The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR PT FIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 875. v-iame XXXx1 \MUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Broome sateen te MROADWAY THEATRE. Broatway, near #ireet.—Huin at Law—Forrr Wives, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Botol. —Cxs paitcon. GERMAN THALIA THEATLE, No. $1¢ Broadway.— Dus Waissa Vox Lowoop, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tas Orana or me JUAN. DODWORTH'S HALL. 696 Broad: wut Peerora ms Mimaciss —T1 Mo.rom in Panvo. STEINWAY HALL, Vourteenth street.—Gaanp ComPtt- urxtany Concent ro Miss Hanuierzs Buxos. =Paorewon Hants (EAD IN TAH MAE TEAMCISOD MINUTRELS, 906 Brostwar, oposite Meta tite ine euaenee Fics Soi ium -! on Lova's Kazouas. FIFTH AYRXUE OP:RA HOUSE. Nos. 2. and 4 Woes” Lorre —Bi1 x. eae ton “Meuasavan ac. Yean's i a KELLY & LRON'S MINSTREL @ite the A og se Putewiore. Matinee gis te TONY PASTOR'S OPRLA 1073S, 291 Conta Voos.ism—Nacro Minsremcer, Baccur ris — Facrort Gtais, om tHe Ins AnD Ours oF Wate RURT. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, a} Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brosiway—(s a Vantery or Lion Pad Lo ed ‘Krranraixaarts, Conre om Batter. £0, = Vict, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Cuaxixa tHe SxconD—Tue Forty Tuisves. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraiorran Min. groxtst, artans amp Bumiasqvas.—A Horaaa Tur Anovxy tux Worse, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATONY, 618 Broadway. — Excrcune wren tux Oxy-Hyonooss . Mrozoacore twice eat); » ag tae ap Rigut ARM or Paosst. Open from 3 Now York, Seuceten, January 10, 1807. * EUROPE, By the Atlantic cable wo havo a news report dated to ue Oth of January. ‘The London Times again advocates an arbitration of the American claims against England, The writer thtoks that the law officers of the twe countries could frame satisfactory case, Cabiust changes are looked for in England. Napoleon's plan of army réorgauization is likely to be » Opposed by the Council of State of Franco, Bayuria ws to reorganize her army. A voszel named the Harvest Queen, from Swansea for Baltimore, has been lost at sea, All bands, with the @xception of ono man, perished. Consols were at 91 for money in London yesterday. Uniied States five-twenties wore at 7234. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was dull during the day with fightor sales. CONGRESS. "Enthe Senato yesterday the bill retativeto she mode of appointing Pension agents wasealied up, but ‘ite far. ithor consideration was postponed after a short, disgus- sion, The bili to admit Nebraska was then ‘wp, ang Mr. Browa’s amendment imposiag | was defeaed. Mr, Edmonds’ snbstitute imposing’ the Game couditions waa agreed to, and the bill as emended ‘waz passod, by 24 yeas to 15 nays. Tho Colorado admis. gion bili was then taken up and passed, 23 yeas to 11 nara The conditic contained in this bill, A bill a admilt dis- tinction of color in the elective franchise or other civil and political rights inthe Territories was called up, but, ponding ite consideration, the Senate adjourned. In tho Houso, Mr, (hanicr on a question of privilege said that his vote’on the impeachment resolutions had boon misrepresented vy the Associated Prose reporters, aud he offered a resolution that said reporters be placed under the same rules and regulations as the reporters of te Glole, which was referred to the Committee on Rules, A joint resolution appointing a commisston of New York citizens to purchase the site fora post office in New York city, in accordance with the report submitted to the Secretary of the Int-rior and the Postmaster Gen- eral, was passed after considerable debate. Reports from tho Sccretary of War, “ecretary of the Navy and the Attorney General were received from the President. After some urther unimportant business the House ad- Journed. ‘The partial list of rebels pardoned, which was fur. nished to the House im the Attorney Gencral’s report, is pubdlivhed in another column of the Hxrarp this morn.vy. THE LEGISLATURE In the Serato vesteran: As given of Intention to introduce bits for an and ratway in Now at frauds in ng out of streets and parks under control of ors; aud to lay a railroad were introduced to amend giving the Police \ ommissioners ney power bE an excise create a Metr » Harbor Dis Wharves and sj and to establish a Metropolitan Board ot Pubic Works A resolution calling for an in- ‘vestigation of ullaved cutrages om American citizens in Canoda was parses. Inthe Assciib'y thefoncurrent relation ratitytag the amendment to the constitution was receved from Notte were eivea of fotention to tatro- ra railroad in avenue C; for an underground railway ; to re ro of railroad passengers when net provided , relative to tne tenure of office in New ¥ +1 of public works, and to da Board of incorporate Mrookiyn Forry Railroad Company. & sced to incorporate the Prookiyn M And to authorize the Me tropolitan Tra, mpanf ko Construct certain rat!