The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1868, Page 6

5 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, (PROPRIETOR, , AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. r KE'S OPERA HOU! ‘28d street, corner of Ei; prenne ORIBPENO g yey eny aa BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam. / BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mixe MaBTIN—CASTLE yy OLIVAT. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Bosopr's Daventen. ‘FRENCH THEATRE.—Tux GRawp Ducuzss OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humety Domperr. NIBLO'S. GARDEN, Broadway. = WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— EDALE, ‘is WHITE Fawn. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- ray and Thirtieth street.—UNOLE Tom's CABIN. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteeuth street,—GrMNasTios, Govrsraianism, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BosToNn CoMIQUE Baier AND PANTOMIME TROUPE. . KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SoNnas, COENTRIOLTIEG, &0.—GRAND Dutort #8." ’ BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHI0- WLAN ENTEWTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &0. \ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vocarisn, NEGRO MINSTRELOY, &e. * BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— BAviet, FARCe, PANTOMIME, & ' BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street—Tue Pivanin. Matinee ata. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tur OcroRd0N, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—ETuI0PIAN ‘MINSTRELSEY—BURLESQUE OF THE WILD Fawn, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOLENOE AND ART. TRI New York, Thursday, March 12, 1868. PLE SHEET, she news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yes- y evening, March 11. ie condition of Ireland was debated at length in the English House of Commons, the result giving promise of reforms. The Prince of Wales is anxiously expected in Ireland. General Dix, United States ‘Minister in France, arrived in London on, it is said, ‘@ mission connected with the Alabama claims, Prus- Bia is willing, it is said, to arbitrate the Alabama yclaims, and Lord Stanley inclines to submit the case Ro far as the question of indemnity, but not on the ther points. The Canadian Zouaves arrived in Rome. i hk Consols 93 a 93%. Five-twenties 71% @ 71% in ‘London, and 751s a 75% in Frankfort, f Cotton quiet, with middling uplands at 10%. a M04 pence. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions firm and @lightly advanced. Produce dull. ‘ CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a bill to amend the Judi- a@iary act of December 24, 1789, was passed. The House amendment to the bill relative to captured and abandoned property was non-concurred in, ‘The Funding bill was again considered, and Messrs. Corbett aud Dixon spoke upon it until ad- Journment. + In the House a communication was received from General Grant! stating tat there had been 510,812 (votes cast in Alabama for the new constitution jand 1,005 against it. The bill continuing in force the Freedmen’s Bureau was considered, but went over on the expiration of the morning hour. The (bill for the admission of Alabama was then taken up, nd after considerable debate was laid aside tem- ened The committee charged to investigate the ctitious destruction of bonds in the Treasury made @report. Mr. Logan objected to the reading of it ‘unless it embraced the testimony, and declared his intention of exposing rotten and fraudulent prac- tices of the Treasury Department. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a bill to establish a Com- mission of Fisheries and the Crosstown Railroad bill rwere reported, Notice was given of @ bill for the Detter protection of travellers on Fourth avenue. Bills were introduced incorporating the New York Stock ‘Transfer Company, relative to certain pro- cesses in courts, and providing for the taxation of ‘the capital of corporations. The Assembly was not in session. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Panama correspondence is dated March 2. ‘The outrages on foreigners continued, and among the victims was Mr. Fawcett, the correspondent of the HERALD, who had been shot in the thigh by a des- perate native. His wound is severe, but he is recov- ering. A petition is being signed by Americans on Ahe Isthmus to the home authorities asking better protection. The election of President of the State takes place in July and the public interest is already fbsorbed in that event. The earthquakes in La Union, Nicaragua, still continue, Our Lima, Peru, correspondence is dated February 22. The election campaign was in full progress. ‘Colonel Balta appears prominent among the candi- dates. The press continues its animadversions upon General Hovey. A malignant fever is raging at Trujillo in the north. Over fifteen people are dying daily. The Wateree, Dacotah and Fredonia are in Port at Lima. Our special correspondence and mail reports from China to the 10th and Japan to the 25th of January Are confirmatory of the late special despatches from San Francisco. They detatl the progress of the flerce | Civil war inaugurated by the powerful Daimios agalust the Tycoon of Japan in consequence of his course with