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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FPDITOR AND PROPRIETOR @FTiOk &. 4, CORNER UF FUITON AND NASEAC STS. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp twp and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed a: the owest vates. Votume XXXII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. , BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome Wireet.—ALADDIN, rue WONDERFUL SCAMP—CINDERELLA, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hot el.—Burp oF Panavise. GRRMAN OPERA, Olympic Theatre, Broadway.—Wu- aan Peet. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—P rorsssor Hanrz wus Perrone Hrs Mrracums—Tus Heap ix THE AIR— Tua lxpian Basker Trick. FW TH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘Tweaty-fourth street.—Gaivroy & Cuirsty's Miverrets.— kK AN MINSTRELSY, TUDENT. Buriesques, £0.—Mxpi- Y & LEON'S FIRSERALS, 720 Broadway, oppo. New York flots!.—Iw rai Soncs, Dances, Ecoun. ™ BUREXSQUES, &e.—ODDs AND ENDS—CINDER-LKON— Mavavascan Batter Trours. 3AN PRANCISOO MINSTRELS. 535 Broadway, opposite the Metropolian Hotel—[v tase Bratoriax ENreeratx. wrnrs, Sixarxe, Danouwa aNd Buauesquus. oN ImPwACHMRST, —Comarres TOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic 0 ALLET DIVERTISSUMENT, NATION TROUPE, at Na Variery oF Ligut TALNMENTS, CORPS DE BALLET, &0. > AY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— xs—Tie Ockan Yacur Rack—Goop ror RA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermiopran Mrx- q’x> Borusquas.—A fvnnan Tue INSTITUTE, Pighth etreet.—De. Mxpsaxv's step Lectures on Heacta. NEW YORK MUSE: Heap UM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rrondway.— Y Proust—Tar Wasurxcton ScumNcr anp Ant. 10 P. M. New York, Monday, February 4, (S67. Our European correspondence by the Africa, dated to the 19th of January, con'ains very interesting details of our cable despatches to that day. The main points of the newspaper details report were published in the Henacn yesterday, but the elaboration of our special writers in the different capitals renders the matter much more important. The Curkish government has addressed a diplomatic circular to its ministers at foreign courts, with directions to communicate its contents, in which the position of ue Porte towards Greece, and the circumstances under n the Sultan may be obliged to appeal to the last resort against that Power are fully set forth and treated * in a very explicit manner. MISCELLANEJIUS. (or special despatches from New Orleans contain « ; 4ynopsis of our correspondence from Durango, Mexico, anier date of the 14th ult, Juarez was to have loft that city ow the 26th én route for the capital: ‘The Ortega taptured i$ gala to be undoubtedly the one claiming to be constitutional Prosident of the country. The town @ Cveraavata, forty milea from Mexico city, had been waptured by the Liberals with the whole garrison of im- porialists.. The Mexican Congal, at San’ Francisco, declares the report of ‘the execution of Mr, Cw at = Mazatlan, and the —_ consequent ‘dient of the town by the United Siates guaboat, to be untrue, The rumor of Mira- ious disaffection was gaining ground, Maximilian and Bavaine bad come to an open rupture. A friend of (ue Marshal was imprisoned by the Emperor, and docu- ments addreaced to the liberal chief, and signed by Bauza.ne, were found upon bis person. Bazaine in turn imprisoned Maximilian’s Chief of Police, and notified the Emperor that his friend must be released before the Caief of Police should be. We have commercial advices from Barbadoes, dated ou the 8th of January. The report says:—Wo havea decline to advise in many leading imports. Flour is pretty firm, wholesale at $8 75, bond; $9 $9 10, bond, belug lotting rates, Bread and crackers have dropped to $4 37 per 112 pounds, and $3 50, respectively, and dwt. Mess pork—upwards of 2,000 barrels in bond un- «i, aud some transactions have been effected as low as $13, bond. Lard shows a heavy decline, ‘“H. and © beef hag, been sold at $10, bond. Candies in k, and cheese unsalable. Codfsh (Gaspe) at Shooks dull at about $1 $1 10 per bundie. Kerosme oil still glats the market. Tonnage—no de- mand. Weather propitious for crop. Reaping will not be general until middie of next month. Exchange on ivodon, $487%¢ for ninety days The annua! show of a4rculture is amnoanced jor the 22d, and the cattle show Advices from British Guiana dated at Demerara, Janu- » 9 report that the yellow fever had commenecd voo iw tbe shipping. After the change of the milliary «nment on the station only one officer remained, and be fell a victim to the disease, The patients ad- ‘ho hospital to the 7th of January were 161, of ied, » ave news from Porto Rico to the 18th of January. ‘Va inerease In the amount of duties colleéied in De- not to admit vessels from St. Thomas exempt anting until fifteen days after the epidemic had been offelally announced as having disappeared, prov ded they had a clean bili of health and no sickness dur og the voyage. A few cargoes of flour were ex- pected which would sell at good prices. There were y five bundred barrels in the market. According to aus of 1860 there were only 51,000 persons in ico that could read or write out of a population 000. ¢ dates from St. Domingo are to the 19th ult. A f amity, commerce, navigation and extradition was (o be celebrated with the United States. Peace had declared throughout the republic. President Cabral onfirmed favorite with the peopie. The coal and er mines, salt works and guano hills wero soon to amence operations, A committee has been appoiuted to revise the craminal code, Ovr Havana letter is dated January 30, The distrust of (he Cobans by the government is iereasing. Twenty Spanish officers, who have married in the island, aro to be seat home, having become too much aMiliated with ea, The newspapers favor the abolition of cus- ssea, The Bishop of Santa Martha, exiled by the os dont of Colombia, had been received by the Royal Co'ece of Jesuita, There had beon a few cases of yel- tow ‘ower in the harbor, ence trem venezaela to the 7th of January * nO news of importance. Everything was quiet, Excise law was observed very genorally yesterday. * were forty-six arrests for violations of it, and Hi'y wight for drunkenness We publish this morning « synopsis of the changes gyate by the now tariff, ‘he rain storm of Saturday night, though asstating areatty nthe thawing process, has rondored the streets a0 muddy as to be almost impassable, Many of the celine on the water side have been submerged. Navigation on the Sound is resumed, the steamer Ga- inven taving cut hor way through the ice from Throgg's Nook to the city, Bight schooners still remain icevo und iv tue ioe near Fort Schuyler. The steamers Acushnet, and Dirigo, which had beon frozen in since Taesday, tollowed the Galatea to this city. Cosriotte Hough has brought suit against the firm of Jovian, Marsh & Co., of Boston, for money due her from colton specolations during the war, She claims that he was employed by the firm dering the war to buy ertton in the Southern States and manipulate govern. mnt employés for the purpose of passing it through the Hines, and that the firm made $100,000 by her agency, and refuse to divide, General Butler and J. H. Sweetzer are employed by her as counsel. A young man vamed Milton W. Batley has been play - fing a sharp game recently in Poughkeepsie, by proposing to sel counterfeit money to nnsophisticated individuals willing to make a fortune that way if they could do it otely. He would show a genuine Troasury note, de- flare it to bo counterfeit, show how easily it could be waved. wud (hen offer t@ gel) any amount of the same oceans of blood and the desolating effects of a fearful civil war. A gigantic rebellion bas been suppressed, our old political system, resting upon African slavery, has been put down, but the work of reconstruction on the new basis of universal liberty remains still to be done. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. kind. The police heard of bis toings, howover, aud he disappeared, We publish to-day an artfele on the origin and progress of church anusic avd descriptions of the musical services at the leading ehurohes in the metropolis yesterday. Rev. Charles B. Smyth delivered a lecture yesterday at Argus Hail, Broadway, on ‘The Streets of New York by Gaslight,” in which he treated especially of that wide- gpread crime politely designated as the “social evil,’ Advices received in Montreal from London state that the British goveroment had made @ demand for the ren- dition of Lamirande, and Lord Monck had been censured for bis course in permitting him to be taken away by the French officials. ‘The funeral of Representative Johnaon took place in Washington yesterday, and was attended by the Presi- dont, Secretary Seward, the members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. The Louisiana Legislature has exempted property which has been used by the military authorities of the United States from taxation under State laws. The Kentucky House of Representatives pray for a general amnesty, or at least a pardon for John C. Breck- inridge. General Sherman bas written a letter toGeneral Grant, whioh the latter has forwarded to the Secretary of War, severely condemning the practices of* Indian traders in selling hostile tribes arms and ammunition. Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has pardoned a federal soldier and two accomplices under sentence of death for killing a Nashville policeman. A test vote was taken on the Tennessee Negro Suffrage Dill in the lower House of the Legisiature of that State, on Saturday, and resulted in 36 yeas to 25 nays, Ex-Governor Carney, the defeated candidate for Sen- ator from Kansas, has retired from politics and claims to have been radical ahead of the republican party, Advices from Fort Pbil Kearny say that the Indians are still hostile, and it was with great aifficulty that the bodies of the victims of the late massacre could be buried, owing to the presence in the immediate vicinity of bands of savages, An ice gorge at Wheeling broke up on Saturday, carry- ing away four steamers and 4 wharf boat. The laticr was secured, but the steamers were still floating. James river is now clear of ice. Two doctors mutilated a negro boy in Waco, Texas, recently, and were arrested by the civil authorities, whereupon the citizens rescued them. The military in- terferea, however, and rearrested them. A fire occurved in Oswego yesterday morning by which three blocks of buildings were destroyed, involy- ng a loss of $50,000. Vho Conflict Between the President and Con- gress—The Teachings of History. Had the studies of Andrew Johnson as a politician extended beyond the official ex- amples of Andrew Jackson and the election- eering State rights dogmas of Jefferson, he would bardly have attempted at this late day as a statesman that fatal experiment ot taking into bis own hands the exclusive powers of the legislative department. At all events, Presi- dent Jackson’s “I take the responsibility” has been fatally misapplied by President John- son in assuming too much, and history, there- fore, may be applied to warn him of the con- sequences. Modern times have witnessed three great national revolutions, each of which has been fraught with instruction for the future guid- ance of mankind. The first of these revolu- tions was in England. Beginning in the reign of Charles the First, it was prolonged with varying fortune throughout the period of the Commonwealth and the succeeding reigns of the Second Charles and James, and was finally bronght to a close by the accession to the throne of William of Orange in 1688. The second of these revolutions was in France, Begun in the reign of Louis the Sixteenth, and having witnessed during its progress, succes- sively, the establishment of a republic, a con- sulate, an empire, a kingdom, second time a Tepublic and a second time an empire, it can searcely be said after the lapse of the greater part of a century to have yet, neared its ter- mination. The third and the youn zest of these revolutions has been in our own land and in our own day. Its origin is but of recent date. During the brief period of ite existence the nation has waded through experienced © all As these revolutions have originated in dif- ferent circumstances and have been maintained for different objects, it is not to be expected that the lessons which they will severally be- queath to posterity wil be precisely the same. There is one lesson, however, which the first two have already taught, and which the third promises to teach with equal emphasis, and that is the absolute folly of the Executive stubbornly to resist the legitimately expressed will of the people. Pity it is that the history of the United States, which in many important particulars has revealed such a marked im- provement on. the history of older nations, should have to furnish another such lesson. But so it is to be. We have said something of Mr. Johnson’s historical studies. There are some who read history wisely and to profit. There are others who read history but cannot understand it. There are others, again, who read history, and who, though understanding it refuse to be guided by its teachings. Presi- dent Johnson, if a reader of history at all, cer- tainly does not belong to the first of these orders. He is neither so stupid nor so ignorant that he can be classed with the second. From his known tenacity to his pet crotchets we are more willing to believe that he be- longs to the last. With or without the knowl- edge of the past, he certainly is placing himself in the teeth of the very difficulties which cost Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth their heads, and which drove James the Second, Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe each from his throne and country into exile. Nor is it for a moment to be imagined that the defeat of Andrew Johoson in the struggle which he so doggedly and so fool- ishly maintains, though it cannot be so disas- " trous either to himself or to the Union, will be less complete than in the cases to which we have referred. He has engaged in a contest in which he must go dowa. We do not mean for a moment to question the right of the President to veto, within eer- tain limits, the proceedings of Congress. The time, we trust, is far distant when the Presi- dential office will be regarded in the light of a merely honorary sitaation. It is and it ought to be « position of importance and of power. It has many duties, and it has doubthess many cares, The President is chief magistrate of the nation. The right to veto, which is vested in him by the constitution in virtué of his office, is his special and distinguishing pre- Togative. In certain circumstances the exer- cise of such prerogative may be not only legitimate, bat just. It is a powers however, which is dangerous and cannot be used with too much wisdom and caution. Intended for a check, it never was meant to be an obstrue- tion. It certainly never was the design of the framers of the constitution, a9 if certainly never can be for tho interests of the nation, that it should be exercised in open defiance of the expressed will of the people. Such, -how- ever, is the position in which Mr. Jobnson has placed himself, and from which it has now be- come a necessity to expel him. We are willing to be generous in our interpretation of the President’s motives. We can understand how he may be en- couraged to persevere in his obstructive policy by conscientious scruples, But 60 it was with Charles the First, Louis the Sixteenth, James the Second and the others. They were all men of certain or un- certain conscientious scruples. But their scru- ples and excuses, good or bad, neither justified their policy nor averted their fate. What, then,-should a chief magistrate like President Johnson do, when scruples and excuses incline him in one direction and the popular will de- mands that he move in another? Has he no choice but to resiat the popular will or violate the teachings of conscience? He has a choice. He can resign. In not adopting this course the President, we think, bas made a grand mis- take. He would have shown himself a greater philosopher if, instead of undertaking that now celebrated stumping tour to Chicago, he had remained at the White House, pondering the lessons of the past ; and the world would have considered him a greater statesman, and posterity Would have accorded him a nobler name, if, when the fall elections were ended and the will of the people had been so unmis- takably expressed, finding bis conscience still unbending, he had voluntarily resigned a posi- tion which experience taught him he could fill neither with comfort to himself nor with satis- faction to the country. But ho has not yet lost his opportunity. Resignation even now on his part would cover a multitude of sins, while his impeachment and removal, which are certain, as matters now stand, will be inseparable from unqualified disgrace. Prerogative, whether royal or presidential, must yield to popular right and the sovereign powers of the National Legislature. Max Proposes But God Disposes. Late advices trom Mexico announce that Maxim‘tian’s Cabinet had decided that the Em- peror should not abdicate or quit the country. This jumps with his inclinations, which are in favor of fighting out the question with the liberals. We do not exactly see, however, how the past strengthens him. It will neither give him men nor money, and without these he is powerless against the swelling tide of libe- ralism. There is not one of the men by whom the Emperor is surrounded that will not aban- don him the moment Juarez gets within a few miles of the capital. It seems to us, therefore, that he is-playing a very hazardous game. An overstrained seuse of honor, which, by the by, should have prevented him from ever entering Mexico, is keeping him there egainst every consideration of dignity and prudence. If he does not take care he will be caught in a trap. and shot or hung, ag the whim of his captors may dictate. The Mexican liberals have heavy scores to settle with him for the barba- rous manner in which prisoners from their ranks have been treated. They have never been very great respectors of persons, and if they should lay hands upon him they will think only of their sons and brothers who have been summarily executed by his orders, In counselling him to remain, therefore, after the departure of the French, the members of his Cabinet have given him very treacherous, or, to say the least of ,it, very injudicious ad- vice. They will desert him toa man as soon as danger presses him, and leave him to pay the forfeit of the imperial experiment. We should be sorry if anything of this kind were to happen to him. He has shown some excel- lent qualities, and deserves a better fate than to be shot or lassoed by some scurvy guerilla. What is to be done, however, with a man who refuses to accept the evidence of facts, and who clings to delusions that have been proved to be utierly baseless? The only chance for the empire after the de- parture of the French rests in the divisions of the liberal party. With Ortega and one or two other partisan leaders in the field against Juarez there might have been a prospect of the imperialists maintaining themselves, But Ortega is a prisoner in the hands of his rival, and the other elements of opposition to the rule of Juarez are melting away. It is true that in the chronic tendency to revolution which Mexico has always exhibited these will be revived; but they will operate too late for the purpose of the imperialists. Their chances are gone forever. The monarchical experi- ment has had its last trial and will not again enlist an adherent. No other form of govern- ment is possible in Mexico save the republican, either under improved independent conditions or in conjunction with our own. In the mean- while we sincerely wish the poor Archduke out of the scrape. If he were wise he would stick to Bagaine’s skirts and get out of Mexico while there is yet time. It he remains after the French we can promise him that he will have bat little chance of falling back upon the vice- royalty which his brother offers him at Cracow, in the hope that it will eventually enable him to win the throne of Poland. ‘ The Railway Track Salting Nuisance. The Common Council has authorized the city railway companies to use salt in clearing their tracks ateach “ switch and turnout,” and the well known unselfish character of these corporations creates no apprehension that this privilege will be abused. The practice of salting the tracks was forbidden by a special ordinance some ten years ago, owing to the deleterious effects it produced upon the public health, The mixture of salt and snow coming in contact with the fect is productive of most malignant forms of diphtheria—a fact well known professionally and by experience. During the winters when the practice was not forbidden diphtheria prevailed almost as an epidemic. The revival of the salting nuisance may now be looked for with each fall of snow. The limitations prescribed by the present ordi- nance will not conserve the public comfort ; for it is at such switches and turnouts that the greater number of passengers enter or alight from the ears, who will take with them into the vehicles the dangerous compound, there to mingle with the already filthy straw and spread sickness throughout the entire travelling com- munity. The area at each switch and tirnout is so insignificant that the companies conld easily remove the superincumbent snow with shovels and carts. The Commop Council in granting the privilege of wsing salt instead has permit- ted the companies a very little cheaper and bjehly dangerous expedient Buchanan versus Johnson. A Lo, Yon correspondent of the Manchester Guardian .bas bis reasons for the belief that the impeach, ent movement against President Johnson will co."2¢ to nothing, and one of his reasons rests up?” theke facts:—That Mr. Adams, our present b<inister at London, was one of a committee of Co.rgress in 1860 “nomi- nated to inquire into the comiuct of President Buchanan ;” that “the comumstee sat many weeks and collected a great deal of evidence, which, in a party sense, was considered of grave importance;” but that “nothing came of it” But why did nothing come of it? Be- cause the republican party (with all the South- ern States represented in both houses in 1860, except South Carolina in December) was powerless in Congress. There were 114 re- publicans in the House, ali told, against 112 of the opposition forces, while in the Senate the republicans stood 26 against 38, in- cluding in the opposition 36 democrats and two native Americans, so called. And then the controlling spirits of this pro-slavery ma- jority of 12 in the Senate, backed by Buchanan and his secesh Cabinet ministers, embraced Vice President Breckinridge, President of the Senate; Clement C. Clay, of Alabama; Dr. Gwin, of California; Iverson and Toombs, of Georgia; Slidell and Benjamin, of Louisiana ; Jeff. Davis and Brown, of Mississippi; Wigfall, of Texas; Mason and Hunter, of Virginia, and others, the chief conspirators, organizers, managers and master spirits of the rebellion. Of course the republicans could do nothing in the impeachment of Buchanan with such fearful odds opposed to them. But this im- perious and defiant pro-slavery majority in the Senate and the powerless conditi¢n of the republicans in the House in 1860, and the rebel dictators of Buchanan’s policy in the Cabinet, were not the only obstacles to any movement for the impeachment of Buchanan. An outside rebel conspiracy was known to exist in December, 1860, from which, at any moment after nightfall, there was reason to fear a descent upon Washington and a seizure of the government, including the expulsion of Buchanan, as well as Congress. At all events, it was widely understood and feared that Abra- ham Lincola would never be inaugurated, and but for General Scott’s wise precautions and Mr. Lincolu’s strategy in getting to Washing- ton he never would have been. Under this state of things, inefficient and bad as was the general course of Buchanan, he was still some sort of protection to the government, in being under the wing of General Scott. Under all these drawbacks the removal of Buchanan was not to be thought of, and even if there had been the power and the will in both houses to remove bim the expedient under the cireum- stances would not have been tried, because of the near approach’ of the expiration of his ap- pointed term. Johnson's case is wholly different. There Is the necessary power in both houses to dispose of Kim ; they have @ strong case against him, end the simple question involved is whether Congress shall surrender its constitutional: functions assumed by President Johnson, or remove him, as the constitution provides, in order that the sovereign lawmaking power may resume its authority. Bombastes Furiose. We are to be fenced in. Some of our neigh- bors, who think us too expansive, are going to do it. The plan has the merit of economy to us, for it will cost us nothing. Anglo-Saxon- ism is a devouring monster that must be held in check, and the fencing in will do the business. The contractor for the job is one Mosquera, who by good luck has got himself into the Presidential chair of the republic of Colom- bia, in South America, formerly known by the name of New Granada. He is evidently a great man. His title igthe Great General. It took the illustrious Don Quixote, of happy memory, full three weeks to invent a name for his war steed, Rosinante. How long it took Don Tomas Mosquera to find a suitable title for himself is not on record, but when he calls himself a great general the thing is settled. He is also the self-appointed apostle of a rather new “ism,” called Panlatinism. The followers of this creed believe in the final supremacy of the Latin race over the entire globe. South America is all Panlatinist, thongh the exact quantity of Latin element in the population is much vexed question. The chronic defect in that country is a way they have of mixing things up, and the population has got as much mixed as anvthing else. But they are Panlat- inists, and think they see their manifest des- tiny. They think that the head and front of their creed in Europe is the Emperor Napo- leon, and that his expedition to Mexico had something to do with it. Their programme is, as might be expected, of as mixed and uncer- tain a color as the majority of themselves. Thus they should include Spain and other, European Latins in the grand alliance ; but they do not like Spain, and they say so plainly in good Castilian. Apostle Mosquera, however, has hit upon a compromise by which the great objects of his mission may be carried out with- out hurting the prejudices of his compatriots. This Bolivar the Second proposes to-form a grand confederation of the three powerful, populous and prosperous republics of Vene- zuela, Ecuador and New Granada, thus recon- stituting the Colombian republic of Simon Bolivar, which was dismembered in 1830, while the European Latins are to be invited to play an outside part in the great game of de- ciding supremacy of race. Now the hobgoblin which is to be fought to the death by this combination is Anglo-Sax- onism, as represented and embodied in the people of the United States, It matters not how much we may disclaim any such distinc- tion. We may insist that we are largely Latin, with a goodly proportion of Greek and no mean allowance of Dutch. Don Quixote Mos- quera has said we are Anglo-Saxons of the worst type, and must take the consequences. No sooner had he suid so than his organ hastened to print it, and there is no help for it but to mect our fate like men. The republic of Colombia, under Don Bombastes Mosquera, with its ir- resistible fleets and armies, oyster boats, ox teams and all, is to stand guard on the north- ern frontiers of South America and hold, in check the monster Anglo-Saxonism, while the European Latins shall make mincemeat,‘of us. We shalt be ruined. We shall have/no ship canal at Panama. We shall attend no more fandangoes in Mexico. What is to/become of us? We might ask the influential ‘republic of Nicaragua or of Costa Rica to toke us under its protection. Better, still, Cangress might Appropriate a fow hundred thousands as a Peres offering to Don Rinaldo Rinaldini Mos- quera, accompanied by a bumble request not to burt us. It would never do to have our harbors blockaded by the Colombian fleet— never. We should look to it in time. * American Colonization Failures. The correspondence laid before the Seuste concerning the emigrants that went out from the State of Maine a short time since to found 8 colony in Palestine discloses a very unfortu- nate and condition of things. It Sppears that the application made by Senator Morrill and the Rev. Mr. Adams to the Porte for a grant of land for them had been flatly refused, and that they are reduced to a state bordering on starvation. It seems incredible that any body of sane men, but more particu- larly Americans, should have been induced to embark in an enterprise of this kind without having first satisfied themselves that a sufficient quantity of land and the protection of the suthorities had been secured for them. We shall say nothing of the conduct of the pro- moter of the scheme, because where there are dupes there will always be found designing men to prey on them. 4s an industrial under- taking the enterprise held out but few advan- tages, There was scarcely a part of our own country which did not offer greater. The im- pelling motive with the colonists must, there- fore, have been a purely religious one, and this should have been an additional reason for surrounding them with every protection and safeguard that could be furnished against the hardships and mischances that were likely to befall them in a strange country. Like all such people, however, they seem to have lost sight of the maxim “Help yourself and God will help you.” They contented themselves with placing their trast in Providence alone, and consequently got swampéd. Evidently they were never intended to battle against dif- ficulties or to found colonies. But in this they are not so singular. . A number of emigrants were recently sent out to Brazil from the South, on the invitation, it was said, of the imperial gov- ernment. The Braziliam authorities refused to have anything to say to them, declaring that they were not the class of persons who were likely to be of any use in that climate. Now this statement might apply either to their physicai condition or to the want of discrimi- nation evinced in regard to their mechanical and agricultural capabilities. However this might have been the result was the same, and the useless displacement of persons who might have been of some value at home, and their consequent subjection to the’ keenegt disap- pointment and suffering. In the Mexican colo- nization schemes of Maury and other Con- federate leaders, and the famous Chiriqui pro- ject of President Lincoln, there was witnessed the same want, of judgment and reckless disre- gard of consequences. * From allthis it may be inferred that colont- zation projects of any kind, originating im this country, are-to be looked upon with distrust. The fact that the persons who.embark in. them. are dissatisfied with their lot and seek such a change is prima facie evidence that they are unfit for it. The qualities which thoy require to fight the tiger elsewhere would enable them to make easy headway at home. The man who cannot earn a living in this country, in the diversified conditions of climate and soil which it offers, may rest assured that he can earn it in no other part of the world. The Tenure of Office Bill—Small Potate Pro- ceedings. It appears from the proceedings in Congresg on Saturday that the House in its action upon the Tenure of Office bill reconsidered its vote of the day before excepting Cabinet officers from the operation of the bill, and passed (by a vote of 74 yeas to 65 nftyp) the amendment making the removal of Cabinet officers subject to the advice and approval of the Senate. It is understood that this change of action on the part of the House was for the purpose of shiclding the Secretary of War. It was supposed that the President intended to remove Mr. Stanton in consequence of this Cabinet officer having differed with him upon the veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage bill and upon other matters of administration policy, and the House appears determined to prevent his removal without the consent of the Senate. Now, without entering into the merits of the position either of the President or the Secretary on the questions about which they differ, we think the motive which led the House to take the action referred to is very small and unworthy a legislative body of this great country. It is, in fact, legislating from petty and narrow-minded motives, and for the day, upon small objects, instead of doing so upon great and general principles. Such con- duct on the part of the small potato politicians in Congress cannot fail to bring that body into contempt. Meetino or Army Orricers at Wasuiwotoy.— General Grant has called a meeting of major generals and brigadier generals of the army at Washington, to confer upon army matters gen- erally, and especially to consult upon the necessity of maintaining garrisons in the ex- rebel States. It is very well known that Gen- eral Grant desires the removal of all the United States troops from the South at the earliest moment possible ; and it is probable that, ia contemplation of such a movement, he desires first to learn the opinions of those officers who have been in command of the departments, as well as. of others, as to its wisdom and expediency. The meeting of the generals of the army at this time is opportune. It will enable those members of Congress who desire speedy reconstruction to. ascertain the opinions of practical men of unquestioned loyalty upon the subject. The fighting men of the army, who thoroughly understand the feel- ings, disposition, condition and interests of the ex-rebels, will be able to give Congress infor- mation that will, no doubt, enlighten them on. many of the important questions now under their consideration. ' Aw Exrraornpivany Wister.—We have had, so far, a rough winter, and, in the steadiness of the cold of January, a remarkable one; but in the thunder storm of Saturday night last, the 24 of February, with a foot of snow upon the ground, we have had a vagiation not often experienced by the oldest /veteran of 1812. We shall next expect to hear of disas- trous floods and freshets which, generally in Febrnary indicate an early/and delightful spring. We hope, freshets /or no freshets, it may 80 turn out, in behalf of tho suffering poor, North and South, to ‘whom, especially down South, this winter has ben? 2s¢ of unprece- dented" severity. alle i TR The New Game of Hino, 0" Keno. The police made a descent on aa eaiablish- ment on Broadway on Saturday evening, where @ game recently introduced into this city” and known by the name of kino, or keno, was in full blast, and captured a number of adven- turers who were ed in trying their luck at Dame Fortune’s wheel. The doors of the room were suddenly locked by the watchful guardians of the city’s morals, and the whole company was cleverly bagged and carried off to pass the remainder of the night in the cells of the station house. This is all very well so far as it goes. The new game fs represented a8 a of gam- bling, and thus, being iNegal, subjects all who publicly engage in it to arrest and punishment. As described by the initiated, it is played by drawing or dropping numbers out of a wheel until one or another of those who take chances is fortunate enough to get the lucky numbers, when he shouts out “Keno” and wins the pool. But a game very similar indeed to this came of a few nights since at the Cooper Institute, im which the stakes were much higher, and in that case we believe the gambling wheel was car ried in by two stout policemen, who superin- tended the play. It is very currently reported, too, that at an establishment higher up town thousands of dollars are nightly won and lost at faro, and that not less than one hundred and forty thousand dollars passed from the pockets of the honorable proprietor into those of a notorious politician at one sitting a few weeks since. The police have not yet discovered the whereabouts of this latter fashionable estab- lishment, although almost every péfson else in the city knows just where it is located. Our fishermen in the construction of their nets take care that the meshes are of such a size as to catch the big fish and let the small fry go. Our metropolitan police nets are of a different fash- ion—they are so contrived as to secure a big haul of minnows and suffer the big fish to escape. 2 South Carolina and Massachusetts on the Amendment. The Cavaliers of South Carolina and the Puritans of New England, who united in de- nunciation of the Union and the constitution before the war, and who together maintain the doctrine of the sacred right of secession, are still in accord on the subject of reconstruction. South Carolina bas already rejected the consti- tutional x ee and Massachusetts, under the lead of Wendell Phillips, is preparing to follow sult. The common object of the two ex- tremes—the Northern and Southern radicalsa— is to keep the country in its present disorgan- ized condition. ; The loyal people have decided, with a una- issue, in favor of the settlement proposed. by forced to give way delore tho popular: wit. Hitherto the States ofthe South and of New government ; but they can do so no longes, Hereafter the rule will be in the hands of the great Central States, ineluding New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, &. With. the institution of slavery the prepom- derating political power of the South departed, and the selfish, contracted and bigoted policy of New England will soon find its level. - Gartbaidt and Greece. Garibaldi writes « characteristic letter from Saprera on the Eastern question. He speaks very tenderly of Greek Christians, weeps over them because they are Christians, and says he believes in God; but he is death on priests, He takes a flying shot, as usual, at the Emperor of Austria, who deserves, he thinks, to be sont to Mexico—severe punishment enough. But we thought he had done with Austris and everything Tedeschan. He ought to drop that business; for he once hurt himself severely in trying to make German sausages. When he was on Staten Island he bought a meat chop- per and.went to work, until in an unguarded moment he nearly chopped one of his fingere . off. He immediately dropped the sausage business, finding the work too sharp for him, and went into the successful mimufactare of candies. Greece is evidently his clement. Let him go there and mould things to thelr destiny. Having now nothing to do, he might, employ himself usefully im those isles of Greece “where burning Sappho,” &., and where the population threatens to mélt away altogether. Love’s Lasor Losr—In the petition pre- sented in Congress on Satarday last by Mr. Raymond, from John T.. Hoffman, Samuel G. Courtney and others, remonstrating against the impeachment of President Johuson and pray- ing the adoption of measures to. promote the peace and prosperity of the country. This peti- tion was referred to the Jadiciary*Committee, charged with the impeachment investigation; and what effect will the-name of Mr. Hoffman have with that committee? Aa an active oppo- nent of the pending constitutional amendment, as a supporter of Mr.. Johnson’s policy and assumptions of legislative powers, Mr. Hoff- man’s remonstrance will only serve to strengthen the impeachment movement. The measures which he thinks necessucy to. -pro- mote the peace and prosperity of the coantry are the very measures upon which Mr. Hoffman. was defeated last November, and upoa which the impeachment is demanded and wilt be carried through. Very Staniicant—The permission asked and granted in the House of Representatives on Satarday last to the Judiciary Committee to sit during the sessions of the House for the remainder of this session. It means that they are actively at work upon the matter of an impeachment against Andrew Johnson, THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE. New Onieans, Fob, 2, 1867. In the Legislature to-day an act, which was passed last year, exempting property in certain cases from tax- ation, was amended so as to indlude any property which has been tised by the military’ or civil authorities of the United States, THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. Fraxxrort, Ky., Fob. 2, 186%. ‘The House referred to the Committee on Federal Reta~ tions to-day a resolution that the President bo requerted roclamation for generaiamnesty; and, if not wow oO! ‘expedient by him, that John C, inridge be pardoned and permitted to return homme, THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. Nasmvnise, Feb, 2, 1867. ‘The House debate on the Negro Suffrage bill closed tox jest vote was taken, which resulvedgiv yeas Son, “The friends of tne mneesu ro are oh tates a GC, Breck. Pre