The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1865, Page 4

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EvgorE, ierday, from Liverpool ou the 16th aad Queenstown on the 17th inst., are of con mportance and interest, Johnson's Massage had Weem received in od the firmness, moderation and glulesman yod therein were warmly commended by tho It is #tated that on receipt of the Més- seonrities advanced Tn the London market s42 confidently asserted, had accepted (he sland in the Chilean dispute. great South American trouble was alzo, acnording to the Paris Patric, in a fair way for sities ment, the Paraguayan President having intimated to (he Amvrican Minister at Buonos Ayres his willingness to como to terms, It is to be noted, however, that direct advices received jin this city from Buenos Ayres of u Intor dave than those received in Europe make no wou tion of this matter, Max mn was endeavoring to resume relat one with meauwhile found it imporsible to carry ing plans in Earope. atinent of Enrope continued agitated by tue death « com g Leopol | of Belgiw at Cork. One of puM shed in that city asserts that a wrnber of s have recently set out from Ireland in wrder pected Fenian Alabamas, re Loudon money market un the 16th inet. ited States Gve-(wentier “had advivent to 64% 4 645.9 In Leverpoo! American cotton had risen one tarthing ia une wok MISCELLANEOUS. Wasa'ngton was yesterday again rife with romore that codnite arrangements regarding the Moxican fn had Deen agreed upon by ourewn and the Fre eroments, to Jig eflect that Louis Napoieun draw ail bia treopa and that the Untied Piedge ‘tif mab to interfere with Maximi pancy of the Mexican throne or allow ils citizens to do 4, but auall leave him to stant or fall before te oppo- Ailion of (he republicans on his own merity, backed on!y by hig fow Austrian and Belzian soldievs aud Such of the oatives as choose to adhere to him. Thitis the third or fourth time that reports of this nature have gained ery. eonoy, and many are disposed to believe thom; wona who are supposed to fully uoderstand ¢ berwoou th's country and France and the desig: our govorament in reference to Mexico do not think that the Anvasion business will be settled in this way. A despatch of Admiral Clouet, commanding the Preuch eval squadrou in the Gulf of Mexico, published in « Yampico papor of the 2d inst., announces a smal; itaperial success on the 26th November over detachment of General Eseobeco's m publican forces under Echevarrio, ja which the latier and one of his lieutenants ®ero ‘illod. It.was evident y a very titling engagement, and was ao doubt ove of those alluded to in the imperial @ccounts published im yesterday's Hyratp, and repre. @ovied by Maximilien’s supporter: as an afar of some Wonseqnence. Communication is said to be open belweon amp'co and the capital. A despatch wan yerterday fom Governor Worth, « latter savounces hie asoumpton Office, wud expresses his de Pr cides in all mexsures rmonions Tela. ions detweon the national an oweraments, General Grenut has issued anorder revoking the recent @ne ia reference to civil employes uf the military rer and dirssting army commanders to reduce the imber of civilians ip military employ men ‘othe lowest point, At all places where the requirements of jhe service will permit detaiit from the rants to be to supersede civil employee, oxcepting clorks, and all positions in which civilians must be re “at who have served in the army aré to have Those who have never been in the miliary fare to be discharged as fact as they cam be ry laced by those who have. In thie morning’s Manaty Supplement sheet we re ablish articles from the Chicago Jritune and the Now ‘Nimes which are significant a# giving « more Indication of the outlines of the irrepres ict between the radicals and Prevident Johu: ippOfon: than has heretofore been prevent: ‘etande of correspondence which recently parved lve oom the President and a radical member of Congres included, showing that the former adheres to his well fed reconstruction policy, and i# prepared to maiu im hits position), The Timer article proves that he isto supported by the political firm of Seward, Weed & ceived by Secretary ~oward Ceretina, in whim tho of (he duties of bis erate with the te ;, Major General Barnum, commanding at Boston, tendered to the War Depariment the resignation of military position, preparatory to entering apok the Of the dutios of State ricon Inspector of New ork, Yo which Mp Ws Wit Mectea a our Kovember oleotion, ge z Avene oremineg) pitizoge si. Taw oven NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1865.