The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1867, Page 4

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M. un, Me New York, Monday, January 21, EUROPE. le we have news reports to January 20. peror Napoleon issued yesterday a most im- portant decree relative to the franchises of the French peopla, and the course of legislation in France, The mom bers of the French Cabinet are said to have tendered + their vasignation. The Cretans claim another viciory, and appeal to the great Powers to seud a commission to ‘examvné the condition of affairs in the iglaad. Turkey has agroed to evacuate the forts in Servia. Greece has seui a military commission to the United States. A broad riet occurred in Liverpool. Garibaldi ap- plauds ihe election of colored men in Massachusetts, and urges universal suffrage and the reconciliation of the President with Congress, The Kiug of Sweden pro- claims tis neutrality @ the European complications. Consols closed at 90% for money, and United Stateg five- twenties were at 725 in London on Saturday. United states bonds onthe Paris Bourse were quoted at 723, on Saiarday. The Liverpoo! cotton market was dull, Mid- d@iing aplands closed at 14d. Breadstufis were active: Owe’ Kuropedn Miles by the steamship Agia were for- ‘aried from Boston yesterday, by the eight ‘closk P.M. tran ior New York, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Santiago and Valparaiso (Chile) letters are dated December 16 and 17, respectively. The terms of peace proposed to be made by English and Fronch interference are published, and’amount to reciprocal declarations by the three Powers, restoration of the treaty betwoen Spain and Hera, revocation of all measures which have been adopted against the Spaniards by the governments of the altied republics, reciprocal indemnification for injury done, exchange of prisoners and mutual surrender of all privas Both tho republics are opposed to the acceptance of peace on these terms. Affairs in governmont circles wore quiet. Two vessels of Admiral Tucker's squadron lad returned, and tbe rest were reported to be on their way back. Tho ship Tecumseh had arrived (rom Bos- with sixty rifled Blakely guns on board. Five faundred rifles had also been received from England. Adwirat Tucker's flagship was passed by Admiral Pear. gone Gagship on @ recent occasion without the usual aslute being tendered by the latter. The cause of this rebuit is said to be the fact that Tucker, who was a Southera rebel, undertook to cast a discourtesy on Cap- tain Stanley, of Pearson's staf, some time before. Osc Cima (Peru) correspondence ix dated December 28. Roa: Admiral Dabigron arrived on the 24th, in the Pow- balan, ¢o take command of the Pacific squadron, The Congress of South American republics will meet at Lima ‘The revolution in Mendoza has not spread to of the neighboring provinces, and General Paunero, ompauied by a Capiain Werhan, who claims to have served on the staff of Lieutenant General Sherman, bad gone there to take command of the troops operating agaiost the insurgents. ‘ue Panama correspondence is dated January 13. It ‘was rumored that the United States Minister to Colom- bia, Mr. Burton, bad had a serious difficulty with Prest dont Mosquera, and had demanded his passports. Mog- qvers told him he did not require a passport, and could 9 of stay, as be pleased. Wherespon Mr. Burton broke of ait communication with tbe Colombian officials, and has referred the matter to the United States goverhment, The toauage tax on vessels entering Panama and Colon has deem romitted, but the order directing all mails in trans'n acrosa the isthmus to be distributed through the Jocat post Offices bas been reiterated. The American party proposing to survey a ship canal route through the jathrous lind reached Panama. The yellow fever had mado its appearance, but no danger of its becoming epitomic was apprehended, We have news from Australasia dated at Melbourne, November 2®; Sydney, December 2, and Weilington, ‘Now Zealand, December 8. A new gold field of great extent has been discorered {na mountain district, two hundred and eighty miles from Sydney, and eight thou- sand miners are already on the ground. An abundant harveat checked the foreign breadstufls trade almost to suspaasion in Sydney; but prices had improved ali ovor the colony for the stock on hand. The sydney import trate was active, The prices of American goods were oat, Trade had improved in Victoria. Cotton and planting was carried on extensively in Quoens- ‘The Tasmanian government was insolvent, and Taod stopped payment, The Maori rebellion is reported ex- ‘abed, Tho advices from the west coast of New Zealand gold fields are very favorable. One Coxington (Mo.) correspondent says that the ex citament there had been again revived by the arrival of companies of Governor Fletcher's militia. The Maranai and taken to Jefferson City, where he was re- Jossed oo a writ of habeas corpus. Business was almost entirely sospended in Lexington, owing to the preseace ot roope, who exercised a kind of terrorism over