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4 NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1868. NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. consequence, Beef cattle were only moderately active; | conceded important steps against the States to but prices wore steady, ranging at from 130. © 1740. | this party of more than imperial arrogance, for common to good grades, with arrivals of about 100 | where will it stop? It is onoe more the old head at Hudson City and 400 at 100th street. Swine ad- of the ‘and the The wood- vanced a trifle with # brisk demand, fair to prime selling | Ory trees axe. at 730. 8 7X0. per Ib,, the receipts beiag 2,273 bead— | man went into tho forest and demanded of the 1,973 at Communipaw and 300 at Fortieth street. Sheep | fraternity of the trees the sacrifice of a single wore in fair demand and steady at 60, © 7c. for com: | member to his necessity. All agreed to give mon to oxtre; sixty-one car loads arrived at Hudson Ci'y. | 4) to him tho slender ash, No sooner was tho MISCELLANEOUS. ash down than the woodman fitted its tough In the Constitutional Convention yesterday @ seotion he of the article on the powers and duties of the Logisia- ey bay ee wake er aa stay 8 ture was adopted, forbidding the granting of the right to 7 gree! the community. When obildren hear tales | Real Estate im This City—Its Value and INTERNATIONL ASSOCULTION. ais anes oe streets and in Conditions Adecting It CorrmicaT barrooms they not only become familiar with } There is no department of industrial or spe-] 4 Aumerously eitended mooting . of pablishors ant this kind of crime but thoy are led to its com- | culative enterprise which presents so many and | Suthors was held inst evening at the Fifth Avease mission, We had a lamentable instance of | varied features in respect to its several condi- Hite (or the Purpose of forming an laternational Copy this in Brooklyn on Wednesday, when two | tions of price, demand, supply, inquiry, quality Association, having offices in the different publish- children, aged fifieen and thirteen, were ar- | OF quantity, as the aggregation of operations iD | namely, the United ale ehee men: a rested in the vory act of murdering another | lands and tenements, both at public and pri- | Germany—in which © book might be re 4 child with a brickbat and a shovel. What can | vate sale, leasehold and freebold, which make | such memneien Prose 80 far as the organization is we expect from the immatured mind and un-| Up what men summarily describe as the real portarweelen tise acc: te: aational law, or governed passions of childhood with so fear- estate market. Different individuals view it : Present JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatohes must be addressed New Yorke them as the | from different standpoints, and consequently | of the meeting, to state briefly the Bisnatp. construct street raitroads without the oonsent of the | #enators of mighty woods” that the forest be- | ful an example every hour before es sensh-oppasie-condlnalann: he the anwslek thelr Uaueet um inaee ate Posada era ae Letters and packages should be properly municipal authorities and the owners of one-third of the | gan to disappear. “Ab!” murmured the oak, | criminal records of this city presen' bservatio! less affected, doubt, | ferent countries of Europe during the last three or four abd. Property on the proposed route, ‘Three sections of the | «it we had not consented to the fall of the h cay ispirssds ng “we “ Years, and had encountered many authors, aes il not be re- | TPO Of the Committee om Cities wore adopted relative | ars of our number we might have stood | THe Connecticut Democracy—Copperhoadiom | by personal interest in one way or the other. | 7%" a readers of books who expressed a desire thas Rejected communications will no Fe" | to the powors and duties of Mayors, Comptrollors and rmly for ” The time 4 apparently not Cropping Out Agata. oe situation, witha epi to hams: Some understanding between the different literary na- tarned. : : other municipal officers. ages. enon The Connecticut democracy have had an | mine the correctness of one or the other dedue- } tions of the earth should be arrived at by means of TZ | In the Virginia Convention yoaterday severat un- | far distant when the Northern people may a8 enthusiastic ne Oantaaand pee have set up | tions, establishes, however, the fact that neither | which recompense might be yielded to authors for their Caen RITE = SEBS | Mecee ctnveeeemes patie eas eounecee one: fate en es SRI OO OSI. Fe, Slain Udkat vate Wb Pay [NOMS Conch Vl Nee bdanniaey fhar'ss ton part or fecdars tetas taekee "Ge Eee pes members of antagonistic politics, and considerable con- T f ver eir AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. fusion ensued, but no fight, the 80 th horrvew a "7 Perea 0 be | wrested their Commonwealth from the republi- | tont true. The fact is, transactions in real estate | "hich, nihow studying so knowledge of the Itorabare The South Carolina Convention yosterday ejected the usnern people they aero. # cans last spring. So far so good. But in | this month give but very imperfect data upon | of other countries. The northern nations of Rurope WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street. — | police whom the Military Commander had sent to pre- | used against their own liberties. pring. The