The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1867, Page 6

, + au NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPFIETOR, Broapway Bpatnh Peoaawat Sireet. —OamaRarzamay NEW YORK THEATRE, ‘Hotel. —Cexoaitv0. , near Broome Bavougs—Ovr to Norse. > of dway, opposite New York oirteeath street, near Sixth 280A. OERMA yATRE i bony THALIA THYATRE, No. 514 Broadway. THEATRE FRAN? .4; Brenue.—Nos Boy”, yy @PODF/ORTH'SHALL 8% Broadway.—Paoresson Hants is, exronw wis Minatues.—Tas HEAD IN THE ALK Woe) xoiay Basket Trace. LP AN PRANCISUO MIVSIRELS, $35 Brosdwa Bor Metropolitan Hotelin ram Eraiorian Suenrs, Singing, Daxona axp BURLESQUES. ano Avuicay Baiat Ti FIFTH AVENUS OP A HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 Wost Bwonty-fourth street.—Bupworri’s Mins ETHIOPIAN Bixstarisr, Battans, Buwuesques, t0.—UN Bato Mascumma KELLY & LEOW'S roadway. oppo Bite the New York ons, ECORN- qrictins, BoRiKmues, ADAGASOAR BaLier Trovr! ERA HOUSE, 21 Bowers. —Cowrs ron) Minsteetse, Bactar Diveirisseuane, s ASHORE, OR YANKEE Tans ON A FROLIC. EY Vi CHARLE Brech nica’ ial, xp LAvGHAM Tar Pesian's MRS Easwar: WAY'S Pa 0x, Tue OUTLAW OF * THEATRE, Brooklyn,— RB. CON PERA HOU: Wats AND OH THIOPIAN Mix- Nicur or Av. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. Heap axn Ricwr ARM or Pronsr— Twins—Wonmes IN Natorat History, Screxce ax Leorvnxs Daty, Open from 8 A.M, tll 10 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tursday, January 15 THA NAW Ss. —— _~ EUROPE. Wo have news reports by the cable to January 14, Tho difficulty between Italy and Turkey regarding the Rteamor fired into by the Ottoman forces has been amica- Dig adjusted Rumors were affoat in Paris to the eff: assaasinate Napoleon had been detected. A revolut y to the pe Tho government of Switzerland is considering the Propriety of prohibiting Swiss subjects from Joining the Papal army. The Thomas Humphrey, from Liverpool for New York, was lost at sea near Holyhead, Wales, a few days ago. Tho new steamship Manhattan, at this port yesterday, Drought our special correspondence and files, dated to the 34 of January. Our special correspondents in Athens and St. Peters. burg furnish very important details of the progress of toe Eastern question towards a general war complica: tion, with advices relative to the attiiude which Russia fs tkely to assume towards the msurgent Christians, Turkey and the neighboring gteat Powers, especially to France and England, From Stockholm we are specially informed of the Growing importance of the Sgandinavian question, a subject which may engage the serious attention of Kurope at an early day. The Now Year's addresses of Napoleon and Victor Emanuel are published. United States five-twonties closed in London at 72%, fn Paris at 7275, and in Frankfort at 7634 yesterday, Consois closed in London at 90 for money yesterday. liverpool cotton market was steady and dull upland was unchanged. CONGRES3. In the Senate yesterday the bill to change the mode of Sppeinting pension agents was called up, but pending ite consideration the morning hour expired and the bill to roguiate the tenure af office was taken up as undnisbed business, The question was upon the motion to with- hold the payment of salaries or fees to any appointee during the recess of Congress until he {s approved vy tho Senate It was debatod im brief and nally with- drawa An amendment allowing no appointments to bo made to ll vacanctes oceasioned by expiration of term of service or other causes than death or resignation, during (ue recess, was agreed to. The merits of the All wore then the subject of debate, and pending tts con- #ideration the Senate adjourned. To the House, under the call, Mr. Sheilabarger’s bill deciaring forfeiture of privileges for acts of rebellion, was referred io the Judiciary Committeo; Mr. Wash- Durao's vill to re-establish civil governments in the itates lately in robellion, to the Committee on Recon- Rtrvotion, and Mr, Niblack's bili to repeal the tax on un- manufaciyred cotton tothe Committee on Ways and A host of other bills, mainly of a private char- acter, came up under this call, and at the coneluaion Mr Toan's impeachment resolution was preseuted. Mr. Loan proceeded to address the House and suggested, in ‘ths course of his remarks, that the Presidont was privy to the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Hale tmmedi- rose to & point of order, but the Chair, ina some- that a plot to Junta in Madrid had iseued an address what elaborate ruling, declared the point not well taken, and Mr. Loan finishod his speech. Mr. Hale insisted that it was due to ‘the House that Mr. Loan should specify some proof of the assertions he had made. Mr. Loan declined to do so and the morning hour expired, Mr. Wilson asked leave to offer a resolution to the effect that the public inverest would not, in the opinion of the House, justify a greater curtailment of the national debt than $4,000,000 per month; but it being necessary to suspend the rules, the House refased. Mr, Hooper moved to suspend the roles to enable him to offer a resolution to the effect that it is not oxpediont in the opinion of the House to increase the amount of national bank notes beyond the amount of $00,000,000; but the rules wore not suspended. A ovnt resolution suspending the payment of loyal owners of colored volunteers was passed by 107 yeas to 35 nays Aresolution that the government should