The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1866, Page 4

+ NEW YORK HERALD; THURSDAY,. FEBRUARY 22, 1866.--WiTH SUP)?LEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NAS8@U 8TS, = THEATRE, Broxdway, BROADWAY street. —S0.0N SuinGur—Live Ivpian, near Broome LUCY RUSHTON'’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos, 728 and 78% Broadwav.—Tag Back (O—Berwesx You anp Mw ano Tum Post. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—AtoneMent; 08, Taw Cusp Staten. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 835 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Ermiorian ‘Sinaia, Danciaae ho. Tak Cain Sreaceas, BY NORMA AND GREASY. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Sinc- 1NG Daroinc, Bunussques, &c.—ADventuxns or 4 New Youre Dermcrivs. GEORGE CHRISTY’S—Oxp Scnoot oF MINstRRLsY, BatLans, Musrcay Guess. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-iourth sireot.—Tus Keen Actors. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechamos’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Daw Brvane'y New Stuur Senwon—Nedro Comicaut- viva, Buetesquas, &c.—Tee BLAOKsMitH’s J UBLIER. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorian Mrx< APRELSY—Batavs, BURLESQUES 4ND Panrominss. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 10 A.-M, till10 P.M nag NOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Coraim’s Itivsraatep Tove or Scotiann, a HALL, Astor Place.—ENTERTAINMENT BY THR LIND. HUNTINGTON'S GREAT NATIONAL PAINTING—“Taw Rerupicas mer,” at 625 Kroadw WITH SUPPLEMENT 2,1866. New York, Thursday, February THE NAW 5S. THE PRESIDENT’S VETO. From various portions of the country we have reports of demonstrations in approval of President Johnson's veto of the bill enlarging the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau; but the one which is to take place at the Cooper Instituto to-night will ofgcourso eclipse them all. The'call for to-night’s mecting is signed by over two thousand of our citizens, including a large num General ber of the Jeading mon of the metropol:s. Grant is expected to be present, and among the speakers of distinction will be Secretary Seward, A meeting pre Mminary to this one was held last night in the City Hall Park, at which the veto was cuthusiastically endorsed and one hundred guns in its honor were fired. Our Board of Aldermen yesterday adopted a preamble and roso- lutions approving the veto in most emphatic language, and © proposal to endorse it today by ahundred gun salute wus offered and referred to the Committee on Washing- ton’s Birthday, Accounts of similar enthusiastic endors- alg reach us from nearly ull the Northern States. Nu- merous meetings to testify approval of the President’s courge are to be held in different portions of the country, mong them one in the national capital to-night, which will be addressed by Senators aud Representatives of bo parties, THE WARS IN :OUTH AMERICA. A most complete and interesting collection of the latest news regarding the wars at present prevailing in South America and general information relative to the weveral countries which compose that division of our hemisphere, illustrated by a map, wm contained in the correapondenee and sketches presonted im tho Ti Supplement of to-day. The steamship Henry Chauncey, which arrived here yesterday, from Aspinwall on the 12th inat., brought as later intelligence of the progress Ot hostilities on the Pacific coast, between Chile and Peru and Spain. The Channcey’s specie list amounted to nearly @ mi!tion and a quarter doliars, The report pub- Nahed in the Harp of the 10th inst., that the Spaniards had abandoned the blockade of all the Chilean ports excepting Valparaiso, and concentrated their whole fleet before that piace, is confirmed by this arrival, and there were indications that they would shortly bombard the city. Before withdrawing from the harbor of Caldera they burned eight or ten Chilean vexseis they bad cap- tured, in order to free themselves frum unnecessary en- cumbrance. It was reported that the Chileans bad cap- tured a Spanish transport in the Straits of Magellan, and the Spanish fleet was said to be «o short of supplies that serious mutinies had occurred on board some of the ves- sols from this cause, The Peruvians were prepared to destroy everything on the Chincha Islands affording facilities for the transportation of gnano in case the Spaviards sLould attempt to move on those rich deyesite, Regurding the Atlantio coast war, between Paraguay and the allies, we have additional details, On the 23d of December the Brazilian land forces, numbering twepty- five thousnnd, had arrived in the vicinity of the strong Paraguayan position at Paso da Patria, and would be joined in a fow days by ten thousand Argentines aud Orientals, soon after which it was intended to make a combined Jand and naval attack on the Paraguayans, and to push forward into the country of the later. Diseases of various kinds still prevailed to an alarming extent among the troops on both sides ‘The new gold discoveries in the State of Cauca, In the Colombian republic, are attracting great attention, and numbers of California miners have already resorted thither. As a fitting accompaniment to our war nows from Sonth America, we furnish sketehes of euch of the various re- publics which it comprises, and which Secretary Seward, in his late St. Domingo speech, denominated but. tresses of the great republican fortress of tie North, presenting briefly their