The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1868, Page 7

6 ee RT _| is alarmed, and anarchy prevails, The dungeons BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST OHURCH.—Rev. Dax K. LEE, Morning and evening. ‘ BROADWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH.—Rev. Dr. MUULENDERG. Evening, ' BLOOMINGDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, Forty-second street.—REV. W. POPE YEAMAN, Morning and evening. 1 ed LAND. Evening. es ' CHRIST CHURCH.—Morn ing—REy. Du. Weszon, ON “4! oy PuLrits.” CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES, Rutgers College.— Morning and afternoon, — —Rry. F. 0. Ewrr. Even- OMISOUOUS INTERCHANGE CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Rev. Dr, DEEMS. Morningandevening, CALVARY CHURCH.—Rrv. M2, TirPANy, IN BEHALY ov THE SHELTERING AtMs. Evening. DOPDWORTH HALL.—Srimitvaiists. Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SrrmitvaLisrs, N. FRANK WHITE. Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REY. PROFESSOR MOFFAT, Morning and evening. M. E. CHURCH, Factoryville, Staten Ieland.—Morning, afternoon and eventing. 314; MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Rev. Auex. H. Vinton, D. D. Evening. JERUSALEM HOUSE OF WORSHIP.—Rev. 8. Morning and evening, ST, ANN’S FREE CHURCH.—Morning, afternoon and evenin; ST. ANN'S CHURCH.— Av MATER,” by the Choir. Afternoon, ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCE MATER.” Evening. ACKED CONCERT, “STABAT TRINITY CHAPEL.—MuSICAL SERVICE AND SERMON Evening. TEMPERANCE HALL.—H. L. Hastines. Morning and ‘ufternoon. UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—Morning and evening. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor SNow, ON “Tue Wutre Horse anv His Migury Riper.” After noon, TRIPLE New York, Sunday, March 29, 1868. THD NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a resolution of inquiry was adopted, asking for information relative to the recent esiablishment of a new military department. The report of the committee on the Tax Exemption bill was taken up and considerable discussion ensued on the whiskey clause, The report was finally disa- #reed to by a vote of twenty-three to nine and a new committee was appointed. Pending debate on the bill to relieve the disabilities of R. R. Butler, of Ten- nessee, the Senate adjourned, In the House the bill to aamit Alabama to repre- sentation was considered, Messrs. Kerr, Paine, Eldridge, Bingham, Stevens, Farnsworth and others speaking upon it. Mr. Spalding’s substitute, providing for a temporary and provisional govern- ment, and permitting the officers recently elected in that State to qualify on the 1st of May, was adopted, and the bill passed by a vote of 102 to 29. A com- munication from the Secretary of War, enclosing General Meade’s report of the Alabama election, was received, The General says the constitution was not ratified. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a bill extending Lexington avenue was reported favorably. Bills were intro- duced authorizing appeals from the decision of the Canal Appraisers and repealing a certain portion of the statute relative to brokers. A bill authorizing life insurance companies to make annual dividends, and others of a personal character, were passed. The Lientenant Governor then announced that the Senate would resolve itself into a Court of Impeachment on’ ‘Tuesday next for the trial of Canal Commissioner Dorn, and an adjourment took place to that day. In the Assembly bills to prevent the overcrowding of the city road cars; authorizing the Metropoli- tan Transit Company to construct certain railroad tracks in the city; to widen Vanderbilt avenue, Lrooklyn, and appropriating $125,000 to aid in the construction of the Southern Central Railroad, were reported, the latter for the — consideration of the Assembly, A bill to repeal, the act requiring railroad = empioyés to ntroduced, and also uniforms was in between utoga Springs and New York city, for the purpose of conducting mineral waters to the lotter place. The Railroad Committee has also javorably reported the bill for the Three Tier Rail- way in New York elt Some further unimportant susiness was transacted, and the Assembly ad- oarned to Monday. EUROPE. By special telegram dated at Antalo, Abyssinia, with fifteen th ra, and ready for battle, He was def ‘ycuns. General Napier marched from Antalo. ‘The roads were bad and the Queen's troops suffered from fever and dysentery. The ne jort by the Atiantic cable is dated yesterday evening, Marct The coal miners’ “strike” riots are extending in Belgium and becoming formidable, American newa- papers are s-ized so universally in Spain that Minis- ter Hale has protested to the authorities, George Francis Tran was brought up in the Bankrupt Court, Dubin, the Judge declaring his assets “worthless.” Convois, 93 a 93 Five-twenties, 72 a 7234 In London aad 75% a 75% in Fran) Cotton closed excited at an advance, with mid- dling uplands at 109d. Breadstats firm. Provi- sions and produce without marked change, By steamship we have a fuil report of the remarkable speech dell ed by Mr. Disraeli, in repiy to the oppo- sitonin tie Unghsh Parliament, on the Irish qnestion. His definition of what a