The New-York Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1866, Page 4

Tiay'ida Ver M X Burnett, Ralton, Bleisdell ST " ton, Bleisde Everett, Mrs. Chavfrau OLYMPIC THEATER i, 8t 6-LOAN OF A LOVER; CINDERELLA WINTER GARDEN X 3, ot d—Last of Mr. and Mrs Bamey i TO GOOD 1 Or, AN TRISHMAN'Y FORT LATEST FROM NEW-YORK; THE FAIRY CIR- CLE. Ow, CON OCAROLAN'S DRREAM. IWAY THEATER = THIS EVENING. K-EYED S THE FRENCH BPY. Mutincoat 1} Miss Menken in TH CH SPY, WOOD'S THEATER Tit's FVENING, THE ELV Or, THE STATUE BRIDE~ :m FOOL OF THE ¥ AMILY: The Worrell Sisters, Madame Stre wngn: awd full cowpany -t ew French Theater OU'S BOURGEOIS, G, at § —Opes NOS ALLIEYS; LES RENDE: FOX'S OLD BOWERY THEATER. at 8, EVA, THE i PRINCESS . THE TEPPARD; Mies Fanuy Herring, Miss En .. Fox, W. H. Whal K ley, Marden, C. BARNUM'S AMERIC, N. at 2, and 7. . Howard THIS AFT! TOM'S CAR! Jamivon, Missca Jonnie Cleaver, Kehoe, away, Daly, W. L. Ju i ) Bridewan. Avd.ceon, Wilton. ONE HUNDREI Osiites NEW.YORK CIRC THIS FVENING ot 3, EQUESTRIAN FORMAN ames Robinson. Little Clarence. Master Seaguist, Me. Jar ke, Mlle. Carlctta de Berg. Matinde at 2§ NT'S MINSTRELS, E LLER'"_.\.'\T, LES MISERABLES, GYMNASTIC PER- THIZ KVEN THE LIVE INJIN. CHIISTY'S M THIS EVENING, BALLADS, € JALL ING, ex ts CRUSH sus' Home. CRY, No. #45 Broad: ay. w x TODAY, fres exbibit Woails. ¥ BROADWAY o0 at the Phrenological Museum of Fowler & NSTITUTE. THIS EVENT by JAMES STEPHENS, C.0. LK, tott 3 BROOK THIS AFTERNOON, ¥ THE ALLEGHANTANS, Vocais (N ATHE ud THIS EUM, ING. at 8, CONCERT and Boll-Ringe DU TP P AT T S T S C——— | Lnsiness Notices. HE Last ex-President Martin Van by the use of Joxas Wurrcon Davs of Baren were miade com'onal Astuwa Rexeor +in our possession *from his physician, and from Mr. \an «olf, express much gratification with the ot of its e Extract from the “ L {lrving.” by his u Pierre M. frving, Vol IV, pa “ The do.‘or prescribed, as an exper what Liad been suggested By Dr. (0. W) Holwes Whitcomb's Remedy for Asthun poonful in s wineglass of water, to be taken every four Lours was the result. atic cheracter bas it failed to give proupt Lis late visit—" Jon d vigt ely A Ag getief, and in ooy et ueod be 1pur periect safoty 1 permancat cure has been offected. No da: 1od from its use. An iofant may take it with icalar) Joszpr Bumxerr & Co., Boston, (Se Sole Propristors. Foraia by ol 4 S0ONER O LA a neglected Cold will develop a constant Cough, Shortacss of Breath, Fuiling Strength, and Wsting In some instances the the avant couriers of Consumption. sama cause will Bronchitis, o disease of the branches of the windpips, Tual ions of the Pulmoosry organs, as well as in Bronchisl Complainte, JAvxe's EXPECTORANT is both & pall @ curative, a6 o taetinony of thousands, sud ite world wide reputa: sghs and Colds it acts speedily, and when Con attesta—whiile in € taken aocording to directions, promptly removes them. Why not wivs thia standard remedy an immediste trial? Sold by all Druggi Lyox's Inszor POWDER, for exterminating Roaches, Ants and Vermin, v ! proserving furs and clothing from Moths. The original and genvive is aizued E. Lyox. Al others wre imi Tuka 1o ather Inssct Powder but Lyox's. Sold by all drug by Bamwes & Co. No. 21 Parkcrow, CoxGress WATFR, An innocent +Lartic and & bealthful tonic, preserves the tone of e stomach, prevents fevers, and imparts Lealth to the whole system. Euptee Waren L'y eradi-ates Pimples, Blotches, Ulcers, and all eruptive dis R — Corvwmiax Waten B wa axcel ont reruedy for ali chroul: diseases of the Kidueys and Bladder, Gravel (ritated cpndition of the Uietbra, and Disbetes. 8ald by all Droge e Auter’s Live For Tng Ha e gray hair to ite original color, freshuess will Svrrry Cng; Warmw Fains 0 0 wnd besuty; will PosTIeRLY stop (e falling out; omote it growth; is VARIARLY keep the head fo 8 cle ol and healthy condition ; vontaine nothing injoriovs: has No Ferar se o Mtk Darssine, and i indorsed by oor best physicivms gontiomes, it i &l you require for the Lule. Sold by all droggiste. Saman A Cuevanes, M. D. Kyox's LaTesT sTvLE or Has for gentlemen i bighly creditab e to bis tast s mitted to ba ud of course fs in great demand. Mr. dlocation st the corner of Brosdway and Kooz s retarned to | | | went up from Houston-st. and c: A1 to Smpert life and vigor; will In- | 1 sssnre yon, Indies and | @uitonat., and hae Tesily & magaificent store, far supetior and more | commodions than the former one. He has stocked it with a large sounctmant of bats, caps, &c., which wil: be found worthy of particular y Al the newest styles of head covering, articies of the most Sacteful description, are embraced in the stock, and Lats of every sty s op town store is st No. 533 Brosdway. CEDAR CAMPHOR, Por Crotwes Morms. Sold by druggiste everywhere. Fuaruan, Facturers, Boston. Hanmis & COSTIVENESS, THE SOURCE OF DISEASE.~It caus les. Headache, Dizziness, Biliousness. Sout Stounch, Oppres Spirits, Worms, Indigestion, &e. Dr. HARRISON'S ot RRISTALTIC mwars warisnted to cure all these, and the only cure for iLes, | parties, the trinl of Jefl. Davis is not usli Wieeding o1 otberwive. Sold by DrAs Barxes & Co., Hror' | b AN & Co., Caswrir, Mack & Co., wnd &l Druggista. BROADWAY CHEAPNPSS. pomibiaiad — 00d articies . mederate prices . patroutze Fourselvos aud faivilics Mizrem & Co., No. 37 Cana. ', Tue SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S new FAM- wixg-Macuixe now ready; aiso, Button hole Mechie. No. WiLLoox & Giuss SEWING MACHINE. *Ita seam fs less lisble to "5"’ use or wear, than the Lock-stitch.” | Judees Repert reat loland Park Trial.” for ¢l Ve pu st piece of goods. at port” aad s o of W ork contalning s rrvon Skwisa Macuinss, for family ove. IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH MACH for Tailors and factarers. Gmover & Baxex Sxwixe Macuixs Comraxy, 0. 