The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. SAMBS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OORNER OF FULTON AND NASBAU 873, orrice N. Ww —=— Volume XXXI oO. 116 AMUSBMBNTS THUS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, pireet.—SoLon SuiwaLe—Live Evia. near Broome WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Hotel. —Senious Famiiy—H vrocwonpurac, TRYING HALL, Ieviug place Bux Tox’s Gnaxo Piano Concunrs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 635 Broadwiy. opposite” tan Hotel —-Ermior.ast BiNGENG, DAsiNa, &0.— Tum or Heaura, bi § PASTORS OPERA mauer. att, Bowery Pein ANCING, BURLESQUKS, dv. —luK Matinee at Two o'Clock. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—0., ScHoo. oF MrnstRersy, Muscat Guns. &c.. Fifth Av Opera House, oad and & West Twenty.ourtn street. Hany ANDY. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad PozssNucwo Comoaueruss, BuRLesQues, &C.—TAMING AN LMPANT. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—A.sert Rvssewu, Paasripia:rateun ano Venrninoguist. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraroriax Mix. gtunisy—Baitans, BuRLEsques AND Pinrouimes. @ERMANIA ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 203 Bowery.—Intsn Nationan Fain NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— @pen ‘rom 10 A. M. till 10 PM New York, Thursday, April 26, 1866. ADVERTISING OF THE CITY PRESS. Tho Herald the Great Organ of the Business and Reading Public. Aunoxed are tho returns to the Internal Revenuo Departmont of the receipts from advertising of all the Maily papers of this city for two years, In the first Foluinn are the recoipts for thirteen months, being the yeur 1864, with one month of 1863, and in the second wolamn are the receipts for the twelve months of 1865:— Paper. Herald... 527,455 Tebune.. 260,960 ‘Times. Evoning Post, LSA Jourual of Comme Veanscript. Biaats Zeitung Bun. Commore a Adve: Daily N Now York Totals y its extensive and comprehensive circulation, tisers of tho Metropolis, and the medium of communi- Gating their business wants to the public. Tho above table also shows that the advertising patron- Age of tho Henanp is more than double that of the Times of organ of the adver- And Tribune and noarly equa! to the combined receipts of ail the other papers in New York. THE NEWS. ‘Tho bill to amond the Internal Revenue law was ro- Ported in tho House of Reprosontatives yesterday, It Provides for a general reduction of taxes on certain arti- Clos, and entiroly exompts others, The income tax is changed to five por cont on excess of one thousand dol- Jars, instead of six hundred as heretofore, The new bill iso proposes to roorganize the Internal Revenue Bureau, Jad, if passod, will go into effect next July. Tho greater portion of yesterday's session was occupied Dy tho Senate over the case of Colorado. Several minor Pairs received attention, and thon the discussion was Josumod of the motion to reconsider the former vote wheroby tho bill for tho admission of that Territory as a Blate was dofeatod. Mr. Doolittle took the floor and Spoke at considerable length, taking occasion to digress from the main question and to explain his course im regard to nogro suitrage, and gave a history Of Wisconsin politic, He replied to by his col- floague, Mr How, and the Senate was for some timo entertained by a recital of the proceedings of the repub- Tican party in that State, After remarks by several othor Senators on the direct question, the yeas and nays were Callod, and the motion to reconsider the former vote was carried. A voto was then taken on the bill to admit Colorado as a State, and it was passed by nineteen in the affirmative to thirteen in the negative, seventeen Sena- tors being absent or paired, Without transacting other business (he “enate adjourned. In the House porsonal explanations, attendant on the broexo between Mr. Conkling and Mr, Blaine of the day bofore, which were not conducive to better feelings on oither ade, were offered profusely. The Pacifle Railroad Dilt was the occasion of some disenssion, but was finally Foporiod, aad notice given that the previous question ‘would be called today. EUROPE. ‘Tho stoamship City of Boston, from Queenstown April 12, reached this port yesterday. Her news i# one day Laver. ‘The German question is stil! more critical, Prussia rofusod to disarm in vet ed terms, Napoleon was marching reinforcements of cavalry to the French garri- fons near the Rhine, Italy was making a war muster, King Victor Emanuel was in Florence, It was ramored in that city that the liberation of Venetia might he nego Gated with Austria in exchange for the aid of Italy Against Prussia A brisk recraitment for Macimilian’s army in Mexico Was going on in Austria Fonianistn was scarcely mentioned in Ireland Consols closed in London April 12 at 9615 a 564% for money The Liverpool cotton market experienced a decline of ono half of a pony on the 12th of April, and closed Guill with » panic. Breadstat wore firm and in active domand. rovisious dull. MEXICO. Our corr-spondence from Havana on the 20th inst Givos further interesting news from Mexico, General Almonte had