The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1866, Page 8

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EUROPE. py the Atlantic cable we have a nows report dated yosterday, December 5, A uuuiber of Fenian ‘leaders’ have been arrested tin Dublin. The Pope, it is said, will enter into negotiations with ‘Victor Emanuel’s envoy in Rome. Jobn H, Surratt is in safe custody. President Johngon’s Message had no effect on the Lon- don money market, Our special correspondence from Paris, Berlin and St. Potersburg,,with the newspaper reports, published to- day, contain very interesting details of our cable dos- Patches to the 20th of November, so far as tho advicos Telate to the atate of hwalth of the ex-Empross uf sexico, the position of the Franco-Mexican bonds on the Paris Bourse, the audden illness of the imperial Russian bride, the progress and import of the Russo-Gorman alliance Negotiations and the general eltuation of Fenianism in Treland at that period, Consols were valued at 8834, for money, In Loadou at Doon yesterday. United States five-twentios were at 77%. “Pee... CONGRESS, Tn tho Softate yostorday tho ataiding commitioss were chosen. Arresolution Inquiring iato the power of tho Prosidont to restore condeated property was adopted. ‘Tho House bill to,rer<al the act granting the amnesty ‘and pardon pows« to the President was taken up and genorally digeassed. Pending the discussion Mr. Sum- ner offered a resolution, of which he gave notice on Tuesday, relative to the jurisdiction of Congress over the reconstruction of the Southern States, and the illegality of the governments in thosé States, Tt declares in substance that Congress must assume juris- diction over those States, and recognize only those hav- ing legal and valid Legislatures as entitled to repreeenta- tion, or t0 a voice in the adoption of the constitutional amendment. The resolutions were ordered to be Printed. Avresolution to amend the constitution soas to make the President inéligible for a second term was referred. Tho House resolution for the continuance of the Re onstruction Committee was concurred in. In the House the motion to recénsider the vote by ‘which the bill for the regulation of appointments to and removals from office was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee last session, was reconsidered, and the bill, with several amendments, was made the special order for to-day. | A bill to debar any defence by virtue of tho authority of the late so-called Confederate States in civil suits wheretti one of the partios is loyal, was passed. At a cauotis of the republican members of the House, hold last evening, several tneasures for fature conider- ation were agreed upép. Among thom were bills regu- lating the organization of the Honse, directing the Ulerk to place no names upon thé roll from States not repre- sented in the previous séssion, and providing that no electoral votes bo counted from States not represented, and appointiig Gommittees to investigate the Now Or- Jeans riots, tho seizure and sale of confiscated or aban- floned property and the release of the murdorers of Union Soldiers in South Carolina, Mr. Raymond was present,~ @nd on stating that he had abandoned the Philadelphia Convention when he found it likely to load to tho defeat of the Union party, was permitted to,take part m the Proceedings, THE CITY. The Board of Education mot last evening. The appli- Cation from the achool officers of the Sixth ward, asking for $0,297 to furnish a new schoo! building, was referred to the Committee on Buildings. A communication from the assistant-teachers of the city, complaining that their salaries are only $700 or $800 a year, thatthey are una- ble to live on them, an asking an increase, was referred to the Committee on Teachers, A communication from General Molyneaax, suggesting the propriety of estab- lishing a school ship for educating seamen for the mer- cantile marine service, was referred to tho President and Clerk. A resolution-was adopted instructing the Com- ™mittor on Teachers to consider the propriety of abolishing corporeal punishment im the schools of the city and report upon it at the next meeting. A resolution transferring the Gros\ enor fand to the use of the College of the city of New York, to enlarge the library of the institution, ‘was adopted, At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration yostorday the statistics submitted to the Board showed that the number of emigrants landed at this port last week was 3,265, making the total oumber of arrivals since January 1 219,820, The commutation balance is how $73,677 87, The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, passed a Bumber of routine bills and adjourned, without consid- @ring anything of special public interest. The list of elected candidates for Aldermen and Coun- Ollmen, as published yesterday, was correct with two @xceptions. In the Sixth Councilmanic district John J. Kehoe, democrat, is elected, instead of John Hazel, re- Publican, and in the Seventh Councilmanic