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Amprisonment, with hard labor, bus expressed his con- 4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON .BENNETT; PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIULL........percsscosererseeres No. 46 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NEW YORK THEAT! I York Hotel— Staunts OF Naw Your, ‘Matinesat 3,” OLYMPIC THEAT! Broadway.—Lirrix Bazzroor ‘Matiimes at 14. say 5 py enn OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Matinee— bsg peer NTIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Warre Fawn, ‘Matinee at L. i . WALLACE’'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th streot.— Pavuura, BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Lirrua Newt ann tus Mancmonnss, Matinee at 134. faye BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wituuam Teii—Harrr Man—Pavt Jowns, &c. FRENCH THBATRE.. rh Ba’ —Las Buavx Massinvns px Bois- BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. ‘way and 0th st.—Lapr or Lyons. Matinee—Hippan iD. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Grun. Equesreianisu, 40. Matinoc at 234. pce THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Hanvo: NATION TROUPE ep ikaastas ‘Gmcus, Matinee st se se KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway. —So Danozs, Eoonwraicittes, &0.—Granp ‘Doron ras Matines. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broad way.—Ernio- vian Evranrainmmyts, Sinauna, Dancing anp BURLEsquas. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Coxmio Vocattam, Negro Minsrexisy, &c, Matinee as 2! BUTLER'S AMERICAN THBATR! Bi — Banat, Fance, Famrouiut, ae. Matiseo at 23478077 STBINWAY HALL.—Srurnony Soran. T@VING HALL.—Tax BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fil street — Pini Matinee’ ne! Fa eeu MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THE. _ Tus Strancue—Tun Roewcinee ee HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Eraiorian Minstegisy, BALLADS AND BuRumsquas. New Work, Saturday, February 15, 1868. EUROPE. é The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated at mid- aight, February 14. ft is said that Napoleon will modify the French Cabi- ot as a concession to the legislative opposition. Ad- miral Farragut was entertaine royal banquet in Florence, The Italian journals say that the American Bovernment bas commissioned Farragut to purchase ‘the port of Spozzia, in the Mediterranean, Lennon, a Fenian leader, was sentenced in Dublin to fifteea years’ ‘viction that the British monarchy will be everthrown Defore the expiration of the term. The habeas corpus will be stilt further suspendod in Ireland from March 1. The Alabama claims correspondence was submitted to the English Parliament. The French army is being fapidly reorganized under the new bill. An amendment to the new Press Law bill of France ‘Was defeated in the Legislative Body after a stormy debate. The Egyptian troops appear to be in advance of the English in Abyssinia, King Theodorus was at Magdala with the British captives, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill to authorize the tem. porary Gilling of vacancies in the Executive Departments waa passed, The case of Senator Thomas was then taken up, and after specches by several of the members Mr. Johnson gave notice of his intention to close the debate on Monday, to which day the Senate adjourned. In the House a resolution was adopted calling for cer- tain correspondence between General Grant and General Hancock. A resolution taxing government bonds two Por cont was red. Several private cases were dis posed of; one, an application of the heirs of Harvey, the inventor of @ patent screw cutter, for a re-extension of his patent, which, after consideratie devate, was de- feated. A resolution in the Brown-Smith Kentucky election case, declaring that Mr. Smith, baving received logs than @ majority of votes, was not entitied to a seat, wae disoussed, and the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were reported favorably to abandon the system of repairing the canals by con tract, and for the suppression of obscene literature and advertisements, Tho bills for the rulief of the poor in New York and Brooklyn were reported adversely, A bill was passed providing for the completion of the Waltapout improvement in Brooklyn, A concurrent resolatson providing for an adjournment to-day until the 25th instant was agreed to, In tho Assombiy the bili ropealing the Excise law, after @ lenthy discussion, was passed by 65 yeas to 46 nays, THE CITY. A mooting was held last evening at the Cooper Insti- tuto to ratify the nomination of Grant and Fenton by ‘the Radical Republican Convention lately heid at Syra- cuse, The hall was not nearly filled, and the proceed- ings wore of the tamest character, But two speakers addressed tho meeting. Another case of overcrowding street cars came up in the courte yesterday, the conductor and driver being the defondants, Justices Dowling and Keily delivered an opinion that the directors of the railroad, aod not the conductor, wore liable. A Osh dealor in Sixth avenue was fined $05 in the Sixth District Court yesterday for selling trout out of noason. In the Cirouit Court yesterday, before Judge Bone. dict, Samuel Cohn, » cigar manufacturer, wes found uilty of ovading the payment of the internal revenue tazon® quantity of cigars manufactared