The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1867, Page 6

, . 6 NEW YORK: HPRALD)SFRIDAY,; (APRIL 19, 1867.~TRIPLE SHEET... - NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENSETR EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, AU STS. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nass: <qSEMENTS THIS EVENING near Broome neon’ BROADWAY THIs.7 proadway. atreet,—Tux Prant or Sits — GERMAN STADT THEATRE. 45 = Panis iv Powmns—Das Zucenaveere® Funarel, Bowery u OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Maaraa. Wane ALL, 806 Broadway.—Paorrsson POPWORTH Ti Giumaours—Lriecamateon 4xD Hy Fairy Sixcixe Biro. Broidway, opposite 3 INSTRELS, 5% Sroidway, osite snouE'S PRISE STUDENTS. —_ysroadway, oppo aio 2%, Danows. Roo ey BON —MADAGASCAR ng erate. 0) BON vance oF Musto. KELLY sitethe Nev Sect AVENUE OPERA HOU3E, Nos. 2and 4 Wost jonty-fourth stree.—Grirrin & Cunusty’s Minsrnets.— Ermoriax Minerectsy, Dattaps, HUauusques, &c-—Tue Biace Choox—-Roueat Macatnn, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Rowery.—Cowro Vocatism. Nxcto Munstaxisy. Burcesques, Batter Diver. missement, &c.—New YORK Suip CARPENTER. CHARLEY WHITE'S Comnmazee. TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Vanuery of Licur anp Lavcuasis Entertaiuents,—Tue Harry Famicy. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermiortay Min- smxisy, Baucaps anp Burixsques, THR-BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall. gorner of Twenty-third strect and Broadway, at 8.—Movixc Min- RoR OF THE Pi.geiw’s Progruss—Sixty Macniricunt Scenes. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 3 o'clock, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— Heap axp Figur ARM ov Prosst—Tax Wasiinctox Woxpuns mx Natorat History, Scuxce axp Aart. Open from 8 A.M. til 10P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, April 19. 1867, Leervres Dairy. THB NEWS. EUROPE. The mail reports relative to the Franco-German Lux- emburg negotiations, published to-day, contatn details of much interest pending the state of relations existing between Prussia and, Napoleon. From Vienna we are told that it is in contemplation to form one or two battalions of chasseurs of the Austrian volunteers returning from Mexico, and that a further term of three years has been granted to the officers who remain in the service of the Emperor Maximilian, during which time they have tho option of re-entering the Austrian service, ‘The nows report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, April 18. From Berlin and London we are advised that France and Prussia are in active preparation for war. The Ber- lin despatch intimates that Napoleon already threatens the friontier of Germany, and that the French reserves of 1868 will be called out on the 1st of May. A London telegram states that despatches received in that city an- mounce that “negotiations between the governments of France and Prussia have been broken off.” Imprison- “ment for debt is abolished in France. The Tornado case is still unsettled betweon Spain and England. ‘Consols closed at 903, for money in London. United States five-twenties were at 713g in Londom and 76% in Frankfort. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was inactive, closing with prices nominal and middling uplands at 114. Bread- stuffs firm. Provisions firm. American produce quiet and with little change in prices. The London markets ‘were closed yesterday for the Easter holidays. ° Our special correspondence from Vans describes the Progress made in redeeming the great French Exhibition Duilding from the chacs which existed in and around it on the day of opening to order and arrangement. The narrative is animated and places the matter before our Teaders in an attractive form. The weather was unfavor- abie from rain, and the attendance at the building not very choering. The management of the American de- partment is again complained of. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a bill providing for the pro- tection of life in places of amusements in New ‘York was introduced. The bills incorporating the New York State Associated Pross and numerous others of s character not of general interest were passed, ‘The Quarantine bill was ordered to a third read- img. The Annual Supply bill wag passed, with amendments appropriating $75,000 for the erection of stractures for quarantine purposes. In the evening session, bills enabling husband and wife to testify against each other and for the protection of hotel and Doarding house keepers were advanced to @ third rending. In the Assembly the Senate bill relative to the em- ployment of conductors on railronds in the State was considered in Committee of the Whole. Mr, Littlejohn moved to strike out all after the enacting clause and ingort a section authorizing the Ceptral Railroad Com- pany to increase its fareto two anda half cents per mile, The bill was recommittod to the Committee on Railroads with Instructions. to report it amended as pro- posed. - The bill was then ordered toa third reading. The