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6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. nt THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. No. S2 BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.—Rrv. Day K. Lee, Morning and CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CIHURCH.—Rrv Davin MiroukLn. Event CHURCH OF THE Brown, Morning and ai ORMATION. Rav. Annorr 1001. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Rrv. Dr. Derma. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—REV. Du. FLaca. Morning and afternoon. DODWORTH HALL.—Srierruanists. Hon. Rouenr DALE OWEN. Evening. MASONIC HALL.—S' Wurrr. Morning and ev NEW JERUSALEM CHAUNCEY GILES. sTs. Ma N. FRANK HOUSE OF WORSHIP.—Rev. Morning and evening. ST. ANN’S FREE CHURCH.—Morning, afternoon and evening. ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH.—Rev. J. B. C. BEAULIEN. Morning and evening. 8ST. LUKE'S CHURCH. Gare, Evening. ; nut Rey. Honatio SouTn- HODIST CHURCH.— evening. ‘At MATER,” by the Choir. muir. Morning ST. ANN'S CHURCH.—“Sr. Afternoon, UNIVERSITY.—Bisnop SNow. Afternoon. UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—Mornng fand evening. TRIPLE SHEET. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Post Office Appropria- Mon bil! was amended and passed, and several amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were adopted. One proposed by Mr. Davis to reduce the army to twenty thousand men by May 1, the Presi- dent being instructed to muster out men and officers ‘accordingly, was rejected. The bill was then passed. ‘The Indian Appropriation bill was also passed. Mr. ‘Drake asked that his new impeachment rule directing that the Chief Justice while presiding be addressed as “Mr. President” be taken up, and a long and spicy “debate ensued. Mr. Drake said that the note of the President on putting in an appearance was a studied tinsult to the Senate in not being addresssd to that ‘body. Mr. Sprague, son-in-law of the Chief Justice, said that if there were two Presidents of the Senate, he would like to know which one would be President of the United States, as it would make some differ- ence in his vote. A motion to take up the report of the Committee on the Standing Rules of the Senate ‘was then agreed to, and the Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House the day was devoted to specch- moaking. Mr. Blair made an address on the financial question, favoring the national bank system and opposing the payment of the bonds in greenbacks. ‘The Indian treaties, the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, the admission of Alabama and the recent sharp practice of the radicals in securing the passage of an amend- ment depriving the Supreme Court of appellate juris- diction In reconstruction matters, were ventilated, and the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were reported relative 40 combustibles stowed in New York, and to repeal the taxation exempting clause in the militia law. The bill incorporating the Crosstown Railroad Com- pany was ordered toa third reading. Mr. Creamer inquired when the committee intended to report the ill repealing the Metropolitan Excise law. Mr. Van Patten answered that there were several parties yet to be heard before the committee, and Mr. Creamer protested against any attempt to smother it, In the Assemby bills were passed to incorporate the New York Public ge and creating the ‘office of Metropolitan Fire Marshal. Bills were re- ported to incorporate the te Underground Rail- road Company and to construct a public market in New York. Bills appropriating $250,000 to aid in construction of the Whitehall and Plattsburg road, and (he same sum to the Builalo and ington Railroad, were ordered to a third reading. EUROPE. By special telegram dated in Rome yesterday, we jearn that Admiral Farragut nd the officers in atiendance on him enjoyed a most gracious reception from the Pope. The Admiral will remain in the Ml City one month, news report by the Atlantic cable is dated The vesterday evening, March 2. The Upper House of the Austrian Legislature rejected « motion made by the clerical party on the civil marriages bill, The Fenian Captain Mackay was sentenced to imprisonment for twelve years. Fuad Pasha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, juts been reconciled to the United States Minister in ple, thelr persgnal relations having been mn actives with middling uplands at 10'/a. istutl and provisions without material chonge. correspondence and newspaper mail we have very interesting details patches to the 7th inst. lianer of the Royal Victoria Yacht | Club, in London, Mr. Ashbury suggested that a chal- | enge be forwarded to the New York Yacht Club to | arrange for & race with English yachts from Ryde pier to New York, Mr. Ashbury will himself sub- ~crtbe £500 towards the contest, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The severe snow storm and gale of wind which visited this city on Friday night lasted all yesterday and last night and was very geueral throughout the sanity. Considerable damage in stnall items re- sulted in the places which it visited; but only a few reports of marine disasters have yet been received. The election returns from Arkansaw are meagre, ‘Dut indicate a great falling oif in the negro vote, ‘The whites are voting strongly against the new con- stitution, anda majority against it is supposed to be certhin. Louisville proposes to have a double broad gauge connection with St. Louis, The Oregon Democratic State Convention met on Friday, nominated a candidate for Congress, and re- commended Pendleton for the Presidency. ‘The Indians are depredating in New Mexico, In the Canadian Parliament inquiries are to be commenced in regard to the furnishing of troops to Rome to fight @ people with whom Canada is at peace. A second detachment of Zouaves is to leave on the 16th of April. The legistative commitice to investigate the monagement of the ferries was again in session yes. terday. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the first witness, tes- tiled that he was not interested in the ferries or any Other steam vessela afloat, Numerous other wit- mending the renumbering of the houses on the streets and avenues on a plan similar to that in ust in Phila- delphia, The ordinance proposed requires every citizen to number his house before the 1st of August. ‘The report was laid over. ‘The injunction in the suit of Richard Schell against the Erie Railway Company as returnable yesterday before Jndge Barnard at Supreme Court, Special Term, but upon its being called up on the order re- quiring the defendants to show cause,wity the injunc- tion should not be made perpetual, the court ad- journed it until Monday, of its own motion, In the hearing of the Chicago and Rock Island Railway case in the United States District Court yes- terday, a very lengthy argument of counsel was heard. Judge Blatchford took the papers and re- served his decision, The stock market was dull but steady yesterday. Government securities were on the whole firm, Gold closed at 12934. Business in every department of trade in commer- ‘| cial circles yesterday was unusually light, being materially restricted by the inclemency of the weather, Cotton was in light demand and prices were somewhat irregular, closing at 24}4¢, a 25. for | middling upland. Groceries were sparingly dealt in, but generally held with firmness. On ’Change flour and wheat were in light request bute steady, while corn was in fair demand and le, a 2c, higher and oats dull and nominal. Pork and lard were’ tolerably active at slightly higher prices. Beef was quiet, but firm, Naval stores were moderately active, but heavy. Petroleum was dull, but steady. Freights were dull and heavy, and whisky dull and nominal, Congress and the Manufacturers? Bill— Unequal and Reckless Legislation. Congress, in its reckless legislation for party purposes and political ends, is preparing the way for repudiation on one hand while it is sapping the constitutional foundation of the government on the other. Regardless of the necessities of the Treasury or the demand of the public creditor, it is taking off sixty millions or more of taxes on manufactures without making any corresponding reduction in expen- ditures. Mr. McCulloch, in a letter addressed to Senator Sherman on the subject, says that this reduction in the revenue, together with the abolition of the tax on cotton, and the effect of these acts on foreign importations, will reduce the revenue from a hundred to a hundred and twenty millions below the estimates of the last annual report. At the same time we see the Freedmen’s Bureau is to be continued, feeding lazy negroes at the expense of the taxpayers, and other expenses in the seveml departments are to be kept up on a magnificent scale. The consequence will be, as the Secretary of the Treasury says, the revenues of the government for the next fiscal year will be insufficient to meet current expenses and the interest on the debt. Congress is beginning at the wrong end. The expenditures should be reduced first, and then the taxes might be taken off to a corres- ponding amount. But why ‘should the manufacturers he re- lieved of their share of the common burden of taxation while the rest of the community are not? Hardly any but the manufacturers, and those of New England especially, will be bene- fited by this bill. When the demands upon the Chief Justice Chase and the Democracy— The Radicals and Their Scandalous Ke- ports. The latest advices from Washington in refe- rence to Chief Justice Chase are to the effect that he has no idea of looking after the demo- cratic nomination for the Presidency, and that the democrats have no idga of nominating him. The Washington democratic politicians, who hit upon the brilliant thonght of scaring the radicals by assuming that the Chief Justice wad a good enough democrat for the crisis, spoiled the sport in running the conceit a little too fast. Had they handled it a little more adroitly and with a little more caution they might have made something out of it. So far as the radicals are concerned, however, Wendell Phillips has evidently poisoned them with his inuendoes and accusations against Mr. Chase as a disappointed Presidency-seeking politician, whose main object now is revenge. Thus it has been discovered that, as Chief Jus- tice of the United States, Mr. Chase had no business to be laying pipe or pulling wires for the Presidency ; that his ambition had placed him in a bad light before his late admirers, and that his complaints