The New-York Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1866, Page 4

Amngements. IEATER ER TOO LATE TO MEN Las. Fisher, Mark S T! N 3 G ( B loge 1 W W Ward, ladeline Hent Burrets, GARDEN 1F.GUR, THE MOUNTEPANK n,' Blalsdell, Buiry, Holwmes Chanfrau. iins Everstt, Mrs. OLYMPIC THEATER ¥ THIS EVE! THE THREE GUARDSMEN NG, at ER GARDEX, CONNIE SOOGAH, or THE WEAR Mr. and M. Baizey Williams. TIMS FVE IKO OF TE BROADWAY THEATER THIS EVENING, ilise Adan 1raacs Menken fa MAZEPPA HEATER ES; Or, THE STATUE BRIDE— THIS EVEN orrell Sisters,Madume Strebinge: NG, ¥ CROSSING THE LINE: Tue full company. OLD BOWERY THEATER. DEVILKIN: THE LOTTERY TICKET 4 BTATUE: Miss Frouy Herriog, Mise Eicous liey G. L. Fox, W. H. Whalley, Hurden, C. K. Fox, D. THIS EV [ Me ARN NOON [Tue Caoes . Hudawsy, Daly. J o o0, Anderson, Wilton. ONE S AMERICAN MUSF t 2,004 THIS EVENING ov e ZiINCALI-Mr B THIS AFTE i Or, W OF MUSIC, F LA TRAVIATA: Bos si, Orlandin, Colletti, Barili, Muzio. BROOKLYN ACADEMY ( VENING at 6 The OPERA 0] THIS chotia, Ana NEW.YORK CIRCUS. PRIAN ard MNASTIC PER . Master FORMANCE: Seaguier, Mz J THIS EVEN R AFRICAN PULKA. CHRIST THIS EVENING. BALLADS, LESQUES, DANCES, SULO! IRVING HALL. CHORAL FESTVAL=Dr. Cuter's Lecture THIS EVE ou the Catbiedrals of STUDIO BUILDING, TO-DAY and Tills EVENING by Larkio O. Mead. jr., E BINELLA," “ ECI0, West Tenth wbition of MARBLE STATUES LE STORY,” * LA CONTA TO-DAY aod THIS EVENING, exhibit W, Bradford. SEALLRS CRUSHED BY ICEBLRGS beaefit of the Soldiers Business Notices. TuR UNDERs!GNED are under obligations to many parsons who gratuilously advertiss the viriues of the PLANTATION Brrraes, but to none more thau to the Rev. W. W, Hicks, of Balti more, who, in his speech at the snniversary of the Tomperance So-, riety, i Brooklyn, said: “Thege is & person saing himself §. T. 1000, X., a queer duck, whose vame is Drake. He was very patriotic and wouid ot sell any of bis Bitters to the South. If be Aad given them the Rebellion would not have lasted hnlf 30 long. A year or 80 820 he got thin in the posket” (public benefactors seldom get rewarded) “and he issued & proclamation to varions clergymen offering them a bottle of Plantation Bitters to analyze, sud if they liked it to recommend it. 1gotone. A Presbyterian brother said be got oue st Frauk Greeo's and itwas good. W ara not responsible for the Reverend gentlemen's style—he was no doubt einbarrassed, and hit ua modestly, but the benevolence of his nature is clearly visiblo, Out of the three hundred and fiftytwo clergymen in New-York sud Brooklyn, we think thers are two hund- vod and uinety who nse Plantation Bitters. These Bitters are just the thing for cl n and wen of over-worked brain. We are afrsid Brother Hicks's brain is too much tasked, but with reciprocal iiberaltiy we will give Lim a whole case of Bitters, and I have no doubt that will restore the equilibrivm. Good material cost just now and “ keeps our pockets thin,” but ae we follow o pure standard we bave fall confidence * truth crusbed to rise aguin.” Frieud Hicks, one good turn deserves another, and if you know of auy place on the contisent where they have not got Plantation Bit- tors, just tet ua know and we will send some right on. The people wust 0ot suer bocunse we are pogr. Keep us edvised of your bealth. Yours fraternal'y, P. H. Drake & Co. Lyox's Insger POWDER, for extermivating Roaches, Ants aod Vermin, aud preserviog furs aud clotbing from Moths. The origins! and geauine i sigoed E. Lyox. Al others re imitations. Take no other Tnsect Pow der but Lyox's. Sold by ail druggists, and by Baswas & Co. No.2l Parkrow. Breserr's FLORIMEL closely resembles the odor of & care and delicate bouquet of Bowers, and ia this respest stands unrivaled. A few drops will leave its peculiar and delighifal (ragraace upon the handkerchief for many houts. Bouwwrr's CoLoxE is equal to the best imported. It is put upin @ neat and elegant style, and wins for a favorite piace on the drowizgtable. Its intrineio merits really justify the high re in whict it is beld.—[ Prosidence Journal. For sa's by all druggists. 3,000 SarscLes PER HoOUR are made by the EMPIRE Suixorx Macaiss with only 0XE Borsw Powsk; snd will make ‘out of the same smoust of timber ONE-THIRD MOKE SHIN than canbe made by smy sswing sbingle mackine. A. Requa, Genersl Agent, No. 141 Broad New-York CATARRH, DYSPEPSIA, SCROFUL Lavim a¥p Kipxey Diskasks.— W R for 80 years proprictor of the Linuean 0 world the diseovery of NATURE'S KEMEDIALS FROX FLANTS. sorpa w Broxcuiris, M X, ing in ¢t 0 bitberto known to man. These compri Posriva U 8 for the above, and for all Inherited and Chrouic D) eases, Nervous Debiiity, Rbeuinatics, Mercurial Poantiing frow impurity of the blood, hitherto ouly palinued cuted. Apersonal interview will sotisfy the most doubling mind. Ad: vice gratis. Explanatory Cire: one stamp. LSIOR ! EXCELSIOR ! = and Bots), in such u orkmsnship upriv CEpAR CAMPHOR. Putyour Clothes awsy with Cedar Cewpbior and you Insure agsins the ravazes of CroTHEsMoTHS most cheaply. C. C. is sold by Drog- verswher Hawmir & Crapxax. Boston. CHOLERA! CHOLERA ' '—SUMMER LOZENGES, pre- pared by CAELETOX & Hovay of Lowell, Masw, will cleck Diserhy which i the first symptor of Asiatie Cholers. " DELICATE AS CHERRY BLossoMs—The exquisite “ Swow-FLAKE" HATS for misses, children sud ladies st Grxix's, No. chares all who sce the: rice, untrimmed, $3. ay World, the Bus World, the Profe ror'd, the Youthful World, the Economic World, il fivited to GrxIN there to inspect all that is and suwptious i 0. 515 BROADWAY. zaiitk, grsceiul, useful, wpecial, debonuaix Fasmioxs o7 7w Dav. AsomiEr CuRB.—H. Mullan, esq., of No. 1 Grandat, Willisanburgh, bae been, completely cured of o violent attack of Rbeumatism by one bottle of METCALYE'S GrrAT Ruze MATic RuxeY, and is willing to state his cuse to auy person who will oall at tha above sddress. PARTICULAR ATTENTION P. 1D to the manufacture of & of Copprx TiPPED SHoRS which Luve proved so overyday wear, Biaziow & TRASK, Munufac: turerers an ‘holesale Dealers i Boote sod Shoes, Now 32 sud 34 Veoey o, All go0ds warranted. " Ask yonr Druggist for Dr. BANKER'S HoME BirTeRs %D Lisk Toxic—the Cholers Preveniive. A good tling to bave in the bouss. Depot, No. 510 Grand-t., N. Y. Sr0oND-HAND SAFES in large numbers, of our owa i ohare make taken I exclomge fr our e etect AL oud o sale low. & 08, 265 Broadway. and 721 Chestantat., Phitn Pequot Machine Co., Mystic Ri Q! ure the most improved Loows for weaving Tapes, Bindin, e B e b € Tt S SupporTERS. - - ‘0.8 Cure Ot uly No. 2 Vesey-st. Lady sttendant. e LUMBER. Witson, Warnors & Co., 'IM&V‘O-. um-h’l;lhi.fl;-lllnm L B t stock UMBER y, wi Petition with the Albany ad Troy Yards Vignette, $3 per dozen; Duplicates, §2. Auc..