The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, xXxmI. -No. 74 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. qRROADWAY THEATRE, Broatway.—Saw. Matinee BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PUTNAM—JACE SURP- PaRp ON HORSEBACK. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Novopy's DAUGHTER. Matinee at 2. FRENCH THEATRE,—LA CLOSERIE DES Matinee at 1-Tuz Granp DucuEss. GENETs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humety DoMPrty. Matinee at 1. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.-Tae Wuits Fawn. latinee at 1. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROSEDALE. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 284 street, corner of Eighth ‘avenue.—Matinee at FRA DIAVOLO, Broad- BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND be teNgg (eter ‘way and Thirtieth street.—UNCLE Tom's Canin. STEINWAY HALL.—READINGS FROM SHAKSPEARE— Moroing—MAcbE1H. NEW YORK CIRCU! EQUESTRIANISM, &0. Fourteenth street.—GYMNASTIOS, fatinee at 334. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —BostoN COMIQUE Bauer pos Peay TROUPE. Matinee at 259. LLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Brondway.—Son' ROUEN TEIOITIES, ‘4c.—GRAND DuTou “8.” Matinee at SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETu10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—-Comio ‘VOOALI8M, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, Matinee at 234. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— BALLET, FAROE, PANTOMIME, Ac. Matinee at 255. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tae PiceRim. Matinee at 2. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Woman's Con- NING—OLJECT OF INTEREST. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—ETHIoPtan MINSTRELSEY—BURLESQUE OF THE WILD FAWN. Matinee. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 ‘Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. RIPLE SHEET. Saturday, March 14, 1868. THE ADVERTISING BUSINESS—THE SPRING OPENING, There is a general and no doubt well founded com- Pplaint throughout the State of the dulness and decay of al! branches of trade the present season, consequent upon the unsettled condition of the country and the ‘Want of a well defined financial policy. Nevertheless the business of advertising, instead of sympathizing with the universal depression, has experienced a re- markable revival, and the columns of the HERALD this spring show an increase of advertisements of from fifteen to twenty per cent as compared with the corresponding period of last year. One of the reasons of this apparent anomaly is the fact that advertising is assuming a new feature in this city. Our citizens begin now to understand the advantage of effecting sales, supplying wants and transacting business generally through the medium of small advertisements in such a paper as the HeRatp, which meets the eyes of hundreds of thousands of readers every morning within a few hours of tts issue. By this means they save both time and money, while buyer and seller, being brought into direct communication, are no longer compelled to pay heavy commissions to middlemen and agents. The eficiency of this wise business Policy has been materially promoted by the careful arrangement of all advertisements under their ap- propriate headings, so that the thousands of persons. who daily refer to the columns of the HERALD to seek investments or supply wants are enabled to find just what they desire without difficulty or delay. At the same time the more extensive advertising, which is also largely on the increase, has helped to build up many vast establishments and to secure mag- niflcent fortunes. While small advertisements are wonderfully effective, those on a larger and grander seule, like that of Dr. Helmbold, in to-day’s HERALD, are sure to be read with care and interest and to yield a valuable return. THE NEWS. THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. ‘The Chief Justice took his seat as presiding officer of the High Court of Impeachment in the Senate chamber yesterday at one o'clock. The Board of Managers of the House (hen entered, and were fol- lowed by the House in Committee of the Whole, The President’s counsel, headed by Attorney General Stanbery, soon after arrived and entered af 2ppear- ance on the part of President Johnson, and asked that forty days time be granted to prepare a de- fence. Some argument ensued on this motion and the Senate consulted in private session. On returning the Chief Justice announced that an order had been entered requiring the President to file his answer on the 23d of March. Mr. Bingham offered an order that on filing the application by the Managers the trial proceed forthwith, which was denied by a vote of 25 to 26. An amendment that unless cause for clay be shown the trial shall proceed forthwith on filing of the replication was agreed to by 40 ayes to 10 nays, and the court adjourned to the 23d inst. The galleries were crowded to repletion by those ‘who had been found with tickets of admission, and it was somewhat noticeable that there was nota colored person among them. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday several petitions on vari- ous subjects were presented. A private bill making an appropriation for the heirs of Ashbury Dickens on account of his having acted as Secretary of State ‘was passed. A committee of conference on the Con- sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was appoint- ed, and the Senate assumed the high functions of a High Court of Impeachment to proceed with the trial of President Johnson. On the adjournment of the court Mr, Wade resumed the chair, but after an inef- fectual attempt to go into Executive session the Sen- ate adjourned till Monday. In the House the bill for the relief of Mrs. General Anderson was discussed, the report of the Confer- ence Committee being disagreed to. Leave was asked to offer a resolution that the House attend in a body during the impeachment trial at the Senate chamber, but objection was made. A resolution directing the Congressional printer to furnish copies of the proceedings in the trial to each member was agreed to. The House, in Committee of the Whole, soon after departed for the Senate chamber and on returning adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the bill abolishing the Canal Contracting Board was, after considerable discussion, made a special order for Thursday. The bill providing for the appointment of Commissioners to examine into the system and management of New York common schools was reported adversely, and the report was agreed to. A bill was introduced for the completion of improvements on Third street. Notice was given of a bill authorizing the appoint- ment of a Financial Examiner for New York city, and the Senate adjourned to Monday. . NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET. New York were reported, an@yalso;a regolution authorizing the Committee on ‘and Navi- gation to investigate the management of the New York and Brooklyn ferries, Bills were introduced to incorporate the Fifth Avenue and everal other railroad companies, relative to ald to emigrants arriving in New York, to amend the re- vised statutes relative to divorces and to incorporate the Arcade Underground Raliroad Company. A re- Solution directing an investigation into the affairs of the various express companies in the State was laid over. Another resolution appointing a special com- mittee to inquire into the charges in relation to the use of Fort Lafayette during the war was laid on the table. Bills for a railroad in Nassau street and authorizing the Manhattan Company to construct an underground railroad were favorably reported and the Assembly adjourned to Monday. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Siberia, Captain Hockley, which left Liverpool at half-past nine on the morning of the 20th of February and Queens- town on the 1st of March, arrived at this port yester- day morning, bringing a mail report in detail of our cable despatches dated to her day of sailing from Ireland. Our special telegrams from Mexico state that all political prisoners had been liberated. General Ala- torro, commanding the national forces in Yucatan, had been recalled. A great flood is prevailing in Chatham, C. W., and ten miles of the Great Western Railroad track have been washed away. Notice was given of a billin the Canadian House of Commons yesterday to establish a treaty with the United States for the apprehension of criminals. New Orleans.clty currency has declined to thirty per cent discount, and is no longer in circulation. Considerable suffering is apprehended in conse- quence among the poorer classes. A recent decision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue allows $1,000 exemption on the income taxes of non-resident aliens who do business in this country, but no deduction for house rent is made, ‘The Citizens’ Association have addreased the Chair- man of the Senatorial Committee on Municipal Affairs relative to the street cleaning contract and its enforcement in this city. They suggest that the general default, if any, is chargeable to the five high local officials who act as commissioners, whose duty is to enforce the contract, and who can with- hold every penny of the contractor's pay until the work is performed. Mr, E. J. Sherman brought.a suit in the Supreme Court, Circuit, before Judge Lott, yesterday, to re- cover the sum of $500 from General 8, H, Roberts, the Brooklyn postmaster, which he claimed to be due for services rendered in procuring him the latter appointment, The case was dismissed on the ground that there was no foundation for such action as shown by the testimony taken. The Next Presidency and the Democracy Admiral Farragut Their Only Chance. We think it was in November last, and after New York, the Empire State, in winding up a splendid train of democratic victories, had gone thundering by with her imperial majority of fifty thousand, that, at a social meeting in this city of representatives of the rank