The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1868, Page 4

‘4 NEW YORK H BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PEOPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirtis Newt axp ak Maucmonnss. BowBRyY 1 — - i IBY, THEATRE, Bowery,—Axrisan or Lyons: NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel Srawers ov Naw Yous. ann THEATRE, Broadway.~Fancuoy, NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tue Waite Fawn, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. ~ Pavtine. pe el THBATRE.—Lzs Beavx Mrssixces px Bois- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Grunastics, RST BIANIsM, &C. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Hanton Comst- Ration Taours axp Mixtature Cincos. KELLY & LRON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, Danoxs, Eccuntricrnxs, &c.—Granp Durou “5.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermio- rian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING 4ND BURLESQUES, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Comia Vocarim, Necno Minsrumisr, £0. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, €72 Broadway.— Bauer, Fancs, Panrominn, dc. STEINWAY HALIs—Gaaxp Concent, LYRIC HALL, No, 7% Sixth avenue.—Ma. Jauns B. Muspoou's Reapinas, ' BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stree.—Tam Piemm. Matinee at 2, MES, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Maer Sruaet—Esumnacpa HOOLRY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklya,—Eymioriax Minerantay, Bactaps avo Bunuesavrs. nkw YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.= (OE AND ART. . New York, Tuesday, February 11, 1868. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated Yess torday evening, February 10. ‘The Italian Minister in London forwarded his resigna- tion te the King. The’ German Customs Conference is likely to promote a reunion of Fatherland, Fenian riots, attended with deadly assaults on the police, took place in the streets of Cork, Warwick, England, was in active precaution against a Fenian surprise, The Chinese imperalists claim very decisive victories ever the rebel forces, United States Minister Burlin- game was at Shanghae, bound for America on a special misaion from the Emperor in Pekin. The natives were thrown intoa panic in Shanghae and Ningpo by ex- periencing shocks of earthquake, CONGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday, after the transaction of some Unimportant business, the Reconstruction bill was taken up and Messrs, Harlan, of 1owa, and Tipton, of Nevada, Made speeches upon it, The floor was secured by Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, and the senate adjourned. In the House the usual number of bills and resola- tions for reference were offered under the Monday call of States, among them ono to provide fer the exporta- tion of distilled spirits in bond, gud another providing for a gradual return to specie paymonts by the exchange of gold for logal tender notes after the Ist of December at the rate of one dollar in gold for one dollar and tnirty cents in currency, the rate to be iowered one cent every succeeding month, A resolution declaring that the capital ought to be rexoved to the Valley of the Mississippi was rejected by 77 yens to 97 nays, ‘The drawing of seats for members was then proceeded with, A resolution was adopted referring all evidence on impeachment before the Judiciary Committee to the Reconstruction Committee. The Executive, Legisla- tive and Judicial ApPropriation bill was considered in Comm)ttee of the Whole without a vote, THE LIGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday notice was given of a bill to ainend the ordinances relative to street paving contracts in New York, A resolution was adopted requesting the Comptrolier, for the purpose of equalizing taxation, to furnish a lust of all stock corporations in the State, with the amount of their capital, funded debt, numbor of shares, Ac. es in the Assombly the death of Assemblyman Reed was announced and an adjournment was taken in respect to his memory. THE CITY. The trial of Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., commenced before the Board of Prosbyters at the chapel of St. Peter's church, West Twentieth street, yesterday. A letter frow Jay Cooke was read by the President of the Board, urging (hat the laity were on the side of Mr. Tyng and What the Board ought not to render a decision calculated wo increase differences in the church. The evidence for the prosecution was taken, showing that Mr. Tyng preached in a Methodist church at New Brunswick, read prayers out of a Mothod|st book of Common Prayer, gave out the lives of purely Methodist hymas, and were, instead of the orthodox episcopal surplice and gown, a fall ault of Methodistic black. The assemblage that formed the audience at the trialenjoyed some of the comica! portions of it with great zest, ‘The logisiative Committee on Privileges and Elec. tions, at present mvestigating the grounds upon which Mr. Clausen petitions against the return of Mr. Van Brunt as member of Assembly from this city, resumed its sittings yesterday at the Metropolitan Hote A quorum not being present the proceedings were ad- jJourned till Saturday next, at the Brevoort Hall, ‘The American #xchange National Bank, on Broad. way and Cedar street, was discovored to have lost about sixty thousand dollars yesterday by the specula- tions of its assistant cash ier. There were 137 deaths ia Brooklyn during th it week, of which twenty-three were (rom ascariet