district James Reilly, domocrat, is elected In place of Hugh Turner, republican. For Schoo! Trusteo in the Eleventh Ward, Theodore Tooker is elocted Instead of Cyrus Schoon- amakor. During the past ten days there has been unusual ac- tivity at the Brooktyn Navy Yard. Orders have been received to get eight vossels, the gunboats Penobscot, Peoria, Gettysburg, Unadilla, Huron, Quinnebaugh and Purveyor, and the sloop-of-war Iroquois, in readiness for sea with Bl! “os; ‘The Gettysburg was formally put into comnussio day with orders to report to ‘Admiral Palmer, of to Wost India equadron, Judge Michael © \nolly ts preparing to contest the @lotion of Richard W. Connolly to the Comptrolterahip of (he city, 6m the ground that hiq tickets wore refused ir portly at some of the polling places. coport of the Treasurer of Kings county, for the or Ghding August 1, 1866, shows tho to amoynt by the Treasurer during the yol: toghive beon 400, and the balance remaining $232,635. ) 5 offered $1,200 worth of gold coupons of 1881 at by Fer’. ffiee im Wall street yesterday, but on exami. » they were found to be counterfeit, The boy's om. Hoyer (ould not be discovered, ‘The \vreatigation into the aMairs of the Comptroller's a crapsg oaterday, Ex-Jydue Qibort Deane, fern rece $a ex-Mayor Opdyke and éx-Corporatiog twice Couhsel John E Develin exam! the testimony being mainly in tolmoe of ahtnieacer: The investigation will be re- before Commissioner Osborne uaae wares with having shipped benzine to Mil- waukeo, Wisconsin, contrary to the Inw upon that sub. Joct. Tho Deputy Collector of Customs at Milwaukee ‘was sworn, and testified to recelving the benzine at that point, The casgwas then adjourned. ‘The stock market was somewhat unsettled yesterday, but closed steady. Gold closed at 188%. ‘The morchandise markets were generally dull and heavy yesterday, but prices were without decided change. Cotton was more active, but at lower prices. Coffee ruled quite active, though lower. On ’Change flour was more active at previous prices. Wheat was dull, but steady. Corn was without decided change. Qata were steady and moderately active, Pork was firmer and more active. Beef was heavy, though values were unchanged. Lard was decidedly more active, but the market was heavy. Freighta were more active and firmer, Whiskey ruled duli and nominal. Petroleum ‘was dull and fully 3¢c. lower. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special’ correspondent at Brownsville, Texas, telegraphs under date of November 30 the details of the occupation of Matamoros by the United States troops under General Sedgwick on the 24th ult. One hundred and fourteen men of the Fourth cavalry, with Colonel Perkins, of the Nineteenth colored troops, in command, passed over on that day and received the surrender of the olty from Canales, The terms assented to by Gon. Sedgwick were that Canales and his forces should retain thelr liberty and their actual position, end that no other forces should enter the city except United States troops. The forces of Escobedo were at that time bestoging the place, and on the 27th, in conjunction with the troops of Cortina, made an assault all around the lines. An agreement was made botwoen Sedgwick and Escobedo prior to the attack, that the United States troops would be withdrawn when the assault commenced except Mfty men, who would remain only to protect American interests. Escobodo's attack was repiilsed with alos: in his force of seven hundrod and “‘rteon mon. During the fight the American flag 08s from the Government House, Escobedo claims to D9 Bene under the orders of Juaroz, and considers the action + seaywick as contrary to orders from Wash- ington, Ons, goth ult orders were received from New Orleans to «:hdraw the troops from Matamoros, and they were ret-ping to Brownsville, On tho 1st instant Escobedo wa: reported in possession of Mata- moros, Our Vera Craz dates are to November 24, and from Mexico city to Nvember 19, and contain full details and confirmations et intelligence recently re- ceived. Maximilian was 81 at Qrizaba on the 19th, and appeared rather to enjoy his fr.aom trom the cares of office as well as the imbrozlio in \wieh his tate allies, the French, had involved thomselves. The steamship Morro Castle arrived at this port from Havana yesterday, with datos to the 1st inst. 4 Spanish coryette of twenty-one guns hed sailed for Minn to invastigaic the casé of the Spauish Consul, who was in- carcerated at Tampico, ae “ Our dates from the West Indies are to the 22d instant. Ta St. Domingo political matters were quict. Baez” party loaders were watching events with a hop- vt Te- volutionizing the country from 8t. Thomas A decroo has been issued by Cabral, the Governo~“! St. Domingo, expelling all tho followers of Bae~ “00 Were prominent enought to be dangerous, fro she island. Three of the prindinal robels wore condemned to death, A Washington desn-~f says that tho instructions to Minister Camph~« 00 his departure to assume the duties of United ates Minister in Mexico