The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1868, Page 4

a 4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES Volume XXXII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sax. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Canrovcur—Noss, _NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Botel.— Nosopy's Daucurer. FRENCH THEATRE.—Granp Docuess. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirtie Bareroor. NIBLO’'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tan Wuire Fawn, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Mangizp Lire, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., corner Eighth ay.— Eunani JANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- Way and 30th st.—Taz Octoroon. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, —Grusastics, Equxstaianism, &c, THEATRE COMIQUR, 514 Broadway.—Boston Baturr np Pantomime Trours, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Brondwar.—Sonas, Danoxa, KNTRICITINS, &c.—Granv Dutcu “3." SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad way.—Erato- rian Exterrainmxnts, Singing, Dancing axD Buriasquns. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Couto OcaLum. NzGko MinsTRELSY, £0. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baus, Farce, Pantomime, &c, BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stree.—Tas Picrim. Matines at 2, DODWORTAH HALL.—Me, Hever Nicsocrs’ Reciracs, ‘MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Sxssim Brown. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Amran Na Pocus. x HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Erarortas ‘Munsragisy.—Boa.esqus or rae Witp Fawn. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science aNp ARt, New York, Thursday, March 5, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by tho cable is dated yesterday oven- ing, March 4, The condition of Ireland will be debated in the House of Commons, under Mr. Disraeli’s Premiership, on the ‘10th of March. An incendiary attempt to fire alarge building was made in Limerick, Ireland, Prince Na- poleon visits Germany apart from politics, The Queen of Portugal was burned im effigy in Lisbon by a tu- multuous mob, Cardinal Antonelli is dangerously ill, Admiral Farragut was at Spezzia Tne Germca mail steamship Bremon, Captain Ney- ‘Denar, which left Bremen on the 15th and Southampton the 18th of February, arrived at this port last evening, and the Toman steamship City of Antwerp, Captain More- bouse, which left Liverpool at two P. M. on the 19th nd Queensiown on the 20th of February, arrived at her dock early this morning, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a communication was pre- sented from Chief Justice Chase making some sugges: tions relative to the mode of procedure in the coming impeachment trial, The communication was referred tothe select Committee of Seven, Ata few minutes past one the members of the House of Representatives, including the Managers of Impeachment, appeared, and the articles of impeachment were formally read by Mr. Bingham. On theconclusion of the reading the House retired, Resolutions to proceed with the trial at one o’clock to-day, and appointing @ committee to conduct the Chief Justice to the chair as presiding officer, were adopted. The Funding bill was again taken up and Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, spoke upon it, In the House the additional article of impoachment offered by Mr. Jenckes on Tuesday was discussed and finally referred to the Managers, At one o'clock the Hoase, in Committee of the Whole, accompanied the ‘Managers to the Senate chamber, where the articles were presented. On returning the case of Mr, Butler, of Tennessee, was considered and postponed for the present. A resolution instructing the General com- manding the army to report the number of votes cast for and against the adoption of the Alabama constitu- tion was adopted, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills to preserve order in public meetings ; to abolish the $10 fine for public in- toxication; to close Eleventh street, Brooklyn, for a canal, and ceding to the United States jurisdiction over certain lands in Brooklyn for Navy Yard purposes, were introduced. A resolution was offered, but laid on the table, declaring the present contract system of cleaning streets in New York a failure, and authorizing a report as to the necessary legisiation to remedy the evil, A resolution inquiring if it is eligible for the Legislature to choose a Superintendent of Public Instruction on the 6th of next month was adopted. In executive session the Senate rejected the nomination of James B. McKean to be Anditor of the Canal Department. In the Assembly bilts were reported favorably for the Dotter protection of the moral and physical well being of the people of the State; to amend the charter and Fire Department act of the city of Brooklyn and the annual Canal Appropriation bill. Bills were introduced to amend the Quarantine act; to incorporate the City Central Railroad Company, and for the better regulation of the firemen and Fire Department of Brooklyn. Bills to amend the act granting to William Orton and others exclusive rignt to lay telegraph canies between this State and France and to amend the act relative to frauds assessments for local improvements in New York wore \. a MISCELLANEOUS. By special telegram dated in London yestorday we ‘have the substance of the latest despatches received at the British War Office from Abyssinia and advices from the special correspondent of the Hzra.n accompanying the English army. King Theodorus was in motion, at the head of a strong force, towards Magdala, The cap- tives were