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ing and entertained General Kilpatrick by a suppor, previous (9 his departure from this city to-day in the steamer for the Isthinus, en route to assume the duties of huis position as United States Minister to Chile. Letters and communications can only be forwarded to the Gene- ral in Chile through the Secretary of Btate, on account of the blockade of the Chilean coast by Admiral Pareja’s Spanish squadron. Sernmes, formerly commander of the rebel pirate ship Alabama, arrived in Washington yesterday under guard, from the State of Alabama, where he was recently ar- rested, He is tobe tried by a naval court martial on charges of violating the laws of war. Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, formerly United States Senator, more recently a rebel agent in Canada, and at present # prisoner at Fortress Monroe, has recently been permitted by the President to receive a visit from his wite, Mrs, Clay arrived at the fortress on Thureday of this week, and was soon after admitted to an interview with her husband in his prison. Our Fortress Monroe correspondence states that she was surprised to find Mr. Clay in such good health, his confinement not appearing to have injuriously affected him. The health of Jem. Davis is alse said to @ntinue good. Somo interesting details of recent events in Hayti and Jamaica reach us by way of Bermuda. An attempt had been made at Cape Huytien to raise the sunken British gunboat Bulldog; but, in consequence of the destruc. tion wrought by the explosion of er ‘magazine, ‘only wo emall Armstrong (tits and @ few chains knd’anchors had been recovered, ‘The ingurgent Salnave ix stated to have had’a'corps of Amaxons in his service, armed with pikes. Jamaice remained quiel “Am athateur dramatic, performance had been given in Kingston-as tie most apprepriate way of aiding the aytenere by the recent maesacte, A large und destructive fre Ligh out im the failroad’} ‘| rdepot: at Groton, Cenpecticnt, »at half-past oue o'clock yesterday morning, which completely destroyed the depot, together with a large aouinber of cars and the Taagnificent Sound steamboat Cormmonwealth, running to and from this city on the Stonington line. The total Joss is estimated at a million and 4 half of dollars, which is partiaily covered by insurance. An unconfirmed despatch ‘to the press last evening, dated Raleigh, December 29, and whieh we decline to publish, stated that the New York and Savannah steamer Constitution had been wrecked off Morehead City, and that all but fourteen of the dfty-four souls on board had been lost. The Constitution has been tn this port since the 27th instant, The rumor from Morehead ¢ have originated inthe loss of a schooner w er mapbrodite brig off Hatteras, as reported fu our Fortreas Monroe correspondence of the 28th instant. In the Board of Supervisors yosterday the committee to whoto was referred the vesolution to Simit the salary of the superintendent of the new court house to twenty thousand dollays a year, reported against the adoption of olution. A discussion followed, aad the sulject over. Some further oss of minor im occupied (he Board, and 'y adjourned finally. ion of the Board of Aldermen yest communication was received from Mr. John , the Corporation Counsel, stating that he had appointed Mr, Murray Hoffman to settle up the afluirs of the office of the Public Administrator, and suggesting that the Board appoint a comuaittee of Uiree io investi- gate tho affairs of the Law Department. This communi- ‘was laid over, the Board adjenraing to mect at n o'clock this forenoon. The Board of Councilmen travsacted # great deal of ir seanon yestertay. The Corporation Fs sting of Mesars, yee, was named to examine the ‘The Board concurred mth the ceting the payment of the clerks to the f Canvascers, in requesting the clerk to have and copies of the canvass of the Movember pious printed, in appointing a large en as Commissioners of Deeds, in do- nating five thousand dollars to the Calon Home Sehoo!, fine in ti option of # resolution granting the use of a er of Lexington avenue and Fifty-first and Child’s Hospital for a Jying-in ‘d adjourned to meet at eleven o'clock taje ino: Une public interest in the Btrong divorce suit continued to bedoanifested yesterday im another crowded court- room, and there were some exciting svanes im court dus- Ping the progresa of the proceedings. Mr. Strong and his triends, and also the father and other relatives of Mra, Strong, wer present, Jadge Garvin delivered an im. pressive charge to the jury, who retired to deliberate on edict at about balf-past twelve o'clock in the after- noou, but had not agrecd upon one upto half-past two o'clock this morning. In the United states Girenit Court yesterday, Judge rhipman presiding, Mici Seminary, on trial from the previons day onan tndictment charging him with having, on the 27th of October last, on board the Ameri- van ship Edvard Hyman, administered poizon to a sea- wn named William Brown, with felonion? intent, was found guilty of the offence, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment, A motion for alimony on the part of Mrs, Acker, against her husband, came up before Jadge Barnard, in the supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday. An action for vores has been pending between the parties fora long Some inti » attached to the case, in conse- ca of the ag whe contestents, ihe huchund seventy. e wife being ‘The decision was re- 2 of the Snrrogate’s Ci for the year ‘The wills of the following amed, have been admitted to Townsend, Mary M. Word, Wilkam Kerrigan, Anu Eliza Jones, Mary Paithal!, Grace 9. Cohov, Jane E, Kennedy and Charles Brown. The bequests in each case are made to the relatives of the tecéaved, and contain nothing of publ'c interest. ‘The fuveral of Lieutenant Gouverneur Morri+, of the Marine corpe, son of the late General William W. Mor. 1s, took place yesterday afterncon from No. 14 Bast Six- lecath street, aud wus attended by a large concourse of sorvowing friends, The body was conveyed to Mbrris- aniu and deposited in the family vault there, Some sixty works of art, comprising painting® by Biereradt, Lentze, Gifford, De Haga, Sontag, Beard and other artist's of note, were last night disposed of by auc- tion for th oft of the Artiats’ Fund Society, The Proceeds of the sate exceeded seven thonsand five hun- dred dollar, @ few of the pictnres bringing excellent ricer. 7 The proprietors of the Astor House last evening gave their usael annual ball to their employes. There war a crowded attendance and the evening passed off in a gay aod happy manner to the participants, General Kilpat- Tok waa among the gueeta, A disturbance occurred in a lager beer saloon at No, 146 Spring street on Thurad t, dering which the proprietor, Adam Keffer, and her man were severely stabhed. Jame® MeCabe, Patrick Goff and Jemes Wi!- Tiamne wore arrested on charge of being the assetlan Jobo Harp, charged with being a notorons river thies. ‘ee Mhot, but mot dangerausly wounded, of Thursday aight, by the mate of the schooner Lottie, lying at pier 49 Fast river, while, av alleged, attempting to steal tar. pauline from the deck of that vessel. Harp was arrested «nd committed. William Ketier and Patrick Kinuey, the pugilists, who wore arrerted on charge of intenting to engage ine prize fight at the Fashton Race Course on Thursday, were yesterday arraigned before Justie Keily and held to bati in one thousand dollarr each. George W. Séamon, # police justice, of Last New York, convicted of malfeasance, in keeping a grogshop and ning # man whom he knew to be innocent of a crime charged against him, was yesterday, in the Brook- tyn Conrt of fessione, sentenced to thirty days in the Penitentiary. In the same court Gfteom persons pleaded guilty to welling liquor without license, Their sentences were deferred, ‘The dead body of « man vamed William Curran, a canlker, about forty-five years of age, was found lying in Washington aireet, between Oak and Colyer, Greenpoint, between eight and nine o'clock last evening. There were no marke of violence upon it, and death is euppored to have resulted from congestion of the braiv. 5) James Duncan Graham, of the Engineer corps, f the old officers of the regular army, died in Boston, on Thursday evening, of disease of the heart, aged about seventy years, Colonel Graham wes @ brother-in-law of General Meade, A tremendous ice flood was sweeping down the west branch of the Susquehanna river yesterday, carrying with {t vaat quantitios of limber, evtimated to be worth #mitiion dolare, —* ‘There was an election in Georgetown, D. C., on Thura doy, to take the sense of the people on the Congressional proposition % oxtond the voting privilege to the negroes of the District, at which over ie aa lnndred votes against it aid guly ASta!@ convention one he ca} fape mw paet Waryiand - sembled in Baltimore yosterday and adopted resolutions oa difforent subjects and iasuod an cddress to their brothron wdvising habits of order, temperance, industry and outer- pris’, and a course of conduct that shal! prove they are worthy of the great b00n of freedom, An address bas been issued by the freedmen'’s Equal Rights League of North Carolina, te which they disavow any secrecy of organization, designs or procecdings, and state that their prineipal object is to ondeaver to seoure, by political and moral means, tho repeal of all tawas that make discriminations on account of color. They pledge themselves to maintain good order, and place their eer- vices at tho disposal of government, demanding in return legal protection for their “property, schools, presses and ohurehes,”” In the disturbance Between the whites and biacks at Clarksville, Tennessee, on Christman Day, briefly noticed im our issue of yesterday, two white men were seriously and one negro soldier slightly wounded. Tho Aghting ls said to have been between drunken negroes on one sido and police and citizens, led by a formerly notorious rebel guerilla, on the other, and some shota were ffired ; ‘but the disordor was quickly quelled. Tho steamahip Etna, Captain Tibbetts, of