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

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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—[n turte Eraroran Enrertatn- ments, SINGING, Daxctna aNp Buruxsques.—Tur BLack Coox—Tux Fiyme Scups. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo site the New York Hotel.—In razte Soxas, Dances. Ecc en- ‘rRicrnit BURLESQU! 4&c.—Cinprr-Leox—Madacascan Bawiet Trourx—Ou! Husai FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Guirrin & Cunisty’s MinsTRELs.— Ermorian Munstretsy, Battaps, Burirsques, &¢.—Tas Brace Croox—Tux Two Gantiewen or Venona. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio VooaLism. Necro Minstaetsy, Buriesques, Bauer Diver. visaxment, &c.—Tue Forty Fears Jack Matinee at 235 o’Clock. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortan Mrx- ornuisy, Batiaps anp BuRixsques.—Suavow Pantomime. BROOKLYN ATHANEUM.—Proresson Hante's Mima- FESTIVAL OF THE TRINITY CHOIRS, at St. John's Chapel, Varick street —Tuz Massiau. WASHINGTON Hariem.—. BPE HALL, -—ARLINGTON'S SCRIPTURE THR BUNYAN TABLEAUX. Union Hall. corner of .—Movinc Mim Terenty-third street and “Broadway, at to ‘ROR Raed 's Procrass—Sixrr AGNIFICENT Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 24 o'clock. NEW YORK NUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Fup a on gel = or f Lee Loorvass Dany, Open frem 8 4-M. Ul WP. Me TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Thursday, May 2. 1867. REMOVAL. The New Yore Herarp establishment is now located in the new Heratp Building, Broadway and Ann street. 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 0’ clock in the evening. ZEB NSW Ss. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, May 1. ‘The Peace Congress will assemble in London om the 12th, instead of the 15th of May. Lord Stanley, Foreign Secretary of England, will, it ts understood, preside at ‘the conferences, King George of Greece has arrived in Londoa. Carlo Poerio, the Neapolitan statesman and Italian exile, is dead. The London stock board was closed yesterday. United States five-twonties were at 765 in Frankfort and 803¢ ‘tn Paris, ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed dull and quiet with middling uplands at 11344. Breadstaffs unchanged. Provisions quiet and steady. Produce unchanged. ‘The Qpinione Nationale of Paris, Prince Napoleon's organ, publishes an important article on what the writer regards as the dangerous tendency of Pan-Germanism ‘and its effects in, as it were, necessitating Prussia to absorb Holland in order to enjoy © maritime power in Burope. or special correspondence from Hungary is of a very Interesting character. THE CITY. The new Board of Fire Commissioners, which consists of Messrs, Shaler, Wilson, Abbe, Galway and Myers, met ‘at Firemen’s Hall yesterday afternoon. General Shaler waa olected President and Commissioner Abbe Treasurer. ‘The Board of Education held a regular meeting yes- terday, but the only Desiness that engaged their atten- tion was the question of the removal and transfer of wachers. ‘The rush for licenses at the office of the Excise Inspec- tor continues unabated, Yesterday four hundred and fifty licenses were granted, which realized the sum of $90,000, The total amount received for licenses up to last evening was $220,000, ‘The sixth anniversary exercises of the Howard Mission ‘end Home for Little Wanderers was held last evening at Steinway Hall, George A. Bell presiding. Excellent ‘musical performances by the Mission choir and Grafulla’s band and addresses by Alexander Thompson and W. C, ‘Vat Meter comprised the exercises, A collection of Over $4,000 was taken during the evening. ‘The packet ship Hibernia, Captain Johnson, was burned inst evening s the Biack Ball dock. The loss 4s about $100,000. One policoman and « fireman were injared, and one fireman is missing. The policeman was saved through the instrumentality of the colored steward, who threw him overboard and jumping after him conveyed him ashore. During the present yoar 44,227 emigrants have arrived at this port, being not quite one thousand less than the mumber arriving during the corresponding period last year, Me. George Peabody departed for England in the steamer Scotia from this port yesterday. ‘The Reveresd E. 8. Tuttle was yesterday consecrated Bishop of Montane at Trinity chapel, the Right Reverend Bishop Hopkian, of Vermont, presiding. The North German Lloyds steameb!p Bremen, Captain Neynaber, will sail at noon to-day (Thursday) from Hoboken for Southampton agd Bremen. The mails for the United Kingdom and the Continent will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock A. M. Through the ‘ofertigne of Potgaster Ksily, of Now York, the vessels NEW YORK ‘HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1867.