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4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY -1, 1868. ALD. Head, was sea st em an ngue 09 Paselap, ont enough. The West is going far abead of us in | dollars for the service of the Internal Revenue Our News from Haytt. NEW YORK HERALD. |e SS cos ey ns faerie erent fg es sent 7 Se Cm rte | TRERGRAPHIC NEWS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heeavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, publisned every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyping @nd Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest cates. Velume XXXII. No. 32 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirtur Neit axD Maucuionzss. Mativee at 134. BomEny, hin perl Bowery.—Siamese Twins—Tue AREW YORE THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. n and Kvening—Tux Proxwick Parens. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 231 st., corner Righth av.— Matinee at 1—Mazria. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—-A Mipsumuen Nioat’s Daxam. Matince at 1. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Wuite Fawy, Matinee at I. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Les Disses Rosns. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th streot. — Ours. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Brond- way and Thirtleth street.—Nosopr's Davoursa, Matinee. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, —G: sTICS, Equestrianism, &¢. Matinee at 254. siti “THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —] - mation Toure. Matines Ly a ie ag ee BTEINWAY HALL.—Granp Concerr at 1. ACADEMY momi¢ Society, DODWORTH HALL, No, 806 Broadway.—Lacrune. OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Puituar KELLY & LEON'S MINS®RELS, 720 Broadway.—Soxas, Danows, Eooentiicitres, BURLESQUES. &C. Matinee at 2)4. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ernto- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BuRLESQuES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &0. Matinee at 2'4. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baier, Farce, Pantowimx, &c. Matinee al 2h; BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tax Preriu. Matinee at 2. bri F, B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyu.— HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyu.—Eraiorran Minstaxisy, Batiaps aNd Buriusaues, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — NENCE AND AT: we York, Saturday, February 1. 1856S. TA2E NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 31. An Italian naval expedition is to sail from the Bay of Naples for the Paraua river, South America, The gov- ernment in Florence wii'/*olds all information concern- ing the object. Cari Schuyz was entertained at dinner by the Councillors of the North German Contederation. The Austrian Legislature is summoned to meet on the 17th instant. Consols, 9314 893%; in London. London and 763, in Frankfort, Ta the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands closed at 77%d. Breadstuffs, provisions and pro- duce without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the joint resolut on of the Ohio Legislature rescinding the ratification of the con- Stitutional amendment was presented, and after slight debate was referred, The additional Tenure of Otlice bili was taken up and discugsed, but iaid aside on the expiration of the morning hour. The Reconstruction bill was again discussed and paseed to a third reading, whon an adjournment till Monday took place. In the House the joint resolution of the Ohio Legisia- tare rescinding the ratification of the aimeudment was ordered to be printed and referred to the Judiciary Com- mittee. A bill to continue the Freedmen's Bureau for one year {rom July was reported and recommitted. The feport of the commitiee of conference on the Cotton Tax bill was received, and after a lengthy debate was adopted. The report of the Kentucky election commit- tee was considered, and the discussion will be continued to-day. "THE LTGISLATORE. In the Senate yesterday the bilis amending the law relative to the rights of husband and wife, ceding David's Island to the United States and making appro- priations for deficiencies in canal appropriations were reported adversely. A bill was introduced prohibiting the admission of minors under fourteen years of age to places of public amusemont in New York uniess accom- panied by guardians. “Notice was given of a bil! to amend the Registry law, and the Senate adjourned till Monday. In the Assembly bills relative to the inspection of steam boilers, relative to the grant to William Orton and others of the exciusive right to lay a telegraph cable between the United States and France, and relative to funds im assessments for local improvements in New York were reported favorably. A bill to create a Har bor District and a Board of Wharves and Piers was introduced. A