the Laman line, will sail to-day at noon from pior 44 forth river, for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten e’clock A. M. The new and elegant steamship Neshonnock, Captain Manchester, of the Cromwof{ tine, will ait to-day at throo _ ccd Sie re ccariferogiepiiaa ce ai wr Fs alialih Sat Ssibing Momgonge steamor San | ‘hy Salvadér, Captain J. Atkins, apiis- 0-day at trop P. Mh tor Savaunah, from Blér No, 2 North river. e Tho popylar moanistilp Quaker’ City, under com of Captain West, leaves for Charleston from pior No. 1é Kast river; to-day; at three o'clock P.M. The inikils‘close at half-pagone at the Post Office. The new sidowheet steamer City Point connects between Charleston and the Florida ports of Jacksonville, St. John, &c, &c., thua affording travellers the same faciiitios as bofore the war. ‘The arrival of the United States storeship Guard at Gibraltar on the Sth inst., from Lisbon, is announced in our correspondence from the former place. A late letter from the West India island of Guadelouns makes further allusion to the terrible ravages of tho cholera there, On the 224 of November there were one hundred and seven fatal casos in a little town of only six thousand inhabitants. The stock market was firm and active yosterday, and closed strong. Governments were buoyant. Gold was dull, and closed at 14514. There was more activity in business circles yesterday, and there was rather more bu€ancy, Still, business was moderate; but the signs are indicative of an active #eason after the Ist of January, Petroleum was duliand lower, Cotton was firmer. Grocertes wore quict. On ‘Change flour was quiet but wochangod. Wheat was firm, Corn was quiet and heavy. Pork was tower, Beef avd lard were wuchanged in every respect. ‘The President's Message in Kugland— ‘The Position Wo Hold in the World, The Australasian, which arrrived yesterday, brings us she response of tho English press to President Johnson’s Message. It had been looked for with great anxiety, and was eagerly caught up and commented upon. It was re- ceived with much satisfaction. The journals of all parties express themselves in the same contented and commendatory sirain, The British government and people seem to breathe freely now, as if a heavy weight had been lified from their minds by the tone of the President’s language. The newspapers are agreeably disappointed with the moderation, dignity and staiesman- like character of the message. They say it “ought lo be accepted in a friendly spirit,” that “it furnishes the. world with satisfactory auguries of peace, and that it illustrates a spirit of manly, straighiforward honesty and fair play.” The anxiely they manifest to strain a peaceful and friendly meaning from the language, and to be very complimentary to the President and people of this country, augurs well for the fature, and shows the posi- tion we oceupy. They do not like that “little bill” of the Anglo-rebel corsairs hanging over ‘them, but are content that it is not pressed just now in a warlike spirit. We give in another part of ihe paper the remarks of these jour- nals. They will speak for themselves, A few years have produced a mighty change as to the standing of the Uniled States in the eyes of the world. It is not long ago that every word of the great oracle at the Tuileries was watched and seanned with profound interest. The fate of nations seemed to hang on his look, and peace and war rested on his breath. The Emperor was the centre of all inicrest. What is the Emperor going to do next? trem- bling nations and statesmen asked. But it ap- pears now the United States is absorbing alf attention in Europe. President Johnson has taken the place of Louls Napoleon in the pub- lic mind at Paris and London. People are more onxious now to kndéw what the political news is from the United States than from any other part of the world. The cool, dignified and firm tone of the President relative to the difficulty with France about Mexico and with England about the privateers puzzles the peo- ple on the other side. They are in ‘a diate of trepidation, fearing the course this govern- ment may ultimately take. France and Eng- Innd are aware that they never have engaged in a war so disasirous as would be one with the United States. There is little affection among the ruling classes for us; but they have lately learned to regard us with the greatest in- terest and to have a wholesome fear of us. The appearance of one of our many generals in Paris on a simple visit or tour was enough to create a great sensation. The press, politicians and financiers were agog, wondering if he were not on mission to the. Emperor. Count or even the Emperor Alexan- der, would not have created more speculation or sensation than did General Schofleld. This republic has loomed up a mighty Power in the minds of people who a few years ago knew but little of it, While a country holds the posi- tion this