4% Broadway. s A R WaesLEr & WiLsox's LOCK-STITCH SEWING Macuixs sod Brroxsous Maca'xs. No. 625 Broad FLORENCE LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES—Best o the world. Froxesce u-mfi-mflu &nnn, ““Tus improved Elliptic Hook Lockstitch Sewing- Machines —A. H. Strise, 0. 577 Brosdway. Agents wanted. vl Howe SEWiNe Macuixe CoupANY.—ELias HOWE, Jr.. Prosident, No. 699 Brosdway. o wanled -3 Pequot lhchh; Co., Mystic River, Conn., m_lnufhc- Yure the most improved Loots for wesviug Tapes, Bindings, Webbings. Trusses, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAND- sons, Supponrans, hc—~Maman & Co’s Hadical Cure Trum Office prly ot No.3 Veseyst. Lady stiendant. g SR0OND-HAND SA¥ES in hrfie numbers, of our own “othere make, taken fn exchange for cor new petent ALvm aud PrasTEx Sares. ¥ low. s e o a8 v tadray, a0d 72 Chestantt, Phile (i N + Morr's CHEMICAL POMADE restores gray hair, s the Buest bair Ji 4, Siptay & g e e U e Dyseeesia TasLeTs—For Indigestion, Heartburn, &, manafactared ouly by 8. 0. WrLLize, P by all Druggists. tte, §3 per dozen; Duplicat % sagerioe Vimmette, 83 per donen D ke i . | Smixere M. Prigs—ITeniNG PILEs, Poultively cared. Also, Blind and Blecding Piles, Fi Salt Rleum RossxaN's Corg. No humbug, an nH ond all diseases of the Skin, by u { atrial will prove. ta. Sent by mail for slxty For Sals by all gespectable D cents, Drxas Barxes & Co., New York Ageuts. Tosswax & McKixsay, Hudson, N. Y., Proprietors. Morigks, MoTugrs, MoTiRs—Don't fail to pro- cure Mus. WinsLow's S00TuING SYRUP for all diseases Tncident to the period of teething in children. Tt relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and b » bottla Covcus ANp Coups.—Those who are suffering from Colds, Hoarueness, Sore Throat, &c., should try “BmowN's FrosCHIAL TROCHES,” 8 simple remedy, which is in alinost every case effectual. The Troches bave beentested by time, and prouounced universally superior to all other articles for the same purpose. 4 to the child, gives rest to the mother. Thirty-five cents Mucous collects 0 be dissolved and expectorated. s the biood and relieves. bt beadache and pain in the back—comes SLIGNT COLDS ARE DANGEROUS. upon 1 Hygresic W It s the fine Depot_No. Avenae Hote the mest cure for Touic known, Tt ‘AswrLL, Macx & Co's, Fifih Mot AND FRECKLES. Ladies aflicted with Discolorations on the Face, called moth patches, o freckles, should use PERRY'S Colebrated Motm and Frrckie Lovtox. Itis infulfible. Preparod by Dr. B. C. Pemgr, Dernatologist, No. 49 Bond-st., N. Y. Sold byall druggisis in New- York and elsewhere, Price $2. BURxs, SCALDS, BRUISES, SPRAINS, SALT RuEuM, Rurvxarisn axp Prues, are safely and quickly cared by the use of DALLEY'S MAGICAL PAIN ExTrAcTOR. Sold by all Drugists, st 25 centsabox. Depot, No. 49 Cedarat. N, ¥. 3,500.—Tne NATIONAL BrICK MACHINE, with only Two HoRses, makgs 3500 bricks per hour, with straight, well- defined edges, and the bricks will stand ALL CLINATRS, while those made by the dry pressing machines all CROXBLE TO PIKCES on be- g EXPOSED TO PROST. A General Agent, No. 141 Brosdway, N. Y. 3,000 SHINGLES PER HOUR are made by the EMPIRE o witlh ouly oxe wossr powen; and will make out of the same uu can be mads by Acent, No. 141 Br chine. A. RrQua, General JINTMENT. —DALLEY'S GAL- cratchen, Gal, Fifty cents a A Derreer HoRs| — DIARRIEA AND CHOLERAIC EVIDENCES Courouxp CANPHOR TROCHES, an ouly by C.H. NueoLs, Tweliin o, beastitul aud snperior stock of HATS, CAPS 8045 TRAW (09D to the pldier who had lost the use of his limbs from 3 biss been completely cured and ensbled to absndon bis e of METCALIES GRIAT RERTMATIC RExzoY. onder of the age. HuLL's DEMULCENT Soar. Fragrant, Hea'iog an Upward of 104 othe ARTIFICIAL LIMBS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY AND adaptabilityy Army N the best per com. mission of the ¥u M. D ng just re- ce of the Law at No. 27 THE ARM AND LEG, by B. FRANK PALME The “best " free to soldicrs, and low to officers and 1, Chestout-st.. Phila.; Astor V.5 19 Green o, Boston. Av. fraudulent {initatious of his Datents. " oid S. M. PeTTENGILL & C0., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- 156 Agrxts, No. 37 Parkrow, New-York (eMablished in 1849, are The Tribune, aud all the newspapers in the Usited States ish Provin-es. NewDork Daily Tribune, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1366, We will thank our advertising gustomers to haad in their Advertisements at as ear'y an hoor as possible. 11 reccived aftes 9 o'clock they cauuot be classified under their proper iesds To Corresponden: Ne notize san betaken of Anonymons Communications Whateverls nded for insertion most be suthenticated by the name end ad dress of the writer—not necessarily for ication but as seusr sty for bis good faith. Ali business Isttars for this oftice shouia be sddressed to “The Trin New York W cannot undertake to return rejected Communications. NEWS OF THE DAY. —~— GENERAL NEWS, Dr. Solomon Andrews ensayed the performance of ¢ navigation yesterday, and met with much better su than some of the erities had expected. His fiying m me down at Astona, L. 1., o the consternation of the people there residing and pass- ing, having coucluded to make some alterations in his ap paratus before trying further experiments. Justice Ledwith yesterday discharged several unlicensed liq sellers who Kad been brought up for violating the centh seetion of the Excise Yaw. The same justic rgod sundry persons who had been arrested under the Excise law, on account of informality in the procecdings. By the fire at the ght-house of the Hudson River 7, there were 30 load- is thought to be st br the fire ot 3,000, Messrs. C. Seribner & ( Jut the same hour, at No. 651 Broadway, $10,000, Fully an headquarters is now in the late rooms of the tor's Department, in Chatham-st. The costly the Moftatt Mansion at Union has been sold at auction for the till Fall, cantime Jeff. i3 visited by his counsel, and hias the freedom of Fortress Monroe, Senator Wright of New-Jersey is reported to better, and in full possession of his mental W