regard tothe opening of the new treaty ports & foreign trade. The exciting causes are to found in dynastic jealousies and a desire of the aristocrats to Siare in the “spolis’ of the new customs receipts. Fighting had just commenced in Yokohama and Jeddo when the mail left. At Jeddo the Tycoon’s ten fired a large building in which were a number ‘of the troops of Satsuma and literally roasted most of them, killing and mutilating the bodies of any who forced their way out. Considerable bitterness was expressed among the English newspapers in China at the appointment of Mr. Burlingame, and ®ome excitemcat was occasioned among the other foreign ministers. The Democratic State Convention met in Albany yesterday, and Marshall B. Champlain was elected permanent President. Pending the reports of com- tMittees Horatio Seymour, on invitation, addressed the meeting. The report of the committee to select delegates to the National Convention was adopted. ‘The delegates at large are Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Sanford E. Church and Henry C. Murphy. A declaration of principles was adopted, but no re- Commendations were made for President or Vice President, The Georgia Reconstruction Convention yesterday Adjourned sine die, after adopting the constitution a8 @ Woole and voting extra pay to the officers of the Convention. In the North Carolina Convention yesterday the suffrage article Was adopted, and an ordinance was introduced directing the payment of the interest on the public debt. Governor Baker, of Louisiana, was yesterday held in $2,000 bonds to answer a charge of perjury in taking the oath of office, preferred against uim by a wegro. . fhe steamship Champion was attached yesterday by officers in Marshal Murray’s department for a debt of $1,900, being the amount of a contract debt alleged to be due on her, The schooner Nathaniel Was attached at pier foot of Twenty-sixth street, North river, for debt amounting to $100, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET., Barnard yesterday for argument, but was, after some discussion, adjourned until Saturday next. Mr. Drew filed his answer to the petition of the Attorney General for his removal. 4 motion was made at Common Pleas, Chambers, yesterday for the discharge from arrest of Daniel Noble, who was imprisoned on a charge of being concerned in the Royal Insurance Company bond robbery upwards of a year ago. The argument will be resumed to-day. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met in Philadelphia yesterday. A ballot was taken, and the Convention decided unanimously for Gen- eral Grant for President. Curtain was the choice of the majority for Vice President. Corrected returns from 181 towns in New Hamp- shire give Harriman 3,087 majority over Sinclair. General Grant in the New Hampshire Election —Connecticut=The Impeachment and the Next Presidency. The New Hampshire election has set the republicans fairly upon their legs again. They could hardly be more delighted if they had gained a wholly unexpected success. The prestige of the State elections of last October and November was heavily against them. The proposition of universal negro suffrage, upon which they had been so signally defeated in Ohio and New York, but to which they still stood committed throughout the country in sustaining the Southern reconstruction policy of Congress, was against them; the heavy taxations, expenditures, frauds in the revenue and corruptions of all kinds incidental to our heavy taxations, and the gloomy prospect in reference to the lightening of these oppressive burdens, were all so many deadweights upon the dominant party. It was supposed, too, that the encroachments of Congress upon the Executive Department, and the bills proposed for the reduction of the Supreme Court to a mere appendage of Congress, would operate to the demoralization of the republican rank and file to some extent, and that the impeach- ment prosecution against Andrew Johnson would by the New Hampshire people be more apt to be regarded as a desperate and mis- chievous party proceeding than a public necessity. Yet against all these drawbacks the repub- licans in New Hampshire held their ground. They triumphed in the late election over all these obstructions in rallying under the flag of General Grant as their candidate for the next Presidency. This was, in fact, the initial fight for testing the popularity of General Grant as a Presidential candidate, and the result shows that he cannot be beaten. Gene- rals Sickles and Cochrane, under the banner of Grant, in reviving the political issues of the rebellion, revived the old war spirit among the people, and the opposing cop- perhead orators brought in from other States to preach the old copperhead gospel of the peace democracy did good service for the re- publicans. Thus we see yet once again that where copperheadism, with all its obnoxious peace principles and affiliations during the war, boldly presents itself before the- people, its offensiveness weighs down all the subsequent oppressions, corruptions, spoliations, usurpa- tions and revolutionary measures and schemes of the party which carried through the war against the rebellion. Thus, too, it is appa- rent that General Grant, as the great Union champion of the war, upon his record of the war, and