does there is no fear of a war co long as it desires peace. With regard to the ques- tions at issue between France and England and ourselves, we are, to use @ strategical simile, masters of the situation. The recognized power of this country gives us that moral weight which will settle these difficulties with- out drawing the sword. i The new Powersin the world, the modern Colossus of nations, the great American republic, began gradually to loom up at the end of the last and commencement’ of the present century. The world genorally ap- peared unconscious that the foundation of the mightiest nation bad been laid in this hemi- sphere. Many of the statesmen of Europe even could not foresee or comprehend the future of the United States. Toward the close of the first half of the present century more light began to spread among the intelligent classes of the Old World; still there was great igno- fance about America among the mass of the people. This, too, was pretty much the onse five years ago, just before the war commenced. Our political system was unique, and detached from that of Europe. We had followed the advice of Washington and avoided entangling alliances with European nations. Not that we were exolusive, like the Chinese; on the gontrary, wo gought gommoroial interoqure ‘ with every country, spread ourselves over the whole earth, and invited the people of all na- tions to come among us. But we wanted no alliance, exoept that only which was nesessary to regulate commerce with any transatlantic Power. While we pursued this quiet, unobtru- sive end dignified policy we were conscious of our growing might, and looked forward to the time when we should oxercise an immense moral influence over the rest of mankind. We had ell the characteristic ambition of a great republican people, but it was latent with regard to other continents and other political systems beyond Amerios, and active only in the affnirs of this continent and in the development of our own resources. When our great civil war broke ont it then appeared that the ruling Powers of Europe had not beew unmindful of our growth. ‘It was then evident that the statesmen of the old monarohi- cal system had been watching with the deepest interest, though quietly, the wonderful develop- ment of 8 mighty —, empire on this They saw a maritime Power grow nes Ned equal t the first in the world, and | soon to be the greatest. it would be -to human aature to sappose the nations,of Europe were not jealous, or that they could help fearing the effect this new and mighty ro- publio would produce in the end upon their old, decaying polifical and social systems. Had such a Power grown up in Kurope there would have been Holy Alliances of monarchs again and again to havo destroyed it. But we were widely separated, and kept ourselves aloof from European politics. They could not, there- fore, exercise a direct influence over our des- tiny. The public writers and abolition emis- saries and propagandists did, however, exer- cise some indirect influence. They sowed the seeds of domestic strife, and fomented that sec- tional discord which culminated in‘ civil war. They continually asserted that the republic was only an experiment, and that republican institutions could not endure. In fact they did everything possible to discredit our po- litical system in the eyes of the world. When the war began they believed the oppogtunity had come to atrike an effective blow at our power and at republicanism. There was undoubtedly a secret understand- ing, if not a secret alliance, between several of the Enropean Powers for that purpose, and probably all approved of it. We judge that the new programme of Kuropear interyeniion. in Amorican affairs was regarded approvingly by all from the prompiness with which they recognized the mushrgom Emperor of Mexico. Franéé took the rdle of king maker or mon- archy creator. England gave belligerent righia to the rebols, thus driving in the wedge of separation, as she supposed, and destroying our commerce. Spain pounced down on the independent States of America, which. had formerly been her colonies, on the flimsiest pretext. The whole programme was a cheat un- der false pretences for the purpose of destroy- ing the great American republic in the day of its sorest trial, and to plant permancatiy European monarcbical institutions, and power on this continent. But all their hopes and plans have failed to produce the resulta expected. The war haa astounded thom, and the téfmination of it has humiliated them. No Power in Europe could raisa such armios as wo did, and can again, at the shortest notice; nor has any one equal resources and moans to make such @ navy as wa could croaic. These facts have been developed’ during the war. The world has learned thom with sur- prise. The United States is ungqusstiona lly the first Power of the world. Our thirty-ive millions of peoplo—every man proud, ambi- tious, and