and file of the democracy, Admiral Farragut was the lion of the occasion. His invitation was a compliment to the great naval hero of the war for the Union, and his presence was an honor to the meeting. Nothing was said of party politics in the gallant old Admiral’s presence, and but little was, perhaps, thought at the time of the chances of his ever becoming a can- didate for the Presidency on either side. In fact, at that epoch of democratic sunshine General Grant had not defined his position, and there was a lively hope entertained among the democrats that with proper encouragement on their part he would, like a captivated but coy and blush- ing damsel, yield to their soft persuasions to become theirs ‘‘ for better or for worse” at the high marriage Testival of the Democratic National Convention. But in December these bright hopes began to wane; in January it began to be apparent that Grant was coquetting with the radicals, and in February the grand flare-up between Grant and Johnson settled the question. General Grant had cut out even the favorite Chase with the radicals, and all the democratic Grant fat was upset in the fire. The joyful news to the republicans was sent flying on the wings of the lightning to every hole and corner from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific, and so, between the going down and the rising of the sun, General Grant became the accepted Presidential candidate of the re- publican party from the Penobscot to the Sac- ramento, The State Convention of this party in New Hampshire put him boldly at the head of their columns for their preliminary battle of Tuesday last, and under his banner they have given the astonished democracy another touch of Fort Donelson. In passing this test, with all its discouraging radical impediments, suc- cessfully, General Grant has shown that against his broad, deeply set and substantial popularity as the victorious leader of the Union armies against the rebellion he will, in the four-mile heat over the Presidential course, distance any one of all the quarter horses that have been named in behalf of the democratic party. In opposition to Grant it has been demonstrated by the New Hampshire election that any such antediluvian democratic lawyer as Seymour, Pendleton or Hendricks, on old democratic principles, will come off much worse from the trial than did McClellan from his race with the sure-footed, long-legged and long-winded Lincoln. What, then, are the democracy to do? The State gathering at Albany the other day was a conclave of drivellers, Seymour at the head of them. They talked and resolved them- selves into a muddle and then adjourned. The Tammany leaders of this city, the Sweenys and Tweeds and O’Gormans and all the rest of them, are drivellers of the same school. Mayor Hoffman, for instance, upon his popular majority in this city on our unpopular whiskey and lager beer laws, has been seized with the pleasing fancy that he is the coming man for the White House—a fancy which once seized upon Mayor Wood, and of which he was not wholly relieved till he took that voyage to Jerusalem and bad ao cooling bath in the river Jordan. But still the Tammany sachems (excepting Hoffman, perhaps) have had the conceit taken out of them by New Hampshire, and they see that they are all adrift; that against Grant any candidate without a first rate war record is useless, and that the so-called ‘time-honored principles of the democratic party” are only so much old lumber and rubbish of the age before the flood. What, then, are the democracy to do? Where are they to find their required hero of the war? McClellan was used up in 1864; Hancock, they find, is not exactly the thing; Sherman is with Grant; Sheridan is a regular radical; Meade ditto, and the fighting Thomas has pronounced against Johnson iff an In the Assembly the annual appropriation and sup- ply bills and bills to regulate South and Hamilton ferries, for the erection of wharves and piers in Har- jem river, to amend the registry laws and for the construction aod maintenance of certain piera in appeal to “Old Ben Wade.” . What, then, oan the democracy do if there is nothing left for them in the army? We answer, he is no politician; He hardly knows the differ- ence between the republican platform and democratic principles. So much the better. New Orleans, Port Hudson, Vicksburg and Mobile will be platform enough for him. Of all the naval battles on record there is not one to compare with that terrific and glorious battle of Farragut, with his wooden ships, against those stone fortresses, iron-clads, rams, land batteries, floating batteries, chains, fire ships and rafts of fire below New Orleans—that flery fight which virtually settled the queation of the Mississippi river. Of all the feats of cool hero- ism on record not one stands forth in bolder relief than that of Admiral Farragut, lashed fast in the shrouds of his flagship Hartford, in that terrific conflict of Mobile bay, so that if only crippled by shot or shell in that hail- storm of fire and