and sold by him. Sentence was deferred, {n tho Supertor Court, trial Term, Part 1, yesterday, before Judge Barbour, a jury found a verdict against ‘the proprietors of the Metropolitan Hotel for the loss of @ watch and chain and «sum of $60, alleged to have boon stoien from @ guess of the house while staying at the hotel for the night, In the Brooklyn City Court yesterday tho case of Mary Anne Dean, néc Boker, va, Moses 8, Beach, late pro- Prietor of the Sun newspaper, was sot down for trial, A crowded court room evidenced the existence of con- siderable interest in the case, which, however, on motion of the defendant's counsel, was postponed till the ooming March term of the court, The popular sidewheel steamship Manhattan, Captain M. 8. Woodbuil, will sail from pier No. 3 North river at throe P. M, to-day for Charleston, 8. C., connecting with Steamer for Florida ports and railroads for the South and Southwost, A now line of steamors, composed of the General i Meads, Sherman and Crescent City, chants’ Steamship line, has been estab. ‘ished to ran between this city and New Orieaus, leaving every Saturday. Tho stock market was dull yesterday. Government securities Were steady. Gold wae irregular, and fluctu- ated from 189% to 14134. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexico city correspondence is dated January 29. ‘The main items of news have been anttoipated by our special tolegrams, The whole country is reported ‘broken out with pronunciamentos, A severe fight oc- ‘urred in Mexico city between the officers of Juarez’s body guard and the police, and the whole affair had been Jaid before Congress. Novrvte, who bad pronounced in svor of Ortega, esii to be without funda, By way vt San Francisco we are informed that Lacedo had seat ™ Wo ‘ue Governors of Qibuabas, Durango, ny NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1868 Sonora and Sinaloa proposing thé’ formation of an inde- pendent government, to be called the ‘Republic of the Pacific,” to include Lower Cajfornia and a portion of Talisoo. By the steamer Morro Castle wo havo mail advices from Havena to the 8th inst, The important items of her news have been anticipated by our special Cuba cable telegrams. The government has conceded a sub- sidy of $12,000 to the mail steamers between the An- tilles and the Mexican coast, and another of $2,400 to those between Spain and Havana. The stook of sugar im the Havana stores on the Sist ult. was 81,303 boxes fpd1,168 hogsheads, against 73,200 boxes and 1,106 hogsheads last year at the same time, The Spanish Bank of Havana is about establishing a branch at Ma- tenses, In the Constitutional Convention yesterday « resolu- tion to submit the constitution to the people at the general election of tbe present year was referred, The reports on suffrage and on the Legislature were amended and recommitted. ‘The majority of the Florida Convention comtinue to hold their sessions, A collision was considered immi- nent yesterday with the minority faction and troops were calied for to maintain the peace, A bill of rights and articles on the Executive and Judiciary were adopted, The Arkansas Convention adjourned sine die yester- day. Tho conservatives presented a protest against the constitution. Tne North Caroling Convention was engaged. in dis- cussing the bill of rights, without taking any action. Evening sessions are to be held hereafter. ‘The Louisiana Convention recommend General Sheri- Gan as commander of the Fifth Military District in case General Hancock is removed. The revised constitution adopted by the Convention is in the hands of the printer, Texas is also to have a reconstractton convention, ‘The Sonth Carolina Convention was engaged yesterday in discussing the new constitution, Nothing of interest transpired in the Mississippi Con- vention, q : In the late large fire at Wilmington, N. C., twelvé per- fons are supposed to have perished. Five bodies have already been recovered from the ruins, sachin ‘The steamer Aurora was sunk at Lachine, Canada, by the water rising over the ice and pouring in at her cabin windows, Ex-Comptroller General Burns, of Georgia, was ar- rested on Wednesday by order of General Meade and confined in the barracks for refusing to deliver the records of his office, General Sherman arrived at St. Louis yesterday. The particulars of the 1oss of the steamship Nightin- gale, at Vera Crus, aro given in our marige columns, Another White House Ni ation for the Presidency-Make Way for Sherman. Andrew Jobnson is a great man. He is not, perhaps, quite up to the calibre of Andrew Jackson, but he is still a heavy gun of a long range. The radicals will have it that since the day of his entrée into the White House he has been, like Tyler and Fillmore, working his wires for another term outside the lines of the party to which he owes his elevation. Ad- mitting this, we still maintain that, in discover- ing that nothing on his own aceount could be made out of the stupid democraoy, only a great man in his position, prepared to sacrifice him- self on the altar of his country, would still devote himself to the thankless task of hunting up and bringing out a democratic candidate, whereby the blessed constitution may be saved from the destruction threatened it by radical fanaticism. This is what Andrew Johnson has been doing ever since he discovered last fall that in the democratic camp he is overshadowed