Caristian Church really is, and as he says should be, is novel, liberal, and ina comprehensive apirit. He advocates progress and the power of public opinion, and insists that it is vetter the public grievances should be openly stated by educated met than be mumbled ata “backhedge” or by a “Robesplerre.” ‘The Peace Society of England presented an address to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on the occasion of his retirement from the post of United States Minister in London, Mr. Adams returned a very happy reply, expressing @ fervent hope for the maintenance of peace between the two countries, England and America. MISCELT ANEOUS. Our special telerrams by the Gulf cable contain ytl, St. Thomas, Jainaiea, St. Domin Weat India 1 on Hayti had been ae the merch jon was expected by the nex 10k at St, Thomas will prot of April, ‘The De > walle the 12th for Caracas, A soa viers, Baez had been Fetura to bt. Dominoes, bul le still delava, wi, Barbadoes, and others of the ch Admiral’s demands a contribution from rain urged to Loogia are filled and the people reject the government cur- reney. Three hundred coolies had arrived at Trini- dad, An earthquake was felt in St. Kitts on the 25th ultimo, General Hancock has written a letter to Governor Pease, of Texas, which we publish elsewhere, in answer to a letter concerning the General's refusal to order military commissions for the trial of citizens in that State. He argues that civil law is eMcacious enough for all purposes, General Hancock was yesterday assigned by the President to the command of the new Department of the Atlantic, with his headquarters at Washington, The Richmond Grand Jury have found anew in- dictment against Jef? Davis, The residence of Charles Dudiey, a member of the Towa Legislature, In Agehcy City, was destroyed by fire on Friday night, and his three sons perished in the flames. ‘The New England Methodist Conference now in session in Boston have adopted resolutions unani- mously favoring impeachment and Congress. ‘The Louisiana Democratic Committee favor hearty co-operation among the party for the defeat of the constitution, . ‘The screw steamer Linda, from Boston, arrived at St. Johns, N. B., yesterday, making the first trip this season, The house of a farmer named Lambert, at Mar- ham, twenty-five miles from Ottawa, Canada, took fire on Wednesday night. Mr. Lambert, with seven of his children and a man servant, were burned to death, In the Erie Railway litigation yesterday Justice Ingraham, in Supreme Court Chambers, granted an injunction which substantially suspends the functions of Mr. Osgood as receiver and puts a stop for the time to the collection of the proceeds of new stock. The Dean-Beach tibel suit was opened again yes- terday before Judge Thompson in the City Court, of Brooklyn, on a motion of counsel for the plaintiffs for anew trial, on the ground that the verdict was unjust and the plaintiff should not be compelled to pay the costs of the court. Judge Thompson re- served his decision. The steam yacht Governor Fenton arrived at this port yesterday from Philadelphia, via Raritan Canal. She is intended for the use of the Health Ofcer in boarding vessels at quarantine, The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ment securities were also strong. Gold closed at 138%. ‘ The Democratic Presidential Ticket—The Proposed Compromise of McClellan and Pendleton. It is a lamentable fact that at a erlsis in our political affairs which calls for the highest order of statesmen and statesmanship we have only here and there a man above the calibre of the second or third rate politician. The rule will apply to the party in power and the party out of power. The democratic party, however, is most lamentably deficient in Presi- dential timber, whether we cast about for acceptable statesmen, popular heroes, or avail- able politicians. In the age before*the late anti- slavery deluge, while Andrew Jackson held the reins, his word and his favorite (except in 1840) “were sufficient, because he was sup- ported hy a body of party leaders who, though not equal in calibre as statesmen to Clay, Webster and Calhoun, were superior to them as electioneering managers. But with the free soil defection of Van Buren in 1848 the disintegration of this powerful party com- menced, which culminated in the great rebel- lion. The Presidential election of 1852, with the dissolution of the whig party, afforded a splendid opportunity to the triumphant demo- cracy for a new departure and another reign of a quarter of a century; but under poor Pierce in 1854 they took the back track, and ih a single false step—the. repeal of the Missouri compro- mise—they were broken down in the North. From this terrible blow they barely saved their distance under Buchanan in 1856, although, in addition to the solid vote of all the Southern States (except Maryland), they were assisted by a division of the opposition forces in every State of the North between Fremont and Fill- more, But if the administration of poor Pierce was disastrous in breaking down the democracy in the North in 1854, that of Buchanan was ut- terly rninous in the disruption of the party North and South in 1860. If in the one case the Northern cream of the party was skimmed off, in