upon his merits as a sound, practical, conservative statesman, has secured in this preliminary field fight a success which emphati- cally pronounces him the coming man. So much for New Hampshire. Connecticut comes next—the 6th of April. The largest vote ever cast in Connecticut was that of last year, when, upon a total return of some ninety- four thousand, English, the democratic candi- date for Governor, was elected by a majority of nine hundréd and eighty-seven—a tight fit. Hawley, too, had to carry the deadheads of Barnum and his menagerie, and these dead- heads broke down the republican ticket. What is the prospect now? Among the speakers at the radical rejoicings over New Hampshire at Concord on election night was Colonel Ordway, Sergeant-at-Arms of Congress, who said that ‘Connecticut would follow New Hampshire's example as sure as the sun would set. By that time Johnson would be im- peached (meaning removed), and the next move would be the nomination of Grant for the Presidency, and all the States would give him a majority but Maryland and Kentucky.” From these remarks it would appear that the radical programme is to get Johnson out of the way in season for a clear field in the Con- necticut election. Perhaps they will fail in this; but in any event it is safe to say that the democrats will have to work as they never worked before to hold their possession of Con- necticut. The impeachment, it is disclosed, is no draw- back to the republicans, and it is because the democrats give the cold shoulder to their best friend, Johnson. His favors, great and small, are thankfully received, but the recipients themselves turn their backs upon Johnson. Politicians, like corporations, have no souls. A benefactor who has nothing more to give is nothing to them, The impeachment prosecu- tion will doubtless be strengthened by this re- sult in New Hampshire, and nothing but his resignation, we apprehend, will prevent the removal of Andrew Johnson. The ten outside States, bottom end up, will then be recon- structed and restored with all possible despatch to both houses of Congress and to a voice in the Presidential election. This reconstruction question, well done or badly done, will thus be practically put out of the way, while upon the questions of the finances and taxes we per- ceive that Congress will shape its legislation to catch the popular breeze of the passing hour, leaving the future to provide for itself. With all these advantages in their hands for the Presidential campaign, under the banner of Grant, how is this radical party to be defeated next November? That is the question. Would it not be well for Mr. August Belmont, Chairman of the Democratic National Execu- tive Committee, to call his committee together and reconsider the appointment of the 4th of July as the day for the meeting of the national party convention? Why not have a convention forthwith to cast about for a new departure on anew party platform, broad and strong? And why not have another convention in July, if deemed most expedient, for the nomination of a Presidential ticket? It is something to be first in the field in view of the floating elements of the country ; it is certainly unwise in a party ‘The sherry wine case was continued in the United States District Court during the whole of yesterday, arid will be resumed this morning, ‘The Drew-Erie litigation case game vetoes Sop eee saammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmsmmssssaaamsmssssassaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas TE of politicians without a fixed policy or a candi- date to wait wholly upon a chapter of acci- dents to shape theie gour se, ‘The Democratic State Convention at Al- bany Yesterday. ~~, Amid the flashes of cannon fired by exult- ant radicals in honor of their recent escape from destruction in New Hampshire the Democratic State Convention of New York commenced its sittings in Albany yesterday. Undisturbed by these explosions of radical joy, the representatives of the democracy of the Empire State went on with their proceedings as calmly and placidly as if they were taking an airing in the Park on some beautiful and balmy morning in July. Prone as such con- ventions have been to dissensions, violence and even general smash-ups, the assemblage yester- day was a marvel of harmony and conciliation. Even Kings county, turbulent as it frequently is, declined to throw in a brand of disquiet; and although the fire was ready, it was promptly extinguished under the soothing influences of the dove-like spirit of tranquillity that prevailed. Governor Seymour was the chief star in these pleasant interludes to the new play of the “Democratic Happy Family.” He delivered a speech pregnant with financial ideas, not altogether new, but important and portentous, coming from a leader of the democracy who has ‘‘thrice refused the crown” of a democratic Presidential nomination. He also rather startled the dry bones of Thad Stevens’ radicalism by his caustic review of the soldiers who fought and conquered in the war for the Union. He also touched upon other topics of pervading interest. Among the list of delegates selected to attend the Na- tional Democratic Convention to be held in this city on Independence Day will be found names for a long time familiar to our readers. The