by every inside democratic possibility from General McClellan down to Mayor Hoffman. “Very well,” says Andrew Johnson; “you do not understand the situation; you lack the clear perception of John Van Buren, and I must therefore stand aside; but still the country must be saved. You must not repeat the copperhead blunders of the Chicago-Vallandigham Convention. I have turned the popular tide in favor of the democratie party; my policy is your policy; but, mark me, you must have 8 candidate thoroughly identified with the war for the Union, or you will again be shipwrecked as in 1864, What, then, do you say to General Hancoek? He is a man of the old Washing- tonian type. He has shown more of the sterling qualities of George Washington in his administration of the affairs of ihe Fifth Mili- tary District than any soldier of the present generation, and he has something of the figure of Washington. Look athim. Is he not the man?” As when Jupiter, in answer to the prayer of the frogs for a king, threw a log down into their pond, the sadden splash startled them and set them all to jumping, 90 were the democracy startled with this White House nomination of General Hancock. But, like the frogs, they soon rallied, and then, after a brief inspection of their sovereign, they turned their backs upon him and croaked for something better. “Pendleton, Pendleton,” was the cop- perhead chorus from the West; while from the East came a medley of voices calling for McClellan, Seymour, Parker, of New Jersey, Jerry Black and others ; but never a voice for Johnson. Never weary of well doing, however, Mr. Johnson next proceeded to smoke out General Grant; but when smoked out he stood forth in such terrible, bristling and forbidding regi- mentals that he was at once exalted as the king of the radicals. This would have been a finishing blow to a man of feeble will and limited resources like Tyler or Fillmore or poor Pierce or Buchanan; it was a stunner even to Johnson, but only os a nine days’ wonder. He bas fully recovered from the unexpected shock; be has been study- ing the proportions of this giant of the Philis- tines, and has found the champion to meet him. We bave, therefore, another Presidential nomi- nation in behalf of the fastidious democracy from the White House in Mr. Jobnson’s nomi- nation of Lieutenant General William Tecum- seh Sherman as general by brevet in conse- quence of his distinguished services in the glorious work of squelching Jeff Davis and his Southern Confederacy. “How will Sherman suit you?” proudly aske Mr. Johnson. From the implacable copperhends of the West—yea, from the backwoods of Wisconsin— comes in the response against Tecumseh Sher- mand :— Raum) , dum) Colouel Johason killed Tecumeeh, ‘Don’t talk to us of Sherman, this leader of his army of Goths, Vandals and bummers, this ruthless incendiary and destroyer through Georgia and the Carolinas.” And doubtless fill the copperheads of the West will respond, “We will not have this Lincoln hireling to rule over us.” What, then, is tobe done? There seems to be an impassable gulf between the democratic party East and the party West. From Maine to Ohio General Sherman stands well with the démocracy, They certainly would have no better candidate against Grant for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; but from Ohio westward the name of Sherman at the head of their banner would split the party or drive off the copper- heads to some independent nomination, after " the fashion of Douglas against Breckinridge in 1860. Why not, then, have it so? Givo the tub to the whale, Let the Western copper heads have their man Pendleton. and give the more advanced Eastern democracy Sherman as their candidate, and let these two wings form fusion electoral tickets, as in 1860, where advisable, to bring out the whole party strength, and let the main efforts of all the elements opposed to the reign of radical fanaticism be combined t> secure a conser- vative Congress; and in Congress @ great Political revolution may be achieved. General Sherman is a man of mark. He did less fighting and less thinking, perhaps, than General Grant during the war, but he did & good deal more fine writing and talking. He is a good fighter, a fine writer, a first rate talker and a good lawyer, and only in the war made a botch of it in his little fiasco of a cam- paign against the newspapers. They were too much for him. To be sure, General Grant, from the vengeance of Stanton, had to help him out of that little diplomatic difficulty with Joe Johnston; but Sherman’s mistake there, in the way of reconstruction, was not so bad as many of the budget of blunders of this radios! To out short the argument in behalf of ‘this second democratic nomination from the White. House, we call upon the Sachems of old 'Tani- Many and new Tammany to paint, dress and equip themselves for the warpath, and let thelr war cry be “Sherman and victory!” and, our word for it, that cry will run likes fre in the prairies—at least from New York to Pitte- burg. The Present Condition of Our Navy. Attention is being generally drawn to the exact state of our navy by the introduction of the bill providing for a board of naval survey and the discussion of the changes it involves, It is found on examination that the naval arm of public defence is by no means as effective or powerful as the country supposes. Under the spur of the Alabama’s