The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, | the opening of the treaty ports, and the fests of Bugiand, | brought against him in connection with tho matter, and France-end Holland had been put in motion. a the London money market, on the 20th it,, Unitea ‘States five-twenties closed at 65.005}. American cotton, | the recent Adams Express robbery, was foand on Thurs- had declined one farthing per pound. ay near Cosoob bridge, om the New Haven Railroad. ‘Tho ico in the iver, opposite St. Louis, ‘MISCELLANEOUS, i - z . , broke yesterday morning, in oonsoquenes of the late OFFICE N. W. CORNER be hesncke AND NASSAU STs. | 1, Genoral Grant Yestorday issued am order | "OK® 3 eg Sarre re = | directing the commanders of military divisions and de- prepeaatarps He oo 0 ney fores, doing great injury Volume XXX partments to afford protection against all civil proseoa- among the steamers. vessels. at of tions which may be brought in any of the lately rebet- - sot einer “sapien lious States against national soldiers and all other loyal paren for acts done, either directly or ‘indirectly, ‘acoonsna cam! a ing the continuance of the war, in oppo- extensive marine disastore foreige sition to tho rebel forces or the operations | Waters attended with loss of life, are furnished in our of those ongaged in the rebellion, All persons | Mes of European newspapers. ‘The ship Casilda, fren or their agents charged with the occupancy of aben- Liverpool for Boston, was burned at sea in the early part doned lands are to be similarly protected and absolved | of December. Her passengers and crew wero rescued. from: any pénaities Gn such complaint which may be ‘The steamer Borysthene, of the French India mail stean adjudged in any of the courts of sald States. line, running up the Mediterranean from Marsoilies, The Secretary of War has issued an order for the struck on a rock on the night of the 16th of December, muster out of ten additional regiments of volunteers, | 804, with her cargo, became, it was eupposed, a total including eight colored organizations. loss. Thirty or forty of her passengers wore washed The important correspondence relative to Moxican | Overboard and drowned. The steamship Ponnsytvanis, affairs and Maximilian’s efforts to obtain recognition by | tom this port on the 16th of December, struck a root our government, laid before Congress on Tuesday last, | 208F Queenstown on the 21st, and arrived at Liverpool and a synopsis of which appeared in the Hxraw of the | 0 the following day with thirteen fect of water in her following day, is given in full in our columns this morn. | bold. ing. It plainly shows that there is no disposition en the ‘Tho Cunard steamsh ip Canada, which arrived at Boé- Part of our government to abandon the Monroe doctrine, | ton on Thursday from Liverpool, while attempting 6 and that the Franca-Austrian empire in Mexico has little | enter Halifax ori the evening of tho 8th Inat., ran upon to hope for in Washington, the rocks about ten miles from the entrance to that har- From the scene of hostilities between the Moxican re- | bor, and thumped heavily three times, but slid off with- publicans and imperialists on the Rio Grande we have out receiving serious damage, although she will go into intelligenee that a party of thirty of the former were | dock for examination to-day. Her cargo was discharged recently surprised and captured by some of the latter, | on ‘Thursday night, and some of hor goods aro wet, and that the execution of the prisoners had been ordered, || ‘The Inman steamship City of London, Captain Mir. im accordance with Maximilian’s decree. The imperial | house, will sail to-day at noon for Queenstown and Liver. commander, on being remonstrated with by Genoral | pool, and the new North German Lloyd's steathship Her- Weitzel, sald he bad no option in the matter, but must | mann, Captain Wenke, will algo leave at twelve M. for obey the directions of his superior, The repub- | Southampton and Bremen. The mails for both vessels lican General Escobedo is said to be preparing for | will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A, M. another attack on Matamoros, The American Goneral ‘The Empire side-wheel line steamship San Salvador, Crawford's operations of recruiting in Texas a division of | Cnptain J. Atkins, will sail from pier No. 2 North river Amerleans for Escobedo were making little progress, the } to-day at three o'clock P. M. for Savannah, United States soldiers having been forbidden to enlist Rumors prevailed in Richmond yesterday, our des- under him, and his recruiting office m Brownsville hav- | patches state, that Governor Piorpoint, of Virginis, ing been closed. The Mexican republican officers re-)|/ contemplates an carly resignation of his office, owing to cantly gave a grand dinner in Brownsville to Generals | difoulties with the Legusiature, H. Rives Pollard, pro- Weitzel and Crawford. prictor of the Richmond Examiner, armed with pistol, Later news from Chile, Peru and the olher South | knife and cowhide, made an assault yesterday afternoon, Amencan republics was bronght to us by the steamship | in the Spottswood House, in that cily, on a correspondent New York, which arrived here yesterday, from Aspin- | of the New York Times, but was prevented by bystanders wall on the Ist inst, The New York bronglit six hun- | from doing serious harm. dred and eighty-five thousand dollars in specie, and | ‘The stock market was unsettled yesterday, with among her passengers was Mr. Kobiason, our late Min- | frequent fluctuatigns. Gold