resolution to take down the Lincoln motto over the Speaker's chair was lost by a vote of twenty-two to sixty-four, and the Assembly adjourned ull Monday. THE CITY. ‘The Aldermanic Committee on the proposed extension of Fifth avenue to the Battery wil! boar objections from persons opposed to the moasure in the room of the Board at noon to-day. A petition to Parliament is in circulation in Quebec to suspend the corporation aud piace its affairs in the hands of commissioners. ‘Tho heir-apparent of the King of Akra, Africa, a very black man, was lodged in Raymond street jail, in Brooklys, on Thursday, on a charge of running up a heavy board bill on account of his aflanced bride, the iter of the King of Cinquito. The case will be this morning John Mitchel lectured yesterday evening, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on the Manchester martyrs. ‘The case of the United States vs. John Devlin, in the Caited States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, which has engaged the attention of the court for the last four days, was on again day. Itis alleged that $60,000 is imvolved in the suit—that is, the defendant is charged with baving defrauded the revenue of the United States to that amount, The case is stili on and likely to occupy the court several days yet. An important meeting of the depositors im the Far- mers and Citizeng National Bank was held at Masonic Tempio, Brooklyn, &. D., last evening, at which a Commitios was appointed to take such action as they might deem expedient for protecting the depositors’ interests. ‘The stock market wes unsettled qt intervals yester. day, but, on the whole, firm. Government securities closed strong. Gold closed at 140%; a 14054. ~ MISCELLANEOUS. fn the Constitutional Convention yost jay the article On cities wag adopted and referred to the Committee on Revision, ‘The North Carolina Conveotion yesterday oxpelied a feporter who called the black members ‘‘niggers,” anda Proposition was made in the Mississippi Convention to expel those who do not put “Mr,’’ before ihe names of the dusky dotogates. ‘The South Carolina Convention has received $12,000 from the State Treasurer to pay expenses. The schooner Lone Star, from Savannah for Hilton Five-twentics, 724 in The Workingmen’s Convention at Albany elécted officers for the ensuing year yesterday, and adjourned, A fire occurred in Leavenworth, Kansas, yesterday, destroying four buildings and involving a lous of $100,000, The Kansas legislature has memoralized Congress to annul the purchase of the Cherokee lands, as twenty thousand settlers by its operation will be ousted from their homes, An accident occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday, at Mill Croek, which was another Angola affair in everything but the number of victims. Four cars were thrown from the track, and three of them, upsetting, were burned, One passenger was killed and several were injured, but fortunately none were burned. The citizens of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, are favoring annexation to the Deminion of Canada, A negro in Frankfort, Ky., was hanged by a mob last night for committing an outrage on an Irish girl and throwing her over a high cliff, seriously injuring her. A bill bas boon reported in the Massachusetts Legis- lature to license liquor dealers. = Alaska advices to the 26th of January represent all Slarsbalt White, a colored man, confined in jail at Monmouth, I!., for larceny, while attempting to break jall on Thursday night, was shot dead by one of the sheriff's deputies. Revenue officers have seized another illicit distillery in Baltimore, In the Supreme Court yesterday » motion was made on the part of the miliary authorities to dismiss the McArdle caso for want of jurisdiction, ‘The argument will bo resumed on Friday, New York the Commercial Entrepot of the World. The diplomatic shrewdness of our govern- ment in securing footholds in the West Indies affording convenient stopping places for the ships and steamers flying the American ensign, adds greatly to the commercial im- portance of this country and pertinently sug- gests its prosperity and progression. This ex- pansion will not cease here. It will flow na- turally to islands and contiguous lands of the least importance, commercial or strategical. This great advancing, progressive spirit of the time, affords some idea of the future greatness of the United States end gives evidence of the vast interests that will surround her ports of entry. New York is in the minds of all thinking men destined to become the great midway commercial house, of the world. Its location, its land-locked, broad bays and deep rivers, render its harbor not only of the greatest magnitude, but safe, easily accessible and convenient of approach. Along its piers are innumerable ships from every nation— ships that stand unrivalled in their cargo car- rying capacity, ships of harmony and propor tion