The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OF#I0H N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, teeseeeeereee se NO, B& e Volume XXXI....-.+60-+05 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ROADWAY THEAT! Broadwi site Souon Buaoun oer hee { LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE. Nos, 728 aod way.—Tag Day Arrer Taz Webpinc—Tax Pruoner or War. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Tuu Baitoon W: . Matinee at x Otis spping—Tae Wivow's Vicor. | GHORGE CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS.—Tat Onn SonooL ov Munsrmausy, Baut. Musicat Gaus, €c., at the Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos. Zand ¢ West Twonty@ourth at. Broome SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 By itan Hotel. ~Ermiorian SINGING, ‘APRIOAING BY THR GERMAN OPRRA TROUPE, | ONY, rASTOR'® OPERA byt eas 3) Rowers. -Siva- auusaues. 20. Pax im Wasminarow. Matinee at Biolock, ATE CoBRKS ay, opposite MANCING, &0.— Yim, Bonuasavae, &c.—fuav'e Mr Sistas 8? OAM + HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraroriax Mix- —Batuaps, BURLESQUES AND PAanroxiuns. ( por NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @pon from 104. M. Mt 10 P.M ecaaaceritc i COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Ws. B. Wasa on enn mtenegzoas Recations Berwexn ENGLAND anv Ine- New Work, Wednesday, Ja; ary 24,1866. THE Naw Ss. CONGRESS. In tho Senato yesterday there were presented the pro- testa of the California Legislature against the proposed survey and sale of government mineral lands, and of Citizens of St. Lawrence county, N, Y., against the re nowal of the Reciprocity treaty. A. bill was introduced ellowing naval and Marine corps officers compensation ‘for personal effects lost in action with the enemy and providing for deducting fromthe prize money of naval seamen the amount of any bounty they may have re. ceived, Mr. Sumner gave notice that he intends to introduce a negro suffrage amendment to the Colorado admission bill, Notice was also given of a proposition to authorize the Postmaster General, whenever he shall deom it expedient, to change the style of letter stamps. Mr. Henderson, republican, of Missouri, offered a constitutional amendment to prohibit any State witbholding the elective franchise from its cit'zens on account of color. The remainder’ of the ses- sion was consumed in debate over the bill to eularge the power of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Mr. Sauls- bury, of Delawaro, addressing the Senate strongly in op- Position to it, principally on account of the heavy ex ponditure which it would entail, though he believed that the pascage of this and other republican measures of like chardoter would result in tho restoration to power of the democracy. He was replied to at length hy Mr, Fessen- don, and other Senators took part iu the discussion; but no voto was teached. Noarly ‘toe ‘entire day was spent by the House of Roprogentatives in a discussion of the proposed constt- tutional amendment of the Reconstruction Committee. A resolution was adopted instructing that committee to report on the expediency of taking the national census uring tho present year, Mr. Henderson, republican, of ‘Oregon, offered a series of resolutions, which wero cent ‘to the same committee, declaring that by secoasion the ‘Sebellious States lost their constitutional rights and privt loges; that consequently their territory reverted to the national government, and that therefore, the welfare of both the white and black races requiring that they should live apart, Texas should be appropriated asa place of residence exclusively for the negroes, Thp Mouse then took up the constitutional amendment inifoduced by the Committée on: in thet made onthe previous day, providing that Congress! tation ball be based om'the entire population, exco; such persons as by State law are deprived of the @leotive franchise on acconnt of race or color. ‘Mr. Stevens for some time insisted on prossing the ques- tion tean immediate vote, but was finally induced to Permit discussion of the merits of the measure, and a lghg debate, participated in by a number of members, followed, lasting up to the adjournment, without any disposition being made of the matter. ‘ THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday a petition for the re- moval of the railroad track in Thompson street, in this ‘city, was presented. Among the bills noticed was one for aship canal between Lakes Ontario and Cayuga. Billa wore introduced to facilitate the construction of tho Midiand Raliroad, between this city and Oswego; to Tacititate collection of claims agains insurance com- panies, and declaring it to be a mietemeanor to threaten ‘UF attompt to bribe delegates to political mectings. The bill amending the General Aanafacturing law was Ordered to its third