The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1866, Page 4

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Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue Department of the receipts from advertising of all the daily papers of this city for two years. Iu the first column aro the receipts for thirteen months, being the year 1864, with one month of 1863, end in the socond peers are the receipts for the pesjor months of 1006 : — Thirteen months Per the Paper. ending Dec, 31, 1364. Year 1865. 9577,455 9662,199 200,900 301,841 251,812 284,412 163,177 222,715 128,056 177,206 109,595 173,646 62,644 164,461 67,550 126,380 94,928 101,793 77,556 ‘77,048 Evening Exprosa 68,742 New Yorker Demokrat....... 25.734 DOUG... ssresseerescoree $1,878,267 $2,483,724 This shows the Heratp to bo, by its extensive and comprehonatve circulation, the chief organ of tho adver- tisers of the Metropolis, and the medium of communi. cating thoir business wants to the public. NOTR. Tho Times and Trilwne, in order to make ashow of dasiness, publish statements pretending that they are from official returns to the Revenue Department. These statomonts are mado up In the Tims and Tribune offices to suit their own purposes, and very curiously the ‘Times shows a larger business thin the Tribune, and the Tritune a@ larger buriness than the Times! Bat no returns of the kind have ever been made to that department. Our table, given above, is taken from the official books and is strictly correct in every par- ticular, Any one can satisfy himself on th's point by inspecting the books at the Internal Revenue Ofice. r = a ul aws. There are seven Buro »pean steorebipa due at American ports to day with news advices and passengers, These Vessels sailed in tho following order, viz:— Steamship. From. Day of Sailing. Fur. Malta... - April 10, ... Portland, Bosphorw: April 11, ..Boston, \. . April 11, ..New York. Apeil 11... Now York. April LL... New York. City of Bost April 12. ... New York. Nova Scotian.....,.Londonderry.... April 13... . Portland ews report of the City of Boston is four and that Fcotian five days later rted in Washington that the French Minister, jow with Secretary Seward on Saturday, pre the formal reply of the Emperor to the United States on the Mexican question, in which he engages to Withdraw his troops in three detachments, the first in November next, and the last in May and November, 1867. The Committee on Commerce, to which Mr. Smythe's Appointment as Collector at this port was referred, have hot yet come to @ conclasion on that subject, Prominent Congressmen are of opinion that the pres- ent session will close early in June, A Cull list of the appropriations for the city and county of New York granted by the State Logisiature just ad- journe!, embracing all the amendments from both houses, is publehed in the Herard this morning. The Appropriation to ‘he Board of Health is one hundred and fifty thousand Joliars We give to-day «correct copy of the now excise act as it passed both houses of the Legislature, It ts under. stood that thé biti has the Governor's signature, and i# now law. Tho Generai intendent of Police will issue a programme of intructions, under the act, to the police of the various precinets a voor as he shall receive a certified copy of the act. No correct copy has been published provious to that which we give to day. The cholera at the Lower Quarantine is laily adding to ite vietima, and the sumber of patients on board of the hospital ship Falcon i# constantly increasing Twelve new cases occurred among the passengers of tho Virginia ow Saturday, and there were five additional @oatha om the same day in the hospital, The Health OMhase of Baiifar, whi! the divcharge of his duties. in instant. So far everything is progressing finely on a “hei ‘aalipon and varioloid are prevailing in Washing- ton to an extent that is alarming the citizens, At the Fenian headquarters in this city, on Saturday, negotiations, it is rumored, were entered into ooking to @PMconciliation of the two wings of the Brotherhood. ‘The story goes that Colonel John O'Mahony proposed to forget all past differences, and that all d'sputes should await the arbitration of Head Centre Stephens; but it is understood Colone! Ruberts’ answer is unfavorable to a sottlemert in that way. Bishop Eastman preached in the Church of the Incar- nation yesterday afternoon on the text, ‘The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”’ At the Church of St. Bridget’s, yesterday, a very large congregation was assembled to hear Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, 8 C. Mozart’s great Twelfth Mass was cele- brated with orchestral accompaniments and three hun- dred membera of St. Bridget’s Benevolent Soclety re- ceived communion at the hands of the pastor, Father Mooney. Bishop Lynch appealed strongly and effectively to the congregation for his suffering diocese in Charles, ton, and for various charitable establishments there that have been ruined by the ravages of war. Aconference of the Christian Union Association was held last evening in Dr. Rice’s church, corner of Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street. Rev. Drs. Rice, Ver- milye, Jobn Cotton Smith and Cox addressed the congre- gation on the necessity of a closer union between all denominations of Protestants and a not too strict enforce- ment of doctrinal differences. Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, of the Elm place Con- grogational church, Brooklyn, last evening delivered a discourse in memory of the late Daniel 8S. Dickinson. He sketcbed the life of the deceased at length, and spoke in eloquent eulogy of his character as a man, a citizen andastatesman, The church was crowded by an atten- tive congregation. The Right Rev. Bishop Potter yesterday officiated at Christ church, corner of Thirty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, and administered the rite of confirmation to upwards of sixty members of the congregation. ‘The funcral of the late George W. Ray took place yess terday, the ceremonies being performed in Christ church, Fifth avenue. The Masonic fraternity turned out in considerable force to pay the last tribute of respect to the remains of the deceased. Another bonded warehouse was entered on Saturday evening by aman named Riley; but he was discovered before any theft was completed and incarcerated in the Tombs. Mrs. Elizabeth Early, residing at No. 140 Gold street, Brooklyn, was burned so badly by the explosion of kero- sone oil, on Saturday afternoon, that she died the same day of the injuries received. General L. H. Rousseau, Green Clay Smith and Senator Cowan have determined to attend the Andrew Johnson meeting in Brooklyn on Wednesday night. Several of the most prominent counterfeiters in Wash- ington are leaving for Europe, disgusted with the dull condition of business matters in that city. General E. P. Conner, who lately commanded in Salt Lake City, in an interview with Congressmen in Wash- ington, stated that Brigham Young had ten thousand men in Utah capable of bearing arms and was very desirous of driving the United States soldiers out. It is now pre- sumed that Congress will augment the force there and change the laws so that soldiers in that Territory may vote. The suspension bridge over the Cumbe land river at Nashville is expected to be completed by the middie ot next May. The trial of Bruner, the quartermaster's clerk at Nashville, for frauds on the government, was continued on Saturday, although no new developments were elicited. The case of Isham Henderson, one of the pro- prictors of the Loatsville Journal, charged with similar offences, will be presented to-day. ‘The walls of a building in Orange lane, Boston, fell down on Saturday night, killing threo small boys and breaking the legs of a little girl, The flood in the Mississippi is on the increase, and the parishos in Louisiana on the west bank of the rivor aro overflowed. The destructive mule distompor, spoken of some days ago in the Henazp as prevalent in Mississippi, is in- creasing to an alarming extent. The pianters are called upon to take steps to arrest the disease if possible. The Administration the Union—The Issue Before the Peepie. There was a very important and opportune meeting at Hartford the other day of “promi- nent members of the republican or Union par- ty friendly to the national policy developed by President Johnson,” no onc belug expected to participate in the meeting who did not sup- port the government during the late rebellion and the Union ticket in the recent Btate elec- tion. The resolutions and the address adopted under these restrictions embrace these leading points:—The immediate admission into Con- gress of loyal members from the lately reb21l- lious States; the recognition of the rights of said States as members of the Union; the re- pudiation of the idea that they are hostile pro- vinces wrested from a foreign power, and abiding faith in the policy of Andrew Johnson. This is a good movement, and it comes from the right quarter and goes in the right direc- tion. It comes from the Union pariy of the war, and it looks to that party, under Andrew Johnson, for the complete restoration of the Union. It is a timely flank movement from leading Connecticut republicans against the radicals in Congress and in favor of the con- stitutional right of the excluded States to representation in both houses of Congress, Upon this question President Johnson has adopted one policy) and Congress has resolved upén Taber His policy is the admission of the excluded States, on the ground that they are sufficiently recon- structed for all practical purposes ; the policy of Congress is the indefini'e exclusion of said States, and evidently for no higher purpose than the continued ascendancy of the party in power. The public sentiment of the North is with the President, but the managers of the republican party are with Congress. They say that Congress alone has jthe authority over this matter of Southern reconstruction, and that the President, in assum'ng this author- ity, has been and is playing the part of a usurper. But the facts of history in this business should not be overlooked. The collapse of the rebellion occurred in the absence of Con- gressg but considering the extraordinary war powers which the two houses had conferred upon the President he found himself in a po- | sition to undertake the work of Southern re- construction and restoration without resorting | to an extra session of Congress, In the exer- cise of his discretion he adopted this course. We presume there would have been no com- p-aints of usurpation from the radicals had he imposed their terms as his