The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1867, Page 4

ee NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BEN \ETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOE N. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. NOON AND EVENLN near Broome BROADWAY THEATRE [ieel Pars or ras Pasramax—Cinpesuits Matinee at Broxdway, 14 0’ Clock. NEW YORK THEATRE. Broadway. oppostie Now York Hotel: —CENDRILLON. Matinee at Two o'C THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteeuth street, near Sixth arenue.—Pakis La Nuit. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broa: vag eersenon Hanrz witt Praroum His MiRacims— ap in rus Ain— Tae Inpiay Basket Trice. Matinee atte o'Ck RICHINGS’ te OrERs OOMEANY. Olympic ibeatre, Broadway.—Boummian Matinee ai Two oOlxk-Davautae oF THe Secaee STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Concunt or THE Punsanuomo Sooimes op Naw Yous. Pusuic Remzansat A CLINTON HALL, Astor piace.—Vareytixe VousDEs, THE Gueat FourxaTionaL Mic. BLS. Se Broadway, opvestte Dancrxe “xD Bunissaces. BLAck ano Avrican Bauter ETH ERA HOUSE, Nos, 2 wi te ak ae OFF i 9! ‘cua (On. - ‘est een Womreessr. ESQUES, joom- Tha un tux SoUrH. 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In the Senate yesterday Mr. Wilson gave notice that ho woutd introduce a bill to regulate, increase and equat- amend the act providing for the collection of taxes in the inswrrectionary States. The Tariff bill was then takon ap and amendments regulating the duties on-coal and increasing the duties on machinory and zinc were agreed to, after which the Senate adjourned. Ia the House the Commitieo on Foreign Affaira ro- Ported a “vill to provide forthe defence of the north- eastern frontier. The Senate rosolution appropriating $100,000 for the removal ‘of the wreck of the steamship Scotland in New York harbor was passed ‘The bill accepting the steam sloop-of-war Idaho frou the Contractor Paul S. Forbes at $550,000 was’ passed. A resolution was submitted, as a question of privilege, censuring Mr. Cooper for his offensive remarks to Mr. Kelly on Thursday, but after some discussion it was withdrawn. A bill relieving from the payment of tax alcohol made from distilled spirits on which the tax has already been paid was passed. Various bills of a private nature were considered, and the business on the Speaker's ‘ebro relative to matters not national in character, was disposed of. Mr. Stevens said he intended to have his reconstruction bill acted upon to-day. A bill to extend the provisions of the pension act to naval and military oflicers as-well as soldiers and sailors was introduced and referred. The bill for the relie’ of Josiah O. Ames, an- Propriating $9,500 to pay for the house and buildings burned at Anandale, Va., for military purposes, came up and elicited considerable discussion. Mr. Morrill: saia- _ the passage of this bill would be a precedent for the al- lowance of claims that would amount to $1,000,000,000 Mr, Delano, Chairman of the Committee on Claims, thought that $2,000,000,000 would not be too high an estimate. Tho bill was passed by 99 yeas to 27 nays, The House thea adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. {n tho Senate, yesterday, the bill granting exclusive privilege to William Orton and others to lay telegraphic ables from this State to France was reporved back fa- vorably, A resolution requesting the Comptroller of Now York city to report a full statement of improve- meats in wharves, piers, markets and ferries, the amounts paid for advertising, printing, &c., by the Common Council and other city boards and departments, and other mattors; and aiso requesting the Justices of the Courts of Special Sessions to report the number of persons dischatged after conviction by such courts, was adopted. The Senate then went into secret session for the trial of Judge Smith, of Oneida county. He was found of guilty of threo specifications of the charges againgt him, and his removal was ordered by, a vote of 2 to & The bill to prevent frauds im the opening and laying out of streets fn New York was ordered to @ third reading. The bili extending the time for the collection of taxes throughout the State to the 18th of April, ex. cept im localities Governed by special laws, was passed, A Mitt providing for a bridge over East siver was intro- duced, and the Senate adjourned until Monday evening. Yn the Assembly, the Judiciary Committee reported that a sufficient number of votes were cast at the last gonoral election to warrant the calling of a convention to revise the State constitution. Notice was given of inten tion to imtroduce bilis to prevont the storage of petro- leum, kerosene and other explosive suostances in New York city and to prevent ite manufacture therein; to pre- veat obstructions in the streets and avenues, to regulate ‘the landipg of steamers at certain piers 1m the East river; ® oxempt tager beer {rom the provisions of the Metro. politan Excise law, and to tunnel the East river between New York and Brooklyn. Bills were introduced to create ‘@ bureau in the law ips ijtemngh of New York city for the collection of arrears Of taxes, a Syw 2 [ railroad in Tenth street and shat avenues, ani for the construction of a stone stairway in the