-TRIPLE “SHEET of this line commenced to sail from this port on Thura- day a few weeks since—a change which affords very great advantage to the mercantile community, and of which the members avail theraselves by forwarding a mail as bulky as that taken by the Saturday steamships, The steamship Columbia, Captain Barton, of Messrs. Garrison & Allen’s line, will leave pier No, 4 North river at three P, M. to-day for Havana, The mails will close at the Post Office at two P. M. The stock market was bnoyant yesterday till towards hei of business, when it reacted. Gold closed at 35%. There was only a moderate business consummated in Commercial circles yesterday. Domestic produce was 4n fair demand and generally higher, while merchandise ruled dulland heavy. Coffee was unchanged. Cotton was dull and 30, lower. On 'Change flour advanced 50, 100, wheat Ic. @ 2ic., and corn and oats 1c, a 20. Pork wasa shade firmer, Beef was steady, while lard was without decided change. Freights continued dull. Whiskey was nominal. Petroleum was depressed. . MISCELLANEOUS. A special telegram from New Orieans says that a mes- senger of Juarez had arrived there with despatches for Minister Romero containing information of the capture of Querétaro by the liberals, Maximilian is reported missing, and it is supposed that he has either escaped or is secreted in the town. Miramon had died of his wounds, and Marques was again severely defeated by Diaz, Matamoros is reported besieged by Canales, who was awaiting assistance from Cortinas to expel Ber- rizabal from the command of the city. These parties are adherents of Ortega, and the move indicates that the Pretended President ts still determined to assert his claims, Our correspondent at Matamoros, Mexico, writ- ing on the 18th of April, says that the imperialists in Querétaro will yet break out and keep the country in a turmoil for two or three months longer, The interces- sion of Mr, Seward in behalf of Maximilian, in case of his capture, will do no good, and will give rise to hard fopling against this country on the part of the liberals, Mr, Campbell, through whom the note was sent, not having presented his credentials at the Mexican Court, is not recognized there except as a private citizen. Our Havana correspondence is dated April 27. Pre- Parations were being made to send the Spanish iron-side Tetuan to sea under sealed orders, We have news from British Guiana dated at George- town, Demarara, on the 9th of April. Mr. Edward Noel Walker, who had arrived from England, was gazetted, and entered on his duties as assistant Government Sec- retary. A report had got afloat that the question of the impeachment of the Chief Justice of the island bad been settled, the legal gentlemen employed by the colony having decided that there was no case to go before the Privy Council in England, The Colonist denies this, and says that the progecution is in progress. The French steamer Guyane, from Cayenne, made Georgetown on the morning of the 4th of April, and landed the captain and seven seamen of the St Catherine, which vessel foundered at sea on the Sth of March, when on her way trom the West Coast of Africa to Liverpool, with a cargo of palm oil, palm nuts and other goods, Four hundred and seventy-five coolie immigrants from Calcutta had been landed, Yokobama, Japan, dates are to the 3d of April. The war with Chozin was suspended, Apologies had been demanded by the British Minister, and made by the Mikado, for insults offered to the British officers by the natives. The meoting of foreign ministers in Usaka was to take place during the latter part of April. Another fire had destroyed @ large portion of Yokohama, and several Incendiaries have been discovered. ‘The news from China is not important. The Port of Peiho was opened to trade on the 28th of March. Our San Francisco correspondent says that he has in- formation to the effect that a systom of slavery exists on the Society Islands, under the auspices of the French government, unequalled in barbarity by any former plantation system down South. The victims are Chinese coolies and natives of the Pacific islands, Senator Wilson received quite an ovation from the col- ored people at Wilmington, N. C., yesterday. He made Sspecch of the usual tenor, and was replied to by Mr. Benjamin Robinson, a local orator. The audience was very enthusiastic, The national flag was displayed from the public buildings, and a procession, with music, ban- ners, flags, mottoes and devices paraded the streets, The State Soldiers’ Bounty bill was discussed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday, and an amendment authorizing the sale of liquors to raise ‘a revenue for the payment of the bounties was rejected almost unanimously. The Japanese Commissioners were presented to Sec- retary Seward yesterday, and after an interesting inter- view were shown through the State Department. They will be presented to the President on Friday. ‘The election for Judge of the new City Court in Balti- more took place yesterday, resulting in a decided demo- cratic majority. It is reported in Washington that Surratt and the counsel for the prosecution in his case have agreed to proceed with the trial on the 27th inst, Governor English was inaugurated at Hartford yester- day. The day was observed as a holiday, and the military parade was very fine. The message of