the uain body of the citizens her snow storm set in last night and prevailed very generally throughout the country, ‘The obstructions on railroads have been generally cleared away aud trains on most of the tracks lately snowed up are again running, The Long Island Sound steamers are also again plying without mectiag any seri- ‘ous obstructions, ‘The Excise law was strictly enforced yosterday, and a quiet sabbath was the result, The excursions to Jersey and (be territory outside the operation of the law were pot gotten Up on such grand scales as they were inet mgr, OM rocotint of the diva yeattier, 4 jarge number of arrests was made dealers, coroner Gamble yestortay took the snte-mortem satemoat of George S. Hull, the man who was shot in Cannon street on Saturday by X-policeman named Browning. The latter has beon committed to jail to await the rosait of Hull's injuries. A boy fifteen years of age, named Lewis Klopst, son of a physician of Hudson, N. J., embezzled over $1,200 from Donald @, Mitchel & Co., of Pearl street, by whom hho was cmployod, a few days ago, He was arrested in Baiiimore, and reached thls city on Saturday. ‘ho bonded warehouse No, 163 Washington street, was oo into yesterday morning and $11,000 worth of abstracted. The thieves only got away with 500 worth of the plonder, however, the rest “ng found In the vicinity by a policeman. The condition of the North and Rast rivers diifers im feyior aly (rum the two previous days, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1867. asm for schey 28 Of universal reform, famlliar- ity with figures of speech, or even fondness for roouater #y same obstacios, ut fortunately ao acei- Jont has as yet ovourred. orday Rev. T. M. Peters, of St Sloomingdals, preached on Ddehalf of f a midnight mission among fallen geatlemea for ing words of warning tothe fallen women y; streets and prepariug 4 Lome for them, The forty-third anniversary of the New York Bible Society was bold list eveniag at Madison square frosby terian church. The “. Lawrence river is rising so fast that serious fears are entertained of its flooding Montreal, Despatches from St, Joseph (Mo) stute that the In- cians on the North Platte are vory warlike. Rumor said that they had killed forty men west of that point, aad were marching im great numbers on St, Josepl, with the determination of clearing the road to Fort Kearney. An iastalment of troops for service against them bad ar- rived. The bark Vilma, from Smyroa for Boston, was driven ashore near Plymouth on Thursday, and is full of water, Two of her crew, who took refuge in the mizzen rigging, became frozen, and, falling overboard, were drowned. Tho rest were saved, but are nearly all severely frosthitten. The British brig Dawn of Day went ashore near Co- basset on Thuraiay, and her cargo of salt was washed out, Her crow were all saved, three of them, however, being severely frostbitten. There is considerable anxiety regarding the safety of the pilot boat #. A. Perkins, which was in the neighbor- hood of the lightship during the storm of Thuraday, in consequence of a report brought up by the pilot bont Jane that a collision took place iu that vicinity on ‘Thursday moruing, which was followed by cries for help from the crew of one of the colliding vessels, The F, A. Parkins has not since been heard from, but it is not yet certain that she was the victim of the collision. Our correspondent at Lexington, MMo., gives a detailed account of the origin and present aspect of the troubles im (hat much distracted State, Besides proving very interesting to the general reader, this letter will serv to unravel the tangled skein of political and social alfaus as they lave appeared in that portion of the country. Our Boston correspondent, ina letter from that city, gives a more detailed account of the snow storm than has been hitherto published, A table of current prices paid in various occapations in certaimtowns and cities of the Union, according to the returns submitted to the Director of the Bureau of Statisties, is published in our columns this morning. Goorge Staley, baggage master on the New Jersey Railzoad, was run over by the Philadelphia train at Newark last evening, and was killed almost instantly. A sketch of the harbor defences of New York anda description of the foris in front of the city is published in our colucuns this morning. The difficulty between the New York Ceatral and the Hudson River Railroads has been arranged by mutaal concession, $0 that through tickets and baggage checks are issued by either company. Trouble has occurred among the negroes in South Carolina, opposite Savannah, Georgia, two or three bun. dred of them being armed to resist ejectment from the Plantations, A force of United states troops had arrived amoung them to preserve order. The Remedy of Lnpenchment--The Cases of John Tyler and Andrew Johuson. The proceedings which have been com- menced in Congress looking to the impeach. ment of President*Johnson are denounced by the Southern rebel and Northern copperhead journals as unprecedented, despotic and