arrived at Havana on the 19th on bis mission to France. Over four hundred French troops wore returning on the same vessel Ow the [8th and 19th a lively fight was going on be- twoon Cortina’s forces and the French atMazatian., the result of whichwas not ascertained when the steamer failed. Lator advices by way of San Francisco represent tho victory to have beom gained by the liberals, al thongh the French commander publishes an official ac Count stating that his loss was inferior to that of the republicans, but cocfessing that he retreated to Mazatlan NEW YURK HEKALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. En nn nr nnnnmneneenennnse em rennneny numa emma me dientasmemeeene eer ean oneal mi lowed, Another decree from the same officer is pre- | that it is expected will sufficiently modify the | circulate are a benefit to any community; and | The Femfans in Troubie—What are They | uros of the radicals, what must our own people evils to prevent trouble. Such proposed mod- | whether it be a mammoth express company or sented appointius certain Mexican citizens to political and civil offices undef the threat that # they do not ac- cept such office thoy shall suffer certain penalties of Im- prisoament THE CITY. Tn accordance witn the request of the Board of Health the Governor has,issued his proclamation, published in full in this morving’s Heaup, granting extraordinary powers to the Board until October noxt, ‘There are as yet no signs of the abatement of the chol- era on board the hospital ship Falcon, Twelve addi- tional deaths occurred on Tuesday last, and Dr. Bissell, the Deputy Health Ofiicer in charge, telegraphed that he had been contined to his room for twenty hours from diarrhoa, . The nitro-glycerine case was coutinued yesterday be- fore Commissioner Betts, in the United States Commis- sioners’ Court. Two witnesses were examined to show the properties, chemical composition and other qualities of nitro-glycerine, and thoir evidence was quite interest- ing. The investigation in the case of the Madison avenue bond robbery was resumed yesterday before Justice Dowling, and developed some interesting facts relative to the manner in which reeeivers of stolen property do business, Another bond robbery was committed in this city yes- terday to the amount of nineteen thousand dollars. Pay- ment of the bonds has been stopped. A reward of a thousand dollars is offered for the return of the property. Tho examination in the case of Patrick Burns, charged with frauds on the internal revenue in Brooklyn, was begun before Collector Wood yesterday. Eviaence to the offect that barrels of whiskey, at different times, had been removed from his distillery on Hudson avenue, without the brand of the inspector on them, was given and the case continued, Another meeting of rentpayers was held last night in Houston strect, and an association was formed to resist extortion by landlords and house agents. Auction sales of Scranton coal yesterday which were made in this city show a rise since April 4, ing according to quality, of from ten cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents on the ton. Tho North American Lioyd steamer Baltic, A. G. Jones, commander, will leave to-day from pier No, 46 North river for Bremen, with the United States mail, full cargo, and a large number of passengers for London, on and Havre. The first class iron screw ssippi, Captain Sumnor, has been char- vyinpany to succeed the Baltic on the 10:h bins of the Mississippi have been newly idly fitted up, and her engines are very tered by the of May and ey powerful The stock market was very firm yesterday, including rnment securities, Gold advanced and closed at MISCELLANEOUS. , Under the auspices of the Au- vas held last nigh The meoting was a » 0 far as numbers were concerned, as that ® edifice was flied from parquet to amphi- The meeting was for the — purpose wibg al testimony in favor of constrn licy of President Jobnson, the speakers wera Major General Rousseau John Van Buren, Mr. Dawson, of stmastor Cleveland, of Connecticut, A eral Dix was read endorsing the objects of ated his attendance, It was half-past the moeting adjourned. aaticipated in Washington yester- day that Mr. Smythe would to-day be confirmod by the Seuate as Collector of the port of New York. Our Cuban despatches to the 21st state that the two Spanish men-of- nich lately arrived at Havana, had gain put to sea, their destination unknown, Dulce had received peremptory orders to have the Africans who had been seized by private individuals as slaves delivered up and removed to Fernando Po. A series of broits of a national charactor, between the Cubans and Spaniards, had taken place in the cafes and opera houses, which assumed @ serious character; but the arrost of several Cubans put an end to it. From Porto Rico dates to the 15th fast. slate that an earthquake was felt on the 8th. In Martinique six Zouaves, who bad mutinied, were shot, and thirty.three wore condemned to long imprigonment. Tho cholera is disappearing from Gaadal ‘The Fenian who fired at ‘nglish guard 1s no longer claimed by the Canadian authorities, as the shot was fired from the American