The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK, HERALD..TUKSDAY, JANUARY .7,, 1868. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. / Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIII.. ncaken tate oot Ming as AMUSEMENTS THIS EVZNING, p2QvaRe THEATRE, Bowery.—Ciavpe Duvat—Jewny NI NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Unper tue Gasticut, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—La Sonnam. OLA. THEATRE, Broadway.-A Mipsvmure OLYMPIC Nicat’s Daxam. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Ouiver Twist. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteen: street, —Las PRosers pe Ma ane, &0. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Many Srvarr. BANVAUD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirueth street—Our Murat Faumnp, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fopricenth street, —Gresastics, Equesteianisa, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway,—Hanton Comsi- NATION TKOUPE. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTR aNcKS, Kecenrauicitixs, BUR! Broadway.—Sonas, i QUES, de SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway.—Ermto- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES. TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vocauisst, NxGRo MinstRELsY, AMERICAN TH %, Pantoaiw BUNYAN TALL, Broadway and Fifteeath stree.—Tus Pircaia. Mutinee at 2. BSTEINWAY HALL.—Gxaxp Concert. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! Ruvstacrsy, Bartavs ap Be 2. Brooklyn,—Ermortan BSQUES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Scunce anv Ant. y, January 7, 1868. New York, Sas wEwsa. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yestor- day, January 6. Ttaly bas formed e new Cabinet. The West India sale debate in the Danish Logisinture has been adjourned. Sickness prevails among the !rench troops at Civita Vecchia, The financial and commercial reports are without any marked change. CONGRESS. The Fortieth Congress reasscmbled after the holiday Foceas yesterday, In the Sonate, Senator seat for the first time du introduced a pill to mak Piecos agree with the Fn Iebury appeared im his session. Mr, Shermoan United States five dotlar twenty-ive franca, with a view to the unification of the world’s coinage, The case of Senator Thomas, of Maryland, came up, but alter some te was aide, Mr, Suramer's bil forthe rapoal of the cotton tax was laid over until to- day, an In the Ro 7 call, the usual num- ber of bills resolutions were tatroduced and referred, Ar mwas adopted inquiring into the hern conventions to sotive States; form- command of the expediency of authorizing the Appoint ali civil oflcers in tar re ing the five districts into one, General of tho armies, aud other matters relating to re- Construction, A resolution of thanks to General Han- cotk was tui on the table, Resolutions consuring the conduct of the President in removing Sheridan, and thanking Grant for his tstous “private” letter, were adopted, Tho bill fixing eight hours as a day’s labor for governinent laborors was pa The bill rolative to soldiers’ vounties was under coxsideration when the House adjourned. MISCELLANE 8. ity government was organized yesterday. eseages, reports and proceedings will in the Herarp this {men was not recog: or Aidermen, Tho Board of Aldermen organized with the election of Alder- man Thomas Coman as president and ex-Alderman Joseph Shannon as clerk, in place of David T. Valon- tine, The other oMcars of the Board were ‘The new city governments of Boston, Ci Cheisea, 1 ‘ambridgo and Springfeld, Mass., were inaugurated yesterday, Shurileff is the new Mayor of Boston, Tho city debt of Springield is $199,770. The Ohio Logisiature organized yesterday, Jobn T. Follet was clocied Spoaker of the louse. Thero was skating upon all the private and public ponds of tho city and suburbs yesterday. The ico was excellent and the pleaeure of the pastime indulged in by thousands. At the burning of the eoldiers’ hospital near Auguata, Me., on Sunday night, the lumates got bold of a barrel of whiskey, and most of them became drupk, when a general Nght encucd, in which owe-legzed and one-armed individuals were the principal combatanta, One of them rors to death while drunk. tIn the democratic cancus of members of the Legisia- ture at Albany yesterday, Mr, William Hitcbman, of Now York, was nominated for *peaker and Cornelius W. Armstrong for Clerk. in the republican caucus R, 1, Pitta was nominated for Speaker and Luther Caid- well for Clerk. The Boston negro Bradiey, who assaulted an editor in Bavanuah, has been sentenced to $110 flue or throe months’ imprisonment. Genoral Wager Swayne yesterday suspended a clerk of the Cirevit Court of Montgomery county, Ala., who had ordered a summons to bo served on him to answor in a suit for damages for alleged false imprisonment. ‘The burinoss portion of the town of Indianola, Texas, has been destroyed by re, Loss $100,000, and no in- surance. Tho paper mil! of J. G. Parker & Co., at Greenwich, ‘Washing:on county, N. Y., was burned om Saturday Right last. Lows $25,000, A fire occurred in Recine, Wis, last night, and de- atroyod property to the amount of $90,000. The in- surance will amount pout $10,000, ‘Two men, who gave \hoir cames aa J. Conover and H, D, Hooker, were arrested at Kingston, Canada, yester. day, for paseng alieged bogus drafte on Mesera, Jay + Cooke & Co, of York, purporting to be drawn oy M. B Dyer & Co., of