- roadsia New York tity. A resolation, declaring it to be the ditty of Cougress to adinit the Southern States aftor they have ratified avd conformed to tho constitu tional amendment, Wax introduced and roferred. A motion that the ‘ommiltee on lublic Health mate a thorough examination of the tonemcat houses in Now ‘York was inid on the tabie, MISCELLANEOVS. Tho Solicitor General of Canada has ordered the re- taoval of the condemned Fenian prisoners coufined at Voronto§to the provincial penitentiary, where they are to work out their commutation term of twenty ‘years, Great indignation ia manifested by the members of the Queen's Own at the commutation of the prisoners’ sen- tonces. The trial of the other Fenians in the Toronto Jail commences to-day. General Howard's mission through the Soughern States fs said to have been for the purpose of observing the Status of tho southern people, and possibly may have had some connection with the impeachment scheme, Our New Orleans correvpondent eays that General Casteineau and Maximilian have come to a secret under- Banding, and are, it is believed, favorably inclined to- ‘ward the rostoration of Juaror to the Mexican Presidency ‘by the middie of next mouth, The Virginia Legislature rejected the constitutional @mendmont yesterday, only one membor voting for it Whe Kansas Legisiatare mot om Tuesday and received ‘tho Governor's mesonge, Tho Wisconsin and Minnesote Legislatures met yesterday. ‘The Board of Education mot last evening and elected Commissioner McLean President for tho present year. No other business of special intoroat came up. A gheck for $6,909, purporting to have beon drawn by day Cooke & Co., was presented to the Fourth National Bank on Monday, but was immediately pronounced a forgery, and the person who presented it, an Irish boy but recentiy arrived in this country, was detained Francis D. Dean, of No. 64 Cedar street, is said to have niven the check to the boy for presentation, and as he has disappeared from hie office the dotectives are in wearch of him, The boy was committed for examioa- Hon, Forty-four polley dealers were held to ball in #600 each in the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday. an incendiary attempt to barn a tecoment house on te cornor of Adams and Piymouth sircots, Brooklyn, war dissovered yosterday before any damage was done except the escape of the would-bo incendiary. In tho Superior Court yesterday, before Judge MeCygn, . | on its legs again. But among the speeches on NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 ern restoration and in the constitution as secu- rity for the future. So muob, then, for this Conneotioat Demo- IWRT question involving the right of @ State court to dis. charge a soldier onlisted in the United Staics army, came up on the retura of @ writ of habeas corpus in the mat- ter of John W. Griffith, who, it is claimed, ts a enimer, The government claims that at the time of entistment | cratic Com Brooks “has spoiled it, as} | Wher rz sautanating of camtimance ond injarions tho prisoner awore that he was over eighteen years of | Forney wpoiled the game of Che radicals of | time boon carried on between Apaln ant soveral Amert- age, and disputes the writ ow that ground, Decision re- | Baltimore, by threatening another rebellion. a neue cnt Ut diene renne k seeved. a Of the same State rights staple as these Con- the Auaatle const e.. the Court of Common Pleas yesterday the case of | nectiout resolutions those of the ee te an een emetaiat te ho Remiive Be, tederick Seytoll against the National Currency Bank wane awe permest garerament, that friendly offices was argued, the question being whether a businoes firm | Sth of the Ohio democracy et Columbus, Wenef peace and harmoay in South Ameri cluding # recommendation for a national con- vention. But there is something of the Vallan- digham Yrus in the Ohio resolution referring to the radical majority “of the o-called Coa- gress” at Washington. What does this mean but that this “so-called Congress” is not « Congress; that it is an illegal body; that ite acts and those of each: preceding Congress, back to the secession of the Southern delegs- tions of 1861, are all null and voldand go for nothing—national debt, ourrency, bonds, ebo- is obliged to know if @ government bond is stolen or not before purchasing. The defendants claimed that if such a rale were gatablished It would depreciate the value of the bonds aaa nogotiable security. The decision is reserved, > George Wagner, the wife anurderer, wes yesterday sentenced, at the General Term of the Supreme Court, to be executed on the Ist day of