ravages on our com- merce efforts were made to construct a number of vessels which should combine the greatest speed with the most effective fighting qualities. New types of vessels were designed and an unlimited amount of money appropriated to construct them. Some have been launched and are at sea; others ate lying at the docks, and the balance are alill on the stocks. The results attained, however, by actual trial of those vessels which have been sent to sea, were notsuch as to justify, in the minds of intelligent and thoughtful people, the propriety of com- pleting those in process of construction upon the plans primarily adopted. But the designers and constructors seem to think otherwise, and it is likely that these nondescript bantlings will be put afloat, with all their impertec- tions, to add to the size of our navy on paper, while they will really prove to be a source of weakness instead of strength to the service. _ As now constituted, the steam vessels of our navy may be divided into two general classes— those that are fast and weak and those that are slow and strong, for these elements seem universally to be found united. Such vossels as the Wampanoag and Madawaska, for instance, are said to be fast, and are undoubt- edly weak, while vessels of the Hartford and Brooklyn class are certainly strong and slow; but the fighting qualities of the two classes can hardly becompared. The Hartford and Brook- lyn are notably good fighters, strong and of great powers of endurance. It is certain that if the Wampanoag should catch such a vessel as either, which she could unquestionably do, she would catch a terrible Tartar. In the Kear- sarge and Alabama battle the latter proved her- self to be the faster, but she was sunk by her antagonist in ashort contest. Fast vessels are valuable in their places, and are useful as despatch boats or vedettes to a fleet; but speed, even in these cases, should not be considered the only requisite. They must have room for their crew and sufficient spaco to carry guns, ammunition, provisions, water and fuel, other- wise they cannot keep the sea long enough to make them of much service. In attempting to gain immense speed we have encumbered the holds of our fast cruisers with such an enormous mags of machinery that there is scarcely room to stow six weeks’ pro- visions and only about one-quarter of the ammunition which they should carry for the batteries they possess. In other words, wo have failed in our purpose, if we had an efficient war vessel in view when they were built, and instead of advancing we have tiken along step backward. If this be true, why shall we not return to the old principle of sieam as an auxiliary and depend upon sails as the main motive power, using steam only when going into action or when in chase? By so doing we might build useful vessels, of the Brooklyo and Hartford class, which can steam, soil and fight, stow their provisions, wator, coal and ordnance stores, besides carrying a heavy battery and accommodating a strong crew. Steam is invaluable as an auxiliary, as every seaman knows; but {t must hold second rank to other valuable elements in navigation, which we have already suggested. It is quite time that government should look this matter squarely in the face and bring back the wandering and visionary designers and constructors of our steam navy to safe ground again. The bill establishing a board of naval survey appears to us to be the best means to obtain the desired result, and we therefore again urge ite speedy passage. Taat Lion mm tae Lopsy.—It is a singular fact that two members of Congress—one in the Senate and one in the House—simultaneously heard lion in the lobby roar on Thursday last. Hitherto there bas been more braying and cackling in that neighborhood than roar- ing, and it is therefore only natural that Con- gress was called upon to shut the door against this more dangerous animal with a nobler voice. But how did it come to pass that the two men from Massachusetts were putting this poor little piece of doggerel before their houses at the same moment, as if it* were a great argument? Did they both borrow it from the same Massachusetts primer, or did one recite itto the other beforehand as a thing he bad just found and that was too good to keep, and did that other steal it? Who, then, was the first owner and who stole that lion? Our own notion is that the literary grabbers who furnish the Senators and Congressmen with quotations supposed to be telling, atso much a quotation, are to blame in the case. Who was the news- paper man who 40 far violated confidence as to sell the same piece of doggorel to two gentle- men on the game day t Hari Kari of Secretary *McUulloch—Immeo- dinte Return to Specie Payments. Itis said Mr, McCulloch is about to cut off his own official head, or, in other words, to re- sign the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Various motives are assigned tor this intended and very uncommon act. Ono is that, in the event of the pending Loan bill becoming law, he wishes to join Jay Cooke & Co. in the very Profitable business of negotiating and manipu- lating the stocks and funds of the United States. If ho were a sensitive man and open to conviction it might be supposed he is going to saorifice himself—commit hari kari after the manner of offending Japanese mandarins—as ® penalty for the evil he has dono or for the good