Clifton, Jobn White, the professional burglar, formerly of New York, who committed # series of daring burslaries near Portland iatoly, was eeuivnced to the Maino State Prison for life yesterday. The trial of the boys, his accomplices, is postponed uptil another term of tho court, Nathanicl Freeman, a give manulacturer, of Boston, has boon arrested in that cily, charged, it im paid, with forgiog the names of leading citizens of Charlestown, fand obtaining $20,000 from the Bunker Hill National Bank. Yesterday 2 man named Oliver F. Papy, residing on ‘Wort Sixteenth etrest, was hold to ball im the sum of $5,000 before Commissioner Kenneth G, White, of tho United States Circuit Court, to avswer the complaint of the Marquis dei Grillo, husrand of Madame or, who chargos that Papy bad bir wrongfully and mati- ciously arrested, ‘The Marquis has laid his damages at $10,000, The case will be tricd in (he ensuing term of She Circait Court, The January term of the General Sessions commenced Yosterday, Judge Rossel dolivercd an elaborate chargo fo the Grand Jury, in which bis Honor discussed the Liquor and ihe tenement house questions and the prac- rryir; concealed weapons. wary teria of the United States Circuit Court Was opened yerte coy by Judge Biatehford. When the Jary panei was cated ov or jurors out of twenty-four @nawored to their v udge Biatchford fined the absontess $25 cars Me. Wen market vu. The new The customs de found fuily reporied elsewhers morning. The nized a3 to « hole trope yesterday, Government securities were frm, Gold was buoyant and closed at 13544 a 13534. In somo departments of trade in commercial circles a fair business was cougummated yesterday. Cofleo was 1m better demand and stendy, while cotton was in fair domand, but at A¢c, lower prices, On Change flour was moderately active and firmig held, while wheat was quiet, but»steady, corn steady, with a fair demand, and oats active and higher, Pork was heavy, while beef was steady, and lard in good demand and 3{o, higber. Freights were somewhat firmer and more active, Naval stores wore quito freely dealt in. Petroleum closed 34°. hi,her, Whiskey remained au!l and nominal, Beef cattle were only in moderate demand, but quite firmly held, and in a few instances higher prices wero obtained for a fow extras, About 1,550 head wero on sale at the National Drove Yards, selling at 19c. a 20c. for extra, 17}¢0. a 183¢. for prime, 163¢c. a 17c. for first quality, 1534q a 16c, for fair to good, 133gc. a 143g0, for ordinary, aud 12c¢, a 13c. for inferior, The quality of the cattle was tair. BMilch cows were generally quist, but firm, at prices ranging from $60 to $130, Veal calves wore steady, with a moderate demand, at 12c, a 130. for prime and extra, and 8}<c. a llc. for inferior to common, ‘Sheep and lambs, under a small supply and an improved demand, wera firmer, Extra sheep were Selling at Tc. a ‘TMe.; prime, 6c. a 6%0,; ordinary and common, 5c. a 54gc., and inferior, 4c. a 4340, Extra lambs, Tc. 8734.5 Prime, 6c. a 63¢c. , y inferior to good, 5c." a 5X0. Swine were unchanged, selitng slowly at Tic. a Tc. per lb, for common to primo, the number on sale being about 2,300 head—1,500 at Fortieth street and 800 at Communipaw. The receipts for the week were 8,567 beeves, 60 milch cows, 446 veal calves, 8,075 shecp and lambs, and 13,584 swine, The Reassembling of Conzress—Demoraliza- tion of the Republican Party. The Chrisimas holidays are gone. The delightful vacation to the boys and girls at home from distant schools is ended in a return to their books and studies; and so it is with those children of a larger growth, our national lawmakers at Washington. They are back again to business from their Christmas dinners and New Year visits among their constituents, and “great expectations” are entertained in many quarters of substantial relicf to the coun- try in wholesome legislative measures touching our political and financial embarrassments. We fear, however, thatall such hopes will prove delusions, like the mirage of the shining lake in the burning desert ; for never has the domi- nant party in Congress been more seriously crippled and demoralizod than it is to-day, We are on the threshold of the Presidential contest, and the republicans, who but a year ago deemed themselves invincible against all accidents and possibilities, are now all at log- gerheads and all at sea. How we shall hurmo- nize and who shall lead us in the campaign for the succession are among the quest.ons to be considered, The party, cut up into rival factions and blest with numerous conflict- ing leaders and organs, is truly in a bad way. On one little bill adhering to the radical scheme of Southern negro reconstruc- tion we have the evid f cohesion, but we havo it in nothing else. All these internal disagreements, however, may be summed up in the contest between tie adherents of Mr. Chase and the believers in General Grant, We are satisfied, Loo, t! with all tho profes- sions among U ioals of faith in Grant, they are working their party machinery to crowd him oul. Nor do wo that it would be safe to build upon the nomination of Grant by the Republican National Convention as a fore- gone conclusion, machinery of ihe party is in the hands of ni his radical faction, while the activity of clique in behalf of Grant, instead of adv his cause, is, we fear, orly neutralizin substantial labors of A. T. Stewart and com- pany in the same direction. President Johnson has now the