The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. have been formerly preacher in that place, Floods are prevailing at Albany and Schenectady. The water at the former place is two feet above the docks, and a portion of Schenectady is inundated. All busi S 1 and tel phic The Monroe paper mill in Waterville, Me., was despatches must be addressed New York Heeacp. Letters and packages should be properly sedled. { Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | THE DAILY HERALD, pudtisned every day in the | tons of the possible future, Therefore the Caled imine! cate pat cay. < Laisial Gakaeilion election which takes place in that State on the 6th of April next has a peculiar interest. Last wprice @14. cavity THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Frve | Jot ihe pom pgyayptoe bo per copy. Annual subscription price:— Copy... JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, The Connecticut Election—Farragut Versus Grant. The State of Connecticut is but an outer suburb of New York, and as such pointing in some degree the political tendency of this great mass, its elections are important indica- We showed them how to take up such 82/3 character as Barnum, the showman, the Copies 5 | most conspicuous republican candidate, and ve Copies. + §| from the abundance of the reservoir of folly, “Ten Copies. - 15 | humbug and immorality in which he was im- ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be10- | merged draw sufficient odium to drench the Berted in the WEEKLY HERALD, European and Cali- republican ticket from top to bottom—to {fornia Editions. make Barnum, in fine, the point of attack, and JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- | with him carry down all the republican typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- | leaders. The democrats followed our advice outed at the lowest rates. and triumphed, and that, too, despite the contrary course pursued by democratic pa} Volame XXXIII........ iicanasen Seem eh ‘No. 76 | here, which supported the woolly horse Pa baa and through. Now the question of party su- Premacy in Connecticut is coming up again. There is no such striking local issue this year in favor of the democrats as existed last year. Barnum is a ‘‘dead duck,” badly broiled and out of the question in this Connecticut fight. But though there is no local issue that so dis- tinctly shows the immorality ‘and corruption of the republican party, though the Connecticut democracy may not be so happy in its candi- dates as it was last year, yet there isa grand case to be made in forcing the national issue, in hammering away at the destructive policy of Congress, and, above all, in gathering the fight around a name of Presidential significance. Connecticut can be won by the democracy in this way, and so winning will lead the country Rta YORK Deiat Fourteenth street.—Grmnastios, | for the succession. - Now that the smoke has cleai Bitar epee” Nias dB Hampshire we can see that pe sre tha KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, | did pretty well there, and that the republicans BOCANERIOCE TES Spa Ne ORO 18 have little to justity their noisy eens Asa PiAw ENTEOTAINMENTS SINGING, Damen ae Em | matter of numbers merely the republican ma- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 91 Bowery.—Couro | J°rity is cut down one thousand, and this is a vised N3xGEO MINSTRELBY, dc. large loss in so small @ State. New York city eee ett aid inn 472 Broadway. | alone has a vote one third larger than the | STEINWAY HALL.—Gnanp Conornr. whole State of New Hampshire. Such a de- BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tur | CTO@8e of the republican majority, if applied LGRIM. Matinee at 2 proportionately to a State having a large vote, ! BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Ennawt. would be sufficient to fright the souls of radical 2€PS.F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— | adversaries for many a month. Applied to the : vote of the State of New York, for instance, it would represent a loss of ten thousand votes. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau. ., NEW YORK ihe ie PRS TERATER, opposite New York Hotel. * PRENCH THEATRE.—Tae GRAND Ducures. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dowrry. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Waite Fawn. < WALLACK’S THEAT. 2 ae "RE, Broadway and 13th street. } PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth ‘evenue.—UNOLE Tom's CABIN, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—THRER Fast New York—Honzst Jor. ee oP ' BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtleth street.—TEN Nicurs 1N a Baz Room. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Un BALLo IN [ASOBERA. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Willia1 —| in ane E, Williamsburg.—FANCHON, ‘The steamship Cuba, on which Jeff Davia ts a pas- | Congressional senger, is still at-Hevang, and will not sail until Cordoza, the colored candidate for Secretary of State in South Carolina, is claimed by New Haven to | satisfied with their oyerwhelming power to | which they.draw interest. These bonds could HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUS! Brooklyn.