the other the pail was upset and all the milk was lost. The blunders of the Northern de- mocracy during the war after 1862 contributed still to weaken them until 1867, when, from the vicious and revolutionary manifestations of this radical Congress, there was a palpable and general popular Northern reaction, The people were ready for a change of rulers with achange of base, even under a party which they had seven times rejected ; but this party, shorn by Pierce and Buchanan, and next by copperheadism, of acceptable leaders, and without a recognized champion for the suc- cession, is beaten in the first Presidential skirmish of 1868, Here we have the chapter of accidents which has left the democracy so deficient in Presiden- tial materials, and which has resulted in giving the republicans the start on the inside track for the succession. During the present gene- ration, at least, no Northern man with a peace record during the late stupendous war for the very life of the nation will do for a Presiden- tial candidate. It will certainly be the sheer- est folly to put up a man of the Chicago plat- form type of 1864 against Grant, the successful leader of the Union armies. Horatio Sey- mour for President will not answer; nor will Jeremiah Black, nor Hendricks, nor even Pen- dleton, whose capital stock in trade is the payment of the government bondholders in greenbacks—the prevailing = popular idea in the West. There was a time when, if the democratic managers had acted upon the suggestion of John Van Buren in taking up Andrew Johnson and taking him carefully in hand, they might under his banner have turned the tables against the radicals; and that opportunity was just after the Phila- delphia Johnson Convention of 1866 and just before that unfortunate pilgrimage to Chicago. But Jobneon was not acceptable, and his gen- erous efforts to bring out General Hancock for the democracy have not been appreciated, Sherman has deelined the overtures from the White House in this direction, and Thomas likewise. Sheridan is a tearing radical, and Meade, they say, in Georgia, is no better than Pope. Thus cut off from the army we have been @n- deavoring to draw the attention of the demo- cratic party to Admiral Farragut, of the navy, as the man whose victo: and laurels of the war, In his sphere of re as glorions as those of Grant, But we no encouraging responses from democratic They evidently have nisgivi platform, as if the platform ‘tains or trum- peters, about F of his @ » Hartford were not enough, However, hey do not want him we prosme ' he will not fecl much aggrieved, But then the question again recurs, where can we find the two men wanted for the democratic Presi- dential, ticket—a popular man for the East, a popular man for the West, and each calculated to strengthen rather than to weaken the other? ‘There is some silly talk in the newspapers and among ¢he outside politicians touching the availability of Chief Justice Chase as the demo- cratic nominee for President, with Seymour or some other Eastern man for Vice President; but such a team would not pul together. Mr. Chase would do as the candidate of an inter- mediate party, but a jump at once from the radical to the democratic camp is out of the question, Where, then, are we to go for our dpmocratic ticket? We hear some talk of fall- ing back on the old ticket of McClellan and Pendleton, and ‘to this complexion it may come at last.” Why not? McClellan was stronger than the democratic party in 1864, and but for the bur- den of that Chicago platform, which he could not shake off, he might have made it a very tight race with the popular Lincoln, McClel- lan’s absence from the country since that time has not hurt him, and it is still the popular be- lief that he was not fairly dealt with by Stanton. Pendleton, relieved of the Chicago platform, is not so coppery in color as he was painted. His war record is perhaps as good as that of Seymour, and very different from that of Vallandigham. Pendleton, too, al- though it is active stock in trade, has from his agitation of the policy of greenbacks for the bondholders, become exceedingly popular in the West, as the unanimous voice in his favor of the democracy of all the Western States attests. The ticket, therefore, of McClellan and Pen- dleton may become the only alternative of the Democratic National Convention as a basis of compromise and co-operation between the East and the West. But they say that Mr. Pendle- ton will be first this time on the ticket or nothing. In this event he will be ruled out, or there “will be two democratic tickets in the field—one East and one West; one on the Bel- mont and Seymour financial platform and one on fhe Pendleton platform; and, as the first move for a thoroughgoing reconstruction of parties and the breaking of the radical strength in Congress, this after all may be the wisest course to pursne, The Alabama Reconstruction Bill Passed by the House of Representatives. The Alabama Reconstruction bill was before the House of Representatives yesterday, and after a lengthy debate passed by a strict party vote, Mr. Williams, of Pennsylvania, the only radical member who opposed it, declining to vote on the question. During the debate General Meade’s report on the election