the Governor ‘was sent in immediately to the Logisiature on the organi- zation of that body. The se in the St Lawrence at Quebec, which resisted all efforts to move it by blowing up with gunpowder, moved of steclf yesterday, and the river will soon be clear, Patrick MoGrath, the last of the Fenians in Canada, was sentenced to death at Toronto, yesteraay, the execution to take place on the llth of June. The Judge, in passing sentence, said he did not suppose it would be carried out. Fifty thousag’ dollars is the fee claimed by the coun- sel employed by the United States to defend the Fenians on trial tn Canada last winter, and the question arises as to how Mr. Seward can pay it, there being no provision for any such outlay, and the Senate not being very apt to grant an appropriation for the purpose, More Trouble About the Excise Law. District Attorney Morris, of Kings county, has written a very earnest letter to Mr. Blias, law officer of the Excise Commissioners, in the shape of a protest and « warning against the form of application required for a retail liquor license. Mr. Morris pronounces this formula illegal, tyrannical and absurd, and says “if these humiliating and tyrannical conditions are insisted upon they will and ought to be hurled back in the teeth of the Commissioners with contempt and detestation.” He charges, in short, that the Commissioners in demanding this form of application for a liquor license are going beyond the Excise law, and that any man who submils to such conditions is unfit to have a license. We presume that the approach- ing Constitational State Convention will put all this matter of liquor laws and excises within reasonable and well defined limits; but, in the meantime, the zeal of the Excise Com- missioners ought not to outrun their lawfal suthority. The Excise law, within its plain provisions, is hard enough upon offenders, and sometimes, if harshly enforced, operates very severely and unfairly. There is no excuse, then, on the part of the Excise Commissioners to go beyond tho limit of the law; and if they have done #0, as represented by Mr. Morris, they ought to repair the blunder and its injustice at once. The Fear of Confiecation. One of our Southern correspondents, writing from Mississippi, says that among that people the existing reconstruction laws of Congress “are not so interesting a subject of considera- tion as the threat of confiscation ;” that these military bills do not hurt them ; but that “the fear of confiscation is an actual destroyer of than suffrage ; but Mele od fale eet te rodldedd Whore them, and Northern public opinion will secure fair play from Congress, There neeg be no foar upon this point ‘The London Conference—Its Probable Doings and Results. ‘The truth seems at last to have been arrived ®t Our cable news has made it clear that the Conference has been agreed to, and it has at the same time explained how a certain doubiful telegram originated. In closing the North German Parliament, King William very prudently refrained from making any allusion to the Luxemburg question, The omission was not only rashly interpreted, but rashly telegraphed without the attendant circum- stances. A later despatch confirmed the accu- racy of the intelligence on which we had previously acted. The announcement of Lord Stanley in the British House of Commons war- rants us now to look at the Conference as a coming fact, and to speculate on its probable doings and results, i Ostensibly the deliberations of the Plenipo- tentiaries are to be limited to the one question of Luxemburg. What will satisfy France? what will satisfy Prussia? and how are the territory and fortress of Luxemburg to be finally disposed oft These are the questions which the Conference is to be called upon to decide. It is manifest at a glance, however, that these questions open up a wide field over which discussion will freely range. It will be impossible to lay down rules which will pre- vent the different members of the Conference in the interests of the different governments which they represent from looking beyond the confines of a mere border Duchy, and touch- ing on certain events which have recently transpired, and on certain other events, which, if not forcibly checked, are sure to transpire in the early future. It is well to limit the pro- gramme; but directly members proceed to business the programme wil? be found to have enlarged itself in spite of them. Is it con- ceivable that France, in stating the reasons why she desired to annex Luxemburg to the empire, will be silent either in regard to the increase of territory and power which Prussia has made during the last year, or to the various means by which that increase has been secured? Is it conceivable, on the other hand, that Prussia, in defending the course she has taken, will have nothing to say, not only about the rights of the German people, but about the unifica- tion of Italy and the annexation of Nice? Is it impossible that the question of the Rhine boundaries will be revived by Napoleon, and perhaps even prosecuted with greater success than