givo etect to Use moral seutiment of the nation relative to the importation of coolies, for the purpose of prevent. dng any further Introdaotion of them into this hemi- sphere or (be adjacent islands was adopted unanimously. vraske Admission bill-was taken up, the previous jueston seconded, and, pending further consideration, the House adjourned, THE CITY. At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday An ordinance was adopted providing for the support of the county government pending the passage of the tax levy. Aresolution was also adopted instructing the clerks of the county courts to report the names of the attachés of each court and the duties discharged by them. The Board of Aldermen mot yesterday and adopted & resolution calling upon the Counsel to the Corporation to ascertain what right if any the city of Now York has to that parcel of land bounded by Liberty and Warren stroota, Broadway and the Hudson ver, known as the King’s Farm. After disposing of some minor matters tho Board adjourned until Monday next, ‘Tho Board of Councilmen met yestorday by special call. Mr. Lowg (who it will be remembered threw the inkstand at the President on Thareday last), was permit ted to make an apology for bis conduct. He exprossed his sorrow to the Board for what he had done, but said he had no apology to make to the President, On motion the apology was accepted and, after some of the mem. ers had eulogized the democratic party, the Board ad. 4 rned till next Monday. ¢ Commissioners of Pilots have forbidden the par tion of any pilot of this harbor in the proposed oss the Atlantic bet pilot boats, and there. march between the J. D. Jones and Hope No, 1 300 has been broken off, tated on Fenian atithority that Head Centre , Depaty Kelly, General Halpin, andother prom. ra Of the Lrotherhood sailed for Rerope * “mo ct of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners f sore are twonty-one hunired bouses of tile in this city, and twenty-five thousand Vor dealers were before the courts ta dosty suit brought to collect damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff during a collision with a Ninth Avenue car, ix. { that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover because he was riding on the top of the car. The steamship Columbia, Captain Barton, will sail on NEW YORK BERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1867.—TRIPLE stent. thi ation of Ex city yesterday, charged with « aw in closing too late on Saturday night or open- ing too early on Monday morning. Superintendent Kennedy bas decided that the extension of time to the 18th instant before the full and strict iuterpretation of the law docs not include Brooklyn. La the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 1, yesterday, be- fore Judge Sutherland, a verdict of $5,000 damages was rendered against the Third Avenue Railroad Company in favor of Mrs, Mary Isaacs, for the breaking of her leg, in Noxombep, {s05, through the negligence of a conductor of one of the company's cars, In the Superior Court yesterday, before Judgb Jones, the case of Angus Rose against The Mayor and Common- ality of the City of New York was commenced for the collection of damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff from fire during the riots of July, 1863, The caso is still on. It was decided in the Court of Common pleas by Judge Cardozo yesterday, in the case of John Freiler va, the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, etal, which is a Saturday noxt, 19th inst., for Havana, in the regular mail line of the West India Mail Steamship Company. The Columbia takes the place of the Havans, which has been advertised for that day. The stock market was nearly steady yesterday. Gold closed at 135 with a strong upward tendency. Consequont upon limited receipts and an active de- mand, the market for beef cattle opened firmer, an advance of ic. a 140. per tb. being established, but closed quite dull with the improvement almost lost, especially upon common cattle, which constituted the bulk of the offerings, Good grades commanded 16c. a 16%e., extra, 170, a! and common 120. a 13%e,, while medium was dis of at Ide, a 150, Milch cows sold at higher fignres, sales being made as high as $100 a $115, and as low as $45.0 $60, according to sady and frm, with «fair for prime. Sheep 4, being mode- with few sales extra sheep at fand common at 41Z6. & ruled firm, notwithstanding prising upwards of 3,500 pw at the following current r-Tie. w Tike. for heavy priine corn fed, . for fair to good, and 6)gc. a 7c, for common The total receipts were 4,368 beeves, 64 4, 269 veal calves, 18,634 sheep and lambs, Veal calves were st J, at 10c, a 14e,—the I and lambs have not essentially ratel and st Sc. aQe,, good de, at 7. The hog mark the large offering hoad, though trade was prices, viz quality de aise. To. a and rou; milch ¢ MISCELLANEOUS. Our news from Mexico is by way of New Orleans, and is dated at Mexico city on the 28th of December and Vera Cruz on the 8th instant. Conflicting accounts were pre- vailing regarding the Emperor, one saying that he had abdicated and anotber that he would do 0 in twenty days, Mejia is reported to have abandoned the imperial cause, The last of the French troops was expected daily atthe capital preparatory to a general embarkation and tho liberal forces were following closely in the wake of the retiring enemy, Bazaine himself was