side. The trials at Cornwall are still carried on privately. The prisoners were re- manded for cight days to await further evidence on tno part of the Crown Counsel, The submarine telegraphic cable connecting Vancou- ver's Island, in the Pacific, with the mainland, was com- pleted on Tuesday tast, and found to work successfully. The event was celebrated with much enthusiasm iu the island, and in Oregon and British America, One of the boliers of the steamer Jobn Raymond, on the Mississippi river, is reported to have exploded on Tuesday morning, killing at least one person and severely injuring several others, The boat caught fire; bat tho flames wore extinguished after doing considerable dani- ce. Seed disasters have occurred on the lakes in conse- quence of the Jae gale, Five schooners went ashore and another lost her cargo in Lake Ontario, and a barkantins and schooner were cast ashore on Lake Erie, Isham Henderson, who is alleged to have been impli- cated in the Nashville government frauds, was arrested yesterday in Louisville by the military authorities, who refused to releaso him on a writ of haboas corpus. It was confiden Political Reform in England=Mr. Glad- stone’s Reference to America. England is now discussing the grand ques- tion whethor or no the people shall be adimnit- ted toa larger enjoyment of politfeal power—- whether they shall bave a fuller voice iu tue national councils and be recornized as one of the elements of the national life in any other way than as the patient drudges—the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the privi- leged class, It is a discussion as to the safety of continuing the present sysiem. As now constitnted, England is so purely aristocratic that the very existence of millions of her peo- ple is ignored whenever a new Parliament is chosen, those millions of white English be- ing of less political consequence in the conn- try than the negro slaves were in our Southern States, How much longer can this be tolerated in an intelligent age? That is the question. The government, being national and not too blind to profit by the histories of other govern- ments in the same position, is disposed to con- cede gracefully now what otherwise will be forced by and by, and therefore offers a plan for the extension of the suffrage. In sustaining this government proposal to bring England nearer to the level of popular government, to modify the aristocracy, Mr. Glad- stone said: “We have arrived at a critical point in the history of the nation.” This is true; England has reached that point in her history where there must be a change in the character of her government—Parlinmentary and peace- The shooting of prisoners was still carried on, Conspiracy ia the order of the day in the city of Mex- feo. General Galvez, who was one of the first to pro- claim allegiance to the empire, although he had at the @ime a large command in Juarez’s army, had been ar- ful, or violent and bloody. The settlement of 1688 ond the funding system have had the same effects as the feudal system, and have finally put England exactly in the situation Fested by the French authoritice in that city. Several that France was in just before the ™ vf « Ces beg itagpomcbtcyy Loon durian aso aTED revolution, All the real property of Matamoros, according to our despatches from New | the nation is concentrated in a few Ortoans, had deciaret for the empire. hands, and the people exist practically OMigial dosparches to Benor Romero, the Minister at ‘Washington, of date a0: ult, state that the cities of (Chitwahaa and Hidalgo te! Paral had been captured by as the slaves of the few. All other distine- tions between parts of the population are lost the liberals om the 25¢h wit The whole of the State of | in the one great distinction of rich and poor. Chibwahoa was thas restored to the liberals, and the | In France these evils were perceived, but no way wan openod for the liberal army to march on the | intelligent attempt to provide o remedy was —" made. Every act of the government made In the correspondence relative to Mexico furnished the Sonate by the President in his message of March 20, matters worse, until the evils Wey no ae 1806, 1» Senor Romero's communication to Mr. seward endurable, and thus was forced the great natu- dated April 7, 1965, in which he gives as examples of | ral remedy of a volcanic destruction of the the French intervention in Mexico a decree issued by the | whole social fabric, the nation taking thence (Wronoh General Castagny in which @ court martial ines. | 4 entirely new departure, ‘The attempt in : is gt [esa oy epee pet greogertn | deeb England now is tg provide against such an A amt ne mee (row such sepioue being A event by a concession of yolitical privileges hands. ifications have become chronic. Frequently made, they have been rejected for various reasons; but now the government goes further than ever before, and in this we see the result of the great tiial of popular institutions on this side of the Atlantic. Such is the ferment in the English mind on this subject, such is the demand that the people shall be admitted to a direct influence on the government, that it