‘:?.;lflm' ¥ l!f wws, No. 108 Chathass .g Y. FroruscE LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES—Bes 4 they sell in com- ? SEwixe Macine Cowrary, in the wor'd. Frorexce S g;m:zu i © _THB im Ell‘xfllie Hook Lockstitch - Machiaes —A. H. Supin Ro. 537 Brosdway. Agets wanted. Howe SEWING MACHINE COMPANY. —ELIAS HOWE, Pusaident, No. 099 Brosdway. Agents wanted. GrOVER & BAkER's HiGHEsT PREMIUM ELASTIC Srrron Swwing Macwirss. for family us InrROVED LOOK-STiTc MAcHINES for Tailors and m-’- & Baxze Sewiwe Macurve Coxraxy, L R R - WazeLer & WILSON'S LOCK-STITCH SEWING ‘and Berroxmous Macwixe. No. €35 Broadway. WitLcox & Gisps SEWING-MACHINE—A T wiTh 4 HixoLE THREAD! “ Grand Trial of Se: s ~suih free, with samples of Work—No. 508 Broadway. = MoTT's CIIIIC-A: &nnl restores vm’ hair, e A A = aiibstadueie ER SEWING-MACHINE, With inmnuunu for every specialty, Button, Machines. 'vErpELL'S WEDDING CARD DEPOT, No. 302 Broad- way, N. Y.—All the latest styles of Cards, Note Paper, Bilver Plates, ko. sl e e————————— e DyseeestA TAsirrs—For Indigestion, Heartbnrn, %—Mwhnfl.w;wufluannnfm:m 1GHT wiag: ]’"‘F’ Taz t | A Norep CuerGY¥AN AND Pusuio LECTURER says of Brown's Buowomias Teocw=s: * In all my lasturlng tours, 1 put Troches tnta my esrpel-bag as regulsrly aa 1 do lectares or Publio speakers, vooaliste, and ell others who exerclio the e linen." e, shoutd never fail of using the Troches. They surpasa oll | proparstinas u cleacing s0d rengthening the voise, removing hoarse stion of the throat, and as & cough remedy are pre- Syaproms 0¥ WORMS IN CRILDREN are often over- looked. Worms la the stomack and bowels oause irritation, which | can be removad ouly by the use of & sore remedy. Bmowx's Vem wurrar Coxvins, or Worm Lozenges, are o 3,500.—THE NATIONAL BRICK MACHINE, Two Homses, makes 5,500 bricks per hour, with # defined edges, and the bricks will stand aLL CLINATES, while made by the dry pressing machines ull CRUXBLE TO PIKORS 01 be- g KEPOSED 10 FROST. A Rrqua, General Agent, No. 141 Rroadway, Y. Dr. LEVETTs Patent Combination Gold Web jand Rubber Base—an extraordinary improvement in astificial teeth.” N 26 East Twentieth-st.. fifth house from Brosdway. THE ARM AND LG, by B. FRANK PALMER, LL. 1 Tho “best” frea to soidicrs, and low to officers aad eivilisna. 1. Chestut-st.. Phila; Astorpl, N.Y.; 19 Green at., Boston. Avoid fraudulent imitations of his natents. 8. M. Perroscint & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- 1¥6 Anxts, No. 37 Park row, New-York (established ia 164%) agents for The Tribuue, and all the newspapers in the Usited States and British Pro NewVork Daily Sribune. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1366, pie and effectual. Ne notfos san betaken of Anonymous Communioations. Whateverls intendad for inssrtion must be authentioated by the name and ad dress of the writer—not necessaclly for pubilostion. but as u zuar wnty for bis good fuith. Ali bustess lettars for (s oflice sboula be addiessed to “ The Twts ok, Now-York. We caunot undertake to return rejeotsd Communioations. NEWS OF THE DAY. —— FOREIGN NEWI The steamsbip Java, from Liverpool, May5, via Queens- town, May 0, arrived at this port yesterday, bringivg two duys later news. The situation in Germany and Italy is still critical. Ttaly bas engaged not to attack Austria, but popular de onstrations in_favor of war continue to be freg quent and @ sinstic. Austria, Italy, Prussia, areal mmmumfi their armaments, aad it was commouly believed that war might break out in a fow days. England has promised to Austrid to give to peaceful offers of Aus- tria at tho Prussian Court an euergetic support. The French Minister Kouber had official lared the intens tion of his Government to remain eutral in the war, also to roserve, if necesssarry, liberty of action. It is serted that nezotistions are ncuwfy going on_ between France, Englaud and Russia for assembling & European Congress. The steamship Helvetia, with one case of cholera on board, arrived back in the Mersey on the 4th, and was placed i strict quarantine, Several cases of cholera oc- eurred in Liverpool among the emigrants in transit through the town. Telezrams have boen sent to the Continent questing that no more e uld be sent to Liver- pool for some time. Pre measures agaist the r;m;urn cre being sdopted in Liverpool and otner kn- glish cities. In the House of Commons, May 3, Mr. Gladstone made bis annual finsucial statement. For the ensuing year he estimated the expenditure at £66,225,000, and the revenue at £67,575,000 leaving o surplus of £1,350,000. Mr. Glad stone in referring to the American debt, thought that i would constitute no difficulty to the American people. Official news from E1 Paso, reaching to April 20, states that Prosident Juarez, on account of sickness, had not yet returned to Chihuahua, but would soon do so. News had been received at El Paso of the defeat of the French co mander (Billot) of Jurango by two of the Liberal Generals. A dispateh from Gen. Bazaine to the Freach Goverumont confirus a victory of the Liberuls. GENERAL NEWS, The report of the Committee on Appointments and Discipline of the Metropolitan Fire Cor | that during the mouth of April 26 by Companies’ patrol, 28 fires were exting vidual Engine Companies, and se guished by individual Hook aud Ladd The Union party in Baltimore have am oting on Friday night next, with the Hon. Francia Thomas, the Hon. Jobn L. Thomas, éun.. and Senator Cresswell of | Maryland, Seuator Nye of Neveda, the Hon James Garfield of Olio and the Hop. Samuel McKee of Keu- tucky, as the speakers. Advices from the Pacific const leave the Fort Goodwin affair in a complete muddle. One dispateh confirms pre- vious accounts o1 the massacre, while another says th ation, This aspe to us it is 1a0 atrocities