as well entitled to immortal remembrance as the Parthenon, ships whose victories as winged messengers are more honorable than those gained upon a stricken field, even as the arts of peace are more noble and enno- bling than the arts of war. This mercantile marine stands forest-like along the wiles of harbor frontage—the shuttles that go to and fro weaving the unseen threads of gold that link together nations widely remote in a community of inicresis. . But where this labyrinth of rigging is now seen the growing importance of New York, with the broad arms of the world centring commercially about her, will note a change slowly developing buy certain in its’results, It will be no less than a complete revolution of our mercantile marine. Clipper ships that even now stand unrivalled are being found almost inadequate to the essential require- ments of the great and grewing business of the world’s entrepét, will vanish slowly from the seas, and in twenty years will be as much a curiosity as the galley of the Venetians orthe junk of the Chinese are in this day. In their places improved steamships, elegant in construction and economical in use, will, with their black pipes, be counted by the thousands—fitting indices to the enterprise of the extensive lines destined to carry the maritime commerce of the globe. This will surely and naturally make New York its permanent headquarters. Her location between the Eastern and Western world of trade makes it the port of receipt and delivery. With the great commercial enterprises now on foot completed ; with the mighty Pacific Railroad thundering along to the wide waters of that sea; thence, by the grandest steamships afloat, to far-off Caina, Japan and Asia; with still more lines from Australia plying quickly withia five days’ direct sail of her port ; with other lines of electric telegraph across the sea, and New York becomes the centre of the world’s business and trade. All Europe will then watch with eagerness news from China and Japan through her, and Englund may learn early intelligence trom her distant colo- nies through the same source, Not alone in this matter of. despatch will New York be pre-eminent, but with the com- pletion of the Railroad, where freights are now shipped through the countries of Europe, numberless in name, each exacting du- ties, piling on amount after amount, a more eco- nomical as well as more expeditious route will be through her avenues of commerce, along the rails to San Francisco, thence by steam- ships, deliverable in the East, weeks in ad- vance of the Continental routes. The fuiure of New York is bright. Her com- mercial relations in afew years will rank her far above the now great cities of the world. She will wield the sceptre of the oceans’ com- merce, will start new enterprises, growing greater and greater until her prosperity is the envy of the habitable globe. Beidges Over the Mississipyl Rivers. It appears that whatever differences existed between the citizens of St. Louis concerning the building ofa bridge across the Mississippi are settled, and there is now every likelihood that the greatather of Waters will soon be spanned and Missouri united to Illinols. Now, if the vast body of water which rolls between St Louis ahd Iilinoistown can be bridged, what is to prevent us from bridging the nar- row stream that flows between New York and Brooklyn at Fulton ferry? The bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati ig a more extensive work and was fraught with more difficulties than any structure which might be roquired to cross the East river, and the latter would be a trifle compared with such a bridge as must be built over the Mississippi at St. Louis. If ail the peddling and squabbling were put an end to and @ few enterprising individuals would take the matter in hand we would have a bridge to Brooklyn in two years. We will not now dilate upon the advantages of the and East structure to both cities, for they are palpable } Institute meeting was a good beginning. disclosed the fact that the sympathies of the democratic masses are with Andrew Johnson, and that his nominat of the constitution am: speedily consolidate all the conservative . ments of the country. » there is not deterred by difficulty or expense. The fact is that, In order to keep up with the spirit of the age, Manhattan Island and Long Island should have been joined years ago. They are just as much part of one city as the Surrey side is a part of London. The First Big Gan for Andrew Jo! The independent no-party mass meeting at Cooper Institute on Thursday evening, although proclaimed to be not @ meeting “called to nominate a President of the United States, or to indicate directly or indirectly the name of any candidate for. that office,” waa still a mest- ing designed for a public endorsement of Andrew Johnson for the next Presidency as the defender of the constitution, in the execu- tive chair, agaigst the