March next. In the Supreme Court, General Term, yesterday, the Krausbauer, Claus and Raurchardt, which came up on ‘appeal from the lower court, en indictments for viels- tions of the Excise Jaw, thdrawn, the questions wish bim complete success. i. dh i aaah eameemanee suite Rebs invelved having been ‘Glaposed of by the receat | lition ofslavery and everything else? ments which has been isqued for maay years decision of the Court of Appesis afiirming the consutu- } From all these foreshadowing what ts to be | past is the lettor of the Ital ian Premier, Barom yr eros nlbing net the democratio programme for 18681 Wehave | Ricasali, to the exiled bishops resident in Im the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge @malley, the case of Smerider va. Barney, late Collector of the Port of New York, was brought tos conclusion, after a lengthened trial, The plaintiff sought te recover from the fefeadant certain duties on delaine: @0ods alleged te have deen illegally levied. The jury found « verdict for the government. This was what ts called a Gest trial, and it involves asum of nearly om willion of dollérs. The government regard it as @ very Important verdict in their favor. Mn the Marine Court yesterday, in the case of Holland va. Zimmerman, which was an action to recover damages for cruel treatment on the high seas, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $150. ‘The steamship Eagle, Captain Greene, will sail from Pier No. 4 North river, at twelve o'clock to-day for Ha- vane direct, The mails will close at the Post Office at ne sign. indicating eny dhange from the Chi- cago platform—no abandonment of those old | ' sate Tights potions which went Gowan with the rebelilon. It would really seem 68 if, against Congress, under cover of the admisidtation bon leaders expect to work up euch os state of political confusion and delay in reconstruction as will eventually — result im bringing the outside Southern States and the old defiant Southern oligarchy back again into Congress as they were, with even the institution of negro slavery practically revived and in full blast. Against the plan of opera- ;. It fs remarkable, not alone because it “aete forth, eetagy, te..an teouc-ced |: Sageeey re es the ultimatum upon tha. ; question of Churoh. spiritual and -muthority, bat because it in- volvesa magnificent recognition of the prin- ciples of the American government and people and the institutions of these United States, as expressed, acted upon and successfully estab- lished in the face of doubt and fear and mis- representation for the last three-quarters of a century. The success of our principles of religious campaigns haif-paat ten. tions thus suggested the true course of Con- | liberty being recognized and adopted by Italy, ae. ks eiensarau tn deine ali gress and the republican party is very plain. | the cradle of religious bigotry, renders the cir- cumstances surrounding this letter of Ricasoli more significant, while, at the samo time, it proves the wisdom and foresight of that states- man in anticipating the views which before long must be arrived at by other European States, both Catholic and Protestant. The unnatural alliance of Church and State was fully comprehended and wisely guarded against by the founders of this republic. It has taken eome time for the nations of the Old World to comprehend the spirit whioh has preserved us from the unhappy con- flicts that have arisen elsewhere between elements, which experience has taught many of them, bitterly and bloodily, are radio- ally discordant and cannot be reconciled. The difficulties of Italy hinge upon this question of Church supremacy in matters of State, and it is brought toa fine point by Ricasoli, when he cites the action of the Catholic Counoil at Balti- more, and hopes that Italy may soon enjoy “the magnificent and. “| ‘teeter affortied to the free citié States, whettia religious doctrines sre sdisguyped,and whose. Dssairpe by, the Pope; will be. and extecuted in- every town and. Hore eur example ts’ ‘held up to the people and the Church tn Italy as.one from which civil and religious liberty may inherit its most substantial birthright. He goes’ farther into the condition of affairs which exist in this country when be presents this truthful and ploasant ploture of religious 08 i is enjoyed hore, He says :—“ In the nited States overy citizen is free to follow the that he may think best, aad to worship the Divinity in the form that may seem to him most appropriate. Side by side with the Catholic church rises the Protestant temple, the Mussulman mosque, the Chinese pagoda. Side by side with the Romish olorgy the Gen- evan consistory and the Methodist assombly exercise their office. This state of things generates neither confusion nor clashing. And why is this? Beoause no religion askgeithor