Park. Monday evening. THE CITY. Thers was another stight fall of snow in this eity last night. A great snow storm prevailed In Canada, and in most of the Western States yesterday. It was considered he heaviest which had visited the West for yeers, The trans had been Iaid up on the railroads, At a meeting last evening at Cooper Institute messures wore taken to send relief to the destitute people of the South. Addressee were delivered by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, General Anderson and others, An oxecative committer was appointed wo carry out practically tho purposes of the Meeting. John 5, Bradley, the new appointee to the office of President of the Croton Aqueduct Board, has made a formal protest-to the Mayor and Comptrolier against the peymont of salary to Thomas Stephens, the present ‘ecumbent, and against any official recognition of ‘Thomas Stephens as Prosidens of that Board. ‘Tho applications for license permits still continue to pour in at the Excise office, Thirty permits were granted yoaterday, and the Committee on Applications passed favorably apon three bundred and fifty applications, to ae presented to the Board of Excive next week. The drvtillery at No. 206 Prospect streot, Brooklyn, sad three barrels of whiskey were seized yesterday by the {aternal Revente officers and the case reported to Commissioner Jones for examination, An officer also reported the reisure of five berreis of whiskey in a dwelling in Johnson street, upon which, it was charged, the tax had not been paid. Witiam HE Carman, a ind thirtgon yours of age, re CUVON Injaring At No OOT Broadwar on Tuesday, from ize the pay of army officers, The House bill amending { the Habeas Corpus act was passed. The act establishing ive " the Judicial Court of the United States was called up, . but its consideration was postponed. The bill relative ij to persons imprisoned for offences against the United y States was passed. Bills were introduced to expedite vor £ . the construction of a Southern Pacilic Railroad, and to | Office at haif-past one lV. M. resolution requiring the committee appointed to oat a contract for cleaning the streets of New York city to compel Mr. Whiting, the contractor, to keep the streets clean was laid over. The Assembiy then adjourned anti! a8 of which bo died on Thursday, He was he second story, and » party of students had he third Moor, when a portion of the ceiling young Carman, The Coro- fact that the building was sleepin, a danc olow gave way and feli on nor’s Inquest developed t decidedly unsafe, and the jury censured the owner, All Bey, a Turkish 1 master, was struck on the head by two Germans, named Millman and Brandt, with some heavy weapon, on Thurstay evening, during an altercation at Dickol's riding school, on Fitth avenue and Thirty-third street. He was so severely tnjured that his ‘fante-mortem statement was taken yesterday, and the two Germans were arrested. The argument on the application for a new trial in tho case of Jeromiah O'Brien, the murderer of Kate Smith, took place yesterday im the Supreme Court, Genoral Term, Decision reserved. Another important Custom House case was yesterday decided in the United States Circuit Court, Judge Smal- ley presiding, in a verdict against the government. The suit was brought to recover an excess of duties paid on a cargo of lemons and oranges, to the duty upon which the importer was compelled to add a percentage of twenty- five per cent upon the boxes, nails, coverings, &c. This addition he paid under protest, to recover which the ac- tion was instituted. The legal question was the only one at issue and it was decided in favor of the plaintiff, the Judge holding that the act of 1865 repealed a former act of 1842, the latscr act expressiy specifying that duties only should be levied on the market valuo or wholesale Im the Wall street brokerage case of Byatt va. Quackenbush, on trial for the last two days inthe Superior Court, before Judge Jomes, the jury yea- terday reudered a verdict of $1,500 for piamti®, The | action was brought to recover damages for malicious prosecution in causing the arrest and detention for come hours of the plaintiff vader the alleged charge of having paired disposed of North regen bonds to the bye se Guscetti was yesterday committed for trial by Commissioner Osborn on a charge ef having forged pension papers with the view of obtaining a pensron due to one Jacques Rollinger. The further hearing of the charge against Jobn H. Trapp, a lawyer, of having presented a forged writing to the United States Paymaster in this city for the purpose of obtaining the back pay and bounty of a deceased gol- dier, was resumed, Testimony having been, given on the part of the defendant, the matter was again ad- journed. The Burns’ Club celebrated the anniversary of bis birthday by a dinner at Delmonico’s yesterday, It was also celebrated in Washington, Brooklyn, Jersey City aud elsewhere, A large fire occurred in the buildings Nos. 366 and 368 Washington street last evening, and the entire contents, including over four thousand bales of cotton, were burned. The Loss 1s estimated at $500 000. The fine steamship City of New York, Captain Leitch, of the Inman line, will sail at nocn to-day from pier No, 45 North river