closed at 139. inster to Peru, No additional exciting event in the war | There was rather more buoyancy in trade circles yes between Chile and Spain had occurred. The Spanish | terday, but the volume of business was rather small, this admiral still kept up his blockade of certain ports of the | demand for merchandise, save in exceptional eases, republic, and the government of the latter was quietly | being light. Petroleum was dail and tower, Cotton-was Prosecuting its war-proparations. ‘The Chilean fleet was’} almost nominal. Groceries were. steady. On 'Changs yet at sea, and had not beea heard from since its bril- | flourywas.dal! and lower, Wheat was dull and nomi- liant exploit, recorded in the Hearn of the Ist inat., im | mally aise lower.. Corn was lower. Pork was firmer. which one of its vessels, the Esmeralda, captured the | Beef waaunchaaged. Lard was firm. Whiskey whs dull Spanish steamer Covadonga; but it was expected soon to | and nominal. e Appear at some important point. A party of eighty Chileans in boats attempted to capture « Spanish ves- sel in the harbor of Coquimbo, but failed through dallying over the matter too long. In Peru, Prado, the new President, had so far been unmolested by | Equal Rights. any new revolution, and was procesding with his work of Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, in the United States retrenchment and reform. A declaration of war agaiust | Sonate, on Wednesday tast, looking to the Spain and alliance with Chile was. looked for from the Peruvian goveramont. Little of importance had-cecurred | “Shs of the Southern blacks, submitted a joint in any of the other republics, all of them‘snjoying an | Fedolution declaring that “ whereas the people unusual freedom from revolutionary disturbances. of the eleven insurrectionary States have de- Th is steted. ina Mobile. paper of ste /8tu Inst: that | clared their indapendence of the Uniter States, General Thomas, commanding the Military Division of an@ ‘have made war ‘agai + the government tiie Tennessee, has given official information that. all the Sate i wee Ohi ry a rational oops rp: soon 16 be withidrawn from Geoégia. | 208 Abolished. the political Runstioas gizaran- Abd Alabaina, thet “dems-and anuauaition wil! be for | bead Lo Them; a0 wheteas Inilitaty trjponats nished to thir) State militia, ‘and tat ihe state wit'be" Ary aot suited to the wants of these people, promptly Surnished with provisions for destitute families. | therefore provisional eaverumants should be A Gatvetou deupatél of the Wh inst, In'miour beset 'inarterteic ated to Uheix wacits and ROCEHAI Im with an ant’cipstory telegram published in Thursday's ' prrerevigor Himaughasnounces that an order had just been’ issued | 004 “this nyt ate ; Fis. 2 thero mustering out of service twenty-twerot the white | opinion. haa since heen under dikcussion and colored regiments doing duty in Texas, the regular order of the day. From the open- A New Orleans despatch reports that some of the ne- | ing apeech of Mr. Howe on this subject, hoe- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TERATae, Broadway.—Souon Saivaur. Matinee at 1g 0'¢ ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Tas, - cais—Lxs Domestiques—La viet Droire. Rants LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos, aud 730 Lrons. ” Broadway.—Tus Lavy or Lrow: GEORGE CURISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Tae Ox Somoon or Minsraxisy, BatLaps, Musical Guus, tue Firth Avenue Opers House, Nos. 2and 4 West Twenty-fourth st. Matinee at Two o'Clock. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Met itan Hotel —Ermorian SINGING, DancixG, &.— ‘Tax Drive Baicann. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, ma, Dancinc, BoRursques, &¢.—Sr oe Pogo Exgiisu Ruce 1 [Recanp. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechantos’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Dan Bryant's New Stor Speeci—Necuo Com uns, Bunvesquas, &¢,—Iot on Panur FPRancais. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermio1 Min. GrkuLSY—BaLtans, BURLESQUES AND Pee spline NEW YORK M Open from 10,4, SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— f. ull P.M GRAND STREET THEATRE, corner of Grand and Gronby streets.—Deaua, CommDy ‘ann Faxes, SINGING AND ANOING, New Yerk, Saturday, Ja: 13, 1866. ary CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday petitions were presented from Citizens of Arkansas, praying for the organization asa Territory of a wild district of country lying west of that State, and from the American Free Trade League, asking for the abolition of protective tariff, Resolutions were adopted instructing the Finance Committee to report on the propriety of a committee to investigate the conduct of the special supervising agents of the Treasury De- partment and authorizing the joint Committee on Reconstruction to send for persons and papers. Bills were introduced to restore to the Secretary of War su- Pervision over the operations of the Commissioner of In- dian Affairs, to reglate the sale of postage stamps and envelopes, and to smmgmd the Postal laws. ‘Vhe resolution to provide provisional governments for the States which took part in the rebellion being the regular order, its further consideration was, on motion, postponed till Wednesday nef. The bill to enlarge the powers of the Freedmeu's Bureau, as reported from the Judiciary Com- mittee, was taken up, read, and then postponed till Mon- day next. The bill to guarantee protection to the South- ern freedmen was made the special