The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, given outas probable that they wil! hold their minis- ‘ertal positions for some time yet. From cur fordign files we publish today interesting details with regard to European affaira, Mr, Seward has drawn dowh upon himself the ire ofa portion of the Paris press by his assertion that Spain was the only European Power that might reasonably claimarght of interven- tion in America. As a singular incident of Parisian court life, it ig mentioned that Teresa, whose celebrity isdueto her'singing of indecent French songs in the French cafés, has been ‘presented to the Emperor Napo- leon, who was delighted with her vocatism. ‘A review of matters now and yet to come before the Legislature, and of political and social legisiative affairs, is given in our correspondence from the State capital. Various bills affecting this city, including old and new Broadway railroad projects, aro noticed, and a glance is taken at prospective party reorganizations, There is little disposition on the part of the republican State legis- lators, even of the radical persuasion, to bo so impolitic as to array themselves in opposition to President John- son, and the indications are that a strong Union party in his support, which will absorb both republicans and Union demoorats, leaving the copperheads a distinctive organization by themselves, will grow out of the present disturbances. The social vice of the members of our Present Legislature is said to be gambling, in contradis- tinction to that of the legislators of last winter, which was drunkenness, General Grant last evening left Washington for this city, en route to West Point, A German gentleman has submitted to Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch a proposition that our govern- ment sball issue land certificates, each representing a certain number of acres of the government lands, which it is claimed would meet with a rapid sale in Germany and vastly increase immigration hither from that country, Advices from Japan to the 3ist of January, by way of San Francisco, announce the arrival at Yokohama of the steam frigate Fusiyama, built in this port for the Japan- eso navy, There was a great firo in the city of Jeddo on the. 28th of Junuary, by which a largo amount of pro- perty was destroyed and a number of lives were lost. A fight took place at Richmond, Va., on last Friday night between the city police and a number of armed nogrocs, in which several persons are reported to have been wounded, but none killed. Two or three volleys were fired on each side, and the military finally inter- fered and suppressed the disturbance. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Velume XXX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near aroot.—Tux Vioviws—Forry ‘WINKS, LUCY RUSH? YORK THEATRE, Nos 723 and 780° Broadway.—Kina’s GAMDENER—G)RALDA. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. —ATONeMENT, O8, Tax CXILD STHALER. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Sinc- inc Danoina, Buxixsques, &¢.—Tus Carros or Fort Doweusoy. 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ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Weexty Wsnato must be handed 1m before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufaclurers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Warxiy Hxnanp wiil thus be seen by alarge portion of the active and energetic people of the United States, The Concurrent Resolution Excluding the Southern States from Congress. Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, said, in bis ad- mirable speech delivered in the Senate on Fri- day against the concurrent resolution excluding the Southern States from representation in Con- gress, that such radical measures were alarm: ing the country; that “the people are anxious,” and that “the political atmosphere bodes the coming of no common storm.” These words of apprehension and warning are not a mere rhetorical flourish; they faithfully represent the feverish state of the public mind. We are no alarmists, and have a good deal of confidence in the elasticity and recuperative power of the country under severe trials; but we must con- fess there is cause for alarm in the obstinate and persistent revolutionary conduct of Con- gress. From the time the session commenced to the passage of this unconstitutional concur- rent resolution Congress has done nothing to heal the wounds caused by the war. On tho contrary, its whole conduct, from first to last, las been such as to keep those wounds open and bleeding, During last summer and fall, and up to the meeting of that body, the country was buoyant with hope. The war had no sooner collapsed than a feeling of confidence and security in the future sprung up in the minds of the people. Every one felt the rebellion was so effectually crushed that there need not be the least appre- hension of any future attempt on the part of théSouth to resist the govirnment, The South- ern people everywhere saw that the efforts to break up the government had utterly failed; that their destiny was irrevocably fixed in tho THE NEWS. THE FENIAN EXCITEMENT. The monster Fenian meeting