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EUROPE. SPAIN. ‘The Debates on the New Ministry—The Min- lster of the Interier on Public the Liberties of the Preas—How the on the Leans is Paid=The Expulsion of the Jesuits and Freedom of Religion. MADRID, Feb. 28, 1869. The debate on the proposition to give the provi- sional government @ vote of thanks and to place im the hands of General Serrano the authority to form a new ministry to perform the execative func- Uons of the government closed on Thursday morn- ‘ing, at about three o’clock, after a long but tnterest- ing session. The discussion was conducted on the opposition side by Sedors Figueras, Pi y Morgall, Castelar, the Marquis de Albiada, or, as he prefers to be called, Seflor Oreuse, and other republicans, and the various ministers of the government, supported by Sefiors Moret y Pendergast, Mortos and others in Support of the motion. The debate, as a general ‘Shing, was coudacted with skil! and dignity, The best men of the opposite parties were pitted against eaeR other, and as no ume did the orators allow ‘themselves to descend from the higher plane of reason and thougus to the lower one of personali- Mes aud sduse. Sedor Figueras, one of the most logical and forcible speakers fn the Congress, a gen- teman Goullar with parliamentary rales, and ac- castemed to address the Cortes in olden times and to plead before the higher courts of Spain, took up the lemg lis of comtradictions of the government and exposed its feeble administration. He showed hew they Rad promised absolute liberties and had by ome means or another withheld or withdrawn chem eme by ome. Those that had been left to the peogie were greatly timited im their effects. Every vulmerubie pout im the conduct of the administra- Gog was actcacKed. and it was conceded on all sides las Seder Figueras proved conclusively that the qovermmens is really reactionary, and is wanting in ae pectormunce of its sacred duiy to the people who pinced & ma powe©. Swler Sugusts, Minister of the Materior, defended us acd, acet pascubed 2 of his performances relat- ng Ww ube & ef matumy, the liberty of printing sat of umiversul sa@rage. The atrocious outrages em the mgias ef cuimems tm Cadiz and Malaga, the game laid daspiayed OF the government, the false- Rous eitiemnly carreleed the govern- Teds S desiguis tod tue Wwhele list of fut and Mainaciey scus thet comscitared the Andalusian Seder S He at- binckos Rad threatened to disturb the puolic erter, and 0 om Heciaimed that the pro’ 4 Gide guarded tbe liberties atCadiz amud grave dangers. If Sefor Sagasta the Cadiz revolution was a very iame aad impotent aZur, and unworthy of i among those grand events that give in- lberues io @ nation. His talk ut the liberty of the press ig quite on @ par with bis asser- ons in regard to the other liberties he and his con- freres have left the ie, Almost within the sound of his voice an tor of a newspaper is in prison with attacking the government, put there and Kept there by this emiuent apostle of liberty and the rights of the press, Seuor Sagasta. ‘The editor is an absolutist and an avowed oppo- nent of the present povernmaa, as he has periect right to be; and for that’ he must lodge in & prison; and, what is worse for the country, there is not enough esprit de corps, decency, pluck or honesty in the Madrid press to induce it to say @ word in defence of a principle, 11 they care not to anything in favor of an injured man. ln any other country Seilor Don Praxedes Mato Sagasta would have discovered that tue pust of a petty tyrant was too great for his abilities, and he would goon have learned that he must find some otber method of ridding himself ol opponents in the press than by putting them wi quod. A deputy clerk to the Cortes, Saloochia, 1s in prison at Cadiz fet, though he has as good right to be here as Sagasta himself, who has, u 1 mistake not, a sentence of death hanging over his head. Of course it waa for a | nayronee oifence; 80 is Saloochia’s. The trath is, in its stiiall way, and as far as it dares to go, the pro- visional goverument is a3 tyrannical, mean and con- temptibie as that of Gonzales Bravo or the Duke of Valentia’s. Nobody accused Bravo of wanting brains; bui that charge will always stand against the provisioual government. Bravo was undoubtedly @ great rascal aud reckless in the means adoptid to gain his ends, bat he had brains; he was abie, com- petent to handle everything be undertook, and was as near a first class statesman as Spain has produced in many years. That much must de said ia his favor. Seior Pi y Morgail devoted lus time to the exami- nation of the admimistrauion of the finances by Sefor Figuerola. 1, was a mangificent ecposé of the financial situation, and evideutly had a greater cifect upgn the House than any other speech delivered, He attacked the policy adopted by the Minister of coing away with octroit the duties in order to deveiop a system of persona! contrivu- Uons which operates unequally aud unfairiy, For instance, children over fourteen years of age, who id not enjoy ail the rights of citizens, were taxed, aud he showed many other inequasiues in the sys- tem, Which certainly is one of the most unpopular aud inoperative that has ever been tried. Senor Pi attacked the loans of the government, in which ten per cent interest is gtven in order to obtain money to pay bunds bearing five per cent infterest. The forced loan was commented upon with just severity, and we operations of the Treasury generally dis- secied aud exposed. Selor Pi y Morgail re- ceived the congratulations 01 all parties on the ter- mination of his singularly abie eiort. Sefor Figuerola, Minister of Finance, replied, and 10 @ well considered speech very calmiy and ably, it must be said, gave a picture of the situation of the Treasury. He had found the Treasury empty, and he had by a system of economies and by various means put it iu a better way for the future. He was compelied to make fureiga joans on the best attaina- bie terms to prevent bankruptcy. He was certain that his system of reforms aud economies, which would be the work of time to carry out, wouid re- sult in placing the Hacienda on a sound basis for the fature. He had done his best, and if tie had pot fully succeeded it was owing to Causes over which he Could exercise no control, As 1 bave said before, Mr. Figuerola has had a terribly hard task to per- form. He found the Treasury empty, and has been compelied to carry on the finances of the govern- ment with an inheritance of an impaired State credit and an income badly gathered, besides the increased expenses, brought about, it must be said, by the ignorance, folly or stupidity of the provisional governinent itself in Cuba and Andalu- sia. It is entirely owing to the fanit of the govern- ment that Cuba is in arms against the mother coun- ty, and it is equally true that had Sagasta and Prim ed a just