their resolutions we discover some outcrop- | which to base inferences respecting what the had bees, — parma Sa teipenreonncns, a pig a4 pings of that old red sandstone copperhead | state of the market will be a few weeks honce. poy od te atm upon the sul oot. ke ie ee fots formation which, in 1868, completely upset | January is always dull, a lull in enterprise | tations. ln cavemen cat publishers and authors from one ocean to the other all those beauti- | naturally succeeding the examination of a | England the desire was rg omer ge pettheng willing ful democratic calculations based upon their | year’s accounts, with their story of profit or ben i ode: pe tne ep ee ne gurpene ¢ of naner victories of 1862. For instance, in these Con- | loss ; if the latter, retrenchment becoming ne- | this meeti necticut democratic resolutions of 1868 we | cessary; if the former, grave consideration Een yer would secure the hearty 00-opera- find such suggestive expressions of indignation | preceding any new investment. Greater ac- | _ It was moved, seconded and carried unanimously that against the party in power as these:—“ The | tivity is promised next month, and already an- thas he did not come pre- present so-called Congress ;” “they have de- | nouncements in large black letters adorn the paced oie there wea, fea —_ maar a ne nied the sovereign power of all the States ;” | fences and deadwalls about the city calling | any capaalt that might be useful, Mr. M. N. Hurd was “that the continued and increasing wickedness | attention to many valuable lots offered for | *Ppoinied Seoreury. os nt ons oe the tant and usurpation of this fractional Congress ;” | sale to the highest bidder. The value of roal | oMtcial acts of Mr. Everett when Secretary of State was oa i an effort to effect a treaty for international “the destruction of State sovereignty ;” “the | estate on this island has been well maintained | such treaty was pre pectation i—Woopcocg's Li rey b . Caggans onsen Wasee Wi sepia sia serve order, Propositions were introduced that (ongress BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Lrrrus Newt axp | loan destitute planters from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and | Grent Activity in Our Europeans Diplo- ‘mus Maxcmioness. to divide the State lands into small farms for sale to the macy—What’s in the Wiadt y LW 4 Poorer classes. powWire rox s DareDow Jeai nn Am 1) POS Georgia Convention a proposition was made to | The diplomacy of the United States in ‘ask Congress to loan the destitute planters in the South ] Europe is particularly active just now; 60 $30,000,000, to be secured by mortgages. much so, indeed, that it appears to us as if the Governor Jenkins bas notified the military appointeos | monarchs and statesmen of that part of the who act as Governor and State Treasurer of Georgia that ld 3 he files a bill in the Suprome Court enjoining them from pein ey yal honey: using the State money. Sergeant Bates, who is walking from Vicksburg to | Old-fogyish advice of George Washington when Washington with the Stars and Stripes, arrived in Juck- | he recommended the nation to avoid as much Son, Miss., yesterday, and was kindly recoived by the | ag possible the “entangling” perplexities of altinees, foreign negotiation, We have progressed so Rival companies having sottled their differences, it is far ahead of Washington’s idea, however, that fi a NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel,— Unpsr tae Gasticat. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 23d at., corner Eighth av.— Rigorrro. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Mivsumune Niour’s Drea. NIBLO’S GARDEN Broadway.—Tae Waite Fawn, BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtieth street.—Nosopr's Davanter. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Grunastics, ‘— in ex; chat ism, 0, : be ratified by this Senate, but for some reason or other anise COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.Haxtow Count toa uemeaion St Koala will haves Pre ) we have at present not only our commissioned | domestic affairs of othor sovereignties ;” “the | throughout the various changes that have been Hiall throng "The tees that tus monsber ef alsnertonn NaTiON TRaourr. illegal acts of » dismembered Congress.” so marked in the fluctuations in prices of all asckeecinee 8 omnes ae Lar Pa seer Now, these phrases mean something or | other marketable commodities during the last | bé quite as much a selfish Interest for American authors nothing. If they mean anything they mean the | 8nd previous years, and to-day in its aggregate | 10 have & Fasdapetin eile reaffirmation of those South Caroling dogmas | it represents a highor value in dollars than ever Mer. Tvxnsoy supposed. that the Taps! H question was . fo of State sovereignty and subordination of | before. Not alone is this the case, but in spite | justice to the great reading public, and at ive samme Dome the general government to State sovereignty | of special instances of depreciation, and not- Teall re deretk fe mothignypetles could have upon which the “so-called Confederate States” | withstanding its encumbrance by an irre- | cheap books, and, at the same ime sera melhores pare were organized and brought into war for the | sponsible, spendthrift municipal sdminis- | justice done them, lt cous sadonheewy id botohave & overthrow of the government of the United | tration, with a heavy and rapidly in- tl gp tt ey ayy gf og Sg = wed States. This “so-called Congress,” this “frac- | creasing burden of taxation, it is steadily | Cont upon the wholesale Brice of the book belonging t@ 6 tional Congress,” and “the illegal acts of a | Sdvancing, more especially, or perhaps | foreign author. Wene auch a.law adopted a dismembered Congress,” are terms of derision | tather noticeably, up town.’ The various] mr. Bituzen cod at red. With the last speaker, j tod which involve the repudiation of all the acts | projects of bridging or tunnelling the East be ae gery apna yd of this Congress and of every Congress river, underground or elevated rail [ways from j cry was raised about “poor authors,” but he (Mr. Mil- He was willing to pay authors since the secession of South Carolina in 1860. | the Battery to Harlem, a canal to connect the te hveraity ‘taaay eos, bat tho objected to to plan pro- According to these Connecticut democratic | Hudson and Harlem rivers, or the removal of ~—_ Tourains, of England, said that the copyright im resolutions we have had no constitutional Con- | the obstructions at Hell Gate—all affect to a England was a a meresenpelletectary. org and wes gress since the secession of South Carolina, | greater or lesser degree the value of real estate, | Srompuy taken for the Henott “alike of publishers, and all the sacrifices for the Union of a four | this influence producing changes and fluctua- | sutborsand the reading pubes asin years’ war, and all the legislative acts of Con- | tions in price and demand according as they | which Mr. Miller appeared to entertain. His (the 8) obj there should be no restriction gress since December 20, 1860, go for nothing. | become the subject of discussion, and their feasi- seein che those whe ald publish dry shard If we are to accept these Connecticut resolu- | bility or possible accomplishment is con- | to parece tiie ive Dae Gees saa dnmadaie cia nafaa tions the seceding States were right in seced- | Sidered in a positive or negative gense. | poth's moral anda legal _rieht, to it tue world over as ing, right in setting up a hostile confederacy, | The opening of the new Boulevard will also | yell as to any otnes port ofthe rote te Distanoe being sovereignties, and right if in giving ap have beyond doubt similar influence, the value where apwards sate hurd Baphan’ gueteke ood the war on their part as a failure they had | of the land bordering on or adjacent to it | Was rorwarded the inunificent sum of $100. a demanded an immediate restoration to the | being certain to be enhanced. This is already Bee ee serge pelbrsypnledyies erthe koblety + Union, the same as if nothing had happened. | *pparent from the sales that have thus far | (or, fortified with our expression on hie nae oe On such issues a8 those the democracy cannot | been made, but will be betior observed when | fair tnee nou len te vin slg on te stand. The usurpations of this radical Con- | the publication of the awards takes place, willing $0 abet Abate pbmoreas nina el col au Just gress are one thing upon which it may be Phe a Merce pat ag ures abe, Been Offered the following resolution, waich was ht wi hope of success to the | desirous of selling, bui 080 0 80 | Sdopted:— pre role "bat the wittee of the ille- | until such time as they have learned the result | y,ocia be sdopien wriua ne the"tetaishiment, oe galily of this Congress as the legislative body | Of the appraisement. Present indications jus-| \ernational copyright of Cont a p of the nation is only a revival of the Chicago | tify a conclusion that the value of real estate | , Rosolied, furter cit tna Oe sorve ao basis platform of 1864, which sided with the “State | will advance, and with it the reduction in | for ap international copyright lan. at to Cop ot ts atthe sovereignty” ideas of the rebellion and pro- | rents so anxiously hoped for by the overbur- } chairman of the committes, pecatee si war for the Union a failure, Ph asa working population of this city will bo | Di, Smmmmnn proposed the following resolution, still further postponed. In the future, how- Resoived, That it is expedient fo make s appeal te the The European Powers vs, Russia and the | ever, is to be found the solution of the problem | Quisi sores Gu international copyright questious United States. thus raised. New York is but entering upon Ped OTe ne and tena Thaten tans, From 4 telegram which we published in | its career, and is destined at no distant day to | Egbert Hazard and’ Honry Iverson. The meoting, thea yesterday’s Heratp we learn that the army re- | become the great commercial centre of the | “Wurned, subject to the call of the committee, construction bill has finally passed the French | world. Already its influence is felt threughout THE BOARD OF HEALTH. Senate. It was not doubtful that the bill | the extent of the United States ; all the great Sie Board ot Haale BA he’ vogular wedsld doce. would substantially become the law of France | steamship lines centre here, and soon when the ing yesterday afternoon, the President, Dr. Crane, tm from the moment it was iptroduced into the | great tramway which is to connect the two | the chair, The Commissioners occupied almost the Chamber of Deputies. It “Rot, thgrefore, oceans and furnish a highroad for travel and | entire session in amending and