were in effect that the g-vernmont of Juarez is recognized as the only one 1» that country, that no grant of territory ia wanted, and that no concessions in the way of paying the French debt are expected. The Fenian prisoners at Sweotsburg have not yet been arraigned, The counsel of the condemned prisoners at Toronto has determined upon applying fora writ of error in their cases, A Cabinet council is to be held at Montreal to-day, at which the Governor Goneral will bo prosent, and the fate of the condemned Fenians will bo decided. Official despatches from Arizona tate that in the latter part of Soptembor féar white men were killed by Huala- pais Indians, near ‘Port Mohaive, A party of citizens, hearing of tho outrages, pursued and overtook the Indi- ans, and killed the #hole gang, twonty-thre» in number. Tue Acting Governor of New Mexico has issued a procla- mation calling upon tho citizons to arm themselves for protection against roving bands of Indians. The list of regimental appointments and changes under the now Army bill, which have been effected by General Ordera from the War Department, are publishod in our columns this-morning. A medal is to be presented to Major Gonoral G. H. Thomas by the State of Tennossoe, The Board of State Canvassers mot yesterday at Albany and declared the results of the late election. Fenton's majority over Hoffman is 13,789. Thomas Fitzgerald was tried before four Justices in Westchester county, yesterday, for the murder of Miss Ellen Hicks in August last, The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The counsel for the prisoner then moved for thirty days to made a bill of exceptions and a stay of proceedings, and the court took the matter under consideration. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of James Dogherty, who was found dead in his cell at the Police station, Nowark, whero he was placed while intoxicated. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the proprietor of a saloon, named Albert Feller, who is charged with throwing doccased forcibly out of the saloon, by which ho fell and had his skull fractured. Great destitution prevails among the fréodmen in Chattanooga, Tenn., and numerous outrages have been Perpetrated on them by white men, Sroracr or Exrrostve Sonstances—A Mat- TER FoR THE LeoisLatorE.—The fire which occurred in Beekman street on Tursday pight, by which two or three police officers were in- jured, revealed the extraordinary and alarming fact that fifty million percussion caps were stored in the fourth story of the building. Fortunately the fire was extinguished before it reached this mine of death. Had it not been suppressed, who can tell what disastrous conse- quences to the adjoining buildings might have been? We do not know to a mathematical certainty what quantity of this explosive sub- stance known as percussion powder is required in the manufacture of fifty million caps, but we can imagine what the effect would be if they blew up. The storage of explosive substances in the heart of the city should not be permit- ted. We have cases almost every day of acci- dents occurring from the combustion of petro- leum, nitro glycerine and various kinds of fireworks. At Rochester, on Tuesday, a shock- ing accident ocenrred from the explosion of nitro glycerine: and aa long aa these substances are stored in the midst of crowded cities there is positively no safety for life or prop- erty. The Legislature should take this matter into consideration and enact such laws as will strictly prohibit the storage of these inflamma- ble and explosive substances within the limits of any clty or town. Ratroap Manacemenr ww Tas State.—We publish to-day some comments on railroad management in this State whieh it may profit the stockholders of our roads to read. There is, beyond doubt, great room for improvement in the manner in whioh the affairs of such com- panies are managed, It seoms singular that a road which earns in 1865 three times as many millions of dollars as it earned twelve years ago, and which then paid seven per cent divi- dend, should not now be able to pay six per cont “ee borrowing money with which to do it of a. Ero gompanies and railrgad companies have paid their original in- it or four times over. There is no - feason why our railroads, if managed tf ath ee ~~ @f those interested in such vro~ Tho Fires Giepe of Congtess Towards South- erm Resteration. In the House of ‘Representatives on Tuesday last there were two important propositions adopted looking to the reconstruction and restoration of the excluded Southern States. We may say they were of the highest import- ance, as indicating » two-thirds vote in favor of comprehensive reeonstruction, embracing the reorganization of the States coneerned from the disorganized condition in which they stood when first disarmed as members of a hoa- tile confederacy. The first of these propositions was in the shape of a resolution from Mr. Wentworth, of Illinois, to this effect—that in response to the President’s Message on the status of the