special protection or privileges from the State. Each lives, develops and is followed under the protection of the common law, and the law, equally respected by all, guarantees to all an equal liberty.” While restoring the exiled bishops to their sees and guaranteeing them all the protection of the laws, the Italian government, speaking through its first Minister, admonishes them that they must demand no privileges not consonant with law and civil liberty; that they cannot be considered simply the pastors of souls as long as they seek to be “the instruments and de- fenders of a power at variance with national aspirations.” In other words, it is decreed that hereafter, ia reconstructed Italy, there shall be as absolute « separation between the exercise of spiritual euthority and affairs of State as has always existed in the United States with such happy results in behalf of progress and civili- sation. ‘ This declaration on the part of the Italian goverament cannot fail to preduce an electrical effect upon all Europe, and while it will tend to solve the difficulties of Italy, resting as they do upon the very pivot on which the vital issue between Italian freedom and Church inter- ference with the civil government turns, it will cause an awakening of other States upon this subject that may lead to a complete revolution. For example, England, which through Its press and statesmen has been for years taunting Italy with its traditionary evils of religious bigotry and its concomitants of ignorance and popular oppression, may be led to discover from the example of that hitherto benighted country that the social evil of her own Established Church, with all ite rich emoluments bestowed upon the hierarchy at the cost of the people, to the great disgast of the dissenters of all creeds, the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Unitarians, the Universatists and the largo body of Catho- lies ia Great Britain and Ireland, must be abolished if she would not take « lower the grade of oivilization than Italy. We may look for simi- Prussia, @ Protestant coun- The people of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, are strongly agitating the removal of the seat of government for tho island to thas point. ‘Mre. Lincoln was presented with a medal on Monday last, in Chicago, by a gentleman from France, on bebalf of thirty thousand French people in token of their respect for the memory of Abraham Lincoln. General and Mra, Grant gave a grand reception at their residence iu Washington yestorday. An application for additional warrants against the lead- ing hotel keepers in Boston, for violation of the liquor laws, has been refused on the ground that there is not sufficient proof against them. ‘The revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch, now lying at Now Orleans, has received orders to leave for Havana on Fri- day, there to await sealed ordera, Her officers are of }- opinion that her mission is connected with that of the Gettysburg party which left Annapolis recently. Ben Butler has commenced suit against ‘Brick’ Pom- eroy, the editor of a Western paper, for libel, laying damages at $100,000. A Nashville fireman found himself recently heir to an unexpected fortune of $150,000. The fish breeding project inaugurated by the Now Hampehire Legisiature several years ago has become a- successful venture. ‘The stock market was dull and lower yesterday. Gold closed at 1834. “Iwatmost ail tranches of tradp dusiness was limited, thera being 20 demand beyond the immediate require- |. nents of the trade, and priges still continued torule in ‘Gavor. ey ‘the buyer. Cottam, though more ective,: tally 340, ‘Coffee was steady, On ‘Change r wae ‘Jess sought for, though wachanged in value. Wheat was without maaterial change. Onta were dull and lower. Corn also was a shade easier. Pork opened heavy but closed firm. Beef was quite active, though heavy. Lard ‘was quiet and tending downward. Freights were quiet but steady. Whiskey was nominal. Naval — steady. Petroleum unchanged. ‘The Movements ef the Bourben Demecracy— ‘The Contest of 1868. Ye The democracy im verious places have been celebraling the anniversary of General Jack- son’s victory of New Orleans—a victory to which the party is indebted for its successfal débit under Old Hickory. With his retire- ment from the stage, however, began the decline and fall of their empire, and now from a succession of crushing defeats, beginning in 1860, they are in the condition of a routed and scattered army, without a leader and with- Sut any definite plan of offensive or defensive operations. In this condition let us see what is the drift of these 8th of January celébrations. We turn first to the banquet at Washington, at which old Mr. Blair, the father of the irre- pressible Blair family, was the presiding genius. The