—EtTH101 ‘MINSTRELSEY—BURLESQUE OF THE Wit, Fawn. pa NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— SBCIRNOE AND ART. 4 ins New York, Monday, March 16, 1868. THB NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, March 15, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte quitted Berlin after Although it is conceded that for the democrats to cut down the republican majorities is, in its nature, as important a sign as for the demo- crats to actually win the campaign, still it will be urged in favor of radicalism that this repub- lican loss, being so much less than some that NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1868. _ she Radicals, aboute—the bonds which the national banks The radical majority in Congress are not | have deposited for their circulation, and on carry everything they want boldly and openly, | be cancelled, and the interest-bearing debt re- but they resort to the most contemptible sort of | duced that amount. This, in currency, as we trickery and knavery. We have a striking ex- | said, would be a saving of twenty-five millions ample of this in the tricky way in which an | @ year. Ought it not to be done? There important amendment was tackéd on to a bill | would be no inflation; we should have no more and rushed through regulating the jurisdiction | currency in circulation; we should be as near of the Supreme Court and directly affecting | or nearer specie payments, and we should have the McCardle case, now pending in that court. | the advantage of » uniform currency, based This piece of Congressional swindling was | directly on the credit of the government. We brought prominently before the public in the | call upon Mr. Randall not to let his bill sleep in Proceedings of the House of Representatives | the committee room. He will meet with the most The facts are these:—A few | determined opposition from the national banks, days ago a bill went to the House from the | and they are a mighty power; but he has right Senate relating to appeals on writs of error to | on his side, and the people will sustain him. be taken to the Supreme Court in cases | Now is the time to break down this monstrous where officers of internal revenue were | monopoly, so inimical both to the interests of concerned, placing them on the same | the people and to our republican institutions. footing as officers of the customs in | If the national banks choose to continue in ex- reference to such appeals and writs of error. | istence, and to do a legitimate banking busi- It was a bill for a special purpose and of very | ness in discounts and loans, they can do s0, limited application—a bill which had nothing | and use legal tenders or gold, as they please ; of a party character in it, and so unimportant, | and if they should not, plenty of other banks in a political sense, that it would naturally | will take their place. Let the evil be removed pass without any strict scrutiny or opposition. | before it becomes deep-rooted and fastened To this simple bill the radical managers tacked | upon the people beyond the power of removal. on an amendment of a most important charac- SeQUTEBRR HN SAAiN Ra SCAND ter affecting the jurisdiction of the Supreme | The Great Erie Contest and Judge Baranrd. Court in such questions as are involved in the There is a bitter quarrel going on in the McCardle case—an amendment, in fact, to de- | courts and in Wall street between the present prive the Supreme Court from deciding on the | directors of the Erie Railway Company, known constitutionality of the reconstruction acts of | as the Drew party, and the directors of the Congress. It was tacked on and rushed through | New York Central, the Hudson River and the in such a stealthy, fraudulent manner that the | Harlem companies, known as the Vanderbilt opposition members seemed not to be aware of | party, the object of the latter being to oust the what was going on. Indeed, they were lulled | former from the control of the company and into security by a little confidence game or | throw it into the hands of a receiver, while practice on the part of Mr. Schenck and others. | the opposing party are determined to resist These highly honorable radical members | this attempt to throw them out of office by assured the democrats that there could be no | all the means at their command. They were possible objection to the bill, that it was a | legally elected last October for the term of one very simple one and of no great importance. | year, and consequently unless the company is We know not which is most astonishing, the | proved to be in a bafikrupt condition there is temerity, trickery and nonchalance of the radi- | nothing that would seem to justify their expul- cals, or the stupidity of the democrats in trust- | sion in the manner proposed, the charges of ing such customers. But to crown all this | mismanagement made against them being, party knavery Mr. Schenck unblushingly re- | unfortunately, equally applicable to nearly all joiced in the success of the trick, and boldly | the railway companies in the country. The avowed that he would ‘‘clip the wings” of the | case is, however, already so much involved in Supreme Court whenever he could. Such are | litigation that the public mind is becoming the contemptible