lately insurgent States, still excluded from Congress, “the House finds in their many acts of disloyalty since tts last adjournment, as well as in the recent elections in the loyal States, additional reasons for insisting on the adoption of the pending constitutional amendment before it will consider the propriety of giving such States Congressional representation.” Mr. Ancona (democrat), of Pennsylvania, moved to lay this resolution on the table, and the yeas and nays being ordered, the call resulted—yeas thirty-two, nays one hundred and nineteen, whereupon the resolution was adopted without a division. It will thus be “seen that nearly four-fifths of the House are in favor of adhering to the amendment as a basis of Southern resto- ration. We may conclude, therefore, that as the next Congress, lately elected, is substan- tially the present Congress over again, thigre- solution is fixed to the 4th of March, 1869, and covers the question whether the excluded States shall or shall not be admitted into the Presidential election of 1868. This is a matter worth considering by the unrecognized States; for it is morally certain that, unless their balance of power is brought into the scales, the approaching Prasidontiai election will resnit in ahother lease of power to the dominant party, executive ag well as legislative. But the second proposition to which we have referred aims at the cutting out of these Southern embarrassments by the root. It was putin the form of a resolution from Mr. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, institet- ing the Committee on Territories “? inquire {NW the aepotianae -¢ «o--sting @ bill pro- viding Territorial governments for the several districts of country within the jurisdiction of the United States formerly occupied by the once existing States of Virginia, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala- bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, and giving to all adult male inhabi- tants therein, born within the limits of the “United States, or duly naturalized, and not participants in the late rebellion, full equal political rights in such Territorial govern- ments.” This. sweeping proposition was adopted— yeas one hundred and seven, nays thirty- seven—s vote of nearly three-fourths of the House. To be sure, this is a mere inquiry ordered, but the vote indicates the opinion, and, probably, the fixed purpose of both houses. The bill, we expect, will in due sea- son be reported, and from this preliminary vote we infer that, if put to the test, it can be passed over the President’s veto, when it will be a law of the land. We believe, however, that if inthe meantime the excluded States, even as now organized, adopt the pending constitutional amendment and shape their local governments and Congressional elections so as to meet its conditions, they will be admitted into Congress after the example of Tennessee. It is because of the intractable and defiant spirit manifested by the ruling politicians of the States concerned that Mr. Broomall proposes the extreme remedy of reducing them not only to the condition of Territories, but to’ the control of their black population. Think of that—a South Carolina Territorial Logislature of blacks making laws for Wade Hampton. It is between this extreme and-awful remedy and the constitutional amendment that the unreconciled States have to choose—a choice Of aralivating treatment of calomel and jalap, or a little of the sweet spirits of nitre witli some tincture of rhubarb. Nor can we pro- mise that any very long margin of time will be allowed fora decision upon the subject. We seriously entertain the opinion, nevertheless, that if Sonth Carolina, for example, within a month or two shall adopt the amendment and frame her local institutions, and -hér elections accordingly, she will be restored asa State without being subjected, to this threatened Territorial ordeal. The warnings which we have so repeatedly given the States and people concerned are now reduced to “a fixed fact.” Nothing better will be offered them than the consti(utional amendment, and if it is not very s00n accepted something much worse will assuredly follow. ‘Tae Evacuation or Rome.—By this time the Eternal City is freed from the presonce of the foreign gatrison which has so long vexed the sight of its inhabitants. To them the very name of a Frenchman has become odious and synonymous with despotism. Their aspira- tions fora share in the work of regenerating Italy were defeated through the instrumentality of these foreign mercenaries. It may, there- fore, be safely assumed that their departure furnished occasion for congratulations and re- joicings such as have not been witnessed for ages in the city of the Cesars. The question now arises, what disposition is to be made of the Pope? That he can continue to wield power as a temporal prince is out of the ques- tion. Were the Italian government disposed to make an arrangement guaranteeing him ever so limited a political jurisdiction, it would be unable to