general proceedings of this meeting were those of a mutual admiration society; but there was at least one character in it and one proposition submitted worthy of special atten- tion. We refer to President Johnson, who was among the invited guests, and to his toast— “No State, of its own will, has a right under the constitution to renounce iis place in or withdraw from the Union; nor has the Con- gress of the United States the constitutional power ‘to degrade the people of any State by reducing them to the condition of mere Terri- torial dependencies upon the federal head. The one is a disruption and dissolution of the government; the other is consolidation and the exercise of despotic power.” How far this despotic power was provisionally exercised by President Johnson over the rebel States in the absence of Congress is a question from which this toast might be answered. It will suffice, however, that what he assumed. the responsibility in doing, Congress has the right to do—that is, the. right to reconstruct the States rescued from the rebellion trom the beginning, and upon the terms justified by the grand issues of the war. The President’s toast is somewhat cloudy. Does it apply to the pending constitutional amendment? We do not know, and yet it was the nearest thing toa party platform that was offered at this democratic banquet. On the same day the democracy of Con- necticut had a grand mass convention at New Haven, at which a long string of rattling reso- lutions was adopted, sfrongly seasoned with the old-democratic leaven of State rights, glori- fying the Supreme Court of the United States and the President, denouncing Congress, and urging a national democratic convention with- out delay. There is nothing in aH this worthy of special remark, except the recognized neces- sity of s national convention to get the party It is to push through the pending constitutional amendment in the loyal States, holding to it as the test of Southern restoration; it is to make such needful revisions in our tariff, inter- nal revenue and currency loans as the condi- tion of the country demands, and leave the interpretation, of the constitution as to the powers of Congress, the President and the Sapreme Court to the great Union party of the war in the Presidential election of 1868. Upon this ground, discarding the dangerous counsels of all such violent Jacobins as Wen- dell Phillips, General Ben Butler, Ashley, of Ohio, and Wilson, of Iowa, the republican party, adhering to the general issues upon which the Thirty-ninth Congress was elected and upon which the fortieth Congress has been secured, can secure the Forty-firat with the next President. And why? Simply because the consolidated people of the all-powerful North are fixed in this resolution—that the late war shall not turn out a failure, Tho Amendment AbeMabing Siavery—The Bill to Define nnd Katorse Ic. On Taceday last: the House of Represente-" tives. pasted, by. He to 24, fricluding ‘many democratic votes, 6 611 te.explain aud enforce’ the thirteenth amendment to the constitutten of | the United Staten. The $bill. iss modification of the resolution introduced by Mr. Kasson, of Towa, on Monday for a similar purpose, It refers to the fact that the amendment ratified by three-fourths of the States has become s mes cnn ee in some parts and malntained, notwithstanding the amendment, to be lawful. to sell er otherwise commit into unofficial subjection to slavery persons who may be convicted of offences against the law, and consequently certain infe- rior tribunals have adjudged free citizens of the United States to be so disposed of as to re-establish chattel slavery for life, or for years, “against the principles of the Christian religion, of civilization and of the constitution of the United States, which now reeognizes no involuntary servitude except to the law and to the officers of its administration.” The bill, therefore, enacts that all who shell in any way participate in the sale or attempted sale of per- sons within the limits of the United States, or who shall hereafter hold in servitude any per- son so sold, “shall be held to be guilty ofa felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be im- prisoned for a period of time not exceeding two years, or fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court by which such offender shall be tried.” The amendment abolishing slavery declares that “neither slavery ner involuntary servi- tude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United Stetes or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” These terms are almost identical with those employed in the Jeffersonian ordinance of 1784, reporting a plan drawn up by Thomas Jefferson and providing for the government of all the Western territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual States to the United States. Thisterritory included not only what had already been ceded by the mote Northern States, and particularly the tracts northwest of the Obio surrendered by Vir- ginia, but also that portion which had not yet been, but it was expected would be, ceded tly North Carolina and Georgia, and which now forme the States of Tennessee, Alabama anil Mississippi. Under this ordinance Ohio, Indi- ana, Illinois and the rest were organized és free Territories and fully established as free States, according to the provision “that after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,” &. In adopting these terma of the Jeffersonian ordinance i the constitutional amendment it was thougit that, applied to the South, they would operate in the same way. But what arethe facts? In several of the Southern States, and especially in Maryland, freedmen, under this constitt- tional amendment, are taken up, convicted éf some petty offence, and under cover of the amendment are sold intoslavery for a term of os the occasion was a very ridiculous, incendiary harangue from the Hon. James Brooks, of New be restricted by this deoree of the government of Italy. Tie legitimate rights of the bishops 6 pastors of their flocks are in nowise in fringed upon. But that religious liberty, as laid down in the oonstitution of the United States and practised with such beneficent resulta, is recognized and pronounced, and, accepted as a model in a country where twenty years ago no one would have dreamed of seeing such a thing accomplished, is a happy omen of the future progress of our republican institutions which have been so vigorously opposed, so treachorously assailed and ao uni- vorsally aneered at as am experiment which was doomod to failure. efter his compulsory recantation of the theory that the world revolved around the sun, “but atl it moved!" 4375 SE Pho Poltoy of Count Blamarck as Explained oie yet a eae ‘| Count, Blamarek- of Lenssia,- Militery snoceve Wellington, at. the 2lege of those ‘tcings endmede him :the umpire of Europe, was scarcely greater than is Ceunt at the present moment. It és = position which pushes.even royalty into the shade. So, far as the estimate of posterity is concerned, who would exchange places with Bismarck and his royal mastert The hopes of the German peo- ple and the permanent peace of Europe are dependent more upon Bismarok than upon any other single individual. coupled with genius, can acoomplish. Count Bismarck has both genius and pluck, as the late German war and its results have abun- | dantly proved. It may be questioned, however, whother he was believed to be either so great oro daring a man as the speech which he recently delivered in the Prussian Chambers in justification of his policy, and of which we published the greater portion yestorday, proves him to be. An abler or more fearless speech in similar circumstances has seldom, if ever, been delivered. The conviction had become tolerably general that the astute Emperor of the French had at least one rival in Europe. Since the delivery of this speech this is no longer to be doubted. Napoleon has found in Bismarck an equal. Of Bismarck, indeed, it may safely be said that with fewer advantages he bas done more for his country than Napoleon has done for France. ‘honded Napoleon's favorite doctrine in rogatd. a powerful ‘kingdom, and its present ‘chief: minister can not..only quietly indulge the thought, but openly speak of the possibility not merely of resisting but of “beating” France. The Emporor Napoleon has had several bitter pills to swallow of late. Woe quostion if he has had any s0 bitter as this one. referred to to the eternal Schleswig-Holstein question—s question which many have vainly attempted to comprehend, and Which recently proved so stiffin the hands of a German pro- fessor that it aent him to a madhouse. his own point of view Count Bismarck puts the question, with tolerable clearness. The great value of the speech, however, consists in the light which it casita om the schemes of the Holy Alliance and the treaties of 1815, on the means by which gradually the European system then esjab the position which Prussia, in spite of “ll opposition, means to maintain. expressed to ‘Italy for her fidelity in holding true to the alliance which she had formed, although itis not difficult to see that tho present attitude of that power is regarded as somewhat doubtful. doubted, bas been annoyed and oven driven from his purpose by the meddling interference of Napoleon. No ono, however, can read his speech and refuse to,admit that he has abun- }. dantly justified his policy, and that in the event of any future complications he i resolved to maintain his ground, and, if need be, to cope even with the atrengthof France, is spared aud hos bis way, the union, under ‘one flag, of the entire German population will not be long dolayed. This speech may yet prove fruitful of Consequenoes. Br4.