The New-York Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1866, Page 4

’ Amngements. MUSIC FAUST ACAUENY OF f TO-DAY. at 1 o'cl ik, © ehetei, Cossb, Polini. O ok A WALLAC JEATER. 8 1T ER TOO LATE TO MEND s. Fishor, Mark Suwitt IS EVENINC 15 NF Measre. Fredoiio K Tioorgs Haiand, Youug Ho'o Krowne, Wiilam., hatn Lionsrd. Ber Wilkinson, Ward, Butae, + ivs Madelive Henriques, Biss K. Barrett Al LEAH; Mis Ids Vernon, Ralton, Blsisdell, Barry i J € , Nelll. OLYMNPIC THIS EVEXING, ot 6. TiE T WINTER GARDEN. THIS EVENING, st 6—CONNIE SUOGAH, or THE WEAR 130G OF THE GItk 1 N Mr aod Mrs. Baruey Wiliams THEATFR. HREE GUARDSMEN BROADWAY THEATE THIS EVENING, Miss Adab Issacs Menke Iiee to day. TR By nin MAZEPPA. Mat WOOD'S THEAT KLVES; ( te Worn FR. IHE STATU TUIS EVENING, T isters. Madam CROSSING THE LINE : OLD BOWERY THE THIS EVE DEVILKIN: Miss Fanuy B Keynolds, Messs. W. 1 Whalley, Harden, €. K. Fox, " THIS AFTH MARCEL; or_ TArpEs iie Cleaver, Keho Jam 5. ONE HU W.YORK CIRCUS THIS EVEN EQUESTRIAN i FORMANCES Jumes R Beagriat, Mr. Juuer E. Cooke, M BRYA THIS EVENING, THE E I, CHALLE IN AND OUT OF PLACE, NORMA, BURLESQUE M CHRISTY'S M D SCHOOL ¢ THIS EVEN ARCES, ¥ GRAS LADS, COMY EOLOS, DUET BKELETON WITNE IRVING HAL , Mr. G, W. M tie Sterling, M isn, 5. C. Camp THIS EVENING ot PERT . Miss Marin Ab SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY DAY EVENING, exh W Bradford, SEALL Deacit of the Soldiors’ ( ay. % by Mz. G3, for the ACADEMY OF MUSIC. « opera of SAFFO: Dline. Gazganiga, Cash waio. BROOK TINS EVEN| da Business Notic A Carp. Belteving that the cut, quality and price of their Clothing are mat- cruting and consideration of prudent men, Barwono, Nos. 121, 123 and 125 Fultou-st., invites the attention of tisat class of the cowmunity to his pewly manifactured Sr00x 0F SPERD SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTRING, 1 on GextLenes Axp Bors, wpibiscing an immense variety of Dress and Business Suits for the for of Drees aud School Suits for the latter, They will be found Ro sustain the reputation which the house bas enjoyed for nearly a qQuarte: of a centary, for tha variety and elegance of ite styles and the moderation of its prices. Rarxdyo, Nos. 121, 123 and 125 Fulton-st., opposite Herald Office. Dr. B. C. PERRY, Yora ot 1mworthy of th DERNATOLOGIST, No. 40 Boud st , New. f hair and prematare disenses is ot of the Panacas order,, 1t ia i 8007 th the law of cause and effect. The Doctor mwkes 3 personal examination, sseertains what disease of the scalp has ot ia produging & loss of hair or premature grayness, sud presoribes the wemedios adapted for its removal, thereby ensbling the scalp to per- fotm its various duties ic & bealthy mauner. The Doctor effectaally Fewoves warts and moles. All consultations free. Parseus liviog at a distance oan consult the Doctor by sending for & eircular. 3,500~ e NATIONAL BRICK Macming, with only Two kiomsss, makos 3500 bricks per hour, with straight, well dadinod edges, end the bricks will stand ALL cLINATES, while those made by the dry pressing mackines all CKOMBLN TO PIECES on be- Liug KXPOARD TO FROST. A Ruqua, General Aceu —The PoRTABL Weight, 1 Ib. A S W Great Ramroap Luxon Ruer, or PockET Brmrm. Patented Ement. P, te A disconnt. Addr Trussss, ELASTIC 0ua, StppOn: Wy ot No. 2 V LuMBER. Wisison, Warsors & Co., First-ave., at nave tha largest stock of 1 prition with the Albany Cartea Vigoett: Pl ncgatives rogistercd Frorexce Lock o the wosld i)l!;‘“l'fl!e‘. o. 160 Chat TITCH SEWING-MACHINES—DBest Frokexce SEWINGMACHLYR COXPANY, No. 505 Brosdway. Grover & Baker's Hichest PreMivM ELAsTIO frrvom sEwino Macu: use. No. 43 Brosdway. Howe SewiNg Macmise CoupANY.—ELias Howe, . vP' 1:.121. prs Broadway. Agents -v:um&W IseroVED LOCK-STiTcH MACHINGS for Tailors and UrorEr & Baxz wing Macmise CowPaxy, WaesLER & WILSON'S LOCK-STITCH SEWING ne improved Elliptic Sewin Borues. No 557 Brosdwe gents waited. WiLLoox & Ginss SEWI BriTow. with A SiNGLE Plachinza’'—sent fice, wit A TiGHT of Sewis ‘A’thmndw-r. 4 Lyox's Insgct Powpgg, for exterminating Roaches, Ante and Vermin, aud preserviog furs snd clothing from Moths. The oviginal and geautos is signed E. Lyox. Al others are imitations. Zake no other Tnsect Powder but Lyox's. Sold by all druggists, and by Bawms & Co., No. 21 Parkrow. 3 CARPETS AND MATTINGS, wery Cheap for Cash. W Crowwrrs, No. 69 Duanest. CHOLEBRA.—( A3WELL, MACK & Co's HoMe Reyr- wims comprise all such as were recommended by Dr. Hamlin in bis letter. They are packed neatly in a box with & valusble teeatise on Lhe treatment, causss aud preveutiou of the disease. CAsWELL, MACK & Co.. nnder Fifth ave. Hotel. Seooxp-HAND SA¥Es in large numbers, of our own wnd othars’ make, taken in exchange for our new patent ALOM and Dus Prasras Sares. For ssle low. Manvin & Co , 265 Broadway, and 721 Chestout st., Phila. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID to the m: of » saparior artiels of CoPPRE TIPPED SHOXS which have proved @ ulnabia to childcen's everyday wear. BIGELOW & Tuatk, Manofuc. Taracers and Wholowale Dealers in Boote sud Shoes, Now. 32 sud 34 Vesey st N. ¥. Al goods warraated. “FiNkLE & LYox's NEW BEWING-MACHINE.— W here e have 10 agant, any one sending us orders for two Mackines shall Sead for circalars. No. 561 Broadway. HruL's DEMULCENT SOAP. No, 32 Park 1ow, N. Y. 1L Healing and Emollient, for the Nursery and Bath. Upward of 100 other styles. Soid by ail Dealers. .‘.A!flflflll Lu‘l: oz SUPER| Il vat.‘x’:l AND ptabliity . Army an rolshed o with Per com. D e Scsgon Gatorel U5 Arioy, by E: D. Huoeow, 8. D Astor Placs, Clinton Hall, N. Y. ; THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S new FAM- Ly SuwinG MACHLNE now ready; als0, Bution-boie Machine. No. - rl“'l_y. =4 Tug LAST Davs of ex-President Martin Van Burea were wade comfortable by the use of Joxas WiTcoxs's Asrina Reugoy. Letters in our possession ‘from his physicisn, and from Mr. Vaa Baren bimself, express wuch gratification with the wesalts of ita use. Extract from the . * Life of Washisgton flrving” by bis nephiew, Pierre M. Irving, Vol. IV, page 272: * The dostor prescribed, as an experiment—wlhst had been ruggested By Dr. (0. W) Holmes on his late visit—' Jonas Whitcomb's Remedy for Asthina.