of the country. But we rather think he is going to sacrifice himself from vexation because he can do little or no more mischief. Congreas has scouted his recommendations and repudiated his ruinous Snancial policy, and to continue in office after that may: be too humiliating even for oa man of his self-sufficient and obtuse mind. But whatever may be the motive, the people would have reason to rejoice-at. his resignation, for he has cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars through his incapacity and absurd financial theories. With’ the enormous revenue of six ‘hundred millions a year since peace was re- stored hundreds of millions more of the national debt might have been liquidated if there had been a capable Secretary of the Treasury. We need not say what a frightful sum has been lost to the Treasury through his mismanagement—through whiskey and other fraude—for that is well’ known to the country. The numerous leaks im the Treasury and their increase at the rate of twenty millions a month show the urgent necessity of Mr. MoCulloch’s resignation. The sooner he performs the hari kari operation the better. With this obstacle out of the way and the abandonment of the bullionist theory in the department, as it has been by Congress, we propose another mode of returning imme- diately to specie payments, Not the plan of the British bullionists, nor that of their imita- tors in this country, which would bring univer- sal bankruptcy and misery, but one that will presorve the present relation of values and a sufficient currency. Our plan is that the gov- ernment shall pay in gold to all of its creditors who want it at the market value of the pre- cious metal at the time of payment. Gold, for example, is worth'a bundred and forty in tho market to-day ; let the government pay at that rate. When it is at a hundred and thirty let payments be made accordingly, and so on through all its fluctuations. When gold comes down, through the growth of the country and trade and by the opera- tion of natural laws, to par with the legal tonder, then the government will pay dollar for dollar. This is the only practicable plan of coming to immediate specie payments andthe one which will bring gold and the currency soonest to par. It is a sliding agale, by which one will adjust itself to the other without disturbing the value of property or the volume of currency needed. It will enable the debtor to pay only just what he contracted tor and owes, and prevent the creditor from enriching himself at the expense and ruin of those indebted to him. Specie or currency can be used just as people think proper, and it will be equally fair for all. Let all transao- tions on this basis be made legal between individuals as well as with the government, and there will be no necessity to interfere with the currency either by contraction or expan- sion. We should settle down to a rogular state of things and come to an established and a healthy circulating medium. The trouble with our financial and currency doctors in and out of Congress is that they are guided By British precedents and are not able to see beyond them. They cannot see the evils of the financial system of England even though it has reduced the mass of the population to the lowest depths of pauperism, and though it regularly produces every few years terrible revulsions and suffering. Forc- ing specie payments in England while that country was burdened with an enormous debt made the few rich still richer, but it plunged the poor masses into the deepest poverty. The consequence has been that the debt re- mains as ® perpetual and dreadful incubus upon the laborers, while a bondholdaing and moneyed oligarchy rolls in wealth. The whole financial system of England is framed to favor the rich and to degtade the poor. The Bank of England, which is a part of that system and the nucleus of it, exercises the most despotic and dangerous power. Acting upon the old and fatal bullionist theory of ocon- traction, it plunges the country into vankruptcy and the people into starva- tion in order to save itself whenever there is a pressure for a few millions of specie more than ordinary. The whole of the industrial interests of the country are paralysed and its boundless wealth made of no avail for the sake of a few millions in gold. In fact, two or three such men as Rothschild oan at any time throw Eng- land into the greatest distress by draining away a comparatively small amount of specie. The whole system is rotten and in time must fall before the suffering masses, for it tends continually to make the poor poorer and the rich richer. Yet this is the system our finan- cial theorists of the McCulloch school would imitate and follow. Let us be wise in time, and adopt ® plan suited to our own peculiar situation and institutions, Let us have for the present s sound legal tender currency, with specie payments in the way spoken of; let us get rid of the debt as soon as possible, and let the currency and specie adjust themselves through the growth of tho country and by the operations of natural laws. Teacuno sy Exampre—Tos Neorors tw Haytt.