to leave on the 23th ult, The idea of holding a national Congress 19 not agreeable to the hberals, and has been given up. Maximilian’s confessor was virtually governing the empire, the Emperor himself living quictly and secluaed in Mexico city. at Vera Cruz. Decisions were rendered in the United States Supreme Court yesterday relativejto the Missouri test oath, and the right of lawyers who hadtaken part in the robellion.to Praciice in the federal carts. Assoc! STustice Vield delivered [the opinions, one diclaring the. Missouri test onth unconstitutional on the groun punishment without trial, jand in ite en, post fao'n and as. bill of attainder, and the othr rescinding tho statute relative to practice in the federal courts as an ex port facto law in its nature, Chief Justice Chase and Lie Associates, Miller, Swayne and Davis, read a disconting opinion. Advices from Brazil state that the new commander of the Brazilian fleet on the Parana river bad departed for the seat of war to supersede Tamandaré. The Paraguay and Parana rivera had risen so with the rains that tho allied camp was partly andor’ water, ‘The Paraguayans ill busy fortifying. The now British Admiral had at im the Plate river, . From the London ‘imer of Decombor it we extract a long and interesting account of the banquet given ou the 29th nlt., by the tobabitants of Cowes, to the mem- bers of the New York Yacht Club who participated in the great ocean yacht raco. Speeches were made and toasts drunk by the most prominent of the guests, and the jon was seized to oxpress aentiments of harmony and good feeling between the United States and Great Britain. Tn the Toronto Court yesterday Thomas Maxwell aod James Burk, Fenlans, were found guilty of levying war against her Majesty's government. Vatrick Norton pleaded guilty to a similar indictment and said in ex planation that he did not expect an impartis! triat before a Canadian jury, and thought It was useless to waste time ina trial which wonld end in that verdict, anyhow. Sentence in all the cases was deferred. Gen- eral Michet has received word that the confederation would be sanctioned if the paople endorsed, and he was anxious to submit the bili to them. A petition has been forwarded asking the di<bandment of the Society of St. Patrick, on the grounds of its Fenian tendencies. ‘We publish this morning a map of tne Isiand of Crete, and also a detailed account of the causes which brought about the present war im that oountry between the native Christians and the Turks, Our Fort Laramie despatches contain a list of the members of the Second cavalry recently killed by Indians at Fort Phil Kearnoy, ‘The list of the infantry who suffered the same fale has mot yet been received. Gonerai Tosser and Henry A. Wise addressed the citi- zens of Richmond last evenmg on the sebject of Rolief ior the Widows of Confederate Soldiers, Roth individuais expressed the opinion that the repellion had still o fair prospect of success, and Wise vaid that be would nevor give up, and that the Sonth was sublimely unconquered. He particularly desired to be buried ins gray overcoat when his time should come. A terrific earthqnake was felt at Fort Kiamath, Oregon, on the 8th inst. Aehes and salphurous vapors filled the air, and Klamath Lake fol! six feet, Advices from the Hawaiian Islands are dated Decomber 22 ‘The influenza had ontirely disappeared. Three Hawalians had been brutally mardored at Pit's Island, and the missionaries had been warned to leave by the King of the island. A boiler oxploded in Philadelphia yesterday, and a man named Oford was killed and three otbers injured. Vthe Alabama river steamer Sunny South was burned below Selma on Friday night, One thousand and forty- five bales of cotton were destroyed, and one life ts aup- posed to have been Jost. A negro man in Wilmington, N. C., bas been per- mitted to administer on the estate of another one— probably the first case of the kind on record in the South. ‘The destitution among the poor in North Carolina is said to be very great. General Crook, commanding the District of the Boigh, hada fight with Indiane rocoutly, in which he kYited thirty and captured one of their chiefs, , An Austrian frigate was awaiting bim being « Tar Execrion ov Usirep States Spnaton—- The State Legislature will procoed toaday to elect a Senator to represyit New York in the United States Senate for ix years from the 4th day of next March. Tne choice of the majority has already boen onnounced, and it is known that Roscoe Con¥!ling, of Oneida, will be the successor of Fra Harris. This result is an indi- cation of the determination of New York to siwnd firmly ‘upon the platform of the constitu. tional ojendment. The old Senator, who re- tives On the 4th of March, went astray from the onstitulional amendment after the false lights of radicaliem, and fell from grace. The now Senator, who will be elected to-day, is a young and earnest man, who has planted bimself upon the popnlar platform and taken rank among the boldest and mos: t of its supporters, ‘neTE.—There seems eyery probability that the determined straggle of the Cretan Christinns #gainst Turkish domi- nation will yot light up o terrible war in tho Kaat, We thetofi%s give to-day a full history of the origin ad progress of the determined coates), did an excellent map of the Island of | Crete. 