The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1866, Page 4

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Muss meetings of endorsal were held in St, Louis, San Francisco and Keokuk, Iowa, on last Saturday evening. General Grant yesterday attended morning service at Grace church, and in the evening dined with Judge Daly. To night the General will have a reception at the Brook lyn Academy of Music, and soon after its conclusion will leave for Washington A disclosure of the secrets of the ropublican caucus held in the national capital on last Friday night is given in the atch of one of our Washington correspond. ‘ents published to-day. It had been expected that the radicals would on this oceasion formally break grovnd in opposition to President Johnson, as a return for the hot shot which he fired into their camp in his speech of the Provious evening; and indeed some slight movements in that direction wer it it appears that fi feoing that they b se and litle to gain by fuch a course, they permitted prudence to triamph over Ahoir desires, and it was concluded that no such extreme measure should be resorted to, Before this decision was arrived at there was considerable warm discussion, dur- ing which Thad. Stevens was charged with beng the cause of all the trouble between the Premlent and the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1866. levied on each male inhabitant between twenty- one and sixty, The Chilean Minister in Peru celebrated the ratification of the treaty of alliance be- tween the two republics by # banquet, which all the Eu- ropean diplomats, though invited, declined to attend. Cap- tured papers belonging to the late Spanish Admiral Pareja show that by the instructions of his government he was authorized to bombard Valparaiso. The government of the republic of Ecuador etill allows supplies for the Spanish squadron to bo shipped from the port of Guayaquil. ‘An interesting description is also given by our Lima correspondent of a recent trip across the Andes to the famed quicksilver mines of Huancavelica, exceedingly rich in their natural deposits, and once worked 80 as to yield immense profit, but which are now in a dilapidated Condition, operated without system, and rendering not a tithe of the wealth which is stored in their receases. ‘The Madrid Expiritu Publico reports that two Monitors built in England for the government of Chile, and which were already at sea, had to put back into English ports on account of the weight of their armor and guns. Late news from Mexico and tho Rio Grande border is furnished in our Brazos letter. General Sheridan and General Comstock, the latter belonging to General Grant's staff, have both recently been on a visit to Browns- ville, Texas, and conferred with the military officers there, and, though the object of their movements was not made public, they are supposed to have related to the difficulties caused by the manwuyrings of the op- posing republican and imperial forces ou the opposite side of the river, and to the delicate duties thereby imposed on our army officers. In tho recent fight near Matamoros between the two republican chiefs Cortina and Canales, before re- ported, several persons are stated to have been killed and wounded, Mexican desperadoes have rendered cer- tain portions of the Texas side of the Rio Grande almost as bad as their own country, as they cross and recross at will, robbing and murdering at their pleasure, and making the roads actualy unsafe for unarmed travellers. Two coin counterfeiters, with all the materials and imple- ments of their trade, wore lately surprised in the chap- arral near Brownsville and arrested. Tho imporialists still deny the report that the republican General Escobedo has recaptured Monterey, and announce three or four reg cent republican defeats in the vicinity of that city. The Texas Constitutional or Reconstruction Conven- tion, which met on the 7th and organized on the 8th inst., has dono little as yet. A resolution to the effect that no State has a right to secede was offered on the 13th, but referred to a committee. The Senate of the Georgia Legislature on tho 15th inst. adopted a preamble and resolution complaining that, notwithstanding their State has complied with ail the re- quirements of the national government, their towns are still garrisoned by nogro troops, and providing for a commission to proceed to Washington and requost their removal. Herschel V. Johnson has accepted the position of United States Senator from Georgia. A table, prepared at the office of the Commissioners of Emigration, and which can be relied upon as correct, ap- pears in the Heraxp this morning, giving some vory in- teresting figures in regard to European omigration, and the destination of passengers arriving here from across the Atlantic. From it the information is obtained that during the past year 200,031 immigrants reached this port, of whom 4,591 went to Southern States, 2,435 to Canada, Cuba, South America and other foreign places, while 99,433, for a time at least, remained in tho city or State of New York. In addition to a fund of other