aud loyal course towards the Anda- lusians the events in that province would never ave occurred. ‘The extraordinary expenses the government has bad to incur are therefore entirely due to its own ‘ gets, whatever motive may have incited them. Mr. Figuerola, though to blame jomtiy wiit his coadju- tors, has done perhaps as well as any one could do if we strike olf the account the visionary theories that he has attempted to enforce in tue very teeth of well accepted rules of political economy. Now tuat he forms part of the regularly constituted Ministry We shail be able to see what is in him. fhe public has little or no confidence in his capacity, and it may Bot be far out of the way. ir Minister of Grace and Justice, was overhauled by_yarious orators for his reac- tlonary tendencies; for w support Sefior [awed in his efforts to hf Japiaction ughout the land, and for develophag an leaning towards the Church and its demands. that he could point to, in a lame defence, was the expulsion of the Jesuits and the suppression of several hundred convents. Every one tiad Ly ! to ‘Worship as he wished, and the government had prociaimed that right. For every other right it has proclaimed it has announced it in a decree, but where the decree is that gives heretics the right to build churches and to worship God in their own ray. he neglected to inform the world. In fact, no a & decree exists, and all Sefor Ortiz’s weak milk and water speeches cannot change the fact. Ortiz is & man that no one would suspect of being great. His appearance is against =, 4 iv acts oge! him to belong vo that progressive crablike party that is eternally got backwards. He has been one of the most in ortue ee that Spain was ever cursed with. Ayula, Minister of the Colonies, made no — which. perhaps, was quite as weil, on the situation of bis charges abroad. He is said, to be a tolerable poet, but | take it that the grand epic that ts being written in blood in Cuba will perpetuate his mame as Minister of the Colonies for Spain much than any of his poetic efforts, [i is greatly due to his inexperience. conservatism, ignorance of men and weakness generally that Cuba is practically lost to Spain. Instead of promptly extending to that splendid and proud colony the rights that the gov- ernment claimed to have given the people of the Peninsula, he delayed and procrastinatea until the demands for justice blazed out amid the Names of revolution, aud only then did he extend very limited luberties. FRANCE. The City Budget—A Financial Muddle=A Til Between the Minister of State nnd M. Olle vier—Arrangemeats Regarding ure Loaus, Parts, March 4, 1869, ‘The debate in the Corps Lég.siatif still draws its siow length along. Every afuent member of the Cham- ber has made his speech on the city budget and been responded to, while the conclusion all agree on is that Baron raised large sums by irregular means. This ad: is natarally extenuated by the but it has not been refuted. On the con- trary M. de Sain¢ Paul (father-in-iaw of Geugral Fleury and cohsequently @ government man) madé & arepeh ays @uly Diamine the inremular wauner in fy he could disclose other tilegs! transactions unknown to the House. It wason this occasion that M. Rouher, the Minister of State, feeling the ground give way i : Hi 4 i FSRE Baeee® a BERS E Ze é i= HF E ! HY : i f a i 1 it : i z F i é Z : i i E i E i i is i i gs Z ce ats Fr 8 H 88 E [ i oer i He i E A! HW! a 2 4 z a : i al Q E a H i 2 g g £ g i‘ i | Hi é ; ; if 2 E : is epee. and I do not accept the accusation of in- ted, i¢ is bound ina lecroaon. Be not only ‘ nice, bright ue cover, have gota copy on a Poor M. Vintry! Thiers has be made on funds leposii securities, and no shares will be given out beyond the limits eet by \s- latif. The credit will have to id the 17,000,000 which have been overdrawn. The strictest legal line 1s to be followed for the future, and no sum of the projected loan is to be deducted from its desti- Ration (that of repaying the Credit Foncier) for any other purpose. AUSTRIA. Demands for Parliamentary Reform—Direct Elections—Statistics of Representation—The Tarkish Railroad NegotiationsThe Obstruc- tions in the Danube. VIENNA, March 8, 1869. While the Czechs are sulking and the Austrian Poles watching with anxiety the attitude which the West Austrian government and legislature intend to take on the subject of the extension of the principle of self-government In Galicta, the Austrian Germans have found their hobby for the moment in the ques- tion of parliamentary reform. The form im which this movement crystallizes itself on the middle Dan- ube 18, frst, an extension of the number of mem- bers for the House of Deputies; and secondly, the introduction of permissive direct elections to the Reichsrath, The German liberals qual- ify the latter demand with the epithet ‘per- missive,” becanse they know that in tne pro- vinces where the Slavic or Italian race is predomi- nant, and also in anti-liberal Tyrol, the present me- thod of indirect elections—in other words of elections through the instrumentality of the diets—is pre- ferred, and not merely preferred, but insisted upon. In deference to these opinions the German liber: say:—“Let each province and provincial diet decide the question of direct or indirect elections as they please. In the provinces where we prevail we shall instruct our diets to surrender their present electoral privileges.” In this way the oppo- sition of the Poles and other factions is bought off or neutralized, and the question has ac- cordingly come to a head a0 rapidly as to surprise any one who compares the time it has taken to ripen with that required in Great Britain before a government 1s able to announce that the time has come for legislation on the subject of electoral re- form. At its last autumnal session the Lower Austrian Diet passed resolutions in favor of direct elections and declared its readiness to forego its electoral rights in favor of its own constituents. The Styrian Diet iook up the subject in a similar spirit, and there can be no doubt of the opinions of the upper Aus- trians on the matter. The example of the sister country, Hungary, with its time-honored system of direct elections, has served (notwithstanding the ex- cesses which generally accompany the Hungarian elections), not merely to familiarize, but to captivate the German liberal mind with such a system. she political clubs of Vienna and Gratz have commenced an agitation on the subject; the Town Council of Vienna have petitioned the Reichsrath; the journals of Vienna and Gratz have also stirred the polnt, and the result of the three mouths’ agitation is chat the Weat Austrian Ministry have deciared that the sub- jects of increasing the number of representatives and of introducing @ permissive system of direct SS = tay tole peu mg agg and a hoe | shortly eir proposals to these en fore the Keichsrath. The West Austrian House