in such reports are without fou uy be e clear t Iigenc: Fenian affairs are rather quiet. Mr. Stephens despairs | of uniting the two branches of the family; and, without union there, certainly, in this case, not be much strength, Still, contributions flow in quite freely, and the money derived from the Jones's Wood meeting is said to be already on its way for the redemption of Ircland. Reinhardt H. F. List has been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the recent robbery in the Eighth- ave. Evidence against hun looks conclusive, but be denies ull complicity in the affair, and says be was st Hunter's Point when it occurred. - .didate for the Naval Academy for the F Juaes M. MeLean, William E. C an and Bloomtield of the Board ‘ducation. e. the new C ctor of se yesterday and formally assumed the posi- lie bas recently been appointed. His re- seing his deputics wero thought by some to e Port, visited the | | Custom-Mc tion to whic marks in add be siguificant. In the case of Dr. Clans the testimony was all in, and the arguments were concluded yesterday at noon, and the jury were charged and retired to” their foom. Tho Court will come in this moruing. Mr. John D. Cushing, 30 years editor of T'he Berkshire Courier, died at Great Barrington, Mass., May 1, at the aze of 70 years, being one of the oldest cditors in Now- England. Capt. Fox, Assistant Sceretary of the Navy, goes to Europe to iurmullf present the resolutions adopted by Congress, congratulating the Czar of Kussia on his pe from assassination. ‘The lower branch of the Connecticut Legislature rcnhm day voted for United States Senator, with the following | result: Ferry, 132; K. D. Hubbard, 93; Foster, 7; Sey- | mour, 1. Judge Smalley, at Rochester, has made an important decision affecting those who make false returus under the revenue law. An Episcopal Council mot at Alexandria, Va., ye day, but no specially important business was transacted. Ex-Rebel Gen. Pendloton was a member of the body. Quict is restored on the Plains and negotiations are about to be made for peace with the upper tribes of the rennes about Fort Laramie. There is a famine at the Cape de Verde islands, and the « Portuguese Government decrees the free entrance there of various articles of food. The anniversary of Columbia College Law School oe curred last night and was celcbrated with appropriate ex- ercise Mr. Seward reached Auburn, N. Y., on Tuesday even- ing, but made no speech. Yesterday was his 65th birth- . - An important circular has been issued from the Treas- | ury Department to collectors along the Canada frontier, | Five hundred bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at | Mobile yesterday in consequence of u stroke of lightning, The Board of Health has gone to work in earnest to to abate the fat-boiling nuisances, among maoy others. Gov. Fenton bas appointed Dr. Lonis Naumann to be a | Coroer of this county, in place of Dr. Collin, deceased. | Duriog April, thoro were 286 post-offices reopencd | throughout the Southern States. | Gold was atron, day yesterday. The price at 4 p. m. was $0j. The sales by the Treasury, thus far, aro estimuted at $6,000,000. Government s show o fall of § in 5208 of 1562, | in the issue of 1865, and | in 10-40s, The currency debt was firm at the fall prices of Tuesday. oney on call 18 abundant at 45 per cont. Commercial r is quoted 554 for best short bills, and 54 and 4 month’ potes. CONGRESS, | SENATE. MY 16,—The veto message was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. A resolution was reported for a boerd to examine a site fora fresh water basin for iron- clads ot Portland, Me. Bills were introduced to transfer the Indian Burcan to the War rtment, and to fix the militery peace establishment. The House bill repealing an act concerning passports was passed, as was a joint ol . i ean debated and aimended, and peading T comsdera. tion the Senste adjourned. HOUSE. A Dbill to secnre the safoly of &manzm by prolibiting the antr{liflg of nitro-gzuflne, .y WES {:u«[ Varions patent bills were considered and passed. Committee of the Whole $he tax bill wes An smendment to NEW-YORK DAILY THIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1566. of the population, and of the truly Oriental honors which had been bestowed upon Mr. Komissaroo, the proserver of the Emperor's life. Nothing was said about Karakosofl, the wonld-be assassin, except that be was an impoverished Russian nobleman, whom & melancholy temper, and irritation at losses suffered in consequence of the emancipation of the serfs, bad driven to the desperate attempt. Later accounts state that Gen. Mu- ravieff, the *bloody general,” has been made head of a special committee to try Karakosoff. Re- ports freely circulate to the effect that Karakosoff was conneeted with *socicties aiming at the subversion of the established order of the State,” and that his at- tempt, instead of being the deed of a monomaniac, was the work agreed upon by a band of conspirators. 1t is also stated that stroug efforts will be made to use the event as & meana to influence the Emperor's mind against the liberal policy which his government has been hitherto pursuing. The facts in the case are, however, as yet 50 -indefinite that we must wait for later news before expressing a definite opinion. Gen. Orris 8. Ferry was yestorday elected U. 8. Senator for six years by the popular brauch of the Connecticut Legislature, The Senate votes to-day; and the Demoerats are secking to induce three or four Republicans to unite with them in voting for Mr. Foster, and then attempt to elect him. We reckon they will fail. —ee gislature (House) of Tennessee on the 11th d a bill conferring Civil Rights on the Col- ored People, by the close vote of 31 to 23. An amend- ment, excluding Blacks from juries was carried by 30 against 29, and one excluding their children from coia- mon schools by a close vote. The L inst. pas The report of the Deputy Health Officer of the con- dition of affairs at Quarantine up to yesterday noon states that there have been no deaths nor admissions (for two days), and that thero is no cholera on board the Hospital ship. Another bill for the * military peace establishiment” meaning an army bill—was yesterday introduced in the Senate by Mr. Wilson, and