full of mental and pbysical vigor— are equal to seventy millions of the down- trodden, anambitious working masses of Europe. Then, what country hag the bound- lesy and varied resources that we havo? All Europe could not hurt us materially on our own soil; and if we wore to carry on an aggressive war on the seas @ thousand priva- teers would soon destroy tho commerce of ‘any enemy. This is not bombast, of which we are often accused when speaking of our country; it is sober truth. Theso facta are known in Europe, too, by intalligext poople, and the masses are faust learning them. Indeed, the governments sre much perplexed about them. We have only to maintain our dignity, conservatism amd high national gronhd, and our difficulties with foreiga nations will find a peaceable solution. Tux Frexpuey’s Borrav axp Tam Anwy.— There seems to be considerable clashing and misunderstanding between the operations of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the business of tho army in the South. The two branches of the service do not work together at all, The bast advices we have convince us that the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau could be better admin- istered by the United States troops left in the Southern country than by all the radical loaf- ers, who are seeking to make political capital out of their official positions, put together. The best disposition of the latter would bo to put them into a sack and plunge them into the Mississippi, the Tombigbee, the Alabama, the Tennessee, the Chattahoochee, or any other river in the South that would save them from the effects of the bowstring. General Grant has a understanding of this whole busi- ness. He seen for himself, and speaks from personal knowledge. He advises essen- tially that the business of the Freedmon’s Bu- reau be performed by the army; and when a man of General Grant’s practical good sense takes such a position the people may be as- sured there are abundant reasons to back it, As things are now going on, the Freedmen’s Bureau is simply a government asylum for needy political adventurers of the radical stamp. Instead of benefiting the unfortunate negroes of the South, the Bureau simply serves to aggravate their sufferings and to accelerate their progress to ultimate extinction. Presi- dent Johnson has it in his power to reform or to abolish the whole concern ; and if it be ne- ceasary to commence with the Secretary of War in order to do so, and he shovid meet ob- jection from that quarter, let him follow An- row Jackson's example, and turn him out of the Cabinet, a9 Jackson did Duane. Some wholesome and vigorous ee of this sort is required, if #9 Prealdent out, In the toa of the ssa by een FoconatrygWon policy. { him, snd’ eve at ‘Inst ‘tend to know. How long he will remain Politioe) Breaking of the Republican Party Oom<« menoed. Tho Washington letter of the Chicago Tribune, and the editorial thereon of the New York Times, which we publigh this morning, mark the beginning of a rupture in the repub- lican Congressional: camp on the Southern policy of the administration. The Chicago Tribune ta the most radical of the radical organs of the West, and the boldest in its out- spoken hostility to the restoration programme of President Johnsov. Mr. Wilson, the repre- sentative from Towa, who figures so con- spicuously in this aforesaid letter, is under atood:tovbo the writer of it. The New York ‘Times, represented in Congress by Mr. Ray- mond, and heretofore half and half conserva- tive and radical, it will be seen, has jumped down from the fence on the side of the adminis- tration. Thus the firm of Seward, Weed and Raymond, which assisted in the organization’ of the House, om the platform of Thaddeus Stevens, the radical leader, have abandoned fiatly ‘ond unequivooally against the redicals snd in sup- port of the Predident. soya nie as organization of tment of the standing Commiitees thereof, Mr. Ray- | mond ‘has had his eyes opened we do not pre- ateadfast in tiis present position we cannot promise; for he Is a slippery customer, and has doubtiess an interest in the New York Custom Honse with the senior partners of his firm. It will suffice for the present that the policy enunciated in the resolution of Thaddeus Stevens, which Raymond supported in the House organization, he now repudiates, The resolution of Mr. Wilson (a mere reproduction of the Stevens proposition) referred to in this aforesaid Chicago lotter was submitied to the House on the 14th instant, and provides “that all papers which may be offered relative to the representation of the late so-called Com federate States of America, or either of thom, shall be referred to the joint committee of fifteen, without debate, and that no member shail be admitted from either of said so- called Siates until Coagress shall declare such States, or elther of them, entitled to re- presentation.” This resolution was passed— yeas 