of bad treatment are puerile and perfectly absurd; that, in short, he turns out to be, after all, not the exalted statesman, patriot and philosopher, as painted only a few weeks ago by Greeley, but a selfish, narrow minded and small potato demagogue. Against these newly fledged opinions of the radicals we have no demurrer to put in, for we have never considered the Chief Justice, as President Johnson considers General Han- cock, a statesman and patriot ofsthe type of George Washington. But we feel bound to protest against the scandalous course of some of the ultra radical journals in reference to the family relations’ of the Chief Justice. For example, we are told that his accomplished daughter, now the wife of Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is, and for some time has been, not only foolishly ambitious to be recog- nized officially as the first lady in the land, but that to gain this end she has been and is play- ing the game of a remorseless politician. One of her radical accusers (we do not care to quote the paper) says that during President Lincoln's administration she claimed officially to rank the lady of the White House, and, standing upon her dignity, flatly refused to be patron- ized or conciliated by Mrs. Lincoln, Next, it is charged that finding this would not do, Mrs. Sprague resolved to become herself the mis- tress of the Executive Mansion, and that, being a lady of spirit and decision of character, who will not take no for an answer, she has led her father, the Chief Justice, into this unseemly pursuit of the Presidential succession; and finally, that in view of the defeat of her aspi- rations in this direction, there is no telling the consequences in the Senate upon this impeach- ment business. Such is the spirit of radicalism. It is cor- Treasury shall be reduced so as to admit of less taxation, let the reduction be made in favor of all interests and classes, and be equalized. The income tax, for example, is a most unequal one, and unconstitutional in principle, if not strictly in letter. The constitution provides that taxes shall be equally distributed, yet the city of New York pays probably ten times more income tax in proportion to population than any other portion of fhe country. This is a gross inequality, and, as we said, a violation of the principles of the constitution. If the taxes are to be reduced, this inquisitorial tax, so repugnant to our republican institutions, should be one of the first to be removed. At all events. it should be equalized in proportion to population. We, as well as the people generally, wish to have the taxes reduced to the lowest point and as soon as pos- sible, but not partially and to the special ad- vantage ofa few New England manufacturers, and not at all till the expenditures of the gov- ernment be reduced so that the income will meet the wants of the Treasury. This bill to relieve the manufacturers has been brought forward evidently for a political object, and no other—to produce an effect upon the elections in New England especially, by making it appear that the dominant radical party in Congress are the friends of the manu- facturing laborers and of home industry. It is all sheer pretence and demagoguism. It is a mere temporary political expedient. The same party would revive the Tax bill, or a more oppressive one, after the elections are over quite as readily as they repeal it. The public credit, the demands of the Treasury to meet ex- penses and the danger of opening the question of repudiation through the financial embarrass- ments of the government have no weight with these radical partisans in Congress. Every- thing must give way and the honor and in- terests of the country must be sacrificed for party ascendancy. The abolishment of inter- nal taxes in favor of the manufacturers has but one object in view, as impeachment and the in- famous reconstruction measures have, and that is the perpetuation of radical rule over the country. Before the next balance sheet of the Secretary of the Treasury will be made out and submitted to the public the Presidential elec- tion and elections for members of Congress will have been held. The discovery of a defi- ciency in the revenue and consequent damage to the public credit arising from this manufac- turers’ bill will not come till the radicals have obtained a renewed lease of power, if, indeed, they can succeed in obtaining that under any circumstances, Should they be successful in this dodge, as they were in the loyal recon- struction dodge during the last general Con- gressional elections, they will be firmly seated for another term. They can then restore the Tax billor adopt repudiation, for which they are now laying the foundation, as a plank in their future platform. At least they will have time enough to concoct another dodge by which to humbug the people again. Such are the tactics of the party ‘of great moral ideas” in repealing the taxes on manufactures and in the whole scope of their legislation. We have yet to see whether the people have intelligence enough to abolish these Congressional humbugs at the polls, or if we are to be governed here- after by such an unscrupulous oligarchy, Rattroap Jows at ALBANY.