revo- lutionary. We are w: too, that this im- peachment, if pushed oo et result ina Presidential coup d’éat afd in another civil war, in which the rebel States will this time be actively supported by the fighting Northern peace democracy at the call of President Johnson. This, we know, is only theatrical lightning and thunder; but it betrays the programme expected of Mr. Johnson by his present supporters, and so far it will have its effect upon Congress. The movement for his impeachment is, however, a plain consti- tutional proceeding, although, in the length and breadth of the issues involved, it is with- out s precedent and without anything ap- proaching a parallel case in the history of this or any other country. On the 10th of January, 1843, the Hon. Join Minor Botts, of Virginia, in the House of Rep- resentatives impeached President John Tyler, elected Vice President on the whig ticket of Harrison and Tyler in 1840, and advanced to the White House on the death of President Harrison in April, 1841, as Viee President Andrew Johnson was in April, 1865, on the death of President Lincoln. Mr. Botts, in his charges against John Tyler, accused him of various “high crimes and misdemeanors,” in- cluding “gross usurpation of power and vio- lation of law in attempting to exercise a con- trolling inffvence on the accounting officers of the Treasury department,” “wicked and.corrupt abuse of the power of appointment to and re- moval from office,” “aiding to excite a disor- ganizing spirit in the country” by proclaiming his disregard of a law of Congress which he himself had approved, “retaining men in office for months after they had been rejected by the Senate as unworthy, incompetent and unfaithful,” “withholding his assent to laws indispensable to the just operations of the gov- ernment,” “an arbitrary, despotic and corrupt abuse of the veto power,” “shameless dupli- .city, equivocation and falsehood with his Cab- inet and Congress,” “creating offices and inves- tigations, and making payments of money without authority in law,” and in “withhold- ing information called tor by Congress.” Upon these charges the motion of Mr. Botts for a special committee of inquiry, after a lively day’s debate, was finally rejected—yeas 83, nays 127, and this was the end of the im- peachment movement against John Tyler. All things considered, the union and peace of the country at that time, the dominant influence of Southern ideas and Southern politicians at Washington, and the fact that Tyler had been only following in the footsteps of Andrew Jackson and Van Buren, and the utter hope- lessnesa of this impeachment in the Senate, the vote for the resolution was something remark- able. Wad the whigs possessed a two-thirds vote in each house, as the republicans now possess, the result would have been different, We dare say that had they possessed a good, solid, working majority in the House and two- thirds in the Senate, in the stormy financial conflict with Old Hickory, even he would have been impeached and removed, for such things, for instance, as the removal of the government deposits of specie from the United States Bank and its branches to his pet State banks with- out authority from Congress. The simple truth, then, is that if neither Jackson, Van Buren nor Tyler, nor poor Pierce nor Buchanan, was impeached and removed, it was only be- cause the opposing party Jacked the requisite majorities in Congress for the work, Buchanan, for example, in pleading the plea to Congress that he could find no authority in the constitu. dion to resist the secession of @ State or the organization within the jurisdiction of the United States of a foreign and rebellious con- federacy, clearly laid himself open to impeach- ment and removal from office. It does not follow, then, that the charges of impeachment raised against John Tyler, iw due ferry boats , belug rejected, establish a precedeus for iho escape of Andrew Johnson. But in addition to the schedule of Botts against Tyler other and more serious charges will be made against Mr. Johnson ; and there is the requisite vote and the will and purpose in each house, yea, the uecessity to carry them through. Some of tho vetoes of Mr. Johnson were good and per- fectly legitimate, such as the veio of the Mon- tana mining monopoly bill, the first Freed- men’s Bureau bill of the present Congress, and the Colorado State bill. But in his veto of the Civil Rights bill he made a mistake, and in his course of opposition to the pending constitu- tional amendment he has passed beyond the line of safety in assuming the right to enforce his peculiar policy against the constitutional authority of Congress and the expressed will of the people. But behind this lies the still graver charge of his persisient efforts to deny, contest and usurp the authority of Congress in his pro- gramme of Southern reconstruction and resto- ration, Considering the frightful costs and sacrifices required to put down the late fighting Southern confederacy, and the legitimate issues of the war gained by the loyal States, the. efforts