would be deemed utterly puerile to offer to the country now measures that in former years were deemed a very satisfactory staple for bills of electoral reform; and so evident is the influ- ence of our struggle that the Chancellor of the Exchequer holds up our war as ‘the grandest example of history that the institutions of a country may safely be trusted to the wisdom, energy and patriotism of its people. Against the upholders of the old system and" opponents of the new he quotes their own declarations of a dozen years ago that popular institutions were a failure in the United States, and then asks them if our conduct of the greatest war of modern times has proved that failure. Thus the people of England, assisted by the comparison of Mr. Gladstone, will see that we have been fighting their battle, and the struggle on our side against the same elements that they have to contend with; and the more they see and feel that our battle was their battle, the more they will draw encour- agement from our triumph, and the further they will carry their requirements, until the change of system shall be absolute, radical, complete. But it is a far cry to Lochiel, and it is doubt- ful if the present bill will even commence the change. This bill, in all proability, will not pass the House of Lords, and that will mark distinctly the issue bétween the people on one hand and the aristocracy on the other, That will make the struggle on this question more positive, and will fix it as the topic that is to divide England for many years, with all privi- lege, wealth, exclusiveness and bigotry on one side, and all liberality, progress, intelligence end the spirit of the age on the other. The world cannot go backwards, and the victory cannot be with the system of the past, the ays- tema that every day becomes more impossible in the present. But the strength of that system in England may defer the victory for many a day. So much the worse for Enyyind, for the longer the remedy is deferred the more wespe- rate it must be when it comes. Crverty to Anmiits.—The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, formed un- der an act of the Legislature, held its first regu- lar meeting on Tuesday, which was attended by some of the leading merchants of the city. These gentiemen are invested with powers almost as unlimited as the Board of Health, and their dutics lie a good deal in the same direction. It is not alone the “poor dumb mouths” of the animal creation which ave en- trusted to their care. It is within their pro- vince also to protect the public from many abuses; for instance, they can prevent over- crowding of cars and omnibuses, which is the greatest cruelty that can be perpetrated upon the unfortunate horses; a species of cruclty in which human animals share, They can remove ® mammoth newspaper company, the public at large are not likely to lose anything by their going into operation. Capitalists think that because the Adams Express Company is mak- ing an enormous amount of money and that newspaper publishing is profitable, because they see the success of a paper like the Herarp, they are desirable sources of invest- ment. Let them try it. So far as newspapers are concerned, all we have to say is that we are ready. But we predict that if any more dailies are established in this city some of them will be killed off, and we shall take care it will not be the Heap. The Mountain in Labor—Congress and Its Expected Bantling of Reconstruc- tion. For some days past rumors have thickened of a forthcoming report from the Reconstruc- tion Committee of Congress, embodying 9 magnificent plan for the restoration of the late rebel States to full communion in the govern- ment. What this plan is to be is probably given in the Washington editorial letter on the subject to the Chicago Tribune, which, for the information of all parties and sections, we pub- lish to-day. We attach some importance to it from the intrinsic evidence of the letter that its writer is in the confidence of the Western radi- cals, and that they are a power in Congress. The writer in question says that among the radicals “the two favorite schemes of recon- struction are known as Stewart’s plan and Owen’s plan”—the former embracing the con- stiiutional amendment compromise of universal suffrage for universal amnesty; and the latter proposing the constitutional, civil and political equality of all races and colors, and suffrage to the negroes after the year 1876, the black race meantime only to be counted for repre- sentation in Congress to the extent to which they are or may be by the several States ad- miited to the right of suffrage, From our Washington correspondence of yesterday, how- evor, it appears that a third project has been brought upon the carpet—that of the famous General Ben Butler—a very precise and lawyer-like plan, the starting point of which is a reconsiruction of the Cabinet, which is not a bad idea. i Now, Congress has been in session since the first Monday in December lust, an though we e had in the two bouses a thousand windy del constitutional amend- ments more or less proposed, (he ohiy meagure established by Congress, in the way of