full its pledges. For a brigf perlod matters might go on in this way, but the will of the people would s9o% break through all restraints. The inhgitants of the Roman States are not lees animated by the spirit of patriotiem than the rest of their countrymen. They will no longer tglerate being held in the ecclesiastical bond- age which hag singled out their condition as one of almost hopeless shame and reproach. If the Holy Father decides to continue in Rome we may look for rioting and bloodshed. No Troops that Victor Emanuel can send thers will be prevailed upon to act against the popu- lace. The few mercenaries in the Pope’s service would be scattered like chaff in a general Tt was only the knowledge Bete dea hack that protected 6 small French force that has so long gqccu- piod the city against the people. It fay be that Plo. anortelating these fot, wil) anttol- ; ’ ; NEw YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DEUEMBER 6, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. pate the grim necessity that stares bim in the face and voluntarily betake himself with the Sacred College, to Avignon or Malte, This would be the wisest thing he could do. It would enlist the sympathies of the Christian world in his behalf and secure for him such a provision as would compensate him for the shadowy royalty which he now enjoys. Divested of its embarrassments he will be in- finitely more respected and able to promote the interests of the Church, He will make a great mistake if he abides the issue of a struggle for the maintenance of his power. While his doing so can in nowise alter the result, it will expose him to the odium of allowing blood to be unnecessarily shed in his behalf. The Revolutionary Movement in Great Britain—John Bright’s Warning. When John Bright said in his speech at St. James’ Hall in London, on Tuesday, that if Parliament resisted the rights of the people the movement. which is now only an expression of opinion would become a great exhibition of power, he spoke the last word before the blow. That expression was probably the final warning which the British aristocracy will receive from that influential quarter. The movement of which John Bright is the leader, although ostensibly for Parliamentary reform, bas a deeper and more significant purpose, and in all probability will develop itself into a total overthrow of monarchical and aristocratic rule in Great Britain. Occurring at the time when the people of Ireland are on the eve of assert- ing the right of that portion of the British empire to an independent republican goveru- ment, the cause of the two peoples becomes in a measure identical, The same system of landocracy, the supremacy of a Church es- tablished by law, and misrepresentation in Parliament whieh inspiréi Oe movement tives strength to the other. The reform question in England is not a new one. Fenianism in Ireland is not the growth of to- day. It has lived and grown for centuries, from the sapling to the towerin tree whose roots are in the soil of Ireland hut whose branches are spread over every land, from Australia to the furthermost point of British North America. It has but assumed a new shape in our time, and taken the form of a military organization, which owes its power in a great measure to our recent war, where its leaders wore trained on the field, fighting for republi- can institutions in America. The contagion of republicanism, if we may call it so, has been spreading for years to Ireland by agencies which it is unnecessary to recall to mind. The interchange of thought ; the stories of prosper- ity acquired under a system of self govern- ment like ours ; the vindication of free manhood brought out under that system—all these in- fluences have been at work in Groat Britain and all over Europe. Inasmuch as the seeds have evidently not fallen upon a rock, we can- not be surprised to see the plants growing flourishingly and the fruit ripening. The reform movement means something more than the redress of a few grievances or the accomplishment of universal suffrage. ‘There is a general discontent underlying the agitation which has already assumed » most menacing character and may involve the whole aristocracy in ruin, if that class persists in ite stiffnecked opposition to the popular will, Jobn Bright’s language at the London meeting was a threat, and that, too, backed by the whole masses of the English people and echoed by the murmurs of indipient insurrec- tion in Ireland. It can hardly be supposed that while the Fenians are demanding an inde- pendent Irish republic they would object to 4 united republic of Great Britain and Ireland, because the evils of which they complain— namely, the ascendancy of the aristocratic land owners, the Established Church, which has to be supported by a people who reject its doctrines, and the supremacy of the British crown, to which they have nover voluntarily submitted—would all be removed if the revo- lutionary reform movement in England were to culminate in the overthrow of monarochical power. In view of these facts we can hardly separate the interests of Bright’s agitation and the Fenian movement in Ireland. There fs a joint significancy in them which cannot be mis- taken. The American flag, carried by Bright’s reformers at the great procession on Monday, was the type of republicanism; the music of the “Wearing of the Green,” to which they - marched, was the representative of the Fenian sentiment in the gathering. We take.all those signs and demonstrations to moan that there is danger to aristocratio rule in Graat Britain in Jobn Bright’s warning. A Persona, Annoyance.