of President Johnson to supersede the authority of Congress and the will of the loyal States cover a charge of usurpation of the most feartul import. Compared with this charge all the other charges against him are mere bagatelles, including the whole Tyler catalogue and more besides. In the scale with this accusation his 22d of February folly, his Canterbury pilgrimage to the grave of poor Douglas, and his melancholy excuses for New Orleans massacre are but dust in the ». The highest functions of Congress in this matter of Southern reconstruction, the sovereign legislative power over States and Territgries, whether in the Union or wresied ov purchased from a foreign Power, assumed by Mr. Johnson, and are still exercised as belonging not to Congress, but to the President, whose special business it is to seb that the laws of Congress are faith- have be Against this sweeping charge of usurpation the tonnage and poundage assumptions of King Charles the First of England dwindle into trifles, as do the grievances of the American Declaration of Independence against King George the Third. The powers which the President has claimed and exercised in reconstructing and restoring South Carolina and Texas he could just as well claim over Chihuahua or Sonora, if those Mexican States were brought within our limits by conquest or purchase to-morrow. Why, then, has Con- gress so long delayed in bringing this conflict to the test of an impeachment? We presume that Congress bas been waiting for a vindica- tion of ils course from the people; and that, having obtained it in the election of the new Congress, President Johasop will. surely be impeached, convicted. and .removed. The “irrepressible conflict” bas come to this test— Congress must stand atill for two years longer or Mr. Johnson must be set aside; and, as the case and the parties stand, Mr. Johnson will have to retura to Tennessee. Napeleen’s Reform Bill—Importnat Crisis in the Government of France. Yesterday (Sunday) the Emperor of France issued a decree which may with great pro- priety be classed as one of these remarkable and original utterances, the production of which, at certain periods and under particular circumstances, signalize the epochs of his reign. Napoleon, in fact, orders a Freneh re- form bill, the working of which, he Geélates; “will crown the edifice of a State founded upon the national will.” This imperial con- cession ordains that the legislative body shall have the right of questioning the government on matters of State policy, but seta forth, at the same time, that the custom of debating and preparing an address in the Chambers, or Lower House, in reply to the speech from the throne is discontinued. The “right of the people to meet in public” is to be “limited only” by the regulations necessary for the public safety, the stamp duties are reduced, and offences of the newspaper press are to be tried in the correctional couris of the empire instead of being punished by summary sent- ence. ‘The French people will ceriainly gain many citizen benefits from the effects of this imperial coup-(diat ; particularly as regards their free- dom from arrest when agitating for a further extension of their franchise rights, by public meeting or through the press, and in the saving which will result to them by a reduction of the stamp duties, which are heavy in France, owing to the legal necessity which exisis for the every day use of government stamps in business transactions. Parliamentary representative leaders receive a “heavy blow and great discouragement” by the clause which declares that the “address of the Chambers in reply to the speech from the throne shall be discontinued.” Members may question the Minister of State in the House as to the diplomacy of the empire, but everybody knows that the studied answer of a Cabinet official to a query put according to parliamentary form will, particularly in France, form a poor compensation for the popular enlightenment which was sent forth during the late sessions by the debates pro- voked by the brilliant oratory and keen and pungent opposition remarks of MM. Thiers, Jules Favre and their adherents. Here we have a fact which suggests the in- quiry why does the Emperor proclaim bis Re- form bill at this particular moment? Is it in pursuance of that system of friendly contrasts which he has applied to England since the Crimean war—that he “orders” for the French millions @ greatér amount of liberty at a mo- ment when Earl Derby is at his wits’ ends to know what to do between Jobn Bright, the Trades Unions, manhood suffrage, ‘and the threat of “personal petitions” from the people to the Commons? Does he wish to keep side by side with Bismarck in the march of consti- tutionalism as likely to be developed by the new German Parliament ; or, more important still—does he seek to silence the speeches which were certain to be made in the Legislature, just about to assemble in session in Paris—by the anited Orleanists and democrats on such subjects as the Mexi- ean empire scheme and its cost, the relations