feve and one from smallpox. ‘the case of the United States ws. eighteen bales of olankets commenced before Judge Blatchford in the Vaited States District Court was resumed yesterday, and was not closed at the rising of the court, Adjourned till this morning. Jn the United States District Court yesterday, Judge Benedict presiding, Kele Erickson was put on trial ona charge of having stolen frem one Herman Grott, on board the steamship Muscoota, $220. The case being submitted to a jury, that bedy failed to agree on a ver- dict and were discharged, ‘The hearing in the case of (he United States vs. Jacob Lobenstein, charged with ravning an iilicit distitiery, was commenced yesterday before Judge Benedict, and adjourned till this morning. Judge Benedict dolivered juggment in the United States District Vourt, Brooklyn, yesterday in the case of the steamship Circassian, whied is libellod for salvage. ‘The facts in the case are that the steamer was on fire aud the libellants Inbored to save her at the risk of their lives, at the request of the own that the facts are sufficient to nm Libeants, but dismissed the plea on account of an irreg- larity, giving leave, however, to flea proper pleading vn payments of costs of the exception. in the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before i. order Biackett, Richard Hayes pleaded guilty to an judie\ meat eherging him with stealing a gold wateb and eed to the State Prison for three years, alleged Fifth avenue dia- mond swindler, who ie charged with obtaining $2,165 worth of diamends from Tiffany & Co. on falee repre- sentations, came up and’ after some eyideuce was ad- journed, The stock market was strong end at intervals excited Government securities were firm. yosierday. Gold a (he National Drove Yards, where 1,200 head were om sale, ard prices were generally ‘ce. per Ib, bigher, extras soiling at 18},0, a 19¢,; prime, 17}0. a 180; fret qua- Jity, 16)gc & 170.5 fair to good, 16K%e. a 16%C,; ordinary, 1dc. a l6%e., and inferior, 1ic, a18¢ Milch ooWs Wore dull and prices favored the purehaser; com- mon to extra wi juoted at $450 $110. Veal calves advanced about per Ib, with o geod demand and light offoriogs; extras selling at 12%. ; prime, 12440. @ t4o,, aud iuferier and commou, 10, = 116, NEW YORK AERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1868. Sheep and lambs were somewhat higher. fhe deménd ‘was tolerably active and the offerings were light, Ex- tras were quoted at Tc. a 8Xc,, prime 7c. a T3¢c., and inferior to good 5c, a6Xc, Swine were fully Xe. per 1b, higher thag on Saterday, and im fer demand, We quote heavy prime 8%c, a 9¢., fair to good 8%c. a 8%c., and common and rough 83c, ‘The total receipts for the Wook Were 4,821 Deeves, 58 milch cows, 565 veal calves, 24,468 sheep and lambs and 5,613 swine. MISCELLANEOUS. Judge Nelson delivered yesterday in the Supreme Court at Washington the unanimous decision of that body in the Georgia and Mississippi cases, It is a very lemgthy and exhaustive opinion, and declares that the court bas mo juriadiction tz cases of a political character between the general government and individual States, In effect it gives to Congress complete supremacy in the Political affairs of the country. ‘The Alabama election resulted in a complete defeat of the proposed radical constitution, notwithstanding five days were allowed to poll the vote. In the Constitutional Convention yesterday a resola- tion was adopted that the Judiciary Committee report their complete and revised article to-day and that the Teport be referred to the Committee on Revision, which is also directed to report, Reports on the Indians, in- dustrial interests and practice of medicine were rejected, Resolutions were adopted recommending further provi- sion for disabled soldiers and requesting the Committee on Revision to report on Wednesday morning such arti- cles as they had passed on, directing the final adoption and engrossmeat thereot as soon as acted on by the Convention, and directing the socretary to notify by telegraph each absent delogate that the Conventien will consider the report of the Committee on Revision on Wednesday morning next. In the Mississippi Convention yesterday resolutions were introduced and referred proposing to disfrapchise for five years ali planters who prevented their colored employés from attending elections and political meet- ings, and also declaring released from all debts persons who take oath to being worth no more than $20, The latter was offered to make ap supposed deficiencies in the Bankrupt law of Congress, There were rumors in circulation last week in New Orleans that vessols, mon, arms and ammunition to aid the Yuoatan rebellion were to leave that port, Generals Marquez and Gomez wore said to be at the bottom of the affair, Hon. James Guthrie yesterday sent his resignation as United States Senater to the Governor of Kentucky on account of his continued illness, and the Logisiature will elect his successor on Tuesday next, Sunday night, in portions of the Northwest, was the coldest of the season, The thormometer stood yester- day morning at Madison, Wis., 34 degrees bolow zero; at Dixon, Il., St, Paul and Winona, Minn., 40 degrees below, and at Sparta, Wis., 61 degrees below. At the same timo the thermometer at Key West, Fla., stood at ‘15 degrees above zero. m of the Supreme Mr. Justice Nelson yesterday, in the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered the opinion of the court upon the Mississippi and Georgia reconstruction injunction cases. It will be