recon- struction, is the Civil Rights bill. This, says the ultra-radical of the Chicago Tribune, lays “the foundations deep and strong for the scheme of reconstruction. All men are now equal before the law in their civil rights. It only remains for Congress to secure all their po- litical rights. And the people must not become impatient.” And then we are told that “the Johnson policy has no supporters in Congress except the few copperheads and a little con- temptible squad of bought-np apostates from the republican party, who are held in equal scorn and contempt by all honest men of what- ever party.” We all know, however, that the Johnson the abominable pavement which has been a disgrace to the city for the last ten years and has been the cause of mors torture to these wretched animals than anything else. Tkey can regulate the hack system upon the same grounds, the horses being wholly inadequate to the labor imposed upon them by their avari- cious masters. They can umeliorate many evils by causing the slaughter houses to be removed from the city. Let these hotbeds 01 aisease, wr vacue ple, be transplanted to the Jersey flats, which are of no use for any other purpose. Then the dangerous nuisance of driving herds of cattle through the principal thoroughfares, to the impediment of travel and the terror of wo men and children, should be done away with The shocking and painful exhibition of car.- loads of calves and sheep in all stages of agony and strangulation so common in the streets, should be stopped, and the sale of meat unfit for human food should be prevented. | In these end many other ways the Society for | policy has been working admirably; that it has resulted im making the abolition and prohibi- tion of slavery a part and parcel of the suprem 1. w of the land; that undor this policy the Inte rebel States have been quietly re- organized on the basis of loyalty and submis- sion to the sovereign authority of the United States, and that the public sentiment of the North is becoming stronger and stronger from day to day in favor of the restoration to Con- iis 2 147 Chatam thie eanecanivad anlar tha Johnson policy. Let the tree be jadged by ita fruits. It is this judgment of the conniry that has been stirring up the reconstructionists of Congress to the necessity of doing some- thing. Thad Stevens and bis committee appear to have exhausted their strength in vain. Snm- ner has failed to meet the requirements of the case, All the great guns of the radical camp, | with all their firing, have fallen short of the | mark. So ve find them first resorting to Sen- ator Stewart, of Nevada,a new man from a the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals can do infinite service to the public as well as to the poor beasts whose especial guardians and pro teciors they have been created by law; and we hope they will comprehend the full measure of their duties in this respect. Persovarrties tC in the disgraceful business of personalities in Congress, This kind of braggadocio ought to be banished from the Capitol, or left to the fire-eaters and the border raffians. When Con- gresamen declare that they are “¢ responsible, not only here, bul elsewhere” fi what they say, and that they are ‘responsible everywhere,” and that they will “answer not only here, bat elsewhere, anywhere that it may he agreeable to have the answer,” and that | “the question of veracity could he settled somewhere “elye,” and that their “veracity is not to be called in question with impunity,” they simply render themselves ridicuions. The constitution expressly provides that “for any speech or debate in either house” the Congressmen “shall not be questioned in any other place,” and consequently the members are perfectly aware that they can boast ond swagger with entire safety. This verbal courage is excessively cheap and has often made our Congress a laughing stock. The Congressmen are not responsible to each other, but they are responsible to their con- stituents, and we hope that those who bluster and threaten in this manner, instead of attend- ing to their legitimate duties, may be held to a rigid accountability by the people whom they misrepresent, If a couple of these Congres- sional bullies would only muster up courage enough to exchange challenges and annibilate each other, ike the Kilkenny cals, it would be better for Congress and for the country. Iwrortast put CostLy Extenrnises.—We see announcements that one morning and two even- ing daily journals are to be established in this city, with # capital of one or two millions, and that » new express company is to be started, with a capital of fifteen millions; the latter as an opposition to the celebrated Adams Express Company. It is stated that all the stock for theee enterprises has been subscribed, and that they are bound to be carried out. The stockholders, we are of opinion, will find both ventures a costly piece of business; but we have no objection to their trying their All enterorises that cayse money to ess.