ever? In view of the complete unifica- tion of Germany will Austria be able to pre- serve silence in regard to the future of her German provinces? Will no voice be raised in defence of the rights of the Danish popula- tion of Northern Schleswig? And are we jus- tified in inferring that the treaty of Prague will be allowed to pass, in all its entirety, unques- tioned? The possibilities of the Conference overleaping the limits of the programme can- not be said to be either few or small. Of the probable regult it is necessary to write as yet with caution and reserve. The dis- mantling of the fortress of Luxemburg may be found to bea matter of less difficulty com- paratively than the future and final disposal of the Duchy. That it be in some sense pro- claimed neutral is absolutely necessary, and may be certain; but whether it shall remain a State with a sepa- rate and independent government of its own, or be annexed to Belgium, to which it lies con- tiguous, or be made to form an integral part of the kingdom of Holland, are questions on any one of which it is little likely uniformity of sentiment will prevail. The population is German, German in race, German in language, German in sympathy; and ‘f they are barred for the present from more formal union with their brethren of the Fatherland, it is difficult to say which of the three courses just indica- ted would by themselves be deemed preferable. Separation and independency would leave the Duchy isolated and weak. Union with Holland would place it in the awkward position of a province which, though not remote, would have no territorial con- nection with the kingdom of which it would forma part. Annexation to Belgium, if agreeable to the population, appears to be the most natural course, and commends itself not merely by the fact that the bounda- ries are contiguous, but by the additional cir- cumstance that the northern portion of the Duchy is already held by Belgium in virtue of th» treaties of 1839. Annoxed to Belgium, therefore, Luxemburg would, in a certain sens>, be restored to her former self. In our anxiety for peace we cannot afford to be iadif- ferent to the welfare of the populations most deeply interested. Our hope, therefore, is that the Conference may result in some such ar- rangement as that peace will be maintained and the people satisfied. There are otier outstanding questions of interest and importance which it might be well for this convention of the great Powers to consider and determine. What, for example, is the use of allowing this everlasting Eastern question to hang like a nightmare before Europe, keeping the entire continent in @ con- tinual state of excitement and terror? It could be easily settled—settled to the advantage of all, and to the disadvantage of none. The great Powers have but to agree among them- selves, to give the Turk respectful notice to quit, to reorganize the Christian populations, placing thom under a fresh, vigorous, central government, and that which is now a waste under Turkish misrule will reappear as tho garden of Europe. No sooner will this Confer- ence meet than it will be the object of universal interest ; intelligent and thoughtful minds in the Old World and in the New will watch its progress and canvass its results; but if it accomplish nothing grander than the settle- ment of the Luxemburg difficulty, important even as that is, its fruit will be small indeed. ‘Weman Suffrage in England. The number of women advocates of woman suffrage has been steadily increasing in Eng- land, Their name is already legion. * And not ‘& fow names of men are inscribed on the great petitions which wore lately laid before ,the House of Commons in favor of the movement, the one by Mr. John Stuart Mill and the other by Mr. Russell Gurney. Mr, Mill ts etill « faithful chamipiod of the Igdied; but Yor come reason or other, which, it is” will soon be publicly explained, Mr. Herbert Spencer, to 2 Srna Collet, the only lady“ who is! the enfranchisement of her sex. Solitary and alone she contends against Miss Cobbe and her sister Amasons. The latter, however, seem to have fascinated and won the people in their favor, if we may judge by the fact that at the Barnstable Petty Sessions two ladies were recently elected parish overseers—Mrs. Slo- combe, for the parish of Brittadon, and Mrs, Crang for that of Bratton Fleming. If a woman may be a gueen, why not a parish over- seer? Jbhn Bull. has at length asked himself this question and answered it by electing Mrs. Slocombe and Mrs. Crang. As in duty bound, Mr. Henry Ward Beecher and the other cisatlantic champions of women’s rights are delighted. They can exultingly say, Who shall contradict in this election the prophetic revelation of that good time coming when some right honorable premizre may introduce @ new reform bill in the British Parliament? Important News from Mexico. Imperialism in Mexico is rapidly approach- ing its finale, Our important special despatoh from New Orleans to-day announces that the liberals have gained a decisive victory over the enemy, and that Miramon, the distinguished