remembered that last summer these cases came up in the form of a petition, in behalf of each of tho States of Mississippi and Georgia, for an injunction to restrain Andrew Johnson, Edwin M. Stanton, U. S. Grant, Gen- eral Ord and General Pope from the execution of the reconstruction laws of Congress in Mis- sissippi and Georgia, on tne plea of the un- constitutionality of those laws, It will also. be remembered that after a fuil argument on both sides these applications were dismissed on the ground of a want of jurisdiction. The opinion of Judge Nelson, elaborate and comprehen- sive, rests upon the foundation that the issuc between these parties being purely political it was not within the jurisdiction of the court, and must accordingly be dismissed. In this opinion, too, all the judges concur. Now, it seems to us that in this decision the Supreme Court virtually declares that it cannot interfere in this work of Southern reconstruc- tion—that it is a matter exclusively belong- ing to Congress. In short, we cannot perceive, after this comprehensive opinion of yesterday, how any application or appeal affecting the constitutionality of the reconstruction laws can be entertained by the Supreme Court, because, in assuming to take cognizance of any of such eases, the court touches a political issue and invades the exclusive power of Congress to declare what is and what is not a State ander the constitution. The opinion delivered by Chief Justice Taney in the Dorr-Rhode Island case and certain opinions of Chief Justice Marshall bearing upon the same question are in accordance with this view of the subject— that the Supreme Court can have nothing to do, and will have nothing to do, with any case affecting the political status of the ten outside States while they remain unrecognized as States by Congress. The Congressional bills, therefore, lately in- troduced to regulate the Supreme Court may now be permitted to lie on the table. The court is out of this reconstruction fight. The issue is between this Congress and this admin- istration, and between the radicals and con- servatives, in the struggle for the next Con- gress and the next Presidency. The Tunnel to Broeklyn. At the last seston of the State Legislature a company was incorporated to build s bridge over the East river to Brooklyn. The abuses, inconveniences and dangers of the East river ferries induced a general demand for some such means of communication between the two cities, and the hope was entertained that a remedy for all existing troubles had at last been discovered. But the bridge project, for some unexplained reason, seems suddenly to halt, and the best informed persons believe that it ie destined to be a complete failure, for the reason that it is impossible to build bridge that will not obstruct the navigation. This impression is strengthened by the recent introduction in the State Senate of a bill to in- corporate ® company empowered to lay s pneumatic tunnel between New York and Brooklyn. This, although a more modern inven- tion than a bridge, is regarded as @ practicable undertaking, and at least deserves a trial. It would be free from all the objections that at- tach to the project of a bridge, and it would remove all the annoyances, delays and dangers of an overcrowded ferry, There can be 20 reasonable opposition to the passage of this bill, If men of capital choose to invest money in the experiment it can do no barm, even If it proves a failure, and it will be productive of great public convenience if it proves to be a success. The best thing that the Legislature can do will be to grant the charter which has been asked for, and thus let the undertaking have a fair trisl,’ ‘The Impeachment Questien—The Comme- teu Ameng the Radicals. There was s time when, if Jobm C. Calhoun took a pinch of enuff, all South Carolina took to sneezing. At this day, if anything goes wrong at Washington, or in Alabama or Texas, the hue and ery is revived of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Since the failure to indict on Asbley’s accusations the impeachers have given notice from time to time that the project has not been abandoned, and that if “we take up again the recreant Andy we shall swing him as high ss Haman.” Some say that the Inte sensational impeachment newspaper de- spatches from Washington were contrived by the gold gamblers of Wall street, and that until “Old Thad” makes his report these gentry will continue to speculate in the ups and downs of the gold room, buying on a fall and selling on ® rise. “Impeachment is but the jackass of the gold gamblers, and they trot him out on every pretext,” says Jones. “No, sir; it ls the old scarecrow, the Mumbo-Jumbo of the radicals, which they flaunt in the wind now and then only to frighten Andy Johnson,” saysSmith. “You are both wrong, gentlemen,” says Brown; “there is a plot im this thing, » deep and cunningly contrived plot among the radicals to bring out Grant and to swing John- son;” and we think that the facts and the testi- mony are in favor of Brown, though Jones likewise hits the bull’s eye with the gold gamblers, On the question of contesting the return of Stanton to the War Department Grant says one thing and Johnson says another “diametrically the reverse” of what Grant says. Grant has his believers and Jobnson has his, and the Johnson party are sure that when tho Presi Gent's reply to the General’s last impertinent letter is fired it will knock the Appomattox apple tree into a cooked hat, But this bomb- shell hangs fire, and a knowing consorvative