—We are sorry to | see representatives from Now York engeging ; new country, supposed to be full of new ideas. | Senator Stewart accordingly brings in a plan; | but on inspection he thinks he can do still | better, and then he brings in another plan, and very likely after another consultation or two . with Govenor Foote, late of the rebel Congress, ' he will be vble to bring in something that will surprive ewn McDougall, of California. But while the venerable Thad Stevens is ruminat- | ing on Stwart’s plan in walks a member: of , the commitee with Owen’s plan. And who is , this Owen? Ti is that extraordinary genius, Robert Pile Owen, who came over to this | conntry some thirty years ago as the trum- peter ofFanny Wright and her infidel, rodical | and agarian doctrines, It is the same Owen lioht o the democracy, figuring next as such in Comress for several terms. Next we find him tansferred by poor Pierce as our Minister ' to Noles, and there, under the smoke of Vesu- vius,he begins to see ghosts and talks with themand believes in them, and becomes an ex- pourler of spiritualism, to the astonishment alikt of the infidel, the Christian, the Bour- bonjhe democracy, poor Pierce and the Pope. Ths, it will be observed, Mr. Owen is not the prmation of one great change, but of sev- eral transition epochs. Always a philanthro- pist he entered into tho Inte war a spiritualist, an has come out a radical with all the modern imrovements and more too. Such a man at ath a time is bailed as a godsend by “Old nad.” Owen, therefore, brings in his plan of sconstraction, and from present appearances tewart, of Nevada, will have to stand aside. n our judgment, all things considered, General jen Butler's plan of reconstraction, in one asential, at least, is the very thing—we refer o his proposed reconstruction of the Cabinet. tive us this, and next a reconstruction of Con- ress, and we shall soon finish the work. Jeanwhile the mountain is in labor, and from stewart Owen ot Butler we are ready for any- hing, fom a Gory dragon to a mule or a mouse. Prowst Marstur Fry.—We notice that an amendtent has Wen inserted in the Army bill abolisting the of Provost Marshal Gene- ral, This is & move, and we trust that Fry's trithmetichnd system of mathematics will be forever bhished from this country. It gave vw an inestijable amount of trouble dur- ing the war; it played recruiting, and came very rear prov’ to the country on several occasions. \We trust that this is about Going to Dot There isa great deal of bubble, bubble, toil and trouble just at present among the ferocious Fenians. They are getting into an exceedingly tight place. People who have subscribed libe- rally for the liberation of Ireland are begin- ning to want their money back. Ten millions of dollars have been collected by the O’Roberis and O’Mahony factions; but there is nothing to show for it. Everything has been promised, but nothing has been done. We have had no Fenian expeditions, no Fenian privateers, no Fenian invasion of Canada. There has been plenty of talking, but no fighting. The few dozen Fenians sent to the Canada border are hardly enough to provokea sneer. The exploit of capturing @ revenue flag on an island where there was nobody to defend it sheds no glory upon the Fenianarms. The firing of a pistol at Canadian sentinel was more cowardly than courageous. From the very commencement ot the excitement the Fenians have been as peaceable as lambs or calves or don- keys. They quarrelled among themselves; but even then there was not a head broken nor an eye blackened. They seem more fond of exchanging hard words than hard blows; but this does not satisfy the subscribers to their funds. To say that we are surprised atall this does not adequately express our feelings. The Fenians are mostly Irishmen, and Irishmen are nothing if not combative, and yet there have been no scrimmages. This must be the fault of the leaders; for the great body of the Fenians appear to be sturdy, ear- neat, determined fellows, ready for anything or anybody. To the leaders, therefore, we ad- dress this warning. If they do not carry out their projects within a very few days Secretary Seward will be after them with a sharp stick. He has just settled the Mexican question, and now he is prepared to grapple with the Fenian question. He is just recovering from an an- noying illness; his temper is now none of the best, and we pity the Fenian leaders if they chance to fall into his hands. Tn this dilemma, with the Seylla of Secretary Seward on the one side and the Charybdis of : popular disappointment and indignation on | 284 what is the other, what are the Fenian leaders going to do? Three courses of conduct are open to them. blow some Unie this week and so get ahead o' the Secretary of State. Perhaps they may capture Canada; perhaps they can pick up a loose jigland or two, like Bermuda or New- fouhdland; but at any rate they can do some- thing if they have the Inclination, which many sénsibie people exceedingly doubt. Wheiter the capture of Canada or of any other place will assist Ireland in any way is- another question. The Fenian leaders have declared that it will, and we hold them to their word. To go and fight somebody; to win a victory or get nobly whipped; to fulfil their promises or die game— that is one course which the Fenian leaders