marching under his escort, General Napier negotiated a peace with Kassal, of Tigre, It was said that the chief Menelok had fortified Magdala against Theodorus, Three British officers were missing. Stri glers from the Queen's force were shot and their mutilated ff captured by the Abyssigian army. There ‘was no forage further than Anatolo, The Ohio Republican State Convention met in Co- Jumbus yesterday and made nominations for State officers, Grant and Wade are recommended for the candidates of the Republican National Convention, The Peansy!vania Democratic State Convention met at Harrisburg yesterday, William Hopkins, of Washing- (on county, was chosen permanent President and dele. gates to the National Convention were elected. No recomment ns wore made for cendidates at the National Btion, The echooner Mary Snee, from Now Orleans for New York, went ashore on Long Beach, on the Jersey coast, on Sunday night. The mate was washed overbosrd and three of the crew perished in the rigging. <A large brig is ashore at Hampstead, L, L The steamors Morro Castle and Georgia, from Havana February 28, arrived at this port at an early hour this morniag. The news, however, by both steamers bas Deen anticipatad by our special cable de: thirty passengers was thrown from the Canandai; od Elmira Railroad, and the stove upset, emptying its coals on the promiscuous heop of passengers, Twelve persons wore soriously in- ed, (hree of them fatally. he Brooklyn City Court yesterday Mra, Mary Tate was awarded $600 damages against the owners of the t'camor Norwalk for the loss of ber husband, who was ot Oyer and Terminer yesterday, Judge Dorvard p bg, Herman Malo pleaded guilty to petty lureeny ; se : NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1868. The case of the United States va 1,209 quarter casks of sherry wine was resumed before Judge Blatchford yesterday. A wine merchant from Cadiz was under ex- amination, and his evidence being objected to by coun- tel for the government a long discussion on the compe- tency of the evidence ensued, In the United States Commissioner's Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, the case of the United States vs, Wm. England, John M Hamlem and Albert Evans, charged with running an illicit distillery, was on for hearng, After the examination of the principal Witnesses the case was adjourned, ‘The North German Lloyd’s steamship Hansa, Captain Von Oterendorp, will sali from the Bremen pier, Hobo- ken, about one o'clock to-day (Thursday), for South- ampton and Bremen, The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M. »The Impeachers and the People—Significant Returns. Town elections held in several paris of our State on Tucsday, and others in Maine, show decisive gains against the republicans. Such is the direction of the people’s voice, and the people are the court of last resort. Higher than the “High Court’ that already struts in the Senate chamber, the real grand inquest of the nation, the voters at the polls give the only judgment from which there fs no appeal. It is one of the benefits mixed with the evils of impeachment that it is destined to give a striking illustration that this fact is the vital point in our political system. No hope for the freedom and happiness of a nation can be founded on the assumed sanctity of any law, the patriotism of any man, or the public virtue of any given body of men, their superiority to corruption, passion, a factious spirit, or base motives of whatever sort. Written law may be a safety fora time; but as new conditions arise and the letter of the law no longer strictly covers all points, its spirit must be relied upon, and this is frittered away by men whose trade it is to make the worse appear the better reason, or colored by the preconceived convictions of lawyers and judges till the view taken of the intent and purpose of a law be- comes the accident of education. Still less is reliance to be placed upon definite political bodies. Representative assemblies, senates, courts are made up of men seeking individual development and advantage ; and in pushing personal and selfish interests the question as to how far such men will go and what lines they will overstep is determined in each man’s con- science, and consequently is determined one way or the otheras men differ in their opinions in regard to how much harm one can justifiably do “hat good may come of it.” But the politi- cal quantity that is always certain is the people. Always old and always young, joining the calm reason of ripened years with the en- thusiastic love of country that is the glory of youth—thus giving the grand average result of the national life—the people’s voice is the nation’s safety ; and it is the inherent life of our syst’m that this voice is regularly, repeat- edly, effiziently brought to bear on all great topics. Never more than now were the necessity and the advantage of this seen. In the city of Washington there is in progross a remarkable spectacle. The Senate of the United States is to try a case turning mainly on the validity of a law it assented to and helped to make, It has, therefore, all reasons that pride can sug- gest to determine its law valid. It canscarcely determine against its law; and determining in favor, it finds the culprit guilty. Thus the accused is condemned before he goes into court. And that, we are told, is the highest tribunal, the most sacred bar our laws provide. What a mockery of the very name of justice! If any citiz:n go before a jury it is held scarce- ly less than judicial murder that he should be condemned by men who had determined his guilt in advance. He has a right to know as far as may be that they who judge have never declared their