whip hand over the radicals on Southern reconstruction. We are told that they i.iend at all hazards to fight out this fight with bim, and that in this view they will in the Senate make a test case ot the removal of Stanton. .Very well. Let them try it, We suspect that it will soon be found that the party is not a unit eyen upon Stanion; that omong some of the radicals Stanton has fallen from grace, and that from this fight Johnson will come off, as from the impeachment experiment, with flying colors. On recousiruction, however, the republicans have goue too fur to retreat suc- cessfully by a flank movoment. The enemy is too close upon them for that, and they know it. It would be the retrest of McClellan across the Richmond peninsuia. Nor caa the two houses of Congress in the interval to the Prosidential battle do anything to better the republican cause on our financiel affai The best that they can do is to leave this financial problem an open question by leaving it for another year or so to work ont iterif. As the last resort we guess they will come to tais, which will be a disposition of the qn republican camp the most ad Mr. Chase, in concen jing the Pr controversy on Southern negro reconstruction, In this view Andrew Johnson of all men slands out in the boldest relief as the repre- sen ative and embodiment of all the conserva- tive elements of the country in opposition to the radicals and their Southern negro suffrage and negro supremacy programme. Against any candidate of the copperbeads and against any half-wey candidate of the war demo- crats Mr. Johnson holds the balance of power. He is, in fact, in a good position to compel the democratic and other elements opposed to the radicals to unite upon Androw Joknson as a Union candidate, because upon his platform they all harmonize. ‘Thus, while with the full consent of General Grant Mr. Chase will in all probability be the republican nominee, the chances are equally favorable tor Mr. Johnson as the opposition standard bearer, We shall not be surprised, therefore, if some six months hence the stone which all the democratic builders sinve the death of John Van Buren have rejected will become the head of the corner. The cnse is simply this: If Jobnson can do nothing without the democracy, they can do nothing without Jolnson, aad so the naming of their candidate rests with Johnson. Tue Snoxresr Rovra ro tax Lyores.—The -facts that have come out in the past few days in the nse of the telegraph have given finally a demonstration after three centuries that Columbus ight, and that the prows of his little ships in their weary westward journey were turned to the shortest way to the Indies, Vive days ago we laid before our readers the news from China that camo by way of San Francisco, and yesterday we gave the same news coming by way of London. Were the London papers conducted with an onterprising spirit this news from China and Japan, by way of San Franciseo and New York, would have been given ir. London alsa four days before it was really given, coming by the contrary route. When we have « submarine cable across tho Pacific, by way of the Sandwigh Islands, we will push John Bull out of Asia. Since Bur lingame is a big mandarin he had better urge his friend, the Emperor of China, to move for such a cable. ’ Mayor Hoffman’s Message. Mayor Hoffman’s message, delivered to the Common Council yesterday, is, in some re- spects, a most curious production, and savors strongly of that pharisaical Puritanism for which he professes such intense dislike. Instead of confining himself to a business statement of the affairs of the elty the Mayor goes out of his way to apologize for the extravagance and corruption of last year’s municipal rule, and attempts to fasten the responsibility of the five millions increase of taxation on the republican State Logislature and city commissions, While it is true that the republican State Legislature for eight years past has been little better than a den of thieves, and that the republican Con- gress during the last five years has been a dis- grace to the nation, it is equally true that the government of New York city has been one of the most corrupt that ever exisied, in nearly all its departments, and no apology or excuse can be made for its extravagance and dis- honesty. ‘The fact is that stealing has been going on in every direction. The Aldermen have pub- lished obscure newspapers of their own and made hundreds of thousands of dollars out of city advertising. The Corporation Counsel has run up the expenees of his department to an enormous amount by paying out ten thou- sand dollar fees to himself and friends, with true Irish liberality. Some of the commissions may have been squandering the people’s money ina very shameful manner, but the regular city departments have kept pace with them, and all are equally culpable. Copper- heads and radica!s have formed a Holy Alliance for the purpose of plunder, and the city has been the victim, If we are to have reforms next year, and if the city revenues are to be increased and the taxation lessened, we shall be ready to give credit to all who take part in the good work; but the extravagance and plundof of last year cannot be apologized for or gloried over by any pleading, however spe- cious, or by any language, however eloquent. What Is Being Done in Albnay? For eight years or more the democratic pariy in this State have been out of power, and they are no doubt very hungry. Affairs