—There was a terrible slaughter of our city railroad jobs in hesves were examined gy to the anegesnent a a4 boats on both the Nort fifa fast rivtrs, atid the committee adjourned to Albany, where they will re- view the testimony already taken. Th the Poord of Conn the Senate at Albany the other day, under- ground and aerial, But what does it all fidan? We guess it means that the jobbers will next make a pull altogether for the Broad- way surface road; for thatisa chean job and GomMMit:9o wewented a coiumtnous report recom | ¢ has the money in it of a gold nine, EAS rupt, unscrupulous, suspicious and vicious to the last degree ; and yet it is claimed that the radical party is composed of all that is good, just, liberal, honest and pure in all the length and breadth of the land. Surely, after these late developments of radical intolerance, cruelty and recklessness against the Chief Jus- tice, he has ceased to be under any obligations to speak a word or lift a finger to save this debased and demoralized party from destruc- tion. Mr. Gladstone and the Irish Church. In the British House of Commons on Friday Mr. Gladstone stated that on the following Monday he would offer a motion to the effect that the House go into committee on the Irish Church Establishment, adding that when it was agreeable to the House and the Ministry he would press the consideration of the ques- tion. This looks like an unexpected move after the withdrawal of Mr. Maguire's resolu- tions on Tuesday last. It reveals unquestion- ably a determination on the part of the opposi- tion not as yet to give up the game, and to press to an issue at least one portion of the Trish question. It is quite possible, too, that Mr. Maguire may have been induced by his friends on the opposition benches to withdraw his resolutions on the ground that they were not sufficiently specific, and that they would raise an issue which was dangerously broad. Chances of success are certainly greater if one question is dealt with at a time. Mr. Glad- .stone has decided to test the feeling of the House in regard to the Irish Church Establish- ment. Monday, therefore, will be a great day in the House of Commons. Gladstone, we may rest assured, will put forth all his strength. In Disraeli, however, he always finds a foeman worthy of his steel; and it remains to be seen what tactics will be adopted by the Jew Prime Minister in the circumstances. On the last occasion Disraeli silenced the op- position by threatening a dissolution of Parlia- ment. It is quite possible that Mr. Gladstone and his friends have considered this threat in the interval, and that in their eyes it now looks less formidable. A dissolution of Par- liament would certainly, in present circum- stances, be attended with great inconveniences. It is in the last degree desirable that the Scotch and Irish reform bills, both of which have been introduced, shonld be carried through before any appeal is made to the con- stituency. A dissolution would of course ne- cessitate delay. It might even place the lib- erals in power, This, however, is not all. A general election now would not obviate the ne- cessity of a general election early in 1869; for so soon as reform bills have passed for the three kingdoms an opportunity must be given to the people to elect their representatives. It is questionable, therefore, whether the threat will be put in execution. Whatever incon- venience would result from the dissolution would be an inconvenience equally shared by all parties—by tories and by liberals, by the ministry and by the opposition alike, Mr. Dis- raeli has, however, this advantage over his opponents; he knows that there is a large number of men who will do anything rather than go through the expense of a general elec- tion, with the certainty of another general election in the immediate future. Their fear- fulness will be his gain. Disraeli’s is a fertile brain, and his next move will be watched with interest. Tue Latest From Jap. By a cable de- spateh dated London, March 20, we are informed that the civil war in Japan had resulted in the de- feat of the Tycoon, and that the Mikado party had been completely triumphant. party pledges itself to the faithful observance of the treaties which have been concluded, It matters but little to us which party is in power if a liberal and sensible policy is followed out in regard to foreigners. It is reported at the same time that Hiogo and Osaca had been de- serted by the foreigners, and that a vessel of war, supposed to be either French or American, had been fired upon by the Japanese. These reports may mean no more than that in the Tycoon's district the fighting was severe. We require further information to clearly under- stand the situation, General Hancock on Reconstruction and the Carpet Baggers. General Hancock ‘is of opinion that the people of Louisiana are as law-abiding and as well disposed towards the Union and the con- stitution as the people of any other State,” and believes that “‘if carpet baggers from the North would only stay at home there would be a quiet and unobstructed process of reconstruc- tion.” Here is testimony as to the real condi- tion of an unrepresented State and the spirit of its people. Can any one impeach this wit- ness or cast a doubt on either his probity or his knowledge? Itis not gheap partisan prattler whose words we quote. This sentence is