revolutionary measures and schemes of this radical Congress. The distinguishing resolution of the platform adopted was the resolution endorsing and promising that this “constitutional organiza- tion will lose no opportunity of sustaining Andrew Johnson with all the power which is left them as American citizens.” Atter the reading of the letter of Senator Doolittle several rounds of cheers were given for Andrew Johnson, and one enthusiastic Johnson man declared that “Andrew Johnson is the only statesman in. the country.” This covered the main idea of the meeting. In the speech of Mr. J. R. Doolittle, Jr., his closing sugges- tion for the nomination of a man who would unite all the conservative elements of the coun- try—some such man as Sherman, Hancock or Andrew Johnson—broadly developed the spe- cific object of the meeting. Mr. Hiram Ketchum, however, seemed disposed to make a diversion in favor of Horatio Seymour, whom he considered one “among the greatest and most patriotic men in the country.” But as Mr. Doolittle said “you have no right to nominate Vailandigham or Pendleton, and thereby lose “twenty-five thousand votes in the State of New York,” we should like to know whether these twenty-five thousand would be satisfied with Seymour. Mr. Reed, of Philadelphia, like the old woman, did not care who heard him, but “spoke right out in meeting a piece of his mind.” He said that to-morrow night (which was last night) “Phila- delphia will send a response such 98 never went before in protest against the unconstitu- tional acts of Congress, and which will glad- den the heart of Mr. Johnson.’ And next fall we (in Philadelphia) will havo an election for Mayor, and we will elect 1 Mayor who will not be absent from the city fishing whenever Mr. Jobnson visits our city.” This Cooper Institute meeting, then Johnson meeting, and the first mass meeting in favor of Mr. Johnson for the next Presidency. Tho Philadelphia mecting is the second, and we presume that this movement is to be fol- lowed up in other cities and towns throughout the North, What, then, is the prospect for Mr. Johnson? The leaders and recognized mana- gers of the democracy stand aloof. They are not for Johnson, although they expect to use him. therefore, should be pushed forward only the more vigorously, in order to bring the demo- cratic leaders and managers to a recognition of the superior claims and tho balance of power held by Mr. Jonson in this contest This independent Johnson movement, with the revolutionary radicals. The Cooper It n as the champion 3t the radicals wguld Liverty of the Press in France. The imperial government in France does not appear to be getting into happier relations with the press of, the country. It is nowa year since the Emperor announced a series of reforms which it was his intention to introduce on as early a day as possible. The press, according to the proposed arrangement, was to be placed on an entirely new footing and to be comparatively free. 1: is rather a signifi- cant circumstance that ata time when it was expected these reforms should become law seventeen editors should have been arrested and brought to trial, ten of whom have since been found guilty and condemued to pay a fine of one thoasand francs, to be imprisoned for six months and to bear the cost of the legal proceedings, for no higher offence than print- ing a report of a debate not taken down by the government reporter. Such is liberty under the empire. By a cable despatch dated January 30 we are informed that the new project of law for the government of the press had been discussed in the Corps Législatif. M. Thiers had eloquently advised the concession of further liberties and the removal from the press of absurd restrictions, which had proved the ruin of many dynasties, M, Pinard, who spoke in the name of the govera- ment, deprecated the granting of further liberties, and declared that French journalists had, during the year which had elapsed since the concessions were promised, proved their entire unfitness for the liberty which their friends wished to secure for them. It may, therefore, be taken for granted that for the present the French press must continue in bonds, If the French people will have a Cesar they must content themselves with what liberty Cesar is pleased to give them, Napoleon’s fear of the journalists does not augur well for the stability of the empire. Expenses of the Civil Department, of the Government. Mr. Stevens has reported a bill from the Committee on Appropriations to provide for the expenses of the different branches of the civil department of government for the fiscal year ending June, 1869. The total amount is a little over seventeen millions. The Commi'- tee has reduced the original estimates #ix millions. As Congress is making a great fuss about the expenses of the State Department, it may be well to notice that the whole amount of appropriation called for is only