was presented and read. In this document the commander of the Third Military District shows that only five thousand whites voted for the ratification of the constitution, and that after making every possible deduction the constitu- tion itself was beaten by over eight thousand majority. General Meade states that he ro- ceived several letters (which he forwards with the report) from radicals of Alabama, urging him to recommend the admissidn of the State despite the vote, but that he felt compelled to decline so doing. After stating his reasons for this course, the General recommends that the Convention be called together again for the purpose of revising the constitution, and closes his report by saying :—‘“‘I beg leave to call your attention to the difficulty of carrying on a government in a State where so small a proportion of those qualified to take part in the government are in favor of the organic law ; and to insure a larger proportion of what must be the governing class a more accepta- ble constitution should be presented to them for adoption.” The bill as passed is different from that originally reported. It declares the new con- stitution the organic law for a provisional gov- ernment of the State ; provides that the officers elected by a minority vote shall qualify; that the Governor may convene the Legislature and that it (the Legislature) shall again submit the once rejected constitution to the voters, with such amendments as it may see fit to make (or no amendments at all if it thinks best); that the amendments shall be submitted separately, and that if the constitution be adopted by a majority of those voting on the question, and after the adoption of the constitutional amend- ment known as article fourteen by the Legisla- ture, then ‘‘the constitation of Alabama may be presented to Congress for its approval.” Such are the salient features of the bill. It does not admit the State to representation, but places it in the hands of men who were elected by a decided minority of the voters. It also enables these men to compel a ratification of the once rejected constitution, which General Meade himself cannot approve of. Taken alto- gether, a more iniquitous scheme to force upon the people of Alabama a measure which they detest—to compel them to accept a funda- mental law which demands each voter to take the oath of fealty to the radical party, and which disfranchises over thirty thousand of the most intelligent men in the State—could scarcely have been conceived. Whether the bill will pass the Senate in its present shape cannot now be told; but we would be much surprised if that body rejects it. Secretary McCuitocn on tar New York Post Orrice.—The subject of the erection of a new Posi Office for this city having been re- ferred by the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads to the Secretary of the Trea- sury, in order that-he might submit it to the supervising architect and head of the Construc- tion Bureau of the Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury has, it appears, now prepared a report. It is stated that the plans for the exterior of the building are quite ac- ceptable, as far as beauty and symmetry are concerned, but that the interior arrangements find no favor whatsoever. In the matter of light and ventilation the plan adopted is pronounced all wrong. The means required to facilitate the business of the Post Office are declared faulty, if not incompetent. The use of iron for the internal structure, such as partition walls, doors, and so forth, is condemned as a useless expenditure of money, and is broadly hinted at as a job in the interest of certain ' parties. The plans for the new Post Office | building, therefore, find no favor at head- quarters, and may probably fail to receive the approbation of Congress, Meantime, the tax- ayers have paid half a million of dollars for the ground and a very handsome sum to the fifty-two architects who fiuruished the designs. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNvAY, MARCH 2%, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng and Ro- ligious Liberty. The case of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, of which during the last few rapaths the New York public has heard so much and with the merits of which it has become so familiar, is not, as we had begun to believe, altogether dead. The incumbent of the Church of the Holy Trinity has been tried, has been found guilty, has been formally admonished, has sub- mitted like an order-loving churchman, and has refrained during the entire proceedings from taking advantage of the means at his command to influence the public mind. Now, however, that the trial is over, and that the public mind has had time tocool, Mr. Tyng gives us a bit of his mind, tells us what he thinks of ecclesi- astical justice as administered in the diocese of New York, and clearly and wjth a fair amount of emphasis states his future policy in the matter. Mr. Tyng has submitted, but he is not yet satisfied. In the letter which he addressed to Bishop Potter, and which we published in the HeERaxp on Friday, the reverend gentleman protests ‘‘against the whole course, con- duct and conclusion of the ecclesiastical trial” in which he has appeared as