The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XX XII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEAT street,—ALappuy, tae Wor Broadway, near Broome t Lanp—CINDERELLA, NEW YORK THEATR&, adway, opposite New York Hotel. —Biap ov Panapts THEATRE FRANCAIS, Bvenue.—La PariLLonne. Fourteenth street, near Sixth RICHINGS' ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, A theatre, brosdway--La BOMMAMBULA te? OEP DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Prorzsson Harts wit Peevonw His Mrkacums—Tag Heap in Tus Ala ‘Tux Inpiax Baseer Trick. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broadway, opoosite the Metropolitan Hotel—Iy rasia Ermoriay BNTsRrarye ments, SiNGING, Danouva 4xD Bunuxsques.—MIDNIGHT SESSION OF CONGRESS. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 Weat Twenty-fourth street.—Gauirriy & Cuntstr’s MINsTRELS.— Ermorian MinsTRELsY, BaLiaps, BuRLesques, £c.—MEpi- CaL StupENr. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broad alte Fi lolol. Lx rusin Sonas, Danses, Bogeee FRICTINS, s—CINDER-LEON— Mapacascan Batter Trovre. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 M LLET Ls) ‘the New Yo: Buaesques, &c.—Opps axv Ep: Vocarisw—Necro MInsruxisy, Dusedaeae &c.—foxy Pastor's loun AnounD tax WORLD, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad: —In a Vi genet amp Lavi aden ENTERTAINMENTS, ‘Cours Da abet Ser ‘Tas Faxiax's Oatu, on THE ILLARNEY. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TH! rooklyn.— Pavvaxrte—Ma. anp Mas. Wrire. os - HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortaw Mix- avexisy, Battaps axp BURLEsQuEs.—A HURRAH TRIP Anousp tux Worn. DERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 8&5 Broadway.—Granp Exurrion or Panerines. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— ae a=» Ricut = or a cain el Wasnincton —WoNDERS IN Natural 4 Licromas Datey. ‘Open from 8 a.Me unr Me last evening, a spirited and interesting debate engued op the question—“ Ought the Pres dent to be impeached ?"’ Various and new pheses of the question were elicited, Ubere will be no jury trials in the United States Dis trict Court during tne mouth of February, a3 the term will be devoted entirely to admiralty cases, Judge Sbip- man presiding. James B. Freeman and James Miller were up for fur- ther examination yesterday before Commissioner Betts on the charge of baving levied “black mail” from Heary Budelman, of Harlem. The case has not yet been con- cluded. Waiter Taylor, who bad been accused of forcing a power of attorney for the purpose of defrauding the government, was discharged by Commissioner Stilwell, the evidence offered not supporting the charge. A large number of parsons was arraigned at the dif- ferent police courts yesterday for violations of the Excise law. Colonel Felix> O'Byrne was committed by Justice Dodge yesterday, im the Jefferson Market Police Court, in default of bail, on charges of swindling. Colonel O'Byrne claims to have been the founder of the Johnson Ciub at Washington, and has represented himself as an agent of the President, In the Marine Court yesterday Judge Hearne gave @ decree for $50 for the plaintuff in the case of Johnson vs. Heidron, which was an action to recover damages for assault and battery onthe high seas, and also for false imprisonment at Genoa. A moderate business was consummated in merchan- dise and produce vesterday. The steadiness of the gold premium had the effect of enhancing the views of hold- ers in many instances where the dulncss of trade would naturally warrant a reduced scale of prices, Commercial values were quite steady in the main for both foreign and domestic produce. For cotton there was a more active demand, and prices ruled 3¢ a 1 per cent Ib. in favor of the seller. Coffee was in fair demand and prices were firm. Sugar was dull but unchanged. Petroleum was dull and depressed. On ‘Change flour was Sc. a 10c, lower. ‘Wheat inactive and drooping. Corn 1c. a 2c. lower. Oats dull and heavy. Poric closed heavy. Beef steady. | Lard heavy. Butter and cheese unchanged in every re- spect. There was less businoas perceptible in the market for beef cattle and the demand was quite limited, buyers holding aloof in anticipation of lower prices. About 2,200 head were on sale; a portion realizing 17c. for the best, 160. a 1634c, for good, 14c a15c. for fairish, and 10c. a 1c, for common, the market closing heavy with quite a number left unsold. Milch cows were without ‘decided change, though ins few instances slightly bet- ter prices were obtained, fancy reslizing $100 a $115, while other grades sold all the way from $45 to $90. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, January 29, 1867. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated to tha evening of the 28th of January. The London Times has a letter from Washington in which the writer reports, at much length, a conversation which he had with President Johnson, in the course of which the Presidont justified himself “strongly” as to his position on the reconstruction question, “violently assafling’? his oppononts in Congress. French reports say that Maximilian will not seek to be President of a Mexican republic. The Miantonomoh ts in the port of Marsetiles. A United States war ship has sailed from the Bosphorus to receive the fugitive Cretans. Austria is inereasing her army, both on the Tarkish and Russian frontiers in anticipation of a war on the Eastorn ques- tion, Advices from St. Petersburg report a satisfactory Progress of the Russo-American telegraph, France is likely to abolish, at the instance of General Dix, the custom of searchfng thé baggage of strangera. Spain ia te reorganize and incrrase her army. The Pope inclines ‘Ww aponde to the domands of ‘Italy as to the appointment of bishops, Hungary has completed a Cabinet. f United States five-twenties closed at 73 1-16 in London yesterday, The price of consois yesterday is not given. “On the evening of the 26th instant consuls wereat 91 1-16 for money. United States bonds advanced one-fourth in Paris, and one-eighth in Frankfort yesterday, The Liverpool cotton market closed firm, with middling up- lands at 14% d. Breadstuffs dull. COXGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday a resolution was introduced for the eatablishment and maintenance of a public park 4a the District of Columbia, Tho bill prohibiting peonage in the Territories was reported back from the committee, and the bill rolative to furnishing copies of all booke, &c., copyrighted to the Congressional Library was passed. Aresolution inquiring imto the absence of governors, judgos and secretaries of the Territories from their posts ‘was adopted. The bill to pay Wm. 8. Nelson $1,000 for recruiting for the Union army in East Tennessee was passed. The act to amend an act establishing the Judi- cial Court of the United States was passed and goes back to the House for concurrence on a vorba! amendment. ‘The House bill to punish coriain crimes in relation to the currency and public socurities was pass°d amd goes to the President. The Tariff ill came up and several amendments of minor importance wero agreed to. Pending its consideration a message from the President with his objections to the bill for the admission of Colorado was received. No action was taken upon it ‘and the Senate soon after adjourned. In the House, at the call of States for bills for refer- ence, Mr, Noell, of Missouri, introduced one to regulate the suffrage laws of the District by abolishing all dis- qualifications from voting on account of sex. Another making it unlawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to retire any notes from circulation except mutilated notes ‘was referred to the Ways and Means Committes, Mr. Keiso's resolution providing for the impeachment of the President came up under the call for resolutions, and Mr. Loan moved to refer it a select committee of seven. A dharp debate ensued on this motion, Mr. Le Blond fa- voring it, because, as he said, he wanted prompt action on the assertions made by the republican members that the President should be impegched. The morning hour having expired during the debate the resolution went over until next week. A resolution of inquiry whether any obtigations of the United States have been fraudu- lontly made or issued in the Treasury Dopartment was adopted. A Dill to provide for the exami- nation of tho Treasury and other executive departmenta by a committes of three citizens mot hold- ing office under the government was passed, The Re- construction bill came up, and Mr. stevens modified it in several particulars, The sixth section, declaring that any State abrogating the provisions of the bill shoald thereby forfeit its representation was stricken out, In discussing the propriety of referring the bill, Mr. Stevens was called to order for using some sharp language to- wards Mr Bingham. The bill was finally referred by a vote of $8 to 65, all the democrats voting in the affirma: tive. Tho House then adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE In the Sonate yesterday bills were introduced to make general throughout the State the provisions of the Metro- Politan Excise taw, and also prohibiting the employment asawitch tenders, conductors, engineers, ko, on any railroad in tho State, of persons addicte? to intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The Senato then adjourned. In the Assembly a few bills of s personal or local character were introduced, when, there not being a quorum present, th» Assembly adjourned. e THE CITY. The Grand Festival Drawing took place yesterday at Cooper Institute, the large hall being crowded to replo- tion, and the visitors thronging the lobbies and side- ‘waiks within a block of the bhilding, The drawing was Kopt up antil some time in. the afternoon, and will be resumed to-day. No, 360,702 drew the main prize of $10,000 in greenback, the lucky man being Mr. Reming- ton, of the Heyward House, on Third avenue. A full Hist of the prizes announced so far is given in our columns this morning. The Board of Aldermenhet yee'*rday, ‘The standing Committees for the year were appointed by the Prosi- dont, A resolution permitting city raitroad companies to galt their tracks where a