The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETTS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE ¥, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, near Broome —CINDALELLA. \ BROADWAY THEATRE, Vrook—Pars or rus Panres Broadway, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New Yors Hotel, —Canvnicon. RIOHINGS’ ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, Olympic Cheatre, Broadway.—Pxa Disy O10, DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—P rorassor Warts wit Perro His Mikacuts—Tus Heap iy rue ArR— Vas Inpian Basext Trice. STEINWAY ROOMS, eoun's Betuooven Matrixx, CLINTON HALL, Astor place.—Varentine VouspEs, Tar Great Porynationat Mnac, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broaiwar, opposite he Metropolitan Hotel—In rarig Etuioriay Bxremrain- wENTs, StNOUN URLEsquES. Brace Coon, axp Arricas Batter Trovurs, FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Guirrin & Cnnisty’s MiNsTaELs,— SEraortan Mansrerisy, Batcaps, Buatseces, &¢.—Noom- ive Of Tam Sovts. teenth street.—Cart Worr 8 o'CLock. Daxowa np KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo ite the New York “otal.—Iv rusim Soxas, Dances. Kocus- xmorms, Borrsqurs, &c.—A Pua Donna ynom 7am Coowray—Cinpar-Leox—MavaagscaR Barter Taoura, ~ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 91 Bowery. —Covre Vocauiew—Neceo Minseasisy, Bautar Diveatisssaase, 4c.—Toxy Pastor's TouR AROUND tug WORLD, ; CHARLEY WHITH'S COMBINATION TRO! at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broatway~Ix a Vaw or ce DP Lav@manie Exrenratsuents, CORrs DE Let, Sa ue FENIAN'S OaTu, on THE lpI0T OF KILLARNEY. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRB, Brookiyn.— Pavvurrre—Mr. axp Mas. Wurre, THB BUNYAN TABLEAUX,. Union Hall, corner of ‘Twenty-third airest and Bhvlway ga a Munroe o Picain's Paocarss—Sixry MaGwiient Scenxs. \ SEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rrondway. = Hap axo Ricut ARM or nst—Tag WAaiincton ‘1w8— WONDERS NATvMaL Hustuny, Sore Excronss Dane, “Opes from 8 acM. Ql Pewee ee { New York, Friday, January 25, 1867. THB NEW 3. CONGRESS. In the Sonate, yesterday, bills amending the act pro- yiilng @ temporary government for Moutava Territory, {or the relief of inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands, and to provide for the allotment of the members of the Supreme Court among the cireuits and Tor other purposes were Introduced. The Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reported with a fow emondments, The Tariff bill came up, and Mr, Grimes delivered a specch against {t. Several unimportant wmendments were agreed to anil tho Senate adjourned. In the House the joint resolution to extend the provis- fons of the agricultural Coilegs aot to Tennessee was passed, During ts consideration Mr. Stokes took occa- waion to say that when the time for action came he would be on the eamo aide that he was before, and he did not bare how soon it came, Mr. Cooper, of Tennessee, in no- ticing a remark of Mr. Kelly that Androw Johnson was a usurpor, said “that he (Mr. Kelly) Med, and when the gentioman from Pennsylvania says I was the paid agent vf Mr, Johnson he lies again.” This discussion was waled out of order, The House then proceeded to the wonsideration of Mr. Stevens’ Reconstruction bill, Mr. Raymond addressing tho House in a very lengthy mpecch. He opposed the bill becauss he thought i ‘Would implant a revolutionary government in every Bouthern State and perpetuate strife. Another objection Was that it provided no guarantee forever—it was merely ‘@ law, and the Supreme Court might annul it to morrow er another Congress might repeal it. He thought nother amendment ought to be offered providing that uy State attempting to secede hereafter should forfeit Sta representation in Congress. Mr. Stevens said Mai he found such diversity of opinion on the sobject of reconstruction oy bis side of the House tha’ probably ho would move ‘hat the bill be laid on the fabio today. The House coon after went into Committee of iho Whole, and wo atiressed by Mr. Morrill, ina Jongthy speech, on the ‘nan: ‘al question. THE LEGISLATURE. * In the Senate yesterday the act to amend the sevoral pote relative to taxes and assessments in New York was yeported. Several bills of a personal or local nature ‘were introduced, and the bill to amend the Brooklyn Water act was passed. The Senate then proceeded with wtoaed doors to the trial of Judge Smith, of Oneida gounty. In the Assembly a report from the trustees of the State Toebriate Asylum was presented, and also the snpual Feport of the Quartermaster General. Soveral bills of a Jocal charactor were ordered to « third reading or passed, and the Assombly adjourned. THE CITY. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yosterday. The contract for putting a boiler ip the Alms- thouse at $4,900 was agreed upon. A committee was appointed to Investigate the destruction by Gre of the ookhouse of the Penitentiary. It was resolved to pro- vide @ library for the juveniies on Randall's Island. ‘The receipts @#the commission for the past fortnighy wore $75,223 42 ‘The Board of Health met yosterday afternoon. The weekly reports of the inspectors on tenements houses, the Saperintendent’s reports, and a communication from the Committee of Health of the Assombly, calling ‘on the Board to furnish it/with facta rolative to the pres- @nt tenement house system were read. A varnish fac- tory in Forty-fourth street was ordered discontinued, The Board of Excise did not meet yesterday owing to the absoace of Commissioner Bergen, but Superintendent Boanedy presented the names of one hundred and Sweaty-five licensed liquor dealers who had violated the provisions of their licenses, and moved that the licenses be revoked, A mocting of the New York City and County Liquor Dealers" Protective Socisty was hold tact night at tho Gallon Thirteenth street. The committee on nomingtions for officers were unable to agree, and no elections were béid. A meeting ol the Kings County JAquor Dealers’ Association. was also held iast evening \o Brooklyn, and the conimittes to conver with the New Work agociation made & report. Mr, Yolvorton, President of the Bonk of North America, certified checks Of Al J. Meyer & Co., Broad \treet brokers, to the amount of $250,000, on Wodnes- tay, the frm having always honored their paper here- bfore; but the day drew to » close and It was stated that Weyor & Co, had beon ruined by ventures in Pennsyl- Jania stock. The anxiety produced by this state of Maire worked so severely upon the mfiid of Mr, Yolver- Jun that he died yesterday in a fit of apoplexy. | Colonel Felix O'Byrne, who claims to be # confidential agent of President Joheson, was brought before Justice Dodge yesterday on charges Of swindling. Mr. Kelly, of G07 West Tonth street, makes one of the complaints, and sie@ed in his testimony that Byrne promised his in- Bvence in getting him the collectorship of internal rev- enue in the Sixth district; but pending negotiations the votonel sold him an alleged bogus check, and the com- plaint ts made accordingly. Mr. Kelly also stated that ‘tt was bis (Kelly's) intention to divide the entire receipts of the cotiectorship with the principal of a public school Bod a young lady named Mary Coffer. John R. Hamilton, a clerk in the employ of William ‘& Robert Simpeon, pawnbrokers, was held for examina. Yon by Justice Shandley yorterday ou a charge pre- erred by his employers of having embezzled and appro. to his Own use over $6,000 of thetr money. The case of Adolphe William Schwartz, who is accused bf having forged bills of exchange to the amount of 100,000 florins im the empire of Acstria, was yesterday Rdjoured to the 9th of February, proos of the alleged offence not having yet been received from tho Austrian wovornment, which bas demanded the extradition of the Priwner, A tpstion was made {n the Supreme Court, Chambers, yost rday, before Judge George G. Barnard, to set aside Doe leeree of divorce in the case of Streibel vs. Streibel, jor he ground that tho plafnti? bad married anothor an previous to the Commencement of the action, © «that mo notice of action had beon served apon the ¢ ‘fant, Mrs, Streibel. The motion was denied. » he Superior Court yorterday, before Judge MoCunn, * ve case of Unger ve. The Forty-second street Ratiroad any, which waa.an action for damages for injuries ‘by platntiffrom the alleged nogligence of the ‘oyéa of the compatiy, the plainti@ recoived a ver cor $5,000, » stock market was weak and excited yesterday. woh pnd Muay Wad Ggned 1 0 Te —— -. NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1867. MISCELLANEOUS. Our European nows report by the Atlantic cable hag not come to hand, as the Innd telegraph fines ere still down east of Pictou, Nova Scotia, and the parties sent out to repair them have not succeeded, owing, we are told, to the impassable condition of the roads, Our dates from Vera Crag aro to the 19th inst., and come by way of New Orleans, Every train from tho interior had brovght in troops, and two thousand were in the city awaiting tranaportation to Europe, Some of the French transports had arrived. Maximilian had issued a proclamation condemn ing the Conduct of Gen- eral Sedgewick in occupying Matamoros, The French and Mexican flags were both floating over the public buildings and forta ef Vere Cruz, The liberals were encamped within twelve miles of the town, Tho United States steamer Tahoma had arrived, and Liewt@mamt Commander Gibson, with his staff were about going into the interior on some secret miss‘on, The imperial journals construe Minister Campbell’s return into @ change of policy at Washing- ton, The French legation in Mexico had advised all French citizena who wished. to leave with the expedi- tionary corps to band in their names. Bazaine was to leave early in February, and Maximilian would positively leave with the last of the French troops. Our Havana letter is dated January 17, The reveaue Gutter McCulloch had arrived from Now Orleans under sealed orders and was awaiting the arrival of the stesmer Don with the mysterious missionaries Frederick Seward and Admiral Palmer, on board. The French steamer Imperatrice had arrived from Vera Cruz with five hun- Gred troops for St. Nazaire. The Banoo de Santiago de Cuba had failed. The Havana banks wore plodding along quietly, Free labor was being apptied to sugar making on several of the plantations. The steamer Winooski ‘was engaged making soundings for the submarine cable between Florida and Cuba, The small pox was mode- rating at Matanzas. te Our correspondent In British Hondaras, dating at Be- lize on thel0th of December, states that a body of