organ, devoted to Johnson but pledged to Grant, declares that upon this question of veracity some members of the Cabinet “didn’t exactly see it as tho President put it; that the shrewd Secretary of State has even intimated to Mr. Johnson that he was going it a little too strong ;” that this is true as gospel, and that “this is the sticking point” in the matter of Johnson’s reply. “Call you this backing your friends?” Of what value is that servant who carries his master through ninety-nine tight places but abandons him in the one hun- dredth? Mr. Adams is coming home from England, and surely after this we may believe that Mr. Seward has become sick and tired of the cares and troubles and ugly scrapes of the State Department, especially when called upon to fight Grant. But whether Grant is right or Johnson wrong, or vice versa, in his recollections of these aforesaid understandings and conversations, is a mere matter of moonshino. The question is, what will they do in Congress with the charge made against tho President by General Grant of a deliberate design to violate the law? The subject is before the Com- mittee on Reconstruction, and “Old Thad,” a Lancaster county lawyer, is said to pro- nounce it a good case of impeachment, His committee and sub-committee sre at work hunting up and examining witnesses. They bave commenced with certain newspaper cor- respondents; and when through with them Grant and Stanton will be examined and cross-examined; and then will follow the members of tho Cabinet, from Seward to Stanbery; and then, perhaps, some of the Southern Military District commanders, Governors and “Johnson officeholders,” may be sent for, inasmuch as the leading radical organ of this city declares that in Florida “there was a dark intrigue, engineered by a Jobnson officeholder, and sustained bya lavish outlay of money, to break up the Convention in a row, and thereupon set up a shout, to be echoed from Maine to Arizona, that reconstruc- tion under the acts of Congress had failed, ex- ploded, gone up.” Furthermore, says the same authority, ‘‘how far the Treasury has been bled in aid of this conspiracy we may never know, but the engineer was evidently lavish of other money than his own.” This is impeachment fuel thrown into the Reconstruction Committee. It shows that there is a serious purpose to make up a case this time which will not fxil. Some of the so-called republican conservatives in the Ashley experi- ment, dubious about the position of Grant, were afraid to risk it. Now the coast is clear, and it is thonght that an indictment from the House can in a fortnight be pushed through the Senate, to say nothing of the Edmunds bill for the suspension of the President on being arraigned for trial. But what is the prospect? The case of the radicals is desperate. The late election in Ala- bama for the ratification of the new constitu- tion and the election of members of Congress, &c., having turned out a failure in falling to bring out majority of ‘the registered voters, some one of the various new bills pending in Congress must be hurried through, or Johnson must be removed, or all these reconstruction doings from Virginia to Texas will fail by default of the people. In this view Johnson’s removal is most desirable to the radicals, and the failure of the Alabama election to meet the requirement of the law may possibly turn the scale of impeachment in favor of “Old Ben Wade.” The Prosidential election approaches, and if these outside States meantime are not brought in the battle may be lost, even under the banner of Grant. While, therefure, the legal materials for a case against Mr. Johnson are apparently frivolous and preposterous at best, the necessities of the adverse party are powerful and urgent; and after all that we have seen we are prepared for anything from this radical Congress. The mountain ig in labor again, and its delivery may be another ridicu- lous mouse ; but it may be a roaring monster, with seven heads and ten horns, Tue Tareatenep Ovsien Fasine.—The pro- tracted cold wenther of the season has almost completely closed up the ordinary sources of supply of the delicious oyster, without which New York is miserable enough, The ice in the Sound and its estnaries, and the great mass of frozen water covering the famed Princess Bay, have effectually prevented the oystermen from gathering their usual supplies, and we have been threatened with » femine that touches the sensibilities of all our people of high and low degree. Fortunately we ean draw limited if not abundant stores from another vast repository, whore the winter aun shines with fervor enough to keop the oyster- man’s fields clear ot ice. The prolific waters F of Virginia are sviil open to us, aud we shall | not yet experience absolute want. The steam | mendations. In the future, as in the past, yachts of the Hanatp announce exclusively that a fleet of five vessels had arrived on Sun- day from Virginia, bringing from five to seven thousand bushels of the precious bivalves, and we learn that more are coming. Thus, by our enterprise in obtaining ship news exclusively for the Hepatp, our readers have been able to learn that there is no danger of their being cut off from the greatest luxuries in the people’s reach. ‘The Proposed Hoeform in Naval Adminis- tratiea. We are not surprised to learn that a strong opposition has developed itedlf in one depart- ment of the naval service against the new bill creating a naval board of survey. The ground of opposition is that it does not provide for a marine