with the United States, the army reorganisation plan, the war in Cochin-China, the diplomacy towards Germany during the war, and in Italy and Rome since the peace, the policy on the Eastern question, with other matters of more local fatportatce ? ‘Tue order for the discvatiauaage of the legia- lative reply to the imperial speecl will incline the public miad of Europe In this direction of belief, and the opinion is likely to be strength- ened by the fact reported by the cable, that the members of the French Cabinet tendered their resignations ou the very day the decree was issuetl, and when the Chambers were about to meet, The new Napoleonic movement will be watched with great interest, both as to cause and in its effect. Congressional Action Currency and for Liquidating the jonal Debt. The Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives reported last Friday, through its chairman, Mr. Randall, a very important bill to provide a sinking fund to pay the national debt and to give us a uni- form sound legal tender currency. Mr. Clarke, of Ohio, delivered a speech the same day on our national finances and against contracting the currency, much in the same tenor of Mr, Randall’s bill Other members have lately taken up the subject with corresponding views, all of which goes to show that our public men begin to see the importance of reform in the present system of currency and finance. The bill referred to provides in substance for those changes which we have over and over again urged upon Congress; that is, the sub- stitution of government legal tenders for national bank currency, the buying up and cancelling of interest-bearing bonds to the same amount, thus saving to the government and people something like twenty million doliars annually in interest gn the debt, the application of the amount so saved as a-sink- ing fund for the extinguishment of the debt, and ihe prevention of an injudicious contrac- tion of the currency. These are the principal features of the bill. The more we look at the national bank asso- ciations, their organization, enormous privi- leges, immense profits, dangerous power, vast monopoly and the bad policy which established and would perpetuate their immu- nities and power, the more surprised we are that Congress has heretofore shown 80 little wia- dom about this important matter. No sueh privileges were ever given before, in this or any other country, to private corporations. Only think of allowing these corporations the immunities and profits of three hundred mil- liors of circulation, without paying anything to the government and people for it! Well may they be able to declare dividends of fif- teen to twenty-five per cent, and carry be- sides a large surplus to their capital. Twenty millions a year is a stupendous gift—a gift which is taken from the pockets of the people and put into those of a few overgrown capital- ists. We cannot characterize this in any other way than as a monstrous frand wpon the indus- trious masses of ‘the country. The Bank of! England, with ‘all the valuable serviocs it-tes | tendered the British government, always paid tor the privileges granted to it. Directly -or indirectly it pays the government for its circu- lation, and whenever its charter has been renewed, which in the course of its history has occurred many times, the government has de- manded payment in money, in loans without interest, or in some other way. The British government does not, like our Congress, give away such valuable advantages without some equivalent. The right and profit of circulating money belong to the government. The cur- rency is money, and if private associations or the national banks are allowed to circulate this they ought to pay for it. No one can be so ignorant as not to understand such a plain and simple proposition. Yet we see that the banks not only have all’ the profits of a national cir- culation, but their liabilities in part are guar- anteed by the government. The act creating and maintaining this system is, we repeat, a monstrous fraud upon the country. Let us have but one kind of currency—that of legal tenders. If the present national banks. or any other banks, choose todo a banking business let them do go on this uniform and truly national currency. There are many other evils connected with the national bank system, some of which we have referred to before, and some we have incidentally mentioned in this article; but we confine ourselves here mainly to the question in a financial point of view. By substitu.ing non-interest-bearing legal tenders for national bank notes we shall have a better currency, based directly on the eredit of the government, and shall save twenty millions a year instead of making a gratuity of that vast amount to rich corporations. ‘To accomplish this is the object of the bill reported by Mr. Randall. Who so blind as not to say it should pass? There will be determined opposition, doubtless, for the national banks have great power and abundant means; but we hope there may be found patriotism and sense enough in Congress