for Queenstown and Liverpool. Tho mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship The Queen, Captain Grogan, will leave picr 47 North river at noon to-day tor Liverpool, touching at Queens- town to land passengers. ‘The steamship Ville de Paris will sail from pier 50 North river at ten o'clock this morning for Brest and Havre. The steamship Morro Castie, Captain R. Adans, will sail punctuaily at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 4 North river for Havana. The mails wiil ciose atthe Post The Cromwell lino stearaship George Washington, Cap- ‘ain Gagor, will leave pior No, 9 North civor at three P. ba! ‘to duy for New Orieans. Phe Black Star line steamship Fung Siuey, Captain Crowell, willaail. from pier 15 Nortu river atiwe P.M, today for New Orleans. ‘The Empire line steamsh!p San Jacinto, Capiaia Love- land, will leave pier 13.North river puactually at throe P. M. to-day for Savannah. ‘The favorite steamship Quaker City, Captain West, of Leary’s line, leaves this day.at one P. M. for Charleston, from pior 14 East river, Passengers fur the South by taking this steamer avoid detention on the railroads and make a3 good time. ‘The railway share market opened in a panic yesterday, but closed strong at an advance, Gold closed firm at 134% after selling down to 15575. Business in most departments of trade continues very moderate, and it is evident that the agitation of tho financial question 1m Congress creates a very uneasy feeling. Imported goods aro generaily held firm, under the conviction that the duties wil! ia ail probability be higher; but domestic produce is irregular, and im many cases nominal. Coffee was dull, but firm. Cotton was heuvy and lower. On 'Change floar was more active, but at a decline of 10c. a Lic, Wheat was dull, and nominally lower, Corn advanced a trifle, under a fair demand, while oats remained dull aod uachaaged. Pork closed firm, while beef was dull and heavy, and tard lower, with only a moderate demand. Freights were Gemer. Whiskey nominally unchanged Naval storos were decidedly more active, but at lowor rates. Petro. Jeum declined Ic, per gallon, with nothing of importance doing. Woot was firmer and in moderate demand. MISCELLANEOUS. Our advices from Vera Gruz, by way of New Orleans, state that Maximilian’s minster of war had arrived with his family en rowe for Europe. It was oxpected that there would be a convention of republican generals held to choose @ general in chief, Report further says that Ortega would probably be chosen. An officer of Ortega’s staff had arrived in New Orleans on bis way to Vera Cruz with a message from his chief to Max- mitian. Wendell Phillips delivered a spaech before tho Fedora! Commuittes of the Massachusetts Logistature on Wednes- day against the ratifteation of the-constitutional amend: tent by Massachusetts, He also addroased tho Ladion! Anti-Siavery Subscription Society at its thirty-third an- niversary on Thursday. He satd that Presideat Johnson isa traitor and the Supreme Coart is poisoned with dis- loyalty, The togisiative branch of the goverfmoat must abhor the governiaent and save it. In the Toronto court yesterday William Orr, Frederic Fry, John Hughes aud James’ Diamoud wero severally acquitted, and Barnoy Dunn was found guilty, his sen- tence being deferred. The Rev. Dr. Bethuoe was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Toronto yesterday. He took an oath de- nouncing the Pope and abjuring the oxcommunication doctrine. The Canadian Council, ia session yesterday, dotor- mined to pay all claims for damage by the Fenian inva- sion and present the bill tothe United States govern- ment for payment. Bill Davis, of Califoraia, and Ned Burnett, of Now Orieans, engaged in a prize fight at the latter place yes- terday, Davis winning the victory im seven rounds in twenty-oight minutes. ioe of St, Louis, and Peter fought ht at o , Joyee maa umd ani ae atone, A coltision occurred on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlatn Ratiroad yesterday, by which the engineer was killed and five other persons were seriously and several slightly injured. The body of the rebel General Johuston has been taken to Galveston for burial, General Griffin, commanding in that city, agreed to permit the burial to take place on condition that no organized associations should appear in the procession, and that there should be no music ‘or tolling of belis. The authorities refused to consent to these conditions, and the body remains oxpesed, all the stores being closed in honor of the deceased. The Supreme Court of Tennessee is engaged in dis- cursing the constitutionality of the Franchise law ro- cently passed by the Legrstature of that Btate. ‘The screw pile lighthouse off Muiberry istand, in the Jamoe river, was entirely destroyed by ice on Saturday last. The lighthouse keeper and bis assistant succeeded im reaching the mainland in thoir boat. One half the town of Lagrange, Ga, is reported to have been burned on Thursday night, embracing all tho bustness houses. overnor Cox, of Ohio, has decliued 10 be a caadidate for renomination to shat office, Nitories has become a law, without the President's signature, ten days having elapsed without bis return- mg it, A St Louts phonographic reporter has been