The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1866, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. was adopted empowering the Committee on Privileges and Elections to send for peFfOhs and papers and bold meetings in any part of the State. MISCELLANEOUS, | A Galveston despatch of Monday last announces that an order would be promulgated on the following day mustering out of service all the troops in Texas, except- ing, it was supposed about three regiments. The old sensation story of the abandonment of his couniry by President Juarez, of Mexico, is revived ina little despatch from New Orleans, intended to appear very modest and unobtrusive, but really to cause a com- motion favorable to Maximilian. In this it is announced that Juarez, accompanied by Genoral Negrete, arrived at San Antonio, Texas, on the Ist inst. Our Jatest accounts from Chihuahua, President Juarez’s capital, published in last Monday’s Hgraxp, stated that he was in that city on the 2d of December, in the undisturbed performance of the duties of his office, Accounts of additional marine disasters, attended with loss of life, reach us. The brig Itasca is in distress at Sandy Hook. Her chief officer and four of her crew were lost while attempting to go ashore for assistance. The brig Emma C, of Gloucester, from Surinam for Boston, with sugar and molasses, went to picces at East Sandwich by striking the beach. Fivo of the crew have been frozen to death. The captain (Trask) and two men escaped, severely frostbitten, The brig George Blank, of Portland, from New York for Boston, with coal, went ashore on Marshfield beach, and will become total wreck. Tho crew have been saved. The schooner West Gleam, from Now York for Gloucester, with corn, has also gone ashore on Marshfield beach. The crew have got off safely. The brig Hyperion, of New York, from Boston for Portland, wont ashore off Glou- cester; Mass., om Tuesaday, and was abandoned. An unknown schooner, whose crew it was re- ported had perished, was ashore yesterday near Holmes’ Hole, We publish to-day further par- ticulars of the wreck of the steamer Mary A. Board- ‘man, on Romer Shoals, described in yesterday’s issue. It is expected that some of her cargo in a damaged con- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF ‘ON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Sroadway.—So.on SainGe. LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 ss 730 Broadtway.—Tus Honermoox—A May Witaout 4 ikAD. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. ~Ermiorian SiXGING, DANciNa, &0.— Tax Drinc Buicaxp, Bg Figs OPERA po. 201 Bowery. —Sinc- u URLESQU) Siti y + Olt, Hocuisu Rout uw Tnvaxo. 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From Boston we learn that a heavy northeast matters, Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Military Commit. | gale has raged at sea off that port since Sunday last, and obliged some steamers to put back, after having gone as far as Nantasket Roads. teo, introduced his bill to inerease and fix the strength of the national army, It is of considerable fength, and provides, among other things, that | ‘The steamer Pine Grove, from Pittsburg for Cincinnati, the military peace establishment shall ,hereafter | valeed at thirty-one thousand dollars and insured for consist of seven ents of artillery, ten | twenty-five thousand dollars, and carrying a freight of of cayalry and sixty of infantry. In addition | three hundred tous, struck a snag on Sunday at Bufiing- tothe five regiments of artillery now organized there | ton Island, in the Ohio river, and went down at once. It are to be two new ones—one to be composed of colored | is likely that she will be raised and her cargo saved im a and one of white persons, olliccred by selections from | damaged state. the volunteer oilicers. Two new regiments of cavalry ‘The approaching termination of the Reciprocity treaty are to be of white and two of colored persons. In | between Canada and the United States has stirred up the the infantry there are to be eight regiments com- | Montreal Board of Trade to some decisive action on the canal question. They yesterday passed a resolution affirming the necessity of at once enlarging the Welland posed of men from the Oflicered by oflicers of that Reserve corps and There are to be one lieutenant general, five major and ten brigadiers, | canal, lengthening and deepening the St. Lawrence The bill was read aud referred to the Military Commit- | locks and constructing a new canal from Champlain to tee, The bill to permit negroes to vote in the District of | the St. Lawrence, The prospects of confederation, ac- Columbia was then taken up, discussed, amended, and | cording to the showing of the Canadians themselves, do not brighten. A paper published in Ottawa, the new provincial capital, laments that the maritime provinces continue hostile to the Quebec scheme, and prefer in- ereacing their trade facilities with the United States to amalgamating with their Canadian neighbors. Tecommitted. Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, offered a joint resolution to provide provisional governments for the States lately in rebellion, and supported it in a speech of some longth. It was then referred to the Reconstruction Committee, and the Senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. Skating was oxtremely good on all the ponds in New In the House of Representatives a bill making appro- | York and Brooklyn yesterday. The day was mild, aad priations for the navy for the coming year was reported | between seventy and eighty thousand persons availed from the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to | themselves of it to indulge in this favorite pastime. be printed. The proceedings of the convention of tobac- ‘The Board of Education organized last evening by re- conists held at Cooper Institute, in this city, in Novem. | clecting Mr. McLean president. The Mayor's nomiua- ber last, were referred to the Ways and Means Commit. | tions of Smith Bloomfeld, H. P. West, Chas. J. Chipp, teo, with instructions to report on the expediency of | George Koster, Washington Murray, John E. Burrel making the suggested amendments to the Internal Reve- | and Thos. H. Landon, forthe offices of School Commis- nue law. The same committee was instructed to report | sioner for the present year were conirmed. Little on the propriety of revising or dispensing with thein- | further business of importance was transacted at the come tax system, or of exempting from taxation all | meeting. incomes not over twelve hundred dollare, and also of The Fenian Convontion have at length decided to ro- exempting from internal duties the manufacture of | duce their organization to its original simple govern- cratches and artificial limbs. The Committee on Com- | ment. The titles of president and senator are to be merce was directed to inquire into the feasibility of | abolished, and the government is to be in the hands of a deepening the channel of Hell Gate, in the East head centre and central council. The charges preferred river. Two resolutions of inquiry regarding Jet. | ®sainst Mr. Roberts and the other Senators were sus- Davis and his fellow rebel prisoners, and one | tained, and they were expelled from the Brotherhood. relative to the Imperial Mexican Express Com- Tho case of Andrew Martin and others vs. William pany, wero adopted. A bill to punish counter. | P. O'Brien, master of the steamer Thomas A. Scott, was foiting with death was introduced and referred to | heard -yesterday im the United States District Court, the Judiciary Committee. The resolutions of Mesaps. ‘The plaintiffs were seamen on board the steamer, aud Noott, of Missouri, and Eldridge, of Wisconsin, previ. | they brought the setion to recover balances of wages ‘ously introduced, declaring that Congress will not ¢x., which had been, as they alleged, kept from them Clude the Southern representatives because of the \whén they came imo port. The defendant Of negro suffraye, and also that those representatives pleaded that he was not liable for the demand, as the Ghould be immediately admitted, were, after some do- | men'were not in his service, but in that of the govern- Date, referred to the joint Reconstruction Committee of | ment. ‘The Court held this plea to be goou, and dismiss- fifteen. The remainder of the session was consumed in | °d the suit. @ debate on the bill to grant negro suffrage in the District In the samo court, in the case of Alfred Batterby and of Columbia, it being advocated on the republican ride others, scamen, versus the steamship Republic, an action dy Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa, and Kelley and Schofield, of | was instituted to recover damages for alleged wrongful Pennsylvania, and opposed by Mr. Boyer, democrat, of dismissal, Tho engagement of the men had been effeeted Pennsylvania. by tho ongineer of the steamer. Tho owner disputed his . President Johnson yesterday sent to the Senate a mes- liability, om the ground that ho bad not engaged the men; Sago, accompanied by reports of the Secretary of War but the Court held that, according to the custom of the ‘and the Attorney General, in response to the resolution of | port, he should be liable for the acts of his chief engi- that body asking on what charges Jeff. Davis and other | neer, and Joft the question of damages to future scttle- leading rebels are kept in confinement, and why they | ment. are not brought to trial. The Secretary of War states In the United States Commissioner's office yesterday that Davis, having been captured by the military power, | William Smithford, Carl Primo and John Goff, who had is still held by it, awaiting the demand of the proper | not appeared on the adjourncd day appointed by the ‘authorities of the government for trial on the charges of | Commissioners for hearing their cases, wore committed treason and inciting the assassination of President Lincoin | to abide the decision of the Grand Jury. They are and the murder of national soldiers. It has beon decided | charged with attempting to pass counterfeit currency. to try him on the treason charge first; but this is ‘An action was yesterday before Judge Barnard, in tho delayed in consequence of Chief Justice Chase declining | Supreme Court, brought by the Bank of the Common- ‘under present circumstances to hold a court in that judi- | wealth of this city against Messrs, Van Vieck and Tucker, ial district in which Richmond, Va., the scene of offence | brokers, to recover a premium of seven thousand two of the accused, is situated. The Secretary also alludes | hundred dollars on ten thousand dollars in gold lent by to other chief rebels now in confinement, giving their | tho plaintiffs to the defendant in September, 1862. The ames and offences, The Attorney General goes into an | decision was reserved. argument in support of the postponement of the trials of | In the Supreme Court, before Judge Balcom, a case the offenders, saying that, the civil authority not having | was tried yesterday in which John Ferguson was plaintiff yet been completely restored in the districts where their | and Loutsa Fritz defendant, the action being for breach crimes were committed, it would not be proper to