men. connection of Dr. John e s Professor of Bellos y was appropriately observed his friends, Darby, aries—a pleasure accorded to but The fiftieth anuiversary of th MeVieknr with Columbia Colle Lettres and Moral Phile Weduesday evening b There was a fire at | damaged woolen and cotton mills to the extent of $10,000, her of persons out of work., Some | and threw a large nu mills at Bath, N. Y., were also destroyed; loss $100,000, A Massachusetts jury $1,000 damnges sgiinit a Provost-Surgeon for illegally branding a man with the letter * D,” siguifying that he was a deserter, Officers of the Metropolitan police yesterday arrested in Rochester & man charged with being Conn specnlations in forging wapehouse receipts, He was broughit to this city and will be dealt with, The North Carolina Convention received a message from Gov. Worth yesterday., He makes no recommendations a8 1o reconstruction, . The West Virginia election returns come in slowly, but indications are that the amendment to the State Constitution disfranchising Rebels bas been ratificd. _ In Baltimore, Judge Giles hus denied a petition for an ln{un(‘llun against o Street Railroad for refusing to allow colored people to run in their cars, ltl“A id lhk’rro lm i:di{mnns that the Western Union and American Telegraj Jompauies b busis of consolidation,’ pavies have agreed upon o Our naval reporter supplies us with a statement of the changes lately made in the disposition of the United States Naval Squadrons, with statistics as to each. At the meeting of the Board of Excise yesterday, 400 new licenses were granted, making in all, thus far ted 4,%70. The excise receipts up to last evening were $350,000. ‘The Board of Health discussed various projects for im- provig the sanitary condition of the town, = There were 1o proceedings however, of special interest. At Rouse’s Point. May 22, according to the Montreal pa- ers, 1,280 stand of Feuian arms were seized by United States oflicers. 1t is now said that the locality at which the constable was beaten in Westchester County, was Morrisania, not West Farms. The Governggent will sell 9,500 gallons of Cane Sirup at Fortress Monroe on the7th of June. (See advertisement.) At l’utulee in Galt, C. W.,on the anniversary of the Queen’s birthday, @ canuon burst and killed two men. Some manufacturing propei t Yonkers, N. Y., was destroyed by fire yesterday at a [oss of $10,500. The long railroal bridge at Richmond has been rebuilt, and is now in use tor railway trains. Gold was strong aid much excited, selling as Ligh as 1aig elopiug a1 140, Baley figia the Goveraweat board have quite wt of timber OVETHIRD MORE SWINGLES than | juare, lately yesterday returned a verdict of | d with heavy | | | | | been in sharp deman | rendily on losned en | dezvous, and bey | Mr. W. tins andoubtedly enjoyed reading his own obitu- | | | provoke a riot ! Pa,, yesterday, which | | | | work | Mi | at the gate? attzacied fresh buying from the public. and the (e(e;rlzh brings numerous orders from people who areue that the 1g escaped the control of the Treasury, is iikely ain the rates of the cl months of | There arge business in Gov of 1962 rose } prime bankers', 60 days. London, prime commercial Py bavkers', 8 4 Hamburg, 24 : Brewen, 79} CONGRESS. SENATE. ~Resolutions were offerad concerning the mail service between the United States and China, calling on Antwerp, iljae; i ; Bezlin, 73 the President for izformation as to colquization. A joint | resolution was passed relative to cadet appointmonts at | West Point, aud an amendment opening the Superin- tendency of the school to any corps in the army, was re- | jected, I8 to 19, Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. Bills were introduced to encourage forest trees on the Plains; to repeal certain restrictions on franking. The Senate amendments to the House Pension bill were non. concurred in. A bill for a canal between Washington and Annapolis was opposed by Mr. Thomas, and, the House to second the previous question, went over. A bill was reported requiring all deposits to be made with the U. S. Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer. A substi- tuto for the Bounty bill was reported from Committee, The previous question ordered by 81 to 21, a motion to ro. consider lost by 73 to 63, and the bill passed by 139 to The consideration of the Tax bill was resumed in Com- mittee of the Whole. A motion to reduce the tax on whisky to one dollar was rejectod. After gotting through refusing 32 pages of the bill, the House adjourned. — The Soldiers'’ Bounty Equalizing bill, as amended by G Schenck's Committee, passed the House yesterday by a nearly unanimous vote. —_— Judge Thomas of Virginia has just decided that the Civil Rights act has no force in the jurisprudence of that venerable sovereignty; and on that ground has refused to admit the testimony of a colored man ten- dered in behalf of the people on the trial of & white charged with felony. We guess the judge will be overruled. — A grand Mass Meeting of the friends of Law and Order, aud of all who are in favor of & rigid enforce- ment of the Excise Law, will be held at Cooper Insti- tute on Wednesday evening next. It should be of such character aud numbers as to make it plain to the most befuddled eapacity that the pursuit of rowdyism and drunkenness, especially on Sundays, is henceforth beset with insurmount dificulties. \ — A caucns of the U snators was held yester- day, at which it was determined to adjourn about the middle of July, unless some unforscen reason for sit- ion ting longer should arise in the mean time. The con- | | stitutional amendments were discussed, and it was to | decided that every attempt should be made harmonize t vs of Senators, and that being done, y | they shonld be passed by a strict party vote. The caucus adjourned to meet on Monday, when some final decision will be reached THE AUGUNTA OUTRAGE. re are worthy, intelligent persons who cannot a *restored” city of the United St after the ex-Rebels had tematically and ostenta- tiously marcLed in procession to the cemetery to strew flowers over the graves of those who fell fighting to divide onr country and subvert its Government, the 1 portion of that same community were precluded, | th the asseut of Army officers, from reudering lik homage, according to their humbler ability, to the memory of those who fell fighting for the Union. 