eum- moned t Washington -to testify before the. Judiciary Committes, as to the correctness of his report of Presi. dent Jobnson's spsech in that city. N/the Mississippi steamor St, Cloud strack » snag near Momphis on Thugsday and sunk. No lives ware lost. ‘The schooner Flizabeth Kdwards, from Georgetown, 5 C., for New York wan abandoned at sex om the 10th instant, being cut through by ioe, Hor orew oscapod in ayant Wont, aad were taken up by tha tight ship of Onpo vay the power uader the constitution te reorganize The bill conferring su rage om the megross iu tho Ter. Johnson's Reliance the Southern States. | We have the information from Wasbington that the President adheres strictly to bs policy—that he does not intend to give way— that while he expects nothing but opposition from Congress, he looks to the South to sustain him in his position against the unconstitutional- ity of the reconstruction acts and movements of the two houses, and that as there is no desire for a compromise on either side, except among the impotent few without influence or skill, the opinion begins to prevail that the shortest road to a settlement lies in the Hexavy’s plan of pushing through the work of this great revolution, even to Mr. Johnson’s impeachment and removal from office. The most important fact in this statement of tho situation is the President's reliance upon the Southern States. In the Washingtun corres- pondence of a Charleston paper (January 12) upon this point, it is said that a political and intimate friend for many years of Presi- dent Jobnson had a long and confidential inter- view with him some days ago, during which the President.astisfied said friend that “even in the matter of recognizing the present rump Gorgress, which I dtd not think he would, there were ample reasons to ‘justify his course)” and that ‘“@ Texan, net one of the delegation, who saw the President the day before yesterday, came away with profound and unexpected con- fidence in his firmness ;” and yet again, that “it is pretty certain that the Supreme Court will soon decide that test oaths are unconstitu- tional”—(the decision has since been pro- claimed)—and that, further, the same court will in the Alabama case—(taxes not paid on the ground that the State was in a Territorial condition)—decide that States are States, not Territories, From this testimony it appears that while the President relies upon the South- ern States for the success of his policy those States rely upon the President to restore them to both houses of Congress in spite of all that Congress has done or may do to keep them out. How is this thing to be done? The Presi- dent, it is broadly intimated, contemplates a new experiment. South Carolina, for inatance, is to be persuaded to try the fmparfla! sufrago of Massachusetts, to whites and blacks alike, of a reading and writing qhalification, andis thus to elect a Legislature and loyal members to Congress, The President is then to extend to the rebels of South Carolina a genera! amnesty. The members thus elected to Congress are next to apply for admission, and Congress, it is thought, will not dare to reject them. All this programme proceeds, however, upon Mr. Jobn- son’s theory that South Carolina, under bis legislative authority and without the consent of: Congress is really restored to her rights as. a loyal member of the Union; aad. it is just here that the ahee pinches. The real:isene between him and Congress is @ question of right and power. Hos he or. has Congrogs the right and President Upon a State destroyed or suspended in its functions ag a State by rebellion against the constitution and the Union? Clearly the right and the power are with Congress. Mr. Johnson so stated the case in 1865 to some of his Provi- sional Governors, for the information of all, in proclaiming that all his proceedings in the re- organization of the rebel States in the absence of any express authority from Congress, were merely provisional and subject to the approval or rejection of Congress, Had Mr, Johnson held fast to this sound doc- trine all-would have turned ont well between bim and Congress. The pending constitutional ameadment, instead of being indignantly re- jected, would have been gratefully accepted by all the rebel States. In diverging to this other doctrine that the legislative powers of the gen- eral government over the States and Territories belong to the Executive and not to Congress, he committed a grievous blunder. In appealing from Congress to the people on this issue and in then disregarding the popular verdict he still further weakened himself and strengthened the cause of Congress. In turning pow hia back upon the all-powerful and authoritative loyal States and in staking his fortunes with the rebe! States.in their defiant attitude against Congreas he is only repeating the disastrous folly to himself and his allies which marked the final struggte of King James the Second, in attempting, through Ireland, the recovery ‘of the créwn of England. P si A decision from the Suprome Court dectar- ing Alabama as legally » Stute reinvested with her constitutional rights will not help | him, »ecause an issue decided by war admits of no appeal. It is settled. But suppose the “Preaidens, backed by the Supreme Court, sliath