to carry this measure through. With a uniform legal tender cir- culation, limited to the present volume of currency, we need not trouble ourselves about contraction. The business of the country will absorb that amount, and we shall approximate steadily and healthfully a specie basis, without revulsion and without enriching a few wealthy bondholders at the expense of the rest of the community. Unnaccountable Newspaper Financteriag. The Tribune exhibits an elaborate and ex- traordinary tabular statement of its receipts and expenditures during the year 1866. In commenting upon this it would fain make a virtue of necessity. Shifting the burdensome charge of mismanagement which its surpris- ingly small excess of receipts over expendi- tures imposes on the proprietors, it transforms the deficit itself into a pretext for self-glorifica- tion on the score of extravagant liberality to its readers and advertisers. The profits on sueh business as it boasts of should be at least @ hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But, if ite calculations are correct, the profits ona business of more than nine hundred thou- sand dollars have amounted to only a trifle over twenty-four thousand ; and the annual profits of the Tribune have been reduced by $146,170—say (as round numbers always sound well) nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—from the handsome figure claimed for 1865. While condoling with our neighbors on this sad falling off we cannot help remembering that such a disappointment is the usnal result whenever idealogical, es thetical, socialistic, vegetarian visionaries try to cipher out the arithmetic of practical life. Perhaps such impracticable “poor creatures,” to use Mr. Wilborforce’s phrase, may not be accountabley, their financiering is surely unac- countable, To be a successful financier in jownaliya cequirva much gore hag eathugi- » political statistics ‘Phe Campbell-Sher man 2 Mission Maximilian Says he wilt Die Where he Is. Our Washington despatches published yesterday give as the* inside history of the late Sherman/ampbell mission to Mexico, which is so interesting as t¢ merit 8 few words from us. Two prominent facts are revealed— one, that the mission did not do the work in- tended for it because the elements composing it were inbarmonious; and the other, that Juarez made no attempt to hold any communi- cation with the members of that commission be- cause he feared to arouse the jealous suscepti- bility of his countrymen, The case, then, thus stated, presents a rather unexpected aspect ; for, putting aside for a moment the unchemical compound known as the Campbell- Sherman mission, we are informed in plain terms that the Mexican people fear any action our government may. take toward restoring the republican form of government among them from a deep-rooted conviction that we are im- pelled theréto by interested motives. Direct allusion to this was made by Juarez in his speech at Chihuahua, when he expressed a hope that the United States does not think of annexing any portion of Mexican territory. We have repeatedly disclaimed any such in- tention, but it is very doubtful if our declara- tions have had the slightest effect toward re- moving the deep distrust entertained of us in Mexico. The greater the pity, therefore, that the Campbell-Sherman mission exploded as it did. That commission not only covered itself with ridicule and threw discredit on the United States government in the eyes of the Mexicans, but an opportunity was lost for removing the delusion which that entire nation persists in adhering to, Minister Campbell may or may not have been the proper person for the business. We are strongly inclined to think he was totally uofit. General Sherman.may or may not have been the right man ; but one thing is very plain—that each considered bim- self the head of the mission, and, as is the case in all unnatural things with two heads, the thing was a monster and died after a brief, uuhealthy existence. Another curious feature in our latest Mexi- can news is the reported conversation between General Castelnau and Maximilian, wherein the former is said to have urged an abdication, while the latter announced his determination to remain where he is till he dies. Now, ifsuch a conversation took place, the first thing that must strike one is that unless Maximilian is be- coming insane or spoke under the influence of the fever which preys on him, he must have some reason for believing that he can hold his: own when the French shall have left him to his fate, The French are as much if not more the objects of jealous hatred in Mexico as Ameri- | caus. In short, like people of contracted civil-| ization, the Mexicans hate all foreigners with the same intensity that is found in Japan. It is not improbable therefore that Maximilian is anxious for the departure of the French and “all who choose may remain,” we feel safe in thinking that very few if any French or other mitian, when, like the tub, he shall stand on his own bottom, shall come out of the singular “trisagular duel” now