the re- spondent. In Mr. Tyng’s opinion the course, conduct and conclusion of the trial ‘“‘are op- posed to the principles of the common law, the canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the doctrine and discipline of Christ.” Denying the regularity of the proceedings, Mr. Tyng appeals from the ‘oppressive ruling, predetermined decision and insinuating cen- sure” of the court which condemned him to the “general judgment of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, to the impartial review of the other Christian Churches of this land, to the word of the living God, and to Jesus, the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of us all.” In addition to all this Mr. Tyng takes exception to the style, circumstances and manner of the bishop's admonition. The presence of the city police, the selected clerical witnesses, the ser- vices, prefatory and conclusory, the refusal to receive the protest of his venerable father— all these Mr, Tyng not unjustly concludes were “intended to aggravate the attempted disgrace.” : Such is the case as it now stands between Mr. Tyng and the Protestant Episcogal Church, and between the Protestant Episcopal Church, including Mr. Tyng, and the public. We are not particularly anxious to go into the merits of the whole case. It is not at all impossible that Mr. Tyng may have been guilty of an error of judgment at the ontset. We are not unwilling to believe that the canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church are so constructed that when literally interpreted they do for- bid one ecclesiastic from poaching on the pre- serves of another ecclesiastic, and that the corfduct of Mr. Tyng was thus open to a cer- tain amount of censure, The preserves of Boggs and Stubbs were not only encroached upon; the game was exposed to a skilful and dangerous shot. We are willing to admit all this—that there was an error of judgment ; that the canons were violated ; that Boggs and Stubbs were aggrieved ; but, after all, what does the public care for these things? The one thing which the public does see, and which it will not lose sight of is this: that Stephen H. Tyng, in doing what he did, was obedient to the command, ‘‘Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” and that the Protestant Episcopal presbyters of New York, with Bishop Potter at their head, were disobedient to the same. Throughout the entire controversy two laws—the law of God and the law of man—have been distinctly visible; and, so far as matters have gone, we dare not re- fuse to admit that Mr. Tyng has been obedient to the former, and that the presbyters and Bishop Potter have been obedient to the latter. There is only one possible ground, so far as we can see, on which Mr. Tyng’s friends can now entrench themselves, and that is that the pro- test written immediately after the trial to the bishop, and since printed, ought to have been presented in the church, and directly the ad- monition was concluded. _ It is, however, suf- ficient to silence this objection to say that when the protest was offered by the elder Tyng he was put down in a manner which was a disgrace not merely to the Protestant Epis- copal Church, but to Christianity itself. If bishops in this eountry persist in acting as Bishop Potter acted on the occasion, the remedy will be as swiftly as easily found. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, in the United States of America, and in the city of New York, the struggle as between Mr. Tyng and his co-presbyters, with the bishop at their head, cannot, with safety to the latter, be re- peated. As matters now stand the public is pre- pared to stand by Mr. Tyng. Inspite of laws, customs, usages, presbyters and bishops, Mr. Tyng, it is felt, is on the right side. He represents the divine rather than the human, the law of God rather than the law of man. If he has erred, he has erred by adopting a course which all sensible men, in every branch of the universal Church to which he appeals, pronounce to be right. Mr. Tyng has our hearty approval in carrying his case to a higher court. By doing so he will give proof to the Church and the world that he is an order- loving churchman. It will be seen and felt by all that if division is the result the blame rests with the Protestant Episcopal Church rather than with Mr. Tyng. The age of martyrdom, however, is past, and whatever be the result it will be absurd to speak of Mr. Tyng as an object of sympathy. His position will be im- proved rather than otherwise by an adverse decision. Of this the persecuted incumbent of the Church of the Holy Trinity is fully aware. The future is not to him dark and cheerless, Without charch, without home, without funds, without friends, are phrases which have no terror to him. He knows well he has no such fature before him. In spite, however, of the indifference with which Mr. Tyng can contem- plate the future, he is entitled to our sympathy and encouragement. His cause is the cause of every liberty-loving man. His defeat will be our loss, His success will be our gain, Latest From THE ABYSSINIAN ExpEprtios.