axaume the responsibility to enforce its de- crees as the head of the army and navy’ As in this last resort he would find at least twen- ty-three of the loyal States—governora, legia- latures and people—arrayed as a unit againat him, the experiment will not be tried; for a million Union veteran soldiers stand behind the ultimatum of Congress on the issues settled by the war. What, then, is to be the upshot of this rupture between the President and Congress, when it is apparent that tho logisla- tive department cannot surrender ita righttul authority and the Executive will aot abandon we assumptions ? Tye oS cath 00 Sitgrng: tive but that provibed in the conta Yor the impeachment and removal of the President from his office. Mr. Johnson, then, must re- cognize and give way to tho national law- making power over the States and Territories, rebel or loyal, or he must be removed. It is the old quarrel between King and Parliament, ag recorded in the blunders and misfortunes of Charles the First and James the Second, and as the constitutional powers of our President and Congress are drawn from the government of England the result of this conflict must be the same. The King must yield the powers which belong to Parlixment or he must be dis- placed, It is only by the adoption of the one alternative that the other can be defeated, a cee ERNE Ee Se SE ee NN Re ee er et inet Tonsewmoe 2 Kecosetrected andor siti Brownlow. cle a II ci AE cet HE Hive ES BE. A 8g Se Ee wl bee es I Re ee a NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1867. burial beneath an overwhelming majority. The State is considered radical beyond the poasi- bility of recovery, and even Memphis, it is an- ticipated, will return @ radical representative to Congress. But if the negroes hold the bal- ance of power in Tennessee, and all, under the manipulations of Parson Brownlow, vote the radical ticket, why should not the leaders of public opinion in States where the negro ele- ment is stil) larger and more potentially effec- tive than in Tennessee borrow a hint from the Parson’s tactics? Were they really to “accept the situation” and, leaving their political ab- stractions in the limbo to which the flat of war has consigned them, adopt the constitutional amendment and give the negroes the suffrage, what would hinder them from making the latter the allies of the party opposed to Northern radicalism? Securing thus the control of the Southern States, why might they not gain the future balance of power in Congress? Why not thus “pluck from the nettle danger the flower of safety?” As things now stand it seems that the negroes must have the suffrage, full or partial, and that the party of the future controlling the negro clement will control the balance of power in every Southera State. Shall the “Southern politician appropriate and hands of his enemies? “That is the question.” Natiounl Charity—Atd fer the Greeks. Laat night thero.was.a charitable appeal on a large scule in behalf of the destitute of the Southern States. There is no dpubt of the need of kindly sympathy and generous aid for They bave their bad advisers to blame for the destitution and misery into which they lave cast themselves ; but they are still our country- men, whom we want back as soon as possible into the protecting folds of that Union for which we have shed so much of Northern blood and apent so much of the national treasure. Let us feed and clothe them, and, through the channels of @ common lineage and a common blood, bring them to an appreciation of our brotherhood. In no way conflicting with this good object, although following so immediately tipon it, is the public meeting at the Cooper Institute to-night. The Greek people of Candia—about two hundred thousand souls—now in the midst of a struggle for their very lives and sacred liberties--Christians striving against Turkish barbarity—appeal to us as their countrymen appealed forty years ago—not for material aid, to fight their battles, not for political sup- port, not for assistance complicating our peo- ple with their enemies or our government with Turkey; but for food and clothingfor ‘the women and children of the impoverished Cre- tans—women who have been subjected to the most atrocious. barbarities and from whom all | mcans of bodily nourishment have deen re- f moved by the destruction of the vineyards, the whoat fields and the cattle, upon which they declared that if every other hope fail them to this country they can turn and it will not fail them. The sympathy already expressed by leading men among us guarantees that we shall not withhold the hand that if extended will quench these thirsty lips and feed these empty stomachs and inspire with hope the hearts of this noble race. They are a noble race. The orushing influence of centuries of Mohammedan despotism has degraded and impoverished them; but the record of the past few months attests the fact that the old Greek blood is in their veins and will not stagnate. Never in the history of warfare have nobler instances of endurance and of self-sacrifice been shown than have been recorded as occurring in the Island of Crete within the past few months. These peo- ple, who love our republic, our institutions and our laws better than they love anything