The New-York Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1866, Page 4

QAmugements. N OPERA—ACADEMY OF MUSIC. crbeer's Opers, THE STAR OF THE NOR' Kellogg, Mle.’ Enrichetta Bosisio, or Sart, Krager, Mlle. Vidal, Siguor L . Ixfre, Muiter, CK'S THEATER ntlivias five act comedy, WON Tessra, Lester Wallack 5. B. T. Ringgold. J. € nnon, Miss Madelise NIBLO'S GARDEN. Waldaver's drama of FANC tcuoll, Messrs. Burnett, Collior, ud Mesdames Farren, Wells, Chspuias, OLYMPIC THEATE THIS EVENING, st 6, THE THREE GUARDSMEN. By every member of the Company. WINTER GARDEY, [ THIS EVENING, THE LAKES KILLARNEY: M. and Mo, Barvey Williams, Messrs. oot H. Blad, W. Andrews, Mrx. C. Walcot Miss E. John L jt Mise ¢ to_conclude with AN HOUR I : Mr. sad Mre ¥ Bacoey Williams. BROADWAY TI NG, at 8. DOT: OR IEATER. . THE CRICKET ON THE THIS EVEN! BEARTH: M yS THEATER. EZIA BOKGIA' and THE HC wille, WO 3, LUC EVENING F B o Jouss, Miss Henrieita Osborn BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM NOO , and THIS E ED THOUSA FOX'S OLD BOWERY THEATER. THIS EVENING, JACK AND GILL WENI UP THE HILL; M:. G. L. Fox s Clown; also, s DRAMA and FARCE. CIRCUS, THIS EVE ot STRIAN snd GYMNASTIC PER. FORMANCES, Mr Robiuson, Liitle € Boagtis. YANT'S MINSTRELS. DA THIS EVE: HALLE NCE. OUR AFRICAN BoLKA. PAW y N, CLOG EDALITY, nt, Ira Paine, D. Keed, N Chas Heary, G. S Seymour. “IRVING HALL. Musical Performauces by BLIND TOM. THIS EVENING, No. 93 LIBERTY ST. 7O DAY, Free Exhibition of SKETCHES by American sad Foreign aoUP! TODAY, Exhibition of the OitA 0. new Business Notices. HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFE, IN THE RECKNT Exrexsive Fine Borxixe or Baxe's Buipixo, Tue Books. Paprms axp Moxet Coxr Ovr AL Sape ! New-Yowx, April 6, 1365, Messrs Hrrring & Co., No. 251 Broadway. Gusts: The HERRING'S PATENT SaFE wo bought of you a few years az0 hat just besn dug out from the ruins of the recent exten- sive fire, comer of Brosdway and Barc! Out buildinz, No. 21 Broadway, whete the fire originsted, was entiroly destroyed, and we hiad barely time to escape with our lives. The Safe was exposed to Iotease best, yet we are happy to inform you that thing it con’ taiued—books, papers aud woney—are ali 8s good as new. H. J. Baxa, No. 231 Broadway. The above Safe, with othors from the ruins of the Brosdway and Fulton st fires, can be seen st our Warcrooms, No. 251 Broadway Herging & Co. No. 251 BRoApwAY, Com. MUERAT 57., NEW-YORK Farurz, Henrie & Co., PRILADYLPEIA. Herrixo & Co, oo CuicAo. MARVIN'S PATENT ALL Rigut IN THE GREAT FIRE Niw Yonx, April, 7, 1366 No. 255 Brosdway—Gexts: Wo Marwix & Co., Meesrs. Bsve just opeued the ALus and DRY PLASTER Sare we bolizht ©f you s short time since. 1t was in the second story of the building ©orner of Brosdway aud Barclay st., and fell into the cellar, and it gratifios us very much to be sble to say that every book, paper, and bank bill is in good ords ary much better than we eould have expected aiter the intenss beat. We sbaliwant aother sod much larger one of the sme sort very soon. Yours truly, Wx. A Daowx & Co. A large assortment of Bankers’ and Merchaats’ Safes on b Manvix & Co,, § §o- 263 Brosdwa Magvix's PaText Door Locks For Horsas AxD Stonss TREY CANNOT BR PICKED. THEY HAVE NO SPKINGS. KET WAIGHS ONLY ONE QUAI Kow.Y, Magvix & Co. orY ok v u or-st., Philladelphla Maré's Patent Fire #ud Burglar Proof Sates ¥ rl(nvm‘s New PATENT ALUM AND DRY PLASTER 18 AND BURGLAR SILYER PLATE Sav8s. Highly ornaments), and gumated pertegtly dry.” Also s large amoriest of Bankers” and A Blerchants Magvix & Co., 265 B'dway, sud 721 Chestoutt., Phila. To SAFE BUYERS, lebrated WiLpem PATENT SALA .10 the world, warranted per 0 Maiden-lase to No. 8 Court Tha Depot for the BANDER SA¥E, the b orfectly dry, X Rt se: Brosd v UNITED STATES ACCIDENT INsURANCH CoxPANT of Syracuse, N. ¥. Casn Capitar. Ceane s 200,000, Insures againt Accidents of il Kinds. & A Howrsrr, President. O. F. Comstock, Vice-President. T. FyAnorews, Secretary . W. and H. B. OaTes, General Aeats. GENERAL REPEREN The Hon. Revsex E. Faxtox, Governor of New-York. The Aon. Horatio Skvmoun, Utics, N. Y. Diax Ricawoxp, Buffalo, N. Y. The Hon. THoXAS G. ALvORD, Lisut.-Gov. of N. Y. UNITED STATES ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANT, Opricr No. T) Broavwar, N. Y., o the Usion Trust Company's Office, uatii the st of May next, wrhen they will occupy their Office No. 12 Wallst., now occupied by Francis T. Walger & Bro. . Joux Smmviiie, No. 13 Montgomecyst, Jersey City, Oeneral Beent for Jerany City, Hudson City, Hoboken sud Newark. Agents wanted. oa v BURNETT'S STANDARD CO0OKING EXTRACTS are garofully prepared from fruits snd spices of the best quality, and chal- Booge competition. Their universal success is based upon their merit. Reforsace is made to the principal Purveyors, Confectioners sud Ho- Relain the United States. For sale by choice Druggists and Grocers erywhers. Much sickness with children, as well as adults, ttributad to other causes, is occasioned by Worms. Buows's Ve Mivoar Courrrs are effectual in destroyiog Worms, and can doao pos {fble njury to the most deticate chiid. DR. LANGLEY'S Root aND HEB Eirrees The grest Blood Puritier; the best Health Restorer, and the most Perfoct Spring and Summer Medicioe ever used. ey efoctunly are Jauadice: Dyspepa, Liver wud Bilioas Com, aiots, General Debflity, sud jred diseasen. Sold by all uggists. ScHILBERG'S GERMAN OINTMENT—Warranted a out dsnger. for Piles, old Wounds, Rbeam, sli B Skin Disesses & ¢ B ol e i - e No DisaprroINTMENT—NEVER FaILS. ¥t “Petter.” Swarx) Cures Salt Rheum, tchiog Pilos, ® Itoh’ S Fiopared anly by D Swasue & Sone Eatladelphia, Sold by Demas Banxss & Co., No. 21 Parkrow, N. Y. R T ;I‘I:: Unwvnlu lfw"'l:-.WlllGll with cogs, Doty Wasning Macuins, took Premi ale of Acnchell lnu.llm ‘fl“ for llltl‘nflr;!!cd“r‘rko-l.fi‘l..