opinions. Yet only the other day the Senate of the United States formally declared the President guilty of the charges now made against him—declared by vote that the President had not the right to exercise that power for the exer- cise of which it isnow to try him. Nor ia the House of Representatives in a more enviable position. It puts forth eleven articles of accu- sation. Two of these articles were formerly considered by the House and it determined against them. As for the other nine, they are already given up as insufficient, if not ridicu- lous, by the impeachment leaders themselves, Bingham, Butler and Stevens. Yet on such a trumpery bill it is positively declared that ihe Senate must convict and dare not do other- wise. It isa question of @ poliiical majority. There is a fiction, rather of couriesy than aught else, that the President’s guilt or innocence is a thing in doubt; that, as the learned counsel argue on either side, no one shall know exactly what the law is, and that that grand mystery will only be made plain when the Senate ren- ders judgment. Yet in the meanwhile every one knows exactly what the jadgment will be. Experis count the vote of the court on their fingers, having no other guide than a know- ledge of the political complexion of the judges. Thus we come to the fact that in the nighest court known to our law, and on the most serious case that can come before that court, justice is denied for political reasons. Parti sans determine that their party requires the destruction of @ certain man, and they will debauch the most sacred institutions of human government rather than seo the escape of the victim, Such a politidal crime differs in form only, not in essence, from the murder of Tiberius Gracchus in the pre- ence of another Senate; and in this event would lie the seeds and the excuse of a revo- lution were there not already # sufficient remedy provided in the appeal to the people atihe polls. Not competent to come between the accused and the accusers, the people stand as if with the very attributes of Divine justice itself, that permits the crime to go on, but takes care that the criminal escape not. Judg ing the judges, the people give effect to the greatest of all means for purifying power—in showing by ® warning example that power cannot be abused with impunity, that a wrong judgment in a high court of justice is buriful only to those who render it. And with no un- certain sound the people are already pro- nouncing on this great topic of impeachment. We wait for afew days yet to hear the col- lective voice of @ whole State; but in the meantime town and city elections in two States show with peculiar significance the tendency of the popular thought. Clear decisions against the republican party in more than a dozen widely distant towns show tho general move- mont and definite gains against radicaliam too cno year's imprisonment in the Penite ry. Wilham Jonee pleaded guilty to picking Pockets, and was sentenced totwo vears and six months in the state Prison. universal to be explained on local causes, So let the great storm rave on and purify the political atmosohera. The Patchwork of Impeachment. By putting bits and scraps together, like a piece of patchwork, Congress has gotten up a bill of impeachment against the Presiden‘. At first one bit was put in and then another, then a bit was taken out and another inserted, until finally the beautiful whole was 80 weak and flimsy a fabric that the strong men of Congress—the hard-handed and bard-headed men of Athens—would not have it at any price. Thad Stevens declared that the concern would not hold water unless his patch was added. Ben Butler said that it was good for nothing if they did not put in a patch of his selection; while Bingham, of Ohio, who would be nothing but chief manager, edged in his little patch almost at tho last moment, As the original articles of impeachment stood the leading spirits of the movement were emphatic in their opinion that the Presi- dent could not ba convicted upon them. Old Thad Stevens said that unless a bantling of his own was introduced into the bill, in the shape of a twelfth article, “cavilling judges and shrewd lawyers” would acquit Mr. John- son ; in fact, if they were not more green than leeks they must acquit him. But his bantling was not accepted. Butler and Bingham were equally resolute in their opinion that no con- viction could be obtained upon the original indictment, and they succeeded in getting two additional articles adopted at a late hour on Tuesday. But what do they amount to? They fall back upon the old issues which the House had already refused to embody in the indict- ment, and they are now hauled up again, with & view to strengthen the case, after the man- agers—Thad, Ben and Bingham—have already declared that the President cannot be convicted upon the charges of ordering the removal of Stanton and appointing Thomas in his place, or of “conspiring” with General Emory to use force in carrying out the order. With what consistency or show of common sense, then, are the abandoned charges re- sumed? If there wasno prospect of conviction upon them before, how much greater are the chances now? It is the first time that the speeches of a President were con- verted into overt acts constituting high crimes punishable with heavy penalties. If Mr. Johnson cannot be impeached upon what really is, after all, the sum total of the allega- tions and evidence—that he did order the ro- moval of an obnoxious official and appoint another in his place, greatly to the mortifica- tion ofa cabal in Congress—how little wisdom would there be in removing him from his posi- tion and forever prohibiting him from holding any office because of some foolish harangues delivered here and there throughout the coun- try! And this is the substance of Ben Butler’s tenth article ; and it contains the spirit, also, of Bingham’s addendum to the indictment. That Mr. Johnson may be declared guilty by the “high court” of the Senate, sitting in a semi- circle around Chief Justice Chase in the Senate chamber, and the prosecutors from the House occupying the floor, is not improbable ; but the result will not relieve the Fortieth Congress fromthe imputation of excesalve folly, weak- ness, blind malice and a reckless disregard for the interests of the country. Whatever be- comes ot Andrew Johnson, tbe radical ma- jority in Congress will have to carry these stigmata with them to their political graves, which are already being prepared for them. Honors To One or THe Rorascarps.