switch or turn-out occurs, ‘was passed. + The Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon, and ‘when the President announced the standing committees for the number of the democratic members re- Tused to Ir, Stacom then offered a resolution naming members for the respective committees, which gave rise to an exciting debate, It was lost by a vote of 12 t0 11. I¢ ts dificult to say how the breach which now existe im this branch of the Common Council will be healed. The Board adjourned till to-day. | A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Southern Relief Commission was held yesterday aftornoon, at the Motohants’ Bank, W. M. Vermilye, acting as tem- porary chairman. The commitioe organized by elect- ing Mr, Archibald Russell permanent chairman, and pro- conded to transact the necessary business of the commis. sion. Ata meeting of the New York Lyceum at Clinton Bali, dated at Vern Cruz on the 24th inst paper in the city of Mexico says that the Mexican authorities at Mazatlan had executed Mr. Carman, the United States Consul at that place, upon which the United States gunboat, lying near at hand, lad bom- barded the town for eight hours, © The ovacuatidn of the interior by the French stil continued. The imperialists were urging the formation of a party m the interests:of Oriega in the event of Maximilian’s departure. Bazaine had sent word to’ Porfirio Diaz; the liberal commander, who was investing the capital, that if a sturdy ‘attack ‘was made by the latter he (Bazaine) would surrender the city. The capture of Ortega is confirmed. Veal calves remained steady and firm, under moderate receipts, at 10¢, a ldc., the outside price for extra fat. In view of the limited receipts the market for sheep and lambs has ruled firm and active at last week’s prices, sales being made at from Sc a 8c., with an occasional sale as high as 8c. We quote the average prices 6c. & 8c. Hog m&rket bas ruled dull, there being no demand beyond the retail trade, but the prices obtained indicated an advance of %c. per lb.; about ten car loads were on sale, which sold at the following pricea, viz:—Best quality, 734c. a 7%Xc. ; fair to good, 734¢. a73¢c., and com- mon and rough, 70. a7%c. Tho total receipts were 6,508 beeves, 46 milch cows, 380 veal calves, 20,071 sheep and lambs and 7,947 swine. . MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexican advices by the «ay of New Orleans are A French news- Forced loans were being made by Maximilian in all the cities in his possession, The Archbishop had declared for Juarez. The French residents had been oftered free passage home. Our city of Mexico corres- pondence, under date of January 10, says that Maximi- Nan ia enjoying himeelf as a private gentleman with his confessor at tho Hacienda near the capital. The,Castom House imbroglio was becoming more interesting than ever. Nothing had been heard from Mejia. Miramon was organizing for a desperate campaign at Querctaro. Our correspondence from the principal cities in the South, indicates a genetal reaction politically among the Southern people. The country about Atlanta, Ga, is dectared to be a perfect El Dorado for weak lunged New Englanders. Ono of the means in use among the Vir- gintans to alleviate suffering among the widows and orphana, 1s a huge lottery or gift enterprise. Among the gifts which itis proposed to give away ts the resl- dence of Jeff Davis, in Richmond, now in possession of the government. United States Senator Campbell, from South Carolina, defended Horace Greeley, the negro lately convicted of the murder of B. 8, Rhett. From Nashville the indications are that no election tor representatives will be held in time for the Fortieth Congress. Governor Brownlow will wait uotil August before he orders an election, losing, if necessary, all Tepresentation in the firat session, #0 that he may take advantage of the colored vote which, it scems certain, will be legalized in Tennessee in the coming spring. We publish this morning an account of a few of the scenes to be found in the tenement houses of this city, as reported bysthe special commission of Heratn re- porters, who have made thorough inspection of theso dark holes and corners, The news from Shanghae, China, and Yokohama, Ja- pan, is to the@l0th of December, but has mostiv been anticipated by the telegraph from San Francisco, An effort was being made to establish a tree hospital for forcignets in Yokohama, as considerable illness from'low fevers and smaltpox had prevailed. Our San Francisco correspondent furnishes a detailed account of the dinner given in houor of the opening of direct trade with China and Japan. Honolulu dates ere to the 12th of January. The leprosy prevailed in the island of Waulauki to a fearful extent. Information has been received in Canada from the Colonial Secretary that the confederation scheme under the Quebec conditions has been sanctioned by the home government, and the bill will be introduced as a gov- ernment measure at the next sitting of Parliament. Prince Alfred will be the first Governor and Royal Viceroy. Chief Justice Chase has decided that liquor selling or lottery dealing licogzcs issued undor acts of Congress do not contravene State prohibitory laws, The Louisiana Legislature met yesterday and recvived Governor Wells’ message. j Our special correspondent at Pittsburg gives a lengthy ‘and interesting account of the great foundry for United States ordnance at Fort Pitt, noar that city. A scaffold forty feet in heigit, at West Milford, near Paterson, N. J., gave way on Friday tast, precipitating several workmen to the ground, killing one and seri- ously injuring several others. It is reported in Now Orleans that forty United States troops stationed at Jackson, Texas, had been attacked and killed by Indians, A little girl was burned to death yesterday in one of the public schools in Springfield, Mass., her clothes taking fire from a stove. A telegram from [daho says that General Crook had returned to Fort Lyon from his raid on the Indians, bav- ing killed and captured a great number. Jepon Wurrrxc anv Dinty Srreers.—Some people are complaining that Judge Whiting does not clean the streets; but Judge Whiting has found out that the streets cannot be cleaned under the existing contract, upon which the Tammany ring has saddled somo thirty or forty pensioners, drawing salaries of from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars a year for which they do nothing. He will not carry out any such contract. He does not re- fase to clean the streets, which under any cir- cumstances could not be effectually done this weather; but he is quietly holding back until the Legislature puts the work under the con- trol of the Board of Health, to whom it pro- perly belongs, and not to any corrupt con- tractors. Galileo was ostracised because he asserted that the earth revolved round the sun. 80 Judge Whiting is abused because he says that the streets cannot be cleaned under the contract as it now stands. Removal of the Deadlock. When two muleteers meet on one of those dangerous shelves of the cloud-piercing Andes where only one can pass at @ time it some- times happens, when neither party will back out, that the weaker mule and driver are hurled to destruction among the rocks thousands of feet below. In such a pags President Johnson and Congress now stand eonfronting each other; and here, too, if neither party will give way, the weaker will be displaced to clear the track. After patting down by force of arms the most gigantic, formidable and tenacious rebellion in the history of any people, the vic- torious loyal States have made known their ultimatum for the restoration of the subjugated rebel States, This ultimatum is embodied in the pending constitutional amendment. It is fair and liberal in its terms, it is demandod by the new situation of things, it is calculated to re-establish harmony between the North and South, and confidence and enterprise for the present everywhere; and it gives us in bebalf of the peace of the Union and the national debt, Treasury and currency, ample securities for the future. This amendment, thea, is an ultimatum from which the loyal States and their representatives in Congress cannot re- cede. It must go through, and the obstruc- tions which block the way must be removed, because the North has so decreed and has the strength against all opposition from every quarter and in any shape to carry through its great designs, ‘ What, then, are these obstructions which for the time arrest the adoption of this amendment ? Strangely enough the chief impediment is President Johnson, whose special duty is to “gee that the laws are faithtully executed.” Conceding in the outset the sovereign power of Congress over the question of Southern recon- struction, he committed a fatal mistake in de- parting from this initial landmark. This was over twelve months ago, and since that day— first in assuming the exclusive powers of Con- gress, then in his denunciations of and in. his resistance to the general volicy of Congress, good measures, bad or indifferent, and then after appealing to the people and getting their ver- dict upon his course—he bas, in his utter dis- regard of the popular voice, gone downward from bad to worse until he is menaced with the worst of consequences, his impeachment and removal. This penalty he may escape, if he is not too late, by backing out from his false posi- tion. Otherwise he must resign, or, as an intolerable obstruction, he will surely be removed. There are ether obstructions, such as the old, intractable and still defiant raling pro-slavery oligarchy of the South and their old hide-boutd party confederates of the North, and Northern negro-worsbipping fanatics; such obstructions as Massachusetts and South Caro- lina, walking arm in ‘arm against ‘the amend- ment, as in the Philadelphia Johnson Conven- tion such obstacles a4"the incurable fire-eaters of the South and Northern visionary’ philoso- phers and reformers, who will havé nothing but the programme of'the first French repub- lic or the millennium on the plan of a Fon- rierite phalanx. But all these obstructions and some others are dependent upon President Jobnson, and with his recantation, resignation or removal they will all disappear or cease to block the way. In a word, Mr. Johnson is the deadlock against Southern reconstraction und restoration, and if he will not turn the key and open the door it will be opened by taking off. the lock with the screw-driver of: impeachment. The present Congress is evidently finessing with the Territorial bill of Mr. Stevens. It masks the battery which lies behind all these passing debates. The new Congress, elected on the platform of the pending constitutional amendment, will assemble March 4, duly quali- fied and prepared for decisive work. If not so proclaimed by law meantime, probably one of the first acts of the new Congress will be to proclaim the amendment in question a part of the constitution in being duly ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States rep- resented in Congress, and constituting, de faclo and de jure, the government of the United States. This done, the supreme law of the land must be enforced by the President-over all the rebel Stai.s,or upon this issue alone there will be amp!> ground for his impeach- ment and remove! In anticipation of his re- moval, at all events, it is given ont from Wash- ington that a law will probably be passed by Congress providing temporarily for the promo- tion of General Grant to the White House as acting President—a man whose very name car- ries with it the prestige of public confidence and success, © J With General Grant in the Executive chair we know that the present unreasonable, im- Placable nd defiant rebel States would speedily realize their true situation; that they would be without difficulty reorganized on the basis of the amendment, and that with, if not before, the return of December they would all | be reinstated in Congress and harmoniously co-operating with the North to carry on the great work of the new Union. We are sure that the South would thus fall in with the new ideas and new constitution of this new epoch, casting out all the remaining dregs and dry bones of that old, torn down fabric whose corner stone, like that of the defunct Jeff Davis confederacy, was Atrican slavery. The rebellion waa a movement to perpetuate, outside of the Upion, that system of slavery éstablished in the old Constitution, but which the Union had out- grown. Hence our old pro-slavery conatitu- tion in the war for the Union went down with the rebellion, and with it must go down all the adjuncts of slavery, such as Calhoun’s State righis and the civil and political disabilities attached to the African and the slightest iafusion of African blood. The pending amendment covers all this ground and will give us that new constitution and that new dis- pensation for which the price has been paid of three hundred thousand Union soldiers lying in their graves, and three thousand millions of money in the shape of national debt. The results gained by these great sacrifices will be fixed in the constitution, whefe they will stand. President Johnson must no longer resist this great movement, He must give way or resign, or he will be removed. The advancement of General Grant to his office will make the impeachment perfeotly satisfac- tory to the loyal States and decisive with the rebel States, If in the interval to 1868 he shall not have finished all his appointed work ample time will be accorded him in his regalar election for the succession. We like the idea of calling in the maa who put down the rebel a ee States to set them up again under the sove- reign authority of Congresa, Opinions of President Johnsoa as Expressed Through the Eurepean Press. It appears from a cable despatch that the London Times has published a long letter from Washington, in which ® conversation with President Johnson on the political situation is given. The writer says the President “spoke very strongly, justifying himself in the position he had taken on the subject of reconstruction, and violently assailing Congress for (as he expressed it) usurping the executive and judi- cial power.” Mr. Johnson has used these or similar expressions before, and we have known for some time past that he ontertained such views. We notice the fact now only because am unusual prominence is given to it ina for- eign journal. ‘The President has an exaggerated idea of the powers and duties of his office and too little regard for the powers of Congress and the sentiment of the people es expressed through that body. He gives a meaning to the expressions ‘ ” and “unconstitu- tional acts,”: as applied to Congress, which is not correct, The very provision of the consti- tation whith givés Congress the power to pass laws over the ‘Preaident’s veto recognizes Con- gress as the supreme power. ‘The whole tenor of the debates in the convention which framed the constitution shows that it was intended to make Congress supreme. The veto power was given only as a check upon hasty or injudicious legislation, and not as an ob- struction to the will of the people as expressed through Congress. At the present time, there fore, when more that two-thirds of that body are against the President’s policy regard- ing the treatment and restoration of the South, how can its action be called usurpa- tion? Mr. Jobnson has evidently lost sight of the fact that two-thirds can constitutionally pags laws over him and overrule all his policy and acts, It isehis duty to acknowledge and bow to this legitimate and constitutional power of Congress, He has not even the plea for resistance that the present body does not represent the will of the: people; for we know that the next Congresa, which has been recently elected, will be more opposed to the Presi- dent’s policythan the present one. In resist- ing the overwhelming power of Congress, then, Mr. Johnson is clearly resisting the will of the people. If there be any usurpation, therefore, it is not on the part of Congress, but rather on the part of the President. So with regard to the Supreme Court—Con- gress can pass laws to reorganize it if it should stand in the way or obstruct the will of the nation. , The constitution says there shall be-a Supreme Court; but the construction or recon- | struction of it was left to Congress. In what- ever way we lovk at the present conflict be- tween the different branches of fe govern-.| ment. on ‘the important. questions relating” to the status of the rebel ‘States and their resto- raticn, we see that Congress is supreme. It is especially so now, as more than two-thirds are in favor of the same general policy. Presi- dent Johnson ought to recognize this fact and saape his course accordingly. If he will not nothing can save him; he will be swept away as an encumberer of the ground. Uneven-handed Justice Among the fambiers. “The newspapers of the city published yester- day an claborate and most graphic report of a police raid upon.a certain “fashionable” gam- bling house én Broadway on Sunday night, the proprietor of which, accompanied by his colored ‘servants, was conveyed to the station house and locked up. The proprietor was the great American champion of the pugilistic lists, who ought to have whipped the English cham- pion Tom King, but made a terrible mistake by getting whipped himself. This raid was all very well and no doubt redounds to the great glory of Suporintendent Kennedy and the moraliats who undertake to teach morality to the clergy and less enlightened people. We hear a good deal of what is culled even-handed justice, but we sometimes meet with instances of uneven- handed justice also. As one example wo have the fact that while the police pounce upon this small gambling affair in which only ten thou- sand dollars or thereabouts were on the table, another gambling transaction, involving, it is said, a hundred and forty thousand dollars, between an honorable Member of Congress elect, Mr. John Morrissey, and another honor- able member, Mr. Ben Wood, which ocourred some time since, was allowed to be settled in a gentlemanly fashion, the money bein; forked .over aftér the game was played ont, and both gentlemen walked off without any police inter- ference, One would suppose that the law was the same in both cases, unless a distinction might be made between the hero who won a fight in America and the hero who lost a fight in Eng- land. There may have been other influences, Percbance, to account for the discrimination exercised in the two cases. For instance, the honorable member elect to Congress had received the approbation of a portion of the inhabitants of the city who cast their votes for him, and this might be # good argument in favor of extenuation with Mr. Kennedy and the police force.” The Hon, Jobn Morrissey, like the old man of the sea, endeavored to carry too heavy a weight on his shoulders when he undertook to “boost” the Hon. John Hoffman; but when the crisis came he ungratefully pitched him off and ran to the goal alone. This was not exactly playing fair in Politics, though the Hon. Mr. Morrissey has generally the credit of playing fair in those rings and on those tables where politicians occa- sionally take a hand. The fact is that if the thing was done “on the square” the Hon, Jobn Morrissey and the Hon. John Hoffman should both have been elected; but the luck did not turn that way. However, in the matter of police raids on fashionable gambling houses we are in favor of even-handed justice. Canadian Reciprocity, The Canadiah Minister of Customs has issued ® curious document, which we published yes- terday, recommending that the Canadian gow ernment should refuse the privilege to Ameri- can veseels of passing through the Welland Canal for some months as retaliatory measure because of the abandonment of the recipro- city treaty, This official thinks that by 0 doing the American government will be brought to reason, We are pretty certain that our canal and raliroad interests would be consid- erably subserved by this expedient to bring us to reason, and we have ge objection to it, New York and Maseschusetts would enjoy ea day the bill to admit the State of Colorado into the Union, with a message containing his reasons for refusing his approval of the mea- sure. The main objections to the bill are that the population is not sufficient to entitle the Territory to assume the position of a State, that the people, through their representatives, have protested against being forced into the Union without having the question submitted to them for their decision. The first of these objections appears to present quite sufficient justification for the veto. At the ‘last session of Gongress a similar bill was passed and was retarned without the signature of the . Presi- dian reciprocity, What is evidently intended | sand souls. Tho voting population is made up for a threat in this report of the Canadian Min- | of the live, active men of the day. If they have ister is in reality a strong argument in favor | increased where are the families of non-voters of annexation to the United States; fr by | whom they represent? This budget of blunders facts and figures it shows the immense prepon- | and absurdities,’ miscalled the State census derance of our trade and commerce with the other British provinces *over Canada, and | for upon ita statements calculations and sta- points directly to the necessity of the absorp- | tistics will be based until the year 1870 comes tion of the latter province if she expects to | round. If every copy of it were to be burned keep her head above water. Of course this is | up or sold for waste paper the State would be not the point which the Canadian Minister in- tended to make in his report, but nevertheless he has made it most conclusively. of 1865, is as mischievous as it is ridiculous; @ gainer by the transaction. The Unification of Germany. We have been for some time past prepared for the announcement which has just reached us by the cable that the States of Southern Germany have proposed a military union with the Northern States. The current of public opinion has latterly been running strong in that direction. In view of the vast national interests that were to be promoted by the ana measure we never conceded any weight to the assertion that a difference of religious senti- ment would be allowed to operate successfully against it. It was no more possible for the twe great sections of the German people than it was for-thé two similar divisions of our own te remain permanently disunited. Southern Ger- many has no interest in common wih Austria sufficiently important to maintain such an aliea- ation. The first flush of displeasure over at the forced changes which the war had brought about, it became evident’ to every one whe watched the tone of their journals that the people of the South would soon cast their lot with their Northern brethren. That expecta- tion is now realized, and there is no danger that the conditions under which it takes place will be of a character to admit of the easy dis- solution of these fraternal bonds. Count Bis- marck’s electoral address shows that it is the Vete of the Colorado Bill. The President returned to the Senate yester- dent. In the message then sent to the Senate it was stated asa reason for the veto that the population of the Territory was not be- lieved to be more than fifty thousand. Since that time a census has been taken, and the population is found to be less than twenty- eight thousand, or under one-fourth of the number required as the basis of representation for a single Congressional district in any of the existing States, The veto of last year was not acted upon by the Senate, but while it remained on the table the present bill was passed. The President gives other reasons for with- holding his approval from the bill, and fur- nishes a table setting forth the population of intention of the Prussian government to deal generously and kindly with the States that have hitherto held aloof from it This being: the case, there is but little doubt that the policy which has “so long directed the course of the the several States admitted since 1791, with the existing ratio of representation at the time of their admission. In that period Florida and Oregon are the only States whose population at the time of admission was less than the basis of representation. It seems out of all reason The Baggage Searching Nuisance, that while the ratio of representation is one It is stated that in consequence of reprosen- ' hundred and twenty-seven thousand a State | tations made by General Dix the French gov- with only twenty-eight thousand inhnbitants | ernment is likely to abolish the practice of leading patriots of Germany will be fully carried out and that we shall see that groat country taking the lead in political as sh» has hitherto done in intellectual progsess. should take its place in Congress, with two searching the baggage of strangers arriving im France. Thje will be welcome news to the crowds of our countrymen and country women going over to the Intemnationak Exposition. It will be pleasant to them to learn that there is to be no impertinent prying into or interfer- At ‘the Senators and one Representative. As the Presi. dent says, if Colorado should be admitted there can be no good reason why Dakota, Montana, Idaho and other similar Territories should not follow suit. The Nebraska bill has not yet ‘been retarned, but it will probably share the fate of Colorado, Jonathan Oldbuck op Money Matters. ‘We publish to-day «communication from ‘than Oldtuck, off Wall street, on the subject of’ the contraction of the curreucy, which we com- mend to the. notice, of Secretary McCulloch and the supporters of his financial policy, It contains some common sense suggestions cal- culated to play sad havoc with the arguments of financial theorists, While they sit in their closets and compose essays on the danger of expansion and in favor of a resumption of specie ‘payments, they are too apt to overlook the feet that tbe experience of the men who are on the market"every day and whase lives have been spent in acquiring. a knowledge of the lawa of trade and of’ thie ape of financial and monetary systems id of greater practical value than all the information they can derive from bogky and statistics. The facts that the fountry is prosper- ence with their: “Yankee notions.” had not a shadow of exeuse. By the arent of officers acquajated with their busi; @ great deal of thia might be avol the selection of political “roughs” requiring tact and delicacy which ous, that the prige of gold has fallen | (be Sdiouenom of an o Lassen gradually and fas for some time been free | from any gteht fluctuation, that money is easy NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. and that €i1 our resources have been abun- dantly Geveloped within the last few yéars, are undeniable. Would this have been the fase had our currency been contracted and the resumption theory adopted immediately Senate. AvBany, Jan. 28, 1967, The Senate met at half-past seven P. M. BILLS INTRODUCED, thing attractive, it is true, in the ory for “specie payments;” but the producing classes rates John A. Hardenburgh, Robert H. Prayn, Isaac N. Wyckott er ees i and the mass of small triders, who are the | excoed ual increase x most apt to be misled by it, would be | gai werer cry Re onzing the iy peti J the real sufferers, if attempt should wor ii pea amend the water grant to be suddenly made to jontract the cur- | Tweifth ward of Brookiya so sro provide vide that 2 otbing -reney to a specie basi Jonathan Oid- | Seteau extend any and Sse, tetera bnek, of Wall street, takes|a sound, sensible ey Me Ot “ Pa view of the question, and puts his case in | sist inp ot the ‘Excise law ‘ts force th the such a plain, straightforwar{ manner, that we io jan district ; peer the are inclined to hope that it may disperse the wees, Urakeune or Twitclimen, who, ‘make use ot 7 financial fog in which’ the|Secretary of the | Visauag jaunt tobe to fn tne of fon thax Treasury has go long bejn, enveloped and | $300 or more than and for all damages make plain to bim the rpd to a healthful sation oleh perwnt ny Sach eiag financial poliggn bor or breakwater atthe Jascion ofthe Chemeeg Creat with Senaca Lake, and authorizing the fa Hough’s No Census. po Ce home — bag enh betbrseage A report or synopsis d the State census au, ta the Villans of Weueteee ae taken in June of last has been prepared pg ly fa hes eae eae by a Dr. Hough, who is sal to ave superin- Pio tne ensa mene cara Railroad Sotmpeayordred tended the compilation offte returns, and is | ime the Emanuel congregation of New ork to holdand very properly published ism paper famous for | of the Boa of Noumea’ alee a col soning oP the, aihies ite figures and its blunders, It is the greatest | *Tet ‘ork to ite piece of statistical al ever put in Tod a bit aad andi, Wensokaes? print, There is an old adge which says that | °n®;,'0 borrow oY it task than squar- ing the circle, by proving in his report that figures can lie, he has at fact that people can lie mst egregiously with figures, Tbig “emipegt sttistician” shows by his tables that the popultion of the city of | miss mover by rae nmuoriz® the town of Leroy te New York has diminishd, since the last y Mr, Sartttax—The auth Sem temes oll United States census, by parly one hundred | Hempstead and Oyster Bay to raise money by tax, ~ thousand souls, and ft, at the same | schoine pene eee ees time, he shows that the voters have dN relation to the appointment of increased some twent thousand. In 1860 the population of city was eight | ,,27 Mt rrogater Orange count; hundred and thirteon thouind and the voters | “By li, Matwmu-rTo: change who boundaries of the ninety-three thousand. 11865, according to |" By Sas eeweensae ineerpeeaan the Laborers’ Protect- Dr. Hough, the populationkas seven hundred | 19 Association of Brooklye ua and twenty-six thousand 4d the voters one | and Delaware ahmed Geom ‘BILLA INTRODUCED. Mnusravon—Relative to the unfinished bust- hundred and thirteen thdsand. In 1860 the | « BY Mri, Bigmuow-—To declare « portion of Bisck river uy Jun ad re ma re There are other evid to new how ea ae Fraxxvorr, Jan, 28, 1967, No Senator has yet boon clected. Tho voto to-day \ ing houses in the cit has inoreased toechoie Ob. vine oun Priscctines' vere ene, largely year after ye, and all are wi be withdrawa, to be rontsoed by Oovenee ieee occupied as soon as This ig | Rovsssan, and that the new candidate will be the case and yet with this supply and SUSPENSION IN CIXCINNATI, demand for residences Dr. Orwenww a’ , ‘ \