at Jones’ Wood yesterday was a great success, and the friends of Ireland have much to congratulate themselves upon in the quict and order which prevailed, and at the same time in the enthusiasm which marked tbe whole proceedings. There were not less than one hundred thousand people on the grounds, all seemingly having but one thought at heart—the cause which had brought them together—the consideration of the best means of aiding their countrymen tn the present determined strug- gle for independence. The immense gathering was unauimous in favor of meeting England’s system of re- pressive measures by a hostile demonstration, and large sums of money were contributed’ as sinews of war for that purpose. Speeches were delivered by Colonel O°Ma- hony, D. B. Killian and other recogmzed leaders of the Fonian organization, who pledged themselves to go into the gap when the time shall come. Archbishop McCloskey, in an exhortation preliminary to bis regular discourse im St. Patrick's Cathedral yes: terday, denounced Fenianism, catied upon all Catholics to withdraw from it, and was particularly severe on the Jones’ Wood demonstration. The circular of the Arch- bishcp in opposition to the Fenian movement was read to the congregations of all the Catholic churches of the city by their pastors, .some of whom accompanied the reuling by remarks of approval. While it was being Tead in St, Bridget’s church, corner ot avenue B and Kighth street, a man in the assemblage rose and yehem- ently protested against it. Several persons were called upon by the officiating clergyman to pat the disturber Out, but declined to do so, Large and enthosiastic Fenian meetinaa were held in all tho principal cities of the country on Saturday night and yesterday, at which mo for the cause, in poured into the nave resolved treasury cop'ansiy. Boston Fen to forego their contemplated parade on St, Patrick's day, | same republican empire with ourselves, and and devote the money which would have been required | their reason, their interests and their com- to carry it out to assist the struggle for the liberation of 7 mon sense told them that both their duty and their welfare required thereafter unfeigned jJoyalty. After hostilities ceased and President Jolson inaugurated his healing restoration the Greon Ie. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Important news regarding the progress of the war be- tweeo the South Amercan republics and Spain is con- our despatches brought by the steamship | policy, the people, both North and South, Costa Kea, which arrived here at an early hour this | breathed freely again. Anticipating that the morning, from Aspinwall on the 23d ult, Ecuador has } enmity created by the war would soon be al- joined th» ailiance of Chile aud Pera against the ¥ layed and, harmony restored by this liberal, statesmanlike policy, the country became pros- perous. Tudustry, trade, ecommerce, prosperity in everything kept pace with the progress of Spaniards, aud the prospect is that other republics will follow her . A cons'deradie disaster has befallen the Peravian navy, the étenm frigate Awa zonas, of fory guns, and the iron-clad Loa having been run on shore and proved a total loss. The American | pastoration, The people believed the end of stoamor Uncle Sain has been seized at Panama on sus] ou. domestic troubles was at hand, and that Picion of being ensaged in Yeading supplics intended for | 6 la a ab wok ek the Spanish equadron, and « guard of fifty Panama so!- | Congress would soon crown the work so hap- diers hiss been placed on board of her during the penteacy | pily begun and carried on by the President. of an investigation of the matter, That was the condition of things, the hope and THE CITY. the feeling of the country up to last December. Then Congress began to undo what had been done, to agitate the country and to blast the hopes of the people. It has continned this revolutionary and destructive conrse all through, and now, as Mr. Cowan expresses it, “ihe people are anxious, and the political at- mosphere bodes the coming of no common storm.” A feeling ot uncertainty and gloomy apprehension bas seized the popular mind; and this last revolutionary act will greatly increase it. It is trae the people have hecome wearied with political and war excitements, and are ready to submit to a good deal for the sake of present peace. This, perhaps, is a reason why the radical revolutionista in Congress are so presumptuous, Such measures and proceed- ings as would have sroused the whole country before the war are allowed to pass for the present without much demonstration. But public spirft here is not dead, and must be aroused in time. Still there is always danger in such apathy. “Eternal vigilance is the price of: liberty.” History teaches us that it is just at such times—just when the people become wearied and disgusted with agitation and atrifes, and ready to submit to almost anythigg—that usurpers, the Casars, the Cromwells, the Napoleons, Parlia- mente, Conventions, and Congresses trample on constitutions, destroy liberty, and usurp un- constitutional power. Do we use too strong a term when we call the proceedings