platform or declaration of principles is rather an attack upon the measures and policy of the radicals than the enuncia- tion of any new ideas. It is like the advance of an attacking force upon the strong as well as the weak points of an enemy, with no such word as ‘“‘retreat” inscribed upon its banners, It is non-committal upon the bond- holder question. Here its framers may be wise, for this question is like a two-edged sword, which may cut both ways in any party, and in none, perhaps, with more sharpness than in the democratic party. The financial question is, however, one which parties must Prepare themselves to confront squarely when the struggle comes. Money, taxes, property, the reunion of all the States, whether there shall be high rates for the poor and fat divi- dends for the rich, whether there shall be an era of peace, plenty and prosperity or one of bankruptcy, dishonor and disruption, are among the grave considerations which both the democratic and the radical party will be brought up to the bull ring to respond to when the Presidential candidates are fully in the field and the battle is fairly commenced. The delegates to the Convention at Albany yesterday may congratulate themselves upon one good omen:—They commenced their pro- ceedings amid the flashes of radical lightning ;" these may be followed by blasting bolts of democratic thunder. Important Bill Repealing Tax on Manuface tures. The bill ‘to exempt certain manufactures from internal tax,” reported by Mr. Schenck from the Committee of Ways and Means and passed in the House on Tuesday by the over- whelming vote of a hundred and twenty-two yeas te two nays, is a very important one and is likely to become law. The Senate will hardly reject a measure passed in the House by an almost unanimous vote, and it is not likely the President will veto it. The bill repeals sections ninety-four and ninety-five of the act approved June 30, 1864, to provide internal revenue, and which is generally known as the Internal Revenue act. The thousand and one articles which come into daily use, and which are too numerous to state here, will thus be re- lieved of taxation; all, in fact, included in the sections mentioned above, except taxes im- posed on gas made of coal wholly or in part or of any other material; on illuminating, lubricating or other mineral oils, or articles the products of distillation, redistillation or refining of crude petroleum, or of a single distillation of coal, shale, peat, asphaltum or other bitu- minous substances; on wines therein de- scribed, and on snuff and all the other manufac- tures of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars and cheroots. Thus it will be seen this is a sweeping measure, and one which will have the effect both of cheapening five per cent or more a vast number of things in common use and of stimu- lating home manufactures. Of course it will be hailed with pleasure by the mass of the community. Mr. Schenck estimates the reduc- tion of revenue through the operation of this bill at upwards of eighty-four millions, though he expects twenty millions may be raised by the increase of certain specific taxes. Even with this there willa reduction of over sixty millions of internal revenue. This will neces- sarily call for a reduction of expenditures or the Treasury will find itself unable to meet the demands upon it. The next step for Congress to take, therefore, is to cut down the expenses to the lowest practicable point. If Mr. Schenck's bill becomes law it is to go into oper- ation on the Ist of May next. More [Interesting Testimony Streets, The progress of the investigation concerning the condition of the streets and the Whiting contract continues to elucidate some interest- ing opinions and to extract some curious facts from the horrible piles of filth and snow that barricade the sidewalks. There appears to be a serious difference of opinion as to the fidelity with which Mr. Whiting has adhered to his contract. Peter Cooper thinks that he has performed his duties faithfully. Peter and as many of the Citizens’ Association as half a dozen carriages could accommodate around the city in the last hot season, and were astonished at the cleanly condition of the streets. For himself and the Association he would say that the streets were cleaned according to contract; and with this dictum we suppose the people ought to be satisfied, because Mr. Cooper, as is well known, drives his ancient wagon as assiduously as any man in the city through all its highways and by- ways. Mr. O'Gorman, speaking asa lawyer anda Commissioner of the Street Cleaning Board, does not profess to know much about the con- tract because it was made in the days of his About the rode | | to retire. tive about the vexed question as to whether Mr. Whiting is compelled to remove the snow as well as the dirt, and decides in the negative; but he does not think that the streets could be better Kept. The Corporation Counsel also agrees with Mr. Schultz that no contract could be devised sufficiently large or minute in its details to meet all the varying exigencies of one winter in New York. In this case what is to be done? Clearly to have the streets cleaned without any contract at all, but by responsible parties who will be held account- able for the proper performance