107, nays 66, including a baker's dozen of republicans in the negative, Raymond among them, who had voted for it in the orgaviza- tion, This waa the begianing of the fight, and from the oxplanations and ventilations of the Chicago radica? and New York conservative Seward. Weed-and-Raymond organ we have al! the evidences of an impending disruption of the republican party. We need aot enlarge here upon Mr. Wilson's report of his talk with the President. It is enough that Andrew Johnson was nol to be frightened by Wilson's resolu- tions or threatenings, and that he declined to abandon his own Southern policy for that of the radicals, inclnding a batch of consiitu- tional amendments as the preliminary york to the restoration of the inte rebel States to Con- gresa, It is enongh that the President adheres to hia programme to the extent of holding over for the present all applications of Congress- men for Executive patronage, spoils and plander, In-other worlls, he intends to hold bis grouad and to use the means which he possesses for curbing the waruly radicals and bringing them t reason. The firm of Seward, Weed and Raymond having discovered how the land lies in refor- ence to the New York Custom House, have thrown down their gauntlet as champions of tho administration. Other reflecting repnb- licans, regardless of Custom Houses, are taking ihe same direction, The two-thirds majority upon which the radicals counted in each house is thus already broken, aad they are brought within range of the Executive veto. From present indications, however, the radicals will fight it out through the present session, even if it be continued till next July or August. But then the issue between them and the administra- tion will go before the people in the autumn elections for the next Congress, and from such an appeal, if tried, there can be no doubt that the republican pariy, as ab present constituted, will be broken to pieces and dissolved. = Some of the leaders and organs of the Northera rump of the old dethocratic party expect, by fusing with the administration re- publicans, to leaven the whole lump, ad- ministration and all, as the new, democratic party. “But nothing of this ort will be realized. The old democratic party; a9 a national organization; is defunct: The rebel- lion ha Killed it, Its remains will be fused Into the administration party or into some new opposition party or faction, and nothing | more. As the mountain cannot be expected to go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain, or give it up. Let the war of the radicals against President Johnson go on, and theso results will follow. The constitutional republicans and the honest masses of the demoeracy, rallying around the President, will make the administration Union party the great party of the future, and copperheads, radicals and fire-eaters of all varicties will be thrown among the outside opposition factions, Tho radical plan of keeping out the Southern States now exoluded from Congress, until two or three or half a dozen additional amend- ments to the constitution can be made, will, if persisted in, inevitably result in this breaking up and reconstruction, of parties. With the constitutional abolition of slavery socured, the best and shortest way is the way of re- storation adopted by the administration. After the restoration of all the States to all their relations in the Union will be the proper time for a general revision of the constitution, and the proper way will be by # national convention, which Congress will be obliged to call on the application of the Legi#latures of two-thirds of the States. Meantime the radi- cals in Congress are on the risit road for the breaking up and dispersion of the republican party, and the organizatira of a new and = whelming national Urion party for the nei Presidency upon t reconstruction platform of the administration. Sere RY eee Tan Pormcians AND THE CoLLatyronsar.— There av all manner &F fum6ts afloat about the probabilities that person receiv- ing che appoin/icy ‘of Collector of this port. One day we G%F that a certain person will be immodiat4 commissioned, and the next day 4018 O70 olso has a sure thing, These stories heap harry? whyonpel a wi tloians, who think that offices are ob! thia war. boat ther gan have no efivah unoe the I: than a mot give them (Weed and Company) full control of the patronage, in order that they can use {t for the politiosl advancement of a member of that ‘firm. ‘The President owest to himself to-in- slat tliat whoever he appoints should be an im | a pray re man, and not bound baad of the party cliques, Much otis aioe or unin whe are trying to secure pledges from the mocesstul man, a6 condition of their advocacy, that he will ‘place the patronage at their disposal, as Weed and Company ere and have been doing * for the last four or five weeks. It is not to bring support to the President’s policy that the