The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW. YORK HERALD. nnn JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFIOB N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. peat Volume XXXI....-.--- ..No. 30 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, FROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome treot. SOLON Suma. AALS es LUCY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 and 730 Broadwav.—Tas Buack Dowmwo—Between You xp Mu anv THe Post. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—A Mopwt or 4 Wurs—Guanon at New Yora—lausn Tiekk. GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tax Orn Sonor or Minster, Bacs. Musioar Ga , at the Fifth Avenue Opera House. Nos. Weak ‘wenty-fourth st, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Ermioriay Suraina, Dancing. Peo. ‘Toe Furua TaarKas. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Sinc- iwc, DANCING, BURLRSQUES, &0.—Tux FEMALE CLERKS an Wasninaton. SRT ANTS: MINSEEEDE. Mapes. Tol, id Broad- Daw BRvant's Srumr t—Neceo Comicati- ™ Buriesquns, £¢.—Tax Hor ‘or Fasuion. ' HOOLEY’'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn, —Erarorux Mow. pramgx—Ba.iaps, BueLesques awp Pawrommurs. “NEW YORE MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.< i Open from 10.4. M. t! BROOKLYN ATHENAUM.—Rossxt Heuixn’s Granp Sorase Diav0riqua—Sraenx. WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘Tucsday, January 30, 1866. THE NEWS. THE RIVER PLATE WAR. Lator and important advices regarding the war on the river Plate are furnished in the copious details of our Rio Janeiro oorrespondonce brought by the steamship South Amorica, from that port, which arrived here yesterday. Whe letter of President Lopez, of Paraguay, to General Mitre, the Argentine President, alluded to in our previous aospatches, instead of containing propositions of peace, as at first surmised, proved to be of a very different character. Lope charges tho allies with conducting the war in a most barbarous and outrageous manner, and avows his determination, if satisfaction is not accorded, to retaliate in the severest manner, and to prosecute hos- tilities with ferocity and renewed vigor. To this General Mitre replies at length, denying the principal allegations of his antagonist, avowing that he has nothing to regret or take back, and warning Lopez against pushing mat- tera to tho threatened extremity. We give the cor- ‘Tespondence in full. It affords no indications of early pence, There was no cessation of hostile operations, he allied armies still keeping up their march in pursuit Of the retreating Paraguayans, while the latter, though ulling back, were far from vanquished, Disease and Starvation, however, had committed terrible havoc mong the troops on both sides, In addition to the war ‘ews, our correspondence contains much mutter of in- Acrest regarding the domestic affairs of Brazil, its railroad and other enterprises, and the progress of the schemes @or emigration thither of persons from the Southern tates of this country. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a petition from the St. Paub Board of Trade waa presented, asking for the improve- M®ont of the Upper Mississippi and the negotiation with ho British provinces of a new Reciprocity treaty, cover- Ang stipulations for the freedom to American vessels of the Wolland and St, Lawronce canals and their enlarge- mont to anextont sufficient to pass vessels of one thou- Sand tons. Another romonstrauce against the renewal of the Reciprocity treaty waa also presented. Bills were {introduced and referred to abolish in all the States all dis- Sinctions of civil and political rights on account of raco, olor or condition, to reorganize the national judiciary, to aise the standard of admission to the West Point Academy @nd increase the number of cadets, and to provide for es dantinn te oe Various colleges or uv Country. The resolution granting a portion of the Military Reserve on St. Clair river, Michigan, for railroad purposes, was adopted, and the bill to restrict She fee for collecting a soldier's claim, except in certain aces, to ton dollats, was passed. A resolution of thanks to Vico Admiral Farragut and his officers and mon was Prosénted and referred to tho Naval Committee, The Dill to protect the freedmen in the enjoyment of their gights was then taken up, and its discussion occupied the remainder of the open sossion, Mr. Trumbull being the principal speaker, and addressing the Senate at length An ite sapport. An oxecutive session was held, on the Conclusion of which an adjournment took place. {nthe House of Representatives the resolutions in- troduced some days ago by Mr. Nibiack, democrat, of ndiana, commending President Johnson's refusal to Qecept the gift of a carriage and horses tendered him by Now York merchants, were adopted, as was also a reso- lution instructing the Committee on Rules to Teport on the propriety of prohibiting the use of the hall for other than legislative purposes. Another resolution calling for She speody trial and punishment of Jof. Davis was offered, Dut, aftor some debate, laid over. The District of Colum- bia Committee were instructed to report a bill to prevent the exercise of the elective franchise in Bhe District by all persons who were at any time in the rebel