gathering strength and approaching a critical moment, board from the Henrietta. battle or an earthquake: The loss of a single trated upon the recent extraordinary ocean know what became of the poor fellow who was washed overboard. this facts in the case. Pneumatic Passenger Railways. The necessities and inconvenieaces of travel in New York render the adoption of any new plan of locomotion desirable. While under- ground or air-line railroads might obviate some of the difficulties, the speed of rail- road travel may probably be best improved upon by adopting the mode now in use in London for Post Office purposes—the pneu- matic railway—which rans through a tube under the Thames. Packages are sent with in- credible speed and perfect safety in this way by exhaustion of air at one end and pressure of air from the other, without the use of steam or any other motive power. This system has been long in practice for the transmission of letters and packages, and it has been found to work so successfully that a passenger line on the same plan is now actually in progress in London. We have heard that a similar line is talked of to be laid under the East river, con- necting this city with Brooklyn, and we pnb- lish in another column some interosting facts concerning the project. We do not see why the pneumatic railroad should not in course of time be substitated for the mode of locomotion by steam now in use all through thecountry. If we could travel at the rate of a hundred miles an hour with perfect safety, as claimed by those who have investigated this process, railroad property would experience a rapid decline. It would certainly be a cheaper as well as a safer way to get over long dis- tances than the present costly and dangerous railroads afford. Let us try the experiment and see if we cannot make air subserve our parposes for ourrying ourselves, as well as we have put Mghtning under contribution in transmitting our thoughts by the telegraph wire, Nothing is impossible in these o progressive civilization, and if thie thing can plished in this, go-abond ountry. all his foreign auxiliaries, and does not believe in a real intervention on the part of the United States for the purpose of compelling bim to yield his place to Juarez, Ortega or any other man. The failure of the Campbell-Sher- man mission, the attitude of-Juarez and the national jealousy above spoken of tend to con- firm him in this opinion, and he evinces no in- considerable shrewdness in concluding that he is tolerably safe. Notwithstanding Napoleon’s intimation in his Atlantic cable despatch, that foreign auxiliary will object to leave as soon as possible, and we shall then see bow Maxi- Misapprohension as te the Man Washed Over. There is stilla misapprehension as to the fate ot the man reported to-have been washed overboard from the Henrietta. We are hap- pily enabled to state that although washed overboard the man was not lost, but, on the contrary, was instantly rescued and saved. Human nature is so constituted that it has bat a vague, indefinite sense of the aggregate destruction of huadreds and thousands by a life is usually more startling and impressive. Hence, while the public mind was concen- yacht race, there was a universal auxiety to We are giad to relieve xiety by an explicit statement of the ‘be dota in England, surely it can bé acgom- contest. The pce te convention for the nomination of candidates is to be held at New Haven on Thursday next, and the democratic at Hartford, on the 6th of February. The call for the latter invites the “constitutional Union electors, without regard to past political opinions,” to unite with the democrats “in op- posing the unconstitutional and destructive measures of the radical party.” Itseems pro- bable that the contest will again be between Joseph R. Hawley, the present Governor, and James E. English, his opponent in the last election. The Connecticut election is always looked upon with great interest by politicians, ond will be- regarded this year as an indi- cation of the popular sentiment in relation to the new measures brought be- fore Congress during its present session. Be- fore it convenes important progress may bave been made towards the pacification of the country, and the situation may be mate rially changed. According to present appear- ances the republican party will be stronger than ever in the State? for everything indicates a consolidation and harmonizing of that organ- ization, while the democrats are perversely ad- hering to their old heresies and falling further and further into the rear of the stirring issues of the day. The latter have recently held a convention and put forth a series of resolu- tions which will only have the effect of uniting their opponents more solidly against them, and an important number of their party are protesting against the selection of English as their candidate, and desirous of putting a rank copperhead in nomination and renewing the experiment formerly made with Seymour. With ordinary sense on the part of the demo- cracy the State might be made