The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Ne. BROADWAY THEAT! Pelee @troot, —AnmavaLe. NRW YORK THEATRE, Hovel.—Gauwrres Gaure GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Der BAts-DiRKOTOR—MADSCARSPYLYFR; ODER, 30 BeKomur man einen Mann. LB in Ae ts GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 5i4 Broadway.— ‘Lis Isr Wannsinetg—Die Winvek uw Panis. ‘ greINWaAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Mxs. Manin Asvorr's Fins? Guaxy Concent. 685 Broadwar, vpposite Emory EwreRTatn- Buniesques—Merronic s NCISCO MINST! Pj ner fy 9 MY RE! Ee, Sunaina, Dancing aw jaowmes O8 FaLting Stam, nA FIFTH AVENUR OPERA WOUSE, Ni fourth ty fe —Buswourh's Miner ‘Minerancar, hei - —_——- | KELLY & LEON’ MINSTRELS, 2 Broadway, oppo- ‘Bite tho'Now York Hotel.—Iw raxim Soca, Dances. Eccen- percrins, -—Suaraiss Vatry—Tas Brace ‘Braron. ‘_ PONY PABTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comte Vooaisan—Neano Minstaccsy Baier Divennssxwent, 0.—Hieant or Enix, on ram Max oF "98. CHARLEY, WHITE'S COMBINATION, TROUPR, at jechanioa’ Hall, roadway—ln A Ligue 9 Lavauasie Entertainments, Corrs DE Babist, bes La Starve Comgue. ' @OOLEY'SOPERA HOUSE, Brootivn.—Erarortan Mine ereuise, Battaps, BURLESQUES AND PaNTOMIMES. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Sxcoxp Monpuy Porovan Conogrr. * BROOKLYN ATHEN SUM.—Sreraxx Masaerr’s Sones ano iMirations. SEAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, William: Minsrexisy, BaLLaps, Comic PaNToMimxs, 'g-—Ermiortan NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. "618 Broxdway.— Lrcrouss witn raz Oxx-HyprocEn Mionoscore | twice daly. | Jap axp Riaut or Frost. Open from 8 4. M, 10 P. Me SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Guanp Sacrep Concent at Branwar Hact, Fourteenth street. E December 2, 1866. Ry «peoial telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated 4p London, November 30—in the evening—we have an extended review of the position of tho leading securities on the Stock Exchange, with a reflection of the tone of * tho Loadon and Liverpool markets at the close of the month. Our nows report by the cable is dated yesterday, De- ember 1. Martial law has been proclaimod in Limerick city and county, It was reported in London yesterday that James Stophous had arrived in Paris, and was “secreted” in that city. British gunboats are still being despatched to Ireland. ‘No more arresta of Fenians have, we ate told, been made. The Onited States Minister in Paris read Secretary Peward's cable despatch on the Mexican question to ‘Napoleon. It is said that it contained a “requirement”’ that France fulfll her obligations. The Emperor made Ro reply. | The United States iron-clad Miantonomoh, and six other American vessels, are in the port of Lisbon, pre- preparing to sail. ‘“Dostination unknown.” Queen Victoria assisted at the unveiling of the Albert @tatue in Wolverbampton, and enjoyed an enthusiastic reception. Consols were at 8934 for monoy in London yesterday. Aworican goourities, with the exception of five twenties, dociined. Five-twenties closed at 7035. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was without quotable Sbange yesterday. Breadstufs somewhat easier. THE CITY. ‘Vn obarter olection for Comptroller, members of the City Gounctt and schoo! officers takes place on Tuesday. -A list of the candidates in nomination is published in our columas this morning. A grand mass meoting of the friends of Richard B. Coanoly, the regular democratic nominee for Comptrol- Jor, was held at the Cooper Iustitute last evening. Ad dresses wore made by Mayor Hoffman, James T. Brady, A. Oakey Hall and others. Tho aecond convention of the French Canadians in the ‘United States was held last evening at Clinton Hall. Re- solutions condemning the policy and tyranny of Eng- and, hor attempted encroachments on this country end the aid given by her to our enemies were unani- mously adopted. The confederation scheme was opposed and annexation advocated, and very strong expressions of sympathy for Ireland were delivered by many of the @peakers, and embodied io the resolutions. The assem- ‘Diage adjourned to meet again at the third annua! con- vention of the society. Mr. John V. Cockroft, of the Nassau Bank, was robbed of $2,000 yesterday, by some four or tive fel- lows, while ontering the door of the General Post Oilice. One of the supposed accomplices in the theft, named Ogio, was arrested, and committed to the Tombs by Justice Dowling. Jamos H. Greatrex, who is charged with having mann factured forged notes of the Union Bank of Scotland, at Ginagow, was brought up for examination yesterday, be- fore Commissioner Newton. A quantity of documenta. fy evidence tn reference to the procoedings in this case bofore the Scotch courts having been put in, Mr. Alexan- der McCall, Superintendent of the Police at Glasgow, was examined at considerable length, It was deposed, in the course of the examination, that the prisoner, who is ® married man, had fled from Scotiand with a young woman named Weir, who had been in bis employ! ‘and, on their arrival in New York, lived toget ‘the assumed name of Parker. The further hearing of ‘the cage was adjourned till Monday. Tho investigation of the charges againet the Comp ‘troller was continued yesterday. Orison Blunt and other witnesses Wore on the sland, but the dovelopments mado by their evideuce was not of any special interest, Tho wills of the following porsons were admitted to probate during the past week :—Ogden M. Rogers, Charlos