* & tesepoonful in a winegisss of water, o be taken every four bours. A good night was the result.” 1u 80 case of purely Asthmatic character has it falled to give prompt welief, and in many oases & permanent cure bas been effected. Nodun- 5o nmed boapprelieadod from its use. An lafeat may take it with porfect saloty. (See circu'sc.) Joszrn Brryery & Co., Boaton, Sole Proprietors. For wale by all druzgiste. " MeTOALFE'S GREAT RHEUMATIC REMEDY is truly the wondet of the age. Caves of Rheomatisn that have baffied (e kil of the Bizs: doctors of this city buve been completely cured by » ow doses, i 1o o4 Lfulile e ey bing propared by busan b uz L —— Tug ARy AND LEG, by B. FRANK PALMER, LL. D.— o " best” free 1o soidiers, and low to officers and civilians. 1,609 ot Phils; Astorpl, N.Y.; 1§ Green st., Boston. Avoid ient im/tazions of his patents. Lk DAL SRR A R JUT,:. C:r':ngu. hl;osz.x‘»: r:lwrulguyd bair, aut i s finest ir dressing kagwa. Use go dyes, o1 A i, ands i B i i . coustitutions, securely eatabiish th sydbem, ot SARRERIng what war oetgts tion inte one geuerally fals mkes it s DaGate of evary efore ry pradesce, of 2 Cotd White o to taks ca got rid of, intelligeut experiouc seacls a remedy fo I Javxe's ExprcromasT, thor 1d Colds, aud o Consamption, Astbma and Broncliitis. Sold by 'l Drugeists. A CLirGyMAN (Rev. J. MCMURRAY,) writing from Halifix N « Haviog sudered several years with throst affection, to which clergymen are especially subject, ane lav. ve apeedily all 8. saye nedies } have ploasure in giving my testimory as ing used | to the relicf Tiave Lad in the discharge of my Sabbath labors fiom (he use of * Brow's BRowomiAL Trocars” They have been & Others to whom [ lave recomumended them have * For Cooghs and Colds the Trockes sre great comfort | l | | used taem with adv yeficacions KNox'8 SerixG HAT8.—We aro in the enjoyment of ug wosther, and oue of the results is tha rush for the Kxox Har o doiotiest fabric issued this season. It is obtainsble down town o No. 151 Fultonst., two doors from Broadway, aud vp town at No. Bisadway, under the Preacstt House, | InpORTANT TO MoTHE WINSLOW'S 4 children ere aflictod, s e SoormiNg SYRUP for all diseases with whick il pain, softeus the gum & asfe and certain remedy. ay o the bowels, and cures wind ¢ duces inflamitastion, sure to regu ill reliovs the litle sufforer immadi- Depend upon it, moth Perfe ately. Iy wafe in all cares WHITE THE HATTER, No. 303 Casansr, (opposite Tho Brandroth Houss,) a8 DISTANCED ALL COMPRTITORS and borus off the palm in the eTyLE, XLEGANCE and FxquisiTs TAsTa displayed in his SPRING and Svs- MERSTYLES of GENTs HATs, Cars and Stmaws. His Faxor Hame for Lapizs, Misses and CHiLoR=Y, defy competition. NEATNEsS. —No me | appesred in the Amecican warket pro ance than CAGLK10N & HovkT's 50 complaiate. tan wore beautiful sppear- Lozexaxs for Summor SPRAINS, SALT RuEUM, BURrss, ScALDS, BRUI: RERUMATISN AND PiLes, are safely of DALLRY'S MAGICAL PAIN ExTracToR. Sold by all Drugeists, at 20 centen box. Depot, No. 43 Cadarat., N. Yo L anl quickly cured by the use SYMPTOMs OF WORMS IN CHILDREN are often over- looked. Worms In the stomach sal bowels causs irritation, which cdy. Brows's Ve can be removed ouly by the uss of & sure wirvar Comrrrs, or Worm Lozeages, T.—* NEEDLES'S COMPOUND CAN- fee of Cholera, Cholera Morh wafe and pleasant. Tested in ES, Twellth and Racests., Phila ple and effectuat. CnoLera—C. C. k P )L ta. PAIN IN THE f v W rem)7os ALL the wretclied symptonis st the diseaso et its fountain hoad. No. i1 A Perrect Housg O:NTuMENT.—DALLEY'S GAL- VANIC Homse SALVE is 8 settain and rapid cure for Scratches, Galls, Nail Pricks. Sores, Corns, Swallings and Strains. %0 centes box by all Druzgists and at Depot, No. 43 Cedar. Pequot Machine Co., Mystic River, ture the most improved Loos fo wasving Tapes, Con Bin, 8. M. Perrexciut & Co, APER ADVERTIS- 1¥6 Aogxrs, No. 37 Park-row, New York (estabiished in 1649), are agents for The Tribune, and all the uswspapers in the United States aud British Proviuzes. NewDork DailnTribune. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1366. Te Correspondents. Ne notice ean betaker of Aucnymou: Communioations. Whateveris intended for inscrtion wust be sathantizated by the name snd od dress of the writer—aot aesessarily (o1 pudlication. but & & guar- wnty for Lis good faith. Al busioess letters €or this oftce shouia 5o addressed to “The Trrs oxE," NewXork. We canuot undertako o raturn rejectad Communioatione —ee The Tribune in London. (Amen-an Agents for Libraries. 17 Henristts ta for the asleof THE TEIBUNE e NEWS OF THE DAY T GENERAL NEWS, Mr. Jumes Stephens, th 1 magnate, mained at the Metropoltan Htel most the entire day yes- terday, only leay < apartments for a ride to the Cen- tral Park, "He attended Niblo's theater in the evening, aded by Manahan's Band, o crowd numbering several thousand persons being collected in the street. Mr. Steplens mude some remarks in a¢ knowledgment of this attention, but said uothing especi- ally noteworthy. The trial of skill b New-England States and subsequentl, 1 the tolegraph operntors of the wee on Wednes- clared the victor. The St. Louis Radicals, after a scason of dormaney, are again heard from. A meeting Thurelay night pessed some pungent resolves an od to able speaking from some of the leading men of the West. The developments conneeted with the failure of Bayne & Co. of Baltimore are asto ng. Mauy banking iustitutions are lo to & large amount, and oue or two will be seriously crippled. The Board of se have thus far (up to last might) granted 3,000 licenses to sell liquor, of which 340 are for the use of parties in Brookiyn. Tho Board of Health yesterday talked about allopathy, homeopathy, tea~drinking and street-cleening. No action of special importance was