are changed now, and we hope they are boginning to recognize the fact that they have somo re- sponsibility. They must have a potent voice in the Presidential election. A party that can boast of fifty thousand majority, which they could not do for nearly fifteen years, is a power that ought to determine the vital condition of the couniry. The party that has ruined all the prospects of the country, impeded its recon- struction and émbarrassed its finances, has becn set aside ; and so also must the men who failed to comprehend the situation during the wor be made to stand aside—such as Fernando Wood, Sanford Church, Peter Cagger, Hora- tio Seymour and John A. Green—and new men, men who have assisted to put down the rebellion, mast come up to the surface of the political sea. It is said that Vanderbilt and his coterie are not politicians, but are entirely devoted to railroad interests, If this be true, then there is a new phase in politics ; for the railroads controlled in that field for many years. We want to see the Legislature, with its democratic majority, come out upon the present situation of affairs. New York is the greatest power in the coming Presidential election, but the democrats must look investi- gatingly into affairs at Washington. They have never yet expressed an epinion about the re- lations ani conflicts between Johnson and Congress, but it will soon be time for them to do 80, Ups and Downs of Italian Opera, A now and splendid opera house will be thrown open to the public in this city this week and another atiempt made to establish Italian opera on a pormanent basis. This branch of the lyric art has hitherto led a checkered existence among us. Various attempts have been male to keep it alive here, all of which, however, have signally failed. All sorts of managers took charge of its ever vary- ing fortunes, and after passing through the hands of a number of incapables it finally came to Mireizek. He commenced well, and for somo time cxme very near making Italian opera an unqualified success, Then aroso a private clique of stockholders belonging to the very house that was destined as the home of opera, who arrogated to themselves the right of judging and deciding everything connected with opera. They decreed who should be prima donna, what operas should be sung, and monopolized not only the best sents in tho house, but also the entire managemont of the opera. They used poor Maretask as the instru- ment of their overbearing arrogance and caused him to make a fool of himself by wan- tonly attacking newspapers that were his best friends. He now suffers the consequences of allowing himself to be their dupe, and the finances of the Acadomy are at the lowest ebb. It may be converted into a Black Crook estab- lishment, a circus or a menagerie ; but its proa- tige as the home of the opera has departed forever. The now opera house (Pike's) is organized on more liberal principles, the pro- prictor being the only stockholder. Woe shall seo now whether Italian opera can succeed under new auspices, The opening promises well. La Grange and Brignoli are great atirac- tions, and, if well supported, will undoubiedly draw immense houses. But it is not enough to begin well. Tho manager must put forth all his energy and skill; tho quality of the artistes must constantly be kept up to o first class stan- dard, and every means insured to win the appreciation of the public. Such ® course will tend to make Italian opera a permanent success in the metropolis. Tho new house is a magnifi- cent temple of art, and everything placed on its stage should be in keeping. Ectrst or tim Sux.—We have had tre- mendous natural phenomena lately—earth- quakes and whirlwinds and volcanic eruptions and meteoric showers; and now comes an eclipse of tho Sun “that shone for all”—an eclipse on a penny scale—that small luminary having gone und er a republican blanket. Mr. Dana’s enterprise with the Sun is notto be regarded as of muth account in the newspaper line, It is a political venture. Certain re- publicans with plenty of money have bought out the Sun, and propose to run it as @ repub- | licon organ, simply to build up @ political power in their own interest. They will not be saddled with the savage radical organ that is played out, nor with the milder pipe of Weed, Seward, Raymond and company. So, to get rid of both, they put their three or four mil- lions in another journal, as a nucleus of politi- cal power. Asa journal the thing may fail by and by and seem to lose money ; but what will they care, since, in the meantime, they will have seenred their purpose, perhaps, in the political arena? They will take care if they may that the result shall be worth the money. Judge Russel’s Charge to the Grand Jury. Judge Russel, in his charge to the Grand Jury yesterday, touched upon a subject in our social and municipal system which we have repeatedly adverted to as ono of vital moment—namely, the condition of tenement houses and the horrible disasters which are constantly occurring in them. The judge attributes the cause of these disasters to the inefficiency of the inspectors of such buildings, and we think that he is not wrong in coming to that conclusion. We are supposed to have a very efficient board of officers entrusted with the duty of supervising the buildings of the city. In point of numbers, certainly, and fat salaries they are large enough. For instance, there is a super- intendent, a deputy superintendent and