The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1866, Page 4

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EUROPE is respecting the Spanish robellion aro ns (hie morning. It is asserted that aim is nothing less than the uprooting of ynasty, and the union of Spain and Por- tugal under the présent reigning family of the Jatter country. That the plot has been jong prepared and sarefuliy matured is beyond a doubt. We also republish « letter from one of o ms correspondents, which ap- peared in the Henaup as August last, which exactly indicated what would bo the nature of the rising Uaat has new taken p Amerieins are takin is by storm, and the United States Minister in that city is din our Paris cor respondence as literally be: 4 by our countrymen and co: omen who desire to be presented at tho Orst ba he se at the Tuileries, Paris was on the qui vive for the eror’é speech at the opening of | the Corps Leyislatif on the 22d inst, It was contidently expected that he would then make some definite an houncement as to the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico, In the meantime the quidnunes were not Without hope that Napoleon would drop somo hint of his purpose to General Schofield, who was to be present him ina day or two, The General has been inspe the Freucs military establishments. His brother, Briga- dier General Schofiold, has returned tothis country. The effect of the Spanish insurrection was beginning to be felt in Parie. Our Berlin correspondent records a remarkable change fm the policy of the Prussian government towards America, The people of Prussia have all along been our friends; bat the government newspapers have hitherto Woon hostile to the United States, and have violently ibused President Johnson and his Cabinet, Suddenly rr Von Bismark’s organ bas chopped round, and now prarwea the President a8 much as it had previously eon lemned him, A very comprehonsive theory has been jevieed to account fur this change, It is gravely ae. gerted that the Prassidn Primo Minister is desirous of bringing about an alliance of Prassia, Russia and j some length, the former opposing and the latter advo- cating an investigation, Mr. Curtis contended that there was no proof of corruption and waste of money in con- mection with the erection of the building, while Mr. Lyons insisted that the charges wore well founded Finally the subject was referred to the Committee on Rules, The report of the commissioners appointed to confer with the Secretary of the Treasury regarding the location of Quarantine was received. It recommends the appropriation of four nundred thousand dollars each by the national and State governments for the erection of neces- sary Quarantine buildings on the West Bank. The As- sembly adjourned till sevon o'clock on Monday eventng. MISCELLANEOUS. The important announcement is made in our Richmond correspondence that one of the Virginia delegation now awaiting admission to Congress telegraphed to that city from Washington on last Wednesday that it is the inten- tion of President Johnson to supersede the present Vir- ginia State government by a provisional one. This has received credence in Richmond, and has therefore, of course, created much commotion and consternation in financial as well as political circles there, and the sur- mises as to the cause of the President's reported de- termination are numerous as well as serious, it being generally attributed to the intractable conduct of the Legislature. The report of the committee of the Virginia Legisls- ture, submitted on {Thursday last, against allowing the claim of the New York and Virginia Steamship Company for steamers seized by tho rebels at Richmond in the: early part of the war, is given in-our paper this morn- ing. The claim is denied on the ground that the seigure was made by order of cortain authorities which the results of the rebellion have decided to have been illegitimate and revolutionary, and that thorefore the legally constituted government of tho State cannot be held responsible for the act. Advices via San Francisco from the Western States of Mexico give Guayimas dates to the 16th inst., which an- nounce the capture by the republicans of the town of Alamos, in the rich silver mining region of Sonora, and the defeat of the imperialists by General Morales at Matarphe. Morales, howover, 1t is added, was subse- quently badly defeated by an imperial force, A New Orleans despatch states that somebody in that city has received private information from Mexico that the French troops will not be w!thdrawn until Maximilian is guaranteed against interference from the Bnited States, and that no important positions in the imperial army will be given to ex-rebels from this country, These statements may be taken for what they are worth, which is probably not much. The comman- der of the French squadron at the mouth of the Rio Grande has entered his protest against tho late affair at Bagdad, and the transmission thither of United States troops after