reading. The Metropolitan Health Dit was mado the special order for to-day, in the Assembly the reports for the year 1865 of the Quarantine Commissioners, the Health Officer of this port and the State Paymaster Genoral were presented. The former two were accompanied by » message from Governor Fenton urging immediate logielation to meet the recommondations of the reports regarding mossures: to prevent the spread of the cholera on its antic pated visit next summer. An appropriation of fifty thousand Wollara is recommended to meet the necessary coutem- plated Quarantine expenditures and to cover habilities incurred by late proceedings to guard against the disease, ‘Among 4 number of bills ordered to a (bird reading was that for a survey of the uppor part of Hudson river and of the Champlain Canal from Troy to Whitehall, with a view of the enlargement of the canal. Notice was given of @ bill for abridge across the East river, Bills were introduced xing the salariée of Metropolitan police captains at two thousand dollars per year, and providing for two additional Surrogates in this city. A resolution calling for immediate action to fix the fare on the Eighth ‘Avonue Railroad at eight cents wae offered, bat, after wome discussion, laid on the table. MISCELLANEOUS. A War Department order has been issued: for muster. tng out of service about thirty additional regiments of troops, about half of which are colorod organization s. Sonor do Tejada, President Juarea’s Secretary of State, tsauod at El Paso, on the 10th of December, the day after ‘the last arrival of the President and his Cabinet at that down from Chihuahaa, a circular to the Stat? Governors, jally announcing the re-ostablishment at the formor piace of the Mexican national government. Notwith- wtanding this and the numerous other viciesitudes which havo befallen the government, Senor Tejada assures the Moxican people that the determination of their patriotic ant’porsovering chief and his faithras gssistants to resist ‘ho imperial establishment is unabated, ant thes their ‘hopes of early triumph are greatly strengthened by - ing events. Our El Paso correspondent, writing on the @% of Decomber, furnishes an account of the arrival and Sotkusiastic reception there of Juarez, A procession of ‘WALitary and citizons met him some distance from the town, ‘wod on bis ontry be was greeted by the ringing of bells, ‘the roar of artillory, the cheers of the populace, and all smennor of exubcrant demonstrations. The Mexican re- Publicang were mach rejoiced on learning of the appoint. ment by ident Johnson of General Logan as United rates Minister to their country. They have no doubt ‘ere this been somewhat saddened by the intelligence that jho has deolined the postion, We received by telegraph from Washington ight (AR Gynopsia of the correspondence in ro woe to eo west. fan emigration schemos of Gwin and Maury, submitted Lo the Sonate by President Johnson on the 10th instant, ‘tho principal points of this correspondence appoarod in Bho Henan of the following day; but the substance one or two additional letters ie now given Angust last Druyn de Lhuye, tna despatch to our jniator in Paris, assorted the imtontion of France to neutral tn all questions affecting the United from whom she expected the same course of Conduct. Ho sald that his government had nothing w aaa pledge, but that he considered the word of a eafficient guarantee, ‘The amti-slavery amendment to the national conetitu- (Mon was yesterday adopted by the Senate of the New Dorsey after at earnest debate, by thirteen Yeas to eight Maye, It was ratified by the House on Wednesday last, and that body yoaterday adopted @ reso- oe one hyndred guns to be fired to-day in Now Jersey's eudorsement of the moagure. Attiole In the Monitor of Prusein dpglares a3 I pad. ty i made. - twenties Ale bY him wero not due untif i<$1, and were Of avery go amounting al er NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JaNDARY v4, 1°88. the Union. It says, further, that our institutions, which are not suited to Europe, have shown a vigor that has often been called into question. Despite our trouble aud the intertuption fo Commerce and our enormous ex- penses, our government, it says, has equipped two and a half millions of soldiers, and yet folt itself sufficiently Powerful to be able to disbend that army in four months, or at least to reduce it toa fifth. The same article says, finally, that unjust and thoughtless opinions of the Mos- sage aré not wanting in some of tho sheets favorable to the government, but which are wrongly regarded as its organs, Yesterday morning United States Marshal Murray, acting upon a monition from United States District Attor- ney Dickinson, proceeded on board the propeller Meteor, a steamer of fourteen hundred tons burden, and seiz>d the vessel, it being charged by an affidavit of