of Congress revolutionary? Is not this concurrent resolution, by which one House binds tbe other in a matter that, ac- cording to the constitution, belongs to each exclusively, revolutionary? Is not the factlous war made for party political purposes upon the Executive, and the measures he has already put into operation, revolutionary? What are all those constitutional amendments passed without the representatives of a large portion Tho French transatlantic steamship Nouvean Monde, from Havre on the 18th of Febrnary, arrived in this port yesterday. The steamship Havana, from Rio Janeiro on the 24 of February, vin. St, Thomas, fx due here with news from the river Plate, The steamehip Vera Cruz, from Vera Cruz on February 23, may ala be expected either to-day or to-morrow. The stram frigate Carmen, one of the Spanish war veasels whieh have for some time past been lying in our port, has sailed from Quarantine, ° Another new steamship, named the General Grant, has been addgd to one of the lines plying between this city and New Orleans. It is astauwnch and finely Atted up ol, aud will be opened for the inspection of the public during the present week. A fire broke out between twelve and one o'clock thia morning in the Ave story cotton storage establishment No. § Ridge street, extending through to No. 6 Pearl street, whichsis still burning as we go to press, with every indication of the entire destruction of the build- ing. Fears are also entertained that the fire may ex. tend to adjoining premises, The loss of property so far tw estimated at three hundred thousand dollars, At St. Peter's chureh, Barclay stroet, the Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, & C., yesterday delivered a sermon on the unity and stability of the Catholic Church. He concluded with an appeal to the Catholics of Now York for contributions to enable him to repair some of the damages inflicted during the rebellion on the churches and other occlesiastical institutions in his diocese, ‘A largo assemblage of members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, as well as others not of that per- suasion, was drawn together yesterday in the Twenty- weventh strect Friends’ meeting house, to hear a dis course from Mra, Lucretia Mott, who has for many years been known among her peculiar people as an able speak - or. Tho lady's reputation did not suffer by her discourse of yosterday, her remarks being of a character and be ing dolivered with a fluency that greatly interested her audience. She touched, among other subjects, on wo- ‘man's rights, and thought that in the marriage service ‘the wife ought not to be required to “oboy"’ the husband. ‘The thirty-sixth anniversary meeting of the Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society was held last evening in the Church of the Pilgrims, when the annual reports ‘Were read and addresses were delivered by clergymen fnd laymen, The society has now in ite employment Biaoteen missionaries, and its receipts daring the past year wore eighteen thousand dollars, Mr. 8 HL Hammond, in a communication which we Jublish this morning, prosents a statement in regard to he controversy over the suspension of the Morria Fire marance Company and the appointment of Mr, John Hackett, instead of Mr. Stansbury, ax receiver of the Ramis thoreof. ve 7 NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1866. anything. They forget thelr powers ® limited by the constitution. They will not sao that Congress may be as much a usurper a3 any individual despot, The legislative bodies of a State are usually very jealous of their rights and privileges, and carefully guard against one encroaching upon the other. But in the case of this concurrent resolution each has surrendered the privilege it possesses to determine who are entitled to seats as its mem- bers. Nay, they go further than this; they as- sume to determine not only as to the right of individual representatives to seats, but as to whether States shall be represented or not. Such a usurpation was never dreamed of by the founders of the government, has no authority in the constitution, and is there- fore clearly revolutionary. Loyal representa- tives were admittéd from States in rebellion during the war, and yet, now the war is over, they are rejected. This is a strange incon- sistency. Such a state of things. could only exist where a powerful and an unscrupulous fac- tion has got the upper hand and is determined to make a revolution in the forms and spirit of the government for political ends, But what must be the consequence of the conduct of this factious Congress? If they persistently pursue the course they have been pursuing since they met, we shall be plunged into the greatest difficulties at home and humiliated abroad. As we observed, there is already a feeling of anxiety and gloom pervading the country. Trade is becoming paralyzed, particularly with the South; South- ern productions are arrested, and it will not be long before we shall hear of financial troubles, both in commercial business and with the government, Great as may be otr te- sources and industrial vitality, the country cannot long bear the strain of our present