order for Mondag. ‘The President sent in a message in regard to Colorado, accompanied by the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of that Territory, the credentials of the gen- tlemen elected to represent it as Senators, &c. These, together with a bill for the admission of Colorado as a State, were referred to the Territorial Committee. The bill to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia was reported from the committee. The Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House of Representatives a, bill extending tie time for the withdrawal of goods from public and Private bonded warehouses was passed. Its provisions will be found in our report of the proceedings. The Ways and M Commitiee were instracted to yeport on tho expediency of taxing all horse Facep, and of exempting from internal revenue tax- ation carriages worth less than one hundred dollars, and all Bibles, Testaments and other religions works and schoolpooks used in colleges and academies. A resolu. tion reasserting the Monroe Doctrine wax introduced and referréd to the Foreign Affairs Cominittee. Resolutions wer) attopted requesting the President to furnish copies Southern Meconstraction—Mr. Senator Howe's Usetess Proposition—The Con- stitutional Amendment Kistablishes 8 ed rivor plantations in Lovisiana receatiy it that the prrpose involved in of all official executive and legislative papers | tors 0” the Bi ever, it appears pt connected with the provisional governments in | "oN" in nvurrection, and attempied to musdes thelr oer | tig eogolution comprehands noting tess thar the lately rebellious States, and —insirncting | SC They were pat down, however, by the militia, and their loaders were arrested. Arms and ammunition | the programme of Senator Sumper, of voducing: have been found secreted on the plantations, the said « eleven insurrectionary Statoa” to the News trom Havana to the 6th inst. reached us by the | conditiva of Torritories, rejecting sll the work teamship Morro Castle, which arrived here gcsterday. the District of Columbia Committee to report on the pro. priety of transferring the municipal government of Washington city to a commission to be appointed by the President. Mr. Johnson, of Pennsytv Lee of reconstruction doite by Prosideat Johnson, & resolation to increase the pay of Congressinen, y Rees mtaipailince:*:' b rureegte peered ‘aod beginnig with each of said States asin per ony ne agar anand ag va morning of the Sth inet, in which eight persons iost | the ease of a territory just gequired from vote fan atlins bekng nue handted and forty-seven ra | {CEG A stearashlp Tine froin Havana to Aspinwall | Mexico. Mr. Howe denied the right of the five, The bill toextead the suffrage, under certain con. | © Prolecied. President to restore the rebel States, conterd- According to the ofie al government paper of St Do- | ing that Congress was the taw-making power, mingo, peace amt order bave been compleiely restored | aaa Yhat hie functions were limited to the efe- in that repnble a cution of the laws. Ab unsuccessful atietmpt was made on ‘Thursday 1 cinate Senator Wade, of Ohio, 9 his toom in ‘This brings the controversy to a direet snd Washington, by some unknown villain wbo took or pre. | sharply defined issue between the radicaly of tended to take offeace at the Senator's refusg! to sign ® | Congress and the administration. But in pro- Paper oisome Kind. Mr. Wade mastered and ejected | Hoang to net aside all the Southern reconstme- ditions, to the negroes of the District of Columbia, was then taken up and debated to the close of the day's session, several members participating in the discussion, The Honse also adjourned till Monday. THE LEGISLATURE. Senate yesterday, among the new measures snd the act relating to frandn I nt agessments for local itnprovements in this city, t | the would-be axsussin, who escaped arrest - regulate twxes on lauds taken for Croton water purposes, | James Stephens, the mysterious chic of the Feulna onary work of the President as iMegal and and (o facilitate co!Motion of claims on insurance comps: | movement, has been heard {rom at lengiis. {a a tetwe | void, Mr. Howe forgets ihe extraordinary war nies. Bills were inftoduesd appropriating four million | oq Jonn O'Mahony he endorses the condact of thatoM | powers granted the Executive by Congresé in dred aud fifty thousand dollars for the payment yr-neipal and interest of the eanal debt, and one ahd seven thousand dollars to pay expenses of cial, appoints bim the Ameri Representative and | the exercise of which he has been careving om Financial Agent of the Irish Rept » And fgnores the his difficult task of reconstruction. Mr. Hawe existence of the decertirate of Senators The document me ta that Cong: in recognisidg the sf canal tolls, their superintendence and ordi. | pi. w summary end to the dispute im the American » . nary repairs. Bills 40 introduced to provide for | janet of the Brotherhood, ratification of the conatitational amendwent the better protection men jn this port by licensing ‘The further hearius of the cx of Robert Martih, who | abolishing and prohibiting slavery, boarding house rummers, and to exempt (ie Sailors’ Home isaccused of having been concerned in the rebel attempt | the validity of the ratification by property’ FvOi taxaevon. to burn this city in the month of November, 1864, was re. r Yarelina, Georaie, Al The first animation of the session was yesterday | sened yesterday In fh» United states Iattiok Court, be. | Nomtiand sata 5 boro : throwd ato the