of their duties. The Commissioners are evidently at variance in their views upon the matter. The con- tractor wants to throw up his contract, and Recorder Hackett thinks that there is no law to make a new one and deplores the idea of releasing Mr. Whiting under the circum- stances. It was insinuated in the testimony of Mr. Whiting that several people were partners or had an interest in the contract to Devoe & Knapp, and the name of Horace Greeley was mentioned as one of them. It is hardly credible that Mr. Greeley had anything to do with so dirty a job. The testimony, to say the least, is interesting, but it will not clean the streets. : ‘The Cotton Market and Cotton Prospects. The extraordinary rise in the price of Ameri- can cotton within a short period shows two things—first, that cotton speculators had made incorrect calculations as to the crop; and, second, that with all the efforts of British and other manufacturers to do without or to substi- tute something else for the long staple article of this country, they must have it and cannot get along without it. We see now that the real or pretended estimates of the amount of last year’s crop were too high, though the cot- ton speculators and manufacturers were en- abled, under these false estimates, to bring the price down to ten cents a pound, and even lower. The planters of the South generally were in such pressing need of money that they were compelled to sell at this low and unre- munerative rate. Still, those who could afford to hold their cotton back from the market did not sell, and it is believed there is a consider- able amount yet in the hands of the planters or parties in the interior of the Southern States. The latest news from Texas shows that a large amount, and much more than was expected, is now coming out of that State under the stimu- lation of higher prices, now ranging from twenty-two to twenty-seven cents a pound. Looking, however, to the necessities of the cotton manufacturers everywhere for our long staple article, it is not likely the price will go down much, unless there should be a better and an unusually good prospect of a crop the present year. What, then, are the prospects for the present year? It is rather too early to form a correct idea, though preparations for planting have commenced in the most southern part of the cotton region. Asa general thing the neces- sities of the planters and of the negro laborers will stimulate exertions to raise a large crop. The rise in the price lately, and the fact now demonstrated that the manufacturers of the world cannot do without a considerable quan- tity of American cotton, will have a similar effect in stimulating production. We learn, too, from Texas and some other parts of the South, particularly from Texas, that the pros- pect of a large crop the present year is very good. This, however, is not general, and is not true, probably, with regard to the northern tier of the cotton States; for in these latter the people are turning their attention more to the cultivation of cereals. But with all the draw- backs to cotton culture, as the disorganized state of labor, the political condition of the South, and the disheartening future for the Southern whites, we still think that with a favor- able season a good crop will be produced, and that, too, with a reasonable expectation of a remunerative price. There are not likely to be hereafter such extreme fluctuations in the market as have been experienced with the crop of 1867. The planters ought to be encouraged to work, therefore, and the speculators should be warned against unduly bulling or bearing the market, either upon the basis of the crop on hand or upon that about to be planted. Mexico. The latest atrocity perpetrated by the revo- lutionist bandit, eon Chavez, on the plains of Jalisco, is recorded in a letter (February 29) from our special correspondent at Browns- ville, which we published yesterday. The details are almost incredible. Chavez and his band had previously attacked and taken Tepatit- lan, carrying off thousands of dollars and all the horses, together with several merchants and other wealthy people. A subsequent simi- lar assault was made by them on the town of Zapotlanejo, but proved unsuccesful, and they left for the mountains. Not long afterwards, however, they returned to the plains and attacked, took and burned a part of the Coli- millo plantation buildings, robbing all the people and killing the overseer. Thence they went to Matatlan, but the armed men of the place outnumbered them and they were obliged After disappearing for several days a large number of them, with their faces masked, falling by night upon a gay dancing party inthe San Pedro gardens, seized and carried away six beautiful danghters of the wealthiest families. The next morning one of these unfortunate victims was found in the same gardens ‘‘a raving lunatic; her hair had been shaven, her breast cut open and her person violated. She was nearly naked. On her was found a letter from Chavez saying that unless two hundred thousand dollars in gold was sent to his camp in the mountains west of Guadalajara all of the other five ladies would be similarly treated. The money was sent, and after Chavez received it—and it had to be carried to him on a mule with a single servant—he and