in pa casos modify any surprise that the bill bas passed the | transportation freo from vexatious customs | !98 ‘Tain sections of the regular “Regulations relative ‘1 she th f orders, judgments, &c., of the Senate. It is, however, a matter of some | regulations is completed, it will be, as the pana Thane. toguaciens pertain exclusively to the It was rumored in Atlanta yesterday that General | representatives at the different courts ot the Meade had asked to be relieved. Old World, but several special envoys, a good many roving diplomats and quite a number of Mr. Thad Stevens’ Bill for the Recon- | individual citizens striking out for the estab- struction of the Northern States. lishment of new systems. Mr. Stevens proposes that Congress shall by | We find by our latest cable telegrams that law define who shall vote for members of that | special agent of President Johnson has arrived body in the several States; which seems to | in Rome ona secrot mission to the Pope, and imply that he doos not know that this point is | that General Carl Schurz was closeted with expressly fixed in the constitution and that no | Count Bismarck in Berlin on the subject of mere Congressional enactment can change it | some special American mission addressed The second section of the first article of the | either to the King of Prussia or the heads of constitution reads as followa:—“The Houso of | the North German Confederation, we are not Representatives shall be composed of members | informed which. Messrs. Harvey and Hale chosen every second year by the people of the | are in Washington from Lisbon and several States; and the electors in each State Madrid, and although Mr. Harvey has been shall have the qualifications requisite for | recalled there is liitle doubt but there is some- electors of the most numerous branch of the thing of importance relative to the Iberian State Legislature.” Here is certainly a clear peninsula afloat, or else they would not be declaration as to who shall vote for members | close to the President at such time. The of Congress, It is most positively the inten- kings, queens and emperors will soon be tion of this clause to make such a declara- | waited on by Mr. Anson Burlingame, who, tion, The right to say who shall vote emerging from the antique recesses of Pekin, for Congressmen is, beyond cavil, left with | will plead the cause of dynastic right in China the States themselves, because it is purposely | at the foot of thoir thrones on bebalf of his made dependent upon a point that no power | friend the present ruler of tliat country. outside of a State Is competent to determine. Then we have individual representations It has never yet been urged by even the | guch as that of the Chevalier Wikoff, of whom wildest centralizationist that the general gov- we have not heard much lately, but who is STEINWAY HALL.—Granv Concert. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. —Sonas, Dances, Eccentaicirixs, BURLESQUES. &C. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway.—Eraio- Priam Berentainegyts, Singing, Dancing axp BURLESQUES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic Vooatisa, Nxcko Minstestsy, &0. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, «72 Broadway.— Barixr, Farce, Pantomime, &c. ‘ BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Ta Pivonim. Matinee at 2, MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Doma. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Broolyn.—Eraioriax Movstartsy, Bataps asp BuRLEsaues, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scimnom anv ART. » January 31. 1868. Now York, Frid THE NaWsS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable {s dated yester- ay evening, January 30, Herr Twesten, who was Imprisoned for words spoken in debate in the North German Parliament, bas been liberated. The religious classes of England advise Lord Derby to settle the Alabama claims, A Fenian head centre has been arrested in Cork. The question of more freedom for the press is under discussion in the French Legislature. A portion of the French expeditionary corps will remain in Rome. Console 935; 293% in London, Five-twenties 72 8 7244 in London and 75% a 76 in Frankfort. Renies up- ward on the Paris Bourse, Cotton firmer, with middling uplands at 7% pence, Breadstufts heavy, Provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate yestey sy the bill in addition to the Tenure of Office act was discussed without coming to @vote. Mr. Cragin took the floor to debate on the Reconstruction bill and was followed by Mr. Hendricks between whom and the repuolican membors an inter- esting discussion ensued. In the House a resolution directing the Judiciary Com- mittee to investigate the reports that one of the Judges ernment could dictate to a State in the function | well received everywhere, and that of the of choosing its local Legislature. That is.