topography, history , politics, sta. Ustics, extent, power aud importance, together with some accounts of thelr leading wen. CONGRESS. Afairs in Covgrese yesterday progressed in avery calin twanner, as contrasted with the exciting seenes of the day preceding. In tho Senate Mr. Wilson offered a reso- lution expressing the nation’s gratitude to the officers ‘and men of the army and navy for their patriotism sod valor daring the rebosilion and their orderly return to peaceful pursuite, which was referred to the Military Committee, Mr. Houderson presented a pott- tion from New York women, asking that they be granted the privilege of voting, which led 4o humorous colloquy among the Senators, Mr. Yates remarking that he bad doubia about the propricty of woman's rights being discussed by two gentiemen who, like Mesare, Sumner and Henderson, had arrived at the respective ages of forty-nine ant sixty-three, without testifying their oppreciavon of woman by getting mar. tied. The House resolution instructing the Secretary of the Navy to detail a steam vemwel to assist in the con- struction of the Rasso- American telegraph, via Behring Strait, was adopted. A long debate then took place, in whioh several Senators participated, nt in which Messrs, Fossenden and Cowan were the chief speakers, on a motion of the former to take up the Reconstruction Committee's resolution adopled by the House on the Previous day, that none of the Southern representa tives at present excluded shall bo admitted ‘wotll Congres shall have declared their States @ntitied to representation. The resolution was finally read; but permission to consider it in regular order could not be obtained, and Mr. Fomonden gave notice dit he would again call it up to-morrow, Br, Lane gave notice that on the same day he would introdues another bill to continue the Freedmen’s Bureau, whieb, under the pre- sent act, will cease to exist one year afer the termina: tion of the rebeilion. The greater portion of the re- mainder of the session was consumediaa speech against the propoved constitutional amendment changing the basis of Congressional representation by Mr. Buckalow, who was briefly replied to by Moser. Anthony and Wilson. In the House of Representatives a resolution of the republican members of the Obto Legisiature, endorsing the course of the republican majority in Congress, was presopied. A motion to reconider the vote of the pre. vious day on the resolution ex locitg for the presems the re emtatives from all the Stats hich took p: | in the rt 1 was rejected by one hund.ed and Maat ‘nava Mr ‘que fw, obtain, leave to introduce the unanimous resolution of the Ways and Means Commitieo against a reduction of the internal revenue whiskey tax. A bill providing for the sale of the government gold and silver lands was re- ported from the Public Lands Committee. Resolutions were adopted calling on the heads of departments for.a statement of the cost of all’public printing outside of that under the direction of the Printing Superintendent, and on the Secretary of the Navy for an estinate of the expenditure necessary to establish a coal and naval ate- tion at Baltimore, Tho contest between Mossra, Voorhees Gnd Washburn for one of the Indiana seats was discussed for some time without final action, after which the con- sideration of the Loan bill, reported from the Ways and Means Committee, was proceeded with, and the debate on it occupied the remainder of the session, it being laid over for further action til! Wednesday next, A new bill, similar to that Introduced in the Senate, to take the place of the one vetoed’by the Presidont, pro- viding for the continuance of the Freedmen’s Bureau, is being prepared by the House Committee on Freedmen's Affairs, The District of Columbia Committee of the Senate will shortly report to that body the: House Suffrage bil, and request its immediate passage. No legislative businoss.will be transacted by elther the Senate or House of Representatives to-day, owing to the Congressional memorial proceedings in honor of the late Henry Winter Davis, which take place in the Represen- ves’ Hall, Ge THE CITY. The arrangements for the celebration in the metropolis to-day of the one hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary of Washington’s Birthday aro quite extensive, notwith- standing the fact that the military parade will be a rather small one. It being a legal holiday, by act of our Logis- lature, public business will be generally suspended, and it is to bo hoped that there: will be a closing of the stores and shops, Tho programme of eclebra- tion eeremonies and notices of special observances pro- Jected by various associations are given in another por- tion of our paper. Tho bells of Trinty and other churehes will be rung at noon, and at the same Lime 4 salute of one hundred guns will be fired at Union square. At night there will be fine displays of fireworks at several points in the city. During the day Goncral Grant will have a reception, aud wil! be presented with a portrait of General Scott, Lieutenant General Grant, accompanied by his wifo and his personal staff, arrived in this elty at an carly hour yesterday morning, and is now stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. During the day, as upon the occa- sion of his previous visit, he was besieged with visitors, In the evening, accompamed by his staff, he partook of a private banquet at the Union Club, To-day he will be the gnest of the Union League. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain MeGuigan, from Liverpool on the 7th and Queenstown on the Sth inst., arrived hore atan early hour this morning. Hor adviecs have been anticipated by the Moravian’s nows, to the 9th inst., published in the Huratp of Tuesday and yestorday. A meeting of the Board of Education took placo last evening, but the only matters of public interest that came up were two resolutions to raise the salaries of the teachers ot colored schools in tho city twonty per cent and author'zing the increaso of tho salaries of the clerks of the Boards of Trustees, which wero adopted. The further hearing of tho case of James F, Oram, ac- cused of the murder of Joseph Van Doren, in Beaver atreét, on the 29th of July last, was resumed in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, before Judge Barnard. Mr, Chauncey Shaffer opened on the part of the de- fendant, to whose character several witnesses bore favorable testimony, The trial is still on, and will be continued to-day. The jury im the case of John B. Sickles, who sued William R. Simey, proprietor of the Bowery and East Houston street live of stages, for injuries received in being run over by onesof defendant's vebicles in Broad- way, near Fulton street, on the 11th of December, 1863, yesterday brought in 9 verdict for plaintiff, allowing him eleven hundred and fifieen doilars, The trial of John Gabill, indicted for the murder of officer Duryea, was continued yesterday in the Court of Genoral Sessions. A numbor of witnesses were ex- amined by the prisoner's counsel, and the case will be finished to-day. ; Commissioner Osborn was ooccupled some time yester. day taking evidence ona charge against Folix Capretti, accused of having had in his possession about one thou- sand dollars in counterfeit Afty cent notes. The examina- tion was not concluded. ‘The official report of Chief Engineers Danby, Fithian and Kellogg, Gegeral Inspectors of Steam Machinery in the navy, appointed by the Department to conduct the competitive experiments of the Winooski and Algonquin, appears in our issue of to-day. It is an elaborate docu- ment, giving a detailed account of the porformance of both vessels during tho recent trial in the Sound, and also declaring that the contractor for the machinery of the Algonquin has failed in every guarantee, and that that vessel is unfit for the naval service. Edward L. Dawson, supervisor and town collectar of Jacksonville, Tilinois, was yesterday arrested on board a California steamer, at the foot of Canal street, in this city, and committed to await a requisition from the Governor of his State, on charge of being a public de- faulter to the amount of about seven thousand dollars. Surrogate Tucker yesterday heard argument on the accounting of the guardian of John E. Bremes. Tho will of Mrs, Ann Larkin was tried and admitted to pro- bate. There was large additional num ter of howses and lots disposed of yesterday at the Exchanze salesrooms auction, in Broadway. The St. James Hotel sold for two hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars. The North American Lloyd's pioneer steamship At- lantic, under the command of Captain Charles Hoyer, will sail to-day, at twelve o’olock, from pior No. 42 North river, for Bremen via Cowes, The Atlantic is well known as belonging to the once famous Collins line, and will no doubt fully sustain her reputation for speed and comfort, which made her so popular with the travelling pablic formerly. Captain Hoyor is an excollent scaman, and the Atlantic is stannch and sonndas ever. With such a Commencement the North American Lioyd’s line is destined to be well supported by the public. The mails for the Gorman States via Bremen will go out in the Atiantic, closing at the Post Office at ten o'clock this morning. The stock market was depressed yesterday morning, but afterwards became strong and closed steady. Gov- ornments wero fat, Gold closed at 1373. ‘There was no improvement in trade circles yesterday, as compared with Monday and Tuesday, thongh in some kinds of domestic produce rates wore rather freer, owing to the fact that there wasto be no 'Change to-day, while the indications were that there would be @ pretty general suspension of business. Foreign goods wero generally firmer, while domestic goods wero irregular. Petroloum was doll and nominal. Cotton was a shade easier, Groceries were quiet. On ‘Change flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was duil and drooping. Corn was dull Pork was lower, Lard was Girmor. Whiskey was more active and firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. News from Mexico, containing Vera Cruz dates one day later, was received by the steamship Morro Castle, which arrived here yesterday from Havana, The two respon- sible editors of the Corretin newspaper, published at Orizaba, had begn imprisoned for alleged infringement of the imperial press laws, and the proprietors of three other newspapors had beon notified by the government officers that their journals would be suspended unless they changed their tona A number of the republican officers who surrendered at Papautia bad arrived at Vera Cruz, General Pieras, imperialist, bad been appointed to the command of the State of Sinaloa, The railroad ia course of construction between Puebla and Mexico city will, it Ie expected, be completed by May next, A foll report of the speeches delivered at the Mos. cow banquet to Hon. Cassius M. Clay, our Min. jeter im Russia, of which mention has been pro. viously mado in the Henao, is