tactics of a great party in | befogged as to its merits. Several injunctions Congress, which has power to do whatever it | have been issued on both sides, and an affidavit pleases openly and boldly. It is enough to | has been made by Mr. William Belden, a stock- make the American people blush for the con- | holder, on whosa complaint Judge Gilbert, of duct of their representatives. Brooklyn, recently granted an injunction virtu- - ally setting aside an order made by Judge Mr. Randall’s Bill Substituting Legal Ten- | Barnard, accusing the latter of being inter- ders for National Bank Circulation. rested in Erie stock, and consequently in the The important bill which Mr. Randall intro- | litigation now in progress, It has, therefore, duced som® time ago in the House of.Repre- | been rumored for several days past that the sentatives for substituting legal tenders for the | charge will be laid before the Grand Jury national bank circulation hangs still in the | and that a presentment will be made by them Committee on Banking and Currency. We | to the court on the subject. It is not generally now and then hear of it, however, as being | known, perhaps, that the Grand Jury has no under consideration, and the last notice we had | power in such a case as this. If Judge Bar- of it was a few days ago from our Washington | nard or any other justice of a State court is correspondent, when it was said that the mat- | charged with an abuse of his judicial functions ter was again postponed to allow certain par- | the remedy is for the State Assembly to im- ties to be heard against the bill. Of course | peach him; but in this instance there is no preceded, indicates that the tide is broken. But this is to forget the very important feature in the case—that New Hampshire is in New England. New England feels itself responsible for this radical party—errors, crimes and all. we understand these certain parties to be men | proof whatever that the charge is true. In representing the national bank interests. They | like manner it is equally erroneous to suppose have too much at stake and are making too | that the threats of an indictment for conspiracy much money not to oppose with all their might | by the Grand Jury, which both parties to this and means Mr. Randall's bill, contest: are hurling at each other, will be Now, while we admit it would be better asa | carried into effect; or, if they are, that enjoying a series of fétes in the city, and a cordial re- | It is the New England party—the party of general thing not to interfere with the currency | such an indictment will be followed by ception generally from the German people. The bill ‘to regulate the right of public meeting is before the French Legislature. General Dix returned from London to Paris. The Prince of Wales will visit Ire- fanaticism, intolerance and blind, driving, narrow-minded prejudice. New Hampshire, therefore, has a peculiar natural sympathy and finances till after our political troubles | conviction. The experiment was tried in a are adjusted—till after impeachment and the | memorable fight of a similar charactdr Presidential election be settled and the South- | in Wall street many years ago, in which land after Easter, when it 1s thought that a partial | With this party, from which no reasoning and | ry states be restored—there is no reason why | Jacob Barker and others were concerned. political amnesty will be proclaimed. British troops are reconnoltering along Lake Ashangee, Abyssinia. The Pasha of Egypt is rein- forcing his troops in Abyssinia. MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., preached in his Church of the Holy Trinity yesterday to a crowded audience. He made no allusion to his recent admonition. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Sr., also preached in his St. George's Episcopal church and also made no allusion to the late admonition, although the congregation assembled doubtless expected something of the kind. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral a sermon was preached by ‘Rey. William Starr, Vicar General. Rev. Dr. O'Hara ‘delivered a lecture on “Ireland and St. Patrick” at ‘St. Andrew's church in Duane street, last evening, for the benefit of the poor, Rev. Henry Ward yher preached at Plymouth church, Brooklyn, the evening, to the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation. Secretary Stanton has issued orders requiring troops in, Washington to be in readiness to move at a moment's notice, while forty army wagons, to trans- port supplies, are ordered to be kept available. This redoubtable array is supposed to be intended for the defence of the War Office against Mosby's mythic guerillas from Virginia. Thaddeus Stevens’ health is rapidly declining since ‘his excitement of Friday. He has taken to bed, and “yesterday apparently failed to recognize a negro boy fwhom he has had with him as a body servant fora Jong time. Our Shanghae (China) correspondence is dated Wanuary 16. Mr. Burlingame and his suite, while en route from Pekin to Shanghae, were beset by robbers, ‘but the aid of British marines and Cossack troops “was called and the*robbers were dispersed. The Shock of an earthquake was felt at Shanghae on the ‘U8th inst. Our advices from Venezucla