peoce’dings of the Assembly by a sharp} fore Commissioner Osborn. M appeared (6r Louisiana and Tennessee, ai hoae little disguesion over & motion to print five hundred | 144 presgcution, Martin was defended by Mr Laroqne, | are safficiently reconstructed to partici extra copies of the annual report of Comptroller Robin- ¢ the examination of ‘two witneses—Jacod €: | the revision of the federal constitation. aon «One of the republican members said be would as Haughton and Francis Clarke—the Commissioner ad | out. hopching ab aiine eedioun weld! tea coon think of printing one of Feit: Davis’ mewmges, | igurned the case Wntil Monday next as Mr Robinson had insatled the loyal people of |. ar a’epecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, chop-logie of Mr. Heverdy Johnson nae the Siate by complaining that our dein had been | cayod yesterday aticrnoun to courier the royort of a | Tighla, we hold that the war powers the payment ef bounties to volunteers | commitiee appointed ata previous meeting to diseuws the | President will faily justify and sustain bi Another repablicnn wished to lot Lis constituents see WhAt | subject of the umiyersal exhibition to be held tn Maris in | all that be has done, and in all that he hee the “copperhead” Comptrofier sald. The motion was | 1997, resolutions wore offered urging the goverameat | plined to do. toward the restoration of the finally voted down by sixty-six to fifty, Five handred | saq ine people to take measures i eras the forwarding * b eon, extra copies each of the reports of the Metropolitan Police | of contributions worthy of repr ng te tn rebel States, and that in accepting the ratifiea- and Fire Commicsioners were ordered to be printed. Rill | sin of this country, Subsequent to the tions from those States of the constitutiogal Were Uoticed to prevent the spread of disease 8MONZ | other business, rePolations of respect to the men amendments abolishing slavery, the two cattie, to pormit aliens to bold read estate, and | ihe iate Robert B. Mintuen were adopied The Clr of Congress have so far recognized and for railroad in Lesington avenue and other | then adjourned Conimitted:to the Prestdeat’s Southern poll byt rSgtonsth ne paige a A inccting of the Workingmen's Union took place iat We go mach further than this. We hold a ral i ® , vets; pdrtig : ‘ e t rine divorce ta casos of wilful and continued | CVening at 267 Bowery. There were only sbout Wwenly- | progident Johnson, im eccuring the final five of the representatives of the Union present, how. |” ‘ e 7 ever, as the meeting was one of no special interest tion of this great amendment by Southern An abstract of the annual report of the Croton Board | fications, has secured to Congress, in the shows the receipts of the Aqueduct Department for the | preme law, all the power that ix needed Year 1865 to have been $1,013,083, which t+ an excess of | the reorganization of Southern States and paciay neha te Oa Fee pola te ciety, whites and blacks, upon a twelve months. The full extent of pipes now inid for | basis in regard to the civil and political In the late war the rebel the distribution of the Croton water throagh the city is | of the blacks. fought for a separate confederacy, in view of abandooment, to amend the Excise laws, for a survey the Hudson river from Troy to Vort Rdward, and for various other purposes of minor importance. A reso- Jation was introduced, and laid over, instructing our Senators and requesting our Repreventatives in Congress to vote for the proposed constitutional ameudmen' to Dase Congressional representation on the whole number of persons excepting those to whom political privileges ve dented on nage ot tine SF oePer two hundred and ninety-cight miles * Mr. Smith 3 pogenns a y Bowery whose aes maintenance of their system of African ala The Canard eteamehip Scotia, from Liverpool Decom- | disappearance in iy ° sammer cau ” nd Der 30, and Queonstown December 31, arrived at this port | some sensation at the time, haring returned to this conn- cad gon mieux taseet on the other ha Yoatorday, bringing seven days Inter news from Rurope. | try, has sent ux a communication, which wo publish on | Ofder to subjugate those States, declared, The resolutions tntroduced into the United States Con- | the second page of today's Hanatn, explanatory of the | war measure, the abolition therein of slav free on tle Infringement of the Monroe doctrine in | affair with a young Indy in which improper conduct on | Thus with the collapse of the rebel Mexico, and the statement that the French Ambassador | his part was mtimated. Mr, Eastinan, while admitting | ,, slavery was extingu . To a Washington was seaking fresh instructions, had caused | that he may have been impulsive and indiscreet, asserts | | 3 Bitehment thie tabed. ot fonsiderable excitement in Paris and Londoa, and had | his entire innorence of any guilt in the matter. re-estal accomplished fact Bent down tho price of American securities. The London |. During quarrel yesterday afternoon between Patrick | ®bolition has been made permanent in ‘and Paris papers were all devoting attention | Dunlap and Edward Johnson, both living at 159 Wash. | engrafted upon the supreme law of the to the Mexican question, and the London Times | ington street, the latter, as alleged, stabbed the formerio | Through the length and breadth of the Predicted the speedy withdrawal of the French troops. | the sid¢, producing a supposed mortal wound, slavery is not only abolished, but ia now The speech delivered by the Queen of Spain at the The