his companion fiends fell upon the ladies and outraged them. They then tied them on to mules and left them in charge of the servant who brought them the money.” Such is our correspondent’s account of this revolting outrage. It vividly illustrates the wretched internal condition of Mexico. Afflicted by a chronic revolutionary mania, what hope remains that the grievous political and social disorders of this unhappy country can be otherwise cured than by the remedy which the leaders of the Northwestern con- federacy are said to recommend—‘a pro- tectorate from the United States?” Such a | predegqeeor. Yoho &- Develin, nut do iw wosis | wrotectorate, extended over the entire territory of Mexico, might prepare it for ultimate annexation to our great republic and insure the development of the wonderful resources with which nature has endowed it. The whole civilized world would rejoice at a consum- mation so devoutly to be desired. The Admission of Alabama. Alabama will perhaps be restored to her place in the Union and to representation in Congress as the result of the report of the committee who have had in consideration the admission of that State. We sincerely hope she may be. Hardly any piece of mere bad faith from politicians should weigh against so good a result. Let that State come in on any terms, and let a precedent thus be made on which other States can follow. It matters not that the States have nigger constitutions as a condition of entrance. It would matter equally little if every State officer and every Congress- man were the longest-heeled and worst-headed specimens of so-called humanity that ever stood erect if their prominence would restore the States to the Union. It would indeed be an act of political sagacity if the Southern white people should practise an absolute self- abnegation—be as little heard of as if they were all gone to Brazil. Thus ‘playing pos- sum”—permitting all the reconstruction to be done by radical and nigger affiliation—they can have their States readily restored to their places in the Union. That once done, all is done; for with the States standing on a level with other States—with their position secured in Congress and their rights to be heard in the Supreme Court assured—they stand as abso- lute sovereignties and cannot stand otherwise. On the day on which they so stand they hold unquestioned control within all rational limit of their domestic institutions, and they can sweep the nigger to the obscurity and degrada- tion from which they had permitted him to rise. They may tear up their nigger constitutions and make new ones on their own definitions of republicanism. But while rejoicing to see a good result promised in the proceedings with regard to Alabama, we can but feel indignant at the shameless want of faith, the betrayal of its compact with the people, that marks the course in the premises of the radical party. It takes this step in clear violation of the express terms of a law made to cover this very case. This violation of law is not such a violation as that charged against the President in regard to the Tenure of Office bill and which is made the principal ground of impeachment. As to the law the President is charged with disobeying, a question of interpretation arises and the best lawyers may rationally differ; but as to the meaning of the law defining the terms of ad- mission of States there can be no doubt. Con- gress laid down the terms on which States might return to the Union, requiring as a guar- antee of the action of the people that the consti- tution should be voted upon by a majority of the registered voters. This gave voters a chance to express their dissent by staying away. These were the terms; Congress made them and they were accepted by the people. The people of Alabama acted on the terms laid down by Congress and the decision was against the Congressional plan, and now Congress pro- poses to repudiate that plan and act without reference to it. Congress required that a cer- tain number of voters ‘should act to give a bona fide character to the constitution. The re- quired number did not act, the constitution has not the dona fide character Congress desired to give it; but Congress accepts it. It required the people of the State to assent to niggerism asa condition of their return. They do not assent, and Congress lets them in. What, then, has become of all the radical virtue? If the State may be now admitted despite the contu- macy of her people, despite their repudiation of republican policy, why has it been kept out till now? Judging by the action in the case of Ala- bama reconstruction comes down to a fine point. Something like a hundred Northern adventurers and niggers get together some- where in a State and make what they calla constitution. Evidence that this constitution is the act of the people is not necessary, neither is evidence that the people assent to it. Let it only be presented to Congress and. Congress will pass a law declaring, the State in. That is the whole process; and since recon- struction is so simple and easy it may seem wonderful to the country that so many astonish- ing political geniuses as the radicals number could not accomplish it before. Naporgos’s Prosectep Pirertmace.