are to February 26. ‘Marshal Falcon has moved his headquarters to the city of Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, in order to be the Better able to direct more effectually the federal in the field against the enemy, Carabobo the State around which the revolutionary ‘forces are concentrated. The government has estab- ished a small flotilla on the lake of Valencia. Battles between the opposing forces are very few, ‘but whenever they meet and measure their strength Athe result is in favor of the government's soldiers. ‘The revolutionary party undoubtedly have sustained ‘an immense loas by the death of their late chief, Gen- eral Gonzalo CArdenas. Business continues in the ‘same unparalleled state of dulness, The crops have been half lost for want of hands to work. Only the most indispensable foreign articles are at present imported in the country. ‘The Director of the Bureau of Statistics estimates that the whiskey tax bears a proportion to our whole no experience of bad results that does not im- mediately come home can move it; therefore the party loses less there than in more liberal Connecticut, or in enlightened, commercial, thinking New York. Let the democracy in Connecticut therefore be assured that the story of New Hampshire presents no fact that ought to discourage them, but much to urge to further effort. But they need an issue—a starting point—a grand rally- ing cry of a more positive character, fresher and nearer to the popular heart than the cry against radical ruin. They must organize their fight around the name of Admiral David G. Farragut, the Old Salamander, the hero of Forts St. Philip and Jackson, the hero of Mobile, the little middy of the glorious old frigate Essex under Porter in the Pacific. This is the man for the democracy. Much of the strength of the republican struggle in New Hampshire seems to have been due to the fact that Grant this question should not be decided. It is a | That attempt signally failed, and it will equally very simple one and need not be involved | fail now if it is attempted. The public and with those other questions of forcing specie | juries have no sympathy with men who, be- payments and of paying the debt hereafter in | cause they have got or. are likely to get the greenbacks. The legal tenders are at least as | worst of a struggle for place, power and the good and safe as the national bank notes, and | almighty dollar in Wall street, strive to bolster we think both better and safer. The simple | up their course and obtain an advantage over proposition, then, is to give us these in place of | their adversaries by a criminal prosecution. the national bank circulation. Not, as we This great Wall street fight originated in an understand, to increase the volume of currency | arrangement not long since made by the Erie afloat, but simply to substitute one kind for | Company to extend its broad gauge connec- another—a better currency for one not as good. | tions westward, by guaranteeing the bonds of This would give us a uniform currency, too, and | a company which agreed to build a road ninety- there are few, we believe, who will not admit | six miles long from Akron to Toledo, from that this would be better than the present mixed | which point the Michigan Southern Company currency. As to the effect of the proposed | was to lay a third rail to Chicago, thus giving change on reaching or deferring specie pay- | the Erie a through broad gauge route from ments, it seems to us that we should arrive at | Jersey City to that commercial centre of the specie payments quite as soon or sooner with | West. This was throwing down the gauntlet of a uniform legal tender currency. It will be | opposition to the narrow gauge New York Cen- was kept forward so prominently that the issues of the war were fairly brought up again. Far- ragut is the card to play against this game. Grant, standing on the stump of his Appomat- tox apple tree, is a very pretty picture of abstract heroism; but a more magnificent pre- sentation, one that will catch the popular eye with its more attractive charm, is that of the sailor hero in the shrouds of his ship, his whole figure lighted up by the fire of the battle raging below. This is the case for the democracy ; let them fight it earnestly, and they will inevi- tably win. Radical Rule and Its Effects in Tennessee. In our Washington news of yesterday we had it reported that General George H. Thomas had informed General Grant that the state of affairs was hourly becoming more alarming in Ten- nessee. The State, in fact, was on the point of rebellion, a strong organization having been formed on the part of the disfranchised whites and others to assume control of the govern- ment. General Thomas had been instructed by General Grant to use all the forces at his command, if necessary, and to count on more troops if they were required. The view of the situation given by General Thomas is confirmed Fevenue of about one to fifteen. In 1801, 1814 and 1860 it is shown the consumption of distilled spirits amounted to three gallons per capita, which with our present population would aggregate the present consumption at one hundred millions of gallons, provided that whiskey drinking has not declined during or