had 3 The report of the Health Officer at_Quarantine brought n to Iast night, shows a total of cases in Lospital of 50, beiug one new case since the last report, Jefl. Davis has been i ted at Norfolk for treason, and will have a tri u Virginia next month, if present indications smount to anything. The recent reports of Inditn massacres in Arizom are thought 10 be greatly exaggerated. Fire destroyed 50,000 worth of mercantile property yesterday worning, situated on Federal-st., in Boston, The people of Providence Liave voted not to have a sup- Py of water, 934 to 1,661, Gold is strong and closed yesterday at 120} @ 120§, Al deseriptions of Government securities are strong and in fim] request. ‘The second series of 7 M freely at 1024 oney is abundant at low interest. ig houses are able t0 nar uost any terms, Commercial paper is scarce, Best bills 5 @b per cent; Good, D us are 4@5 per cent. CONGRESS. SENATE. May 1l.—Various petitions and Legislative resolutions were presented, A resolution was introduced to prohibit the suppression or alteration of speeches in ke Globe. The joint resolution to reorganize the Pay Department of the Nary was amended and passed. The Cholera resolu- tion was debated,and went over, and (he Post-Offico Appro- priation bill was taken up. Mr. Trumbull's nmnndm(-m‘ ated and concerning the appoiutig power, was further deb rejected—16 to 23. The bill was then passed, and the Seunate adjourned. I'he Houge was not in session. Later accounts show that the story of the massacre at Port Goodwin, Arizona, is to be taken with allow- auce. We refer the reader to our special dispatches from Washington. A spirited electoral campaign is at present going on in the Kingdom of Belgium, as, in June, one-half of the Chamber of Deputies isto be reélected. The contest is between the ** Catholic” (Conservative) and the * Liberal” partics. The present Chamber con- gists of 64 Liberals and 52 Catholies. Of those whose term expires, 33 are Liberals, and 20 Catholics. The personal sympathies of the young King are altogether with the Catholics. Mr. Trumbull's amendment to the Post-Office Ap- propriation bill to prohibit the payment of persons illegally appointed to office, was yesterday rejected by the Senate—Yeas, 16; Nays, 23, The amendment a3 offered was as follows: *That no person exerclsing. or performing, or undertakiog to exercise or perform any duties of any office which by law are required to be filled by the advice and consent of the Senate, shall, before confirmation, receive auy cowpensstion for Lis services, unless commissioned by the President to fill o nal preparation that bas vet | Price $1 per | day vight. T wh key, was awarded to Mr. K ss., be sending 250 words in 6 minates 15 seconds, and therefore wus de- | [ R V-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATU | | | | | or Munici | vert or ntterly unahle to perceive what valid ob- joction can be urged against this. None such has Leen presented in debate, but we have had instead a surfeit of clamors about interference with the Presi- dent. But it is not tho man who means to keep the Law, that dislikes restrictions, He who is contriving to evade it may naturally resist the attempt to put legal obstacles in his way. OUR NATIONAL DERT, The United States owe a Public Debt of nearly Threo Billions of Dollars, most of it drawing 6 or 7 3-10 per cent. interest. Now that the War is over, the Union saved, and our Expenditures so reduced that we are more than paying our way, so that we aro coutracting no more debt but rather paying off, tho Government is about to make an effort to reduce the rate of interest to five per cent., and’ appropriate the thus saved to the reduction of the principal— a policy which, if adopted and sternly persisted in, will pay the Debt e.tirely within about thirty years Tlhere is some wild talk of this project as Repudiation, bat there is no shadow of truth in this. Every exist- ing loan ecr obligation is to be paid according to its face. Every one who has lent the Government money at a certaiu rate is to have that rate paid him regu- larly till his loan falls due; and then be is to have his principal according to contract. But the Government can borrow in peace, with a diminishing debt, cheaper than it could in war, when we needed to borrow Fifty Millions more each month; it therefore pro- poses to borrow at five per cent. the wherewithal to ¢ maturity its loans drawing six or seven and hundredths per cent. Then, by continuing to y into the Treasury only so much as we would have to pay if the interest had not been reduced, wo can very so0u wipe out our great Debt. — But can the mouey be borrowed at five percent.? We hLope it may, and trust it can be, because—1. The Government is sure pay. 2. Whoever has Goy- ernment bouds and needs money ean borrow on them as collateral at lower rates, and withmore ease, than { ho could get loans on any other security. . 3. They are to be absolutely free from taxation, Federal, State, al; whereas all other securities are taxed— most of them heavily. 4. They can always be sold off-hand for cash, and with little loss. These consider ations, we Rope, will induce thousands to prefer these at five per cent. to other steurities at six or seven. Yot this is so great and beneficent an undertaking that it may well command the best efforts of every goold citizen. There is no man among us, however rich or | poor, who will not be benefited by the intended con- version of the Debt. If we estimate the Debt as a mortgage of ten per cent.on all private property in the Union, funding it at five per cent. will add at least two per cent. to the et cash value of all the property in our country. Now, then, good citizens! let us all be prepared to help when the new Awme: 1f we have any form of Government indebtedness soon to fall due, let us offer to take stock in the new Loan to its amonnt—assured that our bonds will be above par within five years. If we are not already creditors of the Government, let us resolve to