its capture to pressrve order, Extracts are presented in our issue this morning, in addition to those heretofore published in. the Herazp, from the correspondence recently submitted to our na- tional Senate by President Johnson relative to the schemes of ceriain rebels from this country to promote settlement in Mexico under the auspices of Maximilian, for his and their ow ‘randizement, Ex-United States Senator Gwin, Lieutenant Maary, old St'rling Prics, of Missouri, and ex-Governor Isham G. Harris, of Tevnes- see, of course figure the most conspicuously in these emigration projects, and these worthtes appear to enter- tain magnificent anticipations of wealth and grandour, Thoir future, however, would seem to be more splendid than their present, as one of them, in a letter to Bon Wood, of this city, urgently appeals for ‘some money.’? Hon. Ferguson Blair, the new Prosident of the Cana- dian Council, made an important speech on his re-elec- tion to the Provincial Parliament on Taursday last, which was briefly noticed in yesterday's Hina, We have now, however, a fuller report. He affected to treat the q cation of reciprocity as one not vitully essential to Canada, and doclared that he “was not going down on bis noes to the Washington government for this or any- thing else." He set at resta number of rumora which had been originated with regard to the negotiations now in progreas at Washington for the establishment of some syatem of reciprocal trade between the United States and Canada, and promised that when Parliament opened government would declare whether the confederation scheme was to be carried outor not, Hefurthor asserted “that the order prohibiting the importation of Canadian cattle into the United States was about to be withdrawn by the Washington government, ‘The sleighing yesterday was fine, not only in the suburbs, but in the city itself, The temperature, though not sovere, was aufliciofitly cold to prevent thawing and to preserve the remnants of the two last snow storms, Everything conduced to the enjoyment of sleighers, the sky being bright and clear and the atmosphere delicious. ly pure without being excessively sharp, and they did not neglect so favorable an opportunity, the tinkling of the bells making the air musical in all directions, The skating was also excelient yesterday on all the ponds, both in New York and Brooklyn. The Park lakes were visited by an immense number of persons. It ig estimated that nearly half'a million people have visited the Park since tho Ist inst, There was grand time yes- torday on the Fifth avenue pond, and a fine programme is announced for next week on all the ponds. Yesterday was the time appointed in the notice of the Corporation Counsel for an application to be made to the Supreme Court relative to the widening of Ann strect. At twelve o'clock Judge Hilton appeared before Judge Sutherland, in Chambers, and stated that the whole afnir had been indefinitely postponed, and that a new notice of motion would be iseued by Mr. O'Gorman, Jos» Gonzales y Fernandez and Francweo Gene Sal. vador, recently convicted of the murder of Jose Garcia Otero, in the City Park, Brooklya, on the night of the 224 of November last, were yesterday sentenced in the Kings County Court of Oyer and ‘Terminer to be hung on the Oth of March next. The prisoners received their sentence with apparent indtfference, The evidence with respect to some of the persons charged with having printed and sold counterfeit internal revenue cigar stamps has been eoncinded in the United States Commissioner's office. Commissioner Osborn has decided that, so far as these persons are concerned, they shall be held for trial. Further evidenee on charges against other individuals, fora similar offence, and on NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1866. Steps to organize a circle of the Fenian Sisterhood. The members’ of ‘the General Connell of the O'Mahony Fo- nians in Union equare have concluded their labors and adjourned, and have left for their homes, The 0’Mahony bonds are being sent to different portions of the country. Accounts of additional recent marine disasters have reached us. The steamer Wyandotte, of the Metropoli- tan line between this city and Boston, during the storm of Thursday night sprang a leak, went ashore, and, with her cargo, became a total loss, near Plymouth, Mass. Everybody on board was rescued. The steamship Rich- mond, from Savannah for Baltimore, was wrecked on Capo Hattoras on Wednesday last, and it is supposed she will prove a total loss, Her passengers and.crew were rescued. The schooner Village Belle, of St. John, N. B., was ashoro yesterday at Point Shirley, below Boston. Tho Cincinnat! express train, on the Hudsoa River railroad, due in this cityearly yesterday morning, ran on # broken rail near Croton, and the two rear cars were thrown from the track. Several persons were in- Jured, two orthree of them severely; but mo one was killed. A railroad train ran off the track yesterday near