bonded warehouse on the corner of Washington hibited by this supreme law. In regard opening of the Spanish Cortes indicated;no immediate | and Carlisle streets was robbed on Thursday night of thei ’ al liberties " jntention of abandoming the porition takea upon thé | about ait thousand dollars’ worth of silks, velvets, rity. it yoresa: , whites and blacks, Chitean question, On the contrary the Spanish feet in | hous, ae, by burglars, who effected their entrance by | der this law, all over the Union, aow Alte Pacific War about 10 be reinforced. Meanwhile there | removitg the paring stones over the vault, and eseaped | npon a footing ofequality. Allthe Pp erore rumors of suspected Chilean privateers off the coast | through one of the windows of the building Four men distinctions in the constitution between of Spain. were putpequeaily arrested on suspicion of baviag B88 | and blacks are expunged with the ebolitionpf ) In tretand events of a strange character bad happened | engagedin the affair, and the greater portion of the lav Igo conuéotion with the Fenian movement By some | stolen goods was recovered. slavery, and all State alave codes and gmeans the government became impressed with a con A man who gave bis name as William Barron was ar. | nating negro laws in the administretion wiction tbat @ general Fising was (0 take place on Christ | rested on Tuosday night im Oe Of tho rooms of the | jestioe become unconstitutional and void. {muse Day, snd the most warlike precautions were taken | Coopér Institute, to whloh he had emeted aburtleriows | cons ainendinent which produces this jgo moot-the emergency, Nothing, however, occurred to } entrance, while in the act of slyly and, closely recda- ‘tibn Congress has “power to enforce by fears of the authorities. . | doitering a safe, which it is supposed he intended to tap . " Pee uctinaptents amare, revtret by say ot i> | tm ole penerecy semmmtan reel priate legislation.” And where ie the limit montioned the probability of the Parnquayan war | Mra Gilroy, an immigrant passenger by the ship Nep-- ‘power, with the blotting out of brought to a peacefal termination by (hémediatton 2 Se et a ee alleged neglect on from the federal constitution Ruropean Powers. that vessel was desctibed in yesterday's Henato, ‘Troubles had arison tm Japan through the Mikado, of | died yest@rday at the New York Hospital. Dr Merrick, State sovereignty fand polittoal and soolal ; | tinetions in regard to the Afrigan race’ Rmperor, ref wo carry out the arrange | surgeon of the ship, presented hinoself at the Coroners’ ad be tiers # eves toron, Witt regard (0 | gilice vemerdar to anewer anv gompiaitte which may be 4 We aubbmit this yueution to tha cananatenst, v institution of slavery. ° Startling, therefore, as the fact may appear, we are called to face it, that as the federal con- titution now stands (let any man who doubts it read it through, bearing in mind that it is the supreme law, and that slavery, by it, ia abo- lished and. interdicted) the black citizen, if there were an election in this city, or in Wash ington, or in New Orleans, to-day, might con- stitutionally claim his right to vote under the local laws regulating the suffrage of the white man. And yet they are debating in Congress a bill for granting the right of suffrage to the blacks of the District of Columbia. Let the President call upon the Chief Justice or the Attorney General of the United States fora definition of this constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, touching the political status of the black race of this country under it, and we doubt not the result will be a speedy solution of this whole question of Southern re- construction, negro suffrage and all. We hold that Andrew Johnson, in carrying through this constitutional. amendment, kas already settled the question, and that there is conse- quently no excuse for the exclusion from Con- greas any longer of the consenting Southern States. The position which our government has as- sumed with reference to the claims againet the government of England, arising out of the ac- tiow of that country in connection with the rebel privateers Alabamu and Shemandoah, was fully explained ia the lengthy correspondence between Mr. Adums and Lord Clarendon pub- fished in our columns yesterday. While we ean- not but admire tho firm and explicit terms ia which our Minister at the Court of her Britannic Majesty has defined the whole subject, we are. astonished at the puerile and offensive manner iu which the question has been treated by Lord Clarendon. The representative of the now British Ministry in the Foreign Office has not attempted te ireat the eubject in uny other light than that in which it was viewed by lis predecessor, Watt Kassel. te~ presents no new facts and addwces no new arguments. His correspondence can only be regarded as a repetition of the feeble logic of East Russell, upon whose authority he seems to rely as an ex eathedra declaration of the policy ef ber Ma- jesty’s government upon a question which this @ountry justly considers of grave moment in ithe settlement of vial iniernational principles, a8 well os of serious importance tm the tight of her own dignity as @ great Power. Mr. Adams has made out his ease clearly against the British goverament. Not 0 quibg bte nor» shuffle in the whole Russell-Claren- don correspondence can «tand agninst the solid faets and manly logic of oar Minister. Conscious, therefore, of this fact, and evident- ty overlooking the danger to which tagland may be exposed by a refusal to