may pursue. If they do not like this pro- gramme and havo a not unnatural objection to becoming martyrs, there is another plan which may be more to their taste. Having plenty of money, plenty of arms and plenty of men, they gan strike a bol esi le a” Gaia Nae ‘a 4 the law which was passed During the last think who see these dangers so close at their doors? It is not alone in Europe that these dangers are seen and felt, and it will be found, when our people once get the opportunity to meet the question on a fair and square issue at the ballot box, that they will record an on- dorsement of President Johnson which will astonish the whole world, and administer a blow to the radical disorganizers from which they can never recover. War Upon the Executive Powers of the President by a Radical Congress. When the Post Office bill was called up om Monday in the Senate, Mr. Henderson, of Mis- souri, proposed an amendment to limit the appointing power of the President. Mr. Trumbull offered an amendment to this, whick was somewhat differently worded, but with the same object and nearly in the same terms. No action was taken upon these, as the Senate went into executive session and soon after ad- journed. This last of the many sweeping radical changes proposed in the government by the present revolutionary Congress provides that no salary or compensation shall be received by any one appointed to an office where the appointment requires the confirmation of the Senate until that body confirms the appoint- ment, except in the case of filling a vacancy occurring after the Senate may have adjourned. The proposition is not confined to appoint- ments in the Post Office Department, though submitted as an amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bill, but extends to all those in every department of the govern- ment which require to be confirmed by the Senate. That is to say, it extends to the whole patronage or appointing power of the Presi- dent, except to the smaller offices, such aa clerkships, to which appointments are not made by the President, but by the heads of departments. We should not be surprised if this proposed sweeping change in the principles and practice of the government should be car- ried through Congress; for anything that body may do will not surprise us. What, in effect, will this change amount to, he object of it? It amounts to this, that the whole patronage of the govern- ment would be in the bands of the Senate and that Senators intend to use this power to force the President into their measures, We believe by this same fevolu= tionary party creating the office of Comptroller of the Currency takes away the power of re- moval by the Executive from that office. That was a atep of Congressional usntpation ov the time-honored and constitutional preroga- tive of the President. The present proposition is a tremendous stride in. the same direction. We may expect to see next a movement to take the whole power of appointment and removal from the President and assumption of it by Congress. The statesmen of this country, as well as those of other couniries, thought we had a well balanced system of government. It has certainly been a most successful one. But the visionary politicians and radical disor- ganizers of our day presume to think otherwise, or dare to break up this beautiful and success- Irish rebellion, in 1848, a considerable sum of | ful system for partisan purposes. What do money, amounting perhaps to two hundred these men want? Do they want to prevent the thousand doliara, was collected. When the President from removing Cabinet officers or affair had reached its limits, about twenty other officials who may be obnoxious to him, thousand dollars was devoted to the | and who obstruct the policy of his administra- getting up of a sort of sham raid upon tion? Tho manner in which the term “va- Canada, and the balance, safely invested an | cancy” is used in the amendments referred to vbo net turned up in Indiana as a shining | railroad and other stocks, bas supported some of the agitators in peace and plenty ever since. This game ean hardly be played so well with such an immense sum as ten millions; but still it might be tried. Information as to the Aatails could probably be obtained of Mr. Horace Greeley, one of the trustees or the Slievegammon fund. The furor raised by some of the Fenians at Eastport suggests that the looks very much as if it wore intended to pre- vent him making removals. But if not, what would be the use of removing officers if those appointed in their places could draw no sala- ries without permission of the Senate? The consequence would be that either the President muot conform to the wishes of a dominant fac- tion in the Senate, however radical or revolu- tionary, or the machinery of the government leaders have already adopted this mode of | would come to a dead lock. fizzling out; but still the operation isa very delicate one, and is calculated to arouse very bitter feelings among people who will think themselves swindled. Before deciding upon it, therefore, we advise the Fenian leaders to con- sult with Mr. Greeley, who bas passed through one such crisis