become so if possible by subscribing to the new Loan. No matter though we have but little to invest, let us invest that little; assured that there are ten investments less profitable wh smore s0. Let us resolve that the new five per cent., whatever its amount, shall be promptly taken; for, if that should be filled at once, there will be no trouble thereafter. —Let Congress becareful not to overdo the business of reducing taxes. One calls for the abolition of all “Taxes on Knowledge,"—that is, on printed matter; another says, “Take ofl all taxes on Mavufactures;" a third says ““Make Cotton Free,” &c., &c. We heartily agrec that these taxes are not delightinl—in fact, taxes are not luxuries, any how—but that will be & dark day for our country wherein Congress so reduces taxes as to impair the Na lit. It would cost a bank rupt or discredit cerument enormously to cou- renew such a Debt we must fuud h within the next few years; and Fifty Millions cted from the National Revenue now n Keep th A1, even though we have to pay as subt us Five Hundred Millions in the ¢ a Natioual credit b little Leavier taxes, until we get our Debt funded; for it is far better to pay even five ceuts per pound on Cotton than to hs to pay a premium on the re- newal of our great loans. BUY LAND! We would connsel no man to run in debt, aud no poor mian to invest his little all where it will not con- tribute to his sustenance or be available in case of need; yet we cannot help urging every landless man to become owner of some spot of earth £o soon as may be. our country, and is not destined to remain o, Tmimi- gration is very heavy; we are all sick of war; and our population increa at a rate which will donble it every twenty years. The common notion that we have still an enormous area of arable soil unappropri- ated is a mistake. Wost of Kanias and Nebraska— that is, over 300 miles west of the Missouri —there is little good land. The central table- landa of our continent lie o high as to be cold and frosty, and in Summer are parched by persistent, pitiless drouth. Even were not the lack of timber a serions obstacle to settlement, not one acre in fifty could be rendered productive without irrigation and artesian wells; and these are very costly. Coun- sidering that the Four Millions of Blacks have as yet scarcely an acre, it is not probable that Fifteen Millions of our countrymen are owners of land, or the wives and children of those who are. Yet these own more than half the whole soil of the United States. Twenty years hence, we trust the landhold- ers with their familics will be Forty-five Millious. Who does not realize that land must then be dearer than it now is? And the enormous produetion of the Precions Metals which those years are worally certain to witness—not less than Two Hillions of Dollars in this conntry alone—must also tend to ene hance the price of Land. He who owns land—no matter if but a patch—need nevermore cringe for employment—he can always find work for himself. He need not ** strike ;" but if he does, he need not stand idle, since he can always find work on his land. If every youth at twenty-one had a it of land assigned Lim, the proportion of pau- pers and swindlers among onr population would rapidly, largely diminish. Morals, independence, in- dustry, thrift, would all be promoted by a general diffusion of ownership in land. Wo cannot all live out of cities, (though it were better for all that many more did s0); but even the young merchant, lawyer, doctor, mechanic or clerk, who feels constrained to live on a paved street, might advantageously own a Dit of land, though miles away. Travel is rapid and cheap; a day in the country is health and bappiness; and we nearly all Lope to live in the country by-and-by. With an acre or more of good land well fenced, the Labitual plodder over pavements may plant in youth or carly prime the trees that are to solace his old age; may have bis plants, shrubs, vines and fruits growing, though unable as yet to build a housc—may have an occasional foretaste of the calm joys of living his own master in his own howe. No one can realize all the blessedness which centers in Home until he comes to Lave a spot that is truly his own. Thousands live aud die tenants aud lirelings who might far better employ and Louse themselves. The city hireling makes more money than Lis country cousin but strikes aud panics, sickness and frolics, with the necessity of giving half be earns for shelter, generally keep him poor; and an increasing family soon drives him to close calculations and shabby A5 b9 kegp afoat Howov for Wim oud bis fp n Consol is brought out! | cost | Land is st amazingly cheap in most parts of | RDAY, MAY 12, 1868. those Lo takes with him and those he leaves bebind, the day that sees him sottled in bis own ottage, the owner and oce “DEAD-HEADS.” The Times of yesterday says that **it is almost im- possible to speak seriously ” of the act of the last Legislature prohibiting * dead-heads” on the rail- roads of this State, and, for that reason, wo suppose, it does 't try. Ifit had given the subject a serious thought, it would have remembered that railroads are chartered by legislative act and are necessarily sub- ject to legislative regulation, To say that these companies may do as they please, without regard to the rights of the public, or the rights of their stockholders, is simply ab- surd. Their privileges agd powers are restrained and limited, and the Legislature not only has the right but it is its duty to interfere whenever these are ex- ceeded by the persous exercising them. According to the theory of The Times—if its vapid flippavcy can bo called a theory—if the Directors of & Railroad should resolve to put all its surplus earnings into their own pockets and pay nothing to the stockholders, any in- terference of the Legislature would be the act of *a set of querulous meddlers.” But if tho Legis- lature have the right and duty to interpose its authority in such acase to direct the whole of the profits