- . @ Wi TR el el & e ottt BRAUTIFUL LIFE-LIKE PICTURBS. Vignette $3 doten: Duplicstes $2. Al tives roq- e I-A.Ll‘-.lh.lflchl-.:. l.r Tourkgs, and ORNAMENTAL HAIR, first - Dye sud Dysing st Batousron’s, 16 Beein. ul ‘Tug ARM AND Lza, by B. FRANK PALME! —_ e bost " hbmi&hufl&fl:‘&n- . Fulle s Astersl, .., 19 Groen st Boston. Avoid | TS s il y BarouxLor's Ham Dn-_-‘m best in :h. world. n-:;'l.-.:ri anrlh.um Bold by il m..’:.' ot o o e S R S ER ARSI i, i\ Grover & Baker's HIGHEST PR 2 Brirou Sawive Maowiwus. for family use. !sm':m e —————— Hows S8kwiNG MACHINE COMPANY.~] ¥, Prosidont, No. 629 Brosdway. ?....5'.& Lt —_—_—m InuprOVED LOOK-STITOR MACHINES for Tailors and [anufactrers. Groves & B, o axsu Sxwine Macmins Cowpaxy, Waegigr & WiLson's Lock-Stitcn SEwiNa BMacaixe and Borioxnors Macuins, No. 635 Broadway. e oot s D &', o C. bronchitis. . oarsen AME o, G Kok 10, b B s b pl=n y on onr own in tist pight! a shait'ring of wikened each onp from bs droam re o lair, o that you just have 1 take §t # coo! Stop a bit —wou'd you know play e 100l, "Twas becauss toat for once I did But before teking passaze & P wited States thoogh I'm et I've aot with my pain suy % on Book,* e 18 oSt tria, ey loss, 10 No! the surgeon is paid, with esch family o Aud fr 1y ox y my prudence Yes, in fact, to the music of dollers still 1 ahail soon take iy way to iy o/d b 'y dea friend, O, that T that Accidest Office, like we, wou. ~Ustrep STates Accioust Ineraxce Coxpavy, Now York, T Brosdway Oppostre T Brawpusra Nuw.Yome, April 9, 1906, Messrs. TrrewiLuionn & Co., No. 100 Maiden faas GENTLE 1 the fire which destroyed the entire corner of Brosdway sud Barclay-st.. wo bad one of your luproved which contained our books, papers, You wo are Z yehing ia perfoct orde + No. b S, ctly satistied 8¢ to the fire proof qualities of your safes ¥ espect(ully. J. A Mowssty & Co. A large assor [ the abovs Tairra Fraxan Sares on hiand at Depot, No. 100 If, as philosophers have justiy remarked, the Lis superiority over the unrewo e coveriug which crowns the jeable kind? In this view of the case, KNOX'S sstablishment for th ss of Hats, at No. 151 Fulton st. and No. 533 Brosdway, is the most important spot ic the city, We lay it down as anasiom, that uo man can bs well dressod who wears not & bat from Knox ““IT THUNDERS ALL ROUND. HRRR!NG'S PATENT CHAMPION SAPER (¥ aLL THY Fines'! BROADWAT AND FTLTON &7 New. vorx, April 9, 1996 head establishes maa i ‘what can be more Lesd shiould be Mewirs Hemring & Co. Surm ruixG's Pare way aud Ful aild e. Not boen putation third floor of the fvestory ing No. 202 Broadway, the Lottest part of the with & the fall aud the great beat endured. ¢ true 10 its name and ite truat, aud faithiully sustained of your house. A w good condi ed by the © Joux B Brnmsasy s Brosdway and Barciay bovo safe, with of and Broadway sud Ful No. 251 Brosdway Herxiyo & Co.. 251 Broapway, New Yors Fanesr, Hel & Co. PutLaperruia. Huwning & Co, Cicpao. '8 Parewr Cuaxpion Fren Pu NEw PATENT BANKRR'S SAFES, LizKD 1RO Only manafactarsrs of H Sapks, and Hurmix & ¢ with the FRANKLIN pE through the Long Vista of new t Grxin's. No. 6 I 1 Tug Laoy Reapers of the Tribune wishing Polish Boot Wedding Slippers and_ Guiters, Boys aud Miswes’ R all atyles and pri nize Miziae & Co., No. REYNOLDS has remove Broadway. See othier adver RixovaL—Ti No. 204 Canal &t to No. this paper Depor, A Wedding Cards, Frexcn FAvArGrR wil on the best wmode of Speakin rractly Monoax Evexing, April fock, at the Univeraity-place. Ses * Lustru STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BaND- Mansu & Co.'s Radicai Cure Truss Oftion Trosses, Enastic Aoms, Soppow & ouly 8t No. 2 Vesey to chafe. of the most apy o and rotail, a: Dr. TRrUSSES withont steel spri for the sbdomen, the uterus snd the a: All suspensory bandages, who! 0. 545 Broadway. Susk. 8. M. PerreNciuh & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- 180 Aoests. No. 7 Parkrow, New YVork ( seventeen years), ar + for The Tribune, aad all the pewspspers in the United States sud British Provinces New)ork Dailp Tribune. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1866. To Correspenden Ne potice san batakan of Anonymoas Commonioatisns Whateveris Intauded for ipasrtion must be anthenticated by the nams and ad dross of the writer—not necessarily for publication. bat a4 & zuar anty for bis good faitk. AL bustmoss lotters (or this oftice sboula be sddressed o * The Tais oxe,” New York. We cannot underteks Lo rotnrn rejastad Commnnisations prhedimlell il el s Coven Gaeden, TSN They wilk aleo receive Bei To Advertisers. We will thank our advertising customers to hand in their Advertisements ut as early an hour ax possible. If received aftar 9 o'clock they canuot be eiassifind under their proper beads. NEWS OF THE DAY. ——— GENERAL NEWS, The ear-drivers’ 6trike continued during yesterday and assumed much groater proportions than on ‘the previou day. The only linos on which travel was not interrupted were the Avenue B, Socond-ave., Blesckor-st., Dry Dock and Nioth-ave. Travel was almost entirely suspendod on the Third and Fourth-ave. roands, whilo all the other linos suffered moro or less severely. The pnblic woro vory greatly inconvenienced, and it is to be hopod the difficulty will soon be overooino. At San Francisco the Union men fired a salvo of 200 uns over the passage of the Civil Rights bill, and the “hinese population indulged in suy quantity of Ludia crackors over the same ovont. In the Superior Court yostorday Justice Barbour de- livered an opinion in a case on trial, which shows some- thing of tho offect of the secession ordinances upon civil contracts. A South Pacific squadron and an Indian Ocean squadron aro to be fitted out from this country. ‘The foreign squadron will pumber 55 vossels and 646 guns, and the home squadron 36 vessels and 352 guns. Judge Underwood of the United States District Court in Virginia, has given a decision in which he affirms that the Rebellion is still in existence, becauso tho President’s late proclamation exceptod Texas. 