The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK CITY. , THE counts, WMTED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. ‘The Right to Amend a Petition in Involuntary Bankruptcy—Important Question. Before Judge Blatchford. i the Mater of Asa Craft.—In this case a decision ad been rendered by the court that the petitioning @reditora had not proved the allegations that the debtor had given the confession of judgment “in con- templation of bankruptcy” within the meaning of ‘he Bankrupt law, and a motion was now made by ‘Messrs, Benedict and Boardman to amend the Bawin Jansen, nsel 20 ae why posed cou for lebtor, 0} any amendment, and contended that the courtnad only (a to amend petitions and schedules in voluntary ruptcy, and cited the different sections of the actin error of his ment. a latehford referred to a decision upon this peinta few days since by Judge Lowell, of Massa- sae upon which he allowed such an amend- n Mr. James argned that his client should have the Bd to give further evidence against the amended on. Amendment allowed, and the case referred back to take additional testimony. Qther Proceedings in Involuntary Banks ruptcy. There were sixteen involuntary bankruptcy cases en the calendar for hearing. Of these twelve were adjourned, including the case of the Merchants’ Mu- tual Insurance Company and others vs. The New York Mail Steamship Company, which stands for the 4th of April next, je Craft case was decided as reported. Morris Bendix vs. His Copartners, Caroline M, en and Others.—Proof of service of order to iow cause made. Default taken and the court or- @ered adjudication of bankruptcy. Weaver, wdson & Co. vs. Henry L. Foster and Charles Wanzer.—Proof of service on Wanzer, and default taken as to Wanzer. Foster appears by attorney and demands a trial by jury as bank- tcy of the firm. Demand for jury granted. urence Drumgould vs. Daniel W. Green.— Proof of service made and defauit taken, Court ordered adjudication of bankruptcy, Petitions Filed Yesterday. William K. Knifin, New York city; referred to ister Allen, obert, De. Haralin, New York city; referred to bs Dwight. orris Davis, New York city; referred to Register um, James A. Clark, New York city; referred to Regis- Sh ert Ht Newburg, 0 |. Strong, Newburg, Orange county; re- serred to Register Little. if 7 UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Charge of Passing a Counterfeit $10 Bill. Before Commissioner Betts. Fhe United States vs. Theodore Turner.—The de- fendant was arrested and brought up for examina- tien, charged by one William Kleinnesch with having | ome 0 him @ counterfeit bill of the denomina- jainant gave him $9 90 in change for the counterfeit dill, The’ case was adjourned and the prisoner held in custody pending further inquiry. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Erie Railroad LitigationAnother In- Junction. Before Judge Ingraham. Richard Schell vs. The Erte Rattway Company.— On the application of the plaintiff, Justice Ingraham ihas granted an injunction staying proceedings pend- ing the appeal of the defendants from Judge Bar- mard’s order appointing Mr. Osgood pecelvor’ = This puts a stop to the collection of the proceeds of new ‘stock, and temporarily suspends all the powers of ‘Mr. Osgood as receiver. SURROGATE'S COURT. Before Gideon J. Tucker, The folowing mentioned wills were admitted to probate, viz:—Wills of John Canin, Isaac Guenther, Jacob Le Roy, Samuel Fox Johnston, Daniel H. Cur- Mis, Conrad Fleischauer, Sarah Hayward, John 8. Numinston, Ira Campbell, Maria Van Zandt, Eliza- ‘deth S. Heitman, Franz Breton. Letters of administra- ee pried in following mentioned estates, viz:— ik Mihoff, Christopher B. Monell lary E. Gamble, Wm. Bryant, Samuel Schaffner, Fritz Alvin ie hea es ea lenr, rocker, Regina So- Julla “Kinstte,” William Hofman, James Smeilfe, Josiah B. Hammond, Hester Valentine, Mary Garr, ae pres, penal, Wm. J. Williams, Augustus H. a Rarearene ier, _— a Pe read oar largaretha Opper, Wyman, Bu: er ., Edmund Greens Wm. H. Lingo, Jona ‘Whey, beth Brandt. The following named were aj inted (fesraians, viz:—Beniah A. Withers, guar- of Amy Van Allen Anderson; Julius Korset- pa Abraham S. Noralinger; Bridget Carney, of Willfam and James Welch; Sarah M. Safford, of George M. Safford; Robert P. Getty, of John J, Duffy; Joneph Smith, of Samuel and Mary J. Small; Mary ite, of Harriet L. and Mark W. White; John’ Keeler, of Charlotte E. and Harriet L. Keeler. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, el GaprureE OF 4 Store THI1EF—HE Snows Ficut.— About seven o’clock yesterday morning James McSorley, a young man sixteen years of age, stealthily entered the store of Messrs. Patterson, Mill- bank and Seymour, No. 436 Broome street, and se- creted beneath the folds of his coat a piece of silk plush valued at $100, with which he attempted to escape. McSarley reached the front door in safety, but there he was intercepted by Thomas Hennessy, who asked the suspicious character where he had been and what he had under his coat. McSorley made no ly, but dropping his plunder attempted to escape, when Hennessy followed in pursuit and overtook him. McSoriey turned upon and struck his pursuer, wey knocking him down, but a struggle fol- wed, in which the repuied thief came off id best." During the cohfest oMcer Tusleed, Othe Yorkville Police Court, who Was passing. rem up and arrested the youthful deiinquent, whom \' escorted before Justice Hogan, at the Tombs. On .#e proper Se ea bid ert for tra: in de- uit Oo! . He ig a native ol city, aud lives at 104 East Broadway. e Bazaars AND GIFT JEWELRY EsTABLisnMeEnrs.— Many are the verdant countrymen who aimost ‘weekly are “ropea” into the bazaars and gift jewelry shops on West, Washington and other streets, and there swindied out of their money, and in almost every instance the guilty parties escape, for the reason that there seems to be no law to reach the ease, Yesterday morning Thomas McCoy, an emi- nt, was decoyed into one of these shops in West t, near Battery place, before leaving which he was minus $24 and had nothing to show his money. Subsequently officer Coffee, of the Twenty-sixth precinct, arrested Matthew Gray on the charge of obtaining the money from McCoy, and he was taken before Justice Hogan.. During the examination that followed bi ed that his arrest was the result of spite on the part of the officer because he (Gray) would mot pay him money; that he had frequently paid that omMicer and other policemen money for allowing him wo ute his business unmolested. The officer indignantly denied the prisoner's allegations in particular, and as the accused equivo- in answer! ing questions his statement was doubtful, to say the least. Gray returned money alleged to have been obtained from McCoy, and was discharged from custody. AN EMIGRANT SWINDLED BY A CONFIDENCE MAN.— Op Thursday last James, Pratt, an emigrant, left Cas- We Garden and went aboard one of the Troy boats to As he was i ‘who said he also was going to Troy with three horses, and proposed to give the emigrant $12 to take care the horses until they reached their destination. ffer was accepted, after which Pratt and Ed- Kk a walk and met athird party, with whom entered into conversation about money Edwards having the confidence of Pratt for a loan, and the latter gave him all the had ($9), for which he ived two spuri- coins it nah | to be f° id owed which Ed- ‘wards said were worth more than the $9. The two men then eave Pratt the siip, and yesterday officer , of the Twenty-sixth precinct, arrested Ed- ‘wards, and Justice Hogan committed him for exam- imation. F jad i i A ; Youna mm YeAns, OLD IN EXPeRreNcr.