referred to the Mil- itary Commi tee. —_— A bill was passed yesterday in the House to secure the safety of passengers on steamships by probibiting the transportation of nitro-glycerine. —e The President’s Veto Message on the Colorado bill will be found on the seventh page. —— THE MENPHIS RIOTS. The Evening Post objects—as we trust no other pro- fessedly Republican journal has done or will do—to the sending by Congress of a committee to investigate the late murderous riots at Memphis, It asks— ““What is & riot in Memphis or New-Vork to Congreas ! Suppose the committee ascertain, as they probably will, taat & ferent outruge hus besn committed on the colored people, and that the proceedings were utterly lawless and inexcusable. Waat then t iat ean Coagross do about it Can it punish the rioters? Can it do anytling but report '—exoept, indecd, discuss the report ¢’ Ansieers by The Tribune. Congress can o ain by this in gation, 1. Whetler the riot was or was not premeditated. 2. Whethor it was wholly or partly incited by White hatred of free niggers.” 3. Whether it was or was not especially envenomed against those Blacks who served in the Union armies. 4. Whether others | than ex-Rebels took part in it against Blacks. Whether the municipal authorities and their police really tried to protect th innocent victims. 6, Whether they have, even ye made any earnest efforts to bring the g 7. Whether there is a public sentiment in the that will demand and enforce the protection of Blacks from similar outrages in future. 8. Wh and, if any, what, further logislation by Congress is necessary to protect the Blacks from butehery and rapine. 9. What was the animus of the burning of the Colored schools and churches. 10. What can and should be done to encourage and protect those who are trying to secure to the the bl f Education. The Post & manding officer of the [military] district " would answer every purpose. We reply that Gen. Stone- man would not feel authorized to investigate the mat- ter so broadly as it noeds investigation—that he would feel constrained to regard it in o military aspect, without refe remoter impulses and its lessons. The fullest inquiry that he would feel authorized to make wonld no wise preclade or render needless such a seruting as the Committee should, and we trust will, make. The simple fact that Congress is bent on prol this outrage to the quick will domore for the prote tion of the Southern Blacks from future outrages than would an addition of twenty regiments to our re army. The salutary apprebeusion it must inc the cautious circumspection it will suggest, will be worth to the cause of Peace and Justice many times their cost. 1f any blow The Post can strike its frie could surprize us, its cavil at the sending of this Com- mittee would do so. PHUROUSN, Major-Gen. John A, McClernand, of Tlinois, did not win quite so much fame in our late War as did Gens. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, &c., though he had as good achanceas they; and he did not succeed in elect- ing M'Clellan President, though he did his best. In ghort, the said Major-Gs nate and is not so distinguished as he evidently thinks he should have been; hence the anxicty for a new deal, which impelled him to write to a late Johnson weeting at Macon, I1L, as follows: “Glancing at the President’s reconstruetion policy, wht vemuing to be said of itt He has officidlly and llvmllly sunounced the termination of the Rebellion, and the fact that each and all of the States are equally entitied to exercise and enjoy the same relations to the General Government. W hiat should the disfranchised States do? As an humble individual, revering the Constitution aud respecting the rights of all. i way let those States slect their Senators and Representatives, and let Ihose Senatore and Representatives repair to Washington, and take their entitled seats in those bodses, peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must, and let the consequences take care of themselves.” —1It was such counsel from such Northern Democrats as McClernand that egged on the Southern politicians to spurn their seats in the XXXVIth Congress, and rush into Rebellion and Civil War. They were deceived then: their Northern tempters left them in the lurch in the hour of trial, and volunteered to fight (as Generals) to put them down. The South is not likely to be thus swindled a second time, If Major-Gen. McClernand and his fellow Copperheads want another Civil War, let them inaugurate it before they seck to embroil the South, “After you, Si There is akind of sad pleasure in the efforts of wise and kind men to aid the soldier who has lost his right hand in acquiring the use of his left. We at times see men who are ambidextrous; but the gift comes so oddly and suggests such manifest discomfort that any effort to popularize itor make it a branch of study has failed. The war has thrown upon us a large and de- serving class of soldiers, and to enable them to be useful to themselves and society an effort has -been made to cultivate the use of the left hand. The recent exhibition of left-hand penmanship shows that any of us may become ambidextrous if we try, and that the most uncomfortable things in nature may become u increase the whisky license from ‘fl»mu.m WaS Te- jocted, Twelvo puges of the bill were disposed of. No- merous bills were read twice and referred, others troduced, and at 4} o'clock the House adjourned. The first accounts from Russia concerning the sttempted assassination of the Emperor treated almost exclusively of the loyal congratulations which had been addressed to the Emoveror from all classes gifts, means of advancement and social progress, giv- ing independence instead of pauperism—home, friends and family instead of cold charity. ‘While we are striving to make one class of our fel- low-citizens ambidexterous, should we fail to recog- nize another class, who are neither permitted the dex- ter hand nor sinister hand? 