one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars. This is a very moderate sum for such an important department of a great nation. Congress might complain with reason of some other expenses altogether out of proportion to the service rendered. For example, one million two hundred and seventy-one thou- sand dollars for public printing is too large @ sum, and evidently carries some big jobs with it, But six millions ono hundred thousand cient. What an ‘of officeholders ‘thera must be to require over six millions to pay them! Yet the Internal Revenue Department is eo badly managed that the government loses hundreds of millions by frauds. In fact, it is the cumbrous machinery and the innumerable officeholders that lead to these trauds, As soon as we get the country restored to peace and the excitement of the Presidential election is over one of the first things Congress should do is to thoroughly reorganize our internal revenue system, so as to make it leas expen- Sive, leas oppressive, less subject to frauds and comparatively more productive. question the accuracy of our news from Hayti by way of Hevana. The writer even sqys :— “T should not wish to believe that the press correspondent may be paid by Mr. Geffrard, but if he was he could not write differently.” Now, an insinuation that our Havana corre- spondent is in the pay of either Geffrard or Salnave would be equally absurd and imperti- nent, It is scarcely necessary to say that we have no occasion to select as our own corre- spcndents the paid agents of any government or any faction anywhere. The functions of euch paid agents and of a Heratp correspond- ent are utterly incompatible and cannot be performed by one and the same individual. Not the least reason for our entire confidence in our Havana correspondence is the accuracy, 80 repeatedly verified, of the very news from Hayti against which some of our incredulous contemporaries as well as the Consul pretest, without, however, taking the trouble of adducing a single proof to justify them in contradicting the news. We have received and published, from time to time, descriptions of scenes of atrocity paralleled only by the worst horrors which Hayti and St. Domingo have ever witnessed during nearly fifty years of a chronic state of revolution. In every case our news from Hayti has been subsequently confirmed as but too painfully true and accurate. The terrible picture of negro barbarism and negro supfemacy ,may serve to inspire our poli- ticians and our people with a wholesome dread of the possible, consequences of the radical policy of Congress. - As for Samand, its cale or lease to the United States government is a comparatively insig- nificant step towards ulterior, grand and inevitable results. Opposition to “manifest destiny” will be as futile as it is presumptuous and unwise. We cannot recommend to the Consul of Hayti or to any one else the ambitious career essayed by George Sanders, Colorado Jewett, George Francis Train and a dozen other self- constituted champions of this or that nation- ality. George Sanders, for instance, while Consul at London, let Mazzini, Kossuth, Louis Blanc and the rest of the exiled continental revolutionists tickle his vanity and fool bim into believing that he was a special envoy extraordinary to all the great Powers of the earth, But bis example, and that of all Quixotic individuals of the same class, from Anacharsis Clootz to George Francis Train, is to be shunned rather than followed. Fenianinm in Great Britain—What is It¢ Great Britain has been grievously disturbed of late by the nightmare of Fenianism. Its armies have been in constant motion ; its magistrates have been kept in a atate of fear and trembling ; its coasts have been guarded by fleets of gunboats ; and arrests of suspicious parties and special commissions to try political offenders have kept the country in a ferment. To add to this prisoners have been rescued by force, jails blown up, men have been hanged upon political charges for whom hundreds of thousands of British subjects have mourned as Christian martyrs and are willing to deify and exalt to the rank of demigods. What does all this mean? The idea of Fenianism sprung from a mere fancy, but the substance, wkether called by that name or not, has attained for- midable proportions. Fenianism was intended to represent the ancient historic grievances which Ireland has suffered tor centuries (rom the English government. The category of grievances was long and bloody, and there was, therefore, ample means upon which to construct an organization of this kind, and of course there was no lack of sympathy in such an impulsive and sympathetic race as the Irish. The idea embodied in the organization was to them sacred ; the result promised was such as every Irish man and woman the world over would probably make any sacrifice to obtain. Hence ideal Fenianism gathered about it great enthusiasm and ‘many dollars, and it