2 A cruel and reckless butcher was arrested yestorda) and fined $10 for brutality toward a load of calves whicl he was carting through the streets in the usual manner. Judge Dowling deserves the thanks of the community. The statement that sundry Major-Genorals wero to be recoived st the Union League Club last evening was a roorback. Nobody at the Club House kuew wuything about it. “Hod" Annis, one of the persons implicated in th Lord robbery in this city, has rfl,en mmfx by Vh.vl H:A’- preme Court of Massachusctts oua writ of Labeas corpus. Itis believed that tho trial of Major Ges will never “como to a hoad,” in cousequence of the recent decision of the Suprome Court in the Indiana couspiracy case. The choleraic diarrhes is roported to be prevalent in some of the Canadian cities, .m[]m much llll'mpeXJ:Ll rola- tive to future developments of the disease. 1t is said that the reported case of cholera in Delancy- st. was in fact nothing more nor less than a easo of poisoning. There need bo no fear from that cause. The Committes of the Motropolitan Health Board met yesterday, and &m red a report to the Board upon the ‘evidence there is of au impenm‘opidnm . The strike of 1,000 stove founders at Troy and Albany hasboen terminated by au amicable adjustment of the outstanding difficulties. '.':'M national la::u dinph‘y:s on u‘:; publie buildings on vate oues yesterda) ¢ B0uIve! of Hoary Clay's birth. 4 s A bank officer was robbed of $9,000 yosterday in this city, in 8 most daring manner, as detailod elu'hyan. The bill increasing the pn{v of the M itan Polico has passod both brauches of the State Legislature. Navigation is open on Lake Erio, steamer haviog yes- terday left Dunkirk, N. Y., for ports in Ohio. ;) The Wisconsin Logislature adjourned sine die yostor- ay. Goll opened ‘(uterd!\y at 1274, declined to 126, closiug 8t 197§, afd is very plenty. Government bonds are ratber dull aud heavy, with a fair demand for 7.308 for invest. ment. Moue¥ is in fair request at 5@ per cent. The demand from brokers is very light. Commercialypaper is in fair mand &t 6427} for first-class DAWOS. l‘omrn Exchange is active, and transactions have been mads as high ax74. The uotat! a8 1074 @107} for prime bills. The business Axoasucy Wi Kecolota 190 Gd=lor Cun NEW-YORK‘ DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1866. s, 8558,000, Paymenis $405,017 43—on acoount of Loas, $110%, Baluios, o4 255 953 64, Gold notes, 834,000, CONGRESS. SENATE. APEIL 12.~Dilla were passed providing that soldiers’ rials shall go through the mails fres of postage; and ies on produce in transitu Stewart introduced o t resolution to amend the Constitution by prohibiting hts or sufirage on account of color, o ate adjoura out of red 18 in eivil rig! lution was o t to the lat ring were de , Brown, nouds, and the Senate ud- HOUSE. Resolutions wors adopted concerni arms to citizens of Montana, and 2 the supply of fire. esting the Paymas- asters against whom noral to furnish lists of p: puges are standing. After debate the latter was o sidered and re 110 the Military Committee. The masters came up, a Substitute was of- 11 tor relief of P: the bill and pending amendments wero recom- nate bill to transfer » gunboat to Siberia was Senate joint rosolution agaiust the ils, A resolution to grant a full ver shall establish an artasjan well on any mail route in certain territories, was dobated, and finally pecommitted. Memorials Arizona and Utal wire feporied oi adversely and the re forad, tted, ed, nd also the of erim Pa tmportation section of the public lands to wh A bill was reported to appropriate dary surveys of Idaho and Oregon, and f the Confe o Committee on &c., was made to prohibit the salo s0 as to includo all ington, and passed. ‘The Senate bill to poorin the District A mesaage was its adjournment 6s ‘oot. ~ Eulogies on 5. Woodbridge, A Morill, and a mark of respect to the the deceased wore pri y M Bauks, Washburne, Dawson, Grinnell, the House adjourned. LEGISLATURE, SENATE. Arrin 12.—Among the b passed were those ceding to the od States jurisdiction over & portion of the Battery, N to incorporate the National avfo D any of New-York City; authoriz Dry 1 1d Battery Railrond Company nd t I n of the capital at Albany was coufirmed by a vote of 22 to 2 ASSEMBLY. Tho Assembly passed bills to regulato tho fare on street railroads in New-York and Brooklyn; to incorporate the weiety of the . E the Reformed Protestaut Dutch Ch a; toauthoriz the Central Park Commissioners to make certain impro t3; to incorporate tfhe Workingmen's Union of New- . Both houses of C: were mainly occupied fes- terday with eulogies oa the late Senator Foot. One or two of them will be found worth reading. B The House yesterday passed the Senate resolution to prohibit the sale of liquors in the Capitol, after amending it €0 as to include all the public buildings and grounds in Washing! B — Mr. Stewart introduced, yesterday, in the Senate, a resolution for the amendment of the Constitution, a3 follow: ARTICLE —. Srcrios 1.