above firm desire to control this appointment, but to build up themselves. General Karly’s Letter Against General Grant, General Early on his travels toward Mexice and a free country discharges a Parthian shot at General Gragg in the shape of a letter, which we find in ‘Daily News. He sends his rebel letter to the News as to a nest of rebels, and as to the paper in which he knows it will find sympathiving readers—fellows who think all the better of it for that twenty-five thousand dollars it had out of Jake Thompson’s aasasaisia- tion fund. Early’s shots were never of any great account, and this shot ai (trant is like the rest, Perhaps it Is rather betier than the resi, which may arise from the fact that it waa delivered while running away—that being Early’s most naiural attitude and the one in which he fegls easiest. Early’s letter indicates that his head is not quite clear when he is called upon to state numbers. His difficulty in this respect, his double, triple and quadruple vision, will re-, mind every one that he bas had great ex- periences with apple brandy, and it will also suggest reminiscences of a fat friend in the legitimate drama who was troubled in the same way. The hero of Gadshill was not at all clear as to how many men he had to fight in hig most memorable battle. Te began with two rogues in buckram. suits. Four rogues in buckram let drive at him. He received alt * their nine poinis on his target, aud killed soven of the eleven, to say nothing of “three mis Vegotton knaves in Kendall green.” This same fight of one mon against two who became eleven is the substance of Karly’s letter, and he calls the sttention of the Nows to the fact that he and other bold rebels fought the North in the same proportion. He had in the Valley, he tells us, eight thousand mea to Sherldan’s thirty or forty thousand; and he also tells us thet Lee had forty thousand to one huadied and elghty thousand under Graat. He finds that these numbers account for the Qon- federate defeats, and he naturally does not, think either Grant or Sheridan very great heroes. There are not many rebels who do. It is not worth while toseriously argue points like these with Early. We may only glance at the fact that Grant's numbers are given as the, armies appeared on paper, and that Early’s and Lee’s are lied down to less than half thelr dimensions as they appeared on the field. It is not unnatural for beaten men to try to satlafy wounded pride by apy sort of flaitering unction that they can lay {6 their hnmiliated souls. Just now Early that the cause of defeat was disparity $f numbers. He used to attribute ft to th€ fact that his men got drank on apple Wfandy. Hither isa good enough story. But how is it that the rebels were not, after ai, victorfous?. We all know—for Southern ten’ have told us over and over—-that one Confede- rate soldier was .ccual to twenty or thirty other men; how is it, then, that they were beatea when the odds against them was only four to one? Kazly onght to” explain fa ia poten, letters, - Early writes to the News (prive.$26,000), ax the most “appropriate organ” of the rebellion. It is, therefore, quite in the line of that journal that St should furnish still rampant rebeis with the means to assist the radicals in their assarttis on General Grant, bui for whom the rebellion would not yet be crushed, and the war would still be blundering on. A Naw Revaration.—We are not surprised at Henry Ward Beecher speaking oo well about the South as he did at Albany recently. He went over another region lately, and came to the conclusion there was no such place as hell. His discovery that there is such a locality aa the South shows that he is open to new re- velations. Why don’t he go to Utah, confer with Brigham Young, and ascertain whether there is in existence an institution called poly- gamy? Brigham and himself might confer op the subject. A new revelation on polygamy, one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” would aid the republicans in carrying out their origi- nal programme and show us how to get rid of the sin of polygamy as well as of slavery. Tas Mopwan Vittaine’ Drama.—We publish in another column a police report, given in the’ London Sar of a late date. It shows that the “Little are not all confined to gay bay that they exist in England, and take tone from the teaching of the vil- laing’ drama as it ia presented across the ater. Here we find official corroboration of our statement that the villains’ drama has {te pernicious effects upon the minds of the young. A law of the Legislature of New York is re- quired to prevent the spread of this nozlons dramatic evil among the youn of America. LNcreaMENTs TO Twecxsncrion—The Nows cuses us of inciting the Southern niggers to surrection. It{s funny to #e¢ sacb @ come from a paper whoe argument liborately framed to case o the South, can have a0 othor go, if they kage a alt Pa mast bo oradice 3 | \ ‘4