dis-- organized condition. Kuropean Powers are watching intently what is passing at Wash- ington. They stand ready to take advantage of our difficulties, as they did during the war, to humiliate us. Will France leave Mexico or England do us justice if the country remains unsettled? It requires little sagacity to per- ceive how our foreign relations would be affected by domestic strife. Now we have the most enviable position as a great nation; but let the revolutionary radicals have their way and our historical record with regard {g pend- ing international affairs will be such that our children will blush for the humiliation the great republic will have suffered. The Fenian Mecting=—The Excitemont in Engiand, Ireland and tho United Statos. Tho demonstration of Fenians in Jones’ Wood yesterday afternoon was an immense affair. It is estimated that at loast ono hun- dred thousand people were present, at one time, on the ground. Archbishop McCloskey’s circular, read in all the Catholic churches in the city in the morning, seems to have made very little impression on his flocks; for they poured into Jones’ Wood in one continuous stream for hours. They appear to believe as much in the salvation of Ireland as in the sal- vation of their souls. Indeed, the regenoration of their native country is now the grand idea, the real: soul of all Irishmen at this crisis of her fate. * The Fenian movement in Ireland has as sumed such throatening proportions that the. government and press of England no longer attempt to ridicule It, They regard it now as a very serious affair. The mail by the Asla brings us information of the alarm ot the government, and of the andden passage of a bill in Parliament to suspend the Habeas Corpus act in Ireland. From the tone of the short debate on the subject and of the British press, the prominent fact stands out that such a crisis has come which nobody outside ot the Fenians anticipated. This shows the strength of the movement. A party which could mature such an extraordinary and extensive plain of insurrection secretly, while @ sagacious government believed that it was only a noisy riotous demonstration got up by wo few rotoriely seeking leaders, must have ® deep and wide foundation. AN the world knew there was cause enough for the movement in the deep seated hatred of the Irish people to England, wherever they might be scattered or however much their condition might be changed in new homes, The Irish- man in America, and even in Australia, hates the British government as muob as his country- man at home. That we all knew; but few could believe that at this time, and under so many difficnities, that hatred could have been developed in such a formidable and extensively matured plan of action. After what we now see it would not be safe to prophesy as to the results of the movement. It is difficult to see how it can succeed agninst the power of the British government and the opposition of the Catholic hierarchy ; but we must leave this to future eventa. The present aspect of the mat- tor is a very serious one for Engla = \ But the particular view of the case to which we would call the attention of the British gov- ernment and people, is in the comparison be- tween their situation now and ours when the rebellion in the South broke out, We were bitterly denounced by the press of England for suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus and for the coercive measures we were compelled to take. The sympathy of the government and governing classes was avowed for the rebels, The government took the first oppor- tunity to recognize the rebels as belli- gerents, and by that means to strengthen the rebellion. The cost of that act to us in prolonging the war, in riflee of life and property, and in swel enormous debt with which we are bu ed, was incal- culable. We do not exaggerate in making this statement; it has become n fact of history. Now, suppose we were to do the same with regard to Ireland? Suppose the press of this country were to adopt the very language used by that of England and apply it to the case of Ireland? Suppose our government were to promptly recognize the Fenians as belligerents and shut its eyes while Fenian privateers left our ports to prey on British commerce, could England complain? Did she not set, us the example! Is there any difference in the cases? Yes there is, and that in favor of the United States and against England. Ours was a good and benign government; nobody was oppressed; the South had no cause whatever for attempting to break up the government, except » fancied one about the negro, and we were compelled to take the course we did to preserve free repub- lican institutions for ourselves, our children and posterity, That was our case, sad we bad © right to expect the evmpethy of the English friendly nation. On the other hand, Ireland has been for ages, an oppressed country. Not so much now, perhaps, as formerly, and the causes of the grinding poverty and oppression that exist may not be the fault of the present government so much as of former ones; still Treland is oppressed. The heart of the free American people naturally sympathizes with the