—All discriminations among the e, ecolor or previous ¢ of s0us BOW voters from re- posed insurreetion, or of compensation for slaves not be assumod or paid by 1 above may be admitted to Congress, and an amnesty shall be declared for all their citizens. of Excise-=(ro to Do It)—and trat politan Board of Heal Assembly, and is ¢ s to the M reported to the or for to- d us lent when Whoever fails to vote against the bill, since 65 Y Tuis bill, if passed, w some thousands of ov audoutlaws now m oils, while it w nd divide at least put in wur City"s ds of dollars whereof the City id will treasury many thous: is now defrauded. compel most of our City members—who owe their lection to the Liquor interest—to vote against the . Weonly ask that the country members sball on it—being not at all afraid that many of them But save us from bribed hat is all there s of it, [ i vo! will vole egainst it. skulkers and dodgers' —— MORE TAXES, An Albany correspondent says: lins reported the annual Stato tax levy—13 dollar for current expenses: 4 of a mill for scbools; (& mill for the debt of 1:5; aud 2j mills for the bounty it This is less than last year. But. unluckily, there are half & doten canal improvevient biils and three raviroud donation bills to make it up, and move.” —Couldn't the Canal Improvement and Railroad donation folks be persuaded to imitate the forbearance of the people of Albany and let usoff for a year? The taxes—Federal, State and local—are fearfully high anyhow, and must e for two or three years to come. Do let us grow one great crop so as to make food abundant and tolerably cheap, and got some of our local bounty debts paid off, before you come down upon us with your half and quarter mills each for these Canals and Railroads. Be merciful, Messrs. Log-rollers' and don't ride a free horse to death! Give us s year or two wherein to recuperate, and we'll try to shoulder the extra load cheerfully. Just now, we would rather not. €. 3. CHASE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, One who styles himself our palitical opponent, after premising that Chief-Justice Chase presided at a late religious meeting in our City, and there expressed his gratification at the passage of the Civil Rights bill, and his hope that the Blacks would be enfranchised, asks us— “Isitnot, even In your view. almost disgraceful for the Chief-Justice of the Suprome Court of the United States, at this time, thus publioly, on the stump, 80 to apeak, to express his views of & law, the question of the constitationality of which must, if it §s ever raised (a3 it undoubtedly will bo), come before him hereafter for Judicial action 1" Answer—No. —We have said all we wish to say on the subject; but our correspondent may deem it desirable that we give reasons; 8o we add: Nobody, we presume, supposes that Chief-TJustice Chase can entertain any doubt of the general constitu- tionality of the Civil Rights bill. Nobody will ever adjudicate that question with any belief or hope that he cherishes any such doubt. The only question likely to be raised concerns the validity of a certain stringent penal provision of the act; and this, we venture to assure our correspondent, Mr. Chase will consider as calmly and adjudge as impartially as any other man on the bench. Then where is the impro- prioty 1 The Lynchburg Virgimian copies our paragraph stating that a French company is about to purchase and complete certain important public works in that State, and says: ““THE TRIBUNE nesd not be bn‘tln"hw.n advan- ors £l of'the Nortuern. people, as- llus. Senate of New-York, which virtu- ally foreed Senator Morgan to voto for sustaining the Civil Rights bill over the President’s veto, will induce us in every uun:, :I::"m foreigners to those who call themseives our en. hope to see the day when to us now through the port of New-York shall reach us through Norfolk; and when the products that now go om the West Lakes and interior lines, to seek an outlet at Negy-Vork, may pass through the heart of Virginia to Norfolk. 1T French or Engiish capital shall do this work, w will acoept it gladly, and do all w to make it yieid a bountiful return to those who invest —We beg The Virginian—and all Virginians—to welcome aid in the development of the maguificent resourees of thgc Blate frow whatever auarten but rything that comes not to betray a foolish spite caleulated to set people X ing unseasonabiy. Virpinta ongii © have at least two cities—Norfolk aud Richmond—of 100,000 {nhabitauts each in 1820 and of 200,000 each in 1900. She onght to have, she can have, aud we trust will have. Let her double her Food and Wool crops, at the same time that she quadruples the products of her | mines, her factories and her workshops. We trust that the present State will have at least Three Millions of frec inhabitants in 1300 and Four to Five Millions n 1900. No other State in the Union is so well situated for profitable manufacturing as sho is. We heartily wish her a rapid advauce to the highest pin- nacle of prosperity, and most earnestly advise her to cherish ber Home Industry, and buy less and less of New-York 10 proportion to her total product. We should rejoice to hear that her people were making every yard of eloth and evéry tun of iron they roquire, building