Tren- ton, N, J, The engine was demolished; but none of the passengers received injuries. The contest over the will of the late Commodore Uriah P. Levy was up before the Su--ogate yesterday, in anew shape, Thero are two executors, cach of whom alleges that the estate is not safe in the hands of tho other without the giving of security. On account of the absense of counsel the case went over fora week. The examination of the ciroumstances attending the robbery in Bockman street, on the 19th inst., of Samuol B. Terry, measenger of the Farmers’.and Citizens’ Na- tonal Bank of Williamsburg, was commenced yesterday in the Essex Market Police Court, and, after the evidence of a few witnesses had been taken, was adjourned over till to-morrow. Of the two persons, Boyce and &ch’7, arrested on suspicion of being the robbers, the former. was fully identified by Terry; but the latter he could not be certain about, Schiff was thorefore discharged. No farther developments have been made regarding the robbery of the porter of the Greenwich Savings Bank in Carmine street on Friday. A commuaieation from the President of the bank relative to the affair is pub- lished in another part of to-day’s Herarn. James Kelly has been tried at Key West, Pia., for tho murder on December 8, 1865, of John J, Johnson, of the bark Annie M. Gray, and sentenced to be hanged on the ‘9th of March next, The Stock markat was higher yesterday, but closed rather heavy. Governments were a fraction higher. Gold closed at 13934 a 13974. Yesterday was a quiet day in business circles, as usual on Saturdays; but the markets were generally buoyant and firm, especially for imported merchandise. Groce- ries were quiet but steady. On ’Change flour was quiet and unchanged, Wheat was dull and nominal. Corn ‘was more active and quite steady. Oats were a trifle firmer, Pork was dull but unchanged. Lard was heavy. Whiskey was somewhat low The Confedcrate Enterpr Mexico— Cheap Defence for Maximilian Against the United States. We give to-day, in extracts from documents communicated to Congress by the President, a satisfactory account of the Franco-Confede- rate plan to colonize on Mexican territory men lately in arms afainst our government, By these documents it is placed beyond dispute that a thoroughly digested scheme for the erection of a hostile colony on our border was ar- ranged between the French authorities and cer- tain prominent Confederates, and that this scheme, originating with the Confederates in a spirit of bitter enmity to us, was encour- aged, fostered and furthered by France, not as & peaceful aggrandizement of the Mexican em- pire, but as a war preparation and guard against the United States. Friendly relations are shown to have existed between the Con- federate authorities on the Mexican border and the French imperial authorities early in 1864, while the Confederates were still in arms defy- ing our military power. They expressed them- selves against the United States as against a Power whose triumph would be equally inimi- cal to either; and Slaughter and Magruder, Con- federate generals, were not dis: to permit Negrete, a general of the Mexican republic, to gain any victories in their infinediate noighbor- hood, lest in the defeat of the imperial forces the interests of the Confederacy should euffer. For not only were there friendly relations between the Confederate and French forces, but there was a practical alliance. Negrete, feeling this, denounced it, and relinquished intended opera- tions solely because be could not fight against both together. And Slaughter acknowledges that he intentionally gave that impression to Negrete, and from it “reaped the same resulis which would have heen attained by actual as- sistance.” The advantageous result to the Confederates of eustainjng the imperial power was that thereby they were enabled to receive supplies and keep the field. Supplies came from Matamoros for the Confederate army in Texas; commerce through Mexico was car- ried on by consent of the imperial anthorities, whose military foree protected it, and this commerce included munitions of war, “The imperial commander of the post of Bagdad (a Belgian) informs me,” says the rebel Staughter, “he has private instructions to permit ali arms, ammunition and munitions of war to be intro- which the testimony has not yet been completed, will be taken in the course of eight or ten ‘The case of William Chase Barney, Reginald Chaan- cey and Benthan J. Foblan was yesterday before the United States Cireult Court. These men are accused of having forged and uttered United States bonds, with the view of defrauding the government of cortain duties. Counsel for the prisoners moved that they should be tried separately. Judgo Shipman denied the motion, and they will be tried conjointly. William Kane, who pleaded guilty some time ago to a charge of having attempted to defraud the government by procuring from Colonel A. D. Stewart, paymaster, the allowance of a frandulent claim which he made as