'We have politicians who verform the feats of the vrestidicitsteur—with the ballot—and still others who feel that it represents the power of an effete Slavery system. These claim power and wield it; but no such privilege is given to men who have shown devotion to freedom, nation- ality, manhood, the flag, by valor in the field, forti- | tude in prison, the perils of many fierce campaigns. We pass around the hat in charity for men who want their right hand. They ask only fair play—that they may have a chance—that the world will forget their being cripples, and give them a day’s wages for aday’s work. The other class asks no more. Instead of hat or charity-box, they demand the ballot. In the eyes of the law, with this sublime franchise in their keeping, they are freemen indeed, ambi-dexterous, capable of saying yea and nay, and gifted with the ts that “‘a report from the com. | to its moral aspects, or to its | ds | ral has not been so fortu- | power of self-preservation. GERMANY AND ITALY. Itis a singular illustration of the moral character of modern diplomacy that each of the three great Powers which are now in Europe on the brink of war officially declares that she is arming only for defense, having no intention whatever to make an aggressive movement, and that,nevertheless, all Europe continues to belteve war certain and inevitable. In addition | to Austria and Prussia, which had previously made this declaration, the Government of Italy has now no- tified that of France that she engages mot to attack ; Austria. If the three Governments had that faith i their mutual assurances which three individuals of sterling integrity would generally be expected to have in sim- ilar relations, there is no reason why they shonld not now hasten to end a disarmament which is extremely expensive and threatens at least two of them with a national baukruptey. But they not only do not dis- arm, but are pushing forward the mobilization of all their available troops with the utmost possible speed. Prussia is said to have mobilized her entire army, with the exception of one army corps; Austria, likewise, has put her whole army upon a war footing, and Italy hias under arms nearly 400,000 men. This, of course, does not encourage the hope of peace, but induces the organs of public opinion everywhere to believe in the immediate opening of hostilities. The belief in the imminence of war has of late been steadily gaining strength, and leading papers in every European country expressed the opinion that the beginuing of hostilities was no longer a question of weeks but of days and hours, The responsibility of applying the match to the immense amount of combustible material which for | many years has been accumulated in Europe, must | devolve upon Ital Austria, however much pro- voked, will shrink from being the first to draw the sword, for she knows how vast interests are at stake and how fatal a blow an unsuccessful war might be | to her. The warlike ardor of Bismark, however eager to risk a great war for carrying through the sapposed mission of Prussia to swallow up the small States of northe¥n and central Germany, bas been sufficiently cooled off by the manifestatious of public opinion throughout Germany, and b, the attitude of the otber European powers, not to take at present | the decisive step and to pass the Rubicon. If Aus- tria and Prussin alone were involved, the difference would at present be much more likely to give rise to | | musio grat | pays quite as well as beer; finer saloons and more that aro afforded thom. If there is'no ohoioe between frowsy back-parlors or poor attics without gas, the street, or a whisky-shop, they go into the shop, though the liquor be poor and the company bad. A saloon which has been cheap, aud is often crowded, and never slight- ed. In proportion to the intelligence and cheapness of the comforts offered them, the saloons are attended by the great body of the humble society. The populous ealoon life of New-York, so far from showing any essential depravity on the part of its patrons, is rather poof positive of a necessity of some kind taking this shape from the want of home-life which tenement houses, as at present constituted, do not greatly fos- ter or charm. With the wave of foreign population to these shores came the tide of beer and music, from which our saloons have drawn their chief and most iable and orderly element. The influence of beer has not, upon the whole, been bad, compared to that of whisky, which has been pernicious; and the delirious drunkard is not g0 common a sight now that there is a fair mean between extremes of beverage. While whisky, un- assisted by libertine legislation declines, beer takes the ascendant, whether legislation helps it or not. JIn the worst class of night-haunts it is least in favor, and with the body of the people it is the drink most preforred, beeause cheapest and least intoxicating. This is a good sign, aud mot to be despised; but beside this, German beer bas brought in German music, which of itself ought to be an evangelizer. Apart from the licensed and unlicensed pretty-waiter- girl system, for which a foul legislation is directly to blame, the influences of the beer and concert-hall have not been on the whole very alarming. Now, let us hope the paradises of rum, with all their bloated, thieving and unclean angels, will be put out of sight. The one good suggestion which anything like an in- telligent entertainment in our saloous offers is simply this: that any fair-minded man, having an eye to profit by his benevolence, may carry improvement further in the same direction. Music i the saloons 5 music—in short, greater accommodation might pay still better. Badly constructed, ill-ventilated, always overcrowded, no private business has such an enormous patronage as somo of these same saloons for which the people are willing to pay to get Lalf suffocated in if they can only get a scat and hear an orchestras Architecturally, there is great scope for progress. But we do not stop here. If cheap and good things can be profitable, and all the old haunts are so over- crowded, who will start a reading-room, & smoking- hall, or a coffee-saloon on the London plan? e————— NAPOLEON'S SECOND VOLUME, The second volume of Napoleon's Life of Ceesar has been published in Paris. We do not suppose that any copies bave yet been received in this country, and we notice that the English translation is not an- nounced in London till the 12th inst. Meanwhile, without undertaking to review a book we have not seen, UOr to express any opinion upon it at