and can give them many useful hints, The third course is not so very dissimilar to the second. When Kossuth was here he made great speeches, thought that he knew more than Washington, declared that Louis Napoleon would not remain in power more than a month, and so managed to scrape together a great deal of money. Then he pur- chased a lot of saddles and bridles for mythical horses, and quietly departed for parts unknown under the strange cognomen of John Smith. Fortunately there are cog- nomens of this description for al) the Fenian leaders, O’Mahony may be John Smith, O’Roberts may be John Jones, B. Doran Killion may disguise bimself as John Brown, and there are Robinson and other such names to spare. Here, then, are the three homme of the Fenian dilemma: the leaders may fight, or they may fand the money, or they may run away with it. We do not advise them what to do, but we warn them to do something forthwith, or Secretary Seward will arrest every one of them and confiscate the ten millions to settle the Alabama damages or to loan to Juarez. In his present humor he will stand no trifling. He who has triumphed over Napoleon and Maximilion will not be defied by O’Mahony and O’Roberts. Evrorgan Options oF tue Events ix ras Covnrry.—The article which we published yesterday from the London Times, as well 45 various others from the press of Eurpe which have appeared in our columns from ¢ime to time, show the high opinion entertaimd by the ruling Powers, the press and th people The constitution, the principles and the forms of our government, all of which operated so admirably, suffered a severe sirain during the gigantic war we have just passed through; but they are in greater danger now. We have, indeed, fallen upon evil days. At a time when we need the highest order of statesmanship, not only to re- store peace and harmony and to repair the damages of the war, but to preserve tho spirit and letter of our institutions, we find the halls of Congress filled with shallow, superficial theorists, mere political partisans, and those crazy to make the most sweeping and danger- ous changes. Woe ,have had statesmen who were the admiration of the country and the world and patriots who could sacrifice per- sonal or party considerations for the good of the country; but where shall we find them nowt There are few, and the voice of those few Is not beard amidst the clamor of faction. The radical majority in the present Congress ap- pear ready to sacrifice everything that is good in the government, to remodel the splendid structure or to lannch us on a troubled sea im another and an,unsale ship; to do all this and ore for selfish party purposes and to perpe- tuate its power. If it were not for onr conser- vative aud firm President our condition would be more dangerous. He stands as a broakwa- ter against the surging faction. Our only hope is in him and in the common sense ot the peo- ple when the issue shall be put fairly before them at the next elections. In the meantime we trust that those amendments changing the power over appointments, and the hundred and one proposed amendments to the constitution, with all the other radical meastifes for sub- verting our excellent government, may he knocked on the head or be held in abeyonce till the people can speak through the ballot box. Tue Arnicay Stave Trans Reviven Unver throughout Europe of the ability ard states- | Tae Frexpaen’s Borrav.— Our correspondence mansbip of Andrew Johnson. Althugh most | from all paris of the Southern couniry con- of the Powers of Europe and a majdity of the | tinues to furnish us with illustrations in regard press, prompted by selfish intersts spoke | to the woskings of the Freedmen’s Bureau any- lightly and sneered at us during he progress | thing but creditable to that radical institution. ot our late civil war, yet now tmt we have | A gentleman in this city, conversant with the proved ourselves a great Powershey begin to | mode in which the business of the Bureau ie treat our affairs with more cotdor and‘with | managed, and also practically tamiliar with greater fairness. Taking an inpartial view of | the tone of popular sentiment in the South, the events now transpiring 4t our national | presents some views on the subject, in @ capital, they are able to ovarly discern the | communication we publish to-day, which result that must follow the success of the radi-| are eminently deserving the attention of cal schemes. The Engish people,with con-' candid readers, This bureau, from ali siderable experience of late with the negroes | the intelligence we can glean, appears/to he in Jamaica, realize the importance to thiscoun- | nothing more nor less than a revive! of the try of such a man as Mr. Johnson *¢ the heim | odious mier-State slave system, and the huge to hold in check the fanatics “9° are trying | monopoly by government emyloyes of the pro- to bring about. © they at Of the same | ‘ite arising therefrom. It i bateful to both ’ 80 great a / whites and blacks; to the former for the reason poor li dangers which | that it maintains a milivaty tyranny which ix a Rearopkobia meng ' source of coptipual {teitation to all vertios. and ~s