—The advent of Disraeli to power seems to be exer- cising @ reflex influence on his countrymen. Disraeli, though a Christian, is yet in many respects in perfect sympathy with the outeast descendants of the house of Israel. It is therefore a noteworthy circumstance that at this particular time, when a converted Jew has become the Premier of Great Britain, an un- converted Jew should be singled out for royal favor. It is no doubt Disraeli’s doings; for he is now, in virtue of his position, the principal adviser of her Majesty. It will be strange— will it not?—to see a Jew, an unconverted Jew, in the English House of Lords. What will the Peers of Bngland say to such a revo- lution? What will say my Lord of Canterbury and the rest of the Bench of Bishops? Disraeli, we fear, will be found a dangerous friend and protector to the exclusive orders in English society. Mephistopheles is a dangerous neigh- bor. A Goop Brt.—Mr. Quinn’s bill to prevent obstructions to travel by displacement of the snow on railroad tracks in New York city was ordered to a third reading in the Assembly on Tavsday. Itis a good bill. The suppression of this formidable evil of street obstructions is already the object of laws which need only to be rigidly enforced to be as efficient as they are good. But.Mr. Quinn’s bill has this peculiar advantage, that the Sireet Commis- sioner is specially authorized and directed by it, fur the purpose of carrying out its pro- visions, to appoint a suitable person, who shall be known as Superintendent of Railroads. It is possible, indeed, that a Street Commissioner and a Superintendent of Railroads may both be as neglectful of their duties as a New York Street Commissioner alone is traditionally held to be. In that caso two instead of one would be paid for leaving undone what they ought to do, Nevertheless, the chances would be twice as favorable for the work being done. There really can be no reason why the streets of New York should not be as promptly and as thor- oughly cleansed, even in the severest winter weather, as those of Paris and St. Petersburg. Poon Kixa Gaorce or Hayover—Count Bismarck goes on with his work. A despatch from Berlin informs us that instructions have been given to coufiscate the estates of George, ex-King of Hanover. When we remember that these estates have, since the days of the First George up until the time of Victoria, belonged to the reigning family of England, we are ena- bled to understand how bold and decided is the present policy of Prussia. The house of Brunswick has been proud in itsday. The house of Brandenburg, in destroying it, is only, consciously or unconsciously, the agent of de- mocracy, The master which it now serves will destroy it in turn, The English government knows this and wisely keeps silence. A Sop ror Boncomss—Butler and Bingham’s extra impeachment articles reciting tho “ high misdemeanors” of some of President John- son’s stump specches. The ringing of the changes on the removal of Stanton and the appointment of Thomas was too scanty a pat- tern for the vow populi, and so something had | to be ut in for buncombe, President Bevjamin Wade, Vice Andrew Joinson—Movements to Provide Him a Cabinet. Tt seems to be sottled that Acdrew Johnson’s trial for impeachment is to be pusaed through to a conclusion—that he intends to fight it out, having no notion of withdrawing from the field in the face of the enemy. It appears, moreover, that # venerable law of Congress on the subject forbids his resignation after his impeachment ; but still, if against the tribunal before which he is to be tried Mr. Johnson were to send in his protest and resignation, on the ground that said tribunal has already pro- nounced judgment in his case, there can be no doubt that Senate and House would drop the prosecution, and be thankful for getting rid of him go cheaply. He would thus be free to take the field against them in the Presidential . canvass, and his name and his ciuse would be a tower of strength to all the opposition ele- ments of the country. But as the accused is understood to have determined upon fighting the enemy in their stronghold, instead of fighting them in the feld before the people, the argument may be dropped. Meantime, the prospect that “Old Ben Wade,” President pro tem. of the Senate, may become President of the United States fora month or two, bas started among the hungry and aspiring managers of the radical camp some- thing like a scramble for the honors and emolu- ments of the Cabinet. We understand upon this head that if “Old Thad Stevens” had the physical strength required he would probably be putat the head of the Treasury; that the friends of Horace Greeley are drumming in his behalf for the Post Office Department; that Julian, of Indiana, has an eye upon the Depart- ment of the Interior; that Senator Anthony, who has seen a good deal of “life