| Chevalier George Francis Train, who, like a the inner circle of its separate existence— thorough Fenian Head Centre—or Centaur, if the vital point in its machinery; without | the English like it better—compensates for Mr. that right it falls to pieces, This is cer-| wixog's modesty by forcing us to hear from tainly, above all others, “one of the powers not him almost every hour in the day. delegated to the United States by the constitu: | In viow of this almost universal American tion, nor prohibited by it to the States,” and diplomatic exertion we may with good reason which powers, therefore (to still quote the inquire, What's tn the wind? What is going constitution), “are reserved to the States re-| onin Rome? Is the Pope to be requested to spectively;” and the determination who shall | pray for the radioals or return @ special eccle- vote for the most numerous branch of the siastical mission to Thad Stevens and the Con- State Legislature determines who shall vote gress generally, with the exception, perhaps, Of the Supreme Court (supposed to be Judge Field) bad | fF members of Congress. As this is a fixed | of the Honorables John Morrissey and Fer- Geclarod privately that the Reconstruction acts were un- | Point in the constitution, nothing, of course, | nando Wood, who aro in good odor Constitutional, and to report if such a remark constituted | but a constitutional amendment can change it; with the Church dlready? Does his Holi- sufficient ground for impeachment, wag introduced, and | aud the proposition to change it by bill argues | poss wish to sell us ® port on the Adriatic after some debate was adopted. The cousideration of the bill concerning the rights of American citizens orone on the Mediterranoant What is Carl abroad was resumed, and after a lengthy speech by Mr, Schurz doing in Berlin and whore is Mr. Bancroft? Who will pay Mr. Burlingame? Wilson and the adoption of some amendments the bill a oe TRE LYGISLATURE. Who will pay Mr. Harvey? What amount of either ignorance that the point is fixed, or a revolutionary indifference to such points equally characteristic of Mr. Stevens and his party. If the member from Pennsylvania should its various i damages will that Irish policeman demand for interest thgt in the course of the debate an ad- | Eastern terminus, the most important city in | internal workings of the Spee a Ce gr Pistlenlisy ee 4 va ek ree afin oboe condescend to any argument in this matter—| being forced to hear Train read his own | vanced liberal and an enlightened political | the world, the entrepét of a continent enlarged iow to eyetematize. the thachinery of the paged and so to fix tha responsibility of the heads of each there could be no technical methods by which those im the employ of the Board and who might not woll per- form the duties of their position could long draw pay without doing their duty. . Acommunication was recetved from Dr. Emerson, Sanitary Inspector, resigning his position under the Board. Among the applications for tho position thus made vacant was one from a Dr. Lee, a relative of the rebel general of that name. Pursuant to a recommendation of the attorney a reso- lution was passed authorizing him to commence suits against ‘wolve persons who bad refused to comply with certain orders made by the engineer in the way of not ventilating certain apartments in tenement houses, &c. Dr. Srons, Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, offered the following resolution, which was unanimousiy adopted :— Reso! the Santtary Superintendent be directed wo ris tate Board all the iaformation im bis ieee antes it ha ey Sate Lak nts; Fetes day ‘nd ‘also to report the names of those phyni- Railway, and repealing the act for an experimontal railway im New York sad Westchester counties. The bill to extend the time for the collection of taxes in Certain towns was passed, In thy Assembly the bill to extend the time for the collection of taxes was advanced toa third reading and passed. Gitls were introduced to regulate South and Hamilton ferries, to abolish the Metropolitan Police district, to amend the Croton Aqueauct act, to amond the Metropolitan Fire District act, aud for the better security of passengers on railroads. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon. A resolution was adopted directing the Street Commis. moner to notify the persons owning the obstructions on the pior at the foot of Forty-seventh street, North river, if he should so far acknowledge the binding force of the constitution as to care that his law shall agree with it—he will probably en- deavor to base it on the fourth section of the same first article. This section reads thus :— “The times, piaces and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representa- tives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congross may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choos- ing Senators.” This seems to give Congress authority in the case, but in fact does not. Here a certain power is recognized as prima- economist should have assigned as his reason | and extended by the absorption within its for opposing the bill his dread of the power of | political boundarles of all the neighboring Russia and the ambition of the United States, | islands. A rapid advance in the value of M. Michel Chevalier opposed the bill, advised | property here is, therefore, but the natural the cultivation of closer alliance among all | consequence of New York’s destined future the nations of Europe, and spoke of Russia | greatness; and as already land within twenty and the United States. of America as Powers | miles responds to the quotations of property whose growing strength and unconcealed am- | in Fortieth street, so will all the surrounding bition were a cause of alarm to all the nations | cities fecl the same improvement. of Europe. We cannot say that