leader of the imperial forces is dead. The battle was the third of a series of desperate sorties made by Miramon’s army, with the pur- pose of forcing their way through the left wing of the liberals. In each encounter they were defeated with heavy loss. The object was doubt- less to open way for Maximilian to Tam- pico, where the United States gunboat Tacony still remains; thus affording the Emperor and such of his followers as could accompany him an opportunity to escape to the States. The result of the defeat and death of Miramon has been the fall of Queretaro, which is now occu- pied by the liberal forces. Maximilian was not found in the city, and the supposition is that he has fled from Queretaro with a small party of his followers; but how, or in what direction, or whether he still remains secreted in the city, does not yetappear. Enough is known, how- ever, to show that the imperial cause in Mexico is at an end. Moving Day in New York. The first of May is an anniversary full of ter- rorsfor householders. Reminiscences of broken penates, irate helpmeets, bad colds and rheu- matic affections, combine to render it as serious an epoch with us as the Ides of March with the Romans. What family has not associated with it the memory of some domestic calamity? We knéw of scores who dat: all their physical troubles from it. Why the first of May should have been selected for a genecal moving we never could very clearly understand. It seems just at the period of the year whén rain can be counted upon with the most certainty. People, therefore, incur a great risk of having their mattresses seaked, their damask coverings ruined, and the varnish of their furniture chilled, all for what ?—merely to time their démenagement with that of their neighbors. Some will say that it was the land- lords who fixed the custom; but we doubt it It more probably originated with the house- holders themselves, from its concurrence in point of time with the annual whitewashing, painting and scouring, which were so vigor- ously practised by the old Knickerbockers. What was proper for the period when domes- tie arrangements were allowed to influence materially those of business is, however, but ill adapted to them now that the practice is reversed, and that New York has be- come @ great metropolitan city. The increase of population has far outstripped the increase of house accommodation, and the necessity of moving on a fixed day consequently adds to the inconvenience occasioned by the ecarcity of dwellings. The spectacle of one family moving in while another is moving out is a very common one. To this serious obstacle are not unfrequently added disputes and pugi- listic encounters between the cartmen of the respective parties. We shall say nothing of the extravagant prices which the demand on this particular day enables these men, never moderate, to extort from their helpless victims. That is a matter of municipal regulation, which, like municipal regulations in general, has no sensible motive to recommend it. Why, of all days in the year, when the enforcement of the city ordinance fixing their remuneration is most called for, the Common Council should think it necessary to suspend it, is beyond our comptehension. Of the influence on the public health of this general movement of our city population we have abundant evidence in the mortality re- turns. There is no season in which a more uniformly marked result, and that of a most unfavorable character, is to be observed than in the week in which it occurs. An alteration of the custom would, there is no doubt, be hailed with very general satistac- tion both by landlords and tenants. The in- convenience and loss to the former are be- coming almost as great as to the latter. If @ landlord does not succeed in letting his house by the first of May he has got to reduce his pretensions considerably. This is occurring in @ great number of instances just now. We do not, in fact, recollect @ period when so many householders were selling or storing their fur- niture to escape the extortionate rents asked. | Some people advocate the adoption of the plan of letting which is in practice in Rochester and other provincial cities. In some, houses are let by the month, and in others by the week, thus giving both landlord and tenant the option of terminating the agreement at the end of either period. The effect is, of course, to prevent the inconvenience of a general moving of families. We own that we prefer the English plan, which ignores any fixed date for the This is not a bad ides, It strikes us that on moat of the street lines of New York ® car now and then, at cerain hours of the day, ex- clusively for Indies and children, expecially from the down town starting places, would be welcomed by thousands who are now crowded out by the rush of merchants’ clerks and Wall street men ravenous for their dinners. ‘The Exodus from Ireland. arly in January we predicted that the pres- ent year would be remarkable for a prodigi- ous increase in European, and particularly in Irish, emigration. The prediction is beginning to be