conditions of Southern restoration. He preferred, however, to adhere to the landmarks set up by his Ia- mented predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, and Congress itself. So it came about that bo- tween the final adjournment of the old Con- gress, March 4, 1865, and the first meeting | of the new Congress, in Decembor last, the \ President had substantially accomplished his measures of reconstruction in nearly all the late rebel States. What these measures have been we need not here repeat. It is sufficient that they have met the approval of the people of the North as well as the South, and that the power to do these things was given to the Ex- ecutive by the war and by Congress to prose- cute the war and to restore peace. President Johnson's justificacion, therefore, in whet he has done is complete. He has NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 23, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 38660000 ments; careful, while adhering to the logical and legal results of the war, to stick to the text of the constitution. The only question, therefore, is, Has he gone far enough in his conditions to the States rescued from the re- bellion? The public sentiment of the country responds yes; but Congress indignantly cries no! The spirit of the rebellion has not yet cooled down; the temper of the Southern people still disqualifies them for a voice in Congress. It would be unjust to the blacks and the North to give the excluded States the whole mass of their black race for representa- tion in Congress without the equivalent of black suffrage. Therefore the excluded States must still be excluded. On the other hand it is contended that sub- mission to the terms imposed and to the con- stitution and the laws is all that we can justly require of the South; that if there have been any just grounds of complaint touching the civil rights of the negroes they are now se- cured in the Civil Rights bill, and that negro suffrage and the enumeration of the blacks for representation in Congress can be regulated hereafter, but that it is a matter of the utmost importance now to the Treasury and the finan- cial interests of the country that the Southern States should be restored to law, order, in- dustry, public confidence and the full develop- ment of their great commercial staples. This is the argument in support of the President’s policy, and it cannot be successfully answered. Now, assuming that between his policy and the do-nothing policy of Congress the issue is carried before the people in our approaching fall elections, how is the President to be sus- tained, with the managers of the republican party against him? He cannot go over to the party of the Chicago Convention, the peace party of the war. It is impossible that he can identify himself with that organization. It would be a surrender to the left wing of the rebellion after the capture of the right and centre. The battle of President Johnson is still within the lines of the Union party of the war, right and left, North and South, and the way whereby he may defeat the radicals is very plain and easy. We will take the stanch old Union State of Penn- sylvania. The republicans there have nomi- nated for Governor a good and true Union man of the practical Johnson school, in the person of General Geary. The democrats have set up a peace man of the Vallandigham type. Geary, therefore, is the man for the Johnson Unionists; but they have a wide margin for initial movements in regard to congressional and legislative candidates. Here they may flank both deus Stevens and John W. Forney. To this end President Johnson may do much in his dispensations of patronage; for surely he may use all legitimate means at his command to strengthen his position and his supporters within the lines of the Union war party. The Johnson republicans of Connecticut are entirely right in avoiding any entangling affiliations with the copperhead Chicago demo- cratic party. That party, from its opposition to the war, must go the way of the old federal party. It is under the ban of a popular odium which cannot be revoked. It is a party which dug its own grave at Chicago, and which, if not yet dead, must die and be buried. Then that portion of the people identified with it crystalizing around the new Union party of the administration will powerfully assist in building up the great party of the future. On this ae lies the victory for the administra- yn, with the October election in Ponnsy| SS The administration and the Union is the ticket. Hoxpneps or PEOPLE are crowded into rooms in tenement houses, without light or ventila- tion; the sick and the well, the living and the dead. What is the Board of Health going to do with them? Tue Spanish American War.