—The bill to establish negro suffrage in the District of Columbia has become a law over the President's veto. It stringently diefran- chises all participants in the late rebellion, and as stringently provides to give all negro meles of one year’s residence and over twenty-one years of age, not criminals or lunatics, the right to vote. Thus, what with the cutting down of the white vote and the bringing in of the fylt negro vote, Fred Douglas, or Downing, the oysterman, if he were to squat in Washing- ton now, might next year, or the year after; be elected Mayor of the city and entitled officially, on many grand occasions, to stand at the right hand of President Johnson or his successor in office. left the Senate to set up his Southern Confed- eracy that he would live to find himself shut up in Fortress Monroe and Sambo reigning in Washington in all his glory. Such things come OO objection. The Logislature should estatlise tin” Fates of wharfage by special enactment, wd whi)’ the piers and wharves should bo plang under s’ Commission, that commission ghoud be appointed by the executive head o/ the city government. _ This tinkering at reform, in tht interest of jobbwrs and speculators, is not what the city aska or expects at the hands of the Legislature. A comprebensive system, bring- ing direct responsibility to the people home te the city government, is what is really needed, snd this can only be accomplished by giving tothe Governor of the State the appointment of the executive head of the municipality, and Giving to that executive head the full power of sppointing and removing all subordinate boards end commissions. ‘Tho Now City Post Omice. We learn from Wasbiagion ‘that the report of the oominission appointed to select « site for & Post Office and United States Courts ia the city of New York ‘has ‘been approved by the . Postmaster: “But,” said Galileo, by Ritmeelt. wend 'g It is but seldom that @ political campaigns which won for him the’ homage’ of |: much patient waiting, going to haves very sweat novecsity sippliod. pany selected: Is the southern point of the City Hall Park, offezed te ‘¢he government by the ‘clty authorities, and accepted at the price asked—half o million of dollars. ‘ There is space enough in the useless old park, only ninety-aix thousand square feet of ground being required; but by reason of the crowded state of Broadway and the number of city rallroads that have their termini at that precise polat, the selection is not the best poa- sible. However, the selection is made, and we will say n@ more about it. The contemplated buildings will cost a mil- lion and a half, making, with the ground, a total of two millions. We must suppose that |.® million anda half at least is tho estimated cost, since the commission recommend an addi- tional appropriation to that amount. Now, ts rogard ¢o this appropriation, which appears te be ample, we advise the government to be very cautious. We cajl their attention to the caso of the New Court House now being erected behind the City Hall, on Chambers street, for which an appropriation of only half a million- was asked and granted, but which has cost from four to five times that amount, and is not yet completed; and further appropriations may be demanded before the city shall be put im possession of the building. Let themtake final action on this Post Office matter now, and after ascertaining from a competent engineer and architect ‘the sam of money necessary, whether uareor less than lad sitlicn and whalf, let eo It is amazing what pluck, especially when In his own walk Alone in Europe he fully compre- without éxequatur or.1-Pf Kentucky; whiok three or four times rejected the Constitutional Amendment abolishing alavery, bas just rejected im both houses the amendment for Southern restoration. “Ephraim is joined to his idols. Let him alone.” Reconsrrvcrep.—Daddy Price, of Missouri, not able to endure the United States and its t fes, went to Mexico to establish a new ‘don In that tranquil and happy country. Hie new Eden was @ failure, however, and Price has returned to the United States and been féled at New Orleans. Better than all, he says that he fs and always was. Union men. AFFAIRS IN BOSTON. We are indebted for the spooch above From SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. ‘The New Steamship Line to Liverpeol—Meet> ing of the Board of Trade—The Liquor Raté— Buneral Obsequies of Lieutenant Wilson, &e. Bostos, Mass., Jan. 9, 1887. The annual meoting of the Amorican Steamship Com pany, which {a,establishing @ newline between Boston and Liverpool, was held here to-day, On @ ballot for clerk, Hamilton A. Hill was unagimously re-clected. Tho old board of directors.was unnaimously re-elected, with