second- Land, the general interest in this work as a develop- ment of the political views of Napoleon the Third will justify us in abridging a copious account of the vol- a diplomat u to a real war., is Tt ofore, which must decide the ques- | | tion whether Europe shall have war or peace. And | Iy we only hear one voice, and that voice is | The Government, the Parliament, the | ¢ that the moment when ted and the union of Italy me, and tl I elapse before an imstances will return. Thi e, been aronsed. Garibaldi from for | people, be libe; mated bas at length cc PAass NOW, ARy years w favorable juncture of ¢ whole people have, th 0 reappears again upon the stage of political life. A complete understanding said to have been ! arrived At between | and : Government, and the old bero again add self to the patriotism of his countrymen who, in 1 achieved great deeds under his leadership, The r spouse to this appeal has been hearty and unanimous, ! No one can doubt the desire of the Italian Govern- ment to place itsell at the head of this popular move. ment, but it has been compelled to y so far to the pmatic influence has brought to | bearupon it, as to engage, with great hesitation and reluctance, not to attack Austria. This declaration | s likely ard somewhat the opening of war, but by no means to prevent it. The people press forward, sut may be unable to make to the agce, if the circumstances | which ¢ P and the Go i pressure a determir | continue favorable The French Government has, at length, heen pre- | vaied upon to vhat more fully its p | ent position rel the threatened war, speech of Minis er is more emplatic in its | deprecation of war; it explicily makes Italy | responsible for the consequences which a war begun by her may involve; it assures Europe in stronger terms than former declarations of the determination | of France to remain neutral; but finally, it again winds up with reserving for France liberty of ac- | tion,” which more than neutralizes all the other re promises. COMMONPLACES REFRESHED. In London, among other curious things not belong- ing to Queen-st., the shrowd and sober Britons of that most world-like of cities had, at late reports, such way- side benevolences as smoking-saloons, reading-halls, coffee-rooms, and, we infer, respectable places for sober, work-a-day people to collect and talk in. These | | good things are the reforming social additions in a | night-life to which the London concert-saloon was | parlor, theater and supper-room combined, and of | which Thackeray's drolly-tragical basso was the ec- | centric gtar. There were many more of these odd or | | commonplace resorts, fromthe first-class owleries, put- | whicl a stodent of St. Giles has classified with un- happy science. London is crossed aud recrossed with night is lurid and luminous with the associations wherein Ainsworth found his seutimental murderors, | Dickens rescued his ragged wandercrs, and Th ay | drew his cosmopolitan life. Possibly, Londoners are | tired of so much tragedy, and, taking hint of their novel-writers, would mitigate the painfel necessity of too much pathos every day with their bread and butter by making their condition at night a little more ¢ fortable. Peabody’s cheap and decent houses for | workingmen are a commonplace sanctuary iu their wag, but were a very great gift, and cost a great deal | of money. The difficulty hasbeen, as in every city, to | bring good things iuto profit where formerly <o many kinds of night commerce ran in the way of a sort of moral cannabalism. A smoking-saloon is trivial in & moral point of view, but it is not a rum-shop, nor is it up a long flight of stairs. The reading-room, we understand, can be entered at once from the strect, | and so with the coffee-room, where ordinary people | can talk and discover their respectability. We bave not a doubt that all these places pay well. They have been started on private speculation, and the world has plenty of those who want decent elbow room, and are athirst for cheap and sober refreshment. Wo could not, if we tried, persuade many of our publicans to become idealists even to this extent; but we are quite certain that institutions of this kind would, at this crowded hour, be among the most novel and profitable any commonplace restaurateur could wish to introduce into New-York. How our people spend their evenings is a thought al- ways worthy of serious regard. It happens, as the sta- tistics of the Excise Board would show, that they go into all sorts of places that are left open for them, and are abundaatly able to fill out all the ovnortunitios | ume whichone—and only one—of the last London | enlt and ronized alike by nobleman and pugilist, to the dens | antiquarian aud literary problems; and Loudon at | | them, if even they crossed it, from eutering the < presents from advance sheets. olume comprises the events between the ap- | ance in the history of Rome as well as of Casar, and | | abounding in opportunities for parallels, both of the direct and suggestive sorts, between the Cisar of that day and the Cesar, or the two Caesars, of the nine- | teenth century. poleon has long studied the wars in Gaul, and with such imperial resources at his command for the purpose of topographical investigation, that, whatever may be thought of the ment of Caesar to the government of Gauland | ssing of the Rubicon—a period of vast import- | —And in a note referring to the pro-consulalz ik Gaul, oceurs the following singular elueidation: **In all times,” the Kmperor, * we see the avsembli®e endeavor to nmu:."'h.: d-rm ea by the to aman uot sympathetic wrh them. 15 a0 oxample . The constitution of 1243 deoited that the Presdent of the French Repablic should be nomixated for four years. Prinos Louls Napolen was elected the 19tk of December, 1548, aot proclaimed on the 20th of the aame month, His powers ware to expire on the 20th of December, 1252, Now ths Constituent. Assembly which for the election of Priuce Louis Napoleon fixed the term of bis presidercy on the second Sua- day ag mouth of May, 1832, tbus depriviag buw of ssvey montbs. The book in fact means that Ceesar was the apostie of an idea—the friend of liberty and of the peopls, the sincere and enlightened opponent of aristocrany, and that Casarism and