of the road to goto those to whom they le- gitimately belong, they certainly have the same au- thority over the direction of a part of those profits. The Times unwittingly answers itself when it says that the men who * mainly support these roads” by crowding them with freight are *“deliberately insult- ol by the Legislature, who will not permit them to travel for nothing. Herein is the very necossity of the act in question. The * dead-head” system has thus confossedly grown into a serious wWrong, and the officers of the ronds have thrown away 4 large share of legitimato traflic by carrying passen- gers for nothing the price of whose passage would have added largely to the revenue of the roads. And to such dimensions has the abuse grown by use that from passing business men freo it was iucvitable that it should be extended to travelgs for pleasure, so that every officer on the roads could get passcs for his friends for the asking. How much the profits of the compani have been diminished by this vicious system it is impossible to tell; but it was ainly, in the aggregate, sometbing enormous. It was, at least, au injustice to the stockholders and the public, if not a fraud. The former have a right to all the profits the roads can make; on the other hand, if the companies can afford to do without these profits, then the henetit should go to the public in decreased fares and freights ratber than that they should be given away to the privileged friends of officers and employés, For our part we have again and again, when occasion has offered, requested railroad and steamboat officers to pass nobody free on our account; | we rejoice now that the system is prohibited by law in this State, and trust that other States will follow hor example and put an end to an enormous abuse. ce SALOOY LIVING IN NEW-YORK. That purblind but benevolent port doctor who pre- Yed plain-boiled rice and sublimated hominy s a | dietary against Cholera did not calculate upon aggra- v g either the temper or distemper of the patient | public. Bat it is mortifying to be recommended to eat any plaiz-boiled article when such a thing is not extant; and the case is hightened to positive panic when the mild vegetarianism of this advice is set off against the imagined torment and scorpionizing of the Chiolera. It is to be told to eat bread from the bread-tree, or to drink pure Orange County milk, or you are o dead man. One-halfl of miscellancous society escape the dilemma much as the good-natured M. Micawber got over a puzzle in his quotation from | Burns. That candid and cherubie character, as the public remember, was not aware what ** gowans” &0 ! might be, but, if feasible, would certainly have bad a pull at them. Now, the fact is that when common society resolves itself into ove bydra-beaded eater, it Al meaning aad scope of the rural term plain- at part of those w ce the art i a great city, do not know With those in a given ] iin-boiled rice. it would be to plain-b such a thing is not feasible. to most of this perplexity is found in very lLundred thousand of the people all we say of Brooklyn—iu- ess room-occupants who have -York and sleep elsewhere, are floor- arders, lodgers, or to adopt an appalling Leaving the boarders to of New-York, and | generic term, Temementers, boarders' commons, we approach that vast remainder of the myriad-moving life which, every day, in a sort of orphanage from Louse and bome, casts itself by a thousand different ways, and wreaks its hunger on the saloons. There, busy, hungry, hasty New-York—the innumerable caravan that goes to dinner—is fod at all hours, on sight and on demand. Having ard of all | classes of these feeders-at-large, let us say that some- where near 500,000 walking appetites invade the saloons to breakfast, dine, sup, or lunch. Half the boarders wight be included among random livers as constituents of the Social Bedouinism; but we suspect that the regular irregular diner-out has the best of the bargain as to what he shall eat, and if we were in doubt on a few points, Mr. Thomas B. Gunn's “Boarding-honse Physiology” would enlighten us. Who knows who dines at home? Who does not take a meal abroad? Who that has dined at_saloon, boarding-house, or hotel, bas caught a glimpse of a passing dish known as plain-boiled rice or hominy ! Better or worse still, what hardy cook (ppil of M. Felix Blot or otherwise) will give us an acceptable definition of plain-boiling? The catechism must be given up. Plainly, there are no plain-boilers. Appe- tite, like taste, has become as sensational as our com- mon storg-writers and readers, and some of our news- papers. The school of simplicity is dismissed from the kitehen as well as the study. Thero is nothing left to satisfy a craving for the plain and pure in art— the gastronomic poetry of plain-boiled hominy with- out pork, of vegetables unsauced and ungreased— nothing to exchange with the Wordsworthian feeling in verse, or the pre-Raphelite in art, or afford a vege- table pasturage for those New-England thinkers who cat bran-bread and bave views avd visions. Our cooks labor only for the day, and not for all time; so, fnstead of building up for us good, solid walls of sound digestion—a home for the virtues and a school for the nerves—is it the fact that" the public cook treats the bodies of men as if they were no better than some of onr housesTombs prisons to wall in all manner of dismal affections and leaden- eyed despairs, to cherish the phantom dyspep- sia that walks in “daylight over the table- cloth, and sneers at us from the dinner-plate. Partly, it must be so. The hydropathists declaro it; the vegotarians, and all the purist school of huwble living, in a slow procession of meek appetites, avow it a8 strenuonsly as possible. Still, vogetarianism makes little progress, aud tho slaughter-house and cookery reck, in short, with blood. But when cholera and the doctors are scenting quarantine, then the grave advico of a diet with vegetable qualification is set down in programme. Hominy