published im our edition of this morning. The banquet was demgned a@ an acknowleagyment of the courtesies shown to the Russian fleet in this city; and, so far as enthust. asm and kindly sentiments could go, the return was a fall and complete one. “Yankee Doodie’ and the “Star Epangled Banner” were played im conjunction with “God Save the Czar” and other Russian national aire American “hurrabs” mingled with Russian “corals,” and Mr. Curtin, Secrotary of the United States Legation, after the delivery of a friendly speech in Russian, was seized upon and kissed by every one of the hundred and seventy odd Russians present. The Texas ion Convention ts -*1!1 In session, but appears té bd olng very Hitt A prop ition was Ofsred on the 16th ine? Texs imo three & “for alone: power inpar. changing the State constitution reported favorably, and tho report was laid on the tabie, The Fen an Congreas at Pittsburg was 1a sesaien’ yes- terday. President Roberts read his address to the House in the afternoon, and it was received with applause and every mark of approbation, Mr, Roberis eaid hoshould resign his position as President, and recommended General Sweeny. aa. his successor, All tho delegates Present pledged themselves to sustain the constitution adopted ab Plitedelphia, Senators Dabny, of. Ulinola, and Carey, of Now York, sent in their resignations, which were accepted. General Sweeny’s report is made the special order for to-day, One of the Toronto Journals yesterday florcoly, assailed the Canad‘an Reciprocity commission recently in Wash- ington, on account of the concessions which thoy offered our government as @ consideration for the renewal of the typaty,. saying thar if it had been continued on:.such a basis the: Americans would have gained control of the colonial finances, and raised a ferment throughout the Provinces within.a year. PE anata Mia. mone The Great Johnson Meeting To-night.. The assemblage at the Cooper Institute this evening to endorse the national policy of President Johnson ought to be-attended by every patriotic—citizen. This. is. the anniversary of Washington’s birthday, and how cam we more fitly honor the: memory of the Father of his Country: than by supporting @ President who. is: trying to save the country from radical ‘conspiratbrs? The secession rebellion is over; the radi- cal rebellion has begun. Let there be another grand uprising of the North, like that. which swept Southern treason from the-land. Again the Union is assailed by a selfish political fac~ tion, and the President relies upon the peoplo fomassistance. Let us forget: partisanship, as before, and unite in one magnificent Union party at this meeting to declare that New Eng- land fanatics shall not destroy the nation which 80 many gallant lives have been sacrificed to preserve. The first battle of the new rebellion has resulted in a victory for the President, whose veto has been sustained by the Senate. Now let ushave a great. meeting to-night to strengthen his heart for the conflicts that are to come, The Reconstruction Committee and the Administration, i veto of ihe Freedmen’s Burean bill was 0 much for Thaddeus Stevens and his recon- struction committee.. They and their radical majority of the House, instead of treating it as an overture fora treaty of peaec from the ad- ministration, have. very foolishly resented {t as a declaration of war. In hot haste they have pushed through aconcyrrent resolution “that in order to close agitation upon a question which seems likely to disturb the action of the government, as well as to quiet the uncertainty which is agitating the minds'of the people of the eleven States which have been declared in insurrection, no senator or representative shall be admitted into either branch of Congress from any of the said States until Congress shall have declared such States entitled to such re- presentation.” ‘ 7 In explanation of this resolution Mr. Stevens said, “I confess,l may say that until yester- day (the veto) there was an earnest considera- tion into the condition of Tennessee, to see whether, by act of Congress, we @ould admit that State to representation. Buyt'since yesters day (the veto) there has been a stat of thirgs, which, the committee deem, put it wholly out of their power to preceed further in the inwes- tigation without the surrender of a great prin- ciple, and the surrender of the rights of this body to the usurpation of another power.” What principle? What rights? What usurpa- We cannot discover that the veto ia- vades any principle or any rights of Congress, resting upon the constitution, There is no usurpation in it. ‘The President returned the Freedmen’s Bureau bill to the body in whieh it originated, with his objections, and with bis opin- fons in regard to the readmission of the exclut- ed Southern States into Congress, all of which he had full authority to do,as a cov tive branch of the government, and as the constita- tional adviser of Congress, It was not ouly his right, but’his duty, to say what he said in his veto message; for the constitution de- clares not that he may, but that “he shail, from time to time, give to the Congress infor- mation of the state of the Union, and recom- mend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” This charge of usurpation, therefore, is utter- ly groundiess; and the course pursued by Mr. Stevens, his committve and his radical majori- ty, is reduced to a resolution of mere revenge. It is aimed at the President and his State of Tennessee, a State