service, A bill providing for the trans- fer from the State to the national courts of all cases now pending in which the parties are non-residents was in- $roduced and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The onsideration of the Reconstruction Committee's pro. posed amendment to the constitution, fixing a new basie for representation and taxation, was then resumed from Just weok, and continued to tho adjournment. Mr. Ray- mond took the floor and spoke at length in opposition to #he moasure and in support of President Johnson's Fecoastruction policy and proceedings. He also fa. vored the immediate admission 6f such Southern repre. Sentatives as can take the required oath, and advocated the abolition of the Reconstruction Committee itself. On the conclusion of Lis remarks other members spoke. The ‘vote on the question will be taken to-day. President Johnson yesterday sent a communication to the Senate stating that in bis opinion, as well as that of be Secretary of War, it would not at present be promo- Bive of the interosts of the country to submit to Con- gress, a4 reqdested by ‘that body, the correspondence of General Shoridad and the officers of our army rela- tive to events and the condition of affairs on the Rio @rande border. Gonoral Sherman visited both houses of Congress yes- terday while they were in session, and received an en- thusiastic receptivg. Ta the House of Representatives three cheers for litma were proposed by a member, and heartily given both on the floor and in the galleries, ac- Oompanied in the latter portion of ¢ yall by the rising of the assembiags, the swinging of hats and the waving of handkerchiefs, Both branches of the Logislature assembled at seven O'clock lastevening. In the Senate bills wero intro- Puced to comtinue the improvements of the navigation bf the Hudson river and to make appropriations thero- for, and to encourage the importation of laborers. The ‘Oils making appropriations to pay the canal debt and to Submit to the people the question of @ convention to re- ize the constitution wore ertored to athird reading. In ie Assombly Mr, Littlejohn was unanimously Speaker pro tem, for ue remainder of the ses- , Mr. Tremain haying communicated to the Rouse inability, on account of professional engagements, to present for several days. Bills were ordered to a reading to authorize the Comptroller of New York tesae fifty thousand dollars wager stock, and for attor- ‘and counsellors of the Supreme Court residing im States to practise in the courts of this State, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘An account is furnished in our St, Thomas and Havana of the movements of Secretary Seward the Weet Indies, In both St Thomas and Cuba he recotved with marked courtesy and domonstrations respect by the authorities and people, While on the island he had an interview with Santa Anna, and, fe roported, stated to that distinguished Mexican that the United States will never permit yomablieh ment of Maximilian'’s empire in Ig Mavane the Secretary's reception was cor- and oven enthusiastio, overy possible attention be- end his party by the Captain General, the citizens generally. The Captain e them ste banquet, and placed his ntey residence ot the Secretary's disbowal, which let. NEW YORK HERALD, TUSSDAY, JANUARY 80, 1866.-~Wirh SUPPLEMENT, pal, wate ane gray momar form of taxation we have yet reealed. — ‘What's in » Name?—A Hint to Maxi- ter, however, was declined, On his departure Mr. Sew- ard and his fellow voyagers were accompanied to sea by number of Cubans who bad ongaged small steamers specially for the purpose, The present condition of affairs in the republic of St Domingo, as described by our St. Domingo City corres- pondent, does not augur well for the stability of the government of President Baez; for, though the revolu- tion which broke out immediately after his late acceasion to power has been suppressed, there are signs that it will before long be succeeded by another, owing to the alleged tyrannical course of the President and his unpopularity with the mags of the people. Several of the principal leaders of the recent insurrection have escaped from the country. Among the revolutionists, it appears, was Sal- nave, who headed the late unsuccessful revoit in the ad- joining republic of Hayti against Prosident Geffrard. He has been caught and is now a prisoner. Late accounts from the West India Island of Guada- loupe state that the cholera still continued ta rage there with fearful fatality. A despatch from Milledgeville, Georgia, states that the friends of Alexander H. Stophens will put him forward in the Legislature of the’State to-day asa candidate for the United States Senatorship, regardioas of his wishes or feelings. A bill was yesterday introduced in the Legislature to allow banks to repudiate dobts contracted for war purposes, ‘The court martial in Savannah has acquitted and or- dered the release of the rebel Generel Mercer, whe has. eon on trial for some dayw on charge of causing the shooting-of national soldiers who lad enlisted in tho rebel ranks to avoid starving to death, and who bad de- | Serted from the rebels and been recaptured by them, At a special meottng of the Board of Aldermen yeater- day afternoon resolutions were adopted appointing a committee to inquire ¢nto the