of Deputies consists only of 203 members, This, for a population of 19,500,000 ithe usual estimate for West Austria), gives a mem- w to every 97,000 of the population. The Hun- arian Diet, Including the twenty-nine new additions m Croaua, counts 442 members for a population of only 15,000,000, or one member to every 34,000 of the population. The proposition which finds most favor with the popular politicians and the jourhal- ists ms one to double the present number of the xXpressed whether if the numbers of the representatives of the large landed ir class ware doubled, as, if the present proportion of the classes to each other ts to be maintained, they ought to be, that class has a suMciently large number of intelligent men who would take the trouble to function as mem- bers of the Lower House, The resolutions of the Galician Diet have advanced step nearer towards a meritorious debate in the House of Deputies. Having been laid before the Uouse on Tuesday last by the Constitutional Com- mitiee they have been, with only one dissentient voice, referred back to that committee that it may report to the House on the merits of the same. i ing With the improvement of th ‘et \ kan th Atte! 00d of Vienna has receivé rial and be- = law. ‘ ae rf iy e evening OMmeial Gazette of this city devotes four of its columns to the pending Turkist, Sune negotiations, and the relations of the imperial royal vernment to the same, The reader learns from this jong statement that the government, boto on Political and commerctal grounds looks with great favor upon Daoud Pacha’s efforts to attract Europes capital to this investment. But it appears that the assignee of the first concessionnaire (‘ue said ee being Mr. Laugrand Dumonceau) ts making difficulties by demanding extravagant sums by the way of com- sation for surrendering his concession, and by ey, having proken off all negotiations on the sub- ject of compensation, However, it is encouragingiy added that “the nm ty for the Turkish rairoads is too clear, and the Sublime Porte is wo penetrated bp importance of the question to think of jetting it drop.” The Prince of Montenegro has p2-ed through Vienna on bis retarn journey from St. Peversvurg to his mountain capital of Cetinye. During his short stay here he dined at the Em rs table aud re- ceived a visit from Count Von Beust. Complaints have arisen among the mercantile community of Vienna and Pesth concerning the sand. banks which have again formed at the na mouth of the Danube, It will be remembered that the keeping open of this mouth was, by the treaty of Paria of 1866, entrusted to @ so-called ‘‘Buropean Committee of Regulation,” the seat of which has been Galatz. It is contended here in Pesth that the navigation of the Salina mouth has again me almost as dangerous as it was before the Orimean war when it was under tue exclusive oy of the Kmperor of Russia. The remedy suggested is the contracting of a loan of 8,500,000f, for the ree moval OF this evil. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Extensive coalflelds have been discovered in the vicinity of the seaport town of Bergen, in Norway, and a company is about to commence working them ‘on a large scale. ‘ ‘rhe University of St. Petersburg celebrated ita fir. tieth anniversary on the 2oth ult., on which event the Ksmperor instituted 100 free scholarships, to each of which he gave a yearly sum of 300 roubles. An order from Berlid bas requested the ‘ors of 1 ‘ase caratanaen es in ehionmg Howton 4 ave veyances on hand, in case it si noyoseary 69 Mobile the IEPA ln that quarter, THE NAVY DEPATMENT. Perter—A Medel Department. ‘Wasurneron, March 18, 1860. ‘The Navy Department at length shows signs of awakening from its Rip Van Winkle slumbors, ‘The spirit of Old Welles has departed, and the reign Of inertia and somnolentia is over. Even the old fashioned building from which the navy of the nation draws ite inspiration seems to have shaken the drowsiness out of its antiquated timbers, and puta on an air of business and of brisk rejuvenated youth Stewart's. In Grandfather Welles’ era the whole establishment, rom the kinky- headed porter at the door to the sleepy- headed genius up stairs, was pervaded by an atmos- phere like unto what the lotos eaters found in Ten- nyson’s island of eternal afternoon. There was & quiet, slamberous ‘charm everywhere. The books slumbered on the shelves, and the dust, in a broad, unbroken layer, slumbered on top. Sacred dust till Borie’s advent blew it allaway. Pens slumbered in ink bottles and the very ink itself moved sluggishly acrogs the paper. Newspaper men rarely found an item worth recording at this department of the gov- ernment. Once in a while a letter of interest from some naval squadron might come limping along from the venerable Secretary, with instructions that the information therein embalmed might, without detri- ment to the service, be furnished to the anxious public press, ‘Then the Under Secretary, wiih @ trace of sleepy pride in nis eye, went over the document, and, Levitin # discovered it to be of the requisite soporific standard, t reporter, Visitors found the somniferous influence of the ually creeping over them ami the snap 0! versational powers lapsing into a dreary and effort in the vague monosyllabic line. For those of nervous temperament a visit to the institution in the days of Daddy Welles was a cheap, powerful and salutary sedative. Opium, morphine and hasheesh are good in their way, but the genial narcotic influ- ence induced by the enallaine in this venerable pile, with its venerable figurehead, beats opiates and electuaries all hollow. A change, however, has come over this heavy dream of ir and, like a giant refreshed after eight years of slumber, the Navy Department buckles on its business boots and starts in for the race of reform under General Grant. Borie is hardly a week at his post when he has run half way through the gamut of naval reform; but not all, nor a half, nor a third of the credit of this to Borle. Behind him, with every rope, boom and pe at his finger’s ends, with @ min takes in at @ glance, as another's might the alphabet, the whole American navy and its organization, from the cooking galley to the etiquette of an admiral’s re- ception—its wants, its wastes, its capacity for im- provement, its morale, m short, its everything, Stands Admiral David D. Porter, who comes at the request of General Grant and Secretary Borie to give his valuable advice and assistance in remodel- ling and renovat the entire navy. It1s a Her- task, but Porter is just the man for the moment. Down there, in that dull, silent city of Annapolis, as Commander of the Naval he hag devoted much of his time hopes, no doubt, a to make his study available in practice. it will, therefore, be less a source of astonishment to the public who have been so little accustomed to hear anything of the Navy De- partment at the.recent rush of orders and lations when it is known the real fashioning hand at work has had his task before him for some time, and has given it his deepest attention. Hardly has he assumed his desk in Secretary Borie’s room, with the excel- lent aid of poe a Walker, of the Naval Academy, at his elbow, when straightway out a new set of regulations to traverse the wide, wide earth where. ever the Stars and Stripes flutter over the naval tars of America, and tnstructing our gallant officers at home and ‘abroad in a new and improved line of duty. “Spars of ships-of-war shall not be painted yellow;” good; none but yellow fever ships shoud thus be ‘distinguished ; ““a return to the old is ordered, and their yards will be painted black.’”’ Aw: in the Indian seas about the 4th of July this order will reach some cruiser of our navy, and forthwith the sailor boys will fly for their favorite tar and restore the old com- plexion to the yards. They have had for many years ‘a custom in the navy yards of indicating the bureaus to which different departments belong without indi- cating the depariments themseives, and thus it be- came a puzzie to the stranger to tell exactly what a burean might contain. A simple remedy for this will hereafter be followed and each department will be designated by a plain sign, such as “steam office,” “navigation oitice,” “ordnance office,” &c, At will tread on the corns of a good many of those ambitious young sprouts—and old sprouts, too—vain of receiving houors and fond of playing the role of commanding officers whenever a chance offers to be told no salute with oars shall hence- forward be offered any one but the commanding omicer of @ vessel, @ squadron, or a naval station. But the unkindest and cruelest cut of all detivered by the stern, reforming hand@f Porter is toat aimed at those darling luxuries of the service— the staff officers. Porter never liked them much. He thought they put on too many airs and did too little work, and were alr the time urging Congress to give them coequal rank with the commanders and com- modores of the navy. Their glory has departed, and the gallant band of feet surgeons, fleet paymasters and feet engineers who have been wearing the uni- form ofa higher grade than they are entitled to both ashore and afloat must henceforth cease to deck themselves tn surreptitious plumage. Vanitasvani- tatum, As though determined to make himself doubly well understood Porter says, per Borie, “com- manding ofticers of stations will see this order enforced.” Of course they will, and any anlucky fleet surgeon palming himself otf as a commodore will quickly realize the tact that a uniform is but a fleeting show for @ staf officer’s delusion given. ’Tis the last straw breaks the don- key’s back, and in this instance it is dificult to see how his ‘vertebre could sustain the additional weight of stalk after what has been already piled on. Not content with taking his uniform away, the relentless Porter, per Borie, commands that execu- tive officers on all occasions shail take precedence over staff officers. Think of it, ye unhaj sur- geons, college bred men with gs wi and cocked hats, the executive officer, who might on some occasions happen to be a pilot, takes prece- dence of ye! On ail sides the Navy Department ex- tends its attention. Secretary Borie 1s but a day in his office when he revokes the sentences respectively of Napoleon Collins, of pirate Florida and Bahia harbor fame; of Sores Y. Sawyer and Commander George M. Bache. ‘That, settled and a by the President, he next turns his atten- jon to regulating the sea pay of ofMicers and hits exactly the arrangement which common sense would approve by making the sea pay of officers commence from the time of leaving their domiciles to obey orders. Every order is a solid shot delivered be- tween decks, and smashes ali to smithereens some cherished traditional regulation. Here is a sample in two lines:— “article [X., ‘Instructions to Medical Officers of the Navy,’ is annulied.”” And there goes by the board a lot of old fogy in- structions engraved on the memory of every ficet surgeon. ‘then, , in another line, ‘hereafter the North and South Pacific squadrons will not exist as sepe- rare organizations.”” Of course not; all from the North ole to Cape Horn is ours on the sea, and one — will do for the entire beat. But best of all m Borie is his regulation forbidding ication by officers for duty through persons of influence. Stand aside, Senators and Representatives! Clear out of the way lobbyists in every shape. shall win, So bravo for Borie! Who, in all fairness, can object to the wisdom and impartiality of this ent thas the sea seryice of oMcers hereaf- ter for a period of three years, counting from tg regelved their orders until they are de- tac! ol 3 States, nie Fate "fant balk Ue? satis will, on their ret be allowed ti ata shore station; and to make it fair for all, om wijl have to take their tarns on the different statlons. ‘Those officers now on the Mediterranean station will not be ordered there again untii ef have per. formed duty on the coast of Brazil, China, Pacitic and Home squadrom, which will be the tour of duty. Brief as lus occupation of office has been the Sev: retary hus already attended to the detalis of regu lating the uniform of the navy, the regulation coh- sisting in the introduction of marks of distinction of & Very simple and yet effective character. On the first floor, in a wide, mellow lighted room of the department Secretary Borie recetves his visitors and attends to the duties of his position. He is rapid in lis movements, spends no time with loafers who simply come im to sit down and have a talk, but shows them out and bids them @ pleasant good morning. He i now up to his eyes in business, con- tempiaung other reforms, such as consolidatt Squadrons, recalling useless cruising vessels an improving the communteation between the depart- ment and the ous squadrons scattered around the globe. Bot with Admiral Porver as his as- sistant, Will give us th havy of the world, Navy Intelligence, WASHINGTON, March 19, 1860, Naval afvices state that the Tuscarora, Com- Mander W. W. Queen, and the Kearsarge, Com- mander J, 8. Thornten, have been ordered from the Pacific to the North Atiantic squadron, and will report to Rear Admiral Hoff, off Cuba. The Ticonderoga is on her way to Boston from the European station, and the Pawnee is to return to the United States on the arrival at Rio of the Porta- mouth, which .eft New York on the 22d of January last, Orders tae veen given t at Norfoik and ihe Sabine at New Yorke en kK, will be fitted up as & prac The Portsmouth, ‘Commante Semmes, was at o der Funchal, Madeira, February 17, on her way to Rio, Three of her crew were drowned on the 19th of that month at Funcoal—Thomas Davin, Thomas Wallace ‘and George A. Burnham. The bodies were recov- ered and buried in the English cemetery. Albert Kilby, @ seamen Of the samo vessel was dauger- ‘Tee Werk Deno—The Energy and Plack of the New Secretary=Services of Admiral WASHINGTON, March 19, 1869, Captain McKeever, who has been in command of the guard stationed at the Executive Mansion since the assassination of President Lincoln, has been ordered to join his regiment at Atlanta, Ga. Brevet Colonel J. G. Chandler, major and quarter- master of the United States army, is announced as chief quartermaster of the First Military District, and will relieve Brevet Lieutenant Colonel James M. Moore. General Orders Ne. 19, issued from the Head- quarters of the Army, are as follows:— All ofticers of below the rank of major absent from their opiate are hereby afforded option for jolming their proper companies, to take thetr chances in congo! ion, or to remain, as at present, detached oron leave. Every such officer, no matter on what duty he may be, can now apply to be relieved, and the commanding general of army, or of the military department in which such officers are serving, will relieve him and order bim to when his proper regiment before the consolidation, either while the regiment is en route to or in the de- it to which it is assigned Be general orders jo. 17, in the bei the journey will involve the least ex! to the United States. .—Commanders of departments wherein regiments of artillery or cavalry are serving will re- port the names of all absent officers, and may re- commend to these headquarters any of the infantry officers left out by the consolidation competent to fill places of the officers of artillery and cavalry so absent, with the view to their permanent transfer or ‘assignment. Third.—Commanding vorerae of departments and of the First, Fourth and Fifth districts under the re- construction act, may also retain out of the officers left out by the consolidation a number of oficers, not toexceed four to each regiment assigned for duty in their Li pers) commands, for court mar- tial, signal or staff duty. urth.- duty will hereafter be done by the regimental adjutant or by officers to be detached by the department commander, who will acquaiht them- selves with the system of signals adopted and pre- scribed by the chief signal officer in Washington, gud these will be expected, when occasion requires, to quality themselves to transmit orders by signals as Well aa by. hi words. —When the consolidation is complete the recruiting service will be reorganized, and chiefly Uhe officers disabled by wounds or by long service will be Metailed from roster of ofticers “awaiting The President has directed Brevet Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Pease to be released from duty as Pro- fessor of Military Tactics at the State University of Wisconsin, at Madison, and he will, at the end of the present college term, proceed ‘to his home in Brooklyn. Post Chaplain Charles M. Blake hes resigned. “THE MARRIAGE OF OLD ASIA AND YOUNG AMERICA,» To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— The emigration to the United States of the peoples of oppressed Ireland and overcrowded Germany, though immense, will be but a ripple upon the ocean of humanity compared with the great ‘tidal wave” of Asiatic labor which is about to rush eastward across the Pacific and deluge the western coasts of our Continent. As an evidence of the profound hold the subject has taken upon the Chinese mind Isend you the following extract from the Shanghae Daily News, translated by the Mandarin interpreter for Mr, Burlingame and Prince Kung, which will doubtless be of interest to the public:— “[NVITATION TO COME AND RESIDE AT THE GOLDEN HILLS.” (CALIFORNIA). Two months ago, in treating of the subject of gold mines, we (the editors) took occasion to Kk of the “new gold hills” (Lower California) in America. The territory ts extensive and the population sparse. It produces gold, silver, copper and iron; but men are wanted to gather up these metals. Twenty-one years ago, these gold regions robably meaning both Upper and wer Call- fornia) were one vast wilderness; but since its dis- covery (i. ¢. of gold) timmigration has been daily increasing and business becoming more active. In this vast tide of immigration not only are there people of Western nations without number, but tens of thousands of people from the Flowery Land have me thither. Yet the territory is very extensive (in no danger of bei crowded), The “new gold region” alone (Lower California) has twice the ex- tent of the province of *Kiangsu.” And if addi- tional space be required the opposite coast (the main land, Sonora, &c.) is vast and boundless, ‘The great oMicers of America, under the authority of tne national government, have now organized a company to invite people of various nations to go there and colouize the land. This region 1s situated on the western coast of America, between north latitude 24 and 31 degrees, Neither cold nor hot in climate it much resembles the Chinese province of Fokien. It centains 150,000 square “il’’ (47,000 square miles) (three square “li equal to one square mile), inciuding aravie iand, mining jands, pas- ture grounds, &c. There are fisheries of whales and other fishes on the many harvors and anchorages for ships. There are, moreover, localities for salt works that may become @ source of wealth, and the neighboring islands produce guano, the droppings of the birds of the sea, which may be used tor iertilizing the fields. ‘The hills and seas produce precious metals and stones and pearis; the fields are adapted to wheat, barley, maize aud every kind of vegetabie, together with Une’ of the best quality. All kinds of do- mestic auimats thrive there; they may be obtained with little expense and fed (without Tabor) on the native pasturage. Ei nts from China may reach the place either by steamer or sailing vessel, the voyage not exceed- ing forty days. Their famiiies, furniture and imple- ments (tools) may be carried with them on board the ships. On arrival they are allowed to select their lace of residence and settle in communities of m one hundred to several hundred families, prac- tising thelr owa customs, wearing their own cos- tames and intermarrying among themselves at their option, and those who believe in “Buddha” will be permitted to erect temples without let or rance, As to the business pa eee each one will ve coast, and guided by his own ities; those who have learned ing, fishing, saitmaking, &c., stilt pursuing (if they choose) those same avocations, and no taxes or imposts will be levied on their produc- tions. Those who may wish to build a city or town ‘on the sea coast will be at liberty to do so, paying for town lots at the rate of ten dollars per h acre being equal to five Chinese mu. They may set their corner stones and occupy the ground for five years before they are required to make payment, the Teguiations, however, to be observed in entering lots, viz.:—Each alternate lot is reserved for