on the ocean wave” at Newport, is up for the Navy, but that Marshal O. Roberts, of New York,‘is more likely to get it; that General Ben Butler, on the strength of his military achievements at Big Bethel, Dutch Gap, Fort Fisher, and in that famous bottle in which he was corked up at Bermuda Hundred, aspires to the place of Stanton in the War Office, “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ;” and that Bingham, Boutwell, Chandler and‘a host of others, in and out of Congress, ate snuffing about for the fat places under the approaching radical dispensation of Old Mr. Wade. Sumner will probably be his Secretary of State, and that extraordinary man in jurisprudence, John Underwood, of Virginia, may turn up as the Attorney General. But these are visions and calculations somewhat after the fashion of those of the maid of the milking pail, and in the same way they may all be spoiled. There is high authority for the opinion that these bungry patriots cannot cook their rabbit before they catch him. Reform in the Telegraph Business. The bill introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives by Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, in relation to telegraph companies, appears to be a very desirable measure, so far as the brief synopsis published yesterday enables us to judge ot its provisions, Its main: objects are to prevent the telegraph from being used as an instrument of fraud by the transmission of false or forged messages ; to put a stop to the practice, now common among operators and other employés of telegraph companies, of stealing news or speculating upon information acquired in the prosecution of their business and to insure the inviolability of all messages entrusted to the wires. The attention of Con- gress has no doubt been directed to these reforms by the attempt of the managers of the Western Union Telegraph Company to: secure @ monopoly of commercial and news reports: and to render the press of the country de- pendent upon them for all telegraphic intelli- gence. The success of such an attempt would put a dangerous power in the hands of the telegraph which might be used to the injury of the public. False information might be given to the newspapers or intelligence be withheld from them uniil the parties interested had traded and speculated upon the news, and the telegraph, instead of being a grea‘ public advantage, might be converted into an agent of mischief and injury. No telegraph company should be interested, directly or indirectly, in any association for the collection, distribution and sale of news of any description. Commercial bureaus, marine bureaus and all such concerns are outside the legitimate business of a telegraph company, which should be compelled by law to confine itself strictly to the reception and transmission of messages, whether of a private character or connected with the public press. When the managers or employés of a telegraph line become commercial agents and pedlers of news there is no protection for the public. Their messages will be tampered with, and any important intelligenco they contiin will be stolen and used. The bill now before Con- gtess or some measure of a similar character should become « law. A Persp Bsuinp tas Scenes.—The republi- cans of the House of Representatives have apparently been working harmoniously and as a unit for the impeachment of President John- son; but appearances are sometimes decep- tive. We learn, for instance, that the other evening there was a touch of old Tammany Hall, in a scene which came very near an appeal to the P. R., at a consultation of the Board of Managers of the House provecu- tion against the aforesaid Johnson. The Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, who, it is alleged, has this year become conceited, dogmatical, prag- matical, overbearing and decidedly offensive towards those whom he cannot control, raised a regular “ruction’’ when Mr. Boutweli, of Massa- chusetts, was announced as elected chairman of the managers. Bingham bounced to his feet, flared up, denounced the committee, wouldn’t stand it, declared that he was persecuted, and raved like a mad bulk “Old Thad” pro- nounced him an arrogant pretender, to whom the committee should not yield ; but, frightened by Bingham, Boutwell threw up the sponge, whereupon the blustering Bingham subsided and was mild as a sucking dove. From such beginnings great men may occasionally be developed, but not often. Awurica Ap a Navan Station in THe Bast.— A cable despatch in the Henan of yesterday informs us that the United States has made a proposition to the Turkish goverament to ‘yuild a portat Marmorizza, on the coast of Asiatic Turkey, to be used as a naval etation for ves- sels of the American navy. Good! We grow, and muat grow. But what doos Mr, Seward soy? The Alaska purchase money ha. been voted. The St. Thomas treaty ha» yet been considered. Is not this fresh attem, at purchase rather premature ? Chief Justice Chase ov the Impeachment. The Senate was yesterday morning startled a Mitle by @ communication from Chief Justice Chase, giving bis opinions as to the mode of procedure in the organization of the Senate for tho trial of President Johnson. The organization, he thinks, must be that of a court, and that the court should be organized under its own rules as a court, before the pre- sentation formally of the articles of impeach- ment from the House, and that the President should be summoned to appear by an order of the court, The letter was referred to the select committee from which the rules already adopted by the Senate had been reported. Shortly afterwards, on the motion of Mr. Bing- ham, the House of Representatives, as a com- mittee of