infor- mation, Importance is attached to the report from the fact that it plainly exbibite the increased emigration to the Southern States sinco the closing of the rebellion. Bofore the war the number of people from Europe who went to slave States to scttle was comparatively small when placed alongside of the number going to Western and Northern Statea, This held good during the war, ‘and until the month of May last, when a fow immigrants began to find their way to Tennessce and Arkansas and other partially constructed localities, and from that time to the present this movement has continued to gain numerical strength. As the former slaveholding States beemoe quiet and orderly, welcome strangers to their lands and give them work to do, it may be confidently expected that new arrivals upon our shores will be en- couraged to flock thither in still greater numbers. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, has written a letter to a friend in this city, pathetically appealing for some words of comfort “to cheer the patriot heart,” and urgently requesting to be informed why, the war having ceased, he and bis rebel companions have not ere this had ail their former privileges restored to them, The old rebel ex-general is deeply concerned not only regarding the South, but the fate of the republic and civil liberty as well, and even fears that the constitution, after having withstood four years of flerce war carried on by himself ‘and comrades for its destruction, 1 now in some danger. He has earnestly looked to the President, to Congress and to the national judiciary for light on his path; but none of them have deigned to shed it, and he is still en- veloped in darkness, The war of the rebellion itself he regards as merely @ little innocent experiment to test state sovereignty, which, though terminating unsuccess- fully for thove who instituted it, should of course leave them as well off as they were before they began it, if not a little boiter. The manner in which the South is being Yankeeized, now that the war is over and slavery is exterminated, 8 graphically deseribed by one of our Now Orleans corres: pondents, Men from the North and West in large num bers, many of them lately generals, colonels, captains, Keutenants and privates In the national army, have set- Ued in that city and entered into business of all kinds, and \nder their energy, perseverance and industry the old creole metropolis is fast losing its former French and ithetanding ts of the regime to taboo the Northmen in trade as woll as matters, Yankee enterprise is too much for these latter gentry, and, rega ing its way rapidly, ready to apply a hand wh Spanish characteristics, ne ane hand 's needed, and is fast developing sources of thrift and w which, under the old ordor of things, were allowed to lie dormant and unnoticed, A great revival of business in Charleston and general improveme nt of trade prospects is recorded in our cor- respoudence from that city, Planting operations, too, ra generally throughout the State begin to wear g aspect. The ngacious of the South Carolinians are said to be already able to perceive that free labor will be @ great benefit to them, A continuation of the narrative of his journeyings by the Herarp correspondent tn Australia appears in our present iesue, containing, among other very interesting party, and Senator Wileon expressed the opinion that the Tennessee representatives should have been admitted long ago, Provious to adjournment the caucus ap- pointed @ committee of one from each State to collect funda, circulate documents and attend to the usual party campaign direction, Facts are sald to have lately been developed in Wash. ington which indicate that a large trade is being carried on, by persons assuming to act under authority of the Freodmen's Bureau, tm chipping negroes from the more northern of the lately rebellious States to Mississippi ‘sud Georgia, where they are compelled to remain on whatever plantations they may be allotted to, whother they like the serviee or not, being thus reduced to a new system of slavery. It i stated that certain professed plilanthropic agente are doing a handsome business in the commissions which they receive for procuring these laborers, and that the trade has grown to such propor tions already that the President has protested againat it. The apparent harmony of the recent Republican State Convention in Connecticut, and the cause for the very ¢ifferent action from what was expected on the part of its members, are fully explained in our Hartford letter, ‘The democrate, by the national platform adopted in their » held previously, bad rendered the republi yonsive of a loss of their control of the State, ® to the fact that their only hope of u the endorsement of President jon of @ conservative course, ep theif convention assembled, although there waa a strong Thad. Stevens element in it, the two factions assumed an aspect of harmony, and the loaves and fishes outweighed negro suifrage and other radical measures, A statement of events and the condition of affairs tn Peru since the declaration of war by t that