the company. Thus when lot A is purchased lot B will be reserved, when lot © urchased Jot D will &c., without ‘usion or disorder, reserved Ther live ia the town or city and cultivate =e Z the ee option, paying for the a Re tha Fate of oF after per ), five years be- ing allowed for runt ig occ it Of ten ‘acres, the expiration of five years, uit oat ten dollars. The fleids would be alternate with 24 ofthe company. Thus when feld A is purchased or pre-empted field B is reserved, when field C is pur- chased ficid D is reserved, &c. For pasture lands the price will be haifa dollar per acre, payable at the term of five years, 80 that the occupant of one hundred acres would at that time pay the sum of fifty dollars, such pasture lands being taken al with those of the compan, io the case of fields and town settler desires to return to his native he may se'l his houses agd lands to other parties for perhaps ten times, or it may be a hundred times their original cost. After pre-emption, when the immigrant has settied on his ground and commenced work, no man Will dare to molest him or disturb his property; nor will any man dare to extort from him the payment of money. All will be under the protection of the President and great officers of the United States, so that other people will not dare to route. a re are always vessels coming and going, so that it will be convenient to export grain, “precious metals, precious stones, pearls, &c., for market to whatever in China and America. The tm- mugrant on reaching the country, choosing @ place, ao his ground, on giving a certificate will be permit ‘at once to take possession, ‘This 18 an ex- cellent be gtr All that is wanted is the strength of the Chinese to bring the country under cultivation. Very little money will be required, and ‘when in the fature they grow rich the company will of course share in their prosperity. ‘This is only @ general outline of the plan. In our fo a we will have the particulars and pub- MOVEMENTS OF EX-PRESIDENT JONNSON.—FX- President Johnson and Mra, Johnson, with ex-Sena- tor Patterson and family and Colonel Robert John- son, left the city this morning for Tennessee via the Iria boat and the railroad to Lynchburg, where he will stop a short time to accept the hospi- talities of the citizens and then proceed on his way to Greenville. A large concourse of citizens met the President's party at Alexandria and eycorted him to the southern bound train.— Washington (Maron 18) Baimare uty, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1869.—TRIPLE SHERT. of the title rdle it was Mr. Moesinger’s playing of it. He defies criticism by so entirely upsetting the rules of thelr applice- to Mr, Booth’s Romeo and Mr. Forrest's Hamlet, but we never saw the climax of bald impadence go tri- umphantly surmounted as by Mr. Moesinger and his accomplices, excepting Studley, who did the black-browed villain in the traditional way. of auditors like a dark fog, but the indefatigable cheerfulness of the orchestra, which, like a lot of musical Mark Tapleys, played away at the entire range of bouge and minstrel music as cheerfully as though tne lovely Lydia or the hilarious Holt were drawing the encores aud bravos of innumerable hearers, The tragic muse may well exclaim, “Save me from my friends!” if her restoration to her ancient honors depends upon Mr. Moesinger, and, worse than that, Mr. Moesinger as Hinko. We are indebted to Germany for many excellent ideas and inventions— cuckoo clocks, musical boxes, beer, Goethe and the “fellows who fit mit Sigel’’—but the tragedians and tobacco may be kept at home. It would be a popu- lar idea to insert a clause in the next Tax bill putting a high tariff on German tragedians, and thus protect the public from the raids of these wild-eyed Teutons, who look as though they had walked over here in their sleep. We endured the guttural Dawison, pitied Bandmann with hus fine eyes in finer frenzy rolling, and are consequently punished with Moes- inger as Hinko. It would be a clever stroke of policy to tear down the dirty-looking edifice called the “New York theatre” and rebuild on its sive another theatre wor- tny of Mr. Stewart’s enormous wealth and the pre- eminent title presumptuously given the ci-devant mosque by its first theatrical occupants. Then about 25,000 mignt be discreetly and profitably applied to Se repainting and redecoration of the cee, ing of Niblo’s Garden, the ‘first theatre in America’’ and the “coolest establishment in thecity.” In these hier gaiters and greenbacks the owners and lessees of theatres mast get aboard early if they wish to go along with the “new departure.’ No more uncomfortable seats, no more dust and dirt and Tagged paper on stained walls, faded paint and foul odors wi to the nostrils from ill-concealed piles of accumulated filth. The elegance and Puritan neatness of Booth’s, Wailack’s, Brougham’s and the Grand Opera House have taught us that better: can be done, and now we will insist that Seg anal done, or the mulish manager go to the wi Critics agree that it is wasted ammunition to criticise buriesque writing, yet critics will do it. ‘There has been @ volume of watery sentiment show- ered over Mr. Brougham’s burlesque “‘Shylock’’ to nourish that vigorous young sprout into luxuriant fe e, if it needed it. The main it in burlesque wril and is the matter of good taste. The better burlesque; but taste, and even decency, may be easily ou! ‘as it often is, by vulgar and thoughtless writers and players, Then tt is no bur- lesque, and criticism should be moulded into bolts of denunciation and huried at the heads of the of- fenders. Mr. Brougham never offends decency or good taste, and the play of his fertile fancy is al- ways ful and amusing. We could wish, though, that his reverence for the grand creations of Shak- speare’s genius was not quite so absorbing as to make him forget at times that he is acaricat lock, ture Shyl and not the rival of Booth, Kean or Fechter. Mr. Brougham gleams with coruscations of real gen which makes us wish that the original lock was before us with his legiti- mate surroundings ‘The audiences which have re- warded Mr. Brougham’s latest effort for their amuse- ment have been literally packed, and as a conse- uence the ticket speculators swarin like predatory jouins on the highway which leads to the present Mecca of Fashion. The Senator or Assemblyman in Albany who will exert himself to suppress these pisrecir to bap ines eae be adjudged to be a tribune @ peo) If the Black Crook, when he passed away after a prolonged and beautiful lite amid the glare of lime- lights and the blare of trumpets, could have looked ahead with prophet’s ae and beheld the palpably gross appeals to sensual natures and vacant mine made by the glided maidens who march about and carol nursery rhymes and prance and suggestively sway their undraped forms about in the intoxicating cancan, that deformed but