inau- | of contract. It appeared from the statements that de- gurate proceedings against them for treason, and that | fondant, through the agency of her husband, contracted they are therefore still rightfully held by the military. with plaintiff to furnish him one thousand barrels of ‘The President also sent to the Senate yesterday, in | qour. Five hundred dollars was paid down by plaintiff. Tesponse to thetr resolutions of inquiry, voluminous cor- | The action was dismissed, on the ground that a sub- Tespondence in regard to the French invasion of Mexico | agent had been employed by the husband, and that the and the Mexican colonization schemes of Gwin and | five hundred dollars was not paid when the contract was Maury. Included in the latter batch is aletior from | made. Maury to “Hon. B. Wood, New York,” in which th | on tong contested suit of Henry Erben versus Petor writer epoaks sanguinely of the rebel-imperial emigra- | 1 citar, in relation to the purchase of some property tion enterprise, but adds:—“You ought to have sent M@ | oo 146 corner of Canal and Centre streets, now occupied money. It is hard to financier on nothing indefinitely. by arle’s Hotel, and which has been before the courts | The House of Representatives, in reply to their res- | 125 the past fifteen years (the Court of Appeals having Jution calling for information relative to the alleged Kid | | asrod «new trial, which was decided by a jury in Mr. napping by Maximilian of one of the Iturbide children, | pisos tavor in December, 1864, giving him a verdict yoaterday received from the Executive notification that fot $5,466 23), came up again before the General Term the government possesses no official data on the subject. of the Supreme Court yesterday, Judges Ingrabam, Bar- Altogether, inclading the enlightenment the members of nard and Clerke presiding, and after hearing argument tho two houses had already received from the President, | tom Judge Rdmonds for plaintiff, and Mr. Parsons for ‘and the immense mass of information with which they dofendant, they unanimously confirmed the verdict of were furnished yesterday, 1t would seom that they must the court below in favor of the plaintifl, now have on hand a sufficient stock to enable them to In the Court of General Sessions yesterday John Hicks legisiate intelligently for some time to come, pleaded guilty to burglariously entering the promises of THE LEGISLATURE. Frederick W. Weber, in West Broadway, on the 29th of In the State Senate yesterday among the petitions | December, and was sent to the State Prison for four presented was one praying the amendment of the act for | years and six montha Albert Gardner, convicted of the collection of damages caused by railroad accidents. | stealing a firkin of butter from Washington Market, was Notice was given of several matters, including a bill to | sent to the State Prison for three years. Augustus Baker, ‘enable the Comptroller of this city more speedily to raise | gu 1tf of stealing a horse and wagon owned by William the moncys necessary for the operations of the Merwin, was sentenced to the State Prison for two years. Department of Charities and Correction, Among | William Johnson, who was jointly indicted with five the ills introduced, mostly of a private of local | others for burglary in the third degree, in stealing goods character, was one to make more stringent the | froma Chatham square store, was convicted and sen- faw probibiting the transaction of business under tenced to five years’ imprisonment. Robert Williams Actitious names. The subject of redistricting the State | pleaded guilty to violating tho Pilot law of 1863. He was fnto now Senatorial and Assembly districts, under the | A cook on boant the pilot boat Charles H. Marshall, and late State census, was brought up and referred to a select | piloted the steamboat Bromen out to Sandy Hook, he not committee. A resolution was adopted requesting Pree. | having a license to do #0. Sentence was postponed. ent Jobnson to retain in service all wouaded of disabled | Francis Marmond, charged with presenting an order to a officers and men of the Vetoran Reserve corps. A cosela- | elerk in the Adams Express Company ostablishment, tion was offered, and after some debate acd on the table, | perporting to have been signed by G, W. Blackwell, for wequosting the Engineer of the Croton Acueduct Depart. | the dolivery of a box, pleaded guilty to forgery im the ment to report on the practicability of a Broadway under. | fourth degree, and was remanded for sentence. @round railroad. * Yosterday, whenjthe case of Charles J. Roberts, charged In the Assembly the Speaker was authorized to ap- | with counterfeiting, and arrested about two months ago, points new standing committee ou the consus and State | was called for trjal in the United States Court in Brook: gpportionment. Tho report of the Onondaga Sait | lyn, the jail authorities returned an answer that the Aprings Superintendent was presented. Bills were noticed | accused had made his escape from their custody on last for a Broadway clevated railroad, to change the title of | Monday night, and was not to be found. our Free Academy to the New York Free College, and ‘The trial of Joseph Mathews, indicted by the Grand for railroads in Sixth avenue, and Thirty-fourth, Christo Jury for the wilful murder of John Keevy, on the 18eh her and other streets. Bills were introduced to author. | of September last, in Brooklyn, came up yester- fizo our City Comptroiler to issue fifty thousand dollars day before Judge Githert and Justices Hoyt and ‘worth of water stock, to limit the terms of oMocers of | Voorhis, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the National Guard, to equalize the compensation of | Kings county Considerable iuterest is manifested Judges, and to change tho time for the collection of taxes. in this trial, the court room being crowded fesolution requesting our Congressmen to vote for the during the proceedings. The case for the people was soldiers who enlisted | concluded and a number of witnesses for the defence fore examined, but beyond their testimony ag 19 the to pay additional bounties to (Qefore 196) was introduced and laid over 4 rosotution i?) cotton was quiet. Grain steady. Pork decidedly higher. dent removes all doubts with regard to the drift of the diplomacy of the administration upon this subject. The ultimatum thus pre- sented to Louis Napoleon isthe withdrawal of his imperial establishment from Mexico as the indispensable condition to the maintenance of harmonious relations between the United States and France. ing system of Mr. Seward is perfectly safe, even against the dextrous Napoleon; with the Secre- tary of State held'to the inflexible purpose of Andrew Johnson and the universal public sen- ment of the country. pears Maximilian, as the Emperor of Mexico, reeeived his quictus at Washington; for -on that day Count Montholon, the: French Minister, calling at the State Department with the infor- mation that a special agent from Maximilian had arrived with a letter and certain explana- tory papers from his Imperial Highness, was | emphatic and significant repulse, it-is probable, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY MY, 1868. prisoner's good character, nothing in his favor was elicited, Tho case will probably be given to the jury to- .gf hanging criminals only on Friday has day, Fag cust been in Newark, N. J.,in the case of the negro Morris Elisworth, who was executed at that place yesterday for the murder of bis wife, im August last, by shooting her, in consequence of jealousy. Tho scenes be- fore and at the time of the execution, a full account of which we give elsewhere, were of a solemnly interesting character, At least five of the persons supposed to have been con- cerned in the heavy robbery of the Adams Express safes, on the New Haven Railroad, on last Saturday night, have been arrested, and the evidence against some of them, at least, appears to be pretty strong, por- tions of the stolen property being found in their possession. Two men named Lockwood, and two others named Clark and Tristram, were taken into custody at Norwalk, Con- necticut, and early yesterday morning John B. Barmore, living at 100 Division street, in thie city, was also ar- rested. In Barmore's house were found portions of the effects of the robbery, consisting of gold coin, bonds and Treasury notes, to the total value of over cighty-six thousand dollars, and on the Lockwoods were also, it is said, found several articles which had been extracted from the safes, Professor James J. Mapes, the model farmer, of New- ark, N. J., died at nine o'clock yesterday morning, aged sixty years. A contract has been entered into between the Atlantic and Great Wester and the Philadelphia and Reading rail- roads for a conneetion of those two lines, by which direct communication besweon Philadelphia and the Western Cities over the two routes is to be established. The ar- Fangement also comemplates the inauguration of a line of steamships between Philadelphia and England; of the amount necessary to build and equip tho vessels of which, the two companies agree to furnish half. ‘The stock market wns stronger yesterday, but dull at the close. Governments were firm Gold advanced, closing at 13934. Asa general thing there was rather more buoyancy in mercantile circles yesterday, the higher rates for gold tending to reassure those who were frightened by the sudden decline to 136% per cent on Tuesday. Mer- chandise was generally held firmer, and ta numerous in- stances sold at higher prises. Groceries were steady. Petroleum was firmer. On ’Change the aspect of affairs was more cheerful, Flour was firm, Lard steady, and whiskey unchanged. The Officiat Correspondence on the Mexi- can Question—President Johnson's Ul- timatum, The official correspondence on the Mexican question laid before Congress by the Presi- We now discover: that the sooth- So long ago as:the 17th of July last it ap- answered that neither this agent ner his letters cowtd be received, and for the simple reason that our government was.in friendly commu- nication with the republic of Mexico. This 80 domoralized the amintie- Maximilian as to lead him to that barbarous pronunciamiento of his of outlawry and extermination against the satdiers of the liberal cause as the way of putting an end to the Mexican: lic. The remonstrance of Mr. Seward te the French government upon this subject, and our Minis- ter’s (Mr. Bigelow’s) report of the reply of M. Druyn de Lhuys, betray the chagrin and per- plexity of Napoleon. In that reply of the French Minister of Foreign Afftirs, referring our government to Juarez for redress, and sug- gesting that we had better try the French policy of marching an army into Mexico, the offensive insinuation is conveyed that there may be danger in the experiment, but that this is the only course of redress that France has to offer. This conversation is reported in a despatch from Mr. Bigelow of November 30. In the meantime the French government had doubt- less received the despatch (November 6) of Mr. Seward, in which he says “that the presence and operations of a French army in Mexico, and its maintenance of an authority there, are a cause of