—The news trom Hayti just now ought to teach our ignorant and infawous Congress the folly of placing political power in the hands of a barbarous race. The negroes there are in revolution again, and are cutting each other’s throats in true African style. We say just now, but, in fact, thia is the normal condi- tion both of Hayti and all other countries where the negroes have attained power. From the time when S*. Domingo was emanci- pated its history has been one of bloody revo- lutions and decay. It has been the same with all other countries in proportion to the number and influence of these barbarians, This, too, is what our infamous Congress is bringing about in the South. This will bo the frightful result of radical legislation unless the people move in their might to defeat such an atrocious policy. . SSeS a Tho Western Union Tolograph. One thing is above all otbers necessary a between the people and the telegrapb, and that is that the people should be able to repose confidence in those to whom they are com- pelled to entrust, under pressure of urgent necessity, the most delicate secrets of domestic life or the most important tacts of commercial and financial complications, Confidence that they should not be betrayed in this trust is the first necessity to all; otherwise the financier finds his plans miscarry by the fact that was known exclusively to him ‘becomes known to whoevor else is willing to pay for it; and man or woman may hear the most secret events of private life discussed at the street corners. Can tho public repose this confidence in the Western Union Telegraph Company? We doubt if the managers of that company could have the front to maintain that secrets entrusted to its agents are held inviolate. “Tapping” the wires is a familiar process; but’ too many facta indicate that when there is money to be made by disclosing secrets the “tapping” is over apt to be done by the authorized agents at way'stations. We have never yet had the explanation from the gompany how despatches of ours from San Francisco and New Orleans have so slipped through their fingers and dribbled out at different points on. the way ; and if ours, why not those of any citizen? This is but one of the weak points in which the Company needs overhauling. It needs it in many others, as, despite the point at which its stock is kept, it was compelled to pass its dividends in January. What was the reason? The Legislatures who gave the charters of the different parts ot its machinery should appoint investigating committees to ascertain if this apparently rich corporation is & bubble. att England in Her New Career. The English Parliament has reassembled. The Alabama claims have been mentioned. Other matters of general interest will, of course, be brought up. The session will do some work and will then come to a close. It will be the last seasion worthy of the name under the ancien régime. England stands on the verge of @ new order of things, which she has herself deliberately created. Reforms are absolutely necessary ; but reforms will be allowed to hang over until the new arrangements reveal them- selves within the walls of the House of Com- mons. The revolution of 1688 was a revolution too exclusively conducted in the interests of the whig nobles. It was a popular revolution only in so far as it reflected the intercats of the people through pretended friends. It pretended to give, but it did not give, the people power. The revolution which has been effected by the new Reform bill is of a totally different char- acter. It has b€en brought about, or rather it has been made law, by a party which has no real sympathy with the people. It does, never- theless, put power into the hands of the ‘people—power of such a character as virtually makes England a repubyic. It is not unreasonable to suppose that a mil- lion of voters have been added to the electoral roll. This new element has but little if any sympathy with the ancient and too long domi- nant oligarchy. If it has any fixed belief it is this : that power has been too long in the hands of a favored few; andif it has any fixed de- termination it is this: that the governing power must henceforward be more universally dif- fused. From the moment the new F’arliament is elected levelling principles will begin to be in the ascendant. At the present moment the land of the three kingdoms is in the hands of some thirty or forty thousand proprietors, and perhaps some three hundred thousand stockholilers monopo- lize their actual wealth. The principles which make such tenants secure are principles with which the new Parliameht will: find itself in immediate and uncompromising antagonism. With the mecting of the new Parliament the war will begin, and the war wiAl not end until Great Britain has completely ‘and permanently changed its character. The new Parliament will be a speciea of States General, and we shall wait with interest an/ some anxiety to see how the States General will unfold them: selves, ai The First Fruits of the Catacombs, The advent of the Strakosch opera troupo at the Academy of Music. has proved unfortunate in a sanitary sense. Poor Madame La Grange, who never before, we believe, in a long artistic career, was known to be tho innocent cause of change in the Performance of an announced pers, Wis compelled by @ sevore cold to abandon the part of La Traviata in Brooklyn. We need not say that this was the fault of either artist or manager. It was the stock- holders of the Academy, who gave the prima donna such a cold berth sant mba that a cold setiled apon het Fite consequence. The stockholders of the Aca- demy, like the directors of the Bank of Eng- land, govern everything