Napoleonism are ident..sl, each being inspirsd by the noblest aspirations fn e salvation of society and the progress of humau.y. The following is the Emperor's summary of his views —with the marginal note, or subetitle, ** Casar 14 forced into civil wi The supreme moment had arrived. Ciesar was reduoa lo this alternative, to keep himselbat the head of Lis army ot withstanding the Senate, or to give biuisell up to who would bave reserved for him the fate of Catiline’s aoc lices, condemned to death, if be had vot. like the Gras i Ratarnious, and so many others, been killed in a riot. . s this question naturally offers itself: Ougght not Coesar, whi ad 0 often confronted death in the battle-fieid, bave gove to 8 front it ag Rome under another form, aud hare renounce. bw command, rather than o:rm in & contest Which must cas! the Tepublic {pto all the agonies of a clvil war 1 Yes if Ly Lu: b negation he conld :mk TRome from auarchy. corruption, v« ¥ No. if ¢l i‘m-l? = pwu.‘nlu-c mlx.v » bad most at heart, the regeneration of repablic, Cr W Iike all men of bis character, cared little far Lfe, and i less for power, for power's sake; buf, the cili ¢ th lar felt that " in b obliged b _§ I arty, bebind bim; ir hed him forward vanquish, in lpiw of legality, the imprecations of adversaries and the uncertain jidgment of posterity. K society, at the point of dissolution, demanded & master; oppressed, a representative of her rights; the world, under the yoke, a savior. 8hould he, by desertiug his missios, deceive so many legitumate hopes, so many noble aspirations i What ¢ Cissar, answerable to the people for all Lis digaities, and stren gthened in his right, ouglt be to have rot.red befoen , who, the doci) l'umpe‘,’ who, by beer after his vicory a crue bave allowed the universe to have been traffick interest of certain famillcs—incapable, besides, of & tie decadence of tae Repubie, and of fyund order of things solid enouh to the invasi 3 The barbariana for several agea He stould ba: iod be- fore » party who made it & crime in time to repair the ik caused by the fury of Sylla and arshuess of Powper, ln recaliing oxles, 1o £1|n their rights to the people of Italy, in dl-tr(Lnln' ands to the poor and to veterans, and in assus. ing by an equitable admicistration the perity of the proy. inces ‘would have been madness! Tlhe question wad net the mean proportions of a quarre! between two genetals ing for power; it was the decisive struggle betveea two in. ' imical canses—betwean the privileged classes aud the peoyle; the coutinuation of the formidable stiuggle of There are imperious eircumstances which caa emn political men either to abnegation or to porscve:anes, To hold to poswer when one ean no longer do aud whow, representing the past, onc collects one's partisans, 30 t say, ouly among those wholive on abuses, is s deplorable obativaey: o abandon it, when one is the representative of a new ers.aid the hope of a better fature, is a basencss and s exie. —We cau bardly be mistaken in sapposing thet the present volume, from its topics, and perbaps alsg, | from its treatment of them, will be found of a mwore popular character than the first, and much greater number of readers. the coofession even of Cicer 1 and vindictive despot, THE COMMON COUNCIL AND THE FIZTR AVENUE, : We hope our citizens will keep their ettenti Txed upon the iniquitous measure now before a joi' pe- cial committee of both boards of our Common Coun- cil proposing to destroy, at oze blow, millions of doi- | lars worth of property on the Fifth-ave., to dash out | of existence the accumulated wealth of a quarter of acentury. Our people must realize the duty that devolves upon them as citizens; they must stir them- selves; and they mast keep a record of the men who vote for and against this gigantic scheme. There should be no lukewarmnes in their opposition to this measure; thers should be no holding back, no expecting that some one else will do the work; but our wealtby sounduess of his scholarship, he has undoubtedly con- tributed much to our stock of knowledge respecting | the campaigns of Cresar. The wars against the Gauls | | are treated throughous as wars not for personal ambi- | tion or the aggrandizement of the State, but for the | presersation of the Republic ism that was equally iutolerant of ¢ aggressive in its policy. vanquished by the who can say what Rome would have assailed by idnumerable hordes flinging themselves at will into Italy 7" The war, therefore, was popular at Rome, and Cresar was the right hand of his country. Those who aceuse him for his conduct of it **judge of | events after their final result, instead of coolly ap- praising the causes which bave produced them.” The responsibility of the eivil war which followed rests with Pompeius wholly, urges Napoleon, and in no manner upon Caesar, and he argues that had Cesar | meditated a project of overthrowing the Republic, he would have kept his army npear him, aud | of hisimmense booty in the Gallic wars would have preserved enough to defray the cost of his projected But he did the reverse of this, sending two legions to Pompeius, scattering the rest, ariving enna at e head of a single legion, and only ving on the passage of the Rubicon when be saw his efforts at reconciliation repulsed and his enemies | plotting bisruin. It is the history of the wars which preceded this final step that occupy the greater part of the present volume. The following passage from the celebrated campaign against the Hely is worth quoting for its illustration of the prompt, fertile, and | resolute talent of the Roman commander: | Hemmed up fn their narror territory where life was diff. | opulation overcrowded, proud of their ancient ex- Sinita.aud alwavs desirous of ostablishing themselves in the Dt of Gaul, the Helvetis set out to Invade the Roman prov- P owands the Spring of 69, Bent on co3quest and ehigra. tion, aud STTFIDR Uj hbori v their exniple, they and, to destro) Villages. and ail the corn which they wing supplied th sar, since he had Te pro R heen kept in 7 ws came of_this Helv eaadling vim to fo | the Rhos between Lake Leman aud the | P uwod to concentrate the troops he had Drought with Liw, or levied throughout the provinee; so that, he deputies returned with their request to be