no part of a harangue pumped up by some windy orator to excite or inflame. These are the calmly uttered words of a distinguished soldier, whose record is one of the most satis- factory and glorious in the whole history of the war, and whose acts in battle did more toward saving the country than was done by all the orators and spouters together that now trouble the land; and this gallant, sincere and earnest soldier was recently the Military Governor of the State in question. He has been on the spot many months, has observed carefully, as was his duty, the expression and tendency of public sentiment, and gives it as his final opinion that the real trouble in the settlement of the South lies in the conduct of adventurers from the North, and not in the obstinacy, contumacy or rebellious spirit of the Southern people. Can all the flimsy and pre- judiced party declamation of radicals in Con- gress weigh before the people with this single opinion of a man the country knows? The “‘carpet baggers” are the real formida- ble evil. We said this as long ago as the time when Mr. Henry Wilson, of Massa- chusetts, made his carpet bag campaign into the State of Virginia, and when our corres- pondents there pointed out the effects of that pilgrimage, how it disorganized labor, excited false hopes in the mind of the negro and use- lessly irritated the white man. Mr. Wilson was not the first, nor the worst, of the car- pet baggers; but since his campaign. radical politicians have organized regular relays of these political missionaries and encouraged the activity of a sort of political privateering. Regularly paid orators go from point to point exciting the negroes to those extravagant claims for social equality that are so disgust- ing in all aspects. Other carpet baggers have gone on mere fortune hunting expeditions, Rushing down from some Northern home with no other capital but unblushing impndence— all their worldly wealth in a carpet bag—these fellows stop at a hotel in a Southern city, and on three hours’ residence announce themselves as candidates for the convention and are elected on negro votes. It is of such material in great part that the conventions are made up. These are the men who wage war against the resident people, and from the struggle be- tween these bodies comes all the noise. Op- position on the part of the Southern people themselves is not opposition to any feasible plan of reconstruction, nor to the will of the Southern people; but only to those self-consti- tuted magnates, the “carpet baggers.” Conscience Money. . On Thursday ninety dollars of government funds were transmitted to the Treasury through a Catholic priest in Washington and duly cred- ited to the ‘Conscience Fund.” This fund has received similar contributions from time to time, until the aggregate sum amounts, we understand, to two or three thousand dollars. The lowest contribution has been fifty cents. It is well when the restitution of but half a dollar isthe consequence of an awakening of conscience to a sense of duty. But on what principles of moral philosophy can we account for the striking fact that the most slightly bur- dened consciences are the most easily pricked ? How is it that we hear of no restitution of the vast sums which have been accumulated within the few past years by stockgamblers in Wall street, by shoddy men of every degree, particu- larly by those who sprang up like mushrooms all over New England during the late war; by the lucky adventurers who secured contracts for horses, for guns, for worthless steamers, for all kinds of army and navy provisions, and last, but by no means least, by distillers and dealers and internal revenue officers, who, whether detected or not, are conscious of being implicated in incalculable whiskey frauds? Why are not the consciences of all these heavy sinners pricked? Why don't they disgorge their ill-gotten gains? So far, we have not heard of a single instance of a tender con- science on their part. The ‘Conscience Fund” amounts to only two or three thousand dollars, while two or three hundred millions would not cover the losses which the Treasury of the United States has sustained on account of robberies on a gigantic scale, It is obvious that we cannot rely upon the ‘Conscience Fund” alone for the payment of our national debt. Paces THe NATURALIZATION QUESTION IN THE Hovse or Commons.—In the Hzratp of yes- terday we gave an epitome of the debate which took place in the House of Commons on Fri- day onthe question of naturalization as be- tween England and America. It has been manifest for some time that there was a dispo- sition on the part of British statesmen fairly to consider the question, as it affected their own country and ours. The new treaty en- tered into between North Germany and the United States rendered it impossible for Great Britain to hesitate as to her duty in the matter. The debate, so far as we are in possession of the speeches, seems to have been conducted with good taste and good feeling, The old dogma of absolute and indefeasitsle allegiance is really obsolete, and not a word during the debate seems to have been uttered in its favor. It cannot but be gratifying to all to learn that Tt fa arati- | Lord Stanley and Mr, Savard are already in | fying at the same time to learn that