with an inflexible iron rule. They see the medium between wealth and poverty. They want to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. All they care about in the management of the Academy is to get their boxes free and their rent and tn- terest, They not only aspire to be the loaders of fashionable society, but they would like to establish themselves as an order of nobility, like the French noblesse, or the hereditary barons, oarls, marquises and dukes of Bngland. And they would have no objection to do this out of the profits of the Academy, st the ex- pense of the prime donne. On Wednesday night they could not afford to warm the house sufficiently to spare Madame La Grange the discomfort of # heavy cold, which, for one night at least, placed her hors de com- bat, though she bas now, happily, got over the effects of the “rude Boreas” which blew on the stage at the opening night like a bellows worked by about » dozen Titans, Brignoli will have to take care of himself of he will catch cold too, for he is a very delicate shrub, and requires nursing. Wao Ars THe Cowarns ?!—Old Thad Stevens taunts the radicals with cowardice, because, a8 he says, they have the power in the hands of their majority to impeach the President, yet sbrink from doing it. Old Thad Stevens is right, The radicals in Congress are the great- est cowards that ever belonged to any legis- lative body. An Aamnt For Jay Cooxe.—One of the rea- sons alleged for the rumored resi,nation of 0 be mirebiy is abou Secretary McCulloch ia that come an agent fur Jay Cooke. Ho is « ualified for that posilion, as all the country knows by this time; but what necessity is there for bis resigning for that purpose? He is the agent of Jay Cooke slready, and pro- bably makes a more officient one in office than out of it, THE STATE CAPITAL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Passage of Murphy’s Exelse Bill in the Lower How markable Manipulation ef the Docu + Atnanr, Feb: 14, 18968. Murphy's Excise bill, whiely abolishes the present Metropolitan Exciso law apd vests the liquor licensing power of the Metropolitan Polise district in the bands of the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn and the su- pervisors of the other counties im the: distmet, passed the Assembly to-day, under the order of last evening making it the special order of to-day for consideration in Committees of the Whole, Immediately after the reading of tho journal Mr, Jacobs open@ the bail ana moved that the bill be read by sections, Mr. Pitta, ' of Orleans, the republican leader, moved: tovstrike ous the first section of the bill, and thus brought the sub- ‘titusion to the obnoxious aad imprisonments which had been occasioned in'New York by the too enforcement of “this odious measure,” and ed the Members not to intorpose aay ob- stasies to the wil agg of metropolitans to. goverm their own in! ira, debate continued for three hours, Messra, Jacobe, ot ‘Reernan and Harton, of New York, and other Gemooratic mombers, discussing and earnessiy be? < ws to s ioetiee eisaes ‘that it on " , ‘not the intention of the republicans of this stats to a But if =e — ore br] neceesar; ey were wil shoul be ered ts ‘wodification of the oxisting law. They” did not wish to seo that law repealed, as another, if desired, could not easily be sub- atituted for it. It was a law under which New York had enjoyed a material and increased prosperity, and if 0 govern “their own Now York weve the affairs of the whole Empire State, in fact of the whole country, of which it was the heart and the great centre, i destined to be also the metropolis of the work nd The committioe roms) at . E ybeteey reported crore. asi Mr, Mi moved (o disagree wish the report of the | Commitee and that the bill be ordered to a thind read | ing, which was carried. Mr. Ji be now passed to its third reading, which was lost, and at twenty-five minutes past two he moved the third reading, which yee roiiten The gid Was toon read and passed by a vote yoas against Alarge number of the members Dad “gained off,’ and it requirea some sharp wanouvring on the part of the supporters of the bill to secure the requisite vote ixty-live) of two-thirds of all the members of tue louse, This bill was the feature of the day’s legislation, the floor of the House as well as the gallery being crowded, A large number of io! whe had besa here engineering the Dill left by three twenty-five train, as the capital had no longer aug charms for them. They had succeeded in the first ight fos their measure. ‘The bill is as follows:— . The aot entitled “An act to te the sale of tubecentiag Teuace ‘within the Retropalien roles dustrict of the otate of New York," passed April 1, 186%, is herevy repealed. ‘Suc. 4 In the cities of New York and Brooklyn the Mayors of said cities respectively shall hereafter have the jusive power and authori rant Licenses for the sale of beer, wines, liquors and all kinds of bexerages by retail, under such restrictions sud regulations as tue Common Councils of said citioa respectively shall presaribe, ‘Suc. 3, Ln the counties of Westchester and Richmond, and that part of the county of Kings not embraced with:n the limits of the sity of Brooklyn, and shat part of the county of Queens within said Metropolitan Disirict. the Board of Supervisors of said counties res] wely shall hereafter have tho exclusive power aud authority to grant licenses for ‘the aale of beer, wines, liquors and all kinds of beverages retail, under such restrictions and regulations a4 they i ribe, Premine tarp dodging was displayed in tho manner of | “springing” this Dill from the commities. Mr. Bristol, who was one of the committee, had prepared a minority report “an” excise bill, but which, from ite verms, must have refarred to only one of the bills that the supporters bad about their persons, There have beun three bilis gomg the rounds within a less number of days, all purporting to bo “Murphy's Excise bill.’