which, if it had no other cluim than its admission into the last Congress, may justly ask admission into this, so far as her unquestionably loyal members are coh- cerned. The question recurs—what is to be gained by her continued exclusion as a rebuke against the Executive. The action of the Sen- ate upon the late veto shows that no recon- struction bill is likely to pass that body by a two-thirds vote against the Preaident’s objec- tions; and his late veto message covers the whole ground. Is the work of Southern resto- ration, therefore, to be indefinitely postponed because of this conflict betweon the President and Congress? Is it an “irrepressible con- flict?” This isa momentous question, affecting not only the integrity of the republican party, but the integrity of the Treasury and all the financial and business interests of the country, because they all greatly depend upon the early restoration of the Southern States to estab- lished law and order, indusiry, and a heavy development of their great commercial staples. We would again, therefore, urge upon the republicans of Congress a general caucus on the political situation snd « consultation with the President on tho ways and means best adapted to secure the full and speedy restora- tion of the excluded Squthern States, A course of settled hostility to the Executive will result in nothing but confision and disaster to all concerned. an oe oa Tur Rev. Heyny Warp Brecume on Soutn En Restorattox.—The address of the Rev. Henry Ward Beechir on the great political questions of the day, which we;published yee terday, is quite a fewher in his cap, It is as different from the gbomy and vindtetive phi- lippics of Wendell Phillips as day ts from darkness. It isin he temper of » Christian and ® statesman, which is altogether different from the ‘empe of Thaddeus Stevens “Brother Beeo. "hee faith in Ante John #00. Goor > believes ‘hat war for thu Downs ive end at negro emancina tion is@ suceess, Go od. Ho-holds that the Southern States show id be readmitted into Congress ak once. Go od. In fact, the general argument of his spea :h is that of a Christian who has passed throug th the Gre and come out without the smell of burned: rags upon his garments, lite Shadr ach, Moshach and Abed- nego. Tho example of sucha. leader of the great emaneipation movement will’ not be without its influence among: the: religious elements-of the Nort hb and the blacks of the North. Surely the President cannot be far wrong. when such v eteran champions of the black:race: and the?r rights as Henry Ward Beecher and Willii1m Lloyd Garrison are among his defenders. We commend a careful reading of this great. discourse of Mr. Beecher to-Thaddeus Steveme; for suck @ reading can hardly fii3 to do him gocd,\troubled as he is by earthquakes, The Spanish-Chilean War—Concentra- tiom of the Spanish Ships at Valpa- raiso—Will They Borsbard itt The news from South America indicates that events ofan important chtracter are likely to transpire atany moment. . The Spanish block- ade has been raised at ali-the Ghilean parts except Valparaiso, at whit: place the vessels of the Spanish fleet have been ..coacentrated. It is reported that the purpose of. this concenf:ra- tion is the bombardment of the city. Such an act might be stimulated by the~ wild pass! ons recently excited in Spait,jn thisquarrel—foor it would be a purposeless, useless:act of savage fury. It could accomplish no legitimate odoject of war, and it would ret even:be-a blow at the: Chileans, since the chief part of the city: is mainly owned by, foreigners American, British, and German: mercantile houses have extensive establishments. there, and these would be the real sufferers: by bombardment. Such an act, while-it would be useless, jn-. human and unjust, could: Hardly increase the reputation of its perpetrateys for courage, siace Valparaiso is not a fertified: place, and has not ® single gun with whicitit could answerthe Spanish fire. The Spanish feet is new under the commend of Nunez, who succeeded: Pareja in virtue of his rank. This officer’s:pesition is a dglicate one. Whatever-orders: may have been, given to Pareja, itisat least Goubtful whetiter his successor would he.authorized to execnge them, while the act. which advanced Nunea to his present position is one that might very properly cause hitm to’ hesitate im, taking an oxtrome step, circumstances woaid certainly waii-for orders and the appointment of another commander. But there is reason to foar that Nunez regards the present occasion as an oppartunity to be- improved: before the arrival efya newly apy pointed:admiral shall deprive him of it, and:}: this may hurry him forward to a rash aah. Parejp blew his brains out in oxpiation of wis own hasty aet, and becawse that act ted: brenght his country into a digraceful position. If Nunez bembards Valparaige, he will disgrace hig:countey in a far greater, degree thax: his | Admiral did; and if he shawit then consider it worth while to blow oué: his pitiful trains, Spain will consider it a seqell expiation.. In the British speeck, from the throne it is said, “the good offices af the governmpnt,.in conjusetion with those off the Emperar of the Froneh, have been aggepted by Spain,” and the hope is expresazsi“that the causes of dis- agreement may be removed ins manner bon erable and satisfactory to both oountaies.” ‘This acceptance of the: French and Bnglish me- @iation looks like. @ return to reason en the part of Spain; and if the Admirak now on his way to assume command of’ the Spanish fleet in the Pacific has. received orders in harmony with the spirit that induced that acceptange, there is still a chance that no extreme measures will be résorted to tii a reaspmable effort bas been made for peace. Skould Nunez, im his haste to be notorions, bombard Valparaiso before the Admirai*s arrival, he will destroy that chances, and the yotoriely be wilk secure will be a fears fully had one. Asuriue Consrrrorsonal. AMENDMENT.