ré- spectable wizard would curse Barras for having created him to inaugurate the spectacular drama, It is not a whit too much to state that at no period of the world’s existence has the infuence of the drama been so wide and, unhappily, perni- cions, as it has been since the introduction of the spectacular, ballet and buriesque. The inevitable cancan at fancy balls, with its accompanying scenes of excitement, riot and nameless debauchery, has necessitated @ quadrupling of the police force at these volcanic gatherings, where the frantic orgies of ancient Rome are made almost endurable by mourn- ful comparison. Every little town and village in the New ngland States and the west and South has had its “Black Crook” or “White Fawn,” mentary and stripped of giare and glitcer, but quite as indecent and demoralizing as the Devil himself could wish. It is in vain that the managers cry that the spectacular was @ concession to the fickle pablic taste. The present public taste for that species of entertainment, so far as it exists, resulted from the pandering of the “war managers” to the licentious ‘side of human nature. The most po satirist of the age, Mr. Farnie, is tuning his slender Pipe under the shade of a wide-spreading elin on the lovely shores of Staten Island, The sounds of the city, it seems, vex his delicate ear and disturb the flow of hia poetic fancy. Mr. Farnie, who is the author. of several popular burlesques, has met the fate of many mea of genius, in not being understood in his own time. Few things can be more exasperating than to witness the pro- found placidity with which his awaking jests are nightly taken; and how leaden falls his fun! His most pointed and deftly feathered arrows of wit fall blunted from the thick perceptions of an ordinary audience, and when his next piece, which he 1s now tinagintog by the soothing lull of the ocean’s roar, 13 rr jaced, we would recommend that a Cy be attendance to insert the jokes through the ium of an operation. It is understood that Mr. Farnie’s new piece is to succeed the “Forty Thieves.” The Lauri Pantomime Troupe reported for Niblo’s were eng: by Mr. Enderson, # theatrical agent, for Mr. Theodore Moss, who stakes bis usual summer's veuture at Wallack’s on their success, By that time we expect to see two other first class theatres playing pantomime, so that we are likely to have enough, to spare, ‘The nearest to a bit of poe acting we have seen for a long time was “Richelieu at Sixteen,” by Miss Kate Reignolds. She was quite what we may tma- ine that polished diplomat and successful rove to ave been in boy h arch, ambitious, proud, lant, gay and witty, withal of court: handsome presence. Miss Reignolds elicited more hearty, honest laughter by her spirited personation than has been heard within the wails of a theatre since aon and Jefferson, and we wish the stage ithe projected destruction of the Broadway theatre cl wi has set Mr. Barney Williams sf to think! His quick comprehension and piercing insight into the most abstruse matters connected with the profession, of which he 18 @ storied pillar, ves him @ vast advantage over duller-min managers. lake lightning he gy! the situation, and as the flash is quickly followed by the bolt we look soon to i arise beneath the hands of capital and r & stately structure wherein the Greek drama may find 8 Pome. Williams is the phoontx of his tribe, and on expail- siye pinion will soar lightly up to the highest pinna- 6 UF architectural and histriontc supremacy. I tire more SvUlent managers think they can crush Mr. Barney Wiss Out Of the theatrical feld they are very much mista. °W , Mr. Willi 18 @ true Celt, Generous and spmpathe: 1, he will pour out freely at the feet of his friends the trea of his overflowing heart and pocket; but, tread upon the tail of his coat, and he at once clillis into the resentful, indomitable a juerable opponent. Mr, Will? ‘on his golden spurs in the ‘diamond morning of l0fg ago” and will not tamely resign them to these young ré- tenders. We await the conflict with curiosity not iixed with hope, When Greek meets Greek a lively time may be expected, but when Greek mana- mect Erie directors then thrones tremble. Musteal aud Theatrical Noten, The burlesque of “Aladdin,” with the valiet of “Csmeraida,” has formed the attraction for the matinee performance at Wood's Museum during the present week. Miss Ada Harland sustains the title role in the burlesque, and the admirable Mar- lacchi troupe appear in the ballet. ‘The bouffers of the Théitre Francais will intro- duce the fair Geneviéve to the Buffalomans for the first time this evening. Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels gave cork opera boutfe in Rochester last night. This troupe has been meeting with much success during their rambles through the provinces, Mrs. D. P. Bowers is drawing immense audiences in Cincinnati, where she is the acknowledged sensa- tion. She took a beneflt in thgt city last night at Woo d's theatre. ‘The supple Sanyeahs are delighting the citizens of Louisville with their aerial gymnastics. Misa Ada Webb has achieved a splendid success in Cleveland in'the role of “Pocahontas.” Bling Tom. the negro Olaniat. commences a serten knight” justice, aoe ‘Wood hag very Saticineny Bans onstrosities, such as overgrown. tons baby inexplicable sea monsters, and such like object from his mi le objects to the rei taste, pence that the pubiic are no |. The attention of t} a having discovered from ex- he ticularly devoted to the performances of the Theatre and the collection of rare curiosities for the Museum devartment, which will continue to receive ae scrupulous care as has heretofore charac LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. Tae Life oF FATHER DE RAVIGNAN. By Father de soaterar: Translated at St. Bueno’s College, North Wales. New York: The tion Society, Catholic Publica A biography of a truly great and good man is always pleasant to read, But few persons in the United States are familarly acquainted with the history of De Ravignan, the Jesuit, and yet it ia doubtful if among the many prominent members of the clergy of all denominations who haye become distinguished durfng the present century there was @ more thoroughly pious and good man. Fathor Ravignan was born in France at a time when athe- ism had well nigh driven Curistianity from the coun- try. The ceremonies of baptism had to be per- formed in stealth by Paul Benedict Noquez, a non- juring priest, in “a backroom in the house of a watchmaker” at Bayonne. Fortunately the child was placed under the charge of Christians and grew up a thoughtful, religiously inclined youth, Whea quite a young man he became a lieutenant in the army and was a warm supporter of the Bourbom cause, and subsequently he held a civil position as a magistrate under the government. On Thursday, April 15, 1822, he attended the deathbed of a young ~ lady and on the Sunday following