M. Chevalier is wrong. He is learned and travelled, has lived NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. in the United States, is a man of literal ideas, . a Cae NRS ‘ and has correct notions af pole! eoonomy, | W@AAEA TON 8 Cureran fuarasn. Ry as is evident from the fact that he took an | This is flippant, biting, noisy compound of argument speeches? These questions, with others of like import, loom up from the European des- patches relative to the progress of our diplo- maby on tho other side of the Atlantic every day; but wo think they will not be replied to in any satisfactory mannor until the Chevalier Wikoff makes a report. Mount Vesuvius. A special telegram to the Heratp, which we published yesterday, describes the culmination, as it were, of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on the 28th inst. in an unusual and fatal catas- trophe. The side of Mount Vesuvius opposite dren have. diea. in these houses, have to remove them forthwith. Resolutions were offered | _, af at ; t with the late Richard Cob: and scolding—partly aimed at one Dr, Todd and stupid clare who, when Srtificatee t0'the Registrar o¢ Visa) Sta over in iavor of paving, with the Nicolson | TAY belonging to the States; and Congress is | to tho gate of Castel-Nuovo fell, tumbling | ®ctive par la Cobden in rendered false ce rm permitted to assume it, under restriction, for the purpose only of fixing the time, place and manner of holding the elections. Under cover of these words Congress can find no pretext for touching the qualification of electors; for it could only find it by implication, and a power cannot be based on the implica- | We have supplied our readers with information tion of one section when it is positively | respecting this eruption, which has been denied, and intended to be denied, by the increasing in intensity and splendor. corsying frongh, Go See ate teaty WIR | Ciescineusstmaainet norrennaseunar’ emis England. M. Chevalier speaks, therefore, not ‘Scarcely any perzon will read the first seventy pages and without knowledge, and his remark is entitled | not concede that one mght or wrong that woman to consideration, We know that we have no | fully onjoys with little disp that, namely, of fuming hostile intentions towards Europe so long as | {2 print, or boing inconsequont, nonsensical and ridicu- Europe behaves itself. Russia is a sensible | !u# Without limit, on tolerably Paper and fa good, clear ¢} This is the in which the auther toasts Power and very much of ouropinion. Russia al Toad. Perhaps yt Doctor ‘sao all and America are a fair match for the world in | that the lady says of bim; yet the good, arms ; and we echo M. Chevalier’# sentiment | easy man, as quoted in these pages, seems to hat had is 1 - | at heart what Mistress Hamilton must certainly regard by ip ae oo satan, posse e fee a are as an honest purposo, since all that part of the volume ee ee eee y TUndor | ot specifically given up to scolding at the reverend and misbehave, it may become the duty of the worthy is specifically given up to the attempt to estab- two young giants to correct them. lish by argument and oxclam: we essentially the _— same asthe Doctor's, It may be, therefore, that the trouble between Hamilton and Todd is only that old and 1 incompatability that stil! prevente agreement The anti-contraction bill passed by both wo of a trade, houses of Congress has been before the Presi- Having gotten through that part of the volume which dent several days, and the fact that he bas not | treats of the shortoomings of Todd, the reader will freer yet signed it has given rise to rumors that he | ‘# Mistress Hamilton's style improves with her tem- ré P yr, In all that early part she seems, in arguing againas intends to veto it; but if he does so he will be ixesruety, to argue for the theorists, and her words very ill advised, and the result will be ite | are flimsy. In the part in which she points passage over the veto by a two-thirds vote ; | out the nonsense of the theorists she gives her thought ) d the people are equally | im strong, clear lines, whence 1t may either be inferred - hse bag ae i Cull oe oft fits od that the former case, as she views it, is inherently fee. Coleresioed ae er. Sevens Ber | ble, or that her heart is in tho latter view; for where have the power to contract the currency. The ter of inference, si measure is one of imperative public necessity. er positive she seems in style, sho always The interests of the country demand that the | tells what sne would propose in @ given contingency volume of the currency shall neither be con- | ‘h#” what she actually doos propose in this great open i " society. When she ii tracted nor inflated, and in order to secure aartve pa bior st pr gyrate ai ts dk intnee this object Congress should pass a Dill | nat thoy needed no new advocate, We have here what defining the Senate amendment to the bill | has been often enough seen before—a call on ‘os world ssed to include the compound | for arguments against woman's claim to vote. It is said ride cit outstanding as pics ne ‘A remarkable feature of the discussion is the scarcity of * Toasons brought against female suffrage, * * * The the three por cent certificates issued | burden of proof ites with those who deny in exchange for — whieh he“ yr {Srogh Sala ouy be bape on nin ranading of matured. Both of these are held as