The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW. YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, - EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, (RR OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Wolume XXXI..... seeseee le, 9B — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, \ WAY, THEATRE, Broadway, near Brobme picoak sous ‘Sarwaus, 1 \ LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE. Nos, 733 ad ‘1 oe 4x Apres tux Weppinc—Tux Pitsoumn or Wan. * WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, seposite the St. Nicholas otel.—Tax Wivow's Viorrim—Tas Harton Brorusas—Tas ‘OODLES. BAN FRANCISCO JEMSTBELS 05 Bi Metropolitan Hovel —Lrmtorian 3, EC’ Avawaite ay tas Guewan Orana Trovrs, way, opposite —SiNG- | qONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery, eo. Fewaue O.eeas twa, Dancing, Bua.xsques, Tus tn Wasumwaron. ‘ Q@RORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tas Orv Sonoon a patiaps, Musioar Guus, Ac., at the Fitth Sronus Opers’ House, Nos. Sand 4 West Fweuty-fourth st. | BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechamtos’ Hall, 47 ‘Broad- 's Nuw Stump Srdscn—N sano C Sa “Dousasaves, 40 —Tuar's My Sister. rae! i HOOLRY'S OPERA HOUSE, B oe Moe \pensebr BatcaDs, Bi i ext soe, Denon Casares ’ Now York, Thursday, January 25, 1866. © NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Gooeipts of Saics of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFIOIAL. Bun... 6.6 Express, . $1,095,000 671,229 Naw Yorm HERALD, .......+.sseeeseeeeeene Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined... THE NEWS. CONGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday the bill relative to the Court of Claims, providing, among other things, for appeal from that Court to the United States Supreme Court, waa reported from the Judiciary Committee. A consti- tutional amendment was proposed by Mr. Wilson to prohibit the payment of any claim for emancipated slaves or of any portion of tho rebel debt, the same as heretofore offered in the House, and referred to the Ju- Gioiay Committee. That committee made a report on the petition of the North Carolina Legislature for ® repeal of the test oath, that such proceeding ‘weuldsbe inexpedient at the present time. The same @ammittes were instructed to roport what legistation is necessary forthe xolief.of loyal citizens of the South whase prapetty-was confiscated by the rebels. Among a fow petitions presented was one asking that women be allowed the priviloge of voting. Mr. Connoss, of Califor- nia, complained of omianions in the press reports of Benn- torial prococdings to notice measures in{roduted of great Auterest to hte itate, Mr. Kirkwood was sworn in as Ronator from Lowa. Tho romatnder of the day was occu- plod im discussion of tho spooial ordor, the bill enlarging the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau. Several Senators “poke, and Mr, Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, offered s faumbor of amendmonts, including propositions to strike out those portions of the bill confirming the titles for three years of lands apportioned to pogroes by General Bhorman and making provision for the purchase of homes for the freedmon, and providing for the restric- on of the Bureau's operations to States where the civil courts are not in oporation, and for appeal to the courts from the decisions of its offic:rs. These, however, and other auggeations of Mr. Davis, as well as complete sub- Gtitutes offered by him and Mr. McDougall, wore all ‘voted down by targe majorities, and the Bonete dually adjourned with the understanding that a vote is to be taken on tho bill at three o'clock this afternoon. The House of Ropreseutatives was again engaged during nearly the entire scsaion in considering the question of representation and direct taxation. A peti- ton of mombers of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Now York Volunteer regiment for bounty, and bills to to give bouutios to all the 1801 and 1862 volunteers, and & pension of eight dollars per month to soldiers of the war of 1818; were prosented and referred. Tho House then took up the report of the Reconstruction Committee, recom- mending a consi{tutional amendment apportioning among tho several States direct taxes and representation on the basis of the entire number of thoir population, exclud- ing Indians not ‘axed and excepting from the enumera- tion for representatives persons doprived of the elective franchise on account of race or color. The debate which followed was of an earnest character, participated in by @everal members on both the republican and democratic Different altorations of tho committee's proposed amendment wore muggrstol, Ghemwins thal as it now stands it does nut ox- sides, ahd continucd up to tbe adjournment. @otly meet tha views of a large portion of the republi- can party ; but-mo vote was taken cfiher on these or the me question. A communication was yesterday received from the feoretary of War by tho House of Represontatives, in vreapense to ta resolution of inquiry, giving the corre- apemfionce rélstive to the captured rebel cannon de- posited