twelve inspectors, This force ought to be suf- ficient for the purposes for which it is created. That it has failed in its duty the many fearful disasters in tenement houses are conclusive evi- dence. We would recommend, therefore, that Governor Fenton should remove the whole batch of them, Judge Russel, while drawing the. attention of the jury to violations of the Excise law, deprecates the existence of any law enacted for one portion of the State which does not apply to ali, regarding such as an imputation upon the morality of the particular locality so legislated for. As to the habit of carrying concealed weapons, he recommenda that those who are addicted to this practice should be’ admonished by the action of the courts of the liabilities attached to the use of deadly wexp- ons. We give the judge’s charge in another column. Trouble in Fr: From details which we published in Mon- day’s Heracp it appears that a species of Feni- anism has made its appearance in France. A society has just been unearthed which had for its object the dethronement of the Emperor and the re-establishment of the republic. Placards and other documents have been discovered and the conspirators brought to trial. It ia curious to find that in those documents promt- nence is given to the defects and failures of the Emperor’s policy which the New Yorx Hzraup has been pointing ont for the last eighteen months. The Mexican flasco, the snubbing ad- ministered by Bismarck, the inconsistency as well as injustice now practised towards Italy, the lie which-he is giving on all hands to his pet’theory in regard to the rights of nationali- ties—all this is enlarged upon, much to the an- noyanco of the once wise and invincible oracle ot the Tuileries, It will not surprise us to learn that this little conspiracy has been crashed out, and its aiders and abetiors so put ont of the way as to be harmless for the future. The crushing out of this conspiracy, however, will not convince us that there are not elements of real danger within the bounds of the empire. Napoleon is, not without good reason, trembling for the safety of his dynasty as he never has trembled before. Franco is submissive but by no means satisfied. The loss of prestige is too notorious not to wound the national pride. The empire and the Emperor were tolorated so long as success and glory could be iden- tified with both. France, however, from being an object of envy has degenerated into an object of ridicule. Her name and her influence, once associated with the hopes of liberalism, are now prostrate in the mire of a debasing tyranny. The degradation is felt— felt with pain and indignation. The position of the Emperor is made all the more disagree-+ able by the events which are taking place without and beyond France. Turkey, which is weak, asks her help; but Russia, which is powerful, openly insults her, Nothing can save France from internal troubles but war with a foreign Power. Napoleon knows this, and begins openly to acknowledge it, The Italian business is too inconsistent and unjust to be popular with the French people or to justify a war. The Italian diffioulty, it is reasonable to presume, will, therefore, soon bo settled, and a real cause of war manufactured out of the German or Eastern question. The hurrying forward of the Army bill is proof of some such determination on tho part of the Emperor. When this bill shall have passed into law France will not have occasion to wait long to experience the miseries of the worat days of the First Empire. The conscrip- tions that preceded the Russian campsign and the disasters of Waterloo France has not yet forgotten and will not soon forget. Curious Retiaiovs Movements or raz Day.— In the journal of the same day we get the report that Mr. Beecher now preaches from a desk made of wood that grew on the Mount of Olives, associated with a report that the police in Newark, N. J., bas been compellod to inter- fere with a so-called religious society because its worship had taken a form that stepped beyond the limits of common decency. Super stition in both cases—on the one hand, the Presbyterian running into that worship of wood and stone that puts him ona level with the adorers of relics, who hold themselves somewhat better for the possession of a piece of “the true cross,” and on the other poor drivollors whose feeble intellects push a litle further the notion of those who have taught them that duty toward God consisted in the obsorvance of cortain forms, And such super- stition finds plenty of victims even in our en- lightened nineteenth century. Ferry Accrpexrs.—Notwithstanding the apocryphal accounts of ferry accidents with which the New York journals have during this week endeavored to affright their readers, the accidents which bave really occurred are enough to justify us in calling upon the ferry companies to redouble their vigilance against the possibility of their recurrence, We are fully aware of the habitual carelessness of the passengers on the ferryboats ; we know how foolishly eagor they are first to jump aboard, and thon to jump ashore; but.we must invi | upon the necessity of additional precautions against the shocking ,accidents which have lately too often alarmed the public, The Werk Before Congress-Tho Natjonnl}~ Finances. Although Congress has put on its working gear again there is a poor prospect of much being done, or at least anything for the wel- fare of the country. We do not suppose it Will have the