engineer and naval constructor in the board. The same course of reason- ing they adopt, and by which they reach the conclusion that the board would be inofficient without representatives from those bureaus, applies with equal force to the claims of surgeons and paymasters, and it might be logi- cally pushed to embrace chaplains and pro- fessors of mathematics, The marine officers should have s representative, and the sail- makers, too; for although our officers are happy in cutting out sails, they are not always able to out and make up a suit of sails, and must rely upon the professional sailmaker to perform the work; therefore has the sail- meker a claim toa place in the board. We may follow this line of reasoning out ad infini- tum. If the elaims of all these people were allowed, instead of a compact, responsible board of three, we should have an unwieldly body of eleven or more, whioh would defeat the end aimed at by the bill. Persons who make these absurd claims do not know the true principles of successful naval administration or the requirements of an efficient department. The organization of the Navy Department should correspond to that of a perfect man- of-war. In the latter we have the paymaster, to take charge of stores and provisions; a surgeon, to care for the sick and wounded ; a marine officer, to command the guard; the engineer, to control the engines, and the officers and crew, to care for the decks, each and every one performing his separate duty and all har- moniously working together under tho control of one head, the captain. He has absolute control of the ship in all its divisions, but carries out his will through obedient sub- ordinates. When he ceases to have supreme authority anarchy takes the place of system, and the value of the ship asa man-of-war is gone forever. In the Nevy Department there is one supreme head, with subordinate branches. Each branch is a component and essontial part of the whole, which must be controlled by one head if its administration is to be efficient and successful. In the nature of things it is found impracti- éable at the commencement of each new administration to find certain essential quali- fications combined in one person to form this head. Few statesmen are familiar with naval affairs; hence the necessity of giving him an assistant who has the necessary professional education and i« familiar with the details and wants of the position. But the dif- fieulty in finding ® proper and per- fectly responsible person, free from political bias and influence and private schemes, to fill this important position of as- sistant to the Secretary of the Navy, has led intelligent and thoughtful men to suggest the création of this professional ald to the depart- ment in the persons of a board of officers of the highest scientific attainments, the widest experience and the best executive ability. To them should be assigned the extensive and im- portant duties of the assistant of the head of the department. To obviate strong objections to similar boards this commission should be reduced to the smallest number practicable— viz., three. We have shown how the captain of a ship has’ full control on board his own vessel, and consequently over the battery, en- gines and personnel. To a greater extent the commander-in-ohief of a fleet has under his control the captains of the individual ships of his fleet, each a petty monarch subject to his will, It is clear that in selecting officers to govern the destinies of the navy these great commanders-in-chief will have the preference far above and beyond all others, and to mix with them on such a board their subordinates would be as great a blunder as could be well perpetrated, aud one that could only emanate from ignorant, narrow-minded and jealous men, Such an idea cannot be entertained for & moment. The distinguished admirals who would com- pose the board of survey can no more build engines than they can make topsails, guns or ship bread, but they are the very best judges of those things when made. The best art critics are not always artists, and it is possible, we conceive, that the Chief of the Bureau of Steam Enginecring may be able to design and even hutld an engine, and yat may not prove a good judge of engines. English officers, though not naval architects, were excellent judges of ships, and they so appreciated French models that the French prizes retained in their navy ‘could be numbered by the hundred. If two ships are compared in respect to their diaplace- ment and area of midship section—say the English iron-clad Achilles and our cruiser Wampanoag—and it is found that compact, durable and simply constructed engines drive the ponderous six thousand ton iron-clad four- teen knots on hour, while the fragile, compli- cated and expensive engines drive the Ameri- can clipper no faster and in two hours is almost a wreck, any tyro could decide which type of ongine to select as the better. Nor is there so dull » midshipman in the junior class at Annapolis who could notgive a just opinion upon the relative merits of the Lancaster and Guerriere—the former am success in every respect, the latter a complete failure. We do not want too many staff officere in the new board. The doctor, engineer and paymaster would prove only an encumbrance. Why, then, increase the numbers by the addi- tion of these lower grades, rendering the board heterogeneous, ineffective and irre- sponsible? It is folly to create a board which possesses within itself elements of dis- integration and failure. Our admirals