oppressed everywhere. Then there is an immense population of Irish and of those im- mediately descended from the Irish people in the United States. If, therefore, we were to extend sympathy and aid to the Fenians, or if the government were to recognize the Fenians as belligerents and to let privateers slip out as England did in the case of the Southern rebel- lion, we might have some excuse, some reason for doing so. Englandhad none. The govern- ment of the United States was as much entitled to respect as is that of England. It makes no difference whether the subdivisions of a coun- try are called States, provinces or counties, or what portion of them revolts; the original cen- tral government, while it maintains itself, is entitled to the coraity of all nations at peace with it. England knew only one government— that of the United States—and had no more right to recognize the Southern rebels as bel- ligerents than she had the Russian Poles or than we might have the Fenians, That is the law of equal justice between nations. The next news from Ireland, due to-day, will be looked for with great interest. The Fenians here expect that the war—that fighting has already begun at home, precipitated by the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act. We shall soon know what has been done. Tne Emperor's Grand Idea—The Neces- sity of Checking the United States— The Latin Race, We give elsewhere the letter of the Emperor ofthe French to Marshal Forey, in which he communicated his “grand idea” in relation to Mexico, an article from the London Times showing how the .Emperor’s letter was re- garded in Europe at the time of its publica- tion, and the part of the Emperor’s recent specch to the Chambers in which he refers to the withdrawal of the French troops. It will be seen that the Emperor's letter to Marshal Forey is a letter of instruction, by which the commander, in order perhaps to fill him with the spirit of the expedition, was let into the secret of its ultimate object. “We have an interest,” says the imperial writer, “in the United States being powerful and proaperous, but not that she should take possession of the whole Gulf of Mexico, thence command the Antilles as wellas South America, and be the sole disburser of the products of the New Worid.” In otber words, France fears the growth of the United States; she must stand in the way and stop it, and the Emperor be- lieves that this must be done by the establish- ment of the Latin raco on this side the Atian- tic, This is his “grand idea.” Six months after this letter was written, and when the Emperor believed his object secured, he an- nounced it to the world by publishing the mis- sive in the Moniteur. “We cannot but feel,” said the London Times, “that we now learn the true reasons of the imperial policy. Were the Mexican expedition not otherwise remark- able, it would have a claim to be remembered as the first serious attempt of Barope to resist the advances of the American democracy and establish a balance of power on the Western continent” Such is the object proposed to France by the grand idea, and in his words on the withdrawal of hia troops the Emperor, let as remember, expects to arrange their return only whon it can be effected without com- promising the: interests that led him to “that distant country.” It is the grand idea all the time, and it is this notion—this vain fancy of the Emperor and nothing else that to-day darkens tho sky between the United States and France. Should there be war between France and the United States it will be against the will of the forty millions of the French people and the forty millions of the United States. There is not a tact ip the position of nations more true beyond dispuie than that, as respects the peo- ple of these countries, there is no cause of quarrel between them. Some nations re- gard others as their natural enemies. His- torians recognize this relation, and the effect of it upon political events is obvious in many places. For centuries this was the relation that Englishmen aud Frenchmen held towards each other, and the impression left by the war of independence caused Englishmen to be re- garded in the same light throughout this coun- try for many years. But the people of France and of the United States have never held this relation towards each other. There is no cir- cumstance in our history that calls up bitter thoughts against the people of France. On the contrary, the relations of the two peoples have ever been those of friendly fellowship. France, in the words of her ruler, “forgets no noble page of her history,” and Ww. ‘now that she still looks with especial pride w that period in which she was associated with us in the struggle for freedom. It would be an insult to this na- tion to doubt that the same feeling is still cher- ished by the whole people. All the relations of the two peoples since that memorable period have been such as to foster the good will that originated in the alliance against England; and now both see that their best inter- ests would lead them in the same direction as their ancient friendship—to the cultivation of a more intimate intercourse and to the