Mr. Podestat, an attache of the Spanish legation, that the vessel was fitted out as a Chilean privateer, destined to destroy Spanish commerce on the high seas, The Meteor, which was to have sailed for Panama yesterday morning, is still in charge of a depaty marshal, Arumor prevailed in the city yesterday that a Fenian privateer had left this port to prey on British commerce. It was occasioned by supposed mysterious movements of the steamship Cuba, which cleared at our Custom House on Saturday last for Baltimore, but did not sail till yesterday, The suspension of business by the Columbian Marino Tnsurance Company, announced in yoesterday’s Hrrap, creates immenge excitement in commercial circles. The company’s buildings were thronged yesterday by the stockholders, many of whom, on ascortaining the causes of the alleged failure, proposed to stand an assess- mont of fifty per cent in order that business might be resumed by the directors, A mecting of the latter will dake place to-day, at which it is ex- pected some satisfactory arrangement may be entered into, We publish to-day the financial statements of the company for the past three years, and the history of its organization in 1857, The oxact amount of tho liabili- ties is not yet ascortained, but they will reach a very high figure, The skating on all the ponds in and around the city was of a first class character yesterday, and they were of course all thronged. A grand and successful carnival took place on the Fifth avenue pond, which was at- tended by large numbers. Snow commenced fall ng be- tween four and five o'clock in the afternoon, and con- tinued up till about ten at night; but as the fall was of « very light character it did not soriously interrupt the on joyment of skaters, and,as it was succeeded by the dis- sipation of the clouds and a starlit sky, the prospects aro good for a continuation of their sport to-day. A serious affray occurred on board the steamship Man- hattan, at pier No. 8 North river, yesterday afternoon, between the firemen and coalpassers and the second -mate, Henry Curwin, The latter, being hard pressed, drew a revolver and discharged it at the crowd, the shot taking effect in the head of Michael Haley, a fireman, pro- ducing @ probably fatal wound. Curwin was arrested, and the wounded man was taken to the City Hospital, where the surgeon gave it as bis opinion that Haley could not live through tho night. Evidenée was taken yesterday before United States Commissioner Stilwell on behalf of Captain Peabody, of the ship Neptune, who is charged with cruel treatment of seamen on board that vessel. The testimony went to show that many of the crew Wore inefficient and incapa- ble of working the vessel, and but for the offorts of the captain the sailors and passengers would never have been brought into port with safety, The case is closed on both sides, and now awaits the Commissiozrer'’s de- cision. Commissioner Betts yesterday heard a case in which 2 man pamed George Brauno was charged with having in his possession forged Mfty oemt fractional currency representing seven or eight hundred dollars, Some evi- dence having been taken, the further hearing was ad- journed, A curious stock-operation was developed yesterday be- fore Judge McCunn, at the special term of the Superior Court, The parties to it are Mr, John A. Bridgland as plaintiff and Messrs, L. Haligarten, Joseph Herzfeld and Win, Rozenteim as defendants, We give ® sketch of the case under our Tegul intelligence, The Strong litigation, we are informed, tt te bere: |” vived. Notice of a new trial has been served, @nd the case will be placed on the calendar for next term: The Father Mathew Society was before the Court of | | Common Pleas yesterday in vory formidablé numbers. A dispute has arisen betweon two sets of officers as to the right to the possession of the funds, contro! of he meeting house, aud general @irection of the society's affairs. The plaintif— in the action cisim that the de- fendants are expelled mombers, aud that thele term of office has expired. The defendants, ga the other hand, claim that the title to offico is involved in the contro- versy, and therefore that the Court has no jorisdiction, the proper tribunal for such a matter beiag the Supreme Court om a writ of quo warranto. The United States Suprome Court has confirmed tho decree of condemnation in the caso of the British ship Admiral, captured in December, 1861, off Savannah, by a government vessel, while atiempting to run tho block- ade of that port, and taken to Philadelphia aud Ubclled asa prize. There werea number of burgiars sent to the State Prisom yesterday from the Court of General Seastons by Judge Russel. Honry Cunningham, who, on the night of the 20th of Decembor broke into the store 186 Varick street and stole six dollars worth of hams, pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree. As