Yucatan Indians, under the lead of @ daring chief, bad {uvaded the mahogany district and threatened to break up the works and make a raid om the city. Trade was at a stand stiil and great excitement prevailed. Our readers will recollect that our lato despatches from Ja- maica announced that a body of British troops, with Genoral Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, had been despatehed from that island for Belize in conaequonce of “disturbances causéd by the Tadiana,”” We have files from British Guiana dated Georgotown, Domarara, on the 224 Decomber. The emigration from Barbadoos is gradually ceasing. In Novembor, 18¢4, the statute adults from that island to British Guiana numbered two hundred and forty seven; in November, 1865, one hundred and sixty-four, aud during last No- vember only 16. The bark John Souchay, which bad Completed a load of timber in the river Essequobo, and got a pilot for the light ship, took fire on the evening of the 11th ultimo, and was burned to the water's odge, With the exception of a few showers, the weather con- tinued dry and sultry. The Connecticut Republican Union State Convention met at New Haven yesterday. E. K. Foster was chosen permanent President, Joseph R. Hawley was nominated fur Governor by acclamation. Oliver H. Perry was nom- inated by ballot for Lieutenant Governor, William . Elmer for Secretary of State, Henry G@. Yaintor for Treasurer and L, W. Cutler for State Comptroliar. A so- ries of resolutions was adopted unanimously favoring the constitutional amendment, impartial suffrage and @ protective tariff, The convention, after a speech from Generai Ferry, adjoprnod sine die, Chief Justice Walker, of the Supreme Court of Ata- bama, has docided that the State was not destroyed by socession, and that guardians who have made Invest- ments in Confederate bonds and received Confederate ‘Treasury notes, under authority of an act of the Legisia- ture In December, 1861, tm good faith, aro entitied to credit om account thereof, Two members of the Congressional Judiciary Com- milice are reported to bare said that John H. Surratt will be brought before that Committee as a wituessto tho President's complicity in the T.incoln acsasaination. In the Kentucky Sonate yosterday Mr. Bigger offered a resolution that the refusal of Congress to sanction pay- ment to loyatmen, of compensation for slaves enlisted, isa broach of plighted faith and warrants thé Southorn States in repudhating the natioual debt. Francis King was acquitted {n the Toronto Court yes- terday. General Juba! Early, the ex-rebel general, tosti- fled in the case, John Gallagher was convicted and sen- tenced to be hanged on the Sth of March next. ‘Tho Indiana Legislatyro has ratified the constitutional amendment by ‘The express train on tho Hudson River Railroad, which loft Albany at half-past two yesterday morning, met with ‘an accident near Hyde Park, by which two sleeping cars were rolied down an embankment to the ice in the river. Three of the passengers were injured, and the brakeman is reported missing. ‘Two men were mortally wounded in Brownsville, Texas, recently by a patrol of colored soldiera. The Holliday distillery case, which has been tried tn Toronto, was closed yosterday. Holliday, who was charged by the government with defrauding in his revenue retaras, being mulcted in the sum of $48,000. Ninoty-six pensions have been granted to the relatives of the Canadian militia who fei! ia the late Fenian raids by the provincial government, The Impeachment Question in Congrese—The 1 Ceptias {Pe Revevitonn Camp... If tho position of President Johnson at this crisis may be aptly compared with that of King Charles 1, of England, on the evo of his surrender to the English Parliament by that of Scotland, or to the dangerous situation of Louis XVI. of France, when intercepted in his attempted flight from that distracted coun- try, so will the parallel in cach of these reiuark- able revolutionary epochs apply at this junc-: ture to the Congress of the United States, This body not only stands now in the relation of the famous revolutionary Parliament of England or of the French revolutionary Convention towards the King, bat in the clashing elements of the dominant party in the Parliamont, the Convention and Congress, there aro some strong general features of resemblance. As in the Parliament, which finally disposed of the un- fortunate Charles by bringing him to the block, thore were the conservative Presbyterians against the radical Independents, and as the violent Jacobins of the French Convention, in- tent upon their schemes of slaughter, had first to dispose of the objections of the more mode- rate Girondists before they could reach the King, so now the dominant radicals of Congress are confronted by the so-called conservatives of the fepublican party against President Johnson’s impeachment. How this coniict in the republican camp stands at present we cannot exactly deter- mine, The Judiciary Committee of the House, engaged in the inquiry upon the charges against Mr. Jobnson raised by Mr. Ashley, is properly very reticent as vo its proceedings, and the members generally of both houses have be- come somewhat cautious in the expression of their opinions in view of their probable respon- sibilities as members of the grand jury or as judges of the high court in which they