practicability of the city manufacturing the gas for the public lamps; directing the insertion, in three or more daily papers, of adver- tisementa giving description of all unknown persons found dead, and appointing a special committee of tive to make arrangements for the proper celebration of Washington's Birthday. The Board adjourned to Thurs- day next. The Board of Councilmen held a session yesterday, and transacted considerable business. The Committee on Finance were instructed to report on the expediency of requiring the City Chamberlain to place the moneys in his hands to the credit of the city at interest. The Com- mittee on Lamps and Gas wore instructed to investigate the alleged charges made against the several gas companies of the city, and empowered to take the necessary steps to protect the rights of the gas consumers. The Board conourred with the Aldermen in authorizing the Clerk of the Common Council to prepare the annual Manual of the Corporation, and cause ten thousand copies to be printed, the compensation of the compiler to be thirty- five hundred dollars. It was stated by a member that this Manual cost the city fifty-three thousand dollars, They also concurred in adopting an ordinance creating the office of City Railroad Inspector, at a salary of thirty- five hundred doilars per annum, and in the resolution for advertising the unknown dead. The hour of meeting was changed from two to four o’clock. The report of the Internal Revenue Commission ap- pointed by the Secretary of tho Treasury to investigate and suggest noeded amendments to the present Internal Revenue act was submitted to Congress yesterday, and appears in this morning's Heraup, It isa document of considerable length, but will be found to contain mat ter of much importance to all classes of citizens. In submitting this report to Congross, Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch states that all its recommendations have his hearty approval, with the single exception of the one in regard to the time at which the paymont of the national debt should be commonced. An interesting meoting of shoomakerm and shoe deal- ors was recently held at the Mercer Houso, in this city, a report of which appears in our Supplement sheet to- day, to petition Congress to take the tax from manufac- tures of leather and place it on tho raw material, It was stated at the meeting as probable that there would bee radical chang@ In the Interna! Revenuo laws, at loast a8 Togarded the interests of the shoo dealers and manufao- turers. A prominent business firm, whose names are withheld from publication for the present, were victimited a fow days #ineo to the extent of fourteen thousand dollars. An individual whose real name is unknown callod upom the firm, purchaéed, ten thousand dollars in gold, and ton- Aviod im payment therefor u chock for fovrteon thousand dollars, #igned by his own name, and purporting to be certified by the teller of the Chatham National Bank, by which institution the check was made payable. On pre- sentation at the bank the certification signature waa proven to be a forgery, the check being utterly value- less, The case, it is understood, has been given in charge of the police. The financial circles of Boston were excited yesterday by the discovery that on Saturday last forged checks on four prominent firms of that city, amounting altogether to eighteen thousand four hundred dollars, bad been pre- sented at different banks and paid. Additional checks of the same charaeter on two other firms for four thousand eight hundred dollars were presented but not cashed. The forgers have not yet been apprehended. Applicauion was made yesterday, based on affidavit, and presented to United States District Attorney Dickin- son, calling on him to proceed by suit in favor of tho United States against the California, Oregon and Mexico Steamship Company for the collection of penalties pro- scribed by national law for eases where steam vessels have moro than the stipulated number of tiers of bertha, The District Attorney has the matter under considera- tion. A case was up yestorday, before Judge Shipman, in the United States Cireuit Court, in which Amsinck & Co. were plaintiffs against x-Collector of the Port, Draper, to recover certain duties in alleged excess, paid under pro- test, upon an article of importation known as achil. This article, the plaintiffs allege, is under the tariff law of tho United States exempt from duty. The Collector holds otherwise, and that the tariff imposed by him was legal. Judge Shipman will charge tho jury in the caso this morning. Commissioner Osborn has decided that Charles Mitz- cheiling, charged with printing and seiling counterfeit internal revenue cigar stamps, shall be held for trial on the facts, and the accused has been committed in default of bail. Henry Williams, arrested on a charge of attempting to pass a counterfelt Afty dollar Treasury note, was yester- day up before United States Commissioner Betts, and was held for further examination. William P. Fitzger- ald, on a precisely similar charge, was, after examina- tion, committed in default of bail. The examination of witnesses in the case of George Boyce, accused of robbing Samuel B. Torry, a messenger of the Farmers and Citizens’ Bank of Williamsburg, was closed yesterday in the Essex