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6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. \ - arr tion to the White House. In this view Senator | be doing as mach good as cleaning the streets. | us into difficulties: Let us emancipate our- | where, in the event of tho Holy Fathor scoept Feesenden, Trumbull or Wade will probably | He would gives moral cleaning out to the | selves from the ideas of England on this sub- | ing our proffered hospitality, he will not be AMES GORDON BENNETT, bonded warehouse, Upon inquiring into the matter it be the man. : rings, which have been as dirty as the streets | ject of a national currency and take a new | without congenial fellowship. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, turned out to be of a trivial obaracter, and the Assistant | Meantime, while Congress is thus disposing | for many years past. and independent course, more reasonable and nt = 2 Meee el District Attorney consented to the defendant being dis- | of the stumbling block now at the head of the better adapted to our own circumstances. boar pare fmt a Pra : By re OYFLOR M. W. CORNER UF FULTON AND NASSAU STB. | Charged. Executive department, and providing a cub-| Mv. Spaulding on the National Bank System. | Then we necd not fear any serious revulsions tine ae lene teal Gan ay legislati "4 ndi- Adolph Zickert was brought before Jusuce Hogan | stitute in his place, the ratification of the pend-| Mr. Spaulding, formerly a member of Con- | or any revulsions except those of a spasmodic ¢ branc! wt eee Eiteiewocee. hes me ing amendment will have been consammated | gtess from Buffalo, has written a letter on the | character arising from overtrading, We arein meer rersecnt pete a 1 rang Jack B Rand, the alleged principal in the Lord bond rob. | by three-fourths of the States constituting now | national banks, which we publish in another | 9 position to make ourselves independent of ta bo pen ag ey bery, who was arrested in Albany on: Tuesday, arrived | the government of the United States, Leaving | part of the paper. It is addressed to the | the ruinous bullionist theories of Earope, and pa be lle ad Pp aed very BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome | in this city in charge of an officer yesterday. out Nebraska and Colorado, the whole number | Comptroller of the Curreney, but is intended, | may im time produce a change ia the whole sys- } © lent that the national Legislature, represent- NEW YORK HERALD. | %2xcute ce coma reat ty oe moved a quantity of whiskey t apiace other thane Volume XXXITI.......... . AMUSEMENTS TH(3 EVENING. treat. —ALappun, re Woxprarct Scamp—CixDanutia. On the 8d of October last C. C. Parkes & Co., brokers voice upoa this amend- | evidently, gress and the public. It] tem of cn ized 5 ing the supreme will of the people—the foun- BNEW YORK THEATRE. Broadway, opposite Mew York | st No aie spe ae che. - oe 4 ot nthe “4 pesares which number aor piu at np aioe te people and some . steer = al ae tain of all authority, can =o and nog : ovel. Brno oF Pakapiss. certificates employ named George Calvert, w' THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth strest, near Sixth | #caped with his plunder, Since then two detectives | 18 three-fourths. Already the ratification hes | of our legislators are opening their eyes to the Gigantic Jobs in Prospect. the Executive, It is equally clear that the Mayor Hoffman and the honorable corporation | representatives of the people have it im their “ring” have been very busily employed dusing | power to repeal the law by which the Supreme the last few weeks im preparing a batch: of the | Court is at present organized, and can renrodel most gigantis jobs-that were ever undertaken | it as they please, Hence the legislative efe- even in this enterprising city. A few months | ment is superior to the others, end, in case of ago the Corporation passed s resolution author- | « conflict,.can use that superiority and crush izing the sale of'a portion ot the Hall: Park: | all obstacies. The limits of each element are for a Post Office site for tie sum e million: } defined by the constitution, so thet if the exe- of dollars, A short time afterwasds, under | cutive do an! act witch belongs to the | the outside pressure of these who were appre- | tive branch it is = usurpation of the powers beasive that the promising. job and its, appen- | and functions of the latter, amd is good ground dages might clip through their fingers, they pre- | for impeachment. Therefore when Me, John- cipitately reduced the'priceto hslf a million,.