preservation, if possible, of perpetual peace. Hence there is not only no reason why there should be war between these peoples, but every reason why there should be peace ; and peace is the desire of both nations. Forty millions of people in France and forty millions in the United States are disposed to be at peace with each other by all possible, means, to avoid every measure that can irritate, and to consider as sacred the rights of each other. It is not pos- sible to doubt that this is true; and the deduc- tion from it is inevitable that if « war is made between them it will not be in accordance with the will or the wishes of either people. If therp is a war between these twocouatries it will be forced by the Emperor Napo- leon. ft will be bis personal war. It will bea war for the propogation of his idoas-- an attempt to lift or lower the world to the level of his intellect by force of arms. Mexico will be the mere bone of contention; but the principle at issue will be whether the Ameri- can people shall give up their declared and cherished policy—ehall abandon certain un- doubted richts that they have en « aation—aoat ! people, or at least the comity of England as a | in deference to ny declared wish or right of the French peops®, but merely in deference to one of the Frectch Emperor's ideas, We must stand aside. because Napoleon has been led to Mexico by,® “grand idea,” though that idea finally may bd no better than the one that formerly led the satie person to Boulogne with a tame eagle and a cécked hat. The French people have no claims on Mexico the assertion of which would’ be inconsistent with our dignity. All Mexico, to be acquired by war with us, they would justly regard as game not worth the powder; for the wealth that lies in their trade with this country is worth more than ten such provinces. Mexico, therefore, does not and cannot divide the two peoples. If there is war it will be not on our part to save Mexico and protect ourselves, but on,their part to carry out the Emperor's idea af the expense of our safety and dignity. Napoleon alone, and none other, will be re- sponsible for that war, He will be the sole and only cause of it. Let the French people under- stand this—Napoleon’s attempt to decide the rights and wrongs of national life for peoples better able to decide those points for them- selves; his attempts to reconstruct the world on Napoleonic principles; to force a rearrange- ment of nations in accordance with ideas that happen to strike him and Marshal Forey as grand—these will be the causes, if any, that will embroil the two peoples. Conduct just like this on the part of the First Napoleon forced a union of all Europe against France. Will France uphold another of the same race in the same career? Napoleon’s little idea about the Latin race on this continent, however grand it may seem to Marshal Forey, is not worth a war between forty millions of people on one hand and about the same number on the other. Does the Em- peror wish to go down in history as the man who started war between two such peoples for such a cause? We cannot believe it, He must be ambitions of a good fame, if of any. He must desire: to be known to the future as the great ruler of a great people, and he can only acquire that fame by a noble considera- tion of the public good. Really great rulers are known by no other test. History execrates those intent only on the expansion of their power, and will forever laugh at that sove- reign who had such a notion of his own “grand ideas” that he thought he could have told God Almighty how to improve the world if he had been present when it was made. Let the Em- peror remember also that the weak point in his great relative’s history was that he insisted upon his own idea, not only against all other men, but even against the elements, Napoleon to-day stands in a position from which, by con- sidering only the good of the French people, he may pass into history as perhaps the great- est of France’s many rulers. But his position is as high for evil as for good. If he goes for- ward considering his “grand ideas” as superior to all other human considerations, dragging the French people at his chariot wheels, he will be weighed down with execrations as paly one more scourge and bane of the human race. Sensationan Remors Anour THE Sarery ov THE Prestpent.—There is an evident inten- tion to circulate stupid and baseless rumors, which are purely sensational, io the effect that the President is in constant danger of assassination, that he has to double the military guard at the White House, and so forth; all of which have not the slightest foundation in fact; the truth being that no additional guard beyond the formal atten- dance of sentries at the Executive mansion, the residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, bas been placed there; nor is il deemed necessary. It is true that sugges- tions of decapitation and all that sort of stuff have been made by the leading radicals in the House of Representatives, but it is all very well to point a speech, and no more. The fact is well known in Washington that Mr. Jolnson walks the streets of the city both by day and