Market Pollee Court, and the Justice's decision will be rendered on Thursday. A report of yesterday's proceedings is given in thf; morn- ing’s Heratp Supplement. ‘The inquest in the case of the death of Robert Mitchell, of the schooner John Boynton, who was murdered by river thieves on the night of the 30th of December last, while the veesel was at anchor off Riker's Island, was summarily disposed of yesterday, Patrick Conway, arrested on suspicion, was brought before Judge Rey: nolds, of the City Court, Brooklyn, when his counsel said that if his client was guilty of the offence charged, it had been committed in Queens county, and of course outside the jurisdiction of the coroners of Kings county. The Judge took the same view of the case, and ordered tho discharge of the prisoner, The inquest m the case of John McDonald, who met his death from injuries received in a street fight in Brooklyn, and which has been pending for some time, was concluded yesterday. The jury found that death resulted from kicks inflicted by Joha Sommerfeld, who was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. The charity ball took place Inst night at the Academy of Music, and was largely attended. The Germans held another of their carnivalistic featt- vals last night atthe Germania Assembly Rooms, in the Bowory, which were crowded on the occasion. ¢ Frederick Douglass, the colored orator, delivered a lecture in the Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening, his subject boing "fhe Assassination and Its Lessons,” in which he his strong disapproval of the course which Johnson is taking in reference to the treatment of the negroes. Mr. John ©, Of 59 State streot, Brooklyn, aged sixty-seven and who waa brother of Mr. Dodge, of the firm of Clas, Dodge & Co., was killed yesterday, while attem: cross Broadway, near Dey street, by being caught ang crushed between two of the mass of passing vehicles, land, and bis name has been familiar to all classes of his countrymen. In our Supplement sheet this morning ‘will be found an extended and interesting sketch of the Ife of the distinguished deceased, The funeral will take place at two o'clock on noxt Friday afternoon. Some additional particulars respecting the accident which occurred on the Hudson River Railroad on Satur- day last aro furnished in our Supplement sheet. Among the injured is Miss Emma M. Cassidy, a young Iady from Utica, who bad her left arm broken in two places and two fingers of the left hand cut off. Surrogate Tucker yesterday decided to, admit to pro- bate the contested will of Abraharfi Weatervelt, deceased. The contestants, who were children of the decedent, alleged that he had become partially inaano through spiritualism. The Surrogate, however, holds that it does not appear that the delusions of fancied communications from another world influenced Mr. Weatervelt in the making of this will, the provisions of which scem rather to have been dictated by natural and rational feolings. ‘The City Inspector reports the deaths during the past week in the city as 494, of which 161 were of boys and 127 girls, being a total increase of 60 over the previous week, and a decrease of 2 as compared with the mor- tality of the corresponding period in 1866. Of the deaths, ‘214 were of children less than five years of age. ‘The stock market was, on the whole, steady yoaterday, ‘and closed moderately firm. Gold closed at 1403{. Gov- ernments were dull, The rise of gold to 14. and upwards imparted more firmness to the merchandise markets yeaterdey; but there was not. muoh activity, and business.on the whole was light. Foreign goods wore quiet but firm for nearly every description, Groceries wore dull, Cotton was dull and. mostly sominal. Petrelenm was quiet. On ‘Change dour was quiet and unchanged, Wheat was dull and nominal. Corn was in fair demand and steady. Pork and lard wore dull and lower. Whiskey was dull and nominally unchanged. Tho Freedmen’s Bureau—The Wild Legis- ly chronicled the fact that the bill enlarging the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau bas passed the United States Senale by @ large majority. It is therefore now before the House of Representatives, and to that body must the people look for the rejection of the scheme. Prepared as the American people must have been for almost every kind of wild and reck- less legislation, under radical rule in Congress, wo believe we express their unanimous senti- ment when wo state that a measure having the ramifications of this Freedmen’s Bureau never entered their minds. What dots this bill pro- pose? It provides that its operations shall ex- tend to refugees and freedmen in the section covered by the rebellion; that this section shall be divided into districts ; those districts into sub-districts, not exceeding the number of counties or parishes in each State; and that each district and sub-district shall have its local agent, at a salary of fifteen hundred dol- lars per annum. Now that the war is over, we do not see what the government has to do with refugees, supposing them to be white, any more than it has to do with the paupors in our almshouse at Bellevue. We therefore, in con- sidering the subject of this Freedmen’s Bureau, throw them out of the scale altogether. Now, how will this measure operate? By the provisions of the