flourished upon the co-operation of enthusiastic natures, stimulated by appeals to traditionary glories and traditionary sorrows, both irresistible to the claas appealed to. But Fenianism has assumed a different phase now. In this country it bas dwindled appa- rentiy into nothingness. The enthusiasm which was represented in large cogs attons has cooled down, and the fruits having proved, like the apples of the Dead Sea, mere ashes to the lips, produce bitter disappointment. It is not so, however, in Great Britain and Ireland. A teeling of discontent and hostility to the gov- ernment has sproad over the three kingdoms; and this feeling possesses a more extensive sig- nification than is involved in the wrongs ot Ireland, I: is, in fact, s general upbeaving of sentiment among the lower classes in England, Seotland and Ireland against the whole system of the English aristocracy, governmental, social and feudal, all of which compose the amalgam that is called government The present state of affairs in England assimilates very closely to that of the Jacquerie in France, or the condition of socicty that preceded the Frenth Revolution. The same restlessness of the working classes, the same hostility to the tocracy, the same dissatisfaction at secing the capital and wealth of the country in the hands of a fow which created national assem- blies and brought the sans culoties, like a turgid stream, into the streets of Paris, and furnished Marats and St. Justs and St. Simons with materials to work upon, are present to- day in Great Britain, though operating in a milder f This is the reason why what is called F is spreading. The poor English are as badly off as tho Irish, There are in England to-day a million of paupers—men, women and childrea—living on public charity. This is the lowest of the lower class; but there is a class above them who are not yeb the recipients of eleemosynary subsistence, and this class has evidently to a great extent joined the Fenian movement, al- though they do not call themselves Fenians. In fact, what is called Venianism in Great Britain, where it has taken a practical shape, is nothing more than a universal hostility to the whole system of government which per- vades the working classes—a hostility onhanced by jealousy of the few who hold ali the land and grasp all the wealth and enjoy all tho luxuries of the country, while the lower classes barely subsist, even when they labor hardest, and a million of them, in England alone, all the degrading position of paupers. This is the root and branch of Fenlanism in Great Britain. Nor will extending the suffrage to a’! larger number of voters settle the question. Reform bills are inoperative in stemming the tide of revolutionary sentiment that now exists in England. They may probe the wound, but they cannot heal it, The land system, the feudal aristocracy, the domination of capital in the hands of a few famities—these are the political sores which must be cured before we shall cease to hear of British Fenianism. Revenue Frauds—Where to Find Them. The recent statement of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the collection of the Internal Revenue tax presents some curious facts concerning the falling off in the revenue during the year 1867, and shows that in the districts where President Johnson removed cerwain assessors and collectors and appointed men in their places solely on his own respon- sibility, without consulting Mr. Commissioner Rollins or heeding the Tenure of Office law, the government was saved large sums of money, owing to the comparatively small deficit, ising, no doubt, from the larger absence of fraud in those districts. For in- stancé, Mr. McQulloch shows that in all the two hundred and forty districts into which the country is divided there was a difference of revenue between the years 1866 and 1867 of $29,697,441. The number of districts in which the President appointed officials without the recommendation of Mr. Rollins was twenty, and the number of districts with that recom- mendation was one hundred and nineteen. “The average falling off per district,” says the Secretary, “in the one hundred and nine- teen districts in which the President made re- movals and appointments on the recommenda- tion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is $160,942. The average falling off in the twenty districts in which the President made removals without consulting the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is $46,470.” From all the facts and figures before him Mr. MCculloch comes to this conclusion, that in the twenty districts where the President acted on his own responsibility “the falling off of the receipts trom 1867, a3 compared with 1866, was only $46,470 per district, a relative gain per dis- trict, as compared with the other two hundred and twenty districts, of $34,293—an aggregate gain in the twenty districts of $1,685,868 and an increase of revenue to the country. Had changes been made in the other two hundred and twenty districts with like results the gain would have amounted to $18,544,552.” There- fore, whatever further deficiencies may turn up ia tho Internal Revenue receipts, we know exactly where to look for them, and it will evidently not be in those districts where Andy Johnson makes his own appointments and re- movals. Inrervationa, Corrricnt.