up their own industry, and buying very little here. That would be best always for herself, and best, in the long run, for all. B — THE COUP DETAT-A. J. The organs of the Administration, from The Rich- mond Eraminer down to The New-York News, are busily devising plans for ** abolishing”Congress. Itis amusing to read their many-hued schemes for getting things right again, and placing the nation on the “true basis of national unity.” It seems to us that valiant gentlemen who fonght like Trojans to keep out of the Union for five years, should not particularly complain if they are permitted to pray five years longer before coming in again. Possibly, if any one | of the seedy gentlemen now hanging around the doors | of the Senate or the House, hoping to enter upon the | green ficlds of mileage, and stationery, and books, and gab, and gasconade, had been asked two years | ago whether he would accept a position in the Senate, he would have asked the memorable question about thy servant being a dog under certain cireumstances. Pime and oceasion often change wrath into felicity, however; and, if President Johnson has any offices hanging heavily on his hands, he can find graybacks in abundance to relieve him. Ttis not for the mere love of office that we scold the poor Rebels. The hope of getting the largest amount of pay for the smallest amount of work, which es at the basis of office-love, is as ardent in the hearts of the manly Southerners as among the Demo- crats of Tammany Hall, or the eleemosynary editors of starving newspapers. We do protest mildly but firmly against the scheme now pervading the Rebel press of entirely destroying Congress, abolishing the iary, reducing the army, and placing us under re of Mr. Andrew Johnson. We do uot make this protest from personal dislike to Mr. Johnson. If ve are to he owned by one man, perhaps he will be kind to us as any person else, and see that we have work and feed and clothes. We do not dare to doubt Mr. Johnson's willingness to enter upon the task. Our worthy Pr been especially censura- ble for the absence of a willingness to do anything that pleased him. The change would be economical. We should not have immense printing bills to pay—long Wb from voluble Representatives—cart- and reports, and other printed paper, p the count extended ju <haustible following of marshals, and clerks, nd jailors—not to speak of the huge tele- columns of loads of Globe which go to d lining interes ciary eystem, with for long speeches. We have no doubt Johnson could run the machi ; and, by ng half £ our officials, the demand for labor in the Western would be largely met. There might be geutlemen of the Sen- , according to among the The News's plan, be hanged as ** Benedict Arnolds.” But, of course, we cannot please everybody. The SUIMIMATY ex ion of Sumner, ips, would uni bly be conceded. Mr. Bumuer has no would, therefore, leave no inconsolable Thaddeus Ste i nging would children, widow to mourn bis loss. au old man, and a little b ch all of us must coutemplate at pate the « the age of three score and ten. As for Mr. Phillips, his not ed is one of those anomalies in America which the President owes it to his country and his God to reform. We could wish v, Wendell would make us read of Emmett’s, we have no doubt—and dying specches, first-class, are hard to get. The rope around the ue k might add unusu Wl pathos; but the tears would be pardoued to the singularity of association. We began this article intending to be very severe upon those gentlemen who were proposing to do away with Congress, abolish the Supreme Court, overthrow our liberties, and placens in the hands of a ——, well, we will not be harsli! We intended to rebuke these vile conspirators, as men whom earth would refuse to hide, whose very dust would poison the worms, with sevoral other very fine and striking phrases. But, as bappens to all fair minds, the close- analysis of the subject has compelled us to pause. Providence made A. J. President. Should we not improve on Provi- dence, and make him Dictator? Why all this red- tape and fuss abous Congress and Courts? It would have taken Congress ten years to agree upon a procla. mation like that declaring * Peace "—a proclamation 50 self-evident, that we were surprised it had not been made six months ago. Caviling people have said that it meant nothing—that it no more made peace than an almanac makes Summer, But this falsehood we have trinmphantly exposed by showing that, in the matter of rations alone, it saves the country from §2 50 to $3 per day, Can other Presidents say as muchi It requires but a basty calculation to show that at this rate the President would only have to issue 247,001 proclamations a day for ten years to pay off the whole public debt—an enterprise which any public-spirited man, especially when be had the job of managing the United States, would not hesitate to undertake. ‘Wo are becoming so enraptured with this scheme that unless we change the subject and close our article we shall find ourselves going as far as the veriest Cop- perhead—in favor of A. J. chasing Congress out of the Capitol, and decorating the grounds around the White House with the swaying bodies of Mr. Sumner, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Stevens. How comfortable it would be to rest forever in Andrew's gentle bosom, with no care, no elections, m taxes, nothing to yex us. It might annoy us to find all the Presidential spoils going to The News and The Worid and The Free- man's Journal; but when that time comes we shall no longer