| som undertoolsto invite the Southerm States and the joint resolution was’ promptly signed: | lately in arms sgainst the federal govermment by the Mayor. That officer, who is also one of |'to'send representatives to’Congress: he*trans- the committee to select » Post’ Office site, » po- |, conded the limits of his powers; for to Congress sition he ought not to bave heli while acting }! belonged the power of deciding whether those in the eapacity of Mayor, ia now very busy | States were or were not ima:condition' to be publishing advertisements and issuing propo- | readmitted to the national representation. This sals for the erection of the: new Post Office | act on the part of the President was a clear, building, under the authority of the govern- | usurpation of the legislative power, and ‘he haw ment at Washington. N hereby given cause for impeachment and re- The time honored recipe- of Mrs..Glasse for | moval.. We are not now discussing the policy or cooking a hare was, “first catch the hare.” | expedtency of such a step, but simply state the The first thing the general government bad bet- | facts that om the ono hand cause has’ beem ter do, before making any outlay for’plans and | given, while on the other the power exists to- proposals for a building, is toascertain whether | carry out the threatened measure: The single they can obtain a good title to: the property. | act alluded to has been’ sufficient, if. no other: | Let them find out where they stand before | were alleged, to place’ Mr. Jobnson in his they incur a dollar's expense under the advice | present predicament, and has given Congress: ond management of any of the “ring” men of | a pretext for the exercise ef a powes undoubt- New York. According to the opinion of the | edly possessed. most competent and experienced! real. estate brokers in the city the property agreed‘ to be sold by the Common Council and. committee- men Mayor is well worth three: millions of ,doters. The real estate owned by the: city belongs. to the sinking fund and is the security for the public indebtedness. Every judgment against the city isa lien upon the real: estate of the city, and not a foot can he sold: without (satisfying all the judgments on file. It is very questionable whether the Corporation : hes evouue.—Onruge acx Exvens. have been busy working up the case, and on tast Satur- been made by Maine, New Hampshire, Connec- | gross evils of the national bank system, and RICHINGS’ ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, Olympic day succeeded in cornering Calvert in Montreal, when, - periechae. 3. Yo i igre ticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, New | scems to have been inspired chiefly bpm ‘Theaire, Broudway.—Tax Ross or the case not com! extradition treaty, the | Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Mlinois, Missouri, Kan-| ductiom of Mr. Randall's currency matter Promised bi : Sey, rs DOWORTI'S HALL, 908 Broadway.—Provessox lanes | liberty ps yon rs ects as eer yas | Minnesota, Oregon, Nevada, Tennessee | gress. It is said that Mr-Spaulding is largely Fee eas Basse Tae AD THE ATR | vere. - and West Virginia—seventeen States. . We | interested in the national’ banks, which makes OLANTON HAL Astor place. —Vavaaniee Vovapes, tas The contintied cold weather of the last two or three | want only throe more, and Pennsylvania, Mas-| his labored apology for them quite natural. Great fournationsL Mi days has renewed the blockade of ice in the Sound and | sachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa andCal- | This ts a part of that concert of setiom on the an haggl to some extent in the harbor, The Sound steamers find Y h of the banks which is seen in Washington eteloctroliae Homete Tene Eomene Exstenre | the greatest dimeulty in forcing their way through the nj sw va. Lliaboowy _ apt fs large’ number of bank mrs Sinaixa, Dawcine amp Bux.esqvss.—MiDsiGet | froeem obgtructions opposite Fort Schuyler, and. will next thirty days, ‘The duty will then de-| by Presence of s je" number" ee eee discontings their trips unti) a change takes place. | Yolve upon Congress of. proclaiming the: presidents and ® formidable bani vases reany-foorth sreate Gurren & Crasers Migseeatore | _ABre broke out in the four story building Na 836] amendment part and parcel of the federal con- | There is @ ery of slarm thronghout the land Rr Srokene, ST, Beltane, Buniesquas, £0.—Mupe--} Brondway last evening, by which damage to theamount | gtitution, the supreme law of the land; binding | among the bank‘capitalists, and they are rally- alike upon the inside and the outside States } ing all thelr forces to defeat Mr. RandaW’s ad- aiteine Now York Hotel.—Ix tue Soxas, Dances. Bi and the Territories, mirable méasure Or any other that may "0 BURLESQt OD! Bui CINDER-LaON—n ‘4 Fested icion of arson. H Pyegen tr oO weet: ‘The Tals Prinsctis, of Boston, bound from Witming- | With this proclamation by law it will become | throaten to curtail their enormous privi- ton, N. C., to New London, ran on @ shoal pear Cape | the duty of the President, under snch an | leges and profits, Can we wonder at Lookout on the 20th inst., and became @ total wreck. | enabling act as Congress may pass, on the basis | this when we call to mind the fact that they are Fp be: bs gpl 2a — se a of this amendment, to proceed to the reeon- | making fifteen to thirty per cent a year on rises aus oad arowaaailonpaass Two prot og stration of the rebel States; and a refusal in | their capital, and in some cases more than that, mon are supposed to be lost. Three only of the crew | this matter to execute the law will of itself be | through the privileges given to them by the are known to be saved. a sufficient cause forimpeachment. This isthe | government? Besides the ordinary profits of The steamship Lodona, Captain Hovey, belonging to | right way for Southera reconstruction—it is | banking, of which they have s monopoly, they ©. HL. Mallory & Co.'s southora line, now loedns | building on a constitutional foundation that | have the profit on three hundred millions of at pier No. 21 East river, will sail this afternoon for | - iroulati a Meae tok Eb coderanent New Orleans with a number of passengers and a full | Will stand, and it covers all the seourities needed | circulation an w from the gc freight. for the future. The States and people repre-:} about twenty-five millions a yenr in interest on The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold was ox- | sented im the government are the government; | their bonds deposited and on interest bearing Cited, and after selling up to 185% closed at 184% a 7%. the excluded States and people forfeiting their || Treasury notes they hold with which to redeem te ts caer ete cooaat shear rights in the government by their rebellion are | their currency. Can we expect a powerful ‘tke! MerchandibaGae Setnae’ sane active, and the | Subject to the will of Congress as to the terms | class of capitalists, such as those interested in market generally ruled steady and firm. Coffee was| of their restoration. President Jobnson, in | the national banks, to give up their enormous moderately active and steady. Cotton was unchanged. | recognizing them as members lawfully restored | privileges without a desperate struggle? They On ‘Change flour was dull and 10c, © 20e. por bbl. lower, | hy his own acts, and in defiance of Congress, | have vast power and they will use it to defeat ae ack eahaalauiieea ma pistes a feRrsemr7y clearly becomes a subject for impeachment. | any measure that threatens to weaken them or clined fully 2c, Pork was heavy and tower. Beef and | With his removal, as the constitution provides, | lessen their profits. lard were more active at steady prices, Freights were | and with General Grant in his place, the saying Mr. Spaulding speaks of Mr. Randall’s bill quiet, Whiskey was dali sod nominal, Petroleum | virtues of the amendment will at once be un- | for withdrawing the national bank currency eg dai derstood and accepted by all the outside States. | and substituting im ite place legal tenders as a MISCELLANEOUS. The preposterous old notiuns:of the constitu- | “grand acheme of reputiating the faith of the os seegial ieenes from panorene Hs ~~ the | tion and State rights, including the right to | government with the national banks,” What pioneer voesel of a line of steamships pl ween 3 5 that city and St, Nazaire, arrived yesterday, The line | “H00t niggers and Yankees, which they are now | faith? If one Pai Fag ene was eu _ ieee ois will connect with steamers for South and Central Amori- | Preaching and practising, under the protection | pass sach an iniquitous act as that creating ca, and the vessels will touch at Havana, Our Havane | of President Johnson, would: soom be changed | the national banks, a succeeding and more en- correspondence of the 25th, brought by this vessel, says | to General Grant’s political application of Lice’s | lightened Congress can and has a right to that much gossip is afloat there regarding the Seward 1 or modify that act. There is no plighted pa with middling uplands at 1476 pence. Bread- | mission, A meeting meen was held eR et a ee, ge em “ti oy geo apres obligation for B 5 (eae omy 8 inst, to take ini ideraci ial to tl 2 “i 5 9 Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated to goon | for the abolition of the duty on bonded cotton and the | to be, and we expect will be, the programma | period on-the: part of Congress in any of its yovtorday, January 30, exemption. of tonnage dues om vessels ladon with that | of the new Congress. laws, except where a specific eontract with indi- staple, viduals is. authorized. It.ie always competent Napoleon has despatched another war ship to the . ‘The Gold in the Treasury. for one, Congress to repoal or change the laws Favitc, Admiral Persanois tobe again'placed on trial | Oar ‘Durango (Mexico) correspondemt, writing wader iu tn'y, changed with Sacorapetence, Ansiria and Italy | dato of Becomber 27,,gives..a, lengthy and dotalied se- | he Finance Cominlitee- of, fho\ Senate: bay inade by e.former one, , 86-fer from there Boing. ig rejeoted: the Gold Bill passod:dy the Hoube-| any obligation.on the part of tha ‘goretitn ny r. ere at: negotiating @ naw frontier line. ‘the Geant de Chambord, bead of the Frouch-Bour-' | | ‘ bons, hes issued, in the shape of a letter addrested to. a | ——— Of $38,000 was sustained. Three persons, one of thom KRLLY & LEOWS: Miysre sus ‘720 Broadway, Ss Dookkeeper and another clerk forthe proprioter, were ar. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com Yoouauism-—NeGRO MINStRELSY, Baier Divaerisauunat, 40.—some Pastor's TouR Amovuxn tux Worup. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION ‘TROUPE, at Moohanios’ Hall, 472 Broadway.—[" 4 Val ov Lian? aro Lavenasee Enrertainwests, Comrs DE » ac. ‘Jax Vantan’s Oarn, on tae Ipiot OF KILLARNEY. COOPER INSTITUTE. Eighth street—De. Hxssann’s l.tewraarke Lxcrunxs on Heavra. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THE. Brooklya,— Caro or Tae Rrcuant—A Mopen Berea HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiya.—Ermiortax Mix- weeisy, Bactaps aNpD BuRixsquxs.—A Hurrak Tair Acouno tHe WORLD, THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner of ty-thind atreet and Broadway.—Movixe Minor oF 1s Pi ixty MAGNiriCENt Scewes. ORRBY'B NEW ART ROOMS, 5 Broadway.—Granv Ecaracrion ov Parntings—Rosa 'Bonnxce’s Horse Far. NSW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Heap ano Bicur ARM or PRonst—Tum, WASHINGTON —Woxpers im Naturat History, S sorvees Dace, Open from 8 A. M. till # Connty Ring Gift Enterpriae:: While parsons, and moral newspapers, and: Sunday schools, and benevolent associations, and other pious concerns are all going into the~ lottery business in defiance: of the law, it ia very appropriate that so sanctified and philan- thropic a body: as our Board ‘of Supervisors should prove'themselves fully:up to the spirit of the age. Weare informed that they design starting a “gift enterprise” om their own ac- : authori count. The terms of subscription, which will ny 3 Ro OE HO DORA: Ot be very Uberal;. will be made known at an ;; partieularly at such an insufficient’ price. { The sacrifice of the land at a mere nominal surly Gay; bat werene ‘cnabled o give St'onbe eum,isimviotation of all: sound principles of | ® Drief list of some. of the. prineipal: prizes, - law. and: equity, the authority of Mayor Hoff which are as follows :—Firat prise, the new ee. preg t Ps dbase tgemreme ? Ing.: If the: City Shall Park:ta) tietd “to sbe nett | -poap.of it aad where does the city-obtaia its. } original title? Ir-diseoatiaued: as “for public f' use,” the property reverts: to’ the original! question.of title: is-so doubtful that; it‘ wilk-be ; CLENCH AND Ant. WP. M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Ja: THB WEBW 8. EUROPE. Consols were at 90 5-16 for money in London. United States tive-twenties 7334. Cotton was unchanged in :, || Smeww. bill should: be prepared amemtatory-of |-to tho bauks,:they ére under great ob himeoif, and; av be akeqenes, ix tive nate of the poopie,” | erally. although some allege will, certainly fond to; " PaaS mE Se be amoria What the country condernas the imperish | nnodher diyenirons révoeion, Movements are ee toy} emmnament. should deprive him of oll power:| privileged -etiferred. upyn them, ‘As. 16'the policy in Naly, Geemany, Rome and Mexico, and says | 10 establish commissions to be appointed by the Lagu. | “dispose of gold belonging to: the: govern-'| yestod righta Mr. Spaulding speaks of, why, « ‘wat if be is.one day recalled to France he will save her { lature, whose duty it shall be to romain in Washington. | ment and provide tliat all ‘the coin-a# present burglar might just. as. well:plead: his: vested: or porish iu the midst of her peopie. and bring before the Supreme Court alt acts of Congress | in the: Treasury vaults, together-with: ali-future rights in the property of others which he has CONGRESS. Ja the Senate yesterday the President's veto of the Noenraakas bill was read, ordered to be printed and laid aon the table, The Finance Committee reported ad- versely to the passage of the Gold bill. The but to punish certain crimes relative to thé currency and secu- nities of the United States, was reconsidered and amended, The bill has been passed by both houses and mow gees back to the lower Houge for concurrence. A bit was introduced providing for the ostablishment of = government telegraph between Washington and New York, The tariff bill was taken | Stifty to levying war egainst Canada in the Toronto-|; at the: beginning of June last the Treasury sold | worst and. most dangerous system over court yesterday, and was sentenced to tnree weeks’ about forty millions of gold in-ahighly ques- | oonceived.. Yet these. capitalists of the banks ap apd Mr, Sumner’s amendment reducing the tax ou bituminous coal was disagreed to them being a redaction of duty on old scrap iron—and the Senaio took a recess until seven o'clock. On reas- sembling the bill prohibiting Territorial officers from sbsoating themselves from their duties for more than éo foriy conts a bushel and on barley to ten cents. The Senate adjourned at eleven o'clock. fa the House a bill fixing the compensation for o™f- osrs of the revenue cutter service was passed. Bill wore introduced to establish @ system of free schools r the District of Columbia, and to conform the ruics of practice and pleadings of the United States Courts to the laws of the respective States. The -Senate wit! providing for am annual inspection of Indian affairs was taken wp, and pending its consideration the moraing uc expired, A résolution extending the time for codi- the iaws relative to customs was paszed. Several ov eousideration of the Consutat and Diplomatic tioa bitt, The amendmeat striking out Rome from the Jat of places where ministers remdent are stationed and providing that m0 money shail be paid for the support of av American legation other than a consulate at that place was adopted. The Military Academy Appropriation bill wes ‘aken ap aad, after one or two minor amendments, both ols were reported to the House and remain over watt day. ‘The House soon after adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate, yesterday, bills to refund taxes ille- geatiy collected from various banks and iasurence com- ww York; relative to the motes of closing and prohibiting the employment of persons addicted to liquor drinking as switch tenders, engineers, 4c, by railroad companies, were reported upon favora. biy. Notice was given of intention to introduce a bill for an waderground railway in New York. ‘Several bills ef only personal or local importance wore iatroduced or posses, and tte bill amending the law relative to the ‘Metropolitan Board of Health was considered, without econ apom it, however, The Semate soon after ad- Journad, ¢ lo the Amembly bills were reported for laying oat roads in the city of New York; to secure to creditors a Just division of the estate of debtors, and for other pur- poms Notice was given of intention to introduce bills to mace the common schools of the State free to all; &» provide for the erection of urinals on the streets, and to amond the charter of New York city, The resolution yerat veto the alleged neglect of Jadge Whiting, con- tractor, © keep the streets clean was adopted. THE CITY. Aq mportant meeting of the Board of Education took piace last evening, at which an energetic and unanimous prvest was made against abolishing the present school nysiam, which is acknowledged to bejone of the most eff- cient in the world, the event of the week, the great Presentation Fosti- ‘wai, was brought to & close yesterday afternoon at the Cooper Institute all the prizes over one dollar in value having been drawn. The attendance on the first day ‘was vory larga; but on the two snoceeding days, owing to ihe diminighed value of the presents, » corresponding diminution of interest in the proceedings was apparent, In dsis issue of the Hxnaiv wo give full liste of tue draw.ng yosterday and the remainder of the numbers drawn on Tucsday, | The cave of William Brown, alias Coffey, charged with evlhing counterfeit money, was, heard yesterday before Comminmioner Stilwell. Mr. Whitelogge, a lawyer who ‘enpearod for the accused, and who frequently interrupted tho proceeditign, was removed from court. og the ground that ne was not an officer of the United states Cireult Court, The examination was adjourned to epablé Brown to woure the services Of counsel who could appeat for bea. fn the Marine Court yesterday, before Jadge Alker, te ones of Herring v8. MeDonald, an action to recover (815, tbe pricg of .q patent heater sold by plaintiff to de- * «, terminated in a decree for the plaintiff for the Wrueowat claimed. and sentenced to be hanged an the 6th day of Mach, | 801d rose from 125 on the first of: May to 167% | if the people and property of this country Felton in his lectures delivered some time ago before | atthe same: time stimulated, and: we shipped | fare belonged to them. and. ought to be made the Lowell Institute, ts furnished im our pages. this | from this port and Boston more-than fifty-three thirty days was passed. The consideration of the Tariff | morning, and will be found interesting to every one who bili was resaimed and the duty on wheat was increased | has been watching the struggle for liberty among, the Kentucky by the Legislature of that State yesterday. ‘A bill passed the upper House ordering an election for Congressmen in ty boll: temporarily, and that when it ceases to sell the | the game time, place every merchant, trader, ernor Ward. such sales. With a contracted currency they would have The Werk Before tho Reconstruction Com- day in the House of Representatives. by the tive communications wero presented, The House | commitment of his bill to reorganize the rebel wen’ into'Committes of the Whole and proceeded t6 the | States to the Joint Committee of the two wellfor the-general government to make sure of catching their hare beiore they proceed :to. cook:it; * , Is ia very probable that they may meet: with tion to prevent. the sale of thé property, and. the consummation of the séveral jobs that hang on to its skirts, one of which is the open- ing and widening of Beekman street from | Broadway to the river to a width of one hun-- dred feet, at »-cost to the property holders -in | that locality of from Sve to ten millions of dol- lars, If there:was any good reason at all for the. Mayor's veto. of the Ann atreet job, there is infinitely more cause for the peoples veto ofall the jobs in: this Post Office batch, which will sacrifice property belonging to the city at about one-sixth. of its value and impose a heavy burden of taxation on a portion of the psoperty holders. witheut any equivalent re- turn. Mayor Hoffihan, it is said, attributes his de- feat for governor to theso-called “Ann treet ib.” Probably he’ did not find that affair big, enough for his purposes; but this new series of jobs will, weihope, catinly his ideas of magni- tade and serve to-clect him govetnor on the | A Rafiread Job Under a False Name. 1A proposition. is: before the Legislature'to extend Church; street trom Fulton sireet to the Battery, under. the guise of a city “improve- ment.” It is simply a job of some cf the rail- roads that desire to. extend their lines to the South ferry,. It womld sfford no advantage whatever totravel and would reliewe no over- crowded thoroughfare. It is absurd to.-under- take any city improvements on gach a petty scale. If our. representatives: at -Albany are competent) to grasp the whole subject and-ia- telligent enough to. understand tie real neces- sities of the.city,. they will give the power of opening streets to.the Board of Public Works. 40 that we may: have five great avenues to the Battery, aad will provide for building eight or ten elevated railroads through.the blocks and. over the houses, rumming the whole length and breadth.of tha city. With mech roads out of the way of all:other travel, as now in opera- tion in European. cities, wit five broad ave- noes leading from the Park tothe Battery, and with all the- surface railroad tracks torn.up and the streets. macadamived, New. York would secure substantial relief and basome one of the most convenient andi handsome cities in the world. How 10. Maxace 4 Newsrapen—The publi- cation of, its balance sheet recently by the Tribune of this city has, occasioned, we have observed, theoughout the country not a little astonishment. Tite astonishment is that a paper whieh claims tehave so largo » circula- tion and amch numereus advertisements should exhibit, at the close of its financial year, such a wretched balances, Why the profits should seceipts from customs, shall be hoarded. In | giglen, A. scheming politician, who was this: way several hundred millions of gold | Secretary of the Treasury, concocted this trouble among the negroes im the nouthera portion. af | COUld be accumulated, and the moral effect of | infamous ational Wank ‘system to’ serve South Carolina An officer of the Freodmon’s Bureau |, this upon the public credit. would be very |'ni own’ “ends; %—plinnt Congress,..igno- was shot by one of party, of them who refuse to. beneficial. Moreover an end would thereby |‘gant on the ' question“ of national finance Vacate Chere's plantation or to work. Colonel Sibley... be put to the gold jobs which have: brought | snd currency, yielded assent at a» time With soventy men, had proceeded to the scone of sctiom, | goandal upom tho administration of the ‘hon'tas pablio ple ihe. aa, and rumors were prevalent that an engagoment had. |, bsorbed taken place. finances. war, and beth conspired wilfully or igno- It will be-remembered that late in. May and | rantly to fasten upon the country the John Donnelly, a boy fourteen years of axe, pleaded: ; imprisonment. Ten of the Fenians who had been tried, 'tionable manter, and that notwitbstanding have the audacity to. talk of vested righta, es A view of the Greek and Turk as painted by Professor | on the 16th of June. The export of specie was | with everything pertaining to the public wel- subject to-their intereat. millions and a quarter between the 5th of May Of course Mr. Spaulding is in favor of con- and the end of June. It was clearly shown tracting the currency;. for that would both in- Garrett Davie was elected United States Senator from | upon this occasion that the Treagury cannot | crease the. property of the banks as bond- keep tho premium down by selling unless very | polders over thirty per cent, and would, at The Now Jersey Bribery bill bas been vetoed by Gov. | premium advances rapidiy in consequence of | farmer, mechanic and. laborer at their mercy. therefore vo obvious that there is-no excnsefor | tions of ste. whole country. They could con- delay. impessing the: required measure. The-| tro) markets and prices. at theit will or as gold crop-ef the country. is guificibaity lerge | suited their interests. Commercially aud po- to a entree ae litically this nations! bank ‘sfetem is a moat no taronvenience to. thogs who ‘requited colt | nr. Randall's. bill, which wift Break up this for customs daties or shipment; ‘and, however gigantic fraud upon our people, may be pushed the suspension of sales might affect the pricé | throngh the present Congress, in spite of the of gold for's short timo after the passage Of | powerful resistance it meets with from the such a bill, there can be no doubt that ulti} nations! banks. mately it would lower the premium-and give a mittee The Right Was te Do it, “ Old Thad Stevens” was set back the other houses on feconstruction. This committee, thus charged with this important work, will, as we learn, enter immediately upon the pre- paration of a proper bill of reorganization, in view of the rejection of the pending constitu- the unreco! ted pa a sa ri Lf pat sme steadier tone to the market, With three or | que Teachings of History on Matters of some general measure to the House within » four hundred millions of specie im the Trea- Finance and Currency. few days, in order, if poesible, to secure its | ***7 the property of the government, green- | Qur-readers will find in another part of this passage during the present session. Other- backs would be nearly on « par with gold; but paper ap article comparing our experience- wise the reference amounts to nothing, because | °° long #5 the corrupt system-of secret sales | with English history-as regards financial mat- with this session, on the 4th of March, this joint prevails the premium will be likely to rule | ters amd the currency. The writer has stated committee, with tae present Congress, expires, high and fluctuate widely whenever any dis- | the case ably, and shows.that, so far from fol: and all unfinished legislative measures in | ‘bing cause is at work. Gold is perhaps the | jowing or imitating England in her bullionist either house must, with the new Congress, in | Cheapest commodity in the United States at | theories, we ought by all means to avoid order to be finished, be taken up de novo. | *te Present time, and the government should | them, “Whatever changes may he made,” he “ Old Thad” was of the opinion that the refer- | S¢® Sufficient value upon. it to keep all that | gays, “by the American people in the direction ence ot the bill would be its death, but it Renee of apecie payments, England’s monetary expe- means only the transfer of tho subject to the | Dirty Streets, Dirty Ringe and Dirty Con. | ribnces for the past half century should: be a new Congress. tracts. warning to us to. most studiously avoid any We think that was a wise proceeding, be- There isa good deal of noise being made | approach to the English system.” In; that cause the new Congress, elected upon the plat- | because Judge Whiting, who has the contract | country there has.beem and in all probability form of the pending amendment, will know | for cleaning the streets, does not give us im-| will continue to. be = periodical and.serious precisely what to do in this business of recon- | maculate thoroughfares in midwinter ; but the | revulsion every few years, through making struction, and because, during the four weeks | fact of the matter is that when Mr. Whiting | gold alone the standard of values, The drain and a half remaining of this Congress, the two | took the contract he supposed that he was| of afew millions from the Bank of Eagland houses, to say nothing of the Tariff, the Gold | making « fair business arrangement, like « | whenever the balance of trade is against, Eng- bill or the Bankrupt bill, will have enough in | contract between merchants, He did not | land, or when:war or any other serious matter the way of unfinished measures of a peremp- | know that there was something under the sur | distarbs the: financial situation, never fails to tory character to’eccupy all their time. As- | face of the parchment until he came tolook | creates panic. The rate of discount rises, suming, therefore, that nothiug turther will be | into the matter, when to bis astonishment he | bankruptcies take place, manafacturing and done by this Congress for the excluded States, | found that he was bound to provide for # lot | other business becomes suspended, thousands the question recurs, What will be the pro- | of pensioners of the Tammany ring; that » | of starving work people are: thrown out of gramme of the new Congress? Doubtless the | large portion of the money which he ought to employment and the value of property is first thing in order im the Senate will be the | spend in cleaning the streets he would have to reduced hundreds of millions, and all because trial of President Johnson on an impeachment | disburse among a parcel of drones, and that | « few millions of gold have been drawn from for certain “high ¢rimes and misdemeanors” | in order to fulfil the contract he would proba- | the Bank of England. That is the experience ¢ from the House, This trial, we expect, will | bly have to spend about a hundned and dfty | of England, amd that is what this sagacious | have been so small, it ie difficult to explain. be completed with the conviction and removal | thousand dollars of his own private property, | writer woald have us avoid. Really we ought | The only explanation which to our mind meets of President Jobnsof by or before the first of | which very few oven of our most public spirited | to see how ridiculously artificial this puaely | tle care is that the unfortunate Tribune is May. With his : he will probably | men would care to do. Judge Whiting, there- | gald’basis ls, and we ought to make our legal | managed after tho system of the Fourierile be suspended, and, by # new law passed for | fore, as he cannot carry out the contract, is tender currency the basis of a better Phalanx—a system which always has been and the purpose, General Grant may be appointed | anxious to get rid of it, and wants the Legis- | Gold can never represent-the twentieth part of | always must be associated with financial ruin. to supersede bim during his suspension and | lature to pat the work into the hands of the } the values or trangactions of a country, and, | If the. same management continne the next aiter his removal for the remnant of his unex- | Sanitary Commission or some other board. If, | thorefore, it is whsurd to talk of th: Weing ® | Ualanoe sheet'will in all probability prepare pited term. Otherwise, with the suspension | however, Judge Whiting would only resume correct standard of value. A uniform curreney, | us for « “smash.” In that cage we advise the or removal of Mr. Johnson, the President of | tor one day the old spirit which characteriged | sach as our legal tenders, which is based an | philosopher ut the head of the establishment the Senate, under the existing law, will take | him when he was Distriet Attorney and which | the oredit of the government and the property | to give up. If he comes over to our establish- his place. As, then, with the new Qungress # | won for him the soubriquet of “Little Batters,” | of the whole nation, is a muc's better standard. | ment wo will find him employment. Nay, new President of the Senate will be elected, | and give us a full bistory of this and osher ring | And with that we have the r,ourity of knowing | more, we will gladly provide him accommo- the choice will be made, in the absence of any | jobs and dirty contracts, and chow how much | that neither the Bank of "gland nor the cap- | dation at Fort Washington, where he may new law on the subject, asa temporary elec- | Mayor Hoffmem had to do with them, he would italists abrond can Graw;it from us and plungs,{ peacefully pursue his istortoal atudieg, add age ot the Mayor, ex-Comptroller Brennan, ex- | Street Commissioner-Cornell and other high officials. It was contemplated, to throw in the- |. Harlem bridge, which cost. $950,000; as: the |, third prize; but this‘ is reserved for another: A Misonpersranvina.—The invitation. giver ‘by es from time to time to his Holiness the - ‘Pope to come over to thie country aud take up + thie abode on Washington Heights, seome ~ mali hands to be misunderstood. The offer _ ow our part is an aot: of simple gratitude, . Some years ago his Holiness, who is a kindly. and lovable man, had.conveyed tous a parch- - ment document, granting unto us and all that belong to us a plenary indulgence—a docu- ment written in ther Latin . language and. signed Pio Nono, and which we gratefully pre- serve. As the Holy Father lise thus provided i for ws and ours, beyond all peradxenture and contingency, an asylum in the werld to come, . #o wo, in gratitude for, his kindaess, have ten- deved and atill do tender to him, in the midst of his many troubles,.0 éefe asylum in this lution in which the countzy is now eagaged. Me. Bingham repgesents thq former and Mr.. Stevens is a pretty good type-of the viakent fol~. lowers of Marat and Rebeapierre. A union. bat if our Giroudists and:Jucobins teow what is good for them. they will stop their violent abuse of each other and unite for the.common good, otherwise the people will sweep them.all away. What has.our philosopher ofithe Tritwne to say to thist ‘Taxa Exererrnists.—We bdeliewe that there is no doubt imthe public mind about the ille- gality of lotseries in.every shape,.whethen they be called gift enterprises or are known by any other title In‘thie State, at least, they are conducted; im, violation of statetory lag, and are subjeet:to suspension by the police authori- ties and the parties. cenducting, thom are liable. to punishment. Yet such lotteries are carrie@ on openly on. various pretexta, with the know- ledge of the police and sometimes.upder their- protection. and with their assistance. Is it aot the duty of the: District Attorney to. carry out the law in this.matter by prosecating the pro, - jectors of every lottery scheme- in operation t THE NEGRO TROUBLES. IN $0.7}; CAROLINA. gagement are provalent. A sutgeon of the Sixteenth has ‘Seon seat over, and we are now waiting for tbe arval of the bont for further particulars, i