at tho West Point Military Academy, General Dolafold thinks it would be improper to place on these trophios of the lato war inscriptions giving a history of their capture, as they might form an unpleasant re- minder to cadets from the Southern States. Tho House of Representatives was also yesterday fur nishod with a communication from the Secretary of the ‘Treasury in regard to American vessels which took for- eign registers during the rebellion. He siys none of these voasela have had their American registry restored (o thom. THE LEGISLATURE. Ia the Senate yeaterday petitions were presented for a Broadway underground railroad and to permit the Bills were Third Avenue Company to lay branch tracks. Mntrodnced for submitting to the poople at the next No- vomber olection the question of calling a convention to revise the constitution, requiring insolvent safety fund bank recoivera to report to the Bank Superintendent and pay over as speedily as possibio all moneys in their anda for the redemption of circulating notes of sald matitutiona, and to require taxpayers to annually swear to the value of their taxablo property, Th» bills amending the General Manufrcturmg jaw and conferring additional powers on the mana Gere of the Fire Points House of Indusiry were passed. The Assembly resolutions requesting the na- onal government to furnish vessels suMfcient for tem- porary cholera quarantine hospital purposes at this port were adopted. The Metrupoitten Health bill wns called up, read, had progreas reported on it, aud was then laid over, after being made the epeoial order for Tharsday of moxt weok, A communication was received from the Biate Comptrolior, In which he roporte $214,161 60.08 the total expenditure for all State printing, binding and ad- vortising during the tact fiscal yoar. An oxecutive see. ston waa held, during which the nominations of Amor J. Williamson, Jonathan W. Allen and Josiah W. Brown as Tax Commissioners of this city were coullrunod A largo portion of tho Assembly's session was consumed im a dotiate over the report of the Commitice on Ruloa in rogard to restricting the privileges of newspaper re Portors and o ndenta, Finally it wae agroed, by @ Fore of fofly-nine to ForfP-elz, 9 Mtrike out xo much of the report as provides for the erection of a gallery for tne reporters and exclodes from the floor thoes of the fraternity who @o not report the proceedings ta fyi), The question om the adoption of thé roport ae amended was not taken. The er presented the annual re. port of the State Quartermastir Goneral A (ow other matiors wore uader condderavion ; vat none of them are of goneral intoreat. MISCELLANEOUS. Yee (ollowing Buropoan sieayslipa arc dus a tho un- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1866. The nows by the City of Boston will be four and that by the Java seven days later. Major General Terry, commanding the Department of Virginia, has issued at Richmond a general order for- bidding civil officers to attempt to exesute the provisions of the Vagrant aot lately passed by the Virginia Legisla- ture. would be to reduce the freedmen to acondition of slavery worse than that from which they have been released. He says that the result of this law, if enforced, The Paris correspondent of the Indipendance Belge, writing on the 26th ult., says that an attache of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs has accompanied M. Hidalgo, bearing to Maximilian, of Mexico, a project for the evacuation of that country, and that it was uo secret in official circles that the Emperor Napoleon wished to recall his troops ag goon as possible, The action of the United States Congress, the correspondent further says, may hasten a solution of the Franco-Mexican matter. The supposed Chilean privateer Meteor is still detained at her wharf in Brooklyn. Another application was made yesterday for her release; but the United States Marshal refused to grant it, and it is not at all unlikely that the case will be taken into court. The crew and firemen are to be paid off to-day, and the vessel is tobe reduced to a peace footing. She is still in charge of an. officer attached to the United States Marshal’s office. ‘The skating yesterday in this city and Brooklyn was ‘frat clase, and all other ponds were well attended. The gate Ea nanan aa abotit six o'clock in the eveniig, had the effect rowds, storm continued through the night; snow still falling heavily at two o'clock this thoriing, accompanied by « strong wind which blew it into drifts, the skating pros- Pects for to-day are rather poor. iy of skaters kept uptbeir ‘The war preparations to guard against Fenian raids or for some other purpose are still being prosecuted in Canada, Working parties of Royal Artillery are engaged in conveying heavy Armstrong guns from Lower Town, Quebec, to the various works inthe Upper Town, and the Customs Commissioners have directed the enforce- ment of the statute forbidding importations of arms from this country. We give in full this morning the brief but pointed letter of General Sheridan regarding the recent gross misrepresentations of the rebel General Early, in which the latter gentleman is as