—We published on Saturday a number of interesting letters from our correspondents on the Pacific const, viz., Panama, Valparaiso and Lima. A vivid de- acription is given of the attack by a company or two of Chilean infantry upon the Spanish frigate Blanca, in which the latter suffered heavily and was obliged to haul off. General Kilpatrick, the new American Minister to Chile, was received by the President of the republic, and mutual congratulations were passed. The American naval officers and sail- ors were in great favor among the Chileans, the city of Valparaiso having been illuminated in their honor. The American uniform, it is stated, was a passport to all circles, The re- port that the Spanish fleet were about to bom- bard Valparaiso as an act of vengeance is reaffirmed ; but the positions of the American, Boglish and French squadrons indicatg that such an act of bravoism and atrocity will not be submitted to without a decided protest. The American moen-of-war were anchored in line, inside of all the other war vessels, and very close to the wharves. Outside of these were the English ships, increased in number by the arrival of the Devastation and the French war ship D’Asaas. Beyond all are the vessels of the Spanish blockading squadron. It appears, therefore, that the Spaniards will be obliged to fire over the American, English and French men-of-war in order to destroy the city. This will be @ dangerous experiment, and one that the Spanish Admiral will hardly dare venture. The new American Minister 1s | known as one of the pluckiest and most spirited soldiers of the war, and it will not do | for the Spaniards to trespass too far in seck- ing their revenge against the brave Chileans, ‘The bombardment of Valparaiso is urged by | the government papers in Madrid simply as an act of vengeance and retaliation against Chile, without the remotest prospect of obtaining any substantial ends. Suppose the city to be bom- barded, the coast laid waste, and the Spaniards withdraw, like a bully who has flogged some weak and harmless person, will that close the wart We do not think ft will; but, on the con- trary, it may stir the allied enemids of Spain to more vigorous hostilities, including fleets of Chilean privateers, and, it is not impossible, demonstrations against that jewel in the Span- ish crown, the Queen of the Antilles. We await further intelligence from Chile with much in- terest. Dip tae Boanv or Heautn ever enjoy the odor from the bone boiling establishments in the ot Thirty-ninth street? If | they did not, we advise them to try it. | Dore Mr. Scnvrrz, President of the Board of Health, ever ride in the Hudson River cars in the afernoon* ‘pote ¥ied OMS in Brehehag alk’ Caak’ cape! | Pato Wesitag tA Wha Beacbcadetec’ b= | cwulee Bla ea chal cat Seccio rash experi- | Public Feeling in the South—Advice t© the Southerners. The people of the South are chafing a good deal under the suffering, humiliation and disa- bilities their rebellion has brought on them. We hear this from many and reliable sources of information, and we regret to hear it, be- cause the exhibition of ill temper or hatred to the people of the North will do them harm. Nursing their prejudices and foolishly sneering at or turning their backs on “Yankees” is not only childish but ruinous and dangerous to themselves. Nothing can or will be used so effectively against them by the radicals of this section of the country. The whole question of restoration to their former status in the Union turns upon the disposition they manifest toward their conquerors—toward those in whose hands their destiny lies, They are, in a certain sense, in a state of probation, to see how they will behave. How important it is, then, that they should consider the condition they are in, and should not give their enemies arguments for coercing them and excluding their representa- tives from Congress. We do not give credit to the reports of radi- cal emissaries, disappointed speculators, or those crazy negro worshippers who have only one idea, as to public feeling in the South. We ‘re aware that there is a great deal of misrep- resentation and false coloring by such people; for they are either incapable of forming correct views or have party purposes to serve and bad feelings to gratify, Nor do we think the prejudice, ill temper or foolish conduct spoken of exists everywhere, or that it has reached the better and more intelligent part of the community. Still it does exist, is contagious, and, we fear, is increasing under the radical measures of a hostile Congress, No unprejudiced, sensible person at the North expects a brave and high-minded people like those of the South to kiss the rod that has punished them, to crouch like slaves or to assume the mask of hypocrisy. We should despise them if they were todoso. We respect them for their manliness, and wish to see their sense and dignity of manhood preserved. The sensible people of the North, too, can make some allowance for their depression and irri- tation, in view of what they have lost and suf- fered, and the ordeal they are passing through. But they must not forget that the North has some reason, also, to feel sore at their conduct in forcing the issue of war. The hundreds of thousands of lives lost, the maimed about our streets, the enormous debt we have to bear and the shock that has been given to the gov- ernment are things to feel sore about. Those who spent so much blood and treasure on this side for the integrity, unity and grandeur of the government were certainly animated by motives as elevated as those which actuated the men who fought for a separate exist- ence. The latter were rebels at first, and the results of the war placed them, as such, at the mercy of their conquerors. These are facts that ought not to be lost sight of, and should make the Southerners more pa- tient under the sufferings they may endure or the disabilities they may labor under. If they have