destruction from rebel forts, torpedoes and iron-clads, he might still be able to give his orders to his gallant fleet. In this man there is the right material, and in his deeds the right platform for the democracy and all the political elements opposed to the radical, reckless party in power. The navy of the United States, so glorious in its victories in the war of 1812 and in its previous fights ‘with the pirates of Tripoli and Algiers, and ‘before that against the English in English waters, and so wonderfully efficient against the rebellion, from the rivers of the Chesa- peake Bay to the Rio Grande—the navy, we say, our sure reliance in a foreign war, never honored with a President, has a high claim upon the office. Farragut, then, is the man for the opposition elements against Grant. Let the democracy wipe out all their odious peace records of the war and take a new departure in adopting Farragut; for thus, in neutralizing the military glory of Grant, they will bring the Presidential campaign toa square contest on the corrup- tions, wastefulness and gspoliations of the cor- rupt party in power. There is a brilliant pros- pect in this direction for the opposition, and there is not the ghost of a chance in any other. We understand that the rank and file of the democracy of this city are soon to hold a thoughtful meeting on the situation, Jet them adopt Farragut and proclaim him their catididate, and they will be on the right tack. Nor can the democracy of Connecticut hold what they gained last year against Barnum and the woolly horse unless they take a fresh start on the road to glory. They have no Barnum to fight now, but the greatest ad most popular general of the war. Let them put up Farragut on their banners, lashed in the crosstrees of his good ship Hartford (the very thing for Con- necticut), and they can fight their fight on something like equal terms. Otherwise they are gone to ‘‘Davy Jones’ locker.” ‘Farra- gut,” with ‘free trade and sailors’ rights” and “retrenchment and reform,” is the ticket for the opposition. The Impeachment—Yesterday’s Proceedings. At one o'clock yesterday the impeachment farce formally commenced. The Senate cham- ber was filled to overflowing. Every available seat was occupied. Washington did its best to reproduce the scene which Macaulay has so eloquently described and which was witnessed in Westminster Hall when the great pro-consul of India, Warren Hastings, was put upon his trial. Itwasagayand brilliant scene. All that the capital possessed that was most venerable in age; all that was most distinguished in art, science and literature; the heroes who had put down a gigantic rebellion and the brave but mistaken men who had done their best to cut the republic in twain; matrons in their prime and maidens in their virgin beauty—all were there to take part in a show such as never yet in the history of any nation calling itself civilized was exhibited to the world. At one o'clock the Chief Justice took the chair, the Sergeant-at-Arms made the custom- ary proclamation, the journal of the last meet- ing of the court was read, and then the procla- mation was made that the Senate was organ- ized as a Court of Impeachment and was ready to proceed with the trial of Andrew Johnson. The Impeachment Managers having taken their place, Mr. Stanbery, with Messrs. Curtis, Nelson, Black and Evarts, who constitute the President's counsel, requested that forty days—a not unreasonable request, considering the mag- nitude of the case—be granted the President to prepare his line of defence. This, however, as will be seen from our Washington news in another place, was not in harmony with the fierce Jacobin spirit which is now dominant at Washington. Precedents were urged by Mr. Johnson's counsel, but the bitter Bingham and the sleek and smooth-tongued Wilson would hear of no delay. Mr. Stanbery justly characterized the proceedings as rivalling fn high-handed severity the worst proceedings of the worst days of the English Star Chamber. At two o'clock the Senate adjourned for con- sultation. At ten minutes past four the Senate returned, the Chief Justice announcing that the motion had been overruled and an order entered that the President be required to file his an- ewer on Monday, the 23d of March. It was afterwards agreed to that, unless cause be shown for delay, the trial shall proceed imme- diately after filing of replication. So ended the first act of the grand impeachment farce. From judges who can in court allow such lan- guage to pass as that used by Mr. Bingham when he declared the President the ‘‘ most flagrant betrayer of trust the world had ever seen” Andrew Johnson need expect no mercy. The farce will go on and be hurried through, to the humiliation of the country, but to the eternal disgrace of the republican party. It can be no disgrace to Andrew Johnson to suffer at such hands. Ben Wapk AND THE OFFicEnHOLDERs.