com- manded their squadrons and fought their battles without staff officers to aid them, and they can certainly govern the navy without them, During the. war the staff officers did theie work bravoly, efficiently and in splendid style, but did it at their respective and proper pow, and rightly earned the highest com- they should Labor in their own peculiar spheres of duty, and not seek to enter on higher and to them foreign plans of action, where they are not needed and where they do not right- fully belong, and we shall see the service under the new organization a credit to our country and the admiration of the world. We there- fore urge in the interest of our navy the neces- sity of creating = board of three officers, as the bill provides, which shall at once enter upon thelr labors, the final result of which will show us that we can have an efficient navy at moderate cost, instead of the present expensive, nondescript and worthless affair. Defeat ef Reconstruction in Alabama. Our latest advices from Alsbams indicate with almost positive certainty that the pro- posed new constitution has been defeated by some ten thousand votes. This result was not unexpected, as the white conservatives refused almost en masse to vote, and a “black list,” not very lengthy, is prepared for publication, giving the names of those whites who did. What Congress will now do we may be able to state ina few days. It is not likely to let its whole plan of reconstruction go by the board on account of this fiasco in Alabama; for the fate of the new constitution there is no doubt indicative of that which awaits the con- stitutions in most of the other proscribed States. And whatever steps Congress may adopt to press Alabama, willy nilly, into the Union will probably be taken as a base of operations for the remaining States. This will be applying the principle of “coercion” in ® new and novel manner. But, reasoning from past experience, there is no legislation, how- ever unique or unparalleled, which the pre- sent Congress is not capable of initiating. Meanwhile, the radical journals are already beginning to advocate the adoption of harsher measures toward those obdurate and obstinate States which refuse to accept the Congressional Plan of reconstruction and restoration. We may, therefore, look for something exciting from Washington in this connection before the expiration of many days. The Herald’s Special Telegrams—Practice of Our Contemporaries. We have incurred a very heavy expenditure for the perfect collation and instant transmis- sion to the Herarp of important news from all parts of the world, and our correspondents have been instructed to keep our readers in- formed by special telegrams of all such events immediately they transpire, no matter where or how distant the point may be. We have used the Atlantic cable for such purpose almost daily from the moment it was laid down to last Saturday evening, when we received the highly important despatches from Paris, Madrid and Alexandria, Egypt, which we published on Sun- day morning, announcing the sudden change in Napoleon’s policy towards the Pope and report- ing the advance of the British troops in Abys- sinia. This intelligence is placed freely at the ser- vice of our contemporaries of the cily press ; but in many instances our special telograms are taken bodily and transferred to their columns without even the courtesy of an acknowledgment. Of this there was a re- markable instance yesterday morning, when our special cable despatches from France, Spain and Egypt were taken from the Hera and given to the public as having been sent to another paper. In this we have a just subject for complaint. We merely ask in such cases an ordinary credit for our enterprise and outlay, a return which we will not fail to reciprocate should any of the other metropolitan journals publish exclu- sive news of a character suffictently interesting to be deemed worthy of transfer to the pages of the Heratp. What Shall Be Done with Hell Gate? Thore is a movement in the State Logisla- ture on the removal of the obstractions at Heli Gate to the eastern entrance to New York harbor; there is a movement on the same question in the New York Common Council, and the subject is even heard of through all the din of nigger reconstruction in the United States Senate. It is to be hoped that a matter agitated in so many lawmaking bodies may not fall quietly out of sight before something is practically done to se on foot the necessary measures for opening » good channel at Hell Gate and. otherwise improving the East river so as to make the entrance to thie port by Long Island Sound as practicable as that by the Narrows. The advantages that this measure will secure to our city are hardly calculable ; but it will bave other advantages than these. It will have its most immediate result in the greater facility with which this port can be reached in the winter, We shall have done with that dreadful catalogue that the wintry storms bring us of richly freighted merchant- men driven on Barnegat and other points of the Jersey const in their attempts to come by Sandy Hook. Winter passages will be shorter also ; for it now often happens that ships after “having made Montauk are five or six days before they come into port. By the eastern passage such ships would have a short and easy rua. Passenger steamers coming by the Sonnd could, if desired, land their passengers at the cast end of Long Island and save a day on the trip, just as now the French Havre steamers land their passengers at Brest. Not the leaet of the advantages would be the immense development this eastern passage would give to the upper part of our islaud and to the shores of the Sound. Messrs, Legislators, hurry up the Hell Gate opening. Pavssta ann rae Unirep Statas.