the whole, with its committee of managers in front and officiating, proceeded to the Senate and presented the articles of im- peachment as passed by the House, so that we conclude the suggestions of the Chief Justice came in too late. The Senate, therefore, not ascourt, but as the Senate with the Chief Justice presiding, will conduct this trial. The constitution says:—“The Senate sball have the sole power to try all impeach- ments. When sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chiet Justice shall preside, and vo person shall be convicted without the coneurrence of two- thipds of the members present.” The rules, thet, for the conduct of this trial are left to the Senate, and the Senate in this case having previously determined not to be subjected to the rules of a criminal court the Chief Justice will have to submit, Had he been a day or two earlier he might have gained his point, and some advantages to the accused in larger privileges of argument. CHARITY FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. The attention of a patriotic and generous public is again solicited to the projected National Home for Desti- tute Widows and Mothers of Soldiers and Sailora, It is proposed to hold a fair im this city on the 14th of April next in furtherance of this charity. Many ladies and gentlemen, representing the wealth and respectability of New York, have atready most dis- imterestedly given their efforts and thetr ald to initiate and promote a project which will bring cheer and com- fort to those who so much need them, The means of relief whieh are hoped for will be distributed, not only to the destitute of those who have served on sea and land, but to alt widows and mothers whose necessities give them acclaim upon the committee in charge, Weekly meetings of the committees are held at 601 Broadway every Wednesday, at eleven o'clock A. M. To these meetings all persons are invited, The representa- tives of our various churches and of all benevolent s0- cleties, the sojourners in our city from all the States, and, in short, all who aro willing to give a helping hand to God’s poor, are earnestly requested to call and meet with those who aro now laboring to give this charity a successful issue, THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. CampainGs, Mass., Mareh 3; 1863; GxyrLemen—Mr, Watson has received your letter dated February 14. We regret very much that we feel obliged to close the megotiations without coming to an agreement in regard tomrace. We understand perfectly well your objections to engaging iu a contest in which the systems are so different, bat we still think thatyou do not entirely understand on what grounds we are anwilling to change our method of steering and why we think that it would not place the competitors om an unfair footing. We bave learned the art of stooring by means of wires connecting the radder with the bow oersman’s feet. A cockswain: would therefore be only adead weight for us, and we: see no justice ina crew being obliged to carry a dead’ weight in tho form of a cockswain any more than thatitshould be required to carry ballast to equalize the difference in the weight of boats, which is often very considerable, or that cockawains should be of the same weight. A crow selects a cockswain of as light a weight as pos- sible, and it frequently happens that the difference in the weight of the cockswains of two contesting crews amounts to fifteen or twenty pounds; and crews rowing under such conditions are considered fairly matched. American crews merely follow out this principle of se- locting as hight a cockswain as possible, and find it possi- ble to dispense with one altogether. ‘You bave objected to having the race on a broad and ly straight course. We made this stipulation according to the best information which wo could procure, ther> are straight courses of three miles length in several parts of England sufficiently sheltered for the lightest shell boats, and becaese wo think that a straight race furnishes an opportunity fora more fair and satisfactory race than @ winding course,on which one crew necessarily bas an advan' in regard to posi- tion and knowledge of the river, Not that it is at all impossibte for a crew to be steered without a cock+wain on such a course asthe Putney course on the Thames, or the course op the Ouse, which you speak of in your last letter; for we row daily on the Oharies river, which is narrow and widding, has a strong tide and is opstruct- ed with bridges. Mr. Watson, in a private letter to Mr. Willan, sug- gested Lake Windermere, not knowing that the water is too much exposed to tho wind to furnish a suitable course, and thinking that as you are not accustomed to row your races upon lakes the idea of rowing upon such a course might pot have occurred to you. You rf in your letter that the adoption of our method steering would necessitate an entire change in the style of your boats, and also that we could adopt your method without making any important change in our boats, We see no reason why the change in the style and arrangements of the boats would not be as Great in the one case as the other. Hoping that you wiil be convinced that wo dostred no unfair advantages, and regretting that our correspond- enve must close in so unsatisfactory a manner, wo re- main youre, respectfully, ‘A. P. LORING, G, W. HOLDREGE, Com. H. B. C. To F. Wiktan, W. W. Wood, R. G. Marsd Totsenham, Edmund 3. Carter, Committee AMUSEMENTS. AcapEnr or Mvsic,—The Arion Vocal Society give their anaual bal masqué ot the Academy of Music to- might, The programme anaounces the ball to commence at nino o'clock. At that time a number of coopers will tap the eelebrated ‘Heidelberger