the Mikado | communication on the subiect and that there is every probability of an early and satisfactory settlement. This difficulty over, there will re- main but the Alabama claims to hinder the two nations, the greatest by far in modern times, from advancing hand in hand on the great path- way of human progress. Let us hope that the Alabama difficulty will be got over without delay. The Great Equinoctiul Snow Storm. The vernal equinoctial has not failed us this time, but has given us a blow and a falt of snow without a precedent in this latitude and longtitude, we believe, for twenty odd years. Within the margin of ten days—between the 15th and 25th of March—we are apt to be visited by one of these equinoctial storms, and particularly as the winding up of a rough winter. That of Frtday night last (to say noth- ing of Saturday) extended over a vast range of country, and was the result of the natural re- action in the elements from the preceding warm spell and the summer-like hurricanes which lately swept over the West, from the great plains to the Alleghanies and along the lakes to Buffalo and Toronto, In noticing our tele- graphic weather reports from time to time from tho several cities between Fortress Monroe and this point we have observed that our heavy nor'easters throughout the year have their origin near the Capes of Virginia or Cape Hat- teras, and ride northward on an upper cur- rent of air, and that the undercurrent from the opposite direction is analogous to the wind which rushes backward on both sides of a passing railway train. Displaced in front, the air rushes to fill up the vacuum left behind. Our theory is that the projection of the At- lantic coast known as Cape Hatteras (that stormy cape) is the dividing point between the system of rains and storms of the States below and of those above, and that all our great nor’east storms strike inland from the Gulf Stream at or near Cape Hatteras, and are with few exceptions wholly inde- pendent of the system of storms of the seaboard section south of Wilmington, North Carolina. At all events, from the observations | we have made we are satisfied that if ‘‘those who go down to the sea in ships” from New York are informed by telegraph that a north- easterly storm is in full blast this morning at Fortress Monroe, they may be sure it will be here in the course of the night. A heavy storm of this character travels at the rate of some twenty-five miles an hour. Our seafaring men have learned something of late years of the value of the telegraph in regard to coming storms; but, from our observations, we sub- mit that the telegraph by the shipping interest along the Atlantic coast, if properly employed, might be made so effective as to render our coasting trade at least perfectly safe against the dangers of the elements. The Proposed Passenger and Freight Tariff on the Pacific Railroads, The House joint resolution to regulate the tariff for passengers and freight on the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and their branches was taken up in the House of Repre- sentatives on Friday and discussed. ‘The bill,” says the report, ‘‘constitutes the Secre- tary of War, Secretary of the Interior and At- torney General a Board of Commissioners to establish annually a tariff of freight and pas- sengers on those railroads, not exceeding double the average rates on the roads between the Atlantic and the Mississippi river north of St. Louis.” This is a step in the right direction, and it meets with our hearty approval. The Pacific Railroads and their branches have been and are being almost entirely constructed by the government, and it is only right that their rates of charges shall be regulated by the same power that called them into existence. Unless this is done there is every danger of these roads becoming the same grinding monopolies that we witness in nearly every section of the Union. Taking the Illinois Central as an example, we find a railroad which was built by the government present- ing during the war an enormous bill for the transportation of supplies to the army, al- though the original agreement was that all government property should be transported free of charge. This was because the national authorities had permitted their right to control the road to slip from their grasp ; and as we have witnessed what the result has been in this instance, t will be necessary to avoid such mistakes in the future. The interest of the governmert and of the people at large in the Pacific Ralroads is very great ; these lines of travel belong to them in fact, and it is the duty of Congre:s to see that they do not become close corprrations, Inthe course of another year all o' the roads will be completed, and as for many years to come they will, perhaps, be the oly routes of communication across the Contirent, their business of transporting freight anc passengers between New York and San Francesco will be immense. Being, then, of such vial importance to the whole nation, care mustbe taken that they do not oppress the people The directors and managers must be restraiied by Congress from charging ex- orbitant rites, and everything relating to those rates mus be regulated by law or by the pro- posed bord. Genera, Lorenzo Tuomas,—It appears that Geneal Lorenzo Thomas regularly takes his place h the Cabinet councils, while Stan- ton by al the other executive departments, de facto, i recognized as the Secretary of the War Depstment. What, then, is the position of Genera Thomas in the Cabinet? It only means, wi suppose, that the President holds to his constretion of the law, and that he does not intendto plead guilty before the bar of the Senate. General Thomas, therefore, serves his purpor in the Cabinet, although aso fifth whee! to te coach. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. List of Arericans registered at the office of Bowles, Drevet an Co., 24 Rue de la Paix, Paris, for the week endig March 5, 1868:—From New York—Mr. F. Tucker ann, Mr. A. W. Greenleaf and family; Mr J. i. Rya and wife, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Ray, Mrs, Parkhurst Miss Weaver, Mr. E. Coles, Mr. E. R. Coles, Sa Francisco—Mr. A. 8. Church. Detroit— Mr. W. Ivingstone, Massachusetts—Mr. H, Has* tings, MCN. Phillips, Mrs. N. Phillips, Mr. G. ‘W., Wariand famity, Mr. W. Hastin, Mr J. Usher. hic: Miss T. Whitney, re de ik Cutler anifamlly, Buftalo—Mr. W. G. Fargo, Mr. D. Gray. Newark—Miss A. ©. Bolles, Vermont— Providence—Mr. and Mra. A. E. Cleveland—Mr. M. ©. Youngslée, Mr. Hickox, Friedel ia—Mr. G. 1. Balcot ‘Portland—Miss S.C. Bay: Hersey, iss A, A. Small. Saleny. | son, , Leell—Miss B.S. Buttrik, ball, tar = W ' Beebe, & Mr. M. ( Smith, Ham, Mi W, Wr eee: Ww oC atl ot RB. Livingston Mr, B Roneatt, NOTES ON ART. The sale of “first class pictures” at Leeds’ art gale leries on the evenings of Thursday and Friday was quite successtul. The first evening, when most of te Pictures offered weré by American artists, and brough ! $13,000, On the second the foreign pictures brought $27,500, Dubufe’s “Charity? was sold for $4,400 (the purchaser Colonel Thompson, of Springfield, Mass.); Meissonnier’s “Philosopher,” for $3,600; Gilford’s “Home in the Wilderness,” for $2,200; Robie’s “Flowers,” for $1,500 (to Alexander White, Esq., of Chicago); Vautier's “Broken Vow,” for $1,150; Frere’s “Boy Burning the Whip,” for $690; Merle’s “Roman Woman,” for $625, and the same artist's “ Fishing” for $645; De Haas’ Approaching Storm” for $575; Achenbach’s “Mount Pilatus” for $425; George’s “Lake of the Four Cantons’ and “Jungfrau,” $372 each; Beranger's ‘Mother and Child,” $370; Verboeckhoyen's “Flock of Sheep Caught in @ Rain Storm’ for $335; “The Prome- nade,” by Comte Calix, $320; Jacobson’s “ Norwe- gian Harbor,” $315; “Saying Grace Before Meat,” by Arnoux, $355; “The Latest News,’ by Fichel, $310; “ Feeding the Turtle,” by Coomans, $310; ‘The Care- ful Mother,” by De Jonghe, $300; “ Lake of the Four Cantons,” by Roifiaen, $300; “The Bashful Lover,* by Worms, $295; “The Wetterhorn,” by Schweich, $290; “Fisherman’s Wife and Children,” by Dela-. croix, $272; Isabey's “Shipwreck,” $20p; Lindlar's “Lake of the Four Cantons” and “ Lake’ Maggiore,’* each $260; Muller’s “‘Shepherdess,” $220. The total amount of the sales for the two evenings was $40,760. Mr. J, R. Key has returned to his studio in the University building, and is painting a view of the picturesque mountain scenery in Allegheny county, Md. One of Mr. Key’s “Sumter Pictures,” which have attracted so much notice, was sold last Wed- nesday; sale in Leed’s art galleries. Mr, J. A. Jackson’s admirable group of “Eve and Abel’ is still on exhibition at Putnam’s gallery, to- gether with his celebrated bust of Rev. Dr. Lymam Beecher. Mr. John A. Hows has nearly completed a paint- ing illustrative of “camping out,” in the Adiron- dacks. It is a good representation of nature in one of her finest moods—that of early morning. The thick, heavy mist is slowly lifting from of the ground, and the first beams of the rising sun ilumin- ate the tall, stately trees. A little tothe right is # log cabin, occupied by three persons. The figuyes are rather stify drawn, but their coloring is strong and vigorous, Burkin, in his preface to “Moderm Painters,” says that a picture which pretends to be & substitute for nature had better be burned, while that which aimsto be an intepretation of nature will last to all time, Such an one is Mr. Hows’. It does not endeavor to take away from us the idea of nature in its grand primeval majesty, but rather to show that a skilful observer only is needed to reveal the mighty spirid ofthe woods, The great old trees loftily rising fromm _ the surrounding fern and grass, and the moss covered rock show what nature really 1s in the ‘wide, pathless solitudes,” and convince us, despite Mra. Browning, that “Old Pan is not dead.” Mr. Marcus Waterman has very recently returned to his studio in the University building. He has lately completed a picture of ‘Gulliver among the Liliiputians,” of which mention was made a short time ago in these columns, His last painting is entitled “Touchstone,” taken from the comedy of “As You Like It.” It represents the scene in the Forest of Arden, where Touchstone and Audrey appear before the vicar to be united in “the holy bonds of matrimony.” Sir Oliver Martext inquires, “Ig there none here to give the woman?” when the pale and melancholy Jacques appears, and making himself known, removes the dificulty by offering to perform for them the needed service. It ts this moment which Mr. Waterman has seized, and