print Tag TrisuNg, for the duties of this paper are to end with the millenium, and we sball no longer fret over endless editorials, and ceaseless narrations of news, and vain efforts to improve and ennoble the worll. We shall be in that extreme felicity of repose of which Mr. Seward is regarded as the most con- spicuous living representative, wherein everything is altogether lovely while the anserine bird occupies a conspicuous position. The attainment of this will terminate our humble work and consummate every earthly desire. a good spes Gen. Gregory, Superintendent of tho Freedmen's Bureaa in Texas, on the 20th ult. notified J. 8. Roberts, Chief-Justice of Houston County, that he should cease to provide for the indigent sick freedmen of that County on and after the 1st inst. Judge Roberts romonstrates. He has no suitable | buildings or other facilitics, and he cannot provide for these a9 he does for White paupers, In short, he in- gists that Gen. Gregory shall continue to subsist a part of the poor of Houston County at the expense of the United States. And The Houston Telegraph thinks the Judge has the right of the case. Perhaps he has, We do not take issue with him. The existing status of the South is exceptional—that of the Freedmen esuecially 50, DBut we do not thigk Judge Roberts's position accords well with theexulta- tion of his Rebet friends over the veto of the Freed- men's Bureau bill. CONCERNING COUNTY CONTRACTS, Several years ago, the Board of Supervisors thought there should be a new bridge over Harlem River, to cost twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars. After mnch discussion, however, it was deemed best that the bridge should be built of iron, at a cost of £200,000, A contract was accordingly made, not at one gross sum for the whole job, but ata certain price per pound, leaving the weight ‘to be arranged between the engineer and the contractor. Under this contract, over $700,000 has already Dbeen expended, and an additional appropriation of $200,000 is now calledor. In the recent report made by the Bridge Commissioners to the Board of Supervisors, there is an item of $60,000 paid last Sammer for “damages to contractor.” We think, if damages were given to cithier party, they rightfully belong to the public treasury. It is under this loose and cor- rupt system of making contracts that the enormous swindles on the new Court-House have been perpetra ted. The iron is furnished at so many cents per pound; and hundreds of tuns of castings, worth six eents, and charged at 16 cents per pound, have been carted in and used about tho building, the castings being in many instances ten times heavier than necessary. The marble for this building, which was offered at $125,- 000, was finally contracted for by the cubic foot in such a manner that it has already cost $350,000. The Common Council are forbidden, by statute, to make any contract involving over $250, except with the lowest bidder after advertising for proposals. Ac- cordingly, when the Aldermen wish to givea friend & little job involving a few thousands, they are com- pelled to do it piece-meal, $250 worth at a time. Thisis a positive violation of the law, but the Con- troller pays the bills. ‘The Board of Superyisors are not thus embarrassed. The law of 1357 which created them is so drawn as to give them nunlimited power. They may give to a member of their own body a private contract for building a bridge or a court-house costing $1,000,000 or §5,000,000, As an illustration of their method of doing business, they last year made a donation of the unfinished Court-House—on which they had already spent $1,300,000—to the State aathorities, for a Capi- tol. Had the State accepted the gift, however, it mizht have been fortunate for our tax-payers, as it would have saved them the $700,000 which was ex- pended on it during the past year, a3 well as the incaleulablo sum which will be required to finish the building under the per pound and per foot system of contracts which places the public entirely at the mercy of the contractors and their official partners and allies. B — CITY PLUNDER. The Common Council wonld be the most benevo- lent men in the world, if it were not that they are generous with other people's money, not with their own. The most flagrant of all abuses is the donation of moaey and property belonging to the citizens. Ther are institutions for the blind established among us, and yet the Common Council give thou- sands of dollars yearly to certain persons, many ol using their misfortune to ex- haritable citizens. s creeds in the City of New- i il makes dopations of whole tracts of land to religious institu- tions which ought to be supported by their own people. Such denations as these are unble The donors give away what does not belong to them. The real owners (the tax-payers) do not consent to the gift. The d aceive what is not voluntarily given. The Corporation authorities are accustomed to lease valuable property, con. g of land, wharves, piers, slips and ferry franchises to favorites at gross under valuations, and then ailow these lessces to make de- fault in the payment of rent, and take no legal ste, to recover it. Thus the city loses a very large amount of money, which would go far toward decreasing taxa- tion. From the Controller's Report for 1364, these ar- thea amounted to the enormous sum of earages 250, 000, The amount expended under this he hire, from July 1, 1864, to July 1, 1365, was the sum of $15,776 31. Aud this does not include the amounts recovered by