reason to complain that everything has not gone on as smoothly as they desired, they should remember that it is only a year since actual hostilities ceased, and that much has been done since then in relieving them from the penalties they incurred and in bringing them on the way to restoration. Congress is acting unwisely, perhaps, in not promptly closing up the war by admitting their representatives, ang thus healing the wougds that have Seen made and bringing Shout atetter state of feeling. It would be true statesmanship to do #0. The harmony and welfare of the country ought to be considered before sectional feeling or party purposes; but if this is not the case at present the South ought to remain patient till time and a better state of things bring the remedy. What are a few months ora few years in the life of a nation? The majority of the people North are dis- posed to be forgiving and generous, and want to live in harmony with those of the South, as in tormer days. The President, with his large heart and broad, statesmanlike views, is doing all he can to restore them to union and friend- ship with their fellow citizens of this section. The question, then, for them to consider is, whether they will sustain the efforts of the President and their friends here by manifesting @ proper spirit, or strengthen those of their enemies by their m‘sconduct. In the feverish state of public sentiment at the North it would not take much to alienate very many of thejr friends from them should they show a bitter, {frecone | lable, sécilonal feeling. We give them friendly warning not to provoke the con- servative people of the North against them. We advise them to frown down mischievous old hunker press that begins to rear its 7 ae again, “Firing the South- ern heart” ‘how against “Yankees” can do no good, but will do an immense amount of injury to the South. All these fire-eating editors should be squelched at once. They are dangerous firebrands. The fate of the Southern people is indissolubly fixed with the fate of the people of the North. That is settled beyond all peradventure, however much the govern- ment may become modified OF changed. Is it not madness, then, to nurse hatred or {ll feeling? We say, therefore, to the sensible, conservative people of the South, frown down these blus- tering demagogues, shallow, firebrand editors, and silly women who turn up their noses at or backs on the “Yankees.” We are not by nature ® separate people. We are from the same stock, speak the same language, have the same nature, and if we manifest a proper disposition on both sides to heal up the wounds of the war we shall in time become more united than ever. We trust this may be so, But, in the meantime, and to this end, it is especially neogesary that the Southern people should subdue their prejudices, and cultivate an amicable feeling toward their fellow citizens of the North. Ane THe CuoLera Horseps on the west side of the city to be removed? Tux Recent Acts or Bartisn Ivrenvention at Care Haytiex.—The British steamer Jamaica Packet, reported ashore on Absecom, in Wed- nesday’s Heratp, is the same vessel, we under- stand, in behalf of which, a few months ago, the British naval commander off L’Acul so unjustifiably interfered. It was this overbear- ing act which led to the attack upon the city of Cape Maytien, in which the British war steamer Bulldog was destroyed. (See Henan, Nov. 17.) In continuation of these events, all founded upon a game of unjustifiable interven- tion, the city was afterwards subiected for spheres, but their history has not yet been made known, and it is surprising that no representative in Congress from the maritime districts of the Union has yet called for the fall reports of these doings which are on file in the departments at Washington. They would serve, as we are informed, to point a moral that might prove highly useful at this time to our commanders on the northeastern coast, and make a page of most interesting history. Cow Srasizs, where the animals are fed on the putrid refuse of distilleries, abound in the most populous parts of this city and Brooklyn, which emit horrible stenches. Will the Board of Health clear them out? Texas—Another Proclamation from the President Needed. There has been some misapprehension about the President’s proclamation of the second of April, declaring that the insurrection which heretofore existed in the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Ten- nessee, Alabama, Louisiane, Arkansas, Missis- spel end Florida is at an end, and henceforth to be so regarded. Judge Underwood, of Vir- ginia, has assumed, in his decision upon a case that came before him, that the proclamation has not restored the writ of habeas corpus. The Secretary of War, in the administration of his department, takes the same view. It bas been said that the President himself does not mean that martial law ceases to exist by this pro- clamation, though there has not been anything said or done officially by him to authorize such an assumption. Still the question remains un- settled, and we have to wait for further ex- planation or action in the matter. The President did not include Texas in his proclamation, because at the time it was pub- lished there was no official information that this State had been reorganized in due form, as were the other States. Since