may be called to act in this projected impeachment. But still in the occasional outbreaks of such leading radicals as Sumner, of the Senate, and in the general drift of the procoedings of the Tlouse having any relation to this question, we think the strongth and fixed purpose of the radicals may be detectod, as well as the feeble and failing roststance of the conservatives. We think it is apparent thatas im the filusira- tive English Parliament and French Conven- tion to which we tave adverted, the superior force and pressure of the radieals must pre- vail. This impeackmont kas become, too, this nico military question to the republican party, whother it shall hazard the demoralization and breaking up of its forces In attempting to sit down bofore the onemy’s stronghold for # two years’ sioge and starvo him out, or risk tho bolder alteraative of carrying his position by storm Now, if President Johnson, the Northern democracy and the ruling politicians of the excluded States could be brought to realize the advantages offered them with a coalition on their part to favor these divisions in the republican camp, they would not hesilate in yielding a little in order to gain a great deal. They would come over to the pending consti- tutional amendment as the Northern ultima- tum of Southern restoration. But as upon this isaue each of the parties named appeara to be inflexibly opposed to @ recognition of the all powerful voice of the North, and as the rebel States and the Northern democracy seem to depend altogether upon Hercules to lift them out of the mud, the prospect is that the radical camp will soon absorb the floating republi- cans of both houses, and that after the meeting of the new Congress in March the impeach- ment will be vigorously pushed to the removal of Mr. Johnson from office. There must be, without further loss of time, some very power- ful diverson in bis fayor, ina change of front and a change of base, or the Northern popular current which has set in so heavily against him cannot be impeded or turned aside short of his removal. As to the sorrowful conclusions of the British aristocratic journals that this proposed im- peachment involves a despotic exercise of Congressional power fatal to individual rights and the cause of liberty, they are needless ap- prebonsions and sheer nonsense. The impeach- ment contemplated is a constitutional proceed- ing, expressly provided in the organization of the government to meet the contingency of the usurpation by the Executive of the exclusive powers of Congress and a fuiluro on bis part, from negligence or design, to “see the laws faithfolly executed.” This remedy in Congress may be traced back to the example of the British House of Commons, resulting from the great revolution, against King James IL, of 1688, Tho only drawback to the im- mediate prosecution of this measure lies in the fears of the wenk-kneed republicans in Congress as to ils expediency; but by the 4th of March these weak knees will be strength- ened by a radical rubbing from their constitu- ents, We think so, from the Northern outside prossnre which has already commenced and because the great strength developed by Con- gress in the Northern elections of last fall resulted from the bold stand taken by Congress against Mr. Johnson and from bis alarming attitude of hostility to the rightful authority of Congress. In any event his impeachment and removal, instead of producing another civil war or a financial panic, will practically be equivalent to his death or resignation, and nothing more. Our Wharves and Piers—The Report of the Senate Committees. The Senate Commitiee appointed at the last session of the Legislature to examine the con- dition of the wharves and piers of New York have made their report through Senator Pier- son, They set forth the deplorable condition of the piers, wharves, slips and bulkheads of the city, state truly that they are a disgrace to ® great commercial emporiam, and come to the conclusion that certain reforms are impera- tively demanded, to wit :—the construction of a canal basin, by the appropriation of the exte- rior water front of the Battery, with proper wharves for the accommodation of not less than eight hundred canal boats; the raising of the rates of wharfage to an amount sufficient to pay interest on the value of the land and keep the structure in repair; the widening of the streets bordering on the river, and the placing of the harbor uoder a board, bureau or com- misaion, whose tenure of office should be “be- yond political caprice” and whose powers should be ample and absolute. The committee do not present any bills of their own to accom- plish these objects; but Senator, Pierson reporis the bill already introduced by Mr. Gibson and understood to emanate from the Citizens’ Asso- ciation “for the consideration of the Sennte,” which means that the committee do not adopt nad recommend that partionlar measure, but leave the sa! open Senate. The bill in question has many objectionable foatures. It is complicated and fails to mect direetly and plainly the existing ovils. If a Board of Public Works is to be created, tho piers and wharves, as well as all other maitera properly belonging to such a departinent,should he placed under its control, and we should not have a bateh of independent commissions, one for piers and wharves, another