serious concern to the United States,” and that their objection “is still broader, and includes the authority itself which the French army is thus maintaining”—meaning the s0- called cmpire under Maximilian. For this des- patch, and, as it appears, on the same day in which Mr. Bigelow was referred to Juarez for reparation concerning the barbarous atrocities of Maximilian, Druyn de Lhuys is thankful, but feels obliged to say that he derives “neither pleasure nor satisfaction from its con- tents.” Next, to make bim still moro uncom- fortable, in reply to a confidential letter of his submitted to our government through Count Montholon, proposing to withdraw the French’ troops from Mexico as the basis of an un- derstanding, Mr. Seward replies (December 6) that “he regrets to be obliged to say that the condition which the Emperor (Napoleon) pre- sents is one which seems to be impracticable;” and again (December 16) he writes substan- tially that, while the United States desire to cul- tivate sincere friendship with France, such re- lations will be endangered by her persisting in the Maximilian monarchy, inasmuch as we can- not recognize Maximilian, even if the French troops supporting him are withdrawn. This is the position of the administration. It is all that could be desired. We think it was on the 3d of April last, the day of the capture of Richmond, when a body of the rejoicing people of Washington called Mr. Seward out of the State Department for a little speech. In response to this call he came forward, and in the course of his remarks said he was about making up his budget of despatches for our Ministers abroad, and inquired, “What shall I say to the Emperor of the French?” “Tell him to get out of Mexico,” waa the response from the crowd and this instruction, under the direction of Presi- dent Johnson, is precisely what Mr. Seward has carried out in this correspondence. The ultimatum of our government is the removal not orfly of the French troops, but of Maxi- milian and his imperial establishment, bag and baggage, from Mexico, and the restoration of the republic in the Mexican capital. Tt is manifest, too, that President Johnson, in sions of trouble with France; for otherwise, in- sary to build up:other monopolies by the same means. The Illfnois Central has contracted to carry government mails and troops free of charge in consideration of certain donations of land, and the land has been given to the com- pany. It seems very singular that there is no- body in Congress wise enough to drawva bill thus adbering to the practical enforcement of the Monroe doctrine, entertains no apprehen- stead of disbanding oar armios in evory direc. easel nnemesnanemementtananemmmmnnmmmmmmmee” it The Detective Bureau of the War Le-| been @ grave subject of discussion bélweed partment to Be Broken Up. ‘| our government and that of England is there- We learn from Washington that the muster- | fore unbecoming and pc yo we trust ing out of General L. 0. Baker, chief of the that it has been so regarded by Mr. Adams, detective force of the War Department, will be | .1.% that the slght has been resented as it de~ followed by the abolishment of the bureau and | gorya, Lord Clarendon is reported to have the discharge of all its employes within a few | persisted in asserting that England has never days, . deviatet from her duties asa neutral Power, This intelligence, while it will be received | whereas {¢ is a fact patent to all the world that with acclamation and profound gratitude by during the four years of- our intemecine war those who have been, aud possibly still are, every principle of neutrality was grossly vio- under the secret surveillance of the War De-| j.104 p, y tha country in sending forth priva- partment, will demonstrate to foreign govern- | toorg from her ports to destroy the commerce ments a striking fact in regard to republican | of g neutral Power andi shielding rebel ineen- institutions. It is that, although we may have | diaries and banisrobbexs in Canada. This, we adopted some monarchical ideas in time of fally comprehend} is the kind of neutrality war, we can abandon them the moment the 0c- | which England claims the right to exercise casion for their employment ceases. But the herself, and denounces in all other goveru- 5 United States government, while it employed | monts; but it isan interpretation of interna- the services of detectives, never, during the | tional law to which we very positively demar, most trying period of the war, availed itself of | 44 by which we shall certaialy not be gov- those inbuman means which despotic govert- | orned in this controversy which Lord Claren- ments have heretofore used to discover foes | aon impudently , declares to be exbausted. and unravel conspiracies. During the great | Rofore the question is setdled the British Foreign wars of Europe, whether arising from political | Secretary will find that he is not dealing with or religious causes, or whether proceeding from | yyy of the minor Powers of Europe, but with | & thirst for conquest, history tolls us the most | , groat nation, which has both the intentiom atrocious methods were resorted to for the | ,4 the power to compel the fuldlment of al& purpose of extorting confessions. Bodily tor- just demands. tures of the most cruel desoription were the |, common practices of belligeronts in those days. | Cheap Jack im the Church—Dr. Mavi- And even at this moment, in a time of appar- |. gold and Dr. Beecher. ently profound peace, European monarchs Dr. Beecher has sold his pews, and the saints employ legions of spies, informers, gens d’armes | of Plymouth church have