* The present one orthe one which passed to-day, tor ‘the bill im one shape or another has been omnipresent during the past two or three days, is “fathered” upom Peter Bismarck Sweeny, and the movers and support ers of the bill do not dispute the existence of that tic of relationship. ‘There seoms to be no hope of the bill passing througls the Senate with = Ung it We apensar haga ee — tt was deemed barely possil tit cou! moors its original shape, im which there wore cer- tain limits deferred. To-morrow the Legislature will adjourn until the 24th tastant for the customary mid-seasion vacation, ' NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. ALBan, Feb, 14, 1868. BILLS REPORTED PAVORABLY, To abandon the system of repairing the canals by contract (a majority report; Mr. Nichols dissenting); to imcorporate the trustees of the Maynard fund for the relief of the widows of deceased clergymen; autborizing the Mariposa Company to issue a pro ferred stock; for the supprension of the trade in obscene literature and adverti ents; to found a Presbyterian hospital in Now York—Rpferred to first Committee of tho Whole on motion of Mr. Tweed; to incorporate the city of Ogdensburg and the village of Warwick; to amend the charters of Randoiph and Waterford. Apvense REPORT, The bills for the relief of the poor of Now York and Brooklyn wore reported adversely. - Mr. a to —— with tho adverse re- Rare }, aad report agreed inp vier of the New York oma Ptthcd fi PAR St ine. modification oF repeal of the — yal act declaring the railroad pier aud bridge at Kouse’s Point a post route. BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. Cavnnwsi1—Incorportiog the Yonkers and Alpine Company. - By Mr, Crsamur—To establish a railroad from the Weehawken forry to the Huater’s Point ferry. oe To yrovide for the completion of Wallabout improve. ment, Brookiya; authorizing the Attorney General to insticate legai proceedings for the purpose of anoulling certain canal repair contracts charged to have been pro- cured by fraudutent meaca, Ou motion it was resolved, if the Assembly concur, that, when tho Senate adjourns to-morrow it be untd the eveming of the 26tu inst. Adjourned, ASSEMBLY. a r, Feb. 14, 1868. exctwe o¢ Tit conor bana The House wont into Committes of the Whole on the DIU to regulate excise in the Metropolitan Police district Topeal the existing laws, OS, Seen ore eats me beree of rons, the act by Messrs. , Galvin, Hartman, Murphy, Kiernan, pe age ince and Jacobs, and against it by Mesers. es wis theh reporiod on the ill Tbe bil wes on wes then trdered to a third reading by w vote of 63 0 48. Mr, Jacona moved that the bill now bave its third reading. The motion was carried, and the bill was read a third time and passed by a vote of 65 to 46. DISTURBANCE AT FISHKILL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Fight Among Railroad Laborers and Citizens at Fishkili-Death of One of the Latter— Fears of Another Distarbaace—Two Arreste | _— Povanxxarsm, Feb. 14, 1968, ‘The Irishmen employed on the line of the Darehess and Columbia Raiiroad, living im the vicinity of Fishkill Vile lage, are in a high state of excitemont over a fight thas occurred there op the 13th inst, following which one of the party died, ‘The fight was im & barroom at Gray's Hotel, at about the middie of the day, between Frank Vincomt and Isaac by Knapp, the latter bartender at Gray's Hotel, ‘and two Irishmon, The former were committed to the jail in this city to-day, upon ® charge of nasault and battery partly, and partly to get tbem out of tue | village, for fear the excited Irishmen would mob them. | The joulars are as follows:—Yesterday morning, | shortly afver eight o'clock, Thomas Jack, an Inshman, || went to Fravk Vincent's house, where several of fi fellow workmen boarded, and, tt t8 alleged, tuere ia sulted Vincent’a wife. Vincont being informed of tue affair repaired to Gray’s Hotel, near by, and wiile thore | Jack enterod the barroom. Vincent immediately toot | bim to task for the indignity offered his |) wife, when a quarrel ensued, which ended in a fight, Jack being worsted, He left the premises and sourne some of his fellow workmen, to whom he zelaigd his Grievances, Two of his fri thon went tothe hots, when « fight again ensued, the bartender taking a hang in, After @ desperate encounter tho parties separates, Jack in tho meantime bad gone hom», and it was ascure talned that he died this morning at four o'clo:k, ap po think from the injuries he received in the tira It, and some think from apoplery. As soon as it became noised abrond among the railroad mo: crowds vegan to collect on the atr wory ay ince of a riot, when V; ‘ited above, were placed uy or Laving thom im-enarge tert still greatly oxcited, | ere will be a serious — ey Will be held on the are disterbance to-nigh' ; body of the doad mad 16. pvor