for markets, another for city railroads, and so forth. Tho rates of wharfage should be fixed by the Logislature, by direct enactment, and not left to any board. The Board of Public Works should have authority to widen the sireets bor- dering on the river and to remove tho rail- roads. that obstract them. While secking a remedy for the evils ‘that now exist care should be especially taken that no jobs are foisted upon the city and that no monopoly be allowed to obtain possession of any number of the piers and wharves under the pretended ery of reform. The city needs above all other things a Board of Public Works, with authority over all streets, buildings, railroads, ferries, picrs and wharves, markeis, &c. Such a board could ap- point subordinate bureaus, but they mastall act in harmony under one head, as all their interests are too closely interwoven to be eplit up into pieces and placed in balfa dozen dif- ferent and independent bodies. The Board should possess the power to open four or five avenues to the Battery; to widen streets; to re- move railroad tracks and remodel our city rafl- road system ; to manage and regulate markets, docks and all other city property. This would meet the case of the piers and wharves and ensure their speedy rebuilding and their proper management in the future. The wharves and piers are the most valuable property in possession of the cily. To make them remunerative they should at once be put into proper repair, should be kept in ropair by the city, and not by the lessecs, should be leased at the highest rents that might be bid for them on those terms, and should be en- titled by law'to such rates of dockage as would pay 4 fair interest on the valuo of tho Iand and the structures, This is all that is necessary to ensure good docks to commerce and a hand. some income to the city, As our present cily authorities—the Mayor and Council—are not to be relicd upon, the management of this, property and the carrying ont of these reforms ehould be place’ in the hands of the Board or Public Works, All this ls simvio onough if for the action of the | the Legislature will only turn a deaf ear to jobs and personal interests and act in a straightforward manner for the real benefit of the city. A Bridge to Brooklyn. The necessity of uniting the twin cities of New York and Brooklyn by a bridge across the East river bas been prominently brought before the public within the last few days by the ice obstructions which have rendered navi- gation on the ferries difficult and dangerous. Inasmuch as it is absolutely imperative upon a large portion of the people doing business in New York to reside in Brooklyn, for want of accommodation and moderate rents on this side of the river, there should be some more certain and convenient mode of communica- {fon than the ferries afford. There is now a bill before the Senate at Albany providing for the construction of a bridge across the East river, and the Board of Supervisors for Kings county at their last meeting endorsed it. Various points bave been spoken of from which to open the bridge on this side; some spot on the Brooklyn Heights, of cousse, to be the termi- nus on that side, Chatham square, for instance, was mentioned as the highest available ground; but we beliove that a plan has been suggested to construct a bridge from Wall street or that vicinity, commencing the work high up, pro- bably as far as Broadway, and running it clear over the streets and the river to Brooklyn. It ig said. that a ridge of rock lying in the middle of the river at that point will afford good foundation for a central pier of masonry or iron and thus divide the span of the bridge into two parts. Whatever plan may be adopted, however, it is for the interest of both cities that a bridge should be built immediately; and if the pro- perty owners in Brooklyn do not bestir them- selves about it they may find the value of houses decreasing considerably before long. People have become so disgusted with the dif- ficulties and disappointments in crossing on the ferries this winter that hundreds of families will probably desert Brooklyn altogether be- fore another iee-bound season comes about, and acok a residence in somo of the other suburbs which are more casily approached, and where rents are not quite so high as they have been in that city for the past few years. American Iaterventi in European Affairs, M. Vrignault, a writer in the Paris Presse, regards Fenianlsam ag a cause of disquiet, be- cause, he says, it is the first, or at least the most palpable revelation of the interest which the United States takes in the affairs of Europe. With a Frenchman’s fatal facility for rash gene- ralizations from insufficient facts, M. Vrignault looks upon Fenianism as a sign of a new era to be marked by direct American intervention in Europe. Here wo all know how untenable are the premises from which he deduces his curious conclusions. We know, for instance, that so far from encouraging the Fenian invasion of Canada, the United States government inter posed the only effectual check upon it. Bat it is in entirely different ways that our govern- ment has always intervened and always will intervene in European affairs, The very exist- ence of our republic iss standing argument. against the monarchical principle and all its consequences in Europe. The revolution