must have merits not patent to the fleshy eye, and bread and turnips health- ful essences nnknown to beef. Besides, the pro- gramwe against cholera cannot be anything else than uymnunclamento against sauces, manges, fricassees, sweet, bitter, sour and savory mixtures of the Ameri- can, African, French, Irish and German sets of cookery. The bull is not leveled at beef alone, but at such a comet as & New-York saloon-keeper's bill of fare. The mob of presumed patients ask for a dinuer, and not a prescription, and if auybody is to be cured, our saloons st be onred At Wo caunot help ourselyes—this in several senses. The doctor prescribes one thing, the evok another, Vanditis bard to escape the sen of o played-out bill of fare. If there is * death in the pot,” if food and drink are somewhat adulterated in a desire to please the common taste cheaply, we must console ourselves with the example of Mithridates—for we have not yet lived out the prediction of the late Got- tingen alchemist, who said that in the nineteenth century the transmutation of metals would be generally known and practiced, and that kitchen utensils would be of silver and gold, *which will contribute more than anything else to prolong life, poisoned at present by the oxide of copper, lead, and iron which we daily swallow in our food.” But it would be a good thing if our saloons could reform themselves. They have their merits and conveniences undoubt- edly, but somo one says our modern pot-houses are only schools for dyspeptic atheism, which, without home-food and home-duties, has lost ** the holiness of lealth,” and feeds on anything but the bread of life. Not willing to take so hopeless a view, still, we think it would be no one's disadvantage to be as pradent as pozsible in a choice of diet during cholera-time. The fact that so lately more unwholesome stables were pointed out, in which hundreds of the pictorial stump- tails undergo a daily morbor in order that their mis- eries may be retailed as pure milk of cow-keeping kinduess—shows how slowly we reform some of our diotary sources, lot alone diet itself. There is the guiltless cow who is shockingly fed—but what of the deluded drunkard who swallows cheap lightning with atarantula in it? What gallons of poor liquor are s0ld in the common saloonscannot easily be computed —Dbut this, though a health question, is not the ques- tion at hand. It may be best for health's sako to take a far-off view of the unslaughtered flocks of Arcadia; but an eating-housoe conducted on principles of pure cookery would be a practical mercy to those who suf- fer for want of plain-boiled rice. That man who will invite us to a first-class chop-house, and treat us to good dinner fare, simply cooked, will deserve well of & pablic whose appetite is ready to revolt agaiust the prevailing regime. We shall hail him as a Bayard of cooks, without reproach, and his table will bea field of the cloth of gold. SANITARY MEAS! IN ASIA FOR PRE- VENTING THE CHOLERBA. The medical investigations on the origin of the Asiatio cholera have pointed out the filthy habits of the Mohammedan pilgrims to Mecca as the primary source to which the civilized world is indebted for the ravages of that dreaded calamity. This result of soientific investigations has led the European Govern- ments, and “especially that of France, to consider the question whether diplomatic influences might be ablo to reform the sanitary condition of the pilgrim- ages, and thus to dry up the source of incalenlable mischief. A correspondent of the Paris Patrie, from Jiddah, a port on the Red Sea, where the pilgrims land to proceed by land to Mecea, states that at the suggestion of the French Government many reforms this year have been carried through. The following are somo of the most important facts mentioned by the correspondent: At Jiddah large *‘khans” have been established, where the pilgrims have to stay for some time before continuing their journey. The condition of these | “ khans,” in a hygienic point of view, is most satis- factory. The journey from Jiddah to Mecca, which formerly was made in from 15 to 16 hours, will hereafter be made in 24, and there will be three stopping places. At each of these stopping places large * khans" have been established where the pilgrims will =pend the night and repose. At Mecca, great precautionary measnres have been adopted. A vast hospital bas been established near the city with a drug-store, Sick pilgrims will remain | in this establishment until their complete recovery. Moreover, eucampments have been prepared for the pilgrims where they will find everything they need, and which they will only leave during the times of their devotional exercises. Special attention bas been paid to the water ques- tion. The celebrated Zemzem Well, in the interior of the mosque, has beep repaired. This well never dries up, NH'LIH it furnishes an excellent and copions supply of water, it will be an immense benefit. The reservoirs which receive the water from the sources of the Arafat have also been restored, and will large- 1y provide for the wants of the numerous pilgrims. The most important reform which has been effected is that with regard to the sacrifices. Tnstead of leaving the flosh and the entrails of the slaughtered animals exposed to the air until they pass into complete de- Compos and fill the atmosphere with mias- mas, they will be covered with earth immediately after sunset. It is expected that this reform will cause great Qissatisfaction among the fanatical Moham- medans, but the authorities have at their disposal the necessary troops for executing the rules, It is confidently hoped that these reforms, strictly exceuted, will soon put a stop to the spreading of the cholera, and for once the Imperial Government of Fraee will have gained for one of its acts the unauimous and enthusiastic gratitude of all nations. —— THE SAPPERS AND MINERS AT WORK. Last week a resolution was introduced into the Common Council repealing and rescinding the reso- lution