since the war. The workmen on the New York Central Rail- Toad have struck on account of a reduction of ten per cent on their wages. A large procession of them the streets of Albany on Saturday, and etters of sympathy were received from the work- ‘men at other points on the road, and also on the /Mudson River Railroad, the wages of the latter being similarly reduced. It is expected that the strike will become general on both roads. |} General Canby has issued an order fixing the 14th, ‘15th and 16th days of April for the election on the by intelligence received from our special cor- respondents on the spot. The high-handed manner in which affairs are managed by the present radical authorities has so exasperated the whites that the last point of endurance may be said to have been attained. Some facts which have reached us are discreditable in the last degree to those now in power. To be in any way connected with a man who took part in the rebellion, or to be suspected of want of sympathy with radical rule, is sufficient reason for withholding political rights. In the present condition of Tennessee we see beforehand what may be expected from radical reconstruction all over the South. Its effect very difficult to bring the national banks to | tral, and when soon afterwards the Erie Com- specie payments, while the government, having | pany gave the latter notice that the understand- absolute control over its own ciroulation, can | ing previously existing between them with re- more easily bring about that object. gard to a uniform tariff of fares and freights But the great objection to the national bank | was at an end, the Vanderbilt party were up currency is that it takes away about twenty- | in arms and vowed that they would wrest the five millions a year from the people and the | Erie from the control of. the present directors; Treasury which rightly belongs to them. The | and with this object as well as a profitable privileges and profits of a national currency be- | Wall street stockjobbing operation in view long to the nation and not to individuals or | they obtained an injunction suspending Mr. corporations. Even the Bank of England, with | Drew as a director and restraining the com- all its usefulness to the government in managing | pany from making any further issue of new asa sort of treasury department the finances | stock, while they began buying the stock heavi- of the nation for a small remuneration, and | ly themselves. Within a few daysits price ad- with all its past services and power—even that | vanced from 66 to 83, and so far the bulls were pays a large portion of the profits of its circula- tion based on national securities to the govern- ment. It is not allowed to take a double profit, first in interest on the securities held as a basis of circulation, and, second, on the circulation itself. If our national banks paid only in the same proportion—that is, two-thirds the profits of a circulation based on interest-bearing bonds— the amount would be near sixteen millions a yearin currency. And why should the gov- ernment and the people lose this? What claim have these private corporations for this enor- mous gratuity? What claim, indeed, have they for any of the profits on a national cur- rency? They render no service to the govern- ment, and in no event could they render any. On the contrary, they are a mon- strous and dangerons monopoly, fleec- ing the government at the same time they are absorbing all the profits of the indus- try of the people. No; every dollar of the profit on the three hundred millions of their circulation, which, in currency, would amount to twenty-five millions a year, should be saved to the Treasury and the people. Congress seems intent on reducing taxation and the in- come of the government to the point of bank- rupting the Treasury and bringing on re- ratification of the new constitution in South Caro- | can only be to reverse the state of things which | pudiation ; surely, then, it should do something Jina, and also for the election of Congressmen and ‘Plate officers, | Corrected returns of the election in New Hamp- Guo whittle the radical majority down to 2,500, existed prior to the war. The nigger will be the master, the white man the slaye—that or another rebellion. to save these twenty-five millions a year. The issue of three hundred millions of legal successful; but on the day it touched this high figure it fell back to 71} in consequence of sales of about ten millions of new stock issued in exchange for convertible bonds under the authority of the order issued by Judge Gilbert, of Brooklyn, before referred to. For this act attachments for contempt were issued by Judge Barnard against the directors concerned, and on Saturday a receiver was appointed by him to take charge of the proceeds of this new stock. The sale of the latter and the con- sequent decline in the price of Erie has natu- rally very much irritated the Vanderbilt party, who are speculating for a rise in the stock ; but the public feels no interest in the stockjobbing part of the contest. It does, however, in the future management of the Erie Railway, and popular sentiment is unmistakably against the establishment of a huge monopoly, including the Erie, the New York