throngh which it was established reacted directly upon the Frenvh revolution. The popular revolutions of 1848 on the European Continent resulted largely from the ferment of American ideas. The progress of reform in England has been and will yet be qnickened by influences” from the same transatlantic source. Certain lessons of our recent civil war wrought practical effects in the war between Prussia and Austria, Bismarck and John Bright, ‘Napoleon and Victor Emanuel, the Czar, the Pope himself, and even the Sultan, are all consciously or unconsciously aubjcct to the mysterious influences of the great Western republic. It is owing to these that Napoleon has just been constrained to begin the falfiment of his old promise to crown with liberty the costly imperial structure which he has greeted in France. If there been fo United States of America, the aioe Ee ~ form of government.” But where such ap- Pliances are necessary to meet the new order of things in the late slave States of the border it becomes very plain that the general work of Southern reconstruction has been none too slow. When Maryland and Kentucky are still a year or two bebind time we cannot wonder “that Virginia and Texas should still dream of negro subjection under the sbadows of their old “peculiar institution.” All great revolutions looking to the extension of popu- lar rights for their fulflment require more or Jess time, according to the changes from the old ystems, and this of ours is the greatest in human history. ‘The Tariff in Congress. The action of Congress on the Tariff bill is partial and one sided, all for the benefit of the manufacturers. The immense preseure brought to bear upon Congress by the manufacturing interests, assisted by & powerful lobby and plenty of money is producing this effect, Mr. Sprague, the rich cotton manufacturer of Rhode Ielandyia the active representative of these interests in the Senate, and after the ex- traordinary efforis he made on Wednesday in his own and their behalf, Mr. Fessenden was constrained to say that though he “had great respect for the manufacturers of the country, he would tell the Senate now that from the testimony before the committee, from all he and that committee knew, it would not do to leave the formation of the tariff to the manu- facturers.” This significant language shows what the manufacturers are at. We fear that notwithstanding Mr. Fessenden’s warning they will form a tariff that will be burdensome to the people for the benefit of a small class of the community. The immense fortunes which the manufacturers have been and are making are taken from the agricultural and other in- dustrial classes—from every one who wears or uses a piece of cotton, cloth or other taxed material, A tariff for revenue, with the inci- dental protection it affords, is all we need and the only one we should have. The manufac- turers have very adroitly taken advantage of the time when the people are absorbed with weighty political matters and not so likely to watch their selfish schemes to concoct @ tariff to suit themselves. Ii is to be hoped that Mr. Fessenden and other enlightened statesmen like himself in Congress will resist to the last the schemes of the manufacturers, Two Important Burts Approvep.—The Pres- ident has approved the bill providing that in addition to the regular meeting of Congress on the first Monday in December there shall be a regular meeting on the 4th of March, upon the heels of each outgoing Congress. Thus, imme- diately after the final adjournment of the pres- ent Congress on the 4th of March next, the now Congress will take ita place. As itis gonerally understood that the special and immediate ob- jects of this new law involve the curtailment of the President's. power over appointments to office and the prosecution of his impeachment, the question may be asked why did he not put in his veto against this bin? -We me the reasons why are, first, that he could find no valid objection against the bill, and secondly, that.a veto would have been a useless waste of time-andlabor. Had this law been in force on the 4th of March, 1866, it would bave saved Mr. Johnson, Congress and the rebel States a world of trouble. The President has also approved the bill ap- propriating $500,000 for the purchase of ihe southwestern corner of our City Hall Park, as 9 site fora government building, which shall in- clade the city Post Office and accommodations for the United States courts, This thing being settled, it is to be hoped that the building will be an ornament to the city and creditabie to the national government, and that in its erec- tion neither the time nor the money will be wasted that have been squandered upon our still unfinished New York county Court House. Onarrry at Howx avn Aproap.