—Arthor Bugene Bixbee, a boy of thirteen years, was brought wefore the presiding magistrate at the Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court yesterday, on the charge of stealing ® gold watch, valued at $75, from Dr. David Holton. ‘The youngster’s previous history is somewhat event- fal. Both his parents are dead. Shortly after their @eath de was placed by some friends in the Juvenile Asylum, from which place he was sent out West and Ss with a home in a farmer's family in Illinois, restern life evidently did not suit this precocious ith, and he accordingly decided upon leaving his estern home and coming to the more congenial clime @f New York. He left the farmhouse and travelled ‘@n foot until he reached a railroad station; he there Prevailed upon the conductor to give him a ride; after arriving at the next depot he got ont and a in footed it. jus progressing, sometimes on foot, other times on the cars, the young traveller @rrived at the confines of Lake Erie, and By promising to Work and assist the steward Re secured a passage across the lake. Again pel nied on his tramp and arrived in this city only * @ short time since. He was taken into the service of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Dr. Holton only a short time after his arrival here, and the next of Arthur Eugene was the teking of his employer's gold watch. His old love for travel came him with full force, and, havi pomomed himself of the chronometer, he put 0! for Portchester. When he arrived in that en! ing little town he placed the watch in the safekeep- ing ofa man, and thus secured a night's i ing. his stay in this place he is said to have broken into a store owned by a Mr. Shaw and stolen therefrom $12 in pesnike. in this act, according to his own account, he was assisted by some unknown pe ‘and was atertay tatena oor ye Cn fore Justice Ledwith, who sent him to the Juvenile Asylum, where he may mend his ways, become a good boy, and in time become a respectable citizen, A SHOWMAN IN TROUBLE.—A man named Percil Barly, who claims tobe a performer without a place to perform in, was arrested and brought before the te at the Jefferson Market Police Court yes- terday on a charge of false pretences. It is cl es the showman by George N. Wemulter, of No. 122 Varick street, that on the 24th of November last he called at his establishment and obtained an over- coat worth $50, for which he gave in payment a check on the National City Bank purporting to have been drawn by J. Tyler & Co, The check, owing to the representations alleged to have been made by the accused of its validity, was accepted in bagmenk but when the tailor presented it for payment he was informed that it was useless, no such party as Tyler & Co, having an account there, ‘The victim then de- termined to have Barly cut down, and convince him that if he could play his trieks upon the si that he could not play any such pranks upon a Varick street tailor. The accused was arrested, and was yester< brought before Justice Ledwith, who committed him in default of $1,000 bail. ALLEGED LARCENY OF CLOTHING.—OMeer Crit- tenden, of the Eighth precinct, arrested a woman named Fanny Marcus, on a complaint made against her by Mrs. Anna Brown, and brought her before Justice Ledwith, at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, Mrs. Brown charged the accused with stealing a quantity of clothing, amounting in value to about hans from the fact that she found, as she alleges, one of the missing articles on the person of the defendant. The article in question was a velvet cloak valued at $300. The prisoner claims that her husband bought it for her down town. ‘The magis- trate held her to answer the charge in the sui of $1,000 bail. CITY INTELLIGENCE. St. Francis Hosprrat.—The first annual report of the St. Francis Hospital has just been issued, It shows that the institution is in a flourishing condl- tion, and that the poor sick who are commended to the care of the officials are well attended to, and that gratuitously, A number of persons out. of employ- ment, a8 well as persons unable to work, amounting to the number of one hundred and seventy, daily partake of a frugal meal which is furnished them to ‘still the cravings of hunger. The friends of the sick are ailowed to visit them twice a week—viz., on Tuesdays and Sundays, between the hours of three and five o'clock. The total number admitted durin; the past year was five hundred and ninety-two, o' whom eighty-eight died and the remainder, four hundred and twenty-three, were discharged. AID FOR THE CRETANS.—Yesterday the Greek Re- lief Committee, of this city, in conjunction with that at Boston, commenced an organization for the hold- ing of CMa fair at the latter city, early in April, in aid of the suffering but successful Cretans, COMMISSIONER OF PILOTS.—Captain Ambrose Snow has been appointed Commissioner of Pilots in the Place of Captaip Dunham, deceased. MILITARY FUNERAL.—The obsequies of Lieutenant Edward Q. Gabaudan, of the United States Marine Corps, took place yesterday, from St. Luke’s church, The funeral was numerously attended by the rela- tives and friends of the family and officers of the navy and Marine Corps. City MorTatiry.—The number of deaths in this city for the week past was 480—68 more than the pre- vious weck. MoRGUE.—The body of an unknown man, supposed to be Richard Kennifick, aged about twenty-nine years, five feet, seven inches high, black hair, gray eyes, back beard, about three weeks’ growth; had on brown frock coat, light mixed pants, paid shirt, gray knit undershirt and drawers, black cioth cap, blue woollen socks and laced shoes; tattoed on rig! nt arm R. K.; star fattoed on right shoulder, was taken from Bellevue Hospital to the Morgue to await the identification of the friends of deceased. THE STEAMSHIP JAPAN—This steamship, iter vessel to several of the productions of Mr. Henry oe for the line between San Francisco and China, ow! by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, went upon a trial trip yesterday; but the company feeling that those alone that were stockholders should be on board, thus precluding the representatives of the press, is a suflicient apology for the non-appearance of the results of the trip, BoGus MAXIMILIAN DOLLARS IN CIRCULATION.— Considerable excitement has been occasioned by the recent discovery that Maximilian Mexican dollars— ‘about 100,000 of which were coined while that prince (whose image and superscription they bear) was Em- peter of Mexico—are being extensively counter- ited and thrown upon the market by private indl- viduals, who, it is presumed, came temporarily into ion of the original dies during the dark days of the Mexican empire. This, however, is doubted by some, who think that what appears to be an extra coinage is simply a well executed counterfeit, It has been pretty well ascer- tained that there are in circulation nearly half a mil- lion more pieces than were coined by the Mexican government. The bogus dollars are nearly up to the standard weight, and in every respect closely resem- ble the genuine. The object of their circulat on is of course the prone derived from a heavy alloy of the silver, which experts cannot detect by the eye, under bout five per cent. To this is added the margin for front derived by the government from the original coinage, which was considerable. Large numbers of these pieces are bought and kept as souvenirs of Maximilian, and itis not unlikely the bogus coin was originally intended to Supply this demand. Altogether about twenty per cent is made by the operation, It seems that the sale of the pleges does not sonié within the pale of the law agalnst counterfeitin; 8 Maximiljan’s government ‘was never recogniz YY the United States, anid con- sequently his coins havé no standard legal value. As they cannot be easily detected except by an assayer, and as their value is not fictitious, they may be con- sidered rather dangerous to speculate in. DieD SUDDENLY.—A man named Luke Maguire, @ painter by occupation, and residing at No. 390 Third avenue, died suddenly at his residence yesterday af- ternoon on returning from work. The coroner has been notified to hold an inquest. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, BOARD OF ALOEAMEN. In accordance with a resolttion lately adopted by the Common Council the chamber and offices allotted to the Board of Aldermen are now being refitted, painted and frescoed, so that the Board was obliged to held its meeting yesterday afternoon in the cham- berof the Board Supervisors. At the meeting a i amount of routine business was transacted, such as ordering the laying of gas mains and paving and flagging of up-town streets. A message was re- weived from the Mayor containing a veto of the resolution ordering the paving of Cort- landt_ street with Nicolson pavement, and was laid over under the rule. <A request from the Nassau- Boat Club for Wp te to build @ boat house at the plier foot of Thirty-fourth street, North river, was presented, read and laid over. The resolution directing the laying of the Nicolson pave- ment in Twenty-third street, between Third and Tenth avenues, was called up. On being put to the Vote it was lost, then reconsidered and laid over. Resolutions were called up and adopted directing the Croton Aqueduct Board to advet for bids for the paving with wooden pavement of Twenty-ffth street, from Second to Madison avenue and from Fifth avenue to the North river; Twenty-first strect, from Fourth to Fifth avenue; Forty-second street, from Second avenue to North river, and Lexington avenue, from Twenty-first to Thirty-fourth street. pa lg am then adjourned to meet on Monday at wo P. M. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN, Second Avenue Railroad Company—More Nicolson Pavement. The Board met yesterday afternoon—the President in the chair, The Committee on Railroads presented a report and resolutions in favour of not repealing certairPre- solutions granting the Second Avenue Railroad Com- pony. the privilege to construct turnouts and switches in Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets, between First and Third avenues, e Board ratified the action of the committee. A resolution was adopted directing that the Nicolson pavement be laid in Fourth avenue, from Fourteenth to Twenty-third street. ‘The Board adjourned till Monday at two o'clock. REAL ESTATE MATTERS, But one sale of real estate occurred yesterday at the auction mart, Saturday being generally regarded as a day set apart exclusively for the sale of stocks, Subjoined are the particulara:— BY JOSEPH M’GUIRE, A four story basement and cellar brown stone house, 25x50, on the south side of Thirty-first street, five hundred feet west of Fifth ayeaus, containing all the modern improvements. Size of lot, 25x95, Purchased by J. B, Deyforth for $41,000, A PaRRICIDE.—On Sunday morning last, in Jeffer- son paid Cole county, Ohio, a farmer named Jacob Mantel, was killed by his eldest son, Joseph, young man about thirty years of age, ‘The son's ry is, that In a quarrel with his father the latter struck his father once with a fire shovel, in se.f-de- fence. Upon examination of the father's heaa, how. ever, it Was discovered that the skull was fractured in three page a either one being sufficient to cause death. The parricide is now in jail, He hag a wife and five children. His father left @ second wife and two children, of his father’s first wife. The murderer was the son \ RECONSTRUCTION. iu the South—Imyportant Letter from Major General Hancock. HEADQUARTERS, FirTd MILITARY DisTRict, Naw OxLEAaNS, La., March 9, 1568. To his Excellenqp £. M. Pease, Governor of Texas: Six—Your cofimunication of the 17th January last was received in due course of mail (ee 27th January), but not until it had been widely circulated by the newspaper press, To such a@ letter, written and published manifest purposes, it has been my intention to reply as soon aa leisure from more im- portant business would permit. Your statement that the act of Congress “to pro- vide for the more eiticient government of the rebel States,” declares that whatever government existed in Texas was provisional; that peace and order should be enforced; that Texas should be part of the Fifth wiry District and subject to military power; that the lent should appoint an officer to com- mand in satd district, and detail a force to protect the rights of person and property, suppress insur- rection and viole! and punish offenders, either by military commissioa or bir the action of local civil tribunais, as in his own judgment might seem best, will not be disputed. One need only read the act to perceive it contains such pro- visions, But how all this is Supposed, to have made it my duty to order the military commission re- quested, you have entirely failed to show, The power to do a thing, if shown, and the Beopeinty. of doing it, are often very different matters. You observe you are at a loss to understand how a government with- out representation in Congress, ora militia force, and subject to milit: wer, can be said to be in the full exercise of all its proper powers, You do not reflect that this government, created or permitted by Congress, has all the powers which the act mtends, and may fully exercise them accordingly. if you think it ought to nave more gins should be allowed to send members to Congress, wield a militia force, and possess yet other powers, your complaint is not to be preferred against me, but against Con- gress, Who made it what it 1s, As respects the issue between us, any question as to what Congress ought to have done has no perti- nence. You admit the act of Congress authorizes me to try an ofender by militury commission, or allow the local civil tribunals to try, a8 I shall deem best; and you cannot deny the act expressly recog- nizes such local civil tribunals as legal authorities for the pene specified. When you contend there are no legal local tribunals forany purpose in Texas, you muat either deny the plain reading of the act of Congress or the power of Con; the act. You next remark that you dissent from my decla- ration ‘that the country (Texas) is in @ state of pro- found peace,” and proceed to state the grounds of your dissent. They appeared to me not a little extra- ordinary. I quote your words:—“It is true there no longer exists here (Texas) any organized resistance to the authority of the United States.” “But a large majority of the white population, who participated in the late rebellion, are em- bittered against the government, and yield to it ap unwilling obedience.” Nevertheless, you concede they do yieiu it obedience. You proceed:—“None of this class have any affection for the government, and very few any respect for it. They regard the legisla- tion of Co: 88 On the subject of reconstruction as unconstitutional and hostile to their interests, aud cousider the government now existing here under the authority of the United States as a usi tion on their rights. They look upon the emancipation of their late slaves and the disfranchisement of a por- tion of their own class as an act of insult and op- pression.” And this is all you have to present for proof that war and not peace prevails in Texas, aud heace it becomes my duty (s0 you suppose) to set aside the local civil tribunals and enforce the penal code against citizens by means of military cominissions. My dear sir, | am not a lawyer, nor has it been my business, a3 ‘it may have been yours, to study the Pphilosop! f statecraft and politics, But 1 may lay clalin, an experience of more than bait a liMRime, to some poor knowledge of men and some appreciation of what is neced- sary to social order and happiness. And for the future of our common country I could devoutly wish thatno great number of our people have yet falien in with the views you appear to entertain. Woe be to us whenever it shali come to pass that the power of the magiatrate, civil or military, is per- mitted to deal with the mere opinions or feelings of the people. I have been accustomed to believe that sentiments of respect or disrespect, and feelings of atfection, love or hatred, so long a8 not developed into acts in violation of law, were matters wholly beyond tha punitory power of huinan tribunals. 