country, in alliance with Chile. furnished in our L corresponden Of State announces in # circular le governments that war is the only hot ora, as even her proverbial wealth ip ia an attempt to satiety the exorbitant ind tion demands which have boen made by the Tho Peruvian Onances are at present in # very poor con ition for the commencement of hostilities, owing to eonven't ho swallowed nifica, niards thety alleged reckless and corrupt mismanagement by | ighe late President Pezet and his subordinaies, ivut still ‘war preparations are being prosecuted vigorously, and the purpose of raising funda a capital tax of fon eight to twelve dollars per year has been matters, a description of hw visit to the gold fleids and the Murray river, farther regarding American setuers and miners and American enterprise tn that distant re. gion, and reminiscences of the visit of the rebel pirate Sheaandoah to Melbourne, and ® plan concoeted by the Americans there for hor «lestruction. Advices from Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, to the 13th of January state that the Basato war still contin. ued. The Free State army, however, was being rapidly diminished by disease, and the mew State's prospects are described as very gloomy. The Basutos have learned, in a ycar's fighting, to fortify thomselves in such @ manner as to render thelr positions unossailable by any bat trained troops, and all their important mountain strong- holds were being thus fortified. They had commenced a syatem of raids which threatened to overrun the whole country, AS a inst recourse against thom @ levy en masse of the people was projected. Six of the Basutos were killed and nine hundred head of cattle were cap. tured in a recent skirmish, Ordinat on services took place in St, John's church, Brooklyn, yesterday, in the presence of a large congre- gation. Bishop Potter officiated in the services and preached a sermon. Two deacons were admitted to priosthood orders and one deacon was ordained. A visit to the leading galleries and studios of New York revealed to us convincing proofs that American art has progrossed rapidly within the past year, owing to the genius of Bierstadt, Church, Walker, Huntingdon and others We refer to the article on the subject in another column as @ proof that we may now compete with the modern European schools of painting, and even surpass them, if our artists receive the encouragement duo to their genius and efforts, James G. Taylor, late a policeman of the Twelfth pre- cinct, was yesterday arrested and committed on the charge of attempting to kill roundsinan John MeCal tough, of the same precinct, by shooting him in the head with a pistol, about one o'clock yesterday morning, on the corner of Ninth avenue and Thirty-cighth street, | Though the wound inflicted is a severe one, it is not ex- pected to prove fatal, It is alleged that the shooting jone in revenge for the roundsman having made neglect of duty on the part of Taylor, which attor's dismissal from the police force. remep named Cornelius Madden and Henry Far. mor were yesterday arrested and locked up on charge of | having assaulted and beaten, about two o'clock yeater- day morning, in « drinking house on the corner of Sixth street aud Fillmore vince, the vroorietor thereof, Niohalas Poper, and his wife, inflicting Injuries on the latter which it is feared will prove fatal. ‘Tho ice in tho Hudson river in the vicinity of Albany commenced moving early yesterday morning, and by eleven o'clock the stream between that city and Troy was entirely clear of it, It dammed some distance below Albany, causing a backing up of the wator and a slight inundation. Tho new Albany bridge is said not to have boen affected by the ice pressure. ‘The steamer Kate was sunk on Saturday morning on tie onio river, and it was reported in Louisville yoster- day that the steamer Stephon Decatur had been blown up on the Mississippi, above Memphis, There was no loss of life in the case of the Kate, Twenty persons are be- lieved to have been drowned by the sinking of the Nan- nio Byers on the Ohio river on Saturday. In an article which appears in another portion of our present issue is given a statement of the principal linos of American ocean steamers now running along our coast as well as to foreign ports, with lists of tho vessels composing them. The Jamaica news which we publish this morning con- tains interesting details of the progress made by the royal commission in their investigation of the circum- stances connected with the late revolt in that island. It issaid that the roality of the plot on tho part of the negroes to murder the whites and the better class of colored inhabitants and to confiscate their property has been fully established. The S lonists of the uth and the Negro Worshippers of the North. All the disasters brought upon the country by the radicals of the two sections can- not cure them of their heresies or arrest their revolutionary and destructive course. The results of their theories and agitations are seen in the slaughter of half a million of men; in the thousands of armless, leg- less and broken down soldiers