legal | the simpler elements of argume one can i ish reasons why w. should tonders by the banks and used like green- | hor vote” Mea stand upon the. emablished order of Docks as a portion of their reserve, and to | ‘ings, in whieh the su: ie dented to w outward. The detached portion buried several houses in the vicinity and overwhelmed car- riages passing on the highway. This extra- ordinary event was attended with con- siderable loss of life, although the number of persons killed bas not yet been ascertained. Dr. Stoss, In presenting the resolution, remarked that he believed that certain physicians in this city w in connivance with the keepers of these houses, and waa his desire that their villainy should be proporiy ventilated, nue, Washington place from Broadway to University piace, Twenty-seventh stroct from Fifth to Sixth avenue, Great Jones street from the Bowery to Broadway, Wil- Ham stroct where not already paved with Belgian pave. ment, Twenty-fourth street from Broadway to sixth avenue, and Sixth avenue between Forty-second and Fifty-ninth streets. A very enthusiastic mass meeting was held jast oven- {ag in the Cooper Institute, under tho auspices of the “Constitution Union," convened to expression to itutional acts of « ” One of the resolutions stated in Substance that the meeting was not called (o nominate directly or indirectly a candidate for the Presidency. Telling speeches were delivered, most of which favored Jobson for the Presidency. A good band of music was im attendance. The whole audience were in the bert of amor, and the proceedings were brought to a close in the greatest harmony, aud the audience separated with rousing cheers for “Johnson, our next Prosidont."’ Geooral Graut's name was received with strong expres sous of disfavor. A young mav, named Benjamin F. Bache, son of Surgeon Bache, of ‘the head in the presence dence in Bridge street, Brook: INTERNAL REVENUE MATTERS. Some excitement was created at headquarters yester- day in consequence of the rumor that a conflict of au- thority existed vetween Collector Shook, of the Thirty- second, and Collector Bailey, of the Fourth district, growing out of a seizure made qn Wednesday. The circumstances of the affair are these:—Inspector Craig, {t appears, suspecting that there were irregularities and contraventions of the Revenue Jaw inthe manner ia which business was belng conducted at the rectifying establishment of Trots & Co., in Cherry street, detained all the whiskey therein and reported his action to Col- lector Shook, who thereupon put a man in charge of it. this, and while the keeper pi in the nt was in the performance ot his duty, Colo- nel Porter, Collector Bailey's deputy, entered the pre. mises, accompanied by other revenue officials, and made « formal seizure of the whole ostablishment. Cot- lector Shook, however, refused to acknowledge the right of the Fourth district oMcers to assume any cus- tody over t ey, and they loft, it is sald, taking with them the books and papers belonging to (he estab- lishment Collector Shook's officer smatill in charge of the whiskey, and the whole matter has been turned ‘er for investigation, “Collector ‘Ovcallaghaa, of the Ninth Lesions eta 4 laced under seizure the distiliory of Eames & Ryan, im Wont Ly poy street, The charge against the estab- lishment t* not known. Inspectors Rollins and Morgan report having seid he rectttying establishment of Wm. Kelly, West Twonty-ninth street, on a charge that ry had been CMe Wg ght bs without any ent msde on the Books eae hat the spins " i ine tame. dMicers also velzed the rectifying establish. ment of Watson & Crary on the charge ve men- bi and Edsall yosterday seized twove ee ia found in a stable ia Twenty-oitm avenue, supposed to have been express declaration of another. Indeed, if] On the 3lst of December the detonations, this fourth section were not to be construed in | which were distinctly audible at Naples, be- the light of the first, the present Congress | came deafening to the adventurous observers might make Itself a permanently sovereign | who went up the mountain, and the scene body. It could do this as easily as it can do | presented by the eruption is described by cor- what Mr. Stevens’ bill proposes, and has the | respondents of London journals as extremely same aathority. Mr. Stevens proposes to wipe magnificent. Curious travellers have, how- out that part of the second section of the first | ever, continued to make the ascent with their article that leaves it to the States to define | guides, so that we had been tempted to regard who thall vote for members; and for | their descriptions as more or less exaggerated this be can find only colorable power, | until we received our latest telegraphic if any. Suppose he should endeavor to legis- | despatch. It is now obvious that the marvel- late away the other clause of the same | lous perturbations of the globe which we have section—ibat which says tuat members shall | duly chronicled since the last meteoric shower be chosen “every second year.” He could | are as striking at Mount Vesuvius as else- say that by the fourth section Cougress is | where, from the Indian Ocean to the West given power io fix the time for election, and | India islands, and, according to our latest may fix it fif'y years hence, But it is plain | letters from the city of Mexico, in the mud and this would be wresting