bill the Secretary of War ia authorized to “issue provisions, clothing, fuel and other supplies, including medical stores and transportation, a8 way be deemed needful,” &o. In other words, it is estublishing a gigantic government poor-house for the emancipated blacks; and those who have a plantation ex- perience of the negro character know that he will not be slow to avail himself of the beneflis of an eleemosynary institution like the one proposed, The measute is not only a bad, bute” wicked one. It demorstizes the negro ; it encou~ rages him in-babits of laziness ; it offers a pre- mium to indolence.and affords shelter and pro- tection to the black man which have never been, and probably never will be, accorded by the government to the poor white man in the South. It will place a use- less government official in every county and parish in the late revolting States, consti- tuting altogether an immense army of greedy office-holdera. It will saddle the country with an enormous expenditure, say fifteen, perhaps twenty millions of dollars a year. It will force upon the government a million of negroes as perpetual dependents and pensioners, all, 20 doubt, perfectly contented, because they have all they want—plenty of rations, abundance to eat and drink, and no work. It will foster the hiving of drones. It will make the idle more idle and the lazy lazier. Bricfly, it will para- lyze the industry of the South, and is nothing in any particular but a reckless,-xtravagant, gigan- tic and preposterous schome of government charity. And what will make it more interest- ing to our overburthened taxpayers, they will have to pay for it. If the bill is intended as an experiment, it may servé the purpoee of an en- abling act to permit those Congressmen who hgve a single idea—and that about the ne- gro—to ventilate their oratory. In that light it may be regarded as a furnishing bureau, es- tablished to servé up food for radical and de- clamatory speeches. But if it be intended as a serious miter, it is calculated, not only to em- barrass President Johnson in his restoration policy, but to entail a vast amount of mischief and injury on the country. The people of the South do not want any measure of the kind. They dread its effects. They are ready to do what they have always heretofore done—take care of their sick, aged and decrepit servants. The servants themselves, as a general thing, are doing very well under the peculiar circum- stances of the situation. Many who left their former masters, and came North, have returned home and been kindly received and taken care of. The former relations between master and servant having been summarily sundered, it will take a little while before the relationship or anything likened to it is restored. But the well fed and kindly treated colored servant, after having tasted the benefits of liberty in the North, and received the cold charities of his bawling Northern sympathizers, is prone to return to the old homestead in the sunny South and resume the easy life he once led— free, to be sure, but still having an irrepressible yearning for the scenes amid which he was domesticated. Things are gradually becom! tranquillized in the South, especially with spect to the uses and obligations of labor and capital, and all the tinkering and hammering which radicals in Congross indulge in, and all the bills they propose like the one before us, are only calculated to keep alive a feeling of irritation and resentment, and prolong to an indefinite period the restoration of good order and amicable social and business relations, both with the North and with the Southern “the force of wild, reckless and extravagant not the government look after these poor and worthy creatures, instead of concocting schemes to feed, elothe and demoralize fat Southern negroes, who have been accustomed to labor and have extensive fields for employ- ment all around them? Or Congress might take care of the poor emigrant as he lands upon our shores, point him the way to the government poor-house and keep him there. In short, there are numerous ways in which the government can spend its millions of dollars, pile on tax- ation and task the people until they groan again under their burdens; but there is none so transparently preposterous as that of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill now before the House of Representatives. If it be not killed there, legislation can no farther go. Report of the Revenue Commission—Im. portamt Recommendations for the Re- guistion of Taxes. ‘The Commission appointed at the last session of Congress to investigate the value of taxable articles of large consumption as sources of aaflonal revenue, sent their reportto the House 7, when it was referred’to the Com- of equalising excise and income taxation, and at the same time securing to the government a remunerative revenue with the least possible oppression. We give a very full synopsis of the report in another column. It willbe found of considerable importance, and its statistics voluminous and valuable. Commencing with the article of cotton as a source of revenue, they show that the average yield during the years be- tween 1825 and 1861 was 71,619,716 bales— the crop of the latter year amounting to 3,056,086 bales, of which 843,740 were con- sumed in the United States. The