then, however, in- formation has been received that Texas has been fully reorganized according to the requirement of the executive government at Washington, and is now in precisely the same position as the other Southern States. This fact will be shortly announced to the President in the proper official way, if that has not been done already. We may expect, then, at an carly day, another proclamation from the President, announcing that all the States lately in insur- rection are in a restored, peaceful condition. We presume, too, that Mr. Johnson will then clear up the question, about which there is now some misapprehension, as to martial law and the writ of habeas corpus in all those States. All this is strictly within the power of the Executive, whatever Congress may do about admitting Southern members to eeats. More than that, it is the imperative duty of the President to declare and define the actual con- dition of those States. The people want to know if the war is actually finished—is really closed up; and if it be so he ought to let know ka as he is convinced of the fact. wen toes Se tion very pee defining the pr status of all tho States lately in insurrection. Tuere ans Toxs or Orn Rags from the Mediterranean and the Bosphorus stowed away in close cellars all over the city. They are not always free from pestilence. Will the Board of Health remove them? Sremes—Coonter Corrents.—The result of the recent strikes on the city railroads proves the strength of the natural counter currents which have set in against such demands, The sympathy of the masses was evidently with the strikers; most of the city journals advocated their claims; the greatest difficulty was ex- perienced in getting substitutes to fill their places, and yet the movement failed. The cause of the failure lay not in the unreasonable demands of the men, but in the operation of certain fixed laws which regulate the price of labor. No one will contend that, taking the present prices of the necessaries of life ae house rents a account, the loyes of t! Sompantes asked or was <3 The mis- take they made was in asking it too late. Had they struck for it six months before the termi- nation of the war they would unquestion- ably have obtained it, Then the tendency of everything was ipward, apd it would bave been impossible to have resisted thelr r appeal with any show of justice. Now the Contrary is the case. Although the rates of living have not altered, and the poor man finds it just as difficult to keep within his earnings as he did before the termination of the war, his condition will daily continue to im- prove. The contraction of the currency, both by the withdrawal ordered by Congress and ite circulation over the largo additional urea brought within its operation by ihe return of the Southern States to the Union, will bring down the prices of everything just as surely asinflation before the war drove themup. Arti- sans and laborers must not imagine that their wages will be any exception to this rule. They will share, like every other interest, in the downward tendency; so that it is sheer folly for them to think that they can prevent it, still leas exact higher wages than they are now earning. In Great Britain, immediately after the close of the Peninsular war, the prices of the neces- saries of life and wages were relatively as high as they are at present in this country. Now they are nearly at the rates that prevailed previous to the time when‘ England com- menced incurring her present enormous debt. It is true that the working man here does not as yet begin to feel the benefit of the cessation of the rebellion so far as the cost of living is concerned, but he will soon do so. He should recollect that at its commencement it was some time before prices got up and the food monopolists began to make their influence felt. Owing to the success of their combinations, it will necessarily be some little time before prices can be forced down again; but that they will be so no one can doubt. The continuance of high prices even for this short period is hard on the working classes, but they should remember that It is also hard on the employer. We must all continue to bear our share of the burden patiently until the oneration of the natafel law’ which ‘heee things brings ws relief. Labor s' though they may be on cases of hardship, can be followed by Ro practical results except those of tempo- inconveniencing employers and impover- ishing and distregsing the employed. In any case they need offer no serious ground fer alarm. They are but the eddies of the stream which is pursuing steadily its backward course. Tus Seweas along the wharves and piers are choked up, and are belching forth horrible vapors at low tide. Will the Board of Health look after them? The President’s Policy Toward the Radi- eal Oficeholders. We learn from our Washington correspond- ence that there are indications that there will be a decapitation of radical officeholders shortly; that there isa great running to and fro of nerv- ous individuals, with their pockets stuffed with documentary evidence of loyalty to the Union and the President; that, in fact, there begins to be a general shaking of the dry bones. Not a bit too early, we say. It is high time every department of the government were thoroughly weeded and cleansed of the contumacious and hostile