2 the facts set forth only in Tne TRIBUNE, conelude that there must be some mistake abont —at least, the grossest exaggeration—that the latter-day Unionists would not dare to impede such an exhibition of unchanged loyalty; and that, nif they did, officers of the Union army must have inter- posed and convinced them that they were going quite too far. To silence all cavil and remove any linger- ing doubt in the premises, we here copy the account of the er given by o Rebel-sympathizing corre. spondent of The World, who writes from Augusta, m 3, as follows +Speaking of these Blacks, it generally bebaving with tolerable de the corrupting influences of the Baresu. tricts, they seem contented, aud do u i but about ¢ I th be said that they dhe sruw, where away from 1 the outlying dis ir meas: g K metery 1o i the purpose of who, from wounds o Ince while i the mi as at all oth was most impressive. A 2roes proposed ers who, dy The il bad this post, or beirg lool reven! wigbt an entrance 1o a br whic 1% about & ren ow creatures who o og duly fneited credit of fattenin ple keeping alo riay of some paitry flow informed by tie police It re stationed that but not the Black (White) loudly ¥ concourse. After gates, the White 10 “Then e n\u'\,d bawling for 1ostant aduw some discussion, orders who bad tlowers to euter also. Tash, a rioting and elatwor, and the ps became s0 disereditaole and tumuliaous there was A g 10 the ent t the gates many though nothing w oen wanting many apprehensions as 10 trouble tha —Taking this statement as the truth, we ask a can- did public to judge if the facts admitted hre not thoroughly disgraceful to our country, but more es- pecially to * the military,” who ** discountenanced " the loyal offering ! Why should this have been ex- pected to ** lead to a breach of the peace ! The ex- Rebels had been allowed to honor their dead without d that their pompous procession and bounteous offerings would excite any riot. How is it, then, that Federal ary officers should have attributed a desire to strew flowers over the graves of Union soldiers to “ bad feeling,” and gravely apprehended that it would What have we ever said of South. ern disloyalty so blasting as this apprehension ! 1t is here established that those who songht to honor our patriot dead were in part White—‘‘low crea- tures,” of course: if they had been anything else, they wonld have lavished their flowers on the graves of the fallen Rebels—but *“low creatures,” even though Un ts, if White, are entitled to some rights is our restored country. ot they are forbidden to enter *“the city cemetery,” as well as the Blacks, af- ter a reluctant grudging permission had been granted. Why was there **a great rush, arioting and clamor” How came there to be aught ** discred- itable and tumultuous” in the spectacle? There was nothing of the kind at the Rebel fote— there would have been nothing of it at the Union test- imonial, if the Rebels and their police bhad simply stayed away. They made all the tumult—made it on purpose to have a pretext for shuttiug out all, White or Black, who sought to honor the memory of the Nation's martyrs. ** Beggarly” as was our **array of paltry flowers,” it was deemed too good to grace the graves of Unionists who died for their country. We respectfully call the attention of the anthoritics, and especially of Lieut.-Gen. Grant, to this matter. It ought not to be permitted to sleep, until a day future has been set apart for publicly honoring the graves of Union soldiers in that Augusta cemetery, with full permission to all who choose to walk thither in procession and strew flowers on those humble but not unforgotten graves. We give fair notice that, if something is not publicly, impressively done to reseue those graves from the insult cast upon them hy the Rebel municipality of Augusta and our trackling military authorities there, the Loyal Millions will in- sist on knowing why. disturbance or objection—nobody fea A case has just been argued before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, involving the constitutionality of the act of C;nngrnu disfranchising deserters, The | issue was presented ppon au agreed statement of NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 95, 1866, facts, and was discussed on both sides by alarge number of eminent counsel. Its opponents argue that Congress has no power to impair the right of | suffrage in the States; that the law igan er post Jacto Jaw; and that it infringes the bill of rights by inflict- | ing a penalty, without due process of law. To this it ‘ is replied that the deserter is liable to forfeiture of | | citizenship, which carries suffrage with it; that under the articles of war, which are Congressional enactments, the deserter might legally suffer death, and that the power to impose the greater peualty, includes the power to impose the | less; that personal military service is due | from the citizen to the State, and that if withheld the' State may declare the citizen to have forfeited his ghts; and that the law does not come within the definition of an er post facto law. A bill is now be- fore the Governor of Peunsylvania to carry into effect the provisions of the act of Congress, and the Attor- ney-General of the State sends a note to the Supreme Court urging a speedy decision in order that the Gov- ernor may make up his mind whether or not to sign the bill—which is a curious intermingling of matters judicial and legislative. But, however the Pennsyl- vania Court may decide, the Supreme Court