a sol dier of the army, amounting to about thirteen hundred dollars, = was esterday sentenced by Juage Shipman to two years and six, months’ im- prisonment, The prisoner is known as “Michigan Bill,’ who @ecently made a desperate attempt to escape from the county jail in this city, Judge Shipman also sentenced Thomas & Pitts, who pleaded guilty of having attempted to pass a counterfeit fifty dollar bill, to three years’ hard labor in the State Prison. The argument in the case of the alleged Washington duced and passed for the Oonfederacy which may be desired.” Thus the forces kept in the country by France were the active allies of those Who carried on war against us; and all the time Drnyn de Lhuys wrote to Mr. Seward honeyed assurances of the neutrality and friendship of his government, and said “we decm the word of France a guarantee that will satisfy any friendly Power.” How noble this sense of honor! How delicate and admirable this pride in the unstained repute of his country! But the confederacy goes down, the more virulent of the rebels run away to escape our laws, and a period begins, in which Con- federate relations with the French imperial Power stand on another foeting. Confederates are no longer soldiers in arms to whom the French can lend some assistance in their cam- paigns against our troops; but they are good military material, ready to assist the French Torritory emigration swindle took place before Judge McCann yesterday; but no decision was rendered America against England, France and Austria—the Prassians to occupy the attention of France on the Rhine, the Russians to attack Austria in Hungary, and Ameria, with ber navy, to keep the fleets of England feud France in check, while her armies overrun Canada Bud Mexico. CONG RESS. The Senate was not in session yesterday, The House Of Reprosertatives held @ short session, which was Govoted exclusively to further consideration, in Com Mittee of the Whote, of the Presider Message. Mr. Green Cloy “mith, of Kentucky; Mr. Baker, of Tili- ois, and Mr. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, all republicans, Bpoke on the subject of reconstruction, thelr speeches forming about all the proceedings of the body. All three Hf these gentlemen opposed an early admission of the Bouthern representatives, and Mr. Broomall took the groand that the States which participated in the rebellion Bre not now in the Union, but constitute merely van- Aulshed communitios, eubject to meh disposition as thelr @oaquerors may choose to prescribe: THE LEGISLATURE. ‘The State Senate was not in eession yesterday. The sembly held a session, and had wnder consideration everal matters, most of which, however, were only of Pocal interest. A considerable portion of the day was Pooupted in another discussion relative to our new Court . After the introduction of bills—among others, to mend the New York Common School act and to tax ou-reaident venders of merchandise in this city— ad the transaction of some other misceliancous rasiness, the motion to refer to the Committee (yties «the resolution relative to the new ‘our! House investigation was taken wp. Mesere, urls aud Lyomg, democrats. of thia city beth evoke at Further affidavits were presented, aud counsel on both aides made extended arguments for and against the in- Janetion. In the case of Abernethy against the Church of the Puritans, which was one to tost the right of the trustees of that establishment to sell the interest of pew owners for unpaid taxes, Judge Cardozo, of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday gave judgment in favor of the plaintiff. ‘The trial of General Baker, late Chief of the War De- partment detectives, on charges of false imprisonment, proferred by Mr. and Mre. Cobb, the alleged pardon brokers, is still proceeding in the Washington Criminal Court, Lieutenant Hine, one of the witnesses, testified to having, while acting as a subordinate to General Baker, for the purpose of entrapping the Cobbe, personated a supporititios rebel Captain Howell, desirous of procuring Presidential amnesty, and that, after he hed drawn up hia petition, afixing a spurious magistrate's certificate, ‘and paid a sam of money to Mra. Cobb, she procured for hitn a gonuine pardon. The counsel for the Cobbe de- nounced this condact of Hine in severe terms, and said that it showed criminal conspiracy on the part of Baker and his co-operators. President Roberta, of the Sonatoria! Fenian Brother. bood, has issued a document relating to the finances un- der Killian and O'Mabony and the comparative working of the two managementa, The bonds are being sold to citizen. General Sweeny’s speeches are stirring up the Brotherhood through the country to the military policy. A number of Indies held a meeting yesterday afternoon ot 80 Fulton street, Brooklyn, aad took preliminary against the United States as effectively as the French assisted them some time before. In hostility toward us it is the same on both sides, only the Confederacy has passed