terms; yet there is | water foundations of the “balls of the Monte- certainly n# good a power in the fourth sec- | zumas.” Nature has its mysterious and awtul tion to override one ag another clause of the | as well as its smiling aspects in the nineteenth second section. If, therefore, Congress can | century no less than in the old mythological change the suffrage in the Northern States it | times. It is now well nigh eighteen centuries can also legislate itself permanently into office. | since the first recorded eruption of Vesuvius But this bill is only one more indication of | buried the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, calling at Queene. | the direction in which the nation drifts, or | and Stabie, with all their treasures, Not town to land passengers. rather is driven, by the extravagant and reck- | ‘fewer than sixty eruptions have since taken ‘The Anchor line steamship United Kingdom, Captain | Joss policy of these would-be rulers. It points | place. In 15384 volcanic cone was thrown Donaldson, will leave thé company's new “ape No. 20 | to those encroachments on the liberties of the | up in the Bay of Balm, In 1631 streams of poop! at Sas as taoceoneey © ding Northern people that mnst follow as a neces- lava and boiling water were poured over the sage — sary consequence upon the destruction of con- | adjacent villages. The eruption in 1779 was The steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, of } stitutional government in the South; for if] one of the most terrible up to the present the Cromwell ling, will sail from pier No. 9 North river | State lines and constitutional limits to the | time. The present eruption threatens to show that, notwithstanding our boasted science, man at three P.M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orieave ia atill powerless against the occult destructive In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, before Judge Ott, & Motion Was made to Vacate the order of arrest of Daalel Noble, who was cbarged with being concerned in the robbery of $200,000 in bonds, securities, &e., from the office of the Royal Insurance Company, The Court reserved decision. The Inman line steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mirohouss, will loave pier 46 North river at 1 P. M, to ‘Morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Mails for Ireland, Great Britain and+the Continent will Close at the Post Office at 12 M. on Saturday. The fine steamstip Franco, Captain Grace, of the National line, will sail from pier 47 Norih river at noon oe establishment in Tweaty-otm wre bean iieitiy. distilled, 2 izures are to be investigated, YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ‘The first anniversary meeting of this association, ‘estab! at the Northwest Reformed church, Twemys anybody wishes to chai established lished eancel them without issuing their equivalent for that body to odvance goed and sufficient rei third street, near Sevemth avenue, was held last evon- ‘ " th for the proposed change, and It is for society to hear | ing at the church, and was attended by @ large portiom in new notes wonld be contraction to that | inom, to anewer them cay choose aE We Nb -00-} aeeas Gabaregnaiei of tho ebuwwh, and. {viendo of the > ine liege ct Hiteel my cee one of tncaneniede' of logs io members. A pleasing programme bad been arranged there were about eighty millions of these in | Hamilton has reesived and for whe ovcaslon, cons rising a circulation, and it fe important that this | jp some over this subject Oatnrs Mor for. Dr bP. Roverevand ihe ev, Ln ‘D,Ganee exch ; m torms © the hiehos amount, or, what would be better, the same a! ge satouied, oat Ly rea ove ‘ oa bag? Pi gl - 4 4 power ot Congress sre no safeguard in one State why should they be in another? Here, direct. The popular sidewhee! steamship San Jacinto, Captain sf ders vi of um 3 tion such as the Young People’s could accon« Atkins, of the Empire line, will leave pier No. 13 North } then, is made directly obvious to the people of | forces of nature. amount of nondnterest bearing legal ten Flor in come line to the average Re Bie Ta? nt of bonoflt alroaiy river - ne wane (Gaturday) for Savan- | the North how their intorests are bound up with ————ae in place of the interest bearing notes, should forts by Rall Seb ee eres the oftal endowment fener = smambert of ue Tne Bresideat orine po: ig at that eity with steamers for tbe | thoge of the people of the South; and in this bill Tar Force of Bay Examrte.—The fre- | not be lost to the country after the oxhaysting | of the sexes, and can number F} her fingers the women | association al ostabiie co report, showing th r they may, perhaps, even dimly see that there was some original error in conceding the first ecajass the Wale of Sint, Having quency of murder, violence and the indis- criminate use of the knife and pistol, ts baringdin eee) upon the ranpger The stock market was dull yerterday. Government seaurition wore steady. Gold closed at 160% a 140%. but not luflation, is = beon « tho: than any of those, | which have el ‘since the formation of the smioty. ‘Tho livestock markets exbibiied ag ney (ggtuces ef ‘ | <rto awe during the last cighteea mae Gost Hara oe ie Relene ibe mee whe memes bon @ not been idle during the twelve me a yon wary coy Wo wame Ar womenh aucun a bar | Fae seorius load ithe ngag of the egy