Danda, Ole Peterson, Jano EK. Watson, Robert MeNair, Frank G. 1. Umsted, Mary A. Sporteman, Bennett Chrestman, Hannahette Mosseroo, Barbara Robrbacker, Charles A, Heckscher, Abraham D. Clement, Ernest Richter, M. Nicholls. to the Surrogate’s Court of Brooklyn last week the wills of the persons named below were admitted to pro. Date: Sarah Bowden, Daniel J. Blauvelt, Elizabeth Ma 40, of Brooklyn, and Edmund Reunty, New Utrecht ‘Letters of administration were granted on the estates of the following named persons:—Richard Wrenn, Maria Jackson, Matthew Barr, Ludwig Graf, Kate Blauvelt, Phoebe Johnson, Hannah Febarsh and Thomas Fanigan. of Brooklyn. The stook market was firm yesterday, but dil! ‘was also firm, and closed at 14134, ‘Tere was but little activity in commercial circles yes- ‘Yerday, and prices for both foreign and domestic mer- ehandise were generally lower, Cotton was rather more @iendy. Coffee was quict and almost nominal. On *Change four was dull and 100, a 26, lower, Wheat feras im limited demand and Io. @ 2c. lower. Corn de- @lined Zo. @ 30., with but little doing at the concession. wore dull and ecarcety as firm. Pork was dull and Thoavy. Beet was hoavy, though not quotably lower. ‘Lard was quict and a trifle easior, Freights were quiet, Dat Gem. Whiskey was dull and nominal Gold | MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Buonos Ayres contains fall Porrticulars of the recent battic at Fort Curupaity be twesn the Paraguayans and the allied forces, im which dhe intter were defeated with hoavy lows. Tho fort, al thouch acsaiied by a feet of six vessels on one side and ao wemy of twonty thoutand men on the other, remains cov paratively unharmed, General Flores, on returning to M yntevideo with bis troops, disbanded them and r:. Burned his civil dntiesas Provisional Governor of Ura gray. ‘The Brazilian wounded, It is said, wore murdered "tor the battle by the Paraguayans, although the Argen. ine wounded wore turned over to their comrades, The Jraguayan Congress adjourned on October 4 Our Yokobama (Japan) dates are to the 27th of October. ute brig Duodectmo was lost in Van Dieman's 14h Wad QAUF-SEy oD pOraoNs Deriehed out of seventy | To secure this ereat oud the plea of NEW YORK HBKALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2% 2666. on board. The distress im Jodée continues, No relia. ble news has been received from the seat of war. Our files from Bermuda are dated to the 6th of No- vember, The Reyal Zaseite of that day says:—Hoer Majesty's troopship Oronte’, Captain Hire, left on Satur- day last for Cork, Ireland, for ordera, having on board the second battalion Second Queen's regiment, under the command of Colonel Werge. ‘The Judges of the Queena Bonch in Toronto, Canada, delivered an opinion yesterday adverse to the applica- tion for a now trial for Lynch, Mcdfahon, School and Sleven, four of the Fenians condemned to be hung on the 18tn inst. There are, therefore, no legal technicali- ties in the way of their execution on the day fixed. Yhere are great fears of another raid on Sweetsburg from the Vermont border, A strong feeling is arising in favor of annexation to the United States, It was stated at the Fenian headquarters in this city yesterday that Head Centre Stephens has not yet left the country, be having been seen in Boston, where he was in consultation with three prominent shipowners, Large orders for breech-loading rifles have recently been given to manufacturers of arms in Bostou, the arms being o3- tensibly intended for the “Emperor of China,” It is now confidently stated in Washington that the object of the government in interfering in Mexican affairs is not to establish a protectorate over Mexico, but to form an alliance offensive and defensive with Juarez, and parties assert that the grant of Lower California to certain Americans is the motive power of the affair, Our Washington despatches say that Secretary McCul- loch has been quietly selling the Treasury gold for several days, and that the matter will be a aubject for Con- gressional discussion. ‘The republican members of Congress held a caucus last night at (he Capitol. Thad Stevens presided. The question of appointments to and removals from office waa discussed anda recommendation unanimously ac- coded to that Congress reject ail nominations made on merely political grounds. In the Alabama House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Brookes, of Lowndes county, presented a bill to alter the constitution of the State so as to admit of con- ditional negro suffrage, The conditions are that the voter shall possess property Jo the amount of $200, and shall be able to read the constitution of the State and of the United States and write a legible hand, these con- ditions holding good also in the case of white men. Mr. Brooks was closely identified with the Confederate cause, having expended his last dollar in its support, and in presenting his bill said that he did so as a measure of policy and public good. After an exciting debate the bil) was tabled. At the convention in Malden, Mass,, which nominated General Banks for Congress some time ago, it will be remembered, Mr. Copeland and others charged the General with being drunk in Portland, Me., and on the charge being denied, requested that a committee be ap- Pointed to visit Portland and investigate the matter. The committeo was appointed, and, having made their investigations, have now addressed a letter to Mr. Cope- land, in which they state that the charges are proven. Fourteen bodies