judgments. hese expendi- tures come out of the ** contingencies” of the various departuments. The City Fathers, their relatives, and even their friends, roll along in their carriages, and the city pays the bills, . SHORTENING RIVERS, The Mississippi, during the high water now pre- vailing, is reported to have broken th Bend, near Vicksburg, which-Gen., Williams wasted much labor in attempting to cut through, without success, Gen. Grant afterward made a still more est effort, which was also a failure. And now the ippi has shown herself superior to them both. This cut shortens the river fifteen miles, and will leave Eagle Bend a lake fourteen miles long. The James is taking advautage of Gen. Butler's “Dutch Gap Canal,” below Richmond, and o en- larging and completing it that small craft now pass through it at high stages of water, saving several miles by a cross-cut of less than one. Ten years hence, when Richmond has 100,000 inhabitants, this will doubtless be the main channel; though it may cost something more to make it so. 8o the work of im- provement goes on. We agree with The World that the right of plant- ers to hire Chinese laborers and others of that com- plexion is unquestionable; but an attempt to insti- tute the infamous coolie trade in the place of the still more infamous extinet slave-trado is quite another matter, over which the Government has cer- tain jurisdiction. The World's cry for Coolies ill comports with its wail against the negroes. It is pretty much as we have predicted: instead of export- ing the negroes on Mr. Blair's plan, our Southern speculators prefer importing more colored labor, and, if possible, at a cheaper figure We do not wonder that Mr. Davis's confinement in Fortress Monroe is irksome, but are surprised to hear that in other respects it is uvhealthful. We are opposed to any captive dying from fault of his prison —we had that objection to Andersonville. A paper published Qutside the walls begs the President, **if he is unwilling to set his captive free, to at least trans- fer him to some more healthful placo of confinement.” Wo had always regarded Fortress Monroe as a well- appointed prison, and, if possible, the most comforta- ble, cortainly the most secure, in the Government service. The famishing poor of Georgia and Alabama are erying for aid, aud the Governors of these States are appealing in their behalf. Possibly, both States can support the sovereign dignity of Reconstruction; but it would be unfortunate if they thought of nothing else—and it would be the hight of folly to kick away the Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. A. H. Stephens differs with Professor De Bow about a million and a balf as to the strength of the coming cotton crop, which he estimates at three mil- lion bales. The truth is somewhere between these limits, approximating science and De Bow rather than the hopeful reconstructory tendencies of Mr. Stephens, On the other hand, Mr, De Bow bas somgwhat iwvaged W4 lghlaiug calowlations by proving in an article ** choke full of figurea” (says o - Georgia newspapor) that the South could keep ag army of 700,000 mey in the field. “But she didi't do it, even if she could.” It is utterly tmpossible for a man in New-York to shake hands with a man in Texas; but inexorable dig. tance alone prevents us from offering to graspthe deg. ter of Mr. John H. Reagav. Kuowing simply the fact that he was the Rebel Postmaster-General, the critig of charaeter would not be likely to pronounce Me, Reagan particularly smart or sensible; but when we state that he is mow raising corn, and cotton, aud sweet-potatoes, on his farm near Palestine, Toxas, ¢ working steadily witlhis laborers, white and black,” the intelligent rfader will perceive that bere i g genuine No. 1 patriarch, with no nonsense abont cn) and as well entitled to a private vine and fig-tree ag the longest-bearded old gentleman mentioned in the Old Testament. Without knowing his exact age, we pronounce him, morally at least, a venerable trump, and as good an Isaac or Jacob as can be expected in Texas. We commend him as an excellent example to the patriarchs who are merely disposed to curse God and die of whisky and water; who are hanging around the Washington bar-rooms, thickly enunci- ating their praises of the President; who are gallantly engaged in scaring school-marms and burning achool- houses; who are trying to exist upon Presidential vetoes,which are good neither for the body nor for the soul; who ex: of Congress; who cease not to lament the loss of the touching patriarchial privilege of selling their own children at public vendue; who wonder where on earth they are in future to find even a tolerable sup- ply of bondmen and boudwomen, without which & patriarch is a mere nobody; who see before them no escape from the dire and dreadful doom of working for a living, which in their opinion is the most exquis- itely painful calamity which can befall a human being. Let them look at Reagan, and take courage! Let them contemplate Reagan's corn aud potatoes, and pluck up heart! Lot them investigate the alle ating virtues of the shovel and the hoe! Let them, like the respectable John, dry their tears, ceaso thei howls, hang up their harps, and betake themsolves, spade in band, to & The Manufacturers’ Circular is a petty concern printed in this City in the interest and at the cost of our importers and their foreign fabricators whoae goods they are trying to sell. So far there is nothing to complain of. The foreign rivals of our manufactar. ers bave a right so