suddenly disap- ‘The first information of his wherea- uis came from himself in a letter to his mother, in which he anno that OR Eg Poa pcherished do His long of becoming a Jesuit. career as one the book fully telis. Father de Ravig- nan was only one of the many thousands of Catho- lica who have devoted their lives to the cause ef their religion. But he isoneof the few who have shown us how the whole heart and soul can become wral up in religion: The years he passed on earth were a continuous sermon in behalf of Chrie- tianity and its attendant virtues. Possessed of much hberrinendin$ temper, a Bnd Beare. parable Gis- jon and great powers rsuasi made converts to the Gattlolle Churclt whorever he went, His death, too, was worthy of his life. Even as ne upon Gurish so, dying. he caluly passed aay in the upon Bt . aw: full faith of Pate life with the Son of God. The book before us is very interesting. Even Protestants be benefited hatte A The good, the pare the charitable, and, above the religious, long to all denominations of Christianity. PRE-HistoRIc NATIONS. New York: Harper & Brother ‘There 1s undeniably much in this book to interest, but we cannot find anything of a particularly in- structive character, Mr. Baldwin has saidgno more than many other men have said as well, and perhape better. The merit im the work lies, in fact, in the happy manner in which the researches of numerous authors have been condensed in asingle volume Mr. Baldwin, albeit he is a member of the American Oriental Society, cannot lay claim to having made any discoveries, or if he can we have not been able to find them embodied in his work. In some parta he either endorses openly or by implication the wildest of theorles regarding the various races and their origin. Count de Gobineau’s ridiculous claim that “the inspiration of poetry and art came from the black race” is referred to here in a manner moat favorable to endorsement, although Mr. Baldwin must surely have been aware of all works of the higher class of literature none have been more ridiculed and more severely criticised than de Gobineau’s “On the Inequakty of the Human Races.” And we read in an English review, if we recoilect aright, a moet exhaustive and convincing refutation of his asser- tion regarding “the inspiration of pores, and art.’” On the whole, it 1s @ pity that Mr. Baldwin has not taken greater pains,and, if necessary, given us a more copious work, His book will be read only by the thoughtful, and to this class the number of pages makes but little dilerence. Tae subject is one of ne importance and is well worthy of research. ee ge vague and incomplete is our know- ledge of pre-historic nations, and as years roil on the space between antique and modern civilization grows wider open, making it more diMficuit than ever to solve a great proviem. Probably in the cites of India there are written records which would un- ravel the mystery of 10,000 years ago, but they are certainly not to be (ound ta the rooms of the Amerti- can Oriental Society. Tue INDIAN Pass. By Alfred B. Street. New York: Hurd & Houghton. Mr. Street has taken a subject worthy of a poet and given us @ very interesting book in prose, The Indian Pass, situated in Essex county of this State, Mounts Marcy, McIntyre and other interesting parte of the county were visited by the author, who ap- pears to have either taken numerous notes or to have had the scenes witnessed very strongly im- Pressed npon his memory. His descriptions are very graphic and minute. Speaking of Essex he says:— The surface of the country glitters a network of lakes, ponds and streams. ie first two lie in long and narrow clefts of the hypersthene rock, with an extent ranging from a few acres to twenty —- Steep, densely wooded mountains soar from sides, yleldi a dark glass to the molten silver of these lovely chalices; fairy bays indent their borders and leafy points jut out; spring brooks tinkle in; out bowers of branches creep forth, while the Shallows are fringed with water — tat by purple mooseheads, red Mohawk and tawny =, that gleam with flying insects and glow in mosaics of silver and gold from the white and yellow water /ilies. ‘This 1s certatnly a very pretty description; a pen painting—exaggerated in fact, it may be, but very pleasing to read. Here and there this fine writing is rather forced and wearies one; but the fault is not often repeated. Mr. Street has a command of lan- guage which he uses well, asa@ general rule. Wo object, however, to the fifty-eight pages of tntroduc- tion (over a fifth part of the entire book). Had the been Incinded in the main body the work would have been better fished. Indeed, the paragraph quoted 1s taken from the introduction, which must rank in interest with the account of “the Wander- ings.”” MAnEL OLirTox, A Novel. By Frank Brierwood, Hlaxton, Kemsen & Haffelfinger. Philadelphia: When wilt American writers learn to depict life as it naturally exists? In “Mabel Clifton” we have characters which never havé Aad probably nover will exist In any country. They are unnatural toa degree. It is the more to be regretted, too, that there should be this fault, as the author is evidently capable of producing a work of merit, His error hasbeen iu producing a style of literature which may be very well for tne trashy literary weeklies of the times, bat which is rejected by the better class of readers. Gypsy fortune tellers, and their re- alized predictions, belong to a past era. James was the last author that had anytiing to do with them with success, and even his popularity was not very long-lived, : Theater CoveLer pe JBAN RACINE. Avec des Re- marques Litteraires et un Choix de Notes Clas siques, New York: Librairie de D. Appleton et Cle. ‘To all readors of French the works of Jean Racine will ever be welcome. The edition before us is ex. cellent!y printed and bound. COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, {From the Philadelphia a March My Henry D. Moore is a nati Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., where he was born in 1817, While yet quite @ young man he removed to Philadelphia and entered the well known firm of Eckstein & Co,, mar. ble dealers, as partner and son-in-law of the sentor of the house, In 1348 he was taken up by the whig party in the Third Congressional district as ite - tative, and was elected by @ handsome majorit about 160, a ek: Waeeaaetioe rae resem anc in elect majority, in a very close ai Goubtttt election, being 260, Mt. Moote main @ high position in Congress during his two terms Service, and then resumed his duties as a private citizen until the winter of 1860-61, When he was most fortunately electea Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania, and to his personal influence = exertions the Buccess of the $3,000,000 wat I 1961 2, chiefly due. Mr. Moore was State Treasuror Ua 1962 and agela ia 1804, By John D, Baidwin, A. M. | Te. + P)