debatable ground. In 1865 Buckingham’s majority over Seymour was eleven thousand, while last year Governor Hawley was elected by only a little above five bundred over English. But the chances are that the copperhead element, which is strong in Connecticut, will prevail in shaping the contest, and that the democracy will be swept out of sight there, xs they have been in every other Northern State. The Great Gas Project. The great project for supplying all the cities and villages of the State with gas manufactured at the coal pits and con- veyed through mains for hundreds of miles is exciting general attention and interest. It bids fair to work a foevolution as com- plete as that caused by the original introduc- tion of gas in place of long’ dips and short ‘dips. As the scheme develops itself the im- mense benefifs it promises become more aad | more evident The price of gas will ‘be reduced ‘te w litle over one-fourth of its’ present. cost; the will be so much purer than that st present supplied to consumers that the same quantity now used will afford nearly double the brilliancy of light, and the nuisance oeca- sioned by the gas houses in cities will be re- moved. The tunnels and bridges of our rail- roads can all be lighted by gas, and travel be thas rendered less hazardous, ufitil pneumatic railways come into existence—running one handred miles an hour with entire safety—and drive the present slow, lumbering and danger- ous twenty-five miles an hour engines and cars out of yse and out of memory. It is true that some scientific boobies protest that the scheme is chimerical, and declare that it cannot be done, with as much pésitiveness as poor Profes- sor Loomis affirmed that the meteoric showers could not possibly make their appearance in England. But their predictions will be ex- ploded as effectually as was Professor Loomis’ astrology, and before long the mains will be conveying gas to our citizens direct from the Pennsylvania coal fields, and the impositions and extortions of powerful gas monopolies will be at an end. Tar Ranroap War ar ax Exvn.—The New York Central and the Hudson Rivor and Har- lem Railroad companies have taken s more philosophic view of their determination to carry on a war at the expense of the travelling public and the business community, and have concluded to resume their former arrange- ments for connecting at Albany. It is proba- ble that both parties to the fight found that the game would be a losing one and that the power of the Legislature was likely to be invoked for the protection of passengers; hence their determination to compromise and end the dispute. Prooreastve Parry Man.—Hon, Samuel Mc- Kee, member of Congress from Kentucky, saya if the suspension of the operation of the act paying for slaves that were enlisted in the Union army shall have the effect of ruining the democratic party in his State, as has been stated, he will wash his -hands of such an or- ganization and start a new party which will not be frightened to death every time it hears the word negro mentioned. Mr. McKee is m the right track ; a new progressive party is much needed in Kontucky. MUSICAL. The snow siorm iast night did not prevent « respecta- bie sized audience from attending the twenty-first Sunday concert at Steinway Hail. The orchestral programme _ comprised selections from P. BK. Bach, Mozart, Men delssohn, Schubert, and the bewatful, etherial and fan- ciful allegreito from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony Master Richard Coker, the celebrated soprano, aut Signor Striai, were the soloists, The popularity of those concerts is evident from the fact that any one could be induced to brave last might’s storm to attend Steinway Hall The opening of the new organ at St, Peter's church, in Jersey City, took place last evening, when « grand sacred concert was given. The orgam, which was buile by Englefried, is a powerful instrumen®, and cost $5,400, M. Braun, organist of St. Peter's, was assisted by GW. Morgan, organist of Grace church, and Gustayas Schmitz, organist of St. Patrick's cathedral, New York. Te Deum Landaane was given by @ full chorus, in whieh Madame Chome was soprane, Miss Krebbiel contralto, W. Hart mann baritone. SMadame Chome’s rendering of ‘Quam dileta”’ wae very One, and was the happiest efor! in ihe Mereadante’s ‘Pantuge erg’ reovived full justice in W. Hartmann, while the fantasia of the French horn, by H. Sehmits, was one of those treats which the good folks of Jewey tarely enjoy. in short, the execution of the programoze was confided to artis who prodnced a combination smperior to anything that has Witherto appeared iw St, Peter's, and whos perform ance witl be long remembered by those who had the | pleasure of hearing At. Madame GanzarAga, the justly renowned prima dort, who sang at Perse's concert at Steinway Hal on Satur day ulght, wil,, we understand, appear oggtn dorigg the Present searon. Fler voice has lost none of ita pristine righness and power, and hor appearange in the conrers Vall is always haviod with pleasure by atl teas tovoge 1¢ CEs