sense or courage to undo its atrocious reconstruction legislation, That will have to take its course and be left to the President to make it as little mischievous as possible. He cannot set aside the infamous reconstruction acts of that body, but ho may, and doubtless, will, within the limits of his constitutional power carry out those acts so as to soften their disastrous effect. As to the war upon the Presi- dent, there may be some more smoke and fury fulmigated by radical Congressmen. Stanton’s case will afford an opportunity, probably, for a repetition of abuse and threats of taking away the power of the President, The removal of Pope and the other obnoxious radical generals in the South will afford another theme for scur- rilous denunciation; but this will all end in nothing. Congress may spend in this way a great deal of valuable time foolishly and use- lessly, but nobody will be hurt, The President is beyond radical vindictiveness, He has demoralized and scattered the forces of his enemy, and stands impregnable on his conserv- ative policy and in the approbation of the masses of the people. With regard to the national finances Con- gress is all at sca. While the dominant radi- cal republican party bas an overwhelming ma- jority in both houses—a majority of four-fifths of the members—it is thoroughly disorganized and split up on questions of national finance, While it could carry the reconstruction acts over the veto of the President, as well as other measures of a purely political character, there is not the least unity or accord on mat- ters pertaining to the currency, banks, reve- nue or taxation. On all theso there is the greatest confusion and want of knowledge. The eastern capitalists, bondholders and na- tional bankers. are headed off by such promi- nent men as Butler from their own section, and, strange to say, these classes and the old pro- tectionist manufacturers of New England have’ met with opposition where they least expected it—from Senator Sprague, who heretofore was the head and front of all these interests, The radical members generally from the West are in direct conflict with those from the East on nearly all financial questions. Indved, almost every man has a theory of his own. Howover desirous members may be to preserve the unity of the party on a common policy, it is impossibie for them to act together. The views and interests of the different sections of the country they represent are not alike. Under this state of things we shall have to drift along, probably overburdened with taxa- tion and without any improvement in the national finances till the noxt President is, elected. Federa! taxation alone amounts to over six hundred millions a year, and a large amount of this is eaten up by officeholders and consumed by fraud. No country, no people— even the most heavily taxed in the Old World— was ever so burdened. Yet we must continue to endure this ; for Congress is so incompeteni and so démoratizod that mo relief can be expecied from it, We must bear this fearful burden with a system of currency unsettled and complicated, with gold for the bond- holders, greeabacks for the officeholders and national bank rags forthe people, till the party now in power is utterly destroyed in tho next Presidential election. Let us be as patient ds possible, then, and prepare for the great politi- cal revolution which is coming. Foreign Appointments of American Citizens. Japan, it appears, has followed the lead of China, and as the latter has appointed Mr. Anson Burlingame its envoy to confer with European Powers, the former has selected Mr. Charles Walcott Brooks as Consul General to tho United States. The document conferring this office upon Mr. Brooks was issued, it is said, by a council of state composed of seven princes of the empire, who constitute the governing power of Japan since the abdication of the Tycoon. Now, it may be that the recent reyolution in Japan will prove hostile to foreign interests; but it is obvious from the appointment of Mr. Brooks, accompanied as it is by a letter of instructions expressive of the highest compliments to the United States as the first Power to conclude a treaty with Japan and open that country to foreign commerce, that Japan, as well as China, regards the gov- ernment of this country as its “noxt best feiend.” Europe may protest, if it chooses so to do, against American influence in Japan and China, but the results of that influence are inevitable. . Awpy Jouxson anp Unrases Grant.—In tho history of these two men—different as their positions and character have seemed to the multitude—there will be many points of striking resemblance to the sagacious and philosophical historian who looks into the roal nature of things. Grant the world will remem- ber as a man whose career began in modesty and the least possible self-assertiony but who, ‘with a few plain, straightforward, positive, uncompromising views, held with absolute tenacity, went quietly onward in o career of gteat effort, prevailing over all obstacles and putting the gigantic Southern rebellion under his fect. Johnson in politics was nearly the same man as Grant in war—not always so absolutely quiet, but equally positive and uncompromising, and equally engaged in o terrible struggle against rebeilion—the rebel- lion of the radical constitution haters. Grant and Johnson were both by their foes abused without limit an@ accused especially of drunk- enness, and now we see Johnson