evidence furnished from all sources demonstrates that all the efforts made to raise cotton for the use of Enuropo, during the late war, in India, Brazil, Egypt, China and Japan, were complete fail- ures. America alone can be depended on for cotton. During the yeara 1860-’61 eighty- seven and a half per cent of this article con- sumed in Burope was American. As 8 source of revenue, the Commission recommends that a tax of five cents a potnd shall be levied upon all cotton raised in’ thé* United States after the Ist of July, 1866, and that this tax shall be collected, not on the plantations, but from the manufacturers and from the export merchants, at the port of shipment; no vessel with cotton on board tobe furnished with clear- ace papers without a certificate from the Aases- sor of Internal Revenue. But they also propose a drawback on all exported cotton fabrics of as many cenis per pound on the cloth exported as are assessed on the raw cotton entering into tte’ manufacture of the cloth; and in addition to the drawback they suggost that all cotton goods exported should be exempt from the payment of all other excise taxes, In connection with the excise tax on raw cotton it is recommended that a specific duty be laid upon all imported cotton fabrics of as many cents per pound as the excise tax puts upon raw cotton. The Commission calcu- that with a cotton crop of four millions of » °iane is leas than that of 1860—the ent would receive a revenue from nm of $88,000,000, and thus be enabled to luce the tax upon other articles which are able to bear it. = | With rogard to coffee it is stated that the an- nual consumption in this country the year before the war was two hundred million pounds, twenty-nine per cent of the annual exports from all the coffee producing ocoun- tries from 1856 to 1864. The Commission, finding that the immense consumption of coffee will retarn a revenue during the next fiscal year of eight millions, at the present duty of five cents per pound, therefore recommend that this rate shall remain unchanged, but that @ tax of two cents a pound, instead of one cent, be imposed upon all ground coffee, or other material, intended to adultcrate coffee; the same to be collected by stamping the paok- ages. As an experimental measure, it is sug- gested that a license. fee of $50 be required from every one cultivating chicory for sale, and $100 from those manufacturing adulterated coffee, or anything to be sold as a substitute for coffee. The average annual consumption of cane sugars in the Atlantic States is shown to be nearly nineteen million pounds; and in the United States thé consumption of engars of all kinds is 922,880,000 pounds. The Commission finds, upon reliable evidence, that the maxi- mum product of domestic cane sugar for the year 1866-'67 will not exceed 50,000 tons, and that the consumption of the coun- try for the year 1867-'68 will probably require an importation of 285,625 tons of foreiga sugar. It is recommended, therefore, that the excise tax of three per cent on all sales of sugar refiners be repealed, and that in lieu the impost and excise on all foreign and domestic cane sugars be advanced half.a cent a pound, and on all foreign and domestic molasses two cents a gallon. The Commission believes that by this method all the objections growing out of the present system will be removed, the refining interest of the country stimulated and & largely inoreased revenue accrue to the government. An additional one-balf cent on 600,000,000 pounds of imported sugar will yicld $3,000,000, or nearly one hundred per cent more than the revenue derived during the last fiscal year from a tax of three per cent on the sales of refiners. The tax on the manufacture of distilled liquors is tobe reduced from two dollars to one dollar a gallon. The tax on brokers’ sales is reduced to one cent on the hundred dollars. The same ap- plies to gold; but in this connection it is sug- gested to put a tax of five percent on all sales when the party has not the material on HH ! i H |! i milian, ~ Maximilian’s troubles are increasing daily. The Mexican republicans will not cease fight- ing; the United States continue to ignore his imperial existence; his Belgian soldiers are tired of fighting and protest against his bar- barous policy; the French people object to send him any more men and any more money; Napoleon is getting into financial difficulties of much greater importance to him than the for- tunes of his protégé; the revolution in Spain Maximilian from receiving further aid from Europe in any form; and, worse than all, everybody seems to look upon his expulsion from Mexico as a foregone con- clusion. Under these circumstances, since Maximilian is totally incapable of helping him- self, and since nobody else is willing or able to help him, we have given his unforiunate case sceptre and his imperial purple, wear a suit of black broadcloth as his official costume, and change his title from Emperor to President, and the thing is accomplished. Shakspere asks “What's in a name?’ and perhaps Maximilian may think that these would be nothing gained by this simple sub- stitution of one title for another. he comes to refloot upon the subject as deeply as wo have done, he will discover that our plan is by no means so absurd as it at first appears. The Mexicans