—We have had it reported that Napoleon and Eugénie intend during the course of the com- ing summer to visit the Sultan at Constanti- nople, that Napoleon himself is to visit Francis Joseph at Vienna, and now we learn by a cable despatch that he is to visit the Czar at St. Petersburg. There is but one inference which is of any value to the world generally to be drawn from these varied reports, and that is, that in the meantime there is no danger of a European war. Accustomed as we have become to surprises, we see no reason to doubt that the European nations, though troubled internally, are not this year to be afflicted with a general war. Tne Freon Press aNp THE ALABAMA Cratms.—In the Heratp of yesterday we published an extract froma Paris journal in which the English view of the Alabama claims is thoroughly endorsed. We are not surprised at this, Itis as natural as life that it should be so. The French are in the same condemna- tion with the English. Both are equally guilty. When England has paid down the money France will have no choice but to follow her example, FRESHETS IN. THE WEST. Ice Gorge in the Mississippi at Rock Island, Il.—The Town Flooded, Rock ISLAND, Il, March 11, 1868, An ice gorge formed below this city yesterday after. noon, causing a rapid rise of the river. At half-past nine o'clock last night two-thirds of the city were flooded, and ‘the residents on several of the streets had to be taken from their houses in stall boats, The arsenal bridge was destroyed, causing a loss of $14,000. Right fatboats, valued at $30,000, employed on the rapids improvement, wete carried down siream and will prove a total loss. Considerable damage has also been doue by the inundation in the city of Davenport, lowa. Moving of the Ice ot Davenport, lowa= Damage to the Railroad Bridge. Davexront, lowa, March 11, 1868. ‘The ice gorge gave way last night. ‘The river fell rapidly, and is now free of lee, The Chicago and Rock Island Pacific Ratiroad bri was 80 badly damaged that the trains will not be able to cross for some time, One of the solid sione piers was nurled Gwomby Cegh AAW SEERA... February shed individual by eightee: destroy: 71 Beekman street, five brick 512 Third avenue, one story frame shop; 85 John street, five story, brick br 3 On ’e Island, three story brick balding; 620 =~West ‘Thirty-eighth street, one story me factory, 38 Gi aed ry ig snd attic frame the same od was et -four. i communioalion ing a copy of the complaint of the Com. mon Council of Jersey Oy concerning the powder boats now lying in the North river, opposite above city, was read and referred to Wilson with power to act in the matter. TRIALS AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.—The Police Commissioners held their regular weekly meeting for trials yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Acton ig the examiner's chair, Some eighty policemen were tried on charges apremerred against them by their superior officers. ere were no cases of im- portance in which citizens were comp! THE GERMAN YOUNG MEN’8 CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- TION.—This organization, which during the past few Weeks has fed at thelr headquarters, 69 Ludlow Street, on an average six hundred rg ot: daily, has gone out of favor with a portion of the population. It appears tl Officers attended a meeting at the Cooper at which the propriety of upholding ‘the Excise law was strenuously maintained. A Ly ed German Sesaeeee eae ers ciation thoug! ursue, al = vised its readers not to continue thalr contributions to a charity which has done so much toward reliev- ing the poor. To this oP) the led are pre- paring a rejoinder, in which they will show that out- side of their organization they are indebted to very few for assistance. “TAKING IN STRANGERS AND DOING FOR THEM.”’— A communication was yesterday forwarded to Super- intendent Kennedy from the Mayor's office, in which Mr. Hoffman called the attention of the Ri gad head” and “generalissimo of the bluecoats” to a well known gambling den in the Bowery, not a very great distance from New Canal street, where passers- by are urgently invited to step in and see 2 la Museum the curiosities, and when in induced to bet on cards or some other game of chance, and thus thelr money is taken from them. We await with much anxiety the result of the strategy of the gene- ralissimo in laying siege to and eventually, by a bril- liant coup de main, capturing the establishment— when the birds have own. TuE SouND TRAFFIC.—On Monday next the steam- ers Bristol and Providence will resume their trips between this city and Providence, R. . These mag- nificent boats since they were withdrawn late last fall from the Sound have been repaired and re- painted and their engines, &c., put in excellent con- dition for the work expected of them Sennerie ensuing eightor nine months. These floating cost $1,100,000 each, and in the six months that elapsed from the time they were placed on the line until laid up carried upwards of one hundred thou- sand passengers and immense aggregates of freight. DEATH FROM INJURIES.—Coroner Schirmer yester- day held an inquest at Bellevue Hospital on the body of John Callahan, a laborer, whose death was the result of injuries received on the 20th ult. by a uzee mass of coal falling upon him at the works Twentieth street, where he was employ The jury rendered a verdict of accidental death. Deceased was twenty-eight years of age, and a native of Ire- land, Founp DRowNED.