out of view. That disguise for all the operations that France could assist against us is no longer at hand, and they must find « new one. Immigration, settlement, is a good and plausible one, and France immediately proceeds to organize a colony between us and the Mexican empire, as a sort of buffer to break the blows that may come by and by; and that colony is neither more nor less in material and spirit than the reorganization of the Con- federate force that went to pieces on our own soil at the close of the war. It is a deliberately cogitated threat, All the arrangements for the organization of this new and hostile Power on our borders are made directly with the Km- peror of France, not with the puppet Maxi- milian, who is treated all through by every one, from Napoleon to Gwin, as a mere form, a name, a shadow. The territory chosen is greater in extent, as well as ticker turally and minerally, than the part of that would be left if this were taken awny. } France proposes to Mexico to take this little strip of land in pa; and the French cerely expects, in some form, business of the French government to en- lighten Mr. Seward; but as to France, she re- members that the United States has “pledged its word” to remain strictly neutral as to Mexi- co, and that France does not intend to inter- tere inthe questions that divide “the Union,” but to be “scrupulously neutral.” This val- Lee’s surrender. France, however, evid-ntly caught at the fact that Gwin had been named; for Gwin, recognized as an enemy of the United States, and so denounced, was thrown over; but the plan was adhered to, and was put into the hands of men as notoriously our enemies as the ex-Senator. M. F. Maury was raised into Gwin’s place, made an honorary Counoil- lor of State and Imperial Commissioner of Emigration, given powers “second only to the Emperor,” and is now engaged in the most earnest attempt tornn his immense machine and build up a nation to make the United States dreadfully afraid. He even has his ac- credited agents at work in our own Southern cities, and draws on the imperial treasury for their pay. As for this Franco-Confederate colony, it Maury, Magruder, Isham G. Harris and Daddy Price. Otherwise the country would have a new cause of quarrel with the radicals who are doing so much to build it up. At the start Gwin relied upon the severe measures of the government as a means to fill his colony, asa cause that would certainly push thousands of fine young fellows out into the world in search of new homes. The unexpected moderation of President Johnson was a serious blow to the enterprise; for no man will leave his home and his country so long as oppression has not made it intoler- able. We need, therefore, take no very active measures against Maury, unlegs the iron sway of the radicals shall yet make the Sonthern States a place in which no man of bold and independent spirit can live, So much for the colony. As for the part taken in all this busi- ness by France, that is of « great deal more importance. Although our relations with that Power have been reputed peaceful, and even friendly, and thongh mutual promises of neu- trality and good. fellowship have apparently passed between the Ministers at Washington and at Paris, the fact is that there has been an actual state of war between France and thio country, Without any declaration or recogni- tion of war, but all the time with the smooth- est assurances of distinguished consideration, France has been in active affiliation with our enemies, and bas been carrying out the very measures and projects that would have been pushed most eagerly by an open enemy. Thore vas been, all the time, that distinction between her ects and heer words which Demosthenes pointed ont between the acts and words of Philip, in his enchroachments on the liberties of Greeee, All the words are full of peace, and every act is prompted by a hostile spirit, and is an act of war, more or less dissimulat- ed and disguised. It is clear that our foreign relations need to be taken up in a new and vigorous spirit, and our despatches to France to, he written in quite another than the sweet- ened water style that now flavors them through and through. We ought, at least, to know whethor we are at peace or at war with that country. Tiss Toere Bexn a Utouway Rospery sy ne Porice?