effectually used up historically as he was in a military way in the Shenandoah valley. General Sheridan shows that the number of rebel pri- soners captured by him was greater than that which Early falsely claimed to have composed his entire army. A call has been issued for a mass meeting in Nashville on Washington’s Birthday of the people of Tennessee in favor of Prosident Johnson's policy and the speedy restoration of the State to its former position in the Union. In another column we give the official army and naval bulletins for the day, showing the latest orders issued from the War and Navy Departments in regard to officers and men, which will be scanned with much interest by members of both arms of the national service and their friends. Ou Tuesday evening General Sweeny and President Roberts, of the Senatorial party of the F. B., addressed a large mass meeting in Newark, N. J., in favor of their military policy. A public meeting of the John Mitchel Circle was held last evening at 368 Third avenue, and addresses wore made in favor of straightforward action. ‘The Central Council of the O'Mahony Fenians are still in-eession in Union square. The appointments for this branch have all been ma@e-and confirmed, ands tho- rough reorganization has been effected. The ‘trial of Pellicer, jointly indicted with Gonzales for the murder of Jose Garcia Otero, was brought to a close yesterday in the Brooklyn Court of Oyerand ‘terminer. ‘The day's proceedings consisted of testimony for the de- fence, the summing up of counsel on both sidos, and a charge from the presidimg Judge, The jary, after an ab- sence of one hour, returned into court and rendered a verdict of guilty. Th prisoner exhibited no emotion on this announcement being made. Gonzales and Poliicer will both be arraigned for sentence at ven o'clock this forenoon. A writ of habeas corpus has been insued in ihe case of Charles H. Coles, charged with being one of the Lake Erie rebel pirates, and confined in Fort Lafayette. This writ was made returnable yesterday before Judge suther- and, when a postponoment was had until tu day on motion of the government counsel. In the case of Weeks against Morritt, the kespor of a livery atabic and riding academy, Judge MoCunn, wt the Sspectat term of the Superior Court yesterday, decided that s jadgment could not be set aside on the ground of informality or for any other cause, except the defence that the judgmont had already hoen satisfied. In the Court of General Sevsions yesterday Frans Klandy and Kate Mulford were convictod of stesling one hundred doliars worth of clothing. The man waa seni to the State Prison for two years, and the woman to the Penitentiary for one year, Terence Quinn, who pleaded guilty Lo stealing a horse and saddle worth sixiy dollars, and Martha Green, charged with stealing one huudred doliars worth of jewelry, were sent to the State Privon for two years and six months. Matilda Cassidy was con- victad of stealing some wine, the property of Johu J. Osborne, of Fifth avenue, and was sent to the Penitentiary for elx months and fined one hundrod dollars. Peter W. Mulford was charged with theft; but the testimony was not gonclusive, and the jury acquitted him, ‘The trial of General Baker, late Chief of the War De. partment detective forces, ou charges of fulse imprison- ment preferred by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Cobb, was commenced in the Criminal Court in Washington yes. Two youths, aged nineteen and twenty, named Albert Beach and William Golden, have recently beon arrested by some of our city detectives on charge of being the persons who, during the past six or eigut months, have been prosecuting a series of syatematic robberies ov board the cars of the Erie Kailway, Claims for lost bag- gage and other articles have accunmlated against the company tn that line to the amount of ten thousand dol- tare. A largo quantity of the missing property has been iscovered at Port Jervis, where it was sold by the pur. loiners, The prisoners have had a preliminary examina- tion before a police justice in this city, and will be sent to Port Jervis to-day for trial. Acoroper’s investigation of the circumstances atiend- ing the death of Martin Haley, resuiting, as alleged, from o pistol shot wound Inflicted by Henry Curwin, second mate of the steamship Manhattan, during a fight on board that vessel on Tuosday among several of the employes thereof, took place yesterday, The evideace of soveral witnesses was taken, after which, on the ren- dition of a verdict by the jury finding Curwin guilty of firing the fatal shot, he was commilied Wo await the action of the Grand Jury, The coroner's investigation regarding the murder of Robert M. Mitchell, on board the ship Jobn Boynton at Riker's Island, was continued in Brooklyn yesterday, After taking some evidence tending to implicate one of the prisoners charged with the crime, the inquiry was farther adjourned (.!! to morrow. A meoting of the stockholders of the Columbian Ma rine Insurance Company was held yosterday afiernoon, at which action in regard to the late sueponsion of that institutton was token. It is estimated that the