which we see daily all over the country; in the destruc- tion of six to ten thousand millions worth of property; in the accumulation of a debt, na- tional, State and municipal, of near four thou- sand millions, and in all the other evils and sufferings that afflict the country. This is the cost of negro fanaticism on one hand and of secession dogmatism on the other. A few years ago the country was prosperous and happy in the highest degree. Nothing in the history of nations could be compared with it. So light was the hand of government upon us that we hardly felt it, The negroes even, about whom all these troubles have been caused, were on the whole the happiest laboring population in the world. Yet the impracticable and crazy s-ceasionists of the South and the fanatical negro worshippers of the North were not satis- fied till they plunged us into the vortex of misery and debt in which we are involved. We might have supposed that when the dreadful consequences of their agitation were thus realized they would have been shocked at their insane conduct and have become more reasonable. But itis not so, Like the savage beast of the forest, which, when it tastes blood, becomes more ferocious, these rabid sectional politicians are more wild and reckless than ever. In the South, amidst the desolation which secessionism has brought upon that fair country, the authors of the evil still dare to raise their heads. The sight of the misery and ruin they have caused has not had the effect of curing some of the secessionists of their heresy. They do not, it is true, think of making any organized resistance to the government again, for they know that would be utterly futile, but they show in their conduct and language that their hearts are tainted. In feeling they are inimical to the government. We admit that the best and most intelligent portion of the peoplo— people who sincerely desire to be good and loyal citizens—are not so, and that the incurable secessionisis are comparatively tew in number, as the extremists on this side are; but these few are doing a great deal of mischief. In- stead of modestly retiring from public view for the good of their country and allowing the Union men, or at least those who are less ob- noxious, to manage public affairs, they thrust themselves forward to obtain office, to become legislators, or to control the press, exbibiting at the same time their old sectional feeling and secession proclivities. It behooves the Southern people to frown down all their old agitatipg poli- ticians, and particnlarly the crazy fire-caters of the press. They should not allow any of that old set to make themselves prominent, but should compel them to act upon the example recently set by Alexander Stephens. The other exireme faction which has been instrumental in producing the disasters we are suffering—the negro worshippers of the North—are far more dangerous to the country than the other, because they are in @ position to Le They have been successiul over their antagonistic bul fellow agitators, and they are intolerant and defiant. ‘the negro mania rages in their brain as fierce or fiercer than before. They are not con- tented with making the negroes free and placing them in a situation to elevate them- selves in the scale of civilization; but they are resolved to legisiate specially for them, and to make them a poweriul political element or machine in the State. In comparison the poor whites, the people of their own race, are of lille cons+quence in the estimation of these negro worshippers. The negro is the idol of such men as Stevens, Sumner and their radical confreres. And while the Southern radicals attempted to destroy the Union to keep the negro in slavery, these extremists of the North have a hundred times declared that they would rather destroy the Union than not raise the negro to the position they have sought for him. In the words of the President, their purpose as to the negro is different, but as to the govera- ment the same. Each determine to destroy it rather than not gain their ends. They are traitors; and it may yet be the duty of the President to prove against them the force of his declaration that treason is a crime and must be punished. Let these fomenters of a new rebellion not depend too much upon the impunity that the other rebellion had in Con- gress till the last moment. The man who now occupies the Presidential chair is of a different quality from old Buchanan. 20. Tue New Crvsapx.