of persons lost on the ship Coyar, of Liverpool, which was wrecked on the 24th ult. near Pescadero, Cal, bave been washed ashore up to Wednes- day last. Advices from Idaho to Novembor 17, via San Fran- ciseo, represent the Indians as becoming very troubie- some, The portion of Augusta, Me,, which was destroyed by fire about fourteen months ago has been wholly rebuilt. An officer of the army arrived recently at Galveston with despatches, and a spocial steamer was immediately got undor way. by order of the government authorities, to carry return despatches, It is not known what the substance of the despatches was, but the fact of a spe- cial steamer being employed to carry them was consid- evod in Galveston as indicative of something important probably relative to Mexican affairs, ‘There were 1,595 votes registered in the city yesterday, which, in addition to the number registered at the late general election, makes a total of 123,006, A Now Orieans despatch says that a disposition Is being manifested through the South to admit qualified suffrage, impartial as to color, in exchange (or universal am- nesty. The Missiasiopi delegation to intercede for the pardon of Jeff Davis while on a visit to him at Fortress Monroe recently, consoled him as much as possible for their ill snccess with the President, Among other comforting condolences they assured him that he had the sympathy of the whole South on his side. Newton Campion, who murdered « gir! named Mary Carney in a house of ill-fame in Vhiladeipifia last sum- mer, has been sentenced: to be hung, and William H. Maguire, who murdered a girl named Maggie Baer, at the Continental theatre in that city two years ago, has been sentenced to vight years’ solitary confinement. ‘The great suspension bridge across the Ohio river at Cincinnati was opened to foot passengers yesterday, when it is estimated fifty thousand persons crossed over it. The town of Coburg, C. W., was lighted on Friday night with gas made from pine wood, which is said to be more brilliant aud economical than the gas formerly used, Seuth—Thoe Shortest a Proper Settlement. As the day approaches for the reassembling of Congress (to-morrow at 12 M.) reports and rumors thicken of new plans, new com- promises and new radical measures for the reconstruction and restoration of the excluded Southern States. In addition to the new scheme which will be recommended in the President’s message, embracing, as it is under- stood, the equivalent of a general amnesty to Southern rebels for their adoption of the prin- ciple of impartial suffrage to whites and blacks alike, it would appear that various members of the two houses, from the terrible umner and “Old Thad Stevens ” down to the little circle of Mr. Raymond, will have some new projects to propose. Considering the President’s new departure as a graceful abandonment of his peculiar policy, swamped in the late elections, and as a commendable advance towards a reconciliation with Con- gress, woe may dismiss without further re- mark these sporadic cases in the way of new plans and propositions and proceed at once to the great legitimate and paramount busi- ness measure before the two houses. This measure is the constitutional amend- meot, upon which, as a carefully considered scheme of reconstruction, the responsible dominant party of the Thirty-ninth Congress appealed to the people, and upon which that party, in the elections for the Fortieth Congress, has been so surprisingly upheld by the people in all the Northern States, That great mea- sure thus submitted to and thas emphatically ratified by the people, Congress, we hold, toust push through to its consummation—Its engraftment upon the federal constitution. It is the ultimatum approved by the Northern States; it is the will of their people, and it is the bounden duty of their representatives in Congress to carry it into offect. We contend, too, that when ratified by threo- fourths of the States represented in the govern- ment this amendment will not only be a con- stitutional but « decisive settlement in being engrafted upon the constitution. There is no other way whereby a decisive settlement can be reached binding upon cach and all the States for the future. Any plan which is not made part of the constitution will be good for nothing in affording security for the future. For example, Mr. Clay’s great peace measures of 1850, together with the famous Missouri compromise of 1820, were upset by “poor Pierce” and his democratic Congress of 1854, in their Southern Presidential jobbing Kansas-Nebraska bill, thas inaugurating in Kansas the late bloody and disastrous South- ern rebellion. Against cliques and conspira- cies of cheating, rapacious and vicious ticians, no peace compact is safe which is fixed in the constitution in white and bi Congress a the a it was put in the form of « constitutional amend- ment, and to carry it through we doubt not that Congress will gpeedily provide for de- claring the ratification complote with the adop- tion of the amendment by three-fourths of the States which the war of a rebellious conspiracy has left in posseasion of the government, Next we say that the terms of this settle- ment will suffice first, in placing all citizens of all colors upon the basis of equal civil rights and in making State citizenship subject to fede- ral citizenship, Secondly, in providing that suffrage and representation shall go together and just as far as each State for itself may choose, Thirdly, in excluding certain class of perjured traitors from