company's assets are sufficient to discharge all ite Nabiliies and leaye ® surplus of over a million dollars, and it wa unanimously resolved to iniUate measures for resuming Duainess with a capital not excocding two millions of doflars, ‘Bho annual meeting of the members of the Women’s Hospital Association was held yostorday afiernoon, when an election of officers for the year 1868, and the reception of the aunual reports, were proceeded with, Mmea Wa. . astor, T. C. Doremus and Thomas Dewitt were desig. nated as Directresees, Dr. John f. Metcalfe was declared President of the Board of Consulting Physicians, and De. Thornas Addis Emmett was re-olected House Surgeon. At a meeting of wholesale and retail stationors of Uae city, held yesterday, specehes were made and resolu. tions adopted protesting against the proposition now be- fore Congress to furnish stamped envelopes at the post offfecs at the same price charged for tho detached lower stamps, and @ committees was appointed to draw upa retponatranee te be presented to the Senate Postal Com. mtec. » < | A meeting of tho Shoomakers’ Protective Association Aggk place Tast ove Dg at @ Mgroor House, at which tax on rebiuiionk Were adopied tn of the shoes, ag ti falls on comparatl rely i for ——_— out of peas'y ning thou this city it 19. sald thal oulp three hindeed £4 wintg bay rol Messrs Jamos Boorman and William Bradford, both old Now York merchants, aged respectively sighty.two and sighty-ous years, died 1a aay peste, » The Atlan to Lead Works, in Marshall street, be- totally destroyed by fire last evening. The loas is heavy. Bya fire in Dunkirk, N. ¥., on Tuesday night, origi- nating in the careless exposure of coal oll in a German emigant boarding house, a row of wooden buildings near the railroad station was destroyed and at least four per- gons were burned to death. The stock market was foverish yesterday, bus-closed steady. Gold closed at 18934 a 13934. Governments were dull, ‘There was but littte dog in commercial circles yeater- day. Imported goods were quiet, but pretty firm, while domestic produce found no buyors. Groceries were steady. Cotton was more active, Petroleum was dull and heavy. On ’Change flour wag dull, but steady. ‘Wheat was nominal. Corn was easier. Pork was lower. Lard was lower, Whiskey was steady. ‘The Conservative and Radical Strength. im the House—Duty of the President. The developments in Congress during the past ten days reveal the fact that a minority faction is ruling that body. There is an un- mistakable majority, even in the lower House, sgainst the extreme measures of the radicals; yet the latter manage to so divide that majority that” it. becomes powerless to resist their schemes, - The first‘Napolcon found himself in one of his campaigns with thirty thousand men contending against sixty thousand Austrians. He at once set at work manwuvring his army, until he bad induced the Austrian general to ¢al general in the House of Representatives. That-he-has thus far been-able to. ‘sticeessfully accomplish his purposes in“t¥s way does not reflect mach credit upon those who make up the majority against him. It shows that there fis not a man equal to the occasion, either among the democrats or conservative repub- licang, in the lower House. None of them come up to the standard of statesmen, but must be ranked as mere ward politicians, nothing more nor higher. There are in the House as it is now constituted, excluding the Representatives from the eleven Southern States recently in re- bellion, one hundred and eighty-four members. Of this number forty-one are democrats. Fifty- three republicans voted in favor of a qualified negro suffrage in the District of Columbia, and, are therefore entitled to be called conservative republicans, Besides these, there were cleven members elecied as republicans who voted against negro suffrage in every form in which it came up, both qualified and universal. Their names are recorded with the democrats on every vote taken on that measure. This gives the anti-radical strength of the House one hundred and five votes, as follows: Conservative republicans 3 Republicans voting with n NA soccmenvereccretaesistsistai uated saan This leaves the radicals only seventy-nine votes out of the one hundred and eighty-four, giving that faction the benefit of all the re- Publiona absentees when the voie on negro suffrage was taken, also including Speaker Colfax, who dodged all the votes on that oc- easion.. The most favorable calculation, there- fore, that-can be made for the radicals gives the connervative portion of Congress twenty- wx majority over them. In. the: face fact, with this large majoriyy who ore and anxious to support the policy of President Johnson, Stevens manages to carry all his points, and is not only delaying recon- struction, but is also gradually tying the hands of the Executive, and will soon make him powerless unless the radicals are checked in their schemes. There were only one hundred and seventy members present or voting when administration and the good of the country? Upon his decisfen on this point rests the suc- cess or failure of his policy in Congress. The Relief of Brondway—The