he was an old offender the Court sentenced bim to the State Prison for four years, Thomas Wilson, charged with breaking into the liquor store of Stephen Rownan, in Cherry atrest, and stealing two pistols and four dollars, pleaded guilty and was rent to the State Prison for two years, Honry Miller, indicted for burglary in the second dogroe, having broken an inner door of the Continental Hotel on the 4th inst., and stole an overcoat, pleaded guilty to the third grade of that offence, and was remanded for con- tence. Charles Borsheo pleaded gailty to an attempt to steal five hundred dollars from Augnste Lott, at 320 Tenth avenue. The accused claimed that the money he took ‘was in rebel notes, which were produced, Sentence was postponed, George F. St. Albyn was tried on a charge of stonling three firkins of buttor, tho property of ‘W. 1. Allen, and aftorwards selling it to Charles Hauns, ‘on the 16th of October, An alibi was established by the depositions of a number of witnesses, who testified that the accused was iu the town of Hollan’, Massachusetts from Tie Wer of November, Jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Tho trial of Francisco Gene Salvador for the murder of Jose Garcia Otero was continued yesterday in the King's County Court of Oyer and Terminer. A great deal of testimony was taken; but it was principally a repetition of that elicited on the Gonzales trial. The case was closed for the prosecution, and the defence was opened, and several witnesses were examined in behalf of the prisoner. The trial will be concluded to-day, The ex.rebel Captain 8, 8. Smith, recontly arrested in Toronto, Canade, on charge of attempting to pégotiate stolen United Sata Thi, bah ths tom that piace to Windsor, whore a full Tavestigntign of his case four thousand dollars of five: to about nine hufdrod dollars tn gold, 6 WeM-an nually, in sums of thirty to one thonsand dollars each. ‘Tho people of Tiuavili¢, in the Pennaylvania off re gions, are in a state of great excitement on atcount of wt- tempts to destroy that town by fire, and 4 vigilance com- mittee of thirty of the prominentcitizens has been organ- ized, and yesterday commenced the trial of three persone arrested on suspicion of connection with the incendiar. fem. A gallows wae already erected, on which the prison- ors were to swing immediately if found guilty. Several distinot fires were kindled, the damage by all of them being estimated at seventy five thousand dollara The members of the colored delegation which their brethren of various States are maintaining in Washington, to look after their interests during the present session of Congress, formed an Organization on Monday for con- certed action in efforts to indice Congress to Insure for the negro equality before the law with the white man. George T. Downing, representing the Now (England States, wan chosen theit President. Yesterday, hy in- vitation of Genera! Howard, Commissioner of Freedmen's Afairs, the delegation visited him and had « conference Tegarding matters affeoting the Walfare of the people of their race in the Southern States, ‘The report of the commission appointed by Provisional Governor Holes, of North Carolina, to draw up # code for the regulation of the affairs of the freedmen was pre- sented to the Logisiature of that Btate yesterday, It Provides, among other things, for receiving the testimony of negroes !n civil and criminal suits to which persons of thelr race may be parties. Complainte stilt come from the (ntorfor of Loulgtana of tive. of tho friendly relations of foreign governments with | they aro tnfluenced to this course by designing persons who contemplate being able to purchage plantations cheap by inducing the present owners to sell on atcount of their inability to prooure’ ixborera, Sixty prominent citizens of De Soto parish have beem arrosted by the mili tary and imprisoned at Shreveport, charged with killing nogroes. The stock market was unscttled and lower yosterday morning, but improved im the afternoon, and closed steady. Gold closed at 18934 a 1305. Governments were dull, ‘Thore was no essential change in commercial affairs yesterday, The duincs# mentioned in our last was the chief feature, the fall in gold, alight as it was, exerting & somowhat unfavorable influence, Foreign goods were quiet, but steady; but domostic goods were dull. Cotton was nominally lower, Petroleum waa also lower. Gro- ceries wore quiet but steady. On Change flour was dull and heavy. Grain was weak and nominal. Pork was dull but unchanged, Lard was steady. Whiskey was a trifle lower. Liboral receipts and consequent continued doprossion are still the ruling features of the cattle market, and prices for beef cattle this week are again nearly or quite 1c, per pound lower, though the range is nearly the same, or prime 10c. to18c, Milch cows remain the same, prices