Fasa,’’ out of which will appear three represontatives of the god, Mercury, four Police clubs, standard bearer, master of ceremonies, ia gala carriage, drawn by four hobby horses; threo wig makers, two aides-de-camp, band of masio, oor commit tee, lobby committee, drum major’s hat ead the rattle guard, During the night, at intervals of one hour, sun- dry carnivalistic and grotesque drotieries will be pre- sented. Tho follow'ng are the principal mas! ‘Good Times, represented by a gigantic silver dolls ‘Times, itlustrated by a torn greenback; deputation from the animal kingdom; Johnson’ Defenders—light artille- ry—Commander, Captain and bal essional Protectors—heavy . Farmer, Ovetion to Prince nival, after which the Prince will descend from hi one and open the ‘vail by commanding the march, all masks will be admitted to the door and join in the dance, Srasway Hart.—Mr, Kennedy, tho celobrated Scot- tish vocalist, gavo a farewell concert at this well known hall last night, before an immense audience, The New York Caledonian Club, under whose patromage the con- cart was given, appeared in falt national costume, and presented him, at the end of the performance, with flat jokons of their regard for his abilities, The pro- 6 consisted, of course, of the ‘sangs 0’ Auld Seot- there being only two exceptions made in favor of ter countries. “Savourneen Dheetish” and the th of Nelson’? wore sung by Mr. Kennedy ,with e success. He atarte ina bore ime for Canada, ap- pearing previously in Brookly: 1 C. RK. We . U. B.C. , Joun Hecker; Con- illerg—Commander, J. Miscottat Edwin Booth closed his engagement in Clevoland om Saturday. His success there was of the most emphatic ebaractor, Ho was suce A by tho “Black Crook." The Erie (Pa) people in eostasios over a circus, Tne Theatro Comique company from Boston are doing food business at tho theatre of the same name in this oly. fie. Henry Nicholls appears to-night at Dodworth Hall og a reader, for the first ime in New York. Mire. Komblo the next might at Steinway Halt. The “Grand Duchess’ on Saturday at the Brooklyn Academ y. Mr. Felix A, Vincont takes a benoit at the Brooklyn Onera House on Friday. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Town Elections in New York. The following is a summary of the results of the city 14 yillage olections hold in this State on the 3d inst, © gat Which was given in our yesverday’s iasue:—~ Troy els\ets 2 do) ractatio Mayor by 1,305 majority, agaiust a tnjork’y last year of 24s, =. "-estet re-elools & demos cratic mayor by 888 majority—a gain of ».- ’ year. Utica elects a democratic Mayor by 487 mo, °"'S* again of over 100, Elmura elects a democratic 2" by 205 majority, last yoar 80 republican méa- jority, Lansingburg elects @ Supervisor and Trus- teez, being a domocrasic gain of over 300, Corning gives a democratic majority of 78—a dom- ocratic gain, Rhinebeck elects democratic Su- porvisor by over 100 majority—a democratic gain of over 300. Batavia, the home of the late Dean Rich- mond, elects the whole democratic ticket by an in- creased majority on every candidate, Yonkers shows 2 democratic majority of over 60. The republicans carry Oswego, Aubura (the home of Secretary Seward) andthe town of Falton by reduced majorities. With- out counting the above the elections in fifty-two towns held previously the aggregate democratic majority is 768—a gain of 602 since last fall and of 3,100 since 1866, Similar galas throughout the State would add 20,000 to the democratic majority of nearly 50,000 last November, and estimating the extraordinary demooratic gains already heard from of the elections on the 3d inst, the State will give in round numbers 100,000 majority for the democratis ticket next fall, Referring to the town elections of the 3d inst. the Albany Evening Journal (republican) of that date says:—‘‘These elections do not always indicate the actual political status of localities; but they are nevestheless received as “straws” which show the way the wind biows. And they are tolerably faithful barometers,’* The Troy Whig (radical), March 4, says:—“The charter election which took piace yesterday resulted m a com plete triumph of the friends of “my policy,” the democ- racy. Even the elements, which were anything but serene, had no terrors forthe democs, The democratio vote 1m mearly all the wards: has vastly imcreased over that of last spring’s election” ‘The New Hampshire Election. Massachusetts has a town called Hull which polls bué a few votes, but as the result is’ known early the politt cal cry is raised, “as goes Hull s0-goes the State." New Hampehire, it seems, has a Hull in a little town callod Newcaatle, and the cry is, ‘‘as goos Newcastle so goes the State.” Tne Concord Patriot (dem.), March 4 gives the result of a recent town meeting there, which is held a week earlier than in other towns in New Hampshire, and shows a democratic gain of 10-on a vote of 163. The Patriot avers that a similar gain in the State would give the democrats the election by 3,000'majority. ‘The Concord Patriot (dem.) dissects the radical eeti- mate of the vote which will be polled om the 10th, and shows that according to-their own estimate'last year “Mr, Sinclair (dem.) has forty-one majority of all the voters claimed by canvass to have been in the State in Marcy last, What follows? Necessarily that the: number of «voters in this State had been increased in a‘ single year 6,207. The statement is not merely false, but propos- terous, The number has mot increased at all,,as every intelligent man knows, except by tho naturalization o afew hundred men who look tothe Emerald Isle as their father land anda'comparatively small number of other foreigners, Are ail these men of foreigu-extrac- tion to vote the repubiican ticket? No man believes that one in a hundred will do 80.”” Political MI! Hany. Simon’s colossal bronze statue: of the Union sstdior was unveiled in the Park at Lewiston, Me., on Saturday afternoon, with appropriate ceremony, and on the Mon- day following Lewiston gave an increased democratic vote of over two hundred. The Constitutional Convention im this State wavim session six months and five days. Judge Verplanck, jealous of the reputation of this body for long endus- ‘ance, has collected data about other similar conventions, and the following is the result of his research:— Months, New Hampshire; 1791.12 Virginia, 1850........ 