of the United States will sooner or later be called on to aflirm or deny the validity of this law. e PARDON The Times has an interesting and generally sound article by *T. W.” on ** Executive Pardons,"” which | *The common and aceepted opinion in relation to Executive pardons 14 & common aud accepted error. The popular im- | ression is that this prerogative ia t0o freely exercised; while | in point of fact Governors err in the other direction, Almost | every Govornor, before he becomes familiar with his duties, | gots imposed upon; and, having thus let a bad couviet loose, is pounced upon by the press, becomes distrustfal, and thence- forward is careful of Elu reputation. Applications for pardon are not strongly indorsed or influentially sustained are | Now it s0 bappens, and has been s0 bap- robably. but certainly for lorty years, that niders, and the cases of least intrinsic merit, g0 | rnor wost powertully indorsed. The mass of con- s of whose offenses are committed under strong ation, others with strongly mitizating eircumstances, still others are as much sipned against as sinning HAVE Aps. Halt of them are convicted because they are | s, and all are shut off from the hope of pardon for the | | same hard reason. . . y o~ Ly “Itis, we repeat, on account of the odinm attaching to abuses of the pardoning power that the prison-doors are in- flexibly bolted against many in_whose hebalfl Executive clomeniey stould be exercised. The 'quality of merey' is seldom “strained.’ No nor of our State has pardoned a9 mAny persons as he would Joyfally bave absolved if be had Kknown how many languish in prison who migot rightfully go | free, Those who have exercised this power most stringently | —who sometimes, nay, often. examined the cases judicially— back upon this part of their Execative experience with ast satistaction. Among the most conservative, in the | watter of pardons, were Govs. Marey and Foth were Kindly and sympattetic, but both Leld “their aympathies under | discipl loth, for the time being, regarded the small num- | ber of ons granted during their terms as feathers in their | Executive caps. But we know that Gov. Marcy, aud believe | ov. Fish, were they again called upon to exeraise the g powar, witbout_relaxing in favor of irreclaimablo | “wouid tind many more fit subjects for clemency.” | —We believe this is true; and it is truth that ought to be more generally known. There are many to- serving out long terms of imprisonment who ought tobe pardoned, and wonld be if Governors were not habitually reluctant to encounter the clamor | almost certain to be raised whenever a pardon is granted, no matter how conscientiously and justly. ardon convic Oue broad rale which should govern Executi tion in the premises is very plain and obvi this person a hardened, inveterate eriminal " | first question that should be asked. If he ywi to the police as a deliberate, syste: 2 bis livelilood and secking wealth then no appli 1 for-his release should be even con- sidered. The safety of the community, the protec- tion of his family and daily associates, and even the cal himself, require that he should be senter the longest term, and made to serve out the very last hour of it. To pardon such a beast | of prey is to do the grossest wrong; and we doubt that any Governor does it, unless deceived. But there is another class—by no means a small It includes all | one long | eainin whose case is very different. those who, habitually honest, faithful, useful citizem, a moment of weakness and strong temptation, yield to the allurements of appetite or avarice, and perpetrate an offense which they instantly and ever- more keenly regret. To these, the mere exposure and shame of arrest, indictment, trial, conviction and nee, are a far severer punishwent than ten years' confinement at hard labor would be to the villaius who have deliberately chosen to brave the hazards of a life of erime. We trust no Goversor will henceforth fear to pardon those whom he, on caretul inquir, believes to have been but transiently, fatuitously 1 to be now thoroughly und immovably in crin repenta — EXECUTIVE POWER. The tendeney of the present discussion upon the limitations of executive power goes to show that in many respects it is an open question. In the early contended by leading of removal and appoint- | history of the country, it | statesmen that the po | ment was jointly held by the Senate and the Execu- tive, just as the treaty-making power is now held. In | those days, however, our national politics had not | been degraded to the base uses of making Government | service the reward of political subserviency. It was | reserved for President Jackson to give the Constitu- | tion a violent interpretation—to assume that his per- sonal will should govern every official selection; that ] men who had served the nation faithfully, who hore the scars of honorable battle, should be dismissed from the national service because they did not share his opinions about the honesty of Nicholas Biddie, or the virtne of Mrs. Timberlake. The Demoeratie dominia- tion was too glad to aceept the imperious will of this resolute man as an element of political strength— recognize as an axiom the debasing sentiment that “to the victors belong the spoils.” The abuse has been tolerated, partly because the power has never until now serionsly menaced the Union, and partly because it was a pleasant abuse in the hauds of power. Power never wishes to tie its hands nor to invent restric- tions. Now, however, when we are reconstructing the Union and remodeling the essential conditions of gov- ernment, it is proper to Jook into this question of Executive appomtment. President Johnson expresses great sympathy with precedents so far as they control his enemies, and equal sympathy with new interpreta- tions when they answer bis own views, He has made the Presidency a **Tribune,” and finds warrant for ex- ercising tribunitial powers, Itis, perhaps, o