—Where is Mr. Bancroft? Veradventure he sleepeth or is ona far journey or is overwhelmed with bis Russian honors. Somewhere our distinguished ambassador no doubt is, but judging trom the intimations of the Associated Press he is prac- tically non est at Berlin. Carl Schurz, who has become enamoured of the réles of Colorado Joweit and George Francis Train, is now doing the honors. We are grateful to Count Bis- marck, not ungrateful to King William and not dissatisfied with Carl Schurz; but where is the Hon. George? The Prussians are a sen- sible people; wo wish them all success; but still we ask, Where is Bancroft? * Prowance Svictpe.—An unknown man, apparently by officer White, of lot on Ninth ave- profusely from iad in the throat, Beside the man, lyii he officer found @ common pocket kuife, with it is sg he had attempted to com- mit suicide, The injured man was dressed in a light Sraveneal besras eae and high het. He wae conveyed 10 Bellevue Hospital and properly cared for, — BOOK NOTICES. Cuitp-Prcrurss Fuom Dickexs. With [lustre me? 8. Hytinge, Jr. Boston: Tickaor & The children whom Dickens has introduced into hat Various novels are among the best creations of his genius. Little Nell, the Marchioness, Paul and Fior- ence, the Fat Boy, Tiny Tim, Smike and Oliver Twist, are here brought to move to tears or to laugh- ter both children “children of a larger growth,” The illustrations are reproduced from the Diamond Edition of Dickens, Tax Broruges’ Ber; on, Wirnin Six Werxs. By Emilie Flygare Carlen, author of “Ivar; or, The Skuta-Boy,” &c. New York: Harper & Brothers. ‘This curious picture of Swedish life will interest all who have read with pleasure the novel in which the late Frederika Bremer revealed the wealth of humas nature in the cold regions of Northern Europe, Iwo brothers are represented as rivals for = young widow who jilts them both for a lover to whom she bad plighted her troth long before she was forced) to marry her defunct husband. She am last happily marries this lover, and the two brothers marry their cousins, Hilda and Bertha. How- ‘ever foreign to English aad American young ladies this novel may seem, it is a faithful picturo of life in Sweden, and, moreover, true to human nature in all countries, It is far worthier and far moro Ob for Gramatization than most of the second hand English adaptations of Freach piays with which the managers of our theatres previde the American public. A JAPANESE FUNERAL, the Japanese Jugaler—A Novel Ritual Coa- ducted by Noull Peopte. A scene novel to most Now Yorkers was enacted yes- terday morning a& No, 20 Bleecker street, the quarters of the Japanese juggling troupe, which recently madea sensation at the Academy of Music, The demise of Hah-yah-ta-kee, the foremost figure of the group whe have so often fumigated, with opium and tobacco, burned in strange-shaped pipes, the premises at No. 20 Bleecker street, has diready been recorded having eccurred om Saturday evening. Tho de- ceased, accompanied by his coadjutors im the dox- terous art, was brought to this country by Sedor De Rosa, who has since acted as interpreter and to some extent as business man for the Dickens of Japan. Ha-yab-ta-kee is said to have been a cousin of the Tycoon, though this assertion is apocryphal, and was personage both of distinction and of condition in bis mative country, He was the author of several Japanese dramas, which have been enacted with success before the assembled nobility of Japan, and had won the reputatioa of an eminent scholar, story-writer aad essayist in the literature of his native land, which renders bis death a matter of importance to his countrymen. Famous as @ gymnast aad Juggler—a rofession of far more honorable distinction in Japan than in New York— the dec came to this country near; year aince, accompanied by an effective organtzatio hibition purposes, aad was yesterday com Greenwood, without even a priest to bury him according to the ritual of his native land. In the last stages of heart disease, and holding but a brief lease of life even at the best, some misapprehension at first existed in regard te his death, a report having been circulated to the effect ‘that his end was hastened by a violent dispute upon somo business matter with bis manager. This al tion, which oozed — from — and mses sources, provi jowever, to have been utter! tafounied and” as a matter of justice to all parties it is proper that the misrepresentation sh be corrected. Ha-yah-ta-kee had been ill fora more, and quite seriously 80, during which ti re- ceived every attention, Senor De Rosa personally super- intending the manufacture of beef tea and the provision of delicacies needed or desired by the invalid. Nothing was neglected which could in any way contribute to his comfort or hasten his recovery. The attending physi- cian alleges furthermore that in his opinion the natural crisis and termination of his disease had arrived, and that the deceased could not have outlived Saturday night, judging from the extrema sévority of the aymp- toms manifested in his last visit—an allegation which may be taken as deciding the question and negativing the whisper of vague gossip, Deceased was about forty years of age, and leaves & wife, three little ones, a sister and an aged and infirin mother {n this land of strangers. Those were committed to the caro and guardianship of Setior De Rosa as ove Of the last bequests of the dying gymoast. ‘The funeral, according t0 Japanese custom, was to have taken place at eight o'clock on orning of the second day atter the demise (yesterday); but, owing te circumstances necessartly beyond the control of the relatives, the remains were not conveyed to the hearse until haifepast ten. At eight o'clock, in fact, there was scarcely an indicatton of stir at the quartors of the troupe, and it was not until nine ‘the hearseman, stopped in front of No. 20. In the courseof the next half hour, the hearse was joined by the several carriages which had been engaged for of the mourners, and in the meantim . 