varying all tho way from $60 to $160. Voals are steady at from 10c. to15c. Sheep and lambs aro again lower, owing to the fact that the supply exceeds the demand. Prices per head are about the same, ranging from $4 50 to $10, Hogs sold at from 1030. to lle. The total re- ceipte were 4,087 beeves, 69 Cows, 499 veald, and 10,190 sheep and lambs, The Anti-Radical Majority ef the House, and How it was Thrown Away on the District Negro Suffrage Bill. The bill which passed the House of Repre- sentatives the other day, without qualification, granting the right of suffrage to the blacks of the District of Columbia, although oarried by & two-thirds majority, was nevertheless passed against a clear majority of the House opposed to the measure. Let us turn to the record. The bill boing before the House, the motion of Mr. Hale, of New York (republican), came up, viz:—To amend the motion to recommit, with instructions to the committee to extend the suffrage in the District, irrespective of color, to all persons coming within either of the following classes:—First, those who can read the constitution of the United States. Second, those who are assessed for and pay taxes on real or personal property within the District; those who have served in and been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States; and to ro- strict such right of suffrage to the classes named, and to include proper provisions ex- cluding from the right of suffrage those who have borne arms against the United States dur- ing the late rebellion, or given aid and comfort to said rebellion. A bill so framed would havo been perfectly consistent with the well known viows of Presi- dent Johnson on this question of negro suffrage. There was a majority in tho House in favor of such a bill; but it will now be seen how it was frittered away:— ciate moka’ irom ts yond recieve “Those who are aascased for aad pay taxes oa real or Mr. Witson, of lowa, briefly stated hia objections to the ingtructions, . The Houso struck from {he instructions the pi 4 quatification clause, amd then refused to recommit bill to the Committéc on thé Judiciary with the \ = eee instructions by @ vote of 63 agamst 127, as fol. Yuss—-Messrs. Andi Buckland, ¢ tke, M ; Ray: Brak 1, Bundy, ner, , Cutlom, Farnsworth, it apa ts, 'a., Habbard of N. Y., James M. Hum: Hebbard Jones,” Julian, . Kelso, n Rice oe hdr, a wa hea soomg @ ‘Washburne of The Weiker, Wonworth, waitin wit son of Iowa, Wilavw of Pa., Windomand Winfeld—117, Democrats, in Itatics—¥6. Here we have fifty-three conservative repub- lican members for the recommitment with the aforesaid tustractions, against one bandred and seventeen members voting in the negative. But the remarkable feature of this vote Is in the fusion of the democrats with the republican radi- cals, Thaddeus Stevens carrying off the whole democratic strength of the House—thirty-five members—from Ancona, Brooks, Chanler and Morgan Jones down to Voorhees and Winfleld— the whole batch. Had these thirty-five democrats voted with the fifty-three republican conserva- tives the bill would bave been recommitted for the modifications proposed, for the division of the House would hav? been:— Republican conservatives \nd democrats. Conservative majority..)... a Why, then, did note democrats join hands Tepe os publican conservatives block the radi me upon this initial measure? It was the democrats have been so thoroughly in the woel in all the juggling tricks of rascality that they can- not cast them off, vote In the service of Stevens was a juggling trick to push the repub- lican conservatives wall. The principle involved was to the democrats, the administration thing, consistency was nothing; but the con>mptible party object of driving over the repéblican conservatives to the radical whip of Stevens was everything. ‘This was the result o| the democratic coalition with Stevene upon th lest question of recom- miltting the bf. motion having failed 1 fusion, the question a bebe of the bill for un- recarred on o qualified negro ‘l it was passed; aye 116, nays 54, as OM ee er, Ata Be o we ", a , ar, F S Brotanall Brontwett Bee aon eexe of kee, Clarke of Kling, ‘Ouvom, Dar. Deming, Dixon, pea, Here the tables wor tured apon the demo- | crats; for had the whole fifty-three republicans voting alone for the recommitment joined the democrats against its passage the bill would have been defeated. But there were only nineteen of those republicans equal to the test of country against party—the balance, includ- ing Mr. Raymond, with all his fine professions in support of the administration, at the crack of the whip, fell into the radical traces, The democrats assist Stevens in making the bill, or pill, as unpalatable as possible to Mr. Ray- mond & Company, and then, as a party pre- scription, they are compelled to swallow it. The result is the triumph of party over