tribunitial e of power to remove all men from office who do ion, and to exerel not indorse certain views upon Recoust strengthen the hands of the enemies of Cou consulting their wishes in disposing of revenue and diplomatic appointments. President Jackson thought | President Jackson was good authority on Indian In a guestion of constitutional 58 by 0. and military matters, law, we prefer other statesmen, The Constitution declares that the * President shall huve power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commis- sions which shall expire at the end of their next ses- gion.” Mark the words **may happen!” The Con- stitution here specifies the only case in which the President may exercise the absolute power of appoint- ment. In plain words, if the President believes that an officer is incompetent or dishonest, he can nomi- nate a successor and submit to the Senate such nomi- nation, in order that he may have their **advice’ upon the incumbent’s unfitness, and their ** consent” to a change. This Senatorial limitation was the thought of Alexander Hanfilton, In Hamilton's first proposition of a constitution, submitted to the Con- vention on the 15th of June, are these words To liave the appointment of the heads or chief officers of | the departments of finance, war, and foreign atfairs— 10 have the nomination of all other officers (embassa- dors to foreign nations inclnded) subject to the appro- bation or rejection of the Senate.” This provision was modified, in his full plan of a constitution, to read: | an offh | ter of this kind_it could not be advisal chiof officer of each of the departments of war, naval affairs, finance and foreign affairs, and shall have the nomination, and by and eith the consent of the Senate, the appointment, of all other officers to be appointed under the authority of the United States, except such for whom different provision is made by this Constitu- tion; and provided, that this shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from appointing by nawe, in their laws, persons to special and particular trusts created in such laws; nor shall be construed to prevent principals in offices merely ministerial from consti- tuting deputies. Tn the recess of the Senate, he may fill vacancies in offices by appointments, to continue in force until the end of the next session of the Senate; and he shall commission all officers.” The committeo (Mr. Hamilton, a conspicuous member,) digested this plan‘into the second section of the second article: “The President shall have power to fill up ail vacancies that MAY HAPPEN dum-f the recoss of the Senate, by granting commissions, which shall ¢ rpire at the end of their mezt session.” Hamilton defended his doctrine of Senatorial advice elaborately, showing the good that would come from the * cobperation of the Senate in the business of ap- pointments,” and contending * that it would con- tribute to the stability of the Administration.” *Tug CONSENT OF THAT Boby,” he adds (aud our readers will observe the emphasis), ‘‘ WOULD BE NECESSARY TO DISPLACE AS WELL AS T0 APPOINT. A change of the Chicf Magistrate, Mcnfnr‘r, would ot occasion so rviolent nor so general a revolution in the officers of the Government as might be expected if he were the sole dis- poser of offices.”” This doctrine, that the consent of the Senate is necessary to “‘displace as well as to ap- point,” was admitted in the early times. Hamilton was not given to euphemistic phrases, and his mean- ing was plain. When Mr, Madison asserted the modern interpretation in 1739, he was assailed. “What,” said a Virginia member, ** what, author- ize ina free Republic, by law too, by your first act, the existence of a dangerous royal perogative in your Chief Magistrate! When honor and virtue ought to be the support of your Government, will you infuse and cherish meanness and servility in your citizens, and insolence and arbitrary power in your Chief Magis- | trate? Doos increasing the power and multiplying the dependents of the President diminish his responsi- bility 7" The Senate ruled otherwise by the casting vote of Mr. Adams, who alwags favored a strong government. Mr., Hamilton accepted the fact that lis construetion hiad been rejected by the Legislature, and that “it was settled in practice that the power of displacing belongs exclusively to the President.” He never, however, changed his own construction of the article. Ten years later, during his Presidency, the elder Adams wrote thus to the Secretary of War: “ 1t i not upou the act of the 31 of March ultimo, that I ground the olain of an anthority to ny}wm the officers in jon. but upon the Constitution itseil. Wherever there is that is not fail, there is @ vacancy, as 1 have ever understood the Constitution.” Gen, Hamilton was consulted by the Secretary, and replied: “ After mature reflection on the subject of your letter of the 2ith of last month, I am clearly of nion that the President has no power to make alone ¢ c:‘rwinl- ¢ of officers to the battalion which is to be added go the d Koesiment of Arillerists aud Engineers. my apposes tiht the 1 power to fill a. vacancy 18 Dot the poser to make an original appointment. The terms “{oht may happen’ serve to confirm this construction. They imply casuaity. and denote such offices, as, having ouce heei filled, have bécome vacant by accidental circamstances, This, at least, is the most familiar and obvious seuse; and in a mat- to exercise s donbt- ful autbority. It is clear that, indeperdant of the asthority of 8 speeial 1aw, the President canuot filla vacancy which hap- pens during & session of the Seaate,” The President yielded, and a special law was passe Having thus shown the spirit of the con: stitutional article on executive appointments—we think it wise to return to that spirit and reverse the carly decree of the Senate on the question of removal —a decree which has in these latter years produced pernicious results, The construction