— Great is the perturbation among officeholders of every degree in view of Ben Wade's pros- pective removal to the White House, as an im- mediate consequence of the successful im- peachment of Andy Johnson. They read with affright the handwriting on the wall, All are trembling with apprehension, They antici- pate, and not without reason, euch a clearing out of officeholders as has not been paralleled since the money changers were driven forth from the temple at Jerusalem eighteen centuries ago. The dreaded exodus is expected to begin here in New York. Thurlow Weed will be laid out flat and cold, and when he revives from the shock he will have plenty of leisure to resume the his correspondence with H, G. or to prepare ® new series of political reminis- try the mavy—try that invincible old | cences for publication, of Government—The Prospect Abend. The sweeping measure of Mr. Schenck, re- Ported from the Committee of Ways and Means, to repeal the Internal Revenue tax on the long list of articles which we published other internal taxes of the government a hundred millions a year ormore, This, then, is a highly important bill, and naturally suggests the inquiry whether the government can afford such a reduction in ita income and for whose benefit the taxes are to be abolished. From the almost unanimous vote in favor of the bill in the House of Repre- sentatives, there being only two against it out of a hundred and twenty-four votes, and, con- azquently, from the probability that it will pass the Senate with little or no modification, it is evident that Congress believes the reduction may be made. But is not fhis reckless legisla- tion? Is got Congress rushing blindly into extraordinary changes without calculating the results? Or is this not a measure concocted for political purposes, just as the elections are coming off, regardless of the wants of the Treasury or the consequences to the country? The amount of revenue coming in latterly, we believe, has not been more than the Treasury requires for current expenditures and the in- terest on the debt, and it is more likely to decrease than to increase from natural causes for some time to come. To meet the wants of the government, therefore, should Mr Schenck’s bill become law, it will be necessary to cut down the expenditures immediately a hundred millions or more. Is Congress cutting them down or likely to cut them down as much as that? Can it do so, indeed, in the present condition of the country? It would require a reduction of over thirty per cent in the expenditures of government all around to meet such a sweeping reduction in the revenue, We see no prospect of this, no efforts to thatend. The few hun- dreds of dollars here and the few thousands thats which Congress ig paring down and making a gtéat fuss about amount to little. They are like drops in a bucket. It is true the estimates of the War Department have been reduced a few mil- lions, but looking at the condition of the country, at the military despotism in the South and at the hostile Indians, to say nothing of contingencies that may arise, we have no doubt that that department will be under the necessity of appealing to Congress hereafter for a deficiency bill. Then the pension bills and numerons other bills calling for money which are being slipped through will probably require nearly as much from the Treasury as the amount reduced for the several departments. While Congress is stopping one hole it is opening others through which the public money runs out. If Mr. Schenck’s bill should pass the Senate we shall probably find at the end of the fiscal year the Treasury empty and the debt increased. Of course it would be very agreeable to havé these internal taxes taken off, as it would be to have the income tax and the duties on tea, sugar and other articles of necessity in general use taken off; but can the Treasury do with- out them? The abolishment of these internal taxes will benefit few except the manufac- turers. Mr. Schenck’s bill is for their special advantage, and the rest of the community will have to pay for it in some other way. New England will be chiefly benefited, and the bill appears to have been very adroitly brought forward just at the time the elections were about to take place there. We understand it acted like a charm upon the manufacturing population of Manchester and other towns in New Hampshire and contributed greatly in turning the election for the radicals. The in- troduction of this bill, therefore, may have been only a political dodge, though the cute people of manufacturing New England may hold Congress, over which they have so much influence, to the measure. But the worst feature of this reckless cutting down of the income of the government will be seen in its effect upon the public credit. It is, in fact, a sort of incipient and sinister repudia- tion. It cuts off every opportunity of reducing the principal of the debt. Indeed, the debt in all probability must be increased. This, of course, will destroy confidence both abroad and at home, and the taxpaying people will become restless under the prospect of this enormous debt being perpetuated and probably increased. It