—Sena- tor Wade has proposed another new constitu- tional amendment, providing that the person who Gills the office of President of the United Statos, either by election or through tho death of the actual incumbent, shall not be eligible to re-election to the same office. We are in favor of the President being ineligible to re- election, but we are also in favor of his term being extended to six years, so as to be as long as that of a Senator. If Senator Wade will make this correction in his proposed amend- ment we will support it, At the same time we cannot but condemn the miserable, puerile, malicious spirit in which the Senator has brought it forward at this crisis, openly avow- ing that he intends it as @ punishment for President. Johnson; and this pitiful exhi- bition of temper will probably place the proposed amendmont—excellent as it is—on the shelf for several years to come. The utter failure of Senator Wade's attempt to attack President Johnson is most Wade tries to preyent the President’s re-elec- tion, when the President has already publicly declared that he will not be a candidate. Wade abuses the President for not punishing leading rebels, When the official correspondence shows that the responsibility for delay rests upon Chiof Justice Chase, who, in his turn, says that Congress is to blame. Wade asserts that the President of tho United States “is no better than a rebel, and a rebel at heart,” when every- body knows that such talk as this is treason, that Wade is the real traitor, and that, under a more despotic form of government, these words would send him to dungeon. But although the reasons which the Senator gives for his amendment are absurd and the motives with which he proposes it are contemptible, still the idea is @ good one, and we hope at some future day to see it adopted. Fra ann Exrioston ov Gas. —An explosion of gas took Place on Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, at the house ‘ mond, of New. York, and:Govermar Oglesby, of Illinois. } gratify the audience by his presgnce for.a short time , early in the evening. / Messago, and who earnestly @ csigeto promote harmony Any moderate 29am in the | deem. erected om the avenue, near Willara’s, for the accommodation of the speakers,.who are announced as follows:—Senators Jas. R. Doolittle, Cowan, Dixon, Rev. erdy Johnson, and Hendricks, and Congressmen A. J. Rogers and Brooks, together with Montgomery Bla, 3. 8. Cox, James Hughes, Boyer and Merrick. Action.of the Ma Legislature. Avousta, Me., Feth 21, 1868. At a caucus of tho Logislaturo this evening the follow. THE VETO. TheGr 2at Demonstration at the Cooper Institute To-Night. Resolved. That thie Lesialature- cordially approve and en- dorse th thos zo tae act siurenn hint’ of this State-in zo Secretiary Seward to Address the Assemblage. "Beatived, Thal in the, Union major Legislature recognizes & noble saray Ht tiled abhetits of te principles of constitutional liberty, and ‘with cons- in tage wisdom and petrietiea Yo the selilemans of of the government. 6 0 the teghintive depare by the authors of ach to tre Legislature tomas eat that mo other resolutions be latreduceds ertome OM Brady’s Collection of War Views ana Representa ive Tian Since- photographic art has come to the aff of history we have learned to appreciate its. value with tenfule: force. What the writer may but foobiy endeavor to con- vey of the character of leading men, or the story of Prominent events, the plrotographio: artist can accom. Plish- with facility by appealing . to. the comprehension. through the sense of sight. We could’ not fatl to be struck } With this conviction upon:visiting Brady's collection ot: ‘war views and representative. men at his gallery on. | Broadway, where it vas- opened fer private view last evening, and will ccntinue on exhibition ‘for the three next succesding evenings, Mr: Brady, “devoted bimeclf assiduously durirg the war. te. the work of reproducing the most prominent scenes and incidents of. that even ful struggle through the medium of the wonderful art of which he has. be- , come so complete a master, In this enterprise he. has beem eminently successful, He has produced, what might be called a phetographie history of the war; and indeed more than that, a photographic bistory of the country; for it is imporsible, wh:c Igoking uppa, the features of the represeniative men of the republic— whether distinguished in war or peace—not to recall the historic events with which their lives and ttetr deeds were 80 Closely interwoven. ‘To look around the-avails of Brady’s gallery is to.read the history of the nation al- most at a glance, We have bere, from Andrew Jacisou to Andrew Johnson, the i:.flexible heroes of the past and Present; all the leading siatesmen, jurist’, authors, pocte ACTION OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN MORE SALUTES .AND ENDORSEMENTS. &e. &e. &e.. ‘Phe Gréat Johnson Meeting To-Night. ‘The committeovhaving charge of the Cooper Institute ‘Mecting to be hold this evenmng contemplate a large as- semblage. At o.meeting: held yesterday Hon. Francis B..Cutting-was elected to. preside, and Mr. Henry Clews ‘was appointed Treasurer. _ Hon. Wm. Seward, Seerevary of State, will be. _Drebent and address the audience. ; $0 take part inthe proceedings. (Among those are Post. ‘master General. Denisa; Hon.. Mr. Delano, of Obio; ‘Hon. Greon Clay Smith, of Kentecky; Han. H. J..Ray- It tp expected also that Licutens nt General Grant will: Adisplay of frowosks will Oollow.the close of the procoedings, ‘The following is the-call for the meeting:— PUBLIC MEBTING OP TH CITIZENS. The citizens of New York who sustained the national authority in the waragainst thes rebellion, who approve the generat. principles announce xd By the President im bis annual message to Congress, 3 .nd.also in his recent veto in the public counods of the ceungry, to the end thas full constitutional roletions between ine federal government and all the States in. the Union r ray be speedily and hap: pily establish d, are invited t » assombio at the Cooper Institute on Thunsday eveming > 22d inst., ab half-past sown alclock. William C. B: Palas ate FP wtainevden, and soldiers who have contributed to fill tho-bags iumi- George Opdyke, , Shepherd Knapp, nated pages in our history, and many also wo, it may be, Bene Woe = rs epee havo in theircarcers thrown moure shadow than tight Issac. N. Phaips, FS. Winston? upon the poge; but still all human jiems in the creat George H. Wenren, Edward H. Coster, chronicle, We have Buchanan and.his Gabine:—the erat rata a Lethal loyal and disloyal; General’ :cott and his staff, as they . Fy & Kinggiand, John A. Parker, br their last official appearance in Washington at the raper,. Aaron Vanderpoel, outbreak of the rebellion. Here, too, we have the his} aaa Cae appal o Low torians, novelis's, Jour valists and poate, the living and &.C: Wullame, David Dedley’ Field, the dead, who have filled and are still filling their parts Saml. Weunore, Stewart Brown, in history—Fenimore Cooper, Irving, Presdot!, Everett, Henry Borg, ‘el C. Ki: » tt, Henry Bove. sig Daniel A Poe, Bryant, Kent, Story; all the old human Jandmar's F. W. Gogzil, Juha C. Jackson, bn we love to point as the witnosses,of the culti- Jos. ‘arnim, 8. Jaudon, vat aud genius of Amencan intellect, The link con Marciano. Hee elles Ab necting the past with the futuro 1 supplic by the Richant D. Lathrop, Wed. W. Clarke, horoes of the war and the sce es ia which they played James Wadsworth, W. B. Dinsmore, ® conspicuous part, There is hardly a soldier Known to Someere: if wth fame whose portrait, taken from lif , is not included in James Stuart ~ Wm. Batier Di this collection. Grant, with his stern, heroic face; Tiaeoort W. Jorome, Elisha Rigus, fH Sherman and his generals—Howari, Logan, Hazen, Fant Kou, heme ‘3 ee Blair, Slocum, Davis Mower—in, one group; Abram Wakeman, ‘Thomas Murphy, Dashing Phil. Sheridan and his generals—For- E.P. Cowles, Joseph Stuart, syth, Merritt, Devin and Custer—in another, as Fiche phen oli they sat in the battle field peering anxiously over a Ethan Allen,” , Charles tk ¥ map of the campaign; and in «eparate pictures all the & a ae, Francts kiddy, leading generals—such as Hancock, Sedgwick, Sickles, Daniel Deviing prey a Birney, Kilpatrick, Hayes, Warren, and whost of others, RY i Jaserente J a an se Of splendid intellectual development: James K. Placa, ‘kinsoa, no gallery of military men in the werld can compare 4. Delamater, x estes, with, “There is one picture which for ite excélience us a cate tears enetbve thagiags aan + Alsop, work of art, within the scope of ow experience, has Naw Yor, Fela 26, 1806, ‘never beem surpassed—that is, the portraits of the Coa- Secretary Seward, Henry J, Raymond and Columbus’ Delano left Washington last night, to participate in tho demonstration this evening, . Action of the Board ef Aldermen. ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT’S VETO OF TER FRERDMEN'S BURKAU BILL. federate General Robert E. Lee, taken in four different ; attitudes, The execution of this picture is exquisite. The | finest apecimen of steel engraving does not approach.is im manipulation, and cannot eompare with ft in force and effect. It is indeed a triumph of photographic art. It ‘was made by Mr. Brady in Richmond ‘five days after General Lee end om the very came day General Grant also sat for bis picture to Brady. From the men who made the story of the war we turn ‘. to the scones and incidents tm which they participated Wael Ee enone ee ok tk to find upon the walls of the gallery fac simites of places ro Mt tag Ry amir of our | which have become: historia, and events taken while in b- ee ee of the | operation, with which we aze all familiar. Hers isthe Mion al Seapine aia - 4 eg Dattle eld of Gettysburg; the bridge at Antictam, the pong hey ed yey thi i taney eorectal ae ne Sora most im- | gat on field for burial; batteries tusaction; the Ves een pgm a re pope fearfal realities of war-in the pictures of the battle municipal government, and that tho views, aspirations | “Id after the strife is over; the dead rebels lying in ged o ious entertained by the President and contuimed | the trenches at Frecericksburg and Petersburg; the message vetoing the “Freedmen’s Boreau bill,’ striouly fu accord with thoso cutertained by them, should at once, ae Most impressive and energetic mauner, receive clear and unequivocal ratification and endorsement; and ae ‘Whereas the action of President Johagon, in interpos ing to save the defenceless and despairing people of the