of July 2, 1859, making the sidewalks on Fifth-ave., below One-hundred-and-tenth-st., from the line of the street to the kennel or gutter, thirty feet wide, and also repealing all other resolutions or ordinances permitting the owners of property along the avenue to use fiftecn feet of the sidewalk for court-yards, &c. This resolution was referred to & Joint Special Committee of both Boards. If it should be reported favorably upon, as is likely, and should the power for evil of the sappers and miners in the Common Council. The proposition is to enlarge the carriage-way, now forty feet wide, by taking in part of the sidewalks, and then to cut away the magnifi- cent stoops aud to throw the court-yards into side- walks, Of course, all this is proposed to be done under the specions pretest of pablic convenience. All the propertyowners, all the occupants of -houses along the line of the avenue, and nine-tenths of the people of this City, are opposed to this new outrage about to be perpetrated by the Goths and Vandals in the Common Council. To address any but a certain kind of reasons to our City Fathers would by like burling a syllogism at the rocky battlements of the palisades. For over 34 years,the property-holderson the Avenue, relying upon the permission giventhem in 1832, have been erecting magyificent residences, at once the pride and orna- court-yards 15 feet upon the sidewalk; and now, after this long enjoyment of the quiet possession of this privilege, the property-holders go to sleep one night, not even dreaming of any such interference, and awake toread in their morning papersthat the sappers and miners aro at work. We can readily see that this proposition must have s its aim either one or the other of two objects—cither to black-mail the wealthy property-owners and occupants along the Avenue by thus threatening to destroy their property, or else it is the initiatory step to laying & railroad track in this the most beautiful of our streets, Who can suppose that our wealthy citizens would have erected their stately residences, so much admired by all, if they had for & moment imagined that their rights and priviloges were so soon to be taken from them ? Wo say to the Common Council that the patience of this community is worn out. There is a time when patience ceases to be a virtue and Lecomes & crime; aud wo should not be surprised i that time bad Gonie pass both Boards, it will be but another evidence of | ment of our City, and extending their stoops and [ AR TR T ST Ty, yroposition to interfere with Fifth-ave,—as it now stands, $ho most beautiful street in the world—ig evidence of tlie fact that in the City of New-York we are in an abnorwal condition—that we cannot be trusted to govern curselves. And yet, intire face of this and other equally neJsrious schemes, we find newspa- persamong us professiug t0be respectable that exclaim against the very idea of any$bingbeing established bera that in the loast degree smacks f the nature ofa Board of Revision, Why, we do not k20w but that, upon the whole, a few days' reign of a genvine San Fran- ciseo Vigilanee Committee would be a govd thing for us all, as it would rid us of a Common Counvil which is both an injury and a disgrace to every intorest in this community. Of course, this measure will pass the Board of Alder- men, inspite of what Aldermen Varnum and Gedney can do to prevent it, and also the Board of Council- men, in spite of the efforts of Councilmen Pullman, White, Thomas, Roberts, Kellogg and Tyng. We shall watch this measure closely, and publish the votes on it, so that all our people may see who are the rogues and who the honest men in the Common Council. We fear it will pass both Boards, because our City Fathers think there is some money inl it. If our tax-payers would give a more ready and hearty support to an orzanized effort to protect their interests, it would not be long before it wouid be out of the power of the municipal rogues who govern us to perpetrate so foul a wrong. The work performed last Winter at Albany by the Citizens' Association is an evidence of what can be accomplished in the way of reform by the concentrated efforts of energetic and intelligent tax-payers, Unless our citizens generally open their eyes to the precipice npon whose brink they are standing, and awaken to aknowledge of their own respousibility in endeavoring to obtain for our City a good Municipal Government, it does not re- quire a prophet or the sen of & prophet to foretell the result. P A METH! ST UNION CONVENTION, A Convention of the non-Episcopal Methodjst bodies of the United States (not as the dispatch to the Associated Press bas it, of *the New Methodist Episcopal Church ") has assembled at Cincinuati for the purpose of effectiug a permanent Union. At a pre- liminary meeting held last year, four Methodist bodies, the American Wesleyans, the Free Methodists, the Independent Methodists and v.h' Northern Confer- onces of the Methodist Protestants were represeuted. Last year the feeling among the members of these denominations was unanimous in favor of a union,and we believe such is still the case. Together, the four denominations represent a membership of about 70,000 They all agree in an earnest opposition to slaveholding, and to making any distinction among citizens on account of color. The first three bave from the start made non-slavebolding a condi- tion of membership, and the Northern portion of the Methodist Protestants have shared, though not the samo legislation, at least the same sentiments. The first three, we believe, have not a single congrezation in the former slave States, and as regards the Metho- dist Protestants, only a part of those in Westera Vir- ginia have remained i connection with the Confer- ences in the Northern States. Conferences bave beeu and still are in full harmony with the sentiments of the late slaveholders. The new church, if formed, may be relied upou by the friends of frecdom s an earnest co-worker in the cause of Universal Liberty and