—The remains of a man, whose name, from papers found in his possession, is be- lieved to have been Albeo, were discovered floating in the dock foot of Gansevoort street, North river. Coroner Rollins held an inquest on the and the jury rendered a verdict of death by drow! Mr. es - aD wed te hare been sect Provi- lence, R, 1., to which place a a ‘was sent, requesting his friends to come on take charge of the body. Founp Deap IN A CHATR.—A woman named Sarah Morgan, who lived at No, 509 West Twenty-ffth street, was yesterday found dead in her chair. Coroner Keenan has been notified to hold an inquest on the body. THE ALIS CLUB BALL.—The annual ball of this club took place last evening at the Germania As- sembly Rooms, Bowery. A goodly company of ladies and gentlemen Were present, who enjoyed themselves to their hearts’ content. THEFT OF A CASE OF GOODS—ARRESTS ON SUS- PICION.—On Monday last a case of boots, valued at $588, was stolen from under the hatchway of store No. 10 Park place, occupied by Messrs. Rosenstock, Rice & Co., and carried away without the knowledge ofany one connected with the establishment. Yes- terday afternoon detectives Muilin and Herfeit, of the Fourth precinct, found the stolen goods on the corner of New Bowery and Madison street, where, it is alleged, they had reap td be ‘Thomas ey and John Riley, jomas Goodey. The parties named were arrested by the detectives on suspicion of committing the theft, and Alderman Miller, acting magistrate at the ‘Tombs, committed them for examination. Riley alias Goodey is one of the young men arreated about three months since on suspicion of being concerned in knocking down a bank He ng in Wall Lean near Wiillam, and Lge | him of nearly $4, in checks on most of the city banks and ready me re Owing to the insufficiedcy of the testimony to hold Goodey for trial for the robbery he was discharged, bro were the two men arrested with him for that offence. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Idaho Statesman nominates Senator George H. Williams, of Oregon, for Vice President on the Grant ticket. Jacob H. Ela, of Dover, N. H., & member of Con- gress, has four sons named as follows:—Frederick. Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner. One of the members of the Lower House of the Legislature of Massachusetts keeps a private ste- nographer to report for his special edification the prayers of the Chaplain. ‘The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette asserts that the shoddy aristocracy congregated from all quarters in Washington are dreadfully wearied already at the Lenten season and sigh for the return of the gay and festive scenes which are expected after Easter, They hope then to celebrate the dismissal of one President and the inauguration of another, What a radical jubilee it will be ! ‘They tell a story of Sinclair, the demoratic candi- date for Governor in New Hampshire, which would indicate that his nerves will bear the election re- turns. Whena lad, with three other boys, he was watching @ corpse, as the custom was. The dead person had bent forward to deformity, and in laying out the corpse they had attempted to straighten it by tying the shoulders down to a board. The young men were whiling away the solitary hours by a game at cards, when suddenly the cord broke and up came the head of the dead man. They all scrambled for the door but Sinclair, who, without moving from his chair, quietly remarked:—‘Oome back, boys, he only wants a game. Deal him ahand!’* Jesse Bell, of McLean county, Ill., is a candidate for the republican nomination for Congress from that district. John A. Brooks, © member of the Kentucky Legis- lature from Webster county, has resigned, Mr. Brooks was elected by a democratic majority of be- tween six and seven hundred, and in his letter of resignation declares lis determination to act hence- forth with the republican party. The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, March 10, states that an organization in behalf of the conservative people of the State—and, indeed, wa may well say, in behalf of the State of Virginia, against the now almost avowed attempt to Africanize it and to place ite power and authority and government in the hands of the black race to the exelusion and subjection of the whites—is now going on, and the Centrat State Committee in Richmond, wiil in proper time recom- mend a proper plan for adoption, to be car~ ried out by the country committees, &c. It is thonght that a portion of the plan thus tobe recommended will include a nomination of conservative candidates for any office ia the State, no matter what may be the strength of the radicals, in every county, and no compromises about candi- dates being able to get this or that radical vote, or being seceptable to this or that section of the radical partys WEW JERSEY TOWN ELECTIONS, Democratic Gain in Bridgeton. Barporros, Mareh 11, 1 The election which took place In this city yestor. day resulted in a democratic victory and a grin of 112 votes over last spring. Republican Gain in Caiunden. CAMDEN, March, 11, 1868, ‘The election-in this city has resulted in the succesa of the whole republican ticket by about 70 majorijy— ‘a OF Be ahi =