dwelling in America; and as for our Indians, of whom only a small spe- cimen have gone to France, we have plenty more left of the same sort on all our Western prairies, and we do not know what to do with them. The Paris Exposition can have as large a variety in the greatest number that may be required. They might make a very exciting whirl in the American department, particularly if they were to indulge in a musical war who op. There are some things, however, upon which we do pride ourselvos, and they are probably as well known to the European people as to us. We can put down a civil war as quickly, raise as large armies, build as good tron-clads, as- fast yachts, killas many men in battle, con- structas fine railroads and as bad ones, burst more boilers, get up bigger fires, and create as large ‘a national debt as any other nation on the face of the earth. We have now on hand in our | various Atlantic ports and onthe Mississippi rivera number of superfluous iron-clads and Monitors which we can @ispose of to Spain, if ahe should get into trouble with England, or to Russia, in case of an unpleasant complicity with the East. The interest on the moncy in- vested in them would go @ good way towards buying foreign real estate, into which business we are going eo extensively. When our yachts and iron-clads go over to Europe they may make up the deficiency which now exists in the United States branches of industry at the Paris Exposition—the machinory, shirts, pianos and Indians. Jebucen, Heflman, the Herald and the Veto Power. Politically a city is the epitome of a nation, and the country is only the city seen on a greater scale ; 60 that the comparison between the chief magistrates of either is fair enough, particular!y when it is instructive. The case of Mr. Johnson is that of a man who overwrought his chances; he did too much. Asa metile- some horse breaks loose and runs away at a speed far greater than his driver would have put him to, so the great would-be reconstractor fairly ran himself to death over a course that he might have made bis own at an easy amble. Mr. Johnson had only to summon Congress and act in accordance with it; but he would be somebody's Moses, a great leader, and, forsooth, protector ; he would stand between men and the consequences of their own acts even, and thus force a conflict between parts of the gov- ernment, and a war of vetees, all ending in the deepest injury to the interests of those he pre- tended to defend; people unfortunate in their position and doubly unfortunate in such achampion. He will‘have ample opportunity in the retirement of hisfature life to. induigo many philosophical reflections on the great réle of Moses, and may even follow the: com- parison of the great leader’s exclusion from the general entrance into the promised iand of ® political milleanium. Your political Moses may be of every size. As there was @ bull to roar and bellow im the meadow, so there was a frog in the marsh to burst his sides in an ‘attempt to imitate the ple of all parts of the United States, so would Mr. Hoffman protect the people of all parts of Nay, noes should declare for it a thousand times he ~a howe ‘ieee; for he mast protect the peopxye nis: veto: anknown to the world that so mik ts not ‘virtue had its private motive on the sbli¢<ial as well as the municipal theatre. Hoffpian and Johnson battled for the people all the more earnestly for being themselves a very important part of the people, and for believing that their own. must be the antipathies of all posed that it was tobe done for the Henan, and he did it in the-name of the people, though the people are the real sufferers—a fact as obvious as the Broadway bridge. He vetoed that, but he did not veto the Post Offlce mea- sure; for that, was his own little pet, and there- fore, of cowrse, could neither hurt nor rob the innocent le, ‘We thve stated often enough that the Ann atrees opening was not for us. We do not ‘me;a0 money that way, but by attention to ous private business. Ann street must be ploying him. There hag evidently been © lnok. 4 aoonor or later, and the Mayor's joonti6n of better record of events than those of any other journal. AMUSEMENTS. + _ Broadway Theatre. Little Barefoot is atill om the bills at this theatre, an@ ‘was played last night to a crowded house, This domestic drama is an every day kind of story, with a plot assimpte Mitchell, is sufficiently interesting to keep the atton- tion of the audience occupied throug bout, . Long as Miss Mitchell has been before the public in this and many similar characters, ber reception last night was it as flatter er, tape Regrraeel +e Suteenes wot cate 2 high finish and the trace of careful study. The other characters in the picce were fairly preseated, French Theatre. The Pet Philo-Dramatic Association will give an enter- tainment this evening for the benefit of the Ladies’ Southern Relief Fund, on which occasion