is the first step, and a very long one, toward repudiation. Talk of Pendleton, Stevens, Butler and the Western people being repudiators because they advocate the payment of the debt in legal tenders, why, none of them go so far as Mr. Schenck and this Congress in the way of repudiation. The former would pay the debt in the same money as received for it, and as all other debts are now paid in, but the latter cut off the means of paying anything at all. They, and they alone, are the practical repudiators. Stop paying the debt, and the people will soon become discouraged and talk repu- diation. Increase it in time of peace, as will be the case if Mr. Schenck’s bill passes the Senate, and repudiation will become a familiar and popular word. Let Congress beware how it plays with fire; for such’a stu- pendous national debt in a republic like ours is as full of peril as a barrel of gunpowder. Not many nations pay their debts, and popular governments rarely, An enormous debt like ours in any republic must be made light and be continually diminishing, or it may be disposed of by summary process. The Real Point in the Alabama Case. The most distinct statement yet made of the case of the United States against England on the Alabama claims, is contained in a single sentence in Mr. J. S. Mill's speech in the Eng- lish House of Commons on Friday night. Mr. Mill said the fundamental point was to dis- tinguish between “ the shipping of contraband articles and the use of a neutral country as the basis of military or naval operations.” It is the single fact above all others that by the equipment of the Alabama in a British port, and her sailing thence, not to be sold and de- livered in a Confederate port, as arms were sold and delivered by British traders in our ports, but to cruise against our ship- ping on the seas, England was used as a base of naval operations against our ‘commerce, Against ships built and equipped in the ports of the people at war with us we might have taken precautions—all the acts of war were open to us, Our navy could have burned them, perhaps, or bom- barded the ports; but England stood between the Alabama and us itt this respect. Our only reliance, then, was her weutrality law, and, a8 the result proved, that was insufficient. Her own statesmen put the case this against her, and therefore her only alternativ.: must be to pay. And if she is wise she will do i soon; for there may be no time when, aftr the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, our gove.O- ment takes @ revolutionary ‘jump forward’ under Ben Wade, War with some one or any one will then be the necessity of the radical party, and a war with England would be a grand cover for all possible wild acts. Eng- land will be wise to remove in time a pretext good with the people, Mr. Field’s Argument in the McCardie Case. We give on another page the able argu- ment of Mr. David Dudley Field before the Supreme Court on the case of McCardle—an argument well worthy attentive reading for the light it sheds on the legal character of the reconstruction acts and on the true relations to the federal government of the unrepresented States. McCardle wrote and printed in Missis- sippi advice to the people not to take part in the formation of the new nigger governments. ‘This was interpreted as obstructing reconstruc- tion and as a violation of the law, and for this McCardle was puton his trial by 9 military commission. The points now made in the Supreme Court by his counsel are that a citizen of the United States, not in the army or navy, cannot be subjected to & military trial without direct defiance of the constitution; and that McCardle must be tried in accordance with the rights secured by the constitution, whether Mississippi be recognized as a State or not, inasmuch as he is tried within the limits in which the United States exercises authority, and the constitution is for the United States authorities the suprome law within ‘such limits. Mr. Field sums up the case in these First—That there fs no reason for the pro- position that Mississippi is not now a State of the American Union. Second—That not only is she a State of the Union, but her people have the rights of citi- zens of a State. : Third—That whether she be or be not a State, has or has not the rights of a State, the people there residing cannot be subjected to military government by the Congress of the United States; and Fourth—That, therefore, the petitioner, | a half chiefs of the Academy will doubtless indulge in the usual ‘‘ weeping and gnashing of teeth” when this great event takes place. The Legislature and Our City Government. The democrats, having secured a majority in one branch of the Legislature, and coming pretty close to a tie in the other, are going vigorously to work to steal as much as they can out of the city of New York for the next year. They have been denouncing the cor- ruptions of republican Legislatures for some years past while in minority at Albany, and now they signalize their first partial accession to power