1 will maintain that the entire freedom of thought and speech, however acrimoniously indulged, is con- sistent with the noblest aspiration.# of wan and the happiest condition of his race. When a boy I remember to have read a speech of Lord Chatham delivered in Parliarnent. It was during our Kevolutionary War, and related to the policy of employing the savages on the side of Britain. You may be more fami- liar with the speech than I am. If I gm not greatly mistaken, his lordship denounced the British governinent—his governinent—in terms of ummeasured bitterness. He characterized its policy as revolting to every sentiment of humanity and religion; proclaimed it covered with disgrace aud vented his eternal abhorrence of it and its mea- sures, It may, I think, be safely asserted that a ma- jority of the British nation concurred in the views of Lord Chatham. But whoever supposed that profound peace was not existing in that kingdom, or that government had any authority to ques- tion the absolute right of the opposition to express their objection to the propriety of the Kmy’s measures in any words, or to any extent tuey pleased? 1t would be difficult to show that (he ponents of government in the days of the eld Adains, or Jetferson, or Jackson, exhibited for it either “affection” or “respect.” You are conversant with the history of our past parties and political strugules touching legislation on alienage, secition, the embargo, national banks, our wars with England and Mexico, and cannot be ignorant of the fact, that for one party to assert that law or system ol legislation is unconstitutional, oppressive and usurpa- tive is nota new thing in the United States, ‘That the people of Texas consider acts of Congress uncon- stitutional, oppressive or insulting to them is of no consequence Ww the matter in haud. The President of the United States has announced his opi jon that these acts of Congress are unconsiti- tutional. The Supreme Court, as you are aware, not long ago decided unanimously that a certain military commission was unconstitutional; our peopie everywhere, in every State, without reference to the side they took during the rebellion, differ as to tne constitutibnality of these acts of Congress, How the mnatter really is, neither you nor J may dogmatically affirm, If you deem them tonstitutional laws, and bene- ficial to the country, you not only have the right to publish your opinions, but it might be your bounden duty as a citizen to do so, Not less is it the privilege and duty of any and every citizen, wherever residing. to publisi his opinion hen § and fearlessly on tis and every question which he thinks concerns his interest. This 1s ely in accordance with the principles of our free government, aud neither you nor! would wish to live under any other. [tia time now, at the end of almost two years from the close of the war, we should begin to recollect what manuer of people we are; to tolerate again, free, popular discussion and extend some forvedrance and cousideration to opposing views. The maxims that in ail intel- lectual contesis truth is mighty and must prevail and that error is harmless when reason is left free to coimbat it, are not oniy sound, but salutary. It is a poor compliment to the merits of such a cause that its advocaics would silence opposition by force, and generally those only Wio are in the wrony will resort to this Ungenerous means. Lam contident you will not commut your serious judgment to the proposition that any amount of discussion or any sort of opinions, however unwise in your judgment, or any assertion or jeeling, however resentiul or bitter, not resuit- ing in the breach of law, can furnish Sustification for your deuial that profound peace exists in Texas. You might as well deny that profound peace exists in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryiand, California, Obio and Kentucky, where a majority of the peopie differ with @ miuority on these questions, or that profound peace exists in the House of Kepresenta- tives or the Senate, at Washington, or in the Su- reme Court, where all these questions have nm repeatedly discussed and parties respect fully and patiently heard. You next couplain that in parts of the State (Texas) it is dificult to enforce the criminal laws; that sheriffs fail to arrest; that grand jurors wiil not always indict; that in some cases the military, acting in aid of the civil authorities, have not been abie to execute the pro- cess of ie Arai ams tit Jurors | sane acquitted persons ity by you; an other per- sons charged with obenves have broke jail and fied from prosecution, 1 know not how these things are; but, admitting your representations literauy true, ff for such reasons | shouid set aside the i civil tribunals and order a military commis- sion there is no place in the United States where it might not be done with equal propriety. There is not @ State in the Union, North or suuth, where tue like facts are not continually happening. Perfection is not to be predicated of man or his works. No one can reasonably expect certain and absolute justice in human transactions; and if military power is to beset in motion, and on the principles jor which you ‘wouid seem to contend, | fear that a civil government regulated by laws could have ng abiding place beneath the circuit of the sun. It is rather more than hinted in your letter that there is no local State government, in Texas and no local laws outside of the acts of Congress which I — to respect; and that I should undertake to protect the rights of persons and pro- petty in. my Own Way, and in an arbitrary manner. { such be your meaning, 1 am compelied to ditfer with you. fter the abolition of slavery fan event which T hope no one now regrets), he laws of Louisiana and Texas existing prior to the rebellion, and not in conflict with the acts of aa comprised & vast system of radence, both civil and criminal. It requi not volumes only, but libraries to contain them. They laid down principles and precedents for ascertaining the rights and adjusting the controversies of men in every con- ceivable case, They were the creations of great and 4 and ‘learned men, had labored in their day for their kind and gone down to the grave long before our,recent troubles, a their works an inestimable legacy to the human race. These laws, asil am informed, connected the civilizations of past and present ages, and testified of the justice, wisdom, humanity and patriotism of more than one nation, through whose records they descended to the present people of these States, 1 aim satisfied, from repre- ation of persons competent to judge, they are as perfect a system of laws as may be found elsewhere, and better suited than any other to the condition ui ths people—for by them they have long been governed. Why should it be supposed Congress as abol shied these laws? Why should any one wish to abuse themy «Shey have committed no treason, nor are hostile to the United States, ner countenance crimes nor favor injustice. On them, as on & foundation of rock, reposes almost the entire superstructure of social order in these two States. Annul this code of local laws, and there would be no longer any rights either of persons or property here, Abolish the local civil tribunals made to execute them, and you would virtually an- nul the laws, except in reference to the very few cases cognizable in the federal courts, Let us for a moment suppose the whole local ciyil code annulled, and that I am leit, a3 commander Of the Fifth Mili- ae District, the sole fountain of law and justice. This is the position in which you would place me, I am now to protect alt Tights and redress all wrongs. How is it possible for me to do it? In- numerable questions arise, of which I