—If charity should begin at home it need not end there. Our citizens may well respond heartily to the appeals which will be made to them at the Cooper Institute to-night in behalf of the des- titute at the South, and to-morrow night {y United States of Germby ang {he Onited | bobalf of the sufferers by the ipsnrtretion in Staies of Tiaty would not exist . The Grete. At the time when such heroes as Marco Candiotes and Greeks are inspired by Ameri- can sympathy in their actual struggle against Turkish oppression. The millions of private letters sent back by emigrants to their friends in Europe have dieseminaied an incalculable amouat of knowledge and interest concersing political and octal ‘life in the United States and the inexbenstible material resources of our vast country. European capitalists keep thorongtly posted a3 to the value of our seeu- rities. Continental philosophers and British statesmen make s special study of our instiiu- tions, Professor Blackie and Mr. Jones, in their Inte intecesting discussion at Glasgow about de- mocracy and aristocracy, agreed in one point, at least—tliat it is not easy to exaggerate the prodigions weight which the United States now throws into the scale in favor of republican principles. American inventions, particularly in the department of labor-saving machinery, are everywhere patented in Europe. American yachts revolutionize European notions of ship- building and navigation. American breech- londers are adopted in the armies of Europe and the East. Every telegram which is flashed across the Atlantic to Europe is re- volutionary, for it inevitably suggests the ex- istence in the Western hemisphere of a Great Power whose influences must, directly or in- directly, affect the nations of the Eastern hemisphere. Without knowing it rulers and people in the Old World are interpenetrated by the light and heat of American civilization. In European affairs America intervenes only as the sun shines. Neoro Savery Apouisuep at Last ty Mary- Lanp.—It appears thatthe Maryland Legislature bas passed an act abolishing the article in the State code permitting the sale of negroes into slavery as © punishment for crime, and that hereafter there will be no distinction In the State in the mode of punishing white and black criminals, This isa just measure in view of the true intent and meaning of the consti- tntional amendment abolishing slavery and the emphatio requirements of the Civil Rights bill; but how hos this repeal of the Maryland aystom Jately adopted of selling negroes into slavery on conviction of petty offences, a system which, if allowed, might be extended to a genoral re-ostablishment of negro slavery, been brought about? We apprehend that it is due to the threatened movement in Con- gress to uprot tho oxisting State authoritles In erder to seguro 19 Marvland “a republican Borzaris, sacs Dbilanthropists as Dr. Howe, such poets as Byron and Fitz Greeiid Halleck,’ and such orators aa Clay, Webster and Everett, had awakened uviversal interest in the onuse of the Grecks, the shrill voice of Join Ran- dolph was once raised in Congréss to remind his hearers “There are Groeks at our own doors!” This exclamation may he repeated now with equal truth, Without lessening our sympathy with the Candioies, it should quickea our sympathy with “the Greeks at our own doors,” with the freezing and starving poor, with penniless widows and orphans at th South ond in this metropolis, F Tun Ccrvency Qusstios Brrorz Cox- arras.—An evening contemporary gives the credit of the suggestion which is the basis of Mr. Randall’s Currency bill to a Boston gentle- man, and says that this gentleman first made the proposition more than a year ago. Now it is possible the person referred to may not have seen the ideas originally thrown out by the Heratp, though we have constantly advo- cated the views embodied in Mr. Randall’s bill, and long before he enlightened the world with his suggestion. It is possible, we say, that he may have been one of those rare indi- viduals who do not look at the Hratp, and that he might have stumbled upon the exact views we have expressed over and over again ; but it is not likely. Mars. Exmapera Capy Stanton on Surrrace ror Wommn.—Mra. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s address in the Assembly Chamber at Albany on Wednesday last on equal rights, regardless of sex as well as of color, was a powerful, logi- cal argument in favor of impartial suffrage to women as well as men. There are several dif ficulties, however, in the way of this grand idea which will probably prevent its consum- mation till the dawn of millennium. The first is that the fixed sentiment of the men fs op- posed to woman suffrage; secondly, only a small proportion of the women themselves are in favor of it, and these advocates are of that “strong minded” class which generally smong their own sex are langhed at and taboved, Lastly, there is reason to fear that impartial suffrage, including womon, would result so extefisively in favor of unmarried candidates for office, men and women, as greatly to in- | roase the number of old bachelors and old maids in the country—a manifest drawback which we hold (o %0 syioieut to Kill the bill. THE TARIFF BILL IN THE SENATE. Probable Withdrawal of Thad Stevens’ Reconstruction Bill in the House. Important Speech of Mr. Justin’ 8. Morrill on the Finances. - A RECONSTRUCTED SOUTBERNER. Mr. Opoper Gives Mr. Kelley the “ Lie Direct.” bo. &o. ao. THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. ww Second Sension. Peter SENATE— Wasmnatox, Jan. 24, 1007. ‘PETITIONS, Petitions were presented and referred for increased tariff, for the incroase of pay of officers, and against the curtailment of the currency, PREVENTION AND PUNIRHMENT OF SMUGGLING. Mr, Morris, (rep.) of Me., from the Commitice om Commerce, re] the bill supplementary to tho act to prevent Lat punish smuggling (which was eapeed in