prin- ciple on both sides, and such an exhibition of party diaboliam on the one hand and party servility and cowardice on the other as are rarely seen oven in Congress. In these recorded votes upon the District Negro Suffrage bill the fact is established that there is majority in the House in favor of the conservative policy of the adminietra- tion; but this other fact is also established— that the elements of this majority are controlled by conflicting party tricks for party purposes. How is this evil to be remedied? It can never be remedied so long as the democrats hug the delusion of the restoration of the old demooratio party, That concern 1s defunct, dead and buried, with the old whig and old federal parties. Lot the democrats accept this fixed fact, and accept the ark of the adminis- tration as their only hope, and they will soon discover the way to a new organization, upon a solid platform, together with all the Conservative elements of Congress and the country. So overwhelming is the weight of public disgrace, contempt and disgust resting upon the democratic party from its affiliations with the late rebellion, that it cannot be resus- citated. Its surviving elements must take some new shape, and, in looking to the administra- tion, they must not expect the mountain to come to Mahomot. They must go to the moun- tain, Or, to change the figure, they must aban- don their old water-logged hulk and go over to the new Union ship of the administration and conservative republicans. In such a movement they can reach at once the control of Congress and shape its policy, and put in motion the ruling party of the future. The Pacific Railroad. The act of Congress passed to ald the great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic and Pa- cific oceans by a continuous line of communi- cation by railroad requires one line to be con- atructed from Omaha, on the Missouri river, opposite Council Bluffs, to San Francisoo. This main line was, by the act, to be constructed by two companies, viz.:— First—The Union Pacific Raflroad Company, which is to construct the line from Omaha to the eastern boundary of the State of Caii- fornia, General John A. Dix is President, and Jobn J, Ciaco Treasurer of this company. Second—The Contral Pacific Railroad of Cali- fornia was, by the act of Congress, to oon- struct the whole line from the eastern boun- dary of California to San Francisco. But {t has assigned so niuch of the line as lies be- tween Sacramento and San Jose (one hundred and aty mites) to the Western Pacific Rail- road of Galifornia. The road from San Jose (forty-nine miles) by « local company. The Union Pacific Railroad has fifty miles of road completed from Omaha wéstward. The Central Oslifornia is at work from Sacramento eastward, and the Western California from San Jose to Sacramento. Both are making good progress. : Phere is also the Union Pacific Railway Com- pany, Eastern Division. (Its charter days rail- way, not railroad.) This company had at one time General Fremont for its President and Samuel Halteti for its financial manager. John D. Perry is now President and Wm. J. Palmer Treasurer and Secretary, It is sometimes called the Kansas branch and was formerly known as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and West- ern Railroad Company ot Kansas. This com- pany ts authorized to construct a road from the mouth of the Kansas, westward, to connect with the main line at the one-hundredth meri- dian of longitude west of Greenwich. It has finished sixty miles of road to Topeka, which is a little east of the moridian of Omaha, Omaha is on the ninoty-sixth meridian and Topeka ninety-five degrees forty-five minutes, The main line is, therefore, about sixty miles in advance. But as the line from Topeka to the one-hundredth meridian is longer than the line from Omaha to that meridian at the point of junction, the main line from Omaha is, in fact, some eighty miles in advance. The one-hundredth meridian is two hundred and forty-six miles west of Omaha, and it is expected that the main line will reach that point by the Ist of July, 1867. Thence to La- porte on the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- tsins is three hundred and five miles. Tho | mining interests of the mountains may, there- fore, loox ni ey earl day for egsential relief in the matter of patty snaportaiion. The permanent location of the main line has been made for the first two hundred miles west from Omaha; and the route to Salt Lake, in- cluding the passes through the mountains, has been carefully surveyed and mapped, though surveys are still going on with a view to ascer- tain whether better grades can be found. All the results obtained are exceedingly favorable and show no difficulties which may not be easily overcome. This great work is 0 essential ome cafeiy, as well as our commerolal pre“perity, that no