am not only ignorant, but to tye solution of which @ militar; court is entirely unfitted. One would estabilsi will; another a deed; or the question {3 one of ccession, or partnership, or descent or trust; a suit of ejectment or claim to chattels; or the appli- cation may relate to robbery, theft, arson, or mur- der, How am I to take the first step in any such matter? If I turn to the acts of Congress, I find nothing on the subject. I dare not open the authors 00 the local code, for it has ceased to exist, J And you tell me that in this perplexing conditio Tam to furnish, by dint of my own hasty and crude judgment, the tevislatton demanded by the vast and manifold interests of the people! I repeat, sir, that you, and not Congress, are responsible for the monstrous suggestion that there are no local laws or institutions here to be re- apected by me, outside the acts of Congreas, I say, unhesitatingly, if it were possible that Congress should pass an act abolishing the local codes for Louisiana and Texas—which | do not believe—and it should fall to iy lot to supply their places with something of my own, I ao not see how 4 could do better than follow the laws in force here prior to the rebellion, excepting whatever therein shall relate to slavery. Power may destroy the forms bat not the principles of justice; these will live ip spite even of the swol History tells us that the Roman pandect were lost for a long pertod among the rub- ish that war and revolution had tea) upon them, but at length were dug out of the rul to be regarded as a priceless treasure, ‘ou are pleased to state that “since the publica- tion of (my) General Orders No. 40, there has been a perceptible increase of crime, and manifestation of hostile feeling towards the Lae and its supporters,” and adds that it “an unpleasant pn a give such a recital of the condition of the coul 5 You will permit me to say that I deem it im - ble the first of these statements can be true, and that Ido very greatly doubt the correctness of the second, General Orders No, 40 was issued at New Orleans, November 29, 1567, and your letter was dated Januar, 17, 1868. Allowing time for Order No. 40 to reac! Texas and become generally known, some ad- ditional time must have elapsed before its effect would be manifested, and a yet further time must transpire before you ‘would be able to collect the evidence of what you term “the | condition of the country; and yet, after all this, you would have to make the necessary investigations to ascertain if Order No. 40, or something. else, was the cause, The time, therefore, remaining to enable you, before the 17th of January, 1868, to reach a satisfactory conclusion on so dell- cate and nice a question, must have been very short. How you proceeded—whether you investigated yourself or througn third persons, and, if so, who they were, what their competency and fairness, on what evidence you rested your conclu- sion—or whether you ascertained any facts at all, are points upon which your letter so discreetly omits all mention that I may well be excused for not rely- ing implicitly upon it; nor is my dimculty dimin- ished by the fact that in another part of your letter you state that ever since the close of the war a very large portion of the people have had no affection for the government, but bitterness of feel- ing only. Had the duty of publishing and circulating through the country, long before it reached me, your statement that the action of the District Commander was increasing crime and hostile tecling sane the government been less painful to your sensibilities, it might possibly have occurred to you to furnish soime- ee on the Bubject in addition to your bare asser- jon. But what was Order No. 40 and how could it have the effect you attribute to it? It sets forth that “ we Sront principles of American liberty are still the in- eritance of this people, and ever should be.” “That the right of chloe Ce ¢ habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech and the natural rights of rs0n and property must be preserved,"” ily question the truth of these declarations? hich one of these great principles of liberty are you ready to aan and repudiaie? Whoever does s@ avows himgel the enemy of human liberty and the advocate of des- tism, Was there any intimation in General Orders jo. 40 that any crimes or breaches of law would be countenanced? You know that there was not, On the contrary, you know perfectly well that while “the consideration of crime and offences commit- ted in the Fifth Milltary District was re- ferred‘to the judgment of the regular civil tribunals,” a pledge was given in Order No, 40, which all understood, that tribunals would be supported in their lawful jurisdiction, and that “forcible resistance to law would be instantly Cad peg by arms.’? You will not affirm that this pledge has ever been forfeited. There has not been a moment since [ have been in command of the Fifth District when the whole military force in my hands has not been ready to support the civil authorities of Texas in the exe- cution of the laws. And 1am unwilling to believe ‘that they would refuse to call for aid if they needed it. ‘There are some considerations which, it seems to me, should cause you to hesitate before indulging in wholesate censures against the civil authorities of Texas. You are yourself the chief of those authori- ties; mot elected by the people, but created by the mibtary. Not long after you had thus come into oitice “all the judges of the Supreme Court of ‘vexas—tive in number—were removed from office and new appointments made; twelve of the seventeen district judges were removed, and others appointed, County officers, more or I in seventy-tive out of one hundred and twenty-eight counties, were removed and others appoiated in their places. It is fair to conclude that the oxecutive and judicial civil functionaries in Texas are the persons whom you desired to fill the offices. It is proper to mention, also, that none but registered citizens, and only those who could take the test oath, have been allowed to serve as jurors dur- ing your administration, Now, it is against this local government, created by military power prior to my Coming here, and so composed of your per- sonal and political friends, that you have preferred the most grievous compiainis. It is of them that you have asserted they will not do their duty; they ‘Will not maintain justice; will not arrest omenders; will not punish crimes; and that out of one hundred homicides committed Th tne last twelve months not over ten arrests have been made; and by means of such gross disregard of duty you declare that neither property nor life is safe in Texas, Certainly you could have said nothing more to the discredit of the oficiais who are now in ollice. If the fact be as you allege a mystery is presented for which I can imagine no explanation. Why is it that your political friends, backed up and sustained by the whole military power of the United States in this district, should be unwilling to enlorce the laws against that part of the popula- tion lately in_ rebellion, an Tt you Yeprée- sent as the offenders? In all thi itetcry of these troubles I have HéVer seen or heard before of such a fact. I repeat, if the fact be so it is tery, utterly surpassing my comp! constrained to deciare that I believe you great error as to facts. On careful examination at the proper source 1 find that at the date of your letter four cases only of homicides had been re- ported to these headquarters as having occurred since November 29, 1807, the date of order No, 40, and these cases were ordered to be tried or in- vestigated as soon as the reports were received, However, the fact of the one hundred homicides may still be correct, as stated by you. The Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas reported one hundred and sixty; how many of these were by Indians aud Mexicans and how