- Our special despatch from Antalo, forwarded through the Atlantic cable and published in this morning's issue, indicates that the British forces will have to do some pretty stubborn fighting before they succeed in releasing the Abyasinion prisoners. The Emperor Theodorus held a strong position hetween two rivers, near De a | 7 5 Lake Hiak, two days’ march from Magdala. | the State to representation, and it will be in Deep ravines circled his camp, and he had fif- teen thousand men and six large guns with which to meet his enemy. The Emperor evi- dently means to fight, and the six thousand British troops who were to advance on the day following that on which the despatch was sent will evidently find it a difficult task to force the African army from its present position. Things begin to look rather gloomy for the ex- pedition. Not only does Theodorus mean to fight, but we are informed that st that time forage was scarce, and that her Majesty's sol- diers were suffering from dysentery and fever. The Manufacturers’ Bill. On Friday last Mr. Schenck, from the Con- ference Committee, reported the bill to exempt certain manufactures from taxation to the House of Representatives. By the report the House recedes from its non-concurrence with the amendments of the Senate regarding ‘con- tract machinery; in reference to drawbacks none is tobe allowed subsequent to the Ist day of June, and the tax on sales of all manu- factures is toremain where such s#les exceed five thousand dollars annually, and where such manufactures are not specifically taxed by existing lgws. The section relating to the tax on whiskey is somewhat modified, but is; if any- thing, more stringent than at first reported. Without division the House adopted the re- port, after a brief debate on the whiskey sec- tion. On yesterday the bill was before the Senate, and after a lengthy debate it was de- cided, by a vote of twenty-three to nine, to disagree with the report and to call for a new conference committee. The probabilities are that the bill will be materially altered from its present shape be- fore it passes both houses. Of course the leading idea, to relieve the New England manufacturers from bearing their share of the burden of taxation, will be retained as it now stands, or if altered in any particular such alteration will only be to benefit them to a yet greater extent. : This manufacturers’ bill (for it is nothing else) should be vetoed by the President. In its practical working it will be sectional and unequal, should it become a law. Almost the entire weight of taxation will fall upon the Middle, Western and Southern States, while New England will go ‘‘scot free.” What, then, is Mr. Johnson’s duty in the premises? He cannot, with his ideas of free trade, give his consent to anything of so unjust and unequal a character. We have already a sufficient number of monopolies in the country without adding to them, and if this bill becomes a law the effect will be to give special privileges to the manufacturers exempted by its provisions which are not enjoyed by the whole people. We therefore, advise the President to veto it. Let him return ft to the House with his objections, and the chances are that the radicals will not be ablé to obiain a two-thirds vote with which to repass it over his veto. There are too many conflicting interests in the republican ranks for them to vote as a solid phalanx in favor of overriding his objections. It is Mr. Johnson's policy to veto all measures of the kind, tending as they do to benefit one section of the country to the detriment of the other. Besides, every movement that creates discord and division among the radicals is a clear gain to his cause. A veto in this in- stance may lose him some friends in New England, but it cannot fail to increase his popularity with the people of the other States. Let him therefore, we repeat, veto this bill, and thereby endeavor to put down this last and most unjust effort of one section of the Union to reap all of the profits of the country without aiding in its support. The Opera Muddle. Muddle seems to bea chronic complaint at the present day in everything. It seems to be the normal condition of Jtalian opera in this country; for within the recollection of ‘the oldest inhabitant” harmony and ensembles seem to be misnomers when applied to the lyric stage. Jinpresarii, prime donne, fid- dlers and conductors are like the traditional Kilkenny cats during an opera season, until the entire management, troupe and opera house are suddenly elevated in the manner of a Mississippi steamboat and its passengers after a sharp race with a rival, when the boiler re- fuses to hold the superabundant steam any longer. The Erie and impeachment muddles are forgotten for the moment, in the minds of musical people at least, by the late troubles at both of our opera houses, Love scrapes, financial shortcomings, intrigues, angry dis- cussions, maccaroni debates and recusant singers are all mixed up ina delightful olla podrida, like one of Offenbach’s operas or Wagner's symphonies. The one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders are danc- ing the scalp dance in full paint over the remains of Italian opera at both houses; the Catacombs look gloomier than ever; the cynocephalus pops his head out of one of the windows of the circus, wondering what all the row is about; disconsolate tenors make their complaints