chosen their new and secret emissaries of every sort to ferret | places. It was done just as Dr. Marigold sold out the proceedings of suspicious private con- | his wares under the hammer. “Now, then, claves, to overhear private conversations among | friends,” said Marigold, “I'll tell you what PL suspected parties, and to employ every possible | do with you. Here’s a nice pew out by the means to ascertain the movements of persons | door, a little cool perhaps in the cold days conceived to bo inimical to the government. | when the door opens every minute, and not Briefly, in abolishing the detective system of | good for hearing when the door slams shut the War Department we show to the world that, | every minute, but a good enough pew if # while in time of war the government of the | man’s a good Christian and wants to go to United States is ready to employ all civilized | heaven—goodas any. What will you give for methods of vindicating its dignity and sustain- | it? Five hundred? four hundred? three hundred? ing its sovercignty, in timo of peace it can | two hundred? one hundred? What! You don’t afford to dispense with them all, and throw | want il? You won’t have it at any price, per- itself confidently upon the people of the nation | haps. Well, let it go. Here’s another, close for everything that is necessary to sustain its | by the pulpit, where you can look the parson hevor and power. full in the face, be seen by all the congregation, But we see in this breaking up of the detec- | in your place and as you [go to it; be esteemed tive bureau another thing, which, taken in con- | one of the pillars, im fact, and I’ll throw in the nection with the honorable dismissal of one | grace of God and. half a dozen little trifles hundred and twenty-two general officers from | usually supposed to: go with it. What do you the volunteer force, must prove source of con- | say? Five hundred? four hundred? three hun- gratulation to the whole country. We infer | dred? There are so many bids I can’t make out | from it that the necessity which prompted the | the man.” Does any one suppose that Dr. organization of the force has ceased to exist; | Marigold would be ont of place in the church, that the government will no longer impose per- | selling the pews imthis way? Well, exactly sonal espionage upon the South or upon South- | this rigmarole was gone over, and the things orners in the North; that one citizen can talk | sold were, indeed, all those good influences that to another and not have the tear of Fort Lafay- | are supposed to flow from the Church, and to ette—a useful institution in.its day,no doubt— | be distributed thence among men, the grace of before his eyes. In short, that General Grant, | God with the rest. ' being in the South, acting with the “advice and | fonry Ward Beccher is a sort of modern consent” of the Executive, if not of the Senate, | gnostic. He supposes that he is the only is satisfied that he can keep the: South in the | person who possosses a true knowledge of tho night path without the assistance of the epics | Christian religion, and he exalts the divine and detectives of the War Department. nature of Christ, carrying that exaltation a0 * How is it, then, with thoso signal cvidences | far that he denies the Trinity and maintain of the return of loyalty, security, and peace | that Christ is God, pure and simple. We should } throughout the entire country, we find mem- | be pleased to learn from what part of the Chris- , bers of Congress acting as if we were still in @ | tian law this only enlightened Christian justifies state of war, and that the harshest measures | the scene recently enacted in his church for the resorted to when war actually existed | sale of sents, when the grace of God was should still be employed against the South?) knocked down under the auctioneer’s ham- [ The radicalsin Congress are the men who 40) mer and sold: on speculation; whon the this. They are the agitators who aro casting | humble followers of the Nazarene paid union with crazy torocity. They are the real | privilege of touching the hem of Beecher’ dieunionists of the hour; and it may be that the | garment, while, within a few miles’ distance, } time will arrive when it will be necessary for the | women and children, frozen. in the bitter cold, government to put them downnsit did therebels. | afog for the need of fire. ‘There necds no other @orrespondence of Lord Clarendon and | evidence than this sale ip Plymouth church— Mintster Adams—The Impadence of the | this ostentatious sacrifice laid before the Moloch + ellen cay fe of personal vanity in « place dedicsted to the ‘The correspondence between: the British worship of God—to prove what we recently Foreign Seoretary, Lord Clarendon, and our | sayanced—that modern Christianity bas done Minister, Mr. Adams, in connection with the | wit Christ and hisdoctrines. We know what the affairs of the rebel pirate Shenandoah, must parson was once—tho earnest, simple-minded strike the public with surprise at the coolness expounder of the moral law, endeavoring to and impudence with which the British atateaman ail within bis | i ten endeavors to dismiss the subject. Lord Claren- bree thn y aed significance of the Scriptures; a man whe, in don must have forgotten that he was treating virtue of his office, had voluntarily renounced with the representative of a great nation, which the vanities of life and the pursuit of an ambl- has established itself as one of the leading | tious career; frugal withal, and, though not so. Powers of the world, when he so flippantly pee Christ's pears directions wronld hep declared