5 ighly Important 1 Decisive Movement for Southern Restoration, We are happy to stato that at last there is a movement afoot which cannot fail, but which Promises a speedy, comprehensive and decisive settlement of all the difficulties of Southern re- construction and restoration, It is a move- ment which, in embracing the settlement of the next Presidential election in advance, removes many of the obstructions to the pending con- stitutional amendment, ard which, in relieving the outside States of the test of disfrancbising their own people concerned in. the rebellion, makes their reclamation easy to themselves while satisfactory to all concerned. Looking upon the surface of things at Wash- ington, the various political elements, sections, factions, cliques and coteries thrown together there seom to be mixed up in hopeless con- fusion. There is the republican financial fac- tion, directing its efforts mainly to a precipi- tate return to specie payments, whereby the national banks and all their appendages in the interest of Chief Justice Chase (the founder of the greenback system) for the Presidency, expect to realize, no doubt, clear profits at the expense of the people at large of at least one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, Then there is the human rights radical faction, pure and simple, who will have nothing less as a Southern settlo- ment than universal negro suffrage as estab- lished in the District of Columbia, Then there is the copperhead faction, waiting and hoping and working for a violent collision between Congress and the Presidont, under the delusion that it may bring about another civil war; and then there are the old State rights fire-eaters of the South still vainly look- ing ‘o the administration for a rescne from the grip of the Northern radicals and the consti- tutional amendment. It is apparent that if there cannot soon be found a way of deliver- ance from all theso conflicting forces the ruling majority of the republicans in Congress will cut the gordian knot in the Presideni’s im- peachment. As the business classes of the country, however, East and West, dread the depressing effects of this expedient, it will probably be withheld to the last extremity, and it may be indefinitely postponed in view of the more graceful and acceptable move- ment which we shall presently explain. A cause and a name-—a cause which swal- lows up all other political causes, and a namo which stands high among the people, one essen- tial to the success of any great measure or sys- tem of measures involving a reconstrucfion of our political affairs, Such a cause and euch a name are now needed to fuse the clashing fac- tions of the dominant party of the North and to settle the publie mind of the South in favor ofa definite aud uniform policy of reconstruo- tion and restoration, For these purposes we understand. movement, which will cover the ground, hes been set-on foot through a consul- tation at Washington of a number of the tead- Ing mon ofthe republican party from the prin- cipal Northern States—a movement which we say cannot fail and cannot be seriously re sisted. This movement embraces, first, the rati- fication of the pending constitutional amend- ment by the republican States as fast as prac- ticable, and next, when three-fourths of the States represented in the general government shall have adopted it, an actof Congress de- claring said amendment part and parcel of the supreme law of the land, binding alike upon the inside States, the outside States and all the Territories of the United States, This is the measure; and next come the cause and the uame which are to carry it through. ‘The cause agreed upon Is the Presidential suc- cession, which covers everything; and the name to be proclaimed as the candidate of the republican party on the platform of the amend- ment, is the name which, of all living mon, stands bighest among the Amorican people— the favorite name of General Grant. This is the programme, and the simple statement of it will carry with it the general conviction of its success. It will remove at once all the stumbling blocks to a scitlement with the South, in the shape of conflicting cliques and schemes for the Presidency; it will consolidate the North upon the amendment and upon Gen- eral Grant as lis champion, and it will bring the Southern States to a graceful submission to @ reorganization which will have become part of the constitution, withont forcing them to sign it. Furthermore, if they choos: to avail themselves of its advantages in regard to negro suffrage and representation, they may speedily regain their balance of power in Con- gress, and, with a new departure bya new opposition party in the North, they may regain in 1872 even the White House with both honses ot Congress, The, name of General Grant will settle the contest of 1868 in adyance. He entered into the late war 4 modest captain ander General Fremont; he came out of it at the head of over a million of Union soldiers, crowned with a series of victories, which, in strategy and tactics, eclipse the most brilliant campaigns of the great Napoleon. But the modesty of the General-in-Chief of the armics of the United States is still the same as that of the Western captafn of volunteers, Ho natu. rally shrinks from politics and politicians, and yet so clear is his faith in this pending consti- {utional amendment éhat be bas felt constrained to expresg jt And herein, after all, lies his greatest strength. Had President