to fierce looking bassos ; horn- blowers argue the question with hungry look- ing trombone players, and the unfortunate im- presarii meditate dark schemes of suicide or nitro-glycerine means of settling the matter. What is it all about? A short time since the Italian opera was in full career, and on the west side, at least, crowded houses rewarded the exertions of the managers. Now both ope@a houses are closed, and Italian opera has departed. Like the ‘little joker,” it appears and disappears in the most unaccountable man- ner. We have heard rumors to the effect that the lender of the orchestra at one of the opera houses was endeavoring to sell the entire troupe to the stockholders of the other, and that the company at the latter were all placed hors de combat by the malaria of rained voices and bankrupt managers that hangs around the lyric tombs. What a few weeks may bring forth to clear np this opera muddle it is hard to say. A Grorata Movement ror A Farr Test or Rapicatisa.—A telegram from Georgia, pub- lished in the Heratp of yesterday, reports that the democrats of that State have decided not to nominate a candidate for Governor, but to support? Judge Irwin, the in- dependent candidate for that office. Tho contest now is between Bullock, radical, and Irwin, independent, and it is more than pr oba- blo that the latter will bé elected, Should be be, it will be seeu whether Congress will admit every respect a fair test of radical declara- tions of a desire for a speedy reconstruction of the Union. Judge Irwin, although a decided opponent of the radical party, is in favor of accepting the Congressional policy of recon- struction, and did, webelieve, write a letter, which was published, urging the acceptance of the reconstruction laws, He is and always was @ Unionist, and as it is more than likely that nearly all of the democratic nominees will be original Union men, should they be elected by the voters of Georgia and the new constitution be adopted, it will then be seen whether Con- gress, under the circumstances, will permit the State to resume her relations with the Union, NOTES ON ART. ‘The coming exhibition of the Academy of Design Promises to be fully as interesting as any which have yet taken place. Most of our prominent artists will be well represented, with the usual characteristic pictures, Judging from present indications it would seem that the era of large paintings has passed away, the taste of the community having been edu- cated to the point of accepting the fact that great- ness has nothing to do with size. So many of the small, elaborated, highly finished works of the French school have lately been imported that the effect of their influence is every day becoming more and more apparent. And it is well that this should be so.* It is but too common a mistake with tho majority of American artists that they use their talent and skill mainly to obtain a striking effect, paying little, if any, attention to de- tail. This mistake, happily, is now rapidly becoming more rare, and we trust that at no very distant time it may entirely disappear. The scene painters, then, will not make avery strong show at their spring exhibition, On the contrary, their place and space will be occupied by smaller and better painted works, 4 In spite of dreary weather yesterday the custom- ary reception of the artists at the Tenth street Studio Building was well attended. The grand milliners’ opening of a few days ago could not have exercised a very crazing influence upon the female mind, as few signs of it were visible in their dresses. The ladies were gen- erally attired as if expecting rain or some other im- proper and disagreeable event, The galleries and studios did not therefore present the usual living pandtama of varied hues and tints, he 3 Mr. Beard exhibited his &xceédingly entertaining’ picture of the “Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.” If, as the nursery rhyme goes on to inform us, she did not know what to do with her children, Mr. Beard has discovered a good use for them. , His painting affords more pleasure to the spectator than did the children trouble to their fertile mother. The latest production of Mr, Beard’s brush is a painting of some deeratastream. Itis not yet completed, but is suf- ficiently advanced to show that it will be one of his best works, The action of the animals is finely and truthfully depicted, as are also the lightness and grace of motion pecaliar to these specimens of ‘“liy- ing poetry.” A Mr. J, G Brown is not omy a wari adiniret Ati firm friend of the ‘+iittle people,” but is equally happy in his paintings of them. Those interested im art have good reason to complain of this gentleman that his pictures are all disposed of directly from the easel, and thus very rarely find their way into any exhibition room or public lery. His last picture is entitled the “Siight Swing,” representing a little girl slowly swinging and holding on the seat by hera recent graduate froin babyhood. It is almost. super- fluous to praise Mr. Brown. The two faces are most charmingly conceived and rendered, and the land-. scape very pleasing. . Lambdin exhibited two or three new pictures, the most interesting of which is one of a girl holding in her arms some