effort should be % expedite ite comple- tion, New York become, by opening com- muni San Fraiclé¢o, a central point of ution for the products of Asis and ‘4 , tetee far fe ke es iteelf, and in ite speedy consummation, pers stated yesterday that a Hone SSG Be groee ng Sees ak: an eee pore tp commence @ raid on British commerce, and tha the pape. had sent a correspondent with the or In ate¥ days this story will bo magnified n'a # fleet of ree or four prive- oa 8nd each of ~ 3 fitevens ‘Thea. ‘ Foather. Afnent to the constitution reported » Monday by the Committee on to Congress on Reconstrattion, e, Bineored by Thad, Stevens, >, 'v superfluous, The pro- is in our view entire. | posed amendment provia, om, in effect, that after its adoption no race or ov. The amon, % thowlag the WRIT | of tidia has plodpat Sliaself before the Féoplo to a cordial support af President Johnson's policy; but we find them an. °PPosing te | their votes and cringing at thé peck of Th Stevens’ little finger. Their consti wilt hold them responsible for this trickery, “™~ srnubetrtnellcasiinaribececon ‘lor excluded from | Ta Jacopms m Cononnss,—Thad, Stevens the polls by any of the States ». "al! be counted | asked leave to introduce a resolution in Con- in apportioning the representa, States which thus deny the right of #. any portion of their population. Of ee we are in favor of this amendment. », ° really do. not see how any sensible man can oppose it. If Thad. Stevens should succeed in placing it before the Legislatures of the States, we presume that a majority of them would adopt it.° But, at the same time, we regard it as altogether unnecessary and as an indication that the radicals are showing the white feather atlaat, Under the former amendment abolishing slavery the States gave to Congress the power to confer the privilege of voting upon the ne- groes; for it authorizes all necessary legiala- tion in regard to the freedmen. By the amend- ment which they now propose the radicals dodge the real issue and evade the responsi- bility by handing the whole subject back again to the States, If any State, North or South, desires to prohibit negroes from voting it can do so, under the new. amendment, by sacri- floing a representative or two; and in some States this will doubtless be done for the pres- ent if the amendmont be ratified. But if the radicals had faced the issue boldly they might have conferred the right of suffrage upon all the freedmen without offering the Southern States this bargain or threat. That they did not do this is proof that they now feel their own weakness in contrast with the unanimous sentiment of the country In favor of the Pre- sident’s policy. Now, then, is the timo for the cowardly con- servatives in Congress to make a grand rally and push the radicals to the wall. They have the strength, if they can only find a leader with talent enough to teach them how to use it, There is no reason whatever why such loyal representatives as Maynard, of Tennessee, and Marvin, of Florida, should not be at once ad- mitted to Congress. They have been Union men all through the rebellion—better Union men, in fact, than many of the Congressmen from the North who now occupy seats in the House. They can take any oath of loyalty that may be prescribed, and can take it with an easier conscience than some of the radicals and copperheads. It is outrageous that such repre- sentatives as these should be classed with rebels and traitors‘and have the door of the Capitol shut and barred in their faces by Thad. Stevens and his Jacobin commitice. If the South does not send loyal men to Coffress, those who come may be sent back and sent back until euch representatives as Maynard and Marvin and John Minor Botts (who ought to be one of the Congressmen from Virginia) are chosen. But to make no discrimination, no distinctions, fa unfair, unjust and indefensible. It inter- teres with the President's plan for reconstrac- tion, and yet provides no substitute, It puts Southern Union men on a par with the worst rebels, and is thus a practical encouragement th assethblage ‘account for back folly. If It be attributable to the tyranny of party discipline, then the sooner ,thene Congressmen follow the example of the President and prefer patriotism to partisan- ahip, the sooner the country will be reunited, The Southern States have complied with all the requirements of the President. They have abolished slavery, repudiated the rebel debt, given up their theory of the right of secession, and authorized Congress to aid the freedmen by appropriate legislation. In addition to this, Congress has the right to demand that they aball send Union men to represent them in the national Legislature, and whenever they do 30, as in the case of Tennessee and Florida, their representatives should be admitted. What is to keep them out? Is it this radical flummery about no negro votes no negro rep- resentation? Certainly not; for that is a radical trick of which some of the Southern States will be only too happy to take advan- tage, and it is a decided backing down on the part of the Pennsylvania Mephistopheles. Now let the conservative members Insist upon the admission of the Union delegates from the South. Tho radical mountain has been in labor, and has brought forth » ridiculous mouse, The conservatives should take advan- tage of this fasco and manage the reconstruc- tion question for themselves. Rusomertow or Specie Parwenrs.