concede our claims, Lord Clarendon brings the con! to an end by the cool assumption that all the topics are exhausted, and with what may im- ply a theeat that the further continuance of the argument might lead to unfriendly relations between the two countries. What the future relationship may be between the governments of the Uulted Stutes and England is to be de- cided by the people and governm@nt of the United States, in the event of her Majesty's Ministers persisting in a refusal of our de- mands. While we do not courte war with any Power, it most be understood that this couatry is ia 4 position to maintain all ber claims to full and perfect justice, There are certain public questions upon which the American people are a anit. One ol them is the necessity of Maximilian with- drawing from Mexico, and another the fall Indemoification for the loases lo our commerce ‘on the high seas for which the government of Eurland can be held responsible. It is well that foreign statesmen should explicitly ander- stand this; and if Lord Clarendon ix not already aware of it we wow recommend the fact to his especial notice. In closing bis correspondence the Beltish Foreign Secretary desceads iv « diplomatic falsehood when he says that during the late civil war oo armed vessel departed from a British port to cruise against the commerce of the United States. [t is notorious that the two pirates concerning which this contro- versy has arisen were fitted ont for the pur- pose, and with all the accommodations of armed vessels, although the actual armament may have been taken on board after they left British waters. Moreover, they were manned for the most part by British subjects, and were sheltered during their marauding career in British ports. However, all these points have been so ably established by Mr. Adams as to compel the Foreign Secretary to shelter him- self under a quibble which is very like an wo- truth, Tt may possibly be inferred from the whole tenor of Lord Clarendon’s correspondence that, ashe has heretofore been amicably disposed toward this country, he does not wish to ptolong a controversy which may lead to a breach of friendship, and prefers to back out of it, leaving the case to stand aa his prede- cessor transferred it to him. Whether this ix true or not, however, bas nothing to do with the adjustment of our claims. This govern. ment cannot recede from its position in the matter of the rebel privateers. Borovarms on Tie Increase.—Our criminal record is daily replete with accounts of burg- laries committed both tn the oly proper end in the neighborhood. Williamsburg appears (0 be particularly unfortunate in this respect. Only « few wooks since « policeman in that Alatrict was shookieety wounded whilo ia the YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1866. ing politicians of both houses of Congress, who, with all the-light and all the power given by this constitutional amendment, seem to be groping about in the dark. All the digorimi- nations, we -say, heretofore existing in the federal constitution, ‘recognizing or justifying the exclusion of the black race from the civil and political rights of the whites, and giving the States discretionary powers in these dis- tinctions of color, rested upon the recognition and. for the protection of African slavery. With its abolition all these distinctions are ébolished. If we are correct in this view there remains no necessity and no excuse for the ex- clusion any longer of the rebel States from Congress, touching the civil or political rights of the blacks. A general law of Congress, defining the consequences meagure of this last constitutional amendment, will suffice. Looking at its legal scope, it is clearly a con- stitutional extinction of all political inequali- ties between the white and black races in this country, inasmuch as they all rested upon the upon. Of Spain's Speech. pari to be carried out if possible. Chilean war vessel. Peruvian difficulty.” her Majesty and we must punish them.” of Spain.” wiles away on a point of punctilio, Will that satisfy her? that is expensive. guard of cities. and comfortable homes on their arriy: but also that they will encounter no sary hardships on their passage hither. cious conduct of the surgeon of the Neptune imypse. The captain of the ship is bighly re- prehensible for allowing such outrages upon common decency to occur on the yessel he commands, But it is not the offices sloue, much less the Commissioners of Eaigration, who are to blame for these shocking barbari- ties. The owners of the ships, the affiuent merchants who have realized princely fortunes trom the transportation of emigrants, should be held responsible both for the comfort and se- curity of passengers and the character of the officers they employ. If they knowingly employ ‘as master of s ship a man netorious for his inbu- ‘at pee they pursuit of a burglar. A night or two since another policeman was shot and a private watchman had his leg broken in attempting to arrest a burglar. The private watchman is a poor, one-armed veteran of the war, witha family depending upon him for support. The frequency of these burglaries in the district re- ferred to has had the effect already of depreci- ating the value of real estate there. Both the authorities and property owners should adopt some means to suppress these outrages and rid the district of the villains who commit them. The best way to accomplish this is for the Mayog of Brooklyn to offer a reward of five hundred or a thousand dollars for the appre- hension of