yesterday's proceedings), and which was considers by unauimous consent and LAND GRANT IN AID OF RAILROADS, Mr. Coxwese, (rep.) of Cal., called up the bill recentty introduced to grant aid for the construction of the Sam Francisco Central Pacific Raiiroad, It grants the right of way through public lands, and gives the company every alternate section of land on its route, and 1s im general terms similar to othor railroad Dilla im tts pro- visions, ‘ 3 Mr. Srewarr, (rop.) of Nevada, said this was a very slight ald toa very important road from San Francisoe Bay to Sacramento, It granted but 29,000 acres of lan@ and no monoy, and the com; could have none of the land until the road was finished. There were two com~ panies organized, and the one first coustructniy the road was to have the land, Mr. Epmonpa, (rep.) of Vt., moved to postpone fur- ther consideration of the bill until to-morrow, aa he wished to examine it. Mr. Convens said be had no objection to that, and was postponed. INFORMATION WANTED FROM THR SECRETARY OF WAR Mr, Witson, (rep.) of Mass. introduced a resolution, which was adopted, calling upon the Secretary of War to know if any officers cee? under the Rogniar ‘Army bill of last summer have failed to joln their regi- ments; if s0, to furnish their. names, rapk and rogl- ment, with the causes why thoy bave not joined their command. CREDENTIALS OF MQ, FRELINGNUYSEN. Mr. Carrexs, (rep.) of N. J., presented the crodentiale and certificate of eloction of Frederick T. Frolingbuy- gen, choron by the Legislature of New Jersey to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Wright. Mr. Trelinghuyson ‘bas up to this time held bis seat by appointment of Governor Ward. He came forward and took the oath of office under his credentials. MONTANA TRRIETORY, Mr. Wanx, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Committee om Tarritories, reported a substitute for the bil! amendatory of the act Pde nn a rary governmont for the Territory Montana, which defines the p.wers of the probate courts of. the Territory, and legatizes the pubiie acts of the second and third-reasioas of the islabive Assembly until a or cimnprcered the next regular ‘foaslow Logistature ; teat none of the private acts of the said bod.es aball be declared in force ‘until approved by the sistature at the next vides for the apportioniment of the Territory for ive districts, repeals the act which provides for aa appeal or writ of error to the Supreme Court ofthe inited States from the Supreme Court of said or any judge or court thereof, upon any writs of bi corpus involving questions of personal froedom the! salaries of Torriorial ofcers, ond sopenintin an Dakota and to which provides. that tha Territories tana sba!! be one Surveyor General's district. oe TAK QULLRCTION OF DIKHCT TAXES 1 Vi — Mr. Van Winate, (cop.) of 'W. Va., from tee on Finance, reported a joiat resolution the coltection of direct taxe” in with the House amendments, and with a further eT that on ascertaining the of West Vi ot tax eo vy are mr of tue said tax as the value of the of the counties now Com ing the <tate of Weat ginia beara to the value of the then whole State of Vir ginia, and by striking out section six of the House on and changing the joint resolation to “am RNLIN OF THE INAABICANTS OF - CITURS AND -TOWND ON Ginny, id not exceed three buadred and twenty acres; over bundred, six ae ro ey, pry over one sand, one thousand two hui Pinon nercrsed to tho Commmitine cn feos: teen 4 we. Pacis Poe from the Finance Co mittee, reported the Legistative, Executive and Appropriation bill with but fev mo rection | monay to Increased com. fem rte the (a rants &e rekan out Sage oe eee rE 3 “ = : a PPOINTMENT OF VESSION AGENTS. ments tothe bill in relation sion agonts was announced. Fas print em agreed to the vunferonce committees calted by he House, ‘TSR TARIFF BTL. Pgh ape td one o'clock. ‘Mr, Ganuna, (rep.) of Iowa, took the floor and delivered against the bill. The man who Protectionista have Lege Sytem out the vials of thet who opposes it. Threats of polf- teal ostracism: 1@ against those who ée not believe this bill to be for Cee wie ane: whi that the capital is thronged with froe tradore, and British is being used to defeat American 4 and man is condemned who would inqrire he would vote, We know what all this means So far ‘what tbey call protection to i i He Hint ble Fi iy 3 ee Ee jae vebiqitard i : i 3 i i growers. f conclusion of Mr. Grimes’ speech the question, nape ‘the amendment of Mr, Edmunds to put booka, maps and chartsimported for the nse of public and col-, i Hiterary societies, Ac, upon the free list. ir. Rewpricns se Ind,, opposed the amend. ment upon the ind that taxes should be borne by alt alike in times like the present. wR (rep.) Mass., afvooatet the amend. ment, Under the existing awe the provision was ulready in force. ‘The amendment wae agreed to by a vote of @B yons te 13 nays. . SoMveR offered an amendment to put maps and a prtor to 1440 on the free ‘harte engravings ex fiat, Wt suntner sald Articlés could not come tm, competition with the mar .dfaoturors of thie country. | * Mie Peaneayay nat Ua the committes had difference in the tarif on those articles raanv fact fore 1840, hy! he@ put a low rate of duty upom them, Wag Vo lot diem in free of bharga, ba a rely (cop.) of Oroxon, was Spposed to the, CG r Se, SSS ane