of Mr. Adams | was not intended to arrogate to the Presidential office a royal prerogative, Presidents in that time felt that | their powers were for the general welfare, not for the croztion of political compacts. ** What,” said Jeffer- son, *“ remove my old friend becanse he opposes me and admires Burr! T would rather divide my last hoe-cake with him.” Men should not be placed in office as a favor—but to do office-work-—to labor for | their daily bread. Competency and faithfulness are the only essentials, Opinion in politics should be of as little moment as opinion in re SALVATION BY SOAP. Inone sense the Cholera, however much we may deprecate its visitation, is the poor man’s friend. Stern in its methods, itis resistlessly beneficent in its influence. Other philanthropists have plead the cause of the poor, year in and year out; they have described the hideous dens of disease and sin with which our Sixth Ward abounds, and they have zeal- ously urged the necessity of enforcing cleanliness and an outward regard to decency in them. No response has been made by the powers that be. But the Chol- era has done, by a single threat, what Eloquence and Benevolence prayed for in vain, The grim and bony philanthropist whose pen is a shovel, and whose paper is a coffin-lid, is neither to be treated with silent con- | stream, which receive t | at high water the surfac tempt nor to be sneered away. Him no talk of prop- | erty tights can quiet or drive from his purpose. He has issued his orders, and, lo! an army of cleansers are busily at work in every city. Unlike other execn- tioners who inflict eapital punishments he kills, not those who do evil deeds, but those who lewe good daties undone. He is the Ketch of sins of omission. Like certain other philanthropists, this distinguished | visitor is somewhat fanatical. Mohammed's celebrated alternative of *believe or die” is paralleled by the Cholera’s ultimatum of—baths or coffins. He has more than a Catholic faith in good works. By these alone can we be saved from his death-giving grip. Wash ye and be saved, is the gospel he brings u Cleanliness is not only next to godliness; in the Chol- | era'’s formula of faith it is the sole condition of lite on this earth, His disciples have the shortest cate- chism on record: * What is man’s chief duty on earth !” *To scrub!" That is all, and that is enough; for it is destined, if acted on, to save hundreds of thousands of lives dur- ing the present year, Boston has just established free public baths, per order of the great humanitazian General, whose head- quarters are in our harbor, They will be opened in June. Liverpool was the first city in England to establish baths and wash-houses for the people and to perse- vere in maintgining them, until it was proved that they were popular with the poor, and that the re- ceipts would pay the current expenses. The first e periment was made in 1242, Two years of suece: Liverpool caused & Model Establishment to be built in London; which has been copied by nearly all the great cities of England and Scotland, as well as by Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, Berlin, Venice, Munich, terdam and n. The latest statisties to American students are those from which we learn that ju Lon- in less than seven years, ‘‘the gross number of baths given .was 5,251,805, and the number of bathers was 1,616,576, washing the linen for about 6,000,000 of persous, The number of baths given annually in the London establishments is in don, now above 1,200,000, and this out of & population of | %00,000 souls. The figures show that every poor man in the %icinity of these baths indulges in the luxury at least ouce in two months, Experience also has shown that in every well-conducted and well-situated establishment there will always be a surplus beyond (he current expenditure, to assist toward the payment of the annual installments of the capital inve in building and furnishing. The model establishment at Whitechapel, with 94 baths and =4 wash-tubs, had an income in 1857 of £2,764, and the expenditure,includ- ing interest upon £8,000 and £150 rental, was just o **He shall bave the sppointment of the vrivcival or over £2.700, In this case, from somo capse, the managers made em1s meet ouly. But, in the Blooms- bury establishment, there was a surplus of £205, odd, whilo the total receipty were £3,601.” This result is eminently satisfactory, because the object of these establishments is not primarily profit but health; and the charge for & hot bath, with one towel, is only twopence English—or four cents of our Clark-adorned currency. The charges for washing are equally low; but we havenot a tariff at hand. ‘Wherever free public plange-baths can be estab- lished they ought to be introduced forthwith, and maintained as long, at least, as there is any danges from the frightful pestilence, which finds us almost unprepared to fight it. Like the devil of the Monkish legends, all epidemics are afraid of holy water—and all water that is clean enough to drink, or wash with, is holy now-a-days. Will not some of our wealthy and public-spirited citizens move in this reform? Who will be the Astor, or the Cooper, or the Girard of the Public Body? All whom we can draw from the ** gin-mills’ into our public libraries we save from mental contami- nation; and now, can we not enable the poor and the working classes to enjoy what lodging and tenement houses so plentifully lack—the means of bodily purifi- cation at a reasonable cost ? “The duty of the Hour" is—to wash. It is weil expressed in the once popular parody: ‘What is best for us to do? You scrub me, 1 serub y “That is best for us to do* P — FLOODS AND LEVE SISSIPPL. Ever since the first settlement of the lowlands on the Mississippi River, the inbabitants have maintained a perpetual struggle with the great volumes of water that flow from the North-West through that country to the sea. Thousauds of miles of levee have been eonstructed