prevailing over his scattered and cut-up foes, and coming out of the strife with a glory not less (han that won by the conqueror over the military robellion, Arrested for Forging ecks. From tho Evening Telegram of yosterda: (Fro ing Toleg yoate Another financial irregularity, hat juet ve a on junker Nati ‘hos, Xposed 0 Charlestown, whieh th 4 chect ‘4 but as agmast = him. fonts to carry on Would obtain money on forge days sinee, hot led 10 the discover) ‘bo inosa man io © ap unblemished charicier, sonai triend of Mr. Notion, aut wito him, All of Lis pronercy hay beom bound ovey for tual la the ~ Court. Le CITY INTELLIENNCE. Exranses oF Tau Fine Deraatuens,—The committod Appointed by the Citizens’ Association have recently overhauled the management of the Fire Department, with @ view, if possible, of reduction in tho expense for the ensuing year, The appropriation asked for oy the department is $309,000, but after a thorough tnves- tigation the Committee acknowledge their inwbility of diminishing very, this sum without impairing too muon its ¢! bi Jeng port made 1s in the highest degree etlogistic of the preseat management, ‘They report the ei houses in good condition, the engines io thorough working order, and the men under excellent discipline and in every respect model firemen. One engine afier an alarm Of fre was goi in readiness tor work in fiiteon seconds, The commities have made but two suggestions of improvement, ‘The first is in rofer- ence to the purchase of ot bys which should be dono in epen market, and not contract, as now. The other suggestion is that 1t should noi be obiigatory te Pay, SLO ver Banus ie private firemen, but it svould Jefe disoretionary with the Fire Commissioners to seoure men of requisite qualifications at a less sum. By the adoption of theso suggestions and carrying out the plan of organiziag fire oxdets, it ts belioved the expenses of the department may bo reduced to 600,000 per annum without impairing its efficiency. including the chief, district engineers and privates, the force of tho department .is five uundred and four men. ‘There are in the olty thirty-four steamers, * Epirwanr Survicss.—Yesterday, being the feast of the Epiphany, sorvicea were held in all tho Catholic and many of the Episcopal churches, In the former there were at least two, and in most of them threo low the prayers appointed for the church, Madison avenue ices were held—tho tirst at nine o'clock, t alf-past ten A. M., waen holy communion was administered, and the third at hatf-past seven o'clock P. M, (full choral service), at which tre right reversnd Bishop delivered an eloqueut discourse appropriate to the occasion. The church was beaut and had, in addition to the usual gas jota, a largo number of lighted wax candies ou the altar and in tho chancel. A star of burning jets, in- cluding an illuminated cross ot the same, was placed over the sanctuary, dant froin the ceiling, and addod greatly to the beauty of the decorations, The music, under the direction of Signor Mora, the organist, w.is of the choicest character, The church was filled to repletion. ‘Tus Mxpicau Society ov tau County or New Yous. -~ Last evening a meoting of this society was held at the College of Physicians aud Surgeons, Dr. Edmund Peas- lee presided. The Secretary, Mr, E. Eliot, read the minutes of the previous mocting, together with somo interesting reports connected with the society, Dr. Austin Flint read a valuable papor on ‘Alimentation ia Disease."’ He clearly pointed out tia fallacy of tuo popular error that abstormmiousness on ihe part of (he in- ‘valid was one of the chief means of cure, for he subinit- ted that nothing possibly tended to the speedy re " more than the administration of substantial, nu’ food. Ho reviowod the various sta.es oi starvation, and showed that in the caso of weil persons tho adseuco of Proper nutriment contributed in no small degvee to tho cause of death. He truthfully observed tha! in many Instances medicinal doses often disgusted the apy t et the patient, and he heid that his de-ires tor co articles of food should be gratified, atleast £0 far s digestive organs and system generally could aur Finaily, be adveried to the groal dangers arisins Com adefcot in alimentation, Atogerber the subject was treated in a clear and compreveusive manner. Prof sss H. Barker spoke at some length on the diet of women afler accouchement and gave tho benofit of nis exper’ en the matter, He was followed by Dr, Jacobi and Professor Noydes, and the proceedings wore bro a close by Dr. Benjamin Howard, who presen’ method of teaching “Surgical Anatomy of In: nis,” and iilustrated the subject wita mech: monstrations, ‘ux Cavs TobRNAmENT.—Punctually, as por pro- gramme, the annual tournament of the New York club war opened yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, at the rooms of the clob, tn the University Building, Tho ev. tries for the tournament vow number about twenty, of ht to whom four played yosterday, Mr. Gravos, against Findlay, nd Mr, Ruthven, against Capt ocial Knight of the one game, Captain Mc: zie giving odds of a two tnoves. In the second game, with the s Ruthvev uarrowly escaped being bes.on, and was declared drawn, {he players are all handicay ped give or receive odds) aceorting te tooir presumed pro- cloney in the game. The imports | games in tt tournament will bo those between piain McKenzie and Mr, Sianloy, the first of whicn will be played om Wed: y evening, Nooads will be given on eiihet side ‘The tists are open to ali comers and those tnter- costed fo the game are especially invited to drop in in We capacity of spectators, Serene wy JumiixG rom A Roor.