Under- Ground Raliroad, d&e. We present to our readers to-day a compre- hensive résumé of most of the plans propésed to reach that much coveted desideratum, the relief of Broadway. It will,be seen that tho variety is so large that almost any taste can be suited. Only one of these numerous projects, we believe, has had legislative (but not execu- tive) sanction, the Underground Railroad. The bill for this enterprise failed of becoming a law at the last session in consequence of Governor Fenton withholding his approval. A new bill, calculated to meet the Governor’s objections, has just been introduced into the Legislature, and is now the subject of lobby management and bargains. We present to-day a number of reasons showing the impracticability of the project, and now we will take another view of the matter. It is well known that the capitalists of New York very rarely donate money for any public improvement. in or for any grand ornament to the city. There is not a monument commemo- rating any great Revolutionary or other Ameri- can; historical event erected by their eubscrip- tions within the olty limits, It is trae s rich ecclesiastical corporation, to” which, perhaps, many of them belong, built within their church grounds a spasmodio affair called a monument~ in honor of certain Revolutionary victims to British cruelty, and collected the bones of the patriots and placed them beneath the fabric. But it is shrewdly believed this many-steeple4 tomb was not erected as a testimonial in honor of those Revolutionary heroes, but as a sacrifice to the Mammon of selfishness; for it prevented the city from cutting a street through that pre- cise locality, and thus preserved the church grounds intact. Therefore our capitalists of a speculative turn deserve no credit for this affair. Some have obtained notoriety by subscribing twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars for this or that charitable institution; | but otherwise they have done nothing practi- cally for the benefit of the city, aside from pay- ing their taxes, We now propose that these speculating capitalists have a chance to spend their money in this grand scheme of an under- ground railroad. Some of them may get swamped in the undertaking; but that is no matter; there are plenty more to take their places; if not in the city, no doubt the rural districts will furnish the necessary number, for your rural speculating capitalists generally bave an itching to get involved in some mon- strous metropolitan humbug. Say these capi- talists spend five or six zillions of dollars in this preposterous echeme. So muoh the better. It will be thus much drawa’ from their ple- shoric coffers and distributed among the com- ‘munity. The employment for laborers will be immense, labor will be in demand, and it will be kept here, Say a few buitdings crack their sides, as if shaken by an earthquake, and tumble down! So be it. These capl- talists can pay the damage, — the sone Sthe.dentruction the more employment for our miasuia arising from the vent-holes necessarily opened during the excavation of this tunnel should breed « pestilence; still, alas! so much the better for our physicians, who cannot find sufficient employment with five hundred deaths weekly on the City Inspector's record as evi- dence of the sanitary condition of the city. In short, let this, like all other speculations that the question was taken on negro suffrage in | unlock the money chests of the rich and aoa - the District, Of those not voting ten were republicans and four democrats. Of those voting thirty-seven instead 0? thirty-five, as heretofure stated, were democrats. Add io this the eleven repapliaans wid voted with the radicals against recommitting the bill or against qualified suffrage, and then voted with the democrats against the bill, and we have only sixty-nine radical republicans voting on that day, and yet currying iheir point over the heads of sixiy-three conservative republicans of all shades and the democrats combined. A more disgraceful rout of a superior force j by minority was never before recorded in history. As we have shown, the radicals proper vould not muster over seventy-nine votes, even giv- ing them the benef of the absentees, on the negro suffrage question. In facet, on that day, they only bed sixty-nine votes. Now it takes ninety-four votes to pas any measure fn the lower House, leaving the radicals filteen less thon necessary to carry their measures. The weaknoss and the folly of so large an anti- ‘radiea! strength in being beaten on every or- caston are too contemptible for comment. This analysis of the strength of the faction in Con- gress, howover, furnishes President Johnson the mode of solving the whole question of re- storation. In this large anti-radical element is the material, if properly used and directed, that will enable him to secure @ fall and complete qndorsement of his administration by Con- gress. All that is necgssory is for bim to throw himself in the breach and exhibit & little Jacksonian spirit, and the victory is in his hands, THis first duty is to strengthen the hands of the Conservative topabileaié, And encourage