his treatment of the subject is very satistactory. The amusing gesture and comic grimace of Touchstone, compared with the beauty and rastic simplicity of Audrey, are effective and pleasing. Impressive also is the figure of Jacques as he advances towards the solemn priest standing under the tree. Mr. Waterman excels in figure painting, and would do well were he to confine himself to that alone. It is said that “Touchstone” has been pur- chased by a gentleman residing in Providence, R. I. Colonel Fairman has just completed a marine view off the coast of Maine. It is an essay on his part im athoroughly new field. Painted with strength and vigor, the rocks are well treated, as well as the water and flowing quality of the waves. He has, im addition to this, a number of briiliant and striking: landscapes and sunsets, Mr. Guy, at the Studio Building, exhibits one pic- ture only; but that one is sufficient in itself to attract great attention. It is named ‘The Votary of Fashion,'"® representing a little girl, who, before going to bed, has draped her slender form with a parti-colore® shawl, “just to see how it would look.” The child is well painted, the flesh tints being particularly notice- able. The details and minor points are worked up with almost pre-Raphaelite fidelity, though not erring by being too prominent. A very attractive feature of all Mr. Guy’s paintings is the absolute truth with which his perspective is worked out. This picture has been purchased by @ Philadelphian, but will, we trust, remain fora short time longer in the artist's studio. Mr. James R. Brevort has finished a painting des- tined for the forthcoming Academy exhibition, “The Old Eben Thompson House, Farmington.” A late addition to his studio ts an “Autumn Landscape, with a brilliant sky and beautiful color, full of senti- ment. : Mr. George H. Smillie has quite completed painting entitled “A View on Artist’s Brook, North Conway.” In the distance rises Moat Mountain, an@ in the midd'e stretch meadows with haymakers at work. It is at present a complete success; the pure sky and the luminous fleecy clouds are beautiful, and the flowing water reflects the trees in a very truthful manner. Mr. F. Anyero has painted a subject for the drop curtain of Pike’s Opera House, “The Landing of Co- lumbns"—@ most interesting event, well and ably treated. Mr. Jesse Talbot, of the National Academy of De- sign, has nearly completed his large historical paint- ing of Hendrick Hudson’s first voyage up the noble river which bears his name. ‘The Royal Academy of the Fine Arts at Antwerp has elected Madame Rosa Bonheffr and MM. Henry Berthoud and Cabanel to be honorary membera, PURCHASES FOR THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LON- pon.—From the annual report of the director of the National Gallery for 1867 it appears that the pictures, purchased during the year were the following:—A portrait by Gainsborough was purchased in May, at the sale of the collection of Mr. J. Wiltshire, In the month of August the following ten pictures were, in conformity with the lat re ay from Lady Eastlake :—‘ Two Heads of Monks,” by Dome- nico Veneziano; “ Two Saints," by Antonio Vivarint; “St. Michael,” by Fra Carnovale; “A Portratt,” by Giovanni Oriolo; “ St. Jerome,” by Bono Perrarese; “Part of an Altar Piece,” by Cosimo Tura; “St. Jerome,” by the same; “ A Madonna Enthroned,”’ by Vander Goes; “The Portrait of an Old Woman,” by Rembrandt. During a journey on the continent, un- dertaken in the autumn, with the concurrence of the trustees and the sanction of the treasury, the follow- ing pictures were purchased :—“ An Altar Piece,” Pellegrino de San Daniele; “A Madonna and Child,’ by Paolo Morando; “Raphael and Tobias,” by An tonto Pollajnolo; “A Madonna and Chita," by Hott celll; two pictures of portraits, by Amibrogio Bors gognone, PROBABLE MURDER IN THE EIGHTEENTH WARD. Last night about twenty mtnntes to eleven GAttock while officer Hardy was patrolling his pos, his a} tention was attracted by the cries of a man who was calling out “Help, murder, watch.” Following the man who gave the alarm to No, 502 Easy Seventeenth street, he found 4 man naywned Wiliam McNit, lying on the floor, suffering severely ffom a frightfat wound which he had received in the lower part ot the stomach, The injured man’s bowels were protrad- ing from the wound and he was suffering extreme pain. The officer, on making inquiries, ascertained that MoNiff had beep. boarding with his brother-in- law John O'Shea, put a short time since he iad left ue owing a board bill; thas last night onif, fn compa with = his brother called ¢,t O'Stea’s house for the purpose of tting his trrink, when an altercation ensued be. ween the p? rties, and O'Shea, It Ia sald, got hold of a large chiv ei and pinnged it Into MeNims protuac. ‘The oMee’ arrested O'Shea and brought hin to the station ) ouge, where he was locked up for the night. MoNIft was brought to a drug store, where his wountis were dressed, The doctor who attended him ‘entertains no hope of his recovery, and says that itis impossible for him to live. When taken from Wve drug store he was conveyed to Relieve Hospital. tie promptness with which the oMcer acted in the tter enabled him to arrest all the partios tmpile waited, Md they ate wow ae Ihe take af hae ice