—History is always ro- peating itself. The crusades which were got up to rescue the Holy Land from the infidel are to be revived to save the temporalities of the Roman Church from annihilation. In the different Catholic countries recruiting is being actively carried on for this purpose, France setting the example. The design announced is simply to raise such « small army of foreign volunteers as the Pontifical treasury can afford to maintain. Should this prove in- sufficient it is said to be intended to unfurl the banner of the Holy Cross, and to preach a crusade in defence of the Pontifical rights, after the fashion of the mission of Peter the Hermit. We question whether in these days much can be done in that way. Modern ohiv- alry is better employed than {a fighting the battles of the nrieste. Tho Presidential Plan of the Radicala— Their Certain Defeat. General Grant’s position before the country as the inevitable man for the succession will utterly confound the grand radical scheme to secure the whole government by having a radi- cal President as well as a radical Congress, and a Chief Justice ready to do, so far as his power goes, the radical will, All radical measures and mancuvres are framed and directed to retard reconstruction—to prevent the re-estab- lishment of the Southern communities in their political rights as part of the people of the United States. But the country does not yet very clearly see the plan that lies behind all this. Congress has all necessary power to settle the country and the destinies of ev-ry race within its borders; but the radicals will not permit Congress to use that power—not because they want it to have other, newer or different ones, but because they want to prevent the employment of any power that would replace the States in their natural posi- tion, retarn the Southern members to their seats in Congress and restore the Union in form and in fact. That is the first object of all the radical operations; but the people, though they see plainly enough the delay the radicals causo, scarcely appreciate that that delay is designed, because they cannot sed beyond it any sufficient motive, The motive has reference to the next election for President. The radicals are determined that the South shall take no practical part in that election; that the Southern people shall have no voice in choosing the next Executive, and that the choice shall be made by the Northern vote alone, which, of course, they believe they can control. They have es- pecially determined against Tennessee, in order to shut out Mr. Johnson as a possible can- didate. It is their settled purpose to pre- vent reconstruction—to keep the South disorganized and in anarchy if possi- ble, solely as @ means to shut it out from participation in the choice of the next Presi- dent. This is the grand motive of their dan- gerous policy—a policy and motive that will consign them to a decper damnation than was ever yet the lot of any political faction. All interesis—the safety, the peace and the prosper- ity of the nation—are thus laid on the altar of party. If the radicals are as successful in the future as they have hitherto been there is @ probability that they will prevent the re- turn of the Southern members throughout the term of the present Congress, and retard reconstruction to that extent. If, then, they should gain another Congress; if the leaders of tho party can so far deceive the people as to their true motives that the majority of repre- sentatives chosen in the next election shall be radicals, then their scheme will, as they sup- pose, be consummated. Though not restored to all its political rights, and not permitted a representation in Congress, the South will still be practically reconstructed in all the material respects of intercourse and commerce; and will undoubt- edly go through all the forms, cast its vote for President, and send that vote to Congress. Congress will then have to decide the position of the States, By refusing that vote it will declare that the Southern States form no part of this Union; that secession is a fixed fact, and that the States whose votes were accepted to determine an amendment of the constitution had no right to vote on that question. As the Sout}ern vote for President will probably neve¢ suit the radicals, they would doubtless refuse to receive it; and since there would be a natural sympathy between the South and the Northern minority, the country would be torn by the greatest political storm that we have seen yet. Then the poople would sce how easily the good results of a great struggle may be wasted by the madness of political schemers who would ruin the country they strive to rule. Political dissolution might then, indeed, threat- en the nation agitated by so many furious ele- ments of discord. All the difficulties and dengers of this pro- gramme the radicals have made up their minds to face. They are ready to prove by all acts that the war was the failure that the Chicago Convention declared it—that is, that in spite of the war to save the Union, the Union is broken up and the Southern States are out of it; that the “South is victorious,” as Wendell Phillips said. All this they will do to accom- plish their purpose. But the patriotic percep- tions of the people will spoil all their schemes, Grant will be chosen by the unanimous voice of the country, North and South, and practi- cally it will make no difference if the Southern States are counted asin or ont, Grant is the only man who can secure this great victory over the enemies of the country, and thus he will be the man to lead us through all our troubles. Sramrep Exverorrs.