New York city Tax Levy was also ordered toa third reading. The New York State Tax Lovy, and the bill changing the route of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad were passed. Propositions ‘to go into Committes of the Whole on the Metropolitan Excise and Underground Raliroad bills, were lost. The ‘Dill increasing fares on the Central Railroad was then road for the third time out of its order, and was passed By a vote of 72 to 48, THE CITY. ‘The Board of Health mot yesterday. A resolution was adopted ‘directing the Senitary Superintendent to cause ‘an jnspection of pupils in the common schools of Now ‘York and Brooklyn twice each year, with a view to s0- curing the vaccination of the children. Considerable ‘business of minor importance was transacted and the Board adjourned. ‘The Board of Excise met yesterday and revoked six- toon liquor licences, ‘The government commission on life saving apparatus wore engaged yesterday in tosting the steam syphon pump at the factory in Jersey City. Several tests were made which showed that with this machine a ship's hold could be relieved of water or débris in a very short time, Detaching apparatus will be tested to-day. ‘The trastees of the fund for the relief of the policemon ‘who wore injared in the tot gp St, Eetziokie day yester- day cont sale io Creer ieee for distribution |mong them. Rev. Dr. Cuyler lectured on “‘Intemperance’” before the Young Men’s Christian Union of Brooklyn last night; and in the course of his remarks said that he had been told many women in respectable society were in the habit of drinking freely at their dressmakers, aud that he on one was addressed very irreverently by several young ladies in a Brooklyn street car, when he Giscoveret they were all intoxicated. ‘Willig B. Carney, a colored man, and formorly ser- geant in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment, delivered @ lecture to's small audience of colored per- fons, at the African Civilization Building, in Brooklyn, Jast night, om “Reconstruction and the Right of Suffrage.” An inquest was held yosterday on the body of John R. Livingston, who was killod in @ drinking saloon on Jefferson street about one o'clock yesterday morning, ‘ashort account of the murder being published in the Henarp of yesterday, Tho two prisonors, Cody and Allen, were found guilty of the kiiling—the latter as ac. cessory before the fact—and were committed to the ‘Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. In tho Supreme Court, Circuit, yesterday, in tho case Of Maria McDonogh va. William Appleton, an action for the recovery of $6,000 damnges for injuries received by being ron over by a coupé belonging to defendant on the 80th of October, 1966, Tho jury returned a verdict of $100 for the plaintist, An action was brought in tho Supreme Court, Circuit, yesterday, by Aen, F, Cochran against Wm. B. Dins- more, Prosident, for the recovery of $6,000, which bad Deen entrusted to Adams Express Company in March 1966, to be delivered to piaintiff at New Orleans. The Bio, in which the eafe containing the conveyed, was burned atthe Jatter porta after her arrival, and no trace of the snfo he found by the divorn who wore employed to | recover it. ‘The court granted a non-sult on the ground neg! had been proven. sat eet ne nn tin yesterday. Gold was excited, and closed at 18774. ‘There was not much change in the commercial status yesterday, despite the violent fluctuations in. gold, and save in afew oxceptional cases duiness ;was still the chiof feature, Cotton was unsettled by the unfavorable news from Liverpool, and prices declined fully one cent, the market closing very beavy at the reduction, there being few buyers at any price, On ‘Change the situation of affairs was not ‘essen- tinlly changed. Flour was steady. Wheat was rather irregular, choles being Qrm, while com- mon was heavy. Corn was without change. Oats were dull and heavy. Bigrisiopa, ecg 2 -s*9. vigher, Freights continu: vy. Petroleum ruled shade firmer, thoug> yreronLANEOUs, --vepondence from Rio Janeiro is dated March 14,"and from Buenos Ayres February 28. Marquis Caxias, who is in full command of the allies on the River Plate, and Lopez, the Paraguayan President and commander, are both busily engaged in intrenching and fortifying. Brazilian officers aro continually returning to Rio Janeiro perfectly disgusted ith the war. General Mitre bad left the front in order to pay more particular attention to the rebellion in the Argentine Republic, of which he is President, On bis arrival at Ro- sario he was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people. The National Guard of Buenos Ayres had been called out and organized. The enlistment of slaves io Brazil continued, numerous wealthy persons making presents of numbers of thom to the government, A fight took place at Curupaity on the 2d of February, tn which all the iron-clads but one, and the land forces all around the line, wore engaged. Tho results to the Paraguayans are supposed to have been sovore, although no lodgment was off:cted by the attacking party. The propositions for peace made by the American Minister aro being seriously considered, although they were not well received at firat. The Brazilian navy on the La Plata consists of 35 ves- sels, 148 guns and 4,000 men, The United States steam- ers Shamokin and Kansas were at Buenos Ayres. Our Mexican correspondence is dated at Vera Cruz, April 6, and Mexico city, March 17, The health of Vera Cruz was becoming very bad, several deaths having oc- curred from the vomito, The liberals were placing some heavy guns in position, There wore scarcely any pro- visions in the city, and the people were astonished that nothing was coming from Havana or New Orleans. Juarez had given orders to all his officers to grant Max!