to fence the water within the narrow lim- its of the channel of the river; hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended annually to protect the plan- tations on the banks of the stream; dams were built, cut-offs were made, bayous were closed, the outlets were dredgoed; in short, every expedient which theory or experience could suggest was resorted to in the tre- mendous efforts of the people and the States to de- fend their rich lowlands from the annual floods. Yet, whenever the waters from the Missouri and from the Ohio wonld meet and flood the chaunel of the Missis sippi, the stream would rise over the banks and press ageinst the levees with a force they conld not withstand, or, failing to force a passage, would rise over and sweep away the artificial barriers, and inundate the country, from the crevasse to the Gulf. The delta of the Mississippi, comprising the alluvial plane from the mouth of the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico is 500 miles in length, varying from 25 to 150 miles in breadth. Its northern elevation is 275 feet above the level of the sea, o that the incli- nation is about % inches per mile. The whole extent of this plane comprises an area of about 40,000 square miles, The Mississippi River winds through this plane of its own creation, frequently pressing against the bluffy on the east, and once, at Helena, touching the high- lands on the west; and, though the delta is but 508 miles long, the chaanel of the river, in its course from the Ohio to the Gulf, attains a length of nearly 1,200 wmiles, and reduces the rate of descent to 34 inches pet mile. In low water, the surface of the stream is 40 feet Lelow the top of the natural bauk, at the Obio, and 20 feet at New-Orleans; stream flows sluggishly through this tortuons trench, which is 3,000 feet wide and from 75 to 120 feet deep, and discharges itself into the Gulf with an almost imperceptible current. The water begins to rise in the Autumn; early in the Spring, the river is baak full, and in the month of May, when the waters from the Spring-rains and snow- thaws in the North-West, and on the tributaries of the Ohio, pour into the Mississippi, it overflows, and, if unrestrained, inundates the whole plain. When the ater flows over the banks, its velocity is checked by arities of the surface; and the is borne along »d, the heavier particles OF THE MIS- deposits, above the level of the surface of the surrounding coun- try; and, therefore, while the whole plain dips toward the sea at an angle of eight inches per mile, the sur- face inclines from the stream at aa angle of three or four feet per mile. In low water, the surface of the river is below the level of the lowest point of the delta, and the drain- age is from the swar ard the Mississippi; but Le stream is from twelve to twenty feet above the level of a great part of the land surface, So soon, therefore, as the waters riso over the banks, they rush down the plane at right angles to the course of the chaunel, fill the swamps, and inundate the count It is estimated that ab. 16,000,000 acres of the most fertile and productive lands of the States of Mis- souri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, are subject to overflow. To protect these lands from the annual devastation by the waters bas been the object of incessaut toil and immense outlays of capital by the inhabitants of the Valley of the Mississippi. So early as 1840, Congress made an appropriation for the construction of a chart of the ** Hydrograph- jeal Basin of the Mississippi,” which wag executed by J. N. Nicollet, in the employ of the United ex Topographical Bureaw, In 150, a corps of engineors was organized undor Captain, now Gen. A. A, Humphrey, which made s thorough survey of the delta with special reference to the discovery of some system of works by which the country could be protected from overflow. These observations were made during and subsequent to the great flood of 1851, The constant increase of the volume of the flood revealed by each successive rise, is ascribed by Capt. Humphrey in his report to the superior drainage pro- dueed by the cultivation of the eountry on the upper tributaries of Mississippi, whereby the waters are thrown more rapidly into the main chaunel; the levee- ing of the river and its tributaries in the States above Louisiana, so as to prevent the escape of the watersinto the swamps and lowlands whence it would be gradually drained to the river; the comstruction of cut-offs, the shortening of the channel, and more rapidly con- veying the water to points below; and the lengthen- ing of the delta, thus extending the level mouth of the river so that the current being retarded, the | water is held back in the channel above. The remedies suggested are: Higher and stronger levees; prevention, by act of Congress, of the con- struction of additional cut-ofls; formation of new out- | Jots to the lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain; opening of the closed bayous; enlarzement of the Atchafalaya and Bayou Plaquemine, aud the creation of artificial reservoirs in the swamps, to relieve the chaunel of the river in extreme cases. The carly settlers, who selected the more elevated and fertile lands on the bauks of the river, found little difficulty in protecting themselves from the tloods. The whole country was then open to the waters, and aslight embankment several inches high would turn off the water, which was drained to the lowlands farther from the river. Other settlers, however, followed the pioneers; new pllnuliunl were estab- lished; and, by independent individual action, the slight embankwments became linked together for many miles along both sides of the river. The waters, by reason of this confinement, rose higher every succoed- ing year, the embankments wore enlarged, strength- ened aud extended, until a line of levees, from 15 te 30 foet wide at the base, aud varying in bight from |