bya rascality and impudence that cast all former Legislares into the shade. One of their latest propoafticns is to seize upon the Croton Board, turn out the present Commissioners in ten days and deliver the de- partment over to the tender mercies of the Mayor and Common Council, The peopte of New York do not ask for any such change; on the contrary, they know that the department is one of the few in the city honestly managed and kept out of the hands of the municipal rings. With a convenient engineer in the po- sition now occupied by Mr. Craven and the commission filled with ward politicians, the Croton Department would be a placer that would be made to yield millions of dollars to the hungry democracy. Another proposition is to destroy the present Court of Special Sessions, now held by two justices, one a democrat and the other a repub- lican, and to make every police justice a sessions justice and every police court @ court of special sessions. Formerly the special sessions were held by three police justices, but it was found that they were never on hand and the whole thing was a farce and @ disgrace. The law now in force was passed as a needed reform, and since its enactment the court has been efficient and has paid fourteen oF fittees’ thousand dollars a year to the city. The now proposition is to allow the police clerks to col- leot these fines, and the city would then see to more of them than they do of most of the police court fines at the present time. The change would entail, besides, an additional expense of forty thousand dollars » year upoa the city. ate Se Srey? The democrats boast that they have ‘‘fixed” the Senate to pass all these schemes of plun- der. As they are all political measures, the sort of ‘‘fixing” required is readily understood. The fact appears to be that all parties are equally corrupt, and that the State is as safe in the hands of one get of robbers as io McCardle, is entitled to his release from the | another. Probably the wisest policy fs to let military commisson which presumed to sit in | the stealing go on without limit on the grandest judgment upon him. scale until the people get tired of the expon- It will be seen that the whole case turns on | sive amusement. the right to exercise an arbitrary authority by military power in the Southern States, which assumed right is the essence of the reconstruc- Tho War of the Railroad Ginots. The Erie fight, which has lost nothing of its tion laws. It is, therefore, highly probable | fierceness for the past two or three days, is to that in this case the Supreme Court may de-| be renewod this morning before Judge Bar- clare the main law of the reconstruction scheme | nard, and probably some new and interesting a nullity; and this gives it peculiar interest. features in relation to the powers of Judges and Congress on Thursday rushed through law } the conflicting jurisdiction of courte may be to prevent a decision on this case by cutting | developed. The arrest of ex-Senator A. 8. off appeals to the Supreme Court; but aside | piven on Thursday night under an order from the doubt whether or no a law now made issned by Judge Barnard, on the charge of could legally arrest a process already initiated | having violated the injunction heretofore under existing acts, it is likely the President's ten days on the new law may give time for the decision to be rendered. If not, then the country is in the hands of Congress; that Con- gress is the radical majority, and that radical majority is Old Thad Stevens. Government by the people has its glories! The New Era of Italian Opera. It has been a long time since an impresario | the “4 granted by that Justice of the Supreme Court, is evidence that the Judge will not permit his authority to be disregarded or his rights to be in any manner interfered with by his brethren of the bench in other districts. But while all this muddle is being made in the courts, and while the speculators are avail- ing themselves of it to inflate or depress the price of Erie stock, a¢cording as the power of ” or the “bears” may predominate, has met with such encouragement from the | there are other matters underlying the great public as the managers of Pike's Opera House | struggle that involve the business interests of have during the past brief season. In the face | the roads as well as of the whole commercial of the most terrible weather Messrs. Pike and | community. The Erie and the New York Cen- Harrison have succeeded in getting good and | tral roads have long been the great rivals for sometimes very large audiences night after the carrying trade of the West. While the night. There were many prophecies indulged | pennsylvania Central, the Baltimore aud Ohio in by operatic wiseacres as to the bad location | and other routes have nominally contended of the Opera House and the impossibility of | for securing for it a sufficient amount of patronage the Western trade, the neeessity of reaching the New York market has made to make opera a financial success. What has | the two New York