Impartial Suffrage. e ———— C. L. Vallandigham tersely says that if President Jotnson's priuciples®are those of the party which elected him, he has for at least ten years beou 3 Re- publican without knowing it. ** Alike unknowing and unknown,” we move as an amendment. —_— METROPOLITAN BOARD O EXCISE. R S35 Oue Thousand Licenses Granted—Cnrions State of Aflairs in Rich d Coun ty—The Village Witheut a Charter and With No Legal Mn. nicipal Gevernwment, The Metropolitan Board of Excise met yesterday afternoon, immediately aftor the adjournment of the Bosrd of Health, all the members being present, The minutes of the last weeting were read, amended and approveds Commissioner Actoy, from the Committee on Applications, raported the names of 1,000 persons who were recommended as roper persons to receive licenses—193 for Brooklyn aud =n ‘\ E-r N.l-w-\'oxk—:nnnn; o total of 3,000 thus far granted by the Board | A commupication from Jobn A. Katzmeyer and others. @ committes on behalf of the lager-beer brewers, a to bave a speclal bearing before a full attendanee of the Loard of Ex- cise, wos read and referred to the Committee on Applications. A letter from the sutler at Fort Wood, Bedloe's Islaud. waa read; but the counsel reported that the fort was under the ju- risdiction of the United States, and if the Government chose to give the susler Liceuse, tbe Board of Excise could not help it. LICENSES FOR NEW-BIIGIITON. The Trustees of New-Brighton, believe, the exclusive anthority over the matic lage. The subject was brought up at the last meeting. and, on motion of Judwe Bosworth, referred to the counsel. Yes terday afternoon the following report was read and fled T the Metropolitan Hoard of Excise: The wndesigued respsctiul'y reports as follows: Belog uuable Litheris to oblain & pe: opy 9 the chuier of the villsge of New-Brightou, | canuot safely advise m to the sapposed of suihority belwean the Trustees of said viilage and thie \ame 1s the case in reference o th viliage of Port Rickmond. Av oot s copies of the charters of these two villazes can be ob- tained, | wiil examine into aud reporé u,ea the question siising i respect of thew. Th the mean time, a copy of the charter of the viliags of Edgswater lages naced. il being oged ot sbout the this J5:ard, and giving y striet incloding the whole of Rich uently to the passeze of the W that the Trastees of thab Lo salo of spisituons ater bad beon passad sub- provisious conained tn ftis Board. The Bt 1t sequeatly to the aot creatin » r o of's to gra to fix nd it provides st ne liquors skall be soidfn said villaze without su-lh ligeuse under penalt of s mirdemenior,” (Charter of Edgewater, title 3, section 1, ravedl sion 14.) These terms are $road enougl 0 give rise to questions as to the matter of excise within the vilage 5 but 1t is unnecessary te inquire iuto such questions. becouse the whole ensctuieut creating the Board of I'tustees of the vil coustitubional sad voids The Charter (Title 2, sectio chosen by the aleetors of the Title 2, section 1) s to take oard of Trustees it 3 soction ot autl Oliver W. ] actuntil the electis , | third Toesday in May, it the year 130, aad R, M. Hazerd, shall be Tristees from the the election of thew siccessors, at ‘of May. im the yoar 1969, Thus thers are Trustees (or terivs of iwo aud thise years, sppoiated by the Lestaature; The Contitution of tis State (Artcle 10 weticu) vequires that al village officers Whoss election is not orévided for by the Comtirution ftaelf, shall be elected by the electors of the village, of appointed by sucki sauhori- tles thereof as the Legiistute may designate; 1t o clear toat the hlti-x-tnn caunst appoint the Trastees of the vil'age; and W foliowa that the Bourd o Lrustees of the village of Edgewater is nol legally consiituted, wpd it has no legal ru-m of avillage charter. with suck n it. doubtiess wis by inadvertence us 1guors withi the the sum to be their ynceosgors ie cousequesces of it are decinive. 1tis ssid that both the other village charters renn:‘lx ranted te parts of Ricbwond County, vamely, to New-Brighton u: ot Rich moud, have the same feature, and tist in all three of the vilagrs the Trustees named in the charier bave procecded to crga: 15 this shiali be found to be the case, none of the clarteis, Wl ot passed with the powers sad dutics of subpuitted, ¢ 1366, in! Respectiu before ot after April this Board of Excise. No other busioess was trassacted, and after some desult debate thc Board adjournes Beard of Councilmen. NO QUORUM. The Board held no mesniag on Friday afternoon, quorum not appeariog et roll-call, and the Board therefore ad Journed to Moxday next at 2 o'clock p. w. e ——— Corvmpia CoLLEGE LAw-ScuooL.—The exami nations of the graduating class at this Tnstitation were last evening concluded. They were conducted by Prof. Theo. W. Dwight, LL,D,, in the presonce of the Law Commitiee, which consisted of 8, B, Ruggles, chairman; Governeur M. Ogdos, and George T. Strong. At the close of the examination, Mre. Ruggles arose and addressed the class in a mauner bighly complimentary both to the Professor aud his students. He stated that this class marked an L in the history of the Tnstitution; that they exhibited & degree of proficienoy which eutitled them not only to the name anIWl'n"{l,lflll also to the Boborable name of Counsellors—men fully qua ified to wdvise fellows in all ths concerns of life. He said that he had leasure in stating that the Committee had uot felt i :y 10 hesitate :.'. to the claims of & singlo member of e class (whicl consists of about fifty members examined) be admitted to the bar. He bad watched over (he Iustitu: fon and be felt that the Collego had gd'“ reason to take credit to itself for the Law Department. Other htlemen present expressed themaselves i o similar manner, Ko commancement exercises of the Law School takes pl on Wednesday, tho 16th inst., at 74 o'clook p. m., i ts) of the Iistorical Sogigty, quiuer Sogoad-ave, aud Kigveals s th w tion aluce its ncept All the otber Southern