—Some parties, pro- bably connected with some bogus news specu- lation, are now in the habit of sending to our office Inte at night proof sheets filled with items of stale news taken from the Heratp and other journals of the preceding day. This puts us to the unnecessary trouble of looking over a batch of bogus te’ ms. It is an annoyance, and we hope tue parties with whom it originates will put a stop to it. Tae dinin. Bovrwett AND THE ARREST OF Surrart.—The explanat‘on made by Mr. Bout- well in the House of Reprosentatives on Tues- day of his remarks in the republican caucus, in regard to the case of Surratt, does not relieve him from the imputation of having sought to give currency to a most malicious and unfounded charge against the President. Thero is not a radical in either House, no matter how fanatical, who attaches the least credence to it, As to the formal inquiry threatened, the thing is too absurd to be per- severed in, Its only effect would be to cover 8) Concerned with ridicule. Let us just look ‘At the facts of the case as they stand, divested ot their unfair coloring. It was in the col- umns of the Henatp and through the medium of @ cable despatch that the first announce- ment was made of the attempt to capture ay Sach egcurate knowledge existed RHE Dosartent as to ths octane so far back as May last, as Mr. Boutwell asserts, we need scarcely say that through some of our active correspondents abroed the readers of the Heratp would have had the information as soon as the De- partment ut assuming the fact to be 0, is that = reason for founding upon it 80 foul ao imputation against the President and the Secretary of State, who is equally involved in the ? Do Mr. Boutwell and abetting him in this 1 Secs a. wae . Beery one knows the ifficulties attending tho arrest of osoaned , Hmoaryat Antinge. fp Go SALAS .Gom In the House of Representatives on Tuesday Mr. Darling, of New York, introduced a bill for the election of a delegate to Congress for the Distriet of Columbia, The bill, which was read twice and referred to the Committee for the District, provides that all male persons twenty-one years old, citizens of the United States and resident one year in the District, shall vote at the election. Ce n'est que le premier pas qui cote, and this is the first step towards impartial suffrage. There is no telling to what remote consequences it may lead in the progressive future, It is eminently fit and proper as well as perfeetly fair and constitutional that this step should be taken first in the District of Columbia; for there can arise no dispute as to the exclusive juris- diction which, according to the express terme of the constitution, Congress possesses over this tract of terrilory. Here, ander the direct eye and hand of Congress, and also under the most favorable conditions, the experiment can be immediately, fully and fairly tried of unl. vereal suffrage and of the territorial jurisdic- tion which so many Congressmen seem eager to extend over the lately insurgent States. The claims of the District of Columbia to the territorial right of representation by a dele- gate in the lower house are, to aay the least, equal to those of any other terri- tory. In numbers and wealth and direct interest in the national welfare its population might assert precedence over many ® more vast, but comparatively unpeopled tract, which has nevertheless been raised to the dig- nity and privileges of representation in Con- gresa, And the impulse which such a political elevation could not fail to give the inhabitants of the District along every line of their ad- vancing prosperity would be felt not only tharé, but throughout the Union, wasttnsiatt itself would become more truly metropolitan than ever—a city not only of magnificent dis- tances, but of magnificent advantages of every kind—a desirable permanent residence for citizens from all parts of the country. The native born citizen of the District would no longer feel condemned, as it were, to an infe- rior political status, his pride in his birth place would be stimulated and he would gaze with new exultation at the dome of the Capitol when he and his fellow-citizens should be rep- resented in Congress by a delegate of their own election. Besides the political benefits which would accrue to the District from the bill proposed by Mr. Darling, other inestimable social and material benefits would be added. The recent rapid growth of population would