- milian an escurt and honorable treatment to any point on ths coast which he shalt solect as a point of embarkation, provided he is captured, Money was becoming scarce in the imperial coffers, and the Finance Minister had thrown up his portfolio in disgust. Skirmishes- took place every day at the gates of Mexico city. The savage order of Miramon, inflicting death upon all prisoners captured, was countermanded by Maximilian, The story of Ecobedo’s defeat is believed to have been con- cocted in the capital. The Austrian garrison were look- ing out for the earliest opportunity to leave the country. Our advices from Greytown, Nicaragua, are to the 10th inst. The new President had appointed General Don Thomas Martinez Minister to tho Court of St, James, It is understood that his mission will have reference to the settlement of the claims of the republic against the United States for damage done by the Walker raids and the Greytown bombardment. In the United States Sonate yesterday, after an exec- utive session, the adjournment resolution was called up. and time further extended to Saturday, by 20 to 15. Judge Fisher, in the Criminal Court at Washington yesterday, declined to fix a day in the June term for the trial of John HL Surratt, as he thought it probable he would not preside at that term. The Mexican log@ion at Washington has unofficial information that Maximilian was on his way to Mexico city having being wounded in the arm at Querétaro, The Virginia State Republican Convention met in Richmond yesterday for the purpose of forming a repub- lican party in the State, the majority of the delegates consisting of colored men. Hunnicutt and several colored speakers addressed the mecting in speeches which were at least earnest. A permanent organization was agreed upon, nad officers were elected. The bill on behalf of the State of Mississippi, amended ‘20 as to petition for an injunction against the Secretary of War, General Grant and General Ord, was presented in the Supreme Court yesterday, when Attorney Gene- ral Stanbery moved to dismiss it, as well as the bill for the State of Georgia, om the ground of want of jurisdio- tion, Noxt Friday was fixed for the hearing of thd argument on thie motion. A mecting of radical _{reedmen was held tn Mobile on Wedu lay evening, at which resolutions were adopted demanding for the black man the right to hold office, sit ‘On juries and ride In street cars, The Union Course was opened forthe season by an oxciting trot between Farmer, Kitty Clyde and Montgomery, tho latter winning after a sharp contest. A convention of Southern newspaper proprietors was held in Atlanta, Ga,, yesterday, when a President and Board of Directors was elected, with instructions to or- ganize a system of telegraphic service for the Southern Press oxciusively. ‘Tho official canvass of the vote in Connecticut shows that the majority for English was 987. A troupe of Japanese acrobats bad an interview with President Johnson yesterday. Albort Teufel was hanged at Doylestown, Pennsylva- nia, yesterday for the murder of Captain Wiley. ‘be miners’ strike at Dover, Now Jersey, is at an end, most of the miners going to work again at the old rates, Navigation will probably be resumed to-day on the St. Lawrencs river, and the Welland Canal will be open to business on tho 23d inst, ‘An unknown schooner went ashore below Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, and four of her crow were lost. : A trial of hay.and fodder cutting machines took place yesterday at Rye, Westchester county, before a eommit- yoo of the Farmers’ Club. Important from Earepe—France and Prussia Preparing for War. Our news despatches by the Atlantic cable, dated yesterday in Berlin and London, are almost coincident in the conveyance of the im- portant intelligence that France and Prussia areon the eve of a war struggle. The Berlin advices are exciting, and indicate that Prussia seeks to throw the onus of the rupture on the French ruler; for we are told that the “Bmpe- ror Napoleon is strengthening his forces and~ military posts on the frontier ’—nearest Ger- many it is to be inferred—“ placing his artillery on @ war footing,” “ purchasing ambulances,” and that “ the French reserves of 1868 will be called out on the Ist of May.” The samné des- patch says, “Prussia is also making active military