Johnson, with the passage of this amendment by Con- gress, fellen in with it, how different would have been his position to-day from that which he oceupies! What can Mr. Seward avail him now, or, looking to the future, upon whom has he to build, with the loss of John Van Buren? The case, we hold, is foreclosed against all competi- tors with the name of General Grant, aa the champion of the amendment for 1868; for suro- ly the man whose genins was equal to the great task of putting down the armed rebel States ia the man to set them on their pins again, and upon the issnes settled by the war, Powers of Gongress tn the Cane of an Vacancy in the Presidency. A copperhead journal endeavors to excite alarm by stating that in the évent of the impeachment and removal of President Jobn- son we should be plunged into an exciting Presidential election @ur'ag the present yoar to fill his unexpired term, and then into another the following year for the regular suc- ceeding term. It argues that such a political excitement would seriously disturb tho country and disarrange its business and finances, Now, there need be no excitement on that ground, abould Congress Proceed so far as lo remove the President; fvt the sume lawmaking power— that is Congreas—which has provided for an election within a certain time after such re- moval, can repeal this act and make the term of the succeeding President of the United States, who would be the President of the Senate, extend till the following regular quadrennial election, In that case there would be no elec- tion till 1868. Any way, we do not think there is cause for alarm. Making the constitutional amendment the platform of the conservative people of the republic for the final settlement of our political difficulties, with General Grant for the next President, will pour oil upon the troubled waters and squelch the Jacobin agita- tors who are endeavoring, for their own ends, to keep the country disturbed and disorgan- ized. ‘The Eastera Question. The Eastern question has at length assumed such proportions as entitle it not only to the attention but to the sympathy of the nations. Day after day brings us frosh intelligence of the struzgle, and each budget of news deepens the impression that the toleration by the Greek Christians of their Turkish masters is no longer either reasonable or just, and can only be per- petuated as 9 grievous wrong. It ia a question which is surrounded with serious difficulties. There is none the sottle- ment of which isso urgent, yet there is none which the great Powers of Europe so much tremble to touch. Rightly or wrongly, ita set- tlement is supposed seriously to affect the balance of power, and to involve such a recon- struction of the map of Europe as shall perma- nently disarrange tho present system. We do not sey such suppositions are ground- less. So large and so fair a portion of the European continent cannot change masters without begetting serious difficulties—difficul- ties which can only be solved by the arbitra- ment of the sword. Nor is it easy to see how, if the fiames of war are kindled in the East, Europe will not be involved in one general conflagration. At the same time if a general war does take place it will be the result rather of mistaken views of the situation than of any necessity arising out of the situation itself, Tho risips of the Greek Christians against their Moslem rulers, which alone ought to be the occasion of this war, is not to be confounded with the marching of the Russians across the Turkish frontier, which was the occasion of the Crimean war. The occa- sion, in the one instance, was condemned by tho universal sense of mankind, because it was an unwarranted attack on the part of the strong against the weak. The occasion, in this in- stance, awakens universal sympathy heeause it is the struggle of the few against the many, of right against might, of justice against tyranny, oppression ang wrong. In the event of the insurrection bedoming general, which it is now Ukely to do, it nay be difticalt for the gteat Powers to: from active {nterterence. ‘There can be no Youbt, howevor, that the dic- tates of aound policy demand that no such interference shall ‘take place. It is a question: between Greeks and Turks rather than between. Christians and Moslems, and as such it should be fought out. This of course does not debar their coreligionists in any part of the world from giving to the Greeks their hearty and active sympathy. Wedo not think, however, that it will be either to their own advantage or to that of the Greeks if, in the present stage at least, the great Powors are other than sym- pathetic onlookers, Although such are our views of the onse we are by no means sanguine that interest in the struggle will be measured by mere sympathy. Active interference at an early day ia now more than probable. If the telegram of yes- terday prove to be correct, Garibaldi will but have found among the Cretans congenial occu- pation without in any sense implicating his government. It is of much deeper significance that at a ball recently given at St. Petersburg in aid of the Cretans, the Czar and the mem- bers of the imperial Court were present. Ina matter of this sort it is extremely difficult to forecast the future and not a little hazardous to uttempt it: What Russia may do we sball aot venture to aay. One thing, however, is cer- tain, that ardently as Russia may dosiro