various offices, State and federal, till absolved by a two-thirds vote of Congress; and lastly, in making the national debt a sacred obligation to all the States and in repudiating utterly and forever all rebel debts and obligations and all claims for eman- cipated slaves. , Write these things down in the supreme law of the land, and the national bondholders are safe, and the Treasury is eafe against any possible attempt at an: assumption of rebel debt or claims for liberated slaves, and the rights of the whites and blacks are safe, and the Union is gate against any echemes of cliques, factions or seotions of reckless potiti- cians for generations to come. Here we are safe, and there is no safety except in the con- stitution. Outside of this ark of safety we shall soon be all again, like drowning men, catching at straws. But suppose the Southern States most interested atill refuse, like the dog in tho manger, to eat the delicious hay placed be- fore them, and deny the right of the hungry ox to partake of it. Then they must be recon- structed from the beginning, and upon Presi- dent Johnson’s sound doctrine of giving the job to loyal men and that five thousand good and loyal men ia a State are sufficient for its redemption. If five good men and true—if they could be found in the city—wore deemed enough by the all-wise Jehovah to save Sodom or Gomorrah from destruction, surely five thousand will go for South Carolina or Texas, The two houses of Congress, resuming where they left off at the last session, are already organized. They have only to meet to be ready for business, and so within a few days we hope to see the beginning of a line of action which will assure the country that the ultimatum endorsed by the unanimous vote of the Northern States is to be sustained as the basis of South- ern reconstruction. Annexation of Cannda to the United States. This continent is at present witnessing two remarkable revolutions, precipitated by the success of our republican institutions. While the old Sonthern leaders of the lately rebel- lious States have heen urging and influencing their people to acts which must, if persisted in, keep them out of the Union for many years, the statesmen of England have been endeavor- ing to consolidate their North American pos- sessions in a confederation strong enough to defend itself against the encroachments of re- publican institutions. Already in the South there has begun to form a party opposed to this delay and to remaining out of the Union, and in favor of returning to it at once on the basis proposed by the dominant party and the victorious element of progressive repub- licanism. The strong speech of Mr. Logan in the North Carolina Legislature on the amend- ment is an indication of the existence of this element, though the election of that bitter secessionist, Judge Manley, to the Senate would indicate that a majority of the politi- cians are still “joined to their idols.” The new generation which is growing up will be more progressive than their fathers, and dating their political career no further back than the new era of the death of the aristocratic element in the failure of the rebellion, will grow to be not leas progressive and democratic than the republicans of the North. In Canada the same republican element is growing stronger and becoming rapidly developed by the agitation of exactly the same principles. The confedera- tion scheme has been defeated and cannot be revived. All efforts at adopting schemes for securing money to fortify the coun- try have failed, and the arming which has been going on for some time past has been, it now appears, at the expense of the home government. The fact is that a party bas sprung ap in Canada opposed to the mo- narchical institutions of Old England and in favor of the democratic institutions of this coun- try. Progressive ideas have seized upon the people of this whole continent; progression is the order of the day, not only in the free North, but in the South and in Canada, while repub- licanism is triumphant in all its contests with the monarchical Powers of Europe in Mexico, Chile, Pera and Paraguay. Very significant are the signs of the impend- ing revolution in Canada. Annexation to this republic is openly talked of as the best remedy for the evils existing in that province. On Sunday last an Episcopal clergyman of Kingston, Canada, delivered a powerful sermon on the subject, favoring annexation and de- claring that “the greater portion of the inhab- itants of Canada are in favor of annexation to the United States.” At Montreal a meeting was called for November 28, to “discuss the benefite to be derived from annexation with the United States;” and the opinion is ex- pressed that if the question should be submitted to the people of the lower provinces it would be ratified by « large majority. The most important question in view of the present Fenian agitation is, can this revo- lution be accomplished without bloodshed ? We are rather disposed to believe that it can. The door has been thrown open by the resolu- tions of General Banks on the subject, and ina Congress of the complexion of the one about to meet no opposition would be made to the admission of these provinces as States, The English pres has frequently declared not only that the British provinces of America were “a drag on England,” but that their annexation to this country would be a positive strength to the mother country, as producing a closer union and alliance of the race to which both nations belong, and which