decidedly object to have an Em- peror, and assassinated the person who as- sumed that title prior to Maximilian’s advent ; but they have no objections to a President, having selected the republican form of gov- ernment unanimously. The United States will not allow a Mexican empire to be established on their border ; but they have no right to in- terfere with a Mexican President, even though he come from Austria. United States were satisfied Maximilian would have no further difficulty in obtaining all the money he required by means of foreign loans; for it is the opposition of this country which renders his securities so exceedingly doubtful in the eyes of European financiers. Napoleon could find no fault with such an arrangement, and would, indeed, be flattered by it; for it is 8 leaf from his own book, translated from French to Mexican. Napoleon’s uncle was Emperor of France, and was deposed by force of arms at Waterloo. An interval elapsed, and then the present Emperor saw an opportunity to restore the Napoleonic dynasty. But at the same time he was shrewd enough to perceive that France did not wish another Emperor just then ; and so he hid his crown under’ black silk hat, turned his sceptre into a cane, and, by @ manoeuvre which we call ballot box stuffing, procured his election as President, After that, to become Emperor was as easy ag taking off his hat and giving a few commands to well disciplined soldiers. There is an ex- Let him make ar- rangements for a presidential elect and then resign his crown, and his position will be. secured for’ the rest of his life. It happens that at present everything favors the scheme which we propose. In point of fact, Mexico has no President with a very clear claim to the office. Juarez, who was Chief Justice, succeeded Comonfort, by a oonstitu- tional provision, without a popular election. His'term expired some time ago, and, under the republican oconstitutfon, Chief Justice Ortega should have taken the presidency. But, instead of this, Juarez extended his own term by 8 coup d'état; and, in order to make assu- rance doubly sure, issued a proclamation denouncing Ortega and putting him under arrest. Now, as Ortega is not exercising the Presidential functions, and as the term of President Juarez has constitutionally expired, Maximilian has only to cause himself to be elected and he may claim to be President of Mexico de jure and de facto, under the old constitution and under the new. being the same, what choice is there between the titles? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and President of Mexico sounds as grand and is much more substantial than Emperor of Mexico. Indeed, as the times g0, the title of President is the more imposing. No monarch of Europe can compare in dignity with the President of tho United, States; no king or queen can command so large an army; no emperor or empress governs #0 magnificent a country. Old dynasties, like those of Aus- tria and Russia, seek alliances with him; the best laid plots of the Emperor Napoleon are thwarted by his non-concurrence, and the Queen of England would cheerfully relinquish the Koh-i-noor could she restore the former friendly relations between her government and his, The title of President is really superior to that of Emperor; for the latter originally meant only a general, the commander of an army. It is, thereforg, totally inapplicable to Maximilian, because he has no army to com- mand, since his troops belong to France and are controlled by representatives of the French government. In another point of view it would ill become Maximilian to regard the title of President as inferior; for Napoleon, to whom he owes everything, once wore it, and President Johnson, to whose forbearance his continued stay in Mexico is mainly due, now bears it proudly, with the assent of thirty- one millions of people, to the admiration of We consequently advise Maxi- a oew phase to the Moxican coming President Maximilian at It Mexico and the ample for Maximilian. ean republic, is already firmly establi Negro Suffrage Question. The rdoord of our city delegation in Congress on the bill granting the right of suffrage to the blacks of thé District of Columbia involves such a course of inconsistency, hypocrisy, stul- tiflcation and party trickery by the members concerned as will surey be remembered against them by their constitn.ents, republicans and democrats. Both parties; jn this city and its immediate surroundings, ‘s unanimously in favor of the recocwtruction policy of President Johnson, embracing \..'s ides that if the suffrage anywhere South is. be given to the blacks it should be under certa’a careful restrictions. But look atthe record of, our city representatives in Congress om this subject. When, the other day, the bill granting unqualified suffrage to the blacks of the Dis- trict of Columbia was before the House, on the ° motion of Mr. Hale, of New York (republican, from the interior), to récommit the bill, with instructions to amend it by putting in certain conditions of property and intelligence, the vote stood fifty-three to one hundred end seven- toon, and yot there wase majority prosont in favor of this proposition: may say, It was in the hands of the demoorats, thi seven votes, Had they given these votes support of the fifty-three conservatives