will bo pre- sented the favorite comedy entitled the Serious Family ‘and the musical farce of the Loan of a Lover. Stadt Theatre. Mr. L’Arronge bas achieved quite as permanent # pop- ularity in comedy as Mr. Dawison has in tragedy. With the assistance of the excellent Stadt theatre company— Madame Stegl.ch Fuchs in particular—he has commenced the present week under favorable ausplees, and repeated calls before the curtain have shown the —, of his fellow-countrymen in America. The Father of the Debutant is a play well adapted to display mis unrivalled powers in comedy. Musical. The Enchantress still pursues its devious career at the It is a pity that it should have usurped the place of such a beautiful opera as the Crown Diamonds. We are glaa that it will be shelved on Thursday night. The sooner exponents of prawo masic before the from , Hoffman, . Waltace, Under which SY Be ietiormacs bends ate Musical and Theatrical Items. Kate and Ellen Terry terminated their. engagement we spoke before, is still running successfully at Drary Lane. Charles Reade's drama, Never too Late to Mead, has been reproduced at the Princess's, the Duke's Motto at the Lycoum, and Faust barlesqued at the Brit- tania, Miss Augusta Thomson is the bright partioulae star of the Paddington theatrical firmament at the Maryle- bone, ‘Miss Edith Howard gave a reading.of Macbeth oa March 21 before the Society for the encouragemeat of the Fine Arts, which is very highly spoken of by the Handel's Oratori>, Israet in Egypt, was given, March 27, at Exeter Hall, by tho National Choral Society before avery large audience. Miss Luoy Frankiein, » young contralto was the most succ‘saful soloist, Wilhelm Ganz bas achieved a high reputation in Loa- don by bis piano recitals, He is said to be @ remark- able player. An actress of position, named Corneille, who has ap- peared with success both at the Odéon and Théitre Frangais, bas displaced the notorious Theresa, the: singer of coarse and vulgar songs at tho café chantant known asthe El Dorado, in Paris, aad is. reciting tho. dramas of Racine and Corneille to large, attentive and applauding audiences, The Minister who gave her the license to recite these plays had grave doubts whether she would succeed in such @ place, and whether she would not degrade the drama. He has sioce confessed himself mistaken. Mr. Wyndbam’s Italian Opera company, at the Theatre Royal, Edinburg, which reckons among. its members such great artists as Titiens, Mario, Gassier, Santley, Tom Hobler and Mme. Lablache, has had a.very successful season at the close of last mouth. The Hoboken German Club gave s concedt at their handsome little ball om Saturday last. Mr. Oscar Pfeiffer, the distinguished pianist; Signora Altieri and Mr. Pas- ronski, violinist, appeared on the occasion. General Tom Thumb and party are in Glasgow. Charles Dilion concluded his ongagemeéiit ab the Theatre Royal, Manchester, March 30. His Beiphegor ‘was a success there, bs ‘Mr. and Mrs, Charles Kean are playing at Mewcastle- upon-Tyne, So the dark curtain has not yet descended. ‘The Monday popular concerts at St. James Hell under the direction, of Arthur Chappell are ended for the eeason, Madame Arabella Goddard and Clara.dehumane have distinguished themselves greasly at theseconcerts. ‘Schumann's Paradise and the Peri was produced at one of the Orystal Palace concerts under the direction of Herr Manns, It is a work of great intriasic merit, but too labored. as an illustration ef Moon's ‘charming, poem. The Pirates of the Savannah has. now gone through.’ eighty representations at the Géité, mw dresses havo been provided, and: the scene. Aa whiot Miss Menken’s course upon her steed occum bes received | the addition of a stream of real water, whlely is crossed by the intrepid rider, Miss Menken. receives high bom- ago from the Parisian press and other quawiers, A new galop has been dedicated to her by the oymposer Kalk- brenner, It is said that after the th night of the piece Miss Menken will have some dialoy,ue allotted her. She hag hitherto acted in pantomime, / ‘A tory handsome offer having beta made to Mr. Grau for some performances of Ristori in Montreal, he has accepted the proposal, 60 that tha ‘queen of tragedy wilt perform in theold French olty of Canada on the 224, 23d and 24th of thie month, Om the first might she will Macbeth. On the 29th she will open her farowell season in Now York at the French theatre in the tragedy of Angelo. OEATH OF GISNOP TION, OF BUFFALO, Borvayo, April 16, 1867. ‘The Right Rev. John Timon, Reman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, died of erysipeiaa at the Episcopal residence, 4 twenty minutes to nine this evening. Tha, ‘hody will be laid in ny el Tesidence until after, Holy Wook, and will be to the Cathedral om Monday and be buried Mussday. No man tn the com- ‘munity was more beloved by the people of all and no man's death 12 mors ugivorsalip regrotod 4