out of their own geographical limits, look to us with the utmost faith in our ability and our will to assist them. A glance at the names of the vice presidents and secretaries who will preside will suffice to show the character of the endorsement which New York gives to the cause of Chiistian charity wherever and when- over ik is presented. Congressman Raymond's Position Derined at Last. It will be gratifying to those who have been -anaiously-endeavoring -to. discover the where abouts of Congressman Raywond -on the im- portant measures now before Congress to find that he has at last defined his position on the moner‘ous question of reconstruction. In a speech delivered in the House of Represente- tives: on Thursday tast-he fully sets forth bis views on this engrossing aubject, and in a man- pep,which cannot fail to be satisfactory to all sides. He stated that he bad concurred in the President's policy of reconstruction and stil! believed it to have been the best remedy for the trovbles of the body politic, and that he fully endorsed and approved the reconstruc- tion policy of Congress as the wisest basis of adjustment of which the question was suscep- tible. He held that the present State govern- ments, initiated by the Executive in the ex-rebel States, are existing de facto rovern- ments, and absolutely necessary for the pro- a of society, and believed at the same GA -ae Pores? -4 hs st I sige that the people had decided that they would rather trust to Congress to adjust the subject than truet to the Executive. He thought that if the constitution were binding on Congress it could not enact Mr. Stevens’ reconstruction bill into a law, and that if it was not binding on Congress, as some persons thought, it could. Judge Conkling, of New York, had held that Congress might act with- out reference to the constitution, and the Supreme Court had declared the constitution must be the supreme law for Congress and the whole people. He was not, for himself, pre- pared to go fully with Judge Conkling, and he thought that the opinion of the Supreme Court ‘was stronger than the case warranted. He was reluctant to tamper with the constitution, and thought it might be atretobed so as to authorize a little more consolidation of the Tennesses, as ceconstructed under Pacson goveramont, So far asthe measures proposed Brownlow, hay determined to give the negroes the right of aufftage and to call out the fopat militia, white and black, before the elections |’ ordered, with @ view of protecting the ballot box against rebels and disaffected persons, Parson Brownlow feels so confident of success aa the radical candidate for Governor that be deems it unnecessary to make a canvass. With the negroes voting no conservative candidate, whether Nat Taylor or Governor Campbell (now members of the House), or John Williams or Emeraon Stheridge, can oxpect anything hut in Gongress were concerned he was prepared either to co-operate with Congress and vote swith. the majority or to go with the minority anil be outvoted by the mojority. At the conclusion of Congressman Ray- mond’s definition of his position Mr. Stevens rose in a bewildered condition and announced that he found opinion oa his side of the House in such @ maddie on the qnostion that. if he did not change his mind before the next day he should move to lay the whole subject on the table. | im sound oéndition,’ its surplus being nearly wield thisclement. or permit it ‘to fall into the | this afflicted portion of our fellow countrymen.- }-our banking institutions conduct thoir bust- tions are entitled to some protectioa, and itit matters has not yct heen mado known to the world officially, But we may safely conclude that they have failed, and we would ask whyt Aa far aa our information on this point ex- tends—and we know it to be correct—the fault lies with the South American republics. Relying on the sympathies and anti-European prejudices of all America, from the great lakea to Cape Horn, they hope and expect to make this Spanish war drag on indefinitely. In their blind and fanatical hatred of Spain, whose blood is in their veins, whose language they speak and whose religion and literature they cherish, they expect us to join them. Do they imagine that it is our interest to foster a war which might have been terminated honorably months ago but for their own passion and cha- racteristic Quixotism? Our interest is to have peace all around us. We are keener after a trade than a quarrel. If need be we can fight for ourselves and for our friends, and as far as republicanism on this continent is concerned the South American republics may rest satisfied that they are under our protection. No Euro- pean Power can encroach upon their .cstab- lished institutions, But we protect’ them for the purpose of promoting peace, industry and thrift for the interest and welfare of their peo- ple and our own. The exemple we set’ onr Spanish-American neighbors: io this respect is followed very slowly, if atall.. If they under- stood us and our ideas as thoroughly as wo un- derstand them, they would get slong in’ the world much better and give less cause for me- -diation. The war with Spain was needless. A compromise was offered by her government which, under all the circumstances, should