would benefit both Powers. Tho Canadians have been told that they must take care of and defend themselves; and if they should now decide that the best way to defend and take care of themselves is to annex their country to the only republic of whom they can have any dread or fear, surely the mother country cannot reasonably object. Agitation in the South and in Canada is a good remedy for the trouble of the people of those regions, aad porsistont agitation will eventually and Leppily rovalt i cortoration apd auageatign. | binck death, the dancing ‘ mania, War as an Epidemic. Hobbes contended that war was the natural stato of man. It seems, indeed, endemic to the globe whioh he inhabits. Sporadic cases of it are of not unfrequent occurrence even during the longer or sborter intervals of comparatively general peace. But sometimes these intervals are suddenly and violently broken by war, which assumes the characteristics and propor- tions of an epidemic, It arises, rages and spreads from land to land, uninterrupted by mountains or seas, and often, after spending its fury, subsides and disappears mysteriously, leaving ‘behind it, however, its destructive traces, and probably the germs of future epi- demics of the same dreadful form. The causes of war are more or less involved in obscurity, like those of epidemic diseases, They some- times remain latent and smouldering for a long period, until some chance spark kindles a con- flagration which spreads swift ruin far beyond the boundaries of the. country where it first blazed forth. An old superstition which still lingers in the human mind associated with wars the same ominous signs, the magnetic storms, meteors, earthquakes and atmospheric disturbances which usually preceded the the aweating sickness and the plague during the Middle Ages, and the yellow fever, the cholera, the typhus, the influenza and other epidemics in modera times, That the mind is liable, like the body, to epidemics, is shown in religion, in politics, in monetary affairs and in fashions. Opinions and practices spring up, prevail and subside, like a genuine epidemic. The Crusades in the fourteenth, the Reforma- tion in the sixteenth, Puritanism in the seven- teenth, Methodism in the eighteenth centuries were religious epidemics. Credulity in the Middlo Ages was an epidemic, as scepticism is now. Law’s Mississippi echeme, the South Sea Bubble, and a dozen other nancial bubbles in Europe and America, together with the panics in which they resulted, might be cited as epidemics in the money world. In the world of fashion the crinoline and the waterfall manias are among the latest epidemics. In politics the revolutionary agitations in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and the reform movements in the presagt century, were epidemics. And to the latter we may add not only the pestilence of war, which #0 lately caged four years throughout our own broad country, devastating the citios and plains of the South, but also the mania which acized certain European governments to take advantage of what they deemed, because they dosired, the prospective downfall of our great republic; impelling France to pounce upon Mexico, Spain upon firat Dominica and then Chile, and even Brazil upon poor little Para- guay. Happily they were all mistaken and disappointed, end this epidemic at least bids fair to subside. The recent Eurepean war was an epidemic which spread with marvellous rapidity from the shores of the Baltic to those of the Mediterranean. Its contagious influence threatened at one moment to overspread all Europo ; und, suddenly, as it seemed to sub- side, alter having swept through Prussia, Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Hun- over and the little cluster of Northern States, there is no telling how soon it may again burst forth with fresh and redoubled tury. With the guns of Candia booming again on our ear, we listen for Russian cannon that may roar in a new Crimean campaign. In the busy hum of industry in all the armories and arsenals of France, in the universal armaments in progress throughout Europe—Russia swelling her ranks by three hundred thousand recruits, Prussia organizing four new corps, Austria re- modelling and reforming, all States, large and small, infected with the mania for “big batial- ions,” testing new weapons and discussing new military systems—in all these signs of the times we see premonitory symptoms of another epidemic of war. Insurrections in Spain, and lnat, not least, the Fenian outbreak in Great Britain, together with dull rumors of an im- pending war between that country and the United States, are additional illustrations of war as an epidemic. The millennium which shall cure it bas not yet dawned. ‘Tae Euecrion ron Compreotier—A Cortovs Sratk or ‘Tuinas.—-We have taken very little interest in the charter election, for the reason that the general character of the nomi- nations for Aldermen and Councilmen is so bad as to render it immaterial who wins, while the contest for city Comptroller has become a sort of scrub race. According to appearances Richard B. Connolly is the best man in the field; but the chances of success are probably with the faction that can manage to do the greatest amount of cheating. We give a curi- ous extract from the editorials of the New York Trivune on the character of its candidate, Richard Kelly, and no one will donbt the com- peleney of the witness. It will be found eebtly at variance with the Tribunc’s present tone, and will be read with some interest by taxpayers, to whom that journal is con- stantly appealing. One phase of this election is the most curious we have seen in forty years’ experience as a journalist—the only office of real importance in the city government now left for election by the people is that of Comp- troller or bead of the Financial Department. It is a singolar fact that for this office three Irishmen are nominated—Kelly and the two Connollys. All three of these candidates are Trish, blood and bones. Under these circum- stances we submit thal the name of New York | is a misnomer, and should be changed to New j Dublin or New Cork hereafter. Conoress AND THE Mxxican Mvvone.