the remainder were classified is not known, nor is it known whether these data are accurate, ‘The report of the commanding officer of the dis- trict of ‘’exas shows that since | assuined command no applications have been made to him by you for tie arrest of criminals in the State of ‘Texas, To this date eighteen cases of homicides have been reported to meas having occurred s.nve Novem- ber 29, 1867, although special instructions had been given’ to report such cases as they occur. Of these, five were commitied by Indians, one by a Mexican, one by an insane man, three by colored men, two women by their husbands, and of ihe remainder, some by parties unknown—all of which could be scarcely atiributable to order No, 40, If the reports received since the issuing of Order No. 40 are cprrect, they exhibit no increase of homi- cides in my time, if you are correct that one hundred had occurre§ in the past twelve months, ‘That there has not been # perfect administration of Justice in Texas I am not prepared ge ‘That there has been no such wanton disregard of duty on the part of officiais as you allege 1 am well satistied. A very little while ago you regarded the present officials In Texas the oniy ones who could be safely trusted with power. Now you pronounce them worthiess and would cast them aside. T have found little else in your letter but indications of temper, lashed into excitement by causes which | deem mostly imaginary; a great confidence in the accuracy of your own opinions, and an intolerance of the opinions of others; @ desire to punish the thoughts and feelings of those who differ witn you, and an impatience which magnifies the shortcom- ings of officials who are periaps as earnest and conscientious in the discharge of their duties as ce and @ most unsound conclusion, that while any persons are to be found wanting in affec- tion or respect for government, or yielding it obe- dience from motives which you do not approve, war and not peace ts Loy Prosper) ‘and all Tee ectoton, are the proper itary — jut . i have written anything to disabuse your mind of 80 grave an error! shall be gratified. 1 am, sir, very poapenttully, your obedient servant, Ww. |AN K, Major General commanding. THE Scituate BANK RoBBERY.—The Providence Press of March 26, days that no clue has been ob- tained to bbapemetration of: the audacious robbery of the Scitt; ink, Suspicions attach to various parti robably truly, but the circumstances are not sufficient to warrant steps to bring the ove culprits before the tribunals of justice. It is known that a house in South Providence, a short distance from the stables of the Union Horse Railroad Com- pany, has been occupied by known thieves, pick- pockets and cracksmen, wiio for most of the winter ave been offand on. Among these men was the notorious Bob Lucas, and recently one Jack Hartley has been known to be of the party, The house was searched on Wednesday, but nothing was found more than usual, It, was tenantiess, all the regular occu- pants having gone to Boston, doubtices to share the plunder received Wednesday morning at Scituate. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Progress of Religion in the United States, ‘The activity in church extension in the United States may be gathered from the following tabular statement of the number of churches, exclusive of Roman Catholic, dedicated and organized during the past three months. There are, no doubt, a number of churches organized or dedicated concerning which we have received no information, and, of course, are not included in this table:— ———-Churches-——— Dedicated, Organized, 46 20 Denomination, 23 25 2 2 formed ......+ 1 1 Total........ 172 83 CHURCHES RECENTLY DEDICATED. Eight Methodist church edifices have been dedi- cated since our last report. The Centenary church of Chicago was duly dedicated on the 15th inst.; $85,000 were expended on the buiiding. Over $32,000 were raised on the day of dedication, and all indebt- edness was removed. In Kankakee, fl, on the Ist inst., a large church, erected at a cost of $46,000, was dedicated with appropriate services, A number of weeks ago, at Norinal, in the same State, a Methodist house of worship, worth $16,000, was consecrated, In this State a Methodist: church at Clifton Springs, costing $16,000, and one at Port Jervis, worth $29,000, were dedicated on the 5th and Sth inst. At the former place the collections made during the day to liquidate the debt resting on the building amounted to $7,000, Also in Warwick and Knox- ville, N. Y.; Bricksburg, N. J., and Tamatown and Grinnell, Towa, Methodist clurches have been re- cently dedicated, Accounts of the dedication of five Presbyterian churches have reached us, In Cincinnati, the Lin- coln park mission church, erected at a cost of , was lately dedicated, Also at Vinton, M and Steamboat Rock, Iowa, and at Hart- ford, Ind., small church edifices have been com- Pieted and duly dedicated, ‘The dedication of six Baptist church edifices is re- ge ; one in White Pigeon, Mich., and another in ge City, Nebraska. At the recent dedica- tion of a third and larger one in Webster, Mass., Dr. Hague preached the sermon. The First Baptist church of Harlem, N. Y., have Just consecrated their new chapel, lately completed at a cost of $17,000, At Westford, Wis., and North- win, houses of worship have also been dedi- cal New Congregational houses of worship have been lately consecrated in Turner, Ill.; Pleasant Hill, Mo., and Oxford and McGreggor, Io’ ‘Among the most ‘The Lutheran Observer says:- g — of our duties during the last few months has nthe privilege of announcing the erection and consecration of 80 many General Synod Lutheran churches, Others have been in and are fast ap- proaching completion. Among these is one in course of erection at Milton, Pa.” A small Lutheran church was lately consecrated in Dixon, Ill. The Churchman mentions the erection of the fol- lowing Episcopal churches in the diocese of Ohio:— A new and beautiful church has been erected by the congregation of the church of the Advent, Cincin- nati, daring the last year. A new church for St. James’ parish is to be commenced this spring. Work will be resumed on Trinity church, Columbus, in a few a and the edifice, of free stone, will be completed before Christmas. The chapel is finished, and the congregation are worshiping there. A new church has recently been erected in ifton, at a cost of about $55,000. It is, in the main, of the early English style of architec- ture, cruciform, and its freestone spire is sur- mounted with a stone cross. A parish, called Grace church, was organized at College Hill about two years ago. It has erected a brick church upon & very eligible lot of ground at the cost of about $12,000, and no. debts have been incurred. The parish of Christ church in Glendale has built a chapel and proposes to erect soon a tasteful church, CHURCHES RECENTLY ORGANIZED. Eighteen charches have been organized since our last report. Nine of this number are Congrega- tional societies. A church of seventeen members at South Pass, lll., and one of fifteen members at Blan- dinviile, in the same State, have lately been or- fanized. Thirty Christians of a Welsh colony in awn, Mo., have united to form a Congregational church. In Iowa last month two churches were formally constituted at Kellog and Prairie City, and another at Smyrna, Mich. In Minnesota a council of nine Congregational churches organized two socie- ties of that order at Beaver and flighland. Rev. J. A. Reed, agent of the Home Missionary Society, gathered @ new church at Mivcheliville, in the same State, Five Baptist societies have been formed in Ash- more, lll.; in North Star and Brady, Mich., and in Union Mills and Delaware Centre, lowa. A council at Newark, N, J., on the 1th inst., duly recoguized the “Plymouth Baptist church.” A Presbyterian church of nine members was or- ganized at Janesville, Minn., on the 1st inst. A New Version of the Bible. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, March 26, states that Prof. H. B. Hackett, of the Baptist theo- logical institution at Newton, has resigned his poai- tion there in order to go to New York to revise the Old Testament, under the auspices of the American Bible Union. The final revision of the New Testa- ment was published by the Union about a year and now the Oid Testament is to come for revision under the critical eye of a scholar made competent by learning and taste. Prof. Noyes, of Cambridge, is eeperne to put to press in the course of the sum- mer his translation of the New Testament, to be placed by the side of his well kuown and much ea- teemed translations of the prophetical and pi eal prtions of the Old Testament. Prof. Noyes has a high reputation as @ Hebrew scholar, and is equally at home in the Greek language, A Preaching Nobleman. Lord Radstock is preaching in Paris and making an impression in some circles, Besides his evening discourses in the American and the Wesleyan chapels, he has been addressing a fashionable assem- bly once a week in the elegant drawing-room of Lady Cowper, where seventy or eighty people meet to hear him. At the close he Invites those wio wish to have religious conversation to remain for that purpose, when he gives them personal instruction in the way of life. This remarkable young English nobleman is the grandson of the Hon. Aduural Waldezrave, who was raised to the peerage of Engiand in 1800, though he was then a scion of a still older family of the nobility. Lord Rad- stock himself is not much over thirty ears: of age, and having become deeply interested in re- ligious things he has been jdentitied with the Ply. mouth brethren, a people who do not recognize the need of any ordained ministry—every Christian, in their view, being called to preach according to his gifts and opportanity, Lord Racistock has gifts, and the graces of an earnest, spiritual, devoted Chris- tian. Had he been born in humble life he might have become a first rate preacher. As it is, in spite of the disadvantages of high birth and culture, he t# an interesting speaker, ‘and the deep sincerity of his heart aud manner carries his audience with him, In many parts of England he has enjoyed great revi- vals of religion, with muititudes of conversions, ana his labors are sought widely. But he prefers to work in negiected localities, and mainly among the poor and ignorant. On the continent he has travelled extensively; and he loves to gather the poor and address them to their own language tf it is one that he can speak, or by an interpreter if he can- not, And the direct, simple and affectionate man- ner in which he offers the Gospel to the multitude commends it to their acceptance, and inuch good is done in the name of the Lord Jesus. Thathe will be equally successful with the “ladies tn elegant morn- ing toilets,” who throng the salon cf Lady Cow- per, on avenue Friedland, in Paris, we have some doubts, It is true that “not many nobles are called,” and the preacher himself is one of them; and as the race of God is not Jimited, we may hope that the fashionable world of the gayest city in the world is not so wholly given to pleasure a3 to be impervious to the spirit of truth, Episcopal. THR ADMONITION TO REV. 8. H. TYNG, JR, The Protestant Churchman, organ of the evangeli- cal party in the Episcopal Church in this city and vicinity, makes the following declaration of senti- ment and purpose:— The question is everywhere'asked, with the deep- est interest, what do those who feel themselves ag- Le dir by this sentence and admonition intend to jo? As one of the organs of that class of persons in the community, we pro} to answer this in- quiry. No one who is all familiar with the evangelical school will suppose that it is, in any sense, unprepared for or intimidated by this result, The stand which it has taken has been taken deliberately, conscientiously and prayer- fully, and that stand will, at all hazards, be main- tained. Humiliated as we are with shame at tho attitude in which our church {s pelted for the time to stand, we coun- sel consistent agitation of the subject with a view to relief at the next general convention. In this crisis we should be calm, but firm, and our words those of discretion and charity. With abidin and unalterable faith in the rectitude of our princi- les we are confident even now, yes, more confident han ever, of their triumph. ‘The conflict is to be the ecclesiastical body with which we are connected. re is to be no secession, but we claim it as our right, in dutiful submission to author- ity, when it does not contravene imperative de- mands of conscience, to be and to act as the liberal branch of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Hebrew. ISRAELITRS ON SUFFERANCE. ‘The Jewish Messenger is thoroughly indignant at the Presbyterian Observer for the comments of the latter upon the arrests made by the police of Hebrews for wearing masks in public while-celebrating their festival of Purim. It says:—‘We tell this writer of the Observer that the Jew is no longer on sufferange. He is in every respect the peer of the Christian, If he has to battle against prejudice fostered by tno. rance and fanaticism, it is a little too severe on him be measuring stecl with foemen unworthy now com- 5 of his notice, yet he must defend himself when assaiied ‘and cannot always maintain the dignified silence of conscious superiority, The Observer participates in the ignorance and of many self-satisfied and narrow-minded educators of 0 jon who, like Mr. Beecher, harp upon worn ous similes of “Jewish old clothes dealers,” and, like the inguisitors of old, delight in annoying and persecut- ing the descendants of Abraham. But the Jew is no longer pounetoss. He has fought his way upward in spite of centuries of oppression and degradation and martyrdom, and, preserving his purity of faith, has still to defend that banner, and will earnestly and boldly advance it in its proud beauty, undise mayed, not discouraged, by all the prejudice and hostility that envy, malice and fanaticism may create and sustain. Newspapers and politicians may endeavor to keep alive the spirit of antagonism and persecution, but the Jew is not disposed to sur- render at this late day. And if in educating the world he 18 compelled to expose the ignorance, illib- erality and fanaticism of those who pretend to form public opinion, he cannot decline the contest he hag the power to meet successf agogue now building The corner stone of the in West Forty-fourth street svill_be formally laid on Thursday next at three P, M. The Rev. Isaacs will deliver the address, and Rey. H. Phillips, with the choir of the Broadway synagogue, will assist in the ceremonies, According to recent statistics the total number of Jews in the world 13 7,000,000, one-half of whom live in Europe, In Russia the Jewish population ts 1,220,000; in Austria, $53,000; in Prussia, 234,000; and in DormAny, 92,000, At Frankfort-on-the-Main every sixteenth inhabitant is a Jew, and in the whole of Prussia every seventy-third, Tuere are fewer Jews in Saxony than in any other part of Germany, Im Sweden and Norway the proportion of Jews to the rest of the inhabitants is about one to 6,000, In France, England and Belgium, where the Jews are under no disabilities, they are less numerous than in countries where they have not yet been placed om an equality with the believers in other creeds, Methodist. The annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Vermont will be held at Swanton Thurs- day, April 9, Bishop Ames presiding, Presbyterian. Pastors, elders and laymen from all the churches of Northern New Jersey, of every branch of the Presbyterian family, inciuding the Reformed, will meet in convention in the First Presbyterian church of Morristown on Tuesday, March sl, at ten o'clock A. M., for prayer, conference and