verified. Our special correspondent at Queenstown states that on the 15th ultimo the steamships Minnesota, City of Cork, and Melita sailed thence crowded with emigrants. Up- wards of one thousand two hundred people, he adds, on the 18th, have since taken their de- partare for New York in the steamships Con- cordia, of ‘the Warren line; Malta, of the Cunard line ; Denmark, of the National line, and the City of Washington, of the Inman line; and still there are nearly seven hundred await- ing embarkation. Even prior to the Fenian risings one thousand five hundred emigrants embarked weekly from Queenstown, according to government returns, and the number is now rapidly increasing. This movement at a single port is buta fair index ofwhat is going on throughout the island. The result must be such an exodus from Ireland as has not yet been witnessed. The famines of 1847 and of 1849, and the intermediate failure of Smith O’Brien’s attempt at revolution, drove emigrants forth by tens of thousands. The chronic evils under which Ireland has s0 long suffered have kept up a steady flow of immigration to the United States, And now fresh causes add their cumulative force to the current. The Fenian risings have been so speedily followed by universal distress and anxiety, by a disturbed state of the country districts and utter stagnation of trade in the cities, that multitudes are ready and eager to flee to more hopeful shores. Not only are disappointed Fenians returning themselves—as in the instance of one vessel which arrived here last week with a thousand passengers on board, more than half of whom, it is said, were Fe- nians—but their relatives and friends, and par- ticularly the relatives and friends of the cap- tured Fenians, against whom prosecutions have recently been instituted, are joining the depart- ing crowd, and hundreds of thousands will fol- low their example. One interesting and important fact should be remembered in this connection: if we run. over the long list of names of Fenian prisoners now held for trial for high treason and treason- felony in Dublin, we shall be struck by the variety and respectability of the occupations represented by these unlucky men, Among them we find medical students, manufactur- ers, distillers, clerks, commercial travellers, mechanics of every description and compara- tively few laborers. The prisoners and their friends belong to a higher class than that which has hitherto, for the most part, supplied immi- gration to this country. The approsching tide of immigration, it may then be expected, will bring us a desirable addition to the skilled labor, the intelligence, culture and industry on which the wealth of every country s0 largely ‘The returns of the Registrar General of Ire- land indicate a decrease of 1,401 in the popula- tion during the three months ending the Slst of ‘last December. During that period the births were 83,753, and the deaths 22,260, while by emigration the population was lessened by 12,894. At euch a rate of decrease the depopu- lation of the island seems to have actually begun. But Ireland’s loss will be gain to the United States. Here the Irish emigrants, with their strong arms, quick wit and warm hearts, will always meet witha welcome; and they will repay their welcome generously; for their energy and ambition will help build up this great Western empire, which has just extended its borders almost to Asia. The Gardiner-Tyler Will Case. Mrs. Julia G. Tyler, widow of ex-President John Tyler, bas just met with a heavy rebuff in the Circuit Court of Richmond county (Staten Island), the subject in issue being the will of her mother, by which she is given all the pro- perty involved ($180,000 in value), to the ex- clusion of the contesting brother, David L. Gardiner. The jury have decided, first, that Mrs. Gardiner at the time of making the will was not of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding ; secondly, that said will was procured by Julia G. Tyler by fraud or Gardiner invalid—nothing more than » blank sheet of paper. This is a remarkable case. After Vice Presi- tain” with » glance of ber eye, became in 1843, in the regular order of events, wife of his Ex- cellency and mistress of the White House. With Mr. Tyler’s retirement, in March, 1845, he moved down with his family to his estate of when the rebellion broke out his possessions included not only « charming wife, but seven children, some twelve or fifteen hundred acres of fine land, sixty odd fat and healihy negro slaves, and horses and mules in proportion. The rebellion carried off the master, turned loose his slaves, laid waste his estates, brought in the Freedmen’s Bureau, and left his widow and her children destitute. What else could she do than seek with her children a refuge in the house of her mother? This she did; but Mrs. Tyler, from her seventeen yeare’ sojourn in Virginie as the wife of © State rights sionist, came back to New York with ‘her dsughters singing, rebel ee will fret nibble on thin side and. thon. on tha other, until nothing is left on either side but the parings. The