roads the real competitors. been the result? Pike and Harrison close the | The Erie road has at present no throngh line season to-day after a marked triumph in both an artistic and financial point of view. Three of the six feet gauge to Chicago. Its track now terminates at Akron, Ohio, and. the great débutantes—Madame States, Madame Lumley | effort of the road has been to extend it eighty- and Madame Elder—have appeared, the two | seven miles to Toledo, by way of Grafton, first with extraordinary success and the last and then to run by means of an additional giving promise of future ability in opera. The | rail on the Michigan Southern and Northern wonderful voice of Madame States created | Indiana road through to Chicago. The quite a sensation, and considering that it has | freight capacity of the New York and Erie, been fostered and developed under the balmy | with a six feet track between this city and skies of California, we may confidently expect Chicago, would be twelve million tons a year. that the time will come when the Golden State | The capacity of the New York Central, will replace Italy in the production of operatic’) with four and a half feet and four feet ten artists. The genial influence of our climate | tracks and combination cars running through, tends to give a prima donna’s voice that clear, limpid quality and sympathetic expres- sion which heretofore have been as- cribed solely to the of Italy. climate is most favorable to the development of fine voices, That State has been celebrated is eight million tons a year. These facts are sufficient to show the rival interests involved in this struggle between the beautiful skies | two routes. So long as the roads are under In California particularly the | aifferent managements the policy of the Central is to obstruct by all means in its power the completion of the six feet track for its luscious grapes and superior fruit and | through to Chicago. Whether the roads vegetables as well as its auriferous treasures. would be better under 4 consolidated manage- Now it bids fair to be the greatest exporter of | ment is a debatable question; but both for- prime donne in the world. Madame States, | warders and consumers are interested in although first claimed by the Bmerald Isle, owes the development of her magnificent voice securing the most extensive facilities for the transportation of the produce of the West to. to the shores of the Pacific. Owing to the pre- | the seaboard, and in this view of the case the vious engagement of the Opera House byLotta, public would, beyond question, be benefited by the management of the Italian opera is reluc- | the completion undor some management of tantly compelled to suspend the brilliant se0- } the through six feet route. son for one week, after which It will be re- newed with increased energy. The old opera house in Irving place seems to have been thrown entirely in the shade by its young and successful rival. The incubus of the hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders, who monopolize the best seate in the house and THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION RETURNS. Boston, Mareh 13, 1968. Two hundred and twenty towns in New Hampshire give Harriman 39,531, Sinclair 36,923, scattering 26. Eight towns yet to be heard from gave Sinclair last year ® majority of 116. In the House there will be 191 republicans.and M1 never think of assisting an unfortunate impre- | democrata. sario, is fatal to opera at the Academy. They are in a dreadful state of excitement at present and are canvassing several wild, impracticable projects to get the Catacombs into a proper operatic condition again. Pike and Harrison, however, have struck the right vein in opera by bringing out native artists and dispensing with the necessity of calling on Italy for every- thing in the line of opera. The produc- tion of Wallace’s immortal work, Lur- The aggregate vote will exceed the republican can- vass more than 30,000, WHISKEY SEIZURE AT BOSTON. {From the Evening Telegram of yesterdag.) Baeston, Mareh 13, 1868. Special Agent Wiggins, of the Treasury Depart ment, went from this city to Providence yesterday and seized two hundred and sixteen barrels of whis- key on which it is alleged the government tax has not been paid, and which was offered for sale at less than two dollars per gallon, The liquor belonged, in lota, to A. T, Eddy, Green & Co., Stearns & Oo,, John line, on Easter week, in Italian, English | P. Cooney, James Htanly, Thomas Purlong, John Fel- and German, with the entire strength of the company, magnificent mise en sodne and in- creased chorus and orchestra, will undoubtedly nettle forever the rival ofiims of the two opera lows, Owen Campbell, John B. Hennessy and John RK. Keirmon. Other seizures will probably be made. Pensowat.—Dr, William “W. Sanger, for nearly a dozen years resident physician of Black weil’#isiand, who has been dangerousiy tl for the past three houses. The one hundred and ninety-nine and | months, with congestive fever, is now convalescent.