—The manufacturers of envelopes and some oftheir friends of the press are very much excited by the proposi- tion that the government shall manufacture stamped envelopes, for the better regulation of the postal system. The Postmaster General, we have no doubt, bas also an eye to economy in this measure, for the envelope manufacturers have made pretty profitable, not to say exor- bitant, contracts with the government, and have put ap the price of their material im- mansely. We see no reason why the govern- ment should not make its own envelopes, but many reasons why it should, foremost among which is tho amount of saving it would be to the Treasury and the great convenience it would prove to the public at large. It is alleged that the adoption of this system will shut up twenty-five envelope manufactories and throw a thousand hands out of employ- ment. This is notso. It may shut up twenty- five individual manufacturers, but factories must still be employed, and the thousand hands also, to do the work for the government, just as well as if government got the envelopes by contract from the manufacturers, In short, we are asked to sacrifice the con- venience of the entire people and the prin- ciple of public economy wo subserve the in- terests of one particular branch of business. This is reviving the old hnmbug system of pro- tection, which, if it is not wholly exploded, ought to be, and soon will be. We hope that the Postmaster General will do as seems best to him in this matter, without regard to any special Interests. If it will increase the revenue and serve the public to manufacture stamped envelopes, it seems to us that these are tho only considerations to be entertained. The Treasury Jepartment very properly makes its own bak notes instead of leaving their manu- actuze to the national banks, which mak, profit enough out of the National Bank system, to the great detriment of the national revenue and the great oppression of the overtaxed public; and there is no objection to the Post Office Department manufacturing its own en- velopes. New Phases Developing About the Mexi- can Question. The address of the French Senate, in re- sponse to the Emperor’s message to the Legis- lature, is remarkable for its phraseology and tone upon the Mexican question and toward the United States, It seems as though the Senate felt it necessary to speak in a manner to soothe the wounded pride of his Majesty and the French nation, under the disagreeable situation they are placed in with regard to Mexico. It declares its gratification that the Emperor has announced “to satisfied France that the protection of her commercial interests 13 assured in a vast and wealthy market, now restored to security.” To this the United States can have no objection. Nor are wo dis- posed to question whether France had ever a vast and wealthy market in Mexico or has ac- quired one now. The French people may know if this be so; and we heartily wish them all the commercial advantages they can ac- qnire in tho legitimate race of trade there or elsewhere, If there wore nothing else to com- plain of we should not complain at all. But the address exhibits a bad f to. ward this country, which shows the French government had another object in view and has been defeated In it, notwithstanding all the asseverations to the contrary. It .snys:— “The firm tone of the communica- tions made by your Majesty’s government (to the United States) has demonstrated that haughty and menacing language will not de« cide us to withdraw. France is accustomed to move only at her own time; but sho, neverthe- less, wishes to remember the ancient friendship betwoen harself and the United States.” In spite of the conctliatiag tone of those last words of the sentence, the remainder is very imporious and anything but courteous to this country. Our government has not been either haughty or menacing to France. It has, ia a firm and dignified manner, as became a great country, asserted its fixed and long cherished policy with regard to European interference with the re- publics of America, France could not expoct us to swerve from this. Were we to do so we should merit the contempt of the world. The French government has only itself to blame. It miscalculated the result of what was trans- piring in the United States. The war termi- nated differently to what it expected. It has made & mistake, and now it would show its wis- dom much more by getting out of the diffi- culty with as little noise as possible than by exhibiting irritation and an unfriendly tone. The Emperor Napoloon and his Senate may deem it necessary to use such language to hide the fault committed and to quiet the public mind, but we think their object would be better aitained by a different course. As to ourselves, we can afford to maintain the dignified position we have taken without misrepresentation or a display of bad temper. In connection with this we see by our Wash- ington despatches that Secretary Seward has written to Mr. Bigelow commenting upon that part of the Emporor’s message relating to Mexico, and that this despatch also is very firm and’ decided. Mr. Seward dwells with particular severity, the correspondent says, on that part of the Emperor’s messago in which he speaks of inviting the