preparations.” By « telegram from London we have the statement that the negotiations between France and Prussia are broken off—a state- ment that has a serious aspect. It will be re- membered we had some days ago the special announcement that a peremptory demand had been made by the Prussian Premier for France to discontinue certain warlike preparations, That demand was probably made pending ne- gotiations between the two governments in relation to Luxemburg, though it has been denied by French journals that any such nego- tiations were on foot. We can hardly doubt now that there was a discussion between the two Powers, that it related to the doubtful Duchy, and that it was of an angry nature. The imperative requirement of Prussia would not have been forced in upon a polite and amiable consideration of commonplace topics. France has declined to discontinue her arma- ment—declined also to explain it; and the master of the whole power of anited Germiny— ® man who has almost come to believe that ho is superior to forlane—naa closed the discus sion. Such is probably the sequence of ovonts precedent to the facts given to-day, Thore is bad blood between the two great military Powers of Burops, France, sore at seelng horself suddenly reduced to the dimon- sions of.a second rate Power, is full of com- plaints ‘and requirements; and Prussia, con- fident in her great power, is little disposed to go out of her way to sooth the angry spirit, and bas but little patience for points so peevishly and indelicately made as have been those of France in referenoe to the frontier. In these relations any event might precipitate a war, and we must Le prepared to learn by our files that the tranquillity of Europe is seriously menaced at the present moment Should a contest arise it will not bo hamenly nose that marked the contest of the past sum- mer. Prussia is ready, and might fight alono, but France will doubtless move Austria. And if these two combine against Prussia we shall hear more of the treaty between that Power and Russia. So it will go. Spain, also, in defying England, cannot be without somo secret understanding with France, and al- together it is not too much to say that if war begins it may spread over the whole conti- nent and result ina universal upsetting of thrones, Full consideration of such a possl- bility may keep the peace, New Phaso of Reconstraction tn the South— Fan, Fire and Fary. When a barrel of now beer 1s exposed to the sun there must be ventages for the escape of the gas, or the hoops must be very strong, or there will be an explosion, scattering beer, froth, hoops and staves in every direction. So when a great revolution has turned the old political institutions and ideas of a great com- munity topsy turvy and its social system in- side out, there must be a fermentation among the elements of the body politic, more or less alarming, before we can have a settled condi- tion of things. This fermentation is now going on throughout the five military districts into which the ten outside rebel Southera States are divided. Hore and’there, too, we have fre- quentand increasing explosions of gas, with occasional damages to life and limb, although not often of a serious character. Bellicose edi- tors and politicians, known in the South as “bomb-proofs” during the war, have been of late getting up some gunpowder exciloments in Memphis, Vicksburg and elsewhere, and generally they are furious and fiery, as noisy fellows are apt to be when the fighting is over. A South Carolina correspondent, for example, informs us that among the combustibles of that thoroughly subjugated State there are some half dozen duels on the carpst on points of honor and ancient chivalry. This, too, while the real fighting leaders of the rebellion, such as Lee, Longstreet, Hampton, Beauregard and others, are all for peace, submission and recon- straction. Under this state of things we are not sur- prised that Mr. John Minor Botts, of Virginia, should turn up in a somewhat belligerent atti- .tude. We refer the reader to his letter and the correspondence it embodies, which we publish to-day as a simple matter of justice. The record of Mr. Botts during the war, though not that of » fighting man, is the record of a Southern Unionist who could not be shaken from his faith, even in Castle Thunder. It is natural, perhaps, that from his treatment under the government of Jeff Davis he should como out of the war a flaming radical; but for all that he should not permit his seal to outrun his GiaéFetion. He complains to us of a ocostaia lotter from @ Richmond correspon4-;, qhioh, through en ovéMight,” Wal aimliied into Sat Golumas, Mr. Botts, touching this objection- able letter, opens a correspondence with Gen- eral Schofield which settles the oase completely in favor of thecomplaiaant. Thus amply vindi- cated, the submission of General Schofield’s testimony to this journal, in behalf of the com- plainant, would have been enough. But Mr. Botts goes out of his way to inform General Schofield that “as this systematic effort. at defamation and detraction scems about to be resumed by the Heratp, whose editor I had the misfortune, some twelve or fifteen years ago, unwittingly to offend, I have determined to try conclusions” with him “by a resort to legal remedies.”’ Having resolved upon this mode of redress Mr. Botts should have stopped just there; but he spoils his case as complainant and lawyer, not in saying, “Now, Mr. Bennett, there is no necessity for any words between us,” for we agree in that, but in adding theso words of bad temper and bad taste, to wit:—“Your paper has beon at the sorvice of every black- guard, of high or low degree, who, from motives of personal or political malignity, de- sired to defame me for the last eighteen years.” And then, ina towering passion, he talks of “the licentiousness of the press,” “defamation and detraction,” “shameless mon- dacity” and “mendacity and malignity;” terms unworthy a schoolboy in such a caso, but whoily inexcusable aud incomprehensible in aman of the age and experience of Mr. Botts, Let him be assured that we have no recol- lection of any offence committed by him against us, except his offence of making war upon John Tyler and resolving to “head him or die,” after having beon his travelling com- panion on the same journey, after having sharod with him the same supper of corn bread and bacon, and after having, like a brother, slept with him under the same blan- ket. There has been no wicked design in any of our subsequent eollisions with Mr. Botts from time to time. They have been only the accidents of the whirligig of politics. Under the rule of John Randolph, of Roanoke, to “pay as we go,” we have no outstanding balance against Mr. Botts, nothing against him of “mendacity, malignity,” or any such non- sense. Cheerfully placing him right upon the record in regard to his conference with Gen- eral Schofield, we leave it to Mr. Botta him- self to determine whether the tone and temper of his letter in the premises are entitled to or unworthy the consideration we have given it. The Forthcoming Russian American Expe- disten. We are glad to perceive that the government is abont to act upon our suggestion to send a scientific exploring party to our newly ac- quived possessions in Rassian America, It ts necessary that Congress, which is to make the appropriation at its next sessibn, should be well informed as to the resources and value of that territory; and there is no mode of obtain- ing the information except by a caroful explo- ration by scientific mon. As far as we aro at present enlightonel there are many points upon which it is desitable that we should havo positive testimony. It is stated, for instance, that this region is capable of a high dovolop- mont in agriculture. but that It has boon re- tarded by the almost exclusive interest of the fur trade, to which individual. enterprise has been largely directed. It is known that the finest and most costly furs in the world are produced there, - Therefore it would be well to know what the prospect for raising cereals: may be, Then, as regards gold, it is reported that the precious metal exists te consider- able extent, and it, bas been ssowriained that the tendency of ve northward from California to Columby, and probably thence to Russian America. There is no doubt about the existence of coal; for it is found in large quantities, several coal- Ing stations being located on the coast. Cop- per, too, is:sald to have been found in consid- erable quantities, With regard to the climate, which is supposed to be very severe, we find autborilies alleging that the temperature in some parts is not lower than we have experi- enced in New York during perlods of last winter. All these are questions the solution of which renders the proposed exploration of the highest importance, and it becomes, therefore, a matter of some moment that the right kind of men shonld be selected for the expedition. Professor Agassig would be an admirable selection, and Du Chailld, and Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, should be added to the party. All these savans are fully quali- fiod by experience, close study of geological, botanical and ethnological subjects, as well as familiarity with explorations in wild and unin- habited districts, to conduct or form part of an expedition of this kind, and we think their services would be of -infinite value. If the undertaking is carried out at all, it should be done in the most complete manner, in order to insure a satisfactory result. Trouble Among the Doctors—The Pathies in a Stew. We print in another column a report of an agreeable entertainment given at the hydro- pathio establishment of Dr. Schieferdecker, in Fourteenth street—a compliment from the Doctor's patients in view of his proposed de- parture for Europe. The worthy disciple of Preissnitz evidently does not restrict his patients to faith in the virtuo of water, inas- much as the entertainment included a charm- ing concert, a distracting oration and a sump- tuous supper. The oration was @ very notable feature of the