that the English government “consider him, yet “passing rictr on forty pounds a year.” that no advantage can result from prolonging Bach was the parson once, and: now the right the controversy, of which the topics are fully | 1, noose pews in Boecher’s dh oe exhausted, but which might, possibly, if con- twenty-five thousand dollars. tinued, introduce acrimony into the relations of England and the United States.” And in the | These pews were not bought by men who de- sire to be made better—they aro already ao absence of information as to Mr. Adams’ reply we may assume that the representative of the:| ¢xcellent; nor by men who desire to comfort United States has properly resonted the offence-| the wretched and'feed the hungry. There aro involved in these words. Upon what grounds the police for that and the poorhouse. Nor yet does Lord Clarendon assume that the topics of | by men who: eare particularly for the inoul- the controversy are exhausted? That they will | °#tion of the spirit of Christian charity, with- not be exhausted upon our side until England out which speech, even Beecher’s, is sounding pays the just demands made upon her by this brass and a tinkling cymbal. Besides, the whole government for the damage done to our length and breadth of instruction on Christian. merchant marine by pirate vessels, fitted charity is to be had in a Testament, which, é out in ber ports and manned by British | even in these hard times, can be got for tem subject, Lord Clarendon will discover, | cents. Why should they pay four hundred There is a question of right to be de- dollars for that? Why should they assemble to. termined, which cannot be set aside by any | bear the places in what our books call “God's assurances of continued friendship or any | holy temple” sold out in the jargon ot the Cheap Jack of the Christmas story? These threats of the disruption of friendly relations between the two countries, as implied in the | *ums were pald for the right to the best places in « fashionable resort—for the right to, sit language of the British Secretary. When our government made its demands for indeznity | bigh on crimson cushions under the parson’s in the matter of those Anglo-rebel pirates it | °7@ the observed of all observers, and to ap- did not mean child's play. It did not court | Plaud with noisy bands the political diatribes conciliation, but put in a plea for justice. Lord | of the canting oracle of the hour. Clarendon argues that our claims shall be with- At least that is the view with which the drawn and all controversy ended in order | many went to buy their seats in this that amicable relations between England and | fashionable place of amusement. But there the United States may be preserved. Andrew | were others there who had a thriftier Jobnson, in his message, has defined the rela- | turn, and were animated only by the tionship which this country desires to maintain | desire to turn an honest penny. They; bonght the seats on “speculation.” We are with foreign nations as one of mutual justice. As man deals with man, so nation should deal | not informed whether these speculators aro the with nation. same persons who buy up the choice seats at This country is in a position to-day auch as | the theatres in the day time, and then baunt she never was before to demand that absolute | the entrances at the door of admission and offer orchestra canirs, dress circle seata and justice shall be the only basis of that “close friendship” which Lord Clareadon says the | proscenium boxos at a moderate advance of one bundred per cent. We fancy not. Poor people and government of England desire to men are apt to have more reapect for the chureh entertain for the United States. Before the war it might have been assumed by foreign | than to treat i in that way. It is the richer Powers that this country conld be trifled with, | speeulator who bas no qualms of conscience, and diplomatically soothed down with cour- | We do not object to Mr. Beecher’s making teous words and rosowator statesmanship; but, | preaching liv besiness, to his baving his chureh having demonstrated that we are able to ac- | enterprise in Brooklyn, and making it poy aa complish that which no country whose name is | much as possible; but we do object to bis pre. writton in history has ever achioved, the caso | tending that his business onterprise is/Chris. is altered. We are not only entitled to claim | tianity, and so bringing disgrace " the a place now as one of the great nations of the | Chareb. We object to this stealing the livery earth, but, without egotism, we may assert our of Heaven for purposes that are n/4t Heaven's; title to be regarded as the first in all things and wo think that the ling between churches which make @ nation powerful and respected. | and lottery enterprises guaht to be more dim Thia trifling with the question whieh has | tinc¥y draws a i tion as fast as possible, he would be holding them together. He evidently relies upon the good sense of Louis Napoleon in quietly aban- doning an enterprise which is a failure. With- out a recognition from the United States, though not interfered with otherwise, his im- perial establishment in Mexico will never pay a tithe of its expenses, and he has been plainly admonished that this recognition must not be expected. President Johnson, having thus de- fined his position, can afford to give a little margin of time to the two Bmperors; but the sooner they make the most of a bad invest- ment by abandoning it, the sooner they shape their action to the important fact that the em- pire in Mexico is not peace, the better it will be for all involved in the adventure. Curiosities of Congress—The True Posi- tion of Journalists. During the proceedings of the House of Rep- resentatives on Tuesday a very curious inci- dent occurred. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, read an extract from a Massachusetts paper, edited by Mr. Baldwin, a member of the House, which charged that a railroad bill that had re- cently been passed was designed to relieve the Mlinois Central Railroad from its obligation to carry the mails and troops of the United States free of charge. As the bill passed by the House provides that any railroad shall perform government service and receive compensation therefor, it certainly has the effect of relieving the Illinois Central and all other roads that entered into similar agreements in. regard to government transportation in return for dona- tions of public lands, although those who passed it may have had no such intention. Mr. Washburne having engineered the bill through the House, naturally felt aggrieved by Mr. Baldwin’s charge, and hence his speech and the debate which followed. But as the debate proceeded the fact was developed that the bill had been passed under the previous question, and that but few of the members who had voted for it knew anything, about its pro- visions. When Mr. Baldwin was asked why he did not state his objections on the floor of the House, instead of writing them in a letter to his paper, he replied that “he Had sought to obtain the floor to make a statement, but it was impossible to do so.” Having thus ex- posed thein own ignorance; the folly of hasty legislation: and the nuisance of the gag law of the previous question, the mombers of the House concluded to send to the Senate for their bill, and to make it the subject of some intelli- gent consideration. Whether or not they will again pass it is their own affair; but we at least hope ttiat they will. endeavor to under- stand what they are voting upon next time. It is all very well to strike a: blow at the Cam- den and Amboy monopoly; but it is not neces- that will enable: the government to use other roads for a fair compensation without releas- ing the Hlinois Central from its contract obli- gations. But there is another eqnally curious: phaso of this Congressional incident. Hore we find Mr. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, appearing be- fore the House in the dual. capacity of editor paper. Several other gentlemen are in this same position, and are equally Mable to: find themselves in the same difficulty. In our opinion the duties of an editor and Congroas- man are totally incompatible. No man has 8 right to assume to discharge them at the same time. If he devotes himself to the public business and becomes a good legislator he will neglect his duties as a journalist; and if he gives the necessary time and attention to: the conduct of his paper he will be of very little use as @ legislator. In the past period of Ame- rican journalism people wore accustomed to take the editor's chair as a step to some political office. They had no idea of the importance and the responsibilities of the profession, and employed it as a temporary tool to aid their political advancement. If by serving a party or by opposing it. they could write themselvesinto an office they were per- fectly content. But since the ostablishment of the Heratp journalism bas become a regular business, a recognized profession. It now fur- nishes its own rewards, and there are mone higher for which any man .can ‘aspire. It supplies wealth enough to gratify those who desire to make money, and honors enough to satisfy the largest ambition. Instead of serving politicians and parties it now manufactures them. Itcan place a President in the White House, or condemn a Presidential aspirant to obscurity. At its word partios rise or fall. Next to the peopie, whom it represents, it is the greatest and the grandest power in this free country. No journalist who properly appreciates his profession would barter its advantages and its influence for the highest office in the land. Those who attempt to make it a mere tender to Congress try to degrade it, but only injure themselves. No editor can ‘go into Congress as a member and maintain that independence ot opi- nion as a journalist which is the in- dispensable requisite of his success. In Con- gress he is bound by party ties, whereas be should be above all parties. His paper can no longer criticise Congressional action, or it it does he is at once called upon to explain and apologize. His double position may give him a certain apparent advantage, as in the case of Mr. Baldwin—for he may be able to say in his paper what he is not permitted to say in Congrese—but this advantage is, after all, only apparent, and is accompanied with many dis- abilities, The result is that we often find a paper holding one view, while its acknowledged editor in his seat in Congress professes to in- tertain precisely contradictory opinions. A recent instance of this remarkable antagonism is still fresh in the minds of the public. It is impossible to speak with freedom when the orator is choked with journalistic precedents and committals; and it is equally impossible to write with freedom when the pen is clogged with parliamentary laws and partisan obligh- tions, For these reasons we believe that Mr. Baldwin and the other Congressional jour- nalista are guilty of a grave error in being in the House at all, and we should not be surprised if, before the close of the session, their dual posl- tion should involve them in even more delicate dilommas than that exposed by the railroad dabaie