——We call attention to the letter of the President of the Greenwich Savings Bank, Mr. B. FP. Wheelwright, published in another part of the Hexaxp, with regard to the bold and ingenious robbery from a porter of that bank. ‘The letter of the president is in explanation of a report of this robbery published in our issue of yesterday. It appears from this respectable authority that Thomas Quin, the porter of the bank referred to, was seized and the cash box of the bank taken from him in Carmine street, near Varick, by two men who were together and dressed as policemen. The box was taken by one of them and the porter was taken by the other to the station house. Quin was treated roughly, cursed and locked up; and, though he appealed to the policeman who took him and to the officer in charge at the police station, to take him ‘to the Greenwich Savings Bank, or to refer there for the truth of what he stated, these guardians of the public refused to do so. But they searched him and locked him up at the station, and thus not only committed an outrage upon ag innocent man, but pre- vented'the capture of the robber. The letter of Mr. Wheelwright details all the circum- stances, and we need not re-state them. This extraordinary robbery has very suspicious look as to the policemen, and this is the mildest term in which we can express it. Do not the policemen know each other? and particularly those of the same precinct? Could a police- man be so imposed upon by a man dressed in the uniform? The two policemen were together when Quin came ap snd when one took the cash box and the other himself, Were they confederatest We confess it looks very suspicious, The conduct all through of the policeman who took Quin prisoner strongthens the suspicion. At least both his conduct and that of the officer in charge of the police station were outrageous in their treatment of Quin, and in not taking the trouble to verify his statement. We have heretofore had reason to complain of the inefficiency of the police force in the city. Our citizens are robbed in the vublic highways in broad daviieMt. and in t for (4 Mexican debt, Gwin makes grand promises to the Emperor of France—that countless thousands of Con- federates will rally at his call; that they will make the finest colony in the world; that it will be at once a safeguard to the empire, 4 source of uneasiness to the United States and of wealth to France, and that, in short, it will be the same as if France had recognized the Confederacy, only the United States will not venture to take hold of it. Gwin, for all these sanguine views, is appointed Director General and given extraordinary powers. Just as all is going on swimmingly, notice of it 1s brought to the United States government by Mr. Ro- mero, Mexican Minister, and, as the circum- stances imperatively require it, Mr. Seward writes to Drayn de Lhuys on the subject. He writes a mild little note, however, merely sug- gesting that if all this is true, then France is not acting just as she promised to, and de- claring that the President “confidently and sin- an as of any sanction frm the Emperor of France.” De Lhuys replies that‘as for Gwin it is not the uable assurance was made four months after will never be very terrible in the hands of the street cars with impunity; but now the police force itself is strongly suspected of the } same crimes. The Police Commissioners ask for more, power over the city and the citizens. If they use that which they have so badly, if highway robberies'be committed by their own force, and if policemen treat respectable citi- zens as Quin was treated, we think they ‘have too much power already. On the whole, this is the most disgraceful affair that has occurred among us for a long time; and taken in connec- tion with the other crimes daily occurring from the inefficiency of the police, it calls for some immediate action by our citizens to remedy the evil, Secretary Harlan’s Radical Speech—OM- eial Discourtesy. Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, and recently elected to the Senate of the United States, received the congratulations of his friends at his residence in Washington on Friday night last. He responded to these congratulations by a speech, in which, after making the usual reference to his own unwor- thiness, he touched upon the questions of re- construction and negro suffrage. He spoke of “our brothers in the districts recently in rebel- lion,” and recogaized that the South had given up its bad cause. He believed that the negro must soon be admitted to full citizenship, and that it would not be safe to.reconstruct the Southern States with their governments in the hands of rebels. Having just before observed that there were no longer any rebels—that all the South had submitted and given up its cause—this may seem a Hittle inconsistent; but no matter for that. What the honorable gentleman meant was, that he did not consider it would be safe to reconstruct with the South- ern States in the hands ef Southern white men, He knew that the intelligence and capacity of the negro were very doubtful, but he “would rather trust an ignorant loyal man than a wise rebel,” and so on. Having made it sufficiently clear what side he was on in the political agitations of the day, he closed as fol- lows:—“I need hardly say that during the brief perio’ I may remain in my present posi- tion I shall not fail to disouss these opinions, or urge my convictions in the proper quarter. Nor amI disposed to say to-night that such views would be distasteful to the great and good man who is at the head of the republic. I believe it is his purpose to leave the great question of reconstruction with the