it, the great Western Powers will never tamely sub- mit to see her marching ber legions into the city of Constantine. Nor do we think it de- sirable in the interosts of Russia herself that her ambition should find gratification in that direction, She has enongh, and more than enough, to do. in consoli- dating the populations and doveloping the resources of her already vast dominions. In forming into one compact whole and in ele- vating the social characters of the vast hordes in Europe and in Asia which recognize her au- thority, she has before her, independent of any movement toward the Mediterranean, a career of sufficient brillianey. Unless dragged into it by Russia, Prussia is litile likely to Inter fere. Both England and France are wiser since the Crimean war. Interferenee on their part can only follow that of Russia, Austria, of all the Powers, has to gain ' by an East- ward movement. She desires aad she needs the mouths of the Danube. Unhappily, how- ever, a prince of the House of Hohenzoliern, the hospodar of the principality, stands in the way of her ambition. Inte: ce, in fact, from any quarter will be pefilous, and can scarcely fail to light up the flames of a Euro- pean war. Much, however, can be done by active sympathy everywhere, nor do we violate the spirit of this article when we ask for such sympathy on the part of the American public for the struggling Greeks. Our City Affnirs in the Legislature. There are indications that the several “rings” in the New York city government are making active preparations to dofeat all measures of city reform that may be proposed at the present session of the Legislature, The Mayor, who foars that some of his privileges and per- quisites may be interfered with, has his combi- nation at the State capital to block the wheels of reform. The Councilmen have settled up their inistond and revolver controversy in order to make common cause at Albany against all purifying legislation. Tho several Alder- manic “rings” merge themselves into one to fight the republican enemy. Tammany, al- though beaten in the last election, hopes for new bargains and combinations by which to regain her lost patronage, and is ready to pour her old campaigners into the lobby for the purpose of “saving the city.” Every man who holds a place under any of the threatened de- partments forms himself into committee of one to take into consideration the means by which be oan best couirive to keep his ofigial a A ER ee eC SS een eAIGADS==T In: dp-cuiecmmpome oman meme ee head upon his shoulders. The old buyers and sellers of Senators and Assemblymen are offer~ ing their valuable services to the heads of the several city departments and professing to be able to make the defeat of all measures of city reform a certainty for a proper equivalent. The republican members of the Legislature, how- ever, have a plain duty to perform, and since they have a large majority in both houses and hold possession of the Executive chamber, they will find it dificult to evade its faithful dis- charge. They have been chosen as the advo- cates of a thorough revolution in the New York city government, and the people will accept of nothing less at their hands. The gentlemen recently elected and nominated as the heads of some of our most important municipal depart- ments as opponents of the corrupt city “rings” are also pledged to help forward the work of reformation and to throw no obstacles in the way. The people are watching the proceed- ings of the Legislature with interest, and are determined to hold their representatives to a strict accountability this session. Exciting Intelligence on the Mexican Ques- tion—The Conflict Between the Empire and the Republic. We learn from our Paris correspondent that a despatch had been forwarded to General Castelnau by the Emperor Napoleon instruct- ing him not to compel Maximilian to abdicate, and to bring back all the French troops that were not willing to remain. These orders simply formalize tho understanding on which Maximilian has been acting and fully explain his course. His quarrels with Bazaine and Cas- telnau were simply pretexts to gain time to complete bis negotiations with the Church party as well as his arrangements with Napo- leon, the one being made contingent on the other. Now, the French Emperor fulfils his part of the understanding by modifying his agreement with us in regard to the return of the French troops. Non®, it appears, are to be compelled to come back who are willing to remain. This amounts virtually to an order that Maximilian is to be permitted to make up a foreign legion from the French expeditionary force. If the Church and the Mexican impe- rialists will only furnish him with the necessary funds there is no doubt that he will be enabled to retain a large portion of it. But what is to be said of the good faith of the arrangement entered into with us? Coupled with the direc- tion that Maximilian is not to be compelled to abdicate, it amounts to nothing more nor less than a reopening of all the difficulties which that arrangement was intended to terminate. Itis of a piece, in short, with the diplomatic casuistry by which the Emperor was enabled to draw his chestnuts out of the fire in the Crimean ond [talian wars, and by which he has made a pretended concession to European sentiment in the withdrawal of his troops from Rome. - As matters stand now there would appear be no very near