—The meeting which took place on Thursday evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel calls our attention once more to the vexed question of international copyright. We wish the International Copy- right Association all success and promise them every encouragement. The present sys- tem is no advantage to the American people, but the reverse. To a class of publishers it is certainly an advantage, but it is the advantage of the thief. To the public, however, and to literary men in parsicular, it is a great and crying evil. American literary men will never be able successfully to compete with the literary men of other nations until some inter- national copyright system is established. BALL OF THE CALEDONIAN CLUB. The eleventh annual ball of the New York Caledonian Ciub came off last night at Irving Hall. It was acomplete success in evory senso of the word. A largo number of invited guests from the different cities throughout the country were present on the occasion, and very many of the officers o: U eniani Stoves in Railroad Cars. Railroad accidents nowadays are invested with a new and horrible interest. In most of the later disasters a collision, misplaced switch or broken rail is attended with the destruction of the train by fire. The terrible scene at Angola is still fresh in our recollec- tion when a similar accident, fortunately unattended with loss of life, is reported from Ohio. The train struck a broken rail, was thrown offan embankment and set on fire by the overturned stoves and broken kerosene lamps. There is not the slightest reason why railroad companies should subject passengers and their motive property to the danger of fire. Stoves and kerosene lamps are entirely uanecessary, for the cars may be heated by steam or hot air pipes from the engine, and sufficient supply of candles would be better than dangerous fluid for lighting purposes. These are obvious risks to travellers and should be removed. If the legislatures of the different States take the matter in their hands and compel railroad companies to adopt the neces- sary precautions against fire, which assumes its most frightful aspect in a railroad car, there will be none of the Angola style of massacre to chronicle in disasters on railroads. It is bad enough to be smashed and ground between cars in a collision or fall from a precipice, without having the supplementary horror of being roasted to dpath. the old Scottisn flag—a rampant lion on a white jaid—vccupiod a prominent position. The standard of the Caledonian Club, backed the standard of St. Androw, by Emme opposite to it at end of the ballroom. e company, although large, was very (ashionabie, yet plaids seemed to predominate tppoued iu ful eonuane und presented om exceedingly appeared {u full costume handsome appearance, viewed from the balcony, Thor geatiomen in tho galleries ‘wore present merely as im the dancing, which e evening and continued morning, when all returned wero very many ladies and and in the spectators was commenced early i uptl an early hour to th to their Lomos weit satisied with their hight’s pleasure at tho eleventh anauai ball of the Caledonian Chub, DELEGATES TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION, The following havo peen chosen to represent the First Assembly district of Chatauqua county im the Republi can State Convention:—W. sessions, M, P, Kemus and MO. Ries, Mossrs, Goorge A, Batoheller, Warren Duke and Joseph Barnes wore yesterday cleoted dologates from the Second district of Gian cout ‘The resolutions of the Convention favor Graat and Featoa for Presi deo’ aud Vice Presidonm. FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. ~~ An Italian Fleet Ordered to~ the Parana River. Proceedings of the Southern Recon- struction Conventions, ITALY. Naval Expedition to South America—A Fleet for the Parana River. Lonvos, Jan, 31, 1868, Despatches received from Fiorence ‘last night allege that the Italian government is about to send out a naval expedition to the Rio de la Plata, South America. Ne- thing is known as to the causes or the object of this movement, Prime Minister Menabrea, when interrogated on the subject, declined to give any explanation. ‘It 1s furthermore reported that an Italian fleet is now lying in the Bay of Naples which is preparing to sail for South America, Naries, Jan. 31—Evening. ‘The Italian fleet now in this harbor, which has been getting ready for sea, has received orders to sail forth- with for the Rio Parana, Paraguay. All information in regara to