Message of Governor Engligh—Groat cry, and Little Wool. ‘ James E. English, a respectable citizen off Connecticut, was glected Governor of. that State at the last electiqgn by a combination circumstances connected with the local of the Commonwealth, prominent among w! were the labor question and the issue made by! the nomination of unfit candidates for Congreag by the tepublicans. James E. English is a democret, and, with others of his party, he profited by the blunders of his political o; nents. He enjoyed the advantage of ~_ having been heretofore classed among the copperheads of the Connecticut Seymour. school, and this materially contributed to hig success. But his first message to the Legisla- ture of his State, delivered at Hatford/ yesterday, indicates that he entirely miscon- strues the signification of his unexpected tri- umph. He devotes the greater portion of thad document to « review of national affairs ; andy carried away by the unusual occurrence of inauguration of a democratic Governor in loyal State, he runs into the old rut, ignores the rebellion, maintains the rights of the : assumes that the war wes a failure, denounces the legislation of the Thirty-nintlf Congreas as “ a series of usurpations and infrao;, tions of the constitution,” eventuating in placing the Southern people “ins time of profound peace under military domination.” === It matters very little, probably, how many, essays Governor English may write upon thease‘ wornout topics. The work of reconstrucé tion, under the authority of the of the United States, will probably go steadily on despite the railings of the Executive of one out of twenty loyal States against it. But the message of Governor of Connecticut is significant as tend- ing to show thé singular fatuity of the old democratic politicians, who refuse to open their eyes to the great events of the day, and per- sist in groping darkly in the blind alleys of State rights and “the world before the flood." The people who keep pace with the progress’ of the age will learn from this curious docu. ment the hopelessness of endeavoring to build up @ national party on the remnants of the old. democracy. Ths politicians of that decayed organization are joined to their idols, and they will be swept out of sight in the great issues of the future, and sent to join the Feejee mermaid, the woolly horse, old Joyce Heth, and all the other exploded humbugs of the past. Mr. Peabody as a Politician. Colonel Dick Johnson, of Kentucky (who waa promoted to the Vice Presidency on the certifi- cate of having in battle killed Tecumseh), was of the opinion that the White House was too responsible a place to be sought for, but toe grand a position to be declined. The great | philanthropist, George Peabody, with more money than s horse can draw, seems to be of the same opinion. At seventy-two years of age, speaking of the Presidency, he says :—“ Were but forty, and could I be elected to the posi- tion, not as # partisan, but by a united people, T should like it” And why not? Almost any. philosopher would like it on these conditions, Bat, says Mr. Peabody, looking around for a candidate, “ifthe choice of President of the United States were left to me that office should fall upon Mr. Winthrop” (Robert’C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, for one term in Congress Speaker of the House). Doubtless Mr. Win- throp would fill the office with dignity and corum, and is an exceedingly “ nice man for small tea party ;” but unfortunately he stickd to those old nee breeches and shoe and the tt decision, which were in fashion before the Deluge; and that is enough for Mr. Winthrop. In the next place it appears that Mr. Peay body has “the most unbounded confidence im { the wisdom and ability of Secretary whom he had learned to esteem asa noble mam and a far seeing statesman.” Now, from a suo- cessful financier like Mr. Peabody this is no small compliment It must be remembered, however, that even the shrewdest banker is oo- / casionally caught, as was Mr. Peabody himself, é) when he ventured a million or two in those even his opinion of Mr. McCulloch must taken with some grains of salt. Mr. Peabody returns to England with » large stock of new facts and information on our political and financial affairs; but his ideas of Winthrop and McCulloch show that he has yet much to learn., ‘The Eight Hour Movement. In consequence of the pressure and inevita~ ble success of the eight hour labor movement Chicago, have issued orders that their | men be employed by the hour hereafter, thus ten-hour day’s work. This makes it as broad as it is long. It is the old story of Pat, who cut off a piece of his blanket at the bottom to lengthen it at the top. Labor, like everything else in the market, must be regulated by the law of supply and demand. TWE BAL OE L’OPERA, wh The grand ball in ald of the Southern Relief fund | comes off this evening, at the Academy of Mesic. The there will be quite crowd en the occasion, ELECTION WM BALTIMGRE. Heavy Majority for the Demecratic Ticket. in Dlinois, nearly all the railroad companies | 4 ,