ailowed | ongn the country of the Allobtoges. the Roman gen- cral was in position to refuse, and the war bogan. Repalsed %8, ther 1. country of 2 Dumsorix | ir endeayors to furce the pagsigo of the K a the narrow dcfile aeross t s de I'Eciuse; and the sk the permission of the inkal hicl was granted This, then, was the point which € necessarily slow movement of #0 g hostaz e; aod th oplo E’nr im time to take his measures delib- pitehed bis camp near the coufluence of the | dthe Sadce on the heights of Sethous, whence he ¥ the two banks of the or fall o0 the fanx of ii when on their mareh toward the river, or hinder omun pro by the valliy of the Ktone, at his pleasure. Here he W o by Labienus and his troops—thus raising his arm to 8ix legions; but, not deewing this a suficient force, e lef Labienus in command, and dashed into Italy, where o the Helv ¥ he raised two other legions, assembled them from Aquileis, aud, st the head of this second army, vitered Cisalpine Gaul by way of the Alps, hostile tribes opposing him. iation, @ battle was fought, e banks of the Ssone. tighting his passage through the After some vain abtempis ab b and the Heivetii wero_defe welf; 500 savalry, grew bol 30" the Foman army no' T rer & e cathe the decisive battle of Bibracte, w Lo son and daaghter of Orgetorix were made prisoners. aad where the slaughter was so great that anlish emigra- tion was reduced to 130,000 individuals.” They fed ia disordor, tho victorious Romans in pursuit anddhen, broken, dispirited, acknowledging their defeat, -ulunnll{. aswell as persoually. vauquis the Helvetii gave themsecives up, and ten: d exception of about &.(:Dollln word Vi N Al " e Waves, the vanquished Helvoril Feceived a froe pardon on certain eonditions, oae of which was that they should return to their native country and rebuild their burat towns and villages. d —Tbe purpose to make the apotheosis of Cresar con- tribute to the exaltation of the Napoleons is not always Jeft to inference or conjecture—as witness this para- graph setting forth the canses of the animosity against Ciesar: . "cmrm bogan hl-upoug:nl oa;ur by & trin]. m’l : aiways raecution cause. s on 1l ruollmnam :l Marios; Cwsar m not v tate to Tevive them with splendor. Henoe the tige whiah guzounded bim from his early youtb. sad which never | ave., inst & barbar- | ilization and | “If Cmsar had been | Helvetii or the Germans, | become, | citizens, who have built their residences upon Fifth- and bave made them an bonor and an ornament to | our city,should rallyin a cause in which they all areso intimately connected, and should endeavor to show | the bad men in our Common Council tuat there is & limit to their iniquities beyond which they canuot, | beyond which they dare not go. If this act is reported upon favorably by the joint committee, we shall watch closely the | votes it receives in the Board of Councilmen. Of course it will be opposed by Councilmen White, Kel- logg, Tyng, Thomas, Roberts, Pullman and Mackay, and the respectable portion of our people lovk to each one of these gentlemen to do his duty in the We know it has been said, we have heard over and over again, that Councilmen Keech, Green, Halloran, Hettrick and Imlay (all elected a8 Republicans), have backshded. Their condnet has been such on many occasions to justify the ime pression that they have proved false to their pledges. We tell them the eyes of their constituents are upon, them. We do not sleep ourselves in TanCe 0a | this matter, nor shall we permit others to be in ignorance. We appeal to these Councilmen, in this matter, ab | least, to place themselves right upon th ord. We appeal tothem in bebalf of ther const ts, in be- half of houor, of hovesty, in bebalf of the wealth ol this community, in behalf of all our grest commer- cial and social interests to set the seal of their con- demnation upon this the lftest plot of the conspira- tors who govern us. Butif they hearken not to our appeal, if they tum a deaf ear to our remonstrances, if they walk not ia the way of righteousness, then we say it, and we say it knowingly, Let them mnot expect to escape the wrath to come. There is now a power among us, thoroughly aroused, that will not rest until politica ¢ ruin is brought upon the head of every so-called Re. eau or Reform member of the Common Couneil pab 4 | who counteuances by his vote this iniquity of de- stroying Fifth-avenue. The names of tha apostates | will be placarded from one end of their districts to the other, the proofs of their derelictions will be scattered in every car and stage in our city, and they may rest assured that their power for evil will terminate with the current year. Their constituents will be informed | of their conduct; and they must not imagine for 8 moment that we shali suffer the people to be iznoraut of those amoug them who are reeking with cor- ruption. Go on, gentlemen! Take your own course! Bt you are walking on the brink of a precipice! Take heed, lest you fall ! We feel warmly, we speak warmly on this subject, because we know that this scheme to interfere with Fifth-avenue is pusbed only for the Yake of plunder. Not a single argument can be urged in its faver, and not even a plausible excuse advanced for the proposed alteration; whereas, on the other hand, if this job should be consummated, it would be a death-blow to the security of property in the metropolis of America; private enterprise could not be induced to erect and beautify costly buildings, for the sake of having them moved back or eut away, or of paying tribute to the Common Council. All of our peaple are interested in this matter; for who can tell upon whom the highwaymen may nest set and demand their property or their money ! —_— An Imperial decree, published in the Monitewr of April 25, provides that in the course of the present. year a census be taken in Algeria, both of the Euro- pean and of the native population. If carried throngh, this consus will bave & special interest for being the first thorough application of this important institution of civilized pations to & Mohammedsa country. Some years ago, the present Shah of Persis ordered a census of his people to be taken, but reli- gious Binaticism was aroused agaivst it to such & de~ grea 83 to maka ita execution immasble.