Central, the Hudson River and the Harlem roads in its grasp, be- sides their immediate connections. A whole- some competition should exist between the Erie and the New York Central; and although even if the Erie was added to the monopoly already controlling the New York Central, the Hudson River and the Harlem lines, the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Ohio would still be left to compete with it for Western traffic. It would be to the Interest of both these trunk lines to enter into an arrangement with the tariff of fares and freight; and it would be sur- prising if they failed to do so, as they have hitherto: done at: intervals with tite Erie and New York Central. The restriction now exist- ing upon rates of passenger fare onthe New York Central would probably be abolished if it stood in the way of the schemes of the mo- nopoly, which would doubtless rapidy extend itself by absorbing new roads to act 18 feeders until the greater part of the railwiy system of the country would be under its catrol, and gigantic monopoly of this kind ace estab- lished is with difficulty destroyed. The public has clearly a great interest in preventing the, consummation of the plans of the New York Central party, and it has been suggested in this connection that the Legislatare should make it illegal for any person to held office as a director of more than one railwsy company in this State. Meanwhile the contet in Wall street and the courts is likely to br conducted with spirit until either the Drew or the Vander- bilt party achieve a final success; but the pub- lic will do well to correct the impression which prevails with respect to the oneor the other being indicted and tried for compiracy, and also the not less erroneous one tha; a Justice of the Supreme Court is amenable the Grand Jury. A Naval Tinker. Occasionally some obscure member of Con- gress, influenced by the desire to impress his rustic constituents with the idea that he ‘‘means business,” rattles his pans after the manner of anitinerent tinker in search of ‘any old tin- ware to mend,” and announces his teadiness to stop all the leaks in the country. Mr. Peters, of Maine, has recently introduced into the House of Representatives a bill to reduce the ex- penses of the navy, which has been referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. It provides “that all line officers of the navy on reaching the age of sixty years shall be retired, and that no further promotions shall take place to any new grade created since the 1st of January, 1860; that whenever the grades of admiral, rear admiral, commodore, lieutenant com- mander or ensign shall become vacant, they shall be abolished, and that at the close of the present academic year the operations of the Naval Academy shall be suspended until Con- gress shall provide for their resumption.” Now, if Mr. Peters is seriously in want of a job we think we can put him in the way of finding a very large crack in the Navy Depart- ment that will require all the solder and oakum and pitch he can muster to effectually caulk it up. We refer to the Bureau of Steam Engineering, from which not less than eighty-two millions of dollars’ worth of steam has escaped within the last six years, without effecting any other re- sult than a merciless scalding of the tax- payers of the United States. The navy no doubt needs a good deal of wholesome legisla- tion, but instead of unsoldering the entire bot- tom of the vessel and allowing the contents to run out, as Mr. Peters proposes to do, and of setting aside all the line officers after a certain standard average of wear and tear, like so many old kitchen utensils, he would do better if he would aid in hermetically sealing up one or more prodigals who are not line officers. He might commence, for example, by giving us some light upon these two points:— How much money has been wickedly squan- dered in compiling ridiculous books descriptive of crasy experiments in steam and in con- structing machine shops and foundries in navy yards? and whether this amount, if properly applied, would not have built at least half a dozen cruising iron-clads, capable of meeting an enemy in any part of the world? We would like to be informed, also, what is the reason that the magnificent engines of the Puritan at the Brooklyn Navy Yard have been so shamefully neglected, with respect to the or- dinary precautions always adopted for the preservation of steam machinery, that it is questionable whether many important and ex- pensive portions are not by this time totally ruined ? These inquiries would be popular just now, because they have an aroma of re- form about them, and Mr. Peters would have the satisfaction of putting his tinkering irons in the fire for some purpose. It may be, how- ever, that in proposing to abolish the navy he hopes, like Erostratus, when he fired the Tem- ple of Diana at Ephesus, to perpetuate the fame of Peters. The New French Press Law. As an illustration of the liberties of the French people under the present imperial dis- pensation, the new press law of Napoleon is a perfect beauty. This law provides :—First, that the publishers, &c., of ® newspaper or periodical must enter into bonds of fifty thousand francs for their good