entertainment, in view of its subject. It dealt with the great question of the pathies. It treated them, to be sure, in a peculiar way; for the orator, like the last man drowned by the deluge, looked at things from a hydro- pathic standpoint, That, if not strictly just, was at least natural and polite. How could he do otherwise at the table of hydropathy? The guest of hydropathy, smiled upon and sym- pathized with by ladies whose smiles he was, perhaps; compelled to regard as évidences of the success of the system—could he criticise his host? could he say, O most horrible of the pathies! you have washed the very life out of millions; you have “packed” other millions into their early graves, and of all the isms you are the one most liable to abuse and the most dangerous when abused! Could he nse such terms as these? Perish the thought! And thus stopped at one quarter, he broke out the more fiergely in others, and slashed with his favorite fervor into that poor old si rooious system of medioines dat Tix Gidiles have called “alfopathy;” and the poor old system, perhaps, can stand it. “What is trath?” said jesting Pilate, and there were none to answer. But if you ask such a question in the matter of medicine, you can get more answers than are daily given to the thirty-six columas of Hunatp advertise- ments. More can answer the question than argue it; for ignorance is self-sufficient, blatant, abusive and always ready to decide, while they whose opinions are of weight are slow to give them, Allopathy, so callod, homeopathy and hydropathy constitute the great medical triumvirate that rules the world, sharing its favors. Hydropathy will see nothing in tho world but water; and if they who urge this method could have their way we might all become either fish, on the one hand, or Croton pipes, on the other. Your hydropathist regards nothing in life with such disgust as dry esheets. Commend him only to the luxury of comfortable slumber in bedclothes unwrung from the pump, with the thermometer at zero. What are cholera, fever, inflammation to him and his great agent? Is it not strange that men and women will be such simpletons as to die in their prime, with water cure establishments, perhaps, around the corner? Fatuity of mortals! Homeeopathy might use water under some circumstances—if one were drowning, perhaps. Infinitessimal doses and the theory of symp- toms are its great points. Many things in its theory and practice are laughable enough; but there is one immonsoly in its favor— the patient often has a chance to get well, His constitution is apt to have fair play, and he is less likely to be killed by the doctor. For what could the pelting of those pellets accomplish? In ten thousand made of pure sugar one made of medicine has probably been shaken. That one gives effect to the rest. Mayhap an ordinary constitution could hold ont against quch drugging. It is trae that a man might die Bere “snd there for the default of medicine ; but the vast majority would be the other way. And we are in fhvor of giving homm@opathy a cholera hospital; it would be a test to a certain degree. In a cholera season they would be sure to get chol- era casee—a certain proportion of cholera cases will die under ordinary circumstances— and if homeopathy can reduce the proportion, let us know it. Repressive measures cannot assist truth, Allopathy, as our orator has shown, is guilty of two capital crimes—it uses instra- ments and it writes its prescriptions in Latin. We are not informed whether the victims die by torture or from curiosity. Such are the prominent schools of medicine before the world. ‘There is a wilderness of minor pathies; for, as the clown in the Twelfth Night has shown, no trade {s so extensively followed as that of doctoring. Every man you meet has a cure for your malady—infallible, of course, Radcliffe went into practice “with twenty remedies for every disoase,” and went out with “twenty diseases for which he had no remedy.” The world knows well that there are fools enough in all the schools—and that is the trouble. Satirisis deolaim against sys- tome for faults that are not theirs, batare due simply to ignorance, deeper, pérhaps, than that of the satiriat r — recently been denouncing the corruptions of the State Legislature in a series of resolutions, in which they show as much virtuous indigna- tion as was exhibited by certain republican Papers a few days since on the defeat of the bill to hand over the piers and wharves of the city to = warehousing company monopoly. They had the effsontery to transmit these reso- lutions to the Senate, and that body summarily sent them back again bya vote of twenty-seven ‘o three, after expressing considerable indig- An Angry League and an Indiguant Senate. The Union League Club of New York have nation against their authors. But the Senators overlook the provocation the Union League Club politicians have received at the hands of the Legislature, The members of the League were the secret patrons and lobbyists of all the new commission jobs for Now York city introduced at Albany