for the recommitment, the bill, by a majority of cight, would have been returned:-to the committee to be amended with the aforesaid restrictions. But instead of voting to recommit with the re- publican conservatives, the whole thirty-seven democrats voted with Thaddeus Stevens and his radicals for Wilson’s unqualified negro suf frage bill. And thus the New York city dele- gation were divided:— For qualified nogro suffrage—Measrs. Darling and Ray- mond—2 (republicans). For unqualified nogro suilrage—Measrs. Brooke, Chan- ler, Jones and Taylor—4 (afl democrats). We find, too, that a majority of the republi- can membors from the State outside of this city voted with Raymond and Darling, although they were not supported by a solitary demo- crat from this or any other State. The demo- crats voted solid with Thaddeus Stevens; for it was @ party trick of more importance to thom than principle, consistency, the administrati or the country. It was specimen of duplicity and raacality broadly oxhibiting hollowness of their professions in support President Johnson—a trick which shows thal when they can’t use him for their party pur poses they will use Thaddous Stevens. They will buy and sell in Congress after the fashion of Tammany and Mozart Halls. By buying and selling they dream of restoring to power the fleshless skeleton of the old defunct and dissected democratic party. They seem to have an idea of securing President Johnson upoa “s capital in the House of Representatives of thirty-seven votes. But the democrats having defeated the co commitment of this bill, the question, recurred upon its passage granting unqualified suffrage to the blacks of the Distriot of Columbia, ani the bill was passed—yoas 116, nays 64. And” here, again, we have another shameless exhibi- tion of factious trickery in the course of the re- publican conservatives. Had the fifty-three in the vote for recommitment voted with the democrats against the unqualified bill, it would have been defeated; but there were only nine- teen republicans equal in moral courage te thie test. All the rest, gt the crack of their party whip, went over to Stevens. On the passage of the bill the New York city delegation stood:—~ For unqualified negro suffrago—Moasrs. Darling an@ Raymond—2 (republicans) a es i eemenbeied Here the “little joker” is transferred to the other thimble; the mass of the republican oon- servatives are with Stevens, and the democrats are paid off in their own coin—treaolery for treachery—an example of factious juggling on both sides utterly disgraceful and contemptible. Thus the whole New York city delegation— Raymond and Brooks, Darling and Chanler, Jones and Taylor—stand committed upon the record to unqualified negro suffrage—some on the recommitment and some on the passage of this District bill. We thus place them before their constituents, 80 that they may be held to & proper account for their course of trickery, double-dealing and hypocrisy, by which this bill of unqualified negro suffrage was passed. GEORGIA. Proceedings of the Legislature—Banks te Be Permitted to Repudiate Debts Com- tracted During the Robellion—Alex. MH. hens to Be a Candidate for United States Senator, Regardices of His ‘Wishes—The Rebel General Mercer Ae-~ quitted, do. MILLEDGRVILLA, Jan. 29, 1866. Senator Gibson introduced @ bill in the Legislature to- day allowing banks to repudiate debts contracted for war * Mr. Stephens’ friends will rua him for the Senatorship (long term) to-morrow, regardiess of his wishes or feel- 6 #8 Savannas, Ga., Jan. 20, 1866. The Confederate General Mercer, tried by military commission for the murder of seven Union prisoners, was acquitted and released from prison yesterday. Three soldiers of the Twelfth Maine regiment ‘been under trial for the murder of barkeeper name@ Cardes, ia November last. No evidence existed againgt them, A steamer from the const yesterday brought three hun dred freedmen from the sea islands, returning © their old homes. Srron Hatt Coutzar —The destruction by fire of the handsome buildings of this institution, which was noticed im the Hunatp of yesterday, will entail on the Catholie community in this vicinity a much heavier loss than would be at first supposed, The buildings themssives were models of architecture, and the opportunities and advantages offered by the college were equal, if not ea- perior, to those offered by any similar institution im the country, At the present rates of materials it will ba found almost impoasible to erect buildings as im appearance and as complete in arrangements as weem thove destroyed on Sunday at South Orange withant louding the supporters of tho institution with a trouble- fowe and protracted indentedness. To obviate this, how- ‘over, several of oor citizens, who justly feel interested tn the welfare of Seton Hall, have commenced = sub- scription list, and intend to push the matter forward, 80 that those who have been temporarily dislodged may be enabled to resume their occupations at an carly date, Those who have taken charge of the matter are in earnest; and, when the usefuleoss of this institutt, is remembered there can be no doubt that the Cal’ ,ole residents of this neighborbeod will pfomptly ar A libe- rally reapond to the call tat will be made upon ‘Ahem, Daxourovs Cowprnion or ras Srpewanae.—‘Che slippery