behavior. Second, heavy stamp duties. Third, stamp duties for’ all journals, political, literary, scientific or religious. Fourth, no member of either branch of the national Legislature shall be manager of a journal. The luxury of a newspaper organ is reserved among officials exclusively to the Emperor and his executive servants. Fifth, no person deprived of civil and political rights in France, or exiled there- from, shall publish any article within the limits of the empire. This excludes the exiled Bourbons and the red republicans—the Count de Paris and Victor Hugo, for instance—from a hearing on any subject in the French press. The sixth article is calculated to operate for the public good in stopping a vast amount of scandalous French newspaper gossip. It pro- vides that no journal shall publish anything whatsoever relating to the private life of any individual, without said person's permission. Seventh, offences of the press are punishable in fines of not less than three thousand three hundred francs nor more than twenty-five thousand francs, author, editor and publisher, each to be responsible. Eighth, in certain cases corporal punishment {s to be inflicted, or in other words, the contumacious editor, or publisher, or all of them, shall be subject to imprisonment, with hard labor in the chain- gang or the galleys, Ninth, for a second offence against any of the provisions of this law the offender loses his right of suffrage for five years. Tenth, the offending journal, in certain cases, shall be suppressed. Such is the new press law of France, passed by a legislature one branch of which is elected by universal suffrage. The law, therefore, may be taken as the will of the people of France, if we take this universal suffrage as bona fide tenders would buy up three handred millions | Vanderbilt roads for the maintenance of @ high | the voice of the French people. When it is $$ for the empire. It has made the empire in- ternally a model of peace and under Napoleon IIL; but as for Napoleon IV., he will probably have to pass the ordeal of universal suffrage in another shape. CITY INTELLIGENCE. METEOROLOGICAL.—The observations at the Park for the week ending Saturday, March 14, show that the barometer reached its maximum on the evening of the 11th, being 80.624, and its maximum during the afternoon of the 13th making an exhibit of 29,773. The weekly mean was 30.206, The range of thermometer on the afternoon of the 14th showed was ox! vari i the eighth, from ten minutes five minut past eight P. M., the upper half formed. Inner diameter thirty-six di bi of Fing three a ‘We had aligh on the 10th, and Duration, ten hours and twenty minutes. Tus KNSGHTS AND THE SONS OF St. PATRIOR AND THB SHAMEOCK AssocraTiON.—These popular Irish bodies will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day—{to-morrow)— the first, by a grand banquet, at which a number of distinguished gentlement will be present and speak ‘tremely variable. ig! to the at the Astor House, Lyons presiding. second, the Sons, Ji in the chair, wei entertain themselves ta ate whom many it will be in ya cent supper, with the et Del- tlemen of the Suamrock Assoclation, give’ a. grand lemen ve & entertainment, wind! up witha ail et Betton Hall, Fifty-fourth near Third avenue. A Hancock CaMPataN CLUB.—The political friends in this city of General Winfleld S. Hancock held = meeting on Saturday evening at 814 Broadway, and organized a campaign club in honor of their favorite, whom they will urge on the Democratic National the nominee the for the Convention as of party Presidency. The prominent men of the club are ry favor of @ ticket ony which ae names of Hancock for President Chauncey Shaffer, of this city, for Vice President shall a . Under ich. 1k they propose taking off their coata, Bu rolling up their sleeves, ‘going in and winning.” EXPORTATION OF SPECIE.—During the past week there was shipped from this port for European mar- kets $1,096,916 in gold and silver. Sinee the 1st of Senuany enero have been sent from this to foreign ports, per steamship, $18,892,222, ToTaL POLICE ARRESTS.—There were arrested in this city during the past week, mostly on charges of intoxication and disorderly conduct, 1,426 persons, about one-fourth of whom were women, : East RIVER STEAMERS.—The Newport, Fall River and Bristol lines of steamers will hereafter leave their piers in this city at five o'clock instead of four P. M. of each day. A STATUE TO A MERCHANT PRINCE.—It is mooted among the wealthier gentlemen of our city the erec- tion of a,colossal statue, on or near the massive structure now in course of erection on the site of St. John’s Park as a freight and passenger depot for the Hudson River Railroad Com , in commemoration of Commodore Vanderbilt's Feuterprises in opening up steamboat and railroad routes, by which the wealth and population of the metropolis have been increased to so vast an extent, The statue is to coat somewhere in the vicinity of @ quarter of s mil- and ought to represent the composed of one part pence copper. Asa metallic compound this ts. e most lasting, roncee ee the action of time, the elements and the stock market. ‘THe SOLDIERS’ NATIONAL Farn.