this session, and as they anticipated a grand increase of their patronage and profit under those jobs they are naturally irritated at their defeat. The truth is, the approaching convention, which is about to sweep away the elective judiciary with all its evils, ahd to give us a revised constitution, should change the moral lawa as well as the statute laws in relation to the political affairs of the State, and should legalize and regulate official corruption. It would be better for the pockets of the people, as well as for the public morale, to adopt a sort of graduated. scale of corruption, making it legal for corporations and heads of depart- ments to steal a certain amount during their terms of office, according to the relative im- portance of their positions, and for the two houses of the Legislature to make a stipulated sum per session out of the State and as much as they can out of private individuals. Then violations of the law could be punished by pains and penalties, as burglary and larceny are punished, according to statute, and the whole system could bé properly regulated. Everything would then have its price, and the people would know what to expect and would stand less chance of being badly victimized. We commend this subject to the Union League Club as worthy of their consideration, now that the question of political equality for the Southern negroes is out of the way, and as being calculated to protect them in future from the disappointments and irritations to which they have been subjected at the present sea- sion of the Legislature. A Massachusetts Apostle on a Southern Mis- sion. Senator Wilson, of Massachusotts, commences in a day or two an apostolic journey through the benighted region of the late Southern Con- federacy. He sets out with all the fervor and much of the eloquence of St. Paul; and, as that great apostle of the Gentiles traversed the ends of the earth, endeavoring to bring all men into the folds of Christianity, so our American missionary has undertaken to preach the doc- trines of the republican party, all the way from Washington to Now Orleans, to all ranks and conditions of men, of whatever shade of politics or complexion. This tour will» certainly be of great public interest, and may become a noteworthy his- torical event. In order to make it the more 80 we 8n, that @ prominent Southern ora- ator, and present to the same audiences and from the samé'p..tform the arguments now un aay opposite side of the quests, ov a colored Cato in the crowd may be able to say— “My life and death, my bane and antidote, Are both before me.” And no Southern man now occurs to us better qualified to play the part thus assigned than Henry A. Wise, the eloquent but erratic ex- Governor of the Old Dominion. Let, then, the two Henrys, the Massachusetts Wilson and the Virginia Wise, make this tour in company, the rival representatives of opposite ideas, and we venture to promise them the largest daily audiences that ever orators commanded. But we must caution Mr. Wise, in advance, that he will be expected to treat the representative of the Heratp with more respect and politeness than he.did the gentleman whom we sent to report his speeches in the famous Know Nothing campaign in Virginia, ten or eleven yearsago, That being understood, we invite him to the lists to meot the champion of Northern ideas. Reaistration or Vorers.—The registration of voters for the elootion for delegates to the State Constitutional Convention commences this morning. Those citizens who have changed their residences since the last elec- tion, or who did not vote at that electiop, or who have since become votors, are required to register, if they desire to vote on Tuesday next, THE JEWISH FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER. The celebration of the Jewish festival of Passover or Pesach will commence this evening, and will be cole. master dah, which relates to the r ion of from tains 1 ea and thanl to Pry God for nis Ki ees end meroy. "On teeee sit at table fro Ik a propor that cvery ons . bondage, tacn thanks to God Tor his goodness tn deliver. should return thanks to of slavery. During the time the holy 1m or retoud in Jerusalem "4 sheaf of the Art ripe ‘offered up to the Lord on tho sixteenth that Orr on Mal the Teltval Of ‘<n shall accompany this Massachusetts Sen- , HOLY WEEK. Maunday Thureday. In the various Catholic churches in this city and Brooklyn yesterday the impomng and inspiring cere- tival is styled in the Roman Missal (he “‘Thuradey of the ‘Lord’s Supper,” in honor of the institution by our Saviour of the sacrament of the Eucharist, By the French it is termed Jeudt Absolut—Absolution Thursday—becauee of the custom of preceniae steniotigs: im pubiit over peniteuts on that or. title Maunday Thureday from of wi of ‘Christ’s i ; i 5 g ‘and all sounds of masic, A of feativity are laid aside until the Io the mass On Holy Saturday, “At the mass of w consecrated, one for the sacrifice other to be carried in solemn of the charch and there deposited until the sacrifice to-day. In