—For somo time past Benjamin H, McGowan, a young man who hves with his father at No, 17 stanton atreet, nas been quile unwell, and on Saturday last oxhivited indications of temporary aberraiion of mind, with a tendency to vio- lence, In the evening of Saturday he attempted to leap from his bedroom window, but did not succeed. Lae at night Benjamin was found in the hallway, where bis father requested bim-to stand sill Gill he could pro- cure a fight, bet during the absence of Hr. hi Gowan the young man ascended to the of the house ani jumped off ‘o the pave below, thus recelvint injuries which resulted {a' Some’ hours afierwards Coronor Rolins, on t notified, held an inqsost on the body, and t . Deceased was twenty-two years of age native of Philadetphia, Fatan Accipent at tas Park Bank.—About twelve oclock yesterday morning John Tiedold, a saboror, while at work on the new Park Bank building, on Broad wi ear Fulton street, feil froma ladder to the pavement and was fatally injurod, He was takon up by Ollicer Heidelverg, of.the Second precinct, and conveyed to the New York Hospital; bat, death ensuing b-fore reaching the hospital, the remains were taken to tho Beekman street potice station, where Coroner Flyno ‘Was notified to hold an inquest. Tus Tammany Socury.—Tho regular monthly mee'ing of this institution was hold last evoning at the tem- porary quartors in Masonic Hail, Thirtoenth street, The members present entered into a lengthy discussion relative to the case of the two Councilinanic Boards now, Vieing with each other to govern the city, About ten o'clock the meeting adjourned, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Annest oy 4 Max Caancxo wrru Muaper.—Captaia Cameron, of the Eighteenth precinct, arrested a tnan named John Bennott, alias “Red Jacke’ and brought him before Justice Dodge, of the Jefferson Market Volico Court, yesterday, on the charge of boing ono of the two men who, on the night of Devember 3, caused tho death oi Henry Wiellenbach by means of @ pistol shot. Quo Schrauth, of 306 Third avonue, red in court aod testified that on the night in question he, in company with the decoasod, ontered a lager beer saloon on tue southwest corner of Third avenue and Twenty-fitih street; that when they went into the pinco thore wera Abumber of men inside drinking, and among them wero. | Beunett and another man, The crowd shortly ater lore the piace, with the excoption of Bennett and this other men alluded to, when Sebrauth and the deceased attempted to leave the store it is said that Bennett or the man who accompanied him drow forth a pistol and disch: it at Wicifenbach, tho ball from which © struck him, and he died the next day in Lellevuo Hospital from the wound inflicted. A few days siove Bennevt was arrested by the Kighteenth precinct officers, and when brought by officer Clinchy before the bar. keeper, ‘Stoinwehe, who was shot in the leg oa the night in question by some of the rowdies who com. ne onterod, It liegod that Stoinwehe e claimed, “Damn it—ihet’s bim!’' Odicor Harris al testiies ho has good reason to believe that stein. weho keows who the ing or parties are thal Wietfeabsch, When the accused was brought Jastice Dodze his Honor comnsitted him for examina tion, and Steiaweho wag sent to the House of Detontiog to appear as a witnogs in tho caso. ‘Tur Casa oF Orricen Giuxwen.—In tho case of Patrick Gaonen, af officer of the Seventeenth precinct, arrosted 0@ the charge of shooting Peter Boseerman, corner of Firet avenue and Houston street, on the evening of the Ast roet, TV dey. A reported, Coroner Flynn yestor- day adinitted bim (Grinnen) to bail in te,rum of $1,000 ‘to answer any indictineat which may be found against him. ‘The offending policeman, ver, 18 ip the Tombs to answer other charges ag! a. THE FIRST AVENUE MURDER. Coroncr’s Inquest=Verdict Against Kelly. Yestorday morning an inquest was held at Dollovue Howpitai by Coroner Schirmer on tho body of Charles J. Goheor, who was killed in bis shop in Fitet aveave, om Saturday evening, by a young man named Jobo Kelly, James Broderick testified that he resided at No, ow First avenne ; that he was standing in front of his door John ‘on the oveniug of the 4th inst.; saw Kelly enter the | wore of 7 saw the fatter pulling and “fo with Kelly; ¢aw deceased throw bim down and 1! saw that ho (deceased) was cut; Kolly arose and ran off, while deceased went into tue store and fell down shortly after; bad been around with Kelly during the , and had deen in drinking saloons; was not under the influence of liquor, Moran Meiiride, residing at 405 East Fiftoonth toatified that whtie sitting im his store was niarc cries and groans; saw deceased about to fall aud uss oiileer in caring for him. ‘Tho testimony of Sergeans Tutchinson, of tho pol: fore the Eighteenth brewinot, ‘wae corrob thi % hospital, had been ry, and ; 9 death from hemorriings occasioned by a jniiteted by & butghor knife in the hands of Joko on January 4, (So% at 262 First avouue.” Ky not yet boom strosted. WEW JERSEY INTELLIGENCE, Tre Semurcanento Arrarn.—MeBwen, tho insano ad ovte of spititualian, yestorday removed to te Ksgor against him sara, iadosataner @ young woman, Reeves, will be ary or family, a8 sho is fapidly be. No compinins have yot boon made Vickes oy a