prospect of s clearance of the foreign clement from the field of contention in Mexico. Supported by a strong mercenary force and the wealth of the Church, Maximilian is placed in a position to give great trouble to his republican opponents. Complying with the letter of his agreement with us, while he violates the apirit of it, it is certain that Na- poleon will continue to give all the secret aid and encouragement that he can to the imperfal cause. The repayment of the claims which France has against Mexico depends upon this course. She is fully satisfied that under no circumstances, no matter who may occupy the Presidential chair, will the republicans con- sent to « settlement of them. Bat to ensure success for the republican cause in this changed condition of things, there must be an entire alteration in the programme of its loaders. They must remember that they have now to fight not a foreign but 0 quasi Mexican pretender to the throne. So long as Maximilian is supported by any por- tion of the population, the fact of his baving foreigners in his service will not alter his right to contend for the supreme power. It was the direct interference of Napoleon in the adminis- tration of public affairs that shocked the na- tional sentiment in Mexico and oreated the major part of the Archduke’s diffoulties. Had he been satisfied to limit his support of the im- perial cause to the course he is now pursuing there is no doubt bat that to-day it would be in a much better position. Maximilian judged wisely when he said that he would appeal to the Mexicans themselves for a confirmation of his rights, ‘If he could give the people a strong central government, {t is probable that they would prefer it to the distracted and miserable condition in which they have been kept by the claims of so many rivals for the Presidency. The expulsion of Maximilian would in no way have improved this state of things. There are three cnndidates ready to contest the supreme power, and they are all prepared to bring into the fleld more or less formidable elements of support. There is, first, Juarez, with something of an army, and who is otherwise strengthening himself by the sule of Mexican territory and rallroad rights. Secondly, there {s Santa Anna, who has been raising, or trying to raise, a mil- lion dollars on his property to sustain him in the contest; and, lastly, there is Ortega, who is said to be backed by New York capi- talists. All these only waited tor the departure of the French to commence a furious onslaught oneach other. It must be plain to every one that as long as they are actuated by sucha spirit they can dg but little against Maximilian, He fiws inion and concentration on his side, and they give bim additional strength by their divisions, The great difficulty with the Mexicans, as it has been with us, has been the increase of sec- tional dislikes and hatreds. Under the Spanish rule for a century and a half or more they en- joyed a strong government. In imitating our institutions and creating so many Siate jurisdictions they forgot to note the modifica- tions which from the period of the foundation of the republic down to the present time bave taken place in them and which now render us one of the most united and powerfal govern- ments in the world. The new developments in vegard to Maximilian’s position and inten- tions will, we trust, bring them to something like a serious consideration of the difficulties that lie before them. Without union and a sacrifice of individual pretensions they can do nothing towards freeing Mexico from foreign influences. A true patriot will always be ready to abandon his personal interesis to promote the general good. When the liboral en leaders in Mexico bogin to exhibit an appre- ciation of this truth we shall begin to have hope In thom. Aa jt is, 00 far as aid from this a tlle anes etesaonsnsesnssnnsnsstinreseee goveriiment {s concerned, they must nof fook for it. They have their destinies in their own hands, and as they shape them they must abide by them. the Case, There is great confusion in the public mind asto whether the functions of the President would surcease immediately upon his impeach- ment. These functions cannot cease at that point, for this would anticipate the only sen- tence within the constitutional power of the Senate to inflict—to wit, removal from office, which cannot precede trial and conviction. But it is sald that they may surcease—that is, they may be temporarily suspended, to be fully re- stored in the event of acquittal, or wholly withdrawn in the event of conviction. This, at least, may be held requisite in order to prevent the complications, not to say the collisions, that might be inevitable were the President to retain his entire authority, including that which he possesses as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and exert it to the utmost in opposition to the authority of Congress. It is thought by some that to avoid any difficulty of this kind Congress will deem itself competent to pass, if necessary, special act temporarily suspending the func tions of the President. However this be, there is little doubt that if the facts broiight to light by the impeachment investigation, which is now slowly progressing at Washington, prove to be overwhelming, Congress will not hesitate to do whatever can constitutionally be done to remove every obstacle which may pos- sibly stand in the way of