kittens. The old maternal ances- tor stands on the ground looking with anxious eye at her promising offspring. The sunlight behind the girl is good, the general treatment of the whole being very attractive. ir. Rosenberg has finished the drawing of his ide “Long Branch by Moonlight.” The block as been placed in the hands of Mr. Linton, From its present appearance it will undoubtedly make a fine cut and be a means of giving to the painting de- served popnlartey- Mr. Rosenberg in‘ends, we un- derstand, in a short time to place his picture om public exhibition, where it will certainly attract great attention. One of the pleasantest receptions of the season was given on Thursday evening by M. A. D. Frye at De Garmo’s Hall, in Fifth avenue. The occasion was a private view of a ne by Mr. Jerome ‘Thompson called “The Old Oaken Bucket.” It rep> resents the home of Samuel Woodworth, with whom the artist was intimate. The painting is very strik- ing not only on account of the associations and name, but, per se, as a piece of pot 3 effective work, It is brilliantly executed and depicts just such a scene of rural beauty as dwells forever in the mind of the beholder, Good, also, is the c: | attention to the minor points throughout, none bei left neglected or, equally bad, unduly trit 5 The disposition of the picture and the hangings, arranged by Mr. Frye, contributed greatly to secur- ing unanimous praise, A tine chromo-lithograph of the subject is to be soon published. An iniportant sale is that which is to take place at. the Leeds Art Gallery, in Broadway, on Thursday and Friday of this week.” it will consist of a collection of modern paintings imported by Mr. J. P. Beaumont, ‘The most important one is probably that by Cart Becker, entitied “Une Scene du Carnival,” dis- playing great strength and vigor of color, with no less noticeable drawing. be Panto to this hangs a large subject .by &. J. Cobbett of some Welsh mountain maids, An (patois Bac ture is the “Bushful Suitor,’* by Otto Erdman. Weak ive is the light in’ “Good Night,” by J. when contrast with the magnificent effect in Van Schendel’s “Night Market in Ampster- dam.” 5 ing pictures are the two “Salmon and Trout” pieces, by H. L. Rolfe. One of the gems of jethe collection is @ small work by Ten Kate, “The Guard Room.” It displays great knowledge of color and ability in handling, A much admired picture ts a“New England Landscape,” by Church. It is ree markable for delicacy of penttiting, combined with arich and mellow tone of color, Other attractive paintings are those by Devedeux, Bierstadt, Hasen- clever, Yiem, Kautier, Koek Koek, Andreas, Achen- bach and Amberg, and ineffe Rosiersee NEW JERSEY. Communipaw. Tux Stock, YAkDS AND ABaTTorR.—During the past week 230 cars arrived at the stock yards, containing 1,856 cattle, 9,824 hogs, 4,827 sheep and 433 horses. Wittnn the same time there were slaughtered at the abattoirs 180 dattle, $8,110 hogs and 5,040 art Hudson City. DEATH OF A PRISONER IN THE COUNTY JAIL.—A. prisoner, named Peter Reilly, died at the county jail at three by cate aig morning. He had been committed for trial on a charge of being concerned in the attack upon Messrs. Walter and Seibert, om the Union Hill road, about six weeks ago. On that occasion one of the attacking party was stabbed seve- ral times, and when Reilly was found he was.suffer- ing from injuries which it was belteved he sustained in the fight. . Hoboken ARREST OF AN ALLEGED BURGLAR.—Yesterday afternoon @ man named William Miller was arrested. in New York by Captain Donavan, and conveyed to this city, ona charge of grand larcény and being & rofeasional thief. Miller, it is sup) posed, belo fo the gang of robbers who lately commit ted several dgpredations in the neighboring townships, and alk of whom are now lodged in Hudson County Jail. Elizabeth. ANOTHER SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—William Rook, @ boy ten years of age, who has been for some time past an inmate of the Alms House, while jump- ing on board a coal train on the Central Railroad at Eilzabethport late on Friday evening, missed his footing and fell under the wheel. His t leg was severed near the hip. The poor little fellow was re~ fh, cay to pan el fee formed. ‘ontrar, exper 101 ‘Thomas Curran, Wh. was injured similarly a few days ago, has since died. New Brunswick. Naw RAmRoap SigNais.—The new box light sya tem of signalling tratasis being introduced at the road ft here. The signal is placed ona thulson “Sriage “el teen feet Sigh and reaches aoroas the titersection of the New Jersey and Cen- tral railroads. By thie means the eld flag system ta unnecessary and will be dispensed with, ‘Trenton. . RAILROAD SLAUGNTER.—The annual report of the New Jersey Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to the Legislature disclose some statictics af great tin~ portance to the public regarding te revenues and working of the tr uid tn the Stare. With reard to casualties the returns are fo less Impotiant. On dd there were thirty-four ng fata; on the Camden and nia, of which eight were fat wy twenty-nine, sh t Raritan and Delaware five, all fy total of one hundred and ¢ dersey rates the spot, witiein thus created sumone ia ba Buticlae Phe number of awaregate (0 ¢ Hnsie whe