—It is evident that the Prosident’s vigorous foreign policy is unpalatable to the radicals, more especially that part of it that bears upon the settlement of the Mexican difficulty. Radical journals and orators neglect no oppor- tunity to snarl at or denounce the attempt to settle favorably to our national interests the great topic of the future relations of a neigh- boring republic of eight millions of inhabit- ants. Every event that occurs is misrepre- sented and made to seem to the country like some fresh outrage of that father of all evil, in the radical view, the President of the United States. It is not difficult to see the meaning of all this radical discontent. The radical leaders desire to embarrass a negotiation that is likely to result to the honor of the Pres- ident’s abilities as a statesman, and to pre- vent the pursuit of a foreign policy that pro- tisos to belittle by its great national impor- tance all those agitations and issues upon which they keep themselves before the public. For (heir sake domestic segtionsl ques tions must be kept above all others in importance, and they perveive that the Presi- dent’s movement toward the great questions of our foreign policy is likely to leave them out of sight, Will they be able to move Congress in accordance with their ideas? That is, doubt- less, to be tried in the coming sessioa. The House of Representatives has hitherto gone even further than the press in an extreme declaration of our national policy in relation to Mexico, Will it now fall into the scheme of the radical leaders in the attempt to oppose the settlement of the Mexican relations? Tax Roman Question.—The latest pbase of the Papal question is a statement by a French journal that the envoy sent to Victor Emanuel has instructious to press upon him an arrange- ment to the effect that the Pope shall be le‘t undisturbed in the possession of his territory and of all his temporal and spiritual rights on condition of his allowing Rome to be gar- risoned by Italian troops. We can hardly think that such a proposition has emanated from Louis Napoleon. It must be evident to the most uureflecting that the arrangement, if assented to, would neither satisfy the national sentiment, nor prove agreeable to the Holy Father himeelf. Victor Emanuel will entertain no proposition which tends to perpetuate the misgovernment and oppression under which the Roman States are now groaning. It is not against the Church as a Church, but against its abuse of the temporal power which it wields that they complain. The arguments which ap- plied in the case of Venice apply equully to Rome. Regenerated Italy cannot permit such @ gangrene to continue festering in ber bosom. So long as it exists it will furnish a pretext for interference on the part of France and other Catholic Powers. We cannot see that, as re- gards the Pope himself, the arrangements would be any more satisfactory. Let an Italian garrison be once placed in Rome, and his freedom of action as a temporal prince would exist only in name. The sympathy that would naturally grow up between the military and the populace would render him powerless to carry out the measures that he might deem necessary to the security ot his administration. Moreover, with only a boundary line to mark the difference in the condition of the subjects of the two governments, it would be im- possible to check the discontent and agitation which would be continually resulting from it. If the French Emperor bas no better plan than this to propose he would do well to leave the settlement of the difficulty to the Italians themselves. He may depend upon it that they will find a solution for it more reconcilable with the interests of the Church as well as with those of the nation. Breaxs yx THE Canais—'tnn Rick OF Frovr.—It is a remarkable ¢oincidence that the navigation of the State canals is always in- (errupted by breaks about that period of the year occurring between the end of September and the natural time.for the close of navigation by ice, the very time when the. grain and four is arriving from the West. The Erie canal always happens to get broken about that time every year for the last ten or a dozen years, and this year is no exception to the rule. For some weeks, ® short time ago, navigation was interrupted by a crevasse, which was repaired after considerable delay. Meantime the receipt of Western flour in this city was stopped, and that article went up to eighteen dollars a barrel. There may have been other causes, and no doubt there were, for the increased price, but when the supply is cut off the market naturally rises. We notice that the Erie canal has again been broken near Rome but this time not to any serious extent, and the Chemung canal has suffered from a similar misfortune, which it will require four days to overcome. In that time navigation may be closed if the weather should prove severe. There are people who think that these period- ical canal breaks just at the period when the Western produce is coming to the New York market, are not altogether accidental ; that in fact speculation has quite as much to do with them as freshets or any other alleged cause. The Board of Canal Commissioners ought to know something about this and should look after it. It is singular that when there is a pretty fair stock of flour and grain stored away in the city to speculate on in the fall, the canals generally get out of order and prices go up in consequence. The Canal Commissioners should certainly explore this mystery. Rerorrs rrom Wasaivaton Coxcersixa Ma, McCunsoca’s Frvanctat, Powicy.