other respects the mass. does not differ from that of ordinary festivities; and the princi; ion, of the ceremonies of the day is the bearing ‘ne heat to and depositing it in the repository prepared for’ it. As the conclusion of the mass the officinting clergyman having donned a cape and veil, instead of the chasuble, or upper vestment worn durin, chalice containing the extra hi altar steps where, in the meantime, the assist- ant clergy, acolytes and choristers have formed in proceasion. When he has taken a position under a canopy, held by several assistams, the procession moves slowly along the designated route in the following order:—Sub-deacon, bearing the easional cross, be- tween two acolytes bearin; ee ; the assisting cle: woand two, ‘cach holding a I ted taper in his hand; the thurifers, or censor rers; the celebrant bearing the sacred host under a canopy; the choristers and members of the sodalities and religious societies, dressed in the Be af. git Si peer eres While the procession is moving the choristérs and members of the sodallties chant the Pange lingua, the celebrant and assistant clergy recite alternately the hymns and psalma without the Gloria Pa’ri, ond the thurifers incense the sacred host continually until the arrival at the reposito- Ty, wero the host Is deposited while the Zlantum ergo ‘a chanted by the ohoriaters. . After the mass the priest, with his assistants, divest the altar of its covering: and ornaments to represent stripping of our Saviour by the Jewish soldiers, During this ceremony the priest and assistants chant the Psalm (21) Deus, Deus meus and the antiphon Diviserunt sidé vastimenta mea, et super vestem meam miserunt soriem. (They divided my garments amongs, them and upon my ven the en ie obra was suing, a8 On the pre- e evening the Ten vious day, in the churches mentioned fa the Heraup of Y yesterday, AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL the Most Reverend Aichbishop McCloskey performed the ceremony of bleasing the oils. In consequence of the unfinished state of the Cathedral the ceremonies could not be performed as fully as usual; but, as the otls used in the ceremonies of the Church must be blessed on holy Thursday by the Bishop or Archbishop, it was necessary to go throush, at least, that muob of the ceremonies prescribed by ritual; the grand pe cession was dispensed with, ag no suitable place for ® repository could have been prepared. His grace, the Archbishop, of course officiated at the and the ceremony of blessing the olis was performed as follows:— The oils to be blessed were placed in three logy, bom were designated Doyen Oleum Infirmorum, Lael Ca’echumenorum reed nape ted At the ns coer od mes during mass were presented Grace, the Oleum Injirmorum frat, then-the Sanctum Chriema, and Olewm Catechumenorum. The then breathed on ‘the various chiurohes have beoa, prepared Tent taste, and no oxpense, been lace to a der the itory’ ‘suitable for the | soc nese Christ—whioh the Roman po"® t0 bo really praeens 12 the mass—*2d the i idl 4 J throughout the edits other sarroundings, could scarcely fail faithful beholder feelings of reveroncé joyful Teves to bo then ‘prea nad Joytagratiuas leves: re inestimable ings ocaferred any Gin y Church in establishing of the It would be difficult to rations were the finest. churches vied with each other in their efforts to the repositories as becomingly and yet as ‘as possible, and as each was dressed as muniticentiy as’ the exchequer of the congreations Cs e 3 = 5 5 ‘s Ree tine Parion. ing crowds visited the soveral churches, and remaining bus Petpet ponies avipane decorations, and ©, 80 inolined, recited short prayers appropriate to timeand place. This custom of wisn the churches is. commonly called ‘Visiting Sepulchres, dent and contrary to the intentions of the tly wrong, Church. It would be rather out << to be prise visita to the Saviour in His grave be! His crucifixion, The repository 18 dressed and adorned with all possible’ magnificence, and such as isscarcoly in kocping with tl equipments of a tomb, and the Sacred Host is with the solemn office of the Tenebrae which was com- menced evening before, x} GooD ERIDAY will be celebrated to-day in all the Catholl Epleoo- pai churches, sine Important Medical Uonference in Germany— The Metropolitan Board of Henith Lavited to be Represented. On the 28th of this month Mpeleot number of distin guished sanitary officers and medical authorities im Europe eins &@ meeting for conference 1 means cholera and the resulis demic, Health i d J : niet fi H * il Z i Ey : if iH fi # ai 3 i i a i i 3 é i E fi i I il | | f z i 7 & i oy | i fi | Ht | i 2 ’ A { # i | ; 5 nf ae i ce jefe lid GRD i 5 forwarded to the committee of the conference at Weir.nar early last woek. Tho special records showing the pe Aly hed America dart ‘the late opld’ gmfor, natratod by aap, dates and stattatlos-—and ‘a carofal review of our American which ?ave been ‘nd went forward by Dr. Harris to,"Wetmar, tox with the printed Fel Heaith ‘and Nd ‘garded as con- Srnaiae Ome ‘ ] Yau of the come