the trial. Naturally enough great interest is telt in any precedents which may bear upon this extra- ordinary case. American history furnishes but few precedents that throw any light whatever upon it. The impeachment and trial of Judge Samuel Chase, of Maryland, ended in his acquittal and did not prevént him from exer cising his judicial functions during the progress of the trial. His trial commenced on January 2, 1805, and he was acquitted on March 1 in the same year. According to 2 Cranch’s Reports, containing judgments in 1804 and 1805, Judge Chase was absent from a few of the sessions of the February term, 1805, and at one of them, in the case of the United States vs. Fisher, Mr. Harper, one of the counsel, apologized for closing his argument, being engaged “in aa impeachment then pending before the United States”’—the impeachment of Chase. But on February 6, 1805, when the case of Reily vs. Lamar was argued, Judge Chase was sitting on the bench and put questions to counsel. He ~ was also one of the court present at the sessions during the same February term, when the case of the United States vs. Moore was argued, as well as when it was decided, on March 2, the day after his ital, Judge Peck aleo tinued to di fe judleisl Faketioat, withstanding his impeachment, But in the ¢ of Hon. William Blount, of Tennessee, United States Senator, the Senate first ordered that he should be impeached, then that he should be “gequestered from his seat,” and, thirdly, that he should be expelled. His hasty expulsion, how- ever, brought the whole case to a conclusion; for it placed him at once beyond the jurisdiction of the Senate. English history offers, of course, many more cases of impeachment than our own. But these precedents illustrate less the point under present consideration than the fact recorded by Montesquieu and Blackstone and the other eminent writers on the subject, that the abuse of high offices of trust-is the most proper and the most usual ground for impeachment. Thus the Duke of Suffolk was impeached for neglect of duty as an ambassador; the Earl of Bristol, because he gave counsel against a war with Spain, whose king had affronted the English nation; Michael dela Pole, because he had acted contrary to his duty as Chancellor; the Duke of Buckingham, for having s plurality of offices, and Lord Bacon, whom Pope de scribed as “the greatest, wisest, meanest of mankind,” for bribery in the office of Loré Chancellor; Lord Finch, for unlawful methods of enlarging the forest in his office of Assistant to the Justices in Eyre, and the Earl of Oxford, for selling goods to his own use, captured by him as Admiral, without accounting for a tenth due to others. In all these cases abuse of high offices of trust was the ground for impeach- ment. The same charge was preferred in the impeachment of Lord Viscount Melville, whe was finally acquitted. In his case the motion for impeachment was immediately followed bys petition to the King that his name might be erased from the Privy Council, and this he forestalled only by resignation previous to his impeachment and trial. . ‘We presume that the trials of Charles L and of Louis XVI. are altogether too exceptional to be cited in this connection, They belong peculiarly to times more revolutionary than our own. Reportep Return or Unrren States Seconr Ties From Eorors.—It is intimated in Wash- ington that advices have been received from Europe to the effect that there will be a large amount of United States securities returned to. this country and that the proposed impeachment of the Presi- dent has weakened confidence in those securi- tles, We do not believe this will occur. COapl- talists in Europe appreciate our securities too much for that, and they are now sufficiently enlightened about our political affairs to see that this {s a mere party and temporary move- ment which will soon subside. Impeachment or no impeachment, the strength of the govern- ment und the resources of the country are #0 great that there need not be the least appre- hension as to the credit of the United States. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST IN KENTUCKY. Oi tie, Legisstire held cacua The Union members of tho to-night to nominate a candidate for United States Sen. ‘ator, to be voted for to-morrow. Hon. Wm. H. Randalt will be complimented by the Union votes on the frat bal- lot; afver that John A. Prall, of ak eae y r. omination as the lar nominee, Jame nornipeiog, bat ‘was withdrawn, aa was also Cassius M. Clay. Cancases will be held to-night by all parties until the election ia held, The moeting to-night was held With closed doors, and @ pledge of see! was exacted from all present. Thotr strength to-night was forty~ four. Roussoan was not a candidate before the caucus. THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES, — New Kany) = i, bo jovements are ou foot here to ‘ongress for an euncnevmeat of $7,000,000 to repair the irate levees. Incase Hag ed eS an be ma to ostablish « Crodit Mobilier of $80,000,000, with @ view of developing (he resources of the State, ptitatrtenrnen Rete ata 7 QWANING OF THE STEAMER ‘SUNNY SOUTH. Mowroowmny, Ala, Jan. 14, 1867. steamer Sunny South, with 1,045 baios of cotran, Rts destroyed by fire on the Alabama river, below, YBelma, on Friday night, ‘The fom cargo wae y insured, One passenger ts supposed to have bean w The loss on the yesse! and oergo is entimatod a M16, The