to spend their money, and, whether their tool earns it or not is nobody’s business but theis own. The Evening Post gravely quotes this dirty lit- tle affair as ** devoted exclusively to the interests of manufacturers,” and says: “One would hard'y expeet to see the principled of froe trade 1eflected from such & quarter, considering the prejudices whick 50 many of the manufacturing class have allowed thawsaives ta contract, apd the fanaticism with which certain journals, pre tending tobe in their interest, clamor for exorbitant proteot: ive duties, Yet in this Mznufacturers’ Cirenlar we find an ar. icls from which we giva the passages bolow. advisiag ity road. -+ 10t to engago in & warfare with the consumer, in whick thay are sure to be beaten, but to yield gracetully and seasons- bly to a resuit which they cannot long postpond, aund which, we are sure, will be as much for their own iutorest in its final he rest of the community. We are glad to ba able to infor the exiracts we make that manufectarers begia to parceive this to us that there must have been a time . Evening Post would not have stooped te ch a dodge as this; aud we forbear further comment in the hope that it will promptly disabuse its resders, stsay that The Post knows how to serve its ne friends more creditably. and that they have ot it to such base uses. An ex-Governor Allen, now editing The Merican Times, turns upon the historian Pollard in some sort Jike a bpomerang, which, flung from Richmond te Mexico, springs back from Mexico, to Richmond. “Who is Pollard?"" inquires Allen. * He is a Vir ginian, the editor of The Rickmond Eraminer, aud the ror of the Southern history of the war. Ihave grief for the first, blushes for the second, snd con- tempt for the last.” Though these aspects and emo- tions mingle too commonly in #he nature of chevaliers, we are inclined to think Mr. Allen's criticism senten tious and just. . e There is auother movement to divide Tennessce, as tiiere is a proposition to sever Texas into two States. The former dgrees with an old ides of Parson Brown- o resurrect the half-ideal ** State of Fraokland," under Gen. Johu Sevier, rebelled against North Carolina, about tho year 1725, aud became the first Frankland, or East Tennessee, was the be- inning of the State of Teuncssee, of which the pattiot pioneer and North Caroliva rebel, Gen. Sevier, became at last Governor. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals is now chartered and armed by the Legislature. Like the Board of Heaith, it enters on an abundant field of work and well-doing. Its mere appointment is, at the start, a general henefit, as it opens opportu- nity to all bumane citizens to aid edvetually in chock- ing a too common cruelty. The first act of the Society was the arrest yesterday of a driver of ons of the no- torious butcher-carts, who was taken before o justice and fined ten dollars. May the good work proceed. A Kentucky lady of high social position=loyal, but not ** fanatical”—who has lived for two years past in New-Orleans, writes to her friend in this City as fol- lows: “The Southern peopls feel s great hatred to ®s Northern people. It is not true that they are getttag rocouciled to the new order of thtngs. When Lue troops are withdrawa, T doubt if Northern men will be courageous enough to stay ia New- Orleans.” A volunteer correspondent, who evidently thinks Lie Las something new to offer oa the subject of War, writes us that It alt would oboy the Loly precepts given us by Joses Christ we should have no Wars, nor Slavery. nor oppression of any kind." ~That is very true. Bat, since a/ will rot do any- thing of the sort, what then? “A Working Man" writes us that several hired men in this City have been discharged by their em- ployers for taking a conspicuous part in the Eight- Hour movemeat. This, if so, is very unjust and un- wise. But does not our correspondent see that the true and only effective remedy for such oppressive acts is to have Working Men endeavor more and more to be their own employers? They can be if they will. The Mayor Withers of Mobile who, at a feast the other day, coupled the bealths of the President in the White House and the double ex-President in Fortross Monroe, must surely belong to the class of Withers unwrung. Toe Late Tuoyas DowsiNG.—Mr. Downing, who died on Tuosday, was a8 woll known among commoreiah people down town a3 the most distinguished of our mer- chants, and was not less esteemed for & long life of in dustry, sobriety and integrity. The fact that ho was of African descent abated in no degree the regard in whieh he was held, and a fitting evidence of it is given, wo us- derstand, in tho wish avowed to his family by many gem. tlemen to be permittod to attend his funeral to-day. In accordance with the request of many persons, who wish to pay to his memory tho homago of their respect, bis romains will bo left in St Phillip's Church till aftez business hours—3j p. m. Tae DEsp oF 1HE WAR~The Provost-Marshal-Gon® eral has comploted a careful compilation, from the muster- rolls, of all the deaths in battle, from wounds and from disease, in every regiment sud company of every loysl State from the Inqinmng‘;o the elose of tho war. From it it appears that 280,739 officers and men have lost their [ives in the service. Of this number 5,221 commis- sioned officors and 90,886 enlisted men have been killod in action, or died of wounds, while 2,321 commissioned offi cors and 152,329 colisted men Lave died of discase, ofy W § fow cadva, fro st to be saved from starvation by act *