each of these midnight marauders, and let the property owners double the amount. This suggestion should be immediately acted The Spanish-Chilean War—The Queen The Queen of Spain has announced to the Bpanish Cortes the commenoomént of hostilities with Chile, and has promised to report the “pro- gress of the war.” Her government is also pre- to reinforce Admiral Pareja with three So all attempta at a peacenble ar- rangement of the difficulties between the two countries are doubtless given up. The war is to go on, and the Spanish Admiral’s threats gre Her Majesty, in carrying out her promise to “give an account to the Cortes of the progress of the war,” doubt- less had something to tell sooner than she hoped to ; and it would be curious to see how ehe stated the result of the first battle—how she told those grand Spanish dignitaries that her good ship Covadonga had fallen 1 prize to a The declaration of Spain now is, that Chile has “obstinately refused to make amends for wrongs done to the Spanish nation during the This boldly and openly falsifies the whole history of the case. Chile did make amends for those so-called wrongs, and made them so as to satisfy the Spanish agent sent to consider the subject. The trouble, therefore, that grew out of the conduct of Chile during the Peruvian difficulty is out of the question, and it is at once silly and false to pre- tend that it is the occasion of the present atti- tude of the two nations, But the trumping up of this pretext is worthy of notice as an evi- dence that the Queen’s Ministers “did not dare tostate to the Cortes the real cause of the war. It was evidently thought not safe to say, “We have no real cause of war; it is a matter of punctilio and dignity only; another case of our dear old Quixote and his windmills. Those Chileans printed in their papers insults against Per- bape even Spanish members would have amiled at this, and the more when ber Majesty suid in the next paragraph that she had signed a treaty |-""Ry ur with San Salvador because sho was “desirous Of respecting the mdependence of the States of | Making Bonth America, founded on the ancient colonies Spain, then, is. fairly embarked apon a war, aor Me the eause of which the Queen dares not stato hon rego to the Cortes: How will ate darry it on? | harbor ot Row TON oo providing Tor the tease Another paragraph of the Queen's speech troats of the unsatisfactory condition of the Spanish exchequer. The national revenue does not balance the national expenditure. Heavier tares must be laid on the people. and the ex- penses must be out down. These are the sug. gestions made in @ speech that announces the Commencement of the most absurd and usetess | of Comptrolier Robinson's annual of wars. Spain's impotence to carry on a war | {ie Comrirolier and Altea copies for each member of « thes side of the Atlantic has just been shown in &. Domingo. Spain bas just been compelled to relinquish her hold on San Salvador. She | increased because the occa that she is bankrapt, that she must in- erease her taxes to pay ordinary expenses, and can only carry on a war by contracting aew dedta, and, since her credit is 80 notoriously bad, can only contract new debts on the mosi difficult terms, With all this she plunges headloag into war with a Power thousands of ‘This war may prove to be the last ouace for poor old Spain. In this attempt to assert her dignity she can only prove ber senile impo- tence and reap disgrace. The simple fuet of the distance between the two cvuntries will pe balance their powers, and the Spanish frigates, | inc dou however fine they may be ia the Spanish poris, will be usciess huiks on the Pacific, unless Spain can make some better arrangement (or coal in this Chilean trouble than she did in thad with Peru. Full coal bankers are even and 8 daval depot on the Pacific is an absoluie requisite to carrying on neval operations there. Spain may bombard two or three poris and get a bad name ta the world, and what then? ferhaps so. But even Ut piles the debt higher, and | already the Spaniah nation in uneasy, the par- ties are restless, and it is thought necesury to adopt new and stricter regulations for ihe ft would not, perhaps, be wonderful if the Queen amsoried ber dignity | in Chile at the expense of ber throne in Spain, | Cromury ro Ewranasts.—The policy of our government ia to encourage emigration from all parts of the world, and anythieg tending wo check it operaics io the disadvantage of the country. To keep up the tide of emigration to our shores it is not only neaessary for the new- comers to feel secure of finding employment here, But if] award, and the we continue to hear of such diabolical proceed- ings as occurred on board the’ ship Neptane, Captain Booch W. Peabody, on ber Inst passage from Liverpool to this port, we shall not be surptised to learn that the desire to emigrate to America has become considerably abated among the population of Europe. The atro- by other officers. Some scenes om board omr emigrant stipe, if truthfully reported, rival the horrora of the “middle passage,” where human beings were either smothered to death or made to walk the plank. This is a fitting subject for Congress to take action upon, and we trust it will do so at the earliest practicable period. i Conoress%—nv THs Wire or Presrpent Lin- coun.