increase, the rising value of real estate would be en- hanced, public and private buildings would be multiplied, the influence of the colleges at Washington and Georgetown would’ be quick: ened and new churches and school houses would be erected. The great progress which has been made since 1857, when only about one half of the white children in the District were receiving school education, would be ac- celerated and the experiment of educating col- ored children might be tried on a scale of na- tional importance. Finally, when the District of Columbia shall have a delegate of its own in Congress, Senator Sumner may be relieved (to the relief of nota few citizens.of the Dis trict) from his self-appointed task of acting as a volunteer delegate in its behalf. Perhaps he will then have more time to attend to his own constituents in Massachusetts. criminals on a foreign soil, more especially where no extradition treaty exists. In the case of Surratt these ee oe by the aid'and sympathy w! #0 many who are hostile to aie scene were ready to afford him. The State Department may have been acquainted with the fact that he had left the country at the period stated; but it by no means follows that it had succeeded in tracking him through his various disguises and places of refuge until it located him in Rome. One thing we are satisfied of, and that is, that he was pounced upon as soon as there was & reasonable probability of his capture being effected. Until then the agents of the Depart- ment were compelled to proceed with as much caution and reserve as possible. As it was the criminal was very near making his escape. The distortion of facts so simple into a charge of complicity against the President is one of the most lamentable phases of our present transition state. Nothing seems too wild or extravagant for the imagination of political partisans to conjure up as @ means of damag- ing an opponent. The employment of calum- nies co reckless is at all times indefensible, but as used towards the Executive they should be scouted with indignant reprobation. The Herald’s Mysterious Influence Over Mundane Affairs. The mysterious influence of the Heratp is beginning to passinto a proverb. In small things or great, politics or theatricals, states- manship or yachling, this influence is always perceptible and always aggravating to our contemporaries. These philosophers are ap- parently very anxious to edit the Heraup for us, They kindly tell us what we ought to say, what side we ought to take, what party or per- son we Sught to support. Very much an- Nidyed at discovering that we do not follow their advice, thoy gre gtill wore inaignant when they find that we come out right after all. They told us ‘at we were mistaken in think- ing Grant a great general, and assured us that McClellan véj the real hero of the war; but Grant fought on in bis own way and con- Pris zo tac quered, while McOielian fizzled out. They up- braided us for predicting President Lincoln’s re-election ; but when the votes were counted our prediction was verified. They bitterly de- nounced us for suggesting the constitutional amendment. abolishing slavery; but that amendment is now part of the supreme law of tbe land. They opposed the new constitutional amendmenfnow pending ; but we revived that measure as a basis of restoration, and the ‘whole North has emphatical!y endorsed it. They wanted us to sustain Hoffman for Gover- nor, assuring us that he would: certainly be elected ; but we thought and said otherwise, and Hoffman was defeated. They swore that Miles O’Reilly never could be chosen Register ; but oaths went for nothing, and Miles holds the office. Such are a few instances of the mysterious influence of the Heratp, according to these philosop! The election of Richard B. Connolly to the Comptrollership is another case in point. The political managers had apparently made up their minds not to nominate this modern Dik Whittington, as Oakey Hall calls him: Every- body informed us that the “ring” would cer: tainly stick to Brennan, no matter how many cards of resignation or withdrawal might be written, and everybody argued that we would have to go for blarneying Mike Connolly in order to break the “ring.” That seemed to be @ pretty good argument; but unfortunately we upset it by hinting that Judge Barnard could smash the “ring” as well as Mike Connolly, and would be altogether a more acceptable candidate. The'so-called reformers would not accept Barnard, because he was too good for the place, and the Haratp would not endorse Mike Connolly because he was too bad for the place. After a time, however, it became evi- dent that the mysterious influence of tho Heratp had been at work once more, and even the most obtuse politicians perceived that Bren- nan was really out of therace. Then Dick Con- nolly, who has been slipping and sliding from one thing to another ever since he landed with his bundle, fresh-from Ireland, in 1826, sud- denly slipped into the regular demooratic nomination. This astonished the wiseacres, who at