them by removing those members of his Cabinet who are alding and abetting the radical faction. Lot these conservative repub- licans understand that the administration will stand by them in their struggle against the radicals, aud they will resist the pressure of the extreme men. When this is done the dem- ocrats can be led over to the conservative re- publicans by the President. He will then have ® party which will sustain his policy on all oo- easions. It will also be the great party of the country, If there were any mon in those two factions capable of leading who could, by their superior abilities, secure the confidence necessary to luspire their followers, the Prosi- dent conid thea quictly look on without any steps himself. But there sre none; ailence on the part of the Executive, under the ¢froumsiances, is only dofeat, and disastrous at that, In the absence of leaders capable for the emergency, Andrew Johnson must step forward himself, or all will be lost, and the radical dis organizing faction will rule and ruin the conn- (ry. Let the President overhaul bis Cabinet, rig te bale ot ihe non. beeen the cow ive republicans and domocrate the ad- mission of such representatives claiming seats from the Southern States as wore true Unipa Tie War’ and {h8 ejection of thoes who were disloyal, and he will soon see Com @teas with him instead of against him. Is Presi- dent Johnaon ready to boldly assume this re- sponsibility for the sake of tho eugoeas of his ters the cash abroad, thrive. Aside from the sickness likely to be produced from this up- heaval of the elements of disense that lie in the substratum of the city, we thus see that thig whole job of an underground raitrod is likely to resuit beneficially for some one. It will keep capital at home, give employment to hundreds of laborers and artisans, and make a lively time generally all along its route on Broadway. So go ahead, Underground Rall- } road dij rs. Bring out your dollars, spend | ihem ibe! ; and if you do smash up you ere beit » to stand a crash than others | who have less money, but, perhaps, more judg- | mea. Seriously, we ave in favor of the relief of Broadway whenever a proper plan Is sng- ; gested. We have none of our own; but we be- lieve that in the end the real relief of the thoroughfare will bo found eliber in an over- grouad railroad or in two broad avennes con- structed on each afle of the great highway. In the meanilme we invite our readers to examine ihe numerous plans suggested In another part of this paper, and select one to suit themselves. Tas Case or THe SvpPosnp Camunan Pniva- raxR.— The seizure of the steamer Meteor by the Gaited Siates Marshal on Tuesday, on suspicion of being a Chilean privateer, bound on a maraud- ing cruise against Spanish vessels, shows the magnanimity of this country in a remarkable light. If a vessel fitted out to prey upon the commerce of England or France were thus arrested, it might be said that the conduct of this government was, in some degree, induced by fear of these powerful nations; but in this instance our love of justice alone is the mant- fess 2apiration of the act. Spain is a weak natlo#, We sre now the most powerful nation on the globe; ad yet we dif nov ghly afford to be, but we give practical evidence Waa %, magnanimous. It ts of little moment to us whether the mercantile marino of Spain be totally destroyed by the privateers of her Chilean enemy. We might wink at the sailing of armed vessels from our forts, if we were so disposed. That we have not done so, but that upon the mere suspicion of the hostile intent Of the Metoor she was stopped by the United ‘States euthorities, Is the best proof that, though powerful, we are guided by justice. ‘This event slso furnishes a rebuke to Eng- contniles; yet neither of those Powers, it ap- peats, Gail accomplish what we hevo jast done fm this Barbor, at the first blush of suspicion by our detectives, in the eve of the Meteor, in ion like Spain, Oar activity and our abdy a6 8 reproach tots Goes great Powers ~ ~ Congress Establishing the Might of 8e- cosston. The refusal of the radioal leaders in Congress to admilt those representatives from ‘the South who come with a clear Union record is totally indefensible. There is and can be no question as tothe proper course to be pursued in re- gard tothe Southern delegates. The record and the credentials of each member elect should be examined separately, and a decisf® given in each individual case, Whenever a true Union man is found legally. elected from any of the seceded States he should be instantly admitted to Congress and cordially welcomed to his seat. Whenever a representative is found to have been a rebel, and cannot take the oath prescribed by Congress, he should be sent back to his constituents, in ofder that they may elect another and a better delegate. This is the simple, common-sense, ¢onstitutional manner of dealing with this subject; and while there is every possible motive of patriotism, to lead Congress to adopt this mode, there is no motive, except of the lowest and bitterest pariisanship, to be urged in favor of any other mode. The disgraceful weak- ness of the conservative