two houses of Congress.” In any point of view this speech is not cred- itable to a Cabinet Minister. Mr. Harlan is still a member of the council whose daty it is to second the efforts of the Executive; to assist the President in the discharge of the powers with which he is clothed by the constitution. Ashe declares, not too modestly, he 1s of but little consequence except as a momber of that council. Any just.perception of the proprictics of his position, of the-delicate nature of the con- fidential relations which it involves, ought to have induced bim to withhold the expression of his opinions on measures that are attracting nearly the whole attention of Congress. He should have been silent if he bad not known the views of the President; but since, in the common knowledge of the President's views, he knew how directly his own were in opposi- tion to them, no power should have been able to wreat from him an expression of those views while he held the position he does. To make such # speech, to openly join the clamoring mass that makes war on the President’s policy, and still to hold his seat as one of the Presi- dent’s advisers—to even declare before an us- sombled aultiinga that be will make use of his place in the Cabinet to oppose the rresiaous— all this indicateg-a man either grossly ignorant of the common courtesies of official life, or rudely indifferént to those courtesies. And whether it was Mr. Harlan’s rudeness or his ignorance that spoke on Friday mght, either should cause his immediate dismissal trom his place. The hypocritical designation of “great and good man” ought not to be permitted to smooth over an insult and defiance to the President by a member of his Cabinet, THe Manta FoR City Lerrovements.—Thare appears to be a general mania at present for all kinds of improvements in the city—underground railroads and overgronnd railroads, the widen- ing of streets and the constructing of squares and boulevards, bridges across the East river and turaels under the East.river to connect New York and Brooktyn, schemes for a new Post Office, and so forth. The newspapers are greatly exercised upon all these enterprises. The Times goes in for the underground railroad in Broadway and the Post Office in the Park. The Tribune advocates the widening of Broad- way at the old Museum corner, and the World very kindly suggests the same idea in its issue of yesterday. The opening of Ann street and Falton street is also recommended by these journals, The Heraty has nothing in the way of city improvements especially to propose. Whatever is most available for the public good we are ready to accept and to support. ‘The interest of the public is our interest now, asithas ever been. Ifft can serve the public good and improve the city to widen Broadway, or Ann street, or Fulton street, or to under- mine the city, or overlay it with railroads, we are perfeotly willing to see all these projects carried out, and even to make sacrifices, if necessary, to assist them. If, for example, it is of any advantage to the public to take twenty or thirty feet off the Maseum corner—where we have now in process of erection a magnificent building, which will be a monument of the architectural beauty of the metropolis—we have no objection. We can construct upon our present location a building front- ing on Fulton, Nassau and Ann streets, quite commodious enough for our purposes, and giving us—should Fulton and Ann streets be widened—one of the finest positions in the city for our business, with nearly an entire solid bldtk at our command. Indeed we were not very well disposed to change our present habitation in Nassau and Fulton streets at all, where we have been building up the Heratp for the last thirty yoars, and which is endeared to us by many traditionary associa- tions not to be lightly forgotten. But when the great fire redaced the Museam corner to ashes we saw the opportunity of erecting a building upon that site which would be one of the greatest ornaments to the city—the founda- tions of which structure are already Inid—and accordingly we decided to build there. Bus if the city can be benefited by cutting off thet corner, as suggested by parties who, of course, have no other idea in making the suggestion than the furtnerance of the public interest, we have no objection to offer to that proiect: for we ST have had but one object in view throughout our whole career, and that was to serve the public. With regard to the widening of Ann street, it Ines been insinuated that the-Hanatp had seme intevest in it. We are not aware of any. It has been said that Astor had an interest in it. We know nothing about it. It has been said also that the railroads had an interest in it, Weare not aware of it, We know that the ordinance has been passed, and that is all; nor do we care in what multifarious interests it bas been done, Tf it be for the benefit of the city to open Ann street, Nassau street, Fulton street and Broadway; to construct an underground rail- read, or