9 Pennsylvania, i807... Vermont, 1820....06.. 9 ‘The Convention'of this State in 1821 was in session fifteen weoks; that of 1846 was in session seventeen weeks. The domocrats of the Bangor district, Maine, have electea Marceilus Hmory and Henry Hudson, Pendle- tonians, delegates to the National Convention. The convention adopted strong Pendleton resolutions, The Portland Argus, democratic, is extremely jubi- Iant over the result ofthe late election in that city, It claims a gain of 1,000 since the last munictpal election, and is hopeful of success at the next triai for Mayor, which ocours immediatety, there having been no choice on the 2d instant, This the Argus styles a luxury which.the Portland people have permitted themecives to enjoy but four times since the city was ineorporated, thirty-six years ago. In the fow towns heard from in Maine, at the-city and town eleotions on the 3d Instant, the following results are shown :—Portiand, democratic gain sinco November, 1867, 480; Bath, ditto, 64; Lewiston, ditto, 208; Saco, radical gain, 7& Net democratic gain, 673, Touching the impeachmont bother, the Boston Travel ler (radieal) suggests that among the difficult questions which it has started is, Whall shall Congress do while the trial is in progress? Shall all logislative and other business be suspended, or shall the two houses continue their appropriate legislative and other work? If the trial ts continued for months—even through the entire summer—as it is quite possible it may be, it will not be very satisfactory to the country to have tho business of tho nation stand still while @ troublesome man is dis- posecof, The-people will be quite likely to tuink the remedy is worse than the disease, The republican papers in Massachuseits publish the uames of persons elected to various local offices ab the town elections in that State in the Second district, but are oblivious ia regard to the political affinities of the candidates, except in one instance, whore tho successful candidate is designated “anti-P. L. L.”” A Pittsburg papor suggests the name of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of this State, as the republican candidate for the Vice Presideney. What do the Fontonians say? At a radical meeting in Murfreesboro, Tenn., the negro audience became so crazy from the effect of the ultra speeches from white radicals that they could not wait to got out doors to kill the poor white trash, but got into a goneral fght among themselves, Several wore nearly killed, Now Hampshiro democratic papers are exulting over what they call “‘Satan’s kingdom tumbling down,"’ and cite instances where influential gentiemen who wore all republicans last year have come out dat footed tor the democrats, and assist at democratic meetings. The latest “kingdoms? tbat have tumbled down were im Laconia and Henneker last weok, THE WEATHER. Navigation=Several Persous Se- verely Frozen. Tho severity of tho woather has seriously retarded navigation oa both the Bast and North rivers, The paszage through Hell Gato is almost entirely blocked up with largo masses of floating ice, and no sailing ves eels arrived by that channel yeste Harlem river is com} letely closed. The Blackwell! Nand mboat endeavored to force ber way through the ice, was frozen in, but extricated herself im a couple of hours after great exertions ov the part of her crew, The Harlom steamer Sylvan Stream attempted to makes channel, but was compelled to retire, The Elm City passe! throuvh the Sound yesterday, followed by tho Stonington and City of Norwich. From tho Indications of lay there is some prospect of a favorable change, shermometor having moderated twelve degrees in five houra, Thus far March has beon colder than for many years past, and.is but a continuation of the winter, which both tor heavy snow storme and bitter cold has nat been equalled during the past fifteen or twenty =~ The average tempera- ture from 1863 to 1867, inclusive, was 28%, while during last month the average was 19.11, or nearly ten dogr colder than that of t ing eight years, Thi wore only soven days during the pass — yeare wi the therraometer stood lower than 20 degrees durin the month of March at 7A. .M. Four of these cacurre $n 1861 and three in 1863, Tuosday last was the coldest day experienced in this city im the month of March for very many years; also the coldest day since January 8, 1863, according to the marking of thermometer, as follows:—6 P. M., 8 degrees above zero; flogrecs above ero, and at & o'clock Effect on UL P.M, yosterday morning, 5 decrees a = three casos exposure the col were re- } ha lesa, An woknown man was ‘ound during the afternoom at the corner of Twenty. a ore found in one of tho Third avenue cars, suffering from the bere Kanne = on a and taken to st, Luke's ital, Mary Larkin, agi covered by the police ia the back collar of No. 350 Raat Nineteenth stroot, nearly frozen, aud conveyed to leile. vue Hospital, The indications yesterday by the thor. momoter we A, M., 6 degrees; 1% M., 23 degrees, SP. M, degrees,