by night when he has leisure to do ao, and there is no one disposed to molest him. These absurd stories, we take it, are of Ro- hemian origin, and thus doubtless serve the purpose of the Bohemians in getting a sensa- tional article into the newspapers The effect of these rumors—if they have any effect at ali—wonld be to impress upon the publie mind that the country is in a more revolu- tionary condition than it really is. The radi- cals, it must be admitted, are doing the best they can to create a political revolution: but, as events have turned ont, they are baffled and disappointed. The people are against them, and with the President. These canards, got up* for sensational purposes, are thérefore not worth « moment’s consideration. Incakase or Anut axp Navy Orricrrs’ Pay. — A petition has been presented to Congress, headed by Admiral Farragut. appealing for an increase of the pay of army and navy officers. This is a just and proper request. Our navy officers on foreign stations should have suffi- cient salary to enable them to make a credit- able appearance in the presence of foreign naval officers, and not be compelled, on account of the m-agreness of their pay, to clave themselves with the officers of second: or third rate naval Powers. They should also be paid in gold, for in foreign ports our greenbacks do not pass as current as we might wish, and their deprecia- tion falls heavily upon American naval officers. The same may be said with regard to the pay of army officers on - distant posts—Texas and the line of the Rio Grande, for instance. In that part of the country specie is the chief cir- culating medium, and the pay of officers should be in coin. This is but fair and equitable, and we hope Congress will be induced to raise the pay of army and navy officers accordingly, and fix the rate by a specie standard. Geena. Scorr Exporers Presieyt Jonn- sox.—We learn that the old veteran and patriot, General Scott, who is at present in New Orleans, unhesitatingly endorses all that Presi- dent Johnson attered in his speech on the 22d ult, The staunch old soldier expremen the hope that he will yet see the North and Sonth Tilton reminds us of the ecoomplished ewetne) , who lost all his load of oata out at the tail of his wagon going up hill. “Boys,” said he, “T can swear some; but I’m not equal to this.” Sourmzrn Eurcration To Brazit.—It will be seen from the following advertisement, whith we copy from the Montgomery (Alabama) Al- vertiser of a late date, that the project Southern emigration to Brazil has assumed 4 definite shape:— on Fama, Brazit.—The new Al steamship spor bow 3 ret ree of this colony with py $100’ in gold, finding cured ou or before the 26Us lst” For tetas St mober- ship apply to Major R. Hastings, 100 St. Anthony street. A description of the progress of one colony of Southerners in Brazil was given in our Bra- ' zilian correspondence a few days since. NATIONAL CAPITAL, Wasumratox, March 4, 1866. THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS. The political situation remains substantially unchanged by the past fow days, though all agree that the President. and Congress are daily coming to a better understanding of the rights and duties of each, and that an irreparable breach between them grows more and more improbable. One or two trifling occurrences of the past week are seized upon by the radicals in support of this assertion. It seems that the President has just made an appoint- ment in Thad Stevens’ district in conformity with his recommendations, and this is looked upon as a tender of the olive branch to that incorngible belligerent. Ia another instance a gentleman of doubtful antecedonts called upon the President to compliment him on his policy, and wound up by refusing an office connected with the Indian agency, The President is reported to have pointed to an immense number of pigeon holes filled with papers, saying that these were all applications for office; that John Tyler ruined himself by giving away all his offices; that he proposed profiting by the example and keeping all within his gift. By the spread of these and similar reports the radicals are encouraged to believe the danger of an immediate rupture is lessened and their hold upon political power and influence indefinitely pro~ longed. THE CABINET—THR RADICAL MamDERS ORDERED TO HOLD ON. All speculations concerning Cabinet changes may as well be abandoned at once, for months to come at least. A private caucus of prominent republicans was held some time since, at which it was resolved that the radi- cal members of the Cabinet—meanmg Stanton, Speed and Harlan—should not only be requested not to resiga, but especially instructed to hold on to their presont po sitions, 1t was then and there determined thas, should the President go to the extent of removing them by the nomination of persons to fill their places, their successors should not be confirmed in any case, no matter who they should be, It ig claimed that the present incumbents rightfully hold their places in the Cabinet until their suc- cessors have been confirmed. Heretofore changes have generally been brought about by resignations. Now, if none