majority in allowing the radicals to exclude the Unton members | from the South makes us ridiculons in the eyes | of Europe, prevents the reunion of the country, and is a practical encouragement to disloyalty | and a virtual. recoguition “of the right’. of secession. The radical members are respon- sible for the present plan of exclusion; but the conservative members are also responsible for permitting the radicals to rule. legality, dignity “and interest During the recent rebellion the European wiseacres predicted that we would never be able to re-establish the Union because the seceded States would never join heartily with the North, even if we succeeded in defeating the rebel armies and breaking up the confede- racy. Sonia States anxious to return to the Union But what do we see now? We see the and the Northern radicals barring them out. We see the country still distracted and divided, not by Southern secessionists, but by Northern fanatics. We see Union representatives sent to Washington by the late rebels and turned away by the new rebels under Thad: Stevens. We see the very men who professed to be in favor of the Union during the war now doing their utmost to destroy the republic. We aee half of the nation shut ont from the na- tional Legisiature. We see the theory gravely broached that the South is merely conquered territory and that the Southerners have no rights which Congressmen are bound to re- pect. Was ever inconsistency so outrageous? dfter fighting for four years to keep the South- ern States in the Union, we now coolly cast them out. After insisting for four years that 6 State could netsecede, we now declare that the Seuthern States are obliterated by the act of secession. After encouraging the Union amen of the South during the long war, and building our whole theory of the war upon the oxistence of this class, we now refuse'to recognize any distindfion between these pa- triots and the most atrocious, rebels. If the s of the ragioal | be true—and for the sake of the 8 mecept them-— the Southern Union men ere sétil discoun- tenandééd by the disloyal majority at their own homes; but when one of them chances to be sent to Congress we treat him as if he were the worst of traitors. May- nard of Tennessee, and Marvin of Flo- rida receive no more consideration than if they had been secessionists, instead of Unionists, during the war. Although we accept a President from Tennessee, we will not admit her Congressmen to their geats nor ac- ‘knowledge that the State fs in the Union, Such is the absurd position in which this Congress has placed the country. Such is the attitude which we must occupy so long as we permit such a misrepresentation of the sentimonts of the people by the radical minority. But the evil effects of the proceedings of the present Congress do not stop here. Not only are we guilty of the grossest inconsistency; not only do we find organized States at the South recognized by the President, but ignored by Congress; not only is the war, which was ended by Grant in the field, now prolonged by Sum- ner and Wade in the Senate and Stevens in (he House; not only do we restore tho Union by arms only to discover that it is dissolved by radical legislation; not only do we prevent the retarn of peace and prosperity and keep our commerce from the seas, our merchants frow their Southern trade and our people under heavy taxes, which should be shared and light- ened by our Southern brethren; bul we establish a most dangerous precedent, which, some day or other, may cause another civil war with tt: lavish expenditure of lives and money. If a few radicals in Congress can deprive the Southern States of representation they oan deprive New York of her representatives by the same process, Nay, the tables may be turned upon the radi- cals and they may be kicked out of Congress by a democratic majority. The rule is very plain, and it works both ways most admirably. It ts only necessary to. appoint a special com- mittee, like that of Thad. Stevens on Recon- struction, and refer to this commi ere. dentials of obnoxious members, and the thing te accomplished. That committee may never ee, or it may delay reporting until the close seestor n, oF it may report adversely, tp cither Gast the obsoxloiit members ard disposed of, and the State whic ti tp be de- nied representation is thrust out of the Union. Could any recognition of the possibility of secession be more practical than this? We deny the right of the States to leave the Union when they wish to do so, and spend mt mas lives and millions of money to vindicate this constitutional but, efter all, Congress allows pasa be forced out of the Union by « radical minority when these States desire to stay in; end thus the right of secession is secured by the logic of contraries, Was evor @ dilemma at once #0 ridiculous and so dangeronst The only way by which we can be rescued from it is a prompt revolt on the part of Congress against the Tadical leaders, and an equally prompt admis- sion of the Souther: Union delegations. If this he nét done the peop!e will interfere and settle the question for themselves under the lead of President Johnson. The Southern States are in the Union, their inhabitants are citizens of the United States, and those who deny them representation violate the constitution, strike down republican principles in the balls wherg tucy should be most cherished and respected, fonnd a Congressional tyranny pom the very altars of democracy, and must be prepated to accept the conseanences, Tse Unrorrovare Disrnior or Covoiati.— The “white folks” of the District ot Columbia. are ‘# have «pretty clear percep- tion of that solemn warning, “put not your trust in politicians.” Under the federal con- stitution Congress has over said District “ox- clusive power of legislation in all cases what- soever.” This power has become n great con- venience to the radical abolition reformers of Congress in their experiments for the eleva- tion of the black race; but it is the story of the frogs in the fable to the victims of these merry pastimes. The census of 1860 gives to the Die trict, embracing Washington, Georgetown an® the margin of the District territory sround them, a total population of seventy-five thou- sand, of which Washington city had sixty-one thousand, including some fifteen thousand blacks, bond and free. The late rebellion has re- sulted in adding, perhaps, not less than twenty thousand blacks to this element, chiefly from the adjoining late slave States, and has also resulted in abolishing slavery, There are therefore now in Washington sete thirty-five thousand free negroes, more or. ‘leas, agaings about seventy thousand whites. In other words, the black element constitutes one-third of the population of the matiowal capital, aad is largely made up from: he ignerant, crede- plantations of Virginis ané Maryland. : Upon these people the House of Represonts- tives has passed a DMl conferring the right suffrage withott qualification, Leaving of the question the almost unanimous remony strance of the whites of Washington, the ques, tion recurs, is this the way of wisdom, humanity ‘or safety? Are the property rights of the people of Washington entitled to no respeotf Are these whites entitled to no consideration, as the majority of the people of the city? Are the distinctions of race and color cultivated by Congress and established im the federal constitution for three-quartors of a cen tury, to go for nothing? Can these distinctions and prejudices of race and color, old as the pyra- mids of Egypt, be abolished in a day by acts of Congress? Are not all wholesome revolutions the work of time and gradual ameliorationst ‘The whites and the blacks of the Digtrict of Columbia may well inquire, what is next to be our portion? Will it be a Congressional come mission, or a major general with five thousand bayonets to maintain law and order? It is sald, that the people of Washington ought to be thankful in being fed direotly from the publie treasury; but they are made to feel it in being subject to the whims, caprices and experiments of a legislative body with supreme power over bonds, and negtoes under the care of the Freed men’s Bureau. James of this olty, for many years an merchant of influence ta the commercial dicd yesterday morning, im the eighty-third yeae of age. For soveral years past he had been retired, Of provonting the continuance of his active labgr, €hé firm of Boorman & Johagon started in thts olty the war of 1812. The parinora word fwo young mon, ond they began mercantile life as agents for one the old Scotch houses of Dundes, At one time the @rm, ot Adar Norv, old altho Virgina iobacoo brought ee 18 This firm also did in the tron business, received largo consign from Sweden. On easion, in we received a. of ‘4ron piliars” from They market, ouly to be ey re. they sal somal, and aro pointed oul an the j ehh nT Te NS Boorman, Johnson & Co. were at ime ae oly a singular and tntorost! Oi every corporation, clul connected, not a which he was one of the pears in a curious list of subscribers to an authorized by Congress in A of Mr Boormgn for the nam of 9, 4 headed the fist with $106,000. john Howland Tanne toansd $600,000, ¢ mune amount. < the very oldest of tuat class ia the country, died yoster. day morning at his residence in urd in the eighty. cme of bia Bo retired has been quite infirm, any Health of Dr. Now, ALMANY, Jan. 26, 1808, A report gained currency yesterday'tliat the venerable Di. Nott, of Union College, was dead, which was ere neous The Doctor was very low during the day, tut revived a Hittie at might, aad this morning was still alive ——— The British Provinces. SSLARGRMENT OF THE WRLLAXD' Cay. FORBIDDEN TO BE CARRIED INTO Canada THB UNITED STATES, BIC. omers® Bi toms fa an enlargement of the Canal ang Improtemeats athe savigaten of the Dua re m= icnatetoe Commissioners bave ordered Ct pe, Moco _ @ Montreal Gazette claims that the Ottawa I la stating that the volunteers behaved Beale a The ome, for jepson jon of the Butato and Huron om radcoads ign, we duced into Parliament, It is bolle: parred. ° : A 3 i 3 i j Almost a Row SUPERIOR COURT TRIAL Connsel, made to its x % erruled the Her awn oid the wine, on anevter if , Oraven at and asked the gate hat he meant wt re bate the the examination went ja ih -~ tor