United States to join the European intervention in Mexico. This was evidently done by Napoleon to make it appear that his purpose originally was not to “plant” a monarchy on the ruins of the Mexican republic. The Emperor must huve known when he invited us that we could not eater into any such scheme, that it was contrary to the established policy of this country to anter into any European alliance whatever, aml especially as regards the affairs of the American continent. The proposition was a trick, and the asertion that it was made is a trick to blind the world as to the real issue in the case. Mr. Seward can very well treat this with severity. We regret, and the people of this country regret, that anything should have occurred to create bad feeling or a diplomatic controversy upon this matter; but we have only one course to pursue, whatever may be the consequences, We are informed by the news from Europe that Austria is about to take the place of France in Mexico, that Maximilian will be sus- tained by Austrian troops as the French with- draw. We can scarcely believe this statement; for however much the Austrian government may Wish to save a member of its royal family from the humiliation of being forced out of Mexico, such an act would be suicidal. This isa game the astute Napoleon would like to play undoubtedly, for it would be carry- ing out his policy in Mexico, and would weaken Austria at home, so that he could more easily sever Venetia from that empire, or make war on her for any other pur- pose whenever he might think proper. We have no doubt he would gladly afford trans- ports, or money if needed, to send half the Austrian army to Mexico. But this would not serve the purpose as to the maintenance of an empire in Mexico or as to allaying the opposi- tion of the United States to it, On the con- trary, the people of this country would be ex- asperated at such « trick and such double dealing. We are opposed to all European intervention on this continent. In short, there is no way possible of settling this Mexican difficulty but by returning to the si@fu quo ante- rior to our civil war, and of leaving the Mexf- can people to govern themselves without the intervention of French, Austrian, Belgianor any other foreign troops. “Per Your Hovses m Oroer.”—The- new Health law comes into operation on the Ist of March. It will save money to anticipate its operation. Let all those whose premises re- quire the intervention of the night man, the scavenger, the lime washer and (he painter take measures at once to.eecure their services. A dollar expended in this way now will save ten that will have to be forced!y expended a month later. Under the stringeat operation of the new law the price of labor in the way of cleansing, fumigating and painting will be in- creased enormously. The 0 wnors of tenement houses in particular had ‘etter take heed of this fact. No species of influence or bribery will avail to save tho.n from the obligations of humanity, which they have hitherto so “Put your houses in ovder,” ye’ moreiless grinders of the poor. Be quick about it, or the State will spare you shamefully evaded. the trouble ¥ Pottagp’s ExPLaNaTioN—GenseaL Gnayt ow vue Correnneap Press.—Pollard, of the Rich- mond Examiner, editorially explains that he was permitted to resume the publication of bis paper upon promising the President that he would “support the Union, the constitution and the laws, and the policy of the administra- tion.” Pollard further says in reference to General Grant’s order permitting the resump- tion of said pap Iknew nothing of General Grant's order for the re- lease of the office until I read it in the papers. I saw that officer but once, when he refused emphatically to re- ry voke the order for igure of the office. Is was evi- dent that I had nothi to hope from bien; for be anid te the authority, he would me expressly that, if day sanpress’ the Now York News, the Cinclanat that day Enquirer and the Pine Times, add: that the “cop- perhead papers of tho North,” as he designatod them, were doing quite as much harm as the papers in the South. Deriving no satisfaction from him, 1 was forced to appoal to the President, Gying him the pledge con- tained in the letter above. It was written during my last interview with the President, and in his own office. To his kind and considerate bearing, and to his sense Of justice, I feel that I owe the restoration of my paper. This defines the position of General Grant in reference to “the copperhead papers of the North.” He speaks of them as a soldier, and there are a million Union soldiers from the war who hold the same opinion, They cannot forget such things as Jake Thompson’s affilla- tions. General Grant deals as a Union soldier with such customers. President Johnson is disposed to be more lenient; but still on the great questions of loyalty and restoration Johnson and Grant stand together—the one the President of the people that is, and the other the people’s Prosident that is destined to be, Raptcan NewsPaPeRs AND THE PRESIDENT.