—A meeting of the Executive Committee of the above association was held on Saturday night, at the rooms, 791 Broadway. Anumber of prominent gentlemen entrusted with the movement and several ladies who exhibit a deep interest in ita success were present. The business of the meeting was of rather an unimportant nature, and only a small amount of business of a minor character was transacted. East SIDB ASSOCIATION.—This association held a meeting on Saturday night at Miller’s Hall, at the corner of Third avenue and Eighty-sixth street, for the purpose of electing a board of officers for the en- suing year. During the evening acommittee of three was appointed to inquire into matters relative to the construction of a sewer in Seventy-fourth — tween Futh avenue and for the work on ders in the borhood, it was stated, are taxed about $160,000. A committee was Coke, Neve to confer with the Street Pat ive to the paving of Third avenue, in Yorkville and Harlem. A CHEAP WuiSkey MaRker.—It is a matter of sur- prise to a great number of citizens how low the rates are at which whiskey is sold in this city. It ia stated on authority, and with good ground for the assertion, that the exhilarating fluid is at present sold in this market at $1 per gallon—a price considerably less than the tax imposed by act of Congress. Illicit manufacture is, of Course, the Cause and « this is pursued, it is said, even under the eyes of govern- ment employés, who, if not themselves. in the manufacture of the article, connive at if duction and realize a rich harvest therefrom. Dis- tilleries, when seized by the government authorities, are placed in the hands of keepers until the sale of the property is effected, which is tponed until such time as those in the ring decide upon. During the interval the manufacture of whiskey takes In this maner it is-estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 gallons of whiskey are manufactured datly in this city. Some startling disclosures will shortly be made to the Treasury Department in relation to the matter. A Vorck FROM THE PLAINS.—A delegation of the dusky children of the forest are at present staying in the Metropolitan Hotel, en route from Washington to their native plains. They were attended to the na- tional capital by Kit Carson, Governor Hunt, of Colo- rado, and severai Indian agents. It was tl it by these gentlemen that the visit of the chiefs to the “ai Father” might have a beneficial effect upon the present complicated state of Indian affairs on the frontier. Their visit to Washington did not, however, accomplish the desired result, owing te the political storm raging there, and they return to their ple with anything bat pleasant news. ‘The chiefs’ names are Warou, Ooray, Kaminatche, Asboosat, Hosemiree, Chepin, Peear, Suriapee, Knecktakee and DgatH FROM SCALDS.—Coroner Rollins was yester- day notified to hold an inquest at No. 85 Columbia street on the body of William O’Brien, a child two years of whose death was the result of scalds accidental! M received on Saturday last by falling inte @ kettle of jing water. Uremic Porsontne.—An inquest was yesterday held at No. 409 East Twentieth street, by Coroner Schirmer, on the body of William T. Renvill, a lad fourteen ioe of age, whose death resul fron inflammation of ele et caused by uremic poisoning of the bi ‘ A Fatal Dravont.—On Saturday evening Wm. Rieb, @ child two years of age, accompanied by his father, living at No. 645 Ninth avenue, entered the liquor store of Frederick Scholler, corner of Fiftieth street and Ninth avenue, and behind the bar picked up a bottle ptr eB uric acid, swallowing @ portion of the contents, child was 8] ily reduced to unconsciousness and remained yesterday morning, when death e1 Coroner to hota eenan was notified an inquest on the body. DEATH IN PRIsON.—On Saturday night @ man named Thompson, eet as OF te me ne of the cells of the Jei- fon See con. Coronet Rollins was notified to hold an inquest on the body. DEAD INFANTS Founp.—At eight o'clock yesterday morning the remains of a female child, apparently about twenty-four hours old, was found concealed in barrel mises No. 6 Crosby street. ‘The ‘body oy ores ond was also found lying under the stairway of house 200 avenue A, where it had been con by ies unknown. Both the bodies were conveyed to the Morgue and the Coroner notified to hold inquests on them, in that condition till ag WEATHER PHENOMENA.—The Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard, says & Long Island correspondent, who has been a very close observer of the weather for the last forty years, hes suggested the following:—The weather of our winters moves very much in a cycle— a jod of sixteen years. The winters of 1814-20 and 1 also 1851-2 and 1867-8, were marked with cold beginnin, Ka feng os Steadily and continuing late, Other winters have some very coid weeks, but these have been unbroken. Again the winters half way between these 1827-28 and 1843-4, also 1859-60, have been very warm—the wind blow- ing very much from the south, He predicts that. eight years hence, 1875-76, will be warmer than either of the seven previous; and that sixteen yeara hence, 1883-4, will in the Sexreaete col ‘han either of the preceding dfteen winters, __........4.4aa..ddLwLwllhlhlrllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee