The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. edakh Cakact Eire EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OrPiOk NM. W. CORNER FULTON ANP NASSAU STS. BROADWAY THEATEE, away. reat. —. INDEKPU ittines at iy 0 Clock-—-ALapDIN Ovr To NURSS. NBW YORK THRATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Biap or Paxaviss. Matinee at Two o'Clook, TABATRE FRANOAIS, Fourteenth street near Sixth evenue.—Osruxzs aus Exrans. O93’ BNOLISH OPER& COMPANY, Olympic eee i poadray. THe Bommiax Gini. Matinee at One @'Clock~Tax Doorom or ALCawrana. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Prorksson Hanrs witt Pauromm His Minacugs—Tue Heap in tax Ate Tax Levan Basaet Tuick. Matinee at Two o'Clock. CLINTON HALL, Astor place, —Vatentixs Vouspss, 7 Gast PournationaL Muto. STRINWAY HALL, Rast Piaco.—Pansra Marinas at wrteenth street, near Irving @'Clook. {RVING HALL, Irving place.—Cowrutuxetaxy Con- cant ro Me. Wa. J. Hus. SLLY &-LRON'S MINSTRELS, 729 Broadway. eprio. anctus Now Wore Hotelncix taste doxss, Dassen 100 mmc rere Ac. —Opvs anv EnDs—Ci }aBaGas0ae Baller Taourr BAM FRANCISCO MINSTRELS 585 Broadway, oppasite fhe Motropetican Hotel—[x tacin breioriay Bwrerratye sams, Srwoinc, Dancing ano Bonvesquas.—Mrpxramt Bassion or Concaess, FIFTH AVENUR OPERA HOUSE, ‘Nba: 2 and 4 West ‘Twenty-fourth street.—Gairew & Crnisty’s MINSTRELS.— Frnorian Mingrrgisy, Batians, Buaiesgues, &c.—Mepr oat. Srupewr. Matinee at Clock, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2) Bowery..Como roRO MINATRELSY, BaLiRe DIWERrissKMRNT, amiga dour AkounD Tax WoRiv, Matinee CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway.—In a Vantery oF Licur Enrenratvaants, Corrs ve Bauuar. 4c. 's Cara, OR THB Amor OF KiLLauxeY. Matines MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Cuup oF tax Recurextr—A Mover Husnanp. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Union Hall, corner .of ‘Twenty-third street and Broadway.—Movive Minor oF Piconin’s Procress—Sixry Maoniricest Scenes. SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY, Tompkins Market. — Oxarunia’s RecoeestaL Baxp CONCERT. DERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 85 Brondway.—Grino Exuiarrion ov Parrings.—Rosa Bonnxur’s Horse Fain, COOPER INSTITUTE, Fighth street—Da Hennarp's A..ustearep Lecroues on HMmALTH. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Brondway.— Fixap avo Riomt Anu oF Prossr—Tur Wasuingron ATUBAL Histony, Scexce AND ARr. ‘Twins—Woxpers in Li D. Mul OP, M. The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yester- Gay, February 1, at noon. Objections are being raised in France to the rendition of M. Lamirande to England. Italy has appointed a Minister to Vienna. Tho Austrian troops are to remain in Mexico after the French leave. Consols were at 90 15-16 for money in London. United Bates five-twenties were at 72 11-16,0 decline, The ‘AAverpool cotton market was unchanged. oil ‘The French mail steamship Europe at this port yester- Gay furnished our special Correspondence dated on the ‘15th instaut, with mewapaper details of our cable de- epatohes to the 10th of January. Active preparations were being made in Paris to ren- Gor the banquet to the American yachtmen in every ‘way agreeable and appropriate. Napoleon’s position | ‘and diplomacy in the Kast, as well as his antioty respect- ing the solution of the diMeulty are described by our Pare correspondont, CONGRESS. To the Senate, yesieri.y, the Dill to regulate the Gutica of the Clerk o the House was taken up, and,- alter a short discussion, wa: paased by thirty-one yeas to six pays, The Bankrupt ill was then taken up, and (pending discussion of an amendment from the Judiciary Committee, the Senate adjourned without taking action either on the bill or amendment, Im the House a .private bill relative to the re-exten- gion of @ patent for improvement in machinery tor catting screws ocoupied most of the morning hour, and ‘woat over at the expiration of that time. The bill to weguiate the tenure of office was then taken up. Mr. Stevens’ amendment declaring ali persons mominated and rejected by the Senate for appolut- mont to office to be incapable of holding public office for one year was rejected. Mr. Williams offered an amendment making the bill apply to Cabinet officers which was rejected, and a motion was made to reconsider the vote rejecting it. Other basiness inter. vened vefore a vote was taken. Reports from the Secre- tary of State were presented, referting to Mexican ‘efhirs and appointments to office. Tho House soon after adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sonate yesterday, bills to regulate the carrying of imflammabie substances on railroads, and amending @n act for the prevention of the rinderpest were reported upon favorably. The bill authorizing William Orton and this aapociates to lay telegraph cables. fram New York tate to France was passed. A bill amending the charter of the Greenwood Cometery Association was advamced fo a third reading, and the Senate adjourned, In the Assembly, the Senate resolutions relative to Quarantine were adopted, A bill to amend an act rele- tive to Qaarantine was introduced. Bills for the protec- ton of navigation on the Hudson river, and authorizing dbo construction of a stone stairway im Park wore feported. A resolution thanking Congress for the pamage of tho District of Columbia Suffrage bill over the President's velo, was adopted, and the Assembly ad- raed, as MISCELLANEOUS. An immense concourse of tho intellect and fashion of Now York assembled last evening tn Steinway Hall to ooar an address from James W. Gerard in defence of our present schoo! system, and om the injurious effects of the Proposed legislation at Albany upon it. The lecture was wory able and received with considerable applause. Bumor in Wall street has it that a crisis of » threat- ening nature hangs over many of the insurance corpo. rations of the city, owing to unprecedented loses by fires and marine disasters during the year just passed. ‘early statements were published by some of the most prominent of the companies yesterday by which it mppears that many of them cancel all the capital repre- wented by sorip. We pablish this morning the main facts farnished in ‘fhe annual report of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, now ready to be presented by the Governor to the Legisiatare, Mr. Hoary A. Bergh, Preeident§of the Society for the Prevention of Crueity to Animals, delivered @ tecture explanatory of the objects of that organization before tho Lagisiature at Albany yesterday. * Taformation from the city of Mexico is to the effect ‘that Maximilian intends to issue a new proclamation taking stronger grounds than those assumed at Orizaba ‘The Cabinet decided in favor of his remaining in Mexico, At was ramored that Miramon was disaffected The @arrisons and authorities of Tresnilio and Fiotoqui had Biron ta their adhesion to Jaurez over Ortega. Om the Wotreat of Majia with his division through San Felipe tho falls wore thrown epen and the prisoners were enlisted. #wo thousand dollars were demanded from the citizenr, Dut as all of it Could not bo raised throe citizens were wrdered to be shot, Before the shooting took place, however, the money was forthcom ing. |@ Our Toronto special despatches contain this morning . plote list of the Fenian prisoners confined in the wie ‘ait at Chat place since June inet. Twenty-two of Sa have been convicted, eighty-one have been dis- lar 4, on bail, dismissed without trial or acquitted un" reo are awaiting trial. * . walls of & largo dwelling honee, in Boston, fell yes. 1 , burying @ mumberof workmen. Two of the men hey regoued alive but very badly bruised, and two © are believed to be still under the roina, =~ ¢ navigation of Long Island Sound ts completely bd | Fyfveon miles of foe extend to the right and jel» Thrdgg*e Neck, and heavy wagons, loaded, cross in lety from New Rochelle to City Island Three vera and eight schooners were frozen in on Thara- \ fh but the stoamers succeeded in making their way 4 . of thelr dangerous position yesterday. A ceansiatiga from the Prena of Bozote, Colombia, ! . 7 ‘lis city, d forged paper for the purpose df obtatming dhe | ne aa Saat which we pablish this morning, becomes important in view of the arbitrary conduct of President Mosquera ro- ceutiy. ‘The articte, which i presumed to be semi-om- oial, says that the adsorption of Mexico by the United States ts only a question of time, and the consolidation of the States of Colombia is nécosaary t dam up the in- vading spirit of the great republic, ‘Advices from Havana stato that the approach of the Chifeap and Peruvian fleets to the city was reported, and Created great consternation. W. B. Bidwell, of New York, ts to be sent by Secre- tary Seward to look after the interests of the Maine colonists in Joppa. * In the United States Cirenls Court yesterday, Judge Smalley presiding, the case of George W. Faber against Hiram Barney to recover af alleged exooas of duty on an importation of cigars from Havana, was decided on the points of law raised and om the facts submitted in evi- dence to the jury im favor of the plaintiff, tho jury te- turning ® verdict for the full amount claimed =~ In the United States Commissioner's Court yesterday, before Comuatesioner Osborn, Charies Kelly, mate of the American schooner Albert Treat, and five of the crew wore charged with havig mutinied on board and de- prived the captain, Samuel R. Koons, of bis authority while on the voyage from the Wost Indies to Now York. ‘The captain ‘having been examined (u support of the ao- cusation, the further hearing was adjourned till this ‘This cave of Sohn H. Trapp, s lawyer, who is charged, with having presented to a United States paymaster, in. There is no reasox Way We should depart from this 1. inthe case of Greece any more than =~ nave done in the case of Mexico, On «0@ pontrary we have no interest in common “with the former country save that of mere Christian sympathy. If General Kalergis visics us we feel satisfied that he does it of his own impulse and not from any suggestion such as that referred to. He comes here, no doubt, just as Kossuth did, to try and. get all the pecuniary aid he oan for his countrymen. We would recommend him, however, not to imi- tate the course of the Hungarian patriot. He bad not been in New York many days when he began to denounce our policy of non-interven- tion tm the affairs of other countries, and so killed bis popularity and the object of his mission. We will give Genoral Kalergis « cordial welcome and all the voluntary nssist- ance we can afford; but he must not expect more of us. We don’t want to be regarded.as political Quixotes ready to break lances on bebalf of every oppressed nationality. , See Rallread Projects fer the City. ‘The report of the Senate Committes of the é on the vartous ‘railroad plans re- | ferred to it for the rélief of city traffic .will tions tothe underground system of tines had been so thoroughly ventilated and admitted that we did not expect so strong a recommend- ation of it After a careful perusal of the re- port we are unable to appreciate the advan- tages which it is said to offer. On the con- trary, in point of tediousness of construction, extravagant outlay and injury to property, we are more than ever convinced of its inexpe- diency. In referring to the successful eon- struction of the London underground line the report omits to state the very different condi- tions under which that work was executed. Of the three great parallel thoroughfares which traverse London the route was selected for the undertaking which offered the greatest width and the lenst traffic. There was for these reasons but little danger of interforing with the sewers and gas mains or of shaking the foundations of the buildings. Should such & line be attempted here it will injure an in- calculable amount of property and give rise to endless ‘litigation. Besides these objections we have to take into consideration the time that will be consumed in its construction. The city wants immediate relief from the an- noyances to which it is subjected by the pre- sent overcrowded and ill-conducted system of tion. If it be committed to ‘the un- derground plan it will be years before it can derive any benefit from it. The upper portion of the island is composed of hard rock, and the process of excavation will necessarily be a usurpation and infidelity the issue will be as conclusive against Mr. Johnson as were the accusations against Charies the First and Louis the Sixteenth. But while these two unforty nate kings lost their heads Mr, Jobasop, like James the Second, expelled for similar offences of usurpation of the power of, Parliament, will only lose his place Im One respect he will be more fortune, even, than James; for and the coustry will vo accept it no:panic, ne civil war and no fuses sbout it, to Chivago, they will go as secondary misde- meanors. Weighed in the scale against the heavy charge of usurpation, they aré mere leather and prunella, The Senate, we hope, will spare General Grant.and Admiral Farra- gut in the matter of testifying to the funny doings of that Chicago escapade, as Mr. Seward can tell all that is necessary, and more, too, concerning it. With Mr. Johnson’s removal General Grant will probably, by law, be at once promoted to his place, and, if a special election be ordered ‘in the fall, will unques- tionably be chosen by the people to fill up the interval to the 4th of March, 1869. Othber- wise, under the existing law, the President of the Senate will be transferred to the White House, subject to the issue of a special Presi- dential election. The programme is simple and easy as pro- vided in the constitution, and when thus finally reduced to the sovereign authority of Congress the rebel States will have no alter- native but to submit, as other States and peoples have done, through the last five or six thousand years, to the necessities of their situ- ation and to the issues of s conflict of their own choosing. Meantime the pending consti- tutional amendment will soon be duly ratified to make it part of the supreme law of the land, and then, whether the outside States have accepted or rejected it, they must obey it afl the same. All the fuss that we hear of panic, blood and thunder, as sure to come with Jobnson’s removal, is only that Chinése clamor of gongs and horrible dragons which never stands fire, City Referm Jobe—Pinns fer a New Mantcipal ‘beck pay and ‘bounty of © deceased soldier, usiferwent Betta. Some evidence, having dese offered’ for ibe de- fonoe, the inquiry was adjourned till this morning. John Hf. Trenor’s dancing academy, Nos, 725 and 727 Sixth avenue, was burned yesteriay, involving a loas of $25,000. . Six hundred barrels of Western whiskey was séized at Hunter's Point, L. 1, yesterday on suspicion that tho government tax had not been paid on it. Captain Samuels, who sailed ¢he successful yacht Hen- rietta in the great ocean yacht race, arrived from Europe yesterday. Tho Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, which arrived on Saturday last in nine anda half days from Queenstown, will sail from plier 45 North river, at noon to-day, for Liverpooi via Queenstown. ‘Tho National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Denmark, Captain Thomson, one of the finest vessels of this line, loaves pier 47 North river, at twelve M. to-day, for Queenstown and Liverpool. ‘The Anchor line steamship Towa, Captain Craig, will fall from pier No. 44 North river at noon to-day, for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry and Liverpool to land pagsengers and mails. Tbe Hamburg American Packct Company's steamship Germania, Captain Schwensen, will leave Hoboken at twelve o'clock to-day, for Southampton and Hamburg. The maiis will close at the Post Office this morning, at half-past ten o'clock. The fine steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will sail punctually at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Havana, from pier No. 4 North river, Tho mails by hor will close at the Post Office at half-past one o'ciook. The Cromwell lino steamship George Cromwell, Cap- tain Vaill, will leave pier No. ® North river at three o'clock P. M. to-day, for New Orfeans direot. The Empire line sidewheel steamship Saa Salvador, Captain Atkins, will eall from pier No. 13 North river punctually at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Savannah. ‘The steamship Saragossa, of Leary's line, leaves pier No. 14'Fast river at one o'clock to-day for Charleston, connecting there with the steamer Dictator, for Florida, Passengers for the South, by taking oats of this line, Teach there as soon as by railroad, and - avoid the deten- tions and extra expense. The stock market was Grm yesterday. Gold was sleady and closed at 135% a X%. ? ‘Trade was alittle more brisk im dome departments, bat as a general thing there was bat little improvement. Owing to the passage of the Turiff bill, providing for bigher duties, foreign goods were held firm, but prices ‘wore not generally higher, Coffee was in fair demand Cotton was lower and irregular. quiet but rather more steady. nominally unchanged. Onte wore steady, sonal schemes and interests; and hence we have a score of independent propositions—one looking to seoure this portion of the spoils, and another seeking to grasp that portion, uatil our city bids fair to become a municipal’ México, whore every guerilla strong enough to stand his ground sets up on his own account as ag independent chief. The reformers propose to put in # brick here, a brown stone there, a red stone in another place, and a blue stone somewhere else, until they promise us a structure that will be offensive to the eye, inharmonious, expensive and uninhabitable. Tf all the additional commission schemes that are now contemplated are to be added to those already in operation we chall have some dozen or so of independent heads, responsible to no municipal suthority, each acting on its own account and each saddling some five or seven expensively paid commissioners upon the city treasury. This is all wrong and must end in general confusion. As there appears to be some diff- culty in the way of legislation for the city alone the Legislature should at once go to work and provide for the election by the people of the city of three executive heads—a Mayor and two assistants. In these three should be vested the whole executive power, and they should appoint the !cad of every department in the city government. One should go out of office every year, and his successor should be chosen, The Board of Supervisors should be abolished and two boards only elected—the Alder- men and Councilmen. The Aldermen might have the confirmation of the appoint- ments made by the council of Mayors, but otherwise neither body should possess the slightest executive power. Their duties should be simply legislative, with full authority to investigate every department of the govern- ment. This system would give us at once, by asimple process, an efficient and satisfactory city government, The council of Mayors would be directly responsible to the people and would have to submit their official con- duct to the test of the populer vote every year. The heads of departments would be directly responsible to the council of Mayors and would be held upto a faithful discharge of their duties. The machinery of government would be simplified and the expense reduced by one-half. Mayor Hoffman, being now in office, would hold the chief position in the Mayors’ council until the close of his term, and we should have no objection, if he should behave bimeelf well, to give him a fair trial under the new system by supporting him for another term. If our legislators will reject every wildcat, selfish scheme for the advance- ment of individual interests, and will give us at once such a system of government as we now propose, they will prove themselves capa- ble of grasping and understanding the sub- ject upon which they legislate, and will de« serve the thanks of the people of the city of New York. Tne Greek Mission To THe Unrrep States.— The cable gives us a rumor that the mission of the Greek General Kalergis to this country has been prompted by Russia in order to involve our government in the Eastern question. From what we know of the good sense and sagacity of Russian statesmen we are not disposed te attach the least credit to the report. They are fully aware of the fact that it is not and never has been the policy of this government to inm- torfore in the volitical affetrs of other nations Naval stores steady. Petroleum dail an@ nominal. ‘The Probabilities and Prospects of the Im- Peachment Mevement. North and South the public journals of al! parties have entered into the discussion of the probabilities and prospects of the movement initiated in Congress looking to the impeach- ment and removal of President Johnson. In some quarters it is urged as a good and neces- sary thing; in some it is considered a mere game of bluff; bere it is thought to be very uncertain as to the issue; and there it is set down as fizzling out. Some weak-kneed alarm- ists denounce it as nothing better than a Pan- dora’s box, full of all sorts of cvils and disas- ters, including ® financial convulsion and an- other civil war; and others think Mr. Johnson will not be pushed to the wall. But all these speculations are mere guess-work, from the simple fact that the Judiciary Committee of the Honse, charged with the preliminary in- quiry into this business, are properly pursuing their labors with closed doors. We presume that this committee will not be prepared to report till near the end of this session, some four weeks hence; but when they do report we expect an indictment of impeachment, and that the House will adopt it and demand of the Senate a trial of Andrew Johnson for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” requiring his re- moval from office. This impeachment must be made to the Sen- ute before the 4th of March or before the final adjournment of the present Congress on that day; for otherwise the whole business with the new Congress will have to be commenced again at the beginning. The present House absolutely expires on the 4th of March; but the Senate (one-third of its members only being elected with every new Congress) is a contiau- ous body. This House, then, before the 4th of March must act upon the subject or its labors will fall to the ground; but the present Senate, having received the indictment from this House, may pass it over to the Senate of the new Congress. This, we conclude, will be the plan of opera- tions, Next, in regard to the charges against Andrew Johnson, the principal, and a very serious one, will doubtless be the charge of a usurpation on his part of some of those high powers which belong exclusively to Congress. Another charge will very likely be that of in- fidelity to his oath of office, in failing to see the laws of Congress faithfully oxecuted. The specifications upon the charge of usurpation may be applied to his policy of reconstruction, without authority in law and in defiance of the will of Congress, in each of the ten excluded rebel States. Upon this charge the testimony of his Provisional Governors, &c., before the high court of the Senate will be conclusive. The Secretary of State, in this connection, if necessary, would also no doubt be impeached; but as he will be disponed of with the fall of his master it will suffice to use him in the Senate as State’s evidence touching the promulgation, under the President’s authority, of certain pro- clamations, letters and despatches to said Southern Provisional Governors, Legislatures, &c., on reconstruction, including certain off- cial papers recognizing the rebel States, in de- fiance of Congress, as duly reinstated in the general government. Upon these charggs and svecifications of not combine the two essentials of expedition and economy. Of all the projects submitted certainly that of an anderground railway is the least recommendable ia both these respects. Raids on City Preporty~The Duty of the Cor- peratien. We publish to-day an interesting communi- cation frem Mr. Richard O'Gorman, Counsel to the Corporation, addressed to Mayor Hoffman, in relation to the proposed conveyance-of a portion of the Battery to the United States for the nominal consideration of five dollars. While the present able protest of the Cot- poration Counsel refers only to the attempted sactifice of this particular piece of pro- perty, its clear and convincing argument covers all cases of a similar character, and destroys at a blow the proposed sale of the lower portion of the City Hall Park a! one- sixth of its value, and the whole batch of jobs connected therewith. Mr. O'Gorman shows that the Corporation cannot derive the power thus to dispose of the public property under any legislative act authorizing them to convey real estate belong- ing to the city “upon such terms and for such price as may be agreed on with the federal authorities.” The real estate of the city and the net proceeds thereof, whenever sold, are to the public creditors. The Commis- sioners of the sinking fund are constituted trustees for the city and its creditors and are empowered to sell the real estate of the city, but then only when it is not ia use or reserved for public purposes, and upon the terms which, aftér an appraisement of its value, they may find the most advantageous for the public interests. It is clear, therefore, that any real estate belonging to the city, if sold by any autherity, can only be disposed of at a sum bearing « fair proportion to its actual value. This is a duty owed to the public creditors ‘and which cannot be evaded. The real estate of the city is held in trust as security for the tof their claims, and the proceeds of {te sale must be applied to the reduction of the city debt. This legal objection disposes of the attempt of Hoffman, the Mayor, to sell to Hoffman, the Commissioner on the part of the United States, for the sum of half « million dollars, a portion of the City Hall Park, valued at three millions, ‘and thus to plunder the city and ite creditors of two millions and « half of dollars in the trans action, Public meetings should be called at once to endorse the Corporation Counsel’s ‘ection and to protest against the consumma- tion of this outrage. The people should put their veto on the whole batch of new city jobs and stop these guerilla raids upon the city property. The general government can afford to pay 0 fair, equitable price for a aoe oles NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUASS , 2, 1867. Se ee nS Eero tale a atte, and would not oe contemptible enough to require any such sacrifice on the part of ‘a alty which already bears so large & share of the public burdens. The Eastern Quostion—Pacific Solution Pre. bable. The telegraphic news of yesterday relating to the affairs of the East is significant The British Cabinet, it is said, is hopeful that the peace of Europe will be preserved in spite of threatening appearances in the East. The French government is engaged framing reforms favorable to Christians in Turkey. The Rus- sian government has, in a note to the Porte, recommended generosity towards the Greeks. we have it stated that the Snltan bas determined to make concessions to the Cretans ‘and that he contemplates the Sppointment of a Christian Governor of the Is is not diffloult to see what all this moans. All the Powers of Earope, great and small, are arming themsolves with repidity and to an oxtetit which have no parallel in modern times. ‘Bat not ono of the Powors ts wilting to do any- war be once lit the conflagration will sweep ‘with devastating force over the length and breadth of the European continent. It is not so clearly perceived what shall be the charac- ter of the continent when the conflagration shall have expired. In other words, war is ‘hostilities. expected, and preparations are beffig made for |: it. The Eastern question, if touched by any- thing in the shape of armed intervention, will furnish the occasion. But the Powers, one and all, tremble so to touch it, =~ In such circumstances anything which offers 8 temporary solution of the difficulty is wel- come. The Ottoman Porte is too sensible of its weakness and danger to be unwilling to take advice. The universal advice evidently is—“Make conceasions—pacify your subjects at any cost.” The advice will be taken. Con- ceasions will be made. Christians will be placed on a footing of perfect equality with Turks. The Hatti-Humayoun will for the first time take @ really practical shape. Guaran- tees will be exchanged betwixt the Porte and certain contracting Powers. The weak frame of the “sick man” will thus be bolstered up 8 little longer. Final cure, however, is impos- sible. Life is ebbing slowly but steadily, and the time is not far distant when the object of so much anxiety and eolicitude shall have ceased to be. Tho Abolished Roman Mission. Congress has decided to abolish the Ameri- can mission to Rome, Without questioning the motives which prompted the action, which appear to have been instigated by the fact that the Papal government, not relishing the attacks made upon its policy and such vitality ad remains in it from the pulpits of the Ameri- can Protestant church within the walls, caused the ohuroh services to be performed ontslde the Eternal City. We are sorry that the diplo- matic mission to Rome has been abolished. Rome is a gouial and pleasant place for literary gentlemen of ease and leisure to study antiqui- ties in the absence of any special diplomatic duty, which was never of any great moment; but now that the temporal sovereignty of the Holy Father is almost at its lowest ebb becomes a mat- tor of mere insignificance. Our Minister to Rome, |" | if of an inquiring turn of mind, might learn as much of the curious and the antique there as im Barnum’s Museum, probably « little more. We regard the action of Congress in this mat- ter of the Roman mission, as well as in the case of Mr. Harvey, our Minister to Portugal, whose supplies have been cut off, as @ very small piece of business, We should have thought that Congress weuld be content with the great work now in hand—the impeachment and removal of the Chief Magistrate of the nation by © grand coup d’dat, and not descend to euch trifies as the suppression of the mission to Rome and outting off the salary of the Minister at Lisbon, or giving a notoriety to the troubles of Mr. Motley at Vienna by Mr. Sew- ard, which they are not worth. In the magni- tade of its present duties Congress can afford to let the poor Pope alone. We may have, in our own regard, to send an undiplomatic mis- sion to Rome before long on a friendly, Chris- tien and grateful errand. Peddlieg Legisiation en the Suprome Ceert There are crises in national history when petty legislation is no less ineffectual than it is contemptible. Is not the actual condition ‘of the body politic so critical as to demand heroic remedies? These alone can avail. ‘Tinkering here and there does not mend, but only mars. Ridiculous enough is the peddling legislation of our Wilsons and Boutwells and other pigmy politicians. All rolled into’ one they could not make up a single giant of the good old days. “There were giants in those days.” But evey their Iiliputian successors might accomplish something by @ long pull, strong pulland a pull all together. If they would unite and rise to the grandeur of the occasion, they should cease squabbling with “the man at the other end of the avenue” and wasting indignation on this and that decision of the Supreme Court. Let them lose no more time on bills “to regulate the practice and define the powers of the Supreme Court.” Let them boldly bring in @ bill for the impeacb- ment of tbe President, and, after baving specd- ily disposed of that “obstruction,” get rid of another by reorganis'ng the Supreme Court from i@ They will find an exam- ple and the solation of their difficulties in the unbesitating promptitude and energetic action of Jefferson and the republicans of his time, as described in y's Heraty. We have shown that the republicans of 1801 were satis. fied with no halfway measures. They made thorough work of what they undertook to do, and repealed the Judiciary act, doing away with the courts, midnight judges and all, at one decisive blow. The judges had been commissioned at midnight, and at midnight also their brief term of office expired. “After ‘an exciting debate, which continued for six- teon days, the Committee of the Whole, at a midnight session, “now first resorted to for such @ purpose, reported the bill repealing the Jadiciary act, and the bill presently parsed the House and was signed by the President.” “Nor, indeed,” says even the cautious his- torian, Hildreth, “whatever might be thought of the expediency of the repeal, could there be any solid doubt of the power of Congress in the matter.” Randall, the biographer of Jefferson, remarks, in allusion to the same gavioot —" Waiylng tho intentions of the i) i i jndiciary tures and legistate judges out of offigs.” The republicans of 1801 created a the republicans of 1867. And it might almost be expected that even our modern domo rats, who’ claim direct descent from’ the former, would join the latter in following the example of their own Jeffersonian antetypes, mach of the highest ‘ the opera house. We have not failed to:notice this fact in connection with our music halls; but the churches should not be forgotten. In 006; Zion church, on Thirty-cighth’ street, Being an artist of the first quality. forms his own compositions, and the melodious sounds of his instrument steal over the soul like the musio of running waters when they moet and blend together. Under the influence of his master hand, together with’the fine sing- ing and the impressive manner in which the church service is performed, the mind is lifted up and experionces a greater and purer onjoy- ment than those who have not been to Zion church can realize. We now sec that Mr. Mora deems this sphere too limited for his talents. The spirit of divine art is upon him, and he feels impelled to enter upon a larger field of action. While he will continue to delight Bishop Southgate’s congregation he will alee give the public of this city the benefit of fis ability in another way. He undertakes to give us the opera, with a combination of artists of the highest olass. We understand all the arrangements are made, and that in a few days he will open the French theatre with a first rate company, some of whom are fresh and spoken of abroad very highly. We hope he will be as successful as he deserves to be; for he is entering upon this new career, not from necessity, he being one of our rich citizens, but frome pure love of music and from a desire to gratify and cultivate the public tastes.” TO THE ADITOR OF THE MERALD. ‘ Some time during the last seasion of Congress Hen. country from the mines was $73,544,368, and during the last year, 1806, $93,210,314 These two cums would have been retained ia our if the Dit Of Mar, the vens had become a law. we should have pes- eossed $166,763,782, the product of our own mines and fe £ ij & HR aaa fF te ‘ hal Hf sf! i ili siyiis fei Hy nil il Hi alt i i il 8d if ae 24 HE t F Biz & ii 33: 2 SattH I Q 4 i F3 i i ji ig l 4 i i i i Bursing of Trenor’s Dancing Acadowy. Loss Katimated at About $25,000. A fow minutes after four o'clock yesterday afverncen a fire broke out in John H. Tronor’s dancing academy, known as Palace Hall, at Nos. 725 and 727 Sixth avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets, The flames spread very rapidly and soon enveloped tne bali i} i g accounts given as to the origin of the fire. One was that it was caused by the carelessness of the maa who was waxing the floor with wax dissolved in amoont im the Dou; ; water Moat "aged for i060 te Toaert eat Row York France Sonpeey. The store No. is coce- pied by E. F. Prats, curtain cleaner; his g@ook is damaged by water about $250; insured for $2,008. tgp No. 1. of ener * upwards Sod eal ase a i f i z : i mornine destroyed the steamer Lady Frank. ns Soe river packet. Loss $10,000; insured in Cinemnatl. fire was FALL OF A BUILDING IN BOSTON, Several Workmen Buried Rencath the Walle, Bostos, Fob. 1, 1887,