-We have noticed on several occasions reports that have come from Washington about Mr. McCulloch’s financial policy. We published yesterday a despatch pretty much of the same tenor as former ones, showing that the Secretary is governed by one controlling idea—that is, to pursue a course specially tavoring the national bondholders, It is stated that he is desirous Congress should enact a law making it dis- tinctly understood that the government will be pledged to redeem the principal as well as to pay the interest on its bonds in gold. Now, what necessity is there for such an an- nouncement? No one has any donbt that the United States will pay the interest of its bonds in gold when it Is pledged to do so; and it is not necessary to pay the interest of any others in gold. With regard to redeeming the principal, that may be done in specie or legal tenders, as may be most con- venient, according to the funda of either on | band applicable to such a purpose, without any | detriment to the public creditors, When we | teach hard money basis all will be done ia | specie. Until then legal tenders or currency | will be used at whatever is the market value, No one will be injured by that, and the faith of the government will be preserved just as well as if gold should be used in all cases. There is @ grent deal of irash given out from the Trea- sury Department on this and kindred subjects that really amounts to nothing, but which is evidently intended for bull operations in the interest of the bondholders and national banks. We hope Mr. McCulloch may tell us distinctly in his report to Congress what his policy is, ' and leave nothing to be inferred. We want | stability in our financial system, not theories and speculations. When we know positively what his plan is we shall be able to discuss its merits, oe THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION IN THE SOUTH, Ls enelap * fm ad Des, 1, 1008, hapoe manifested South to admit qualified ae 0 color, Violent attacks ‘on euch an Wasarnarom, Deo. 1, 1866. Arrival of Congressmen—Impeachment of tho President. A large number of Congressmen arrived bere to-night, and, although there are about thirty Senator and seventy members of the House in the city, there seems to be no doubt of @ quorum of both houses on Monday. The beat bumor prevails among them, irrespective of party. So far as can be ascertained by conversation and otherwise, the idea of introducing articles of impeach ment against the President of the United states Gods littie, if apy, favor. The President’s Mensage. It is said that the message of the President wilt be about the game length of that of last year, aud will occupy about an hour in the reading. The Policy of the Administration @ard to Mexico. Sufficient information has escaped trom the usually close portfolios of the government to establish the fact that the policy of the administration in its present inter- ference in Mexican affairs is not at all what it seems to be. It is now ascertained without # doubt that the object of the administration is not to exercise a protecto. rate oves Mexico, but simply to make an alliance offens- ive and defensive with Juarez, Certain well informed parties here assert that the grant of Lower California (o American - parties is the motive power of the whole affair, in Re- Republican Caucus. The republican members of Congress, oumberng perhaps about fifty, beld a caucus to night at the Capitol. The How. Thaddeus Stevens presided, and Hon. Mr. lngersoll, of IIL, acted as. Secretary. A com- mittee, to consist of nine members, to prepare business for an adjourned meeting for Wednesday night next, was appointed. The caucus designated Speaker Colfax to reply to the address of welcome to Congress, to be delivered by Chief Justice Cariter on Monday afternoon, ‘AL the Capitol. The various republican associations, clubs and unions, have made arrangements to proceed thither in procession as a part of the Programme. The caucus was oot exclusive in naming their orator, but suggested that the members of the Senate appoint one of their own number to perform aaimilar part. Hon. Thaddeus Stevens was selected to respond to the toast, ‘The Congress of tne United States,” to be proposed at the banquet in tho fair build- ing on Monday night. The caucus had an interesting time in discussing the subject of removals from and ap- pointiwents to office, There were various instances of what they characterized as gross injustice on the part of the President of the United States, The sentiment among them was that good men had been displaced to make room for bad ones. In view of this the cauous unanimously recommended that the Senate reject all the nominations mado merely on political ground, Hon, R. P, Spalding said he had no doubt the Senate would reject ail who ought to be retected, Financial Matters. Wractional