Southere States (lately in rebellion agamst the govern. ment, but who ar: now repentant and soliciteus of ro- turning to their Se sive | from the dreaded results of the vindictiveness of the dominant faction in the present Congress, who wero seomingly detormined to change the relative positions of the (reedmen and their late mas- tora, mnst commend itself to every liberal«minded, con- servative citizen of the tepublic, and especially so to the people of this city; be it, therefore, Resolved, Tnat the people of tue city of New York, speaking through their repr*sentatives in the Common Council, do hereby unqualiflodty ratify and endorse the act of Andrew J. uu, President of the United 1 ‘wounded in haspital; the effects of explededshcils; the overturning of railroad trains, aud ali the horrors inel- dental to war. Among the pictures is moapital repre. sentation cf the New Yorx Harp headquarters in the field, near Culpepper, Va, with the cosrpapendent in the foreground and the wagon behind, inscribed with the words ‘New Yurk Herald Headquarters.’ Among these pictures are many adimrab'o specimens of photography, which are highly creditable to the antist, considering the immanse difficulties under which they were taken. It was Of course necessary to get the views hueried|y and in the midst of the direst confusion, with bet little chance te look after chemicals or instrumenta. with which the pho- tographie artist leisurely accomplishes his work in his Broadway studio. All the more merit is therefore due to Brady for his valuable contribution to the history of the great war. The collection eompriscs in all sore two thousand pictures, of which there is only spaco in the gallery to oxh.bit a few hundred specimens; but we un- derstand that the New York Histwrical Society are taking measures to secure the entire .ilection and place them Permanently in their gailery We trust that this ides will be carried out, The celiection of war views and re- Ppresentative men, produced et so much cost and labor, in vetoing the ‘“Freedmen’s Bureau bill,” that obnoflous and portentous emanation of the mad, fanatical spirit of malevolence and cruelty 80 characteristic of the vio- lent avd malignant oh of vengeance which seems to words and actiona ef dominant in our ma. atuate and govern the though! the party now un! Nosed comnel, in legislating now happily Southern y ped rr ye g ny ought to belong to some public institution where nearly ail clanses of Teady access could be bad to it. The Conncil of the a ee’ National Academy of Design have unanimously recom- ab te mended that the collection should be secured a perme by the Clerk of the Common nent and tafe in bi] ical So- by the ( “ Place in the keeping of the: Hi-tori ciety. General Grant, upon hearing of Brady's willirg ness to place his valuable collection in the hands of the ee nee aa I See te idea as fol- During the passage of the document Alderman Growy Rot approve of all the statements made by the resolu- Hrange. Axxres oF Tux Uwiten States, tion, there was, nevertheléss, sufficient matter for him “Rn D. C., Feb. 3, 1866. to approve of, that would induce him to favor the adop- Duan ot eat cine to learn thet tion of the same. The resolution was then declared mined to place on permanent unanimously adopted. gallenes of the Now ONE HUNDRED GUNS IN THE PARK. derds, bg se Alderman Reity offered the subjoined in connection pena ny Me MO with the above published resolution :-— Frany of these representations Resolved, That in commemoration of the event so the soomes are wot ouly opiriies Fre gomordang vo Ay pe gs ag 10 of | chosen. The collection will tn froat of the City Hall, to-morrow, the 220 inats ated. | Sutarsehetytue Present generation: ut how much mere alae AM uode direction ot the keeper of the U. & GRANT, Lientenant General. sary expenses, to be trom the appropriation fr chy Wo have no doubt thas the entire pubile will fully contingencies for the present year made. accord with the views of General Grant upon this sutject. ‘The Texas State Convention. teraay. oats, Vie New Oatsana, er poaletr yp dew shed foiony ta. dot ama! plat- 1 the Texas State Convention ie sti engaged some brief F eat business, but edeing very little addresses were made by Colonel Pinckney and othors in i Mr. Jones, of Banter county, offered @ proposition te divide Texas into three for tte purpose of effect by Oy oy thet Oeret Os delegates had aot majority hi ot ceagen ne eae ceonsteanse, hapories foverasty minority reported that shop were in favor of 80 far as it would tend te the relations of the State to the general gov- office in henor of the stand made by the President agains ‘the radicala, Endorsement of the Veto in Ohie, Covtmmos, Feb. 20,1486, | "ment. Tue democratic members of the Odio Legisatura held | prion ny weet wee Md on the Ushio by 8 vote of ‘© cancus to-night and endorsed President Johasoats veto — —_— Action of the New Jersey Legislature, ‘Truwtox, Pet 21, 1968, ‘Mr. Truesdell (dem.) presented a concurrent resolu- tion that we have full faith im the ability, patriotiom and fidelity of Andrew Johnson, Prosident of the United States, and that we have confidence in him as the Br. ecutive of the national government. : An effort was mate to put off present action, but it failed, and the resolution was paseed. —_— ‘The Meeting in Washington To-Night to Endorse the President's Beiten WastteGrox, Feb. 21, 1980, “tha entification of Prewilemt Johnson's ‘ors pivae ‘a thin ety tymorrow pro. Hite aero % fore hee | a Then Pope