20 and drop. ping in through a side door at the left of the staircase the spectator found himself ushered into @ rather coid and somewhat dismat room, filled with people of every nationahty. By the stove sat several women, upon whose faces the red rash of the cold had broken out; on the table near by had been erected a pyramid of boiled rice, near which was a pan of half prepared pota- toes ; hore and there about the room were di groups of men in twos and threes, some conversing in low, eager tones, and others leisurely smoking; now and then &@ member of the press, eager to turn a penny even at a funoral, propounded some pertinent question to seior de Rosa; aud now and then was heard the suppressed clattering of a pair ot Japanose sandals, and a swarthy son or daughter of the Orient glided stealtbily into the apartment through the long paseage way which led te the interior. Threading this passage way, the spectator found himself im a sort of second interior, wanting the rice and potatoes, but in other respects quite simiiar te the iret. Here the fg tered of Japanese in the general polpourri of humanity thickened. By the stove sat in bent attitudes, as if half doubled up with the cold, the relatives of tho deceased and the various membors of the troupe; and over all things reeked a stealthy odor of mingled opium and Japanese tobacco, which insinuated itsolf quieuy but surely into one’s nostrils and into one’s clothes und into everything with which it came in contact. The rolatives of the dead and the members of the troupe grouped hereabout were in improvised mouraing--tne suddenness ef the poe ae having ae any oxten- sive Ce cep as the non- ioe of ALY priest pro- vented the full celebration of the ritual. Passing through a side door at the loft and into what ordinarily would be termed a hall bedroom, the specta- tor found himself im the presence of the dead. a silver pit which bore the name of one of nar 4 Dickenses—'‘Ha-yab-ta keo"’—in Japanose letters. seated The eyes were weirdly u; and the lips moving with a sort feicty oad of time as if they had been but the lips of a mask, of a grotesque or of an automaton. a On the left of the coffin Were seated @ couple of crone-like figures, by whom not a word was spoken, @ motion made and net @ sound permitted to break in ‘upon the singyar weirdness of the spectacie, It was as ph ‘log figure were the mouthpiece of the three, jas if in it was concentrated the moaning that might have been triply uttered. Presently, however, the spell was broken, and at balf. A. M. the coffin was borne to the hearse. and tears followed it from a crt. moving procession of swarthy faces and bare semi- shaven heads, and the remains were conveyed to the hearse, the followers thereof being assisted to their sev- eral carriages. The hearse drove off, :ho carriages drove and the masks at the window of No, 22 grinned more horribly and showed their great white teeth moro mena- cingly as the ghastly procession disappeared. @ remains were conveyed to Greenwood to be de- posited for a short ti he receiving tomb—Green- wood's Castle Garden GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. ‘The Vermont House, at Isiand Pond, Vt., was barned on Sunday night, Mr. John B. Budd, one of the oldest Philadelphia merchants engaged in the New Orleans trade, died on Sunday evening, aged seventy-one years Itis stated that the Robinson route has been posi- tively decided upon for the Intercolonial Railway by the Canadian Cabinet, A fire in Mattoon, Til, y seven buildii involving @ loss was an insurance of $14,000 morning destroyed of Ee. on which Jn Titinots compat A messenger in the em of the Merchants’ Express Compa 7 a Sienee at 8. Louis yesterday charged with eanborsiiog $700 from that company. ‘The Memphis City Council yesterday passed a resoiu- tion abolishing their fire department after the first of noxt March im consequence of the condition of the ciiy treasury. Miss Greenough, a yor! oy, Rin ton, Vt, aged enteon years, was burn on Sunday nigut, her clothes taking fire from the explosion of @ kerosend lamp. At Salem, Ind,, last Saturday, Walker B, Rodmi xilled a mG, Ca! Lag age i years, by fracturing his skall with the butt of Rodman escaped. ‘The large High choot building ia Muscatine, Iowa, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday, The Gre ia supposed to have originated from an overheated fur. mace, Loss, $25,000; fully insured, yoars of ago, commit. ted suigide at Hartford, Conn., on sunday, by takin laudanum, He was a wool sorlor trade, and kill himseif because he could get no wor! A fire broke out in the Bank of Montreal last oveuing, ‘but was — after vigorous exertions by the firemen. The building was greatly damaged throughout ite entire extent by smoke and water, Two women séry. ante were nearly guilocated, lous 19 mat arated,