—We are astonished that the republican press has nothing to say in relation to the shameful manner in which Congress is acting im regard to the donation to the wife aad family of the ma:tyred President of this repub- lic. Not only bas Congreas cut down the amount proposed from one hundred thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars, but it actually seems to hesitate to give even that sum. We consider this a disgrace to the American people, The republican press not Only dis- honors the memory of the dead President by ite silence, but it subjects Mrs. Lincoln to the dastardly attacks of such journals as Bea Wood’s copperhead paper, and tacitly ea- dorsos all that they can sa; inet her. We are in favor of pa: Mr. Lincoln's family the full of the sslary which he would have 3@ had he not been foully murdered by Wilkes Booth while extending pardon to the rebela who had been defeated by our arms. He was as truly a victim to the rebellion as any soldier who fell in the attack on Richmond, and it is disgraceful that Congress should thus delay to pay his bounty. Thirty-five thousand dollars may have been enough for the widow of General Harrison, who died peacefully, and who lived at a time whon that amount of money was a fortune; but, under all the circumstances, one hundred thousand dollars is not too much to pay the widow of President Lincoln, and we hope that it will be paid without further parley. It is singular that a people so generous as tho | Americans should be so grossly misrepresented in the present Congreas. The bill granting Mra. Lincoln her husband’s salary ought to have ! been passed unanimously and without reference’ to a committee. It is now too late to do thin gracefully; but still it ought to beidone af once. THE STATE CAPITAL’ NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. A.oany, Jan. 12, 1866. MILLA NOTICRD, By Mr. Lavr—To regulate the taxes on lands taken or to be taken for Croton water purposes. To facilitate the collection of claims against inauraace companies. By Mr. C. G. Corxett—To amend the act relative te idulent assessmeats, for loca! improvements ia New York By Mr. Larav—Docta the law as to overseers of e poor not licable to Richmond coanty. By Mr. 0" Regulating the of super- as to the equalization of, taxes. v Mr. Prensox—To provide for the and care of idie and traamt children in ¥3 9 Tor the pavmentof the principal sngatiac am sppropention Tor the paymént of tho ox a " x Hoosen of collect i Ye Be tolls, supprintendease aad "By Mr. Lanav—To exempt the'proporty of the Sailors? boarding house tunnera, &e By Mr. Wutsams—To incorporate the Guild of the Hol y Cross in New York. Adjourned. ‘The SrxsKee Felect ¢ Me Socrety. ‘THE COMPTROWLER's RerOrT. Mr. Tourn made a motion to priat five hundred report for the Mr. J.1. PARKER would as soon distribute the las message of Jofferson Davis among his constitucmte tois document He com that our debt had teers to put down the rebellion. insulted the loyal feeling of the give the Com five bundred to turnishing for the members of this . ‘Mr. Twors said the report contained facts whichshoula disseminated. He was not afraid to trust his stituents with the document. It advocated and informed the people with reference to the debt. The taxpayers should have access to this official exhibit of State finances ours Mr Bnesnenre west double the wamboc reason that wi Opposition put ther doctrines: record it was a benefit to the Union party Comptselion Robinson bad shown hunself a representative democrat: of the copperhead order, and be was for letting his com- stituents see how the thing looked. Mr. Crrasexn was im favor of economy im printiag; bat the report of the Comptrotier was a document that” should be circulated. Lf any one was responsible for the sentiments of the report, it was the party that Comptrotier Robinsog to office. The state debt had joreased, and this document showed how it ha@ Tf these facts were to be suppressed for political reasons, then let it be done, but h+ had mever. heard Mr. Robinson's motives questioned. He had dis- charged his duties with great ability, and hin report was of great value at thie time, Mr. Tworw said that the Committee on Printing had re solved to retrench ; but they aid not think ths document wee the one to commener upon. z Mr. Lirvissots war mot induenced. br con- siderations The State was laboring onder a debt of over righty maliions, aad economy var demanded in every de Porvuent of the government. He moved to limit the ex- tra copies of the report to five hundred, , Mr Two said that thie was the only that © the taxpayers a foil exhibit of the debt ve Mr. Littlejoho. Mr. Congnox would have more than five hundred copes printed tion was adopted by 62 to 50. MEEROFOLITAN POLICK REPORT A resobition to print fe hundred extrs comes of the Metropoivtan Police Report sad the Report of the Metro POLtam Fire Commissioners was adopted. ILL NOTICND, Velative to contagious d/-eases among caitte Handing ‘he furisdi¢tion of gotaries public in ‘n Lexington avenue and vane al Te amend the Bank WLS INFRODOERD Vor # railroad in @mad and other streets in New York, extead the term of office of the Justice and Clerk highth judiewl district. To incorporate we United States Real Estate Oredit Company. For the getiet of the Blick River Railroad Company. To authorize divorves im cases of wilful and continued abandonment. ~ amend Legh ony ere ‘ i ror a survey of tl judeon river ny A to Fort charter of the Kings County Savings impravement o! the ‘To amend the General Manufacturing law. . ‘To \ncorperate the Savings Raat of Brookign. Reepocting Nabitity negligence MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. By My Cocutas—For a joint committer on joint The los over Adjourned ———-— The at four 0" the New