a railroad over the sidewalks, or tun- nels or bridges, we are quite willing te | acquiesce in all these schemes. We have no | pet project to advance. Weare guided solely by the public good, and shall therefore devote all our energies to that end in the improvement of the metropolis, The Freedmen’s Bureau—A Government Charity Institution on a Grand Scale. The bill for the enlargement of the Freed- men’s Bureau, which passed the Senate the other day by an overwhelming majority—37 to 10—provides for the largest government ity institution in the history of the human race. The bill provides, first, that the Freed- men’s Burean shall be continued till otherwise provided by law; that itshall extend to re- fugees and freedmen in the section covered by the rebellion; that the President may divide this section, embracing such refugees and freed- men, into twelve districts, and, subject to con- firmation by the Senate, may-appoint an as- sistant commissioner for each district, or army officers may be detailed for these duties with- out increase of pay. Section two provides for the division of each district into sub-districte, “not to exceed the number of counties or parishes in each State;’’ that each sub-district shall have “at least one agent,” a “citizen, officer of the army or enlisted man; if an officer, without additional pay; and if a citi- zen or enlisted man at a compensation of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.” Over all these districia, sub-districts and employes the Pre- sident, through the War Office and the Com- missioner (General Howard), shall extend mili- tary supervision and protection. Now, here we have an establishment for the protection of the emancipated blacks and re- fugees of the South, requiring some two or three or four or five thousand office holders, with their offices and office expenses, ant i military force for each that may, ‘ necessary to enforce their regul: the many millions of money this may require for its maintenanc cannot tell. The aggregate cost five, ten or twenty millions. But the skeleton of the giant. The b ceeds to put the flesh upon his b oud it farther provides “that the S War may direct such issues of | clothing, fuel and other supplies, medical stores and transportation, deemed needful for the immed porary shelter and supply of suffering refugees and freedmen wives and children, under such rules @ lations as he may direct.” Here priations demanded by the Se ri conjectured only by the number of and freedmen likely to be assisted. u extensive system of government alms-giving, if adopted, will encourage idleness and vag- rancy among thousands of freedmen who would otherwise go to work, can hardly be ques- tioned. But the bill further provides for the setting apart of three milous usr avirve -¢ the public lands in Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, which the Commissioner from time to time is to parcel out, under the direction of the Presi- dent, in lots “not execeding forty - acres each to the loyal refugees and freedmen, who shall be protected in the use and enjoyment thereof for such term of time and st such an- nual rent” as may be agreed upon between the contracting parties. The parties thus occupy- ing the lands may at sny time buy them, fee simple, at their estimated value. Here the government appears in the character of « speculator in squatters and farms, on the liberal margin of three millions of acres of the public lands now subject to the Homestead law. The bill further provides “ihat the occupants of the land under Major General Sherman’s special field order (the sea islands of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, including a strip of the mainland next the seashore tbirty miles wide), dated at Savannah, January 16, 1865, are hereby confirmed in their possession for the period of three years from the date of said order.” In other words, for such terms as they may be able to make with the Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Buteau, as the agent of the blacks in occupation. The general results will most probably bea sale and surrender by the owners, cheap for eash. Tho Commissioner is authorized to buy the lands, to be sold to the blacks at cost, amd to build asylums and school houses for indi- gent freedmen. The bill further provides for the enforcement by the military arm of the government of the civil rights of the blacks, including their rights of property, personal liberty, &c., under the local laws applying to the whites. Buch is the substance of the Senate bit for the enlargement of the Freedmen’s Bureau- Its functions are to cease with the fall restora- tion respectively of the several States. con- cerned to their constitutional relations fp the general government. Meanwhile it is to be maintained, an imperium in imperio, » govern- ment within a government, in all the Sates con- cerned—a federal military governmeat im each for the protection and subsistenee of the emancipated blacks and loyal refugees, and for