have been accepted; for the republics have not been blameless, while Spain has had to suffer during a long series of years many indignities and out- Tages in the persons and property of her sub- jects resident in those countries. She had much graver cause of complaint than they, and yet ahe was the firat to propose a compromise, which was scornfully and absurdly rejected. This is the story in a nutshell. And we desire all South America to understand that while we will protect them we wish well to Spain and shall not be made a party to her unjust humili- ation. The Case of the Bank of North America, On Thursday last considerable excitement was occasioned on Wall street by the announce- ment of the sudden death of Mr. Yelverton, the President of the Bank of North America, and the rumor that the lamentable event was in some way connected with losses sustained by that institution. All manner of reports found currency for a time and 9 miniature panic was manufactured; but the facts soon became known and were found in substance to be that @ stockbroker firm, enjoying good credit at the bank, had overdrawn their account to the amount of one hundred and twenty thousand doflars and suspended payment. Their drafts had been certified by the deceased President, who had confidence in their stability and in- tegrity; and the news of their failure had so affected him as to occasion the attack which resulted in his death. The bankruptcy of this firm was not in itself an event of much moment. They were what is known as an open board house or curbstone brokers, and their liabilities were not of great magnitude. It is said, too, that they had put up securities sufficient to cover a great part of the debt due to the bank, The bank itself was double the amount of the overdrafts, supposing the latter to be a total loss; It was only the teagical event manwenr® | the failure:that o* it ita apparent im ‘There is, however, @ lesson in his occurrence which, if properly studied, may be productive of good results. A bank has a fiducial charac- ter. It has no right to risk its funds wantonly and unnecessarily to accommodate any of its customers. Its capitalis not the property of its President, nor its cashier, nor of any of ils officers. They simply act as the agents and trustees of the stockholders and depositors, and are bound to be even more careful of the funds entrusted to their keeping than if they were their own exclusive property. Itisa gross breach of trust for any officer of a bank to certify the check of any party who has not nfficient securities to cover the amount within the reach and control of the institution. Least of all should they certify large overdrafts by stock brokers, who stand much in the same position as gamblers, and whose large fortunes of to-day muy be broken down and swept Away to-morrow by some sudden change in the market. An unexpected rise or fall-in a fancy stock, to any material amount, will. often turn the millionnaire of one moment into the pauper of the next, and the very fact of a stock broker needing to make a heavy overdraft on his banking account im- plies that he is plunging into a speculation which chance may make remunerative or ruin- ous. The reckless manner in which many ot Tho Wer Cloud in the East. ® The cloud which has long been gathering over the affairs of Eastern Europe and which for some time past has looked portentous enough, seems at last about to burst. The difficulty assumes larger and larger propor- tions, The real question at issue, it is now no longer doubtful, is not what for a time it seemed to be—whether Greeks should content themselves to be ruled by Turks, but whether ness is notorious, and this is especially the | ™ is not to be found in the prudence, integrity | © and firmness of those who act in the capacity, of presidents and ‘cashiers, it should he se- cured by some siringent legislation. The officer who certifies an overdraft in any banking institution should be held responsible in his individual property for any loss that may ensue from his act. hearty encouragement and substantial new Crete, much to the annoyance Porte, has sprung’ up in Thessaly. since the evacuation of her fortresses by The Great Social Evil in New York. We learn from Albany that several of the members of the Legislature, and pariicularly Messrs. Blauvelt and Jacobs, are active in gathering stgtistics upon the great social evil of prostitution in New York, with a view of presenting o bill or bills for abating the evil. ‘The police of the city have been employed to collect information on the subject. They have already made a report, though it is yet incom- plete ; but, as far as it goes, it represents a state of things calculated to shock. the respectable portion of the community, The increase of prostitution within a very short time—even within a year or so—is alarming. The number of abandoned women and their habitations and places of resort have doubled in this period. We mention the matter wit great reluctance ; but our duty to the public requires us to state the fact and the causes, The numerous concert saloons, most of which ere on Broadway and | the other public and fashionable streets of the city, have contributed greatly to this appalling state of things. Ther are the vestibules of notoriously bad houses. The theatres, how- ever, are the chief source of the evil. The de- moralizing influence of such representations a3 that of the Black Crook fills the houses of pros- titution and has alarmingly increased them. Tho concert saloon keepers complain that their business bas been damaged since such per- formances have been going on; for thoir cus- tomers and the strangers they used to pick up go to them, and from them directly to places of ill-fame instead. There is really a rivalry between the concert saloons and the theatres in indecent and corrupting scenes for the sake of making money, and the brothels profit by it. This is the fearful spectacle which our respectable citizens have to contemplate. But it may be asked where is the remedy? Laws can hardly reach the evil, and if they be framed to show that some of the other provinces are ripe for revolt. Disaffection, in fact, is general among the Christian subjects of. the Sultan; and it is extremely difficult to see how his authority on the western shores of the Bos- phorus is longer to be preserved. Even if the Sultan and his subjects were left to battle it out alone the prospects of the con- tinuance of Turkish domination in Europe are gloomy enough. But as the struggle deepens in interest the neighboring Powers are becom- ing more than mere onlookers, Sympathy is daily becoming more and more active. The subjects of King George ao openly encourage the insurrection, both in Crete and Theasaly, that war between Turkey and Greece seems now inevitable. Russian sympathy with her coreligionista in Turkey has never been con- cealcd, ‘Bert as ‘the Czar is on the work of internal reform and anxious as he may be for the continuance of peace, it is difficult to. see how, if the. rising become at all general, he will be .able to restrain the enthusiasm of his people. So far as the affairs of thg East are concerned it has long: been manifest that Prus- sia and Russia are in happy accord. Neither, we may rest assured, will precipitate war, but it war does take place they are certain to be found on the same side. What course Fragoe and England may take is yet uncertain. Austria for the present is left out in the cold. Italy, it may be taken for granted, will follow France. Much will depend upon the response which the protecting Powers make to the note of the Sultan. Something may yet be done by diplomacy; but if war be declared against Greeco the firing of the first shot will mark the for that eraied. "Ths commencement of a struggle which is certain tn at purpose cies ap apace sooner OR extinction of patrol ageh corrupting spectacles as we | Mohs . mi: we have referred Fr they ought to frown them down. It is evident we shall go on from bad to worse, and prostitution wili be increased still more if the respectable portion of the com- munity do not take the matter up and proclaim unflinching war against the Black Crook, coa- cert saloons and all similar representations and places. Tar Case a aaa Gurry, oF GittiaOte Senate yesterday, by a vote of 20 to 3, moved George W. Smith from the office ot County Judge in Oneide county, having pre- viously found him guilty of a portion of the « charges brought against him. It was « strict party vote, all the republicans recording them- selves in the affirmative and the three demo- crats present in the negative. The prosecution was, no doubt, dictated by political animosity, but enough was.ostablished to prove that the impeached. Judge was unfit to occupy 4 poai- tion on. the bench. Onr Mediation tn Sonth Awerica. Aramor Is current that Mr. F. W. Seward’s trip to the West Indies has some connection with the difficulty between Spain and the South American republics; that in fact that gentle- man is on his way to Chile in the capacity of mediator. A little refiection will show the in- cortectness of the rumor; for it would ill comport with the dignity of a representative of onr government to present himself on such a mission before he bad been invited by those who are supposed to require his services, Our, government, it is true, have tendered their good offices, through the Secretary of State, as mediator betwoen Spain and her former colo- nies; but, as yet, there is no sign of an accept- ance of this friendly proposal on the part of the Spanish-American repub Spain has done all she can do in the premises by kindly accepting this proffered mediation, at which France and England have already tried their hands in vain: though their fnilure to arrange A WITHESS IN THE (MP IMPEACHMENT CASE. ae Looe, Jan, 26, tar. Me. Walbridae, & phonograpiic repurter for tho Lema. crat, bag ‘boon summoned to Washington to testify before tho Impeachtnout Committes as to the correctness of hin roport of President Johuson's spedch at the Southora Hotel in this city, SEWATOR POMEROY AT TOPEKA, Lawnuwor, Kansas, Jan. 25, (967. Sonntor Pomeroy in his speech at Topeks last night aad tle South mant he reconstructed on the basin of logalty by Joyal mon, aftor disfranchising tho diatoynt and loading rebels, The Confederacy had surrendered overything through Loe and Johnston, reserved nothing and pomensed nothing Wut what Grant had given tom in the terme of mirrendor Gonator Ross eodoraed the ponttimnanta Of his colloaros