— We observe with regret that many of the radi- cal newspapers are disgracing the profession of journalism by personal insinuations and in- nuendoes in regard to President Johnson. The Tribune of this city, we are sorry to way, a conspicuous in this business, Its editorial col- umns and iis correspondence are filled with malicious little scandals and slanders which can only injure the journal that prints them. Of this class are the assertions that “the Prest- dent celebrated Washington’s birthday with spirit,” and that “the extraordinary speech of President Johnson on Thursday has been altri- buted to a weakness to which it is universally understood he is occasionally addicted.” These remarks are intended to convey the impression that the President was intoxicated on Thurs- day; but, in fact, there is not the slightest oo- casion for any such story. We know, upon tho most reliable authority, that these radical rumors are utterly false, and the Washington despatches of the Tribune itself assert that “the speech was made under no such influence.” Why, then, should the radical newspapers con- descend to this style of warfare? Let them attack the Presfdent openly and by fair and manly arguments, or conceal their chagrin by silence. Their present course is equally dis reputable and silly, Tae Puptic Creprr—Tas Brrrisu Antsto- cratic Press.—An American correspondent of the London Daily News (a leading liberal organ) says in # recent letter that “how to prevent the South from securing, with the ald of the democrats, such a majority in Congress as would endanger the public credit still con- tinues to be the question which, more than ald others, fills the public mind, although it is only the radicals who actively agitate it” This is an English liberal view of our finan cial danger from our present political situa- cion. The British aristocratic preas, on the other hand, of the secession achool, aro lear ing no stone unturned to create distrust abroad of our financial safety. No doubt they will make the most of the recent exple- sion between President Johnson and the radi- cal majority of Congress, as the prelude to our financial ruin; but the interests of the great body of the American people of all tlasses are so thoroughly identified with the national Treasury that it cannot be shaken, Upon this question, even assuming that South ern representatives will be opposed to a na- tional debt incurred in the subjugation of # Southern rebellion, the restoration to Congress of the late rebel States will be but as a drop in the bucket. We cannot imagine, however, that against his own financial and political interests, and those of his people, any Southern representative in Congress will come in to make war upon the national Treasury. The danger lies in the continued exclusion of the South and the continued prostration of South- ern industry. A Breeze Avoxa tHe Newsrarnrs.—The President’s veto and his lace trenchant off-hand speech against the leading radicals and “dead ducks” of Washington, have created a tre- mendous sensaton among the newspapers throughout the country. The democratic jour- nals are in the seventh heaven of glorification, while the republican organs are gloomy, per plexed and inexplicably mixed up. They seem to think with Thaddeus Stevens, that there has been an earthquake, and that it has turned the world upside down, while, according to the Secretary of State, the political situation is as lovely as a bright May morning, and all our troubles are imaginary and will be over in less than ninety days. We commend to our dolefal republicans a piece of the magic shirt of the “happy man.” Tur Camxet.—It is given Sut that the re signation of Secretary Stanton is im the hands of the President and will doubtless be accepted, and that Mr. Secretary. Harlan, of the same mind, isin a similar situation. A few days will probably settle the question; bat what of the Senate? We dare say that In the reorganization of his Cabinet, the President will select new men so acceptable to. the coum- try at large that the Senate will recogniae the propriety of their confirmation. In the ap- pointment of good and able men the right of the President to a Cabinet of his own choosing ' cannot be denied. Sudden Departure of Secretary Seward. Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, left the rosidence of Mr. R M. Biatebford, in thiscity, last even. ing for Washington, The Secretary had not designed teaving the city before Wednesday next, but a tele graphic despatch, meeived yesterday afternoon, cx wed him to depart at once for Washington Condition of the Steamer Oce: : ‘ Provipence, Feb. 25, 1868, Sue stoamer Oceanus, hence for Now York, “7 ich went ashore Friday night on the gouth side of F¥ her's Island and bilged, remained at ten o'clock thit ¥ .orning with her bow well out of water, which was level” with the siern, The sea was smooth and weather ploY ant. Her freight, of domestic goods ‘and general mer? Jandise, will probably be saved. Salling of t 1} Moravian, Portsawn, Feb. 25, 1866, The steamship Moravian, OapWum Acton, sailed at forty - minutes past six this nxrafig for Liverpool. Wind north, Bright and clear, Thermometer thirty eevee degrees