—It is all vory well for Congress to support the Secre- tary of the Treasury in his financial proposi- tions, for there Is but little doubt the Secre- tary has more knowledge of finance than all Congress put together. Bat it is not the Secre- tary alone who is managing the business of a resumption of specie payments. He is aided by the gold brokers and stock jobbers of Wall atreet, who are endeavoring to manipulate the measure so as to make it useful to them ip thoir money speculations. Some want resumption in one day or two days. Others say one week or two woeks. Onan, conte, a98 movith or two months. All theag p»>Fositions as to time are equally sbgvrd. It took us four years to ql debt under which our people labor. It will require double that time to got rid of it, Itis easier to get into debt than out of it. And some years must elapse before we can restore our currency and financial position generally to the condition they were in before the war. Rarsowp om 4 Meppux.—We lately had some hopes ar Raymond, but his recent uncondi- tional nigger Fold “Mpolls an. no hed taken a bold and position, and to relin- Tacos aaa Graws mid. Khe radical trages to the sound of the cracking of “erg ip proves his case hopeless, There are thrse pancters ln * pregenet of the Times newspapere— ‘eed, Leonard W. Jerome and ‘ves to the | gress on Monday instructing the Committee on “ffrage to Foreign Affairs to inquire into the Propriety of the United States granting a loan, on proper security, to the republic of Mexico, to enable her to prevent the establishment of a mon- aro."ial government on her soll. Some other radica: Will next propose a loan to the Fenians, These Jaco propagandists*will try to get us into a war wits! France #ad England by and by. They are in tiany respects following in the footsteps of the Jacobins of the French Revolution, who, as soon as their flerce pas sions obtained control, rushed France into « general war. A Pracrcan Sree Towarp Reconstrvc— t10N.—Mr. Maynard, member elect from Ten- nessee, and Mr. Marvin, from Florida, are Union men, and have been from the commence ment, They are refused admission into Com gress, though they are able and undoubtedly ' willing to take the required oath as to loyalty. They should be admitted, and thus a practical basis would be made for the return .of mem- bers. If men who can take the oath, such as Maynard and Marvin, are admitted, and others who certainly cannot take it are sent home again, the Southern people will have new eleo- tions and send other men. Such a good Union man as John Minor Botts would be chosen to represent Virginia, and so throughout all tho States. This is a practical step that Congress should not neglect. Tue Prosecreo Exsoars or Jerr. Davis.—A great fuss has been created and a great deal of unnecessary suffering occasioned by the re- ported projected attempt to help Jeff. Davis to escape from Fortress Monroe. It would have been much better for the government to have winked at it, if such a thing was ever contem- plated. Congress would not then bein its present unfortunate quandary about how Davis shall be tried. SKATING. Continued Excitement at the Park Grand Carnival on the Fifth Avenue Pond—Base Ball on the Iee, d&e. For the lovers of skating the weather for the past few days has been ali that could be desired. Yesterday, w on the previous days, there was excellent skating on al the ponds, both tn this city and Brooklyn, THE PARK LAKES. All the ponds in the Park were yesterday peopled ty vast number of skaters, Each day seems to increase the number who frequent the Park. Those who so delighted in the performance of that fancy device knownmes the “ gpread eagle” have now become proficients imthe art, and glide along as swiftly as the best of them. The greatest number of skaters may be seen on the large lake, at the foot of the Mall, where the ice fs i aplen- did condition, varying in thickness from nine to twelve a 4 z i u & fi ; i€ i A, l at irl i i : & i 3 i; i H3 if i H i BS. i i ik Hn il Hl i ! 5 E 3 Hi il E # i if 3 B hfe a tle i i H ‘ | | i : E ee in 2552) ike: i i E ' i ; 5 : i , i i i t u tt Hi Ha i i ii Ss i 8 8 4 = i Cs 5 H i I it ine SEE rf SE i} departed, vowing to retura on t>% bie or vactentel carnivs iow York (or several years, ang morro ‘ans Got taken