resign and no new appointments be confirmed, it ig claimed no change can be effected. TENNESSEE TO BE ADMITTED IMMEDIATELY. ‘The admission of Tennessee within a week is generally conceded now by all republicans, and many assert & would have been broaght about long ago but for the ap- parent antagonism between the President and Congres An attempt will be made to encumber the act of admis- sion with odious preambles or provisions; but, in some form, she will doubtless be admitted. * NORTH CAROLINA TO FOLLOW TENNESSER. Kenneth Raynor, of North Carolina, appeared on the surface at Willard’s to-night as a supporter of the Presi- dent’s policy of reconstruction, and as an intercessor for the speedy adrzission to the national legislature of that loyal State, Loyal North Carolinians are confident that their State will immediately follow Tennessee in assuming her place im the constellation of States. They claim to be en rapport with the majority of the Reconstraction Committee. GENERAL. MEADE TO ENTER THW POLITICAL ARENA. Posted politicians assert to day that General George G. Meade haa consented, at the solicitation of the President, to permit the use of his mame before the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention, which meets to-morrow, as @ candidate for governor. . BYPORT TO RE-ESTABLISH THE GOVERNMENT WORKS AT HARPER'S FERRY. A strong effort is being made before the proper autho ritiea for the re-establishment of the government gua shops and arsenal at Harper's Forry. It is estimated that two millions of dollars or thereabouts will replace the government property at that point destroyed during the war, and the Shenandoah people are anxious that the same should be appropriated. Meanwhile orders have been issued from the Ordnance Department for the removal of the small remaining portion of machinery and other armory pre- perty at the Ferry to Springfield, Mass. The lobbyists aye interested Forney in Harper's Ferry, and a noted female newspaper correspondent has been cinployed by him to write it up. LAND BONDS FOR THE GERMAN MARKET. A proposition fins been made to the Secretary of the Treasury, by a German named Stnrz, for the issue of and bends or land scrip of the United States in Europe, cach bond to represent the value of so many acres here, to be taken up by the holder of the bond upon his arrival in this country, Mr. Starz states that the desire w posdess a piece of land, however small, i# universal among the lower class of Germans, and that the United States hind Londs would be eagerly bought up through- out the whol) of Germany. He further states that the vale of land bonds would crormously increase emigration to this conntry. FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF THR GOVERNMENT. The disbursements and transfers of the Treasury De- pertment for the ten days preceding the Ist of March, exceeded Mfty-one millions of dotiars. ‘Two stall items of interest have transpired in connec- on with ‘Treasury affairs. One hundred and cighty- eight thousand dollars additional certificates of indebted hess were imeued last week, aud two hundred thousand dollars in fractional currency were sent to the Assistant Treasurer in New York. MORK NATIONAL BANKS. In view of a probable increase of national banks ® number of institutions have filed their applications with the Comptrotier of the Currency. MUTILATED CURRENCY. ‘The Bureau for the redemption of mutilated currency is already at work, It last week cancelled about two bonded and sighty *ix thousand dollars of such bills ANOVHER FIPTY DOLLAR COUNTERFEIT. Baton Ronge, Louisiana, has the honor of dotecting and forwaniing a new counterfeit fifty dollar compound in- terest Treasury note. THE WHISKEY TAX NOT TO BE REPUCED. ‘The recommendation of the Internal Revenue Commis sion to reduce the tax on whiskey in not likely to be adopted. From present indications no change will be made in the tax, and speculator- may a« well understand itatonce. + THE FUNERAL OF COLONEL BROWNING. ‘The Prenident, Senator Patterson and wife, Mra Stover, and the private secretaries of the Executive Man- sion attended the funeral of Colonel Browning this after- noon. The pall beacers were Colonels Moore and Rives and Majors Morrow and Long, of the President's maf, Dr. Dubamel, Joseph H. Bradley, Jr., and G. Welles. MOVEMENTS OF THR LIRCTRENANT GENERAL. General Grant, accompanied by Colonel Bowers, lett for New York and West Point this evening, and are expected to return on Tussday. The General's ckient son is being taken by him to Weet Point, preparatory to entering that institution next Jane, which accounts for the visit On Saturday lat a delegation of s nont band of the Chippewa Indiese had an interview with the Commissioner of Indien Airs = Duriug the interview Colonel Parker, of Lieut. Gon. Grant's staf, _orho has teen tnetremental, ia common with others, tm establishing peece bevween the hoetite Indian tribes and, ‘he Colhed teenmn, ohbroanes the chieth tno obtresterttte manner, counselling them to reepect the treaty that bes been ratified between them aB4 the government, and to Stow ve qemengiing oe Geerwane to arine calculated to ERE YS Sate (aqonnter.