radicals. Dis- affection and opposition to the actual adminis- tration have become both chronic and infec- tious, There is as much necessity to overhaul the departments in order to preserve the healthful action and vitality of the government as there is for the Health Commissioners to promptly and thoroughly cleanse this city to save us from the cholera. The hot season bursting upon us warns us of danger in the latter case, and the state of the political atmos- phere warns the President in the former. Keep- ing the inveterate radical opponents of the ad- ministration in office has been a source of weak- ness and embarrassment to the President every way. It has given them the means and a power to do mischief they would not have had othe: wise. Instead of carrying out the views and policy of the Executive they have been acting in direct opposition. They have been the instruments of a hostile faction—the agents of Stevens, Sumner and the other leading “Northern rebels” against the government and the constitution. By holding office in the vari- ous departments they have been enabled to cheat the people as to the President’s policy, the issues before the country and the wide dif- ference between their faction and the adminis tration. The people said, naturally, “Are not these men the agents of the government and the proper exponents of its views?” and they believed them. The consequence was that the policy of Mr. Johnson and his conflict with this same faction have not been under- stood. More than that, it discouraged the real friends of the President, kept a large class of waverers, who were disposed to be conservative and to support him, under the in- fluence of the radical organization, and created an impression that Mr. Johnson himself was too weak to grapple with such a powerful enemy. Some turned back with disgust, some became lukewarm, and a large class who are ready always to go with the strongest went with the opposition. All these said, the same as Hercules said to the wagoner, that if the President would get out of his difficulty be must begin to help bimself— to use the power spd patronage of the government for thjs parpose, and then he would rally « strong party to support him. In connection with this subject we notice it is rumored that the notorious detective Baker bas been reinstated to office by the War Depart- se ae Sweep o ees enemies of the Pea pars to have ostracized him being reinstated he soit 2 never to other office or his face be ever seen again in Washington. We should not give credit to the tumor did we not know that such an act would be just in accordance with Secretary Stanton’s general official conduct toward Mr. Johnson. If it be so the act of the Secro- tary of War must be regarded as insulting to the President. The friends of Mr. Jobnson’s administration are disposed to make every allowance for what to them appears like a temporizing policy, on account of the difficulties surround- ing it The President, too, ig gagaclous, well experienced in political affairs, cautious, and knows his own situation better than any one He may have thought the best course to plrsue Was @ tof a steady and firm passive resistance, without acting on the offensive in the least. He might have been abiding the right time to enter into the contest in earnest, aes avoiding precipitancy and gathering his stréiigth for the fight. We do not know ww he has been 80 patient with his enemies, Now, however, it ought to be apparent to him that forbearance is no | a to or good policy. He must unmas Bag the tt of those who have been professed friends while they were really enéMies—the radical office- holders. He must make the issue clear before the people, and begin at once to do so in order that they may fully understand the matter before the elections next fall. It will not do to suffer himself to be hem: in and his strength and resources wasted by holding a passive attitude. He must fight back. The radical faction has made and intends to make desperate war on him, and he must fight back. That is the only chance he has to win. The people expect this of him, not only for his sake personally, but for the sake of the country, for peace, for | restoration and for the constitution. As soon as they see he is doing this they will rally to his support and overwhelm the “Northern rebels.” It Is gratifying to hear he is about to do so, by beginning in the right place, in re- moving from office those who do not cordially approve of his policy and support his adminis- tration. Let the official guillotine be set at work forthwith. If the radical members of the Cabinet have not the decency to retire from the false and offensive position they occupy let their heads be taken off at the beginning. Let it operate throughout the whole of the depart- ments, in Washington and everywhere else. Let the places be given to conservative Union administration men, and our word for it there will be such a revolution by next full that the radical disorganizers will be defeated in the election, and the Johnson party thus formed may hope to be the party of the future. Has tar Croena broken out yet in the vicinity of the bone boiling establishments? Retimvino Contractors.—A bill has been introduced into the United States Senate to | relieve certain contractors Who built vessels for the navy during the war and did not make