the expedition is rigor- ously withheld by the government and the naval officials, Its destination only is known. PRUSSIA. Carl Schurz at a Ministerial Di Barus, Jan. General Carl Schurz to-day dined with Count von Bis- marck and the members of the Federal Council of the North German States, AUSTRIA. The Legislative Session. Viavwa, Jan, 31, 1868, The Reichsrath will reassembie in this city on the 1h of February. FRANCE. The Bank Retura. Pans, Jan. 31, 1868, The bullion in the Bank of France, according to the weekly statement just issued, has increased 15,600,000 francs, CHINA. The Anti-Ru War Movement. Lonpow, Jan; 31, 1868. Dr. Armenius Vambery, the well known travoller ia Central Asia, has written a letter to the London Times, in which he proves the absurdity of the reports that the Chinese government is preparing a hosiilo movement against the Russians on the borders of the ompiro, THE NEW DOMINION. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. The Proposed Repen ithe British North American Confederation N Monreeat, Jan. 31, 1868, 1o'Clock P. M. ‘The anti-confederate repeal movement in Nova Scotia causes some sensation here, It is believed that the government made overtures to Hon, James Howe to induce him to renounce his opposition to tho new order of things, but they failed, Mr. Howe remaining faithful to the interests of his province. THE PRESS TELEGRAMS. Fire in Quebec—Proposed Suspension of the Corvoration. Quanto, Jan, 31, 1868. A fire broke out tn Findlay Market last night and destroyed a considerable amount of property, which is covered by insurance, A petition to Parl it to suspend the corporation and placo the affairs im the bands of commissiouers ap- pointed by the government bas been sigued by a large number of citizens. Fire in Ki ston. Kinoston, Jan. 31, 1868, A fire on King stroot last night desiroyed three build- ings occupied as stores, The loss was $20,000. Decision In the Great Book Piracy Cave at Toronto. Toronto, Jan. 31, 1868. The celebrated case of Dun, Wiman & Co. againat Bradstreet & Son, for book piracy, was argued in the Court of Chancery to-day, and resulted in a decree for othe plaintiff, carrying costs, VIRGINIA. The Convention=Settlement With the State of West Virgintn—Repert of the Franchiao Committee. Ricumonp, Jan, 31, 1868. In the Convention to-day soveral additional articies of tho report of the Finance Committee were adopted, one of them providing for a settlement with the State of West Virginia about her share of the State debt, and the appropriation of the amount, when paid, to the pay- ment of the public debt of Virgimia, ‘The franchise report will come up next week, Three members of the committee signed the majority report, disfranchising those persons who are disfranchised by the Reconstruction acts. A substitute is reported by = republican member ot the committce and a mivority made by the conservative mombers of the NORTH CAROLINA. Adoption of the Article on Report on the Mili- tia-Expulsion of a Reporter for Calltiag “Niggers.”” Loathing Rataom, Jan, 31, 1968, The Convention yesterday adopted, with a slight amendment, the article on the Governor and other Ex- ecutive State officers, as reported. Reports on suffrage were presented, A committes of five was appointed to report the names of persons enti- tled to be relieved from political disabilities, The previous question was used liberally by the domi- and denoanced by the o itton. tp "Ne of the” Comunittoo on Militia was considered in Committee of the Whole. It requires on between tho age of ‘thowt diatinction of color, pt those who have retv- ye to perform military duty, @: gious scraplos. ‘The Convention, by a test vote. tabled Mr. Durham's meral arnnesty. w daily, The Carolinéan, was y the President for the use of is Feport. SOUTH CAROLINA. resolution in favor of of thy The Convention-Twelve Thousand Dolince Received from the State Treasurer. CHancestos, Jam, 31, 1968. Nothing of genoral importance was done ia tho Ro-g construction Convention here’ to-day. The Convention adjourned till Monday. Twelve thousand dollars in State bills have been re. ceived from the State Treasurer for the expouses of tho von, tracted the civil authorities to gon of the presidoat, who assautiod the reporter on Monday. ——$<—_——_——_ GEORGIA ine Disastera The Soheonct Lone Staria a Gale=-Tea Pe at, Jan, Sd, 1963, The schooner Lone Star, for Hilton Head, with woo passengers and three dock hands, ioft bere on Tuesday ‘and was blown out to sea, sho was overhauled oy the bark Eureka, from A\ Only three persona wore saved and in such stion they cauaot tel what became of the others, The passaugers wore alt nogroes. The Convention-Co of tho Bilt ot Rights=Pestponement of the Radical Mect- ing=Proposed Investigacion Inte the Action ef the Mnvor of Savannah. ATLANta, Jan, 51, 1958. Tho Bill of Rights was completed to-day by the Re conatrnction Convention, and the sutject of relief was