such action as may seem advisable concerning Presbyterian union, In Belfast, Ireland, there is a society whose object is to take care of the orphans of ministers and others connected with the Presbyterian Caurch. The total in- come of the society for the year 1867 was over $20,000; the number of applicants for the benetits o1 the soctety Was 320, of which number 270 were accepted. Forty of those accepted had jost bota parents and the others had lost their fathers, Dr. Wiiberforce Arnold was the father of the society; Rev. William Johnston is the secretory, to whose energy and zeal me success of tie enterprise was in a large measure jue. Roman Catholic. COMPOSITION OF THE SACRHD COLLEGE. It appears from the Annuaire Pontifical (Direc- tory), just published, that the Sacred College, in ita complete form, consists of six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests and sixteen cardinal deacons, There are at the present moment twenty-one hats vacant, of which two have already been conferred in petio by Pius IX, Of the forty-nine cardinais: existing, tWelve were named by Gregory XVI., and the others by the present Pope, under whose reign eighty-four members of the Sacred College have died. Monseigueur Bonaparte will be the youngest of the cardinals... Phe oldest member, even alter, the Consistory, will be the Archbisnop of Toledo, who is in his eighty-seventh year. ‘The senior of the body has been cardinal for the last thirty-six years. There are in the Catholic Ohurch 86 patriarchal archepis-| copal and episcopal sees effective, afd 229 prelates! with sees tn partibus tnjidelium. The countries) where the hierarchy is not regularly estabiished com-, prise 113 vicaridts, tive delegations and 22 prefec~ tures, administered by missionary prelates. Tho: Italian peninsula contains 246 dioceses and counts nearly one-half of the cardinais, THE NEW BONAPARTE CARDINAL—PERHAPS THE NEW POPR. The London Times (March 12) has the following Telative to the new Bonaparte cardiaal:— A Consistory is to be heid at Kome to-morrow for the creation of nine new cardinals, and, as we learn from the telegram conveying the intelligence, the iven, ‘in @ special and separate jonsignor Bonaparte, one of Pope’s Privy Chamberlains and Apostolic Protho- notary. This prelate, now forty yeara of age, is the head and representative of the Bonaparte Princes of Canino and Musignane, that elder branch of the Napoleon family in whose veins, since 1822, is blended the blood both of Joseph aud Lucien, the first and third brothera of the founder of the imperial dynasty of France. From the rise of the second empire in 1862 to the death of this new Curdinal’s eldest brother, Prince Joseph, in 1865, we find these princes: set down in the geneaiogy of tie imperial faintly as French princes of tae blood. * * * Should the course of events place a new Leo on the throne which DOW rests on the support of a new Charlemagne, the coincidence might ve fraught with great destinies w the civil no less than to the ecclesiastical verument of the world. By the icy’ ollowed during the vicissitudes of the raed States from the expedition to Kome in 1849 to the Convention of Seyvember, 18d4, Lue Emperor Na- poleon shows that he reads aright tue history of the relations estabuawed betweeu Lue empiue and the Pa- acy by the © .eemed genius of Charlemagne. Chatetsague aimed ar jug for the Pope @ free residence im Kowe, but be never dreamt of laying the foundation of the temporal power. inthe same manner the Emperor Napuleva wisied the Pope to avide in Kome, bat he aise aid ail Lu 1s power to strip him of his woridly sovereignty. Tuat tuls sovereigniy was the bane of religious no less than civil society 18 one of tivse early convictions Waich the insurrectionary voiunuteer of 1831 has never abandoned. For tue applica- tion of his theories the Emperor requires a Pope according to his own heart, and where can he flud him if not in @ man bound to nim by tue ues of kin- dred and gratitude, and—what is of lar greater mo- ment—a man bound by no precedents, comiuitted to ng known policy? Not @ little of the power of the néw Cardinal lies in his invincible tactturnity. No man in Rome or in the worid ever charged the Abbé Bouaparte either with liberalism or uitrumontanism, His profession of faith, if we could ouly get at tt, is very likely Bonapartism—that kind of iatalism, that reliance on @ “star,” Wuich makes a Napoleon believe Urst in himself, then in the never-sunking, never-receding fortunes of his family. The Fulton Street Dutch Church. ‘The deacons of the venerable North Dutch church, in Fulton street, have consented to open the church on Monday evenings for a union mutual singing meeting, the object of which Is to cuitivatea taste for church singing. The meeting will be tree to ail, and any one may ask to have a tune sung. ‘ihe room in wiiich the daily noon prayer meeting was held was crowded to excess yesterday, and it Was sugested thas the exercises should be heid hereaiter in the church, Among the gentlemen who took part in the servi on Saturday were Mr. George stuart, of Philadelphia, ex-President uf the Christian Commission, and the Kev. Mr. Barker, a distinguished clergyman from Kansas, who Is totally biind. keports bordering on the marvellous are constantly mave at this meeting of an extraordinary religious inverest Uwoughout the Eastern and Western siates, Miscellaneous Religions Matters. About six millions of dollars are annually paid by the Christian peopie of the United States in salaries to thetr ministers. It costs ten milhgns to keep the dogs who eat tue crumbs frou their masters’ tables, ‘The Rev. Dr. Booth, of the Mercer street church, has deciined the cali to the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn. The New York Port Society will celebrate its fft!- eth anniversary on Taursday evening, April 2, at Steinway Hail. In looking through the list of Epise churches in this country we find that there are 287 St. Jon's churches and 270 St. Paul's, while St, Oypri: St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, St. Polycarp, St. Cornelius, St. Thaddeus, St. Columba, St. Margaret, St. Willl- fred, St. Sylvanus and St. Chrysostom have only one church each. DEPARTURE OF STEAMSHIPS YESTERDAY. The following steamships, European and coast- wise, left this port yesterday:— EUROPEAN. The City of Baltimore, of the Inman line, left pier 45 North river for Liverpool, with the United States mails, 37 cabin and 100 steerage passengers and a full cargo of cotton, grain, cheese and miscellaneous merchandise, 4 The Erin, of the Nattonal line, left pier 47 East; river for Liverpool, with 8 cabin and 57 steerage pee sengers, $53,000 in specie and a full cargo of cotton, urala, cheese, &c. OOASTWISR. ‘The General Grant, Captain Hildreth, left pier No. 12 North river for New Orleans, with 10 cabin passen- gers and a full assorted cargo. ‘The George Washington, of the Cromwell line, left pier No. 9 North river for New Orleans, with 15 pas- sengers and a fair assortea cargo. ie Huntsville, Shee Crowell, of the Black Star line, left pier No. 13 North river for Savannah, with 12cabin and a fair cargo of dry and provisions, ‘The San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, of the Empire line, left pier No. 13 ee river for Savannah, with 90 cabin passengers and @ cargo of miscella- ame. ‘Champion, Captain Lockwood, of the New York Yharleston Steamship Company's line, left pier Work North river for Charleston, with 20 pas sengers and a fair of flour, grain and coffee. ie E. B, Souder, Captaid Libby, of the People’s Mail Stearnantp Company’s line, left pier No. 4 North, river, with @ Le eg ont of and a fail ongge of dry ¥ e Valley City, praia, _ of the Express left pier No, 15 trl ith 5 passengers and fair of assorted merchandise, tte, of Loriliard's line, left pier No. 33. Fast river. for Philadelphia, with a fair cargo of mise cellaneous merchandise,