the oxception of Heary P, Kidder, who declined, and W. Balok lished been broken up, and on Gratitude ts Bismarck, it is no longer to be be a success. The annual meeti hold-to-day, a which pew European steamship ae Spee ceemanae: Tf Bismarck Necro Sorrgace | 1s THE iN THE DistRIct ov Covum- SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALS, Another Secret Misston—Judge Abell om the New Orleans RietsThe Colored Troops be Withdrawn from Loutstana, &c. New Oncaans, Jam. 0, 1867. The rovenus cutter Hugh McCulloch ts under orders to leave for Havana om Friday, thore to await scales orders. Nobody knows positively hor mission; but her officers ex tion with mlasion. Judge Abell, tgs livered an Important charge to the Grand Jury, io reviews the late riots and Little did Jef! Davis dream when ‘he killing the goose which lo: 1d mado by the miligary author. a Ten thousand ogee tn Washington in wien ta "have. she colored, @oon out of oulsiana 1860—forty thousand to-day. At this rate the | — The Congresatonal + movorAat has given black population of the national capital will be pos anaes Rommend te i bes nee, against, | ee sacy at hich etnoe the war. are far more-an say, one hundred thousand whites. ee ee aphien ie aa | ‘Tas Orry Piers ax> Waanves—aA bill hes York, threatening » general insurrection of | Yoers, oF for life, ralities of the Churol, wo cannot expect any | been framed by Senator Gibson in-relation to. the show that the democracy if Congress shall attempt to| In order to set aside this construction opposition from that quarter to the sound'| the wharves and piors of Now York which does, over. et impeach the President and deprive him of his | *PPlieation of the amendment, the Will, as polley set ferth in the letter of Baron Ricasoli..] not promise such.« reform as the citidens aon seep, de seen, defines, explains and declares the trp intent and meaning of the act, after the fashion of the bill repeating the Missour? compromis¢. But the question here arises, ‘what right has Congress to expound this amendment! We presume an answer is to be fownd in the second section of the amendment # tsclf—“ Congress shall have power to enforce f his article by ap- propriate legislation.” It i9 therefore probable that the new bill will become « law and will be enforced. office. This is but the foolish repetition of the incendiary threatenings of Forney during the late excitement in Maryland about the removal of the radical Baltimore Police Commissioners, Against all such idle vaporings from any quar- ter the great Union party of the late war stand as the bulwark of law and order, and, after the fiery trials through which they have passed, they are not to be frightoned by the popguns of small potato politicians, The Union army of the war, a miliion of men, has been mus- eoedppepnimany tered out of service; but it still exists and is « Tae Srorer Mission’ or Mr. F. W. Sewaap unit upon the idea thar the issues decided by | Exriamny.—Our attention haa been called to the war shail be writien in the book of South f the following resolw/ion, which, om motion of endowed the Pope with temporal sovereignty fora thousand years, and the Pope crowned Charlemagne with imperial dignity, has stood in the way of the freedom of the Italian poople. Wo ave also the solution of the vexed question of the union of Church and State accomplished in the very centro of this great politioal and social evil, in the country whore its roots were first planted sad which for nearly ton centuries has nourished the upas tree that blighted the growth of civil and religious liberty in Burope. Tho spiritual influence of the Chutoh will not expect and desire. It has about it too many of the features of ‘a job and contains some pro- visions of very questionable expediency. It reserves tho rights of the New York Pier and Warehouse Company, granted by the last which it creates to ostablisk a general system convicted before the. Ninth, Judicial Court the came of murder, and sontoaces to a ‘xed by thi Mane Sagas Beeson aka pince, in the No alt yard watthitos THE MISSION OF GENERAL HOW HOWARD. Rrowmcen, Vr, Jan. 0, 1867. Major Generai 0. 0; Howard, Chief of the Freedmon'e , and authorises the commission of building, which must be followed in the case bingy reached ieon lh eos fight om bis ee ae of all now piers, and to fix the rates of wharf: | | ne net toate ee mh Gonerst age. The first two of these provisions 100k | prown, of (he / today, tho ature ‘a mi like an attempt te put the whole of the piers i~ aan ite wana A cal sna isiaao. and wharves in the hands of the spoculators | ject not being div bat f mations it is con. * t att on wth the le, and may ave fome connection Throatoned yagut of the President Wy Ormcreas, who have already obtained a foothold towards ® monopoly, and the last is open to serious a a