once declared that he was nominated to be defeated; that he ‘would be cheated and ‘swindled; that: Justice Joe’ Dowling was going to carry the Sixth ward for Kelly, and that Dick was sold ont all around. Again the mysterious influence of the Herat was quieily exercised, and the cheating ceased or wns ineffectual. The result'is the suécess of the best of the three candidates, in spite of Kelly’s Trepublican strength, Mike Connolly’s Fonian- ism and everybody's prophecy that the Herato would be wrong for once. By-and-by it will be distinctly understood in all circles that the Heratp is never wrong. More infallible than the Pope, with whom we are compelled to find fault occasionally, we move in a mysterious way our w > nders to perform; but we are sure to come ow: «cht at the end and modestly de- servo the envious plaudits of our baffled con- temporarics .nd mistaken advisers. Ex-Governor Eyre and the Jamalea Come mittee. Tho leading journals of England are still occupied with discussions on the conduct of Governor Eyre and the probability or im- probability of his being brought ultimately to trial. Public sentiment on the subject seems as much divided as ever. The muscular Chris- tians, as arale, and the great body of the tory party unite in regarding Mr. Eyre as a model governor, and therefore as # much. injured tan ; whereas the people -generally, inch all those in every class who are afflicted wit . What the first Napoleon was wont to call “mis- taken humanity,” see In him only the incarna- tion of cruelty and an open and undieguised enemy of public liberty, The truth, perhaps, fa to be found midway between these two ex- trémed, Mr. Eyre, we believe, is’ neither so bad ashis make him. ‘He was called upon to act, and:te « act with vigor, in circumstances of peculiar difficulty, It. is scarcely fair to “apply the or- dinary laws of conduct to the actions of respon- sible rulers in times of gteat public excitement, In such persons on such occasions certain dis- cretionary powers must be supposed to be. lodged. The good man and the bad man are equally liable to give way to some immediate and powerful impulse. ‘Time and the result alone can determine whether those discretion- ary powers have been abused and what has been the real character of the action. We have no hesitation in saying that if the rising in Ja- maica had been less promptly suppressed and the blood of a few thousand whites had been shed, the cruelty and judicial murder laid to the charge of Mr. Eyre would never have been heard of. At the same time much interest attaches to this expected’ trial. Such scenes are less familiar to the world now than of old. In the palmy days of the ancient Roman republic trials of this kind were by no means uncom- mon, and some of the most magnificent spocta- cles which the City of the Seven Hills ever presented were witnessed on those occasions, The only event in modern times with which they may be compared is the celebrated trial of Warren Hastings, which took place amid circumstances of pomp and splendor such as perhaps England alone at that time of all the nations of the earth could presont—a trial which Macaulay has embalmed in imperish- able language, and of which Hastings himeelf sald that one generation had witnessed its and another generation wit- Neseed its close. We do not for a moment mean to compare the ex-Governor of Jamaica with the {llustrious Proconsul of India. There ‘was a magnificence about Hastings, small in stature as he was—a magnificence about his virtues as woll as his vices, to which Mr. Eyre oan never pretend. We have no expectation that the trial, if it should take place, will proach that of Hastings, elther in intorens OF attractiveness. But in these times of tive dulness it will have in it the giement of novelty, and it is not impossible that it may tend to throw light on some important sad qnhestions. As the Frogutive hgg refused to jmoeach Mr, A Senstece Movement rs tae Unrren Stans Suvate.—The Senate very properly refused on® Tuesday to take up the biil passed so hur- riedly by the House, repealing that section of the confiscation act which gives the President power to grant a general amnesty to those lately engaged in rebellion against the govern- ment of the United States. Mr. Fessenden, who led off in opposition to this nasty legisla- tion, refused to expreas any opinion on the merits of the bill in question, but stated that he objected to the passage of such an import- ant measure until it had been duly considered in committee. The motion to take up the bill was lost only by a tie vote; but it ts to be hoped that the hint will mot be disregarded by the but will induce them to recognize the Bett Gouctte of the United States is something more than # more caucus of vio- lent and vindictive partisans. Tan Start vor tax Yacut Race,—The steamer Island Queen has been chartered by the New York Yacht Club to convey the mem- bors and their guests down the bay to wi the start for the great Atlantic yacht race next Nor so good as his friends would -,