currency printed during the week, $425,000, shipped, $178,667—of which $60,000 was sent to the United States Depositary at Chicago, and the remainder to national banks. Fractional currency redeemed, $247,200; securities held for circulating notes of vational banks, $240,854,650; securities for deposits of public moneys in designated depositaries, $39,217,950. ‘Tote! securities held, $879,572,600, The government now holds in possession $95,500,000 in gold, $22,600,000 of which is represented by gold cer. tificates, The receipta from internal reveaue to-day amounted ta $1,626,943, as foliows:—Received from culiections, $1,680,098; from gales of stamps, $39,105, and {rom the (ax go salarios, $1,693. be i a The amount of national bunk currency issued duting the week ending Decembor 1, 1866, was $326,190. Total } iseued to-date, $200,027,259. From the total issued ts to be deducted the currency surrendered and returned, which inclades worn out notes, amounting at date to $4,074,082, leaving the amount of national bank wotea in antual circulation $226,063,527. Goverameat Gold. it is mo secrot here that Mr. McCulloch has been quietly selling the Treasury gold for several days, an@ rumor says that the matter will again be brought before Congress, when the Secretary wil! be calied upon to give, in dotail, a statement of all his transactions. The radical leaders, Including Mr. Stevens, insist upon it that Mr. McCulloch's financial theories of contraction must be Clipped, otherwise trouble in the commercial world cam not well be avoided. Personal. Mc. Walters, of the London Times, and bis gon arrived here this iorning, and are stopping at the Kbbite House. Senator Dixon, of Coni., arrived to-day, and this evening bad an interview with the President, Hons, Samuel McKee, of Kentucky; J. 8, Nicholson, of Delaware; L. S. Foster, of Connecticut; Leonard Myers, of Pennsylvania; J. A. J. Creswell, of Maryland; and Baron Wettonstedt, the Swedish Minister, are at Willard’a, Hoos. W. B. Washburn, of Massachusetts; Rosewell Hart, of New York; R. B. Hayes, of Obio; Ulysses Mor- cur, of Pennsylvania; J. F. Starr, of New Jersey; W. Saulsbury, of Delaware; William A. Darling, of New York; J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire; P. Baxter, of Vermont; Admiral D. D. Porter, United States aavy, and General A. P. Blunt, are at the Rbbitt House. Pardened by the President. The President bas directed a pardon to be iasued to Jacob M. Wood, convicted at the May term, 1864, of the United Staies District Court for the Northern district of of New York, on the charge of having in his possession, with intent to pass, counterfeit fractional currency, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Wood bas endured a targe proportion of bis sentence, and his pardon bas been recemmended by the United States Commissioner, the County Jadge, Sherif, At- torney, Surrogate, the Mavor, Recorder and Postmas- ter of Troy, one of the Justices of the New York Supreme Court, Judge Olin, of the Supreme Court District of Colutobia, and many other influential citizens. Checks Issued in Favor: Participants ia the Rebel Another case of the presentation for payment of checks issued about the time of the commencement of the rebellion to persons in the military service of the United States occurred at the Treasury Department to day. It appears that in 1861 Brevet Brigadier Gonerat C. B. Comstock, now of General Grant's staff, bat at that time treasurer at the West Point Mill tary Academy, issued two checks for $99 94 and $18 94, respectively, in favor of two cadets who had Jeft the academy and gone to their homes in the seceded States, The checks were recently returned, and the matter being referred to Secretary Stanton, be directed that payment be refused; that they be cancelled, and that the ammount be transferred to the fund whence de- rived, The Secretary directa that » similar course be Purstiod in all oases of like character hereafter occurring. Stationery for the Internal Revenue Burean. The firm of Dempsey & O' foole, of this city, have boon notified by the Fecretary of the Treasury that the coa- tract for stationery to be supplied to the Internal Rey- enue Bureaa for the six months ending June 30, 186%, has been awarded to thom as the lowast responsible bid- ders, provided they camgive the usual assurances re quired of contractors, Ristori at the National Capital. Madam Ristori closes her engagement in Baltimore to- night, and will arrive bere to-morrow morning at tem o'ctock, Apartments have been secured for her at the Metropolitan Hotel. The sale of tickets for the début of Madame Ristori, and for the season, is still going on. Up to this evening the proceeds from the sale of tickets amounts to $7, Inhomanity at the Dry Tortugas. Major General Sheridan bas forwarded to the War De- partment 9 refutation of charges of inhumanity against the oMflcers at Dry Tortagas. Land Oftice Receipts. ‘Tho geneml Land Office, by insisting upon prompt de- posite of the public moneys in the hands of land re- coivers, bas brought down the balances in thew banda to very inconsiderable sums. Since the Ist of October last 496,471 have been deposited 10 the credit of the Treas. ueer of the United States by auch officers gens eee RUMORS |S AEFERENCE TO WEXICAN AFFAIRS. } New Ontaass, Doo. 1, 1866. ‘The Gaiverton Bull#in of the 20tn of November con- | taine the following :— ‘The city was full of rumors the Me: 1 ry with tia ateamer Rlsabetts patches. yesterday in reference to tmduoed by the arrival